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Would you turn to Galatians, the third chapter,

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and in verse 8, the

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eighth verse, third chapter of the epistle to

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the Galatians, scripture, foreseeing that God would justify

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the heathen through faith preached before the gospel

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unto Abraham, saying, In thee shall all nations

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be blessed.

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So then they which be of faith are

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blessed with faithful Abraham.

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Scripture preaching.

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Preaching the gospel to Abraham.

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The very same gospel that God has entrusted

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to you and to me.

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What does it mean, scripture preaching?

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How can scripture preach?

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Well, we've been learning that as Peter McDonough

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has been tracing through something of the history,

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life of Abraham, and the covenant that God

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confirmed in him.

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And scripture preaching is indicated very clearly.

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You needn't turn to this, because you've done

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so already and probably will again.

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Genesis 12.

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The Lord had said unto Abraham, Get thee

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out of thy country and from thy kindred

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and from thy father's house unto a land

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that I will show thee.

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I, the Lord, will make of thee a

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great nation.

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I, the Lord, will bless thee and make

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thy name great and thou shalt be a

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blessing.

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And I, the Lord, will bless them that

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bless thee and curse him that curses thee.

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And in thee shall all families of the

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earth be blessed.

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So Abraham departed as the Lord had spoken.

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That's scripture preaching.

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Who was talking?

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The Lord.

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And of course, that's the miracle of this

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book.

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It's a divine declaration of intent.

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Something that God had to say and something

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that God wants you and me to know.

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And what God then was saying to Abraham

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was the gospel, the good news.

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Foreshadowing in advance the birth of that little

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baby boy at Bethlehem.

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Of the seed of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob,

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of the tribe of Judah, the house of

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David and the city of Bethlehem.

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The glorious consummation of God's redemptive and regenerative

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purpose settled in the heart of God before

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ever the world was.

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Gospel.

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What was involved in the gospel?

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Well, we've seen that the gospel is twofold

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in character.

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It's redemptive, a blood transaction, and regenerative.

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Brings about the new birth.

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A blood transfusion.

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The life of God in Christ shed for

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us, and the life of God in Christ

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restored to us.

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The one is a blood transaction, redemption.

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The other is a blood transfusion.

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He gave his life for us, now he

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gives his life to us.

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That's spelled out in the thirteenth and the

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fourteenth verses of this same third chapter of

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Galatians.

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Galatians 3, Christ hath redeemed us from the

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curse of the law, being made a curse

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for us.

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Blood transaction.

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Cursed is everyone that hangeth on a tree,

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crucified.

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Well that's the blood transaction.

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But to what end?

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Only that there might be precipitated through the

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reconciling act, the regenerative purpose.

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That to this end the blessing of Abraham

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might come on the Gentiles through Jesus Christ.

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What was the blessing of Abraham?

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What did God have in mind in making

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this pledge, confirming a covenant that he had

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already made in the person of the one

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who then was called Abraham, the father of

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one nation who was to become the father

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of many nations?

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Abraham.

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The twelve tribes.

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What was inherent in the blessing?

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The life of the lifeless.

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The raising of the dead.

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The reinvasion of a fallen race of fallen

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men, alienated from the life of God, a

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reinvasion of their humanity by the God who

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created them.

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A spiritual new birth.

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That the blessing of Abraham might come on

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the Gentiles through Jesus Christ, that we might

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receive the Holy Spirit of promise through faith.

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That's why Christ died for you, to give

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himself to you.

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But he gives himself to us now in

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the person of the one through whom the

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father gave himself to the Son, the Holy

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Elsewhere that's called regeneration, the renewing of the

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Holy Ghost, new birth, resurrection.

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That's gospel.

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A redemptive act and a regenerative purpose.

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A blood transaction and a blood transfusion.

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The blood transaction took place upon the cross,

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and the blood transfusion took place first at

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Pentecost.

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And ever since Pentecost, every time a boy,

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girl, man or woman in true repentance toward

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God, in simple childlike trust have put their

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faith in Jesus, there's a blood transfusion.

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Instantly that redemptive transaction is sealed by the

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gift to that individual of some body who

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comes to live in some body, the Holy

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Spirit, indwelling your human spirit through whom Christ

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takes up residence in you, as the father

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then, through the same Holy Spirit, took up

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residence in him.

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That's salvation.

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It isn't getting you out of hell and

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into heaven, that's included in the package, but

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it's incidental to the ultimate purpose of God,

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getting God out of heaven into you.

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Because that's what it takes to be functional.

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I think I've mentioned that once or twice.

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The apostle Paul goes on to say then

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in verse 15, Brethren, I speak after the

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manner of men, though it be but a

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man's covenant, yet if it be confirmed, no

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man disannulleth or addeth thereto.

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A covenant confirmed.

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But what was the covenant that was confirmed?

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Well, we've talked about it.

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At the beginning of that scarlet thread that

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weaves its way through the Old Testament scriptures

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and finds its consummation at Calvary.

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Satan rebuked by God in the day that

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man fell.

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I'll put enmity between you and the woman,

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between your seed and her seed.

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The seed of that woman, Jesus, to be

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born of Mary, conceit of the Holy Ghost

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is going to bruise your head, he'll destroy

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you, but you will bruise his heel.

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That was the covenant, and it was confirmed

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2,000 years later in Abraham.

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It concerned a seed, the seed of the

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woman.

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We're not left in doubt, of course, in

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God's word as to who that seed of

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the woman was who was going to bruise

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Satan's head.

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Destroy him that had the power of death,

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even the devil, and liberate, emancipate those who

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all through their lifetime were in fear of

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death.

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Verse 16.

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To Abraham and his seed were the promises

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made.

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He saith not unto seeds, plural, as of

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many.

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In other words, the benefit was not to

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come simply through a national culture.

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Not seeds, plural, but as of one, to

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thy seed, singular, which is Christ.

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So the seed promised, when God confirmed his

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covenant in Abraham, was the one who the

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seed of a woman was to bruise Satan's

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head, Jesus, in the unfolding redemptive and regenerative

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purpose of God.

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That's why, of course, the Lord Jesus, remember,

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in the Messianic psalm, quoted in the 10th

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chapter of the Epistle to the Hebrews, said,

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verse 5, Thank you, Father, for the body

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you have prepared for me to offer, a

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body conceived of the Holy Ghost, fashioned in

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the borrowed womb of a virgin girl.

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As foreshadowed, of course, throughout the Old Testament

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Scriptures, God said, I'll give you a sign,

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a virgin shall conceive and bear a son.

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Isaiah chapter 7, verse 9, Thou shalt call

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his name Emmanuel, God with us, the incarnate

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Word, the Logos, clothed with the humanity of

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man whom he created in his own image.

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But emptying himself, humbling himself, making himself of

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no reputation, was willing though the Creator to

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play for 33 years the role of creature,

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though he was the God who made man

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be the kind of man whom he as

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God had made.

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And to us a child is given, a

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son is born.

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9th chapter, the prophecy of Isaiah, Thou shalt

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call his name Mighty God, Everlasting Father, Wonderful

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Counselor, Prince of Peace.

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The zeal of the Lord of Hosts will

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do this.

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It will demand a divine intervention, and did.

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So the foreshadowing of the woman whose seed

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would bruise Satan's head, the theme runs right

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the way through the Word of God.

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Thank you, Father, for the body that you

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have prepared for me to offer to you.

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7th verse of the same 10th chapter, the

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epistles of the Hebrews, I have come to

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do your will, O God.

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All that has been written of me in

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the volume of the book.

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What book?

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Old Testament.

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The Old Testament.

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For as we've seen already, the New Testament

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was given late and simply tells us that

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the Lord Jesus did what the Old Testament

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said he would.

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I've come to do your will, O God.

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The story was written in advance, and there

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came a day when a little baby boy

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was born at Bethlehem, and the Lord Jesus

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said the hour has come to tell the

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story.

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You're on solid rock, you see, when you

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come to the Lord Jesus.

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You step into the eternal, timeless, redemptive, and

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regenerative purpose of God, finding its consummation in

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the one born at Bethlehem, who was the

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Lamb slain before the foundation of the world.

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As of one to thy seed, which is

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Christ.

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Now he goes on to say this, in

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verse 17, this I say, that that covenant

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made by God when he rebuked Satan confirmed

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in Abraham 2,000 years later, to find

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its fulfillment at Calvary 2,000 years later,

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and now you and I on earth anticipating

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his return 2,000 years later.

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Exciting.

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I'm anticipating the return of the Lord Jesus

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any time.

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Could be before tomorrow morning.

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In some ways I hope not, because I've

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got some exciting things to tell you about

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tomorrow morning.

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But I'd settle for it if you decided

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to come tonight.

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But I really, quite frankly, old as I

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am, don't anticipate going to heaven by underground.

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I'm going by air.

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We're going to meet him in the clouds.

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Marvelous.

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At least, I will if I'm in Colorado.

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But you see, that's the other side of

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the world, and I'm going up.

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Is anybody's guess as to where you folks

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are going?

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I just hope you manage to change course.

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This I say, the covenant that was confirmed

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before of God in Christ.

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The law, which was 430 years after, cannot

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disannul it, but it should make that promise

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of none in faith.

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Now you need to pause and consider that.

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God made a covenant, he rebuked the devil,

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said that a little baby boy was going

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to be born of a woman who would

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destroy Satan, and all his works.

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That covenant was confirmed in Abraham, and then

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the law was given 430 years later.

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So would you anticipate that you're going to

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be saved, reconciled to God by keeping the

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law, when God had already confirmed in Abraham

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the pledge he made of a little baby

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boy to be born at Bethlehem?

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God change his mind?

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Suddenly decided we'll scrap the earlier plan, now

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we'll let people get to heaven by keeping

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the law.

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Well that would be nonsense.

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The law was added 430 years after.

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If the inheritance be of the law, we

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deserving our salvation, God patting us on the

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back and congratulating us that we've done so

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well in keeping his law.

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If salvation, the inheritance, be of that law,

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it's no more of promise.

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But God gave it to Abraham by promise,

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and God didn't change his mind.

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So there's a very natural question that might

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arise on your lips, wherefore then serveth the

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law?

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If God already made up his mind that

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you and I were going to be redeemed

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through the shed blood of his incarnate son,

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born at Bethlehem according to promise, if that

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was his plan to which he's going to

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stick, why did he add the law 430

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years after?

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Well the answer is very simple, verse 19,

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it was added because of transgressions, until the

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seed should come to whom the promise was

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made.

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In other words, the law is a temporary

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expedient that was to cover a period of

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time until the one promised in the covenant,

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Genesis 3 15, confirmed in Abraham, should be

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born at Bethlehem.

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So the law is a temporary expedient until

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the seed arrives, Jesus.

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Now we need to understand the nature of

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the law, we're not going to spend very

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long on this because we've other things that

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we need to discuss.

