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 Father, we come before you confessing that often our pride beats us up and hostile spirits,

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 demons beat us up, that we can feel really guilty about things, Father, that are not

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 sins at all, that we feel no guilt over things that are sins, and Father, that when we do

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 things sometimes which are just really, really wrong, it makes us almost want to give up,

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 Father, to despair. And so, Father, we ask that, and Father, you know as well how sometimes

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 the well-meaning advice of other Christians just serves to beat us up even more. Father,

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 you know how many of us here this morning are refugees from legalistic and moralistic churches

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 that claim to preach grace but end up just beating up its members. So, Father, we ask that

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 you would gently but deeply pour out your Holy Spirit upon us, gently and deeply pour out your

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 Holy Spirit upon us, so that we might hear these stark words of yours in Romans 7, that they might

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 enter into who we are, and that we might understand the great glory of the gospel and how great is your

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 grace and love towards us. And this we ask in Jesus' name, your Son and our Savior. Amen.

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 Please be seated.

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 Humanly speaking, the man who was responsible for me becoming an Anglican, not a Christian,

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 I was already a Christian, but me falling in love with the Anglican way, and humanly speaking,

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 the man who was responsible for me recognizing that God had called me to be a pastor. And humanly

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 speaking, the man who was a really important mentor, not only for myself but also for my wife,

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 I started attending this fellow's church as a single man, and when I left, I was married, had some kids,

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 and was ordained. And so, humanly speaking, this man was very important to me. And less than a year

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 after I left the church, he was stripped of his power to minister in the Diocese of Ottawa because

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 of a long history of affairs, which he had kept secret. And I remember getting the letter in the mail,

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 and then discovering that not only was he no longer able to function as a pastor in the Diocese of Ottawa,

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 but that his marriage had broken up. And he had five kids. He had some grandkids at the time as well.

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 And it was a great shock to Louise and me. And just as I think it was a great shock to many to find out

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 that this had happened to him. And so, how is it that those types of things can go on? Like, why is it that

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 in many ways, God used this man in a very, very powerful way in my life, brought a lot of healing

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 to me in my life as I just watched his example and listened to him pray and heard him teach?

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 And how is it that something like that could happen in a man like that, and yet at the same time,

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 there was this other side to him that ended up ruining his relationship with his wife and kids

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 and ruining his ministry? Romans 7 gets right to the heart of this issue. And so, it would be a great

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 help to me if you were to open your Bibles to Romans 7. And we're going to look at this text.

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 It's a text like a lot of Romans, which isn't meant to be read quickly, but it's meant to be sort of read

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 slowly as we see how Paul shines the light of the gospel and the light of grace into our human

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 condition, both before we know Jesus and after we know Jesus, as the light of the gospel and the power

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 of the Holy Spirit shines into who we are as human beings. So, it's Romans chapter 7, and we're beginning

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 reading at verse 7. And it's interesting that the Bible is going to actually begin with asking a

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 question that, and I'm not going to talk about that this, the Bible begins in Romans 7, and then he sort

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 of asks the similar question, but in different words. It's interesting that Paul asks the question

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 that many in our culture ask. In fact, like so many people might say that the problem with this

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 fellow was that Christians are just too anal about moral rules, and that being anal about moral

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 rules ends up leading to people having moral failings, and that if we just cut people more slack,

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 they'd get on better. That some people in our culture think that moral rules, especially moral rules

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 around sexuality, are in fact bad. That they're bad by their very nature, and that if you have a whole

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 pile of moral rules, especially around sexuality, but also in some other areas, that we shouldn't be

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 surprised if things happen, if things go south on us. That in fact, there are many people in our culture

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 who say that moral laws, especially in our culture, moral laws around sexuality, that they actually

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 cause death. And it might be a real surprise for us to see that the Bible asks those very same

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 questions that our culture asks. It's not as if we have to go, oh gosh, how on earth do we answer that?

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 Well, Romans 7, Paul asks those very same questions. Look at Romans 7, 7.

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 What then shall we say that the law is sin? In other words, that it's evil? By no means. And then

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 look down at verse 13. Did that which is good, and here he means like moral laws, did that which is good

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 then bring death? In other words, are moral laws murderers? Do moral laws kill us? And that's,

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 you just think you were in a postmodern hipster coffee shop, or in a modernist Tim Hortons coffee

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 shop, listening to these questions being asked, both by people in business suits, and people with

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 long beards, and people who are working class. It's a very, they're very common questions, and Paul

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 raises them. Let's go back to verse 7. What then shall we say that the law is sin? By no means.

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 In other words, he's saying, no way, absolutely not. Yet if it had not been for the law, and here he

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 means moral commands that come from God, I would not have known sin, for I would not have known what

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 it is to covet if the law had not said, you shall not covet. Just pause there before we go any further.

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 It's very, very interesting. In our culture, often when we see the word sin, we think it's referring to sex.

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 Now, it does refer to certain sexual things which are wrong, but the word is far, far bigger, and it's

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 very interesting that Paul here chooses the last command of the Ten Commandments, and it is the, all of the

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 other commands in the Ten Commandments, you can understand them in an external way, as just referring

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 to behavior. And it's the Tenth Command that doesn't refer to external behavior. It's going to the heart,

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 like what's going on in our hearts. So, for instance, if I was to say to you how many people here murdered

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 somebody this morning, hopefully nobody put their hand up. It would actually cause us a bit of a

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 quandary if you did put your hand up. Probably somebody should go call the police if you put

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 your hand up and said that this morning before you came to church you murdered somebody, right?

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 So, it's very, very easy with a lot of the commandments to say, I didn't tell any lies, I haven't murdered

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 anybody, I didn't steal anything, you know, I didn't bow down to a, you know, a statue of a cow and call it

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 my God and go all the way through. But coveting envy, jealousy, coveting these, this very, very internal

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 competitive, proud comparing of your situation with others and wanting others to have, for you to have

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 more than other people have, this type of insatiable sense. It's the example he uses. He doesn't use where

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 we often go in our culture or where non-Christians expect Christians to go to give an example of sin,

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 but he gives an example of coveting, of greed, of gluttony, of envy, of jealousy, of those internal

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 types of desires which are out of whack. And that's where Paul goes with it. And just as well, before I go

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 any further on it as well, Paul isn't saying that, well actually, Andrew, could you put up the first

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 point? And when the living God speaks, he infringes on my desire for absolute sovereignty. When the living

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 God speaks, he infringes on my desire for absolute sovereignty. That's what Paul's going to get at here.

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 He's going to talk about something. I'm going to read the rest of it through, the next few verses

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 through, and I'll give you an example of what he means to show that he has a profound psychological

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 insight about what happens to human beings when God speaks to them. And so where was I with verse 8?

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 But sin, seizing an opportunity through the commandment, produced in me all kinds of covetousness.

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 For apart from the law, sin lies dead. I was once alive apart from the law, but when the commandment

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 came, sin came alive and I died. The very commandment that promised life proved to be death to me.

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 For sin, seizing an opportunity through the commandment, deceived me and through it killed me.

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 So the law is holy and the commandment is holy and righteous and good. So what's Paul trying to get

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 at here? Well, I'll use first a funny story and then I'll use a different illustration. A couple of

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 years ago, I was just right here and part of my sermon, trying to open up the Bible, is I shared with

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 you, the people who were there at the time, you folks, that I'm an introvert, that I'm actually quite a

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 strong introvert. I like people, but people tire me and I need to recharge my batteries.

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 My friend Charlie, he's an extrovert. If he said, if somebody said, if Charlie and I were together and

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 they said, can you want to go to this church and there's 300 people that you've never met before,

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 I would go, oh no, 300 people that I've never met before. And Charlie would go, oh wow, 300 people

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 that I've never met before. We can spend the whole day with them? I would just get him charged up. He'd

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 be so excited. It would be like Christmas for him. And for me, it would be like I've gotten the coal

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 in my stocking, not the presents. Anyway, so I was just sharing about my introversion and one of the

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 things about my introversion, at least for me, is that I'm not very huggy. I don't like hugging people.

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 I mean, I love hugging my wife and my kids and grandkids, but I'm not like huggy. Most of you who

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 come to the church have probably noticed that I don't go around hugging everybody when they leave

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 the church. So I was sharing this as part of the sermon. And then after the service, there was a

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 woman who was a guest and she came up to me and said, oh pastor, that was so brave of you to share

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 about your introversion. Can I pray for you? And I'm thinking, why? I can always use more pressure.

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 Can I pray that the Lord will deliver you from being an introvert?

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 And I didn't want to correct her because, you know, the fact of the matter is I need as much

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 prayer as I can get, right? I'm never going to tell somebody, don't pray for me. So then I said,

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 sure. So I'll have to put the Bible down. So I started to get my hands like this. And the next

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 thing I know, and she was a very sizable woman, she grabbed me with her right arm, put me in a

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 headlock, pressed me to her bosom like this, her arms shaking. And I'm stuck there trying to figure

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 out what on earth to do against her bosom. And then she proceeded with the other hand to raise

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 it and pray loudly over me. The self-confessed introvert who said he didn't like to hug.

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 Okay. So you can see I'm a very effective public speaker. I had obviously deeply gotten through to

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 her, something about a whole range of things. Anyway, so about a year after that, I was invited to be

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 one of the speakers at Atreus Dias weekend for men. And so if you've ever been to Atreus Dias weekend,

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 there's lots of great things about it, but they love to hug. Good grief. They love to hug. And so

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 when I, for one of the talks, and it fit into it, I shared this story thinking naively and foolishly

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 that I was providing comfort to the other introverts in the room. But all it meant was that every man

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 wanted to hug me for the rest of the weekend. Without fail, probably no man who was there did not take

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 the moment to come up and say, you don't want me to hug you, do you? And then they'd hug me.

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 I was really foolish. Okay. So on a very, very light note, what is it about human beings

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 that if you say something like that, it creates that desire? Like what is it about human beings?

