1 00:00:03,280 --> 00:00:05,680 Listen to the book of Romans, chapter 8. 2 00:00:05,960 --> 00:00:07,920 And today we're going to go after sin. 3 00:00:10,080 --> 00:00:12,880 It's a great, great Sunday to bring your family to church. 4 00:00:14,480 --> 00:00:17,040 This is the exact Sunday. You don't want to bring them to 5 00:00:17,040 --> 00:00:21,200 church, but you're here. So I want to welcome all you 6 00:00:21,200 --> 00:00:24,080 sinners with us, fellow sinners. And we're going to go after our 7 00:00:24,080 --> 00:00:28,160 sinfulness, all of us. And so we preach grace in this 8 00:00:28,160 --> 00:00:30,960 church. And some people every time they 9 00:00:30,960 --> 00:00:32,920 sin, they say, but Rory preaches grace. 10 00:00:32,920 --> 00:00:35,520 Yes, I preach grace and I also preach holiness. 11 00:00:36,320 --> 00:00:39,400 So God didn't save us by grace so that we can continue to live 12 00:00:39,400 --> 00:00:41,640 in sin. God saved us by grace so that we 13 00:00:41,640 --> 00:00:44,000 can become like Jesus. Amen. 14 00:00:44,560 --> 00:00:46,360 And so he's looking, he's going off the holiness. 15 00:00:46,360 --> 00:00:49,440 So I'm actually going, Sir, after the very depth of your 16 00:00:49,440 --> 00:00:52,720 heart today, I'm asking if you're holding on into any 17 00:00:52,720 --> 00:00:57,000 secret sin or you're in habitual sin or you're addicted to sin or 18 00:00:57,000 --> 00:01:01,560 to online gambling or anything doesn't that doesn't represent 19 00:01:01,560 --> 00:01:04,800 Jesus and I'm going to do it from the book of Romans chapter 20 00:01:04,800 --> 00:01:06,920 8. I thought Stephens preach was 21 00:01:06,920 --> 00:01:07,920 unbelievable. Last week. 22 00:01:07,920 --> 00:01:10,680 I was going to preach on healing and I thought, no, rather let me 23 00:01:10,680 --> 00:01:13,360 just preach my last servant before I go away for a few 24 00:01:13,360 --> 00:01:18,600 months on holiness so that God can actually do some very deep 25 00:01:18,600 --> 00:01:21,560 work in our hearts with the shadows that have allowed to 26 00:01:21,560 --> 00:01:24,800 creep in because of an over an extension of grace. 27 00:01:26,320 --> 00:01:30,960 Grace is there to set me free, not to keep me bound up to 28 00:01:30,960 --> 00:01:36,360 sinful patterns and ongoing secret desires that are taking 29 00:01:36,360 --> 00:01:39,440 place late at night. God wants to grab hold of you. 30 00:01:40,240 --> 00:01:42,880 Amen. And so the Romans eights, let me 31 00:01:42,880 --> 00:01:44,960 tell you what it says. One of the commentators says 32 00:01:45,200 --> 00:01:50,560 Romans 8 is the inner sanctuary. It is the inner sanctuary within 33 00:01:50,560 --> 00:01:54,200 the cathedral of Christian faith, the tree of Life in the 34 00:01:54,200 --> 00:01:58,200 midst of the Garden of Eden, the highest peak in a range of 35 00:01:58,200 --> 00:02:03,040 mountains, such as some of the metaphors used by interpreters 36 00:02:03,360 --> 00:02:07,720 who extolled Romans chapter 8 as the greatest passage within what 37 00:02:07,720 --> 00:02:10,759 so many considered to be the greatest book in Scripture. 38 00:02:11,440 --> 00:02:15,800 While the varied riches of God's work make any such comparisons 39 00:02:15,800 --> 00:02:20,640 precarious, Romans 8 deserves to be put in the front rank for its 40 00:02:20,640 --> 00:02:24,560 rich and comprehensive portrayal of what it means to be a 41 00:02:24,560 --> 00:02:28,080 Christian. And it starts like this. 42 00:02:29,480 --> 00:02:36,680 There is therefore now say therefore now no condemnation. 43 00:02:37,120 --> 00:02:41,960 Say that there is therefore now no condemnation. 44 00:02:42,840 --> 00:02:45,080 So remember this, you'll be preaching on sin, but you won't 45 00:02:45,080 --> 00:02:47,560 walk out of your condemned, but you will walk out of your 46 00:02:47,560 --> 00:02:50,240 convicted. You will not be condemned, but 47 00:02:50,240 --> 00:02:52,680 you will be convicted. You can't stand up straight. 