1 00:00:02,840 --> 00:00:05,680 You're listening to Key Life Fellowships pulpit ministry 2 00:00:05,680 --> 00:00:08,880 podcast. We thank you for tuning in as we 3 00:00:08,880 --> 00:00:12,280 learn from God's Word together. If you would like more 4 00:00:12,280 --> 00:00:15,720 information regarding Key Life or to speak with one of our 5 00:00:15,720 --> 00:00:20,920 pastors, please visit us at keylifefellow-ship.com. 6 00:00:22,800 --> 00:00:27,560 Raise the mount. I am fixed up on it, Mount of 7 00:00:27,560 --> 00:00:34,200 God's redeeming love. It speaks of Mount Calvary for 8 00:00:34,280 --> 00:00:40,000 Jesus Christ, boy, the wrath of God in the place of wretched 9 00:00:40,000 --> 00:00:44,920 sinners such as I as we open our Bibles today. 10 00:00:44,920 --> 00:00:49,720 I don't turn your eyes to Mount Calvary just yet, but I invite 11 00:00:49,720 --> 00:00:54,960 you to turn to Exodus 20 as we turn our eyes to another mount, 12 00:00:54,960 --> 00:01:01,080 Mount Sinai, as we continue to look at our series that we began 13 00:01:01,080 --> 00:01:04,599 last week entitled The Bad or the Gut. 14 00:01:04,599 --> 00:01:08,160 There is one gospel. We look at the message today, 15 00:01:08,680 --> 00:01:13,080 the bad news first. We learned last week what the 16 00:01:13,080 --> 00:01:18,800 gospel is, not what it isn't. It isn't earned by our. 17 00:01:18,800 --> 00:01:21,320 Works. It's by grace alone, through 18 00:01:21,320 --> 00:01:25,080 faith alone in Christ alone. The gospel isn't ecumenical 19 00:01:25,080 --> 00:01:28,040 tolerance where we just all get along for the sake of getting 20 00:01:28,040 --> 00:01:34,080 along. The gospel isn't evolving in 21 00:01:34,080 --> 00:01:36,480 nature at all. It is the same gospel that the 22 00:01:36,480 --> 00:01:39,480 Lord Jesus Christ preached, that was passed through his apostles, 23 00:01:39,480 --> 00:01:42,240 that was passed down through the ages, that if you're in Christ, 24 00:01:42,240 --> 00:01:46,160 you believe nothing has changed and nothing will ever change. 25 00:01:46,160 --> 00:01:49,880 It is the eternal message of hope found in the clear gospel 26 00:01:49,880 --> 00:01:54,400 according to Scripture. Then we close with the fact that 27 00:01:54,400 --> 00:01:56,600 the gospel isn't easily accepted. 28 00:01:56,680 --> 00:02:00,480 In fact, many people have spent lots of time and lots of effort. 29 00:02:02,040 --> 00:02:05,560 I'm trying to repackage and reorchestrate the gospel so that 30 00:02:05,560 --> 00:02:08,360 it's more accepted. It's easier to swallow, it's 31 00:02:08,360 --> 00:02:11,680 more palatable to the taste of sinful man. 32 00:02:13,800 --> 00:02:17,760 We briefly spoke last week about the gospel being good news. 33 00:02:17,760 --> 00:02:22,120 I spoke of a term in the Greek, the UN galleon, which means good 34 00:02:22,120 --> 00:02:31,280 tidings or good message. But as with every ounce of good 35 00:02:31,280 --> 00:02:38,040 news that we receive in life, there must be some bad news that 36 00:02:38,040 --> 00:02:44,400 makes the good news good. Because without the bad news, 37 00:02:44,400 --> 00:02:47,560 there would be no need for good news. 38 00:02:48,600 --> 00:02:51,240 And so before we continue looking at the good news of the 39 00:02:51,240 --> 00:02:54,120 gospel and how glorious a message this is as revealed in 40 00:02:54,120 --> 00:02:57,240 Christ, and through Christ and through what he's done for us at 41 00:02:57,240 --> 00:03:04,000 the cross of Calvary, we go back to Mount Sinai some 1500 years 42 00:03:04,000 --> 00:03:09,120 before Christ. We turn our attention to the bad 43 00:03:09,120 --> 00:03:12,880 news. We turn our attention to God's 44 00:03:12,880 --> 00:03:20,120 law He is going to give to Moses, to the people of Israel. 45 00:03:21,960 --> 00:03:26,400 Well, journey back to the second book of the Bible. 46 00:03:28,280 --> 00:03:34,760 We'll discover the bad news so that we can truly appreciate the 47 00:03:34,760 --> 00:03:38,440 good news. Am I saying that the law of God 48 00:03:38,440 --> 00:03:40,160 is bad? Absolutely not. 49 00:03:41,560 --> 00:03:44,160 We know that the law of God is not bad because the psalmist 50 00:03:44,160 --> 00:03:47,320 says in Psalm 19 verse 7, the law of the Lord is perfect, 51 00:03:48,200 --> 00:03:51,840 refreshing the soul. Paul declares in Romans Chapter 52 00:03:51,840 --> 00:03:54,040 7 verse 12. So then the law is holy and the 53 00:03:54,040 --> 00:03:55,800 commandment is holy, righteous and good. 54 00:03:56,040 --> 00:04:00,120 He's saying that God's law, His commands are holy, righteous and 55 00:04:00,120 --> 00:04:02,000 good. So I'm not telling you that the 56 00:04:02,000 --> 00:04:06,480 law is bad. Law is good and perfect and holy 57 00:04:07,200 --> 00:04:09,600 because it came from the very mouth of God, inscribed on the 58 00:04:09,600 --> 00:04:11,480 tablets by the very finger of God. 59 00:04:13,240 --> 00:04:18,720 What I am saying to you is this man in his sinful condition. 60 00:04:18,720 --> 00:04:22,120 Upon hearing the law, we'll see that. 61 00:04:22,120 --> 00:04:24,680 Know the law be good and perfect and right. 62 00:04:27,440 --> 00:04:32,080 The law brings bad news to sinful man. 63 00:04:33,080 --> 00:04:35,280 Paul says this in Romans 7. Did that which is good then 64 00:04:35,280 --> 00:04:38,120 become death to me? He says by no means in verse 13, 65 00:04:38,280 --> 00:04:41,800 but in order that sin might be recognized as sin, it produced 66 00:04:41,800 --> 00:04:45,520 death in me through what was good, so that through the 67 00:04:45,520 --> 00:04:48,120 commandments sin might be utterly sinful. 68 00:04:48,120 --> 00:04:52,000 Paul still on holding, adhering to the idea that the law is 69 00:04:52,000 --> 00:04:56,000 good, but the good law bought. Brought bad news, and that bad 70 00:04:56,000 --> 00:05:00,480 news is that Paul was a Sinner. As we look at the law today as 71 00:05:00,480 --> 00:05:03,040 given on Mount Sinai, we're going to see that the law is the 72 00:05:03,040 --> 00:05:11,560 bad news, the center. It's bad news again, not because 73 00:05:12,400 --> 00:05:16,480 in and of itself it's bad, because I have already 74 00:05:16,480 --> 00:05:18,320 established the fact that is good. 75 00:05:21,040 --> 00:05:24,880 It's bad because of what it reveals to us. 76 00:05:26,160 --> 00:05:30,520 So in our lesson today, we're going to explore the law, namely 77 00:05:30,520 --> 00:05:34,520 the moral law, what we know as the 10 commandments, the 78 00:05:34,520 --> 00:05:41,120 Decalogue. And this is the bad news first. 79 00:05:43,560 --> 00:05:47,440 It is the bad news that makes the good news good. 80 00:05:49,200 --> 00:05:53,000 Exodus chapter 20, verse one, in a passage that I hope you are 81 00:05:53,000 --> 00:05:58,000 all familiar with, it says and God spoke all these words. 82 00:05:58,480 --> 00:06:01,360 Who spoke them? I want to establish that right 83 00:06:01,360 --> 00:06:02,400 off the bat. These are not. 84 00:06:02,400 --> 00:06:07,600 Kirk Hall's words, I would never put this type of standard on me 85 00:06:07,600 --> 00:06:08,800 because I know I can't meet this. 86 00:06:10,760 --> 00:06:12,160 He says. I am the Lord your God who 87 00:06:12,160 --> 00:06:14,840 brought you out of Egypt, out of the land of slavery. 88 00:06:14,840 --> 00:06:16,360 He's reminding you, remember who I am. 89 00:06:17,480 --> 00:06:20,760 I'm the one who's delivered you. You shall have no other gods 90 00:06:20,760 --> 00:06:23,480 before me. You should not make for yourself 91 00:06:23,480 --> 00:06:27,120 an idol in the form of anything in heaven above or on on the 92 00:06:27,120 --> 00:06:28,960 earth beneath or in the waters below. 93 00:06:29,600 --> 00:06:32,200 You should not bow down to them or worship them. 94 00:06:32,200 --> 00:06:36,800 For I the Lord your God am a jealous God, punishing the 95 00:06:36,800 --> 00:06:39,440 children for the sin of their fathers to the third and 4th 96 00:06:39,440 --> 00:06:44,440 generation of those who hate Me, but showing love to 1000 97 00:06:44,440 --> 00:06:47,520 generations of those who love Me and keep My commandments. 98 00:06:48,840 --> 00:06:52,320 Verse 7 says You shall not misuse the name of the Lord your 99 00:06:52,320 --> 00:06:58,120 God, for the Lord will not hold anyone guiltless who misuses his 100 00:06:58,520 --> 00:07:01,080 name. He says in verse 8, remember the 101 00:07:01,080 --> 00:07:06,080 Sabbath day by keeping it holy. Six days you shall labor and do 102 00:07:06,080 --> 00:07:09,320 all your work. But the 7th day is a Sabbath to 103 00:07:09,640 --> 00:07:13,400 the Lord your God. On it you shall not do any work, 104 00:07:14,040 --> 00:07:17,960 neither you, nor your son or daughter, nor your manservant or 105 00:07:17,960 --> 00:07:22,080 maidservant, nor your animals, nor the alien within your gates. 106 00:07:22,640 --> 00:07:26,320 Verse 11 says, For in six days the Lord made the heavens and 107 00:07:26,320 --> 00:07:30,960 the earth, the sea, and all that is in them, but he rested on the 108 00:07:30,960 --> 00:07:33,880 7th day. Therefore the Lord blessed the 109 00:07:33,880 --> 00:07:38,840 Sabbath day and made it holy. What a gracious God to allow us 110 00:07:39,320 --> 00:07:42,360 rest from our work. He says in verse 12, Honor your 111 00:07:42,360 --> 00:07:45,920 father and your mother so that you may live long in the land 112 00:07:45,920 --> 00:07:50,080 the Lord your God is giving you. You shall not murder, you shall 113 00:07:50,080 --> 00:07:53,840 not commit adultery, you shall not steal, you shall not give 114 00:07:53,840 --> 00:07:55,920 false testimony against your neighbor. 115 00:07:56,520 --> 00:07:58,600 You shall not covet your neighbor's house. 116 00:07:58,800 --> 00:08:01,600 You shall not covet your neighbor's wife, or his 117 00:08:01,600 --> 00:08:06,960 manservant or maidservant, his ox or donkey, or anything that 118 00:08:06,960 --> 00:08:12,520 belongs to your neighbor. Verse 18 says When the people 119 00:08:12,520 --> 00:08:17,240 saw the Thunder and lightning and heard the trumpet and saw 120 00:08:17,240 --> 00:08:21,320 the mountain in smoke, they trembled with fear. 121 00:08:22,160 --> 00:08:26,880 They stayed at a distance and said to Moses, speak to us 122 00:08:26,880 --> 00:08:32,280 yourself, and we will listen, but do not have God speak to us 123 00:08:32,280 --> 00:08:36,760 or we will die. Let's pray together. 124 00:08:36,760 --> 00:08:40,480 Father, in the name of Jesus, we thank you for your word. 125 00:08:41,840 --> 00:08:46,800 Lord, as we have read through Your Word already and these few 126 00:08:46,800 --> 00:08:51,560 verses, we have seen that we fall way short of what Your 127 00:08:51,560 --> 00:08:55,480 expectations in Your perfect standards say that we are to be. 128 00:08:57,680 --> 00:08:59,440 And Lord, we know that is bad news. 129 00:09:00,720 --> 00:09:06,200 God, I pray today that You would use this bad news to show all of 130 00:09:06,200 --> 00:09:11,320 the sinners here today the error of our ways and our need for 131 00:09:11,320 --> 00:09:16,560 dependency upon Jesus Christ, the only One who can rescue us 132 00:09:17,200 --> 00:09:20,320 from the penalty of sin in the wrath of God, which we deserve. 133 00:09:21,840 --> 00:09:26,000 And I pray for the soul who does not know Christ today, who might 134 00:09:26,000 --> 00:09:29,320 be trying to somehow approach you by their own efforts. 