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 Tobin continues this morning with our study of Romans.

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 And today's scripture comes from chapter 3, which you can find in your bulletin.

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 You can read along as I read.

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 Starting in verse 21.

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 But now, apart from the law, the righteousness of God has been manifested,

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 being witnessed by the law and the prophets.

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 Even the righteousness of God through faith in Jesus Christ for all those who believe.

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 For there is no distinction.

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 For all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God.

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 Being justified as a gift by His grace through the redemption which is in Christ Jesus,

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 whom God displayed publicly as a propitiation in His blood through faith.

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 This was to demonstrate His righteousness because in the forbearance of God,

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 He passed over the sins previously committed.

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 For the demonstration, I say, of His righteousness at the present time so that He would be just

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 and the justifier of one who has faith in Jesus.

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 Where then is boasting?

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 Is it excluded?

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 Yes, it is excluded.

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 By what kind of law?

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 Of works?

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 No, by a law of faith.

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 For we maintain that a man is justified by faith apart from works of the law.

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 Or is God the God of Jews only?

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 He is not the God of Gentiles also?

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 Yes, of Gentiles also.

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 Since indeed God, who will justify the circumcised by faith and the uncircumcised through faith,

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 is one.

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 Do we then nullify the law through faith?

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 May it never be.

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 On the contrary, we establish the law.

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 This is God's word.

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 I just realized that I stepped in something squishy outside with our kiddos left behind.

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 So I'll try not to move around too much up here as I, but on my way up I could hear squeak,

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 squeak, squeak, squeak, squeak.

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 But he is the justifier and he is the just.

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 If you, we've been on a journey.

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 We've been going through the book of Romans.

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 We have been basically in this pit.

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 So you're probably glad if this is the first time you're here that you weren't here the last week

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 or the week before that or the week before that.

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 Because we were just talking about stuff that is uncomfortable to talk about.

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 It's uncomfortable to preach.

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 And it's been very challenging as we look at God's word.

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 And remember we've said that if we come to God's word and we never get upset,

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 if we hear something that never bothers us,

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 then we're probably not listening.

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 Or we're probably worshiping a different God than the God of Scripture.

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 And so one of the things we did or we tried to do is we opened up a telephone line

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 and we had people text message questions in.

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 And so I wanted to look at one of them that came in and just talk about that.

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 So we've been trying to go on this journey and try to think about what happens.

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 And I don't have a copy of what I have here.

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 It says,

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 Romans 2.6,

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 You said that one day,

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 that on the day of judgment,

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 that we will all be judged according to the nature of our works,

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 good or selfish,

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 bad.

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 However,

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 last week you said that all of our works are purple,

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 sinful.

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 What did I miss out?

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 Okay,

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 so I know that we caused a lot of tension as we went to God's word last week

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 and we looked at what God's word has said about our hearts.

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 We used this word,

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 do you remember the word we used?

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 Total depravity,

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 right?

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 We said that total depravity,

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 that the Bible,

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 that Romans says that our hearts and our lives,

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 that we're totally depraved.

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 And I know that some people had a really hard time.

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 I mean,

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 I've had people dialoguing with me and angry and I'm not that bad and I'm not that

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 good and trying to figure out,

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 what is going on there.

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 But we said total depravity means that we're not as bad as we could be,

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 but that there's not a part of us that isn't tainted by sin.

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 We do this picture up here and I think we have a slide of it.

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 We tried to illustrate it.

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 And I said that if sin were a color,

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 if sin were the color purple,

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 that all of creation would be tainted purple,

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 that maybe we're not all Barney purple,

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 but that we're all have some parts of us that are purple,

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 right?

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 And so we have to realize that.

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 So when we talk about this idea of good works,

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 some of the questions we have to ask is,

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 what is the standard that we are determining what is good?

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 What is good?

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 I used the illustration last week of Kip,

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 and when he learned how to play the game of life.

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 And he looked at this money,

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 and my kids are really confused about money,

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 and he thought,

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 well,

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 this is money,

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 and can I go take this down to the bank?

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 And I made a great comment about HSBC.

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 Elaine wasn't here,

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 but I told her about that.

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 And I tried,

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 15 minutes,

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 I tried to explain to him that this isn't real money.

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 And as a little kid,

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 he has a hard time understanding that.

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 And the scripture says it in the same way,

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 that's kind of what our good works are like.

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 That we do these good works before the Lord,

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 and we say,

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 well,

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 I'm good.

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 I'm not that bad.

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 I'm not that bad of a person.

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 But none of these works,

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 none of these good works,

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 are salvation good works.

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 None of these good works are righteousness good works.

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 None of these good works,

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 apart from Christ,

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 make God look at us and go,

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 wow,

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 Tobin's awesome.

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 Look at what he just did.

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 None of those things do that.

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 Does that make sense?

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 So we're talking about,

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 when we talk about good works,

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 apart from Christ,

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 there's nothing good that we can do.

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 I used the illustration last week of going to visit Christina in Austin,

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 and I went to the rose garden at DTS.

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 Remember that?

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 And I confessed before everybody that I sinned,

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 and I stole roses from the garden,

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 because I thought that they'd be dead by the end of the week,

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 and I might as well give them to my wife,

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 my future wife on the weekend,

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 and I cut them,

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 and I took them down to Austin.

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 When I cut those beautiful flowers,

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 were those flowers alive or dead after I cut them?

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 They're dead.

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 They look beautiful.

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 They look great,

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 but they're not plugged into a life source,

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 a life-giving source.

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 And Romans says that's the same way that our works,

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 apart from Christ,

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 that's what our works look like with God.

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 Now,

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 almost inevitably,

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 when I do a talk like this,

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 or I answer a question like this about our motives,

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 and our hearts,

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 and why are we doing these things,

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 you know,

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 because there's this idea of this line of salvation,

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 and we think this idea that faith plus works equals salvation.

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 But Romans has been saying that,

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 and the Bible says it,

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 it's faith equals salvation plus works.

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 And so when you look at this type of question,

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 you want to ask,

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 am I talking about the works I had before I became Christian?

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 Or am I talking about the works that I've done,

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 and God's allowed me to do,

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 after I've come into a relationship with him?

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 I will say that you need to ask yourself continually,

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 what is your heart?

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 And what's your motive?

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 Almost always after I say that,

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 someone's going to come up to me and say,

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 oh,

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 I just realized I've been serving on a worship team,

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 my motive is terrible,

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 I'm just going to leave the worship team,

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 I'm not going to do that anymore until I get a good motive.

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 Well,

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 my first reaction is,

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 well,

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 is that what God told you?

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 But my second reaction is,

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 well,

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 what if I said that as a dad,

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 or as a husband?

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 You know,

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 I realized that I've been a terrible husband,

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 because I've only been nice to Christina,

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 because I wanted to get sex from her,

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 and I realized that terrible motives,

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 and so I'm just going to stop being her husband.

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 I'm just going to stop being her husband,

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 I'm going to go off to an island until I get my heart right,

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 until I figure out how to do that.

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 Is that the right thing to do?

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 No.

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 Scripture says we look at our hearts and our motives,

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 and we need to deal with our motives and what's going on in our life.

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 But we don't throw out something that God's called us to do,

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 just because our motives aren't totally pure.

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 I'm sure I probably confused everybody the moment I said sex with my wife.

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 So,

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 I'll have to apologize to her afterwards.

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 But you've got to look at your heart,

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 and you've got to ask the Lord,

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 one,

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 do I know Christ?

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 And two,

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 as I know Christ,

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 he's given me these gifts to serve.

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 When I serve,

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 am I doing it to his pleasure and to his joy,

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 or am I doing it for Tobin?

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 Or you?

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 A great way to ask that and answer that question is this.

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 If you're a Christian,

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 and you're serving,

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 and you're saying,

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 I'm serving for the Lord,

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 how do you react when you get no acknowledgement?

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 How do you react when you've done all these things for God,

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 but no one ever comes up and says,

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 that's a great job,

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 thanks for doing that.

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 What are your feelings when you don't get that pat on the back for serving God?

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 And if your feelings are angry,

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 frustration,

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 oh man,

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 I can't believe they don't appreciate me.

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 I'm going to go to a church where I'm appreciated.

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 And Romans says that probably our motives

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 are not pleasing the Lord.

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 Because we serve,

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 and we use our gifts

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 as an act of love

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 for all that God has done for us.

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 Does that make sense?

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 I know I'm speaking with a Texas accent,

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 and some of you are looking at me like,

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 what are you saying?

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 But that's what we're saying.

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 So if you've been with us for any length of time,

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 we've talked often about Scripture like this.

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 That when we look at the Bible,

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 we look at Scripture,

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 we see it divided into categories.

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 We see it into creation,

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 we see it into fall,

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 we see it into redemption,

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 and we see it into restoration

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 throughout all time.

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 In creation,

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 we come to creation,

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 and we look at the Bible,

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 and we see how things should be.

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 How did God mean for things to be?

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 What are relationships supposed to look like?

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 What is marriage supposed to look like?

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 What is serving God supposed to look like?

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 We come to fall,

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 and we see what happens

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 when sin enters into our world.

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 We see the purpleness

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 that enters into our life

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 and in our hearts.

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 And we understand what's wrong with us.

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 We understand why we do the things

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 that we don't want to do.

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 We come to redemption,

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 and we look at how God fixes that.

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 And that's all about the cross.

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 That's all about Jesus.

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 Jesus comes in.

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 Jesus fixes it.

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 Jesus is the hero of the story.

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 Right?

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 Maybe one question we should ask ourselves

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 every day we wake up

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 or when we get done from our work,

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 maybe if you have a great spouse

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 or a great friend or a flatmate,

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 maybe you should ask that person,

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 hey, who is the hero of your story today?

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 Who's the hero Jesus?

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 Or was the hero you?

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 I think often, if I'm honest,

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 the hero of my story

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 throughout my day is me.

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 And that's what we learn in the fall.

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 And when Christ comes,

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 he redeems us.

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 He makes all things new.

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 And he is the only hero of the story.

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 And the fourth part is redemption.

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 We look at redemption,

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 and we say, okay,

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 this is where we're,

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 I mean, restoration.

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 This is where we've been redeemed.

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 We're here now.

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 C.S. Lewis says we're in the shadow lands.

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 We're in this in-between time.

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 We talk a lot about we're in the now,

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 but not yet.

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 And so you and I are in the now,

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 but not yet.

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 And so the question we have to ask ourselves

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 in restoration is,

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 why does God have us here?

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 What does he want us to do?

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 What does it look like for us

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 to serve him?

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 To serve him?

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 To be used by him?

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 The story of the Bible

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 is not Old Testament

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 and New Testament.

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 The story of the Bible

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 is not little stories at all,

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 kind of really neat little stories

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 you tell your kids.

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 But the story of the Bible

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 is one big story.

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 And it's the story of God.

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 And it's the story of how God

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 is doing an amazing work

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 in his creation.

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 And what we see in Scripture

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 and in our everyday life

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 is that God is taking our stories

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 and is intertwining our stories

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 with his stories.

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 And if we let him,

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 if we submit to him,

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 if we surrender our lives,

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 if we acknowledge what's going on,

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 that when he does that,

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 something amazing happens.

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 Something amazing happens

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 when he intertwines our story

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 with his story.

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 And so that's where we're at

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 in Romans.

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 So far what we've looked at

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 is Paul is coming

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 in the book of Romans.

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 If you take out your passage here,

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 Paul was looked at

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 and so far what he said is

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 creation, fall,

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 and everybody's starting to redeem

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 or try to redeem themselves.

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 One day I was in China.

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 I was teaching.

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 I taught in China

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 for probably altogether

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 about eight or nine years.

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 And I shared this story

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 of creation, fall,

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 redemption, and restoration.

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 I shared the story

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 with my students

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 of how God is working

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 even when we don't see him work.

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 And in the middle of the class,

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 a student raised his hand.

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 And he stood up.

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 And he said this to me

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 and I'll never forget it.

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 He says,

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 if what you say is true,

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 if what you say about God is true,

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 if what you say about the Bible is true,

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 if what you say about me is true,

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 then I need,

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 I need a lot of help.

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 The student in front

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 of all the other students said,

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 because I realize

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 that I'm broken inside.

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 And so the question

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 I have to ask you is,

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 how can I be made right?

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 How can God make me right?

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 And this is where we're at today

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 in the book of Romans.

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 Throughout chapter one,

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 two, and three,

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 Paul has looked at people.

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 He's looked at the person

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 who is far from God.

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 He's looked at the person

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 who is moral

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 and they do all the right things.

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 He's looked at the person

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 who's religious.

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 He's looked at the Jew.

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 And he's looked at our hearts.

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 He's looked at our motives.

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 He's looked at all the things

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 we try to do.

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 And he's put all those things

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 under a microscope.

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 And he's allowed us

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 to examine our lives

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 and our motives.

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 And then he comes

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 to this passage today.

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 And this passage is,

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 I mean,

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 this passage is

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 an amazing passage.

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 A lot of people would say

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 that today Romans 33,

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 21 through 31

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 is the heart of the Bible.

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 Some people would say

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 this is the most important passage

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 in Scripture.

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 That it's the center of the Bible.

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 I mean,

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 up until this point,

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 mankind has been trying

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 to make themselves right.

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 We've been trying

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 to fix ourselves.

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 And at this point,

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 Paul comes in

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 and he kind of throws

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 a monkey wrench

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 into everything.

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 And he says,

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 stop.

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 The pathway

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 that you've been going

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 is wrong.

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 But if you head down

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 that pathway,

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 you're never going

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 to end up

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 in the place

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 that you want to end up.

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 So my desire today,

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 usually what I would say

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 is I want to give you

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 three points

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 and then we're going

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 to end with some questions.

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 What I want to do today

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 is just basically this.

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 I know it's going

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 to be hard,

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 but I want you

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 to look at your Scripture.

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 And what I want to do

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 is I want to look

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 at the passage.

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 I want to go verse

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 by verse

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 at a couple points

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 in the passage.

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 I want to paraphrase them

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 in Texan language.

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 And after I paraphrase them

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 in Texan language,

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 I want to bring out

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 some theological terms.

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 There's three or four

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 really important

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 theological terms.

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 Now usually as a pastor,

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 when you say theological terms,

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 people get bored,

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 they tune out,

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 they stop thinking

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 about things

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 and that's just my wife.

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 Other people are doing

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 that also, right?

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 And so,

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 but I want you

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 to hang in there

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 because I think

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 that we can do this.

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 I think God has something

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 to teach us

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 in this passage.

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 So look at Romans

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 chapter three

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 verses 21 through 31

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 and let's go through it.

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 Look at your passage.

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 Look at your Bible.

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 Look at your PDA.

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 Please don't be playing

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 flappy birds on your PDA.

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 We have people

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 looking around

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 and they're checking

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 to make sure.

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 Paul says this

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 in verse 21.

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 But now.

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 And what Paul does there

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 is counter historical.

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 What he's doing

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 is he's switching the map,

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 he's switching the road signs,

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 he's telling every person

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 basically something

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 that they've never heard before

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 because up until this point,

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 everybody has heard

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 all the cultures,

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 all the religions teach

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 that if you want

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 to get to God,

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 you have to do it.

