1 00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:03,510 Speaker: We were looking at Romans three, nine through 20. 2 00:00:04,350 --> 00:00:07,650 And um, when I was in. 3 00:00:08,475 --> 00:00:10,965 I, I probably told you this before, when I was in high school, I was really cool. 4 00:00:11,535 --> 00:00:18,015 Um, I was in marching band and so there was a point though in high 5 00:00:18,015 --> 00:00:21,285 school that maybe some of you are starting to realize maybe if you 6 00:00:21,285 --> 00:00:22,635 play a sport, you play an instrument. 7 00:00:23,055 --> 00:00:26,355 There's a point where I realized that, that I wasn't good enough 8 00:00:27,015 --> 00:00:28,455 to be a professional musician. 9 00:00:29,175 --> 00:00:32,115 There was a point where reality looked me in the face and I 10 00:00:32,115 --> 00:00:33,645 realized I'm not gonna make it. 11 00:00:34,425 --> 00:00:35,175 Someday. 12 00:00:35,295 --> 00:00:38,834 For most of you who play sports or play instruments, there's gonna be a day 13 00:00:38,834 --> 00:00:40,754 when you're, maybe it's in college, maybe it's in high school, where you're 14 00:00:40,754 --> 00:00:46,724 gonna realize, I'm not gonna make it to the MLB, I'm not gonna make it. 15 00:00:47,504 --> 00:00:48,855 I'm not, I'm not good enough. 16 00:00:50,504 --> 00:00:52,845 There's gonna be a day where you have to come to terms with the 17 00:00:52,845 --> 00:00:55,304 fact of what you really like. 18 00:00:55,845 --> 00:01:00,224 You know, you're, you don't throw hard enough, you're not talented enough. 19 00:01:00,945 --> 00:01:01,215 Right. 20 00:01:01,215 --> 00:01:02,865 You, you, you can't practice enough. 21 00:01:02,865 --> 00:01:05,744 No amount of practice will overcome your, your lack of talent or 22 00:01:05,744 --> 00:01:07,274 your lack of genetics, right? 23 00:01:07,365 --> 00:01:09,435 There's gonna be a time where you're gonna have to, to see 24 00:01:09,435 --> 00:01:10,994 yourself as you really are. 25 00:01:11,385 --> 00:01:11,595 Right? 26 00:01:11,595 --> 00:01:13,095 And for me, that was the middle of high school. 27 00:01:13,185 --> 00:01:18,105 I realized I, I went to this, I, I I was, because I thought I was really good. 28 00:01:18,255 --> 00:01:23,565 And then I, I went to this, like, I joined this like advanced orchestra, which is. 29 00:01:24,075 --> 00:01:24,825 I was really cool. 30 00:01:24,885 --> 00:01:25,215 I know. 31 00:01:25,575 --> 00:01:29,175 Um, I know you're all really jealous of me and, and I realized I'm not good enough. 32 00:01:29,235 --> 00:01:30,645 Like these guys are way better than me. 33 00:01:30,645 --> 00:01:32,475 There's I, I'm, I, I'm not good enough. 34 00:01:32,535 --> 00:01:33,104 I can't do it. 35 00:01:35,805 --> 00:01:40,155 I hope that very soon, if it hasn't happened to you already, that reality 36 00:01:40,155 --> 00:01:45,585 has looked you in the face and you have realized that you're a sinner. 37 00:01:47,085 --> 00:01:47,685 I hope that. 38 00:01:48,539 --> 00:01:50,550 That's already happened to you, or I hope that might happen to you tonight, 39 00:01:50,910 --> 00:01:54,720 that you are gonna to realize, to see yourself the way you really are, 40 00:01:55,110 --> 00:01:59,970 that you're not good enough, that you aren't just someone who's, who makes 41 00:01:59,970 --> 00:02:05,160 mistakes or occasionally does the wrong thing, or isn't always perfect. 42 00:02:05,670 --> 00:02:11,130 But tonight, I, I want you to realize that you and, and I, and 43 00:02:11,130 --> 00:02:15,690 everyone in this room is wicked evil. 44 00:02:16,410 --> 00:02:19,380 That every single person who's ever walked the face of the earth 45 00:02:20,400 --> 00:02:29,070 is sinner a terrible, guilty, condemned, awful sinner, and that 46 00:02:29,070 --> 00:02:32,040 deserves God's wrath in hell forever. 47 00:02:33,090 --> 00:02:35,490 That's the realization I want you to have tonight. 48 00:02:35,490 --> 00:02:40,980 Tonight our main point, I want you to agree with God about your sinful state. 49 00:02:42,690 --> 00:02:44,755 I want you to to see yourself the way you really are. 50 00:02:45,810 --> 00:02:46,950 I don't want you to sugarcoat it. 51 00:02:46,980 --> 00:02:50,940 I don't want you to, to try to patch it up with, I'm not that 52 00:02:50,940 --> 00:02:52,709 bad, or everyone else does it too. 53 00:02:52,709 --> 00:02:55,829 Or what about that person over there? 54 00:02:56,969 --> 00:03:00,450 I want you to see yourself as you really are and agree 55 00:03:00,630 --> 00:03:02,550 with what God says about you. 56 00:03:02,550 --> 00:03:08,279 I heard a story this week that, um, there was a guy who was, uh, this 57 00:03:08,279 --> 00:03:10,920 is, it was, it was one of my favorite stories I've heard in a while. 58 00:03:11,219 --> 00:03:15,089 This guy, um, someone asked them to take a, him to take a picture of their family. 59 00:03:15,840 --> 00:03:19,470 Or like a portrait, uh, of, of like some guy, you know, they're 60 00:03:19,470 --> 00:03:20,519 walking, oh, can you take my picture? 61 00:03:20,550 --> 00:03:22,410 He's like, actually, I already have your picture. 62 00:03:23,790 --> 00:03:24,480 And they were like, what? 63 00:03:24,510 --> 00:03:25,560 That's super creepy. 64 00:03:25,950 --> 00:03:26,880 You have my picture. 65 00:03:27,570 --> 00:03:30,240 And he opened up his Bible and he read them this passage. 66 00:03:31,140 --> 00:03:32,970 He said, this passage is your picture. 67 00:03:34,485 --> 00:03:37,065 This passage is you, you're looking in a mirror. 68 00:03:37,275 --> 00:03:41,445 When you read this passage, you're looking at yourself when you read these words. 69 00:03:41,625 --> 00:03:43,125 So that's what we're gonna see tonight. 70 00:03:43,125 --> 00:03:46,425 Before we get there, I want you to remember where we're at, where we're at. 71 00:03:46,425 --> 00:03:47,505 Romans is a letter. 72 00:03:47,505 --> 00:03:48,465 It's a, it's an argument. 73 00:03:48,465 --> 00:03:50,235 It's a, it's a series of thoughts. 74 00:03:50,954 --> 00:03:54,255 It's one connected train of thought, and it's easy to lose 75 00:03:54,255 --> 00:03:56,085 that when we go slowly like this. 76 00:03:56,085 --> 00:03:57,525 I mean, this isn't really that slow for Romans. 77 00:03:57,525 --> 00:04:00,555 There's people that take way longer to go through Romans than we're doing, but. 78 00:04:01,110 --> 00:04:03,180 We're in this big first section. 79 00:04:03,240 --> 00:04:04,829 God's wrath is good. 80 00:04:05,040 --> 00:04:06,060 God's wrath is righteous. 81 00:04:06,060 --> 00:04:09,659 God's wrath is the right response towards sinners like us. 82 00:04:10,230 --> 00:04:13,350 We, we think God should punish us. 83 00:04:13,620 --> 00:04:17,940 That's, that's the conclusion that we're getting to the, the point 84 00:04:17,940 --> 00:04:22,860 of this section is we wanna get to this next part, next week's sermon. 85 00:04:23,820 --> 00:04:27,120 I don't want you to be surprised that God sends people to hell. 86 00:04:27,540 --> 00:04:30,120 I want you to be just surprised that God forgives anyone. 87 00:04:31,080 --> 00:04:35,609 That's where I want you to be by 6:30 PM next Wednesday. 88 00:04:36,060 --> 00:04:38,130 I don't want you to be surprised that people go to hell. 89 00:04:38,130 --> 00:04:41,099 I want you to be surprised that anyone doesn't go to hell. 90 00:04:42,330 --> 00:04:45,840 That's the the, that's what Romans is setting us up for. 91 00:04:45,870 --> 00:04:46,260 Okay. 92 00:04:47,640 --> 00:04:49,739 So what's happening? 93 00:04:49,739 --> 00:04:50,340 How do we get there? 94 00:04:50,340 --> 00:04:52,590 Well, this is kind of Paul's tying everything together. 95 00:04:52,620 --> 00:04:54,989 Paul, the Apostle Paul, he wrote this letter to the church in Rome. 96 00:04:55,815 --> 00:04:59,294 He's tying all of all of these steps together into this big 97 00:04:59,294 --> 00:05:02,325 conclusion, and, and this is the conclusion that he's come to. 98 00:05:02,325 --> 00:05:03,315 So read. 99 00:05:03,405 --> 00:05:06,465 Um, actually before that we're gonna do things a little different. 