1 00:00:00,049 --> 00:00:04,610 Speaker: the worse you understand our problem to be, right? 2 00:00:04,610 --> 00:00:09,230 The, the you're like, man, our situation as people, our sin is so bad. 3 00:00:09,230 --> 00:00:10,670 We're in such a bad situation. 4 00:00:11,690 --> 00:00:15,350 The more clearly you see that, the more reason you have to worship God. 5 00:00:17,150 --> 00:00:20,720 If you're, if you start realizing, man, we, I'm in such a bad situation, 6 00:00:20,750 --> 00:00:22,460 it makes salvation such a big deal. 7 00:00:22,640 --> 00:00:25,220 But if you don't really think you, you need much saving. 8 00:00:26,240 --> 00:00:27,260 Salvation isn't a big deal. 9 00:00:27,290 --> 00:00:28,130 You're like, whatever, that's fine. 10 00:00:28,610 --> 00:00:29,119 That happened. 11 00:00:29,240 --> 00:00:29,540 Great. 12 00:00:30,410 --> 00:00:34,820 That's what we're talking about here in Romans five. 13 00:00:35,330 --> 00:00:41,839 Alright, so before we, we start reading, what we're gonna hear 14 00:00:41,839 --> 00:00:46,370 about is, is two people we're gonna hear about Adam and Jesus, right? 15 00:00:46,370 --> 00:00:49,250 Not this Adam, but we're gonna be hearing about Adam. 16 00:00:50,000 --> 00:00:51,290 And Jesus, right? 17 00:00:51,290 --> 00:00:55,700 Adam, the first person who ever lived and something happened with Adam that put 18 00:00:55,700 --> 00:00:59,660 all of us in this really bad situation. 19 00:00:59,660 --> 00:00:59,809 Okay? 20 00:00:59,809 --> 00:01:03,020 So look with me at verse 12, these first few words. 21 00:01:03,199 --> 00:01:09,559 Therefore, just as sin came into the world through one man and death through. 22 00:01:10,925 --> 00:01:16,265 So death spread to all people, all men, because all sin. 23 00:01:16,355 --> 00:01:17,315 So it's this problem, right? 24 00:01:17,315 --> 00:01:20,855 Sin came into the world through one man, and then because of 25 00:01:20,855 --> 00:01:21,664 that, that's why people die. 26 00:01:22,054 --> 00:01:25,715 That's why the world is messed up because something happened, right? 27 00:01:25,715 --> 00:01:28,175 Adam keeps sinned. 28 00:01:28,235 --> 00:01:29,765 Him and Eve in the garden, right? 29 00:01:29,765 --> 00:01:30,605 They disobeyed God. 30 00:01:30,905 --> 00:01:33,215 And because of that, everything got messed up, right? 31 00:01:33,215 --> 00:01:34,655 Everything got messed up. 32 00:01:34,655 --> 00:01:35,675 Sin came into the world. 33 00:01:35,795 --> 00:01:39,215 Death came into the world, and now we're all infected. 34 00:01:40,774 --> 00:01:42,785 We all, we all have this same problem. 35 00:01:43,294 --> 00:01:47,884 Every single one of you is going to die, right? 36 00:01:47,884 --> 00:01:50,524 Death is batting almost a thousand, right? 37 00:01:50,554 --> 00:01:54,154 If you don't count Elijah and Enoch right from the Bible, but death is, is 38 00:01:54,154 --> 00:01:55,535 pretty much batting a thousand, right? 39 00:01:55,774 --> 00:02:03,005 All of us are going to die, and that's because all of us are infected 40 00:02:03,304 --> 00:02:05,585 with the consequences of Adam's sin. 41 00:02:06,064 --> 00:02:07,385 All of us are in the same situation. 42 00:02:07,385 --> 00:02:09,455 We're all going to die because all of us. 43 00:02:09,935 --> 00:02:14,765 Have, have been infected with this, this thing called sin. 44 00:02:15,065 --> 00:02:17,525 That's our biggest problem is we can't do anything about it. 45 00:02:17,525 --> 00:02:18,245 We're all going die. 46 00:02:18,245 --> 00:02:19,445 You can try as hard as you want. 47 00:02:20,045 --> 00:02:23,495 And what our culture does is they say, you should ignore that. 48 00:02:24,305 --> 00:02:24,515 Right? 49 00:02:24,515 --> 00:02:26,195 You should just have as much fun as you want right now. 50 00:02:26,345 --> 00:02:27,725 Don't worry about, don't think about dying. 51 00:02:28,204 --> 00:02:30,935 You notice in our culture, we've kind of taken death and put 52 00:02:30,935 --> 00:02:33,155 it way off to the side, right? 53 00:02:33,155 --> 00:02:35,375 You, we've, we've taken, right? 54 00:02:35,380 --> 00:02:38,075 You, you used to, people used to be around death all the time. 55 00:02:38,105 --> 00:02:38,675 People would die. 56 00:02:39,260 --> 00:02:41,150 A lot and a lot faster. 57 00:02:41,329 --> 00:02:45,650 Right now we put all of our old dying people over in separate locations. 58 00:02:45,680 --> 00:02:45,890 Right. 59 00:02:45,890 --> 00:02:48,290 We, we send them off to the retirement home or we have 60 00:02:48,290 --> 00:02:49,160 'em go over to the hospital. 61 00:02:49,280 --> 00:02:53,210 It used to be you had to walk through the cemetery, the graveyard to go to church. 62 00:02:53,630 --> 00:02:56,780 Now the graveyard is, you don't even know where the graveyard is, right here. 63 00:02:56,780 --> 00:02:57,650 There's one right across the street. 64 00:02:57,860 --> 00:03:01,790 But um, when was the last time you actually went to a graveyard? 65 00:03:01,910 --> 00:03:02,180 Right. 66 00:03:02,585 --> 00:03:04,655 You have to go on purpose to a graveyard. 