1 00:00:00,049 --> 00:00:01,070 Speaker: We're starting Romans eight. 2 00:00:03,695 --> 00:00:06,664 Uh, which is really exciting 'cause Romans eight is one of the 3 00:00:06,664 --> 00:00:08,794 best chapters in the whole Bible. 4 00:00:09,335 --> 00:00:15,214 Um, but last week we talked about kind of how, what it's like for someone to try 5 00:00:15,214 --> 00:00:17,915 to obey God on their own effort, right? 6 00:00:17,915 --> 00:00:23,344 Someone who, who's trying really hard to, to obey God and keep God's law and it's 7 00:00:23,344 --> 00:00:25,175 not going super well for them, right? 8 00:00:25,175 --> 00:00:28,445 There's this struggle, this tension and, um, I don't know. 9 00:00:29,150 --> 00:00:33,440 How this would go because, um, someone told me that you guys might 10 00:00:33,440 --> 00:00:35,930 be too young for this, but do you guys, you guys remember this game? 11 00:00:36,500 --> 00:00:36,650 Yes. 12 00:00:37,610 --> 00:00:38,780 You guys remember this game? 13 00:00:39,710 --> 00:00:40,220 Um, 14 00:00:42,350 --> 00:00:43,160 this game. 15 00:00:43,415 --> 00:00:49,640 I, I love this game and, uh, I was, I was decent at, at We Sports, 16 00:00:49,640 --> 00:00:54,470 but the, the hardest, the hardest of the We Sports for me was. 17 00:00:54,754 --> 00:00:59,224 Was this one we, we boxing was my nemesis. 18 00:00:59,284 --> 00:01:00,874 Uh, I, that's not me by the way. 19 00:01:01,084 --> 00:01:02,794 Um, but uh, is 20 00:01:02,794 --> 00:01:03,154 Speaker 2: that me? 21 00:01:05,840 --> 00:01:06,424 Speaker: It's not me. 22 00:01:06,995 --> 00:01:08,584 It's actually me 3D. 23 00:01:09,634 --> 00:01:10,174 It's not me. 24 00:01:10,505 --> 00:01:11,195 Uh, anyway. 25 00:01:11,525 --> 00:01:11,734 Yeah. 26 00:01:11,734 --> 00:01:12,995 And my brother Luca, no. 27 00:01:13,204 --> 00:01:15,695 Um, anyway, so we boxing. 28 00:01:15,695 --> 00:01:16,984 I tried so hard. 29 00:01:16,984 --> 00:01:20,134 I was a pro at all the other sports, uh, and we boxing. 30 00:01:20,134 --> 00:01:21,155 I was terrible. 31 00:01:21,155 --> 00:01:21,755 I couldn't get past. 32 00:01:22,490 --> 00:01:23,450 I think her name was Emma. 33 00:01:23,510 --> 00:01:26,990 You know, like the, the, she has like blonde hair, but she's black. 34 00:01:26,990 --> 00:01:30,590 Anyway, just there's, you remember Emma? 35 00:01:30,650 --> 00:01:30,980 Yeah. 36 00:01:31,310 --> 00:01:31,760 Um. 37 00:01:33,259 --> 00:01:35,090 Emma was my nemesis. 38 00:01:35,090 --> 00:01:36,740 I could not beat Emma at wee Boxing. 39 00:01:37,039 --> 00:01:40,100 And I tried, I tried really hard, like I would, I don't know about you guys. 40 00:01:40,100 --> 00:01:43,160 I would actually be sore the next day if I played wee sports long enough, 41 00:01:43,160 --> 00:01:45,259 like, like my back would be sore. 42 00:01:45,259 --> 00:01:47,990 My arms like, and I'm playing wee boxing, and I'm like sweating and 43 00:01:47,990 --> 00:01:51,020 I'm doing all this stuff, you know, and I tried really, really hard. 44 00:01:51,020 --> 00:01:52,220 And maybe it was my controller. 45 00:01:52,220 --> 00:01:52,820 That's what I thought. 46 00:01:52,820 --> 00:01:53,060 All right. 47 00:01:53,060 --> 00:01:59,150 Maybe it was me, but I, as hard as I tried, I could not beat Emma at we boxing. 48 00:01:59,240 --> 00:02:01,730 I, I tried super, super hard and I couldn't do it. 49 00:02:02,255 --> 00:02:06,395 And yeah, and that's maybe that's kind of like. 50 00:02:07,294 --> 00:02:10,055 The person that we saw in Romans seven last week, right? 51 00:02:10,055 --> 00:02:11,795 We saw someone who's trying to keep God's law. 52 00:02:11,795 --> 00:02:13,625 They're trying really hard, and maybe they're even doing 53 00:02:13,625 --> 00:02:14,495 some of the right things. 54 00:02:14,644 --> 00:02:17,255 They're pushing the right buttons, they're making the right movements, 55 00:02:17,644 --> 00:02:21,725 but they can't seem to quite do it the way they want to do it. 56 00:02:21,785 --> 00:02:23,915 They feel like they're, they just can't get it all the way. 57 00:02:23,915 --> 00:02:24,424 Maybe that's you. 58 00:02:24,424 --> 00:02:26,734 Maybe you're, you're a Christian, or you think you're a Christian, 59 00:02:26,734 --> 00:02:29,915 or you wanna be a Christian and you're trying to do the right thing. 60 00:02:29,930 --> 00:02:32,540 You're trying to, to follow God, you're trying to trust Jesus. 61 00:02:32,540 --> 00:02:35,960 You're trying to kill sin, and you feel like you just can't get over the hump. 62 00:02:36,020 --> 00:02:37,220 You're, you're, you kind of get it. 63 00:02:37,220 --> 00:02:38,960 You feel like you're doing the right things, pushing the right buttons, 64 00:02:38,960 --> 00:02:40,280 but it's not working out for you. 65 00:02:40,285 --> 00:02:44,000 You kind of feel stuck or you feel like you're, you're in this, this 66 00:02:44,210 --> 00:02:45,680 middle state, or maybe you're. 67 00:02:45,805 --> 00:02:46,765 You're not a Christian. 68 00:02:46,765 --> 00:02:49,645 You feel like if you did wanna be a Christian, it'd be so hard because you'd 69 00:02:49,645 --> 00:02:52,825 have to do all these things you don't like, and it would just be super difficult 70 00:02:52,825 --> 00:02:56,365 and boring and, and it would just be this, this battle, and you'd be forcing 71 00:02:56,365 --> 00:02:57,655 yourself to do something you don't like. 72 00:02:57,655 --> 00:03:00,625 And what we're gonna see here is the difference between 73 00:03:00,625 --> 00:03:02,875 Romans seven and Romans eight. 74 00:03:02,875 --> 00:03:05,935 Remember in Romans seven, we saw a lot of statements like this, right? 75 00:03:05,935 --> 00:03:09,325 This person who's trying to obey God for whatever reason, maybe it's 76 00:03:09,325 --> 00:03:11,725 a good reason, maybe it's a bad reason, but they're trying to obey 77 00:03:11,725 --> 00:03:13,530 God and they feel like they can't. 78 00:03:14,135 --> 00:03:15,365 I don't do what I wanna do. 79 00:03:15,365 --> 00:03:16,625 I do the stuff I hate. 80 00:03:16,895 --> 00:03:18,875 I don't do the good I want, I feel like I'm stuck. 81 00:03:18,875 --> 00:03:20,285 I'm captive to the law of sin. 82 00:03:20,285 --> 00:03:22,025 I, I, they just can't do the right thing. 83 00:03:22,204 --> 00:03:22,985 They feel stuck. 84 00:03:23,855 --> 00:03:28,595 See what happens is this person, what they need is they need 85 00:03:28,595 --> 00:03:29,970 someone else to come help them. 86 00:03:30,769 --> 00:03:34,040 They need someone outside of themselves to come help them see this. 87 00:03:34,159 --> 00:03:34,700 This is what happens. 88 00:03:34,700 --> 00:03:39,050 They're saying, I, I wanna do God's law, but in my body, my 89 00:03:39,050 --> 00:03:40,339 members, there's another law. 90 00:03:40,339 --> 00:03:43,490 There's a, there's another thing forced that's happening, and it, there's like 91 00:03:43,490 --> 00:03:46,670 this fight, it's waging war against my mind, and I feel like I'm captive. 92 00:03:46,670 --> 00:03:47,510 I feel stuck. 93 00:03:47,779 --> 00:03:49,339 I'm trapped in sin. 94 00:03:50,120 --> 00:03:52,445 And then he says, wretched man, that I am, I'm a horrible person. 95 00:03:52,644 --> 00:03:53,365 I can't do the right thing. 