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 That there's this done box

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 or a do box

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 and in this do box,

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 you just add things

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 into it,

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 do, do, do, do, do.

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 And eventually,

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 if you get enough do's,

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 then you get to God.

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 And in Romans 21,

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 Paul says,

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 stop.

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 He says,

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 now,

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 apart from the law,

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 and what he means

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 is that we cannot earn it.

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 That there's nothing

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 we can do to earn it.

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 There's nothing we can do

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 to say that we're righteous.

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 There's nothing we can do

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 to earn it.

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 There's nothing we can do

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 to be awesome enough

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 to get it into our life.

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 What he's saying here

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 is that righteousness,

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 getting right with God,

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 is apart from the law.

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 That there's nothing

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 you can do,

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 there's nothing

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 that you can't do.

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 Righteousness is this term.

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 It means,

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 we've talked about it

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 over and over.

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 It's a term

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 about legal standing,

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 and it's a term

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 about relationship standing.

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 And what Paul says

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 in 21 is,

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 forget what you've been doing,

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 because by now,

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 or but now,

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 the way to God

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 is apart from your works.

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 It's apart from the law.

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 And if it's apart

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 from your works,

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 and if it's apart

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 from your law,

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 then what you have

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 to understand

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 is that somebody else

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 has to do it.

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 And so the question

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 we have to ask ourselves

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 is,

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 who is going to do it?

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 Verse 22,

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 he goes,

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 it's a right relationship

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 with God,

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 our creator.

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 That this righteousness

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 is needed by everyone

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 because we're all broken.

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 That this righteousness

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 is available to everyone.

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 He says it's by faith.

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 And when we use the word faith,

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 it's a very difficult word

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 for some people sometimes.

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 But faith just means

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 believing God's words

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 and trusting in what he says.

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 Believing in God's words

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 and trusting in what he says.

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 If you were to come

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 into my house

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 and I took this chair

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 and you were tired

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 and you were going to sit down

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 and I said,

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 hey, go ahead and sit down.

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 This chair is really comfortable.

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 Go ahead and do it.

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 And you looked at it

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 and you go,

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 oh, that's great.

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 I believe it's good.

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 I believe it will hold me up.

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 And you just kind of look at it.

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 Or maybe you go like this.

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 Or maybe if you're really daring,

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 you kind of go like this

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 but you keep one foot on the floor.

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 But Paul says faith

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 is believing God at his word

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 and trusting him

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 and putting your whole weight

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 in his life.

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 I think sometimes

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 we get that confused,

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 don't we?

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 A lot of times in our journey

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 we say,

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 yeah, I have faith.

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 I'm trusting God.

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 I'm giving all myself to God.

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 But what he says here

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 is that when we say that,

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 what we're actually kind of doing

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 and acting

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 is we're keeping a couple feet

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 on the floor.

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 Because you know,

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 I don't know if God is really good.

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 I don't know if God

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 is really good for me.

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 I don't know if God

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 really knows what I need.

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 So I don't know if I can put

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 all of my faith in him.

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 But in Romans chapter 3,

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 verse 22,

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 Paul says,

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 having faith in God

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 means sitting in the chair.

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 It means trusting him.

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 It means giving all

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 that you have to him.

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 It means leaning on him.

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 It means depending upon him.

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 It means resting in him.

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 It means receiving

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 everything that you have

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 based on a relationship with him.

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 Verse 23 says

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 that we've all sinned

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 and we fall short

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 of the glory of God.

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 And sin is this archery term

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 in Greek.

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 It means we've missed

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 the center.

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 We've missed perfection.

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 We've missed a perfect bullseye.

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 That we've all done that.

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 We've all failed.

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 We've all failed.

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 We've all broken God's laws.

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 Sometimes we break laws

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 by doing things wrong.

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 Sometimes we break laws

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 by not doing the right thing.

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 I mean, often we think about it,

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 well, I didn't do anything bad.

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 But Scripture says that

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 we need to do the right thing also.

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 And so there's this idea

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 that we've all failed God.

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 We've all lived for ourselves.

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 We've all failed to glorify him.

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 How many people have failed?

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 Come on.

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 How many people have failed?

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 All.

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 All people have failed.

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 All people have missed it.

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 I think we forget that sometimes

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 as we walk with God.

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 Verse 24 goes on and it says,

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 so God gives us this gift.

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 And this gift is justification.

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 It doesn't mean that we're made righteous,

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 but it means that we're declared righteous.

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 It's a one-time act.

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 It's not a process.

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 It means that God comes in

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 and he takes all of our sin.

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 And he takes all of our punishment.

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 Everything that we deserve legally.

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 And he places that on Christ.

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 And it means that from now on,

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 forever,

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 if you are in the family of God,

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 you are legally free of sin

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 and guilt

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 and shame

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 and punishment.

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 What it means is that when God looks at you,

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 what he sees

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 is his son, Jesus Christ,

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 standing before God.

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 I mean, it's this judicial act.

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 Sometimes we talk about it as being adopted.

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 I had friends once,

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 they lived in Texas,

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 and they adopted two girls.

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 And they were seven and eight years old.

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 And they came out of an incredibly abusive background.

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 I mean, they were just abused,

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 abused, and abused.

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 And so these friends loved these kids,

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 and so they adopted them into their family.

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 And they brought them into their family

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 in the first three weeks.

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 And they would say,

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 can I, can I,

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 can I get something to drink?

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 And the parents would say,

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 of course, it's yours.

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 All of this is yours.

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 It's what you get when you enter into my family.

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 Everything.

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 The girls would walk around,

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 and they would see TVs,

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 and they would say,

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 can we turn this on?

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 And the parents said,

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 yeah, of course, it's yours.

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 Everything here is yours.

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 This house is yours.

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 These beds are yours.

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 These dolls are yours.

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 This TV is yours.

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 This food is yours.

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 You're in our family now.

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 And the problem with us as Christians sometimes

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 is we forget the message of Romans 3,

00:23:46.120 --> 00:23:48.079
 22, 23, and 24.

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 And we live our lives like we're still orphans.

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 We live our lives like we're still

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 in an abusive relationship.

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 And what Paul says here is that

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 when God looks at you,

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 when he redeems you,

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 when he declares you righteous,

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 he takes all of the hurt,

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 and all of the junk,

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 and all of the shame,

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 and all of the guilt,

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 and everything that you deserve to be punished,

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 and he puts it on Jesus,

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 and he gives you everything that Jesus has.

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 Is that amazing?

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 I mean, every time I think of that,

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 I just get overwhelmed.

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 Because for so long in my life,

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 I walked around like I was still

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 in an abusive relationship.

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 But Paul says that the message of the gospel

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 is that everything that God has given

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 to Jesus he now gives to you.

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 When Paul said this,

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 no one understood him and his culture.

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 Because every religion

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 and every philosophy in Paul's time said,

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 do this, do this, do this, do this,

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 do this, do this, do this,

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 do this, do this, do this,

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 do this, do this, do this,

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 and if you do this,

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 then maybe you'll get to heaven.

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 If you are the hero of your story,

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 and you do it by doing things,

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 and you get it by doing things,

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 then maybe, maybe you'll get to heaven.

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 But for the first time,

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 Christianity comes in and it says,

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 no, that's impossible.

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 That the only way that you can be right with God,

00:25:23.380 --> 00:25:24.940
 the only way that you can be happy with God,

00:25:25.140 --> 00:25:27.560
 the only way that you can be made right

00:25:27.560 --> 00:25:28.740
 into a relationship with him,

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 is by God coming into your life

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 and making that possible.

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 The word there in 24, redemption,

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 is this commercial term.

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 When Paul used it,

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 he would have thought,

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 everybody would have thought

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 of a slave market.

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 And it was this idea

00:25:46.779 --> 00:25:48.599
 that you walked into a slave market

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 and you saw all the slaves

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 and all the terrible conditions

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 and the redemption part

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 was that you came in,

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 you saw how much a slave was worth,

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 you paid the money for them,

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 you bought them,

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 and then you freed them.

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 And what Paul says is,

00:26:04.120 --> 00:26:05.840
 God came into our world,

00:26:07.240 --> 00:26:09.819
 he saw all of us in this slave market,

00:26:10.759 --> 00:26:13.360
 he saw the price that we had to pay

00:26:13.360 --> 00:26:14.759
 to be freed,

00:26:15.299 --> 00:26:16.440
 he knew that there was no way

00:26:16.440 --> 00:26:18.120
 that we could do that on our own,

00:26:18.539 --> 00:26:20.039
 even though for thousands of years

00:26:20.039 --> 00:26:20.940
 people have been trying,

00:26:21.900 --> 00:26:23.600
 and he put down the money,

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 and he redeemed us for that.

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 He goes on and he says,

00:26:29.480 --> 00:26:30.079
 by grace,

00:26:31.079 --> 00:26:31.839
 by grace,

00:26:32.379 --> 00:26:33.679
 grace is a word that basically

00:26:33.679 --> 00:26:34.740
 just means that God

00:26:34.740 --> 00:26:35.639
 has shown us favor,

00:26:36.919 --> 00:26:38.139
 that God has given us something

00:26:38.139 --> 00:26:39.099
 that we don't deserve,

00:26:39.980 --> 00:26:40.819
 that God has given us

00:26:40.819 --> 00:26:41.439
 this new status,

00:26:41.559 --> 00:26:42.579
 he's given us this new position,

00:26:42.939 --> 00:26:44.059
 he's given us Jesus Christ.

00:26:44.480 --> 00:26:45.319
 Grace isn't mercy.

00:26:46.379 --> 00:26:47.579
 Mercy is when you don't get something

00:26:47.579 --> 00:26:48.899
 that you deserve,

00:26:48.980 --> 00:26:49.659
 like punishment.

00:26:49.660 --> 00:26:51.400
 But grace,

00:26:51.500 --> 00:26:52.480
 when they use it in the Bible,

00:26:52.600 --> 00:26:54.040
 is when you get something

00:26:54.040 --> 00:26:56.420
 that you don't deserve.

00:26:58.100 --> 00:26:59.480
 And that's the Christian life,

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 and that's what makes it so different.

00:27:02.060 --> 00:27:03.580
 When C.S. Lewis in Oxford

00:27:03.580 --> 00:27:04.540
 heard this story,

00:27:05.380 --> 00:27:05.820
 he said,

00:27:07.000 --> 00:27:08.160
 this has to be true,

00:27:09.000 --> 00:27:10.940
 because no human being

00:27:10.940 --> 00:27:12.100
 would ever make up

00:27:12.100 --> 00:27:13.620
 something like this.

00:27:14.980 --> 00:27:16.200
 No human being

00:27:16.200 --> 00:27:16.880
 would ever say

00:27:16.880 --> 00:27:18.000
 it doesn't depend on you

00:27:18.000 --> 00:27:18.660
 and your works,

00:27:18.660 --> 00:27:20.480
 but it depends on a God

00:27:20.480 --> 00:27:21.220
 who loves you.

00:27:22.420 --> 00:27:23.300
 And so what Paul says

00:27:23.300 --> 00:27:24.200
 in verse 24

00:27:24.200 --> 00:27:25.220
 is that now when God

00:27:25.220 --> 00:27:26.080
 looks at you,

00:27:26.140 --> 00:27:27.700
 he sees you as his child

00:27:27.700 --> 00:27:28.759
 and you have a new status.

00:27:29.740 --> 00:27:31.160
 It means that all of your rights,

00:27:31.240 --> 00:27:32.660
 all of Christ's righteousness

00:27:32.660 --> 00:27:33.580
 was given to you.

00:27:34.560 --> 00:27:35.519
 So when God looks at you,

00:27:35.560 --> 00:27:37.480
 he sees you are right.

00:27:38.759 --> 00:27:40.259
 He sees you are accepted.

00:27:41.380 --> 00:27:42.740
 He sees that you are forgiven.

00:27:43.279 --> 00:27:44.580
 He sees that you're cared for.

00:27:44.880 --> 00:27:45.940
 He sees that you're protected.

00:27:46.320 --> 00:27:47.340
 He sees that you're worthy.

00:27:47.339 --> 00:27:48.679
 He sees that you're perfect.

00:27:49.019 --> 00:27:50.139
 He sees that you're loved.

00:27:51.779 --> 00:27:52.480
 And Paul goes on,

00:27:52.519 --> 00:27:52.679
 he says,

00:27:52.759 --> 00:27:53.299
 most importantly,

00:27:53.399 --> 00:27:54.319
 what he says is,

00:27:54.959 --> 00:27:56.519
 you're mine.

00:27:58.799 --> 00:27:59.559
 You're mine.

00:28:01.559 --> 00:28:02.779
 So when God looks at you

00:28:02.779 --> 00:28:03.939
 as a child of God,

00:28:04.939 --> 00:28:06.480
 he sees Jesus.

00:28:09.619 --> 00:28:10.480
 Hang in there.

00:28:11.679 --> 00:28:13.480
 Verses 25 through 28.

00:28:13.480 --> 00:28:16.539
 Paul says this.

00:28:16.539 --> 00:28:19.960
 This is only possible at the cross.

00:28:21.539 --> 00:28:23.480
 The only way unrighteous people

00:28:23.480 --> 00:28:24.839
 can be made righteous,

00:28:25.620 --> 00:28:27.380
 the only way our unrighteousness

00:28:27.380 --> 00:28:28.160
 can be made righteous,

00:28:28.259 --> 00:28:29.400
 the only way that that can happen

00:28:29.400 --> 00:28:30.599
 is at the cross.

00:28:31.259 --> 00:28:32.420
 Because on the cross,

00:28:32.539 --> 00:28:34.720
 God took our unrighteousness

00:28:34.720 --> 00:28:36.700
 and he put it on

00:28:36.700 --> 00:28:37.980
 a righteous man,

00:28:38.819 --> 00:28:39.380
 his son,

00:28:39.860 --> 00:28:40.200
 God.

00:28:40.960 --> 00:28:42.000
 And on the cross,

00:28:42.380 --> 00:28:43.620
 our unrighteousness

00:28:43.620 --> 00:28:45.160
 was given to Christ.

00:28:46.380 --> 00:28:47.019
 And so what that means

00:28:47.019 --> 00:28:48.220
 is that all of God's anger,

00:28:50.100 --> 00:28:51.420
 all of God's wrath,

00:28:51.500 --> 00:28:52.380
 we've been talking about

00:28:52.380 --> 00:28:53.860
 for the last five services,

00:28:54.620 --> 00:28:55.960
 all of God's frustration

00:28:55.960 --> 00:28:56.860
 with sin

00:28:56.860 --> 00:28:57.720
 and how it's coming in,

00:28:57.779 --> 00:28:58.960
 how it's broken up relationships

00:28:58.960 --> 00:28:59.860
 and it's hurt people

00:28:59.860 --> 00:29:00.759
 and it's hurt society,

00:29:00.759 --> 00:29:02.140
 all of this hurt

00:29:02.140 --> 00:29:05.079
 God has put on his son.

00:29:07.379 --> 00:29:08.799
 And the blood of Christ

00:29:08.799 --> 00:29:10.579
 takes all of that away.