67 00:03:04,655 --> 00:03:07,295 It used to be you just walk through one every day or walk by one every day. 68 00:03:07,505 --> 00:03:12,815 We've tried to ignore death because it's this unavoidable problem, and 69 00:03:12,815 --> 00:03:16,805 so our first point tonight is I want you to face your biggest problem. 70 00:03:16,894 --> 00:03:23,345 We're all going to die because we are all infected by sin. 71 00:03:24,875 --> 00:03:27,785 We're all going to die because we've all been infected by the 72 00:03:27,785 --> 00:03:30,725 consequences of Adam's sin. 73 00:03:36,050 --> 00:03:36,230 All right. 74 00:03:36,230 --> 00:03:41,060 These are the verses that we, we just looked at verses 12, and then it 75 00:03:41,060 --> 00:03:44,120 goes on verses 12, 13, and 14, right? 76 00:03:44,120 --> 00:03:47,480 This, this paragraph where it's talking about sin came into the world. 77 00:03:47,810 --> 00:03:48,110 Right? 78 00:03:48,110 --> 00:03:50,870 And what it, what it says is really interesting. 79 00:03:51,170 --> 00:03:55,340 Sin came into the world and because of that it it kind of per, you know 80 00:03:55,340 --> 00:03:56,329 what personification is, right? 81 00:03:56,329 --> 00:03:58,520 Like when you have an animal that's talking, that's personification. 82 00:03:58,910 --> 00:04:01,490 It's, we're almost personifying death here. 83 00:04:01,490 --> 00:04:02,780 It says death reigned. 84 00:04:03,050 --> 00:04:03,830 Here's what I want you to see. 85 00:04:04,310 --> 00:04:06,560 Sin came into the world, death spread to all people. 86 00:04:06,650 --> 00:04:09,650 And so it's almost like now death is in control. 87 00:04:10,310 --> 00:04:13,220 We're all like under the rule of death. 88 00:04:13,310 --> 00:04:15,260 Death is running the world. 89 00:04:16,519 --> 00:04:17,390 Death reigned 90 00:04:23,479 --> 00:04:24,740 every single person. 91 00:04:28,940 --> 00:04:33,620 All right, all people, every single person is in this same situation. 92 00:04:34,400 --> 00:04:40,789 We are all related to Adam, and therefore we are all unable to escape 93 00:04:41,030 --> 00:04:44,150 the power of sin and death on our own. 94 00:04:44,300 --> 00:04:45,110 We're all stuck. 95 00:04:45,229 --> 00:04:51,890 That's the problem, and that's the biggest problem that we all face, and 96 00:04:51,950 --> 00:04:53,985 that that's also something that maybe. 97 00:04:54,650 --> 00:04:56,390 You might not agree with, right? 98 00:04:56,510 --> 00:04:59,629 If I asked you what's the biggest problem in your life? 99 00:05:00,379 --> 00:05:02,659 What's the biggest problem in the world right now? 100 00:05:04,520 --> 00:05:07,580 A lot of people might not say, oh yeah, everyone dies. 101 00:05:07,939 --> 00:05:09,469 That might not be their, their biggest problem. 102 00:05:09,469 --> 00:05:11,030 They might say, maybe it's world hunger. 103 00:05:11,299 --> 00:05:13,129 They might say, maybe it's racism. 104 00:05:13,129 --> 00:05:14,929 They might say, maybe it's injustice. 105 00:05:14,929 --> 00:05:16,760 They might say whatever, right? 106 00:05:16,760 --> 00:05:19,249 They, they might say a lot of different things about the 107 00:05:19,249 --> 00:05:21,469 biggest problem in the world. 108 00:05:23,254 --> 00:05:24,634 But we're all in the same boat. 109 00:05:24,844 --> 00:05:27,515 We're all related to Adam. 110 00:05:28,325 --> 00:05:29,974 When you think about this, it actually puts everyone on the 111 00:05:29,974 --> 00:05:31,594 same playing field, right? 112 00:05:32,944 --> 00:05:35,825 There's no other alternatives to this problem. 113 00:05:36,455 --> 00:05:38,164 We're gonna see, there's only one way outta this problem. 114 00:05:39,364 --> 00:05:42,004 Uh, there's no favoritism, right? 115 00:05:42,034 --> 00:05:42,905 Everyone dies. 116 00:05:43,655 --> 00:05:46,114 There's no advantages, right? 117 00:05:46,444 --> 00:05:48,575 Some people die sooner or later, but everyone's gonna, 118 00:05:48,575 --> 00:05:49,534 it's gonna happen to everyone. 119 00:05:50,433 --> 00:05:50,794 Um. 120 00:05:51,230 --> 00:05:53,630 You don't get any extra credit, right? 121 00:05:53,630 --> 00:05:57,500 It's like, well, you're gonna get some extra credit before God because 122 00:05:57,500 --> 00:05:59,420 you're part of this group when you die. 123 00:05:59,480 --> 00:06:00,800 That doesn't happen either, right? 124 00:06:01,790 --> 00:06:06,410 We all have this same situation and 125 00:06:08,570 --> 00:06:11,235 we all try to find different ways to get out of it, and. 126 00:06:13,265 --> 00:06:16,594 What I want you to see, just to start off with, with this unique problem 127 00:06:16,594 --> 00:06:17,915 or this, it's not a unique problem. 128 00:06:17,915 --> 00:06:18,935 It's opposite of a unique problem, right? 129 00:06:18,935 --> 00:06:24,155 It's a universal problem is I hope for you, maybe you're a Christian and, and 130 00:06:24,155 --> 00:06:25,325 you've had this problem dealt with. 131 00:06:25,325 --> 00:06:26,795 You're not scared of death anymore. 