WEBVTT 1 00:00:00.080 --> 00:00:04.080 Well today Paul is gonna lay down the law and 2 00:00:04.120 --> 00:00:04.919 talk about Grace. 3 00:00:05.200 --> 00:00:05.679 Boom. 4 00:00:05.719 --> 00:00:08.240 There you go. So he's Chris, I'm Jeff, and we 5 00:00:08.400 --> 00:00:23.559 are the Bible guys. Okay, Chris, So you and I 6 00:00:23.640 --> 00:00:28.839 have been are our horns have been locked in battle 7 00:00:29.039 --> 00:00:30.399 last week? Right? 8 00:00:31.079 --> 00:00:34.159 That's such a weird statement when you said it, I 9 00:00:34.200 --> 00:00:35.719 was like our horns or what. 10 00:00:36.119 --> 00:00:39.759 Locked in battle? You know how, like too big bucks 11 00:00:40.280 --> 00:00:43.079 or two bulls fighting and they locked their horns in battle. 12 00:00:43.200 --> 00:00:45.359 Gotcha? Yes, because of fantasy football. 13 00:00:45.679 --> 00:00:50.280 Fantasy football, that's right. And we are in a big 14 00:00:50.320 --> 00:00:54.759 time fantasy football league. So today we had solicited to 15 00:00:54.880 --> 00:00:57.000 our listeners two weeks ago. 16 00:00:57.799 --> 00:00:59.119 To type in any type of question. 17 00:00:59.200 --> 00:01:02.200 Yeah, mail bags right now, So mail bag segment and 18 00:01:02.679 --> 00:01:05.680 just fun to get to know you questions from our listeners, 19 00:01:05.959 --> 00:01:09.079 and we had one Kyle said, I know you guys 20 00:01:09.079 --> 00:01:10.959 are big football fans or either of you on a 21 00:01:11.000 --> 00:01:15.480 fantasy football league, and all I just want to say 22 00:01:15.560 --> 00:01:17.400 is thanks for bringing that up, Kyle. 23 00:01:17.719 --> 00:01:21.040 Right. So, in case you're wondering the reason why we're 24 00:01:21.079 --> 00:01:23.680 talking like this is because Jeff and I actually played 25 00:01:23.760 --> 00:01:24.879 last Sunday. 26 00:01:24.719 --> 00:01:25.359 Our two teams. 27 00:01:25.719 --> 00:01:28.439 Two teams went against each other and I beat him. Now, 28 00:01:28.439 --> 00:01:31.400 what's so interesting is I'm the worst one in the league. Yea, 29 00:01:31.640 --> 00:01:34.040 Jeff's one of the best in the league, right. 30 00:01:34.079 --> 00:01:36.599 And maybe the best. I don't have the best record, 31 00:01:36.599 --> 00:01:39.640 Bene probably the best manager of a fantasy. 32 00:01:39.799 --> 00:01:43.799 Well, just to be clear, the stats, the projection, the 33 00:01:44.480 --> 00:01:46.719 stats show that both of us are going to end 34 00:01:46.799 --> 00:01:50.239 up in the same place projected, Yes, with the same record. 35 00:01:50.000 --> 00:01:51.200 At the end. Maybe yes. 36 00:01:51.480 --> 00:01:55.000 But however, for some reason, I've had some pretty bad 37 00:01:55.120 --> 00:01:58.680 luck and I haven't been playing so well, so I 38 00:01:58.760 --> 00:02:02.040 was the the worst. So anyway, I've been averaging like 39 00:02:02.159 --> 00:02:05.280 maybe like eighty points a game, right, and you've been 40 00:02:05.280 --> 00:02:06.359 averaging like one. 41 00:02:06.200 --> 00:02:10.039 And thirty thirty points. Yeah, I should have just bulldozed you, which. 42 00:02:09.879 --> 00:02:15.000 Isn't even close, I know. However, on Sunday you went ahead, 43 00:02:15.039 --> 00:02:15.960 and so. 44 00:02:16.000 --> 00:02:18.439 I scored one hundred and thirty five point seven points, 45 00:02:18.800 --> 00:02:24.840 which I should have all of everybody who's playing fantasy football, right, 46 00:02:25.199 --> 00:02:27.240 probably out of our listeners, I would have beaten ninety 47 00:02:27.280 --> 00:02:29.759 nine percent of our listeners on their teams this last 48 00:02:29.759 --> 00:02:31.719 week too. One hundred and thirty five point seven is 49 00:02:31.719 --> 00:02:34.639 so far above the normal, and in our league didn't 50 00:02:34.639 --> 00:02:37.120 come close to all our league averages one hundred and 51 00:02:37.159 --> 00:02:39.560 twelve points. That's what our league averages, so one hundred 52 00:02:39.560 --> 00:02:41.800 and thirty five point seven should have won. And then 53 00:02:41.879 --> 00:02:44.879 you show up and your team plays out of their 54 00:02:45.080 --> 00:02:48.479 minds this last week and you beat me one hundred 55 00:02:48.479 --> 00:02:50.560 and thirty seven point two. You beat me by one 56 00:02:50.599 --> 00:02:51.639 point four points. 