1 00:00:01,933 --> 00:00:03,300 The word gospel 2 00:00:03,300 --> 00:00:06,300 translates to news that brings joy. 3 00:00:06,566 --> 00:00:08,800 But this isn't just any news. 4 00:00:08,800 --> 00:00:11,866 A gospel is news that changes a life forever. 5 00:00:12,666 --> 00:00:15,633 After being invaded and enslaved by Persia, 6 00:00:15,633 --> 00:00:19,800 Greece won two decisive battles at Marathon and Souls. 7 00:00:20,466 --> 00:00:23,633 The Greeks sent out heralds, also called evangelists, 8 00:00:23,766 --> 00:00:26,166 to proclaim the good news to the cities. 9 00:00:26,166 --> 00:00:28,633 We have fought for you. We have won. 10 00:00:28,633 --> 00:00:30,900 And now you're no longer slaves. 11 00:00:30,900 --> 00:00:33,000 You're free. 12 00:00:33,000 --> 00:00:35,733 The reality is that we are all slaves. 13 00:00:35,733 --> 00:00:38,733 Slaves to sin and slaves to death. 14 00:00:38,733 --> 00:00:41,733 We are slaves in need of good news. 15 00:00:42,733 --> 00:00:45,600 Enter Jesus, God's son. 16 00:00:45,600 --> 00:00:48,333 Fully God, fully man. 17 00:00:48,333 --> 00:00:51,200 News that would change our lives forever. 18 00:00:51,200 --> 00:00:52,933 His news was this. 19 00:00:52,933 --> 00:00:55,500 I am the divine come to you to do. 20 00:00:55,500 --> 00:00:57,633 You could not do for yourself. 21 00:00:57,633 --> 00:01:01,233 I will take what you deserve so you can have what I deserve. 22 00:01:01,833 --> 00:01:04,600 You have no idea how much it will cost me. 23 00:01:04,600 --> 00:01:08,100 But you also cannot imagine the depths of my love for you. 24 00:01:08,766 --> 00:01:11,066 It is a gift that I give freely. 25 00:01:11,066 --> 00:01:12,433 So intent. 26 00:01:12,433 --> 00:01:15,433 Repent from all the ways you run for me and follow me. 27 00:01:15,866 --> 00:01:18,866 Follow me because I am the only way to eternal life. 28 00:01:19,233 --> 00:01:22,666 Follow me because I'm the savior you've been looking for. 29 00:01:23,000 --> 00:01:26,000 Follow me because I have authority over everything. 30 00:01:26,233 --> 00:01:28,500 Yet I have humbled myself for you. 31 00:01:28,500 --> 00:01:29,133 Follow me. 32 00:01:29,133 --> 00:01:31,733 Because I died on a cross for you. 33 00:01:31,733 --> 00:01:34,400 Because I'm your true love and your true life. 34 00:01:36,966 --> 00:01:39,333 This is my good news for you. 35 00:01:39,333 --> 00:01:41,133 This is my gospel. 36 00:01:41,133 --> 00:01:44,966 That you have been saved by grace and that you are slave 37 00:01:45,400 --> 00:01:51,100 no more for me. 38 00:01:57,133 --> 00:01:59,500 That is the message of Romans. 39 00:01:59,500 --> 00:02:01,266 That's the gospel. 40 00:02:01,266 --> 00:02:04,166 And we're going to look at the book of Romans, 41 00:02:04,166 --> 00:02:08,166 for the next few months as we go through it as best we can. 42 00:02:08,166 --> 00:02:09,300 Chapter by chapter. 43 00:02:09,300 --> 00:02:12,400 And you're going to see that video over and over, because I want to drive home 44 00:02:12,400 --> 00:02:15,400 the point of what the gospel is. 45 00:02:16,633 --> 00:02:19,633 Basically a synopsis of the book of Romans. 46 00:02:22,766 --> 00:02:25,766 25 years after Paul's conversion to Jesus, 47 00:02:26,800 --> 00:02:29,966 he was traveled on the road to Damascus to persecute 48 00:02:30,433 --> 00:02:34,200 Jesus followers, and Jesus met him personally. 49 00:02:34,200 --> 00:02:37,433 The resurrected Jesus met him personally on the road to Damascus, 50 00:02:38,733 --> 00:02:39,633 and Paul 51 00:02:39,633 --> 00:02:43,000 was transformed, absolutely transformed. 52 00:02:44,466 --> 00:02:47,300 And from that point on, had the desire to go to Rome 53 00:02:47,300 --> 00:02:51,400 to explain the gospel to Christians in Rome. 54 00:02:53,100 --> 00:02:56,833 And year after year, though he desired to go for one reason 55 00:02:56,833 --> 00:02:59,866 or another, the Holy Spirit prevented him from going. 56 00:03:00,833 --> 00:03:03,966 And so he decided to write a letter to them 57 00:03:04,500 --> 00:03:07,133 in the event he couldn't go. 58 00:03:07,133 --> 00:03:10,166 And that letter explaining the gospel 59 00:03:10,533 --> 00:03:13,533 very clearly and very concisely 60 00:03:14,233 --> 00:03:17,166 and very precisely, is what we have in 61 00:03:17,166 --> 00:03:20,166 our Bibles called the Book of Romans. 62 00:03:20,400 --> 00:03:23,133 And I want to, as we go through this, 63 00:03:23,133 --> 00:03:26,900 there was so much in this book that we will not get to. 64 00:03:28,833 --> 00:03:30,833 And so I encourage your own reading of it, 65 00:03:30,833 --> 00:03:33,833 your discussion of it. 66 00:03:34,166 --> 00:03:35,400 It's so complete 67 00:03:35,400 --> 00:03:39,000 a work and it's so thoughtful and logical 68 00:03:40,200 --> 00:03:41,033 that way. 69 00:03:41,033 --> 00:03:46,300 Back in the day, many years ago, Stanford Law required their students 70 00:03:46,300 --> 00:03:50,200 to memorize the first eight verses of the Book of Romans 71 00:03:50,600 --> 00:03:54,933 as an example of an irrefutable argument 72 00:03:55,066 --> 00:03:58,066 for something that could not be disproven. 73 00:03:58,566 --> 00:04:01,566 It's an amazing writing by Paul. 74 00:04:01,900 --> 00:04:04,533 And so we're going to look at it in the first three chapters. 75 00:04:04,533 --> 00:04:07,533 The book of Romans is divided into four sections 76 00:04:08,066 --> 00:04:10,800 the Wrath of God, the grace of God, 77 00:04:10,800 --> 00:04:13,800 the Plan of God, and the Will of God. 78 00:04:14,266 --> 00:04:16,333 And the first three chapters of Romans 79 00:04:16,333 --> 00:04:19,333 talks about the wrath of God. 80 00:04:19,366 --> 00:04:22,366 And as we go through chapters one and two, 81 00:04:23,333 --> 00:04:25,300 most people would say, it's kind of easy 82 00:04:25,300 --> 00:04:28,666 to see the wrath of God understand it in terms of chapter one. 83 00:04:28,666 --> 00:04:30,966 But chapter two is a little different. 84 00:04:30,966 --> 00:04:33,433 Chapter two deals with a different group of people 85 00:04:35,366 --> 00:04:37,133 and what it deals with. 86 00:04:37,133 --> 00:04:40,133 Paul deals with the wrath of God on the humanist, 87 00:04:40,333 --> 00:04:43,233 the wrath of God on the moralist, 88 00:04:43,233 --> 00:04:46,233 and the wrath of God on the religionists. 89 00:04:46,900 --> 00:04:50,400 The The humanist would be chapter one. 90 00:04:50,400 --> 00:04:55,033 Those who think there is no God don't don't consider eternity. 91 00:04:55,800 --> 00:04:57,266 As a reality. 92 00:04:57,266 --> 00:05:01,100 Don't consider what sin is, who best basically as human. 93 00:05:01,100 --> 00:05:03,266 It's just whatever is good for you is good for you. 94 00:05:03,266 --> 00:05:06,133 You do. You all do me? 95 00:05:06,133 --> 00:05:06,866 Don't judge me. 96 00:05:06,866 --> 00:05:07,700 I won't judge you. 97 00:05:07,700 --> 00:05:10,400 Everything is up to the individual. 98 00:05:10,400 --> 00:05:12,666 Very humanistic. 99 00:05:12,666 --> 00:05:14,533 The moralist says. 100 00:05:14,533 --> 00:05:15,566 You know what? I'm not. 101 00:05:15,566 --> 00:05:17,600 I'm not quite that like them. 102 00:05:17,600 --> 00:05:20,600 You know, but I'm not really religious. 103 00:05:20,933 --> 00:05:23,400 But I'm a good person. 104 00:05:23,400 --> 00:05:27,766 The religionists would say, well, I'm certainly not like those guys, and 105 00:05:27,766 --> 00:05:30,800 I am a good person, but I'm a good person because I'm a religious person. 106 00:05:31,866 --> 00:05:34,100 There would be the ones in church. 