00:29:12.240 --> 00:29:12.799
 You see,

00:29:12.859 --> 00:29:13.900
 when Paul said this

00:29:13.900 --> 00:29:14.359
 before,

00:29:14.500 --> 00:29:15.740
 everybody in his congregation

00:29:15.740 --> 00:29:16.740
 would have thought this.

00:29:17.799 --> 00:29:19.079
 For 2,000 years,

00:29:19.940 --> 00:29:20.940
 whenever I sin,

00:29:21.640 --> 00:29:22.579
 I take a sheep

00:29:22.579 --> 00:29:24.420
 and I take this sheep

00:29:24.420 --> 00:29:25.059
 to the temple

00:29:25.059 --> 00:29:26.559
 and in the temple,

00:29:26.680 --> 00:29:27.700
 the priest takes the hand

00:29:27.700 --> 00:29:28.700
 and puts it on my head

00:29:28.700 --> 00:29:30.120
 and he puts a hand

00:29:30.120 --> 00:29:30.840
 on this sheep.

00:29:31.519 --> 00:29:32.420
 And there's a symbolic

00:29:32.420 --> 00:29:33.940
 transferring of our sin

00:29:33.940 --> 00:29:35.440
 and God's wrath

00:29:35.440 --> 00:29:36.279
 onto this sheep.

00:29:37.180 --> 00:29:38.039
 And then the priest

00:29:38.039 --> 00:29:38.779
 would take a knife

00:29:38.779 --> 00:29:39.380
 and he would cut

00:29:39.380 --> 00:29:40.140
 the sheep's throat

00:29:40.140 --> 00:29:41.799
 and he would take some blood

00:29:41.799 --> 00:29:43.819
 and he would go into

00:29:43.819 --> 00:29:44.360
 the temple

00:29:44.360 --> 00:29:45.080
 in this place called

00:29:45.080 --> 00:29:46.080
 the Holy of Holies.

00:29:46.779 --> 00:29:47.740
 And in this temple,

00:29:47.980 --> 00:29:48.819
 there was an ark

00:29:48.819 --> 00:29:49.740
 of the covenant.

00:29:51.100 --> 00:29:51.880
 If you're older

00:29:51.880 --> 00:29:52.799
 than 30 years old,

00:29:52.860 --> 00:29:53.660
 you've watched the movie

00:29:53.660 --> 00:29:54.700
 Raiders of the Lost Ark.

00:29:55.980 --> 00:29:57.080
 In this ark,

00:29:57.079 --> 00:29:59.259
 there was the law,

00:30:00.460 --> 00:30:01.220
 the tablets,

00:30:01.720 --> 00:30:02.659
 the Ten Commandments.

00:30:03.539 --> 00:30:04.539
 And above this ark,

00:30:04.639 --> 00:30:05.179
 there was this thing

00:30:05.179 --> 00:30:06.299
 called the mercy seat.

00:30:06.939 --> 00:30:07.919
 It was specially made

00:30:07.919 --> 00:30:08.659
 with two angels

00:30:08.659 --> 00:30:09.359
 coming together.

00:30:10.339 --> 00:30:10.819
 And we're told

00:30:10.819 --> 00:30:11.779
 that God's presence

00:30:11.779 --> 00:30:13.539
 was above the mercy seat.

00:30:14.740 --> 00:30:15.299
 And so when God

00:30:15.299 --> 00:30:16.379
 was looking down at man,

00:30:16.460 --> 00:30:17.099
 what he would see

00:30:17.099 --> 00:30:17.779
 is the law.

00:30:19.179 --> 00:30:19.960
 He would see a list

00:30:19.960 --> 00:30:21.359
 of do's and don'ts

00:30:21.359 --> 00:30:22.059
 and things we shouldn't

00:30:22.059 --> 00:30:22.399
 have done

00:30:22.399 --> 00:30:23.299
 and things we should have done

00:30:23.299 --> 00:30:24.159
 and he would see

00:30:24.159 --> 00:30:25.899
 all of our judgment

00:30:25.900 --> 00:30:26.980
 happening because

00:30:26.980 --> 00:30:28.019
 we didn't do those things.

00:30:29.240 --> 00:30:30.180
 And the priest came in

00:30:30.180 --> 00:30:31.080
 and he took the blood

00:30:31.080 --> 00:30:33.680
 and he sprinkled it

00:30:33.680 --> 00:30:35.540
 all over the mercy seat

00:30:35.540 --> 00:30:37.519
 so that when God

00:30:37.519 --> 00:30:38.180
 looked down,

00:30:38.480 --> 00:30:39.900
 he didn't see the law.

00:30:41.360 --> 00:30:42.600
 He saw a sacrifice.

00:30:44.519 --> 00:30:45.040
 But the thing about

00:30:45.040 --> 00:30:45.560
 that sacrifice

00:30:45.560 --> 00:30:46.880
 is that every year,

00:30:47.640 --> 00:30:48.500
 you and I had to go

00:30:48.500 --> 00:30:49.200
 back to the temple.

00:30:50.160 --> 00:30:50.920
 And every year,

00:30:50.980 --> 00:30:51.860
 we had to kill a sheep.

00:30:51.859 --> 00:30:53.219
 And every year,

00:30:53.319 --> 00:30:54.479
 we had to be pronounced

00:30:54.479 --> 00:30:55.759
 clean or covered.

00:30:56.419 --> 00:30:57.240
 And every year,

00:30:57.299 --> 00:30:57.879
 we would wonder,

00:30:58.219 --> 00:30:58.839
 was it enough?

00:30:58.939 --> 00:30:59.539
 Was it enough?

00:30:59.639 --> 00:31:00.279
 Was it enough?

00:31:01.359 --> 00:31:02.319
 And Paul says

00:31:02.319 --> 00:31:02.899
 in his passage,

00:31:03.039 --> 00:31:04.019
 that for a little time,

00:31:05.059 --> 00:31:06.399
 God allowed those sacrifices

00:31:06.399 --> 00:31:07.879
 to cover.

00:31:08.419 --> 00:31:09.479
 Not to forgive,

00:31:10.059 --> 00:31:10.759
 but to cover.

00:31:11.639 --> 00:31:12.599
 Because he was waiting

00:31:12.599 --> 00:31:13.740
 for the perfect moment.

00:31:14.779 --> 00:31:15.699
 And that perfect moment

00:31:15.699 --> 00:31:16.279
 was when he was going

00:31:16.279 --> 00:31:17.079
 to send his son

00:31:17.079 --> 00:31:19.399
 who on a cross,

00:31:20.079 --> 00:31:21.579
 after living a perfect life,

00:31:22.519 --> 00:31:24.159
 died and shed his blood.

00:31:25.299 --> 00:31:26.659
 In the blood of Jesus now,

00:31:26.759 --> 00:31:28.179
 Paul says in Romans 3,

00:31:28.299 --> 00:31:29.439
 21 through 31,

00:31:30.059 --> 00:31:30.899
 saves us.

00:31:31.939 --> 00:31:33.159
 It makes us righteous.

00:31:34.599 --> 00:31:35.679
 It makes us able

00:31:35.679 --> 00:31:37.179
 to come into God's presence.

00:31:38.039 --> 00:31:39.419
 Not because of what we've done.

00:31:40.839 --> 00:31:41.759
 Not because of what

00:31:41.759 --> 00:31:42.460
 we haven't done.

00:31:43.919 --> 00:31:45.919
 But all because of God's love.

00:31:45.920 --> 00:31:47.940
 and care

00:31:47.940 --> 00:31:49.880
 for you.

00:31:51.360 --> 00:31:52.240
 It's a little different message

00:31:52.240 --> 00:31:53.240
 than we've been talking about

00:31:53.240 --> 00:31:54.720
 throughout the last four weeks.

00:31:54.800 --> 00:31:55.440
 For the last four weeks,

00:31:55.480 --> 00:31:56.539
 it's been about sin,

00:31:56.740 --> 00:31:57.220
 brokenness,

00:31:57.279 --> 00:31:58.160
 sin, brokenness.

00:31:58.420 --> 00:31:59.259
 What are you trying to do?

00:31:59.340 --> 00:31:59.900
 How are you trying

00:31:59.900 --> 00:32:00.400
 to fix yourself?

00:32:00.779 --> 00:32:01.820
 And here Paul comes in

00:32:01.820 --> 00:32:02.360
 and he says,

00:32:02.779 --> 00:32:03.740
 you can't fix yourself.

00:32:05.039 --> 00:32:06.640
 You can't make yourself right.

00:32:07.840 --> 00:32:09.480
 You can't obtain righteousness.

00:32:10.680 --> 00:32:11.759
 You can't look good

00:32:11.759 --> 00:32:12.620
 in other people's eyes.

00:32:12.700 --> 00:32:13.320
 You can't even fix

00:32:13.320 --> 00:32:14.080
 your own relationships.

00:32:14.200 --> 00:32:14.960
 You don't even want to talk

00:32:14.960 --> 00:32:15.539
 about the things

00:32:15.539 --> 00:32:16.240
 that are broken

00:32:16.240 --> 00:32:17.039
 in your relationships.

00:32:18.519 --> 00:32:19.839
 The only way that's possible

00:32:19.839 --> 00:32:21.740
 is through Jesus.

00:32:24.159 --> 00:32:25.180
 Is that good news?

00:32:27.299 --> 00:32:28.680
 For people who know

00:32:28.680 --> 00:32:30.779
 Romans 1, 2, and 3

00:32:30.779 --> 00:32:32.899
 and how bad off they are,

00:32:33.559 --> 00:32:35.139
 that's amazing news.

00:32:36.420 --> 00:32:38.019
 And when Paul said that,

00:32:38.240 --> 00:32:39.059
 it was the first time

00:32:39.059 --> 00:32:39.759
 in human history

00:32:39.759 --> 00:32:40.659
 that people heard

00:32:40.660 --> 00:32:42.440
 that it's not dependent

00:32:42.440 --> 00:32:42.860
 on me,

00:32:43.640 --> 00:32:44.920
 that it's dependent

00:32:44.920 --> 00:32:45.560
 upon God.

00:32:47.140 --> 00:32:48.240
 I have three thoughts

00:32:48.240 --> 00:32:49.040
 I want to leave you

00:32:49.040 --> 00:32:49.580
 and then we're going

00:32:49.580 --> 00:32:50.160
 to do communion.

00:32:51.340 --> 00:32:52.180
 Three thoughts.

00:32:52.279 --> 00:32:53.340
 I'm sure that I'm going

00:32:53.340 --> 00:32:54.440
 to offend some people,

00:32:54.980 --> 00:32:55.580
 but there have been

00:32:55.580 --> 00:32:56.320
 things in my head

00:32:56.320 --> 00:32:56.900
 and I've been praying

00:32:56.900 --> 00:32:57.660
 through this passage

00:32:57.660 --> 00:32:58.800
 and I'm trying not

00:32:58.800 --> 00:32:59.560
 to spit on the baby

00:32:59.560 --> 00:33:00.060
 in front of me

00:33:00.060 --> 00:33:00.600
 as I talk

00:33:00.600 --> 00:33:01.279
 and things like that.

00:33:01.279 --> 00:33:04.639
 first thought is this.

00:33:05.599 --> 00:33:06.859
 The word justified,

00:33:07.599 --> 00:33:09.240
 justification is a legal term.

00:33:10.200 --> 00:33:11.220
 It means to be declared

00:33:11.220 --> 00:33:11.680
 righteous.

00:33:12.119 --> 00:33:13.200
 It means to be declared

00:33:13.200 --> 00:33:13.740
 right.

00:33:14.319 --> 00:33:15.200
 It means that no one

00:33:15.200 --> 00:33:16.160
 can come into your life

00:33:16.160 --> 00:33:16.480
 and say,

00:33:16.579 --> 00:33:16.759
 you know,

00:33:16.819 --> 00:33:17.660
 you owe this debt

00:33:17.660 --> 00:33:19.279
 and you need to pay this debt.

00:33:19.660 --> 00:33:20.920
 It means that you owe

00:33:20.920 --> 00:33:21.839
 no one.

00:33:22.440 --> 00:33:23.240
 It means that you're

00:33:23.240 --> 00:33:24.299
 seen as good.

00:33:24.559 --> 00:33:25.259
 It means that you're

00:33:25.259 --> 00:33:26.079
 in right standing.

00:33:26.240 --> 00:33:27.399
 It means that you have favor.

00:33:27.740 --> 00:33:28.480
 It means that you're

00:33:28.480 --> 00:33:29.579
 pleased with those people

00:33:29.579 --> 00:33:30.119
 around you.

00:33:30.359 --> 00:33:31.559
 It means that you're

00:33:31.559 --> 00:33:32.339
 worthy of.

00:33:32.579 --> 00:33:33.319
 It means that you're

00:33:33.319 --> 00:33:35.299
 right in other people's

00:33:35.299 --> 00:33:36.519
 eyes and in God's eyes.

00:33:37.099 --> 00:33:38.279
 And in first three chapters,

00:33:38.419 --> 00:33:39.240
 Paul is talking about

00:33:39.240 --> 00:33:40.599
 how you and I go

00:33:40.599 --> 00:33:41.179
 through our life

00:33:41.179 --> 00:33:41.939
 and we try to make

00:33:41.939 --> 00:33:42.659
 ourselves right.

00:33:43.619 --> 00:33:44.779
 We try to make ourselves

00:33:44.779 --> 00:33:45.659
 look sexy in front

00:33:45.659 --> 00:33:46.179
 of other people.

00:33:46.439 --> 00:33:47.559
 We try to make our lives

00:33:47.559 --> 00:33:48.460
 look good.

00:33:48.679 --> 00:33:49.659
 We try to make us

00:33:49.659 --> 00:33:50.519
 look righteous.

00:33:50.779 --> 00:33:51.720
 We try to do things

00:33:51.720 --> 00:33:53.139
 when we wear masks.

00:33:59.579 --> 00:34:00.659
 And if we're honest,

00:34:01.939 --> 00:34:04.579
 I think many of us

00:34:04.579 --> 00:34:05.299
 still struggle with

00:34:05.299 --> 00:34:05.779
 that today.

00:34:08.840 --> 00:34:09.960
 I think many of us

00:34:09.960 --> 00:34:11.159
 still struggle with

00:34:11.159 --> 00:34:12.619
 Jerry's question.

00:34:13.920 --> 00:34:14.759
 Remember Jerry's question

00:34:14.759 --> 00:34:15.119
 at the beginning

00:34:15.119 --> 00:34:15.880
 of this talk?

00:34:17.139 --> 00:34:18.039
 Jerry's question was,

00:34:18.679 --> 00:34:19.619
 if what you say is true,

00:34:21.319 --> 00:34:22.099
 and all that's true

00:34:22.099 --> 00:34:22.599
 about God,

00:34:23.539 --> 00:34:24.920
 I know my heart,

00:34:25.920 --> 00:34:27.460
 I'm in bad shape,

00:34:27.460 --> 00:34:29.420
 what can I do

00:34:29.420 --> 00:34:30.380
 to make myself right?

00:34:30.599 --> 00:34:31.720
 I think that we all

00:34:31.720 --> 00:34:33.519
 struggle with

00:34:33.519 --> 00:34:34.420
 what does that look like

00:34:34.420 --> 00:34:36.780
 to make ourself right?

