WEBVTT 00:00:04.080 --> 00:00:08.120 Alrighty. We continue in the book of Romans today, 00:00:08.160 --> 00:00:12.768 but I'm supposed to tell you now that we have had grace and we continue 00:00:12.768 --> 00:00:13.496 to have grace. 00:00:13.496 --> 00:00:14.224 It's just different. 00:00:14.224 --> 00:00:15.180 You ready? 00:00:16.080 --> 00:00:19.540 Surf City parking has allowed grace for two weeks. 00:00:19.840 --> 00:00:24.040 If you parked in Surf City parking without a parking pass or permission, 00:00:24.040 --> 00:00:25.536 then you got a warning. 00:00:25.536 --> 00:00:27.110 That ended yesterday. 00:00:27.610 --> 00:00:32.550 However, because these two blocks are under a special dispensation. 00:00:33.050 --> 00:00:33.890 Just kidding. 00:00:33.970 --> 00:00:36.786 Town council allows us to have parking. 00:00:36.818 --> 00:00:39.870 They do not patrol these two blocks until 12:30. 00:00:40.650 --> 00:00:41.866 So just letting you know, 00:00:41.866 --> 00:00:43.122 but coming up on Easter, 00:00:43.122 --> 00:00:45.114 we're going to be doing Easter in the park. 00:00:45.114 --> 00:00:47.424 Going to do sunrise over here at 12:30, 00:00:47.466 --> 00:00:49.490 then we're going to the park at 10:00. 00:00:49.490 --> 00:00:50.850 And in the park, 00:00:50.890 --> 00:00:51.290 you know, 00:00:51.290 --> 00:00:53.700 if you've got Surf City parking privileges, 00:00:53.850 --> 00:00:57.728 we invite you to park on Rolling Avenue because you don't get charged. 00:00:57.728 --> 00:00:58.718 But everybody without, 00:00:58.728 --> 00:00:59.960 we need them to park in the park, 00:00:59.960 --> 00:01:01.610 so don't take those spaces. 00:01:00.992 --> 00:01:03.416 Alrighty, just letting y'all know ahead of time, 00:01:03.416 --> 00:01:06.168 parking is going to be fun for the next, 00:01:06.168 --> 00:01:07.664 oh, about 20 weeks. 00:01:07.752 --> 00:01:09.072 Just letting you know. 00:01:09.192 --> 00:01:10.624 Alrighty. Romans, 00:01:10.672 --> 00:01:11.360 chapter two, 00:01:11.400 --> 00:01:12.976 verses 14 to 16. 00:01:13.048 --> 00:01:15.104 We're only doing three verses a day. 00:01:14.792 --> 00:01:18.696 Gives us an opportunity to sort of recap a little and to understand what 00:01:18.696 --> 00:01:23.096 it is that God has set before us with regard to Gentiles and judgment and 00:01:23.096 --> 00:01:24.746 kind of what we know. 00:01:25.080 --> 00:01:25.880 If you're here, 00:01:25.880 --> 00:01:26.856 I'm hoping you know it. 00:01:26.856 --> 00:01:27.848 If you don't know it, 00:01:27.848 --> 00:01:29.720 you will by the time we get done. 00:01:29.720 --> 00:01:30.888 So here we go, 00:01:30.888 --> 00:01:31.664 verse 14. 00:01:31.752 --> 00:01:36.216 For when Gentiles who do not have the law do instinctively the things of 00:01:36.216 --> 00:01:36.940 the law, 00:01:37.560 --> 00:01:41.960 these not having the law are a law to themselves in that they show the 00:01:41.960 --> 00:01:44.880 work of the law written on their hearts or in their hearts, 00:01:44.880 --> 00:01:45.600 their conscience, 00:01:45.680 --> 00:01:53.684 bearing witness their thoughts and their thoughts alternately accusing or 00:01:53.772 --> 00:01:56.500 else defending them on the day when, 00:01:56.620 --> 00:01:57.972 according to my gospel, 00:01:58.036 --> 00:02:02.100 God will judge the secrets of men through Christ Jesus. 00:02:02.180 --> 00:02:08.116 Alright, let's pray and just ask God to sort of let us know what he wants 00:02:08.148 --> 00:02:09.564 us to see and hear this morning. 00:02:09.564 --> 00:02:12.612 God, we praise you for your word and the opportunity, 00:02:12.612 --> 00:02:14.060 God, we have to study it. 00:02:14.060 --> 00:02:18.866 God, I'm always grateful that you inspired Paul particularly to write 00:02:18.898 --> 00:02:23.202 these words that we might gain an understanding and a better glimpse of 00:02:23.226 --> 00:02:23.978 who you are. 00:02:23.978 --> 00:02:26.434 That we might know God, 00:02:26.482 --> 00:02:28.650 what the surrender means and calls for. 00:02:28.650 --> 00:02:29.710 When you say, 00:02:30.090 --> 00:02:31.850 God, that we bow before you, 00:02:31.850 --> 00:02:33.362 God help us to hear your word, 00:02:33.362 --> 00:02:35.858 your voice this morning that we might understand God, 00:02:35.858 --> 00:02:37.866 what you long to see in us. 00:02:37.690 --> 00:02:39.306 And we pray it in Jesus name. 00:02:39.306 --> 00:02:41.670 Amen. All righty. 00:02:42.090 --> 00:02:44.230 To have eternal, 00:02:44.850 --> 00:02:47.482 everlasting, abundant life. 00:02:47.586 --> 00:02:47.994 Right? 00:02:48.082 --> 00:02:49.362 That's what we want. 00:02:49.362 --> 00:02:51.010 We'd love to have that. 00:02:51.010 --> 00:02:52.514 And as first John says, 00:02:52.514 --> 00:02:54.506 to know that we have that, 00:02:54.578 --> 00:02:59.498 to have that must have something required, 00:02:59.594 --> 00:03:01.914 right? Here's what we know. 00:03:02.082 --> 00:03:05.802 We want that everlasting, 00:03:05.866 --> 00:03:06.950 abundant life. 00:03:07.330 --> 00:03:08.980 How do we get it? 00:03:10.140 --> 00:03:13.204 Righteousness. God's righteousness. 00:03:13.332 --> 00:03:15.060 And not your righteousness. 