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The Winning Walk with Dr. Ed Young

Ed Young - ABC's of Christianity

May 17, 2026 | 27:29

Ed Young - ABC's of Christianity
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The Winning Walk with Dr. Ed Young | Ed Young - ABC's of Christianity | May 17, 2026
  • He became
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  • The one who brought justice
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  • And was a justifier because he took the
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  • Wrath of god upon himself.
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  • Do you understand that perfectly?
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  • If you do, you're the only one in the planet.
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  • But his profound.
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  • This is a deeper understanding.
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  • The contrast between
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  • Sinai and calvary, and the understanding
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  • Of how justice takes place in your life.
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  • In my life, in the world,
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  • Because god is a god of wrath and his wrath
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  • And his punishment that you and i deserve.
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  • It was put on jesus, and jesus took it and said,
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  • Not my will, but thy will be done.
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  • The father in heaven.
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  • Now the book of romans is different
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  • From all the other letters that paul pin.
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  • It's radically different.
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  • All the other works of paul were generally
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  • Answering questions that he'd been asked.
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  • He was trying to deal
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  • With problems in the churches that he had founded.
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  • Romans is different.
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  • Totally, radically different.
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  • Romans and his paul and his third missionary
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  • Journey was probably in corinth.
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  • He would have wintered there,
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  • And therefore he was right into the church at rome.
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  • A church he'd never visited at that time.
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  • The basic doctrines of christianity.
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  • You see the difference before he's answering questions,
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  • And now he's the argument, the apologetics for this.
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  • It was christians believe, and this is who christians are.
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  • So therefore there is a foundation there
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  • That he gives us in the book of romans.
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  • Let me tell you something.
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  • You can
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  • Sort of just slop your way through
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  • Church and bible and education and myths.
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  • The basic fundamentals of our faith.
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  • You say, well, that gets pretty deep.
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  • It is deep.
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  • Because anything anybody does in
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  • Any discipline of life, it takes knowledge.
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  • We don't have the fundamentals of our faith down.
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  • Therefore, when the bottom falls out of your life
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  • And it will
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  • When the bottom falls out of your life,
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  • You really don't have
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  • A place to stand.
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  • If you and i could master,
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  • You think we could master 39 verses?
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  • Just 39.
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  • If we could master this, we would have
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  • The basic fundamental doctrines.
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  • Belief of christianity.
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  • You say? well, i've already got that.
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  • Well, let's have a discussion of propitiation.
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  • Would you stand and let us talk about that a little bit?
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  • You see, there's so much language and vocabulary
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  • There that's hidden behind, you know, 15, $20 words.
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  • And we're going to take and try to own pack that.
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  • So after 17 sessions we'll have it down.
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  • This is the abcs of christianity.
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  • We have to think so.
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  • Therefore bring your bible with you,
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  • Your bible with you,
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  • And bring a pad and a pencil with you.
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  • If you don't,
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  • Take notes on the margin so that you will be able to
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  • Not only understand, but absorb
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  • And apply these truths in your life.
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  • It's the key to the bible.
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  • It's the key to life.
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  • Now romans chapter one to chapter five.
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  • It sort
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  • Of tells us that we who are with christ,
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  • Who receive christ, we have been redeemed
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  • One through five, and then six, seven
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  • And eight chapters are different.
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  • You read chapter six and you see the word
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  • Sin mentioned 17 times.
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  • Therefore, make a wild guess.
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  • What is chapter six about?
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  • It's about sin.
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  • What do we do about sin?
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  • We talk about justification.
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  • That's another word we'll unpack
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  • As we go through our study.
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  • Then in romans chapter seven,
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  • You ought to be familiar with that verse.
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  • It's all about the law.
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  • Paul is trying to explain to us the christian life, right?
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  • And he gets in romans seven.
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  • And by the way, that's what you see, an old testament
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  • Christian, old testament christian under the law,
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  • Keep the law all the way through the old testament.
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  • The law, the law is superior.
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  • I love the law.
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  • I study the law morning, noon and night.
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  • It was all about the law.