57 00:02:51.840 --> 00:02:55.360 Yes, that's it. It's just And by the way, that's 58 00:02:55.360 --> 00:02:57.240 really the only victory that I really wanted. 59 00:02:57.319 --> 00:02:59.000 It's the only victory you've had. But it's only when 60 00:02:59.000 --> 00:02:59.919 that mattered, wasn't. 61 00:03:02.639 --> 00:03:06.759 It was terrible. It's so strange my other league. I'm 62 00:03:06.800 --> 00:03:07.759 gonna win the whole league. 63 00:03:07.840 --> 00:03:11.560 Oh sure, nobody's seen it's right here. Yeah, yeah, it's 64 00:03:11.639 --> 00:03:16.159 on the good appu. Our entire staff can see how 65 00:03:16.199 --> 00:03:17.000 you're performing here. 66 00:03:17.120 --> 00:03:19.639 By the way, I don't know why we use Yahoo. 67 00:03:20.080 --> 00:03:23.439 It's written by a bunch of yahoos. Okay, okay, ESPN 68 00:03:23.560 --> 00:03:26.439 app it is so intuitive, it is so awesome. I 69 00:03:26.439 --> 00:03:28.960 don't know why anybody doesn't just use the ESPN Fantasy 70 00:03:28.960 --> 00:03:31.759 Football app. But anyway, I've got the best team on 71 00:03:31.800 --> 00:03:34.120 that league, and I'm probably gonna win the championship. 72 00:03:34.319 --> 00:03:37.120 Wow, yeah, sure, But do you get a trophy in 73 00:03:37.120 --> 00:03:41.479 that league and money and money yes. Wow. So what 74 00:03:41.520 --> 00:03:44.879 we do is in our office we have a super 75 00:03:44.919 --> 00:03:47.759 Bowl trophy, yes, that we give away, and then we 76 00:03:47.800 --> 00:03:52.120 also give away a Super Bowl ring right for the winner, 77 00:03:52.360 --> 00:03:54.000 and so you get to keep the ring. And then 78 00:03:54.240 --> 00:03:56.479 the trophy floats around the office and has to be 79 00:03:56.879 --> 00:03:58.400 prominently positioned in your office. 80 00:03:58.439 --> 00:03:59.960 And what do you give to the person who's the word? 81 00:04:00.039 --> 00:04:03.439 Still, So we have a trophy. It's a bibblehead outhouse. 82 00:04:04.199 --> 00:04:06.479 So you just see the feet with the pants around 83 00:04:06.520 --> 00:04:09.439 the ankles, and then the outhouse is a bibblehead. 84 00:04:08.879 --> 00:04:11.360 Like that and it says I stink and finishing football. 85 00:04:11.400 --> 00:04:13.120 Yeah yeah, yeah, yeah, it is in my office. 86 00:04:13.199 --> 00:04:16.040 It's in your office because you were last place last year, yes, 87 00:04:16.160 --> 00:04:17.879 and you have a really good shot of being last 88 00:04:17.879 --> 00:04:18.519 place this year. 89 00:04:18.680 --> 00:04:21.040 Yes. Maybe I can just keep the christ just keep it. 90 00:04:21.120 --> 00:04:23.199 Yeah, we may just turn it into the Zarbal Trophy. 91 00:04:23.360 --> 00:04:26.079 That's so funny how I drafted poorly on both leagues 92 00:04:26.639 --> 00:04:28.560 because remember last year I was number one pick. I 93 00:04:28.639 --> 00:04:31.759 drafted Christian McCaffrey. Oh yeah, yeah, it was my first pick. 94 00:04:31.839 --> 00:04:33.639 I was number one overall pick, and then he just 95 00:04:33.680 --> 00:04:35.879 went down yeah right, And so I actually had like 96 00:04:35.920 --> 00:04:38.199 three people go down, and so I just had some 97 00:04:38.240 --> 00:04:38.920 really bad luck. 98 00:04:38.959 --> 00:04:40.800 I have Christian McAffrey this year, and he's just not 99 00:04:40.839 --> 00:04:43.399 scoring touchdowns. So for all the people who couldn't care 100 00:04:43.480 --> 00:04:46.360 less about football, this segment is over. Now you can 101 00:04:46.600 --> 00:04:48.240 tune back in, turn the volume back up. 102 00:04:48.319 --> 00:04:51.519 Yeah, which, by the way is probably most but. 103 00:04:51.480 --> 00:04:53.680 It's funny, So so we have more fun. You know, 104 00:04:53.720 --> 00:04:56.199 we're Lions fan or well, we live in Lions Country 105 00:04:56.439 --> 00:04:59.079 and the Lions play so poorly we have to have 106 00:04:59.120 --> 00:05:00.000 some reason to pay it. 107 00:05:00.439 --> 00:05:02.519 Well, but you are a Lions fan though I am alliance. 