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Let's all turn to Romans chapter seven and we're just going to read parts of this because

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you can't cover the whole chapter and I'll do my best but watch carefully verses one

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and two Romans seven what a powerful passage of scripture and it's kind of hard to see

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some hard things here and but yet they need to be heard know you not brothers for I speak

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to them that know the law how that the law has dominion over a man as long as he lives

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I guess that's true and he's dead the law doesn't have much to say to him anymore does

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it you can serve papers on a dead man it isn't that important for the woman which happened

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the husband is bound by the law to her husband so long as he liveth but if the husband be

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dead she is loose from the law of her husband now this certainly shows a couple of things

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number one would be how important marriage is and it was designed to last a long time

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was designed to last a lifetime wasn't it it was a very sacred and holy thing just like

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the law it was that important but once the man died the woman was loosed and so on the

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end with the death of Christ the laws nailed to the cross and we've got something better

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and that better is announced here in verse four wherefore my brethren you are also become

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dead to the law by the body of Christ that you should be married to another even to

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him who is raised from the dead that we should bring forth fruit unto God now married to another

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that's neat isn't it because we have something better here we're married to Christ that we

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should be married to another and then something wonderful is like the fruit of a long term

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and happy marriage is the blessed children that it brings forth so out of our spiritual

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life God has chosen to give us a blessing all kinds of spiritual blessings good things

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rich things and enduring things they last longer than the things that happen in this

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veil of tears married to another his name is Jesus you know if you read Ephesians 5 you

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understand that man alive he says submitting yourselves one to another as unto Christ we

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see that the marriage vows is a picture of Christ's wedding to his bride the church and

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that's what's so important we want to be part of the body of Christ that it be presented

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you see ultimately to God himself up in heaven how powerful that really is and then I look in

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2nd Corinthians 11 to he says I'm jealous over you and that amazing I'm jealous over you

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you know sometimes jealousy is a good thing isn't it that means you care enough to really be

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concerned about that bride of yours or that spouse of yours or that child of yours you're

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jealous you want the right thing for them you're going to be careful that they have everything

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coming to them that belongs to them and then he says I'm jealous over you with godly jealousy

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for I have espoused you to one husband that I may present you as a chaste virgin to Christ

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he's going to present us to Christ as a pure virgin bride and that's the way it ought to be

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is to raise your children to so present themselves to their marriage partner as a virgin chaste

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circumspect honoring one another and honoring the vows that they make to their loved one I look

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at verse 6 quickly but now we are delivered from the law aren't you glad it was so hard to keep the

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law now we've got a brand new lawyer in our presence today rose how good it is to have you back but

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you know the law doesn't have a lot of grace nor a lot of mercy does it not really and it's so hard

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to keep that law so we have something better see we're delivered from the law that being dead

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we're in we were held that we would serve in newness of spirit and not in the oldness of the

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letter new see I was just thinking that oxidol says that when they put the word new oxidol on

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their soap now did they still sell oxidol am I dating myself is there an oxidol soap anymore that

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tells you how old I am but you know in those days they said that when they put new oxidol on it

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that profits rose seven percent same old soap you know they didn't do a thing with it they just

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said it was the new oxidol and put a different package and it's new and everybody bought that

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and so seven percent increase but just putting new on it because we like the idea of new don't we

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I like the idea of new things you like the smell of a new car an old car

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well if it's kitty Reese car I tell you you'll like a new car better than the smell of the old one

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but uh I'm kind of that way too because my little pickup truck you know is my office and

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my lunch room and number of other things and I like the new truck smell I really do it's a lot

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better and we like new things don't we well newness of spirit not in the oldness of the law

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second Corinthians 5 17 if anyone is in Christ he's a new creature old things have passed away

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behold new things behold new things come to pass well we're a new creature in Christ

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all things are made new in Jesus Christ old things have passed away all things are become new

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and I like the newness and I like to promise it because there's hope in new things isn't there

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there really is verse 7 of roman 7 says what should we say then is the law sin oh god forbid

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sounds like uh roman 6 doesn't it should we continue to sin that grace may abound oh god forbid

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same passage oh no we can't hear of such a thing no no no no no you see but if grace is so wonderful

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let's sin a lot so we can get more grace that doesn't make any sense does not a lick and when

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you stop and think about it what a supercilious argument it is foolish foolish foolish and yet

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you know that's the way people are if we can get around the law there must be a lot of blessings

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to it don't try to get around the law there's an importance to the law and I'm glad that we have it

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and it is an important thing well god forbid no had I not known sin but by the law

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for I had not known lust except the law has said thou shall not covet now covet is a word that

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you'll see in the next verse down he uses the word concupiscence not I had to look that up to be

