1 00:00:06,766 --> 00:00:09,800 But as we've been studying through the book of Romans, that has been 2 00:00:09,800 --> 00:00:15,300 the central theme, the gospel of Christ, which is the good news for salvation. 3 00:00:16,066 --> 00:00:19,800 The interesting thing is we started studying that in the first few chapters. 4 00:00:19,800 --> 00:00:23,333 It didn't sound like good news because Paul was painting 5 00:00:23,333 --> 00:00:27,733 a very clear picture on our need for salvation. 6 00:00:28,166 --> 00:00:33,033 And in order to do that, he has to first convince us that we need to be saved. 7 00:00:33,833 --> 00:00:37,500 And the way he did that was by showing us our own sin. 8 00:00:38,566 --> 00:00:41,166 And so the good news 9 00:00:41,166 --> 00:00:44,333 didn't necessarily seem so good at the beginning, 10 00:00:44,333 --> 00:00:47,333 because it seemed like it was a bunch of bad news about us. 11 00:00:47,800 --> 00:00:50,366 But Paul turns a corner 12 00:00:50,366 --> 00:00:54,700 and we start looking at the grace of God, which, through the grace of God, 13 00:00:54,700 --> 00:00:58,333 by the grace of God we have salvation, which is the good news, the gospel. 14 00:00:58,366 --> 00:01:00,633 So we get into it. Really? 15 00:01:00,633 --> 00:01:04,500 In, in really powerful, ways. 16 00:01:04,800 --> 00:01:08,533 In chapter five, six, seven and eight and so we're in chapter five today. 17 00:01:09,000 --> 00:01:09,966 And so if you have a Bible 18 00:01:09,966 --> 00:01:13,666 brought one with you, open it to chapter of Romans, chapter five. 19 00:01:14,933 --> 00:01:16,566 There are times 20 00:01:16,566 --> 00:01:19,900 when we read, especially the book of Romans, 21 00:01:20,300 --> 00:01:24,233 that it feels like it sounds like it's difficult to understand. 22 00:01:25,633 --> 00:01:28,533 And the reason is it was written 23 00:01:28,533 --> 00:01:33,300 by this man called Paul, who had a brilliant mind. 24 00:01:34,166 --> 00:01:36,800 Not only did he have such a brilliant mind. 25 00:01:36,800 --> 00:01:39,666 His mind was so complex. 26 00:01:39,666 --> 00:01:44,733 He was writing about an unknowable God who was completely other than that. 27 00:01:44,733 --> 00:01:49,033 So you got a brilliant mind writing about the unknown and unknowable 28 00:01:49,033 --> 00:01:53,833 God, really, who's completely other than us writing to a people 29 00:01:54,566 --> 00:01:57,966 2000 years ago in a different part of the world, 30 00:01:58,200 --> 00:02:02,033 who spoke a different language and had a different worldview. 31 00:02:02,333 --> 00:02:04,200 And so you put all these things together. 32 00:02:04,200 --> 00:02:06,466 It made sense to them. 33 00:02:06,466 --> 00:02:08,800 Much more than that makes sense to us. 34 00:02:08,800 --> 00:02:13,900 And so we have to do some unpacking to understand the depth of it all. 35 00:02:13,933 --> 00:02:15,033 Now, I believe 36 00:02:15,033 --> 00:02:18,300 that everything God wants to say is super plain and easy to understand. 37 00:02:18,900 --> 00:02:21,566 But there are there are things 38 00:02:21,566 --> 00:02:25,100 within the simple message of the gospel Christ and Him crucified. 39 00:02:25,500 --> 00:02:29,500 There's a depth to it that we have to unpack a little bit. 40 00:02:29,733 --> 00:02:33,066 And so to unpack it, I think we'll get close. 41 00:02:33,733 --> 00:02:36,400 But to unpack chapter five, 42 00:02:36,400 --> 00:02:39,400 I want to unpack it in three different sections. 43 00:02:39,800 --> 00:02:41,733 And the way I want to unpack it for us is this. 44 00:02:41,733 --> 00:02:45,300 We're going to start with verses 12 through 19. 45 00:02:45,933 --> 00:02:50,666 And then we're going to go back to verses one through 11. 46 00:02:50,666 --> 00:02:53,566 And then we're going to end with verses 20 and 21. 47 00:02:53,566 --> 00:02:56,266 So that's how we'll unpack it. Okay. Now 48 00:02:57,266 --> 00:02:57,966 to help us 49 00:02:57,966 --> 00:03:00,966 understand chapter five, there's a principle 50 00:03:00,966 --> 00:03:06,533 we have to, solidify in our minds, because if we miss this principle, 51 00:03:07,233 --> 00:03:12,366 we're going to miss, really the thrust and the emphasis of chapter five. 52 00:03:12,633 --> 00:03:15,133 And the principle we have to understand 53 00:03:15,133 --> 00:03:18,133 is called the principle of the federal head. 54 00:03:18,533 --> 00:03:19,733 Let me show you what that is. 55 00:03:19,733 --> 00:03:22,400 The principle of federal head is this that the actions 56 00:03:22,400 --> 00:03:26,166 of the representative impact all those under that representative. 57 00:03:26,400 --> 00:03:30,233 So there's a representative that represents everybody underneath 58 00:03:30,233 --> 00:03:33,300 that representative and the actions of that represent what happens. 59 00:03:33,333 --> 00:03:35,766 That representative is going to affect everybody under it. 60 00:03:35,766 --> 00:03:37,333 Do you understand. Okay. 61 00:03:37,333 --> 00:03:40,833 So to help you really understand this, if any of you seen 62 00:03:41,033 --> 00:03:44,400 the series, the Mockingjay series with Katniss Everdeen. 63 00:03:45,033 --> 00:03:45,700 Yeah. 64 00:03:45,700 --> 00:03:49,733 Okay, so that is a perfect example of a federal hit. 65 00:03:50,500 --> 00:03:54,466 Katniss in the movie was the tribute for whom? 66 00:03:56,466 --> 00:03:57,700 Her sister, prim. 67 00:03:57,700 --> 00:04:00,966 And for the entire what district? 68 00:04:00,966 --> 00:04:02,866 Which district? Nerds? 69 00:04:02,866 --> 00:04:04,833 12. Okay, yeah, let's just give this year that. 70 00:04:04,833 --> 00:04:08,100 So shall I say I'm teasing like you shall we love this. 71 00:04:08,100 --> 00:04:08,600 That series. 72 00:04:08,600 --> 00:04:10,000 It's fun to watch, but. But. 73 00:04:10,000 --> 00:04:12,300 So she was the federal head. 74 00:04:12,300 --> 00:04:16,600 Not just for prim hurt, the one she took, but for all of district 12. 75 00:04:17,033 --> 00:04:19,200 So whatever happened to Katniss? 76 00:04:19,200 --> 00:04:21,166 Happens to the entire district. 77 00:04:21,166 --> 00:04:22,433 Does that make sense? 78 00:04:22,433 --> 00:04:25,433 Okay, that's the principle of the federal head. 79 00:04:25,433 --> 00:04:29,766 Whatever happens to the representative of all happens to all. 80 00:04:30,733 --> 00:04:35,466 And we have to understand that principle, because what Paul will do in chapter 81 00:04:35,466 --> 00:04:40,600 five is introduced to us two federal heads. 82 00:04:41,800 --> 00:04:44,000 The first one will be the federal head of Adam, 83 00:04:44,000 --> 00:04:47,000 who was the federal head of the human race. 84 00:04:47,233 --> 00:04:52,300 And so whatever happens to Adam and his actions happens to the entire human race. 85 00:04:52,300 --> 00:04:55,500 And what happened with Adam is he brought sin or brought sin 86 00:04:55,900 --> 00:04:59,233 and death to all the human race, because he is our federal head. 87 00:04:59,633 --> 00:05:03,000 You follow so far, the second federal federal head 88 00:05:03,000 --> 00:05:08,600 that Paul will introduce us to is Jesus, who's the federal head of all the redeemed 89 00:05:08,700 --> 00:05:14,266 who've been justified, made right with God through faith because of God's grace 90 00:05:14,533 --> 00:05:19,500 and because of the justification of the federal head 91 00:05:19,500 --> 00:05:23,100 of Jesus, brings life to all of us who believe. 92 00:05:23,133 --> 00:05:27,000 So Adam, as the federal head of humanity, brought sin and death. 93 00:05:27,333 --> 00:05:32,466 Jesus as the federal head of all those who will believe are justified brings life. 94 00:05:32,833 --> 00:05:33,500 You follow? 95 00:05:34,566 --> 00:05:35,400 Yeah. 96 00:05:35,400 --> 00:05:39,566 And so Paul is going to explain this spiritual reality 97 00:05:40,200 --> 00:05:42,966 through these two federal heads. 98 00:05:42,966 --> 00:05:45,733 Adam and Jesus. 99 00:05:45,733 --> 00:05:49,166 And so let's jump in verse 12. 100 00:05:49,200 --> 00:05:50,933 So we're in the middle of the chapter 101 00:05:50,933 --> 00:05:53,200 looking at these, this issue of federal heads. 102 00:05:53,200 --> 00:05:55,500 It'll help us unpack the entire chapter. 