WEBVTT 1 00:00:00.080 --> 00:00:01.120 Today. Man, I'm excited. 2 00:00:01.159 --> 00:00:03.319 I don't know about you, but today's a big one 3 00:00:03.359 --> 00:00:05.519 because we're actually talking about Adam's apples. 4 00:00:07.000 --> 00:00:09.839 No, no, Kyle, we're not talking about Adams apples. We're 5 00:00:09.839 --> 00:00:12.839 talking about how Adam ate the fruit, which, by the way, 6 00:00:12.880 --> 00:00:16.320 we don't know what it was, Adam aple, and and 7 00:00:16.320 --> 00:00:19.199 how that is connected to Jesus as the second Adam. 8 00:00:19.600 --> 00:00:22.480 So yeah, that's that's the topic. So hey, he's Kyle 9 00:00:22.600 --> 00:00:24.960 and I'm Chris, and today we are the Bible. Guys. 10 00:00:36.640 --> 00:00:38.920 All right, guys, I'm excited about today because you know, 11 00:00:39.000 --> 00:00:41.439 over the last few months we've actually been getting into 12 00:00:41.600 --> 00:00:45.079 the Babylon some Babylon b articles, which is sat want to. 13 00:00:45.079 --> 00:00:46.600 Make sure news news. 14 00:00:46.640 --> 00:00:49.000 This is important news. We've got a special one today. 15 00:00:49.039 --> 00:00:51.159 And let me just throw this in. 16 00:00:51.280 --> 00:00:53.240 I always say this. These are one of my favorite 17 00:00:53.240 --> 00:00:56.359 segments because it is really sophisticated humor and because I 18 00:00:56.479 --> 00:01:00.320 live in church world. It's whoever writes this, uh lives 19 00:01:00.359 --> 00:01:01.000 in church world. 20 00:01:01.320 --> 00:01:03.280 Yeah, and you'll like just want because this story is 21 00:01:03.280 --> 00:01:04.879 actually based in Akron, Ohio. 22 00:01:05.040 --> 00:01:06.400 So oh that's great. 23 00:01:06.719 --> 00:01:08.319 It's like forty minutes before I grew up. 24 00:01:08.400 --> 00:01:11.519 Yeah, so we're gonna read this and uh, and it's 25 00:01:11.519 --> 00:01:13.879 actually fitting because you know, we encourage people to get 26 00:01:13.920 --> 00:01:16.439 into Bible reading plans, you know, encourage people to read 27 00:01:16.480 --> 00:01:18.439 the Bible in a year. And so the title of 28 00:01:18.760 --> 00:01:22.359 today's article is local man crushing Bible in a year 29 00:01:22.400 --> 00:01:25.200 plan after switching to Jesus' storybook Bible. 30 00:01:26.000 --> 00:01:27.920 All right, this is Akron, Ohio. 31 00:01:28.280 --> 00:01:31.280 Ever since changing over to the Jesus Storybook Bible, local 32 00:01:31.359 --> 00:01:34.480 man Dan Smith has been totally dominating his Bible in 33 00:01:34.480 --> 00:01:38.319 a year plan. Three chapters of Genesis, no problem, he says, 34 00:01:39.120 --> 00:01:42.159 watch me knock this out in thirty seconds. This new 35 00:01:42.200 --> 00:01:45.799 Bible is incredible. After never making the two week mark 36 00:01:45.840 --> 00:01:47.799 in previous attempts to read the Bible in a year, 37 00:01:48.400 --> 00:01:51.640 mister Smith has thus far remained right on schedule. Then, 38 00:01:51.640 --> 00:01:53.599 he says this, My five year old niece was kind 39 00:01:53.719 --> 00:01:55.920 enough to loan me her copy to get started, and 40 00:01:55.920 --> 00:01:59.200 it's been a total game changer, said mister Smith. Honestly, 41 00:01:59.439 --> 00:02:01.400 I've never un to stoo. The stories so well my 42 00:02:01.599 --> 00:02:05.359 entire life. Plus the pictures are so good they really 43 00:02:05.439 --> 00:02:08.879 keep me going. Mister Smith has proudly posted his reading 44 00:02:08.919 --> 00:02:11.800 schedule on the refrigerator and cross each day off once 45 00:02:11.840 --> 00:02:14.560 he's finished, I'm really proud of him. Sticky to this, 46 00:02:14.599 --> 00:02:18.680 said Missus Smith. Some days the readings are an entire page. 47 00:02:19.000 --> 00:02:21.759 I've had aspirations to do one of those plans, but honestly, 48 00:02:21.840 --> 00:02:23.599 I'm not sure I'm ready to take on the Jesus 49 00:02:23.639 --> 00:02:26.680 Storybook Bible in just one year. I'll probably start with 50 00:02:26.879 --> 00:02:29.960 this is cheesy, she's saying. I'll probably start with Baby's 51 00:02:30.000 --> 00:02:31.719 Hug a Bible and see how that goes. 52 00:02:33.000 --> 00:02:33.159 Yeah. 53 00:02:33.319 --> 00:02:35.919 At publishing time, mister Smith had gotten so engrossed in 54 00:02:35.919 --> 00:02:38.199 one of the Old Testa stories that he accidentally read 55 00:02:38.319 --> 00:02:40.400 three weeks ahead of schedule. 