132 00:06:27,665 --> 00:06:28,474 I hope for you. 133 00:06:28,474 --> 00:06:32,344 You can see, man, that has nothing to do with with me. 134 00:06:33,094 --> 00:06:36,515 It's not because I was so smart that I got this problem solved. 135 00:06:36,784 --> 00:06:39,245 It's not because I was so good that I got this problem solved. 136 00:06:39,755 --> 00:06:40,594 It's not because. 137 00:06:41,539 --> 00:06:44,539 Who my parents were that got this problem solved, right? 138 00:06:44,539 --> 00:06:47,180 I was in the same situation as every single other person. 139 00:06:48,830 --> 00:06:52,099 We are all on the same level playing field before God. 140 00:06:52,310 --> 00:06:53,900 We all sinned. 141 00:06:54,530 --> 00:06:56,479 We all deserved to die. 142 00:06:56,479 --> 00:07:00,680 We all were under the, the reign of death. 143 00:07:02,510 --> 00:07:05,090 And maybe you're out there and you're, you're not a Christian, and for you. 144 00:07:06,170 --> 00:07:09,050 You don't feel like you're on a level playing field because you 145 00:07:09,050 --> 00:07:11,630 feel like there's reasons that maybe God will be nicer to you. 146 00:07:12,650 --> 00:07:14,810 Maybe you're thinking, well, I, I go to church. 147 00:07:15,320 --> 00:07:18,170 I'm not as bad as those people at school. 148 00:07:18,950 --> 00:07:21,050 Why don't do those sins that those people do? 149 00:07:22,099 --> 00:07:23,510 Everyone has the same problem. 150 00:07:23,900 --> 00:07:27,170 Every single person has sinned. 151 00:07:27,440 --> 00:07:32,780 Every single person is in this, this control of sin and death. 152 00:07:34,849 --> 00:07:37,909 And rather than try to avoid it or try to make the problem not as big of 153 00:07:37,909 --> 00:07:42,830 a deal, I want you to, to face it and say, okay, there's only one solution 154 00:07:42,830 --> 00:07:48,770 to this problem, and I, I need to, to figure that out rather than ignore it, 155 00:07:48,799 --> 00:07:54,140 rather than push it off, rather than to just make it not as bad because, 156 00:07:54,830 --> 00:07:56,179 well, I'm not as bad as that person. 157 00:07:56,750 --> 00:07:59,840 We all need to address this one problem. 158 00:08:04,655 --> 00:08:06,724 And we see that even more of that right here. 159 00:08:07,325 --> 00:08:10,504 And, and you might think, well, I didn't cause this problem. 160 00:08:10,684 --> 00:08:11,914 Maybe you're, maybe that's what you're thinking. 161 00:08:11,914 --> 00:08:12,874 Maybe it's, it's not fair. 162 00:08:13,234 --> 00:08:13,624 Right? 163 00:08:13,924 --> 00:08:16,924 Um, because how is it fair? 164 00:08:16,924 --> 00:08:20,194 And you, maybe you read this passage later on in verses 18 and 19 of 165 00:08:20,194 --> 00:08:23,044 Romans five, one trespass, right? 166 00:08:23,044 --> 00:08:26,944 One sin led to condemnation guilt for all people. 167 00:08:27,710 --> 00:08:29,299 One person disobeyed. 168 00:08:29,539 --> 00:08:31,849 Many people were infected with sin. 169 00:08:31,909 --> 00:08:34,640 Many people suffer the consequences of this problem. 170 00:08:35,570 --> 00:08:36,440 How is that fair? 171 00:08:36,650 --> 00:08:37,400 Maybe that's what you're thinking. 172 00:08:38,090 --> 00:08:38,750 How is that fair? 173 00:08:38,929 --> 00:08:39,770 Adam's sinned. 174 00:08:40,220 --> 00:08:42,650 Why now do I die? 175 00:08:44,930 --> 00:08:48,440 That's what this passage is gonna dive into is how is that, okay? 176 00:08:50,240 --> 00:08:55,160 Everyone suffers the consequences for one person's sin, and that's 177 00:08:55,160 --> 00:08:56,240 really interesting, right? 178 00:08:57,935 --> 00:08:59,225 Helpful way maybe to think about it. 179 00:09:00,125 --> 00:09:03,545 I was gonna talk about kind of, you know, and David and Goliath, when 180 00:09:03,545 --> 00:09:05,675 they're, when they're fighting, it's the Philistines versus the 181 00:09:05,675 --> 00:09:10,295 Israelites, and they send out like their champion to like represent them. 182 00:09:10,715 --> 00:09:12,575 So what they do is, right, there's the Philistines, they're 183 00:09:12,575 --> 00:09:13,715 fighting the Israelites, right? 184 00:09:14,105 --> 00:09:17,525 And um, the Philistines, they send out Goliath, you know, he's eight feet tall 185 00:09:17,525 --> 00:09:22,325 or whatever, and he's got all his cool armor and he's scaring the Israelites. 186 00:09:23,735 --> 00:09:27,545 And what's gonna happen is now Israel has to send out their champion, 187 00:09:27,545 --> 00:09:31,835 their person to go fight Goliath, and then whoever wins is gonna decide 188 00:09:31,835 --> 00:09:34,085 the battle for everyone, right? 189 00:09:34,085 --> 00:09:39,185 So if Goliath wins, Philistines win, if David wins, then Israel wins. 190 00:09:39,215 --> 00:09:39,485 Right? 191 00:09:39,485 --> 00:09:41,705 That's kind of, it's you're representing your whole team. 192 00:09:41,945 --> 00:09:43,565 Kind of like in our game, right? 193 00:09:44,015 --> 00:09:49,385 One junior high boy tried to cheat and then all of them got disqualified. 194 00:09:49,415 --> 00:09:49,925 You see that? 195 00:09:49,925 --> 00:09:49,935 Mm-hmm. 196 00:09:51,385 --> 00:09:54,355 Okay, well you guys are way overlo. 