Dudley Rutherford - Addressing the Romans (Part 1)

March 18, 2026 | 27:29

Pastor Dudley Rutherford seeks to "lift up the name of Jesus across the country and the world through uncompromising biblical teaching."

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| Dudley Rutherford - Addressing the Romans (Part 1) | March 18, 2026

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Male announcer: from the beginning of creation
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To the fall of man, through it all,
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The hope of a savior.
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Coming up next on "lift up jesus,"
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Pastor dudley rutherford: as lost as you are,
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Romans 1, 2, and 3,
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The next few chapters explain to us that you are
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Saved freely by god's grace, redemption,
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By the sacrifice that jesus made
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On that cross, the atonement of his blood,
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And that through faith in jesus christ,
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He puts his righteousness inside of you.
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[congregation applauding]
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Kayla francis: welcome to "lift up jesus."
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I'm kayla francis, and i'm so glad
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You've joined us because on today's program,
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My father, pastor dudley rutherford,
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Will be sharing a message that i believe will impact your life
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In a powerful way.
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You are here for a reason, and god has an important plan
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For your life, so grab your bible, your notes,
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And a pen, and let's get started
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With today's message.
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Pastor dudley: i want you to take your bibles
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And turn to the book of romans, the book of romans.
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Everybody say romans.
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And also inside your bulletin are some sermon notes.
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I would encourage you to grab those.
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The last couple of weeks, if you've been to
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Church, we've looked at the supernatural birth
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Of the church in the first century,
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2000 years ago.
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And then we looked at the skyrocketing growth.
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And if you were here last week, we talked about
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On the day of pentecost, acts chapter 2,
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God brought all these jews from all over the world
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Into jerusalem, and that was the day
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The church began.
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Three thousand people got saved,
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And then they all went back home.
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And so god used that event on the day of pentecost
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To kickstart the church.
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Part of the growth of the new testament church
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Also involved one guy named paul.
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And paul was the guy that was against christians
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And actually had christians killed
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And took christians and put them in prison
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Because he was against the church
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And he did not believe in jesus.
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But one day on the road to damascus,
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He had an encounter and he met jesus christ,
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And he became a believer.
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And everything changed in his life.
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And so from being perhaps the greatest persecutor
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Of the church, he then became
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The greatest promoter of the church,
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And he went on what's called missionary journeys.
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And so on the map behind me, we have the known world
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At that time.
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The gospel has already spread to parts of the world.
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And now paul, who was a converted jew,
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Now believing that jesus is the messiah,
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He goes on these missionary journeys,
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And he travels to these towns.
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He always does the same thing.
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First thing he does, he goes to the local synagogue.
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And he goes in that synagogue full of jewish people,
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And he begins to explain,
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Gives his own testimony, but he goes back to
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The scriptures that they study every sabbath.
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And he reasons with them, and he argues with them,
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And he has discussions with them,
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And he tries to teach them that jesus,
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Because they've heard the story now,
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He's trying to convince them that yes,
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Jesus is the messiah.
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And two things always happen, always happens.
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Number one, there are people who are converted,
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Jewish people that say, "okay, paul, we believe."
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He--his argument is so persuasive.
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He--they now agree.
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So there's many converts in these towns, amen?
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Second thing that always happens,
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He gets run out of town.
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And so he just kind of wipes the dust off his feet
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And he goes on--he goes on to the next town.
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Well, eventually he ends up, and you're gonna
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Learn about this next week.
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He ends up, paul starts writing letters
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To some of these churches because they got problems.
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Most of the times he's writing from prison.
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But there's one letter that he writes to a church
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He's not been there yet is when he writes a letter
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To the people who live in rome,
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The christians who live in the city of rome,
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And that's our message today is, "addressing the romans."
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Now, the letter that he writes, the book of romans,
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Might be the most important letter
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That he ever wrote.
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Rome at that time is an immense city.
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It has probably 1.2 million people living in it.
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It's built on seven hills.
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It's densely packed slums next to palaces
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Of unbelievable wealth.
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It's the most powerful city.
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It's the most violent city.
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It's the most diverse city.
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It's the most influential city in the world.
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The city is full of temples and merchants and vendors
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And soldiers and bathhouses.
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It has limited sanitation.
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It is loud.
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It was built by slaves.
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It is a city of idolatry.
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It is a city of sin.
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It is a melting pot like no other city in the world
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At that time.
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It has greeks and syrians and egyptians and persians
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And jews and africans and arabs and gauls
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And spaniards and slaves from dozens of nations,
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But in the course of the first century
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As the church is growing, the gospel message
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Has finally reached this great city called rome.
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Isn't that exciting?