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 And what is it if many of you might not even have noticed that there's this fake snow type stuff

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 right here? What if I was to all of a sudden say that you can't touch that snow, that if you touch

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 that snow, it's a great sin. It's very, very wrong. It's very offensive. Now, several things will happen.

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 First of all, most of you hadn't even noticed it was there. For the rest of the service, if you thought

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 I was serious, you'd keep looking at it, wouldn't you? And some of you, just to show me, would say,

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 hey, George, and then touch it, right? You know who you are. And if you don't know who you are,

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 your best friend knows who you are, they're probably thinking that exactly describes you.

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 You would go up and touch it. And others of you would be sneaky. And you might say, Daniel,

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 go over there and talk to George and get him looking this way. And then you'd go up and touch it,

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 right? And then there'd be everything in between. There'd be a couple of you, you know who you are,

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 who probably wouldn't touch it, right? But eventually, if it was there every week,

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 probably we would touch it. So what is it, okay, that about human beings, that we all know that

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 that is pretty true and that none of us are... The thing that maybe surprises many of you is why I was

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 dumb enough to tell the story about the woman hugging me to a room full of men thinking I would

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 get a different result. And that's why you need to keep praying for me. I can sometimes be remarkably

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 clueless. So what is it about human beings? So what Paul is saying here is that

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 moral laws, the one that come from God, not the ones that come from our culture,

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 our pride, our ego, but true moral laws that reflect the nature and character of God,

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 that when God speaks them and we recognize them clearly, there springs up within us

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 an over-preoccupation with thinking about them, and ultimately it reveals within us that we desire

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 to break them.

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 Like, the men at the Tres Dias weekend didn't realize that their response showed that they were

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 fallen and need a savior, because they were just joking. But that's what their response showed.

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 It showed that they were fallen and need a savior, and that even though many of them had been

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 Christians for a very, very long time, there was still something within them that desired to transgress.

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 That's what it shows. Andrew, could you put up this image? And our screen isn't big enough to really,

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 you know, capture this in a perfect way, but you can get a sort of an idea, and it's sort of,

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 probably in an ideal world, we'd have a different screen, so this could all just go straight rather

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 than an angle, but it's what we have to do to get it onto a screen. This image is an image of the story of the Bible.

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 This gives you a basic understanding of how the entire Bible is written, the overarching story,

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 the story which is actually present in it. And Genesis 1 and 2, that's the first thing,

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 is that the whole world is created by God, and he creates it good.

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 And then the second thing is Genesis chapter 3,

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 and it describes how,

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 in Adam,

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 we desire to be like God,

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 and rebel against God, because we want to be like God,

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 and we who are made in the image of God,

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 and have, in a sense, a role of caring for God's creation,

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 that we become bent, we become broken.

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 The image of God isn't taken away from us, but we become bent.

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 And as Genesis, as the rest of the Bible will show us,

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 that there's not a single aspect of ourselves

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 that isn't touched by the fall,

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 that isn't bent in some small way.

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 It's not telling us that human beings are evil,

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 it's telling us that every single aspect of what it means to be human,

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 and if through poetry and science we discover other things about what it means to be human,

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 that anything that we discover about what it means to be human

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 is touched by this fall,

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 that it's bent slightly.

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 And then Genesis chapter 4, up until the end of Malachi,

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 is the next section.

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 And it's a way to understand all of the Old Testament,

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 is that God sees us, having created us good,

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 and to have fellowship and communion with Him,

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 He sees that we're bent and we can't save ourselves.

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 And for the rest of the Old Testament,

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 Genesis chapter 4 to Malachi 4,

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 it's a combination of promise and preparation.

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 Promising that God,

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 God promising to human beings,

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 He does it gradually,

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 He does it through wisdom literature,

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 He does it through laws,

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 He does it through poetry,

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 He does it through mystical visions,

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 He does it in lots of different literary genres,

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 God speaks in lots of different literary genres,

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 over a wide period of time,

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 but it's all both preparing people for the Messiah

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 and promising the Messiah.

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 And then you see up there,

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 it's Jesus,

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 and that means God's kept His promise.

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 That's in some ways the whole heart of Advent,

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 because the heart of Advent is that God has kept His promises

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 in sending His Son to be born in Bethlehem

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 and to die upon the cross,

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 and that Jesus will come again a second time.

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 God keeps His promise in the person of Jesus.

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 And we all live in 2015,

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 we live in the already not yet.

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 We live in the time between God keeping His promise

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 to call to a people Himself again

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 and to redeem them through Jesus

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 and what He did on the cross,

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 the gift of the Holy Spirit,

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 the guarantee that we have a standing before God

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 which is right,

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 which is given to us as a gift by Jesus

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 that nothing can take away,

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 yet at the same time,

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 obviously the world is still full of evil and rebellion.

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 There's still evil and rebellion within us,

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 within you and me,

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 and we wait for the end when Jesus comes.

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 And that's basically most of the New Testament.

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 And the end is what's described a little bit today

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 in the Gospel reading,

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 in the book of Revelation at the end.

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 It's when Jesus comes again,

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 the living and the dead are judged,

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 and the new heaven and the new earth is created.

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 And that's also the end is also the beginning.

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 And this is not only the overarching story of the Bible.

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 The Bible claims that this is real,

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 that God really is there.

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 He really does speak.

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 Jesus really did come.

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 He really did die upon the cross.

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 There's historical evidence of His existence

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 and of His death,

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 and even historical evidence of His resurrection.

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 And that this is not only the story of the Bible,

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 it's the story of the human race.

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 That's the claim of the Bible.

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 It's the story of the human race.

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 It's within this story

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 that we can understand who we are as human beings.

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 We can understand our longings and our yearnings,

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 our dreams and our hopes,

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 and we can understand those things about us

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 that terrify us.

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 So, Andrew, could you put up A,

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 in good Canadian fashion?

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 I'm going to keep on saying A throughout the service.

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 This is what the book of Romans

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 is trying to communicate with us.

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 that until we see Him face to face,

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 every follower of Jesus lives in the already,

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 not yet,

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 with a divided and contradictory self.

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 Every follower,

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 until we see Jesus face to face,

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 that's 1 John 2,

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 every follower of Jesus lives in the already,

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 not yet,

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 with a divided and contradictory self.

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 We don't live at the end

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 or the beginning.

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 We aren't perfect.

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 Read 2 Corinthians 4 and 5,

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 the treasure of the gospel,

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 the fact that the Holy Spirit

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 indwells the believer,

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 that we have entered into Jesus

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 and that Jesus has entered into us,

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 that's in a sense the already,

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 something that we'll just get more of in heaven.

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 But at the same time,

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 we live in the not yet.

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 And as part of that not yet,

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 we aren't perfect.

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 We're not,

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 there's still parts within us

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 that just still are in rebellion against God.

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 And that's what Paul,

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 that's what the Bible is trying

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 to help us to understand.

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 And it's really,

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 really,

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 really important

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 because,

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 you know,

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 I've talked

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 and I've heard so many Christians

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 and maybe,

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 I don't know,

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 Lord have mercy,

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 when I,

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 maybe I've been guilty

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 of some of this stuff as well,

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 but often I would just have this sense

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 of not knowing what to speak about it

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 as I would hear somebody speak up

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 and say

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 that the problem that you have with your life

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 is a lack of willpower.

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 Well, I mean,

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 on one hand,

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 every human being has some problems

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 with willpower.

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 I don't,

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 you know,

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 if I could go back in time,

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 I wouldn't have eaten those potato chips

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 last night while I watched the movie,

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 you know?

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 We all have problems with willpower.

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 But, you know,

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 we might say to a Christian,

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 and it's a really terrible thing

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 for Christians who struggle with depression,

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 Christians who struggle with mental illness,

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 Christians who struggle

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 with some deep type of brokenness within them,

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 and just to be told,

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 all you need is more willpower.

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 You're just not trying hard enough.

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 If you were trying hard enough,

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 you wouldn't be doing this.

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 It's all about trying.

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 It's all about willpower.

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 And then there's others who say,

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 oh,

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 if you just thought better,

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 if you just thought better thoughts,

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 if you just memorized these attitudes

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 from John Maxwell

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 about how to have a positive life,

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 if you just read more Zig Ziglar

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 and had little positive sayings

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 on your fridge,

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 you would have a better life.

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 And then there's others who say

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 that there's nothing at all

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 to do with any of that stuff.

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 You need a special anointing.

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 And you need to have a special anointing

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 that goes along with an experience

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 of emotional breakdown and turmoil.

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 And if you just have this moment of brokenness

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 with a great emotion,

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 then you will live a life of victory.

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 If you have the willpower,

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 you will live a life of victory.

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 If you have these positive thoughts in your head,

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 you will live a life of victory.

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 If you just know the right rituals,

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 if you just know the right rules,

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 you will have a life of victory.

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 But that's the normal Christian life.

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 The normal Christian life

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 is a life of victory.

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 How many of us have heard speakers

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 and Christians who tell us

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 these types of things?

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 Or they say the problem is

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 that you have demons in you.

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 The reason you can't stop smoking

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 is not because tobacco

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 is more addictive than crack cocaine.

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 It's because you have a demon.

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 Let us cast that demon out.

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 And then lo and behold,

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 the poor beat up Christian

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 who says to himself,

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 I've tried my willpower.

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 It doesn't work.

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 And I, gosh, I've had

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 the demon of cigarettes

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 cast out of me 18 times.

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 I still smoke.

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 Maybe I'm not a Christian at all.

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 Maybe I'm just going to hell.

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 And it's for those of us

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 who labor under this

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 that Paul continues on

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 in verse 13.

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 And one of the things about this,

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 when I,

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 one of the academic commentaries

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 that I consulted prior to this,

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 there's 10 different ways

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 of understanding Romans 7.

