1 00:00:00,049 --> 00:00:01,579 Speaker: The book of Romans is where you're gonna be. 2 00:00:01,579 --> 00:00:02,719 It's in the New Testament, right? 3 00:00:02,719 --> 00:00:04,189 The book of Romans. 4 00:00:04,579 --> 00:00:09,649 And we are just gonna be doing an overview of Romans. 5 00:00:09,649 --> 00:00:09,860 Okay? 6 00:00:09,860 --> 00:00:13,969 So tonight we're gonna kind of give you a big picture of. 7 00:00:14,765 --> 00:00:17,465 Of what this letter is all about. 8 00:00:17,465 --> 00:00:19,415 Now, you might be thinking, why did you pick this, right? 9 00:00:19,415 --> 00:00:21,215 You could have picked any book in the Bible. 10 00:00:21,275 --> 00:00:25,355 You had 64 other options because we just did Matthew 64. 11 00:00:25,355 --> 00:00:25,835 Other options. 12 00:00:25,835 --> 00:00:27,875 Why in the world would you pick Romans? 13 00:00:27,875 --> 00:00:32,104 Well, I, I want you to know that this is probably, I think, I think 14 00:00:32,104 --> 00:00:36,545 definitely the most important letter that has ever been written in the 15 00:00:36,545 --> 00:00:40,085 history of letters, in the history of writing, in the history of language. 16 00:00:40,085 --> 00:00:41,585 This is the most important letter. 17 00:00:41,885 --> 00:00:42,665 That has ever made. 18 00:00:42,665 --> 00:00:47,405 In fact, you wouldn't be here if it wasn't for the book of Romans, because 19 00:00:47,405 --> 00:00:51,155 the book of Romans is what started what we call the Protestant Reformation. 20 00:00:51,695 --> 00:00:52,445 The book of Romans started. 21 00:00:53,660 --> 00:00:56,629 This, this monk in Germany who said, you know what? 22 00:00:56,629 --> 00:00:58,729 I don't think people are really saved by works. 23 00:00:58,789 --> 00:01:00,410 So he read the Bible, he read the book of Romans. 24 00:01:00,410 --> 00:01:01,759 He was like, that's what God says. 25 00:01:01,759 --> 00:01:02,840 God says, we're justified. 26 00:01:02,840 --> 00:01:04,910 We're saved through faith not works. 27 00:01:04,910 --> 00:01:06,979 And so we're here because of the book of Romans. 28 00:01:06,979 --> 00:01:10,400 So the book of Romans, I hope is gonna change your life and I'm 29 00:01:10,400 --> 00:01:11,660 so excited to be studying it. 30 00:01:12,425 --> 00:01:15,875 But the reason that we're doing, Ezekiel freaked out a little bit on the worksheet. 31 00:01:15,875 --> 00:01:20,285 He said Romans one through eight, you're preaching eight chapters in one sermon. 32 00:01:20,465 --> 00:01:20,824 Yes. 33 00:01:20,824 --> 00:01:24,215 And the reason we're doing that is 'cause I want you to have a picture of the 34 00:01:24,215 --> 00:01:27,425 whole, the whole book, or in this case, the first eight chapters of the book. 35 00:01:27,425 --> 00:01:28,655 That's what we're gonna be studying this year. 36 00:01:28,805 --> 00:01:32,645 And I want you to, to see what kind of the whole roadmap is all about. 37 00:01:32,645 --> 00:01:33,095 It's kind of like. 38 00:01:34,055 --> 00:01:37,865 The first time that I saw Avengers, the 2012 first one, right? 39 00:01:37,925 --> 00:01:42,005 The first time I saw the Avengers, I had no idea what this thing was. 40 00:01:42,515 --> 00:01:45,634 So, you know the opening scene with like Loki and the, and he's in that like 41 00:01:45,634 --> 00:01:47,375 Shield lab and he comes outta the portal. 42 00:01:47,525 --> 00:01:48,695 I had no clue what this was. 43 00:01:48,695 --> 00:01:50,795 I was, I didn't see Captain America first. 44 00:01:50,795 --> 00:01:51,545 I didn't see anything. 45 00:01:51,785 --> 00:01:55,354 I was like, what is the deal with this blue box and why is it, why is everyone 46 00:01:55,354 --> 00:01:57,035 fighting for it and why does it kind of. 47 00:01:57,680 --> 00:02:01,160 Seem like it's like a nuke and, but also not like what is going on, what's 48 00:02:01,160 --> 00:02:03,020 happening with this blue box, right? 49 00:02:03,020 --> 00:02:07,970 I wanna help you understand this book and not just jump into it right away, right? 50 00:02:07,970 --> 00:02:11,660 I want you to, to, to see the whole map of, of what everything's, what 51 00:02:11,660 --> 00:02:13,550 the context is, what's happening. 52 00:02:13,670 --> 00:02:16,250 I want you to see all that so that way you're not like me watching the Avengers 53 00:02:16,250 --> 00:02:19,400 wondering what this blue box is and if you still dunno what the blue box is. 54 00:02:19,880 --> 00:02:23,750 Watch Captain America, and you can find out, but Romans, what Romans is all about. 55 00:02:23,750 --> 00:02:26,990 If you could put Romans in one sentence, here's what it is. 56 00:02:26,990 --> 00:02:27,530 You ready for it? 57 00:02:27,710 --> 00:02:29,270 Whole book of the Bible in one sentence. 58 00:02:29,270 --> 00:02:29,630 Here it is. 59 00:02:30,260 --> 00:02:33,290 Romans is all about the gospel, the good news. 60 00:02:33,380 --> 00:02:37,640 The good news, and the good news does something, it shows us, it 61 00:02:37,640 --> 00:02:40,850 reveals the righteousness of God. 62 00:02:41,900 --> 00:02:45,560 The gospel reveals the righteousness of God. 63 00:02:45,710 --> 00:02:48,230 That is the book of Romans in one sentence. 64 00:02:49,325 --> 00:02:55,295 The book of Romans is all about how the gospel shows us that God is righteous. 65 00:02:55,475 --> 00:02:56,825 Now, maybe you've never thought about that before. 66 00:02:57,005 --> 00:02:57,635 God is righteous. 67 00:02:57,635 --> 00:02:59,855 I thought righteousness is something that I need, right? 68 00:02:59,855 --> 00:03:00,695 I need to be righteous. 69 00:03:01,265 --> 00:03:04,205 But we're gonna look at how God is righteous and then he gives his 70 00:03:04,205 --> 00:03:06,845 righteousness to us through the gospel. 71 00:03:07,205 --> 00:03:11,945 But if you don't believe me, one chapter one, look at verse 16, right? 72 00:03:11,945 --> 00:03:12,905 Book of Romans chapter one. 73 00:03:12,905 --> 00:03:13,805 Look at verse 16. 74 00:03:13,955 --> 00:03:15,695 This is kind of the thesis statement of the book. 75 00:03:15,695 --> 00:03:16,325 So if you've ever. 76 00:03:17,045 --> 00:03:21,424 Written a paper, you know, or, or written a, a paper in school that your teacher's, 77 00:03:21,424 --> 00:03:22,864 like you need a thesis statement, right? 78 00:03:22,864 --> 00:03:25,055 You need a thesis statement at the beginning of your paper that tells 79 00:03:25,055 --> 00:03:26,164 you what your paper's gonna be about. 80 00:03:26,315 --> 00:03:28,445 This is the thesis statement for the book of Romans, okay? 81 00:03:28,925 --> 00:03:31,084 Chapter one, verses 16 and 17. 82 00:03:31,084 --> 00:03:32,584 So Paul is writing it, the gospel. 83 00:03:32,584 --> 00:03:33,904 Paul is writing book of Romans. 84 00:03:33,904 --> 00:03:39,665 He says, for I am not ashamed of the gospel, I'm not ashamed of the gospel 85 00:03:39,755 --> 00:03:43,385 for, because it is the power of God. 86 00:03:43,654 --> 00:03:47,555 For salvation to everyone who believes to the Jew first and 87 00:03:47,555 --> 00:03:49,055 also to the Greek or the Gentile. 88 00:03:49,625 --> 00:03:50,555 Verse 17, four. 89 00:03:50,615 --> 00:03:53,435 In it, the righteousness of God is revealed from faith. 90 00:03:53,584 --> 00:03:54,274 For faith. 