96 00:03:54,200 --> 00:03:55,520 Who will deliver me? 97 00:03:55,520 --> 00:03:58,430 Who's gonna rescue me from this situation? 98 00:03:58,430 --> 00:04:01,190 I'm stuck in, I can't do the right thing I want to and I can't. 99 00:04:01,340 --> 00:04:02,240 How do I get out of this? 100 00:04:02,240 --> 00:04:03,740 Well, there's a solution right here. 101 00:04:04,010 --> 00:04:06,620 Thanks be to God through Jesus Christ, our Lord. 102 00:04:06,830 --> 00:04:08,870 So he says Jesus is the one who's gonna do it. 103 00:04:08,870 --> 00:04:11,690 God is the one who's gonna get me unstuck. 104 00:04:11,720 --> 00:04:14,150 He's gonna help me finally beat Emma and wee boxing, right? 105 00:04:14,150 --> 00:04:17,779 He's gonna finally help me do the thing that I've been trying to do. 106 00:04:18,589 --> 00:04:20,329 But then the conclusion is I'm still stuck. 107 00:04:21,334 --> 00:04:24,515 Then you turn the page to the next chapter of Romans eight, 108 00:04:24,724 --> 00:04:25,835 and it's totally different. 109 00:04:25,835 --> 00:04:26,614 It's like night and day. 110 00:04:26,825 --> 00:04:29,255 Remember I showed you that chart last time of how many times the 111 00:04:29,255 --> 00:04:32,104 Holy Spirit shows up in Romans seven verses, Romans eight, Romans seven. 112 00:04:32,284 --> 00:04:34,804 The Holy Spirit's only mentioned once in Romans eight. 113 00:04:34,804 --> 00:04:39,245 It's 20 times the difference between someone successfully obeying God 114 00:04:39,604 --> 00:04:42,784 and trying really hard to obey God, but failing is the Holy Spirit. 115 00:04:43,490 --> 00:04:46,640 The difference and what makes a Christian victorious, right? 116 00:04:47,270 --> 00:04:51,740 They're winning in their life of obedience to God versus always losing 117 00:04:51,740 --> 00:04:53,840 to their sin is the Holy Spirit. 118 00:04:53,840 --> 00:04:54,530 That's our main point. 119 00:04:54,620 --> 00:04:56,630 God gives Christians victory over sin. 120 00:04:57,140 --> 00:05:01,250 Victory over sin doesn't come from you trying really hard or knowing a lot. 121 00:05:01,250 --> 00:05:02,030 It comes from God. 122 00:05:02,240 --> 00:05:03,230 God has to do it. 123 00:05:03,590 --> 00:05:08,900 God's power through the Holy Spirit connected to Christ Jesus. 124 00:05:09,230 --> 00:05:11,780 God gives Christians victory over sin. 125 00:05:14,180 --> 00:05:18,920 What happens in Romans eight is there's two problems that we've seen 126 00:05:18,920 --> 00:05:20,480 so far all the way up in Romans. 127 00:05:20,750 --> 00:05:23,150 We've seen two problems, one about God's law. 128 00:05:23,180 --> 00:05:26,120 The law can't give us righteousness, right? 129 00:05:26,510 --> 00:05:28,550 All the law does is show us that we're not righteous. 130 00:05:28,550 --> 00:05:30,320 Remember I showed you that like coloring sheet and told you how 131 00:05:30,320 --> 00:05:31,760 bad I am at coloring, right? 132 00:05:31,760 --> 00:05:35,000 The, what the law does is it shows you that you're bad at keeping the law. 133 00:05:35,330 --> 00:05:36,500 It doesn't help you keep the law. 134 00:05:36,530 --> 00:05:38,240 It shows you, you stink, right? 135 00:05:38,510 --> 00:05:39,260 I can't do it. 136 00:05:39,409 --> 00:05:40,850 I can't tell the truth. 137 00:05:40,909 --> 00:05:41,360 I lie. 138 00:05:41,780 --> 00:05:43,700 I can't be content. 139 00:05:43,760 --> 00:05:44,330 I covet. 140 00:05:44,510 --> 00:05:45,470 I can't be pure. 141 00:05:45,500 --> 00:05:46,640 I committed adultery, right? 142 00:05:46,850 --> 00:05:48,920 I can't be loving. 143 00:05:48,920 --> 00:05:51,890 I murder, I I hate people in my heart. 144 00:05:51,980 --> 00:05:52,790 That's what the law does. 145 00:05:52,790 --> 00:05:55,610 The law shows us that you worship things other than God. 146 00:05:56,060 --> 00:05:56,960 It shows us we can't do it. 147 00:05:57,740 --> 00:06:02,000 It also doesn't help us do the things that it says to do. 148 00:06:02,060 --> 00:06:02,240 Right? 149 00:06:02,240 --> 00:06:04,970 The law is standing there saying, do better, but it doesn't 150 00:06:04,970 --> 00:06:06,230 help you do better, right? 151 00:06:06,350 --> 00:06:09,080 So there's two problems is the law shows us we can't keep it, and 152 00:06:09,080 --> 00:06:10,640 the law doesn't help us keep it. 153 00:06:11,510 --> 00:06:13,970 Romans eight is gonna address both of those problems. 154 00:06:14,000 --> 00:06:14,150 Okay? 155 00:06:14,150 --> 00:06:14,840 So look with me. 156 00:06:15,050 --> 00:06:17,360 Romans eight verse one. 157 00:06:18,410 --> 00:06:20,630 There is therefore, so even these two words, right? 158 00:06:20,630 --> 00:06:23,930 There's therefore, now this is like a big transition here, therefore, 159 00:06:23,930 --> 00:06:26,600 and now there's a, there's a contrast here between what we just saw. 160 00:06:26,810 --> 00:06:30,050 Therefore, now new thing, new thing is happening here. 161 00:06:30,380 --> 00:06:32,420 There's no condemnation, right? 162 00:06:32,630 --> 00:06:33,500 Someone's condemned. 163 00:06:33,500 --> 00:06:38,030 It means they're guilty for those who are in Christ Jesus. 164 00:06:39,365 --> 00:06:43,505 The law shows you you're guilty, but it can't do anything about your guilt. 165 00:06:43,835 --> 00:06:45,784 All the law does is say you stink. 166 00:06:46,205 --> 00:06:46,775 You're horrible. 167 00:06:47,284 --> 00:06:48,365 It can't do anything about that. 168 00:06:49,055 --> 00:06:51,665 It just lets you stink and keeps pointing out that you stink. 169 00:06:51,695 --> 00:06:52,475 It doesn't do anything about it. 170 00:06:53,915 --> 00:06:54,755 How do you get rid of that? 171 00:06:54,815 --> 00:06:56,495 How do you get rid of that feeling of guilt? 172 00:06:56,675 --> 00:06:56,915 Right. 173 00:06:56,915 --> 00:06:57,515 I messed up. 174 00:06:57,515 --> 00:06:58,265 I'm not good enough. 175 00:06:58,270 --> 00:07:01,355 Well, it happens by being connected to Jesus. 176 00:07:01,355 --> 00:07:02,375 There's no condemnation. 177 00:07:02,405 --> 00:07:05,765 Guilt goes away for those, for the people who are in Christ 178 00:07:05,765 --> 00:07:07,115 Jesus connected to Christ. 179 00:07:07,790 --> 00:07:08,150 Jesus. 180 00:07:08,150 --> 00:07:08,300 Right? 181 00:07:08,300 --> 00:07:10,820 And we, hopefully you remember from Romans three and four, how do 182 00:07:10,820 --> 00:07:11,990 you get connected to Christ Jesus? 183 00:07:12,080 --> 00:07:13,070 How do you get connected? 184 00:07:13,070 --> 00:07:15,380 What does it mean to be in Christ by faith? 185 00:07:15,440 --> 00:07:15,680 Right? 186 00:07:15,680 --> 00:07:18,710 Faith is what links you to Jesus. 187 00:07:18,710 --> 00:07:23,450 So our first point tonight, escape guilt by trusting Jesus. 188 00:07:25,580 --> 00:07:28,280 When you don't measure up to the law, what do you do? 189 00:07:28,550 --> 00:07:28,730 Right? 190 00:07:28,730 --> 00:07:32,420 When you, when you see that gap, the law exposes that you're a sinner. 191 00:07:32,960 --> 00:07:33,335 You can't do it. 192 00:07:35,479 --> 00:07:38,690 If there's different ways people try to get rid of that guilt, right? 193 00:07:38,690 --> 00:07:39,020 That feeling. 194 00:07:39,020 --> 00:07:40,039 I know we've all been there, right? 195 00:07:40,219 --> 00:07:41,929 Even when you're a little kid, you do something wrong. 