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Matthew 5.

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If you don't know where to go by

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now, you're in trouble.

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Matthew chapter 5 as we continue on in

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this.

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Actually I only want to finish up where

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we were last Wednesday.

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I just got halfway through kind of one

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area in here, but let's stand and pray.

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Actually, yeah, let's do that.

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Father, we do just again thank you and

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praise you for your love for us, your

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goodness, your mercy.

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Lord, we thank you for this phenomenal sermon,

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unbelievable sermon, so powerful.

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And Jesus, we just pray that as we

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study this Sermon on the Mount, it would

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study us.

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And Lord, more than just study us, that

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Lord, that your word would be written on

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the tablets of our heart.

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That Lord, that we would become living epistles

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known and read of men.

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Lord, that we could be a people that

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we, as we read the Sermon on the

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Mount, we could truly say these are the

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things that God is fulfilling in my life.

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But Lord, these things don't just coincidentally happen.

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They just don't kind of just occur.

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Lord, they're requests.

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No one just goes to heaven by falling

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into it.

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We go to heaven by falling in love

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with it, by desiring it and choosing heaven.

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And Lord, we just pray that we would

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choose your word and that where your word

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shows us something in our life, Lord, that

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needs to be broken.

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That Lord, that we would be poor in

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spirit.

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That we would, maybe areas of our life

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tonight, there's just something you want to look

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and say, you're not poor in this area.

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You're not poor in spirit.

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Or you have sinned, but you don't mourn

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over it.

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There's no sorrow.

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But Lord, we ask that it would.

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That your spirit would just speak to our

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hearts and touch us and break us and

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mold us.

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And then Lord, fill us.

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Lord, as you said, blessed are they that

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are filled.

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Lord, that as they hunger and thirst for

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righteousness, Lord, you fill us.

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result of that, there would just be a

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merciful, a mercifulness in our heart.

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There would be a purity in our heart.

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A peacemaker, Lord, dwelling powerfully, wonderfully.

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The greatest peacemaker in the world, reigning as

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king within us.

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And Lord, our lives as a result to

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others around would become the salt of the

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earth, the light of the world.

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They would want to know what's transformed within

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us.

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And Lord, we ask that you would just

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take this sermon as we look at it.

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That you would strengthen us and bless us,

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every one of us.

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Father, we ask it in Jesus' name.

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Amen.

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You may be seated.

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I also quickly want to mention on Sunday,

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we talked about a construction ministry that we're

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getting quite excited and serious about.

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And any of you men that you have

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a trade, any one of the trades, or

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maybe just a labor, but you you love

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to get out and work and anything, you

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know, you can do, you want to help.

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And the men's ministry, we're kind of helping.

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We've already offered in some specific areas, Calvary

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up in Running Springs, over the castle in

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Austria, some work that's going to be need

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to be done over there soon.

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And then also Calvary Chapel in Huntington Beach.

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But there's others that we're already talking with

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of just ministries to help them build out

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their churches.

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love them, and to minister to them.

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morning.

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I was told that an awful lot of

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men came to sign up and want to

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volunteer for that.

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you're just hearing now, or you did hear

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but the line was so long and you

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left, tomorrow night at the men's ministry, there

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will also be kind of an update on

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that stuff as well.

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So be aware of it.

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But tonight, as we get to verse 17

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of the Sermon on the Mount, Matthew 5.

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Think not that I have come to destroy

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the law or the prophets.

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I am not come to destroy, but to

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fulfill.

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For verily I say unto you, till heaven

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and earth pass, one jot or one tittle

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shall no wise pass from the law till

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all be fulfilled.

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Whosoever therefore shall break one of these least

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commandments and shall teach men so, he shall

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be called the least in the kingdom of

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heaven.

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But whosoever shall do and shall teach them,

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the same shall be called great in the

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kingdom of heaven.

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righteousness exceed the righteousness of the scribes and

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the Pharisees, ye shall in no case enter

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into the kingdom of heaven.

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Now we got into this last week.

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to back up just a little bit into

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it because I didn't finish with it.

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and make sure we're all on the same

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this was so far in the Sermon on

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the Mount, there's been in the process of

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the Beatitudes, there's no doubt we've mentioned so

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many times now, a transference in a sense

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of ownership of our life.

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through being poor in spirit and mourning over

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our sin and becoming meek before God, hungry

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and thirsty for Him, being filled with Him.

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There's an emptying of our own life and

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a filling of His.

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He's taking over the reins.

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He's taking over the thrones of our hearts.

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the process, the ministry of lordship is being

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fulfilled.

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That when we come and we long to

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have Jesus Lord of our life.

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His Spirit.

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Lord, but by the Holy Spirit.

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The Holy Spirit is the one who comes

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in and He humbles us.

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He convicts us of sin and of righteousness

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and of judgment.

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a brokenness within us.

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open.

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We're crying out to the Lord, take over

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my life.

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Run it.

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the Mount, this is the processes of transformation.

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the Spirit if they have anything, if the

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Beatitudes aren't something that they also look and

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say that's what happened.

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the Mount or heard it.

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Spirit, they've also in the process been empty

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emptying and there is the great desire.

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self, the filling, you know, with the Lord

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and the hunger for Him.

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of the Sermon on the Mount.

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So much of the rest of it now

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has to do with my relationships.

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Whether my relationship with myself, my thinking, my

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relationship with the world, my relationship with Satan,

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my relationship with money, my relationship with trials

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or the rest of the Sermon on the

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Mount as we'll see as we go through

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It's kind of the outworking of the indwelling.

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That here in the first part of the

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Sermon on the Mount, this transference of power

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Jesus is, I'm telling him that He's the

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Lord of my life.

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my life, the rest of the Sermon on

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the Mount are going to become things.

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I'm looking at and see, so that's what

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He's doing.

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That's where He's going.

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That's now what He wants to change in

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my heart or my life or my thoughts

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or my relationships or various concepts.

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the rest of the Sermon on the Mount

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and various relationships.

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perhaps the most powerful and most important of

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all relationships, is that which we looked at

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The relationship with the law.

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Jesus is speaking of the law, He is

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speaking, I believe, centrally basically all of the

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law.

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The Ten Commandments, the moral law, the civil

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law, the Levitical law.

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the Bible, it's filled essentially with, again, the

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law.

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They're called the books of the law.

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you've got civil law, you've got relationship law,

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the marriage is talked about, raising your children,

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problems in you know, in law and how

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to handle, you know, legal matters and justice

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and witnesses and how you just work through

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all sorts of things.

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But every structure essentially of law and of

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governing over man.

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Now these laws, all of essentially, came in

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as a consequence of one thing that happened.

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Man fell into sin and he lost a

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right relationship with God and the law has

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to tell him about that.

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He's lost a knowledge of an approach to

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The law helps him with that.

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He's lost how do we relate with each

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relating?

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filled with all of this structure, the law.

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how to live.

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long.

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Whether it was the spiritual and the Ten

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Commandments before God or you were looking at

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the structural or the civil or the moral

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or everywhere you go, every relationship you're in,

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there is some on how to do it.

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What is now to be expected of a

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person, how they are to behave.

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And this is how these people, and we

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all live and hear, but when you come

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to the Sermon on the Mount, this is

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how this person's always been living so far

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before we met Christ.

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Before we were poor in spirit and we

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mourned and we're meek and now we're hungry

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for Him.

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He's become, you know, the object of our

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affections.

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He's become now one that's taking over our

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heart and our life.

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He's becoming king.

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He's becoming master.

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He's becoming Lord.

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And at this time, when all of this

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is occurring, Jesus is well aware that He

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is now essentially almost competing with the thing

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called the law.

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That men outside of Christ, outside of His

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love and His life and His dominion and

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His power and not knowing it and understanding,

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have been living by.

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To try to keep from killing themselves or

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others or destroying everything around us.

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So the law.

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Now Jesus as He looks at this huge

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relationship that every man has.

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These standards, these obligations, these promises, these responsibilities

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of life.

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These things that tell me if I've done

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good or bad or what I ought to

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be doing all the time.

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These other things that have lorded themselves over

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me in a sense.

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Now Jesus, realizing that in the Beatitudes, He

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has now taken over as King and as

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Lord of our life and now, He wants

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to talk to us about this relationship.

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What His relationship is with the law.

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And as we looked at it last week,

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Jesus did two great things there for us.

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Number one, He fulfilled the law as He

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said there.

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And all of the responsibilities of the law.

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He paid for everything that has been ever

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failed in the law.

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You know, when we come to Him and

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all of the whole thing before God, before

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man, before society, before everything.

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Jesus looks and He says, you failed in

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everything but I forgive you and I love

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you and you're mine.

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And when He fulfills the law, we looked

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at that quite extensively last week.

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And He said, I've come to destroy the

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law or the prophets.

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He says, exactly the opposite.

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I've come to fulfill it.

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But as you'll also recall, if you remember

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last week and you were here with us,

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the law, there is something there as the

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standard.

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He has come to replace it as well

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as we looked at last week.

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Not merely just simply to fulfill it and

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now I just walk on someplace, but the

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place that the law once had in my

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heart, in my mind, in my thoughts.

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That just like everywhere I go, when I

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go to work and what are the laws,

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what are the rules here?

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That when I go, you know, into the

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home and okay, what are the obligations, the

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responsibilities of being a husband or a father

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or a wife or a mother or in

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all these laws that we live by.

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Many times not even aware, you know, of

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them.

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They are so powerful, they are so constant

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around us.

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But now Jesus is saying, I'm fulfilling that

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and I want to take the place of

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it.

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You see, because as we also looked at,

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the law has, is a powerless thing.

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Its only ability really is to condemn.

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It doesn't help.

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The law, if you've ever, you know, most

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of you probably at one time or another

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tried to hang wallpaper.

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And usually once is enough, you know, or

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something.

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But the, particularly for a guy like me

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with one eye, you need at least two

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to hang wallpaper, I think.

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But you know, when they, but when you

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hang wallpaper, you know, you always got to

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have a plumb line.

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And all that a plumb line does though,

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it doesn't help you hang the wallpaper.

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It just simply tells you, you don't know

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what you're doing, do you?

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You know, that's all it really does.

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Each time you put it up there and,

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but it doesn't hang it, it doesn't fix

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it, it doesn't straighten it, it doesn't have

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a thing when you put it up there

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that all of a sudden, you know, this,

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and the paper slides over straight.

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It just says, you're dumb.

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You blew it.

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Tear it off and go hire somebody, you

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know, or whatever else on it and, or

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just paint it, you know, or whatever.

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Go rent another place or something.

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But the, the thing is, is that that,

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the law, it doesn't do anything.

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It's just a plumb line.

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And it is something there that Jesus, though,

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again, as I said, He wants to replace

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it.

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And that's precisely what He is all about.

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And in Romans 7, I'll just read it

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quickly.

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We spent a little time in there, but

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it's important to the foundation of where we

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want to go tonight.

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Because that's the place that He wants to

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have in our heart.

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And there's a wonderful illustration, a story that

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we looked at in Romans 7, when He

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says, No ye not, brethren, for I speak

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to them that know the law, how that

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the law hath dominion over a man as

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long as he lives.

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For the woman which has a husband is

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bound by the law to her husband so

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long that he liveth.

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But if the husband be dead, she is

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loosed from the law of her husband.

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So then if, while her husband liveth, she

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be married to another, she shall be called

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an adulteress.

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But if her husband be dead, she is

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free from the law, so that she is

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no adulteress, though she be married to another

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man.

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Wherefore, my brethren, ye also are become dead

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to the law by the body of Christ,

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that she should be married to another, even

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to him who was raised from the dead,

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that you should bring forth fruit to God.

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Verse 12, he goes on, he says, Wherefore,

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though the law is holy, and the law

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is holy, just, and good.

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But here Paul gives, I think, one of

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the most wonderful illustrations in all the Bible,

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when you stop and you look at it,

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talking about our relationship with the law.

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And here Paul, on one hand, he starts

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off, he says the law is holy, just,

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and good.

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But in a sense, there in his illustration,

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he says that a human being, by nature

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of just living in this life, we marry

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the law.

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We are married to it, you know, in

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his illustration here.

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And wherever we go, there's this law, there's

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this standard, as we mentioned last week, it

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is wonderful standard, you know, that he's holy,

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and he's just, and he's good.

