1 00:00:04,900 --> 00:00:07,900 You have your Bible. You can open Sue Romans chapter 2 00:00:07,900 --> 00:00:12,300 3. The in Romans 3 today, as we 3 00:00:12,300 --> 00:00:15,400 continue our series. What happens when we worship 4 00:00:16,100 --> 00:00:19,300 what happens when we worship? We're going to look at today the 5 00:00:19,300 --> 00:00:23,000 relationship of the law and the gospel and but especially its 6 00:00:23,700 --> 00:00:26,400 why it matters for our worship each week? 7 00:00:26,400 --> 00:00:38,200 So, before we do, I wanted to start with just I guess what 8 00:00:38,200 --> 00:00:43,300 would be a bit of honesty? I have tried to make it a point. 9 00:00:44,500 --> 00:00:49,200 Not to just always be wearing my feelings on my sleeves as we go 10 00:00:49,200 --> 00:00:56,800 through all of this. But today is especially hard. 11 00:00:58,800 --> 00:01:05,600 Really the week's been especially hard. and so now I 12 00:01:05,607 --> 00:01:09,100 kind of struggle with saying that and I don't think it's 13 00:01:09,100 --> 00:01:14,400 Pride, it could be, I don't want to be prideful before you at 14 00:01:14,400 --> 00:01:19,400 all. But I think it's the, I don't 15 00:01:19,400 --> 00:01:23,400 want anyone to think that I would be misusing. 16 00:01:24,600 --> 00:01:28,600 When he's passing as an opportunity to be prideful or is 17 00:01:28,600 --> 00:01:36,000 an opportunity to gain sympathy, we do live in a world where 18 00:01:36,000 --> 00:01:39,700 every thought and action is broadcast on social media. 19 00:01:40,800 --> 00:01:45,300 Mostly, not always, but mostly in an effort to gain man's 20 00:01:45,300 --> 00:01:50,600 approval and Applause and and I want to stay as far away from 21 00:01:50,600 --> 00:01:52,700 those accusations as I possibly can. 22 00:01:54,500 --> 00:01:58,700 That's not my heart. But I do know that I need to be 23 00:01:58,700 --> 00:02:04,100 honest with you all, when I come up here and I And I'm 24 00:02:04,100 --> 00:02:11,700 overwhelmed with Sadness and Sorrow yesterday. 25 00:02:11,700 --> 00:02:14,000 I think this is partly why yesterday marks? 26 00:02:14,000 --> 00:02:18,400 Five months since when he passed. and forgive me, if I 27 00:02:18,408 --> 00:02:23,200 don't look at you, Makes it easier. 28 00:02:27,100 --> 00:02:29,000 And so I think that's made the week. 29 00:02:30,800 --> 00:02:34,900 Maybe just me more sensitive to the pain. 30 00:02:40,900 --> 00:02:45,200 So as I stand here today, I am depending only on the spirit of 31 00:02:45,200 --> 00:02:48,100 God. To give me strength and my 32 00:02:48,100 --> 00:02:53,900 weakness to help me in this. I know that God will continue to 33 00:02:53,900 --> 00:02:59,400 sustain my family and myself as we put our hope in him. 34 00:02:59,500 --> 00:03:03,800 Songs were saying this morning could not have been more timely 35 00:03:03,800 --> 00:03:08,300 for me. And I do know that he'll bring 36 00:03:08,300 --> 00:03:12,000 joy in the middle of Sorrow. I've already seen it throughout 37 00:03:12,000 --> 00:03:17,800 this whole thing. I know that it will come. so, I 38 00:03:17,800 --> 00:03:21,000 wanted to Start just by telling you, I'm not. 39 00:03:21,000 --> 00:03:27,400 Okay, today. I since the Lord's presence, I 40 00:03:27,400 --> 00:03:35,500 know that he's with me, but I'm hurting So, I'm going to pray. 41 00:03:37,400 --> 00:03:41,700 I'm going to ask God for help for me, but for us, as we do 42 00:03:41,700 --> 00:03:47,400 this, as we look at his word, because his word is the most 43 00:03:47,400 --> 00:03:54,000 important thing that we've come to observe today. and, I don't 44 00:03:54,000 --> 00:03:55,900 want there to be any distractions from that. 45 00:03:55,900 --> 00:04:05,900 So let me pray for us. Heavenly Father, you are. 46 00:04:08,200 --> 00:04:22,800 So gracious. your merciful and your kind, you're compassionate 47 00:04:22,800 --> 00:04:32,900 and all of your ways. Lord, I I'm grateful to be here 48 00:04:32,900 --> 00:04:36,700 with a people who have in many ways. 49 00:04:39,200 --> 00:04:42,600 The psalmist says tasted and seen that you are good. 50 00:04:51,700 --> 00:04:57,900 The Lord. You we are blessed beyond 51 00:04:57,900 --> 00:05:04,200 measure to come before. A God who has sent Christ to be 52 00:05:04,200 --> 00:05:08,800 our great, high priest. High priest who is able to 53 00:05:08,800 --> 00:05:10,900 sympathize with us in our weakness. 54 00:05:12,400 --> 00:05:14,500 Who was well acquainted with grief. 55 00:05:16,600 --> 00:05:23,200 Is well acquainted with pain, who knows death and the sting of 56 00:05:23,200 --> 00:05:27,400 it better than anyone and who has taken the sting of death 57 00:05:27,400 --> 00:05:30,200 away for all of us who believe in Christ. 58 00:05:35,500 --> 00:05:39,100 And so it's in his strength that I want to stand today, Proclaim 59 00:05:39,100 --> 00:05:43,700 your word. I asked father that your spirit 60 00:05:43,700 --> 00:05:49,800 be with us. I pray Lord that your spirit and 61 00:05:49,800 --> 00:05:55,400 power us that it Enlighten us that help us see Christ today. 62 00:05:57,800 --> 00:06:01,000 What a great passage that lays in front of us, Romans 3. 63 00:06:02,900 --> 00:06:07,100 Just so clearly, we see the Redemption of Christ, the grace 64 00:06:07,100 --> 00:06:13,700 of God, salvation, that is ours because of your work, as a free 65 00:06:13,700 --> 00:06:19,700 gift to us. And so, Lord, would you 66 00:06:19,707 --> 00:06:23,200 strengthen us today to see it help us Lord to believe it and 67 00:06:23,200 --> 00:06:27,800 to live it. Lord, I love you. 68 00:06:28,800 --> 00:06:30,300 Thank you for being with me today. 69 00:06:32,300 --> 00:06:33,500 In Christ's name. I pray. 70 00:06:33,900 --> 00:06:38,000 Amen. Amen. 71 00:06:39,200 --> 00:06:42,500 Patricia shared with you guys but members meeting. 72 00:06:44,000 --> 00:06:48,200 One of the last members of medians that we had read a thing 73 00:06:48,500 --> 00:06:50,500 from a pastor who had lost a son. 74 00:06:53,600 --> 00:06:55,900 He was talking about when people to ask him, what's it? 75 00:06:55,900 --> 00:06:58,300 What's it like now, or what are you going through? 76 00:06:58,300 --> 00:07:02,000 Or what do you feel or how are you doing any of those kinds of 77 00:07:02,000 --> 00:07:06,700 questions? He had developed a way to 78 00:07:06,700 --> 00:07:12,400 respond and I think is helpful. He said it's like a It's like 79 00:07:12,400 --> 00:07:16,500 being a man who was born with your eyesight able to see 80 00:07:16,500 --> 00:07:19,600 clearly able to do everything normally. 81 00:07:21,000 --> 00:07:24,900 But then you go blind later in life and you having to learn how 82 00:07:24,900 --> 00:07:28,700 to walk blind. He says how to do everything 83 00:07:28,700 --> 00:07:39,300 blind, many ways. That's what this like So, you 84 00:07:39,300 --> 00:07:41,100 know, used to, I could get up and preach and not. 85 00:07:42,800 --> 00:07:46,300 Have this kind of grief and I'm having to learn how to do this, 86 00:07:47,200 --> 00:07:51,900 right here in real life, real time in front of you, which is 87 00:07:51,900 --> 00:07:56,900 the way it should be. I'm grateful for the Lord's 88 00:07:56,900 --> 00:08:03,100 Providence in preaching. I've mentioned it before, but 89 00:08:03,100 --> 00:08:06,000 today is no less. Our topic today, the law and the 90 00:08:06,008 --> 00:08:10,800 gospel sounds like, it should be removed that. 91 00:08:10,800 --> 00:08:13,500 It would have, no, that would not have our grief and view that 92 00:08:13,500 --> 00:08:16,300 it should be removed from the things of the real world. 93 00:08:17,000 --> 00:08:19,100 It's just the law and the gospel. 94 00:08:21,700 --> 00:08:24,000 But what I want you to see today is that the only way you can 95 00:08:24,000 --> 00:08:27,700 learn to walk blind. Is because of the gospel of 96 00:08:27,700 --> 00:08:31,200 Christ. The only way you can get through 97 00:08:31,200 --> 00:08:35,700 anything in life is because of the gospel of Christ, for the 98 00:08:35,700 --> 00:08:40,299 gospel to be good news. You have to understand the bad 99 00:08:40,299 --> 00:08:45,900 news first. You have to understand God's law 100 00:08:46,500 --> 00:08:53,400 his Holiness and how utterly short we come when we come up 101 00:08:53,400 --> 00:08:58,300 against it. Within every worship service, 102 00:08:58,300 --> 00:09:02,700 those three components should exist and needs to be the 103 00:09:02,700 --> 00:09:05,600 presence of God's law, whether it's through scripture reading, 104 00:09:06,000 --> 00:09:10,200 or seeing Wesley saying, or read earlier. 105 00:09:11,400 --> 00:09:14,100 From Hebrews 12:1, let us lay aside. 