Dudley Rutherford - Addressing the Romans (Part 2)

March 27, 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 2) | March 27, 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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This fall, experience the bible like never before.
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Join dudley rutherford on "a journey of a lifetime."
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If you've ever wanted to understand the bible
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From beginning to end, this is your chance.
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Don't just read the story, live it.
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Coming up next on "lift up jesus,"
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"a journey of a lifetime."
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Pastor dudley rutherford: except when you make
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This decision where you're gonna put your faith in jesus christ
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And the day you surrender to jesus despite the fact
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That we've all been ruined by our own sin,
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God then takes jesus's righteousness
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And he puts jesus inside of you,
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So that when god sees you, he doesn't see all the sin,
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He sees jesus in you
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And that sin covered by his blood.
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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 you've joined us
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Because on today's program my father,
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Pastor dudley rutherford, will be sharing a message
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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,
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And god has an important plan for your life.
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So grab your bible, your notes, and a pen,
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And let's get started with today's message.
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Pastor dudley: 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
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That you are 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,
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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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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 looking at me.
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And if i rolled up my pant leg,
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You can't even see the scar.
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They did such a good job.
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I actually called-- we called the office
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'cause the--the nurse picked it up,
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And she was there and--you know, like, a follow-up thing.
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I said, "hey, can you do me a favor?"
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She goes--i said what?
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"can you tell the doctor thank you?
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Because when he sewed me up, you can't even see the scar.
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It's amazing."
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I said, "can you tell him that for me?"
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She said, "no." i said, "you can't tell him?
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I'm just thankful there's no scar there.
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I just need you to tell-- i just need you to tell him
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Thank you."
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She goes, "no." i go, "why not?"
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She goes, "i can't tell him that."
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I go, "why?"
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She goes, "because i'm the one that sewed you up."
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[congregation laughing]
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I said, "well, thank you."
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Now, you can't see but-- unless you've had one of these.
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I got a picture of what this looks like on the inside.
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It takes an x-ray to see this.
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That's your pastor's knee right there.
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I am the bionic man.
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You know, i go through airports all the time,
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And i have clear, i have tsa, i have global re-entry pass.
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It doesn't matter.
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I still have to go through that x-ray machine.
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And as i'm going through there,
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I go like this bef--'cause they can't even see it,
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But i know that alarm's gonna go off.
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So i just do this... i mean, i got metal in my knee.
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They said, "okay, come over here."
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I go...they pat me down.
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Even they can't see it, except with an x-ray.
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And i want you to know that god in heaven
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Sees what's inside of you,
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That he doesn't need to put you through
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An x-ray machine.
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God knows exactly what's going on
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Inside your heart, your life, the times you've slipped,
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The times you've sinned,
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The times you've disobeyed him,
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The times you've rebelled, the times you've run from him.
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Stay with me.
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God knows all of that.
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He sees all of it.
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Except when you make this decision
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Where you're gonna put your faith in jesus christ,
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And the day you surrender to jesus
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Despite the fact that we've all been ruined
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By our own sin,
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God then takes jesus's righteousness
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And he puts jesus inside of you
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So that when god sees you, he doesn't see all the sin;
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He sees jesus in you
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And that sin covered by his blood.
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[congregation applauding]
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Go over to romans chapter 5, verse 1.
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"therefore, since we have been justified through faith,
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We have peace with god through our lord jesus christ."
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Skip over to verse 9.
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"since we have now been justified by his blood,
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How much more shall we be saved from god's wrath through him!"
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We've been justified by his blood, his work,
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His death, his cross, his sacrifice, his grace.
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Verse 18 says, "consequently, just as the result
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Of one trespass," which was adam's,
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"was condemnation for all men,
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So also the result of one act of righteousness
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Was justification that brings life for all men."
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All god's people said...
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Congregation: amen!
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Pastor dudley: i want you to write this down.
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Your greatest problem is sin,
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And the only solution to that sin is jesus.
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You can never rest in winning your argument.
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You can never rest in your own performance.
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You can never rest in obeying the law
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To get you into heaven.
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You rest in the work that he did on that cross.
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And when you come to jesus, he wipes your record clean,
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He adopts you as his child,
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He reconciles your account.
