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Robert Jeffress - What Every Christian Should Know About Sin (Part 1)

February 16, 2026 | 27:29

Robert Jeffress - What Every Christian Should Know About Sin (Part 1)
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Dr. Robert Jeffress | Robert Jeffress - What Every Christian Should Know About Sin (Part 1) | February 16, 2026
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  • From the pulpit of the first baptist church
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  • Of dallas, texas, this is "pathway to victory"
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  • With dr. robert jeffers.
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  • Hi, i'm robert jeffress,
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  • And welcome again to "pathway to victory".
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  • Many people think of sin
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  • As simply making a few mistakes along the way,
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  • But the bible paints a far more serious picture.
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  • Sin isn't just the bad choices we make.
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  • It's a condition that affects every human being.
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  • Today i want to show you what the scripture teaches about
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  • How sin entered the world
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  • And why understanding the truth about sin is essential
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  • To understanding salvation.
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  • My message is titled
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  • "what every christian should know about sin"
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  • On today's edition of "pathway to victory."
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  • Do you ever feel uncertain about what you believe
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  • Have you ever noticed how words have changed
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  • In their meaning over time?
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  • For example, it may surprise you to know
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  • That the word "naughty" used to mean
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  • "without financial resources".
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  • Although he was wealthy,
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  • Because he was reckless in his spending, he became naughty.
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  • Hah.
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  • Or the word "awesome", actually used to mean "awesome,"
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  • "to be worthy of all".
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  • Helen of troy possessed an awful beauty.
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  • It might surprise you to know that the word "nice"
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  • Used to mean "unintelligent," "ignorant".
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  • I would never trust him to make a right decision
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  • Because he's too nice.
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  • But perhaps no word in human language
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  • Has been transformed more over time than the word "human".
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  • The word "human," for a brief moment in history,
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  • Used to mean "the pinnacle of god's crowning achievement".
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  • That was genesis 1 and 2. then came genesis 3.
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  • Suddenly, the word "human" became a catchall phrase
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  • For every human weakness you can imagine.
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  • I should've resisted her invitation to go back to her place,
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  • But, after all, i'm just human.
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  • Sorry, i unloaded on you with my anger,
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  • But it was just my human nature.
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  • Don't put me on a pedestal. don't put him on a pedestal.
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  • After all, we're only human.
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  • The poet alexander pope said, "to err is human".
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  • How do you explain that drastic, sudden change
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  • In our understanding of what it means to be human?
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  • It's through an event we're going to look at today.
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  • If you have your bibles, turn to genesis chapter 2.
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  • We're in a series called "what every christian should know,"
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  • And we're looking at the ten core beliefs
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  • Of historic christianity, and today we've come to the study
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  • Of what theologians call "hamartiology:, the study of sin,"
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  • And you're going to hear me say this several times:
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  • What you believe about sin determines
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  • What you believe about salvation.
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  • And that's why this sixth pillar of christianity
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  • Is so important.
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  • Now, i wanted to divide up today's message in a way
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  • That perhaps you'll remember.
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  • We're going to, first of all, look at the way we were,
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  • The way things used to be in god's plan.
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  • Then we're going to talk about the way it ended,
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  • And now the way it is for each one of us,
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  • And then we're going to end on a note of hope
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  • About the way it can be.
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  • Now let's look, first of all, at the way we were.
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  • In the first two chapters of genesis,
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  • You see god's creation firing on all cylinders.
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  • Everything's working perfectly.
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  • God created the earth and the stars
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  • And the planets and the birds and the animals,
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  • And he said it was good, and then, on the sixth day,
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  • He created man, and he said, "it is very good,"
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  • And then he created woman and said, "it's even better."
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  • Uh, well, that's in the hebrew text.
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  • You probably don't know that.
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  • But it's close to that.
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  • That's the idea. everything was good.
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  • In genesis 1:28, moses writes,
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  • "god blessed them, adam and eve, and god said to them,
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  • 'be fruitful and multiply, and fill the earth,
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  • And subdue it.'"
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  • May i point out to you that god created man
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  • To subdue the earth, to be lord over the earth.
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  • He never meant for creation to be lord over man.