00:34:38.539 --> 00:34:38.880
 I mean,

00:34:39.240 --> 00:34:40.059
 it haunts me,

00:34:40.119 --> 00:34:40.740
 those words,

00:34:40.800 --> 00:34:41.500
 and I think it should

00:34:41.500 --> 00:34:42.280
 haunt us.

00:34:43.039 --> 00:34:43.760
 How do I

00:34:43.760 --> 00:34:45.740
 prove myself?

00:34:48.000 --> 00:34:49.119
 How do I make myself

00:34:49.119 --> 00:34:49.619
 look good

00:34:49.619 --> 00:34:52.300
 to those around me?

00:34:53.300 --> 00:34:54.619
 How do I make my actions

00:34:54.619 --> 00:34:55.260
 look right

00:34:55.260 --> 00:34:56.880
 in people's eyes

00:34:56.880 --> 00:34:57.800
 when I know in my heart

00:34:57.800 --> 00:34:59.420
 that they're not right?

00:35:01.019 --> 00:35:01.920
 We just watched

00:35:01.920 --> 00:35:02.539
 the Olympics.

00:35:03.860 --> 00:35:04.519
 And it's amazing

00:35:04.519 --> 00:35:05.240
 as you watch

00:35:05.240 --> 00:35:05.760
 the Olympics,

00:35:06.440 --> 00:35:07.200
 there's a lot of

00:35:07.200 --> 00:35:08.240
 weird things going on

00:35:08.240 --> 00:35:09.059
 and a lot of weird

00:35:09.059 --> 00:35:09.700
 things have happened

00:35:09.700 --> 00:35:10.079
 afterwards,

00:35:10.340 --> 00:35:11.360
 but you can count

00:35:11.360 --> 00:35:12.539
 how many times

00:35:12.539 --> 00:35:14.000
 the athlete

00:35:14.000 --> 00:35:14.980
 held up that medal

00:35:14.980 --> 00:35:17.140
 and either they

00:35:17.140 --> 00:35:17.980
 or an interviewer

00:35:17.980 --> 00:35:18.300
 said,

00:35:18.660 --> 00:35:19.099
 this medal,

00:35:19.840 --> 00:35:21.380
 it validates

00:35:21.380 --> 00:35:22.700
 me.

00:35:22.699 --> 00:35:24.799
 I mean,

00:35:24.839 --> 00:35:25.399
 this medal

00:35:25.399 --> 00:35:26.939
 makes everything

00:35:26.939 --> 00:35:27.460
 I did

00:35:27.460 --> 00:35:28.219
 right.

00:35:28.879 --> 00:35:29.579
 This medal

00:35:29.579 --> 00:35:30.480
 makes me look

00:35:30.480 --> 00:35:31.599
 right for practicing

00:35:31.599 --> 00:35:32.439
 and sacrificing.

00:35:32.819 --> 00:35:33.259
 This medal

00:35:33.259 --> 00:35:34.239
 makes my whole

00:35:34.239 --> 00:35:35.059
 life

00:35:35.059 --> 00:35:36.339
 right.

00:35:36.899 --> 00:35:38.019
 And I heard that

00:35:38.019 --> 00:35:38.639
 over

00:35:38.639 --> 00:35:39.839
 and over

00:35:39.839 --> 00:35:41.059
 and over.

00:35:43.179 --> 00:35:44.000
 You're going to go

00:35:44.000 --> 00:35:44.679
 to work on Monday.

00:35:45.679 --> 00:35:46.659
 I'm sorry for

00:35:46.659 --> 00:35:47.659
 reminding you about that.

00:35:48.279 --> 00:35:48.819
 Some of you

00:35:48.819 --> 00:35:49.879
 didn't want to hear that.

00:35:50.619 --> 00:35:51.379
 But you're going to walk

00:35:51.380 --> 00:35:52.180
 into your office

00:35:52.180 --> 00:35:53.980
 and you're going

00:35:53.980 --> 00:35:54.760
 to do things

00:35:54.760 --> 00:35:56.400
 to make yourself

00:35:56.400 --> 00:35:56.900
 look right.

00:35:58.760 --> 00:35:59.599
 You're going to do

00:35:59.599 --> 00:36:01.059
 things to validate

00:36:01.059 --> 00:36:02.039
 your existence

00:36:02.039 --> 00:36:03.820
 in your office,

00:36:04.720 --> 00:36:05.720
 especially now

00:36:05.720 --> 00:36:06.460
 as layoffs

00:36:06.460 --> 00:36:07.039
 are happening

00:36:07.039 --> 00:36:08.340
 for certain companies.

00:36:08.900 --> 00:36:09.800
 You're going to try

00:36:09.800 --> 00:36:10.640
 really hard

00:36:10.640 --> 00:36:12.160
 to look righteous.

00:36:13.619 --> 00:36:14.380
 You're going to try

00:36:14.380 --> 00:36:15.059
 really hard

00:36:15.059 --> 00:36:17.000
 to look right,

00:36:18.000 --> 00:36:18.860
 to make people

00:36:18.860 --> 00:36:19.440
 think differently

00:36:19.440 --> 00:36:19.920
 of you,

00:36:19.920 --> 00:36:21.220
 to make them

00:36:21.220 --> 00:36:21.800
 think that you're

00:36:21.800 --> 00:36:22.380
 doing well.

00:36:23.920 --> 00:36:24.860
 For children,

00:36:26.220 --> 00:36:27.420
 my little kids,

00:36:28.519 --> 00:36:29.480
 it was surprising

00:36:29.480 --> 00:36:30.220
 to me at the age

00:36:30.220 --> 00:36:31.200
 of three and four

00:36:31.200 --> 00:36:32.840
 and even today,

00:36:33.380 --> 00:36:33.760
 14,

00:36:33.980 --> 00:36:34.340
 11,

00:36:34.460 --> 00:36:34.860
 and 11,

00:36:34.980 --> 00:36:35.460
 and 7,

00:36:36.220 --> 00:36:37.519
 how many times

00:36:37.519 --> 00:36:38.380
 my kids came up

00:36:38.380 --> 00:36:38.960
 to me and said,

00:36:39.680 --> 00:36:41.079
 am I doing okay?

00:36:44.079 --> 00:36:45.200
 Am I right?

00:36:45.199 --> 00:36:48.399
 Am I good?

00:36:49.799 --> 00:36:50.839
 And I watched my kids

00:36:50.839 --> 00:36:51.960
 over and over

00:36:51.960 --> 00:36:52.919
 trying to validate

00:36:52.919 --> 00:36:53.719
 themselves

00:36:53.719 --> 00:36:55.639
 to me.

00:36:56.699 --> 00:36:57.599
 And I realized

00:36:57.599 --> 00:36:58.139
 that there's something

00:36:58.139 --> 00:36:59.239
 inside of us

00:36:59.239 --> 00:37:01.879
 that causes us

00:37:01.879 --> 00:37:02.960
 to have this tension

00:37:02.960 --> 00:37:03.879
 and this frustration.

00:37:05.339 --> 00:37:06.379
 And we realize

00:37:06.379 --> 00:37:07.159
 that maybe we're not

00:37:07.159 --> 00:37:07.659
 as right

00:37:07.659 --> 00:37:08.759
 as we think we are.

00:37:08.760 --> 00:37:11.240
 and we're trying

00:37:11.240 --> 00:37:11.960
 to fix that.

00:37:14.960 --> 00:37:15.700
 I have a lot

00:37:15.700 --> 00:37:16.540
 of single friends.

00:37:18.320 --> 00:37:18.920
 They're trying

00:37:18.920 --> 00:37:19.360
 to validate

00:37:19.360 --> 00:37:19.940
 themselves.

00:37:21.240 --> 00:37:21.780
 They're trying

00:37:21.780 --> 00:37:22.300
 to show everybody

00:37:22.300 --> 00:37:22.920
 that they're right

00:37:22.920 --> 00:37:24.760
 by getting married.

00:37:26.200 --> 00:37:26.840
 And if they can

00:37:26.840 --> 00:37:27.380
 get married,

00:37:27.520 --> 00:37:28.180
 then the world

00:37:28.180 --> 00:37:28.680
 will think that

00:37:28.680 --> 00:37:29.140
 they're right

00:37:29.140 --> 00:37:29.600
 and everything

00:37:29.600 --> 00:37:30.240
 is okay

00:37:30.240 --> 00:37:32.380
 and everything's

00:37:32.380 --> 00:37:32.800
 perfect.

00:37:35.220 --> 00:37:35.820
 I have a lot

00:37:35.820 --> 00:37:36.080
 of friends

00:37:36.080 --> 00:37:36.720
 with kids

00:37:36.719 --> 00:37:39.779
 and it's amazing

00:37:39.779 --> 00:37:40.619
 when we get together

00:37:40.619 --> 00:37:41.539
 how often

00:37:41.539 --> 00:37:42.219
 the conversation

00:37:42.219 --> 00:37:43.039
 talks about

00:37:43.039 --> 00:37:44.379
 how we can make

00:37:44.379 --> 00:37:44.919
 our kids'

00:37:45.099 --> 00:37:45.719
 life better.

00:37:47.639 --> 00:37:48.539
 How we can send

00:37:48.539 --> 00:37:48.899
 our kids

00:37:48.899 --> 00:37:49.839
 to the right school.

00:37:50.919 --> 00:37:51.719
 How we can get

00:37:51.719 --> 00:37:52.019
 our kids

00:37:52.019 --> 00:37:52.779
 in the right track.

00:37:53.059 --> 00:37:53.739
 How we don't want

00:37:53.739 --> 00:37:54.119
 our kids

00:37:54.119 --> 00:37:55.139
 to miss anything.

00:37:57.099 --> 00:37:57.899
 What I realize

00:37:57.899 --> 00:37:58.399
 as a parent

00:37:58.399 --> 00:37:58.939
 is often

00:37:58.939 --> 00:37:59.699
 I justify

00:37:59.699 --> 00:38:00.659
 my own life

00:38:00.659 --> 00:38:03.279
 through my children.

00:38:05.000 --> 00:38:05.579
 And I feel like

00:38:05.579 --> 00:38:06.019
 if I can do

00:38:06.019 --> 00:38:06.719
 all these things

00:38:06.719 --> 00:38:07.780
 for my kids

00:38:07.780 --> 00:38:09.059
 then everything's

00:38:09.059 --> 00:38:09.320
 good.

00:38:09.599 --> 00:38:10.460
 I'm a good person.

00:38:10.579 --> 00:38:11.360
 I'm a good dad.

00:38:11.460 --> 00:38:11.980
 Everything's going

00:38:11.980 --> 00:38:12.579
 to be okay.

00:38:14.139 --> 00:38:14.759
 People are going

00:38:14.759 --> 00:38:15.179
 to look at me

00:38:15.179 --> 00:38:15.699
 and say wow

00:38:15.699 --> 00:38:16.980
 you're right.

00:38:19.639 --> 00:38:20.519
 As a son

00:38:20.519 --> 00:38:24.300
 for years

00:38:24.300 --> 00:38:24.759
 and years

00:38:24.759 --> 00:38:25.500
 as kids

00:38:25.500 --> 00:38:26.579
 and as boys

00:38:26.579 --> 00:38:28.519
 what do you want

00:38:28.519 --> 00:38:29.440
 to be to be right?

00:38:31.719 --> 00:38:32.619
 You want your dad

00:38:32.619 --> 00:38:33.300
 to look at you

00:38:33.300 --> 00:38:35.000
 and you want your dad

00:38:35.000 --> 00:38:35.739
 to say wow

00:38:35.739 --> 00:38:37.960
 I'm really proud

00:38:37.960 --> 00:38:38.239
 of you.

00:38:40.000 --> 00:38:40.420
 Wow

00:38:40.420 --> 00:38:42.599
 you really did well.

00:38:43.820 --> 00:38:44.239
 Wow

00:38:44.239 --> 00:38:45.340
 you are really good.

00:38:47.860 --> 00:38:48.179
 And man

00:38:48.179 --> 00:38:48.380
 you know

00:38:48.380 --> 00:38:49.219
 what I'm talking about.

00:38:51.119 --> 00:38:51.800
 There's something

00:38:51.800 --> 00:38:52.320
 with inside

00:38:52.320 --> 00:38:53.019
 of our hearts

00:38:53.019 --> 00:38:54.380
 that we seek

00:38:54.380 --> 00:38:54.980
 validation.

00:38:55.980 --> 00:38:56.860
 We want proof

00:38:56.860 --> 00:38:57.699
 that we've done well.

00:38:57.800 --> 00:38:58.320
 We want proof

00:38:58.320 --> 00:38:58.659
 to know

00:38:58.659 --> 00:38:59.380
 that we're right.

00:38:59.760 --> 00:39:00.639
 We're all searching

00:39:00.639 --> 00:39:01.239
 for things

00:39:01.239 --> 00:39:01.840
 that justify

00:39:01.840 --> 00:39:02.320
 ourselves

00:39:02.320 --> 00:39:02.719
 and say

00:39:02.719 --> 00:39:03.839
 you were good

00:39:03.839 --> 00:39:04.500
 and you did well.

00:39:06.379 --> 00:39:07.139
 Peter Singer

00:39:07.139 --> 00:39:08.500
 he's a bioethicist

00:39:08.500 --> 00:39:09.359
 at Princeton.

00:39:09.799 --> 00:39:10.519
 He's one of my

00:39:10.519 --> 00:39:11.539
 favorite readers

00:39:11.539 --> 00:39:12.059
 and authors.

00:39:12.579 --> 00:39:13.299
 He's an atheist

00:39:13.299 --> 00:39:14.759
 and the reason

00:39:14.759 --> 00:39:15.299
 I like him

00:39:15.299 --> 00:39:15.819
 is he just

00:39:15.819 --> 00:39:17.539
 he bugs everybody.

00:39:18.359 --> 00:39:18.559
 I mean

00:39:18.559 --> 00:39:19.559
 he's probably

00:39:19.559 --> 00:39:20.259
 what I've heard

00:39:20.259 --> 00:39:21.059
 is he's probably

00:39:21.059 --> 00:39:22.439
 the most influential

00:39:22.439 --> 00:39:23.579
 atheist writer

00:39:23.579 --> 00:39:24.899
 and professor

00:39:24.899 --> 00:39:26.359
 in the world today.

00:39:27.500 --> 00:39:28.679
 And he just bugs

00:39:28.679 --> 00:39:29.039
 everybody.

00:39:29.239 --> 00:39:29.959
 He bugs the atheist.

00:39:30.319 --> 00:39:31.379
 He bugs the Christians.

00:39:31.380 --> 00:39:32.400
 I mean he just

00:39:32.400 --> 00:39:32.960
 he's

00:39:32.960 --> 00:39:33.740
 and he talks

00:39:33.740 --> 00:39:34.480
 about validation

00:39:34.480 --> 00:39:35.039
 and righteousness

00:39:35.039 --> 00:39:35.900
 and this is what he says.

00:39:35.960 --> 00:39:36.440
 Listen to this.