107 00:05:34,100 --> 00:05:37,100 They'd be the ones who have a Bible and read it. 108 00:05:37,200 --> 00:05:39,966 And Paul sets out and says, whether you put yourself 109 00:05:39,966 --> 00:05:43,900 in the camp of the humanist, the moralist, or the religion, ist. 110 00:05:46,500 --> 00:05:49,500 Every one of us is in need of a savior, 111 00:05:50,166 --> 00:05:53,766 and every one of us is guilty of breaking God's law. 112 00:05:53,866 --> 00:05:56,866 Every one of us steeped in sin, 113 00:05:58,500 --> 00:06:01,966 and even the more or less in the religious, don't escape 114 00:06:02,133 --> 00:06:06,366 God's wrath saved by the blood of Jesus, 115 00:06:06,366 --> 00:06:09,366 shed on the cross for the eons of our sin. 116 00:06:11,400 --> 00:06:13,433 When we read chapter one, it's easy 117 00:06:13,433 --> 00:06:16,433 to point the finger at those who get what they deserve, 118 00:06:18,300 --> 00:06:20,866 especially in the moralist and the religionists. 119 00:06:20,866 --> 00:06:22,966 That's how we think. 120 00:06:22,966 --> 00:06:23,333 You know what? 121 00:06:23,333 --> 00:06:26,300 You made your choices, major decisions. 122 00:06:26,300 --> 00:06:27,833 You're reaping the results of your life. 123 00:06:31,000 --> 00:06:33,700 I want us to understand something. 124 00:06:33,700 --> 00:06:37,800 When we overly condemn someone's sin, 125 00:06:38,400 --> 00:06:41,533 it's a sign that we haven't condemned severely enough 126 00:06:41,533 --> 00:06:44,533 to sin in ourselves. 127 00:06:45,200 --> 00:06:48,166 I want to be very clear about that 128 00:06:48,166 --> 00:06:49,333 biblically. 129 00:06:49,333 --> 00:06:52,333 Go back to the Old Testament and look at King David. 130 00:06:53,300 --> 00:06:55,900 He's the king. He, 131 00:06:55,900 --> 00:06:58,800 has a lust problem. 132 00:06:58,800 --> 00:07:01,500 Sees a woman named Bathsheba 133 00:07:01,500 --> 00:07:03,766 takes her. She's married to another man. 134 00:07:03,766 --> 00:07:06,833 Uriah takes her, commits adultery with her. 135 00:07:07,200 --> 00:07:10,833 She becomes pregnant, and he works out this evil scheme 136 00:07:10,833 --> 00:07:13,700 to have her husband killed. 137 00:07:13,700 --> 00:07:16,700 Goes on with his life. 138 00:07:17,100 --> 00:07:18,066 The prophet Nathan 139 00:07:18,066 --> 00:07:21,233 comes to David and says, David, let me tell you this story. 140 00:07:21,866 --> 00:07:26,166 There was a poor man with one little sheep, and he loved the sheep. 141 00:07:27,033 --> 00:07:30,033 And there was a rich man with a whole flock of sheep. 142 00:07:30,233 --> 00:07:32,866 And the rich man had some friends coming over, 143 00:07:32,866 --> 00:07:36,000 and he didn't want to use any of his own sheep for the barbecue. 144 00:07:36,033 --> 00:07:39,600 So he stole the poor man's sheep and barbequed that one. 145 00:07:39,600 --> 00:07:41,300 What should happen to that man? 146 00:07:41,300 --> 00:07:44,300 And David flies off the handle 147 00:07:44,300 --> 00:07:46,733 and says, that's horrible, that's evil. 148 00:07:46,733 --> 00:07:48,433 That man deserved to die. 149 00:07:50,100 --> 00:07:53,100 And Nathan says, David, you're the guy. 150 00:07:54,733 --> 00:07:57,733 You took one. 151 00:07:58,300 --> 00:07:59,666 See, what David did 152 00:07:59,666 --> 00:08:03,300 there was there was consequence and ramifications for for stealing. 153 00:08:03,833 --> 00:08:06,466 But it wasn't the death penalty. 154 00:08:06,466 --> 00:08:08,066 And what was going on in David's life. 155 00:08:08,066 --> 00:08:11,933 There was sin in his life that he hadn't judged severely enough. 156 00:08:12,733 --> 00:08:15,733 So he severely judged someone else. 157 00:08:16,266 --> 00:08:18,000 You follow. 158 00:08:18,000 --> 00:08:20,633 So whenever we severely judge someone else's 159 00:08:20,633 --> 00:08:23,633 sin, it's probably a sign 160 00:08:23,800 --> 00:08:26,800 that we have injured severely enough 161 00:08:26,833 --> 00:08:29,500 the sin of our own heart. 162 00:08:29,500 --> 00:08:32,466 So we have to be very careful. 163 00:08:32,466 --> 00:08:36,500 And in chapter one, Paul lays out 164 00:08:37,300 --> 00:08:40,300 God's wrath on the humanist 165 00:08:40,633 --> 00:08:43,633 who lives as though there is no God. 166 00:08:45,100 --> 00:08:46,433 And and he puts it in 167 00:08:46,433 --> 00:08:50,233 terms at the towards the, the middle end of that chapter, 168 00:08:50,233 --> 00:08:56,333 in terms of sexual depravity and what that looks like in the world. 169 00:08:58,133 --> 00:08:58,933 I pointed you 170 00:08:58,933 --> 00:09:02,833 to unfiltered and unplugged, teaching that I've done on that. 171 00:09:02,833 --> 00:09:04,900 Is homosexuality compatible with the Bible? 172 00:09:04,900 --> 00:09:09,200 And so all of that's there, and I really dive into that whole issue. 173 00:09:09,200 --> 00:09:10,433 But that's what Paul said. 174 00:09:10,433 --> 00:09:12,700 Look, from the humanist who says there is no God. 175 00:09:12,700 --> 00:09:15,700 This is where that leads. 176 00:09:16,166 --> 00:09:19,600 In chapter two, he, he, he kind of shifts a little bit 177 00:09:19,600 --> 00:09:22,766 and he deals with the moralist and the religionists 178 00:09:24,033 --> 00:09:26,466 as good people. 179 00:09:26,466 --> 00:09:29,033 Those of us who think, 180 00:09:29,033 --> 00:09:32,700 I mean, I'm not a Jesus fanatic, but I'm like a fan 181 00:09:33,900 --> 00:09:35,933 and I'm a good person. 182 00:09:35,933 --> 00:09:38,233 And and by my goodness, God and I have 183 00:09:38,233 --> 00:09:41,233 a good understanding and a good relationship. 184 00:09:41,366 --> 00:09:43,300 That's the moralist. 185 00:09:43,300 --> 00:09:46,900 The religionists would say, well, I, you know, I'm more than a good moral 186 00:09:46,900 --> 00:09:52,133 person, like, like I know the Bible and I'm in church every week 187 00:09:52,166 --> 00:09:56,700 and by my goodness and my serve and by my by my good religious life, 188 00:09:58,166 --> 00:10:00,733 God and I are good. 189 00:10:00,733 --> 00:10:03,300 And what Paul says 190 00:10:03,300 --> 00:10:06,300 is that whatever camp you put yourself in, 191 00:10:06,366 --> 00:10:09,366 the humanist, the moralist or the religionists, 192 00:10:09,666 --> 00:10:12,433 if you reject the truth of your own personal sin. 193 00:10:12,433 --> 00:10:16,200 If I were just the truth of my own personal sin, my need for repentance, 194 00:10:16,200 --> 00:10:20,500 your need for personal repentance, and humbly accept the work Jesus did 195 00:10:20,500 --> 00:10:24,600 on the cross, the shedding of his blood for the forgiveness of your sin. 196 00:10:25,966 --> 00:10:28,966 Whether you're a humanist more or less, or religionists, 197 00:10:29,400 --> 00:10:31,733 we're all equally lost 198 00:10:31,733 --> 00:10:34,733 and deserving of the wrath of God. 199 00:10:35,666 --> 00:10:37,966 And so let's jump into this 200 00:10:37,966 --> 00:10:40,966 to the moralist as good folk. 201 00:10:42,000 --> 00:10:44,566 Romans 1234. 202 00:10:44,566 --> 00:10:46,100 They'll follow along with me on the screen. 203 00:10:46,100 --> 00:10:49,100 Let me read it from my Bible. 204 00:10:50,066 --> 00:10:51,900 You therefore have no excuse. 205 00:10:51,900 --> 00:10:56,633 You who pass judgment on someone else for whatever point you judge the other. 206 00:10:56,633 --> 00:11:00,466 You are condemning yourself because you who pass judgment do the same things. 207 00:11:01,500 --> 00:11:03,666 Now we know that God's judgment 208 00:11:03,666 --> 00:11:06,600 against those who do such things is based on truth. 209 00:11:06,600 --> 00:11:09,733 So when you, a mere man, pass judgment on them 210 00:11:09,733 --> 00:11:14,100 and yet do the same things, do you think you will escape God's judgment? 211 00:11:14,900 --> 00:11:19,466 Or do you show contempt for the riches of his kindness, tolerance, and patience? 212 00:11:19,900 --> 00:11:22,733 Not really realizing that God's kindness 213 00:11:22,733 --> 00:11:25,733 leads you toward repentance. 214 00:11:26,700 --> 00:11:27,866 When Paul 215 00:11:27,866 --> 00:11:31,100 says, you who pass judgment and what he's saying is based on 216 00:11:31,100 --> 00:11:35,066 what he's talked about in in chapter one, the degradation 217 00:11:35,833 --> 00:11:38,833 of of of of culture, of humanity. 