1 00:00:04,700 --> 00:00:07,600 My name's Kyle want to say thank you for being here today. 2 00:00:07,600 --> 00:00:10,000 If you're visiting special, thanks to you. 3 00:00:11,300 --> 00:00:14,300 We were going to be in Romans chapter 1 today, Romans chapter 4 00:00:14,300 --> 00:00:16,200 1. So if you have your Bible, you 5 00:00:16,200 --> 00:00:18,400 can grab it. Open it up to Romans 1. 6 00:00:18,400 --> 00:00:20,800 That comes to mediately after acts. 7 00:00:22,800 --> 00:00:28,400 Anyway, today we're getting into what, what you would call as a 8 00:00:28,800 --> 00:00:33,800 polemic series Tech. Sorry, not serious, but sermon. 9 00:00:34,300 --> 00:00:39,200 Just a one-off sermon and we're going to we're going to make a 10 00:00:39,200 --> 00:00:45,200 stance known today in light of what's coming next month. 11 00:00:45,300 --> 00:00:50,400 And so I'll start that by saying this New Life Community Church 12 00:00:50,800 --> 00:00:56,400 holds the position that God's word is divinely inspired that 13 00:00:56,400 --> 00:01:00,900 it is infallible and that it is inerrant. 14 00:01:01,100 --> 00:01:06,800 God's word is divinely inspired and Fallible and in Aaron's. 15 00:01:06,900 --> 00:01:12,300 Therefore it is the Supreme standard by which all human 16 00:01:12,300 --> 00:01:20,200 conduct Creeds and opinions shall be tried the Supreme 17 00:01:20,200 --> 00:01:23,900 standard by which all human conduct Creeds and opinions 18 00:01:24,200 --> 00:01:28,400 shall be tried. So, the word of God is our 19 00:01:28,400 --> 00:01:31,600 ultimate Authority. In other words, it is our 20 00:01:31,600 --> 00:01:34,100 ultimate Authority and everything on. 21 00:01:34,200 --> 00:01:37,200 On Earth, including our own Hearts, our own opinions, our 22 00:01:37,200 --> 00:01:40,700 own, wishes and desires everything on Earth. 23 00:01:40,700 --> 00:01:46,600 Must be Tried by it, but the world doesn't see it this way. 24 00:01:46,800 --> 00:01:50,700 The world thinks differently and it approaches it in a different 25 00:01:50,700 --> 00:01:52,800 way. The world is going to eagerly 26 00:01:52,800 --> 00:01:57,900 and is actively actually eagerly attempting to make God's word 27 00:01:58,300 --> 00:02:03,400 uninspired, to make it fallible, to make it errant question, the 28 00:02:03,400 --> 00:02:05,500 authority. Ultimately, what they're 29 00:02:05,500 --> 00:02:09,699 attempting to do, is to make God's word Irrelevant for 30 00:02:09,699 --> 00:02:16,400 ordering creation, ordering our lives and they're doing it by 31 00:02:16,400 --> 00:02:20,000 the pride of their own unbelief doing it by the pride of their 32 00:02:20,000 --> 00:02:22,300 own unbelief. So God's word gives us the 33 00:02:22,300 --> 00:02:25,500 answer to, why are these things happening? 34 00:02:25,500 --> 00:02:30,100 Why does the unbelieving world participate this way? 35 00:02:30,100 --> 00:02:32,700 Why do they play the game in this way? 36 00:02:32,700 --> 00:02:36,800 Why do they behave this way? This way in Romans 1:16 through 37 00:02:36,800 --> 00:02:39,800 32, if you would, would you stand for the reading of God's 38 00:02:39,800 --> 00:02:43,600 word today? When I finish reading, I'll say 39 00:02:43,600 --> 00:02:46,300 this is God's holy word and you will respond. 40 00:02:46,300 --> 00:02:50,100 Thanks, be to God. We want to show that God's word 41 00:02:50,100 --> 00:02:53,200 is higher than any other thought, we have here. 42 00:02:54,100 --> 00:02:57,600 Romans 1:16 for. I am not ashamed of the gospel 43 00:02:58,100 --> 00:03:02,000 for it is the power of God, for salvation to everyone, who 44 00:03:02,000 --> 00:03:06,900 believes to the Jew first and also to the Greek for in it. 45 00:03:06,900 --> 00:03:11,400 The righteousness of God is revealed from faith for Faith as 46 00:03:11,400 --> 00:03:15,000 it is written. Righteous shall live by faith. 47 00:03:15,400 --> 00:03:18,200 For the wrath of God is revealed from Heaven against all 48 00:03:18,200 --> 00:03:23,200 ungodliness and unrighteousness of men who by their 49 00:03:23,200 --> 00:03:27,700 unrighteousness suppress the truth for what can be known 50 00:03:27,700 --> 00:03:31,700 about God is plain to them because God has shown it to them 51 00:03:32,300 --> 00:03:36,000 for his invisible attributes. Namely, his eternal power, and 52 00:03:36,000 --> 00:03:40,100 divine nature have been clearly perceived ever since the 53 00:03:40,100 --> 00:03:43,900 creation of the world. And the things that have been 54 00:03:43,900 --> 00:03:49,000 made. So they are without excuse verse 55 00:03:49,000 --> 00:03:53,200 21 for although they knew God, they did not honor him as God or 56 00:03:53,300 --> 00:03:57,000 give thanks to him, but they became futile in their thinking 57 00:03:57,100 --> 00:04:01,500 and their foolish Hearts were darkened claiming to be wise, 58 00:04:01,500 --> 00:04:06,200 they became fools and exchanged, the glory of the immortal. 59 00:04:06,200 --> 00:04:10,500 God for images, resembling mortal man and birds and animals 60 00:04:10,500 --> 00:04:13,900 and creeping things. Therefore God gave them up and 61 00:04:13,900 --> 00:04:17,500 the lusts of their hearts to impurity to the dishonoring of 62 00:04:17,500 --> 00:04:21,100 their bodies among themselves because they exchanged the truth 63 00:04:21,100 --> 00:04:24,200 about God, for a lie and worshipped and served the 64 00:04:24,200 --> 00:04:26,600 creature rather than the Creator. 65 00:04:26,800 --> 00:04:29,500 Who is blessed forever. Amen. 66 00:04:30,100 --> 00:04:34,200 For this reason, verse 26, God gave them up to dishonorable 67 00:04:34,200 --> 00:04:37,700 passions for their women, exchanged natural relations for 68 00:04:37,700 --> 00:04:41,200 those that are contrary to Nature and the men likewise gave 69 00:04:41,200 --> 00:04:44,200 up national now Natural relations with women and were 70 00:04:44,200 --> 00:04:48,200 consumed with passion for one. Another men committing Shameless 71 00:04:48,200 --> 00:04:50,500 acts with men and receiving in themselves. 72 00:04:50,800 --> 00:04:55,300 The due penalty for their error. And since they did not see fit 73 00:04:55,300 --> 00:04:59,500 to acknowledge, God, God gave them up to a debased mind to do, 74 00:04:59,500 --> 00:05:03,600 what ought not to be done. They were filled with all manner 75 00:05:03,600 --> 00:05:08,200 of unrighteousness, evil covetousness, malice, they are 76 00:05:08,200 --> 00:05:12,900 full of Envy murder Strife, deceit, malice Asha sness. 77 00:05:13,100 --> 00:05:18,400 They are gossips slanderers. Haters of God insolent Hadi 78 00:05:18,500 --> 00:05:23,900 boastful, inventors of evil disobedient to parents, foolish 79 00:05:24,100 --> 00:05:29,500 faithless, heartless, ruthless. Though, they know God's 80 00:05:29,500 --> 00:05:33,300 righteous decree that those who practice such things deserve to 81 00:05:33,300 --> 00:05:36,500 die. They not only do them, but give 82 00:05:36,500 --> 00:05:39,500 approval to those who practice them. 83 00:05:40,700 --> 00:05:42,300 This is God's. Holy word. 84 00:05:42,900 --> 00:05:44,900 Thanks be to God. Let me pray for us. 85 00:05:44,900 --> 00:05:48,500 You have a seat Heavenly Father. We thank you for today. 86 00:05:48,500 --> 00:05:50,800 We thank you for your word o God. 87 00:05:50,800 --> 00:05:54,300 We know that it has come to us and true that it reveals to us 88 00:05:54,600 --> 00:05:59,500 faith for Faith. So that We might know who you 89 00:05:59,500 --> 00:06:03,800 are father that we might follow you and walk with you and walk 90 00:06:03,800 --> 00:06:06,600 in a manner, worthy of the Gospel which we've received and 91 00:06:06,600 --> 00:06:09,500 we thank you, Father. That the gospel is the power of 92 00:06:09,500 --> 00:06:13,100 God unto salvation, for all, who believe. 93 00:06:13,800 --> 00:06:16,700 So, father is men and women and boys and girls in here. 94 00:06:16,700 --> 00:06:20,700 I pray that you help us to believe wholeheartedly your 95 00:06:20,700 --> 00:06:25,400 gospel today or that we would trust in you and in you alone. 96 00:06:25,800 --> 00:06:28,200 And Lord, we pray that you would use. 97 00:06:28,200 --> 00:06:33,700 Use your gospel to save. Sinners to save those of whom. 98 00:06:33,700 --> 00:06:38,100 We once were father to relieve them, Father of their 99 00:06:38,300 --> 00:06:42,700 oppressions, the sin and to help them to know true Freedom In 100 00:06:42,700 --> 00:06:46,500 Christ Alone. Lord help us to be bold in this 101 00:06:46,500 --> 00:06:48,600 message. Help us to be bold. 102 00:06:48,600 --> 00:06:53,800 And this hour of our day of our time that we live in Lord help 103 00:06:53,800 --> 00:06:56,900 us to fight for truth and to stand on it. 104 00:06:57,000 --> 00:07:00,400 Wholeheartedly unreservedly boldly. 105 00:07:00,900 --> 00:07:02,900 It's in Christ's name. I pray, amen. 106 00:07:03,800 --> 00:07:06,800 You may be seated. Half of you had already see that 107 00:07:06,800 --> 00:07:11,000 half of you had not well, we'll try by the end of the service to 108 00:07:11,000 --> 00:07:13,400 walk together. More fully. 