1 00:00:03,800 --> 00:00:07,000 Galatians is an incredible book. It's a book of war, really. 2 00:00:07,280 --> 00:00:11,040 It's a war between Paul and the false teachers. 3 00:00:11,880 --> 00:00:14,280 There's this massive fight going on. 4 00:00:14,280 --> 00:00:17,040 There's a there's a war between law and grace. 5 00:00:17,280 --> 00:00:20,720 There's this massive fight taking place and there's a war 6 00:00:20,720 --> 00:00:23,840 inside of us between the Spirit and the sinful nature. 7 00:00:25,240 --> 00:00:27,880 I met a man at the door just now, just just walked into him. 8 00:00:27,880 --> 00:00:30,040 He said, hi, I'm Rory. He said, Rory, I'm Jerry. 9 00:00:30,360 --> 00:00:31,360 I said, Jerry, what are you doing? 10 00:00:31,360 --> 00:00:33,880 I said, I met your mate Grant down in Cape Town, and Grant 11 00:00:33,880 --> 00:00:35,120 told me I must come to your church. 12 00:00:35,120 --> 00:00:37,000 So I came to your church. I said, tell me a story. 13 00:00:37,000 --> 00:00:38,480 He said I was just sitting in a church. 14 00:00:38,920 --> 00:00:43,240 And he said it was I just, I just spoke disgusting language 15 00:00:43,240 --> 00:00:45,800 for 50 years. And two years ago, the Holy 16 00:00:45,800 --> 00:00:49,400 Spirit came upon me and he said it was as if I'd been speaking 17 00:00:49,680 --> 00:00:52,320 English for 50 years and I started speaking German. 18 00:00:52,320 --> 00:00:54,760 Instantly the Holy Spirit came upon him. 19 00:00:55,320 --> 00:00:57,800 And so, so we have this nature inside of us, but the Holy 20 00:00:57,800 --> 00:01:00,880 Spirit is upon us and we have this fight that takes place 21 00:01:00,880 --> 00:01:02,880 between. He said I used to swear, now our 22 00:01:02,880 --> 00:01:06,280 praise and and and I said that's just Jerry. 23 00:01:06,280 --> 00:01:07,680 He's yet. Where are you, Jerry? 24 00:01:08,200 --> 00:01:09,720 Can we say welcome? Where are you? 25 00:01:10,920 --> 00:01:13,280 Where's? Yeah, flipping back roads. 26 00:01:13,280 --> 00:01:17,480 Tana, let's give Jerry a warm welcome. 27 00:01:22,600 --> 00:01:24,040 And so we're going. We're going to look at this 28 00:01:24,040 --> 00:01:26,400 fight and we're going to look at freedom. 29 00:01:26,400 --> 00:01:33,840 And you know, they say that if you preach properly, Paul's 30 00:01:33,840 --> 00:01:38,520 gospel, if you because because Paul's gospel only got accepted 31 00:01:38,520 --> 00:01:43,480 about 500 years after he died. Before that, it was all about 32 00:01:43,600 --> 00:01:46,560 the Sermon on the Mount, which is absolutely vitally important. 33 00:01:47,400 --> 00:01:49,400 But then people started to understand grace. 34 00:01:49,400 --> 00:01:53,240 And Martin Luther, which is the Reformation, started to preach 35 00:01:53,240 --> 00:01:57,080 the gospel by grace and, and, and when he started to preach 36 00:01:57,080 --> 00:02:00,200 that people came free from religious practices. 37 00:02:01,560 --> 00:02:04,720 And so should we be obedient? Of course we should be obedient, 38 00:02:04,720 --> 00:02:07,600 but we shouldn't be obedient by external regulation. 39 00:02:07,840 --> 00:02:10,600 We should be obedient by internal reformation. 40 00:02:11,680 --> 00:02:14,600 And so, So what the spirit does is it transforms me. 41 00:02:14,800 --> 00:02:18,040 What moralism does is it tries to control me. 42 00:02:18,840 --> 00:02:21,880 And so we said every society you have liberals and you have 43 00:02:21,880 --> 00:02:26,560 conservatives. So liberals are for abortion 44 00:02:26,560 --> 00:02:30,120 because everybody can choose conservatives or anti abortion. 45 00:02:30,320 --> 00:02:32,640 And they say, but surely the Christians will fall into the 46 00:02:32,640 --> 00:02:35,240 conservatives. We are only anti abortion not 47 00:02:35,240 --> 00:02:38,160 because we're conservative, but because we believe that the 48 00:02:38,160 --> 00:02:41,280 moment you get conceived, you have been designed by God with a 49 00:02:41,280 --> 00:02:44,160 purpose. So we are not conservative 50 00:02:44,320 --> 00:02:47,760 around abortion. We are radical about the life of 51 00:02:47,760 --> 00:02:51,960 God, and so we don't fit into a liberal or a conservative party 52 00:02:51,960 --> 00:02:54,240 and say, but all the Christians should vote conservative. 53 00:02:54,240 --> 00:02:55,960 No, the Christians should vote for Christ. 54 00:02:57,040 --> 00:03:00,280 And when we understand that, friends, we start to live by the 55 00:03:00,280 --> 00:03:03,040 Spirit, not by external rules and regulations. 56 00:03:03,240 --> 00:03:06,320 And some other God says, if I put a behavioral pattern on you, 57 00:03:06,480 --> 00:03:09,040 you will be better. We're not trying to be better. 58 00:03:09,200 --> 00:03:12,640 We are trying to transform from inside out. 59 00:03:13,400 --> 00:03:15,720 Now, if you haven't been here, my son went to a Christian 60 00:03:15,720 --> 00:03:18,600 School that was planted by Christian people. 61 00:03:18,800 --> 00:03:21,480 And it's just and, and, and, and, and it is ruled by the 62 00:03:21,480 --> 00:03:25,400 Scriptures, but as an external behavioral pattern. 