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We're going to be reading 
tonight from The Book of Romans,

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the 14th chapter. 
Romans chapter 14. 

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Beginning in verse 10. 
The Apostle Paul says, we shall 

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all stand before the Judgment 
seat of Christ for it is 

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written. 
As I live, says the Lord. 

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Every knee shall bow to me, and 
every tongue shall confess to 

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God. 
So then, Each one of us will 

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give an account of himself to 
God over the course of the 

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meeting so far, we have been 
considering the theme of The 

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Establishment and increase of 
the kingdom of God. 

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And we're not going to be 
breaking from that theme 

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tonight, but we're going to be 
exploring a very significant 

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part of it, which is The 
Marvelous question of how it can

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be possible. 
That Jesus Christ is able to 

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redeem Sinners back to God's 
good favor. 

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In the early 1900's, there was a
Christian evangelist named 

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tiller, test Ed Lee who was 
holding a gospel meeting in a 

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small west, Texas town where it 
happened, that a murder trial 

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was going on at the same time. 
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Ted lie to the court room and he
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the spectators and the crowd. 
Hashed as the judge entered in 

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his long, black Road and took 
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that separated his bench from 
the audience. 

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The accused man was brought 
forward and the charges against 

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him were read and the judge He 
leaned forward to him and he 

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asked him a grim question. 
How do you plead he expected 

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that the man would claim to be 
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accusations have been made 
evidence had been brought 

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forward. 
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that claim and allow him to go 
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For that, man. 
This was the question of life. 

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It was probably the most 
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ever asked him because how he 
answered would determine whether

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he lived or died. 
Mr. Ted Lee, was deeply 

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impressed by that scene and he 
went back to the place where he 

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was lodging. 
And he wrote these words which 

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are probably familiar to most of
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Someday. 
You will stand at the bar on 

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high. 
Someday your record, you will 

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see someday. 
You will answer the question of 

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life. 
What will your answer be? 

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Mr. Ted Lee was referring to the
teaching of the Bible from the 

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verse in Romans 14, we read 
before we prayed that one day, 

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every human being who has ever 
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universe small and great. 
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Revelation, 20 and verse 12 from
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world and across time. 
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verse 32 will be gathered 
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crimes that we are accused of 
having committed against him and

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against his creation. 
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created the universe with an 
orderly -, and a structure that 

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both dictates its proper 
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perfect wisdom and Holiness. 
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communicated in the form of a 
teaching, or a commandment, this

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is what we call the law of God. 
The law of God has appeared 

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throughout history and many 
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There was the law of Moses, a 
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Commandments and prohibitions 
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over 600 in all. 
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as a part of God's covenant 
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And then there's what the 
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written on the heart. 
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The aspect of God's orderly, 
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can discern by observing the 
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reasoning. 
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Christ. 
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Galatians, 6, and verse to the 
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prohibitions that have given to 
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teachings, of the Apostles and 
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say about God's law in a moment,
but the law is that which 

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defines right and wrong. 
Good and evil, and to break the 

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law to do something that the law
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Something that the law commands 
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The Bible says that sin is 
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The transgression of the law. 
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4, the one who breaks the law is
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As a transgressor, a sinner, a 
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And the same Bible that teaches 
all of those things, makes this 

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Dreadful statement. 
All have sinned, Romans 3, and 

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verse 23. 
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enough to include me and all of 
you and all of you, and everyone

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who is out there and everyone 
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everyone who will come a long 
after we're gone, all mankind is

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accused of sin. 
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wages or the penalty for sin is 
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Now, we can spend a great deal 
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this death, but it's sufficient 
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something more than the 
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This is an eternal death. 
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10, and verse 28, do not fear 
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but cannot kill the soul. 
But rather fear God, who is able

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to destroy both body and soul in
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before God to answer to this 
accusation of sin and to be 

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found guilty. is to be destroyed
in hell, Now there's some people

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in this world who are very 
foolish and they are hardened in

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the deceitfulness of sin. 
And they would tell you, they 

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know that they are guilty 
against the law of God, but they

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claim not to care. 
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One day, they will cry to the 
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on them. 
That would be painful, but it 

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would be better in their eyes 
than to have to face the Wrath 