135 00:09:30,000 --> 00:09:33,800 Show them, Lord, that they cannot, that they cannot keep 136 00:09:33,800 --> 00:09:38,600 your law and its entirety. It is impossible for sin sinful 137 00:09:38,600 --> 00:09:41,960 man to do anything other than to sin. 138 00:09:43,800 --> 00:09:49,000 God, I pray today that in Christ they would be restored and 139 00:09:49,000 --> 00:09:53,080 reconciled and cleansed of all of their sin and made right with 140 00:09:53,080 --> 00:09:56,800 you through Christ. Use this time to teach us. 141 00:09:56,800 --> 00:10:00,120 Use this time to fashion us and to mold us into who you desire 142 00:10:00,120 --> 00:10:03,160 for us to be. We pray all these things in the 143 00:10:03,160 --> 00:10:10,800 mighty name of Jesus, Amen. As we come to Mount Sinai this 144 00:10:10,800 --> 00:10:15,000 morning, we come to some very, very bad news. 145 00:10:16,840 --> 00:10:19,080 And that is what the law really does. 146 00:10:19,080 --> 00:10:21,480 I want to make this clear. You do not to take the 10 147 00:10:21,480 --> 00:10:24,560 commandments and say I have to live by these 10 commandments so 148 00:10:24,560 --> 00:10:27,960 that I can gain eternal life. You're in a, in a heap of 149 00:10:27,960 --> 00:10:33,000 trouble because just a moment ago, as you were going through 150 00:10:33,240 --> 00:10:35,600 those commands, what did you realize? 151 00:10:36,600 --> 00:10:38,920 I've broken that one, and I've broken that one. 152 00:10:39,320 --> 00:10:42,160 And you were checking off the boxes in your minds, confirming 153 00:10:42,160 --> 00:10:48,160 in your own mind, in your own heart, that you are a Sinner, A 154 00:10:48,160 --> 00:10:52,880 transgressor. So we begin with the bad news of 155 00:10:52,880 --> 00:10:55,000 the law. The bad news of the law reveals 156 00:10:55,000 --> 00:10:56,960 some things to us, and we're going to talk about three of 157 00:10:56,960 --> 00:11:00,800 those things today. And very important things, the 158 00:11:00,800 --> 00:11:03,960 first thing that I want you to see in those first 17 verses 159 00:11:06,120 --> 00:11:08,920 where we get the 10 commandments or what I have already referred 160 00:11:08,920 --> 00:11:14,360 to as the Decalogue in those first 17 commandments. 161 00:11:15,800 --> 00:11:21,960 We see God reveal His holy and His moral standard, that which 162 00:11:21,960 --> 00:11:27,880 He requires of all men and all women. 163 00:11:29,320 --> 00:11:35,160 We see He breaks it down for us in two parts, the first part 164 00:11:35,160 --> 00:11:40,320 being our relationship to God. We see that in the 1st 4 165 00:11:40,320 --> 00:11:45,080 commands that He gives to His people and then the second part 166 00:11:45,080 --> 00:11:49,960 is our relationship to man. We see that in the last 6 167 00:11:50,120 --> 00:11:54,760 commands. God is not lenient in any way on 168 00:11:54,760 --> 00:11:58,400 any of these instructions. That he's giving these commands. 169 00:11:59,720 --> 00:12:03,880 These are not suggestions. They're not words of wisdom. 170 00:12:06,200 --> 00:12:10,960 They are the very word of God to sinful man. 171 00:12:13,280 --> 00:12:18,440 He is in these 10 commandments summarizing the 613 commandments 172 00:12:18,440 --> 00:12:20,920 that will make up the entirety of the law. 173 00:12:22,880 --> 00:12:27,200 And in this summary we see bad news. 174 00:12:28,400 --> 00:12:31,880 We see bad news because God has not changed His mind regarding 175 00:12:31,880 --> 00:12:35,800 His holy standard, as we briefly mentioned last week. 176 00:12:35,800 --> 00:12:38,240 And I told you that we would come back and we would examine 177 00:12:38,240 --> 00:12:44,680 this. God's standard is perfection and 178 00:12:44,680 --> 00:12:48,520 nothing less than that. Jesus Himself commands it. 179 00:12:48,520 --> 00:12:52,560 Matthew chapter 5, verse 48. Be perfect therefore, as your 180 00:12:52,560 --> 00:12:58,080 heavenly Father is perfect. It is here in the Decalogue that 181 00:12:58,080 --> 00:13:02,400 the Father reveals His perfection and His expected 182 00:13:02,400 --> 00:13:08,360 perfection of mankind. He requires it. 183 00:13:09,640 --> 00:13:13,280 And so we see the bad news of the law reveals this first, the 184 00:13:13,280 --> 00:13:18,880 standard of a holy God. This is God's holy standard. 185 00:13:20,720 --> 00:13:26,080 God in these 10 commands. Shows that he requires some 186 00:13:26,080 --> 00:13:29,080 things. Please pay close attention to 187 00:13:29,080 --> 00:13:33,160 this. First, He requires perfection in 188 00:13:33,160 --> 00:13:36,840 our devotion toward God. I told you that the first part 189 00:13:36,840 --> 00:13:39,440 of the 10 commandments was about our relationship to God. 190 00:13:41,120 --> 00:13:44,920 And he does not accept anything less than perfection in our 191 00:13:44,920 --> 00:13:48,920 relationship to God, that is perfection in our worship. 192 00:13:52,360 --> 00:13:56,360 What would perfection look like as defined by God? 193 00:13:57,240 --> 00:14:01,320 As he's obviously, clearly proclaimed to us? 194 00:14:01,320 --> 00:14:02,760 You shall have no other gods before me. 195 00:14:02,760 --> 00:14:05,720 You shall not make any idols for yourselves out of anything. 196 00:14:05,720 --> 00:14:09,880 Because he's a jealous God, he says, Don't use my name in vain 197 00:14:10,720 --> 00:14:13,280 and remember the Sabbath day and keep it holy. 198 00:14:13,520 --> 00:14:15,400 What? What would this look like if we 199 00:14:15,400 --> 00:14:17,440 were perfect? And, and I do this because we're 200 00:14:17,440 --> 00:14:20,800 not perfect. I do this so that you can see 201 00:14:20,800 --> 00:14:23,400 just how imperfect we really are. 202 00:14:24,400 --> 00:14:26,000 But what if it looked perfect? What? 203 00:14:28,480 --> 00:14:31,760 Would it portray well your life would portray that you place 204 00:14:31,760 --> 00:14:38,320 nothing or no one above God in any circumstance or any 205 00:14:38,320 --> 00:14:41,080 situation? That's a very scary thing to 206 00:14:41,080 --> 00:14:45,400 think of, I know, because immediately we say what I have 207 00:14:45,760 --> 00:14:53,400 done that, or I am doing that, or I am very prone to that. 208 00:14:53,400 --> 00:14:56,680 That's what it would look like, placing nothing or no one before 209 00:14:56,680 --> 00:15:01,800 God, just as He said not to do. How about this? 210 00:15:01,800 --> 00:15:06,080 It would be the fact that none of us have anything in our lives 211 00:15:06,120 --> 00:15:12,160 that has ever become an idol, an idol that receives our worship. 212 00:15:12,840 --> 00:15:16,840 Now, I know in our day, many of you, you're not going to go out, 213 00:15:16,840 --> 00:15:18,680 you're not going to take a piece of wood and you're not going to 214 00:15:18,680 --> 00:15:21,560 carve some inanimate object to bow down to. 215 00:15:22,840 --> 00:15:26,680 This is the digital age. You're simply going to carry it 216 00:15:26,680 --> 00:15:30,800 around in your hand constantly and you're going to be 217 00:15:30,800 --> 00:15:34,680 constantly controlled by it and you're going to give your time 218 00:15:34,680 --> 00:15:39,200 constantly to it and it's going to consume you. 219 00:15:39,200 --> 00:15:43,160 So let's just make idolatry very simple today so that we can 220 00:15:43,160 --> 00:15:46,880 understand it. Idolatry is the worship of 221 00:15:46,880 --> 00:15:49,240 whatever it is that consumes you. 222 00:15:49,320 --> 00:15:52,120 It has consumed you. Some of you, that's your job. 223 00:15:52,320 --> 00:15:56,480 Some of you, that's your family, some of you that's your success. 224 00:15:57,880 --> 00:16:01,360 God says in his law that he will have no other gods before 225 00:16:01,360 --> 00:16:06,120 himself, but if. We were to keep it perfectly. 226 00:16:07,720 --> 00:16:11,840 That's what we look like. It would also look like never 227 00:16:11,840 --> 00:16:15,120 mishandling or misusing the Lord's name. 228 00:16:16,320 --> 00:16:18,600 I know what many of you do. You immediately jump to curse 229 00:16:18,600 --> 00:16:20,840 words in your mind, right? Where we take a curse word and 230 00:16:20,840 --> 00:16:22,520 we combine it with the name of God. 231 00:16:22,520 --> 00:16:24,720 And let me just tell you this that is using God's name in 232 00:16:24,720 --> 00:16:28,160 vain. But can I also tell you this? 233 00:16:29,520 --> 00:16:33,720 That's not the extent of it. It's oh so much more than that. 234 00:16:34,640 --> 00:16:38,360 It is you making a vow unto the Lord that you have no intention 235 00:16:38,360 --> 00:16:41,640 of keeping. Did you hear me, Church? 236 00:16:41,760 --> 00:16:44,040 A vow that you make unto the Lord that you have no intention 237 00:16:44,040 --> 00:16:46,160 of keeping or any capability of keeping. 238 00:16:46,160 --> 00:16:48,120 Right, Lord, I'm going to serve you all of my day. 239 00:16:48,200 --> 00:16:53,080 Hey, why don't you just try today before you make a vow so 240 00:16:53,080 --> 00:16:54,600 big that you're unable to keep it? 241 00:16:57,400 --> 00:17:00,200 If we were to keep the law perfectly, everything that we 242 00:17:00,240 --> 00:17:04,040 said in regard to God would come to pass, and we would live and 243 00:17:04,040 --> 00:17:06,480 die. By that our word would mean 244 00:17:06,480 --> 00:17:06,920 something. Why? 245 00:17:06,920 --> 00:17:09,359 Because we bear the very name of God. 246 00:17:09,400 --> 00:17:11,520 We carry him around with us. All of the. 247 00:17:11,520 --> 00:17:16,599 Time. What about this within the 248 00:17:16,599 --> 00:17:19,599 modern charismatic movement, these so-called prophets, I'll 249 00:17:19,599 --> 00:17:22,400 go ahead and call them false prophets who say God told them 250 00:17:22,400 --> 00:17:25,160 to say this, which God never told them to say that at all. 251 00:17:25,160 --> 00:17:28,400 It's the creation of their own sinful imagination. 252 00:17:30,120 --> 00:17:31,920 They're using God's name in vain. 253 00:17:34,080 --> 00:17:39,560 And so if we were to keep his law perfectly, we would never do 254 00:17:39,560 --> 00:17:45,600 this. We'd also never forsake a day of 255 00:17:45,600 --> 00:17:50,760 rest so that we can worship, so that we can rest. 256 00:17:51,240 --> 00:17:53,040 We can get into all kind of semantics. 257 00:17:53,040 --> 00:17:57,920 About the Sabbath, I make a distinction between the Old 258 00:17:57,920 --> 00:18:02,520 Testament Sabbath and New Testament Lord's Day. 259 00:18:03,280 --> 00:18:06,120 Does that mean that I don't believe that man ought to have a 260 00:18:06,120 --> 00:18:08,320 day of rest? No, you Saturday to rest. 261 00:18:09,400 --> 00:18:11,520 Rest and you can worship on that same day. 262 00:18:11,880 --> 00:18:14,560 And then Sunday we joined together after a day of rest and 263 00:18:14,560 --> 00:18:16,080 worship. Oh, how it would be if we took a 264 00:18:16,080 --> 00:18:18,760 day of rest and worship. And then we joined together. 265 00:18:18,760 --> 00:18:21,760 And on the Lord's Day we celebrated the King of Kings and 266 00:18:21,760 --> 00:18:24,840 Lord of Lords who died for our sins, making it possible that we 267 00:18:24,840 --> 00:18:26,880 can even fellowship with Almighty God. 268 00:18:26,880 --> 00:18:30,800 You wouldn't be so tired in church, would you? 269 00:18:35,080 --> 00:18:37,560 So God in the Decalogue. Requires perfection in our 270 00:18:37,560 --> 00:18:39,360 devotion to God. That's what it would look like. 271 00:18:39,360 --> 00:18:41,800 Now, I know what you're saying. My life looks nothing like that. 272 00:18:41,800 --> 00:18:44,400 From time to time I find myself looking opposite of that, and 273 00:18:44,400 --> 00:18:45,920 rightfully so. You do and I do. 274 00:18:47,880 --> 00:18:52,040 But not only is there perfection in our devotion toward God that 275 00:18:52,040 --> 00:18:58,680 we see revealed by God's standard in law, He also expects 276 00:18:58,680 --> 00:19:01,040 perfection in our duties toward a man. 277 00:19:02,760 --> 00:19:05,040 I told you that the last 6 commands had to do with our 278 00:19:05,040 --> 00:19:10,480 relationship to man what He tells us to honor our Father and 279 00:19:10,480 --> 00:19:12,480 our mother. Now let me just ask you this. 280 00:19:12,480 --> 00:19:16,600 Question Has anyone kept that command perfectly? 