48 00:02:52,680 --> 00:02:55,160 And even as I speak about sin, you will not buckle over. 49 00:02:55,360 --> 00:02:57,960 You will keep standing straight because the grace of God allows 50 00:02:57,960 --> 00:03:01,480 me to stand straight even while I'm having some issues in my 51 00:03:01,480 --> 00:03:03,680 heart, but I'm not going to leave it unattended. 52 00:03:05,440 --> 00:03:08,160 Amen. And the book of Romans chapter 8 53 00:03:08,160 --> 00:03:10,800 ends like this. There is no separation from the 54 00:03:10,800 --> 00:03:12,480 love of God. Neither height nor depth, nor 55 00:03:12,480 --> 00:03:14,840 angels, nor demons, nor principalities nor powers. 56 00:03:15,040 --> 00:03:17,480 Nothing can separate me from the love of Christ. 57 00:03:17,640 --> 00:03:20,320 So I've got no condemnation and I've got no separation. 58 00:03:20,320 --> 00:03:23,840 So the love of God is unchanged. Even if you're a porn addict and 59 00:03:23,840 --> 00:03:27,160 you're on TV last night until 2:00 in the morning, I'm going 60 00:03:27,160 --> 00:03:29,240 to go after you. But the love of God doesn't 61 00:03:29,240 --> 00:03:34,560 change over you. No condemnation, no separation. 62 00:03:34,720 --> 00:03:36,960 And in the middle of it, I'm going to go for the depth of 63 00:03:36,960 --> 00:03:40,000 your heart. And so this is a scripture that 64 00:03:40,000 --> 00:03:46,080 gives us unbelievable assurance. Unbelievable assurance while it 65 00:03:46,080 --> 00:03:49,640 doesn't let us get off the hook for bad behavior. 66 00:03:51,000 --> 00:03:53,960 Amen. So let's read it for we're going 67 00:03:53,960 --> 00:04:02,560 to read Stephens verse verse 11. And if the spirit of him who 68 00:04:02,560 --> 00:04:07,880 raised Jesus from the dead is living in you, so the spirit is 69 00:04:07,880 --> 00:04:11,200 living in me. The one that raised Jesus on 70 00:04:11,200 --> 00:04:16,440 dead is living in me. He who raised Christ from the 71 00:04:16,440 --> 00:04:22,640 dead will also give life to your mortal bodies through his spirit 72 00:04:23,240 --> 00:04:29,960 who lives in you. Therefore, brothers say 73 00:04:29,960 --> 00:04:35,080 therefore, so because the Spirit of God lives inside of me. 74 00:04:35,080 --> 00:04:38,000 Which spirit? The same Spirit that raised 75 00:04:38,000 --> 00:04:42,920 Jesus from the dead. Some of your sins have led to 76 00:04:42,920 --> 00:04:46,400 death. Are the death of people or death 77 00:04:46,400 --> 00:04:50,320 of sexuality, or death of somebody else's sexuality, or 78 00:04:50,320 --> 00:04:54,080 death of relationships some of our sin. 79 00:04:54,240 --> 00:04:58,080 But the spirit that raised Jesus of the dead is alive in me. 80 00:04:58,240 --> 00:05:03,720 So it doesn't matter how severe my sin is and what destruction 81 00:05:03,720 --> 00:05:07,280 my sin has caused. If the Spirit that gave Jesus 82 00:05:07,280 --> 00:05:10,480 life is living inside of me, then that same Spirit can put 83 00:05:10,480 --> 00:05:15,040 life back into me. Are you with me? 84 00:05:17,320 --> 00:05:20,960 I want you to ponder as my final words before I leave. 85 00:05:20,960 --> 00:05:23,960 I want you to ponder the scripture and I want God to do 86 00:05:23,960 --> 00:05:26,040 deep work with inside of our hearts. 87 00:05:26,280 --> 00:05:31,760 Because I think, friends, I say this many times, but the people 88 00:05:31,760 --> 00:05:35,360 who walk into my office are people that have allowed the 89 00:05:35,360 --> 00:05:39,120 mosque of the humanity, the one that presents itself before 90 00:05:39,120 --> 00:05:41,360 society. They've allowed the mosque of 91 00:05:41,360 --> 00:05:44,680 the humanity and the reality of their lives to distance 92 00:05:44,680 --> 00:05:49,160 themselves. And So what I portray to society 93 00:05:49,160 --> 00:05:52,440 as a successful surgeon, successful advertise, successful 94 00:05:52,440 --> 00:05:55,720 pastor, successful sportsman, successful mother, successful, 95 00:05:55,720 --> 00:05:59,120 whatever it might be. But actually the gap that exists 96 00:05:59,120 --> 00:06:02,720 between who I really AM and what I am has actually become a lot 97 00:06:02,720 --> 00:06:06,840 of bull dust. And we have to allow by the 98 00:06:06,840 --> 00:06:09,480 grace of God, by there's no condemnation and there's no 99 00:06:09,480 --> 00:06:12,520 separation within those boundaries of security. 