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Without question. 2 00:00:07,966 --> 00:00:11,200 That is the gospel and without question. 3 00:00:11,900 --> 00:00:14,366 That is good news. 4 00:00:14,366 --> 00:00:17,366 And that's what we're studying as we go through the book of Romans. 5 00:00:17,900 --> 00:00:21,000 Romans is a is a profound 6 00:00:22,200 --> 00:00:24,566 explanation 7 00:00:24,566 --> 00:00:27,600 of what is the reality for those who are in Christ, 8 00:00:28,933 --> 00:00:31,933 who we were and who we are. 9 00:00:32,300 --> 00:00:36,000 I don't know how one would say that. 10 00:00:37,400 --> 00:00:40,200 One chapter of the Bible is better than another. 11 00:00:40,200 --> 00:00:44,400 They're all inspired, but it feels like Romans is better than 12 00:00:44,533 --> 00:00:47,533 Romans, eight is better than all the others. 13 00:00:48,266 --> 00:00:50,566 The Word of God 14 00:00:50,566 --> 00:00:53,766 is the diamond to us from God. 15 00:00:53,833 --> 00:00:57,600 Romans eight is the sparkle of that diamond. 16 00:00:59,166 --> 00:01:01,100 I forgot who was, but someone said 17 00:01:01,100 --> 00:01:04,100 that if you should ever drop your Bible, 18 00:01:04,200 --> 00:01:09,366 it should naturally open to Romans eight because you've studied it so much. 19 00:01:11,866 --> 00:01:14,133 Romans eight is a it's a profound chapter. 20 00:01:14,133 --> 00:01:15,666 We're going to take two weeks to go through it. 21 00:01:15,666 --> 00:01:19,000 The first 20 verses today and the 29 through 39 22 00:01:19,000 --> 00:01:22,000 next week. 23 00:01:22,200 --> 00:01:24,000 Romans eight 24 00:01:24,000 --> 00:01:26,966 has the answer to every, 25 00:01:26,966 --> 00:01:30,133 evil that we go experience past, present, and future. 26 00:01:30,166 --> 00:01:33,166 Here's what I mean. 27 00:01:33,300 --> 00:01:36,300 When you're haunted by your past, Romans eight, 28 00:01:36,666 --> 00:01:39,666 there's no condemnation about your past. 29 00:01:40,333 --> 00:01:42,900 When you're frustrated by your present. 30 00:01:42,900 --> 00:01:45,533 Romans 828. 31 00:01:45,533 --> 00:01:48,533 We know that God works things together for good. 32 00:01:48,600 --> 00:01:51,033 When you're anxious about your future. 33 00:01:51,033 --> 00:01:53,333 Romans eight 3039. 34 00:01:53,333 --> 00:01:56,333 Nothing can separate you from the love of God. 35 00:01:56,700 --> 00:01:59,600 So whether there's this haunting thing. 36 00:01:59,600 --> 00:02:02,333 Yeah, but my past is 37 00:02:02,333 --> 00:02:04,233 as far as Christ is good. God is concerned. 38 00:02:04,233 --> 00:02:07,233 There's no condemnation about that. 39 00:02:07,833 --> 00:02:10,166 When you just frustrate the way things are right now, 40 00:02:10,166 --> 00:02:13,766 you can know that even in the frustration, God's working it together. 41 00:02:14,966 --> 00:02:17,533 Don't worry 42 00:02:17,533 --> 00:02:20,666 when you're anxious about the future. Hey, 43 00:02:21,766 --> 00:02:25,000 remember that God loves you and you can never be separated 44 00:02:25,000 --> 00:02:28,000 from that love and nothing to worry about. 45 00:02:28,800 --> 00:02:31,033 Do you understand? Yes. 46 00:02:31,033 --> 00:02:34,033 So it's going to be fun to unpack these things together. 47 00:02:35,766 --> 00:02:38,033 There's a lot to get through 48 00:02:38,033 --> 00:02:40,933 and so that we can get through it. 49 00:02:40,933 --> 00:02:43,133 Verse one. 50 00:02:43,133 --> 00:02:44,800 There is therefore now 51 00:02:44,800 --> 00:02:47,800 no condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus. 52 00:02:48,533 --> 00:02:53,633 When Paul says, there's therefore now the therefore is for a reason. 53 00:02:53,666 --> 00:02:56,700 It's therefore the reason of chapter seven. 54 00:02:57,633 --> 00:02:59,766 Chapter seven is this long 55 00:02:59,766 --> 00:03:02,766 treatise about what a failure he is. 56 00:03:02,766 --> 00:03:06,000 As a religious person, you just can't keep all of the religious law. 57 00:03:06,800 --> 00:03:09,966 He's a he's enslaved to his own sin nature. 58 00:03:10,400 --> 00:03:13,400 You just can't be right all the time. 59 00:03:13,466 --> 00:03:16,200 And at the end of it, he says, how do I get free from this? 60 00:03:16,200 --> 00:03:19,233 He says, thanks be to God through Jesus Christ our Lord. 61 00:03:20,200 --> 00:03:23,833 Therefore, because of what Jesus has done, 62 00:03:23,833 --> 00:03:27,700 there is no condemnation for those who are in Jesus. 63 00:03:27,733 --> 00:03:29,766 That's what he's saying. 64 00:03:29,766 --> 00:03:33,233 When Paul uses the words, there's no condemnation. 65 00:03:33,500 --> 00:03:35,000 Think of it like this. 66 00:03:35,000 --> 00:03:39,300 There's not even one ounce of condemnation against you. 67 00:03:40,566 --> 00:03:43,400 If you're in Christ, there's not even one ounce 68 00:03:43,400 --> 00:03:47,200 of condemnation that the father that God the Father holds against you. 69 00:03:47,233 --> 00:03:50,233 There's not even a glimmer of a shadow. 70 00:03:50,300 --> 00:03:52,333 There is no condemnation. 71 00:03:52,333 --> 00:03:56,600 There's not even a hint of any condemnation against you 72 00:03:56,600 --> 00:03:58,733 if you're in Christ Jesus. 73 00:03:58,733 --> 00:04:01,733 Complete freedom 74 00:04:01,733 --> 00:04:06,600 from the sin of our past, already freed from the sin of our future. 75 00:04:06,733 --> 00:04:09,033 There's no condemnation. 76 00:04:09,033 --> 00:04:11,766 Please don't ever erroneously think 77 00:04:11,766 --> 00:04:14,933 because this line of thinking is directly from the devil. 78 00:04:14,933 --> 00:04:16,766 It's a lie from the devil. 79 00:04:16,766 --> 00:04:17,933 When we start thinking, 80 00:04:18,933 --> 00:04:22,000 okay, now I know why I lost my job. 81 00:04:22,000 --> 00:04:24,066 I know why I'm sick. 82 00:04:24,066 --> 00:04:27,066 Because God's punishing me 83 00:04:28,000 --> 00:04:30,733 for what I've done. 84 00:04:30,733 --> 00:04:32,400 That is the life of the devil. Why? 85 00:04:32,400 --> 00:04:35,400 Because there's no condemnation. 86 00:04:35,700 --> 00:04:38,366 God does not condemn you over what you've 87 00:04:38,366 --> 00:04:41,566 done, and is not condemning you over what you will do, 88 00:04:41,633 --> 00:04:45,766 because he took the condemnation that we do deserve and put it on his son, 89 00:04:45,766 --> 00:04:49,866 so that now when we're in His Son, he, Jesus, already absolved 90 00:04:49,866 --> 00:04:53,300 the condemnation, though, so that for us there is now therefore no condemnation. 91 00:04:53,866 --> 00:04:55,500 God doesn't hold grudges. 92 00:04:55,500 --> 00:04:58,500 God doesn't get payback. 93 00:04:59,366 --> 00:05:00,733 Don't ever fall 94 00:05:00,733 --> 00:05:04,633 prey to the devil that makes you think, well, yeah, it's because I screwed up. 95 00:05:04,633 --> 00:05:07,600 So God's punishing me now. That's not how God works. 96 00:05:10,000 --> 00:05:11,866 There may be 97 00:05:11,866 --> 00:05:14,966 legitimate natural consequences to our actions. 98 00:05:15,666 --> 00:05:18,366 And sometimes God lets us feel the full weight of those. 99 00:05:18,366 --> 00:05:20,766 Sometimes he's merciful, and we don't. 100 00:05:20,766 --> 00:05:23,366 When those times come, here's what we do. 101 00:05:23,366 --> 00:05:25,133 We repent. 102 00:05:25,133 --> 00:05:27,600 God, I agree with you. 103 00:05:27,600 --> 00:05:30,800 And then we say, father, give me all that your grace allows. 104 00:05:32,033 --> 00:05:35,133 And let God temper back then natural consequence. 105 00:05:35,200 --> 00:05:37,166 Does that make sense? You follow me. 106 00:05:37,166 --> 00:05:40,200 But as far as God getting upset and leveling something against you, 107 00:05:40,200 --> 00:05:42,766 he doesn't work that way. There's no condemnation. 108 00:05:42,766 --> 00:05:44,466 You follow me? Yes. 109 00:05:44,466 --> 00:05:47,466 I hope you're understanding the liberation of this. 110 00:05:48,900 --> 00:05:51,866 No longer does anybody who is in Christ 111 00:05:51,866 --> 00:05:54,900 walk around with oh my gosh, God is still 112 00:05:56,533 --> 00:06:01,066 I gotta I got a lot to make up for it. 113 00:06:03,233 --> 00:06:04,433 Like when 114 00:06:04,433 --> 00:06:07,433 when am I going to be able to appease him? 115 00:06:08,300 --> 00:06:10,933 Those are lies from the devil. 116 00:06:10,933 --> 00:06:14,133 And as long as the devil can convince you that that's who God is 117 00:06:14,133 --> 00:06:15,300 and that's his character, 118 00:06:15,300 --> 00:06:19,400 you will live under the shout of condemnation that is not yours to own. 119 00:06:19,500 --> 00:06:21,766 That's already been leveled against Christ. 