63 00:03:25,600 --> 00:03:28,360 And I watched him and his buddies in a boarding school 64 00:03:28,360 --> 00:03:32,800 environment for five years, living under this biblical sort 65 00:03:32,800 --> 00:03:35,520 of pattern. And when he leaves school, the 66 00:03:35,520 --> 00:03:37,880 way that you celebrate leaving that boarding school is 67 00:03:37,920 --> 00:03:41,760 everybody goes out the gates of the school and the first thing 68 00:03:41,760 --> 00:03:44,960 you do is you pop champagne and you start smoking cigars. 69 00:03:45,320 --> 00:03:47,760 And I looked at them. I thought the illustration of 70 00:03:47,760 --> 00:03:49,600 their freedom is smoking and drinking. 71 00:03:50,320 --> 00:03:54,120 Then I think surely what they got taught is not right, because 72 00:03:54,120 --> 00:03:56,960 the only thing that you can do when you're free is to break off 73 00:03:56,960 --> 00:04:01,880 the shackles of constraint and exercise some kind of liberal 74 00:04:02,040 --> 00:04:04,760 freedom. You leave your parents homes, 75 00:04:04,760 --> 00:04:07,560 you come to Pretoria and you spend your life on the strip 76 00:04:07,560 --> 00:04:09,520 where you go down to Stellenbosch and you spend your 77 00:04:09,520 --> 00:04:11,640 first 18 months goofed out of your mind. 78 00:04:11,960 --> 00:04:15,880 You think surely that is not Christian value, that's not 79 00:04:15,880 --> 00:04:18,519 freedom, that's not what God came for. 80 00:04:19,240 --> 00:04:21,880 And so we look at this incredible picture of Jesus. 81 00:04:22,120 --> 00:04:25,280 He was really kind. He loved sinners. 82 00:04:25,520 --> 00:04:28,840 He hung around with outcasts. He brought healing and wholeness 83 00:04:28,840 --> 00:04:31,880 to people. He was really kind and and, and 84 00:04:31,960 --> 00:04:35,600 and gracious and, and, and he and he spoke good news and he 85 00:04:35,600 --> 00:04:37,040 brought people in this spaciousness. 86 00:04:37,240 --> 00:04:39,320 And yet Paul said, I fought against them. 87 00:04:39,320 --> 00:04:43,480 It makes absolutely no intelligences, but I fought. 88 00:04:43,640 --> 00:04:47,120 People hate Christianity because they don't really understand 89 00:04:47,120 --> 00:04:50,240 Christ. And when we understand Christ 90 00:04:50,240 --> 00:04:53,000 and we understand freedom, we will start to exorcist. 91 00:04:53,000 --> 00:04:56,120 That's the book of Galatians. It's this major war that's going 92 00:04:56,200 --> 00:05:01,040 on and and and people say to me, hey, Rory, you've been preaching 93 00:05:01,040 --> 00:05:03,320 this so long. Felicia is starting to become a 94 00:05:03,320 --> 00:05:07,400 little bit grace based friends. Only when they accuse me of 95 00:05:07,400 --> 00:05:12,960 being empty, the law will I know that I've preached properly and 96 00:05:12,960 --> 00:05:15,560 and when you go to the absolute extreme, you think, well, I can 97 00:05:15,560 --> 00:05:18,560 do absolutely anything and God will still be right. 98 00:05:18,600 --> 00:05:22,120 As we get to that place, the Spirit picks us up and we come, 99 00:05:22,120 --> 00:05:28,000 right, but by internal transformation, not external 100 00:05:28,000 --> 00:05:30,160 behavioral pattern. Does that make sense to you, 101 00:05:30,160 --> 00:05:32,640 friends? It's absolutely vital that we 102 00:05:32,640 --> 00:05:35,640 understand that. So we are credited with 103 00:05:35,640 --> 00:05:37,800 righteousness. We are credited with 104 00:05:37,800 --> 00:05:40,880 righteousness. And I tell you this, friends, 105 00:05:40,880 --> 00:05:43,280 people fight me on this all the time. 106 00:05:44,000 --> 00:05:47,240 And the Scripture that or the story that we used is a friend 107 00:05:47,240 --> 00:05:50,840 of mine who has had bulimia or anorexia for 40 years. 108 00:05:51,640 --> 00:05:53,080 He's been catching his heart out. 109 00:05:53,080 --> 00:05:54,720 His wife sent him here, his wife. 110 00:05:55,160 --> 00:05:57,760 And and I've had three situations where I've said to 111 00:05:57,760 --> 00:06:00,280 the people, the moment you vomit, stick your face in the 112 00:06:00,280 --> 00:06:04,640 vomit and say this, I am the credited righteousness of Christ 113 00:06:05,240 --> 00:06:08,880 and the power of that cyclical sin gets broken over you. 114 00:06:09,080 --> 00:06:12,480 You cannot friends, behave yourself, right? 115 00:06:13,920 --> 00:06:17,400 It has got to be an internal, some mechanism that sets you 116 00:06:17,400 --> 00:06:19,960 free and, and, and, and what happens. 117 00:06:19,960 --> 00:06:21,120 I'll show you a little bit of the church. 118 00:06:21,320 --> 00:06:24,800 The church preaches freedom where people become so free. 119 00:06:26,240 --> 00:06:27,200 You know what's happened, friends? 120 00:06:27,200 --> 00:06:29,040 As, as we've been preaching Galatians, this is what I 121 00:06:29,040 --> 00:06:31,320 thought would happen. I thought as I preached 122 00:06:31,320 --> 00:06:34,720 Galatians, our finances would kick and go through the roof. 123 00:06:34,720 --> 00:06:37,560 As people have understood freedom, our finances have done 124 00:06:37,560 --> 00:06:40,440 the complete opposite. They've gone down radically. 125 00:06:41,240 --> 00:06:43,600 But I'm not going to change the preaching of freedom. 