218 00:11:39,066 --> 00:11:41,566 You who pass judgment on them. 219 00:11:41,566 --> 00:11:44,566 He says, be very careful, 220 00:11:44,633 --> 00:11:47,633 because when you pass judgment, 221 00:11:48,000 --> 00:11:51,000 you do the same things. 222 00:11:51,233 --> 00:11:54,233 Here's what he's saying. 223 00:11:54,566 --> 00:11:56,766 What he was saying is, is, 224 00:11:56,766 --> 00:11:59,500 well, you know, when you say, well, they got what they deserve, 225 00:12:00,900 --> 00:12:02,833 that's on them. 226 00:12:02,833 --> 00:12:03,900 They chose their life. 227 00:12:03,900 --> 00:12:05,866 They made their decisions, 228 00:12:05,866 --> 00:12:08,333 their lives fall apart, being destroyed because they're just getting 229 00:12:08,333 --> 00:12:09,133 what they deserve. 230 00:12:09,133 --> 00:12:10,533 I haven't chose those. 231 00:12:10,533 --> 00:12:12,800 So my life didn't fall apart. 232 00:12:12,800 --> 00:12:14,000 They're getting what they deserve. 233 00:12:14,000 --> 00:12:17,000 He says be very careful. 234 00:12:19,500 --> 00:12:22,500 This is so interesting to me 235 00:12:22,700 --> 00:12:25,533 because I. 236 00:12:25,533 --> 00:12:28,533 I want to caution you, us, 237 00:12:28,900 --> 00:12:33,466 not to believe in or to say things that I've seen coming out 238 00:12:33,466 --> 00:12:36,466 from moralistic and religious people 239 00:12:37,166 --> 00:12:40,166 in light of the fires in LA. 240 00:12:40,533 --> 00:12:43,566 And you picked up on what the more or less, religionists are saying, 241 00:12:43,566 --> 00:12:46,200 some of them. 242 00:12:46,200 --> 00:12:48,766 That there's it's no surprise that the Golden Globes mocked 243 00:12:48,766 --> 00:12:53,633 God and two days later, the, you know, life is burning. The. 244 00:12:56,100 --> 00:12:59,100 Please don't say that. 245 00:12:59,366 --> 00:13:01,066 Please don't believe that. 246 00:13:03,900 --> 00:13:06,900 All that happens when if you buy into that 247 00:13:08,033 --> 00:13:10,033 illogic, 248 00:13:10,033 --> 00:13:13,300 all you do is confirm that you are either 249 00:13:13,300 --> 00:13:16,300 a moralist or a religionists 250 00:13:16,600 --> 00:13:19,600 worthy of God's wrath. 251 00:13:22,100 --> 00:13:23,966 The moralist will say 252 00:13:23,966 --> 00:13:26,966 I might be bad, but I'm not like that. 253 00:13:27,000 --> 00:13:29,866 The religionists will say, I got my issues, 254 00:13:29,866 --> 00:13:32,866 but they're not like those issues. 255 00:13:34,033 --> 00:13:37,033 That deserves God's wrath. Me? 256 00:13:41,600 --> 00:13:44,600 When Paul says, don't judge. 257 00:13:45,733 --> 00:13:48,466 Most people have heard what Jesus said 258 00:13:48,466 --> 00:13:51,466 in Matthew chapter seven, verse one. 259 00:13:51,733 --> 00:13:53,466 What do you say? 260 00:13:53,466 --> 00:13:55,900 The fullness of the screen for me back there. 261 00:13:55,900 --> 00:13:58,900 Do not judge or what? 262 00:13:59,600 --> 00:14:01,266 If any of you heard that? 263 00:14:01,266 --> 00:14:02,666 Have you heard that? 264 00:14:02,666 --> 00:14:03,400 Yeah. 265 00:14:03,400 --> 00:14:06,100 We like that verse, don't we? 266 00:14:06,100 --> 00:14:08,633 The problem is most people, though, they know that verse. 267 00:14:08,633 --> 00:14:11,833 They've not read enough of the Bible to read verses 15 268 00:14:11,833 --> 00:14:14,833 and 16 of what Jesus also said. 269 00:14:14,900 --> 00:14:16,066 Same chapter. 270 00:14:16,066 --> 00:14:17,133 Couple verses later. 271 00:14:17,133 --> 00:14:19,933 Watch out for false prophets. 272 00:14:19,933 --> 00:14:25,500 They come to you in sheep's clothing, but inwardly are ferocious wolves by their. 273 00:14:25,500 --> 00:14:28,300 What fruit you will. What? 274 00:14:29,300 --> 00:14:30,633 Recognize them? 275 00:14:30,633 --> 00:14:33,633 How do you recognize bad fruit? 276 00:14:34,233 --> 00:14:36,833 You judge that it's bad. 277 00:14:36,833 --> 00:14:39,300 So on the one hand, Jesus says, don't judge us. 278 00:14:39,300 --> 00:14:39,966 You'll be judge. 279 00:14:39,966 --> 00:14:43,200 On the other hand he says, but you may judge their life, 280 00:14:43,800 --> 00:14:46,733 the fruit of their life, because only by their judging 281 00:14:46,733 --> 00:14:50,066 the fruit of life will you know if they're of me or not. 282 00:14:52,233 --> 00:14:54,600 So here's how I want to unpack this. 283 00:14:54,600 --> 00:14:57,766 When Paul says about judging, here's what he means. 284 00:14:58,200 --> 00:15:00,566 We're not to judge for condemnation. 285 00:15:00,566 --> 00:15:03,566 We are to judge for identification. 286 00:15:04,700 --> 00:15:07,533 You understand that there's a difference 287 00:15:07,533 --> 00:15:08,933 what Paul's talking about here. 288 00:15:08,933 --> 00:15:13,000 Don't judge someone else's sin as if you have 289 00:15:13,000 --> 00:15:16,000 the knowledge to condemn or not. 290 00:15:16,966 --> 00:15:19,966 But we do judge for identification. 291 00:15:20,700 --> 00:15:24,566 If someone claims to be a Christ follower or a Jesus follower, 292 00:15:25,100 --> 00:15:28,100 it will show by the fruit of their life. 293 00:15:28,400 --> 00:15:31,900 And Jesus says, judge that so you will know. 294 00:15:36,500 --> 00:15:38,566 It's interesting that Paul says he doesn't. 295 00:15:38,566 --> 00:15:41,366 He doesn't find fault with judging. 296 00:15:41,366 --> 00:15:45,466 What he finds fault is that we haven't judged ourselves severely in the first. 297 00:15:48,233 --> 00:15:50,000 It's exactly what Jesus said to. 298 00:15:50,000 --> 00:15:53,866 He said, don't worry about the the speck in someone else's. 299 00:15:53,866 --> 00:15:56,866 I take the log out of your own first. 300 00:15:57,033 --> 00:16:00,900 He's it's not about not making judge because he says, judge 301 00:16:00,900 --> 00:16:02,400 the fruit of each other. 302 00:16:02,400 --> 00:16:05,400 Judge him not for condemnation, 303 00:16:06,466 --> 00:16:08,366 but for identification. 304 00:16:08,366 --> 00:16:11,366 But first, judge yourself most severely. 305 00:16:12,400 --> 00:16:14,533 What David failed to do. 306 00:16:14,533 --> 00:16:16,500 You follow? 307 00:16:16,500 --> 00:16:19,500 You okay? 308 00:16:19,533 --> 00:16:22,533 See, this is all pointed to the moralist 309 00:16:22,566 --> 00:16:25,566 who would say, at least I'm not like them. 310 00:16:27,633 --> 00:16:30,600 And when he says here you who pass judgment. 311 00:16:30,600 --> 00:16:34,033 You're condemning yourself because you who pass judgment do the same things. 312 00:16:34,666 --> 00:16:38,366 And the moralist would say, I don't do that. 313 00:16:39,666 --> 00:16:42,633 I mean, 314 00:16:42,633 --> 00:16:44,366 there. 315 00:16:44,366 --> 00:16:46,133 I don't do that. 316 00:16:46,133 --> 00:16:48,333 And what the more or less forgets 317 00:16:48,333 --> 00:16:51,333 is how Jesus interpreted the law. 318 00:16:52,133 --> 00:16:54,766 He said, you've heard it say that. 319 00:16:54,766 --> 00:16:56,800 Don't murder. 320 00:16:56,800 --> 00:17:01,100 Well, I'm telling you, the interpretation of that when you've harbored 321 00:17:01,433 --> 00:17:04,433 hatred in your heart and grudges, 322 00:17:04,533 --> 00:17:07,533 you've already committed murder in your heart. 323 00:17:07,833 --> 00:17:10,500 So though your sin doesn't look externally like 324 00:17:10,500 --> 00:17:13,500 there's internally it's the same. 325 00:17:14,366 --> 00:17:17,333 Jesus would say, you've heard it said, don't commit adultery. 326 00:17:17,333 --> 00:17:21,366 You said, what I'm telling you is, when you have lusted 327 00:17:21,366 --> 00:17:24,366 and harbored lust in your heart for someone, 328 00:17:25,500 --> 00:17:28,166 you're guilty. 329 00:17:28,166 --> 00:17:30,766 And this is what Paul saying, you who point the finger, 330 00:17:30,766 --> 00:17:34,700 you gotta realize that there's something going on in your own life. 331 00:17:34,733 --> 00:17:37,733 You haven't judged severely enough yet. 332 00:17:38,633 --> 00:17:41,000 You do the same things, he says, you moralist. 