Participants: Pr. John Lomacang
Series Code: ASHF
Program Code: ASHF000158A
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00:19 Hello, hello and welcome to our Wednesday night
00:22 Bible study here at the 3ABN Worship Centre. 00:25 This is A Sharper Focus 00:26 and we would like to welcome you 00:28 with a hearty amen. 00:29 Can we all say amen? Amen. 00:30 Good to have you here. 00:32 We are going to continue our study on, 00:33 "The Anatomy of Righteousness." 00:37 And we thank you for taking the time to tune in. 00:39 In just a moment I'll tell you how to get a copy of the lesson 00:41 where you can download a copy, 00:44 but what you need for this program 00:45 is a Bible and a pen 00:48 and we'll let you know in just a movement 00:50 how to get a copy of the lesson. 00:52 But before we go any further, 00:54 we always like to begin with a word of prayer. 00:56 Let's pray. 00:58 Loving Father in heaven, thank You for the opportunity, 01:02 the topic is important, Lord, 01:03 we're talking about the nemeses of humanity 01:06 which is sin 01:07 and we pray that You will guide us 01:10 and strengthen us 01:12 as our eyes are tuned to Your Word, 01:15 as our ears are tuned to Your voice, 01:18 the Holy Spirit speaking to us. 01:20 Give us the strength we need Father 01:21 to not only hear but to live in harmony 01:24 with what You revealed to us we pray, 01:27 in Jesus' name, amen. 01:30 Now, we all have a theme song 01:33 and by the way if you like to know 01:34 where to get a copy of the lesson, 01:35 go to this website asf.3abn.org 01:39 that's asharperfocus.3abn.org. 01:43 Download lesson number 38, lesson number 38. 01:47 And if you did it last week, 01:49 we have some additional questions 01:51 which you will need to continue to follow us with this lesson. 01:56 Now after that, we'd like to sing our theme song 01:58 and our theme song is, Victory in Jesus. 02:02 Let's sing this song together tonight. 02:14 I heard an old, old story 02:18 How the Savior came from glory 02:21 How He gave His life on Calvary 02:25 To save a wretch like me 02:29 I heard about His groaning 02:33 Of His precious blood's atoning 02:36 Then I repented of my sins 02:40 And won the victory 02:43 Together. 02:44 O victory in Jesus 02:48 My Savior, forever 02:51 He sought me and bought me 02:55 With His redeeming blood 02:59 He loved me ere I knew Him 03:03 And all my love is due Him 03:07 He plunged me to victory 03:10 Beneath the cleansing flood 03:14 I heard about a mansion 03:18 He has built for me in glory 03:22 And I heard about the streets of gold 03:26 Beyond the crystal sea 03:29 About the angels singing 03:33 And the old redemption story 03:37 And some sweet day I'll sing up there 03:41 The song of victory 03:43 Key change. 03:45 O victory in Jesus 03:48 My Savior, forever 03:52 He sought me and bought me 03:56 With His redeeming blood 04:00 He loved me ere I knew Him 04:03 And all my love is due Him 04:07 He plunged me to victory 04:11 Beneath the cleansing flood 04:15 He plunged me to victory 04:18 Beneath the cleansing flood 04:25 Amen. 04:27 Amen? Amen. 04:28 What we all need 04:30 as that song has just illustrated is victory. 04:34 What is that word? 04:35 Victory. Victory. 04:36 You don't join a losing team 04:39 and nobody celebrates when the team loses 04:44 and in the very same way, we can all celebrate 04:47 because we have victory in Jesus. 04:51 Now this topic particularly 04:53 as I mentioned caught my attention, 04:56 as I was studying and I thought, you know, 04:59 what is our greatest enemy in the world? 05:04 And our greatest enemy is not war, 05:07 not rumors of war, not plagues, 05:10 not the economy, not terrorism, 05:14 our greatest enemy is S-I-N and what is that? 05:18 Sin. 05:19 Because that's the only thing, sin is the only thing 05:23 that can prevent us from being saved. 05:26 Sin is the only thing that can hinder us 05:29 from making the kingdom. 05:30 And so when you think of something 05:32 so vitally important and you understand it 05:35 as clearly as the Bible communicates it, 05:39 you've got to ask yourself the question. 05:42 How could something so important be overlooked? 05:46 How could it be a topic that 05:49 happens to roll out somewhere along the way when in fact, 05:53 it is the one topic that if clearly understood, 05:57 it brings us to the place 05:59 where we can find victory in Jesus. 06:01 Now, I want to describe Jesus' mission 06:03 before we go any further, 06:05 before we dive into our questions. 06:06 Open your Bibles with me to Matthew 1, 06:10 to Matthew 1. 06:15 Okay. 06:18 Matthew 1. 06:21 Now it is clearly obvious 06:25 that when sin entered the world, 06:31 we were all caught in a quandary, 06:34 a quandary that means an unsolvable riddle, 06:39 something that we did not have the answer for, 06:41 but Jesus had the answer for it. 06:44 And although 2000 years had passed 06:46 by the time Jesus came 06:48 to begin His earthly mission and ministry. 06:53 He didn't lose the focus 06:55 that was the key element of his mission, 06:58 and it was described when Mary was told 07:03 what name to give her child. 07:05 Matthew 1:21, let's look at that, 07:08 Matthew 1:21 after the genealogy, we read, 07:12 "And she will bring forth a Son, 07:15 and you shall call His name, together, Jesus, 07:19 for He will do" what? 07:22 Give me some energy, for he will do what? 07:24 "Save His people from their sins." 07:28 He saves them from the things they do, 07:31 but sin is even deeper than the things we do. 07:35 It's deeper than the things we do. 07:37 If you had a dog that bit you four days in the week, 07:41 would you keep him? 07:44 When you couldn't predict when he's going to bite you, 07:46 you really wouldn't. 07:48 If you saw those signs and I've seen them 07:50 before dog on duty five days a week, 07:53 guess which five? 07:55 Have you ever seen that sign before? 07:56 People put those up, 07:57 you don't really approach the fence 07:59 because you don't know what day 08:00 it's going to be on guard 08:02 and they say vicious dog or mean dog, 08:04 and they put a sign there never of a poodle 08:07 but always some mean looking dog. 08:10 Sin is deeper than S-I-N-S, those are the things we do. 08:14 Now go with me to John 1, John 1. 08:19 Sin is the things we do. 08:25 But sin is deeper than that. 08:30 I think last week I showed you a picture 08:31 of a good tree and a bad tree, good fruit and rotten fruit. 08:36 And the fruit are rotten if the roots are bad. 08:39 The problem always is at the root. 08:41 In what we just read in Matthew 1:21, 08:44 those are the fruit. 