1 00:00:02,950 --> 00:00:12,280 Romans, and the second chapter, and we're going 2 00:00:12,280 --> 00:00:18,160 through from verse 17 this evening to verse 3 00:00:18,160 --> 00:00:18,860 29. 4 00:00:21,540 --> 00:00:28,300 Romans, chapter two, verse 17, right through to 5 00:00:28,300 --> 00:00:29,520 the end of the chapter. 6 00:00:30,830 --> 00:00:34,990 Can I recapture just a few things from 7 00:00:34,990 --> 00:00:38,210 the beginning of the book to where we 8 00:00:38,210 --> 00:00:40,970 are now, just to get us really into 9 00:00:40,970 --> 00:00:44,770 the real spirit of things where we are 10 00:00:44,770 --> 00:00:46,070 in the chapter this evening. 11 00:00:47,170 --> 00:00:51,530 You remember that in the first chapter, in 12 00:00:51,530 --> 00:00:57,290 the first fifteen verses, Paul brought our salutation 13 00:00:57,290 --> 00:01:01,530 to the saints at Rome, and then he 14 00:01:01,530 --> 00:01:06,070 introduced why he was taking his pen under 15 00:01:06,070 --> 00:01:10,210 the spirit direction to write to the saints 16 00:01:10,210 --> 00:01:10,810 at Rome. 17 00:01:10,810 --> 00:01:14,210 We have the introduction and the salutation. 18 00:01:16,070 --> 00:01:20,510 And then you remember from verse 16, right 19 00:01:20,510 --> 00:01:24,850 through to the end of that chapter, we 20 00:01:24,850 --> 00:01:30,010 saw the wrath of God falling in judgment 21 00:01:30,010 --> 00:01:34,970 upon the unrighteousness of men. 22 00:01:36,540 --> 00:01:39,500 And at the end of that first chapter, 23 00:01:40,620 --> 00:01:44,160 we saw to our amazement, it really shocked 24 00:01:44,160 --> 00:01:44,580 us. 25 00:01:46,080 --> 00:01:49,440 In fact, I called it a paralyzing picture 26 00:01:49,440 --> 00:01:56,600 of the depths of the cesspool of iniquity 27 00:01:56,600 --> 00:02:02,280 that men and women of Adam's race can 28 00:02:02,280 --> 00:02:02,960 fall into. 29 00:02:03,960 --> 00:02:08,699 And we saw the wrath of God coming 30 00:02:08,699 --> 00:02:13,080 upon the unrighteousness of men. 31 00:02:14,180 --> 00:02:17,400 And then when we came to the first 32 00:02:17,400 --> 00:02:23,280 sixteen verses of chapter two, we saw the 33 00:02:23,280 --> 00:02:28,880 wrath of God moving against the self-righteousness 34 00:02:28,880 --> 00:02:29,920 of man. 35 00:02:30,920 --> 00:02:34,820 And we began to balance it out, whether 36 00:02:34,820 --> 00:02:41,060 unrighteousness that went into the cesspool, or self 37 00:02:41,060 --> 00:02:46,620 -righteousness that made a stand of its own 38 00:02:46,620 --> 00:02:51,980 before God, we began to balance which was 39 00:02:51,980 --> 00:02:53,100 the greater sin. 40 00:02:53,100 --> 00:02:57,930 And I think that Paul, the Pharisee, gave 41 00:02:57,930 --> 00:03:02,110 us the answer, because he lived, the Pharisee, 42 00:03:02,510 --> 00:03:06,910 after the strictest thoughts of the Jews, and 43 00:03:06,910 --> 00:03:08,950 he called himself the chief of sinners. 44 00:03:10,610 --> 00:03:12,750 And now we are going to finish the 45 00:03:12,750 --> 00:03:16,990 second chapter by seeing the wrath of God 46 00:03:16,990 --> 00:03:20,190 coming upon the religious Jew. 47 00:03:22,500 --> 00:03:27,200 These thirteen verses deal with the Jew this 48 00:03:27,200 --> 00:03:27,580 evening. 49 00:03:28,680 --> 00:03:31,080 And if ever you have an argument with 50 00:03:31,080 --> 00:03:35,660 a Jew, and he begins to discuss things 51 00:03:35,660 --> 00:03:38,980 with you, try to get him down to 52 00:03:38,980 --> 00:03:42,760 the end of the second chapter of Paul's 53 00:03:42,760 --> 00:03:44,680 letter to the Romans, and just read it 54 00:03:44,680 --> 00:03:45,120 to him. 55 00:03:45,880 --> 00:03:49,240 And you'll find you have ammunition in your 56 00:03:49,240 --> 00:03:50,700 hands that will shake him. 57 00:03:52,060 --> 00:03:56,800 You see, when Paul writes this word about 58 00:03:56,800 --> 00:04:00,520 the Jew, I think he brings before us 59 00:04:00,520 --> 00:04:06,740 the personal privileges of this peculiar people, the 60 00:04:06,740 --> 00:04:07,080 Jews. 61 00:04:08,080 --> 00:04:13,380 And you'll notice that I have numbered five 62 00:04:13,380 --> 00:04:19,860 personal privileges that really belong to the Jew. 63 00:04:20,620 --> 00:04:22,440 Five personal privileges. 64 00:04:23,740 --> 00:04:28,080 And then Paul not only penned these five 65 00:04:28,080 --> 00:04:34,040 personal privileges, but he speaks about the professed 66 00:04:34,040 --> 00:04:34,880 practices. 67 00:04:37,180 --> 00:04:40,460 Just the professed practices, remember. 68 00:04:41,760 --> 00:04:45,940 The Jews are great boasters, but when you 69 00:04:45,940 --> 00:04:48,940 begin to examine exactly what he does, you'll 70 00:04:48,940 --> 00:04:49,660 find them out. 71 00:04:51,060 --> 00:04:55,020 And again we have five professed practices of 72 00:04:55,020 --> 00:04:56,120 this peculiar people. 73 00:04:56,780 --> 00:04:59,740 And then when Paul gets all this over, 74 00:05:00,100 --> 00:05:01,680 he begins probing. 75 00:05:03,260 --> 00:05:06,160 And I tell you, when the apostle begins 76 00:05:06,160 --> 00:05:09,600 probing the depths of the human heart, he 77 00:05:09,600 --> 00:05:10,760 can really do it. 78 00:05:12,580 --> 00:05:17,740 Ask questions that would shake any Jew in 79 00:05:17,740 --> 00:05:18,640 the world today. 80 00:05:18,840 --> 00:05:20,560 And I've tried it all the time. 81 00:05:21,600 --> 00:05:25,420 I used to go to have discussions with 82 00:05:25,420 --> 00:05:28,980 an old Orthodox Jew every Friday evening. 83 00:05:29,780 --> 00:05:31,240 Carried this on for months. 84 00:05:32,320 --> 00:05:34,600 And I can remember when I put these 85 00:05:34,600 --> 00:05:38,300 questions to him and shook him to his 86 00:05:38,300 --> 00:05:39,400 deepest depths. 87 00:05:40,880 --> 00:05:42,580 When you know where to go, you can 88 00:05:42,580 --> 00:05:43,300 do the job. 89 00:05:44,800 --> 00:05:47,460 Paul's probing of this peculiar people. 90 00:05:48,230 --> 00:05:50,100 And then at the end of the chapter, 91 00:05:50,780 --> 00:05:56,260 he brings us perplexing pictures of this peculiar 92 00:05:56,260 --> 00:05:56,740 people. 93 00:05:57,680 --> 00:06:03,120 And then puts some powerful points to this 94 00:06:03,120 --> 00:06:05,020 peculiar people. 95 00:06:06,020 --> 00:06:09,640 And so there are the headings of the 96 00:06:09,640 --> 00:06:13,560 second half of chapter two. 97 00:06:13,560 --> 00:06:15,920 Now let's really begin. 98 00:06:16,080 --> 00:06:18,920 We're beginning at verse seventeen. 99 00:06:22,240 --> 00:06:27,560 And the first privilege that Paul outlines here 100 00:06:27,560 --> 00:06:32,220 about this peculiar people is, he says, Behold 101 00:06:32,220 --> 00:06:35,960 thou art called a Jew. 102 00:06:37,800 --> 00:06:40,820 Or there's another translation of that phrase. 103 00:06:40,820 --> 00:06:49,440 It says, Behold thou boast proudly the name 104 00:06:49,440 --> 00:06:50,440 of Jew. 105 00:06:52,370 --> 00:06:54,870 You know, this is something that every Jew 106 00:06:54,870 --> 00:06:56,310 is very proud of. 107 00:06:58,400 --> 00:07:01,880 He's proud to be called a Jew. 108 00:07:03,620 --> 00:07:07,520 This name is a name that he's very 109 00:07:07,520 --> 00:07:08,320 proud of. 110 00:07:10,400 --> 00:07:12,980 And you know, in these days in which 111 00:07:12,980 --> 00:07:14,920 we're living, there are people who are proud 112 00:07:14,920 --> 00:07:15,560 of names. 113 00:07:17,810 --> 00:07:21,410 Some Baptists are proud that they're Baptists. 114 00:07:23,920 --> 00:07:26,880 And some Brethren with a capital B are 115 00:07:26,880 --> 00:07:28,600 proud that they're Brethren. 116 00:07:31,330 --> 00:07:34,410 And some of the old Methodists are proud 117 00:07:34,410 --> 00:07:36,010 that they're Methodists. 