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deadly sure of it uh enough to talk about it because concupiscence is an interesting word

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and when you look it up in the greek and I started with webster's dictionary and I thought well what

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a dumb thing who cares what webster thinks what does the word of god say what does that

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concupiscence mean in the greek what what was he saying when he said that webster's okay but

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the west had nothing to do with eternal life but this is eternal life and what he says there was a

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lust or a great desire for something that was forbidden by the law in other words I knew what

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the law clearly said and I said I don't care what the law says this is what I want done remember

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that phrase please mother I'd rather do it myself I don't care what the word I've heard people say

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I don't care what the bible says I don't care what the word says this is my feelings about thing

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this is the way I want it to be see it affect and that's something so concupiscence is a good

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word I know what's right and wrong but I choose to do the wrong thing because it just suits my style

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sin oh be careful sin is a terrible thing to suit your style oh it'll put you in a poor rigging

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believe you me well we see in this six and seven that something very wonderful happened

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I had not known lust except the law said you shall not covet the law the 10 commandments

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I don't think there's any salvation it'll all be a wonderful way to live but I don't see Jesus in

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the 10 commandments it's a wonderful way to live but there's more to the law and so we need grace as

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well as the law thou shalt not often challenges people to say well I shall I will do my own thing

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well in verse 11 and 12 of chapter 7 of the book of romans and we are in all of this in the book of

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romans it's a few exceptions he says this for sin taking occasion by the commandment deceived me

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and by it slew me what do you mean sin taking occasion by the commandment uh in looking at

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what does it mean sin taking occasion that's the greek word a form a and is is literally

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uh just saying that sin has a basis of operation sometimes with the people of god sin as a

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rallying point rallying point sin has an advanced base and you know sometimes that's the case isn't

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I grew up in Oklahoma during the prohibition days almost Barney and Clyde I almost knew them

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and you know that was a terrible thing we legislated morality didn't we sometimes you

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can do that sometimes you can't and in those days you couldn't drink whiskey you couldn't buy

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liquor in Oklahoma now if you think there wasn't any liquor there of course you're wrong there was

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and that's where the bootlayer came in and he had the highest the greatest mansion

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in the town can you imagine that because of the kind of farce people said well if the law says

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that I'm not going to let them tell me what to do I'm stinking revenuers and who knows what a

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revenuer is I know it's bygone in your age but you had to have the government stamp on things see

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did that stop drinking in Oklahoma oh I don't think so made a lot of hypocrites out of some

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folks and some of the folks were in the church which ought not to be had it not to be at all well

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I don't know in Galatians 5 13 I don't want sin to become an occasion for work against me please

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mother I'd rather do it myself you know it's the heart that's going to make me decide what to do

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isn't it it's my heart and no amount of legislation is going to take care of now hey when you leave

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here you watch the traffic signals because we need the law we have to have the law I don't care how

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good we are there's some of the law that's an absolutely essence of existence as creatures

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that live together we have to have the law if everyone was perfect we could say you could

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forget the stop lights and we'd say after you alphonse after you after you and no one would have

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wrecks would they well not likely but we need the law but how wonderful it would be if we didn't

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have to legislate the law see and roman 7 says that very thing there's something better and it's

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called grace there's something far better than just the law Galatians 5 13 says for brothers

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we have been called unto liberty see we're free only use not liberty for an occasion

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unto the flesh but by love serve one another that interesting you know if we have grace if we have

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mercy and if we have forgiveness why he says use that liberty to serve one another everyone in the

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kingdom of god the church should have a ministry don't you believe that everyone in the church

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should have something because he says love one another present yourself see to serve each other

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and a church that doesn't help one another or serve one another there's no church at all

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and therefore I believe it's very important to have a ministry in the church and it'll take some

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time sometime god said that because you do have grace you have room to serve one another you have

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liberty not to freedom of licentiousness but rather freedom to help one another to lift one

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another and hey the purpose of the church is say hey man I need help talk to me or you know I need

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ten bucks I need a thousand dollars whatever it is I need help talk to me we distribute thousands

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of dollars every year because we believe that that's one of the things we do we try to help

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one another and if the church doesn't help each other how can you say we serve one another

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what what is the worth of the church see if we can't fulfill fulfill everybody's needs

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at verse 14 he says for we know that the law is spiritual but I am carnal and sold on descent

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carnal means fresh uh fleshly doesn't carnal chili con carne is with the flesh with the meat

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in the old days when things were tight in the early late depression god was raised in the late

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depression there were a lot of times you had chili without meat it went longer that way

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or at least the men ate the meat and then the kids ate what juice was left or the rear end of the