08:46 But John 1:29 is the root, look at this. 08:53 Call his name Jesus but now, he had another name, 08:56 he had another designation. 08:58 "The next day John saw Jesus coming toward him, and said, 09:04 " let's read that together with some oomph. 09:06 What did he say? 09:07 "Behold! 09:09 The Lamb of God who takes away" what? 09:11 "The sin of the world!" 09:14 He takes away the sin, singular. 09:17 He doesn't say sins, sins are plural. 09:21 The sin is singular, 09:23 so if you were to narrow down one sin 09:27 that could condemn all of humanity, 09:30 what sin would it be? 09:32 Which one would you pick? 09:34 And I'm going to describe to you 09:35 exactly what that sin is. 09:36 Which one would you pick? 09:39 Let's go to question number seven. 09:42 Let's go to question number seven. 09:43 Which one would you pick? 09:48 You'll probably rack your brains 09:49 to figure out which one, 09:51 which one sin could condemn all of humanity, 09:55 which one would you pick? 09:57 Okay. Here's the question. 10:00 How does the Bible describe the impact? 10:04 Question number seven on the screen. 10:05 How does the Bible describe 10:07 the impact of the sin of one man? 10:11 Let's look at this, 1 Corinthians 15:22 10:16 and since it is on the screen I'll read in your hearing, 10:19 the Bible says, "For as in Adam..." 10:21 how many of us? 10:23 "All die, even so in Christ" how many of us? 10:27 "All shall be made alive." 10:29 Now I want you to get this, 10:30 all on the left, all on the right, 10:34 if you are an in Adam how many die? 10:35 All. 10:37 If you are in Christ, how many live? 10:38 All. 10:40 But notice the text there it says, 10:41 "All shall be made alive." 10:42 And what in essence is being said here 10:45 is until Christ came as the Lamb of God, 10:50 The Lamb is the one that takes away the sin. 10:52 What was a lamb used for? 10:54 The lamb was used for the sacrificial system, 10:57 the ceremonial services in order for sin to be forgiven 11:02 the lamb's blood had to be shed 11:04 where there is no shedding or spilling of blood, 11:07 there is no remission or reversing of sin. 11:10 So the lamb had to come in that designation the who... 11:15 What His mission is was described in Matthew 1:21. 11:18 How that mission is going to be described 11:21 or how that mission is going to be accomplished 11:23 was described in John 1:29. 11:26 He's coming as the lamb. 11:29 He's coming as the lamb. 11:31 Now, it wouldn't make any sense for him 11:32 to be described as a lion 11:34 because they never use a lion in the temple services. 11:38 But they did use the lamb. 11:41 And they used what kind of lamb? 11:43 What kind of lamb was it? 11:45 Spotless lamb, 11:47 without any wrinkle, without any defect, 11:50 so when they used the word lamb, 11:52 when the Bible uses the word lamb, it says, 11:55 here is His mission but here is His function. 11:58 He's functioning as the lamb. 11:59 He has to spill His blood, and when His blood is spilled. 12:04 When you think about sin and I study this 12:07 and when you think about the lamb, 12:09 you see the, the offender was to bring the lamb 12:13 to the temple. 12:15 And he was given a bowl and he was given a knife 12:18 as the priest stood there and held the lamb. 12:23 And then he was told to take that knife 12:25 and slit the throat of the lamb, 12:28 but not just to slit his throat, 12:30 to hold the bowl under the throat of the lamb 12:33 as the blood poured into the bowl, 12:36 and he was told to keep his eyes 12:38 fixed on the lamb. 12:40 Look to me and be saved. 12:44 Fix his eyes on the lamb 12:47 until the blood as it's shedding out, 12:49 as it's pouring out, 12:50 the lamb... 12:56 flickers until there's no more life in him 13:00 and he falls dead to the ground. 13:06 How do you think that person felt? 13:10 Can't even describe it? 13:14 Spotless little lamb didn't do anything. 13:18 And he takes him to his place of death. 13:22 But even more ignominious than the death of the Lamb 13:28 was the continuation of the existence of sin. 13:31 And I want to put this in the proper perspective, 13:33 the lamb had to die, but even more ignominious, 13:36 more diabolical than the death of the lamb 13:39 was the continued existence of sin, 13:42 because the wages of sin is death. 13:45 Somebody had to die. 13:47 And in the economy, 13:49 in the transition of this entire function 13:53 there were only two choices as in Adam all die, 13:56 Jesus could have said, you guys died 13:58 because you're the ones out of the sinners. 14:02 Or I die to save my people from their sin, 14:06 Matthew 1:21 14:08 so "For God so loved the world 14:10 that He gave His all only begotten Son." 14:14 The only lamb is the Son of God. 14:17 "That whosoever believeth in Him should not perish, 14:21 but have everlasting life." 14:22 You know the rest but I want to focus on the, 14:24 should not perish. 14:25 Jesus decided that He was going to perish instead of us. 14:29 And when I thought about that, when I think about that, 14:31 it really, it really brings you to a broken place, 14:35 meaning a sorrow for sin 14:38 and then a determination by his indwelling spirit 14:41 not to live in that kind of life. 14:44 Not to live there 14:45 because every time, every time we sin, 14:49 we crucify the Son of God afresh, 14:52 when we live a life in determents. 14:54 And I'm not talking about stumbling 14:55 but living a life in intentional sin, 14:59 and so Jesus came and the text says, 15:01 for as an Adam, how many of us die? 15:04 All die, so put that down, 15:05 how does the Bible describe the impact of sin, 15:08 the sin of one man, how many die? 15:10 All die. 15:12 Now we're going to come back to this verse later on 15:15 because the impact of one man's sin 15:18 and the impact of one man's righteousness, 15:21 there's no comparison. 15:23 The impact of one man's sin 15:26 can never supersede the impact of one man's righteousness, 15:30 that's the good news but, but let's look, 15:34 let's go further. 15:35 Let's go to question number eight. 15:38 Go to question number eight. 15:41 Where does sin have its greatest impact? 15:45 Where does sin have its greatest impact? 15:48 Look at that and we're going to Romans 7:17. 15:50 Romans 7 is a book that was written in harmony 15:55 with Paul's conversion. 15:58 Romans 7 was not written before Paul's conversion, 16:01 it was written after Paul's conversion, 16:03 and the reason I mentioned that 16:05 is because Paul outlines his struggle 16:06 when all of a sudden he becomes fully aware 16:09 that there's a speed limit. 