196 00:07:41,929 --> 00:07:44,060 You feel horrible about it, right? 197 00:07:44,060 --> 00:07:48,020 Maybe you, you did something and then you didn't feel bad about it initially, 198 00:07:48,049 --> 00:07:51,380 and then later on you're like, oh man, I should not have done that. 199 00:07:51,380 --> 00:07:51,500 Right? 200 00:07:51,558 --> 00:07:52,250 We've all been there. 201 00:07:53,689 --> 00:07:58,819 What do you do with that feeling when you're convicted about sin? 202 00:07:58,819 --> 00:07:59,179 What do you do? 203 00:07:59,179 --> 00:08:00,199 There's different things people do, right? 204 00:08:00,199 --> 00:08:01,069 Some people, they hide. 205 00:08:01,069 --> 00:08:02,569 Remember Adam in the garden, right? 206 00:08:02,975 --> 00:08:04,535 He hides from God, he runs away. 207 00:08:05,405 --> 00:08:06,725 Maybe that's what you do with God. 208 00:08:06,785 --> 00:08:08,855 You try to hide from God or you try to cover up your guilt. 209 00:08:08,945 --> 00:08:10,475 You just say, I'm just not gonna think about it. 210 00:08:10,475 --> 00:08:11,195 I'm not gonna talk about it. 211 00:08:12,125 --> 00:08:12,995 I don't want anyone to find out. 212 00:08:12,995 --> 00:08:13,925 I'm gonna bury it, right? 213 00:08:13,925 --> 00:08:15,035 You're gonna clear your search history. 214 00:08:15,035 --> 00:08:17,375 You're gonna avoid that person or that situation. 215 00:08:17,885 --> 00:08:18,755 You're not gonna talk about it. 216 00:08:18,755 --> 00:08:19,505 You're gonna hide it. 217 00:08:19,655 --> 00:08:20,615 Maybe that's what you do with your guilt. 218 00:08:22,189 --> 00:08:24,319 Or maybe you try to distract yourself, maybe you just try to 219 00:08:24,319 --> 00:08:27,260 move on and, and move forward and not worry about it anymore. 220 00:08:27,650 --> 00:08:30,380 Or maybe you rationalize it, you say, well, it's not as bad as 221 00:08:30,380 --> 00:08:33,049 those people, so I'm not really that guilty 'cause they're worse. 222 00:08:33,500 --> 00:08:37,760 Or you say, well, I know I was like sinning, but it was because I was 223 00:08:37,760 --> 00:08:42,049 really tired, or my sibling was really annoying and that's why I'm guilty. 224 00:08:42,049 --> 00:08:44,360 And you, you make it not as big of a deal, you rationalize it. 225 00:08:44,780 --> 00:08:46,310 Or maybe you just wait. 226 00:08:46,370 --> 00:08:48,199 You just think, if I wait long enough, I won't feel guilty 227 00:08:48,199 --> 00:08:48,860 about anymore and I'll be okay. 228 00:08:50,390 --> 00:08:51,680 Or maybe you try to make up for it, right? 229 00:08:51,680 --> 00:08:52,610 You try to do good things. 230 00:08:52,640 --> 00:08:53,690 Oh, I know, I sin. 231 00:08:53,690 --> 00:08:56,780 But, um, if, maybe if I read my Bible every day this week, 232 00:08:56,780 --> 00:08:58,550 then I'll be okay with God. 233 00:08:59,030 --> 00:08:59,180 Right. 234 00:08:59,180 --> 00:09:01,400 What do you do to try to make up for your guilt? 235 00:09:02,150 --> 00:09:04,640 Well, the Bible will say that none of those things are gonna work. 236 00:09:05,270 --> 00:09:06,380 None of those things. 237 00:09:06,380 --> 00:09:10,160 Hiding, waiting, making up for it, distracting yourself. 238 00:09:10,160 --> 00:09:12,140 None of those things are gonna get rid of your problem. 239 00:09:12,980 --> 00:09:14,060 They're just covering it up. 240 00:09:15,740 --> 00:09:15,890 What? 241 00:09:16,445 --> 00:09:17,825 We're seeing here in Romans eight. 242 00:09:17,825 --> 00:09:21,635 One is that we need to take our guilt to Jesus. 243 00:09:21,665 --> 00:09:22,775 He's the one that gets rid of it. 244 00:09:22,775 --> 00:09:28,025 There's no condemnation for the ones who are in Christ Jesus, not the ones 245 00:09:28,025 --> 00:09:31,325 who try really hard to get rid of it, not the ones who do a lot of good 246 00:09:31,325 --> 00:09:35,435 things, not the ones who you know aren't as bad as the other people, right? 247 00:09:35,555 --> 00:09:38,375 The, the people who aren't condemned, who aren't guilty are the people 248 00:09:38,375 --> 00:09:41,195 who are connected to Jesus. 249 00:09:45,525 --> 00:09:49,220 I think it's awesome that Jesus did a tangible thing. 250 00:09:49,340 --> 00:09:49,850 That's what we see. 251 00:09:49,850 --> 00:09:52,520 I'm gonna skip verse two for now, but in verse three of Romans eight. 252 00:09:53,390 --> 00:09:55,400 So remember we talked about the two things the law can't do right? 253 00:09:55,400 --> 00:09:59,240 The law can't make you righteous, and the law can't help you keep the law. 254 00:09:59,660 --> 00:10:03,440 Like the law can't get rid of your guilt, and the law can't help you love God. 255 00:10:04,160 --> 00:10:06,980 God has done what the law weakened by the flesh couldn't do. 256 00:10:07,160 --> 00:10:10,700 So the law, it's like sin hijacked the law and used it to do bad 257 00:10:10,700 --> 00:10:11,600 things instead of good things. 258 00:10:12,140 --> 00:10:12,500 So. 259 00:10:12,935 --> 00:10:16,505 Lock it can't take away your guilt and it can't help you love God. 260 00:10:17,495 --> 00:10:19,355 And what did God do to fix that? 261 00:10:19,355 --> 00:10:22,775 Well, the first thing he did is he sent his son in the likeness of sinful flesh. 262 00:10:22,775 --> 00:10:24,725 So Jesus, he took on human form, right? 263 00:10:24,725 --> 00:10:25,715 That's what we celebrate at Christmas. 264 00:10:25,715 --> 00:10:30,695 Jesus didn't take on the sin part of flesh, but he took on human flesh with 265 00:10:30,695 --> 00:10:32,195 all the weaknesses that we have, right? 266 00:10:32,195 --> 00:10:32,945 Jesus got tired. 267 00:10:33,215 --> 00:10:33,755 Jesus. 268 00:10:34,145 --> 00:10:36,365 Um, you know, if he didn't sleep well, right? 269 00:10:36,365 --> 00:10:37,865 There's, there's things that happened to Jesus. 270 00:10:37,865 --> 00:10:39,365 Jesus, he got hurt right there. 271 00:10:39,365 --> 00:10:42,275 There's, Jesus had the weaknesses of human flesh. 272 00:10:42,335 --> 00:10:43,475 He got hungry, right? 273 00:10:43,895 --> 00:10:50,075 Um, so Jesus came down in human flesh and he condemned sin in the flesh. 274 00:10:50,075 --> 00:10:50,795 So, who's he here? 275 00:10:50,975 --> 00:10:51,905 Well, it's God. 276 00:10:52,055 --> 00:10:54,185 He condemned sin in whose flesh? 277 00:10:54,815 --> 00:10:55,295 Jesus. 278 00:10:55,325 --> 00:10:55,655 Flesh. 279 00:10:55,685 --> 00:10:56,735 So what's happening? 280 00:10:56,765 --> 00:10:57,725 That's Friday, right? 281 00:10:57,725 --> 00:10:58,145 Good Friday. 282 00:10:58,145 --> 00:10:58,895 That's what we're talking about. 283 00:10:59,195 --> 00:11:01,355 This is good Friday in Romans eight. 284 00:11:03,095 --> 00:11:07,025 God took the people who trust Jesus. 285 00:11:07,025 --> 00:11:09,665 He took their guilt and he condemned Jesus for it. 286 00:11:10,355 --> 00:11:11,915 That's what we celebrate on Good Friday. 287 00:11:12,605 --> 00:11:13,355 We celebrate. 288 00:11:13,355 --> 00:11:17,525 God took my guilt and he said, Lewis, you didn't keep the law, but I'm 289 00:11:17,525 --> 00:11:18,995 gonna treat Jesus like he's you. 290 00:11:19,100 --> 00:11:19,450 Right? 291 00:11:21,095 --> 00:11:25,835 That's what we celebrate on Good Friday is my sin got condemned, but in Jesus. 