WEBVTT 1 00:00:00.800 --> 00:00:03.680 You're listening to the Bible Guys, a podcast where a 2 00:00:03.720 --> 00:00:06.440 couple of friends talk about the Bible in fun in 3 00:00:06.559 --> 00:00:17.920 practical ways. Good morning, good morning, talk, good morning to 4 00:00:18.120 --> 00:00:19.000 you and you. 5 00:00:18.839 --> 00:00:22.000 And man Alive. Monday and Thursday. 6 00:00:22.039 --> 00:00:25.440 Monday and Thursday, this week is such a good morning 7 00:00:25.879 --> 00:00:27.079 for tuning into the Bible guys. 8 00:00:27.079 --> 00:00:29.280 What I mean it could get any better? 9 00:00:30.239 --> 00:00:31.800 I don't think not, Jeff. 10 00:00:32.679 --> 00:00:33.439 We just peeked. 11 00:00:33.719 --> 00:00:36.920 Yep, they did, And so hey, we want to just 12 00:00:36.960 --> 00:00:39.920 say thanks for tuning in, and we hope that you're 13 00:00:39.960 --> 00:00:42.679 able to share the Bible guys. We haven't asked that 14 00:00:42.719 --> 00:00:46.079 in a while, but it'll be great. Tell people that, hey, 15 00:00:46.079 --> 00:00:47.479 I appreciate the Bible guys. 16 00:00:47.520 --> 00:00:49.679 Out Let people know. 17 00:00:49.920 --> 00:00:52.799 Well, it's not just helping us, it's helping them. 18 00:00:53.560 --> 00:00:56.119 Well, we're trying to get the word out. Yeah for sure. 19 00:00:56.759 --> 00:00:58.560 But but yeah, if you like an episode, if it 20 00:00:58.560 --> 00:00:59.799 speaks to your heart, then just share. 21 00:00:59.799 --> 00:01:01.240 It will be great. 22 00:01:01.840 --> 00:01:05.439 Hey, today we actually have before we dive into the 23 00:01:05.439 --> 00:01:09.200 scripture in Roman chapter seven and eight. It's not six 24 00:01:09.319 --> 00:01:10.280 seven seven. 25 00:01:10.079 --> 00:01:11.439 Eight seven eight oh yeah. 26 00:01:11.480 --> 00:01:15.000 Yeah. However, we are going to do a segment called 27 00:01:15.079 --> 00:01:17.159 stump the pastor yes. 28 00:01:17.319 --> 00:01:19.439 I like these, Yeah, this is fun. 29 00:01:19.680 --> 00:01:22.239 Scott g Yeah, can I read this please? 30 00:01:22.599 --> 00:01:25.280 Hi, Scott, Scott says this, Hey. 31 00:01:25.079 --> 00:01:30.000 Bibble, guys. I've always wondered about Jesus's name. His original 32 00:01:30.120 --> 00:01:36.439 Hebrew name was Yeshua or Yeshua, which means Yahweh saves 33 00:01:37.480 --> 00:01:40.280 or you're Shua right, yeah, depending on how you want 34 00:01:40.280 --> 00:01:43.760 to pronounce it. Over time we started saying Jesus instead. 35 00:01:44.319 --> 00:01:47.079 But since names and their meetings are so important to 36 00:01:47.079 --> 00:01:50.640 God throughout scripture, does it matter which name we use? 37 00:01:51.359 --> 00:01:54.120 Is it just a translation thing or is there something 38 00:01:54.200 --> 00:01:55.280 deeper behind it? 39 00:01:55.840 --> 00:01:58.400 I love that question. That's good. It's really good thinking, Scott. 40 00:01:58.480 --> 00:01:59.239 It's great thinking. 41 00:01:59.400 --> 00:01:59.959 Yeah, great. 42 00:02:00.319 --> 00:02:04.120 And so you know, so Yahweh is the name of God. 43 00:02:04.200 --> 00:02:07.079 And when you combine that with the verb in Hebrew, 44 00:02:07.400 --> 00:02:12.680 which means saves or rescues, you put those together, that's 45 00:02:12.719 --> 00:02:17.680 where you get Yeshua, right, which is which is Yahweh saves, 46 00:02:18.080 --> 00:02:19.560 which is God saves. 47 00:02:19.319 --> 00:02:22.560 Which is the exact same name that we translate Joshua. Yes, 48 00:02:22.599 --> 00:02:26.240 that's correct today. So Joshua in the Old Testament would 49 00:02:26.240 --> 00:02:28.159 have had the same name as Jesus. Yeah. 50 00:02:28.240 --> 00:02:33.439 And so when when the Angel appeared to marry and 51 00:02:33.840 --> 00:02:36.800 said you're going to have a son, and you are 52 00:02:36.840 --> 00:02:39.960 to call him. She would he would have said this word, right, 53 00:02:40.039 --> 00:02:42.039 he would have said Yeshua. And he would have said 54 00:02:42.280 --> 00:02:45.479 because he is going to save people from their sins. 55 00:02:46.039 --> 00:02:49.360 So he literally gave the explanation behind the meaning of 56 00:02:49.439 --> 00:02:51.919 the name. So all of that was in Hebrew. 