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It's like if you woke up this morning
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And you looked at your bank statement
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And you owed $1 million, and you thought,
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"oh no, i can never pay $1 million."
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And this afternoon, you log back in
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And someone put $1 billion in your account.
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You wouldn't even worry about that $1 million debt
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'cause you'd say somebody-- and you didn't earn it
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And you didn't deserve it,
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Just somebody put $1 billion in there,
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So praise god.
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You don't even--you don't have to reconcile that.
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God reconciled that for you when he gave you his grace.
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All your sin, god reconciled all that
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By sending his own son to die in your place.
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The third word is the word "renewal."
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So the first couple of chapters we see are ruined;
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The next couple of chapters we see
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The fact that jesus has rescued us,
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But there's this whole process
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Where the holy spirit renews and changes.
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Everything is changed in your life
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By the spirit of god.
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You find this in chapters 6, 7, and 8.
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You see, the moment you were born on this earth,
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Your birth date, you were born of the flesh,
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But the day you give your life to jesus,
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You're born again,
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You're born of the spirit.
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The problem is i still have my flesh,
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But i know-- the bible teaches this--
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That the day i got saved that god put his spirit,
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Which is jesus in spirit form comes to live inside me.
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The bible says that this body is in--
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Is a temple where the holy spirit lives.
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I'm still of the flesh, but i got--
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I have god's holy spirit within me.
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The problem is my flesh always fights
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With my spirit-- god's spirit within me.
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Paul talks about this in romans chapter 7 and verse 18.
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This is paul.
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He's the guy that wrote all this.
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He said, "i know that nothing good lives in me,
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That is, in my sinful nature.
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For i have the desire to do what is good,
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But i cannot carry it out.
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For what i do is not the good i want to do;
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No, the evil i do not want to do--this i keep on doing."
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Then he says in verse 21, "so i find this law--"
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It's just like the law of gravity.
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"i find this law at work: that when i want to do good,
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When i want to do good, evil is right there with me.
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For in my inner being i delight in god's law;
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But i see another law at work in the members of my body,
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Waging war against the law of my mind
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And making me a prisoner of the law of sin
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That is at work within my members.
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What a wretched man i am!" he says.
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"who's gonna rescue me from this body of death?"
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And then he says, "i know who's gonna rescue me."
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Verse 25, "thanks be to god, through jesus christ our lord!"
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[congregation applauding]
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And the very next verse-- in chapter 8, verse 1--
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"therefore, there is now no condemnation
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For those who are in christ jesus."
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If you skip over to romans chapter 8, verse 5,
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It says, "those who live according to the sinful nature
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Have their minds set on what that nature desires;
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But those who live in accordance with the spirit
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Have their minds set on what the spirit desires."
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So those two things battle all day long, don't they?
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I've told you this story 100 times.
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I'm gonna tell you 101 times.
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The old indian chief, he had two dogs.
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One was black. one was white.
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They fought all the time.
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And someone asked the chief, "which dog wins?"
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And the chief said, "whichever dog i feed the most."
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So you have these two natures.
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You have--you're of the flesh.
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If you pinch yourself, you can feel it.
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I'm in the flesh,
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But i also have god's spirit inside of me,
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And they do battle all the time.
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The question is, which one wins?
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Does my flesh win, or does the spirit of god wins?
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The answer is "whoever you feed the most."
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You feed the s-- you feed the flesh,
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You're gonna lose.
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Feed the spirit, you'll win.
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I have this photograph. it's about 20 years ago, okay?
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It's a long time ago.
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And this is the basketball team i coached,
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And these kids are all 16.
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They're sophomores in high school.
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My son is in that photo.
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He's the little white kid there in the front.
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All these kids, every one of them played
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College basketball.
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Now, they're just sophomore in high school at this time.
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There are two nba all-stars hall of famers
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In that photograph.
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No one knew how good they were gonna be--
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Not even them.
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On the far right is paul george.
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Paul plays right now for the philadelphia 76ers.
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He lives--he grew up in lancaster.
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Great kid.
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Great mom and dad and-- played at fresno state.
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He grew, like, 6 inches in college
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And then became an nba-- and he's an nba all-star.
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The other nba all-star player is the guy right behind me.
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He's on my shoulder here. he's in the back.
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His name is klay thompson.
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He's one of the splash brothers.