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and Judgment of God. 
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they had escaped that fate and 
that those that they loved would

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be wiser than they do. 
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Who is so foolish. 
I trust that you're here today 

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because you believe Eve in God 
and you believe the Bible and if

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you believe those things and you
know that this day of judgment 

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is coming and we will be asked 
the same question as that man in

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Texas a long time ago but will 
be asked by God how do you 

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plead? 
They want to make sure that we 

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will give an answer that leads 
to our acquittal to are being 

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found not guilty and spared the 
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Colonel death of the idea of 
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God is the meaning of a very 
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justification. 
I suggest that justification has

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been a neglected theme among our
people, Now, I don't want to 

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project my own ignorance on to 
all of you but I didn't 

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understand it for most of my 
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I was thinking about this just 
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Brother Ronnie Wade, wrote a 
column in the Old Paths advocate

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for 30 years, where people would
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answers and people ask questions
about whether or not you should 

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eat a meal and a church building
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call on a man to wait on the 
table if he didn't wear a 

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necktie. 
But in 30 years, no one asked a 

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question about justification. 
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In his column. 
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It's the questions that he was 
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tells us something, doesn't it 
that this subject, which is very

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important in the Bible has 
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many of us. 
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not understand the meaning of 
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my preaching career. 
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salvation. 
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as we're going to see in a 
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There is only one way to be 
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to be justified, depending on 
who the judge is, and the manner

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of the Judgment, justification 
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guilty of a crime. 
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scripture, but the Apostle Paul 
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perhaps more thoughtfully about 
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biblical writers. 
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Paul as a legal counselor and 
primarily to use his writings to

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help us understand what the 
right answer is how must we 

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plead in order to be justified 
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Guilty in the sight of God. 
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that one could offer. 
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criminal charge would be to 
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Now in the Bible, the Apostle 
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with the phrase justification by
works of law that phrase or some

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form of it appears several times
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And in some English translations
you might have that the 

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translator has inserted the word
v in front of Law and capitalize

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the ale and when you see that 
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that he's talking particularly 
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the law of Moses that's a 
mistake. 

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He is in fact talking about the 
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He's not focusing on any 
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Legal code. 
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How any law law by its very 
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person or showing that a person 
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the law, only justifies a person
who is truly innocent, that is a

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person who has never failed to 
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has never done anything that it 
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all of, its Haitians, absolutely
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The Apostle Paul using the law 
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As an example said, in 
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12, it is written. 
Cursed is everyone who does not 

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continue in all things, which 
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law to do them. 
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live by them, Jesus agreed. 
When he was asked, what must I 

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do to inherit Eternal life. 
He said oh that's a simple 

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answer to that question. 
Love the Lord, your God with all

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of your heart and all of your 
soul and all of your mind and 

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all of your strength and love 
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demonstrate that by keeping all 
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And then you'll live. 
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and Matthew 19. 16 through 19 
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Lord, it was an elder in the 
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of the books of the New 
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Said it with particular Clarity,
James 2, verses 10 through 11 

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for whoever shall keep the whole
Law, whatever lot is, if you 

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keep the whole thing. and yet 
stumble in one point he is 

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guilty of all For he who said do
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Adultery also said, do not 
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Now if you do not commit 
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have become a transgressor of 
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Really make sense. 
If you were dangling over a pit 

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by a chain of 10 links, you're 
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How many links have to break for
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Just one. 
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Integrity of the chain and one 
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transgressor of the law. 
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it might appear that James is 
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You might even think we'll he 
quotes from The Ten Commandments

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but not. 
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He's speaking to Christians 
about what he calls the law of 

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the king, that is the law of 
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And my point there is that these
Statements are generally true of

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any legal system. 
And the lesson is this, the law,

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only justifies a truly innocent 
person, that is a perfect 

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Flawless person who has kept all
of its parts with all of their 

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hearts. 
That's what the Bible says, and 

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that's why the Apostle 
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If you are a sinner, if you have
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Any part of God's law, you 
cannot be justified by works of 

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law. 
Only the innocent will be found 

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innocent and that excludes me. 
And it excludes all of you. 

