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 I decided to change a bit what I will cover specifically this morning, and this being verses 5-9.

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 Because there are just way too many implications to pull out of this, to rush right past it.

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 Many of you who attend here regularly know that I've said before to you that my notes for approximately a 45-minute sermon are usually about 5 pages.

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 And you'll appreciate my decision to do this by knowing that I copy and pasted three pages worth out in the trimming down of verse 10 and 11 this morning.

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 So, I believe it's wise for us to proceed in this manner.

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 And you just have to stick with me.

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 Try to follow my logic and my reason as we look at verses 5-17, today being part 1.

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 And then we'll develop upon it in the coming weeks.

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 I appreciate Ash reading already to us verses 5-17.

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 Let me remind you that this is God's Word to us.

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 It has meaning and bearing for us today and that we would all do well to listen to it in order to believe its promises and obey its commands.

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 The primary exhortation of the text this morning, I believe, is found in the last part of verse 9 and the first part of verse 10.

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 Seeing that you have put off the old self with its practices and have put on the new self.

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 So there are two driving points here.

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 Firstly, that we are to put off the old self.

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 Stated in the negative.

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 Do not do these things.

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 Do not do sins of commission.

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 Those things that we are told not to do.

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 Stated in the positive, the other major point of verses 5-17 is that we ought to put on the new self.

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 Instead of doing these things, rather live in this way.

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 And this morning we're going to talk about putting off the old self and in the coming weeks what it looks like,

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 what it means to put on the new self.

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 So you have essentially this morning a single point for part one and that is put off the old self.

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 We see it there in the last part of verse 9.

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 Also stated in verse 5, Paul says,

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 Put to death, therefore what is earthly in you.

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 And he doesn't mean this literally, but rather figuratively.

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 There have been men throughout history who have misunderstood this and misunderstood the teaching of Jesus in Matthew 5, 29-30.

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 Where he said,

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 If your right eye causes you to sin, tear it out and throw it away.

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 For it is better that you lose one of your members than that your whole body be thrown into hell.

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 And if your right hand causes you to sin, cut it off and throw it away.

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 For it is better that you lose one of your members than that your whole body go into hell.

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 We have seen Paul's warning.

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 Kyle did a wonderful job of speaking to us about the pointlessness of asceticism,

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 of disciplining ourselves in the external.

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 And they have no real value in stopping the indulgence of the flesh.

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 But Jesus isn't speaking literally in Matthew 5, 29-30.

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 And neither is Paul in verse 5 here of chapter 3.

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 I'm thankful for verse 8.

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 He gives us some help and some clearer understanding as he says,

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 But you now must put them all away.

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 He helps us to understand that this is not a literal putting to death,

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 killing our bodies, but rather figuratively killing that sin that so easily ensnares.

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 Paul wrote in Romans 8, 13,

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 For if you live according to the flesh, you will die.

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 But if by the Spirit you put to death the deeds of the body, you will live.

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 Not the actual body, but rather the deeds of the body we are meant to put to death.

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 And Paul in our text gives us two lists of sins that are to be put off or to be killed in us.

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 And these are certainly not exhaustive lists of all sins that ever needed to be put to death.

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 But he gives us these two lists and he gives them to us categorically.

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 Firstly, we see a set of sins that are sins of unrighteous love.

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 Sins of unrighteous love or misplaced or perverted love, if you prefer.

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 And these are sexual immorality, impurity, passion, evil desires, and covetousness, which is idolatry.

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 The phrase here in the Greek for sexual immorality is the word that we get our English word for pornography from.

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 It's a very broad word.

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 It includes any form of illicit sex.

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 Sex is given to us as a good gift when it's exercised in its proper context.

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 In case anybody has any doubt about what context that is,

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 sex is a good and a perfect gift that should be done with joy

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 in a committed relationship with a single person of the opposite sex bound together in covenant marriage.

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 This is when it's a good and perfect and beautiful and wonderful gift.

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 Any other form of it, any other form of it is not.

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 It's sexual immorality.

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 It's an offense to God and His good design in the world.

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 Paul then says we're to put off impurity.

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 And the word means filthiness or uncleanliness.

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 It's a broader term than sexual immorality in that it includes thoughts and intentions.

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 So not simply the acts, but also the thinking about or the intentions of our hearts.

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 Jesus refers to this sin in Matthew 5.28 when He says,

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 But I say to you that everyone who looks at a woman with lustful intent

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 has already committed adultery with her in his heart.

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 And to further compound Paul's exhortation here to put off these types of sin,

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 he talks about passion and evil desire.

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 There's not a great distinction in these original terms from the previous two.

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 And I wrestled and turned them over and tried to figure out why specifically Paul listed them out in this way.

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 I think he's just driving his point.

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 He's giving us a slightly different flavor to the way in which they would have read these words.

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 We do the very same thing when we preach on Sunday morning.

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 We give you multiple definitions.

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 We give you multiple words to help you wrap your mind around and understand.

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 As an example, I said to you that the first list of sins are sins of unrighteous love.

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 And I said, or misplaced or perverted love.

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 So he's piling up the descriptors to help us understand how it is we're meant to not live.

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 Passion means sexual passion set loose.

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 And somebody's passions being acted out upon.

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 And then the evil desire in this context, meaning the sexual lust created in the mind.

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 Paul goes really hard against these types of sins.

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 And these are sins that are running rampant in our world.

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 They always have, certainly to be true.

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 But today, they are certainly running rampant.

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 Not just outside the borders of our church, but within as well.

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 Spend a little bit of time with the men in our church and you know that this is true.

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 And this should not be so.

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 Paul also says that we're to put off covetousness, which is related.

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 The insatiable desire to have more or to have what is forbidden.

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 To have things that don't belong to us.

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 The final and tenth commandment that was given to Moses.

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 This covetousness is idolatry.

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 And it's idolatry because it places selfish desire above obedience to God.

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 We worship the thing created when we covet it, rather than the one who creates all things.

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 To speak of covetousness is to speak of a very broad sin.

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 We could put many things, lump many more specific sins underneath this sin of covetousness.

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 William Barclay, who is a 20th century Scottish theologian that I would commend to you,

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 wrote, covetousness is a sin with a very wide range.

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 If it is the desire for money, it leads to theft.

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 If it is the desire for prestige, it leads to evil ambition.

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 If it is the desire for power, it leads to sadistic tyranny.

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 If it is the desire for a person, it leads to sexual sin.

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 And clearly what's being said here is not just the thing it leads to is sin,

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 but the desire for it is sin itself.

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 And we should have nothing to do with these things as Christian people.

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 Secondly, Paul gives us a list of sins of unrighteous hate.

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 Or wicked hate, if you prefer.

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 There are certainly things that we should, as Christian people, hate.

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 My own sin is a thing that I should despise.

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 This would be a righteous hatred.

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 Paul here is listing for us things that are of an unrighteous or wicked nature.

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 Anger, wrath, malice, slander, and obscene talk, and lying.

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 Anger is this idea in the Greek of a deep, smoldering, resentful bitterness.

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 Those of you who have camped, I hope all of you have,

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 and seen a fire when you wake up in the morning and it's still burning down in the deep in the embers

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 and all it takes is stirring them and laying a little bit of wood back on top

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 and it bursts right back into flame.

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 This is kind of the picture going on here.

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 This is the anger that's being spoken of.

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 This is the kind of anger that characterizes an angry person.

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 Provocation of this person is not what causes the anger.

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 It's merely the thing that gives vent to the anger that already exists.

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 This is a state of being that Paul's talking about here.

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 James 1.19-20 says,

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 Know this, my beloved brothers,

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 let every person be quick to hear,

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 slow to speak,

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 slow to anger,

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 for the anger of man does not produce the righteousness of God.

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 And this is that term.

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 This is what he's trying to communicate to us.

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 That we ought not be people that smolder in this way.

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 And all that it takes is somebody to give us a little fan

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 and we burst into flame.

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 That is what wrath means.

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 The next thing that he warns us against.

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 The next thing he tells us to put off.

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 Wrath in the Greek is the sudden outburst of anger.

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 It's that little handful of leaves you throw on the fire

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 that bursts into flame immediately.

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 Bursts up and then goes out.

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 The two are very closely related.

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 Anger and wrath.

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 Anger lying below the surface.

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 Wrath its vent.

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 Thirdly, Paul tells us to put off malice.

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 And this is just a general term

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 for moral evil aimed at another person.

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 Malice.

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 Evil intent toward other people.

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 In this context,

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 it likely refers to harmful speech.

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 Speech that's aimed at causing hurt to other people.

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 And we can see the very next thing he tells us to put off

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 as slander.

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 It's the Greek word blasphemia,

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 which we get our term blasphemy from.

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 In relation to God,

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 it's translated in our Scriptures as blasphemy.

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 In relation to man,

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 slander is the word that English translators have chosen to use.

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 And hear this, beloved,

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 to slander an individual created in the image of God

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 is to blaspheme God,

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 the one who created the individual.

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 For blasphemy is to speak irreverently about God or sacred things,

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 those things that he created,

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 which are good and bear his image.

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 James 3, again,

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 James writing verses 9 and 10,

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 speaking of our tongue,

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 with it we bless our Lord and Father,

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 and with it we curse people who are made in the likeness of God.

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 From the same mouth come blessing and cursing.

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 My brothers,

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 these things ought not be so.

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 Paul goes on in his list,

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 fifthly,

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 to speak of obscene talk,

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 which is foul-mouthed abuse of another person,

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 which is in so many places expressly forbidden in the Scriptures.

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 Ephesians 5.4

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 As an example,

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 let there be no filthiness,

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 nor foolish talk,

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 nor crude joking,

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 which are out of place,

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 but instead,

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 let there be thanksgiving.

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 Jesus warns us in Matthew 12.36,

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 I tell you,

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 on the day of judgment,

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 people will give an account for every careless word they speak.

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 And lastly in this list,

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 Paul says to us we are to put off lying or deceit.

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 He says do not lie to one another.

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 Lying characterizes Satan.

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 John 8.44

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 Jesus speaking of Satan says

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 he was a murderer from the beginning,

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 and does not stand in the truth,

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 because there is no truth in him.