56 00:02:40.639 --> 00:02:43.159 It was so funny. So this is fun This is 57 00:02:43.159 --> 00:02:46.479 funny because the Jesus Storybook Bible is a book made 58 00:02:46.520 --> 00:02:47.479 for kids. Yeah. 59 00:02:47.560 --> 00:02:49.520 So, actually, I want to give a plug to this. 60 00:02:49.919 --> 00:02:52.240 I want something funny. Yeah, I didn't know that. Yeah, 61 00:02:52.439 --> 00:02:54.639 that's why this article is not fundy to me. Okay, 62 00:02:55.080 --> 00:02:57.840 I was literally trying to figure out why is this funny? Yes, 63 00:02:57.960 --> 00:03:00.360 and it's because you have to that are article is 64 00:03:00.400 --> 00:03:02.919 only funny if you already know what the Jesus so to. 65 00:03:02.919 --> 00:03:05.159 Give a plug for the daily because I do think 66 00:03:05.159 --> 00:03:06.680 we have obviously a lot of parents who watch this. 67 00:03:06.759 --> 00:03:09.639 If you have kids, let's say, under the age of ten, 68 00:03:10.439 --> 00:03:13.280 great Bible to have, and even for adults. And here's 69 00:03:13.280 --> 00:03:15.280 the thing that's really cool about the storybook Bible is 70 00:03:15.319 --> 00:03:16.960 it is like one page at a time telling the 71 00:03:16.960 --> 00:03:18.680 stories from the Old Testament all the way through the 72 00:03:18.680 --> 00:03:20.840 New Testament. But I think that's really cool about it 73 00:03:20.879 --> 00:03:23.000 that you like a lot. I think actually is for one, 74 00:03:23.039 --> 00:03:26.400 the illustrations and it are incredible. But then also the 75 00:03:26.439 --> 00:03:29.360 way all the stories wrap up is it connects to Jesus. 76 00:03:29.479 --> 00:03:31.280 So even thousands of years before Jesus, the way that 77 00:03:31.360 --> 00:03:34.639 each story ends, so Esther, Tom David, all these crucial figures, 78 00:03:34.680 --> 00:03:36.879 it points to Jesus and sort of redeeming act that 79 00:03:36.960 --> 00:03:39.479 Jesus was to bring about. But I can understand now 80 00:03:39.560 --> 00:03:41.280 because you haven't read it, that you're. 81 00:03:41.120 --> 00:03:43.039 Like, what, I wasn't even laughing at the. 82 00:03:43.080 --> 00:03:44.199 Jesus storybook Bible. 83 00:03:44.199 --> 00:03:48.039 Okay, well yeah, so you really have to be immersed in. 84 00:03:47.439 --> 00:03:48.840 Church culturch culture. 85 00:03:48.919 --> 00:03:51.120 Yes, yeah, but again I would just throw a little 86 00:03:51.159 --> 00:03:52.840 plug out there for parents make sure to get that 87 00:03:52.879 --> 00:03:54.520 it's actually a very very good Bible. 88 00:03:54.719 --> 00:03:55.439 Yeah, well, that's cool. 89 00:03:55.479 --> 00:03:57.120 You could read through it in a year and probably 90 00:03:57.199 --> 00:03:57.520 a week. 91 00:03:57.599 --> 00:04:00.560 So yeah, and you said, I love how you said, Chris, 92 00:04:00.560 --> 00:04:01.560 I think you'd really like it. 93 00:04:01.919 --> 00:04:06.479 I think you would great illustrations, pictures, the story is written. 94 00:04:07.520 --> 00:04:10.240 Dude, I'm a huge fan. Where was you at? I'm 95 00:04:10.280 --> 00:04:10.840 a huge fan? 96 00:04:12.159 --> 00:04:12.360 Man. 97 00:04:12.800 --> 00:04:16.040 That's great. Well, hey, today we're going to transition from 98 00:04:16.079 --> 00:04:18.439 there by saying this that, uh, we would love for 99 00:04:18.439 --> 00:04:21.680 you to interact with us on YouTube like comment and subscribe. 100 00:04:21.839 --> 00:04:25.720 If you're already receiving emails of our podcast, the chances 101 00:04:25.759 --> 00:04:28.319 are that means you've already subscribed, right, so you're you're 102 00:04:28.360 --> 00:04:31.759 receiving those emails. 