120 00:06:21,766 --> 00:06:23,200 And he has set you. 121 00:06:23,200 --> 00:06:25,966 He set me completely free of it. 122 00:06:25,966 --> 00:06:28,966 No, not even a shadow. 123 00:06:30,033 --> 00:06:33,033 Not an ounce. 124 00:06:34,600 --> 00:06:37,600 Don't own something that belongs to another. 125 00:06:39,733 --> 00:06:42,733 Your condemnation belongs to Jesus. 126 00:06:45,900 --> 00:06:47,733 That's pretty good news, Billy, right? 127 00:06:47,733 --> 00:06:49,833 Yeah. 128 00:06:49,833 --> 00:06:51,766 I don't watch this. 129 00:06:51,766 --> 00:06:54,366 Verses two three, four 130 00:06:54,366 --> 00:06:55,700 for, I'm going to 131 00:06:55,700 --> 00:06:59,066 Paul is going to write a like he's he's he's very verbose. 132 00:06:59,100 --> 00:07:01,933 There's a lot of words he uses and he writes like a lawyer. 133 00:07:01,933 --> 00:07:04,700 I'm going to read it all and you might get lost in the words. 134 00:07:04,700 --> 00:07:06,600 We're going to come back and talk through it all. 135 00:07:06,600 --> 00:07:09,733 For the love. The spirit of life has set 136 00:07:09,733 --> 00:07:12,900 you free in Christ Jesus from the law of sin and death. 137 00:07:13,200 --> 00:07:17,100 For God has done what the law, weakened by the flesh, 138 00:07:17,100 --> 00:07:21,166 could not do by sending his own son in the likeness of sinful flesh 139 00:07:21,166 --> 00:07:24,866 and for sin he condemns sin in the flesh in order 140 00:07:24,866 --> 00:07:28,200 that the righteous requirement of the law might be fulfilled 141 00:07:28,200 --> 00:07:31,533 in us who walk not according to the flesh, but according to the spirit. 142 00:07:31,533 --> 00:07:32,033 You got it? 143 00:07:34,566 --> 00:07:37,566 Let me, let me, let me slow down and explain some stuff. 144 00:07:37,766 --> 00:07:41,966 Paul uses this word law, but he use it in two different ways. 145 00:07:41,966 --> 00:07:46,366 And it's very important to understand the ways he uses this word law. 146 00:07:47,400 --> 00:07:49,366 One of the ways Paul uses 147 00:07:49,366 --> 00:07:52,700 the word law is the driving force and the impulse. 148 00:07:52,933 --> 00:07:54,800 It just is what it is. 149 00:07:54,800 --> 00:07:56,200 We don't establish it. 150 00:07:56,200 --> 00:07:57,333 We haven't declared it. 151 00:07:57,333 --> 00:08:00,000 It just is like the law of gravity. 152 00:08:00,000 --> 00:08:02,800 There's no act of Congress or Municipality. 153 00:08:02,800 --> 00:08:06,700 That said, from this day forward, gravity exists, right? 154 00:08:07,400 --> 00:08:08,300 It did. 155 00:08:08,300 --> 00:08:11,600 The second way the law is used as as a legal rule 156 00:08:11,600 --> 00:08:14,600 and a boundary like the speed limit. 157 00:08:14,700 --> 00:08:17,600 Municipalities decide what the speed limit is. 158 00:08:17,600 --> 00:08:20,933 So if that's not a natural, that's just what the city has said. 159 00:08:20,933 --> 00:08:23,133 And so if you bypass that, you've broken the law. 160 00:08:23,133 --> 00:08:24,700 You follow. 161 00:08:24,700 --> 00:08:25,566 Okay. 162 00:08:25,566 --> 00:08:28,766 So in it, when Paul says in and verse two, 163 00:08:29,500 --> 00:08:32,800 for the law of the spirit of life has set you free. 164 00:08:33,466 --> 00:08:36,300 In Jesus, in Christ Jesus from the law of sin and death. 165 00:08:36,300 --> 00:08:39,700 He's using the first idea, the driving force, the impulse 166 00:08:40,266 --> 00:08:44,400 for the driving force of the spirit that is now in you because you're in 167 00:08:44,400 --> 00:08:48,133 Christ, has set you free because you used to live 168 00:08:48,133 --> 00:08:51,333 according to the driving force than the impulse of sin. 169 00:08:52,066 --> 00:08:53,100 You understand? 170 00:08:53,100 --> 00:08:56,033 So the driving for the law that was at work in you 171 00:08:56,033 --> 00:08:59,366 before you came to Jesus was the driving force of sin. 172 00:09:00,133 --> 00:09:03,600 But now that you're in Christ, there's a new driving force there, new law 173 00:09:03,600 --> 00:09:06,900 inside you, a driving force, an impulse. 174 00:09:07,633 --> 00:09:08,100 Okay. 175 00:09:09,300 --> 00:09:09,600 And the 176 00:09:09,600 --> 00:09:14,600 reason Jesus had to do that is this verse three, For God has done 177 00:09:14,600 --> 00:09:17,866 what the law, the legal rules and boundaries 178 00:09:19,333 --> 00:09:21,800 were not able to do by sending his son. 179 00:09:21,800 --> 00:09:26,033 So when, when God's when the father sent the son and the son died on the cross, 180 00:09:26,200 --> 00:09:31,400 he fulfilled all the legal rules and boundaries of the written religious law. 181 00:09:31,966 --> 00:09:33,333 He fulfilled it all. 182 00:09:33,333 --> 00:09:38,366 So now when we're in Jesus, he's fulfilled all the legal rules and boundaries. 183 00:09:38,600 --> 00:09:43,233 So now I'm free to put to death the old driving force of sin, 184 00:09:43,233 --> 00:09:47,000 and live in new life of the new driving force of the spirit. 185 00:09:47,600 --> 00:09:48,866 You follow? 186 00:09:48,866 --> 00:09:49,533 Am I clear? 187 00:09:49,533 --> 00:09:50,333 I gotta be clear on this. 188 00:09:50,333 --> 00:09:52,466 Anybody any questions? 189 00:09:52,466 --> 00:09:55,466 All right. 190 00:09:58,233 --> 00:10:01,500 So now we follow this new law according to the spirit. 191 00:10:04,533 --> 00:10:05,233 When we went through 192 00:10:05,233 --> 00:10:08,233 chapter seven last week, I don't know if any of you picked up on it. 193 00:10:08,400 --> 00:10:12,900 There are 47 personal pronouns that Paul uses in chapter 747. 194 00:10:12,966 --> 00:10:15,566 I, me, my. 195 00:10:15,566 --> 00:10:17,266 And it's all about his failure. 196 00:10:17,266 --> 00:10:18,900 It's all about his sin. 197 00:10:18,900 --> 00:10:23,666 He cannot make his life right, for it's all self-focused 198 00:10:24,000 --> 00:10:27,900 because he's talking about how wretched he how many we get that we get. 199 00:10:28,766 --> 00:10:31,000 If you and I can't live up to our own standard, 200 00:10:31,000 --> 00:10:33,800 how do we think we're gonna live up to the God standard? 201 00:10:33,800 --> 00:10:36,800 And so, Paul, 47 personal pronouns 202 00:10:37,200 --> 00:10:39,400 in chapters one through seven of Romans. 203 00:10:39,400 --> 00:10:40,833 The Spirit of God. 204 00:10:40,833 --> 00:10:45,033 The spirit is only used two times in this chapter alone. 205 00:10:45,300 --> 00:10:48,300 Chapter eight. It use 19 times. 206 00:10:48,366 --> 00:10:49,633 Here's why. 207 00:10:49,633 --> 00:10:54,733 Because Paul is drawing a line in the sand between the self and the Spirit of God. 208 00:10:55,966 --> 00:10:56,833 He's making the 209 00:10:56,833 --> 00:11:00,300 distinction in this in your self, in your flesh. 210 00:11:00,300 --> 00:11:03,266 You have no power 211 00:11:03,266 --> 00:11:04,300 with the Spirit of God. 212 00:11:04,300 --> 00:11:07,300 You have both power and capacity. 213 00:11:07,733 --> 00:11:09,800 I have a new power in me. 214 00:11:09,800 --> 00:11:13,000 I don't have to live that way and not have a new capacity. 215 00:11:13,000 --> 00:11:16,500 I'm able to, not because of who I am, because who I'm in. 216 00:11:18,800 --> 00:11:21,800 You follow. 217 00:11:23,400 --> 00:11:24,966 Sometimes I feel like 218 00:11:24,966 --> 00:11:27,966 I get a lot more excited than you do. 219 00:11:31,100 --> 00:11:33,100 For the mind set on the flesh. 220 00:11:33,100 --> 00:11:34,600 This is what this is. 221 00:11:34,600 --> 00:11:37,600 Verse seven. 222 00:11:37,833 --> 00:11:38,533 Let me go back to five. 223 00:11:38,533 --> 00:11:39,966 Let me go to verse five. 224 00:11:39,966 --> 00:11:40,866 For those who live 225 00:11:40,866 --> 00:11:44,400 according to the flesh, set their minds on the things of the flesh. 226 00:11:44,800 --> 00:11:49,300 But those who live according to the spirit set their minds on things of the spirit. 227 00:11:50,000 --> 00:11:52,566 For to set your mind on the flesh is death, 228 00:11:52,566 --> 00:11:55,633 but to set your mind on the spirit is life, and peace. 229 00:11:56,266 --> 00:11:58,900 For the mind that is set on the flesh 230 00:11:58,900 --> 00:12:02,866 is hostile to God, for it does not submit to God's law. 231 00:12:02,933 --> 00:12:04,800 Indeed, it cannot submit to God's law. 232 00:12:07,466 --> 00:12:10,466 Those who are in the flesh cannot please God. 233 00:12:10,466 --> 00:12:12,200 Let me show you what this is saying. 