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We'll read again tonight in the book of

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Romans.

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We read it last night, but we didn't

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say anything about it.

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So we'll look at Romans in chapter 5.

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And again, a thank you to the Christians

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here in Mount Sterling who posted the conference

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again for the blessing of God's people and

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for the preaching of the gospel.

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Romans in chapter 5, and we're going to

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read it again at verse number 6.

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It says, For when we were yet without

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strength, in due time Christ died for the

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ungodly.

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For scarcely, or with difficulty, for a righteous

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man will one die.

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Yet, peradventure for a good man some would

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even dare to die or be bold to

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die.

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But God commended his love toward us, and

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that while we were yet sinners, Christ died

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for us.

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And Lord will bless to us the reading

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of his precious Word.

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At the end of a long weekend, and

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a weekend when we're concentrating to the utmost,

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we're going to be very simple tonight in

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these three verses.

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We're going to look at the concern of

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mankind, what it is to be without strength.

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We're going to look at the great contrast

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between what men are willing to do and

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what God was willing to do when it

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comes to verse number 7.

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And we're going to look at the great

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commendation of the love of God on display

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in verse number 8, where God commended, God

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demonstrated His love toward us, and that while

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we were yet sinners, Christ died for us.

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I was interested today as I was looking

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at this, at the noon hour, that there

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are three words that are in each one

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of these three verses, and it's the word

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died, and it's the word yet, and it's

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the word for.

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And those are very important words when we

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come to these to these three verses, and

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they're found in each one of the three.

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When we come to verse number 6, it

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says, for when we were yet without strength.

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The great concern, and really, it is a

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reality tonight, if you've ever done anything of

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physical labor, or been in any physical danger,

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that it comes to the point where you

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have to use your strength, and it wears

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you down, and you get to the point

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where you have nothing left to give.

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You have nothing left to offer.

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There is no more in you to go

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one more step.

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There is, there's no more energy in you

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to lift one more pound, and you find

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yourself to the, to the very point where

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you cannot go another inch.

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It's pictured to us in Psalm 107, where

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there is a man who was wandering in

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the wilderness, and there is he wanders in

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the wilderness, and he wanders from God, and

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he's looking for a city to dwell in.

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He comes to the end of himself.

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He is down there on the, on the

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desert floor, and he cannot go a single

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inch.

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Then he cries unto the Lord in his

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trouble, and the next man is a man

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who is bound in affliction and iron, because

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he transgressed the Word of God, and he's

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bound in those shackles, and he's trying to

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get free, and it's a picture of sin,

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and he's trying to break those bands, but

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he cannot, and he finds himself upon the

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ground without help, and no one to help

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him, and no more strength.

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soul, when it comes to the forgiveness of

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sins, when it comes it to getting into

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God's heaven, the reality is that natural man

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has no strength to get the end result.

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It isn't that we have a little hope

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or a little glimmer of a chance by

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our, on our own to get into God's

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heaven.

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Humanity tonight, without exception, is without strength to

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cleanse himself of a single sin, and without

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strength to get themself one inch or closer,

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one inch closer to God's heaven without strength.

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That should concern us tonight.

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For all of us that have been saved

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by God's grace, there came a moment in

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our experience when we understood just that, that

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it is not by my might or by

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my power, but is according to God's Spirit.

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We come to understand that it wasn't about

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our intellect, and it wasn't even about our

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believing.

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lost, and I am blind, and I am

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without hope, and I am without strength.

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But our text says this.

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It says, for when we were yet, when

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we were still without strength, yet without strength,

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it says, in due time Christ died for

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the ungodly.

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At the right time, Christ died.

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So the great concern is this.

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You have sinned against God.

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Your sin has separated you from God.

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God in His righteousness will never allow one

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sin into His holy heaven.

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How will you ever be there?

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How will you ever get there?

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How will you ever avoid the judgment and

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the wrath of God for your sin?

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If you're without strength.

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And in that condition, you see, the cure

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for the concern of being without strength is

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very simple.

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In due time, Christ died for the ungodly.

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Christ died.

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While we were yet without strength, and not

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while we were almost to the door, not

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when we had made great progress in the

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cleaning up of our life, but in the

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reality of the fact that I am burdened

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and bound by sin, and I am a

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slave to sin, and I am without strength

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to free myself.

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In that time, at that point, Christ died.

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Christ died.

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You see, for the great concern of men—and

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it should be your great concern.

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Maybe I should ask, is it a concern

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at all that if you died in the

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condition you're in without strength, separated from God

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by your sin, that you'd be in a

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place called hell?