106 00:09:14,700 --> 00:09:20,200 Every sin that so easily. Entangles us and let us press 107 00:09:20,200 --> 00:09:24,500 forward. The idea of laying aside sin is 108 00:09:24,500 --> 00:09:27,700 to understand that God is Holy and you or not. 109 00:09:29,800 --> 00:09:32,900 And you want to lay that aside as you press forward and you 110 00:09:32,900 --> 00:09:37,800 only press forward because Christ pressed forward, he did 111 00:09:37,800 --> 00:09:39,700 it for the joy that was set before him. 112 00:09:40,800 --> 00:09:45,000 Redeemed. Sinners saints of God, his 113 00:09:45,000 --> 00:09:50,300 people who would come and so God's law must be presence. 114 00:09:50,300 --> 00:09:56,000 Whether you're singing it. Whether you're reading it, it's 115 00:09:56,000 --> 00:09:57,500 here. It's being preached or being 116 00:09:57,500 --> 00:10:01,700 prayed because when the presence of the law, and the law is 117 00:10:01,700 --> 00:10:05,200 present, you have the opportunity then to confess your 118 00:10:05,200 --> 00:10:08,700 sins. And when you confess your sins, 119 00:10:08,700 --> 00:10:12,200 there is the reception of Pardon from Christ. 120 00:10:13,700 --> 00:10:16,600 Or I might say from the father through Christ. 121 00:10:17,500 --> 00:10:21,400 And so, as we do that, what we learn is that God is week in and 122 00:10:21,400 --> 00:10:26,700 week out, helping us aiding a sanctifying Us by his Spirit, to 123 00:10:26,700 --> 00:10:29,700 put the death, that old self of sin. 124 00:10:31,000 --> 00:10:34,300 And that you do that through the law, you do that through 125 00:10:34,300 --> 00:10:37,500 confession. And as you're doing that, you're 126 00:10:37,500 --> 00:10:41,100 putting to death. The old man, God is bringing to 127 00:10:41,100 --> 00:10:46,400 life. A new creation, he's sustaining 128 00:10:46,700 --> 00:10:51,000 his new creation, which were those who were new in Christ and 129 00:10:51,000 --> 00:10:54,200 that happens through the retrieve, if you will. 130 00:10:55,400 --> 00:10:59,300 It happens through the proclamation of the Gospel. 131 00:11:00,500 --> 00:11:03,000 So it's my hope today to show you how Romans 3. 132 00:11:04,100 --> 00:11:09,000 Shows us that the law without the gospel is death for us. 133 00:11:09,900 --> 00:11:13,600 But the law with the gospel is life for us. 134 00:11:13,700 --> 00:11:16,700 You're taking notes, write that down. 135 00:11:18,900 --> 00:11:21,900 The law without the gospel is death for us with the law with 136 00:11:21,900 --> 00:11:27,600 the gospel is life for us. If you're able I would ask that 137 00:11:27,600 --> 00:11:32,300 you would stand now. As we read God's word, Romans 3 138 00:11:32,300 --> 00:11:38,900 19 through 26 be reading from the ESV When I finished reading, 139 00:11:38,900 --> 00:11:43,100 if you would, I'll say this is the word of the Lord like you to 140 00:11:43,108 --> 00:11:44,900 respond. Thanks be to God. 141 00:11:45,800 --> 00:11:49,900 Starting in verse 19. Now we know that whatever the 142 00:11:49,900 --> 00:11:54,300 law says speaks to those who are under the law so that every 143 00:11:54,300 --> 00:11:57,000 mouth may be stopped and the whole world may be held 144 00:11:57,000 --> 00:12:00,500 accountable to God. For by works of the law. 145 00:12:00,500 --> 00:12:05,700 No human being will be justified in his sight since through the 146 00:12:05,700 --> 00:12:14,200 law comes knowledge of sin. But now the righteousness of God 147 00:12:14,200 --> 00:12:18,300 has been manifested apart from the law, although the law and 148 00:12:18,300 --> 00:12:22,100 the prophets bear witness to it. The righteousness of God through 149 00:12:22,100 --> 00:12:26,700 faith in Jesus Christ, for all who believe for there is no 150 00:12:26,700 --> 00:12:30,500 distinction for all, have sinned, and fall short of the 151 00:12:30,500 --> 00:12:34,500 glory of God and are justified by his grace. 152 00:12:34,500 --> 00:12:39,000 As a gift through the Redemption that is in Christ, Jesus, whom 153 00:12:39,000 --> 00:12:43,300 God put forward. As a propitiation by his blood 154 00:12:43,600 --> 00:12:47,600 to be received by faith. This was to show God's 155 00:12:47,600 --> 00:12:51,900 righteousness because in his Divine forbearance he had passed 156 00:12:51,900 --> 00:12:55,300 over former sins. It was to show his righteousness 157 00:12:55,500 --> 00:13:00,300 at the present time so that he might be just and the justifier 158 00:13:00,500 --> 00:13:03,800 of the one who has faith in Jesus. 159 00:13:04,800 --> 00:13:08,800 You may be seated as you are. This is the word of the Lord. 160 00:13:09,400 --> 00:13:23,300 Thanks be to God. Verses 19 and 20 here in Romans 161 00:13:23,300 --> 00:13:29,500 chapter 3 operate as a summary of all that's been said from 162 00:13:30,100 --> 00:13:42,200 1:18 to 3:18. Paul here is summarizing 163 00:13:42,200 --> 00:13:45,300 everything that he said and he's letting us understand. 164 00:13:45,300 --> 00:13:47,400 He's letting the readers understand that. 165 00:13:48,900 --> 00:13:53,000 There is none righteous. As he said just a few verses 166 00:13:53,000 --> 00:13:56,300 earlier. And that no one is able to 167 00:13:56,300 --> 00:14:01,800 justify themselves by their own Works before God, you can feel 168 00:14:01,800 --> 00:14:08,100 the way to verse 19. And 20 this is now we know that 169 00:14:08,100 --> 00:14:11,800 whatever the law says, it speaks to those who are under the law. 170 00:14:13,500 --> 00:14:19,100 so that every mouth, Maybe stopped. 171 00:14:20,400 --> 00:14:26,800 And the whole world may be held accountable to God every mouth 172 00:14:27,200 --> 00:14:32,000 the whole world. I'm even know that's everyone, 173 00:14:32,100 --> 00:14:34,900 right? You don't need to know Greek to 174 00:14:34,900 --> 00:14:37,200 understand that he's talking about every person. 175 00:14:39,100 --> 00:14:42,800 For by works of the law. No human being will be justified 176 00:14:42,800 --> 00:14:45,800 in his sight. So now it's every mouth, the 177 00:14:45,800 --> 00:14:52,000 whole world, no human being. Will be justified in his sight. 178 00:14:53,900 --> 00:14:56,900 Since through the law comes knowledge of sin. 179 00:15:02,900 --> 00:15:06,600 The law. Has in mind. 180 00:15:06,600 --> 00:15:09,000 Certainly things like the Ten Commandments? 181 00:15:11,200 --> 00:15:14,400 But when we think about the law of God, we need to think about 182 00:15:14,400 --> 00:15:17,500 everything that scripture commands. 183 00:15:18,600 --> 00:15:23,000 Whatever scripture commands, we might view rightly as God's law. 184 00:15:23,500 --> 00:15:27,100 If he has commanded something, whether it's to do something or 185 00:15:27,100 --> 00:15:30,500 not to do something, this is the law of God. 186 00:15:33,500 --> 00:15:36,900 But we might read something like the Ten Commandments which are 187 00:15:36,900 --> 00:15:38,400 found in. Exodus chapter 20. 188 00:15:39,800 --> 00:15:41,700 God starts there. You shall have. 189 00:15:41,700 --> 00:15:48,300 No other gods before me. You shall make no idols. 190 00:15:49,500 --> 00:15:53,300 You shall not take the name of the Lord, your God in vain. 191 00:15:54,600 --> 00:16:00,400 You shall keep the Sabbath day. Holy you shall honor your father 192 00:16:00,600 --> 00:16:05,500 and your mother. You shall not murder. 193 00:16:06,500 --> 00:16:10,700 You shall not commit adultery, you shall not steal. 194 00:16:12,300 --> 00:16:16,000 You should not bear false witness against your neighbor. 195 00:16:17,300 --> 00:16:25,000 You shall not covet. Now, I think sometimes we make 196 00:16:25,000 --> 00:16:31,400 the mistake of All the mistake is called antinomianism which is 197 00:16:31,400 --> 00:16:41,300 just a big word for living a life free of any law because of 198 00:16:41,300 --> 00:16:45,000 Grace. Meaning we don't let the law 199 00:16:45,000 --> 00:16:48,900 guide us at all anymore. We just simply proclaim the 200 00:16:48,900 --> 00:16:53,500 grace of Christ and all of life, and use it as a license to sin. 201 00:16:54,800 --> 00:16:58,500 Use it as a license to do, whatever our heart desires and 202 00:16:58,700 --> 00:17:03,500 Proclaim safety in Christ. But I want you to know that if 203 00:17:03,500 --> 00:17:06,300 you were doing that, you are not safe in Christ. 204 00:17:09,200 --> 00:17:15,400 You merely deceiving yourself. One way that, I think we've 205 00:17:15,400 --> 00:17:18,300 sought to do this. Oddly enough, is that Jesus 206 00:17:18,300 --> 00:17:24,000 summarizes the law for us in. Matthew 22, 36 through 40 is one 207 00:17:24,000 --> 00:17:24,900 place. You find it. 208 00:17:26,000 --> 00:17:30,100 And he's being quizzed. As he often was. 209 00:17:32,000 --> 00:17:35,700 Hoping to catch him in a trap. And so I say to him teacher 210 00:17:35,700 --> 00:17:39,200 which is the great commandment in the law, which is the one 211 00:17:39,200 --> 00:17:41,800 that we should really adhere to, which is the one we should 212 00:17:41,800 --> 00:17:45,300 follow. And Jesus said to him, you shall 213 00:17:45,300 --> 00:17:47,900 love the Lord. Your God with all your heart and 214 00:17:47,900 --> 00:17:53,100 with all your soul, and with all your minds This is the great and 215 00:17:53,100 --> 00:17:56,500 first Commandments and the second is like it. 216 00:17:56,500 --> 00:18:00,900 You shall love your neighbor as yourself on these two 217 00:18:00,900 --> 00:18:04,400 Commandments depend all the law and the prophets. 