234 00:12:12,200 --> 00:12:15,033 When Paul uses this word flesh, the mind that set on the flesh, 235 00:12:15,033 --> 00:12:18,933 what he's talking about is, is the mind that still on just worldly stuff. 236 00:12:19,566 --> 00:12:22,566 And Jesus addressed this back in Matthew seven, 237 00:12:22,733 --> 00:12:26,500 and in Matthew seven he says, the mind that is set on the flesh, 238 00:12:26,500 --> 00:12:29,033 the worldly stuff, is worried about what you're going to wear. 239 00:12:29,033 --> 00:12:30,566 You're worried about what you're going to eat. 240 00:12:30,566 --> 00:12:31,966 You're worried about what you're going to drive. 241 00:12:31,966 --> 00:12:34,966 You're worried about your retirement, right? 242 00:12:35,233 --> 00:12:38,233 It's all the things that we get wrapped up in in this world. 243 00:12:38,866 --> 00:12:41,166 And he said, the mind that set on the flesh is 244 00:12:41,166 --> 00:12:43,933 it's just it's just preoccupied with all this stuff. 245 00:12:45,166 --> 00:12:45,933 And he said that 246 00:12:45,933 --> 00:12:49,800 mind is hostile to God, not contrary to God. 247 00:12:49,900 --> 00:12:52,933 Actual hostility towards him, towards God, 248 00:12:53,800 --> 00:12:56,800 because a mind that is set in the flesh, the things of this world 249 00:12:58,333 --> 00:13:00,366 is so worried about the things that this rule 250 00:13:00,366 --> 00:13:03,366 that they cannot live by faith. 251 00:13:04,100 --> 00:13:06,333 And the Bible says the only way to please God. 252 00:13:06,333 --> 00:13:09,333 Hebrews 11 six is by faith. 253 00:13:14,100 --> 00:13:17,100 It's the mind that says. 254 00:13:17,900 --> 00:13:20,400 But what about my pursuit of all the 255 00:13:20,400 --> 00:13:23,166 all the important things in life? 256 00:13:23,166 --> 00:13:26,066 And when that is our mindset, 257 00:13:26,066 --> 00:13:28,566 when that's our drive, 258 00:13:28,566 --> 00:13:32,166 it's an indication we are living according to the flesh. 259 00:13:32,300 --> 00:13:37,900 And we cannot please God that a life that's driven by the pursuit 260 00:13:37,900 --> 00:13:40,900 of the things that is hostile to God, 261 00:13:41,166 --> 00:13:44,900 not just contrary. And 262 00:13:46,033 --> 00:13:47,133 and so the 263 00:13:47,133 --> 00:13:50,300 it's a mind that set by what can I acquire, 264 00:13:52,066 --> 00:13:55,066 what can I enjoy. 265 00:13:56,000 --> 00:13:57,566 What can be my acquisition? 266 00:13:57,566 --> 00:13:59,833 What. 267 00:13:59,833 --> 00:14:02,833 Here's how you know where your mind is. 268 00:14:02,866 --> 00:14:04,900 Just as a real simple question. 269 00:14:04,900 --> 00:14:07,300 Ask yourself what dominates dominates 270 00:14:07,300 --> 00:14:10,300 my mind and heart. 271 00:14:11,233 --> 00:14:13,800 What dominates it? 272 00:14:13,800 --> 00:14:16,666 The things of this world. 273 00:14:16,666 --> 00:14:18,200 Eat. Sleep. Drink. 274 00:14:18,200 --> 00:14:19,133 Live. Drive. 275 00:14:19,133 --> 00:14:22,100 Retire. Future. 276 00:14:22,100 --> 00:14:22,933 When? That's it. 277 00:14:22,933 --> 00:14:25,933 We cease living by faith. 278 00:14:27,066 --> 00:14:29,233 And the faith is the only way to please God. 279 00:14:29,233 --> 00:14:32,533 A life that's focused on that cannot please God. 280 00:14:34,833 --> 00:14:37,700 You understand? 281 00:14:37,700 --> 00:14:38,066 And it's just. 282 00:14:38,066 --> 00:14:39,100 That's how we used to live. 283 00:14:39,100 --> 00:14:42,866 And like this law in us that drove us to all this earthly stuff. 284 00:14:43,533 --> 00:14:45,466 But now 285 00:14:45,466 --> 00:14:48,466 in Christ, there's a new law in us. 286 00:14:48,600 --> 00:14:53,100 I don't have to live obsessed and consumed with the acquisition. 287 00:14:55,166 --> 00:14:57,200 Of things. 288 00:14:57,200 --> 00:15:00,100 Worry. 289 00:15:00,100 --> 00:15:01,800 The verses nine and 11. 290 00:15:01,800 --> 00:15:04,133 You, however, 291 00:15:04,133 --> 00:15:06,600 are not in the flesh but in the spirit. 292 00:15:06,600 --> 00:15:09,300 If in fact the Spirit of God dwells in you. 293 00:15:09,300 --> 00:15:12,300 Anyone who does not have the Spirit of Christ does not belong to him. 294 00:15:12,300 --> 00:15:13,000 Verse ten. 295 00:15:13,000 --> 00:15:16,833 But if Christ is in you, although the body is dead 296 00:15:16,833 --> 00:15:19,933 because of sin, the spirit of the spirit is life. 297 00:15:20,866 --> 00:15:23,433 Because of righteousness. 298 00:15:23,433 --> 00:15:26,433 If the Spirit of him who raised Jesus from the dead dwells in you, 299 00:15:27,466 --> 00:15:30,533 he raised Jesus Christ Jesus from the dead will also 300 00:15:30,533 --> 00:15:33,533 give life to your mortal bodies through His Spirit who dwells in you. 301 00:15:33,566 --> 00:15:35,266 Here's what he's saying. 302 00:15:35,266 --> 00:15:40,666 When someone accepts Jesus as the leader of their life, immediately 303 00:15:40,666 --> 00:15:45,800 the Bible teaches that the father implants his spirit in them. 304 00:15:45,800 --> 00:15:46,400 A new law. 305 00:15:47,766 --> 00:15:50,966 When that spirit is inside of us, 306 00:15:51,200 --> 00:15:54,200 we're no longer slaves to the old law. 307 00:15:55,500 --> 00:15:57,866 And because we're not slaves to the old law. 308 00:15:57,866 --> 00:16:01,700 We have a new impulse, as you actually have the desire 309 00:16:02,233 --> 00:16:04,666 to walk rightly before God. 310 00:16:04,666 --> 00:16:08,100 Not because you have to, not because you're religious, 311 00:16:08,366 --> 00:16:11,566 but because there's a new driving law in your inside. 312 00:16:11,566 --> 00:16:12,366 Right? Do you understand? 313 00:16:12,366 --> 00:16:14,833 Some of you feel this, 314 00:16:14,833 --> 00:16:17,833 that there's a new impulse in you. 315 00:16:18,400 --> 00:16:21,133 You're not under compulsion because there's no condemnation, 316 00:16:21,133 --> 00:16:23,266 but there's a desire. 317 00:16:23,266 --> 00:16:25,333 There's a true want to. 318 00:16:25,333 --> 00:16:28,333 That's the Holy Spirit in you. 319 00:16:29,200 --> 00:16:33,133 The purpose of the Holy Spirit in us is to make us holy. 320 00:16:33,500 --> 00:16:34,800 That's the purpose of the spirit. 321 00:16:34,800 --> 00:16:39,433 Now, we think that if we allow God to our lives, we will be happy. 322 00:16:40,500 --> 00:16:41,400 The purpose of the 323 00:16:41,400 --> 00:16:44,433 Holy Spirit in us is not to make us happy, but to make us holy. 324 00:16:45,333 --> 00:16:46,366 Here's the good thing. 325 00:16:46,366 --> 00:16:49,366 The quickest way to happiness is holiness. 326 00:16:50,900 --> 00:16:53,900 Some of the most miserable people on the planet 327 00:16:54,066 --> 00:16:57,600 are Christians who are not walking in line with the spirit. 328 00:16:57,633 --> 00:17:00,633 They're miserable. 329 00:17:01,066 --> 00:17:02,000 And if that's one of you, 330 00:17:02,000 --> 00:17:05,000 I have a lot of churches I could recommend for you 331 00:17:05,166 --> 00:17:08,166 rather than their. 332 00:17:09,433 --> 00:17:13,300 I, like God, said I'm a put my spirit in you because make you holy. 333 00:17:13,300 --> 00:17:16,300 Because the quickest way to your happiness is holiness. 334 00:17:16,500 --> 00:17:19,500 And this is the new life that he's given us. 335 00:17:20,466 --> 00:17:22,233 And so we don't have to obey 336 00:17:22,233 --> 00:17:25,233 the impulses of the old life anymore. 337 00:17:26,166 --> 00:17:29,033 Now look at verses 12 and 13. 338 00:17:29,033 --> 00:17:30,566 Oh, let me say this. Let me say this is important. 339 00:17:31,800 --> 00:17:32,200 Verse 340 00:17:32,200 --> 00:17:35,200 one says, there's no condemnation, right? 341 00:17:35,466 --> 00:17:38,466 This passage talks about the Holy Spirit's invigoration. 342 00:17:38,833 --> 00:17:41,300 So gives us no condemnation. 343 00:17:41,300 --> 00:17:44,700 Plus the Holy Spirit invigoration equals life transformation. 344 00:17:45,533 --> 00:17:47,700 That's how this works. 345 00:17:47,700 --> 00:17:52,500 Some of us have tried to transform our lives by good behavior 346 00:17:52,500 --> 00:17:56,500 and new habits and self-discipline, and all of that falls 347 00:17:56,500 --> 00:17:59,500 far short, right? 348 00:18:00,300 --> 00:18:03,233 And what Scripture tells us is, listen, 349 00:18:03,233 --> 00:18:05,933 in Christ there's no condemnation. 350 00:18:05,933 --> 00:18:10,066 And when you take no condemnation and have the Holy Spirit's invigoration, 351 00:18:10,066 --> 00:18:14,466 that's what creates the life transformation, not because you have to, 352 00:18:14,466 --> 00:18:17,800 because you're under no obligation, because there's no condemnation. 