Dr. Robert Jeffress

Robert Jeffress - Under New Management

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Dr. Robert Jeffress | Robert Jeffress - Under New Management | April 8, 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 am robert jeffress
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And welcome again to pathway to victory.
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An alarming number of christians believe that god's grace
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And forgiveness give them free reign
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To do whatever they please,
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But using grace as an excuse to sin
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Comes from a complete misunderstanding
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Of what grace really is.
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In fact, once grace invades our lives,
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Sin ought to receive an eviction notice.
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Today we're going to look at several radical changes
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That god's amazing grace brings into our lives.
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My message is titled "under new management"
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On today's edition of pathway to victory.
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Some christians use grace as a spiritual
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Get out of jail free card.
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Others pile on so many rules,
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They have no grace for themselves or others.
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In grace gone wild, dr. robert jeffress
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Shows you what biblical grace actually looks like
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And how practicing it leads to true freedom and lasting joy.
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Discover how grace can transform your marriage,
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Your relationships, and your walk with god.
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Request grace gone wild when you give a generous
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Ministry gift to pathway to victory.
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John newton understood the difference
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Between good grace and bad grace.
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Newton was born on july the 24th, 1725 in london, england.
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His father was the commander of a merchant's ship
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That sailed the mediterranean.
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Like his father, john newton had salt water in his veins
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And would spend the majority of his life on the open seas.
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When newton was 19, he enlisted to serve
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On the man-of-war hms harwich.
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Conditions on the ship were so intolerable
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That newton deserted the ship but was recaptured
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And publicly flogged for his disobedience.
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At his own request, john newton transferred
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To serve on a slave ship.
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He was brutally abused by the slave traitor whom he served
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And would've died had it not been by the rescue
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Of a sea captain who had been a friend
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Of john newton's father.
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In 1748, john newton became the captain
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Of his own slave ship on which ironically,
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He subjected the slaves
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To the same abuses he had endured.
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Although newton's mother had attempted
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To impart her christian faith to newton before she died,
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Newton had no use for religion.
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However, on may the 10th, 1748,
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All of that changed.
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Newton was sailing his ship home when he encountered
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A violent storm.
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Convinced that the storm would result in his own death,
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Newton cried out for help, "lord have mercy on us."
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Once the storm passed, newton sat in his cabin
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And reflected on the miracle he had just experienced.
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From that moment on, newton observed that day,
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May the 10th, 1748, as the day of his great deliverance,
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When god's grace began to work in his life.
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John newton eventually gave up slave trading
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And moved to liverpool where he worked
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As a surveyor of tides.
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He became a disciple
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Of the great evangelist george whitfield
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And an admirer of john wesley.
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Hungry to know god's word even more deeply,
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Newton taught himself greek and hebrew.
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Eventually newton was ordained
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And became the pastor of a church in olney, england.
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It was during those years of ministry in olney
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That john newton wrote, perhaps the most beloved hymn
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Of all time, amazing grace,
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How sweet the sound that saved a wretch like me.
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I once was lost, but now and found,
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Was blind but now i see.
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Through many dangers, toils and snares, we have already come
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'twas grace hath brought me safe thus far
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And grace will lead me home.
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One of the greatest experiences of my ministry
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Occurred some years ago when i visited that church
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That newton pastored in olney, england,
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And i climbed up in that same pulpit where he had preached
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And brought a message from god's word,
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And as moving as that experience was for me,
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Even more moving was going to the back of that church
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Outside to the little cemetery
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Where john newton was buried
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And i looked on his gravestone
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And read the epitaph he had designed for himself.
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It read john newton, clerk,
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Once an infidel and a libertine,
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A servant of slaves in africa
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Was by the rich mercy of our lord and savior jesus christ,
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Preserved, restored, pardoned, and appointed to preach
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The faith he had long labored to destroy.
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In a moment, in an instant,
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John newton had been transformed from a traitor of slaves
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To a slave of jesus christ.
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Grace freed john newton not to serve no master,
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But to serve a new master.
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John newton's life was truly under new management.
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Now there's some of you who would say, pastor,
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I'm a christian, but i don't have a dramatic story
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Like that, a dramatic conversion story.
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It doesn't matter how you came to faith,
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Whether it was on the open seas in a violent storm
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Or as a 7-year-old boy or girl.