103 00:05:55,500 --> 00:05:58,133 Therefore, whenever there's a therefore you have to stop. 104 00:05:58,133 --> 00:06:01,133 And that's what it's there for. So 105 00:06:02,300 --> 00:06:05,300 therefore, in light of everything he's just said that we'll get to 106 00:06:05,766 --> 00:06:11,100 just as sin entered the world through one man, the federal head of Adam, and death 107 00:06:11,100 --> 00:06:15,000 through sin, because of the sin of the one man, the federal head of Adam. 108 00:06:15,433 --> 00:06:19,066 And in this way, death came to all people because all sinned 109 00:06:19,200 --> 00:06:21,000 through the federal head of Adam. 110 00:06:21,000 --> 00:06:22,366 You follow so far. 111 00:06:22,366 --> 00:06:23,633 Okay. 112 00:06:23,633 --> 00:06:27,300 To be sure, sin was in the world before the law was given. 113 00:06:27,800 --> 00:06:32,733 But sin is not, charged against anyone's account where there is no law. 114 00:06:32,766 --> 00:06:33,966 Let's just keep going. 115 00:06:33,966 --> 00:06:39,433 Nevertheless, death reigned from the time of Adam to the time of Moses. 116 00:06:40,066 --> 00:06:42,533 Even over those who did not sin by breaking 117 00:06:42,533 --> 00:06:46,566 the command, as did Adam, who was the pattern of the one to come. 118 00:06:46,566 --> 00:06:47,966 Is this super crystal clear? 119 00:06:49,033 --> 00:06:50,866 Okay, let me unpack this a little bit. 120 00:06:50,866 --> 00:06:51,266 Okay. 121 00:06:51,266 --> 00:06:54,833 So he's introduced us to the federal head of Adam, 122 00:06:55,400 --> 00:06:58,233 the representative for all of mankind. 123 00:06:58,233 --> 00:07:01,233 Adam sinned before God gave his law. 124 00:07:01,900 --> 00:07:03,133 Like the Mosaic law. 125 00:07:03,133 --> 00:07:06,033 Before he wrote anything down. Adam sinned. 126 00:07:06,033 --> 00:07:08,566 God had put his law in Adam's heart 127 00:07:08,566 --> 00:07:11,900 when he said, don't cross this line in the Garden of Eden. 128 00:07:12,666 --> 00:07:16,300 Adam crossed that line even though there was no law written down. 129 00:07:17,066 --> 00:07:19,900 So he was a law breaker. You follow. 130 00:07:19,900 --> 00:07:22,700 And because of that, death entered the world. 131 00:07:22,700 --> 00:07:25,600 The proof of sin is death. 132 00:07:25,600 --> 00:07:28,600 And because death entered the world with Adam. 133 00:07:28,933 --> 00:07:32,466 And people died even before the law was given. 134 00:07:32,466 --> 00:07:37,500 It proves that everybody is a sinner 135 00:07:38,333 --> 00:07:41,333 because death came from sin. 136 00:07:41,333 --> 00:07:43,566 Adam's sin brought death effect, in fact, 137 00:07:43,566 --> 00:07:46,566 that everybody ever before God ever made a command. 138 00:07:46,666 --> 00:07:47,300 You follow. 139 00:07:48,766 --> 00:07:51,600 This is exactly what God said would happen. 140 00:07:51,600 --> 00:07:55,766 Adam, as our federal had brought sin to all of humanity, 141 00:07:56,500 --> 00:07:59,933 and the proof of sin in all of humanity is death. 142 00:08:00,200 --> 00:08:03,066 God told Adam in Genesis two, 143 00:08:03,066 --> 00:08:06,800 but you must not eat from the tree of the knowledge of good and evil. 144 00:08:06,900 --> 00:08:11,600 For when you eat of it, you will certainly what die? 145 00:08:11,633 --> 00:08:14,766 So God said before he ever wrote a law for anybody, 146 00:08:14,866 --> 00:08:19,166 he gave Adam his law in his heart and said, don't you can go this far, Noah? 147 00:08:19,866 --> 00:08:24,066 Adam trespass crossed the line and God said, why don't you do that? 148 00:08:24,066 --> 00:08:24,966 Death. 149 00:08:24,966 --> 00:08:27,333 Now, did Adam die right then? 150 00:08:27,333 --> 00:08:28,433 No. Why? 151 00:08:28,433 --> 00:08:31,433 Because he's the federal head for all of humanity. 152 00:08:31,666 --> 00:08:34,566 So now death entered all of humanity. 153 00:08:34,566 --> 00:08:37,466 You follow. It's exactly what God said would happen 154 00:08:38,733 --> 00:08:40,433 because of Adam's sin. 155 00:08:40,433 --> 00:08:44,100 As the federal head death entered all of humanity. 156 00:08:44,233 --> 00:08:48,766 And the fact, again, the fact that every one of us is born into 157 00:08:48,800 --> 00:08:50,666 sin is proved by the fact 158 00:08:50,666 --> 00:08:54,566 that at this point, I know in America I haven't checked other countries yet, 159 00:08:54,900 --> 00:08:57,733 but at this point mortality rate is just about 100% 160 00:08:57,733 --> 00:09:00,733 for us, right? 161 00:09:01,200 --> 00:09:03,566 For all of humanity, 162 00:09:03,566 --> 00:09:06,566 the reason why there's deaths, because their sins and brought death. 163 00:09:06,933 --> 00:09:09,433 And so ever before God ever even made a command. 164 00:09:09,433 --> 00:09:11,266 The proof is that we're all born into sin. 165 00:09:11,266 --> 00:09:11,866 Because guess what? 166 00:09:11,866 --> 00:09:14,866 We're all going to die. 167 00:09:17,500 --> 00:09:19,300 And so, 168 00:09:19,300 --> 00:09:22,300 Adam, our federal head that brought sin and death. 169 00:09:22,833 --> 00:09:25,833 Verses 15 1617 170 00:09:26,066 --> 00:09:29,066 but the gift is not like the trespass. 171 00:09:29,366 --> 00:09:33,266 For if many died by the trespass of the one man, Adam, our federal head, 172 00:09:33,433 --> 00:09:37,333 how much more did God's grace and the gift that came by the grace of the one man, 173 00:09:37,333 --> 00:09:41,233 Jesus, our federal head of righteousness for overflow to the man he 174 00:09:42,466 --> 00:09:45,800 nor can the gift of God be compared with the result of one man sin. 175 00:09:45,800 --> 00:09:49,333 The judgment followed one man or one sin, and brought condemnation. 176 00:09:49,333 --> 00:09:52,333 But the gift followed many trespasses and brought justification. 177 00:09:52,466 --> 00:09:56,233 For if by the trespass of the one man death reigned through that one man, 178 00:09:56,333 --> 00:10:00,433 how much more will those who receive God's, abundant provision of grace 179 00:10:00,433 --> 00:10:03,866 and of the gift of righteousness reign in life through the one man, Jesus Christ? 180 00:10:03,900 --> 00:10:06,900 Is that super crystal clear for you? 181 00:10:07,966 --> 00:10:08,933 Is what I'm saying. 182 00:10:08,933 --> 00:10:13,233 Like Paul, it's such a gift for him, and it's hard for us. 183 00:10:13,566 --> 00:10:17,100 He just has these long run on sentences, just keeps putting commas and commas 184 00:10:17,100 --> 00:10:20,100 and commas and. 185 00:10:20,233 --> 00:10:23,166 But to unpack this, this is what he's saying. 186 00:10:23,166 --> 00:10:25,833 It all has to do with the two federal heads. 187 00:10:25,833 --> 00:10:28,133 It's saying Adam's sin brought death. 188 00:10:29,100 --> 00:10:32,800 But God's grace abounds through Jesus. 189 00:10:34,800 --> 00:10:37,500 Adam's sin as our federal head 190 00:10:37,500 --> 00:10:40,500 brought condemnation to all of humanity. 191 00:10:41,633 --> 00:10:45,033 But Jesus, as our federal head, brings the opportunity 192 00:10:45,033 --> 00:10:48,033 for justification to be made right with God. 193 00:10:50,133 --> 00:10:53,200 That because of Adam's sin, death reigns. 194 00:10:53,700 --> 00:10:56,700 Everybody dies. 195 00:10:57,666 --> 00:11:00,266 But because of Jesus as our federal head, 196 00:11:00,266 --> 00:11:03,566 through faith, by God's grace, life now reigns. 197 00:11:06,566 --> 00:11:08,200 Through one man came the trespass. 198 00:11:08,200 --> 00:11:11,400 And through one man came the answer. 199 00:11:12,300 --> 00:11:13,366 Verses 18 and 19. 200 00:11:13,366 --> 00:11:17,700 Consequently, just as one trespass resulted in condemnation for all people, 201 00:11:18,666 --> 00:11:19,666 he is our federal head. 202 00:11:19,666 --> 00:11:22,366 We're born into his stuff. 203 00:11:22,366 --> 00:11:26,766 So also one righteous act resulted in justification and life 204 00:11:26,766 --> 00:11:30,700 for all people who will believe through faith 205 00:11:31,433 --> 00:11:34,400 not as a result of works, but just because of God's grace. 206 00:11:36,266 --> 00:11:37,733 For just as through the 207 00:11:37,733 --> 00:11:40,733 disobedience of the one man, Adam, 208 00:11:40,766 --> 00:11:44,000 our federal head, and humanity, many were made sinners. 209 00:11:44,566 --> 00:11:49,433 So also through the obedience of the one man, the federal head of Christ, 210 00:11:49,933 --> 00:11:53,633 the many will be made right with God. 211 00:11:56,900 --> 00:11:59,900 One trespass crossed the line 212 00:12:01,466 --> 00:12:04,466 when God said, Adam, go this far no further. 213 00:12:06,600 --> 00:12:08,766 He crossed the line. 214 00:12:08,766 --> 00:12:10,466 Trespass as our federal head. 215 00:12:10,466 --> 00:12:13,100 We're born into trespass. 