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So we're going to turn to Romans
Chapter 3. 

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Does anybody need a copy of the 
lesson for tonight? 

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We have a few of them. 
Anybody raise your hand and 

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Charlie will take them around 
and give them out. 

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And just a couple other things 
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Number one, I failed to mention 
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and all of that stuff that we're
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we've we've been working 
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Christian Law Association, or 
it's actually the National 

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Center for Life and Liberty. 
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those bylaws for us. 
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situation and we've done as much
of the due diligence as we can 

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to make sure that everything is 
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everything is legally above 
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And so they were very satisfied.
I actually had a lot more in it 

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that I had written out and they 
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you don't need all that. 
So anyway, look, read through 

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that. 
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then let me know. 
I want to mention this too. 

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If we have some men that can 
help out with this after the 

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service, we're going to set up 
the baptism, the the baptistry. 

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We, we're going to do a baptism 
this Sunday. 

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I think we have 3 or 4 that are 
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And so if we can, if you can 
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be a big help. 
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too. 
Obviously Brian mentioned that I

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was working or that I was there 
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and I had to slip out. 
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tremendous opportunity. 
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it's, it's a ministry that most 
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You see some police officers 
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we've, we've been able to really
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most people don't see, but 
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graduation, which is, you know, 
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they don't, they don't change 
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service and they, they take the 
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them. 
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graduation. 
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the graduation in prayer. 
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is that, you know, I, I go into 
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a month, sometimes more, 
depending on the, the situation.

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But I spend some time with the 
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officers and, and have some. 
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Heart to heart talks with them, 
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to get to know me, me to get to 
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the road and, and have an 
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And so tonight, as I usually do,
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present all of them with a 
Bible. 

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And you know, I put a note in 
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put a, put a gospel track in 
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So, you know, there's, there's 
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of them where they hit a rough 
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And that's where that influence 
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And, and what you don't see as 
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sitting down at breakfast, you 
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you know, many different 
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share the gospel with somebody 
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And, you know, those are just 
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And, you know, we've seen some 
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I believe we're going to see a 
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But at the very least the seeds 
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And you know, those are, like I 
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that it's a ministry that most 
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ministry and it's a very, very 
needed ministry. 

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You know, you just no telling 
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some of these, you know, 
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it. 
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now that that we're praying for.
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them. 
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ministry, but. 
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To get all the way through this 
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it's kind of long, but some of 
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basically saying the same 
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And so it's, it's just making 
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So we'll kind of cover it a 
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beginning and then, you know, 
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couple different things as we 
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Wednesday. 
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Ramos, that's going to be coming
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He's, I've been a friend of mine
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going to be down in this area. 
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something about coming to church
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preach for us. 
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this tonight as well. 
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two weeks with a, with a week in
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this. 
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So this is the law and the New 
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And and as he mentions here at 
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confusion about the law of Moses
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Christian life. 
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it is essential for every 
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a solid scriptural footing. 
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And that's what we're going to 
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the Old Testament is the Old 
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We don't have to follow any of 
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We're under grace. 
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in the Old Testament doesn't, 
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Only the things that are in the 
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That's, that's kind of the 
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OK, not not to mention that most
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10 commandments and the 10 
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commandments? 
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with when Christ came and 
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got rid of the old covenant? 
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we're under grace. 
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commandments, Right? 
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Why, why do we, how do we pick 
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and which ones we don't? 
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sacrifice animals anymore, 
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Very clearly we don't follow the
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days and all of those things, 
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So why don't we do that? 
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10 commandments. 
What, what is the difference 

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here? 
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we're talking about here. 
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too, another aspect of this, 
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the, IT explains the reason why 
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the world are not the way to 
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the way to heaven, I should say,
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through Christ or going through 
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And when I say most of the other
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don't have to be a Baptist to go
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first class? 
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have to be a Baptist to go to 
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There are others who are 
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different in other doctrines 
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the truth. 
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preaching the truth because it's
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The Catholics, the Mormons, the,
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Presbyterians, many of them are,
it's, it's all based on your 

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works and what you can do to 
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Even if they don't say that, but
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they, they include that you have
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to be baptized as a baby or that
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to save you. 
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works, right? 
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baptism even. 
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out there, religions, if you 
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there who say you have to be 
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heaven, right? 
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salvation. 
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anything else, it's still a 
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It's still something that you 
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heaven. 
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Christ plus baptism. 
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communion. 
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and you know, praying the 
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and communion and praying the 
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to the priests and, and, you 
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different things. 
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that that wrap themselves around
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Catholicism, right? 
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Catholicism was started all the 
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under Constantine. 
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since then has pretty much come 
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Catholic Church, right? 
The Baptist, And this is not 

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what our point is tonight. 
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part of the Catholic Church. 
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ourselves to be Protestants. 
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I was never inside the Catholic 
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right? 
I was always on the outside of 

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it protesting the Catholic 
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And I say I am talking about 
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Baptists are not Protestants, 
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The the Methodists came out of 
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The Presbyterians came out of 
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The Lutheran's came out of that.
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Martin Luther who was, who was 
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Reformation. 
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on in the Catholic Church. 
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to get rid of all of the 
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He wanted to change some of the 
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and he took a very strong stand 
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was nothing for them to bump you
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And he, you know, very easily 
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The thing is with a lot of those
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reformers, they were, they were 
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when it came to persecuting the 
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them. 
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Catholic Church, they establish 
their religion and then they 

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start killing the Baptist and 
the Waldensians and everybody 

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else who didn't agree, the 
Anabaptist, the people who 

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didn't agree with them, right? 
So how are you any different? 

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You're not right. 
And it's, it's because all of 

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that was based on works, right? 
They called them Anabaptist 

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rebaptizers. 
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saying is no, I got baptized as 
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I don't need to get baptized 
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You're doing it wrong. 
You're rebaptizing everybody 

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when what they're saying is you 
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salvation, right? 
And a Baptist and, and a lot of 

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other things that go along with 
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But that will kind of explain 
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So Romans chapter 3, if you've 
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if you've ever taken somebody 
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to Romans chapter 3. 
And Romans 323 is where most of 

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us would start. 
Now you could start in a couple 

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other places and, and lead them 
to Romans 323. 

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But verse #19 is where we'll 
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And this is kind of the first 
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But verse #19 Now we know that 
what things so ever the law 

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saith, it saith to them who are 
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may be stopped, and all the 
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God. 
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law, there shall no flesh be 
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For by the law is the knowledge 
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And we could stop right there, 
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everything up. 
The law was given to help us 

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understand that we are sinners. 
That's why the law was there, 

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because you know what? 
You can't do? 

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It can't keep the whole law. 
Nobody can. 

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There's two ways to heaven, 
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Everybody says there's only one 
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There's two ways to heaven. 
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You could be perfect and you 
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that we have is through Jesus 
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But that's what the law is there
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The law is there to tell you 
that you're not perfect and that

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you can't get to heaven be on 
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right. 
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But now the righteousness of God
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being witnessed by the law and 
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righteousness of God, which is 
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all and upon all of them that 
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For there is no difference, for 
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of the glory of God, being 
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through the redemption that is 
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So three things that we want to 
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And here we go #1 the law of 
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given to show men that God is 
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And we looked at verse #19 Now 
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the law saith, it saith to them 
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every mouth may be stopped and 
all the world may become guilty 

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before God. 
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righteous, right? 
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when I've said the Bible says 
that all is sinned and comes 

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short of the glory of God. 
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admit that you're a Sinner, 
right? 

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Well, I wouldn't say that, but 
how can you not admit that 

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you're a Sinner? 
But there's people, many people 

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who don't believe that they're 
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You know, maybe I've, you know, 
told a little white lie before 

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or something like that. 
But I'm not, I'm not a bad 

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person. 
I'm not, you know, so they 

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compare themselves to the human 
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Well, compare compared to the 
guy that's sitting down there on

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death row in jail, I'm a pretty 
good person, right? 

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Even if they admit that. 
Well, yeah, maybe I've told a 

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lie here and there, or maybe 
I've done, you know, some things

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that I shouldn't have done, but 
overall, I'm a pretty good 

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person. 
I think God will probably let me

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into heaven, right? 
What are they comparing that to?

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righteousness. 
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certainly not to the word of 
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the human standards of 
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other rather than with God's 
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What God's perfect law helps us 
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compare yourself to that, you 
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And that's why we have Romans 
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short of the glory of God 
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Take the 10 commandments for 
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And again, they're all listed 
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I'm not going to take the time 
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20, but we've broken every one 
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We put other gods before the one
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We've made idols and worshiped 
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We worship and serve ourselves 
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own selves into idols. 
We've taken the name of the Lord

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in vain. 
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treated all days the same, 
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day for the worship of God. 
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our parents. 
We've killed, we've committed 

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adultery, we've stolen, we've 
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Well, there's a few of those 
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All right, let's go to Matthew, 
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Matthew chapter 5. 
You don't have, you can turn 

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over there. 
In fact, let's turn over there 

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for a second. 
Matthew chapter 5. 

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OK, we're coming back to Romans 
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But look at look at Matthew 
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Because Jesus changed everything
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those 10 commandments, right? 
And you could say, well, I've 

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never committed adultery. 
Well, I've never murdered 

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somebody. 
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required, but perfect internal 
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And he, he turns all of that on 
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Verse 21. 
Matthew chapter 5. 

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Verse 21. 
You've heard that it was said by

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them of old time, Thou shalt not
kill. 

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Oh, there you go. 
I've never killed. 

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I've never killed anybody. 
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be in danger of judgment. 
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whosoever is angry with his 
brother without a cause shall be

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in danger of the judgment. 
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brother, Raqqa shall be in 
danger of the council. 

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But whosoever shall shall say, 
thou fool shall be in danger of 

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Hellfire. 
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that's that's a hard issue and 
that's God sees it as murder, 

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right. 
So you may never have actually 

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taken out a knife and stabbed 
somebody or, you know, shot 

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somebody or something like that,
but you get angry at a brother 

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without a cause. 
That's the same as murder in 

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God's eyes. 
How about this one verse, verse 

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27. 
You've heard that it have that 

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it was said by them of old time.
Thou shalt not commit adultery. 

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Oh, I've never committed 
adultery. 

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I would never right, but I say 
unto you, that whosoever looketh

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on a woman to lust after her 
hath committed adultery with her

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already in his heart. 
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obedience. 
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further. 
Now you need perfect internal 

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obedience if you're going to 
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So the law of Moses requires 
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And James chapter 2 and verse 10
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keep the whole law and yet 
offended one point, he's guilty 

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of all, right? 
That means 11 sin, one sin is 

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enough. 
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only does God require that 
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he quite requires that perfect 
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Which changes everything. 
Well, I'm not under the law 

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anymore. 
I'm under grace. 

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So those things don't matter to 
me, OK, Take them out. 

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Take those things out. 
Jesus made it a lot more 

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difficult than what the law did,
right? 

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Right. 
I almost take the law because I 

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can, I cannot commit adultery. 
I could not murder somebody. 

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But when you, when you put it 
into a heart aspect and that 

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changes it up, that that changes
it a lot, right? 