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 When he lies,

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 he speaks out of his own character,

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 for he is a liar and the father of lies.

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 And just before this,

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 he has accused the Pharisees of being of their father.

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 If we are not of Satan,

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 then we ought not lie to one another.

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 Truth characterizes God.

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 And as people of God,

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 we should tell the truth.

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 Titus 1.2

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 Here Paul refers to God

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 who never lies.

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 And Paul gives us in our text,

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 as he's telling us to put off these things,

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 to put these sins to death in our lives,

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 he gives us two reasons

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 why we should do so.

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 You'll find these in verse 6 and verse 7.

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 Firstly, sin brings God's judgment.

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 Sin brings God's judgment.

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 Verse 6.

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 Paul writes,

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 On account of these,

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 the wrath of God is coming.

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 The wrath of God is coming

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 because of these sins

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 that should be put to death

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 in the life of a believer.

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 A.W. Pink described God's wrath

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 and the attributes of God like this.

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 His eternal detestation of all unrighteousness.

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 It is the displeasure of God

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 stirred into activity against sin.

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 What a frightening thing.

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 The unbeliever's life

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 invites the wrath of God.

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 The unbeliever stands in defiance of God.

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 Shakes its fist at God

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 and says,

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 I hate you.

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 It invites the wrath of God.

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 Romans 2.5, Paul says,

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 But because of your hard

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 and impetent heart,

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 you are storing up wrath for yourself

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 on the day of wrath

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 when God's righteous judgment

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 will be revealed.

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 This is the thing

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 that those who are enemies of God

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 deserve.

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 That is,

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 the wrath of God.

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 Because of these sins,

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 because of this offense

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 to who God is,

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 the way in which He's revealed Himself to us,

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 and the way in which we ought to live

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 to glorify Him,

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 God's wrath is coming.

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 Now, Paul is not warning believers

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 that if we sin,

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 we will feel the wrath of God.

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 This is not what he's saying at all.

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 Those of us who are found in Christ

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 have had our sins struck clean.

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 God has poured out His wrath

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 justly to be fully just

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 for our sin in Jesus Christ.

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 This is why we need the perfect sacrifice of Jesus.

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 That perfect life that He led.

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 All of His stored up righteousness

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 so that He could bear the eternal wrath

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 that was due us on the cross.

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 This is the glorious thing

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 about the cross, beloved.

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 That we are giving away to Jesus

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 our sin

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 and we are taking on His righteousness.

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 So this is not what Paul is saying to us.

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 Right?

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 In 1 Thessalonians 1, 9 and 10,

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 he says this,

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 For they themselves report concerning us

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 the kind of reception we had among you

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 and how you turn to God from idols

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 to serve the living and true God.

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 So here's a report

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 that these people have put aside idols

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 and they now serve the true and living God.

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 And then in verse 10 he says,

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 And to wait for His Son from heaven

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 whom He raised from the dead,

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 Jesus,

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 who delivers us from the wrath to come.

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 So Paul's being consistent

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 in his theology here.

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 He's not saying that as believers

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 we're going to incur wrath if we sin.

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 Jesus has bore the wrath for those sins

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 in His person on the cross.

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 But rather, Paul is saying

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 that those who profess faith in Jesus Christ

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 who have been delivered from the wrath to come

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 should want no part in the activity

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 which calls down God's wrath.

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 We should recognize the great thing

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 that we've been delivered from.

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 This sin that is such a deep offense to Him

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 and He will one day punish and judge.

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 We should now want nothing to do with it any longer.

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 We should want to avoid altogether

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 those things that incur God's wrath on the world.

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 The children of God

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 should not behave as the children of wrath.

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 We should look differently.

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 So Paul gives us these reasons.

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 Firstly, that sin brings God's judgment.

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 Secondly, that sin is part of a believer's past.

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 Verse 7 says,

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 in these you too once walked

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 when you were living in them.

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 When you were this pre-God honoring version of yourself,

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 you walked in these things.

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 This was who you were.

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 But no longer.

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 The last part of verse 9

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 which I read to you earlier says,

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 seeing that you have put off the old self

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 with its practices

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 because you have been delivered

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 from the wrath to come

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 because your heart has been changed.

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 You've put these things away.

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 You've put them off.

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 Therefore, continue to do this very thing.

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 You have changed positionally.

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 Not in degree.

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 You hear me say this all the time.

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 We haven't gotten a little better

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 when we place our faith in Jesus Christ.

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 We have changed entirely.

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 We were once children of wrath.

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 We were once enemies of God.

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 We once incurred His judgment.

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 But now, if we've believed in Christ,

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 we're different entirely.

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 We're now children of God.

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 We now incur His blessing

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 instead of His wrath.

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 This is part of our past.

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 Verse 5 of chapter 3 in Colossians

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 in the New American Standard Version,

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 which just at times really edges out the ESV,

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 which most of us use,

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 says it this way,

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 Therefore, consider the members

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 of your earthly body as dead.

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 Rather than saying,

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 put to death therefore,

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 NASB says,

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 therefore, consider yourself already dead

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 to these things.

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 And this is the truth

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 that Paul is trying to communicate to us.

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 Because of who we are,

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 we no longer live in such and such way.

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 We have been saved.

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 We have been set free from sin.

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 It's an accomplished work done by Christ.

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 We have had our image-bearing potential

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 restored in us.

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 Why would we ever go on sinning?

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 Why do we proceed to do the very thing

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 that we've been delivered from?

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 We just so easily forget the Gospel,

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 I think sometimes,

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 that death was ours.

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 It had already been purchased by our sin.

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 eternal damnation.

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 We've been delivered from this thing.

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 Why would we go back and do it once again?

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 2 Corinthians 5.17,

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 Paul says,

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 Therefore, if anyone is in Christ,

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 he is a new creation.

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 The old has passed away.

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 Behold, the new has come.

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 Charles Spurgeon,

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 in a book called Evening by Evening,

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 wrote this.

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 I want to do my best to read it well to you.

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 Christian,

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 what hast thou to do with sin?

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 Hath it not cost thee enough already?

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 Burnt child,

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 wilt thou play with the fire?

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 What,

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 when thou hast already been

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 between the jaws of the lion,

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 wilt thou step a second time

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 into his den?

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 Hast thou not had enough

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 of the old serpent?

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 Did he not poison

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 all thy veins at once?

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 And wilt thou play upon

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 the hole of the asp?

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 And put thy hand

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 upon the cockatrice's den

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 a second time?

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 A cockatrice is a mythical creature

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 that's like a dragon

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 with the head of a chicken.

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 I had to look it up.

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 I didn't just know that.

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 Oh, be not so mad,

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 so foolish.

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 Did sin ever yield thee real pleasure?

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 Didst thou find solid satisfaction in it?

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 If so,

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 go back to thine old drudgery

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 and wear the chain again

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 if it delight thee.

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 But inasmuch as sin did never give thee

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 what it promised to bestow,

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 but deluded thee with lies,

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 be not a second time

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 snared by the old fowler.

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 Be free,

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 and let the remembrance

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 of thy ancient bondage

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 forbid thee to enter the net again.

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 I hope his language

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 sticks in your head

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 as I try to read it to you.

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 Sin was never good for us,

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 and we know this to be true.

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 Why do we once again

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 return to it?

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 So then,

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 we're to put off the old self.

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 We're to put to death

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 what is earthly in us.

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 We're to put them all away

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 because we have put off the old self

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 with its practices

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 if we have faith in Christ.

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 John Owen,

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 the 17th century English pastor

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 and theologian wrote

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 of the mortification of sin

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 and believers,

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 which I would encourage you to read.

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 And mortify means

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 to subdue or to put to death.

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 He says,

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 Do you mortify?

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 Do you make it your daily work?

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 Be always at it whilst you live.

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 Cease not a day from this work.

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 Be killing sin,

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 or it will be killing you.

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 If you go on to read

00:24:26.139 --> 00:24:28.679
 the rest of John Owen's writing,

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 you'll know that he's not suggesting

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 that if we're not actively

00:24:31.419 --> 00:24:32.679
 putting to death sin,

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 that that means that sin

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 actually has some killing effect on us

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 in an eternal way.

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 What he means is that sin

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 will be constantly making us miserable.

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 It will be constantly like a dog

00:24:45.279 --> 00:24:46.679
 going back to its vomit

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 and getting sick over and over

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 and over again.

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 And we must engage in the work

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 of mortifying our flesh,

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 of putting to death sin.

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 But how are we to do this?

00:25:02.259 --> 00:25:03.299
 How are we to do this?

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 We have answered what we are to put off,

00:25:06.480 --> 00:25:08.160
 at least in some part,

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 with some brief explanation.

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 What we are to put off

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 and why we are to do so.

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 Does Paul tell us how

00:25:17.200 --> 00:25:20.240
 here in the book of Colossians?

00:25:20.940 --> 00:25:21.620
 He does,

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 but we have to back up

00:25:22.580 --> 00:25:23.519
 just a little bit.

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 So back up, if you will,

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 to Colossians 3, 1-4.

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 John Hoffman did a good job

00:25:30.140 --> 00:25:32.740
 of divulging to us last week.

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 It says,

00:25:33.579 --> 00:25:34.159
 If then,

00:25:35.079 --> 00:25:36.439
 you have been raised with Christ,

00:25:36.500 --> 00:25:37.279
 if you are found in Him,

00:25:37.319 --> 00:25:38.079
 if you are a Christian,

00:25:38.679 --> 00:25:40.679
 seek the things that are above,

00:25:40.859 --> 00:25:42.439
 where Christ is,

00:25:42.740 --> 00:25:44.279
 seated at the right hand of God.

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 Set your minds on things

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 that are above,

00:25:47.619 --> 00:25:50.099
 not on things that are on earth.

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 For you have died,

00:25:51.779 --> 00:25:52.859
 and your life is hidden

00:25:52.859 --> 00:25:53.879
 with Christ and God.

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 When Christ who is your life appears,

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 then you also will appear

00:25:57.439 --> 00:25:58.899
 with Him in glory.

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 And then the rest that follows,

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 what we're into now,

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 what we will be into

00:26:02.620 --> 00:26:03.640
 until the end of the book,

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 is a treatise on Paul's part

00:26:05.779 --> 00:26:07.660
 on what that should look like.