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 I'm not going to bore,

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 I can't even remember them.

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 I'm not going to bore you with them.

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 I'm going to read it

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 in the most simple,

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 straightforward way

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 because the shocking thing is,

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 is that in these verses 7 through 12,

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 Paul uses the past tense,

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 the form of the past tense.

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 In verses 14 on,

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 he uses the present tense.

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 This is Paul.

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 He has been a Christian

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 for 25 years,

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 20 to 25 years.

00:26:16.679 --> 00:26:17.740
 God has used him.

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 The Holy Spirit has used him

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 in a way which is far more powerful,

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 not put any of you down,

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 than any of you who are here

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 because God actually uses him

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 to write scripture.

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 And God uses him

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 to plant churches

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 as an evangelist.

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 God uses him

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 that even when he gets

00:26:33.659 --> 00:26:35.039
 beaten up and thrown in jail,

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 still he shares the gospel.

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 And listen to how Paul speaks.

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 Verse 13 and then following.

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 Did that which is good,

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 which is moral laws,

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 then bring death to me

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 by no means.

00:26:46.079 --> 00:26:48.680
 It was sin producing death in me

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 through what is good,

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 in order that sin

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 might be shown to be sin,

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 and through the commandment

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 might become sinful

00:26:55.579 --> 00:26:56.379
 beyond measure.

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 For we know that the law

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 is spiritual,

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 but I am of the flesh

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 sold under sin.

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 Now just pause here

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 before we go any farther.

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 Those of you who maybe

00:27:10.000 --> 00:27:10.799
 have been reading ahead

00:27:10.799 --> 00:27:12.159
 or remember what Ken just read

00:27:12.159 --> 00:27:12.960
 a few moments ago,

00:27:13.899 --> 00:27:16.099
 the language seems way too stark.

00:27:17.619 --> 00:27:18.579
 Andrew, could you put up

00:27:18.579 --> 00:27:20.399
 this next point for me, please?

00:27:20.400 --> 00:27:23.460
 Here's the problem.

00:27:23.660 --> 00:27:24.480
 I'm not smart enough

00:27:24.480 --> 00:27:25.040
 to say this,

00:27:25.100 --> 00:27:26.380
 and if you disagree with this,

00:27:26.800 --> 00:27:28.820
 it's Psalm 36, verse 2.

00:27:30.140 --> 00:27:31.340
 Take it up with God.

00:27:32.620 --> 00:27:34.860
 I flatter myself too much

00:27:34.860 --> 00:27:37.740
 to detect or hate my own sin.

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 That is profoundly wise.

00:27:42.200 --> 00:27:46.160
 Even if you don't believe

00:27:46.160 --> 00:27:46.799
 that the Bible

00:27:46.799 --> 00:27:47.880
 is God's word written,

00:27:48.400 --> 00:27:49.080
 like I do,

00:27:49.480 --> 00:27:50.440
 you have to say,

00:27:50.980 --> 00:27:53.460
 this is profoundly wise.

00:27:55.259 --> 00:27:57.460
 I flatter myself too much

00:27:57.460 --> 00:27:59.400
 to detect or hate my own sin.

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 And if you say,

00:28:01.059 --> 00:28:01.420
 well, actually,

00:28:01.480 --> 00:28:02.140
 you know, I'm pretty good.

00:28:02.200 --> 00:28:02.759
 I don't sin.

00:28:03.600 --> 00:28:04.039
 Wow!

00:28:04.240 --> 00:28:05.039
 All you've done

00:28:05.039 --> 00:28:06.259
 is proved how much

00:28:06.259 --> 00:28:07.299
 you flatter yourself.

00:28:09.500 --> 00:28:10.600
 Because your friends,

00:28:10.759 --> 00:28:11.220
 your boss,

00:28:11.220 --> 00:28:11.819
 your neighbors,

00:28:11.920 --> 00:28:12.680
 will not agree

00:28:12.680 --> 00:28:13.960
 with your self-assessment,

00:28:14.759 --> 00:28:15.460
 your kids,

00:28:16.259 --> 00:28:17.140
 or your parents.

00:28:20.059 --> 00:28:21.700
 And so the problem is,

00:28:21.779 --> 00:28:23.339
 is that all of us

00:28:23.339 --> 00:28:24.500
 flatter ourselves

00:28:24.500 --> 00:28:25.420
 too much to detect

00:28:25.420 --> 00:28:26.339
 or hate our own sin.

00:28:26.860 --> 00:28:28.019
 And so that when we read

00:28:28.019 --> 00:28:28.920
 these next things

00:28:28.920 --> 00:28:29.740
 in Romans 7,

00:28:29.880 --> 00:28:30.620
 we recoil.

00:28:30.940 --> 00:28:32.140
 We want to say,

00:28:32.660 --> 00:28:34.480
 it's too extreme,

00:28:34.779 --> 00:28:35.940
 it's too hard.

00:28:36.079 --> 00:28:37.680
 We want to recoil from it.

00:28:37.740 --> 00:28:38.220
 And the reason

00:28:38.220 --> 00:28:39.600
 we want to recoil from it

00:28:39.599 --> 00:28:41.980
 is because you and I

00:28:41.980 --> 00:28:44.339
 flatter ourselves too much

00:28:44.339 --> 00:28:45.379
 to detect or hate

00:28:45.379 --> 00:28:46.699
 our own sin.

00:28:48.000 --> 00:28:49.379
 Including myself in this.

00:28:50.059 --> 00:28:50.819
 It's jarring.

00:28:52.519 --> 00:28:53.480
 Andrew, could you put up

00:28:53.480 --> 00:28:53.959
 A again?

00:28:55.240 --> 00:28:56.159
 Just remember,

00:28:56.339 --> 00:28:57.500
 until we see him

00:28:57.500 --> 00:28:58.439
 face to face,

00:28:59.059 --> 00:29:00.579
 every follower of Jesus

00:29:00.579 --> 00:29:02.740
 lives in the already-not-yet

00:29:02.740 --> 00:29:04.099
 with a divided

00:29:04.099 --> 00:29:05.619
 and contradictory self.

00:29:05.619 --> 00:29:06.379
 That's what Paul

00:29:06.379 --> 00:29:07.279
 is teaching us.

00:29:08.899 --> 00:29:09.679
 And when you have

00:29:09.679 --> 00:29:10.219
 a divided

00:29:10.219 --> 00:29:11.559
 and contradictory self,

00:29:12.500 --> 00:29:13.259
 Paul isn't saying

00:29:13.259 --> 00:29:13.979
 that you never use

00:29:13.979 --> 00:29:14.619
 willpower.

00:29:15.000 --> 00:29:15.839
 He's never saying

00:29:15.839 --> 00:29:16.439
 that we don't have

00:29:16.439 --> 00:29:17.299
 breakthroughs.

00:29:17.699 --> 00:29:18.839
 He's not saying

00:29:18.839 --> 00:29:19.579
 that we shouldn't ask

00:29:19.579 --> 00:29:20.439
 for more of the Holy Spirit.

00:29:20.559 --> 00:29:20.759
 In fact,

00:29:20.919 --> 00:29:22.479
 Romans 8 is the profound

00:29:22.479 --> 00:29:24.219
 after-Christmas break

00:29:24.219 --> 00:29:25.119
 of Romans.

00:29:25.179 --> 00:29:25.679
 We're going to talk

00:29:25.679 --> 00:29:26.179
 Romans 8,

00:29:26.259 --> 00:29:27.299
 three weeks in Romans 8.

00:29:27.339 --> 00:29:28.759
 It's the profound text

00:29:28.759 --> 00:29:29.459
 about the power

00:29:29.459 --> 00:29:30.199
 of the Holy Spirit

00:29:30.199 --> 00:29:31.119
 in the Christian's life.

00:29:32.199 --> 00:29:33.259
 And Paul's not going to say

00:29:33.259 --> 00:29:33.959
 that there's not things

00:29:33.959 --> 00:29:34.459
 you should know.

00:29:34.460 --> 00:29:35.000
 He's not going to say

00:29:35.000 --> 00:29:35.720
 any of those things,

00:29:35.799 --> 00:29:36.440
 but he's going to say

00:29:36.440 --> 00:29:37.360
 that if Christians

00:29:37.360 --> 00:29:38.740
 use these things

00:29:38.740 --> 00:29:39.700
 as sticks

00:29:39.700 --> 00:29:41.240
 to beat up other Christians,

00:29:41.559 --> 00:29:42.440
 trying to get us

00:29:42.440 --> 00:29:43.019
 to believe

00:29:43.019 --> 00:29:44.900
 that the normal Christian life

00:29:44.900 --> 00:29:45.920
 is a life of victory

00:29:45.920 --> 00:29:47.059
 where we do not sin,

00:29:47.160 --> 00:29:48.640
 you have not understood

00:29:48.640 --> 00:29:49.460
 the Scriptures,

00:29:50.039 --> 00:29:51.340
 you have not understood

00:29:51.340 --> 00:29:52.680
 Romans chapter 7,

00:29:52.860 --> 00:29:53.900
 because a divided

00:29:53.900 --> 00:29:55.039
 and contradictory self

00:29:55.039 --> 00:29:56.579
 is exactly what it means.

00:29:57.480 --> 00:29:58.500
 Until we see him

00:29:58.500 --> 00:29:59.319
 face to face,

00:30:00.079 --> 00:30:01.120
 there is always going

00:30:01.120 --> 00:30:01.840
 to be a struggle

00:30:01.840 --> 00:30:02.440
 with sin.

00:30:04.460 --> 00:30:06.220
 And sin will continue

00:30:06.220 --> 00:30:07.620
 to shock us

00:30:07.620 --> 00:30:08.700
 and surprise us.

00:30:09.160 --> 00:30:09.500
 And we will,

00:30:09.559 --> 00:30:10.220
 as we see in a moment,

00:30:10.299 --> 00:30:11.000
 we'll ask ourselves,

00:30:11.420 --> 00:30:12.100
 why on earth

00:30:12.100 --> 00:30:12.779
 did I do that?