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  • Now, that doesn't mean we don't take care of the environment
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  • And be good stewards of it.
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  • In fact, in genesis 2:15, then the lord god took the man
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  • And put him into the garden of eden to cultivate it,
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  • To keep it.
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  • We're to be good stewards of the environment,
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  • But we never forget the environment is for our benefit.
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  • We're not here for the benefit of the environment.
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  • God said, "i want you to be partners with me.
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  • I created the world. now you keep it".
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  • And there was just a perfect ecosystem going on
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  • Between creation and man.
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  • Everything was in balance between man and nature and god.
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  • How did it end? genesis chapter 3.
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  • Before we get to chapter 3,
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  • I want you to notice in chapter 2, verses 16 and 17,
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  • "the lord god commanded the man, saying,
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  • 'from any tree of the garden you may eat freely,
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  • But from the tree of the knowledge of good and evil,
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  • You shall not eat, for in the day that you eat from it,
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  • You shall surely die.'"
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  • Now, let's take a moment and review
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  • All of the restrictions god gave to adam and eve.
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  • Number one, don't eat
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  • From the tree of the knowledge of good and evil.
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  • Restriction number two...
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  • What was restriction number two?
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  • I'll give a thousand dollars right now to anybody
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  • Who can cite restriction number two or three.
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  • I'll give you a million dollars.
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  • Or four or five.
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  • You know why you can't name restriction two,
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  • Three, four and five?
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  • They're not there.
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  • There was only one restriction, only one.
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  • Think about it.
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  • God said, "you can eat from any tree, any tree."
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  • How many trees were there? it's plural.
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  • We don't know if there were ten, a hundred or a thousand,
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  • But i want you to notice the ratio
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  • Between god's blessings and god's restrictions.
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  • 10 to 1, 100 to 1, 1000 to 1.
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  • That's the way god is, and yet what happened?
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  • They focused their attention on that one forbidden tree.
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  • You know, people speculate what that tree of knowledge
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  • Of good and evil.
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  • We don't know exactly what it is.
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  • We know that it's going to appear again
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  • In the book of revelation and the new heaven
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  • And the new earth and the new jerusalem,
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  • The hopper sang about.
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  • It's going to be there.
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  • But we knew it was off limits for adam and eve.
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  • Some people say, "well, wait a minute.
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  • Why did god put that tree there as a temptation
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  • If he knew man was going to fall?
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  • Why would he do that"?
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  • It was in order to glorify god, to honor god.
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  • One writer uses this analogy:
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  • "imagine you're walking down the beach with your mate,
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  • And you see somebody of your same sex
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  • Who has a great physique and is scantily clad,
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  • And you notice other people are looking at him or her,
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  • And you're interested in
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  • What your mate's response is going to be.
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  • And your mate gives a glance to that person
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  • Of his or her opposite sex,
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  • And then she directs all of her attention back to you.
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  • He or she has honored you
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  • And your marriage by refusing temptation."
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  • It was the same way with adam and eve in the garden.
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  • Every day they walked past
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  • That tree of the knowledge of good and evil,
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  • And every day they didn't stop and disobey god.
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  • They honored god, until they didn't.
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  • And that's what we find in genesis chapter 3.
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  • Here's how it all happened:
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  • "now the serpent was more crafty than any beast of the field
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  • Which the lord god had made".
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  • You know, satan was the original magician.
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  • You know what magicians do?
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  • Their whole shtick is based on distraction.
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  • Even david copperfield, the great magician,
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  • Made the statue of liberty disappear.
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  • How did he do it? by distracting people.
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  • The magician, whether he is
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  • Getting rid of the statue of liberty
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  • Or making a coin appear from his hand,
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  • He says, "look over here. look over here."
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  • While doing something over here.
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  • And that's what satan did.
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  • He said, "instead of focusing on all of god's blessings,
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  • Let's focus on this one restriction".
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  • And so he said to the woman, "indeed, has god said,
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  • 'you shall not eat from the tree of the garden?'"
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  • And the woman affirmed that, "yes, that's what he said.
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  • You shall not eat from it or touch it, or you will die."
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  • Then the serpent said, "you will not surely die.
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  • For god knows that in the day you eat from it
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  • Your eyes will be opened,
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  • And you'll be like god, knowing good from evil."