281 00:19:19,600 --> 00:19:22,880 Has anyone here never disobeyed your parents, never dishonored 282 00:19:22,880 --> 00:19:27,000 your parents? Well, we know that the consensus 283 00:19:27,000 --> 00:19:30,400 is yeah, we all have. At some point in time, we did 284 00:19:30,400 --> 00:19:32,440 something that our parents told us not to do. 285 00:19:32,760 --> 00:19:34,800 Revealing what? That you're imperfect. 286 00:19:35,840 --> 00:19:38,960 But if we were perfect, then we could meet the standard on our 287 00:19:38,960 --> 00:19:40,480 own. We would honor our mother and 288 00:19:40,480 --> 00:19:45,720 father in every situation, every request that they ever had of 289 00:19:45,720 --> 00:19:52,400 us. Perfection in our duties also 290 00:19:52,720 --> 00:19:54,960 our duties toward man also includes this. 291 00:19:56,240 --> 00:19:58,160 Never taking the life of another, he says. 292 00:19:58,240 --> 00:19:59,760 Thou shalt not. Murder. 293 00:20:01,720 --> 00:20:03,320 Very quickly, most of us say, you know what? 294 00:20:03,320 --> 00:20:06,240 I have never taken an innocent life. 295 00:20:07,280 --> 00:20:08,920 Let me just give you some clarity here. 296 00:20:09,640 --> 00:20:12,440 When we talk about murder, we're not talking about defending 297 00:20:12,440 --> 00:20:13,720 yourself. We're not talking about. 298 00:20:13,720 --> 00:20:15,640 War, where we're defending our country. 299 00:20:17,480 --> 00:20:21,120 We're talking about the taking of innocent lives in any way, 300 00:20:21,120 --> 00:20:25,160 shape or form, not valuing the fact that those people were 301 00:20:25,160 --> 00:20:30,440 created in the image of God. Whether that be the actual act 302 00:20:30,440 --> 00:20:35,080 of murder, as we see in Genesis where Cain takes the life of 303 00:20:35,080 --> 00:20:38,000 Abel, we see all around us in today's time. 304 00:20:38,000 --> 00:20:40,520 If you, if you haven't, just read an article about Chicago, 305 00:20:40,520 --> 00:20:43,600 you'll see it very quickly. You don't even have to go to 306 00:20:43,600 --> 00:20:45,280 Chicago. Just read the news about 307 00:20:45,280 --> 00:20:49,000 Houston. You'll find that people take 308 00:20:49,160 --> 00:20:51,520 innocent lives. You say, yeah, they're 309 00:20:51,520 --> 00:20:55,280 murderers. Yeah, so are those who abort 310 00:20:55,280 --> 00:20:59,800 babies. We approve the abortion of 311 00:20:59,800 --> 00:21:03,040 babies, and we want to argue whether a baby is an innocent 312 00:21:03,040 --> 00:21:04,440 life. Of course a baby is an innocent 313 00:21:04,440 --> 00:21:10,840 life, but yet we have people who think that it's OK to do that. 314 00:21:11,800 --> 00:21:14,280 And if we were perfect in our duties toward men, we would 315 00:21:14,280 --> 00:21:18,400 never take an innocent life. And then some of you say, well, 316 00:21:18,400 --> 00:21:21,640 I've never murdered anyone and I've never had an abortion. 317 00:21:21,640 --> 00:21:25,000 So I'm pretty clear and I'm pretty clean, except Jesus 318 00:21:25,840 --> 00:21:28,280 taught on this issue. You know what he taught. 319 00:21:29,640 --> 00:21:33,440 But if you harbor anger and unforgiveness in your heart 320 00:21:33,440 --> 00:21:38,680 towards someone, you've already murdered them in your heart. 321 00:21:39,400 --> 00:21:41,240 He gets to the root of the problem, right? 322 00:21:41,240 --> 00:21:44,760 Cain and Abel and their problems didn't start when When Cain 323 00:21:44,760 --> 00:21:48,400 decided to take Abel's life, it started in his. 324 00:21:48,400 --> 00:21:50,360 Heart. That's why God approached Cain 325 00:21:50,440 --> 00:21:53,520 and he said Cain sins crouching at the door, seeking to devour 326 00:21:53,520 --> 00:21:55,360 you. You have a sin problem, Cain, 327 00:21:57,000 --> 00:21:58,840 and if you don't keep that in check, you're going to do 328 00:21:58,840 --> 00:22:00,840 something foolish. And he did. 329 00:22:02,440 --> 00:22:05,000 It's that same heart that we have when we think that we have 330 00:22:05,000 --> 00:22:08,480 a right after being given so much mercy and so much 331 00:22:08,480 --> 00:22:11,800 forgiveness from God to actually withhold mercy and forgiveness 332 00:22:11,800 --> 00:22:18,160 from others. And if we were perfect in our 333 00:22:18,160 --> 00:22:24,520 duty toward men, we'd never do. That he goes on and he talks 334 00:22:24,520 --> 00:22:30,000 about not committing adultery. And some of you would wrongly in 335 00:22:30,000 --> 00:22:32,920 yourself, righteous pride, poke your chest out and say, I've 336 00:22:32,920 --> 00:22:35,360 been faithful to my wife. I've been faithful to my 337 00:22:35,360 --> 00:22:38,560 husband. Before you do that so quickly, 338 00:22:38,560 --> 00:22:39,960 let me explain it to you like this. 339 00:22:39,960 --> 00:22:43,920 That screen that you're hiding from everyone that you're 340 00:22:43,920 --> 00:22:49,880 watching pornographic images on, That is adultery every time you 341 00:22:49,880 --> 00:22:54,400 lust after someone else. And for you to sit back and to 342 00:22:54,400 --> 00:22:57,920 think that we don't have a problem with that in our world 343 00:22:57,920 --> 00:23:01,520 when it is a multi billion dollar industry, you have 344 00:23:01,520 --> 00:23:05,280 another thing coming. He said, well, Kurt, do you 345 00:23:05,280 --> 00:23:08,000 really think that pornography is adultery? 346 00:23:08,000 --> 00:23:11,640 Yes, because Jesus defines it as so when he says if we look after 347 00:23:11,640 --> 00:23:15,560 a woman and we lust after her, we have committed adultery in 348 00:23:15,560 --> 00:23:19,360 our hearts. Again, we get to the heart of 349 00:23:19,360 --> 00:23:22,880 the issue. We're imperfect. 350 00:23:26,960 --> 00:23:31,280 We can't meet God's standard. Not his standard toward God 351 00:23:31,280 --> 00:23:33,840 himself, not His standard towards other men. 352 00:23:34,560 --> 00:23:37,880 How about this? Thou shalt not steal anything. 353 00:23:39,160 --> 00:23:42,320 That includes that pack of hubba Bubba that I lifted off a stop 354 00:23:42,320 --> 00:23:44,080 and go back when I was seven years old. 355 00:23:50,650 --> 00:23:55,250 It includes the taxes. That you steal from the federal 356 00:23:55,250 --> 00:24:00,240 government? Not as funny as Hubba Bubba, I 357 00:24:00,240 --> 00:24:04,400 know, but still thievery the same. 358 00:24:07,320 --> 00:24:09,240 How about the gifts that you steal from God? 359 00:24:11,600 --> 00:24:14,040 Oh really? Now the hush breaks over the 360 00:24:14,040 --> 00:24:16,000 crowd. Is that not what Malachi said? 361 00:24:16,000 --> 00:24:18,720 How do you rob God? Because you withhold your tithes 362 00:24:18,720 --> 00:24:21,000 and your offerings, your gifts unto the Lord. 363 00:24:21,000 --> 00:24:23,400 You're not being a cheerful giver, as the New Testament 364 00:24:23,400 --> 00:24:28,320 commands us to do. Therefore you're stealing, and 365 00:24:28,320 --> 00:24:31,800 you're stealing from God. How about bearing false witness? 366 00:24:31,800 --> 00:24:33,760 This includes all kinds of lies, right? 367 00:24:33,840 --> 00:24:36,760 False witnessing against someone else so that they would be 368 00:24:36,760 --> 00:24:39,360 incriminated, but also false testimony from your lips. 369 00:24:39,400 --> 00:24:41,840 That's a lie. However you want to define it, 370 00:24:42,880 --> 00:24:46,800 this includes all embellishments and all exaggerations. 371 00:24:46,800 --> 00:24:50,840 I know it's deer season, even for the deer hunters and the 372 00:24:50,840 --> 00:24:54,600 fishermen or the golfers, when no one's looking and you doctor 373 00:24:54,600 --> 00:25:02,040 that scorecard or you kick the ball out of the rough and you 374 00:25:02,040 --> 00:25:03,680 don't count it as another stroke. 375 00:25:05,840 --> 00:25:09,640 Lying is lying, isn't it? He goes on. 376 00:25:09,640 --> 00:25:15,720 He says don't covet, don't look at somebody else's possessions. 377 00:25:17,240 --> 00:25:19,840 And not be content with what God has blessed you with and and 378 00:25:19,840 --> 00:25:22,720 then in your greed long for what they have instead of what God 379 00:25:22,720 --> 00:25:25,520 has given you. You know, ladies, what I'm 380 00:25:25,520 --> 00:25:27,240 talking about when you walk through someone's house and 381 00:25:27,240 --> 00:25:29,680 they've had a bigger Hobby Lobby budget than you do. 382 00:25:34,720 --> 00:25:40,480 Or they have that couch that you have lusted after for years and 383 00:25:40,480 --> 00:25:45,120 you desire to have. Or that home and for whatever 384 00:25:45,120 --> 00:25:47,360 reason God and His sovereignty has not blessed you with. 385 00:25:47,480 --> 00:25:50,800 Instead of rejoicing that He's blessed them, what you do is you 386 00:25:50,800 --> 00:25:54,320 covet what they have and you're unsatisfied with what God has 387 00:25:54,320 --> 00:26:00,120 provided for you. Yes, men, that includes your 388 00:26:00,120 --> 00:26:05,520 buddy's boat and his firearms. God makes it clear. 389 00:26:05,520 --> 00:26:08,120 His wife, his manservant, his maidservant, his company, his 390 00:26:08,120 --> 00:26:15,040 success. So if we were to be perfect in 391 00:26:15,040 --> 00:26:17,520 our duties toward man, that's what he would look like. 392 00:26:17,520 --> 00:26:19,240 We would honor our mother and father. 393 00:26:19,240 --> 00:26:24,120 We would never take life of another, never withhold 394 00:26:24,640 --> 00:26:26,680 forgiveness, stay in our anger toward them. 395 00:26:26,680 --> 00:26:30,840 We would never commit adultery by lusting after someone. 396 00:26:31,840 --> 00:26:36,120 Never steal, never lie, never come it. 397 00:26:37,360 --> 00:26:41,040 But the bad news is this, The bad news is this, the fact that 398 00:26:41,040 --> 00:26:43,960 we don't measure up to that standard, do we? 399 00:26:45,520 --> 00:26:50,960 We break His laws and there therefore we confirm that we are 400 00:26:50,960 --> 00:26:55,920 by nature transgressors and objects of God's wrath. 401 00:26:55,920 --> 00:27:00,040 And this is revealed to us through God's law. 402 00:27:00,040 --> 00:27:04,000 This is the purpose of His commands, to show you, Here's 403 00:27:04,000 --> 00:27:09,160 what you really are. Here's what God desires of you, 404 00:27:10,240 --> 00:27:13,960 perfection and your devotion toward Him and your duties 405 00:27:13,960 --> 00:27:16,720 toward other men. But here's what you are. 406 00:27:16,840 --> 00:27:22,600 You fail miserably in both. You say, well, Kirk, that's 407 00:27:22,600 --> 00:27:24,000 harsh. I told you this is bad news. 408 00:27:25,800 --> 00:27:28,600 This is bad news. This is horrible news, but it 409 00:27:28,600 --> 00:27:30,680 does confirm some things for us. It confirms for us what 410 00:27:30,680 --> 00:27:33,920 Ecclesiastes 720 says. It says there is not a righteous 411 00:27:33,920 --> 00:27:36,760 man on earth who does what is right and never sins. 412 00:27:38,320 --> 00:27:40,040 Not even this pastor who stands before you. 413 00:27:41,080 --> 00:27:47,160 We are all sinfully depraved to the very fiber of our being. 414 00:27:48,360 --> 00:27:50,760 Romans 512 says this. Therefore, just a sin entered 415 00:27:50,760 --> 00:27:52,560 the world through one man, to death through sin. 416 00:27:52,560 --> 00:27:54,480 And in this way death came to all men. 417 00:27:54,480 --> 00:27:56,880 Because what? All sinned? 418 00:27:58,040 --> 00:28:03,600 Not some of us. Not a large majority of us. 419 00:28:05,040 --> 00:28:10,200 All of us. When we go to Mount Sinai and we 420 00:28:10,200 --> 00:28:14,720 see the law in the 1st 17 verses there in Exodus 20, it confirms 421 00:28:14,720 --> 00:28:17,920 some things to us. I am not perfect in my devotion 422 00:28:17,920 --> 00:28:20,080 toward God. I am not perfect in my duties 423 00:28:20,080 --> 00:28:22,560 toward man. I am a transgressor. 