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There's nothing more wonderful than the law.

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It's a great law.

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It's an impeccable law.

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Mr. Law, when we marry him, he is

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the most handsome, smart, intelligent, wise, good human

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being you'll ever meet.

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He never misses a beat.

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He's absolutely flawless.

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He fulfills the law.

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He is holy.

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He is just.

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He is good.

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As he said, he's as good as good

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can be good.

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He's the epitome of that which is holy,

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and that which is just.

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And he lives every day that way, every

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breath, every behavior in the law.

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And who wouldn't we want to be married

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to Mr. Law?

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And indeed, what a wonderful person in all

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the world, but as we also mentioned last

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week, there's one rather negative attribute of Mr.

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Law that makes him virtually intolerable to live

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with, and that is that he expects the

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exact same behavior from Mrs. Law, if you'll

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recall, in the sense that as we read

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and looked at Galatians 3.10, there Paul

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tells us, he says, where is it?

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Galatians 3.10. Well, I don't know where

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it is.

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I don't have it in my notes.

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But anyway, I forgot to put that down,

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but it's the law.

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There he says, you got your Bible, write

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it down, look at it later.

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You can find it.

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And I think it's 3.10. I don't

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even know where it is now, but there

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he says that cursed is everyone that fulfilleth,

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not all that is written in the law,

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both to do it.

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You see, the law is this very wonderful

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husband, wholly just and good, but he just

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has this very terrible attribute about himself, and

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that is he curses everyone that doesn't do

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everything he does, both to do it.

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He says every time you don't do everything

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that is perfect in the law, I'll curse

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you.

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I'll curse you to your face.

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And that makes it real hard on the

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marriage.

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And that begins to get very, very irritating

508
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very quickly when this guy, every day of

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his life, everything he does, everywhere he goes,

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everybody he talks to, every conversation is flawless

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and it's perfect and it is holy and

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it is right.

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And it's quite tremendous.

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Only poor Mrs. Law, she's sitting here, nothing

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wrong, remember, with Mr. Law.

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He's holy, he's just, he's good.

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The problem is Mrs. Law.

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She just can't keep up with it.

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And so she's condemned all day long.

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He just turns to her all the time

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when she's thinking that something's not right or

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she says some little thing or she, anything's

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out of place, he looks over and he

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says, curse you, my dear.

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You know, sort of a thing.

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He says, now that's sin, you know, and

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don't ever do that again.

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Curse you, curse you, curse you.

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And all constantly.

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It's very tiring.

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It's got to wear on the marriage.

532
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Maybe some of you are married to a

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guy like that.

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I don't know.

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But the, but at the same time, when

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that happens, it definitely wears things down.

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But here, as Paul explains, as we looked

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at last week, the most wonderful thing happens,

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as Paul explains here in Romans 7, and

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he says, the woman that has a husband,

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he's bound to her, to the law of

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her husband as long as he lives.

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But if the husband be dead, she is

544
00:18:25,080 --> 00:18:26,220
loosed from the law of her husband.

545
00:18:26,880 --> 00:18:28,760
In other words, as long as she's married

546
00:18:28,760 --> 00:18:30,200
to Mr. Law, that's it.

547
00:18:30,780 --> 00:18:32,040
She's stuck with him.

548
00:18:32,640 --> 00:18:34,860
And, but he does go on to say

549
00:18:34,860 --> 00:18:36,880
there, but if her husband be dead, she

550
00:18:36,880 --> 00:18:38,620
is free from that law.

551
00:18:38,800 --> 00:18:40,760
So that she's no longer an adulteress, although

552
00:18:40,760 --> 00:18:41,740
she'd be married to another.

553
00:18:42,280 --> 00:18:44,000
And here, Paul, he goes on, and he

554
00:18:44,000 --> 00:18:46,580
tells us, and he says, Wherefore, my brother,

555
00:18:47,240 --> 00:18:49,040
ye are also become dead by the law

556
00:18:49,040 --> 00:18:50,440
by the body of Christ, that ye should

557
00:18:50,440 --> 00:18:52,300
not be married to another, even him who

558
00:18:52,300 --> 00:18:53,520
raised Christ from the dead.

559
00:18:54,080 --> 00:18:55,960
And here, Paul, he says, the one, one

560
00:18:55,960 --> 00:18:57,460
of the most wonderful things in all the

561
00:18:57,460 --> 00:18:59,260
world happened one day with Mrs. Law.

562
00:19:00,080 --> 00:19:01,980
She woke up, and there was Mr. Law.

563
00:19:02,080 --> 00:19:03,980
He was still wholly just and good, not

564
00:19:03,980 --> 00:19:06,160
a hair out of place, and absolutely impeccable,

565
00:19:06,300 --> 00:19:08,540
but he was wonderfully dead.

566
00:19:09,060 --> 00:19:11,340
He was beautifully dead as a doornail.

567
00:19:11,540 --> 00:19:13,660
He looked over at her, and she got

568
00:19:13,660 --> 00:19:16,520
up, and looked at him, and did stuff

569
00:19:16,520 --> 00:19:18,780
wrong, and he said nothing.

570
00:19:19,220 --> 00:19:20,520
She was quite happy about it.

571
00:19:20,900 --> 00:19:24,440
But the reason is that so she may

572
00:19:24,440 --> 00:19:28,220
be married to another, even Christ.

573
00:19:29,020 --> 00:19:32,460
And here, under God's grace, and here, essentially,

574
00:19:32,720 --> 00:19:34,840
what Paul is communicating here is that there

575
00:19:34,840 --> 00:19:36,840
is a way out of the marriage to

576
00:19:36,840 --> 00:19:37,340
the law.

577
00:19:38,500 --> 00:19:40,380
There is a way out of this guilt.

578
00:19:40,560 --> 00:19:42,140
There's a way out of this condemnation.

579
00:19:42,340 --> 00:19:43,760
There is a way out of this constant

580
00:19:43,760 --> 00:19:44,320
cursing.

581
00:19:44,400 --> 00:19:46,660
And essentially, it's what the Beatitudes are all

582
00:19:46,660 --> 00:19:47,000
about.

583
00:19:48,240 --> 00:19:51,040
That when somebody comes to replace the law,

584
00:19:51,120 --> 00:19:53,080
to fulfill it, and to put it away,

585
00:19:53,520 --> 00:19:55,200
and to be done with it, that there

586
00:19:55,200 --> 00:19:57,420
is one that has the capacity to fulfill

587
00:19:57,420 --> 00:20:00,240
everything in it, all the accusations, all the

588
00:20:00,240 --> 00:20:04,860
standards, pay all the debts, and actually put

589
00:20:04,860 --> 00:20:08,520
the law to death, in a sense, and

590
00:20:08,520 --> 00:20:10,760
then take his place.

591
00:20:11,260 --> 00:20:13,820
And this is precisely, you know, what Jesus

592
00:20:13,820 --> 00:20:15,200
Christ came to do.

593
00:20:15,680 --> 00:20:17,880
And to set me free from the law,

594
00:20:18,280 --> 00:20:19,860
and to take the place that the law

595
00:20:19,860 --> 00:20:21,800
once had within my heart and within my

596
00:20:21,800 --> 00:20:22,160
life.

597
00:20:22,520 --> 00:20:25,100
And that when I understand that, and I

598
00:20:25,100 --> 00:20:26,960
begin to realize that's the essence of the

599
00:20:26,960 --> 00:20:29,720
Christian life, is that I'm going to be

600
00:20:29,720 --> 00:20:32,840
subject, essentially, to one or to the other.

601
00:20:33,660 --> 00:20:35,440
Either I, every day, you don't have to

602
00:20:35,440 --> 00:20:37,700
be a Christian real long to realize you're

603
00:20:37,700 --> 00:20:38,820
married to one or the other.

604
00:20:40,180 --> 00:20:42,320
And, but there isn't any options, really.

605
00:20:43,360 --> 00:20:46,360
Either the law is dead because Christ is

606
00:20:46,360 --> 00:20:47,440
alive in my life.

607
00:20:48,620 --> 00:20:50,980
Either, and the law has lost its authority

608
00:20:50,980 --> 00:20:53,060
and its power by virtue of me looking

609
00:20:53,060 --> 00:20:57,080
to him, or I'll gravitate right back to

610
00:20:57,080 --> 00:20:58,020
that, essentially.

611
00:20:58,680 --> 00:21:02,500
But when I am truly looking and realizing,

612
00:21:02,660 --> 00:21:03,960
here in this sermon, when I'm poor in

613
00:21:03,960 --> 00:21:05,640
spirit, I mourn over my sins.

614
00:21:05,700 --> 00:21:06,960
I am meek before God.

615
00:21:07,440 --> 00:21:09,760
I am hungry and thirsty for righteousness.

616
00:21:09,880 --> 00:21:11,480
I'm filled with him and his spirit and

617
00:21:11,480 --> 00:21:13,480
his life, and he's setting up his place

618
00:21:13,480 --> 00:21:15,000
and his dominion within my heart.

619
00:21:15,320 --> 00:21:17,580
He's giving me a merciful heart, and he's

620
00:21:17,580 --> 00:21:19,400
giving me a purity of mind, and he's

621
00:21:19,400 --> 00:21:21,460
giving me a peacemaker and a nature of

622
00:21:21,460 --> 00:21:22,100
a peacemaker.

623
00:21:22,660 --> 00:21:24,500
And he's sending me out to live for

624
00:21:24,500 --> 00:21:24,760
him.

625
00:21:25,240 --> 00:21:26,580
He wants to be the object of my

626
00:21:26,580 --> 00:21:26,920
life.

627
00:21:27,900 --> 00:21:29,720
He now will say, we'll get rid of

628
00:21:29,720 --> 00:21:32,120
the law and its authority and its power

629
00:21:32,120 --> 00:21:35,280
as you enthrone Christ.

630
00:21:36,000 --> 00:21:38,540
As you see that he has his right

631
00:21:38,540 --> 00:21:39,620
place within you.

632
00:21:39,840 --> 00:21:42,280
Because, you see, essentially, there's only two laws,

633
00:21:42,400 --> 00:21:43,580
as far as when you pick up the

634
00:21:43,580 --> 00:21:44,680
Bible, that govern life.

635
00:21:45,620 --> 00:21:48,000
And back into Romans 8, in fact, Romans

636
00:21:48,000 --> 00:21:49,540
8 to me, a lot, and 7 and

637
00:21:49,540 --> 00:21:52,480
8, is really a lot of Paul's version,

638
00:21:52,660 --> 00:21:53,780
almost, of the Sermon on the Mount.

639
00:21:53,860 --> 00:21:54,720
I want to look a little at that,

640
00:21:54,760 --> 00:21:55,840
so please turn over to it.

641
00:21:57,060 --> 00:22:01,460
But in Romans, in chapter 8, Paul writes,

642
00:22:01,540 --> 00:22:02,680
he says, you know, there is now therefore

643
00:22:02,680 --> 00:22:04,580
no condemnation that then which are in Christ

644
00:22:04,580 --> 00:22:04,960
Jesus.

645
00:22:05,520 --> 00:22:06,820
Verse 2, he goes on, he says, the

646
00:22:06,820 --> 00:22:08,620
law, the spirit, the life in Christ Jesus

647
00:22:08,620 --> 00:22:10,320
hath made me free from the law of

648
00:22:10,320 --> 00:22:10,960
sin and death.

649
00:22:11,600 --> 00:22:13,500
For what the law could not do, in

650
00:22:13,500 --> 00:22:15,300
that it was weak through the flesh, God

651
00:22:15,300 --> 00:22:17,560
sending his own Son in the likeness of

652
00:22:17,560 --> 00:22:20,940
sinful flesh, and for sin condemned sin in

653
00:22:20,940 --> 00:22:21,440
the flesh.

654
00:22:21,980 --> 00:22:24,020
That the righteousness of the law might be

655
00:22:24,020 --> 00:22:26,640
fulfilled in us, who walk not after the

656
00:22:26,640 --> 00:22:27,980
flesh, but after the Spirit.

657
00:22:28,560 --> 00:22:29,940
For they that are after the flesh do

658
00:22:29,940 --> 00:22:31,340
mind the things of the flesh, and they

659
00:22:31,340 --> 00:22:32,740
that are after the Spirit, the things of

660
00:22:32,740 --> 00:22:33,140
the Spirit.