91 00:03:54,485 --> 00:03:58,295 As it is written, the righteous shall live by faith. 92 00:03:58,385 --> 00:04:01,055 Now, where did, where did this come from? 93 00:04:01,415 --> 00:04:01,954 From this? 94 00:04:02,315 --> 00:04:02,855 Well, look at this. 95 00:04:03,815 --> 00:04:05,135 Paul's not ashamed of the gospel. 96 00:04:05,375 --> 00:04:07,925 Why is he not ashamed in it? 97 00:04:08,165 --> 00:04:11,915 Power of God has revealed everyone who believes four, because in the gospel. 98 00:04:12,950 --> 00:04:13,549 You see it? 99 00:04:13,549 --> 00:04:14,029 What's it? 100 00:04:14,060 --> 00:04:14,899 It's the gospel. 101 00:04:15,079 --> 00:04:17,719 The righteousness of God is revealed. 102 00:04:18,440 --> 00:04:18,829 See that? 103 00:04:18,829 --> 00:04:19,880 That's Paul's thesis statement. 104 00:04:20,000 --> 00:04:25,789 The gospel reveals it, shows us the righteousness of God. 105 00:04:26,330 --> 00:04:27,950 That's what Rowans is all about. 106 00:04:27,950 --> 00:04:29,539 Now, what is God's righteousness? 107 00:04:29,690 --> 00:04:30,560 Maybe you've never thought about this. 108 00:04:30,560 --> 00:04:31,609 What is God's righteousness? 109 00:04:31,609 --> 00:04:32,390 What's two things? 110 00:04:32,599 --> 00:04:35,239 It's an attribute and it's an action. 111 00:04:35,270 --> 00:04:37,039 It's something about God. 112 00:04:37,039 --> 00:04:41,840 It's a quality that God has, and it's also something that we see in God's action. 113 00:04:42,289 --> 00:04:43,489 That's how the gospel shows us. 114 00:04:43,489 --> 00:04:45,859 It's something we see in God's actions here. 115 00:04:46,039 --> 00:04:46,400 Look at that. 116 00:04:46,789 --> 00:04:47,690 God's righteousness. 117 00:04:47,690 --> 00:04:48,440 It's an attribute. 118 00:04:48,440 --> 00:04:50,450 So it's his like sense of justice, right? 119 00:04:50,450 --> 00:04:52,669 His self-defined moral standard. 120 00:04:52,669 --> 00:04:54,560 God always does the right thing. 121 00:04:55,310 --> 00:04:57,409 God is just, remember you've heard that, right? 122 00:04:57,409 --> 00:04:59,150 God is just, God is a good judge. 123 00:04:59,599 --> 00:05:01,340 God always does the right thing. 124 00:05:01,520 --> 00:05:03,409 That's what God's righteousness means. 125 00:05:04,280 --> 00:05:06,500 But also, also it's an action. 126 00:05:07,429 --> 00:05:10,460 It's his righteous rule it we So right? 127 00:05:10,460 --> 00:05:11,330 You can't see God. 128 00:05:11,915 --> 00:05:13,265 So how do we know that God's righteous? 129 00:05:13,265 --> 00:05:15,245 Well, he does things that are righteous. 130 00:05:15,545 --> 00:05:20,345 He rules like a king or a judge, and his actions also make things right. 131 00:05:21,035 --> 00:05:24,215 I think it might be helpful to think about what's unrighteousness, right? 132 00:05:24,245 --> 00:05:26,165 Unrighteousness is something that's not right. 133 00:05:26,165 --> 00:05:27,365 You're like, that's not okay. 134 00:05:28,025 --> 00:05:32,495 So for example, let's say you were playing dodgeball and you were 135 00:05:32,495 --> 00:05:36,875 holding a ball, and then someone threw the ball at you, and you dropped 136 00:05:36,875 --> 00:05:38,375 the ball when the ball hits you. 137 00:05:38,945 --> 00:05:42,005 Then you're the guy in charge of the game was like, you're out. 138 00:05:43,475 --> 00:05:45,245 Let's say that happened to you hypothetically, right? 139 00:05:45,245 --> 00:05:48,245 Hypothetically, let's say that happened to you when you were playing dodge ball 140 00:05:48,545 --> 00:05:50,435 and you were like, that's not fair. 141 00:05:51,095 --> 00:05:52,085 How is that okay? 142 00:05:53,105 --> 00:05:54,545 I blocked it with the ball. 143 00:05:54,545 --> 00:05:55,235 That's not okay. 144 00:05:55,385 --> 00:05:56,885 You would think that's unrighteous, right? 145 00:05:56,885 --> 00:05:57,695 That's not fair. 146 00:05:58,115 --> 00:05:59,885 Referee, you're not doing your job. 147 00:05:59,885 --> 00:06:02,165 Maybe you come out and argue with the umpire and you're like, what 148 00:06:02,165 --> 00:06:03,425 are you doing Is a terrible call. 149 00:06:03,425 --> 00:06:04,025 What's going on? 150 00:06:04,025 --> 00:06:04,115 Right? 151 00:06:06,380 --> 00:06:12,080 See, what you don't understand is that in a game, right, the referee or in a game 152 00:06:12,080 --> 00:06:17,090 in true North, your leaders, your leaders in this case are always in the right. 153 00:06:17,780 --> 00:06:20,600 Whenever we play a true north game, your leaders are always right. 154 00:06:20,600 --> 00:06:22,310 If a leader says, you're out, you're out. 155 00:06:22,310 --> 00:06:22,670 Right? 156 00:06:22,730 --> 00:06:23,810 This, right? 157 00:06:23,870 --> 00:06:27,020 If you, if especially, especially something like this happens, right? 158 00:06:27,800 --> 00:06:30,770 If we did leaders versus students, and a leader says, you're out. 159 00:06:31,520 --> 00:06:32,150 You're out. 160 00:06:32,450 --> 00:06:32,720 Right? 161 00:06:32,720 --> 00:06:33,530 The leaders. 162 00:06:34,025 --> 00:06:36,125 Are are righteous, right? 163 00:06:36,125 --> 00:06:38,045 Your leaders are always in the right. 164 00:06:38,045 --> 00:06:42,215 Your leaders always make a right decision in dodgeball, right? 165 00:06:42,335 --> 00:06:45,365 If your leader says that you didn't catch it, it means you didn't catch it. 166 00:06:45,575 --> 00:06:47,495 If your leader says that you're out, it means you're out. 167 00:06:47,495 --> 00:06:49,414 If your leader says that they caught it, it means they caught it. 168 00:06:50,045 --> 00:06:53,195 That's kind of the way that God is, right? 169 00:06:53,195 --> 00:06:54,995 God is righteous. 170 00:06:54,995 --> 00:06:56,405 He always does the right thing. 171 00:06:56,405 --> 00:06:58,565 He has a self-defined standard. 172 00:06:58,565 --> 00:06:59,495 This is what's right. 173 00:07:00,125 --> 00:07:00,995 This is what's good. 174 00:07:01,835 --> 00:07:02,659 This is the right thing. 175 00:07:03,650 --> 00:07:05,810 God has a standard, and that's why you have a conscience. 176 00:07:06,109 --> 00:07:06,799 You have a conscience. 177 00:07:06,799 --> 00:07:09,770 'cause innately, God has put his standard into your heart. 178 00:07:10,609 --> 00:07:15,349 He said, I'm gonna give you a sense of what's right. 179 00:07:15,349 --> 00:07:17,840 And that's why when you get cut in line, you're upset. 180 00:07:17,840 --> 00:07:22,070 You're like, that's not fair, because God has taken his righteous standard 181 00:07:22,520 --> 00:07:26,570 and put it into your heart so you have a sense of what's right and what's not. 182 00:07:26,750 --> 00:07:29,120 So Romans is all about God's righteousness. 183 00:07:29,120 --> 00:07:32,780 Now here's how the gospel in Romans, don't write this down, don't write this down. 184 00:07:33,095 --> 00:07:33,784 Don't write this down. 185 00:07:33,784 --> 00:07:34,115 Okay? 186 00:07:34,445 --> 00:07:36,275 Uh, I saw everyone reaching for their pens. 187 00:07:36,275 --> 00:07:36,875 I was like, no. 188 00:07:37,145 --> 00:07:38,885 So the gospel reveals God's right actions. 189 00:07:38,885 --> 00:07:39,275 How to do that? 190 00:07:39,305 --> 00:07:42,125 Well, there's five parts to the book of Romans, right? 