333 00:17:44,466 --> 00:17:45,500 And he asks the question, 334 00:17:45,500 --> 00:17:49,200 do you show contempt for the riches of his kindness, tolerance, and patience, 335 00:17:49,400 --> 00:17:52,500 not realizing that God's kindness lead you toward repentance? 336 00:17:53,933 --> 00:17:55,966 You see and look just because. 337 00:17:55,966 --> 00:17:58,966 Just because the hammer hasn't fallen yet. 338 00:17:59,900 --> 00:18:02,800 Don't mistake that 339 00:18:02,800 --> 00:18:06,900 for God's inability to lower it the hammer, 340 00:18:07,666 --> 00:18:10,666 nor mistake it as God's approval. 341 00:18:11,733 --> 00:18:14,733 He's being kind to you. 342 00:18:15,000 --> 00:18:17,766 And when Paul this these three things 343 00:18:17,766 --> 00:18:21,866 kindness, tolerance and patience, what he's saying is 344 00:18:22,066 --> 00:18:25,700 God is kind to you towards your past sin. 345 00:18:25,900 --> 00:18:29,100 He's tolerant with you regarding your present sin, 346 00:18:29,100 --> 00:18:32,233 and he will be patient with you about your future sin. 347 00:18:34,200 --> 00:18:35,800 That's what he's saying. 348 00:18:35,800 --> 00:18:36,900 So he's saying so. 349 00:18:36,900 --> 00:18:39,366 So don't be fooled. 350 00:18:39,366 --> 00:18:41,233 And the thinking he doesn't care about your past. 351 00:18:41,233 --> 00:18:45,166 And don't be fooled and think in thinking that he's approving of your presence. 352 00:18:45,166 --> 00:18:49,500 And don't be fooled in thinking he'll have a blind eye about your future sin. 353 00:18:50,366 --> 00:18:51,833 He sees it all. 354 00:18:51,833 --> 00:18:52,833 He knows it all. 355 00:18:52,833 --> 00:18:56,366 But he is kind to you because he wants his kindness. 356 00:18:56,366 --> 00:19:00,533 You want you to to recognize that his kindness is intended to what 357 00:19:02,000 --> 00:19:05,000 lead you to repentance. 358 00:19:05,266 --> 00:19:07,866 God doesn't want to force you to repent. 359 00:19:07,866 --> 00:19:08,933 He don't want to break you. 360 00:19:08,933 --> 00:19:11,266 So you will. He. 361 00:19:11,266 --> 00:19:16,133 He shows his kindness over our past, present, and future sin. 362 00:19:16,166 --> 00:19:19,166 So that will be led to repentance. 363 00:19:20,800 --> 00:19:22,400 See, it's not a scary thing 364 00:19:22,400 --> 00:19:25,833 to repent when you know that in repentance comes grace. 365 00:19:25,966 --> 00:19:29,266 Grace is the undeserved, unmerited favor and blessing. 366 00:19:30,533 --> 00:19:32,566 But we never get to the unmerited 367 00:19:32,566 --> 00:19:36,066 and, favor blessing of God, the grace of God without first repentance. 368 00:19:36,066 --> 00:19:36,833 And you can't. 369 00:19:36,833 --> 00:19:39,833 We can't repeat until we acknowledge our sin, 370 00:19:40,166 --> 00:19:42,900 even for the moralist. 371 00:19:42,900 --> 00:19:44,533 You follow? 372 00:19:44,533 --> 00:19:47,533 You okay, so far it's. 373 00:19:50,366 --> 00:19:52,800 Enough to lead us to repentance. 374 00:19:52,800 --> 00:19:54,500 God does not want to have to break us. 375 00:19:54,500 --> 00:19:57,366 So we'll repent. It was not beyond that. 376 00:19:58,966 --> 00:20:01,433 But please understand, 377 00:20:01,433 --> 00:20:04,433 if you and I have not reaped all we've sowed 378 00:20:05,566 --> 00:20:10,000 the full destruction of our life, behavior and sin. 379 00:20:10,266 --> 00:20:13,266 It's only because of God's kindness. 380 00:20:13,333 --> 00:20:16,333 It's only because of his tolerance and his patience. 381 00:20:16,600 --> 00:20:19,233 And he intends us to recognize that, 382 00:20:19,233 --> 00:20:22,233 to lead us to repent. 383 00:20:25,633 --> 00:20:28,633 Please don't miss this. 384 00:20:30,800 --> 00:20:33,066 Read five through 11 for a long section here. 385 00:20:33,066 --> 00:20:33,866 Here's what I want you to. 386 00:20:33,866 --> 00:20:36,000 I want to make sure you bring your Bibles with you, 387 00:20:36,000 --> 00:20:39,000 because pretty soon I'm going to start start putting the verses up here. 388 00:20:39,266 --> 00:20:41,033 It's just too much. 389 00:20:41,033 --> 00:20:44,100 And so you're going to have to follow along with me at some point. 390 00:20:44,100 --> 00:20:44,566 Okay. 391 00:20:44,566 --> 00:20:47,233 So let me just I don't know when I'm going to do it. 392 00:20:47,233 --> 00:20:48,600 I might pull the trigger on that next week. 393 00:20:48,600 --> 00:20:50,433 I'm not sure. So just be ready. 394 00:20:50,433 --> 00:20:52,200 If you don't have a Bible, let me know. 395 00:20:52,200 --> 00:20:55,200 And Scott and Brenda McElroy will buy one for you. 396 00:20:55,433 --> 00:21:00,500 And, download something on your phone or whatever, but let me just read verse five. 397 00:21:00,666 --> 00:21:03,733 But because of your stubbornness and your unrepentant heart, 398 00:21:04,333 --> 00:21:07,400 you are storing up wrath against yourself for the day of God's wrath. 399 00:21:07,400 --> 00:21:10,400 When his righteous judgment will be revealed. God. 400 00:21:10,400 --> 00:21:14,300 And then Paul quotes, from, Psalm and Proverbs. 401 00:21:15,133 --> 00:21:18,133 God will give to each person according to what he has done. 402 00:21:18,700 --> 00:21:19,733 End quote. 403 00:21:19,733 --> 00:21:23,066 He goes on to those who, by persistence and doing good, seek glory, 404 00:21:23,066 --> 00:21:25,066 honor, immortality. He'll give you eternal life. 405 00:21:25,066 --> 00:21:29,500 But for those who are self-seeking and who reject the truth and follow evil, 406 00:21:29,500 --> 00:21:30,366 there will be rap. 407 00:21:30,366 --> 00:21:33,766 And they verse nine, he says, there will be trouble and distress 408 00:21:33,766 --> 00:21:38,233 for every human being who does evil, both for Jews and Gentiles, don't matter 409 00:21:38,566 --> 00:21:42,200 but glory, honor, and peace for everyone who does good first for the Jew 410 00:21:42,200 --> 00:21:43,000 and then for the Gentiles. 411 00:21:43,000 --> 00:21:46,266 And then verse 11, For God does not show favoritism. 412 00:21:47,600 --> 00:21:48,966 I'm going to come back to that in just a minute. 413 00:21:48,966 --> 00:21:50,900 Let me wrap up with for I'm going to skip verse 12. 414 00:21:50,900 --> 00:21:54,833 Come back to verse 13 says this, for it is not those who hear the law 415 00:21:54,866 --> 00:21:56,133 who are righteous in God's sight, 416 00:21:56,133 --> 00:22:00,366 but those, but it is those who obey the law who will be declared righteous. 417 00:22:00,366 --> 00:22:03,200 Let me unpack it. Here's what he's saying. 418 00:22:03,200 --> 00:22:06,866 He's saying for all you peep, all you good moralists 419 00:22:07,200 --> 00:22:10,200 and even new religionists, he's talking to us 420 00:22:10,433 --> 00:22:13,433 because of your stubbornness and your unrepentant hearts. 421 00:22:14,533 --> 00:22:17,500 Stubbornness means when you dig your heels in 422 00:22:17,500 --> 00:22:20,500 and just get obstinate to the truth of sin, 423 00:22:21,500 --> 00:22:24,933 when you just do his and look like, look, I'm a good person. 424 00:22:24,933 --> 00:22:26,100 I'm not like that. 425 00:22:27,300 --> 00:22:30,066 It just doesn't apply to me because they deserve it. 426 00:22:30,066 --> 00:22:31,866 I don't, you're just stubborn. 427 00:22:31,866 --> 00:22:34,733 You refuse to admit 428 00:22:34,733 --> 00:22:35,166 that spirit. 429 00:22:35,166 --> 00:22:38,166 You're just like those people. 430 00:22:38,533 --> 00:22:41,533 And when it when when he says you have an unrepentant heart, 431 00:22:41,633 --> 00:22:45,100 it's the heart that refuses to change its mind. 432 00:22:46,500 --> 00:22:49,433 You just refuse to change your mind 433 00:22:49,433 --> 00:22:52,866 about your own personal sin, your need of a Savior, he says. 434 00:22:52,866 --> 00:22:57,400 For those of us who dicker hills in and obstinate 435 00:22:57,400 --> 00:23:01,900 to the truth of sin, and the only way to forgiveness and salvation, who refuse 436 00:23:01,900 --> 00:23:05,666 to change our mind, he says, we're storing up wrath for our self. 437 00:23:05,700 --> 00:23:07,333 God's wrath. 