216 00:12:13,100 --> 00:12:15,300 And that's what Paul, that's what he went through. 217 00:12:15,300 --> 00:12:18,300 Two chapters, two and a half chapters explaining to us. 218 00:12:18,333 --> 00:12:22,033 He says, I don't care how much you cross the line this much or this much, 219 00:12:23,266 --> 00:12:25,900 you cross the line 220 00:12:25,900 --> 00:12:29,400 because you have as their federal head, Adam, who also crossed the line. 221 00:12:30,600 --> 00:12:33,600 We've trespass. 222 00:12:34,500 --> 00:12:39,333 And one act of righteousness, the work of Jesus on the cross. 223 00:12:39,833 --> 00:12:43,500 As our federal head of being made right with God, 224 00:12:44,200 --> 00:12:47,800 brings about justification to the many who will believe 225 00:12:49,266 --> 00:12:52,266 through Adam all are made sinners 226 00:12:52,400 --> 00:12:55,400 through faith by grace and Jesus. 227 00:12:56,000 --> 00:12:58,133 Many are made right with God. 228 00:12:58,133 --> 00:13:01,800 And so the question we have to to to answer for ourselves 229 00:13:02,333 --> 00:13:06,566 is which federal head are you living under? 230 00:13:08,500 --> 00:13:11,333 You were born under this one. 231 00:13:11,333 --> 00:13:12,533 Through faith. 232 00:13:12,533 --> 00:13:15,533 By God's grace, you can move to this one. 233 00:13:16,700 --> 00:13:19,700 You follow. 234 00:13:21,433 --> 00:13:23,833 And the movement from this one to 235 00:13:23,833 --> 00:13:26,833 this one has nothing to do with what you do. 236 00:13:28,033 --> 00:13:31,033 It's solely based on what Jesus has done. 237 00:13:32,233 --> 00:13:34,766 Now we, through faith because of God's grace, 238 00:13:34,766 --> 00:13:37,766 have the opportunity to move. 239 00:13:37,800 --> 00:13:40,633 And if you've not moved yet, 240 00:13:40,633 --> 00:13:43,066 I want to invite you to. 241 00:13:43,066 --> 00:13:46,233 And because that is the possibility, because you can move there. 242 00:13:46,466 --> 00:13:49,533 Now, Paul will give us three benefits of moving 243 00:13:50,433 --> 00:13:53,033 from the federal head of Adam to the federal head of Jesus. 244 00:13:53,033 --> 00:13:55,733 He gives us three benefits. Do you wanna know what they are? 245 00:14:00,033 --> 00:14:00,700 Paul tells 246 00:14:00,700 --> 00:14:03,700 us what they are in chapter and start in verse one. 247 00:14:03,766 --> 00:14:07,533 So we're kind of reverse engineering this now that we understand 248 00:14:08,400 --> 00:14:11,133 now we'll learn what the benefits are. 249 00:14:11,133 --> 00:14:14,200 And then and so back to the beginning, the three benefits of moving 250 00:14:14,233 --> 00:14:17,133 to the federal head of Jesus. Okay. 251 00:14:17,133 --> 00:14:17,966 Verses one and two. 252 00:14:17,966 --> 00:14:21,633 Therefore you got to ask what it went to. 253 00:14:21,633 --> 00:14:24,533 Therefore everything you said in the first four chapters. 254 00:14:24,533 --> 00:14:27,666 Therefore, since we have been justified through faith 255 00:14:27,666 --> 00:14:31,933 made right with God, through faith we have peace with God through our Lord 256 00:14:31,933 --> 00:14:37,700 Jesus Christ, through whom we have gained access by the by faith into this grace 257 00:14:37,700 --> 00:14:43,233 in which we now stand and we boast in the hope of the glory of God. 258 00:14:43,233 --> 00:14:45,466 Let me unpack this for you. Three benefits. 259 00:14:45,466 --> 00:14:50,166 The first benefit for those who have moved from the federal ahead of Adam 260 00:14:50,166 --> 00:14:55,966 to the federal head of Jesus, the first benefit is that we have peace with God. 261 00:14:57,066 --> 00:15:00,066 Now, God's justice 262 00:15:00,666 --> 00:15:04,500 in his wrath against those who have trespassed 263 00:15:05,666 --> 00:15:08,166 has to be leveled. 264 00:15:08,166 --> 00:15:11,600 And God's justice towards us was satisfied 265 00:15:12,066 --> 00:15:14,600 because Jesus paid the price of that 266 00:15:14,600 --> 00:15:17,600 wrath on the cross. 267 00:15:18,000 --> 00:15:20,366 And because that happened, and we've bought through 268 00:15:20,366 --> 00:15:23,366 faith, have moved to the federal head of Jesus, 269 00:15:24,266 --> 00:15:26,966 now we can have peace with God. 270 00:15:26,966 --> 00:15:29,966 Now please be understand 271 00:15:30,133 --> 00:15:32,700 this is not the peace of God. 272 00:15:32,700 --> 00:15:35,300 This is peace with God. 273 00:15:35,300 --> 00:15:38,300 And they are very different. 274 00:15:40,800 --> 00:15:44,700 The peace with God is not the peace of God. 275 00:15:45,300 --> 00:15:47,366 The peace of God is this. 276 00:15:47,366 --> 00:15:49,500 Philippians four six and seven. 277 00:15:49,500 --> 00:15:51,633 Do not be anxious about anything. 278 00:15:51,633 --> 00:15:54,166 So all you professional warriors, this is your life. 279 00:15:54,166 --> 00:15:55,866 Verse. 280 00:15:55,866 --> 00:15:57,066 Don't be anxious about anything. 281 00:15:57,066 --> 00:15:59,000 But in every situation, by prayer 282 00:15:59,000 --> 00:16:03,000 and petition, with thanksgiving, present your request to God and the peace. 283 00:16:03,000 --> 00:16:06,933 What of God, which transcends all understanding, 284 00:16:06,933 --> 00:16:08,733 will guard your hearts and minds in Christ Jesus? 285 00:16:08,733 --> 00:16:10,833 So here's the problem. 286 00:16:10,833 --> 00:16:16,500 Everybody wants the peace of God without first establishing peace with God 287 00:16:18,166 --> 00:16:20,966 to understand. 288 00:16:20,966 --> 00:16:23,700 And when we stand, said God, I need the peace of you. 289 00:16:23,700 --> 00:16:26,700 But we haven't been made right with him. 290 00:16:27,100 --> 00:16:27,633 You don't. 291 00:16:27,633 --> 00:16:31,533 We don't get the peace of God without first having peace with God. 292 00:16:33,066 --> 00:16:35,433 The peace of God is reserved for those 293 00:16:35,433 --> 00:16:38,433 who have come to peace with God. 294 00:16:41,500 --> 00:16:44,433 And we cannot have the peace of God 295 00:16:44,433 --> 00:16:47,133 apart from Christ. 296 00:16:47,133 --> 00:16:50,733 Ephesians two For he Himself is our. 297 00:16:50,733 --> 00:16:53,433 What peace? 298 00:16:53,433 --> 00:16:56,233 Who has made the two groups one and has destroyed 299 00:16:56,233 --> 00:16:59,233 the barrier, the dividing wall of hostility. 300 00:16:59,800 --> 00:17:02,800 So the peace with God 301 00:17:03,066 --> 00:17:06,233 before we choose 302 00:17:07,033 --> 00:17:10,366 to change our allegiance to the federal head of Jesus, God 303 00:17:10,366 --> 00:17:14,700 took the initiative to destroy the dividing wall between us. 304 00:17:15,666 --> 00:17:19,133 And he said, I am taking the initiative to invite you 305 00:17:19,133 --> 00:17:23,233 over through Christ on the cross to destroy the dividing wall. 306 00:17:23,233 --> 00:17:25,600 Now there is no divide. You can come to me, 307 00:17:26,733 --> 00:17:28,433 but until you come to me through Jesus, 308 00:17:28,433 --> 00:17:31,433 you will never have peace with me. 309 00:17:32,433 --> 00:17:35,833 It's not that we have some some charge against God, 310 00:17:36,333 --> 00:17:38,866 but God in his righteousness 311 00:17:38,866 --> 00:17:41,866 has a charge against lawbreakers, 312 00:17:42,233 --> 00:17:45,900 and through faith, by grace and Jesus work on the cross, 313 00:17:46,966 --> 00:17:51,166 he's taken the charge against our lawbreaking and put it on Jesus. 314 00:17:51,466 --> 00:17:54,333 So now, through faith, 315 00:17:54,333 --> 00:17:57,500 by his grace, I can have peace with God. 316 00:17:57,766 --> 00:17:59,833 He's at peace with me. 317 00:17:59,833 --> 00:18:02,833 And because I can have peace with God now, 318 00:18:03,166 --> 00:18:06,666 I can experience the peace of God to understand. 319 00:18:07,866 --> 00:18:10,800 And so many people 320 00:18:10,800 --> 00:18:13,800 have desired the peace of God 321 00:18:14,666 --> 00:18:16,800 and are clueless 322 00:18:16,800 --> 00:18:19,800 about how to be have peace with God. 323 00:18:20,366 --> 00:18:23,466 And that only comes through faith in Jesus. 324 00:18:23,466 --> 00:18:26,233 By God's grace. 325 00:18:26,233 --> 00:18:28,366 If you want the peace of God, 326 00:18:28,366 --> 00:18:31,766 you must first be made right with God 327 00:18:32,900 --> 00:18:34,566 through faith in Jesus. 328 00:18:34,566 --> 00:18:39,800 Then there's a promise of peace of God. 329 00:18:40,300 --> 00:18:41,133 You follow. 330 00:18:41,133 --> 00:18:42,166 All right. Yes. 331 00:18:42,166 --> 00:18:42,500 All right. 