1 00:00:06,666 --> 00:00:09,666 That is certainly the good news of the gospel, 2 00:00:10,033 --> 00:00:14,566 that we have been rescued from the grave clothes of sin 3 00:00:15,600 --> 00:00:19,100 and the grave clothes of religiosity, 4 00:00:19,600 --> 00:00:22,533 trying to prove our worth to God. 5 00:00:22,533 --> 00:00:24,300 That is the gospel. 6 00:00:24,300 --> 00:00:26,966 And so the book of Romans is all about. 7 00:00:26,966 --> 00:00:30,000 But before we get to Romans, we're in chapter seven today. 8 00:00:30,000 --> 00:00:31,800 And I just want to say thank you to Michael. 9 00:00:31,800 --> 00:00:33,866 You did a great job going through chapter six last week. 10 00:00:33,866 --> 00:00:35,333 I appreciate him. 11 00:00:35,333 --> 00:00:38,400 But before we get into Romans, I want to share with you a verse, 12 00:00:38,833 --> 00:00:43,266 a couple verses that in my, devotions and studying the Bible this week, 13 00:00:44,333 --> 00:00:47,033 just kind of hit home in a, in a new and a in a fresh way. 14 00:00:47,033 --> 00:00:48,000 Have you ever read the Bible? 15 00:00:48,000 --> 00:00:50,566 And all of a sudden, something pops, you know, like that's never been there before. 16 00:00:50,566 --> 00:00:52,600 That's like, when did God add that part? 17 00:00:53,900 --> 00:00:54,800 And so 18 00:00:54,800 --> 00:00:58,500 I want to share with you this one passage, from first Peter. 19 00:00:59,866 --> 00:01:02,866 The Bible says this concerning this salvation, 20 00:01:04,366 --> 00:01:08,300 the prophets, the Old Testament, the prophets who spoke of the grace 21 00:01:08,300 --> 00:01:13,700 that was to come to you, searched intently and with the greatest care, 22 00:01:14,300 --> 00:01:18,633 trying to find out the details of at the time the circumstances 23 00:01:18,633 --> 00:01:24,466 to which the Spirit of Christ that was in them was pointing when he predicted 24 00:01:24,466 --> 00:01:28,866 the suffering of the Messiah and the glories that would follow. Not. 25 00:01:28,866 --> 00:01:30,333 In other words, he's saying this. 26 00:01:30,333 --> 00:01:33,866 He said he realizes that all the prophets of old 27 00:01:33,900 --> 00:01:34,933 the Old Testament 28 00:01:34,933 --> 00:01:39,400 searched the scriptures diligently for the how and the where and the 29 00:01:39,400 --> 00:01:43,400 what of Jesus when it was going to come, who he was going to be? 30 00:01:43,400 --> 00:01:46,500 What was going to this grace that was pulling them towards us? 31 00:01:46,733 --> 00:01:51,166 And then Peter says, even angels long to look into these things. 32 00:01:52,200 --> 00:01:54,566 And what hit me 33 00:01:54,566 --> 00:01:57,466 is that what we have before us 34 00:01:57,466 --> 00:02:00,233 is the opportunity that the angels 35 00:02:00,233 --> 00:02:03,233 wish they had. 36 00:02:03,333 --> 00:02:06,966 We have the opportunity to seek diligently. 37 00:02:09,133 --> 00:02:12,000 The Messiah. 38 00:02:12,000 --> 00:02:13,466 The how of it. The who of it. 39 00:02:13,466 --> 00:02:15,933 The what of it? The win of it. 40 00:02:15,933 --> 00:02:19,200 That even the angels of heaven don't have the opportunity we have right now 41 00:02:20,566 --> 00:02:23,866 to search diligently these scriptures, these things through the Word of God. 42 00:02:24,933 --> 00:02:27,333 Can you imagine? 43 00:02:27,333 --> 00:02:29,700 I imagine in my mind, angels in heaven, 44 00:02:29,700 --> 00:02:32,700 like like I'm going to seriously, 45 00:02:33,300 --> 00:02:34,766 you know, 46 00:02:34,766 --> 00:02:37,766 I wish I could be in your seat right now. 47 00:02:38,100 --> 00:02:39,700 I wish I had the opportunity. 48 00:02:39,700 --> 00:02:41,600 You have. 49 00:02:41,600 --> 00:02:44,833 I imagine them thinking, Carl, you take this so lightly. 50 00:02:44,833 --> 00:02:47,833 Sometimes. 51 00:02:49,000 --> 00:02:51,133 We wish 52 00:02:51,133 --> 00:02:54,133 we could dive into the Scripture. 53 00:02:54,900 --> 00:02:55,600 Don't waste it. 54 00:02:57,100 --> 00:02:59,000 Don't waste the opportunity. 55 00:02:59,000 --> 00:03:01,933 Don't waste the privilege. 56 00:03:01,933 --> 00:03:05,733 Even angels wish they could be where we are, doing what we're doing. 57 00:03:05,733 --> 00:03:08,733 Do you understand? It just struck me. 58 00:03:09,266 --> 00:03:12,266 I hope it strikes you to. 59 00:03:12,533 --> 00:03:15,800 Chapter six, that Michael covered last week. 60 00:03:15,800 --> 00:03:19,566 Just as a reminder, covered basically four things with Paul saying, 61 00:03:19,733 --> 00:03:23,400 this is how you start living this new life in Christ, right? 62 00:03:24,066 --> 00:03:27,200 You gotta know that through faith. 63 00:03:28,500 --> 00:03:30,666 By God's grace, we're sanctified. 64 00:03:30,666 --> 00:03:34,133 We're right with God, and we're becoming Christ like, you gotta know that. 65 00:03:34,300 --> 00:03:37,366 And then you gotta believe the reality of it like it has happened. 66 00:03:37,500 --> 00:03:40,500 If we joined our life to Jesus through faith, 67 00:03:41,100 --> 00:03:45,800 and then we got to present our life to God, like our whole life, 68 00:03:45,800 --> 00:03:49,166 every it all of what we are, we gotta present to God. 69 00:03:49,800 --> 00:03:53,300 And then we have to replace the old life with a new way of living. 70 00:03:53,300 --> 00:03:54,533 That was chapter six. 71 00:03:56,233 --> 00:04:01,100 Now Paul saying that's that's the that's the goal. 72 00:04:01,100 --> 00:04:04,100 That's how it ought to be. 73 00:04:04,100 --> 00:04:06,700 But what I know is this what ought to be 74 00:04:06,700 --> 00:04:09,700 and what is are oftentimes different, right. 75 00:04:10,800 --> 00:04:12,900 Like, like that's what ought to be. 76 00:04:12,900 --> 00:04:18,000 I ought to be able to know that I'm right with God through faith, by God's grace. 77 00:04:18,000 --> 00:04:22,333 And and I present my whole life to God, and I replace all the old stuff 78 00:04:22,333 --> 00:04:26,400 with new stuff and and everything that I know that that's what I ought to be. 79 00:04:27,366 --> 00:04:30,433 But I know what is is oftentimes 80 00:04:30,433 --> 00:04:33,433 very different than what ought. 81 00:04:33,733 --> 00:04:36,300 That's what chapter seven is about, 82 00:04:36,300 --> 00:04:36,566 though. 83 00:04:36,566 --> 00:04:38,066 Chapter six is what ought to be. 84 00:04:38,066 --> 00:04:40,733 Chapter seven is 85 00:04:40,733 --> 00:04:43,533 what is. 86 00:04:43,533 --> 00:04:45,600 And what Paul does in chapter seven, 87 00:04:45,600 --> 00:04:47,366 Paul says, look, I'm gonna let you in on a little secret. 88 00:04:48,300 --> 00:04:49,966 And the secret is this 89 00:04:49,966 --> 00:04:52,966 I still struggle with sin. 90 00:04:57,033 --> 00:05:00,033 And the fact is that 91 00:05:00,466 --> 00:05:02,700 when one can acknowledge and admit 92 00:05:02,700 --> 00:05:05,700 that they still struggle and it is a struggle, 93 00:05:06,733 --> 00:05:09,766 that is one of the signs that the Holy Spirit 94 00:05:09,766 --> 00:05:12,766 is speaking and working in and with that person. 95 00:05:13,033 --> 00:05:13,933 Because if the Holy Spirit's 96 00:05:13,933 --> 00:05:16,933 not speaking in or with that person, they don't care about sin. 97 00:05:17,733 --> 00:05:18,433 You see him saying. 98 00:05:18,433 --> 00:05:21,500 So it's actually kind of a good thing that you recognize 99 00:05:21,500 --> 00:05:24,500 that I recognize now that there's still a struggle. 100 00:05:24,700 --> 00:05:27,700 That means the Holy Spirit's doing something. 101 00:05:28,000 --> 00:05:30,033 And I want you to know that that 102 00:05:30,033 --> 00:05:33,700 that I I'm here before you today as a fellow struggler. 103 00:05:34,933 --> 00:05:38,333 And I just want to acknowledge that now, that's not new news to most of you. 104 00:05:39,466 --> 00:05:40,500 You're well aware. 105 00:05:40,500 --> 00:05:41,300 Now, I get it. 106 00:05:41,300 --> 00:05:43,866 Our bald guy, he's just struggles. 107 00:05:43,866 --> 00:05:46,000 I just want to acknowledge that. 108 00:05:46,000 --> 00:05:49,100 And I rely on God's grace to walk me 109 00:05:49,100 --> 00:05:53,533 towards and in sanctification like it's by his grace 110 00:05:53,533 --> 00:05:57,300 that he walks me into this sanctified becoming more like Christ. 