661
00:22:33,560 --> 00:22:35,840
For to be carnally minded is death, but

662
00:22:35,840 --> 00:22:38,000
to be spiritually minded is life and peace.

663
00:22:38,480 --> 00:22:40,980
Because the carnal mind is enmity against God,

664
00:22:41,040 --> 00:22:42,620
for it is not subject to the law

665
00:22:42,620 --> 00:22:44,560
of God, neither indeed can it be.

666
00:22:45,100 --> 00:22:46,920
So then they that are in the flesh

667
00:22:46,920 --> 00:22:49,980
cannot please God, but you are not in

668
00:22:49,980 --> 00:22:51,400
the flesh, but in the Spirit.

669
00:22:51,480 --> 00:22:52,760
If so be that the Spirit of God

670
00:22:52,760 --> 00:22:53,480
dwells in you.

671
00:22:53,840 --> 00:22:55,420
Now if any man has not the Spirit

672
00:22:55,420 --> 00:22:57,060
of Christ, he is none of his.

673
00:22:57,460 --> 00:22:59,600
But here Paul is just wonderfully, in a

674
00:22:59,600 --> 00:23:01,300
sense, when you look at the Sermon on

675
00:23:01,300 --> 00:23:02,680
the Mount and the things that Jesus is

676
00:23:02,680 --> 00:23:05,180
saying there, he's talking about there's a law

677
00:23:05,180 --> 00:23:06,440
and there is the Spirit.

678
00:23:07,500 --> 00:23:11,280
There's these two forces there in the world,

679
00:23:11,940 --> 00:23:13,580
and if you live in the flesh you

680
00:23:13,580 --> 00:23:15,860
will subject yourself immediately to the law.

681
00:23:16,680 --> 00:23:19,020
But if you're in the Spirit, you now

682
00:23:19,020 --> 00:23:21,020
subject yourself to the Spirit.

683
00:23:21,780 --> 00:23:22,620
It's your choice.

684
00:23:23,940 --> 00:23:25,620
Until you come to Christ, of course you

685
00:23:25,620 --> 00:23:27,500
have no choice, for he says if any

686
00:23:27,500 --> 00:23:28,880
man has not the Spirit of Christ, he's

687
00:23:28,880 --> 00:23:30,240
none of his, so you're just left with

688
00:23:30,240 --> 00:23:30,460
one.

689
00:23:30,740 --> 00:23:32,240
You've got the law to live with every

690
00:23:32,240 --> 00:23:34,240
day in your own flesh to try to

691
00:23:34,240 --> 00:23:36,360
fulfill it or ignore it or do whatever

692
00:23:36,360 --> 00:23:37,180
you're going to do with it.

693
00:23:37,740 --> 00:23:39,600
But the wonderful thing that happens to a

694
00:23:39,600 --> 00:23:42,300
person when they come to Christ is that

695
00:23:42,300 --> 00:23:45,440
there is now the opportunity to choose whether

696
00:23:45,440 --> 00:23:47,420
I want to be subjected to the law

697
00:23:47,420 --> 00:23:49,940
of the flesh or the law of the

698
00:23:49,940 --> 00:23:50,240
Spirit.

699
00:23:51,180 --> 00:23:52,900
If I, in whichever one I'm going to

700
00:23:52,900 --> 00:23:55,800
subject myself, that is the one essentially I'm

701
00:23:55,800 --> 00:23:56,360
going to be.

702
00:23:57,160 --> 00:23:58,860
And of course in the law of the

703
00:23:58,860 --> 00:24:00,600
flesh, in the principle of just the old

704
00:24:00,600 --> 00:24:02,900
nature in the law, Paul writes in Galatians

705
00:24:02,900 --> 00:24:05,240
519, he says now the works of the

706
00:24:05,240 --> 00:24:07,380
flesh are manifest, which are the ease and

707
00:24:07,380 --> 00:24:11,180
adultery, fornication, uncleanness, lasciviousness, idolatry, witchcraft,

708
00:24:11,300 --> 00:24:13,100
hatred, variance, emulations.

709
00:24:13,260 --> 00:24:14,600
He gives quite a list there of pretty

710
00:24:14,600 --> 00:24:15,340
raunchy things.

711
00:24:15,620 --> 00:24:16,860
If you want to read them, you can

712
00:24:16,860 --> 00:24:18,400
sure read them, but we're all pretty familiar

713
00:24:18,400 --> 00:24:21,160
with them because we know the flesh.

714
00:24:21,440 --> 00:24:23,280
If you have any trouble with those things,

715
00:24:24,260 --> 00:24:27,020
then you're just not being honest.

716
00:24:27,620 --> 00:24:30,120
We can envy, we can hate, we can,

717
00:24:30,240 --> 00:24:32,420
you know, have all these great capacities within

718
00:24:32,420 --> 00:24:33,260
us all the time.

719
00:24:33,680 --> 00:24:34,840
It's the nature of the flesh.

720
00:24:35,060 --> 00:24:35,680
We all have it.

721
00:24:36,200 --> 00:24:37,780
Until we come to Christ, then we still

722
00:24:37,780 --> 00:24:40,280
have that, but we also, as Paul says

723
00:24:40,280 --> 00:24:43,020
going on in verse 22, he says, but

724
00:24:43,020 --> 00:24:44,300
the fruit of the Spirit is love.

725
00:24:44,880 --> 00:24:46,240
And then he goes on and describes it,

726
00:24:46,240 --> 00:24:48,780
joy, peace, patience, and he lays it all

727
00:24:48,780 --> 00:24:49,020
out.

728
00:24:49,300 --> 00:24:50,620
And he says, but the wonderful thing is

729
00:24:50,620 --> 00:24:52,000
there's these two laws.

730
00:24:52,400 --> 00:24:54,240
Now they're available.

731
00:24:54,440 --> 00:24:56,100
And Jesus here, when he looks and he's

732
00:24:56,100 --> 00:24:58,180
giving this Sermon on the Mount, I'm moving

733
00:24:58,180 --> 00:25:00,580
in to first a relationship with him.

734
00:25:00,840 --> 00:25:02,840
And if the relationship is there with him,

735
00:25:02,900 --> 00:25:05,460
then he is now saying, don't worry about

736
00:25:05,460 --> 00:25:08,740
living under the obligations and the responsibilities of

737
00:25:08,740 --> 00:25:09,280
the law.

738
00:25:10,280 --> 00:25:15,140
Seek me, live in me, and desire me.

739
00:25:15,700 --> 00:25:17,800
And, you know, of living by the law,

740
00:25:17,920 --> 00:25:20,300
essentially, not of the flesh, but the law

741
00:25:20,300 --> 00:25:22,020
of the Spirit, God's Holy Spirit.

742
00:25:22,920 --> 00:25:24,520
And of course, that was a law that

743
00:25:24,520 --> 00:25:27,240
essentially governed Jesus's life every moment of every

744
00:25:27,240 --> 00:25:28,200
day of his life.

745
00:25:29,000 --> 00:25:30,340
And I think in some months ago, I

746
00:25:30,340 --> 00:25:31,780
did a study on Jesus and the Holy

747
00:25:31,780 --> 00:25:32,080
Spirit.

748
00:25:32,800 --> 00:25:34,540
And in that, you may recall, if you're

749
00:25:34,540 --> 00:25:36,560
here for that, I mean, Jesus, Luke 1

750
00:25:36,560 --> 00:25:38,200
tells us Jesus was born of the Holy

751
00:25:38,200 --> 00:25:38,500
Spirit.

752
00:25:39,980 --> 00:25:42,840
Hebrews 9, 14 tells us Jesus offered himself

753
00:25:42,840 --> 00:25:45,100
without spot to God through the Holy Spirit.

754
00:25:46,180 --> 00:25:48,640
Luke chapter 4 tells us Jesus was filled

755
00:25:48,640 --> 00:25:49,520
with the Holy Spirit.

756
00:25:50,040 --> 00:25:51,680
He says, Luke 4 says he was led

757
00:25:51,680 --> 00:25:53,200
by the Holy Spirit.

758
00:25:53,620 --> 00:25:56,960
Luke chapter 4 tells us that Jesus, he

759
00:25:56,960 --> 00:25:59,040
returned in the power of the Holy Spirit.

760
00:25:59,920 --> 00:26:02,180
Again, later on, there when Jesus was in

761
00:26:02,180 --> 00:26:04,760
the synagogue, he explained all the things, he

762
00:26:04,760 --> 00:26:05,880
says, I'm going to be doing for the

763
00:26:05,880 --> 00:26:06,460
rest of my life.

764
00:26:06,500 --> 00:26:09,140
When he opened up Isaiah 61, and there

765
00:26:09,140 --> 00:26:10,500
he wrote out of it, he found the

766
00:26:10,500 --> 00:26:12,820
place where it was written, and then he

767
00:26:12,820 --> 00:26:14,540
said, as he quoted, the Spirit of the

768
00:26:14,540 --> 00:26:16,300
Lord God is upon me because he hath

769
00:26:16,300 --> 00:26:16,920
anointed me.

770
00:26:17,220 --> 00:26:18,960
And then he laid out all the things

771
00:26:18,960 --> 00:26:20,120
he was going to be doing for the

772
00:26:20,120 --> 00:26:20,840
next three years.

773
00:26:21,280 --> 00:26:22,740
And he says, listen, I want to explain

774
00:26:22,740 --> 00:26:25,480
to the whole world who I am, what

775
00:26:25,480 --> 00:26:27,620
I'm going to be doing, and also, most

776
00:26:27,620 --> 00:26:29,160
importantly, how I do it.

777
00:26:29,880 --> 00:26:31,200
I do all the things.

778
00:26:31,240 --> 00:26:32,720
And when you're watching me, I'm not going

779
00:26:32,720 --> 00:26:33,900
to have a lot of time to stop

780
00:26:33,900 --> 00:26:35,300
in the next three years all the time.

781
00:26:35,360 --> 00:26:36,420
And when you say, how'd you do that?

782
00:26:36,940 --> 00:26:37,940
Where'd you get that sermon?

783
00:26:38,580 --> 00:26:39,640
How'd you heal that sick?

784
00:26:39,680 --> 00:26:40,280
How'd you raise it?

785
00:26:40,300 --> 00:26:40,980
How'd you walk on?

786
00:26:41,020 --> 00:26:42,200
How did you, how, you know?

787
00:26:42,480 --> 00:26:43,800
And he says, I'll tell you before any

788
00:26:43,800 --> 00:26:46,180
of this happened, how I comforted anybody, how

789
00:26:46,180 --> 00:26:47,360
I'm going to heal anybody, how I'm going

790
00:26:47,360 --> 00:26:48,000
to bless anybody.

791
00:26:49,080 --> 00:26:50,360
He says, I'm going to do it all

792
00:26:50,360 --> 00:26:52,200
because the Spirit of the Lord God is

793
00:26:52,200 --> 00:26:52,740
upon me.

794
00:26:53,640 --> 00:26:54,760
He has anointed me.

795
00:26:55,540 --> 00:26:57,060
Jesus was born of the Holy Spirit.

796
00:26:57,180 --> 00:26:58,360
He was filled with the Holy Spirit.

797
00:26:58,460 --> 00:27:00,500
He was led, literally driven by the Holy

798
00:27:00,500 --> 00:27:00,740
Spirit.

799
00:27:00,820 --> 00:27:02,140
He was under the power of the Holy

800
00:27:02,140 --> 00:27:04,720
Spirit, from Bethlehem to the Mount of Olives.

801
00:27:05,000 --> 00:27:06,980
He lived entirely in the realm of the

802
00:27:06,980 --> 00:27:07,240
Spirit.

803
00:27:07,940 --> 00:27:10,700
He subjected himself totally to a far greater

804
00:27:10,700 --> 00:27:13,460
law than the law of man, and all

805
00:27:13,460 --> 00:27:15,560
these things that Adam had to, was subjected

806
00:27:15,560 --> 00:27:16,800
to because he fell.

807
00:27:17,580 --> 00:27:20,380
There Jesus lived under the principle that Adam

808
00:27:20,380 --> 00:27:23,820
should and could have lived under, but forfeited

809
00:27:23,820 --> 00:27:25,320
when he sinned.

