1 00:00:00,049 --> 00:00:02,029 Speaker: Alright, we are in the book of Romans. 2 00:00:02,029 --> 00:00:04,160 Romans chapter one is where we're gonna be. 3 00:00:04,160 --> 00:00:09,110 So turn in your Bibles to Romans chapter one. 4 00:00:09,710 --> 00:00:11,089 Romans chapter one. 5 00:00:11,479 --> 00:00:13,550 We're gonna be looking at the first seven verses. 6 00:00:15,815 --> 00:00:19,445 Raise your hand if, if you, if you know someone who says they're a bad 7 00:00:19,445 --> 00:00:24,815 texter, a bad, a bad texter, you know anyone who says they're a bad texter. 8 00:00:24,905 --> 00:00:25,085 Heard that. 9 00:00:25,835 --> 00:00:28,925 Or maybe someone, maybe some of you say, you know what? 10 00:00:28,925 --> 00:00:29,975 I'm just a bad texter. 11 00:00:29,975 --> 00:00:32,284 Sorry I haven't responded to you for five days. 12 00:00:32,615 --> 00:00:34,145 That's because they're a bad texter. 13 00:00:34,145 --> 00:00:37,295 Now, someone in my family, there's a 50% chance, you know who this is. 14 00:00:37,295 --> 00:00:37,980 Someone in my family. 15 00:00:38,720 --> 00:00:41,720 Is a, is a, what they would call a bad texture. 16 00:00:41,720 --> 00:00:45,140 And they've got like, you know, 25 unread messages that are just sitting 17 00:00:45,140 --> 00:00:46,820 there and they'll get back to you later. 18 00:00:46,820 --> 00:00:47,900 I won't tell you who it is. 19 00:00:48,200 --> 00:00:52,435 Um, but someone in, in my family is a, a bad texter. 20 00:00:52,580 --> 00:00:58,580 And, um, but really when you think about it, when someone, when 21 00:00:58,580 --> 00:01:02,870 someone's a bad texter, it comes down to, to who's texting them. 22 00:01:04,084 --> 00:01:07,055 'cause there's some people that actually are bad texts and they're not good at 23 00:01:07,055 --> 00:01:11,104 responding to things, but there's some people that are selectively bad texts. 24 00:01:11,104 --> 00:01:12,215 You know these people out there. 25 00:01:12,365 --> 00:01:15,815 If someone texts them, maybe it takes them like four days to respond. 26 00:01:15,875 --> 00:01:18,250 But if someone else texts them, they're responding in like two minutes. 27 00:01:18,855 --> 00:01:19,215 Right. 28 00:01:19,455 --> 00:01:21,555 And, and then they're like, wait, should I have responded that fast? 29 00:01:21,555 --> 00:01:23,055 'cause now they think I like them, right? 30 00:01:23,325 --> 00:01:24,675 There's those people out there, right? 31 00:01:24,735 --> 00:01:26,535 There's selectively bad textures. 32 00:01:26,535 --> 00:01:29,325 So some people, you know, they're, it just depends on who texts them, right? 33 00:01:29,325 --> 00:01:32,115 If you, if you get a text from, you know, someone that you don't 34 00:01:32,115 --> 00:01:34,604 really wanna talk to, someone that you don't really know that well or 35 00:01:34,604 --> 00:01:36,104 whatever, maybe you, you just wait. 36 00:01:36,104 --> 00:01:37,215 You're like, oh, I'll get to that later. 37 00:01:37,365 --> 00:01:41,445 You read it and then you, you forget to, to, to swipe back the blue bubble on it. 38 00:01:41,565 --> 00:01:44,025 And so then you forget that you read it and you never respond. 39 00:01:44,025 --> 00:01:44,175 Right? 40 00:01:44,175 --> 00:01:44,715 That happens. 41 00:01:44,835 --> 00:01:47,340 But maybe if someone else texts you, you would be like, oh. 42 00:01:47,930 --> 00:01:51,470 Sorry, person I'm actually talking to, I need to respond to this text, right? 43 00:01:51,830 --> 00:01:57,200 Because who's texting you matters, the who's sending that message to you maybe 44 00:01:57,200 --> 00:01:58,910 is really important to you, right? 45 00:01:58,910 --> 00:02:04,040 So sometimes we're selectively bad texters because it depends on who's texting us. 46 00:02:04,880 --> 00:02:09,320 Now see, in our passage today, we're gonna be be hearing about a message who 47 00:02:09,324 --> 00:02:10,695 from the most important person ever. 48 00:02:11,585 --> 00:02:17,765 And when, when God, when the King of Kings sends you a message, you have to listen. 49 00:02:18,065 --> 00:02:21,815 You can't be a selectively bad texter when the God of the universe 50 00:02:21,935 --> 00:02:24,005 says, I've got something for you. 51 00:02:24,755 --> 00:02:26,495 You can't just, just leave him on red. 52 00:02:26,495 --> 00:02:27,725 You can't just reply later. 53 00:02:27,725 --> 00:02:29,795 You can't just forget about it. 54 00:02:30,530 --> 00:02:34,670 There's an, there's an authority behind the person sending the message that 55 00:02:34,670 --> 00:02:38,840 demands a response, and that's our main point today is about the gospel. 56 00:02:38,840 --> 00:02:40,460 The gospel is God's message. 57 00:02:40,579 --> 00:02:45,050 And our points tonight is that the gospel is an authoritative announcement. 58 00:02:46,070 --> 00:02:48,350 The gospel is an authoritative announcement. 59 00:02:48,500 --> 00:02:53,450 It's a message, it's an announcement, but there's weight behind it. 60 00:02:53,450 --> 00:02:54,140 It's important. 61 00:02:54,590 --> 00:02:58,220 In fact, it's coming from a king, and so there's authority there. 62 00:02:59,270 --> 00:03:04,910 It's not just something you can respond to later or Mark read and forget about. 63 00:03:05,180 --> 00:03:08,180 So we're gonna be in Romans chapter one. 64 00:03:08,180 --> 00:03:15,200 We're gonna see Paul introducing himself and this gospel to the Romans because 65 00:03:15,200 --> 00:03:16,970 he, he's, he doesn't know these people. 66 00:03:16,970 --> 00:03:20,120 So the church in Rome, Paul had never been to Rome, most of Paul's letters. 67 00:03:20,120 --> 00:03:21,740 So in case you didn't know us about the Bible. 68 00:03:22,204 --> 00:03:23,285 The New Testament. 69 00:03:23,465 --> 00:03:26,885 A big chunk of the New Testament is letters that the Apostle Paul wrote 70 00:03:26,915 --> 00:03:29,375 to different churches, and most of the churches he'd been to like the 71 00:03:29,375 --> 00:03:33,905 church in Colossae or the church in Thessalonika, or the church in Philippi. 72 00:03:33,905 --> 00:03:36,575 He had been to these churches, and so he's writing them like a follow 73 00:03:36,575 --> 00:03:39,785 up letter, say, Hey, here's some things I want you to remember. 74 00:03:39,815 --> 00:03:43,655 Here's some, maybe some problems that I've noticed or heard about, and I'm gonna 75 00:03:43,655 --> 00:03:44,885 write this letter to you to help you. 76 00:03:44,945 --> 00:03:49,085 That's most of, most of what Paul's letters are, but Romans is a letter 77 00:03:49,085 --> 00:03:50,225 to a place he's never been to. 78 00:03:50,225 --> 00:03:51,065 He doesn't know these people. 79 00:03:51,335 --> 00:03:54,155 He hasn't been to Rome yet when he, when he writes this letter. 80 00:03:54,155 --> 00:03:58,175 And so he's introducing himself and he's introducing the gospel to them because 81 00:03:58,175 --> 00:04:01,595 he wants them to know that he preaches the same gospel, the right gospel. 82 00:04:01,715 --> 00:04:04,385 So that's what we're looking at here in chapter one. 83 00:04:04,385 --> 00:04:06,575 So read along with me, Romans chapter one. 84 00:04:06,635 --> 00:04:08,645 We're gonna start in verse one. 85 00:04:10,235 --> 00:04:14,975 So Paul, a servant of Christ, Jesus called to be an apostle 86 00:04:15,095 --> 00:04:17,225 set apart for the gospel of God. 87 00:04:18,200 --> 00:04:21,890 Which now he's gonna tell us about the gospel, which he promised beforehand 88 00:04:21,918 --> 00:04:26,569 through his prophets in the holy Scriptures, concerning his son who was 89 00:04:26,569 --> 00:04:30,020 descended from David according to the flesh, and who is declared to be the 90 00:04:30,020 --> 00:04:34,400 son of God in power according to the spirit of holiness, by his resurrection 91 00:04:34,400 --> 00:04:39,104 from the dead Jesus Christ are Lord we'll stop right there for now. 92 00:04:39,890 --> 00:04:42,770 So the first thing Paul is telling the Romans about the gospel, he 93 00:04:42,770 --> 00:04:45,470 introduces himself, he says, I'm Paul, and these are some things about me. 94 00:04:45,470 --> 00:04:48,440 And then in verse two, he starts talking about the gospel and he's telling the 95 00:04:48,440 --> 00:04:50,240 Romans, here's where the gospel's from. 96 00:04:50,390 --> 00:04:54,080 It's from the Old Testament, it's from the prophets in the Bible. 