111 00:05:57,300 --> 00:05:59,666 It's not by my effort, it's by his grace. 112 00:05:59,666 --> 00:06:02,000 And I acknowledge that, and I accept that. 113 00:06:02,000 --> 00:06:03,300 But I want us all to know this. 114 00:06:03,300 --> 00:06:06,300 Everybody here, everybody here 115 00:06:06,600 --> 00:06:09,066 is everybody on the platform. 116 00:06:09,066 --> 00:06:13,800 Please understand we don't all get it right all the time, 117 00:06:14,900 --> 00:06:17,900 right? 118 00:06:19,266 --> 00:06:21,900 We let each other down, 119 00:06:21,900 --> 00:06:24,900 we offend, we are offensive. 120 00:06:25,533 --> 00:06:27,166 We hurt people. 121 00:06:27,166 --> 00:06:29,033 We disappoint people. 122 00:06:29,033 --> 00:06:31,000 We frustrate people. 123 00:06:31,000 --> 00:06:32,900 We degrade. 124 00:06:32,900 --> 00:06:35,100 We sin. 125 00:06:35,100 --> 00:06:36,966 Every one of us. 126 00:06:36,966 --> 00:06:39,600 And so when that happens, it's very important 127 00:06:40,966 --> 00:06:41,533 not to get 128 00:06:41,533 --> 00:06:44,533 disoriented because of someone's sin. 129 00:06:45,466 --> 00:06:47,400 Don't let it throw you. 130 00:06:47,400 --> 00:06:50,400 And it's important not to get critical 131 00:06:50,700 --> 00:06:53,533 about someone. Sin. 132 00:06:53,533 --> 00:06:56,533 In other words, don't resort to legal Christianity 133 00:06:57,366 --> 00:07:01,166 because people who resort to legal religion and legal Christianity 134 00:07:01,233 --> 00:07:05,066 get disoriented by others sin and critical over 135 00:07:05,100 --> 00:07:08,100 and disoriented critical religious people 136 00:07:08,333 --> 00:07:11,333 cannot embrace grace. 137 00:07:12,366 --> 00:07:16,466 And this oriented and critical religious people are terrible people 138 00:07:16,466 --> 00:07:19,466 to beat around. 139 00:07:21,033 --> 00:07:24,033 And so chapter seven. 140 00:07:25,300 --> 00:07:26,366 If chapter six 141 00:07:26,366 --> 00:07:30,933 is about positional sanctification, in other words, my position 142 00:07:30,933 --> 00:07:33,933 in Christ, 143 00:07:35,933 --> 00:07:37,200 by faith, 144 00:07:37,200 --> 00:07:40,066 because of the grace of God, my position in Christ, 145 00:07:40,066 --> 00:07:44,033 positionally I am right with God, sanctified and holy. 146 00:07:44,033 --> 00:07:46,100 He sees me as that. 147 00:07:46,100 --> 00:07:46,800 That's chapters. 148 00:07:46,800 --> 00:07:49,833 But chapter seven is practical 149 00:07:49,833 --> 00:07:53,066 sanctification, how it's fleshed out in my life practically, 150 00:07:54,500 --> 00:07:55,500 positionally. 151 00:07:55,500 --> 00:07:56,933 It's set. I'm in Christ. 152 00:07:56,933 --> 00:07:59,100 God sees me as holy, 153 00:07:59,100 --> 00:08:02,100 practically. 154 00:08:02,233 --> 00:08:04,366 I don't live that way all the time. 155 00:08:04,366 --> 00:08:06,033 So that's the difference in chapter six. 156 00:08:06,033 --> 00:08:09,033 Chapter seven. So chapter seven, 157 00:08:09,766 --> 00:08:13,033 the practical outworking of sanctification 158 00:08:14,133 --> 00:08:17,266 is much different than the theological ideals of it. 159 00:08:18,433 --> 00:08:21,433 And Paul says practically, this is what it looks like for me. 160 00:08:21,433 --> 00:08:24,066 And what it looks like for Paul is the exact same way. 161 00:08:24,066 --> 00:08:27,066 What it looks like for us. 162 00:08:27,133 --> 00:08:30,133 And so if you just follow along chapter seven, verse one, 163 00:08:31,800 --> 00:08:33,666 he says here, do you not know brothers and sisters? 164 00:08:33,666 --> 00:08:36,800 He's talking to people who who are familiar with 165 00:08:37,066 --> 00:08:40,366 with religion, who understand the law of God. 166 00:08:41,166 --> 00:08:45,533 He's saying, don't you know, from speaking to those who know the law, who know 167 00:08:45,533 --> 00:08:50,433 the stuff, that the law is binding on a person only as long as he lives? 168 00:08:50,433 --> 00:08:52,233 We understand this principle. 169 00:08:52,233 --> 00:08:55,233 Laws are for the living, not the dead. 170 00:08:55,266 --> 00:08:55,633 Okay. 171 00:08:55,633 --> 00:09:00,100 So as long as we're alive, law has authority over us. 172 00:09:00,100 --> 00:09:01,533 Okay? Think IRS 173 00:09:03,200 --> 00:09:06,200 every April 15th, if you're alive, 174 00:09:06,800 --> 00:09:11,100 the IRS exerts its law over you and has authority over you. 175 00:09:11,100 --> 00:09:12,533 Right? 176 00:09:12,533 --> 00:09:14,766 The only way out of abiding 177 00:09:14,766 --> 00:09:18,666 by the laws of the IRS is what about death? 178 00:09:18,866 --> 00:09:20,700 Not move death? 179 00:09:20,700 --> 00:09:22,233 Yeah, we'll move to Idaho. 180 00:09:22,233 --> 00:09:25,233 No, there's they'll still get you there, too. 181 00:09:25,500 --> 00:09:28,666 The only way out of the law of the IRS is by dying. 182 00:09:28,666 --> 00:09:31,666 Because, after all, there's only two things in life that are certain is what 183 00:09:32,433 --> 00:09:34,533 death and taxes. 184 00:09:34,533 --> 00:09:37,333 And so as long as we're alive, the law, IRS 185 00:09:37,333 --> 00:09:40,566 law, every, every April 15th exerts its law over us. 186 00:09:41,466 --> 00:09:44,466 That's just the way it goes. 187 00:09:44,666 --> 00:09:47,666 The only way out from that law is to die. 188 00:09:49,566 --> 00:09:52,333 I've never I've never 189 00:09:52,333 --> 00:09:56,700 in my life heard of a court of law bringing in a cadaver 190 00:09:56,700 --> 00:09:59,733 and charging and sentencing a cadaver because of broken law. 191 00:10:01,100 --> 00:10:03,866 The law has no authority over a dead body. 192 00:10:03,866 --> 00:10:04,800 Right. 193 00:10:04,800 --> 00:10:06,333 You understand this? 194 00:10:06,333 --> 00:10:08,633 Okay, so let's go to the. 195 00:10:08,633 --> 00:10:10,433 That's that's the that's the statement. 196 00:10:10,433 --> 00:10:11,433 Now let's go to 197 00:10:11,433 --> 00:10:15,333 how we kind of fleshes this out in verses two and three for a married woman. 198 00:10:15,333 --> 00:10:17,933 Now he uses the analogy of marriage to drive the point home. 199 00:10:17,933 --> 00:10:22,600 A married woman is bound by law to her husband while he lives, 200 00:10:23,166 --> 00:10:26,600 but if her husband dies, she's released from the law of marriage. 201 00:10:27,100 --> 00:10:31,266 Accordingly, she will be called an adulterous if she lives with in others. 202 00:10:31,266 --> 00:10:34,266 Marries 203 00:10:35,500 --> 00:10:36,066 if she lives 204 00:10:36,066 --> 00:10:39,066 with another man while her husband is alive. 205 00:10:39,100 --> 00:10:43,200 But if her husband dies, she's free from the law of marriage. 206 00:10:43,800 --> 00:10:46,800 And if she marries another man, she's not an adulteress. 207 00:10:47,100 --> 00:10:50,700 And so he uses the analogy of marriage in that culture. 208 00:10:50,700 --> 00:10:54,966 And in that culture, a woman had no authority to divorce her husband. 209 00:10:56,233 --> 00:10:57,900 He could divorce her, he can kick her out. 210 00:10:57,900 --> 00:11:00,900 But she had no authority to divorce him. 211 00:11:00,966 --> 00:11:03,000 The only way a woman had out of 212 00:11:03,000 --> 00:11:06,000 marriage is if her husband died. 213 00:11:06,000 --> 00:11:08,666 If he died, then she was free. 214 00:11:08,666 --> 00:11:12,633 So I don't know what some of the, wives prayers life were like 215 00:11:13,133 --> 00:11:16,133 at times, but, that was the only way she could get out. 216 00:11:16,566 --> 00:11:19,066 And so what he's saying is 217 00:11:19,066 --> 00:11:23,066 he makes this analogy between the law and the husband 218 00:11:24,233 --> 00:11:27,300 and the bride and us. 219 00:11:28,066 --> 00:11:31,066 They said we are married to the law. 220 00:11:31,300 --> 00:11:34,333 And the only way we get free from this law. 221 00:11:34,600 --> 00:11:36,666 Don't do this, don't do this, don't do this. 222 00:11:36,666 --> 00:11:37,866 You better do this. You better. 