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Have you ever been angry? 
Have you ever looked at a woman 

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with lust? 
Have you ever done these other 

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things in your heart? 
That's what that's the standard 

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that we have to live up to. 
So the Law of Moses or the Old 

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covenant was given to show men 
that God is holy and that 

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they're sinners #2 the law of 
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So we're back over in Romans 
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chapter 3 and verse #20. 
Therefore, by the deeds of the 

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law there shall no flesh be 
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For by the law is the knowledge 
of sin. 

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The law can't do anything to get
us to heaven, right? 

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The law only brings the 
knowledge of sin. 

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The Old Testament cannot bring 
salvation because it requires 

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perfect holiness, whereas man is
a fallen Sinner and cannot live 

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up to the requirements. 
So the law of God can only curse

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us that we're justified, that 
we're justified. 

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No flesh shall be justified in 
His sight. 

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That means to declared righteous
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The law can't do that. 
The law can't declare us 

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righteous. 
The only thing that the law can 

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do is condemn us, right? 
Only God can declare us 

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righteous. 
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times, even recently. 
Justified, it means I'm standing

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before God just as if I'd never 
sinned, right? 

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That's what justified is when 
God sees me, He sees me as 

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somebody with the righteousness 
of Jesus Christ. 

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God cannot declare A Sinner 
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law of Moses because that 
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So the law of Moses can't bring 
salvation and, and, and 

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basically then as we read, that 
leaves no one righteous verse. 

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Actually Romans chapter 3 and 
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there is none righteous, no, not
one, because there's nobody who 

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can live up to the perfect 
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Nobody can do that. 
So #3 then salvation is through 

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faith in Jesus Christ. 
And we read the rest of those 

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verses already, but it's but, 
but it concludes in verse #24 

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being justified freely by His 
grace through the redemption 

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that is in Christ Jesus. 
So the way of salvation is not 

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through the law of Moses, it's 
through the blood of Jesus 

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Christ. 
The law demanded that the Sinner

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died. 
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and that's where you would take 
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verse 23. 
For the wages of sin is death, 

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but the gift of God is eternal 
life through Jesus Christ our 

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Lord. 
The law demanded that blood be 

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shed, and Jesus shed His 
righteous blood in payment for 

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our sin. 
Hebrews 922 the without the 

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shedding of blood, there is no 
remission of sins right, because

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of what Jesus Christ did on the 
cross. 

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Somebody who as a Sinner can 
believe on Jesus Christ and we 

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can be saved because of the 
righteousness of God through 

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faith doesn't have anything to 
do with how we keep the law or 

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don't keep the law. 
The believers justified freely 

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and that means that salvation is
a gift of God that was purchased

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by Jesus Christ and the Bible 
says that it became the becomes 

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the propitiation for our sin. 
What does that word propitiation

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mean? 
Well, propitiation means a 

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satisfaction of a debt. 
He became the satisfaction of 

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the debt we had a debt that we 
could not pay. 

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He paid a debt that he did not 
owe, but he became the 

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satisfaction of that debt for 
us. 

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And, and I know that you, you 
understand that. 

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I mean, if you are, you know, I,
I, I saw a, a YouTube video, 

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just a compilation of, of this 
guy who, he's got some kind of 

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channel or something. 
And he goes around and, and 

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there's people, you know, and he
and, and it's, you know, 

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typically they look a little bit
less, you know, wealthy. 

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And they're, they're checking 
out at a grocery store and they,

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they check all their, you know, 
they scan all their items. 

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And then he comes walking up and
he says, excuse me real quick. 

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And the people are just kind of 
like, OK, what are you know, 

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what are you doing? 
And he sticks his card up there.

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Card reads it beep And he walks 
away And they they go back up 

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there and they start fumbling 
through their wallet to pay and 

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they and the cashier says it's 
already been paid. 

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He said, what do you mean it's 
already been paid? 

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Yeah, that guy just paid it for 
you. 

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And he's like, what is that what
he was doing? 

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I was wondering what he was 
doing. 

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Where, where did he go? 
You know, but that that's 

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exactly what the propitiation 
is. 

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You had a debt that you owed and
somebody else came in and paid 

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that debt for you, Right. 
And that's exactly what Jesus 

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Christ is to us. 
We had a debt that was so great 

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we could never pay it right now.
Obviously, those people probably

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could pay it at the cashier 
because they were getting ready 

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to. 
It's just, I mean, how nice it 

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is to have somebody come up and 
pay that for you, right? 

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But Jesus Christ paid a debt 
that there was no way that we 

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could pay. 
It was greater than anything 

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that we could ever pay back. 
It was greater than anything 

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that we could ever do to earn 
anything that would be anywhere 

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close to enough. 
But Jesus Christ did that for 

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us, and that's what that word 
propitiation means. 

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Now we're close. 
Let's go over to Romans Chapter 

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7. 
Romans Chapter 7, verse one 

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through 4. 
No, you not, brethren, for I 

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speak to them that know the law,
how that the law hath dominion 

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over a man as long as he liveth.
For the woman which hath an 

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husband is bound by the law to 
her husband so long as he 

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liveth. 
But if the husband would be 

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dead, she's loosed from the law 
of her husband. 

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So then if while her husband 
liveth, she be married to 

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another man, she shall be called
an adulteress. 

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But if her husband be dead, 
she's free from that law so that

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she's no adulteress, though she 
be married to another man. 

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So Paul is using an example 
here. 

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He's he's basically saying, all 
right, if if you're married and 

450
00:21:31,920 --> 00:21:34,320
while you're married, you go 
marry somebody else, you're 

451
00:21:34,320 --> 00:21:37,040
living in adultery, right? 
That's what adultery is. 

452
00:21:37,200 --> 00:21:40,880
But if the husband dies, you're 
loose from that. 

453
00:21:40,880 --> 00:21:43,040
You can go marry somebody else 
if you want to, because you're 

454
00:21:43,040 --> 00:21:45,600
not under that law anymore. 
And then he brings it to the 

455
00:21:45,600 --> 00:21:50,160
conclusion verse #4 Wherefore, 
my brethren, ye also are become 

456
00:21:50,160 --> 00:21:52,480
dead to the law by the body of 
Christ, that you should be 

457
00:21:52,480 --> 00:21:55,360
married to another, even to him 
who is raised from the dead, 

458
00:21:55,560 --> 00:21:58,400
that we should bring forth fruit
unto God. 

459
00:21:58,680 --> 00:22:03,000
So we have a couple points 
underneath this passage #1 the 

460
00:22:03,000 --> 00:22:06,080
law is not the Christian's rule 
in life. 

461
00:22:06,880 --> 00:22:10,600
Christ is our new husband or a 
new Lord, and he rules our lives

462
00:22:10,600 --> 00:22:13,200
through the new covenant. 
We we're freed from that old 

463
00:22:13,200 --> 00:22:17,360
covenant, right? 
I'm not, I'm not living in 

464
00:22:17,360 --> 00:22:19,160
adultery. 
And I mean, I'm just using this 

465
00:22:19,160 --> 00:22:22,680
example because I'm trying to 
live with the law and with 

466
00:22:22,680 --> 00:22:28,000
Christ at the same time. 
No, I died, the law died to me 

467
00:22:28,480 --> 00:22:30,040
because of what Christ did for 
me. 

468
00:22:30,480 --> 00:22:32,840
So I'm free from all the law. 
I'm not free. 

469
00:22:32,840 --> 00:22:35,600
I'm not, I'm not bound by any of
those things because of what 

470
00:22:35,600 --> 00:22:39,120
Christ did. 
And he and he uses an example 

471
00:22:39,120 --> 00:22:40,880
you're trying to serve. 
God under the old law is like a 

472
00:22:40,880 --> 00:22:42,880
woman who serves a husband only 
out of fear. 

473
00:22:43,280 --> 00:22:46,240
She cooks and cleans the house 
because she's afraid not to. 

474
00:22:46,840 --> 00:22:49,120
Serving God under the new law is
like a woman who serves a 

475
00:22:49,120 --> 00:22:51,120
husband out of love. 
She cooks and cleans house for 

476
00:22:51,120 --> 00:22:53,200
her Master, but not because 
she's afraid of what he's going 

477
00:22:53,200 --> 00:22:56,440
to do to her, but simply because
he loves her and treats her so 

478
00:22:56,440 --> 00:22:59,640
well that she in turn loves him.
That's exactly how it is with 

479
00:22:59,640 --> 00:23:02,920
God, right? 
I don't, I don't serve God. 

480
00:23:02,920 --> 00:23:05,720
I don't live for God because I'm
afraid that he's going to send 

481
00:23:05,720 --> 00:23:09,200
me to hell. 
Because if he's my, if Jesus 

482
00:23:09,200 --> 00:23:11,400
Christ is my Savior, and I know 
for sure that I'm on my way to 

483
00:23:11,400 --> 00:23:15,040
heaven, as we've talked about 
extensively, you can't lose that

484
00:23:15,040 --> 00:23:17,960
salvation. 
So I don't serve him because I'm

485
00:23:17,960 --> 00:23:20,200
afraid that he's going to take 
away what I have. 

486
00:23:20,520 --> 00:23:24,000
I serve him because I'm so 
thankful that he gave me what I 

487
00:23:24,000 --> 00:23:28,400
do have and he loves me and I 
love him and I just want to 

488
00:23:28,400 --> 00:23:30,160
serve him because of what He's 
done for me. 

489
00:23:30,880 --> 00:23:33,880
I'm not, I'm not under the law. 
I'm not obligated to, to serve 

490
00:23:33,880 --> 00:23:36,280
him. 
I'm not obligated to live for 

491
00:23:36,280 --> 00:23:38,120
him. 
I'm not obligated to do things 

492
00:23:38,120 --> 00:23:41,960
that are pleasing to him, right?
Because he's not I, I'm saved. 

493
00:23:41,960 --> 00:23:44,040
I, I'm not, I don't have to do 
those things. 

494
00:23:44,160 --> 00:23:48,400
I get to do those things. 
That's the difference #2 The Law

495
00:23:48,400 --> 00:23:50,320
of Moses cannot condemn the 
believer. 

496
00:23:50,880 --> 00:23:53,760
The believer says dead to the 
law as a wife is to a deceased 

497
00:23:53,760 --> 00:23:55,840
husband. 
The Lord Jesus Christ took our 

498
00:23:55,840 --> 00:23:59,160
condemnation upon Himself on the
cross, and we're safe in Him 

499
00:23:59,160 --> 00:24:03,720
from all fear of eternal 
judgment #3 The Christian has a 

500
00:24:03,720 --> 00:24:05,840
new power, which is the 
indwelling Holy Spirit. 

501
00:24:05,840 --> 00:24:09,600
Verse #6 But now we are 
delivered from the law, that 

502
00:24:09,600 --> 00:24:13,520
being dead, wherein we were 
held, that we should serve in 

503
00:24:13,520 --> 00:24:18,000
newness of spirit, and not in 
the oldness of the letter. 

504
00:24:18,200 --> 00:24:22,600
Chapter 8 and verse #1 There is 
therefore now no condemnation 

505
00:24:23,280 --> 00:24:26,360
which are in Christ Jesus who 
walk not after the flesh, but 

506
00:24:26,360 --> 00:24:31,840
after the capital S Spirit. 
We're not under the law anymore.