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That the law that God gave to Moses

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on Mount Sinai, that he etched himself, God,

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with his finger on stone, God authored it,

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that's why you and I cannot amend it,

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was threefold in character, it was a civil

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law as between man and man, and it

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was a moral law as between man and

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God.

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Civil law in our western nations is based

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upon that civil law God gave to Moses

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then.

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The moral law we call the Ten Commandments,

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and we've discussed already that the Ten Commandments

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are not simply rules and regulations that God

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thought up to make life difficult.

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The law simply described the righteousness of God.

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The minimal demands that he as our creator

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has the absolute right to make of a

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man the creature made in his image.

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Don't lie, I'm not a liar, don't steal,

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I'm not a thief, don't commit adultery, God

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says I'm not an adulterer, and you were

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created to reflect the glory, so that all

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creation could look at man and know what

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God was like.

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That's the moral law.

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Why did God give the moral law?

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Because of transgressions.

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Because Ichabod, the glory had already departed, and

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man had long since ceased to be conscious

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of the nature and character and glory and

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holiness of God.

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So God introduced the moral law so that

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you and I might know what those minimal

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demands are of a holy God who created

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us to reflect his character.

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It was added, because of transgressions, to prove

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guilty sinners guilty.

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The law was never designed to make men

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good.

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The law was designed in God's divine economy

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to prove men bad.

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Just keep the place there in Galatians 3,

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but have a look at Romans chapter 3.

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Third chapter, epistle to the Romans.

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Nineteenth verse, we know that what things whoever

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the law saith, it saith to them who

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are under the law.

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What for?

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So that they can try and keep it

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and be good, uh-uh, that every mouth

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may be stopped, and all the world become

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guilty before God.

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That's why God gave the law.

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To prove you, to prove me, all men,

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guilty.

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Therefore by the deeds of the law there

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shall no flesh be justified in God's sight.

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For by the law is the knowledge of

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sin.

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The law was added because of transgressions so

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that in the light of what God demands

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of us who were made in his image,

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we will recognize that we have fallen short

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of the glory of God, and that's sin.

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All have sinned and come short of the

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glory of God.

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For sin is the transgression of the law.

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Because when you and I transgress that law

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that describes God's righteousness, we have fallen short

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of the glory.

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It was God's plumb line.

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If you could imagine that one of my

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hobbies is building dinky little things in the

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backyard.

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I fancy myself somewhat as a builder, and

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when I've built some dinky thing in my

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backyard, I invite one of the neighbors and

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give them a good meal and take them

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out into my yard and say, what do

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you think of that?

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And of course being good neighbors and having

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had a good meal, they say, absolutely fantastic.

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I'd like to congratulate you.

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I didn't know you had it in you

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to do anything like that.

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Fantastic.

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And I agree, because that's why I invited

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them to dinner.

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Well, you do that several times, and then

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it gets a little bit boring, because after

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all, they don't know much about it anyway.

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So next time when I've produced my masterpiece,

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I decide that I'm going to invite a

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man whose reputation is far and wide.

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I mean, he's in the top strata of

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that profession, and what he has to say

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will be worth something hearing.

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And so I give him a very specially

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good meal, take him out, and I say,

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what do you think of that?

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And my chest swells, and my chin goes

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out about three and a half inches, and

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I can watch him sort of drinking it

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all in.

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And I say, well, what do you think?

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He says, that's not bad.

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I say, beg your pardon?

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He says, it isn't bad.

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Well, of course it isn't bad, I say.

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Of course it is.

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I did it.

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Oh yes, he said, I can see that.

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I mean, it's all right, you know, for

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a beginner.

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And I'm beginning to blow my top.

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I'm getting really hot around the neck.

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And I say, what's wrong with it anyway?

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He said, don't get angry with me.

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But if you would look at it from

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where I am looking at it, you would

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see, it's just classic eye along this line,

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and you'll see there's some ugly little bulge

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in the middle.

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And not only that, if you look at

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it in another direction, you'll see that it's

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about two and a half inches out from

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top to bottom.

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It doesn't stand straight.

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And he's talking about my wall.

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And I'm really about now to explode.

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So he says, no, don't explode, it makes

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such a mess.

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He says, just a minute, he goes into

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the house and he takes the plumb line

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out of his pocket and puts it against

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my wall.

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And a sort of sickly smile spreads over

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my face.

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Because there's an ugly twist, a bulge in

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the middle.

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And it's leaning over about two and a

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half inches out from top to bottom.

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And do I hate his plumb line.

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You see a plumb line was never designed

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to make a crooked wall straight.

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A plumb line was designed to prove crooked

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walls crooked.

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That's why crooked walls hate plumb lines.

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And that's why man whose heart is deceitful

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above all things and desperately wicked hates God's

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law.

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He tries to amend it.

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He wants one that doesn't hang true.

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He wants one made out of a coat

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hanger that he can twist to match his

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own crookedness.

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It's called the new morality.

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Which, of course, is nothing more nor less

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than the old immorality.

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Because, you see, the law cannot be twisted.

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Because it represents the righteousness of God.

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And if you want to change God's law,

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you've got to change God.

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It's called the righteousness of God.

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In the 10th chapter of the Epistle to

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the Romans, where Paul, speaking of his own

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kith and kin as Jews, said, I have

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real compassion for them because they have a

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zeal of God, but not according to knowledge.

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If you do something which isn't according to

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knowledge, how do you do it?

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In ignorance.

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What was the nature of their ignorance?

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Not according to knowledge.

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The next verse goes on to say, 2nd

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verse, Romans 10, they being ignorant of God's

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righteousness, go about to establish their own righteousness,

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and do not submit themselves to the righteousness

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of God.

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And, of course, if you don't like the

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demands of God's righteousness, you can shop around.

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You'll find churches all over the place who

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will give you a twisted plumb line.

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And you'll think you're going to get by

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until one day you stand before him, and

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the only basis and standard upon which God

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will evaluate men at the judgment will be

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his righteousness.

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God's plumb line.

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So, the law is our schoolmaster.

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Still there, Galatians chapter 3, verse 24.

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The law is our schoolmaster.

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What's the law to teach us?

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That we're guilty, that we fall short of

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the glory, that we've sinned.

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The law is our schoolmaster.

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Not to make us miserable.

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Just to alert and awaken our souls to

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the fact of our need, and as our

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schoolmaster, leads us to Christ, the Savior, who

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saves his people from their sins.

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The only one who can make crooked wolves

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stray.

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So, the law is our schoolmaster.

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Bring us to Christ, that we might be

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justified, not by the law, or our good

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works, our practice of religion, but that we

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may be justified by faith.

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And after that faith is come, there's no

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condemnation.

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We're cleansed.

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We are no longer under a schoolmaster.

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You're the children of God, by faith in

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Jesus Christ.

541
00:26:25,770 --> 00:26:27,390
Now, that was the second part of the

542
00:26:27,390 --> 00:26:27,550
law.

543
00:26:27,630 --> 00:26:29,470
The third part was the sacrificial law, and

544
00:26:29,470 --> 00:26:30,710
we've already discussed that.

545
00:26:31,370 --> 00:26:32,930
That was the shedding of blood of bulls

546
00:26:32,930 --> 00:26:34,990
and goats and heifers and doves and lambs.

547
00:26:38,610 --> 00:26:40,550
That can never take away sin.

548
00:26:43,420 --> 00:26:45,600
A shadow only of good things to come.

549
00:26:45,940 --> 00:26:47,340
Hebrews 10, verse 1.

550
00:26:47,740 --> 00:26:49,680
Or Hebrews 10, verse 4.

551
00:26:50,160 --> 00:26:52,100
The blood of bulls and goats can never

552
00:26:52,100 --> 00:26:52,900
take away sin.

553
00:26:56,620 --> 00:26:59,380
Then you say, what is the value of

554
00:26:59,380 --> 00:27:01,440
the Old Testament sacrifice if it couldn't take

555
00:27:01,440 --> 00:27:01,640
away?

556
00:27:01,720 --> 00:27:03,300
It was a temporary expedient.

557
00:27:04,480 --> 00:27:06,080
Until the seed should come.

558
00:27:06,720 --> 00:27:08,740
The only one who could pay the price,

559
00:27:08,920 --> 00:27:10,620
because he was the only one who possessed

560
00:27:10,620 --> 00:27:12,900
the life that man lost in Adam, and

561
00:27:12,900 --> 00:27:15,000
the only one conceived of the Holy Ghost,

562
00:27:15,480 --> 00:27:17,620
indwelt by the blood of God, the life

563
00:27:17,620 --> 00:27:19,640
of God, who could lay down that life

564
00:27:19,640 --> 00:27:20,500
and pay the price.

565
00:27:21,820 --> 00:27:22,700
The seed.

566
00:27:26,110 --> 00:27:28,450
So, the blood sacrifice of the Old Testament

567
00:27:28,450 --> 00:27:31,190
was a temporary expedient.

568
00:27:31,930 --> 00:27:35,170
It was like God's checkbook, just as the

569
00:27:35,170 --> 00:27:38,090
moral law was God's plumb line that showed

570
00:27:38,090 --> 00:27:39,030
that we were in debt.

571
00:27:40,790 --> 00:27:44,570
Until Jesus came to pay the debt, God

572
00:27:44,570 --> 00:27:45,390
had a checkbook.

573
00:27:46,010 --> 00:27:49,870
And in the Old Testament, to any boy,

574
00:27:49,970 --> 00:27:51,350
girl, man or woman who came to the

575
00:27:51,350 --> 00:27:53,010
priest and said, I know that I've sinned,

576
00:27:53,050 --> 00:27:54,970
I'm guilty, I'm condemned by the moral law,

577
00:27:55,210 --> 00:27:56,630
how can I have peace with God?

578
00:27:56,970 --> 00:27:58,050
How can I have remission?

579
00:27:59,070 --> 00:28:00,550
And the priest would say, bring the blood

580
00:28:00,550 --> 00:28:02,090
of a lamb, a dove, a heifer, whatever

581
00:28:02,090 --> 00:28:02,790
it may be.

582
00:28:03,770 --> 00:28:04,450
God's check.

583
00:28:06,670 --> 00:28:08,190
Now, a check doesn't pay a debt.

584
00:28:09,810 --> 00:28:11,010
It only covers it.

585
00:28:12,970 --> 00:28:14,170
That's the atonement.

586
00:28:15,050 --> 00:28:17,890
Don't confuse the atonement of the blood sacrifices

587
00:28:17,890 --> 00:28:20,990
of the Old Testament with reconciliation or redemption.

588
00:28:21,710 --> 00:28:23,150
It was a temporary expedient.

589
00:28:23,410 --> 00:28:26,890
It only covered the debt, but didn't pay

590
00:28:26,890 --> 00:28:28,410
it, didn't take it away.