00:26:08.259 --> 00:26:09.460
 What is it supposed to look like

00:26:09.460 --> 00:26:10.799
 if we set our minds

00:26:10.799 --> 00:26:11.620
 on things that are above

00:26:11.620 --> 00:26:12.620
 and not on things

00:26:12.620 --> 00:26:14.500
 that are on earth?

00:26:15.860 --> 00:26:16.960
 Now join me a little bit

00:26:16.960 --> 00:26:19.440
 backing up just a bit more

00:26:19.440 --> 00:26:21.620
 to Colossians 2-6.

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 Paul here writes,

00:26:26.299 --> 00:26:26.519
 Therefore,

00:26:27.759 --> 00:26:29.920
 as you received Christ Jesus,

00:26:29.920 --> 00:26:30.519
 the Lord,

00:26:30.960 --> 00:26:33.800
 so walk in Him.

00:26:34.460 --> 00:26:34.980
 What does he mean

00:26:34.980 --> 00:26:35.539
 when he says,

00:26:35.900 --> 00:26:36.160
 therefore?

00:26:36.660 --> 00:26:37.900
 As they've received,

00:26:38.000 --> 00:26:39.060
 because they've received,

00:26:39.279 --> 00:26:40.360
 in this particular way,

00:26:40.580 --> 00:26:40.960
 Christ Jesus,

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 the Lord,

00:26:41.340 --> 00:26:42.420
 so walk in Him.

00:26:42.539 --> 00:26:44.000
 So, what does he mean by that?

00:26:44.200 --> 00:26:44.820
 A few more verses.

00:26:44.980 --> 00:26:45.460
 Back up.

00:26:46.120 --> 00:26:46.700
 Chapter 2.

00:26:47.560 --> 00:26:48.460
 Verses 2-3.

00:26:49.519 --> 00:26:51.960
 Paul prays that the Colossian believers

00:26:51.960 --> 00:26:54.980
 will reach all the riches

00:26:54.980 --> 00:26:56.880
 of full assurance

00:26:56.880 --> 00:26:58.680
 of understanding

00:26:58.680 --> 00:27:00.640
 and the knowledge

00:27:00.640 --> 00:27:01.900
 of God's mystery,

00:27:02.700 --> 00:27:04.299
 which is Christ,

00:27:04.440 --> 00:27:05.220
 in whom are hidden

00:27:05.220 --> 00:27:05.920
 all the treasures

00:27:05.920 --> 00:27:06.700
 of wisdom

00:27:06.700 --> 00:27:09.299
 and knowledge.

00:27:10.019 --> 00:27:11.019
 Verse 8.

00:27:11.579 --> 00:27:12.039
 Chapter 2.

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 Paul warns the Colossian believers

00:27:14.220 --> 00:27:15.539
 not to be taken captive

00:27:15.539 --> 00:27:17.299
 by philosophy

00:27:17.299 --> 00:27:20.079
 and empty deceit.

00:27:20.779 --> 00:27:21.879
 So, what he's saying

00:27:21.879 --> 00:27:22.379
 is he says,

00:27:22.539 --> 00:27:22.879
 therefore,

00:27:23.119 --> 00:27:23.639
 verse 6,

00:27:23.759 --> 00:27:24.839
 as you receive Christ Jesus,

00:27:24.939 --> 00:27:25.740
 so walk in Him.

00:27:26.019 --> 00:27:26.539
 He's saying,

00:27:26.899 --> 00:27:28.720
 you have received Christ,

00:27:29.379 --> 00:27:30.759
 the teaching of Jesus,

00:27:31.000 --> 00:27:32.859
 and have settled convictions

00:27:32.859 --> 00:27:34.059
 about His deity

00:27:34.059 --> 00:27:35.500
 and His sufficiency,

00:27:35.720 --> 00:27:36.759
 which is what he's been driving

00:27:36.759 --> 00:27:37.240
 and teaching

00:27:37.240 --> 00:27:38.720
 in the entire book so far,

00:27:39.059 --> 00:27:40.960
 correcting some type of heresy

00:27:40.960 --> 00:27:41.559
 that was happening

00:27:41.559 --> 00:27:42.980
 in the church of Colossae.

00:27:43.299 --> 00:27:44.779
 You have these settled convictions

00:27:44.779 --> 00:27:45.860
 about His deity

00:27:45.860 --> 00:27:47.019
 and His sufficiency.

00:27:47.519 --> 00:27:48.279
 This is working

00:27:48.279 --> 00:27:49.400
 our lives

00:27:49.400 --> 00:27:50.440
 in good order.

00:27:50.700 --> 00:27:51.460
 This is what's happening

00:27:51.460 --> 00:27:52.240
 because of the things

00:27:52.240 --> 00:27:52.799
 you believe,

00:27:53.019 --> 00:27:53.559
 the way in which

00:27:53.559 --> 00:27:54.640
 you've engaged your mind

00:27:54.640 --> 00:27:55.940
 with who Jesus Christ is

00:27:55.940 --> 00:27:56.900
 and what He's accomplished

00:27:56.900 --> 00:27:57.720
 on your behalf.

00:27:58.539 --> 00:27:59.160
 Don't stop.

00:27:59.539 --> 00:28:00.339
 Continue to walk.

00:28:00.579 --> 00:28:01.920
 Continue to do this thing

00:28:01.920 --> 00:28:04.160
 referring to our daily conduct

00:28:04.160 --> 00:28:05.079
 and all these things

00:28:05.079 --> 00:28:05.799
 that He's listing off.

00:28:05.860 --> 00:28:06.440
 Now, all of this

00:28:06.440 --> 00:28:07.220
 putting off

00:28:07.220 --> 00:28:08.539
 of these sins

00:28:08.539 --> 00:28:10.920
 is a result of

00:28:10.920 --> 00:28:12.399
 who we believe

00:28:12.399 --> 00:28:14.460
 Jesus Christ is.

00:28:15.180 --> 00:28:15.799
 Continue to believe

00:28:15.799 --> 00:28:16.319
 the truth

00:28:16.319 --> 00:28:17.299
 concerning Christ.

00:28:17.899 --> 00:28:19.559
 Have an unwavering

00:28:19.559 --> 00:28:20.879
 Christology.

00:28:21.879 --> 00:28:23.420
 Believe that Jesus

00:28:23.420 --> 00:28:25.720
 is the Christ.

00:28:25.940 --> 00:28:27.119
 Let's back up even further

00:28:27.119 --> 00:28:27.839
 in Colossians.

00:28:28.220 --> 00:28:29.960
 It's going to drive the point

00:28:29.960 --> 00:28:30.839
 which I haven't quite made yet,

00:28:30.899 --> 00:28:31.259
 but I will.

00:28:31.519 --> 00:28:32.019
 I promise.

00:28:33.079 --> 00:28:33.700
 Chapter 1,

00:28:33.759 --> 00:28:34.579
 verse 9 and 10.

00:28:35.740 --> 00:28:36.359
 And so,

00:28:36.480 --> 00:28:37.500
 from the day we heard,

00:28:37.500 --> 00:28:39.220
 Lord, we have not ceased

00:28:39.220 --> 00:28:40.279
 to pray for you,

00:28:40.859 --> 00:28:42.140
 asking that you may be

00:28:42.140 --> 00:28:44.180
 filled with the knowledge

00:28:44.180 --> 00:28:45.140
 of His will

00:28:45.140 --> 00:28:46.460
 in all spiritual wisdom

00:28:46.460 --> 00:28:48.140
 and understanding,

00:28:48.700 --> 00:28:49.619
 so as to walk

00:28:49.619 --> 00:28:50.440
 in a manner worthy

00:28:50.440 --> 00:28:51.039
 of the Lord,

00:28:51.220 --> 00:28:52.460
 fully pleasing to Him,

00:28:52.900 --> 00:28:53.579
 bearing fruit

00:28:53.579 --> 00:28:54.500
 in every good work

00:28:54.500 --> 00:28:55.259
 and increasing

00:28:55.259 --> 00:28:56.759
 in the knowledge

00:28:56.759 --> 00:28:58.180
 of God.

00:28:58.200 --> 00:28:58.779
 Have you heard

00:28:58.779 --> 00:29:00.099
 how many times now,

00:29:00.240 --> 00:29:01.299
 just in the book

00:29:01.299 --> 00:29:02.059
 of Colossians,

00:29:02.319 --> 00:29:03.279
 Paul has talked about

00:29:03.279 --> 00:29:04.099
 knowledge,

00:29:04.480 --> 00:29:05.119
 understanding,

00:29:05.640 --> 00:29:06.140
 and wisdom?

00:29:06.140 --> 00:29:07.560
 Have you seen this?

00:29:07.780 --> 00:29:08.860
 These are all activities

00:29:08.860 --> 00:29:10.920
 of our minds.

00:29:12.120 --> 00:29:14.160
 Beginning of chapter 3,

00:29:14.700 --> 00:29:16.259
 set your minds

00:29:16.259 --> 00:29:17.140
 on things

00:29:17.140 --> 00:29:18.660
 that are above.

00:29:19.780 --> 00:29:21.280
 There's far too much

00:29:21.280 --> 00:29:23.000
 in American Christianity

00:29:23.000 --> 00:29:24.940
 what's called mysticism.

00:29:25.480 --> 00:29:27.100
 This divorce of our minds

00:29:27.100 --> 00:29:27.900
 from our hearts.

00:29:28.200 --> 00:29:29.800
 Lots of talk about feeling.

00:29:30.259 --> 00:29:31.320
 And feelings are real.

00:29:31.520 --> 00:29:32.380
 And we experience them.

00:29:32.580 --> 00:29:33.440
 The book of Psalms

00:29:33.440 --> 00:29:34.700
 is a book of feelings.

00:29:34.700 --> 00:29:39.140
 But properly corralled

00:29:39.140 --> 00:29:40.779
 by the mind.

00:29:41.080 --> 00:29:42.539
 Read the book of Psalms

00:29:42.539 --> 00:29:43.799
 from front to back.

00:29:43.860 --> 00:29:45.220
 I challenge you to do so.