507
00:24:31,840 --> 00:24:36,240
I'm not in that flesh. 
I, I can live in the Spirit now.

508
00:24:36,640 --> 00:24:40,200
And so I have when you get 
saved, the Holy Spirit comes and

509
00:24:40,200 --> 00:24:42,440
indwells you. 
It comes in and lives inside of 

510
00:24:42,440 --> 00:24:44,760
you. 
And now I'm not doing this on my

511
00:24:44,760 --> 00:24:47,400
own. 
Now I'm not now I don't have to 

512
00:24:47,400 --> 00:24:52,520
try so hard to please Christ. 
Now obviously we're fighting the

513
00:24:52,520 --> 00:24:55,080
flesh every day. 
We have things that we battle 

514
00:24:55,080 --> 00:24:57,720
every day, but I have the Holy 
Spirit helping me do those 

515
00:24:57,720 --> 00:24:59,840
things. 
Now let's go over to 2nd 

516
00:24:59,840 --> 00:25:03,520
Corinthians chapter 3. 
Second Corinthians chapter 3, 

517
00:25:07,200 --> 00:25:09,760
and this is a long passage, so 
I'm not going to read the entire

518
00:25:09,760 --> 00:25:12,560
thing right here. 
I'm going to jump around in this

519
00:25:12,560 --> 00:25:14,800
as we go through this. 
So there's a few things, four 

520
00:25:14,800 --> 00:25:17,840
things in under this passage 
that gives us some more insight 

521
00:25:17,840 --> 00:25:20,880
into the law and the New 
Testament Christian. 

522
00:25:22,600 --> 00:25:25,480
And these things are is this 
contrasting the Old Testament, 

523
00:25:25,480 --> 00:25:28,320
the Old Covenant with the New 
covenant #1 the Old Covenant was

524
00:25:28,320 --> 00:25:30,680
the law of Moses. 
And we have Second Corinthians 

525
00:25:30,680 --> 00:25:34,440
chapter 3 and verse #7 But if 
the ministration or the 

526
00:25:34,440 --> 00:25:38,280
dispensation of death written in
engraving in stones was 

527
00:25:38,280 --> 00:25:41,120
glorious, so that the children 
of Israel could not steadfastly 

528
00:25:41,120 --> 00:25:44,040
behold the face of Moses for the
glory of his countenance, which 

529
00:25:44,040 --> 00:25:46,840
glory was to be done away. 
Verse 13. 

530
00:25:47,160 --> 00:25:49,800
And not as Moses, which put a 
veil over his face, that the 

531
00:25:49,800 --> 00:25:52,560
children of Israel could not 
steadfastly look to the end of 

532
00:25:52,560 --> 00:25:58,320
that which is abolished. 
What he's saying is, OK, Moses 

533
00:25:58,320 --> 00:26:04,600
was dealing with the old law and
even that was so glorious that 

534
00:26:04,600 --> 00:26:07,880
Moses had to cover his face with
with a veil because it was it 

535
00:26:07,880 --> 00:26:10,080
was shown so brightly. 
Now obviously had been in the 

536
00:26:10,080 --> 00:26:13,560
presence of God, but what he's 
saying is if you think that's 

537
00:26:13,560 --> 00:26:17,840
glorious, imagine what the new 
covenant is like. 

538
00:26:17,880 --> 00:26:22,080
If you think the old law is is 
glorious, imagine what it's like

539
00:26:23,120 --> 00:26:25,160
living under Christ instead of 
under the law. 

540
00:26:26,200 --> 00:26:29,560
It was written in engraving in 
stones that that specifically 

541
00:26:29,560 --> 00:26:32,240
refers to the 10 commandments #2
the old covenant was 

542
00:26:32,240 --> 00:26:35,640
administration of death as we 
just read and administration of 

543
00:26:35,640 --> 00:26:39,960
condemnation verse #9 for if the
ministration of condemnation be 

544
00:26:39,960 --> 00:26:42,960
glory, much more death, the 
ministration of righteousness 

545
00:26:42,960 --> 00:26:45,640
exceeding glory. 
He's, he's given us a contrast 

546
00:26:45,640 --> 00:26:49,560
here, comparing contrast, right?
If, if you thought that was 

547
00:26:49,560 --> 00:26:55,320
good, you can't even imagine how
good this is, right? 

548
00:26:55,320 --> 00:26:56,760
That's what he's doing. 
He's comparing all these 

549
00:26:56,760 --> 00:27:00,080
different things. 
This is because it required, it 

550
00:27:00,080 --> 00:27:01,560
required perfect obedience from 
the heart. 

551
00:27:01,560 --> 00:27:03,680
And we being sinners are 
incapable of providing that 

552
00:27:03,680 --> 00:27:06,640
level of obedience. 
But now we can live in the power

553
00:27:06,640 --> 00:27:09,760
of the Holy Spirit and how we 
can live righteous before God 

554
00:27:09,760 --> 00:27:11,560
because of what Jesus Christ did
for us. 

555
00:27:11,720 --> 00:27:14,000
If you thought it was good to 
have some of those, you know, I 

556
00:27:14,000 --> 00:27:16,000
mean, look, God, God blessed 
Israel, right? 

557
00:27:16,680 --> 00:27:19,520
God, God bless them for 
following him. 

558
00:27:19,600 --> 00:27:22,080
Was was he blessing them because
they were following him 

559
00:27:22,080 --> 00:27:25,360
perfectly? 
No, in fact, the opposite of 

560
00:27:25,360 --> 00:27:27,840
that was true, right? 
But he still blessed them 

561
00:27:27,840 --> 00:27:30,560
because they followed him. 
And if you thought that those 

562
00:27:30,560 --> 00:27:32,840
blessings of God were good 
because you followed him here 

563
00:27:32,840 --> 00:27:36,640
and there, imagine how much 
better the blessing is of 

564
00:27:36,640 --> 00:27:39,840
knowing Jesus Christ as your 
Savior, knowing that those sins 

565
00:27:39,840 --> 00:27:42,520
are under the blood of Jesus 
Christ, knowing that everything 

566
00:27:42,520 --> 00:27:44,880
is already taken care of. 
You thought that was good. 

567
00:27:46,040 --> 00:27:47,480
You thought those were 
blessings. 

568
00:27:48,720 --> 00:27:51,400
Look at this. 
That's a real blessing. 

569
00:27:51,400 --> 00:27:53,080
That's what he's saying here. 
That's what he's comparing in 

570
00:27:53,080 --> 00:27:54,880
contrast. 
So #3 the old covenant has been 

571
00:27:54,880 --> 00:27:58,960
done away in Christ. 
Verse #11 For if that which is 

572
00:27:58,960 --> 00:28:03,440
done away was glorious, much 
more that which remaineth is 

573
00:28:03,440 --> 00:28:06,400
glorious #4 the believer has a 
new law. 

574
00:28:06,520 --> 00:28:09,440
Verse 17. 
Now the Lord is that spirit, and

575
00:28:09,440 --> 00:28:12,360
where the Spirit of the Lord is,
there is liberty. 

576
00:28:12,560 --> 00:28:15,640
But we all with open face, 
beholding as in a glass the 

577
00:28:15,640 --> 00:28:19,520
glory of the Lord, are changed 
into the same image from glory 

578
00:28:19,520 --> 00:28:22,480
to glory, even as by the Spirit 
of the Lord. 

579
00:28:22,480 --> 00:28:24,880
So the fact that the believer is
not under the law of Moses does 

580
00:28:24,880 --> 00:28:26,320
not mean that he doesn't have a 
law. 

581
00:28:26,680 --> 00:28:32,360
In fact, we're held to a much 
higher law, the law of Christ. 

582
00:28:33,240 --> 00:28:35,880
We're not, we're not looking at 
the holiness of the law anymore 

583
00:28:35,880 --> 00:28:38,280
that we have to live up to. 
We're looking at the holiness of

584
00:28:38,280 --> 00:28:42,480
Christ that we have to live up 
to so far from, oh, well, we're 

585
00:28:42,480 --> 00:28:45,400
not under the law anymore. 
So I don't have to do those 

586
00:28:45,400 --> 00:28:47,120
things because I'm not under the
law. 

587
00:28:47,280 --> 00:28:50,200
I can live my life how I want to
because I'm under grace. 

588
00:28:51,360 --> 00:28:52,600
That's the way a lot of 
Christians live. 

589
00:28:52,600 --> 00:28:55,320
And I can go do whatever I want 
to, right? 

590
00:28:55,480 --> 00:28:58,360
If I want to, if I want to do 
this, I can do it because I'm 

591
00:28:58,360 --> 00:29:01,080
under grace. 
There's no law to condemn me 

592
00:29:01,080 --> 00:29:02,880
anymore. 
I'm a I'm, I'm saved. 

593
00:29:02,880 --> 00:29:04,040
I'm on my way to heaven. 
I can. 

594
00:29:04,160 --> 00:29:09,480
I can do what I want to do. 
And what Paul is saying is no, 

595
00:29:09,560 --> 00:29:11,920
not necessarily. 
Yeah, you can. 

596
00:29:11,920 --> 00:29:14,920
You're not going to lose your 
salvation, but you're not living

597
00:29:14,920 --> 00:29:16,800
up to the holiness of the. 
Law. 

598
00:29:16,800 --> 00:29:19,120
Anymore you're living up to the 
holiness of Christ, and that's a

599
00:29:19,120 --> 00:29:22,480
much higher standard. 
Romans chapter 8, verse 29. 

600
00:29:23,360 --> 00:29:27,680
Let's go back over there real 
quick because this is kind of 

601
00:29:27,680 --> 00:29:32,080
what it all comes down to. 
Of course, you know, verse 28. 

602
00:29:32,080 --> 00:29:34,240
We know that all things work 
together for good to them that 

603
00:29:34,240 --> 00:29:36,400
love God to them who are they 
called according to his purpose.

604
00:29:36,400 --> 00:29:38,680
But verse 29 says for whom he 
did foreknow. 

605
00:29:38,680 --> 00:29:43,120
He also did predestinate to be 
conformed to the image of his 

606
00:29:43,120 --> 00:29:46,600
son that he might be the first 
born among many brethren. 

607
00:29:46,760 --> 00:29:49,640
That is not Calvinism. 
That is not saying that he's 

608
00:29:49,640 --> 00:29:53,040
predestining some people to be 
saved and others not to be 

609
00:29:53,040 --> 00:29:54,760
saved. 
That's not what he's saying 

610
00:29:54,760 --> 00:29:56,760
here. 
He's saying the ones that that 

611
00:29:57,360 --> 00:30:01,080
that are saved. 
He's already predetermined. 

612
00:30:01,080 --> 00:30:03,960
He's already predestined us to 
be conformed to the image of his

613
00:30:03,960 --> 00:30:05,640
son. 
That's what we're supposed to 

614
00:30:05,640 --> 00:30:06,720
be. 
So as we see him in the 

615
00:30:06,720 --> 00:30:10,400
Scriptures, we are to change to 
his image and we are changed to 

616
00:30:10,400 --> 00:30:12,240
his image. 
Let's go over to Galatians 

617
00:30:12,240 --> 00:30:15,160
chapter 3. 
Galatians, chapter 3. 