353 00:18:18,300 --> 00:18:19,966 Now there's a new law inside. 354 00:18:19,966 --> 00:18:22,966 So I want to do you understand? 355 00:18:23,700 --> 00:18:25,166 And so then what we have to do. 356 00:18:25,166 --> 00:18:27,300 Because now there's a new one too. 357 00:18:27,300 --> 00:18:31,000 So then, brothers and sisters, we are debtors, not to the flesh. 358 00:18:31,000 --> 00:18:34,200 The old law to live according to that old law of flesh. 359 00:18:34,500 --> 00:18:37,500 For if you live according to that flesh, you'll die. 360 00:18:37,600 --> 00:18:38,633 Pause button. 361 00:18:39,600 --> 00:18:42,000 When Adam was in the Garden of Eden 362 00:18:42,000 --> 00:18:45,600 and God said, if you eat of this tree, you will surely die. 363 00:18:45,866 --> 00:18:47,266 He ate of the tree. 364 00:18:47,266 --> 00:18:49,366 Did he die immediately? 365 00:18:49,366 --> 00:18:51,966 No, because God wasn't talking about immediate death. 366 00:18:51,966 --> 00:18:53,200 He was talking about spiritual death. 367 00:18:53,200 --> 00:18:56,200 And he says, if you live according to that law of sin, 368 00:18:56,866 --> 00:19:00,000 you are dead spiritually and forever separated from me. 369 00:19:01,100 --> 00:19:05,933 So but if by the spirit you put to death the deeds of the body, 370 00:19:07,166 --> 00:19:10,166 what you live. 371 00:19:10,200 --> 00:19:12,833 You live. 372 00:19:12,833 --> 00:19:15,666 So the old law that was in us before we came to Jesus, 373 00:19:15,666 --> 00:19:19,900 if you've come to Jesus, this old law was, was, was, was raging inside. 374 00:19:20,733 --> 00:19:22,500 Now you come to Jesus, the Holy Spirit. 375 00:19:22,500 --> 00:19:24,600 There's a new law. Here's what happens. The old law. 376 00:19:24,600 --> 00:19:27,600 The old law screams that you everyday feed me. 377 00:19:28,066 --> 00:19:29,466 Pay attention to me. 378 00:19:30,933 --> 00:19:33,400 Don't let me die. 379 00:19:33,400 --> 00:19:36,500 Because the new law in us, the Spirit of God in us, 380 00:19:36,733 --> 00:19:40,166 is starting to starve out the old one. 381 00:19:40,800 --> 00:19:43,800 And that old one doesn't want to die too quick. 382 00:19:43,800 --> 00:19:46,566 And so that old one screams, 383 00:19:46,566 --> 00:19:49,500 don't ignore me. 384 00:19:49,500 --> 00:19:51,000 Pay attention to me. 385 00:19:51,000 --> 00:19:52,333 I still matter. 386 00:19:52,333 --> 00:19:53,666 I still got you. 387 00:19:53,666 --> 00:19:56,200 Feed me 388 00:19:56,200 --> 00:19:59,200 right. 389 00:20:00,000 --> 00:20:03,000 That's the war that goes on. 390 00:20:03,600 --> 00:20:04,566 And we have to work 391 00:20:04,566 --> 00:20:07,566 with the Holy Spirit's work. 392 00:20:08,500 --> 00:20:11,500 To allow that newness to start to really go. 393 00:20:11,566 --> 00:20:14,566 So it's like when you're right is if you ride a bicycle uphill. 394 00:20:15,333 --> 00:20:18,333 That wasn't electric. 395 00:20:18,500 --> 00:20:21,033 You ride a bicycle uphill and you're working hard. 396 00:20:21,033 --> 00:20:21,833 It's really easy. 397 00:20:21,833 --> 00:20:24,833 And the moment you stop pedaling, what happens is, 398 00:20:24,866 --> 00:20:28,000 yeah, you slow down and you fall over or go backwards. 399 00:20:29,500 --> 00:20:32,500 So the Holy Spirit is working in us 400 00:20:32,966 --> 00:20:37,066 to ride that bike uphill to learn a new life. 401 00:20:37,900 --> 00:20:40,900 So we work with the mechanism of it. 402 00:20:41,233 --> 00:20:44,233 The moment we stop working in conjunction with the Holy Spirit. 403 00:20:45,566 --> 00:20:48,300 The old analogy is you got two dogs, you only feed one. 404 00:20:48,300 --> 00:20:50,866 Which one is going to live? 405 00:20:50,866 --> 00:20:53,866 The one you feed. 406 00:20:53,933 --> 00:20:57,066 Other parts of Scripture says, put to death the deeds of the body. 407 00:20:57,066 --> 00:21:00,066 Starve it out, starve it, 408 00:21:00,533 --> 00:21:02,700 though you've been made to act like it 409 00:21:02,700 --> 00:21:06,000 and take this old life and starve that to death. 410 00:21:06,466 --> 00:21:10,133 And as you do, it will scream at you, and it will yell at you, 411 00:21:10,133 --> 00:21:13,200 and it will demand attention, and it will demand to be fed. 412 00:21:13,300 --> 00:21:15,733 And you just keep starving it out. 413 00:21:15,733 --> 00:21:19,233 Not because it makes you a good Christian because there's no condemnation anyway, 414 00:21:20,266 --> 00:21:21,233 but because it allows the 415 00:21:21,233 --> 00:21:24,233 new law, new spirit to thrive. 416 00:21:25,100 --> 00:21:28,100 You understand? 417 00:21:30,800 --> 00:21:33,800 This stuff is so good. 418 00:21:34,400 --> 00:21:36,033 Verses 1417. 419 00:21:36,033 --> 00:21:37,366 Look at this. 420 00:21:37,366 --> 00:21:38,500 It's a long section. Let me read it. 421 00:21:38,500 --> 00:21:39,666 We'll talk about it. 422 00:21:39,666 --> 00:21:42,866 For all who are led by the Spirit of God are sons and daughters. 423 00:21:42,866 --> 00:21:44,700 Children of God. 424 00:21:44,700 --> 00:21:45,333 Let me just. 425 00:21:45,333 --> 00:21:48,333 I just had of the slide. 426 00:21:49,133 --> 00:21:49,533 Though. 427 00:21:49,533 --> 00:21:51,433 Every human is a creation of God. 428 00:21:51,433 --> 00:21:54,400 Not everybody is a child of God. 429 00:21:54,400 --> 00:21:57,400 Only those who have a relationship with Jesus 430 00:21:57,633 --> 00:21:59,666 by because of, through faith, 431 00:21:59,666 --> 00:22:02,666 because of grace, is a child of God. 432 00:22:03,000 --> 00:22:04,733 So everyone is a creation. 433 00:22:04,733 --> 00:22:06,933 Children of God 434 00:22:06,933 --> 00:22:09,933 are those every relationship through Jesus. 435 00:22:10,466 --> 00:22:12,600 So we clear 436 00:22:12,600 --> 00:22:15,433 for all who are led by the Spirit of God, our sons and daughters of God. 437 00:22:15,433 --> 00:22:19,066 For you did not receive the spirit of slavery to fall back into fear, 438 00:22:19,566 --> 00:22:21,600 but you have received the spirit of adoption 439 00:22:21,600 --> 00:22:25,000 as sons and daughters, as children by whom we cry, ABBA, father. 440 00:22:25,000 --> 00:22:29,933 The Spirit Himself bears witness with our spirit that we are children of God. 441 00:22:30,066 --> 00:22:35,100 And if children, then heirs heirs of God and fellow heirs with Christ provided 442 00:22:35,133 --> 00:22:38,566 here it is we suffer with him in order that we may also be glorified with him. 443 00:22:38,600 --> 00:22:39,500 Let me unpack this. 444 00:22:41,233 --> 00:22:43,633 When Paul talks about adoption, 445 00:22:43,633 --> 00:22:47,733 adoption was not it was not known in the Jewish world. 446 00:22:48,200 --> 00:22:50,833 Jews had no concept of adoption. 447 00:22:50,833 --> 00:22:53,566 Okay, once born in the family or the family, there was no adoption. 448 00:22:53,566 --> 00:22:56,800 The Jewish and the Roman world, this was a huge thing. 449 00:22:56,833 --> 00:23:00,333 Adoption was huge and they understood what it meant. 450 00:23:00,433 --> 00:23:04,600 Let me tell you what adoption meant in Rome with Romans. 451 00:23:04,600 --> 00:23:09,700 When they would adopt someone, a benevolent person or family of means 452 00:23:10,533 --> 00:23:13,533 would find somebody worthy of adoption. 453 00:23:13,533 --> 00:23:16,500 Not just children, but grown adults. 454 00:23:16,500 --> 00:23:20,566 And they would, offer to adopt them into their family. 455 00:23:20,700 --> 00:23:25,866 And when that transaction happened, all of the debt, all of the shame, 456 00:23:25,866 --> 00:23:30,300 all of the family baggage was erased from every account. 457 00:23:31,433 --> 00:23:33,666 And the one who was adopted in the family. 458 00:23:33,666 --> 00:23:38,333 Now was credited with every right, 459 00:23:38,600 --> 00:23:43,766 every financial blessing, every authority, as if a blood child. 460 00:23:45,300 --> 00:23:47,733 That's the power of adoption. 461 00:23:47,733 --> 00:23:51,133 That everything that was is no more. Why? 462 00:23:51,166 --> 00:23:54,000 Because we know. Verse one. No condemnation. 463 00:23:54,000 --> 00:23:56,100 And then the family I'm adopted into. 464 00:23:56,100 --> 00:24:00,666 I now have all the rights, all the privilege, 465 00:24:00,833 --> 00:24:03,866 all the authority of that family. 466 00:24:05,266 --> 00:24:08,166 And Paul will say, if we are children of God, 467 00:24:08,166 --> 00:24:11,166 adopted by him, we are heirs of God. 468 00:24:11,166 --> 00:24:14,400 And what co-heirs with Christ 469 00:24:14,400 --> 00:24:17,966 get this as adopted children. 