16:11 When he becomes fully aware that there's a law 16:13 that he's now living in violation of. 16:15 You know, when you live in violation of the law, 16:18 you don't walk around with a clear conscience. 16:21 When you know that you're a bank robber, 16:23 you don't hang out at the coffee shop 16:25 where police have lunch, right? 16:29 When you know you're a wanted man, 16:31 you don't hang out in visible places. 16:35 When you know you've done something wrong, 16:37 you try your best to do like your fore parents, 16:39 Adam and Eve, you want to hide. 16:42 But, when the analysis is taken, 16:47 when the diagnosis comes forth, how does this happen? 16:53 Remember as in Adam, how many die? 16:55 Okay. 16:57 When we come forth with the spiritual diagnosis 16:59 of how sin keeps permeating itself, 17:01 how it keeps going, how it keeps alive, 17:04 this text answers the question very carefully. 17:06 Where does sin have its greatest impact? 17:08 Romans 7:17. Let's look at this together. 17:11 Paul says, "But now it is no longer I who do it" 17:15 but what? 17:16 Sin that dwells" where? 17:18 "In me." 17:20 Have you... 17:21 I've met people that have had diagnoses, 17:23 they've said, "I was just diagnosed 17:25 with a brain tumor." 17:27 "Well, I was diagnosed with a small spot on my liver." 17:30 Or I was diagnosed with... 17:32 There's a shadow they don't know what it is. 17:34 You know, that's the most fearful thing 17:37 in all of us because we know what it could be. 17:39 We think of the big C word and what's that? 17:42 Cancer. 17:43 Once we... Oh, they found something. 17:45 I remember being under the care of doctors 17:47 here in Southern Illinois that we found a little, 17:50 little tiny thing in your lung, 17:52 we're going to watch it for two years, 17:55 I just need to say after October last year 17:58 I have been cleared because he said, 18:00 it's just an artifact, it's some kind of anomaly, 18:04 it hasn't moved, it hasn't changed, 18:06 its shape hasn't moved, 18:07 it hasn't gotten bigger or smaller, 18:09 it's some anomaly and those are not unusual 18:11 for there to be some kind of calcification 18:13 in the human body, and I said, thank you Jesus. 18:18 Because when you have... 18:20 When cancer shows up anywhere, you know, you know, 18:24 that you are no longer in control, 18:25 I'm using this illustration. 18:27 You know, you are no longer in control because Paul says, 18:30 sin that dwells where, in me, 18:32 and then all of a sudden you go through all the... 18:34 Well, I need to change my regimen. 18:36 I need to take this medication. 18:37 I need to eat this way, live this way. 18:39 I need to avoid that. I need to take that. 18:42 We start meandering in the maze of what do we do 18:46 to remedy the situation. 18:48 When heaven looked at us, 18:51 I want to give you 18:52 the beautiful good news tonight on this text. 18:54 When heaven looked at us, 18:55 heaven saw that we were all born 18:59 with a cancer cell in every one of us 19:02 and that cancer cell is spelled S-I-N. 19:05 What is it called? 19:06 Sin, it dwells in us. 19:08 So Jesus, the master physician comes with a diagnosis. 19:12 The diagnosis is as in Adam, you're all going to die. 19:15 But I'm coming as the master physician 19:17 to give you the remedy and the remedy is my blood. 19:20 When the blood is applied sin is reversed. 19:22 But what I want you to see carefully 19:24 as we could do nothing about the sin or the cancer in us, 19:28 we can't emotionally do anything 19:29 about the sin in us, 19:31 because it's no longer I who do it but what? 19:34 Sin that dwells in me. 19:36 So where does sin have its greatest impact? 19:38 Put these two words, in me, in me. 19:42 Not in society, but in me. 19:46 Not in society. 19:49 Not in society. 19:51 And as much as we would like to say, 19:53 well, it's the air we breathe, it's the water we drink. 19:56 I know people that live completely healthy lives, 19:59 and they still get some kind of disease, 20:01 that's the lot of humanity, sin entered the world. 20:04 Now, let's look at question number where? 20:06 Question number what? 20:08 Question number nine. Okay. 20:10 Why are we incapable of producing righteousness? 20:17 Romans 3:23. 20:18 Romans is a tremendous book to remain in. 20:21 Romans 3:23. 20:24 Look at it. 20:26 Romans 3:23. 20:29 Wow. 20:32 And once again we're going to see some words 20:33 that seem to be repetitious, okay. 20:36 What is it? 20:38 For how many of us? 20:40 "All have sinned and do what? 20:42 Falls short of the glory of God." 20:45 Now why do we... 20:46 When you look at a baby, 20:48 do you think of a baby as a sinner? 20:51 A baby hasn't committed S-I-N-S 20:54 but a baby is in S-I-N. 20:59 For Adam passed on to you and to you 21:01 and to me and all of us this nature called sin. 21:06 So when the Bible says, that Jesus became sin for us, 21:12 it didn't say Jesus became sins for us, 21:16 because if Jesus became sins for us, 21:19 He can never be our savior. 21:21 So what did He do? 21:22 Let's answer the question here. 21:24 Romans 6:23, write that down, 21:27 why are we incapable of producing righteousness? 21:30 The first answer is why? 21:32 All have sinned. 21:34 If you can put it another way, we all have Adam's nature, 21:37 and then one more, one more. 21:41 Psalm 51:5. 21:43 Psalm 51:5, look at the scripture. 21:46 Look at the scripture. 21:48 And the Bible says, 21:50 "Behold, I was brought forth in" what? 21:54 "Iniquity and in sin my mother conceived me." 22:00 This passage is not talking about an unwed mother. 22:04 This passage is saying, when we are born, 22:07 we are born in a world of iniquity, 22:10 we are born in a world of sin, in sin she conceived me. 22:15 In other words, that's the entrance, 22:17 when we came in, 22:18 the moment you took your first breath, 22:21 we were all in S-I-N. 22:24 We're all in what? Sin. 22:26 A baby is completely innocent of S-I-N-S, 22:29 you cannot prosecute a child when all that child wants to do 22:32 is eat and sleep and have his or her diapers change. 22:34 They have done nothing wrong. 22:36 But given time if you don't train that child 22:39 in the way he or she should go, 22:41 when they get older what happens? 22:43 Then you start seeing the S-I-N turn into S-I-N-S, 22:49 then you start seeing 22:50 the nature begin to act itself out 22:52 because the nature takes over. 22:54 Have you seen unruly children in Wal-Mart? 22:58 Come on talk to me. 22:59 Have you seen them anywhere? 