108 00:05:02.639 --> 00:05:03.879 You corrected like you weren't. 109 00:05:04.000 --> 00:05:06.639 Yes, I know, I said we, and then realize I 110 00:05:06.680 --> 00:05:07.879 can't say we because you're not. 111 00:05:08.399 --> 00:05:08.879 No, I am. 112 00:05:09.079 --> 00:05:11.480 You are a fan, Yes, like a fan. You're a 113 00:05:11.519 --> 00:05:13.240 Lions fan boy, Yes, okay. 114 00:05:13.360 --> 00:05:15.560 I cheer for the Lions, and I root for them 115 00:05:15.600 --> 00:05:20.480 over every team except for Cleveland when they play Cleveland. Yeah, 116 00:05:20.560 --> 00:05:22.839 so I follow the Lions only, so you follow. 117 00:05:22.560 --> 00:05:24.839 The two worst teams in the history of the NFL. 118 00:05:24.560 --> 00:05:27.839 Because I live near the two worst cities of football 119 00:05:28.240 --> 00:05:29.240 in the NFL. Yeah. 120 00:05:29.360 --> 00:05:31.279 Okay, so now we are done. We're done talking about 121 00:05:31.279 --> 00:05:33.399 football there. But anyways, we do that for fun. It 122 00:05:33.439 --> 00:05:36.399 builds a lot of camaraderie with our staff. We got 123 00:05:36.439 --> 00:05:39.759 like how many twenty four people playing? Yeah, and it's 124 00:05:39.759 --> 00:05:43.160 a lot of fun. So okay, anyways, thanks Kyle for 125 00:05:43.279 --> 00:05:46.800 ruining my day and asking that question. And just note 126 00:05:46.800 --> 00:05:49.759 to self, no more questions from Kyle. There you go, 127 00:05:50.319 --> 00:05:52.360 all right, you ruined it right there. So we're going 128 00:05:52.399 --> 00:05:56.399 to continue on in Galatians, and this passage Paul is 129 00:05:56.480 --> 00:06:00.480 going to really unpack the whole of his argument. So 130 00:06:00.519 --> 00:06:03.480 we have referenced his argument, but he's only just been 131 00:06:03.519 --> 00:06:05.959 complaining about the Judaizers, but he hasn't really gotten into 132 00:06:06.000 --> 00:06:09.079 the theological argument as to why they're wrong and what 133 00:06:09.240 --> 00:06:13.279 real grace is all about. This is where he begins 134 00:06:13.319 --> 00:06:16.360 on packet. So we're going to read Galatians chapter three, 135 00:06:16.879 --> 00:06:20.199 and he says, oh, foolish Galatians, who has cast an 136 00:06:20.240 --> 00:06:23.279 evil spell on you? For the meaning of Jesus Christ's 137 00:06:23.319 --> 00:06:25.680 death was made clear to you as if you had 138 00:06:25.680 --> 00:06:27.959 seen a picture of his death on the cross. Let 139 00:06:28.040 --> 00:06:29.800 me ask you this one question. Did you receive the 140 00:06:29.800 --> 00:06:32.680 Holy Spirit by obeying the law of Moses? Of course not. 141 00:06:33.079 --> 00:06:35.519 You receive the spirit because you believe the message. You 142 00:06:35.600 --> 00:06:39.040 heard about Christ. How foolish can you be after starting 143 00:06:39.040 --> 00:06:41.319 your Christian lives in the spirit? Why are you now 144 00:06:41.319 --> 00:06:44.439 trying to become perfect by your own human effort? Have 145 00:06:44.560 --> 00:06:47.560 you experienced so much for nothing? Surely it was not 146 00:06:47.600 --> 00:06:50.040 in vain, was it? I ask you again? Does God 147 00:06:50.040 --> 00:06:51.959 give you the Holy Spirit and work miracles among you 148 00:06:52.000 --> 00:06:54.639 because you obey the law? Of course not. It's because 149 00:06:54.680 --> 00:06:56.800 you believe the message you heard about Christ in the 150 00:06:56.839 --> 00:07:00.000 same way Abraham believed God and God counted him as 151 00:07:00.079 --> 00:07:04.240 righteous because of his faith. The real children of Abraham, then, 152 00:07:04.439 --> 00:07:06.800 are those who put their faith in God. What's more, 153 00:07:06.839 --> 00:07:09.160 the scriptures looked forward to this time when God would 154 00:07:09.360 --> 00:07:12.959 declare to the Gentiles to be righteous because of their faith. 