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Uh, 115 00:04:56.079 --> 00:04:58.800 we're completing the second half of the chapter and in 116 00:04:58.839 --> 00:05:02.079 this particular case, we're not talking about Adam's apple, which, 117 00:05:02.120 --> 00:05:05.920 by the way, I think it's interesting how a medical 118 00:05:06.000 --> 00:05:08.560 term is called Adam's apple and it's really based out 119 00:05:08.560 --> 00:05:11.720 of biblical stories that Adam took a bite of the apple, which, 120 00:05:11.800 --> 00:05:14.079 by the way, it's always bothered me that you know 121 00:05:14.120 --> 00:05:16.439 it wasn't an apple, right, What did you not know 122 00:05:16.519 --> 00:05:18.720 that it actually says it actually says they ate. 123 00:05:18.759 --> 00:05:19.240 Of the fruit. 124 00:05:19.480 --> 00:05:21.480 Yeah, So for all we know, we're gonna get to heaven, 125 00:05:21.519 --> 00:05:24.399 it's going to be the magical fruit that is unknown. Oh, 126 00:05:24.439 --> 00:05:26.360 it could be like it's not a peach, it's not 127 00:05:26.399 --> 00:05:31.600 a pair, it's like a orange, prickly, hairy who knows 128 00:05:31.720 --> 00:05:34.240 something it could be. It could be something that we 129 00:05:34.319 --> 00:05:37.680 don't even know of. But it said of the fruit, yeah, 130 00:05:37.759 --> 00:05:41.279 didn't say apple. Yeah. So anyway, I just think that's interesting. 131 00:05:41.360 --> 00:05:45.800 So if you do disagree with Chris posting the coms kidding, 132 00:05:44.800 --> 00:05:49.120 you mean the Bible, Chris, it. 133 00:05:49.040 --> 00:05:52.480 Was a literal apple eating. However, many thousand years ago. Okay, 134 00:05:52.480 --> 00:05:53.800 here we go. Let's get into verse twelve. 135 00:05:53.879 --> 00:05:57.720 Right here, it says when Adam sinned, Sin entered the world, 136 00:05:58.199 --> 00:06:01.199 Adam sin brought death, so death spread to everyone, for 137 00:06:01.279 --> 00:06:04.839 everyone sinned. Yes, people sinned even before the law was given, 138 00:06:05.279 --> 00:06:07.720 but it was not counted a sin because there was 139 00:06:07.800 --> 00:06:11.680 not yet any law to break. Still, everyone died from 140 00:06:11.720 --> 00:06:14.160 the time of Adam to the time of Moses, even 141 00:06:14.199 --> 00:06:17.240 those who did not disobey an explicit commandment of God 142 00:06:17.480 --> 00:06:21.000 as Adam did. Now, Adam is a symbol, a representation 143 00:06:21.560 --> 00:06:24.959 of Christ, who has yet to come. But there is 144 00:06:25.000 --> 00:06:28.079 a great difference between adam sin and God's gracious gift. 145 00:06:28.519 --> 00:06:31.399 For the sin of this one man, Adam brought death 146 00:06:31.439 --> 00:06:34.879 to many. But even greater is God's wonderful grace and 147 00:06:34.959 --> 00:06:38.000 his gift of forgiveness to many through this other man, 148 00:06:38.240 --> 00:06:41.639 Jesus Christ. And the result of God's gracious gift is 149 00:06:41.759 --> 00:06:44.079 very different from the result of that one man sin. 150 00:06:44.639 --> 00:06:48.560 For Adam sin led to condemnation, but God's free gift 151 00:06:48.680 --> 00:06:52.800 leads to our being made right with God, even though 152 00:06:52.839 --> 00:06:54.839 we are guilty of many sins. For the sin of 153 00:06:54.879 --> 00:06:57.000 this one man, Adam caused death to rule over many. 154 00:06:57.399 --> 00:06:59.720 But even greater is God's wonderful grace and his gift 155 00:06:59.759 --> 00:07:02.120 of righteousness, for all who receive it will live in 156 00:07:02.120 --> 00:07:05.720 triumph over sin and death. Through this one man, Jesus Christ. Yes, 157 00:07:05.759 --> 00:07:08.879 Adam's one sin brings condemnation for everyone, but christ one 158 00:07:08.920 --> 00:07:11.560 act of righteousness brings a right relationship with God and 159 00:07:11.600 --> 00:07:13.720 a new life to everyone. So you see Paul's repeating 160 00:07:13.800 --> 00:07:15.360 himself a bunch here. He's trying to