332 00:18:42,500 --> 00:18:45,433 So that's the first benefit. Peace with God. 333 00:18:45,433 --> 00:18:48,433 The second benefit is this 334 00:18:48,800 --> 00:18:52,200 access into God's grace in which we stand. 335 00:18:52,233 --> 00:18:54,900 This is what the first two verses say. 336 00:18:54,900 --> 00:18:58,466 Through faith we have access into God's grace in which we now stand. 337 00:18:58,466 --> 00:19:01,266 Now, this this one actually blows me away. 338 00:19:01,266 --> 00:19:06,766 The idea that I can have access to God and the grace of God. 339 00:19:06,800 --> 00:19:11,400 Grace is the undeserved and unmerited favor and blessing of God. 340 00:19:12,033 --> 00:19:15,033 The fact that we have access into that grace 341 00:19:15,600 --> 00:19:17,300 by faith it through faith is amazing. 342 00:19:17,300 --> 00:19:22,200 Now, when Paul says, we have access now through faith in Jesus, 343 00:19:22,700 --> 00:19:26,033 that word access necessitates an invitation. 344 00:19:26,766 --> 00:19:29,100 You and I cannot go to 345 00:19:29,100 --> 00:19:32,100 the father, have access to the father on our own. 346 00:19:32,433 --> 00:19:36,300 We have to be invited into that, and we're invited into the access 347 00:19:36,300 --> 00:19:39,366 to accessing God's grace through Jesus. 348 00:19:39,900 --> 00:19:45,433 So through Christ, faith in Christ, I've been invited into the grace of God. 349 00:19:45,433 --> 00:19:49,000 And Paul says that grace that undeserved merited favor. 350 00:19:49,200 --> 00:19:51,466 And but I stand in that 351 00:19:52,833 --> 00:19:54,033 through Jesus. 352 00:19:54,033 --> 00:19:56,400 Please understand this 353 00:19:56,400 --> 00:20:00,066 if you've accepted Jesus as your Savior, you've come to the father 354 00:20:00,066 --> 00:20:01,166 through faith in the son. 355 00:20:01,166 --> 00:20:03,700 Because of his grace, you now stand. 356 00:20:03,700 --> 00:20:08,200 You stand in the very favor of Almighty God. 357 00:20:08,733 --> 00:20:10,633 You don't have to earn it. 358 00:20:10,633 --> 00:20:11,966 You've been invited. 359 00:20:11,966 --> 00:20:13,900 You now stand in that. 360 00:20:13,900 --> 00:20:15,666 And here's what's amazing about it. 361 00:20:15,666 --> 00:20:18,700 That verb stand in Greek is a 362 00:20:19,000 --> 00:20:22,000 is in the perfect tense, which means it's a continuing action. 363 00:20:22,800 --> 00:20:27,700 You perpetually stand in the favor of God. 364 00:20:28,633 --> 00:20:30,666 You don't go in and go out. 365 00:20:30,666 --> 00:20:33,600 God, I was good, so I get your favor and blessing, but now it's bad. 366 00:20:33,600 --> 00:20:35,000 So I go out and now I'm going to be good. 367 00:20:35,000 --> 00:20:36,933 So I go back in and now I was bachelor. Goodbye. 368 00:20:36,933 --> 00:20:38,500 You don't bounce in and out. 369 00:20:38,500 --> 00:20:43,033 You perpetually stand in the favor of God through faith in Jesus, 370 00:20:43,033 --> 00:20:46,866 because God's grace is so profound, not because our behavior is so good. 371 00:20:47,300 --> 00:20:49,433 Thank you. Understand this. 372 00:20:49,433 --> 00:20:53,366 This is for this part of the benefit of just being made right with God 373 00:20:53,366 --> 00:20:54,166 through faith. 374 00:20:56,600 --> 00:20:58,033 See, grace 375 00:20:58,033 --> 00:21:00,900 isn't just the way we come to salvation. 376 00:21:00,900 --> 00:21:03,066 Grace is our present. 377 00:21:03,066 --> 00:21:06,700 Stand the continuing present, standing before God. 378 00:21:08,566 --> 00:21:12,000 It's the beginning of the Christian life, and it's the sustaining 379 00:21:12,000 --> 00:21:15,000 of the Christian life. Grace, 380 00:21:15,300 --> 00:21:17,033 not behavior, not performance. 381 00:21:17,033 --> 00:21:22,033 See, a lot of people think they begin to follow Jesus by grace 382 00:21:22,300 --> 00:21:25,300 and then move to living by performance. 383 00:21:27,633 --> 00:21:28,800 Well, I accepted Jesus alone, 384 00:21:28,800 --> 00:21:31,800 but now I gotta really watch myself. Now. 385 00:21:32,800 --> 00:21:34,866 And I feel like, man, sometimes I'm really good 386 00:21:34,866 --> 00:21:38,433 and God is good to me and sometimes I'm not real good. 387 00:21:38,433 --> 00:21:41,433 And you know, God's got a right to be upset. 388 00:21:41,633 --> 00:21:44,166 And the moment we make that transition, 389 00:21:44,166 --> 00:21:47,100 as if we come to God by grace 390 00:21:47,100 --> 00:21:50,100 and then we have to live by performance. 391 00:21:50,300 --> 00:21:53,733 The Bible says in Galatians five that we've fallen from grace. 392 00:21:55,833 --> 00:21:58,833 That's a scary place to be. 393 00:22:00,233 --> 00:22:03,233 Grace means. 394 00:22:03,600 --> 00:22:05,666 That God's attitude toward 395 00:22:05,666 --> 00:22:09,566 the Christ follower, the believer, the one who is made right with God 396 00:22:09,566 --> 00:22:12,800 through faith, goes by grace means that God's attitude 397 00:22:12,800 --> 00:22:17,433 towards me is favor because he sees me 398 00:22:18,066 --> 00:22:21,066 through the eyes of joy. 399 00:22:21,200 --> 00:22:24,133 Have you ever have you ever been 400 00:22:24,133 --> 00:22:28,033 have someone in your life whose eyes lit up when they saw you? 401 00:22:28,866 --> 00:22:31,166 Yeah, well, 402 00:22:31,166 --> 00:22:33,133 how about a dog? 403 00:22:33,133 --> 00:22:36,133 Okay, so some of you are like, no, 404 00:22:36,533 --> 00:22:39,566 no, I mean, I married them, but now, 405 00:22:40,033 --> 00:22:43,033 you know, it's like, think about a dog. 406 00:22:43,300 --> 00:22:45,633 You know, like when you, 407 00:22:45,633 --> 00:22:48,500 when a dog was just like, oh, 408 00:22:48,500 --> 00:22:50,433 always. I didn't. 409 00:22:50,433 --> 00:22:51,900 Right. 410 00:22:51,900 --> 00:22:56,300 That's the attitude that God looks at the eyes of God looks at you with 411 00:22:58,033 --> 00:23:01,133 because of being right with them through faith, 412 00:23:01,133 --> 00:23:04,133 by God's grace, he looks at you like, oh. 413 00:23:05,733 --> 00:23:06,700 Like I'm convinced. 414 00:23:06,700 --> 00:23:09,700 I mean, God looks at me like, oh, girl. 415 00:23:12,433 --> 00:23:15,066 That's grace. 416 00:23:15,066 --> 00:23:17,566 It's this perpetual standing 417 00:23:17,566 --> 00:23:22,900 that I stand before Almighty God, and he knows everything about me. 418 00:23:23,033 --> 00:23:24,466 And yet he's still looks at me. 419 00:23:24,466 --> 00:23:26,033 He's like, oh, Carl. 420 00:23:26,033 --> 00:23:29,033 Yes. Can you imagine? 421 00:23:29,100 --> 00:23:31,400 Yes. It's awesome. 422 00:23:31,400 --> 00:23:32,933 Oh it's incredible. 423 00:23:32,933 --> 00:23:36,933 Just so many people think, you know, like, well, yeah, he, you know, he, 424 00:23:37,133 --> 00:23:38,166 you know, he saved me. 425 00:23:38,166 --> 00:23:42,300 But I'm still kind of the, you know, the red headed, you know, in. 426 00:23:42,466 --> 00:23:43,533 I'm sorry. 427 00:23:43,533 --> 00:23:45,333 I'm sorry. I should do likewise. 428 00:23:45,333 --> 00:23:47,133 I didn't mean think of the redheads out there. 429 00:23:47,133 --> 00:23:49,600 You know, you're all loved and beautiful and all that stuff. 430 00:23:49,600 --> 00:23:50,200 Yeah. 431 00:23:50,200 --> 00:23:55,000 You know, we feel so we're, you know, we're the, you know, the the bald in laws. 432 00:23:55,000 --> 00:23:57,166 And I don't know what to say, you know what I'm saying? 433 00:23:57,166 --> 00:23:59,266 Like, you know, I'm offended at myself. I just, 434 00:24:00,533 --> 00:24:03,533 you know, like like we're second 435 00:24:04,333 --> 00:24:05,900 and that's not it. 436 00:24:05,900 --> 00:24:08,200 That's not grace, it's religion. 437 00:24:08,200 --> 00:24:10,500 It's not grace. 438 00:24:10,500 --> 00:24:12,733 See, we would all we've said. 439 00:24:12,733 --> 00:24:13,900 No, no, I believe God loves me 440 00:24:13,900 --> 00:24:16,900 because it kind of has to, you know, I mean, the Bible says he's love 441 00:24:16,900 --> 00:24:19,500 and he's got to let me in because I'm leaving a son. 442 00:24:19,500 --> 00:24:21,200 And. Yeah, 443 00:24:21,200 --> 00:24:23,933 but sometimes you feel like you didn't like us. 444 00:24:23,933 --> 00:24:25,666 Grace means God didn't. 445 00:24:25,666 --> 00:24:28,000 He doesn't just love me. He likes me. 446 00:24:28,000 --> 00:24:31,833 Yeah, yeah, grace means he doesn't just love you. 447 00:24:31,833 --> 00:24:34,500 He likes you. 448 00:24:34,500 --> 00:24:36,766 And so when he looks at you, it's like, oh, yeah. 449 00:24:36,766 --> 00:24:39,066 Yeah. 450 00:24:39,066 --> 00:24:42,066 Man, I like you. 451 00:24:42,133 --> 00:24:45,133 Can you imagine having that type of relationship 452 00:24:45,566 --> 00:24:48,566 with Almighty God? 453 00:24:48,600 --> 00:24:50,100 You do? 454 00:24:50,100 --> 00:24:51,133 Yeah. 455 00:24:51,133 --> 00:24:54,000 The problem is, most people haven't realized it yet. 456 00:24:55,300 --> 00:24:58,300 That's grace. 