100 00:05:06,494 --> 00:05:09,434 I'm gonna give you the point first, and then I'll, we'll look at the verses. 101 00:05:09,465 --> 00:05:09,674 Okay? 102 00:05:09,825 --> 00:05:12,674 So our first point is we need to ag, we need to agree with 103 00:05:12,674 --> 00:05:14,325 God about who we are, right? 104 00:05:14,744 --> 00:05:18,765 Acknowledge your rebellion against God. 105 00:05:19,965 --> 00:05:23,354 There's a few different ways that the Bible talks about sin. 106 00:05:24,090 --> 00:05:27,360 We talk about sin, maybe the, the most common way you think of sin 107 00:05:27,360 --> 00:05:29,400 is maybe missing the mark, right? 108 00:05:29,580 --> 00:05:31,350 I messed up, I made a mistake. 109 00:05:31,410 --> 00:05:34,830 Maybe that's the way you think of sin, or maybe you think of sin, 110 00:05:34,950 --> 00:05:37,409 um, as doing the wrong thing. 111 00:05:37,980 --> 00:05:40,140 I, I disobeyed God. 112 00:05:42,570 --> 00:05:45,360 Sin isn't just disobeying. 113 00:05:45,360 --> 00:05:46,205 Sin is actually personal. 114 00:05:47,265 --> 00:05:50,474 Sin is you personally rejecting God, rebelling against God. 115 00:05:50,715 --> 00:05:53,625 Sin is is you turning away from God. 116 00:05:54,284 --> 00:05:58,365 You're God's the God's, the ruler, and you're saying, I don't 117 00:05:58,365 --> 00:05:59,685 want you to be in charge of me. 118 00:06:00,015 --> 00:06:01,094 That's what sin. 119 00:06:02,415 --> 00:06:04,875 And that's the first part of what Paul wants us to see. 120 00:06:04,875 --> 00:06:06,465 Look at verse nine of chapter three. 121 00:06:06,795 --> 00:06:10,365 So we just talked about some arguments against the gospel and then we talked 122 00:06:10,365 --> 00:06:11,655 about a lot about Jews and Gentiles. 123 00:06:11,655 --> 00:06:14,655 Verse nine, what then are we Jews any better off? 124 00:06:14,655 --> 00:06:14,835 Right? 125 00:06:14,835 --> 00:06:16,605 Is there any advantage to being Jewish? 126 00:06:16,755 --> 00:06:20,985 Is there any advantage to being God's chosen people from the Old Testament? 127 00:06:23,955 --> 00:06:29,055 Paul says, no, there's, you're not any better off on Judgment Day. 128 00:06:29,400 --> 00:06:32,520 You don't get any extra righteousness credited to your account. 129 00:06:32,939 --> 00:06:38,969 There's no, there's no benefits to being a Jew when it comes to judgment four. 130 00:06:38,999 --> 00:06:39,359 Why? 131 00:06:39,689 --> 00:06:41,700 We have already charged that all. 132 00:06:41,700 --> 00:06:44,729 Both Jews and Greeks are under sin. 133 00:06:45,179 --> 00:06:45,749 Under sin. 134 00:06:45,960 --> 00:06:48,630 Let's look at that under sin. 135 00:06:48,630 --> 00:06:49,200 What does that mean? 136 00:06:49,469 --> 00:06:49,710 Right? 137 00:06:49,710 --> 00:06:50,414 Does that mean like sin is. 138 00:06:51,195 --> 00:06:53,625 On top and we're like literally under sin. 139 00:06:53,655 --> 00:06:53,924 No. 140 00:06:54,104 --> 00:06:54,645 So what does that mean? 141 00:06:54,765 --> 00:06:57,614 Well, what Paul's doing here is he's, he's giving us a picture of sin. 142 00:06:57,854 --> 00:07:02,685 Like sin is a slave master, or sin is a, a kingdom. 143 00:07:03,284 --> 00:07:07,215 And he's saying that every single person, you, me, doesn't matter 144 00:07:07,215 --> 00:07:10,784 where we're from, doesn't matter how much religion we have in our past. 145 00:07:10,934 --> 00:07:15,315 Doesn't matter how, what church we went to or who our parents are, every single 146 00:07:15,315 --> 00:07:18,255 person starts off in this category. 147 00:07:18,615 --> 00:07:26,594 Under sin, every single person starts off under sins mastery. 148 00:07:27,585 --> 00:07:29,895 The way we talked about it, our community group last night, was 149 00:07:29,895 --> 00:07:31,814 that sin is driving the car. 150 00:07:33,044 --> 00:07:36,195 Sin is taking you where it wants to go. 151 00:07:37,424 --> 00:07:41,025 You aren't driving the car, sin is driving the car, right? 152 00:07:41,025 --> 00:07:42,085 Some of you guys, you get. 153 00:07:42,900 --> 00:07:45,240 Sibling driving and you're stuck in, in the back. 154 00:07:45,659 --> 00:07:47,580 Your siblings taking you places that you don't want to go. 155 00:07:47,580 --> 00:07:48,659 You don't want to go get ice cream. 156 00:07:48,810 --> 00:07:50,100 You're stuck in the back of the car. 157 00:07:50,310 --> 00:07:51,120 They're your ride. 158 00:07:51,210 --> 00:07:52,950 You gotta go, right? 159 00:07:54,419 --> 00:07:58,590 What Paul is saying here is that that's every single person when it comes to sin. 160 00:07:59,100 --> 00:08:01,080 Sin is in charge of you. 161 00:08:02,340 --> 00:08:03,990 Sin is in control of you. 162 00:08:04,110 --> 00:08:07,560 And that's different than maybe some, some things that you 163 00:08:07,560 --> 00:08:08,610 might think about sin, right? 164 00:08:08,700 --> 00:08:10,635 You might think of sin as something that I choose. 165 00:08:11,715 --> 00:08:13,605 I'm the one who's, who's in control of my life. 166 00:08:13,815 --> 00:08:15,044 I'm making these decisions. 167 00:08:15,255 --> 00:08:17,595 I'm the one who's, who's choosing what to do. 168 00:08:17,595 --> 00:08:19,664 I get to decide, oh, I'm not gonna do this. 169 00:08:19,664 --> 00:08:20,385 I'm gonna do that. 170 00:08:20,595 --> 00:08:22,275 I don't do this. 171 00:08:22,365 --> 00:08:23,985 I am, I don't love this. 172 00:08:23,985 --> 00:08:24,615 I love this. 173 00:08:24,615 --> 00:08:26,835 Instead, you, maybe you think you're the one in control, 174 00:08:27,044 --> 00:08:30,554 but really sin is addictive. 175 00:08:31,905 --> 00:08:37,155 You think you control it, but really your sinful desires control you. 176 00:08:38,115 --> 00:08:39,495 You don't control your sinful desires. 177 00:08:39,495 --> 00:08:40,304 They control. 178 00:08:40,919 --> 00:08:41,340 You, 179 00:08:44,220 --> 00:08:46,920 it's when you think about addiction, right? 180 00:08:47,100 --> 00:08:50,100 A lot of people who, who are addicted to things think that 181 00:08:50,100 --> 00:08:53,100 they can stop whenever they want, and that's how they get addicted. 182 00:08:53,310 --> 00:08:55,950 They think, well, okay, I'll start doing this drug. 183 00:08:55,950 --> 00:08:58,980 Or maybe it's, you know, I'll start playing this game. 184 00:08:59,640 --> 00:09:01,440 And then they can't stop. 185 00:09:02,400 --> 00:09:03,060 They can't stop. 186 00:09:03,090 --> 00:09:06,390 I remember when we went to, um, strikes. 187 00:09:07,215 --> 00:09:07,575 Right. 188 00:09:07,575 --> 00:09:11,385 There was a, a game that may or may not have been gambling, and there 189 00:09:11,385 --> 00:09:15,615 were some students there who were gambling, um, and they couldn't stop. 190 00:09:16,155 --> 00:09:16,995 They, they couldn't leave. 191 00:09:16,995 --> 00:09:20,145 They literally wouldn't, they like begging their parents, please, 192 00:09:20,385 --> 00:09:21,975 please don't make us leave. 193 00:09:22,335 --> 00:09:23,325 Please don't make us leave. 194 00:09:23,325 --> 00:09:24,435 We need to stay here. 195 00:09:24,435 --> 00:09:25,305 We can't leave. 196 00:09:26,265 --> 00:09:29,535 They thought, oh, well this game's not in control of me. 197 00:09:29,595 --> 00:09:30,405 I'm playing the game. 198 00:09:31,334 --> 00:09:33,555 But, but really the game's in control of them, right? 199 00:09:33,555 --> 00:09:35,444 Because they're locked in, they can't leave, they're stuck. 200 00:09:35,444 --> 00:09:37,035 They're like, I can't leave this game. 201 00:09:37,035 --> 00:09:38,204 I have to get everything right. 202 00:09:39,435 --> 00:09:40,484 Sin is addictive. 203 00:09:41,055 --> 00:09:43,604 Sin isn't just bad things you do. 204 00:09:43,875 --> 00:09:44,984 I heard a pastor put it like this. 205 00:09:45,135 --> 00:09:46,094 Sin is a slave. 