118 00:07:37,820 --> 00:07:39,560 And of course you can go over the 119 00:07:39,560 --> 00:07:41,580 whole tribe of denominations. 120 00:07:42,720 --> 00:07:46,960 And you get people who are proud of 121 00:07:46,960 --> 00:07:47,900 a name. 122 00:07:50,200 --> 00:07:55,840 You see, this name Jew, it means praise. 123 00:07:57,320 --> 00:08:01,160 It's very closely related to Judah, which means 124 00:08:01,160 --> 00:08:01,720 praise. 125 00:08:02,800 --> 00:08:08,060 And it means one who brings praise to 126 00:08:08,060 --> 00:08:08,600 God. 127 00:08:10,290 --> 00:08:13,710 But it's possible to be proud of this 128 00:08:13,710 --> 00:08:14,010 name. 129 00:08:20,780 --> 00:08:23,760 And it's possible to be proud of the 130 00:08:23,760 --> 00:08:28,420 name Methodist and never know the Savior that 131 00:08:28,420 --> 00:08:30,040 John Wesley worshipped. 132 00:08:34,500 --> 00:08:34,820 Possible. 133 00:08:36,460 --> 00:08:39,000 So we'll have to be careful about these 134 00:08:39,000 --> 00:08:40,260 so-called privileges. 135 00:08:41,760 --> 00:08:43,840 But let's get on with this. 136 00:08:44,700 --> 00:08:51,240 He says, verse 17, Behold, thou darest proudly 137 00:08:51,240 --> 00:08:59,960 they were Jew, and restest in the law. 138 00:09:00,180 --> 00:09:04,160 That is, restest in the fact that he 139 00:09:04,160 --> 00:09:05,140 had the law. 140 00:09:06,860 --> 00:09:10,020 Boy, he would boast about that, you know. 141 00:09:10,020 --> 00:09:12,740 You see, the Jew would tell you very 142 00:09:12,740 --> 00:09:15,500 quickly if you were arguing with him, the 143 00:09:15,500 --> 00:09:17,060 law was privileged. 144 00:09:20,060 --> 00:09:20,880 Isn't it right? 145 00:09:22,040 --> 00:09:24,900 And it's possible for you to have a 146 00:09:24,900 --> 00:09:28,900 privilege just like that and to boast that 147 00:09:28,900 --> 00:09:31,400 you have the law, that you're resting in 148 00:09:31,400 --> 00:09:32,120 having it. 149 00:09:32,420 --> 00:09:34,040 It really belongs to you. 150 00:09:34,160 --> 00:09:35,000 It came to you. 151 00:09:35,140 --> 00:09:36,880 It came from the Jewish nation. 152 00:09:37,700 --> 00:09:39,940 But it's one thing having the law and 153 00:09:39,940 --> 00:09:41,620 the law having you, isn't it? 154 00:09:41,680 --> 00:09:42,580 It's another one. 155 00:09:44,480 --> 00:09:48,640 You know, some people even boast about their 156 00:09:48,640 --> 00:09:49,640 denomination. 157 00:09:51,910 --> 00:09:54,130 Why they talk about, we have a man 158 00:09:54,130 --> 00:09:55,450 that preaches the gospel. 159 00:09:57,330 --> 00:09:59,110 You know, I know folks in this very 160 00:09:59,110 --> 00:10:01,890 meeting who boasted up the street about the 161 00:10:01,890 --> 00:10:03,910 picture we have and our denomination. 162 00:10:07,790 --> 00:10:11,090 Their sinners have said this thing altogether. 163 00:10:12,650 --> 00:10:18,030 On their way to hell, without occasion, boasting 164 00:10:18,030 --> 00:10:21,270 about the gospel that's preached in here. 165 00:10:23,290 --> 00:10:25,450 Man, you're like the old Jew of days 166 00:10:25,450 --> 00:10:26,490 gone by. 167 00:10:27,470 --> 00:10:31,670 Boasting about having something, but the something hasn't 168 00:10:31,670 --> 00:10:32,730 got you yet. 169 00:10:34,170 --> 00:10:37,230 So Paul was getting down to things, wasn't 170 00:10:37,230 --> 00:10:37,630 he? 171 00:10:39,050 --> 00:10:41,930 Watch how very carefully he goes through this. 172 00:10:43,880 --> 00:10:50,820 Behold, thou art called a Jew, and restest 173 00:10:50,820 --> 00:10:57,740 in the law, and makest thy boast of 174 00:10:57,740 --> 00:10:58,520 God. 175 00:10:59,880 --> 00:11:02,940 You know, the Jew always boasts of God. 176 00:11:04,250 --> 00:11:10,390 No wonder the Lord Jesus said, this people 177 00:11:10,390 --> 00:11:14,250 draweth nigh unto God with their lips. 178 00:11:15,310 --> 00:11:20,240 Ah, but their hearts are far from them. 179 00:11:22,160 --> 00:11:23,880 You know, we get a whole lot of 180 00:11:23,880 --> 00:11:29,260 religious people rolled up in religiosity, and they're 181 00:11:29,260 --> 00:11:30,240 just like that. 182 00:11:31,520 --> 00:11:34,260 You see, I'm looking away in the far 183 00:11:34,260 --> 00:11:36,680 day at the Jew, and I'm trying to 184 00:11:36,680 --> 00:11:39,220 bring it over to today, and apply it 185 00:11:39,220 --> 00:11:41,920 to people who attend church. 186 00:11:43,710 --> 00:11:47,510 And they're always talking about going to the 187 00:11:47,510 --> 00:11:52,340 house of God, worshipping at the throne of 188 00:11:52,340 --> 00:11:56,020 God, and singing the praises of God. 189 00:11:56,440 --> 00:11:58,360 And it's only talk, you know. 190 00:11:58,800 --> 00:12:01,300 They don't know God at all. 191 00:12:03,660 --> 00:12:05,040 They're making a boast. 192 00:12:06,280 --> 00:12:08,340 Oh, I know they boast, I say. 193 00:12:09,140 --> 00:12:12,840 But they've never turned to God from their 194 00:12:12,840 --> 00:12:17,780 idols to serve the living and true God. 195 00:12:18,500 --> 00:12:21,020 In fact, the Bible says that. 196 00:12:25,280 --> 00:12:28,400 Is there a religious epithet in the meaning 197 00:12:28,400 --> 00:12:29,400 just like that? 198 00:12:31,220 --> 00:12:34,120 You do a lot of talk, but you're 199 00:12:34,120 --> 00:12:36,620 only an old fallacy on your way to 200 00:12:36,620 --> 00:12:38,860 heaven rolled up in religious fun. 201 00:12:39,280 --> 00:12:40,780 You become God. 202 00:12:42,930 --> 00:12:45,890 Terrible thing to find out, isn't it? 203 00:12:47,560 --> 00:12:49,180 But it's true, you know. 204 00:12:50,140 --> 00:12:55,960 Paul said there were people without Christ, without 205 00:12:55,960 --> 00:13:01,500 God, having no hope in the world. 206 00:13:03,610 --> 00:13:05,930 So Paul knew exactly what he was talking 207 00:13:05,930 --> 00:13:07,810 about when he talked about the Jews. 208 00:13:08,650 --> 00:13:10,410 Of course, there was a time in Paul's 209 00:13:10,410 --> 00:13:13,150 life when he was a Pharisee, and all 210 00:13:13,150 --> 00:13:15,310 these things applied to him, so he knew 211 00:13:15,310 --> 00:13:16,050 it very well. 212 00:13:17,410 --> 00:13:19,790 He said, Behold, thou art called a Jew, 213 00:13:21,010 --> 00:13:23,470 who resteth in the fact that thou hast 214 00:13:23,470 --> 00:13:28,190 the law, and makest thy boast of God, 215 00:13:29,270 --> 00:13:32,410 and knowest his will. 216 00:13:34,330 --> 00:13:37,290 Now this is something that the Jew always, 217 00:13:38,590 --> 00:13:43,350 always brought to the forefront, that out of 218 00:13:43,350 --> 00:13:45,830 all the nations on the face of the 219 00:13:45,830 --> 00:13:51,450 earth, the Jewish nation had the will of 220 00:13:51,450 --> 00:13:52,030 God. 221 00:13:53,330 --> 00:13:57,490 That they were in the very center of 222 00:13:57,490 --> 00:14:00,950 the will of God, and up to a 223 00:14:00,950 --> 00:14:02,890 point they were right, remember. 224 00:14:04,770 --> 00:14:06,230 God chose them out. 225 00:14:07,450 --> 00:14:09,790 God made them a separated people. 226 00:14:11,410 --> 00:14:14,730 God took them for his own peculiar people. 227 00:14:16,130 --> 00:14:20,590 Ah, but friends, it's one thing to know 228 00:14:20,590 --> 00:14:23,090 the will of God, and it's another thing 229 00:14:23,090 --> 00:14:25,430 to be willing for the will of God. 230 00:14:28,220 --> 00:14:31,440 And the old Jew was not willing for 231 00:14:31,440 --> 00:14:33,720 the will of God, why God had to 232 00:14:33,720 --> 00:14:36,780 put him out of the land, down to 233 00:14:36,780 --> 00:14:38,880 Babylon, down to Syria. 