126 00:06:44,800 --> 00:06:46,760 But the church, what happens is preachers freedom. 127 00:06:46,960 --> 00:06:50,440 People exercise their freedom, do whatever they like with their 128 00:06:50,440 --> 00:06:53,600 money because they're free. And then what the church does, 129 00:06:53,600 --> 00:06:56,160 it has to get the money back. So it puts the law back on 130 00:06:56,160 --> 00:07:00,760 people. When we are free friends, 131 00:07:00,800 --> 00:07:04,320 completely free, and we're led by the Spirit, our lives start 132 00:07:04,320 --> 00:07:07,280 to come and line up slowly but surely. 133 00:07:07,640 --> 00:07:10,160 Amen. So let's have a look. 134 00:07:10,480 --> 00:07:13,200 It is for freedom that Christ has set us for Galatians 5. 135 00:07:13,400 --> 00:07:15,960 It is for freedom that Christ has set us free. 136 00:07:16,320 --> 00:07:18,800 Stand firm then. Do not let yourselves be 137 00:07:18,800 --> 00:07:22,000 burdened again by a yoke of slavery. 138 00:07:22,840 --> 00:07:25,240 We, we, we know the story. I had it in the frontier. 139 00:07:25,760 --> 00:07:29,040 We had a yoke called the law and, and, and we had a little 140 00:07:29,040 --> 00:07:30,640 girl and we had a big muscle guy. 141 00:07:31,040 --> 00:07:33,240 And it's called the law. And wherever the law takes you, 142 00:07:33,240 --> 00:07:36,520 you've got no choice because you yoked in and this big guy leads 143 00:07:36,520 --> 00:07:39,480 you around. And so and so that's how many of 144 00:07:39,480 --> 00:07:41,680 us grow up. We sort of yoke by the law and 145 00:07:41,680 --> 00:07:44,480 then you the yoke goes off and you go to Stellibus University 146 00:07:44,480 --> 00:07:49,520 and you go nuts. And then we get yoked by sin. 147 00:07:51,000 --> 00:07:52,920 And wherever sin wants to take us, it takes us. 148 00:07:52,920 --> 00:07:55,840 But Jesus Christ came and says in Galatians chapter one, it 149 00:07:55,840 --> 00:07:57,880 says he came to rescue us from sin. 150 00:07:59,160 --> 00:08:03,160 So we are not we are not sin has got no control over me. 151 00:08:03,760 --> 00:08:06,320 And then Jesus puts his two hands out like a yoke, and he 152 00:08:06,320 --> 00:08:09,720 says, Come unto me, all you are heavily laden and burdened. 153 00:08:09,720 --> 00:08:12,720 Come unto me. I will take the law, and I will 154 00:08:12,720 --> 00:08:15,040 fulfill it. I will take the sin, and I will 155 00:08:15,040 --> 00:08:17,160 absorb it. And I say to you, come unto me 156 00:08:17,160 --> 00:08:19,440 and take my yoke upon you, for it is easy. 157 00:08:20,000 --> 00:08:22,960 And he puts his yoke upon us, and he takes that yoke off us. 158 00:08:23,120 --> 00:08:26,960 So now we're standing here. The law has been fulfilled, sin 159 00:08:26,960 --> 00:08:29,720 has been absorbed by Christ, and we're standing. 160 00:08:29,720 --> 00:08:31,760 And God says, now I want you to go and live. 161 00:08:34,039 --> 00:08:37,159 And the sinful nature inside of us says, Hey, we're free, we can 162 00:08:37,159 --> 00:08:40,320 do whatever we like. And Paul says, no, you're not 163 00:08:40,320 --> 00:08:43,120 that free. You're completely free, but you 164 00:08:43,120 --> 00:08:44,480 have to learn how to obey the Spirit. 165 00:08:44,560 --> 00:08:47,040 Now does that make sense, friends? 166 00:08:51,720 --> 00:08:55,560 So verse seven, I'll actually show you this. 5 pictures going 167 00:08:55,560 --> 00:08:58,000 to use 5 pictures and they're going to come very quickly if 168 00:08:58,000 --> 00:09:00,480 you can put the first picture up just of the athlete, please. 169 00:09:00,480 --> 00:09:04,760 So they're going to be 5 pictures and and if you, if you 170 00:09:04,880 --> 00:09:08,320 it's like a guy telling a story quickly is going to go as an 171 00:09:08,320 --> 00:09:14,240 athlete. There's a Baker, there's a 172 00:09:14,240 --> 00:09:20,440 doctor, there's an advocate and there's a soldier. 173 00:09:22,000 --> 00:09:30,080 All you have to remember today we're seven. 174 00:09:31,600 --> 00:09:37,160 You are running a good race. These Galatians had no idea of 175 00:09:37,160 --> 00:09:39,600 the Mosaic Law. They had no idea of the law, or 176 00:09:39,640 --> 00:09:41,880 they were pagans. They were having sex in the 177 00:09:41,880 --> 00:09:43,640 streets. They were wild. 178 00:09:44,000 --> 00:09:45,800 They got set free by God's grace. 179 00:09:46,000 --> 00:09:48,800 They came into alignment and the Jews came in and said, now 180 00:09:48,800 --> 00:09:50,600 listen, this is not such good news. 181 00:09:50,600 --> 00:09:51,960 You've actually got to get circumcised. 182 00:09:51,960 --> 00:09:53,400 You've got to start obeying the law. 183 00:09:53,640 --> 00:09:56,320 And Paul is saying, listen, I took Peter onto his face. 184 00:09:56,320 --> 00:09:59,480 I took Barnabas onto his face. I'm not scared to take people 185 00:09:59,480 --> 00:10:01,240 on. And I'm standing at Pretoria and 186 00:10:01,240 --> 00:10:03,200 say I'll take on religion to its face. 187 00:10:05,480 --> 00:10:09,400 You're free by grace, completely free by grace. 188 00:10:10,160 --> 00:10:12,280 There is no sin that can hold you. 189 00:10:12,320 --> 00:10:14,440 There is no memory that can hold you. 190 00:10:14,440 --> 00:10:17,000 You're completely and utterly set free by grace. 