97 00:04:54,350 --> 00:04:58,250 And then what's the gospel about concerning his son Jesus. 98 00:04:58,280 --> 00:05:00,770 And then he, he talks about who Jesus is. 99 00:05:01,160 --> 00:05:05,660 So he's telling where the gospel's from and what the gospel's about Now. 100 00:05:06,425 --> 00:05:10,385 Why does Paul want us to know these specific things about Jesus? 101 00:05:10,534 --> 00:05:14,854 What he wants us to know about Jesus is that Jesus is the 102 00:05:15,215 --> 00:05:18,155 Messiah, the Christ, and the Lord. 103 00:05:18,455 --> 00:05:21,245 But I think the, the main thing he's focusing on is the content. 104 00:05:21,245 --> 00:05:24,005 Like see all this about the what? 105 00:05:24,215 --> 00:05:25,505 What's in the gospel. 106 00:05:25,925 --> 00:05:28,265 That's verse three concerning his son. 107 00:05:28,265 --> 00:05:30,515 So Paul really wants the Romans to know and really wants us to 108 00:05:30,515 --> 00:05:34,534 know that the gospel is a message about Jesus, and that might seem. 109 00:05:34,925 --> 00:05:37,685 Super obvious, but that's our first point. 110 00:05:37,745 --> 00:05:42,095 Point number one, remember the gospel is about Jesus. 111 00:05:43,955 --> 00:05:47,945 Remember that the gospel is about Jesus. 112 00:05:53,225 --> 00:05:58,505 Sometimes we can make the gospel about us, right? 113 00:05:58,625 --> 00:06:04,085 Sometimes we can make the the focus of the gospel us God. 114 00:06:04,940 --> 00:06:09,380 Has a message for you and he loves you and he wants to save 115 00:06:09,380 --> 00:06:11,450 you, and it's all about you. 116 00:06:12,260 --> 00:06:14,060 The gospel is a message about Jesus. 117 00:06:14,300 --> 00:06:16,880 It's remember what we, we learned last week, that the gospel 118 00:06:16,969 --> 00:06:18,620 reveals the righteousness of God. 119 00:06:19,190 --> 00:06:23,960 The point of the gospel primarily is to show us about God. 120 00:06:24,140 --> 00:06:27,350 It's to show us who God is, what God's like, and to, to 121 00:06:27,350 --> 00:06:29,810 show us how amazing God is. 122 00:06:30,424 --> 00:06:32,374 Remember the gospel is about Jesus. 123 00:06:32,374 --> 00:06:36,275 Well, what does Paul want us to know specifically about Jesus? 124 00:06:36,335 --> 00:06:40,534 Well, so when I read letters like this in the Bible, what's helpful for 125 00:06:40,534 --> 00:06:44,854 me is to break them into one of your favorite grammar words, clauses, right? 126 00:06:44,854 --> 00:06:45,814 I'm not talking about like Mrs. 127 00:06:45,814 --> 00:06:46,385 Clause and Mr. 128 00:06:46,385 --> 00:06:46,683 Clause. 129 00:06:46,895 --> 00:06:50,794 I'm talking about clauses, like your favorite prepositional clauses 130 00:06:50,794 --> 00:06:54,604 and all that stuff right now before you tune me out and fall asleep. 131 00:06:55,205 --> 00:06:59,344 This is why it's helpful, because this is a lot easier to read. 132 00:07:00,155 --> 00:07:01,505 Then this, right? 133 00:07:01,505 --> 00:07:02,405 This is just a big block. 134 00:07:03,184 --> 00:07:05,434 This helps me see what's happening. 135 00:07:05,554 --> 00:07:05,945 Ready? 136 00:07:06,604 --> 00:07:12,604 So Paul, and then some stuff about Paul set apart for the gospel, right? 137 00:07:13,414 --> 00:07:14,854 And then Paul's gonna talk about the gospel. 138 00:07:14,854 --> 00:07:18,575 He's gonna say two things about the gospel, where it's from, what it's about. 139 00:07:18,875 --> 00:07:19,414 See that? 140 00:07:20,104 --> 00:07:22,744 See how it's easier to see when you break it up like this. 141 00:07:23,434 --> 00:07:25,744 So this is just to help you read the Bible better. 142 00:07:25,835 --> 00:07:27,094 So where it's from. 143 00:07:27,875 --> 00:07:32,135 He promised God promised the gospel beforehand through his prophets. 144 00:07:32,614 --> 00:07:37,174 What it's about, it's about Jesus who, and then two things here about Jesus. 145 00:07:38,494 --> 00:07:40,265 Paul wants to know these two things about Jesus. 146 00:07:40,294 --> 00:07:43,174 He's descended from David and he's declared to be the 147 00:07:43,174 --> 00:07:45,725 son of God in power now. 148 00:07:46,655 --> 00:07:47,975 Why those two things? 149 00:07:48,095 --> 00:07:50,135 Well, it has to do with this last statement. 150 00:07:50,164 --> 00:07:51,335 Jesus Christ, our Lord. 151 00:07:51,335 --> 00:07:53,765 And maybe this is a phrase that you've heard a lot at church and 152 00:07:53,765 --> 00:07:57,304 you don't think twice about it, but really this statement is loaded. 153 00:07:57,695 --> 00:08:01,115 This statement is like, you know what, like a loaded quesadilla is? 154 00:08:01,355 --> 00:08:02,945 It's got like all sorts of stuff in there. 155 00:08:03,245 --> 00:08:06,784 That's what this sentence is, because this, this little phrase 156 00:08:06,784 --> 00:08:10,685 is actually describing all of this in just three words. 157 00:08:11,975 --> 00:08:12,935 Descended from David. 158 00:08:13,565 --> 00:08:14,585 That's what the Christ means. 159 00:08:14,585 --> 00:08:15,485 Jesus is the Messiah. 160 00:08:16,025 --> 00:08:17,584 Then declare to be the son of God in power. 161 00:08:17,765 --> 00:08:20,074 That's what Lord means. 162 00:08:20,104 --> 00:08:21,125 Now, what's the big deal about David? 163 00:08:21,125 --> 00:08:21,275 Right? 164 00:08:21,275 --> 00:08:22,235 We talk about this in Matthew. 165 00:08:22,414 --> 00:08:24,934 People come up to Jesus and say, son of David. 166 00:08:25,054 --> 00:08:25,534 It's like, what? 167 00:08:25,534 --> 00:08:26,405 What's the big deal about that? 168 00:08:26,405 --> 00:08:27,395 Why do I care about David? 169 00:08:27,604 --> 00:08:28,324 David's dead. 170 00:08:28,505 --> 00:08:29,314 David's a sinner. 171 00:08:29,375 --> 00:08:30,304 Why do I care about David? 172 00:08:31,145 --> 00:08:33,245 Well, this is why you should care about David. 173 00:08:33,245 --> 00:08:36,183 Second Samuel, seven is God's promise to David. 174 00:08:36,183 --> 00:08:40,203 God makes this massively important promise to David, and here's what 175 00:08:40,203 --> 00:08:43,088 he says to David, when your days are fulfilled, so when you die. 176 00:08:43,745 --> 00:08:47,105 You lie down with your fathers, I will raise up your offspring 177 00:08:47,165 --> 00:08:50,795 or one of your descendants after you who will come from your body. 178 00:08:50,795 --> 00:08:53,165 He's gonna be physically one of your descendants. 179 00:08:53,435 --> 00:08:55,535 And I will establish his kingdom. 180 00:08:56,135 --> 00:08:58,625 And it's like, okay, that's cool, but check this out. 181 00:08:58,625 --> 00:09:01,805 Verse 13, he shoveled a house for my name and I will establish the 182 00:09:01,805 --> 00:09:03,905 throne of his kingdom forever. 183 00:09:04,745 --> 00:09:08,704 So David, God is promising that David is gonna have an A, a, a 184 00:09:08,704 --> 00:09:10,535 descendant who lives forever. 185 00:09:10,834 --> 00:09:12,334 Who's the king forever. 186 00:09:13,535 --> 00:09:15,035 Which is pretty crazy, right? 187 00:09:15,095 --> 00:09:16,475 Because this can't be about Solomon. 188 00:09:16,475 --> 00:09:18,905 Solomon builds, builds a house, he builds a temple for God. 189 00:09:19,085 --> 00:09:20,345 But does Solomon live forever? 190 00:09:20,795 --> 00:09:21,155 No. 191 00:09:21,485 --> 00:09:21,875 Right. 192 00:09:21,935 --> 00:09:24,275 And then he says, I will be to him. 193 00:09:24,305 --> 00:09:27,545 I'll be like his father, and he shall be to me a son. 194 00:09:28,115 --> 00:09:28,535 So 195 00:09:31,265 --> 00:09:37,025 Paul really wants the Romans to know that Jesus is this guy, that descendant. 196 00:09:37,895 --> 00:09:38,645 That's Jesus. 197 00:09:38,735 --> 00:09:41,314 And the reason Paul does that is because the Old Testament. 198 00:09:41,885 --> 00:09:45,035 Kinda like what we saw in this verse right here. 199 00:09:45,665 --> 00:09:50,135 Promises the gospel before Jesus comes. 200 00:09:50,765 --> 00:09:53,854 The Old Testament is a gospel book. 201 00:09:53,915 --> 00:09:55,084 I don't know if you've ever thought about that before. 202 00:09:55,204 --> 00:09:56,915 The gospel is in the Old Testament. 203 00:09:57,844 --> 00:10:00,755 The gospel didn't show up with Matthew, mark, Luke, and John the 204 00:10:00,760 --> 00:10:01,954 gospel's in the Old Testament. 