470 00:24:18,800 --> 00:24:22,366 We have every blessing 471 00:24:22,500 --> 00:24:25,500 that Jesus has is ours. 472 00:24:26,433 --> 00:24:27,666 The relationship. 473 00:24:27,666 --> 00:24:28,933 Y'all believe you're getting it. 474 00:24:28,933 --> 00:24:31,933 The relationship that the son has with the father 475 00:24:31,933 --> 00:24:34,933 is our relationship with the father. 476 00:24:35,433 --> 00:24:36,366 Heirs of God. 477 00:24:36,366 --> 00:24:38,800 Co-heirs with Christ. 478 00:24:38,800 --> 00:24:41,800 Every spiritual blessing, 479 00:24:41,800 --> 00:24:47,633 every ounce of beauty of relationship and authority that Jesus has 480 00:24:47,633 --> 00:24:51,933 with the father I have with the father, and you have with the father in Christ. 481 00:24:52,966 --> 00:24:55,366 Amazing. 482 00:24:55,366 --> 00:24:58,966 So why do we walk around like the dirty step kids? 483 00:24:58,966 --> 00:25:01,966 I don't want to buy anybody. 484 00:25:08,700 --> 00:25:11,700 I lost my place here. 485 00:25:12,466 --> 00:25:15,466 I want to understand what this is. 486 00:25:15,533 --> 00:25:18,533 We've been adopted. 487 00:25:18,633 --> 00:25:21,633 And so now we cry out, ABBA, father! 488 00:25:23,433 --> 00:25:24,066 The Jewish 489 00:25:24,066 --> 00:25:28,200 mind held God in such high esteem they wouldn't even say his name 490 00:25:28,800 --> 00:25:31,800 like it was so holy or didn't belong on dirty mouths. 491 00:25:32,633 --> 00:25:35,633 Keep your name out of my mouth. No. 492 00:25:38,166 --> 00:25:40,800 They would just write the name. 493 00:25:40,800 --> 00:25:42,533 They wouldn't even say it. 494 00:25:42,533 --> 00:25:44,000 So for the Jew, this is like. 495 00:25:44,000 --> 00:25:45,666 What are you saying? 496 00:25:45,666 --> 00:25:46,933 What Paul is saying here. 497 00:25:46,933 --> 00:25:49,233 Now we call the father ABBA. 498 00:25:49,233 --> 00:25:51,300 It means daddy. 499 00:25:51,300 --> 00:25:55,666 It's a it's a very intimate term of affection as a child. 500 00:25:55,666 --> 00:25:58,500 As his beloved father. Daddy, Papa. 501 00:25:59,566 --> 00:26:01,600 Now, because I've been adopted. 502 00:26:01,600 --> 00:26:03,466 I'm not an outsider. 503 00:26:03,466 --> 00:26:06,466 I am a co-chair with Christ himself. 504 00:26:07,433 --> 00:26:10,433 So that now my relationship to the father 505 00:26:10,600 --> 00:26:13,600 is as my papa. 506 00:26:15,233 --> 00:26:16,133 Yeah, man. 507 00:26:16,133 --> 00:26:20,900 I still remember when my boys were little, and I would come through the door 508 00:26:21,033 --> 00:26:24,033 and they would run on daddy. 509 00:26:29,100 --> 00:26:29,700 That's who 510 00:26:29,700 --> 00:26:32,700 the father is for those in Christ. 511 00:26:32,933 --> 00:26:35,933 His daddy. 512 00:26:37,533 --> 00:26:40,533 Man, I know that some of you 513 00:26:40,800 --> 00:26:43,800 carry around a pretty profound daddy wound. 514 00:26:46,433 --> 00:26:49,433 And you know what it's like. 515 00:26:50,933 --> 00:26:53,400 Unfortunately, 516 00:26:53,400 --> 00:26:56,400 to have a father who's disappointed in you. 517 00:26:59,633 --> 00:27:02,766 And you know what it's like to have a daddy who at one time 518 00:27:02,766 --> 00:27:05,766 had high hopes for you. 519 00:27:06,266 --> 00:27:09,266 But you feel like all you've done. 520 00:27:09,933 --> 00:27:11,700 Is confirmed. 521 00:27:11,700 --> 00:27:14,700 Every negative thing he thought and said. 522 00:27:15,600 --> 00:27:16,400 And I'm sorry. 523 00:27:18,833 --> 00:27:21,833 That is not the father. 524 00:27:23,866 --> 00:27:26,866 It is a father who loves you so much. 525 00:27:28,400 --> 00:27:31,366 He placed all of your condemnation 526 00:27:31,366 --> 00:27:34,366 on his beloved son. 527 00:27:35,066 --> 00:27:36,433 Who adopts you now 528 00:27:36,433 --> 00:27:39,633 into his family and says all that stuff is gone. 529 00:27:40,233 --> 00:27:43,233 You have all the rights, 530 00:27:43,300 --> 00:27:46,700 all the relationship, all my love. 531 00:27:47,100 --> 00:27:51,266 How proud I am of you that I had for my son. 532 00:27:51,266 --> 00:27:54,266 I have for you. 533 00:27:54,766 --> 00:27:57,766 So yeah, I am your papa. 534 00:27:58,100 --> 00:28:01,100 I'm such a good papa. 535 00:28:03,100 --> 00:28:06,100 Isn't that good news? 536 00:28:11,600 --> 00:28:14,266 Oh, I forgot this part. 537 00:28:14,266 --> 00:28:16,600 All this is ours, providing we suffer with him. 538 00:28:16,600 --> 00:28:18,666 I got it. 539 00:28:18,666 --> 00:28:20,033 What? 540 00:28:20,033 --> 00:28:23,700 Like, go back to the no condemnation and go back to the papa on the daddy. 541 00:28:23,700 --> 00:28:26,700 And that gets all the adoption. I like that. 542 00:28:26,966 --> 00:28:29,266 Suffer with you? Yeah. 543 00:28:29,266 --> 00:28:31,800 You know why? Because suffering is part of belonging. 544 00:28:33,066 --> 00:28:33,600 And the Bible 545 00:28:33,600 --> 00:28:37,000 says if Jesus suffered, we shouldn't think we're going to get out of it. 546 00:28:37,366 --> 00:28:38,800 First Peter two. First Peter four. 547 00:28:38,800 --> 00:28:41,033 So same thing. 548 00:28:41,033 --> 00:28:42,433 Let's go on. 549 00:28:42,433 --> 00:28:45,433 Verse 18. 550 00:28:46,200 --> 00:28:49,000 For I consider that the sufferings of this present time 551 00:28:49,000 --> 00:28:52,000 are not worth comparing with the glory that is to be revealed in us. 552 00:28:52,666 --> 00:28:54,766 He says, look, here's the deal. 553 00:28:54,766 --> 00:28:57,033 Our suffering is on one side, and this scale 554 00:28:57,033 --> 00:29:00,200 and all this glory that's waiting for us is on this side. 555 00:29:00,966 --> 00:29:03,933 And he says, the suffering is not the need. 556 00:29:03,933 --> 00:29:05,333 Done. Compare. 557 00:29:05,333 --> 00:29:07,100 Paul said the same thing in Second Corinthians. 558 00:29:07,100 --> 00:29:10,866 This light and momentary suffering pales in comparison to the weight of glory 559 00:29:10,866 --> 00:29:13,500 that's ours. There's going to be those times. 560 00:29:13,500 --> 00:29:16,500 But in comparison to eternity, 561 00:29:16,900 --> 00:29:18,133 light and momentary, 562 00:29:20,033 --> 00:29:21,200 we're going to talk about that in a minute. 563 00:29:21,200 --> 00:29:23,666 I want to come back to it, but I just need you to say that. 564 00:29:23,666 --> 00:29:25,133 Look at verses 19 through 22. 565 00:29:25,133 --> 00:29:27,733 Let me just read this 566 00:29:27,733 --> 00:29:29,533 verse. 567 00:29:29,533 --> 00:29:33,233 For the creation waits with eager longing for the revealing 568 00:29:33,233 --> 00:29:36,266 of the sons of God, for the creation was subjected to futility. 569 00:29:38,566 --> 00:29:41,566 Not willingly, but because of him who suggested it in hope 570 00:29:42,200 --> 00:29:45,766 that the creation itself will be set free from its bondage to corruption, 571 00:29:45,766 --> 00:29:48,433 and obtain a freedom of the glory of the children of God. 572 00:29:48,433 --> 00:29:50,366 I'm going to explain this just saying with me. 573 00:29:50,366 --> 00:29:53,266 For we know that the whole creation has been groaning together 574 00:29:53,266 --> 00:29:55,666 with the pains of childbirth until now. Here's what he's saying. 575 00:29:55,666 --> 00:29:58,600 There's a progression in place here and the progression. 576 00:29:58,600 --> 00:30:04,000 Verse 18, verse 20, in verse 21 says suffering, futility, corruption. 577 00:30:04,000 --> 00:30:06,733 There's a downward slide of this whole thing. 578 00:30:06,733 --> 00:30:10,466 Now when God created everything, he pronounced it good, which meant beautiful. 579 00:30:10,466 --> 00:30:11,433 It was perfect. 580 00:30:11,433 --> 00:30:12,900 But then sin entered the world. 581 00:30:12,900 --> 00:30:16,033 And ever since sin enter the world, it's been this slide of suffering, 582 00:30:16,033 --> 00:30:17,400 futility and corruption. 583 00:30:17,400 --> 00:30:21,000 So much so that creation is groaning out because of this right now. 584 00:30:21,066 --> 00:30:25,800 Like the creation was like, oh, and here it's the law. 585 00:30:25,800 --> 00:30:28,233 The second law of thermodynamics is at play. 586 00:30:28,233 --> 00:30:29,600 Does it at smart people? 587 00:30:30,633 --> 00:30:31,333 Nobody smart. 588 00:30:31,333 --> 00:30:32,666 I love my church. 589 00:30:32,666 --> 00:30:35,200 But the second law of thermodynamics. 590 00:30:35,200 --> 00:30:37,766 Anybody know what is it? 591 00:30:37,766 --> 00:30:39,066 Okay, well, I love my church. 592 00:30:39,066 --> 00:30:39,900 I'll tell you. 593 00:30:39,900 --> 00:30:42,566 It's the law of chaos or the law of entropy. 