292 00:11:26,225 --> 00:11:30,425 So Jesus suffered the consequences that he took on the guilt of my sin. 293 00:11:32,975 --> 00:11:33,905 And that's what faith is. 294 00:11:33,905 --> 00:11:35,825 Faith is saying, Jesus, you have to do this. 295 00:11:35,885 --> 00:11:36,455 I can't do it. 296 00:11:37,325 --> 00:11:38,375 I can't take away my guilt. 297 00:11:38,375 --> 00:11:39,845 Jesus, you have to do it. 298 00:11:40,295 --> 00:11:41,045 That's what faith says. 299 00:11:41,735 --> 00:11:43,205 That's what it looks like to trust Jesus. 300 00:11:43,205 --> 00:11:45,275 That's what it looks like to be in Christ is you trust Jesus. 301 00:11:45,275 --> 00:11:49,775 You get connected to Jesus by faith, and so now instead of you getting treated like 302 00:11:49,775 --> 00:11:52,085 you, you get treated like Jesus, right? 303 00:11:52,085 --> 00:11:52,385 You. 304 00:11:52,445 --> 00:11:55,625 He takes your guilt and you get his righteousness. 305 00:11:55,655 --> 00:11:56,585 His good works. 306 00:11:58,340 --> 00:12:01,700 And what's awesome is this is a tangible thing that really happened, right? 307 00:12:01,880 --> 00:12:06,410 There's a lot of people that love going to, um, Catholic church 308 00:12:06,710 --> 00:12:10,700 because there's a tangible thing that they do that takes away their sin. 309 00:12:11,150 --> 00:12:15,080 They go talk to a priest, they go to the mass, and they take communion, 310 00:12:15,080 --> 00:12:16,220 and it takes away their sin. 311 00:12:17,060 --> 00:12:20,630 So it gives you this experience of, oh, I get to do this thing, 312 00:12:20,960 --> 00:12:24,110 and then I, I did it, and now I know I did it 'cause I saw it and I 313 00:12:24,110 --> 00:12:25,610 felt it, and God took away my sin. 314 00:12:27,650 --> 00:12:28,310 That's wrong. 315 00:12:28,850 --> 00:12:31,580 This is a real thing that really happened that took away your sin. 316 00:12:31,850 --> 00:12:32,030 Right? 317 00:12:32,030 --> 00:12:34,610 And now it feels weird because you're just praying. 318 00:12:34,610 --> 00:12:34,820 Right? 319 00:12:34,820 --> 00:12:37,520 When you, when you take your guilt to God, you, you pray and you ask God 320 00:12:37,520 --> 00:12:41,300 for forgiveness, and you trust that Jesus takes away your sin, but this is 321 00:12:41,300 --> 00:12:42,770 a really thing that really happened. 322 00:12:43,490 --> 00:12:45,980 Jesus really suffered for your sin, right? 323 00:12:45,980 --> 00:12:49,520 For the lies that you said this week, for the impatience that 324 00:12:49,520 --> 00:12:50,750 you showed towards your siblings. 325 00:12:51,814 --> 00:12:56,255 For the impure thoughts that you had for the envy that you had in your heart. 326 00:12:56,435 --> 00:12:59,824 Jesus really suffered for each one of those things and you, 327 00:13:00,785 --> 00:13:02,375 you can make that real to you. 328 00:13:03,995 --> 00:13:05,824 When you, when you look to Jesus, right? 329 00:13:05,824 --> 00:13:08,344 You, you think about, well, this is what we, this is why we do communion. 330 00:13:08,824 --> 00:13:13,415 It's to give you a tangible reminder of Jesus' flesh was really broken, right? 331 00:13:13,415 --> 00:13:15,545 That's why we, we, I guess Annie and Zoe, right? 332 00:13:15,545 --> 00:13:19,535 They break up the, the communion wafers into these like jagged pieces, right? 333 00:13:19,535 --> 00:13:20,704 It's not in these little squares. 334 00:13:21,454 --> 00:13:24,905 And the point is it was condemned in, in real flesh, right? 335 00:13:24,905 --> 00:13:26,974 Real, like a real person really suffered. 336 00:13:27,334 --> 00:13:28,775 His body was really broken. 337 00:13:28,865 --> 00:13:32,045 He really bled to take away your sin. 338 00:13:33,245 --> 00:13:35,945 There's a really good hymn that I love that talks about this. 339 00:13:35,945 --> 00:13:38,435 It, it, it says that it's cocking to people who maybe feel 340 00:13:38,435 --> 00:13:39,485 like they can't come to God. 341 00:13:39,515 --> 00:13:40,385 They feel too guilty. 342 00:13:41,255 --> 00:13:47,225 And it, um, it encourages you to look at Jesus and think about all 343 00:13:47,225 --> 00:13:50,585 that he suffered and say, isn't that enough to take away your sin? 344 00:13:51,515 --> 00:13:52,475 And that's what we do on Good Friday. 345 00:13:52,475 --> 00:13:54,575 We think about, man isn't, look at all the things that Jesus 346 00:13:54,575 --> 00:13:56,945 did to suffer from my sin. 347 00:13:57,935 --> 00:14:01,145 And then you leave it there and you say, that's enough. 348 00:14:01,565 --> 00:14:02,615 I don't need to add to it. 349 00:14:03,305 --> 00:14:04,475 I don't need to make up for it. 350 00:14:05,705 --> 00:14:07,145 I don't need to do anything else. 351 00:14:07,145 --> 00:14:08,345 I can't add to what Jesus did. 352 00:14:08,345 --> 00:14:09,185 He already did all of it. 353 00:14:10,025 --> 00:14:11,315 He took all of my guilt. 354 00:14:12,395 --> 00:14:15,575 I can't add to it by being a, a better person this week. 355 00:14:16,475 --> 00:14:18,665 I can't add to, to what Jesus did. 356 00:14:21,150 --> 00:14:24,095 But maybe you're out there and you're saying, I don't feel guilty. 357 00:14:25,145 --> 00:14:25,715 Maybe that's you. 358 00:14:25,745 --> 00:14:27,365 You're saying, well, you're talking about guilt, you're talking about 359 00:14:27,365 --> 00:14:28,445 all this stuff and I don't feel bad. 360 00:14:28,445 --> 00:14:28,835 I sin. 361 00:14:28,835 --> 00:14:29,345 I like it. 362 00:14:29,615 --> 00:14:30,185 Maybe that's you. 363 00:14:32,180 --> 00:14:33,470 There's a football coach. 364 00:14:33,470 --> 00:14:37,730 I read his biography when I was a kid and, um, his, his name's Tony 365 00:14:37,730 --> 00:14:39,230 Dungy, he's the coach of the Colts. 366 00:14:39,230 --> 00:14:41,030 He was the coach of the Peyton Manning when they won the Super Bowl. 367 00:14:41,630 --> 00:14:47,240 And he had a, he had a son who couldn't feel, um, much paint. 368 00:14:48,020 --> 00:14:48,830 So he had a son. 369 00:14:48,830 --> 00:14:52,130 His son was like five and would like put his hand on the 370 00:14:52,130 --> 00:14:54,320 stove and wouldn't feel it. 371 00:14:55,400 --> 00:14:59,030 And so his son kept hurting himself 'cause he didn't know he was getting hurt. 372 00:14:59,690 --> 00:15:02,480 He would like touch the stove or, or eat these really hot cookies 373 00:15:02,480 --> 00:15:05,150 and like burn his hands and he wouldn't know he was getting hurt. 374 00:15:06,890 --> 00:15:11,840 If you don't feel convicted of your sin, that's you, right? 375 00:15:11,840 --> 00:15:14,780 Your, your hands right are touching the really hot stove 376 00:15:14,780 --> 00:15:15,890 and you're just letting him burn. 377 00:15:17,240 --> 00:15:20,690 And if you don't feel bad about your sin, you're actually in a really bad spot. 378 00:15:21,680 --> 00:15:24,230 You might think you're getting away from it or getting away with 379 00:15:24,230 --> 00:15:25,640 it, or you, you might think that. 380 00:15:26,614 --> 00:15:27,844 Oh, it's not a big deal. 381 00:15:27,844 --> 00:15:29,104 Or you maybe think it's so fun. 382 00:15:29,104 --> 00:15:29,675 I love it. 383 00:15:29,854 --> 00:15:31,775 Really what's happening is, is you're burning your hands and 384 00:15:31,775 --> 00:15:33,755 not even feeling it, right? 