00:03:15.220 --> 00:03:16.820 Not my righteousness. 00:03:16.980 --> 00:03:18.280 God's righteousness. 00:03:20.220 --> 00:03:22.300 I'm really going to offend everybody this morning. 00:03:22.300 --> 00:03:23.372 I just want you to know, 00:03:23.372 --> 00:03:24.924 so I'm giving you ahead of time. 00:03:24.924 --> 00:03:30.440 If we want and need the peace with God, 00:03:31.180 --> 00:03:34.852 the promise and hope of eternal life and salvation, 00:03:34.916 --> 00:03:35.576 guess what? 00:03:35.612 --> 00:03:39.156 We want and need the righteousness of God. 00:03:39.348 --> 00:03:43.476 Only God can accomplish his righteousness. 00:03:43.588 --> 00:03:45.156 To have eternal life, 00:03:45.228 --> 00:03:45.908 abundant life, 00:03:45.964 --> 00:03:46.788 everlasting life. 00:03:46.844 --> 00:03:48.284 All the words that we use for it, 00:03:48.284 --> 00:03:49.348 to have peace with God, 00:03:49.348 --> 00:03:51.996 which we're going to get to over in chapter six. 00:03:51.996 --> 00:03:55.236 This idea of being at peace with our Creator, 00:03:55.348 --> 00:03:56.052 you see, 00:03:56.156 --> 00:03:57.684 requires righteousness. 00:03:57.732 --> 00:04:02.760 And we can't accomplish righteousness according to God's standard. 00:04:03.270 --> 00:04:04.730 You can't do it. 00:04:05.110 --> 00:04:05.718 All right? 00:04:05.718 --> 00:04:09.678 So only God can accomplish his righteousness. 00:04:09.774 --> 00:04:16.670 Only God can give in part theologically impute his righteousness to 00:04:16.710 --> 00:04:17.950 anybody else. 00:04:18.110 --> 00:04:18.926 All right? 00:04:19.078 --> 00:04:20.494 He did that, 00:04:20.582 --> 00:04:25.134 does that by means of the good news story, 00:04:25.222 --> 00:04:26.290 the gospel. 00:04:26.630 --> 00:04:27.190 You know, 00:04:27.190 --> 00:04:27.982 Paul says, 00:04:28.086 --> 00:04:32.516 I am not ashamed of the Gospel because it's the power of God unto 00:04:32.516 --> 00:04:34.756 salvation to everyone who believes. 00:04:34.788 --> 00:04:36.756 To the Jew first to the Greek. 00:04:36.756 --> 00:04:38.236 Right? So we know that. 00:04:38.060 --> 00:04:39.276 We covered that in chapter one. 00:04:39.276 --> 00:04:40.116 This is recap. 00:04:40.116 --> 00:04:40.988 Just so y'all know. 00:04:40.988 --> 00:04:41.356 I mean, 00:04:41.356 --> 00:04:42.676 somebody's sitting here going, 00:04:42.812 --> 00:04:43.836 you already preached that. 00:04:43.836 --> 00:04:44.316 Yeah, I did, 00:04:44.316 --> 00:04:45.306 but we're recapping. 00:04:45.108 --> 00:04:46.412 You just got to go with me, 00:04:46.412 --> 00:04:47.252 all right? 00:04:47.436 --> 00:04:50.588 He did that and does that by means of the good news story. 00:04:50.588 --> 00:04:51.564 And he says in it, 00:04:51.564 --> 00:04:52.692 in the gospel, 00:04:52.836 --> 00:04:56.212 the righteousness of God is revealed from faith to faith, 00:04:56.356 --> 00:04:57.492 just as it is written. 00:04:57.492 --> 00:04:59.692 The just will live by faith. 00:04:59.756 --> 00:05:00.980 Alright, we've been there, 00:05:00.980 --> 00:05:02.300 we've been over this. 00:05:02.180 --> 00:05:05.460 So let me just go ahead and tell you what that means. 00:05:05.460 --> 00:05:11.760 There is no plan or scheme or deal that we can make with God. 00:05:12.340 --> 00:05:14.932 Okay, now what do I mean by that? 00:05:14.932 --> 00:05:17.220 I talk to people about the gospel sometime and I say, 00:05:17.220 --> 00:05:17.892 you know what? 00:05:17.892 --> 00:05:20.202 Jesus is the only way to God. 00:05:20.220 --> 00:05:22.284 Jesus is the only way to heaven. 00:05:22.284 --> 00:05:23.540 And I've had people say, 00:05:23.540 --> 00:05:26.000 well, God and I have an agreement. 00:05:27.250 --> 00:05:28.390 And I go, 00:05:29.250 --> 00:05:30.510 no, you don't. 00:05:32.770 --> 00:05:34.950 God and I got a thing. 00:05:36.690 --> 00:05:38.990 No, you don't. 00:05:39.650 --> 00:05:41.350 God has a thing. 00:05:42.210 --> 00:05:46.710 And God has given us sort of the parameters of the thing, 00:05:47.330 --> 00:05:49.898 what it is he desires, 00:05:49.994 --> 00:05:56.790 what it is that he has provided for the plan of salvation he has put in 00:05:56.830 --> 00:05:58.758 place. That's God's thing. 00:05:58.894 --> 00:05:59.990 Not my thing. 00:06:00.110 --> 00:06:00.990 Not your thing. 00:06:00.990 --> 00:06:01.518 All right, 00:06:01.518 --> 00:06:05.726 now you know exactly how it is I'm going to offend everybody in the room 00:06:05.726 --> 00:06:06.390 this morning. 00:06:06.510 --> 00:06:08.160 Okay? Just so you know, 00:06:08.990 --> 00:06:10.918 God is righteous, 00:06:11.094 --> 00:06:13.126 God is judged. 00:06:13.318 --> 00:06:14.902 Everyone will be judged. 00:06:14.966 --> 00:06:17.846 Today. The title of the message is simply Gentiles in Judgment. 00:06:17.846 --> 00:06:18.574 Why did it. 00:06:18.574 --> 00:06:21.520 Because next week is going to be Jews in Judgment. 00:06:20.878 --> 00:06:22.960 Okay? Everybody gets judged. 00:06:23.040 --> 00:06:24.760 I preached judgment three Sundays ago. 00:06:24.760 --> 00:06:26.200 I preached judgment two Sundays ago. 00:06:26.200 --> 00:06:27.816 I preached judgment last Sunday. 