594 00:30:42,566 --> 00:30:46,766 What's the second law of thermodynamics says it's left unto itself. 595 00:30:46,766 --> 00:30:48,866 If things deteriorate, they don't get better. 596 00:30:48,866 --> 00:30:51,866 That's why evolution has such a hard time with science. 597 00:30:52,200 --> 00:30:53,733 Left unto itself, things deteriorate. 598 00:30:53,733 --> 00:30:54,233 They don't get better. 599 00:30:54,233 --> 00:30:57,233 It's the second law of thermodynamics, and it is the law. 600 00:30:57,566 --> 00:31:00,300 And what the Scripture is saying is because sin entered the world, 601 00:31:00,300 --> 00:31:03,866 we experienced this not just creation, 602 00:31:03,866 --> 00:31:06,866 but you and I. 603 00:31:07,266 --> 00:31:09,033 If you're old enough, 604 00:31:09,033 --> 00:31:12,300 you know you're experiencing the law of entropy 605 00:31:13,466 --> 00:31:15,800 and the law of deterioration, 606 00:31:15,800 --> 00:31:17,400 right? 607 00:31:17,400 --> 00:31:18,533 He said. Sin enter the world. 608 00:31:18,533 --> 00:31:20,000 This is a result. 609 00:31:20,000 --> 00:31:23,000 And what we see is this groaning and it's going from 610 00:31:23,100 --> 00:31:26,533 it's going from suffering to telling you to create to corruption. 611 00:31:27,533 --> 00:31:28,833 Verse 23, 612 00:31:28,833 --> 00:31:31,833 and not only the creation, but we ourselves, 613 00:31:32,033 --> 00:31:35,366 who have the first fruits of the spirit, groan inwardly as we wait 614 00:31:35,366 --> 00:31:37,733 eagerly for the adoption of sons or the redemption of our bodies. 615 00:31:37,733 --> 00:31:41,933 Like we experience this and we're groaning for this. 616 00:31:41,933 --> 00:31:44,733 Like God, you got to do something at some point. 617 00:31:44,733 --> 00:31:47,733 You got to make stuff better because this is just this is horrible. 618 00:31:49,566 --> 00:31:51,766 As Paul writes, there's three groanings 619 00:31:51,766 --> 00:31:54,766 he mentions and he mentions the third groaning here, watch this verse 26. 620 00:31:54,800 --> 00:31:57,200 Likewise, the spirit helps us in our weaknesses, 621 00:31:57,200 --> 00:32:00,033 for we don't know how to pray for what we ought, 622 00:32:00,033 --> 00:32:03,966 but the Spirit himself intercedes for us with groanings too deep for words. 623 00:32:04,633 --> 00:32:07,800 So there's three groanings that are taking place the creation's groaning. 624 00:32:07,800 --> 00:32:10,766 We're groaning, and the Holy Spirit's groaning. 625 00:32:10,766 --> 00:32:13,733 The creation is groaning because it's going through entropy, 626 00:32:13,733 --> 00:32:16,733 and it's waiting for this new childbirth of a new creation. 627 00:32:16,766 --> 00:32:20,133 We groan because we're experiencing the same entropy, and because of sin, 628 00:32:20,166 --> 00:32:23,566 we're just deteriorating and we're groaning for this new life 629 00:32:23,566 --> 00:32:26,566 in heaven, this this new reality. 630 00:32:26,666 --> 00:32:29,133 But the Holy Spirit groans. 631 00:32:29,133 --> 00:32:31,433 Let me tell you how the Holy Spirit groans. 632 00:32:31,433 --> 00:32:34,000 There's two ways. One 633 00:32:35,500 --> 00:32:38,500 new leader live off with verse 27, 634 00:32:39,066 --> 00:32:43,233 and he who searches hearts knows what is the mind of the spirit, 635 00:32:43,233 --> 00:32:45,033 because the spirit intercedes for the saints 636 00:32:45,033 --> 00:32:47,800 according to the will of God, the Holy One of the ways the Holy Spirit grows. 637 00:32:47,800 --> 00:32:50,800 And this is happening right now, the one of the ways the Holy Spirit grows 638 00:32:51,300 --> 00:32:54,300 is he enters the Holy Spirit, intercedes 639 00:32:54,766 --> 00:32:58,200 in our prayers, and translates our prayers to the father. 640 00:32:58,833 --> 00:33:01,800 Because sometimes, you know, I don't know what we should pray, 641 00:33:01,800 --> 00:33:04,800 and sometimes we pray things that are not the father's will. 642 00:33:04,933 --> 00:33:07,966 And so the Holy Spirit sits there in intercession and says, no, no, no. 643 00:33:08,700 --> 00:33:11,666 We we all know Carl didn't always talk about 644 00:33:11,666 --> 00:33:14,533 let me interpret his prayers. 645 00:33:14,533 --> 00:33:16,900 The God did this for Paul in the Bible. 646 00:33:16,900 --> 00:33:19,700 The Bible says that Paul had this thorn in his flesh. 647 00:33:19,700 --> 00:33:22,700 He prayed three seasons of his life that God would take it away. 648 00:33:22,766 --> 00:33:25,633 And he finally says, God never took it away, but he gave me grace. 649 00:33:25,633 --> 00:33:27,066 Here's what was happening as he's 650 00:33:27,066 --> 00:33:30,833 praying in the sea these drought seasons that God would take this thorn away. 651 00:33:30,900 --> 00:33:32,900 The Holy Spirit's going, he is you 652 00:33:34,666 --> 00:33:35,333 know, God. 653 00:33:35,333 --> 00:33:38,033 Father. We know that's not that's not what you want for Paul. 654 00:33:38,033 --> 00:33:39,933 That's what he thinks. That's what you want. 655 00:33:39,933 --> 00:33:41,700 He thinks that you want to heal him. 656 00:33:41,700 --> 00:33:43,033 But we both know that's not what's. 657 00:33:43,033 --> 00:33:45,366 So let me tell you what. He's really praying. He's really praying for Grace. 658 00:33:45,366 --> 00:33:47,266 He doesn't know. He doesn't know he's praying for grace. 659 00:33:47,266 --> 00:33:49,433 So, father, let me interpret this prayer. 660 00:33:49,433 --> 00:33:50,833 Give him grace. 661 00:33:50,833 --> 00:33:53,433 And I was like, yeah, that's what I want to do all the time. 662 00:33:53,433 --> 00:33:56,966 If we would just agree with me and the Holy Spirit, intercede and groan. 663 00:33:56,966 --> 00:34:00,300 So our prayers are in line with the father's wills that make sense. 664 00:34:01,266 --> 00:34:04,133 That's why sometimes when you are praying, nothing happens 665 00:34:04,133 --> 00:34:06,400 because the Holy Spirit's interceding for us 666 00:34:06,400 --> 00:34:11,566 and turning our words into the father's will and groaning on our behalf. 667 00:34:14,033 --> 00:34:15,300 Now verse 668 00:34:15,300 --> 00:34:18,300 28 is going to be the kicker that's going to make that okay 669 00:34:19,500 --> 00:34:21,000 the other way. The Holy Spirit groans. 670 00:34:21,000 --> 00:34:22,300 And I'm not going to get into this right now. 671 00:34:22,300 --> 00:34:26,233 I just need to address it is through what the Bible calls the gift of tongues. 672 00:34:27,000 --> 00:34:28,233 And the gift of tongues. 673 00:34:28,233 --> 00:34:29,633 Primarily in the Bible 674 00:34:29,633 --> 00:34:32,700 is the ability, the supernatural be that God gives someone who doesn't know 675 00:34:32,700 --> 00:34:36,133 a known language to speak that language for the proclamation of the gospel. 676 00:34:36,466 --> 00:34:38,666 That's primarily how it's used. 677 00:34:38,666 --> 00:34:42,966 There are a few other instances where there is a supernatural gift 678 00:34:42,966 --> 00:34:48,100 given to a person that utters a language that's known to God, and no human, 679 00:34:48,900 --> 00:34:52,300 so that they can communicate to God in a very direct way 680 00:34:52,300 --> 00:34:55,833 without the interpretation necessarily, of our normal prayer life. 681 00:34:57,066 --> 00:35:00,233 The interesting thing about that is when someone genuinely, you know 682 00:35:00,300 --> 00:35:02,866 and don't think what you see on television 683 00:35:02,866 --> 00:35:05,866 is the way it goes, because that's ridiculous. But, 684 00:35:06,000 --> 00:35:07,433 generally when someone expresses that, 685 00:35:07,433 --> 00:35:10,800 they don't even know what they're saying, it's just this language to God. 686 00:35:10,900 --> 00:35:13,500 And, and it's it's not very often. 687 00:35:13,500 --> 00:35:14,166 And it is. 688 00:35:14,166 --> 00:35:16,566 Please understand the that gift of tongues 689 00:35:16,566 --> 00:35:20,033 is not by any stretch, any sign of any special anything. 690 00:35:20,400 --> 00:35:23,533 Paul said, I wish that's the least gift you would want. 691 00:35:24,133 --> 00:35:25,900 I wish you would really have the gift of prophecy, 692 00:35:25,900 --> 00:35:29,566 which is to interpret God's Word and tell the truth of it. So. 693 00:35:30,266 --> 00:35:33,266 But that is so all of that, okay, all of that 694 00:35:33,600 --> 00:35:37,333 gets us to the crux of of this section in verse 28. 695 00:35:38,833 --> 00:35:41,400 And we know 696 00:35:41,400 --> 00:35:44,400 we don't hope, we don't think 697 00:35:45,300 --> 00:35:49,333 we know that for those who love God, all things work 698 00:35:49,333 --> 00:35:53,233 together for good, for those who are called according to his purpose. 