591
00:28:29,330 --> 00:28:30,150
It was a check.

592
00:28:31,790 --> 00:28:33,830
Supposing I owed you a thousand dollars and

593
00:28:33,830 --> 00:28:36,590
I don't, just in case you get some

594
00:28:36,590 --> 00:28:37,170
wrong idea.

595
00:28:39,030 --> 00:28:41,110
Well, you might anticipate one day I'll pay

596
00:28:41,110 --> 00:28:41,610
my debt.

597
00:28:42,090 --> 00:28:43,570
And sure enough, through the mail you get

598
00:28:43,570 --> 00:28:45,870
a letter from me, and in that letter

599
00:28:45,870 --> 00:28:50,090
there's a check, made out to you, signed

600
00:28:50,090 --> 00:28:52,350
by me, dated, everything is in order.

601
00:28:52,450 --> 00:28:53,270
Have I paid my debt?

602
00:28:53,950 --> 00:28:54,650
Well, no.

603
00:28:55,610 --> 00:28:57,050
All you've got is a piece of paper,

604
00:28:58,030 --> 00:28:59,050
a promise to pay.

605
00:29:00,310 --> 00:29:01,550
That doesn't pay your debt.

606
00:29:06,350 --> 00:29:09,810
I mean, you received that check for a

607
00:29:09,810 --> 00:29:11,330
thousand dollars, but I've got no money in

608
00:29:11,330 --> 00:29:11,790
my bank.

609
00:29:11,870 --> 00:29:12,970
How much is that check worth?

610
00:29:14,430 --> 00:29:15,190
Well, nothing.

611
00:29:16,050 --> 00:29:17,230
You could tear it up, throw it in

612
00:29:17,230 --> 00:29:20,950
the trash can, and lose nothing, because it

613
00:29:20,950 --> 00:29:21,670
isn't worth anything.

614
00:29:22,070 --> 00:29:23,190
It's only a promise to pay.

615
00:29:24,810 --> 00:29:30,390
Supposing I went, you know, to the shopping

616
00:29:30,390 --> 00:29:31,950
center and bought a radio and gave them

617
00:29:31,950 --> 00:29:33,610
a check like that, and then I stayed

618
00:29:33,610 --> 00:29:35,370
in the Holiday Inn for ten days and

619
00:29:35,370 --> 00:29:36,610
paid with a check like that.

620
00:29:36,730 --> 00:29:37,810
What would happen after a bit?

621
00:29:39,510 --> 00:29:41,110
I'd be part of your prison ministry.

622
00:29:43,870 --> 00:29:45,890
Because a check, you see, with nothing in

623
00:29:45,890 --> 00:29:50,350
the bank to honor the check, is worthless.

624
00:29:53,030 --> 00:29:55,310
But supposing there's enough money and a spare

625
00:29:55,310 --> 00:29:58,290
in my bank, and the bank in which

626
00:29:58,290 --> 00:30:05,550
you deposit it, functions it, you know, makes

627
00:30:05,550 --> 00:30:07,770
it work, cashes it.

628
00:30:09,270 --> 00:30:10,450
Is your debt now paid?

629
00:30:10,450 --> 00:30:12,930
They transfer a thousand dollars from my account

630
00:30:12,930 --> 00:30:14,170
into your account in cash.

631
00:30:14,970 --> 00:30:15,990
Now your debt's paid.

632
00:30:20,120 --> 00:30:21,020
Check has been honored.

633
00:30:21,600 --> 00:30:22,440
It's been cashed.

634
00:30:24,000 --> 00:30:25,580
And if you don't know too much about

635
00:30:25,580 --> 00:30:27,080
banking, you might think, well, that was pretty

636
00:30:27,080 --> 00:30:27,400
simple.

637
00:30:27,460 --> 00:30:28,700
I get a piece of paper like that,

638
00:30:28,740 --> 00:30:29,720
I take it to the bank, and I

639
00:30:29,720 --> 00:30:31,260
get a thousand dollars in cash in my

640
00:30:31,260 --> 00:30:31,540
account.

641
00:30:32,560 --> 00:30:34,060
I think I'll try that again tomorrow.

642
00:30:35,320 --> 00:30:36,860
And if you could get hold of it,

643
00:30:36,880 --> 00:30:38,280
you'd get the same kind of check and

644
00:30:38,280 --> 00:30:39,500
take it to the bank and try to

645
00:30:39,500 --> 00:30:41,200
get another thousand dollars out of the same

646
00:30:41,200 --> 00:30:41,520
check.

647
00:30:42,440 --> 00:30:43,280
How would that work?

648
00:30:44,720 --> 00:30:46,680
Well, you'd be part of my prison ministry.

649
00:30:48,780 --> 00:30:50,620
How much is a check worth once it's

650
00:30:50,620 --> 00:30:51,220
been cashed?

651
00:30:52,880 --> 00:30:53,320
Nothing.

652
00:30:54,720 --> 00:30:55,480
Absolutely nothing.

653
00:30:56,560 --> 00:30:57,780
On the back of it there'll be stamped

654
00:30:57,780 --> 00:30:58,180
honored.

655
00:30:59,060 --> 00:30:59,500
Canceled.

656
00:31:02,240 --> 00:31:04,060
And if you try to get another thousand

657
00:31:04,060 --> 00:31:07,640
dollars out of the same check, then you'd

658
00:31:07,640 --> 00:31:08,300
pay the price.

659
00:31:09,980 --> 00:31:12,180
Having cashed it, and having received the thousand

660
00:31:12,180 --> 00:31:15,280
dollars in your account, supposing you tore that

661
00:31:15,280 --> 00:31:16,360
check up then and put it in the

662
00:31:16,360 --> 00:31:17,620
trash can, how much would you lose?

663
00:31:18,740 --> 00:31:19,100
Nothing.

664
00:31:21,240 --> 00:31:23,100
You'd lose nothing if you tore it up

665
00:31:23,100 --> 00:31:24,900
when it was never cashed, and you'd lose

666
00:31:24,900 --> 00:31:26,180
nothing if you tore it up after it

667
00:31:26,180 --> 00:31:28,400
had been cashed, because it's only a check.

668
00:31:29,360 --> 00:31:30,440
Just a promise to pay.

669
00:31:30,660 --> 00:31:31,880
Now that was the blood of the Old

670
00:31:31,880 --> 00:31:32,980
Testament sacrifices.

671
00:31:33,520 --> 00:31:34,360
Absolutely valid.

672
00:31:35,180 --> 00:31:37,740
But only so long as there was somebody

673
00:31:37,740 --> 00:31:40,520
who had cash enough to honor the check.

674
00:31:41,560 --> 00:31:42,400
Who was that?

675
00:31:43,400 --> 00:31:44,500
The Lord Jesus.

676
00:31:45,320 --> 00:31:47,340
Because he was the only man since Adam

677
00:31:47,340 --> 00:31:50,440
fell who had that life that Adam and

678
00:31:50,440 --> 00:31:51,660
all mankind had lost.

679
00:31:51,960 --> 00:31:52,900
The life of God.

680
00:31:53,700 --> 00:31:54,780
Cash in the bank.

681
00:31:55,400 --> 00:31:57,320
That's why the Lord Jesus on the cross

682
00:31:57,320 --> 00:31:59,960
cried, you see, Teteleste, I paid in full.

683
00:32:00,620 --> 00:32:02,300
Father, I've cashed the check.

684
00:32:03,080 --> 00:32:03,940
It's been honored.

685
00:32:05,100 --> 00:32:08,000
And when he went, you see, with that

686
00:32:08,000 --> 00:32:10,320
malefactor who said, Lord, remember me when you

687
00:32:10,320 --> 00:32:11,240
come into your kingdom.

688
00:32:11,380 --> 00:32:13,620
He said, this day, not tomorrow, not in

689
00:32:13,620 --> 00:32:15,740
two days, not in three days, this day

690
00:32:15,740 --> 00:32:17,320
thou shalt be with me in paradise.

691
00:32:17,620 --> 00:32:19,080
I'm going to go to tell all those

692
00:32:19,080 --> 00:32:21,100
Old Testament saints who've had a check in

693
00:32:21,100 --> 00:32:23,420
their hands ever since they went to the

694
00:32:23,420 --> 00:32:23,760
priest.

695
00:32:23,960 --> 00:32:25,460
I'm going to tell them the good news

696
00:32:25,460 --> 00:32:27,600
that the check has been cashed.

697
00:32:29,340 --> 00:32:33,060
Teteleste, it is finished, paid in full.

698
00:32:38,360 --> 00:32:41,600
So the law offers us only the shadow

699
00:32:41,600 --> 00:32:46,980
of something good to come, the seed, a

700
00:32:46,980 --> 00:32:48,440
check that needed to be honored.

701
00:32:53,270 --> 00:32:56,150
Is the law then, verse 21 of Galatians

702
00:32:56,150 --> 00:32:57,970
3, against the promises of God?

703
00:32:59,770 --> 00:33:00,690
God forbid.

704
00:33:01,430 --> 00:33:05,150
There's no conflict between the law and grace.

705
00:33:06,330 --> 00:33:08,850
The law was the temporary expedient that God

706
00:33:08,850 --> 00:33:10,810
uses still to prove us that we need

707
00:33:10,810 --> 00:33:11,450
his grace.

708
00:33:12,530 --> 00:33:15,530
G-R-A-C-E, God's riches at

709
00:33:15,530 --> 00:33:16,390
Christ's expense.

710
00:33:17,390 --> 00:33:18,030
That's grace.

711
00:33:19,590 --> 00:33:22,170
But he had to pay the price.

712
00:33:22,250 --> 00:33:23,610
He had to cash the check.

713
00:33:24,710 --> 00:33:27,650
And when man fell in Adam, he forfeited

714
00:33:27,650 --> 00:33:28,510
the life of God.

715
00:33:28,710 --> 00:33:30,330
And only one who had the life of

716
00:33:30,330 --> 00:33:32,290
God to forfeit on the behalf of man

717
00:33:32,290 --> 00:33:34,730
could pay the price.

718
00:33:37,830 --> 00:33:41,370
That's why you see Christ died and rose

719
00:33:41,370 --> 00:33:43,070
again on the cross.

720
00:33:44,250 --> 00:33:46,610
He bore our sins, Peter tells us, in

721
00:33:46,610 --> 00:33:49,010
his own body on the tree.

722
00:33:49,830 --> 00:33:51,470
Not in the tomb, he never went there.

723
00:33:52,170 --> 00:33:53,510
His body did, but he didn't.

724
00:33:55,430 --> 00:33:57,490
Because the Lord Jesus said, this day thou

725
00:33:57,490 --> 00:33:58,630
shalt be with me in paradise.

726
00:33:58,850 --> 00:34:01,050
So where was Jesus the day he died

727
00:34:01,050 --> 00:34:01,510
physically?