109 00:07:13,400 --> 00:07:14,800 Alright. More in unity. 110 00:07:17,800 --> 00:07:23,700 The unbelieving world lives by the changing tide. 111 00:07:24,900 --> 00:07:34,100 Of individualism. And by this changing tide, what 112 00:07:34,100 --> 00:07:38,200 I mean is that it can go from one place to the next very 113 00:07:38,200 --> 00:07:45,400 quickly just simply based on feelings and by individualism 114 00:07:45,400 --> 00:07:49,700 what they're doing is, they're forming their conduct, by 115 00:07:49,700 --> 00:07:53,100 whatever they decide is true. They form their conduct the 116 00:07:53,100 --> 00:07:56,000 things they do, they form their Creed's, The Things, They 117 00:07:56,000 --> 00:07:59,600 believe, the things they profess, and they form their 118 00:07:59,600 --> 00:08:02,600 opinions on what is right or wrong. 119 00:08:03,500 --> 00:08:09,100 The truth is, Is subject to change its subject to 120 00:08:10,100 --> 00:08:12,900 perspective? It's subject to the one who 121 00:08:12,900 --> 00:08:17,300 holds it. And not subject to God, there 122 00:08:17,500 --> 00:08:21,500 their Mantra, if you will their Creed, if I could write one for 123 00:08:21,500 --> 00:08:26,500 them would be, if it feels good to you than do it, it seems 124 00:08:26,500 --> 00:08:31,300 right to you, then do it. Christian's, however, must form 125 00:08:31,300 --> 00:08:34,600 their conduct and Creeds and their opinions by the gold 126 00:08:34,600 --> 00:08:37,700 standard of God's. Holy word, we must stand on 127 00:08:37,900 --> 00:08:41,600 Truth, our Mantra. If I could write one Forest must 128 00:08:41,600 --> 00:08:47,000 be what God instructs, that we shall do, what God instructs 129 00:08:47,000 --> 00:08:53,100 that we shall do. Another way we might sum up. 130 00:08:53,100 --> 00:08:55,300 What? Romans 1 is saying to us today? 131 00:08:55,300 --> 00:09:01,500 Is this unbelievers boast in their sins while Believers boast 132 00:09:01,500 --> 00:09:05,100 in their savior? Unbelievers, boast in their 133 00:09:05,100 --> 00:09:07,100 sins. Why Believers boast? 134 00:09:07,600 --> 00:09:13,300 And their savior, there is a pride of unbelief as a pride to 135 00:09:13,300 --> 00:09:15,400 this. This is what Paul is writing in 136 00:09:15,400 --> 00:09:17,800 Romans 1. It's all about the pride of the 137 00:09:17,808 --> 00:09:21,500 man, the pride of the person and perhaps this is not more 138 00:09:21,500 --> 00:09:24,900 evidence than what we were seeing regarding beliefs on 139 00:09:24,900 --> 00:09:27,600 marriage and sexuality and gender. 140 00:09:28,100 --> 00:09:33,200 The world is engaged in active combat against what God's word 141 00:09:33,200 --> 00:09:35,300 says. Is about marriage and sexuality 142 00:09:35,300 --> 00:09:39,400 and gender. The world has set itself against 143 00:09:39,500 --> 00:09:42,400 God's word, but this is not new. This has been going on for 144 00:09:42,500 --> 00:09:45,600 Millennia. One glaring example of this 145 00:09:45,600 --> 00:09:50,400 comes to achieve each June, one, glaring example of this comes 146 00:09:50,400 --> 00:09:53,700 flying in our face. Each June with pride months 147 00:09:53,800 --> 00:09:56,300 pride month is set aside each year. 148 00:09:56,800 --> 00:10:00,600 This Is How They word. It is set aside each year to 149 00:10:00,800 --> 00:10:03,200 promote the listen to these words. 150 00:10:03,400 --> 00:10:09,900 The self-affirmation dignity equality and increased 151 00:10:09,900 --> 00:10:14,600 visibility of the lgbtq+ community. 152 00:10:16,100 --> 00:10:18,300 The point of what they're saying. 153 00:10:19,600 --> 00:10:24,500 Is that they're taking pride in their chosen way of life, rather 154 00:10:24,500 --> 00:10:28,100 than filling, shame, that's literally why they call it pride 155 00:10:28,100 --> 00:10:31,100 month to be proud of who you are. 156 00:10:31,800 --> 00:10:35,800 Again, if it feels good to you then do it. 157 00:10:36,500 --> 00:10:38,200 Don't withhold this from yourself. 158 00:10:38,700 --> 00:10:41,200 They proudly say this to one another while the rest of the 159 00:10:41,200 --> 00:10:47,100 world cheers them on including Lately many ill-informed 160 00:10:48,600 --> 00:10:55,000 evangelicals many Christians, Advocates of Pride falsely 161 00:10:55,000 --> 00:10:58,600 believe that this is a step forward in the liberation of the 162 00:10:58,600 --> 00:11:03,000 lgbtq+ community. However, the scriptures are 163 00:11:03,000 --> 00:11:06,800 showing us here that it's simply a giant leap in further 164 00:11:06,800 --> 00:11:10,700 hardening, their hearts toward God and His holy word, which 165 00:11:10,700 --> 00:11:14,100 ironically is the only thing that promises true liberation. 166 00:11:14,200 --> 00:11:18,300 Ian, the only thing that promise is true salvation and so 167 00:11:18,300 --> 00:11:23,000 thanking they're free, they're becoming more bound becoming 168 00:11:23,000 --> 00:11:27,100 more and slave to their sins. So what has led men and women to 169 00:11:27,100 --> 00:11:30,300 do this for Millennia? It's Pride. 170 00:11:31,600 --> 00:11:39,000 Just good old-fashioned Pride. Romans 1:18 through 25 for the 171 00:11:39,000 --> 00:11:42,100 wrath of God is revealed from Heaven against all ungodliness 172 00:11:42,100 --> 00:11:45,900 and unrighteousness of men who by their unrighteousness 173 00:11:45,900 --> 00:11:49,900 suppress the truth for what can be known about God is plain to 174 00:11:49,900 --> 00:11:54,000 them, because God has shown it to them for his invisible 175 00:11:54,000 --> 00:11:56,100 attributes. Namely, his eternal power, and 176 00:11:56,100 --> 00:11:59,900 divine nature have been clearly perceived ever since the 177 00:11:59,900 --> 00:12:02,900 beginning. Sorry, the creation of the world 178 00:12:03,400 --> 00:12:05,600 in the things that have been made. 179 00:12:05,800 --> 00:12:09,200 So they Without excuse for, although they knew God, they did 180 00:12:09,200 --> 00:12:12,100 not honor him as God or give thanks to him, but they became 181 00:12:12,100 --> 00:12:14,300 futile in their thinking and their foolish Hearts were 182 00:12:14,300 --> 00:12:17,400 darkened just rereading this and get it in our minds. 183 00:12:17,400 --> 00:12:20,600 Claiming to be wise, they became fools. 184 00:12:21,300 --> 00:12:24,600 See essence of Pride, isn't it? Claiming to be wise, they became 185 00:12:24,800 --> 00:12:26,900 fools and exchanged, the glory of the immortal. 186 00:12:26,900 --> 00:12:29,900 God for images, resembling mortal man and birds and animals 187 00:12:29,900 --> 00:12:34,900 and creeping things, therefore God gave them up to the Sorry 188 00:12:34,900 --> 00:12:38,300 God gave them up in the loft. Of their hearts to impurity to 189 00:12:38,300 --> 00:12:40,600 the dishonoring of their bodies among themselves. 190 00:12:40,900 --> 00:12:45,200 Because they exchanged the truth about God for a lie and they 191 00:12:45,200 --> 00:12:48,500 worshipped and served the creature rather than the 192 00:12:48,500 --> 00:12:51,400 Creator. Who is blessed forever, amen. 193 00:12:53,300 --> 00:12:57,200 So Paul is saying here that God has shown himself to the world 194 00:12:57,600 --> 00:13:03,100 but in creation we clearly see God's eternal power and divine 195 00:13:03,300 --> 00:13:08,900 nature nature or creation is a witness to the divine nature of 196 00:13:08,900 --> 00:13:12,200 God. It's a witness to the eternal 197 00:13:12,200 --> 00:13:16,300 power of God that God has created and when you look at 198 00:13:16,300 --> 00:13:22,200 creation it should it's meant to cause you to see that there is a 199 00:13:22,400 --> 00:13:26,400 creator. The world knows God because he 200 00:13:26,400 --> 00:13:30,400 has made himself known God does in other words God does not 201 00:13:30,400 --> 00:13:34,700 believe in atheists as one man has said God is not a believer 202 00:13:34,700 --> 00:13:37,800 in atheist, right? He's saying I have revealed 203 00:13:37,800 --> 00:13:43,700 myself to man they know me and so there is no one excused from 204 00:13:43,700 --> 00:13:48,200 this knowledge of God, God has revealed himself in creation and 205 00:13:48,200 --> 00:13:52,300 so from the rising and setting of the Sun to the Colorado 206 00:13:52,300 --> 00:13:56,800 Rockies. You can see God from the genders 207 00:13:57,000 --> 00:14:00,700 to the formation of a child in the womb, you can see the hand 208 00:14:00,700 --> 00:14:04,900 of God from the tiniest insect to the largest animal. 209 00:14:05,000 --> 00:14:10,000 You can see God. All of it and everything in 210 00:14:10,000 --> 00:14:13,700 between, which is we haven't nearly exhausted all of Creation 211 00:14:13,700 --> 00:14:17,800 in my poor examples there. But everything in between all of 212 00:14:17,808 --> 00:14:22,400 those things, testifies to the glory of God and his creation, 213 00:14:23,100 --> 00:14:27,400 and they Know this. Yet they suppress the truth and 214 00:14:27,400 --> 00:14:30,100 their unrighteousness. Now, the idea of suppression 215 00:14:30,100 --> 00:14:34,200 here is really, it's really interesting and it's what helps 216 00:14:34,200 --> 00:14:38,200 us get to the idea of apologetics and what we're after 217 00:14:38,200 --> 00:14:41,400 in apologetics what we're after in proclaiming the truth. 