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  • First of all, he causes the woman to doubt god's word.
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  • "has god really said?" he uses the same tactic today.
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  • We'll look at that in a moment.
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  • But then he caused eve to doubt god's character.
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  • "there's a reason god told you, 'no,' to this tree.
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  • He's trying to withhold something good from you.
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  • God is a cosmic killjoy, and the ultimate party pooper.
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  • He will do everything he can
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  • To make your life absolutely miserable."
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  • He's successful in doing it, and verse 6, says,
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  • "when the woman saw that the tree was good for food,
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  • And that it was a delight to the eyes,
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  • And it was desirable to make one wise,
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  • She took from its fruit and ate,
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  • And she gave also to her husband with her, and he ate."
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  • Have you ever wondered why adam gets blamed for this sin
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  • When it was his wife who committed the first sin?
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  • Have you ever wondered why scripture credits this to adam
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  • And not to eve?
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  • It's interesting.
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  • Paul, in 1 timothy 2, makes a distinction
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  • Between eve's sin and adam's sin.
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  • They were both sins. they both sinned.
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  • But paul said it was not adam who was deceived
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  • But the woman, being quite deceived,
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  • Fell into the transgression of the devil.
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  • Eve was wrong.
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  • She sinned, but she was deceived by the serpent.
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  • Adam knew better.
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  • His sin was a blatant rebellion against god.
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  • And in romans 5, verse 12,
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  • We find the result of adam and eve's sin:
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  • "therefore, just as through one man, adam,
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  • Sin entered into the world, and death through sin,
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  • And so death spread to all men, because all sinned."
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  • This is how sin entered the world.
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  • It came through adam, the bible says.
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  • In what sense did it come through adam?
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  • What sense did it pass on to you and me?
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  • Some people say adam was the seminal head of the race.
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  • You understand the etymology of that word "seminal".
  • 00:12:14.190 --> 00:12:17.293
  • In that sense, we were all genetically present in adam,
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  • And when adam sinned, we sinned.
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  • Some people say, "well, no, it's adam is the federal head
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  • Of the race, just like we elect congressmen
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  • And senators to go to washington and vote for us.
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  • Adam was voting for us.
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  • But whichever it is, the effect is the same.
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  • Sin entered the world. death came through sin.
  • 00:12:37.880 --> 00:12:41.350
  • That word, "death," "thanatos," means "separation".
  • 00:12:41.350 --> 00:12:44.320
  • It's not only physical death, the separation of the body
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  • From the spirit, but spiritual death.
  • 00:12:47.223 --> 00:12:49.592
  • Man's spirit, because of sin, was forever separated
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  • From god, "and so death spread to all men
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  • Because all sinned".
  • 00:12:56.432 --> 00:12:58.467
  • From one man, adam, sin spread to everybody.
  • 00:12:58.467 --> 00:13:02.638
  • Everybody who's ever lived has inherited this sin virus.
  • 00:13:02.638 --> 00:13:06.775
  • You know what the proof of that is? the fact that we die.
  • 00:13:06.775 --> 00:13:10.813
  • Death, physical death,
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  • Is proof we have inherited the sin virus.
  • 00:13:12.414 --> 00:13:15.251
  • Now, let me ask you, who dies? only the unrighteous?
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  • No. what we consider righteous people.
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  • Do only mature adults die?
  • 00:13:22.958 --> 00:13:26.095
  • No. babies die.
  • 00:13:26.095 --> 00:13:28.898
  • The fact is, all of humanity dies
  • 00:13:28.898 --> 00:13:31.700
  • Because all of humanity has inherited the sin virus,
  • 00:13:31.700 --> 00:13:35.738
  • And why did we inherit the sin virus?
  • 00:13:35.738 --> 00:13:38.173
  • Because he says, "all sinned".
  • 00:13:38.173 --> 00:13:42.278
  • When adam sinned, we all sinned.
  • 00:13:42.278 --> 00:13:45.447
  • Notice, it doesn't say, "because we all sin".
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  • We are not sinners because we sin.
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  • We sin because we're sinners.
  • 00:13:52.922 --> 00:13:55.357
  • We all have inherited that defective operating system,
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  • If you will.