00:06:27.608 --> 00:06:28.536 I warned you last week. 00:06:28.536 --> 00:06:30.184 I was preaching judgment again this Sunday. 00:06:30.184 --> 00:06:31.860 And you came back anyway. 00:06:32.280 --> 00:06:34.900 Okay, you had the option, 00:06:35.560 --> 00:06:36.760 just so you know. 00:06:36.760 --> 00:06:40.600 Now, those of you who are here first time because friends invited you, 00:06:40.600 --> 00:06:41.712 maybe not, 00:06:41.896 --> 00:06:43.546 but I'm glad you're here. 00:06:43.336 --> 00:06:46.540 Okay, see, 00:06:48.140 --> 00:06:49.148 here's what it says. 00:06:49.148 --> 00:06:51.756 And we'll go through this because I want to break some of these things 00:06:51.756 --> 00:06:56.960 down when we see the phrase for when gentiles who do not have the law, 00:06:57.260 --> 00:06:58.404 right? So gentiles. 00:06:58.452 --> 00:07:02.156 I remember we saw where it says to the Jew first and also to the Greek in 00:07:02.156 --> 00:07:04.320 the translation I'm using this year. 00:07:04.700 --> 00:07:09.960 That word Greek in the Greek text doesn't say Greek, 00:07:11.100 --> 00:07:12.840 doesn't say Gentile. 00:07:13.290 --> 00:07:15.602 See, we read an English translation. 00:07:15.666 --> 00:07:16.466 Go, oh, 00:07:16.578 --> 00:07:19.030 no, it says Hellenists. 00:07:19.450 --> 00:07:20.242 That's the word. 00:07:20.242 --> 00:07:24.434 It's used in the Greek for the Jews and the Hellenists. 00:07:24.562 --> 00:07:26.212 So what does it say? 00:07:26.058 --> 00:07:28.882 Basically, all it means is for the Jews and the non Jews. 00:07:28.882 --> 00:07:33.270 So it's referring to everybody's Jewish gonna be judged. 00:07:33.610 --> 00:07:36.950 Everybody not Jewish is gonna be judged. 00:07:37.450 --> 00:07:38.730 Here's what we have to know. 00:07:38.730 --> 00:07:39.980 That includes everybody, 00:07:40.170 --> 00:07:40.664 okay? 00:07:40.712 --> 00:07:42.064 So you don't have to break that down. 00:07:42.064 --> 00:07:43.232 Try to understand what that means. 00:07:43.232 --> 00:07:45.632 Because Paul's going to do that as we make our way, 00:07:45.632 --> 00:07:47.980 right? Because when he says the Jews, 00:07:48.560 --> 00:07:52.952 right, he's talking about those who receive the message or the word of 00:07:52.976 --> 00:07:54.408 God, the oracles of God. 00:07:54.408 --> 00:07:56.256 We haven't gotten to that statement yet, 00:07:56.256 --> 00:08:01.576 but the Jewish people had this revelation of God through the law, 00:08:01.728 --> 00:08:02.632 through Abraham, 00:08:02.696 --> 00:08:03.512 through the covenant, 00:08:03.512 --> 00:08:05.134 through the sacrificial system. 00:08:05.272 --> 00:08:05.946 And guess what? 00:08:05.946 --> 00:08:06.658 They're going to be judged. 00:08:06.658 --> 00:08:08.146 And we're going to read about that in a minute. 00:08:08.146 --> 00:08:10.906 Because what we looked at was the fact that if they got the law and they 00:08:10.906 --> 00:08:12.874 disobey the law and everybody disobeys the law, 00:08:12.874 --> 00:08:14.434 they're going to be judged. 00:08:14.434 --> 00:08:15.754 Well, there you go. 00:08:17.610 --> 00:08:19.270 I'm talking too fast. 00:08:20.170 --> 00:08:22.002 I'm going to run out of oxygen. 00:08:22.002 --> 00:08:24.458 Which means you guys are all going to Pass away. 00:08:24.458 --> 00:08:25.448 I'm just kidding. 00:08:26.410 --> 00:08:28.720 I'll take it all up right here. 00:08:28.890 --> 00:08:29.970 God is righteous. 00:08:30.050 --> 00:08:31.040 God is judge. 00:08:31.090 --> 00:08:35.880 All will be judged as we've made our way from chapter one now into 00:08:35.920 --> 00:08:36.400 chapter two. 00:08:36.400 --> 00:08:36.736 Guess what? 00:08:36.736 --> 00:08:38.088 The ungodly, 00:08:38.264 --> 00:08:39.544 the ungodly. 00:08:39.672 --> 00:08:41.912 Those in verse 1:28 says, 00:08:42.016 --> 00:08:43.256 those who refused, 00:08:43.368 --> 00:08:46.264 they refused to acknowledge God. 00:08:46.392 --> 00:08:49.672 They refused to recognize God as God, 00:08:49.816 --> 00:08:53.784 assumed the sin of the garden and made themselves God. 00:08:53.912 --> 00:08:54.824 You see, 00:08:54.992 --> 00:08:57.160 that's what happens amongst the ungodly. 00:08:57.240 --> 00:08:59.096 That's what happens with people. 00:08:59.248 --> 00:09:02.282 We assume that we can be our own God, 00:09:02.346 --> 00:09:06.966 negotiate our own deal and have some sort of plan or scheme with God. 00:09:07.170 --> 00:09:09.354 No, God is God. 00:09:09.482 --> 00:09:10.762 God is judge. 00:09:10.906 --> 00:09:12.330 Everybody will be judged. 00:09:12.410 --> 00:09:13.322 The Gentiles, 00:09:13.386 --> 00:09:14.410 Greeks, Hellenists, 00:09:14.490 --> 00:09:15.650 they will be judged too. 00:09:15.650 --> 00:09:17.300 The Jews will be judged. 00:09:17.290 --> 00:09:18.810 Christians are going to be judged. 00:09:18.810 --> 00:09:19.490 Here you go, 00:09:19.490 --> 00:09:23.070 though. There's going to be a standard of judgment. 00:09:23.730 --> 00:09:25.630 How will God judge? 00:09:25.980 --> 00:09:26.532 Right? 00:09:26.636 --> 00:09:30.980 That's what Romans happily breaks down for us. 00:09:31.100 --> 00:09:40.052 Okay, Romans shows us how God has provided right in judgment for those to 00:09:40.076 --> 00:09:41.124 be judged. 