191 00:07:42,365 --> 00:07:46,565 First part, the gospel shows that God's wrath against sin is righteous, 192 00:07:46,594 --> 00:07:48,425 so that it's actually a good thing. 193 00:07:48,425 --> 00:07:51,305 It's the right thing for God to be angry at sin. 194 00:07:51,755 --> 00:07:55,295 God's response to sin is wrath, and that's a good thing. 195 00:07:55,625 --> 00:07:58,625 That's the first part of Romans second part, the gospel shows that God's 196 00:07:58,625 --> 00:08:01,805 forgiveness of sinners is righteous, and we'll get here in the sermon, but 197 00:08:01,865 --> 00:08:05,945 if you believe this, then why should you believe that God should forgive anyone? 198 00:08:06,365 --> 00:08:10,025 If you really believe that God should show his wrath against sinners, then why should 199 00:08:10,025 --> 00:08:11,435 you think that God should forgive people? 200 00:08:11,945 --> 00:08:12,155 Right? 201 00:08:12,155 --> 00:08:12,365 What? 202 00:08:12,604 --> 00:08:14,344 How is it okay that God forgives people? 203 00:08:15,094 --> 00:08:17,045 If He, he should do is punish them? 204 00:08:17,285 --> 00:08:19,175 How is that okay for God to just be like, no, it's okay. 205 00:08:19,354 --> 00:08:19,865 I forgive you. 206 00:08:20,854 --> 00:08:22,655 Romans is gonna show us that that's actually the, that's, 207 00:08:22,655 --> 00:08:23,974 that's a good thing that God does. 208 00:08:24,349 --> 00:08:27,919 And it's okay for God to do that and still be a good judge. 209 00:08:28,340 --> 00:08:29,719 Maybe you've never even had that question before. 210 00:08:29,719 --> 00:08:32,088 We're gonna talk about that in Romans third part. 211 00:08:32,088 --> 00:08:35,690 The gospel shows that how God's relationship with forgiven sinners works. 212 00:08:35,690 --> 00:08:36,530 That's five through eight. 213 00:08:36,530 --> 00:08:39,558 These are some of the most famous chapters in the Bible, but it's gonna talk at work. 214 00:08:39,588 --> 00:08:44,000 We're, we're gonna talk about we, how God can relate to someone 215 00:08:44,000 --> 00:08:45,409 who's still not perfect, right? 216 00:08:45,409 --> 00:08:48,079 Even if you're a Christian, you've been forgiven of your sins. 217 00:08:48,079 --> 00:08:49,639 You're no longer under God's wrath. 218 00:08:50,045 --> 00:08:51,005 You're still not perfect. 219 00:08:51,005 --> 00:08:52,775 So how can God still have a relationship with you? 220 00:08:53,045 --> 00:08:53,915 What does, how does that work? 221 00:08:53,915 --> 00:08:54,575 What does that look like? 222 00:08:54,815 --> 00:08:57,214 That's what we're gonna learn in this third part. 223 00:08:57,395 --> 00:09:00,095 And then we won't get to these parts because otherwise we'd be 224 00:09:00,095 --> 00:09:01,655 here for like six hours every night. 225 00:09:02,105 --> 00:09:04,655 But the fourth part, the God the gospel shows that God's 226 00:09:04,655 --> 00:09:06,185 plan for Israel is righteous. 227 00:09:06,305 --> 00:09:08,435 'cause if you're thinking about this, you're like, wait, I thought 228 00:09:08,435 --> 00:09:09,815 God chose Israel and all that stuff. 229 00:09:09,964 --> 00:09:13,805 And then this last part of Romans, the gospel transforms the way Christians live. 230 00:09:13,805 --> 00:09:16,895 And there's a lot of really cool, practical stuff if you wanna 231 00:09:17,135 --> 00:09:18,365 think of these as questions. 232 00:09:18,680 --> 00:09:20,150 I already did that for you. 233 00:09:20,510 --> 00:09:20,960 Look at that. 234 00:09:21,740 --> 00:09:23,870 These are some questions you probably have had before. 235 00:09:24,859 --> 00:09:26,390 Why does God send people to hell? 236 00:09:27,230 --> 00:09:30,109 We're gonna be talking about that Romans one through three. 237 00:09:30,740 --> 00:09:32,990 How can God forgive sinners and still be a good judge? 238 00:09:33,410 --> 00:09:34,490 We're gonna talk about that. 239 00:09:34,790 --> 00:09:36,770 How does the gospel impact my relationship with God? 240 00:09:36,800 --> 00:09:37,640 Now that I'm saved? 241 00:09:37,880 --> 00:09:38,510 What happens? 242 00:09:39,109 --> 00:09:40,550 We're gonna talk about that right here. 243 00:09:40,819 --> 00:09:43,849 We won't talk about these, but these are some really relevant 244 00:09:43,849 --> 00:09:45,680 questions that you probably have. 245 00:09:45,829 --> 00:09:48,260 How can a righteous God choose whom he saves? 246 00:09:48,860 --> 00:09:50,270 How can you save some people and not others? 247 00:09:50,660 --> 00:09:52,520 That's what Romans nine through 11 is all about. 248 00:09:52,850 --> 00:09:54,770 And then how does the gospel change my everyday life? 249 00:09:54,770 --> 00:09:57,800 That is what 12 through 16 are all about. 250 00:09:58,880 --> 00:10:01,340 So we're gonna be focusing on Romans one through eight this year. 251 00:10:01,460 --> 00:10:01,700 Okay? 252 00:10:01,700 --> 00:10:02,630 Romans one through eight. 253 00:10:02,780 --> 00:10:06,440 So the first 60% of what I just showed you right here. 254 00:10:06,860 --> 00:10:07,250 Okay? 255 00:10:07,700 --> 00:10:10,520 That's what we're gonna be looking at today, and I'm gonna give you a brief 256 00:10:10,580 --> 00:10:14,660 snapshot of that tonight just to kind of overview it, see where we're going and 257 00:10:14,660 --> 00:10:16,250 what that's all gonna look like this. 258 00:10:16,580 --> 00:10:20,810 Is what we're gonna be looking at this year, all the way until the end of May. 259 00:10:21,110 --> 00:10:25,310 So Romans, God is righteous, and the gospel shows that. 260 00:10:25,580 --> 00:10:29,330 And the first thing that we see the gospel shows about God is 261 00:10:29,330 --> 00:10:30,920 that his wrath is righteous. 262 00:10:30,920 --> 00:10:31,910 And that's your first point tonight. 263 00:10:31,910 --> 00:10:35,360 Point number one, God's wrath is righteous. 264 00:10:36,830 --> 00:10:39,470 God's wrath is righteous. 265 00:10:39,470 --> 00:10:40,700 I'm gonna move this way to help you guys see. 266 00:10:44,420 --> 00:10:46,730 And that's the first three chapters of Romans. 267 00:10:48,349 --> 00:10:53,630 God's anger against sin, God's desire to punish sin is right. 268 00:10:53,900 --> 00:10:54,410 It's good. 269 00:10:54,770 --> 00:10:56,480 It means that God is doing the right thing. 270 00:10:56,690 --> 00:10:59,480 It's the right response against sin. 271 00:11:00,589 --> 00:11:02,869 Now that sound might sound like a weird place to start a letter, right? 272 00:11:02,869 --> 00:11:05,030 If you're the apostle Paul, how are you gonna start your letter? 273 00:11:05,420 --> 00:11:07,849 He's like, well, God's wrath, right? 274 00:11:07,849 --> 00:11:08,630 That's what he's gonna do. 275 00:11:09,560 --> 00:11:10,040 Why? 276 00:11:10,130 --> 00:11:10,515 Well remember. 277 00:11:11,315 --> 00:11:14,494 In his thesis statement, I'm not ashamed of the gospel. 278 00:11:14,494 --> 00:11:15,425 For the power of God. 279 00:11:15,425 --> 00:11:16,385 For salvation. 280 00:11:16,895 --> 00:11:17,645 For salvation. 281 00:11:18,635 --> 00:11:22,625 Now, if I came up to you, let's say you're just like in the lunch line 282 00:11:22,625 --> 00:11:25,774 at school and someone comes up to you and they're like, you're saved. 