57 00:02:52.159 --> 00:02:54.599 Yeah, very cool. So Scott's question is great, then shouldn't 58 00:02:54.599 --> 00:02:56.039 we isn't that the name we should be using? 59 00:02:56.120 --> 00:02:56.520 Correct? 60 00:02:56.879 --> 00:02:59.439 Right? I think if we were in So it's interesting. 61 00:03:01.680 --> 00:03:06.360 The idea of praying in Jesus's name comes from the Gospels. 62 00:03:07.039 --> 00:03:08.840 Jesus said, we ask anything in my name, I'll do 63 00:03:08.879 --> 00:03:11.120 it for you. Bible says there's no other name utter 64 00:03:11.159 --> 00:03:14.439 haven given among men whereby we must be saved. There's 65 00:03:14.680 --> 00:03:18.759 multiple that his name is name above every name, and 66 00:03:18.960 --> 00:03:21.199 his name every name will bow every time, will confess 67 00:03:21.240 --> 00:03:26.280 that Jesus's lord. So the name of Jesus is incredibly 68 00:03:26.319 --> 00:03:31.360 powerful and there's nothing God says, nothing higher than Jesus name. 69 00:03:31.879 --> 00:03:36.000 So it seems like a big deal. And so Scott's thinking, right, 70 00:03:36.240 --> 00:03:39.560 should we just only be using Yeshuah? Here's what I 71 00:03:39.599 --> 00:03:44.680 would say. Certainly, Mary and Joseph called him yashuwa, yeah right, 72 00:03:45.360 --> 00:03:47.759 because they would have in the house, they would have 73 00:03:47.800 --> 00:03:52.560 spoken Hebrew. Yes, very likely. I can't guarantee that, but 74 00:03:52.599 --> 00:03:56.639 it's likely. Aramaic was really the language of the people 75 00:03:57.400 --> 00:04:02.560 in Galilee at the time, but it was likely that 76 00:04:02.599 --> 00:04:07.439 they spoke in the synagogues. Jesus was probably called Yeshua. 77 00:04:08.240 --> 00:04:11.560 The issue was saying we should only pray Yeshua and 78 00:04:11.599 --> 00:04:16.240 not Jesus is because the verse that we get it 79 00:04:16.279 --> 00:04:19.439 that we should pray in jesus name was written in Greek, 80 00:04:20.240 --> 00:04:23.720 not in Hebrew, so it didn't even use Jesus. It 81 00:04:23.839 --> 00:04:28.600 used that. They didn't Greeks couldn't use the s h sound. 82 00:04:28.959 --> 00:04:33.480 There was no letter that gave us right, so they 83 00:04:33.519 --> 00:04:36.120 spelled that I E s o U s. Oh, yeah 84 00:04:36.199 --> 00:04:39.360 right there, you looked it up. I E s O U. 85 00:04:39.399 --> 00:04:45.040 S which is pronounced yeah right. So that's Jesus's name 86 00:04:45.160 --> 00:04:45.560 in Greek. 87 00:04:45.639 --> 00:04:48.079 In Greek, that's the way that Matthew, Mark, Luke, and 88 00:04:48.160 --> 00:04:52.360 John would have written it. That's how That's how Paul 89 00:04:52.519 --> 00:04:54.600 would have written it. Peter, that's how he would have 90 00:04:54.600 --> 00:04:57.360 written it. James, that's how he would have writen a. 91 00:04:57.439 --> 00:04:59.160 Jude would have written it. That way the author of 92 00:04:59.199 --> 00:05:01.839 Hebrews would have written with that only those letters. 93 00:05:01.839 --> 00:05:02.560 Those lettership. 94 00:05:05.480 --> 00:05:10.040 It's actually in Latin, which you know, the the Romans 95 00:05:10.079 --> 00:05:14.120 began replacing Greek right after Jesus, rate after Paul's life 96 00:05:14.120 --> 00:05:18.360 and John's life, they began replacing Greek with Latin. Latin 97 00:05:18.600 --> 00:05:22.879 was I E. S O S. They took out the U, 98 00:05:23.079 --> 00:05:27.439 so it wasn't Zeus's sous right, but it was basically Jesus. 99 00:05:27.920 --> 00:05:29.480 It's how they would have said it in Latin Jesus, 100 00:05:29.480 --> 00:05:30.160 which is funny. 101 00:05:30.240 --> 00:05:33.560 And it's important to probably understand that Greek was the 102 00:05:34.079 --> 00:05:37.000 language that was used in commerce. Yes, Greek was the 103 00:05:37.079 --> 00:05:39.240 language that unified everybody. 