218 00:18:06,600 --> 00:18:10,300 And so we've reduced even that Christ is not reducing, he 219 00:18:10,300 --> 00:18:12,200 summarizing. Let me be clear about that. 220 00:18:13,500 --> 00:18:18,300 But we've reduced it. In to love God and love people. 221 00:18:19,300 --> 00:18:23,100 These are not false statements in and of themselves, but when 222 00:18:23,100 --> 00:18:27,500 love God, just simply be becomes feel love for God. 223 00:18:28,300 --> 00:18:31,600 Admire God. Adore God. 224 00:18:31,600 --> 00:18:38,700 Sing praises to God. And it just becomes about loving 225 00:18:39,300 --> 00:18:42,200 people. As in, you just love all people, 226 00:18:42,200 --> 00:18:48,400 all the time, no matter what. Well, you can see the faults in 227 00:18:48,400 --> 00:18:50,300 this. Your want you to love your 228 00:18:50,300 --> 00:18:54,300 neighbor as yourself? Well, how should your self be 229 00:18:55,000 --> 00:18:59,600 acting? Well, should be loving God, but 230 00:18:59,600 --> 00:19:01,100 how should it be? Loving God. 231 00:19:01,100 --> 00:19:04,200 It should be loving God with all of your hearts. 232 00:19:05,000 --> 00:19:09,000 Meaning, those desires that are in your heart should not be 233 00:19:09,000 --> 00:19:12,800 wrong desires. They should be desires that are 234 00:19:12,800 --> 00:19:16,300 for God. And for God Alone he has your 235 00:19:16,300 --> 00:19:19,800 heart and you are loving him with all of it. 236 00:19:22,000 --> 00:19:25,700 It's not divided allegiances, it's not looking for, you know, 237 00:19:25,700 --> 00:19:28,500 you're not looking to just add God to your life, whether you're 238 00:19:28,500 --> 00:19:32,700 looking to submit your life, your heart, the very central, 239 00:19:32,700 --> 00:19:36,000 part of who you are, where everything about your emotion, 240 00:19:36,000 --> 00:19:40,700 and your decisions, and your life comes from, you're 241 00:19:40,700 --> 00:19:44,300 submitting that to God when you love God with all your heart. 242 00:19:45,900 --> 00:19:48,100 That's how yourself should be acting. 243 00:19:49,000 --> 00:19:51,400 That's how yourself should be loving God. 244 00:19:51,400 --> 00:19:53,600 And if you're going to love others, the way you love 245 00:19:53,600 --> 00:19:57,700 yourself, you should be living according to that standard. 246 00:19:59,600 --> 00:20:03,200 And seeking to hold others. Responsible to the same 247 00:20:03,200 --> 00:20:07,000 standard. Now again you've received Grace 248 00:20:07,000 --> 00:20:10,100 and so you show Grace, you've been just showing mercy and so 249 00:20:10,100 --> 00:20:14,900 you show Mercy, but you've also come against the law, the truth 250 00:20:14,900 --> 00:20:17,500 of God. And Jesus says, all of the law 251 00:20:17,700 --> 00:20:21,100 and the prophets, their instruction, their commands 252 00:20:21,100 --> 00:20:24,800 depend on loving God, with all your heart. 253 00:20:26,100 --> 00:20:27,900 So, you must love God with all your heart. 254 00:20:29,900 --> 00:20:32,100 But you don't stop there. You love him with all your soul 255 00:20:32,100 --> 00:20:38,600 as well. Again, everything in the way 256 00:20:38,600 --> 00:20:42,100 that you were made is submitting to God when it's it. 257 00:20:42,100 --> 00:20:45,700 When Christ says to love the Lord, your God with all of these 258 00:20:45,700 --> 00:20:49,900 things, he's saying that you're submitting to God in this way. 259 00:20:49,900 --> 00:20:52,200 Your your adoring him. Yes. 260 00:20:52,200 --> 00:20:56,300 But your desire is for him and you love the Lord with all your 261 00:20:56,300 --> 00:20:59,700 soul. You love the Lord with all your 262 00:20:59,700 --> 00:21:03,800 mind. And so even the thoughts of your 263 00:21:03,800 --> 00:21:08,800 mind, come under or should submission to God, you're not 264 00:21:08,800 --> 00:21:11,800 free to think what you want. You're not free to let your mind 265 00:21:11,900 --> 00:21:16,600 wonder and be just a playground for The Devil, right? 266 00:21:16,600 --> 00:21:19,200 You you submit your mind to the Lord. 267 00:21:19,200 --> 00:21:23,700 You think about what he says is? Holy, wait a minute. 268 00:21:24,400 --> 00:21:28,300 How do we do that? You have to know the laws of 269 00:21:28,300 --> 00:21:31,300 God. You have to know what God 270 00:21:31,300 --> 00:21:34,800 commands you have to know what he says is right, and what isn't 271 00:21:34,800 --> 00:21:36,600 right? If you're going to submit to 272 00:21:36,600 --> 00:21:40,000 God, so yes, it's love. God and love people, but you 273 00:21:40,000 --> 00:21:43,900 must know how to rightly love God and how to rightly love 274 00:21:43,900 --> 00:21:48,000 people, otherwise you're not obeying God. 275 00:21:49,100 --> 00:21:53,600 You're in Disobedience to me. And so we got to be careful that 276 00:21:53,600 --> 00:21:58,200 we don't reduce the law to nothingness. 277 00:21:58,200 --> 00:22:02,000 Because Christ himself says, I did not come to abolish the law 278 00:22:02,100 --> 00:22:06,800 but to uphold it. Why did he need to uphold it? 279 00:22:07,700 --> 00:22:10,800 Because you and I cannot uphold it as we'll see. 280 00:22:13,100 --> 00:22:15,200 He says that all the instruction of the law and the prophets 281 00:22:15,200 --> 00:22:18,100 depend on these two things that you love the Lord, your God with 282 00:22:18,100 --> 00:22:20,500 all your heart, your soul and your mind, and you love your 283 00:22:20,500 --> 00:22:24,300 neighbor as yourself. So the law, all that scripture 284 00:22:24,300 --> 00:22:27,900 commands is a great help for you. 285 00:22:31,700 --> 00:22:34,500 On the one hand, what we see in our text today is that the law 286 00:22:34,500 --> 00:22:45,700 stops every mouth its silences, everyone No one can look at the 287 00:22:45,700 --> 00:22:51,200 laws of God. And plead his own justification 288 00:22:51,300 --> 00:22:55,100 before God, it stops you from that once, you know, the laws of 289 00:22:55,100 --> 00:22:58,000 God, why? Because you were being held 290 00:22:58,000 --> 00:23:00,200 accountable to God, which is what he says next. 291 00:23:00,200 --> 00:23:03,500 The whole world is held accountable to God by his law. 292 00:23:06,000 --> 00:23:11,200 and if you're held accountable to God by his holy law, you are 293 00:23:11,200 --> 00:23:14,400 in trouble. You're in great trouble. 294 00:23:18,500 --> 00:23:21,200 So think through again, the Ten Commandments, it's helpful. 295 00:23:22,000 --> 00:23:26,900 You shall not commit adultery as one of them cry says in Matthew 296 00:23:26,900 --> 00:23:28,600 5. That if you look at a woman with 297 00:23:28,600 --> 00:23:31,600 lust in your heart, you have already committed adultery. 298 00:23:34,400 --> 00:23:37,700 So it's also not simply a law about do's and don'ts about the 299 00:23:37,700 --> 00:23:40,400 intents of the heart. Your heart again must be 300 00:23:40,400 --> 00:23:45,100 submitted to God's law. Maybe you sitting here today and 301 00:23:45,100 --> 00:23:48,000 you say, well, I've never looked at anyone with lust in my heart. 302 00:23:48,300 --> 00:23:52,500 I've never committed adultery good. 303 00:23:54,100 --> 00:24:00,400 I'm sure you've told a lie. Right. 304 00:24:03,100 --> 00:24:07,700 You've borne false witness against your neighbor at times. 305 00:24:07,700 --> 00:24:11,200 You said things about people that aren't true made 306 00:24:11,200 --> 00:24:15,900 accusations. Maybe you stole something. 307 00:24:16,900 --> 00:24:19,000 Maybe you haven't murdered someone but again Christ says 308 00:24:19,000 --> 00:24:23,200 that if you have hate for someone, it's the same thing. 309 00:24:25,800 --> 00:24:31,400 You certainly put other gods before God you certainly 310 00:24:31,400 --> 00:24:33,800 worshipped other things. We've talked about this at 311 00:24:33,800 --> 00:24:36,800 length through the series about how you were created for 312 00:24:36,800 --> 00:24:40,400 worship, and you were always worshipping something. 313 00:24:42,100 --> 00:24:44,800 You're always an Adoration of something. 314 00:24:46,700 --> 00:24:49,200 But we must submit ourselves to him. 315 00:24:50,300 --> 00:24:53,700 If any of you ever looked at your neighbors things and 316 00:24:53,700 --> 00:24:55,400 thought, man, I wish that was mine. 317 00:24:56,500 --> 00:25:01,400 Coveted, your neighbor's house, your neighbor's wife, your 318 00:25:01,400 --> 00:25:08,500 neighbors, life your neighbors job, My neighbor, we mean those 319 00:25:08,500 --> 00:25:11,600 around you, not necessarily the person lives right next to you, 320 00:25:12,100 --> 00:25:19,300 right? And so we're all guilty. 