218 00:14:41,400 --> 00:14:43,800 So, the idea of suppression is this. 219 00:14:43,800 --> 00:14:46,500 It's that you're holding something down. 220 00:14:46,700 --> 00:14:48,800 All right. So it's summertime, maybe. 221 00:14:48,800 --> 00:14:50,700 Some of you have had the opportunity to be in a pool 222 00:14:50,700 --> 00:14:53,600 already. Maybe you've played with a beach 223 00:14:53,600 --> 00:14:55,000 ball in the pool, right? Right? 224 00:14:55,100 --> 00:14:58,300 You take a beach ball and try to push it under the water. 225 00:14:59,800 --> 00:15:02,500 I remember as a kid trying to sit on a ball in the water, 226 00:15:02,500 --> 00:15:03,700 right? And your kind of wobbly and it 227 00:15:03,708 --> 00:15:05,700 just pops up flies out of the pool. 228 00:15:06,200 --> 00:15:09,600 This is the idea of suppression is that you're pushing down, 229 00:15:09,600 --> 00:15:15,500 they are pushing down in there. Unrighteousness truth And 230 00:15:15,500 --> 00:15:20,700 they're just holding it and they're they're praying if they 231 00:15:20,700 --> 00:15:23,600 pray there they're hoping against hope. 232 00:15:23,600 --> 00:15:28,100 That truth will not fly out of their hands up into the air for 233 00:15:28,100 --> 00:15:31,900 all to see. They are suppressing truth and 234 00:15:31,900 --> 00:15:36,400 so on apologetics one way to do, apologetics one way to talk to 235 00:15:36,400 --> 00:15:40,900 an unbeliever who is suppressing truth one way is to give them 236 00:15:40,900 --> 00:15:44,900 more beach balls. It's to say, hey, here's more. 237 00:15:45,100 --> 00:15:48,700 Truth or to make the beach ball larger right to where it becomes 238 00:15:48,700 --> 00:15:51,100 harder and harder to suppress the truth. 239 00:15:51,500 --> 00:15:54,500 This is one way you can do apologetics you can continue to 240 00:15:54,500 --> 00:16:02,800 give evidence of God. Another way to do apologetics is 241 00:16:02,800 --> 00:16:08,600 to figure out how you might pry fingers away from the beach 242 00:16:08,600 --> 00:16:12,700 ball. And so in unraveling their 243 00:16:12,700 --> 00:16:16,600 worldview, you are removing their hand from the beach ball 244 00:16:16,600 --> 00:16:19,000 so to speak. And so, the beach ball by the 245 00:16:19,000 --> 00:16:22,600 power of God, hopefully will come to the surface and this 246 00:16:22,600 --> 00:16:27,100 will lead to their understanding of their need for a savior. 247 00:16:27,600 --> 00:16:29,800 So make sense. So this is what this is. 248 00:16:29,800 --> 00:16:33,900 The indictment, from Paul, the Assessing the truth. 249 00:16:35,000 --> 00:16:40,200 In their unrighteousness has rendered their thinking useless, 250 00:16:40,700 --> 00:16:42,300 but that's what he means by feudal. 251 00:16:42,300 --> 00:16:45,000 That their thinking has become becomes futile in their, in 252 00:16:45,000 --> 00:16:49,700 their thinking and their minds. What Paul is saying is they 253 00:16:49,700 --> 00:16:55,000 think they're wise but they're fools, they think that they have 254 00:16:55,000 --> 00:16:58,300 truth but they're actually suppressing truth and they're 255 00:16:58,300 --> 00:17:01,700 showing that by suppressing their truth, they don't know 256 00:17:01,900 --> 00:17:05,700 anything. Their futile in their thinking, 257 00:17:05,700 --> 00:17:10,800 actually. It's really a sad thing. 258 00:17:10,800 --> 00:17:15,000 To behold I don't stand here today pridefully gloating over 259 00:17:15,000 --> 00:17:20,700 unbelievers, it's heartbreaking. That God has been made known to 260 00:17:20,700 --> 00:17:23,099 them and yet in their unrighteousness, they choose to 261 00:17:23,099 --> 00:17:27,200 suppress the truth about God and to run headlong into their own 262 00:17:27,500 --> 00:17:30,200 idolatry. But Paul is saying here, their 263 00:17:30,200 --> 00:17:36,000 arguments are nonsensical. They don't make sense. 264 00:17:37,300 --> 00:17:40,300 They're claiming to be wise if they became fools. 265 00:17:40,700 --> 00:17:43,300 Why? Because they exchanged the glory 266 00:17:43,600 --> 00:17:49,200 of the immortal God for images, resembling Creation. 267 00:17:49,800 --> 00:17:52,500 In other words, they're created to worship God. 268 00:17:52,500 --> 00:17:56,200 And God has made himself known in creation that they might be 269 00:17:56,200 --> 00:17:59,100 able to find God. And ultimately, you find. 270 00:17:59,100 --> 00:18:01,900 God has revealed himself naturally, but he's revealed 271 00:18:01,900 --> 00:18:05,100 himself supernaturally through his word and so we ultimately 272 00:18:05,100 --> 00:18:08,300 come to know God. Intimately through his word as 273 00:18:08,300 --> 00:18:11,100 he saves us from our sins, reveals himself to us and we're 274 00:18:11,100 --> 00:18:14,300 in right relationship again. But what they've done is even in 275 00:18:14,300 --> 00:18:16,400 nature, they're looking into it and they're saying, no, the 276 00:18:16,400 --> 00:18:19,900 creative order from God is wrong. 277 00:18:19,900 --> 00:18:23,100 And so they've making themselves wisely become fools. 278 00:18:24,000 --> 00:18:27,300 The way God has designed, it is not the way we want to live. 279 00:18:27,300 --> 00:18:33,700 And so we ignore it and the created to worship, God, created 280 00:18:33,700 --> 00:18:38,400 to walk and fellowship with God. And yet in unrighteousness they 281 00:18:38,400 --> 00:18:43,600 worship, man, they worship themselves worship animals and 282 00:18:43,600 --> 00:18:48,200 all sorts of things, and you see this over and again and 283 00:18:48,200 --> 00:18:50,800 unbelievers, it's not just with gender and sexuality in 284 00:18:50,808 --> 00:18:54,000 marriage. Let's one Giants battle. 285 00:18:54,000 --> 00:18:56,400 That's one that Paul sets. Aside here is one of the 286 00:18:56,700 --> 00:19:01,100 greatest evidences of someone who's been given over. 287 00:19:02,300 --> 00:19:07,000 To their unnatural Passions. But that's not the only battle. 288 00:19:07,600 --> 00:19:12,100 There's many bibles out there, there are many things, many 289 00:19:12,100 --> 00:19:18,200 instances I should say where creation is put over God where 290 00:19:18,200 --> 00:19:22,100 we worship the creation rather than the Creator. 291 00:19:25,800 --> 00:19:29,300 Their pride is the center of their unbelief. 292 00:19:30,100 --> 00:19:33,300 The pride is the center of their unbelief in Pride, the claim to 293 00:19:33,308 --> 00:19:36,800 be wise, it boasts in their sins believing themselves to be 294 00:19:36,800 --> 00:19:40,200 liberated. Yet they are fools and fooled 295 00:19:40,200 --> 00:19:43,100 themselves by buying into the LIE of the garden. 296 00:19:43,100 --> 00:19:46,100 The same lie that the serpent tells to Eve. 297 00:19:46,100 --> 00:19:52,200 If you will eat of this fruit, you will be like, God, And so 298 00:19:52,200 --> 00:19:56,200 they take the fruits of their own unrighteousness and they eat 299 00:19:56,200 --> 00:19:59,500 it and they offer it to others who eat also. 300 00:20:00,600 --> 00:20:03,400 And they cheer one, another on, as they eat the fruit that is 301 00:20:03,400 --> 00:20:10,700 leading to impending death. Unbelievers, boasts in their 302 00:20:10,700 --> 00:20:13,600 sins while Believers boast in their savior. 303 00:20:14,500 --> 00:20:18,100 Furthermore, after versus 20 after verse 25, Paul makes it 304 00:20:18,100 --> 00:20:21,800 clear that their sinful behavior is so far removed from Freedom 305 00:20:22,000 --> 00:20:26,100 by showing that it really is the righteous Judgment of God. 306 00:20:26,100 --> 00:20:29,800 We see that they are under God's judgment as they think they're 307 00:20:30,100 --> 00:20:35,200 free. They seek to remove themselves 308 00:20:35,200 --> 00:20:39,100 from the rule of God yet. So ironically, they have run 309 00:20:39,100 --> 00:20:41,200 headlong into his righteous judgment. 310 00:20:42,500 --> 00:20:46,500 Romans 1:26, or 32, for this reason, God gave them up to 311 00:20:46,500 --> 00:20:50,000 dishonorable passions for their women, exchanged natural 312 00:20:50,000 --> 00:20:53,400 relations for those that are contrary to Nature and the men 313 00:20:53,400 --> 00:20:56,100 likewise gave up natural relations with women and were 314 00:20:56,100 --> 00:21:00,100 consumed with passion for one, another men committing Shameless 315 00:21:00,100 --> 00:21:02,300 acts with men and receiving in themselves. 316 00:21:02,600 --> 00:21:06,400 The due penalty for their error. And since they did not see fit 317 00:21:06,400 --> 00:21:10,700 to acknowledge, God, God gave them up to a debased mind to do. 318 00:21:10,700 --> 00:21:14,200 What ought not to be done. They were filled with all manner 319 00:21:14,200 --> 00:21:18,700 of unrighteousness, evil covetousness malice, they were 320 00:21:18,700 --> 00:21:21,500 full of Envy murder Strife, deceit. 