104 00:05:39.399 --> 00:05:42.079 Everybody in the market would have spoken Greek. Yes, because 105 00:05:42.199 --> 00:05:44.480 Joseph as a as A, as a carpenter would have 106 00:05:44.480 --> 00:05:45.079 spoken Greek. 107 00:05:45.199 --> 00:05:47.199 It's actually one of the reasons why the Roman Empire 108 00:05:47.319 --> 00:05:50.240 was able to move further and faster than any other 109 00:05:50.279 --> 00:05:53.279 empire up to that point, because of the Rhodes, but 110 00:05:53.319 --> 00:05:56.439 also because Greek unified everybody, and there was for the 111 00:05:56.439 --> 00:05:56.879 first time. 112 00:05:56.920 --> 00:05:58.920 It was because of Alexander the Great. They didn't come 113 00:05:58.920 --> 00:06:01.279 in to try to change. Alexander had expanded his kingdom 114 00:06:01.360 --> 00:06:04.800 so far everybody could do business and government in Greek. 115 00:06:05.000 --> 00:06:07.240 So the Romans didn't try to change it. They just went, okay, 116 00:06:07.240 --> 00:06:09.120 we're gonna learn Greek too, right. 117 00:06:09.040 --> 00:06:10.680 And so so it was it was the first time 118 00:06:10.720 --> 00:06:13.839 that the world was united, which by the way, is 119 00:06:14.560 --> 00:06:17.879 a sermon altogether, because you know, it says that Jesus 120 00:06:17.920 --> 00:06:20.399 came at the perfect time for such a time as that, 121 00:06:20.519 --> 00:06:22.519 not for such a time as this, when the when 122 00:06:22.560 --> 00:06:24.839 the perfect time it comes, right, when the fullness of 123 00:06:24.879 --> 00:06:28.199 time it come. It was in the world was ripe 124 00:06:28.680 --> 00:06:30.959 for Jesus. And in Greek, I think was a part 125 00:06:31.000 --> 00:06:33.639 of that equation. For the first time the gospel could 126 00:06:33.639 --> 00:06:36.279 be spread in any language that everybody can understand anyway, 127 00:06:36.399 --> 00:06:37.079 go ahead on. 128 00:06:37.199 --> 00:06:42.879 So so the the idea of praying in Jesus' name 129 00:06:43.439 --> 00:06:47.000 was written down in Greek I E s O U S. 130 00:06:48.480 --> 00:06:52.560 It changed for the the The Romans didn't use the 131 00:06:52.639 --> 00:06:54.959 SEUs sound, so it would have been more of a 132 00:06:55.000 --> 00:07:00.399 Sus sound, and so they because it just isn't in 133 00:07:00.480 --> 00:07:05.759 how they spoke, so they I S O S or 134 00:07:05.839 --> 00:07:10.639 I E s O S. Eventually in Italian it's Jesu. 135 00:07:11.120 --> 00:07:17.199 In Spanish it became Jesus. Over in Asia. In many 136 00:07:17.240 --> 00:07:21.079 places in Southeast Asia, it's Jesu or Jesu, right, it's 137 00:07:21.120 --> 00:07:27.519 how they say it. Here's the thing, because a relationship 138 00:07:27.519 --> 00:07:30.800 with God is in the heart, right, and it's through Christ. 139 00:07:31.319 --> 00:07:34.680 I don't know that God is expecting us to worship 140 00:07:34.800 --> 00:07:37.279 him in a dead language because that version of Hebrew 141 00:07:37.399 --> 00:07:40.000 is dead. That is, it's not even the vision of 142 00:07:40.040 --> 00:07:42.800 Hebrew that they speak today in Jerusalem. Right, Although they 143 00:07:42.839 --> 00:07:47.199 would say Jesus in Yeshua in Jerusalem. That's that's how 144 00:07:47.240 --> 00:07:48.879 they would say his name. So if you're in Jerusalem, 145 00:07:48.879 --> 00:07:51.879 you should say Yushua. But God doesn't expect us to 146 00:07:51.959 --> 00:07:54.560 worship him in a dead language, in a dead culture. 147 00:07:54.600 --> 00:07:57.879 He expects me to worship Him in my culture and 148 00:07:57.959 --> 00:08:01.319 in my language, my heart language. There's a difference between 149 00:08:01.319 --> 00:08:04.800 speaking a foreign language and hearing the Gospel in my 150 00:08:05.000 --> 00:08:09.879 heart language, right, And so it's a heart thing. And uhh. 151 00:08:11.240 --> 00:08:15.319 The fact that the original writings about praying in Jesus 152 00:08:15.480 --> 00:08:17.759 name weren't in Hebrew gives us an indication we don't 153 00:08:17.759 --> 00:08:18.920 need to pray in Hebrew. 