728
00:34:02,570 --> 00:34:03,510
In paradise.

729
00:34:04,170 --> 00:34:05,330
Where was his body?

730
00:34:05,810 --> 00:34:06,510
In the tomb.

731
00:34:08,070 --> 00:34:09,590
He didn't suffer corruption.

732
00:34:09,770 --> 00:34:11,610
It remained there until the Lord Jesus, three

733
00:34:11,610 --> 00:34:14,310
days later, came back to that body and

734
00:34:14,310 --> 00:34:17,150
restored physical life to it, and appeared to

735
00:34:17,150 --> 00:34:20,969
his disciples and showed them the wounds in

736
00:34:20,969 --> 00:34:21,810
his hands and feet.

737
00:34:22,389 --> 00:34:24,290
But he'd by then been to paradise to

738
00:34:24,290 --> 00:34:26,630
tell all the Old Testament saints, Moses and

739
00:34:26,630 --> 00:34:31,010
Abel, who in obedience to God's sacrificial law

740
00:34:31,010 --> 00:34:33,929
had obeyed the gospel, the good news, and

741
00:34:33,929 --> 00:34:37,270
were accepted then on the same grounds that

742
00:34:37,270 --> 00:34:39,210
you and I will be accepted now.

743
00:34:39,469 --> 00:34:42,650
They in anticipation of the event, and we

744
00:34:42,650 --> 00:34:45,790
in retrospect putting our trust in Jesus.

745
00:34:47,130 --> 00:34:47,989
Very simple.

746
00:34:49,469 --> 00:34:51,270
So is the law then against the promises

747
00:34:51,270 --> 00:34:52,370
of God, verse 21?

748
00:34:53,429 --> 00:34:54,330
God forbid.

749
00:34:57,170 --> 00:34:58,490
Now I want you to pay very careful

750
00:34:58,490 --> 00:34:59,470
attention to this.

751
00:35:01,050 --> 00:35:02,370
It's in the subjunctive.

752
00:35:03,830 --> 00:35:06,390
If there had been a law which could

753
00:35:06,390 --> 00:35:11,370
have given life, verily righteousness should have come

754
00:35:11,370 --> 00:35:13,090
by the law.

755
00:35:14,190 --> 00:35:15,110
Now what does that tell you?

756
00:35:16,870 --> 00:35:18,750
Had there been a law that could have

757
00:35:18,750 --> 00:35:22,490
given life, righteousness would have come by the

758
00:35:22,490 --> 00:35:22,630
law.

759
00:35:22,730 --> 00:35:23,350
What does that tell you?

760
00:35:23,870 --> 00:35:25,030
Never read the Bible in a hurry.

761
00:35:27,470 --> 00:35:28,650
Righteousness comes from life.

762
00:35:31,450 --> 00:35:32,390
Righteousness comes from life.

763
00:35:32,590 --> 00:35:33,990
Had there been a law that could have

764
00:35:33,990 --> 00:35:37,390
given life, then righteousness would have come by

765
00:35:37,390 --> 00:35:37,790
the law.

766
00:35:37,990 --> 00:35:39,550
Because if the law can give you life,

767
00:35:39,810 --> 00:35:41,390
in the life you receive righteousness.

768
00:35:41,790 --> 00:35:42,330
What life?

769
00:35:44,270 --> 00:35:44,990
God's life.

770
00:35:47,970 --> 00:35:50,350
Philippians 1.11, which I've cited several times,

771
00:35:50,430 --> 00:35:54,230
the fruits of righteousness are by Jesus Christ.

772
00:35:56,260 --> 00:35:57,580
The fruits of the Spirit.

773
00:35:58,400 --> 00:36:00,180
The one by whom God, the Holy Spirit,

774
00:36:00,300 --> 00:36:02,440
you and I receive the life of Christ.

775
00:36:03,440 --> 00:36:04,940
Now if the law could have given us

776
00:36:04,940 --> 00:36:07,840
the life of Christ, then righteousness would have

777
00:36:07,840 --> 00:36:09,300
come by the law, and we could have

778
00:36:09,300 --> 00:36:10,860
gone to the law and received life.

779
00:36:12,320 --> 00:36:14,680
Had there been a law that could have

780
00:36:14,680 --> 00:36:16,280
given life, what does that presuppose?

781
00:36:16,320 --> 00:36:17,460
That there is one or isn't there?

782
00:36:19,650 --> 00:36:23,290
Had I got to the airport in time,

783
00:36:23,470 --> 00:36:24,550
I would have caught the plane.

784
00:36:25,530 --> 00:36:26,470
What does that tell you?

785
00:36:27,150 --> 00:36:28,450
That I did or I didn't.

786
00:36:29,550 --> 00:36:30,290
I didn't.

787
00:36:32,350 --> 00:36:34,410
With your nose against the shop window, you

788
00:36:34,410 --> 00:36:36,230
see, if I'd had enough money, I would

789
00:36:36,230 --> 00:36:36,810
have bought it.

790
00:36:37,250 --> 00:36:38,990
Does that mean you did or you didn't?

791
00:36:39,450 --> 00:36:40,590
You didn't.

792
00:36:40,870 --> 00:36:42,870
Because your husband wasn't there with his checkbook

793
00:36:42,870 --> 00:36:46,530
or credit card, to his delight.

794
00:36:48,270 --> 00:36:49,970
Had there been a law that could have

795
00:36:49,970 --> 00:36:52,950
given life, righteousness would have come by the

796
00:36:52,950 --> 00:36:53,170
law.

797
00:36:53,470 --> 00:36:56,050
Because righteousness derives from life, the life of

798
00:36:56,050 --> 00:36:56,410
God.

799
00:36:58,150 --> 00:37:00,570
But the law cannot restore that life.

800
00:37:01,030 --> 00:37:01,850
What does the law do?

801
00:37:03,110 --> 00:37:05,210
Well as the Ten Commandments, I've told you,

802
00:37:05,290 --> 00:37:07,270
it represents the minimal demands of a holy

803
00:37:07,270 --> 00:37:09,130
God made of a man creating his own

804
00:37:09,130 --> 00:37:09,410
image.

805
00:37:09,710 --> 00:37:13,050
So the law accurately describes the righteousness of

806
00:37:13,050 --> 00:37:13,410
God.

807
00:37:15,310 --> 00:37:17,470
Tells you the quality of life that derives

808
00:37:17,470 --> 00:37:19,490
from allowing God to live in you.

809
00:37:19,570 --> 00:37:21,990
Teach your mind, control your emotions, direct your

810
00:37:21,990 --> 00:37:23,190
will and govern your behavior.

811
00:37:23,590 --> 00:37:25,930
He clothing his deity with your humanity.

812
00:37:26,350 --> 00:37:28,090
Man as God intended man to be.

813
00:37:28,350 --> 00:37:30,250
He God in the man, the origin of

814
00:37:30,250 --> 00:37:30,810
his own image.

815
00:37:31,070 --> 00:37:32,630
He God in the man, the source of

816
00:37:32,630 --> 00:37:34,250
his own God activity.

817
00:37:34,670 --> 00:37:37,010
He God in the man, dynamic of his

818
00:37:37,010 --> 00:37:38,850
own demands and cause of his own effects.

819
00:37:39,770 --> 00:37:41,230
That's how God created man.

820
00:37:44,050 --> 00:37:45,930
And when God was in a man living

821
00:37:45,930 --> 00:37:49,050
his life, clothed with the man's humanity, he

822
00:37:49,050 --> 00:37:52,270
of his own free consent, making himself available,

823
00:37:52,470 --> 00:37:55,330
body, soul, spirit, mind, emotion, will, full of

824
00:37:55,330 --> 00:37:59,130
the Holy Ghost, the righteousness that others saw

825
00:37:59,130 --> 00:38:01,990
in Adam, had they been there, would have

826
00:38:01,990 --> 00:38:03,210
been the righteousness of God.

827
00:38:03,430 --> 00:38:05,770
As the Lord Jesus, playing that role to

828
00:38:05,770 --> 00:38:10,030
perfection, real man, could only say, when you

829
00:38:10,030 --> 00:38:12,050
look at me, you don't see me behave,

830
00:38:12,170 --> 00:38:13,970
you see my father behaving.

831
00:38:15,090 --> 00:38:16,770
He that sees me sees my father.

832
00:38:17,890 --> 00:38:20,430
Because I'm playing that role for which I

833
00:38:20,430 --> 00:38:21,830
as God created you as men.

834
00:38:22,070 --> 00:38:23,930
I'm allowing my father in me to be

835
00:38:23,930 --> 00:38:26,110
the source of all I do and say

836
00:38:26,110 --> 00:38:28,410
and am, righteousness, God behaving.

837
00:38:29,690 --> 00:38:32,250
So the Lord describes the quality of life,

838
00:38:32,430 --> 00:38:34,550
righteousness, that would derive from the life of

839
00:38:34,550 --> 00:38:34,830
God.

840
00:38:35,030 --> 00:38:37,050
But what the law cannot do is restore

841
00:38:37,050 --> 00:38:38,750
to man the life of God from which

842
00:38:38,750 --> 00:38:40,170
righteousness derives.

843
00:38:44,740 --> 00:38:48,140
It can only prove us guilty and lead

844
00:38:48,140 --> 00:38:48,820
us to Christ.

845
00:38:50,180 --> 00:38:52,180
Who then says, I'm come that you might

846
00:38:52,180 --> 00:38:53,560
have, what?

847
00:38:54,540 --> 00:38:57,980
What the law can't give you, life.

848
00:39:00,260 --> 00:39:04,200
What the law could not do through the

849
00:39:04,200 --> 00:39:07,480
weakness of the flesh, about which Sonny was

850
00:39:07,480 --> 00:39:10,680
talking this morning, what the law could not

851
00:39:10,680 --> 00:39:12,260
do through the weakness of the flesh, that

852
00:39:12,260 --> 00:39:16,040
old Adamic nature, that carnal mind that is

853
00:39:16,040 --> 00:39:18,060
at enmity with God, not subject to his

854
00:39:18,060 --> 00:39:21,120
law, neither can be, what the law could

855
00:39:21,120 --> 00:39:22,580
not do through the weakness of the flesh,

856
00:39:22,700 --> 00:39:23,280
God has done.

857
00:39:24,660 --> 00:39:26,800
Sending his own son in the likeness of

858
00:39:26,800 --> 00:39:29,500
sinful flesh and for sin has condemned our

859
00:39:29,500 --> 00:39:31,840
sin in his flesh on the cross.

860
00:39:35,840 --> 00:39:38,080
So that giving himself for us, risen from

861
00:39:38,080 --> 00:39:39,900
the dead, he might give himself to us

862
00:39:39,900 --> 00:39:43,060
and by his presence in life abolish the

863
00:39:43,060 --> 00:39:46,060
state of death so that we may walk

864
00:39:46,060 --> 00:39:46,800
in the Spirit.