197 00:09:58,340 --> 00:09:59,329 Same thing, right? 198 00:09:59,390 --> 00:10:00,620 The whole team, right? 199 00:10:00,620 --> 00:10:05,600 Ezekiel didn't cheat, but Ezekiel was suffering the consequences for 200 00:10:05,600 --> 00:10:10,699 his teammates disobedience, right? 201 00:10:10,699 --> 00:10:11,360 If you will. 202 00:10:12,020 --> 00:10:13,760 Um, or right. 203 00:10:14,329 --> 00:10:17,840 Jackson didn't play the game, but Weston lost rock, paper, scissors. 204 00:10:17,840 --> 00:10:19,280 So now Jackson. 205 00:10:20,285 --> 00:10:22,775 It doesn't look like Jackson's getting any candy 'cause it looks like junior high 206 00:10:22,775 --> 00:10:24,035 girls are gonna run away with this thing. 207 00:10:24,185 --> 00:10:24,575 Right? 208 00:10:25,685 --> 00:10:26,675 Speaker 2: We were, you should just give both. 209 00:10:28,295 --> 00:10:29,585 Speaker: That's not how we do things, man. 210 00:10:29,585 --> 00:10:31,595 You know that all you had to do is win rock, hyper scissors. 211 00:10:31,895 --> 00:10:32,525 It's not that hard. 212 00:10:32,525 --> 00:10:33,800 I actually told Jacob to go. 213 00:10:34,120 --> 00:10:34,240 I, 214 00:10:37,055 --> 00:10:43,445 all I had to say right, is one person represents the group. 215 00:10:43,865 --> 00:10:44,375 Right. 216 00:10:44,615 --> 00:10:48,455 In our game, we had one person or two people representing the group. 217 00:10:48,935 --> 00:10:49,265 Right. 218 00:10:49,445 --> 00:10:51,125 Um, David versus Goliath, right? 219 00:10:51,125 --> 00:10:53,255 It's one person representing their country. 220 00:10:54,005 --> 00:10:57,395 And if David wins, his whole country wins. 221 00:10:57,455 --> 00:10:59,045 If Goliath wins, his whole country wins. 222 00:10:59,225 --> 00:11:00,635 That's kind of how it is with Adam. 223 00:11:01,355 --> 00:11:06,545 And our sin Adam represents every single person in the garden. 224 00:11:07,235 --> 00:11:10,955 And if Adam fails, then we all fail, right? 225 00:11:10,955 --> 00:11:13,925 If, if Adam gives in a temptation, we all give in a temptation. 226 00:11:16,250 --> 00:11:18,260 And we all suffer the consequences for that. 227 00:11:18,320 --> 00:11:23,090 And now maybe you're thinking, right, how is that fair? 228 00:11:23,090 --> 00:11:24,140 How, how does that work? 229 00:11:24,680 --> 00:11:25,190 Speaker 3: Well, 230 00:11:25,940 --> 00:11:29,240 Speaker: first of all, right, um, if you were there, you 231 00:11:29,240 --> 00:11:29,990 would've done the same thing. 232 00:11:30,740 --> 00:11:33,500 So let's not be like, oh, Adam, you're the worst, right? 233 00:11:33,500 --> 00:11:34,670 It was, if we were there, we would've done the same thing. 234 00:11:34,670 --> 00:11:35,810 If I was there, I would've done the same thing. 235 00:11:36,470 --> 00:11:43,790 Um, but this idea of one person representing everyone. 236 00:11:44,765 --> 00:11:48,065 That's how salvation works too, right? 237 00:11:48,365 --> 00:11:49,955 Adam represents everyone. 238 00:11:50,615 --> 00:11:57,485 And so then everyone is a sinner to get saved. 239 00:11:57,695 --> 00:12:00,065 It's not based on what you do, right? 240 00:12:00,455 --> 00:12:01,805 It's based on what someone else does. 241 00:12:01,805 --> 00:12:04,415 Your representative, Jesus, your representative. 242 00:12:04,715 --> 00:12:07,415 So becoming a Christian also has nothing to do with you either. 243 00:12:08,315 --> 00:12:11,165 If, if so, if you're frustrated about, man, how come Adam 244 00:12:11,165 --> 00:12:13,775 sinned and I receive his guilt? 245 00:12:14,285 --> 00:12:14,975 That's not fair. 246 00:12:15,605 --> 00:12:18,155 Well, are you frustrated that if you trust Jesus, you get 247 00:12:18,155 --> 00:12:19,295 to receive his righteousness? 248 00:12:19,955 --> 00:12:21,815 It's the same process, right? 249 00:12:22,805 --> 00:12:30,335 If you receive, if you wanna receive Jesus as your representative, then it's the same 250 00:12:30,335 --> 00:12:32,165 process of how Adam is our representative. 251 00:12:32,165 --> 00:12:36,815 Now, that's an illustration of how it works, but the, the point 252 00:12:36,815 --> 00:12:41,765 of that, right, is God has set up the world to work this way. 253 00:12:42,455 --> 00:12:42,725 Right. 254 00:12:42,965 --> 00:12:46,775 One person representing everyone, right Adam? 255 00:12:46,775 --> 00:12:47,585 Representing everyone. 256 00:12:47,795 --> 00:12:50,075 Jesus representing his people, right? 257 00:12:50,075 --> 00:12:51,365 Those who trust in him, right? 258 00:12:51,455 --> 00:12:53,135 Jesus righteousness, Jesus. 259 00:12:53,255 --> 00:12:55,085 Instead of trespassing, he obeyed. 260 00:12:55,205 --> 00:12:55,595 Right? 261 00:12:56,225 --> 00:12:58,535 And that can get credited to you. 262 00:12:59,165 --> 00:13:04,985 Just like Adam sin the consequences come to all of us. 263 00:13:05,225 --> 00:13:05,645 Um, 264 00:13:08,075 --> 00:13:08,315 yeah. 265 00:13:08,315 --> 00:13:11,225 There's two main consequences to Adam's sin. 266 00:13:11,735 --> 00:13:13,985 Are actually right here in these verses. 