457 00:24:58,700 --> 00:25:00,000 It's one of the benefits 458 00:25:00,000 --> 00:25:03,000 of moving from the federal head of Adam to the federal head of Jesus. 459 00:25:03,200 --> 00:25:06,200 We're invited into this grace, 460 00:25:06,800 --> 00:25:08,100 invited into the faith 461 00:25:08,100 --> 00:25:11,166 to stand firm in the favor 462 00:25:11,166 --> 00:25:14,466 of God, who to stand there 463 00:25:14,466 --> 00:25:17,466 with the twinkling eyes of God, looking at us like, 464 00:25:18,733 --> 00:25:21,733 not because of what we've done, 465 00:25:22,333 --> 00:25:25,333 but simply through faith. 466 00:25:26,166 --> 00:25:29,166 Father, I believe in your son. 467 00:25:29,600 --> 00:25:32,433 And he goes. 468 00:25:32,433 --> 00:25:33,466 Man, I like you. 469 00:25:33,466 --> 00:25:35,433 You know, 470 00:25:35,433 --> 00:25:38,433 to understand. 471 00:25:38,600 --> 00:25:41,900 This is the invitation. No. 472 00:25:43,866 --> 00:25:46,866 To stand in the grace of God 473 00:25:46,966 --> 00:25:49,966 means I don't have to prove anymore that I'm worthy of God's love. 474 00:25:50,866 --> 00:25:54,666 To stand in the grace of God means the door of access to God 475 00:25:54,666 --> 00:25:56,400 is permanently open. 476 00:25:56,400 --> 00:25:58,066 To stand in the grace of God 477 00:25:58,066 --> 00:26:01,200 means I am free from trying to keep a score sheet with God. 478 00:26:01,200 --> 00:26:02,733 To prove that I'm good. 479 00:26:02,733 --> 00:26:06,800 To stand in the grace of God means I spend more time praising 480 00:26:06,800 --> 00:26:10,800 God for who he is than hating myself and hating my past. 481 00:26:11,166 --> 00:26:16,366 To stand in the grace of God means I refuse to make resolutions and vows. 482 00:26:16,500 --> 00:26:21,233 Don't let any teacher ever manipulate you into trying to prove how much you love 483 00:26:21,233 --> 00:26:24,233 God, by making commitments that you already know you can't keep. 484 00:26:24,366 --> 00:26:28,766 You stand in the favor of God by his grace, not by your vows 485 00:26:28,933 --> 00:26:31,666 and not by your commitments and not by your devotion. 486 00:26:31,666 --> 00:26:34,800 When I stand in the presence in the grace of God, 487 00:26:35,100 --> 00:26:39,766 I expect his blessings, though I know I don't deserve his blessings. 488 00:26:39,866 --> 00:26:40,933 That's grace. 489 00:26:40,933 --> 00:26:44,833 When I stand in the grace of God, I testify to the goodness 490 00:26:44,833 --> 00:26:46,766 of God at all times. 491 00:26:46,766 --> 00:26:48,866 And when I stand in the grace of God, 492 00:26:48,866 --> 00:26:52,533 I stand in the certainty of God's future favor. 493 00:26:53,500 --> 00:26:56,500 Oh that's grace. 494 00:26:59,700 --> 00:27:02,700 Oh don't the benefits 495 00:27:03,300 --> 00:27:06,100 of being made right with God sound too good to be true. 496 00:27:06,100 --> 00:27:06,733 Yeah. 497 00:27:06,733 --> 00:27:08,233 Oh yeah. 498 00:27:08,233 --> 00:27:10,800 Mr. reality 499 00:27:10,800 --> 00:27:13,166 the first benefit I have peace with God. 500 00:27:13,166 --> 00:27:18,233 The second I stand in the favor of God doing the third benefit. 501 00:27:18,700 --> 00:27:20,333 Yeah, yeah. 502 00:27:20,333 --> 00:27:23,333 It's not going to seem so fun. 503 00:27:25,000 --> 00:27:28,000 But not only so, 504 00:27:28,300 --> 00:27:31,300 but we also glory in our sufferings. We. 505 00:27:31,766 --> 00:27:34,766 I heard some of you I saw on your fifth. 506 00:27:34,866 --> 00:27:37,866 Go back to the other two. 507 00:27:38,766 --> 00:27:41,133 We glory in our sufferings because. 508 00:27:41,133 --> 00:27:44,200 Because we know that suffering produces perseverance, perseverance, character 509 00:27:44,200 --> 00:27:44,733 and character. 510 00:27:44,733 --> 00:27:47,733 Hope. 511 00:27:47,966 --> 00:27:50,033 Here's here's the truth, man. 512 00:27:50,033 --> 00:27:53,033 The third benefit. 513 00:27:53,266 --> 00:27:55,966 Is that we can glory in suffering. 514 00:27:55,966 --> 00:27:58,033 Let me tell you why. 515 00:27:58,033 --> 00:28:02,000 When Paul uses that word suffering, he's not talking about minor inconveniences. 516 00:28:04,900 --> 00:28:07,000 You go to Sam's Club on a Saturday afternoon. 517 00:28:07,000 --> 00:28:09,066 That's a minor inconvenience. There's no place to party. 518 00:28:09,066 --> 00:28:10,666 They put the damn gas station in there. 519 00:28:10,666 --> 00:28:13,666 And now you got to walk from Chuck-E-Cheese all the way over. 520 00:28:15,000 --> 00:28:18,000 That's not what he's talking about. 521 00:28:18,033 --> 00:28:20,633 He's talking about real pain. 522 00:28:20,633 --> 00:28:23,166 Yeah, real suffering, 523 00:28:23,166 --> 00:28:26,166 real trials, troubles and tribulations. 524 00:28:26,566 --> 00:28:29,566 And he said, you can glory in those times. Why? 525 00:28:29,966 --> 00:28:32,866 Because suffering produces perseverance. 526 00:28:32,866 --> 00:28:34,333 Perseverance produces character. 527 00:28:34,333 --> 00:28:36,166 Character produces hope. 528 00:28:36,166 --> 00:28:39,166 And we're never disappointed by hope. 529 00:28:39,300 --> 00:28:41,300 Hope is the certainty of God's 530 00:28:41,300 --> 00:28:44,300 continued and future activity. 531 00:28:44,566 --> 00:28:47,900 And when we're going through these different, really difficult times, 532 00:28:47,900 --> 00:28:52,500 we need the certainty of God's continued and future activity, right? 533 00:28:52,833 --> 00:28:53,700 Right, right. 534 00:28:53,700 --> 00:28:56,700 That'll never disappoint. 535 00:28:57,066 --> 00:28:58,400 Here's the truth everybody. 536 00:28:58,400 --> 00:28:59,566 Experience is suffering. 537 00:28:59,566 --> 00:29:01,333 Whether you're under the federal head of Adam 538 00:29:01,333 --> 00:29:04,266 or the federal head of Jesus, we all experience suffering. 539 00:29:04,266 --> 00:29:05,066 However, 540 00:29:06,700 --> 00:29:07,366 those who are 541 00:29:07,366 --> 00:29:10,500 justified experience benefit through it. 542 00:29:11,633 --> 00:29:14,633 Those from the central heard of Adam just suffer. 543 00:29:16,266 --> 00:29:19,066 You understand? 544 00:29:19,066 --> 00:29:21,966 Spurgeon, one of the greatest preachers who's ever graced 545 00:29:21,966 --> 00:29:25,166 this planet, he said that just is just part of his quote. 546 00:29:25,500 --> 00:29:28,500 He said the Christian should be willing to be tried. 547 00:29:29,066 --> 00:29:32,066 Do you want to be carried to heaven on a featherbed? 548 00:29:34,566 --> 00:29:36,000 Some of us be like, yeah, 549 00:29:36,000 --> 00:29:39,633 actually, that's I mean, that's that's kind of why I did the whole Jesus thing. 550 00:29:39,733 --> 00:29:42,733 So, you know, are you kidding me? 551 00:29:44,033 --> 00:29:45,000 But think about a man. 552 00:29:45,000 --> 00:29:46,966 Not not the Christ follower. 553 00:29:46,966 --> 00:29:47,966 Not the disciple. 554 00:29:47,966 --> 00:29:50,733 I should say mean, don't you? 555 00:29:50,733 --> 00:29:51,866 In the part of you that just wants. 556 00:29:51,866 --> 00:29:54,000 You know what I want. 557 00:29:54,000 --> 00:29:56,233 I will slide into heaven with my hair on fire. 558 00:29:56,233 --> 00:29:57,600 Like you know. 559 00:30:00,633 --> 00:30:03,633 And I realize we don't pray for testing. 560 00:30:05,566 --> 00:30:08,200 But if we want to develop character, 561 00:30:08,200 --> 00:30:11,666 if we want to be people of hope that lasts. 562 00:30:12,433 --> 00:30:15,700 This is the golden chain of the Christian's growth and maturity 563 00:30:17,166 --> 00:30:18,533 through suffering. 564 00:30:18,533 --> 00:30:21,533 Yeah. See, 565 00:30:22,333 --> 00:30:25,333 we can glory in suffering 566 00:30:25,600 --> 00:30:27,266 because it develops perseverance. 567 00:30:27,266 --> 00:30:29,866 Literally. That word is patience develops patience. 568 00:30:29,866 --> 00:30:32,733 Because when I'm in suffering, when I'm willing to wait, 569 00:30:32,733 --> 00:30:35,733 because I know that God's working through it, 570 00:30:35,933 --> 00:30:38,466 I can be patient. 