234 00:14:38,880 --> 00:14:41,380 He had to judge him again, and again, 235 00:14:41,440 --> 00:14:45,200 and again, because he was unwilling for the 236 00:14:45,200 --> 00:14:46,060 will of God. 237 00:14:47,920 --> 00:14:50,380 And you know, we know sinners. 238 00:14:51,600 --> 00:14:56,180 Sinners who would fight for the evangelical truth. 239 00:14:58,100 --> 00:15:02,940 Sinners who would stand behind the true fundamentalist, 240 00:15:03,220 --> 00:15:04,740 for the lost bits. 241 00:15:05,600 --> 00:15:07,840 And they knew the will of God, the 242 00:15:07,840 --> 00:15:19,760 born, the dead, and the... 243 00:15:19,760 --> 00:15:20,940 for the will of God. 244 00:15:22,360 --> 00:15:23,720 That was... 245 00:15:24,740 --> 00:15:27,520 My dear friends, these are tremendous things. 246 00:15:27,640 --> 00:15:29,180 These are so-called privileges. 247 00:15:31,040 --> 00:15:33,240 Watch this last one, and it's a tremendous 248 00:15:33,240 --> 00:15:33,740 one. 249 00:15:35,520 --> 00:15:41,580 Verse 18, And knowest his will, and approvest 250 00:15:41,580 --> 00:15:47,700 the things that are more excellent, or, as 251 00:15:47,700 --> 00:15:51,880 another translation makes it clearer, approvest the things 252 00:15:51,880 --> 00:15:56,500 that are different, being instructed out of the 253 00:15:56,500 --> 00:15:56,860 law. 254 00:15:57,980 --> 00:16:02,720 You know, the old Jew knew all the 255 00:16:02,720 --> 00:16:04,880 differentiations of truth. 256 00:16:07,260 --> 00:16:08,940 And you know, I know quite a lot 257 00:16:08,940 --> 00:16:11,060 of people, even emerging. 258 00:16:12,540 --> 00:16:15,640 And you couldn't bluff them by telling them 259 00:16:15,640 --> 00:16:18,300 that if the minister sprinkled a drop of 260 00:16:18,300 --> 00:16:20,080 water on their brow, that they would put 261 00:16:20,080 --> 00:16:21,440 their head in a pond, where you could 262 00:16:21,440 --> 00:16:22,160 never get out. 263 00:16:24,170 --> 00:16:25,350 They knew for the difference. 264 00:16:28,060 --> 00:16:31,200 And you couldn't tell them, if you plunged 265 00:16:31,200 --> 00:16:33,000 them in a tank and filled them in 266 00:16:33,000 --> 00:16:36,140 water, you couldn't tell them they weren't careful, 267 00:16:36,320 --> 00:16:37,380 because they knew... 268 00:16:40,800 --> 00:16:44,580 And my dear friends, they're able to differentiate 269 00:16:44,580 --> 00:16:47,260 between these great truths. 270 00:16:48,260 --> 00:16:50,500 And they know beyond a shadow of a 271 00:16:50,500 --> 00:16:57,150 doubt that neither is there another name only 272 00:16:57,150 --> 00:16:58,110 in Jesus. 273 00:16:59,010 --> 00:17:00,610 Ah, but they're not, did you? 274 00:17:02,790 --> 00:17:04,910 Man, the old Jew knew a lot. 275 00:17:06,720 --> 00:17:10,500 But he didn't make a change in his 276 00:17:10,500 --> 00:17:10,880 practice. 277 00:17:12,839 --> 00:17:19,859 No, he was a godless, sinful, God even 278 00:17:19,859 --> 00:17:25,480 had to call him abominable, wretch, on the 279 00:17:25,480 --> 00:17:26,440 sounds of time. 280 00:17:27,540 --> 00:17:29,380 You see what Paul's getting at. 281 00:17:30,860 --> 00:17:34,640 You see, friend, it doesn't make a matter 282 00:17:35,200 --> 00:17:38,380 how many truths you have grasped in your 283 00:17:38,380 --> 00:17:38,980 head. 284 00:17:39,920 --> 00:17:42,420 If you've never opened your heart to the 285 00:17:42,420 --> 00:17:45,860 Saviour, you're still on the way to hell 286 00:17:45,860 --> 00:17:48,200 with the way to heaven in your head. 287 00:17:48,200 --> 00:17:54,430 That's a horror for you, to be on 288 00:17:54,430 --> 00:17:57,890 the way to hell with the way to 289 00:17:57,890 --> 00:17:58,970 heaven in your head. 290 00:18:04,320 --> 00:18:12,080 You see, these privileges, when they're understood, and 291 00:18:12,080 --> 00:18:16,840 when they're known fully and comprehended, and when 292 00:18:16,840 --> 00:18:20,900 they're despised by the heart, my, they only 293 00:18:20,900 --> 00:18:22,740 sink you into a deep old pit. 294 00:18:23,140 --> 00:18:23,900 That's all. 295 00:18:25,420 --> 00:18:26,880 That's what Paul's getting at. 296 00:18:28,200 --> 00:18:31,000 The wrath of God will come upon people 297 00:18:31,000 --> 00:18:33,040 like that, and their hell will be deep. 298 00:18:35,190 --> 00:18:37,670 For there are the privileges of this peculiar 299 00:18:37,670 --> 00:18:38,190 people. 300 00:18:39,170 --> 00:18:40,670 Now, watch the practices. 301 00:18:41,090 --> 00:18:44,170 Paul numbers five practices. 302 00:18:45,810 --> 00:18:51,270 He says in verse 19, And art confident 303 00:18:51,270 --> 00:18:56,010 that thou thyself art a guide of the 304 00:18:56,010 --> 00:18:56,410 blind. 305 00:18:58,990 --> 00:19:03,430 You know, the Jewish nation, well, all its 306 00:19:03,430 --> 00:19:09,370 teachers at least, they set themselves up as 307 00:19:09,370 --> 00:19:13,750 to be the guide of the blind when 308 00:19:13,750 --> 00:19:15,010 times are wrong. 309 00:19:16,640 --> 00:19:19,740 They can rape many of our colleges and 310 00:19:19,740 --> 00:19:23,440 seminaries who've got men at the top who 311 00:19:23,440 --> 00:19:24,800 deny the fundamentals. 312 00:19:25,500 --> 00:19:28,220 They're only blind leading blinds. 313 00:19:29,580 --> 00:19:30,920 That's what they are. 314 00:19:32,720 --> 00:19:38,840 My, the Jews blind themselves and yet profess 315 00:19:38,840 --> 00:19:40,540 to be a guide of the blind. 316 00:19:40,660 --> 00:19:43,180 The Lord Jesus brought this out, it's the 317 00:19:43,180 --> 00:19:46,120 blind that's leading the blind, and you'll both 318 00:19:46,120 --> 00:19:47,240 fall into the pit. 319 00:19:48,960 --> 00:19:51,160 The Lord Jesus can see these things. 320 00:19:52,880 --> 00:19:56,460 And then the Jews profess something else. 321 00:19:59,500 --> 00:20:02,420 Verse 19, And art confident that thou thyself 322 00:20:02,420 --> 00:20:03,660 art a guide of the blind. 323 00:20:05,020 --> 00:20:09,440 A light of them which are in darkness. 324 00:20:11,580 --> 00:20:14,500 My dear friends, there's nothing so horrible in 325 00:20:14,500 --> 00:20:18,400 this world than a man who is blinded 326 00:20:18,400 --> 00:20:21,160 by the God of this world and who 327 00:20:21,160 --> 00:20:23,700 is in the kingdom of darkness and who 328 00:20:23,700 --> 00:20:26,640 is a child of darkness professes to be 329 00:20:26,640 --> 00:20:29,020 light for them that sit in darkness. 330 00:20:30,300 --> 00:20:31,540 Nothing so horrible. 331 00:20:33,240 --> 00:20:35,060 Friend, mind you, we've got a crowd of 332 00:20:35,060 --> 00:20:36,540 them in the fortress in this country. 333 00:20:38,320 --> 00:20:39,940 We've got a crowd of them. 334 00:20:41,640 --> 00:20:44,120 I am a prophet of light. 335 00:20:44,740 --> 00:20:49,040 You are still a slave of light. 336 00:20:51,270 --> 00:20:53,510 My, I know a wee fellow that went 337 00:20:53,510 --> 00:20:56,110 to tell the minister that he had got 338 00:20:56,110 --> 00:20:56,630 saved. 339 00:20:56,830 --> 00:20:58,210 He stood back in horror. 340 00:20:58,650 --> 00:21:00,130 There is no such thing. 341 00:21:01,970 --> 00:21:03,750 Oh, but there is, isn't there, wee fellow. 342 00:21:04,430 --> 00:21:06,350 My, I was there when it happened. 343 00:21:07,250 --> 00:21:08,530 And I ought to know. 344 00:21:09,730 --> 00:21:12,550 I was washed in the blood of the 345 00:21:12,550 --> 00:21:12,810 Lord. 346 00:21:13,150 --> 00:21:15,270 And, you know, the old minister nearly put 347 00:21:15,270 --> 00:21:17,110 him through the wall with anger. 348 00:21:17,330 --> 00:21:20,430 He said, I detest the blood of Christ, 349 00:21:20,470 --> 00:21:21,370 and I detest. 350 00:21:24,240 --> 00:21:25,660 And the wee fellow said this. 351 00:21:26,280 --> 00:21:28,380 He said, take the cup from the table, 352 00:21:28,540 --> 00:21:30,580 mate, from the Lord, and move forward. 