00:30:13.019 --> 00:30:14.579
 How could I do that

00:30:14.579 --> 00:30:15.579
 given what I know

00:30:15.579 --> 00:30:16.180
 about Jesus?

00:30:18.539 --> 00:30:19.840
 Struggle with sin

00:30:19.840 --> 00:30:21.259
 is the normal

00:30:21.259 --> 00:30:22.160
 Christian life.

00:30:24.579 --> 00:30:25.779
 To not struggle

00:30:25.779 --> 00:30:26.539
 with sin

00:30:26.539 --> 00:30:28.819
 means that you've

00:30:28.819 --> 00:30:29.720
 surrendered to it.

00:30:29.720 --> 00:30:33.920
 not everyone.

00:30:34.220 --> 00:30:34.400
 I mean,

00:30:34.440 --> 00:30:34.880
 some of us

00:30:34.880 --> 00:30:35.660
 are just tempted

00:30:35.660 --> 00:30:36.339
 for some things

00:30:36.339 --> 00:30:37.019
 and not the others.

00:30:40.079 --> 00:30:41.000
 I've never been

00:30:41.000 --> 00:30:41.680
 tempted

00:30:41.680 --> 00:30:43.279
 to same-sex attraction,

00:30:43.680 --> 00:30:44.759
 and that's not something

00:30:44.759 --> 00:30:45.960
 I can be proud about.

00:30:46.039 --> 00:30:47.259
 Anybody who's proud about it,

00:30:47.299 --> 00:30:48.420
 that doesn't mean anything.

00:30:49.160 --> 00:30:49.880
 It just means

00:30:49.880 --> 00:30:50.380
 you don't have

00:30:50.380 --> 00:30:51.500
 that temptation.

00:30:53.019 --> 00:30:54.079
 Some in our midst

00:30:54.079 --> 00:30:55.200
 have that temptation.

00:30:55.360 --> 00:30:56.259
 It's a real temptation

00:30:56.259 --> 00:30:57.120
 that they live with.

00:30:57.119 --> 00:30:59.239
 And that person

00:30:59.239 --> 00:30:59.839
 who has maybe

00:30:59.839 --> 00:31:00.959
 the same-sex attraction,

00:31:01.619 --> 00:31:02.419
 they don't have

00:31:02.419 --> 00:31:04.299
 maybe your problem

00:31:04.299 --> 00:31:05.099
 with pride

00:31:05.099 --> 00:31:06.959
 or with debt

00:31:06.959 --> 00:31:08.819
 because you spend money

00:31:08.819 --> 00:31:09.699
 to fill voids

00:31:09.699 --> 00:31:10.439
 in your lives

00:31:10.439 --> 00:31:11.699
 and they don't,

00:31:11.799 --> 00:31:13.099
 or maybe they don't

00:31:13.099 --> 00:31:13.759
 have your problem

00:31:13.759 --> 00:31:15.079
 with telling the truth

00:31:15.079 --> 00:31:17.519
 or we could go on

00:31:17.519 --> 00:31:18.539
 and on and on and on.

00:31:19.819 --> 00:31:20.799
 Just because,

00:31:21.119 --> 00:31:21.259
 I mean,

00:31:21.379 --> 00:31:22.679
 it just really is the case

00:31:22.679 --> 00:31:23.159
 that there are just

00:31:23.159 --> 00:31:24.159
 some temptations

00:31:24.159 --> 00:31:24.739
 that no human,

00:31:24.939 --> 00:31:26.319
 that a particular human being

00:31:26.319 --> 00:31:26.939
 doesn't have.

00:31:26.940 --> 00:31:27.660
 They're just not there.

00:31:28.539 --> 00:31:29.700
 I've stayed in hotels

00:31:29.700 --> 00:31:30.600
 beside casinos.

00:31:30.720 --> 00:31:31.380
 I've never gone in.

00:31:31.440 --> 00:31:32.400
 I have no temptation

00:31:32.400 --> 00:31:33.660
 to gamble whatsoever.

00:31:34.720 --> 00:31:35.380
 Absolutely none.

00:31:36.100 --> 00:31:37.140
 But I'm not saying that

00:31:37.140 --> 00:31:37.840
 because it shows

00:31:37.840 --> 00:31:38.279
 there's something

00:31:38.279 --> 00:31:39.220
 excellent about me.

00:31:40.160 --> 00:31:40.960
 I'm not going to start

00:31:40.960 --> 00:31:41.840
 telling you all the things

00:31:41.840 --> 00:31:42.759
 I am tempted to,

00:31:42.840 --> 00:31:43.259
 by the way.

00:31:45.259 --> 00:31:46.320
 And it's one of the reasons

00:31:46.320 --> 00:31:46.539
 I,

00:31:47.019 --> 00:31:48.680
 but it's just not there.

00:31:48.860 --> 00:31:49.259
 And I shouldn't,

00:31:49.340 --> 00:31:50.480
 it's nothing to be proud about.

00:31:50.900 --> 00:31:51.559
 It's just not there

00:31:51.559 --> 00:31:52.160
 for some reason.

00:31:52.240 --> 00:31:52.740
 I have others.

00:31:52.820 --> 00:31:53.400
 I have a long,

00:31:53.480 --> 00:31:54.220
 long, long list.

00:31:54.220 --> 00:31:55.200
 I mean,

00:31:55.200 --> 00:31:56.940
 here's the thing.

00:31:57.700 --> 00:31:58.200
 The fact is,

00:31:58.319 --> 00:32:00.059
 if God showed up

00:32:00.059 --> 00:32:00.860
 in our midst,

00:32:01.200 --> 00:32:01.940
 an angel showed up

00:32:01.940 --> 00:32:02.279
 in our midst

00:32:02.279 --> 00:32:02.900
 and all of a sudden

00:32:02.900 --> 00:32:03.640
 froze all of us

00:32:03.640 --> 00:32:04.319
 to our seat

00:32:04.319 --> 00:32:06.660
 and all of a sudden

00:32:06.660 --> 00:32:08.160
 the finger of God

00:32:08.160 --> 00:32:09.000
 would touch a part

00:32:09.000 --> 00:32:10.019
 in our forehead

00:32:10.019 --> 00:32:10.860
 and there'd be

00:32:10.860 --> 00:32:11.759
 a pop-up screen

00:32:11.759 --> 00:32:13.460
 that comes from our soul,

00:32:14.039 --> 00:32:14.600
 who we are,

00:32:14.660 --> 00:32:15.519
 and it pops up

00:32:15.519 --> 00:32:16.940
 and it lists

00:32:16.940 --> 00:32:18.039
 the things

00:32:18.039 --> 00:32:19.519
 that we're most tempted to

00:32:19.519 --> 00:32:20.759
 and the things

00:32:20.759 --> 00:32:22.920
 that we succumb to

00:32:22.920 --> 00:32:23.720
 in terms of sin

00:32:23.720 --> 00:32:24.119
 the most

00:32:24.119 --> 00:32:25.420
 and it just gives

00:32:25.420 --> 00:32:26.599
 the top 100.

00:32:28.059 --> 00:32:29.299
 There'd be nobody here

00:32:29.299 --> 00:32:29.859
 who would only

00:32:29.859 --> 00:32:30.819
 goes up to five

00:32:30.819 --> 00:32:33.160
 or down to five.

00:32:33.639 --> 00:32:34.359
 Everybody would have

00:32:34.359 --> 00:32:35.079
 a list that goes up

00:32:35.079 --> 00:32:35.599
 to 100

00:32:35.599 --> 00:32:36.879
 and our list

00:32:36.879 --> 00:32:37.619
 would be different.

00:32:39.259 --> 00:32:40.359
 It would just be different.

00:32:41.599 --> 00:32:42.599
 When I used to speak

00:32:42.599 --> 00:32:43.559
 in settings before

00:32:43.559 --> 00:32:44.579
 when we were dealing

00:32:44.579 --> 00:32:45.579
 with a lot of issues

00:32:45.579 --> 00:32:47.299
 around same-sex issues,

00:32:47.299 --> 00:32:48.579
 I would say

00:32:48.579 --> 00:32:49.559
 that one of the

00:32:49.559 --> 00:32:50.319
 great problems

00:32:50.319 --> 00:32:50.859
 that Christians

00:32:50.859 --> 00:32:51.859
 have around that

00:32:51.859 --> 00:32:53.119
 is Christians talk

00:32:53.119 --> 00:32:54.399
 as if same-sex attraction

00:32:54.399 --> 00:32:55.220
 is number one.

00:32:56.759 --> 00:32:57.859
 Where's that in the Bible?

00:32:59.039 --> 00:32:59.940
 Not in the Bible.

00:33:00.240 --> 00:33:01.019
 That's our culture.

00:33:04.680 --> 00:33:05.019
 In fact,

00:33:05.079 --> 00:33:05.680
 it might even be

00:33:05.680 --> 00:33:07.440
 for a same-sex attracted person

00:33:07.440 --> 00:33:08.859
 that when they do

00:33:08.859 --> 00:33:09.819
 that thing in their forehead,

00:33:10.200 --> 00:33:11.379
 their same-sex attraction

00:33:11.379 --> 00:33:12.359
 isn't number one.

00:33:13.240 --> 00:33:14.440
 It might be number nine.

00:33:14.440 --> 00:33:18.259
 That the greater sin

00:33:18.259 --> 00:33:19.240
 that they struggle with

00:33:19.240 --> 00:33:20.920
 is maybe to do with pride

00:33:20.920 --> 00:33:22.120
 or who knows what it is.

00:33:22.220 --> 00:33:23.019
 I don't know what it is.

00:33:24.080 --> 00:33:24.440
 But that...