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He played up in that team up there that loses--
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That golden state team up there.
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Him and steph curry.
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Well, klay, his dad played for the lakers.
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Mychal thompson, and mychal still--
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He's on the radio.
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He does play-by-play for the lakers.
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And mychal would ride with us in the van.
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We--so can--you know, we just--a hotel.
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We got a game.
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We had to put all the kids in the van,
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And we drive to the gym, and mychal would say,
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"dudley, can i ride in the van with you guys?"
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I said, "yeah." so i'm driving a van.
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I got all these kids. they're all 16.
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Mychal thompson, hall of famer,
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He's in the van with me.
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And mychal's always talking, and he said this to the kids.
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He said, "guys,
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Stay out of the clubs."
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And then he said, "nothing good ever happens
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In a club."
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I was like, "mychal, keep preaching, keep preaching."
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Why would he say that?
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'cause of all of his experience
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And being in the nba, he was trying to say
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Something to those kids that maybe they would remember
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The next time they were facing a temptation
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That they would do the right thing,
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Knowing that when you make wrong decisions,
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They can have consequences for the rest of your life.
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And all he was saying, "guys, stay out of the clubs."
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And you know what? that--he was right.
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Nothing good ever happens in a club.
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A lot of people go to club on friday night,
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Come to church on saturday, sunday.
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A lot of people go to club every week,
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Come to church about once a month,
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And wonder why they're not growing in their faith.
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I'm just telling you this.
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If you feed the flesh, the flesh is gonna win.
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You got to feed the spirit.
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That's why chu-- being in church it--
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Should be a priority in your life.
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That's why reading your bible should be a priority
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In your life.
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That's why getting in a life group
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Should be a priority in your life.
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That's why when you listen to music,
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You really should not listen to the music of the world.
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You should listen to christian music
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So you're filling your mind.
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And if you will begin to feed the spiritual man,
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You'll have victory.
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Notice what he says in romans chapter 8, verse 9.
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He says, "you, however, are controlled not
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By the sinful nature but by the spirit,
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If the spirit of god lives in you.
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And if anyone does not have the spirit--"
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If you don't have the spirit of christ in you,
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Then you don't even belong to christ.
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But he says down in verse 11,
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"and if the spi-- and the spirit of him
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Who raised jesus from the dead is living in you,
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He who raised christ from the dead
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Will also give life to your mortal bodies,
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Which is his spirit who lives in you."
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And then we come to the last point: responsibility.
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Write it down quick-- responsibility.
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You and i as christians are supposed to shine.
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Everybody say "shine."
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We're supposed to shine.
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Now, i'm-- i don't look like it,
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But i am very upset, and the reason i'm upset
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Is 'cause i don't have time to read
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Chapter 12, 13, 14, 15, and 16,
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Where paul tells us that we have a responsibility as christians.
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But how many of you will promise me
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That over the holidays-- promise me--"
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I will try to read the whole book of romans."
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Raise your hand. if you'll--just try.
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Oh, i feel so much better.
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There should be, in your life, a transformation,
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Not the work of nature, as in a butterfly,
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But something much more powerful than nature.
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That's the work of what's called spiritual transformation.
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Stay with me.
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We're ruined by sin.
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Jesus came to rescue us.
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But the second you give your life to jesus, jesus--
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You're declared righteous.
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That's justification.
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But at that moment, god's spirit comes to live inside of you,
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And every day you get up,
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You literally have jesus inside of you
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Wherever you go,
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And the holy spirit begins to change you
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From the inside out.
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And every day, there's this renewal process
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As you feed the spiritual man and--
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Not feed the carnal man but you feed the spiritual man,
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That holy spirit will transform your life until--
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Well, eventually you will begin to represent jesus,
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Who's in you, wherever you go--
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In your marriage, in your house,
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In your school, where you work,
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In your neighborhood.
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Wherever you go, people are gonna see
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Jesus living inside.
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It's a spiritual transformation that takes place.
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I have a jersey here from the heritage christian school.
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This is our school. this is a brand-new jersey.
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I don't think anyone's ever worn this one yet.
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But i've coached down there at that school,
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And i'm like all-- i say the same thing
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All the other coaches say.
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As soon as we hand this jersey out
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And that kid puts that jersey on, we say,
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"hey, now listen.