385 00:15:33,755 --> 00:15:36,245 When you're convicted of your sin, you touch the, you touch the stove and you 386 00:15:36,245 --> 00:15:38,584 go, ow, it's hot, and you back up, right? 387 00:15:38,584 --> 00:15:39,035 That's the point. 388 00:15:39,035 --> 00:15:42,005 That's why you feel bad about your sin, is your, your conscience is 389 00:15:42,005 --> 00:15:44,675 like your pain receptors, and it, it yells at you and it's like, stop. 390 00:15:44,704 --> 00:15:45,275 Don't do that. 391 00:15:45,454 --> 00:15:46,234 That's hurting you. 392 00:15:47,194 --> 00:15:52,444 But if you don't feel guilty, it's because your sin is, is burning you 393 00:15:52,444 --> 00:15:53,564 and it doesn't bother you anymore. 394 00:15:53,660 --> 00:15:53,870 More. 395 00:15:54,980 --> 00:15:57,709 And so you're in a really dangerous spot if that's you. 396 00:15:58,670 --> 00:16:01,670 But Jesus can still take your sin away, right? 397 00:16:01,670 --> 00:16:04,520 You can still, you're not too far gone, but you're in a 398 00:16:04,520 --> 00:16:05,780 really dangerous spot, right? 399 00:16:05,780 --> 00:16:07,850 You're not better off 'cause you don't feel bad, right? 400 00:16:07,850 --> 00:16:10,640 So if you're out there and you're like, man, I love my sin, 401 00:16:10,640 --> 00:16:11,630 it doesn't bother me, right? 402 00:16:11,630 --> 00:16:15,199 I, you're in a really precarious situation, right? 403 00:16:15,199 --> 00:16:15,829 You are. 404 00:16:16,730 --> 00:16:18,140 You're in real danger. 405 00:16:20,749 --> 00:16:22,100 But anyway, God doesn't just. 406 00:16:22,880 --> 00:16:24,650 Help Christians escape guilt. 407 00:16:24,709 --> 00:16:27,050 He doesn't just give you victory over the consequences of your sin, right? 408 00:16:27,050 --> 00:16:27,469 You sin. 409 00:16:27,590 --> 00:16:28,610 You deserve God's wrath. 410 00:16:28,790 --> 00:16:29,959 He doesn't just say, okay, great. 411 00:16:29,990 --> 00:16:32,090 I can take away the consequences of your sin. 412 00:16:32,390 --> 00:16:37,250 He also gives Christians victory over the power of sin, okay? 413 00:16:37,250 --> 00:16:38,030 And that's our second point. 414 00:16:38,270 --> 00:16:42,080 Defeat sin by the power of the spirit. 415 00:16:45,770 --> 00:16:47,479 So we're talking really about two things. 416 00:16:47,479 --> 00:16:50,060 We're talking about what does God do with the consequences of your 417 00:16:50,060 --> 00:16:52,910 sin, and what does God do with the power of your sin, right? 418 00:16:52,910 --> 00:16:56,090 Because the problem is when you get God's law, right? 419 00:16:56,090 --> 00:16:59,780 The person in Romans seven, they, they get God's commands and they're like, 420 00:16:59,780 --> 00:17:03,800 okay, God told me to do these things, and they try to do 'em, and guess what? 421 00:17:03,800 --> 00:17:04,189 They can't. 422 00:17:05,060 --> 00:17:07,638 So the command said, you can't do it right? 423 00:17:07,669 --> 00:17:08,300 You're bad at this. 424 00:17:09,679 --> 00:17:10,819 And so now they're guilty. 425 00:17:10,848 --> 00:17:11,689 So that's one problem. 426 00:17:12,694 --> 00:17:15,273 The law, God's commands can't help them keep it. 427 00:17:15,273 --> 00:17:20,253 The the commands God gives you don't help you keep the commands. 428 00:17:20,253 --> 00:17:21,064 They just tell you what to do. 429 00:17:21,125 --> 00:17:21,304 Right? 430 00:17:21,304 --> 00:17:22,175 They're just the instructions. 431 00:17:22,233 --> 00:17:23,973 The instructions don't help you build anything. 432 00:17:24,723 --> 00:17:25,773 They don't give you tools. 433 00:17:25,835 --> 00:17:26,135 Right? 434 00:17:26,135 --> 00:17:27,753 It's like batteries not included, right? 435 00:17:27,993 --> 00:17:32,165 The law, God's law came without batteries and it didn't just come, 436 00:17:32,314 --> 00:17:36,245 uh, it didn't just come with the, with showing you you're guilty. 437 00:17:36,245 --> 00:17:38,195 It also came without the ability to keep it. 438 00:17:39,799 --> 00:17:43,009 So not just doesn't show you, you, uh, just doesn't show you 439 00:17:43,009 --> 00:17:43,969 that you're not good enough. 440 00:17:43,999 --> 00:17:48,289 It also shows you you can't do anything to keep the law on your own. 441 00:17:49,789 --> 00:17:53,090 And that's why the batteries that God gives you is the Holy 442 00:17:53,090 --> 00:17:54,110 Spirit when you're a Christian. 443 00:17:54,919 --> 00:17:58,370 God doesn't just say, I'm gonna take away your guilt and your condemnation. 444 00:17:58,729 --> 00:18:01,639 I'm actually gonna help you do the things I made you to do. 445 00:18:01,879 --> 00:18:04,975 You're actually now going to be able to obey God if you're a Christian. 446 00:18:05,975 --> 00:18:09,334 That's why, remember we talked about in Romans six, when someone's connected to 447 00:18:09,334 --> 00:18:12,094 Jesus, they don't just keep on sending the same way they used to, right? 448 00:18:12,094 --> 00:18:15,665 They don't stay loving the same sins they used to love because when 449 00:18:15,665 --> 00:18:18,394 you become a Christian, you get new batteries right, and you get you. 450 00:18:18,485 --> 00:18:22,685 You become different, and now you are able to do the things that God 451 00:18:22,685 --> 00:18:25,114 has always commanded you to do. 452 00:18:27,274 --> 00:18:29,014 That's what we see here in verses one and two. 453 00:18:29,014 --> 00:18:30,064 There's a connection here. 454 00:18:30,125 --> 00:18:33,245 So there's therefore now no condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus, right? 455 00:18:33,245 --> 00:18:37,745 So all the people who are connected to Jesus by faith, guilt is gone like 456 00:18:37,895 --> 00:18:43,235 not guilty anymore, forever, for the law of the spirit of life has set you 457 00:18:43,235 --> 00:18:47,885 free in Christ Jesus so that the Holy Spirit has freed you from the loss. 458 00:18:47,885 --> 00:18:49,024 So think of like the power. 459 00:18:49,115 --> 00:18:49,355 Think. 460 00:18:49,355 --> 00:18:51,814 So the power of the Holy Spirit has freed you from the 461 00:18:51,814 --> 00:18:52,985 power of sin and death, right? 462 00:18:52,985 --> 00:18:54,605 We talked about how we're all stuck sinning. 463 00:18:55,219 --> 00:18:57,229 We talked about this in Romans six, right? 464 00:18:57,229 --> 00:19:01,429 We're slaves to sin before we become a Christian. 465 00:19:02,360 --> 00:19:03,560 All you can do is sin. 466 00:19:03,560 --> 00:19:04,100 You're stuck. 467 00:19:06,260 --> 00:19:07,699 Now, how does this connect? 468 00:19:07,969 --> 00:19:13,340 And this is really interesting 'cause usually four is like a cause, right? 469 00:19:13,340 --> 00:19:19,729 Usually four means something like, um, I, um, went to the 470 00:19:19,729 --> 00:19:22,459 store for, I needed groceries. 471 00:19:23,360 --> 00:19:26,750 Usually that's, it's a reason In this case though, it's, it's kinda like this. 472 00:19:27,650 --> 00:19:33,620 I knew I was hungry for my stomach growled because I knew, I knew I was 473 00:19:33,620 --> 00:19:34,940 hungry because my stomach growled. 474 00:19:35,840 --> 00:19:38,270 This is the evidence that this happened. 475 00:19:38,900 --> 00:19:40,850 So how do you know you're not guilty? 