424 00:28:22,560 --> 00:28:26,880 I am sinfully depraved. I miss the mark of God's. 425 00:28:26,880 --> 00:28:31,000 Standard. I already told you what his 426 00:28:31,000 --> 00:28:34,560 standard was. Romans 323 says, for all have 427 00:28:34,560 --> 00:28:36,520 sinned and fall short of the glory of God. 428 00:28:36,520 --> 00:28:40,800 What is the glory of God, the perfection of God, His standard. 429 00:28:42,480 --> 00:28:44,160 And we missed that mark because we. 430 00:28:44,160 --> 00:28:46,000 All. Are sinners. 431 00:28:48,920 --> 00:28:53,520 Psalm 14 verse 2 says this. The Lord looks down from heaven 432 00:28:53,520 --> 00:28:56,720 on the sons of men to see Is there any who understand, any 433 00:28:56,720 --> 00:28:59,600 who seek God. Three says all have turned 434 00:28:59,600 --> 00:29:01,800 aside. They have together become 435 00:29:01,800 --> 00:29:04,680 corrupt. There is no one who does good, 436 00:29:04,760 --> 00:29:08,680 not even 1. So we're any of you who are 437 00:29:08,680 --> 00:29:10,520 sitting here this morning thinking, well, I'm pretty good. 438 00:29:10,520 --> 00:29:14,000 No, you're not. That's the bad news of Mount 439 00:29:14,000 --> 00:29:15,720 Sinai. That's the bad news of the wall. 440 00:29:15,720 --> 00:29:21,640 None of us are good. I know what we say in modern 441 00:29:21,640 --> 00:29:23,240 church culture these days, right? 442 00:29:23,240 --> 00:29:25,680 I came to church so that I could feel good. 443 00:29:28,360 --> 00:29:29,640 Isn't that what people want to do? 444 00:29:32,600 --> 00:29:34,880 I can tell you this, every time I come to church I feel good. 445 00:29:34,880 --> 00:29:39,240 And you know why I feel good? Because I've seen the truth of 446 00:29:39,240 --> 00:29:42,720 the bad news and I knew that I am in desperate trouble. 447 00:29:44,000 --> 00:29:47,200 I've seen that truth and it has caused me to cry out for a 448 00:29:47,200 --> 00:29:50,480 perfection that is beyond me. To trust in Jesus Christ, the 449 00:29:50,480 --> 00:29:56,000 perfect 1 and in trusting in Him, then I feel good. 450 00:29:56,000 --> 00:29:58,360 I feel good about him. I still feel the same about me. 451 00:29:59,360 --> 00:30:01,200 I can tell you this me in and of myself. 452 00:30:01,200 --> 00:30:03,320 You write this down, put it on your notes right now. 453 00:30:03,760 --> 00:30:07,880 Kirk Hall is a scoundrel. If you want to quote me in 454 00:30:07,880 --> 00:30:10,040 saying that, you feel free to do that. 455 00:30:11,720 --> 00:30:15,320 How do I know I'm a scoundrel? Because the perfect law of God, 456 00:30:15,760 --> 00:30:20,400 out of his perfect mouth, written by his perfect finger, 457 00:30:20,400 --> 00:30:24,400 says Kirk Hall is a transgressor. 458 00:30:25,000 --> 00:30:28,920 He's incapable of keeping God's perfect standard. 459 00:30:30,960 --> 00:30:33,800 James tells us this in James chapter 2, verse 10. 460 00:30:34,040 --> 00:30:36,840 For whoever keeps the whole law and yet stumbles at just one 461 00:30:36,840 --> 00:30:38,960 point is guilty of breaking all of it. 462 00:30:39,760 --> 00:30:42,920 What does that mean for me? Well, if I've only broken one of 463 00:30:42,920 --> 00:30:45,760 the 10 commandments, guess what? I've broken every single one of 464 00:30:45,760 --> 00:30:49,200 them. I'm not just a transgressor. 465 00:30:49,840 --> 00:30:53,360 I'm not just a Sinner. I am the worst of transgressors 466 00:30:53,360 --> 00:30:56,160 and I am the worst of sinners because I have violated the 467 00:30:56,160 --> 00:31:00,000 entirety of God's standard of perfection as revealed in His 468 00:31:00,000 --> 00:31:04,080 law. I know it's foreign to the 469 00:31:04,080 --> 00:31:06,320 American church where we're preaching to standing in the 470 00:31:06,320 --> 00:31:08,480 pulpit and lying to you and telling you that you're good 471 00:31:08,480 --> 00:31:10,560 enough and you're smart enough and people like you. 472 00:31:12,520 --> 00:31:16,440 We're not. We're sinners in need of God's 473 00:31:16,440 --> 00:31:20,560 grace because we have violated Him by our lives and the very 474 00:31:20,560 --> 00:31:28,800 nature of our being. It is His law that makes us 475 00:31:28,800 --> 00:31:33,240 aware of this and places us under a curse. 476 00:31:33,240 --> 00:31:35,800 This is the bad news. Galatians 310. 477 00:31:35,800 --> 00:31:37,880 It says all. Who rely on observing the law 478 00:31:37,880 --> 00:31:40,600 are under a curse, for it is written. 479 00:31:40,600 --> 00:31:43,240 Cursed is everyone who does not continue to do everything 480 00:31:43,240 --> 00:31:44,760 written in the book of the Law. What is he saying? 481 00:31:44,880 --> 00:31:48,680 If you can't keep it all, then you're not keeping any of it 482 00:31:48,680 --> 00:31:50,600 confirming that you were under a curse. 483 00:31:50,720 --> 00:31:55,200 That describes me, and that describes each of you. 484 00:31:56,880 --> 00:31:59,760 The bad news of the law reveals the standard of a holy God. 485 00:32:02,520 --> 00:32:04,600 That's bad news for the unredeemed Sinner, isn't it? 486 00:32:06,200 --> 00:32:10,760 That's bad news for the imperfect man like myself, for 487 00:32:10,760 --> 00:32:12,680 the man like you or the woman like you. 488 00:32:14,760 --> 00:32:19,240 The law is bad news because we have no righteousness of our own 489 00:32:19,240 --> 00:32:22,800 to claim. God hasn't changed his mind. 490 00:32:23,800 --> 00:32:27,160 He still requires perfect righteousness. 491 00:32:27,360 --> 00:32:32,600 So we see the first element of bad news that the law reveals 492 00:32:32,600 --> 00:32:37,040 the standard of a holy God. Secondly, the bad news of the 493 00:32:37,040 --> 00:32:41,120 law reveals the shameful guilt of man. 494 00:32:42,320 --> 00:32:47,880 Verse 18 See their response. See what actually transpires 495 00:32:47,880 --> 00:32:50,480 here. It says during the first part of 496 00:32:50,480 --> 00:32:54,200 18 when the people saw the Thunder and lightning and heard 497 00:32:54,200 --> 00:32:55,880 the. Trumpet, and saw the mountain 498 00:32:55,880 --> 00:32:59,080 and smoke. They trembled with fear. 499 00:32:59,080 --> 00:33:03,040 What? Is going on here well upon 500 00:33:03,040 --> 00:33:09,440 hearing. The law of God, sinful man 501 00:33:09,440 --> 00:33:16,280 trembled in fear because the law revealed their shameful guilt. 502 00:33:16,760 --> 00:33:19,760 Just as a moment ago as we read the 10 commandments and you had 503 00:33:19,760 --> 00:33:22,040 to admit in your mind, I'm guilty of breaking this one, I'm 504 00:33:22,040 --> 00:33:24,600 guilty of breaking that one. And then when you heard that God 505 00:33:24,600 --> 00:33:26,840 said, if you've broken one, you've broken them all, you had 506 00:33:26,840 --> 00:33:29,400 to say I am a guilty. Sinner. 507 00:33:31,400 --> 00:33:37,480 And with the guilt of sin comes the weight of shame, doesn't it? 508 00:33:40,360 --> 00:33:44,520 God in His law projected to the Israelites, He's projecting to 509 00:33:44,520 --> 00:33:52,560 us from that same law today His sinless glory and the shameful 510 00:33:52,560 --> 00:33:57,680 guilt of mankind. Their guilt brought them to a 511 00:33:57,680 --> 00:34:02,800 place of trembling and fear before an Almighty and holy God. 512 00:34:02,800 --> 00:34:07,120 Don't miss that in the text. They saw the power and the 513 00:34:07,120 --> 00:34:10,320 authority of God, and they trembled with fear. 514 00:34:12,159 --> 00:34:14,000 Their guilt brought them to this place. 515 00:34:14,760 --> 00:34:19,840 Much like Isaiah and Isaiah chapter 6 verse 5, Isaiah 516 00:34:19,840 --> 00:34:21,760 ushered into the presence of God. 517 00:34:23,520 --> 00:34:27,480 It says that he fell as a dead man before God's throne. 518 00:34:27,480 --> 00:34:33,840 And here's what he says. Woe to me, I cried. 519 00:34:33,840 --> 00:34:38,480 I am ruined. For I am a man of unclean lips, 520 00:34:38,480 --> 00:34:41,800 and I live among a people of unclean lips, and my eyes have 521 00:34:41,800 --> 00:34:47,440 seen the king, the Lord Almighty Isaiah, coming into the presence 522 00:34:47,440 --> 00:34:51,880 of God in a vision, God allowing him to. 523 00:34:51,880 --> 00:34:57,240 See, this falls as a dead man in his shameful guilt. 524 00:34:57,240 --> 00:35:02,400 What did he turn to immediately? The fact that he is shamefully 525 00:35:02,400 --> 00:35:04,960 guilty. I'm a man of unclean lips. 526 00:35:04,960 --> 00:35:06,640 Among the people of unclean lips. 527 00:35:06,640 --> 00:35:15,400 We are all sinners, shamefully guilty before a holy God, the 528 00:35:15,400 --> 00:35:19,920 law. Brings us to that place where we 529 00:35:19,920 --> 00:35:24,480 really see how shamefully guilty we are, causing us to fear even 530 00:35:24,480 --> 00:35:28,640 coming into the presence of God. Because it confirms some things 531 00:35:28,640 --> 00:35:31,360 to us, doesn't it? Two things that we'll speak of 532 00:35:31,360 --> 00:35:34,840 today 1 is this. It confirms to us that by nature 533 00:35:35,520 --> 00:35:40,840 man dismisses God's authority. When they saw the Thunder and 534 00:35:40,840 --> 00:35:43,880 the lightning and, and they witnessed the heard the sound of 535 00:35:43,880 --> 00:35:46,320 the trumpet and they witnessed the smoke coming from the 536 00:35:46,320 --> 00:35:50,840 mountain, they knew that they were dealing with Almighty God 537 00:35:50,960 --> 00:35:58,440 and His sovereign authority. And upon hearing the law, they 538 00:35:58,440 --> 00:36:03,520 were fearful of this God because they knew that they had spent 539 00:36:03,520 --> 00:36:07,880 their life rebelling against His sovereign position. 540 00:36:07,880 --> 00:36:11,880 Isn't that true of us? Prior to Christ, we spent our 541 00:36:11,880 --> 00:36:15,640 entire lives rebelling against the authority of a sovereign God 542 00:36:15,640 --> 00:36:19,560 in His Word. Here we see the Israelites 543 00:36:20,800 --> 00:36:24,880 confirming the same that they had spent their life rebelling 544 00:36:24,880 --> 00:36:28,560 against God's position, just as Adam and Eve did in the Garden, 545 00:36:30,160 --> 00:36:33,560 when they ignored His word and did whatever they wanted to do 546 00:36:33,560 --> 00:36:38,480 in spite of what God had already commanded they. 547 00:36:38,480 --> 00:36:42,240 Refused to take his word. Seriously. 548 00:36:42,680 --> 00:36:46,000 Don't we live in a culture who refuses to take the word of God 549 00:36:46,000 --> 00:36:52,520 seriously? We confirm that we're just like 550 00:36:54,000 --> 00:36:56,520 Adam and Eve, who's there in Genesis chapter 2 receives this 551 00:36:56,520 --> 00:36:59,000 from the Lord in verse 15. The Lord God took the man, put 552 00:36:59,000 --> 00:37:02,120 him in the Garden of Eden to work it and take care of it, and 553 00:37:02,120 --> 00:37:04,360 the Lord God commanded the man. You are free to eat from any 554 00:37:04,360 --> 00:37:06,880 tree in the garden, but you must not eat from the tree of the 555 00:37:06,880 --> 00:37:10,400 knowledge of good and evil, for when you eat of it, you will 556 00:37:10,400 --> 00:37:12,680 surely die. God said you can eat of anything 557 00:37:12,680 --> 00:37:14,480 that you want in this garden that I've given you, except for 558 00:37:14,480 --> 00:37:17,880 the tree right here, the tree of now of the knowledge of good and 559 00:37:17,880 --> 00:37:19,800 evil. Do not eat fruit from there or 560 00:37:19,800 --> 00:37:24,400 you will die. And what did they do? 561 00:37:26,200 --> 00:37:29,880 They rebelled against His authority. 