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In due time, the lake of fire.

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Is that a concern tonight?

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Is it a reality tonight?

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My good life cannot take away a sin.

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You know, I find it interesting talking to

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folks, and it's all about the good life.

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And it is good to live a good

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life.

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You'll save yourself a lot of headaches by

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doing what's right, but you'll never get into

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heaven.

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Because the reality is this.

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heaven by the keeping of the law, they

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would have to keep it absolutely perfect their

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whole entire life, which is impossible.

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And then the good things you do after

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you sin, you know, if you didn't do

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those good things, it would just be more

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sin, wouldn't it?

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It would just add on to the reality

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of guilt and to the reality of punishment.

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And so once a person commits a single

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sin, they are eternally separated from God if

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they're never saved, if they're never cleansed of

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their sin.

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And people tell us all the time that

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I'm doing the best that I can, and

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I'm going to do better, and I'm going

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to turn over a new leaf, and I'm

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going to excel in my religion.

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Friend, that'll never do.

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It'll never do.

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Because the very best that you can do,

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remember, God requires perfection.

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And since we have all failed, if we

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do anything less than perfect, we only add

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to the amount of sin.

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good can never take away the sin of

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the past.

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But while we were yet without strength, in

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due time, Christ died for the ungodly.

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I was speaking to an older woman one

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day, and we had the Bible on the

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table there, and she had claimed to be

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saved in a garage in North Dakota, but

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there was something missing in her.

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She didn't have the assurance that she was

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saved.

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She didn't have an understanding of, really, the

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work of Christ.

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And so we were looking at this verse.

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And the dear woman there, she had had

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a stroke, and she was in a wheelchair,

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and the Bible was laid right in front

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of her.

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And I had her read this verse.

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And I said to her, I said, you

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know, if a letter came, like the old

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preachers used to say to us, and it

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was addressed to the ungodly, would you open

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it?

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Could I ask you that question tonight?

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Fill your mailbox.

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Fill your mailbox.

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There was a letter addressed to the ungodly

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resident with your address.

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Would you open it?

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Or would you put it in your neighbor's

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mailbox?

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She's looking at the verse.

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Just a sweet old lady.

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100% sweetness.

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You know how sometimes I'm a little old

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sweet ladies are.

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She's like, oh.

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I don't think I would open it.

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I don't think I would open it.

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Friend, this is who the verse is written

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to.

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This is who the verse is written to.

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The only one who's going to get any

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good out of the verse of Romans 5

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and 6 is the ungodly one.

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For while we were yet without strength, in

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due time, Christ died for the ungodly.

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And I called her by name, and I

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won't use her name.

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And I said, that's very revealing.

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That's very telling, because that's who the verse

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was written to.

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She was clueless what it meant that Christ

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died for the ungodly.

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You see, that is the remedy for the

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great concern of being without strength.

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When we come to the next verse, we

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read this, and it's a great contrast.

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And it is really fascinating to consider.

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It says, for scarcely or hardly for a

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righteous man.

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That means a man who does what's right.

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Very hardly would a person die, give their

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life for that person.

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And if you stop and think about it,

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why would someone give their life for someone

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else?

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Why might you give your life for someone

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else?

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Well, if it's a man who is a

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righteous man, you'd have to deem that that

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man's life is worth more than yours.

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Maybe almost a man that is equal with

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yours.

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Would you give your life for a man?

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You see, you'd have to value that their

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existence on this earth is of more importance

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than your own existence.

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And so it's hardly going to happen that

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a man is going to give his life

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for a man who just does what's right.

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Who just does what is expected.

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And then perhaps by boldness one might die

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for a man who's not only does what's

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right, but does what's good.

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He goes above and beyond.

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Maybe that might happen.

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Maybe.

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I'm going to make a hesitation here.

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There have been thousands that have died for

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you and I in America to have our

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freedom.

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Don't ever take that lightly.

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There have been thousands that have died for

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us to give us what we have now

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as far as a nation.

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We are no better than them.

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We didn't deserve their sacrifice.

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What was their motivation then?

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What was their motivation that they would go

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into the battle?

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That they would go to war?

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That the soldier would dive upon the grenade

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to save the lives of the others?

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It's only this.

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It's only for love of others.

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It's only for the love of others.

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And you see that is what we're getting

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to then in verse number eight.

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You've got the love of God.

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And so the contrast is what men would

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not do for another man or they could

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not do for another man.

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That while we were yet without strength in

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due time Christ died for the ungodly.

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And then men wouldn't die for one another

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but God.

