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The Winning Walk with Dr. Ed Young | Ed Young - Christianity Simplified | January 13, 2025

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Pastor ed young: now, the book of romans is different from all
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The other letters that paul penned.
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It's radically different.
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All the other works of paul were generally answering questions
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That he had been asked.
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He was trying to deal with problems in the churches that he
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Had founded.
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Romans is different, totally, radically different.
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Romans and his--paul in his third missionary journey was
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Probably in corinth.
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He would have wintered there, and therefore he was writing to
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The church at rome, a church he had never visited at that time,
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The basic doctrines of christianity.
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You see the difference?
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Before he's answering questions, and now he's presenting the
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Argument, the apologetics.
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For this is what christians believe, and this is who
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Christians are, so therefore there is a foundation there that
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He gives us in the book of romans.
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Let me tell you something.
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You can sort of just sloth your way through church and bible and
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Education and miss the basic fundamentals of our faith.
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You say, well, that gets pretty deep.
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It is deep, because anything anybody does in any discipline
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Of life, it takes knowledge.
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Those who are musicians, well, they sing and play and that's
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Great, but those who are superior, they understand so
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Much about music that's beyond the average
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Person's comprehension.
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You take any area, whether you are a lineman, mississippi power
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Company, that was my dad, the knowledge of how to handle the
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Electricity, or whether you're a physician, most doctors will
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Tell you when you understand the titles and the names and the
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Physiology, you pretty well have it.
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But it's not easy.
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If you're in numbers, if you're computers, you have
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To understand.
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It takes education and knowledge, application, and
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Somehow we just sloth our way through church, and we don't
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Have the fundamentals of our faith down.
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Therefore, when the bottom falls out of your life--and it will.
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When the bottom falls out of your life, you really don't have
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A place to stand.
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If you and i could master--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 the basic,
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Fundamental doctrines, 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 there
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That's hidden behind, you know, $15 words, $20 words, and we're
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Gonna take and try to unpack that.
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So, after 17 sessions we'll have it down.
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This is the a-b-cs of christianity, we have to think.
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So, therefore bring your bible with you, your bible with you,
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And bring a pad and a pencil with you if you don't take notes
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On the margin so that you will be able to not only understand
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But absorb 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 1 to chapter 5, it sort of tells us that we
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Who are with christ, who've received christ, we have
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Been redeemed.
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1 through 5, and then 6th, 7th, and 8th chapters are different.
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You read chapter 6, and you see the word sin mentioned 17 times.
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Therefore, make a wild guess 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 as we go through our study.
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Then in romans chapter 7, you ought to be familiar with that
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Verse, 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 7, and by the way, that's what you see an
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Old testament christian, old testament christian under the
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Law, keep the law.
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All the way through the old testament, the law, the law is
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Superior, i love the law, i'll study the law, morning, noon,
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And night, 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 of the law in
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That day, right?
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Then you come to the new testament, you say, "well, it's
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All about grace."
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And paul puts it in perspective and shows us exactly the purpose
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Of the law.
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What is the purpose of 10 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, i
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Didn't have any problem with the law."
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But he said, "once i went to my bar mitzvah and i became a man,
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And then the law was set down," he said, "now i've had
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A problem.
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It has exposed sin, it has put upon me a law, a rule, a
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Regulation, a power that i don't like to live with."
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But he said, "it's there, it's a principle of god."
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There's nothing about the 10 commandments that we need to
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Throw out the window.
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They simply are the measuring stick, the rod, that helps us to
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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--in
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Chapter 6, remember he mentioned sin 17 times, chapter 7, he
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Mentions law 18 times, and in chapter 7 he also goes on and
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Sees that little personal pronoun, i and me and mine,
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Is mentioned some 31 times.
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You think--you think that's the problem?
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"all we like sheep have gone astray.
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We have turned everyone to his own way."
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That's what sin, isn't it?
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We do our own way, that's what isaiah tells us.
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And therefore we turn to our own way away 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.
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People who say this wasn't paul, they don't know human nature,
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Because paul tells us there are at least three kinds of
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Christians, three kinds of people, rather.
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There's a natural person.
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They're born in the image of god, they're a son and daughter
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Of god, 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, the carnal woman.
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We have believed in jesus christ, we have received
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Him in our life, we may have been baptized, homogenized,
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Vulcanized, pasteurized, and we're in the church, but we're
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Still living a carnal life, a fleshly life.