  • 00:13:59.161 --> 00:14:00.696
  • We're mixed up in our wiring. we're defective in our wiring.
  • 00:14:00.696 --> 00:14:05.668
  • When god says yes, our first instinct is to say no.
  • 00:14:06.702 --> 00:14:09.004
  • When god says no, our first instinct is to say yes.
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  • We are born at odds with god because we all sinned in adam,
  • 00:14:13.509 --> 00:14:18.814
  • We were held accountable for our sin.
  • 00:14:19.581 --> 00:14:21.050
  • And again, if you don't believe that, god says,
  • 00:14:21.050 --> 00:14:23.786
  • "just look at who dies.:
  • 00:14:23.786 --> 00:14:25.554
  • Death is the symptom that we have inherited adam's guilt.
  • 00:14:25.554 --> 00:14:30.893
  • Now, you know what people say to that?
  • 00:14:31.727 --> 00:14:32.995
  • That's not fair that i'd be held accountable
  • 00:14:32.995 --> 00:14:35.030
  • For what adam and eve did
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  • Because if i had been in the garden,
  • 00:14:36.799 --> 00:14:38.867
  • I wouldn't have made that same choice
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  • That adam and eve did.
  • 00:14:40.502 --> 00:14:42.304
  • Really, isn't it interesting?
  • 00:14:42.938 --> 00:14:45.841
  • Even as christians, how many times we rebel against god,
  • 00:14:45.841 --> 00:14:49.211
  • Not just every day, but hour of every day we say no to god,
  • 00:14:49.211 --> 00:14:54.049
  • We exhibit that same rebellion against god.
  • 00:14:54.049 --> 00:14:59.388
  • Now, other people say, "it's just unfair.
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  • It's unfair, because of one person's sin,
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  • Everybody should be counted as guilty.
  • 00:15:05.394 --> 00:15:07.429
  • That's just not fair".
  • 00:15:07.429 --> 00:15:09.398
  • Paul has an answer to that so-called unfairness
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  • In romans 5:16-17.
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  • He said, "if you want to see something more unfair than that,
  • 00:15:14.636 --> 00:15:18.007
  • Just think about jesus christ.
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  • The only thing more unfair than all people being held guilty
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  • For one man's sin is for everybody's sin
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  • To cause one innocent man to be found guilty.
  • 00:15:28.851 --> 00:15:32.187
  • The only thing more unfair than being held responsible
  • 00:15:32.187 --> 00:15:35.791
  • For adam's sin is to be made forgiven
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  • By christ's righteousness."
  • 00:15:38.794 --> 00:15:40.329
  • That's what he's saying in verses 16 and 17:
  • 00:15:40.329 --> 00:15:43.098
  • "for the gift is not like that which came
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  • Through the one who sinned, adam,
  • 00:15:45.200 --> 00:15:46.935
  • For on the one hand the judgment arose
  • 00:15:46.935 --> 00:15:48.771
  • From the one transgression resulting in condemnation,
  • 00:15:48.771 --> 00:15:52.107
  • But on the other hand the free gift arose
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  • From many transgressions resulting in justification".
  • 00:15:54.410 --> 00:15:58.180
  • Now get this verse 17:
  • 00:15:58.180 --> 00:16:00.015
  • "for if by the transgression of the one, that is, sin,
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  • Death reigned through the one, much more those who receive
  • 00:16:04.119 --> 00:16:09.058
  • The abundance of grace and of the gift of righteousness
  • 00:16:09.058 --> 00:16:12.227
  • Will reign through jesus christ".
  • 00:16:12.227 --> 00:16:14.997
  • You know, you don't have to do anything
  • 00:16:15.864 --> 00:16:17.299
  • To inherit adam's sin.
  • 00:16:17.299 --> 00:16:18.634
  • You just have to be born.
  • 00:16:18.634 --> 00:16:20.269
  • But the gift from god is not like the curse.
  • 00:16:21.203 --> 00:16:25.407
  • You don't automatically become a christian
  • 00:16:25.407 --> 00:16:27.643
  • By christ's death for you.
  • 00:16:27.643 --> 00:16:29.445
  • Notice, verse 7, says that gift is for those who receive.