191 00:10:17,160 --> 00:10:19,240 You're credited with righteousness. 192 00:10:20,160 --> 00:10:22,480 And if you remember, there was a man called Ian sitting in the 193 00:10:22,480 --> 00:10:24,960 back row there. And the world women's archery 194 00:10:24,960 --> 00:10:28,080 champion is our church. And Ian had no power to take his 195 00:10:28,080 --> 00:10:30,560 arrow from there and stick it in the bullseye here. 196 00:10:30,800 --> 00:10:33,960 And that Lady bought you a bow, which is a picture of Christ and 197 00:10:33,960 --> 00:10:36,320 took his arrow and stuck it in the bull's eye. 198 00:10:36,640 --> 00:10:41,640 It doesn't matter where you sit. And yet in our mind, we still 199 00:10:41,640 --> 00:10:43,280 barely sensing, well, that sin is worse. 200 00:10:43,280 --> 00:10:44,840 And this sin and that guy got sinned. 201 00:10:44,840 --> 00:10:47,120 And I want to tell you, the Bible says there's no 202 00:10:47,120 --> 00:10:48,920 difference. All of our sin is the same, 203 00:10:50,920 --> 00:10:54,400 exactly the same. And so when we stand up here, 204 00:10:54,480 --> 00:10:56,640 that's why I don't preach off here, because I'm a Sinner. 205 00:10:57,440 --> 00:10:59,560 I try and preach off here and say, hey, we are all the same. 206 00:11:01,720 --> 00:11:06,560 We're all the same. You are running a good race. 207 00:11:06,560 --> 00:11:08,840 Who cut in on you and kept you from obeying the truth? 208 00:11:09,360 --> 00:11:12,320 That kind of persuasion does not come from the one who calls you 209 00:11:13,320 --> 00:11:17,360 the athlete, the Baker. A little bit of yeast works 210 00:11:17,360 --> 00:11:18,720 through the whole batch of dough. 211 00:11:20,920 --> 00:11:24,240 Just a little bit of yeast works through the whole back. 212 00:11:24,280 --> 00:11:29,320 If you're a Baker, you know that too much caustic soda can spoil 213 00:11:29,320 --> 00:11:31,520 a whole. And he's saying if you don't get 214 00:11:31,520 --> 00:11:35,320 this thing right, it's going to affect the whole body of Christ. 215 00:11:36,360 --> 00:11:39,240 If we don't understand this freedom, it's going to affect 216 00:11:39,240 --> 00:11:47,050 the whole church. We had the greatest friends. 217 00:11:47,050 --> 00:11:50,040 I don't want to draw, but we had one of the greatest gospel 218 00:11:50,040 --> 00:11:53,040 pictures I've ever seen in my life happen yet two weeks ago. 219 00:11:55,120 --> 00:11:59,120 But don't compare that perceived sin to your sin. 220 00:11:59,760 --> 00:12:02,760 It's the same. Don't say if God can forgive 221 00:12:02,760 --> 00:12:05,160 you, then now I want to tell you if God can forgive you. 222 00:12:06,720 --> 00:12:10,320 If God can forgive you, then God can forgive anybody. 223 00:12:11,160 --> 00:12:14,200 Don't waste sin in your head. I think this church is full of 224 00:12:14,200 --> 00:12:16,640 bad sinners. Romans says they're good 225 00:12:16,640 --> 00:12:18,960 sinners. They're bad sinners and they're 226 00:12:18,960 --> 00:12:21,040 very bad sinners, but they're all sinners. 227 00:12:22,040 --> 00:12:28,000 And the gospel of Galatians is the gospel of grace, Amen. 228 00:12:28,560 --> 00:12:32,200 And so we sit here with no condemnation, no criticism, and, 229 00:12:32,200 --> 00:12:35,120 and, and no value. We're not writing. 230 00:12:35,280 --> 00:12:37,600 When you look at a person, you look at them through the eyes of 231 00:12:37,600 --> 00:12:39,960 grace because God looked at you through the eyes of grace. 232 00:12:41,360 --> 00:12:43,160 Fight continues inside of our hearts. 233 00:12:43,160 --> 00:12:47,880 Amen. So we've got an athlete, We've 234 00:12:47,960 --> 00:12:50,080 got a Baker. A little bit of yeast. 235 00:12:50,080 --> 00:12:53,280 A little bit of yeast. Hey, you wake up at the morning. 236 00:12:53,280 --> 00:12:56,080 Hey, Mitch, have you read your Bible today? 237 00:12:56,360 --> 00:12:58,120 It's my son. Hey, Mitch, have you read your 238 00:12:58,120 --> 00:13:00,080 Bible today? No, I haven't, Dad. 239 00:13:00,280 --> 00:13:03,200 Off he goes there. Little bit of guilt next to. 240 00:13:03,200 --> 00:13:05,200 Hey, Mitch, have you read your Bible today? 241 00:13:05,200 --> 00:13:07,840 No, I haven't, Dad. And off he goes. 242 00:13:07,840 --> 00:13:11,800 I have never in my whole life ever had a devotion with my son. 243 00:13:12,040 --> 00:13:13,920 I've never asked him to read the Bible. 244 00:13:14,080 --> 00:13:16,000 I've never asked him to keep a journal. 245 00:13:16,240 --> 00:13:19,440 But on Tuesday when I came here, I was sitting at the back in the 246 00:13:19,440 --> 00:13:20,960 pre meeting. For some reason, I don't know 247 00:13:20,960 --> 00:13:23,160 how he got involved. He ended up leading most of the 248 00:13:23,160 --> 00:13:29,120 pre meeting and I just sat and I thought, wow, because the Spirit 249 00:13:29,120 --> 00:13:34,800 of God, Spirit of God, don't put your kids under religious 250 00:13:34,800 --> 00:13:37,200 obligation. You head masters of schools 251 00:13:37,440 --> 00:13:39,360 don't preach moralism to your students. 252 00:13:39,800 --> 00:13:42,320 Preach the gospel. Our friends. 