321 00:21:21,500 --> 00:21:24,700 Maliciousness, they are gossips slanderers. 322 00:21:24,700 --> 00:21:29,200 Haters of God insolent Hadi boastful, inventors of evil 323 00:21:29,200 --> 00:21:34,000 disobedient to parents, foolish faithless, heartless, ruthless, 324 00:21:36,100 --> 00:21:39,000 There's really none of us who are left off this list. 325 00:21:41,400 --> 00:21:44,700 Though, they know, God's righteous decree that those who 326 00:21:44,700 --> 00:21:47,000 practice such things deserve to die. 327 00:21:47,400 --> 00:21:50,700 They not only do them, but they give approval to those who 328 00:21:50,700 --> 00:21:55,300 practice them. So again, claiming to be wise to 329 00:21:55,300 --> 00:22:00,500 become fools, their minds are darkened yet, they believe that 330 00:22:00,500 --> 00:22:03,300 their minds are enlightened, their hearts are dark, and yet 331 00:22:03,300 --> 00:22:06,400 they believe they're living the enlightened experience. 332 00:22:07,000 --> 00:22:11,400 The following, however, their own lust-filled, passions has 333 00:22:11,400 --> 00:22:14,400 landed them, squarely under God's righteous. 334 00:22:14,700 --> 00:22:19,900 Judgments God gave them up. We read to dishonorable 335 00:22:19,900 --> 00:22:22,500 passions. That is the idea of him, giving 336 00:22:22,500 --> 00:22:25,200 them up to. It means he's surrendering them 337 00:22:25,500 --> 00:22:29,300 to them. To give something up is to be 338 00:22:29,300 --> 00:22:35,000 surrendered to someone or to some thing gave them up to 339 00:22:35,000 --> 00:22:37,300 dishonorable. Passions got a surrendering them 340 00:22:37,300 --> 00:22:40,200 over to their dishonorable passions. 341 00:22:40,800 --> 00:22:44,900 They did not want his authority, they wanted to be their own 342 00:22:44,900 --> 00:22:48,100 authority and so they got what they want. 343 00:22:49,600 --> 00:22:54,400 They got what they wanted. They sought it out. 344 00:22:55,100 --> 00:22:59,200 They suppress the truth. And made themselves wise, they 345 00:22:59,200 --> 00:23:02,900 claimed that God was a fool. It's obvious. 346 00:23:03,100 --> 00:23:09,000 However, back to this idea of pride month, it's obvious in the 347 00:23:09,000 --> 00:23:12,800 anatomy of a man, and a woman that they are made to fit 348 00:23:12,900 --> 00:23:18,800 together that they were made to be one flesh that they are made 349 00:23:18,800 --> 00:23:22,900 for the purpose of being fruitful and multiplying not 350 00:23:22,900 --> 00:23:25,400 only in having children, but that's one of the ways. 351 00:23:28,500 --> 00:23:34,400 However, the world chooses to ignore God's creative order the 352 00:23:34,400 --> 00:23:38,300 world chooses to establish their own order because they see 353 00:23:38,300 --> 00:23:42,900 themselves as God, like, they are their own God. 354 00:23:43,200 --> 00:23:45,700 So in their dishonorable passions, men are perversely 355 00:23:45,700 --> 00:23:50,200 drawn to men and women are perversely drawn to women. 356 00:23:50,400 --> 00:23:54,400 It's an Abomination. It it abhors. 357 00:23:54,500 --> 00:23:58,100 God's word by its actions and it's Proclamation. 358 00:23:58,300 --> 00:24:02,700 Yes, we must be clear on that. God has established the order of 359 00:24:02,700 --> 00:24:05,200 the Sexes. He did this at creation Genesis 360 00:24:05,200 --> 00:24:09,300 1:27, we read. So God created man in his own 361 00:24:09,300 --> 00:24:12,200 image. In the image of God, he created 362 00:24:12,200 --> 00:24:15,400 him male and female he created them. 363 00:24:18,400 --> 00:24:21,800 Just a few verses later, a zoomed in picture of what took 364 00:24:21,800 --> 00:24:25,300 place at creation. God creates man from the dust of 365 00:24:25,300 --> 00:24:31,000 the ground and breathed into him life and then he says that it's 366 00:24:31,000 --> 00:24:32,600 not good, that man should be alone. 367 00:24:32,600 --> 00:24:35,900 And so he creates a woman from the side of the man from the rib 368 00:24:35,900 --> 00:24:41,200 of a man of the man. And in verse 24 of chapter, 2 of 369 00:24:41,200 --> 00:24:44,300 Genesis, we read this therefore a man shall leave his father and 370 00:24:44,300 --> 00:24:48,900 his mother and hold fast to his wife and they shall become one 371 00:24:49,200 --> 00:24:51,600 flesh. Again, it's clear. 372 00:24:52,400 --> 00:24:56,500 The creative order here and it's clear how the world has turned 373 00:24:56,500 --> 00:24:59,500 it upside down. From these two verses alone, we 374 00:24:59,500 --> 00:25:03,600 can rightly conclude that God created mankind male and female 375 00:25:03,600 --> 00:25:07,200 in his own image and God created marriage to be between a man and 376 00:25:07,200 --> 00:25:10,500 his wife. But the unbelieving world hates 377 00:25:10,500 --> 00:25:18,200 these truths. That's the product of pride, in 378 00:25:18,200 --> 00:25:22,000 their unbelief. But remember G, what Jesus said, 379 00:25:22,000 --> 00:25:23,800 we just read this last week but I'm going to remind you again, 380 00:25:23,800 --> 00:25:27,700 what Jesus said about the lithe and the lovers of Darkness John 381 00:25:27,700 --> 00:25:31,600 3:9 through 19, through 20 Jesus, talking to Nicodemus, he 382 00:25:31,600 --> 00:25:33,500 saying that the light has come into the world. 383 00:25:34,500 --> 00:25:38,300 But they hated the light he says this is the Judgment that the 384 00:25:38,300 --> 00:25:41,700 light has come into the world and the people loved the 385 00:25:41,900 --> 00:25:45,600 darkness rather than the light because their Works were evil. 386 00:25:45,800 --> 00:25:47,800 For everyone. Who does wicked things hates the 387 00:25:47,800 --> 00:25:51,000 light and does not come to the light, lest his work, should be 388 00:25:51,300 --> 00:25:54,900 exposed again, it's the same principle here, they are lovers 389 00:25:55,200 --> 00:25:58,100 of themselves, their lovers of their own sinful desires, their 390 00:25:58,100 --> 00:26:00,600 lovers of their own darkness and foolishly. 391 00:26:00,600 --> 00:26:02,600 They think that their darkness is light. 392 00:26:02,800 --> 00:26:05,100 They think that they're dark This is Liberation, they think 393 00:26:05,100 --> 00:26:09,900 that their darkness is freedom. And yet they're bound to walk in 394 00:26:09,900 --> 00:26:15,200 the darkness until the light is revealed to them, but the 395 00:26:15,200 --> 00:26:17,100 judgment is that the light is here. 396 00:26:17,100 --> 00:26:21,400 Truth is here. God has made himself known in 397 00:26:21,400 --> 00:26:25,300 the face of Christ Jesus. In him, we have the radiance of 398 00:26:25,300 --> 00:26:29,200 the glory of God. He's the exact imprint of the 399 00:26:29,200 --> 00:26:33,700 father. And he has made known to us 400 00:26:33,800 --> 00:26:37,400 truth. His Apostles have made known to 401 00:26:37,400 --> 00:26:41,700 us Truth by the spirit of God who instructed them after 402 00:26:41,700 --> 00:26:44,500 Christ. Ascended into heaven. 403 00:26:46,300 --> 00:26:49,900 And so we see that God gave has given them up to dishonorable 404 00:26:49,900 --> 00:26:56,700 passions as an act of judgment. We also read that God gave them 405 00:26:56,700 --> 00:27:00,000 up to a debased mind to do what ought not to be done. 406 00:27:00,800 --> 00:27:03,700 They are the word debased. Here means morally, 407 00:27:03,700 --> 00:27:09,400 reprehensible, Which we see in their perverted views of gender 408 00:27:09,400 --> 00:27:12,700 sexuality in marriage, but it's also seen in their character 409 00:27:12,800 --> 00:27:14,400 again. These verses they were filled 410 00:27:14,400 --> 00:27:16,600 with all manner of unrighteousness. 411 00:27:17,700 --> 00:27:19,700 I won't read the whole list again but it's evil. 412 00:27:19,700 --> 00:27:23,300 Malice murder Strife, deceit, maliciousness, gossips 413 00:27:23,300 --> 00:27:26,200 slanderers, haters of God hottie. 414 00:27:26,200 --> 00:27:29,200 Boastful foolish faithless, heartless ruthless. 415 00:27:29,800 --> 00:27:35,000 You get the points. All manner of unrighteousness 416 00:27:35,600 --> 00:27:38,000 and so there is nothing righteous in them which Paul 417 00:27:38,000 --> 00:27:43,000 will go on to say explicitly in Romans 3, just two chapters 418 00:27:43,000 --> 00:27:45,000 later he'll say that there is none righteous. 419 00:27:45,300 --> 00:27:48,800 No not one. There is none who seeks the 420 00:27:48,800 --> 00:27:52,300 Lord. And so, there's nothing 421 00:27:52,300 --> 00:27:55,100 righteous in them. They've gotten exactly what they 422 00:27:55,100 --> 00:27:57,900 wanted. That's part of the Judgment, 423 00:27:57,900 --> 00:27:59,500 they know, God's righteous decree. 424 00:27:59,800 --> 00:28:02,100 They know that those who practice such evil deserve to 425 00:28:02,100 --> 00:28:04,400 die. And yet not only do they do 426 00:28:04,400 --> 00:28:07,400 them, but they give approval to those who practice them. 427 00:28:10,100 --> 00:28:16,800 Misery loves company. There's always room at the table 428 00:28:16,800 --> 00:28:21,900 of the unrighteous scoffer, there's always a seat there. 