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Regardless of how you came to faith,
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A dramatic change has occurred in your life
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Whether you realize it or not.
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And that's what we're going to talk about today
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And next time,
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We're going to talk about the seven radical changes
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That grace, god's amazing grace, brings into our lives.
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First of all, what does god's grace give to us?
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First of all, it results in a new awareness of sin.
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Grace makes us more aware,
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A new awareness of sin in our life.
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Remember what we saw last time
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In ephesians chapter two, verse one?
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Paul described our condition before christ,
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He said, and you were what?
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Dead in your trespasses and sins.
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A corpse has no feeling.
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It's unable to feel anything, and it's that way with us
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Before we are saved.
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It is grace that teaches us the fear.
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It is grace that allows us to experience the pain of our sin
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So that we can accept god's grace.
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That awareness of sin is not only necessary
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To lead us to salvation,
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But that awareness of sin plays a part in our life
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After we are saved, it leads us to sanctification.
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It leads us to become more like christ.
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Have you ever noticed the closer you get to god,
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The more aware you are of your own sin?
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That, too, is a gift from god.
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Paul described that pain he felt even
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As a christian about his own sin.
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In romans seven verses 18 through 20,
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Paul gave this very honest confession
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Of what his life was like even after
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He had experienced god's amazing grace.
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He said, for i know that nothing good dwells in me
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That is in my flesh.
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For the willingness present in me,
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But the doing of the good is not.
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For the good that i want i do not do,
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And i practice the very evil that i do not want to do.
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But if i am doing the very thing i do not want,
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I'm no longer the one doing it,
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But the sin which dwells in me, wretched man that i am,
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Verse 24, who will set me free from the body of this death.
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Have you ever felt that way before as a christian?
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The things you vow will never do again
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You find yourself doing
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And the things you promise to do,
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You find it hard to do what you've committed to god.
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That's the truth of every christian life.
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Now, the proponents of bad grace,
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The abusers of grace would've said,
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Paul, let me help you out with your dilemma.
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Quit worrying about sin. you're already a christian.
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You've already got your ticket to heaven.
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You have been declared judicially not guilty
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In the presence of god.
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You don't need to worry about sin. that's bad grace.
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That's an abuse of grace.
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To the purveyor of bad grace,
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Words like confession and repentance,
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They have no part in their vocabulary
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And yet god wants us to be aware of our sin
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And that awareness isn't a curse, it's a gift.
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It gives us a new awareness of sin,
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An awareness that leads to salvation, yes, but an awareness,
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Secondly, that leads to our sanctification.
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There's a second radical change
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God's amazing grace brings into our life
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And that is a new status before god, a new status with god.
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Paul describes this change in status in our relationship
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With god by two striking contrast.
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First of all, he says,
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Grace has changed us from being an enemy of god
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To becoming a friend of god.
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Listen to romans five, verses eight and 10,
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But god demonstrates his own love toward us
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And that while we were yet sinners, christ died for us.
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For while we were enemies of god,
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We were reconciled to god through the death of his son,
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Much more having been reconciled,
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We shall be saved by his faith.
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There's a second contrast to show the new status we have
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As recipients of god's grace.
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We have been changed from slaves to sons.
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Turn over to galatians four, verses six to seven.
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Paul talked about this change.
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He said, because you are sons, god has sent forth the spirit
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Of his son into our hearts, crying, abba, father.
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Therefore, you are no longer a slave but a son
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And if a son, then an heir through god.
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Now you have to understand what this culture is here
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To understand what paul is saying.
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In paul's day,
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Slaves were considered members of a household.
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They lived with their owners
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And that's why, for example, in ephesians five,
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When paul discusses relationships in the home,
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He talks about husbands and wives, children and parents,
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And slaves and their masters all were part
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Of a greek or roman household,
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But a slave had no rights whatsoever.
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A little baby, however, who was part of a family,
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Had a few rights, but a son,
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Somebody between the ages of 14 to 17 at that age,
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At the father's discretion, sometime in that period of time
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He would turn a child into a son
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And therefore a fellow heir.
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That boy between the ages of 14 and 17
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Had full rights to his father's estate.
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Now why does that matter here?
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In the bible, there are two metaphors that describe
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How we enter god's family.
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One is through a new birth.
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We're born again, that describes the new life we have,
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But the bible also says adoption is a picture
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Of the way we enter into god's family.