571 00:30:38,466 --> 00:30:40,500 And when I'm willing to wait because I know God's 572 00:30:40,500 --> 00:30:42,866 working through, I'm patient in it. 573 00:30:42,866 --> 00:30:44,300 It develops my character. 574 00:30:44,300 --> 00:30:46,300 The literal word for character is experience. 575 00:30:46,300 --> 00:30:48,900 It develops your experience. 576 00:30:48,900 --> 00:30:52,466 Perseverance produces experience that's been tried through suffering. 577 00:30:52,533 --> 00:30:55,033 So when I go into suffering 578 00:30:55,033 --> 00:30:57,900 and I said, God, I know you're working in this, I'm going to be patient. 579 00:30:58,933 --> 00:31:01,066 You experience 580 00:31:01,066 --> 00:31:04,066 the fact that God is working in it 581 00:31:04,333 --> 00:31:06,966 and developing a Christ like character 582 00:31:06,966 --> 00:31:11,066 so that that experi ence of waiting through suffering produces hope 583 00:31:11,433 --> 00:31:14,433 because God proves himself time and time 584 00:31:14,600 --> 00:31:17,600 and time and time again 585 00:31:18,133 --> 00:31:19,033 to understand. 586 00:31:19,033 --> 00:31:22,033 Yeah, I'm 587 00:31:23,333 --> 00:31:26,333 now let me just, 588 00:31:31,566 --> 00:31:32,733 This is so important. 589 00:31:32,733 --> 00:31:35,933 Not just for us, but it's really important for parents. 590 00:31:37,200 --> 00:31:38,466 And I don't care if you're a parent. 591 00:31:38,466 --> 00:31:41,466 I don't care how old your kids are. 592 00:31:43,700 --> 00:31:46,033 We would all say that. 593 00:31:46,033 --> 00:31:49,033 Not just us, but we want for our kids 594 00:31:49,533 --> 00:31:51,633 to grow up 595 00:31:51,633 --> 00:31:54,633 with great character, right? 596 00:31:54,900 --> 00:31:55,766 Right. 597 00:31:55,766 --> 00:31:58,266 And to be people of hope 598 00:31:58,266 --> 00:32:01,266 that whatever they grow through, they're not going to get beat 599 00:32:02,366 --> 00:32:03,266 right. 600 00:32:03,266 --> 00:32:05,800 Like what they go through is not going to crush them. 601 00:32:05,800 --> 00:32:06,566 We don't want that. 602 00:32:13,100 --> 00:32:16,100 We have to be very careful, 603 00:32:16,400 --> 00:32:19,133 especially with our kids, 604 00:32:19,133 --> 00:32:22,000 that when they go through difficulty, 605 00:32:22,000 --> 00:32:25,000 trials, troubles and pains, 606 00:32:25,800 --> 00:32:28,800 we don't just want to rescue them out of it, 607 00:32:29,033 --> 00:32:32,033 but we disciple them through it. 608 00:32:33,300 --> 00:32:36,300 There's a vast and profound difference. 609 00:32:38,233 --> 00:32:41,233 Parents, please pray over your kids every day. 610 00:32:42,000 --> 00:32:45,000 Father, I ask for your mercy and grace over my kids. 611 00:32:45,066 --> 00:32:47,100 Put a hedge around them, a fortress about them. 612 00:32:47,100 --> 00:32:48,500 It's all biblical. 613 00:32:48,500 --> 00:32:51,000 Protect them from the evil one who only seeks to steal, kill, 614 00:32:51,000 --> 00:32:53,866 and destroy their present and their future. 615 00:32:53,866 --> 00:32:56,533 I pray your watch over them, your mercy and grace on them. 616 00:32:56,533 --> 00:32:58,433 Pray all of that. 617 00:32:58,433 --> 00:33:01,433 But when they're going through it. 618 00:33:02,733 --> 00:33:05,733 Discipled them through it. 619 00:33:05,800 --> 00:33:08,800 Don't just try to rescue them out of it. 620 00:33:09,900 --> 00:33:11,866 Because that's the only way they will grow up 621 00:33:11,866 --> 00:33:15,600 to be people of character and have godly hope. 622 00:33:16,800 --> 00:33:17,800 When parents 623 00:33:17,800 --> 00:33:20,800 rescue their kids out of difficulty, 624 00:33:21,900 --> 00:33:25,200 we stunt and destroy their discipleship 625 00:33:25,200 --> 00:33:28,200 and ruin their character. 626 00:33:30,833 --> 00:33:33,700 Do you understand? 627 00:33:33,700 --> 00:33:35,566 I get it, it's so hard 628 00:33:35,566 --> 00:33:38,566 as a daddy, as a mama, you're like, you know her? 629 00:33:40,100 --> 00:33:41,766 But we've got to get to the point saying, 630 00:33:41,766 --> 00:33:46,666 sweetie, listen, I know this is hard, and I know you're hurting and I love you. 631 00:33:47,433 --> 00:33:50,433 And I'm going to suffer with you in this, 632 00:33:51,733 --> 00:33:53,400 and we're going to work together. 633 00:33:53,400 --> 00:33:56,266 Let's remember who God is. 634 00:33:56,266 --> 00:33:59,300 Let's remember together what he's done in the past. 635 00:33:59,300 --> 00:34:01,233 Let's remember how he has moved. 636 00:34:01,233 --> 00:34:03,266 Let's remember. 637 00:34:03,266 --> 00:34:06,766 Remember what the Bible says, that somehow God's working in this. 638 00:34:07,233 --> 00:34:11,533 Remember what Scripture tells us that even Jesus went through difficulty. 639 00:34:11,766 --> 00:34:15,366 Remember what Scripture says that that were never outside of his hand. 640 00:34:15,366 --> 00:34:16,300 He doesn't sleep or slumber. 641 00:34:16,300 --> 00:34:18,933 He knows what's going on and he will be. 642 00:34:18,933 --> 00:34:22,733 Here's the thing it's okay for your kids not to be happy 643 00:34:23,600 --> 00:34:25,733 so that they'll find their joy in the Lord. 644 00:34:26,833 --> 00:34:29,833 It's okay for our kids to be sad 645 00:34:30,000 --> 00:34:33,666 so they'll find their sustenance in Christ. 646 00:34:34,266 --> 00:34:37,266 It's okay for our kids 647 00:34:37,500 --> 00:34:40,666 to be alone, so they'll learn to draw 648 00:34:40,666 --> 00:34:43,666 on the presence of Christ. 649 00:34:45,500 --> 00:34:48,500 Discipled them through it. 650 00:34:50,133 --> 00:34:52,933 Don't rob them of that character 651 00:34:52,933 --> 00:34:55,933 that God is trying to build in him. 652 00:34:58,000 --> 00:35:01,000 Okay. 653 00:35:03,400 --> 00:35:05,000 I don't want emails and texts 654 00:35:05,000 --> 00:35:08,000 about that at all, so just keep it to yourself. 655 00:35:08,833 --> 00:35:09,633 All right? 656 00:35:09,633 --> 00:35:11,266 Let me finish this up here. 657 00:35:11,266 --> 00:35:13,566 Verse five. 658 00:35:13,566 --> 00:35:17,133 And hope does not put us to shame, because God's love has been poured out 659 00:35:17,133 --> 00:35:20,300 into our hearts through the Holy Spirit who has been given to you. 660 00:35:20,633 --> 00:35:22,366 Please understand. 661 00:35:22,366 --> 00:35:25,366 We gain the hope of God 662 00:35:25,466 --> 00:35:28,466 through the Holy Spirit that God has given to us. 663 00:35:28,466 --> 00:35:30,466 The moment we accept Jesus as our Savior. 664 00:35:32,133 --> 00:35:35,133 The result of all this is hope. 665 00:35:35,666 --> 00:35:39,233 The Holy Spirit has been given to every person who receives Jesus as their Savior. 666 00:35:39,233 --> 00:35:42,000 The Bible says, first Corinthians 1213. Galatians three two. 667 00:35:42,000 --> 00:35:43,166 Galatians four six 668 00:35:43,166 --> 00:35:46,700 that the moment you come to faith, the Holy Spirit has been implanted in you. 669 00:35:46,700 --> 00:35:49,700 God has entered your life through the Holy Spirit, 670 00:35:50,633 --> 00:35:53,633 and then we're given the permission in Luke 1113 671 00:35:54,533 --> 00:35:57,533 to request the Holy Spirit come upon. 672 00:36:02,400 --> 00:36:06,233 I, I did this on the first service, just on a kind of a spur. 673 00:36:06,233 --> 00:36:07,066 I didn't know how I was going to do it. 674 00:36:07,066 --> 00:36:09,666 The service. 675 00:36:09,666 --> 00:36:13,233 But Jesus has told us he, 676 00:36:14,666 --> 00:36:17,666 the Scripture has told us. 677 00:36:18,666 --> 00:36:21,666 That if we fathers who are evil know how to give good gifts, 678 00:36:21,666 --> 00:36:23,933 how much more does the Heavenly Father know how to give good, 679 00:36:23,933 --> 00:36:26,666 good gifts to those who ask, especially the Holy Spirit, to those who seek 680 00:36:28,233 --> 00:36:29,766 so God will get. 681 00:36:29,766 --> 00:36:32,766 If you've been made right with God through faith. 682 00:36:34,366 --> 00:36:37,366 The Holy Spirit's been placed in you, and the result of that 683 00:36:38,533 --> 00:36:41,533 is eternal life. 684 00:36:41,666 --> 00:36:44,666 But we've been told we can ask the father to 685 00:36:45,733 --> 00:36:48,733 put the spirit on us, not just within us. 686 00:36:50,466 --> 00:36:53,366 And all I have to do is ask, 687 00:36:53,366 --> 00:36:55,400 and the proof that the Holy Spirit is in 688 00:36:55,400 --> 00:36:59,033 you and upon you is not some crazy language. 689 00:36:59,033 --> 00:37:02,033 And cackling like a chicken. 