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And you and those who are out 
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were born and those who will 
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Christ himself and the Holy 
Angels can make such a claim 

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because other than those all 
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And that's the reason for Paul's
consistent unassailable, 

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unyielding, conclusion, in, 
Romans, 3, and verse 20 by the 

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Deeds of the law, no flesh. 
Will be justified. 

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Now if this is the case, if the 
law will not help us to be found

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not guilty, instead it will be 
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Then what hope do we have? 
We might hope to be found not 

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guilty by reason of insufficient
evidence throughout history. 

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There have been many people who 
committed crimes even very 

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serious crimes and they were 
arrested and they were brought 

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to trial but in the end it was 
determined that the a Evidence 

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was not sufficient to prove 
their guilt and so a righteous 

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judge was unable to condemn them
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unless it is shown. 
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all creation, that, that person 
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consolation for me. 
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knows everything about our 
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those who know us best in this 
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and powerful and sharper than a 
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the division of Soul and Spirit 
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slices through the facade of are
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innermost being it is a Cerner 
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But all things are naked and 
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We must give an account. 
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Testament, prophets described 
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and fro throughout the whole 
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ET hidden from his vision, 
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Romans 2 and verse 16. 
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the life passes by like a vapor 
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meaningful in heavy burst like a
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just move forward into the 
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those moments. 
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Ecclesiastes 12 and verse 14, he
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judgment including every secret 
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Whether good or evil. 
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smooth talkers even in very 
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people who you could, you could 
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could talk their way out of it. 
They have the ability to obvious

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Cade and muddy the waters. 
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I know, because in the Bible, 
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Jesus. 
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must I do to inherit eternal 
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answer and he tried to justify 
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insinuating, that the words God 
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meaning. 
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nothing to say. 
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says, every mouth will be 
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not guilty by reason of 
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Perhaps then, we should resort 
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women give for why, even though 
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they should not be held 
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penalty for their actions. 
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reason of privilege, they might 
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race, or their nationality, or 
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education, or their position in 
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they should be treated 
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treated differently than others,
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there's no partiality. 
No, favoritism with God Romans 2

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and verse 11, if you think that 
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gift. 
Something that could change his 

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mind and his disposition towards
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You know how he would respond? 
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will not take a bull from your 
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folds, for every beast of the 
forest is mine and the cattle on

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a thousand hills. 
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mountains and the wild beasts of
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hungry, I I would not tell you 
for the World is Mine. 

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And all of its fullness. 
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this world, God gave to us. 
We don't have anything that he 

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needs and even if you could 
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take it because you can't bribe 
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You can't buy him. 
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judge. 
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the rich and the poor. 
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but Terrible thought he never 
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testimony. 
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No one will be found not guilty 
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Well, what about this? 
One, Not Guilty by reason of 

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moral or religious superiority. 
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among religious people. 
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religious people. 
So we need to think about this 

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and the Bible has a lot to say 
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This was the reasoning of the 
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it found its way into the 
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in the doctrine of the 
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I want you to consider how they 
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judaizers knew that they had not
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They knew they were not 
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words of the Apostle Peter, a 
burden that Neither they nor 

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their fathers had been able to 
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I think about that when you 
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first word that comes to mind? 
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Self-righteous what does 
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It means self-justification. 
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They reinvented the meaning of 
perfection into something that 

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was more manageable for them and
preferably less manageable for 

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others. 
So they would select and create 

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a short list of laws and they 
came out of God's law but these 

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were the laws that mattered 
These were the ones to use some 

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of our own language that were 
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Germane to salvation Salvation 
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This was the important part and 
everything else could be 

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overshadowed, and ignored, and 
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non-essential. 
That's why when the Rich Young 

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Ruler was told that he had to 
keep the Commandments in order 

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to have eternal life. 
He said which command Moments 

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certainly you can't beat all of 
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Nobody does that. 
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enough, which ones to make us 
better than others, different 

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than others. 
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many different ways, not guilty 
by reason of moral, or ethical 

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superiority. 
I live better than other people.

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Not guilty by reason of 
religious superiority, I worship

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better. 
Or I serve God better than other

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people. 
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doctrinal or theological 
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I believe better than other 
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Now you might even be able to 
find them and drag them as 

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evidence for your plea. 
You might be able to point over 

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there and say look there's an 
example. 