00:29:45.480 --> 00:29:46.980
 And see the anguish

00:29:46.980 --> 00:29:48.319
 and the joy

00:29:48.319 --> 00:29:49.519
 and the bitterness.

00:29:49.819 --> 00:29:50.940
 All of the emotion

00:29:50.940 --> 00:29:52.360
 that runs through that book

00:29:52.360 --> 00:29:53.920
 and see how it's corrected.

00:29:54.420 --> 00:29:55.140
 By remembering

00:29:55.140 --> 00:29:56.340
 who God is.

00:29:56.539 --> 00:29:58.019
 The promises that He's made.

00:29:58.259 --> 00:29:58.980
 The obedience

00:29:58.980 --> 00:30:00.039
 that He's required of us.

00:30:00.039 --> 00:30:01.500
 by taking the mind

00:30:01.500 --> 00:30:02.819
 and filtering out

00:30:02.819 --> 00:30:03.960
 the mess

00:30:03.960 --> 00:30:04.879
 that our emotions

00:30:04.879 --> 00:30:05.779
 can cause.

00:30:07.019 --> 00:30:07.859
 We're often

00:30:07.859 --> 00:30:09.599
 far too emotional.

00:30:10.019 --> 00:30:10.599
 And hear me beloved,

00:30:10.740 --> 00:30:12.220
 I know that if I err,

00:30:12.339 --> 00:30:13.440
 I err on the side

00:30:13.440 --> 00:30:14.420
 of ration.

00:30:14.759 --> 00:30:15.059
 I just,

00:30:15.279 --> 00:30:16.220
 ration isn't even a word,

00:30:16.599 --> 00:30:17.659
 of being too rational.

00:30:18.420 --> 00:30:18.819
 Right?

00:30:18.819 --> 00:30:23.559
 I know that about myself.

00:30:24.159 --> 00:30:25.679
 I know that that's my error.

00:30:26.200 --> 00:30:27.359
 But too many people

00:30:27.359 --> 00:30:29.500
 err in the opposite direction.

00:30:30.220 --> 00:30:30.339
 Right?

00:30:30.639 --> 00:30:31.919
 Directed by every little

00:30:31.919 --> 00:30:33.639
 feeling that they have.

00:30:33.759 --> 00:30:34.480
 As if the Lord

00:30:34.480 --> 00:30:36.359
 is confusing to us.

00:30:36.480 --> 00:30:37.379
 As if He hasn't

00:30:37.379 --> 00:30:38.480
 written us a book

00:30:38.480 --> 00:30:39.679
 that tells us

00:30:39.679 --> 00:30:41.039
 exactly who He is

00:30:41.039 --> 00:30:42.240
 and exactly how

00:30:42.240 --> 00:30:43.439
 we're meant to live

00:30:43.439 --> 00:30:44.299
 to please Him.

00:30:45.200 --> 00:30:46.759
 That's why this exists.

00:30:47.899 --> 00:30:48.419
 You know that the word

00:30:48.419 --> 00:30:48.940
 Bible

00:30:48.940 --> 00:30:50.200
 is simply a word

00:30:50.200 --> 00:30:50.700
 that means

00:30:50.700 --> 00:30:52.399
 any work

00:30:52.399 --> 00:30:53.559
 that is the authority

00:30:53.559 --> 00:30:55.579
 on a particular subject.

00:30:56.359 --> 00:30:56.599
 So,

00:30:56.720 --> 00:30:57.139
 growing up,

00:30:57.220 --> 00:30:57.759
 I used to have,

00:30:57.859 --> 00:30:58.819
 I've been a rock climber

00:30:58.819 --> 00:30:59.559
 for a bunch of years,

00:30:59.799 --> 00:31:00.859
 a book called

00:31:00.859 --> 00:31:02.119
 The Climber's Bible.

00:31:02.339 --> 00:31:03.019
 And I always felt

00:31:03.019 --> 00:31:04.000
 a little sacrilegious

00:31:04.000 --> 00:31:05.159
 having it.

00:31:05.680 --> 00:31:06.180
 But it was

00:31:06.180 --> 00:31:07.119
 the definitive source.

00:31:07.200 --> 00:31:07.680
 It had a lot of

00:31:07.680 --> 00:31:09.200
 fantastic information in it

00:31:09.200 --> 00:31:10.319
 and I came to find out

00:31:10.319 --> 00:31:11.000
 that that was a perfectly

00:31:11.000 --> 00:31:11.799
 acceptable title

00:31:11.799 --> 00:31:12.599
 for it.

00:31:12.859 --> 00:31:13.180
 That's why

00:31:13.180 --> 00:31:14.100
 this book

00:31:14.100 --> 00:31:15.480
 is most often called

00:31:15.480 --> 00:31:17.220
 The Holy Bible.

00:31:17.799 --> 00:31:18.740
 Because it's the

00:31:18.740 --> 00:31:19.620
 source,

00:31:19.920 --> 00:31:20.519
 the direction,

00:31:20.860 --> 00:31:21.620
 the instruction

00:31:21.620 --> 00:31:23.240
 sufficient for

00:31:23.240 --> 00:31:24.500
 holy living.

00:31:24.900 --> 00:31:25.460
 It tells us about

00:31:25.460 --> 00:31:26.100
 our holy God

00:31:26.100 --> 00:31:26.960
 and how we're meant

00:31:26.960 --> 00:31:27.360
 to live

00:31:27.360 --> 00:31:28.460
 in light

00:31:28.460 --> 00:31:29.920
 of His holiness.

00:31:30.360 --> 00:31:31.480
 So our minds

00:31:31.480 --> 00:31:32.600
 are so key

00:31:32.600 --> 00:31:34.519
 to this very thing.

00:31:35.140 --> 00:31:36.100
 And you're seeing

00:31:36.100 --> 00:31:37.060
 this pattern emerge,

00:31:37.140 --> 00:31:37.759
 I hope.

00:31:38.560 --> 00:31:38.840
 Beloved,

00:31:39.039 --> 00:31:40.180
 theology is not

00:31:40.180 --> 00:31:41.380
 just for the high-minded.

00:31:42.100 --> 00:31:42.660
 It's not just

00:31:42.660 --> 00:31:43.300
 for the high-minded.

00:31:43.380 --> 00:31:44.100
 The reason I did

00:31:44.100 --> 00:31:44.900
 the Tyndale story,

00:31:45.000 --> 00:31:45.720
 which I think the kids

00:31:45.720 --> 00:31:46.880
 totally lost the point of,

00:31:47.600 --> 00:31:49.000
 but just the same,

00:31:49.900 --> 00:31:50.779
 is that he saw this

00:31:50.779 --> 00:31:51.200
 to be true.

00:31:51.259 --> 00:31:51.820
 At the great risk

00:31:51.820 --> 00:31:52.360
 of his life,

00:31:52.420 --> 00:31:53.240
 he knew that the people

00:31:53.240 --> 00:31:54.200
 needed the Word of God

00:31:54.200 --> 00:31:55.040
 in their hands.

00:31:55.360 --> 00:31:56.140
 That the Word of God

00:31:56.140 --> 00:31:57.380
 was not just for

00:31:57.380 --> 00:31:58.340
 the high-minded,

00:31:58.440 --> 00:31:59.320
 those who could speak

00:31:59.320 --> 00:32:00.200
 Latin.

00:32:01.240 --> 00:32:02.160
 It is for the Christian

00:32:02.160 --> 00:32:03.960
 to learn about God

00:32:03.960 --> 00:32:05.279
 and to understand Him

00:32:05.279 --> 00:32:06.279
 and His requirements

00:32:06.279 --> 00:32:07.019
 for us.

00:32:07.519 --> 00:32:08.940
 Every Christian doctrine,

00:32:09.120 --> 00:32:09.820
 every one of them,

00:32:09.920 --> 00:32:10.779
 every truth contained

00:32:10.779 --> 00:32:11.420
 within the Scriptures,

00:32:11.879 --> 00:32:12.839
 rightly understood

00:32:12.839 --> 00:32:13.940
 and exercised,

00:32:14.019 --> 00:32:15.899
 gives way to proper living.

00:32:16.639 --> 00:32:17.899
 There's a whole category

00:32:17.899 --> 00:32:19.299
 of Christian study

00:32:19.299 --> 00:32:20.779
 called practical theology,

00:32:21.019 --> 00:32:21.819
 which I just find

00:32:21.819 --> 00:32:22.819
 so frustrating

00:32:22.819 --> 00:32:23.799
 because all theology

00:32:23.799 --> 00:32:25.339
 is practical.

00:32:26.220 --> 00:32:27.259
 If you're learning

00:32:27.259 --> 00:32:27.899
 about things

00:32:27.899 --> 00:32:29.539
 that are highly philosophical

00:32:29.539 --> 00:32:30.839
 and have no real point

00:32:30.839 --> 00:32:32.220
 in bearing in today

00:32:32.220 --> 00:32:33.319
 or tomorrow

00:32:33.319 --> 00:32:34.500
 or the next,

00:32:34.700 --> 00:32:36.099
 then why are you studying it?

00:32:36.220 --> 00:32:37.940
 What a waste of time.

00:32:38.799 --> 00:32:39.700
 All theology

00:32:39.700 --> 00:32:40.779
 is practical

00:32:40.779 --> 00:32:41.539
 and important

00:32:41.539 --> 00:32:42.620
 and all of us

00:32:42.620 --> 00:32:43.200
 are meant to be

00:32:43.200 --> 00:32:44.000
 about the work

00:32:44.000 --> 00:32:45.740
 of doing theology,

00:32:45.980 --> 00:32:46.799
 understanding God,

00:32:47.019 --> 00:32:47.460
 getting it.

00:32:47.680 --> 00:32:48.600
 That's why I say to you,

00:32:48.720 --> 00:32:49.640
 this is the Word of God

00:32:49.640 --> 00:32:50.740
 written for us,

00:32:50.840 --> 00:32:51.120
 right?

00:32:51.680 --> 00:32:52.580
 That we can understand

00:32:52.580 --> 00:32:53.180
 this thing

00:32:53.180 --> 00:32:54.320
 by the illumination

00:32:54.320 --> 00:32:54.980
 of the Spirit

00:32:54.980 --> 00:32:56.860
 that we might rightly apply it.