476 00:19:41,330 --> 00:19:44,330 Well, you see God do something in your life. 477 00:19:45,230 --> 00:19:48,530 You see the evidence of the Holy Spirit in your life and you're like, oh, 478 00:19:48,830 --> 00:19:51,980 now that I'm able to actually do the things that God's commanding me to do. 479 00:19:52,850 --> 00:19:54,799 How I know that this other thing already happened. 480 00:19:56,629 --> 00:20:02,629 So being freed from the power of sin is evidence that you are not 481 00:20:02,629 --> 00:20:04,610 guilty anymore, if that makes sense. 482 00:20:05,389 --> 00:20:05,539 Alright. 483 00:20:05,539 --> 00:20:08,419 This is a package deal and essentially what we're talking about here is 484 00:20:08,419 --> 00:20:10,939 we're talking about that every single person who's justified, who's made 485 00:20:10,939 --> 00:20:13,519 righteous is gonna be sanctified. 486 00:20:13,579 --> 00:20:15,679 Who's gonna, is gonna start living a holy life. 487 00:20:16,729 --> 00:20:19,549 Every single person who trusts Jesus, who's a real Christian, is 488 00:20:19,549 --> 00:20:20,929 gonna live like it essentially. 489 00:20:22,655 --> 00:20:27,425 Every single person who gets their guilt taken away isn't just gonna keep doing 490 00:20:27,425 --> 00:20:28,805 the same things that made them guilty. 491 00:20:29,524 --> 00:20:32,465 They're gonna live differently because the Holy Spirit is going 492 00:20:32,465 --> 00:20:34,565 to come in and change everything. 493 00:20:36,395 --> 00:20:39,905 So if you're not being sanctified, right, if you don't see evidence of the 494 00:20:39,905 --> 00:20:42,575 Holy Spirit in your life, if you don't see God giving you new desires, if you 495 00:20:42,575 --> 00:20:47,795 don't see God killing your sin, if you don't see that you want God more, you 496 00:20:47,795 --> 00:20:49,399 should ask yourself, maybe I wasn't. 497 00:20:50,239 --> 00:20:51,020 Justified. 498 00:20:51,169 --> 00:20:53,570 Maybe I never became a Christian in the first place if there's 499 00:20:53,570 --> 00:20:55,520 no evidence of that in my life. 500 00:20:56,209 --> 00:20:58,520 And so if that's you, you, you don't see any love for God in your life. 501 00:20:58,520 --> 00:21:00,679 You don't see any desire to be with God. 502 00:21:00,679 --> 00:21:02,120 You don't see any love for others. 503 00:21:02,120 --> 00:21:05,510 Maybe it's because in the first place you never became a Christian. 504 00:21:09,975 --> 00:21:15,919 And for you, if you are a Christian, you will certainly be sanctified, 505 00:21:15,949 --> 00:21:18,169 which I find that so encouraging that. 506 00:21:18,754 --> 00:21:21,725 God definitely will kill my sin. 507 00:21:22,685 --> 00:21:24,784 He 100% will kill my sin. 508 00:21:25,835 --> 00:21:27,605 That's so encouraging. 509 00:21:27,605 --> 00:21:32,135 'cause a lot of times, right, I'm not very good at fighting my sin and I have 510 00:21:32,135 --> 00:21:35,074 God's promise that he's gonna do it. 511 00:21:37,085 --> 00:21:41,284 All of God's power is working towards your holiness. 512 00:21:41,284 --> 00:21:45,544 If you're a Christian, you have the full omnipotence of God. 513 00:21:46,639 --> 00:21:49,100 To power your pursuit of loving God. 514 00:21:50,810 --> 00:21:53,959 All of who God is, is for your holiness. 515 00:21:53,959 --> 00:21:54,560 If you're a Christian, 516 00:21:56,600 --> 00:21:58,699 all of God's power wants you to overcome that. 517 00:21:58,699 --> 00:22:01,639 Sin wants you to start living for God. 518 00:22:04,490 --> 00:22:07,610 I had a, um, psychology teacher. 519 00:22:08,705 --> 00:22:12,784 In, um, my senior year of high school, I think, and he was 520 00:22:12,784 --> 00:22:14,014 prepping us for the AP test. 521 00:22:14,064 --> 00:22:20,364 I was in AP psychology and we, uh, he, he was really good, really good teacher. 522 00:22:20,514 --> 00:22:26,154 And what he did was he said, look, if you guys do everything, I tell you, you're 523 00:22:26,154 --> 00:22:27,534 gonna at least get a three on that. 524 00:22:27,534 --> 00:22:30,834 You're at least gonna pass the AP test if you just follow my instructions. 525 00:22:30,834 --> 00:22:33,564 If you, if you make the flashcard, you take the quizzes, you study the things. 526 00:22:34,314 --> 00:22:35,754 I guarantee you you'll get a three. 527 00:22:36,984 --> 00:22:40,164 Everyone in the class got a three more. 528 00:22:40,254 --> 00:22:41,604 Like it was only a few people that actually got a three. 529 00:22:41,604 --> 00:22:44,904 Everyone got fours and fives basically, and he was like, look, 530 00:22:45,174 --> 00:22:46,794 I've done this for 20 years. 531 00:22:47,154 --> 00:22:48,474 Like this is my thing. 532 00:22:48,594 --> 00:22:51,174 If you just follow the instructions, this is gonna happen. 533 00:22:51,924 --> 00:22:52,284 Right? 534 00:22:53,814 --> 00:22:57,259 It's kind of similar to God's promise to Christians. 535 00:22:59,259 --> 00:23:03,879 He says that God's will for you as a Christian is to be sanctified to grow. 536 00:23:04,839 --> 00:23:06,549 God is certainly going to do that. 537 00:23:08,049 --> 00:23:11,019 If you, if, and part of it though is you participate in that. 538 00:23:11,109 --> 00:23:13,929 If you want to impress your, if impress your parents, you can, 539 00:23:13,929 --> 00:23:15,249 you can say these two words. 540 00:23:15,249 --> 00:23:18,459 You can say that salvation is what's called monistic. 541 00:23:18,519 --> 00:23:19,569 Mono meaning one. 542 00:23:19,569 --> 00:23:19,869 Right? 543 00:23:20,019 --> 00:23:21,609 It's all God's work. 544 00:23:21,609 --> 00:23:21,759 Right? 545 00:23:21,759 --> 00:23:22,959 You don't contribute anything to it. 546 00:23:23,949 --> 00:23:24,159 Right? 547 00:23:24,159 --> 00:23:26,139 Clay has a shirt that says the only. 548 00:23:26,574 --> 00:23:29,874 Thing you contribute to your salvation is the sin that made it necessary. 549 00:23:30,084 --> 00:23:30,354 Right? 550 00:23:30,354 --> 00:23:32,244 That's, that's the only thing you bring to the table. 551 00:23:32,274 --> 00:23:37,404 God does everything in salvation, but sanctification is synergistic. 552 00:23:37,434 --> 00:23:38,754 It's a, it's a team effort. 553 00:23:38,934 --> 00:23:40,464 It's you and God both working. 554 00:23:42,234 --> 00:23:45,354 And so just like with the AP test, I had to study, right? 555 00:23:45,354 --> 00:23:46,434 The teacher didn't study for me. 556 00:23:46,434 --> 00:23:47,154 I had to study. 557 00:23:47,754 --> 00:23:50,364 But if I did it his way, I would do it. 558 00:23:50,574 --> 00:23:51,714 I would, I would pass the test. 559 00:23:52,989 --> 00:23:54,969 That's pretty much what God promises to you. 560 00:23:54,999 --> 00:23:56,979 You, you have to really study right? 561 00:23:56,979 --> 00:24:00,579 You, you have to know God's promises and believe God and fight your sin and 562 00:24:00,579 --> 00:24:03,339 really put in your effort, your blood, sweat, and tears into killing your sin. 563 00:24:03,579 --> 00:24:07,870 But if you do it, God promises that he will sanctify you. 564 00:24:08,049 --> 00:24:10,089 Now, it's not gonna be robotic, right? 565 00:24:10,089 --> 00:24:12,249 It's not gonna always look exactly the same every single time, 566 00:24:13,329 --> 00:24:17,799 but God promises that if you are a Christian, you will grow. 567 00:24:18,985 --> 00:24:19,704 Guaranteed. 