205 00:10:02,405 --> 00:10:04,775 In fact, the gospels in the Book of Genesis because in the book 206 00:10:04,775 --> 00:10:07,234 of Genesis, Moses is writing. 207 00:10:07,640 --> 00:10:11,239 The book of Genesis, and he's describing what happened in the garden, right? 208 00:10:11,239 --> 00:10:15,500 The Garden of Eden, Adam Eve sin, and then God curses the serpent and he 209 00:10:15,500 --> 00:10:20,630 says there's gonna be an offspring, same word, offspring, from the woman 210 00:10:20,630 --> 00:10:22,160 who's gonna crush the serpent's head. 211 00:10:22,339 --> 00:10:25,849 And so the rest of the Old Testament is trying to figure out who's that guy? 212 00:10:26,510 --> 00:10:27,979 Who's the guy who's going to. 213 00:10:28,655 --> 00:10:29,854 Figure everything out. 214 00:10:30,124 --> 00:10:31,685 Who's gonna get us back to Eden? 215 00:10:31,895 --> 00:10:33,964 Who's gonna put us back in the garden with God? 216 00:10:34,114 --> 00:10:35,074 Who's gonna fix death? 217 00:10:35,074 --> 00:10:36,064 Who's gonna fix sin? 218 00:10:36,214 --> 00:10:37,954 Who's gonna fix our separation from God? 219 00:10:37,954 --> 00:10:39,035 Who's gonna fix God's wrath? 220 00:10:39,035 --> 00:10:39,665 Who's that guy? 221 00:10:39,814 --> 00:10:41,015 That's the whole Old Testament. 222 00:10:41,795 --> 00:10:45,364 And then boom, Matthew, chapter one, right? 223 00:10:45,364 --> 00:10:46,055 Jesus. 224 00:10:46,415 --> 00:10:48,545 The Son of David, the son of Abraham. 225 00:10:49,685 --> 00:10:52,805 So the whole Old Testament, including this promise to David. 226 00:10:53,780 --> 00:10:55,340 Is about Jesus. 227 00:10:55,400 --> 00:10:57,350 Jesus is gonna be the guy, the Savior. 228 00:10:57,350 --> 00:10:59,330 He's gonna be the one who's gonna fix everything. 229 00:10:59,330 --> 00:11:05,000 And so Paul, when he says that Jesus is descended from David according to 230 00:11:05,000 --> 00:11:08,510 the flesh, that just means humanly speaking, he's one of David's descendants. 231 00:11:08,900 --> 00:11:10,310 He's saying that Jesus is that guy. 232 00:11:10,490 --> 00:11:12,350 He's the Messiah, he's the Lord. 233 00:11:12,500 --> 00:11:15,470 He's the king who's gonna fix everything. 234 00:11:16,400 --> 00:11:19,820 But then there's this, this part about. 235 00:11:20,165 --> 00:11:23,885 Serpent or this part about the son of God in power. 236 00:11:23,975 --> 00:11:27,275 Now, if you slow down and read this, there's a huge problem that 237 00:11:27,275 --> 00:11:28,625 might come to your mind, right? 238 00:11:30,155 --> 00:11:31,895 Let me ask you if this, this popped into your head. 239 00:11:33,305 --> 00:11:37,865 Jesus was declared the Son of God. 240 00:11:39,485 --> 00:11:43,025 Now the word here, some translations would say, appointed, 241 00:11:45,245 --> 00:11:47,194 did Jesus become the son of God? 242 00:11:49,355 --> 00:11:49,895 Yes or no? 243 00:11:51,665 --> 00:11:52,235 No. 244 00:11:52,295 --> 00:11:54,035 Jesus was already the son of God, right? 245 00:11:55,025 --> 00:11:58,445 So Paul can't be saying that Jesus already became the Son of God, 246 00:12:00,755 --> 00:12:03,425 like, or sorry, wasn't the son of God, and then became the son of God. 247 00:12:03,425 --> 00:12:04,925 That's not what Jesus, that's not what Paul is saying. 248 00:12:05,105 --> 00:12:07,775 Paul is not saying that Jesus became the son of God. 249 00:12:07,775 --> 00:12:09,185 So, so what is he saying? 250 00:12:10,145 --> 00:12:14,345 He's saying that something happens at the resurrection. 251 00:12:15,095 --> 00:12:17,165 Something happened at the resurrection. 252 00:12:17,765 --> 00:12:21,185 That, that to Jesus. 253 00:12:21,454 --> 00:12:27,364 Now, Jesus didn't change, but Jesus stepped into this rule 254 00:12:27,364 --> 00:12:29,765 right here, son of God in power. 255 00:12:29,824 --> 00:12:30,905 That's the important part. 256 00:12:31,084 --> 00:12:33,515 Now, look what Peter says in Acts two. 257 00:12:33,604 --> 00:12:34,025 Okay? 258 00:12:34,354 --> 00:12:36,964 Acts two, Peter is preaching right after the resurrection. 259 00:12:37,084 --> 00:12:39,814 He's preaching to all these Jews in Jerusalem, and here's what he says. 260 00:12:40,084 --> 00:12:43,280 So Jesus, God raised him from the dead and we all saw it. 261 00:12:44,180 --> 00:12:46,819 Then he's exalted at the right hand of God. 262 00:12:47,420 --> 00:12:53,240 Jesus the man was not there, and then he's raised in the dead and he's 263 00:12:53,569 --> 00:12:56,180 exalted at the right hand of God. 264 00:12:57,199 --> 00:13:00,170 And then he talks a bit about David, and then look at this last part right here. 265 00:13:00,439 --> 00:13:03,949 Let all the house of Israel therefore know for certain that God has made him 266 00:13:03,949 --> 00:13:10,040 Jesus, both Lord and Christ, and see that has made Jesus both Lord and Christ. 267 00:13:10,250 --> 00:13:11,365 So there's a sense. 268 00:13:12,020 --> 00:13:18,380 In which, yes, the son of God was already the king, but Jesus the Messiah wasn't 269 00:13:18,800 --> 00:13:22,790 at God's right hand reigning Jesus the Messiah was on earth suffering. 270 00:13:23,060 --> 00:13:23,450 Right? 271 00:13:24,230 --> 00:13:29,810 And so then when Jesus was raised from the dead, Jesus stepped into his rightful 272 00:13:29,810 --> 00:13:32,690 place as the reigning son of God. 273 00:13:32,780 --> 00:13:34,700 He disarmed Satan at death. 274 00:13:34,700 --> 00:13:34,850 Right? 275 00:13:34,850 --> 00:13:37,100 That's why we, we sing about death being defeated. 276 00:13:37,100 --> 00:13:39,350 That's why we celebrate Easter, because Jesus is now. 277 00:13:40,400 --> 00:13:41,270 He's defeated death. 278 00:13:41,270 --> 00:13:42,320 He's the conquering king. 279 00:13:43,130 --> 00:13:48,410 He's not just the king because he's God, he's the king because he defeated death. 280 00:13:48,590 --> 00:13:50,540 He's the king because he defeated Satan. 281 00:13:50,600 --> 00:13:55,460 'cause the only thing Satan can do to you is get you to believe 282 00:13:55,460 --> 00:13:56,540 that God won't forgive your sin. 283 00:13:57,710 --> 00:14:01,640 The only power Satan has over you is unforgiven sin, because that's 284 00:14:01,640 --> 00:14:04,340 the only way anyone goes to hell is if your sins don't get forgiven. 285 00:14:04,790 --> 00:14:05,840 And now guess what? 286 00:14:05,930 --> 00:14:06,950 Your sins can be forgiven. 287 00:14:07,220 --> 00:14:08,720 So Satan really can't do anything to you. 288 00:14:09,875 --> 00:14:13,595 The only thing Satan can really harm you with is unforgiven sin. 289 00:14:14,375 --> 00:14:17,045 That's the only thing that will actually harm you because God 290 00:14:17,045 --> 00:14:18,425 will use everything else for good. 291 00:14:19,475 --> 00:14:25,715 So Jesus at the resurrection was appointed the Son of God in power. 292 00:14:25,715 --> 00:14:28,535 He's put at God's right hand, and he's reigning. 293 00:14:29,135 --> 00:14:31,085 He's defeated sin and death. 294 00:14:31,085 --> 00:14:36,064 He's taken away everything Satan can do to you, and he's stepped 295 00:14:36,064 --> 00:14:38,194 into this rule as the Messiah. 296 00:14:39,755 --> 00:14:40,355 Jesus. 297 00:14:40,355 --> 00:14:44,165 The, the human was not the Messiah until he was born, right? 298 00:14:44,705 --> 00:14:48,125 Because Jesus was born, right? 299 00:14:48,185 --> 00:14:53,015 So at the resurrection, Jesus didn't become the son of God, but he 300 00:14:53,015 --> 00:14:56,105 became exalted at God's right hand. 301 00:14:56,585 --> 00:14:58,625 And that's what Peter is talking about, and that's what Paul's talking about. 302 00:14:58,625 --> 00:14:59,405 They're saying that. 303 00:15:00,110 --> 00:15:01,969 Jesus is, is the king. 304 00:15:02,000 --> 00:15:04,790 He's saying that Jesus is the Old Testament king who's gonna fix everything, 305 00:15:04,819 --> 00:15:08,569 and he's saying that Jesus is the reigning son of God in power at God's right 306 00:15:08,569 --> 00:15:12,380 hand, who's defeated the worst things that the world can throw at you, right? 307 00:15:12,500 --> 00:15:13,430 He's defeated death. 308 00:15:13,430 --> 00:15:16,040 He's defeated sin, and he's defeated Satan. 309 00:15:17,089 --> 00:15:18,620 Now, why does all that matter? 