00:33:25.240 --> 00:33:27.500
 It's what the Bible

00:33:27.500 --> 00:33:29.620
 is trying to teach us here, friends.

00:33:29.740 --> 00:33:31.380
 Let's read verse 14 again.

00:33:33.240 --> 00:33:34.640
 For we know that the law

00:33:34.640 --> 00:33:35.559
 is spiritual

00:33:35.559 --> 00:33:37.380
 and what it means is

00:33:37.380 --> 00:33:37.980
 that means here

00:33:37.980 --> 00:33:39.200
 is that it comes from God.

00:33:39.779 --> 00:33:40.880
 But I am of the flesh

00:33:40.880 --> 00:33:42.019
 sold under sin

00:33:42.019 --> 00:33:44.799
 for I do not understand

00:33:44.799 --> 00:33:47.180
 my own actions.

00:33:48.059 --> 00:33:50.000
 For I do not do what I want

00:33:50.000 --> 00:33:52.279
 but I do the very thing I hate.

00:33:52.720 --> 00:33:53.579
 Just pause there.

00:33:53.720 --> 00:33:56.279
 Isn't that a profoundly wise statement?

00:33:56.960 --> 00:33:58.500
 Even if you don't believe

00:33:58.500 --> 00:34:00.180
 the Bible is God's word written,

00:34:00.859 --> 00:34:02.779
 this is profoundly true.

00:34:03.299 --> 00:34:04.799
 I was sharing on Parliament Hill

00:34:04.799 --> 00:34:05.660
 when I was speaking there

00:34:05.660 --> 00:34:06.279
 to the Parliament Hill

00:34:06.279 --> 00:34:07.539
 Christian Fellowship on Friday.

00:34:08.139 --> 00:34:09.280
 Here's a thing to understand.

00:34:09.280 --> 00:34:11.580
 And virtually no man

00:34:11.580 --> 00:34:13.040
 wakes up and says,

00:34:13.300 --> 00:34:14.800
 I think I'm going to be a jerk

00:34:14.800 --> 00:34:15.760
 to my wife today.

00:34:16.460 --> 00:34:16.700
 Yep.

00:34:17.200 --> 00:34:18.120
 I think I'm going to take

00:34:18.120 --> 00:34:20.320
 every opportunity imaginable

00:34:20.320 --> 00:34:22.600
 to be a jerk to my wife.

00:34:23.580 --> 00:34:24.840
 Like nobody wakes up...

00:34:24.840 --> 00:34:26.060
 Virtually no man

00:34:26.060 --> 00:34:27.100
 wakes up thinking that.

00:34:28.360 --> 00:34:29.340
 Like I said, virtually.

00:34:29.700 --> 00:34:29.860
 Okay?

00:34:30.760 --> 00:34:32.220
 Sometimes we wake up

00:34:32.220 --> 00:34:33.600
 really grumpy and ornery

00:34:33.600 --> 00:34:34.700
 and that is what we say.

00:34:34.860 --> 00:34:35.140
 Okay?

00:34:35.840 --> 00:34:36.800
 Or some people say.

00:34:36.800 --> 00:34:39.360
 And no wife wakes up and says,

00:34:39.920 --> 00:34:42.680
 I'm going to spend my whole day

00:34:42.680 --> 00:34:43.900
 frustrating my husband.

00:34:44.740 --> 00:34:46.080
 I think that's what I'll do.

00:34:46.800 --> 00:34:48.080
 I'm going to contradict him,

00:34:48.360 --> 00:34:49.500
 make his life miserable.

00:34:49.900 --> 00:34:50.980
 I'm going to nag him,

00:34:51.300 --> 00:34:51.780
 bug him.

00:34:52.480 --> 00:34:53.200
 That's what I think

00:34:53.200 --> 00:34:53.780
 I'll do today.

00:34:54.580 --> 00:34:56.840
 That's number 1, 2, 3, 4, 5,

00:34:56.940 --> 00:34:58.140
 6, 7, 8, 9, 10

00:34:58.140 --> 00:34:59.039
 on my to-do list.

00:34:59.200 --> 00:35:01.539
 No wife wakes up

00:35:01.539 --> 00:35:02.680
 thinking that.

00:35:02.780 --> 00:35:03.380
 Virtually none.

00:35:03.380 --> 00:35:07.599
 The experience of people

00:35:07.599 --> 00:35:09.280
 is verse 15.

00:35:12.340 --> 00:35:13.960
 I do not understand

00:35:13.960 --> 00:35:15.220
 my own actions

00:35:15.220 --> 00:35:16.400
 for I do not do

00:35:16.400 --> 00:35:17.079
 what I want

00:35:17.079 --> 00:35:18.320
 but I do the very thing

00:35:18.320 --> 00:35:18.860
 I hate.

00:35:19.559 --> 00:35:20.360
 Now if I do

00:35:20.360 --> 00:35:21.400
 what I do not want

00:35:21.400 --> 00:35:22.599
 I agree with the law

00:35:22.599 --> 00:35:24.099
 that it is good.

00:35:26.840 --> 00:35:28.780
 Andrew, could you put up

00:35:28.780 --> 00:35:31.519
 the next point for us please?

00:35:31.519 --> 00:35:33.480
 Here's a really, really

00:35:33.480 --> 00:35:34.239
 important thing

00:35:34.239 --> 00:35:35.400
 about what Paul's saying

00:35:35.400 --> 00:35:37.320
 and you'll notice it

00:35:37.320 --> 00:35:37.940
 in his language

00:35:37.940 --> 00:35:39.360
 but it's really, really, really,

00:35:39.400 --> 00:35:40.980
 really, really important.

00:35:41.679 --> 00:35:42.920
 One of the problems with

00:35:42.920 --> 00:35:45.139
 like in our laws

00:35:45.139 --> 00:35:45.739
 there's problems

00:35:45.739 --> 00:35:46.500
 that if you're drunk

00:35:46.500 --> 00:35:47.860
 you're not as responsible.

00:35:48.659 --> 00:35:49.619
 There's increasingly

00:35:49.619 --> 00:35:50.320
 this idea

00:35:50.320 --> 00:35:50.900
 that if you

00:35:50.900 --> 00:35:52.619
 have certain types

00:35:52.619 --> 00:35:53.480
 of other things

00:35:53.480 --> 00:35:54.259
 that are drives

00:35:54.259 --> 00:35:55.759
 or wounds in your past

00:35:55.759 --> 00:35:56.840
 you're not as responsible.

00:35:57.559 --> 00:35:58.139
 There are people

00:35:58.139 --> 00:35:59.460
 who've gone through therapy

00:35:59.460 --> 00:36:01.000
 and the result

00:36:01.000 --> 00:36:01.800
 of the therapy

00:36:01.800 --> 00:36:02.679
 is that they can have

00:36:02.679 --> 00:36:03.760
 a big smile on their face

00:36:03.760 --> 00:36:04.579
 because they now know

00:36:04.579 --> 00:36:05.579
 that everything that's wrong

00:36:05.579 --> 00:36:06.099
 in their life

00:36:06.099 --> 00:36:07.320
 is somebody else's fault.

00:36:09.960 --> 00:36:11.179
 But the Bible here

00:36:11.179 --> 00:36:12.440
 is very, very clear.

00:36:12.619 --> 00:36:13.320
 My divided

00:36:13.320 --> 00:36:14.780
 and contradictory nature

00:36:14.780 --> 00:36:15.940
 does not let me

00:36:15.940 --> 00:36:16.679
 off the hook

00:36:16.679 --> 00:36:18.380
 for the wrong that I do

00:36:18.380 --> 00:36:19.559
 and the good

00:36:19.559 --> 00:36:20.780
 that I fail to do.

00:36:21.940 --> 00:36:22.860
 My divided

00:36:22.860 --> 00:36:24.099
 and contradictory nature

00:36:24.099 --> 00:36:24.980
 does not let me

00:36:24.980 --> 00:36:25.639
 off the hook

00:36:25.639 --> 00:36:26.880
 for the wrong that I do

00:36:26.880 --> 00:36:27.420
 and the good

00:36:27.420 --> 00:36:28.440
 that I fail to do.

00:36:28.440 --> 00:36:31.599
 It doesn't let me

00:36:31.599 --> 00:36:32.260
 off the hook.

00:36:33.679 --> 00:36:34.340
 But just remember

00:36:34.340 --> 00:36:35.260
 throughout all of this

00:36:35.260 --> 00:36:35.960
 if you could put up

00:36:35.960 --> 00:36:36.800
 A again, Andrew

00:36:36.800 --> 00:36:38.960
 until we see him

00:36:38.960 --> 00:36:39.840
 face to face

00:36:39.840 --> 00:36:41.300
 every follower

00:36:41.300 --> 00:36:41.900
 of Jesus

00:36:41.900 --> 00:36:43.159
 lives in the already

00:36:43.159 --> 00:36:44.099
 not yet

00:36:44.099 --> 00:36:45.360
 with the divided

00:36:45.360 --> 00:36:47.200
 and contradictory self.

00:36:48.460 --> 00:36:49.000
 Let's just

00:36:49.000 --> 00:36:49.800
 continue reading

00:36:49.800 --> 00:36:50.559
 and let's do

00:36:50.559 --> 00:36:51.559
 verse 16 again.

00:36:52.860 --> 00:36:53.820
 Now if I do

00:36:53.820 --> 00:36:55.200
 what I want

00:36:55.200 --> 00:36:55.700
 sorry

00:36:55.700 --> 00:36:56.519
 now if

00:36:56.519 --> 00:36:58.480
 I need better glasses

00:36:58.480 --> 00:37:00.960
 for if I do

00:37:00.960 --> 00:37:01.639
 what I want

00:37:01.639 --> 00:37:02.539
 do not want

00:37:02.539 --> 00:37:03.039
 I agree

00:37:03.039 --> 00:37:03.759
 that the law

00:37:03.759 --> 00:37:04.300
 is good

00:37:04.300 --> 00:37:05.039
 so now

00:37:05.039 --> 00:37:05.940
 it is no longer

00:37:05.940 --> 00:37:07.079
 I who do it

00:37:07.079 --> 00:37:08.300
 but sin

00:37:08.300 --> 00:37:09.420
 that dwells

00:37:09.420 --> 00:37:10.239
 in me.