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We are better than that church. 
We teach better than them. 

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We worship better than them. 
We work better than them. 

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We are better than them in all 
these ways. 

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Now, where will that kind of 
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Get us. 
Jesus told us because he told a 

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story about a man who made that 
very argument and he was able to

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point out a fellow that was 
right by him and tell God I'm 

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better than this man. 
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Jesus said that men did not go 
home Justified. 

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The Apostle Paul says, if we 
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justified because I do this 
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And even better. 
Then the law will become a curse

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to us because the law does not 
demand better. 

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It's not satisfied with 
superiority. 

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The law demands Perfection and 
it's satisfied with nothing 

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less. 
If you have read your Bible, you

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know that what I'm about to say 
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God has not divided his word 
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non-essentials. 
Any such division is man-made 

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arbitrary, a fabrication. 
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by works of law, everything is 
an essential and if everything 

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is an essential, you have failed
already. 

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Even if you manage to keep your 
short list perfectly for, he who

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said do not commit. 
Adultery also said, do not 

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murder. 
Let me bring it home for us. 

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He who said, take this cup and 
drink from it. 

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All of you also said, love one. 
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You. so, if you do the one, but 
you failed to do the other You 

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have become a transgressor of 
the law. 

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No one will be justified or 
found not guilty by reason of 

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moral or religious superiority. 
Now we're nearly out of options.

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What about this one? 
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ignorance. 
Now, here like the first plea we

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considered and in contrast to 
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actually indicates. 
God takes this one seriously. 

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God does not judge a person who 
is truly ignorant when Israel 

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sinned against God at Kadesh 
barnea, they said that they 

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wouldn't obey God because they 
were concerned for the welfare 

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of their little ones and God 
told them you have sinned and 

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you're To die. 
But your little ones and your 

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children who you say will be 
victims, who today have no 

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knowledge of Good and Evil. 
I'm not judge them. 

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They'll go in there and I will 
give it to them and they shall 

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possess it. 
Deuteronomy 1 and verse 39. 

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The little ones were not judged 
because they were truly morally 

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ignorant. 
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toward those who truly do not, 
and cannot know. 

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No. 
There's some people like that in

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this room, but most of them are 
being held in the arms of their 

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mother. 
That does not mean anything to 

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the vast majority of us or of 
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In Romans 1 verses 19 through 20
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declares that in creation. 
And in the capacity, to exercise

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moral reasoning, which most 
people develop as they grow, 

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older, comes accountability to 
the law and condemnation to 

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those. 
Those who break it. 

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And it might be that there are 
people in this world who have 

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never opened the Bible and never
heard about Jesus, but if they 

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have shown that, they have no 
interest in God himself, in 

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spite of all that, he's done to 
reveal his glory to them in the 

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things that are made, then they 
show that they would equally 

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reject the Bible or Christ if 
they were exposed to those 

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things. 
And so the Apostle Paul 

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concludes they are without 
excuse Today, it's very popular 

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to be agnostic. 
And the sense is that those who 

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claim to be agnostic, they think
it's a safe position, whatever. 

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Turns out to be, right? 
I'll be okay because I didn't 

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commit to anything but myself 
and my own opinions. 

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Some people think you're smarter
if you're an agnostic which is 

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very strange because the word 
agnostic is the Greek word 

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version of the Latin word 
ignoramus. 

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It means to be without 
knowledge. 

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Now, in reality. if you have a 
thought, if you have an opinion,

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you're not an agnostic. 
You might be ignorant but you're

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not that ignorant. 
You're not ignorant enough to 

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justify you. 
You're not safe, just because 

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you choose to neglect certain 
information. 

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No one capable of observing the 
world and reasoning about Good 

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and Evil will be found not 
guilty by reason of ignorance. 

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So then what hope does anyone 
have? 

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Nah. 
Not. 

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That's what I'm trying to show 
us. 

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If it's just us, if we come 
before God ourselves we're 

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hopeless. 
There is only one way for a 

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sinner to be found, not guilty, 
and that is by pardon and 

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religious terms. 
We would call it the forgiveness

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for the remission of sins. 
And we might use the word 

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salvation, pardon is the 
judicial term. 

