Dr. Robert Jeffress

Robert Jeffress - How To Live and Love in a World That's Lost It's Way (Part 1)

June 1, 2026 | 27:29

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Dr. Robert Jeffress | Robert Jeffress - How To Live and Love in a World That's Lost It's Way (Part 1) | June 1, 2026

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From the pulpit of the first baptist church
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Of dallas, texas, this is "pathway to victory"
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With dr. robert jeffress.
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Hi, i'm robert jeffress.
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Welcome again to "pathway to victory."
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As a child, you probably remember seeing a copy
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Of the ten commandments hanging on your classroom wall.
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Sadly, you won't see them in many public schools today.
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But these simple rules still contain the guiding principles
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For excelling in your studies
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And in every area of your life.
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Today we're embarking on a study
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Of the ten commandments called "the ten."
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My introductory message is titled "how to live and love
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In a world that's lost its way,"
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On today's edition of "pathway to victory."
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For the first 10 years i was here as pastor,
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I drove the same car.
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And as the years wore on, my car started to wear out.
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It showed the age very quickly.
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It broke down in some inopportune places.
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I knew i was in trouble when the insurance company said,
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"we refuse to insure your car any longer."
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But i was holding on until one day i was walking to my car
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With our then deacon chairman
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And he said, "pastor," he was trying to be diplomatic.
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He said, "pastor, i know you think you're scoring
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Some points with the congregation for being so frugal
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And driving that car.
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Trust me, you're not gaining anything."
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He said, "our members are embarrassed
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That you drive a car like that.
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You need to get a new car."
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And so i finally broke down and went to the dealer
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And bought a new car and i handed my check to them.
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But the most amazing thing happened.
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They not only gave me the keys to my new car,
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They gave me a thick book
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Filled with rules about how i was to drive my car.
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In fact, i jotted down, you're not going to believe this,
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Jotted down some of these.
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Page seven, the manufacturer said,
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"don't text and drive."
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Now, who in the world are they to tell me
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How to communicate?
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Don't they know about the first amendment?
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I can communicate any way i want, when i want.
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Or page 15, i couldn't believe this,
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"never remove the coolant reservoir cap
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While the engine is running."
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No explanation of why not to do that.
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They just expect me to obey and take it by faith.
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And this took the cake,
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"always drive and ride with your seat back upright."
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(congregation laughs)
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Seat back upright?
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Don't they know how uncomfortable and unnatural that is?
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And if they didn't want me to recline,
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Why did they make it where it would recline?
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That's my car.
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I bought it. i can do anything i want to with it.
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Now obviously, the manufacturer came up with those rules,
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Not for their benefit, they don't get anything from it.
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They did it for my benefit.
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They're the ones who designed the car.
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They understand even better than i how it best operates,
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And they want me to enjoy my car to the fullest.
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Now, i know it's a silly illustration.
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But the fact is god has created,
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He's manufactured each of us.
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He's designed us and he knows under which circumstances
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And how we operate best.
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God is not some cosmic killjoy
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Who's trying to stamp out any vestige of enjoyment in life.
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God made us, he wants us to enjoy life now
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In the here and now and in the hereafter as well.
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And that's why he's given us his owner's manual.
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We call it the bible.
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In this book is everything you need to live life
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As god intended you to live it both now and forever.
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And as we look at god's word, the most basic list
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Of requirements that god gives us for a fulfilled life,
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The most basic rules are the ten commandments.
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And today we're going to begin looking at these commandments
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That i think we need to re-look again like never before.
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Now, before we begin our study on the ten commandments,
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I don't want you to open your bible
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And certainly don't use your iphone to google.
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Let me ask you, how many of the ten commandments
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Could you name right off the bat?
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How many, did you know a "usa today" survey
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Showed that 60% of americans could not name
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Even five of the commandments?
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Only 14% could name all of them.
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I think we're suffering the fallout of that.
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You know, up until the last 60 years,
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It was generally accepted in our country
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That the ten commandments were basic moral laws
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That everyone should follow.
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We had the ten commandments tacked up in a school room,
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We had them in our courthouses.
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There's a vestige of the ten commandments
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On the supreme court building.
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But about 60 years, these geniuses,
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I use the word sarcastically,
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Came up with the idea that we don't need god to be good.
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We can be good apart from god.
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And there began this wholesale effort
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To separate our nation from its christian foundation,
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Certainly represented by the ten commandments.
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And the climax of that effort to separate our country
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From our christian foundation occurred in 1980
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In the supreme court case of stone vs graham.
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The court case had to deal with displays
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Of the ten commandments that had been posted
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In kentucky schools.
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They weren't taught, they were simply posted
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In the kentucky schools.