100 00:06:12,600 --> 00:06:16,440 We have to allow God access into the thing where we lie about 101 00:06:16,520 --> 00:06:19,920 because people will change their perception about us if they know 102 00:06:19,920 --> 00:06:21,680 the truth. We have to allow the Spirit of 103 00:06:21,680 --> 00:06:24,640 God to go there so we can actually start to live without 104 00:06:24,640 --> 00:06:28,560 tossing and turning at night because of secret sin and 105 00:06:28,560 --> 00:06:30,400 shameful sin and shameful habits. 106 00:06:31,320 --> 00:06:36,080 Jesus never ever, ever puts His light upon your sins so that He 107 00:06:36,080 --> 00:06:39,240 can expose you. He always puts His light upon 108 00:06:39,240 --> 00:06:41,360 your sin so that He can cover you. 109 00:06:42,080 --> 00:06:45,720 Listen to me carefully. You say, friends, you're too 110 00:06:45,720 --> 00:06:48,080 embarrassed to expose because you think you'll feel 111 00:06:48,080 --> 00:06:50,320 embarrassed. And people, the moment that you 112 00:06:50,320 --> 00:06:52,960 confess, instead of being exposed, you're covered. 113 00:06:53,640 --> 00:06:58,040 You will never, ever, ever been tortured by that thing again in 114 00:06:58,040 --> 00:07:00,240 your life. That's the goodness of the 115 00:07:00,240 --> 00:07:02,160 gospel. But we have to put the light on 116 00:07:02,160 --> 00:07:05,520 it. I've known people, and excuse me 117 00:07:05,520 --> 00:07:09,000 for some of you proud men, I've known people who have kept 118 00:07:09,000 --> 00:07:13,160 secrets in for 40 years of their life while they live this what 119 00:07:13,160 --> 00:07:19,000 looks like a societal norm. They wrestle with the depth of 120 00:07:19,000 --> 00:07:22,400 their own fallenness. And the gospel says in this 121 00:07:22,600 --> 00:07:26,880 barrier or this bracket of assurance, I need to get hold of 122 00:07:26,880 --> 00:07:29,200 that thing. So yet you can be free. 123 00:07:30,760 --> 00:07:35,840 Are you with me, friends? Therefore brothers say brothers. 124 00:07:36,320 --> 00:07:40,440 And he's talking to his sisters. This is not some pastor standing 125 00:07:40,440 --> 00:07:44,400 up and saying, therefore, sinners, This is a guy. 126 00:07:44,800 --> 00:07:47,240 He's saying, brothers, we're in this together. 127 00:07:47,480 --> 00:07:52,760 Listen, my Portuguese brother Josie, and my Greek brother 128 00:07:55,360 --> 00:07:57,240 Mofric Khan's brother, we're in this together. 129 00:07:57,240 --> 00:08:01,240 They're four brothers. We have an obligation. 130 00:08:04,600 --> 00:08:06,880 You know when you have an obligation to the bank. 131 00:08:08,800 --> 00:08:13,440 But don't give up. You have an obligation to your 132 00:08:13,440 --> 00:08:18,720 bond. Take it off this month. 3rd of 133 00:08:18,720 --> 00:08:22,120 the month, Absa. 4th of the month, Absa. 5th of the month, 134 00:08:22,120 --> 00:08:26,080 Absa. 7th of the month episode 25th of the month, fund, fund 135 00:08:26,080 --> 00:08:34,120 sailed and vessels attorneys. Yeah, because you've got an 136 00:08:34,120 --> 00:08:36,080 obligation because you signed the contract. 137 00:08:37,039 --> 00:08:40,640 Now we're in a covenant. We have an obligation, but it is 138 00:08:40,640 --> 00:08:43,919 not to the sinful nature. It's not to the sinful nature. 