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If the judge tells us that 
though, we are guilty and he 

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knows it, we will be pardoned, 
then we will be treated as 

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though, we're not guilty. 
Justification will be accounted 

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to us and we will be allowed to 
live even though we deserve to 

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die. 
Just as the Apostle, Paul speaks

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of those Not Guilty by reason of
Innocence with the phrase 

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justification by works of law. 
He speaks of those Not Guilty by

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reason of Pardon, with the 
phrase, justification by faith. 

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And for our remaining time, I 
want us to consider the meaning 

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of that expression, the doctrine
of justification by faith is 

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simply this centers are 
Justified or made right with 

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God. 
By means of Pardon on the Of the

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work of Jesus Christ, especially
his death on the cross and on 

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the condition of Faith, pardon 
is the means that's how we are 

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made, right? 
The work of Jesus is the basis, 

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that's why we are pardoned, but 
to whom does God give this 

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remarkable gift. 
That is to those who believe. 

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Why would God forgive anyone's 
sins at all? 

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Because of Jesus. 
Jesus is the Lamb of God who 

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takes away the sin of the world,
says, John 1 and verse 29. 

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Jesus defeated sin, and Satan 
and death and he made pardon 

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possible. 
He accomplished our 

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justification by his own bloody 
death on the cross, Romans 5, 

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and verse 9 and by his 
resurrection, Romans 4:25, and 

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by his present rain and 
intercession for us. 

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Romans 8:33 34 and he gives this
pardon to everyone that believes

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00:34:17,100 --> 00:34:20,699
Romans 1:16 and that's the 
consistent answer throughout the

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Bible. 
But what does it mean to 

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believe? 
This might be the most important

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part of the study, we've 
discovered that there is hope 

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for Sinners. 
But only one hope pardon is 

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given because of the work of 
Jesus Christ and this offer of 

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Pardon has both a universality 
And a limitation it is to 

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everyone that believes. 
Now everyone is a broad term 

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just as broad as all as in all 
have sinned, it's broad enough 

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to include me and you and you 
and everybody out there and 

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everyone who lived before us or 
comes after us, but among 

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everyone only those that 
believe. 

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So what does it mean to believe 
what is Faith? 

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Now we're going to look at this 
in Is simple terms faith in the 

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Bible includes three components 
or aspects knowledge trust and 

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I'm using the word repentance 
alongside that word. 

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I'll explain that in a moment 
and then loyalty knowledge and 

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you might hear the term mental 
assent, simply means that you 

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have to learn something and you 
have to accept it before. 

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You can believe it. 
The Apostle Paul says, how shall

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they believe in him of whom they
have not I'd heard Romans 10:14 

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and he concludes. 
So then faith comes by hearing 

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and hearing by the word of God, 
Romans 10:17. 

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What is the content of the 
knowledge that you must learn 

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and accept in order to be 
pardoned of your sins? 

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Not everything. 
Thank God. 

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The knowledge that you must have
is the person and work of Jesus 

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Christ. 
Who he is the Christ, the son of

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God, what he has done, 
especially his death and 

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Resurrection Ascension. 
What he's doing ruling, and 

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00:36:16,600 --> 00:36:18,900
reigning from Heaven, what he 
will do. 

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00:36:18,900 --> 00:36:21,800
When he comes again to fully 
accomplish his work of 

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redemption, that's why the 
ancient Christians. 

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00:36:24,100 --> 00:36:27,700
When somebody was going to 
become a disciple, they ask them

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the question. 
What do you believe? 

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And the right answer Was I 
believe that Jesus Christ is the

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Son of God. 
Trust means the personal 

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appropriation of that knowledge 
into one's own life and I find 

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it to be. 
So seamlessly connected with 

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repentance, it's difficult to 
see where one ends and the other

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00:36:49,300 --> 00:36:53,700
one begins when One Believes on 
the Lord with all of his heart 

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trusting him fully that 
necessitates a personal turning 

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to Jesus and that's what the 
word. 

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00:37:01,200 --> 00:37:05,800
Sentence means you turn to Jesus
as your profit and your priest 

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00:37:05,800 --> 00:37:10,200
and your king. 
You make him the sole source of 

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00:37:10,500 --> 00:37:15,200
knowledge about God of 
reconciliation with God of 

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00:37:15,200 --> 00:37:18,000
Authority for the direction, and
course of your life. 