00:37:11.679 --> 00:37:12.380
 So now

00:37:12.380 --> 00:37:13.139
 it is no longer

00:37:13.139 --> 00:37:14.199
 I who do it

00:37:14.199 --> 00:37:14.840
 but sin

00:37:14.840 --> 00:37:15.440
 that dwells

00:37:15.440 --> 00:37:15.860
 within me.

00:37:15.920 --> 00:37:16.300
 Is this just

00:37:16.300 --> 00:37:16.940
 contradicting

00:37:16.940 --> 00:37:17.719
 what you just said

00:37:17.719 --> 00:37:18.000
 George

00:37:18.000 --> 00:37:18.380
 or is this

00:37:18.380 --> 00:37:19.059
 I'm a bit

00:37:19.059 --> 00:37:19.659
 confused.

00:37:20.559 --> 00:37:20.900
 Here's

00:37:20.900 --> 00:37:22.340
 I'm not going

00:37:22.340 --> 00:37:22.559
 to be able

00:37:22.559 --> 00:37:23.180
 to prove it

00:37:23.180 --> 00:37:23.660
 to you

00:37:23.660 --> 00:37:25.780
 I'm just going

00:37:25.780 --> 00:37:26.139
 to have to make

00:37:26.139 --> 00:37:26.900
 a bit of a statement

00:37:26.900 --> 00:37:27.680
 about this

00:37:27.680 --> 00:37:28.519
 but it's

00:37:28.519 --> 00:37:29.720
 one of the problems

00:37:29.720 --> 00:37:30.500
 that we have

00:37:30.500 --> 00:37:31.800
 when we bring

00:37:31.800 --> 00:37:32.539
 our cultural

00:37:32.539 --> 00:37:33.160
 assumptions

00:37:33.160 --> 00:37:34.639
 and we just

00:37:34.639 --> 00:37:35.519
 read one part

00:37:35.519 --> 00:37:36.139
 of the Bible

00:37:36.139 --> 00:37:37.800
 but let me tell you

00:37:37.800 --> 00:37:38.900
 if you study

00:37:38.900 --> 00:37:39.920
 the Bible

00:37:39.920 --> 00:37:41.260
 especially the Old Testament

00:37:41.260 --> 00:37:42.220
 but if you study

00:37:42.220 --> 00:37:43.200
 Genesis to Malachi

00:37:43.200 --> 00:37:44.099
 and then if you study

00:37:44.099 --> 00:37:44.720
 the New Testament

00:37:44.720 --> 00:37:45.880
 you'll see that

00:37:45.880 --> 00:37:47.079
 the Bible knows

00:37:47.079 --> 00:37:47.780
 that there's obviously

00:37:47.780 --> 00:37:49.039
 things that come

00:37:49.039 --> 00:37:49.539
 in pairs

00:37:49.539 --> 00:37:50.279
 and that the number

00:37:50.279 --> 00:37:51.119
 two exists

00:37:51.119 --> 00:37:52.480
 but the Bible

00:37:52.480 --> 00:37:53.619
 rejects all

00:37:53.619 --> 00:37:54.559
 dualism.

00:37:55.679 --> 00:37:56.159
 Andrew if you could

00:37:56.159 --> 00:37:56.920
 put up this next

00:37:56.920 --> 00:37:57.320
 point.

00:37:58.719 --> 00:37:59.800
 It's really important

00:37:59.800 --> 00:38:00.619
 for us to understand

00:38:00.619 --> 00:38:01.320
 and listen to this

00:38:01.320 --> 00:38:02.159
 language here.

00:38:02.900 --> 00:38:03.880
 The Bible is not

00:38:03.880 --> 00:38:04.679
 saying that I am

00:38:04.679 --> 00:38:06.559
 not divided

00:38:06.559 --> 00:38:07.519
 between the divine

00:38:07.519 --> 00:38:08.139
 and the earthly

00:38:08.139 --> 00:38:09.199
 the higher and the lower

00:38:09.199 --> 00:38:10.159
 the good and evil

00:38:10.159 --> 00:38:11.320
 spiritual and physical

00:38:11.320 --> 00:38:12.300
 mind and matter

00:38:12.300 --> 00:38:13.739
 I could add

00:38:13.739 --> 00:38:14.940
 yin and yang

00:38:14.940 --> 00:38:16.980
 I am not a soul

00:38:16.980 --> 00:38:18.019
 trapped in a body

00:38:18.019 --> 00:38:19.320
 I am not an angel

00:38:19.320 --> 00:38:20.500
 trapped on this

00:38:20.500 --> 00:38:21.179
 human plane

00:38:21.179 --> 00:38:22.539
 I am not a God

00:38:22.539 --> 00:38:23.860
 self trapped

00:38:23.860 --> 00:38:25.239
 in physicality.

00:38:26.059 --> 00:38:26.679
 The Bible

00:38:26.679 --> 00:38:28.480
 completely and utterly

00:38:28.480 --> 00:38:29.960
 rejects all of that

00:38:29.960 --> 00:38:31.980
 any type of dualism

00:38:31.980 --> 00:38:33.659
 that mind is good

00:38:33.659 --> 00:38:35.219
 and matter is bad

00:38:35.219 --> 00:38:36.139
 that the spirit

00:38:36.139 --> 00:38:36.679
 is good

00:38:36.679 --> 00:38:37.380
 and the body

00:38:37.380 --> 00:38:37.880
 is evil

00:38:37.880 --> 00:38:39.759
 that the higher

00:38:39.759 --> 00:38:40.380
 is good

00:38:40.380 --> 00:38:41.420
 and that the lower

00:38:41.420 --> 00:38:43.219
 it rejects all of that

00:38:43.219 --> 00:38:44.159
 all the way through it

00:38:44.159 --> 00:38:44.980
 in fact

00:38:44.980 --> 00:38:45.860
 he's here trying

00:38:45.860 --> 00:38:46.840
 to make this claim

00:38:46.840 --> 00:38:48.360
 that I am redeemed

00:38:48.360 --> 00:38:48.900
 fallen

00:38:48.900 --> 00:38:50.100
 in the already

00:38:50.100 --> 00:38:51.120
 not yet.