139 00:08:44,600 --> 00:08:48,000 We have an obligation not to the sinful nature to live according 140 00:08:48,000 --> 00:08:50,280 to it. For you, if you live according 141 00:08:50,280 --> 00:08:53,040 to the sinful nature, you will die. 142 00:08:53,560 --> 00:08:56,960 But if by the Spirit you put to death the misdeeds of the body, 143 00:08:57,560 --> 00:09:02,800 you will live. So this is how the Bible works. 144 00:09:02,800 --> 00:09:05,040 Imperatives and indicatives. Please put that up for me. 145 00:09:05,680 --> 00:09:11,040 We'll come back to the Scripture for those who are new in the 146 00:09:11,040 --> 00:09:13,800 church. Indicative is an indicator. 147 00:09:14,480 --> 00:09:16,440 It's where I live. That's my blessing in God. 148 00:09:16,440 --> 00:09:19,480 You are adopted by Christ, you're free, you have every 149 00:09:19,480 --> 00:09:22,360 spiritual blessing. You are a son, you are loved, 150 00:09:22,360 --> 00:09:24,360 you're a daughter. That's an indicative. 151 00:09:24,760 --> 00:09:29,560 In Romans, from Romans chapter 1 to Romans chapter 6, verse 11, 152 00:09:29,560 --> 00:09:31,800 everything's indicative. It's the blessing of God. 153 00:09:32,840 --> 00:09:35,520 An imperative is the command of what I need to do. 154 00:09:36,240 --> 00:09:38,280 In layman's terms, it's the root system. 155 00:09:38,840 --> 00:09:43,080 It's the root system and that's the decisions I have to make. 156 00:09:44,880 --> 00:09:48,280 So Romans chapter 6 verse 11, it says consider yourself dead to 157 00:09:48,280 --> 00:09:50,000 sin. It's the first time that we see 158 00:09:50,000 --> 00:09:53,720 a ROUTES and the next time we see it in Romans chapter 8, it 159 00:09:53,720 --> 00:09:58,240 says you must put to death the misdeeds of your body. 160 00:09:59,120 --> 00:10:00,440 God's not going to do it for you. 161 00:10:00,680 --> 00:10:02,640 He'll do it with you, but he's not going to do it for you. 162 00:10:02,880 --> 00:10:05,400 So you can't say let go and let God. 163 00:10:05,960 --> 00:10:08,160 It's not going to happen. It's called fatalism. 164 00:10:09,160 --> 00:10:13,120 You've got to partner with God and He's got to help you to kill 165 00:10:13,120 --> 00:10:19,000 it. OK, you with me. 166 00:10:19,800 --> 00:10:29,200 How are we doing? Because those who are led by the 167 00:10:29,200 --> 00:10:35,200 Spirit of God are sons of God. So we have three spirits working 168 00:10:35,200 --> 00:10:36,280 here. If you can put it up for me, 169 00:10:36,280 --> 00:10:37,600 please. We have three spirits working 170 00:10:37,600 --> 00:10:41,000 here. We have the spirit of life which 171 00:10:41,000 --> 00:10:45,360 Stephen spoke about last week, which empowers us, puts life in 172 00:10:45,360 --> 00:10:48,160 our bodies. We have the spirit of death 173 00:10:50,040 --> 00:10:53,240 which comes on Silas and helps us to put to death that enables 174 00:10:53,240 --> 00:10:57,520 us to kill sin. And we have the spirit of 175 00:10:57,520 --> 00:11:02,880 adoption that enriches us. And between the spirit of life 176 00:11:03,360 --> 00:11:07,240 and the spirit of adoption, God says, I want some things to die, 177 00:11:07,640 --> 00:11:10,280 and my Holy Spirit's going to come and help you put them to 178 00:11:10,280 --> 00:11:16,600 death, you with me. So let's read it in the King 179 00:11:16,600 --> 00:11:25,240 James Version. For if you live after the flesh, 180 00:11:26,280 --> 00:11:32,600 ye shall die. But if ye, through the Spirit, 181 00:11:33,160 --> 00:11:37,680 do mortify, say mortify. For those online and those. 182 00:11:37,680 --> 00:11:43,440 This message is called mortify. If you mortify the deeds of the 183 00:11:43,440 --> 00:11:47,920 body, you shall live. That's the actual Greek word. 184 00:11:47,920 --> 00:11:49,200 Mortify. Say mortify. 185 00:11:50,320 --> 00:11:53,200 But mortify has been stolen by women in Santon. 186 00:11:55,880 --> 00:12:00,640 Hi, doll. How are you now? 187 00:12:00,640 --> 00:12:04,960 I'm mortified. I'm mortified. 