810
00:27:25,620 --> 00:27:27,080
And he was driven out of the garden,

811
00:27:27,160 --> 00:27:29,200
and all these structures were made, and from

812
00:27:29,200 --> 00:27:31,080
now on Adam's got to go out and

813
00:27:31,080 --> 00:27:33,000
live by all these rules, and these regulations,

814
00:27:33,140 --> 00:27:34,560
these laws, and these responsibilities.

815
00:27:35,260 --> 00:27:38,740
Had he not sinned, there born of the

816
00:27:38,740 --> 00:27:39,960
Holy Spirit Adam was.

817
00:27:40,120 --> 00:27:41,820
The Spirit of God brooded over him.

818
00:27:42,260 --> 00:27:44,080
And there he, you know, he walked with

819
00:27:44,080 --> 00:27:44,280
God.

820
00:27:44,340 --> 00:27:45,280
He was in the image of God.

821
00:27:45,320 --> 00:27:47,320
The life of God flooded him and filled

822
00:27:47,320 --> 00:27:47,520
him.

823
00:27:47,960 --> 00:27:49,160
He didn't need any law.

824
00:27:49,960 --> 00:27:53,620
He would just naturally, by being, you know,

825
00:27:53,660 --> 00:27:56,360
not with any law, any rule, anything written

826
00:27:56,360 --> 00:27:57,800
down, you better do this, you got to

827
00:27:57,800 --> 00:27:58,320
do this.

828
00:27:59,600 --> 00:28:01,020
He would have just fulfilled it.

829
00:28:01,860 --> 00:28:02,980
But sin entered him.

830
00:28:03,760 --> 00:28:05,580
And then sin entered in, and of course

831
00:28:05,580 --> 00:28:08,100
there, all of a sudden they're treating each

832
00:28:08,100 --> 00:28:08,740
other wrong.

833
00:28:09,760 --> 00:28:11,180
So the woman now gave us me.

834
00:28:11,620 --> 00:28:12,360
She did it.

835
00:28:12,760 --> 00:28:13,740
He's blaming her.

836
00:28:14,000 --> 00:28:15,800
He's being unjust and unfair, and you got

837
00:28:15,800 --> 00:28:17,020
to set up laws for that.

838
00:28:17,660 --> 00:28:19,900
And then she comes back, and she says,

839
00:28:20,020 --> 00:28:22,080
ah, the devil did it.

840
00:28:23,020 --> 00:28:24,460
And you made the devil, so you work

841
00:28:24,460 --> 00:28:24,740
it out.

842
00:28:24,880 --> 00:28:26,180
You know, I mean, she looked over there

843
00:28:26,180 --> 00:28:28,900
to say, I'm not taking responsibility for this.

844
00:28:29,140 --> 00:28:30,320
And so he has to set up all

845
00:28:30,320 --> 00:28:31,020
these laws.

846
00:28:31,740 --> 00:28:33,220
The next thing you know, they're, you know,

847
00:28:34,860 --> 00:28:37,280
Cain kills his brother.

848
00:28:38,980 --> 00:28:40,980
And you got to make laws.

849
00:28:42,840 --> 00:28:43,980
By the way, do you know how long

850
00:28:43,980 --> 00:28:44,980
Cain hated his brother?

851
00:28:46,680 --> 00:28:47,920
As long as he was able.

852
00:28:48,560 --> 00:28:51,960
Anyway, I don't want to, forgive me, that's

853
00:28:51,960 --> 00:28:53,460
a John Corson type of thing.

854
00:28:55,920 --> 00:28:58,360
If I ever do a thing like that,

855
00:28:58,440 --> 00:28:59,600
come up and hit me, will you please

856
00:28:59,600 --> 00:29:01,780
let me just, I spent a long time

857
00:29:01,780 --> 00:29:03,540
with him today, and I got to, I

858
00:29:03,540 --> 00:29:05,000
got to cleanse myself of that.

859
00:29:05,560 --> 00:29:07,800
But we have, but you need all these

860
00:29:07,800 --> 00:29:10,440
rules, and these regulations, and these laws, because

861
00:29:10,440 --> 00:29:11,800
we sin.

862
00:29:12,180 --> 00:29:14,740
But when you're born of the Spirit, filled

863
00:29:14,740 --> 00:29:16,800
with the Spirit, led by the Spirit, and

864
00:29:16,800 --> 00:29:20,260
the law of the Spirit, here in Romans

865
00:29:20,260 --> 00:29:21,960
says, the law of the Spirit, he says

866
00:29:21,960 --> 00:29:23,400
in verse 8, he says, the law has,

867
00:29:23,540 --> 00:29:25,340
the Spirit has set me free from the

868
00:29:25,340 --> 00:29:26,180
law of sin and death.

869
00:29:27,300 --> 00:29:29,680
That if I understand the greater law, the

870
00:29:29,680 --> 00:29:32,920
law of the Spirit, I don't need to

871
00:29:32,920 --> 00:29:35,620
be concerned about the law of man, and

872
00:29:35,620 --> 00:29:39,000
about these laws, these rules, these regulations, these

873
00:29:39,000 --> 00:29:39,600
standards.

874
00:29:40,400 --> 00:29:44,340
It's interesting, the, in verse 6 he says,

875
00:29:44,440 --> 00:29:46,040
you know, to be carnally minded is death,

876
00:29:46,140 --> 00:29:48,180
but to be spiritually minded is life and

877
00:29:48,180 --> 00:29:48,560
peace.

878
00:29:49,160 --> 00:29:50,760
And here, as Paul writes to him, he

879
00:29:50,760 --> 00:29:52,400
says, if you're gonna just live in your

880
00:29:52,400 --> 00:29:54,080
flesh, you're gonna have the law, you're gonna,

881
00:29:54,180 --> 00:29:56,120
and it'll kill you anyway, you'll never fulfill

882
00:29:56,120 --> 00:29:58,740
it, never can, never have, no, never will,

883
00:29:58,880 --> 00:30:00,040
nobody ever did it.

884
00:30:01,160 --> 00:30:03,220
But if you are spiritually minded, if you

885
00:30:03,220 --> 00:30:05,180
have a mind for not the law of

886
00:30:05,180 --> 00:30:07,160
man, or your own flesh, but a mind

887
00:30:07,160 --> 00:30:08,760
for the Spirit of God.

888
00:30:09,580 --> 00:30:11,700
And that word mind, it's a wonderful translator,

889
00:30:11,780 --> 00:30:14,260
what the word essentially means there, it means

890
00:30:14,260 --> 00:30:19,080
there, to direct one's mind to a thing,

891
00:30:19,160 --> 00:30:22,740
to seek and to strive for one's great

892
00:30:22,740 --> 00:30:24,180
interest or advantage.

893
00:30:24,480 --> 00:30:26,360
And the word essentially means to be obsessed.

894
00:30:26,560 --> 00:30:28,680
Paul looks there, and he says, you can,

895
00:30:28,780 --> 00:30:30,420
you can live in the flesh, and you

896
00:30:30,420 --> 00:30:32,060
will have to be governed all the day.

897
00:30:32,240 --> 00:30:33,920
You live in the flesh, there'll be rules

898
00:30:33,920 --> 00:30:37,040
and regulations, you'll never fulfill it, your wife

899
00:30:37,040 --> 00:30:39,400
will be mad, your boss will be mad,

900
00:30:39,520 --> 00:30:41,460
the cops will be mad, everywhere you go,

901
00:30:41,520 --> 00:30:42,540
you'll blow the laws.

902
00:30:42,820 --> 00:30:45,980
If you're living under your own flesh, you'll

903
00:30:45,980 --> 00:30:48,740
never fill the law, but if you are

904
00:30:48,740 --> 00:30:52,000
obsessed, if your mind is given over to

905
00:30:52,000 --> 00:30:54,860
the things of the Spirit, it's life and

906
00:30:54,860 --> 00:30:55,220
peace.

907
00:30:55,900 --> 00:30:58,360
When there's something there to where it, Jesus

908
00:30:58,360 --> 00:31:00,580
sets us free from the law of sin

909
00:31:00,580 --> 00:31:01,060
and death.

910
00:31:01,820 --> 00:31:03,160
This is what the Sermon on the Mount

911
00:31:03,160 --> 00:31:03,840
is all about.

912
00:31:04,300 --> 00:31:05,840
And here Jesus, before he can go on

913
00:31:05,840 --> 00:31:07,660
and talk about all the other relationships, he

914
00:31:07,660 --> 00:31:08,860
says, I got to know where you are,

915
00:31:09,300 --> 00:31:10,540
what, what are you obsessed with?

916
00:31:11,180 --> 00:31:12,460
Then the Sermon on the Mount, and the

917
00:31:12,460 --> 00:31:15,480
Beatitudes, a mind has become obsessed with God,

918
00:31:16,140 --> 00:31:18,160
and are no longer obsessed with ourself, and

919
00:31:18,160 --> 00:31:19,540
who I am, and what I'm all about,

920
00:31:19,620 --> 00:31:22,640
I'm obsessed without, about the Lord, and about

921
00:31:22,640 --> 00:31:24,160
his love, and about his life, and about

922
00:31:24,160 --> 00:31:25,720
his power, and about his goodness.

923
00:31:26,660 --> 00:31:28,580
He also tells us there in verse 4,

924
00:31:28,680 --> 00:31:30,280
back up in Romans 8, he says, for

925
00:31:30,280 --> 00:31:33,120
the righteousness of the law, that the righteousness

926
00:31:33,120 --> 00:31:34,620
of the law might be fulfilled in us

927
00:31:34,620 --> 00:31:36,320
who walk not after the flesh, but after

928
00:31:36,320 --> 00:31:36,760
the Spirit.

929
00:31:37,000 --> 00:31:40,580
If somebody's mind is obsessed with the Spirit,

930
00:31:40,980 --> 00:31:42,080
they'll walk in the Spirit.

931
00:31:42,900 --> 00:31:45,140
The word, you know, walk, you know, essentially

932
00:31:45,140 --> 00:31:46,840
there means to order one's behavior.

933
00:31:47,380 --> 00:31:49,340
That first when I just decide, Lord, you've

934
00:31:49,340 --> 00:31:50,980
set me free, you've come into my life,

935
00:31:51,460 --> 00:31:53,400
you're the Lord of my life, sit on

936
00:31:53,400 --> 00:31:55,120
the throne of my life, take this place,

937
00:31:55,200 --> 00:31:57,220
I don't care about myself, I want you.

938
00:31:58,120 --> 00:32:00,400
And then he sits there, and then now

939
00:32:00,400 --> 00:32:01,700
Paul says, be obsessed with him.

940
00:32:02,100 --> 00:32:05,160
And then order your steps out of that

941
00:32:05,160 --> 00:32:05,560
obsession.

942
00:32:06,200 --> 00:32:09,160
What he tells you, what he wants, what

943
00:32:09,160 --> 00:32:11,200
he is, you know, is leading you.

944
00:32:11,740 --> 00:32:13,600
And then he also goes on, he goes

945
00:32:13,600 --> 00:32:14,980
on, we won't get into this so much,

946
00:32:15,000 --> 00:32:16,440
but in verse 13 he says, but if

947
00:32:16,440 --> 00:32:17,880
you walk after the flesh, you'll die, but

948
00:32:17,880 --> 00:32:19,480
if through the Spirit you mortify the deeds

949
00:32:19,480 --> 00:32:20,360
of the body, you'll live.

950
00:32:21,460 --> 00:32:22,720
Here he says, through the Spirit.

951
00:32:23,020 --> 00:32:24,620
If you're obsessed with the Spirit and you

952
00:32:24,620 --> 00:32:27,300
walk in the Spirit, then through the Spirit

953
00:32:27,300 --> 00:32:29,060
you can even, you can even mortify the

954
00:32:29,060 --> 00:32:29,880
deeds of the flesh.

955
00:32:31,100 --> 00:32:32,580
By the power of the Holy Spirit, you

956
00:32:32,580 --> 00:32:33,820
may be looking, say, you know, I'm a

957
00:32:33,820 --> 00:32:34,600
terrible husband.

958
00:32:35,600 --> 00:32:36,760
I'm a terrible wife.