00:09:41.252 --> 00:09:42.172 And I'm going to read it. 00:09:42.172 --> 00:09:42.484 You ready? 00:09:42.484 --> 00:09:43.474 Here we go. 00:09:43.516 --> 00:09:43.980 All right, 00:09:43.980 --> 00:09:44.874 so verses 14, 00:09:44.946 --> 00:09:48.068 15, 16 is a sentence in English, 00:09:48.244 --> 00:09:49.160 in Greek. 00:09:49.900 --> 00:09:51.560 They don't punctuate in Greek. 00:09:52.150 --> 00:09:55.846 So you got to look at the context for when Gentiles who do not have the 00:09:55.846 --> 00:09:57.798 law do instinctively the things of the law. 00:09:57.798 --> 00:10:01.926 These not having the law are a law to themselves in that they show the 00:10:01.926 --> 00:10:03.710 work of the law written on their hearts, 00:10:03.710 --> 00:10:06.110 their conscience bearing witness, 00:10:06.190 --> 00:10:09.886 and their thoughts alternately accusing or else defending them. 00:10:09.958 --> 00:10:10.726 On the day when, 00:10:10.726 --> 00:10:12.046 according to my gospel, 00:10:12.078 --> 00:10:17.172 God will judge the secrets of men through Christ Jesus. 00:10:17.366 --> 00:10:18.500 There you go. 00:10:19.280 --> 00:10:20.740 Not a separate plan, 00:10:21.520 --> 00:10:25.440 not a separate scheme or a deal that we can make with God. 00:10:25.440 --> 00:10:26.776 Jesus is the deal, 00:10:26.848 --> 00:10:28.632 y'all. Okay? 00:10:28.776 --> 00:10:30.420 Jesus is the deal. 00:10:30.880 --> 00:10:34.440 Alright, so when we look at this thing, 00:10:34.480 --> 00:10:36.160 it says for Gentiles who do not have the law, 00:10:36.160 --> 00:10:38.840 do instinctively the things of the law. 00:10:38.960 --> 00:10:41.680 Now, what he's talking about right here is there are some people that 00:10:41.680 --> 00:10:42.540 don't murder. 00:10:42.950 --> 00:10:43.940 You know why? 00:10:44.054 --> 00:10:48.344 Because they know murder is wrong and that actually agrees with the law, 00:10:48.422 --> 00:10:51.662 right? So probably in this room now, 00:10:51.686 --> 00:10:53.862 it's a bigger crowd than 8:00 this morning. 00:10:53.718 --> 00:10:55.206 So I might not be truthful in this, 00:10:55.206 --> 00:10:57.126 but more than likely in this room, 00:10:57.126 --> 00:10:58.450 there's not a murderer. 00:10:59.350 --> 00:11:01.690 Congratulations. Right? 00:11:02.310 --> 00:11:05.046 So you didn't murder because you knew it was wrong to murder and that 00:11:05.046 --> 00:11:06.166 agrees with the law. 00:11:06.166 --> 00:11:06.774 So you think, 00:11:06.774 --> 00:11:09.250 oh, I've never murdered, 00:11:10.300 --> 00:11:10.900 right? 00:11:11.020 --> 00:11:16.564 I've never stolen even that piece of gum in the candy store when you were 00:11:16.572 --> 00:11:18.756 little. Just checking you, 00:11:18.908 --> 00:11:19.732 you Measure, 00:11:19.796 --> 00:11:23.040 Right. I've never done the Big Ten. 00:11:23.740 --> 00:11:26.000 Well, what about the other 613? 00:11:27.260 --> 00:11:27.620 Right? 00:11:27.660 --> 00:11:28.320 You see? 00:11:28.444 --> 00:11:33.840 So what he's saying is that just because we do the right thing, 00:11:34.140 --> 00:11:39.280 we suddenly issue this sort of directive that we're righteous. 00:11:40.420 --> 00:11:41.740 I'm a good person. 00:11:43.060 --> 00:11:43.620 All right? 00:11:43.620 --> 00:11:45.140 How you gonna get in heaven? 00:11:44.876 --> 00:11:46.260 Well, I'm a good person. 00:11:46.260 --> 00:11:50.268 I've heard that hundreds of times over 40 years of ministry. 00:11:50.364 --> 00:11:51.436 Who goes to heaven? 00:11:51.436 --> 00:11:53.086 Good people go to heaven. 00:11:53.380 --> 00:11:54.028 Really? 00:11:54.164 --> 00:11:58.454 I remember the Fire and brimstone Baptist preacher I knew as a child. 00:11:59.460 --> 00:12:01.770 Good people gonna bust hell wide open. 00:12:03.150 --> 00:12:04.726 Sorry if that was offensive, 00:12:04.726 --> 00:12:05.446 I apologize. 00:12:05.478 --> 00:12:07.130 But I was quoting. 00:12:07.470 --> 00:12:09.370 I was quoting somebody else, 00:12:09.950 --> 00:12:10.890 okay? 00:12:11.470 --> 00:12:16.902 God's authority is evident and unescapable, 00:12:17.046 --> 00:12:19.414 okay? That's the point of today's message. 00:12:19.462 --> 00:12:21.726 Now, I have a story to tell you. 00:12:21.726 --> 00:12:22.686 And I know it's warm in here. 00:12:22.686 --> 00:12:27.166 It's just because y'all are at 98.6 and the room was at 72 before you got 00:12:27.166 --> 00:12:27.496 here. 00:12:27.390 --> 00:12:28.710 Just so you know. 00:12:30.040 --> 00:12:30.704 Fourth grade. 00:12:30.752 --> 00:12:31.412 You ready? 00:12:31.504 --> 00:12:32.648 Some people like my story, 00:12:32.648 --> 00:12:33.632 some people don't. 00:12:33.632 --> 00:12:37.816 I just say them because I really need an anchor in applying God's word in 00:12:37.816 --> 00:12:38.528 my life. 00:12:38.664 --> 00:12:40.200 And so I want to show y'all this one, 00:12:40.200 --> 00:12:42.096 alright? Fourth grade, 00:12:42.128 --> 00:12:43.778 we had a class assignment. 