188 00:12:04,960 --> 00:12:07,200 What happened? I went to Doctor Cohen for an 189 00:12:07,200 --> 00:12:10,240 augmentation. For those who don't know, it's a 190 00:12:10,240 --> 00:12:14,360 big job. I went to Doctor Khan for an 191 00:12:14,360 --> 00:12:18,080 augmentation at Senton Clinic and it didn't work and I'm 192 00:12:18,120 --> 00:12:25,760 absolutely mortified. I'm absolutely, completely and 193 00:12:25,760 --> 00:12:39,350 utterly I'm mortified when a man comes and says I'm stuck in 194 00:12:39,350 --> 00:12:42,790 pornography and I've been in it for 10 years. 195 00:12:43,150 --> 00:12:46,190 I don't want to stand and say I'm mortified. 196 00:12:47,920 --> 00:12:53,080 I want to say, young man, by the spirit of life and by the spirit 197 00:12:53,080 --> 00:12:57,400 of adoption and by the mind of Christ that Kai preached about 198 00:12:57,800 --> 00:13:00,480 and the life of God that Stephen preached about. 199 00:13:01,440 --> 00:13:05,520 I want to help you, young man, with the help of God, to put 200 00:13:05,720 --> 00:13:10,000 that addiction to death. Because closer than the word 201 00:13:10,000 --> 00:13:12,960 mortification is the same word Mortuary. 202 00:13:13,920 --> 00:13:16,720 And I want to take you out of mortification and I want to take 203 00:13:16,720 --> 00:13:20,960 you into the Mortuary because today some things have got to 204 00:13:20,960 --> 00:13:24,680 die. Today some things have got to 205 00:13:24,680 --> 00:13:26,480 die. Amen. 206 00:13:27,720 --> 00:13:30,400 And it goes and says this I'll give you the between Stephens 207 00:13:30,400 --> 00:13:33,560 preach, which was magnificent. It goes and says this because 208 00:13:33,560 --> 00:13:38,160 those who are led by the Spirit of God are sons of God. 209 00:13:39,240 --> 00:13:42,960 Friends, I've been preaching for for 30 years there 32 years been 210 00:13:42,960 --> 00:13:46,520 preaching the single worst sermon I ever preached in my 211 00:13:46,520 --> 00:13:48,880 life. I was about 38 years old. 212 00:13:48,880 --> 00:13:50,400 It was in Glen Ridge Church in Durban. 213 00:13:50,400 --> 00:13:53,720 My mom and dad lived 3rd about 2 1/2 hours away in Underburg. 214 00:13:54,440 --> 00:13:59,200 My dad wasn't a Christian but he was the most amazing man and he 215 00:13:59,200 --> 00:14:01,600 woke up in the morning at 6:00 in Underburg and he said to my 216 00:14:01,600 --> 00:14:03,600 mom, we're going to go and listen to Rory preaching. 217 00:14:03,600 --> 00:14:05,680 He said why? He said, because I want to. 218 00:14:09,240 --> 00:14:11,560 So they got in their car. They drove 2 1/2 hours. 219 00:14:11,560 --> 00:14:13,320 My dad always sat in the business car seat. 220 00:14:13,320 --> 00:14:15,640 You know, churches are normally split when there's a row here. 221 00:14:16,000 --> 00:14:18,240 And he likes space. But like me, don't hug me. 222 00:14:18,240 --> 00:14:20,400 Give me a bit of space. And so he's sitting there. 223 00:14:20,400 --> 00:14:23,520 And it was the worst sermon I've ever preached to this day in my 224 00:14:23,520 --> 00:14:25,880 life, where one of my friends was going like. 225 00:14:33,600 --> 00:14:35,760 And when you're in it, you're in it, there's nothing you can do 226 00:14:35,760 --> 00:14:38,120 about it. You just got to keep going and 227 00:14:38,120 --> 00:14:40,520 you've got to think, Oh dear Jesus, by God's grace. 228 00:14:40,560 --> 00:14:43,040 And, and I know in the future I'm going to preach some of 229 00:14:43,040 --> 00:14:49,280 those two and you're going to be. 230 00:14:49,280 --> 00:14:51,600 And I finished preaching and I got out of the pulpit and I'm 231 00:14:51,600 --> 00:14:53,320 thinking all I want to do is run away. 232 00:14:53,520 --> 00:14:56,440 And my dad walked up to me, grabbed me by the arm like this. 233 00:14:56,920 --> 00:14:59,000 And he looked at me. My dad either called me Boiky 234 00:14:59,000 --> 00:15:02,840 Buddy or China that day. He called me China. 235 00:15:04,600 --> 00:15:08,800 He looked in my eyes and said, China, you are world class. 