00:38:51.460 --> 00:38:52.160
 You see the fact

00:38:52.160 --> 00:38:53.120
 of the matter is

00:38:53.120 --> 00:38:54.360
 is that God

00:38:54.360 --> 00:38:55.059
 claims

00:38:55.059 --> 00:38:56.440
 every square

00:38:56.440 --> 00:38:56.940
 inch

00:38:56.940 --> 00:38:57.800
 of reality

00:38:57.800 --> 00:38:59.940
 every

00:38:59.940 --> 00:39:01.000
 molecule

00:39:01.000 --> 00:39:02.300
 is maintained

00:39:02.300 --> 00:39:03.160
 in existence

00:39:03.160 --> 00:39:04.160
 by him

00:39:04.160 --> 00:39:08.000
 everything

00:39:08.000 --> 00:39:09.440
 was created

00:39:09.440 --> 00:39:10.160
 by him

00:39:10.160 --> 00:39:11.320
 except evil

00:39:11.320 --> 00:39:11.980
 which is a type

00:39:11.980 --> 00:39:12.700
 of unmaking

00:39:12.700 --> 00:39:13.280
 or breaking

00:39:13.280 --> 00:39:14.900
 it's all

00:39:14.900 --> 00:39:15.480
 sustained

00:39:15.480 --> 00:39:15.960
 by him

00:39:15.960 --> 00:39:16.660
 it will all

00:39:16.660 --> 00:39:17.340
 be redeemed

00:39:17.340 --> 00:39:17.980
 by him

00:39:17.980 --> 00:39:20.000
 and I have

00:39:20.000 --> 00:39:20.540
 a spirit

00:39:20.540 --> 00:39:21.000
 and a soul

00:39:21.000 --> 00:39:21.380
 and I have

00:39:21.380 --> 00:39:21.860
 a body

00:39:21.860 --> 00:39:22.680
 but I am

00:39:22.680 --> 00:39:25.019
 an indivisible

00:39:25.019 --> 00:39:25.500
 unity

00:39:25.500 --> 00:39:26.260
 of spirit

00:39:26.260 --> 00:39:26.900
 or soul

00:39:26.900 --> 00:39:27.540
 and body

00:39:27.540 --> 00:39:29.019
 an indivisible

00:39:29.019 --> 00:39:29.400
 unity

00:39:29.400 --> 00:39:30.240
 to divide

00:39:30.240 --> 00:39:30.600
 that

00:39:30.600 --> 00:39:31.019
 is what

00:39:31.019 --> 00:39:31.900
 Christians

00:39:31.900 --> 00:39:32.519
 understand

00:39:32.519 --> 00:39:32.900
 death

00:39:32.900 --> 00:39:33.300
 to be

00:39:33.300 --> 00:39:35.460
 and so

00:39:35.460 --> 00:39:36.120
 the Bible

00:39:36.120 --> 00:39:36.920
 here is not

00:39:36.920 --> 00:39:37.960
 so it's easy

00:39:37.960 --> 00:39:38.800
 for us to slip in

00:39:38.800 --> 00:39:39.700
 what Paul is doing

00:39:39.700 --> 00:39:40.240
 is he's using

00:39:40.240 --> 00:39:41.220
 stark imagery

00:39:41.219 --> 00:39:42.419
 he's using a

00:39:42.419 --> 00:39:42.879
 multiplication

00:39:42.879 --> 00:39:43.619
 of different

00:39:43.619 --> 00:39:44.619
 types of images

00:39:44.619 --> 00:39:45.859
 to capture

00:39:45.859 --> 00:39:47.000
 so that you know

00:39:47.000 --> 00:39:47.500
 maybe if you're

00:39:47.500 --> 00:39:48.139
 coming from one

00:39:48.139 --> 00:39:48.919
 a certain type

00:39:48.919 --> 00:39:49.299
 of pagan

00:39:49.299 --> 00:39:49.839
 perspective

00:39:49.839 --> 00:39:50.439
 or a Jewish

00:39:50.439 --> 00:39:50.980
 perspective

00:39:50.980 --> 00:39:51.359
 that you can

00:39:51.359 --> 00:39:52.000
 get the point

00:39:52.000 --> 00:39:52.759
 because he's

00:39:52.759 --> 00:39:53.279
 using lots

00:39:53.279 --> 00:39:53.699
 of different

00:39:53.699 --> 00:39:54.379
 analogies

00:39:54.379 --> 00:39:55.219
 to try to

00:39:55.219 --> 00:39:55.939
 capture this

00:39:55.939 --> 00:39:56.779
 fact of a

00:39:56.779 --> 00:39:57.599
 divided and

00:39:57.599 --> 00:39:58.439
 contradictory

00:39:58.439 --> 00:39:59.059
 self

00:39:59.059 --> 00:40:00.379
 but I have

00:40:00.379 --> 00:40:00.959
 one self

00:40:00.959 --> 00:40:01.559
 not two

00:40:01.559 --> 00:40:02.679
 I have one

00:40:02.679 --> 00:40:03.039
 body

00:40:03.039 --> 00:40:03.679
 not two

00:40:03.679 --> 00:40:06.039
 and the fall

00:40:06.039 --> 00:40:06.739
 affects my

00:40:06.739 --> 00:40:07.159
 mind

00:40:07.159 --> 00:40:07.759
 it isn't as if

00:40:07.759 --> 00:40:08.259
 somehow or

00:40:08.259 --> 00:40:08.399
 another

00:40:08.399 --> 00:40:08.879
 it's just my

00:40:08.879 --> 00:40:09.259
 body

00:40:09.259 --> 00:40:09.879
 that's

00:40:09.879 --> 00:40:10.319
 you know

00:40:10.320 --> 00:40:12.019
 don't be

00:40:12.019 --> 00:40:12.620
 mad at me

00:40:12.620 --> 00:40:13.140
 for stealing

00:40:13.140 --> 00:40:13.519
 that thing

00:40:13.519 --> 00:40:13.900
 in the store

00:40:13.900 --> 00:40:14.200
 it was just

00:40:14.200 --> 00:40:14.720
 my hand

00:40:14.720 --> 00:40:15.440
 my mind

00:40:15.440 --> 00:40:16.059
 is thinking

00:40:16.059 --> 00:40:16.800
 pure thoughts

00:40:16.800 --> 00:40:17.120
 no it's

00:40:17.120 --> 00:40:18.240
 nothing ridiculous

00:40:18.240 --> 00:40:18.980
 like that

00:40:18.980 --> 00:40:21.900
 our body

00:40:21.900 --> 00:40:22.460
 is God's

00:40:22.460 --> 00:40:22.980
 our mind

00:40:22.980 --> 00:40:23.480
 is God's

00:40:23.480 --> 00:40:24.039
 our sexuality

00:40:24.039 --> 00:40:25.280
 is God's

00:40:25.280 --> 00:40:26.820
 our money

00:40:26.820 --> 00:40:27.559
 is God's

00:40:27.559 --> 00:40:28.260
 God claims

00:40:28.260 --> 00:40:28.920
 all our

00:40:28.920 --> 00:40:29.380
 memories

00:40:29.380 --> 00:40:30.039
 our past

00:40:30.039 --> 00:40:30.620
 our dreams

00:40:30.620 --> 00:40:31.360
 our longings

00:40:31.360 --> 00:40:31.860
 our yearnings

00:40:31.860 --> 00:40:32.600
 everything that

00:40:32.600 --> 00:40:33.120
 makes me

00:40:33.120 --> 00:40:33.519
 me

00:40:33.519 --> 00:40:34.860
 he claims

00:40:34.860 --> 00:40:35.740
 and it is

00:40:35.740 --> 00:40:36.380
 redeemed

00:40:36.380 --> 00:40:37.539
 in Jesus

00:40:37.539 --> 00:40:39.699
 but there

00:40:39.699 --> 00:40:40.440
 is a

00:40:40.440 --> 00:40:40.960
 power

00:40:40.960 --> 00:40:41.860
 and force

00:40:41.860 --> 00:40:42.860
 still within

00:40:42.860 --> 00:40:43.119
 me

00:40:43.119 --> 00:40:43.519
 because

00:40:43.519 --> 00:40:44.960
 I live

00:40:44.960 --> 00:40:45.320
 in the

00:40:45.320 --> 00:40:45.800
 already

00:40:45.800 --> 00:40:46.480
 not yet

00:40:46.480 --> 00:40:47.460
 and I

00:40:47.460 --> 00:40:48.239
 will not

00:40:48.239 --> 00:40:49.139
 be whole

00:40:49.139 --> 00:40:49.880
 and free

00:40:49.880 --> 00:40:51.199
 until I

00:40:51.199 --> 00:40:52.000
 see Jesus

00:40:52.000 --> 00:40:52.639
 face to

00:40:52.639 --> 00:40:52.980
 face

00:40:52.980 --> 00:40:56.199
 Andrew

00:40:56.199 --> 00:40:56.539
 could you

00:40:56.539 --> 00:40:56.840
 put up

00:40:56.840 --> 00:40:57.259
 A again

00:40:57.259 --> 00:40:57.719
 please

00:40:57.719 --> 00:40:58.940
 last time

00:40:58.940 --> 00:40:59.219
 I'll put

00:40:59.219 --> 00:40:59.539
 it up

00:40:59.539 --> 00:41:00.259
 until we

00:41:00.259 --> 00:41:00.659
 see him

00:41:00.659 --> 00:41:01.099
 face to

00:41:01.099 --> 00:41:01.340
 face

00:41:01.340 --> 00:41:01.639
 every

00:41:01.639 --> 00:41:02.159
 follower

00:41:02.159 --> 00:41:02.719
 of Jesus

00:41:02.719 --> 00:41:03.179
 lives

00:41:03.179 --> 00:41:03.460
 in the

00:41:03.460 --> 00:41:03.880
 already

00:41:03.880 --> 00:41:04.440
 not yet

00:41:04.440 --> 00:41:04.739
 with a

00:41:04.739 --> 00:41:05.119
 divided

00:41:05.119 --> 00:41:05.820
 and contradictory

00:41:05.820 --> 00:41:06.380
 self

00:41:06.380 --> 00:41:07.780
 let's

00:41:07.780 --> 00:41:08.140
 continue

00:41:08.140 --> 00:41:08.440
 reading

00:41:08.440 --> 00:41:08.660
 from

00:41:08.660 --> 00:41:08.860
 verse

00:41:08.860 --> 00:41:09.280
 17

00:41:09.280 --> 00:41:09.500
 we

00:41:09.500 --> 00:41:09.680
 see

00:41:09.680 --> 00:41:09.880
 where

00:41:09.880 --> 00:41:10.320
 Paul's

00:41:10.320 --> 00:41:10.579
 going

00:41:10.579 --> 00:41:10.760
 with

00:41:10.760 --> 00:41:10.920
 all

00:41:10.920 --> 00:41:11.039
 of

00:41:11.039 --> 00:41:11.200
 this

00:41:11.200 --> 00:41:11.340
 I

00:41:11.340 --> 00:41:11.500
 have

00:41:11.500 --> 00:41:11.619
 to

00:41:11.619 --> 00:41:11.880
 sort of

00:41:11.880 --> 00:41:12.000
 go

00:41:12.000 --> 00:41:12.380
 quicker

00:41:12.380 --> 00:41:12.619
 because

00:41:12.619 --> 00:41:12.720
 of

00:41:12.720 --> 00:41:12.820
 the

00:41:12.820 --> 00:41:13.180
 time

00:41:36.380 --> 00:41:37.160
 sin

00:41:37.160 --> 00:41:37.360
 that

00:41:37.360 --> 00:41:37.740
 dwells

00:41:37.740 --> 00:41:38.019
 within

00:41:38.019 --> 00:41:38.200
 me

00:41:38.200 --> 00:41:38.440
 I

00:41:38.440 --> 00:41:38.579
 am

00:41:38.579 --> 00:41:39.119
 divided

00:41:39.119 --> 00:41:39.380
 and

00:41:39.380 --> 00:41:40.019
 contradictory

00:41:40.019 --> 00:41:40.480
 in

00:41:40.480 --> 00:41:40.660
 my

00:41:40.660 --> 00:41:41.000
 mind

00:41:41.000 --> 00:41:41.200
 my

00:41:41.200 --> 00:41:41.619
 body

00:41:41.619 --> 00:41:42.140
 my

00:41:42.140 --> 00:41:42.940
 sexuality

00:41:42.940 --> 00:41:44.480
 my

00:41:44.480 --> 00:41:45.400
 attachment

00:41:45.400 --> 00:41:45.740
 to

00:41:45.740 --> 00:41:46.079
 money

00:41:46.079 --> 00:41:46.940
 my

00:41:46.940 --> 00:41:47.420
 ambition

00:41:47.420 --> 00:41:48.000
 every

00:41:48.000 --> 00:41:48.480
 single

00:41:48.480 --> 00:41:48.900
 part

00:41:48.900 --> 00:41:49.059
 of

00:41:49.059 --> 00:41:49.300
 me

00:41:49.300 --> 00:41:50.400
 is

00:41:50.400 --> 00:41:50.820
 divided

00:41:50.820 --> 00:41:51.079
 and

00:41:51.079 --> 00:41:51.559
 contradictory

00:41:51.559 --> 00:41:52.640
 so I

00:41:52.640 --> 00:41:53.059
 find it

00:41:53.059 --> 00:41:53.280
 to be

00:41:53.280 --> 00:41:53.720
 a law

00:41:53.720 --> 00:41:54.220
 that when

00:41:54.220 --> 00:41:54.640
 I want

00:41:54.640 --> 00:41:54.900
 to do

00:41:54.900 --> 00:41:55.140
 right

00:41:55.140 --> 00:41:55.820
 verse 21

00:41:55.820 --> 00:41:56.300
 evil

00:41:56.300 --> 00:41:56.619
 lies

00:41:56.619 --> 00:41:56.980
 close

00:41:56.980 --> 00:41:57.140
 at

00:41:57.140 --> 00:41:57.519
 hand

00:41:57.519 --> 00:41:58.400
 for I

00:41:58.400 --> 00:41:58.680
 delight

00:41:58.680 --> 00:41:58.820
 in

00:41:58.820 --> 00:41:59.220
 the law

00:41:59.220 --> 00:41:59.960
 of God

00:41:59.960 --> 00:42:00.300
 in my

00:42:00.300 --> 00:42:00.559
 inner

00:42:00.559 --> 00:42:00.800
 being

00:42:00.800 --> 00:42:01.059
 at the

00:42:01.059 --> 00:42:01.240
 very

00:42:01.240 --> 00:42:01.760
 center

00:42:01.760 --> 00:42:02.160
 of who

00:42:02.160 --> 00:42:02.380
 I

00:42:02.380 --> 00:42:02.780
 am

00:42:02.780 --> 00:42:03.619
 where

00:42:03.619 --> 00:42:04.019
 Jesus

00:42:04.019 --> 00:42:04.500
 sits

00:42:04.500 --> 00:42:04.880
 on the

00:42:04.880 --> 00:42:05.220
 throne

00:42:05.219 --> 00:42:06.299
 but I

00:42:06.299 --> 00:42:06.599
 see

00:42:06.599 --> 00:42:06.759
 in

00:42:06.759 --> 00:42:06.939
 my

00:42:06.939 --> 00:42:07.559
 members

00:42:07.559 --> 00:42:08.399
 another

00:42:08.399 --> 00:42:08.919
 law

00:42:08.919 --> 00:42:09.579
 waging

00:42:09.579 --> 00:42:09.879
 war

00:42:09.879 --> 00:42:10.299
 against

00:42:10.299 --> 00:42:10.899
 the

00:42:10.899 --> 00:42:11.099
 law

00:42:11.099 --> 00:42:11.239
 of

00:42:11.239 --> 00:42:11.419
 my

00:42:11.419 --> 00:42:11.839
 mind

00:42:11.839 --> 00:42:12.239
 and