267 00:13:14,045 --> 00:13:14,435 Okay. 268 00:13:14,735 --> 00:13:15,995 And, um, 269 00:13:18,275 --> 00:13:28,205 what happens is we're all guilty and we're all not just guilty by association, but we 270 00:13:28,205 --> 00:13:32,195 all end up participating in what Adam did. 271 00:13:32,195 --> 00:13:34,505 So before we get there, let's get to our second point is 272 00:13:34,565 --> 00:13:36,395 recognize your sinful state. 273 00:13:36,395 --> 00:13:41,225 So because of what Adam did, our condition is messed up. 274 00:13:41,645 --> 00:13:46,325 Because of what Adam did, our whole condition is, is changed. 275 00:13:47,825 --> 00:13:48,365 So 276 00:13:52,445 --> 00:13:57,785 let's just start with one of those, one of those things. 277 00:13:58,565 --> 00:14:00,515 Um, so 0.2 278 00:14:00,515 --> 00:14:01,655 is recognize your sinful state. 279 00:14:01,805 --> 00:14:10,595 So what what's happening here is every single person after Adam is born guilty. 280 00:14:13,235 --> 00:14:18,515 Which again has to do with the fact that we're represented by him. 281 00:14:18,545 --> 00:14:21,455 We're on his team, we're on the human team, right? 282 00:14:21,545 --> 00:14:23,375 He's our representative, right? 283 00:14:23,975 --> 00:14:27,965 He's, he's our, he's our Goliath, right? 284 00:14:27,965 --> 00:14:34,685 We, he's the representative and he sinned, and so we suffer the 285 00:14:34,685 --> 00:14:39,125 consequences, so every single person starts off separated from God. 286 00:14:39,155 --> 00:14:40,655 This is the opposite actually. 287 00:14:41,510 --> 00:14:46,310 What our, a lot of our culture will tell you, right? 288 00:14:46,310 --> 00:14:46,880 There's that. 289 00:14:47,330 --> 00:14:52,400 You guys probably, I'm realizing now that I'm kind of old compared to you guys. 290 00:14:52,880 --> 00:14:54,920 Um, there's that country song, right? 291 00:14:54,920 --> 00:14:56,270 I believe most people are good, right? 292 00:14:56,270 --> 00:14:56,900 By Luke Bryan. 293 00:14:57,740 --> 00:14:59,900 That's not what the Bible says, right? 294 00:15:00,080 --> 00:15:04,160 So this song, this country song, the chorus is I believe 295 00:15:04,160 --> 00:15:05,120 that most people are good. 296 00:15:06,440 --> 00:15:07,580 That's actually not what the Bible says. 297 00:15:07,580 --> 00:15:09,150 The Bible says that actually people start off. 298 00:15:09,965 --> 00:15:15,965 Separated from God, people start off naturally opposed to God. 299 00:15:18,425 --> 00:15:21,665 Everyone doesn't start off innocent, right? 300 00:15:21,665 --> 00:15:25,385 You don't start off innocent as a baby and then you do some 301 00:15:25,385 --> 00:15:26,885 sins and then now you're guilty. 302 00:15:27,485 --> 00:15:30,425 You actually start off guilty and then you just keep getting more and more and 303 00:15:30,425 --> 00:15:31,895 more guilty throughout your whole life. 304 00:15:32,915 --> 00:15:37,145 That's how people work and if you're not sure about that. 305 00:15:37,940 --> 00:15:40,550 Just hang out with like an eight month year old kid. 306 00:15:42,530 --> 00:15:45,380 You don't have to teach that kid how to lie there. 307 00:15:45,380 --> 00:15:47,210 You don't have to teach that kid how to be selfish. 308 00:15:48,260 --> 00:15:51,650 You don't have to teach that kid how to get angry. 309 00:15:52,490 --> 00:15:54,290 You don't have to teach that kid how to be impatient. 310 00:15:55,580 --> 00:15:55,760 Right? 311 00:15:55,760 --> 00:15:58,310 You don't have to teach that kid anything about how to sin, right? 312 00:15:58,310 --> 00:16:00,050 You don't have to teach the kid how to steal things. 313 00:16:00,740 --> 00:16:03,080 You, you don't have to teach that kid anything about sin. 314 00:16:03,200 --> 00:16:04,040 They do it on their own. 315 00:16:04,925 --> 00:16:10,355 People start off separated from God, and that kind of leads into that second part, 316 00:16:10,745 --> 00:16:15,785 made sinners, people naturally oppose God. 317 00:16:16,055 --> 00:16:21,365 Sinful desires come naturally to us because we're born into this problem. 318 00:16:22,295 --> 00:16:25,565 We're born into this problem of Adam sin, and now everything's messed up. 319 00:16:26,675 --> 00:16:28,500 We're born into this sinful state. 320 00:16:31,220 --> 00:16:33,920 And so I hope for you, I know a lot of this is just information, right? 321 00:16:33,920 --> 00:16:36,890 I know a lot of this is just you're learning theology, which 322 00:16:36,890 --> 00:16:39,380 is good, but the point, right? 323 00:16:39,380 --> 00:16:40,310 Think about what I said at the beginning. 324 00:16:40,490 --> 00:16:43,070 If you don't understand how bad your problem is, you don't understand 325 00:16:43,070 --> 00:16:44,690 how good salvation is, right? 326 00:16:45,140 --> 00:16:48,680 If you don't understand like, oh, I'm not just a like kind of good person, 327 00:16:48,680 --> 00:16:52,040 that messes up sometimes, right? 328 00:16:52,130 --> 00:16:56,935 You and I are thoroughly bad people who want bad things. 