223 00:11:37,866 --> 00:11:40,100 And that law making us right with God. 224 00:11:40,100 --> 00:11:43,900 The only way we get free from that is if the husband dies. 225 00:11:44,500 --> 00:11:46,133 You follow it. 226 00:11:46,133 --> 00:11:47,800 Okay? That's our only way out. 227 00:11:49,933 --> 00:11:52,200 What's the problem with that? 228 00:11:52,200 --> 00:11:54,833 The problem with that is this. 229 00:11:54,833 --> 00:11:55,866 Is that the law? 230 00:11:55,866 --> 00:11:58,866 The husband will never die. 231 00:11:59,533 --> 00:12:01,033 God's law will never perish. 232 00:12:01,033 --> 00:12:02,466 It'll never go away. 233 00:12:02,466 --> 00:12:05,466 Isaiah 40 verse eight says, the the. 234 00:12:05,966 --> 00:12:08,066 The grass withers and the flowers fade. 235 00:12:08,066 --> 00:12:11,233 But the word of the Lord endures forever. 236 00:12:11,233 --> 00:12:14,233 It's never going anywhere. 237 00:12:14,700 --> 00:12:18,000 So the law of God will never die. 238 00:12:19,233 --> 00:12:21,433 What is our way out? 239 00:12:21,433 --> 00:12:24,433 Either live by the strict 240 00:12:24,500 --> 00:12:27,500 law and be perfect. 241 00:12:29,066 --> 00:12:32,066 Or die. 242 00:12:33,766 --> 00:12:35,766 That's not very good news, 243 00:12:35,766 --> 00:12:37,966 because none of us can live by the perfect 244 00:12:37,966 --> 00:12:40,966 standard of God's perfect law, right? 245 00:12:42,800 --> 00:12:45,600 And so our only way out 246 00:12:45,600 --> 00:12:48,700 is that the law condemns us to death. 247 00:12:54,500 --> 00:12:57,500 You're tracking so far, right? 248 00:12:58,766 --> 00:13:00,733 Likewise, my brothers, 249 00:13:00,733 --> 00:13:03,566 you also have died to the law 250 00:13:03,566 --> 00:13:07,033 through the body of Christ, so that you may belong to another. 251 00:13:07,033 --> 00:13:11,400 You can be married to someone else now, to him who has been raised from the dead, 252 00:13:11,433 --> 00:13:14,433 in order that we might bear fruit for God. 253 00:13:14,466 --> 00:13:17,933 For while we were living in the flesh, 254 00:13:18,600 --> 00:13:21,000 our sinful passions aroused by the law, 255 00:13:21,000 --> 00:13:24,333 were at work in the in our body, bearing fruit for death. 256 00:13:24,333 --> 00:13:24,933 Here's what you're saying. 257 00:13:26,766 --> 00:13:29,766 If the law's not going to die, 258 00:13:29,900 --> 00:13:32,900 we have to die. 259 00:13:33,033 --> 00:13:35,200 I don't want to die. 260 00:13:35,200 --> 00:13:38,233 I don't want to live under the condemnation of the law 261 00:13:38,233 --> 00:13:41,233 because the law says you're dead. 262 00:13:42,466 --> 00:13:44,700 So what he's saying is, 263 00:13:44,700 --> 00:13:47,433 rather than us die, 264 00:13:47,433 --> 00:13:50,800 we attach ourselves to the one who did die 265 00:13:51,766 --> 00:13:55,633 and who not only dies, but raised from the grave to eternal life. 266 00:13:56,666 --> 00:13:58,733 Since the law is not going to die 267 00:13:58,733 --> 00:14:02,866 and I don't want to die, I'm going to attach myself to the one who did die. 268 00:14:03,466 --> 00:14:06,366 And this is exactly what he says later in the book of Galatians. 269 00:14:06,366 --> 00:14:09,366 Galatians 220, I've been crucified with Christ. 270 00:14:09,400 --> 00:14:12,200 It's no longer I who live, but Christ lives in me. 271 00:14:12,200 --> 00:14:15,300 And the life I now live in the flesh, in my body. 272 00:14:15,500 --> 00:14:20,200 I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me and died on my behalf. 273 00:14:21,433 --> 00:14:24,433 The law of God isn't going anywhere. 274 00:14:24,600 --> 00:14:28,266 I can live under that law and die because I can't keep it. 275 00:14:28,266 --> 00:14:32,733 Or I can attach myself to the one who did die in fulfillment of the law. 276 00:14:32,833 --> 00:14:34,133 I was raised to life. 277 00:14:34,133 --> 00:14:37,433 So now I'm free because in Christ I did die. 278 00:14:37,433 --> 00:14:40,300 So that makes sense. 279 00:14:40,300 --> 00:14:42,633 It's amazing. 280 00:14:42,633 --> 00:14:45,633 It's absolutely amazing to me 281 00:14:45,866 --> 00:14:47,400 because death 282 00:14:47,400 --> 00:14:50,400 is the only thing that brings freedom. 283 00:14:50,666 --> 00:14:52,833 I want to understand that 284 00:14:52,833 --> 00:14:55,833 death is the only thing that brings freedom. 285 00:14:55,900 --> 00:14:57,733 And so I have two choices. 286 00:14:57,733 --> 00:15:00,666 I'm going to live as a dead man 287 00:15:00,666 --> 00:15:03,666 under the law that will condemn me to death, 288 00:15:03,866 --> 00:15:06,633 or I'm going to join my life to the one who died 289 00:15:06,633 --> 00:15:10,366 in fulfillment of the law and was raised. 290 00:15:10,800 --> 00:15:14,133 So now I die to the law, and I am alive in Christ. 291 00:15:15,266 --> 00:15:15,900 So the law 292 00:15:15,900 --> 00:15:19,300 has no authority over me anymore because I'm in Christ. 293 00:15:19,766 --> 00:15:22,333 I did die. 294 00:15:22,333 --> 00:15:25,333 You follow? 295 00:15:25,500 --> 00:15:27,666 Now when he says, 296 00:15:27,666 --> 00:15:31,466 in our old self we bore fruit for death 297 00:15:32,366 --> 00:15:35,366 in our new life and tested Jesus, we bear fruit for God. 298 00:15:35,466 --> 00:15:38,466 I just want to talk about fruit for a minute. 299 00:15:39,233 --> 00:15:40,366 Fruit? 300 00:15:40,366 --> 00:15:43,933 We all bear fruit, whether we realize it or not. 301 00:15:44,433 --> 00:15:48,366 There's produce of our life, of our actions, of our being. 302 00:15:49,233 --> 00:15:51,633 There's fruit behind us in our wake, and there's fruit 303 00:15:51,633 --> 00:15:54,633 we're going to produce in the future without being 304 00:15:55,566 --> 00:15:57,900 joined to grow in new life. 305 00:15:57,900 --> 00:16:00,900 We bear bad fruit, 306 00:16:01,166 --> 00:16:03,566 you understand? 307 00:16:03,566 --> 00:16:05,633 Once we join our life to Christ and gain 308 00:16:05,633 --> 00:16:08,633 new life, now we can bear 309 00:16:08,800 --> 00:16:11,633 good fruit apart from Christ. 310 00:16:11,633 --> 00:16:13,566 It's bad fruit. 311 00:16:13,566 --> 00:16:15,700 No, about fruit, does it? 312 00:16:15,700 --> 00:16:17,966 Is anybody I know we're in the agricultural valley here. 313 00:16:17,966 --> 00:16:21,033 Is anybody aware of invisible fruit? 314 00:16:23,700 --> 00:16:25,200 No. Not you. 315 00:16:25,200 --> 00:16:26,666 We haven't made that yet. 316 00:16:26,666 --> 00:16:29,666 All fruit is visible fruit, right. 317 00:16:30,400 --> 00:16:33,466 So the fruit of our lives is visible. 318 00:16:34,600 --> 00:16:38,933 Some of us see the fruit of a dead life from the bad, 319 00:16:39,200 --> 00:16:42,200 visible fruit that we've borne. 320 00:16:44,733 --> 00:16:48,133 What Jesus is talking about here is good fruit for God. 321 00:16:48,400 --> 00:16:50,433 That fruit is visible. 322 00:16:50,433 --> 00:16:53,433 It's not just in its visible. 323 00:16:53,533 --> 00:16:57,066 Fruit is produced for the benefit of other people. 324 00:16:57,066 --> 00:17:01,366 I've never known an orange tree that feeds off its own fruit. 325 00:17:03,100 --> 00:17:04,500 Do you understand? 326 00:17:04,500 --> 00:17:08,800 The orange tree produces fruit so that others can be nourished 327 00:17:08,800 --> 00:17:10,133 and refreshed by it. 328 00:17:10,133 --> 00:17:12,633 It's not for the benefit of the tree. 329 00:17:12,633 --> 00:17:15,766 And so when Paul's talking about fruit for God, 330 00:17:15,766 --> 00:17:19,866 what he's talking about is people who have been made new in new life 331 00:17:19,966 --> 00:17:25,800 now bearing visible fruit that nourishes and replenish, refreshes other people. 332 00:17:27,333 --> 00:17:28,733 You can see it. 333 00:17:28,733 --> 00:17:31,066 It's evident. 334 00:17:31,066 --> 00:17:34,066 It's tangible. 335 00:17:34,300 --> 00:17:37,300 And so the natural question we have to ask ourselves, 336 00:17:38,900 --> 00:17:41,900 how fruitful is my life currently? 337 00:17:43,266 --> 00:17:47,433 What is in my wake and what is my productive future 338 00:17:47,700 --> 00:17:51,633 for the tangible things that I am producing 339 00:17:51,633 --> 00:17:54,633 that nourishes and refreshes other people? 340 00:17:56,966 --> 00:17:59,400 That's a question 341 00:17:59,400 --> 00:18:01,166 that each of us has to answer individually. 342 00:18:01,166 --> 00:18:04,166 If you're claiming that we have a life in Christ. 