00:42:12.239 --> 00:42:12.539
 making

00:42:12.539 --> 00:42:12.799
 me

00:42:12.799 --> 00:42:13.239
 captive

00:42:13.239 --> 00:42:13.480
 to

00:42:13.480 --> 00:42:13.619
 the

00:42:13.619 --> 00:42:13.779
 law

00:42:13.779 --> 00:42:13.939
 of

00:42:13.939 --> 00:42:14.259
 sin

00:42:14.259 --> 00:42:14.899
 that

00:42:14.899 --> 00:42:15.339
 dwells

00:42:15.339 --> 00:42:15.439
 in

00:42:15.439 --> 00:42:15.599
 my

00:42:15.599 --> 00:42:16.079
 members

00:42:16.079 --> 00:42:17.039
 where's

00:42:17.039 --> 00:42:17.199
 Paul

00:42:17.199 --> 00:42:17.419
 going

00:42:17.419 --> 00:42:17.599
 with

00:42:17.599 --> 00:42:17.899
 this

00:42:17.899 --> 00:42:19.239
 profound

00:42:19.239 --> 00:42:20.000
 verse

00:42:20.000 --> 00:42:21.000
 wretched

00:42:21.000 --> 00:42:21.739
 man

00:42:21.739 --> 00:42:22.480
 that I

00:42:22.480 --> 00:42:22.879
 am

00:42:22.879 --> 00:42:24.139
 who

00:42:24.139 --> 00:42:24.399
 will

00:42:24.399 --> 00:42:24.779
 deliver

00:42:24.779 --> 00:42:25.099
 me

00:42:25.099 --> 00:42:25.539
 from

00:42:25.539 --> 00:42:25.759
 this

00:42:25.759 --> 00:42:26.119
 body

00:42:26.119 --> 00:42:26.319
 of

00:42:26.319 --> 00:42:26.599
 death

00:42:26.599 --> 00:42:27.639
 thanks

00:42:27.639 --> 00:42:27.919
 be

00:42:27.919 --> 00:42:28.119
 to

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 Lord

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 myself

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 of

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 mind

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 sin

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 Andrew

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 you

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 point

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 person

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 Christ

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 Lord

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 memories

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 it

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 work

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 head

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 and

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 it

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 will

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 work

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 on

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 my thinking and it will work on the furniture of my brain and it will work on my habits and the

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 grace of God through the power of the Holy Spirit and God's Word written will work on how I

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 understand my relationship to the state and how I understand my relationship to male or female and

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 I can go on and on and on and on and on the Holy Spirit that's why we have hope in this it's the

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 already not yet for a Christian right but it's always going to keep bringing us back to saying

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 that's why I need a Savior in a sense as the Holy Spirit moves and works more deeply in our lives

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 not only do we do start to see some victory over sin and we really do and we really do see healing

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 but we often discover new areas of our lives that were broken by sin that we didn't even know existed

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 and one almost final point Andrew could you put up point number six a follower of Jesus's eternal

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 standing with God cannot be shaken but our walk with Jesus needs daily attention and daily grace

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 a follower of Jesus's eternal standing with God cannot be shaken but our walk with Jesus needs

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 daily attention and daily grace when we call out to Jesus to be our Savior and our Lord we he really

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 takes our hands he really redeems us he really makes us born again the final word about God we can

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 from God about us we can now know but in the already not yet until we see Jesus face to face I have a

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 divided and contradictory self and knowing the gospel the more I'm gripped by the gospel the more I'm able

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 to be have before me a model of how it is that I should live as I'm grounded and gripped by the gospel

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 gripped by the gospel and grounded in the gospel there begins to be a process to see yes the Bible knows this

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 about me and maybe by myself and maybe with the help of a brother or a sister or a congregation I can start to

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 look at how it is that I have such a problem with selfishness there's such a problem with anger in my

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 relationships or such a problem with twisted ambition and as the gospel grips us and as we're ground in

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 the get in the gospel as we understand how our standing before God that is dependent not upon our

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 accomplishments but upon his right standing with God given to the lowest and worst believer and the best

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 as a free gift of grace his right standing with God is now mine when I put my faith and trust in Jesus

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 and nothing will take that away and as this gift of righteousness grips us as it becomes the ground of

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 our being we have a model for how to live we get nudged into new ways of living we get drawn with the

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 problem of seeing the promise of seeing Jesus face to face to new ways of living and we can look at

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 those roots of our behavior and our contradictory and divided self as we give up the whole process of

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 self-righteousness and self-justification even as people criticize us we can say yes I am a man who

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 needs prayer and I don't think I need to be healed of introversion but introversion doesn't excuse all of us the

00:46:42.239 --> 00:46:49.479
 way I live and there are things in my introversion that needs healing just as extroverts need some

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 healing in their extroversion and you see it's within this context you're gonna understand everything

00:46:55.000 --> 00:46:59.899
 in the Anglican liturgy the heart of the Anglican liturgy is to get you to give your life to Jesus but

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 day by day there's going to be new things that come to our attention that we need to say Jesus I'm sorry

00:47:05.400 --> 00:47:10.220
 for that and give me grace that's what the confession is all about not that you say confession

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 53 100 times you go to heaven nothing to do with that it's your daily walk

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 and we'll skip the other images let's just go to Romans 1 could you all stand please

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 could you say this with me Romans 1 16 and 17 for I am not ashamed of the gospel for it is the power

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 of God for salvation to everyone who believes to the Jew first and also to the Greek for in the right

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 the righteousness of God is revealed from faith for faith as it is written the righteous shall live by

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 faith a power of God for salvation that ordinary people like you and me can receive and then we begin

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 to live in the already not yet until we've given our lives to Jesus God is just patiently hoping that

00:48:05.460 --> 00:48:13.059
 we respond to his call his call on our lives to give our lives to Jesus but when we put our hands in

00:48:13.059 --> 00:48:22.739
 Jesus's hands we receive a righteousness that comes from God and now we live by faith let's bow our heads in

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 prayer father if there are any here who have not yet given their lives to Jesus may this be the day

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 may this be the moment where they call out to you not with fancy words or that they have to repeat

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 after me but may they just say father Lord Jesus Christ what George was talking about today I need I am

00:48:42.099 --> 00:48:48.559
 that wretched man I need you as my Lord and Savior and father may those who have not yet made such a call

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 may they say that today and father for those of us who are here we still have contradictory and

00:48:55.360 --> 00:49:02.099
 divided selves you know father how things like anger resentment or unforgiveness or wounds from our

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 past and you know father the power they still have in our lives we call out to you father that you might

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 make us disciples of Jesus gripped by the gospel who are being freed by your holy spirit and by your word

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 there are only people who are being admired by the gospel our Father if there is any other means

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 should have been did we make us better as if we are subject to God and in our lives we ask kamera

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 we speak to you that we offer you who are seeing Jesus

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 in their lives in their lives look at all of usIT offices when they stop�� we just said

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 pour it out father we might be disciples of Jesus gripped by the gospel pour out your holy spirit

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 in this we ask in Jesus name and all the people said amen

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 Amen.