154 00:08:19.240 --> 00:08:21.279 So is there a verse in the Bible that says 155 00:08:21.519 --> 00:08:23.720 you have to pray in Yeshua's name? 156 00:08:24.319 --> 00:08:27.199 No, no, Well that that verse doesn't even exist because 157 00:08:27.199 --> 00:08:29.360 it would have been an I E s o u 158 00:08:29.439 --> 00:08:31.040 s name right. 159 00:08:31.120 --> 00:08:33.759 Yesus, yes, which translates into Jesus. 160 00:08:33.759 --> 00:08:34.679 That's right. Yeah. 161 00:08:35.080 --> 00:08:38.799 So so should we say in Ea Seus's name? 162 00:08:40.440 --> 00:08:43.080 Uh No, No, I don't think so, because that doesn't 163 00:08:43.360 --> 00:08:46.919 mean anything to us, right, it's it's it's not it's 164 00:08:46.960 --> 00:08:50.279 not a heart language thing. The way we would say 165 00:08:50.399 --> 00:08:53.639 e a SEUs is Jesus, the way that a Southeast 166 00:08:53.639 --> 00:08:56.120 Asian would say it is Jesu, the way that a 167 00:08:56.279 --> 00:08:59.960 Spanish person would say it is Jesus. Right. Which, by 168 00:09:00.000 --> 00:09:02.720 the way, I had a friend who his company gave 169 00:09:02.759 --> 00:09:04.679 him a new work coat and you can put your 170 00:09:04.759 --> 00:09:07.279 name on it, and so he put Jesus Saves on 171 00:09:07.399 --> 00:09:10.000 the name tag. And he said, this guy kept looking 172 00:09:10.000 --> 00:09:11.440 at him, look at him, look at him for like 173 00:09:11.559 --> 00:09:13.559 a week. Finally came up to him and says, hey, 174 00:09:14.559 --> 00:09:16.960 who is Heyesu sabiz and why are you wearing his coat? 175 00:09:17.720 --> 00:09:24.000 He could not figure out he couldnt jess. 176 00:09:24.879 --> 00:09:27.480 Right because because he wasn't reading in English, he was 177 00:09:27.480 --> 00:09:32.279 reading it in Spanish. Who is Heyesu sabas and Jesus Saves? 178 00:09:32.639 --> 00:09:35.440 So h use the language of your heart to communicate 179 00:09:35.480 --> 00:09:37.159 to God. And then just know this, you're not going 180 00:09:37.240 --> 00:09:39.960 to get in trouble. This is my final note on this. Uh. 181 00:09:40.000 --> 00:09:42.320 The Book of Romans tells us that the Holy Spirit 182 00:09:42.519 --> 00:09:47.159 prays for us, intercedes for us at the throne of 183 00:09:47.159 --> 00:09:51.360 God with groanings that cannot be uttered. He's literally translating 184 00:09:51.360 --> 00:09:53.720 what you're saying to God in a language we can't 185 00:09:53.720 --> 00:09:57.200 even comprehend, correct, right, So that means you can't mess 186 00:09:57.240 --> 00:10:00.120 it up. If I had when I was teaching and 187 00:10:00.159 --> 00:10:02.240 my friend Bill how to how to share the gospel. 188 00:10:02.240 --> 00:10:05.120 We were down in Cuba and he had a translator 189 00:10:05.720 --> 00:10:07.639 and he was all nervous, and I'm like, Bill, just 190 00:10:07.840 --> 00:10:10.919 tell people. Everybody's a sinner. God loves sinners. Jesus paid 191 00:10:10.919 --> 00:10:14.000 the price for sinners, and if we by faith calling Jesus, 192 00:10:14.039 --> 00:10:16.320 he'll save us, right, Okay, Okay. So he's memorized those 193 00:10:16.320 --> 00:10:18.039 things he's memory he's trying to memorize the verses. He 194 00:10:18.120 --> 00:10:20.320 keeps stumbling through it. He was in his late fifties 195 00:10:20.360 --> 00:10:22.600 at the time, so he was kind of struggling memorizing 196 00:10:22.600 --> 00:10:24.759 a thing. So I went to his translator privately and 197 00:10:24.759 --> 00:10:26.559 I'm like, hey, Bill's still trying to learn how to 198 00:10:26.679 --> 00:10:29.480 use or share the gospel. Uh, just say whatever needs 199 00:10:29.519 --> 00:10:33.120 to be said. That's so funny, right, and and Bill 200 00:10:33.120 --> 00:10:35.399 will come. I go. We let another guy to Jesus today. 201 00:10:35.440 --> 00:10:38.120 I'm like, great, and I'd look at his his translator's 202 00:10:38.120 --> 00:10:40.639 translator be like you know, but Bill just kept getting 203 00:10:40.639 --> 00:10:43.440 better and better and better sharing the gospel. But his 204 00:10:43.480 --> 00:10:45.320 translator wasn't gonna let him grew up. So if you 205 00:10:45.399 --> 00:10:47.720 understand the Holy Spirit, that's his job is to pray, 206 00:10:48.360 --> 00:10:50.919 take our prayers to God in groanings that we can't utter. 