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  • Legalism. this is right. this is wrong.
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  • Keep the law and all the interpretations
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  • Of the law in that day. right?
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  • Then you come the new testament.
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  • You say, well, it's it's all about grace.
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  • And paul puts it in perspective and shows us
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  • Exactly the purpose of the law.
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  • What is the purpose of ten commandments?
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  • It tells us what's right and what's wrong.
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  • Paul said, before i had my bar mitzvah, i became a man.
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  • I didn't have any problem with the law.
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  • But he said, once i went to my bar mitzvah
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  • And i became a man, and then the law was set down.
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  • He said, now i've had a problem.
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  • It has exposed sin.
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  • It has put upon me a law, a rule,
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  • A regulation, a power that i don't like to live with.
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  • But he said it's there.
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  • It's a principle of god.
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  • There's nothing about the tenure.
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  • So we need to throw out the window.
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  • They simply are the measuring stick,
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  • The rod that helps us to understand right and wrong.
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  • We do not live under that.
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  • And paul said he tried and he talks about in verse
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  • In chapter six, remember he mentions sin 17 times.
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  • Chapter seven, he mentions law 18 times.
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  • And in chapter seven he also goes on and sees
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  • That little personal pronoun i and me and mine
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  • Is mentioned some 31 times.
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  • You think
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  • You think that's the problem?
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  • All we like sheep have gone astray.
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  • We've turned everyone to his own way.
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  • That's what sin is, isn't it?
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  • We do our own way.
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  • That's what i'm tells us.
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  • And therefore we turn to our own way away
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  • From the law of god.
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  • And look at the mess we get in.
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  • And paul here is grappling people who say,
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  • This wasn't paul.
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  • They don't know human nature
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  • Because paul tells us there at least three kinds of
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  • Christian, three kinds of people.
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  • Rather, there's a natural person.
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  • They're born image of god, their son and daughter of god,
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  • But not in the family of god.
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  • They just have the image of god.
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  • They're the natural man, the natural woman.
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  • And then finally there's a carnal man of a carnal woman.
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  • We have believed in jesus christ.
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  • We have received him in our life.
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  • We may have been baptized and marginalized
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  • Or volcanoes pasteurized, and we're in the church,
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  • But we're still living a carnal life, a fleshly life.
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  • Then there's a spiritual person, the man or woman,
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  • And that's one who understands.
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  • It is the power of the spirit that enables us to live
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  • The christian life.
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  • So paul here talks about frustration that he have.
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  • And i just love romans chapter seven.
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  • We can all identify with that.
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  • He starts out
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  • And by the way, he talks about beginning in verse
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  • 21 through the end of chapter seven.
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  • Look what he says.
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  • But i find there is a law that is evil
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  • Is present with me, the one who wills to do good.
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  • Lord, he's saying, there are two egos in me, says paul.
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  • By the way,
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  • There are two egos in all of us that there are two eyes.
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  • There's the i hear that we decided
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  • As christians in our mind,
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  • We're going to live the christian life,
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  • All the old garbage and trash and attitudes, all the old.
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  • But we're through with that.
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  • And we make new year's resolution.
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  • How many men here made a new year's resolution?
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  • Would you live your hand? not to me.
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  • I am all over statistic.
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  • Tell us.
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  • In 32 days that won't work.
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  • But anyway, i think it's good.
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  • This is what paul did.
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  • He said in my mind
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  • I have decided, man, i am going to obey the law.
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  • I'm not going to break the law.
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  • I'm going to live a moral life.
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  • But he also said, there's another ego in me.
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  • Did you get it?
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  • He said, there's a law that evil is present,
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  • The one who wills to do good in my mind.
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  • But in practice, so many times i continually mess up.
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  • We all can identify with that.
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  • There are two egos also, he says, there are two entirely
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  • Different separate laws.
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  • And as we study, we're going to discover
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  • There's even a third one, he says.
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  • For our delight in the law of god,
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  • According to the inward man.
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  • But i see another law in my members,
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  • Warned against the law of my mind
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  • And bringing me into captivity to the law of sin.