343 00:18:07,700 --> 00:18:11,200 Now Jesus will has said that 344 00:18:11,566 --> 00:18:15,200 every branch of me bears good fruit. 345 00:18:15,500 --> 00:18:16,933 You remain to me, he said. 346 00:18:16,933 --> 00:18:19,933 Those who don't bear good fruit will be what 347 00:18:21,133 --> 00:18:23,233 cut off, 348 00:18:23,233 --> 00:18:25,266 thrown in the fire. 349 00:18:25,266 --> 00:18:28,233 Those who do bear good fruit will be pruned 350 00:18:28,233 --> 00:18:30,766 so that we can produce more good fruit. 351 00:18:30,766 --> 00:18:33,500 And so for the Christ follower, if we say 352 00:18:33,500 --> 00:18:36,566 we have been attached our life to Jesus and have new life, 353 00:18:37,233 --> 00:18:40,100 if there's no tangible 354 00:18:40,100 --> 00:18:43,800 good fruit that nourishes and refreshes other people. 355 00:18:47,700 --> 00:18:50,700 Be aware. 356 00:18:53,166 --> 00:18:54,666 Now, just as a commercial, 357 00:18:54,666 --> 00:18:57,000 we have those serve brochures so you can produce good fruit. 358 00:18:57,000 --> 00:19:00,000 So make sure you pick those up. 359 00:19:06,800 --> 00:19:09,800 You track with me so far. 360 00:19:11,333 --> 00:19:14,333 Goober six. 361 00:19:14,800 --> 00:19:15,700 Oh, what a man I am. 362 00:19:15,700 --> 00:19:17,166 Verse five. Number six. 363 00:19:17,166 --> 00:19:19,766 But now we are released from the law. 364 00:19:19,766 --> 00:19:22,766 Having died to that which held us captive. 365 00:19:22,800 --> 00:19:25,266 So that we may serve in the new way of the spirit, 366 00:19:25,266 --> 00:19:28,266 and not in the old way of the written code. 367 00:19:29,533 --> 00:19:32,533 So when he talks about the written code, what he's talking about 368 00:19:32,533 --> 00:19:37,433 is the finger of God that wrote the written code on the tablets. 369 00:19:37,433 --> 00:19:39,300 The 10th Amendment, he said. 370 00:19:39,300 --> 00:19:42,300 And that's how we used to have to live, because that's all we had 371 00:19:43,333 --> 00:19:46,266 the written code written on stone tablets, he says. 372 00:19:46,266 --> 00:19:50,366 But now, because you've joined your life to the one who died and fulfilled 373 00:19:50,366 --> 00:19:54,166 the law and raised, now you have new life no longer controlled by the written code. 374 00:19:54,233 --> 00:19:57,566 Now we serve in the new way of the spirit. 375 00:19:58,233 --> 00:20:00,900 What he's talking about is the new covenant. 376 00:20:00,900 --> 00:20:05,100 When we do communion, it's a reminder of the New covenant. 377 00:20:05,100 --> 00:20:08,466 When Jesus shared that communion meal with his disciples, he said, 378 00:20:08,466 --> 00:20:11,800 this cup is the new covenant of my blood. 379 00:20:11,900 --> 00:20:16,800 He's talking about what Jeremiah 31 and Ezekiel 36 said. 380 00:20:17,633 --> 00:20:19,866 What they said is this 381 00:20:19,866 --> 00:20:22,800 there's coming a time when God's law 382 00:20:22,800 --> 00:20:27,000 will not be written on stone tablets, but will be written on your hearts. 383 00:20:28,000 --> 00:20:28,733 That time 384 00:20:28,733 --> 00:20:32,600 is when Jesus came and gave us the Holy Spirit. 385 00:20:32,600 --> 00:20:37,566 So now we don't live under the written code of a list of do's and don'ts. 386 00:20:37,566 --> 00:20:40,866 Now what Paul says, what Jesus said 387 00:20:40,966 --> 00:20:44,633 is that we live under the Spirit's prompting in our heart. 388 00:20:44,633 --> 00:20:45,500 That's the law. 389 00:20:45,500 --> 00:20:48,500 God's written on my heart is the prompting of His Spirit. 390 00:20:49,200 --> 00:20:53,266 No longer do I have to abide by a list of do's and don'ts. 391 00:20:53,700 --> 00:20:57,266 No longer do I let someone tell me this is how you must follow God. 392 00:20:57,300 --> 00:21:00,300 No longer I tell us this is how you must do it. 393 00:21:00,433 --> 00:21:04,300 Now, because of this living relationship 394 00:21:04,300 --> 00:21:08,266 with the Jesus who died to the law and was raised 395 00:21:09,866 --> 00:21:11,366 now through His Spirit, 396 00:21:11,366 --> 00:21:14,366 I just follow his prompting. 397 00:21:14,400 --> 00:21:16,733 You just follow his prompting. 398 00:21:16,733 --> 00:21:21,466 It's the way of the spirit, not the old way of a code. 399 00:21:22,500 --> 00:21:24,866 Be very careful, Barry. 400 00:21:24,866 --> 00:21:27,800 Very leery of anyone who will tell you. 401 00:21:27,800 --> 00:21:30,800 This is the procedure of how you follow God. 402 00:21:31,900 --> 00:21:36,100 Every religion except Christianity is based on the foundation of procedures. 403 00:21:36,100 --> 00:21:37,266 This is what you have to do. 404 00:21:37,266 --> 00:21:41,566 Don't let anybody convince you that you have to be sprinkled as a baby, 405 00:21:41,566 --> 00:21:42,500 that you have to go through 406 00:21:42,500 --> 00:21:44,233 catechism, that you have to have your first Holy 407 00:21:44,233 --> 00:21:46,600 Communion, that you have to get married in a temple somewhere. 408 00:21:46,600 --> 00:21:49,900 Those are all procedures, and they're all false. 409 00:21:51,666 --> 00:21:53,200 Nor let anybody tell you that 410 00:21:53,200 --> 00:21:56,266 the procedure of how to do this is just open up your heart and follow your heart. 411 00:21:56,366 --> 00:21:58,600 That's the terrible thing. 412 00:21:58,600 --> 00:22:01,233 Jeremiah says that the heart is desperately wicked and deceitful, 413 00:22:01,233 --> 00:22:02,833 and all it does don't know. Follow your heart 414 00:22:04,066 --> 00:22:06,266 now when the when God puts His Holy Spirit in you, 415 00:22:06,266 --> 00:22:09,266 because you've attached your life to the one who died and was raised, 416 00:22:10,033 --> 00:22:10,833 then you follow this. 417 00:22:10,833 --> 00:22:14,566 If you don't follow your heart, you follow the spirit who's taken up residence 418 00:22:15,800 --> 00:22:17,666 and the way you know that you're following the spirit, 419 00:22:17,666 --> 00:22:19,100 just not some willy nilly thing. 420 00:22:19,100 --> 00:22:22,033 Is that everything that the spirit prompts you to do 421 00:22:22,033 --> 00:22:25,566 will be in direct line with the word he's already written in Scripture, 422 00:22:27,033 --> 00:22:29,866 in direct line with that. 423 00:22:29,866 --> 00:22:32,100 And so Paul says, I want you to be free from this, 424 00:22:32,100 --> 00:22:35,266 from this code life, from this legal life, 425 00:22:36,000 --> 00:22:38,400 and free to follow the spirit. 426 00:22:38,400 --> 00:22:39,966 It's so liberating. 427 00:22:39,966 --> 00:22:42,966 It's so refreshing. 428 00:22:44,766 --> 00:22:47,833 And I want to go through, verses 7 to 13. 429 00:22:47,833 --> 00:22:50,766 Let me just kind of encapsulate it for you. 430 00:22:50,766 --> 00:22:52,533 It Paul starts with this question. So what are we going to say? 431 00:22:52,533 --> 00:22:55,833 The law is bad because we're not to follow the law on the balance of great. 432 00:22:56,566 --> 00:22:58,833 The law is really, really good. 433 00:22:58,833 --> 00:23:00,266 Basically what he says this is, 434 00:23:00,266 --> 00:23:02,566 he said, but we have to understand the purpose of the law. 435 00:23:02,566 --> 00:23:07,033 The purpose of the law is for and is not for salvation. 436 00:23:07,033 --> 00:23:09,300 The purpose of the law for revelation. 437 00:23:09,300 --> 00:23:12,300 In other words, the law has no power to save me. 438 00:23:12,766 --> 00:23:15,733 It doesn't have the capacity to make me clean. 439 00:23:15,733 --> 00:23:18,700 The law just has the capacity to show me how dirty I am. 440 00:23:19,700 --> 00:23:22,366 The law is like, think of it like a mirror. 441 00:23:22,366 --> 00:23:23,800 The law is the mirror 442 00:23:23,800 --> 00:23:26,533 that when I stand in front of the mirror, I see how dirty my face is. 443 00:23:26,533 --> 00:23:28,633 And when I look in the mirror and see how dirty my face is. 444 00:23:28,633 --> 00:23:31,633 I don't think it's a bad mirror because it shows me dirty. 445 00:23:32,033 --> 00:23:33,966 Like none of us think that, right? 446 00:23:33,966 --> 00:23:36,133 We understand what a mirror is. 447 00:23:36,133 --> 00:23:38,500 We look at the mirror and we say, I got dirt on my face. 448 00:23:38,500 --> 00:23:40,133 So we don't curse the mirror. 