23:01 Man, I tell you when a child... 23:03 I've seen children that stare their mothers down 23:06 and tell them what they're not going to 23:08 and they yell, "I hate you." 23:10 You know, why they say that? That is the nature of Adam. 23:15 I hate, they don't say, I dislike you, mom. 23:20 They go to the word that a little child you wonder 23:23 where did he or she get that word from? 23:25 It's in the nature, it's there, it comes out 23:28 when the child doesn't get his or her way. 23:30 I hate. 23:34 So the answer to this one is according to this, 23:37 did you all put your answers down. 23:39 We were all born in an atmosphere of iniquity. 23:41 We were all born into a world of sin. 23:44 The moment you took your first breath, 23:46 you were condemned, 23:47 you were born into a circumstance, 23:50 in a situation that the only one 23:52 that can remedy that is who? 23:54 Jesus, only Christ. 23:56 Let's go even further. Let's build our case. 23:59 Question number ten. Question number ten. 24:02 I think that's where we ended on our last study, 24:04 but just for the benefit of those of you 24:05 who were not here, 24:07 I drew back a little bit to earlier questions. 24:09 Question number ten. 24:10 How does the Bible further describe 24:13 the effects of sin? 24:15 Since you all know this text so well, 24:17 I just not hold out on you, Roman 6:23, 24:21 let's read this together, "The wages of sin is" what? 24:24 "Death, but the gift of God is" what? 24:27 "Eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord." 24:30 Now, what I like about a couple of the text we read so far, 24:33 I like all the texts but the illustrative point 24:35 I want to make is in, 24:37 in 1 Corinthians 15:22 the Bible says 24:40 as in Adam all die, but it didn't end there, 24:42 it says even so in Christ all shall be made alive." 24:45 Then Romans 6:23, "For the wages of sin is death, 24:48 and then but the gift of God is eternal life." 24:50 Wherever sin is revealed, Christ is revealed. 24:55 And notice what it didn't say, it didn't say, 24:58 it didn't say all shall be made alive 25:01 but as in Adam all die. 25:04 It showed you the problem and it showed you the remedy. 25:09 It didn't say the gift of God is eternal life 25:11 but the wages of sin is death. 25:13 The Bible always accentuates the positive. 25:16 Can you say amen to that? 25:17 It shows you your condition then it shows you the remedy. 25:20 It doesn't say, here's the remedy 25:22 but you're messed up. 25:25 Amen? 25:26 It says, I know you're messed up, 25:28 but here's the remedy. 25:31 It's like one of those, I have good news and bad news 25:33 and what do we often say? 25:35 What do we often say? What do you want first? 25:36 The good news or bad news, you want what? 25:40 Well, you ought to switch that around, 25:42 get the bad news first, 25:44 you don't want the last thing to be bad news, am I right? 25:48 Okay, what's the worst of it? 25:50 Okay, what's the best of it? 25:52 I feel better. 25:54 Don't ask for the bad news last. 25:56 Let the bad news go. 25:57 I wish the news reporters would say 25:59 instead of there's a 40% chance of rain, 26:01 I wish they would say, 26:02 there's a 60% chance of sunshine, right. 26:07 Think positively. 26:08 You know, we have a, coming up here 26:12 with a horrible season, 26:13 we don't know what season it is anyway. 26:16 When there is spring, 26:17 the next day it's almost summer, 26:18 the flowers bud and then they want to die, 26:20 then they want to hide and then they want to come out. 26:22 It's like almost summer, no jacket, 26:24 but then snow is forecast in a few days, 26:27 I hope it doesn't happen. 26:30 Because, because even nature itself 26:31 is going through this discombobulated 26:35 almost arrhythmia of what do we do? 26:38 We don't have any control of our environment 26:40 and that's what sin does, 26:42 sin takes the control of your environment 26:43 out of your hand. 26:44 So write that down, how do we further describe... 26:46 How does the Bible further describe 26:47 the effect of sin? 26:49 Simply with one word death, one word death. 26:53 Now, let's go to number 11. 26:57 Let's go to number 11. 27:00 One was producing righteousness, 27:03 the other one is producing good. 27:06 All right. 27:08 Almost the same question, 27:10 but a little different approach I'm going to take. 27:13 All right question number 11. 27:16 How do we know 27:17 that we are not capable of producing good? 27:22 Now there's a reason I want you to go to Matthew 7:17, 18. 27:25 This is the text that says to you, 27:27 when you meet a person that doesn't know Jesus, 27:30 don't insist that they live right. 27:32 Look at me. 27:34 When you meet a person that does not know Jesus 27:36 regardless of their age, don't say, you know, better. 27:44 They might intellectually know better, 27:45 but they can't do better. 27:49 Here's a reason why? 27:50 Matthew 7:17, 18 you all are there? 27:55 Here it is, 27:57 "Even so every, together, good tree bears" what? 28:03 "Good fruit, but a bad tree bears" what? 28:07 "Bad fruit." Now here is the law. 28:10 Verse 18 is the law. 28:12 "A good tree, together, cannot bear bad fruit, 28:17 nor can a bad tree bear" what? 28:20 "Good fruit." 28:21 So let me ask you the question. Can a good tree bear bad fruit? 28:24 Can a bad tree bear good fruit? 28:26 Can a bad tree bear bad fruit? 28:28 Can a good tree bear bad fruit? 28:32 Can a good tree bear good fruit? 28:34 Can a bad tree bear good fruit? No. 28:36 Good, you guys are sharp. 28:39 Okay. 28:40 Bad does not produce good, good does not produce bad, 28:44 but bad produces bad and good produces good, 28:47 so the question is. 28:50 What do we want to be a part of the good or the bad? 28:54 But then how do you do that when Paul says, 28:57 "There is none that's good, no not one." 29:01 How... Okay, we're getting there. 29:04 My brother Yannick is ahead of me. 29:07 We're getting there. 29:09 The issue is bigger than the S-I-N-S, 29:13 the issue is the root, didn't I say that? 29:15 The issue is the what? The root. 29:17 What's happening with the tree? 29:18 When we go to the vineyards, when you go to Napa Valley, 29:20 when you look at apple trees, when you look at orange trees, 29:22 any kind of tree at all, 29:23 they're supposed to produce good fruit. 29:25 When the farmer looks at this tree and said, 29:27 it's not producing good fruit, they don't look at the limbs, 29:30 they look at the what? 29:31 They look at the fruit. 