321 00:25:20,600 --> 00:25:23,500 Of transgression against God's law, we're all guilty of 322 00:25:23,500 --> 00:25:26,600 rebellion against him. No one is able to say to God 323 00:25:26,600 --> 00:25:31,000 that we have not sinned. No one can honestly say that we 324 00:25:31,000 --> 00:25:36,500 haven't broken God's law. Elsewhere in Romans, Paul makes 325 00:25:36,500 --> 00:25:40,400 it makes the case that even if you have never read God's long, 326 00:25:40,400 --> 00:25:43,100 it's talking about the Gentiles here who didn't receive God's 327 00:25:43,100 --> 00:25:47,100 law as the Jews did. he says that they're still guilty of 328 00:25:47,100 --> 00:25:49,500 violating it and rebelling against God and that their 329 00:25:49,500 --> 00:25:53,200 conscience, their conscience is what's bearing witness against 330 00:25:53,200 --> 00:25:57,700 them and that It even if you don't know the laws of God, that 331 00:25:57,700 --> 00:26:02,100 you have some sense of right and wrong and that's put into your 332 00:26:02,100 --> 00:26:05,100 mind by God himself. You have a conscience. 333 00:26:06,100 --> 00:26:08,200 Everyone is guilty of sin before God. 334 00:26:08,200 --> 00:26:11,800 And this is why Paul says, for by works and verse 24 by works 335 00:26:11,800 --> 00:26:18,000 of the law, no human being will be justified in his sight since 336 00:26:18,000 --> 00:26:20,300 through the law comes knowledge of sin. 337 00:26:22,900 --> 00:26:25,600 You're tempted to justify yourself before God. 338 00:26:26,800 --> 00:26:30,200 Just like a child who gets in trouble and they're tempted to 339 00:26:30,208 --> 00:26:34,200 try to justify themselves. Well, he did this to me or she 340 00:26:34,200 --> 00:26:39,500 did that to me. It's justification. 341 00:26:39,500 --> 00:26:41,800 It's an attempt at justification, even though the 342 00:26:41,800 --> 00:26:47,700 child is in the wrong, It must be someone else's fault. 343 00:26:49,500 --> 00:26:52,600 The problem with the law of God, just like that child there, with 344 00:26:52,600 --> 00:26:55,900 a parent who knows, right from wrong and is able to bring the 345 00:26:55,908 --> 00:27:01,900 law to bear. you're you're laid bare before God when you come up 346 00:27:01,900 --> 00:27:07,300 against this law, Just as Adam and Eve were laid bare, well, 347 00:27:07,300 --> 00:27:09,600 God created them. And he placed them in the garden 348 00:27:09,600 --> 00:27:12,200 and they, he gave them their work to do. 349 00:27:13,100 --> 00:27:15,700 We read there that they were naked and unashamed but as soon 350 00:27:15,700 --> 00:27:20,200 as they committed sin, as soon as they transgress God's law, as 351 00:27:20,200 --> 00:27:22,700 soon as they aid of that, which he told him not to eat. 352 00:27:23,200 --> 00:27:27,000 They were, we read naked and ashamed now. 353 00:27:28,900 --> 00:27:31,000 They were laid bare before the law of God. 354 00:27:34,800 --> 00:27:37,500 And just like them. Our next step is attempting to 355 00:27:37,500 --> 00:27:40,500 justify ourselves before God and that depends typically on 356 00:27:40,500 --> 00:27:45,200 blame-shifting and excuses. It was their fault. 357 00:27:46,600 --> 00:27:48,800 Adam says this woman. You gave me Lord. 358 00:27:48,800 --> 00:27:51,800 So he's blaming God. But he's also blaming the woman. 359 00:27:52,600 --> 00:27:54,600 The woman says, it wasn't me. It was the serpent. 360 00:27:54,600 --> 00:27:56,500 She blames the serpent. She didn't do it. 361 00:27:57,800 --> 00:28:00,500 All right, we may even be tempted to say well I just I 362 00:28:00,508 --> 00:28:04,000 didn't know. That doesn't change the fact 363 00:28:04,000 --> 00:28:09,000 that God's law has spoken. Those excuses won't hold up in 364 00:28:09,000 --> 00:28:14,600 the in the court of Heaven. For by works of the law. 365 00:28:14,600 --> 00:28:18,800 No human being will be justified in his sight by the law. 366 00:28:18,800 --> 00:28:23,400 Every mouth has been stopped and the world is held accountable to 367 00:28:23,400 --> 00:28:26,600 God. This on its own is a death of 368 00:28:26,600 --> 00:28:31,600 all deaths. The law pronounces us. 369 00:28:31,900 --> 00:28:36,600 Spiritually dead before God unable to stand in our own 370 00:28:36,700 --> 00:28:41,400 righteousness. Believe it's Isaiah, who gets 371 00:28:41,400 --> 00:28:46,000 real graphic and says that our righteousness is as filthy rags. 372 00:28:49,600 --> 00:28:54,000 Literally has in mind. The rags of a menstrual cycle. 373 00:28:57,600 --> 00:29:03,200 This is bad news for you. It's bad news for me. 374 00:29:03,900 --> 00:29:13,000 It's bad news for all Humanity. But it's good for you to know 375 00:29:13,000 --> 00:29:17,200 that it's bad news. It's good for you to feel the 376 00:29:17,200 --> 00:29:21,000 weight of the law. On you. 377 00:29:22,700 --> 00:29:27,400 Because you must realize the gravity of rebellion with God. 378 00:29:28,200 --> 00:29:31,900 Romans 6:23, just a few chapters later, Paul, lays out the 379 00:29:31,900 --> 00:29:35,400 gravity of the Rebellion, he says the wages of sin, the 380 00:29:35,400 --> 00:29:44,700 payment for sin is death. I say it's good for you because 381 00:29:44,700 --> 00:29:47,500 Paul says that through the law there at the end of verse 20 382 00:29:47,500 --> 00:29:51,200 says, through the law comes knowledge of sin. 383 00:29:53,600 --> 00:29:58,600 All's going to later say in Romans 7, But it's the law that 384 00:29:58,600 --> 00:30:00,700 helped him understand what coveting was. 385 00:30:03,100 --> 00:30:07,800 That before he coveted. But once he saw Thou shalt not 386 00:30:07,800 --> 00:30:13,400 covet his coveting became death for him, it became an 387 00:30:13,400 --> 00:30:17,200 understanding for him that he was a transgressor of God's law 388 00:30:17,800 --> 00:30:20,000 and he had broken and he could not have hold it. 389 00:30:21,500 --> 00:30:25,200 And so, it's good for us that the law brings knowledge of sin, 390 00:30:26,000 --> 00:30:29,200 the laws of necessary, part of worship. 391 00:30:29,400 --> 00:30:32,900 It's a necessary part of meeting with God, because it tells us 392 00:30:32,900 --> 00:30:36,400 who God is. And then Who We Are. 393 00:30:38,000 --> 00:30:44,800 He is Holy and we are not. When you see that you were so 394 00:30:44,800 --> 00:30:48,600 often rebellious when you see that you're so often 395 00:30:48,600 --> 00:30:52,600 disobedient, your moved to confess your sins. 396 00:30:54,800 --> 00:30:58,600 We understand as Romans 3:23 said that all have sinned and 397 00:30:58,600 --> 00:31:04,500 fall short of the glory of God. The laws one way that God 398 00:31:04,500 --> 00:31:07,000 Reveals His glory to us in the law. 399 00:31:07,000 --> 00:31:11,800 We see God's perfect Holiness in the law, we see his, his 400 00:31:11,800 --> 00:31:15,800 Holiness, and we see our imperfections, our sinfulness 401 00:31:17,000 --> 00:31:19,900 And those things stand in stark contrast. 402 00:31:22,700 --> 00:31:26,900 To God. You look at us and you look at 403 00:31:26,900 --> 00:31:28,900 God, and it's very quick to see that. 404 00:31:28,900 --> 00:31:31,800 These two things are not alike in so many ways. 405 00:31:34,800 --> 00:31:37,500 This is exactly what happens when Isaiah is brought before 406 00:31:37,500 --> 00:31:41,100 God to see his perfect. Lure in Isaiah chapter 6 407 00:31:41,700 --> 00:31:46,000 Isaiah's, just received the vision of Heaven, he's laid eyes 408 00:31:46,000 --> 00:31:49,900 on Angels who are crying out. Holy holy, holy is the Lord. 409 00:31:49,900 --> 00:31:54,900 God Almighty He's peering into the heavens and he seeing this 410 00:31:54,900 --> 00:32:03,700 play out before him. And Isaiah's response is woe, is 411 00:32:03,700 --> 00:32:07,100 me. For, I am lost. 412 00:32:08,100 --> 00:32:12,800 I am a man of unclean lips and I dwell in the midst of a people 413 00:32:12,900 --> 00:32:17,400 of unclean lips for my eyes, have seen the king, the Lord of 414 00:32:17,400 --> 00:32:24,500 hosts. And some places we read that I 415 00:32:24,500 --> 00:32:28,900 am undone. Isaiah is brought to nothingness 416 00:32:28,900 --> 00:32:32,000 before the Lord. He understands that he is mere 417 00:32:32,200 --> 00:32:36,900 dust before God. God is perfectly righteous and 418 00:32:36,900 --> 00:32:40,900 holy his glory shines and Isaiah views it. 419 00:32:40,900 --> 00:32:45,400 And he says, woe is me and I really liked that. 420 00:32:45,400 --> 00:32:48,500 It wasn't just woe is me as like woe is me and all the people I 421 00:32:48,500 --> 00:32:52,700 know, right? Like nobody could stand in this. 422 00:32:56,100 --> 00:32:59,300 This is, I'm a man of unclean, lips, my eyes have seen the 423 00:32:59,300 --> 00:33:05,500 king, the Lord of hosts. You see confession naturally and 424 00:33:05,500 --> 00:33:09,700 logically follows after being exposed to God's holiness. 