699 00:35:53,466 --> 00:35:55,933 This is the first you need to have underlined. 700 00:35:55,933 --> 00:35:56,933 You need to have memorized. 701 00:35:56,933 --> 00:35:58,466 You need to have highlighted. 702 00:35:58,466 --> 00:36:01,466 This is a verse you got to come back to. 703 00:36:01,566 --> 00:36:04,566 There are someone who said that this verse 704 00:36:04,666 --> 00:36:07,666 is the soft pillow for a tired heart. 705 00:36:10,733 --> 00:36:13,733 There are some things we will never know 706 00:36:13,900 --> 00:36:16,733 and we got to be okay without knowing them. 707 00:36:16,733 --> 00:36:19,733 When we get to heaven, you and I will not know all things. 708 00:36:19,866 --> 00:36:22,866 There's only one who knows all things, and that is God. 709 00:36:24,033 --> 00:36:26,766 There are some things we don't know and we will never know 710 00:36:26,766 --> 00:36:27,966 when we got to be okay with that. 711 00:36:27,966 --> 00:36:29,833 There are some things we should know as Christians. 712 00:36:29,833 --> 00:36:34,500 We should know Ephesians for spiritual warfare first Corinthians 12. 713 00:36:34,500 --> 00:36:36,233 Spiritual gifts. There are some things we should know, 714 00:36:37,200 --> 00:36:38,800 and though there are some things we don't know 715 00:36:38,800 --> 00:36:40,733 and we'll never know, there are some things we should know. 716 00:36:40,733 --> 00:36:43,733 There are some things we do know. 717 00:36:44,300 --> 00:36:48,300 And one of the things we do know is Romans 828. 718 00:36:48,300 --> 00:36:52,166 We know that God works all things together for the good of those 719 00:36:52,166 --> 00:36:55,233 who love him, and are called according to his purpose. 720 00:36:56,966 --> 00:37:01,300 When the Bible says, when Paul users work together, this is the you. 721 00:37:01,300 --> 00:37:03,300 We have to understand this. 722 00:37:03,300 --> 00:37:05,066 All things work together. 723 00:37:05,066 --> 00:37:08,466 That word work together is a Greek word called synergy. 724 00:37:08,466 --> 00:37:11,466 Oh, synergy. 725 00:37:11,700 --> 00:37:15,533 And it means literally to combine according to the activity of two or more 726 00:37:15,533 --> 00:37:20,066 agents to produce a joint effect greater than the sum of their separate effects. 727 00:37:21,066 --> 00:37:24,066 Okay, in simple terms, 728 00:37:24,733 --> 00:37:27,766 it means the sum of a whole bunch of stuff 729 00:37:29,400 --> 00:37:30,500 is greater than the 730 00:37:30,500 --> 00:37:33,500 pain of the individual parts. 731 00:37:34,633 --> 00:37:37,800 God works all of the pain points 732 00:37:37,800 --> 00:37:41,700 of the individual parts together and synergize. 733 00:37:41,700 --> 00:37:44,700 Is it for something good 734 00:37:44,966 --> 00:37:47,133 that's working together? 735 00:37:47,133 --> 00:37:49,833 That's synergy. 736 00:37:49,833 --> 00:37:52,133 You and I live in the world 737 00:37:52,133 --> 00:37:55,133 of our reality, of the individual pain points, 738 00:37:55,966 --> 00:37:58,900 and all we see is the individual pain point. 739 00:37:58,900 --> 00:38:01,900 And because we live in this world of individual pain points, 740 00:38:01,933 --> 00:38:05,366 when we experience those pain points, we cry out, God, why, 741 00:38:05,366 --> 00:38:08,366 oh God, how could you let God? 742 00:38:08,366 --> 00:38:11,066 Why are you allowing God step in? 743 00:38:11,066 --> 00:38:13,066 God, do something. God, this isn't right. 744 00:38:13,066 --> 00:38:14,833 This isn't good at all 745 00:38:14,833 --> 00:38:17,833 because all we're doing is resisting in the individual pain points. 746 00:38:17,933 --> 00:38:21,866 But what the truth of the Bible says is God works all those individual pain 747 00:38:21,866 --> 00:38:24,833 points and sinner Jesus, all of them. He doesn't. 748 00:38:24,833 --> 00:38:26,566 He doesn't erase them. 749 00:38:26,566 --> 00:38:28,066 He doesn't remove them. 750 00:38:28,066 --> 00:38:32,033 He works within all those of individual pain points and synergize 751 00:38:32,100 --> 00:38:34,700 all of it together for good. 752 00:38:34,700 --> 00:38:36,166 Do you understand? 753 00:38:36,166 --> 00:38:39,166 When we cry out, God, change the pain, pain point, 754 00:38:39,233 --> 00:38:42,066 change the pain point, change the pain point. 755 00:38:42,066 --> 00:38:45,233 God says, no, that's not what I have ever said. 756 00:38:45,300 --> 00:38:47,500 I will do what I will do. 757 00:38:47,500 --> 00:38:48,966 When you go through loss, 758 00:38:48,966 --> 00:38:52,133 when you're in, feel like you're not wanted, when you experience 759 00:38:52,133 --> 00:38:55,133 pain, when you're sick, when you're all these things. 760 00:38:55,200 --> 00:38:57,533 I am energizing it all. 761 00:38:59,100 --> 00:39:01,200 You're not going through it because I'm condemning you. 762 00:39:01,200 --> 00:39:03,066 Because there's 763 00:39:03,066 --> 00:39:05,766 no condemnation 764 00:39:05,766 --> 00:39:07,133 and because I love you so much. 765 00:39:07,133 --> 00:39:08,733 You are my son and my daughter, 766 00:39:08,733 --> 00:39:12,500 and you have all the rights of relations with you that Jesus has. 767 00:39:13,166 --> 00:39:16,233 And I synergize everything in Jesus's life. 768 00:39:16,366 --> 00:39:17,766 Then Jesus go through pain. 769 00:39:17,766 --> 00:39:20,766 You think the garden, the crucifixion wasn't pain. 770 00:39:21,266 --> 00:39:23,833 And he said, father, take it from me. 771 00:39:23,833 --> 00:39:28,000 And the foe said, no, I am using it for good. 772 00:39:31,000 --> 00:39:34,000 And so because he suffered so well, we. 773 00:39:35,100 --> 00:39:36,366 Are you understanding? 774 00:39:36,366 --> 00:39:39,366 Romans 828. 775 00:39:40,033 --> 00:39:43,266 Can I trust God's synergy? 776 00:39:44,766 --> 00:39:45,966 That's the question. 777 00:39:45,966 --> 00:39:48,966 And when you know that fact. 778 00:39:51,766 --> 00:39:54,766 I'm not frustrated in my present. 779 00:39:55,500 --> 00:39:56,200 Because God, 780 00:39:56,200 --> 00:39:59,200 in this present moment right now is synergize ING it 781 00:39:59,766 --> 00:40:00,966 for those who love him. 782 00:40:02,766 --> 00:40:03,333 If you don't 783 00:40:03,333 --> 00:40:06,500 love Christ and are the fathers through the son, 784 00:40:07,266 --> 00:40:10,266 your pain point will be all you know 785 00:40:10,566 --> 00:40:13,566 and it will get too much for you. 786 00:40:14,700 --> 00:40:17,700 For me, I know. 787 00:40:21,200 --> 00:40:23,633 Now let me say this. 788 00:40:23,633 --> 00:40:25,566 Synergize with all things together for good. 789 00:40:25,566 --> 00:40:26,966 Here's the thing. 790 00:40:26,966 --> 00:40:29,966 God is the one who defines what is good, 791 00:40:30,800 --> 00:40:32,700 not you. And I. 792 00:40:32,700 --> 00:40:35,700 Because our default of the definition of good 793 00:40:36,000 --> 00:40:39,000 is ease, comfort, pleasure. 794 00:40:40,800 --> 00:40:43,633 Right. 795 00:40:43,633 --> 00:40:45,666 And so God says, no, I'm standardizing it for good. 796 00:40:45,666 --> 00:40:48,666 But I'm going to be the definer of good, not you. 797 00:40:49,633 --> 00:40:51,766 And that's why the Bible says, Jesus, for the joy 798 00:40:51,766 --> 00:40:56,100 set before him endured the cross, because that cross was not good pleasure. 799 00:40:56,466 --> 00:40:58,866 More fun. 800 00:40:58,866 --> 00:41:01,866 God defined it as good. 801 00:41:02,700 --> 00:41:03,566 And that gave 802 00:41:03,566 --> 00:41:07,200 Christ joy to go through that pain point 803 00:41:07,600 --> 00:41:10,200 because he knew father was synergize ING it for good. 804 00:41:11,366 --> 00:41:13,500 That's the promise of God 805 00:41:13,500 --> 00:41:16,500 for those who are in Christ. 806 00:41:17,100 --> 00:41:18,866 When we go through those pain 807 00:41:18,866 --> 00:41:21,866 points, we want a miracle. 808 00:41:22,033 --> 00:41:24,133 A miracle is when God intervenes 809 00:41:24,133 --> 00:41:28,333 in the normal stream of human history and changes he. 810 00:41:28,966 --> 00:41:31,700 He changes the natural laws. 811 00:41:31,700 --> 00:41:34,600 He steps in and changes the natural laws. 812 00:41:34,600 --> 00:41:37,033 That's not oftentimes how God works. 813 00:41:37,033 --> 00:41:38,166 It's a miracle. 814 00:41:38,166 --> 00:41:42,466 The way God energizes things is through his providence, not his miracle. 815 00:41:43,066 --> 00:41:46,666 Providence says this Providence says I will. 816 00:41:46,700 --> 00:41:50,233 I won't circumvent natural law and do a miracle. 