568 00:24:19,914 --> 00:24:20,154 Right? 569 00:24:20,154 --> 00:24:23,274 So if you feel like, man, I'm struggling, I can't do this. 570 00:24:23,964 --> 00:24:27,684 You can tell yourself, you, you can read Romans eight and tell yourself, I can. 571 00:24:28,434 --> 00:24:30,114 God's spirit is in me. 572 00:24:30,114 --> 00:24:34,554 If I'm really a Christian and it's going to, it's gonna, it's gonna happen. 573 00:24:34,704 --> 00:24:35,364 God's gonna grow me. 574 00:24:37,884 --> 00:24:42,594 And so you can, you can take that to the bank, right? 575 00:24:42,594 --> 00:24:45,209 You can say, God, you promised to sanctify me. 576 00:24:45,774 --> 00:24:48,924 You said in your word that you've given me the spirit and 577 00:24:48,924 --> 00:24:50,694 that I am now able to obey you. 578 00:24:50,694 --> 00:24:51,594 I really can do this. 579 00:24:51,594 --> 00:24:52,554 And there's some temptations, right? 580 00:24:52,554 --> 00:24:53,514 You feel like I can't do this. 581 00:24:53,754 --> 00:24:54,864 Oh, I just, I just get angry. 582 00:24:54,864 --> 00:24:55,449 I don't even think about it. 583 00:24:55,454 --> 00:24:58,344 It just happens, or I just get anxious or, oh, I just can't stop thinking those 584 00:24:58,344 --> 00:25:01,674 things or feeling those things and, and it just feels like it happens to you, right? 585 00:25:03,174 --> 00:25:07,554 You have the Holy Spirit in you to help you, right? 586 00:25:07,554 --> 00:25:12,504 All of who God is, can and will help you to follow him. 587 00:25:16,284 --> 00:25:19,614 Something else that we see is that in these next few verses, 588 00:25:19,614 --> 00:25:20,844 so we already saw this, right? 589 00:25:20,844 --> 00:25:26,544 God sent Jesus, he condemned my sin in Jesus' flesh in order that 590 00:25:26,544 --> 00:25:28,884 the righteous requirement of the law might be fulfilled in us. 591 00:25:28,884 --> 00:25:30,264 So here's what we're talking about here. 592 00:25:30,414 --> 00:25:35,694 The purpose of God justifying me is to sanctify me. 593 00:25:36,774 --> 00:25:37,284 You see that? 594 00:25:38,064 --> 00:25:39,264 The righteous requirement of the law. 595 00:25:39,264 --> 00:25:39,714 What's that? 596 00:25:39,834 --> 00:25:42,564 Well, what we're talking about here, and we'll see what we probably won't 597 00:25:42,564 --> 00:25:43,284 'cause we probably won't get there. 598 00:25:43,404 --> 00:25:47,034 Romans 13, it says that the, that love fulfills the law. 599 00:25:47,274 --> 00:25:51,114 So really the point of the law is love God and love others, right? 600 00:25:52,014 --> 00:25:56,574 If you're justified, you will love God and love others because 601 00:25:56,574 --> 00:25:57,714 you're living by the spirit. 602 00:25:57,714 --> 00:25:58,614 You have the Holy Spirit's power. 603 00:25:58,944 --> 00:26:03,714 The Holy Spirit is in you, and so therefore, you will do this. 604 00:26:03,834 --> 00:26:05,664 You will really do the things that God command. 605 00:26:06,699 --> 00:26:10,629 The purpose of being justified is so that you can be sanctified. 606 00:26:13,479 --> 00:26:19,840 Sometimes we think that God justifies you and then, or rather God needs to sanctify 607 00:26:19,840 --> 00:26:21,879 you first so that you can be justified. 608 00:26:22,149 --> 00:26:22,330 Right? 609 00:26:22,330 --> 00:26:23,499 We talked about this at Summer Revival. 610 00:26:23,499 --> 00:26:27,310 We talked about how sometimes we think that, oh, um, I need to clean myself up 611 00:26:27,310 --> 00:26:29,259 a bit first, and then God can save me. 612 00:26:30,354 --> 00:26:31,704 That's not how this works, right? 613 00:26:32,184 --> 00:26:34,224 This happens after this. 614 00:26:34,224 --> 00:26:37,644 You keeping the law happens after you're justified. 615 00:26:38,334 --> 00:26:41,064 Your sin has to get taken away first before you can really obey God. 616 00:26:41,934 --> 00:26:44,304 So if you're out there and you're saying, well, I wanna become a Christian, I just 617 00:26:44,304 --> 00:26:47,934 need to start doing the Christian things first, then I'll become a Christian. 618 00:26:48,684 --> 00:26:49,554 That's not how this works. 619 00:26:50,544 --> 00:26:53,784 You get saved, you get justified, then you start changing. 620 00:26:54,444 --> 00:26:56,754 That's the way that God works. 621 00:26:56,754 --> 00:26:56,814 I. 622 00:27:00,189 --> 00:27:02,469 Also, he doesn't just justify you, right? 623 00:27:02,469 --> 00:27:04,329 Save you for you to just go back to where you were. 624 00:27:04,899 --> 00:27:08,199 God gives you righteousness and he expects change 'cause he's, he's gonna 625 00:27:08,199 --> 00:27:09,399 give you the Holy Spirit and change you. 626 00:27:10,929 --> 00:27:14,079 So you should expect being a Christian to change everything about you, right? 627 00:27:14,079 --> 00:27:17,919 If you really did trust Jesus to save you, you shouldn't expect 628 00:27:17,919 --> 00:27:19,329 your life to look exactly the same. 629 00:27:19,644 --> 00:27:20,934 You should expect new motives. 630 00:27:20,934 --> 00:27:22,644 You should expect new dreams. 631 00:27:22,644 --> 00:27:24,204 You should expect new goals. 632 00:27:24,264 --> 00:27:28,014 You should expect new purposes to the, maybe you do the same things. 633 00:27:28,014 --> 00:27:30,744 Maybe you grew up a Christian home and you still read the Bible, 634 00:27:31,044 --> 00:27:34,464 but now you do it for different reasons and it feels different. 635 00:27:34,464 --> 00:27:36,414 You're like, man, God is speaking to me and I'm reading 636 00:27:36,414 --> 00:27:37,614 the Bible, and it's awesome. 637 00:27:38,634 --> 00:27:40,374 You're not just like, oh, I'm just doing this for my parents. 638 00:27:41,094 --> 00:27:45,354 So maybe your outside looks the same, but now the inside is way different, right? 639 00:27:46,794 --> 00:27:48,144 So God expects change. 640 00:27:48,984 --> 00:27:51,534 He's the one that's working to change Christians, 641 00:27:53,904 --> 00:27:57,594 but also, and we kinda talked about this a bit, but Christians 642 00:27:57,594 --> 00:27:59,904 have the ability to obey God. 643 00:27:59,934 --> 00:28:03,654 You as a Christian, if you are, have everything you need to obey God in every 644 00:28:03,654 --> 00:28:06,294 situation and you really can do it. 645 00:28:07,374 --> 00:28:07,954 You really can. 646 00:28:09,174 --> 00:28:09,894 Trust God. 647 00:28:09,894 --> 00:28:12,774 When you feel anxious, you really can be patient. 648 00:28:12,954 --> 00:28:16,254 When you feel annoyed, you really can be pure. 649 00:28:16,404 --> 00:28:21,234 When you're tempted, you really can do all of these things that God 650 00:28:21,234 --> 00:28:26,154 is asking you to do because he's given you the Holy Spirit to do it. 651 00:28:29,149 --> 00:28:33,534 And sometimes when we're, because we're, we're sinners, right? 652 00:28:33,534 --> 00:28:34,464 We, we feel like. 653 00:28:34,749 --> 00:28:36,159 If there's something missing, right? 654 00:28:36,159 --> 00:28:39,789 All this, this sin is too strong, or I'm not good enough, or I 655 00:28:39,789 --> 00:28:41,139 don't know enough, or whatever. 