207 00:10:51.480 --> 00:10:53.440 The Holy Spirit is translating for us. He's not gonna 208 00:10:53.480 --> 00:10:55.960 let us mess upright, And so yeah. 209 00:10:55.919 --> 00:10:59.159 Yeah, and there's no and there's no uh indication in 210 00:10:59.159 --> 00:11:02.159 scripture at all that says that you must use the 211 00:11:02.200 --> 00:11:06.360 original Hebrew language name. And if we were, if we 212 00:11:06.360 --> 00:11:08.279 were to interpret it that way, then it would it 213 00:11:08.320 --> 00:11:11.960 would it would be us learning Hebrew and speaking Hebrew. 214 00:11:12.000 --> 00:11:14.240 Probably that's right, most likely, that's right. Well, Hey, we 215 00:11:14.279 --> 00:11:15.799 went a long time on that one, But that's a 216 00:11:15.840 --> 00:11:19.799 great question, Scott, And good job, buddysions. Yeah, good, good 217 00:11:19.799 --> 00:11:22.039 thoughts on that one. Well, hey, we are in a 218 00:11:22.080 --> 00:11:25.679 really powerful passage. And uh, I think I mentioned earlier 219 00:11:25.720 --> 00:11:29.080 this week that my brother passed away unexpectedly and I'm 220 00:11:29.080 --> 00:11:34.519 doing his funeral and next week, and uh, I'm going 221 00:11:34.600 --> 00:11:36.519 to speak from this passage. So it's kind of a neat, 222 00:11:36.919 --> 00:11:37.679 so kind of a neat. 223 00:11:37.720 --> 00:11:39.440 So you would say this passage is powerful. 224 00:11:39.600 --> 00:11:40.440 Yeah, very powerful. 225 00:11:40.600 --> 00:11:43.759 It's very not dissimilar to the segment that we just 226 00:11:43.799 --> 00:11:45.240 did about the powerful name of God. 227 00:11:45.240 --> 00:11:48.200 Powerful name. O. There you go, Wow, speaking of powerful things, 228 00:11:48.200 --> 00:11:49.360 this is a powerful passage. 229 00:11:49.480 --> 00:11:51.720 Hey, that was actually a legitimate transition right there. 230 00:11:51.960 --> 00:11:55.200 So Romans chapter seven, we're going to the verse we're 231 00:11:55.240 --> 00:11:57.559 highlighting is Romans chapter eight, verse one. But I'm going 232 00:11:57.639 --> 00:11:59.639 to pick up in Romans chapter seven because you got 233 00:11:59.679 --> 00:12:02.120 a member of in when the Bible is being written, 234 00:12:02.120 --> 00:12:04.600 there were no verses in chapters, right, it was just 235 00:12:04.679 --> 00:12:06.720 big ideas. So they wrote whole passages. 236 00:12:07.159 --> 00:12:11.720 Are are you sharing the officiating of your brother's sharing 237 00:12:11.720 --> 00:12:13.480 with somebody else? It's just all you. 238 00:12:13.559 --> 00:12:15.399 It's just me. It's gonna be a tough one. 239 00:12:15.519 --> 00:12:16.360 It's gonna be a tough one. 240 00:12:16.399 --> 00:12:20.799 But yep. So Paul is writing here and he's talking 241 00:12:20.840 --> 00:12:23.639 about God gave us the law and it was a 242 00:12:23.639 --> 00:12:25.720 good thing and not a bad thing, but it just 243 00:12:25.799 --> 00:12:29.960 wasn't sufficient. So I'm a sinner. I keep breaking the law. 244 00:12:30.399 --> 00:12:32.919 So my temptations say the law is bad. He said, no, 245 00:12:32.960 --> 00:12:34.639 the law is good. It's just the problem is the 246 00:12:34.720 --> 00:12:37.559 law can't save me because I'm a sinner, and it 247 00:12:37.639 --> 00:12:39.600 just proves to me. So the things I want to 248 00:12:39.600 --> 00:12:40.840 do I don't do. The things I don't want to 249 00:12:40.840 --> 00:12:42.639 do I do. So he picks it up here in 250 00:12:42.720 --> 00:12:45.399 verse fourteen says, So the trouble is not with the law, 251 00:12:45.799 --> 00:12:49.639 for it's spiritual and good. The troubles with me, for 252 00:12:49.720 --> 00:12:52.840 I'm all too human, a slave to sin. I don't 253 00:12:52.879 --> 00:12:55.240 really understand myself, for I want to do what's right, 254 00:12:55.279 --> 00:12:57.240 but I