253 00:13:42,760 --> 00:13:44,760 Somebody said that I went to somebody, one of my least said 254 00:13:44,760 --> 00:13:50,800 is Rory a racist? It's not a weep. 255 00:13:52,160 --> 00:13:56,200 And then you see the issue between Bosch and Bisch or Bosch 256 00:13:56,640 --> 00:14:00,920 and Paul Jim, the racist incident with friends. 257 00:14:01,840 --> 00:14:08,760 We we are 30 years past 1994 elections and racism is just as 258 00:14:08,760 --> 00:14:13,480 rife in our nation as it ever was because you can't fix racism 259 00:14:13,480 --> 00:14:17,960 with external laws. And people say to me, does that 260 00:14:17,960 --> 00:14:19,840 mean we stop? No, it doesn't mean we stop. 261 00:14:20,160 --> 00:14:24,560 I'm just telling you, unless your heart changes inside, there 262 00:14:24,560 --> 00:14:28,560 will be Paul, Jim or flipping Rhonda Bosch or Bishops or 263 00:14:28,560 --> 00:14:32,440 somebody that will be shouting. Just a couple years ago it was 264 00:14:32,440 --> 00:14:34,160 St. John's VS Michael House. 265 00:14:35,440 --> 00:14:37,440 It's not an issue of intellect or riches. 266 00:14:37,440 --> 00:14:40,520 Those are two of the richest schools in South Africa, Michael 267 00:14:40,520 --> 00:14:41,600 House and St. John's. 268 00:14:41,760 --> 00:14:44,560 And there's a racist incident that happens on a hockey field. 269 00:14:44,720 --> 00:14:48,640 So everybody climbs in the bus, drives home, stops at my 270 00:14:48,640 --> 00:14:50,520 business, spends their money and comes home. 271 00:14:50,680 --> 00:14:53,440 So I don't care whether they come home early or late, as long 272 00:14:53,480 --> 00:14:58,120 as they stop. But the issue, friends, the 273 00:14:58,120 --> 00:15:03,560 issue is that after 30 years of putting the law upon people, 274 00:15:03,680 --> 00:15:06,600 there is absolutely no difference in the behavior of 275 00:15:06,600 --> 00:15:08,480 people. And I'm not, I'm talking about 276 00:15:08,480 --> 00:15:11,080 rich people, I'm talking about educated people. 277 00:15:11,240 --> 00:15:14,760 There is no difference in the behavior because laws cannot 278 00:15:14,760 --> 00:15:19,280 stop evil. Laws cannot stop prejudice. 279 00:15:21,680 --> 00:15:25,280 Only the gospel can do that. And that is what's happening in 280 00:15:25,280 --> 00:15:28,160 the book of Galatians. There's this massive war going 281 00:15:28,160 --> 00:15:32,360 on between is God going to win or is the enemy going to win? 282 00:15:32,360 --> 00:15:35,720 Is God going to win or is grace is, is the law going to win? 283 00:15:36,200 --> 00:15:38,400 And these guys say, well, let God win, but there's a little 284 00:15:38,400 --> 00:15:42,080 bit of law must come with it. You with me? 285 00:15:44,720 --> 00:15:48,440 I am confident of the Lord that you will take no other view. 286 00:15:49,040 --> 00:15:52,000 The one who's throwing into confusion will pay the penalty, 287 00:15:52,240 --> 00:15:55,440 whoever he may be. Brothers, if I'm still preaching 288 00:15:55,440 --> 00:15:58,760 circumcision, why am I still being persecuted? 289 00:15:59,840 --> 00:16:02,960 In that case, the offence of the cross has been abolished. 290 00:16:04,000 --> 00:16:07,680 Say we've all got signs like members we put stickers on the 291 00:16:07,680 --> 00:16:12,480 back of our cars. Members of three CI or live and 292 00:16:12,480 --> 00:16:14,840 have worked and we have these stickers. 293 00:16:15,360 --> 00:16:17,800 The sticker in the Jewish face was circumcision. 294 00:16:19,440 --> 00:16:23,560 Take a label off you don't, don't, don't tell Pretoria that 295 00:16:23,560 --> 00:16:25,600 you're from Tricia. Just tell them you're of Christ. 296 00:16:26,800 --> 00:16:28,880 We're not a brand. We're not a franchise. 297 00:16:29,480 --> 00:16:31,840 We're of Christ. We're not trying to build our 298 00:16:31,840 --> 00:16:34,880 brand. We're trying to portray Christ. 299 00:16:40,360 --> 00:16:43,000 As for those agitators, they're having an operation 300 00:16:43,160 --> 00:16:45,920 circumcision. As for those agitators, I wish 301 00:16:45,920 --> 00:16:48,920 they would go the whole way and emasculate themselves. 302 00:16:50,480 --> 00:16:54,000 I heard the other day a man, we're talking to some doctors, 303 00:16:54,000 --> 00:16:58,520 he went in for a ingrown toenail and he ended up having a pile 304 00:16:58,520 --> 00:17:02,480 operation. I said, how did that happen? 305 00:17:02,480 --> 00:17:04,240 You've got the customers mixed up. 306 00:17:04,240 --> 00:17:10,200 I thought, how did that work? Paul says, you know, you guys 307 00:17:10,200 --> 00:17:12,960 are going for circumcision. I hope the doctor makes a steak 308 00:17:12,960 --> 00:17:14,560 and cuts the whole freaking thing off. 309 00:17:16,359 --> 00:17:18,200 That's you think, oh, that is radical. 310 00:17:18,480 --> 00:17:23,079 That's how radical Paul is. Because Deuteronomy 3323 says 311 00:17:23,319 --> 00:17:26,000 those who have been emasculated are not allowed in the Assembly 312 00:17:26,000 --> 00:17:28,359 of God. And he says these people who are 313 00:17:28,359 --> 00:17:31,480 trying to make you obey the law and understand God, they need to 314 00:17:31,480 --> 00:17:34,440 be emasculated and excluded from the community because they're 315 00:17:34,440 --> 00:17:39,080 confusing you. That's hardcore. 