449 00:23:40,133 --> 00:23:42,933 We don't say, I don't believe in the mirror. 450 00:23:42,933 --> 00:23:45,933 We say, I guess I got a dirty face. 451 00:23:46,200 --> 00:23:48,700 That's the purpose of the law 452 00:23:48,700 --> 00:23:49,800 has no power to say. 453 00:23:49,800 --> 00:23:51,966 It just has power to reveal. 454 00:23:51,966 --> 00:23:53,933 And I don't have power to clean his house. 455 00:23:53,933 --> 00:23:55,666 Power to illuminate. 456 00:23:55,666 --> 00:23:58,766 And when I look at the perfect law, it shows me that I'm dirty. 457 00:23:59,800 --> 00:24:00,566 And Paul 458 00:24:00,566 --> 00:24:04,033 uses as his proof the law of coveting. 459 00:24:04,033 --> 00:24:08,133 One of the ten and the reason he uses the law of coveting. 460 00:24:08,133 --> 00:24:11,666 He says, look, I wouldn't even know how dirty I am if the law didn't 461 00:24:11,666 --> 00:24:15,433 say don't covet, because once the law said don't covet, I realize how much I covet. 462 00:24:16,533 --> 00:24:18,033 And so it just reveals to me. 463 00:24:18,033 --> 00:24:20,833 And the reason he uses the coveting law 464 00:24:20,833 --> 00:24:23,700 is because coveting is internal. 465 00:24:23,700 --> 00:24:26,700 All the other sins against people are external, 466 00:24:28,033 --> 00:24:29,800 and he uses the coveting law because he says, 467 00:24:29,800 --> 00:24:32,800 I want you to understand that what makes us dirty 468 00:24:32,900 --> 00:24:35,900 is not just our behavior, it's what's in here, 469 00:24:37,233 --> 00:24:39,066 because what's out here 470 00:24:39,066 --> 00:24:42,066 can look really good if we just are really, really religious 471 00:24:43,066 --> 00:24:45,366 and never address what's in here. 472 00:24:45,366 --> 00:24:48,366 So that's why he uses coveting as the example. 473 00:24:48,900 --> 00:24:52,200 And the truth is that this is 474 00:24:53,566 --> 00:24:56,566 this is our problem amongst others, 475 00:24:57,333 --> 00:24:59,366 but coveting. And here's the thing. 476 00:24:59,366 --> 00:25:03,700 Coveting is the root cause is that I'm not content with what I have. 477 00:25:05,800 --> 00:25:08,800 Paul says, I've learned the secret of being content. 478 00:25:08,933 --> 00:25:10,000 We just don't develop it. 479 00:25:10,000 --> 00:25:12,000 This is a sin thing. 480 00:25:12,000 --> 00:25:15,000 And when you and I aren't content with what we have, 481 00:25:15,666 --> 00:25:18,133 we want what someone else has 482 00:25:18,133 --> 00:25:21,133 or we want more. 483 00:25:22,233 --> 00:25:23,966 This is 484 00:25:23,966 --> 00:25:26,033 this is 485 00:25:26,033 --> 00:25:29,033 this isn't just about Americans, but it certainly is about Americans, 486 00:25:30,333 --> 00:25:33,333 because this is the American dream. 487 00:25:33,866 --> 00:25:36,866 Get some and then get more, right? 488 00:25:37,166 --> 00:25:40,033 I mean, our national model life, liberty and the purchase 489 00:25:40,033 --> 00:25:43,033 of happiness. 490 00:25:44,733 --> 00:25:48,200 And Paul saying, listen, you might look like you're good 491 00:25:48,200 --> 00:25:51,200 and religious out here, but until this is addressed, 492 00:25:51,533 --> 00:25:52,533 that's why I use this company. 493 00:25:53,700 --> 00:25:54,366 And that's something we all 494 00:25:54,366 --> 00:25:57,833 struggle with as some we all feel fall victim to. 495 00:25:58,500 --> 00:25:59,566 I just want different. 496 00:25:59,566 --> 00:26:01,566 I want more 497 00:26:01,566 --> 00:26:03,600 and let me just I 498 00:26:03,600 --> 00:26:05,666 let you in on the secret here. 499 00:26:05,666 --> 00:26:08,666 Pastors are terrible at this. 500 00:26:08,700 --> 00:26:11,166 Pastors are some of the most coveting people around. 501 00:26:11,166 --> 00:26:13,700 Unless we're really, really mindful of it. 502 00:26:13,700 --> 00:26:18,300 And purposeful pastors are some of the most coveting people on this planet. 503 00:26:18,300 --> 00:26:20,266 And here's why. 504 00:26:20,266 --> 00:26:23,266 I guarantee you right now, all across this land, 505 00:26:23,900 --> 00:26:27,466 there are pastors who have driven up to their church 506 00:26:27,466 --> 00:26:30,466 and thought, man, I wish I had a different. 507 00:26:32,100 --> 00:26:33,466 They look at other campuses and like, 508 00:26:33,466 --> 00:26:36,466 if I only have that campus and we'd be 509 00:26:36,833 --> 00:26:39,666 there, look at our other budgets, think, if I only had that budget in my church, 510 00:26:40,966 --> 00:26:41,833 they look at people and think, 511 00:26:41,833 --> 00:26:44,833 if I only had some other people in my church, I mean, I just look, 512 00:26:45,800 --> 00:26:48,800 you understand, if I only had the smoke and mirrors, 513 00:26:49,533 --> 00:26:52,533 if I only had the professional musicians, 514 00:26:52,633 --> 00:26:57,800 if I only had a fountain, if I only had our own separate coffee shop 515 00:26:57,800 --> 00:27:00,800 where we could generate some money and drink coffee 516 00:27:01,633 --> 00:27:04,400 if I owned. 517 00:27:04,400 --> 00:27:05,466 Pastors do this 518 00:27:05,466 --> 00:27:08,466 every, every day, all week long. 519 00:27:08,733 --> 00:27:11,733 I call it ecclesiastical pornography. 520 00:27:12,666 --> 00:27:14,733 Ecclesiology is the study of the church. 521 00:27:14,733 --> 00:27:17,733 Pornography is is lusting after something that in yours. 522 00:27:21,000 --> 00:27:22,800 In is terrible. 523 00:27:22,800 --> 00:27:26,100 Rather than just saying, Lord, you've been so good and gracious, 524 00:27:27,100 --> 00:27:29,633 if so good and gracious, 525 00:27:29,633 --> 00:27:32,300 thank you. 526 00:27:32,300 --> 00:27:34,800 Thank you for the house you've given me. 527 00:27:34,800 --> 00:27:36,033 Thank you for the car you give me. 528 00:27:36,033 --> 00:27:37,200 Thank you for the dart. 529 00:27:37,200 --> 00:27:39,700 Thank you for my spouse. Thank you for my whatever. 530 00:27:40,733 --> 00:27:42,600 And yet you're saying. 531 00:27:42,600 --> 00:27:45,600 I'm saying. 532 00:27:47,266 --> 00:27:48,233 That's what that whole passage. 533 00:27:48,233 --> 00:27:49,566 So you can read it. 534 00:27:49,566 --> 00:27:52,566 But then it gets to verses 14 through 18. 535 00:27:53,566 --> 00:27:56,066 Says, for we know that the law is spiritual. 536 00:27:56,066 --> 00:27:59,066 It is spiritual. But I'm, I'm for fleshy. 537 00:27:59,600 --> 00:28:03,000 I'm sold under sin, for I do not understand my own actions, 538 00:28:03,166 --> 00:28:06,166 for I do not do what I want, 539 00:28:07,533 --> 00:28:10,533 but I do the very thing I hate anybody. 540 00:28:13,266 --> 00:28:15,600 Now if I do what I do not want, 541 00:28:15,600 --> 00:28:18,600 I agree that the law, With the law that is good. 542 00:28:18,666 --> 00:28:20,400 It shows me how dirty I am. 543 00:28:20,400 --> 00:28:24,033 So now it's no longer I who do it, but sin that dwells within me. 544 00:28:24,066 --> 00:28:27,966 For I know that nothing good dwells in me that is in my flesh. 545 00:28:27,966 --> 00:28:29,266 Let me just pause right there. 546 00:28:29,266 --> 00:28:34,166 I know that this goes so much against popular thought and psychology 547 00:28:34,333 --> 00:28:36,833 that know you're a good person and your kids are good people. 548 00:28:36,833 --> 00:28:37,800 No, we're not 549 00:28:38,866 --> 00:28:39,733 in ourselves. 550 00:28:39,733 --> 00:28:41,900 We're not good people. 551 00:28:41,900 --> 00:28:43,400 In your in themselves. 552 00:28:43,400 --> 00:28:45,566 Your kids are rotten. 553 00:28:45,566 --> 00:28:48,366 So our mine, my grandkids are perfect. 554 00:28:48,366 --> 00:28:51,366 I want to go on record, but everybody else 555 00:28:52,033 --> 00:28:53,333 okay. 556 00:28:53,333 --> 00:28:55,100 In ourselves we're not good. 557 00:28:55,100 --> 00:28:58,200 It flies in the face of popular psychology, 558 00:28:59,366 --> 00:29:03,766 for I have the desire to do what is right, but not the appeal. 559 00:29:03,800 --> 00:29:08,966 I can't do it, I want to, I really do, and I know what I should do. 560 00:29:08,966 --> 00:29:10,900 I just can't do it. 561 00:29:10,900 --> 00:29:12,800 Anybody 562 00:29:12,800 --> 00:29:16,133 right? Oh, 563 00:29:18,066 --> 00:29:18,466 Jesus. 