562 00:37:30,040 --> 00:37:31,960 They dismissed it. We have an account of it in 563 00:37:31,960 --> 00:37:33,880 Scripture. I'll read it for you there in 564 00:37:33,880 --> 00:37:37,600 Genesis chapter 3 verse one, it says now the serpent was more 565 00:37:37,600 --> 00:37:41,360 crafty than any of the wild animals the Lord God had made. 566 00:37:41,640 --> 00:37:44,880 And he said to the woman, Did God really say you must not eat 567 00:37:44,880 --> 00:37:48,440 from any tree in the garden? Did God really say, yeah, that's 568 00:37:48,440 --> 00:37:50,600 how He approached her, It isn't really His word. 569 00:37:50,600 --> 00:37:52,000 Why don't you just go ahead and dismiss that? 570 00:37:52,000 --> 00:37:54,400 Because He didn't really say that, though she knew He did 571 00:37:54,640 --> 00:37:57,000 because she confirms that. The woman said to the servant, 572 00:37:57,120 --> 00:38:00,320 we may eat fruit from the trees in the garden, but God did say 573 00:38:00,560 --> 00:38:03,200 you must not eat fruit from the tree that is in the middle of 574 00:38:03,200 --> 00:38:06,040 the garden and you must not touch it or you will die. 575 00:38:06,040 --> 00:38:09,840 She knew exactly what God had told them to do. 576 00:38:10,840 --> 00:38:14,560 What does Satan say verse 4? You will not, surely. 577 00:38:14,560 --> 00:38:17,720 Die. Isn't that what he's still doing 578 00:38:17,720 --> 00:38:19,600 today? Telling people no, God didn't 579 00:38:19,600 --> 00:38:23,080 mean that in his word. Don't listen to that. 580 00:38:23,080 --> 00:38:25,160 That's outdated. That's foolish. 581 00:38:25,680 --> 00:38:27,720 That's ancient knowledge, he said. 582 00:38:27,720 --> 00:38:30,200 You will not. Surely die, the serpent said to 583 00:38:30,200 --> 00:38:32,920 the woman, For God knows that when you. 584 00:38:32,920 --> 00:38:36,160 Eat of it your. Eyes will be open and you will 585 00:38:36,160 --> 00:38:38,320 be like God, knowing good and evil. 586 00:38:38,320 --> 00:38:41,480 And when the woman saw that the fruit of the tree was good for 587 00:38:41,480 --> 00:38:44,560 food and pleasing to the eye, and also desirable for gaining 588 00:38:44,560 --> 00:38:46,520 wisdom, she took some of it and ate. 589 00:38:46,520 --> 00:38:49,120 The lust of the flesh, the lust of the eyes, the pride of life. 590 00:38:49,120 --> 00:38:50,440 We're going to see it unfold right here. 591 00:38:50,960 --> 00:38:53,680 She also gave some to her husband who was with her, and he 592 00:38:53,680 --> 00:38:55,680 ate it. And then the eyes of both of 593 00:38:55,680 --> 00:38:58,080 them were opened, and they realized that they were naked. 594 00:38:58,480 --> 00:39:01,640 So they sewed fig leaves together and made coverings for 595 00:39:01,640 --> 00:39:03,240 themselves. Shame and guilt. 596 00:39:05,320 --> 00:39:09,680 Watch what transpires next. Excuse me, it says. 597 00:39:09,680 --> 00:39:12,520 Then the man and his wife heard the sound of the Lord God. 598 00:39:13,000 --> 00:39:15,920 As he was walking in the garden in the cool of the day, and they 599 00:39:15,920 --> 00:39:19,960 hid from the Lord God among the trees of the garden. 600 00:39:21,600 --> 00:39:23,760 It sounds a lot like the Israelites. 601 00:39:23,760 --> 00:39:29,520 Upon hearing the law of God, they trembled with fear because 602 00:39:29,520 --> 00:39:32,680 they knew that they had dismissed God's authority. 603 00:39:32,840 --> 00:39:36,200 Not only had they dismissed God's authority by disobeying 604 00:39:36,200 --> 00:39:40,920 His word, they also disobey His commands. 605 00:39:40,920 --> 00:39:43,480 They knew it. All he had to do was tell them, 606 00:39:43,480 --> 00:39:44,960 here's my standard of perfection. 607 00:39:44,960 --> 00:39:48,080 Here's what you are to do. And as we read it a moment ago, 608 00:39:48,080 --> 00:39:51,680 we realized quickly that's not what we do in and of ourselves. 609 00:39:53,920 --> 00:39:59,200 Many people want to argue all of the time, but the Bible is not 610 00:39:59,200 --> 00:40:00,760 the word of God, but only the word of man. 611 00:40:00,760 --> 00:40:04,080 There is no way that man would put these 10 commands upon 612 00:40:04,080 --> 00:40:08,160 himself. He's come from a perfect God, 613 00:40:09,040 --> 00:40:10,720 and he means every single one of them. 614 00:40:11,400 --> 00:40:15,160 But what we do by our nature, apart from Jesus Christ, is we 615 00:40:15,160 --> 00:40:16,920 disobey God's command. Why? 616 00:40:16,920 --> 00:40:24,200 Because we're bound by sin. Sinful man naturally disobeys 617 00:40:24,480 --> 00:40:28,120 God's. Commands We're not sinners 618 00:40:28,120 --> 00:40:33,360 because we sin. We sin because we are sinners, 619 00:40:33,640 --> 00:40:38,520 inheriting that very nature from our first parents, Adam and Eve. 620 00:40:39,640 --> 00:40:43,560 And so this disobedience of sinful man reveals the extent of 621 00:40:43,560 --> 00:40:49,760 our shameful guilt, doesn't it? We can go back to the first born 622 00:40:49,760 --> 00:40:53,840 of Adam and Eve, Cain. He proved that sin came through 623 00:40:53,840 --> 00:40:58,680 Adam and it came upon all men, because it is Cain who murdered 624 00:40:58,680 --> 00:41:06,000 his brother the next generation. After Adam we can go just three 625 00:41:06,000 --> 00:41:13,160 chapters after this in Genesis chapter 6, just prior to the 626 00:41:13,160 --> 00:41:16,280 flood. This is the Lord's analysis of 627 00:41:16,280 --> 00:41:18,440 the earth. He says in Genesis 65, the Lord 628 00:41:18,440 --> 00:41:21,120 saw how great the wickedness of the human race had become on the 629 00:41:21,120 --> 00:41:25,440 earth, and that every inclination of the thoughts of 630 00:41:25,440 --> 00:41:28,360 the human heart. What did he say? 631 00:41:28,360 --> 00:41:30,960 Not the human mind, the thoughts of the human heart, the depths 632 00:41:30,960 --> 00:41:35,160 and the core of your being. Your soul was perverted by sin. 633 00:41:37,600 --> 00:41:42,880 He said the thoughts of the human heart was only evil all of 634 00:41:42,880 --> 00:41:47,440 the time. We stand before God as confirmed 635 00:41:47,440 --> 00:41:52,920 by His law and our shameful guilt. 636 00:41:54,200 --> 00:41:59,000 Those who dismiss God's authority, Those who blatantly 637 00:41:59,000 --> 00:42:07,400 disobey God's command, sinful man because He is sinful in his 638 00:42:07,400 --> 00:42:12,280 being, continues to disobey God and His Word even today. 639 00:42:12,280 --> 00:42:15,960 The apostle Paul said this in Romans chapter 3 verse 10. 640 00:42:16,200 --> 00:42:20,840 There is none righteous, no, not 1-11 says there is no one who 641 00:42:20,840 --> 00:42:24,680 understands, no one who seeks God. 12 says all have turned 642 00:42:24,680 --> 00:42:26,960 away, they have together become worthless. 643 00:42:27,120 --> 00:42:31,080 There is no one who does good, not even 1. 644 00:42:32,520 --> 00:42:35,480 Why do I say this? Why do I bring such bad news? 645 00:42:36,280 --> 00:42:39,320 Because until we see the bad news, the good news of the 646 00:42:39,320 --> 00:42:43,800 gospel will never be as good as it should be to us. 647 00:42:46,280 --> 00:42:51,280 The bad news of the law reveals the shameful guilt of man. 648 00:42:53,160 --> 00:42:58,760 The law reveals our utter sinfulness and our utter 649 00:42:59,320 --> 00:43:03,760 disobedience, Romans 320 says. Therefore no one will be 650 00:43:03,760 --> 00:43:06,240 declared righteous in his sight by observing the law. 651 00:43:06,240 --> 00:43:10,040 Rather, through the law we become conscious of sin, and 652 00:43:10,040 --> 00:43:14,800 when we become conscious of sin, the right reaction is shame and 653 00:43:14,800 --> 00:43:20,160 guilt, because we have dismissed and dishonored God's authority 654 00:43:20,160 --> 00:43:23,120 and we have disobeyed His commands. 655 00:43:27,520 --> 00:43:32,520 Takes my mind back to the pilgrims progress where we see 656 00:43:33,200 --> 00:43:36,160 Christian, the main character of that storyline. 657 00:43:36,840 --> 00:43:40,240 As he's travelling on the narrow way to the Celestial City, just 658 00:43:40,240 --> 00:43:45,360 like Evangelist told him to do, he comes in contact with a man 659 00:43:45,360 --> 00:43:48,160 by the name of Mr. Worldly Wise Man. 660 00:43:48,160 --> 00:43:51,920 And what does Mr. Worldly Wise Man do? 661 00:43:52,680 --> 00:43:57,200 Mr. Worley, wise man, quickly diverts Christian off of the 662 00:43:57,200 --> 00:44:02,080 narrow path of grace that points to the cross of Calvary, and he 663 00:44:02,080 --> 00:44:05,760 sends him down another path where he's told that he'll find 664 00:44:05,760 --> 00:44:08,480 someone there. And the city of morality named 665 00:44:08,480 --> 00:44:12,680 Mr. Legality, he sends him down the path of the law. 666 00:44:12,680 --> 00:44:16,480 He sends him to Mount Sinai. And what happens there? 667 00:44:17,080 --> 00:44:20,920 As he approaches Mount Sinai, he's already carrying the weight 668 00:44:20,920 --> 00:44:22,960 and the burden of his sin on his back. 669 00:44:23,120 --> 00:44:25,400 But as he approaches Mount Sinai, you know what? 670 00:44:25,520 --> 00:44:28,400 That weight becomes ever increasingly more. 671 00:44:29,040 --> 00:44:30,600 Why? Because when we look at the law, 672 00:44:30,600 --> 00:44:34,560 what it shows us is that we are completely weighted down by sin, 673 00:44:34,720 --> 00:44:38,960 and we are in need of someone to take that sin off of our back 674 00:44:39,120 --> 00:44:41,280 and to relieve us. And when we look at the law, 675 00:44:41,280 --> 00:44:44,520 what does it do? It brings forth shame and guilt 676 00:44:44,640 --> 00:44:50,000 as it is designed to do. Because all of us in this room 677 00:44:50,000 --> 00:44:55,000 today stand before a holy God, guilty as charged. 678 00:44:56,880 --> 00:45:01,040 The law brings us to that place. It's sad that the modern church 679 00:45:01,040 --> 00:45:03,280 movement says don't preach the law because people will feel 680 00:45:03,280 --> 00:45:06,720 guilty or ashamed of what they have done. 681 00:45:07,040 --> 00:45:12,000 And they should, because it is in my guilt and my shame as the 682 00:45:12,000 --> 00:45:14,840 law was preached, that I realized that I am a Sinner and 683 00:45:14,840 --> 00:45:20,880 I am in need of a Savior. And I saw how sweet that savior 684 00:45:20,880 --> 00:45:27,000 truly is, because I saw how shameful and guilty I truly AM. 685 00:45:29,440 --> 00:45:31,760 So the law brings us to a place of shame and guilt. 686 00:45:31,760 --> 00:45:34,680 That's the bad news. We don't like it, It's 687 00:45:34,680 --> 00:45:37,440 uncomfortable, but we can't deny it. 688 00:45:38,400 --> 00:45:40,960 And just because we don't like something and just because we we 689 00:45:41,040 --> 00:45:43,320 we don't like the fact that it makes us uncomfortable, doesn't 690 00:45:43,320 --> 00:45:44,640 mean we have the right to deny it. 691 00:45:44,640 --> 00:45:47,520 It's here. It's in the word of God, Exodus. 692 00:45:47,520 --> 00:45:49,200 Chapter 20, you just read it with me. 693 00:45:51,680 --> 00:45:58,080 It's got standard and we are shamefully guilty, falling short 694 00:45:58,080 --> 00:46:01,160 of his standard by dismissing his authority and disobeying his 695 00:46:01,160 --> 00:46:05,040 commands. So the bad news of the law 696 00:46:05,520 --> 00:46:07,480 reveals the shameful guilt of man. 697 00:46:08,560 --> 00:46:11,240 It reveals the standard of a holy God. 698 00:46:11,240 --> 00:46:18,880 And thirdly, the bad news of the law reveals the standing of man 699 00:46:18,880 --> 00:46:22,320 before God. Look at the second part of 18 700 00:46:22,720 --> 00:46:27,880 and 19 here. It says this upon hearing the 701 00:46:27,880 --> 00:46:33,760 law, after Thunder and lightning rang out and a trumpet sounded, 702 00:46:36,760 --> 00:46:42,520 says they stayed at a distance. Well, that's the bad news of the 703 00:46:42,520 --> 00:46:44,600 law, isn't it? It keeps us at a distance from 704 00:46:44,600 --> 00:46:46,480 God because we know we can't approach Him. 705 00:46:47,800 --> 00:46:51,560 They stayed at a distance. Watched their reaction and said 706 00:46:51,560 --> 00:46:55,880 to Moses, speak to us yourself, and we will listen, but do not 707 00:46:55,880 --> 00:47:00,560 have God, do not have Yahweh speak to us or we will die. 708 00:47:02,960 --> 00:47:05,440 They understood some things that we don't understand in the 709 00:47:05,440 --> 00:47:11,200 American church anymore. That sin brings death. 