make sure we 161 00:07:15.480 --> 00:07:19.199 get the point here. Because one person disobeyed God, many 162 00:07:19.240 --> 00:07:23.360 became sinners. But because one other person obeyed God, many 163 00:07:23.399 --> 00:07:26.399 will be made righteous. God's law was given so that 164 00:07:26.439 --> 00:07:28.759 all people could see how sinful they were, and I 165 00:07:28.800 --> 00:07:30.759 love that it was given so people could see how 166 00:07:30.800 --> 00:07:33.279 sinful they were. But as people sin more and more, 167 00:07:33.519 --> 00:07:37.920 God's wonderful grace became more abundant. So just a sin 168 00:07:38.040 --> 00:07:40.399 ruled over all people and brought them to death. Now 169 00:07:40.439 --> 00:07:43.639 God's wonderful grace rules instead, giving us right standing with 170 00:07:43.680 --> 00:07:47.680 God and resulting in eternal life through Jesus Christ, our Lord. 171 00:07:48.040 --> 00:07:49.879 So again there's a lot of redundancies here, but I 172 00:07:49.920 --> 00:07:51.199 think it's for emphasis, right. 173 00:07:51.199 --> 00:07:53.800 I mean, Paul's saying this to emphasize these very important truths. 174 00:07:53.879 --> 00:07:56.240 Yeah, and we do the same thing when we talk today. 175 00:07:56.519 --> 00:07:56.680 Yep. 176 00:07:56.759 --> 00:07:59.240 So if I were to say, you know, to you man, 177 00:07:59.399 --> 00:08:04.680 you kill it, I mean you just crushed it. You slated, dude. 178 00:08:04.920 --> 00:08:08.560 I'm telling you, it was so unbelievable. You were incredible. Right, 179 00:08:08.720 --> 00:08:11.879 it's the same thing. So and actually, you know, it 180 00:08:11.920 --> 00:08:16.040 may seem redundant at times, but actually the nuances in 181 00:08:16.120 --> 00:08:19.959 his wording actually bring about just a slightly different aspect 182 00:08:20.040 --> 00:08:24.240 in some cases. Let's start at the beginning, because it's 183 00:08:24.279 --> 00:08:28.959 this idea that Adam is the uh, he's the second atom, right, 184 00:08:29.560 --> 00:08:32.240 Jesus is the second atom. I love that. And by 185 00:08:32.240 --> 00:08:33.840 the way, he's referred to later on in some of 186 00:08:33.879 --> 00:08:36.679 Paul's writings as the second atom. And I think that 187 00:08:36.679 --> 00:08:39.080 that is so unbelievably cool. A lot of people don't 188 00:08:39.559 --> 00:08:42.919 realize that Jesus is called the second atom, and Paul's 189 00:08:42.919 --> 00:08:45.720 making the contrast. But let's keep in mind though, too. 190 00:08:46.399 --> 00:08:49.240 Let's remember the big picture, the reason why Paul is 191 00:08:49.279 --> 00:08:52.240 talking about Adam in this case, he'd already talked about Abraham, right, 192 00:08:52.519 --> 00:08:55.639 he'd already talked about the Law, he'd already talked about Jesus, 193 00:08:56.120 --> 00:08:58.720 and so he's piecing all of this together. Well, the 194 00:08:58.720 --> 00:09:00.799 purpose of this is basically, he's here's what he's saying. 195 00:09:01.240 --> 00:09:04.759 He's saying, I mean, did you ever wonder he doesn't 196 00:09:04.799 --> 00:09:07.919 explain himself, but we know what this means. He says, still, 197 00:09:08.320 --> 00:09:10.639 everyone died from the time of Adam to the time 198 00:09:10.679 --> 00:09:13.639 of Moses, even those who do not disobey in explicit 199 00:09:13.679 --> 00:09:18.879 commandment of God as Adam did. So he doesn't unpack that, 200 00:09:19.159 --> 00:09:21.600 like why did he say, let's talk about all the 201 00:09:21.720 --> 00:09:25.679 human beings that died from Abraham to Moses. And it's because, 202 00:09:25.840 --> 00:09:28.840 remember we're talking about the law, and the law was 203 00:09:28.879 --> 00:09:31.720 given through Moses. So here's what he's saying. He's saying, 204 00:09:31.960 --> 00:09:35.600 humanity started with Adam, and then Adam sinned, and then 205 00:09:35.639 --> 00:09:39.200 everybody became sinners. And he says, now, if you're so 206 00:09:39.679 --> 00:09:42.600 hype about the law and how you have to obey 207 