425 00:33:11,100 --> 00:33:16,300 It's the natural order of things God reveals himself. and man, 426 00:33:16,300 --> 00:33:23,300 repents In fact, it must be. So for if we look into the law 427 00:33:23,300 --> 00:33:26,900 and see who we truly are, as expose Sinners. 428 00:33:27,300 --> 00:33:30,400 And yet, we walk away as if we've seen nothing, then we are 429 00:33:30,600 --> 00:33:34,700 deceiving ourselves. What first John 18 is telling 430 00:33:34,700 --> 00:33:36,300 us. It says, if we say, we have no 431 00:33:36,300 --> 00:33:39,900 sin, we deceive ourselves and the truth is not in us. 432 00:33:40,600 --> 00:33:43,800 And the Book of James chapter 1. We see that we're like a man who 433 00:33:43,800 --> 00:33:48,600 looks into a mirror and sees his natural reflection and then 434 00:33:48,600 --> 00:33:53,900 walks away and forgets what he looks like You can't come to the 435 00:33:53,900 --> 00:33:58,100 law of God, see who you are, and then walk away as if nothing is 436 00:33:58,100 --> 00:34:03,800 wrong. The promise that follows, first 437 00:34:03,800 --> 00:34:05,700 John 18, that we deceive ourselves. 438 00:34:05,700 --> 00:34:08,500 If we say, we have no sin, the truth is not in US. 439 00:34:09,100 --> 00:34:13,000 It says, on the latter half in verse 9, if we confess our sins, 440 00:34:15,000 --> 00:34:19,699 He is faithful and just to forgive us our sins and to 441 00:34:19,699 --> 00:34:21,900 cleanse us from all unrighteousness. 442 00:34:22,600 --> 00:34:28,199 Woo. You see it is the will of God 443 00:34:28,199 --> 00:34:31,600 that we see ourselves in our sinfulness. 444 00:34:32,800 --> 00:34:35,800 It's the will of God that we not deceive ourselves into thinking 445 00:34:35,800 --> 00:34:41,100 that we don't have sin in US. It's the will of God that we 446 00:34:41,100 --> 00:34:48,199 would confess our sins. We would verbally Express God. 447 00:34:48,199 --> 00:34:52,400 I have sinned against you. My anger got the best of me. 448 00:34:53,400 --> 00:34:57,200 My mouth got the best of me. I entertained gossip at work. 449 00:34:57,200 --> 00:35:04,100 I started the gossip at work. I looked at a woman with lust in 450 00:35:04,100 --> 00:35:10,600 my heart, I looked at Someone else's financial situation and 451 00:35:10,600 --> 00:35:14,900 coveted, their net worth. Whatever it is. 452 00:35:14,900 --> 00:35:18,900 You come before the Lord and say, my affections have not been 453 00:35:18,900 --> 00:35:22,900 only for you. My heart is wayward. 454 00:35:24,600 --> 00:35:27,800 I'm not submitting to you with all of my heart and all my soul, 455 00:35:27,800 --> 00:35:30,800 and all of my mind. I've sinned against you in those 456 00:35:30,800 --> 00:35:37,300 things. When you confess. 457 00:35:39,100 --> 00:35:44,700 You're admitting. You're admitting that. 458 00:35:44,700 --> 00:35:51,200 We are those who have been forgiven and you're also 459 00:35:51,200 --> 00:35:52,700 admitting that you're not perfect. 460 00:35:55,700 --> 00:35:59,800 To neglect confession is to act as though we are sitting Louis 461 00:36:00,400 --> 00:36:03,500 and have no need of God's daily work in sanctification. 462 00:36:04,800 --> 00:36:08,900 We can't live that way. The law without the gospel is 463 00:36:08,900 --> 00:36:14,700 death for us. But the law with the gospel is 464 00:36:14,700 --> 00:36:18,100 life for us. Look at verse 21 again. 465 00:36:19,600 --> 00:36:24,300 But now, the righteousness of God has been manifested apart 466 00:36:24,300 --> 00:36:27,300 from the law, although the law and the prophets bear witness to 467 00:36:27,300 --> 00:36:29,300 its. What's he saying? 468 00:36:29,300 --> 00:36:31,500 The law and the prophets all that we have in our Old 469 00:36:31,500 --> 00:36:37,300 Testament. Which is all the word they had 470 00:36:37,300 --> 00:36:40,700 at that time. Being written the latter Parts, 471 00:36:41,700 --> 00:36:45,500 the New Testament. This is what the all although 472 00:36:45,500 --> 00:36:50,300 the law and the prophets, they bear witness to this. the 473 00:36:50,300 --> 00:36:53,200 righteousness of God has been manifested apart from the law, 474 00:36:53,500 --> 00:36:57,200 the righteousness of God through faith in Jesus Christ, for all 475 00:36:57,200 --> 00:37:02,100 who believe, So now he's saying the righteousness of God 476 00:37:02,100 --> 00:37:07,000 manifest in a person's life, through faith, in Jesus Christ 477 00:37:07,000 --> 00:37:10,100 for all, who believe. But it's a part from the law. 478 00:37:10,800 --> 00:37:14,600 It's not by law, abiding, it's not by Perfection, keeping, it's 479 00:37:14,600 --> 00:37:19,200 not by doing perfect works that the righteousness of God dwells 480 00:37:19,200 --> 00:37:23,400 in you, the righteousness of God dwells in you, because of the 481 00:37:23,400 --> 00:37:27,000 work of Christ and because of your faith, in the work of 482 00:37:27,000 --> 00:37:28,700 Christ. Amen. 483 00:37:29,400 --> 00:37:32,100 This Where you come to know the righteousness of God and he says 484 00:37:32,100 --> 00:37:35,400 look there's no distinction here again, he's talking about the 485 00:37:35,400 --> 00:37:38,800 Jews and the Gentiles, There's no distinction, all have sinned 486 00:37:38,800 --> 00:37:42,200 and fall short of the glory of God and are Justified. 487 00:37:42,200 --> 00:37:44,800 So he's saying that all have sinned and fall short of the 488 00:37:44,800 --> 00:37:47,700 glory of God, those who are Justified are justified by his 489 00:37:47,700 --> 00:37:49,900 grace. As a gift through the Redemption 490 00:37:49,900 --> 00:37:54,900 that is in Christ. Jesus whom God put forward as a 491 00:37:54,900 --> 00:37:58,000 propitiation. Big word will explain in a 492 00:37:58,000 --> 00:38:02,500 moment propitiation by his blood to be received by faith. 493 00:38:03,400 --> 00:38:06,700 This was to show God's righteousness because it's in 494 00:38:06,700 --> 00:38:11,000 his Divine forbearance. He had passed over former sins. 495 00:38:11,000 --> 00:38:12,600 I want to make a note on that real quick. 496 00:38:16,200 --> 00:38:18,900 What he's talking about here is he's again talking about these 497 00:38:18,900 --> 00:38:22,600 Old Testament believers? They were not justified, he's 498 00:38:22,600 --> 00:38:26,300 already talked about Abraham and chapters 2 and 3, and he's going 499 00:38:26,300 --> 00:38:28,800 to talk more about him and for about how he was justified by 500 00:38:28,800 --> 00:38:32,400 faith alone. And so this is what he's saying, 501 00:38:32,400 --> 00:38:35,200 he said everyone there's no distinction everyone who is 502 00:38:35,200 --> 00:38:40,000 Justified as justified by faith in Christ alone even Old 503 00:38:40,000 --> 00:38:42,000 Testament Believers and he's saying what he did. 504 00:38:42,000 --> 00:38:45,200 What God did was passed over their sins that wasn't like he 505 00:38:45,200 --> 00:38:48,700 turned his head or turned a blind eye we should read it as 506 00:38:48,700 --> 00:38:53,100 God took their sins and place them on Christ Alone. 507 00:38:54,500 --> 00:38:58,400 And so that their faith in God was their salvation just as 508 00:38:58,400 --> 00:39:00,900 faith in God. Today is our Salvation, there's 509 00:39:00,900 --> 00:39:05,500 not two salvations, not a work of of your flesh by the Old 510 00:39:05,500 --> 00:39:08,200 Testament law. That's going to save you, not 511 00:39:08,200 --> 00:39:13,700 then, not now not ever. You're saved then Now and 512 00:39:13,700 --> 00:39:16,000 Forever, by faith in Christ alone. 513 00:39:17,600 --> 00:39:21,200 That's it. And so God wasn't he wasn't 514 00:39:21,200 --> 00:39:23,800 turning a blind eye to the sins of Old Testament Believers. 515 00:39:23,800 --> 00:39:26,200 He wasn't just simply overlooking them. 516 00:39:26,400 --> 00:39:30,600 He's taking them and he's placing them on Christ who is to 517 00:39:30,600 --> 00:39:34,400 come. You and I have the benefit of 518 00:39:34,400 --> 00:39:40,800 living post Christ, post work of Salvation posed cross. 519 00:39:40,800 --> 00:39:44,500 And so we can look back and say that our sins were laid on 520 00:39:44,500 --> 00:39:50,600 Christ at the cross as well. Amen. 521 00:39:52,700 --> 00:39:54,600 Well, how do we know this? Because he used the word 522 00:39:54,600 --> 00:40:02,800 propitiation, Let me read verse 26 on, explain it. 523 00:40:04,400 --> 00:40:08,200 Verse 26, it says Paul says it was to show his righteousness at 524 00:40:08,200 --> 00:40:12,700 the present time so that he might be just and justifier of 525 00:40:12,700 --> 00:40:15,800 the one who has faith in Jesus. Again, if God's just simply 526 00:40:15,800 --> 00:40:19,100 overlooking Sins, not dealing with them in any kind of a way, 527 00:40:19,300 --> 00:40:24,900 he's not just A just God does not ignore sin. 528 00:40:25,000 --> 00:40:30,400 He cannot He cannot, he wouldn't be just no one. 529 00:40:30,800 --> 00:40:35,700 No one wants to serve a God, who is unjust because what if he 530 00:40:35,900 --> 00:40:41,800 Wills his unjustness on you one day, He must be just, amen. 531 00:40:43,100 --> 00:40:46,700 He must be just and so he is, and he's called just because he 532 00:40:46,800 --> 00:40:50,300 didn't Overlook the sins, he laid the sins on Christ. 