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  • There's a law
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  • Of my mind, for i want to live for god,
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  • Live for christ, let my life shine for him.
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  • But in me there's another law, and that's evil.
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  • And that law keeps sticking its ugly head up
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  • And so we have within us, paul says we have the law.
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  • We want to keep the standard, but there's evil in us.
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  • I keep breaking that law.
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  • So we have two egos,
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  • We have two laws, and he has two cries here.
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  • He said, oh, wretched man that i am,
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  • Who will deliver me from the body of death?
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  • And there is probably a picture
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  • Of how in those roman days
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  • They would punish somebody was a murderer.
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  • If you murdered someone and you were convicted of that,
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  • They would take the murderer and they would take the body,
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  • The person they had murdered, and they would tie
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  • The murderer to the body of the person he had killed.
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  • And they would hang them before the city,
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  • And they would hang up their body
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  • To body, bound together, the murderer alive.
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  • But the body, the one who was killed,
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  • Bound to him until the one who was live
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  • Died himself with all the flies and the stench
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  • You can imagine.
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  • By the way, that sure did cut down on homicide.
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  • It sure did.
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  • This is a picture paul is saying.
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  • Who will deliver me from the body of death?
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  • He cries out. amen. i'm bound.
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  • I want to do right, but i do wrong.
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  • I say, i'm not going to do that.
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  • I end up doing.
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  • And then he the second cry he is.
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  • Thanks be unto god through jesus christ our lord.
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  • That's the second cry that he has here.
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  • And then he ends up and he talks about two results.
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  • Last verse of chapter seven.
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  • So then with the mind,
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  • I myself serve the law of god,
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  • But with the flesh
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  • The law of sin.
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  • I don't want to show of hands because every hand
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  • Would have to go up.
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  • This is a part of the cross.
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  • Pull the tension that we have in all of our lives.
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  • So then paul said, thanks be to god through
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  • Jesus christ our lord.
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  • This conflict, this inner battle in me.
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  • And then he gives us a solution.
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  • In romans chapter number eight,
  • 00:12:44.175 --> 00:12:48.446
  • We're going to look at just part of the first verse.
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  • Paul says, there is therefore now
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  • No condemnation.
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  • There is therefore, by the way, he says, therefore
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  • It means everything that's gone before.
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  • You can't take a verse, the bible and just put it out
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  • And say, well, this means this.
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  • He he goes back and said, all this
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  • I've been saying in romans, all i've been teaching about god.
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  • Therefore, therefore, in light of this, what a big word.
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  • Anytime in the bible you see the word.
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  • Therefore take a time out,
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  • When i was a boy, there
  • 00:13:27.185 --> 00:13:28.653
  • Was a popular little song called mother.
  • 00:13:28.653 --> 00:13:32.223
  • Derived from the acrostic motif.
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  • Though the lyrics are not christian.
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  • They are certainly universal in their application
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  • Of mothers everywhere as a child.
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  • I had to
  • 00:13:46.070 --> 00:13:47.171
  • Sing this over a radio station in laurel, mississippi.
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  • Would you believe that?
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  • And so, as a heartfelt tribute to mothers and mother figures
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  • Everywhere, i decided to have some fun
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  • With this little acrostic for mother's day.
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  • For mother's day only.
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  • So i've created a one week devotional for moms.
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  • Through these pages, i hope to honor our mothers,
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  • Glorify god, and inspire both mothers and children
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  • To pray for those whom god has carefully designed
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  • To nurture and guide each and every new generation.
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  • To get you a copy.
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  • Call the number on the screen or visit the website below
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  • And give someone who has been a mother figure to you,
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  • Or give one to your mother.
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  • And by the way, keep one for yourself.
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  • He shouts out the victory.
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  • He said, therefore now and forever, past, present, future.
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  • There is no condemnation.
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  • Now we don't use that word condemnation
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  • Too much, do we?
  • 00:14:58.276 --> 00:15:01.112
  • But it's a big word.
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  • Somebody says, you know,
  • 00:15:03.781 --> 00:15:05.783
  • I want a god of love and not a god of wrath.