00:09:42.639 --> 00:09:45.039 the law to get to heaven, he's saying, what happened 208 00:09:45.039 --> 00:09:47.159 to all the people who died before the law? That's 209 00:09:47.159 --> 00:09:50.480 what he's saying. He's saying, there are literally thousands, if 210 00:09:50.519 --> 00:09:53.519 not hundreds of thousands, who knows of people who died 211 00:09:53.600 --> 00:09:56.879 between that timeline and what happened to them, And that's 212 00:09:56.879 --> 00:09:58.879 what he's saying. And so he's saying that you know, 213 00:09:59.360 --> 00:10:03.399 they're looking for to you know, what Jesus is going 214 00:10:03.440 --> 00:10:08.399 to bring, but everybody is given sin through Adam, and 215 00:10:08.519 --> 00:10:12.919 everybody's given righteousness through Jesus. And he says, just as 216 00:10:12.960 --> 00:10:16.559 one act brought this, one act brought that, just as 217 00:10:16.600 --> 00:10:19.519 one person led to this, one person leads to that. 218 00:10:20.120 --> 00:10:20.960 I think it's really cool. 219 00:10:21.039 --> 00:10:22.240 Yeah, And one of the things I always think of 220 00:10:22.279 --> 00:10:24.159 whenever I think of when I'm explaining, like even the 221 00:10:24.200 --> 00:10:25.960 Gospel to other people, I always think of, like, we're 222 00:10:25.960 --> 00:10:30.879 a picture of like a bridge, right, us being imperfect sinners. 223 00:10:31.000 --> 00:10:32.679 I think a lot of people, even those we aren't Christians, 224 00:10:32.679 --> 00:10:34.240 can wrap their head around the fact that they've missed 225 00:10:34.240 --> 00:10:35.799 the mark here and there. Right, So we're imperfect, we 226 00:10:35.799 --> 00:10:38.639 have a perfect God. And then this in this story 227 00:10:38.679 --> 00:10:41.799 we have we have the example of Adam and Jesus, 228 00:10:41.919 --> 00:10:45.320 Jesus being the bridge, and it's so important to have 229 00:10:45.399 --> 00:10:47.279 the bridge like that link there or else we're we're 230 00:10:47.320 --> 00:10:49.799 kind of hopeless. Have you ever been like I'm sure 231 00:10:49.799 --> 00:10:52.039 you probably visited, like I know your your daughter actually 232 00:10:52.039 --> 00:10:54.399 lives in the west side of Florida, But have you 233 00:10:54.440 --> 00:10:56.960 ever been a saying Abelt Island by any chance? Okay, 234 00:10:57.000 --> 00:10:59.639 so it's beautiful, like gulf side, beautiful island over there, 235 00:10:59.639 --> 00:11:01.639 and my life and I were just there actually in August, 236 00:11:02.480 --> 00:11:04.399 just a few months back for our anniversary. 237 00:11:04.840 --> 00:11:05.960 So we stayed for a couple of days. 238 00:11:05.960 --> 00:11:08.120 When we were down there in Santa bal Island, beautiful, dude, 239 00:11:08.120 --> 00:11:10.399 like it just like like paradise, not quite Hawaii, but 240 00:11:10.399 --> 00:11:12.360 it has that like just just beautiful, lot a lot 241 00:11:12.399 --> 00:11:14.080 to look at, sceneries, amazing all that stuff. 242 00:11:14.159 --> 00:11:16.279 By the way, nothing's quite like what right, yeah. 243 00:11:16.039 --> 00:11:17.840 So so but still at least you're facing that same 244 00:11:17.879 --> 00:11:20.039 way with the with the sunset, sunrise, all that stuff. 245 00:11:20.240 --> 00:11:22.480 My wife and I was beautiful, like loved our time there. 246 00:11:22.639 --> 00:11:22.720 Well. 247 00:11:22.799 --> 00:11:25.399 Then the next month that hurricane I can remember the 248 00:11:25.440 --> 00:11:28.320 name of hurricane whatever it was that came through there 249 00:11:28.360 --> 00:11:32.080 there September. So hurricane hits and going to Santa bal Island. 