don't do it. Instead I do what I hate. 255 00:12:57.919 --> 00:13:00.000 But if I know that what I am doing is wrong, 256 00:13:00.080 --> 00:13:02.159 and this shows that I agree that the law is good. 257 00:13:02.600 --> 00:13:05.320 So the law is just our teacher right. So I'm 258 00:13:05.320 --> 00:13:07.639 not the one doing wrong. It's sin living in me 259 00:13:07.799 --> 00:13:10.639 that does it. And I know that nothing good lives 260 00:13:10.639 --> 00:13:13.320 in me, that is in my sinful nature. I want 261 00:13:13.320 --> 00:13:15.120 to do what is right, but I can't. I want 262 00:13:15.159 --> 00:13:16.919 to do what is good, but I don't. I don't 263 00:13:16.919 --> 00:13:18.919 want to do what is wrong, but I do it anyway. 264 00:13:19.159 --> 00:13:21.360 But if I do what I don't want to do, 265 00:13:21.639 --> 00:13:23.679 I'm not really the one doing wrong. It is sin 266 00:13:24.000 --> 00:13:26.960 living in me that does it. I've discovered this principle 267 00:13:26.960 --> 00:13:29.159 of life that when I want to do what is right, 268 00:13:29.240 --> 00:13:32.440 I inevitably do what is wrong. I love God's law 269 00:13:32.480 --> 00:13:36.200 with all my heart. But there is another power within 270 00:13:36.320 --> 00:13:39.759 me that is at war with my mind, and this 271 00:13:39.879 --> 00:13:41.759 power makes me a slave to the sin that is 272 00:13:41.759 --> 00:13:45.200 still within me. Oh what a miserable person I am. 273 00:13:45.600 --> 00:13:48.600 Who will free me from this life that is dominated 274 00:13:48.639 --> 00:13:51.559 by sin and death? Thank God? The answer is in 275 00:13:51.639 --> 00:13:55.080 Jesus Christ, our Lord. See so you see how it 276 00:13:55.159 --> 00:13:57.480 is in my mind. I really want to obey God's law, 277 00:13:57.519 --> 00:13:59.759 but because of my sinful nature, I'm a slave to sin. 278 00:14:00.519 --> 00:14:03.919 That's terrible. That's where you end. That's terrible. But Romans eight, 279 00:14:04.000 --> 00:14:07.879 verse one says, so now there is no condemnation for 280 00:14:07.919 --> 00:14:10.840 those who belong to Jesus Christ. And because you belong 281 00:14:10.919 --> 00:14:13.080 to him, the power of the life giving spirit has 282 00:14:13.120 --> 00:14:15.519 freed you from the power of sin that leads to death. 283 00:14:16.080 --> 00:14:18.519 The law of Moses was unable to save us because 284 00:14:18.559 --> 00:14:21.120 of the weakness of our sinful nature. So God did 285 00:14:21.159 --> 00:14:23.279 what the law could not do. He sent his own 286 00:14:23.320 --> 00:14:25.440 son in a body like the bodies we sinners have, 287 00:14:25.799 --> 00:14:28.120 and in that body, God declared an end to sins 288 00:14:28.159 --> 00:14:31.080 control over us by giving his son as a sacrifice 289 00:14:31.080 --> 00:14:33.679 for our sins. And he did this so that the 290 00:14:33.799 --> 00:14:36.399 just requirement of the law would be fully satisfied for 291 00:14:36.559 --> 00:14:39.440 us who no longer follow our sinful nature but instead 292 00:14:39.679 --> 00:14:41.440 follow the spirit. I mean, we can just go on. 293 00:14:41.559 --> 00:14:44.639 This is some exciting stuff here about the mechanisms of 294 00:14:44.679 --> 00:14:47.279 salvation and what God did. But the point today is 295 00:14:47.360 --> 00:14:50.519 there's no condemnation for those who belong to Christ Jesus. 296 00:14:50.679 --> 00:14:53.720 Yeah, and I know we're not going to read it, 297 00:14:53.759 --> 00:14:57.480 but Romans Ah the end of that chapter when it 298 00:14:57.480 --> 00:15:00.000 talks about nothing can separatis from God. Ah, yeah, yeah, 299 00:15:00.200 --> 00:15:01.279 that's one of my favorites. 300 00:15:01.360 --> 00:15:04.480 Yep. So for I am convinced that nothing can ever 301 00:15:04.519 --> 00:15:07.000 separate us from God's love, neither death nor life, angels 302 00:15:07.039 --> 00:15:10.000 or demons. Our fears for today are worries about tomorrow. 