206 00:09:46,094 --> 00:09:46,484 Master. 207 00:09:46,964 --> 00:09:49,305 Sin isn't just you saying, oh, I do these bad things. 208 00:09:50,535 --> 00:09:52,994 Sin is actually taking control of you. 209 00:09:54,255 --> 00:09:55,454 You're under sin. 210 00:09:56,925 --> 00:09:59,324 Maybe you think, oh, well, I can just stop sinning when I get 211 00:09:59,324 --> 00:10:00,314 older and I'll become a Christian. 212 00:10:00,314 --> 00:10:05,145 Then Paul's saying that you're actually under sin. 213 00:10:05,175 --> 00:10:06,944 Your sinful desires are in the driver's seat. 214 00:10:07,155 --> 00:10:08,235 They're driving you around. 215 00:10:08,475 --> 00:10:09,765 All you can do is sin. 216 00:10:10,755 --> 00:10:11,625 You can't stop. 217 00:10:12,855 --> 00:10:14,085 You're stuck. 218 00:10:14,145 --> 00:10:17,925 But it's easy to say that and then be like, well, I'm just a victim, right? 219 00:10:17,925 --> 00:10:19,005 My sin controls me. 220 00:10:19,155 --> 00:10:21,285 I just do whatever my sinful desires want. 221 00:10:21,885 --> 00:10:23,265 How I'm not responsible then, right? 222 00:10:23,295 --> 00:10:23,805 'cause I'm a sinner. 223 00:10:23,805 --> 00:10:24,315 That's just what I do. 224 00:10:24,315 --> 00:10:24,675 I sin. 225 00:10:25,065 --> 00:10:25,635 I can't help it. 226 00:10:26,955 --> 00:10:29,085 That's actually the opposite of what Paul's about to say. 227 00:10:29,085 --> 00:10:30,435 Keep reading here in verse 10. 228 00:10:30,465 --> 00:10:32,865 He's gonna quote a bunch of Old Testament passages. 229 00:10:33,165 --> 00:10:33,705 Verse 10. 230 00:10:33,735 --> 00:10:36,645 As it is written, no one is righteous. 231 00:10:36,675 --> 00:10:37,545 No, not one. 232 00:10:37,815 --> 00:10:38,955 No one understands. 233 00:10:38,955 --> 00:10:40,245 No one seeks for God. 234 00:10:41,145 --> 00:10:43,185 Everyone all has have turned aside. 235 00:10:43,185 --> 00:10:43,695 Together. 236 00:10:43,695 --> 00:10:44,625 They have become. 237 00:10:45,150 --> 00:10:46,589 Worthless like corrupt. 238 00:10:46,979 --> 00:10:48,270 No one does good. 239 00:10:48,360 --> 00:10:50,010 Not even one. 240 00:10:50,099 --> 00:10:52,170 You aren't just a victim of your sinful desires. 241 00:10:52,170 --> 00:10:53,520 You're an active participant in them. 242 00:10:54,390 --> 00:10:56,969 You're not just in the back of the car being driven around. 243 00:10:57,240 --> 00:10:58,860 You're in the back of the car enjoying the ride. 244 00:10:59,790 --> 00:11:01,589 You're in the back of the car saying, this is awesome. 245 00:11:02,069 --> 00:11:03,839 Please take me there. 246 00:11:04,560 --> 00:11:08,130 Please let me go where you want me to go. 247 00:11:08,670 --> 00:11:09,839 I love this ride. 248 00:11:10,995 --> 00:11:14,715 You're not just stuck in the car, you actually are stuck in the car because 249 00:11:14,715 --> 00:11:15,585 you don't wanna get out of the car. 250 00:11:16,155 --> 00:11:18,255 It doesn't even matter if there's a child lock on, you can't get out. 251 00:11:19,965 --> 00:11:20,955 You're saying, I love this. 252 00:11:20,955 --> 00:11:21,675 I want to be here. 253 00:11:23,235 --> 00:11:25,725 And that's what sinful desires are like. 254 00:11:27,255 --> 00:11:29,145 You're not just a a victim to them. 255 00:11:29,145 --> 00:11:30,675 You are a willing participant. 256 00:11:30,675 --> 00:11:31,425 That's what Paul's talking about. 257 00:11:31,425 --> 00:11:32,475 No one is righteous. 258 00:11:33,015 --> 00:11:35,115 No one likes doing the right thing. 259 00:11:36,135 --> 00:11:38,205 He's saying every single person loves sinning. 260 00:11:39,209 --> 00:11:40,229 No one understands. 261 00:11:40,439 --> 00:11:44,370 What that means is that there's no one who naturally agrees with what God says. 262 00:11:44,640 --> 00:11:49,589 Everyone naturally opposes God and His word. 263 00:11:50,280 --> 00:11:51,900 That's your natural disposition. 264 00:11:52,439 --> 00:11:54,329 That's what you're naturally like naturally. 265 00:11:54,329 --> 00:11:56,729 No one says, oh, you know what? 266 00:11:57,180 --> 00:11:58,229 I want to follow God. 267 00:11:58,260 --> 00:12:02,099 I want to to be unselfish and love other people. 268 00:12:02,880 --> 00:12:03,959 That has to come from God. 269 00:12:03,959 --> 00:12:05,610 It doesn't come from you. 270 00:12:07,230 --> 00:12:09,810 All of our values are backward to God's values. 271 00:12:10,829 --> 00:12:13,589 Like you think about, a great example is humility, right? 272 00:12:14,010 --> 00:12:17,219 You don't have to teach a baby to be prideful. 273 00:12:18,180 --> 00:12:20,550 You don't have to teach a baby to look out for their best interests. 274 00:12:21,300 --> 00:12:24,329 Every baby grows up thinking about themselves when they 275 00:12:24,329 --> 00:12:24,990 don't get what they want. 276 00:12:25,199 --> 00:12:26,610 They cry when they're hungry. 277 00:12:26,730 --> 00:12:28,230 They cry when they're cold. 278 00:12:28,290 --> 00:12:29,430 They cry when they're hot. 279 00:12:29,610 --> 00:12:30,540 They cry, right? 280 00:12:30,660 --> 00:12:33,329 They're, do they care if they're waking their parents up? 281 00:12:33,420 --> 00:12:33,719 No. 282 00:12:33,780 --> 00:12:35,490 They just wanna get what they want, right? 283 00:12:37,050 --> 00:12:41,580 Then you get older and really you just learn how to like socially 284 00:12:41,610 --> 00:12:43,020 make your sin socially acceptable. 285 00:12:43,410 --> 00:12:47,520 So instead of crying, you just gossip about people instead, or you exclude 286 00:12:47,520 --> 00:12:50,490 them or you hurt them or whatever. 287 00:12:51,900 --> 00:12:55,920 So everyone, sin comes naturally to everyone. 288 00:12:56,670 --> 00:13:01,140 Every single person naturally is opposed to God's values. 289 00:13:02,220 --> 00:13:03,780 God loves things like humility. 290 00:13:03,840 --> 00:13:05,370 We love things like pride. 291 00:13:06,630 --> 00:13:08,640 God loves things like peace. 292 00:13:08,640 --> 00:13:11,069 We naturally are anxious. 293 00:13:11,160 --> 00:13:12,900 We naturally worry about all these different things that 294 00:13:12,900 --> 00:13:13,739 we don't need to worry about. 295 00:13:14,849 --> 00:13:16,859 You don't have to try to sin. 296 00:13:19,979 --> 00:13:22,650 Also, when we talk about no one seeks for God, right? 297 00:13:23,010 --> 00:13:24,900 You think about, well, there's all these religious people out there. 298 00:13:24,900 --> 00:13:25,890 There's all these other religions. 299 00:13:26,610 --> 00:13:28,319 Everyone seems to know that God exists. 300 00:13:28,319 --> 00:13:29,699 What do you mean no one seeks for God? 301 00:13:29,760 --> 00:13:29,910 Right? 302 00:13:29,910 --> 00:13:32,219 You're telling me that the Buddhist monk isn't seeking for God. 303 00:13:32,370 --> 00:13:35,250 You're telling me that the, the, the Muslim guy who, who goes 304 00:13:35,250 --> 00:13:39,150 to and prays seven times a day, he, he doesn't seek for God. 305 00:13:40,229 --> 00:13:44,280 Well, one, he's not seeking for this God, right? 306 00:13:44,550 --> 00:13:47,969 But also no one naturally wants God. 307 00:13:48,030 --> 00:13:48,959 We just want His stuff. 308 00:13:51,030 --> 00:13:53,430 We don't really want God, we want. 309 00:13:53,940 --> 00:13:57,150 God gives us, we love the things that God gives us more than we love God. 310 00:13:57,180 --> 00:13:58,920 That's called idolatry, right? 311 00:13:59,520 --> 00:14:02,670 We, we say, oh God, well, I want you to make me happy. 312 00:14:02,670 --> 00:14:03,690 I want you to keep me safe. 313 00:14:03,870 --> 00:14:06,060 I want you to give me the, the, the grades I want. 314 00:14:06,060 --> 00:14:07,320 I want you to gimme the friends I want. 315 00:14:07,530 --> 00:14:11,160 I want you to make my siblings do what I want, but I don't want you. 316 00:14:12,600 --> 00:14:14,490 We don't naturally want God. 317 00:14:14,490 --> 00:14:16,830 We just naturally want his stuff because we're sinners. 