00:12:43.824 --> 00:12:45.408 And back when I was in the fourth grade, 00:12:45.408 --> 00:12:46.398 we had this. 00:12:46.600 --> 00:12:50.352 The paper we wrote on had a grainy texture to. 00:12:50.376 --> 00:12:51.984 It wasn't like our. 00:12:52.072 --> 00:12:53.168 Wasn't like this. 00:12:53.304 --> 00:12:54.592 It was kind of grainy, 00:12:54.592 --> 00:12:55.000 you know, 00:12:55.000 --> 00:12:59.924 And. And it had a solid line and a dotted line and a solid line. 00:12:59.924 --> 00:13:02.180 How many of you remember that paper? 00:13:02.180 --> 00:13:03.170 You're old too. 00:13:03.060 --> 00:13:04.380 So here you go. 00:13:05.380 --> 00:13:06.580 I love saying that. 00:13:06.580 --> 00:13:11.692 Anyway, so I did my assignment on my grainy paper and I was done because 00:13:11.716 --> 00:13:12.376 I'm fast. 00:13:12.444 --> 00:13:13.434 I'm really fast. 00:13:13.484 --> 00:13:14.684 I did my assignment, 00:13:14.684 --> 00:13:16.664 wrote my name at the top. 00:13:15.620 --> 00:13:18.348 Bobby, put it on teacher's desk, 00:13:18.444 --> 00:13:18.964 sat down, 00:13:18.964 --> 00:13:20.614 read my Charlie Brown book. 00:13:20.990 --> 00:13:21.726 Because, I mean, 00:13:21.726 --> 00:13:22.526 it's free time. 00:13:22.526 --> 00:13:23.326 You get your work done, 00:13:23.326 --> 00:13:23.966 you got free time. 00:13:23.966 --> 00:13:25.710 Yay. So I do my free time, 00:13:25.710 --> 00:13:26.246 right? 00:13:26.398 --> 00:13:28.046 Teacher's sitting there and going through and checking off. 00:13:28.046 --> 00:13:29.238 Everybody's turning in their paperwork. 00:13:29.238 --> 00:13:29.974 And she goes, 00:13:29.974 --> 00:13:32.062 bobby, I don't have a paper from you. 00:13:32.062 --> 00:13:32.910 And I was like. 00:13:32.910 --> 00:13:34.560 I was the third one. 00:13:35.070 --> 00:13:37.380 I put my paper on your desk. 00:13:37.790 --> 00:13:39.170 I turned it in, 00:13:40.430 --> 00:13:41.570 it's there, 00:13:42.350 --> 00:13:45.010 right? So making my case, 00:13:45.310 --> 00:13:45.974 I said. 00:13:46.062 --> 00:13:46.446 She said, 00:13:46.446 --> 00:13:47.302 well, come up here. 00:13:47.302 --> 00:13:50.460 So I went up there and so we're looking through there and there's so and 00:13:50.460 --> 00:13:53.676 so's name and so and so's name and so and so's name and you flip one and 00:13:53.676 --> 00:13:58.628 there's a paper that I know is my paper, 00:13:58.804 --> 00:14:01.114 but my name's not at the top. 00:14:02.060 --> 00:14:05.030 There was a guy in my class named Buddy. 00:14:06.460 --> 00:14:09.040 Somehow, sleight of hand, 00:14:09.900 --> 00:14:11.880 some degree of evil and mischief. 00:14:13.030 --> 00:14:17.730 The middle three letters had been erased and changed to udd. 00:14:18.950 --> 00:14:20.214 And I was like, 00:14:20.214 --> 00:14:21.294 Ms. Harmon, 00:14:21.422 --> 00:14:22.930 that's my paper. 00:14:24.150 --> 00:14:25.254 If you look close, 00:14:25.254 --> 00:14:30.126 you can see where it was erased and changed. 00:14:30.318 --> 00:14:31.110 And sure enough, 00:14:31.110 --> 00:14:34.062 she's. You're right. 00:14:34.246 --> 00:14:36.090 Buddy, come up here. 00:14:36.710 --> 00:14:37.590 Well, guess what? 00:14:37.590 --> 00:14:38.580 At that point, 00:14:39.850 --> 00:14:41.670 I became the authority, 00:14:42.330 --> 00:14:43.538 the judge. 00:14:43.714 --> 00:14:46.550 And there was no way Buddy was escaping. 00:14:47.210 --> 00:14:51.266 I began to make the pronouncement not merely of judgment, 00:14:51.378 --> 00:14:52.950 but of the sentence. 00:14:53.850 --> 00:14:55.910 I wanted revenge. 00:14:56.330 --> 00:15:00.410 And there was not any measure of grace in my heart at that point. 00:15:00.410 --> 00:15:01.730 Just so you know, 00:15:01.802 --> 00:15:03.250 wasn't very gracious. 00:15:03.410 --> 00:15:04.722 You said to me, 00:15:04.722 --> 00:15:10.960 it's very easy for us to adopt a standard in our own minds of right and 00:15:11.000 --> 00:15:13.648 wrong, you see? 00:15:13.784 --> 00:15:15.240 And that's what he's saying right there. 00:15:15.240 --> 00:15:17.528 Those who instinctively do the things of the law. 00:15:17.528 --> 00:15:21.580 Because there is the element of right and wrong in our lives, 00:15:22.280 --> 00:15:22.992 you know, 00:15:23.096 --> 00:15:24.746 we think we're pretty good. 00:15:24.792 --> 00:15:26.180 Call that moralism. 00:15:26.600 --> 00:15:29.570 Of course I'm good enough to get into heaven, 00:15:30.130 --> 00:15:33.562 right? Moralism slides into kind of a. 00:15:33.746 --> 00:15:37.376 What will be referred to as we keep going into legalism. 00:15:38.610 --> 00:15:42.900 I've got the list of the rules that can get you into heaven. 00:15:43.410 --> 00:15:43.970 All right, 00:15:43.970 --> 00:15:45.186 here comes the offense. 00:15:44.986 --> 00:15:45.626 You ready? 00:15:45.626 --> 00:15:48.266 I don't care what name tag you wear, 00:15:48.610 --> 00:15:50.710 God's list of rules don't change. 00:15:51.170 --> 00:15:56.764 Use whatever cultural system of rules you want to serve. 00:15:56.882 --> 00:16:00.420 Well, it's right because it's love. 00:16:01.520 --> 00:16:04.820 See, I told you I was going to offend somebody. 00:16:04.480 --> 00:16:08.660 Politics. It's right because it's on the right. 00:16:09.840 --> 00:16:11.820 Yeah, that's not the right either. 