690 00:37:02,266 --> 00:37:05,333 It's love, joy, peace, patience, 691 00:37:05,533 --> 00:37:09,300 kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, self-control 692 00:37:09,366 --> 00:37:12,366 and hope. 693 00:37:13,866 --> 00:37:15,900 Many of us have trusted God 694 00:37:15,900 --> 00:37:18,900 for salvation and the Holy Spirit lives within the scriptures. 695 00:37:18,900 --> 00:37:20,400 Scripture is clear about that. 696 00:37:20,400 --> 00:37:23,400 Few of us have said, father, 697 00:37:23,400 --> 00:37:26,400 true Holy Spirit, come upon. 698 00:37:27,433 --> 00:37:30,033 And we've been promised by the father that that will happen. 699 00:37:31,666 --> 00:37:34,500 Yeah. 700 00:37:34,500 --> 00:37:37,500 And so I'm going to give you the chance. 701 00:37:38,833 --> 00:37:40,500 Did you maybe you've never done this before, 702 00:37:40,500 --> 00:37:44,466 but to ask that the father places His Holy Spirit upon you 703 00:37:46,200 --> 00:37:47,400 and that you're filled with the spirit? 704 00:37:47,400 --> 00:37:50,400 Ephesians 518 says, be continually filled with the spirit. 705 00:37:54,233 --> 00:37:57,300 And there are some times in our lives meant we just need 706 00:37:58,366 --> 00:38:00,566 the presence of the Holy Spirit, 707 00:38:00,566 --> 00:38:03,566 especially for hope. 708 00:38:05,633 --> 00:38:07,200 And so if you have a relationship with Jesus, I'm 709 00:38:07,200 --> 00:38:09,700 gonna invite you in this moment of prayer right now. 710 00:38:09,700 --> 00:38:11,966 I'm not done preaching yet, 711 00:38:11,966 --> 00:38:14,000 but I want to stop and give you the opportunity to do what 712 00:38:14,000 --> 00:38:17,000 Scripture has said and invite the spirit upon your life. 713 00:38:17,933 --> 00:38:18,566 Pray with me, father. 714 00:38:18,566 --> 00:38:21,566 Thank you that you have promised us 715 00:38:22,233 --> 00:38:24,933 and given us the indwelling of the Holy Spirit and promised the Holy 716 00:38:24,933 --> 00:38:25,866 Spirit upon us. 717 00:38:28,900 --> 00:38:30,200 Father, I know that you're 718 00:38:30,200 --> 00:38:32,366 that the fruit of your spirit, the proof of your spirit is love, 719 00:38:32,366 --> 00:38:34,400 joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, 720 00:38:34,400 --> 00:38:37,400 self-control, and hope. 721 00:38:38,500 --> 00:38:39,066 So, father, 722 00:38:39,066 --> 00:38:42,066 hear these hearts, these who are yours, 723 00:38:42,166 --> 00:38:44,566 who ask you for the presence of the Holy Spirit 724 00:38:44,566 --> 00:38:47,566 in and upon their lives. 725 00:38:48,300 --> 00:38:50,866 Do what you said you would do in Your Word. You. 726 00:38:50,866 --> 00:38:54,300 You've tied your action to your word, and you've said you would do it. 727 00:38:55,500 --> 00:38:58,500 And so here are these hearts. 728 00:38:58,500 --> 00:39:00,066 I would just encourage you in this moment. 729 00:39:00,066 --> 00:39:03,066 Any of you who have a relationship with Jesus. 730 00:39:04,033 --> 00:39:07,033 To say, father, give me your Holy Spirit. 731 00:39:07,233 --> 00:39:10,233 I want your Holy Spirit to come upon me. 732 00:39:10,466 --> 00:39:13,466 Fill me with Your Holy Spirit. 733 00:39:14,066 --> 00:39:17,600 Let me experience the fullness of the Spirit's presence in my life 734 00:39:19,000 --> 00:39:20,166 the fullness of love, 735 00:39:20,166 --> 00:39:23,266 joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, and self-control. 736 00:39:23,266 --> 00:39:26,266 The fullness of hope. 737 00:39:26,833 --> 00:39:29,833 Don't say, father, I receive that right now. 738 00:39:29,866 --> 00:39:32,866 Your spirit in me, your spirit upon me. 739 00:39:39,866 --> 00:39:42,566 Father, thank you that you're faithful to your word. 740 00:39:42,566 --> 00:39:44,833 In your name I pray, Amen. Amen. 741 00:39:44,833 --> 00:39:47,066 I hope 742 00:39:47,066 --> 00:39:50,066 because of the spirit God has given you. 743 00:39:51,966 --> 00:39:54,400 Let me go through these last few verses. 744 00:39:54,400 --> 00:39:57,400 You see, at just the right time, when we were still powerless, 745 00:39:57,433 --> 00:39:59,033 Christ died for the ungodly. 746 00:39:59,033 --> 00:40:01,333 Very rarely would anyone die for a righteous person, 747 00:40:01,333 --> 00:40:04,233 though for a good person, someone might possibly dare to die. 748 00:40:04,233 --> 00:40:06,500 But God demonstrates his own love for us in this. 749 00:40:06,500 --> 00:40:08,833 I love this verse while we're still sinners, Christ died for us. 750 00:40:08,833 --> 00:40:11,700 If God did all of this for us while we were denying him, 751 00:40:11,700 --> 00:40:14,066 he set all this in action before we ever turned him, 752 00:40:14,066 --> 00:40:15,400 if he would be this good to us. 753 00:40:15,400 --> 00:40:16,800 Said all this in action before we turn, 754 00:40:16,800 --> 00:40:18,800 how much better do you think he'll be after we have turned? 755 00:40:20,666 --> 00:40:21,100 You understand? 756 00:40:21,100 --> 00:40:22,566 I'm saying 757 00:40:22,566 --> 00:40:25,566 the riches of heaven. 758 00:40:26,100 --> 00:40:28,600 Since we have now been justified by his blood, 759 00:40:28,600 --> 00:40:32,433 how much more shall we be saved from God's wrath through him? 760 00:40:33,200 --> 00:40:35,800 For if while we were God's enemies, we were reconciled to him 761 00:40:35,800 --> 00:40:38,800 through the death of his son, how much more have him been reconciled? 762 00:40:38,933 --> 00:40:41,000 Shall we be saved through his life? 763 00:40:41,000 --> 00:40:45,233 Not only is this so, but we also boast in God through our Lord 764 00:40:45,233 --> 00:40:48,300 Jesus Christ, through whom we have now received reconciliation. 765 00:40:48,433 --> 00:40:51,300 It is all. Jesus has done it. 766 00:40:51,300 --> 00:40:54,100 And if God loved us so much and did so much for us 767 00:40:54,100 --> 00:40:56,900 before we ever turned to him, how much more? 768 00:40:56,900 --> 00:40:58,300 Now that we have turned, 769 00:40:58,300 --> 00:41:02,966 can we have comfort that we stand in the grace and favor of God? 770 00:41:04,400 --> 00:41:06,666 He's so good 771 00:41:06,666 --> 00:41:09,666 and he's been so good. 772 00:41:10,433 --> 00:41:11,966 Now here's 773 00:41:11,966 --> 00:41:14,966 the biggest deal of this whole thing. 774 00:41:15,366 --> 00:41:18,366 The law was brought in so that trespass might increase, but here it is. 775 00:41:18,566 --> 00:41:21,600 But where sin increased, grace. 776 00:41:22,000 --> 00:41:25,000 Grace increased all the more 777 00:41:25,266 --> 00:41:28,733 so that just as sin reigned in death, so also grace might reign 778 00:41:28,733 --> 00:41:31,566 through the righteousness to bring eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord. 779 00:41:31,566 --> 00:41:34,400 Here's what this means 780 00:41:34,400 --> 00:41:35,866 God makes the rules 781 00:41:35,866 --> 00:41:38,866 and God provides the solution. 782 00:41:39,600 --> 00:41:41,700 God gave the law 783 00:41:41,700 --> 00:41:45,333 so we would know what great law breakers we are 784 00:41:46,766 --> 00:41:46,966 here. 785 00:41:46,966 --> 00:41:50,133 Here's the idea if there's no speed limit posted 786 00:41:50,700 --> 00:41:53,700 and I drive 80 miles an hour in a residential zone, 787 00:41:54,900 --> 00:41:57,000 I still breaking the law. 788 00:41:57,000 --> 00:41:59,733 I just don't know it. 789 00:41:59,733 --> 00:42:04,733 But once the sign the 30 miles an hour is posted and I drive 80. 790 00:42:04,733 --> 00:42:07,733 Now I know I'm a law breaker. You follow? 791 00:42:07,866 --> 00:42:10,233 So what Paul is saying here is this 792 00:42:11,300 --> 00:42:14,300 the only reason God gave us the law 793 00:42:14,300 --> 00:42:17,133 is not so that we would break it and become a law breaker. 794 00:42:17,133 --> 00:42:20,400 He gave us the law to prove to us we are already law breakers, 795 00:42:21,266 --> 00:42:23,400 because death happened before the law 796 00:42:23,400 --> 00:42:26,400 was ever given, proving that everybody lives in sin. 797 00:42:26,666 --> 00:42:28,233 You understand? 798 00:42:28,233 --> 00:42:31,500 Now, he gave us the law proving that we're law breakers. 799 00:42:31,500 --> 00:42:33,266 Now, I know, 800 00:42:33,266 --> 00:42:37,666 okay, but the big thing of this whole deal is verse 801 00:42:37,666 --> 00:42:42,600 20, where sin increased, what grace increased, all the more. 802 00:42:42,666 --> 00:42:44,266 See, here's what we think. 