283 00:11:26,885 --> 00:11:29,165 You'd be like, okay, cool. 284 00:11:29,944 --> 00:11:30,544 From what? 285 00:11:30,575 --> 00:11:31,355 Maybe, right? 286 00:11:31,565 --> 00:11:32,315 You'd be really weird. 287 00:11:32,315 --> 00:11:33,274 You'd be like, I don't know. 288 00:11:33,425 --> 00:11:34,954 I don't feel like I need saving. 289 00:11:34,954 --> 00:11:35,974 I don't know what's happening. 290 00:11:36,244 --> 00:11:37,534 I, I, cool. 291 00:11:37,685 --> 00:11:38,014 Right? 292 00:11:40,175 --> 00:11:41,315 What are we being saved from? 293 00:11:42,815 --> 00:11:43,895 Well look to verses later. 294 00:11:44,464 --> 00:11:45,905 The wrath of God. 295 00:11:46,954 --> 00:11:48,935 The wrath of God is what you're saved from. 296 00:11:49,265 --> 00:11:51,245 Maybe you've heard, oh, I need to be saved from my sin. 297 00:11:52,055 --> 00:11:55,175 Well, the reason you need to be saved from your sin is because God's response, 298 00:11:55,175 --> 00:11:57,964 God's right response to your sin is wrath. 299 00:11:59,285 --> 00:12:02,555 The right response God should have against your sin is wrath. 300 00:12:02,555 --> 00:12:06,515 And when you think about it, you want God to care about other people's sin, right? 301 00:12:06,755 --> 00:12:10,895 If you want God to do something about someone who hurts you, you want God 302 00:12:10,895 --> 00:12:14,285 to do something about someone who does evil to, you know, make a really bad 303 00:12:14,285 --> 00:12:15,635 person like, like Adolf Hitler, right? 304 00:12:15,635 --> 00:12:19,085 You wanna do, you want God to do something about him, but ultimately 305 00:12:19,085 --> 00:12:21,485 we do similar sins, right? 306 00:12:22,085 --> 00:12:24,245 In our, in our hearts, maybe we do the same thing. 307 00:12:24,515 --> 00:12:26,525 The wrath of God is revealed. 308 00:12:26,525 --> 00:12:30,185 It's shown against sin, and that's what we need to be saved from. 309 00:12:30,185 --> 00:12:31,475 And so that's where Paul starts. 310 00:12:31,865 --> 00:12:35,435 He's saying the gospel is the power of God to save people from what. 311 00:12:35,974 --> 00:12:37,984 From the wrath of God. 312 00:12:38,165 --> 00:12:39,935 Now, maybe you're sitting there, you're like, that seems extreme. 313 00:12:40,025 --> 00:12:43,025 I don't think God should be this angry about sin. 314 00:12:43,474 --> 00:12:45,395 Or maybe you're thinking, I don't deserve God's wrath. 315 00:12:45,425 --> 00:12:46,175 I'm a good person. 316 00:12:46,415 --> 00:12:47,194 I'm totally fine. 317 00:12:47,764 --> 00:12:49,234 I, I'm in a good spot. 318 00:12:49,264 --> 00:12:51,244 I don't think that God should do this. 319 00:12:51,785 --> 00:12:54,335 Well check this out right here. 320 00:12:55,175 --> 00:12:57,545 These next three verses, the wrath of God is revealed from 321 00:12:57,545 --> 00:13:02,494 heaven against all ungodliness and unrighteousness of people who, by their 322 00:13:02,494 --> 00:13:04,295 unrighteousness, suppress the truth. 323 00:13:05,285 --> 00:13:09,425 First, this is like a, like a court case against all of us, and Paul's 324 00:13:09,425 --> 00:13:13,415 starting it right here, that we all suppress the truth suppress. 325 00:13:13,714 --> 00:13:15,905 The best way I can describe it is like, you know when your trash can's full, 326 00:13:15,905 --> 00:13:16,865 you don't wanna take the trash out. 327 00:13:17,285 --> 00:13:17,825 What do you do? 328 00:13:18,785 --> 00:13:20,224 You suppress it, right? 329 00:13:20,224 --> 00:13:22,655 You push it down, you're like, I don't wanna deal with it right now. 330 00:13:22,805 --> 00:13:26,704 I'm gonna push it down and I'm gonna just pack it in and ignore it. 331 00:13:28,055 --> 00:13:32,885 That's what we all have done or maybe still are doing with the truth. 332 00:13:33,905 --> 00:13:35,735 God is righteous and we're not. 333 00:13:35,974 --> 00:13:37,175 We're sinners, we're guilty. 334 00:13:37,835 --> 00:13:38,735 We're suppressing it. 335 00:13:39,665 --> 00:13:42,425 Or we have in the past, before we became Christians, suppressed it. 336 00:13:43,115 --> 00:13:43,895 And maybe that's you right now. 337 00:13:43,895 --> 00:13:45,665 Maybe you hear sermons, you went through revival. 338 00:13:45,720 --> 00:13:48,905 You, you come to true North, your parents teach you and, and you're just like, 339 00:13:49,535 --> 00:13:50,525 I don't wanna deal with it right now. 340 00:13:50,525 --> 00:13:53,194 Maybe later, I later I'll become a Christian, or I don't really feel 341 00:13:53,194 --> 00:13:55,415 that bad about it, or I'll just go home and start scrolling and forget 342 00:13:55,415 --> 00:13:57,095 about feeling bad about my sin. 343 00:13:57,964 --> 00:14:00,755 So he's saying all these people know deep down and they suppress it. 344 00:14:01,819 --> 00:14:05,240 Four, what can be known about God is plain to them, it's obvious. 345 00:14:05,780 --> 00:14:08,180 So it's not like God didn't make it clear. 346 00:14:08,270 --> 00:14:11,180 It's obvious because God has shown it to them. 347 00:14:11,540 --> 00:14:12,530 So God did something. 348 00:14:12,530 --> 00:14:17,900 He said, here I am, and he's, he's made himself obvious to 'em. 349 00:14:17,900 --> 00:14:19,250 He's made his standard obvious. 350 00:14:19,250 --> 00:14:20,090 We all have conscience, right? 351 00:14:20,120 --> 00:14:21,260 You all feel bad when you sin. 352 00:14:21,890 --> 00:14:25,040 Four, God's invisible attributes, his eternal power, his divine nature, 353 00:14:25,100 --> 00:14:28,550 have been clearly perceived ever since the creation of the world. 354 00:14:28,970 --> 00:14:30,170 So for all of time. 355 00:14:30,994 --> 00:14:40,565 People have known God and his standard, and so you and me we're without excuse. 356 00:14:40,774 --> 00:14:43,774 We can't say, oh, but God, uh, whatever. 357 00:14:43,805 --> 00:14:44,375 Fill in the blank. 358 00:14:44,375 --> 00:14:44,825 Excuse. 359 00:14:46,504 --> 00:14:50,855 Paul is saying that every single person is accountable to God. 360 00:14:51,845 --> 00:14:54,869 We all fall short of God's standard and all of us are guilty. 361 00:14:56,930 --> 00:14:57,710 All of us are guilty. 362 00:14:57,710 --> 00:14:59,090 You still don't believe me, but look at Romans three. 363 00:14:59,090 --> 00:15:00,470 Look how Paul finishes this section. 364 00:15:02,270 --> 00:15:05,120 Just do you think, do you think Paul's making this point kind of clear? 365 00:15:06,560 --> 00:15:08,750 No one, none is righteous. 366 00:15:08,780 --> 00:15:09,740 No, not one. 367 00:15:09,830 --> 00:15:10,910 No one understands. 368 00:15:10,910 --> 00:15:12,230 No one seeks for God. 369 00:15:12,440 --> 00:15:14,480 Everyone has turned aside together. 370 00:15:14,480 --> 00:15:15,290 They've become worthless. 371 00:15:15,290 --> 00:15:16,310 No one does good. 372 00:15:16,490 --> 00:15:17,240 Not even one. 373 00:15:17,240 --> 00:15:19,490 And in case you didn't get the point there, verse 23 of 374 00:15:19,490 --> 00:15:21,080 chapter three, all has sin. 375 00:15:21,080 --> 00:15:22,850 Raise your hand if, if this, this is talking about you. 376 00:15:24,319 --> 00:15:25,940 If you're all, that's you. 377 00:15:27,890 --> 00:15:28,880 Everyone has sin. 378 00:15:29,600 --> 00:15:31,880 We're all guilty before God. 379 00:15:33,620 --> 00:15:35,750 We all fall short of the glory of God. 380 00:15:35,750 --> 00:15:37,460 God's standard isn't just being a good person. 