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00:37:18,000 --> 00:37:20,800
For how can you call on him in 
whom they have? 

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Not believed that expression 
calling on the name of the Lord 

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refers to that last point of 
loyalty or Allegiance? 

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It's Just something you do with 
your mouth. 

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00:37:32,800 --> 00:37:35,800
It's an act of the whole person 
and of the whole heart. 

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It's bowing the knee, and 
confessing that Jesus is Lord of

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the universe, therefore, Lord of
your life, it begins with 

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baptism in water. 
The event in which God pardons 

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our sins and washes them away 
according to Acts 2:38 and Acts 

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22:16. 
But it doesn't end there, it 

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continues from thenceforward in 
a never intensifying 

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transformation into the it. 
Age of Christ himself. 

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And if we put all of these 
components together than perhaps

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it's better and well within the 
range of definition for the 

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original terms, used by the 
apostles to say that we are 

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justified by faithfulness. 
When you read the Apostle, Paul 

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talking about justification by 
faith. 

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He means faithfulness. 
But what does it mean to be 

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faithful? 
Faithfulness is not 

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flawlessness. 
I used to think that it was, but

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it's not. 
If it was flawlessness, we 

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wouldn't need any part, we would
be truly innocent. 

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Faithfulness is not hiding your 
shortcomings and sins and 

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00:38:50,700 --> 00:38:52,600
pretending to be better than you
are. 

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You can't hide them from God. 
Anyway, in fact, faithfulness 

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demands an honest, recognition 
of our imperfections. 

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It's impossible to be faithful. 
If you do not acknowledge that, 

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you are flawed, Weak ignorant 
imperfect and you need to 

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00:39:14,200 --> 00:39:19,300
improve faithfulness is not just
doing better and being better 

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than others. 
That's superiority. 

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And when we think that we're 
right, because we are better, 

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we've changed everything, the 
condition of justification 

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00:39:30,400 --> 00:39:34,500
becomes our superiority. 
And the means becomes our 

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00:39:34,500 --> 00:39:37,500
flawlessness and whatever it is 
that we've convinced ourselves 

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00:39:37,500 --> 00:39:41,100
were Flawless about. 
And then In the basis is no 

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00:39:41,100 --> 00:39:46,500
longer Jesus, it's ass and 
that's why the Apostle Paul said

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in Galatians chapter 5 that if 
we think that we can be 

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00:39:50,700 --> 00:39:56,400
justified by works of law we are
severed from Christ and fallen 

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00:39:56,500 --> 00:40:00,400
from Grace. 
Listen very carefully if you 

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00:40:00,400 --> 00:40:04,700
stand before God. 
And he asks you how do you 

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00:40:04,700 --> 00:40:09,900
plead? 
And you say one loaf one cup? 

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00:40:10,500 --> 00:40:14,300
No Sunday school. 
No, instrumental music, no women

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teachers. 
You will go to hell. 

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00:40:19,100 --> 00:40:23,300
With everyone else in the world 
who did not trust in Jesus 

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Christ. 
That will not justify you. 

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00:40:30,600 --> 00:40:35,400
I don't know what God would say 
to it, but he might say that's 

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not what I asked. 
You're not on trial for using 

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multiple caps. 
You're on trial for the sins, 

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00:40:44,900 --> 00:40:51,000
you committed, you're on trial 
for the things that you failed 

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00:40:51,100 --> 00:40:53,900
to do. 
And telling me all the things 

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00:40:53,900 --> 00:40:56,400
you did, right? 
Doesn't change any of that. 

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00:40:57,600 --> 00:41:03,700
That's not faithfulness. 
Faithfulness is not just going 

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00:41:03,700 --> 00:41:08,000
to the right church and living 
clean and staying away from 

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00:41:08,000 --> 00:41:12,900
people who don't faithfulness is
much more than that. 

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00:41:13,200 --> 00:41:18,700
It is the Relentless lifelong 
pursuit of the will of King, 

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00:41:18,700 --> 00:41:23,500
Jesus in all things to know it 
and to do it in worship. 