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Then there's a spiritual person, a man or woman, and that's one
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Who understands it is the power of the spirit that enables us to
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Live the christian life.
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So, paul here talks about frustration that he had, and i
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Just love romans chapter 7, we can all identify with that.
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He starts out--and by the way, he talks about beginning in
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Verse 21 through the end of chapter 7, look what he says.
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"but i find there is a law that is evil is present with me, the
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One who wills to do good."
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He's saying, "there are two egos in me," says paul.
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By the way, there are two egos in all of us.
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There are two i's, there's the i here that we decided as
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Christians in our mind we're gonna live the christian life.
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All the old garbage and trash and attitudes, all the old--
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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 lift your hand?
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Not too many.
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All over.
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Statistics tell us 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 i have decided, man, i am going to obey
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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 in me, one who
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Wills to do good in my mind, but in practice so many times i
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Continually mess up."
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We all can identify with that.
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There are two egos.
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Also, he says there are two entirely different separate
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Laws, and as we study, we're going to discover there's even
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A third one.
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He says, "for our delight in the law of god, according to the
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Inward man, but i see another law in my members warring
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Against the law of my mind and bringing me into captivity to
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The law of sin.
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There's a law of my mind, but i want to live for god, live for
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Christ, let my light shine for him.
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But in me there is another law, and that's evil, and that law
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Keeps sticking its ugly head up in me.
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There is still that--" do you remember the character in
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"li'l abner"?
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Some of you remember charlie brown, when charlie went to bat,
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Remember he always had a rain cloud over him?
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Remember he always had a cloud, and al capp's "li'l abner," he
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Had a character always had a black cloud over their head all
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The time.
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"it's raining every day, isn't it?"
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"oh yeah, you know."
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"well, it's beautiful today."
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"oh, but it's gonna rain on saturday."
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I mean, you know that kind of person.
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And so, we have within us, paul says, we have the law we want to
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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, we have two laws, and he has two
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Cries here.
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He said, "o wretched man that i am, who will deliver me from the
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Body of death?"
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And there is probably a picture of how in those roman days they
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Would punish somebody who was a murderer.
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If you murdered someone and you were convicted of that, they
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Would take the murderer, and they would take the body, the
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Person they had murdered, and they would tie the murderer to
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The body of the person he had killed, and they would hang them
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Before the city, and they would hang up their body to body bound
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Together, the murderer alive, but the body of the one he
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Killed bound to him until the one who was alive died himself
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With all the flies and the stench, 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.
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Paul is saying, "who will deliver me from the body
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Of death?"
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He cries out, "i mean, i'm bound, i want to do right, but i
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Do wrong.
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I say i'm not gonna do that, i end up doing."
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And then the second cry, he is, "thanks be unto god through
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Jesus christ our lord."
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That's the second cry that he has here, and then he ends up
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And he talks about two results.
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Last verse of chapter 7, "so then with the mind i myself
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Serve the law of god, but with the flesh the law of sin."
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I don't want a show of hands, because every hand would have to
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Go up.
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This is a part of the cross pull, the tension, that we have
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In all of our lives.
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So, then paul said, "thanks be unto god through jesus christ
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Our lord, this conflict, this inner battle in me," and then he
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Gives us the solution in romans chapter number 8.
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We're gonna look at just part of the first verse.
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Paul says, "there is therefore now no condemnation."
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"there is therefore."
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By the way, he says, "therefore," it means everything
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That's gone before.
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You can't take a verse of the bible and just pull it out and
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Say, well, this means this.
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He goes back and said, "all this i've been saying in romans, all
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I've been teaching about god, therefore," therefore, in light
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Of this, what a big word.
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Anytime in the bible you see the word therefore, take a time out.
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See what's been said before.
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What is the context of this?
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"therefore there is no, no, there is now no cond--" the word
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Now means now, and the word really has a three
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Tense understanding.
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It's yesterday, today, and tomorrow.
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Now, forever, now, forever, there's no condemnation.
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And the word no there in the greek is a powerful word.
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It's a shouted word.
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We just say no.
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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 too much, do we?
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But it's a big word.
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Somebody says, you know, i want a god of love and not a god
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Of wrath.
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You ever said that?
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You don't have a god of love unless you have a god of wrath.