236 00:15:12,960 --> 00:15:15,800 I thought it's the worst sermon I've ever preached in my life. 237 00:15:15,800 --> 00:15:22,680 China, you are world class. So somewhere between the life of 238 00:15:22,680 --> 00:15:28,200 the Spirit that raised Christ from the dead and China, you are 239 00:15:28,200 --> 00:15:31,840 world class. We're going to do some deep work 240 00:15:32,760 --> 00:15:36,400 today inside of our hearts. Amen. 241 00:15:40,800 --> 00:15:51,100 So let's read it. Therefore, brothers, we have an 242 00:15:51,100 --> 00:15:55,940 obligation, but it is not to the sinful nature. 243 00:15:59,700 --> 00:16:01,300 So our obligation has changed now. 244 00:16:01,300 --> 00:16:05,260 Our obligation is now to the Spirit, no longer to the flesh. 245 00:16:06,920 --> 00:16:09,320 You and I are going to wrestle sin until the day we die. 246 00:16:11,360 --> 00:16:13,160 I'm not looking about sinless perfection. 247 00:16:13,160 --> 00:16:17,560 I'm just talking about the Spirit doing its work in the 248 00:16:17,560 --> 00:16:21,160 dark places of our heart. We're going to fight this till 249 00:16:21,160 --> 00:16:22,640 the day we die, but we're in a war. 250 00:16:23,320 --> 00:16:29,560 Some of you are mortified. I want to put it in the 251 00:16:29,560 --> 00:16:38,640 Mortuary. This guy, mind standing, was 252 00:16:38,640 --> 00:16:42,840 once a little boy, was once a little boy. 253 00:16:42,840 --> 00:16:47,800 And when there's a little boy, because I'm his dad, because I 254 00:16:47,800 --> 00:16:51,440 want him to live, because I want him to grow old and because I 255 00:16:51,440 --> 00:16:54,560 want him to flourish. When we got to a dangerous part, 256 00:16:54,560 --> 00:17:00,680 it's like his hand. Say, come son, come, son, let's 257 00:17:00,680 --> 00:17:02,920 go. You see, because I want to get 258 00:17:02,920 --> 00:17:05,200 to the other side of the road. I want to live in sinless 259 00:17:05,200 --> 00:17:07,520 perfection. I need to get there, but there's 260 00:17:07,520 --> 00:17:09,200 a lot of dangerous stuff happening here. 261 00:17:09,200 --> 00:17:12,319 And so I need somebody to help me get there because I'm a new 262 00:17:12,319 --> 00:17:13,880 Christian. I don't know how to get there. 263 00:17:14,079 --> 00:17:16,480 So I need somebody to take my hand and say, say the Holy 264 00:17:16,480 --> 00:17:19,040 Spirit who raised Jesus from the dead, Would you come into my 265 00:17:19,040 --> 00:17:21,920 heart so that I can actually kill some of these fast Ferraris 266 00:17:22,079 --> 00:17:23,560 that are knocking me off my feet? 267 00:17:26,640 --> 00:17:28,079 So I held his hand and I covered. 268 00:17:28,280 --> 00:17:32,600 And then he grew up. Now he's got his own walk with 269 00:17:32,600 --> 00:17:33,880 God. And now when we walk, we just 270 00:17:33,880 --> 00:17:38,960 walk together and, and, and we learn how to walk in step 271 00:17:38,960 --> 00:17:40,440 because we're going to the same place you're going to go. 272 00:17:40,440 --> 00:17:45,240 It's rugby or, or we, or we, we're going to church and we 273 00:17:45,240 --> 00:17:50,880 walk in step, just walk in step. We, we, because we learn to walk 274 00:17:50,880 --> 00:17:54,840 by the Holy Spirit. And then as I get older, I'm 275 00:17:54,840 --> 00:17:58,240 going to get old and he's going to start taking my hand and, 276 00:17:58,240 --> 00:18:00,760 and, and then he's going to walk me across the road because he 277 00:18:00,760 --> 00:18:05,320 wants to make sure that that I can get across the road without 278 00:18:06,320 --> 00:18:10,120 hurting myself. And every time you see somebody 279 00:18:10,120 --> 00:18:12,440 hold somebody's hand walking across the road, you can say 280 00:18:12,440 --> 00:18:15,000 thanks away. Just remember this, whether 281 00:18:15,000 --> 00:18:18,200 you're young, the Holy Spirit will be an old person to you. 282 00:18:18,480 --> 00:18:20,840 Or if you're old, the Holy Spirit will be a young person to 283 00:18:20,840 --> 00:18:22,680 you. But the Holy Spirit will help 284 00:18:22,680 --> 00:18:27,680 you walk across a dangerous Rd. so you can get to the side that 285 00:18:27,680 --> 00:18:31,120 God wants you, not stuck on this side. 286 00:18:32,840 --> 00:18:35,760 Beautiful, good illustration. Amen. 287 00:18:35,760 --> 00:18:38,600 Then Robert came to me. Come, Robert. 