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00:41:23,500 --> 00:41:26,900
Yes. 
And in life and in truth and in 

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00:41:26,900 --> 00:41:32,500
character and in everything, it 
is the understanding that we are

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flawed every step of the way. 
But without despair, it is the 

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00:41:38,500 --> 00:41:42,400
determination to pursue 
Perfection and the confidence 

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00:41:42,600 --> 00:41:45,200
that through the revelation of 
Jesus Christ. 

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In his word, real progress can 
be made. 

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00:41:49,400 --> 00:41:52,900
It is the recognition that we 
will never be perfect in this 

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00:41:52,900 --> 00:42:01,100
world. 
But without despair because we 

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00:42:01,100 --> 00:42:04,600
are not justified by our 
perfection. 

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00:42:06,100 --> 00:42:12,900
We are justified by his part. 
And therefore for his glory and 

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00:42:12,900 --> 00:42:15,800
for his sake we press on to the 
end. 

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What is faithfulness Jesus? 
I should say, rather the Apostle

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Paul offered this definition in 
Philippians, chapter 3 verses 9 

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through 14. 
It is to be found in him. 

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00:42:34,500 --> 00:42:38,800
Not having my own justification,
which is from the law, but that 

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00:42:38,800 --> 00:42:41,300
which is through faith. 
Faith in Christ, the 

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00:42:41,300 --> 00:42:47,200
justification, which is from God
by faith that I may know him and

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00:42:47,200 --> 00:42:50,600
the power of his resurrection 
and the fellowship of his 

579
00:42:50,600 --> 00:42:53,800
sufferings being conformed to 
his death. 

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00:42:54,000 --> 00:42:58,800
If by any means I may attain to 
the resurrection from the dead, 

581
00:42:59,000 --> 00:43:02,700
not that I have already attained
or I'm already perfected but I 

582
00:43:02,700 --> 00:43:07,000
press on that I may lay hold of 
that for which Christ Jesus has 

583
00:43:07,000 --> 00:43:09,300
also laid. 
Hold of me Brethren. 

584
00:43:09,300 --> 00:43:12,900
I do do not count myself to have
already apprehended. 

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00:43:12,900 --> 00:43:17,000
That's not faithfulness. 
It's not deceiving yourself into

586
00:43:17,000 --> 00:43:21,000
thinking that because you've 
gotten these five things, right?

587
00:43:21,100 --> 00:43:24,800
You've crossed the line, you can
settle down and wait for Jesus 

588
00:43:24,800 --> 00:43:27,600
to come and scoop you up and 
take you to Glory. 

589
00:43:28,100 --> 00:43:31,900
That's not faithfulness. 
What is faithfulness? 

590
00:43:32,100 --> 00:43:36,600
He said forgetting those things 
which are behind your failures. 

591
00:43:36,600 --> 00:43:39,500
Yes. 
But also your progress, don't. 

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00:43:39,700 --> 00:43:41,900
Boast in it. 
Don't think that it makes you 

593
00:43:41,900 --> 00:43:44,800
any better. 
Don't think that it will be the 

594
00:43:44,800 --> 00:43:48,900
basis of your justification, 
forgetting those things which 

595
00:43:48,900 --> 00:43:56,100
are behind And reaching forward 
to those things which are ahead.

596
00:43:56,700 --> 00:44:02,700
I press toward the goal for the 
prize of the upward call of God 

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00:44:02,900 --> 00:44:04,400
in Christ. 
Jesus. 

598
00:44:04,700 --> 00:44:10,500
That's faithfulness one day, you
will stand at the bar on high 

599
00:44:11,200 --> 00:44:13,800
one day your record, you will 
see. 

600
00:44:14,400 --> 00:44:16,700
One day. 
You will answer the question of 

601
00:44:16,700 --> 00:44:19,600
life. 
What will your answer be? 

602
00:44:20,400 --> 00:44:22,500
Remember the last verse of that 
song? 

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00:44:23,200 --> 00:44:25,900
Now is the time to prepare my 
friends. 

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00:44:26,100 --> 00:44:29,500
Make your soul spotless and 
free. 

605
00:44:30,400 --> 00:44:33,600
Washed in the blood of the 
crucified one. 

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00:44:34,500 --> 00:44:38,600
He will your answer be.