310 00:15:18,620 --> 00:15:20,270 Why do I care about Old Testament stuff? 311 00:15:20,270 --> 00:15:22,040 Why do I care about the Davidic Covenant? 312 00:15:22,040 --> 00:15:25,040 Why do I care about Jesus being at the right hand of God? 313 00:15:25,400 --> 00:15:28,130 Well, the good news. 314 00:15:28,790 --> 00:15:34,249 Exactly that it's built on, on this, that Jesus is the Messiah and 315 00:15:34,369 --> 00:15:39,410 Lord, he's the right guy because the whole history of the world is 316 00:15:39,410 --> 00:15:40,910 people who aren't good enough, right? 317 00:15:40,910 --> 00:15:45,140 If you ever read the Old Testament and you think about, oh, Abraham well 318 00:15:45,800 --> 00:15:47,719 had a lot of faith, but also a sinner. 319 00:15:48,079 --> 00:15:49,935 You think about Jacob, well, he. 320 00:15:51,035 --> 00:15:54,094 Kind of, you know, he got like, he got like a, a country named after him, 321 00:15:54,275 --> 00:15:56,344 but also not totally a great dude. 322 00:15:56,344 --> 00:15:57,185 Sin a lot, right? 323 00:15:57,395 --> 00:16:02,074 You've got someone like maybe David, you think maybe he's the guy and then 324 00:16:02,074 --> 00:16:04,925 that thing happens with Ishiba and then it's kinda all downhill from there. 325 00:16:05,285 --> 00:16:06,665 Then maybe it's gonna be Solomon, right? 326 00:16:06,665 --> 00:16:09,694 David's son and then he marries a bunch of people and walks 327 00:16:09,724 --> 00:16:10,864 away from the faith, right? 328 00:16:10,925 --> 00:16:14,405 And then you've got all these kings of Israel and they're all terrible, or these 329 00:16:14,405 --> 00:16:15,484 kings of Judah and they're all terrible. 330 00:16:15,575 --> 00:16:17,405 And over and over we're seeing that no one's good enough. 331 00:16:18,065 --> 00:16:21,185 No one can can save the human race. 332 00:16:21,635 --> 00:16:23,704 No one can undo what Adam did. 333 00:16:23,915 --> 00:16:24,694 You and I can't do that. 334 00:16:24,694 --> 00:16:25,264 We're hopeless. 335 00:16:25,444 --> 00:16:27,605 We need a king who's gonna do that? 336 00:16:27,605 --> 00:16:28,295 We need a savior. 337 00:16:28,295 --> 00:16:29,014 We need a leader. 338 00:16:29,224 --> 00:16:34,535 We need the guy that, that the whole Bible has been waiting for, and Jesus 339 00:16:34,625 --> 00:16:38,254 is that guy, and that's the gospel. 340 00:16:39,244 --> 00:16:43,024 Jesus does that through his death on the cross because he 341 00:16:43,024 --> 00:16:44,435 can take away all of the sin. 342 00:16:44,839 --> 00:16:46,670 Anyone's ever committed. 343 00:16:46,670 --> 00:16:49,819 But remember that the, the good news is about Jesus. 344 00:16:51,050 --> 00:16:54,319 It's not primarily about us. 345 00:16:55,220 --> 00:16:59,540 Now, I think one other way that Christians do this, we make the good 346 00:16:59,540 --> 00:17:04,430 news about us, is that we make the gospel about getting us out of hell 347 00:17:04,940 --> 00:17:06,800 instead of getting us to be with Jesus. 348 00:17:08,210 --> 00:17:08,598 Right? 349 00:17:08,690 --> 00:17:11,210 It's kinda like, imagine if you started dating someone and then 350 00:17:11,210 --> 00:17:13,310 you found out they only dated you 'cause they hated being single. 351 00:17:14,628 --> 00:17:14,898 Right. 352 00:17:14,898 --> 00:17:15,500 That would stink. 353 00:17:16,310 --> 00:17:18,980 That would be, that would be terrible if, if you start dating someone and 354 00:17:18,980 --> 00:17:22,128 then you know, a few months or a year in, you're like, oh, actually I only 355 00:17:22,128 --> 00:17:24,618 started dating you 'cause I didn't wanna be single and I found someone better and 356 00:17:24,618 --> 00:17:25,760 I broke up with you being one of them. 357 00:17:25,760 --> 00:17:25,909 Right. 358 00:17:25,909 --> 00:17:26,510 That would suck. 359 00:17:26,540 --> 00:17:27,290 That would be horrible. 360 00:17:28,790 --> 00:17:32,149 That's a little bit like how you treating God. 361 00:17:32,149 --> 00:17:34,070 If you're just saying, God, the only reason I wanna be a Christian 362 00:17:34,070 --> 00:17:34,940 is 'cause I don't wanna go to hell. 363 00:17:37,010 --> 00:17:38,629 You're saying, God, I just want your stuff. 364 00:17:38,659 --> 00:17:39,120 I don't want you. 365 00:17:40,879 --> 00:17:42,650 I just want the benefits of being a Christian. 366 00:17:42,680 --> 00:17:44,060 I don't actually wanna be with Jesus. 367 00:17:46,610 --> 00:17:48,590 That's you making the gospel about you. 368 00:17:48,860 --> 00:17:50,930 You're being a consumer of the gospel. 369 00:17:50,930 --> 00:17:52,970 You're saying, I just want the benefits of the gospel. 370 00:17:53,180 --> 00:17:54,050 I don't want, God. 371 00:17:54,620 --> 00:17:57,170 I remember a couple years ago, actually, pastor PJ was preaching this sermon 372 00:17:57,350 --> 00:18:00,379 and he said, if you got to heaven and Jesus wasn't there, would you even care? 373 00:18:00,770 --> 00:18:01,460 Would it bother you? 374 00:18:02,254 --> 00:18:03,004 Would you be disappointed? 375 00:18:03,004 --> 00:18:05,824 You all, maybe all your, all your saved family is there. 376 00:18:05,945 --> 00:18:11,824 You have no more sin, no more death, no more decay, no more anger, no more hurt. 377 00:18:11,824 --> 00:18:12,395 No more pain. 378 00:18:12,395 --> 00:18:13,175 But Jesus isn't there. 379 00:18:14,165 --> 00:18:15,094 Would you be okay with that? 380 00:18:17,824 --> 00:18:21,334 Maybe if you are okay with that, it's because you don't really love Jesus. 381 00:18:21,544 --> 00:18:22,175 You just want his stuff. 382 00:18:23,180 --> 00:18:27,080 That's one way that we make the gospel about us and not about God. 383 00:18:27,200 --> 00:18:29,780 The point of the gospel, the point of the good news, the point of 384 00:18:29,780 --> 00:18:32,540 salvation, the point of forgiveness, the point of justification is 385 00:18:32,540 --> 00:18:34,130 because it gets you, Jesus. 386 00:18:34,670 --> 00:18:35,390 You get Jesus. 387 00:18:35,390 --> 00:18:36,920 That's the whole, that's the good news. 388 00:18:37,310 --> 00:18:42,350 The good news is that you get Jesus, and that's the point of forgiveness. 389 00:18:42,350 --> 00:18:44,060 The point of forgiveness is not great. 390 00:18:44,090 --> 00:18:45,500 Now I'm forgiven. 391 00:18:45,620 --> 00:18:46,790 Yes, that's, that's great. 392 00:18:47,240 --> 00:18:50,090 But the main point is you're forgiven so that now you can 393 00:18:50,090 --> 00:18:50,990 have a relationship with God. 394 00:18:51,665 --> 00:18:55,235 You can be with Jesus, you can be with the most awesome, the most 395 00:18:55,235 --> 00:18:59,524 satisfying, the most loving, the most amazing person, God himself. 396 00:19:00,455 --> 00:19:03,365 That's why forgiveness is so good, because of who you get. 397 00:19:05,044 --> 00:19:07,865 That's why justification being made righteous is so 398 00:19:07,865 --> 00:19:09,845 good because of who you get. 399 00:19:09,875 --> 00:19:15,095 You get to be with Jesus, so don't make the gospel about what you get from God. 400 00:19:15,875 --> 00:19:19,955 Remember that the gospel is about Jesus, the king, the Messiah, the 401 00:19:19,955 --> 00:19:21,065 one who's gonna fix everything. 402 00:19:21,469 --> 00:19:25,129 But also the one that you get to be with if you trust him. 403 00:19:27,560 --> 00:19:30,919 So we talked about the, the gospel is not a suggestion, right? 404 00:19:30,919 --> 00:19:32,030 It's not a message you leave on red. 405 00:19:32,030 --> 00:19:35,659 It's an authoritative announcement from a king, and that authoritative 406 00:19:35,659 --> 00:19:37,639 announcement demands a response. 407 00:19:37,639 --> 00:19:39,199 So look with me, Romans chapter one. 408 00:19:39,229 --> 00:19:40,909 We're gonna be in verse five. 409 00:19:40,909 --> 00:19:44,240 So verse four ends talking about Jesus Christ our Lord. 410 00:19:44,240 --> 00:19:47,270 Verse five, through whom? 411 00:19:47,300 --> 00:19:50,899 Through Jesus, we have received grace and apostleship. 412 00:19:51,380 --> 00:19:56,930 To bring about the obedience of faith for the sake of his name among all nations. 413 00:19:57,650 --> 00:20:05,030 So what Paul's saying here is that the gospel demands a response that 414 00:20:05,030 --> 00:20:12,380 Jesus has sent out these, these apostles and given grace for a 415 00:20:12,380 --> 00:20:16,550 purpose to bring about something, and that's the obedience of faith. 