318 00:14:17,400 --> 00:14:21,450 That's how deeply rooted our sin is, in fact. 319 00:14:22,440 --> 00:14:24,690 We all avoid God, that word turned aside. 320 00:14:24,840 --> 00:14:25,740 It sounds kind of weak. 321 00:14:25,740 --> 00:14:26,970 It's like, oh, I just made a wrong turn. 322 00:14:27,450 --> 00:14:30,690 What it really means is like you're avoiding, you're going out of the way. 323 00:14:31,320 --> 00:14:35,250 People go out of their way to not look for God. 324 00:14:36,480 --> 00:14:41,580 People go out of their way to avoid God, and we've all been there, right? 325 00:14:41,850 --> 00:14:44,640 All of us have actively avoided God. 326 00:14:45,600 --> 00:14:48,390 You've actively decided, God's given me a Bible. 327 00:14:48,450 --> 00:14:49,080 I don't wanna read it. 328 00:14:50,280 --> 00:14:51,510 You've actively decided. 329 00:14:52,110 --> 00:14:55,530 God's offered himself to me in prayer. 330 00:14:56,100 --> 00:14:56,880 Not gonna do it. 331 00:14:57,870 --> 00:14:59,880 We've all actively turned away from God. 332 00:15:00,060 --> 00:15:02,580 God has said, I give life, I give peace. 333 00:15:02,610 --> 00:15:03,210 I give joy. 334 00:15:03,210 --> 00:15:06,300 And we say, well actually God, I can be happier doing my own thing. 335 00:15:06,510 --> 00:15:09,630 I can be happier living my own way. 336 00:15:09,870 --> 00:15:12,840 I can be happier making my own decisions and not listening to you. 337 00:15:13,200 --> 00:15:13,890 We all turn aside. 338 00:15:13,890 --> 00:15:14,580 We all reject God. 339 00:15:14,580 --> 00:15:15,990 We say, God, your way's dumb. 340 00:15:16,080 --> 00:15:16,860 My way's better. 341 00:15:17,250 --> 00:15:17,850 I'm gonna do that. 342 00:15:19,020 --> 00:15:19,530 That's sin. 343 00:15:20,010 --> 00:15:21,390 Whenever we sin, that's what we're saying. 344 00:15:21,600 --> 00:15:22,680 We're saying, God, I don't want you. 345 00:15:22,920 --> 00:15:23,400 I want me. 346 00:15:24,810 --> 00:15:25,560 That's sin. 347 00:15:25,560 --> 00:15:27,900 We are all so sinful. 348 00:15:28,800 --> 00:15:30,240 We are rebelling against God. 349 00:15:30,240 --> 00:15:31,920 We're opposing God, right? 350 00:15:31,920 --> 00:15:33,480 Sin isn't just making mistakes. 351 00:15:33,660 --> 00:15:35,700 Sin is actively opposing God. 352 00:15:36,300 --> 00:15:38,550 When we sin, right? 353 00:15:38,550 --> 00:15:44,430 When, when, like for example, let's just take, um, let's take anger, right? 354 00:15:44,430 --> 00:15:46,410 You get upset with someone in your heart. 355 00:15:46,410 --> 00:15:47,250 You hate them in your heart. 356 00:15:48,030 --> 00:15:54,300 That's you saying, God, this person is so inconvenient to me or 357 00:15:54,300 --> 00:15:59,189 bothering me so much that I'm going to, to murder them in my heart. 358 00:16:00,900 --> 00:16:02,160 You're rebelling against God. 359 00:16:03,300 --> 00:16:05,160 That's what, that's what anger is. 360 00:16:05,789 --> 00:16:08,160 Or let's take um, anxiety, right? 361 00:16:08,160 --> 00:16:09,749 Anxiety, rejection of God. 362 00:16:10,110 --> 00:16:12,360 Anxiety is saying, God, I know that you're good. 363 00:16:12,360 --> 00:16:13,410 I know that you're wise. 364 00:16:13,590 --> 00:16:15,449 I know that you love me, but I don't trust you. 365 00:16:16,289 --> 00:16:16,525 I need. 366 00:16:17,880 --> 00:16:18,479 To be safe. 367 00:16:19,739 --> 00:16:20,610 That's what anxiety is. 368 00:16:20,610 --> 00:16:21,840 It's a rebellion against God. 369 00:16:21,870 --> 00:16:24,840 It's saying, God, I'm gonna live as if you don't exist, and I'm gonna live as 370 00:16:24,840 --> 00:16:26,400 if this thing is more powerful than you. 371 00:16:26,790 --> 00:16:28,920 I'm gonna be more afraid of this thing than I am of you. 372 00:16:29,340 --> 00:16:30,509 It's rebelling against God. 373 00:16:31,499 --> 00:16:38,280 So all, all sin is, is actively rejecting God and rebelling against him. 374 00:16:38,699 --> 00:16:41,430 Remember, sin is sinful because of what it says about God. 375 00:16:42,509 --> 00:16:44,729 I heard one pastor, he said that if. 376 00:16:45,959 --> 00:16:46,830 God didn't exist. 377 00:16:47,999 --> 00:16:53,219 And let's say you were a successful version of Hitler and you 378 00:16:53,279 --> 00:16:55,650 actually did kill all of the Jews, 379 00:16:58,469 --> 00:17:00,660 would that person, if there was no God, no heaven, no. 380 00:17:00,660 --> 00:17:05,369 Hell would that person deserve to suffer forever for their punishment. 381 00:17:05,400 --> 00:17:08,609 If they killed, if they succeeded in wiping out a whole race of people, 382 00:17:11,130 --> 00:17:12,450 they wouldn't deserve to suffer forever. 383 00:17:14,280 --> 00:17:18,450 They did a finite amount of sin and they sinned against finite people. 384 00:17:19,710 --> 00:17:24,329 If you sin against an infinitely awesome and amazing God, that's why 385 00:17:24,329 --> 00:17:25,530 you deserve infinite punishment. 386 00:17:28,620 --> 00:17:31,620 You don't go to hell because of what your sin does to other people. 387 00:17:32,130 --> 00:17:35,190 You go to hell because your sin says God is. 388 00:17:35,610 --> 00:17:38,850 Even though he's the most amazing, most glorious, most worthy to be 389 00:17:38,850 --> 00:17:43,020 trusted, most worthy, to be loved most, he's so patient with me, he, 390 00:17:43,050 --> 00:17:45,030 he's so kind to me and I don't care. 391 00:17:45,690 --> 00:17:50,730 That's why sin sends people to hell forever because of God, not because 392 00:17:50,910 --> 00:17:52,050 of what happens to other people. 393 00:17:52,590 --> 00:17:54,180 So even if you say, oh, my sins not hurting anyone, 394 00:17:55,080 --> 00:17:56,040 what does it say about God? 395 00:17:57,120 --> 00:18:02,100 Sin is sinful because of what it says about God, not because of 396 00:18:02,100 --> 00:18:04,470 what it says about other people. 397 00:18:06,675 --> 00:18:12,285 And because of all that, our sin has made us, this word says worthless. 398 00:18:12,345 --> 00:18:13,215 It's ruined us. 399 00:18:13,215 --> 00:18:14,205 We've become corrupt. 400 00:18:14,715 --> 00:18:21,315 We've become thoroughly infected by our sin. 401 00:18:21,585 --> 00:18:25,215 So our second point tonight is admit that you are thoroughly 402 00:18:25,485 --> 00:18:27,735 evil, thoroughly, right? 403 00:18:28,245 --> 00:18:30,255 Whole, holistically all of you. 404 00:18:30,255 --> 00:18:32,650 Every part of you is infected by sin, right? 405 00:18:34,125 --> 00:18:37,425 You're not a house that just has a couple rooms of sin and a 406 00:18:37,425 --> 00:18:38,895 couple rooms of righteousness. 407 00:18:40,455 --> 00:18:42,495 Every part of you is sinful. 408 00:18:45,945 --> 00:18:49,155 I don't know if you've seen this before, but if you've seen the difference between 409 00:18:49,155 --> 00:18:52,815 when you put food coloring in cold water and when you put it in hot water, it's 410 00:18:52,815 --> 00:18:53,800 like this science experiment people do. 411 00:18:55,035 --> 00:18:59,635 When you put food coloring in cold water, it takes way longer to spread out. 412 00:19:00,615 --> 00:19:04,185 When you put it in hot water, it fills the whole thing pretty fast. 413 00:19:05,175 --> 00:19:09,135 So I think a lot of times we see ourselves like this. 414 00:19:10,395 --> 00:19:14,775 We say, well, yeah, part of me might be sinful, but part of me is not. 415 00:19:15,945 --> 00:19:17,145 I do some good things. 416 00:19:17,295 --> 00:19:19,245 I do some bad things right? 417 00:19:19,245 --> 00:19:20,355 Part of me loves God. 418 00:19:20,355 --> 00:19:24,435 Part of me doesn't, and we see ourselves as, oh, well, parts of me are bad. 419 00:19:24,435 --> 00:19:26,835 Parts of me are infected by sin and parts of me aren't. 420 00:19:26,955 --> 00:19:28,125 Part of me are clean water. 421 00:19:28,155 --> 00:19:28,665 Part of me is. 422 00:19:29,415 --> 00:19:30,105 Polluted water. 