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And the supreme court determined
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That that was unconstitutional,
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That it violated the so-called separation
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Of church and state.
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How did they come up with that reasoning?
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Let me read you what the supreme court said.
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"if the posted copies of the ten commandments
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Are to have any effect at all,
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It will be to induce the schoolchildren to read,
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Meditate upon, perhaps to venerate
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And obey the commandments.
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This is not a permissible state objective
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Under the establishment clause of the first amendment."
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Can you believe that we can't boast the ten commandments
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Because if we do, the children might actually read them.
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And if they read the commandments,
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God forbid they might obey them.
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And if they obey them,
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That is not permissible under the first amendment
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Of the constitution.
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I don't think it's coincidence that 17 years
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After that ruling, december 1st, 1997
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In another kentucky school, a group of students
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Gathered together before school to pray.
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A 14-year-old who have obtained a handgun
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Went up to those students at heath high school
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In paducah, kentucky, and he opened fire
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On those 12 praying students,
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Killing three, seriously wounding five.
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And it all happened in the school room
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Where 17 years earlier the supreme court said,
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"you cannot post the words 'thou shalt not kill.'"
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Hosea 4:6, god said, "my people are destroyed
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For lack of knowledge.
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Because you have rejected knowledge,
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I will also reject you from being my priest.
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Since you have forgotten the law of your god,
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I will also forget your children."
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We are reaping the consequence
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Of forgetting god's most basic laws.
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The increasing number of school shootings,
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The gender confusion among boys and girls,
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The drug addictions, the immorality,
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These things are not accidental.
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You cannot ignore the laws of god
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Without terrible consequences.
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And that's why today in a culture whereas isaiah 5 says,
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"we call good evil and evil good,"
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It is time for a fresh look at the ten commandments.
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And that's what we're doing beginning today.
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Today we're starting this series i'm calling "the ten:
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How to live and love in a world that has lost its way."
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If you have your bibles,
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You can now turn to exodus chapter 20.
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And before we begin looking at these commands,
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Let me just give you the historical setting
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For these commands.
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You remember that israel had lived under egyptian *******
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For 430 years, and finally god raised up
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The great liberator moses who would lead the exodus
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Out of egypt and into the promised land.
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And you remember after pharaoh initially said,
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"let them go,, he had a change of heart
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And he started chasing after them.
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They came to the red sea and god miraculously parted
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The red sea for the children of israel
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And consumed the egyptian soldiers.
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Once they were on the other side, they were getting ready
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To go to the promised land, but they stopped at mount sinai.
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And moses went to the top of the mountain
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For 40 days and 40 nights, why?
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To receive the law that would be the constitution
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For this new nation of israel in the promised land.
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It wasn't just the ten commandments, as we'll see,
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But it was all of the law.
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That's why it took 40 days and 40 nights.
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And you'll remember that as they came to kadesh barnea,
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The entry point into the promised land,
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They refused to believe god.
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God sentenced them to 40 years
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Of laundering around in a circle in the desert.
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40 years later, moses, now an old man,
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Stood on top of mount nebo
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And he repeated the law that god had given,
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And we find that in deuteronomy.
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Deutero meaning second, nomas meaning law.
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It was a second reading of the law.
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The point is that there are two lists
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Of the ten commandments.
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The original list found in exodus chapter 20
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Verses 1 to 17, and then 40 years later
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The second reading of the law,
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Deuteronomy 5, verses six through 21.
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Now, as moses stood up on mount nebo as an old man,
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He recounted how this law was given to him originally
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On top of mount sinai.
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In deuteronomy 5:22: moses said,
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"these words the lord spoke to all of your assembly
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At the mountain from the midst of the fire
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Of the cloud and of the thick bloom with a great voice,"
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Underline that.
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"god spoke to moses with a great voice and he added no more.
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He wrote them," underline wrote.
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"he wrote them on the two tablets of stone
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And gave them to me," moses said.
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Remember the movie "the ten commandments,"
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How charlton heston, moses went up to mount sinai
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And god spoke out the commands,
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But he wrote them with his own finger.
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You know, some people have the idea
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That the only part of god's word that is inspired by god
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Are the words god audibly spoke.
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And somehow when you reduce them to writing,
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That is inferior to the spoken word of god
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And that there had to be all kind of errors in the scripture
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Because man wrote it down.
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No, 2 timothy 3:16 says,
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"all scripture is inspired by god."
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That word scripture is the greek word graphe,
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Which means writing.
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It's not just the audible words of god and jesus
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That are inspired, the written word of scripture,
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The old and the new testament, every word is inspired.
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Literally theopneustos, it is god breathed.
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The words god spoke were inspired.
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Listen to what the lord specified
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Is the blessing to those who live by the words
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Of the ten commandments.