438 00:23:07,333 --> 00:23:08,533 Now let me. 439 00:23:08,533 --> 00:23:11,533 How many of you have ever filled up a water balloon before 440 00:23:11,700 --> 00:23:12,766 you fill the water balloon? 441 00:23:12,766 --> 00:23:14,100 Okay, so Paul never did. 442 00:23:15,200 --> 00:23:17,600 But what he's talking about is this idea. 443 00:23:17,600 --> 00:23:20,700 You fill up a water balloon, and he keeps going to keep on, keep filling up. 444 00:23:20,866 --> 00:23:24,733 If you keep it under the nozzle too long, what happens to that water balloon? 445 00:23:25,533 --> 00:23:28,166 It bursts all over you. 446 00:23:28,166 --> 00:23:30,500 And what he's saying is, is if you continue, 447 00:23:30,500 --> 00:23:33,500 though, God is patient and kind, 448 00:23:33,600 --> 00:23:36,933 you continue to dig your heels and you continue to refuse 449 00:23:36,933 --> 00:23:40,966 to change your mind about your own personal sin and your need to repent. 450 00:23:42,266 --> 00:23:47,366 That balloon will fill up so much of God's wrath. 451 00:23:47,366 --> 00:23:49,733 It's being contained right now, 452 00:23:49,733 --> 00:23:52,066 but at some point it will be so full 453 00:23:52,066 --> 00:23:55,066 that wrath will burst all over you. 454 00:24:00,733 --> 00:24:03,733 Oh moral one. 455 00:24:06,800 --> 00:24:10,233 You said you continue to reject the truth, 456 00:24:10,900 --> 00:24:14,400 the knowledge that his wrath is coming on. 457 00:24:14,400 --> 00:24:16,733 Those who refuse to repent. 458 00:24:18,166 --> 00:24:20,700 God is love, 459 00:24:20,700 --> 00:24:22,900 but his righteousness 460 00:24:22,900 --> 00:24:25,900 means wrath on the unrepentant. 461 00:24:28,633 --> 00:24:29,500 And when he says in 462 00:24:29,500 --> 00:24:34,000 the verses seven, ten, and 13, to those who by persistence in doing 463 00:24:34,233 --> 00:24:37,200 good, see glory, honor, immortality, he'll give you eternal life. 464 00:24:37,200 --> 00:24:40,200 Verse ten, but glory, honor, peace for everyone who does good. 465 00:24:40,300 --> 00:24:44,700 And then verse 13, for it is not those who hear the law who are righteous 466 00:24:44,700 --> 00:24:48,300 in God's sight, but those who obey the law will be declared righteous. 467 00:24:48,300 --> 00:24:51,700 What he's saying is what we read in James 122 468 00:24:52,200 --> 00:24:54,600 be doers of the word, not just hearers of it. 469 00:24:54,600 --> 00:24:57,600 It's not enough to know when they hear. 470 00:24:57,633 --> 00:25:00,433 It's not enough to give assent to their no. 471 00:25:00,433 --> 00:25:02,100 I agree with everything in the Bible. 472 00:25:02,100 --> 00:25:04,966 What he's saying is you can know it and be a good moral person. 473 00:25:04,966 --> 00:25:06,966 You can know and be a good religious person, 474 00:25:06,966 --> 00:25:11,633 but until you it become like you do, what's here, 475 00:25:12,866 --> 00:25:15,866 your knowledge means nothing. 476 00:25:15,866 --> 00:25:17,400 It's got to show up in your life. 477 00:25:17,400 --> 00:25:22,066 And that's why Jesus can say in in Matthew 715 and 16, 478 00:25:22,800 --> 00:25:25,933 you'll know them by their fruit, and you can judge the fruit of a life. 479 00:25:25,933 --> 00:25:28,500 No problem. 480 00:25:28,500 --> 00:25:31,200 Because if they believe in, they say they'll believe it'll show up. 481 00:25:31,200 --> 00:25:34,200 You have the right to judge the fruit. 482 00:25:35,733 --> 00:25:37,600 They don't judge for condemnation. 483 00:25:37,600 --> 00:25:40,100 That's God's job. 484 00:25:40,100 --> 00:25:43,100 But the moment we say I'm right with God. 485 00:25:47,300 --> 00:25:49,066 We can judge the fruit. 486 00:25:49,066 --> 00:25:49,933 And I love verse 11. 487 00:25:49,933 --> 00:25:51,866 It says, For God does not show favoritism. 488 00:25:51,866 --> 00:25:54,366 Just a little side note 489 00:25:54,366 --> 00:25:57,366 it. God does not show favoritism. I. 490 00:26:00,533 --> 00:26:03,300 Did you know 491 00:26:03,300 --> 00:26:03,633 that? 492 00:26:03,633 --> 00:26:08,133 What that means is that God listens to you as much as he listens to me. 493 00:26:10,666 --> 00:26:12,233 So it's dangerous to sit up 494 00:26:12,233 --> 00:26:15,866 here on this stool and to have the mic for many reasons. 495 00:26:16,600 --> 00:26:20,900 But one of the reasons is dangerous is because sometimes people 496 00:26:21,066 --> 00:26:25,533 who are listening to the one on the stool think that their prayers 497 00:26:25,533 --> 00:26:30,400 and connection to God is a little bit more intense and connected than yours. 498 00:26:31,400 --> 00:26:32,500 And that's why. 499 00:26:32,500 --> 00:26:35,000 That's why. And this isn't a shame anybody. 500 00:26:35,000 --> 00:26:37,733 But I just want one supplement in Scripture and and what 501 00:26:37,733 --> 00:26:40,733 it means to be a child of God. 502 00:26:41,966 --> 00:26:44,966 I've had people tell me this on Sunday morning, 503 00:26:45,366 --> 00:26:48,366 pastor, I really need you to pray for me. 504 00:26:48,966 --> 00:26:51,700 Why you think 505 00:26:51,700 --> 00:26:54,700 I got some connection to him that you don't have? 506 00:26:55,500 --> 00:26:58,433 The Bible says right here there's no favoritism. 507 00:26:58,433 --> 00:27:01,233 He didn't pay attention to my prayers more than yours. 508 00:27:03,133 --> 00:27:04,100 Does it make you understand? 509 00:27:04,100 --> 00:27:05,900 I'm saying. 510 00:27:05,900 --> 00:27:08,133 But some people feel as though. 511 00:27:08,133 --> 00:27:11,133 Oh, you're the pastor. 512 00:27:12,000 --> 00:27:15,000 If we can just get past heartbreak. 513 00:27:16,166 --> 00:27:17,900 Let me say this with gentleness. 514 00:27:17,900 --> 00:27:20,900 Although I don't think I can. 515 00:27:24,433 --> 00:27:27,433 That's an insult to God. 516 00:27:30,333 --> 00:27:34,033 Do you think my prayers are heard more than yours? 517 00:27:34,033 --> 00:27:37,033 If you have a relationship with Jesus? 518 00:27:38,733 --> 00:27:39,600 So please, 519 00:27:39,600 --> 00:27:42,600 I don't mind praying for any of you, 520 00:27:42,900 --> 00:27:45,633 but please don't insult God 521 00:27:45,633 --> 00:27:48,000 and put me in that position 522 00:27:48,000 --> 00:27:51,000 where you think you need to come to church and ask me to pray for you. 523 00:27:52,833 --> 00:27:54,200 I'm almost to the point. 524 00:27:54,200 --> 00:27:57,200 When people ask me, I tell them no. 525 00:27:58,500 --> 00:28:01,133 Pastor, you pray for me? No. 526 00:28:01,133 --> 00:28:03,633 Well. 527 00:28:03,633 --> 00:28:06,633 We got so many good prayers in this church. 528 00:28:06,866 --> 00:28:09,000 We have people in this church who would. If. 529 00:28:09,000 --> 00:28:10,000 If you have a need. 530 00:28:10,000 --> 00:28:12,300 Listen, if you ever need, you pray. 531 00:28:12,300 --> 00:28:14,400 You've got direct access to God. 532 00:28:14,400 --> 00:28:17,400 The Holy Spirit is your advocate and your intercessor. 533 00:28:17,700 --> 00:28:19,666 But beyond that, we got people in this church 534 00:28:19,666 --> 00:28:22,666 who would love to come to your home and pray with you. 535 00:28:23,033 --> 00:28:23,700 I mean little people. 536 00:28:23,700 --> 00:28:26,600 They would love to meet with you and pray. 537 00:28:26,600 --> 00:28:27,666 People would love to visit. 538 00:28:27,666 --> 00:28:29,800 When you go, someone in your family goes to the hospital. 539 00:28:29,800 --> 00:28:31,466 Let us know. We got people who show up. 540 00:28:33,500 --> 00:28:35,900 Every first year, every 541 00:28:35,900 --> 00:28:37,566 month, 542 00:28:37,566 --> 00:28:38,800 people after the service. 543 00:28:38,800 --> 00:28:40,833 You make us a decision. You need to pray about something. 544 00:28:40,833 --> 00:28:43,833 We got people like. 545 00:28:44,866 --> 00:28:46,033 That God didn't show favoritism. 546 00:28:46,033 --> 00:28:48,400 He listens. 