00:16:12.960 --> 00:16:16.380 It's right because nobody gets hurt. 00:16:17.280 --> 00:16:19.020 That's not the right either. 00:16:19.520 --> 00:16:22.392 Right. See what gets us into heaven? 00:16:22.456 --> 00:16:23.800 Righteousness. Whose righteousness? 00:16:23.880 --> 00:16:24.744 God's righteousness. 00:16:24.792 --> 00:16:25.782 Not our righteousness, 00:16:25.864 --> 00:16:27.272 not our list of rules. 00:16:27.272 --> 00:16:29.896 Because moralism slides into legalism. 00:16:30.088 --> 00:16:32.648 Legalism means I got the right list of rules. 00:16:32.648 --> 00:16:35.618 That's when we finally get the Jews getting judged. 00:16:35.736 --> 00:16:37.184 That's when that comes up. 00:16:36.896 --> 00:16:38.584 Because they have the law, 00:16:38.672 --> 00:16:39.700 had the law, 00:16:41.200 --> 00:16:43.448 right. And since they don't. 00:16:43.624 --> 00:16:45.934 See, I'm getting way ahead of myself. 00:16:47.600 --> 00:16:49.744 Gentiles who are without the law do right things. 00:16:49.744 --> 00:16:51.456 They become a law to themselves. 00:16:51.256 --> 00:16:53.480 Think they can earn their way in. 00:16:53.480 --> 00:16:55.696 See, in Romans 1, 00:16:55.768 --> 00:16:57.360 we talked about the unbelievers, 00:16:57.360 --> 00:17:00.580 those who refuse to acknowledge God, 00:17:01.080 --> 00:17:04.256 meaning those who refuse to acknowledge God as God, 00:17:04.368 --> 00:17:05.392 that God is God, 00:17:05.392 --> 00:17:06.712 and I am not. 00:17:06.712 --> 00:17:09.056 Okay? Then you got the moralists thinking, 00:17:09.088 --> 00:17:09.416 oh, well, 00:17:09.416 --> 00:17:11.726 I'm good enough to get into heaven, 00:17:11.792 --> 00:17:15.120 right? Then you got the legalists who say, 00:17:15.240 --> 00:17:18.210 I'm good enough because I've got the right list, 00:17:18.450 --> 00:17:19.190 right? 00:17:19.810 --> 00:17:21.074 I've got the list. 00:17:21.074 --> 00:17:24.044 See, I would pick on denominations at this point, 00:17:24.050 --> 00:17:25.010 but sure enough, 00:17:25.010 --> 00:17:25.674 somebody throw. 00:17:25.722 --> 00:17:26.922 No, you wouldn't throw anything. 00:17:26.922 --> 00:17:29.706 But so I did this this morning at 8:00. 00:17:29.738 --> 00:17:31.674 So I'm going to do it now. 00:17:31.250 --> 00:17:32.194 I've told you before, 00:17:32.194 --> 00:17:33.844 man, I grew up Baptist. 00:17:34.610 --> 00:17:35.930 We got a list, 00:17:36.770 --> 00:17:38.750 right? I remember at 8 years old, 00:17:38.754 --> 00:17:39.106 you know, 00:17:39.106 --> 00:17:39.910 I asked, 00:17:40.290 --> 00:17:41.898 how do I get baptized? 00:17:41.898 --> 00:17:43.562 I wasn't asking about how to get saved. 00:17:43.562 --> 00:17:44.058 I was asking, 00:17:44.058 --> 00:17:45.640 how did I get baptized, 00:17:45.640 --> 00:17:46.380 right? 00:17:47.160 --> 00:17:49.470 Well, you got to pray the prayer, 00:17:49.640 --> 00:17:51.620 okay? So here's what I did. 00:17:51.672 --> 00:17:52.896 Prayed the prayer, 00:17:53.088 --> 00:17:55.392 right? I walked the aisle. 00:17:55.536 --> 00:18:00.700 Now, nothing intrinsically bad about any of what I'm telling you, 00:18:01.560 --> 00:18:04.096 but if praying the prayer, 00:18:04.208 --> 00:18:05.198 say the words, 00:18:05.232 --> 00:18:06.420 walk the aisle, 00:18:07.160 --> 00:18:10.016 do the water right, 00:18:10.168 --> 00:18:10.688 and God, 00:18:10.688 --> 00:18:12.008 do the water right, 00:18:13.740 --> 00:18:15.560 See, okay, 00:18:16.140 --> 00:18:19.520 if that's what you've put your faith in, 00:18:22.780 --> 00:18:23.880 something wrong, 00:18:25.180 --> 00:18:26.228 it's a list, 00:18:26.364 --> 00:18:27.040 right? 00:18:27.340 --> 00:18:30.844 So we're going to get over into the circumcision of the heart. 00:18:30.844 --> 00:18:33.814 I know y'all are looking forward to that Sunday, 00:18:35.340 --> 00:18:39.396 but God said in Jeremiah there will be a new covenant that I will write 00:18:39.396 --> 00:18:41.500 on their hearts. 00:18:42.160 --> 00:18:43.192 See there, 00:18:43.376 --> 00:18:44.176 I'm telling you, 00:18:44.176 --> 00:18:45.060 it's here. 00:18:46.000 --> 00:18:47.816 Paul is making the case, 00:18:47.888 --> 00:18:50.100 folks. All right? 00:18:50.640 --> 00:18:56.376 Paul is letting us know to accomplish the righteousness of God. 00:18:56.568 --> 00:18:58.264 God's in charge of that, 00:18:58.432 --> 00:18:59.092 not me, 00:18:59.104 --> 00:18:59.664 not you, 00:18:59.664 --> 00:19:00.324 not us, 00:19:00.416 --> 00:19:01.144 not Baptists, 00:19:01.192 --> 00:19:01.944 not Catholics, 00:19:01.992 --> 00:19:02.652 not anything. 00:19:02.696 --> 00:19:06.572 Because any list of rules in legalism you have now, 00:19:06.596 --> 00:19:08.092 here's where I'm offending everybody. 00:19:08.092 --> 00:19:08.752 You ready? 00:19:08.844 --> 00:19:11.036 Any list of rules that you have for legalism, 00:19:11.036 --> 00:19:12.686 you got to do it. 00:19:11.796 --> 00:19:18.428 Exactly. Except every list of rules of legalism has an out as long as I 00:19:18.564 --> 00:19:19.554 say those words. 00:19:19.644 --> 00:19:21.388 It's a different set of words from the first words. 00:19:21.388 --> 00:19:25.460 But as long as I say those words or as long as I sit in that box, 00:19:25.460 --> 00:19:28.430 as long as I go talk to those elders, 00:19:28.500 --> 00:19:32.950 okay, God the judge. 