429 00:28:24,700 --> 00:28:28,400 That unrighteous golfer wilda ride you and your high view of 430 00:28:28,400 --> 00:28:32,500 God's word. Hilda ride, you and your 431 00:28:32,500 --> 00:28:36,400 attempts to be obedient to the word of God especially when you 432 00:28:36,400 --> 00:28:42,200 fail. That's scoffer will try every 433 00:28:42,600 --> 00:28:49,800 way he can to break you down. and to draw you in, if he can to 434 00:28:49,800 --> 00:28:56,900 his own evil actions to his own scoffing, But I tell you that 435 00:28:56,900 --> 00:29:02,200 Psalm one promises, the man who will stand on the righteous, 436 00:29:02,200 --> 00:29:05,900 decrees of God, the man who will stand on God's instruction. 437 00:29:06,100 --> 00:29:09,000 There's a promise there for him and and for her. 438 00:29:10,200 --> 00:29:13,000 But the one who will trust God's word, the one who will meditate 439 00:29:13,000 --> 00:29:16,400 on it day and night. The psalmist says that he will 440 00:29:16,400 --> 00:29:20,200 become like a tree that is firmly planted beside a flowing 441 00:29:20,200 --> 00:29:24,200 stream that bears fruits and do season. 442 00:29:24,200 --> 00:29:29,100 It is unshakable, he will not be moved and he says he will not be 443 00:29:29,100 --> 00:29:36,100 moved because God knows his way. In other words, God keeps him in 444 00:29:36,100 --> 00:29:41,400 safety because the righteous one has hidden himself in God. 445 00:29:42,400 --> 00:29:44,900 This is what you're doing. When you stand on the word of 446 00:29:44,900 --> 00:29:51,100 God is you're hiding yourself under the safety of the Trinity, 447 00:29:51,800 --> 00:29:56,700 you're hiding yourself under God, you're placing yourself 448 00:29:56,700 --> 00:29:59,900 under his care and under his provision and you're saying, 449 00:30:00,100 --> 00:30:06,600 father, my life, I count, not my own, I am yours and I trust you 450 00:30:06,700 --> 00:30:09,800 fully. I'm going to stand on your word. 451 00:30:11,200 --> 00:30:13,400 Regardless of what the world around me does. 452 00:30:13,400 --> 00:30:18,000 I'm going to walk with you? And so, I urge you brothers and 453 00:30:18,000 --> 00:30:22,100 sisters do not be swayed by the ways of the world, do not be 454 00:30:22,300 --> 00:30:26,200 swayed by the cunning attempts, the cunning arguments, the 455 00:30:26,200 --> 00:30:29,600 attractiveness of it, all that we should preach and all 456 00:30:29,600 --> 00:30:36,700 inclusive message. That God Saves everyone. 457 00:30:37,800 --> 00:30:45,700 Whether they believe or not. That all roads lead to Heaven as 458 00:30:45,700 --> 00:30:52,400 long as you're a good person. I'm telling you deny those 459 00:30:52,700 --> 00:30:56,600 things stand on the word of God because no one's getting into 460 00:30:56,600 --> 00:31:02,200 heaven believing those things. It's unloving to affirm people 461 00:31:02,300 --> 00:31:04,900 and such foolishness. Do you hear me? 462 00:31:04,900 --> 00:31:07,200 It's unloving to affirm people in that. 463 00:31:07,600 --> 00:31:11,000 You cannot say that you love your neighbor and support their 464 00:31:11,000 --> 00:31:12,700 sins. You can't do that. 465 00:31:13,900 --> 00:31:18,500 It's unloving to do this. It's unloving to dismiss 466 00:31:18,500 --> 00:31:23,100 scripture for your neighbor and to say sure do what? 467 00:31:23,100 --> 00:31:26,100 Feels right, there's no love in that. 468 00:31:26,600 --> 00:31:29,200 You might sound loving, you might feel loving. 469 00:31:30,300 --> 00:31:33,000 But the truth is, there's no love in it at all. 470 00:31:34,300 --> 00:31:40,300 Ephesians 4 tells us to speak the truth in love so that we are 471 00:31:40,300 --> 00:31:41,700 not. Those kind of people who are 472 00:31:41,700 --> 00:31:47,200 tossed to and fro by every cunning argument, every wind of 473 00:31:47,200 --> 00:31:51,200 Doctrine. Every foolish belief. 474 00:31:52,600 --> 00:31:56,300 So, as to speak the truth in love, so that every member 475 00:31:56,300 --> 00:31:59,300 talking now about the body of Christ, every member is 476 00:31:59,300 --> 00:32:03,800 strengthened, every member is given the ability to grow. 477 00:32:08,000 --> 00:32:13,500 And so if I'm standing on foolish, doctrines, And my dear 478 00:32:13,500 --> 00:32:19,300 sister, Miss Tracy comes to me and says Kyle, I love you but 479 00:32:19,300 --> 00:32:24,800 you're being an idiot right now. I need to hear that. 480 00:32:26,900 --> 00:32:28,700 Right. And this is what the body of 481 00:32:28,700 --> 00:32:37,000 Christ is for. And so I'll ask well how in what 482 00:32:37,000 --> 00:32:39,500 ways and she'll explain them to me. 483 00:32:41,200 --> 00:32:45,700 And I pray that the Lord would open my eyes to hear about from 484 00:32:45,700 --> 00:32:50,000 eyes to see open my ears to hear his truths and those moments of 485 00:32:50,000 --> 00:32:53,300 reproof of rebuke. This is part of what the body of 486 00:32:53,300 --> 00:32:55,500 Christ is for. So, I'm encouraging you today. 487 00:32:55,500 --> 00:32:59,000 Do not be swayed. You're not soften your stance on 488 00:32:59,000 --> 00:33:02,200 the trustworthiness and the faithfulness of God's Eternal 489 00:33:02,200 --> 00:33:06,000 work. I want to attempt to provide 490 00:33:06,000 --> 00:33:10,700 some further Clarity by reading to you some affirmations and 491 00:33:10,700 --> 00:33:14,900 denials of a statement that we've signed as a church, is 492 00:33:14,900 --> 00:33:17,000 called the Nashville statement on biblical sexuality. 493 00:33:17,000 --> 00:33:19,700 You can find this on our website under our beliefs. 494 00:33:19,700 --> 00:33:20,900 I don't know if you've read this or not. 495 00:33:20,900 --> 00:33:26,600 It's, we've had it up for a while now well over a year but 496 00:33:26,600 --> 00:33:28,400 there's some affirmations in denial here that will help 497 00:33:28,400 --> 00:33:32,300 clarify what we're saying and I'm going to read some of these 498 00:33:32,300 --> 00:33:34,900 to you. These are things that we Believe 499 00:33:34,900 --> 00:33:37,600 as an elder team, these are things, we believe as a church. 500 00:33:39,500 --> 00:33:42,500 We affirm that God designed marriage to be a covenant will 501 00:33:42,500 --> 00:33:46,400 sexual procreative lifelong Union of one man and one woman 502 00:33:46,400 --> 00:33:49,500 as husband and wife, and is meant to signify. 503 00:33:49,500 --> 00:33:51,800 The Covenant Love between Christ and his bride. 504 00:33:52,000 --> 00:33:55,700 The church amen. We deny that God designed 505 00:33:55,700 --> 00:33:59,000 marriage to be a homosexual polygamists or polyamorous 506 00:33:59,000 --> 00:34:01,800 relationship. We also denied that marriage is 507 00:34:01,800 --> 00:34:05,700 a mere human contract rather than a covenant made before God. 508 00:34:06,600 --> 00:34:10,699 We affirm that gods revealed will for all people is Chastity 509 00:34:11,000 --> 00:34:14,300 outside of marriage and Fidelity within marriage. 510 00:34:14,500 --> 00:34:17,800 We deny that any affections desires, our commitments ever 511 00:34:17,800 --> 00:34:21,500 justify sexual intercourse before outside marriage nor do 512 00:34:21,500 --> 00:34:24,400 they justify any form of sexual immorality. 513 00:34:25,000 --> 00:34:28,100 We affirm that God created, Adam and Eve the first human beings 514 00:34:28,100 --> 00:34:32,000 in his own image equal before God as persons and distinct as 515 00:34:32,000 --> 00:34:35,000 male and female. We deny that the divinely 516 00:34:35,000 --> 00:34:38,500 ordained differences Between male and female render them 517 00:34:38,500 --> 00:34:44,800 unequal and dignity or Worse. We affirm that divinely ordained 518 00:34:44,800 --> 00:34:48,100 differences between male and female, reflect God's original 519 00:34:48,100 --> 00:34:51,800 creation, design and are meant for human, good and human 520 00:34:51,800 --> 00:34:56,100 flourishing. We deny that such differences 521 00:34:56,100 --> 00:34:59,700 are a result of the fall or are a tragedy to be overcome. 522 00:35:00,500 --> 00:35:02,800 We affirm that the differences between male and female 523 00:35:02,800 --> 00:35:05,900 reproductive structures are integral to God's design for 524 00:35:05,900 --> 00:35:08,800 self-conception, as male or female. 525 00:35:09,800 --> 00:35:14,100 We deny that physical anomalies or psychological conditions 526 00:35:14,100 --> 00:35:18,000 nullify the god-appointed link between biological sex and 527 00:35:18,000 --> 00:35:20,600 self-conception is male or female. 528 00:35:21,500 --> 00:35:24,400 We affirm that those born with a physical disorder of sex. 529 00:35:24,400 --> 00:35:27,700 Development are created in the image of God and have dignity 530 00:35:27,700 --> 00:35:29,700 and worth equal to all other image. 531 00:35:29,700 --> 00:35:32,300 Bearers, they are acknowledged by our lord Jesus. 