  • 00:16:29.445 --> 00:16:34.716
  • Underline that word.
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  • Who receive the abundance of grace
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  • And the gift of righteousness.
  • 00:16:38.420 --> 00:16:41.657
  • This is the picture of how sin entered the world,
  • 00:16:41.657 --> 00:16:44.993
  • How we became separated from god.
  • 00:16:44.993 --> 00:16:47.329
  • Remember what i said, what you believe about sin
  • 00:16:47.329 --> 00:16:49.832
  • Determines what you believe about salvation.
  • 00:16:49.832 --> 00:16:53.035
  • There are many people, even christians who believe,
  • 00:16:53.035 --> 00:16:54.870
  • Well, sin, you know, that's not that big of a deal.
  • 00:16:54.870 --> 00:16:58.073
  • Sure, we're all flawed, we're not as good as we can be.
  • 00:16:58.073 --> 00:17:01.910
  • We're not perfect.
  • 00:17:01.910 --> 00:17:03.645
  • That's not what god says.
  • 00:17:03.645 --> 00:17:05.914
  • If we're just simply flawed and imperfect and diseased,
  • 00:17:05.914 --> 00:17:10.185
  • Then perhaps all we need is a code to follow
  • 00:17:10.185 --> 00:17:14.056
  • Or a behavior modification program to engage in
  • 00:17:14.056 --> 00:17:18.127
  • Or a good example to follow.
  • 00:17:18.127 --> 00:17:20.329
  • But the bible says we're not just defective or diseased.
  • 00:17:20.329 --> 00:17:23.165
  • We are spiritually dead.
  • 00:17:23.165 --> 00:17:26.401
  • We are in horrible shape, and because of that,
  • 00:17:26.401 --> 00:17:30.005
  • We need a radical solution to our problem.
  • 00:17:30.005 --> 00:17:33.709
  • Let me show you just how bad it is,
  • 00:17:33.709 --> 00:17:36.211
  • The way it is because of the way it ended.
  • 00:17:36.211 --> 00:17:39.014
  • What is the spiritual condition of every person
  • 00:17:39.014 --> 00:17:41.416
  • Who's ever lived?
  • 00:17:41.416 --> 00:17:42.684
  • Look at romans 3, verses 10 through 12.
  • 00:17:42.684 --> 00:17:45.954
  • Paul says, "as it is written,
  • 00:17:45.954 --> 00:17:48.023
  • 'there is none righteous, not even one.
  • 00:17:48.023 --> 00:17:50.759
  • There is none who understands.
  • 00:17:50.759 --> 00:17:52.361
  • There is none who seeks for god. all have turned aside.
  • 00:17:52.361 --> 00:17:56.165
  • Together, they have become useless.
  • 00:17:56.165 --> 00:17:58.066
  • There is not one who does good, not even one.'"
  • 00:17:58.066 --> 00:18:02.905
  • Paul uses the phrase "no one," "none," six times
  • 00:18:03.839 --> 00:18:08.076
  • In three verses.
  • 00:18:08.076 --> 00:18:09.611
  • He's talking about the utter depravity of the human race.
  • 00:18:09.611 --> 00:18:14.850
  • I want to stop here for a moment
  • 00:18:15.484 --> 00:18:17.019
  • And say something about the depravity of the human race.
  • 00:18:17.019 --> 00:18:19.221
  • Man is depraved.
  • 00:18:19.221 --> 00:18:20.756
  • Some people wince at that and say,
  • 00:18:20.756 --> 00:18:22.124
  • Well, you know, that's just not really true.
  • 00:18:22.124 --> 00:18:24.626
  • There are people who aren't christians
  • 00:18:24.626 --> 00:18:26.395
  • Who love their families.
  • 00:18:26.395 --> 00:18:27.696
  • They build homes for habitat for humanity.
  • 00:18:27.696 --> 00:18:29.831
  • They donate blood to the red cross. they're good people.
  • 00:18:29.831 --> 00:18:34.303
  • How can you say they're totally depraved?
  • 00:18:34.303 --> 00:18:37.873
  • The theologian j. dwight pentecost has a good word on this.