959
00:32:37,600 --> 00:32:39,380
I'm always taking it out on my husband,

960
00:32:39,480 --> 00:32:40,720
taking it out on my children.

961
00:32:41,160 --> 00:32:43,820
I'm impatient, and I'm hostile, and I'm angry.

962
00:32:44,620 --> 00:32:46,680
I'm always doing this, and it's my flesh.

963
00:32:46,760 --> 00:32:47,980
It's my nature, my flesh.

964
00:32:49,440 --> 00:32:51,280
And, but here Paul says there's only one

965
00:32:51,280 --> 00:32:52,120
way to deal with that.

966
00:32:53,040 --> 00:32:54,480
And the way you do it is you

967
00:32:54,480 --> 00:32:57,060
become obsessed with the Spirit of God, so

968
00:32:57,060 --> 00:32:58,640
much so that you order your steps by

969
00:32:58,640 --> 00:32:59,300
the Spirit of God.

970
00:32:59,440 --> 00:33:01,380
Then when you go home, you will have

971
00:33:01,380 --> 00:33:03,000
the power of the Spirit to mortify the

972
00:33:03,000 --> 00:33:03,860
deeds of the flesh.

973
00:33:05,040 --> 00:33:08,020
But otherwise, when you get home, you'll get

974
00:33:08,020 --> 00:33:10,540
home all by yourself, and then everybody will

975
00:33:10,540 --> 00:33:10,880
know it.

976
00:33:11,360 --> 00:33:14,460
But the, but here is Paul, though, is

977
00:33:14,460 --> 00:33:16,700
wanting, you know, to lay these things out.

978
00:33:16,820 --> 00:33:20,060
It's essentially, here is, is Paul and Jesus

979
00:33:20,060 --> 00:33:21,900
here in the Sermon on the Mount, when

980
00:33:21,900 --> 00:33:23,520
he is telling us there he has set

981
00:33:23,520 --> 00:33:24,160
up his throne.

982
00:33:24,660 --> 00:33:25,900
We're poor in spirit.

983
00:33:26,080 --> 00:33:28,940
We got off the throne where we mourn

984
00:33:28,940 --> 00:33:29,700
over our sin.

985
00:33:29,900 --> 00:33:31,180
I never ran it any good.

986
00:33:31,300 --> 00:33:33,000
Forgive me, and I meek about it, and

987
00:33:33,000 --> 00:33:34,340
I transfer the authority.

988
00:33:34,660 --> 00:33:35,620
He takes it over.

989
00:33:35,860 --> 00:33:39,340
I begin to study him, become obsessed with

990
00:33:39,340 --> 00:33:39,540
him.

991
00:33:40,060 --> 00:33:42,500
Then Paul, you know, says in Romans 8

992
00:33:42,500 --> 00:33:44,520
there, now there is a whole new law,

993
00:33:44,620 --> 00:33:45,760
the law of the Spirit.

994
00:33:47,200 --> 00:33:48,400
It's a wonderful law.

995
00:33:49,940 --> 00:33:51,960
Both laws are always there every day, though.

996
00:33:51,980 --> 00:33:53,480
It's kind of like the law of aerodynamics.

997
00:33:54,880 --> 00:33:56,780
I remember one time I was on a

998
00:33:56,780 --> 00:33:58,140
plane, and I'm sitting next to a fellow,

999
00:33:58,200 --> 00:33:59,540
and he was an aeronautical engineer.

1000
00:33:59,640 --> 00:34:00,600
And I asked the guy, I said, tell

1001
00:34:00,600 --> 00:34:01,040
me something.

1002
00:34:01,420 --> 00:34:06,360
How does the law of aerodynamics negate the

1003
00:34:06,360 --> 00:34:07,080
law of gravity?

1004
00:34:07,080 --> 00:34:08,139
And he said, it doesn't.

1005
00:34:09,260 --> 00:34:10,600
Law of gravity is always there.

1006
00:34:11,719 --> 00:34:13,760
But the law of aerodynamics supersedes it.

1007
00:34:14,540 --> 00:34:15,460
It's a greater law.

1008
00:34:16,940 --> 00:34:19,659
And essentially, what happens, maybe some of you,

1009
00:34:19,840 --> 00:34:21,100
tomorrow you may go get on an airplane.

1010
00:34:22,219 --> 00:34:23,659
And you know, you bought a ticket, and

1011
00:34:23,659 --> 00:34:24,920
you go down to the airport, and you

1012
00:34:24,920 --> 00:34:27,340
go in, and you'll just give them the

1013
00:34:27,340 --> 00:34:31,540
ticket, spend three hours being frisked and everything

1014
00:34:31,540 --> 00:34:34,580
else, and then finally you'll sit down in

1015
00:34:34,580 --> 00:34:35,060
a plane.

1016
00:34:35,820 --> 00:34:37,760
Now you could sit in your own office

1017
00:34:37,760 --> 00:34:39,699
and sit there and go nowhere.

1018
00:34:40,880 --> 00:34:42,320
But you, if you go into a plane

1019
00:34:42,320 --> 00:34:44,080
and you sit down in a plane, you

1020
00:34:44,080 --> 00:34:45,540
just rest in it, just like you were

1021
00:34:45,540 --> 00:34:46,520
in any other chair.

1022
00:34:46,780 --> 00:34:48,139
But you sit in that chair, you go

1023
00:34:48,139 --> 00:34:48,460
somewhere.

1024
00:34:49,340 --> 00:34:51,080
They shut the door, they take that thing

1025
00:34:51,080 --> 00:34:53,040
out on a runway, they get it up

1026
00:34:53,040 --> 00:34:55,120
to about 140, 150 miles an hour, they

1027
00:34:55,120 --> 00:34:57,060
pull the stick back, and off they go.

1028
00:34:58,140 --> 00:35:00,200
And next thing you know, they're up going,

1029
00:35:00,380 --> 00:35:02,680
you know, 25, 30,000 feet in the

1030
00:35:02,680 --> 00:35:04,520
air, five, six hundred miles an hour.

1031
00:35:05,020 --> 00:35:07,120
And in no time, you're in Phoenix.

1032
00:35:08,100 --> 00:35:10,180
Didn't, no energy expended, particularly.

1033
00:35:10,340 --> 00:35:11,000
You aren't tired.

1034
00:35:11,160 --> 00:35:13,200
People get off the plane and say, how

1035
00:35:13,200 --> 00:35:14,120
long did it take you to get your

1036
00:35:14,120 --> 00:35:14,560
own hour?

1037
00:35:14,780 --> 00:35:15,520
Aren't you tired?

1038
00:35:15,940 --> 00:35:16,820
No, I just sat.

1039
00:35:17,500 --> 00:35:19,160
You know, in the old, I mean, sort

1040
00:35:19,160 --> 00:35:19,800
of thing.

1041
00:35:20,460 --> 00:35:22,800
But you see, the law of aerodynamics.

1042
00:35:23,460 --> 00:35:26,180
You subjected yourself to the law of aerodynamics

1043
00:35:26,180 --> 00:35:29,300
and it took you, you know, to another

1044
00:35:29,300 --> 00:35:31,140
realm, another place, very quickly.

1045
00:35:31,780 --> 00:35:33,700
That's essentially what the law of the Spirit

1046
00:35:33,700 --> 00:35:34,380
is all about.

1047
00:35:34,860 --> 00:35:36,780
It is one that when you subject yourself

1048
00:35:36,780 --> 00:35:39,120
to the law of the Spirit, the next

1049
00:35:39,120 --> 00:35:40,220
thing you know is all of a sudden

1050
00:35:40,220 --> 00:35:41,520
it takes you to a whole new realm.

1051
00:35:42,560 --> 00:35:44,720
And just by sitting in it the same

1052
00:35:44,720 --> 00:35:45,980
way you would any other place.

1053
00:35:46,220 --> 00:35:48,100
And here Paul, he's actually right.

1054
00:35:48,140 --> 00:35:49,080
He says, you're in the Spirit.

1055
00:35:49,360 --> 00:35:50,840
When you come to Christ, he says, you

1056
00:35:50,840 --> 00:35:51,980
have the law of aerodynamics.

1057
00:35:52,080 --> 00:35:53,000
You have the law of the Spirit.

1058
00:35:54,080 --> 00:35:55,000
You don't have to work at it.

1059
00:35:55,120 --> 00:35:55,740
Don't have to do anything.

1060
00:35:55,840 --> 00:35:56,280
Just read.

1061
00:35:56,460 --> 00:35:58,280
But if you, but if you don't get

1062
00:35:58,280 --> 00:36:00,620
in it, if you won't get in the

1063
00:36:00,620 --> 00:36:02,440
plane, you won't go anywhere.

1064
00:36:03,320 --> 00:36:05,420
But if you will get in the airplane,

1065
00:36:06,200 --> 00:36:08,320
the next thing you know is you'll be

1066
00:36:08,320 --> 00:36:09,000
flying high.

1067
00:36:09,900 --> 00:36:11,540
And you'll be traveling fast.

1068
00:36:12,380 --> 00:36:15,120
And, but at the same time, the law

1069
00:36:15,120 --> 00:36:16,880
of gravity is still there.

1070
00:36:17,320 --> 00:36:18,180
All the time.

1071
00:36:18,280 --> 00:36:19,060
Never stops.

1072
00:36:19,920 --> 00:36:21,680
And if you don't believe me, just go

1073
00:36:21,680 --> 00:36:22,580
over and open the door.

1074
00:36:23,140 --> 00:36:24,120
And step out.

1075
00:36:24,820 --> 00:36:27,200
And you will immediately subject yourself to the

1076
00:36:27,200 --> 00:36:27,940
previous law.

1077
00:36:28,700 --> 00:36:29,700
The law of gravity.

1078
00:36:30,840 --> 00:36:32,920
And down you will plunge.

1079
00:36:33,760 --> 00:36:35,960
And find yourself there when you're, when you

1080
00:36:35,960 --> 00:36:37,500
hit, and you smack, and you smack it

1081
00:36:37,500 --> 00:36:40,520
hard, you have a, you will understand the

1082
00:36:40,520 --> 00:36:42,460
gravity of the situation, you might say.

1083
00:36:43,540 --> 00:36:44,660
But you come and hit me.

1084
00:36:44,920 --> 00:36:45,360
I'm sorry.

1085
00:36:47,320 --> 00:36:48,100
But anyway.

1086
00:36:49,340 --> 00:36:52,460
But the thing is, is that if you

1087
00:36:52,460 --> 00:36:54,460
put yourself in one, stay in it.

1088
00:36:55,860 --> 00:36:57,720
And the amazing thing is, you can get

1089
00:36:57,720 --> 00:36:58,460
out very easily.

1090
00:36:58,540 --> 00:36:58,780
Anytime.

1091
00:36:59,560 --> 00:37:01,380
You're not forced in, like in an airplane.

1092
00:37:02,060 --> 00:37:03,720
You can get in this law, and you

1093
00:37:03,720 --> 00:37:05,080
can walk away any moment you want.

1094
00:37:05,760 --> 00:37:06,560
We've all done it.

1095
00:37:07,480 --> 00:37:09,380
But as soon as you walk away from

1096
00:37:09,380 --> 00:37:12,120
it, or you step out of it, gravity

1097
00:37:12,120 --> 00:37:14,460
takes over, and the nature of the flesh

1098
00:37:14,460 --> 00:37:15,880
takes over, and down you go.

1099
00:37:16,540 --> 00:37:18,960
The flesh is once again there.

1100
00:37:19,960 --> 00:37:21,720
And that's, Paul was, that's why he was

1101
00:37:21,720 --> 00:37:22,900
so amazed with the Galatians.

1102
00:37:23,000 --> 00:37:24,280
He looked at them, he says, hey fellas,

1103
00:37:24,500 --> 00:37:27,040
why is it, after having begun in the

1104
00:37:27,040 --> 00:37:28,920
Spirit, are you trying to complete yourself in

1105
00:37:28,920 --> 00:37:29,360
the flesh?

1106
00:37:30,080 --> 00:37:32,080
Why after God has given you this wonderful

1107
00:37:32,080 --> 00:37:34,100
life and power in the Holy Spirit, why

1108
00:37:34,100 --> 00:37:36,100
aren't you just, why do you ride anything

1109
00:37:36,100 --> 00:37:36,960
else but that plane?