00:19:33.370 --> 00:19:35.202 God is the authority. 00:19:35.266 --> 00:19:38.470 His authority is evident and it's inescapable. 00:19:38.970 --> 00:19:42.490 Gentiles who are without the law think they can be good enough. 00:19:42.490 --> 00:19:43.810 Legalists make a list, 00:19:43.834 --> 00:19:45.290 Think they can be good enough. 00:19:45.290 --> 00:19:48.650 Jews have a list that was given to them and think they can be good 00:19:48.650 --> 00:19:52.210 enough. What God is saying, 00:19:52.250 --> 00:19:55.546 and I said this last week and said it the week before a little bit, 00:19:55.546 --> 00:19:57.470 is that God's looking here, 00:19:59.940 --> 00:20:03.720 you surrendered yourself to who he is. 00:20:04.980 --> 00:20:07.920 See, I know everybody. 00:20:08.900 --> 00:20:10.820 A lot of serious faces in the room. 00:20:10.820 --> 00:20:12.140 Y'all are scaring me. 00:20:13.220 --> 00:20:15.200 Might be because I'm scaring you. 00:20:16.260 --> 00:20:17.580 See what I mean? 00:20:17.860 --> 00:20:19.492 What is it God's looking for? 00:20:19.492 --> 00:20:21.124 Here's the cool thing about this. 00:20:21.124 --> 00:20:22.964 If you want to know what God's looking for, 00:20:22.964 --> 00:20:25.530 jump over to chapter four and start reading. 00:20:25.530 --> 00:20:28.186 I can't jump there because I'm going to take care of everything in 00:20:28.186 --> 00:20:29.506 between here and there. 00:20:29.562 --> 00:20:30.586 But in chapter four, 00:20:30.586 --> 00:20:32.390 we start talking about justification. 00:20:33.050 --> 00:20:38.802 We're talking about not just accomplishing a list or a. 00:20:38.986 --> 00:20:44.226 We're talking about God imputing to us a righteousness that we don't 00:20:44.258 --> 00:20:46.550 deserve and can't earn. 00:20:48.490 --> 00:20:51.200 There's no work you can do to earn it. 00:20:51.200 --> 00:20:52.984 Okay? Now, 00:20:53.072 --> 00:20:54.860 I always offer the caveat. 00:20:58.960 --> 00:21:01.930 You can't claim Jesus and act like the devil, 00:21:02.640 --> 00:21:08.456 okay? The way you act is testimony to whether or not you actually claim 00:21:08.528 --> 00:21:11.260 Jesus. Okay? 00:21:11.920 --> 00:21:15.168 So God is talking about a law of the heart, 00:21:15.168 --> 00:21:19.452 but not the law that derives from doing things instinctively. 00:21:19.516 --> 00:21:22.720 And he mentions their conscience bearing witness, 00:21:23.620 --> 00:21:24.124 right? 00:21:24.212 --> 00:21:27.572 There's something innate in us that tells us what right and wrong is. 00:21:27.572 --> 00:21:30.876 Okay? Now here's the funny thing. 00:21:30.948 --> 00:21:32.020 Culture can change that. 00:21:32.020 --> 00:21:33.340 Did y'all know that? 00:21:33.780 --> 00:21:37.740 Do you know culture can change your ideas of right and wrong? 00:21:37.860 --> 00:21:40.500 I mentioned this earlier because I was listening to. 00:21:40.500 --> 00:21:41.796 I always at the end of the week, 00:21:41.796 --> 00:21:45.012 I listen to some preachers who are preaching the same text just to kind 00:21:45.012 --> 00:21:46.548 of see where they went with it. 00:21:46.548 --> 00:21:47.220 Right? 00:21:50.640 --> 00:21:52.224 Here's what's funny about it. 00:21:52.224 --> 00:21:54.376 Jeff is listening to the same guy. 00:21:54.376 --> 00:21:56.320 I didn't know that until this morning. 00:21:56.320 --> 00:21:59.592 It's a guy that does a very good exegesis of scripture. 00:21:59.592 --> 00:22:01.168 And he mentioned Peace Child, 00:22:01.168 --> 00:22:02.424 Don Richardson. 00:22:02.552 --> 00:22:03.664 And I knew some of. 00:22:03.664 --> 00:22:06.440 I went to school with some of Don Richardson's kids, 00:22:06.440 --> 00:22:07.512 friends and stuff. 00:22:07.656 --> 00:22:09.320 Anyway, talks about Peace Child. 00:22:09.360 --> 00:22:09.632 You know, 00:22:09.632 --> 00:22:17.394 there is a tribal culture in Irian Jawa that believes the more sneaky, 00:22:17.442 --> 00:22:20.034 corrupt and conniving you can be, 00:22:20.202 --> 00:22:21.550 the better you are. 00:22:22.730 --> 00:22:28.290 Culture can change what you believe to be right and wrong if you 00:22:28.330 --> 00:22:30.470 surrender yourself to the culture. 00:22:31.530 --> 00:22:33.430 Okay, be careful. 00:22:34.250 --> 00:22:36.962 God is the one who establishes righteousness. 00:22:37.106 --> 00:22:41.736 God does plant an eternality in our heart of knowing that difference 00:22:41.768 --> 00:22:43.088 between right and wrong. 00:22:43.128 --> 00:22:47.640 And yet God reveals himself to his creation as creative and powerful, 00:22:47.720 --> 00:22:55.100 omnipotent. And God requires a response to his revelation. 00:22:57.760 --> 00:22:58.560 We're going to get. 00:22:58.560 --> 00:22:59.608 In the next few verses, 00:22:59.608 --> 00:23:01.392 we're going to get to the place where it says, 00:23:01.392 --> 00:23:03.704 well, what good is it to being a Jew? 00:23:03.704 --> 00:23:04.336 Paul says, 00:23:04.336 --> 00:23:05.380 oh, it's great, 00:23:06.970 --> 00:23:09.610 because at least God gave them their List. 00:23:11.290 --> 00:23:12.030 Right. 