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Now, back in that day, they didn't have
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Church buildings per se,
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But they did have these things
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Called house churches
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That sprung up all over rome and these congregations
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In this city, if you were to go to a house church,
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Inside there would be both jews and gentiles
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Worshiping together.
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Kind of like church here today, if you think about it.
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We literally have hundreds of jewish people here today
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Who believe that jesus is the fulfillment
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Of the old testament prophecy.
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They're what we call jewish believers,
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And i think we need to thank the lord
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For all the jewish people here today.
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[congregation applauding]
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Now, with that as the background,
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I want to give you a little bit
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Historical background that you may or may not be aware of.
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In the year ad 49, the emperor of rome at that time
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Was a man named claudius.
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Claudius is like the third emperor
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After caesar augustus, the guy we all know.
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Claudius, in ad 49, he expels all the jews out of rome.
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And the reason is, as you study the history, there is--
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There's a lot of quarreling going on in the jewish quarters.
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And there's these disturbances primarily with one guy.
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We keep reading this one guy's name.
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His name is crestus.
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There are many biblical scholars who believe that crestus
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Is a misspelling of someone named christ.
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And so what we believe is that
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In those house churches in rome
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With both jews and gentiles, they're arguing.
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And there are people that are arguing
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Whether or not jesus was in fact the messiah,
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And there's so much arguing going on in the jewish quarters
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That claudius goes, "you know what,
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I've had enough," and just expels all the jews.
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Well, guess what happens in ad 54.
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Claudius dies.
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How did he die?
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You can read all this.
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It's all history.
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His wife poisoned him by giving him mushrooms.
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She did it on purpose because she had a son named nero.
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And she wanted nero to be the next emperor,
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So she decides to give her husband
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Some poisonous mushrooms, which is why
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I never eat mushrooms when my wife comes.
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You can ask her. i don't eat mushrooms.
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Right, honey?
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So guess what happened after he dies in ad 54.
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There are many jews that go back to rome,
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And when they show up in that local church house,
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They walk back in.
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The gentiles have been running the show in there
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For about 3 or 4 years, and they start having
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More arguments and discussions over the law,
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Over holy days.
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They argue about food restrictions.
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They argue about traditions and righteousness
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And leadership.
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So in ad 56, 57, guess what paul does?
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He sits down, and he writes this letter.
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And in this letter he's trying to unite them.
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He addresses their misunderstandings.
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He talks about the mosaic laws you read through this book.
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He--you read a lot about what is it exactly
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That saves a person.
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He actually talks about circumcision because
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They're arguing about that.
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You can imagine if you're a gentile
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And a jewish person says, "hey, yeah,
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You gotta be circumcised,"
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There's some arguing going on there.
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There's a lot of discussion about what is essential
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And what is non-essential.
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Again, this book might be the most important book.
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If the bible were a mountain range,
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Romans is mount everest.
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And today, the smartest person in this room, whoever you are,
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And the least educated person in this room, whoever you are,
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My goal today before you leave is that you both have
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A full understanding of why this book was written
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And what exactly does he teach us,
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Because it's mount everest.
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Four words.
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Word number one, you got to get all four words,
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Is the word "ruin."
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Now we're going to go through romans today,
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The whole book,
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And we're gonna go like in chronological order.
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So i hope you have your bibles. i hope you follow along.
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We're gonna flip through these pages.
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Number one is ruin.
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Paul writes in the first three chapters
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That humanity is ruined by a thing called sin.
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In the first three chapters, he does something.
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He levels all of humanity, all of us.
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He puts us all in the same exact plane,
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No matter what you're arguing about.
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He puts us all on the same plane when he says these words
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In romans 3:23: "for all have sinned and fallen short
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Of the glory of god."
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I've preached on this one verse thousands of times.
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We've all sinned, amen?
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Just take a look around.
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There are no perfect people here today.
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We've all lied. we've all stolen.
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We've all gossiped, we have all coveted.
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We have all broken the ten commandments
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In one way or another.
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How many of you would raise your hand and say,
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"yes, pastor, i agree with this verse.
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We are all sinners. i'm a sinner."
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Now if someone's not raising their hand,
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They're the worst sinner in here.
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The question is because we're gonna get--
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We're gonna get pretty honest here in a minute.
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Why does he start off this letter by talking about
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How the fact we're all ruined?
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The reason--you can write this down, is that until you see
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And understand our ruin, you will never see your need
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For a redeemer.
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Paul says to both the jews and the gentiles,
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Who are arguing with each other,
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And what do you do when you argue?
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You're always proving your point,
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The other person's wrong.
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And paul says to both the jews and the gentiles,
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"hey, both of you guys need to understand,
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You're both lost.
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Whatever you're arguing about, you're still lost
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Because of your sin."
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And because of sin, there's a lot
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In the first three chapters,
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He says the wrath of god is about to fall.