416 00:20:16,550 --> 00:20:19,970 So point number two is respond to the gospel with faith. 417 00:20:20,495 --> 00:20:26,825 And obedience respond to the gospel with faith and obedience. 418 00:20:33,095 --> 00:20:36,215 Something really interesting in the Bible, there's three places in the Bible 419 00:20:36,575 --> 00:20:41,405 where the gospel is a command, and you might have never thought about that. 420 00:20:41,615 --> 00:20:42,875 The gospel is a command. 421 00:20:43,415 --> 00:20:48,785 It's Romans 10 16, 2 Thessalonians one eight, and one Peter four 17. 422 00:20:49,115 --> 00:20:49,475 I think. 423 00:20:50,014 --> 00:20:54,004 It says that people need to obey the gospel. 424 00:20:54,844 --> 00:20:56,915 So the gospel's not just a message, it's a command. 425 00:20:56,915 --> 00:20:58,445 And that's because, like we said at the beginning, it's 426 00:20:58,445 --> 00:20:59,824 an authoritative announcement. 427 00:21:00,725 --> 00:21:04,504 It's, it's an announcement that's coming downhill at you. 428 00:21:05,435 --> 00:21:10,205 There's, there's an expectation that you're gonna do something about it, right? 429 00:21:10,205 --> 00:21:12,935 Like when they on the plane, when they say the captain has turned on the 430 00:21:12,935 --> 00:21:16,895 seatbelt sign, that's an announcement, but it's also a command, right? 431 00:21:17,435 --> 00:21:17,945 Buckle up. 432 00:21:18,814 --> 00:21:20,915 So the gospel is an authoritative announcement. 433 00:21:20,915 --> 00:21:25,745 It demands a response, and that response is faith and obedience. 434 00:21:25,745 --> 00:21:29,915 You see that Jesus Christ has given grace and apostleship. 435 00:21:30,094 --> 00:21:33,665 So apostles, those are people who were witnesses of the risen Christ. 436 00:21:33,874 --> 00:21:38,014 We think like Matthew, we think Peter, we think Paul, right? 437 00:21:38,014 --> 00:21:43,175 People who saw the risen Christ physically and were sent personally by him to 438 00:21:43,175 --> 00:21:45,064 go tell people about what happened. 439 00:21:45,170 --> 00:21:46,400 To go tell people the good news. 440 00:21:46,610 --> 00:21:47,540 That's what apostles are. 441 00:21:47,570 --> 00:21:52,130 That's why there's not apostles anymore, because no one gets to meet the risen 442 00:21:52,130 --> 00:21:55,430 Jesus and get personally commissioned by him to go preach the gospel. 443 00:21:56,540 --> 00:22:02,030 So apostles are sent to preach the gospel, and the point of that is to 444 00:22:02,030 --> 00:22:04,610 bring about the obedience of faith. 445 00:22:04,610 --> 00:22:05,270 Now, what does that mean? 446 00:22:06,560 --> 00:22:08,510 Well, you can take it a couple ways. 447 00:22:08,510 --> 00:22:12,080 You can say that it means obedience, that like that faith is 448 00:22:12,110 --> 00:22:15,080 obedience, which is true because. 449 00:22:15,739 --> 00:22:16,820 To obey the gospel. 450 00:22:16,820 --> 00:22:17,659 How do you obey the gospel? 451 00:22:17,780 --> 00:22:18,889 You believe it, right? 452 00:22:18,889 --> 00:22:19,370 You trust it. 453 00:22:19,399 --> 00:22:22,580 You say that's, I believe that I'm putting my confidence in Jesus. 454 00:22:23,120 --> 00:22:24,199 That's how you obey the gospel. 455 00:22:24,320 --> 00:22:26,060 So faith is obedience. 456 00:22:26,120 --> 00:22:32,629 But also I think what Paul is saying is that all obedience requires faith. 457 00:22:33,590 --> 00:22:38,780 Everything you do that obeys God requires faith. 458 00:22:39,679 --> 00:22:45,020 Every time you do what God says, it's an act of trust in him. 459 00:22:46,025 --> 00:22:49,265 And also I think what Paul is saying is that faith expresses 460 00:22:49,265 --> 00:22:50,615 itself in obedience, right? 461 00:22:50,615 --> 00:22:51,665 You heard James chapter two. 462 00:22:51,815 --> 00:22:53,375 Faith without works is what? 463 00:22:53,885 --> 00:22:54,995 Dead right. 464 00:22:54,995 --> 00:22:56,045 Faith without works is dead. 465 00:22:56,585 --> 00:23:00,395 If your faith doesn't have obedience coming out of it, it's dead. 466 00:23:00,845 --> 00:23:03,575 It's like a body it without a pulse, it's dead. 467 00:23:04,445 --> 00:23:06,005 Your faith is is not real. 468 00:23:06,635 --> 00:23:08,285 It's it's stone cold. 469 00:23:09,905 --> 00:23:10,325 So. 470 00:23:10,910 --> 00:23:15,290 What Paul is saying is that all obedience requires faith and that faith 471 00:23:15,470 --> 00:23:17,360 and obedience and are inseparable. 472 00:23:17,390 --> 00:23:18,650 They, they're a package deal. 473 00:23:21,320 --> 00:23:26,090 And if you think about it, this is actually such a, a really insightful 474 00:23:26,540 --> 00:23:31,970 concept that obeying God and trust in him are linked because when you, if you 475 00:23:31,970 --> 00:23:36,110 think deeply about obeying God, every time you decide whether to obey God or not. 476 00:23:36,709 --> 00:23:40,280 It's a decision about whose promises you are going to believe. 477 00:23:40,520 --> 00:23:42,620 God's promises or sins promises. 478 00:23:43,280 --> 00:23:45,050 'cause sin always makes you a promise. 479 00:23:45,590 --> 00:23:48,949 Sin says it'll be great, right? 480 00:23:48,949 --> 00:23:51,649 Sin says, I am what's best for you. 481 00:23:52,070 --> 00:23:53,840 Sin says, this will make you happy. 482 00:23:54,199 --> 00:23:55,699 Sin says, I will satisfy you. 483 00:23:56,300 --> 00:23:57,350 It's making you a promise. 484 00:23:57,919 --> 00:23:59,179 And then God makes you a promise. 485 00:24:00,290 --> 00:24:01,759 He makes you this the same promise. 486 00:24:02,989 --> 00:24:03,709 I'm what's best for you. 487 00:24:04,415 --> 00:24:05,585 I will take care of you. 488 00:24:05,825 --> 00:24:09,575 I will protect you, and you have to decide who you're gonna believe. 489 00:24:09,665 --> 00:24:10,565 Who are you gonna trust? 490 00:24:11,495 --> 00:24:13,205 Are you gonna trust God's promise? 491 00:24:13,205 --> 00:24:14,945 Or are you gonna trust the promise of sin? 492 00:24:16,775 --> 00:24:16,955 Right? 493 00:24:16,955 --> 00:24:24,635 Think about, uh, the silly example would be when you wake up in the morning, this 494 00:24:24,635 --> 00:24:27,785 isn't a sin, but this is just an example of putting your trust in something. 495 00:24:28,175 --> 00:24:31,145 When you, if you snooze your alarm, you're saying. 496 00:24:31,925 --> 00:24:34,715 I believe that snoozing my alarm is better for me than waking up. 497 00:24:34,925 --> 00:24:35,344 Right? 498 00:24:36,695 --> 00:24:37,415 That's what you're saying. 499 00:24:38,344 --> 00:24:41,435 And so the, your bed is promising you something. 500 00:24:41,435 --> 00:24:42,995 It's promising you sleep, right? 501 00:24:42,995 --> 00:24:43,955 It's promising you rest. 502 00:24:43,955 --> 00:24:44,975 It's promising you comfort. 503 00:24:46,264 --> 00:24:48,784 And then, but waking up is also promising you something. 504 00:24:48,784 --> 00:24:48,965 Right? 505 00:24:48,965 --> 00:24:52,834 It's promising you maybe more time, maybe more energy 'cause you're more productive 506 00:24:52,834 --> 00:24:55,865 'cause you got up or maybe you feel better about yourself later or you're not 507 00:24:55,865 --> 00:24:57,034 stressed 'cause you're not in a hurry. 508 00:24:57,695 --> 00:25:00,485 There's two promises at war, and you have to decide which one's better. 509 00:25:00,605 --> 00:25:04,415 Do I wanna sleep more or do I want to have the benefit of not being 510 00:25:04,415 --> 00:25:05,465 stressed and not being in a hurry? 511 00:25:06,635 --> 00:25:09,275 Now, if you make this, if, if you take this ground level Christian 512 00:25:09,275 --> 00:25:12,365 lifestyle, right, what, what does it actually look like to, to fight 513 00:25:12,365 --> 00:25:13,745 sin and believe God's promises? 514 00:25:15,485 --> 00:25:20,075 Think about maybe when you're, when you're coveting, you see someone and you're 515 00:25:20,075 --> 00:25:21,660 like, oh, man, I wish I had what they had. 516 00:25:22,550 --> 00:25:23,390 Wish I had that. 517 00:25:23,420 --> 00:25:24,590 I wish I was talented like that. 518 00:25:24,800 --> 00:25:25,760 I wish I looked like them. 519 00:25:25,940 --> 00:25:27,170 I wish I was in their family. 