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  • You have said that
  • 00:15:08.519 --> 00:15:10.355
  • You don't have a god of love unless you have a god of wrath.
  • 00:15:10.355 --> 00:15:13.925
  • That's big bad news.
  • 00:15:14.392 --> 00:15:15.493
  • But will it be good news?
  • 00:15:15.493 --> 00:15:17.195
  • And god is a god of wrath as well as a god of love,
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  • Because in his love is wrath.
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  • It's wrath.
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  • For god sent out his son in the world
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  • To condemn the world.
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  • He didn't send jesus in to condemn the world,
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  • But jesus took the wrath, the wrath, the judgment of god
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  • Upon himself. that's the cross.
  • 00:15:40.251 --> 00:15:43.421
  • Therefore we get the law
  • 00:15:43.421 --> 00:15:45.823
  • Mixed up with grace, and we get it mixed up with love.
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  • And we want to say, well, i don't want
  • 00:15:48.960 --> 00:15:50.895
  • God to be a god of rap, but he is. why?
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  • If he were not a god of wrath, there would not be justice.
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  • Justice.
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  • Verse john one nine if we confess our sin,
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  • He is able and just not merciful.
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  • He is merciful, but he is just to forgive our sin
  • 00:16:08.046 --> 00:16:13.117
  • And therefore for justice to take place in this world,
  • 00:16:13.117 --> 00:16:17.889
  • In the economy of life, in the economy of eternity,
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  • The wrath of god has to be displayed
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  • And the wrath of god was put on jesus.
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  • Jesus altered life and talked
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  • About his impending death, right?
  • 00:16:31.569 --> 00:16:34.372
  • He talked about he knew his assignment.
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  • He knew his purpose in this world as god, man in the flesh.
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  • He knew that.
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  • But then he came together in and he looked in that cup.
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  • And you see it in, in other places.
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  • He saw there the wrath of god.
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  • And he didn't want to drink that cup.
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  • Right.
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  • He's talked about clearly in the gospel, particularly
  • 00:16:53.524 --> 00:16:55.960
  • The gospel of mark, and that in that cup was hell.
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  • Hll, he didn't want to drink hell.
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  • And he backed away from it.
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  • He said, father, you you're i'm not present.
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  • You're omniscient.
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  • You're you're all powerful.
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  • Listen, if any way.
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  • I don't want to drink this cup.
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  • Do you have a better plan?
  • 00:17:18.015 --> 00:17:20.418
  • But then he said, not my will, but thy will be done.
  • 00:17:20.418 --> 00:17:25.356
  • Now, some people
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  • Have a problem that, when you think about it.
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  • For god so loved the world.
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  • Not jesus so loved the world. he did.
  • 00:17:31.562 --> 00:17:34.198
  • But that's not what john 316 says.
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  • For god so loved the world
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  • That he, god, gave his only begotten son.
  • 00:17:38.636 --> 00:17:42.173
  • Jesus saw hell in his humanity.
  • 00:17:42.173 --> 00:17:45.610
  • He saw the wrath of god poured out
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  • Upon all sin and all people at all times.
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  • And in his humanity he backed away from it.
  • 00:17:51.415 --> 00:17:54.452
  • But in his humanity
  • 00:17:54.452 --> 00:17:58.222
  • Coupled with divinity, he said, but not my will.
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  • It's god's will.
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  • For god so loved the world.
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  • And most important thing to jesus was
  • 00:18:06.063 --> 00:18:09.033
  • What doing the will of god,
  • 00:18:09.033 --> 00:18:12.336
  • Doing the will of god the most important thing.
  • 00:18:12.336 --> 00:18:16.440
  • And therefore he died on the cross.
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  • He took all the wrath that you and
  • 00:18:18.242 --> 00:18:21.612
  • I deserved upon himself.
  • 00:18:21.612 --> 00:18:24.382
  • And therefore you have a crazy
  • 00:18:24.382 --> 00:18:26.851
  • Little verse in their way.
  • 00:18:26.851 --> 00:18:29.554
  • Back in chapter three of romans, it says,
  • 00:18:29.554 --> 00:18:32.690
  • The just became the justifier.