533 00:40:51,400 --> 00:40:55,200 He's called justifier because he's the author of Faith. 534 00:40:56,000 --> 00:41:00,700 He's the one who grants you the ability to believe he's the one 535 00:41:00,700 --> 00:41:04,400 who stirs. You to come to faith in Christ. 536 00:41:04,600 --> 00:41:07,700 He's the one who awakens You by his spirits. 537 00:41:07,700 --> 00:41:11,000 Just as John says to Nicodemus, one of the great followers of 538 00:41:11,000 --> 00:41:13,500 the law That Ever Walked the face of the Earth, Jesus says to 539 00:41:13,500 --> 00:41:20,600 him, you must be born again. And when Nicodemus quizzes him 540 00:41:20,600 --> 00:41:24,600 on it Jesus says this is a work of the spirit and no one knows 541 00:41:25,600 --> 00:41:28,300 the spirit is like the wind, no one knows where it comes from or 542 00:41:28,300 --> 00:41:31,800 where it is going, but knows it's presents. 543 00:41:33,300 --> 00:41:37,300 You're being born again. Is a gift of God, John chapter 544 00:41:37,300 --> 00:41:39,400 one. Even before John 3, John chapter 545 00:41:39,400 --> 00:41:44,600 1, the Apostle writes there that to all who believed God gave the 546 00:41:44,600 --> 00:41:48,600 right to become children of God, not of the work of the flesh, 547 00:41:48,600 --> 00:41:55,500 not by Blood, but by God, he says It's God's work in US. 548 00:41:57,000 --> 00:42:00,400 And so he is just a fire, he is just and his justifier. 549 00:42:01,500 --> 00:42:04,200 This is God's Declaration of forgiveness. 550 00:42:04,200 --> 00:42:08,400 In Jesus Christ, the law and the prophets are bearing witness to 551 00:42:08,500 --> 00:42:10,800 righteousness, to the righteousness of God, being 552 00:42:10,800 --> 00:42:13,500 manifested through faith in Christ. 553 00:42:13,500 --> 00:42:15,800 That's what the prophets are telling you about, it's what the 554 00:42:15,808 --> 00:42:18,900 law was pointing forward to its what the Exodus means. 555 00:42:18,900 --> 00:42:22,500 It's what Christ, sorry what God meant in Genesis 3:15 when he 556 00:42:22,500 --> 00:42:25,900 tells Adam and Eve and his curse of the serpent that there will 557 00:42:25,900 --> 00:42:28,200 come one who will crush the head of the serpent. 558 00:42:28,300 --> 00:42:30,700 All of it is pointing forward to Christ. 559 00:42:30,700 --> 00:42:33,400 Who will bear? The weight of sin for his people 560 00:42:33,400 --> 00:42:36,600 that we might walk away Justified. 561 00:42:38,100 --> 00:42:44,900 Amen. It was always about believing in 562 00:42:44,900 --> 00:42:50,400 God through Christ. Paul just makes it clear for us. 563 00:42:50,408 --> 00:42:53,300 There's no distinction, Everyone Falls short of God's glory 564 00:42:53,500 --> 00:42:57,400 everyone who will be justified before God will be so by God's 565 00:42:57,400 --> 00:43:00,900 grace as a gift through the Redemption that is in Christ. 566 00:43:00,900 --> 00:43:04,900 Jesus, whom God put forward as a again, a uses this word 567 00:43:05,000 --> 00:43:08,900 propitiation by his blood to be received by faith. 568 00:43:11,000 --> 00:43:15,300 The propitiation of God in Christ is the key to God's 569 00:43:15,300 --> 00:43:21,000 justifying guilty. Sinners propitiation is the 570 00:43:21,100 --> 00:43:24,100 wiping away of sins, but it's not. 571 00:43:25,000 --> 00:43:28,500 God is not just. If he just removes sin, if he 572 00:43:28,500 --> 00:43:33,000 just makes send disappear. That's not just. 573 00:43:34,200 --> 00:43:43,700 God cannot say that God. So God cannot say to Adam and 574 00:43:43,700 --> 00:43:46,500 Eve that in the day that you eat of it, you will surely die. 575 00:43:48,500 --> 00:43:52,200 And then not bring death. Why? 576 00:43:52,900 --> 00:43:56,700 Because there is at least one thing God cannot do and that is, 577 00:43:56,700 --> 00:44:00,200 he cannot lie. You cannot lie. 578 00:44:01,300 --> 00:44:05,300 If God has made a command of God has set something forward by his 579 00:44:05,300 --> 00:44:10,500 word, he must do it. This is why you can trust him. 580 00:44:10,700 --> 00:44:12,800 This is why you can know that all his promises are yes and 581 00:44:12,800 --> 00:44:14,600 amen. And that he is good and worthy 582 00:44:14,800 --> 00:44:23,100 of your submission. And so the propitiation is not 583 00:44:23,100 --> 00:44:26,300 simply the wiping away, it's not just getting rid of sin. 584 00:44:26,300 --> 00:44:33,700 It's not just erasing the debt, the debt required death It 585 00:44:33,700 --> 00:44:41,300 required blood. And so he satisfies his own 586 00:44:41,300 --> 00:44:44,600 Wrath. By the Flesh and Blood of his 587 00:44:44,600 --> 00:44:47,800 own son. So that all who believe in 588 00:44:47,800 --> 00:44:52,500 Christ might live with the righteousness that is rightly, 589 00:44:52,700 --> 00:44:56,300 Christ's righteousness, and free. 590 00:44:57,300 --> 00:45:01,000 Of the guilt of sin that is, rightly your guilt of sin. 591 00:45:05,100 --> 00:45:10,900 God did that for us through Jesus Christ, through the 592 00:45:10,900 --> 00:45:14,400 spilling of his own blood. And so that now, by faith in the 593 00:45:14,400 --> 00:45:17,900 person and work of Jesus once guilty, Sinners may receive the 594 00:45:17,900 --> 00:45:24,100 Eternal, pardon of God, complete justification for their sins. 595 00:45:25,600 --> 00:45:28,000 Second Corinthians, 5:21 for our sake. 596 00:45:28,100 --> 00:45:31,500 God made Christ to be sin, who knew no sin. 597 00:45:32,100 --> 00:45:36,000 So, that, in Christ, we might become the righteousness of God. 598 00:45:36,000 --> 00:45:38,900 Again, we who knew only sin now, no nothing. 599 00:45:38,900 --> 00:45:48,400 But the righteousness of Christ. This is a benefit, a blessing of 600 00:45:48,400 --> 00:45:51,300 the new creation work that you read about just a few verses 601 00:45:51,300 --> 00:45:53,300 earlier. Therefore if anyone is in 602 00:45:53,300 --> 00:45:58,400 Christ, he is a new creation. New Creation. 603 00:45:58,400 --> 00:46:01,500 Not just a it's not just new year, new me type stuff, right? 604 00:46:01,500 --> 00:46:05,800 It's not just it's not behavioral, change your not 605 00:46:05,800 --> 00:46:08,200 modifying your morality, it's none of those things. 606 00:46:08,200 --> 00:46:12,800 You are a new creation. This is why Christ says to 607 00:46:12,808 --> 00:46:15,500 Nicodemus, you must be born again. 608 00:46:18,400 --> 00:46:23,200 This is what Born Again means to become a new creation in Christ. 609 00:46:23,300 --> 00:46:24,700 The old has passed away. Behold. 610 00:46:24,700 --> 00:46:29,800 The new has come, if you are in Christ, you have forgiveness of 611 00:46:29,800 --> 00:46:33,100 sins. God has given us his law. 612 00:46:33,300 --> 00:46:36,300 He's revealed to his, how horribly we have broken it and 613 00:46:36,300 --> 00:46:40,400 then in Grace, he declares that we have nothing to fear even 614 00:46:40,400 --> 00:46:43,200 though we are awful. Sinners. 615 00:46:44,300 --> 00:46:46,300 But we are sinners with a new identity, right? 616 00:46:46,300 --> 00:46:49,200 We are in Christ. Now we're redeemed. 617 00:46:49,200 --> 00:46:51,800 Sinners. You might say we are Saints and 618 00:46:51,800 --> 00:46:55,400 rightfully. So, And that is astounding. 619 00:46:56,900 --> 00:47:02,000 Astounding, it doesn't make any sense to us because we don't 620 00:47:02,000 --> 00:47:06,700 want to operate that way. We want to be like the man and 621 00:47:06,700 --> 00:47:09,800 the parable of forgiveness, that Christ tells, right? 622 00:47:10,300 --> 00:47:12,400 There's a man who owes a great debt. 623 00:47:13,900 --> 00:47:16,500 And so his master calls him forward and he says, hey, you 624 00:47:16,500 --> 00:47:20,000 owe me this great dead. It's like if I remember right in 625 00:47:20,000 --> 00:47:23,600 modern days terms as well, it's several several thousands of 626 00:47:23,600 --> 00:47:26,700 dollars. You owe this great debt. 627 00:47:26,700 --> 00:47:30,100 He's like I cannot pay this debt. 628 00:47:30,800 --> 00:47:34,500 There's nothing that I can do to pay this debt for you. 629 00:47:34,500 --> 00:47:39,000 Nothing at all. And so we read that the master 630 00:47:39,000 --> 00:47:42,700 had mercy on him and forgave him his dead and let him go. 631 00:47:44,600 --> 00:47:47,400 And that man went and so full of joy. 632 00:47:47,400 --> 00:47:50,600 And so happy that he had been forgiven his debt, he forgave 633 00:47:50,600 --> 00:47:56,400 all the other deaths, right? No, he went and found a guy who 634 00:47:56,400 --> 00:47:59,700 owed him, what is in our day about 28 bucks. 