564 00:29:18,466 --> 00:29:21,466 I agree that God's standard is good. Duh. 565 00:29:22,500 --> 00:29:24,333 And I want to live that way. 566 00:29:24,333 --> 00:29:26,033 I just can't. 567 00:29:26,033 --> 00:29:29,033 I don't know how to say it any differently. 568 00:29:30,000 --> 00:29:34,500 Please, again, be very cautious of anybody 569 00:29:34,500 --> 00:29:38,233 that gives you procedures to make you right with God. 570 00:29:41,366 --> 00:29:42,233 It's interesting. 571 00:29:42,233 --> 00:29:45,233 The King James in the new King James in verse 18, 572 00:29:45,900 --> 00:29:48,066 it says, for I know that in me 573 00:29:48,066 --> 00:29:51,066 that is, in my flesh nothing good dwells. I. 574 00:29:51,766 --> 00:29:53,600 For the will is in me. 575 00:29:53,600 --> 00:29:56,600 But how to perform what is good I can't find, 576 00:29:57,000 --> 00:30:00,000 he says, I'm looking for how to do this right. 577 00:30:00,066 --> 00:30:01,266 Have any of you ever. 578 00:30:01,266 --> 00:30:03,300 And it was ever asked I how? 579 00:30:03,300 --> 00:30:06,833 Just tell me how anybody how do I do this? 580 00:30:07,400 --> 00:30:10,466 How do I what are the how do I get right? 581 00:30:10,533 --> 00:30:11,833 How do I stink? 582 00:30:11,833 --> 00:30:13,033 How do I resist? 583 00:30:13,033 --> 00:30:14,966 How do I 584 00:30:14,966 --> 00:30:16,033 we've all asked that, right? 585 00:30:16,033 --> 00:30:18,000 Just tell me how. 586 00:30:18,000 --> 00:30:20,566 Give me a procedure. 587 00:30:20,566 --> 00:30:23,000 Give me some steps. 588 00:30:23,000 --> 00:30:24,266 Give me prescription. 589 00:30:24,266 --> 00:30:27,266 Give me something like how 590 00:30:27,500 --> 00:30:29,033 I need us to understand. 591 00:30:32,166 --> 00:30:32,400 That. 592 00:30:32,400 --> 00:30:35,400 That's the wrong question. 593 00:30:36,166 --> 00:30:37,000 Paul will. 594 00:30:37,000 --> 00:30:40,300 Paul will tell us that the solution is not in the procedure. 595 00:30:43,166 --> 00:30:43,500 Just. 596 00:30:43,500 --> 00:30:45,733 Just look at this from it. 597 00:30:45,733 --> 00:30:48,233 For I do not do the good I want, but 598 00:30:48,233 --> 00:30:51,233 the evil I do not want is what I keep on doing. 599 00:30:52,033 --> 00:30:54,633 Like this strikes home to all of us, right? 600 00:30:54,633 --> 00:30:55,400 Right. 601 00:30:55,400 --> 00:30:57,600 You know, for how many of. 602 00:30:57,600 --> 00:30:59,366 Yeah. 603 00:30:59,366 --> 00:30:59,666 Okay. 604 00:30:59,666 --> 00:31:01,233 All the rest of you didn't raise your hand. 605 00:31:01,233 --> 00:31:04,233 Yeah. 606 00:31:05,500 --> 00:31:07,200 You know, you should have, but you did it. 607 00:31:07,200 --> 00:31:10,200 You proved this right. 608 00:31:12,300 --> 00:31:15,166 I try to do right, and I fail, 609 00:31:15,166 --> 00:31:18,400 as any of us ever tried to do right and then failed at it. 610 00:31:19,033 --> 00:31:19,933 Yeah. And then. 611 00:31:19,933 --> 00:31:20,600 And then what? 612 00:31:20,600 --> 00:31:22,866 Then we're disappointed in ourselves, right? 613 00:31:22,866 --> 00:31:24,400 Yeah. This is our story. 614 00:31:26,133 --> 00:31:29,233 The problem is not lack of desire. 615 00:31:29,333 --> 00:31:31,766 The problem is not lack of knowledge. 616 00:31:31,766 --> 00:31:34,766 The problem is lack of power. 617 00:31:35,000 --> 00:31:37,500 We don't have the power within us 618 00:31:37,500 --> 00:31:40,500 to do what is right consistently. 619 00:31:40,866 --> 00:31:44,100 And if you've ever been disappointed in your failure, 620 00:31:45,266 --> 00:31:47,533 I'm going to tell you why. 621 00:31:47,533 --> 00:31:50,966 The problem is, you've trusted in yourself. 622 00:31:53,766 --> 00:31:54,400 That's our problem. 623 00:31:54,400 --> 00:31:55,533 That's why we're disappointed in ourselves. 624 00:31:55,533 --> 00:31:57,166 Because we trust in ourselves. 625 00:31:57,166 --> 00:31:59,200 We thought we could do it 626 00:31:59,200 --> 00:32:02,200 only to find out we can't. 627 00:32:02,400 --> 00:32:03,766 Here's the great thing about God 628 00:32:03,766 --> 00:32:06,766 he knows me, and he knows 629 00:32:06,900 --> 00:32:09,900 not only the failure of my past, but he knows the failure of my future. 630 00:32:10,566 --> 00:32:13,500 And because he knows the failure of my future, when I fail, 631 00:32:13,500 --> 00:32:15,233 he's not surprised. 632 00:32:15,233 --> 00:32:17,533 And when he's not surprised, he's not disappointed, 633 00:32:18,833 --> 00:32:19,800 and he's not disappointed 634 00:32:19,800 --> 00:32:22,800 because he never trusted in me in the first place. 635 00:32:23,633 --> 00:32:26,633 To understand. 636 00:32:27,266 --> 00:32:29,733 You and I are disappointed by you and I 637 00:32:29,733 --> 00:32:32,733 because you and I have trusted in you, and I. 638 00:32:33,900 --> 00:32:36,300 God says I've never trusted in you in the first place. 639 00:32:36,300 --> 00:32:38,466 I know who you are. 640 00:32:38,466 --> 00:32:41,000 So when you fail, I'm not surprised. 641 00:32:41,000 --> 00:32:41,766 Because I'm not surprised. 642 00:32:41,766 --> 00:32:44,400 I'm not disappointed in you. 643 00:32:44,400 --> 00:32:47,400 And that's why I gave my son. 644 00:32:48,666 --> 00:32:51,700 So I could lay your punishment on him and not on you. 645 00:32:53,400 --> 00:32:56,100 So I'm disappointed in you. 646 00:32:56,100 --> 00:32:58,966 Some of you have lived your religious life 647 00:32:58,966 --> 00:33:02,266 under the shadow of God's disappointment, perceived 648 00:33:02,266 --> 00:33:05,266 disappointment. 649 00:33:06,033 --> 00:33:06,633 And Paul says, 650 00:33:06,633 --> 00:33:09,633 I want you to be free from those 651 00:33:09,966 --> 00:33:12,966 grave clothes. 652 00:33:20,966 --> 00:33:22,933 If you've ever wanted a dress, 653 00:33:22,933 --> 00:33:26,000 if you've ever been disappointed in yourself, 654 00:33:27,266 --> 00:33:31,133 it means you have only trusted in yourself. 655 00:33:33,133 --> 00:33:36,133 To understand. 656 00:33:40,400 --> 00:33:42,833 That is religion. 657 00:33:42,833 --> 00:33:45,833 And that will exhaust you. 658 00:33:49,500 --> 00:33:52,033 Now, if I do what I do not want, it's 659 00:33:52,033 --> 00:33:55,133 no longer I who do it, but sin that dwells with it. 660 00:33:55,200 --> 00:33:58,100 Have you ever thought. What? Where does that come from? 661 00:33:58,100 --> 00:34:00,600 That's not me, right? 662 00:34:00,600 --> 00:34:03,600 Like God. 663 00:34:04,366 --> 00:34:06,333 So I find it to be a law 664 00:34:06,333 --> 00:34:09,533 that when I want to do right, Evil's right there. 665 00:34:11,933 --> 00:34:13,900 I mean, this is our story. 666 00:34:13,900 --> 00:34:16,066 For I delight in the law of God in my interior. 667 00:34:16,066 --> 00:34:19,066 Like in my heart. I love this in here. 668 00:34:19,066 --> 00:34:22,600 But I see in my in like in my body, my life, my hands. 669 00:34:22,600 --> 00:34:25,533 Another law waging war against the law of my mind 670 00:34:25,533 --> 00:34:28,333 and making me captive to the law of sin that dwells in my members. 671 00:34:28,333 --> 00:34:31,600 He said, I love it in here, I do, I really do, 672 00:34:32,633 --> 00:34:33,133 but I 673 00:34:33,133 --> 00:34:38,300 there's this war going on between my life and what I do in my heart 674 00:34:38,300 --> 00:34:41,300 and what I love, and I just can't reconcile the two 675 00:34:42,866 --> 00:34:45,866 I really do want to do right 676 00:34:46,533 --> 00:34:47,500 at this war. 677 00:34:47,500 --> 00:34:50,333 It just is exhausting. 678 00:34:50,333 --> 00:34:53,400 Have you have you ever been tired of fighting the battle 679 00:34:54,566 --> 00:34:55,133 with God? 680 00:34:55,133 --> 00:34:58,133 I'm like, I just can't. 681 00:34:58,433 --> 00:35:01,433 And then Paul comes in verses 24 and 25, 682 00:35:01,866 --> 00:35:04,566 wretched man that I am, 683 00:35:04,566 --> 00:35:06,900 who will deliver me from this body of death? 684 00:35:06,900 --> 00:35:08,966 I thank God through Jesus Christ our Lord. 685 00:35:08,966 --> 00:35:12,300 I want to mention a couple three things about this two verses one 686 00:35:12,366 --> 00:35:15,366 I want to start with the body of death. 687 00:35:15,600 --> 00:35:17,566 He said, who's going to free me from this body of death? 