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You see the contrast between what man couldn't

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do and wouldn't do.

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God did.

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God accomplished it.

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But God commended His love toward us.

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There's the motive.

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Christ didn't come to the cross of Calvary

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because our existence is greater than His.

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That's foolishness.

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But He went to the cross of Calvary

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and He died upon the cross and His

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love is on display.

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The love of God on display that He

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would die for an ungodly one.

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One who is opposite of Him.

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One who is a sinner.

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He Himself holy.

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He Himself God.

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Died upon the cross for the ungodly and

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for the sinner.

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While we were yet without strength Christ died.

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What does verse eight say?

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While we were yet sinners.

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Sinners.

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While we were yet sinners Christ died.

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There's the cure, isn't it?

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What men couldn't do.

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They couldn't take another person's place under the

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judgment of God.

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Another man can't bear another man's sin.

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But what men couldn't do.

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God did.

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But why?

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Why?

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Why would Christ die?

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For the sinner.

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Why would Christ die for the ungodly?

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Because He loves the sinner.

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And He loves the ungodly.

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You see the demonstration of the love of

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God when Christ died for the without strength

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ungodly sinner.

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It's beyond comprehension.

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That He would come from the very heights

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of glory and He would come down to

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this earth and He would live His life

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doing miracles and the signs and wonders proving

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over and over that He is God manifest

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in flesh.

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But it also proved over and over His

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love of God toward mankind.

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It proved over and over His compassion to

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the sinners and to the sick and to

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the wounded and for the ungodly and for

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the unrighteous and for the sinners and for

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the lepers.

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And over and over as He moved among

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men, He constantly affirmed His love to the

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publican and His love to the Pharisee.

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And God is no respecter of persons and

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in this gathering in this auditorium tonight I

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can say on the authority of the word

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of God that God loves you the same.

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He doesn't love anyone in this room greater

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than any other one in this room.

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He doesn't love anyone in this room greater

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than He loves the man in the deepest

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part of solitary confinement on Rikers Island, New

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York.

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The love of God is undeserved love.

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It is unmerited love.

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It is the love of God.

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And friend, this is what you need tonight.

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Oh, if you could only find God who

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loved you, right?

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One who would love you enough to die

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for you.

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One that would love you enough even though

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you were not good and you were unrighteous.

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Someone that in some way somehow would find

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it in their heart to take your place,

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to die for sin, to bear our sin

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in His own body on the tree.

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I often think of the teaching the Lord

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Jesus was giving about agreeing with your adversary

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quickly while you were in the way with

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Him.

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Lest at any time we deliver the officer

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and the officer deliver you to the judge

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and you be cast into the prison.

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And you can't come out.

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That's until you've paid the last farthing.

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You know, the point is if a person

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misses the opportunity, they can't pay the last

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farthing.

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There is no working from that prison to

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get out.

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But the only way that the price for

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that man could be could be paid for

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is if someone loved them and paid it

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for them.

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We have here God commended His love toward

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us and that while we were yet sinners.

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Yet sinners.

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Still sinners.

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What's the remedy?

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You've seen the contrast.

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What men could not do, God did.

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God did.

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Christ died for the ungodly.

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Christ died while we were yet sinners.

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And the verse goes on to say this,

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while we were yet sinners, Christ died for

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us.

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For us.

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God leaves the invitation open and the message

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goes out to the whosoever.

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It goes out to the reader of the

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book of Romans.

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It goes out to you, my friend, with

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a Bible on your lap.

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And you can read that and you can

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learn this, that while I was yet a

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sinner, Christ died for us.

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I know tonight that He died for me.

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100%.

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A vile, guilty sinner.

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But while I was yet a sinner.

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You see, Christ died.

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And because He died upon the cross, friend,

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you can live.

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And that's the beauty of a substitute.

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That He was willing to go and to

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take our place.

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He was willing to carry our sorrows.

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He was willing to carry our shame.

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He was willing to suffer in our place.

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For Christ also hath once suffered for sins.

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The just for the unjust that He might

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bring us to God.

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Being put to death in the flesh, but

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quickened by the Spirit.

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The great love of God on display.

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And so get this three simple points tonight

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as time has gone.

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The great concern is that you are a

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dear soul without strength.

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And you need to be saved.

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The great contrast of what we cannot do

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for ourself or another man could do for

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us.

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God did.

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What was it that God accomplished?

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That while we were yet sinners Christ died

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for us.

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Drink in the truth of Romans 5 and

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6 tonight, my friend.

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For while we were yet without strength in

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due time Christ died for the ungodly.

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We'll pray.