635 00:47:59,700 --> 00:48:02,800 Although since inflation, the price may have changed a little 636 00:48:03,500 --> 00:48:06,100 maybe it's about, you know, 58 bucks now. 637 00:48:09,700 --> 00:48:13,000 He finds a guy who owes him very little comparatively speaking. 638 00:48:14,200 --> 00:48:16,800 And the guy tells him the same thing like I cannot pay this 639 00:48:16,800 --> 00:48:19,300 debt. I can't do it. 640 00:48:21,800 --> 00:48:25,600 He doesn't offer him Mercy as he had just received, he holds him 641 00:48:25,600 --> 00:48:31,300 to, it has him thrown in prison. Guess what happened? 642 00:48:31,300 --> 00:48:33,000 When his master heard about this. 643 00:48:34,200 --> 00:48:39,000 He wasn't pleased. He had him thrown in prison as 644 00:48:39,000 --> 00:48:43,600 well because he had done. He wasn't grateful for the mercy 645 00:48:43,600 --> 00:48:45,600 that he'd received. You didn't show Mercy, he went 646 00:48:45,600 --> 00:48:51,800 required, The Little Death. That's typically how we operate 647 00:48:51,800 --> 00:48:56,100 with Grace. Grace is good for me. 648 00:48:57,100 --> 00:49:00,500 So long as I'm the one receiving it, but I have to extend it. 649 00:49:01,700 --> 00:49:06,000 I don't want any part of it. Be careful. 650 00:49:08,900 --> 00:49:14,400 It's infusions for we read that we should be kind tender 651 00:49:14,400 --> 00:49:18,900 hearted, loving one. Another forgiving one, another 652 00:49:18,900 --> 00:49:21,600 as God in Christ, has forgiven us. 653 00:49:22,100 --> 00:49:30,200 It's a command from scripture Romans. 8:1 you have been 654 00:49:30,200 --> 00:49:35,300 forgiven a great debt there is therefore now no condemnation 655 00:49:35,300 --> 00:49:38,600 for those who are in Christ Jesus. 656 00:49:38,700 --> 00:49:43,000 Yes. No condemnation, totally 657 00:49:43,000 --> 00:49:47,500 deserving of Hell, totally. A transgressor of the law unable 658 00:49:47,500 --> 00:49:50,500 to appease God in any way, shape, or form. 659 00:49:52,400 --> 00:49:55,300 And yet in Christ, there is no condemnation for you. 660 00:49:58,900 --> 00:50:02,600 What Grace. So if you have repented of your 661 00:50:02,600 --> 00:50:04,900 sins, you've placed your faith in Jesus Christ. 662 00:50:04,900 --> 00:50:09,700 And you are right with God because of Christ. you are the 663 00:50:09,800 --> 00:50:15,200 rescued, the redeemed people of God and we must remind ourselves 664 00:50:15,200 --> 00:50:19,600 of this every week and worship to guard against Pride to guard 665 00:50:19,600 --> 00:50:23,200 against arrogance, to guard against antinomianism, a free 666 00:50:23,200 --> 00:50:31,100 spirit of living because Grace saves You must live according to 667 00:50:31,700 --> 00:50:34,100 the law of God by the grace of God. 668 00:50:37,400 --> 00:50:39,600 We do so, to stay in fellowship with God. 669 00:50:40,300 --> 00:50:46,000 To walk in peace with God. Again, our peace is not on our 670 00:50:46,200 --> 00:50:49,200 ability to perform before God. That's not what I mean. 671 00:50:50,100 --> 00:50:53,000 Or peace with God is because of the work of Christ and Christ 672 00:50:53,000 --> 00:50:57,800 alone. But Christ says, if you love me, 673 00:50:57,800 --> 00:51:01,300 you will obey my Commandments and the Great Commission. 674 00:51:01,300 --> 00:51:05,800 It's not go and make converts and baptize them and then send 675 00:51:05,800 --> 00:51:09,600 them on their way. It's go preach, the gospel 676 00:51:09,600 --> 00:51:13,100 essentially baptize. Those who believe make disciples 677 00:51:13,100 --> 00:51:17,200 baptizing, Baptize those who believe and teach them to do all 678 00:51:17,200 --> 00:51:20,900 that. I have commanded you To do. 679 00:51:24,900 --> 00:51:27,500 I don't think God's word is contradictory in any way in 680 00:51:27,500 --> 00:51:30,900 these things. This identity must be proclaimed 681 00:51:30,900 --> 00:51:34,200 again and again so that we will believe it so that we will be 682 00:51:34,200 --> 00:51:37,100 conformed to it. You stood condemned before the 683 00:51:37,100 --> 00:51:41,200 law but then God pronounces the verdict, those who are in Christ 684 00:51:41,200 --> 00:51:50,900 Jesus, by faith are not guilty. Jonathan Cruz says this in his 685 00:51:50,900 --> 00:51:54,500 book, he says for us and our New Covenant worship. 686 00:51:54,500 --> 00:51:59,000 We hear about the blood. I'm sorry, we hear about blood, 687 00:51:59,400 --> 00:52:03,400 but we don't spill any, we hear about Jesus blood, which is 688 00:52:03,400 --> 00:52:06,800 freed us from our sins. Ransomed us from our bondage, 689 00:52:06,800 --> 00:52:09,100 cleansed us from our unrighteousness and brought us 690 00:52:09,100 --> 00:52:13,900 near to God. Amen the law without the gospel 691 00:52:13,900 --> 00:52:17,600 is death for us but the law with the gospel is life. 692 00:52:17,900 --> 00:52:21,900 Or us. The rhythm of a healthy 693 00:52:21,900 --> 00:52:27,800 Christian life is to confess our sins and know that we have been 694 00:52:27,800 --> 00:52:32,600 forgiven of them. We talked about this when we get 695 00:52:32,600 --> 00:52:36,200 ready to baptize anyone, whether it be a child or an adult that 696 00:52:36,600 --> 00:52:40,000 your baptism, you go down into the water and come out. 697 00:52:40,500 --> 00:52:44,200 It's not a once baptized always saved mentality. 698 00:52:48,100 --> 00:52:52,300 Your baptism is identifying, as you as one who is believing in 699 00:52:52,300 --> 00:52:54,200 Christ, one who has repented of their sins. 700 00:52:54,200 --> 00:52:56,200 The old man is going down under the water. 701 00:52:56,200 --> 00:52:59,400 The new man is coming up out of the water just as Christ was 702 00:52:59,400 --> 00:53:03,400 raised from the dead and you're saying I'm staking my belief my 703 00:53:03,400 --> 00:53:10,200 righteousness on Christ Alone. I'm, I'm pledging my allegiance 704 00:53:10,200 --> 00:53:13,700 to him. I'm denying myself taking up my 705 00:53:13,700 --> 00:53:19,600 cross and following him. That's what baptism is and so, 706 00:53:19,600 --> 00:53:25,400 from there, It is important to instruct new Believers that you 707 00:53:25,400 --> 00:53:28,500 will live a life from now until your final breath, that is 708 00:53:28,500 --> 00:53:34,500 marked by repentance and belief. Not as a new convert but as one 709 00:53:34,500 --> 00:53:38,400 who is daily, depending on Christ for your salvation and 710 00:53:38,400 --> 00:53:41,700 forgiveness. And so the rhythm of a healthy 711 00:53:41,700 --> 00:53:45,000 Christian life is to confess your sins and know that you have 712 00:53:45,000 --> 00:53:48,500 been forgiven of them. You never outgrow the duty of 713 00:53:48,500 --> 00:53:52,400 confession, you never outgrow the duty of repentance and your 714 00:53:52,400 --> 00:53:56,100 Christian walk. Those things must be part of 715 00:53:56,100 --> 00:53:59,400 your regular day-to-day walk with the Lord. 716 00:54:00,500 --> 00:54:04,000 And so too, they must be part of regular worship. 717 00:54:04,800 --> 00:54:08,600 Confession repentance and faith is where the unbeliever finds 718 00:54:08,600 --> 00:54:10,800 Christ to be the savior of the world. 719 00:54:11,800 --> 00:54:14,700 It's where the unbeliever finds peace with God. 720 00:54:15,800 --> 00:54:19,800 And it is where the Christian finds and maintains that peace 721 00:54:19,800 --> 00:54:22,700 with God and their daily Christian long walk. 722 00:54:24,900 --> 00:54:28,600 David's experience is helpful here King David and Psalm 32. 723 00:54:30,000 --> 00:54:33,100 Withheld his confession and his repentance for a time. 724 00:54:34,100 --> 00:54:37,600 And this is what he wrote down in verse 3 and 4 and Psalm 32. 725 00:54:37,600 --> 00:54:43,200 He says for what I kept silence my bones wasted away through my 726 00:54:43,200 --> 00:54:48,900 groaning all day long. For day and night your hand was 727 00:54:48,900 --> 00:54:52,500 Heavy upon me. My strength was dried up as by 728 00:54:52,500 --> 00:54:58,500 The Heat Of Summer. You see his silence meant great 729 00:54:58,500 --> 00:55:02,100 suffering trying to hold in his confession. 730 00:55:02,100 --> 00:55:10,200 I imagine as the king. That confession of sin is a 731 00:55:10,200 --> 00:55:17,200 harder thing to do. But when he opened his heart and 732 00:55:17,207 --> 00:55:20,300 he opened his mouth to confess his guilt, he received God's. 733 00:55:20,300 --> 00:55:24,000 Healing is what he writes. In verse 5, I acknowledged my 734 00:55:24,000 --> 00:55:27,000 sin to you and I did not cover my iniquity. 735 00:55:27,600 --> 00:55:31,500 I said, I will confess my transgressions to the Lord and 736 00:55:31,500 --> 00:55:33,900 you forgave the iniquity of my sin. 737 00:55:34,900 --> 00:55:36,900 Amen. So same thing. 