865
00:39:47,240 --> 00:39:48,700
For what the law could not do through

866
00:39:48,700 --> 00:39:50,800
the weakness of the flesh, God has done,

867
00:39:50,960 --> 00:39:52,520
sending his own son in the likeness of

868
00:39:52,520 --> 00:39:55,660
sinful flesh and for sin, that the righteousness

869
00:39:55,660 --> 00:39:58,880
demanded by the law might now be fulfilled

870
00:39:58,880 --> 00:40:02,160
in us who walk, not after the flesh

871
00:40:02,160 --> 00:40:06,900
that can't, but after the Spirit who can.

872
00:40:08,540 --> 00:40:11,540
Romans chapter 8 verses 3 and 4.

873
00:40:12,960 --> 00:40:15,640
All right, now let's match that with Hebrews

874
00:40:15,640 --> 00:40:19,860
in chapter 7 verses 18 and 19.

875
00:40:20,100 --> 00:40:24,660
Hebrews 7, 18 and 19.

876
00:40:31,440 --> 00:40:37,180
And you'll see the beautiful consistency of God's

877
00:40:37,180 --> 00:40:37,360
word.

878
00:40:38,980 --> 00:40:41,600
Verse 18 of the 7th chapter of the

879
00:40:41,600 --> 00:40:44,660
epistle of the Hebrews, there is verily a

880
00:40:44,660 --> 00:40:54,890
disannulling, rendering out of use, a

881
00:40:56,400 --> 00:41:00,860
disannulling of the commandment going before.

882
00:41:01,720 --> 00:41:05,100
Not the moral law, that'll never change because

883
00:41:05,100 --> 00:41:06,000
God never changes.

884
00:41:07,280 --> 00:41:09,300
He's speaking now of the sacrificial law.

885
00:41:10,820 --> 00:41:13,540
There is verily a disannulling of the commandment

886
00:41:13,540 --> 00:41:16,400
going before for the weakness and unprofitables thereof.

887
00:41:17,960 --> 00:41:20,400
That law command of God, which in the

888
00:41:20,400 --> 00:41:22,120
Old Testament said, bring the blood of a

889
00:41:22,120 --> 00:41:24,060
bull, goat, heifer, or a lamb, which can

890
00:41:24,060 --> 00:41:25,520
never take away sin.

891
00:41:28,120 --> 00:41:34,280
There is therefore a disannulling, a rendering obsolete

892
00:41:34,280 --> 00:41:38,940
of the commandment going before for the weakness

893
00:41:38,940 --> 00:41:44,380
and unprofitables thereof, because the law made nothing

894
00:41:44,380 --> 00:41:45,300
perfect.

895
00:41:46,780 --> 00:41:48,120
The law made nothing perfect.

896
00:41:49,920 --> 00:41:52,040
In the margin of your Bible put there

897
00:41:52,040 --> 00:41:55,100
Psalm 19, 7.

898
00:41:55,760 --> 00:41:57,580
This is Hebrews 7, 19.

899
00:41:58,280 --> 00:41:59,260
You'll be able to remember that.

900
00:41:59,800 --> 00:42:01,840
Hebrews 7, 19, Psalm 19, 7.

901
00:42:01,900 --> 00:42:03,240
What does Psalm 19, 7 say?

902
00:42:03,560 --> 00:42:06,080
The law of the Lord is perfect.

903
00:42:07,100 --> 00:42:09,940
It gives a perfectly accurate description of God's

904
00:42:09,940 --> 00:42:14,440
righteousness, and of all that righteousness demands of

905
00:42:14,440 --> 00:42:16,520
you and me as men who were created

906
00:42:16,520 --> 00:42:17,260
in God's image.

907
00:42:19,710 --> 00:42:21,530
The law of the Lord is perfect, but

908
00:42:21,530 --> 00:42:22,790
all the law of the Lord which is

909
00:42:22,790 --> 00:42:25,350
perfect can do is convert the soul.

910
00:42:26,870 --> 00:42:29,450
In other words, prove us guilty and show

911
00:42:29,450 --> 00:42:31,210
us that we need exactly what God had

912
00:42:31,210 --> 00:42:37,470
in mind when he promised Abraham that that

913
00:42:37,470 --> 00:42:43,550
seed should be born, foreshadowed in advance Genesis

914
00:42:43,550 --> 00:42:46,610
3, 15, when God rebuked the devil, when

915
00:42:46,610 --> 00:42:47,130
Adam fell.

916
00:42:49,530 --> 00:42:55,710
The law made nothing perfect, but the bringing

917
00:42:55,710 --> 00:42:58,130
in of a better hope did.

918
00:43:00,250 --> 00:43:01,810
Now don't misunderstand that.

919
00:43:02,510 --> 00:43:04,230
The bringing in of a better hope.

920
00:43:05,230 --> 00:43:07,190
That doesn't mean that God, you know, first

921
00:43:07,190 --> 00:43:08,790
thought up the law and it failed, so

922
00:43:08,790 --> 00:43:12,530
he had a panic committee in heaven and

923
00:43:13,840 --> 00:43:14,700
thought up a new way.

924
00:43:14,820 --> 00:43:15,140
Uh-uh.

925
00:43:17,120 --> 00:43:19,640
It's the covenant that God made in the

926
00:43:19,640 --> 00:43:21,620
day that man sinned.

927
00:43:22,980 --> 00:43:25,260
Confirmed in Abraham, fulfilled in Jesus.

928
00:43:26,020 --> 00:43:28,340
God didn't think up anything new, whatever.

929
00:43:29,060 --> 00:43:32,760
He simply brought in the plan in his

930
00:43:32,760 --> 00:43:35,880
appointed time, because in the fullness of time,

931
00:43:36,220 --> 00:43:40,340
dead on schedule, Jesus was born of a

932
00:43:40,340 --> 00:43:40,620
woman.

933
00:43:41,780 --> 00:43:44,700
Galatians chapter 4 and verse 4.

934
00:43:48,160 --> 00:43:50,280
That he might accomplish the redemptive act.

935
00:43:52,340 --> 00:43:54,580
The bringing in of the better hope.

936
00:43:54,800 --> 00:43:57,940
The introducing into the world of the Lord

937
00:43:57,940 --> 00:44:00,320
Jesus, the Lamb slain before ever the world

938
00:44:00,320 --> 00:44:00,700
was.

939
00:44:01,700 --> 00:44:03,060
A better hope.

940
00:44:06,650 --> 00:44:07,210
Wonderful.

941
00:44:09,630 --> 00:44:10,390
Jesus.

942
00:44:12,510 --> 00:44:13,650
Anything else?

943
00:44:15,150 --> 00:44:15,790
Well yes.

944
00:44:16,050 --> 00:44:19,110
In the same chapter there, Hebrews chapter 7,

945
00:44:20,490 --> 00:44:22,970
another but, verse 24.

946
00:44:24,570 --> 00:44:29,550
But this man, Jesus, because he continue with

947
00:44:29,550 --> 00:44:32,770
ever hath an unchangeable priesthood, he didn't have

948
00:44:32,770 --> 00:44:34,690
to be replaced by virtue of death.

949
00:44:36,050 --> 00:44:37,810
He was a priest after the order of

950
00:44:37,810 --> 00:44:38,630
an endless life.

951
00:44:38,990 --> 00:44:42,410
He brought, we saw that, Hebrews 10, 12,

952
00:44:43,210 --> 00:44:46,490
but this man offered one sacrifice for sins

953
00:44:46,490 --> 00:44:47,090
forever.

954
00:44:47,650 --> 00:44:49,710
Not day after day and week after week

955
00:44:49,710 --> 00:44:52,570
and month after month, like the Levitical priesthood,

956
00:44:52,970 --> 00:44:54,950
because that has been rendered obsolete.

957
00:44:56,150 --> 00:44:58,490
Because that was but a check that Christ

958
00:44:58,490 --> 00:45:02,370
cashed on the cross, in that one sacrifice

959
00:45:02,370 --> 00:45:03,870
for sins forever.

960
00:45:04,910 --> 00:45:08,010
This man, because he continue with ever, hath

961
00:45:08,010 --> 00:45:11,430
an unchangeable priesthood, wherefore he is able also

962
00:45:11,430 --> 00:45:14,610
to save them to the uttermost that come

963
00:45:14,610 --> 00:45:16,870
unto God by him, seeing he ever liveth

964
00:45:16,870 --> 00:45:18,170
to make intercession for them.

965
00:45:18,170 --> 00:45:21,050
For such an high priest became as who

966
00:45:21,050 --> 00:45:24,470
is holy, harmless, undefiled, separate from sinners, and

967
00:45:24,470 --> 00:45:26,910
made higher than the heavens, who needeth not

968
00:45:26,910 --> 00:45:30,050
daily as those high priests to offer up

969
00:45:30,050 --> 00:45:32,430
sacrifice first for his own sins, and then

970
00:45:32,430 --> 00:45:33,450
for the people's.

971
00:45:33,890 --> 00:45:37,410
For this he did once, when he offered

972
00:45:37,410 --> 00:45:38,410
up himself.

973
00:45:39,690 --> 00:45:41,470
You see, in the Old Testament, the fire

974
00:45:41,470 --> 00:45:44,050
consumed the sacrifice, but on the cross, the

975
00:45:44,050 --> 00:45:49,610
sacrifice consumed the fire, never to burn again.

976
00:45:50,910 --> 00:45:52,330
A better sacrifice.

977
00:45:57,720 --> 00:46:00,280
In Hebrews, in chapter 9, just turn over

978
00:46:00,280 --> 00:46:01,580
the page, look at it, 22.

979
00:46:01,980 --> 00:46:03,720
Almost all things are by the law purged

980
00:46:03,720 --> 00:46:06,240
with blood, without shedding of blood, no remission.

981
00:46:06,840 --> 00:46:09,020
It was therefore necessary that the patterns of

982
00:46:09,020 --> 00:46:13,140
things, the shadow, the patterns of things in

983
00:46:13,140 --> 00:46:15,240
the heavens should be purified with these, but

984
00:46:15,240 --> 00:46:18,060
the heavenly, the reality, the substance of it,

985
00:46:18,560 --> 00:46:22,800
the heavenly things themselves with better sacrifices than

986
00:46:22,800 --> 00:46:23,040
these.

987
00:46:23,440 --> 00:46:26,500
I often wondered why it was sacrifices when

988
00:46:26,500 --> 00:46:29,300
Jesus offered one sacrifice for sins forever, and

989
00:46:29,300 --> 00:46:30,360
yet there it's in the plural.

990
00:46:32,900 --> 00:46:34,440
Well, how many times did Adam die?