618
00:30:18,400 --> 00:30:22,640
Another passage here that 
discusses the Law and our 

619
00:30:22,640 --> 00:30:25,080
standing as New Testament 
Christians. 

620
00:30:25,080 --> 00:30:31,120
Verse #10 For as many as are of 
the works of the law are under 

621
00:30:31,120 --> 00:30:33,640
the curse, for it is written 
cursed is everyone that continue

622
00:30:33,640 --> 00:30:37,080
with not in all things which are
written in the book of the law 

623
00:30:37,080 --> 00:30:40,280
to do them, but that no man is 
justified by the law in the 

624
00:30:40,280 --> 00:30:41,480
sight of God. 
It is evident. 

625
00:30:41,520 --> 00:30:44,840
For the just shall live by 
faith, and the law is not a 

626
00:30:44,840 --> 00:30:47,640
faith, but the man that doeth 
them shall live in them. 

627
00:30:48,320 --> 00:30:51,120
Christ hath redeemed us from the
curse of the law, being made a 

628
00:30:51,120 --> 00:30:54,520
curse for us. 
For it is written cursed is 

629
00:30:54,520 --> 00:30:57,560
everyone that handeth on a tree 
that the blessing of Abraham 

630
00:30:57,560 --> 00:31:01,080
might come on the Gentiles 
through Jesus Christ, that we 

631
00:31:01,080 --> 00:31:05,680
might receive the promise of the
spirit capital S through faith. 

632
00:31:05,920 --> 00:31:08,680
Boy, what a what a tremendous 
passage if you just sit there 

633
00:31:08,680 --> 00:31:11,240
and try to absorb everything 
that he's saying in there. 

634
00:31:11,600 --> 00:31:15,480
But a few things about this. 
Number one, the Law of Moses or 

635
00:31:15,480 --> 00:31:18,440
the Old Covenant required 
perfect obedience in all things.

636
00:31:18,440 --> 00:31:20,040
Men, therefore cannot be saved 
by it. 

637
00:31:20,040 --> 00:31:21,920
We've already talked about that,
and that's what I'm saying. 

638
00:31:21,920 --> 00:31:24,400
Some of these things are 
redundant, but it's just a 

639
00:31:24,400 --> 00:31:27,080
confirmation passage. 
It's a passage that's saying 

640
00:31:27,080 --> 00:31:29,400
exactly the same thing in a 
different way. 

641
00:31:29,640 --> 00:31:31,920
But because it requires that 
perfect holiness, it can only 

642
00:31:31,920 --> 00:31:34,440
bring a curse upon us. 
We cannot live up to the holy 

643
00:31:34,440 --> 00:31:37,520
requirements of the law. 
But Christ took the punishment 

644
00:31:37,520 --> 00:31:41,800
that was demanded by the law. 
And we read in verse #13 Christ 

645
00:31:41,800 --> 00:31:43,520
hath redeemed us from the curse 
of the law. 

646
00:31:43,520 --> 00:31:45,560
Being made a curse, curse for 
us. 

647
00:31:45,560 --> 00:31:48,160
How was He made a curse for us? 
Well, because cursed is everyone

648
00:31:48,160 --> 00:31:50,880
that angles on a tree. 
He hung on that tree. 

649
00:31:50,880 --> 00:31:54,360
He died in our place in order to
provide us with that eternal 

650
00:31:54,360 --> 00:31:56,720
salvation. 
And only Christ could do that 

651
00:31:57,160 --> 00:32:00,400
because He was perfect and He 
had lived up perfectly to the 

652
00:32:00,400 --> 00:32:02,360
law. 
He was the only one that could 

653
00:32:02,360 --> 00:32:05,080
have redeemed us back to God. 
Because of that #3 the Law of 

654
00:32:05,080 --> 00:32:08,480
Moses is our schoolmaster to 
lead us to Christ. 

655
00:32:09,040 --> 00:32:11,520
Let's go. 
Let's go to verse 23 of 

656
00:32:11,520 --> 00:32:14,880
Galatians chapter 3. 
But before faith came, we were 

657
00:32:14,880 --> 00:32:18,120
kept under the law, shut up unto
the faith, which should 

658
00:32:18,120 --> 00:32:21,800
afterward be revealed. 
Wherefore the law was our 

659
00:32:21,800 --> 00:32:25,000
schoolmaster to bring us unto 
Christ, that we might be 

660
00:32:25,000 --> 00:32:27,840
justified by faith. 
What does a schoolmaster do? 

661
00:32:29,400 --> 00:32:32,360
It's a teacher, right? 
They teach you the things that 

662
00:32:32,360 --> 00:32:34,320
you need to know. 
And that's exactly what the law 

663
00:32:34,320 --> 00:32:36,040
was doing. 
The law was teaching us. 

664
00:32:36,280 --> 00:32:38,280
You cannot live up to this 
standard. 

665
00:32:38,960 --> 00:32:42,080
You cannot be perfect. 
That's all the law was there 

666
00:32:42,080 --> 00:32:43,560
for. 
It was to be the schoolmaster, 

667
00:32:43,560 --> 00:32:46,640
to appoint us to Christ and to 
teach us that we needed Christ 

668
00:32:46,880 --> 00:32:48,600
because we couldn't. 
We couldn't live up to that 

669
00:32:48,600 --> 00:32:52,600
standard on our own. 
And so that's the major purpose 

670
00:32:52,600 --> 00:32:55,160
of the law. 
It was designed by God to show 

671
00:32:55,320 --> 00:32:58,680
this Sinner has fallen and lost 
condition and to lead him to 

672
00:32:58,680 --> 00:33:01,280
faith in Christ. 
And then #4 is that the believer

673
00:33:01,280 --> 00:33:03,760
is not under the law of Moses as
a rule of life. 

674
00:33:04,000 --> 00:33:05,840
Galatians chapter 3 and verse 
25. 

675
00:33:06,240 --> 00:33:09,400
But after that faith has come, 
we are no longer under a 

676
00:33:09,400 --> 00:33:12,960
schoolmaster, right? 
So the believer's law is not the

677
00:33:12,960 --> 00:33:14,600
law of Moses. 
The believer's law is the new 

678
00:33:14,600 --> 00:33:17,200
law. 
It's the law of Christ, a means 

679
00:33:17,200 --> 00:33:20,440
to be conformed to his image. 
The believers new law is also 

680
00:33:20,440 --> 00:33:24,560
called the law of the Spirit as 
we well we can read that in 

681
00:33:24,560 --> 00:33:27,480
verse #16 now to Abraham and his
seed, where the promise is made.

682
00:33:27,600 --> 00:33:31,880
He saith not and to and to seeds
as of many, but as of 1 and to 

683
00:33:31,880 --> 00:33:34,080
thy seed, which is Christ. 
And this I say, that the 

684
00:33:34,080 --> 00:33:38,040
covenant that was confirmed 
before of God in Christ, the law

685
00:33:38,200 --> 00:33:41,760
which was 430 years after, 
cannot dis annul that it should 

686
00:33:41,760 --> 00:33:44,680
be made that that that it should
make the promise of none effect.

687
00:33:44,680 --> 00:33:47,880
For if the inheritance be of the
law, it is no more a prom of 

688
00:33:47,880 --> 00:33:50,960
promise, but God gave it to 
Abraham by promise. 

689
00:33:50,960 --> 00:33:54,680
So by walking in the Spirit, 
which means obeying the Spirit 

690
00:33:54,680 --> 00:33:58,240
and yielding to the Holy Spirit,
a believer is not fulfilling the

691
00:33:58,240 --> 00:34:00,240
law of the flesh. 
We're fulfilling the law of 

692
00:34:00,240 --> 00:34:02,400
Christ and the law of the 
Spirit. 

693
00:34:03,400 --> 00:34:04,920
Let's go to Colossians chapter 
2. 

694
00:34:07,480 --> 00:34:11,679
Colossians chapter 2. 
I hope this is painting a 

695
00:34:11,679 --> 00:34:15,440
picture for you. 
A lot of these, as I said, a lot

696
00:34:15,440 --> 00:34:17,920
of these things are saying the 
same thing, they're just saying 

697
00:34:17,920 --> 00:34:18,920
it in a little bit different 
way. 

698
00:34:18,920 --> 00:34:22,000
But it's all saying the law 
cannot be kept perfectly. 

699
00:34:22,360 --> 00:34:24,840
And because you can't keep the 
law perfectly, you are a Sinner 

700
00:34:24,840 --> 00:34:26,400
and you are condemned because of
the law. 

701
00:34:26,679 --> 00:34:29,520
Therefore, you need something 
besides the law to redeem you 

702
00:34:29,520 --> 00:34:32,280
back to Christ. 
Christ died on the cross to pay 

703
00:34:32,280 --> 00:34:36,199
for that sin that we could not 
and to pay for that unholiness 

704
00:34:36,199 --> 00:34:38,800
that we could never live up to 
that standard. 

705
00:34:39,080 --> 00:34:42,320
And because of that, we can be 
saved, not by the law, by 

706
00:34:42,320 --> 00:34:44,360
Christ. 
Colossians chapter 2 and verse 

707
00:34:44,360 --> 00:34:50,480
#13 And you being dead in your 
sins, and the uncircumcision of 

708
00:34:50,480 --> 00:34:53,480
your flesh, hath He quickened 
together, quickened means made 

709
00:34:53,480 --> 00:34:56,000
alive. 
You were dead, He made you 

710
00:34:56,000 --> 00:35:03,080
alive, having forgiven you all 
trespasses, blotting out the 

711
00:35:03,080 --> 00:35:06,400
handwriting of ordinances. 
That was against us, which was 

712
00:35:06,400 --> 00:35:09,360
contrary to us. 
I love this and took it out of 

713
00:35:09,360 --> 00:35:13,520
the way, nailing it to His 
cross, and having spoiled 

714
00:35:13,520 --> 00:35:16,960
principalities and powers, He 
made a show of them, openly 

715
00:35:17,160 --> 00:35:21,480
triumphing over them in it. 
Let no man therefore judge you 

716
00:35:21,480 --> 00:35:24,520
in meat, or in drink, or in 
respective and holy day, or of 

717
00:35:24,520 --> 00:35:27,520
the new moon of the Sabbath days
which are a shadow of things to 

718
00:35:27,520 --> 00:35:29,960
come, but the bodies of Christ. 
Now what we're, what the Bible 

719
00:35:29,960 --> 00:35:32,280
is saying here is, well, a 
couple things. 

720
00:35:32,280 --> 00:35:35,960
Number one, I've used this 
illustration many times, but you

721
00:35:35,960 --> 00:35:39,800
have all of your sins written 
out and you, you go to stand 

722
00:35:39,800 --> 00:35:42,160
before God and God says, why 
should I let you into heaven? 