353 00:21:34,120 --> 00:21:38,450 No, in the back. 354 00:21:41,920 --> 00:21:44,700 But they wouldn't remove the cup, because the 355 00:21:44,700 --> 00:21:45,920 folk would catch them all. 356 00:21:47,240 --> 00:21:52,000 But here's a, here's a man professing to 357 00:21:52,000 --> 00:21:52,580 be light. 358 00:21:55,680 --> 00:21:58,400 He's in the kingdom of darkness and going 359 00:21:58,400 --> 00:22:00,360 down to deeper darkness himself. 360 00:22:02,120 --> 00:22:03,940 God save our prophets. 361 00:22:06,240 --> 00:22:07,280 God save them. 362 00:22:09,130 --> 00:22:17,350 Once again, the professed practitioner said, verse 19, 363 00:22:17,490 --> 00:22:19,430 And are confident that thou dost therefore the 364 00:22:19,430 --> 00:22:21,830 guide of the blind, a light of them 365 00:22:21,830 --> 00:22:26,410 which are in darkness, an instructor of the 366 00:22:26,410 --> 00:22:26,850 foolish. 367 00:22:28,310 --> 00:22:30,010 My, you only need to go through the 368 00:22:30,010 --> 00:22:32,170 Old Testament and find that often the word 369 00:22:32,170 --> 00:22:33,050 fool is there. 370 00:22:35,130 --> 00:22:39,470 My Abner guide of the fool guides. 371 00:22:41,330 --> 00:22:44,530 Can't you see Nicodemus at the rule of 372 00:22:44,530 --> 00:22:45,210 the Jews? 373 00:22:46,350 --> 00:22:48,590 And he comes to Jesus by night, and 374 00:22:48,590 --> 00:22:52,010 the moment that Jesus introduces the great subject 375 00:22:52,010 --> 00:22:54,290 of the new birth, he doesn't know the 376 00:22:54,290 --> 00:22:55,290 first thing about it. 377 00:22:55,350 --> 00:23:02,400 He can't understand to be an instructor of 378 00:23:02,400 --> 00:23:03,480 the foolish in himself. 379 00:23:06,500 --> 00:23:09,020 We've got thousands of them around us. 380 00:23:10,980 --> 00:23:12,640 God save us from them. 381 00:23:14,380 --> 00:23:16,060 God save us from them. 382 00:23:17,080 --> 00:23:24,140 Once again, an instructor of the foolish, a 383 00:23:24,140 --> 00:23:26,000 teacher of beds. 384 00:23:28,020 --> 00:23:32,340 My, when some of the Gentiles came as 385 00:23:32,340 --> 00:23:37,720 proselytes to the Jewish nations, my, these old 386 00:23:37,720 --> 00:23:41,100 so-called teachers, they took them under the 387 00:23:41,100 --> 00:23:41,520 wing. 388 00:23:43,200 --> 00:23:45,220 Yes, they were the teachers of beds. 389 00:23:46,620 --> 00:23:48,880 My dear friend, can't you see all this 390 00:23:48,880 --> 00:23:50,920 re-echoing in our age in which we 391 00:23:50,920 --> 00:23:51,200 live? 392 00:23:52,820 --> 00:23:54,580 They've just come down to us tonight. 393 00:23:55,640 --> 00:23:58,020 You just need to substitute the gospel for 394 00:23:58,020 --> 00:24:00,700 the law, and you see them at the 395 00:24:00,700 --> 00:24:03,220 law professing the berith, and that and the 396 00:24:03,220 --> 00:24:05,080 other, and they were as dead as could 397 00:24:05,080 --> 00:24:07,100 be and didn't know God at all, and 398 00:24:07,100 --> 00:24:09,380 were far from Him, and they were blind 399 00:24:09,380 --> 00:24:10,520 leaders of the blind. 400 00:24:11,660 --> 00:24:13,940 And when you bring the gospel in, we're 401 00:24:13,940 --> 00:24:15,320 in the same boat tonight. 402 00:24:17,360 --> 00:24:19,340 Horrible situation, isn't it? 403 00:24:20,920 --> 00:24:24,680 Here's the last thing that they professed. 404 00:24:24,800 --> 00:24:27,580 They professed to have a form of knowledge, 405 00:24:28,900 --> 00:24:33,140 verse 20, and of the truth in the 406 00:24:33,140 --> 00:24:33,580 law. 407 00:24:34,940 --> 00:24:36,960 My, that's where we're living tonight. 408 00:24:38,240 --> 00:24:41,540 We're living in those days, I tell you, 409 00:24:41,540 --> 00:24:47,180 when there is a form of godliness, but 410 00:24:47,180 --> 00:24:48,460 denying the power. 411 00:24:50,170 --> 00:24:51,430 Living like that. 412 00:24:52,350 --> 00:24:53,090 Like this. 413 00:24:54,550 --> 00:24:56,830 So Paul was really hepping out, wasn't he? 414 00:24:58,010 --> 00:25:00,030 He was really getting into the Jew. 415 00:25:00,130 --> 00:25:02,030 Now he begins to apply this. 416 00:25:02,450 --> 00:25:05,190 My, when Paul begins to prove things, it's 417 00:25:05,190 --> 00:25:05,690 powerful. 418 00:25:07,330 --> 00:25:16,980 Verse 21, Thou therefore which teachest another, teachest 419 00:25:16,980 --> 00:25:18,320 thou not thyself? 420 00:25:20,660 --> 00:25:23,480 As you know, friends, without taking time to 421 00:25:23,480 --> 00:25:26,660 apply this where Paul applied it, let us 422 00:25:26,660 --> 00:25:28,260 apply this to ourselves. 423 00:25:31,120 --> 00:25:35,780 And I'm not talking now about modulus, or 424 00:25:35,780 --> 00:25:38,920 dead minister, or old policy. 425 00:25:39,920 --> 00:25:43,240 I'm talking now about real born-again believer. 426 00:25:43,920 --> 00:25:45,480 Do you profess to teach? 427 00:25:45,920 --> 00:25:48,120 Do you apply the teaching to yourself? 428 00:25:50,710 --> 00:25:52,390 That should shake the whole bunch up. 429 00:25:54,610 --> 00:26:00,840 When you profess, it does no good to 430 00:26:00,840 --> 00:26:03,120 my religion without reality. 431 00:26:04,060 --> 00:26:05,800 It will take you to hell. 432 00:26:08,700 --> 00:26:11,360 God wants real men. 433 00:26:11,360 --> 00:26:11,480 Real men. 434 00:26:13,320 --> 00:26:14,380 Really living. 435 00:26:15,760 --> 00:26:16,960 Really standing. 436 00:26:17,300 --> 00:26:18,100 Really witnessing. 437 00:26:18,380 --> 00:26:19,140 Really shining. 438 00:26:21,550 --> 00:26:23,630 Do you profess to teach? 439 00:26:25,750 --> 00:26:27,490 Do you apply the teaching to yourself? 440 00:26:29,590 --> 00:26:31,590 He's come to the bench with a fellow 441 00:26:31,590 --> 00:26:34,150 who tries to tell him about God. 442 00:26:34,570 --> 00:26:35,810 Have you applied this? 443 00:26:36,090 --> 00:26:37,650 Does he see Christ in you? 444 00:26:40,440 --> 00:26:42,640 That's where Paul's getting to with the Jew. 445 00:26:42,640 --> 00:26:45,900 And we're bringing it to ourselves this evening. 446 00:26:46,260 --> 00:26:46,980 What's this? 447 00:26:48,580 --> 00:26:54,720 He says, Thou that preachest, a man should 448 00:26:54,720 --> 00:26:58,820 not steal, but thou steal. 449 00:27:01,250 --> 00:27:03,250 I tell you, that's a powerful one, isn't 450 00:27:03,250 --> 00:27:03,530 it? 451 00:27:05,130 --> 00:27:07,230 I tell you, we're living in days. 452 00:27:07,570 --> 00:27:08,990 You know, I went once. 453 00:27:09,730 --> 00:27:11,950 I told you this before, I don't remember. 454 00:27:11,950 --> 00:27:14,810 I went once to preach in Dublin. 455 00:27:16,410 --> 00:27:17,890 Great big convention. 456 00:27:19,570 --> 00:27:22,970 And I didn't ask enough questions before I 457 00:27:22,970 --> 00:27:27,670 went, and I landed into our Sinless Perfection 458 00:27:27,670 --> 00:27:28,490 Convention. 459 00:27:29,450 --> 00:27:30,910 It was a powerful place for a boy 460 00:27:30,910 --> 00:27:32,250 like me to be, wasn't it? 461 00:27:36,290 --> 00:27:39,210 And they were all very gracious and very 462 00:27:39,210 --> 00:27:43,030 gentle, and they said, Mr. Mullen, you'll be 463 00:27:43,030 --> 00:27:43,870 the last preacher. 464 00:27:45,110 --> 00:27:47,870 That was God that was directing things then, 465 00:27:48,010 --> 00:27:48,350 all right. 