29:33 And then they go down to the root 29:34 and they say, "Ah, we see what the problem is. 29:36 There are ants eating at the roots 29:38 or there's some kind of germ that is being pulled 29:41 into the tree through the roots. 29:42 The root is the issue, 29:44 that's why this very next question 29:45 is vitally important. 29:46 So the answer is how do we know 29:48 that we are not capable of producing good? 29:51 Because we're connected to the wrong tree, 29:54 we're connected to the wrong tree. 29:56 What's the name of the tree, somebody tell me. 29:58 Sin? 30:00 But what's the... What's his name? 30:02 Adam, right. 30:04 Adam, the Adam nature produces the fruit of sin. 30:09 The Adam nature produces the fruit of sin. 30:11 Question number 12. 30:13 This is significant as you look at the cadence of it. 30:16 Question number 12. 30:18 What will the Lord destroy to finally abolish sin? 30:25 What will the Lord? 30:27 What will the Lord destroy to finally abolish sin? 30:35 Okay, that's right. 30:37 Malachi 4:1. 30:46 I forgot the name of the disease 30:48 but it affected cow, or mad cow disease. 30:50 Yeah, as soon as I mentioned cows, 30:52 I remember what it was. 30:53 Remember mad cow disease? 30:57 I read some of the stories of the farmers 30:59 that when they discover 31:01 that their cattle had mad cow disease, 31:03 mad cow disease affected not just the cattle, 31:05 but effected goats, it's affected other animals, 31:10 in the end it was terrible, and then you had the bird flu. 31:14 Which started in ages somewhere in a crowded market 31:19 where the keeping of the birds were just, 31:21 it was horrible 31:23 and then it spread all over the globe. 31:25 When these farmers noticed that their cows were affected, 31:28 I read the story of one farmer who he said, 31:31 "I didn't want to kill my animals, 31:35 but that was the only thing that I, I had to do it 31:38 to prevent the spread of the disease, 31:42 to prevent the spread of the disease." 31:44 So that's why Jesus had to die 31:47 to prevent the spread of the disease. 31:52 So why is he going to do what we're about to read. 31:54 How will the Lord finally... 31:57 What will the Lord do to finally abolish sin? 31:59 Look at Malachi 4:1 32:02 "For behold..." 32:03 And this is what the farmers did, 32:04 they set their cattle on fire, it was a horrible sight, 32:08 "For behold, the day is coming, burning like a" what? 32:11 "Like an oven," 32:12 and here's that word again and what? 32:15 "All the proud, yes, 32:17 all who do wickedly will be" what? 32:21 "Stubble and the day which is coming 32:24 shall burn them up." 32:27 Shall do what? 32:28 Burn them up and it says, let me go forward... 32:31 I want to add the other portion to that, 32:33 that will leave them neither root nor what? 32:36 I should have added the other portion to that, 32:39 so you want to add that, 32:40 what will Jesus do to finally abolish sin? 32:44 He's going to destroy the root and the branch. 32:48 He's going to destroy the root and branch. 32:52 So if, so, if the root is destroyed, 32:56 will there be branches? 32:58 Okay, so that's the answer to the question 33:00 sin cannot exist in eternity. 33:03 Sin will not exist in heaven. 33:05 There'll be no chance of sin in the new earth. 33:07 Can I get an amen somewhere? 33:08 Amen! 33:10 There'll be no chance 33:11 because the roots are going to be burned up. 33:13 When you burn up a tree and you stop at the root, 33:15 it's not going to produce anything 33:17 because the roots is the origin 33:19 of what's produced on the branches. 33:25 You cannot. 33:28 But now let's look at the reverse of that. 33:32 Question number 13. 33:37 Question number 13. 33:39 How will the Lord produce righteousness in us? 33:44 John 15, you theologians know where I'm headed. 33:48 John 15. 33:51 John 15. 33:55 And we're going to look together at verse 5, 34:00 John 15:5, 34:01 How will the Lord or even more specifically, 34:05 how does the Lord produce righteousness in us? 34:08 Here it is, John 15:5 and we read in His word, 34:13 "I am the vine, you are the branches. 34:18 He who abides in Me, and I in him, bears" what? 34:24 "Much fruit, for without Me you can't do" what? 34:26 "Nothing." 34:28 So can we say, 34:32 okay, okay, 34:37 I'm not going out, 34:39 I'm not leaving my house, 34:41 I'm not turning the lights on, 34:43 I'm not turning the radio on, 34:45 I'm not turning the television on, 34:47 I'm going to put in ear plugs. 34:50 I don't want my phone. I'm going to turn my phone off. 34:53 I don't want to hear from anybody. 34:55 I don't want to do anything. 34:57 I don't want to listen to anything. 34:59 And maybe I could be sinless today. 35:05 Right? 35:06 Oh, if I could just not hear anybody talk, 35:09 I think I could make it through a day without sin. 35:13 And the Lord says, "Excuse me, it's in you." 35:18 It's where? 35:20 It's not in the phone calls, 35:22 it's not in the television, it's in you. 35:26 Can you take it out of yourself? 35:29 So what do you have to... 35:30 If you look at these two verses together here, 35:32 this is the beauty of it, and I always say this, 35:34 there is no third category 35:35 when it comes to sin and righteousness. 35:37 There is no yellow line like on the highway. 35:40 There is no third place that you can be 35:42 to determine that I'll hang out here 35:44 until I decide to do right or wrong. 35:46 We're either on the left side of the highway, the bad side, 35:50 or the right side of the highway, the good side. 35:53 We're either connected to the wrong tree 35:55 that will be destroyed root and branch, 35:57 or we are connected to the vine, Christ Jesus. 35:59 And look at that again, 36:01 he says, for without me, how much can we do? 36:04 We can't do anything. 36:05 So what I want to point out really quickly here 36:07 is we have come to a particular point 36:10 and we're going to get a little deeper 36:11 in just a moment here, but we've come to the point, 36:13 we've come to this conclusion. 36:14 Sin is not possible to resolve by just trying hard. 36:21 So don't say to somebody, you need to try harder. 36:23 If you just try harder, you can do it. 36:26 That's the most frustrating thing, 36:27 and most world religions 36:29 that kick Jesus out are work oriented. 36:31 They beat themselves, they flog themselves, 36:34 they cut themselves, they do pilgrimages, 36:36 they walk around in circles... 36:40 They say things, they burn fire, 36:42 they run on coal, they run on broken glass, 36:45 they do ridiculous things. 