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Now that's interesting because when i write a letter
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I want to write a few nice things.
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Paul just takes a 2x4 and just hits them
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Right upside the head and says,
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"the wrath of god is coming because of our sin."
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Look at romans 1, verse 18, the very first chapter, he says,
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"the wrath of god is being revealed from heaven
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Against all the godlessness and wickedness of men
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Who suppress the truth by their own wickedness."
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That's the world we're living in today.
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And the rest of romans chapter 1,
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And i'm just gonna say it, you need to read it sometime.
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Because he talks about sexual perversion
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In this chapter.
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He talks about sexual immorality.
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And in case you think, "well, yeah,
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I'm not engaged in any of that,
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So that doesn't really apply to me,"
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Well, he continues to list all these sins.
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If you skip over to chapter 1, verse 29:
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"they have become filled with every kind
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Of wickedness, evil, greed, depravity.
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They are full of envy, murder, strife, deceit, malice,
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They're gossips, slanderers, god-haters, insolent,
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Arrogant, boastful;
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They invent ways of doing evil; they disobey their parents;
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They are senseless, faithless, heartless, they are ruthless."
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And here's the last verse:
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"although they know god's righteous decree
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That those who do such things deserve death,
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They not only continue to do these things
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But they also approve of those who practice them."
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You don't even have to commit the sin,
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But you approve others who are committing of that sin.
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And because of all these sins, go over to chapter 2, verse 8.
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He says it again: "but for those who are self-seeking
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And who reject the truth and follow evil,
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There will be wrath and anger.
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And there will be trouble and distress
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For every human being who does evil: first,"
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Here he is, saying, "first for all you jews,
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And for all you gentiles."
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I think he's kind of saying you guys need to stop arguing
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With each other because you're both full of sin.
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Now i know that you know that we live in a culture today
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Where everybody in our culture goes,
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"you know, i'm good, i'm good.
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I don't need god.
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I don't need church."
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You ever invite somebody to church and they go,
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"no, i'm not into that.
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Don't need that. don't need god.
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I don't need the bible.
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I don't need that.
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I don't need jesus. i don't need prayer.
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Just, you know, i'm good. i'm fine."
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And the truth is the opposite of that.
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You're not good.
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You're not fine.
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You're lost.
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You're desperately lost.
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Look what he says in chapter 3, verse 12.
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He says, "everyone has turned away, they have together,
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I mean, you put them all in there together,
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They're worthless;
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There's no one who does good, not even one."
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And again, romans 3:23: "we've all sinned."
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You say, "why does he do this?"
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Now you gotta get this before-- you'll never understand
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Point two if you don't understand point one.
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And that is before the gospel can be good news,
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There has to be some honest news.
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You can't get someone saved until you understand--
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Until you can convince them that they're lost, amen?
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You go see a cancer doctor and that doctor runs those tests
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And he sees that you've got cancer,
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He's got to come into that room.
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I know he doesn't want to, but he's got to come in there.
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Before he can give you any solution,
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He's got to be honest with you.
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You might not want to hear it, but you've got to hear the news
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When he says, "i'm sorry to tell you,
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But you have cancer."
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He has to give you that honest news or he can't ever
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Give you the good news.
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And that's what paul does in these first three chapters,
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So don't get all bent out of shape, okay?
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Word number two, write this down,
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Is the word "rescue."
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God steps in to rescue those of us
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Who have been ruined by sin.
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This is good news.
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How does he do it?
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He does it through a savior.
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So we read in romans 3:23, "we've all sinned."
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Romans 3, verse 24, the very next verse,
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Might be the greatest sentence that paul ever wrote
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When he says, "and we are
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Justified freely by his grace.
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We have the redemption that came by christ jesus
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That god presented him as a sacrifice on the cross,
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And he shed his blood as an atonement,
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And we are saved when we put our faith in that blood,"
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Full stop.
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You can argue about whatever you want to argue about,
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You're still lost if you don't know jesus.
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But if you know jesus, you are justified.
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Now what does the word "justified" mean?
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Write this down.
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It means just as if i'd never sinned.
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We've always said that you're declared righteous.
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Hey, i'm not righteous. i'm not righteous.
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Yeah, i know, i know, the first three chapters,
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We've all been ruined by sin,
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But when you become a christian, he declares you as righteous.
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And it's not just that you're declared righteous,
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You are literally, accurately, precisely, indisputably,
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Perfectly righteous in the eyes of god.
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You say, "well, how is that possible?"
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Well, romans was written to tell you
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That you can't do it on your own,
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That salvation is not something
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That you achieve, that you argue your point
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And you argue what you believe to be right
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And you are so good at arguing that you persuade
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Other people to believe your argument
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And if you win the argument that somehow you're saved--no,
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It's--salvation is not something you achieve.
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It is not something you earn.