303 00:15:10.120 --> 00:15:12.000 Not even the powers of hell can separate us from 304 00:15:12.000 --> 00:15:14.559 God's love. No power in the sky above or in 305 00:15:14.559 --> 00:15:18.120 the earth below. Indeed, nothing in all creation will ever 306 00:15:18.200 --> 00:15:20.519 be able to separate us from the love of God 307 00:15:20.519 --> 00:15:22.720 that is revealed in Christ Jesus the Lord. What a 308 00:15:22.720 --> 00:15:25.000 powerful passage. So you get one chapter that if you 309 00:15:25.120 --> 00:15:27.919 ended in chapter seven, you're like, what a miserable He 310 00:15:27.960 --> 00:15:31.440 literally says, what a miserable person I am? I feel 311 00:15:31.480 --> 00:15:34.559 like I'm dominated by sin? What the heck? And then 312 00:15:34.559 --> 00:15:37.879 he goes, but hey, there's good news. There's no condemnation 313 00:15:37.960 --> 00:15:39.440 for those who are in Christ. Jesus He's the only 314 00:15:39.639 --> 00:15:41.600 rescue me. And at the end is saying nothing can 315 00:15:41.600 --> 00:15:44.000 separate me from God's love. Then if that's the case 316 00:15:44.399 --> 00:15:47.480 that Jesus rescued me from it, nothing can separate me 317 00:15:47.480 --> 00:15:47.759 from it. 318 00:15:47.799 --> 00:15:49.600 Well, he does give a little bit of hope. At 319 00:15:49.639 --> 00:15:52.120 the end of seven, he says, thank God, the answer 320 00:15:52.159 --> 00:15:55.519 is in Jesus, Christ our Lord. So because he says, 321 00:15:55.519 --> 00:15:59.039 who's going to free me from this miserable existence of 322 00:15:59.080 --> 00:16:01.840 sin and death? He say, thank God, it's Jesus, right, 323 00:16:02.120 --> 00:16:04.399 And then yeah, you're right. All Chapter eight then just 324 00:16:05.120 --> 00:16:08.399 lays out what Jesus has done for us, and so. 325 00:16:08.440 --> 00:16:11.639 Yeah, well, these two sentences twenty four and twenty five, Oh, 326 00:16:11.639 --> 00:16:14.120 what a miserable person I am? Who will free me 327 00:16:14.159 --> 00:16:16.120 from this life that is dominated by sin and death. 328 00:16:17.039 --> 00:16:19.639 That's one yep. The very next verse is thank God. 329 00:16:19.679 --> 00:16:23.240 The answer is in Christ, Jesus our Lord. So this 330 00:16:23.279 --> 00:16:25.159 is the dichotomy I think that so many people live in. 331 00:16:25.159 --> 00:16:28.480 The paradox that so many Christians live in is every 332 00:16:28.600 --> 00:16:31.399 day I'm in my flesh because I'm waiting for that 333 00:16:31.480 --> 00:16:34.440 day when God totally redeems me. Right, So I've been redeemed, 334 00:16:34.440 --> 00:16:36.879 and I'm being redeemed at the same time. I've been 335 00:16:36.919 --> 00:16:40.159 sanctified and I'm being sanctified at the same time. I've 336 00:16:40.200 --> 00:16:42.440 been redeemed. Means that God bought me and at the 337 00:16:42.480 --> 00:16:47.519 same time He will ultimately restore and redeem me in heaven. 338 00:16:47.759 --> 00:16:51.559 It's the same thing with being sanctified. God has set 339 00:16:51.600 --> 00:16:53.960 me apart for his use and at the same time 340 00:16:54.080 --> 00:16:56.840 he's making me cleaner and cleaner so he can use me. Right, 341 00:16:57.120 --> 00:17:00.759 and both are true. It's happening. It's already happened to 342 00:17:00.759 --> 00:17:03.600 God's eyes because he's not stuck in time, so it's 343 00:17:03.600 --> 00:17:06.440 already resolved and he's resolving it. And so you and 344 00:17:06.519 --> 00:17:09.519 I because we're living in time where it's already established. 345 00:17:09.519 --> 00:17:12.480 God's already forgiven your sins. God's already saved you. God 346 00:17:12.480 --> 00:17:15.039 has already set you aside for his use. And at 347 00:17:15.039 --> 00:17:18.799 the same time, he's cleaning you up, he's making you new. 348 00:17:19.160 --> 00:17:21.960 Even though you will be new, you are new, you 349 00:17:22.000 --> 00:17:24.960 will be new. He's making you new. All those things 350 00:17:25.000 --> 00:17:26.799 are happening at the same time for us, but we're 351 00:17:26.839 --> 00:17:28.599 living it out in time, and it can be very frustrating, 352 00:17:28.599 --> 00:17:30.799 because why did I tell that lie yesterday? Or why 353 00:17:30.799 --> 00:17:33.000 did I have that lustful thought yesterday? I want to 354 00:17:33.039 --> 00:17:35.079 serve God? Why do God? I want to serve you? 355 00:17:35.279 --> 00:17:37.720 This passage in the King James, this says the spirit 356 00:17:37.759 --> 00:17:41.279 truly is willing, but the flesh is weak, right right, right, 357 00:17:41.440 --> 00:17:42.920 And he said, man, I want to do the right things. 