250 00:11:32.080 --> 00:11:33.759 The only way you can get onto Santa Island and 251 00:11:34.039 --> 00:11:37.639 exit or enter Sanda Islands through these massive bridges. So 252 00:11:37.720 --> 00:11:39.960 one is in Naples, kind of around Naples area. One 253 00:11:40.279 --> 00:11:43.759 the top of it's in Saint Petersburg or no, Saint Thomas, 254 00:11:43.759 --> 00:11:45.679 Saint Thomas and is you know, the hurricane hit Saint 255 00:11:45.720 --> 00:11:48.759 Thomas and and and did some damage there. And so 256 00:11:49.039 --> 00:11:51.240 it's pretty wild because like we I, me and Chris 257 00:11:51.320 --> 00:11:53.120 and I have pictures of us like cross and videos 258 00:11:53.120 --> 00:11:54.840 of us crossing over the bridge because it's just beautiful. 259 00:11:54.840 --> 00:11:57.960 I mean, you're surrounded by blue water and it's just amazing. 260 00:11:58.279 --> 00:12:00.480 And the crazy thing is when that hurricane, it actually 261 00:12:00.559 --> 00:12:03.399 knocked down the bridge on both sides, Like so people 262 00:12:03.399 --> 00:12:05.600 that owned homes, if you were somebody who was commuting 263 00:12:05.639 --> 00:12:08.320 in and out of work, there was no access over 264 00:12:08.399 --> 00:12:10.080 to your location. They had to take boats and it 265 00:12:10.120 --> 00:12:12.759 was just it's crazy. But it just made me think 266 00:12:12.799 --> 00:12:14.480 about like when I saw that, and you know, I 267 00:12:14.559 --> 00:12:16.440 just thought about the fact that like that bridge is 268 00:12:16.480 --> 00:12:19.159 literally the link to that place, and all of a sudden, 269 00:12:19.159 --> 00:12:21.480 as soon as you remove that link, you don't have 270 00:12:21.519 --> 00:12:24.240 access to that paradise. Really, it just made me feel 271 00:12:24.279 --> 00:12:26.159 for those people. But also when I think about our faith, 272 00:12:27.240 --> 00:12:29.840 Jesus is that link. He is that bridge between us 273 00:12:29.879 --> 00:12:32.840 and God and therefore there's no condemnation in Christ. And 274 00:12:32.879 --> 00:12:36.080 we see this story this bridge of Adam, who is 275 00:12:36.440 --> 00:12:38.440 who had sin in his life, and it's kind of, 276 00:12:38.519 --> 00:12:41.279 you know, took humanity going backwards. Ever since then, we're 277 00:12:41.320 --> 00:12:43.480 we're kind of moving east of Eden, is what they say, right, 278 00:12:43.639 --> 00:12:46.360 Like from the beginning of time humanity with Adam sin 279 00:12:46.399 --> 00:12:48.759 we've been moving, you know, outside of Eden, and then 280 00:12:48.919 --> 00:12:52.799 Jesus comes to essentially right those wrongs. He essentially becomes 281 00:12:52.799 --> 00:12:56.519 the bridge between Adam or he's making that bridge and 282 00:12:56.519 --> 00:12:58.159 also giving us a bridge between us and God. 283 00:12:58.279 --> 00:12:59.159 So anyways, I. 284 00:12:59.120 --> 00:13:00.360 Just love this, and I think if you are somebod 285 00:13:00.399 --> 00:13:02.240 who shares your faith or you're thinking about sharing your faith, 286 00:13:02.240 --> 00:13:04.360 think about that that bridge illustration. 287 00:13:05.200 --> 00:13:09.000 Yeah, and so let's remember that, Paul. What he's trying 288 00:13:09.039 --> 00:13:11.159 to do is he's trying to take all of the 289 00:13:11.279 --> 00:13:15.759 Jewish readers and listeners, readers of his letter right, listeners 290 00:13:15.759 --> 00:13:18.120 of the reading of it, trying to get all of 291 00:13:18.120 --> 00:13:20.879 their Bible knowledge. And he's trying to say, do you 292 00:13:20.960 --> 00:13:24.799 understand that my theology is supported by the scriptures that 293 00:13:24.840 --> 00:13:28.519 you love, and it's supported by the stories that you 294 00:13:28.679 --> 00:13:31.759 know and the characters that you revere, And do you 295 00:13:31.879 --> 00:13:37.799 understand that Jesus Christ aligns with every single Old Testament character. 296 00:13:38.080 --> 00:13:41.559 He aligns with Moses, he has his part with the Law, 297 00:13:41.799 --> 00:13:44.000 he has his part with Abraham's Promise, he has his 298 00:13:44.080 --> 00:13:47.279 part with King David and the Dividic Covenant. He has 299 00:13:47.279 --> 00:13:50.919 his part with every single part of humanity, and not 300 00:13:50.960 --> 00:13:54.080 only that, but even our righteousness and how we respond 301 00:13:54.080 --> 00:13:56.600 to God through all of those phases and what that 302 00:13:56.679 --> 00:13:58.480 means for us right now. So he's bringing all of 303 00:13:58.480 --> 00:14:03.440 that together, and I love how when he talks about 304 00:14:03.440 --> 00:14:06.960 how the law was given to show us of our 305 00:14:07.039 --> 00:14:08.759 sin verse twenty. 