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We are adopted into god's family
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And here's why that's significant.
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In paul's day, if a couple was childless
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And they wanted a child,
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Many times they wouldn't go out and adopt a little baby.
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They would adopt a son to carry on their legacy
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Between the ages of 14 and 17.
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And so when that son was adopted,
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He came into the family not with just a few rights
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Like a baby would have, he would have the full rights
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As a fully grown son.
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And that's what paul is saying here,
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When we enter into god's family, we come not as a baby,
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We come as a son.
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We are an heir through god.
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What has god's amazing grace done for us?
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It's given us a new awareness of our sin
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That keeps us close to god.
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It's given us a new status with god.
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No longer enemies but friends, no longer slaves but sons.
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There's a third radical change, and i love this one.
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God's grace provides a new heart. it gives us a new heart.
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You know, since the beginning of time,
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Since after the fall, god had promised his people
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That one day he would give them a new heart.
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A heart that would be motivated to obey god,
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Not out of fear, but out of genuine desire.
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In ezekiel 36, let's go down to verse 26.
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God promised, moreover, i will give you a new heart
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And i'll put a new spirit within you
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And i will remove the heart of stone from your flesh
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And i will give you a heart of flesh.
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When does that new heart, that new set of desires come?
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Historically, it came after christ died
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And was raised from the dead.
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And at pentecost, god sent his holy spirit
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To indwell every believer.
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And now for anyone who receives god's grace
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And forgiveness in his life,
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God not only provides a pardon from sin,
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He provides a brand new power.
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The power of the holy spirit who makes us into a new person,
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Giving us a new heart with new desires,
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And yet, to fully appreciate the new heart
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That god gives us, we have to understand the old heart
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That still remains within us.
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Paul describes the defectiveness of our own heart,
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The heart of stone, as god calls it, in galatians 5:17.
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For the flesh sets its desire against the spirit
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And the spirit against the flesh
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For these are in opposition to one another
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So that you may not do the things that you please.
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What are those deeds of the flesh?
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Verse 19, immorality, impurity, sensuality,
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Idolatry, sorcery, enmity, strife, jealousy,
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Outbursts of anger, disputes, dissensions, factions,
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Envy and drunkenness, carousing
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And the things of which i forewarn you.
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That's the product of the old heart.
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The heart of stone.
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Isn't that exactly what galatians 5:17 says?
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There is a civil war that is going on
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In the heart of every believer.
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I read romans seven to you
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For a moment ago from the new american standard.
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Let me read it again from the living translation
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Because i think this captures it.
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Romans seven, verse 21,
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I have discovered this principle of life that
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When i want to do what is right,
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I inevitably do what is wrong.
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I love god's law with all of my heart,
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But there is another power within me
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That is at war with my mind.
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This power makes me a slave to the sin
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That is still within me.
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Oh, what a miserable person i am.
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Who will free me from this life
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That is dominated by sin and death?
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Paul wrote that as a christian. does that resonate with you?
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Have you felt that way before?
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Look, the bible says there is a battle
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That's going on in the heart of every believer.
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That war is inevitable.
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But here's the good news. it is winnable.
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It is a winnable war.
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And the reason is this,
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Unlike the false teaching you hear from some christians,
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Those two hearts within us are not equally powerful.
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They are not equally powerful.
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There are reality, they're there.
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But if you have truly trusted in christ as your savior,
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Your old heart, that flesh,
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Its power over you has been destroyed.
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That's what paul said in romans six
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Verses five through seven,
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For if we have become united with christ
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In the likeness of his death,
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Certainly we shall also be in the likeness
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Of his resurrection.
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Knowing this, that our old self, our old heart,
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Was crucified with him in order that our body of sin
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Might be done away with
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So that we would no longer be slaves to sin.
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For he who has died is freed from sin.
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Now, this is one of the most unfortunate translations
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In all of the bible.
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When the english translators translated this word,
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Our body of sin has been done away with.
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That makes it sound like it's disappeared.
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We all know that's not true.
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Sin has not disappeared from our life.
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The desire to sin has not disappeared. it's been crucified.
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Now in the new testament, when somebody was crucified,
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They didn't disappear.
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They didn't jump off the cross,
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But they were rendered powerless.
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And the same thing has happened to that sin power
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In your life.