155 00:07:13.199 --> 00:07:15.879 God proclaimed this good news to Abraham long ago when 156 00:07:15.920 --> 00:07:18.360 he said all nations will be blessed through you. So 157 00:07:18.720 --> 00:07:20.480 all who put their faith in Christ share the same 158 00:07:20.519 --> 00:07:23.360 blessing Abraham received because of his faith. But those who 159 00:07:23.360 --> 00:07:25.439 depend on the law to make them right with God 160 00:07:25.519 --> 00:07:28.000 are under his curse. For the scriptures say cursed is 161 00:07:28.040 --> 00:07:30.439 everyone who does not observe and obey all the commands 162 00:07:30.439 --> 00:07:32.639 that are written in God's Book of the Law. So 163 00:07:32.839 --> 00:07:34.600 it is clear that No one can be made right 164 00:07:34.639 --> 00:07:36.600 with God by trying to keep the law. For the 165 00:07:36.639 --> 00:07:38.759 scriptures say it is through faith that a righteous person 166 00:07:38.839 --> 00:07:41.759 has life. This way, this way of faith, is very 167 00:07:41.759 --> 00:07:44.120 different from the way of law, which says it is 168 00:07:44.160 --> 00:07:46.399 through obeying the law that a person has life. But 169 00:07:46.519 --> 00:07:49.000 Christ has rescued us from the curse pronounced by the law. 170 00:07:49.279 --> 00:07:50.800 When he was hung on the cross, he took upon 171 00:07:50.879 --> 00:07:53.120 himself the curse of our wrongdoing. For it has written 172 00:07:53.160 --> 00:07:55.319 the scriptures, cursed is everyone who is hung on a tree. 173 00:07:55.560 --> 00:07:58.920 Though Christ Jesus God, through Christ Jesus God has blessed 174 00:07:58.920 --> 00:08:01.759 the gentiles with the same blessing he promised to Abraham, 175 00:08:02.000 --> 00:08:04.319 so that we who are believers might receive the promised 176 00:08:04.319 --> 00:08:07.360 Holy Spirit through faith. Dear brothers and sisters, here's an 177 00:08:07.399 --> 00:08:10.120 example from everyday life. Just as no one can set 178 00:08:10.120 --> 00:08:13.480 aside or amend it an irrevocable agreement, so it is 179 00:08:13.519 --> 00:08:16.000 in this case. God gave the promises to Abraham and 180 00:08:16.040 --> 00:08:18.279 his child. And noticed that the scripture doesn't say to 181 00:08:18.360 --> 00:08:21.560 his children, as if it meant any many descendants. Rather 182 00:08:21.759 --> 00:08:24.279 it says to his child, and that of course means Christ. 183 00:08:24.759 --> 00:08:26.959 This is what I am trying to say the agreement 184 00:08:27.040 --> 00:08:29.639 God made with Abraham could not be canceled. Four hundred 185 00:08:29.639 --> 00:08:32.279 and thirty years later, when God gave the law to Moses, 186 00:08:33.200 --> 00:08:35.960 God would be breaking his promise, for if the inheritance 187 00:08:36.000 --> 00:08:38.240 could be received by keeping the law, then it would 188 00:08:38.240 --> 00:08:40.639 not be the result of accepting God's promise. But God 189 00:08:40.720 --> 00:08:43.600 graciously gave it to Abraham as a promise. Why then 190 00:08:43.720 --> 00:08:46.320 was the law given. It was given alongside the promise 191 00:08:46.360 --> 00:08:50.399 to show people their sins, but the law was designed 192 00:08:50.399 --> 00:08:52.200 to last only until the coming of the child who 193 00:08:52.320 --> 00:08:55.360 was promised. God gave his law through angels to Moses, 194 00:08:55.440 --> 00:08:57.720 who was the mediator between God and the people. Now, 195 00:08:57.879 --> 00:09:00.240 a mediator is helpful if more than one party must 196 00:09:00.240 --> 00:09:02.720 reach an agreement, but God, who is one, did not 197 00:09:02.960 --> 00:09:05.399 use a mediator when he gave his promise to Abraham. 198 00:09:06.039 --> 00:09:08.679 Is there a conflict then, between God's law and God's promises? 