423 00:19:30,105 --> 00:19:30,465 Right? 424 00:19:30,885 --> 00:19:40,335 Really, this is us apart from Christ, all of us are colored by sin. 425 00:19:41,085 --> 00:19:41,595 All of us. 426 00:19:41,655 --> 00:19:46,575 This, this sin is infecting every part of us, not just some parts. 427 00:19:47,055 --> 00:19:51,435 It's not like, oh, well I'm, I'm only sinful when I'm with those people, or I'm 428 00:19:51,435 --> 00:19:53,385 only sinful when I'm doing bad things. 429 00:19:55,450 --> 00:19:55,530 Actually. 430 00:19:57,720 --> 00:20:01,200 Because of how thoroughly, how sinful we are. 431 00:20:02,400 --> 00:20:04,080 You're always under sin. 432 00:20:04,290 --> 00:20:09,060 Apart from Christ, you are always infected by sin. 433 00:20:11,010 --> 00:20:13,050 That's what Paul talks about in verse 12. 434 00:20:14,700 --> 00:20:17,130 Everyone's turned away from God, the other of become corrupt. 435 00:20:17,190 --> 00:20:18,240 No one does good. 436 00:20:18,300 --> 00:20:19,380 Not even one. 437 00:20:19,560 --> 00:20:21,090 No one does good. 438 00:20:23,160 --> 00:20:24,665 Paul is saying that that billionaire. 439 00:20:25,500 --> 00:20:29,340 Atheist who donates to charity, he's not doing good. 440 00:20:32,070 --> 00:20:34,290 What do you agree with that? 441 00:20:35,580 --> 00:20:36,840 That sounds weird, right? 442 00:20:36,840 --> 00:20:37,380 Well, why? 443 00:20:38,130 --> 00:20:41,220 Well, when you think about it, every good deed that someone does, 444 00:20:41,670 --> 00:20:44,370 if it's not for God, who's it for? 445 00:20:45,960 --> 00:20:46,620 It's for them. 446 00:20:46,710 --> 00:20:47,400 It's selfish. 447 00:20:48,120 --> 00:20:49,770 And remember what we talked about with sin? 448 00:20:50,040 --> 00:20:51,780 Sin is sin because of what it says about God. 449 00:20:51,960 --> 00:20:54,000 If you donate a billion dollars to charity. 450 00:20:54,900 --> 00:20:55,620 For you. 451 00:20:56,400 --> 00:20:57,540 What are you saying about God? 452 00:20:59,160 --> 00:21:00,300 You're not even acknowledging God. 453 00:21:01,110 --> 00:21:02,520 You're saying God is worthless. 454 00:21:02,850 --> 00:21:03,810 God isn't important. 455 00:21:04,560 --> 00:21:05,670 God's not worth my time. 456 00:21:06,570 --> 00:21:07,830 You're stealing glory from God. 457 00:21:07,860 --> 00:21:09,270 Maybe you're drawing attention to yourself. 458 00:21:11,340 --> 00:21:16,920 So really that good thing that you did is still infected by sin. 459 00:21:18,000 --> 00:21:20,040 There's no clean water in that activity. 460 00:21:20,040 --> 00:21:21,510 It's all polluted. 461 00:21:23,595 --> 00:21:28,875 Think about all the things, all the the good things that you could do for selfish 462 00:21:28,875 --> 00:21:32,625 reasons, and think about your life if maybe before you were a Christian or 463 00:21:32,625 --> 00:21:36,885 maybe now you're, you're not a Christian, think about all the good things you 464 00:21:36,885 --> 00:21:44,865 do and think about how your motives are so sometimes double sided, right? 465 00:21:45,195 --> 00:21:46,995 It's like, well, did I really do that? 466 00:21:47,655 --> 00:21:48,105 Did I really? 467 00:21:48,390 --> 00:21:52,440 Say that encouraging word to that person because I wanted to encourage them, or did 468 00:21:52,440 --> 00:21:53,910 I say it because I wanted 'em to like me? 469 00:21:55,800 --> 00:21:57,480 Maybe both, but guess what? 470 00:21:57,480 --> 00:21:58,860 Is that a pure act then? 471 00:21:59,280 --> 00:22:05,760 No, it's infected by sin or, oh, well, did I really, um, answer that question in 472 00:22:05,760 --> 00:22:08,190 small group because I wanted to be honest? 473 00:22:08,190 --> 00:22:10,440 Or was I answering it because I wanted attention and I 474 00:22:10,440 --> 00:22:11,430 wanted to impress my leader? 475 00:22:14,160 --> 00:22:16,620 Well, even if it's both, guess what? 476 00:22:17,430 --> 00:22:18,840 Not a pure motive, right? 477 00:22:20,430 --> 00:22:26,580 So we're incapable apart from, from God of doing anything good because 478 00:22:26,580 --> 00:22:29,250 everything about us is infected by sin. 479 00:22:30,480 --> 00:22:33,630 Just like all of the water in the jar is polluted. 480 00:22:37,110 --> 00:22:40,620 And then Paul goes on to talk about how he talks about a lot of 481 00:22:40,620 --> 00:22:42,540 different body parts here, right? 482 00:22:42,540 --> 00:22:43,455 You see things like throat. 483 00:22:44,355 --> 00:22:46,035 Tongues, lips, mouth. 484 00:22:46,335 --> 00:22:49,575 And then we talk about feet and we talk about like walking, 485 00:22:50,055 --> 00:22:51,165 and then we talk about eyes. 486 00:22:51,315 --> 00:22:53,775 I think what Paul's trying to say here is he, so he's compiled a bunch 487 00:22:53,775 --> 00:22:56,835 of quotes from the Old Testament, and what he's saying is that you're 488 00:22:56,835 --> 00:22:59,265 evil from head to toe, right? 489 00:22:59,265 --> 00:23:01,275 From your head to your feet. 490 00:23:02,355 --> 00:23:03,225 You're a terrible person. 491 00:23:03,255 --> 00:23:04,005 That's what Paul's saying. 492 00:23:05,475 --> 00:23:10,400 Paul is saying that your words are, they tear people down. 493 00:23:11,295 --> 00:23:13,605 They're an an asp, that's a snake. 494 00:23:13,635 --> 00:23:14,895 That's like a Egyptian cobra. 495 00:23:15,285 --> 00:23:18,225 If you know about Cleopatra, that's probably the kind that 496 00:23:18,225 --> 00:23:19,935 she used to kill herself Anyway. 497 00:23:20,445 --> 00:23:23,235 Um, there your mouth. 498 00:23:23,235 --> 00:23:24,345 And what did you just say about our mouths? 499 00:23:24,345 --> 00:23:24,735 Right? 500 00:23:25,245 --> 00:23:27,225 Our mouths reveal our hearts. 501 00:23:27,225 --> 00:23:30,405 He says, out of the abundance of your heart, the mouth speaks. 502 00:23:30,525 --> 00:23:32,745 What comes outta your mouth is actually showing your heart. 503 00:23:34,515 --> 00:23:40,575 So everything about us is polluted by sin. 504 00:23:42,135 --> 00:23:45,885 See how Paul here is focusing on motives and intentions too. 505 00:23:46,365 --> 00:23:47,235 Not just actions. 506 00:23:47,715 --> 00:23:50,325 He's not just talking about the external things that people can see. 507 00:23:50,415 --> 00:23:52,395 He's talking about the things that go on in your heart 508 00:23:52,395 --> 00:23:53,295 that no one else knows about. 509 00:23:54,585 --> 00:23:54,765 Right? 510 00:23:54,765 --> 00:23:56,295 He's talking about deceiving people. 511 00:23:56,415 --> 00:23:58,905 He's talking about bitterness, right? 512 00:23:58,905 --> 00:24:00,585 I, I might not be able to tell if you're bitter. 513 00:24:00,735 --> 00:24:02,865 Your parents might not be able to tell if you're, if you're being bitter, if 514 00:24:02,865 --> 00:24:06,495 you're holding a grudge against someone, if you're tearing someone, someone down 515 00:24:06,585 --> 00:24:10,605 when, when they, they walk away or even. 516 00:24:11,145 --> 00:24:12,795 Their feet are swift to shed blood. 517 00:24:12,795 --> 00:24:13,575 That's an intention. 518 00:24:14,565 --> 00:24:14,925 That's it. 519 00:24:14,955 --> 00:24:16,245 I, I want to hurt someone. 520 00:24:18,915 --> 00:24:19,365 So 521 00:24:22,305 --> 00:24:26,085 even our good deeds are filled with mixed motives. 522 00:24:26,085 --> 00:24:28,815 They're filled with selfishness, they're filled with pride, and so 523 00:24:28,815 --> 00:24:31,755 we are thoroughly infected by sin. 524 00:24:32,955 --> 00:24:35,355 There's no part of us that's untouched by sin. 525 00:24:35,865 --> 00:24:39,255 We're not like, oh, 90% sinful, 10% good, or. 526 00:24:39,960 --> 00:24:42,270 60% righteous, 40% sinful. 527 00:24:44,160 --> 00:24:50,820 Everyone is 100% sinful, 100% sinful before God does something to you. 528 00:24:54,450 --> 00:25:00,420 But also sin makes us blind to our need for help. 529 00:25:01,230 --> 00:25:05,670 So if you keep reading in our passage, verse 19. 