1110
00:37:36,960 --> 00:37:39,620
Why don't you just be obsessed with the

1111
00:37:39,620 --> 00:37:41,600
Spirit, walk in the Spirit, mortify the deeds

1112
00:37:41,600 --> 00:37:43,340
of the flesh by the Spirit, live in

1113
00:37:43,340 --> 00:37:44,260
this greater law?

1114
00:37:44,420 --> 00:37:46,100
Because the moment that you step out of

1115
00:37:46,100 --> 00:37:47,540
it, there is another law that is always

1116
00:37:47,540 --> 00:37:49,540
there that you will immediately subject yourself to

1117
00:37:49,540 --> 00:37:49,660
it.

1118
00:37:49,760 --> 00:37:50,280
The flesh.

1119
00:37:50,580 --> 00:37:51,420
Down you go.

1120
00:37:52,640 --> 00:37:54,280
And it is something there, if you notice

1121
00:37:54,280 --> 00:37:56,620
there, it's always there.

1122
00:37:58,380 --> 00:37:59,760
But the Lord is always there to want

1123
00:37:59,760 --> 00:38:00,740
to make us do better.

1124
00:38:01,140 --> 00:38:04,440
Like, you know, remember Matthew in 13, when

1125
00:38:04,440 --> 00:38:07,100
Peter, they're on a terrible storm.

1126
00:38:07,980 --> 00:38:08,940
Middle of the night.

1127
00:38:09,880 --> 00:38:12,180
And they've been fighting all night, they're absolutely

1128
00:38:12,180 --> 00:38:15,000
exhausted, they look and they see, they thought

1129
00:38:15,000 --> 00:38:16,420
it was a ghost, it was Jesus, but

1130
00:38:16,420 --> 00:38:17,920
they cry out with fear, it's a ghost,

1131
00:38:18,040 --> 00:38:19,600
and then Jesus speaks, he says, it's alright,

1132
00:38:19,660 --> 00:38:20,260
don't be afraid.

1133
00:38:21,220 --> 00:38:24,680
And then Peter, just typical Peter fashion, you

1134
00:38:24,680 --> 00:38:27,520
know, doesn't calculate much, but he had a

1135
00:38:27,520 --> 00:38:29,500
great faith for a few moments down then.

1136
00:38:29,720 --> 00:38:30,980
But he looks at him, he says, Lord,

1137
00:38:31,260 --> 00:38:32,680
if it be thou bid me come unto

1138
00:38:32,680 --> 00:38:34,300
thee on the water, and Jesus is great,

1139
00:38:34,440 --> 00:38:34,580
come.

1140
00:38:34,820 --> 00:38:36,100
And he looks at the Lord, he can't

1141
00:38:36,100 --> 00:38:37,560
be, he's so excited, he gets out looking

1142
00:38:37,560 --> 00:38:38,780
at the Lord, off he goes, and he's

1143
00:38:38,780 --> 00:38:39,660
walking on the water.

1144
00:38:40,180 --> 00:38:42,140
And then it says, when he hears the

1145
00:38:42,140 --> 00:38:44,060
wind, and the wind looks at the waves,

1146
00:38:44,520 --> 00:38:45,060
what happened?

1147
00:38:45,100 --> 00:38:46,440
He takes his eyes off the Lord, looks

1148
00:38:46,440 --> 00:38:49,140
at that, remembers, hey, I can't walk on

1149
00:38:49,140 --> 00:38:50,380
water, what am I doing?

1150
00:38:50,900 --> 00:38:53,000
And down he goes, he's sinking.

1151
00:38:53,320 --> 00:38:54,620
And then he prayed one of the most

1152
00:38:54,620 --> 00:38:56,980
wonderful prayers in the Bible, Lord save me.

1153
00:38:57,440 --> 00:38:59,160
You know, save me, you know, he cries

1154
00:38:59,160 --> 00:39:01,560
out, and immediately the Lord saved him.

1155
00:39:02,040 --> 00:39:03,620
Took care of him, he puts his eyes

1156
00:39:03,620 --> 00:39:04,820
back in the Lord, and they get back

1157
00:39:04,820 --> 00:39:06,000
in the boat, and the sea's calm.

1158
00:39:06,920 --> 00:39:09,020
But that's exactly the way life is for

1159
00:39:09,020 --> 00:39:09,300
us.

1160
00:39:09,760 --> 00:39:12,800
If I look at him, I'll walk on

1161
00:39:12,800 --> 00:39:13,000
water.

1162
00:39:13,600 --> 00:39:15,700
If I look at him, another law, the

1163
00:39:15,700 --> 00:39:17,480
law of the Spirit, when he's my obsession,

1164
00:39:17,660 --> 00:39:18,720
Lord, save me.

1165
00:39:18,880 --> 00:39:21,160
If it's you, Jesus, bid me come on

1166
00:39:21,160 --> 00:39:21,260
the water.

1167
00:39:21,300 --> 00:39:22,940
If it's you, help me in my home.

1168
00:39:23,020 --> 00:39:24,780
If it's you, fill my heart.

1169
00:39:24,860 --> 00:39:26,860
If it's you, transform me.

1170
00:39:27,400 --> 00:39:29,120
If it's you, give me the fruit of

1171
00:39:29,120 --> 00:39:29,560
your Spirit.

1172
00:39:30,960 --> 00:39:31,860
And he does.

1173
00:39:32,220 --> 00:39:33,620
But then I can get out there in

1174
00:39:33,620 --> 00:39:34,780
the middle of the thing and think, hey,

1175
00:39:34,840 --> 00:39:35,960
you know, I'm pretty good at this.

1176
00:39:37,800 --> 00:39:40,280
And the next thing you know, down you

1177
00:39:40,280 --> 00:39:40,520
go.

1178
00:39:41,620 --> 00:39:44,620
Because the law of the flesh is always

1179
00:39:44,620 --> 00:39:45,640
here in this life.

1180
00:39:46,680 --> 00:39:48,060
It has nothing to do with how long

1181
00:39:48,060 --> 00:39:49,220
you've been a Christian, or how good or

1182
00:39:49,220 --> 00:39:53,740
how hard you tried being one, how mature

1183
00:39:53,740 --> 00:39:54,220
you are.

1184
00:39:55,240 --> 00:39:56,860
If you get on an airplane and you

1185
00:39:56,860 --> 00:40:00,160
take off, and you think, you know, I've

1186
00:40:00,160 --> 00:40:01,280
been up here a long time now.

1187
00:40:01,720 --> 00:40:03,880
Going to London, I've been on this plane

1188
00:40:03,880 --> 00:40:04,640
nine hours.

1189
00:40:05,300 --> 00:40:06,480
I think I got the idea.

1190
00:40:07,440 --> 00:40:09,040
I think I'm probably pretty good at this

1191
00:40:09,040 --> 00:40:09,500
thing here.

1192
00:40:09,680 --> 00:40:11,680
I mean, and so I think I'm going

1193
00:40:11,680 --> 00:40:12,780
to see if I can fly.

1194
00:40:13,720 --> 00:40:15,560
And you open up the door and they'll

1195
00:40:15,560 --> 00:40:17,120
look and say, no you can't.

1196
00:40:17,140 --> 00:40:17,460
Sorry.

1197
00:40:18,900 --> 00:40:19,700
Down you'll go.

1198
00:40:20,480 --> 00:40:22,160
It has nothing to do with how mature

1199
00:40:22,160 --> 00:40:23,560
you are, how long you've been a Christian.

1200
00:40:23,840 --> 00:40:26,660
The law of aerodynamics is only if I

1201
00:40:26,660 --> 00:40:28,040
subject myself to Christ.

1202
00:40:28,140 --> 00:40:30,340
And the moment I'm not, down I go.

1203
00:40:31,360 --> 00:40:33,880
You may think, well, maybe these pilots, some

1204
00:40:33,880 --> 00:40:36,020
of them they've been flying 50,000 hours.

1205
00:40:36,120 --> 00:40:37,100
They've had a whole career.

1206
00:40:37,460 --> 00:40:39,120
Certainly that guy ought to be able to

1207
00:40:39,120 --> 00:40:39,940
fly by now.

1208
00:40:40,780 --> 00:40:41,040
No.

1209
00:40:41,760 --> 00:40:44,140
Doesn't make any difference whether he's a, you

1210
00:40:44,140 --> 00:40:47,340
know, one day old baby that's on that

1211
00:40:47,340 --> 00:40:50,060
airplane, or this guy has been flying planes

1212
00:40:50,060 --> 00:40:51,060
his whole life.

1213
00:40:52,260 --> 00:40:53,680
And he's really good at it.

1214
00:40:53,960 --> 00:40:56,380
He can't fly any better than that little

1215
00:40:56,380 --> 00:40:56,660
baby.

1216
00:40:57,340 --> 00:40:59,440
He may understand a lot about the airplane.

1217
00:40:59,580 --> 00:41:00,760
He may be able to build an airplane.

1218
00:41:01,080 --> 00:41:03,200
He may be able to build one in

1219
00:41:03,200 --> 00:41:04,840
Greek and Hebrew and do it backwards and

1220
00:41:04,840 --> 00:41:05,160
forward.

1221
00:41:06,000 --> 00:41:08,220
He may know all sorts of stuff about

1222
00:41:08,220 --> 00:41:10,480
airplanes, but he still can't, if he steps

1223
00:41:10,480 --> 00:41:12,480
out of that plane at 30,000 miles,

1224
00:41:12,960 --> 00:41:14,060
down he will go.

1225
00:41:15,180 --> 00:41:15,780
It will happen.

1226
00:41:18,040 --> 00:41:19,260
I heard a story once of a fellow,

1227
00:41:19,980 --> 00:41:23,800
he got on an airplane, and there as

1228
00:41:23,800 --> 00:41:25,080
he gets on, he's getting into his seat,

1229
00:41:25,160 --> 00:41:26,500
and he looks over next to the, right

1230
00:41:26,500 --> 00:41:27,720
to his seat, there's a parrot.

1231
00:41:28,380 --> 00:41:30,160
A parrot sitting in the seat next to

1232
00:41:30,160 --> 00:41:30,320
him.

1233
00:41:30,920 --> 00:41:32,780
He's absolutely amazed, but nobody else is saying

1234
00:41:32,780 --> 00:41:34,000
anything and wondering about it.

1235
00:41:34,320 --> 00:41:35,580
So he just sits down.

1236
00:41:36,440 --> 00:41:38,120
The plane has taken off, but as it

1237
00:41:38,120 --> 00:41:39,260
takes off, the next thing you know, this

1238
00:41:39,260 --> 00:41:40,620
parrot, he's a nasty parrot.

1239
00:41:41,500 --> 00:41:43,880
And there the stewardess walks by and says,

1240
00:41:43,900 --> 00:41:46,880
hey, stewardess, hey, yeah, you, the dumb blonde

1241
00:41:46,880 --> 00:41:47,760
one, get over here.

1242
00:41:47,840 --> 00:41:49,000
This guy's looking at her.

1243
00:41:49,400 --> 00:41:50,980
Did he say, you know, he's listening to

1244
00:41:50,980 --> 00:41:51,160
this.

1245
00:41:51,700 --> 00:41:52,020
Terrible.

1246
00:41:53,660 --> 00:41:55,780
And he said, give me a martini or

1247
00:41:55,780 --> 00:41:56,060
something.

1248
00:41:56,820 --> 00:41:59,480
And this, she's just obviously shaken and rattled

1249
00:41:59,480 --> 00:42:01,960
and, you know, what, you know, but she's

1250
00:42:01,960 --> 00:42:03,340
trying to be a good stewardess, hold the

1251
00:42:03,340 --> 00:42:03,740
thing down.

1252
00:42:04,060 --> 00:42:06,520
She said, okay, you know, he said, make

1253
00:42:06,520 --> 00:42:07,940
it a double, you know, and this, she

1254
00:42:07,940 --> 00:42:09,220
said, would you like any, well, I'd just

1255
00:42:09,220 --> 00:42:10,960
like a cup of coffee, please.

1256
00:42:11,000 --> 00:42:11,840
It'll be fine, just coffee.

1257
00:42:12,420 --> 00:42:14,100
Well, a moment later, you know, she comes

1258
00:42:14,100 --> 00:42:16,360
back and she's got the martini, but she

1259
00:42:16,360 --> 00:42:17,340
forgot the guy's coffee.