688 00:35:17,566 --> 00:35:20,400 What he's referring to is an ancient practice, 689 00:35:20,400 --> 00:35:23,166 not often practiced, but sometimes by the Romans. 690 00:35:24,200 --> 00:35:26,733 And we're told this by a poet named Virgil, 691 00:35:26,733 --> 00:35:28,500 an ancient Roman poet named Virgil. 692 00:35:28,500 --> 00:35:30,066 And he writes of this practice. 693 00:35:30,066 --> 00:35:33,566 The Romans were masters at creating horrific 694 00:35:33,933 --> 00:35:37,600 sentences of death, crucifixion being primary. 695 00:35:38,066 --> 00:35:41,166 But the Romans had other practices of the death sentence 696 00:35:41,166 --> 00:35:45,200 against people, and one of those practices was the body of death. 697 00:35:45,200 --> 00:35:46,466 And this is what was 698 00:35:46,466 --> 00:35:49,966 when someone would commit a First-Degree murder and convicted of it, 699 00:35:50,933 --> 00:35:53,033 they would take the dead body 700 00:35:53,033 --> 00:35:56,033 and strap it on the living body, 701 00:35:56,166 --> 00:35:59,166 wrist, the wrist, head to head, hip to hip. 702 00:36:00,300 --> 00:36:02,833 And they would have to drag that dead body 703 00:36:02,833 --> 00:36:05,833 around as that dead body decomposed 704 00:36:06,633 --> 00:36:08,666 and was corrupted, and that corruption 705 00:36:08,666 --> 00:36:11,666 and decomposition would infect the living body 706 00:36:12,333 --> 00:36:15,400 and eventually kill the living body from the outside in 707 00:36:17,300 --> 00:36:20,300 dragging this body of death around. 708 00:36:20,566 --> 00:36:23,566 And Paul says, this is what sin is 709 00:36:23,800 --> 00:36:26,800 strapped to this dead body. 710 00:36:27,400 --> 00:36:30,500 And we've asked over and over and over, how do I get free from this? 711 00:36:30,500 --> 00:36:32,866 How do I get free from this? How do I get free from someone? 712 00:36:32,866 --> 00:36:36,233 Please show me where is what's the procedure? 713 00:36:38,366 --> 00:36:41,366 Because it is eating me alive. 714 00:36:41,733 --> 00:36:43,800 I want to do good, I can't, I'm 715 00:36:43,800 --> 00:36:46,800 strapped to death and eventually it just takes over. 716 00:36:47,333 --> 00:36:50,333 Do you understand? 717 00:36:50,400 --> 00:36:51,633 And at this point, Paul 718 00:36:51,633 --> 00:36:54,633 no longer asks the how question. 719 00:36:55,300 --> 00:36:56,300 And this is profound. 720 00:36:56,300 --> 00:36:57,600 You have to understand this. 721 00:36:57,600 --> 00:37:00,100 He doesn't say, how do I get free from this? 722 00:37:00,100 --> 00:37:03,100 He asks, who? 723 00:37:03,366 --> 00:37:06,000 Who will deliver me from that body of death? 724 00:37:06,000 --> 00:37:07,933 It's not a how question. 725 00:37:07,933 --> 00:37:09,700 It's not a procedure question. 726 00:37:10,700 --> 00:37:12,766 It's a who question. 727 00:37:12,766 --> 00:37:15,700 Who has the power, not the procedure. 728 00:37:15,700 --> 00:37:18,033 Who has not. What is the procedure? 729 00:37:18,033 --> 00:37:21,100 Who has the power to eliminate 730 00:37:21,100 --> 00:37:24,200 this dead body, these grave clothes that I'm walking around? 731 00:37:24,233 --> 00:37:29,966 I feel like I'm always trapped and chained to this dead body that is devouring me. 732 00:37:30,000 --> 00:37:31,200 And I can't get free. 733 00:37:31,200 --> 00:37:35,400 Someone tell me how the answer is not a how the answers are who. 734 00:37:36,900 --> 00:37:38,300 And Paul understands. 735 00:37:38,300 --> 00:37:42,566 Freedom does not come from procedure, but from a person. 736 00:37:43,500 --> 00:37:46,766 Praise be to God through Jesus Christ our Lord, 737 00:37:48,533 --> 00:37:51,700 to free us from the dead body 738 00:37:52,366 --> 00:37:54,933 and from the grave clothes. 739 00:37:54,933 --> 00:37:58,066 And he starts these two verses with one with this. 740 00:37:58,333 --> 00:38:01,333 What a wretched man I am! 741 00:38:02,366 --> 00:38:04,400 I want this to hit home. 742 00:38:04,400 --> 00:38:07,100 That word wretched means literally exhausted. 743 00:38:08,733 --> 00:38:11,733 He says, I am exhausted. 744 00:38:11,800 --> 00:38:14,800 I have tried my whole life to be good. 745 00:38:16,866 --> 00:38:19,866 I have lived by other people's 746 00:38:20,000 --> 00:38:23,000 rules and sets of lists, 747 00:38:23,766 --> 00:38:26,766 and I am exhausted. 748 00:38:27,733 --> 00:38:30,066 I've tried to break free from it 749 00:38:30,066 --> 00:38:34,500 by living according to rules and regulations religiously, 750 00:38:34,633 --> 00:38:37,566 and I can't get away from this body of death. 751 00:38:37,566 --> 00:38:40,566 I am exhausted. 752 00:38:41,866 --> 00:38:44,866 Anybody? 753 00:38:44,933 --> 00:38:47,933 I just can't do it anymore. 754 00:38:48,566 --> 00:38:50,233 It doesn't work. 755 00:38:50,233 --> 00:38:52,333 I know you felt that way. 756 00:38:52,333 --> 00:38:55,133 Other kids have felt that way. 757 00:38:55,133 --> 00:38:58,133 It doesn't work. 758 00:39:00,166 --> 00:39:03,166 I'm exhausted. 759 00:39:03,866 --> 00:39:06,233 And I'm reminded of Jesus's words 760 00:39:06,233 --> 00:39:09,000 in Matthew, 28 or 11. 761 00:39:09,000 --> 00:39:11,000 Matthew 11. 762 00:39:11,000 --> 00:39:14,000 And he says, come to me, all of you who are weary 763 00:39:14,233 --> 00:39:17,233 and heavy burdened, and I'll give you rest. 764 00:39:18,600 --> 00:39:19,433 A burden is light. 765 00:39:19,433 --> 00:39:20,166 My yoke is easy. 766 00:39:20,166 --> 00:39:23,166 It's a. 767 00:39:23,500 --> 00:39:25,066 The solution is not a how. 768 00:39:25,066 --> 00:39:27,400 The solution is a problem. There is a person. 769 00:39:29,366 --> 00:39:31,500 I'm tired. 770 00:39:31,500 --> 00:39:34,500 And it's only by joining my life to Jesus, 771 00:39:35,866 --> 00:39:36,933 who in fulfillment 772 00:39:36,933 --> 00:39:39,933 of the law, died and was raised, that I have new life, 773 00:39:40,633 --> 00:39:43,900 that I don't have to live a life of exhausted performance 774 00:39:45,033 --> 00:39:48,033 because of the grace of God. 775 00:39:48,166 --> 00:39:51,866 And I have to end chapter seven with the beginning of chapter eight. 776 00:39:52,500 --> 00:39:58,400 There is therefore now no condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus. 777 00:39:58,433 --> 00:39:59,966 Am I guilty? Yup. 778 00:39:59,966 --> 00:40:02,766 Am I condemned? No, 779 00:40:02,766 --> 00:40:05,766 because all of that was leveled on Jesus. 780 00:40:06,000 --> 00:40:08,600 And so when I do still struggle 781 00:40:08,600 --> 00:40:11,700 and fail, God is not disappointed because he's not surprised. 782 00:40:11,766 --> 00:40:15,700 And he's taken all of my condemnation for that food and place it on Jesus. 783 00:40:15,700 --> 00:40:18,900 So I am free to just follow and how he leads. 784 00:40:18,900 --> 00:40:21,200 It's complete freedom and liberation. 785 00:40:23,233 --> 00:40:24,600 Do I feel condemned? 786 00:40:24,600 --> 00:40:26,733 No. Am I guilty? Yes. 787 00:40:26,733 --> 00:40:30,600 But that guilt drives me immediately to God's mercy and grace. 788 00:40:30,600 --> 00:40:33,600 And I'm joyful and profoundly grateful for it. 789 00:40:34,533 --> 00:40:37,100 All of chapter seven is true for me. 790 00:40:37,100 --> 00:40:39,133 I struggle and I don't do what I want to do. 791 00:40:39,133 --> 00:40:40,666 It might all be true. 792 00:40:40,666 --> 00:40:44,166 I cannot consistently do what's right and neither can you. 793 00:40:44,500 --> 00:40:47,500 But I don't feel condemned anymore. 794 00:40:48,300 --> 00:40:49,766 There's no condemnation 795 00:40:49,766 --> 00:40:54,633 eternally, and there's no condemnation of the guilt of shame 796 00:40:55,533 --> 00:40:58,100 in this world for me anymore. 797 00:40:58,100 --> 00:41:01,100 I am completely free in Christ. 798 00:41:01,666 --> 00:41:04,400 He has borne my condemnation. 799 00:41:04,400 --> 00:41:05,800 So am I guilty? Yes. 800 00:41:05,800 --> 00:41:08,800 But my guilt reminds me of his grace. 801 00:41:09,500 --> 00:41:11,633 And that guilt leads me to gratitude 802 00:41:11,633 --> 00:41:14,633 and joy, not to self-condemnation 803 00:41:14,733 --> 00:41:17,200 to understand complete 804 00:41:17,200 --> 00:41:20,200 freedom, complete liberation. 805 00:41:20,733 --> 00:41:22,433 Because at the end of the day, 806 00:41:24,333 --> 00:41:27,333 grace is greater. 