530 00:25:07,800 --> 00:25:10,140 After all those quotes, Paul says, now that we know, whatever 531 00:25:10,140 --> 00:25:13,650 the law says, it speaks to those who are under the law, right? 532 00:25:13,650 --> 00:25:17,370 So under the law, that means the people that are under the authority 533 00:25:17,670 --> 00:25:21,360 of the law, so that every mouth may be stopped and the whole world 534 00:25:21,360 --> 00:25:22,440 may be held accountable for God. 535 00:25:22,650 --> 00:25:23,880 So no objections. 536 00:25:25,320 --> 00:25:25,950 No objections. 537 00:25:25,980 --> 00:25:29,070 Every single person is accountable to God. 538 00:25:29,760 --> 00:25:32,850 Every single person falls short of God's standard, and every single 539 00:25:32,850 --> 00:25:34,320 person is responsible for that. 540 00:25:34,695 --> 00:25:38,685 That's why we all deserve God's punishment because God has a standard, he, he gives 541 00:25:38,985 --> 00:25:41,055 the law and no one can make any excuse. 542 00:25:41,055 --> 00:25:44,355 You can't say, well, God, I, I wasn't sure that you existed. 543 00:25:44,565 --> 00:25:44,745 Right. 544 00:25:44,745 --> 00:25:48,285 Romans one, we talked about how everyone knows that God exists 545 00:25:49,185 --> 00:25:53,025 and then you say, well, um, maybe I was part of the right group. 546 00:25:53,355 --> 00:25:56,475 I got baptized, or I went to church, or My parents are Christians. 547 00:25:56,745 --> 00:25:58,305 Romans two, right. 548 00:25:58,305 --> 00:26:01,365 Paul talked about how even the Jewish people have all these 549 00:26:01,365 --> 00:26:02,565 religious advantages, but. 550 00:26:03,210 --> 00:26:04,530 They don't measure up to God's standard either. 551 00:26:06,420 --> 00:26:13,380 So no one has any, any standing to say, God, actually you shouldn't condemn me. 552 00:26:13,410 --> 00:26:16,080 You shouldn't punish me for my sin. 553 00:26:17,070 --> 00:26:20,970 So sin because it makes us blind to our need for help. 554 00:26:21,150 --> 00:26:24,600 God gives us the law by works of the law, no human being 555 00:26:24,600 --> 00:26:25,920 will be justified in his sight. 556 00:26:26,160 --> 00:26:29,460 No one, no person is good enough to go to heaven. 557 00:26:29,490 --> 00:26:30,085 That's what Paul's saying. 558 00:26:30,915 --> 00:26:33,585 Since through the law comes knowledge of sin. 559 00:26:33,795 --> 00:26:36,285 The law shows us that we're sinful. 560 00:26:38,235 --> 00:26:39,465 God gives us the law. 561 00:26:39,465 --> 00:26:43,125 He gives us his word, he, he tells us what he expects of us, to show 562 00:26:43,125 --> 00:26:44,235 us that we're not good enough. 563 00:26:44,295 --> 00:26:48,765 Because one of the symptoms of sin is that we don't see it. 564 00:26:48,975 --> 00:26:49,965 We don't think we're sinful. 565 00:26:50,295 --> 00:26:52,095 Most people, if you ask them, are you a good person? 566 00:26:52,395 --> 00:26:52,815 Yes. 567 00:26:53,235 --> 00:26:55,605 Or most people, you ask them, do you think you're gonna go to heaven or go to hell? 568 00:26:55,905 --> 00:26:56,685 Uh, I think I'm go to heaven. 569 00:26:56,745 --> 00:26:57,075 Why? 570 00:26:57,165 --> 00:26:57,825 I'm a good person. 571 00:26:58,185 --> 00:27:00,285 Or I went to church, or I prayed a prayer. 572 00:27:01,080 --> 00:27:02,880 Get a lot of people who assume, right? 573 00:27:02,880 --> 00:27:03,510 There's a country song. 574 00:27:03,540 --> 00:27:08,730 I believe most people are good, or I believe that most people say, oh, but 575 00:27:08,730 --> 00:27:09,900 there's goodness in everyone, right? 576 00:27:09,900 --> 00:27:11,370 We see that in a lot like Star Wars, right? 577 00:27:11,550 --> 00:27:12,540 That's like the whole point of Star Wars. 578 00:27:12,840 --> 00:27:17,520 So we see a lot of, a lot of this come out just implicitly. 579 00:27:17,610 --> 00:27:20,670 We think, oh, well, somewhat deep down they're, they're really a good person. 580 00:27:20,670 --> 00:27:24,420 Or we think kids are just good natured and then they get corrupted by our society. 581 00:27:24,540 --> 00:27:25,080 Not true. 582 00:27:25,560 --> 00:27:28,440 Kids are sinners, and so that's why they sin. 583 00:27:29,955 --> 00:27:31,965 So God needs to show us that we're sinful. 584 00:27:32,085 --> 00:27:34,065 And the way he does that is he gives us his law. 585 00:27:34,065 --> 00:27:36,795 It's kind of like, I dunno if you remember these things from elementary school. 586 00:27:39,255 --> 00:27:41,685 So I have terrible handwriting. 587 00:27:42,675 --> 00:27:46,095 Um, these things don't help me write neatly. 588 00:27:46,695 --> 00:27:47,895 They just make me feel bad. 589 00:27:49,635 --> 00:27:52,155 These things don't help me have good handwriting. 590 00:27:52,965 --> 00:27:55,815 What they do is they show me that I stink at writing. 591 00:27:56,835 --> 00:27:59,865 They show me as I try to fill out the, as I could even 592 00:27:59,865 --> 00:28:00,675 probably do this on the board. 593 00:28:00,675 --> 00:28:04,575 I'm not going to, but they show me that I'm a terrible writer. 594 00:28:04,605 --> 00:28:06,615 That I, I have terrible handwriting, terrible penmanship. 595 00:28:06,735 --> 00:28:09,435 I don't write neatly or I have bad motor skills, whatever. 596 00:28:09,435 --> 00:28:09,705 Right. 597 00:28:11,145 --> 00:28:12,885 That's what God's law does. 598 00:28:13,635 --> 00:28:13,905 Right. 599 00:28:13,935 --> 00:28:16,005 We try to fill out the, the form. 600 00:28:16,005 --> 00:28:19,035 We try to, to write the A's and and write ant. 601 00:28:19,035 --> 00:28:20,655 We try to do that and. 602 00:28:21,555 --> 00:28:27,405 We end up looking terrible 'cause we see what we're supposed to be like and 603 00:28:27,405 --> 00:28:29,505 we realize, oh man, I'm not doing that. 604 00:28:31,185 --> 00:28:31,875 We need that. 605 00:28:31,875 --> 00:28:35,415 'cause otherwise we would think we're good because we look around. 606 00:28:35,505 --> 00:28:38,445 Imagine if you didn't know what an A was supposed to look like 607 00:28:38,475 --> 00:28:40,335 and you just had a bunch of third graders try to write the letter. 608 00:28:40,395 --> 00:28:43,695 Or sorry, a bunch of three-year-olds try to write the letter A sometimes 609 00:28:43,695 --> 00:28:44,895 third graders, some of you. 610 00:28:46,365 --> 00:28:47,715 I see your sermon notes anyway. 611 00:28:47,985 --> 00:28:50,235 Um, no, I'm just kidding. 612 00:28:50,385 --> 00:28:54,165 But imagine, right, if we're just all doing this and we're just comparing 613 00:28:54,165 --> 00:28:57,405 ourselves to each other and we're not comparing ourselves to this, 614 00:28:58,455 --> 00:28:59,865 it makes it harder to see, right? 615 00:28:59,865 --> 00:29:03,855 If all the three-year-olds in the room are like trying to write, you know, in 616 00:29:03,855 --> 00:29:07,005 the lines and they're like, well, I'm better than you and I'm better than you. 617 00:29:07,005 --> 00:29:07,455 But guess what? 618 00:29:07,455 --> 00:29:10,425 If we show them this, oh yeah, I don't measure up. 619 00:29:10,455 --> 00:29:11,085 I'm not good enough. 620 00:29:11,085 --> 00:29:12,765 My A looks nothing like that. 621 00:29:12,765 --> 00:29:15,615 A, even if it's the best a in the three-year-old class. 622 00:29:15,615 --> 00:29:17,265 I don't even know if three year old's, right. 623 00:29:17,265 --> 00:29:20,655 Anyway, um, you get the point, right? 624 00:29:22,305 --> 00:29:27,735 The whole point of the first three chapters of Romans is to expose your sin. 625 00:29:28,905 --> 00:29:33,495 The whole point of, of what probably feels like a bunch of discouraging 626 00:29:33,495 --> 00:29:39,825 sermons is because we are so bad at admitting that we need God to save us 627 00:29:40,635 --> 00:29:42,855 because we love to rely on ourselves. 628 00:29:43,455 --> 00:29:45,585 We love to think that we're good enough. 