547 00:28:48,400 --> 00:28:50,100 Have I said enough about that? 548 00:28:50,100 --> 00:28:51,133 All right. 549 00:28:51,133 --> 00:28:54,133 Okay. 550 00:28:54,966 --> 00:28:56,966 Then go back to verse 12 and then 14 and 15. 551 00:28:56,966 --> 00:28:59,500 First 12 says it's 552 00:28:59,500 --> 00:29:02,633 all who sent the Paul is so brilliant. 553 00:29:02,633 --> 00:29:05,966 He writes like a lawyer, especially in Romans. 554 00:29:05,966 --> 00:29:08,900 And so this is going to sound like lawyer ease. 555 00:29:08,900 --> 00:29:09,266 Okay. 556 00:29:09,266 --> 00:29:12,666 And sometimes here's the, here's the danger for all you brilliant people. 557 00:29:12,866 --> 00:29:15,866 Sometimes you're too brilliant for simple people like me. 558 00:29:16,500 --> 00:29:17,733 And Paul is one of those. 559 00:29:17,733 --> 00:29:19,266 And so I'm going to read this 560 00:29:19,266 --> 00:29:22,200 and you might get lost in it, will come back and explain. 561 00:29:22,200 --> 00:29:25,200 But here's what it's all who stand apart from the law will also perish. 562 00:29:25,200 --> 00:29:28,566 Apart from the law, and all who sinned under law will be judged by the law. 563 00:29:28,600 --> 00:29:32,233 Verse 14 indeed, when Gentiles who do not have the law 564 00:29:32,333 --> 00:29:36,066 do by nature things required by the law, they are a law for themselves, 565 00:29:36,066 --> 00:29:39,200 even though they do not have the law, since they show that the requirements 566 00:29:39,200 --> 00:29:42,533 of the law are written on their hearts, their conscience is also bearing witness 567 00:29:42,766 --> 00:29:45,500 and their thoughts now, accusing, now even defending them. 568 00:29:46,600 --> 00:29:49,600 You got it. 569 00:29:50,200 --> 00:29:52,200 Here's what he's saying. 570 00:29:52,200 --> 00:29:54,200 This addresses the question. 571 00:29:54,200 --> 00:29:56,866 If any of you have ever wondered, 572 00:29:56,866 --> 00:30:00,766 well, what about people who don't have the law? 573 00:30:01,766 --> 00:30:04,000 What about people who've never read the Bible? 574 00:30:04,000 --> 00:30:07,000 What about people who've never heard the name of Jesus? 575 00:30:07,033 --> 00:30:09,133 What about them? 576 00:30:09,133 --> 00:30:12,133 If you ever wondered that. 577 00:30:12,300 --> 00:30:15,600 No. You need to do a little bit more deep thinking in your life. 578 00:30:17,233 --> 00:30:20,400 This addresses the question what about those who just don't know? 579 00:30:20,800 --> 00:30:23,800 Are they going to be condemned? 580 00:30:24,566 --> 00:30:26,133 Well, how can they ever be saved? 581 00:30:26,133 --> 00:30:26,666 They've never been. 582 00:30:26,666 --> 00:30:29,300 So here, here's what Paul saying. 583 00:30:29,300 --> 00:30:31,766 For those who know the law, 584 00:30:31,766 --> 00:30:34,366 who know the standard of God 585 00:30:34,366 --> 00:30:37,366 and who disobey it, 586 00:30:37,566 --> 00:30:40,033 they show themselves to be lawbreakers. 587 00:30:40,033 --> 00:30:44,600 You follow me so far, so all of us fall in that group, that category. 588 00:30:45,100 --> 00:30:47,700 We're without excuse. We've heard it. 589 00:30:47,700 --> 00:30:48,400 We know it. 590 00:30:50,433 --> 00:30:52,833 And we'll be judged by it. 591 00:30:52,833 --> 00:30:55,300 And that judgment from God 592 00:30:55,300 --> 00:30:57,700 will be just a law breaker and guilty. 593 00:30:57,700 --> 00:31:00,966 Now, for those who have never heard this, who don't know this, 594 00:31:00,966 --> 00:31:05,666 what Paul is saying is, though, they don't have the written law, 595 00:31:05,800 --> 00:31:08,800 they have the law of God on their hearts. 596 00:31:09,666 --> 00:31:12,633 In other words. 597 00:31:12,633 --> 00:31:15,633 They know at some level 598 00:31:15,733 --> 00:31:18,833 right and wrong, moral and immoral. 599 00:31:20,400 --> 00:31:22,500 Every human does. We're born with it. 600 00:31:22,500 --> 00:31:25,833 It's God's law that's embedded in our hearts. 601 00:31:26,333 --> 00:31:28,366 Even without the written one. 602 00:31:28,366 --> 00:31:32,400 There's enough within us put there by God. 603 00:31:32,400 --> 00:31:37,200 Shadows of his law to know what's right and wrong. 604 00:31:38,366 --> 00:31:39,300 Let me give you an example. 605 00:31:39,300 --> 00:31:42,300 And it's very crass, but let me just give you this example. 606 00:31:42,766 --> 00:31:45,766 It's called the moral law. 607 00:31:45,766 --> 00:31:47,800 Every culture throughout history, 608 00:31:47,800 --> 00:31:51,900 from the beginning of time, in no culture has it ever been 609 00:31:52,933 --> 00:31:55,333 moral to kill 610 00:31:55,333 --> 00:31:58,333 little children for pleasures sake. 611 00:31:59,700 --> 00:32:02,700 Now there have been cultures who have killed kids, 612 00:32:03,366 --> 00:32:07,066 but never simply for pleasure and joy. 613 00:32:07,800 --> 00:32:12,400 Why? Because there's a moral law written into the heart of humanity. 614 00:32:12,933 --> 00:32:16,266 And what Paul is saying is, if that's the only law you have, 615 00:32:16,800 --> 00:32:20,533 you will break your own moral code at some point. 616 00:32:22,266 --> 00:32:23,566 He's saying, for God's perfect law, 617 00:32:23,566 --> 00:32:26,800 there's no way we can obey the perfect law 100% of time. 618 00:32:27,066 --> 00:32:29,200 And if we can't obey the perfect 100% of time, 619 00:32:29,200 --> 00:32:32,300 there's no way we can even obey our own personal law. 620 00:32:33,766 --> 00:32:35,633 Are you saying God's law is written 621 00:32:35,633 --> 00:32:39,133 on the hearts of those who have never heard of the law enough? 622 00:32:39,400 --> 00:32:42,300 So when they violate their own conscience of right and wrong, 623 00:32:42,300 --> 00:32:43,900 they are judged guilty. 624 00:32:44,866 --> 00:32:47,866 You follow me. 625 00:32:48,300 --> 00:32:51,066 You follow me. 626 00:32:51,066 --> 00:32:54,066 So Paul would say we're all guilty. 627 00:32:54,466 --> 00:32:56,333 You got the law. You're just by guilty. 628 00:32:56,333 --> 00:32:57,100 You don't have the law. 629 00:32:57,100 --> 00:32:59,800 You're just by the God's law written on your hearts, which is conscience. 630 00:32:59,800 --> 00:33:01,800 You're still guilty. 631 00:33:01,800 --> 00:33:04,800 None of us are without excuse. 632 00:33:07,733 --> 00:33:09,766 And if you're still hung up on that whole idea about those 633 00:33:09,766 --> 00:33:12,266 who don't have the Bible, if you're really that concerned about it, 634 00:33:12,266 --> 00:33:15,266 the Bible also say, then you have to go tell them. 635 00:33:18,900 --> 00:33:20,566 And if you haven't done that, you're broken. 636 00:33:20,566 --> 00:33:23,566 God's law still guilty. 637 00:33:27,766 --> 00:33:29,666 Ephesians three. 638 00:33:29,666 --> 00:33:31,466 Verses 17 and following. 639 00:33:31,466 --> 00:33:34,466 Now if you call yourself a Jew, now he's talking to the. 640 00:33:34,566 --> 00:33:37,000 That was all directions to the moral person. 641 00:33:37,000 --> 00:33:38,533 Now, I was talking to the religion. It 642 00:33:40,000 --> 00:33:41,433 you call yourself a Jew 643 00:33:41,433 --> 00:33:46,200 if you really if you rely on the law and brag about your relationship to God, 644 00:33:46,833 --> 00:33:47,700 if you know his will 645 00:33:47,700 --> 00:33:50,900 and approve of what a superior, because you're instructed by the law, 646 00:33:51,733 --> 00:33:56,500 if you are convinced that you are a guide for the blind, a light for those 647 00:33:56,500 --> 00:33:59,666 who are in the dark, an instructor for the foolish, a teacher for infants. 648 00:33:59,800 --> 00:34:03,033 Because you have in the law the embodiment of the knowledge of truth. 649 00:34:03,300 --> 00:34:06,866 You then who teach others, don't you teach yourself first. 650 00:34:09,233 --> 00:34:11,433 What he's saying is, if your confidence 651 00:34:11,433 --> 00:34:14,633 and your relationship with God is based on your religious behavior. 