381 00:15:37,970 --> 00:15:39,170 God's standard is himself. 382 00:15:39,170 --> 00:15:43,069 His righteousness, God's standard is His glory, his perfection. 383 00:15:45,290 --> 00:15:49,190 I heard one time, I've heard multiple times since then, but I've heard, 384 00:15:49,339 --> 00:15:50,839 I remember the first time I heard it, it really stood out to me. 385 00:15:51,680 --> 00:15:53,000 It was in a rap song, funny enough. 386 00:15:53,329 --> 00:15:58,280 Um, but this guy, he's, he's rapping and he's talking about truth and 387 00:15:58,280 --> 00:16:00,440 he's talking about God's standard. 388 00:16:00,829 --> 00:16:05,360 And he, he starts talking and he goes, um, if you want God to take 389 00:16:05,360 --> 00:16:06,560 away all the evil in the world, right? 390 00:16:06,560 --> 00:16:08,360 A lot of people, they say, oh, well I don't believe in God. 391 00:16:08,360 --> 00:16:09,680 'cause there's so many bad things, right? 392 00:16:09,680 --> 00:16:11,240 All these bad things happen in the world. 393 00:16:12,020 --> 00:16:14,240 Well, how much evil do you want God to take away? 394 00:16:15,170 --> 00:16:17,569 Do you want God to, to put all the murderers away? 395 00:16:17,629 --> 00:16:18,500 Do you want him to get rid of them? 396 00:16:18,980 --> 00:16:19,250 Yeah. 397 00:16:20,119 --> 00:16:22,639 We want God to, well, what about Jesus says, if you're angry at someone, 398 00:16:22,639 --> 00:16:23,480 you've murdered in your heart. 399 00:16:24,409 --> 00:16:25,250 What about those people? 400 00:16:26,329 --> 00:16:28,280 What about the liars in the world? 401 00:16:28,429 --> 00:16:30,200 Do you want God to get rid of those people too? 402 00:16:31,159 --> 00:16:34,250 Because that means we're in that group, right? 403 00:16:35,300 --> 00:16:39,740 So really we're just saying, well, God, yeah, I want you to get rid of like 404 00:16:39,740 --> 00:16:44,270 the really bad people, but not like the other really bad people who are just 405 00:16:44,270 --> 00:16:46,069 secretly bad and not publicly bad, right? 406 00:16:47,795 --> 00:16:51,155 If your objection is, oh God, I don't believe in you, because there's 407 00:16:51,155 --> 00:16:52,204 so much bad things in the world. 408 00:16:52,565 --> 00:16:55,325 Well, if you want God to get rid of all the bad things, guess who? 409 00:16:55,325 --> 00:16:55,984 He's gonna get rid of. 410 00:16:57,035 --> 00:16:57,545 Me and you. 411 00:16:57,845 --> 00:16:58,565 'cause we're sinners. 412 00:16:59,375 --> 00:17:00,515 We fall short of God's glory. 413 00:17:00,545 --> 00:17:01,234 We're not righteous. 414 00:17:01,234 --> 00:17:02,765 We seek our own way. 415 00:17:02,765 --> 00:17:03,635 We put ourselves first. 416 00:17:03,635 --> 00:17:05,675 We're selfish, we're liars. 417 00:17:06,065 --> 00:17:07,983 We have impure thoughts and impure hearts. 418 00:17:08,733 --> 00:17:09,483 We're prideful. 419 00:17:10,835 --> 00:17:12,483 You and I all fall in this category. 420 00:17:12,483 --> 00:17:14,675 We deserve God's wrath. 421 00:17:15,723 --> 00:17:19,415 That's the first section of Romans that God's wrath, God's 422 00:17:19,415 --> 00:17:21,993 response to sin is righteous. 423 00:17:22,625 --> 00:17:23,493 It's the right thing. 424 00:17:23,704 --> 00:17:26,165 And you want God to do something about sin, don't you? 425 00:17:26,493 --> 00:17:27,243 Just not yours. 426 00:17:28,895 --> 00:17:32,555 And ultimately, if you want God to do something about other people's sin, God 427 00:17:32,555 --> 00:17:35,195 needs to do something about your sin too, because he is a good judge, right? 428 00:17:35,195 --> 00:17:38,435 God can't say, well everyone else, everyone besides Lewis's 429 00:17:38,435 --> 00:17:39,485 sin, I'm gonna get rid of it. 430 00:17:39,754 --> 00:17:39,935 Right? 431 00:17:39,935 --> 00:17:40,534 That's not okay. 432 00:17:41,645 --> 00:17:44,075 So God's response to sin is righteous. 433 00:17:44,929 --> 00:17:48,199 The problem is, is that puts us in a bad spot, right? 434 00:17:48,409 --> 00:17:51,199 If we all deserve God's wrath and it's a good thing for God to be 435 00:17:51,199 --> 00:17:55,699 angry at sin and to punish sin, then we're, we're not looking good, right? 436 00:17:55,699 --> 00:17:58,040 We are under God's wrath. 437 00:17:58,040 --> 00:17:59,270 We're under his condemnation. 438 00:17:59,389 --> 00:18:01,850 We're guilty and headed for punishment. 439 00:18:02,689 --> 00:18:03,290 So then what? 440 00:18:03,530 --> 00:18:04,429 What do we do about that? 441 00:18:04,909 --> 00:18:08,480 Well, that is where the next part of the book of Romans comes in and the 442 00:18:08,480 --> 00:18:12,230 rest of chapter three, and that's that God's forgiveness is righteous. 443 00:18:12,935 --> 00:18:15,665 God's forgiveness is righteous 444 00:18:22,625 --> 00:18:28,024 and this is a problem that you may have never thought about. 445 00:18:29,254 --> 00:18:32,195 But I remember I was hearing this guy, he was talking to a Muslim. 446 00:18:33,034 --> 00:18:36,544 He was talking to a Muslim and the the Muslim guy. 447 00:18:37,834 --> 00:18:40,550 They were talking about how you can be sure if you're going to heaven. 448 00:18:41,764 --> 00:18:44,764 Ultimately, the Muslim guy said, I'm not sure. 449 00:18:45,574 --> 00:18:51,335 I don't know if I'm gonna be in heaven according to Muslim rules, because 450 00:18:54,095 --> 00:18:57,665 the Muslim God, he doesn't forgive anyone. 451 00:19:00,004 --> 00:19:01,054 He can't forgive you. 452 00:19:01,054 --> 00:19:02,135 You have to earn it. 453 00:19:03,574 --> 00:19:06,304 And so you, if you're a Muslim, you never really know if you're good enough 454 00:19:07,385 --> 00:19:08,645 because you can hope you're good enough. 455 00:19:08,645 --> 00:19:10,300 You can, you can do all the right things and really try. 456 00:19:12,379 --> 00:19:18,409 But they believe that their God is, is just, he punishes sin. 457 00:19:20,300 --> 00:19:23,539 That's what they believe, that they're God and we believe that about our God, 458 00:19:24,320 --> 00:19:28,789 but they don't have forgiveness because they believe that God is just, and so the 459 00:19:28,789 --> 00:19:31,310 Muslim lab is actually pushing back on the Christian, he was saying that, well, 460 00:19:31,310 --> 00:19:33,949 your God doesn't do anything about sin. 461 00:19:34,399 --> 00:19:36,499 He just forgets it and lets it go. 462 00:19:37,729 --> 00:19:38,985 And that's the problem that Romans. 463 00:19:39,710 --> 00:19:40,850 Three answers. 464 00:19:40,850 --> 00:19:43,700 Look at verses 23 through 25. 465 00:19:44,900 --> 00:19:46,640 Romans 3, 23 to 25. 466 00:19:48,590 --> 00:19:50,900 So Paul, right, he's saying he's, he's made his case that 467 00:19:50,900 --> 00:19:51,890 everyone's sinned, right? 468 00:19:51,890 --> 00:19:54,200 All people have have sinned against God. 469 00:19:54,200 --> 00:19:55,160 We're all guilty. 470 00:19:55,190 --> 00:19:56,000 That's verse 23. 471 00:19:56,030 --> 00:20:01,790 All have sinned and falls short of the glory of God, but everyone 472 00:20:01,790 --> 00:20:03,710 who falls short can be made. 473 00:20:03,710 --> 00:20:07,190 So in English you don't see this but justified. 