738 00:55:36,900 --> 00:55:39,200 John wrote In First John 189, right? 739 00:55:39,400 --> 00:55:41,800 If you say you have no sin, we deceive yourselves. 740 00:55:42,400 --> 00:55:45,100 But if you'll confess your sin God is faithful and just to what 741 00:55:45,100 --> 00:55:50,100 to forgive you of your sins. This repeated confrontation with 742 00:55:50,100 --> 00:55:54,100 God's holiness and our sinfulness lays the foundation 743 00:55:54,100 --> 00:55:58,700 for salvation. An unbeliever must certainly see 744 00:55:58,700 --> 00:56:02,700 that he or she is in violation of God's law before the gospel 745 00:56:02,700 --> 00:56:08,500 will ever mean anything to them. This is why I knew evangelism or 746 00:56:08,500 --> 00:56:10,300 in you're witnessing or in talking with others. 747 00:56:10,500 --> 00:56:12,800 You cannot leave out the law of God. 748 00:56:13,700 --> 00:56:18,300 You cannot leave out the fall of mankind and the need for a 749 00:56:18,300 --> 00:56:22,600 savior, it can't just be a Jesus to your life, and your life will 750 00:56:22,600 --> 00:56:27,600 be much prettier. it has to be that you have rebelled against 751 00:56:27,600 --> 00:56:30,600 the holy God and unless you repent of your sins and place 752 00:56:30,600 --> 00:56:34,800 your faith in Christ Jesus, you will spend eternity in hell But 753 00:56:34,800 --> 00:56:38,300 if you will repent of your sins and believe in Christ, Jesus as 754 00:56:38,300 --> 00:56:41,300 your lord you will be saved today. 755 00:56:43,900 --> 00:56:47,200 There's no greater reprieve, no greater relief from your sins 756 00:56:47,200 --> 00:56:50,200 than to know that there is guaranteed salvation in the 757 00:56:50,200 --> 00:56:53,800 confession of those sins. And in the belief that comes 758 00:56:53,800 --> 00:56:58,500 with in Christ It's ours and him. 759 00:56:59,700 --> 00:57:03,100 And we must see that repeated confrontation with his Holiness. 760 00:57:03,100 --> 00:57:12,900 Just as I am, Lays the foundation for salvation for 761 00:57:12,900 --> 00:57:15,400 unbelievers, but it lays the foundation for continued, 762 00:57:15,400 --> 00:57:20,700 sanctification as believers. As a Believer, I still 763 00:57:20,700 --> 00:57:26,000 transgress the law daily. I transgress the law in ways. 764 00:57:26,000 --> 00:57:32,700 I don't even realize sometimes, God has to show me by his Spirit 765 00:57:32,800 --> 00:57:36,000 through his word. Most normally that I am a 766 00:57:36,000 --> 00:57:41,100 transgressor of his law. But as you grow in your 767 00:57:41,100 --> 00:57:43,400 knowledge of the law of God, as you grow in your knowledge of 768 00:57:43,400 --> 00:57:49,300 God's word, is what I'm saying, you become sensitive to sin. it 769 00:57:49,300 --> 00:57:53,500 becomes normal for you not to sin, I mean that's happening but 770 00:57:53,500 --> 00:57:58,400 it becomes normal for you on the backside of your sin to say, And 771 00:57:58,400 --> 00:58:01,800 to know the spirit of God, which is convicting you in that and 772 00:58:01,800 --> 00:58:04,900 then to submit yourself to him by begging his forgiveness. 773 00:58:06,600 --> 00:58:14,500 And even offering up, I'm Sorry's or apologies, or what 774 00:58:14,500 --> 00:58:17,500 have you to others that you might have hurt in your 775 00:58:17,500 --> 00:58:22,100 transgression against God? And that must be a part of our 776 00:58:22,100 --> 00:58:23,300 daily life. It's a part of our 777 00:58:23,300 --> 00:58:27,400 sanctification. In Romans chapter 8. 778 00:58:27,400 --> 00:58:31,100 Paul writes that we are to put to death, the Deeds of the flesh 779 00:58:31,100 --> 00:58:35,200 by the spirit of God. We've been given the spirit of 780 00:58:35,200 --> 00:58:38,400 God to free us from that. We can now serve God As Romans 6 781 00:58:38,400 --> 00:58:42,500 & 7 say, but the body of death is still very much present. 782 00:58:42,500 --> 00:58:46,200 We still wage war against this flesh and were to put to death. 783 00:58:46,200 --> 00:58:52,000 The Deeds of the flesh by the spirit So I encourage you to do 784 00:58:52,000 --> 00:58:55,600 that. Understand a law without the 785 00:58:55,600 --> 00:58:58,900 gospel is death for us and the gospel. 786 00:59:00,400 --> 00:59:05,600 Without the law is death. Also, what the law with the 787 00:59:05,607 --> 00:59:08,100 gospel? The gospel with the law is life 788 00:59:08,600 --> 00:59:12,700 for us and then may stand to your feet. 789 00:59:12,700 --> 00:59:16,700 I'm going to pray for you. We're going to sing one final 790 00:59:16,700 --> 00:59:18,700 song together. It's called the goodness of 791 00:59:18,700 --> 00:59:25,100 Jesus, and it's a very fitting into this morning, as we sing in 792 00:59:25,100 --> 00:59:28,500 a moment. I encourage you confess your 793 00:59:28,500 --> 00:59:34,300 sins before the Lord seek his face seemed to Him worship Him. 794 00:59:34,900 --> 00:59:38,600 If you need prayer for anything, you need to talk about anything, 795 00:59:38,600 --> 00:59:41,000 you have questions about anything that's been said today. 796 00:59:41,500 --> 00:59:44,600 I'll be back here but I'm happy to meet with you in a room back 797 00:59:44,600 --> 00:59:48,200 this way. If we need to you just come to 798 00:59:48,200 --> 00:59:50,100 me and let me know. Let me pray for you. 799 00:59:50,100 --> 00:59:55,100 Heavenly Father, we love you. We praise you, Lord for your 800 00:59:55,100 --> 01:00:04,500 kindness today. you're a one, your kindness and helping me 801 01:00:04,500 --> 01:00:09,700 today your kindness and helping us But ultimately Lord your 802 01:00:09,700 --> 01:00:12,700 kindness and your grace that we all have received as Believers 803 01:00:12,700 --> 01:00:17,000 in Jesus Through Your gospel. Through, you're sending Christ 804 01:00:17,000 --> 01:00:20,500 died for our sins. Would help us to believe that. 805 01:00:20,500 --> 01:00:24,500 More wholeheartedly more fully more Faithfully each day. 806 01:00:26,600 --> 01:00:31,300 Lord today, would you lead us unto repentance where our hearts 807 01:00:31,300 --> 01:00:34,300 of? Gone away from you, our hearts 808 01:00:34,300 --> 01:00:37,600 have strayed from you, where our hearts of found other longings, 809 01:00:37,600 --> 01:00:41,600 more beautiful than you are more desirable than you are. 810 01:00:42,900 --> 01:00:46,700 We have placed other things as Gods above you, and our worship. 811 01:00:46,700 --> 01:00:51,200 As we serve them, be it money and possessions or 812 01:00:51,400 --> 01:00:55,000 relationships. Or anything else. 813 01:00:58,600 --> 01:01:03,200 Lord help us. To walk according to your word 814 01:01:04,000 --> 01:01:07,100 Faithfully. To do the things that you have 815 01:01:07,100 --> 01:01:10,100 commanded us to do. Help us. 816 01:01:10,100 --> 01:01:12,100 Lord to honor you in those things. 817 01:01:15,900 --> 01:01:18,300 What, I pray for anyone today? Who's here? 818 01:01:18,300 --> 01:01:20,500 Who does not know Christ as their savior? 819 01:01:21,900 --> 01:01:26,400 It was an unrepentant sinner, an unbeliever set in their 820 01:01:26,400 --> 01:01:29,900 trespasses and sins. Lord, would you soften their 821 01:01:29,900 --> 01:01:31,700 heart today? Would you save them by your 822 01:01:31,700 --> 01:01:33,900 grace? Your marvelous marvelous Grace 823 01:01:33,900 --> 01:01:38,300 today? Draw them to yourself. 824 01:01:40,300 --> 01:01:46,200 May they see themselves as dust and repent before you May they 825 01:01:46,200 --> 01:01:51,900 find a life in Christ alone, and Lord for us here today, who do 826 01:01:51,900 --> 01:01:55,900 know you just as I parade help us to live for you, each day. 827 01:01:56,600 --> 01:01:58,800 Lord in this moment. Help us to be mindful of our 828 01:01:58,800 --> 01:02:03,600 sins. To repent of them, help us to 829 01:02:03,600 --> 01:02:06,400 know deeply, the Forgiveness of Christ. 830 01:02:08,100 --> 01:02:12,000 To not take it for granted to not use it as a license for more 831 01:02:12,000 --> 01:02:17,900 sin, Lord help us to deal honestly, with our sinfulness. 832 01:02:20,600 --> 01:02:23,400 we need your help in that because we are so deceived and 833 01:02:23,400 --> 01:02:30,900 yet so deceitful at the same time, Lord, we love you. 834 01:02:31,800 --> 01:02:33,800 We thank you again for today, be with us. 835 01:02:33,800 --> 01:02:38,200 Now, as we sing encourage our hearts, strengthen our faith. 836 01:02:38,500 --> 01:02:41,900 Deep in our love for others, in Christ's name, I pray. 837 01:02:42,200 --> 01:02:30,900 Amen. Lord, we love you. 838 01:02:31,800 --> 01:02:33,800 We thank you again for today, be with us. 839 01:02:33,800 --> 01:02:38,200 Now, as we sing encourage our hearts, strengthen our faith. 840 01:02:38,500 --> 01:02:41,900 Deep in our love for others, in Christ's name, I pray. 841 01:02:42,200 --> 01:02:42,600 Amen.