1260
00:42:17,920 --> 00:42:19,580
Well, he's a little, you know, where's my

1261
00:42:19,580 --> 00:42:19,760
coffee?

1262
00:42:20,380 --> 00:42:22,160
Well, she said, I'm sorry, I forgot.

1263
00:42:23,080 --> 00:42:25,680
And then, by then, the parrot had taken

1264
00:42:25,680 --> 00:42:27,600
a little sip and throws the glass down.

1265
00:42:27,680 --> 00:42:28,480
He said, I said, a double.

1266
00:42:28,820 --> 00:42:29,620
He said, a double?

1267
00:42:29,680 --> 00:42:31,600
You give me a double, you stupid, wretched

1268
00:42:31,600 --> 00:42:31,980
woman.

1269
00:42:32,560 --> 00:42:34,460
And this guy just can't believe it.

1270
00:42:35,300 --> 00:42:36,360
But she said, okay.

1271
00:42:36,520 --> 00:42:38,640
And she goes back and she said, what'd

1272
00:42:38,640 --> 00:42:38,860
you like?

1273
00:42:38,920 --> 00:42:39,940
He said, just black coffee.

1274
00:42:40,040 --> 00:42:41,400
Well, she comes back a moment, she's got

1275
00:42:41,400 --> 00:42:44,100
the thing for the stupid parrot, but still

1276
00:42:44,100 --> 00:42:45,180
didn't get his coffee.

1277
00:42:45,320 --> 00:42:47,000
And he's in first class, and he's upset

1278
00:42:47,000 --> 00:42:47,340
now.

1279
00:42:47,940 --> 00:42:50,200
He's realizing, you know, this isn't nice to

1280
00:42:50,200 --> 00:42:51,460
talk that way, but it works.

1281
00:42:51,980 --> 00:42:53,980
So he finally upset, he turns around, he

1282
00:42:53,980 --> 00:42:55,980
says, you know, you are a stupid, wretched,

1283
00:42:56,240 --> 00:42:56,840
dumb waitress.

1284
00:42:57,180 --> 00:42:58,900
I want, give me my coffee and get

1285
00:42:58,900 --> 00:42:59,160
it now.

1286
00:42:59,240 --> 00:43:00,440
Well, now she's had it, and she goes

1287
00:43:00,440 --> 00:43:01,640
up, talks to a couple of the stewards

1288
00:43:01,640 --> 00:43:02,020
up there.

1289
00:43:02,080 --> 00:43:04,920
And the next thing you know, the stewards

1290
00:43:04,920 --> 00:43:06,500
come, grab the two of them, the parrot

1291
00:43:06,500 --> 00:43:08,200
and this guy, go over and open up

1292
00:43:08,200 --> 00:43:10,200
the door and throw both of them out.

1293
00:43:11,000 --> 00:43:13,060
And here they are tumbling down to earth.

1294
00:43:13,700 --> 00:43:15,440
And on the way down, the parrot looks

1295
00:43:15,440 --> 00:43:17,140
over at the felon, he says, I got

1296
00:43:17,140 --> 00:43:18,180
to hand it to you, buddy.

1297
00:43:18,760 --> 00:43:21,040
For a guy with no wings, you sure

1298
00:43:21,040 --> 00:43:21,800
got guts.

1299
00:43:22,680 --> 00:43:25,180
You know, but, but you know, that's the

1300
00:43:25,180 --> 00:43:25,940
average Christian.

1301
00:43:27,320 --> 00:43:29,480
We take off all the time, we love

1302
00:43:29,480 --> 00:43:30,960
the Lord, we look at him, we're flying

1303
00:43:30,960 --> 00:43:32,220
higher than a kite, and then we take

1304
00:43:32,220 --> 00:43:33,860
our eyes off the Lord, and we sure

1305
00:43:33,860 --> 00:43:35,540
got guts because we hit it hard.

1306
00:43:37,400 --> 00:43:38,880
We don't have wings.

1307
00:43:39,480 --> 00:43:42,660
We subject ourselves to that law, down we

1308
00:43:42,660 --> 00:43:43,100
go.

1309
00:43:44,060 --> 00:43:45,060
Hard we hit.

1310
00:43:45,620 --> 00:43:47,880
That's the, and then though, the law now

1311
00:43:47,880 --> 00:43:49,300
beats us up worse than ever.

1312
00:43:49,440 --> 00:43:50,840
We get down there on the ground and

1313
00:43:50,840 --> 00:43:52,340
we say, look at what you did.

1314
00:43:53,040 --> 00:43:55,840
How do you, you flashed your, you lost

1315
00:43:55,840 --> 00:43:58,380
your temper, you blew it, you said, told

1316
00:43:58,380 --> 00:43:59,800
your wife you're going to be loving and

1317
00:43:59,800 --> 00:44:01,560
nice, and you're no different than you ever

1318
00:44:01,560 --> 00:44:01,760
were.

1319
00:44:01,800 --> 00:44:02,480
And we aren't.

1320
00:44:03,060 --> 00:44:04,920
The only thing that's any different than anybody

1321
00:44:04,920 --> 00:44:06,720
is the law of the Spirit.

1322
00:44:07,100 --> 00:44:08,820
And as long as I rest in it,

1323
00:44:09,380 --> 00:44:10,220
I'm flying.

1324
00:44:11,080 --> 00:44:12,220
The power is there.

1325
00:44:12,560 --> 00:44:13,700
The distance is there.

1326
00:44:14,260 --> 00:44:16,100
The, the, the, the, the love is there.

1327
00:44:16,200 --> 00:44:18,700
The nature is there, because it comes with

1328
00:44:18,700 --> 00:44:20,480
the principle in the life of the Spirit.

1329
00:44:20,580 --> 00:44:21,720
It is the fruit of the Spirit.

1330
00:44:22,660 --> 00:44:25,160
But the moment I take my eyes off,

1331
00:44:26,020 --> 00:44:27,060
down I tumble.

1332
00:44:28,000 --> 00:44:29,700
And then the enemy sits there and says,

1333
00:44:29,780 --> 00:44:30,580
you're a terrible Christian.

1334
00:44:31,040 --> 00:44:31,880
You're a miserable Christian.

1335
00:44:31,900 --> 00:44:32,740
You're a wretched Christian.

1336
00:44:32,740 --> 00:44:33,940
How long you been a Christian?

1337
00:44:34,020 --> 00:44:34,780
You still can't fly.

1338
00:44:35,780 --> 00:44:37,140
You still can't fly.

1339
00:44:37,260 --> 00:44:38,740
You've been promising God you're going to fly.

1340
00:44:39,200 --> 00:44:39,840
Look at you.

1341
00:44:40,020 --> 00:44:41,740
You're bloody and terrible.

1342
00:44:43,340 --> 00:44:45,960
But Paul just simply says, you know, that

1343
00:44:45,960 --> 00:44:49,040
no, no matter what, in Romans 8, in

1344
00:44:49,040 --> 00:44:51,640
fact in Romans 8, 8, he says, they

1345
00:44:51,640 --> 00:44:54,340
that are in the flesh cannot please God.

1346
00:44:55,340 --> 00:44:57,080
He says that, you know, the, the, the

1347
00:44:57,080 --> 00:44:59,780
law or the, the flesh is not subject

1348
00:44:59,780 --> 00:45:02,840
to the law of God, neither indeed can

1349
00:45:02,840 --> 00:45:03,200
it be.

1350
00:45:03,600 --> 00:45:05,340
Try as long as you want, you will

1351
00:45:05,340 --> 00:45:06,560
never fly, Paul says.

1352
00:45:06,800 --> 00:45:08,200
You will never do it.

1353
00:45:08,600 --> 00:45:11,100
That nature can never sustain itself.

1354
00:45:12,220 --> 00:45:15,240
And if we are in the flesh, no

1355
00:45:15,240 --> 00:45:16,940
matter how nice we are, how hard we

1356
00:45:16,940 --> 00:45:19,180
try, we've already crashed.

1357
00:45:19,280 --> 00:45:20,400
We just don't know it yet.

1358
00:45:22,180 --> 00:45:23,640
And how important it is.

1359
00:45:24,360 --> 00:45:26,340
If we can just learn that, Lord, that's

1360
00:45:26,340 --> 00:45:26,780
my problem.

1361
00:45:26,900 --> 00:45:28,400
I, I have a choice tonight.

1362
00:45:28,560 --> 00:45:29,440
I have a choice right now.

1363
00:45:29,760 --> 00:45:32,240
I either subject myself to the law of

1364
00:45:32,240 --> 00:45:35,920
Christ, the law of his spirit, and I'm

1365
00:45:35,920 --> 00:45:39,020
set free from the law because Jesus takes

1366
00:45:39,020 --> 00:45:39,480
the place.

1367
00:45:39,680 --> 00:45:40,380
He fulfills it.

1368
00:45:40,600 --> 00:45:42,340
He replaces it entirely.

1369
00:45:44,660 --> 00:45:46,320
I remember one time, many, many years ago,

1370
00:45:46,360 --> 00:45:47,540
I shouldn't tell this, but it just came

1371
00:45:47,540 --> 00:45:48,000
to my mind.

1372
00:45:48,520 --> 00:45:50,560
And I, that's no excuse either.

1373
00:45:50,680 --> 00:45:53,960
But anyway, any of you that know Kay

1374
00:45:53,960 --> 00:45:55,460
Smith, you know, she's got such a heart

1375
00:45:55,460 --> 00:45:55,880
for the Lord.

1376
00:45:55,940 --> 00:45:57,720
And so she's such a spiritual woman.

1377
00:45:58,480 --> 00:46:00,180
And she's just always kind of thinking and

1378
00:46:00,180 --> 00:46:01,700
she's in tune wonderfully.

1379
00:46:01,880 --> 00:46:03,240
And I remember one time years ago, I

1380
00:46:03,240 --> 00:46:04,080
don't know if she remembers it.

1381
00:46:04,140 --> 00:46:05,040
Well, I'm sure she doesn't.

1382
00:46:05,100 --> 00:46:06,440
She's so spiritual, she wouldn't remember.

1383
00:46:06,920 --> 00:46:09,480
But the one day I come through the

1384
00:46:09,480 --> 00:46:10,700
office and she's in there.

1385
00:46:11,000 --> 00:46:12,340
And I said, just walk past her.

1386
00:46:12,380 --> 00:46:13,760
And I'm a, I'm a little kidder now

1387
00:46:13,760 --> 00:46:14,020
and then.

1388
00:46:14,040 --> 00:46:15,940
But as I walked past her, I just

1389
00:46:15,940 --> 00:46:16,640
stopped for a moment.

1390
00:46:16,760 --> 00:46:18,400
And I looked at her and she looked

1391
00:46:18,400 --> 00:46:19,920
at me and I said, Kay.

1392
00:46:20,100 --> 00:46:20,820
She said, yes.

1393
00:46:22,880 --> 00:46:24,460
I said, Romans 8, 8.

1394
00:46:25,560 --> 00:46:26,300
What is that?

1395
00:46:26,500 --> 00:46:27,560
She said, I don't know.

1396
00:46:27,660 --> 00:46:28,280
I said, I don't hear.

1397
00:46:29,060 --> 00:46:29,660
She said, why?

1398
00:46:29,780 --> 00:46:30,980
Well, I just felt like the Lord just

1399
00:46:30,980 --> 00:46:31,980
gave it to me and just wanted me

1400
00:46:31,980 --> 00:46:32,720
to tell you that, do you?

1401
00:46:33,440 --> 00:46:34,380
She said, what's it all about?

1402
00:46:34,380 --> 00:46:35,180
I said, I don't know.

1403
00:46:35,260 --> 00:46:37,080
Well, Romans 8, wonderful chapter on the Spirit.

1404
00:46:37,380 --> 00:46:38,120
I guess, I don't know.

1405
00:46:38,300 --> 00:46:39,300
And then I walked away.

1406
00:46:40,240 --> 00:46:41,820
Well, Romans 8, 8 says, they that are

1407
00:46:41,820 --> 00:46:43,520
in the flesh cannot please God.