520 00:25:27,470 --> 00:25:29,780 I wish I could do what they do. 521 00:25:30,379 --> 00:25:31,850 I wish I had as much money as they do. 522 00:25:32,510 --> 00:25:35,780 When you're coveting, there's a, you're faced with two promises. 523 00:25:36,530 --> 00:25:39,140 One promise is stuff will satisfy you. 524 00:25:39,530 --> 00:25:41,300 What that person has will make you happy. 525 00:25:42,290 --> 00:25:44,990 The other promise is God says, I know what's best for you. 526 00:25:44,990 --> 00:25:45,650 I love you. 527 00:25:46,160 --> 00:25:48,110 I've only given you what's best for you. 528 00:25:48,860 --> 00:25:50,270 You've got two promises at war there. 529 00:25:50,300 --> 00:25:51,080 Who are you gonna believe? 530 00:25:52,805 --> 00:25:56,555 Obeying God to be content and not covet takes faith. 531 00:25:57,065 --> 00:25:58,775 You have to trust him and say, you know what? 532 00:25:59,195 --> 00:26:00,935 I trust that my father loves me. 533 00:26:01,085 --> 00:26:04,025 I trust that my father only gives me things that are best for me, and 534 00:26:04,025 --> 00:26:06,695 I trust that my father knows what's best for me, even when I disagree. 535 00:26:07,475 --> 00:26:08,885 And then you obey him and you be content. 536 00:26:09,725 --> 00:26:12,815 So you're, you're choosing whose promises to believe and what. 537 00:26:12,815 --> 00:26:14,645 You can take this any sin, go down the line. 538 00:26:14,705 --> 00:26:19,325 And that's exactly how obeying God works now. 539 00:26:23,419 --> 00:26:23,870 When 540 00:26:25,879 --> 00:26:28,129 you're thinking about this, and you're gonna talk about this 541 00:26:28,129 --> 00:26:32,449 in small groups, obeying God requires you to know his promises. 542 00:26:33,649 --> 00:26:36,199 If you don't know God's promises, you have nothing to grab onto. 543 00:26:37,399 --> 00:26:39,800 There's nothing for you to put your faith in because you 544 00:26:39,800 --> 00:26:40,760 don't have anything specific. 545 00:26:40,760 --> 00:26:43,760 So if, if you don't know God's promises, you don't know God's word. 546 00:26:44,060 --> 00:26:47,060 When you're tempted, you don't have any way of escape. 547 00:26:48,785 --> 00:26:50,165 God said, I'll give you a way of escape. 548 00:26:50,225 --> 00:26:51,935 And you said, no, I'm not gonna read the Bible. 549 00:26:51,935 --> 00:26:52,895 I'm not gonna think about the Bible. 550 00:26:52,895 --> 00:26:53,675 I'm gonna forget about it. 551 00:26:55,685 --> 00:27:01,655 So God's promises are your way out of temptation, and that's why 552 00:27:01,655 --> 00:27:03,155 we care so much about the Bible. 553 00:27:03,155 --> 00:27:05,675 That's why we care so much about you reading the Bible and knowing God's 554 00:27:05,675 --> 00:27:09,845 word and memorizing it and thinking about it because that's how you fight. 555 00:27:11,614 --> 00:27:12,485 God, that's how you fight. 556 00:27:12,485 --> 00:27:15,155 Temptation is with God's promises because sin is making you a 557 00:27:15,155 --> 00:27:16,834 promise and you need a better deal. 558 00:27:16,834 --> 00:27:17,675 If you're gonna not sin. 559 00:27:18,274 --> 00:27:20,495 If you're gonna obey God, you need a, you need a better promise on 560 00:27:20,495 --> 00:27:24,395 the table because otherwise you're gonna give in every single time. 561 00:27:28,084 --> 00:27:31,564 Now, we could talk more about for the sake of His name, but that kind of 562 00:27:31,564 --> 00:27:32,614 goes back with our first point, right? 563 00:27:32,824 --> 00:27:34,385 That the gospel is for God's glory. 564 00:27:34,385 --> 00:27:36,665 Your obedience is not for you. 565 00:27:36,754 --> 00:27:38,705 Your obedience is for God. 566 00:27:38,705 --> 00:27:39,544 It's for God's glory. 567 00:27:40,550 --> 00:27:45,080 So just like we don't wanna make the gospel about ourselves, we also don't 568 00:27:45,080 --> 00:27:46,879 wanna make our faith about ourselves. 569 00:27:47,419 --> 00:27:51,320 We don't wanna make following God about us, right? 570 00:27:51,320 --> 00:27:54,679 We don't wanna make following God about, well, you know, now that I've be, now that 571 00:27:54,679 --> 00:27:57,830 I've started doing more things for God and obeying him, now I feel good about myself. 572 00:27:57,830 --> 00:28:01,820 I feel like I'm good enough and I, I feel I don't feel guilty all the time. 573 00:28:02,750 --> 00:28:03,500 Can someone open the door? 574 00:28:03,770 --> 00:28:04,520 Weston's locked out? 575 00:28:06,804 --> 00:28:07,024 Um. 576 00:28:09,035 --> 00:28:11,885 We don't wanna make our obedience about ourselves, right? 577 00:28:11,885 --> 00:28:14,225 Don't make your obedience to God about you. 578 00:28:14,975 --> 00:28:15,545 And it's easy to do that. 579 00:28:15,545 --> 00:28:19,115 Oh, I serve at church and now I, I feel I feel better about myself, right? 580 00:28:19,115 --> 00:28:19,865 I feel good enough. 581 00:28:19,865 --> 00:28:22,835 I feel like I'm doing the right thing that's making it 582 00:28:22,835 --> 00:28:25,445 about us and not about God. 583 00:28:27,485 --> 00:28:30,935 So anyway, we need to respond to the gospel with faith and abuse. 584 00:28:30,935 --> 00:28:32,915 Now, this last part of our passage. 585 00:28:33,905 --> 00:28:35,915 We think, if you think about this, it's kind of weird. 586 00:28:35,945 --> 00:28:38,855 We're gonna get into this in our, in our next sermon too, but Paul is 587 00:28:38,855 --> 00:28:41,135 talking about the gospel to Christians. 588 00:28:41,975 --> 00:28:45,185 Paul is talking about the gospel to Christians. 589 00:28:47,975 --> 00:28:52,715 A lot of times we can think that maybe the gospel is for unbelievers, right? 590 00:28:52,715 --> 00:28:54,665 When you think about who do I preach the gospel to? 591 00:28:56,615 --> 00:28:59,945 Later on next week, Paul is gonna say, I'm here to preach 592 00:28:59,945 --> 00:29:01,685 the gospel to you guys in Rome. 593 00:29:03,020 --> 00:29:06,320 They're Christians, and that's 'cause what we talked about last week. 594 00:29:06,320 --> 00:29:10,310 Remember that the gospel isn't just a one-time thing 595 00:29:10,340 --> 00:29:11,870 for Christians to get saved. 596 00:29:12,020 --> 00:29:15,740 The gospel is, we talked about the battery for your whole Christian life. 597 00:29:15,920 --> 00:29:19,555 The gospel empowers your whole Christian life, not just your conversion. 598 00:29:21,409 --> 00:29:25,370 Look with me at the, the beginning and the end of our passage. 599 00:29:25,370 --> 00:29:27,320 We're gonna look at verses one and then six and seven. 600 00:29:27,320 --> 00:29:29,510 So we talked about Paul and who he is, right? 601 00:29:29,510 --> 00:29:30,260 Paul's a servant. 602 00:29:30,320 --> 00:29:31,340 He's called to be an apostle. 603 00:29:31,399 --> 00:29:37,700 He's set apart for the gospel, and then he's talking about the Romans later on. 604 00:29:37,700 --> 00:29:40,730 He says, including you who are called to belong to Jesus Christ. 605 00:29:40,970 --> 00:29:44,659 And then he has his like letter greeting to all those who are in Rome. 606 00:29:45,080 --> 00:29:49,070 Who are loved by God and called to be saints grace to you in peace from God, 607 00:29:49,070 --> 00:29:51,260 our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ. 608 00:29:53,390 --> 00:30:00,500 These people, the Paul and the Romans have been changed by the gospel, but Paul keeps 609 00:30:00,500 --> 00:30:03,530 telling them the same thing about them. 610 00:30:03,650 --> 00:30:06,800 They're already saved, but he keeps telling them who they are. 611 00:30:07,370 --> 00:30:08,420 They're loved by God. 612 00:30:08,450 --> 00:30:09,470 They're called to be saints. 613 00:30:09,530 --> 00:30:10,820 He's telling them I'm a servant. 614 00:30:10,970 --> 00:30:11,600 I'm called. 615 00:30:11,600 --> 00:30:12,090 I'm set apart. 616 00:30:13,429 --> 00:30:16,010 Expect the gospel to change your life. 617 00:30:16,010 --> 00:30:16,639 That's our third point. 618 00:30:16,729 --> 00:30:19,129 Expect the gospel to change your life 619 00:30:23,149 --> 00:30:24,290 because these people, right? 620 00:30:24,290 --> 00:30:25,550 Paul, he wasn't always that way. 621 00:30:25,610 --> 00:30:26,959 Paul wasn't always a servant of God. 622 00:30:27,590 --> 00:30:28,790 Paul wasn't always an apostle. 623 00:30:29,270 --> 00:30:30,620 The Romans weren't always 624 00:30:33,290 --> 00:30:34,219 Christians, right? 