723
00:35:42,160 --> 00:35:46,520
And you present your list and he
says, there's whosoever shall 

724
00:35:46,520 --> 00:35:48,440
keep the whole law and yet 
offended at one point you're 

725
00:35:48,440 --> 00:35:51,400
guilty of all of it. 
If you had one thing written 

726
00:35:51,400 --> 00:35:53,800
down against your name, I can't 
let you into heaven, but you 

727
00:35:53,800 --> 00:35:56,880
have thousands, thousands over 
your lifetime. 

728
00:35:57,120 --> 00:35:59,080
I can't let you into heaven, 
right? 

729
00:35:59,400 --> 00:36:02,120
But when you accept Christ as 
your Savior, he takes all of 

730
00:36:02,120 --> 00:36:04,320
those sins and he covers them 
under his blood. 

731
00:36:05,200 --> 00:36:08,040
So when you stand before God, 
God no longer sees the list of 

732
00:36:08,040 --> 00:36:10,640
all your sins. 
There is no law to condemn you 

733
00:36:11,200 --> 00:36:15,480
because there's no sin that goes
against your account because 

734
00:36:15,480 --> 00:36:17,600
it's all been covered under the 
blood of Jesus Christ. 

735
00:36:18,120 --> 00:36:21,280
So the law can't condemn you. 
Only the blood of Jesus Christ 

736
00:36:21,280 --> 00:36:25,760
can justify you when you stand 
before God so he doesn't see all

737
00:36:25,760 --> 00:36:28,040
of your sins. 
All he sees when he looks at you

738
00:36:28,040 --> 00:36:31,640
is the blood of Jesus Christ 
covering your sins, right? 

739
00:36:31,880 --> 00:36:33,920
That's what faith is. 
That's what repentance is. 

740
00:36:33,920 --> 00:36:36,000
It's all, it's all of those 
things that we've been talking 

741
00:36:36,000 --> 00:36:37,240
about that are all tied up in 
that. 

742
00:36:37,800 --> 00:36:40,800
But Christ took away the old 
covenant or the law of Moses. 

743
00:36:40,800 --> 00:36:43,840
He did that by fulfilling the 
demands of the law and paying 

744
00:36:43,840 --> 00:36:47,160
the price that we owed for 
breaking the law, right? 

745
00:36:47,160 --> 00:36:50,000
Whether that be a fine or 
whether that be jail time or 

746
00:36:50,000 --> 00:36:54,280
whatever it happens to be, He 
paid the penalty that we deserve

747
00:36:54,280 --> 00:36:55,800
to pay. 
And of course, then the believer

748
00:36:55,800 --> 00:36:58,000
doesn't follow the old covenant.
The law contains types and 

749
00:36:58,000 --> 00:36:59,960
shadows that point to Christ, 
but the believer has Christ 

750
00:36:59,960 --> 00:37:02,560
himself, right? 
Why are we under grace instead 

751
00:37:02,560 --> 00:37:04,920
of under the law? 
Because the law was just a 

752
00:37:04,920 --> 00:37:06,440
picture. 
It was just a, it was just a 

753
00:37:06,440 --> 00:37:08,800
picture to point us to Christ, 
right? 

754
00:37:09,040 --> 00:37:12,040
All the things that they did 
with the sacrifices, why don't 

755
00:37:12,040 --> 00:37:15,160
we do those anymore? 
Because those sacrifices were 

756
00:37:15,160 --> 00:37:17,560
just pointing to Christ and he's
here. 

757
00:37:17,640 --> 00:37:20,920
We don't need that anymore. 
All the you look at all of the 

758
00:37:20,920 --> 00:37:24,400
things that they did in the in 
the Tabernacle boy, and there's 

759
00:37:24,400 --> 00:37:28,160
so many of them. 
Why don't we do those anymore? 

760
00:37:28,240 --> 00:37:30,760
Isn't that part of the law? 
Isn't that part of the Bible? 

761
00:37:31,680 --> 00:37:35,200
No, we have Christ. 
He fulfilled all of those 

762
00:37:35,200 --> 00:37:36,920
things. 
All of those things were just 

763
00:37:37,000 --> 00:37:40,880
pictures and types pointing to 
the real thing and the real 

764
00:37:40,880 --> 00:37:43,240
thing came. 
He's already here. 

765
00:37:43,560 --> 00:37:45,520
So we don't have to live under 
those things anymore. 

766
00:37:45,520 --> 00:37:47,960
We're freed from all of those 
things because we have Christ. 

767
00:37:48,280 --> 00:37:51,280
All of those things were there 
to teach them about the the 

768
00:37:51,280 --> 00:37:53,560
Messiah that was coming. 
Although those things were there

769
00:37:53,560 --> 00:37:56,480
to teach them who was coming and
what was going to happen when he

770
00:37:56,480 --> 00:37:58,720
did come. 
But he came. 

771
00:37:59,320 --> 00:38:01,040
So I don't have to live under 
those things anymore. 

772
00:38:01,040 --> 00:38:02,320
I don't need the shadows and 
types. 

773
00:38:02,320 --> 00:38:06,160
I have the real thing, right. 
Well, if you're, if you are, 

774
00:38:07,320 --> 00:38:09,680
let's say a husband and wife and
you're separated for a while 

775
00:38:09,680 --> 00:38:12,400
because, you know, you're on a 
business trip or something, 

776
00:38:12,400 --> 00:38:14,440
you're right. 
Or maybe just say that the the 

777
00:38:14,440 --> 00:38:17,000
husband's in the military and he
went away and he's been gone for

778
00:38:17,000 --> 00:38:21,440
a year, right? 
And you're standing there at the

779
00:38:21,440 --> 00:38:24,160
airport and you know what 
direction he's coming from and 

780
00:38:24,160 --> 00:38:28,160
you see his shadow on the wall. 
Are you going to be so excited 

781
00:38:28,160 --> 00:38:29,840
to run over there and hug the 
shadow? 

782
00:38:31,000 --> 00:38:32,680
Right. 
Oh, I'm so glad to have you 

783
00:38:32,680 --> 00:38:35,680
back. 
Oh, you want the real thing, 

784
00:38:35,880 --> 00:38:37,320
right? 
Forget the shadow. 

785
00:38:37,440 --> 00:38:39,760
That's just telling you, hey, 
he's right around the corner. 

786
00:38:39,760 --> 00:38:42,960
He's almost here, right? 
And that's exactly what the law 

787
00:38:42,960 --> 00:38:44,680
was. 
There's nothing to embrace about

788
00:38:44,680 --> 00:38:46,600
the law. 
There's nothing great about 

789
00:38:46,600 --> 00:38:48,360
that. 
It's just, it's just a type. 

790
00:38:48,360 --> 00:38:51,400
It's just a picture to show you 
that the real thing is coming. 

791
00:38:52,400 --> 00:38:54,840
And then he came. 
Why would I want the shadow? 

792
00:38:54,840 --> 00:38:56,760
I don't need that anymore. 
I don't need the types and the 

793
00:38:56,760 --> 00:38:58,040
pictures and all of those 
things. 

794
00:38:58,160 --> 00:39:01,600
I have the real thing, right? 
And there's no reason to embrace

795
00:39:01,600 --> 00:39:03,680
all of that. 
He's here. 

796
00:39:04,000 --> 00:39:06,120
And that's exactly what this the
Bible is talking about. 

797
00:39:06,120 --> 00:39:08,400
We don't follow the old covenant
anymore because we have the real

798
00:39:08,400 --> 00:39:10,560
thing. 
He's here, right? 

799
00:39:10,600 --> 00:39:13,680
All right, now let's go to 1st 
Corinthians chapter 10. 

800
00:39:15,240 --> 00:39:18,720
And we'll end with this because 
this is kind of where we bring 

801
00:39:18,720 --> 00:39:25,760
all of this together. 
So we don't need the law 

802
00:39:25,760 --> 00:39:27,280
anymore. 
The law was just to point us to 

803
00:39:27,280 --> 00:39:31,680
Christ, right? 
Everything that we see was just 

804
00:39:31,680 --> 00:39:34,360
a type A shadow. 
We cannot live up to the perfect

805
00:39:34,360 --> 00:39:38,920
holiness of the law. 
And so Christ comes, He redeems 

806
00:39:38,920 --> 00:39:41,240
us back to himself. 
We're justified by faith in 

807
00:39:41,240 --> 00:39:44,280
Christ. 
We've repented and asked Christ 

808
00:39:44,280 --> 00:39:46,440
to forgive us of our sins and 
come into our heart and to save 

809
00:39:46,440 --> 00:39:50,120
us, and he does. 
But what about the rest of the 

810
00:39:50,120 --> 00:39:51,520
law? 
What about, what about the 10 

811
00:39:51,520 --> 00:39:54,480
commandments, right? 
What about the other things that

812
00:39:54,480 --> 00:39:56,840
we find in God's word? 
Which ones do we follow? 

813
00:39:56,840 --> 00:39:58,920
Which ones do we not follow 
right. 

814
00:39:59,160 --> 00:40:01,800
So this is this is kind of where
all of this comes together. 

815
00:40:02,600 --> 00:40:06,520
So let's let's look at First 
Corinthians chapter 10 and we'll

816
00:40:06,520 --> 00:40:08,000
just read the first 11 verses 
there. 

817
00:40:08,000 --> 00:40:12,600
Moreover, brethren, I would not 
that you should be ignorant how 

818
00:40:12,600 --> 00:40:15,040
that all of our fathers were 
under the cloud and all passed 

819
00:40:15,040 --> 00:40:17,760
through the sea and we're all 
baptized unto Moses in the cloud

820
00:40:17,760 --> 00:40:20,480
and in the sea and did all eat 
the same spiritual meat and did 

821
00:40:20,480 --> 00:40:22,520
all drink the same spiritual 
drink for the drank of that 

822
00:40:22,520 --> 00:40:24,480
spiritual rock that followed 
them. 

823
00:40:24,480 --> 00:40:27,440
And that rock was Christ. 
But with many of them, God was 

824
00:40:27,440 --> 00:40:29,720
not well pleased. 
For they were overthrown in the 

825
00:40:29,720 --> 00:40:31,520
wilderness. 
Now these things were our 

826
00:40:31,520 --> 00:40:34,480
examples to the intent. 
We should not lust after evil 

827
00:40:34,480 --> 00:40:39,120
things, as they also lusted, 
neither be idolaters, as were 

828
00:40:39,120 --> 00:40:41,920
some of them as it is written. 
The people sat down to eat and 

829
00:40:41,920 --> 00:40:44,040
drink, and rose up to play. 
Neither let us commit 

830
00:40:44,040 --> 00:40:46,600
fornication, as some of them 
committed and fell in one day 

831
00:40:46,600 --> 00:40:50,080
three and 20,000 Neither let us 
tempt Christ, as some of them 

832
00:40:50,080 --> 00:40:52,480
also tempted and were destroyed 
of serpents. 

833
00:40:52,480 --> 00:40:55,520
Neither murmur ye, as some of 
them also murmured and were 

834
00:40:55,520 --> 00:40:58,440
destroyed of the destroyer. 
Now all these things happen unto

835
00:40:58,440 --> 00:41:02,080
them for in samples, and they 
are written for our admonition 

836
00:41:02,240 --> 00:41:03,960
upon whom the ends of the world 
are come. 