00:23:14.330 --> 00:23:16.914 See, I like today's passage. 00:23:16.962 --> 00:23:18.226 It's only three verses. 00:23:18.226 --> 00:23:19.218 So see, 00:23:19.274 --> 00:23:21.050 right now I can get done early, 00:23:21.050 --> 00:23:23.030 but you ain't getting out yet. 00:23:25.450 --> 00:23:26.586 Because to wrap this up, 00:23:26.586 --> 00:23:30.216 here's what I want you to take home with you today. 00:23:30.570 --> 00:23:32.990 God is God and we are not. 00:23:33.770 --> 00:23:39.234 The deception of the garden was Satan himself in the form of a split 00:23:39.282 --> 00:23:40.130 tongue snake, 00:23:40.210 --> 00:23:43.190 said, you can be your own God. 00:23:43.930 --> 00:23:49.490 So anytime we would assume that kind of position of righteousness, 00:23:49.650 --> 00:23:51.670 we set ourselves up as God. 00:23:52.890 --> 00:23:54.070 God's God. 00:23:55.370 --> 00:23:56.850 God's authority is evident. 00:23:56.930 --> 00:23:58.524 God's authority is inescapable. 00:23:58.602 --> 00:24:00.152 Inescapable, unescapable, 00:24:00.216 --> 00:24:02.060 whatever. Okay? 00:24:02.640 --> 00:24:04.072 It all starts with Jesus, 00:24:04.072 --> 00:24:04.700 folks. 00:24:06.560 --> 00:24:08.816 If you don't know Jesus this morning, 00:24:08.816 --> 00:24:12.376 that is your single greatest need right this moment. 00:24:12.488 --> 00:24:14.632 Okay? If you don't know Jesus, 00:24:14.776 --> 00:24:15.980 you need Jesus. 00:24:16.960 --> 00:24:18.496 I'd love to introduce you to him, 00:24:18.496 --> 00:24:20.476 but there's too many of you. 00:24:20.640 --> 00:24:23.584 Somebody in this room can introduce you to Jesus. 00:24:23.192 --> 00:24:24.180 Ask him. 00:24:24.890 --> 00:24:26.178 Show me Jesus. 00:24:26.354 --> 00:24:27.750 Teach me Jesus. 00:24:28.170 --> 00:24:29.490 Help me know Jesus. 00:24:29.538 --> 00:24:34.030 Okay, maybe you're a Christian and maybe you've got some, 00:24:35.130 --> 00:24:36.482 what was my list? 00:24:36.666 --> 00:24:38.722 Some of the ungodliness, 00:24:38.786 --> 00:24:43.202 some of the moral legalism, 00:24:43.346 --> 00:24:49.282 and maybe you got some religiosity or some churchianity or some of all 00:24:49.306 --> 00:24:50.596 that stuff that, 00:24:50.738 --> 00:24:55.620 that corrupts the simplicity of the gospel. 00:24:56.600 --> 00:25:02.640 Okay? God is the only one that can provide God's righteousness to 00:25:02.680 --> 00:25:04.112 unrighteous people. 00:25:04.296 --> 00:25:07.400 And he tells us he did it through the good news story, 00:25:07.400 --> 00:25:08.580 through Jesus, 00:25:09.320 --> 00:25:11.060 we are called to bow, 00:25:11.560 --> 00:25:14.192 surrender and worship him. 00:25:14.376 --> 00:25:16.192 Okay, we're going to sing a song, 00:25:16.192 --> 00:25:19.162 gives you an opportunity to respond to God somehow. 00:25:19.166 --> 00:25:19.718 You can. 00:25:19.718 --> 00:25:20.782 If you don't know Jesus, 00:25:20.782 --> 00:25:23.446 you can just surrender yourself to Jesus right where you are. 00:25:23.446 --> 00:25:25.206 If you want to talk to somebody about it, 00:25:25.206 --> 00:25:27.062 grab somebody and talk to them, 00:25:27.062 --> 00:25:29.030 alright? Make sure they know what they're talking about. 00:25:29.030 --> 00:25:29.810 But anyway, 00:25:31.350 --> 00:25:34.654 I'll be standing down front if you want to pray about something. 00:25:34.310 --> 00:25:37.454 We've got some prayer concerns and some requests that have been issued. 00:25:37.454 --> 00:25:39.764 Had one texted a few minutes ago. 00:25:42.150 --> 00:25:46.110 You just do what God's telling you to do in this moment, 00:25:46.240 --> 00:25:48.184 alright? Pray with me. 00:25:48.272 --> 00:25:51.112 God. I want to thank you for today and God, 00:25:51.112 --> 00:25:55.140 that you have accomplished great things. 00:25:55.600 --> 00:25:59.496 God, your word teaches us and we need to study it. 00:25:59.648 --> 00:26:01.958 We need to study it a lot. 00:26:02.400 --> 00:26:07.800 We need to understand that Paul is laying out an argument, 00:26:07.880 --> 00:26:16.950 making a case for our justification and resultingly our sanctification. 00:26:18.650 --> 00:26:21.270 That is this salvation, 00:26:22.810 --> 00:26:23.906 redemption, God, 00:26:23.938 --> 00:26:28.578 that you have provided through the shed blood of Jesus Christ and God. 00:26:28.674 --> 00:26:33.210 You've poured it out and reached out and called us And God help us to 00:26:33.210 --> 00:26:35.426 respond to you. 00:26:35.578 --> 00:26:38.276 God, I thank you for every person in the room. 00:26:38.002 --> 00:26:43.084 We all walk in wearing different kinds of identities and tags and things. 00:26:43.252 --> 00:26:43.780 And yet, 00:26:43.780 --> 00:26:47.040 God, we just simply need to be team Jesus. 00:26:48.260 --> 00:26:49.596 We need to bow, 00:26:49.788 --> 00:26:51.468 surrender. So God, 00:26:51.484 --> 00:26:53.348 I pray that you'd speak to Hearts this morning. 00:26:53.348 --> 00:26:59.868 Let them know God your love for them and God that you have made a place 00:26:59.924 --> 00:27:03.224 and a way for them to be on team Jesus. 00:27:03.132 --> 00:27:04.644 And we pray it in Jesus name, 00:27:04.644 --> 00:27:04.860 Amen.