36:47 Thinking that if I could just, 36:48 if I could just humiliate myself, 36:51 then maybe God will accept me. 36:54 But Christians do something that's kind of similar. 36:58 We beat ourselves up. 37:01 We focus on what we have done 37:03 rather than what Christ has done. 37:06 We pray and ask for the Lord to forgive us 37:07 and we get up and say... 37:12 And we still try to fix it, 37:14 when Jesus is the one 37:16 and the only one that can fix it. 37:18 And He's saying, 37:20 if you disconnect from that tree 37:22 and connect to this tree, it's going to happen. 37:25 It's going to happen. 37:27 What's going to happen? What's going to happen? 37:31 Say it again, 37:32 a little louder, a little louder. 37:35 David, you're a little louder than that. 37:37 Good fruit. What's up, what kind of fruit? 37:39 Good fruit. 37:41 So it's really what we're connected 37:42 to on a day by day basis, and Paul makes it clear 37:44 that this is not a once in a lifetime. 37:47 This decision is not just made when you're baptized. 37:50 This is a day by day decision, 37:52 a day by day, a moment by moment decision, 37:55 so let's look at that. 37:56 How will the Lord produce righteousness in us? 37:59 Without Him how much can we do? 38:01 Nothing. We can do... 38:03 We have to be in Him and He has to be in us. 38:07 That's what He does through His Holy Spirit, 38:09 but now, we're going to now go to some of the, 38:12 what I refer to the DNA. 38:13 We're going to go now to the DNA of sin. 38:16 Let's go down to the DNA of sin. 38:17 We're going to go to Romans, Romans 7. 38:21 Romans. 38:26 Romans 7. 38:28 And we're going to... 38:29 We're going to consider question number 14, 38:31 and question number 14 is: Why is human nature helpless 38:38 when it comes to controlling sin? 38:42 Why is human nature helpless 38:46 when it comes to controlling sin? 38:50 Romans 7, we're going to start with verse 8, 38:53 and then we're going to read verse 18, 38:56 and then we're going to read verse 20, all right? 39:01 I'll start with the verse 8. 39:02 Let's bring it up on the screen. 39:04 It says, 39:07 "But sin, taking opportunity by the commandment, 39:12 produced in me all" what? 39:16 "All manner of evil desire." 39:19 In other words, there's no extent, 39:22 there's no telling what you'll do 39:23 because sin is producing all manner. 39:27 You name the category, sin could produce it. 39:29 All manner of not only evil but evil desire. 39:35 That passion, that push to do wrong, 39:38 and then it says, 39:39 for apart from the law what was dead. 39:42 What was dead? 39:44 It's on the screen, 39:45 apart from the law what was dead? 39:47 Sin was dead. 39:48 Let me explain that carefully because this is not something, 39:51 I don't want you to come away with the idea 39:52 that the commandments are bad, but here's what Paul is saying. 39:56 He was living a life 39:58 oblivious of the commandments of God 40:01 but all of a sudden he saw it and he realized, wait a minute. 40:06 Now, let me use an illustration. 40:11 Okay, rather than my human illustration, 40:13 don't lose Romans 7. 40:15 Let's go to James 1. 40:19 Don't lose Romans 7. 40:21 We're going to come back there, 40:22 and you could not, you could hold it off 40:24 and I'll call for the text in a moment. 40:25 But let's go to James 1. 40:28 Okay. 40:32 Okay. 40:37 And I want to look together at verse 25... 40:44 because Paul said until... 40:45 When I became aware of the commandments. 40:49 Through the commandments I realized 40:52 all kinds of evil desire were present in me. 40:55 Because the commandment showed me 40:57 what was going wrong, was inside of me. 40:59 It diagnosed my condition. 41:01 When I saw it, I realized where I was falling short, 41:04 he said, and without that I didn't even know. 41:07 Without that sin was not even, I was not even aware of sin 41:11 for apart from the law sin was dead, 41:14 until I knew that that was wrong, 41:16 it didn't even make a difference to me. 41:19 But look at Romans 1:25, 41:22 because it's all about the mirror, 41:23 it's all about the what? 41:25 How many of you have mirrors in your house? 41:27 Please all of you raise your hand. 41:30 I hope. 41:32 The mirror will tell you your condition 41:36 but the mirror can't change your condition. 41:40 It just says to you, you're in trouble, 41:42 you ear is out of place. 41:45 There's something in your tooth. 41:47 You buttoned the wrong button. 41:49 It just tells you what your condition is 41:50 but it can't do anything for you, 41:52 so those of you who are commandment keepers, 41:54 let me help you out, 41:55 it's good to be a commandment keeper, 41:57 but the commandments can't clean you up, 42:00 only Jesus can. 42:02 Look at this. 42:04 James makes it so clear. 42:05 James throws kind of a wrench 42:10 into the quandary of those 42:14 who want to get rid of the commandments. 42:15 Start with verse 22. 42:19 Okay. 42:24 "But be doers of the word 42:25 and not hearers only deceiving who? 42:30 Yourselves, 42:31 for if anyone is a hearer of the word and not a doer, 42:36 he is like a man observing his natural face. 42:39 What kind of face? 42:41 Natural face in a mirror, 42:44 for he observes himself goes away 42:48 and immediately forgets what kind of man he was. 42:55 How many of us do that? 42:59 Well, actually 43:03 no, I actually appreciate my mirror. 43:04 Come on help me out somebody. 43:06 I actually appreciate my mirror 43:08 because I can't go on television 43:11 with my jacket button like this. 43:14 They'll say, man, what kind of pastor is he? 43:17 His jacket is all messed up. 43:18 Can somebody help him? 43:20 I get all kinds of letters. 43:23 Am I telling the truth? 43:25 Because he'll say, oh, I can't look. 43:28 Those OCD people, am I right? 43:31 They have a hard time... 43:32 Oh, did anybody tell him 43:34 that he has a big ear out of place 43:37 and they'll say, "He had a mirror, 43:39 he couldn't see what was wrong?' 43:41 You see the mirror says to you what's wrong, 43:44 but look at the next verse. 43:48 Verse 25, 43:49 I like it that it begins with the word but, 43:51 "But he who looks into the..." 43:53 Say it together, "perfect law of liberty." 