466 00:27:49,090 --> 00:27:51,070 My arm had to sit and listen through 467 00:27:51,070 --> 00:27:54,710 two or three stormy messages of boys that 468 00:27:54,710 --> 00:27:57,670 hadn't sinned for twenty years and thirty years 469 00:27:57,670 --> 00:27:58,710 and all the rest of it. 470 00:27:59,370 --> 00:28:00,930 Oh, I never put in such a day 471 00:28:00,930 --> 00:28:01,670 in all my life. 472 00:28:03,270 --> 00:28:04,710 But you know, I was in the corner 473 00:28:04,710 --> 00:28:05,650 now, wasn't I? 474 00:28:07,030 --> 00:28:08,990 And I felt, well, I'll need to take 475 00:28:08,990 --> 00:28:12,290 my coat off in this convention, and I'll 476 00:28:12,290 --> 00:28:14,530 really need to set about a few things. 477 00:28:15,090 --> 00:28:17,610 And I just took about ten messages and 478 00:28:17,610 --> 00:28:20,010 put them into one, and I preached for 479 00:28:20,010 --> 00:28:22,130 about an hour and fifteen minutes, and I 480 00:28:22,130 --> 00:28:23,630 tell you, I shook the place. 481 00:28:24,250 --> 00:28:26,330 And the boys that were behind me, too, 482 00:28:27,130 --> 00:28:29,050 sat back at our table and said, I'm 483 00:28:29,050 --> 00:28:30,150 afraid none of you do. 484 00:28:37,810 --> 00:28:41,470 And when the convention was over, and they 485 00:28:41,470 --> 00:28:42,930 were sort of glad to get rid of 486 00:28:42,930 --> 00:28:46,690 me, one of the fellows who preached the 487 00:28:46,690 --> 00:28:51,290 loudest about sinner protection, he came up very 488 00:28:51,290 --> 00:28:54,670 timidly and he said, I'm going to Belfast. 489 00:28:55,130 --> 00:28:56,230 He said, give me a lift in the 490 00:28:56,230 --> 00:28:56,430 car. 491 00:28:56,570 --> 00:28:57,010 I said, certainly. 492 00:28:58,270 --> 00:29:00,010 He said, Mr. Mullen, I'll only get into 493 00:29:00,010 --> 00:29:02,030 the car with you if you promise that 494 00:29:02,030 --> 00:29:03,330 we won't argue about this. 495 00:29:04,470 --> 00:29:06,650 I said, well, brother, that's up to you. 496 00:29:06,650 --> 00:29:09,110 If you'd rather have it that way, we'll 497 00:29:09,110 --> 00:29:11,130 race to Belfast and talk about the water. 498 00:29:12,990 --> 00:29:15,470 So we talked about everything under the sun, 499 00:29:15,590 --> 00:29:17,730 but we didn't get round to this discussion. 500 00:29:19,750 --> 00:29:21,830 And when I went in with my ticket 501 00:29:21,830 --> 00:29:24,210 up the border and got it punched and 502 00:29:24,210 --> 00:29:25,790 came out and drove the car up to 503 00:29:25,790 --> 00:29:27,510 the next place and got it seen to 504 00:29:27,510 --> 00:29:30,550 there and we went into Ulster again, he 505 00:29:30,550 --> 00:29:33,850 smiled and said, I diddle them fellows, he 506 00:29:33,850 --> 00:29:34,090 said. 507 00:29:34,510 --> 00:29:35,430 I said, you what? 508 00:29:37,490 --> 00:29:39,330 He said, I diddle them fellows. 509 00:29:39,490 --> 00:29:41,250 They'll have six pound of butter in the 510 00:29:41,250 --> 00:29:42,950 bag and you're not allowed to bring it 511 00:29:42,950 --> 00:29:43,250 through. 512 00:29:52,170 --> 00:29:53,550 Only sinless perfection. 513 00:29:53,850 --> 00:29:56,210 I said, brother, whether I promised you to 514 00:29:56,210 --> 00:29:57,650 talk to you about this or not, the 515 00:29:57,650 --> 00:29:58,830 promise is all off now. 516 00:30:03,040 --> 00:30:05,180 Oh, I tell you, this is it, isn't 517 00:30:05,180 --> 00:30:05,500 it? 518 00:30:06,800 --> 00:30:07,440 No! 519 00:30:10,290 --> 00:30:12,490 No, he can't let me in! 520 00:30:13,710 --> 00:30:14,890 Do you see that? 521 00:30:18,840 --> 00:30:21,040 Why, I tell you, it's easy talking on 522 00:30:21,040 --> 00:30:21,520 the platform. 523 00:30:21,780 --> 00:30:22,960 I say that's right! 524 00:30:25,500 --> 00:30:26,220 On the platform. 525 00:30:26,500 --> 00:30:27,820 I say that's right! 526 00:30:30,640 --> 00:30:31,160 Right. 527 00:30:32,240 --> 00:30:35,600 You know, you can make so little of 528 00:30:35,600 --> 00:30:39,300 sin and nothing sin until you bluff yourself 529 00:30:39,300 --> 00:30:40,360 you're not sinning. 530 00:30:41,320 --> 00:30:43,860 Stealing six pound of butter out of the 531 00:30:43,860 --> 00:30:44,500 free spit. 532 00:30:44,500 --> 00:30:47,200 Man, I'm a wretch and I'm no use 533 00:30:47,200 --> 00:30:48,940 but a wooden spoon butter out of the 534 00:30:48,940 --> 00:30:50,480 free spit if I never had it. 535 00:30:52,830 --> 00:30:53,850 My, that won't do. 536 00:30:54,770 --> 00:30:56,250 Listen to Paul again. 537 00:30:58,440 --> 00:31:00,060 Can't he really talk things? 538 00:31:01,760 --> 00:31:06,600 Verse 22, Thou that sayest to man, should 539 00:31:06,600 --> 00:31:11,000 not commit adultery, dost thou commit adultery? 540 00:31:12,800 --> 00:31:14,880 You know, he knew the Jewish race. 541 00:31:16,320 --> 00:31:19,580 And I think that he knew the Pharisees 542 00:31:19,580 --> 00:31:20,720 inside out. 543 00:31:21,600 --> 00:31:25,100 You see, I'm still persuaded that that day 544 00:31:25,100 --> 00:31:29,040 the Pharisees brought the woman taken in adultery 545 00:31:29,040 --> 00:31:32,200 and the Bible says, taken in the very 546 00:31:32,200 --> 00:31:32,520 act. 547 00:31:35,720 --> 00:31:37,600 They brought the woman and threw her in 548 00:31:37,600 --> 00:31:38,180 the dust. 549 00:31:39,620 --> 00:31:43,740 And they said the law said, she should 550 00:31:43,740 --> 00:31:46,120 be stoned, the law said nothing of the 551 00:31:46,120 --> 00:31:46,900 kind, remember? 552 00:31:46,900 --> 00:31:51,020 That's where a lot of people get wrong 553 00:31:51,020 --> 00:31:51,980 in this wee story. 554 00:31:52,740 --> 00:31:55,580 The law said that the two of them 555 00:31:55,580 --> 00:31:56,700 should be stoned. 556 00:31:59,200 --> 00:32:01,900 But the problem is, why did they leave 557 00:32:01,900 --> 00:32:04,020 the woman when she was taken in the 558 00:32:04,020 --> 00:32:04,520 very act? 559 00:32:04,700 --> 00:32:05,220 They took the man. 560 00:32:10,310 --> 00:32:13,110 I'm still persuaded he was a Pharisee. 561 00:32:14,940 --> 00:32:23,610 And the Pharisees put that poor woman in 562 00:32:23,610 --> 00:32:24,110 the forefront. 563 00:32:26,570 --> 00:32:28,750 And the Lord knew exactly what they were 564 00:32:28,750 --> 00:32:29,090 doing. 565 00:32:32,100 --> 00:32:36,600 Dost thou teach, thou shalt not commit adultery, 566 00:32:36,700 --> 00:32:41,030 and dost thou commit adultery? 567 00:32:41,030 --> 00:32:44,490 My request to you is, we need to 568 00:32:44,490 --> 00:32:46,070 walk this thing straight. 569 00:32:47,820 --> 00:32:50,380 And God expects us to do. 570 00:32:51,580 --> 00:32:53,160 God expects us. 571 00:32:54,040 --> 00:32:55,300 Watch this one too. 572 00:32:56,580 --> 00:33:00,320 This is one that's really puzzling sometimes to 573 00:33:00,320 --> 00:33:03,940 some of the even expositors. 574 00:33:03,940 --> 00:33:06,720 We're at verse 22 at the end of 575 00:33:06,720 --> 00:33:07,140 the verse. 576 00:33:07,560 --> 00:33:10,900 Thou that abhorrest idols. 577 00:33:13,260 --> 00:33:15,420 Did the Jews really abhor idols? 578 00:33:15,700 --> 00:33:17,780 Yes, they did in Paul's day. 579 00:33:20,300 --> 00:33:23,780 You see, God was the first tribe among 580 00:33:23,780 --> 00:33:26,840 the Jews that set up an idol for 581 00:33:26,840 --> 00:33:27,680 the whole nation. 582 00:33:28,800 --> 00:33:30,840 I know the golden calf was set up 583 00:33:30,840 --> 00:33:33,000 away in the wilderness, but we're talking about 584 00:33:33,000 --> 00:33:34,880 them in the land of Plymouth. 585 00:33:35,840 --> 00:33:38,600 And Dan was the first tribe that set 586 00:33:38,600 --> 00:33:39,300 up an idol. 587 00:33:40,660 --> 00:33:44,360 And you know, brought the nation into idolatry. 588 00:33:45,800 --> 00:33:48,980 And because they began to worship idols on 589 00:33:48,980 --> 00:33:53,240 their every green tree, God took them down 590 00:33:53,240 --> 00:33:56,060 to the land of idols, down to Babylon, 591 00:33:56,860 --> 00:34:00,640 and He gave them seven million idols until 592 00:34:00,640 --> 00:34:01,500 He lost it all. 593 00:34:03,260 --> 00:34:06,380 And when they came back, they abhorred idols. 