00:39:37.000 --> 00:39:37.300
 He says

00:39:37.300 --> 00:39:39.280
 the only way

00:39:39.280 --> 00:39:40.039
 that you can validate

00:39:40.039 --> 00:39:40.840
 your existence

00:39:40.840 --> 00:39:43.340
 the only way

00:39:43.340 --> 00:39:44.059
 that you can validate

00:39:44.059 --> 00:39:44.640
 your existence

00:39:44.640 --> 00:39:46.660
 is to produce.

00:39:48.240 --> 00:39:49.019
 And if a person

00:39:49.019 --> 00:39:50.340
 does not produce

00:39:50.340 --> 00:39:52.700
 or they have lost

00:39:52.700 --> 00:39:53.460
 their capacity

00:39:53.460 --> 00:39:54.500
 to produce

00:39:54.500 --> 00:39:57.079
 then they are not right.

00:39:58.559 --> 00:39:59.559
 They might not

00:39:59.559 --> 00:40:00.380
 have even earned

00:40:00.380 --> 00:40:00.840
 the right

00:40:00.840 --> 00:40:02.240
 to be called

00:40:02.240 --> 00:40:02.680
 human.

00:40:04.519 --> 00:40:05.640
 They have not

00:40:05.640 --> 00:40:06.500
 justified

00:40:06.500 --> 00:40:08.780
 their existence.

00:40:11.460 --> 00:40:12.200
 He's saying it

00:40:12.200 --> 00:40:12.680
 right there.

00:40:14.380 --> 00:40:15.480
 The way you prove

00:40:15.480 --> 00:40:15.900
 yourself

00:40:15.900 --> 00:40:17.059
 the way you show

00:40:17.059 --> 00:40:17.860
 that you're doing well

00:40:17.860 --> 00:40:18.519
 the way that you're

00:40:18.519 --> 00:40:19.579
 doing your good

00:40:19.579 --> 00:40:20.660
 is by

00:40:20.660 --> 00:40:22.260
 doing right things.

00:40:22.260 --> 00:40:27.500
 eight years ago

00:40:27.500 --> 00:40:29.400
 I heard this

00:40:29.400 --> 00:40:29.920
 in a talk

00:40:29.920 --> 00:40:31.420
 so I stole it.

00:40:33.880 --> 00:40:34.560
 It's an article

00:40:34.560 --> 00:40:35.140
 from a man

00:40:35.140 --> 00:40:35.820
 in northern England

00:40:35.820 --> 00:40:36.580
 by the York

00:40:36.580 --> 00:40:37.300
 Railroad Station.