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  • What does that mean?
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  • Jesus, who was just and perfect, was the one
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  • Who justified you and myself on that cross.
  • 00:18:41.933 --> 00:18:47.405
  • Divinity turned its back on divinity.
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  • How can this be?
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  • My god, my god, why is that forsaken me?
  • 00:18:52.877 --> 00:18:55.479
  • Because he knew the father would not look upon
  • 00:18:55.479 --> 00:18:59.383
  • Hell and upon garbage and sin and trash.
  • 00:18:59.383 --> 00:19:03.688
  • He knew the father would turn him back on his son.
  • 00:19:03.688 --> 00:19:06.624
  • But jesus in his perfection, god, man in this earth,
  • 00:19:06.624 --> 00:19:10.595
  • He became the one who brought justice
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  • And was a justifier because he took the
  • 00:19:14.532 --> 00:19:17.835
  • Wrath of god upon himself.
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  • Do you understand that perfectly?
  • 00:19:20.171 --> 00:19:22.340
  • If you do, you're the only one in the planet.
  • 00:19:22.340 --> 00:19:25.276
  • But his profound.
  • 00:19:25.276 --> 00:19:27.979
  • This is a deeper understanding.
  • 00:19:27.979 --> 00:19:31.048
  • The contrast between
  • 00:19:31.048 --> 00:19:33.284
  • Sinai and calvary, and the understanding
  • 00:19:33.284 --> 00:19:37.221
  • Of how justice takes place in your life.
  • 00:19:37.221 --> 00:19:40.958
  • In my life, in the world,
  • 00:19:40.958 --> 00:19:42.526
  • Because god is a god of wrath and his wrath
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  • And his punishment that you and i deserve.
  • 00:19:45.730 --> 00:19:48.232
  • It was put on jesus, and jesus took it and said,
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  • Not my will, but thy will be done.
  • 00:19:51.836 --> 00:19:56.207
  • The father in heaven.
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  • What?
  • 00:19:58.542 --> 00:19:59.076
  • What a fabulous thing.
  • 00:19:59.076 --> 00:20:00.745
  • And then we come all the way and look at romans
  • 00:20:00.745 --> 00:20:03.914
  • Chapter eight, and we see the results of this,
  • 00:20:03.914 --> 00:20:07.852
  • And we see the results of here
  • 00:20:07.852 --> 00:20:10.688
  • Are those who walk with christ and those who do not.
  • 00:20:10.688 --> 00:20:14.292
  • There is therefore now no condemnation. why?
  • 00:20:14.292 --> 00:20:17.862
  • Because jesus took the condemnation upon him.
  • 00:20:17.862 --> 00:20:21.299
  • He took the wrath that we deserve upon himself,
  • 00:20:21.299 --> 00:20:24.335
  • By the way.
  • 00:20:24.335 --> 00:20:25.202
  • Romans begins with no condemnation.
  • 00:20:25.202 --> 00:20:27.538
  • In the middle of chapter eight it says, no defeat,
  • 00:20:27.538 --> 00:20:31.776
  • And the end it says no separation, condemnation.
  • 00:20:31.776 --> 00:20:36.080
  • Take care up front.
  • 00:20:36.080 --> 00:20:37.882
  • No defeat in the middle.
  • 00:20:37.882 --> 00:20:39.417
  • And finally, there's no separation.
  • 00:20:39.417 --> 00:20:41.552
  • We're with him now and in him forever.
  • 00:20:41.552 --> 00:20:43.688
  • Sometime read john 17.
  • 00:20:43.688 --> 00:20:46.123
  • There's a beautiful little verse there.
  • 00:20:46.123 --> 00:20:48.459
  • I call it the heavenly dance.
  • 00:20:48.459 --> 00:20:50.661
  • God the father, god the son, god the holy spirit.
  • 00:20:50.661 --> 00:20:53.597
  • And they're dancing together in eternity.
  • 00:20:53.597 --> 00:20:56.334
  • And and jesus says,
  • 00:20:56.334 --> 00:20:58.302
  • Pray that you will come and be a part of that dance.