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"oh, that they may have such a heart in them,"
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Deuteronomy 5:29, "that they would fear me
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And keep all of my commandments always,
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That it may be well with them and their sons forever."
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Moses confirmed that blessing in verse 33 when he said,
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"you shall walk in all the way
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Which the lord your god has commanded you,
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That you may live and that it may be well with you
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And that you may prolong your days in the land
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Which you will possess."
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Now, this was a specific promise to israel
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As they went into this new country
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And they formed a new nation.
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God said, "if you will keep these words,
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You will enjoy as a nation, peace, justice, and morality."
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And there is a promise for us as well.
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I'll say it several times in this message,
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We are not israel.
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America is not the new israel,
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But there is a blessing to any nation
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And any individual that keeps these commands.
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God will bless them.
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You will never make it to heaven
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By keeping the ten commandments,
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But you will have a much better life
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Here on earth if you do.
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That is the promise that god is making.
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Now, what is the purpose of this law?
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You know all of this talk about the law,
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The law, obeying god's law.
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It's probably raising the question in your mind,
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"pastor, i thought you've said that the old testament
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Is old, it's an old covenant.
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It's not operational today."
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That's true, but that doesn't mean the law is evil,
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That it's bad.
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Yes, it's true that paul said in romans 6:15,
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"we're not under the law but we're under grace."
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Jesus said in john 1:17, "the law was given through moses.
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Grace and truth were realized through jesus christ."
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But the same apostle paul said in romans 7:12,
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"the law is holy."
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1 timothy 1:8, paul said,
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"the law is good if one uses the law lawfully."
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Let me illustrate what paul is saying there.
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How many of you have ever used a jug of drano before?
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You know drano, it's a great product.
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Is drano good or bad?
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It depends how you use it.
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It's good if you use it to unclog your sink.
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If you use it to take care of your indigestion, it's bad.
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You see, drano is only good as one uses it rightly,
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For the right purpose.
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And it's the same way with the law of god.
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The law is good for its purpose.
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But remember, even though the law is good,
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It's limited in what it could do.
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Let me show you what i mean.
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I want you to write down these three statements
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On your outline.
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What was the purpose of the law?
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The law was given to maintain order,
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Not to transform our heart.
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The law was given to maintain order,
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Not to transform our heart.
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Remember, after the flood,
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God had destroyed the world through the flood
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Because of the violence that was in the world.
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Did you know that was the primary reason for the flood?
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It wasn't immorality, it wasn't even idolatry,
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It was violence.
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Genesis 6:11, "now the earth was corrupt in the sight of god
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And the earth was filled with violence,"
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People killing people.
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And god said, "it's time to obliterate the world
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And start over again."
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So he created the ark.
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Noah and his family were on the ark for over a year.
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It was 40 days and 40 nights of rain,
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But they were on there for over a year,
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And when they finally came out,
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God basically gave mankind a do-over.
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And he said, "we're going to begin again.
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But in this new world, there has to be order."
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And genesis 9 represents the forming of government,
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A way to keep order in society.
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Genesis 9:6 says, "here is the first rule.
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Whoever sheds man's blood, by man his blood shall be shed,
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For in the image of god he made man."
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Now he's not talking, god's not talking about vengeance.
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You go out and kill somebody for doing something wrong.
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He's talking about there needs to be an objective
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Third party that enforces this law.
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Whoever kills another person, he shall be killed.
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As an example, this is the institution
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Of capital punishment,
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Which is still in effect today.
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And it should be, it's part of god's way
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Of maintaining order in society,
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Of keeping society within the guardrails of morality.
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In romans 13, paul expressed that.
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He said in romans 13:4, "for government is a minister of god
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To you for good.
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But if you do what is evil, be afraid,
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For government does not bear the sword,"
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That is had the ability to take a life for nothing.
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"for government is a minister of god,
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An avenger who brings wrath on those who practice evil.
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Therefore, it is necessary to be in subjection
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To government, not only because of wrath,
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But also for conscience sake."
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Here's the point. the law is good, it has some value.
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The law may keep you from killing somebody.
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The fear of being executed yourself
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May keep you from killing somebody,
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But it can never keep you from wanting to kill somebody.
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Speed limit sign, 70 miles per hour.
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That may keep you from pressing too hard on the accelerator,
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But it won't keep you from wanting to do that.
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It can maintain order, but it can't transform the heart.
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That's what paul is saying.
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Secondly, the law was given to reveal our unrighteousness,
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Not to make us righteous.
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The only thing the law can do
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Is show us how unholy we really are.
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That's what james had in mind when he said in james 1:23,
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"for if anyone is a hearer of the word but not a doer,
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He's like a man who looks at his natural face in a mirror.