00:32:56.900 --> 00:32:57.420
 We can believe

00:32:57.420 --> 00:32:58.080
 its promises,

00:32:58.400 --> 00:32:59.920
 obey its commands.

00:33:00.019 --> 00:33:00.840
 It's good for us

00:33:00.840 --> 00:33:01.420
 to do so.

00:33:01.519 --> 00:33:02.580
 God wrote us a book

00:33:02.580 --> 00:33:03.920
 to help us with this.

00:33:04.500 --> 00:33:04.940
 Condescended.

00:33:05.580 --> 00:33:06.700
 Came down off a throne

00:33:06.700 --> 00:33:08.160
 to the minds of men

00:33:08.160 --> 00:33:09.299
 to write a book for us,

00:33:09.380 --> 00:33:09.580
 beloved.

00:33:09.680 --> 00:33:10.840
 We should know

00:33:10.840 --> 00:33:12.080
 this book.

00:33:13.340 --> 00:33:14.500
 Charles Spurgeon said,

00:33:14.620 --> 00:33:15.240
 good works

00:33:15.240 --> 00:33:17.100
 are not the root of faith,

00:33:17.340 --> 00:33:19.779
 but they are its fruit.

00:33:20.480 --> 00:33:22.400
 And faith is not blind.

00:33:23.400 --> 00:33:25.220
 It is if it's not saving faith,

00:33:25.460 --> 00:33:25.680
 right?

00:33:25.819 --> 00:33:26.960
 If it's blind faith,

00:33:27.259 --> 00:33:28.819
 if it's Indiana Jones

00:33:28.819 --> 00:33:29.799
 stepping into the gap

00:33:29.799 --> 00:33:30.480
 not knowing what's going

00:33:30.480 --> 00:33:31.380
 to catch in faith,

00:33:31.440 --> 00:33:33.799
 then it's not saving faith.

00:33:34.460 --> 00:33:36.039
 For the object of our faith

00:33:36.039 --> 00:33:37.599
 is of the utmost importance.

00:33:38.159 --> 00:33:39.700
 What we believe in

00:33:39.700 --> 00:33:41.720
 matters massively.

00:33:42.440 --> 00:33:43.480
 And the evidence

00:33:43.480 --> 00:33:45.019
 of that faith

00:33:45.019 --> 00:33:46.659
 should always be

00:33:46.659 --> 00:33:48.279
 carefully measured

00:33:48.279 --> 00:33:49.579
 and tested.

00:33:50.799 --> 00:33:52.339
 It's of eternal weight,

00:33:52.940 --> 00:33:53.180
 beloved,

00:33:53.639 --> 00:33:54.500
 that you say

00:33:54.500 --> 00:33:55.460
 that you're a believer

00:33:55.460 --> 00:33:57.700
 to constantly check

00:33:57.700 --> 00:33:58.159
 and say,

00:33:58.379 --> 00:33:59.279
 does my life

00:33:59.279 --> 00:34:00.299
 give the evidence

00:34:00.299 --> 00:34:00.779
 of that?

00:34:00.879 --> 00:34:02.000
 I am an apple tree.

00:34:02.379 --> 00:34:03.319
 I should produce apples.

00:34:03.319 --> 00:34:04.220
 I should be checking

00:34:04.220 --> 00:34:05.779
 for that kind of thing.

00:34:06.039 --> 00:34:08.019
 Again,

00:34:08.099 --> 00:34:09.800
 in the book of James.

00:34:09.860 --> 00:34:10.559
 I want you to turn here

00:34:10.559 --> 00:34:11.019
 with me.

00:34:12.460 --> 00:34:13.559
 James chapter 2.

00:34:22.400 --> 00:34:23.519
 Speaking about works

00:34:23.519 --> 00:34:24.320
 as evidence

00:34:24.320 --> 00:34:25.380
 of our salvation

00:34:25.380 --> 00:34:27.139
 does not negate

00:34:27.139 --> 00:34:27.860
 that our salvation

00:34:27.860 --> 00:34:30.420
 comes by faith alone.

00:34:30.420 --> 00:34:31.740
 And we are justified

00:34:31.740 --> 00:34:34.240
 by our faith.

00:34:35.240 --> 00:34:36.480
 And I'm always so scared

00:34:36.480 --> 00:34:37.320
 to make you think

00:34:37.320 --> 00:34:38.280
 that works are

00:34:38.280 --> 00:34:39.159
 the salvific thing.

00:34:39.240 --> 00:34:39.720
 They're not.

00:34:39.800 --> 00:34:40.680
 As Charles Bergen said,

00:34:40.740 --> 00:34:41.280
 I just read it to you,

00:34:41.300 --> 00:34:41.800
 good works

00:34:41.800 --> 00:34:43.400
 are not the root of faith,

00:34:43.440 --> 00:34:45.019
 but they are its fruit.

00:34:45.119 --> 00:34:45.900
 And James says that

00:34:45.900 --> 00:34:46.880
 very well here.

00:34:47.740 --> 00:34:49.039
 Of interesting historical note,

00:34:49.240 --> 00:34:50.559
 Martin Luther did not want

00:34:50.559 --> 00:34:51.360
 the book of James

00:34:51.360 --> 00:34:52.320
 to be canonized.

00:34:52.860 --> 00:34:53.619
 You know that?

00:34:54.000 --> 00:34:55.440
 Because he was so fighting

00:34:55.440 --> 00:34:55.940
 this battle

00:34:55.940 --> 00:34:57.000
 with the Catholic Church

00:34:57.000 --> 00:34:58.180
 against justification

00:34:58.179 --> 00:34:58.940
 by works

00:34:58.940 --> 00:34:59.419
 and he thought

00:34:59.419 --> 00:35:00.399
 it was too easy

00:35:00.399 --> 00:35:02.119
 to understand James' writing

00:35:02.119 --> 00:35:03.199
 to be saying that.

00:35:03.659 --> 00:35:04.460
 But follow it along with me

00:35:04.460 --> 00:35:05.259
 beginning in verse 14

00:35:05.259 --> 00:35:05.839
 of James 2.

00:35:06.339 --> 00:35:06.919
 What good is it,

00:35:06.960 --> 00:35:07.339
 my brothers,

00:35:07.619 --> 00:35:08.619
 if someone says

00:35:08.619 --> 00:35:09.500
 he has faith

00:35:09.500 --> 00:35:11.379
 but does not have works?

00:35:11.879 --> 00:35:12.599
 Someone just says,

00:35:12.739 --> 00:35:13.239
 I'm a Christian,

00:35:14.079 --> 00:35:15.000
 but there's no real evidence

00:35:15.000 --> 00:35:15.599
 in their lives.

00:35:15.960 --> 00:35:17.839
 Can that faith save him?

00:35:17.840 --> 00:35:19.579
 If a brother or sister

00:35:19.579 --> 00:35:20.620
 is poorly clothed

00:35:20.620 --> 00:35:21.980
 and lacking in daily food

00:35:21.980 --> 00:35:23.579
 and one of you says to them,

00:35:23.960 --> 00:35:24.660
 go in peace,

00:35:24.960 --> 00:35:26.059
 be warmed and filled

00:35:26.059 --> 00:35:26.800
 without giving them

00:35:26.800 --> 00:35:27.660
 the things needed

00:35:27.660 --> 00:35:28.240
 for the body,

00:35:28.760 --> 00:35:29.760
 what good is that?

00:35:30.140 --> 00:35:31.059
 Just saying it

00:35:31.059 --> 00:35:32.300
 doesn't mean anything

00:35:32.300 --> 00:35:33.180
 for those people.

00:35:34.120 --> 00:35:34.680
 So also,

00:35:34.940 --> 00:35:35.740
 faith by itself,

00:35:35.780 --> 00:35:37.320
 if it does not have works,

00:35:37.579 --> 00:35:38.559
 is dead.

00:35:38.660 --> 00:35:39.740
 It's non-existent.

00:35:40.300 --> 00:35:41.200
 But someone will say,

00:35:41.760 --> 00:35:42.620
 you have faith

00:35:42.620 --> 00:35:43.800
 and I have works.

00:35:44.600 --> 00:35:45.780
 Show me your faith

00:35:45.780 --> 00:35:47.000
 apart from your works

00:35:47.000 --> 00:35:48.340
 and I will show you

00:35:48.340 --> 00:35:50.500
 my faith by my works.

00:35:50.900 --> 00:35:51.599
 And I will show you

00:35:51.599 --> 00:35:52.139
 that I believe

00:35:52.139 --> 00:35:52.980
 that Jesus is the Christ

00:35:52.980 --> 00:35:54.039
 because I live

00:35:54.039 --> 00:35:56.099
 as Jesus is the Christ.

00:35:56.820 --> 00:35:57.760
 You believe that God

00:35:57.760 --> 00:35:58.239
 is one,

00:35:58.320 --> 00:35:59.099
 you do well.

00:36:00.099 --> 00:36:01.480
 Even the demons believe

00:36:01.480 --> 00:36:02.539
 and shudder.

00:36:03.400 --> 00:36:04.559
 Do you want to be shown,

00:36:04.659 --> 00:36:05.579
 you foolish person,

00:36:05.940 --> 00:36:07.599
 that faith apart from works

00:36:07.599 --> 00:36:08.820
 is useless?

00:36:09.239 --> 00:36:11.079
 And then as all good preachers do,

00:36:11.139 --> 00:36:11.840
 he begins to access

00:36:11.840 --> 00:36:12.340
 the Scriptures.

00:36:13.519 --> 00:36:14.099
 Verse 21,

00:36:14.619 --> 00:36:16.239
 Was not Abraham our father

00:36:16.239 --> 00:36:17.559
 justified by works

00:36:17.559 --> 00:36:18.319
 when he offered up

00:36:18.319 --> 00:36:19.619
 his son Isaac on the altar?

00:36:20.199 --> 00:36:20.919
 You see,

00:36:21.339 --> 00:36:23.459
 that faith was active

00:36:23.459 --> 00:36:24.839
 along with his works

00:36:24.839 --> 00:36:26.799
 and faith was completed

00:36:26.799 --> 00:36:28.379
 by his works.