652 00:34:17,266 --> 00:34:20,266 If you're good at doing the things 653 00:34:20,733 --> 00:34:23,533 you think, your goodness is a guide for those who aren't good, 654 00:34:24,666 --> 00:34:27,300 you think you are a light for people who are in darkness. 655 00:34:27,300 --> 00:34:30,600 If they would just look at you, you think that you can instruct those 656 00:34:30,600 --> 00:34:33,600 to do the religious things you do. 657 00:34:35,633 --> 00:34:36,600 Said you really want to. 658 00:34:36,600 --> 00:34:39,000 You really want to try to think 659 00:34:39,000 --> 00:34:42,166 your relationship with the father on your own religiosity. 660 00:34:42,800 --> 00:34:45,800 You think you're that religious. 661 00:34:47,633 --> 00:34:51,033 He says you why don't you teach yourself first? 662 00:34:51,833 --> 00:34:54,833 Do you see how he keeps turning the tables? 663 00:34:55,300 --> 00:34:57,166 Look at the mirror. Look at the mirror. 664 00:34:57,166 --> 00:35:00,166 Look at the mirror. 665 00:35:00,800 --> 00:35:02,100 And I will tell you this 666 00:35:02,100 --> 00:35:05,200 when he says, you who teach others, do you not teach yourself first? 667 00:35:05,500 --> 00:35:09,100 I truly do endeavor that whatever 668 00:35:09,100 --> 00:35:12,100 I preach to you, it's because I've preached it to me. 669 00:35:13,766 --> 00:35:16,066 I truly do try to teach myself first. 670 00:35:22,100 --> 00:35:22,533 And it says, 671 00:35:22,533 --> 00:35:25,533 you who preach against stealing, do you steal? 672 00:35:25,900 --> 00:35:28,433 You say that people should not commit adultery. 673 00:35:28,433 --> 00:35:29,633 You commit adultery. 674 00:35:29,633 --> 00:35:31,333 You abhor idols. 675 00:35:31,333 --> 00:35:33,733 Do you rob temples? You who brag about the law? 676 00:35:33,733 --> 00:35:35,466 Do you dishonor God by breaking the law? 677 00:35:35,466 --> 00:35:36,933 As it is written, watch this. 678 00:35:36,933 --> 00:35:40,033 God's name is blasphemed among the Gentiles 679 00:35:40,033 --> 00:35:43,033 because of you. 680 00:35:43,233 --> 00:35:46,233 Again he he turns it internal. 681 00:35:46,500 --> 00:35:48,466 It says, you know what the word says? 682 00:35:48,466 --> 00:35:51,466 Says, don't steal. 683 00:35:52,433 --> 00:35:55,433 But you live with so much envy. 684 00:35:56,433 --> 00:35:58,466 Like like 685 00:35:58,466 --> 00:36:01,466 if you could take what belongs to someone else, you would in your heart. 686 00:36:02,766 --> 00:36:04,166 You don't. The law says don't murder. 687 00:36:04,166 --> 00:36:06,133 But you know those grudges you're still holding. 688 00:36:06,133 --> 00:36:09,133 You haven't forgiven. 689 00:36:11,966 --> 00:36:12,866 And you says 690 00:36:12,866 --> 00:36:16,966 because you claim to be this religious person, but it hasn't. 691 00:36:17,100 --> 00:36:21,866 You haven't changed and you haven't become a new creation because of that, 692 00:36:23,333 --> 00:36:25,633 society and culture makes fun of God. 693 00:36:25,633 --> 00:36:28,633 Because of us. 694 00:36:35,033 --> 00:36:38,033 Romans one and two is tough, 695 00:36:39,700 --> 00:36:41,600 Who can escape it? 696 00:36:41,600 --> 00:36:43,966 None of us. 697 00:36:43,966 --> 00:36:47,266 And then he goes on in verses 25, 20, 27, I won't go into all of this, 698 00:36:47,566 --> 00:36:51,833 but he he deals with for the for the religionists, the Jew. 699 00:36:52,466 --> 00:36:55,466 They show their religion by circumcision. 700 00:36:56,000 --> 00:36:58,833 And so he says, look, if you're jumping through the hoops, 701 00:36:58,833 --> 00:37:00,633 but you haven't changed in here, 702 00:37:00,633 --> 00:37:03,633 all the hoops you jump through religiously don't matter. 703 00:37:04,366 --> 00:37:06,700 And actually, those who haven't jumped through the hoops, 704 00:37:06,700 --> 00:37:09,933 but here, they've changed it as if they have jumped through the hoops. 705 00:37:10,800 --> 00:37:13,266 So the hoops are good only as much as they show 706 00:37:13,266 --> 00:37:16,266 that in here has changed, that. 707 00:37:17,433 --> 00:37:20,700 Let me let me go through, verse 21 and I wrap the chapter on top of this. 708 00:37:20,833 --> 00:37:24,000 A man is not a Jew if he is only one outwardly. 709 00:37:24,066 --> 00:37:26,600 Nor is circumcision merely outward and physical. 710 00:37:26,600 --> 00:37:31,866 No, a man is a Jew if he is one inwardly, and circumcision 711 00:37:31,866 --> 00:37:36,600 is circumcision of the heart by the spirit, not by the written code. 712 00:37:37,066 --> 00:37:40,800 Such a man's praise is not from men, but from God. 713 00:37:42,233 --> 00:37:44,533 What he's saying is this 714 00:37:44,533 --> 00:37:47,533 the external things are important 715 00:37:47,533 --> 00:37:51,166 as they express an internal inward transformation. 716 00:37:52,466 --> 00:37:55,300 So all the religious stuff is important 717 00:37:55,300 --> 00:37:58,700 only as they reflect the change that's happened the inside. 718 00:37:58,866 --> 00:38:01,866 And until the change has happened, the inside, 719 00:38:02,800 --> 00:38:05,800 we stand condemned before God. 720 00:38:06,166 --> 00:38:07,433 That's what he's saying. 721 00:38:07,433 --> 00:38:10,433 And all the religious stuff in the world. 722 00:38:13,566 --> 00:38:16,566 Won't get us away from the wrath of God. 723 00:38:17,966 --> 00:38:20,966 That's why Paul was saying, Galatians 615. 724 00:38:23,033 --> 00:38:26,133 Neither circumcision nonsense in all the religious hoops you could jump. 725 00:38:26,233 --> 00:38:28,500 They don't mean anything. 726 00:38:28,500 --> 00:38:31,500 What counts is the new creation. 727 00:38:31,933 --> 00:38:33,900 Every one of us, 728 00:38:33,900 --> 00:38:36,900 the humanists, the moralists, the religionists, 729 00:38:37,900 --> 00:38:40,900 the new creation of saying, father, I agree, 730 00:38:42,400 --> 00:38:44,766 I'm a sinner 731 00:38:44,766 --> 00:38:47,566 and I've broken your law 732 00:38:47,566 --> 00:38:50,933 and that means I deserve judgment and wrath, 733 00:38:52,400 --> 00:38:55,400 and I cannot be right with you 734 00:38:56,666 --> 00:39:00,433 except through faith in Jesus. 735 00:39:01,700 --> 00:39:04,100 What he did on the cross, 736 00:39:04,100 --> 00:39:07,100 dying and raising for my sin. 737 00:39:09,000 --> 00:39:12,000 The new creation. 738 00:39:14,433 --> 00:39:17,433 So here we all stand. 739 00:39:17,633 --> 00:39:19,800 The humanist who is reaping 740 00:39:19,800 --> 00:39:22,900 the destruction of their sin and repentance. 741 00:39:24,000 --> 00:39:25,800 Here we all stand. 742 00:39:25,800 --> 00:39:28,500 The moralist 743 00:39:28,500 --> 00:39:30,666 who remains separated from God 744 00:39:30,666 --> 00:39:33,666 because they think they're at least better than them. 745 00:39:34,266 --> 00:39:36,666 The religionists 746 00:39:36,666 --> 00:39:39,300 who believes that their religious behavior 747 00:39:39,300 --> 00:39:42,300 equates to a relationship with the father 748 00:39:43,466 --> 00:39:45,866 without repentance. 749 00:39:45,866 --> 00:39:48,366 The humanist, 750 00:39:48,366 --> 00:39:51,366 the moralist, and the religionists. 751 00:39:51,500 --> 00:39:54,500 We stand condemned. 752 00:39:58,400 --> 00:40:01,400 But thanks be to God. 753 00:40:01,600 --> 00:40:03,700 Because of his grace 754 00:40:03,700 --> 00:40:06,700 that he has made the only way possible 755 00:40:07,133 --> 00:40:10,500 to escape the wrath of God and experience 756 00:40:10,500 --> 00:40:13,500 a new life of freedom 757 00:40:14,400 --> 00:40:17,400 and new life of salvation. 758 00:40:19,200 --> 00:40:21,000 The fact is, every one of us, no matter 759 00:40:21,000 --> 00:40:24,266 the camp, humanist, more or less religious, need a savior. 