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When you trust in christ as your savior,
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A spear has been driven through that sin nature,
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That old heart of yours.
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It no longer has any more power over your life
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Than you choose to allow it to have.
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Now, that used to bother me
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For a long time in reading the bible.
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I couldn't understand,
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How is it that if my sin nature had been crucified,
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It still has some regular victories in my life.
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Saint augustine used three phrases
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To describe our relationship to sin,
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And this might be helpful to you.
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Write these down.
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Before we become a christian,
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The phrase that describes us is not able not to sin.
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Did you know a non-christian is not able not to sin?
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Not consistently anyway. sin is a part of his nature.
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Romans 5:12 explains why that is.
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Therefore justice through one man, adam,
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Sin entered the world and death through sin
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And death spread to all men
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Because all sinned when adam, the head of the race sinned,
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Sin absolutely infected every one of his offspring
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Down to you and me today.
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We have been infected with sin.
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Our nature is corrupted. we are not able not to sin.
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You know that's the same thing about people
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Before they become christians.
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It's not logical to sin.
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It's not logical to feel the pain of your sin,
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But logic has nothing to do with it.
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It is part of our nature. we are slaves to sin.
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But there's a second phrase, able not to sin.
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That's what happens after we become a christian.
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When we become a christian again, paul says,
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We're no longer prisoners to sin.
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We have a choice to obey god or our old nature.
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Romans six, six to seven,
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For he who has died is freed from sin.
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And the third phrase, the one that we look forward to
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One day is not able to sin.
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One day when we've laid aside this old corrupt body
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That is filled with suffering, sickness, and yes, sin.
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One day when we inherit that new body god has
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Planned for us, we will be rid of that old heart
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And we'll come to the place that we are not able to sin.
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Paul talks about that in romans 7:24 and 25,
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Wretched man that i am,
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Who will set me free from the body of this death.
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Thanks be to god through jesus christ our lord.
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2000 years ago, jesus christ invaded this planet
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And at the cross of jesus christ,
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He conquered sin and death forever.
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It was 2000 years ago at calvary
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That the mission was accomplished and satan was deposed.
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You say, what does all of this have to do with grace?
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Those who spread false grace talk about the two powers,
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The old nature and the new nature, but they equate them
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And they say they are equal in force
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And they teach that as long as we live in this world,
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We can have no victory over sin whatsoever.
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We are slaves to sin.
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Only when we get to heaven will we enjoy freedom from sin.
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That is a lie from the pit of hell.
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Don't fall for it.
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2000 years ago, jesus christ defeated the power
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Of sin in your life.
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He has destroyed satan's dictatorship over your life.
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Now live like you are free instead of a slave.
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That is the amazing result of god's amazing grace.
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I couldn't possibly be more excited about the topic of grace
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Because god's grace in its purest form has the capacity
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To radically transform the way you engage with god
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And with others.
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And i hope you'll continue to join us throughout this series
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As we learn more about god's amazing grace.
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As together we pierce the darkness
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Now please stay right there.
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I'll be back with more pathway to victory in just a moment.
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The bible tells us we're saved by grace,
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But do you allow yourself to receive grace?
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Do you practice grace?
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Do you abuse god's grace?
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In grace gone wild, dr. robert jeffress
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Clears up the confusion
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Christians fall into one of two traps
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When it comes to grace.
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Some believe grace means there are no boundaries
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In living.
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Others pile on so many rules
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That christianity feels like a burden instead of a blessing.
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In my book, grace gone wild,
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I'll show you that true grace leads to a deeper,
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More joy-filled relationship with god.
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And perverted it.
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They are robbing themselves of the joy
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With the light of god's word.
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From the moment we receive god's grace,
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Everything changes.
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Grace gives us a new awareness of sin,
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A new status before god and a new heart.
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And while these changes can't be seen in a mirror,
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They can clearly be seen in our outward behavior.
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I hope you'll make plans
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To join me again next time when i'll share several
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More radical changes
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That take place when god's grace enters our lives.
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Stay tuned for a preview
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Of what's coming up next in our series, grace gone wild.
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You know there are many christians today who think
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Because they're saved and serve on his majesty's service,
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That they've been given a special license,
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A license to sin.
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In fact, whenever they're met with any kind
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Of standard whatsoever, they pull out that license
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Robert Jeffress - Under New Management

April 8, 2026 | 27:29

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