00:36:28.619 --> 00:36:29.339
 And the Scripture

00:36:29.339 --> 00:36:30.079
 was fulfilled

00:36:30.079 --> 00:36:30.799
 that says,

00:36:31.019 --> 00:36:32.239
 Abraham believed

00:36:32.239 --> 00:36:33.739
 and it was counted to him

00:36:33.739 --> 00:36:34.779
 as righteousness.

00:36:35.039 --> 00:36:36.099
 And he was called

00:36:36.099 --> 00:36:38.239
 a friend of God.

00:36:38.379 --> 00:36:40.099
 The evidence of his faith,

00:36:40.199 --> 00:36:41.339
 he believed God

00:36:41.340 --> 00:36:42.840
 and in so doing,

00:36:43.720 --> 00:36:44.519
 almost sacrificed

00:36:44.519 --> 00:36:45.220
 his son.

00:36:47.220 --> 00:36:48.100
 Verse 24,

00:36:48.300 --> 00:36:48.860
 You see that a person

00:36:48.860 --> 00:36:49.620
 is justified by works

00:36:49.620 --> 00:36:51.880
 and not by faith alone.

00:36:52.019 --> 00:36:52.980
 And in the same way

00:36:52.980 --> 00:36:54.240
 was not also Rahab,

00:36:54.320 --> 00:36:55.059
 the prostitute,

00:36:55.180 --> 00:36:56.160
 justified by works

00:36:56.160 --> 00:36:56.980
 when she received

00:36:56.980 --> 00:36:57.760
 the messengers

00:36:57.760 --> 00:36:58.880
 and sent them out

00:36:58.880 --> 00:36:59.640
 by another way?

00:36:59.980 --> 00:37:00.840
 For as the body

00:37:00.840 --> 00:37:02.180
 apart from the Spirit

00:37:02.180 --> 00:37:02.640
 is dead,

00:37:02.780 --> 00:37:03.960
 so also faith

00:37:03.960 --> 00:37:05.280
 apart from works

00:37:05.280 --> 00:37:06.220
 is dead.

00:37:06.300 --> 00:37:07.079
 So you're tracking

00:37:07.079 --> 00:37:08.019
 what he's saying here.

00:37:08.500 --> 00:37:08.640
 Right?

00:37:08.639 --> 00:37:09.980
 That the works themselves

00:37:09.980 --> 00:37:10.879
 give evidence

00:37:10.879 --> 00:37:11.940
 to the faith

00:37:11.940 --> 00:37:14.359
 that does save us.

00:37:15.440 --> 00:37:16.719
 We must be so careful

00:37:16.719 --> 00:37:17.879
 at this point.

00:37:18.179 --> 00:37:19.259
 We must be so careful

00:37:19.259 --> 00:37:20.059
 to see

00:37:20.059 --> 00:37:20.940
 that the faith

00:37:20.940 --> 00:37:22.879
 produces the works.

00:37:23.579 --> 00:37:24.539
 We're told in the Scriptures

00:37:24.539 --> 00:37:26.159
 to test ourselves.

00:37:26.539 --> 00:37:27.480
 We're told in the Scriptures

00:37:27.480 --> 00:37:28.739
 to be careful

00:37:28.739 --> 00:37:31.019
 lest we're led astray.

00:37:31.279 --> 00:37:32.179
 And we live in a culture

00:37:32.179 --> 00:37:33.199
 of easy-believe-ism

00:37:33.199 --> 00:37:34.019
 that makes the Gospel

00:37:34.019 --> 00:37:35.099
 just so simple.

00:37:35.619 --> 00:37:35.819
 Right?

00:37:35.859 --> 00:37:36.759
 It's about an activity.

00:37:36.940 --> 00:37:37.940
 It's about walking an aisle.

00:37:37.940 --> 00:37:39.340
 It's about repeating a prayer.

00:37:39.639 --> 00:37:40.460
 This simple little

00:37:40.460 --> 00:37:41.679
 formulaic thing.

00:37:41.880 --> 00:37:42.700
 It's about making sure

00:37:42.700 --> 00:37:43.260
 that you go on

00:37:43.260 --> 00:37:44.079
 at least a summer

00:37:44.079 --> 00:37:45.340
 mission trip a year.

00:37:45.980 --> 00:37:47.099
 You'll feel so good

00:37:47.099 --> 00:37:48.119
 about yourself

00:37:48.119 --> 00:37:49.440
 on your way to hell

00:37:49.440 --> 00:37:50.960
 if this is what you base

00:37:50.960 --> 00:37:52.659
 your salvation in.

00:37:53.579 --> 00:37:55.159
 We're justified by faith

00:37:55.159 --> 00:37:56.440
 and it yields results.

00:37:56.700 --> 00:37:58.519
 We will be about the work,

00:37:58.760 --> 00:37:59.760
 the continuing work

00:37:59.760 --> 00:38:00.980
 to the day we die

00:38:00.980 --> 00:38:02.920
 of constantly putting to death

00:38:02.920 --> 00:38:04.619
 sin in our lives.

00:38:05.179 --> 00:38:05.980
 Be killing sin

00:38:05.980 --> 00:38:07.240
 in your life.

00:38:07.940 --> 00:38:09.360
 Let me show you again

00:38:09.360 --> 00:38:10.200
 another place.

00:38:10.300 --> 00:38:11.119
 Romans chapter 8.

00:38:11.119 --> 00:38:28.559
 So we have to be careful.

00:38:28.659 --> 00:38:29.559
 We have to engage our minds.

00:38:29.619 --> 00:38:30.619
 We have to see the commands

00:38:30.619 --> 00:38:31.639
 given to us in the Scriptures.

00:38:31.960 --> 00:38:33.019
 Like, am I walking

00:38:33.019 --> 00:38:33.839
 in the way of God?

00:38:33.900 --> 00:38:35.380
 Do I believe the truth?

00:38:35.519 --> 00:38:36.019
 And therefore,

00:38:36.139 --> 00:38:37.559
 it's evidenced in my life.

00:38:37.759 --> 00:38:38.839
 Am I engaging my mind

00:38:38.839 --> 00:38:39.460
 around that?

00:38:39.460 --> 00:38:41.019
 I hope you're seeing

00:38:41.019 --> 00:38:41.800
 the need for that.

00:38:41.880 --> 00:38:42.720
 Just in case you're not,

00:38:43.119 --> 00:38:44.420
 Romans chapter 8,

00:38:44.559 --> 00:38:45.780
 verses 1-11.

00:38:45.900 --> 00:38:48.099
 Listen to the language.

00:38:49.380 --> 00:38:50.260
 There is therefore now

00:38:50.260 --> 00:38:51.300
 no condemnation

00:38:51.300 --> 00:38:52.599
 for those who are

00:38:52.599 --> 00:38:53.820
 in Christ Jesus.

00:38:53.880 --> 00:38:55.159
 We have been set free

00:38:55.159 --> 00:38:57.380
 from the just punishment

00:38:57.380 --> 00:38:57.860
 of sin.

00:38:58.000 --> 00:38:58.760
 No condemnation

00:38:58.760 --> 00:38:59.179
 for those who are

00:38:59.179 --> 00:38:59.659
 in Christ Jesus.

00:39:00.019 --> 00:39:01.300
 For the law of the Spirit

00:39:01.300 --> 00:39:02.960
 of life has set you free

00:39:02.960 --> 00:39:03.920
 in Christ Jesus

00:39:03.920 --> 00:39:04.699
 from the law

00:39:04.699 --> 00:39:06.440
 of sin and death.

00:39:06.440 --> 00:39:07.760
 For God has done

00:39:07.760 --> 00:39:08.400
 what the law

00:39:08.400 --> 00:39:09.679
 weakened by the flesh

00:39:09.679 --> 00:39:10.340
 could not do

00:39:10.340 --> 00:39:11.740
 by sending his own Son

00:39:11.740 --> 00:39:12.460
 in the likeness

00:39:12.460 --> 00:39:13.380
 of sinful flesh

00:39:13.380 --> 00:39:14.599
 and for sin

00:39:14.599 --> 00:39:15.780
 he condemned sin

00:39:15.780 --> 00:39:16.639
 in the flesh

00:39:16.639 --> 00:39:17.659
 in order that

00:39:17.659 --> 00:39:18.940
 the righteous requirement

00:39:18.940 --> 00:39:19.460
 of the law

00:39:19.460 --> 00:39:20.639
 might be fulfilled in us

00:39:20.639 --> 00:39:21.360
 who walk not according

00:39:21.360 --> 00:39:21.760
 to the flesh

00:39:21.760 --> 00:39:22.820
 but according to the Spirit.

00:39:23.220 --> 00:39:23.340
 Okay.

00:39:23.900 --> 00:39:24.340
 Right?

00:39:24.960 --> 00:39:25.619
 Sent his Son

00:39:25.619 --> 00:39:26.179
 who lived a perfect

00:39:26.179 --> 00:39:26.720
 righteous life

00:39:26.720 --> 00:39:28.019
 he punished sin

00:39:28.019 --> 00:39:28.679
 in him.

00:39:28.880 --> 00:39:29.079
 Right?

00:39:29.159 --> 00:39:29.880
 So that we

00:39:29.880 --> 00:39:31.139
 by faith in Christ

00:39:31.139 --> 00:39:32.059
 can fulfill

00:39:32.059 --> 00:39:32.860
 the requirement of the law.

00:39:33.079 --> 00:39:33.300
 Right?

00:39:33.380 --> 00:39:34.260
 Because Jesus was righteous

00:39:34.260 --> 00:39:34.980
 and he gave us

00:39:34.980 --> 00:39:35.420
 his righteousness.