760 00:40:25,466 --> 00:40:26,633 And it's only through faith 761 00:40:26,633 --> 00:40:29,833 in Jesus repentance of our sin 762 00:40:30,633 --> 00:40:33,966 and accepting him as the leader of our life. 763 00:40:33,966 --> 00:40:36,966 Now that we can find salvation, 764 00:40:38,566 --> 00:40:41,566 Romans one and two is bad news. 765 00:40:43,166 --> 00:40:45,466 Grace is coming, 766 00:40:45,466 --> 00:40:48,300 but grace is only amazing 767 00:40:48,300 --> 00:40:51,300 because of the bad news that precedes it. 768 00:40:52,666 --> 00:40:55,400 And grace is amazing 769 00:40:55,400 --> 00:40:59,300 because by the grace of God that we can, through faith, 770 00:40:59,300 --> 00:41:02,366 have a relationship with the father because of the son. 771 00:41:03,533 --> 00:41:06,533 So all of this wrath. 772 00:41:09,300 --> 00:41:10,333 Won't apply to us. 773 00:41:10,333 --> 00:41:13,333 God has done everything he can 774 00:41:13,933 --> 00:41:17,733 to keep us from hell and to keep us from his wrath. 775 00:41:18,600 --> 00:41:19,366 He's done everything. 776 00:41:19,366 --> 00:41:22,366 He can't do anything more than what he's already done. 777 00:41:23,866 --> 00:41:25,266 And part of what he's done is 778 00:41:25,266 --> 00:41:29,600 given us a free will to accept it or to reject it. 779 00:41:33,266 --> 00:41:35,933 And that, my friends, is the beauty of love 780 00:41:35,933 --> 00:41:38,933 and the power of faith. 781 00:41:40,700 --> 00:41:43,700 The best thing you can I could do this morning 782 00:41:44,200 --> 00:41:47,200 is to agree with God about His Word. 783 00:41:47,833 --> 00:41:50,466 I admit I'm a sinner. 784 00:41:50,466 --> 00:41:52,966 I confess my sin to you. 785 00:41:52,966 --> 00:41:55,933 I accept your forgiveness 786 00:41:55,933 --> 00:41:58,933 and the free gift of eternal life through Jesus. 787 00:42:01,266 --> 00:42:04,266 And in the midst of all that bad news 788 00:42:05,333 --> 00:42:08,200 that is the gospel, 789 00:42:08,200 --> 00:42:11,200 the good news of Jesus Christ, 790 00:42:12,133 --> 00:42:15,133 propelled by the grace of God. 791 00:42:16,233 --> 00:42:19,233 But we cannot get to this 792 00:42:19,700 --> 00:42:22,700 until we've dealt with that. 793 00:42:23,566 --> 00:42:26,566 And so I want to invite you this morning. 794 00:42:26,800 --> 00:42:29,433 Deal with that 795 00:42:29,433 --> 00:42:32,433 and live in this. 796 00:42:32,700 --> 00:42:35,700 I want you to pray with me. 797 00:42:40,400 --> 00:42:42,333 God, you are a good God 798 00:42:42,333 --> 00:42:44,966 who can mean your goodness. 799 00:42:44,966 --> 00:42:49,166 You have been kind and patient and tolerant with us. 800 00:42:51,200 --> 00:42:52,500 Given us time and 801 00:42:52,500 --> 00:42:55,500 time and time and opportunity 802 00:42:56,600 --> 00:42:59,700 to realize your love, to agree with your word, 803 00:43:00,900 --> 00:43:03,900 and to come to you in faith. 804 00:43:04,533 --> 00:43:07,200 You're so merciful and you're so gracious. 805 00:43:07,200 --> 00:43:11,800 I pray, Holy Spirit, that you would open our hearts and our minds to understand 806 00:43:11,800 --> 00:43:14,800 the love of the father. 807 00:43:18,566 --> 00:43:21,533 Father, there are some this morning, 808 00:43:21,533 --> 00:43:23,400 though we've tried to be good moral people, 809 00:43:23,400 --> 00:43:27,400 though we try to be good, religious people are realizing that it's not enough 810 00:43:29,200 --> 00:43:32,400 and that only faith in you, Jesus, 811 00:43:32,400 --> 00:43:35,700 in your work on the cross and your resurrection is enough. 812 00:43:38,400 --> 00:43:38,966 And father, 813 00:43:38,966 --> 00:43:41,966 there are people turning to you right now. 814 00:43:42,900 --> 00:43:45,166 Thank you that you are you sure? 815 00:43:45,166 --> 00:43:48,166 No favoritism. And you hear their prayers. 816 00:43:48,866 --> 00:43:50,766 So, friends, I would invite you in this moment 817 00:43:52,700 --> 00:43:55,700 to agree with God. 818 00:43:55,766 --> 00:43:58,333 To confess before him in your heart. 819 00:43:58,333 --> 00:43:59,466 God, I admit it. 820 00:43:59,466 --> 00:44:02,466 I'm a sinner. 821 00:44:03,766 --> 00:44:06,200 I've tried to be good. 822 00:44:06,200 --> 00:44:09,200 I've tried to be religious. 823 00:44:09,966 --> 00:44:11,400 And I realized this morning 824 00:44:11,400 --> 00:44:14,400 that that's not enough. 825 00:44:14,833 --> 00:44:17,100 And in faith, 826 00:44:17,100 --> 00:44:18,533 I accept you. 827 00:44:18,533 --> 00:44:20,700 Jesus, 828 00:44:20,700 --> 00:44:23,433 as the forgiver of my sin. 829 00:44:23,433 --> 00:44:26,100 Through your death 830 00:44:26,100 --> 00:44:29,100 and the guarantee your of eternal life 831 00:44:29,333 --> 00:44:32,333 through your resurrection. 832 00:44:34,866 --> 00:44:37,666 Thank you for your forgiveness. 833 00:44:37,666 --> 00:44:40,800 I accept you, Jesus, as the leader of my life. 834 00:44:45,300 --> 00:44:48,300 And then say, father, help me now 835 00:44:48,466 --> 00:44:51,466 to grow as a Jesus follower, 836 00:44:52,300 --> 00:44:55,300 to understand more fully what it means 837 00:44:56,100 --> 00:44:59,100 to follow you all the days of my life. 838 00:44:59,700 --> 00:45:00,000 Tell him. 839 00:45:00,000 --> 00:45:03,000 Say thank you that you've rescued me from hell. 840 00:45:03,233 --> 00:45:06,233 You've delivered me from wrath. 841 00:45:08,600 --> 00:45:10,500 Let me walk 842 00:45:10,500 --> 00:45:13,766 to the liberation of your mercy and your grace. 843 00:45:16,366 --> 00:45:17,200 Father, I pray over 844 00:45:17,200 --> 00:45:20,333 us that those of us who have made that decision have an experience. 845 00:45:20,333 --> 00:45:24,800 Your mercy and grace would live as people who give mercy and grace 846 00:45:25,966 --> 00:45:28,466 to those around us, 847 00:45:28,466 --> 00:45:29,933 that the world wouldn't blaspheme 848 00:45:29,933 --> 00:45:32,933 or make fun of you because of us. 849 00:45:33,366 --> 00:45:36,366 That your reputation will be raised 850 00:45:37,133 --> 00:45:38,433 in the eyes of this world, 851 00:45:38,433 --> 00:45:41,433 the eyes of this community, the eyes of the ranchos, 852 00:45:41,966 --> 00:45:44,400 because we've been so transformed 853 00:45:44,400 --> 00:45:47,100 and the new creations. 854 00:45:47,100 --> 00:45:49,100 Jesus, we love you. 855 00:45:49,100 --> 00:45:50,966 Help us to love you more. 856 00:45:50,966 --> 00:45:53,200 In your name I pray. Amen. 857 00:45:53,200 --> 00:45:55,633 Listen, I love you. 858 00:45:55,633 --> 00:45:58,533 You are doing a great job going through 859 00:45:58,533 --> 00:46:01,533 some very difficult chapters. 860 00:46:01,700 --> 00:46:04,133 Pardon for punch it 861 00:46:04,133 --> 00:46:06,566 because what's at stake is too important. 862 00:46:06,566 --> 00:46:07,600 So we're not pulling punches. 863 00:46:07,600 --> 00:46:08,833 You've done a great job 864 00:46:09,900 --> 00:46:12,333 being with us in chapters one and two. 865 00:46:12,333 --> 00:46:14,800 We're going to come to the end of Paul's exponential God's 866 00:46:14,800 --> 00:46:16,200 wrath and get into God's grace. 867 00:46:16,200 --> 00:46:18,866 And it is glorious and fun and beautiful and everything. 868 00:46:18,866 --> 00:46:21,333 But we got to deal with this stuff first. So good job. 869 00:46:21,333 --> 00:46:23,733 Good on you. 870 00:46:23,733 --> 00:46:24,900 Here's my homework for you. 871 00:46:24,900 --> 00:46:28,333 Read chapter two again as if it is a mirror for you, 872 00:46:30,100 --> 00:46:33,100 and read chapter three, because that's what will be next week. 873 00:46:34,333 --> 00:46:36,100 Stay with us. 874 00:46:36,100 --> 00:46:37,800 Stay in this. 875 00:46:37,800 --> 00:46:39,766 You're going to be okay. 876 00:46:39,766 --> 00:46:42,400 And it's going to get really fun real fast. 877 00:46:42,400 --> 00:46:43,833 You understand? 878 00:46:43,833 --> 00:46:46,233 Understand? 879 00:46:46,233 --> 00:46:48,366 I love you, and I'm proud of you. 880 00:46:48,366 --> 00:46:49,800 Let's keep going through this together. 881 00:46:49,800 --> 00:46:52,333 And we're going to sing about God's amazing grace. Right? 882 00:46:52,333 --> 00:46:53,833 That's what we need. Thank you. Brian.