474 00:20:08,405 --> 00:20:09,844 The same root as righteous. 475 00:20:10,145 --> 00:20:14,524 You think righteousness justice, it's the same, comes from the same word. 476 00:20:15,364 --> 00:20:21,094 So whenever you see justified, think like righteous aside, okay? 477 00:20:21,155 --> 00:20:22,324 Made righteous right. 478 00:20:22,624 --> 00:20:27,364 So our made righteous by God's grace as a gift through the redemption that's in 479 00:20:27,364 --> 00:20:30,784 Christ Jesus, whom God put forward as propitiation, which we'll all talk about 480 00:20:30,784 --> 00:20:35,195 this in like four months, somewhere here by his blood to be received by faith. 481 00:20:35,225 --> 00:20:36,155 What's the point of. 482 00:20:36,950 --> 00:20:39,980 This is talking about the cross Jesus atoning work on the cross. 483 00:20:40,700 --> 00:20:41,480 What's the point of that? 484 00:20:41,780 --> 00:20:46,130 It was to show God's righteousness that God is still a good judge. 485 00:20:47,270 --> 00:20:47,930 Isn't that weird? 486 00:20:48,080 --> 00:20:49,970 Maybe you've never thought about, oh, the cross was actually to show 487 00:20:49,970 --> 00:20:52,700 something about God, and you've always thought the cross is about me. 488 00:20:53,810 --> 00:20:57,170 Yes, the cross is for you, but the cross is about God. 489 00:20:57,830 --> 00:21:01,400 It's to show who God is because in his divine forbearance. 490 00:21:01,400 --> 00:21:01,970 Now, what does that mean? 491 00:21:01,970 --> 00:21:03,740 You probably never used the word forbearance this week. 492 00:21:04,460 --> 00:21:05,295 Forbearance that means patient. 493 00:21:06,784 --> 00:21:11,855 Think, see bear, God's like bearing, he's forbearing, he's being patient. 494 00:21:11,855 --> 00:21:15,514 He's, he's putting up with stuff he had, what's he putting up with? 495 00:21:15,514 --> 00:21:18,004 He's passed over former sins. 496 00:21:20,675 --> 00:21:23,165 This is kind of linked to, if God is good, why do bad things happen? 497 00:21:23,225 --> 00:21:23,585 Right? 498 00:21:24,815 --> 00:21:28,985 If you think about for all of human history, God just let people sin. 499 00:21:30,485 --> 00:21:32,915 God just lets people sin and doesn't do anything about it. 500 00:21:34,580 --> 00:21:36,439 That's, that should, that should bother you. 501 00:21:36,529 --> 00:21:36,919 Right? 502 00:21:37,999 --> 00:21:41,029 God just lets school shooters do their thing. 503 00:21:42,439 --> 00:21:47,060 God just lets people lie and nothing happens to them, right? 504 00:21:47,419 --> 00:21:52,159 God just lets husbands and wives sin against each other and nothing happens. 505 00:21:52,189 --> 00:21:56,689 God lets people look at terrible things online and say really hurtful things to 506 00:21:56,689 --> 00:21:59,060 people and doesn't do anything about it. 507 00:22:02,975 --> 00:22:05,165 Maybe you've never thought about that, but shouldn't God do something? 508 00:22:05,465 --> 00:22:06,125 Where is God? 509 00:22:06,125 --> 00:22:06,845 What's God doing? 510 00:22:07,445 --> 00:22:08,465 He's being patient. 511 00:22:10,265 --> 00:22:11,135 He's being patient. 512 00:22:11,795 --> 00:22:12,635 That's what he's doing. 513 00:22:14,975 --> 00:22:19,355 And now if you continue on that line, well, what about, what about Christians? 514 00:22:19,355 --> 00:22:20,705 God never does anything about their sin. 515 00:22:20,705 --> 00:22:21,425 He just forgives them. 516 00:22:22,895 --> 00:22:23,345 Right? 517 00:22:23,675 --> 00:22:24,305 Well, here's the thing. 518 00:22:24,305 --> 00:22:25,685 He does do something about their sin. 519 00:22:26,375 --> 00:22:27,995 He punishes Jesus for it. 520 00:22:27,995 --> 00:22:29,075 That's what propitiation means. 521 00:22:31,790 --> 00:22:35,929 Jesus is punished for the sins that God overlooks. 522 00:22:38,000 --> 00:22:38,209 Right? 523 00:22:38,209 --> 00:22:42,379 Think about, think about Abraham Abraham's sinned and didn't go to hell. 524 00:22:44,720 --> 00:22:45,199 Why not? 525 00:22:46,220 --> 00:22:54,020 Because God put Abraham's sin on Jesus and he waited to show 526 00:22:54,020 --> 00:22:55,100 how that would work, right? 527 00:22:56,600 --> 00:22:58,970 Imagine, I think I, I probably used this illustration. 528 00:22:59,899 --> 00:23:00,500 Revival. 529 00:23:00,500 --> 00:23:05,570 But imagine if someone came and stole everything in your house 530 00:23:06,800 --> 00:23:11,149 and then you went to court and the judge was like, that's fine. 531 00:23:11,600 --> 00:23:12,590 I'm a loving judge. 532 00:23:12,590 --> 00:23:13,610 I'm a forgiving judge. 533 00:23:14,660 --> 00:23:15,080 You're good. 534 00:23:16,010 --> 00:23:16,639 Don't worry about it. 535 00:23:18,320 --> 00:23:18,889 Bad judge. 536 00:23:18,889 --> 00:23:19,129 Right? 537 00:23:19,129 --> 00:23:19,820 That's not okay. 538 00:23:20,960 --> 00:23:21,980 I don't want to go to that court. 539 00:23:24,200 --> 00:23:25,370 That's why Jesus had to die. 540 00:23:25,399 --> 00:23:27,260 'cause God can't just be like, oh, your sins. 541 00:23:27,260 --> 00:23:27,800 No big deal. 542 00:23:28,970 --> 00:23:29,480 You're lying. 543 00:23:29,480 --> 00:23:32,540 All your selfishness, all your pride, all your hurtful words, all your 544 00:23:32,540 --> 00:23:33,949 lustful thoughts, not a big deal. 545 00:23:34,580 --> 00:23:35,270 Don't worry about it. 546 00:23:36,770 --> 00:23:36,980 Right? 547 00:23:36,980 --> 00:23:38,060 We don't want a God like that. 548 00:23:38,179 --> 00:23:39,230 'cause what about other people's sin? 549 00:23:40,340 --> 00:23:44,360 That's why God's forgiveness is righteous, because he's still a good judge. 550 00:23:44,365 --> 00:23:48,740 One John one, nine, God is faithful and just, he's a good judge to 551 00:23:48,740 --> 00:23:52,429 forgive sin because that sin that he forgives is paid for. 552 00:23:53,840 --> 00:23:57,170 God's forgiveness is free for us, but it's not free for Jesus. 553 00:23:57,170 --> 00:23:57,890 Jesus paid for it. 554 00:23:57,890 --> 00:23:58,430 He bought it. 555 00:23:58,700 --> 00:24:04,910 He said, I'll take the payment, the fine, the punishment that Lewis deserves. 556 00:24:06,200 --> 00:24:07,370 Jesus took my sin. 557 00:24:07,730 --> 00:24:08,570 He paid for it. 558 00:24:08,660 --> 00:24:12,980 That's what redemption means, so that God could still be righteous. 559 00:24:14,180 --> 00:24:19,310 So God's forgiveness is righteous, and that's what this passage goes on to. 560 00:24:19,310 --> 00:24:19,610 Say. 561 00:24:20,540 --> 00:24:22,610 God is just, he passed over former sins. 562 00:24:22,639 --> 00:24:23,840 That's, that's a problem, right? 563 00:24:23,840 --> 00:24:25,100 Why didn't God do anything about sin? 564 00:24:25,489 --> 00:24:29,749 Well, he still remains just, and he's the justifier. 565 00:24:30,080 --> 00:24:32,330 That means that God is the one who makes people righteous, right? 566 00:24:32,330 --> 00:24:34,520 And, and you all hopefully have heard that before. 567 00:24:34,520 --> 00:24:35,780 You don't make yourself righteous. 568 00:24:36,020 --> 00:24:37,129 God makes you righteous. 569 00:24:38,300 --> 00:24:40,159 God's forgiveness is righteous. 570 00:24:40,159 --> 00:24:43,489 He's still a good judge in his forgiveness. 