316 00:17:39,600 --> 00:17:42,480 You said that's not grace. No, that is such radical grace 317 00:17:42,480 --> 00:17:44,840 friends, if you understand that is such a radical grace. 318 00:17:49,000 --> 00:17:52,840 You, my brothers are called to be free and now we like saying 319 00:17:53,080 --> 00:17:57,440 Rory preachers in three CR that you can do anything you can do. 320 00:17:57,440 --> 00:18:00,480 Absolutely you're credited with righteousness when you couch put 321 00:18:00,480 --> 00:18:04,160 your face in the couch when you sin, put your face when you get 322 00:18:04,160 --> 00:18:06,160 drunk. Just come to church on Sunday 323 00:18:06,400 --> 00:18:08,960 and and just remember I'm the credited righteousness of God. 324 00:18:08,960 --> 00:18:12,440 Hallelujah. Yes, I believe that. 325 00:18:13,640 --> 00:18:15,840 I believe that. I believe if you get smashed on 326 00:18:15,840 --> 00:18:18,480 a Saturday night, the greatest place to run to on a Sunday 327 00:18:18,480 --> 00:18:21,080 morning is to church with your stinky alcohol breath. 328 00:18:21,080 --> 00:18:23,320 You come here and you're accepted by grace. 329 00:18:27,800 --> 00:18:30,240 And when you turn your computer off after you just watch porno 330 00:18:30,240 --> 00:18:32,600 at 2:00 in the morning, because that's when it happens as you 331 00:18:32,600 --> 00:18:34,080 close your computer, you must say this. 332 00:18:34,120 --> 00:18:35,680 I am the righteousness of Christ. 333 00:18:36,000 --> 00:18:37,960 And you say, Rory, that is extreme grace. 334 00:18:37,960 --> 00:18:40,920 Exactly. That is extreme grace. 335 00:18:40,960 --> 00:18:43,400 And as you think you can continue to do this, he says 336 00:18:43,400 --> 00:18:47,120 this, but do not use your freedom to indulge the sinful 337 00:18:47,120 --> 00:18:51,440 nature. Rather serve one another in 338 00:18:51,440 --> 00:18:56,000 love. So as you're at this absolute 339 00:18:56,000 --> 00:19:00,640 extreme, he comes and says, hey, listen, stop living selflessly. 340 00:19:01,840 --> 00:19:05,920 Paula is about you. Drunkenness is about you. 341 00:19:05,920 --> 00:19:10,280 He says you must remember you're part of a community and you need 342 00:19:10,280 --> 00:19:12,320 to actually start to learn to serve the community. 343 00:19:13,880 --> 00:19:16,920 I met sculpt Brits the other day at a function. 344 00:19:16,920 --> 00:19:19,440 I don't know how I end up standing next to loud people, 345 00:19:20,840 --> 00:19:25,840 but I did. So we got talking and, and he, 346 00:19:25,840 --> 00:19:28,080 he, he, he played in the 2019 World Cup. 347 00:19:28,080 --> 00:19:31,400 But he, he played 200 games for Saracens and, and he was the 348 00:19:31,400 --> 00:19:35,840 unbelievable flank hooker. But he came again, Bismarck and 349 00:19:35,840 --> 00:19:38,520 John Smith and Audrey and Strauss, good, good hookers in 350 00:19:38,520 --> 00:19:40,280 his town. But he could play Frank and his 351 00:19:40,280 --> 00:19:43,000 stats were high and he had the most carries and the most rocks 352 00:19:43,320 --> 00:19:45,600 and the most hits and the most tackles and the most. 353 00:19:45,800 --> 00:19:48,720 And he's to train early on in the morning and he's to finish 354 00:19:48,720 --> 00:19:50,640 late. And he said to John Smith after 355 00:19:50,640 --> 00:19:52,760 the 2007 World Cup, I just got chatting him. 356 00:19:52,760 --> 00:19:55,240 He said, He said, hey, John, why am I not a Springbok? 357 00:19:57,680 --> 00:19:59,480 He said, I've done absolutely everything. 358 00:19:59,480 --> 00:20:01,760 All my stats are in place. Why am I not a Springbok? 359 00:20:02,280 --> 00:20:04,040 And John said, you really want me to tell you skulk? 360 00:20:04,040 --> 00:20:06,320 He said, yes. He said, let me ask you two 361 00:20:06,320 --> 00:20:08,440 questions. What's Albert Funderburg's 362 00:20:08,440 --> 00:20:10,360 children's names? He said. 363 00:20:10,360 --> 00:20:13,160 I've got no idea. He said, OK, let me ask you an 364 00:20:13,160 --> 00:20:15,880 easier one. What's Yanni Duplici's wife's 365 00:20:15,880 --> 00:20:17,120 name? He said, I got no idea. 366 00:20:17,320 --> 00:20:19,160 He says that's why you're not a spring back, because he's just 367 00:20:19,160 --> 00:20:21,280 selfish. You don't know anything else 368 00:20:21,280 --> 00:20:23,160 about the people around you. You're selfish. 369 00:20:23,800 --> 00:20:26,480 And he said when you actually stop being selfish and you 370 00:20:26,480 --> 00:20:28,560 actually worry about the other fourteen guys in the field, 371 00:20:28,560 --> 00:20:31,680 you'll become a spring back. And Paul is saying, you know 372 00:20:31,680 --> 00:20:33,160 what's wrong with you. You know what's wrong with you? 373 00:20:33,360 --> 00:20:36,720 You're selfish. You're absolutely full of 374 00:20:36,720 --> 00:20:38,680 yourself, He said. I was full of selfish ambition. 375 00:20:38,880 --> 00:20:40,400 I was trying to get ahead of myself. 