1408
00:46:46,460 --> 00:46:48,160
A little while later, Chuck comes to me

1409
00:46:48,160 --> 00:46:49,620
and he says, would you leave my wife

1410
00:46:49,620 --> 00:46:50,100
alone?

1411
00:46:51,680 --> 00:46:53,200
Quit messing with her head.

1412
00:46:53,300 --> 00:46:54,540
She came into my office.

1413
00:46:54,680 --> 00:46:56,140
She said, oh Chuck, guess what happened?

1414
00:47:00,620 --> 00:47:02,680
But if we're in the flesh, we're over.

1415
00:47:03,000 --> 00:47:03,580
It's done.

1416
00:47:05,000 --> 00:47:05,720
The moment.

1417
00:47:06,160 --> 00:47:07,900
We cannot please God.

1418
00:47:08,300 --> 00:47:09,740
And the issue in life is when I

1419
00:47:09,740 --> 00:47:11,480
come there and realize the Lord looks at

1420
00:47:11,480 --> 00:47:13,100
you and I and he gives to us

1421
00:47:13,100 --> 00:47:16,000
this wonderful option right now, every day of

1422
00:47:16,000 --> 00:47:16,420
our life.

1423
00:47:17,240 --> 00:47:19,900
The law of the flesh or the law

1424
00:47:19,900 --> 00:47:20,360
of the Spirit.

1425
00:47:21,760 --> 00:47:23,820
And it has no, it has nothing to

1426
00:47:23,820 --> 00:47:26,220
do, no bearing on my greatness or my

1427
00:47:26,220 --> 00:47:28,860
maturity or my ability to fly a plane.

1428
00:47:29,680 --> 00:47:32,300
It has my, my ability to love the

1429
00:47:32,300 --> 00:47:33,860
Lord, to be obsessed with him and say,

1430
00:47:33,900 --> 00:47:35,600
Jesus, I have given you my life.

1431
00:47:36,260 --> 00:47:40,680
Through the Beatitudes, I have rejected the old

1432
00:47:40,680 --> 00:47:41,000
nature.

1433
00:47:41,180 --> 00:47:42,280
I'm tired of myself.

1434
00:47:42,620 --> 00:47:43,840
I'm tired of my flesh.

1435
00:47:43,900 --> 00:47:45,020
I'm tired of my nature.

1436
00:47:45,860 --> 00:47:47,340
I want to replace it with you.

1437
00:47:47,500 --> 00:47:48,060
Take over.

1438
00:47:48,580 --> 00:47:50,280
And the Lord is more than happy to

1439
00:47:50,280 --> 00:47:50,600
do it.

1440
00:47:50,900 --> 00:47:53,320
He loves that we would be married to

1441
00:47:53,320 --> 00:47:54,680
another, even Christ.

1442
00:47:55,760 --> 00:47:57,840
And that there, at that point, instead of

1443
00:47:57,840 --> 00:47:59,820
a law that comes and condemns us, he

1444
00:47:59,820 --> 00:48:01,200
says, come unto me all that labor and

1445
00:48:01,200 --> 00:48:01,500
heavy land.

1446
00:48:01,520 --> 00:48:02,180
I'll give you rest.

1447
00:48:03,240 --> 00:48:04,340
My burden is light.

1448
00:48:04,400 --> 00:48:05,260
My yoke is easy.

1449
00:48:06,280 --> 00:48:07,520
I am meek and lowly of heart.

1450
00:48:08,780 --> 00:48:11,280
But when we can just come, what law

1451
00:48:11,280 --> 00:48:12,760
are you subjected to right now?

1452
00:48:13,920 --> 00:48:15,920
Now, you may be, you know, if you're,

1453
00:48:15,960 --> 00:48:19,780
if you're not flying anywhere, if you're just

1454
00:48:19,780 --> 00:48:21,440
sitting on the ground, you can be nice.

1455
00:48:23,860 --> 00:48:25,980
But when we decide with our life, with

1456
00:48:25,980 --> 00:48:27,820
our home, our marriage, our family, I want

1457
00:48:27,820 --> 00:48:28,420
to go someplace.

1458
00:48:29,200 --> 00:48:31,200
I don't want just any old standard.

1459
00:48:31,360 --> 00:48:33,040
I want to have all that God wants

1460
00:48:33,040 --> 00:48:33,360
for me.

1461
00:48:34,160 --> 00:48:35,200
I want to have any home.

1462
00:48:35,240 --> 00:48:36,280
I want to have any marriage.

1463
00:48:37,040 --> 00:48:39,920
I want God's hand upon me deeply and

1464
00:48:39,920 --> 00:48:40,300
wonderfully.

1465
00:48:41,240 --> 00:48:42,940
I want to have the best of the

1466
00:48:42,940 --> 00:48:43,580
things of the kingdom.

1467
00:48:43,740 --> 00:48:45,160
I want the firstfruits of the spirit.

1468
00:48:46,560 --> 00:48:49,100
Then the Lord just simply says, well, if

1469
00:48:49,100 --> 00:48:52,990
you want to fly that high, you then

1470
00:48:52,990 --> 00:48:55,210
you'll fly as high as you're obsessed.

1471
00:48:57,030 --> 00:48:59,930
And as high as you order your steps

1472
00:48:59,930 --> 00:49:03,350
after that obsession is what you'll have.

1473
00:49:04,530 --> 00:49:05,530
And you're free.

1474
00:49:06,810 --> 00:49:08,450
And rather than going back and all the

1475
00:49:08,450 --> 00:49:10,770
rules and the regulations and the standards, being

1476
00:49:10,770 --> 00:49:12,870
able to just put our eyes on the

1477
00:49:12,870 --> 00:49:13,070
Lord.

1478
00:49:13,450 --> 00:49:15,230
And like Peter, when my eyes are there,

1479
00:49:15,470 --> 00:49:16,470
I'll walk on water.

1480
00:49:16,670 --> 00:49:19,210
The moment I take them off, down I

1481
00:49:19,210 --> 00:49:19,370
go.

1482
00:49:19,450 --> 00:49:21,150
The problem was, it wasn't that the water

1483
00:49:21,150 --> 00:49:21,630
sucked me.

1484
00:49:21,710 --> 00:49:23,370
The problem was I took my eyes off

1485
00:49:23,370 --> 00:49:23,710
the Lord.

1486
00:49:24,330 --> 00:49:27,650
I lost the obsession, but that we would

1487
00:49:27,650 --> 00:49:28,050
keep it.

1488
00:49:28,950 --> 00:49:29,290
Amen.

1489
00:49:30,990 --> 00:49:33,650
Father, we thank you for your word and

1490
00:49:33,650 --> 00:49:34,290
your love.

1491
00:49:35,210 --> 00:49:36,790
And Lord, I thank you, Jesus, that you

1492
00:49:36,790 --> 00:49:38,270
look at us and say, I'm here to

1493
00:49:38,270 --> 00:49:39,070
take that place.

1494
00:49:40,510 --> 00:49:42,250
But you're going to live with one law

1495
00:49:42,250 --> 00:49:42,690
or another.

1496
00:49:44,430 --> 00:49:46,690
You'll either discontinue, just get beat up and

1497
00:49:46,690 --> 00:49:48,110
get beat up and get beat up.

1498
00:49:48,830 --> 00:49:51,890
And then you'll condemn yourself and feel like

1499
00:49:51,890 --> 00:49:55,850
you're a terrible Christian and kick yourself around

1500
00:49:55,850 --> 00:49:57,290
and then just make a new law.

1501
00:49:57,410 --> 00:49:58,390
You'll make a new promise.

1502
00:49:58,550 --> 00:49:59,650
You'll set a new standard.

1503
00:49:59,910 --> 00:50:01,370
God, if you'll forgive me, I'll be better,

1504
00:50:01,450 --> 00:50:01,930
I promise.

1505
00:50:02,330 --> 00:50:03,370
Give me another try.

1506
00:50:04,790 --> 00:50:06,610
And yet, Jesus, you look and say no.

1507
00:50:08,170 --> 00:50:11,850
No matter how long you try, no matter

1508
00:50:11,850 --> 00:50:13,770
how hard you try, no matter how high

1509
00:50:13,770 --> 00:50:15,510
you set the standards and no matter how

1510
00:50:15,510 --> 00:50:19,750
great the promises, until you're obsessed with the

1511
00:50:19,750 --> 00:50:22,830
Spirit, you won't do it.

1512
00:50:23,810 --> 00:50:28,790
Until you set your eyes on Jesus Christ

1513
00:50:28,790 --> 00:50:30,490
and say, fill my heart and fill my

1514
00:50:30,490 --> 00:50:32,290
life, you haven't got it.

1515
00:50:33,630 --> 00:50:35,690
And Lord, I pray that even as James

1516
00:50:35,690 --> 00:50:41,010
tells us there that faith worketh by love.

1517
00:50:42,170 --> 00:50:44,750
And Lord, that when we just decide, I

1518
00:50:44,750 --> 00:50:50,010
love you, Lord, I love you, faith comes,

1519
00:50:50,070 --> 00:50:51,710
it works, it's operated by love.

1520
00:50:51,850 --> 00:50:53,250
Because we love you, we'll get on the

1521
00:50:53,250 --> 00:50:53,850
plane with you.

1522
00:50:55,010 --> 00:50:56,610
If we love you, we'll buy the ticket.

1523
00:50:56,770 --> 00:50:57,970
If we'll love, we'll be obsessed.

1524
00:50:58,230 --> 00:50:59,890
If we love, we'll say, Lord, I want

1525
00:50:59,890 --> 00:51:02,770
to go home tonight looking at you, desiring

1526
00:51:02,770 --> 00:51:05,290
you, filled with you, walking in your Spirit.

1527
00:51:06,630 --> 00:51:08,330
And then the moment I think I'm fine,

1528
00:51:08,430 --> 00:51:09,930
well, thanks, I'm okay now.

1529
00:51:10,510 --> 00:51:11,170
Down I'll go.

1530
00:51:11,870 --> 00:51:13,650
Lord, we pray that you would teach us

1531
00:51:13,650 --> 00:51:15,870
this great truth, because the rest of the

1532
00:51:15,870 --> 00:51:17,610
sermon, the rest of our life is dependent

1533
00:51:17,610 --> 00:51:18,130
upon it.

1534
00:51:19,550 --> 00:51:22,050
It's not by our own strength, not by

1535
00:51:22,050 --> 00:51:24,190
our own deeds, but by the power of

1536
00:51:24,190 --> 00:51:25,790
your Holy Spirit, you want to work within

1537
00:51:25,790 --> 00:51:25,970
us.

1538
00:51:26,070 --> 00:51:28,630
And we ask now, Lord, that you would

1539
00:51:28,630 --> 00:51:30,550
just fill us afresh with your Spirit.

1540
00:51:31,510 --> 00:51:33,010
Lord, that we can make a choice.

1541
00:51:33,150 --> 00:51:36,670
Jesus, please help me set my eyes on

1542
00:51:36,670 --> 00:51:38,750
you, my obsession on you, my mind on

1543
00:51:38,750 --> 00:51:38,850
you.

1544
00:51:38,870 --> 00:51:40,350
I want to mind the things of your

1545
00:51:40,350 --> 00:51:40,770
Spirit.

1546
00:51:41,370 --> 00:51:42,850
I want to walk in your Spirit.

1547
00:51:43,370 --> 00:51:45,250
I want to, by the Spirit, mortify the

1548
00:51:45,250 --> 00:51:46,250
deeds of the flesh.

1549
00:51:47,150 --> 00:51:49,030
I'd love to go home, and instead of

1550
00:51:49,030 --> 00:51:51,810
just having the hostility, the anger, the disappointment,

1551
00:51:52,050 --> 00:51:54,930
or my nature, Lord, just coming out and

1552
00:51:54,930 --> 00:51:56,750
doing his thing, how wonderful to go home

1553
00:51:56,750 --> 00:51:59,950
and, by the Spirit, mortify, put to death,

1554
00:52:00,050 --> 00:52:03,030
put an end to those old things of

1555
00:52:03,030 --> 00:52:05,350
my life, and to walk in you.

1556
00:52:06,410 --> 00:52:08,190
We just thank you for your love.

1557
00:52:08,330 --> 00:52:10,350
In Jesus, your wonderful name, we pray.

1558
00:52:11,110 --> 00:52:11,450
Amen.