710 00:47:12,840 --> 00:47:19,880 The law revealed to them. They're clear standing and 711 00:47:19,880 --> 00:47:25,800 they're clear position as sinful men before a holy and Almighty 712 00:47:25,800 --> 00:47:29,160 God. And upon hearing the law, they 713 00:47:29,160 --> 00:47:33,280 knew that they were separated from God and that they deserved 714 00:47:33,280 --> 00:47:36,800 judgment in the form of death and death eternally. 715 00:47:38,920 --> 00:47:43,600 The law is what revealed. This to them, the same Decalogue 716 00:47:43,600 --> 00:47:47,400 that we read a moment ago, those 10 commandments that people are 717 00:47:47,400 --> 00:47:50,000 trying to take out of the school rooms and out of the 718 00:47:50,000 --> 00:47:54,920 courthouses, because when we read them, it makes us feel 719 00:47:54,920 --> 00:47:59,160 shameful and guilty. It should and it shouldn't make 720 00:47:59,160 --> 00:48:02,240 you understand that you stand before a holy God. 721 00:48:04,360 --> 00:48:07,840 Not in good news, but in bad news. 722 00:48:09,440 --> 00:48:13,320 You can't approach them. Why? 723 00:48:16,080 --> 00:48:20,200 Because our standing according to the law is this write it down 724 00:48:20,320 --> 00:48:23,640 alienation from God. They distanced themselves 725 00:48:23,640 --> 00:48:26,400 because they knew they were alienated from God, that he was 726 00:48:26,400 --> 00:48:30,320 holy and he was set apart, and they were nothing of the sort. 727 00:48:30,400 --> 00:48:32,400 They were the exact opposite of that. 728 00:48:34,720 --> 00:48:39,400 They understood alienation from God, that unredeemed filthy 729 00:48:39,400 --> 00:48:44,200 sinners cannot approach God because they are unclean to Him. 730 00:48:46,240 --> 00:48:50,840 Exodus 3320. It says what he said, You cannot 731 00:48:50,840 --> 00:48:53,600 see my face, for no one may see my face and live. 732 00:48:54,440 --> 00:48:58,160 Even Moses himself was shielded from seeing the face of God. 733 00:48:59,000 --> 00:49:02,000 Why? Because we can't see his face 734 00:49:02,080 --> 00:49:07,680 and live, sin separates us from communion with God. 735 00:49:07,680 --> 00:49:12,800 We are alienated from him. Isaiah. 59 Two Watch this. 736 00:49:13,600 --> 00:49:16,320 But your iniquities have separated you from God. 737 00:49:16,960 --> 00:49:21,360 Your sins have hidden his face from you so that he will not 738 00:49:21,360 --> 00:49:23,920 hear. The Israelites understanding 739 00:49:23,920 --> 00:49:26,440 this, they stayed at a distance and said, Moses, please, we'll 740 00:49:26,440 --> 00:49:29,920 listen to you, but don't let God speak to us again or we'll die. 741 00:49:32,680 --> 00:49:35,920 Why? Because God spoke the law to 742 00:49:35,920 --> 00:49:45,480 them, revealing to them they're standing before holy God that 743 00:49:45,480 --> 00:49:50,160 they are truly alienated and separated from God and His 744 00:49:50,160 --> 00:49:56,280 Holiness, that they are truly enemies of God in their sin. 745 00:49:56,280 --> 00:49:59,840 Just as Colossians chapter 1 tells us in verse 21, once you 746 00:49:59,840 --> 00:50:02,840 were alienated from God and we're enemies in your minds. 747 00:50:02,840 --> 00:50:06,800 Because of your evil behavior, I know that's not what people are 748 00:50:06,800 --> 00:50:10,400 selling you today. They are selling you garbage 749 00:50:10,440 --> 00:50:13,200 like God loves you and has a wonderful plan for your life. 750 00:50:13,880 --> 00:50:16,600 They're selling you garbage like we're all just children of God 751 00:50:16,600 --> 00:50:18,640 on a journey to find Him in our own way. 752 00:50:18,840 --> 00:50:21,840 No, we're not. The law says that we are all 753 00:50:21,840 --> 00:50:24,320 condemned to sinners and we stand before a holy God and we 754 00:50:24,320 --> 00:50:27,560 cannot commune with them because we are enemies of God because of 755 00:50:27,560 --> 00:50:31,120 our sin. Stop believing the lies that the 756 00:50:31,120 --> 00:50:33,760 world is throwing at you that do not come from the word of God. 757 00:50:35,120 --> 00:50:39,640 There's bad news in this. The bad news is that we're 758 00:50:39,640 --> 00:50:41,960 alienated from God. And look at their instinctive 759 00:50:41,960 --> 00:50:44,840 reasoning. We got to have a mediator, 760 00:50:47,080 --> 00:50:49,560 Moses. We'll talk to you, you talk to 761 00:50:49,560 --> 00:50:53,680 God, you relate message. But don't let us hear God again, 762 00:50:53,680 --> 00:51:02,120 or we'll die. And here we have Moses as a go 763 00:51:02,120 --> 00:51:08,360 between a mediator serving as the mediator of the old covenant 764 00:51:08,920 --> 00:51:12,960 of the law, giving us a picture and a type of Jesus Christ 765 00:51:12,960 --> 00:51:17,120 himself, John 1 and John's gospel verse 17, he gives us 766 00:51:17,120 --> 00:51:18,960 clarity on this. He says for the law was given 767 00:51:18,960 --> 00:51:20,840 through Moses. He's the mediator of the law. 768 00:51:21,360 --> 00:51:24,880 We see it here at Mount Sinai and grace and truth came through 769 00:51:24,880 --> 00:51:27,240 Jesus Christ. We, we are looking for a greater 770 00:51:27,560 --> 00:51:31,320 mediator here. He's a mediator of the law. 771 00:51:31,400 --> 00:51:34,600 Moses, he delivered the bad news. 772 00:51:35,760 --> 00:51:38,320 And there's a bad news that makes the good news is so good. 773 00:51:38,320 --> 00:51:41,440 There is a greater mediator, the great high priest, the Lord 774 00:51:41,440 --> 00:51:44,480 Jesus Christ. And here are the Israelites 775 00:51:44,480 --> 00:51:45,920 instinctively looking for a mediator. 776 00:51:45,920 --> 00:51:51,160 We have to find one. And we must find one when I am 777 00:51:51,160 --> 00:51:54,000 thankful that when we weren't even looking. 778 00:51:55,280 --> 00:51:59,680 The Lord Jesus Christ comes and He finds us and He mediates on 779 00:51:59,680 --> 00:52:03,520 our behalf grace and truth because we are condemned and 780 00:52:03,520 --> 00:52:05,360 alienated from God according to the law. 781 00:52:05,960 --> 00:52:08,120 We see mediators all throughout Scripture, don't we? 782 00:52:08,840 --> 00:52:10,360 We see Moses serving as a mediator. 783 00:52:10,360 --> 00:52:14,520 How about the entire priesthood of Israel, mediators between God 784 00:52:15,560 --> 00:52:18,640 and the sins of mankind? How about the prophets who 785 00:52:18,640 --> 00:52:21,400 served as mediators, receiving a message from the Lord and then 786 00:52:21,800 --> 00:52:24,120 projecting that message out so that the people could hear the 787 00:52:24,120 --> 00:52:31,080 word of the Lord? Then again, of course, Jesus who 788 00:52:31,080 --> 00:52:34,480 serves as a mediator of the new covenant of grace for those who 789 00:52:34,480 --> 00:52:39,080 believe and trust in Him, just as Hebrews 9 verse 15 tells us. 790 00:52:39,240 --> 00:52:41,600 It says for this reason Christ is the mediator of a new 791 00:52:41,600 --> 00:52:44,960 covenant, that those who are called may receive the promised 792 00:52:44,960 --> 00:52:48,480 eternal inheritance now that he has died as a ransom to set them 793 00:52:48,480 --> 00:52:51,240 free from the sins committed under the first covenant. 794 00:52:51,920 --> 00:52:54,440 Paul says to Timothy in first Timothy chapter 2 verse 5. 795 00:52:54,600 --> 00:52:58,600 For there is one God and one mediator between God and men. 796 00:52:59,000 --> 00:53:02,440 The man Jesus Christ or the Mediator. 797 00:53:02,440 --> 00:53:08,520 Moses did not point us to God in the sense that Jesus pointed us 798 00:53:08,520 --> 00:53:11,040 to the Father. He pointed us to the fact that 799 00:53:11,040 --> 00:53:15,720 we have violated God's command and we are alienated from Him 800 00:53:15,880 --> 00:53:19,880 and His Holiness. Moses brought the bad news of 801 00:53:19,880 --> 00:53:25,440 the law. It's Jesus, Jesus alone, who 802 00:53:25,440 --> 00:53:27,520 brings the good news of the Gospel. 803 00:53:27,840 --> 00:53:34,480 If we're not for that good news, all of us would be forbidden to 804 00:53:34,480 --> 00:53:39,760 commune, to communicate, to approach the glory and the 805 00:53:39,760 --> 00:53:42,800 majesty of a holy and perfect God. 806 00:53:45,960 --> 00:53:50,320 The bad news of the law reveals the standing of man before God, 807 00:53:50,640 --> 00:53:52,480 that there is alienation from God. 808 00:53:52,480 --> 00:54:00,760 But we also see this not only a sinful man standing, alienation 809 00:54:00,760 --> 00:54:03,560 from God, it's awareness of deserved judgment. 810 00:54:04,800 --> 00:54:07,080 That's why they're afraid. And what was the judgment that 811 00:54:07,080 --> 00:54:10,600 they knew of? We will die. 812 00:54:10,800 --> 00:54:15,240 Is that not the same judgment that came upon Adam and fell 813 00:54:15,240 --> 00:54:18,400 upon all mankind? Is that not what Scripture says 814 00:54:18,520 --> 00:54:22,800 when in Romans 623 it says for the wages of sin is what death? 815 00:54:24,240 --> 00:54:26,400 It's death. They knew we are transgressors, 816 00:54:26,400 --> 00:54:32,840 therefore we deserve to die, and to die twice, not just in this 817 00:54:32,840 --> 00:54:36,760 life, but to die a second, an eternal death in the lake of 818 00:54:36,760 --> 00:54:40,000 fire. Scripture proclaims Ezekiel 18, 819 00:54:40,360 --> 00:54:42,960 verse 4. It says this, For every living 820 00:54:42,960 --> 00:54:44,920 soul belongs to me, the Father, as well as the Son. 821 00:54:44,920 --> 00:54:47,760 Both the light belong to me. The soul who sins is the one who 822 00:54:47,760 --> 00:54:50,760 will die. You've ever sinned? 823 00:54:51,440 --> 00:54:54,120 Have you ever transgressed against the Lord's commands? 824 00:54:54,120 --> 00:54:58,560 Guess what? Death is certain unto you, and 825 00:54:58,560 --> 00:55:04,000 death eternal. And so transgressors become 826 00:55:04,000 --> 00:55:05,840 aware of their deserved judgment. 827 00:55:06,960 --> 00:55:09,880 Do not have God speak to us, or we will die. 828 00:55:12,160 --> 00:55:15,720 Why? Because filth and 829 00:55:15,720 --> 00:55:21,760 unrighteousness collide with God's holiness and there must be 830 00:55:21,760 --> 00:55:26,160 justice. And man understands and he is 831 00:55:26,160 --> 00:55:32,360 aware of the fact by looking at the law that he is deserving of 832 00:55:32,360 --> 00:55:33,920 the judgment and the wrath of God. 833 00:55:33,920 --> 00:55:39,480 Trans transgressors stand before God as condemned sinners. 834 00:55:40,960 --> 00:55:43,240 John 3 verse 18 makes that very clear. 835 00:55:43,240 --> 00:55:46,120 I know you usually just read 16 as a standalone verse. 836 00:55:47,760 --> 00:55:49,400 Read it all. Read all the way to 18. 837 00:55:49,400 --> 00:55:52,320 Whoever believes in him is not condemned, but whoever does not 838 00:55:52,320 --> 00:55:55,040 believe stands condemned already because he is not believed in 839 00:55:55,040 --> 00:55:56,880 the name of God's one and only Son. 840 00:55:56,960 --> 00:56:00,720 He says if you don't trust in Christ, you have no other hope 841 00:56:01,560 --> 00:56:05,080 then the judgment that comes because you are a law breaker, 842 00:56:05,080 --> 00:56:07,720 you are a Sinner, you are a transgressor. 843 00:56:09,960 --> 00:56:16,800 And transgressors who are aware of their deserved judgment, they 844 00:56:16,800 --> 00:56:22,000 need to fear God's wrath. They need to fear God's wrath. 845 00:56:22,000 --> 00:56:25,760 I know in in a society where we don't paint God any longer as a 846 00:56:25,760 --> 00:56:30,000 God of wrath, let me just tell you it's still a God of wrath. 847 00:56:30,880 --> 00:56:33,800 There are many heretics who preach a heresy. 848 00:56:34,280 --> 00:56:37,840 That says the God of the Old Testament was a more wrathful 849 00:56:37,840 --> 00:56:41,440 and a more vengeful, a more angry God than the God of the 850 00:56:41,440 --> 00:56:43,840 New Testament. Somehow we got a new God 851 00:56:43,880 --> 00:56:46,880 somewhere along the way. That is blatant heresy. 