837
00:41:04,360 --> 00:41:07,600
So pretty clearly then, some of 
the sins in the Old Testament 

838
00:41:07,600 --> 00:41:10,160
are still condemned today, 
right? 

839
00:41:10,400 --> 00:41:13,640
Just because we're not under the
law anymore doesn't mean that we

840
00:41:13,640 --> 00:41:18,120
can be idolaters, doesn't mean 
that we can commit fornication, 

841
00:41:18,120 --> 00:41:20,240
doesn't mean that we can tempt 
Christ, doesn't mean that we can

842
00:41:20,240 --> 00:41:22,880
murmur, doesn't mean that we can
do all of those things right 

843
00:41:23,160 --> 00:41:24,840
just because we're not under the
law anymore. 

844
00:41:24,920 --> 00:41:26,640
He said they did it and they 
were punished. 

845
00:41:26,640 --> 00:41:28,960
And if you do it, you're going 
to be punished, right? 

846
00:41:28,960 --> 00:41:32,480
So though the law of Moses is 
not the believer's rule of life,

847
00:41:32,480 --> 00:41:35,600
it is an important source of 
instruction for the Christian 

848
00:41:35,600 --> 00:41:38,400
life. 
We learn from its examples. 

849
00:41:38,600 --> 00:41:41,000
And that's exactly what the 
Bible says there in verse #11 

850
00:41:41,000 --> 00:41:44,400
Now all these things happened 
unto them for in samples. 

851
00:41:44,400 --> 00:41:47,720
And they are written for our 
admonition, our instruction. 

852
00:41:48,520 --> 00:41:50,600
That's what they're there for. 
And so we draw the spiritual 

853
00:41:50,600 --> 00:41:53,320
lessons from the things that we 
read in the law. 

854
00:41:53,560 --> 00:41:56,280
In first Corinthians chapter 10,
Paul draws lessons from Israel's

855
00:41:56,280 --> 00:41:58,320
wilderness wanderings. 
That's exactly what he's talking

856
00:41:58,320 --> 00:42:00,800
about. 
They, they got water from the 

857
00:42:00,800 --> 00:42:03,000
rock. 
They followed those things, but 

858
00:42:03,000 --> 00:42:05,520
God wasn't pleased with them. 
And a lot of things they did 

859
00:42:05,520 --> 00:42:06,800
this and this and this and this 
and this. 

860
00:42:06,800 --> 00:42:09,160
And God had to punish him for 
it, right? 

861
00:42:09,160 --> 00:42:12,760
So we learned the lessons about 
Christ as the rock and the 

862
00:42:12,760 --> 00:42:14,560
living water. 
And we are warned not to go by 

863
00:42:14,560 --> 00:42:17,120
idolatry and fornication or to 
murmur against God. 

864
00:42:17,800 --> 00:42:20,640
The New Testament is filled with
such lessons from the law of 

865
00:42:20,640 --> 00:42:22,360
Moses. 
First Corinthians 5. 

866
00:42:22,800 --> 00:42:24,480
Paul draws lessons from the 
Passover. 

867
00:42:24,640 --> 00:42:26,160
Let's go over to Hebrews chapter
3. 

868
00:42:27,440 --> 00:42:32,640
Hebrews chapter 3 and verse #7. 
The writer of Hebrews who I 

869
00:42:32,640 --> 00:42:35,800
believe is the apostle Paul is 
no guarantee, but I believe it 

870
00:42:35,800 --> 00:42:37,320
was Paul that wrote the book of 
Hebrews. 

871
00:42:37,320 --> 00:42:39,240
He's drawing lessons from 
Israel's unbelief in the 

872
00:42:39,240 --> 00:42:40,800
hardness of their hearts in the 
wilderness. 

873
00:42:41,320 --> 00:42:45,360
Hebrews chapter 3 and verse #7 I
was in Chapter 7, sorry. 

874
00:42:45,720 --> 00:42:49,120
Hebrews chapter 3 and verse #7 
Wherefore as the Holy Ghost 

875
00:42:49,120 --> 00:42:51,960
saith today, if you will hear 
his voice, this is coming from 

876
00:42:51,960 --> 00:42:54,400
Psalm 95. 
Harden not your hearts, as in 

877
00:42:54,400 --> 00:42:56,920
the provocation in the day of 
temptation in the wilderness, 

878
00:42:57,080 --> 00:43:00,160
when your Father's tempted me, 
proved me, and saw my works 40 

879
00:43:00,160 --> 00:43:02,080
years. 
Wherefore I was grieved with 

880
00:43:02,080 --> 00:43:05,320
that generation, and said, They 
do all way air in their heart, 

881
00:43:05,440 --> 00:43:08,680
and they have not known My ways,
so I swear in my wrath they 

882
00:43:08,680 --> 00:43:12,640
shall not enter into my rest. 
Take heed brethren, lest there 

883
00:43:12,640 --> 00:43:15,400
be in any of you an evil heart 
of unbelief and departing from 

884
00:43:15,400 --> 00:43:19,360
the living God. 
But exhort one another daily 

885
00:43:20,280 --> 00:43:23,640
while it is called today, lest 
any of you be hardened through 

886
00:43:23,640 --> 00:43:27,400
the deceitfulness of sin. 
Those first 5-6 verses were 

887
00:43:27,400 --> 00:43:32,120
taken directly from the Old 
Testament and he's saying these 

888
00:43:32,120 --> 00:43:34,680
warnings to them in the Old 
Testament are the same warnings 

889
00:43:34,680 --> 00:43:37,640
to you today. 
Better take heed to him, better 

890
00:43:37,640 --> 00:43:41,640
follow him, right? 
So the New Testament is filled 

891
00:43:41,640 --> 00:43:43,600
with with those lessons from the
Law of Moses. 

892
00:43:43,600 --> 00:43:46,800
So we interpret lessons from the
Law of Moses by comparing 

893
00:43:46,800 --> 00:43:50,240
Scripture with Scripture to see 
if the lessons are supported by 

894
00:43:50,240 --> 00:43:54,680
the rest of Scripture. 
In other words, the laws that we

895
00:43:54,800 --> 00:43:59,520
follow from the Old Testament 
are restated in the New 

896
00:43:59,520 --> 00:44:02,960
Testament, maybe not in the 
exact same way, but the same 

897
00:44:02,960 --> 00:44:07,880
sins that were sins in the Old 
Testament, that are sins in this

898
00:44:07,880 --> 00:44:12,760
dispensation and in this new 
covenant era are listed again, 

899
00:44:13,400 --> 00:44:16,240
right? 
And that is the moral laws. 

900
00:44:16,240 --> 00:44:18,960
The moral laws are laws that 
that don't change. 

901
00:44:19,320 --> 00:44:21,920
They're God's, they're God's 
laws, right? 

902
00:44:22,320 --> 00:44:25,440
You can have your dietary laws 
and your civil laws. 

903
00:44:25,440 --> 00:44:28,280
And that's why if you get a spot
on your head, you don't have to 

904
00:44:28,280 --> 00:44:30,600
go to a priest and get him to 
look at it and say, OK, it's 

905
00:44:30,600 --> 00:44:33,520
going away, you're fine, you're 
cleansed, go dip, you know, go 

906
00:44:33,520 --> 00:44:35,560
do this, go do that and you're 
fine, right? 

907
00:44:35,560 --> 00:44:36,920
Why don't we do any of those 
things? 

908
00:44:37,520 --> 00:44:40,720
Well, those are all civil laws. 
They're ceremonial laws as well.

909
00:44:41,280 --> 00:44:43,360
None of those things are 
restated for us to do in the New

910
00:44:43,360 --> 00:44:46,520
Testament. 
But the moral laws, we see them 

911
00:44:46,520 --> 00:44:49,440
restated in many places in the 
New Testament, right? 

912
00:44:49,720 --> 00:44:51,920
So here's a couple passages to 
consider. 

913
00:44:52,000 --> 00:44:53,680
All right, let's look at 
Deuteronomy 22. 

914
00:44:53,680 --> 00:44:59,200
Five, Let's go back there. 
Old Testament, Old Testament 

915
00:44:59,200 --> 00:45:01,240
Deuteronomy 22 five. 
In fact, it's actually written 

916
00:45:01,240 --> 00:45:02,080
there. 
You know, if you don't want to 

917
00:45:02,080 --> 00:45:04,120
go all the way back to 
Deuteronomy 22 five, you don't 

918
00:45:04,120 --> 00:45:05,800
have to. 
The woman shall not wear that 

919
00:45:05,800 --> 00:45:09,200
which pertaineth unto a man, 
neither shall a man put on a 

920
00:45:09,200 --> 00:45:12,960
woman's garment, for all that do
so are abomination unto the Lord

921
00:45:12,960 --> 00:45:15,600
thy God. 
Well, that contains A moral 

922
00:45:15,600 --> 00:45:20,320
principle that there should be a
distinction between the sexes 

923
00:45:20,480 --> 00:45:24,600
even in how they dress, right? 
Which gets rid of all of your 

924
00:45:25,560 --> 00:45:29,480
transgender everything, right? 
Cross dressing and all of that 

925
00:45:29,480 --> 00:45:31,480
kind of stuff. 
I mean, a man should wear a 

926
00:45:31,480 --> 00:45:33,560
man's garment, a woman should 
wear a woman's garment. 

927
00:45:33,560 --> 00:45:35,440
That's what the Bible is saying.
And that's a principle that 

928
00:45:35,440 --> 00:45:38,400
remains valid in the New 
Testament dispensation. 

929
00:45:38,600 --> 00:45:40,680
It's very clear by comparing 
Scripture with Scripture. 

930
00:45:40,800 --> 00:45:44,360
The teaching of Deuteronomy 22 
is confirmed in Genesis, where 

931
00:45:44,360 --> 00:45:46,320
we find that God made man male 
and female. 

932
00:45:46,560 --> 00:45:48,360
I don't think there's anybody 
that's going to argue with that.

933
00:45:48,400 --> 00:45:51,000
Well, that's Old Testament God. 
Didn't he only made male and 

934
00:45:51,000 --> 00:45:57,480
female in the Old Testament or 
did he Right. 

935
00:45:57,520 --> 00:46:00,800
We find that all again in the 
New Testament, right. 

936
00:46:00,800 --> 00:46:03,280
And so if, if you made them male
and female, it's, it's confirmed

937
00:46:03,280 --> 00:46:07,320
in First Corinthians 11/13 or 
three through 15, where we find 

938
00:46:07,320 --> 00:46:10,480
that the sexes are to be 
distinguished by their hair 

939
00:46:10,480 --> 00:46:11,760
length. 
There, there are to be 

940
00:46:11,760 --> 00:46:15,360
differences in the sexes, right?
You ought to be able to look at 

941
00:46:15,360 --> 00:46:18,760
somebody and say, this is a man,
this is a woman, right? 

942
00:46:18,760 --> 00:46:21,400
By the way that they look, by 
the way that they dress, by the 

943
00:46:21,400 --> 00:46:23,680
way that they act, you ought to 
be able to see those things, 

944
00:46:23,680 --> 00:46:26,040
right? 
Well, Deuteronomy 22, five 

945
00:46:26,120 --> 00:46:27,840
woman, they can wear whatever 
they want to. 