306 00:14:08.759 --> 00:14:10.440 You're talking about, yeah, verse twenty, for. 307 00:14:10.440 --> 00:14:13.039 The law was given so that all the people can 308 00:14:13.120 --> 00:14:16.240 see how sinful they were. And it's so interesting because 309 00:14:16.279 --> 00:14:18.720 here we are twenty twenty three, and if you ask 310 00:14:18.759 --> 00:14:22.720 somebody how to get to heaven, people just don't know 311 00:14:22.759 --> 00:14:25.440 about the Bible. All they really know about the Bible is, well, 312 00:14:25.519 --> 00:14:27.039 I just know that there's a bunch of thou shouts 313 00:14:27.080 --> 00:14:29.559 and notts in the Bible, right and if we obey, 314 00:14:29.600 --> 00:14:32.360 then you know, God is pleased. And when we disobey 315 00:14:32.480 --> 00:14:35.279 or rebel or willfully sin, God is not pleased. So 316 00:14:35.320 --> 00:14:36.960 when you say how do you get to heaven? People say, well, 317 00:14:36.960 --> 00:14:38.879 I try my very best to be a good person. 318 00:14:39.240 --> 00:14:42.240 I've tried really hard to obey the ten commandments. I 319 00:14:42.240 --> 00:14:44.799 remember I saw a message one time by Francis Chan 320 00:14:45.200 --> 00:14:47.919 and since then I've quoted it like at least a 321 00:14:48.000 --> 00:14:51.759 dozen times where he says, it's so funny how people 322 00:14:52.759 --> 00:14:55.960 hold up the Ten Commandments as like the highest bar 323 00:14:56.399 --> 00:14:59.000 and they said, oh, the ten Commandments, you know, like 324 00:14:59.039 --> 00:15:01.759 never mind the six hundred thirteen precepts, right, the ten 325 00:15:01.799 --> 00:15:04.320 Commandments that were written on the stone. If I just 326 00:15:04.440 --> 00:15:07.559 keep the ten Commandments, he says. He says, the Ten 327 00:15:07.600 --> 00:15:12.559 Commandments are the lowest common denominator of human behavior. He's like, 328 00:15:12.600 --> 00:15:17.240 think about it. He's like, try not to kill anybody today. 329 00:15:17.480 --> 00:15:21.039 And he's like, don't do that. Don't take things that 330 00:15:21.200 --> 00:15:25.200 aren't that don't belong to you, right, you know, don't. 331 00:15:25.000 --> 00:15:26.559 Sleep neighbors, don't sleep. 332 00:15:26.320 --> 00:15:29.200 With your neighbor's wife. Can you can you try not 333 00:15:29.360 --> 00:15:30.240 to do that today? 334 00:15:30.320 --> 00:15:31.440 If you could? 335 00:15:32.159 --> 00:15:33.960 And he says, he says, so he goes. Instead of 336 00:15:34.000 --> 00:15:37.960 the Ten Commandments being super high, he said, God has 337 00:15:38.039 --> 00:15:42.960 given them as super low and they're the lowest bar, right, 338 00:15:43.080 --> 00:15:47.639 he says, and somehow humanity has managed to slither underneath them, 339 00:15:48.120 --> 00:15:51.320 to show ourselves into everybody else that we're not good enough. 340 00:15:51.919 --> 00:15:55.320 I just think that that is an incredible perspective, because, 341 00:15:55.320 --> 00:15:58.840 after all, it's not. Francis Shanner says that it's the Bible, 342 00:15:59.519 --> 00:16:02.120 because you know, Paul says it right here that the 343 00:16:02.200 --> 00:16:06.600 law was given not so that you will understand how 344 00:16:06.639 --> 00:16:09.720 good you are or that you can attain it obtain it. Right. 