594 00:34:06,940 --> 00:34:08,920 And I'll tell you this, the Jew still 595 00:34:08,920 --> 00:34:09,480 does. 596 00:34:11,040 --> 00:34:13,440 You won't get the Jew back at idols 597 00:34:13,440 --> 00:34:13,900 again. 598 00:34:14,800 --> 00:34:17,179 And I'll tell you this, when the Antichrist 599 00:34:18,179 --> 00:34:21,520 lost the nation, and they give them their 600 00:34:21,520 --> 00:34:24,620 support, the moment that he's set up the 601 00:34:24,620 --> 00:34:26,100 idols, they'll leave him. 602 00:34:29,080 --> 00:34:30,520 They'll know he's not right. 603 00:34:31,440 --> 00:34:35,340 Ah, but the Jew and Paul, they abhorred 604 00:34:35,340 --> 00:34:35,880 idols. 605 00:34:37,900 --> 00:34:41,480 But they could go into these idolatrous temples 606 00:34:42,280 --> 00:34:44,520 and commit sacrilege. 607 00:34:45,639 --> 00:34:46,900 You know what that means? 608 00:34:47,320 --> 00:34:51,340 They would enhance to the body that was 609 00:34:51,340 --> 00:34:52,600 given to idols. 610 00:34:54,139 --> 00:34:55,540 They could do that. 611 00:34:57,560 --> 00:35:01,840 Some people can preach loud, you know, and 612 00:35:01,840 --> 00:35:04,740 do the very thing that they're preaching about 613 00:35:04,740 --> 00:35:05,900 in the quiet. 614 00:35:09,550 --> 00:35:11,830 So Paul's probing, isn't he? 615 00:35:12,770 --> 00:35:14,710 And he's probing very deeply. 616 00:35:16,290 --> 00:35:18,310 Why it would take us to be probed 617 00:35:18,310 --> 00:35:18,750 deeply. 618 00:35:19,230 --> 00:35:22,390 Judgment must begin at the house of God. 619 00:35:24,070 --> 00:35:25,610 Now look at verse 23. 620 00:35:26,730 --> 00:35:30,110 He says, If thou dost makest thy boast 621 00:35:30,110 --> 00:35:34,710 of the law, through breaking a law dishonorest 622 00:35:34,710 --> 00:35:35,810 thou God. 623 00:35:37,850 --> 00:35:40,930 For the name of God is blasphemed among 624 00:35:40,930 --> 00:35:43,070 the Gentiles through you. 625 00:35:45,550 --> 00:35:49,370 My dear friends, I think it's a good 626 00:35:49,370 --> 00:35:49,730 picture. 627 00:35:49,910 --> 00:35:51,390 You could take for an hour from that 628 00:35:51,390 --> 00:35:51,750 text. 629 00:35:54,120 --> 00:35:59,980 But the name of God is blasphemed among 630 00:35:59,980 --> 00:36:02,600 the Gentiles through you. 631 00:36:05,420 --> 00:36:07,480 You know, if you were in the inquiry 632 00:36:07,480 --> 00:36:09,660 room where I spend a tremendous lot of 633 00:36:09,660 --> 00:36:13,620 my time listening to stories of men convicted 634 00:36:13,620 --> 00:36:15,940 of sin, very often you would hear something 635 00:36:15,940 --> 00:36:16,660 like this. 636 00:36:17,580 --> 00:36:20,720 Oh Simone, I really love to be saved. 637 00:36:22,120 --> 00:36:24,160 But we've got a fellow in our office 638 00:36:24,820 --> 00:36:28,220 and he professes to be saved with all 639 00:36:28,220 --> 00:36:29,360 the things that he does. 640 00:36:30,990 --> 00:36:34,490 He's just honoring the name of God before 641 00:36:34,490 --> 00:36:36,110 these people who need God. 642 00:36:39,070 --> 00:36:43,610 Is the name of God being blasphemed among 643 00:36:43,610 --> 00:36:45,630 the Gentiles through you? 644 00:36:48,730 --> 00:36:50,450 Why wouldn't we need to be at our 645 00:36:50,450 --> 00:36:51,710 work at the proper time? 646 00:36:54,000 --> 00:36:56,120 Why wouldn't we need to be honest with 647 00:36:56,120 --> 00:36:56,560 everybody? 648 00:36:58,080 --> 00:37:00,420 Why wouldn't we need to be walking in 649 00:37:00,420 --> 00:37:01,360 a narrow road? 650 00:37:02,660 --> 00:37:05,040 Why wouldn't we need to be kept every 651 00:37:05,040 --> 00:37:08,000 moment of every day of the 24 hours 652 00:37:08,000 --> 00:37:11,020 by the power of the Holy Ghost? 653 00:37:12,480 --> 00:37:14,020 You wouldn't like me to have written over 654 00:37:14,020 --> 00:37:14,900 you from that, would you? 655 00:37:15,420 --> 00:37:17,680 But the name of God is blasphemed. 656 00:37:26,050 --> 00:37:32,230 And how often some of the greatest Christ 657 00:37:32,230 --> 00:37:36,050 and the church of Jesus Christ has tumbled 658 00:37:37,190 --> 00:37:41,430 and the name of God has been blasphemed 659 00:37:41,430 --> 00:37:43,410 from one end of the world to the 660 00:37:43,410 --> 00:37:43,710 other. 661 00:37:46,860 --> 00:37:48,940 My dear friend, it would shake you to 662 00:37:48,940 --> 00:37:52,160 your very foundations to listen to Paul Prober. 663 00:37:54,140 --> 00:37:57,060 You see, he's bringing before the Jews some 664 00:37:57,060 --> 00:37:58,760 things that ought to perplex them. 665 00:38:01,120 --> 00:38:08,740 He says in verse 25, for circumcision verily 666 00:38:08,740 --> 00:38:14,940 prophetess which thou keep the law but if 667 00:38:14,940 --> 00:38:19,720 thou be a breaker of the law thy 668 00:38:19,720 --> 00:38:21,820 circumcision is made uncircumcised. 669 00:38:23,940 --> 00:38:26,520 You know this sign that was given to 670 00:38:26,520 --> 00:38:27,760 the sons of Abraham? 671 00:38:29,640 --> 00:38:32,560 They were all circumcised each day. 672 00:38:34,000 --> 00:38:36,160 I don't need to go in and explain 673 00:38:36,160 --> 00:38:36,820 it for you. 674 00:38:36,820 --> 00:38:38,600 You know all about it, I trust. 675 00:38:40,890 --> 00:38:45,770 But this meant that they were separated unto 676 00:38:45,770 --> 00:38:46,410 God. 677 00:38:48,920 --> 00:38:51,320 It was the cutting off of flesh. 678 00:38:53,580 --> 00:38:56,720 And it meant that this nation was separated 679 00:38:56,720 --> 00:38:57,540 to God. 680 00:38:58,820 --> 00:39:01,800 But what's the use of this sign? 681 00:39:09,110 --> 00:39:12,870 Some of the black fellows they say that 682 00:39:12,870 --> 00:39:16,770 ancient sprinkling takes the place of circumcision. 683 00:39:16,770 --> 00:39:20,280 Well, I don't know how to get the 684 00:39:20,280 --> 00:39:20,960 girls in. 685 00:39:21,040 --> 00:39:21,960 I just don't know. 686 00:39:22,080 --> 00:39:23,100 That's their job. 687 00:39:23,300 --> 00:39:25,260 Because only the boys were circumcised. 688 00:39:25,360 --> 00:39:25,920 You know that. 689 00:39:26,020 --> 00:39:27,280 And I don't know how to bring the 690 00:39:27,280 --> 00:39:27,880 girls in. 691 00:39:28,440 --> 00:39:30,540 But we're not to debate this. 692 00:39:31,760 --> 00:39:35,000 My supposing we allow them off for this 693 00:39:35,000 --> 00:39:37,360 and it's a lie from hell, you know. 694 00:39:38,440 --> 00:39:40,580 Supposing we allow them off for this. 695 00:39:41,220 --> 00:39:43,360 All right, we'll introduce sprinkling. 696 00:39:45,270 --> 00:39:48,590 What use is it if the child doesn't 697 00:39:48,590 --> 00:39:49,650 show you light? 698 00:39:51,730 --> 00:39:52,850 That's a small problem. 699 00:39:55,140 --> 00:39:57,840 Or just look round your whole countryside and 700 00:39:57,840 --> 00:39:59,980 see all the sprinkled ones in the pub 701 00:39:59,980 --> 00:40:01,580 and in the bookies every time. 702 00:40:09,380 --> 00:40:11,280 My Paul was a great preacher. 703 00:40:12,040 --> 00:40:14,100 And there was no dodging what he was 704 00:40:14,100 --> 00:40:14,560 telling us. 705 00:40:16,720 --> 00:40:19,060 Sometimes it lies before our nose and we 706 00:40:19,060 --> 00:40:19,800 miss it, you know. 707 00:40:20,940 --> 00:40:22,440 That's why it's good to be at the 708 00:40:22,440 --> 00:40:22,820 cross. 709 00:40:23,860 --> 00:40:26,320 It's just the word of God we're preaching. 710 00:40:29,630 --> 00:40:31,310 Now, he doesn't just stop there. 711 00:40:31,390 --> 00:40:32,790 He just goes a little bit further. 712 00:40:34,530 --> 00:40:36,550 He says this in verse 26. 