629 00:29:45,585 --> 00:29:48,585 We love to think that, that I don't, I, I can make it. 630 00:29:48,615 --> 00:29:52,575 Maybe, maybe God will help me, but I'll do like some of the work. 631 00:29:53,745 --> 00:29:55,515 We love to think those things, right? 632 00:29:55,695 --> 00:30:00,105 The Mormons, one of their phrases that they'll tell you is, the way 633 00:30:00,105 --> 00:30:03,855 salvation works is you do your best and God takes care of the rest. 634 00:30:04,635 --> 00:30:07,125 So you try as hard as you can to be a good person to, to do what 635 00:30:07,335 --> 00:30:10,005 the Book of Mormon says, and then God will make up the difference. 636 00:30:10,245 --> 00:30:10,890 But as long as you tried. 637 00:30:11,895 --> 00:30:12,225 Good. 638 00:30:12,885 --> 00:30:16,965 The Bible says you're the worst and God does everything. 639 00:30:18,795 --> 00:30:25,635 So we are so bad at admitting because we love to rely on ourselves. 640 00:30:26,235 --> 00:30:28,305 We love to be to get credit for things. 641 00:30:28,305 --> 00:30:29,595 We love to deserve things. 642 00:30:30,165 --> 00:30:32,625 We love to earn things, and that's what's wrong with us. 643 00:30:33,465 --> 00:30:38,595 So our third point tonight is abandon your reliance on self. 644 00:30:42,000 --> 00:30:42,240 Right. 645 00:30:42,450 --> 00:30:43,050 Give it up. 646 00:30:43,500 --> 00:30:47,760 Say, I can't, trust me, I can't rely on me. 647 00:30:49,200 --> 00:30:51,330 I can't count on me to be good enough. 648 00:30:53,520 --> 00:30:56,670 When I stand before God and he judges me, I can't say, well, God, 649 00:30:56,670 --> 00:30:58,380 look what I fill in the blank. 650 00:30:58,620 --> 00:30:59,310 Look what I did. 651 00:31:01,710 --> 00:31:04,290 I can't say that because that's me relying on me. 652 00:31:09,015 --> 00:31:13,485 One of the, the things with sin is it, it's called blindness a lot in the Bible. 653 00:31:13,845 --> 00:31:17,985 And the thing about sin is it, it makes us think that we're fine on our own. 654 00:31:19,005 --> 00:31:21,585 It makes us think that we don't need other people's help. 655 00:31:21,825 --> 00:31:25,875 When I was listening to what some people said about this passage, I heard 656 00:31:25,875 --> 00:31:29,775 this epic story about Ringo the Duck. 657 00:31:30,735 --> 00:31:32,955 I want you guys to meet Ringo, the duck from the seventies. 658 00:31:33,735 --> 00:31:34,995 The reason he is named Ringo. 659 00:31:35,805 --> 00:31:41,115 Is because he was trying to like, eat stuff through some trash and you know, 660 00:31:41,115 --> 00:31:47,685 those like soda can things, he got one of those stuck around his, his beak and so 661 00:31:47,685 --> 00:31:49,545 he couldn't open his mouth all the way. 662 00:31:50,535 --> 00:31:54,525 Um, and so he, this was in Toronto I think, and everyone tried to help him, 663 00:31:55,365 --> 00:31:59,385 but imagine, right, you're trying to help this duck get the, the ring off. 664 00:31:59,385 --> 00:32:01,635 Its off its bill. 665 00:32:03,700 --> 00:32:04,590 What's the duck gonna do? 666 00:32:04,800 --> 00:32:06,210 Is duck gonna be like, oh yeah, please help. 667 00:32:07,440 --> 00:32:08,970 Duck's gonna fly away, right? 668 00:32:08,970 --> 00:32:09,900 Duck's gonna jump in the water. 669 00:32:10,560 --> 00:32:14,580 So all these people are trying to help Ringo and Ringo's running away. 670 00:32:14,730 --> 00:32:16,620 Ringo's saying, I'm scared of you. 671 00:32:16,680 --> 00:32:18,690 I don't like you, I'm going away. 672 00:32:19,380 --> 00:32:22,530 So these people in Toronto, they made like a, like a coalition 673 00:32:22,530 --> 00:32:24,900 to help Ringo, like save Ringo. 674 00:32:25,260 --> 00:32:29,190 And so they got, um, people with like net guns to try to catch Ringo. 675 00:32:30,120 --> 00:32:31,560 Didn't work, couldn't catch a Ringo. 676 00:32:31,560 --> 00:32:32,460 He kept escaping. 677 00:32:32,880 --> 00:32:37,860 They got like some skin divers to go and like try to ambush Ringo and, and get him. 678 00:32:38,100 --> 00:32:39,090 Still didn't work. 679 00:32:39,270 --> 00:32:45,780 They even got the champion duck collar from Canada to get Ringo to come and they 680 00:32:45,780 --> 00:32:47,460 got other ducks to come, but not Ringo. 681 00:32:48,690 --> 00:32:49,650 I don't know what happened to Ringo. 682 00:32:49,740 --> 00:32:57,270 Ringo may have been liberated from his, his plight, um, but. 683 00:32:58,825 --> 00:32:59,490 He might not have. 684 00:32:59,490 --> 00:33:00,360 Ringo might have died. 685 00:33:00,390 --> 00:33:03,420 He might have, he might have starved to death 'cause he couldn't eat anything. 686 00:33:03,750 --> 00:33:09,180 But the point is that all these people tried to help Ringo and Ringo ran away 687 00:33:09,720 --> 00:33:13,920 from their help because Ringo didn't realize that they're trying to help him. 688 00:33:14,430 --> 00:33:18,240 Ringo didn't realize that these people care about him. 689 00:33:18,420 --> 00:33:20,250 He just saw, oh, they're scary. 690 00:33:20,310 --> 00:33:21,030 I'm gonna run away. 691 00:33:21,690 --> 00:33:23,640 Ringo obviously is a duck. 692 00:33:23,700 --> 00:33:25,860 Can't admit that he needs help. 693 00:33:27,735 --> 00:33:33,495 A lot of people are like Ringo, like God comes to you with the gospel. 694 00:33:33,495 --> 00:33:37,544 You hear sermons, your parents talk to you, your leaders talk to you. 695 00:33:38,055 --> 00:33:40,544 You're convicted of your sin, and you run away. 696 00:33:41,925 --> 00:33:42,735 You say, I don't want that. 697 00:33:43,394 --> 00:33:44,865 That's, I, I don't think that's good for me. 698 00:33:44,985 --> 00:33:46,874 'cause Ringo thought I was gonna hurt Ringo's. 699 00:33:46,874 --> 00:33:50,504 Like, oh, they're gonna kill me, they're going to eat me, whatever. 700 00:33:50,504 --> 00:33:50,805 Right? 701 00:33:51,044 --> 00:33:53,745 Ringo didn't wanna do do that, and so he ran away. 702 00:33:56,010 --> 00:33:59,520 Part of the problem for us when we're under sin, right? 703 00:33:59,520 --> 00:34:04,140 We're even sometimes Christians, we're so influenced by our sinful 704 00:34:04,140 --> 00:34:06,810 flesh that we don't want God's help. 705 00:34:08,880 --> 00:34:11,850 People are naturally resistant to God. 706 00:34:12,179 --> 00:34:14,670 We naturally want to rely on ourselves. 707 00:34:14,670 --> 00:34:18,449 We naturally want to do things our way. 708 00:34:18,630 --> 00:34:23,070 We naturally don't want God's help because we want to hold on 709 00:34:23,070 --> 00:34:24,945 to anything that gives us credit. 710 00:34:26,188 --> 00:34:27,149 We wanna hold onto? 711 00:34:27,208 --> 00:34:29,518 Oh, well, I'm, I'm not really that bad. 712 00:34:29,699 --> 00:34:32,339 I know that I know what the Bible says. 713 00:34:32,339 --> 00:34:34,984 I know that I'm a sinner, but I'm not like that bad. 714 00:34:35,399 --> 00:34:37,259 I'm not gonna confess that sin. 715 00:34:37,409 --> 00:34:41,789 I can't give up that God's asking me to stop doing that. 716 00:34:41,789 --> 00:34:42,929 That's what repentance looks like. 717 00:34:42,929 --> 00:34:43,498 I don't wanna do that. 718 00:34:43,620 --> 00:34:44,505 You're telling me that that's better. 719 00:34:45,705 --> 00:34:47,685 That God is better than, than this. 720 00:34:47,833 --> 00:34:49,393 You're telling me God's better than that relationship. 721 00:34:49,393 --> 00:34:53,264 You're telling me God's better than, than this hobby that I really enjoy. 722 00:34:53,384 --> 00:34:58,754 You're telling me that that God's worth investing time into time reading 723 00:34:58,754 --> 00:35:02,205 the Bible and and time praying and and time talking to other Christians. 724 00:35:04,305 --> 00:35:09,975 We love to hold onto our own goodness or our own independence or our own 725 00:35:09,975 --> 00:35:12,314 priorities, and it prevents us. 726 00:35:13,155 --> 00:35:17,175 From being saved a lot, or if you're a Christian, it prevents us from growing. 