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There has to be bad news in order to be good news.
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And god is the god of wrath as well as the god of love because
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In his love is wrath.
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It's wrath, for god sent not his son in the world to condemn
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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.
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That's the cross.
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Therefore we get the law mixed up with grace.
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We get it mixed up with love, and we want to say, "well, i
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Don't want god to be a god of wrath."
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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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1 john 1:9, "if we confess our sins, he is able and just,"
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Not merciful.
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He is merciful, but "he is just to forgive our sins."
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And therefore, for justice to take place in this world, in the
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Economy of life, in the economy of eternity, the wrath of god
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Has to be displayed, and the wrath of god was put on jesus.
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Jesus all through his life had talked about his impending
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Death, right?
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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 to gethsemane, and he looked in that cup, and
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You see it in ezekiel and other places, he saw there the wrath
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Of god, and he didn't want to drink that cup, right?
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Talked about clearly in the gospel, particularly gospel of
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Mark, and that in that cup was hell, h-e-l-l.
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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're omnipresent, you're omniscient,
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You're all powerful, listen, if anyway i don't want to drink
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This cup, do you have a better plan?"
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But then he said, "not my will, but thy will be done."
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Now, some people have a problem there when you think about it.
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"for god so loved the world," not jesus so loved the world.
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He did, but that's not what john 3:16 says.
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"for god so loved the world that he," god, "gave his only
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Begotten son."
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Jesus saw hell in his humanity.
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He saw the wrath of god poured out upon all sin and all people
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At all times, and in his humanity he backed away from it,
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But in his humanity, coupled with divinity, he said, "but not
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My will, it's god's will."
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"for god so loved the world."
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And most important thing that jesus was, what?
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Doing the will of god, doing the will of god.
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The most important thing, and therefore he died on the cross.
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He took all the wrath that you and i deserved upon himself, and
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Therefore you have a crazy little verse in there.
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Way back in chapter 3 of romans it says, "the just became
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The justifier."
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What does that mean?
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Jesus, who was just and perfect, was the one who justified you
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And myself on that cross.
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Divinity turned its back on divinity.
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How can this be?
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"my god, my god, why has thou forsaken me?"
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Because he knew the father would not look upon hell and upon
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Garbage and sin and trash.
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He knew the father would turn his back on his son.
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But jesus in his perfection, god-man in this earth, he became
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The one who brought justice and was the justifier because he
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Took the 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 on the planet.
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But it's profound.
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This is a deeper understanding, the contrast between sinai and
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Calvary, and the understanding of how justice takes place in
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Your life and my life in the world, because god is a god of
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Wrath, and his wrath and his punishment that you and i
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Deserve, it was put on jesus, and jesus took it and said, "not
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My will, but thy will be done," the father in heaven.
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What a fabulous thing.
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And then we come all the way and look at romans chapter 8, and we
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See the results of this, and we see the results of here are
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Those who walk with christ and those who do not.
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"there is therefore now no condemnation," why?
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Because jesus took the condemnation upon him.
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He took the wrath that we deserve upon himself.
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By the way, romans begins with no condemnation.
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In the middle of chapter 8 it says no defeat, and the end it
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Says no separation.
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Condemnation taken care of up front, no defeat in the middle,
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And finally there's no separation.
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We're with him now and forever.
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Some time read john 17.
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There's a beautiful little verse there, i call it the
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Heavenly dance.
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God the father, god the son, god, the holy spirit, and
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They're dancing together in eternity.
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And jesus says, "pray that you will come and be a part of
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That dance."
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Isn't that great?
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That you and i will be a part of that divine, holy dance that we
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Have pictures of here in the scripture.
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No condemnation.
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"therefore, now no condemn--" why is there no condemnation?
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That's the next phrase.
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"to those who are in christ jesus."
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Stay with me.
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"those who are in christ jesus."
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In the writings of paul, the phrase in christ, in him, or in
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Christ jesus is mentioned 164 times.
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Well, that must really be important, isn't it?
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How can you and i know that we are in christ jesus?
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How can you not understand that all these promises, all the
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Purposes, all the life belongs to you and me?
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How do you know if you're in christ?
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Let me illustrate that for you as best i can.
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This is you, this is me.
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Okay, we 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?
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We're--and then the second time we're born in christ, the second
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Adam, and therefore when you and i--this is you and this is me,
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We are in christ, bam, we're in christ forever.