532 00:35:32,300 --> 00:35:35,700 And his words about eunuchs who were born that way from their 533 00:35:35,700 --> 00:35:39,200 mother's womb with all others. They are welcome as faithful 534 00:35:39,200 --> 00:35:42,300 followers of Jesus Christ and should embrace their biological 535 00:35:42,300 --> 00:35:47,100 sex insofar, as it may be known. We denied that ambiguities 536 00:35:47,100 --> 00:35:50,200 related to a person's biological sex, render one, incapable of 537 00:35:50,200 --> 00:35:52,400 living a free. Fruitful life and joyful 538 00:35:52,400 --> 00:35:55,900 obedience to Christ? We affirm that self-conception 539 00:35:55,900 --> 00:35:59,100 is male or female, should be defined by God's holy purposes 540 00:35:59,100 --> 00:36:02,900 in creation and Redemption. As revealed in scripture, we 541 00:36:02,900 --> 00:36:06,300 deny that adopting a homosexual or transgender self-conception 542 00:36:06,300 --> 00:36:09,900 is consistent with God's holy purposes in creation and 543 00:36:10,000 --> 00:36:13,900 Redemption. We affirm that people who 544 00:36:13,900 --> 00:36:18,000 experience sexual attraction for the same sex may live a rich and 545 00:36:18,000 --> 00:36:21,200 fruitful life pleasing to God through faith in Jesus Christ. 546 00:36:21,200 --> 00:36:24,700 As they like all Christians, walk and purity of life. 547 00:36:25,600 --> 00:36:29,200 We denied sexual attraction for the same sex as part of the 548 00:36:29,200 --> 00:36:32,400 natural goodness of God's original creation or that it 549 00:36:32,400 --> 00:36:35,600 puts a person outside, the hope of the Gospel. 550 00:36:36,400 --> 00:36:40,000 We affirm that sin, distort sexual desires by directing them 551 00:36:40,000 --> 00:36:41,700 away from the marriage, covenant. 552 00:36:42,000 --> 00:36:45,500 Towards sexual immorality, a distortion that includes both 553 00:36:45,600 --> 00:36:48,300 heterosexual and homosexual immorality. 554 00:36:48,800 --> 00:36:52,400 We deny that an enduring pattern of desire for sexual immorality, 555 00:36:52,600 --> 00:36:54,800 justifies sexually, immoral Behavior. 556 00:36:55,600 --> 00:36:59,500 We affirm that it is sinful to approve of homosexuality 557 00:36:59,500 --> 00:37:03,600 immorality or transgenderism and that such approval constitutes 558 00:37:03,700 --> 00:37:07,100 an essential departure from Christian faithfulness and 559 00:37:07,100 --> 00:37:09,700 witness. We deny that the approval of 560 00:37:09,700 --> 00:37:13,000 homosexual immorality or transgender is Ism is a matter 561 00:37:13,000 --> 00:37:16,100 of moral indifference about which otherwise faithful 562 00:37:16,100 --> 00:37:20,200 Christians should agree to disagree again. 563 00:37:20,300 --> 00:37:24,300 Unbelievers boast in their sins. Why Believers boast in their 564 00:37:24,300 --> 00:37:28,300 safe of the truly sad, part of all of this? 565 00:37:31,100 --> 00:37:35,800 Is the unbelievers attempt to liberate themselves by their own 566 00:37:36,000 --> 00:37:41,500 Passions. Because in it, they are bound. 567 00:37:42,100 --> 00:37:45,300 They are as bound as they've ever been, and maybe more about 568 00:37:45,900 --> 00:37:51,100 maybe more. So, Only the Gospel of Jesus 569 00:37:51,100 --> 00:37:56,100 Christ promises, Liberation and freedom from sins. 570 00:37:57,500 --> 00:38:02,000 The gospel alone is the power of God unto salvation. 571 00:38:03,300 --> 00:38:05,900 Paul began this section with a reminder to these Roman 572 00:38:05,900 --> 00:38:09,500 Believers. He says, for I am not ashamed of 573 00:38:09,500 --> 00:38:13,400 the Gospel of Jesus Christ, for it, is the power of God, for 574 00:38:13,400 --> 00:38:16,900 salvation to everyone, who believes to the Jew, first into 575 00:38:16,900 --> 00:38:20,800 the gents I are into. Also, to the Greek verse 17 for 576 00:38:20,800 --> 00:38:23,800 in it, the righteousness of God is revealed from faith for 577 00:38:23,800 --> 00:38:26,000 Faith. As it is written, the righteous 578 00:38:26,000 --> 00:38:29,900 shall live by faith. And so what Paul is saying, is 579 00:38:29,900 --> 00:38:33,000 the gospel is the saving power of God. 580 00:38:33,100 --> 00:38:37,900 God and which the righteousness of God is revealed to capture 581 00:38:37,900 --> 00:38:40,400 the gravity and the weight of what Paul is saying of this 582 00:38:40,400 --> 00:38:44,900 statement to these Believers in this first century moments. 583 00:38:44,900 --> 00:38:48,600 We, you must consider the context here that the Christians 584 00:38:48,600 --> 00:38:52,000 who are in Rome. Paul is writing to their living 585 00:38:52,000 --> 00:38:56,100 under the rule of Rome's, power and their influence. 586 00:38:56,400 --> 00:39:00,800 And because Rome's power and influence was far and wide and 587 00:39:00,800 --> 00:39:04,700 it was brutal toward Christians and many ways. 588 00:39:05,800 --> 00:39:09,000 Many Christians, lost their lives at the hands of Roman 589 00:39:09,000 --> 00:39:13,100 soldiers. Under the rule of guys like 590 00:39:13,100 --> 00:39:19,200 Nero. In that moment as your brothers 591 00:39:19,200 --> 00:39:22,800 and sisters are literally being torn, limb from limb, or set on 592 00:39:22,800 --> 00:39:28,200 fire, it would be very tempting to be ashamed of the Gospel, due 593 00:39:28,200 --> 00:39:31,900 to the lack of your own size, the lack of your own Fame, and 594 00:39:31,900 --> 00:39:35,300 the lack of your own honor. It would be very easy to say, 595 00:39:35,400 --> 00:39:39,800 well, let me just hide my little light under this bushel here. 596 00:39:42,800 --> 00:39:50,200 But Paul statements. Reminds these Roman Christians 597 00:39:50,700 --> 00:39:54,500 that they possess a power that is greater than the power of 598 00:39:54,500 --> 00:39:56,900 Rome. Which is that the one that is 599 00:39:56,900 --> 00:40:04,400 executing them. They possess the Gospel of Jesus 600 00:40:04,600 --> 00:40:11,500 Christ. And Paul says, this is not going 601 00:40:11,500 --> 00:40:15,000 to finish it. We'll start over. 602 00:40:17,800 --> 00:40:20,100 I've been fighting it. Thought I could make it. 603 00:40:29,800 --> 00:40:34,400 They possess. The power of God in the Gospel 604 00:40:34,400 --> 00:40:40,500 of Jesus Christ. And Paul says, this is the power 605 00:40:40,500 --> 00:40:44,300 of God which is able to save sinners. 606 00:40:46,700 --> 00:40:50,800 It's able to save all of those who believe. 607 00:40:53,400 --> 00:40:57,600 And verse 17, he reminds them that by the proclamation of the 608 00:40:57,600 --> 00:41:00,400 Gospel faith is revealed for faith. 609 00:41:00,400 --> 00:41:06,300 Our faith is revealed unto faith, we might say salvation by 610 00:41:06,300 --> 00:41:09,400 faith. Alone comes from the gospel 611 00:41:09,400 --> 00:41:11,800 alone. Paul makes this point. 612 00:41:11,800 --> 00:41:16,300 Very, very clear in Romans chapter 10 where he says out 613 00:41:16,300 --> 00:41:20,100 loud, he's riding this for them to read and and he says this, he 614 00:41:20,100 --> 00:41:24,600 says, how will they believe unless One carries the good news 615 00:41:24,600 --> 00:41:26,600 and how will the good news be heard? 616 00:41:26,600 --> 00:41:32,000 Unless someone preaches the good news and then he says that Faith 617 00:41:32,000 --> 00:41:33,600 Comes. He's talking about saving faith, 618 00:41:33,600 --> 00:41:39,200 faith comes from the hearing, and the hearing comes from the 619 00:41:39,200 --> 00:41:42,900 word of God. And so, the gospel is the power 620 00:41:42,900 --> 00:41:46,800 of God unto salvation, to all, who believe and it must be told 621 00:41:46,800 --> 00:41:52,500 so that it must be heard. So that it might be believed. 622 00:41:54,400 --> 00:42:00,100 If you today or alive in Christ as we looked at over the last 12 623 00:42:00,100 --> 00:42:03,000 weeks or so, it was longer than that. 624 00:42:03,600 --> 00:42:07,400 If you are alive in Christ today, it's because of your 625 00:42:07,400 --> 00:42:10,000 belief in the Gospel of Jesus Christ. 626 00:42:10,000 --> 00:42:13,400 It's because of Salvation by the grace of God, that's come to 627 00:42:13,400 --> 00:42:16,600 you. And so you are truly alive, you 628 00:42:16,600 --> 00:42:21,300 have eternal life now and I I want you to walk in that life 629 00:42:21,300 --> 00:42:26,300 each day God has called Adieu to New Life that you might walk 630 00:42:26,300 --> 00:42:28,400 with him Among The unbelieving World. 631 00:42:28,400 --> 00:42:33,600 God does not save you and take you. he saves you and 632 00:42:33,600 --> 00:42:39,100 commissions, you To go into all the world. 633 00:42:41,700 --> 00:42:44,000 And to proclaim the good news of Christ. 634 00:42:44,000 --> 00:42:47,500 The teach all that He commands. Baptizing believers. 635 00:42:51,400 --> 00:42:55,500 Your commissioned by God to do this, because it's by that 636 00:42:55,500 --> 00:43:01,800 message and it's by that faith, that people will be saved you, 637 00:43:01,800 --> 00:43:04,000 and I must receive the same truth today. 