00:40:38.200 --> 00:40:38.940
 The man

00:40:38.940 --> 00:40:39.960
 had no faith

00:40:39.960 --> 00:40:41.080
 and he wrote

00:40:41.080 --> 00:40:41.480
 an article

00:40:41.480 --> 00:40:42.300
 in a London paper

00:40:42.300 --> 00:40:45.040
 and he realized

00:40:45.040 --> 00:40:45.800
 that as he went

00:40:45.800 --> 00:40:46.300
 to work

00:40:46.300 --> 00:40:46.900
 every day

00:40:46.900 --> 00:40:47.440
 to the York

00:40:47.440 --> 00:40:48.140
 Railroad Station

00:40:48.140 --> 00:40:48.760
 in northern England

00:40:48.760 --> 00:40:49.540
 I've never been there

00:40:49.539 --> 00:40:50.840
 he said there's

00:40:50.840 --> 00:40:51.400
 this billboard

00:40:51.400 --> 00:40:53.079
 the billboard

00:40:53.079 --> 00:40:53.500
 was on the way

00:40:53.500 --> 00:40:53.980
 to the station

00:40:53.980 --> 00:40:54.639
 and on the billboard

00:40:54.639 --> 00:40:55.019
 there was this

00:40:55.019 --> 00:40:55.639
 Bible verse

00:40:55.639 --> 00:40:57.739
 and it had

00:40:57.739 --> 00:40:58.900
 Romans 14

00:40:58.900 --> 00:40:59.480
 12

00:40:59.480 --> 00:41:02.099
 he said he went

00:41:02.099 --> 00:41:02.619
 back home

00:41:02.619 --> 00:41:03.340
 and he looked it up

00:41:03.340 --> 00:41:04.719
 and this is what

00:41:04.719 --> 00:41:05.059
 it said

00:41:05.059 --> 00:41:05.400
 it said

00:41:05.400 --> 00:41:06.579
 so that every one

00:41:06.579 --> 00:41:07.059
 of us

00:41:07.059 --> 00:41:08.139
 shall give an

00:41:08.139 --> 00:41:08.920
 account of himself

00:41:08.920 --> 00:41:10.039
 to God

00:41:10.039 --> 00:41:13.179
 so that every one

00:41:13.179 --> 00:41:13.480
 of us

00:41:13.480 --> 00:41:13.920
 shall give an

00:41:13.920 --> 00:41:14.800
 account of himself

00:41:14.800 --> 00:41:15.460
 to God

00:41:15.460 --> 00:41:17.199
 and he wrote

00:41:17.199 --> 00:41:17.599
 this

00:41:17.599 --> 00:41:19.239
 no matter

00:41:19.239 --> 00:41:19.779
 whether you're

00:41:19.779 --> 00:41:20.639
 religious or not

00:41:20.639 --> 00:41:22.599
 the longer you live

00:41:22.599 --> 00:41:24.400
 the idea of being

00:41:24.400 --> 00:41:25.259
 able to justify

00:41:25.259 --> 00:41:26.059
 your existence

00:41:26.059 --> 00:41:27.779
 keeps coming up

00:41:27.779 --> 00:41:28.599
 more and more

00:41:28.599 --> 00:41:30.619
 you know I'm not

00:41:30.619 --> 00:41:31.559
 a religious person

00:41:31.559 --> 00:41:33.079
 but when I go

00:41:33.079 --> 00:41:33.799
 by that sign

00:41:33.799 --> 00:41:34.719
 I realize

00:41:34.719 --> 00:41:36.000
 in my heart

00:41:36.000 --> 00:41:36.519
 of hearts

00:41:36.519 --> 00:41:38.000
 that the older

00:41:38.000 --> 00:41:38.500
 I get

00:41:38.500 --> 00:41:40.420
 I need to justify

00:41:40.420 --> 00:41:41.319
 why I'm here

00:41:41.319 --> 00:41:43.699
 as I talk

00:41:43.699 --> 00:41:44.279
 to my friends

00:41:44.279 --> 00:41:44.920
 both secular

00:41:44.920 --> 00:41:45.360
 and religious

00:41:45.360 --> 00:41:45.920
 they talk

00:41:45.920 --> 00:41:46.480
 and we talk

00:41:46.480 --> 00:41:47.239
 about this idea

00:41:47.239 --> 00:41:48.579
 he says

00:41:48.579 --> 00:41:49.099
 they look at me

00:41:49.099 --> 00:41:49.459
 and they say

00:41:49.459 --> 00:41:50.019
 you're stupid

00:41:50.019 --> 00:41:52.039
 why do you need

00:41:52.039 --> 00:41:52.500
 to justify

00:41:52.500 --> 00:41:53.139
 your ideas

00:41:53.139 --> 00:41:53.719
 and yourself

00:41:53.719 --> 00:41:54.379
 and your worth

00:41:54.379 --> 00:41:55.239
 why do you need

00:41:55.239 --> 00:41:55.519
 to prove

00:41:55.519 --> 00:41:56.039
 that you're worthy

00:41:56.039 --> 00:41:56.719
 of being here

00:41:56.719 --> 00:41:58.359
 you are who you are

00:41:58.359 --> 00:41:59.079
 you live the way

00:41:59.079 --> 00:41:59.779
 you want to live

00:41:59.779 --> 00:42:00.599
 who cares

00:42:00.599 --> 00:42:01.119
 what other people

00:42:01.119 --> 00:42:01.879
 think about you

00:42:01.879 --> 00:42:04.459
 he says

00:42:04.459 --> 00:42:04.839
 you know

00:42:04.839 --> 00:42:07.299
 people who actually

00:42:07.299 --> 00:42:08.219
 believe that

00:42:08.219 --> 00:42:10.979
 people who actually

00:42:10.979 --> 00:42:11.779
 say those type

00:42:11.779 --> 00:42:12.139
 of things

00:42:12.139 --> 00:42:12.779
 people who actually

00:42:12.779 --> 00:42:13.839
 say they don't

00:42:13.839 --> 00:42:14.419
 need to justify

00:42:14.419 --> 00:42:14.959
 themselves

00:42:14.959 --> 00:42:15.659
 or they do not

00:42:15.659 --> 00:42:16.119
 care what other

00:42:16.119 --> 00:42:16.719
 people think

00:42:16.719 --> 00:42:17.019
 or they don't

00:42:17.019 --> 00:42:17.519
 need to prove

00:42:17.519 --> 00:42:17.980
 themselves

00:42:17.980 --> 00:42:18.739
 they don't

00:42:18.739 --> 00:42:19.119
 need to do

00:42:19.119 --> 00:42:19.439
 what they do

00:42:19.439 --> 00:42:19.839
 they are

00:42:19.839 --> 00:42:20.279
 they are who

00:42:20.279 --> 00:42:20.519
 they are

00:42:20.519 --> 00:42:20.739
 they're going

00:42:20.739 --> 00:42:20.859
 to do

00:42:20.859 --> 00:42:21.039
 whatever

00:42:21.039 --> 00:42:21.319
 they want

00:42:21.319 --> 00:42:21.579
 to do

00:42:21.579 --> 00:42:22.099
 he says

00:42:22.099 --> 00:42:22.459
 people who

00:42:22.459 --> 00:42:22.899
 say that

00:42:22.899 --> 00:42:23.299
 people who

00:42:23.299 --> 00:42:23.639
 live that

00:42:23.639 --> 00:42:23.939
 way

00:42:23.939 --> 00:42:26.099
 those people

00:42:26.099 --> 00:42:28.059
 are sociopaths

00:42:28.059 --> 00:42:29.519
 and those people

00:42:29.519 --> 00:42:30.159
 are capable

00:42:30.159 --> 00:42:32.139
 of very

00:42:32.139 --> 00:42:33.059
 very

00:42:33.059 --> 00:42:33.739
 very

00:42:33.739 --> 00:42:34.599
 bad

00:42:34.599 --> 00:42:35.079
 things

00:42:35.079 --> 00:42:37.119
 he goes on

00:42:37.119 --> 00:42:37.480
 and he says

00:42:37.480 --> 00:42:38.179
 every single

00:42:38.179 --> 00:42:38.599
 person

00:42:38.599 --> 00:42:39.000
 whether you're

00:42:39.000 --> 00:42:39.779
 religious or not

00:42:39.779 --> 00:42:41.379
 begins to know

00:42:41.379 --> 00:42:42.659
 that you need

00:42:42.659 --> 00:42:43.159
 to justify

00:42:43.159 --> 00:42:43.980
 your existence

00:42:43.980 --> 00:42:46.059
 but the problem

00:42:46.059 --> 00:42:46.619
 is this

00:42:46.619 --> 00:42:48.400
 when you start

00:42:48.400 --> 00:42:49.159
 to ask yourself

00:42:49.159 --> 00:42:49.619
 what does it

00:42:49.619 --> 00:42:50.260
 mean to justify

00:42:50.260 --> 00:42:50.820
 myself

00:42:50.820 --> 00:42:52.900
 you start asking

00:42:52.900 --> 00:42:53.840
 questions like this

00:42:53.840 --> 00:42:54.639
 or saying things

00:42:54.639 --> 00:42:55.219
 like this

00:42:55.219 --> 00:42:57.440
 am I living the

00:42:57.440 --> 00:42:58.159
 kind of life

00:42:58.159 --> 00:42:59.219
 I think people

00:42:59.219 --> 00:42:59.699
 should live

00:42:59.699 --> 00:43:03.059
 or am I the

00:43:03.059 --> 00:43:03.760
 type of person

00:43:03.760 --> 00:43:04.380
 that I think

00:43:04.380 --> 00:43:05.159
 I should be

00:43:05.159 --> 00:43:07.840
 or am I the

00:43:07.840 --> 00:43:08.380
 type of person

00:43:08.380 --> 00:43:08.800
 that I think

00:43:08.800 --> 00:43:09.340
 other people

00:43:09.340 --> 00:43:10.280
 should be

00:43:10.280 --> 00:43:13.000
 this is when

00:43:13.000 --> 00:43:13.320
 we talk about

00:43:13.320 --> 00:43:13.940
 determining what's

00:43:13.940 --> 00:43:14.560
 good and bad

00:43:14.560 --> 00:43:14.860
 right

00:43:14.860 --> 00:43:16.360
 and this was

00:43:16.360 --> 00:43:17.500
 his answer

00:43:17.500 --> 00:43:18.580
 his response

00:43:18.580 --> 00:43:19.880
 he said

00:43:19.880 --> 00:43:20.160
 the problem

00:43:20.160 --> 00:43:20.740
 is this

00:43:20.740 --> 00:43:22.940
 I'm not

00:43:22.940 --> 00:43:26.080
 here's the

00:43:26.080 --> 00:43:26.560
 problem with

00:43:26.560 --> 00:43:27.280
 justifying my

00:43:27.280 --> 00:43:27.800
 existence

00:43:27.800 --> 00:43:29.860
 it's very

00:43:29.860 --> 00:43:30.260
 hard

00:43:30.260 --> 00:43:31.920
 it's very

00:43:31.920 --> 00:43:32.500
 very hard

00:43:32.500 --> 00:43:34.120
 not because

00:43:34.120 --> 00:43:34.640
 I'm a really

00:43:34.640 --> 00:43:35.440
 bad person

00:43:35.440 --> 00:43:37.320
 but because

00:43:37.320 --> 00:43:37.820
 I know

00:43:37.820 --> 00:43:38.440
 I should

00:43:38.440 --> 00:43:39.120
 could be

00:43:39.119 --> 00:43:40.179
 and I should

00:43:40.179 --> 00:43:40.500
 be

00:43:40.500 --> 00:43:41.759
 far better

00:43:41.759 --> 00:43:42.359
 than I am

00:43:42.359 --> 00:43:45.480
 I know

00:43:45.480 --> 00:43:46.099
 that I should

00:43:46.099 --> 00:43:46.480
 be living

00:43:46.480 --> 00:43:46.940
 differently

00:43:46.940 --> 00:43:50.319
 but I don't

00:43:50.319 --> 00:43:53.599
 you know

00:43:53.599 --> 00:43:54.000
 it seems to me

00:43:54.000 --> 00:43:54.719
 if we're honest

00:43:54.719 --> 00:43:56.019
 we live in a

00:43:56.019 --> 00:43:56.380
 world where

00:43:56.380 --> 00:43:56.880
 everyone is

00:43:56.880 --> 00:43:57.400
 trying to

00:43:57.400 --> 00:43:57.900
 justify

00:43:57.900 --> 00:43:59.940
 themselves

00:43:59.940 --> 00:44:01.639
 they're trying

00:44:01.639 --> 00:44:01.940
 to show

00:44:01.940 --> 00:44:02.239
 everybody

00:44:02.239 --> 00:44:02.579
 that they're

00:44:02.579 --> 00:44:02.759
 right

00:44:02.759 --> 00:44:03.079
 they're trying

00:44:03.079 --> 00:44:03.339
 to show

00:44:03.339 --> 00:44:03.639
 that their

00:44:03.639 --> 00:44:03.960
 existence

00:44:03.960 --> 00:44:04.699
 is worthy

00:44:04.699 --> 00:44:06.299
 sometimes we

00:44:06.299 --> 00:44:06.759
 do that

00:44:06.759 --> 00:44:07.699
 openly in front

00:44:07.699 --> 00:44:07.940
 of it

00:44:07.940 --> 00:44:08.619
 with cars

00:44:08.619 --> 00:44:09.159
 and houses

00:44:09.159 --> 00:44:10.279
 and promotions

00:44:10.279 --> 00:44:11.139
 and actions

00:44:11.139 --> 00:44:11.619
 and attitudes

00:44:11.619 --> 00:44:12.199
 that hurt

00:44:12.199 --> 00:44:12.920
 people

00:44:12.920 --> 00:44:13.339
 and often

00:44:13.339 --> 00:44:13.900
 hurt ourselves

00:44:13.900 --> 00:44:14.339
 but sometimes

00:44:14.339 --> 00:44:14.659
 we do it

00:44:14.659 --> 00:44:14.980
 within our

00:44:14.980 --> 00:44:15.279
 heart

00:44:15.279 --> 00:44:17.539
 and so the

00:44:17.539 --> 00:44:17.940
 question I want

00:44:17.940 --> 00:44:18.339
 to ask us

00:44:18.339 --> 00:44:18.679
 today

00:44:18.679 --> 00:44:20.940
 right before

00:44:20.940 --> 00:44:21.259
 we go into

00:44:21.259 --> 00:44:21.639
 communion

00:44:21.639 --> 00:44:24.559
 is how do

00:44:24.559 --> 00:44:25.119
 you justify

00:44:25.119 --> 00:44:25.900
 yourself today

00:44:25.900 --> 00:44:29.759
 how do you

00:44:29.759 --> 00:44:30.179
 prove that

00:44:30.179 --> 00:44:30.619
 you're righteous

00:44:30.619 --> 00:44:34.179
 how do you

00:44:34.179 --> 00:44:34.539
 prove that

00:44:34.539 --> 00:44:34.819
 you're in

00:44:34.819 --> 00:44:35.460
 right standing

00:44:35.460 --> 00:44:39.920
 what do you

00:44:39.920 --> 00:44:40.400
 look like

00:44:40.400 --> 00:44:40.940
 what do you

00:44:40.940 --> 00:44:41.400
 look at

00:44:41.400 --> 00:44:42.119
 to justify

00:44:42.119 --> 00:44:42.880
 your existence

00:44:42.880 --> 00:44:46.320
 are you the

00:44:46.320 --> 00:44:46.880
 type of person

00:44:46.880 --> 00:44:47.300
 that everybody

00:44:47.300 --> 00:44:47.820
 should be

00:44:47.820 --> 00:44:50.000
 are you the

00:44:50.000 --> 00:44:50.579
 type of person

00:44:50.579 --> 00:44:51.159
 that you think

00:44:51.159 --> 00:44:51.760
 everybody should

00:44:51.760 --> 00:44:52.000
 be

00:44:52.000 --> 00:44:53.800
 are you the

00:44:53.800 --> 00:44:54.260
 type of person

00:44:54.260 --> 00:44:54.679
 that you think

00:44:54.679 --> 00:44:55.019
 you should

00:44:55.019 --> 00:44:55.280
 be

00:44:55.280 --> 00:44:58.780
 how do you

00:44:58.780 --> 00:44:59.559
 find value

00:44:59.559 --> 00:45:01.280
 in what you

00:45:01.280 --> 00:45:01.619
 do

00:45:01.619 --> 00:45:04.380
 everyone wants

00:45:04.380 --> 00:45:05.079
 to live a life

00:45:05.079 --> 00:45:05.839
 that's right

00:45:05.839 --> 00:45:07.599
 and has value

00:45:07.599 --> 00:45:10.079
 everyone is

00:45:10.079 --> 00:45:10.759
 searching for it

00:45:10.759 --> 00:45:11.119
 whether we

00:45:11.119 --> 00:45:11.799
 know it or not

00:45:11.799 --> 00:45:13.480
 and the question

00:45:13.480 --> 00:45:15.259
 is where are we

00:45:15.259 --> 00:45:15.920
 finding that

00:45:15.920 --> 00:45:18.400
 are we finding

00:45:18.400 --> 00:45:18.759
 it in our

00:45:18.759 --> 00:45:19.039
 work

00:45:19.039 --> 00:45:20.960
 what happens

00:45:20.960 --> 00:45:21.199
 when we get

00:45:21.199 --> 00:45:21.679
 laid off

00:45:21.679 --> 00:45:24.380
 are we finding

00:45:24.380 --> 00:45:24.719
 it in our

00:45:24.719 --> 00:45:25.139
 families

00:45:25.139 --> 00:45:26.880
 what happens

00:45:26.880 --> 00:45:27.119
 when our

00:45:27.119 --> 00:45:27.539
 families aren't

00:45:27.539 --> 00:45:27.920
 doing too

00:45:27.920 --> 00:45:28.219
 good

00:45:28.219 --> 00:45:29.839
 or we get

00:45:29.839 --> 00:45:30.259
 divorced

00:45:30.260 --> 00:45:32.660
 are we

00:45:32.660 --> 00:45:32.960
 having it

00:45:32.960 --> 00:45:33.180
 in our

00:45:33.180 --> 00:45:33.440
 health

00:45:33.440 --> 00:45:33.800
 what happens

00:45:33.800 --> 00:45:33.980
 when we

00:45:33.980 --> 00:45:34.540
 get cancer

00:45:34.540 --> 00:45:35.740
 we can no