288 00:18:41,720 --> 00:18:45,440 He took my hand. He said, Ro, we need to talk, 289 00:18:46,280 --> 00:18:49,320 you're too busy. We need to talk, we need to 290 00:18:49,320 --> 00:18:51,320 talk. And then he said, and Clint, 291 00:18:51,320 --> 00:18:55,000 Clint's going to come and join. It's going to come and join and, 292 00:18:55,000 --> 00:18:57,160 and you come to the side. You're going to, we're going to 293 00:18:57,160 --> 00:18:59,320 talk and we're going to walk together. 294 00:18:59,440 --> 00:19:01,920 And, and, and, and because you're so busy and because we're 295 00:19:02,000 --> 00:19:04,280 going to walk and we're going to walk across the road. 296 00:19:04,280 --> 00:19:08,640 And then we're going to get to where God wants us. 297 00:19:08,640 --> 00:19:10,600 And then we're going to turn around. 298 00:19:10,600 --> 00:19:13,320 They're going to be Toms and, and Clint's been going through 299 00:19:13,320 --> 00:19:16,240 some challenges with his health. And I come alongside and I say, 300 00:19:16,240 --> 00:19:17,840 come guys, let's, let's get across here. 301 00:19:22,360 --> 00:19:25,480 And if we're led by the Spirit and we're humbled enough, 302 00:19:25,480 --> 00:19:27,680 therefore, brothers, if we're humbled enough to submit to our 303 00:19:27,680 --> 00:19:31,760 brothers and our sisters, the Holy Spirit works through them. 304 00:19:32,600 --> 00:19:35,120 We start to get to places that we never thought we could get 305 00:19:35,120 --> 00:19:41,440 to. But let me put the scripture up 306 00:19:41,440 --> 00:19:45,360 quickly or this saying, we can just put it up mortification. 307 00:19:49,280 --> 00:19:56,880 Mortification means a ruthless, full hearted resistance to 308 00:19:56,880 --> 00:20:05,080 sinful practices. A ruthless, full hearted 309 00:20:05,720 --> 00:20:16,640 resistance to sinful practices. The word translated put to death 310 00:20:17,000 --> 00:20:22,600 is violent and total. It means to reject everything we 311 00:20:22,600 --> 00:20:27,720 know to be wrong, to declare war on attitudes and behaviors that 312 00:20:27,720 --> 00:20:32,760 are wrong, to give them no inch, take no prisoners, pull out all 313 00:20:32,760 --> 00:20:34,880 the stops. Be ruthless. 314 00:20:35,560 --> 00:20:41,160 You cannot manage sin. You cannot manage it. 315 00:20:41,560 --> 00:20:46,200 You're the boss. I am no longer obligated to the 316 00:20:46,200 --> 00:20:49,000 flesh. I have now been given authority. 317 00:20:50,000 --> 00:20:53,520 You cannot manage sin, you've got to own it. 318 00:20:55,520 --> 00:20:57,480 You can't manage online gambling. 319 00:20:57,680 --> 00:20:59,880 You cannot manage online pornography. 320 00:21:00,040 --> 00:21:06,360 You cannot manage alcohol. You cannot manage it. 95% of you 321 00:21:06,360 --> 00:21:09,960 can keep drinking for the next 30 years of your life. 5% of you 322 00:21:09,960 --> 00:21:13,160 sitting in this auditorium have to today put it to death. 323 00:21:13,320 --> 00:21:15,000 Are you saying Rory, drinking is wrong? 324 00:21:15,200 --> 00:21:16,240 I'm not saying drinking is wrong. 325 00:21:16,240 --> 00:21:18,160 But 5% of you sitting here, it's wrong. 