199 00:09:08.759 --> 00:09:11.200 Absolutely not. If the law could give us new life, 200 00:09:11.320 --> 00:09:13.159 we could be made reare with God by obeying it. 201 00:09:13.200 --> 00:09:15.720 But the scriptures declare that we are all prisoners of sin, 202 00:09:16.039 --> 00:09:19.039 So we receive God's promise of freedom only by believing 203 00:09:19.039 --> 00:09:22.720 in Jesus Christ. Before the way of faith in Christ 204 00:09:22.960 --> 00:09:25.399 was available to us, we were placed under guard by 205 00:09:25.440 --> 00:09:28.480 the law. We were kept in protective custody, so to speak, 206 00:09:28.559 --> 00:09:30.600 until the Way of Faith was revealed. Let me put 207 00:09:30.600 --> 00:09:33.759 it another way. The law was our guardian until Christ came. 208 00:09:34.159 --> 00:09:36.639 It protected us until we could be made right with 209 00:09:36.720 --> 00:09:39.720 God through faith. And now that the way of Faith 210 00:09:39.759 --> 00:09:42.000 has come, we no longer need the law as our guardian, 211 00:09:42.399 --> 00:09:44.600 for you are all children of God through faith in 212 00:09:44.720 --> 00:09:47.600 Christ Jesus, and all who have been united with Christ 213 00:09:47.679 --> 00:09:50.799 in baptism have put on Christ like putting on new clothes. 214 00:09:51.080 --> 00:09:54.080 There is no longer jew or gentile, slave, or free 215 00:09:54.240 --> 00:09:57.559 male or female, for you are all one in Christ Jesus. 216 00:09:57.879 --> 00:10:00.639 And now that you belong to Christ, you are the 217 00:10:00.639 --> 00:10:04.759 true children of Abraham. You are his heirs, and God's 218 00:10:04.799 --> 00:10:06.840 promised to Abraham belongs to you. Think of it this way. 219 00:10:07.159 --> 00:10:09.000 If a father dies and leaves an inheritance for his 220 00:10:09.039 --> 00:10:11.240 young children, those children are not much better off than 221 00:10:11.279 --> 00:10:14.080 slaves until they grow up. Even though they actually own 222 00:10:14.159 --> 00:10:16.960 everything their father had, they have to obey their guardians 223 00:10:17.000 --> 00:10:19.879 until they reach whatever age their fathers sat. And that's 224 00:10:19.879 --> 00:10:22.039 the way it was with us. Before Christ came. We 225 00:10:22.039 --> 00:10:24.720 were like children we were slaves to the basic spiritual 226 00:10:24.720 --> 00:10:27.559 principles of this world. But when the right time came, 227 00:10:28.320 --> 00:10:31.120 God sent his son, born of a woman subject to 228 00:10:31.159 --> 00:10:34.240 the law. God sent him to buy freedom for us, 229 00:10:34.399 --> 00:10:36.480 who are slaves to the law, so that he could 230 00:10:36.559 --> 00:10:39.200 adopt us as his very own children. And because we 231 00:10:39.240 --> 00:10:41.679 are his children, God has sent the spirit of his 232 00:10:41.759 --> 00:10:45.360 son into our hearts, prompting us to call out Abbah, Father. 233 00:10:45.879 --> 00:10:48.879 Now you are no longer a slave, but God's own child. 234 00:10:49.120 --> 00:10:51.279 And since you are his child, God has made you 235 00:10:51.360 --> 00:10:55.639 his heir. So really, what he's doing is he's tying 236 00:10:55.799 --> 00:11:01.039 Jesus into being Abraham's son. Right and promise made to 237 00:11:01.080 --> 00:11:04.360 Abraham is fulfilled in his son. And he's saying that 238 00:11:04.399 --> 00:11:08.240 Moses law was the guardian until the Sun was grown 239 00:11:08.320 --> 00:11:10.919 up enough to be able to inherit. 240 00:11:11.559 --> 00:11:14.159 I like how Paul did the math for us and 241 00:11:14.159 --> 00:11:16.639 said it was exactly four hundred and thirty years from Abrahad. 242 00:11:16.879 --> 00:11:19.200 That was helpful, Otherwise we would have been like many. 243 00:11:19.200 --> 00:11:19.759 It was a lot. 244 00:11:20.360 --> 00:11:23.399 Well. To be honest with you, I say that tongue 245 00:11:23.399 --> 00:11:26.759 in cheek, but actually it's it's it's a testament to 246 00:11:26.879 --> 00:11:31.759 Paul's knowledge because Paul was a pharisee. Paul was a 247 00:11:32.360 --> 00:11:36.120 person who was probably a you know, at least if 248 00:11:36.120 --> 00:11:39.080 he wasn't in the Samehedrin, he was, you know, working 249 00:11:39.120 --> 00:11:43.720 toward that. And so I've always believed this. But Paul 250 00:11:43.840 --> 00:11:48.240 was the perfect qualified person. God chose the perfect person 251 00:11:48.440 --> 00:11:50.720 because he was a Roman citizen and at the same 252 00:11:50.759 --> 00:11:54.679 time he was a Jewish you know, person who was 253 00:11:54.720 --> 00:11:57.279 also a pharisee, so he understood everything. 