817 00:41:50,233 --> 00:41:54,433 I will work within natural laws to synergize all things together. 818 00:41:54,733 --> 00:41:57,666 So when we go through those pain points, we want them here. 819 00:41:57,666 --> 00:41:59,800 God, God, step in right now. 820 00:41:59,800 --> 00:42:02,033 God change you right now. God move right now. 821 00:42:02,033 --> 00:42:03,166 God act right now. 822 00:42:03,166 --> 00:42:08,700 And God says, I'm not going to, providentially all synergize 823 00:42:08,866 --> 00:42:09,966 all things together. 824 00:42:09,966 --> 00:42:12,566 Trust me in this I love you. 825 00:42:12,566 --> 00:42:14,300 You're mine. I got you. 826 00:42:15,733 --> 00:42:17,233 Let me work my providence. 827 00:42:17,233 --> 00:42:20,233 Be patient and trust. 828 00:42:20,866 --> 00:42:23,433 I am providentially 829 00:42:23,433 --> 00:42:26,433 synergize all things. 830 00:42:27,766 --> 00:42:28,800 And the question we have to ask 831 00:42:28,800 --> 00:42:31,800 ourselves, is that enough? 832 00:42:32,900 --> 00:42:35,900 Is it enough for you to trust him that way? 833 00:42:40,133 --> 00:42:43,133 There's a lot we could still talk through. 834 00:42:44,366 --> 00:42:47,366 But I just want to leave you this. 835 00:42:49,133 --> 00:42:52,133 If you are in Christ, there's no condemnation. 836 00:42:52,133 --> 00:42:55,133 You got nothing to make up for. 837 00:42:56,100 --> 00:42:56,700 If you're in Christ, 838 00:42:56,700 --> 00:42:59,700 you have been adopted as his child. 839 00:43:00,966 --> 00:43:02,033 And all the rights 840 00:43:02,033 --> 00:43:06,233 and blessings of Christ himself are yours. 841 00:43:06,233 --> 00:43:09,233 As an co-heirs with Christ. 842 00:43:10,400 --> 00:43:13,400 And right now he is synergism. 843 00:43:13,800 --> 00:43:16,800 Even your pain points for good. 844 00:43:19,133 --> 00:43:21,500 You can trust him 845 00:43:21,500 --> 00:43:24,500 and I invite you to 846 00:43:24,600 --> 00:43:27,800 when you get this it. 847 00:43:27,900 --> 00:43:29,266 I don't know how to explain it. 848 00:43:29,266 --> 00:43:35,300 It changes your entire perspective about life, about your life and about the world. 849 00:43:36,733 --> 00:43:37,000 There 850 00:43:37,000 --> 00:43:40,000 is so much stability and there's so much comfort 851 00:43:40,033 --> 00:43:43,033 and there's so much ease and there's so much liberation. 852 00:43:43,800 --> 00:43:46,800 When you know this. 853 00:43:47,233 --> 00:43:50,233 When you start to embody this truth, 854 00:43:50,733 --> 00:43:51,433 it's just beautiful. 855 00:43:51,433 --> 00:43:55,200 Some of you are or are way too 856 00:43:55,200 --> 00:43:58,200 miserable and too stressed and too worried. 857 00:43:59,833 --> 00:44:02,833 Because you have not internalized the truth of these passages, 858 00:44:04,366 --> 00:44:07,166 it's yours for the taking. 859 00:44:07,166 --> 00:44:10,166 Why don't you pray with me? 860 00:44:11,600 --> 00:44:13,566 Father, I thank you 861 00:44:13,566 --> 00:44:16,566 that you've loved us with an everlasting love. 862 00:44:16,800 --> 00:44:19,800 I thank you that you are for us and not against us. 863 00:44:20,300 --> 00:44:23,900 I think that we can stand before you with no condemnation, 864 00:44:24,300 --> 00:44:27,300 and that we don't have to make up for anything of our past, 865 00:44:28,233 --> 00:44:31,233 and that we don't have to ensure anything of our future. 866 00:44:33,666 --> 00:44:35,800 I think that you've chosen us 867 00:44:35,800 --> 00:44:38,400 and adopted us as your children, your kid, 868 00:44:38,400 --> 00:44:41,400 your son, your daughter. 869 00:44:41,700 --> 00:44:44,300 That you are right now, in this moment, synergize 870 00:44:44,300 --> 00:44:47,400 all things, even the pain points for good. 871 00:44:50,400 --> 00:44:53,400 Father, we want to believe that we have to believe it. 872 00:44:53,766 --> 00:44:56,066 And we want to trust you. 873 00:44:56,066 --> 00:44:56,566 So would you. 874 00:44:56,566 --> 00:44:59,933 Here in this moment, these hearts that are turning 875 00:44:59,933 --> 00:45:02,933 entrust to you. 876 00:45:03,766 --> 00:45:06,766 Friends, I don't invite you in this moment 877 00:45:07,466 --> 00:45:10,466 to step into this new life. 878 00:45:12,766 --> 00:45:15,066 It begins with this 879 00:45:15,066 --> 00:45:18,066 just saying to the Father God, I agree. 880 00:45:18,266 --> 00:45:22,200 I have lived outside of the boundaries of your law and I'm a sinner. 881 00:45:23,400 --> 00:45:26,400 And I accept what Jesus did on the cross 882 00:45:26,400 --> 00:45:29,400 for my forgiveness. 883 00:45:30,033 --> 00:45:32,033 Thank you that I stand before you 884 00:45:32,033 --> 00:45:35,166 with no condemnation, completely free. 885 00:45:37,466 --> 00:45:38,133 Then tell him 886 00:45:38,133 --> 00:45:41,133 thank you that you have adopted me into your family, 887 00:45:41,500 --> 00:45:44,500 and I receive all the spiritual blessings 888 00:45:45,533 --> 00:45:48,533 that you would give me. 889 00:45:48,900 --> 00:45:51,133 Not because I'm good, 890 00:45:51,133 --> 00:45:54,133 but because I'm adopted. 891 00:45:54,200 --> 00:45:56,400 And I will trust. 892 00:45:56,400 --> 00:45:59,400 And I will rest the best I can 893 00:46:00,233 --> 00:46:05,266 in the confidence and conviction that you are. 894 00:46:05,266 --> 00:46:07,166 Synergize 895 00:46:07,166 --> 00:46:10,166 all things together for good. 896 00:46:12,733 --> 00:46:16,333 And I allow you to define what is good. 897 00:46:22,200 --> 00:46:25,200 Help me love you more 898 00:46:25,500 --> 00:46:28,500 and trust you more fully. 899 00:46:29,700 --> 00:46:30,933 Father, I thank you for this day. 900 00:46:30,933 --> 00:46:32,066 I thank you for these moments. 901 00:46:32,066 --> 00:46:35,066 I thank you for your word that continues to speak to us. 902 00:46:35,666 --> 00:46:37,666 I pray, father, that as we take steps 903 00:46:37,666 --> 00:46:40,733 into living out and flesh out this new life, 904 00:46:41,900 --> 00:46:45,066 that you would constantly remind us through the spirit within us, 905 00:46:46,000 --> 00:46:49,866 that there is no condemnation, that we are your kids, that your synergize. 906 00:46:49,966 --> 00:46:51,300 All things are working things together. 907 00:46:51,300 --> 00:46:52,200 We can trust you. 908 00:46:52,200 --> 00:46:55,800 You are a good father and you do that which is good. 909 00:46:55,900 --> 00:46:56,700 Have us, 910 00:46:58,400 --> 00:47:00,166 have us. 911 00:47:00,166 --> 00:47:03,166 We give ourselves to you. 912 00:47:03,500 --> 00:47:04,233 In your name I pray. 913 00:47:04,233 --> 00:47:06,333 Amen. 914 00:47:06,333 --> 00:47:10,866 Listen, I love you and I love going through scripture with you. 915 00:47:10,866 --> 00:47:12,733 It's so good. Yeah. 916 00:47:12,733 --> 00:47:15,400 Is Romans eight not just wonderful? 917 00:47:15,400 --> 00:47:18,066 It's incredible. 918 00:47:18,066 --> 00:47:19,066 I know some of you do. 919 00:47:19,066 --> 00:47:19,966 I want you all to love it. 920 00:47:19,966 --> 00:47:22,866 Like this is just good stuff. 921 00:47:22,866 --> 00:47:23,833 So here's this week. 922 00:47:23,833 --> 00:47:26,366 Read Romans eight, the whole the whole 39 verses. 923 00:47:26,366 --> 00:47:27,666 Okay? 924 00:47:27,666 --> 00:47:30,633 Let the Holy Spirit bring to your remembrance what we talked about 925 00:47:30,633 --> 00:47:33,000 and then read ahead for what we're going to talk about next week. 926 00:47:33,000 --> 00:47:34,900 It just gets better from here. 927 00:47:34,900 --> 00:47:36,666 If you know it, it just gets better from here. 928 00:47:36,666 --> 00:47:39,666 And live that live. 929 00:47:41,433 --> 00:47:44,433 As though there's no condemnation 930 00:47:45,200 --> 00:47:48,200 and live as a full fledged 931 00:47:48,300 --> 00:47:50,633 child of the father. 932 00:47:53,866 --> 00:47:56,866 You understand I'm saying not a 933 00:47:57,600 --> 00:48:00,600 all the rights, all the earth are all 934 00:48:01,633 --> 00:48:03,466 of Christ himself. 935 00:48:03,466 --> 00:48:05,533 It's amazing. 936 00:48:05,533 --> 00:48:08,833 And then be convinced that this week when stuff happens, 937 00:48:10,200 --> 00:48:13,033 your mind is going to go immediately to war. 938 00:48:13,033 --> 00:48:16,033 I can't wait to see how you're going to synergize this one. 939 00:48:16,466 --> 00:48:18,433 But I know you are. 940 00:48:18,433 --> 00:48:20,900 You understand that he is. 941 00:48:20,900 --> 00:48:25,100 We're celebrating and he is worthy to to trust him. 942 00:48:26,666 --> 00:48:27,766 All right, let's let's sing.