326 00:21:18,280 --> 00:21:20,760 It's sinful. You drink too much, you get 327 00:21:20,760 --> 00:21:24,240 loud, you smack your wife, you do stupid things, You shout at 328 00:21:24,240 --> 00:21:25,920 your children. Mortify it. 329 00:21:27,600 --> 00:21:34,760 Mortify it. And because you're working such 330 00:21:34,760 --> 00:21:37,520 long hours, because you want to be successful, when you come 331 00:21:37,520 --> 00:21:39,880 home, you shout at your wife and you don't speak to your wife 332 00:21:39,880 --> 00:21:42,600 like Jesus speaks to the church. Mortify it, Sir. 333 00:21:43,440 --> 00:21:46,040 Mortify it. Let God get into your heart. 334 00:21:46,040 --> 00:21:48,760 The one that raised Jesus from the dead and the one that says, 335 00:21:48,760 --> 00:21:52,200 hey, China, you world class in between there. 336 00:21:52,200 --> 00:21:55,120 You must kill it. Ruthlessly kill it. 337 00:22:01,130 --> 00:22:04,810 You need to eliminate it. You can't wean yourself off it, 338 00:22:05,760 --> 00:22:09,640 you can't keep it under control. You don't play games with it. 339 00:22:10,200 --> 00:22:12,240 You get as far away from it as possible. 340 00:22:12,760 --> 00:22:15,760 You don't just avoid things you know are sin, you avoid the 341 00:22:15,760 --> 00:22:19,000 things that lead to it and even things that are doubtful. 342 00:22:19,200 --> 00:22:21,880 This is war. Satellites, drones, guns, 343 00:22:21,880 --> 00:22:25,360 prayers, grenades, bombs, bullets, swords, full battle 344 00:22:25,360 --> 00:22:34,440 cry, shouting. No, just between the boundary 345 00:22:34,440 --> 00:22:39,840 sets of no condemnation and no separation, I do this massive 346 00:22:39,840 --> 00:22:45,440 war by the power of the Holy Spirit against all the misdeeds 347 00:22:45,920 --> 00:22:51,040 of the body. I walked in today with my doctor 348 00:22:52,200 --> 00:22:55,640 of a lady doctor. She's been fighting cancer. 349 00:22:56,800 --> 00:23:01,440 And I said to her, how are you? She looks beautiful, She said. 350 00:23:01,440 --> 00:23:04,560 I'm fighting Rory. I'm putting everything into it. 351 00:23:04,880 --> 00:23:07,840 I'm fighting. You see friends, I don't know 352 00:23:07,840 --> 00:23:10,440 about cancer, but I know it's just a cell. 353 00:23:10,440 --> 00:23:14,360 All of us have got them in our bodies and it's a cell that goes 354 00:23:14,360 --> 00:23:17,080 rogue. And when that cell goes rogue, 355 00:23:17,080 --> 00:23:19,960 it forms the lump sometimes in the breast. 356 00:23:21,640 --> 00:23:24,480 I've just recently had one of my friends whose wife has been 357 00:23:24,480 --> 00:23:28,800 found with breast cancer. Immediately that that result 358 00:23:28,800 --> 00:23:33,360 came everything that you've got your money, your contacts, your 359 00:23:33,720 --> 00:23:35,920 experience, you just kicks into gear. 360 00:23:36,080 --> 00:23:40,880 You said blood to London, you send the Pap smear to Australia. 361 00:23:41,040 --> 00:23:44,000 You, you get hold of the top oncologist in the country 362 00:23:44,200 --> 00:23:47,440 because you've got index and the moment and you get the dreaded 363 00:23:47,440 --> 00:23:49,840 disease cover and you take that dreaded disease cover of 364 00:23:49,840 --> 00:23:54,080 1,000,000 Rand and you plow it into the well-being of that lump 365 00:23:54,200 --> 00:24:02,520 which is invading your body. And so the moment sin comes into 366 00:24:02,520 --> 00:24:08,200 our life, it is like a Melanoma. It's like a cancerous tumor that 367 00:24:08,200 --> 00:24:12,200 doesn't belong, that metastasizes and grows itself. 368 00:24:12,400 --> 00:24:15,040 You have to declare war. You take your dreaded disease 369 00:24:15,040 --> 00:24:17,920 cover, you use all your contacts, you fight them, and 370 00:24:17,920 --> 00:24:25,800 you do whatever you can to radiate, to mortify, to kill 371 00:24:27,040 --> 00:24:32,000 that foreign object. The people of three CI as I 372 00:24:32,000 --> 00:24:40,880 leave between the spirit of life and hey China, you're world 373 00:24:40,880 --> 00:24:44,760 class. May you search the depths of 374 00:24:44,760 --> 00:24:50,200 your heart and put to death everything that doesn't belong 375 00:24:50,200 --> 00:24:53,080 to Jesus in His wonderful name.