656 00:28:41,529 --> 00:28:46,719 Um, and I remember one of the worst feelings as a kid for me was, you know, 657 00:28:46,719 --> 00:28:50,139 when you're trying to build Legos and you were like missing one of these things. 658 00:28:51,444 --> 00:28:53,184 Worst feeling in the world, right? 659 00:28:53,274 --> 00:28:55,194 And you're like looking all over and you're like, where is it? 660 00:28:55,194 --> 00:28:55,584 Where is it? 661 00:28:55,584 --> 00:28:56,064 What do I do? 662 00:28:56,064 --> 00:28:59,664 I, I need the, the, you know, weird thing that looks like a door stop. 663 00:28:59,664 --> 00:29:00,594 Like, I, I need it. 664 00:29:00,864 --> 00:29:01,495 Where is it? 665 00:29:01,495 --> 00:29:04,794 I got like, you're, you're, you're like throwing over pillows and you're 666 00:29:04,794 --> 00:29:07,404 digging through the trash and you're like, is it somewhere in there? 667 00:29:07,404 --> 00:29:08,154 What happened to it? 668 00:29:08,664 --> 00:29:08,904 Right. 669 00:29:08,934 --> 00:29:10,314 This is the Lego death star, I think. 670 00:29:10,584 --> 00:29:12,144 And that's the bath for the storm troopers. 671 00:29:12,144 --> 00:29:14,334 I don't know why, but there you go. 672 00:29:14,874 --> 00:29:15,354 Um, 673 00:29:17,394 --> 00:29:18,564 which, when you think about it like. 674 00:29:19,599 --> 00:29:19,989 Nevermind. 675 00:29:20,049 --> 00:29:20,739 I'm not gonna go there. 676 00:29:22,269 --> 00:29:22,509 It was when 677 00:29:25,359 --> 00:29:29,289 the point is right, if you there, there's no missing pieces 678 00:29:29,949 --> 00:29:31,449 in you trying to follow God. 679 00:29:32,079 --> 00:29:32,979 You have the Holy Spirit. 680 00:29:32,979 --> 00:29:34,809 You have God's word, right? 681 00:29:34,809 --> 00:29:38,319 You have everything you need to overcome the temptations that come your way. 682 00:29:39,129 --> 00:29:39,279 Right? 683 00:29:39,279 --> 00:29:43,989 You have the omnipotent spirit of God who, who later will see in Romans 684 00:29:43,989 --> 00:29:45,909 eight who raised Jesus from the dead. 685 00:29:46,629 --> 00:29:47,319 You can do it. 686 00:29:49,194 --> 00:29:51,475 Your sin is not stronger than you. 687 00:29:51,504 --> 00:29:53,094 There's no missing pieces. 688 00:29:53,245 --> 00:29:57,985 As you, as a Christian obey, God, there's, there's nothing that extra that you need. 689 00:29:58,584 --> 00:30:02,934 You're not like, oh, well, maybe if I, you know, got more of the Holy 690 00:30:02,934 --> 00:30:05,454 Spirit, then I could really obey God. 691 00:30:06,414 --> 00:30:08,485 You've got a hundred percent of the Holy Spirit you need. 692 00:30:08,634 --> 00:30:09,019 You've got all. 693 00:30:09,579 --> 00:30:09,939 Right. 694 00:30:10,119 --> 00:30:15,459 Or maybe if I, you know, just could be, you know, more, I don't know if I was 695 00:30:15,459 --> 00:30:20,199 just smarter or if, uh, maybe if I had grown up in the church or maybe if I had 696 00:30:20,199 --> 00:30:21,879 better parents or maybe whatever, right? 697 00:30:22,929 --> 00:30:26,619 As a Christian, God gives you all the power, all the ability 698 00:30:26,679 --> 00:30:30,879 you need to obey him, right? 699 00:30:30,879 --> 00:30:34,269 Your sin is not stronger than you no matter what, right? 700 00:30:34,269 --> 00:30:36,819 You have, you can walk into every day with the confidence 701 00:30:36,819 --> 00:30:38,289 to say, I can obey God today. 702 00:30:38,619 --> 00:30:39,849 I can glorify God today. 703 00:30:40,599 --> 00:30:42,519 I can make Jesus look great today. 704 00:30:42,849 --> 00:30:44,919 I have the Holy Spirit and he wants to help me do it. 705 00:30:45,309 --> 00:30:47,859 And we'll see later in Romans eight that God is for you to do that. 706 00:30:47,859 --> 00:30:48,609 He wants you to do that. 707 00:30:48,819 --> 00:30:51,939 God's not sitting there waiting for you to get your act together as a 708 00:30:51,939 --> 00:30:55,599 Christian and say, well, once you try really hard, then I'll help you. 709 00:30:55,929 --> 00:30:56,079 Right? 710 00:30:56,079 --> 00:30:57,369 The Holy Spirit's already in you. 711 00:30:57,369 --> 00:31:01,779 If you're a Christian, the Holy Spirit is for your sanctification, for your 712 00:31:01,779 --> 00:31:04,779 godliness, for your growth, and. 713 00:31:05,994 --> 00:31:06,654 Also right? 714 00:31:06,654 --> 00:31:06,894 You. 715 00:31:06,894 --> 00:31:10,194 You do have to participate in it, but at the same time, right? 716 00:31:10,824 --> 00:31:14,154 I want you to see that God is for that, right? 717 00:31:14,154 --> 00:31:17,604 God's not just waiting for you to do better and then he'll help you. 718 00:31:18,354 --> 00:31:18,534 Right? 719 00:31:18,534 --> 00:31:26,454 God is working in you to help you grow and because maybe you're someone who you 720 00:31:26,454 --> 00:31:28,644 focus more on your part than God's part. 721 00:31:29,394 --> 00:31:34,164 And, and this is probably the, the best part of the sermon for you is that your 722 00:31:34,164 --> 00:31:36,744 ability to obey God comes from God. 723 00:31:37,764 --> 00:31:40,494 Even the fact that you want to obey God comes from God. 724 00:31:40,494 --> 00:31:44,004 So if you're out there and you're saying, man, God saved me, and now I'm so good, 725 00:31:44,004 --> 00:31:45,594 look, I'm just so, I'm crushing it. 726 00:31:45,654 --> 00:31:47,004 I'm so good at obeying God. 727 00:31:47,784 --> 00:31:50,334 Maybe you're in a season where you're, you feel like you're doing really well, 728 00:31:51,024 --> 00:31:52,464 or the Bible's making sense to you. 729 00:31:52,464 --> 00:31:54,804 You, you feel like you're growing, you feel excited about God. 730 00:31:54,804 --> 00:31:55,584 You love going to church. 731 00:31:55,584 --> 00:31:56,604 You love coming to True North. 732 00:31:56,754 --> 00:31:57,679 You love listening to sermons. 733 00:31:58,554 --> 00:31:59,934 Make sure you don't forget that. 734 00:31:59,934 --> 00:32:02,664 That's not just you trying really hard and being really cool, right? 735 00:32:02,664 --> 00:32:05,004 That's God and his spirit working in you too. 736 00:32:05,934 --> 00:32:09,024 So let's pray and we'll talk about that more in small groups. 737 00:32:11,124 --> 00:32:15,084 Father, we love you and we're grateful that you love us. 738 00:32:15,294 --> 00:32:19,824 And so I pray that as we go on to talk about this sermon, that you would help 739 00:32:19,824 --> 00:32:24,714 us to be honest, help us to be focused, help us to, um, be helpful to each other. 740 00:32:24,714 --> 00:32:26,319 I pray that we wouldn't distract each other, that we wouldn't. 741 00:32:26,949 --> 00:32:30,879 Undermine what you're trying to do, but that we would work with you to grow us. 742 00:32:30,909 --> 00:32:36,039 You, God, are working for our good and for our spiritual growth. 743 00:32:36,249 --> 00:32:40,029 And so I pray that no one here would work against you and oppose 744 00:32:40,029 --> 00:32:45,789 you by being distracting or by being dishonest, um, or by looking 745 00:32:45,789 --> 00:32:47,560 down on you or being hardhearted. 746 00:32:47,560 --> 00:32:50,860 I pray that we would work, um, with you and not against you 747 00:32:50,860 --> 00:32:51,850 tonight in our small groups. 748 00:32:51,850 --> 00:32:52,959 We pray this in Jesus name. 749 00:32:53,499 --> 00:32:53,830 Amen.