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It is not something you deserve.
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You're not saved by your morality.
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You're not saved by your heritage.
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You're not saved by some religious activity.
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You're not saved by good works.
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If salvation was based on being good,
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Most of you wouldn't make it through the church parking lot.
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But as lost as you are, romans 1, 2, and 3,
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The next few chapters explain to us that you are
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Saved freely by god's grace, redemption,
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By the sacrifice that jesus made on that cross,
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The atonement of his blood, and that through faith
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In jesus christ, he puts his righteousness inside of you.
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[congregation applauding]
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You didn't put that in there.
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He put that in there.
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Some of you know, i've had a knee replacement.
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Literally, they just like cut your--it's crazy.
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And you wouldn't know.
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[congregation laughing[
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♪♪♪
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Kayla: in a brutal culture that was marked by laws, rules,
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And judgment, jesus stood up to speak.
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He introduced a new way of life, a new kingdom
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Built on grace and the forgiveness of sins.
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This is the message that "lift up jesus"
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Is taking to the world, and we need your help.
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Your monthly financial support makes such a difference
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As we buy television air time so that millions of people
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Will be transformed by this message of god's grace.
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Would you help us?
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Just reach out and let us know
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That you believe in this message
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And want to help us make a difference.
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Join me and my father, pastor dudley rutherford,
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Next week.
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And until then, wherever you go and whatever you do,
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Don't forget to always lift up jesus.
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Kathy: hi, my name is kathy, and i lead
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The anchor cancer support group here at shepherd church.
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On august 17, 2011, i heard the words that nobody wants to hear,
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And that is, i had cancer.
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And when i had that diagnosis, i did not want to share it
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With anybody, but god had a different plan in that for me.
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And so, it was pretty clear that during my surgery, my chemo,
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My radiation, all the side effects that i experienced,
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And even losing my hair, that god knew
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That i was going to be where i am today.
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The things that i experienced when i was going
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Through my journey, by getting love
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From other people, getting food, getting prayers,
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Even provisions that i didn't expect,
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Was such a blessing to me, that i knew
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That i had to turn it around and give it to others.
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So, god put it on my heart to lead a cancer support life group
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In my home.
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We call on each other.
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We take each other to our doctors' appointments,
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And we pray for each other right before we're getting ready
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To go in for our treatments or our scans.
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We also provide food and support for them during their journey.
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Later on, when i was ready to start the group,
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God gave me the name anchor, and i know now why.
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'cause when you think of an anchor,
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You know that it is linked to a chain,
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And the members of this group are
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The links of that chain,
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That we're linked on to one another, strong,
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Standing firm to our father, who is our anchor.
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And together, we walk this journey with them,
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Through the storm, knowing that we need to depend on each other,
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And through our father in heaven.
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This group is for everyone.
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If you're going through cancer, if you've already gone
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Through all of your treatments and you are in remission.
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It's also for those that are part of the family.
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Maybe it's you're the caregiver.
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Maybe it's your coworker.
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It also could be for the spouse or the children.
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And more important, this group is for those
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That have lost someone, that have finally gone to see
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Our father in heaven.
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And they come back, and they share their journey,
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And they love on one another, because they've walked that.
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There are a million and a half people
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In los angeles county living with some form of cancer,
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And i am so grateful to shepherd church
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For opening up their doors to allow us to have
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This amazing ministry here.
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People of this community need this ministry,
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And we are so happy to be able to have it here,
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So that we can give them hope
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And encouragement during their journey.
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Michael north: evangelism is so important
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To dudley rutherford.
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He's written an entire book on the subject called
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"compelled: the irresistible call to share your faith."
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People across the country have been blessed
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Like a reader melissa, who shared,
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"pastor dudley writes that god is more concerned
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With our availability than our ability.
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Despite the fact that i am rather introverted,
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His book has inspired me
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To more freely and confidently share the gospel with others."
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In his latest book, pastor dudley
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Shares his own experiences
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Pastor dudley: hey, it's pastor dudley
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From shepherd church and "lift up jesus."
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I just wanna thank you for listening today.
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I don't know about you, but anytime the word of god
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Is preached, the bible knows
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What it's talking about when it says it never returns empty.
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I just wanna thank you for being
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A part of this broadcast in any way, shape or form,
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And just want you to know that whenever you give,
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Whenever you pray, whenever you lift this ministry up,
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We are doing our very best to take the message
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Of jesus christ to the entire world.
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If you've never been a part of our ministry,
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Make sure you go to our website.
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There's all kinds of resources and information.
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You make all of this possible, so thank you so much
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For your generosity, and we will see you here
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Again next time on "lift up jesus."
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God bless you for being here today.
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Dudley Rutherford - Addressing the Romans (Part 1)

March 18, 2026 | 27:29

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