376 00:20:40,560 --> 00:20:43,920 And actually, when Jesus Christ died, he died so that I can get 377 00:20:43,920 --> 00:20:45,520 out of the center of my own life. 378 00:20:46,640 --> 00:20:49,600 Because the bottom line with every problem in this auditorium 379 00:20:49,760 --> 00:20:54,360 is that we are selfish. My house, my car, my job, my 380 00:20:54,360 --> 00:20:58,760 degree, my holiday house, my holiday, my children, my, my, 381 00:20:58,760 --> 00:21:05,360 my, my, my, my, my, my, my, my, and God has to deliver us from 382 00:21:05,360 --> 00:21:09,640 ourselves. Amen. 383 00:21:11,520 --> 00:21:15,280 And if you get yourself out the way and you let Jesus start to 384 00:21:15,280 --> 00:21:18,760 lead you, you'll start to see miracles taking place. 385 00:21:22,880 --> 00:21:29,360 The entire law, the entire law advocate summing up the whole 386 00:21:29,360 --> 00:21:33,800 court case, the entire law is summed up in a single command. 387 00:21:34,320 --> 00:21:37,440 Love your neighbor as yourself. So I think, well, are we under 388 00:21:37,440 --> 00:21:38,560 the law? We're not under the law. 389 00:21:38,560 --> 00:21:40,520 No, we're not under the law. We're under grace. 390 00:21:40,720 --> 00:21:43,840 But the number one picture of grace is actually take your eyes 391 00:21:43,840 --> 00:21:45,840 off yourself and start thinking about other people. 392 00:21:47,440 --> 00:21:49,560 Seriously. You bring a picture that's 393 00:21:49,560 --> 00:21:51,240 really generous. Take the box home with you. 394 00:21:54,120 --> 00:21:57,360 Seriously, every time we have a sundown Monday, we take 6 or 8 395 00:21:58,880 --> 00:22:00,840 bags of litter out of this auditorium. 396 00:22:01,080 --> 00:22:04,320 Just take your bottle with you. But you don't think like that 397 00:22:04,320 --> 00:22:11,320 because we're under grace. We can do whatever we like or or 398 00:22:11,320 --> 00:22:13,160 we can race them here into the parking. 399 00:22:13,160 --> 00:22:15,040 And we don't have communion because we want to get to our 400 00:22:15,040 --> 00:22:16,400 car, because we want to get out first. 401 00:22:16,600 --> 00:22:20,120 Unless you die to yourself, friends, unless you start to 402 00:22:20,120 --> 00:22:23,120 live for the benefit of other people, you will constantly be 403 00:22:23,120 --> 00:22:30,870 in bondage. True story. 404 00:22:30,870 --> 00:22:38,480 Yeah, we are all selfish. I am selfish, Am IA racist? 405 00:22:38,520 --> 00:22:41,840 I hope not. Did I grow up in a racist 406 00:22:41,840 --> 00:22:43,000 society? Absolutely. 407 00:22:43,000 --> 00:22:44,720 Do I have human prejudice in my life? 408 00:22:44,720 --> 00:22:49,480 Absolutely. It will never ever stop by laws. 409 00:22:50,160 --> 00:22:52,800 It will only stop by Jesus getting inside of my heart. 410 00:22:57,080 --> 00:23:00,680 So I say by, so I say, live by the Spirit, and you will not 411 00:23:00,720 --> 00:23:04,160 gratify the desires of the sinful nature, for the sinful 412 00:23:04,160 --> 00:23:06,640 nature desires. What is contrary, say contrary, 413 00:23:07,440 --> 00:23:10,320 Contrary to the Spirit and the Spirit, What is contrary to the 414 00:23:10,320 --> 00:23:13,200 sinful nature? They are in conflict with each 415 00:23:13,240 --> 00:23:15,920 other so that you do not do what you want. 416 00:23:16,760 --> 00:23:20,360 But if you're led by the Spirit, you are not under the law. 417 00:23:21,000 --> 00:23:24,200 So there's this massive fight going on inside of my heart 418 00:23:24,600 --> 00:23:27,240 between the sinful nature and the Spirit. 419 00:23:27,240 --> 00:23:29,280 If you can put that picture up, please, of the grass. 420 00:23:33,920 --> 00:23:36,240 So that is called Radcliffe Camera. 421 00:23:36,520 --> 00:23:38,400 It's a library in Oxford University. 422 00:23:39,840 --> 00:23:45,960 And before the World War Two, that thing had a massive 12 foot 423 00:23:45,960 --> 00:23:48,680 metal fence around it, all the way around it. 424 00:23:51,640 --> 00:23:54,240 And that grass is actually open to the public. 425 00:23:54,240 --> 00:23:58,280 But because of the 12 foot metal fence, the public didn't have 426 00:23:58,280 --> 00:24:01,400 access to it. And when the war came, they had 427 00:24:01,400 --> 00:24:04,120 to take all the metal that belonged to England and they had 428 00:24:04,200 --> 00:24:06,240 to melt it down to make guns and bullets. 429 00:24:08,080 --> 00:24:10,840 So they melted it down and they made guns and bullets, and now 430 00:24:10,840 --> 00:24:13,560 there was no fence around that lawn. 431 00:24:14,280 --> 00:24:17,440 You can give the next picture of the lawn that's on the other 432 00:24:17,440 --> 00:24:21,720 side. And So what happened when the 433 00:24:21,720 --> 00:24:24,640 fence came down? Go back to the previous one, 434 00:24:24,640 --> 00:24:27,360 please. When the fence came down, the 435 00:24:27,360 --> 00:24:30,120 people of Oxford started to picnic on that piece of lawn 436 00:24:30,120 --> 00:24:33,880 because they got access to it. And then they started to have 437 00:24:33,880 --> 00:24:39,160 parties on that lawn and they started to urinate on that lawn 438 00:24:40,560 --> 00:24:42,480 and they started to stay late at night on the lawn. 439 00:24:42,480 --> 00:24:46,480 And then they started to leave bread crumbs on the Lord. 440 00:24:46,480 --> 00:24:51,520 So weeds got into the lawn. And eventually how it is today, 441 00:24:52,000 --> 00:24:53,720 they had to put a fence around it again. 