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It's irrevocable.
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There's no if, and's, or but's about it.
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What does romans 8 tell us, folks?
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It tell how to live a life that wins.
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It tells us how to live an abundant life.
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Have you ever tried to play chess?
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I did years ago.
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I said, you know, i'm gonna work at this, and i read a little
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Book and played a little chess, and, you know, i lost more than
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I won even with amateurs.
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But i'm telling you, that's heavy, heavy traffic.
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Let's say that you were sitting down to play with a master
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Of chess.
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I mean, somebody who enters the tournament, who's at the top of
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The line in the whole area of chess.
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Now, the master gets to move, and you get to move.
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The master has a free will to move anywhere that she would
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Want to move, right, or he would want to move, the master of
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Chess, free will, move anywhere.
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You have the same choice, you move anywhere.
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I move anywhere.
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Who's gonna win?
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Every move the amateur makes, the master makes a countermove,
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And the master is going to trap you and capture your king,
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Right, and win.
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Guaranteed, 100% of the time.
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Now, it's not that you and i don't have free will in moving
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On the chessboard, but we know the master is always ahead and
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Always sovereign and knows the formula for winning.
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Let me tell you something.
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God wants you and i to win in life.
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And when we discover that through the principles of romans
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8 applied in our life, not sinai alone, but calvary with it,
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Then we'll be winners.
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And that's his will.
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Romans 8 will tell us how to live, and i'm so excited about
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Romans 8, i'm going to cheat a little bit.
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Look what the end of romans 8 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 8.
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It says he asked some questions.
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Boy, i can hardly wait to get those questions.
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Then he says, "who shall separate us from the love
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Of christ?
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Shall tribulation?"
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No.
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"or distress?
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No."
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"or persecution?"
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No.
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"or famine, or nakedness, or peril, or the sword?"
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He said, "yet in all these things, we are more than
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Conquerors through him who loved us."
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He said, "i'm persuaded that neither death, nor life, nor
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Angels, nor principalities, nor powers, nor things present, or
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Things to come, not height, nor depth, nor any other created
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Thing shall be able to separate us from the love of god which is
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In christ jesus our lord."
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Let me tell you something, folks.
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That covers everything in life, everything in life.
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That's how life works.
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We're going to see that clearly as we walk through romans
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Chapter 8, because god wants all of his children in this life to
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Be a winner, to live the abundant life.
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And he tells us the way to do that in clear, biblical,
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Doctrinal terms that we can live out.
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Pastor ed: have you ever tried to read a historical novel out
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Of order?
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It would be hard if not impossible to understand the
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Plot, wouldn't it?
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And yet we read and study the bible in much the same way.
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Like a novel, the bible tells a story with a beginning,
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A middle, and end, and when you read in chronological order, you
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Will see history unfold in a new and understandable and
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Memorable way.
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Listen, in this new year, i want to challenge you to read through
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The bible in 52 weeks.
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When you give "the winning walk," this month, we want to
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Send you a one-year chronological bible.
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It's arranged in daily readings that will take about 15 minutes
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To read each day, at the end of 52 weeks, you will know and
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Understand like never before the full story of the bible.
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Male announcer: to get your copy of the one-year chronological
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Bible, call the number on your screen or go online
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At winningwalk.org.
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Pastor ed: this past year, we've seen god work in amazing ways
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Through "the winning walk."
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In a world that has turned increasingly upside down, we're
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Seeing people turn to the truth that can only be found in the
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Book, in the bible.
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There's nothing more powerful than seeing god at work in
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Someone's life.
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I want to share with you this encouraging note we received
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Recently from a listener named bruce.
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He writes, "anyone can be happy when circumstances are pleasant,
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But to be joyful in suffering is to know peace and happiness that
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Surpasses all understanding," all common sense.
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Hearing and understanding god's word is the key to living with
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Joy, even in the midst of difficult,
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Painful circumstances.
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And because of you, people like bruce are proof of what god can
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Do to change lives.
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When you support this ministry, you have an active part in
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Seeing lives transformed through a relationship with
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Jesus christ.
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And let me say thank you.
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I'm so grateful for your partnership with us.
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Together, we're taking the message of god's truth around
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The world.
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Think about it.
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♪♪♪
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Ed Young - Christianity Simplified

January 13, 2025 | S25:E11

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