852 00:56:48,760 --> 00:56:51,800 The God who gave. Us his perfect law through 853 00:56:51,800 --> 00:56:58,280 Moses. He is the same God who gives us 854 00:56:58,280 --> 00:57:00,760 his perfect grace through the Lord Jesus Christ. 855 00:57:03,160 --> 00:57:07,800 We must talk about His wrath and discussing the bad news. 856 00:57:07,800 --> 00:57:11,400 Why? Because we as human beings apart 857 00:57:11,400 --> 00:57:16,880 from Jesus Christ have nothing to look forward to the fearful 858 00:57:16,880 --> 00:57:20,560 expectation and fiery judgment and wrath of God. 859 00:57:23,320 --> 00:57:26,120 Romans 25 says this. But because of your stubbornness 860 00:57:26,120 --> 00:57:30,000 and your unrepentant heart, you were storing up wrath against 861 00:57:30,000 --> 00:57:32,960 yourself for the day of God's wrath when His righteous 862 00:57:32,960 --> 00:57:36,800 judgment will be revealed. All of you who are not in Christ 863 00:57:36,800 --> 00:57:37,960 today, let me just tell you this. 864 00:57:37,960 --> 00:57:43,560 Every time you break His perfect law, you're storing up more 865 00:57:43,560 --> 00:57:47,720 wrath for yourself on the day of judgment, because it is on that 866 00:57:47,720 --> 00:57:51,640 day where He will take His law, and that book will be opened up 867 00:57:51,920 --> 00:57:55,200 and your life will be judged alongside of that. 868 00:57:55,200 --> 00:58:01,840 And you will be found standing before a holy God, guilty as 869 00:58:01,840 --> 00:58:06,360 charged, still alienated from God, and deserving of judgment 870 00:58:06,360 --> 00:58:09,480 and wrath and judgment and wrath in hell. 871 00:58:11,320 --> 00:58:16,720 Hebrews 10/13 says this is a dreadful thing to fall into the 872 00:58:16,720 --> 00:58:23,160 hands of the living God, the law proclaims. 873 00:58:24,320 --> 00:58:28,520 That we are guilty sinners, alienated from God because of 874 00:58:28,520 --> 00:58:32,800 His perfect standard, His perfect law, and we are 875 00:58:32,800 --> 00:58:38,280 deserving of judgment, and we ought to be afraid of that. 876 00:58:38,280 --> 00:58:42,800 We ought to be dreadfully afraid of falling into the hands of the 877 00:58:42,800 --> 00:58:48,560 living God. Many people don't understand 878 00:58:48,560 --> 00:58:50,680 this. The bad news for sinful man is 879 00:58:50,680 --> 00:58:54,560 not hell. No, hell is a reality. 880 00:58:55,760 --> 00:59:00,360 The bad news for sinful man is God himself. 881 00:59:01,400 --> 00:59:03,280 Did you catch that? He's not the teddy bear in the 882 00:59:03,280 --> 00:59:05,600 sky that you've created him into being. 883 00:59:06,960 --> 00:59:09,600 He's a God of wrath and he is a God of justice and he is a God 884 00:59:09,600 --> 00:59:12,960 of judgement and he is a God of indignation towards sin, and he 885 00:59:12,960 --> 00:59:16,280 cannot just turn a blind eye to it and ignore it as if it's not 886 00:59:16,320 --> 00:59:21,000 happening. He will judge. 887 00:59:22,800 --> 00:59:29,440 Sinful, unrepentant mankind, He will eternally exercise his 888 00:59:29,440 --> 00:59:34,800 wrath upon them, fear him, tremble before him. 889 00:59:34,960 --> 00:59:38,920 It is a dreadful thing to fall into his hands. 890 00:59:39,040 --> 00:59:40,760 That's what's happening here with the Israelites. 891 00:59:40,840 --> 00:59:43,880 They've heard the law. They stayed at a distance. 892 00:59:44,000 --> 00:59:46,320 Moses, you can speak to us for yourself, and we'll listen to 893 00:59:46,320 --> 00:59:48,360 you. But don't let God speak to us 894 00:59:48,360 --> 00:59:50,960 again, and we'll die. Why? 895 00:59:52,280 --> 00:59:56,960 Because when He speaks, He speaks truth, and when He speaks 896 00:59:56,960 --> 01:00:04,440 truth to the Sinner, they stand condemned by His truth. 897 01:00:06,120 --> 01:00:10,360 So the bad news of the Law reveals our standing before God 898 01:00:10,360 --> 01:00:14,160 as sinners. Isn't this bad news makes us 899 01:00:14,160 --> 01:00:17,840 aware that we're alienated from our Creator and we're deserving 900 01:00:17,840 --> 01:00:22,480 of His holy wrath and judgment. I told you this was bad news. 901 01:00:23,480 --> 01:00:26,320 The bad news of the law reveals the standard of a holy God, the 902 01:00:26,320 --> 01:00:31,280 shameful guilt of man, the standing of man before this holy 903 01:00:31,280 --> 01:00:34,640 God who gave the law. What's the diagnosis here, 904 01:00:34,640 --> 01:00:36,520 Pastor? We're just going to dismiss and 905 01:00:36,640 --> 01:00:38,400 we have to go home and know that we're condemned. 906 01:00:38,560 --> 01:00:41,000 No, I told you the bad news makes the good news. 907 01:00:41,000 --> 01:00:45,720 Oh, so sweet. Here's your diagnosis. 908 01:00:45,720 --> 01:00:48,320 Watch this. We can't meet God's perfect 909 01:00:48,320 --> 01:00:54,600 standard on our own. We're sinfully depraved and 910 01:00:54,600 --> 01:00:58,800 we're all condemned, guilty by the law. 911 01:00:59,960 --> 01:01:02,800 And God spoke the law and it is good and it is perfect and 912 01:01:02,800 --> 01:01:04,280 everything that he says is right. 913 01:01:04,360 --> 01:01:07,680 And when God says I'm a transgressor, that is exactly 914 01:01:07,680 --> 01:01:18,040 what this man is for. Alienated from God, observing of 915 01:01:18,040 --> 01:01:24,320 his wrath and his punishment and justice, He will exercise in the 916 01:01:24,320 --> 01:01:27,840 lake of fire for all unrepentant, unbelieving center. 917 01:01:30,160 --> 01:01:31,560 So we have the. Diagnosis. 918 01:01:33,280 --> 01:01:36,040 What's the prognosis? The law gives us the diagnosis. 919 01:01:36,040 --> 01:01:37,400 That's what we've been looking at this morning. 920 01:01:37,400 --> 01:01:42,120 That's why it's bad news. But if you were to receive a 921 01:01:42,120 --> 01:01:46,320 call today from your doctor, he says you have bad news. 922 01:01:47,280 --> 01:01:49,680 And that bad news is that you have cancer. 923 01:01:50,680 --> 01:01:53,120 What do you want next? You know, the diagnosis, you 924 01:01:53,120 --> 01:01:55,120 want the prognosis. What does this mean? 925 01:01:56,880 --> 01:01:58,480 Well, it's not that big a deal. It can be treated and you'll 926 01:01:58,480 --> 01:02:05,080 live a long and healthy. Life woohoo or stage 4 and 927 01:02:06,680 --> 01:02:09,360 you've only got two months to live so you better prepare. 928 01:02:10,880 --> 01:02:12,840 And so we look at the prognosis. And here's the thing. 929 01:02:12,840 --> 01:02:15,400 I'm. Going to give you 2 scenarios. 930 01:02:17,120 --> 01:02:20,160 I'm going to give you prognosis #1 Are you ready? 931 01:02:21,440 --> 01:02:25,360 Continuing your sin and your rebellion toward God, And you 932 01:02:25,360 --> 01:02:29,360 will face the just judgement and wrath of God that will come upon 933 01:02:29,360 --> 01:02:31,360 all unbelieving, unrepentant sinners. 934 01:02:33,000 --> 01:02:35,720 Hebrews 927 says it's appointed unto man wants to die. 935 01:02:35,720 --> 01:02:38,280 And after this the judgement you will face God. 936 01:02:39,160 --> 01:02:43,120 And if you face God on your own merit, you will fall extremely 937 01:02:43,120 --> 01:02:47,520 short of His standard, and you will face God, and you will face 938 01:02:47,520 --> 01:02:52,440 God and His wrath, and in His indignation and in His justice 939 01:02:54,240 --> 01:03:02,240 prognosis #2 is this. And perhaps today God would 940 01:03:02,240 --> 01:03:07,600 graciously open your eyes to see the truth, to see the bad news 941 01:03:07,600 --> 01:03:09,720 for what it really is. It's reality. 942 01:03:10,320 --> 01:03:12,600 Most of the time people don't want the bad news and they don't 943 01:03:12,600 --> 01:03:14,440 want the bad news because they don't want reality. 944 01:03:14,560 --> 01:03:16,920 Here's the reality. The law is bad news. 945 01:03:18,800 --> 01:03:21,360 But but perhaps today God would graciously open your eyes to the 946 01:03:21,360 --> 01:03:25,280 truth that you are a Sinner. How would he do that? 947 01:03:25,280 --> 01:03:29,280 By exposing you to the law, to the fact that you have violated 948 01:03:29,280 --> 01:03:31,800 and transgressed against God, that you are a Sinner, 949 01:03:31,800 --> 01:03:34,840 condemned, and it's confirmed by the Word of God, and that you 950 01:03:34,840 --> 01:03:39,680 need a Savior and that Savior's Jesus Christ. 951 01:03:40,760 --> 01:03:44,880 The great high Priest and mediator of a new covenant, 952 01:03:45,000 --> 01:03:48,040 covenant of grace and truth. He's the only one who can save 953 01:03:48,040 --> 01:03:51,520 you from the bad news that you deserve judgment and hell. 954 01:03:51,560 --> 01:03:54,800 He's the only one who can save you from the bad news and to 955 01:03:54,800 --> 01:03:57,360 make you righteous before a holy God. 956 01:03:57,440 --> 01:03:59,960 I told you at the beginning, the bad news is that here's God's 957 01:03:59,960 --> 01:04:02,640 standard. We don't meet God's standard. 958 01:04:03,240 --> 01:04:05,040 How can we ever meet that standard? 959 01:04:05,120 --> 01:04:07,600 That's prognosis too. Pay attention to this. 960 01:04:07,680 --> 01:04:10,120 It's a theological term, and I know what people are saying 961 01:04:10,120 --> 01:04:12,560 today. Don't teach your people 962 01:04:12,560 --> 01:04:14,960 theological terms, just teach them practical terms. 963 01:04:15,080 --> 01:04:18,520 Practical terms keep you stupid in your understanding of God. 964 01:04:20,880 --> 01:04:25,760 I must be theological here because this is a supernatural 965 01:04:25,760 --> 01:04:29,920 exchange that I must talk about how high and how mighty God is 966 01:04:30,000 --> 01:04:32,680 in this exchange. It's a theological term called 967 01:04:32,680 --> 01:04:38,320 double imputation, indicating that there are two imputations 968 01:04:38,320 --> 01:04:50,440 that occur in this transaction #1 our sin is fully imputed to 969 01:04:50,440 --> 01:04:53,440 Christ. This is the first part of this 970 01:04:53,520 --> 01:04:56,520 transaction. That means this Jesus, though 971 01:04:56,520 --> 01:05:04,760 sinless in every aspect of his life and thoughts, He receives 972 01:05:04,760 --> 01:05:14,120 upon himself every transgression that I ever committed, every 973 01:05:14,120 --> 01:05:18,400 time I coveted, every time I stole, every time I had a 974 01:05:18,400 --> 01:05:22,240 lustful thought, every time I did a sinful deed. 975 01:05:22,440 --> 01:05:26,840 The penalty of that was placed upon the back of Jesus Christ at 976 01:05:26,840 --> 01:05:30,880 a heel called Calvary 2000 years ago, where He bore the weight 977 01:05:31,080 --> 01:05:34,640 and the wrath of the sin of all those who will trust in Him. 978 01:05:34,840 --> 01:05:38,440 Isaiah says it like this in Isaiah 53 verse 5, But he was 979 01:05:38,440 --> 01:05:41,720 pierced for our transgressions. Watch this he Christ. 980 01:05:41,800 --> 01:05:45,640 Was pierced for Kirk's transgressions, but he was 981 01:05:45,640 --> 01:05:49,320 crushed for Kirk's iniquity. The punishment meant that 982 01:05:49,320 --> 01:05:55,520 brought peace upon Kirk, was upon Christ and by his wounds. 983 01:05:55,520 --> 01:05:59,320 Kirk is healed. We all, like sheep, have gone 984 01:05:59,320 --> 01:06:01,800 astray. Each of us has turned to his own 985 01:06:01,800 --> 01:06:05,360 way, and the Lord has laid on him Christ, the iniquity of us 986 01:06:05,400 --> 01:06:08,520 all, all who will believe and trust in him. 987 01:06:12,440 --> 01:06:15,960 That's the first part of double amputation. 988 01:06:17,400 --> 01:06:21,520 God placed our sins on Jesus, and Jesus suffered and bore the 989 01:06:21,520 --> 01:06:25,480 wrath of God in our place as a substitutionary atonement. 