345 00:16:10.240 --> 00:16:12.759 And by the way, we didn't even mention the verse yesterday, 346 00:16:13.080 --> 00:16:14.480 but it says the easiest way to not have to 347 00:16:14.480 --> 00:16:16.279 break the law is for no law to be given, 348 00:16:17.120 --> 00:16:18.559 is right. You know when I saw that verse, you 349 00:16:18.600 --> 00:16:20.279 know what I actually thought, I'm going to quote a 350 00:16:20.279 --> 00:16:23.679 Bible verse to the next cop that pulls me over. Right, Yeah, hey, 351 00:16:23.720 --> 00:16:25.200 the easiest way to have to break the laws for 352 00:16:25.600 --> 00:16:28.080 if there was no law, that wouldn't have broken. Yeah, 353 00:16:28.159 --> 00:16:30.000 you know, why did you put that sign up here 354 00:16:30.080 --> 00:16:31.320 that says go thirty five miles. 355 00:16:31.519 --> 00:16:31.879 That's true. 356 00:16:31.879 --> 00:16:33.559 It's true in the schools well, and it makes you 357 00:16:33.600 --> 00:16:35.480 think even I think even as parenting, when you think 358 00:16:35.519 --> 00:16:38.000 about like the rules like you can align you could 359 00:16:38.039 --> 00:16:40.440 line up so many rules at your household to where 360 00:16:40.480 --> 00:16:43.720 like it's impossible to ever be innocent right as a 361 00:16:43.799 --> 00:16:45.559 child or in life. You know, you go to a 362 00:16:45.559 --> 00:16:47.039 workplace and they can have all that you show up 363 00:16:47.039 --> 00:16:48.879 at this time, you dress this way, whatever, and it's 364 00:16:48.919 --> 00:16:51.080 like it just feels like it's a futile effort because 365 00:16:51.080 --> 00:16:53.320 you'll never And I think that's what is like. The 366 00:16:53.399 --> 00:16:55.919 law is there to remind you how far away from 367 00:16:55.960 --> 00:16:56.759 perfect you are. 368 00:16:56.919 --> 00:16:58.440 You know. It's like you want to be perfect. No, 369 00:16:58.480 --> 00:16:59.360 you're not even close. 370 00:16:59.679 --> 00:17:01.480 And then even the way he follows up, it's like, 371 00:17:01.919 --> 00:17:03.360 this is the good news of it, right, So, hey, 372 00:17:03.399 --> 00:17:05.599 bad news, you'll never line up. The good news is, 373 00:17:06.359 --> 00:17:09.039 but as people have said, more and more, God's wonderful 374 00:17:09.160 --> 00:17:12.279 grace becomes more and more abundant. So as you get 375 00:17:12.319 --> 00:17:14.640 further and further away, that just means his grace is 376 00:17:14.680 --> 00:17:17.319 stronger and stronger, which is a really beautiful contrast right 377 00:17:17.319 --> 00:17:17.680 there too. 378 00:17:17.880 --> 00:17:20.039 So I told this like a year ago, but I'm 379 00:17:20.039 --> 00:17:23.079 gonna I'm gonna quick reference it again. One time, my 380 00:17:23.160 --> 00:17:25.759 father in law came in from Ohio and he brought 381 00:17:25.759 --> 00:17:28.799 this big old bobcat thing, you know, and he scraped 382 00:17:28.799 --> 00:17:31.319 my lawn and we planted new lawn, and he threw 383 00:17:31.359 --> 00:17:34.759 down some seeds and some hay grass, thanks man. And 384 00:17:34.839 --> 00:17:37.519 it turns out that the hay had like a grassy 385 00:17:37.559 --> 00:17:37.960 weed in it. 386 00:17:38.039 --> 00:17:38.519 Yeah. 387 00:17:38.559 --> 00:17:40.680 So there was all these weeds that came up and 388 00:17:40.680 --> 00:17:43.119 they were so different than my grass. My grass was 389 00:17:43.160 --> 00:17:45.519 like dark green and small. And these weeds were like lime, 390 00:17:45.799 --> 00:17:48.640 fluorescent green, and they were like three times as tall, 391 00:17:48.960 --> 00:17:51.880 and it was awful. And so I went in to 392 00:17:52.119 --> 00:17:55.960 the store, to the you know, the green store, and 393 00:17:56.000 --> 00:17:59.480 I said, I need a and I pulled both. I 394 00:17:59.480 --> 00:18:01.680 pulled them and I said, here, look at these, and 395 00:18:01.720 --> 00:18:03.799 I said, I need a weed killer. Now. I went 396 00:18:03.880 --> 00:18:06.400 in thinking that I would be walking out with a 397 00:18:06.400 --> 00:18:10.240 weed killer. And so if the weeds are our sin, right, 398 00:18:10.319 --> 00:18:13.519 and the law is the weed killer, right, I went 399 00:18:13.559 --> 00:18:15.640 in there thinking like, hey, just give me, give me 400 00:18:15.680 --> 00:18:22.359 something to eradicate the unwanted weeds in my grass. He says, listen, 401 00:18:22.519 --> 00:18:24.759