625 00:30:34,280 --> 00:30:37,010 The, the Romans weren't always saints. 626 00:30:37,985 --> 00:30:39,395 Before the gospel. 627 00:30:39,845 --> 00:30:41,855 They weren't right before the gospel. 628 00:30:41,855 --> 00:30:43,115 They were unrighteous. 629 00:30:43,145 --> 00:30:45,755 They were guilty, they were under God's wrath. 630 00:30:46,175 --> 00:30:49,085 So expect the gospel to change your life. 631 00:30:49,085 --> 00:30:51,215 And usually when we talk about change your life, we're thinking 632 00:30:51,215 --> 00:30:52,625 about like little things, right? 633 00:30:52,625 --> 00:30:56,015 Like, oh, well the gospel changed my friends, because now I don't 634 00:30:56,015 --> 00:30:56,915 hang out with the same people. 635 00:30:57,005 --> 00:30:59,405 Or the gospel changed the way I spend my time because now I don't 636 00:30:59,405 --> 00:31:00,395 do the same things I used to do. 637 00:31:00,575 --> 00:31:01,805 Or the gospel changed my thoughts. 638 00:31:01,805 --> 00:31:02,975 'cause now I think about different things. 639 00:31:03,245 --> 00:31:04,025 Those are all true. 640 00:31:04,355 --> 00:31:08,285 But those all come from the gospel changes who you are, and that's what 641 00:31:08,285 --> 00:31:09,065 we're really talking about here. 642 00:31:09,065 --> 00:31:14,045 So let's start in verse seven at the very end, to all those in Rome who are 643 00:31:14,045 --> 00:31:18,125 loved by God and called to be saints, Paul thinks that these are the two 644 00:31:18,125 --> 00:31:21,005 most important things about the Romans. 645 00:31:21,065 --> 00:31:23,885 They're loved by God and they're called to be saints. 646 00:31:24,515 --> 00:31:30,035 Now, a saint in the Bible is a Christian because saint 647 00:31:30,035 --> 00:31:31,060 just means someone who's holy. 648 00:31:31,970 --> 00:31:33,320 If you're in Christ, you're holy. 649 00:31:33,439 --> 00:31:35,389 God made you holy, your holiness comes from God. 650 00:31:36,379 --> 00:31:40,760 So a saint is not someone who did a bunch of cool things for the church and then 651 00:31:40,760 --> 00:31:41,990 the church decided to call them a saint. 652 00:31:42,980 --> 00:31:43,970 That's a manmade thing. 653 00:31:44,389 --> 00:31:48,439 The Bible says that every Christian is a saint. 654 00:31:48,470 --> 00:31:51,139 'cause you see this in all of Paul's letters, especially you see it 655 00:31:51,139 --> 00:31:52,129 in the letter of the Corinthians. 656 00:31:52,129 --> 00:31:53,870 And the Corinthians are like one of the worst churches 657 00:31:53,959 --> 00:31:56,419 ever, and he calls them saints. 658 00:31:56,510 --> 00:31:59,780 So a saint is anyone who's made holy by God. 659 00:31:59,810 --> 00:32:01,070 Anyone who's a Christian. 660 00:32:01,969 --> 00:32:06,889 So he's reminding them who they are. 661 00:32:07,520 --> 00:32:09,139 The gospel changes your identity. 662 00:32:09,230 --> 00:32:12,889 You're loved by God, and you're called to be a saint. 663 00:32:13,100 --> 00:32:16,969 See, so much of being a Christian is remembering who you really are. 664 00:32:17,689 --> 00:32:21,290 It's remembering who God has already declared you to be. 665 00:32:22,370 --> 00:32:24,320 Which might sound weird, but when you think about it, it 666 00:32:24,320 --> 00:32:25,189 makes total sense, right? 667 00:32:25,189 --> 00:32:27,409 Because what do so many of our struggles come from? 668 00:32:27,409 --> 00:32:29,399 It's come from, from forgetting who we are. 669 00:32:30,230 --> 00:32:31,490 You feel like you're stuck in sin? 670 00:32:31,520 --> 00:32:33,649 Oh, I just can't stop doing this. 671 00:32:33,709 --> 00:32:34,699 I can't stop watching this. 672 00:32:34,699 --> 00:32:35,600 I can't stop saying that. 673 00:32:35,600 --> 00:32:36,560 I can't stop thinking that. 674 00:32:37,280 --> 00:32:39,080 Well, God says you're not a slave to sin anymore. 675 00:32:39,770 --> 00:32:42,439 So Romans six says, consider yourself dead to sin. 676 00:32:42,649 --> 00:32:43,790 You don't have to do that. 677 00:32:44,000 --> 00:32:46,590 You can tell yourself, I don't have to do that anymore. 678 00:32:48,035 --> 00:32:51,695 You need to believe the right thing about yourself before you can fight your sin. 679 00:32:52,025 --> 00:32:55,115 Or maybe you feel like, oh, well I just, I, I, I don't know if 680 00:32:55,115 --> 00:32:56,045 God's gonna take care of me. 681 00:32:56,045 --> 00:32:59,285 I don't know if, if God's really gonna work this out this time, the 682 00:32:59,285 --> 00:33:02,014 situation at my family is really tough, or I don't know how we're 683 00:33:02,014 --> 00:33:03,004 gonna make it through this thing. 684 00:33:03,004 --> 00:33:06,514 Or I don't know if I, this my school's gonna way going to 685 00:33:06,514 --> 00:33:07,385 go the way I want it to go. 686 00:33:07,385 --> 00:33:09,815 Or if I share the gospel with my friends, I dunno what's gonna happen. 687 00:33:10,745 --> 00:33:12,605 Paul wants you to know you're loved by God. 688 00:33:12,785 --> 00:33:14,975 And if you're loved by God, is God gonna let anything 689 00:33:14,975 --> 00:33:16,535 that's actually harmful to you? 690 00:33:17,135 --> 00:33:17,885 Destroy you. 691 00:33:18,605 --> 00:33:20,074 No, God loves you. 692 00:33:20,074 --> 00:33:20,945 He's gonna take care of you. 693 00:33:21,034 --> 00:33:21,275 Right? 694 00:33:21,365 --> 00:33:25,025 So remembering who you are actually will help you as a Christian. 695 00:33:25,475 --> 00:33:29,495 So much of your Christian life is gonna be remembering who you really are, if 696 00:33:29,495 --> 00:33:31,264 you are in fact a Christian, right? 697 00:33:31,264 --> 00:33:33,545 This is useless if you're not a Christian, because then you're 698 00:33:33,545 --> 00:33:35,165 just lying to yourself, right? 699 00:33:36,215 --> 00:33:38,105 But imagine, right? 700 00:33:38,105 --> 00:33:41,495 Imagine you adopted a dog from the street, right? 701 00:33:41,495 --> 00:33:43,115 Like let's say you adopted this dog. 702 00:33:44,090 --> 00:33:44,330 Right. 703 00:33:44,330 --> 00:33:47,330 This dog is on the street, wasn't taken care of very well. 704 00:33:47,780 --> 00:33:50,390 Imagine you adopted this dog and you like cleaned it up. 705 00:33:50,390 --> 00:33:54,050 You made it look super cute and awesome, and it's all clean, and you 706 00:33:54,050 --> 00:33:55,760 give it a bed and you start feeding it. 707 00:33:56,000 --> 00:33:59,240 And then you come home from school and the dog is gone. 708 00:33:59,840 --> 00:34:00,650 You're like, where'd dog go? 709 00:34:01,520 --> 00:34:04,490 And you find out later the dog is like back on the street. 710 00:34:04,610 --> 00:34:08,449 It's like trying to eat roadkill and it's sleeping under the bridge in a puddle. 711 00:34:08,510 --> 00:34:09,500 And you're like, what are you doing? 712 00:34:10,250 --> 00:34:11,540 I adopted you right? 713 00:34:11,570 --> 00:34:13,100 I I made you my dog. 714 00:34:14,060 --> 00:34:14,480 Dog. 715 00:34:14,569 --> 00:34:14,960 Right? 716 00:34:15,710 --> 00:34:17,839 I, I made you mine. 717 00:34:18,380 --> 00:34:20,360 I gave you a home, I gave you a bed. 718 00:34:20,360 --> 00:34:21,259 I gave you food. 719 00:34:22,670 --> 00:34:29,060 You would say, this dog isn't, isn't living the way it's supposed to anymore. 720 00:34:29,150 --> 00:34:29,449 Right? 721 00:34:29,600 --> 00:34:32,150 This dog doesn't have to go out there and do those things. 722 00:34:32,449 --> 00:34:32,929 It anymore. 723 00:34:33,679 --> 00:34:34,549 It has a new home. 724 00:34:34,909 --> 00:34:39,290 It a new owner, it's a new, it's, it's adopted, right? 725 00:34:39,290 --> 00:34:40,310 It's, it's changed. 726 00:34:42,605 --> 00:34:46,145 That's what it's like when Christians go back to our old sins. 727 00:34:47,435 --> 00:34:52,714 You're like this dog that someone's adopted and then goes out and lives 728 00:34:52,714 --> 00:34:58,415 on the street and eats roadkill and, and God is like, I, I have 729 00:34:58,415 --> 00:34:59,705 something so much better for you. 730 00:34:59,705 --> 00:35:02,385 Why are you going back to what I saved you from? 731 00:35:04,850 --> 00:35:07,910 When you're a Christian and, and you commit those same sins that you used to 732 00:35:08,030 --> 00:35:12,620 use those same words, you think those same thoughts, you have those same desires. 