  • 00:18:37.873 --> 00:18:41.009
  • He said, "the total depravity of man doesn't mean
  • 00:18:41.009 --> 00:18:44.246
  • That we're all as bad as we could be.
  • 00:18:44.246 --> 00:18:47.783
  • It means we're all as bad off as we could be".
  • 00:18:47.783 --> 00:18:52.254
  • We're all separated from god
  • 00:18:52.254 --> 00:18:54.189
  • Because even the good things we do have been corrupted,
  • 00:18:54.189 --> 00:18:57.526
  • Polluted by sin.
  • 00:18:57.526 --> 00:19:00.095
  • If you want a manifestation of what god thinks
  • 00:19:00.095 --> 00:19:05.801
  • Of our goodness and how he views us,
  • 00:19:06.602 --> 00:19:09.371
  • Listen to god's description of the world
  • 00:19:09.371 --> 00:19:11.473
  • Right before the flood in genesis 6:5.
  • 00:19:11.473 --> 00:19:14.276
  • "then the lord saw that the wickedness of man was great
  • 00:19:14.276 --> 00:19:17.813
  • On the earth, and that every intent of the thoughts
  • 00:19:17.813 --> 00:19:21.583
  • Of his heart was only evil continually".
  • 00:19:21.583 --> 00:19:25.887
  • That's how god looks at mankind.
  • 00:19:25.887 --> 00:19:28.090
  • Everything we do, everything we think
  • 00:19:28.090 --> 00:19:30.892
  • Is only evil continually.
  • 00:19:30.892 --> 00:19:33.929
  • Let's look in depth at the spiritual x-ray, what paul says.
  • 00:19:35.063 --> 00:19:37.833
  • First of all, he says, "no one is righteous, not even one".
  • 00:19:37.833 --> 00:19:43.105
  • Now, that word, "righteous,"
  • 00:19:43.705 --> 00:19:46.208
  • Means "to be in a right standing with god".
  • 00:19:46.208 --> 00:19:48.110
  • He said, "there's not one person who is righteous
  • 00:19:48.110 --> 00:19:50.545
  • In a right standing".
  • 00:19:50.545 --> 00:19:52.047
  • Again, we have trouble with this because we say,
  • 00:19:52.047 --> 00:19:54.516
  • "well, you know, there's a great difference
  • 00:19:54.516 --> 00:19:56.151
  • In human beings".
  • 00:19:56.151 --> 00:19:57.586
  • Yes, on page six of the newspaper, we read about a man
  • 00:19:57.586 --> 00:20:00.322
  • Who murdered his three small children and his wife,
  • 00:20:00.322 --> 00:20:03.558
  • But then we turn to page seven, and here's a fireman
  • 00:20:03.558 --> 00:20:06.061
  • Who heroically saved a group of children
  • 00:20:06.061 --> 00:20:08.497
  • From a burning building.
  • 00:20:08.497 --> 00:20:09.898
  • There's a great difference between human beings.
  • 00:20:09.898 --> 00:20:13.568
  • That difference between human beings is considerable,
  • 00:20:14.636 --> 00:20:18.573
  • But in god's eyes, it's negligible.
  • 00:20:18.573 --> 00:20:21.109
  • Let me illustrate that for you.
  • 00:20:21.109 --> 00:20:23.512
  • If you go to new york city
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  • And walk the streets of manhattan,
  • 00:20:25.380 --> 00:20:27.182
  • You'll notice different sizes of buildings.
  • 00:20:27.182 --> 00:20:29.751
  • Some one story structures, some multi-story structures.
  • 00:20:29.751 --> 00:20:32.888
  • There's skyscrapers over a hundred stories high.
  • 00:20:32.888 --> 00:20:36.591
  • When we used to go to new york every christmas,
  • 00:20:36.591 --> 00:20:39.494
  • We'd get in on christmas night late
  • 00:20:39.494 --> 00:20:41.396
  • And we'd make a beeline to times square
  • 00:20:41.396 --> 00:20:43.498
  • To the mcdonald's there
  • 00:20:43.498 --> 00:20:45.233
  • Because it was the only restaurant open on christmas night,
  • 00:20:45.233 --> 00:20:47.769
  • And it was a massive two story mcdonald's,
  • 00:20:47.769 --> 00:20:50.706
  • Biggest i'd ever seen.