991
00:46:35,680 --> 00:46:36,240
Twice.

992
00:46:37,160 --> 00:46:39,300
Spirits really forfeited the life of God on

993
00:46:39,300 --> 00:46:40,100
the day he fell.

994
00:46:40,640 --> 00:46:42,460
In the day that you eat thereof, God

995
00:46:42,460 --> 00:46:44,460
said you will surely die, and did, but

996
00:46:44,460 --> 00:46:48,280
over 900 years of age later, he died

997
00:46:48,280 --> 00:46:48,860
physically.

998
00:46:49,260 --> 00:46:50,540
How many times did Jesus die?

999
00:46:51,200 --> 00:46:53,160
On the cross, when he was made sin,

1000
00:46:53,300 --> 00:46:56,020
after those three agonizing hours of darkness, he

1001
00:46:56,020 --> 00:46:58,560
could cry, it's all over, finished, because the

1002
00:46:58,560 --> 00:47:01,520
Holy Spirit came back, re-inhabiting his human

1003
00:47:01,520 --> 00:47:01,880
spirit.

1004
00:47:02,020 --> 00:47:03,980
He was raised from the dead, the first

1005
00:47:03,980 --> 00:47:05,740
man ever to be raised from the dead,

1006
00:47:06,020 --> 00:47:07,860
the first man who forfeited the life of

1007
00:47:07,860 --> 00:47:10,180
God, but to whom that life was restored,

1008
00:47:10,520 --> 00:47:13,660
and the veil of the temple was rent

1009
00:47:13,660 --> 00:47:14,480
from top to bottom.

1010
00:47:14,620 --> 00:47:14,720
Remember?

1011
00:47:16,700 --> 00:47:17,160
Sacrifices.

1012
00:47:18,000 --> 00:47:20,060
Don't look at it now, but Isaiah, chapter

1013
00:47:20,060 --> 00:47:24,860
53, verse 9, speaking of the Lord Jesus

1014
00:47:24,860 --> 00:47:26,460
in anticipation of the event.

1015
00:47:28,560 --> 00:47:31,660
Death there is a plural word in the

1016
00:47:31,660 --> 00:47:32,080
original.

1017
00:47:32,660 --> 00:47:33,080
Deaths.

1018
00:47:34,480 --> 00:47:34,900
Deaths.

1019
00:47:36,620 --> 00:47:39,120
Don't you turn to it, but let me

1020
00:47:39,120 --> 00:47:40,240
read it to you just in case you

1021
00:47:40,240 --> 00:47:40,780
don't believe me.

1022
00:47:44,670 --> 00:47:46,150
You see, I had a special Bible written

1023
00:47:46,150 --> 00:47:47,370
to suit my doctrines.

1024
00:47:51,640 --> 00:47:54,940
Isaiah 53, verse 9, he made his grave

1025
00:47:54,940 --> 00:47:56,380
with the wicked and with the rich in

1026
00:47:56,380 --> 00:47:58,780
his deaths.

1027
00:48:00,140 --> 00:48:01,120
Plural, in the margin.

1028
00:48:01,240 --> 00:48:02,780
If you've got a marginal translation, you'll see

1029
00:48:02,780 --> 00:48:03,000
that.

1030
00:48:03,240 --> 00:48:06,480
The original word is plural, because Christ died

1031
00:48:06,480 --> 00:48:07,880
physically and spiritually.

1032
00:48:08,380 --> 00:48:09,600
Conquered death in all its forms.

1033
00:48:09,840 --> 00:48:10,320
Magnificent.

1034
00:48:11,760 --> 00:48:13,040
A better sacrifice.

1035
00:48:14,220 --> 00:48:19,400
And having conquered death, risen by the restoration

1036
00:48:19,400 --> 00:48:22,180
to him of the Holy Spirit, physically dying

1037
00:48:22,180 --> 00:48:24,200
for your sake and mine, three days later,

1038
00:48:24,520 --> 00:48:26,920
reoccupying that body that lay in the tomb,

1039
00:48:28,540 --> 00:48:30,920
that that life that was restored to him

1040
00:48:30,920 --> 00:48:32,220
might now be restored to you and to

1041
00:48:32,220 --> 00:48:32,440
me.

1042
00:48:34,820 --> 00:48:40,400
Turn to Ephesians in chapter 1.

1043
00:48:41,580 --> 00:48:42,940
And I'm going to read this from the

1044
00:48:42,940 --> 00:48:43,960
Amplified New Testament.

1045
00:48:44,420 --> 00:48:46,440
We've cited it already once, but maybe you

1046
00:48:46,440 --> 00:48:48,080
need to be reminded, and others of you

1047
00:48:48,080 --> 00:48:48,600
weren't here.

1048
00:48:49,220 --> 00:48:52,700
So in Ephesians 1, I do not cease,

1049
00:48:52,980 --> 00:48:54,640
verse 16, to give thanks for you, making

1050
00:48:54,640 --> 00:48:55,920
mention of you in my prayers.

1051
00:48:56,480 --> 00:48:58,160
I always pray the God of our Lord

1052
00:48:58,160 --> 00:48:59,960
Jesus Christ, the Father of glory, that he

1053
00:48:59,960 --> 00:49:01,920
may grant you a spirit of wisdom, revelation,

1054
00:49:02,320 --> 00:49:04,880
insight into mysteries and secrets, in the deep

1055
00:49:04,880 --> 00:49:06,800
and intimate knowledge of God, by having the

1056
00:49:06,800 --> 00:49:08,940
eyes of your heart flooded with light, so

1057
00:49:08,940 --> 00:49:10,600
that first you can know and understand the

1058
00:49:10,600 --> 00:49:12,300
hope to which he's called you, which is

1059
00:49:12,300 --> 00:49:15,340
Christ himself, somebody living in your heart, your

1060
00:49:15,340 --> 00:49:18,360
only hope of being restored to glory, Colossians

1061
00:49:18,360 --> 00:49:20,540
1.27. That's the first thing.

1062
00:49:20,760 --> 00:49:23,740
Secondly, how rich is his glorious inheritance in

1063
00:49:23,740 --> 00:49:24,220
the saints.

1064
00:49:24,480 --> 00:49:27,040
Not your inheritance in him, but his inheritance

1065
00:49:27,040 --> 00:49:29,060
in you, a place for his feet in

1066
00:49:29,060 --> 00:49:29,560
your heart.

1067
00:49:29,780 --> 00:49:31,460
Because he said, I'll make the place of

1068
00:49:31,460 --> 00:49:33,900
my feet glorious, to beautify the place of

1069
00:49:33,900 --> 00:49:34,700
my habitation.

1070
00:49:36,300 --> 00:49:39,740
It's his inheritance in the saints, the right

1071
00:49:39,740 --> 00:49:41,960
to be God in the man.

1072
00:49:42,120 --> 00:49:43,820
So that you can know and understand, verse

1073
00:49:43,820 --> 00:49:46,620
19, what is the immeasurable, unlimited and surpassing

1074
00:49:46,620 --> 00:49:49,460
greatness of God's power in and for us,

1075
00:49:49,700 --> 00:49:53,620
who believe, as demonstrated in the working of

1076
00:49:53,620 --> 00:49:56,540
his mighty strength, which he, God, exerted in

1077
00:49:56,540 --> 00:49:59,440
Christ, when he, God, raised Jesus from the

1078
00:49:59,440 --> 00:49:59,700
dead.

1079
00:50:02,400 --> 00:50:03,800
Verse 1, chapter 2.

1080
00:50:05,160 --> 00:50:10,660
And you, Hattie Quicken, who were dead in

1081
00:50:10,660 --> 00:50:11,580
trespasses and sins.

1082
00:50:13,100 --> 00:50:14,280
As I asked you the other day, is

1083
00:50:14,280 --> 00:50:15,500
he talking to a bunch of people in

1084
00:50:15,500 --> 00:50:15,740
heaven?

1085
00:50:16,420 --> 00:50:18,320
No, he's talking to the Ephesian church on

1086
00:50:18,320 --> 00:50:18,620
earth.

1087
00:50:19,560 --> 00:50:21,040
But he says, you've been raised from the

1088
00:50:21,040 --> 00:50:24,100
dead, by the same mighty power that God

1089
00:50:24,100 --> 00:50:26,340
exercised when he raised Jesus from the dead.

1090
00:50:27,360 --> 00:50:28,520
Was that a physical resurrection?

1091
00:50:28,700 --> 00:50:29,260
Well, of course not.

1092
00:50:30,240 --> 00:50:31,920
It simply means that the life that the

1093
00:50:31,920 --> 00:50:33,360
Lord Jesus laid down for you and for

1094
00:50:33,360 --> 00:50:35,600
me, God's life, which was restored to him

1095
00:50:35,600 --> 00:50:38,320
in the moment of redemption, in a spiritual

1096
00:50:38,320 --> 00:50:41,240
new birth, regeneration, the renewing of the Holy

1097
00:50:41,240 --> 00:50:43,480
Ghost, God restores to you and to me.

1098
00:50:45,240 --> 00:50:47,780
And in that same chapter, 2 and verse

1099
00:50:47,780 --> 00:50:50,840
4, in the Amplified New Testament, God, so

1100
00:50:50,840 --> 00:50:53,040
rich as he in his mercy, because of

1101
00:50:53,040 --> 00:50:54,680
and in order to satisfy the great and

1102
00:50:54,680 --> 00:50:56,560
wonderful, intense love with which he loved us,

1103
00:50:56,800 --> 00:51:00,000
even when we were dead, he made us

1104
00:51:00,000 --> 00:51:02,400
alive together in fellowship and in union with

1105
00:51:02,400 --> 00:51:02,740
Christ.

1106
00:51:03,240 --> 00:51:05,120
He gave us the very life of Christ

1107
00:51:05,120 --> 00:51:07,640
himself, the same new life with which he,

1108
00:51:07,960 --> 00:51:08,840
God, quickened him.

1109
00:51:09,580 --> 00:51:10,620
Isn't that incredible?

1110
00:51:12,180 --> 00:51:13,660
He gave to you and to me, when

1111
00:51:13,660 --> 00:51:17,680
we believed, the very life with which God,

1112
00:51:17,780 --> 00:51:22,210
the Father, quickened his son, the life of

1113
00:51:22,210 --> 00:51:22,550
God.

1114
00:51:24,130 --> 00:51:25,750
That's why you can say to me, to

1115
00:51:25,750 --> 00:51:27,650
live is Christ.

1116
00:51:29,010 --> 00:51:33,370
Look in the third chapter, verse 16.

1117
00:51:37,400 --> 00:51:38,980
May he grant you out of the rich

1118
00:51:38,980 --> 00:51:41,240
treasure of his glory to be strengthened, reinforced

1119
00:51:41,240 --> 00:51:43,980
with mighty power in the inner man, by

1120
00:51:43,980 --> 00:51:47,420
the Holy Spirit himself, indwelling your innermost being

1121
00:51:47,420 --> 00:51:48,160
and personality.