807 00:41:28,966 --> 00:41:31,966 Than you fill in the blank. 808 00:41:37,733 --> 00:41:40,733 This is such good news. 809 00:41:42,000 --> 00:41:43,166 This is such good. 810 00:41:43,166 --> 00:41:45,700 And it's so freeing and it's so liberating. 811 00:41:45,700 --> 00:41:47,600 And in so doing, producing. 812 00:41:47,600 --> 00:41:50,600 I don't know if you got it. 813 00:41:51,200 --> 00:41:52,566 I feel like 814 00:41:52,566 --> 00:41:55,566 I'm more happy about this than you are. 815 00:41:56,633 --> 00:41:59,133 So, like, I don't know if you're understanding. 816 00:41:59,133 --> 00:42:02,133 Do I know I need to do this all over again? 817 00:42:02,166 --> 00:42:04,600 Well, like you 818 00:42:04,600 --> 00:42:07,333 truly, some of you are like, now, 819 00:42:07,333 --> 00:42:10,333 but I know I love Jesus, 820 00:42:11,133 --> 00:42:12,166 I get it, I'm free. 821 00:42:12,166 --> 00:42:15,166 All right. 822 00:42:15,766 --> 00:42:16,000 Thank you. 823 00:42:16,000 --> 00:42:19,000 This is incredible. 824 00:42:19,366 --> 00:42:22,366 It's incredible. 825 00:42:22,666 --> 00:42:25,666 And I want to invite you into this. 826 00:42:25,733 --> 00:42:28,200 I want to get you into the full experience 827 00:42:28,200 --> 00:42:31,200 of God's amazing grace, 828 00:42:31,266 --> 00:42:35,333 where he's rescued you from death and he's taken off your grave clothes, 829 00:42:35,700 --> 00:42:39,500 the grave clothes of performance, the grave clothes of guilt, 830 00:42:39,600 --> 00:42:41,600 the grave clothes of shame. 831 00:42:45,100 --> 00:42:48,100 Wow. Thank you, thank you. 832 00:42:51,666 --> 00:42:53,700 This is the gospel. 833 00:42:53,700 --> 00:42:56,700 It's a good news. 834 00:42:58,266 --> 00:42:59,066 So join me in. 835 00:42:59,066 --> 00:43:02,066 I want you to pray with me. 836 00:43:04,366 --> 00:43:04,700 There's. 837 00:43:04,700 --> 00:43:06,200 There's 838 00:43:06,200 --> 00:43:09,200 two groups of people. 839 00:43:09,833 --> 00:43:11,000 I don't want to give an opportunity to. 840 00:43:11,000 --> 00:43:11,366 Right now. 841 00:43:11,366 --> 00:43:14,733 One is the one who's walking around, 842 00:43:14,733 --> 00:43:17,733 still strapped to a dead body of sin. 843 00:43:18,800 --> 00:43:22,000 And you know how much the decay of sin 844 00:43:22,000 --> 00:43:25,000 is destroying your body and your life. 845 00:43:26,200 --> 00:43:28,566 And I want to invite you in this moment 846 00:43:28,566 --> 00:43:31,200 to join your life to the one 847 00:43:31,200 --> 00:43:33,800 who has conquered sin and death, 848 00:43:33,800 --> 00:43:37,600 who has taken your punishment and condemnation upon himself 849 00:43:38,233 --> 00:43:41,966 so that you can have a new free life completely 850 00:43:41,966 --> 00:43:44,966 right with the father. 851 00:43:45,933 --> 00:43:47,700 And towards that, and I'm going to invite you 852 00:43:47,700 --> 00:43:50,100 in the quietness of your own heart right now to say, father, 853 00:43:51,466 --> 00:43:53,633 I accept 854 00:43:53,633 --> 00:43:56,633 your gift of salvation. 855 00:43:57,000 --> 00:44:00,000 I confess I am a sinner. 856 00:44:01,700 --> 00:44:02,700 And I accept 857 00:44:02,700 --> 00:44:05,700 what Jesus did on the cross to free me 858 00:44:05,966 --> 00:44:08,933 from the body of sin and death. 859 00:44:08,933 --> 00:44:11,933 I proclaim my freedom today 860 00:44:13,433 --> 00:44:14,833 through Christ. 861 00:44:14,833 --> 00:44:17,833 By your grace. 862 00:44:18,333 --> 00:44:18,800 Jesus, 863 00:44:18,800 --> 00:44:21,800 I accept you as the leader of my life. 864 00:44:22,700 --> 00:44:26,466 Thank you. Others 865 00:44:27,566 --> 00:44:30,433 I want to invite in this moment 866 00:44:30,433 --> 00:44:33,100 to free yourself from the grave. 867 00:44:33,100 --> 00:44:36,100 Clothes of performance. 868 00:44:36,933 --> 00:44:39,933 To step into grace. 869 00:44:41,400 --> 00:44:43,733 To liberate yourself from the grave. 870 00:44:43,733 --> 00:44:45,200 Clothes. 871 00:44:45,200 --> 00:44:48,233 Of trying to obey a list of rules. 872 00:44:51,200 --> 00:44:54,200 And I invite you in this moment to also say. 873 00:44:54,900 --> 00:44:58,800 Father, I accept your grace over my life. 874 00:44:59,233 --> 00:45:02,233 Thank you for your mercy. 875 00:45:03,266 --> 00:45:05,566 Remind me not to live 876 00:45:05,566 --> 00:45:09,666 according to the letter of law, but by the spirit that you've given me. 877 00:45:09,666 --> 00:45:10,433 Your spirit 878 00:45:11,666 --> 00:45:14,733 make me sensitive to your Spirit's leading. 879 00:45:15,433 --> 00:45:18,433 That I may follow in a new way of life. 880 00:45:21,133 --> 00:45:24,133 I accept your grace. 881 00:45:25,200 --> 00:45:28,200 Help me live now by it. 882 00:45:29,500 --> 00:45:32,100 Jesus, you are the answer. 883 00:45:32,100 --> 00:45:35,033 You are the solution. 884 00:45:35,033 --> 00:45:38,033 And collectively, we want to step into your grace. 885 00:45:39,066 --> 00:45:41,166 Grace given us by the father 886 00:45:41,166 --> 00:45:43,900 because of what you've done on the cross. 887 00:45:43,900 --> 00:45:47,433 Thank you that we can step out of our grave clothes 888 00:45:48,200 --> 00:45:50,800 and into life. 889 00:45:50,800 --> 00:45:52,800 Thank you. 890 00:45:52,800 --> 00:45:54,833 In your name I pray. Amen. 891 00:45:54,833 --> 00:45:59,500 Listen, this week, read chapter seven and read chapter eight. 892 00:45:59,500 --> 00:46:01,800 We're going to get to the first part of chapter eight next week. 893 00:46:01,800 --> 00:46:04,633 This is the fun part of Romans 894 00:46:04,633 --> 00:46:07,633 is divided into four groups the wrath of God, not fun. 895 00:46:07,833 --> 00:46:08,633 The grace of God. 896 00:46:08,633 --> 00:46:10,500 We're right in the middle of this good stuff. 897 00:46:10,500 --> 00:46:12,000 And then the plan of God in the will of God. 898 00:46:12,000 --> 00:46:13,366 It's just going to get better. 899 00:46:13,366 --> 00:46:15,900 Okay, so let's step into and read it. 900 00:46:15,900 --> 00:46:16,866 The second thing. 901 00:46:16,866 --> 00:46:18,800 Seriously, I'm really serious right now. 902 00:46:20,600 --> 00:46:21,300 If you believe 903 00:46:21,300 --> 00:46:24,300 this, this stuff, tell your face you believe it. 904 00:46:25,133 --> 00:46:26,866 Like I'm serious. 905 00:46:26,866 --> 00:46:29,866 Like so. Thank you. Like some. 906 00:46:30,066 --> 00:46:31,633 I get it, 907 00:46:31,633 --> 00:46:32,100 I get it. 908 00:46:32,100 --> 00:46:33,700 It's. Yeah. No, it's good news. 909 00:46:33,700 --> 00:46:35,933 I know. 910 00:46:35,933 --> 00:46:37,800 How do you think that? Seriously. 911 00:46:37,800 --> 00:46:38,433 Sometimes, Jeff, 912 00:46:38,433 --> 00:46:42,033 I feel like I'm more excited than people who are listening to me talk. 913 00:46:42,033 --> 00:46:43,000 And maybe I am. 914 00:46:43,000 --> 00:46:45,366 I don't think I am. I think you're excited as I am. 915 00:46:45,366 --> 00:46:46,300 Didn't you like it? 916 00:46:46,300 --> 00:46:49,300 Just make sure your face knows 917 00:46:49,500 --> 00:46:51,866 it's important. Do you understand? 918 00:46:51,866 --> 00:46:56,066 You've been freed from the grave clothes of sin and failure. 919 00:46:56,366 --> 00:46:58,800 That's good news. 920 00:46:58,800 --> 00:47:00,000 That's good news. 921 00:47:00,000 --> 00:47:02,766 That's the grace of God. That's the gospel. 922 00:47:02,766 --> 00:47:05,766 It changes everything. 923 00:47:06,466 --> 00:47:07,966 And so here we do. 924 00:47:07,966 --> 00:47:10,200 We're going to sing that grateful song again. 925 00:47:10,200 --> 00:47:11,466 I pulled honorable first service. 926 00:47:11,466 --> 00:47:13,866 I said, we're doing that after I preached all we're doing again, this one too. 927 00:47:13,866 --> 00:47:15,600 So here's a stand up 928 00:47:15,600 --> 00:47:19,200 and if you can keep up with the song, sing it like your face believes it. 929 00:47:20,266 --> 00:47:21,333 And if you can't keep 930 00:47:21,333 --> 00:47:24,366 up with the song, just make your face show that you believe it. 931 00:47:24,400 --> 00:47:25,566 Listen to the people you understand. 932 00:47:25,566 --> 00:47:33,400 Just live in this moment from listening. To.