713 00:40:38,680 --> 00:40:44,900 And therefore if the circumcision keep the righteousness 714 00:40:44,900 --> 00:40:51,220 of the law therefore if the uncircumcision that's 715 00:40:51,220 --> 00:40:54,740 people who have never been circumcised keep the 716 00:40:54,740 --> 00:41:00,240 righteousness of the law shall not his uncircumcision 717 00:41:00,240 --> 00:41:06,960 be counted for circumcision and shall not uncircumcision 718 00:41:06,960 --> 00:41:09,740 which is by nature if it fulfil the 719 00:41:09,740 --> 00:41:15,120 law judge thee who by the letter uncircumcision 720 00:41:15,120 --> 00:41:18,020 does transgress the law. 721 00:41:20,430 --> 00:41:24,890 You know friend, isn't it a horrible thing 722 00:41:27,610 --> 00:41:34,950 when some poor, destitute soul who's never been 723 00:41:34,950 --> 00:41:41,940 through any who's never been steeped in anything 724 00:41:41,940 --> 00:41:50,020 that's ritualistic lives before his fellow man better 725 00:41:50,020 --> 00:41:52,600 than all the production of the flesh. 726 00:41:59,320 --> 00:42:00,820 We must pay him to that. 727 00:42:05,410 --> 00:42:07,730 You know there are men in this world 728 00:42:07,730 --> 00:42:12,570 tonight and they walk honest and they walk 729 00:42:12,570 --> 00:42:14,390 noble and they walk right. 730 00:42:15,730 --> 00:42:18,150 Remember that won't get them to heaven. 731 00:42:19,870 --> 00:42:23,250 But it just shows you that this ritualistic 732 00:42:23,250 --> 00:42:25,210 stuff never produced them ever. 733 00:42:29,720 --> 00:42:32,480 You see Paul getting down to the finish 734 00:42:32,480 --> 00:42:35,240 of this thing because this to me is 735 00:42:35,240 --> 00:42:35,900 tremendous. 736 00:42:37,280 --> 00:42:41,540 Verse 28 We saw those perplexing pictures as 737 00:42:41,540 --> 00:42:42,420 we passed by. 738 00:42:43,400 --> 00:42:48,080 The name of God was blasphemed and the 739 00:42:48,080 --> 00:42:51,280 law of God was broken and the truth 740 00:42:51,280 --> 00:42:55,620 of God's circumcision was belittled and now he 741 00:42:55,620 --> 00:42:57,840 comes to these powerful points and we need 742 00:42:57,840 --> 00:42:58,920 to take time with him. 743 00:43:00,160 --> 00:43:03,360 He says, for he is not a Jew 744 00:43:04,560 --> 00:43:06,460 which is one outwardly. 745 00:43:08,820 --> 00:43:13,820 Neither is that circumcision which is outward in 746 00:43:13,820 --> 00:43:14,480 the flesh. 747 00:43:17,290 --> 00:43:19,650 You see Paul always had this in his 748 00:43:19,650 --> 00:43:24,870 mind that God looketh not on the outward 749 00:43:24,870 --> 00:43:25,590 appearance. 750 00:43:28,570 --> 00:43:30,630 God was always looking in the heart. 751 00:43:32,540 --> 00:43:34,160 You know that's why God blessed Jacob. 752 00:43:35,640 --> 00:43:37,920 You know one of the most crooked characters 753 00:43:37,920 --> 00:43:39,960 we have in the Old Testament is Jacob. 754 00:43:41,080 --> 00:43:43,340 Oh I know he did many things wrong. 755 00:43:44,020 --> 00:43:46,420 He told lies to his father and he 756 00:43:46,420 --> 00:43:49,020 diddled his brother and he winked his master 757 00:43:49,020 --> 00:43:50,380 and all the rest of it. 758 00:43:50,880 --> 00:43:52,960 But you know all the time when he 759 00:43:52,960 --> 00:43:55,380 diddled his brother and told lies to his 760 00:43:55,380 --> 00:43:58,760 father and he winked to his master all 761 00:43:58,760 --> 00:44:03,400 the time Jacob's heart was longing for the 762 00:44:03,400 --> 00:44:04,660 blessing of God. 763 00:44:05,580 --> 00:44:07,780 I know he was going a long way 764 00:44:07,780 --> 00:44:08,280 about it. 765 00:44:08,380 --> 00:44:09,840 I know all about that. 766 00:44:12,300 --> 00:44:20,210 But God knew what Jacob was after and 767 00:44:20,210 --> 00:44:23,290 he eventually worked with Jacob until he broke 768 00:44:23,290 --> 00:44:25,250 him down and brought him into the blessing 769 00:44:25,250 --> 00:44:25,850 of God. 770 00:44:26,470 --> 00:44:29,330 And when Jacob was finishing his course the 771 00:44:29,330 --> 00:44:34,090 book says he died worshipping on his staff. 772 00:44:34,350 --> 00:44:35,590 That's how he finished it. 773 00:44:36,970 --> 00:44:40,430 Wonderful to finish the last mile down here 774 00:44:40,430 --> 00:44:41,510 worshipping God. 775 00:44:46,210 --> 00:44:49,870 You know friend we need to always watch 776 00:44:49,870 --> 00:44:51,290 the outward appearance. 777 00:44:53,110 --> 00:44:54,810 Mind we can put on a lot of 778 00:44:54,810 --> 00:44:56,770 bluff and polish can't we? 779 00:44:58,930 --> 00:45:00,830 Ah but you don't bluff God you know. 780 00:45:01,910 --> 00:45:03,170 Never bluff God. 781 00:45:04,450 --> 00:45:05,830 God sees your heart. 782 00:45:05,830 --> 00:45:10,950 Thou God seest me. 783 00:45:12,230 --> 00:45:14,110 Never forget that. 784 00:45:15,310 --> 00:45:19,130 We live under the eye of Him and 785 00:45:19,130 --> 00:45:21,850 all things that we do are naked and 786 00:45:21,850 --> 00:45:24,170 open under the eyes of Him with whom 787 00:45:24,170 --> 00:45:24,870 we have to do. 788 00:45:26,510 --> 00:45:28,290 Watch how Paul finishes this. 789 00:45:29,010 --> 00:45:35,150 Verse 29 But he is a Jew which 790 00:45:35,150 --> 00:45:39,730 is one inwardly and circumcision is that of 791 00:45:39,730 --> 00:45:42,230 the heart in the spirit and not in 792 00:45:42,230 --> 00:45:45,710 the letter whose praise is not of men 793 00:45:45,710 --> 00:45:46,910 but of God. 794 00:45:47,170 --> 00:45:48,370 This is true praise. 795 00:45:48,930 --> 00:45:50,690 This is the word Jew coming out of 796 00:45:50,690 --> 00:45:50,830 the... 797 00:45:53,680 --> 00:45:54,420 Ah yes. 798 00:45:55,480 --> 00:45:58,300 He's the real Jew whom God can praise. 799 00:46:00,240 --> 00:46:02,440 You know friends we need to get this 800 00:46:03,040 --> 00:46:05,200 into this day and hour in which we 801 00:46:05,200 --> 00:46:05,440 live. 802 00:46:07,740 --> 00:46:09,920 You know I remember going up this street 803 00:46:09,920 --> 00:46:14,830 not so very many years ago and a 804 00:46:14,830 --> 00:46:16,810 man stopped me one morning and said to 805 00:46:16,810 --> 00:46:18,190 me Mr. Monk can I ask you a 806 00:46:18,190 --> 00:46:18,430 question? 807 00:46:18,570 --> 00:46:19,450 I said yes you can. 808 00:46:20,990 --> 00:46:24,030 He said if a man is casting out 809 00:46:24,030 --> 00:46:29,430 devils every night is he at the peak 810 00:46:29,430 --> 00:46:30,790 of his spiritual power? 811 00:46:32,880 --> 00:46:34,620 I said he may be on his way 812 00:46:34,620 --> 00:46:35,020 to hell. 813 00:46:36,520 --> 00:46:38,240 And you know I can see him stepping 814 00:46:38,240 --> 00:46:39,700 back on the footpath and look at him. 815 00:46:40,280 --> 00:46:41,300 He said how dare you? 816 00:46:42,080 --> 00:46:43,900 Oh I said I would dare all right. 