727 00:35:18,285 --> 00:35:25,185 If you never admit that you need help, you're not gonna grow as a Christian. 728 00:35:25,725 --> 00:35:29,745 The the less you feel like you're a sinner, the less you'll grow 729 00:35:29,805 --> 00:35:34,215 even as a Christian, the less that you feel like you need. 730 00:35:34,215 --> 00:35:37,455 God's grace and God's help, and God's power and God's Word, and 731 00:35:37,455 --> 00:35:38,925 God's people to help you grow. 732 00:35:40,290 --> 00:35:41,490 Trials to help you. 733 00:35:41,490 --> 00:35:45,330 That's why God gives you trials as a Christian, because we're so bad at 734 00:35:45,330 --> 00:35:49,470 growing that God has to make us go through really hard things so that we trust him. 735 00:35:50,850 --> 00:35:53,250 Because if God just gave us all these good things all the 736 00:35:53,250 --> 00:35:54,689 time, we'd forget about 'em. 737 00:35:54,689 --> 00:35:56,580 And we love all his gifts and we wouldn't love God. 738 00:35:57,209 --> 00:36:00,029 So God has to give us, there's, there's a, one of Paul's letters. 739 00:36:00,149 --> 00:36:04,080 He basically says that God almost had to kill me to get me to, to 740 00:36:04,080 --> 00:36:06,720 trust him, to stop relying on myself. 741 00:36:07,950 --> 00:36:11,370 How sinful Paul was, and I can't imagine that any of us here 742 00:36:11,939 --> 00:36:13,229 are much better off than that. 743 00:36:16,470 --> 00:36:22,859 There's a scene in Indiana Jones, um, the last crusade where, I don't know, at the 744 00:36:22,859 --> 00:36:27,899 very end, spoiler alert, um, they find the holy grail and um, which isn't real. 745 00:36:27,930 --> 00:36:34,709 Anyway, um, this lady really wants it and she, she wants to grab it. 746 00:36:35,669 --> 00:36:38,910 And what happens is they're, they find it and the cha uh, every Indiana 747 00:36:38,910 --> 00:36:41,640 Jones movie, everything starts falling down and the building gets destroyed 748 00:36:41,640 --> 00:36:42,540 every, at the end of every movie. 749 00:36:42,899 --> 00:36:48,810 And, um, the, the Holy Grail, it falls down this crack and she jumps after 750 00:36:48,810 --> 00:36:50,009 it 'cause she's trying to get it. 751 00:36:50,370 --> 00:36:57,359 And if Indiana Jones, he grabs her hand because he, if she, 752 00:36:57,359 --> 00:36:58,919 lets go of him, she's gonna fall. 753 00:36:59,040 --> 00:37:00,105 But she's trying to grab this. 754 00:37:01,740 --> 00:37:05,189 She wants the this cup, she wants the holy grail and she wants it so 755 00:37:05,189 --> 00:37:09,180 bad and she's so consumed with, I need that, that I need that treasure. 756 00:37:09,899 --> 00:37:10,680 I need that. 757 00:37:11,759 --> 00:37:13,740 She thinks it's gonna make her live forever, right? 758 00:37:13,859 --> 00:37:15,899 She's like, I want that so bad. 759 00:37:16,799 --> 00:37:24,810 She doesn't realize she's literally about to die to get it, and so he's 760 00:37:24,810 --> 00:37:29,009 trying to pull her up and she can't stop. 761 00:37:29,009 --> 00:37:30,390 She, she wants it so bad. 762 00:37:30,990 --> 00:37:36,450 She ends up letting go and dying because of how bad she wants. 763 00:37:36,450 --> 00:37:42,270 That she, if, if she lets, if she gives up on this, if she says, you know what? 764 00:37:42,540 --> 00:37:46,290 I give up on that, I'm gonna let go of that and grab onto 765 00:37:46,290 --> 00:37:48,960 you, then I'll be saved. 766 00:37:49,500 --> 00:37:50,189 I'll live. 767 00:37:51,629 --> 00:37:55,740 But she is so caught up in this, in the holy grail. 768 00:37:55,740 --> 00:37:58,049 She wants it so bad she can't give it up. 769 00:37:58,979 --> 00:38:03,809 And she can't let go of it in order to to grab Indy and be saved. 770 00:38:06,629 --> 00:38:09,029 That's where I think a lot of you guys are at. 771 00:38:10,859 --> 00:38:13,200 You know that, that God could save you. 772 00:38:14,370 --> 00:38:15,809 You know that he could pull you up, 773 00:38:17,910 --> 00:38:22,410 but you're so caught up with your sin, you love it too much. 774 00:38:23,355 --> 00:38:26,325 You can't let it go, or you can't really bring yourself to admit 775 00:38:26,325 --> 00:38:28,125 the fact that I need a savior. 776 00:38:28,515 --> 00:38:30,435 I don't just need God to help me and clean me up a little bit. 777 00:38:30,435 --> 00:38:32,295 I need God to save me 'cause I'm a sinner. 778 00:38:32,295 --> 00:38:33,525 I deserve hell. 779 00:38:33,525 --> 00:38:35,295 I deserve wrath forever. 780 00:38:36,345 --> 00:38:39,045 And you can't let go of the fact that, oh, I'm, I'm not that bad. 781 00:38:39,765 --> 00:38:41,384 Or I, I have to, I have to. 782 00:38:41,924 --> 00:38:45,194 Following Jesus means putting him above that person or that 783 00:38:46,275 --> 00:38:48,435 priority, or that ambition of mine. 784 00:38:49,395 --> 00:38:50,535 You can't give it up. 785 00:38:51,855 --> 00:38:54,225 You can't let it go and it's, it's gonna kill you. 786 00:38:56,294 --> 00:39:00,765 If, if you can't surrender to Jesus, 787 00:39:02,805 --> 00:39:05,174 whatever you're, you're chasing after will kill you 788 00:39:07,785 --> 00:39:09,645 because you have to let go of it. 789 00:39:10,575 --> 00:39:13,395 You have to abandon your self-reliance. 790 00:39:13,395 --> 00:39:18,254 You have to say, I'm not good enough, so don't hold on to that anymore. 791 00:39:19,185 --> 00:39:19,365 Right. 792 00:39:19,365 --> 00:39:20,504 Stop holding on to. 793 00:39:21,555 --> 00:39:24,675 Whatever it is that that makes you feel like you can, maybe you think 794 00:39:24,705 --> 00:39:29,805 I'm too sinful to come to Jesus, whatever it is, stop holding onto that. 795 00:39:30,225 --> 00:39:34,035 Give it up and it, and admit, turn away from yourself. 796 00:39:34,035 --> 00:39:34,965 Say, I'm not good enough. 797 00:39:35,115 --> 00:39:35,925 I fall short. 798 00:39:36,165 --> 00:39:37,785 I need Jesus to save me. 799 00:39:37,785 --> 00:39:38,955 I don't just need Jesus to help me. 800 00:39:39,135 --> 00:39:41,295 I don't just need Jesus to, to partner with me. 801 00:39:41,475 --> 00:39:42,675 I need a savior. 802 00:39:43,905 --> 00:39:45,525 I don't just need help. 803 00:39:47,985 --> 00:39:50,020 Let's pray and we'll talk about that in small groups. 804 00:39:53,310 --> 00:39:56,640 God, thank you that you love us so much. 805 00:39:57,150 --> 00:39:59,010 We are awful people. 806 00:40:00,000 --> 00:40:05,730 Um, and we admit that and confess that, um, that we are sinful. 807 00:40:06,330 --> 00:40:08,670 We are worse than we think we are. 808 00:40:09,240 --> 00:40:14,400 We are more evil, more selfish, more prideful, more lazy, more lustful, 809 00:40:14,430 --> 00:40:17,920 more anxious than we think we are. 810 00:40:18,134 --> 00:40:21,854 And so I pray tonight that you show us that, that you show us who 811 00:40:21,854 --> 00:40:26,654 we really are, that we would see ourselves the way you see us, first and 812 00:40:26,654 --> 00:40:29,115 foremost, our sin, the way you see it. 813 00:40:30,404 --> 00:40:35,955 But I also pray that we would be able to see salvation for what it is that we would 814 00:40:35,955 --> 00:40:42,584 remember, that trying to hold on to our sin, trying to hold onto the world, trying 815 00:40:42,584 --> 00:40:46,604 to hold onto ourselves will kill us. 816 00:40:47,385 --> 00:40:51,435 Turning to you in repentance and faith, trusting that you, Jesus, 817 00:40:51,525 --> 00:40:54,975 died to take away our sin, and you live to give us righteousness, and 818 00:40:54,975 --> 00:40:56,655 you rose again to defeat death. 819 00:40:57,675 --> 00:41:02,925 Trusting you, turning to you in in faith gives us life. 820 00:41:04,005 --> 00:41:06,585 So I pray that we're honest and we're open in small groups. 821 00:41:07,635 --> 00:41:11,745 And I pray that we, you help us to, to really see things the way they really are. 822 00:41:11,925 --> 00:41:12,855 You pray this in Jesus name. 823 00:41:13,005 --> 00:41:13,305 Amen.