990 01:06:29,640 --> 01:06:32,160 The second part of double double imputation is this. 991 01:06:33,640 --> 01:06:35,680 And this doesn't seem right, and this doesn't seem fair. 992 01:06:35,680 --> 01:06:37,640 I love when people say, well, that doesn't seem fair. 993 01:06:37,960 --> 01:06:45,600 Neither does this. Christ's righteousness has been 994 01:06:45,600 --> 01:06:48,320 imputed to us who believe and trust in Him. 995 01:06:49,880 --> 01:06:52,560 What are you saying? Clearly, Pastor, I am saying 996 01:06:53,000 --> 01:06:57,840 that my wickedness was charged to the account of Christ and His 997 01:06:57,840 --> 01:07:01,120 righteousness, The fact that He met the perfect standard of the 998 01:07:01,120 --> 01:07:05,720 law to the T. Was then imputed to me, and He 999 01:07:05,720 --> 01:07:12,240 imputed that righteousness to me, and now I stand before God, 1000 01:07:13,360 --> 01:07:19,360 meeting His. Holy standard as described and 1001 01:07:19,360 --> 01:07:24,280 proclaimed in the law. How does second Corinthians 1002 01:07:24,280 --> 01:07:26,840 describe this? Just like this Second 1003 01:07:26,840 --> 01:07:30,440 Corinthians chapter 5 verse 21. God made him who had no sin to 1004 01:07:30,440 --> 01:07:33,240 be sinned for us. My sin was imputed to Christ. 1005 01:07:33,920 --> 01:07:35,800 The second part of that verse says this. 1006 01:07:35,960 --> 01:07:40,920 So that in him we might become the righteousness of God. 1007 01:07:41,200 --> 01:07:46,920 His righteousness then imputed to me church, that is grace, 1008 01:07:47,120 --> 01:07:52,960 that is the gospel. That is the good news, that 1009 01:07:52,960 --> 01:07:59,240 double imputation. It allows us to be counted as 1010 01:07:59,240 --> 01:08:06,440 righteous before God. It pays the required penalty of 1011 01:08:06,440 --> 01:08:14,920 sin, which is death. It's all paid for by the 1012 01:08:14,920 --> 01:08:17,279 sacrifice of Jesus Christ on the cross. 1013 01:08:18,560 --> 01:08:26,240 He died the death that we owed, and He gives to us the 1014 01:08:26,240 --> 01:08:31,399 perfection that we need, that we may stand before a holy God, not 1015 01:08:31,399 --> 01:08:38,200 in fear, but in fellowship and perfect communion, that we may 1016 01:08:38,479 --> 01:08:41,840 boldly come before His throne of grace. 1017 01:08:43,120 --> 01:08:47,800 Paul says it like this in Romans chapter 3, and I'm done, verse 1018 01:08:47,800 --> 01:08:50,760 20. He says, therefore no one will 1019 01:08:50,760 --> 01:08:53,359 be declared righteous in his sight by observing the law. 1020 01:08:54,279 --> 01:08:56,640 Rather, through the law we become conscious of sin. 1021 01:08:56,720 --> 01:09:00,920 I pray today that you have become conscious of sin, but now 1022 01:09:00,920 --> 01:09:03,680 a righteousness from God apart from the law has been made to 1023 01:09:03,800 --> 01:09:06,640 made known, to which the Law and the prophets testify. 1024 01:09:07,439 --> 01:09:10,000 This righteousness comes from God through faith in Jesus 1025 01:09:10,000 --> 01:09:13,040 Christ. To all who believe, there is no 1026 01:09:13,040 --> 01:09:16,359 difference, for all have sinned and come short of the glory of 1027 01:09:16,359 --> 01:09:20,600 God and are justified freely by His grace through the redemption 1028 01:09:20,600 --> 01:09:25,319 that came by Christ Jesus. God presented him as a sacrifice 1029 01:09:25,319 --> 01:09:27,279 of atonement through faith in His blood. 1030 01:09:27,279 --> 01:09:29,800 He did this to demonstrate His justice, because in His 1031 01:09:29,800 --> 01:09:33,560 forbearance he had left the sins committed beforehand unpunished. 1032 01:09:35,240 --> 01:09:39,040 26 says He did it to demonstrate His justice at this present time 1033 01:09:39,040 --> 01:09:42,920 so as to be just. And the one who justifies those 1034 01:09:42,920 --> 01:09:46,319 who have faith in Christ. He is just and He is a 1035 01:09:46,319 --> 01:09:48,200 justifier. What do I mean by that? 1036 01:09:50,000 --> 01:09:53,200 Those. Who remain in the bad news of 1037 01:09:53,200 --> 01:09:57,240 the law, thinking that they are somehow going to please God by 1038 01:09:57,240 --> 01:10:00,200 doing things that they are uncapable of doing. 1039 01:10:02,160 --> 01:10:07,760 They will receive the just wrath and judgment of God that they 1040 01:10:07,760 --> 01:10:11,000 deserve. But it also says that He's the 1041 01:10:11,000 --> 01:10:17,720 justifier of those who have faith in Jesus, those who have 1042 01:10:17,720 --> 01:10:23,840 trusted in Jesus. You will not face the wrath and 1043 01:10:23,840 --> 01:10:29,360 the indignation of God because he has poured out his grace and 1044 01:10:29,360 --> 01:10:33,920 his mercy and his forgiveness into your life through the Lord 1045 01:10:34,000 --> 01:10:38,240 Jesus Christ. And you by faith have accessed 1046 01:10:40,400 --> 01:10:45,720 that forgiveness, that eternal life, that double amputation 1047 01:10:45,720 --> 01:10:48,320 that I spoke of a minute ago. So please know this 1048 01:10:48,320 --> 01:10:54,560 righteousness is credited, not earned, and it's by faith in the 1049 01:10:54,560 --> 01:10:58,840 Lord Jesus Christ and not by any works or efforts and trying to 1050 01:10:58,840 --> 01:11:02,320 keep the law, because the bad news of the law declares we 1051 01:11:02,320 --> 01:11:06,240 can't keep his law. But the good news of the gospel 1052 01:11:06,240 --> 01:11:09,720 is this. Jesus died to pay the penalty 1053 01:11:09,720 --> 01:11:14,720 that we owed, and He has given unto those who believe and trust 1054 01:11:14,720 --> 01:11:18,120 in Him the righteousness that the Father requires. 1055 01:11:18,960 --> 01:11:22,040 The bad news is we're all sinners deserving of God's wrath 1056 01:11:22,040 --> 01:11:24,440 and judgment. We're deserving of eternal 1057 01:11:24,440 --> 01:11:26,640 death. We missed the mark. 1058 01:11:28,000 --> 01:11:33,240 And the good news is that Jesus is that sinless Savior who 1059 01:11:33,240 --> 01:11:37,040 offered Himself as a perfect sacrifice on behalf of all those 1060 01:11:37,040 --> 01:11:42,360 who will trust in Him. My prayer is this for you, that 1061 01:11:42,360 --> 01:11:44,440 you trust in Him. Let's pray together. 1062 01:11:44,440 --> 01:11:52,280 Father, in the name of Jesus, we thank you so much that in Christ 1063 01:11:52,280 --> 01:12:01,080 we don't get what we deserve, but in Christ He bore what we 1064 01:12:01,080 --> 01:12:08,480 deserve, and we receive His goodness and His perfection and 1065 01:12:08,480 --> 01:12:11,680 His righteousness imputed to our account so that we can stand 1066 01:12:11,680 --> 01:12:14,720 before holy God. Not condemned by the law. 1067 01:12:14,720 --> 01:12:20,440 That's the bad news. But as recipients of grace, sons 1068 01:12:20,440 --> 01:12:25,440 and daughters of the Most High, purchased by the precious blood 1069 01:12:25,440 --> 01:12:27,320 of the Lamb, the Lord Jesus Christ. 1070 01:12:28,440 --> 01:12:32,080 God, I pray for those who have not yet surrendered their life 1071 01:12:32,080 --> 01:12:34,520 to Christ. Lord, I pray that it be today 1072 01:12:36,080 --> 01:12:40,640 that they have heard the bad news of the law, that you have 1073 01:12:40,640 --> 01:12:43,040 opened their eyes to see that they are sinners and they are in 1074 01:12:43,040 --> 01:12:46,400 need of a Savior, and you have provided that Savior for them, 1075 01:12:47,520 --> 01:12:52,520 that today by your grace, they would surrender to Christ and be 1076 01:12:52,520 --> 01:12:55,040 saved. We'll give you all the glory for 1077 01:12:55,040 --> 01:12:59,920 it in Jesus name, Amen. Would you stand to your feet 1078 01:12:59,920 --> 01:13:05,640 now? His heads are bowed and his eyes 1079 01:13:05,640 --> 01:13:10,240 are closed. You're here this morning, you 1080 01:13:10,240 --> 01:13:17,000 say, Kirk? I am a transdresser, and the bad 1081 01:13:17,000 --> 01:13:21,960 news of the law has placed me in a position to know that I am 1082 01:13:21,960 --> 01:13:25,600 condemned and I deserve death and judgment. 1083 01:13:28,040 --> 01:13:31,600 But I also heard the part about how God will give me mercy and 1084 01:13:31,600 --> 01:13:35,840 grace if I trust in the Lord Jesus Christ as my Lord and 1085 01:13:35,840 --> 01:13:38,440 Savior. You're here today. 1086 01:13:39,880 --> 01:13:46,400 Oh, you were given 2 prognosis. 1. 1087 01:13:48,320 --> 01:13:51,800 Keep doing what you're doing and stay in your state of 1088 01:13:51,800 --> 01:13:54,920 condemnation. Face the eternal wrath of God. 1089 01:13:56,320 --> 01:14:00,960 Two run to Jesus Christ in desperation today, calling on 1090 01:14:00,960 --> 01:14:04,320 His name, knowing that for whosoever shall call upon the 1091 01:14:04,320 --> 01:14:05,760 name of the Lord, they shall be saved. 1092 01:14:05,760 --> 01:14:07,360 You're here today and you say, pastor, that's me. 1093 01:14:07,560 --> 01:14:11,200 I need Jesus to save me from my sin and the wrath that is to 1094 01:14:11,200 --> 01:14:12,760 come upon me. Who would be honest by the 1095 01:14:12,760 --> 01:14:14,440 raising of your hand and say that's me? 1096 01:14:14,560 --> 01:14:17,280 I want to know how I can surrender my life to Jesus 1097 01:14:17,280 --> 01:14:19,160 Christ today. Raise it high where I can see 1098 01:14:19,160 --> 01:14:21,760 you, where I can pray for you. Anyone here like this? 1099 01:14:21,760 --> 01:14:23,480 Thank you ma'am. You keep that up so I can see 1100 01:14:23,480 --> 01:14:27,040 you. Anyone else says that's me, I 1101 01:14:27,040 --> 01:14:29,040 need Jesus to save me. Ma'am, I'm going to ask you to 1102 01:14:29,040 --> 01:14:31,600 do something brave right now as these other folks are praying 1103 01:14:31,600 --> 01:14:33,040 for you. If one of you ladies wouldn't 1104 01:14:33,040 --> 01:14:35,360 meet her, right down there you come right now, you come down 1105 01:14:35,360 --> 01:14:37,480 that aisle, they're going to take the word of God. 1106 01:14:37,480 --> 01:14:39,720 They're going to show you what it means to truly know Jesus as 1107 01:14:39,720 --> 01:14:42,920 your Lord and Savior. Have the burden of sin lifted 1108 01:14:42,920 --> 01:14:51,160 off of your back. Rest of you, I make a dangerous 1109 01:14:51,160 --> 01:14:52,840 assumption that you were all Christians. 1110 01:14:54,880 --> 01:14:56,760 I pray that you would search your heart, you would work out 1111 01:14:56,760 --> 01:15:00,920 your own salvation with fear and trembling to see if that's a 1112 01:15:00,920 --> 01:15:05,600 trustworthy assumption. I pray today that you see the 1113 01:15:05,600 --> 01:15:09,840 Word of God clearly. What you have truly been rescued 1114 01:15:09,840 --> 01:15:14,760 from, what you truly deserve, yet what Jesus has saved you 1115 01:15:14,760 --> 01:15:16,080 from, that you would praise Him for that. 1116 01:15:16,080 --> 01:15:18,000 If you need prayer, there's folks to my left and to my right 1117 01:15:18,000 --> 01:15:21,200 to pray with you, to pray for you as we prepare to approach 1118 01:15:21,200 --> 01:15:23,560 the Lord's Table and observance of the Lord's Supper this 1119 01:15:23,560 --> 01:15:25,520 morning. I also pray during this time 1120 01:15:25,520 --> 01:15:29,360 that you would begin to examine yourselves so that when we take 1121 01:15:29,360 --> 01:15:32,040 the Lord's Supper in just a moment, that you partake in a 1122 01:15:32,040 --> 01:15:35,680 manner that is worthy according to the commands that God gave to 1123 01:15:35,680 --> 01:15:38,040 the apostle Paul in first Corinthians Chapter 11. 1124 01:15:38,520 --> 01:15:39,920 You need prayer. There's folks to my right and my 1125 01:15:39,920 --> 01:15:42,000 left to pray for you. Pray with you. 1126 01:15:42,800 --> 01:15:44,320 May we yield to the Holy Spirit now. 1127 01:15:47,040 --> 01:15:50,040 You've been listening to Key Life Fellowships Pulpit Ministry 1128 01:15:50,040 --> 01:15:52,840 podcast. Join us each week for more 1129 01:15:52,840 --> 01:15:54,480 teaching from God's Word.