254 00:11:57.360 --> 00:12:00.840 Yeah, so my profession, and let me say this, he 255 00:12:00.960 --> 00:12:04.879 was perfectly positioned to argue against the Judaizers. Yes, he 256 00:12:05.039 --> 00:12:07.799 was the perfect one that God could use. 257 00:12:07.720 --> 00:12:09.879 Because he was over them at one time. He was 258 00:12:10.639 --> 00:12:13.679 in a position of authority right underneath Caiaphas. 259 00:12:13.720 --> 00:12:16.480 So these people are coming in acting all pompous and 260 00:12:16.600 --> 00:12:19.279 know it all, trying to impose the law on these 261 00:12:19.320 --> 00:12:21.600 new Christians. And Paul went, hey, wait a minute, right, 262 00:12:22.279 --> 00:12:25.440 you know this much, I know this much about the law. 263 00:12:25.600 --> 00:12:26.600 Let me explain it to you. 264 00:12:26.840 --> 00:12:28.960 He's like, hey, you know who you're talking to. You 265 00:12:29.000 --> 00:12:31.320 know who I am? Right, that's what he's saying. And 266 00:12:31.639 --> 00:12:35.399 by the way, my college professor told me that it 267 00:12:35.480 --> 00:12:40.279 was customary for in order for Paul to become a Pharisee. 268 00:12:40.639 --> 00:12:42.840 They would take the five books of the Torah or 269 00:12:42.879 --> 00:12:45.039 the pentitook, and they would actually. 270 00:12:44.720 --> 00:12:47.799 Take this Exodus, Sleaviticus, numbers, and Deuteronomy. 271 00:12:47.279 --> 00:12:49.799 Yes, and they would close them. Those are the laws 272 00:12:49.840 --> 00:12:52.600 of Moses, the books of Moses. They would close the book, 273 00:12:52.840 --> 00:12:54.720 and then they would pick anywhere on the book and 274 00:12:54.840 --> 00:12:58.960 drive a nail through the book. And the final exam 275 00:12:59.360 --> 00:13:03.679 was the person had to quote every single verse that 276 00:13:03.720 --> 00:13:07.120 the nail had passed through by memory. In other words, 277 00:13:07.120 --> 00:13:09.960 they had to know where on the page the verse was. 278 00:13:10.080 --> 00:13:12.399 That's how much he knew it. Now, I don't know 279 00:13:12.399 --> 00:13:15.240 if that's true, but I've heard that enough over the 280 00:13:15.320 --> 00:13:19.360 years to believe that maybe you know, it was very customary, and. 281 00:13:19.279 --> 00:13:20.519 It was true one of the tests. 282 00:13:20.759 --> 00:13:22.840 It was one of the tests or the final example. 283 00:13:23.200 --> 00:13:26.559 And so all that to say, when Paul's quoting four 284 00:13:26.639 --> 00:13:28.399 hundred and thirty years, my guess is he didn't have 285 00:13:28.440 --> 00:13:30.679 to look it up, right, And he also doesn't have 286 00:13:30.720 --> 00:13:33.519 to look up anything that he's talking about. He knows 287 00:13:33.559 --> 00:13:37.440 it backwards and forward, and he has the authority to 288 00:13:37.919 --> 00:13:41.159 make this conclusion. So think about this for someone to 289 00:13:41.320 --> 00:13:46.240 understand how all of the Old Testament law points toward Jesus. 290 00:13:46.799 --> 00:13:49.399 It makes the law that which you knew before Jesus. 291 00:13:49.799 --> 00:13:51.919 You knew the law. All of a sudden Jesus comes along, 292 00:13:51.960 --> 00:13:54.919 and that law now comes to life's right. It comes 293 00:13:54.960 --> 00:13:57.559 to life. It has a brand new meaning, which is 294 00:13:57.559 --> 00:13:58.080 pretty cool. 295 00:13:58.480 --> 00:14:00.879 Well, Jesus said, it didn't come to destroy the law 296 00:14:01.000 --> 00:14:01.840 came to fulfill it. 297 00:14:02.039 --> 00:14:02.200 Right. 298 00:14:02.559 --> 00:14:06.480 So the Judaizers, they had come in and they had 299 00:14:06.799 --> 00:14:10.759 built this argument. They genuinely believed that there was the 300 00:14:10.799 --> 00:14:15.320 promise of Abraham that through Abraham's son would come salvation. 