442 00:24:54,280 --> 00:24:56,000 And people haven't got access to the lawn. 443 00:24:59,880 --> 00:25:03,000 And God says, I'll tell you what, here's your freedom, 444 00:25:03,280 --> 00:25:05,840 here's your lawn. I've taken the fence away. 445 00:25:09,240 --> 00:25:14,040 Let's talk about finances. If I preach this, if I preach 446 00:25:14,040 --> 00:25:17,400 the law on you financially as the church does, it stands up 447 00:25:17,400 --> 00:25:19,840 week after week with veins sticking at him and say you must 448 00:25:19,840 --> 00:25:23,040 give your money to God. And I take the fence. 449 00:25:23,080 --> 00:25:25,880 And I say, I want to tell you, part of this garden is 450 00:25:25,880 --> 00:25:30,520 generosity to God's ways. You can picnic there. 451 00:25:31,440 --> 00:25:34,320 You can stay late at night there, but don't urinate on the 452 00:25:34,320 --> 00:25:37,040 lawn. Don't leave your seed behind so 453 00:25:37,040 --> 00:25:40,320 that weed grows up in the lawn. And the church has to come and 454 00:25:40,320 --> 00:25:44,440 put fences up again and say this is how we operate in the church 455 00:25:44,440 --> 00:25:46,600 with these fences. We're not meant to have fences. 456 00:25:46,600 --> 00:25:51,440 Paul says, I take the fence away so that you can enjoy marriage. 457 00:25:51,440 --> 00:25:52,920 What? What about sexuality? 458 00:25:53,360 --> 00:25:56,480 He said, Rory, you preaching that I can watch pornography and 459 00:25:56,480 --> 00:26:02,920 I'm the righteousness of Christ. Yes, but then the Spirit says, 460 00:26:04,760 --> 00:26:06,680 but I want to take on the sinful nature. 461 00:26:07,640 --> 00:26:11,120 I want to take down the fence. I want to say to you, you have 462 00:26:11,120 --> 00:26:15,080 got access, but don't pee on the Lord. 463 00:26:19,040 --> 00:26:22,000 Otherwise you've got to put a fence up again that says don't 464 00:26:22,000 --> 00:26:24,400 watch this. This is how much you must give 465 00:26:24,400 --> 00:26:29,760 to the church or we get led by the Spirit of God under this 466 00:26:29,760 --> 00:26:31,640 preaching. I believe the finances should go 467 00:26:31,720 --> 00:26:33,280 up. Why have they gone down? 468 00:26:35,160 --> 00:26:38,320 I don't know, but I'm still not going to put the law on you. 469 00:26:39,240 --> 00:26:43,520 Because the preaching of grace and the gospel of grace is far 470 00:26:43,520 --> 00:26:47,640 more sustainable to the people of God than the Mosaic covenant. 471 00:26:48,720 --> 00:26:50,280 And that's the book of Galatians. 472 00:26:52,680 --> 00:26:55,720 You're running a good race. A little bit of yeast works 473 00:26:55,720 --> 00:26:56,920 through the whole batch of dough. 474 00:26:59,240 --> 00:27:01,960 Don't just get circumcised, get castrated so you can stop your 475 00:27:01,960 --> 00:27:06,040 nonsense. This is the whole law. 476 00:27:06,040 --> 00:27:08,600 It's not about you, it's about your neighbor. 477 00:27:11,760 --> 00:27:14,080 And don't give up the fight inside of you. 478 00:27:14,080 --> 00:27:18,920 The spirit eventually wins. And when the Spirit wins because 479 00:27:18,920 --> 00:27:21,640 you know, you can't keep sinning, you can't keep watching 480 00:27:21,640 --> 00:27:23,840 porno. But what the church says and 481 00:27:23,840 --> 00:27:25,880 what some people say is if you're going to porno problem, 482 00:27:26,160 --> 00:27:28,440 throw a brick through your computer, that's just very 483 00:27:28,440 --> 00:27:32,800 expensive. Or put a, a system on your 484 00:27:32,800 --> 00:27:35,960 computer that is accountable. That's just a law. 485 00:27:36,920 --> 00:27:39,520 It only lasts for a little while until your accountability 486 00:27:39,520 --> 00:27:43,400 partner goes overseas and you buy a new computer or let the 487 00:27:43,400 --> 00:27:45,840 Spirit have access into the depth of your heart. 488 00:27:48,280 --> 00:27:53,360 So what must I do with my money? Lord God, you've taken away the 489 00:27:53,360 --> 00:27:56,560 law, you've taken away sin. The sinful nature says go and 490 00:27:56,560 --> 00:27:58,320 spend it on yourself. Be selfish. 491 00:28:00,120 --> 00:28:02,960 Holy Spirit, what must I do with my money? 492 00:28:04,560 --> 00:28:06,840 Holy Spirit, what must I do with my sexuality? 493 00:28:09,120 --> 00:28:12,000 When you go to Stellenbosch, if we've trained you properly in 494 00:28:12,000 --> 00:28:14,880 this church, if we've set you free by grace, you're going to 495 00:28:14,880 --> 00:28:17,840 end up in the parties of Stellenbosch, in the middle of 496 00:28:17,840 --> 00:28:21,200 the party, and your parents are not there, The pastor, Rory Dyer 497 00:28:21,200 --> 00:28:23,320 is not there, or Stephen Dolenberg is not there. 498 00:28:23,520 --> 00:28:27,200 You're sitting in a Joel in the middle of Stellenbosch and you 499 00:28:27,200 --> 00:28:30,520 think I can do whatever I like. But the Holy Spirit is upon you. 500 00:28:31,880 --> 00:28:37,000 Listen to his voice. And in that way, in that way, in 501 00:28:37,000 --> 00:28:40,800 that freedom, we'll build a community that changes the 502 00:28:40,800 --> 00:28:41,000 world.