733 00:35:13,850 --> 00:35:18,620 It's you going back to the street and you're saying, I'd rather have 734 00:35:18,620 --> 00:35:21,200 this than what my father has for me. 735 00:35:21,200 --> 00:35:23,540 So remember who you are. 736 00:35:23,540 --> 00:35:25,580 Remember that you're loved by God. 737 00:35:25,580 --> 00:35:27,950 If you're a Christian and you are, you're clean, right? 738 00:35:27,950 --> 00:35:30,230 And maybe you're, you're like, oh, I'm not sure if I could really be. 739 00:35:31,024 --> 00:35:33,424 Be a Christian 'cause I, I sinned and, and all this stuff. 740 00:35:33,424 --> 00:35:39,754 Remember that God says, right, he's faithful and just forgive sins and 741 00:35:39,754 --> 00:35:41,165 cleanse you from all in righteousness. 742 00:35:41,645 --> 00:35:42,395 Remember who you are. 743 00:35:42,395 --> 00:35:45,245 You're, you're clean, you're washed by the blood. 744 00:35:46,955 --> 00:35:51,395 And then also when you become a Christian, the gospel changes your purpose. 745 00:35:51,424 --> 00:35:55,625 So it changes your identity who you are, and it also changes your purpose. 746 00:35:56,015 --> 00:36:00,005 Or whose you are, because if you read this verse, the very la first verse is 747 00:36:00,005 --> 00:36:01,595 gonna be where we, where we end tonight. 748 00:36:03,215 --> 00:36:06,154 There's someone else here. 749 00:36:06,845 --> 00:36:12,455 Paul's identity and Paul's role is dependent on another person. 750 00:36:12,965 --> 00:36:16,895 You see that all of these things require someone else. 751 00:36:16,955 --> 00:36:18,695 A servant needs a master. 752 00:36:18,904 --> 00:36:23,345 An apostle who's sent, who's called needs someone to do that, needs someone to 753 00:36:23,345 --> 00:36:24,305 call them, needs someone to send them. 754 00:36:25,115 --> 00:36:27,845 Then he set apart for the gospel by who? 755 00:36:28,445 --> 00:36:28,745 Right? 756 00:36:28,895 --> 00:36:32,975 These are all things that happened to Paul and they define Paul. 757 00:36:33,815 --> 00:36:35,735 The gospel has changed who Paul is. 758 00:36:35,735 --> 00:36:40,415 You remember who Paul was before this, he was killing Christians. 759 00:36:41,015 --> 00:36:44,615 He had a different life purpose and God changed his life purpose. 760 00:36:47,240 --> 00:36:48,950 He's bought by God. 761 00:36:48,980 --> 00:36:50,570 So this word servant here means slave. 762 00:36:50,570 --> 00:36:53,810 If you're a Christian, like that song we sung on Sunday, you're not your own. 763 00:36:54,020 --> 00:36:54,740 God bought you. 764 00:36:55,640 --> 00:36:57,830 And so God determines your purpose. 765 00:36:57,890 --> 00:37:03,440 Now, so big picture that flows into the small things, right? 766 00:37:03,680 --> 00:37:04,730 That flows into why. 767 00:37:04,760 --> 00:37:06,500 Why are you, why are you in the class that you're in? 768 00:37:06,890 --> 00:37:08,600 Why did you pick the electives that you picked? 769 00:37:09,320 --> 00:37:11,420 Why do you hang out with the people you hang out with? 770 00:37:12,380 --> 00:37:13,820 Why do you watch the things you watch? 771 00:37:14,345 --> 00:37:17,645 Why do you say the things you say, you have a new purpose now 772 00:37:17,645 --> 00:37:19,234 because you're not yours anymore. 773 00:37:19,654 --> 00:37:23,194 God bought you and then you're called, right? 774 00:37:23,194 --> 00:37:24,455 Paul was called to be an apostle. 775 00:37:25,834 --> 00:37:30,395 You as a Christian are called to be wherever God has you right now. 776 00:37:30,395 --> 00:37:31,325 You're called to be a student. 777 00:37:31,595 --> 00:37:33,544 Right now you're called to be a son or a daughter. 778 00:37:33,814 --> 00:37:36,424 Right now you're called to be maybe a sibling. 779 00:37:37,145 --> 00:37:38,734 You're called wherever God has you right now. 780 00:37:38,734 --> 00:37:39,665 That's that's where God has put you. 781 00:37:41,375 --> 00:37:43,865 Maybe you're discontent with that, but if God wanted you somewhere else, 782 00:37:43,865 --> 00:37:46,355 guess where you'd be somewhere else. 783 00:37:46,745 --> 00:37:49,325 If God wanted you to be in a different family, you'd be in that family. 784 00:37:49,355 --> 00:37:51,305 If God wanted you at a different school, you'd be at that school. 785 00:37:51,395 --> 00:37:53,165 If God wanted you in a different class, you'd be in that class. 786 00:37:53,165 --> 00:37:54,905 But God has you where you are for a reason. 787 00:37:54,965 --> 00:37:55,805 He's called you there. 788 00:37:55,805 --> 00:37:59,195 He's put you there, and that's where you are. 789 00:38:02,135 --> 00:38:04,235 And then set apart, right? 790 00:38:04,235 --> 00:38:06,215 He's set apart for the gospel to share the gospel. 791 00:38:06,215 --> 00:38:08,735 That's Paul's specific calling to share the gospel. 792 00:38:09,470 --> 00:38:15,650 If you think about these, all of these are are undeserved gifts from God. 793 00:38:16,070 --> 00:38:19,760 Paul didn't earn these, Paul didn't earn the privilege of serving God. 794 00:38:19,910 --> 00:38:22,460 Paul didn't earn the privilege of preaching the gospel. 795 00:38:22,730 --> 00:38:25,880 These were all given to him by God. 796 00:38:27,500 --> 00:38:33,380 So the gospel isn't the kind of news that you just forget about. 797 00:38:33,440 --> 00:38:34,850 It's not the kind of news that you respond to. 798 00:38:34,850 --> 00:38:37,310 Three days later, the gospel's an authoritative announcement. 799 00:38:37,310 --> 00:38:38,000 It comes with. 800 00:38:38,345 --> 00:38:38,795 Purpose. 801 00:38:39,125 --> 00:38:42,484 And if, if, if you respond to it, it'll change who you are. 802 00:38:42,484 --> 00:38:43,835 It'll change what you do. 803 00:38:43,955 --> 00:38:44,915 It'll change the way you think. 804 00:38:44,915 --> 00:38:46,384 It'll change your values. 805 00:38:47,194 --> 00:38:50,944 And that's because the gospel is about Jesus. 806 00:38:51,365 --> 00:38:54,694 The gospel is about the king who's come to fix everything, to get 807 00:38:54,694 --> 00:38:56,254 rid of sin, to change the world. 808 00:38:57,275 --> 00:39:00,515 And we need to respond to that with trust. 809 00:39:00,785 --> 00:39:05,315 And to put our trust in Jesus means we're also gonna follow Him and obey him. 810 00:39:05,404 --> 00:39:06,875 So let's pray and we'll go to small groups. 811 00:39:10,085 --> 00:39:15,125 God, thank you for these reminders that we are who you say we are. 812 00:39:15,485 --> 00:39:21,905 We know that's so hard for us to believe that at times we tell ourself things that 813 00:39:21,905 --> 00:39:27,035 aren't true and so God, I pray for anyone in this room right now who is struggling 814 00:39:27,035 --> 00:39:32,615 to believe that you say who they are, that you define who we are, that you 815 00:39:32,615 --> 00:39:34,415 would give us the faith to trust you. 816 00:39:34,715 --> 00:39:36,540 That we remember that if we are in Christ. 817 00:39:37,475 --> 00:39:43,115 We are loved by you, that we are clean, we're forgiven, we are adopted, 818 00:39:43,115 --> 00:39:46,745 we are welcomed, um, all because of Jesus and not because of us. 819 00:39:47,525 --> 00:39:49,924 I also pray for people in this room who may not have responded to the 820 00:39:49,924 --> 00:39:54,995 gospel, who have maybe kept suppressing the truth, pushing it down, and, 821 00:39:54,995 --> 00:39:56,075 and trying to forget about it. 822 00:39:56,075 --> 00:39:59,105 I pray that you would convict them and you would not let them forget about it, 823 00:39:59,255 --> 00:40:01,955 that they would be bothered until they. 824 00:40:02,674 --> 00:40:08,435 Trust in you, and I pray for maybe any Christians in the room who are being 825 00:40:08,435 --> 00:40:14,645 passive and, um, pushing against the, the calling that you've given them or the, 826 00:40:15,154 --> 00:40:19,205 um, identity that, or the purpose that you've placed on them, that you would 827 00:40:19,384 --> 00:40:23,404 guide them and help 'em to see that your plan for them is, is best, that you love 828 00:40:23,404 --> 00:40:26,855 them and you care about them, and that the, the work that you have them to do is 829 00:40:26,855 --> 00:40:28,924 good and fulfilling and satisfying praise. 830 00:40:29,315 --> 00:40:30,155 In Jesus name. 831 00:40:30,575 --> 00:40:30,875 Amen.