329 00:16:58,355 --> 00:17:05,375 Who love wanting those bad things and actually are incapable of 330 00:17:05,375 --> 00:17:08,405 wanting good things apart from Jesus. 331 00:17:09,605 --> 00:17:11,165 That's what we're born into. 332 00:17:11,345 --> 00:17:14,525 That's how bad the sin problem is, right? 333 00:17:14,855 --> 00:17:19,714 People don't sin and then become sinners. 334 00:17:21,005 --> 00:17:23,165 People sin because that's who they are. 335 00:17:23,165 --> 00:17:25,744 They are sinners, right? 336 00:17:25,744 --> 00:17:26,494 The reason. 337 00:17:27,515 --> 00:17:33,455 That we're all separated from God is not just because you started 338 00:17:33,455 --> 00:17:36,575 off with a blank slate and then did some sins down the line. 339 00:17:37,925 --> 00:17:41,105 You actually started off opposing God, right? 340 00:17:41,105 --> 00:17:42,005 You started off. 341 00:17:42,245 --> 00:17:43,775 I started off selfish, right? 342 00:17:43,805 --> 00:17:47,795 I started off wanting to worship things that aren't God. 343 00:17:48,455 --> 00:17:51,155 I started off wanting to be impatient and angry. 344 00:17:51,395 --> 00:17:53,825 I started off wanting to have impure thoughts. 345 00:17:53,825 --> 00:17:54,935 I started off wanting. 346 00:17:55,775 --> 00:17:56,495 To be greedy. 347 00:17:56,675 --> 00:18:02,195 That's how I started living, because I wanted to, it came naturally to me. 348 00:18:02,735 --> 00:18:03,845 And that's the same thing about you. 349 00:18:05,435 --> 00:18:06,845 And that's the opposite of what the world will tell you. 350 00:18:06,850 --> 00:18:08,045 The world will tell you, oh, there's good in everyone. 351 00:18:08,165 --> 00:18:11,795 The world will tell you, you know, uh, well, people are just the, 352 00:18:12,095 --> 00:18:13,145 it's just their circumstances. 353 00:18:13,145 --> 00:18:17,014 People are the, the impact of how they're raised and, and who their friends are. 354 00:18:17,014 --> 00:18:18,065 And that's, that's helpful, right? 355 00:18:18,065 --> 00:18:19,775 That that's, that influences you. 356 00:18:21,050 --> 00:18:24,050 Sin comes naturally to all people. 357 00:18:24,080 --> 00:18:25,669 That's how bad we are. 358 00:18:27,440 --> 00:18:31,430 And this isn't your, you know, encouraging youth message because 359 00:18:31,430 --> 00:18:35,840 if you don't get this part salvation and Jesus and the gospel, and it's 360 00:18:35,840 --> 00:18:37,909 not really that good news, right? 361 00:18:38,030 --> 00:18:42,169 Jesus didn't just come to help you because you messed up a couple times. 362 00:18:43,250 --> 00:18:46,100 Jesus didn't come because well. 363 00:18:46,655 --> 00:18:49,985 You're, you're mostly a good person and you just need that extra boost 364 00:18:49,985 --> 00:18:52,145 to, to get you to heaven, right? 365 00:18:52,145 --> 00:18:58,115 Jesus didn't come because you're, you, like asked him to save you, and 366 00:18:58,115 --> 00:18:59,675 you really, really, really wanted to. 367 00:18:59,675 --> 00:19:02,360 You just needed, needed him to, to, to make it work, right? 368 00:19:04,145 --> 00:19:08,225 Jesus came to save people who didn't want anything to do with Jesus. 369 00:19:09,275 --> 00:19:13,235 Jesus came to save people who naturally oppose Jesus from birth. 370 00:19:14,855 --> 00:19:16,985 That's how big of a deal salvation is. 371 00:19:19,235 --> 00:19:23,045 And if you don't understand that all the, the stuff we just talked about, 372 00:19:23,075 --> 00:19:28,475 right, of man, I naturally oppose God from birth and I'm born into this 373 00:19:29,735 --> 00:19:32,675 human race of people who hate God. 374 00:19:33,380 --> 00:19:38,765 And that's the environment I live in, and that's my natural. 375 00:19:39,485 --> 00:19:41,375 Just my natural disposition, right? 376 00:19:41,375 --> 00:19:41,975 My na, my na. 377 00:19:42,035 --> 00:19:44,435 The thing that comes natural to me is worshiping things 378 00:19:44,435 --> 00:19:45,875 that aren't God opposing. 379 00:19:45,875 --> 00:19:47,945 God disobeying God that comes naturally to me. 380 00:19:47,945 --> 00:19:48,635 That's who I am. 381 00:19:50,105 --> 00:19:52,175 That's what you need to be saved from, right? 382 00:19:52,175 --> 00:19:54,125 You don't just need to be saved from God's wrath. 383 00:19:54,905 --> 00:19:56,285 That's the biggest thing, right? 384 00:19:56,345 --> 00:19:58,835 You also need to be saved from the fact that you can't 385 00:19:58,835 --> 00:20:00,965 stop sinning apart from God. 386 00:20:00,995 --> 00:20:03,695 You can't do anything good for, for God apart from God. 387 00:20:05,120 --> 00:20:07,340 And none of these things are gonna go on your Christmas card, 388 00:20:07,370 --> 00:20:10,400 and none of these things are, are gonna get, you know, tweeted on 389 00:20:10,400 --> 00:20:12,950 your inspirational Christian feed. 390 00:20:14,870 --> 00:20:18,950 But this is what we do when we don't believe these things is 391 00:20:18,950 --> 00:20:20,540 we actually make Jesus smaller. 