638 00:43:04,000 --> 00:43:08,300 That Paul is telling the Romans here, As the World Turns had 639 00:43:08,300 --> 00:43:13,000 long and runs over the Cliffs of self-expression and 640 00:43:13,000 --> 00:43:19,900 individualism you, and I You and I must refuse to make gods of 641 00:43:19,900 --> 00:43:24,300 man and take up the flag of the gospel and runs forward 642 00:43:24,300 --> 00:43:29,800 faithfulness to God. Run toward eternal life. 643 00:43:32,000 --> 00:43:35,200 How many of you have seen the Patriot Mel Gibson the Patriot? 644 00:43:35,200 --> 00:43:41,200 Not the, Never mind, I can't remember his name, but I almost 645 00:43:41,200 --> 00:43:44,700 said, Sylvester Stallone, but the other guy, the the karate, 646 00:43:44,700 --> 00:43:45,400 man. What's his name? 647 00:43:45,400 --> 00:43:46,500 Jasper? You know, movies. 648 00:43:47,300 --> 00:43:49,400 Anyway. What? 649 00:43:50,000 --> 00:43:51,500 Yes, Steven Seagal. Yeah. 650 00:43:52,700 --> 00:43:55,100 Then when the in a movie called The Patriot or something, also, 651 00:43:55,100 --> 00:43:59,700 I don't remember anyone, not important, but in the Patriot 652 00:43:59,800 --> 00:44:04,100 with Mel Gibson, the one that really matters right now, No 653 00:44:04,100 --> 00:44:05,700 Gibson plays. A guy named Benjamin Martin, 654 00:44:05,700 --> 00:44:10,300 who's a militia leader, and and he didn't want to even join the 655 00:44:10,300 --> 00:44:13,100 war, but he joins the war because his sons are brutally 656 00:44:13,100 --> 00:44:17,300 killed in front of him. And so at the end and that in 657 00:44:17,300 --> 00:44:20,100 the final battle scene of this movie, the Redcoats are 658 00:44:20,100 --> 00:44:21,600 advancing their winning the battle. 659 00:44:21,600 --> 00:44:25,400 The bluecoats are beginning to retreat and Mel, Gibson's kind 660 00:44:25,400 --> 00:44:27,900 of surveying the scene as he's coming to and he's looking 661 00:44:27,900 --> 00:44:31,100 around and and the movies playing The Slow Mo, you know, 662 00:44:31,100 --> 00:44:38,400 to capture the, all of that. And Martin goes, and he grabs a 663 00:44:38,400 --> 00:44:43,400 patched-up American flag, and you can probably see the visual 664 00:44:43,400 --> 00:44:45,200 in your mind. If you see anybody, he begins to 665 00:44:45,200 --> 00:44:49,900 run toward the battle. it just grabs the flag, he takes off, 666 00:44:49,900 --> 00:44:53,200 running toward the floor, toward the battle, he's running office, 667 00:44:53,200 --> 00:44:58,700 it of these Warriors who are retreating But in doing so he 668 00:44:58,700 --> 00:45:01,200 inspires them to turn and to keep fighting. 669 00:45:03,300 --> 00:45:07,000 But that's the kind of faith that you and I are to have in 670 00:45:07,000 --> 00:45:13,300 this age of unchecked pride. You're to have the kind of faith 671 00:45:14,300 --> 00:45:19,000 that goes against the grain. That goes against. 672 00:45:20,700 --> 00:45:26,400 The afraid, the fearful, the worried, the scared the nervous. 673 00:45:27,800 --> 00:45:30,100 It goes against all the ones who were running away because the 674 00:45:30,107 --> 00:45:35,800 world's attacks are too much. You're to have the kind of faith 675 00:45:35,800 --> 00:45:40,100 that is strong amid a time when there is little faith. 676 00:45:41,600 --> 00:45:45,300 And your to run against the grain, your to carry the flag of 677 00:45:45,300 --> 00:45:51,600 the Gospel. In this time, You're not alone 678 00:45:51,600 --> 00:45:59,800 in this. if you need courage, for this read Acts, Read 679 00:45:59,800 --> 00:46:03,300 Philippians read first and second Peter. 680 00:46:04,600 --> 00:46:08,800 Read 1st 2nd 3rd. John read revelation. 681 00:46:11,800 --> 00:46:15,400 Read the gospels read. All of the Epistles, read your 682 00:46:15,400 --> 00:46:17,300 new testament is what I'm saying today. 683 00:46:19,700 --> 00:46:23,300 Your brothers and sisters, who started this whole thing. 684 00:46:24,300 --> 00:46:26,700 When you now stand on the shoulders of have been fighting, 685 00:46:26,700 --> 00:46:30,900 this battle fought, this battle long before us and we are well, 686 00:46:30,900 --> 00:46:34,100 equipped by the word that God gave them for us. 687 00:46:35,000 --> 00:46:37,300 We are well, equipped by the same spirit of God, that was 688 00:46:37,300 --> 00:46:40,200 alive and them is alive. And us the same spirit of God, 689 00:46:40,200 --> 00:46:42,900 that raised Christ, from the dead, is our spirit. 690 00:46:42,900 --> 00:46:46,000 It's the one who dwells in us. We are his Temple. 691 00:46:47,800 --> 00:46:49,900 You can fight the fight with boldness. 692 00:46:50,200 --> 00:46:54,200 You can run the race without fear and Paul in Philippians 693 00:46:54,200 --> 00:46:56,700 1:27. He's writing from prison. 694 00:46:57,700 --> 00:47:00,000 And he's encouraging the church at Philippi. 695 00:47:01,200 --> 00:47:05,400 In the midst of their great persecution that their enduring 696 00:47:06,100 --> 00:47:08,100 and this is what he says in verses 27 through 30. 697 00:47:08,100 --> 00:47:14,400 He says only let your manner of of Life be worthy of the gospel 698 00:47:14,600 --> 00:47:19,000 of Christ. Another one live in such a way 699 00:47:19,000 --> 00:47:22,500 that you show you believe going to be worthy of the Gospel 700 00:47:22,500 --> 00:47:26,200 you've received he says so that whether I come and see or in my 701 00:47:26,200 --> 00:47:28,700 absence. I may hear of you that you are 702 00:47:29,000 --> 00:47:36,400 standing firm in one spirit. With one mind striving side by 703 00:47:36,400 --> 00:47:41,700 side for the faith of the Gospel listen to verse 28 and not 704 00:47:41,700 --> 00:47:47,700 frightened in anything by your opponent's not frightened and 705 00:47:47,700 --> 00:47:54,600 anything by your opponents. This is a clear sign to them of 706 00:47:54,600 --> 00:47:59,600 their destruction but of your salvation and that from God, 707 00:47:59,600 --> 00:48:04,900 what's a clear sign? The fact that you are walking 708 00:48:04,900 --> 00:48:09,500 worthy of the Gospel if you're standing firm in one spirit with 709 00:48:09,500 --> 00:48:13,500 one mind striving side by side for the faith of the gospel. 710 00:48:13,800 --> 00:48:21,100 And so you are not frightened. You're not frightened by. and 711 00:48:21,100 --> 00:48:23,500 when the world looks on, when your opponent's look on, 712 00:48:24,600 --> 00:48:29,700 Declaring themselves wise, thinking you to be a fool and 713 00:48:29,700 --> 00:48:36,100 they see a church, a people who are immovable because of their 714 00:48:36,100 --> 00:48:45,000 belief in the gospel of Christ. It's a billboard for them of 715 00:48:45,000 --> 00:48:52,000 death. it's one way, one more way that the Lord might arrest 716 00:48:52,200 --> 00:48:57,900 their attention and so save them Not frightened and anything by 717 00:48:57,900 --> 00:48:59,400 your opponent's. This is a clear sign to them of 718 00:48:59,400 --> 00:49:02,000 their destruction, but of your salvation. 719 00:49:02,300 --> 00:49:05,300 So again, in standing firm striving side by side with one 720 00:49:05,300 --> 00:49:09,000 mind. It's a confirmation that you are 721 00:49:09,000 --> 00:49:12,000 in Christ. And so, it's important that we 722 00:49:12,000 --> 00:49:14,600 have one another in these kinds of days. 723 00:49:15,100 --> 00:49:18,000 And then in verse 29, he says, for it has been granted to you. 724 00:49:18,100 --> 00:49:22,100 That for the sake of Christ, you should not only believe in him 725 00:49:22,200 --> 00:49:26,200 but also suffer for his sake. So this is one more way you can 726 00:49:26,200 --> 00:49:30,000 take joy in your trials is James says, in chapter one, is knowing 727 00:49:30,000 --> 00:49:33,500 that your trials, your sufferings have come to you from 728 00:49:33,500 --> 00:49:37,900 God. So that you can suffer for the 729 00:49:37,900 --> 00:49:41,900 sake of Christ, which is one more identity Mark that you are 730 00:49:42,000 --> 00:49:45,500 in Christ. If you are living a life, that 731 00:49:45,500 --> 00:49:49,000 is free of suffering and always you experience, no suffering at 732 00:49:49,000 --> 00:49:51,200 all. No Kickback for your beliefs. 