358 00:17:42.960 --> 00:17:44.880 I don't do him. What the heck? What's going on? 359 00:17:45.559 --> 00:17:47.720 And then he goes and so he said, if I 360 00:17:47.799 --> 00:17:52.039 only focus on my behaviors, so my sin is an event, 361 00:17:52.920 --> 00:17:55.599 it's not my identity, it's not who I am. Does 362 00:17:55.640 --> 00:17:58.000 that make sense? And a lot of times the devil 363 00:17:58.000 --> 00:18:01.599 wants you to begin believing that your sin is your identity. 364 00:18:01.640 --> 00:18:05.799 You are an addict, you are a liar, you are 365 00:18:05.960 --> 00:18:09.519 a lustful person, you are angry. Oh well, I just 366 00:18:09.559 --> 00:18:12.279 have a bad temper, right, And he wants us to 367 00:18:12.279 --> 00:18:15.640 believe these events are our identity. And what he's trying 368 00:18:15.680 --> 00:18:18.640 to say is, if I find my identity and the 369 00:18:18.720 --> 00:18:21.400 things I do, what a miserable person I am because 370 00:18:21.400 --> 00:18:23.720 I can never do the right thing. I do it sometimes, 371 00:18:23.720 --> 00:18:26.599 but not all the time. He said, But thank God, 372 00:18:26.720 --> 00:18:29.279 my identity is in Christ Jesus, and so there's no 373 00:18:29.359 --> 00:18:30.599 condemnation in Jesus. 374 00:18:30.880 --> 00:18:34.480 Yeah. And I love how he draws the distinction and says, 375 00:18:34.519 --> 00:18:38.400 so God did with the law could not do right. Yeah, 376 00:18:38.400 --> 00:18:41.519 because again the law is good, right God, God gave 377 00:18:41.599 --> 00:18:45.279 us six hundred and thirteen precepts. Right, and so it 378 00:18:45.319 --> 00:18:47.640 wasn't just the thing commandments. There's a lot of them. 379 00:18:47.920 --> 00:18:50.200 Yeah, don't kill people is a good thing. It's a 380 00:18:50.200 --> 00:18:52.440 spiritual thing. Yes, don't lie, that's a good thing. It's 381 00:18:52.440 --> 00:18:53.119 a spiritual thing. 382 00:18:53.440 --> 00:18:55.799 So yeah, there were two hundred and forty eight thou shots, 383 00:18:55.799 --> 00:18:58.000 three hundred and sixty five thou shot notts, six hundred 384 00:18:58.039 --> 00:19:02.720 and thirteen altogether. And uh, you know, he says they're good, 385 00:19:02.759 --> 00:19:07.440 they're good things. But the problem is we cannot obey them, 386 00:19:07.480 --> 00:19:08.680 and so therefore. 387 00:19:08.720 --> 00:19:11.279 We cannot perfectly obey them perfectly. We can't obey them 388 00:19:11.279 --> 00:19:15.000 in any given moment. Theresation taking you, I meant. 389 00:19:14.880 --> 00:19:17.240 In my mind, we cannot obey them for salvation. 390 00:19:17.440 --> 00:19:19.039 Right, right, we can't do it perfectly. 391 00:19:19.240 --> 00:19:23.200 Yeah. So, so the requirement is perfection for heaven, that's right. 392 00:19:23.440 --> 00:19:27.240 The requirement for heaven is sinlessness, which means you would 393 00:19:27.240 --> 00:19:29.720 have to obey the law completely. And what Paul is 394 00:19:29.759 --> 00:19:32.759 saying is Paul saying, listen, not only can I not 395 00:19:33.000 --> 00:19:36.119 obey every single part of the law, but I can't 396 00:19:36.160 --> 00:19:39.519 even live out today without without without my struggle, right 397 00:19:39.759 --> 00:19:43.039 because my human nature and my sinful nature, you know, 398 00:19:43.079 --> 00:19:44.559 it has a hold of me. And there's a struggle 399 00:19:44.599 --> 00:19:47.640 here and in my in my sinfulness. But thank God, 400 00:19:48.079 --> 00:19:53.279 Jesus is the solution to my sinful struggle because when 401 00:19:53.319 --> 00:19:55.039