00:39:36.660 --> 00:39:37.260
 Verse 5

00:39:37.260 --> 00:39:39.040
 For those who live

00:39:39.040 --> 00:39:39.860
 according to the flesh

00:39:39.860 --> 00:39:42.480
 set their minds

00:39:42.480 --> 00:39:43.680
 on the things

00:39:43.680 --> 00:39:44.160
 of the flesh

00:39:44.160 --> 00:39:45.440
 but those who live

00:39:45.440 --> 00:39:46.420
 according to the Spirit

00:39:46.420 --> 00:39:47.860
 set their minds

00:39:47.860 --> 00:39:48.600
 on the things

00:39:48.600 --> 00:39:49.120
 of the Spirit

00:39:49.120 --> 00:39:50.880
 for to set the mind

00:39:50.880 --> 00:39:51.540
 on the flesh

00:39:51.540 --> 00:39:52.320
 is death

00:39:52.320 --> 00:39:53.220
 but to set the mind

00:39:53.220 --> 00:39:53.760
 on the Spirit

00:39:53.760 --> 00:39:54.560
 is life

00:39:54.560 --> 00:39:55.860
 and peace

00:39:55.860 --> 00:39:56.980
 for the mind

00:39:56.980 --> 00:39:57.280
 that is set

00:39:57.280 --> 00:39:57.840
 on the flesh

00:39:57.840 --> 00:39:58.460
 is hostile

00:39:58.460 --> 00:39:59.160
 toward God

00:39:59.160 --> 00:39:59.700
 for it does not

00:39:59.700 --> 00:40:00.680
 submit to God's law

00:40:00.680 --> 00:40:01.140
 indeed

00:40:01.140 --> 00:40:02.320
 it cannot.

00:40:02.320 --> 00:40:04.000
 Those who are

00:40:04.000 --> 00:40:04.700
 in the flesh

00:40:04.700 --> 00:40:05.400
 cannot

00:40:05.400 --> 00:40:07.000
 please God.

00:40:07.080 --> 00:40:07.720
 So you start to get this

00:40:07.720 --> 00:40:09.039
 it's like understanding

00:40:09.039 --> 00:40:09.880
 we're just taught

00:40:09.880 --> 00:40:10.320
 this one scripture

00:40:10.320 --> 00:40:11.039
 we're supposed to walk

00:40:11.039 --> 00:40:11.760
 by the Spirit

00:40:11.760 --> 00:40:13.320
 in order to put off

00:40:13.320 --> 00:40:14.600
 these things

00:40:14.600 --> 00:40:15.180
 to put to death

00:40:15.180 --> 00:40:15.700
 sin in us

00:40:15.700 --> 00:40:16.200
 to put off

00:40:16.200 --> 00:40:16.780
 these desires

00:40:16.780 --> 00:40:17.220
 of the flesh

00:40:17.220 --> 00:40:18.019
 for to walk

00:40:18.019 --> 00:40:18.360
 in the Spirit

00:40:18.360 --> 00:40:19.300
 how do you do that?

00:40:19.539 --> 00:40:20.140
 Hold hands

00:40:20.140 --> 00:40:20.580
 with the Spirit

00:40:20.580 --> 00:40:21.740
 what does that look like?

00:40:21.960 --> 00:40:22.480
 And a lot of people

00:40:22.480 --> 00:40:22.880
 have resorted

00:40:22.880 --> 00:40:23.400
 to this idea

00:40:23.400 --> 00:40:24.100
 of feeling

00:40:24.100 --> 00:40:26.100
 I feel this way

00:40:26.100 --> 00:40:27.740
 I'm compulsed

00:40:27.740 --> 00:40:28.600
 one way or the other

00:40:28.600 --> 00:40:29.960
 by this Spirit

00:40:29.960 --> 00:40:31.380
 that lives within me

00:40:31.380 --> 00:40:32.260
 but Paul has driven

00:40:32.260 --> 00:40:32.700
 the point

00:40:32.700 --> 00:40:33.200
 that we're to set

00:40:33.200 --> 00:40:34.059
 our minds

00:40:34.059 --> 00:40:35.099
 on the things

00:40:35.099 --> 00:40:36.740
 of the Spirit

00:40:36.740 --> 00:40:39.740
 which are

00:40:39.740 --> 00:40:41.760
 the Word of God

00:40:41.760 --> 00:40:42.920
 those things revealed

00:40:42.920 --> 00:40:45.079
 by the Spirit

00:40:45.079 --> 00:40:46.320
 verse 9

00:40:46.320 --> 00:40:47.940
 you however

00:40:47.940 --> 00:40:48.900
 are not in the flesh

00:40:48.900 --> 00:40:49.599
 but in the Spirit

00:40:49.599 --> 00:40:50.539
 if in fact

00:40:50.539 --> 00:40:51.440
 the Spirit of God

00:40:51.440 --> 00:40:52.820
 dwells in you

00:40:52.820 --> 00:40:54.320
 anyone who does not

00:40:54.320 --> 00:40:55.160
 have the Spirit of Christ

00:40:55.160 --> 00:40:55.980
 does not belong

00:40:55.980 --> 00:40:56.579
 to him

00:40:56.579 --> 00:40:58.119
 but if Christ is in you

00:40:58.119 --> 00:40:58.780
 although the body

00:40:58.780 --> 00:40:59.860
 is dead because of sin

00:40:59.860 --> 00:41:00.900
 the Spirit is life

00:41:00.900 --> 00:41:02.320
 because of righteousness

00:41:02.320 --> 00:41:03.920
 if the Spirit of him

00:41:03.920 --> 00:41:04.519
 who raised Jesus

00:41:04.519 --> 00:41:04.980
 from the dead

00:41:04.980 --> 00:41:05.800
 dwells in you

00:41:05.800 --> 00:41:07.019
 he who raised

00:41:07.019 --> 00:41:07.680
 Christ Jesus

00:41:07.680 --> 00:41:08.160
 from the dead

00:41:08.160 --> 00:41:09.019
 will also give life

00:41:09.019 --> 00:41:09.740
 to your mortal bodies

00:41:09.740 --> 00:41:10.780
 through his Spirit

00:41:10.780 --> 00:41:11.840
 who dwells in you

00:41:11.840 --> 00:41:13.220
 how?

00:41:13.820 --> 00:41:14.579
 through the working

00:41:14.579 --> 00:41:15.220
 of our minds

00:41:15.220 --> 00:41:17.119
 beloved

00:41:17.119 --> 00:41:18.160
 understand

00:41:18.160 --> 00:41:20.000
 the truth

00:41:20.000 --> 00:41:20.940
 and live

00:41:20.940 --> 00:41:21.820
 in accordance

00:41:21.820 --> 00:41:23.720
 with it

00:41:23.720 --> 00:41:25.079
 you ready for another one?

00:41:25.240 --> 00:41:26.000
 Philippians chapter 4

00:41:26.000 --> 00:41:31.099
 I've only got

00:41:31.099 --> 00:41:31.619
 three more

00:41:31.619 --> 00:41:36.039
 they're really short

00:41:36.039 --> 00:41:36.639
 I'm laughing

00:41:36.639 --> 00:41:37.239
 because they're really short

00:41:37.239 --> 00:41:37.900
 I know it's getting late

00:41:37.900 --> 00:41:40.900
 and it's getting hot in here

00:41:40.900 --> 00:41:50.260
 Philippians chapter 4

00:41:50.260 --> 00:41:51.039
 beginning in verse 4

00:41:51.039 --> 00:41:52.699
 rejoice in the Lord always

00:41:52.699 --> 00:41:54.079
 again I will say

00:41:54.079 --> 00:41:55.059
 rejoice

00:41:55.059 --> 00:41:56.539
 what do we rejoice in?

00:41:56.639 --> 00:41:57.219
 the truth of God

00:41:57.219 --> 00:41:58.519
 let your reasonableness

00:41:58.519 --> 00:41:59.599
 be known to everyone

00:41:59.599 --> 00:42:00.639
 your reasonableness

00:42:00.639 --> 00:42:01.819
 with your mind

00:42:01.819 --> 00:42:02.739
 the Lord is at hand

00:42:02.739 --> 00:42:03.960
 there are whole denominations

00:42:03.960 --> 00:42:05.639
 that are extremely unreasonable

00:42:05.639 --> 00:42:07.199
 have you met some of these people?

00:42:07.419 --> 00:42:08.919
 they don't even make sense

00:42:08.919 --> 00:42:10.919
 their minds aren't engaged at all

00:42:10.919 --> 00:42:11.879
 on the things of God

00:42:11.879 --> 00:42:13.299
 the Lord is at hand

00:42:13.299 --> 00:42:14.799
 do not be anxious about anything

00:42:14.799 --> 00:42:15.980
 but in everything

00:42:15.980 --> 00:42:17.379
 by prayer and supplication

00:42:17.379 --> 00:42:18.079
 with thanksgiving

00:42:18.079 --> 00:42:19.019
 let your requests

00:42:19.019 --> 00:42:20.519
 be made known to God

00:42:20.519 --> 00:42:21.599
 and the peace of God

00:42:21.599 --> 00:42:24.159
 which surpasses all understanding

00:42:24.159 --> 00:42:25.719
 will guard your hearts

00:42:25.719 --> 00:42:27.719
 and your minds

00:42:27.719 --> 00:42:29.880
 in Christ Jesus

00:42:29.880 --> 00:42:32.179
 and I think that we're really familiar

00:42:32.179 --> 00:42:32.940
 with those verses

00:42:32.940 --> 00:42:34.900
 and I think we're really familiar

00:42:34.900 --> 00:42:36.059
 with verse 8

00:42:36.059 --> 00:42:37.659
 but often apart from one another

00:42:37.659 --> 00:42:39.179
 so what does Paul go on to say?