571 00:24:44,870 --> 00:24:47,330 God is still a good judge in his forgiveness. 572 00:24:47,600 --> 00:24:47,959 So. 573 00:24:48,875 --> 00:24:50,975 First part of Romans one through three, right? 574 00:24:51,035 --> 00:24:52,745 God's wrath is righteous. 575 00:24:52,895 --> 00:24:57,485 God's response to sin is just, it's good, it's the right thing, but also 576 00:24:57,545 --> 00:24:59,555 his forgiveness of sin is still okay. 577 00:24:59,555 --> 00:25:03,305 It's still consistent with his righteousness because Jesus paid for it. 578 00:25:03,695 --> 00:25:06,665 Then this last section, five through eight, talks about how the 579 00:25:06,665 --> 00:25:09,605 gospel in powers righteous living. 580 00:25:09,605 --> 00:25:12,215 How the gospel isn't just something for Christians. 581 00:25:12,784 --> 00:25:13,685 When they get saved. 582 00:25:13,745 --> 00:25:15,935 It's something for Christians for the rest of their lives. 583 00:25:15,935 --> 00:25:16,564 That's our third point. 584 00:25:16,774 --> 00:25:19,865 The gospel empowers righteous living. 585 00:25:21,605 --> 00:25:23,915 The gospel empowers righteous living. 586 00:25:32,225 --> 00:25:36,485 So a lot of you, I think, 'cause I was here at one point in my 587 00:25:36,605 --> 00:25:39,514 understanding of the gospel, I thought of the gospel, right? 588 00:25:39,514 --> 00:25:41,165 The good news, Jesus died for my sins. 589 00:25:41,465 --> 00:25:41,645 He. 590 00:25:42,320 --> 00:25:43,310 Gives me righteousness. 591 00:25:43,370 --> 00:25:48,379 He died so that I could have hope to live forever after I die. 592 00:25:50,179 --> 00:25:53,990 The gospel, I thought the gospel was kind of like, kind 593 00:25:53,990 --> 00:25:55,850 of like a phone charger, right? 594 00:25:55,850 --> 00:25:59,570 I use the gospel to get saved and then I'm done. 595 00:26:00,110 --> 00:26:00,590 I'm gone. 596 00:26:00,800 --> 00:26:00,980 Right? 597 00:26:00,980 --> 00:26:05,330 I, I unplug the phone and I'm do the rest of my day without my charger, right? 598 00:26:05,840 --> 00:26:06,050 Shoot. 599 00:26:06,649 --> 00:26:08,510 But actually the gospel is more like a battery. 600 00:26:09,664 --> 00:26:12,394 If I asked you what's more important, your phone's battery or your phone's 601 00:26:12,394 --> 00:26:15,965 charger, they're both important, right? 602 00:26:15,965 --> 00:26:19,205 They're both essential in some ways, but your phone will 603 00:26:19,205 --> 00:26:20,435 not work without a battery. 604 00:26:21,604 --> 00:26:23,975 Your phone will not survive literally without a battery. 605 00:26:24,004 --> 00:26:25,445 Nothing happens without your phone's battery. 606 00:26:26,284 --> 00:26:28,894 I think a lot of us think of the gospel as a charger. 607 00:26:29,404 --> 00:26:32,914 I, I need the gospel for a little bit and then I'm done with it, 608 00:26:32,914 --> 00:26:34,235 and I move on the rest of my day. 609 00:26:34,834 --> 00:26:36,695 The gospel is Christian's battery. 610 00:26:37,864 --> 00:26:42,004 The Gospel empowers the rest of the Christian's life. 611 00:26:42,844 --> 00:26:45,604 Just like your battery and your phone, char it. 612 00:26:45,604 --> 00:26:47,344 It powers the rest of your phone. 613 00:26:48,304 --> 00:26:51,064 Your phone will not work at all without the battery. 614 00:26:51,935 --> 00:26:55,264 The gospel is the battery for a Christian life. 615 00:26:55,895 --> 00:26:59,915 The gospel does everything for a Christian, not just save them. 616 00:27:01,235 --> 00:27:02,675 So how does the gospel do that? 617 00:27:02,675 --> 00:27:06,034 How does the gospel empower righteous living? 618 00:27:06,965 --> 00:27:08,855 That's what Romans five through eight is all about. 619 00:27:09,035 --> 00:27:13,235 First part five, chapter five, the Gospel brings peace. 620 00:27:13,415 --> 00:27:17,525 The gospel brings peace, and that's what we're gonna learn in chapter five. 621 00:27:18,695 --> 00:27:20,885 But if you think about this, the gospel brings peace. 622 00:27:20,885 --> 00:27:24,935 It means I can have confidence in my relationship with God 623 00:27:25,835 --> 00:27:28,595 because as a Christian, you need this all the time, right? 624 00:27:30,005 --> 00:27:32,795 If you're a Christian at one point in your Christian life, I'm sure 625 00:27:33,095 --> 00:27:35,165 you felt, I'm not sure if I'm saved. 626 00:27:36,080 --> 00:27:38,000 Or I'm too sinful to come to God. 627 00:27:38,600 --> 00:27:39,770 How does God still love me? 628 00:27:39,770 --> 00:27:43,970 After I just did fill in the blank, you need the gospel. 629 00:27:44,300 --> 00:27:49,130 Still, as a Christian, the most experienced Christian still needs 630 00:27:49,160 --> 00:27:54,410 the gospel because the gospel is what gives you confidence 631 00:27:54,410 --> 00:27:55,430 in your relationship with God. 632 00:27:55,835 --> 00:27:58,400 'cause the gospel is all about Jesus. 633 00:27:58,400 --> 00:28:00,050 Jesus is the one who justifies you. 634 00:28:01,070 --> 00:28:03,170 That's where your confidence for relationship with God. 635 00:28:03,830 --> 00:28:05,030 Comes from, it doesn't come from you. 636 00:28:05,030 --> 00:28:06,860 It doesn't come from how your Bible reading was this week. 637 00:28:08,060 --> 00:28:09,110 Even as a Christian, right? 638 00:28:09,110 --> 00:28:11,780 It's so easy as a Christian to start depending on, oh, 639 00:28:11,780 --> 00:28:13,010 well, I started doing this. 640 00:28:13,160 --> 00:28:14,180 I stopped doing this. 641 00:28:15,290 --> 00:28:19,970 That all came after you got saved, that none of that saves you and 642 00:28:19,970 --> 00:28:20,930 none of that keeps you saved. 643 00:28:21,350 --> 00:28:23,510 The, the gospel brings peace because you can say, you know what? 644 00:28:23,510 --> 00:28:28,430 I'm confident that Jesus represents me before God, not how I did this week. 645 00:28:30,544 --> 00:28:34,175 Also the gospel, as Romans five will say, brings peace during suffering. 646 00:28:35,014 --> 00:28:36,124 'cause I can say, you know what? 647 00:28:37,024 --> 00:28:38,014 God saved me. 648 00:28:38,735 --> 00:28:43,534 He will certainly help me when I suffer, when things don't go my way, when bad 649 00:28:43,534 --> 00:28:49,774 things happen to my family, when I don't get what I want, when my school doesn't 650 00:28:49,774 --> 00:28:54,784 go the way I thought I would, my friends leave me or I get hurt or injured or sick. 651 00:28:55,145 --> 00:28:56,014 The gospel brings peace. 652 00:28:56,720 --> 00:28:57,950 That's what chapter five is all about. 653 00:28:58,160 --> 00:29:02,899 Chapter six is that the gospel changes your identity and your desires. 654 00:29:04,070 --> 00:29:06,440 The gospel changes you. 655 00:29:06,440 --> 00:29:09,530 So you can say, I'm not the same person and I don't wanna live the same way. 656 00:29:09,530 --> 00:29:11,090 That's what Chapter six is all about. 657 00:29:11,090 --> 00:29:14,810 It talks about being dead to sin, right? 658 00:29:14,810 --> 00:29:18,649 Like in a relationship when you say, you're dead to me, you're dead. 659 00:29:18,649 --> 00:29:19,460 You're cutting it off, right? 660 00:29:19,460 --> 00:29:20,090 You're dead to sin. 661 00:29:20,270 --> 00:29:21,770 You are not the same person anymore. 