  • 00:20:58.302 --> 00:21:01.138
  • Isn't that great
  • 00:21:01.138 --> 00:21:02.340
  • That you and i will be a part of that divine holy dance
  • 00:21:02.340 --> 00:21:05.976
  • That we have pictures of here in the scripture.
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  • No condemnation.
  • 00:21:10.581 --> 00:21:12.216
  • Therefore, now, no kind of why is there no condemnation?
  • 00:21:12.216 --> 00:21:16.754
  • That's the next phrase to those
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  • Who are in christ jesus.
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  • Stay with me.
  • 00:21:23.761 --> 00:21:25.730
  • Those who are in christ jesus.
  • 00:21:25.730 --> 00:21:30.368
  • In the writings of paul,
  • 00:21:30.901 --> 00:21:33.371
  • The phrase in christ, in him
  • 00:21:33.371 --> 00:21:37.675
  • Or in christ jesus is mentioned
  • 00:21:37.675 --> 00:21:40.478
  • 164 times.
  • 00:21:40.478 --> 00:21:43.948
  • Well, that must really be important, isn't it?
  • 00:21:44.915 --> 00:21:48.018
  • I can you and i know that we're in christ jesus.
  • 00:21:48.018 --> 00:21:52.056
  • How can you and i understand that all these promises,
  • 00:21:52.056 --> 00:21:55.059
  • All the purposes, all the life, belongs to you and me.
  • 00:21:55.059 --> 00:21:58.896
  • How do you know if you're in christ?
  • 00:21:58.896 --> 00:22:01.399
  • Let me illustrate that for you as best i can.
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  • This is you.
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  • This is me, okay?
  • 00:22:08.205 --> 00:22:11.175
  • When become in christ, we are born again.
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  • That's that second birth.
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  • The first time we're born like adam, right?
  • 00:22:16.447 --> 00:22:19.316
  • Weird.
  • 00:22:19.517 --> 00:22:20.518
  • And then the second time we're born in christ.
  • 00:22:20.518 --> 00:22:22.686
  • The second adam.
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  • And therefore, when you and i.
  • 00:22:23.621 --> 00:22:26.290
  • This is you and this is me.
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  • We are in christ.
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  • Bam! we're in christ forever.
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  • It's irrevocable.
  • 00:22:35.566 --> 00:22:36.700
  • There's no ifs, ands, or buts about it.
  • 00:22:36.700 --> 00:22:40.504
  • What does romans eight tell us, folks?
  • 00:22:40.504 --> 00:22:43.607
  • It tells us how to live a life that wins.
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  • It tells us how to live an abundant life.
  • 00:22:47.244 --> 00:22:50.915
  • He ever tried to play chess?
  • 00:22:51.515 --> 00:22:54.218
  • I did years ago.
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  • I said, you know, i'm going to work at this.
  • 00:22:56.220 --> 00:22:58.923
  • And i read a little book and played a little chest.
  • 00:22:58.923 --> 00:23:01.592
  • And, you know, i lost more than i won, even with amateurs.
  • 00:23:01.592 --> 00:23:06.330
  • But i'm telling you, that's heavy, heavy traffic.
  • 00:23:06.330 --> 00:23:11.135
  • Let's say
  • 00:23:11.135 --> 00:23:12.336
  • That you were sitting down to play with a master of chess.
  • 00:23:12.336 --> 00:23:15.072
  • I mean, somebody who enters a tournament who's
  • 00:23:15.072 --> 00:23:18.008
  • At the top of the line in the whole area of chess.
  • 00:23:18.008 --> 00:23:21.412
  • Now the master gets to move and you get to move.
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  • The master has a free will to move anywhere
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  • That she would want to move.
  • 00:23:28.652 --> 00:23:29.954
  • Right?
  • 00:23:29.954 --> 00:23:30.955
  • Or he would want to move the master of chess
  • 00:23:30.955 --> 00:23:33.224
  • Free will move anyway.
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  • You have the same choice. you move anywhere.