392 00:20:21,680 --> 00:20:23,720 We make Jesus not as big of a deal. 393 00:20:25,340 --> 00:20:28,160 We turn into, we turn Jesus into life, coach Jesus. 394 00:20:29,465 --> 00:20:31,564 He's here to help you reach your true potential. 395 00:20:31,685 --> 00:20:34,985 And he's here to unlock what, what you know the the good that's 396 00:20:34,985 --> 00:20:37,415 already in you and he's here to help you just reach that next level. 397 00:20:37,534 --> 00:20:38,675 That's not what Jesus is about. 398 00:20:39,845 --> 00:20:43,115 Jesus isn't here to take the good that's inside you and make it better. 399 00:20:44,254 --> 00:20:48,215 Jesus actually came to die on the cross 'cause there was no good inside me. 400 00:20:49,804 --> 00:20:52,294 I couldn't do anything to, to worship him. 401 00:20:52,895 --> 00:20:53,735 That's why she just came. 402 00:20:53,764 --> 00:20:55,625 He didn't come to improve me. 403 00:20:56,105 --> 00:20:57,215 He came to change me. 404 00:20:59,045 --> 00:21:07,235 Like from 0% to 100% changed me not from 52% to 65%. 405 00:21:09,515 --> 00:21:14,945 Or maybe, you know, you, you end up with, instead of making Jesus smaller, you 406 00:21:14,945 --> 00:21:17,735 make Jesus kind of just domesticated. 407 00:21:18,605 --> 00:21:18,875 Right? 408 00:21:18,875 --> 00:21:26,285 Jesus isn't here to save you here to just like comfort you and be your friend. 409 00:21:27,020 --> 00:21:28,280 And just help you through life. 410 00:21:28,399 --> 00:21:30,409 Be your, your emotional support, Jesus. 411 00:21:30,470 --> 00:21:30,860 Right? 412 00:21:32,540 --> 00:21:36,230 That's what a lot of atheists I, I have, I know people who say that to me, that 413 00:21:36,590 --> 00:21:41,240 being a Christian is just your, just what makes you sleep better at night just 414 00:21:41,240 --> 00:21:43,310 makes you feel better about the world. 415 00:21:43,820 --> 00:21:46,429 'cause the world's terrible, right? 416 00:21:46,429 --> 00:21:50,480 That's not what Jesus is, is for Jesus Isn't your emotional support 417 00:21:50,480 --> 00:21:51,929 heady bear to, to help you out. 418 00:21:53,540 --> 00:21:56,690 Jesus came to save you because you were a rebel. 419 00:21:56,810 --> 00:21:57,800 You were opposing him. 420 00:21:57,800 --> 00:22:01,460 You hated him, and he loved you so much that he said, I'm not gonna 421 00:22:01,460 --> 00:22:03,050 let that person do that anymore. 422 00:22:03,200 --> 00:22:06,770 I'm gonna come and I'm gonna change their life, and they 423 00:22:06,770 --> 00:22:08,360 need all of my righteousness. 424 00:22:08,360 --> 00:22:09,710 They don't just need some of my righteousness. 425 00:22:09,889 --> 00:22:11,840 They don't just need most of my righteousness. 426 00:22:12,020 --> 00:22:13,250 They need all of it. 427 00:22:13,610 --> 00:22:15,710 100% of a full perfect life. 428 00:22:15,710 --> 00:22:16,399 That's what they need. 429 00:22:16,550 --> 00:22:17,420 That's what you and I need. 430 00:22:18,680 --> 00:22:21,500 Not just, not just some of it, right? 431 00:22:21,500 --> 00:22:21,800 So. 432 00:22:23,060 --> 00:22:26,149 This is, you know, maybe boring or hard for you to understand. 433 00:22:26,149 --> 00:22:26,930 It's okay, right? 434 00:22:26,930 --> 00:22:27,260 It's okay. 435 00:22:27,260 --> 00:22:27,889 It's hard. 436 00:22:28,190 --> 00:22:29,780 I know it's, it's dense, right? 437 00:22:29,780 --> 00:22:34,280 But I want you to, to not be afraid of admitting how bad you are, 438 00:22:37,399 --> 00:22:38,600 how bad we are, right? 439 00:22:38,600 --> 00:22:42,350 Because the more honest you are about, about how sinful you are, 440 00:22:42,680 --> 00:22:47,060 the more reason you have to worship God because you, man, God loved me. 441 00:22:48,125 --> 00:22:49,625 That becomes a bigger deal, right? 442 00:22:49,625 --> 00:22:52,865 For God so loved the world becomes a bigger deal when you realize that oh 443 00:22:52,865 --> 00:22:54,605 yeah, God loved the world, who hated him. 444 00:22:55,085 --> 00:23:01,205 God loved the world, who rejected him, becomes a much, much bigger deal. 445 00:23:02,345 --> 00:23:04,715 So our third point, I'm sure you've, you've already heard half 446 00:23:04,715 --> 00:23:07,865 of it, but trust Jesus as your only solution to this problem, right? 447 00:23:07,865 --> 00:23:12,365 The, the problem of I'm naturally opposed to God. 448 00:23:13,115 --> 00:23:15,305 I can't, I, I'm helpless, I'm stuck. 449 00:23:16,490 --> 00:23:17,750 Sin, I'm going to die. 450 00:23:17,750 --> 00:23:19,040 There's nothing I can do about it. 451 00:23:19,940 --> 00:23:20,120 Right? 452 00:23:20,120 --> 00:23:20,810 That's the problem. 453 00:23:20,810 --> 00:23:22,760 It's a really, really bad problem. 454 00:23:27,500 --> 00:23:31,250 And, and God is providing a free solution. 455 00:23:32,990 --> 00:23:34,940 And we, we've talked about this before, right? 