00:45:35.740 --> 00:45:36.160
 longer run

00:45:36.160 --> 00:45:36.460
 the 10

00:45:36.460 --> 00:45:36.720
 miles

00:45:36.720 --> 00:45:36.880
 that we

00:45:36.880 --> 00:45:37.240
 did every

00:45:37.240 --> 00:45:37.620
 day

00:45:37.620 --> 00:45:39.760
 are we

00:45:39.760 --> 00:45:39.960
 doing it

00:45:39.960 --> 00:45:40.220
 with our

00:45:40.220 --> 00:45:40.500
 kids

00:45:40.500 --> 00:45:40.920
 what happens

00:45:40.920 --> 00:45:41.160
 when our

00:45:41.160 --> 00:45:41.500
 kids don't

00:45:41.500 --> 00:45:41.800
 get into

00:45:41.800 --> 00:45:42.220
 that perfect

00:45:42.220 --> 00:45:42.580
 school

00:45:42.580 --> 00:45:44.200
 and everybody

00:45:44.200 --> 00:45:44.660
 looks at us

00:45:44.660 --> 00:45:44.840
 and goes

00:45:44.840 --> 00:45:45.200
 ooh you

00:45:45.200 --> 00:45:45.520
 must be a

00:45:45.520 --> 00:45:46.000
 bad parent

00:45:46.000 --> 00:45:48.640
 I was in

00:45:48.640 --> 00:45:49.060
 China one

00:45:49.060 --> 00:45:49.300
 time we

00:45:49.300 --> 00:45:49.600
 had this

00:45:49.600 --> 00:45:50.440
 meeting of

00:45:50.440 --> 00:45:51.020
 teachers and

00:45:51.020 --> 00:45:51.700
 the teachers

00:45:51.700 --> 00:45:52.140
 brought in

00:45:52.140 --> 00:45:52.980
 the parents

00:45:52.980 --> 00:45:55.280
 and in the

00:45:55.280 --> 00:45:55.600
 middle of the

00:45:55.600 --> 00:45:55.980
 meeting the

00:45:55.980 --> 00:45:56.440
 teacher goes

00:45:56.440 --> 00:45:57.860
 okay who is

00:45:57.860 --> 00:45:58.720
 Xiaotong's

00:45:58.720 --> 00:45:59.140
 parents

00:45:59.139 --> 00:46:01.699
 and Xiaotong's

00:46:01.699 --> 00:46:02.519
 parents raised

00:46:02.519 --> 00:46:03.259
 their hand

00:46:03.259 --> 00:46:04.739
 and the

00:46:04.739 --> 00:46:05.400
 teachers said

00:46:05.400 --> 00:46:07.339
 your kid

00:46:07.339 --> 00:46:08.480
 is the

00:46:08.480 --> 00:46:09.179
 stupidest kid

00:46:09.179 --> 00:46:09.460
 in this

00:46:09.460 --> 00:46:09.900
 class

00:46:09.900 --> 00:46:11.639
 how can your

00:46:11.639 --> 00:46:12.199
 kid be so

00:46:12.199 --> 00:46:12.579
 stupid

00:46:12.579 --> 00:46:14.259
 what's wrong

00:46:14.259 --> 00:46:14.699
 with you

00:46:14.699 --> 00:46:16.079
 how come

00:46:16.079 --> 00:46:16.339
 you're so

00:46:16.339 --> 00:46:17.079
 bad parents

00:46:17.079 --> 00:46:18.420
 how come

00:46:18.420 --> 00:46:18.719
 you haven't

00:46:18.719 --> 00:46:19.199
 done better

00:46:19.199 --> 00:46:19.619
 in raising

00:46:19.619 --> 00:46:20.319
 your kids

00:46:20.319 --> 00:46:23.960
 if Xiaotong's

00:46:23.960 --> 00:46:24.539
 parents found

00:46:24.539 --> 00:46:25.199
 their validation

00:46:25.199 --> 00:46:25.539
 and their

00:46:25.539 --> 00:46:25.980
 righteousness

00:46:25.980 --> 00:46:26.879
 in how they

00:46:26.879 --> 00:46:27.239
 raise their

00:46:27.239 --> 00:46:27.599
 kids

00:46:27.599 --> 00:46:29.900
 what would

00:46:29.900 --> 00:46:30.000
 have

00:46:30.000 --> 00:46:30.299
 happened

00:46:30.299 --> 00:46:30.579
 then

00:46:30.579 --> 00:46:35.299
 where do

00:46:35.299 --> 00:46:35.659
 you find

00:46:35.659 --> 00:46:36.299
 your validation

00:46:36.299 --> 00:46:37.920
 second thought

00:46:37.920 --> 00:46:38.219
 as I look

00:46:38.219 --> 00:46:38.559
 through all

00:46:38.559 --> 00:46:38.860
 this

00:46:38.860 --> 00:46:40.460
 we don't

00:46:40.460 --> 00:46:41.019
 like talking

00:46:41.019 --> 00:46:41.719
 about grace

00:46:41.719 --> 00:46:43.619
 let's be

00:46:43.619 --> 00:46:43.920
 honest

00:46:43.920 --> 00:46:45.440
 I think

00:46:45.440 --> 00:46:46.079
 in this

00:46:46.079 --> 00:46:46.440
 culture

00:46:46.440 --> 00:46:47.460
 we don't

00:46:47.460 --> 00:46:47.980
 like talking

00:46:47.980 --> 00:46:48.539
 about grace

00:46:48.539 --> 00:46:48.860
 we don't

00:46:48.860 --> 00:46:49.259
 like talking

00:46:49.259 --> 00:46:49.619
 about this

00:46:49.619 --> 00:46:50.079
 unmerited

00:46:50.079 --> 00:46:50.460
 favor

00:46:50.460 --> 00:46:51.159
 we don't

00:46:51.159 --> 00:46:51.599
 like talking

00:46:51.599 --> 00:46:52.119
 about gifts

00:46:52.119 --> 00:46:52.779
 given to us

00:46:52.779 --> 00:46:53.219
 there's

00:46:53.219 --> 00:46:53.400
 something

00:46:53.400 --> 00:46:53.759
 about an

00:46:53.759 --> 00:46:54.019
 Asian

00:46:54.019 --> 00:46:54.400
 culture

00:46:54.400 --> 00:46:55.000
 that we

00:46:55.000 --> 00:46:55.519
 don't like

00:46:55.519 --> 00:46:55.860
 talking

00:46:55.860 --> 00:46:56.539
 about gifts

00:46:56.539 --> 00:46:58.159
 we don't

00:46:58.159 --> 00:46:58.679
 like talking

00:46:58.679 --> 00:46:59.340
 about grace

00:46:59.340 --> 00:46:59.920
 we don't

00:46:59.920 --> 00:47:00.400
 want to

00:47:00.400 --> 00:47:00.840
 owe

00:47:00.840 --> 00:47:01.519
 anybody

00:47:01.519 --> 00:47:02.119
 anything

00:47:02.119 --> 00:47:03.460
 I mean

00:47:03.460 --> 00:47:03.900
 the idea

00:47:03.900 --> 00:47:04.300
 of getting

00:47:04.300 --> 00:47:04.679
 something

00:47:04.679 --> 00:47:05.480
 and not

00:47:05.480 --> 00:47:06.139
 paying back

00:47:06.139 --> 00:47:06.579
 for that

00:47:06.579 --> 00:47:07.159
 that is

00:47:07.159 --> 00:47:07.699
 beyond

00:47:07.699 --> 00:47:08.199
 our

00:47:08.199 --> 00:47:08.800
 comprehension

00:47:08.800 --> 00:47:10.219
 I mean

00:47:10.219 --> 00:47:10.420
 when we

00:47:10.420 --> 00:47:10.659
 look at

00:47:10.659 --> 00:47:11.099
 the Bible

00:47:11.099 --> 00:47:11.679
 and we

00:47:11.679 --> 00:47:12.139
 say that

00:47:12.139 --> 00:47:12.519
 man

00:47:12.519 --> 00:47:12.800
 this is

00:47:12.800 --> 00:47:13.039
 too good

00:47:13.039 --> 00:47:13.219
 to be

00:47:13.219 --> 00:47:13.420
 true

00:47:13.420 --> 00:47:13.639
 I'm

00:47:13.639 --> 00:47:13.779
 not

00:47:13.779 --> 00:47:13.880
 going

00:47:13.880 --> 00:47:13.940
 to

00:47:13.940 --> 00:47:14.119
 believe

00:47:14.119 --> 00:47:14.239
 it

00:47:14.239 --> 00:47:14.360
 because

00:47:14.360 --> 00:47:14.460
 I

00:47:14.460 --> 00:47:14.559
 don't

00:47:14.559 --> 00:47:14.679
 want

00:47:14.679 --> 00:47:14.759
 to

00:47:14.759 --> 00:47:14.920
 owe

00:47:14.920 --> 00:47:15.199
 God

00:47:15.199 --> 00:47:15.599
 anything

00:47:15.599 --> 00:47:16.219
 I

00:47:16.219 --> 00:47:16.360
 don't

00:47:16.360 --> 00:47:16.559
 want

00:47:16.559 --> 00:47:16.659
 to

00:47:16.659 --> 00:47:16.840
 be

00:47:16.840 --> 00:47:17.059
 in

00:47:17.059 --> 00:47:17.219
 debt

00:47:17.219 --> 00:47:17.320
 to

00:47:17.320 --> 00:47:17.679
 anybody

00:47:17.679 --> 00:47:18.159
 else

00:47:18.159 --> 00:47:18.759
 I

00:47:18.759 --> 00:47:19.219
 can't

00:47:19.219 --> 00:47:19.460
 believe

00:47:19.460 --> 00:47:19.759
 it

00:47:19.759 --> 00:47:21.800
 can I

00:47:21.800 --> 00:47:21.900
 be

00:47:21.900 --> 00:47:22.099
 honest

00:47:22.099 --> 00:47:22.259
 with

00:47:22.259 --> 00:47:22.440
 you

00:47:22.440 --> 00:47:26.820
 and I

00:47:26.820 --> 00:47:27.039
 prayed

00:47:27.039 --> 00:47:27.340
 whether I

00:47:27.340 --> 00:47:27.440
 should

00:47:27.440 --> 00:47:27.619
 say

00:47:27.619 --> 00:47:28.000
 this

00:47:28.000 --> 00:47:30.360
 but I

00:47:30.360 --> 00:47:31.200
 love us

00:47:31.200 --> 00:47:31.639
 as a

00:47:31.639 --> 00:47:31.860
 group

00:47:31.860 --> 00:47:32.720
 this

00:47:32.720 --> 00:47:32.940
 isn't

00:47:32.940 --> 00:47:33.119
 my

00:47:33.119 --> 00:47:33.500
 job

00:47:33.500 --> 00:47:33.780
 it's

00:47:33.780 --> 00:47:34.159
 my

00:47:34.159 --> 00:47:34.780
 lifestyle

00:47:34.780 --> 00:47:35.400
 what

00:47:35.400 --> 00:47:35.579
 God

00:47:35.579 --> 00:47:35.700
 has

00:47:35.700 --> 00:47:35.880
 called

00:47:35.880 --> 00:47:36.019
 us

00:47:36.019 --> 00:47:36.200
 to

00:47:36.200 --> 00:47:37.579
 but I

00:47:37.579 --> 00:47:37.740
 want

00:47:37.740 --> 00:47:37.840
 you

00:47:37.840 --> 00:47:38.159
 to hear

00:47:38.159 --> 00:47:38.380
 these

00:47:38.380 --> 00:47:38.800
 words

00:47:38.800 --> 00:47:40.700
 and I

00:47:40.700 --> 00:47:40.900
 hope

00:47:40.900 --> 00:47:41.179
 that I

00:47:41.179 --> 00:47:41.320
 don't

00:47:41.320 --> 00:47:41.579
 offend

00:47:41.579 --> 00:47:41.700
 you

00:47:41.700 --> 00:47:41.920
 too

00:47:41.920 --> 00:47:42.280
 much

00:47:42.280 --> 00:47:44.579
 but

00:47:44.579 --> 00:47:44.880
 every

00:47:44.880 --> 00:47:45.099
 one

00:47:45.099 --> 00:47:45.360
 of us

00:47:45.360 --> 00:47:45.480
 in

00:47:45.480 --> 00:47:45.700
 here

00:47:45.700 --> 00:47:47.159
 every

00:47:47.159 --> 00:47:47.360
 one

00:47:47.360 --> 00:47:47.579
 of us

00:47:47.579 --> 00:47:47.700
 in

00:47:47.700 --> 00:47:47.900
 here

00:47:47.900 --> 00:47:52.960
 every

00:47:52.960 --> 00:47:53.260
 one

00:47:53.260 --> 00:47:53.519
 of us

00:47:53.519 --> 00:47:53.639
 in

00:47:53.639 --> 00:47:53.860
 here

00:47:53.860 --> 00:47:55.840
 every

00:47:55.840 --> 00:47:56.119
 one

00:47:56.119 --> 00:47:56.360
 of us

00:47:56.360 --> 00:47:56.500
 in

00:47:56.500 --> 00:47:56.720
 here

00:47:56.720 --> 00:47:57.440
 we

00:47:57.440 --> 00:47:57.860
 all

00:47:57.860 --> 00:47:58.680
 are

00:47:58.680 --> 00:47:58.880
 in

00:47:58.880 --> 00:47:59.119
 debt

00:47:59.119 --> 00:47:59.660
 to

00:47:59.660 --> 00:48:00.000
 God

00:48:00.000 --> 00:48:02.980
 no

00:48:02.980 --> 00:48:03.099
 matter

00:48:03.099 --> 00:48:03.260
 how

00:48:03.260 --> 00:48:03.360
 you

00:48:03.360 --> 00:48:03.440
 don't

00:48:03.440 --> 00:48:03.559
 like

00:48:03.559 --> 00:48:03.660
 to

00:48:03.660 --> 00:48:03.860
 talk

00:48:03.860 --> 00:48:04.059
 about

00:48:04.059 --> 00:48:05.079
 grace

00:48:05.079 --> 00:48:05.680
 the

00:48:05.680 --> 00:48:05.980
 Bible

00:48:05.980 --> 00:48:06.300
 says

00:48:06.300 --> 00:48:06.420
 that

00:48:06.420 --> 00:48:06.579
 we

00:48:06.579 --> 00:48:07.099
 all

00:48:07.099 --> 00:48:07.619
 owe

00:48:07.619 --> 00:48:08.079
 God

00:48:08.079 --> 00:48:08.519
 we

00:48:08.519 --> 00:48:08.940
 all

00:48:08.940 --> 00:48:09.220
 are

00:48:09.220 --> 00:48:09.400
 in

00:48:09.400 --> 00:48:09.599
 debt

00:48:09.599 --> 00:48:10.039
 to

00:48:10.039 --> 00:48:10.320
 him

00:48:10.320 --> 00:48:13.160
 verse

00:48:13.160 --> 00:48:13.639
 24

00:48:13.639 --> 00:48:13.960
 goes

00:48:13.960 --> 00:48:14.139
 on

00:48:14.139 --> 00:48:14.240
 and

00:48:14.240 --> 00:48:14.480
 says

00:48:14.480 --> 00:48:14.900
 that

00:48:14.900 --> 00:48:15.079
 we've

00:48:15.079 --> 00:48:15.320
 all

00:48:15.320 --> 00:48:15.660
 sinned

00:48:15.660 --> 00:48:15.840
 we've

00:48:15.840 --> 00:48:16.000
 all

00:48:16.000 --> 00:48:16.599
 fall

00:48:16.599 --> 00:48:16.880
 short

00:48:16.880 --> 00:48:17.000
 of

00:48:17.000 --> 00:48:17.280
 God's

00:48:17.280 --> 00:48:17.619
 glory

00:48:17.619 --> 00:48:18.179
 so

00:48:18.179 --> 00:48:18.679
 we

00:48:18.679 --> 00:48:18.859
 have

00:48:18.859 --> 00:48:19.059
 a

00:48:19.059 --> 00:48:19.460
 decision

00:48:19.460 --> 00:48:19.679
 to

00:48:19.679 --> 00:48:19.859
 make

00:48:19.859 --> 00:48:20.099
 either

00:48:20.099 --> 00:48:20.500
 we owe

00:48:20.500 --> 00:48:20.800
 him a

00:48:20.800 --> 00:48:20.980
 debt

00:48:20.980 --> 00:48:21.199
 for

00:48:21.199 --> 00:48:21.440
 our

00:48:21.440 --> 00:48:21.800
 sin

00:48:21.800 --> 00:48:22.699
 which

00:48:22.699 --> 00:48:22.860
 we

00:48:22.860 --> 00:48:23.019
 can

00:48:23.019 --> 00:48:23.239
 never

00:48:23.239 --> 00:48:23.679
 repay

00:48:23.679 --> 00:48:24.719
 because

00:48:24.719 --> 00:48:24.960
 verse

00:48:24.960 --> 00:48:25.360
 26

00:48:25.360 --> 00:48:25.619
 says

00:48:25.619 --> 00:48:25.739
 that

00:48:25.739 --> 00:48:25.900
 he

00:48:25.900 --> 00:48:26.119
 is

00:48:26.119 --> 00:48:26.599
 just

00:48:26.599 --> 00:48:27.460
 that

00:48:27.460 --> 00:48:27.699
 God

00:48:27.699 --> 00:48:27.860
 will

00:48:27.860 --> 00:48:28.239
 demand

00:48:28.239 --> 00:48:28.420
 a

00:48:28.420 --> 00:48:28.739
 payment

00:48:28.739 --> 00:48:29.480
 that

00:48:29.480 --> 00:48:29.599
 if

00:48:29.599 --> 00:48:29.780
 there's

00:48:29.780 --> 00:48:29.940
 a

00:48:29.940 --> 00:48:30.119
 sin

00:48:30.119 --> 00:48:30.519
 broken

00:48:30.519 --> 00:48:30.960
 there

00:48:30.960 --> 00:48:31.239
 has

00:48:31.239 --> 00:48:31.340
 to

00:48:31.340 --> 00:48:31.480
 be

00:48:31.480 --> 00:48:31.639
 a

00:48:31.639 --> 00:48:32.079
 sacrifice

00:48:32.079 --> 00:48:33.599
 so

00:48:33.599 --> 00:48:33.780
 either

00:48:33.780 --> 00:48:34.179
 we owe

00:48:34.179 --> 00:48:34.460
 God

00:48:34.460 --> 00:48:34.659
 for

00:48:34.659 --> 00:48:34.840
 our

00:48:34.840 --> 00:48:35.059
 sin

00:48:35.059 --> 00:48:35.340
 debt

00:48:35.340 --> 00:48:37.820
 or

00:48:37.820 --> 00:48:38.139
 we owe

00:48:38.139 --> 00:48:38.460
 God

00:48:38.460 --> 00:48:38.920
 for

00:48:38.920 --> 00:48:39.420
 Jesus

00:48:39.420 --> 00:48:42.519
 because

00:48:42.519 --> 00:48:42.739
 verse

00:48:42.739 --> 00:48:43.139
 26

00:48:43.139 --> 00:48:43.440
 says

00:48:43.440 --> 00:48:43.539
 that

00:48:43.539 --> 00:48:43.659
 he

00:48:43.659 --> 00:48:44.039
 came

00:48:44.039 --> 00:48:44.159
 and

00:48:44.159 --> 00:48:44.299
 he

00:48:44.299 --> 00:48:44.599
 freely

00:48:44.599 --> 00:48:45.199
 gave

00:48:45.199 --> 00:48:45.359
 us

00:48:45.359 --> 00:48:45.579
 his

00:48:45.579 --> 00:48:46.000
 son

00:48:46.000 --> 00:48:47.199
 he

00:48:47.199 --> 00:48:47.539
 freely

00:48:47.539 --> 00:48:47.900
 gave

00:48:47.900 --> 00:48:48.159
 us

00:48:48.159 --> 00:48:48.779
 grace

00:48:48.779 --> 00:48:50.839
 and