946
00:46:27,840 --> 00:46:29,160
Man, you can wear whatever they 
want to. 

947
00:46:29,160 --> 00:46:32,200
That's Old Testament. 
Well, yeah, that's in the Old 

948
00:46:32,200 --> 00:46:35,640
Testament, but we see it 
restated in the new and we see 

949
00:46:35,640 --> 00:46:39,080
the moral law that goes along 
with that in Genesis and really 

950
00:46:39,080 --> 00:46:41,280
in a lot of other places 
throughout the Old Testament as 

951
00:46:41,280 --> 00:46:43,080
well. 
Let's look at Leviticus chapter 

952
00:46:43,080 --> 00:46:47,800
19 because here's another one 
that a lot of people like to to 

953
00:46:47,800 --> 00:46:50,680
use today when it comes to 
especially tattoos and 

954
00:46:50,680 --> 00:46:53,560
piercings. 
Right now you have a tattoo from

955
00:46:53,560 --> 00:46:55,160
before you were saved or 
something like that. 

956
00:46:55,160 --> 00:46:57,800
It's not you get all rip your 
flesh off and you know, get rid 

957
00:46:57,800 --> 00:46:59,640
of it. 
But at the same time, OK, you 

958
00:46:59,640 --> 00:47:02,720
shall not make any cuttings in 
your flesh for the dead nor 

959
00:47:02,720 --> 00:47:05,560
print any marks upon you. 
I am the Lord. 

960
00:47:05,600 --> 00:47:07,200
Well, what's a cutting in your 
flesh? 

961
00:47:08,240 --> 00:47:10,640
It would be body modification, 
right? 

962
00:47:10,640 --> 00:47:13,000
That's what they call it today, 
scarification, if you want to 

963
00:47:13,000 --> 00:47:15,640
call it that, right? 
Piercing everything you can find

964
00:47:15,640 --> 00:47:20,600
to Pierce on your body, right. 
And then what is print any marks

965
00:47:20,600 --> 00:47:21,960
upon you? 
What would that be? 

966
00:47:22,600 --> 00:47:24,080
Pretty obviously a tattoo, 
right? 

967
00:47:24,320 --> 00:47:26,760
They used to do that all the 
time in Pagan cultures. 

968
00:47:26,760 --> 00:47:28,880
Those that was that was what 
they did, right? 

969
00:47:28,880 --> 00:47:32,800
That was part of who they were. 
Now, the moral lesson of 

970
00:47:32,800 --> 00:47:36,680
avoiding Pagan customs such as 
tattoos that are associated with

971
00:47:36,680 --> 00:47:41,120
idolatry and moral reprobation 
is confirmed again in the New 

972
00:47:41,120 --> 00:47:44,520
Testament in a lot of other 
passages, and there's several of

973
00:47:44,520 --> 00:47:46,400
them that we could look at. 
But because we're close, let's 

974
00:47:46,400 --> 00:47:48,520
just do 1st Corinthians 10 and 
2nd Corinthians 6. 

975
00:47:48,520 --> 00:47:53,280
So go there and you'll see this 
basically restated exactly, 

976
00:47:53,280 --> 00:47:57,200
again, a different way, but 
exactly the whole purpose behind

977
00:47:57,200 --> 00:47:59,760
why God was telling them those 
things in the Old Testament, 

978
00:48:00,000 --> 00:48:01,720
right? 
Why did God tell them in the Old

979
00:48:01,720 --> 00:48:03,280
Testament? 
Don't make a cutting in your 

980
00:48:03,280 --> 00:48:05,680
flesh for the dead and don't 
print anything on you. 

981
00:48:05,800 --> 00:48:07,880
I am the Lord. 
Why was He telling them that? 

982
00:48:09,960 --> 00:48:11,840
That's what the pagans do, 
right? 

983
00:48:12,160 --> 00:48:14,480
There ought to be something 
different between the people of 

984
00:48:14,480 --> 00:48:15,840
God. 
I am the Lord. 

985
00:48:16,160 --> 00:48:18,000
There ought to be something 
different between the people of 

986
00:48:18,000 --> 00:48:23,760
God and the pagans, right? 
You don't do what they do. 

987
00:48:24,480 --> 00:48:27,280
Well, God used those two 
examples about making cutting in

988
00:48:27,280 --> 00:48:29,800
your flesh for the dead. 
Who did that? 

989
00:48:30,600 --> 00:48:33,320
The Pagan cultures, right? 
Who? 

990
00:48:33,480 --> 00:48:37,960
Who printed marks upon you? 
The Pagan cultures did that, 

991
00:48:37,960 --> 00:48:40,760
right? 
So does the Bible say in the New

992
00:48:40,760 --> 00:48:42,800
Testament, thou shalt not get a 
tattoo? 

993
00:48:44,160 --> 00:48:48,640
Doesn't say that, but the same 
moral principle that God used to

994
00:48:48,640 --> 00:48:51,600
establish this in the Old 
Testament is exactly what is 

995
00:48:51,600 --> 00:48:53,640
used again in the New Testament,
right? 

996
00:48:53,760 --> 00:48:59,800
First Corinthians chapter 10 and
verse #20 But I say that the 

997
00:48:59,800 --> 00:49:02,680
things which the Gentiles 
sacrifice, they sacrifice the 

998
00:49:02,680 --> 00:49:06,360
devils and not to God. 
And I would not that you should 

999
00:49:06,360 --> 00:49:08,800
have fellowship with devils. 
You cannot drink the cup of the 

1000
00:49:08,800 --> 00:49:11,560
Lord and the cup of devils. 
You cannot be partakers of the 

1001
00:49:11,560 --> 00:49:13,800
Lord's table and of the table of
devils. 

1002
00:49:14,000 --> 00:49:15,760
Do we not provoke the Lord to 
jealousy? 

1003
00:49:15,840 --> 00:49:18,480
Are we stronger than he? 
Right. 

1004
00:49:18,480 --> 00:49:21,480
What is he saying? 
We don't do what the, what the 

1005
00:49:21,480 --> 00:49:24,720
world does. 
We don't do what the pagans do. 

1006
00:49:25,160 --> 00:49:28,400
We're different. 
You're, you're different. 

1007
00:49:28,880 --> 00:49:33,120
I'm your father, not the world. 
You can't have it both ways. 

1008
00:49:33,120 --> 00:49:35,200
You can't have the world and the
flesh. 

1009
00:49:35,520 --> 00:49:37,360
You can't have God and the 
devil. 

1010
00:49:37,520 --> 00:49:39,400
You can't, you can't have both 
of those. 

1011
00:49:39,680 --> 00:49:41,800
Let's look at 2nd Corinthians 
chapter 6, in fact. 

1012
00:49:42,040 --> 00:49:43,040
Yeah, well, let's, let's look at
it. 

1013
00:49:43,040 --> 00:49:45,600
We're close. 
Second Corinthians chapter 6 and

1014
00:49:45,600 --> 00:49:50,320
verse #16 I mean, this is about 
as clear as you can get. 

1015
00:49:51,880 --> 00:49:56,720
And he's quoting, he is quoting 
directly from Isaiah 52. 

1016
00:49:57,080 --> 00:49:59,640
What agreement hath the temple 
of God with idols? 

1017
00:50:00,360 --> 00:50:04,320
For ye are the temple of the 
living God, as God hath said, I 

1018
00:50:04,320 --> 00:50:08,160
will dwell in them and walk in 
them, and I will be their God, 

1019
00:50:08,160 --> 00:50:11,600
and they shall be my people. 
Wherefore come out from among 

1020
00:50:11,600 --> 00:50:15,560
them, and be ye separate, saith 
the Lord, and touch not the 

1021
00:50:15,560 --> 00:50:18,280
unclean thing, and I will 
receive you, and will be a 

1022
00:50:18,280 --> 00:50:20,960
father unto you, and you shall 
be my sons and daughters, saith 

1023
00:50:20,960 --> 00:50:22,800
the Lord Almighty. 
What's he saying? 

1024
00:50:23,920 --> 00:50:25,920
This is the things that they do 
in their temples. 

1025
00:50:26,920 --> 00:50:30,000
OK, And we don't have temples 
today, but you're the temple. 

1026
00:50:30,040 --> 00:50:32,800
Your body is the temple. 
So if you're not going to do 

1027
00:50:32,800 --> 00:50:36,600
those things that the Gentiles 
and the and the pagans did in 

1028
00:50:36,600 --> 00:50:41,440
their temples, then the 
principle for us today is don't 

1029
00:50:41,440 --> 00:50:44,720
do it to your body. 
Your body should be separate. 

1030
00:50:45,400 --> 00:50:47,840
You should look different from 
the rest of the world because 

1031
00:50:47,840 --> 00:50:50,360
you are different. 
All right, let's look at one 

1032
00:50:50,360 --> 00:50:51,760
more. 
Let's go to Ephesians chapter 5 

1033
00:50:51,760 --> 00:50:56,560
and we'll be done. 
That's where the law comes in, 

1034
00:50:56,840 --> 00:50:58,080
OK? 
The law can't. 

1035
00:50:58,160 --> 00:51:01,560
The law can't condemn me because
I'm not under the law anymore. 

1036
00:51:01,560 --> 00:51:03,960
I'm under grace. 
I'm under I've accepted Christ 

1037
00:51:03,960 --> 00:51:07,040
as my Savior. 
I know that my sins are forgiven

1038
00:51:07,120 --> 00:51:11,840
and I'm on my way to heaven. 
And because I know that the law 

1039
00:51:11,840 --> 00:51:15,880
can't condemn me anymore. 
But now I'm not under the law, 

1040
00:51:17,880 --> 00:51:21,680
I'm under Christ. 
I'm not under the holiness of 

1041
00:51:21,680 --> 00:51:23,320
the law. 
I'm under the holiness of 

1042
00:51:23,320 --> 00:51:27,400
Christ, and the holiness of 
Christ is a much higher standard

1043
00:51:27,640 --> 00:51:29,200
than just the holiness of the 
law. 

1044
00:51:29,960 --> 00:51:31,560
So do I have to do all of those 
things? 

1045
00:51:31,680 --> 00:51:33,320
No. 
I can, I can go to heaven and 

1046
00:51:33,320 --> 00:51:36,240
drink, drink my way there, 
right? 

1047
00:51:36,240 --> 00:51:39,240
I could, because if I'm saved 
and I know it, I'm not going to 

1048
00:51:39,240 --> 00:51:43,240
lose my salvation, right? 
I could, I could smoke my way to

1049
00:51:43,240 --> 00:51:46,440
heaven sucking on cancer sticks,
right? 

1050
00:51:46,440 --> 00:51:48,840
I could get there that way. 
And I'm not going to lose my 

1051
00:51:48,840 --> 00:51:51,600
salvation because I'm not under 
the law. 

1052
00:51:51,600 --> 00:51:56,040
I'm under grace, I've, I've got 
the freedom to live my life the 

1053
00:51:56,040 --> 00:52:02,600
way that I want to live my life.
But I don't do those things, not

1054
00:52:02,600 --> 00:52:05,600
because I can't, but because I 
don't want to. 