803 00:42:44,266 --> 00:42:47,800 If I'm really, really bad, God gets really, really angry. 804 00:42:48,466 --> 00:42:51,466 And if I'm not so bad, God isn't as angry. 805 00:42:52,033 --> 00:42:55,033 And if I'm really good, maybe God blesses. 806 00:42:55,233 --> 00:42:59,300 We would think that when my sin increases, so does God's anger. 807 00:42:59,300 --> 00:43:01,300 That's not what the Bible says. 808 00:43:01,300 --> 00:43:04,700 The Bible says, because I've been justified through what 809 00:43:04,700 --> 00:43:08,766 Jesus did, and I have this perpetual standing of favor before God 810 00:43:09,000 --> 00:43:12,900 when my sin increases, guess what his grace increases. 811 00:43:14,366 --> 00:43:15,966 It's amazing. 812 00:43:15,966 --> 00:43:16,933 Grace. 813 00:43:16,933 --> 00:43:22,800 The truth is this that grace is greater than you. 814 00:43:22,800 --> 00:43:25,600 Fill the bank in. 815 00:43:25,600 --> 00:43:26,766 I stand 816 00:43:26,766 --> 00:43:30,833 in the perpetual, the perpetual standing in God's favor, 817 00:43:30,966 --> 00:43:34,333 that even when my sin increases, he looks at me like, 818 00:43:34,333 --> 00:43:37,333 oh, cool. 819 00:43:37,366 --> 00:43:40,666 Wow. Because his grace is more. 820 00:43:42,966 --> 00:43:44,400 The fact is this that 821 00:43:44,400 --> 00:43:47,700 I cannot allow sin, God's grace, 822 00:43:48,166 --> 00:43:51,166 and neither can you. 823 00:43:51,633 --> 00:43:55,100 When we've been justified through faith by God's grace, 824 00:43:55,400 --> 00:43:58,466 we have this perpetual standing in the favor 825 00:43:58,466 --> 00:44:01,466 of God. 826 00:44:05,066 --> 00:44:07,200 Indicates that vindicated 827 00:44:07,200 --> 00:44:14,800 and liberated. Him. 828 00:44:16,166 --> 00:44:19,166 Grace is a thing that gives us something. 829 00:44:19,166 --> 00:44:22,166 And grace is the thing that takes us somewhere 830 00:44:22,800 --> 00:44:25,166 into the favor of God. 831 00:44:25,166 --> 00:44:28,166 So in wrap back to the federal head. 832 00:44:30,133 --> 00:44:33,133 We've been born under the federal head of Adam 833 00:44:33,866 --> 00:44:36,300 and are separated from God's special 834 00:44:36,300 --> 00:44:40,033 favor and grace, and bear wrath for sin. 835 00:44:42,800 --> 00:44:43,500 But through 836 00:44:43,500 --> 00:44:46,633 faith, by grace, we can live under the federal head 837 00:44:46,633 --> 00:44:50,433 of Jesus and stand by faith 838 00:44:50,433 --> 00:44:53,500 through faith in the favor of Almighty God. 839 00:44:55,033 --> 00:44:57,200 And so here's the question. 840 00:44:57,200 --> 00:44:59,700 Have you moved 841 00:44:59,700 --> 00:45:02,700 from Adam to Jesus? 842 00:45:07,433 --> 00:45:08,533 If you haven't, do you 843 00:45:08,533 --> 00:45:12,033 not realize the benefits of doing so? 844 00:45:14,266 --> 00:45:17,266 And the peril of not. 845 00:45:19,800 --> 00:45:21,033 And I want to invite you into that. 846 00:45:21,033 --> 00:45:24,300 And beginning to live under the reign of grace. 847 00:45:27,000 --> 00:45:30,000 And you prove me. 848 00:45:31,066 --> 00:45:34,066 God, you are a good God. The. 849 00:45:34,433 --> 00:45:37,433 And you have been all good to us. You. 850 00:45:39,500 --> 00:45:40,366 And there are some 851 00:45:40,366 --> 00:45:43,366 this morning who are ready to move 852 00:45:43,566 --> 00:45:46,566 from the headship of Adam to the headship of Jesus. 853 00:45:47,766 --> 00:45:50,766 Thank you for hearing their prayers, 854 00:45:50,800 --> 00:45:51,133 friends. 855 00:45:51,133 --> 00:45:52,633 I would invite you in this moment. 856 00:45:52,633 --> 00:45:54,900 If you've never done that, to do that now, 857 00:45:56,533 --> 00:45:59,533 in simplicity of faith and the faith of a child 858 00:46:00,300 --> 00:46:04,800 simply between you and God, say, God, I agree with you. 859 00:46:05,033 --> 00:46:08,200 I am a trespasser. 860 00:46:10,733 --> 00:46:13,733 I broken your rule. 861 00:46:15,666 --> 00:46:16,966 And I repent of it. 862 00:46:16,966 --> 00:46:18,766 Oh, yeah. 863 00:46:18,766 --> 00:46:20,700 Yeah, 864 00:46:20,700 --> 00:46:23,033 I accept the work 865 00:46:23,033 --> 00:46:25,666 Jesus that you did on the cross 866 00:46:25,666 --> 00:46:28,633 for my forgiveness. 867 00:46:28,633 --> 00:46:31,633 And I accept you into my life. 868 00:46:32,400 --> 00:46:35,166 And I choose you as my forgiver 869 00:46:35,166 --> 00:46:38,166 and my leader. Oh. 870 00:46:39,166 --> 00:46:42,166 Simple faith. 871 00:46:43,866 --> 00:46:45,233 Those of you who have prayed that. 872 00:46:45,233 --> 00:46:48,233 Welcome to the family. 873 00:46:48,966 --> 00:46:50,900 God now looks at you 874 00:46:50,900 --> 00:46:54,433 as you stand before him with excited, joyful eyes. 875 00:46:55,933 --> 00:46:58,933 And he doesn't just love you, he likes you. 876 00:46:59,566 --> 00:47:02,500 Welcome. 877 00:47:02,500 --> 00:47:05,000 For some of you, you've prayed that prayer 878 00:47:05,000 --> 00:47:09,366 and you've lived still as if you have to earn God's smile. 879 00:47:10,800 --> 00:47:12,766 Yeah, 880 00:47:12,766 --> 00:47:14,633 and I want to invite you into God's grace. 881 00:47:17,200 --> 00:47:20,366 And for you, I would encourage you just to say something like this. 882 00:47:20,366 --> 00:47:23,000 Father, thank you that you don't just love me. 883 00:47:23,000 --> 00:47:25,500 You like me. 884 00:47:25,500 --> 00:47:27,100 And thank you that I don't have to try 885 00:47:27,100 --> 00:47:30,100 to be good enough to make you smile. 886 00:47:30,366 --> 00:47:33,366 I trust you by faith. 887 00:47:35,100 --> 00:47:39,133 And I receive all that your grace offers. 888 00:47:41,833 --> 00:47:43,600 I thank you 889 00:47:43,600 --> 00:47:47,266 that I can forever stand in your presence 890 00:47:48,933 --> 00:47:51,700 with your favor 891 00:47:51,700 --> 00:47:53,900 and with your smile. 892 00:47:53,900 --> 00:47:56,900 Help me live in that liberation 893 00:47:57,966 --> 00:48:00,966 and with that hope and joy. Oh! 894 00:48:02,700 --> 00:48:04,566 Father, you are a good God, 895 00:48:04,566 --> 00:48:07,566 and you've been so good to us through your son. So, 896 00:48:09,000 --> 00:48:12,166 God, I pray that the truth of your word would resonate in us, 897 00:48:12,166 --> 00:48:15,166 that you would protect it for being stolen from our hearts, 898 00:48:16,500 --> 00:48:17,766 that we would feed. 899 00:48:20,400 --> 00:48:23,166 Father, I pray 900 00:48:23,166 --> 00:48:26,166 that NSU would raise up a people. 901 00:48:27,000 --> 00:48:30,000 Who live under the reign of grace 902 00:48:31,033 --> 00:48:32,700 through faith in your son. 903 00:48:32,700 --> 00:48:35,100 By your grace, 904 00:48:35,100 --> 00:48:37,400 in your name I pray. Amen. 905 00:48:37,400 --> 00:48:38,133 Amen. 906 00:48:38,133 --> 00:48:40,333 It's an I love you. 907 00:48:40,333 --> 00:48:43,566 Thank you for going through Romans five with us. 908 00:48:43,600 --> 00:48:46,666 Here's here's take this week and read Romans five again. 909 00:48:48,033 --> 00:48:51,033 And then read Romans six and get ready for next week. 910 00:48:51,366 --> 00:48:52,700 Be good. 911 00:48:52,700 --> 00:48:55,266 Listen, some of you made some commitments. 912 00:48:55,266 --> 00:48:57,166 Some of you made commitments. 913 00:48:57,166 --> 00:48:59,366 And here's my ask. 914 00:48:59,366 --> 00:49:01,533 I did in the first I forgot to do it this year. 915 00:49:01,533 --> 00:49:03,833 So I was going to ask you to raise up your hand for these commitments. 916 00:49:03,833 --> 00:49:06,766 You're amazing. I forgot that to do that. 917 00:49:06,766 --> 00:49:10,300 And so here's, here's, here's my ask if you made some commitment, 918 00:49:10,300 --> 00:49:13,500 I want to make sure that we're praying with you and for you specifically. 919 00:49:14,100 --> 00:49:16,266 And so David is right over there. I'm right here. 920 00:49:16,266 --> 00:49:17,033 Sarah is there, too. 921 00:49:17,033 --> 00:49:19,500 Jeff is here like, we're around here, John, or right down 922 00:49:19,500 --> 00:49:24,133 here, like, would you come and say, hey, I prayed one of those prayers 923 00:49:24,800 --> 00:49:27,566 and just let us pray with you and confirm that, 924 00:49:30,366 --> 00:49:33,233 like, don't be afraid of that. 925 00:49:33,233 --> 00:49:36,866 You stand with the favor and smile of God on your life. 926 00:49:36,866 --> 00:49:39,866 You got nothing to be afraid of. 927 00:49:40,666 --> 00:49:42,500 You understand what I'm saying? 928 00:49:42,500 --> 00:49:44,500 Yeah. Let's sing.