43:56 The commandments is observed by those 43:58 who have been made free. 44:00 The commandments don't make you free, 44:02 Jesus makes you free, 44:04 but the commandments are observed 44:05 by those who have been made free, 44:07 but he who looks into the what kind of law? 44:10 Perfect law of liberty and continues in it 44:14 and is not a forgetful hearer but a doer of the work, 44:18 this one will be what? 44:21 Blessed in what he does. 44:23 So when you see the law of God 44:25 and you'd remember that it pointed out your condition 44:28 and then you start as 1 John 3:4 says, 44:33 you begin to keep your life pure, 44:37 then you'll be blessed in what you do. 44:39 But if you look in the mirror and forget what the mirror said 44:42 and you walk away and just immediately forget, 44:45 people will notice it and they'll see you, 44:48 what's wrong with him? 44:50 What's wrong with her? 44:52 Can he see what he looks like? 44:57 Go back to Romans 7. 44:58 I want to clarify 45:00 that there's nothing wrong with God's law, 45:02 nothing at all wrong with God's laws. 45:05 It's the perfect law of liberty, 45:07 but we're going to go back to question number, which one? 45:10 Number 14. 45:12 Why is human nature helpless 45:13 when it comes to controlling sin? 45:15 Let's go to the very next verse, 45:17 verse 18, Romans 7:18. 45:20 Now we can bring it up on the screen. 45:22 Thank you. 45:23 And the Bible says, "For I know that in me, 45:26 for I know that in me, that is in my flesh," 45:30 together how much? 45:31 "Nothing good dwells, for to will is present with me, 45:37 but how to perform what is good" 45:40 say it again, "I do not find." 45:42 In other words, I know what I want to do. 45:44 It's like a basketball player being handcuffed. 45:47 You don't put a handcuffed basketball player 45:49 on the foul line with two seconds left. 45:54 I know what I want to do 45:55 but I'm handcuffed. 45:57 You put somebody on there that's been made free. 46:01 Paul is saying, 46:03 I've got this desire to do but I'm handcuffed. 46:07 Let's find out what happened? 46:09 Let's verse 20, verse 20, 46:12 verse 20 and the question is: 46:13 Why is human nature helpless 46:15 when it comes to controlling sin? 46:16 Look at verse 20, he says, 46:18 "Now if I do what I will not to do, 46:22 it is no longer I who do it," but what? 46:25 "Sin that, once again, dwells in me." 46:28 So let's go ahead and talk about this quandary 46:30 for a brief moment. 46:32 One of the reasons why, one of the reasons why 46:34 we come up as failures every time 46:36 is because we think that in and of ourselves 46:39 that we can be victorious by simply trying harder, 46:42 praying harder, reading harder, 46:45 just grit, and good old elbow grease. 46:51 But the Bible says, not of works, 46:53 lest anyone should boast. 46:56 For by grace are you saved through faith, 46:58 that not of yourselves, 47:00 but we're going to go even deeper than that. 47:02 How then... 47:05 do those who are unable to control sin, 47:08 how then do they come off victoriously? 47:12 So what answer did you put down? 47:13 Why is human nature helpless 47:15 when it comes to controlling sin? 47:16 Put down what you can best understand, 47:18 why is human nature helpless? 47:22 It's the same nature. 47:24 It's like when the Bible says, 47:25 can Beelzebub cast out Beelzebub? 47:28 Can Satan cast out Satan? 47:30 No. 47:31 How then can we 47:33 who are accustomed to doing evil do good. 47:35 Can't do it. Can't do it. 47:38 So don't feel bad that you fail. 47:41 Because you have that nature, 47:44 but we're not going to leave you there. 47:46 Let's look at the very next question, 47:47 question number 15. 47:49 Question number 15. 47:52 What is the only hope that we have to be victorious 47:58 over the sin nature? 48:02 And the reason I'm focusing on the nature 48:03 is because when you take care of the root, 48:05 the fruit is going to take care of themselves. 48:09 You guys are real deep thinkers tonight. 48:12 I must say that one more time 48:13 because you might have missed it. 48:15 When you take care of the root, 48:16 the fruit would take care of themselves. 48:18 Amen. Amen? 48:20 Have you ever seen a tree? 48:21 Have you ever walked past an orchard 48:22 and you see the tree going, 48:24 oh man, oh, 48:28 I need some really good oranges this season. 48:31 It's just standing there like... 48:39 Let 'cause he's connected, he's being nourished, 48:44 he's getting the proper sunlight, 48:45 he's getting the clean air, 48:47 he's getting all the nutrition he needs, 48:49 and that's why the Bible says, "Let, let." 48:53 And we'll show you what I mean by that let. 48:55 We're going to go ahead and look at let in the... 48:58 We might get to today, 48:59 but there's a let and there's a let not. 49:02 We're going to let and let not, all right. 49:05 But let's look at this one first, 49:06 1 Corinthians 15:57. 49:09 This is beautiful. 49:10 This is a Jesus centered lesson. 49:15 Yannick, say amen. 49:16 Amen. Okay. 49:18 This is a Jesus centered lesson. 49:20 This means, without Jesus, we can't do anything. 49:26 And I wanted to read this one 49:28 because when somebody does for us 49:30 what Jesus has done for us, you got to say thank you. 49:32 Are you ready? 49:33 Here we go together, "But thanks be to God, 49:37 who gives us the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ." 49:43 Do you see now why the devil tried his best 49:45 to defeat Christ? 49:47 And I say this again, Jesus didn't become a sinner, 49:51 Jesus didn't become sins, Jesus became sin. 49:56 He took on the, 49:57 He took on the Adam nature after the fall. 50:00 The nature Adam had after he fell. 50:03 Jesus didn't come to take on the nature 50:06 Adam had before the fall, 50:08 He came and took the nature Adam had after the fall. 50:11 So that He could produce, He could defeat that, 50:14 kill that nature when He died on the cross, 50:18 this is really a deep thing. 50:19 When He died on the cross, 50:22 it was the nature of Adam that was killed. 50:26 And so when you accept Christ in that way, 50:28 let me look at, let me see if the text is here. 50:30 It's not here but I want to go ahead and show it to you. 50:33 Go with me to Galatians. 50:34 Go with me to Galatians. 50:36 So write this down. 50:37 What is our only hope 50:38 that we can have victory over sin? 50:41 Jesus. 50:42 And by the way I want you to not miss 50:43 the rest of the text 50:45 because we say Jesus, but notice what the text says, 50:48 it didn't, it didn't say, 50:49 but thanks be to God who helps us when... 50:53 Did it say that? 50:55 It didn't say that, but thanks be to God who what? 50:58 Gives. 51:01 Lorraine, how would you feel if the Olympic Committee 51:03 decided to give you a gold medal? 51:07 You might say, "For what?" 51:10 And they say, "It doesn't matter, 51:11 we want you to be victorious." 51:13 It doesn't matter, we just want to give you. 51:15 We want to make you a winner. 