00:48:50.839 --> 00:48:50.940
 so

00:48:50.940 --> 00:48:51.099
 we

00:48:51.099 --> 00:48:51.359
 all

00:48:51.359 --> 00:48:51.539
 are

00:48:51.539 --> 00:48:52.019
 debtors

00:48:52.019 --> 00:48:53.500
 we

00:48:53.500 --> 00:48:53.819
 all

00:48:53.819 --> 00:48:54.039
 owe

00:48:54.039 --> 00:48:54.239
 him

00:48:54.239 --> 00:48:54.359
 and

00:48:54.359 --> 00:48:54.500
 the

00:48:54.500 --> 00:48:54.859
 question

00:48:54.859 --> 00:48:55.279
 is

00:48:55.279 --> 00:48:56.900
 how

00:48:56.900 --> 00:48:57.019
 are

00:48:57.019 --> 00:48:57.099
 you

00:48:57.099 --> 00:48:57.199
 going

00:48:57.199 --> 00:48:57.299
 to

00:48:57.299 --> 00:48:57.500
 pay

00:48:57.500 --> 00:48:57.799
 him

00:48:57.800 --> 00:49:05.260
 if

00:49:05.260 --> 00:49:05.360
 we

00:49:05.360 --> 00:49:05.519
 all

00:49:05.519 --> 00:49:05.720
 owe

00:49:05.720 --> 00:49:06.100
 God

00:49:06.100 --> 00:49:08.519
 we

00:49:08.519 --> 00:49:08.740
 all

00:49:08.740 --> 00:49:08.880
 are

00:49:08.880 --> 00:49:09.000
 in

00:49:09.000 --> 00:49:09.140
 debt

00:49:09.140 --> 00:49:09.320
 to

00:49:09.320 --> 00:49:09.539
 him

00:49:09.539 --> 00:49:11.740
 how

00:49:11.740 --> 00:49:11.880
 are

00:49:11.880 --> 00:49:11.960
 you

00:49:11.960 --> 00:49:12.060
 going

00:49:12.060 --> 00:49:12.140
 to

00:49:12.140 --> 00:49:12.300
 pay

00:49:12.300 --> 00:49:12.580
 him

00:49:12.580 --> 00:49:16.900
 my

00:49:16.900 --> 00:49:17.120
 third

00:49:17.120 --> 00:49:17.300
 thing

00:49:17.300 --> 00:49:17.400
 I

00:49:17.400 --> 00:49:17.519
 want

00:49:17.519 --> 00:49:17.600
 to

00:49:17.600 --> 00:49:17.900
 share

00:49:17.900 --> 00:49:18.840
 I'm

00:49:18.840 --> 00:49:18.920
 going

00:49:18.920 --> 00:49:18.960
 to

00:49:18.960 --> 00:49:19.100
 ask

00:49:19.100 --> 00:49:19.200
 the

00:49:19.200 --> 00:49:19.460
 communion

00:49:19.460 --> 00:49:19.660
 students

00:49:19.660 --> 00:49:19.840
 to

00:49:19.840 --> 00:49:20.019
 come

00:49:20.019 --> 00:49:20.360
 down

00:49:20.360 --> 00:49:21.500
 what

00:49:21.500 --> 00:49:21.780
 Paul

00:49:21.780 --> 00:49:22.100
 says

00:49:22.100 --> 00:49:22.280
 in

00:49:22.280 --> 00:49:22.720
 Romans

00:49:22.720 --> 00:49:23.039
 3

00:49:23.039 --> 00:49:23.420
 is

00:49:23.420 --> 00:49:23.800
 this

00:49:23.800 --> 00:49:26.039
 listen

00:49:26.039 --> 00:49:26.300
 really

00:49:26.300 --> 00:49:26.620
 closely

00:49:26.619 --> 00:49:29.139
 grace

00:49:29.139 --> 00:49:30.460
 is

00:49:30.460 --> 00:49:30.799
 free

00:49:30.799 --> 00:49:33.079
 you

00:49:33.079 --> 00:49:33.259
 can

00:49:33.259 --> 00:49:33.359
 be

00:49:33.359 --> 00:49:33.619
 made

00:49:33.619 --> 00:49:35.059
 right

00:49:35.059 --> 00:49:35.299
 by

00:49:35.299 --> 00:49:35.779
 faith

00:49:35.779 --> 00:49:36.039
 in

00:49:36.039 --> 00:49:36.279
 Jesus

00:49:36.279 --> 00:49:36.639
 blood

00:49:36.639 --> 00:49:36.799
 and

00:49:36.799 --> 00:49:37.259
 sacrifice

00:49:37.259 --> 00:49:39.519
 but

00:49:39.519 --> 00:49:39.679
 we

00:49:39.679 --> 00:49:40.059
 must

00:49:40.059 --> 00:49:40.639
 accept

00:49:40.639 --> 00:49:40.980
 the

00:49:40.980 --> 00:49:41.179
 free

00:49:41.179 --> 00:49:41.559
 gift

00:49:41.559 --> 00:49:44.039
 we

00:49:44.039 --> 00:49:44.480
 must

00:49:44.480 --> 00:49:45.599
 accept

00:49:45.599 --> 00:49:46.019
 the

00:49:46.019 --> 00:49:46.259
 free

00:49:46.259 --> 00:49:46.659
 gift

00:49:46.659 --> 00:49:48.519
 as

00:49:48.519 --> 00:49:48.839
 Paul

00:49:48.839 --> 00:49:49.059
 would

00:49:49.059 --> 00:49:49.339
 say

00:49:49.339 --> 00:49:49.559
 is

00:49:49.559 --> 00:49:49.699
 that

00:49:49.699 --> 00:49:50.000
 every

00:49:50.000 --> 00:49:50.199
 one

00:49:50.199 --> 00:49:50.319
 of

00:49:50.319 --> 00:49:50.460
 us

00:49:50.460 --> 00:49:50.579
 in

00:49:50.579 --> 00:49:50.839
 here

00:49:50.839 --> 00:49:55.079
 we

00:49:55.079 --> 00:49:55.359
 must

00:49:55.359 --> 00:49:55.559
 have

00:49:55.559 --> 00:49:55.699
 a

00:49:55.699 --> 00:49:55.839
 but

00:49:55.839 --> 00:49:56.099
 now

00:49:56.099 --> 00:49:56.559
 moment

00:49:56.559 --> 00:49:59.400
 we

00:49:59.400 --> 00:49:59.820
 must

00:49:59.820 --> 00:50:00.380
 have

00:50:00.380 --> 00:50:00.739
 a

00:50:00.739 --> 00:50:00.940
 but

00:50:00.940 --> 00:50:01.279
 now

00:50:01.279 --> 00:50:01.799
 moment

00:50:01.799 --> 00:50:03.619
 we

00:50:03.619 --> 00:50:03.900
 must

00:50:03.900 --> 00:50:04.119
 come

00:50:04.119 --> 00:50:04.259
 to

00:50:04.259 --> 00:50:04.380
 a

00:50:04.380 --> 00:50:04.599
 place

00:50:04.599 --> 00:50:04.719
 where

00:50:04.719 --> 00:50:04.860
 we

00:50:04.860 --> 00:50:05.460
 realize

00:50:05.460 --> 00:50:06.820
 that

00:50:06.820 --> 00:50:06.920
 we

00:50:06.920 --> 00:50:07.099
 need

00:50:07.099 --> 00:50:07.579
 grace

00:50:07.579 --> 00:50:10.840
 two

00:50:10.840 --> 00:50:11.119
 months

00:50:11.119 --> 00:50:11.519
 later

00:50:11.519 --> 00:50:14.559
 1991

00:50:14.559 --> 00:50:19.500
 I was

00:50:19.500 --> 00:50:19.719
 teaching

00:50:19.719 --> 00:50:20.119
 Jerry's

00:50:20.119 --> 00:50:20.599
 class

00:50:20.599 --> 00:50:22.400
 there was

00:50:22.400 --> 00:50:22.719
 just so

00:50:22.719 --> 00:50:22.900
 much

00:50:22.900 --> 00:50:23.340
 information

00:50:23.340 --> 00:50:23.739
 to talk

00:50:23.739 --> 00:50:23.960
 about

00:50:23.960 --> 00:50:24.400
 God

00:50:24.400 --> 00:50:25.079
 and the

00:50:25.079 --> 00:50:25.500
 scripture

00:50:25.500 --> 00:50:25.880
 and what

00:50:25.880 --> 00:50:26.059
 God

00:50:26.059 --> 00:50:26.159
 has

00:50:26.159 --> 00:50:26.340
 done

00:50:26.340 --> 00:50:26.460
 in

00:50:26.460 --> 00:50:26.599
 our

00:50:26.599 --> 00:50:26.940
 life

00:50:26.940 --> 00:50:27.079
 and

00:50:27.079 --> 00:50:28.659
 everybody

00:50:28.659 --> 00:50:28.940
 was getting

00:50:28.940 --> 00:50:29.400
 overwhelmed

00:50:29.400 --> 00:50:29.820
 and I

00:50:29.820 --> 00:50:30.079
 was getting

00:50:30.079 --> 00:50:30.420
 overwhelmed

00:50:30.420 --> 00:50:30.739
 because we

00:50:30.739 --> 00:50:30.900
 were trying

00:50:30.900 --> 00:50:31.099
 to figure

00:50:31.099 --> 00:50:31.300
 out

00:50:31.300 --> 00:50:32.199
 distill it

00:50:32.199 --> 00:50:32.500
 to the

00:50:32.500 --> 00:50:32.940
 deepest

00:50:32.940 --> 00:50:33.860
 the essence

00:50:33.860 --> 00:50:34.119
 of the

00:50:34.119 --> 00:50:34.460
 gospel

00:50:34.460 --> 00:50:34.739
 and what

00:50:34.739 --> 00:50:34.940
 does that

00:50:34.940 --> 00:50:35.400
 look like

00:50:35.400 --> 00:50:35.639
 in our

00:50:35.639 --> 00:50:36.159
 lives

00:50:36.159 --> 00:50:36.380
 and

00:50:36.380 --> 00:50:37.260
 it was

00:50:37.260 --> 00:50:37.960
 kind of like

00:50:37.960 --> 00:50:38.420
 this sermon

00:50:38.420 --> 00:50:38.719
 right

00:50:38.719 --> 00:50:39.440
 there's a lot

00:50:39.440 --> 00:50:40.079
 of information

00:50:40.079 --> 00:50:40.579
 flowing out

00:50:40.579 --> 00:50:40.679
 there

00:50:40.679 --> 00:50:40.980
 whoa

00:50:40.980 --> 00:50:41.440
 okay

00:50:41.440 --> 00:50:41.900
 so we're

00:50:41.900 --> 00:50:42.019
 all

00:50:42.019 --> 00:50:42.400
 searching for

00:50:42.400 --> 00:50:42.699
 righteousness

00:50:42.699 --> 00:50:43.859
 we all

00:50:43.859 --> 00:50:44.279
 have a debt

00:50:44.279 --> 00:50:45.259
 grace

00:50:45.259 --> 00:50:45.739
 is free

00:50:45.739 --> 00:50:46.500
 what do I

00:50:46.500 --> 00:50:46.739
 do with

00:50:46.739 --> 00:50:47.239
 those things

00:50:47.239 --> 00:50:47.819
 how do I

00:50:47.819 --> 00:50:48.839
 handle those

00:50:48.839 --> 00:50:49.319
 things

00:50:49.319 --> 00:50:51.980
 and we had a

00:50:51.980 --> 00:50:52.579
 Christmas party

00:50:52.579 --> 00:50:55.519
 and in the

00:50:55.519 --> 00:50:56.139
 party I talked

00:50:56.139 --> 00:50:56.980
 about Christ

00:50:56.980 --> 00:50:58.719
 coming

00:50:58.719 --> 00:51:01.139
 to save

00:51:01.139 --> 00:51:01.599
 his people

00:51:01.599 --> 00:51:04.099
 that we had

00:51:04.099 --> 00:51:04.639
 this debt on

00:51:04.639 --> 00:51:04.939
 us that we

00:51:04.939 --> 00:51:05.819
 couldn't relieve

00:51:05.819 --> 00:51:06.819
 ourselves of

00:51:06.819 --> 00:51:08.819
 and Christ

00:51:08.819 --> 00:51:09.359
 came and he

00:51:09.359 --> 00:51:10.139
 took that debt

00:51:10.139 --> 00:51:12.900
 and he paid

00:51:12.900 --> 00:51:13.719
 that debt

00:51:13.719 --> 00:51:16.359
 and he made

00:51:16.359 --> 00:51:17.119
 us right

00:51:17.119 --> 00:51:19.739
 and now if we

00:51:19.739 --> 00:51:20.420
 take that

00:51:20.420 --> 00:51:21.400
 gift

00:51:21.400 --> 00:51:24.659
 by faith

00:51:24.659 --> 00:51:26.920
 grace

00:51:26.920 --> 00:51:29.239
 we can be

00:51:29.239 --> 00:51:29.599
 made right

00:51:29.599 --> 00:51:29.960
 also

00:51:29.960 --> 00:51:32.980
 Jerry shot

00:51:32.980 --> 00:51:33.199
 up

00:51:33.199 --> 00:51:36.440
 you have

00:51:36.440 --> 00:51:36.759
 broached

00:51:36.759 --> 00:51:37.299
 my heart

00:51:37.299 --> 00:51:40.079
 I understand

00:51:40.079 --> 00:51:42.860
 I understand

00:51:42.860 --> 00:51:45.900
 my prayer

00:51:45.900 --> 00:51:46.460
 for us

00:51:46.460 --> 00:51:48.039
 as a church

00:51:48.039 --> 00:51:48.559
 family

00:51:48.559 --> 00:51:50.699
 is that we'd

00:51:50.699 --> 00:51:51.119
 understand the

00:51:51.119 --> 00:51:51.639
 good news

00:51:51.639 --> 00:51:53.759
 we'd understand

00:51:53.759 --> 00:51:54.119
 God's

00:51:54.119 --> 00:51:54.880
 graciousness

00:51:54.880 --> 00:51:56.659
 we'd understand

00:51:56.659 --> 00:51:57.199
 that we've been

00:51:57.199 --> 00:51:57.940
 going off in this

00:51:57.940 --> 00:51:58.400
 one direction

00:51:58.400 --> 00:51:59.039
 and all along

00:51:59.039 --> 00:51:59.500
 God has been

00:51:59.500 --> 00:52:00.039
 pursuing us

00:52:00.039 --> 00:52:00.599
 pursuing us

00:52:00.599 --> 00:52:01.299
 pursuing us

00:52:01.299 --> 00:52:02.539
 we've been doing

00:52:02.539 --> 00:52:03.039
 we've been doing

00:52:03.039 --> 00:52:03.539
 we've been doing

00:52:03.539 --> 00:52:04.519
 and God's been

00:52:04.519 --> 00:52:04.779
 saying

00:52:04.779 --> 00:52:06.840
 it's already

00:52:06.840 --> 00:52:07.219
 done

00:52:07.219 --> 00:52:10.619
 it's a gift

00:52:10.619 --> 00:52:13.799
 will you take

00:52:13.799 --> 00:52:14.139
 it

00:52:14.139 --> 00:52:17.799
 will you allow

00:52:17.799 --> 00:52:18.339
 him to broach

00:52:18.339 --> 00:52:18.799
 your heart

00:52:18.799 --> 00:52:22.519
 and to give you

00:52:22.519 --> 00:52:23.099
 a new relationship

00:52:23.099 --> 00:52:23.739
 with his father

00:52:23.739 --> 00:52:29.779
 father we thank

00:52:29.779 --> 00:52:30.459
 you for this day

00:52:30.459 --> 00:52:31.099
 we thank you for

00:52:31.099 --> 00:52:31.679
 your goodness

00:52:31.679 --> 00:52:33.000
 we thank you for

00:52:33.000 --> 00:52:33.619
 this news

00:52:33.619 --> 00:52:34.279
 which is

00:52:34.279 --> 00:52:35.679
 intense

00:52:35.679 --> 00:52:36.539
 and it's deep

00:52:36.539 --> 00:52:37.419
 and it's complicated

00:52:37.419 --> 00:52:38.239
 but in reality

00:52:38.239 --> 00:52:39.259
 it's so simple

00:52:39.259 --> 00:52:40.940
 the simplest is

00:52:40.940 --> 00:52:41.619
 we're lost

00:52:41.619 --> 00:52:42.859
 and that you

00:52:42.859 --> 00:52:43.559
 found us

00:52:43.559 --> 00:52:44.839
 you've opened

00:52:44.839 --> 00:52:45.480
 our eyes

00:52:45.480 --> 00:52:46.079
 and our ears

00:52:46.079 --> 00:52:46.859
 to your son

00:52:46.859 --> 00:52:48.099
 who is far more

00:52:48.099 --> 00:52:48.779
 beautiful and

00:52:48.779 --> 00:52:49.319
 wonderful than

00:52:49.319 --> 00:52:49.899
 anything we could

00:52:49.899 --> 00:52:50.539
 ever imagine

00:52:50.539 --> 00:52:52.399
 and we fell in love

00:52:52.399 --> 00:52:52.879
 with him

00:52:52.879 --> 00:52:54.919
 and you adopted

00:52:54.919 --> 00:52:55.460
 us into your

00:52:55.460 --> 00:52:56.199
 family and now

00:52:56.199 --> 00:52:57.319
 it's not theirs

00:52:57.319 --> 00:52:57.839
 and ours

00:52:57.839 --> 00:52:58.659
 but it's all

00:52:58.659 --> 00:52:59.579
 ours

00:52:59.579 --> 00:53:00.179
 everything that you

00:53:00.179 --> 00:53:01.339
 have is ours

00:53:01.339 --> 00:53:02.719
 everything that the

00:53:02.719 --> 00:53:03.139
 son had

00:53:03.139 --> 00:53:04.059
 you've given us

00:53:04.059 --> 00:53:05.779
 may we be a

00:53:05.779 --> 00:53:06.400
 church that

00:53:06.400 --> 00:53:07.579
 thinks about

00:53:07.579 --> 00:53:08.539
 this good news

00:53:08.539 --> 00:53:10.519
 over and over

00:53:10.519 --> 00:53:11.259
 and over

00:53:11.259 --> 00:53:13.059
 may we be a

00:53:13.059 --> 00:53:13.480
 church that

00:53:13.480 --> 00:53:14.099
 thinks about

00:53:14.099 --> 00:53:14.840
 those who don't

00:53:14.840 --> 00:53:15.579
 have this good

00:53:15.579 --> 00:53:16.019
 news

00:53:16.019 --> 00:53:18.099
 over and over

00:53:18.099 --> 00:53:18.840
 and over

00:53:18.840 --> 00:53:21.219
 Lord use us

00:53:21.219 --> 00:53:22.860
 to share your

00:53:22.860 --> 00:53:23.219
 son

00:53:23.219 --> 00:53:25.199
 because we know

00:53:25.199 --> 00:53:25.860
 that he is the

00:53:25.860 --> 00:53:26.440
 only way

00:53:26.440 --> 00:53:28.019
 that we can be

00:53:28.019 --> 00:53:28.559
 made right

00:53:28.559 --> 00:53:30.519
 we love you

00:53:30.519 --> 00:53:31.219
 and we pray all

00:53:31.219 --> 00:53:31.860
 these things in your

00:53:31.860 --> 00:53:32.340
 son Jesus

00:53:32.340 --> 00:53:33.160
 holy name

00:53:33.160 --> 00:53:34.320
 amen