  • 00:23:35.125 --> 00:23:37.194
  • I move anywhere.
  • 00:23:37.194 --> 00:23:38.796
  • Who's going to win?
  • 00:23:38.796 --> 00:23:40.798
  • Well, every move the amateur makes, the master
  • 00:23:40.798 --> 00:23:43.501
  • Makes a counter move.
  • 00:23:43.501 --> 00:23:45.169
  • And the master is going to trap you and capture your king.
  • 00:23:45.169 --> 00:23:48.205
  • Right. and win.
  • 00:23:48.205 --> 00:23:49.773
  • Guaranteed one of us in at a time.
  • 00:23:49.773 --> 00:23:51.876
  • Now, it's not that you and i don't have free
  • 00:23:51.876 --> 00:23:54.645
  • Will in moving on the chess board,
  • 00:23:54.645 --> 00:23:57.481
  • But we know the master is always ahead
  • 00:23:57.481 --> 00:24:00.885
  • And always sovereign, and knows the formula for winning.
  • 00:24:00.885 --> 00:24:04.688
  • Let me tell you something.
  • 00:24:04.688 --> 00:24:06.690
  • God wants you and i to win in life.
  • 00:24:06.690 --> 00:24:09.393
  • And when we discover that through
  • 00:24:10.127 --> 00:24:12.196
  • The principles of romans eight applied in our life, not sinai
  • 00:24:12.196 --> 00:24:16.100
  • Alone, but calvary with it, then we'll be winners.
  • 00:24:16.100 --> 00:24:20.104
  • And that's his will
  • 00:24:20.104 --> 00:24:23.240
  • Tell us how to live.
  • 00:24:23.240 --> 00:24:24.675
  • And i'm so excited about romans eight.
  • 00:24:24.675 --> 00:24:26.844
  • I'm going to cheat a little bit.
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  • Look what the end of romans eight says.
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  • Does this sound pleasing to anybody that's here?
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  • Look at the end of romans chapter eight.
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  • It says they ask some questions.
  • 00:24:39.523 --> 00:24:42.526
  • Why hardly wait to get those questions?
  • 00:24:42.526 --> 00:24:44.728
  • Then he says,
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  • Who shall separate us from the love of christ?
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  • Shall tribulation know or distress?
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  • Know or persecution know, or famine,
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  • Or nakedness, or peril, or the sword?
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  • He said, yet in all these things
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  • We're more than conquerors through him who loved us.
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  • He said, i'm persuaded that neither death,
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  • Nor life, nor
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  • Angels, nor principalities, nor powers, nor things present,
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  • Nor things to come,
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  • Not height, nor depth, or any other created thing.
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  • So be able to separate us from the love of god,
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  • Which is in christ jesus our lord.
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  • Let me tell you something, folks,
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  • That covers everything in life.
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  • Everything in life.
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  • That's how life works.
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  • We're going to see that clearly
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  • As we walk through romans chapter eight,
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  • Because god wants all of his children
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  • In this life to be a winner,
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  • To live the abundant life.
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  • And he tells us the way to do that and clear
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  • Biblical doctrinal terms
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  • That we can live out.
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  • When i was a boy,
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  • There was a popular little song called mother.
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  • Derived from the acrostic motif.
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  • Though the lyrics are not christian.
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  • They are certainly universal in their application
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  • Of mothers everywhere as a child.
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  • I had to
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  • Sing this over a radio station in laurel, mississippi.
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  • Would you believe that?
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  • And so, as a heartfelt tribute to mothers and mother figures
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  • Everywhere, i decided to have some fun
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  • With this little acrostic for mother's day.
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  • For mother's day only.
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  • So i've created a one week devotional for moms.
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  • Through these pages, i hope to honor our mothers,
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  • Glorify god, and inspire both mothers and children
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  • To pray for those whom god has carefully designed
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  • To nurture and guide each and every new generation.
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  • To get you a copy.
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  • Call the number on the screen or visit the website below
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  • And give someone who has been a mother figure to you,
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  • Or give one to your mother.
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  • And by the way, keep one for yourself.
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