1122
00:51:48,500 --> 00:51:51,640
May Christ, through your faith, actually dwell, settle

1123
00:51:51,640 --> 00:51:54,980
down, abide, make his permanent home in your

1124
00:51:54,980 --> 00:51:55,520
hearts.

1125
00:51:56,220 --> 00:51:58,740
That, verse 19, you may really come to

1126
00:51:58,740 --> 00:52:02,020
know, practically, through experience for yourselves, the love

1127
00:52:02,020 --> 00:52:05,260
of Christ, which far surpasses mere knowledge without

1128
00:52:05,260 --> 00:52:05,820
experience.

1129
00:52:05,900 --> 00:52:07,880
That you may be filled through all your

1130
00:52:07,880 --> 00:52:09,800
being unto all the fullness of God.

1131
00:52:09,800 --> 00:52:11,520
That is, that you may have the richest

1132
00:52:11,520 --> 00:52:14,840
measure of the divine presence and become a

1133
00:52:14,840 --> 00:52:17,880
body wholly filled and flooded with God himself.

1134
00:52:20,550 --> 00:52:21,440
Is that enough?

1135
00:52:23,540 --> 00:52:25,420
That's what it means when you believe.

1136
00:52:26,540 --> 00:52:28,800
You're wholly filled and flooded with God himself.

1137
00:52:29,220 --> 00:52:30,920
You have the richest measure of the divine

1138
00:52:30,920 --> 00:52:31,440
presence.

1139
00:52:32,380 --> 00:52:34,460
God, the Creator, re-inhabits the creature.

1140
00:52:35,900 --> 00:52:37,320
How wealthy can you be?

1141
00:52:41,060 --> 00:52:50,810
Colossians 2.9. In him the

1142
00:52:50,810 --> 00:52:53,670
wholefulness of deity, the Godhead, continues to dwell

1143
00:52:53,670 --> 00:52:55,930
in bodily form, giving complete expression of the

1144
00:52:55,930 --> 00:52:56,650
divine nature.

1145
00:52:57,030 --> 00:52:59,650
And you are in him, Christ, made full,

1146
00:52:59,870 --> 00:53:01,890
have come to fullness of life in Christ.

1147
00:53:02,150 --> 00:53:05,230
You too are filled with the Godhead, Father,

1148
00:53:05,550 --> 00:53:06,710
Son, and Holy Spirit.

1149
00:53:06,710 --> 00:53:08,750
In other words, your body becomes the temple

1150
00:53:08,750 --> 00:53:09,630
of the living God.

1151
00:53:11,030 --> 00:53:13,150
And all he needs in that temple, your

1152
00:53:13,150 --> 00:53:15,250
heart, is a place for his feet so

1153
00:53:15,250 --> 00:53:18,090
that he can reach his throne and make

1154
00:53:18,090 --> 00:53:21,190
the place of his feet glorious and beautify

1155
00:53:21,190 --> 00:53:22,570
the place of his habitation.

1156
00:53:24,850 --> 00:53:28,030
Well, being as we are so magnificently furnished

1157
00:53:28,030 --> 00:53:30,030
by the presence of Jesus unto every good

1158
00:53:30,030 --> 00:53:32,130
work, what's gone wrong?

1159
00:53:33,710 --> 00:53:36,150
Why has redeemed sinners, indwelt by the Creator

1160
00:53:36,150 --> 00:53:41,610
God, allowed to draw upon the illimitable resources

1161
00:53:41,610 --> 00:53:43,570
of deity by virtue of the presence of

1162
00:53:43,570 --> 00:53:44,790
Christ living within us?

1163
00:53:45,130 --> 00:53:47,050
Why do we give such a shabby exhibition?

1164
00:53:49,070 --> 00:53:50,630
I'm going to take these two or three

1165
00:53:50,630 --> 00:53:52,970
moments only just to show you something on

1166
00:53:52,970 --> 00:53:55,370
video.

1167
00:53:55,990 --> 00:53:57,850
Not a video, a transparency.

1168
00:53:58,280 --> 00:54:11,460
Let me just remind you, when

1169
00:54:11,460 --> 00:54:15,960
by faith, in this condition, dead in trespasses

1170
00:54:15,960 --> 00:54:18,160
and sins, alienated from the life of God,

1171
00:54:18,420 --> 00:54:21,640
the Holy Spirit, having been withdrawn, leaving you

1172
00:54:21,640 --> 00:54:24,820
physically alive, soulishly active, but when you turn

1173
00:54:24,820 --> 00:54:27,520
in faith through Christ, back to God, truly

1174
00:54:27,520 --> 00:54:31,740
repentant, with childlike dependence, you're redeemed.

1175
00:54:32,880 --> 00:54:34,040
Your sins are forgiven.

1176
00:54:34,180 --> 00:54:35,500
Blotted out like a thick clasp.

1177
00:54:36,860 --> 00:54:40,440
Because the Lord Jesus bore our sins in

1178
00:54:40,440 --> 00:54:41,640
his own body on the tree.

1179
00:54:42,620 --> 00:54:45,740
And being made sin for us, our sin

1180
00:54:45,740 --> 00:54:51,600
coming between himself and God, the Holy Spirit,

1181
00:54:51,960 --> 00:54:54,700
withdrawn from the Lord Jesus, he died.

1182
00:54:56,020 --> 00:54:58,580
But the Holy Spirit, three hours later, was

1183
00:54:58,580 --> 00:55:01,260
restored to him, the first man raised from

1184
00:55:01,260 --> 00:55:06,980
the dead, that his Holy Spirit then, for

1185
00:55:06,980 --> 00:55:08,780
the first time in all human history at

1186
00:55:08,780 --> 00:55:12,560
Pentecost, then instantly, every time any boy, girl,

1187
00:55:12,660 --> 00:55:16,400
man or woman is redeemed, his life restored

1188
00:55:16,400 --> 00:55:17,360
to you and to me.

1189
00:55:17,920 --> 00:55:20,220
The same life with which the Father quickened

1190
00:55:20,220 --> 00:55:23,180
him is the life with which he now

1191
00:55:23,180 --> 00:55:24,400
quickens us.

1192
00:55:25,880 --> 00:55:27,540
But ego is still there.

1193
00:55:28,860 --> 00:55:29,620
The resistance.

1194
00:55:31,440 --> 00:55:34,400
The flesh that Sonny talked about this morning.

1195
00:55:36,920 --> 00:55:41,720
Now, the church, the body of Christ, is

1196
00:55:41,720 --> 00:55:45,220
represented by these who are indwelt by the

1197
00:55:45,220 --> 00:55:45,780
Holy Spirit.

1198
00:55:45,940 --> 00:55:49,920
It isn't a building made with hands, but

1199
00:55:49,920 --> 00:55:53,140
the bodies of redeemed sinners indwelt by their

1200
00:55:53,140 --> 00:55:53,660
risen Lord.

1201
00:55:54,560 --> 00:55:56,420
In the early church, of course, they sat

1202
00:55:56,420 --> 00:55:57,140
around a tree.

1203
00:55:58,740 --> 00:55:59,960
Which was the church?

1204
00:56:01,120 --> 00:56:03,020
The tree or the bodies?

1205
00:56:04,740 --> 00:56:06,780
But then it was the rainy season and

1206
00:56:06,780 --> 00:56:08,860
so they had to die for cover and

1207
00:56:08,860 --> 00:56:10,560
Mrs Smith let them come into her home.

1208
00:56:11,680 --> 00:56:12,920
Which was the church?

1209
00:56:13,520 --> 00:56:15,700
Her cottage or the people?

1210
00:56:16,800 --> 00:56:17,540
The people.

1211
00:56:18,280 --> 00:56:21,340
But then they accumulated a few funds and

1212
00:56:21,340 --> 00:56:22,660
thought we ought to have a nicer place

1213
00:56:22,660 --> 00:56:24,280
than that, so they built a nice church

1214
00:56:24,280 --> 00:56:27,520
with a clock given by a brew who

1215
00:56:27,520 --> 00:56:29,000
thought he'd get to heaven by giving a

1216
00:56:29,000 --> 00:56:29,740
clock to the church.

1217
00:56:31,140 --> 00:56:32,260
Which was the church?

1218
00:56:32,440 --> 00:56:33,680
The people or the building?

1219
00:56:36,120 --> 00:56:36,840
The people.

1220
00:56:37,520 --> 00:56:40,320
The church is the body of Christ, inhabited

1221
00:56:40,320 --> 00:56:41,420
by a risen Savior.

1222
00:56:43,700 --> 00:56:46,000
Now, unfortunately, this is not on the screen,

1223
00:56:47,200 --> 00:56:49,180
but down here you'll find this is man

1224
00:56:49,180 --> 00:56:51,580
in normality bearing the fruits of the Spirit,

1225
00:56:52,780 --> 00:56:54,680
because if you could see down here and

1226
00:56:54,680 --> 00:56:57,100
you can't, the roots of that tree are

1227
00:56:57,100 --> 00:56:57,580
in God.

1228
00:56:58,780 --> 00:57:02,160
Then man fell, forfeited the Holy Spirit, and

1229
00:57:02,160 --> 00:57:04,460
he produced only the works of the flesh,

1230
00:57:05,100 --> 00:57:06,780
because his roots were in Satan.

1231
00:57:08,860 --> 00:57:12,200
But when you're redeemed, the Holy Spirit comes

1232
00:57:12,200 --> 00:57:16,120
and your roots are on this side in

1233
00:57:16,120 --> 00:57:19,160
God, but unfortunately there are roots on the

1234
00:57:19,160 --> 00:57:21,280
other side still in that old Adamic nature.

1235
00:57:22,220 --> 00:57:24,440
So there's a mixture, every now and again

1236
00:57:24,440 --> 00:57:26,760
the fruit of the Spirit, every now and

1237
00:57:26,760 --> 00:57:27,900
again the works of the flesh.

1238
00:57:28,720 --> 00:57:31,560
A sort of mixed up kid, that's the

1239
00:57:31,560 --> 00:57:32,240
carnal Christian.

1240
00:57:34,180 --> 00:57:35,880
But you see, what God had in mind

1241
00:57:35,880 --> 00:57:38,840
in Christ was not only should he die

1242
00:57:38,840 --> 00:57:44,820
for us, but we die with him, to

1243
00:57:44,820 --> 00:57:45,880
that old Adamic nature.

1244
00:57:47,140 --> 00:57:48,760
And so by the cross, you see, you

1245
00:57:48,760 --> 00:57:50,640
and I by faith can put the axe

1246
00:57:51,320 --> 00:57:53,700
to the roots that still have their Satan,

1247
00:57:54,380 --> 00:57:55,980
their roots still in Satan.