  • 00:20:50.706 --> 00:20:52.574
  • But looking down from outer space,
  • 00:20:53.342 --> 00:20:56.845
  • If you were to look down on manhattan,
  • 00:20:56.845 --> 00:20:59.047
  • You wouldn't be able to tell the difference
  • 00:20:59.047 --> 00:21:00.482
  • Between that two story mcdonald's
  • 00:21:00.482 --> 00:21:02.417
  • And a hundred story empire state building,
  • 00:21:02.417 --> 00:21:05.120
  • Because from space looking down,
  • 00:21:05.120 --> 00:21:07.022
  • They all look the very same.
  • 00:21:07.022 --> 00:21:09.624
  • That's how god views us.
  • 00:21:09.624 --> 00:21:12.327
  • The difference between human beings
  • 00:21:12.327 --> 00:21:14.062
  • From our limited perspective is considerable.
  • 00:21:14.062 --> 00:21:16.898
  • From god's perspective, it's negligible.
  • 00:21:16.898 --> 00:21:20.302
  • "not one righteous".
  • 00:21:20.302 --> 00:21:21.536
  • Secondly, there's nobody who understands.
  • 00:21:21.536 --> 00:21:24.072
  • There's no one who understands the things of god.
  • 00:21:24.072 --> 00:21:27.642
  • Paul said in 1 corinthians 2:14,
  • 00:21:27.642 --> 00:21:30.245
  • "a natural man doesn't accept the things
  • 00:21:30.245 --> 00:21:32.714
  • Of the spirit of god, for they are foolishness to him".
  • 00:21:32.714 --> 00:21:36.051
  • I see this every time we go to israel.
  • 00:21:36.051 --> 00:21:38.453
  • If you've ever been to israel,
  • 00:21:39.087 --> 00:21:40.455
  • You know you'll get assigned an israeli guide
  • 00:21:40.455 --> 00:21:43.759
  • Who knows all of the places in the history,
  • 00:21:43.759 --> 00:21:46.795
  • And he talks about the history
  • 00:21:46.795 --> 00:21:48.463
  • And i talk about the spiritual aspects,
  • 00:21:48.463 --> 00:21:50.799
  • But what you know about those jewish guides is
  • 00:21:50.799 --> 00:21:54.202
  • They know the bible, including the new testament
  • 00:21:54.202 --> 00:21:56.571
  • Better than most christians or most pastors.
  • 00:21:56.571 --> 00:21:59.274
  • They can recite the scripture backwards and forwards.
  • 00:21:59.274 --> 00:22:02.277
  • They have an intellectual understanding,
  • 00:22:02.277 --> 00:22:05.347
  • But they've never received the gospel of jesus christ
  • 00:22:05.347 --> 00:22:08.850
  • Because to them it's foolishness.
  • 00:22:08.850 --> 00:22:10.886
  • The smartest people in the world stumble over the gospel
  • 00:22:10.886 --> 00:22:15.290
  • Because they're natural.
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  • You see, the theology of sin matters
  • 00:22:25.600 --> 00:22:28.637
  • Because it shapes the way we see the world
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  • And our place in it.
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  • There's much more i want to teach you
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  • On this topic next time,
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  • The doctrine of sin has profound implications
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  • For how we live.
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  • When we understand the seriousness of our condition
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  • Before god, it drives us to seek his forgiveness
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  • And rely on his grace.
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  • We can't fix ourselves. we desperately need a savior.
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  • Next time, we're going to explore
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  • Just how devastating sins effects
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  • Are on every aspect of human life
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  • And discover why recognizing spiritual bankruptcy
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  • Is the first step toward experiencing god's amazing grace.
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  • Stay tuned for a preview of what's coming up next
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  • In our series "what every christian should know."
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  • Every one of us, whether we're christians or non-christians,
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  • We have that realization of our guilt, our sin.
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  • It's not through a beating human heart.
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  • It's the beating of god's holy spirit.
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  • And the purpose of god's holy spirit,
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  • His relentless beating is not to drive us to madness,
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  • It's to drive us to confession.
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  • "what every christian should know about sin"
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