301 00:14:15.960 --> 00:14:18.799 But then they believed that when the Law Moses came 302 00:14:18.840 --> 00:14:23.559 that God changed the process, and so that then now 303 00:14:23.960 --> 00:14:26.799 the Law of Moses is the new way to God. 304 00:14:27.360 --> 00:14:31.080 And as if God changed his mind, And what Paul 305 00:14:31.200 --> 00:14:35.159 is saying here is God didn't change his mind. Your 306 00:14:35.240 --> 00:14:38.720 opinion of the purpose of the law is wrong. So 307 00:14:38.759 --> 00:14:44.120 the promise has always been that through Christ, all of humanity. 308 00:14:45.039 --> 00:14:47.320 This is why God had said, the whole world will 309 00:14:47.360 --> 00:14:49.679 be blessed because of you. Through Christ, through the son 310 00:14:49.720 --> 00:14:53.679 of Abraham, all of humanity will have opportunity for forgiveness 311 00:14:53.679 --> 00:14:57.159 of sins, right relationship with God through faith. All the Jews, 312 00:14:57.200 --> 00:15:01.120 the gentiles everybody. But then they said, well, once Moses' 313 00:15:01.159 --> 00:15:04.080 law came in, God excluded everybody else. God made all 314 00:15:04.080 --> 00:15:05.759 these rules, and this is how you get to God. 315 00:15:05.960 --> 00:15:08.759 And he said, no, the law was just supposed to 316 00:15:08.799 --> 00:15:13.080 be like the guardian. It was like the nanny for us. 317 00:15:13.240 --> 00:15:15.279 It pointed out the fact that we needed a savior. 318 00:15:15.480 --> 00:15:18.279 That's what the law did. He mentions it here that 319 00:15:18.480 --> 00:15:20.399 it showed us that we were dead in our sins. 320 00:15:21.120 --> 00:15:23.200 In the Book of Romans, he mentions that the whole 321 00:15:23.200 --> 00:15:25.440 purpose behind the law was to point out to us 322 00:15:25.480 --> 00:15:28.360 that we needed a savior. But the promise was not 323 00:15:28.799 --> 00:15:31.320 the law. The law was just the nanny that was 324 00:15:31.399 --> 00:15:35.279 letting us know we did wrong. Instead, the promise was 325 00:15:35.320 --> 00:15:38.799 fulfilled in Jesus, and that was the point. The Abrahamic 326 00:15:38.840 --> 00:15:41.120 promise and the fulfillment of it in Jesus was the point. 327 00:15:41.279 --> 00:15:43.799 And the law was a tool to say, boy, you 328 00:15:43.879 --> 00:15:46.600 really need Jesus. And it's just a great argument. 329 00:15:47.120 --> 00:15:51.080 It's so easy to understand why people get confused, because 330 00:15:51.200 --> 00:15:53.360 even if you don't know anything about the Bible, you 331 00:15:53.519 --> 00:15:56.360 understand that it's filled with rules and commandments. Sure, you know, 332 00:15:56.480 --> 00:15:58.240 God is pleased when we obey and God is not 333 00:15:58.279 --> 00:16:02.360 pleased whether we disobey or well or wilfully sin. But 334 00:16:03.080 --> 00:16:05.600 it actually says that, you know, like people always revere 335 00:16:05.639 --> 00:16:07.879 the Ten Commandments, and they when they believe that you 336 00:16:07.919 --> 00:16:09.679 have to be good to go to heaven, they say, well, 337 00:16:09.679 --> 00:16:12.080 I've tried to obey the Ten Commandments my whole life. 338 00:16:12.279 --> 00:16:15.159 And people seem to view the Ten Commandments as I 339 00:16:15.200 --> 00:16:18.039 on eight out of the tent, right, or they don't 340 00:16:18.039 --> 00:16:21.440 know it, right, they think that they've kept them, but 341 00:16:22.080 --> 00:16:24.519 or most of the time they think it's percentages. Right, 342 00:16:24.519 --> 00:16:27.360 they think it's a passing grade. But you know where you're. 343 00:16:27.240 --> 00:16:30.039 Gonna have to sixty nine. Right, if I get a 344 00:16:30.120 --> 00:16:32.759 sixty seven and I failed, But if I got a seventy, 345 00:16:32.799 --> 00:16:33.559 I'm in right. 346 00:16:33.759 --> 00:16:36.559 You know, well, it's your good has to outweigh your bad. 347 00:16:36.639 --> 00:16:39.519 That's what most people believe. But you think about it. 348 00:16:40.720 --> 00:16:43.399 The Ten Commandments were given to us to show us 349 00:16:43.440 --> 00:16:46.679 how pitiful we are. The Bible actually says that the 350 00:16:47.080 --> 00:16:49.399 law was given to us to reveal our sin. Right, 351 00:16:50.120 --> 00:16:52.879 So people think that the Ten Commandments are the highest bar, 352 00:16:52.960 --> 00:16:55.600 but think about it. When God give us the Ten Commandments, 353 00:16:55.919 --> 00:16:58.960 he actually set the bar extremely low to show that 354 00:16:59.000 --> 00:17:02.360 we can't even meet that bar. He's like, hmm, try 355 00:17:02.399 --> 00:17:06.359 not to kill anybody today. Yeah, try not to sleep 356 00:17:06.359 --> 00:17:09.200 with any wife that isn't yours. And so so. 357 00:17:09.119 --> 00:17:11.240 He says, the law takes stuff that's not yours. 