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When you wear this, when you wear this,
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You're representing the school.
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You're representing me as a coach.
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You're representing your church.
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You're representing your faith.
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You are--when you--hey, hey.
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When you put this on, everybody can see it.
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You're representing jesus wherever you go."
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You know what happens when a kid cusses?
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We call them in.
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You can't be cussing on the coach--
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On the floor, 'cause you're wearing a jersey.
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You're wearing this jersey.
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Does that make sense? i want you to write this down.
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Romans chapter 12 through 16,
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God is basically handing you a jersey and saying to you,
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"you are on my team.
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You're on my team."
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And i have two slides of all these things
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That he talks about-- some of the things,
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Transformation in chapters 12 through 16.
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He talks about hating evil, clinging to that which is good.
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He talks about using your gifts.
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He talks about honoring one another.
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He talks about blessing those who persecute you.
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He talks about living in harmony.
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He talks about not having pride.
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He talks about doing the right thing.
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He talks about being faithful in prayer.
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He talks about being patient in affliction.
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He talks about having respect for those in authority.
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He talks about paying your taxes.
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He talks about loving your neighbor.
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He talks about not being legalistic.
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He talks about don't being a stumbling block,
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Keep away from people who cause division,
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And a hundred other things.
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Here's what i want you to know.
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The reason we have to wear this jersey and represent him
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Is because the world is never gonna read
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The book of romans.
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They're never gonna read this.
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I can't even get half of you to read it.
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But the world will read you.
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And so all these things-- you don't do these things
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So you can earn salvation;
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You do all these things as a result of salvation.
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Everybody stand.
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I'm gonna come over here.
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You see me?
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You see me over here?
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I just wanna make sure you know where the baptistery is.
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Because if you're here today
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And you've never given your life to jesus christ,
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I'm telling you, your life has been ruined by sin
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And you're on a road to destruction.
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God's wrath is coming.
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Go read romans 1, 2, 3. it's coming.
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But if you come to jesus and put your faith in
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What he did on the cross
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And understand you can't earn your salvation
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But you put your faith in his blood,
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The atonement, for your sins,
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At that moment, god will impute you his righteousness.
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You run over here through these doors,
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We got some counselors over here.
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They're gonna pray with you,
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And you're gonna come in this water.
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We're gonna take you, we're gonna lower you,
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And we're gonna raise you up.
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You're being baptized in the name of jesus christ.
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And the bible talks, at that moment,
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You give your life to jesus, he takes all your sins.
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He washes you white as snow.
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You are fully reconciled.
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Your ledger, the debt, has been paid in full.
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You come up out of that water, you are justified.
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And at that moment you come out of there,
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God puts his spirit inside of you
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And there will begin the process of being sanctified
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Where the holy spirit's gonna renew you day by day.
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And as you just keep feeding that spiritual man,
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You will have victory over the things of this world.
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And all god's people said amen. let's pray.
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God, thank you for today.
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Thank you for the book of romans.
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It is the mount everest of all the books
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That paul wrote.
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Thank you for those who are gonna read through it.
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Mostly, god, those here today,
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If they do not have the spirit of god in them,
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They're not even a christian.
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But if they would come today in faith
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And fully surrender unto you and name your name
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And call upon your name and be baptized in your name,
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God, you have promised
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That you will wipe the slate clean.
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You'll give us a new start, a new beginning.
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You won't even see the sin.
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There's--there will no longer be any condemnation of any kind,
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But we will be justified,
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And then we will begin to be sanctified
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As your spirit does the work that the holy spirit does.
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Bless each and every one of us.
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Bring us back safely next week, we ask in jesus's name.
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And all god's people said...
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Congregation: amen.
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Pastor dudley: thank you so much for coming to church.
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Kayla: in a brutal culture that was marked by laws,
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Rules, and judgment, jesus stood up to speak.
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He introduced a new way of life,
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A new kingdom built on grace and the forgiveness of sins.
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This is the message that "lift up jesus"
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You know that i love to preach, i love the word of god,
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Here in los angeles.
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It's an amazing experience you'll never forget.
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Until next time, remember to always lift up jesus.
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Dudley Rutherford - Addressing the Romans (Part 2)

March 27, 2026 | 27:29

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