456 00:23:34,940 --> 00:23:37,070 In Romans three we talked about this, Romans four, we talked 457 00:23:37,070 --> 00:23:42,185 about this, how it's, it's free and that's what makes it hard. 458 00:23:43,685 --> 00:23:48,305 To receive it because we are naturally, we want to work for it, we wanna earn it, 459 00:23:49,595 --> 00:23:54,905 and that's what makes it so hard is to trust Jesus as the only solution, means 460 00:23:54,905 --> 00:23:59,225 that I can't admit that, or I have to admit that I'm not part of the solution. 461 00:24:00,005 --> 00:24:00,275 Right. 462 00:24:00,425 --> 00:24:04,055 Me trusting Jesus to save me means admitting that I can't save me. 463 00:24:04,595 --> 00:24:05,405 Jesus has to do it. 464 00:24:06,695 --> 00:24:08,165 And that's, that's so hard 465 00:24:10,715 --> 00:24:11,045 because. 466 00:24:11,735 --> 00:24:15,905 Part of the problem of being a sinner is you don't wanna 467 00:24:15,905 --> 00:24:16,655 admit that you're a sinner. 468 00:24:17,465 --> 00:24:20,285 That's part of being a sinner is not wanting to admit it. 469 00:24:21,065 --> 00:24:21,245 Right? 470 00:24:21,245 --> 00:24:25,655 It's like you have a dis, imagine if you had a disease that part of 471 00:24:25,655 --> 00:24:29,765 the symptoms was you don't like it, you don't think you have it. 472 00:24:30,455 --> 00:24:31,475 Imagine you got a disease. 473 00:24:32,555 --> 00:24:36,395 Um, this is because I, so I hate going to the doctor. 474 00:24:36,784 --> 00:24:39,274 I'm one of these people that's like, I don't, I don't wanna go to the doctor. 475 00:24:39,605 --> 00:24:40,504 I, I'm fine. 476 00:24:40,504 --> 00:24:41,105 I'll figure it out. 477 00:24:41,105 --> 00:24:41,645 I'll be okay. 478 00:24:41,824 --> 00:24:44,615 I'm one of those people, you have to like, drag me into the doctor after 479 00:24:44,615 --> 00:24:46,745 I'm like dying and like throwing up. 480 00:24:47,375 --> 00:24:47,824 Um, 481 00:24:49,985 --> 00:24:53,794 imagine that was like, part of the disease was like doctor phobia. 482 00:24:54,725 --> 00:24:58,804 You're like, oh yeah, you're sick and you don't want, like, you see a doctor 483 00:24:58,804 --> 00:24:59,975 and you like freak out and you run away. 484 00:25:00,125 --> 00:25:00,274 Right. 485 00:25:00,274 --> 00:25:02,225 I know it's not a real disease, but imagine like 486 00:25:02,554 --> 00:25:03,784 that's what being a sinner is. 487 00:25:04,610 --> 00:25:09,230 You have this disease of not wanting God, of not wanting God's help, of 488 00:25:09,230 --> 00:25:12,560 not wanting to humble yourself before God and admit that you're a sinner. 489 00:25:14,659 --> 00:25:15,260 And so 490 00:25:18,560 --> 00:25:19,760 I hope that, right. 491 00:25:19,760 --> 00:25:22,100 We didn't, I know we didn't go through this passage exactly 492 00:25:22,100 --> 00:25:23,120 the way we normally do, right? 493 00:25:23,120 --> 00:25:25,669 But when you read this passage, that's what I want you to look for, right? 494 00:25:25,669 --> 00:25:28,430 When you read this passage, I want you to see, man, what does this say about me? 495 00:25:28,610 --> 00:25:32,540 Well, it says that I'm separated from God from the start. 496 00:25:34,790 --> 00:25:37,040 I'm naturally opposed to God. 497 00:25:37,820 --> 00:25:41,480 Um, that's, that's the way I was born. 498 00:25:42,320 --> 00:25:46,400 Um, but God did something about it. 499 00:25:47,570 --> 00:25:47,810 Right? 500 00:25:47,810 --> 00:25:51,530 Just like maybe 'cause maybe you feel like, man, it's so frustrating. 501 00:25:51,770 --> 00:25:53,660 I'm so helpless in this situation. 502 00:25:54,320 --> 00:25:57,080 I didn't, I didn't decide to be born a sinner. 503 00:25:58,340 --> 00:26:02,205 I'm like, yes, that's the point. 504 00:26:03,379 --> 00:26:08,090 You can't do anything about it, but God can, right? 505 00:26:08,090 --> 00:26:10,460 And that's why you trust Jesus to do it and save you. 506 00:26:10,970 --> 00:26:12,290 Let's pray and we'll go to small groups. 507 00:26:14,840 --> 00:26:17,720 God, we are so grateful that you decided to save people. 508 00:26:17,929 --> 00:26:18,590 You didn't have to. 509 00:26:19,790 --> 00:26:23,840 Um, you have no obligation to save anyone. 510 00:26:24,350 --> 00:26:26,899 Um, saving people was your idea. 511 00:26:27,230 --> 00:26:30,590 In fact, we wouldn't even know who you are if you didn't show 512 00:26:30,590 --> 00:26:31,790 us who you are through your word. 513 00:26:32,570 --> 00:26:36,740 So I pray that, um, right now as we talk about, um, what sin really 514 00:26:36,740 --> 00:26:39,860 is and, and who we really are, I pray that you help us to be honest. 515 00:26:40,220 --> 00:26:42,409 I pray that you help us to ask questions if we're confused. 516 00:26:42,409 --> 00:26:45,500 I pray that we wouldn't be scared, um, to ask questions. 517 00:26:45,500 --> 00:26:49,639 I pray that we wouldn't be scared to, um, be serious and take things seriously. 518 00:26:49,790 --> 00:26:53,510 Um, I pray that you would help us to have good conversations, to focus, 519 00:26:53,510 --> 00:26:56,870 to respect each other, and to really talk about things that matter tonight. 520 00:26:57,050 --> 00:26:57,764 We pray this in Jesus' name. 521 00:26:58,325 --> 00:26:58,625 Amen.