1055
00:52:06,400 --> 00:52:10,240
Because I'm not just trying to 
live this holiness of the law 

1056
00:52:10,240 --> 00:52:12,440
anymore. 
I'm trying to live the holiness 

1057
00:52:12,440 --> 00:52:15,320
of Christ. 
And that's a much, much higher 

1058
00:52:15,320 --> 00:52:17,800
standard, right? 
Ephesians chapter 5 and verse 

1059
00:52:17,800 --> 00:52:23,560
#11 and have no fellowship with 
the unfruitful works of 

1060
00:52:23,560 --> 00:52:27,240
darkness, but rather reprove 
them. 

1061
00:52:28,320 --> 00:52:31,080
So if I can't have fellowship 
with the unfruitful works of 

1062
00:52:31,080 --> 00:52:33,640
darkness, then I shouldn't be 
looking like them, shouldn't be 

1063
00:52:33,640 --> 00:52:35,520
acting like them. 
I shouldn't be doing the things 

1064
00:52:35,520 --> 00:52:39,840
that the world does right. 
And, and make no mistake, look 

1065
00:52:39,840 --> 00:52:44,520
tattoos. 
It's rebellion, right? 

1066
00:52:45,000 --> 00:52:46,800
That's why. 
That's why when somebody gets a 

1067
00:52:46,800 --> 00:52:49,440
tattoo and they're like, I'm 
just afraid to go home and tell 

1068
00:52:49,440 --> 00:52:51,960
my mom that I got a tattoo 
because I don't know what she's 

1069
00:52:51,960 --> 00:52:54,440
going to say. 
Well, why does it matter, right?

1070
00:52:54,440 --> 00:52:57,800
If you're not ashamed of it, 
then why does it matter what 

1071
00:52:57,800 --> 00:52:59,800
she's going to say? 
Why does she even care if you 

1072
00:52:59,800 --> 00:53:02,400
get a tattoo, right? 
Because people inherently know 

1073
00:53:02,560 --> 00:53:05,160
that's what the, that's what 
rebels do, right? 

1074
00:53:05,160 --> 00:53:06,960
That's what people who are in 
rebellion do. 

1075
00:53:07,120 --> 00:53:09,720
Same thing with body 
modification and all of that 

1076
00:53:09,720 --> 00:53:11,600
kind of stuff. 
I mean, you know, you see these 

1077
00:53:11,600 --> 00:53:15,040
people that have their entire 
body tattooed, right? 

1078
00:53:15,040 --> 00:53:18,200
They're living in rebellion 
against culture, against God, 

1079
00:53:18,200 --> 00:53:22,120
against everything, right? 
Why? 

1080
00:53:22,880 --> 00:53:24,200
Why? 
That's why we don't do it. 

1081
00:53:24,200 --> 00:53:27,360
Because that's not who we are. 
We're not living in rebellion. 

1082
00:53:27,680 --> 00:53:30,240
We're living in obedience, 
right? 

1083
00:53:30,240 --> 00:53:33,080
And and so all of these things 
that he says don't have 

1084
00:53:33,080 --> 00:53:36,080
fellowship with the unfruitful 
works of darkness separate from 

1085
00:53:36,080 --> 00:53:37,680
them. 
You're people of God. 

1086
00:53:37,680 --> 00:53:39,320
You shouldn't look like the 
people of the world. 

1087
00:53:39,320 --> 00:53:42,160
You can't have that. 
And this at the same time be 

1088
00:53:42,160 --> 00:53:45,880
different, right? 
Well, that's exactly what he was

1089
00:53:45,880 --> 00:53:49,680
saying in the Old Testament too.
Don't mark your body, don't cut 

1090
00:53:49,680 --> 00:53:51,440
your body up. 
That's what the pagans do. 

1091
00:53:51,440 --> 00:53:53,840
And you're not a Pagan. 
You're of the Lord. 

1092
00:53:54,280 --> 00:53:57,320
I'm the Lord do what? 
Do what people who who are of 

1093
00:53:57,320 --> 00:54:00,480
the Lord do, right? 
It's the same exact principle 

1094
00:54:00,480 --> 00:54:03,120
that God was given them in an in
the Old Testament and he gave it

1095
00:54:03,120 --> 00:54:04,400
to us again in the New 
Testament. 

1096
00:54:04,400 --> 00:54:07,000
All right? 
So those same moral laws that 

1097
00:54:07,000 --> 00:54:09,880
applied in the Old Testament are
the same moral laws that applied

1098
00:54:09,880 --> 00:54:11,960
today, which is why we should 
still follow the 10 

1099
00:54:11,960 --> 00:54:16,080
commandments, right? 
Thou shalt not take the name of 

1100
00:54:16,080 --> 00:54:19,480
the Lord thy God in vain. 
Oh, and yet people say that all 

1101
00:54:19,480 --> 00:54:21,920
the time. 
OMG, you're taking the name of 

1102
00:54:21,920 --> 00:54:26,320
the Lord in vain, right? 
You're taking God's name in 

1103
00:54:26,320 --> 00:54:28,280
vain. 
Well, that's an Old Testament 

1104
00:54:28,280 --> 00:54:31,960
law. 
No, no, he said it again in the 

1105
00:54:31,960 --> 00:54:34,360
New Testament. 
It's a moral law that should be 

1106
00:54:34,360 --> 00:54:37,120
followed today, right? 
All of those things. 

1107
00:54:37,120 --> 00:54:39,360
That's why we do it. 
So that's why we go all the way 

1108
00:54:39,360 --> 00:54:41,320
back to that first statement. 
There's a lot of confusion about

1109
00:54:41,320 --> 00:54:43,400
the law of Moses in what place 
it has in the Christian life, 

1110
00:54:43,400 --> 00:54:46,640
and it's essential for every 
believer to settle this issue on

1111
00:54:46,640 --> 00:54:49,600
a solid scriptural footing. 
So am I under the law anymore? 

1112
00:54:49,680 --> 00:54:51,880
No, the law can't condemn me 
anymore. 

1113
00:54:52,040 --> 00:54:56,280
I'm under Christ. 
But the holiness of the law is 

1114
00:54:56,280 --> 00:54:59,720
sure a whole lot easier than the
holiness of Christ. 

1115
00:55:00,400 --> 00:55:01,960
But that's not our standard 
anymore. 

1116
00:55:02,360 --> 00:55:05,800
This is. 
So can the law condemn me? 

1117
00:55:06,240 --> 00:55:09,560
Can I go to hell for taking a 
drink of alcohol? 

1118
00:55:09,920 --> 00:55:13,240
No, not necessarily. 
No, because if you're saved, 

1119
00:55:13,240 --> 00:55:16,560
then that thing can't condemn 
you anymore, right? 

1120
00:55:17,320 --> 00:55:22,040
But you're sure living far under
the holiness of Christ that you 

1121
00:55:22,040 --> 00:55:24,760
should be living up to, right? 
Are we going to be perfect? 

1122
00:55:24,960 --> 00:55:27,160
No, but we should be trying to 
be. 

1123
00:55:27,800 --> 00:55:31,840
We should be trying to live in 
the holiness of Christ because 

1124
00:55:31,840 --> 00:55:34,320
I'm not under the law anymore, 
right. 

1125
00:55:34,560 --> 00:55:37,720
It's the same way that that the 
same illustration that he used 

1126
00:55:37,720 --> 00:55:41,440
with, with a, a wife wanting to 
do things for her husband, 

1127
00:55:41,960 --> 00:55:43,720
right? 
Wanting to serve her husband. 

1128
00:55:43,880 --> 00:55:46,080
Why would she want to do that? 
Because she's afraid of what 

1129
00:55:46,080 --> 00:55:50,560
happens if she doesn't. 
No, because He loves her so much

1130
00:55:51,280 --> 00:55:56,480
and He treats her so well, and 
she can't do anything but serve 

1131
00:55:56,480 --> 00:55:58,920
Him and love Him. 
That's the way it is with 

1132
00:55:58,920 --> 00:56:02,240
Christ, right? 
Do I serve Him because I'm 

1133
00:56:02,240 --> 00:56:04,920
afraid that I'm going to lose my
salvation? 

1134
00:56:05,040 --> 00:56:09,600
No, I serve Him because He's a 
good God and I serve Him because

1135
00:56:09,600 --> 00:56:10,880
of everything that He's done for
me. 

1136
00:56:10,880 --> 00:56:16,440
And I serve Him because He's 
given me eternal life and I 

1137
00:56:16,440 --> 00:56:20,040
don't have to spend one second 
in hell because of what He's 

1138
00:56:20,040 --> 00:56:23,240
done for me. 
I want to serve Him because I 

1139
00:56:23,240 --> 00:56:27,240
get to and because I love Him 
and because he loves me. 

1140
00:56:27,960 --> 00:56:29,280
I don't serve him because I have
to. 

1141
00:56:29,320 --> 00:56:34,360
I serve Him because I want to. 
That's the life that a believer 

1142
00:56:34,360 --> 00:56:37,360
is under when it comes to the 
new Covenant, right? 

1143
00:56:37,440 --> 00:56:39,080
No, I'm not under the law 
anymore. 

1144
00:56:40,200 --> 00:56:44,200
I'm under grace. 
But grace brings with it a whole

1145
00:56:44,200 --> 00:56:46,240
lot higher standard. 
And that's the standard that we 

1146
00:56:46,240 --> 00:56:49,440
should be trying to live to. 
Hope it makes sense. 

1147
00:56:49,440 --> 00:56:51,560
Let's pray. 
Father, again, we thank you so 

1148
00:56:51,560 --> 00:56:53,480
much for your goodness to us. 
Thank you for the opportunity 

1149
00:56:53,480 --> 00:56:55,720
that we've had to spend some 
time here together this this 

1150
00:56:55,720 --> 00:56:57,120
evening. 
I pray that it would be a help 

1151
00:56:57,120 --> 00:56:59,880
to us and God, I pray that you'd
help us to, to do everything we 

1152
00:56:59,880 --> 00:57:03,360
can with your power to live in 
the holiness of Christ. 

1153
00:57:03,800 --> 00:57:06,840
God, may you help us to, to do 
everything we can to live up to 

1154
00:57:06,840 --> 00:57:09,680
that standard. 
I do pray that if there is 

1155
00:57:09,680 --> 00:57:11,400
anybody in here that doesn't 
know for sure that they're 

1156
00:57:11,400 --> 00:57:13,200
saved, that they get that 
settled for sure. 

1157
00:57:14,080 --> 00:57:18,000
God, for those who know that 
they are, may you help us to not

1158
00:57:18,000 --> 00:57:21,600
live as if we are under the law,
but live as if we are under the 

1159
00:57:21,600 --> 00:57:23,880
holiness of Christ. 
And may you help us to be 

1160
00:57:23,880 --> 00:57:27,840
examples and testimonies for you
to a lost and dying world who 

1161
00:57:27,840 --> 00:57:30,920
need Christ. 
I pray that you just send us 

1162
00:57:30,920 --> 00:57:32,520
away from here this evening with
your blessing. 

1163
00:57:32,520 --> 00:57:35,320
Thank you again for all you do 
for us in Jesus name, Amen.