358 00:17:11.119 --> 00:17:13.400 Don't take stuff that's not yours. He sets the bar 359 00:17:13.599 --> 00:17:17.480 so unbelievably low. And then what happens is humanity is 360 00:17:17.519 --> 00:17:20.279 slithered underneath the bar. And so we say all the 361 00:17:20.279 --> 00:17:24.000 ten Commandments are revered as the highest bar. No, these 362 00:17:24.000 --> 00:17:27.920 are the basic fundamentals of human living and decency, and 363 00:17:27.960 --> 00:17:30.720 we've managed to slither under them. The law was given 364 00:17:31.000 --> 00:17:33.960 to reveal our sin, to show us our sin. You 365 00:17:33.960 --> 00:17:36.359 know what. It reminds me of my father in law 366 00:17:36.440 --> 00:17:38.720 came up when we bought our house and he's like, 367 00:17:38.920 --> 00:17:41.359 you need new grass. So he rents this big like 368 00:17:41.799 --> 00:17:44.519 machine and he's like, oh, just like like scrapes all 369 00:17:44.559 --> 00:17:47.319 of our grass off, all of it, and he's like, 370 00:17:47.359 --> 00:17:49.400 you need to, you know, repurpose all this, and he 371 00:17:49.599 --> 00:17:51.640 kind of landscape our whole thing. It was really weird. 372 00:17:51.680 --> 00:17:53.480 He brought a dirt and all these kind of things, 373 00:17:53.519 --> 00:17:55.160 and I was like, okay, and he's doing his thing. 374 00:17:55.440 --> 00:17:57.960 So then we spread we went get you know, seed 375 00:17:58.000 --> 00:18:00.440 and then hay and everything else, and most of our 376 00:18:00.519 --> 00:18:03.640 lawn was like redone. And what happened was in the spring, 377 00:18:03.920 --> 00:18:06.960 what happened was the grass was growing fine, but there 378 00:18:07.039 --> 00:18:09.680 was all these weeds. And listen when I tell you this, Okay, 379 00:18:09.799 --> 00:18:14.119 like my entire lawn it's decently big. Every three inches 380 00:18:14.480 --> 00:18:18.519 in every direction was this grassy weed. And it was 381 00:18:18.559 --> 00:18:20.799 just everywhere. It was just it was there was millions 382 00:18:20.839 --> 00:18:23.160 of it. It seemed like. So I'm thinking, okay, I 383 00:18:23.200 --> 00:18:25.039 get to go into a professional. I picked a weed. 384 00:18:25.079 --> 00:18:29.400 I went in because the because the hay was batter Yeah, yeah, 385 00:18:29.440 --> 00:18:32.119 that's right. So I went in and I said to them, 386 00:18:32.200 --> 00:18:36.119 I need a weed killer to just kill this weed, 387 00:18:36.480 --> 00:18:39.119 but not this grass. And the guy says, well, that's 388 00:18:39.160 --> 00:18:43.240 impossible because actually that's a form of weed. But it's 389 00:18:43.240 --> 00:18:45.680 a form of grass. It's a grassy weed. He said, 390 00:18:45.720 --> 00:18:48.240 So you no matter what you get to kill, you're 391 00:18:48.240 --> 00:18:50.039 going to kill your grass. He said. You only have 392 00:18:50.039 --> 00:18:53.240 two choices. He says, Hey, you can go ahead and 393 00:18:53.799 --> 00:18:56.200 wipe it all out and start all over again, or 394 00:18:56.440 --> 00:18:59.160 be you can actually wait until the weeds because the 395 00:18:59.160 --> 00:19:01.359 weeds grow faster. You can wait until the weeds grow 396 00:19:01.480 --> 00:19:04.799 super tall, and then pick them all out by hand, 397 00:19:05.480 --> 00:19:10.640 the four million weeds that are in your lawn. Thanks right, thanks. 398 00:19:10.799 --> 00:19:13.880 So here's the deal. I went in trying to buy 399 00:19:13.920 --> 00:19:19.279 weed killer to kill the sin in the lawn. Instead 400 00:19:19.359 --> 00:19:21.920 I came out with fertilizer helping him to make it grow, 401 00:19:22.200 --> 00:19:25.720