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For once he has looked at himself and then gone his way,
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He's immediately forgotten what kind of person he was."
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A mirror is useful. it can show you that your face is dirty.
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But guess what?
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It's not going to reach for a bar of soap and a wash rag
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And wash your face for you.
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It can only reveal how unclean you are.
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If the law could make us righteous,
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Then would have no need for jesus christ.
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That's what paul said in galatians 2:21,
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"i do not nullify the grace of god,
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For if righteousness came through the law,
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Then christ died needlessly."
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If the law can make us holy, why do we need jesus?
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It can't make us righteous. only christ can.
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And the third limitation of the law was this.
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The law was given to lead us to our savior,
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Not to replace our savior.
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Again, colossians 3:24-25, paul writes,
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"therefore, the law has become our tutor
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To lead us to christ so that we might be justified by faith.
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But now that faith has come,
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We no longer are under a tutor."
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Now when we think of a tutor, we think of somebody we pay
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To help our kid out who's flunking algebra.
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We think of that as a tutor.
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That's not what the board means here.
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It means attendant or slave.
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In paul's culture,
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A slave would escort a child to the teacher.
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The teacher did the teaching.
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The tutor was only the leader who accompanied the child
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And led him to the teacher.
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That's what the law is.
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The law leads us to jesus,
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But it could never replace jesus.
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Again, the law is good if one uses it lawfully.
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Now, when we talk about the law,
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What exactly are we talking about?
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This is key to understanding these ten commandments.
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Remember i said when moses was on mount sinai
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For 40 days and 40 nights, he got all of the law.
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Everything you find in deuteronomy, in leviticus,
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It all was given to moses on the top of mount sinai.
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But the law was divided into three parts.
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First of all, you had the civil law.
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It was for how the nation of israel
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Was to conduct its affairs, the civil law.
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Israel was a theocracy.
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America is not a theocracy.
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The civil law that god gave israel
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Has no impact on how we are to live today.
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That has been done away with.
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We're not under that old covenant. there was the civil law.
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Secondly, there was the ceremonial law.
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These were the instructions about the endless sacrifices
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That the israelites offered
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To temporarily atone for sin.
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The goats, the blood of goats and bulls
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Could never wash away our sins.
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It was only a symbol.
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They went through these endless sacrifices.
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They went through these feast
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And observance of special days,
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But they are no longer applicable to us today.
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How do i know that?
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Listen to what paul says in colossians 2:16-17.
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"therefore, no one is to act as your judge
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In regard to food or drink or in respect to a festival
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Or a new boon or a sabbath day.
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These things which are a mere shadow of what is to come
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But the substance belongs to christ."
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You know, sometimes you can see somebody
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Coming by their shadow approaching.
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But when they come to you, ultimately do you interact
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With the shadow or with the person?
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Well, that's what paul said.
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All of these sacrifices, these special diets,
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They simply were a shadow of the christ who was yet to come.
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But now that christ was here, we don't need the shadow.
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We worship the substance.
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That's what he's talking about here.
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There was the civil law, ceremonial law,
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But the third part of the law was the moral law.
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This historical context from the old testament
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Sets the foundation for how we read
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And understand the ten commandments.
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So make plans to join me again next time
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For part two of this message.
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Most of us grew up seeing the ten commandments
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Posted in our schools and courthouses.
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So why don't we seem to follow
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Those ten commandments anymore?
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In "the ten,"
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Dr. robert jeffress shows us these ancient truths
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Were not given to us to take away our freedom.
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They were given to enhance our happiness
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And to invite us into a deeper love relationship with god.
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In a culture where moral confusion reigns,
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Where what's right is wrong and what's wrong is right,
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We desperately need to get back to the basics of morality.
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And that's exactly what the ten commandments help us do.
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"the ten" by dr. robert jeffress.
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By keeping the ten commandments,
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But you will have a much better life
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Here on earth if you do.
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♪ music ♪
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God gave us the ten commandments, not for his benefit,
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But for ours.
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When we stray from the instruction in his word,
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Dire consequences are sure to follow.
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But when we follow god's commands,
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We can experience true fullness and satisfaction in life.
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Next time, i'll continue to provide historical background
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For the law of moses and help you determine
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What part of that law is still applicable for us today.
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Stay tuned for a preview of what's coming up next
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In our series "the ten."
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I see people, not only non-christians but christians,
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Who are experiencing the carnage
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Of breaking themselves on god's commands,
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All because they've chosen to say no
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To god's most basic commands in life.
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Set your dvr and join us next time
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For part two of the message, "how to live and love
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In a world that has lost its way"
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Here on "pathway to victory."
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Robert Jeffress - How To Live and Love in a World That's Lost It's Way (Part 1)

June 1, 2026 | 27:29

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