00:42:39.340 --> 00:42:40.039
 finally brothers

00:42:40.039 --> 00:42:41.840
 whatever is true

00:42:41.840 --> 00:42:43.739
 whatever is honorable

00:42:43.739 --> 00:42:45.539
 whatever is just

00:42:45.539 --> 00:42:46.579
 whatever is pure

00:42:46.579 --> 00:42:47.519
 whatever is lovely

00:42:47.519 --> 00:42:48.679
 whatever is commendable

00:42:48.679 --> 00:42:50.319
 if there is any excellence

00:42:50.319 --> 00:42:51.139
 if there is anything

00:42:51.139 --> 00:42:52.399
 worthy of praise

00:42:52.399 --> 00:42:56.419
 think about these things

00:42:56.419 --> 00:43:00.859
 meditate on these things

00:43:00.859 --> 00:43:02.719
 and you will put to death

00:43:02.719 --> 00:43:04.559
 the deeds of the flesh

00:43:04.559 --> 00:43:06.480
 another example

00:43:06.480 --> 00:43:07.159
 you don't have to turn

00:43:07.159 --> 00:43:08.899
 first part of Romans 12

00:43:08.899 --> 00:43:09.379
 2

00:43:09.379 --> 00:43:10.679
 do not be conformed

00:43:10.679 --> 00:43:11.579
 to this world

00:43:11.579 --> 00:43:13.059
 but be transformed

00:43:13.059 --> 00:43:14.440
 by the renewal

00:43:14.440 --> 00:43:16.299
 of your mind

00:43:16.300 --> 00:43:18.140
 and then finally

00:43:18.140 --> 00:43:19.160
 back in Colossians

00:43:19.160 --> 00:43:20.800
 verse 16

00:43:20.800 --> 00:43:21.660
 the beginning part

00:43:21.660 --> 00:43:22.060
 says

00:43:22.060 --> 00:43:23.019
 let the word

00:43:23.019 --> 00:43:24.420
 of Christ

00:43:24.420 --> 00:43:25.480
 dwell

00:43:25.480 --> 00:43:27.380
 in you richly

00:43:27.380 --> 00:43:29.300
 you see

00:43:29.300 --> 00:43:30.039
 the thread

00:43:30.039 --> 00:43:31.120
 you see the pattern

00:43:31.120 --> 00:43:31.980
 through

00:43:31.980 --> 00:43:32.440
 and the reason

00:43:32.440 --> 00:43:32.980
 that I jumped you

00:43:32.980 --> 00:43:33.760
 to different places

00:43:33.760 --> 00:43:34.660
 is because I don't want you

00:43:34.660 --> 00:43:35.580
 to think

00:43:35.580 --> 00:43:36.940
 that this is just

00:43:36.940 --> 00:43:37.780
 found here

00:43:37.780 --> 00:43:38.700
 but it's found

00:43:38.700 --> 00:43:39.480
 across

00:43:39.480 --> 00:43:40.440
 the scriptures

00:43:40.440 --> 00:43:41.140
 the inspired

00:43:41.140 --> 00:43:42.140
 word of God

00:43:42.140 --> 00:43:43.160
 not just with Paul

00:43:43.160 --> 00:43:43.980
 but with others

00:43:43.980 --> 00:43:45.039
 as well

00:43:45.039 --> 00:43:47.099
 so we must

00:43:47.099 --> 00:43:47.860
 put to death

00:43:47.860 --> 00:43:48.820
 the sin in our lives

00:43:48.820 --> 00:43:50.780
 because it is not

00:43:50.780 --> 00:43:51.679
 fitting that those

00:43:51.679 --> 00:43:52.000
 who have been

00:43:52.000 --> 00:43:52.880
 delivered from sin

00:43:52.880 --> 00:43:54.139
 should go on sinning

00:43:54.139 --> 00:43:56.179
 and we do so

00:43:56.179 --> 00:43:56.880
 by the power

00:43:56.880 --> 00:43:57.960
 of the spirit of God

00:43:57.960 --> 00:43:59.260
 in the renewal

00:43:59.260 --> 00:44:01.159
 of our minds

00:44:01.159 --> 00:44:01.960
 this is the way

00:44:01.960 --> 00:44:02.719
 this comes

00:44:02.719 --> 00:44:04.019
 to pass

00:44:04.019 --> 00:44:05.659
 and to make our

00:44:05.659 --> 00:44:06.300
 theology

00:44:06.300 --> 00:44:07.619
 practical

00:44:07.619 --> 00:44:09.780
 how do we put to death

00:44:09.780 --> 00:44:11.539
 the deeds of the flesh

00:44:11.539 --> 00:44:13.480
 we get in our Bibles

00:44:13.480 --> 00:44:15.380
 and we study them

00:44:15.380 --> 00:44:16.380
 and we meditate

00:44:16.380 --> 00:44:16.980
 upon them

00:44:16.980 --> 00:44:17.840
 we allow it to

00:44:17.840 --> 00:44:18.900
 influence and affect

00:44:18.900 --> 00:44:19.940
 every part

00:44:19.940 --> 00:44:20.860
 of our thinking

00:44:20.860 --> 00:44:22.320
 we allow it to

00:44:22.320 --> 00:44:23.420
 cause us

00:44:23.420 --> 00:44:24.480
 as Christian people

00:44:24.480 --> 00:44:26.039
 to stand firm

00:44:26.039 --> 00:44:27.059
 in the midst

00:44:27.059 --> 00:44:28.119
 of ways

00:44:28.119 --> 00:44:29.380
 we

00:44:29.380 --> 00:44:31.739
 so know it

00:44:31.739 --> 00:44:32.159
 that we can

00:44:32.159 --> 00:44:32.820
 contend

00:44:32.820 --> 00:44:33.699
 for the truth

00:44:33.699 --> 00:44:34.920
 and that has

00:44:34.920 --> 00:44:36.320
 meaning for us

00:44:36.320 --> 00:44:37.079
 as individuals

00:44:37.079 --> 00:44:37.639
 as well

00:44:37.639 --> 00:44:38.460
 I have to contend

00:44:38.460 --> 00:44:38.920
 for the truth

00:44:38.920 --> 00:44:39.900
 in my own life

00:44:39.900 --> 00:44:41.019
 all the time

00:44:41.019 --> 00:44:41.960
 my sin

00:44:41.960 --> 00:44:42.980
 is always

00:44:42.980 --> 00:44:43.920
 deceiving me

00:44:43.920 --> 00:44:46.240
 my emotions

00:44:46.240 --> 00:44:47.059
 betray me

00:44:47.059 --> 00:44:48.139
 constantly

00:44:48.139 --> 00:44:49.760
 I have to

00:44:49.760 --> 00:44:50.720
 preach to myself

00:44:50.720 --> 00:44:51.500
 the truth

00:44:51.500 --> 00:44:52.340
 of God

00:44:52.340 --> 00:44:52.820
 we have to

00:44:52.820 --> 00:44:53.420
 preach the truth

00:44:53.420 --> 00:44:54.480
 to one another

00:44:54.480 --> 00:44:56.300
 I don't need

00:44:56.300 --> 00:44:56.920
 your counsel

00:44:56.920 --> 00:44:57.579
 if it's not

00:44:57.579 --> 00:44:58.559
 biblical counsel

00:44:58.559 --> 00:44:59.720
 you tell me

00:44:59.720 --> 00:45:00.380
 what the scriptures

00:45:00.380 --> 00:45:00.840
 say

00:45:00.840 --> 00:45:02.019
 I want that

00:45:02.019 --> 00:45:02.960
 I'm hungry

00:45:02.960 --> 00:45:03.820
 for that

00:45:03.820 --> 00:45:04.639
 when I'm dealing

00:45:04.639 --> 00:45:05.280
 with the problems

00:45:05.280 --> 00:45:05.780
 of life

00:45:05.780 --> 00:45:06.260
 I want you to

00:45:06.260 --> 00:45:06.500
 tell me

00:45:06.500 --> 00:45:07.099
 what almighty

00:45:07.099 --> 00:45:08.000
 God says

00:45:08.000 --> 00:45:08.320
 in his

00:45:08.320 --> 00:45:08.720
 inerrant

00:45:08.720 --> 00:45:09.539
 sufficient scripture

00:45:09.539 --> 00:45:10.239
 concerning the

00:45:10.239 --> 00:45:10.559
 matter

00:45:10.559 --> 00:45:11.420
 it has

00:45:11.420 --> 00:45:12.139
 everything in it

00:45:12.139 --> 00:45:12.579
 that we need

00:45:12.579 --> 00:45:13.000
 to hear

00:45:13.000 --> 00:45:13.920
 and know

00:45:13.920 --> 00:45:14.860
 for our

00:45:14.860 --> 00:45:15.360
 well being

00:45:15.360 --> 00:45:16.639
 if you just

00:45:16.639 --> 00:45:17.019
 got some

00:45:17.019 --> 00:45:17.639
 trite piece

00:45:17.639 --> 00:45:18.219
 of advice

00:45:18.219 --> 00:45:19.000
 just keep

00:45:19.000 --> 00:45:19.300
 your mouth

00:45:19.300 --> 00:45:19.619
 shut

00:45:19.619 --> 00:45:19.920
 I want to

00:45:19.920 --> 00:45:20.059
 know what

00:45:20.059 --> 00:45:20.440
 the scriptures

00:45:20.440 --> 00:45:20.920
 say

00:45:20.920 --> 00:45:22.320
 you have to

00:45:22.320 --> 00:45:22.820
 learn the

00:45:22.820 --> 00:45:23.099
 scriptures

00:45:23.099 --> 00:45:23.559
 to be able

00:45:23.559 --> 00:45:24.179
 to do that

00:45:24.179 --> 00:45:24.440
 and be able

00:45:24.440 --> 00:45:24.739
 to stand

00:45:24.739 --> 00:45:25.079
 firm

00:45:25.079 --> 00:45:25.460
 and to put

00:45:25.460 --> 00:45:25.699
 off

00:45:25.699 --> 00:45:26.539
 these types

00:45:26.539 --> 00:45:27.519
 of deeds

00:45:27.519 --> 00:45:28.079
 and beloved

00:45:28.079 --> 00:45:28.400
 it should be

00:45:28.400 --> 00:45:28.840
 our great

00:45:28.840 --> 00:45:29.320
 desire to

00:45:29.320 --> 00:45:29.820
 do so

00:45:29.820 --> 00:45:30.420
 because we

00:45:30.420 --> 00:45:30.940
 have a great

00:45:30.940 --> 00:45:31.579
 deliverer

00:45:31.579 --> 00:45:31.940
 that we

00:45:31.940 --> 00:45:32.519
 should want

00:45:32.519 --> 00:45:33.239
 to exalt

00:45:33.239 --> 00:45:34.159
 in the way

00:45:34.159 --> 00:45:35.000
 that we

00:45:35.000 --> 00:45:35.300
 live

00:45:35.300 --> 00:45:36.340
 let's pray

00:45:36.340 --> 00:45:36.679
 together

00:45:36.679 --> 00:45:37.119
 let's종