51:17 We just wanted to say, "You won" 51:19 and you say "Won what?" 51:21 Now Jesus, this is where the crown comes in. 51:25 This is what's amazing about salvation. 51:27 Jesus gives us a crown of which we did nothing to get. 51:34 Is that, is that love? 51:36 He gives us a crown 51:38 and we didn't do anything to get it. 51:40 He gives us the victory. 51:42 What happens when a person gives you a gift? 51:44 Come on now, what happens? 51:45 When if I were given you a gift, 51:46 what do you have to do? 51:49 Accept that before you open it she said, open it. 51:53 She's in a Christmas mode, wrong month. 51:57 You have to first accept the gift. 52:00 So one of the hardest thing for us to grab, 52:04 for those of us who are doers, you know, 52:06 so many of us are doers, 52:07 the hardest thing for us to grab 52:09 is that somebody would win a victory for us 52:12 and then give it to us, "But thanks be to God, 52:14 who giveth us the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ." 52:16 It's a hard thing. 52:18 You say, "What do I have to do for it?" 52:20 Just accept it, just accept it. 52:22 It's imparted righteousness, 52:24 and then you live every day imputed righteousness. 52:26 He imputes every day to you his credit, 52:29 so you're never bankrupt righteously. 52:32 But He impost you something that you can never buy. 52:35 He gives you a medal, He gives you a crown 52:37 that you couldn't even purchase. 52:39 You couldn't even make it. 52:41 You don't deserve, we don't deserve it. 52:42 Let me stop saying you, we don't deserve it. 52:47 But He does it because He loves us. 52:49 Praise God for that. Amen. Amen. 52:51 Now let's go to the next, we gonna dive back in 52:54 because I don't want to be oversimplified. 52:57 I want us to get to some of the nitty-gritty 52:59 of this Roman 7 53:01 because Romans 7 is a powerful book 53:03 and we're going to dive in Romans 7 53:04 by going to question number 16. 53:06 Let's look at that. 53:07 What is the experience of every sinner? 53:10 What is the experience of every sinner? 53:19 Romans 7:15, 53:22 this is amazing, every sinners experience, 53:26 no matter what your denomination, 53:28 everybody has this experience. 53:33 Ain't that something else? 53:35 You look at that and you think, man, I think I was there. 53:38 No, you were there, we were there. 53:41 What, "For what I am doing..." 53:44 Come on, say it with me. 53:46 "I do not" what?" 53:47 "Understand." 53:49 Have you ever done something you don't understand 53:50 why you did it. 53:52 Why, what, what am I doing? 53:55 What, why am I doing that? 53:58 Let's keep going. 53:59 "For what I will to do, that means what I mentally 54:02 I'm hoping to be able to do 54:05 what I will to do that I do not practice. 54:09 Intellectually this is what I'm supposed to do. 54:13 Carnally this is what I am doing. 54:16 And then he says. 54:18 But what I hate... 54:23 that I do. 54:25 How many of you hire this guy? 54:27 We want you to guard our bank. 54:31 How many would hire this guy? 54:38 If that was the case, none of us would have a job. 54:41 Come on say, amen. 54:42 None of us would have a job 54:43 because that's the truth about all of us. 54:45 Before Jesus comes in, 54:47 before we turn the control of our awful lives 54:50 over to Christ, 54:51 we are in that predicament every moment of every day. 54:55 Let's write the answer down. I want to get a few more. 54:57 I want to get a few more. 55:00 We're just getting warmed up. 55:02 I wish it slowed the clock down. 55:04 So question number 16 that was. 55:07 So write down, 55:08 what is the experience of every sinner? 55:14 Our lives don't make sense. 55:18 Don't make sense, 55:20 I couldn't think of a singular word 55:22 but it's confusing at best. 55:26 "How you doing, Dave?" 55:28 "Don't ask." 55:30 "You're okay, Yannick?" 55:32 "Let's talk about something else." 55:34 You gonna make a mark?" 55:35 "Oh, well, ask me that tomorrow." 55:39 Have you all been there? 55:40 We've all been there. 55:44 But now let's look at, let's go deeper, 55:45 let's go deeper. 55:47 Number 17, what is the power. 55:52 What is the power 55:54 that is in control of our human nature? 55:58 What is the power? 56:00 Now you're going to dive into an example in scripture 56:02 that many of you probably have overlooked. 56:04 Let's go and do this very quickly. 56:07 And if we get to number 18, fine, 56:09 but if not we'll get to that next week. 56:12 Let's go to Romans 7:2, 56:13 I'm going to bring the subject in the interest of time. 56:16 Now Paul uses an analogy here, 56:18 he's not talking about an actual wedding, 56:20 he uses an analogy, 56:22 and the woman represents us, 56:24 the husband represents that law that's messing with us. 56:27 "For the woman who has a husband is..." 56:29 What's the next word? 56:31 "Bound by the law to her husband..." 56:33 Sounds like slavery? 56:35 That's what it is. 56:36 "Bound by the law to her husband 56:38 as long as who lives? 56:40 He lives. 56:41 But if the husband dies, 56:43 she is released from the law of her husband." 56:46 So now let me ask a quick question. 56:48 If you don't want to do 56:49 what your husband wants you to do, 56:51 what you have to do? 56:52 I preached a sermon a number of years ago about 2005, 56:55 Mollie Steenson, I presented to her 56:57 a proposal on some sermons 56:58 and Mollie said, "Pastor Lomacang, 57:00 you have to change that title, 57:01 our listeners won't understand." 57:04 I said, "Mollie, it's exactly according to the scripture" 57:07 My title was, "Kill your husband." 57:11 She said, "Could you find another more mild title?" 57:14 I said, "Okay, till death do us part." 57:16 Amen? 57:18 Because what's happening here 57:20 and I might leave this as a cliffhanger. 57:22 I might leave this as... 57:23 Because you've got to see what's happening here. 57:25 What is being said in this text is 57:28 the man you were born married to is messing with you, 57:31 he's going to make you do what you don't want to do 57:34 because his law is in control of your life. 57:39 So you can't stop it until he's dead. 57:44 How you going to kill him? 57:46 The question we're going to answer in the next study 57:49 in the next broadcast, how are we going to kill him? 57:51 Because we want to do right, can you say, amen? 57:52 Amen. 57:54 Somebody's got to die in order for this woman, 57:57 us, to be set free. 57:59 Does it make sense, friends, keep studying, 58:01 one day it'll come into A Sharper Focus. 58:04 God bless you. |
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