662 00:29:21,770 --> 00:29:23,360 You don't, and then because of that, you don't do the same thing. 663 00:29:24,125 --> 00:29:25,115 So you have a different identity. 664 00:29:25,115 --> 00:29:29,345 The gospel changes who you are, and then because of that, it changes how you live. 665 00:29:29,345 --> 00:29:30,305 It changes your desires. 666 00:29:30,365 --> 00:29:37,025 Romans six talks about how you stop being strapped in sin and 667 00:29:37,025 --> 00:29:39,095 now you're free to serve God. 668 00:29:39,965 --> 00:29:43,895 You serve God because you want to, and that's where chapter seven goes. 669 00:29:43,895 --> 00:29:47,285 Right after that, the gospel frees you from the law, because 670 00:29:47,285 --> 00:29:49,325 if I'm a Christian, right, what do I do about all the commands? 671 00:29:50,629 --> 00:29:53,149 What I do about all God's commands, the, the Old Testament 672 00:29:53,149 --> 00:29:54,679 has 600 something commands in it. 673 00:29:54,709 --> 00:29:55,639 What do I do with all this? 674 00:29:57,050 --> 00:29:58,280 The gospel frees you from the law. 675 00:29:58,310 --> 00:30:03,439 You're free from trying to be good enough because chapter five, you're 676 00:30:03,439 --> 00:30:05,780 justified, you're made righteous. 677 00:30:06,050 --> 00:30:07,850 You have confidence because of Jesus. 678 00:30:08,480 --> 00:30:10,280 So now you say, you know what? 679 00:30:10,280 --> 00:30:11,899 I don't need to use my good works. 680 00:30:11,899 --> 00:30:14,149 I don't need to use my Bible reading or my prayer, or my church attendance, 681 00:30:14,149 --> 00:30:15,679 or my Bible knowledge or my. 682 00:30:16,895 --> 00:30:19,175 Or how am I, how I treat my siblings? 683 00:30:19,324 --> 00:30:21,574 I don't need to use that to make me feel good enough. 684 00:30:22,145 --> 00:30:24,485 I'm free from that 'cause I just, I serve God. 685 00:30:24,485 --> 00:30:25,084 'cause I love him. 686 00:30:25,415 --> 00:30:27,365 I'm a new person, chapter six. 687 00:30:27,574 --> 00:30:28,355 I love God. 688 00:30:28,895 --> 00:30:29,824 I have new desires. 689 00:30:29,824 --> 00:30:30,544 I have a new heart. 690 00:30:31,175 --> 00:30:32,975 I have new ambitions, I have new motives. 691 00:30:33,665 --> 00:30:36,034 So I don't do the right things to be good enough. 692 00:30:36,034 --> 00:30:37,655 I do the right things 'cause I love God. 693 00:30:38,044 --> 00:30:38,885 'cause it's who I am. 694 00:30:38,975 --> 00:30:39,784 That's just what I do. 695 00:30:40,415 --> 00:30:40,625 Right. 696 00:30:40,625 --> 00:30:42,155 A lemon tree just produces lemons. 697 00:30:42,155 --> 00:30:42,935 'cause that's what it does. 698 00:30:42,935 --> 00:30:43,594 It's a lemon tree. 699 00:30:44,360 --> 00:30:45,110 That's how it works. 700 00:30:45,919 --> 00:30:47,899 It doesn't do it to prove to be a lemon tree. 701 00:30:47,899 --> 00:30:49,040 It just says, yeah, I'm a lemon tree. 702 00:30:49,040 --> 00:30:49,520 It's what I do. 703 00:30:50,479 --> 00:30:56,419 So the gospel frees you from the law, and then chapter eight, the gospel 704 00:30:56,419 --> 00:30:59,840 guarantees God's love for you, right? 705 00:30:59,840 --> 00:31:03,439 You can be a hundred percent certain that God loves you and is working 706 00:31:03,709 --> 00:31:05,510 for your good because of the gospel. 707 00:31:06,229 --> 00:31:10,490 Chapter eight verse 31 and 32. 708 00:31:11,495 --> 00:31:18,725 Says that if God gave Jesus for you, if God sent his son to die for you, his 709 00:31:19,055 --> 00:31:23,945 favorite person in the world, how will he not also give you all things that is 710 00:31:23,975 --> 00:31:25,235 give you what you need, take care of you. 711 00:31:26,495 --> 00:31:29,015 If God loves you enough to save you when you are a rebel, that's 712 00:31:29,015 --> 00:31:30,065 what Chapter Five talks about. 713 00:31:30,365 --> 00:31:33,545 Then how can you not trust him to take care of you? 714 00:31:33,545 --> 00:31:38,015 If you can trust God with your eternal salvation, surely you can trust God with 715 00:31:38,765 --> 00:31:39,921 your career or your school or your friend. 716 00:31:43,445 --> 00:31:47,975 So the book of Romans is gonna show us that the gospel is for all Christians 717 00:31:48,275 --> 00:31:53,405 forever, not just to get you saved and then you move on to to better things. 718 00:31:53,945 --> 00:31:59,580 The gospel is essential for all Christians, no matter how long you've 719 00:31:59,580 --> 00:32:01,220 been a Christian or how much you know. 720 00:32:02,825 --> 00:32:04,685 So that's what the book of Romans is gonna show us. 721 00:32:05,105 --> 00:32:05,495 It's gonna show us. 722 00:32:06,080 --> 00:32:09,530 All of these awesome things about God, about his word, about 723 00:32:09,530 --> 00:32:12,230 forgiveness, about how Christians live, about what Christians do. 724 00:32:12,740 --> 00:32:14,780 And so I'm really excited to be studying this with you. 725 00:32:15,139 --> 00:32:17,810 And so we're gonna talk about more of these things in small groups. 726 00:32:17,810 --> 00:32:20,060 So I'm gonna pray for us and we're gonna head to small groups. 727 00:32:20,060 --> 00:32:20,360 All right. 728 00:32:23,720 --> 00:32:28,399 God, thank you that you came up with the idea to save us. 729 00:32:28,460 --> 00:32:29,149 You didn't have to. 730 00:32:29,780 --> 00:32:31,460 You weren't obligated to save us. 731 00:32:31,490 --> 00:32:36,140 In fact, the only obligation you have as a good judge is to condemn us, to punish us. 732 00:32:36,200 --> 00:32:37,550 It would be the right thing for you to do. 733 00:32:38,000 --> 00:32:42,260 But instead, because of your great love, you decided to save us and forgive us of 734 00:32:42,260 --> 00:32:44,540 our, of our sins if we trust in Jesus. 735 00:32:44,540 --> 00:32:48,740 So I pray for anyone tonight who does not trust in Jesus, who is trying to be 736 00:32:48,740 --> 00:32:53,060 good enough on their own because of what they do or, or who their parents are, or 737 00:32:53,780 --> 00:32:56,150 what they've maybe tried to do for you. 738 00:32:56,150 --> 00:32:57,260 I pray that, um. 739 00:32:57,980 --> 00:33:02,629 They would rely on Jesus to save them and they wouldn't rely on themselves, but they 740 00:33:02,629 --> 00:33:06,680 would put their hope and their confidence in Jesus to be their righteousness, to 741 00:33:06,680 --> 00:33:07,970 make them good enough to be with you. 742 00:33:08,149 --> 00:33:10,940 And I pray for those of us who are Christians, that we would continue to 743 00:33:11,480 --> 00:33:16,730 live by the gospel, that we wouldn't try to go back to living the way we used to, 744 00:33:17,120 --> 00:33:20,600 but that we would remember that you've changed who we are and so that we would. 745 00:33:21,230 --> 00:33:24,830 Live for you because we love you and because we know that you love us. 746 00:33:24,830 --> 00:33:29,150 So thank you for just the certainty we can have that you love your people, 747 00:33:29,179 --> 00:33:32,569 you love your children, you've adopted us, and I pray that you would make 748 00:33:32,569 --> 00:33:35,270 that even more clear to us as we talk about these things in small groups. 749 00:33:35,299 --> 00:33:36,199 We pray this in Jesus' name. 750 00:33:36,620 --> 00:33:36,949 Amen.