1248
00:57:57,520 --> 00:58:00,120
Now I've seen a fantastic demonstration of that

1249
00:58:00,120 --> 00:58:01,080
here right on site.

1250
00:58:02,160 --> 00:58:04,440
It's down in the CMS place near the

1251
00:58:04,440 --> 00:58:04,820
restroom.

1252
00:58:05,920 --> 00:58:07,300
Don't know whether you've noticed it, you ought

1253
00:58:07,300 --> 00:58:08,020
to go and have a look.

1254
00:58:08,100 --> 00:58:11,220
There's an old trunk of a tree and

1255
00:58:11,220 --> 00:58:11,780
it's rotting.

1256
00:58:12,600 --> 00:58:14,600
It's as good as dead, but coming out

1257
00:58:14,600 --> 00:58:15,900
of the center it is a new tree.

1258
00:58:17,540 --> 00:58:17,940
Interesting.

1259
00:58:19,320 --> 00:58:19,960
That's a Christian.

1260
00:58:21,540 --> 00:58:23,100
So long as the axe of course has

1261
00:58:23,100 --> 00:58:26,120
been put to the old tree, then the

1262
00:58:26,120 --> 00:58:27,340
new life can spring.

1263
00:58:28,820 --> 00:58:29,900
Life out of death.

1264
00:58:31,040 --> 00:58:32,360
I'm going to take a picture of it.

1265
00:58:32,880 --> 00:58:33,680
Quite fascinating.

1266
00:58:35,720 --> 00:58:36,920
Now that's the problem.

1267
00:58:38,380 --> 00:58:40,040
That's why we give, you see, such a

1268
00:58:40,040 --> 00:58:44,040
shabby exhibition of the new life that we

1269
00:58:44,040 --> 00:58:45,140
received in Christ.

1270
00:58:46,240 --> 00:58:48,380
That's why Paul wrote to the Galatians.

1271
00:58:49,220 --> 00:58:53,080
He says foolish Galatians, who's bewitched you.

1272
00:58:58,040 --> 00:59:02,000
Somebody's taking you for a ride and dumped

1273
00:59:02,000 --> 00:59:02,960
you in the boondocks.

1274
00:59:04,480 --> 00:59:05,700
What was their problem?

1275
00:59:06,740 --> 00:59:10,020
Well there were legalistic believing Jews who wanted

1276
00:59:10,020 --> 00:59:12,680
to put them once more into bondage of

1277
00:59:12,680 --> 00:59:13,100
the law.

1278
00:59:14,360 --> 00:59:17,920
Instead of them living, drawing their limitable resources

1279
00:59:17,920 --> 00:59:19,280
from the life of Christ.

1280
00:59:20,400 --> 00:59:21,440
So this is what he says.

1281
00:59:21,520 --> 00:59:23,400
It's called the Amplified New Testament.

1282
00:59:23,560 --> 00:59:25,500
It isn't exaggerated, it's simply amplified.

1283
00:59:25,880 --> 00:59:27,740
Because the English language is poorer than the

1284
00:59:27,740 --> 00:59:29,420
Greek, so you need more words.

1285
00:59:29,500 --> 00:59:32,760
Oh you poor, silly, thoughtless, unreflecting, senseless Galatians.

1286
00:59:34,420 --> 00:59:35,820
Well what have they done to deserve that

1287
00:59:35,820 --> 00:59:36,100
lot?

1288
00:59:37,540 --> 00:59:40,360
Who's fascinated, bewitched, cast a spell over you?

1289
00:59:40,360 --> 00:59:42,240
Let me ask you this one question.

1290
00:59:42,380 --> 00:59:44,360
Did you receive the Holy Spirit as the

1291
00:59:44,360 --> 00:59:46,060
result of obeying the law and doing its

1292
00:59:46,060 --> 00:59:46,380
work?

1293
00:59:46,620 --> 00:59:48,020
Did God pat you on the back and

1294
00:59:48,020 --> 00:59:49,740
I'll give you my life because you've done

1295
00:59:49,740 --> 00:59:50,280
so well?

1296
00:59:50,600 --> 00:59:52,380
Well that was a rhetorical question.

1297
00:59:52,560 --> 00:59:54,160
He knew perfectly well that wasn't true.

1298
00:59:54,880 --> 00:59:56,600
Was it by hearing the message of the

1299
00:59:56,600 --> 00:59:58,600
gospel and believing it?

1300
00:59:59,040 --> 01:00:00,640
You heard the good news of the gospel,

1301
01:00:00,920 --> 01:00:03,180
you believed it, repented toward God, put your

1302
01:00:03,180 --> 01:00:05,760
trust in Jesus, and instantly God gave you

1303
01:00:05,760 --> 01:00:06,380
the Holy Spirit.

1304
01:00:08,780 --> 01:00:12,020
Are you so foolish, so senseless and so

1305
01:00:12,020 --> 01:00:12,340
silly?

1306
01:00:12,480 --> 01:00:12,880
Verse three.

1307
01:00:13,580 --> 01:00:16,220
Having begun your new life spiritually, God's gift

1308
01:00:16,220 --> 01:00:17,940
to you of the Holy Ghost, for whom

1309
01:00:17,940 --> 01:00:19,880
Jesus now lives in you as the Father

1310
01:00:19,880 --> 01:00:20,900
once lived in him.

1311
01:00:21,900 --> 01:00:24,260
Having begun your new life spiritually with the

1312
01:00:24,260 --> 01:00:28,080
Holy Spirit, you're now reaching perfection by dependence

1313
01:00:28,080 --> 01:00:31,460
on the flesh, polishing your own image, taking

1314
01:00:31,460 --> 01:00:33,660
the wick out of the oil, and burning

1315
01:00:33,660 --> 01:00:36,080
out and producing nothing but smoke and ashes.

1316
01:00:37,040 --> 01:00:38,520
He said, can you be that done?

1317
01:00:41,890 --> 01:00:44,750
Here's an illustration I've used a thousand times.

1318
01:00:45,510 --> 01:00:46,990
This is the thousand and one thing.

1319
01:00:48,530 --> 01:00:49,970
You're driving down the road and there's a

1320
01:00:49,970 --> 01:00:51,290
woman with her head under the hood.

1321
01:00:52,710 --> 01:00:53,830
Out of the kindness of your heart you

1322
01:00:53,830 --> 01:00:55,510
stop and say, lady are you in trouble?

1323
01:00:55,630 --> 01:00:56,730
She said, this thing won't go.

1324
01:00:59,430 --> 01:01:00,950
So you jump into the front of the

1325
01:01:00,950 --> 01:01:06,330
car and switch it on and look at

1326
01:01:06,330 --> 01:01:08,930
the gas gauge and rather as you anticipated

1327
01:01:08,930 --> 01:01:09,610
there's no petrol.

1328
01:01:10,990 --> 01:01:13,310
So you say, lady I'll tell you where

1329
01:01:13,310 --> 01:01:14,110
this thing won't go.

1330
01:01:15,670 --> 01:01:16,890
It doesn't have what it takes.

1331
01:01:18,070 --> 01:01:19,350
But I've got a rope in the back

1332
01:01:19,350 --> 01:01:20,490
of mine, I'll tell you to the next

1333
01:01:20,490 --> 01:01:21,130
gas station.

1334
01:01:21,190 --> 01:01:21,610
And you do.

1335
01:01:23,470 --> 01:01:25,050
And when you get there you say to

1336
01:01:25,050 --> 01:01:26,230
the man, fill a tank.

1337
01:01:26,930 --> 01:01:27,510
And he does.

1338
01:01:27,590 --> 01:01:29,210
Then to her great embarrassment she finds she

1339
01:01:29,210 --> 01:01:29,930
doesn't have any money.

1340
01:01:31,470 --> 01:01:32,790
And doesn't even have a credit card.

1341
01:01:33,810 --> 01:01:37,010
Well you say, lady be my guest.

1342
01:01:37,110 --> 01:01:38,570
I'm happy that I'm here just when you

1343
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need me most.

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And you pay the bill.

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You didn't have to, but you do.

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In other words you pay a debt you

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01:01:47,770 --> 01:01:48,350
did not owe.

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Because she owes a debt she cannot pay.

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01:01:51,590 --> 01:01:52,910
What's that called in the bible?

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Redemption.

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01:01:54,170 --> 01:01:55,830
That's a blood transaction on the cross.

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Where Jesus paid a debt he did not

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owe, because we owed a debt.

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01:02:00,510 --> 01:02:03,230
But why do you pay a debt you

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did not owe?

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01:02:03,830 --> 01:02:05,370
Because she owes a debt she cannot pay.

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To fill her tank and give her what

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it takes to get home.

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01:02:08,870 --> 01:02:10,090
Well she is very thankful.

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01:02:12,330 --> 01:02:13,230
You get into your car.

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01:02:13,370 --> 01:02:16,090
You're just about to drive off when you,

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as a last gesture of goodwill, open the

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window to wave and say goodbye.

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01:02:20,450 --> 01:02:21,810
And you see that woman with a full

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01:02:21,810 --> 01:02:23,010
tank pushing the car home.

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What would you say?

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01:02:27,390 --> 01:02:28,370
I know what I'd say.

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01:02:28,410 --> 01:02:29,910
I'd say, excuse me, I want my amplified

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01:02:29,910 --> 01:02:30,570
new testament.

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Oh you poor, silly, thoughtless, unreflecting, senseless woman.

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I pay a debt I did not owe,

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01:02:40,970 --> 01:02:42,290
because you owed a debt you could not

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pay.

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01:02:42,510 --> 01:02:43,870
To give you what it takes, a full

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01:02:43,870 --> 01:02:45,090
tank to get home.

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01:02:45,130 --> 01:02:45,970
And you push the thing.

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01:02:47,790 --> 01:02:48,350
You laughing?

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01:02:50,570 --> 01:02:51,530
Who are you laughing at?

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01:02:54,830 --> 01:02:55,270
Yourself?

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01:02:55,270 --> 01:02:57,330
Why did Christ die, shed his blood?

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So that you might receive what it takes

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to be a man, a woman, as God

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intended man to be.

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He gave himself for you, paid that debt,

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so that risen from the dead he might

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01:03:12,390 --> 01:03:16,110
give himself to you, a full tank to

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01:03:16,110 --> 01:03:16,790
get you home.

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01:03:19,030 --> 01:03:21,990
And you push it, and wonder why you're

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01:03:21,990 --> 01:03:22,410
tired.

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01:03:23,610 --> 01:03:25,170
How about getting on board, put your foot

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01:03:25,170 --> 01:03:26,390
in the gas and go for a ride,

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01:03:26,890 --> 01:03:29,390
and begin to enjoy what for so long

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01:03:29,390 --> 01:03:30,730
as a Christian you've been enduring.