733 00:49:53,000 --> 00:49:55,500 Then you need to ask yourself, am I really standing for 734 00:49:55,500 --> 00:49:59,300 anything? I'm not saying you go out and be 735 00:49:59,300 --> 00:50:05,300 intentionally disruptive and try to stir up stuff, but if you're 736 00:50:05,300 --> 00:50:08,900 not cowering amid conversations with co-workers and employees, 737 00:50:08,900 --> 00:50:14,200 or friends or roommates or spouse children, whatever, and 738 00:50:14,200 --> 00:50:17,700 you're going to experience some friction for your beliefs in 739 00:50:17,700 --> 00:50:21,000 Christ. And so if there is no friction 740 00:50:21,000 --> 00:50:26,600 there, maybe they're maybe not much evidence outside of in your 741 00:50:26,600 --> 00:50:31,500 heart, to your belief, you should be more bold, should take 742 00:50:31,500 --> 00:50:35,300 a stand. And he says, you're engaged in 743 00:50:35,300 --> 00:50:37,200 the same conflict that you saw I had. 744 00:50:37,200 --> 00:50:41,600 And now hear that I still have and so by engaging in these 745 00:50:41,600 --> 00:50:46,200 things you are identifying yourself with Christ with the 746 00:50:46,207 --> 00:50:49,100 Apostle Paul and with all those who have gone before you, you do 747 00:50:49,100 --> 00:50:53,600 not stand alone. It's in Hebrews that we read 748 00:50:53,600 --> 00:50:57,400 about the great cloud of witnesses that we have. 749 00:50:58,900 --> 00:51:02,300 To these truths into the things that we stand for. 750 00:51:03,800 --> 00:51:06,600 And so in light of God's verdict on Humanity as we've seen in 751 00:51:06,600 --> 00:51:11,500 Romans 1 today, the gospel must gain urgency in your life. 752 00:51:12,500 --> 00:51:15,400 It must gain urgency in your life behind the good news of the 753 00:51:15,400 --> 00:51:21,000 Gospel lies, the tough news, the difficult news, the bad news, if 754 00:51:21,000 --> 00:51:24,500 you will, that all people are implicated in Acts in the 755 00:51:24,500 --> 00:51:28,600 attitudes that God has promised to punish unless his means of 756 00:51:28,600 --> 00:51:33,700 Grace are embraced. So, the gospel is the antidotes. 757 00:51:35,700 --> 00:51:37,700 Because it's through trust in Christ. 758 00:51:38,800 --> 00:51:43,200 That Obedience of Faith Comes which is the kind of believing 759 00:51:43,200 --> 00:51:47,500 that God requires Obedience of faith. 760 00:51:49,000 --> 00:51:53,700 The gospel is the power of God unto salvation for everyone who 761 00:51:53,700 --> 00:51:56,400 believes. So as you look on the pride of 762 00:51:56,400 --> 00:52:00,400 unbelief that is on display in our world today, do not envy it. 763 00:52:01,500 --> 00:52:04,700 Do not support it. But stand firm on the gospel of 764 00:52:04,700 --> 00:52:06,900 Christ. Pray for the Salvation of 765 00:52:06,900 --> 00:52:11,500 Sinners by the grace of God, as you boldly witness to the saving 766 00:52:11,500 --> 00:52:14,200 power of the Gospel with unbelievers. 767 00:52:15,800 --> 00:52:20,200 Again, here's some affirmations, just a few more affirmations and 768 00:52:20,200 --> 00:52:23,100 denials from the Nashville statement on biblical sexuality. 769 00:52:23,400 --> 00:52:27,600 In regards to how we live with these truths. 770 00:52:28,500 --> 00:52:32,300 We affirm that our duties. We affirm our duty to speak the 771 00:52:32,300 --> 00:52:36,500 truth, and love at all times, including when we speak to or 772 00:52:36,500 --> 00:52:42,100 about one another as male or female, we deny any obligation 773 00:52:42,100 --> 00:52:46,500 to speak in such ways that our God's design of His Image 774 00:52:46,500 --> 00:52:51,100 bearers as male and female. In other words, refused to use 775 00:52:51,100 --> 00:52:58,300 the pronouns refused to We affirm that the grace of God in 776 00:52:58,300 --> 00:53:02,100 Christ gives both merciful pardon and transforming power 777 00:53:02,400 --> 00:53:06,000 and that this pardon and power enable a follower of Jesus to 778 00:53:06,000 --> 00:53:10,900 put to death sinful desires and to walk in a manner worthy of 779 00:53:10,900 --> 00:53:15,500 the Lord praise God. We deny that the grace of God in 780 00:53:15,500 --> 00:53:19,900 Christ is insufficient to forgive all sexual sins and to 781 00:53:19,900 --> 00:53:24,700 give power for Holiness to every believer who feels drawn into 782 00:53:24,900 --> 00:53:29,600 sexual sin. We affirm that the grace of God 783 00:53:29,600 --> 00:53:33,300 in Christ and able Sinners to forsake transgender self 784 00:53:33,300 --> 00:53:36,100 conceptions. And by Divine forbearance to 785 00:53:36,100 --> 00:53:41,100 accept the god-ordained link between one's biological sex and 786 00:53:41,100 --> 00:53:44,200 one's self conception is male or female. 787 00:53:45,700 --> 00:53:49,800 We deny that the grace of God in Christ sanctions self 788 00:53:49,800 --> 00:53:52,600 conceptions. That are at odds with gods 789 00:53:52,600 --> 00:53:56,300 revealed. Will we affirm that Christ? 790 00:53:56,300 --> 00:54:00,100 Jesus has come into the world to save Sinners and that through 791 00:54:00,100 --> 00:54:04,100 Christ's death and Resurrection. Forgiveness of sins and eternal 792 00:54:04,100 --> 00:54:08,700 life are available to every person who repents of sin and 793 00:54:08,700 --> 00:54:14,500 Trust In Christ Alone as Savior, Lord, and supreme treasure. 794 00:54:15,600 --> 00:54:20,000 We didn't, I love this one, but the Lord's arm is too short to 795 00:54:20,000 --> 00:54:25,100 save or that any sinner is beyond his reach. 796 00:54:26,000 --> 00:54:29,900 Amen. The gospel is the power of God 797 00:54:29,900 --> 00:54:33,800 unto salvation believe in brothers and sisters for 798 00:54:33,800 --> 00:54:37,500 claimants. It is the thing that liberates 799 00:54:37,500 --> 00:54:40,800 Sinners, finally forever. Amen. 800 00:54:41,600 --> 00:54:44,800 Remember unbelievers are going to boast and their sins. 801 00:54:45,400 --> 00:54:47,900 But our duty is to post and our savior. 802 00:54:48,400 --> 00:54:49,900 Would you stand and pray with me today? 803 00:54:54,600 --> 00:54:57,600 Gracious. Heavenly Father we have heard 804 00:54:57,600 --> 00:55:01,600 your words today. Now, help us to receive your 805 00:55:01,600 --> 00:55:04,800 word. Lord, would you buy your spirit? 806 00:55:04,800 --> 00:55:07,900 Allow us to believe your word wholeheartedly. 807 00:55:09,100 --> 00:55:12,900 To remember it, to process it to live. 808 00:55:12,900 --> 00:55:18,500 It father, help us to be the kind of men and women who 809 00:55:18,500 --> 00:55:24,900 understand That unbelievers, running headlong into their 810 00:55:25,600 --> 00:55:32,900 lustful, behaviors desires. Are actually under your 811 00:55:32,900 --> 00:55:37,200 judgments. And that this is. 812 00:55:38,400 --> 00:55:43,300 A terrifying thing. Father. 813 00:55:43,300 --> 00:55:49,000 Would you give us an urgency to proclaim the gospel to friends 814 00:55:49,100 --> 00:55:55,400 and to family members? To those around us who we know, 815 00:55:55,500 --> 00:55:59,300 do not know you. Would you open a door for us? 816 00:55:59,300 --> 00:56:06,500 Father, to talk about our God. To talk about your salvation, to 817 00:56:06,500 --> 00:56:09,500 talk about the freedom. We now have from sin. 818 00:56:10,800 --> 00:56:14,900 The ability, we have to hide ourselves in Christ. 819 00:56:17,400 --> 00:56:21,600 Our sins are forgiven, our sins are washed away. 820 00:56:23,300 --> 00:56:27,300 We are free forever from their guilt and the shame. 821 00:56:30,400 --> 00:56:35,700 Father, we ask That you would use Christians around the world. 822 00:56:35,700 --> 00:56:40,800 But Christians in our nation, A Remnant, father of Christians 823 00:56:40,800 --> 00:56:45,900 who will Proclaim your word who will stand for truth. 824 00:56:47,300 --> 00:56:51,100 Who will save people from the deranged behavior? 825 00:56:51,100 --> 00:56:56,100 That is being applauded today. The things that are being done 826 00:56:56,100 --> 00:57:01,100 to children in the name of this movement or unimaginable. 827 00:57:04,100 --> 00:57:07,000 The places that this has yet to go. 828 00:57:08,100 --> 00:57:12,000 If we keep running down this road, Are unthinkable. 829 00:57:14,400 --> 00:57:18,700 Lord, we need you. We need a move of your spirit. 830 00:57:22,600 --> 00:57:24,700 Heavenly Father, use your people for that. 831 00:57:25,200 --> 00:57:29,500 Use us begin at here. In Columbia County, help us Lord 832 00:57:29,500 --> 00:57:33,700 to proclaim the good news of the gospel of Christ Faithfully. 833 00:57:36,100 --> 00:57:39,100 Lord, we thank you that you've commissioned us to go. 834 00:57:39,600 --> 00:57:42,500 You've commissioned us to live in this world as Christians. 835 00:57:43,900 --> 00:57:45,900 And Lord, not only have you commissioned us but you've 836 00:57:45,900 --> 00:57:49,600 equipped Us by your spirit to do just that help us to raise the 837 00:57:49,600 --> 00:57:52,500 flag, to raise the banner of the Gospel. 838 00:57:52,900 --> 00:57:57,800 Hi that all may see it, but Sinners may be drawn into it and 839 00:57:57,800 --> 00:58:02,600 receive salvation in Your Name. Lord, we love you. 840 00:58:02,600 --> 00:58:05,400 We thank you for the Salvation. We have forgive us, Lord of 841 00:58:05,400 --> 00:58:07,700 timidity. Forgive us Lord. 842 00:58:07,700 --> 00:58:11,400 Where we have lacked. Boldness, or where we have 843 00:58:11,400 --> 00:58:15,100 thought that, we don't know enough to say anything, forgive 844 00:58:15,100 --> 00:58:19,500 us, Lord, for the Times where we have just tried to get along. 845 00:58:21,600 --> 00:58:23,700 Or none of that is going to save sinners. 846 00:58:25,000 --> 00:58:30,100 Help us father help us Lord to be to be Soul winners. 847 00:58:31,300 --> 00:58:35,000 For your name. Lord, we pray these things. 848 00:58:35,000 --> 00:58:37,500 According to the name of Christ who has saved us. 849 00:58:38,400 --> 00:58:40,100 We ask that you work them into us. 850 00:58:41,400 --> 00:58:41,900 Amen. Amen.