817 00:46:45,240 --> 00:46:47,320 I said I'll show you something the Lord 818 00:46:47,320 --> 00:46:50,700 Jesus said in that book I turned over 819 00:46:50,700 --> 00:46:53,880 to Matthew chapter 7 and it's the end 820 00:46:53,880 --> 00:46:56,680 of the chapter and Jesus said when the 821 00:46:56,680 --> 00:47:00,180 door is shut you know there'll come a 822 00:47:00,180 --> 00:47:02,860 man to your right come a man to 823 00:47:02,860 --> 00:47:06,140 the edge of death and the door will 824 00:47:06,140 --> 00:47:06,600 be shut. 825 00:47:07,440 --> 00:47:10,280 And Jesus said when the door is shut 826 00:47:10,280 --> 00:47:12,160 the master has risen to him and shut 827 00:47:12,160 --> 00:47:17,380 you the door many many will stand without 828 00:47:17,380 --> 00:47:24,440 knocking saying Lord open on us we have 829 00:47:24,440 --> 00:47:29,040 eaten and drunk in thy name and in 830 00:47:29,040 --> 00:47:35,160 thy name we have cast out devils and 831 00:47:35,160 --> 00:47:41,440 in thy name we have done many and 832 00:47:41,440 --> 00:47:46,460 from the other side of the door we 833 00:47:46,460 --> 00:47:54,690 cast the accusers I never You see you 834 00:47:54,690 --> 00:47:56,590 can put on a terrible lot of outward 835 00:47:56,590 --> 00:48:01,810 shoes you know there are people being invited 836 00:48:01,810 --> 00:48:06,350 to communion all over the country and there 837 00:48:06,350 --> 00:48:09,150 are people tripping out to communion every Sunday 838 00:48:09,150 --> 00:48:14,600 and they haven't yet accepted Christ and they're 839 00:48:14,600 --> 00:48:17,940 only eating and drinking damnation to their own 840 00:48:17,940 --> 00:48:34,500 soul it's all a hoax you 841 00:48:34,500 --> 00:48:37,960 know you can give your money you can 842 00:48:37,960 --> 00:48:42,020 build new wings for the church you can 843 00:48:42,020 --> 00:48:45,400 put up new lights in the church you 844 00:48:45,400 --> 00:48:49,240 can give a new bible or church you 845 00:48:49,240 --> 00:48:54,580 can do so and then go to hell 846 00:48:56,910 --> 00:49:00,430 there's somebody in here that God's talking to 847 00:49:02,050 --> 00:49:07,660 there's some farce in this place tonight the 848 00:49:07,660 --> 00:49:09,500 Lord's talking to you and you know where 849 00:49:09,500 --> 00:49:13,720 he's talking to you man you've prayed at 850 00:49:13,720 --> 00:49:17,240 this outward block for a long time and 851 00:49:17,240 --> 00:49:19,300 in your heart and soul you know you've 852 00:49:19,300 --> 00:49:22,490 never yet bowed your knee and truly honestly 853 00:49:23,940 --> 00:49:28,160 wholeheartedly accepted Christ as your saviour because you're 854 00:49:28,160 --> 00:49:30,700 a poor lost sinner going to hell you've 855 00:49:30,700 --> 00:49:36,860 never come to ah yes well I tell 856 00:49:36,860 --> 00:49:42,080 you you know it's the inward thing it's 857 00:49:42,080 --> 00:49:48,020 not the outward thing it's the heart ah 858 00:49:48,020 --> 00:49:52,820 it's with the heart that man believeth onto 859 00:49:52,820 --> 00:49:56,100 the righteousness that's about to be revealed in 860 00:49:56,100 --> 00:49:59,660 this wonderful book of Romans it's with the 861 00:49:59,660 --> 00:50:04,440 heart ah yes friends it's not the letter 862 00:50:04,440 --> 00:50:06,580 you know it's not the old letter my 863 00:50:06,580 --> 00:50:13,830 it's the spirit dear Christian friends from this 864 00:50:13,830 --> 00:50:20,230 night forward let us ask God to fill 865 00:50:20,230 --> 00:50:25,830 our hearts and souls with faith and love 866 00:50:26,530 --> 00:50:32,750 and joy and obedience that wherever we go 867 00:50:32,750 --> 00:50:40,280 we reflect on our obedience just stop this 868 00:50:40,280 --> 00:50:45,470 old bluff and ask God to make you 869 00:50:45,470 --> 00:50:52,740 real for religion without reality take you to 870 00:50:52,740 --> 00:51:02,800 hell tremendous points worth remembering the 871 00:51:02,800 --> 00:51:08,000 next week we're sailing into chapter 3 and 872 00:51:08,000 --> 00:51:12,500 here Paul works so hard to show the 873 00:51:12,500 --> 00:51:20,220 whole world guilty before God and he draws 874 00:51:20,220 --> 00:51:23,040 the man he looks at his tongue, his 875 00:51:23,040 --> 00:51:26,580 throat his heart, his hands, his feet he 876 00:51:26,580 --> 00:51:30,360 shows the disease in every part of the 877 00:51:30,360 --> 00:51:35,120 human being brings the man guilty with every 878 00:51:35,120 --> 00:51:38,200 mouth talk and when he gets the whole 879 00:51:38,200 --> 00:51:41,620 world there he can start and tell them 880 00:51:41,620 --> 00:51:45,280 in the other wonderful chapters of the book 881 00:51:45,280 --> 00:51:51,880 the righteousness of God that can become theirs 882 00:51:51,880 --> 00:51:57,160 by faith in Christ and only by faith 883 00:51:57,160 --> 00:52:00,440 in Christ so we're starting into the real 884 00:52:00,440 --> 00:52:04,180 teaching of the book next week, let's bow 885 00:52:04,180 --> 00:52:12,480 together let's just be still for a moment 886 00:52:12,480 --> 00:52:19,760 or two we're not singing anymore tonight let's 887 00:52:19,760 --> 00:52:27,530 ask God to search you search me oh 888 00:52:27,530 --> 00:52:39,870 God and know my heart today call 889 00:52:39,870 --> 00:52:51,040 me and know my thoughts I pray see 890 00:52:51,040 --> 00:52:57,880 if there be some wicked way in me 891 00:53:00,790 --> 00:53:07,070 dear believer if you must confess something this 892 00:53:07,070 --> 00:53:14,880 evening confess it ask Him to cleanse you 893 00:53:15,960 --> 00:53:22,120 from every sin and to really set you 894 00:53:22,120 --> 00:53:31,540 free from bluff we're all said friends in 895 00:53:31,540 --> 00:53:35,080 the meeting while we're thinking about ourselves and 896 00:53:35,080 --> 00:53:37,500 shaking in our shoes while we do it 897 00:53:39,980 --> 00:53:43,060 art thou that Pharisee in this meeting? 898 00:53:47,030 --> 00:53:49,830 art thou the one who professes so much 899 00:53:51,590 --> 00:53:56,430 and yet tonight you're without God and without 900 00:53:56,430 --> 00:54:03,920 Christ and without hope oh guilty sinner let 901 00:54:03,920 --> 00:54:08,910 me take you to the cross Jesus died 902 00:54:10,170 --> 00:54:15,990 that that burden of iniquity of yours might 903 00:54:15,990 --> 00:54:19,470 be carried away and that you might get 904 00:54:19,470 --> 00:54:25,590 salvation through faith in the Savior who died 905 00:54:25,590 --> 00:54:33,540 and rose again and remember neither is there 906 00:54:33,540 --> 00:54:40,130 salvation in any other oh God thou art 907 00:54:40,130 --> 00:54:45,010 speaking to saint and sinner in this meeting 908 00:54:46,590 --> 00:54:53,210 thou art speaking to teacher and pupil oh 909 00:54:53,210 --> 00:54:57,880 God we want to come before thee Lord 910 00:54:57,880 --> 00:55:03,960 we see you so unworthy at times and 911 00:55:03,960 --> 00:55:06,700 yet Lord just because of the work of 912 00:55:06,700 --> 00:55:10,560 Calvary and our faith in Him who died 913 00:55:10,560 --> 00:55:15,860 and rose again we believers know tonight that 914 00:55:15,860 --> 00:55:23,440 we're accepted in the beloved oh God we 915 00:55:23,440 --> 00:55:27,020 thank thee that a man shall be in 916 00:55:27,020 --> 00:55:31,100 hiding place we thank thee that we can 917 00:55:31,100 --> 00:55:35,120 say this tonight thou blessed rock of ages 918 00:55:35,120 --> 00:55:40,040 I'm hiding in thee Lord we're so glad 919 00:55:40,040 --> 00:55:46,030 we're found in Christ we have nothing nothing 920 00:55:46,030 --> 00:55:50,230 of our own we have nothing to bring 921 00:55:50,230 --> 00:55:58,550 we're destitute we're naked we're undone only in 922 00:55:58,550 --> 00:56:03,800 Christ is our hope oh God thou art 923 00:56:03,800 --> 00:56:11,300 speaking to sinners not self-righteous or pious 924 00:56:11,300 --> 00:56:17,600 or religious for a fatal worker in the 925 00:56:17,600 --> 00:56:22,460 church sitting at the communion table and never 926 00:56:22,460 --> 00:56:25,640 knew anything about the saving grace of Christ 927 00:56:25,640 --> 00:56:30,800 Lord bring that one right through and make 928 00:56:30,800 --> 00:56:35,460 him right with God tonight so that God 929 00:56:35,460 --> 00:56:40,960 can look down and even praise him for 930 00:56:40,960 --> 00:56:44,930 being in Christ let it be in the 931 00:56:44,930 --> 00:56:48,370 heart tonight let it be in spirit tonight 932 00:56:49,550 --> 00:56:59,610 yea Lord let it be real part 933 00:56:59,610 --> 00:57:06,690 us in thy fear and with thy blessing 934 00:57:08,130 --> 00:57:13,390 through Jesus Christ our Lord Amen