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chicken rather than the front end of the chicken and so you know times were different I don't think

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a lot of young people understand that there can be tough times in life I know that most of this

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bunch knows that there can be tough times I don't think the world have understood that at least

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not for 35 45 years have there been tough times in America not really so look at that isn't that a

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tremendous scripture he says in verse 12 it's holy that is the law it is just and it is good

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then look at verse 18 for we know this I know that in my in me that is in my flesh dwelleth no

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good thing for to will is present within me but how to perform that which is good I find not

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for the good that I would I do not that which I would not do I do have you ever felt that

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schizophrenia within you split-mindedness good intentions doesn't amount for much here does it

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about like a hill of beans man if it's not planted it just rots if it's not immersed into Christ

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it just rots it decays see and it's only when you're in Jesus Christ that the body brings

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forth fruit that the life brings forth fruit and there are rich rewards in that now verse 18 and 19

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really talk about a dichotomy don't they and a dichotomy is just a word meaning two different

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views of things often opposing two different views of things often that are opposed to each other

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and I just wanted to stress a couple of dichotomies or several dichotomies

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first of all we've been studying on Saturday night what a tremendous men's group that has been I've

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had my feelings heard I have gone away ecstatic I have learned something I have enjoyed the fellowship

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the most wonderful group of young men and a few old popcorns as well it's a rich wonderful thing I

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have loved that I have liked it I've heard views I've never heard above before it's been good for

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me because you know you can grow old if you don't have young ideas you know that you get old that

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way if you don't learn something new all the time see and we saw that God had a dichotomy he took

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chaos see and he rendered order out of that chaos organization out of disarray you see

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he made things right out of chaos and when we look at that order see the Romans 120 said

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invisible things of God from the beginning of the world are clearly seen being known or manifest

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by those things which are created even his eternal Godhead and his power and then in verse 22 he

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says deeming themselves to be so wise they became his fools so much for higher education to see if

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it's not related to God and then you'll notice that this line here whoops you don't do that with

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the microphone do you and that line is propitiation it's a covering or separation of us from the

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things that are bad for us you know and I'm thankful for that a covering of propitiation that's what

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Romans has been talking about we've been studying in Romans and praise God chapter 8's coming up

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and there's a very powerful thing that you're going to hear you know there's there are therefore now

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no condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus you know chapter 7 talks about those who would be

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condemned if they don't change their mind but we are of the group who have been willing to change

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our mind and to accept the Lord Jesus Christ and we're not condemned thereby by the passing we are

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separated from chaos in the beginning God created the heavens and the earth and the earth was void

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and without form and darkness hovered hatched dwelt moved the specific word in King James is

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moved on the face of the earth God's dynamic began with the Pneuma the spirit and it's the spirit

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that causes action see so out of disarray and disorganization and chaos comes order see but

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now God had something more than just creating a universe he puts man in there and a moral prerogative

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is born and here we have the spiritual as opposed to the carnal or fleshly now order there in Romans 8

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he says there is no condemnation to those who are in Christ Jesus who walk not after the flesh

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but who walk or seek the spirit spiritual men spiritual women a spiritual church as opposed to

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a carnal church we should preach and teach spiritual things that's what the world really and

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truly needs isn't it and when I think of that what a difference that is between the spiritual and the

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carnal that's dipolar isn't it or that's what you say in science but the psychologist says bipolar

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one cure for bipolarity is to take uh is to take uh prozac or ritali or confumilapoli or humaguchi

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and all of those things are supposed to break down that spectrum see between these two dichotomies see

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positive or negative good or bad see and in this case spiritual as opposed to the fleshly

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well god had something in his mind and so we have to use a big word don't we

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isn't that right today gang we got to use a big word and that's cerebellum what in the world has

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that got to do anything the cerebrum and cerebellum are two different aspects of the brain aren't they

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the frontal lobe up here by the way uh is our site of voluntary response see thinking reasoning

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Isaiah 1 18 says come now and let us reason together sayeth the lord and though your sins be

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a scarlet i'll make them as white as wool and though they be as crimson or red i'll make them

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as white as snow i reverse the snow in the wool but you'll forgive me for that well hey

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that's pretty cool isn't it yes and the cerebrum is something that i think with

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and we're going to need that there's cerebellum is the back of the brain by the way uh an average

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man has 550 cubic centimeters for the frontal lobe whereas the largest gorilla ever recorded

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has a little less than 600 cubic centimeters so don't tell me that you know we're in the range of

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the gorilla monkeys they are not whom god reasoned with he reasoned with man he had to provide the

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mechanism for humankind to understand come now and let's reason together we had to think this

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thing out see we were not automatons we were not robots robots see not at all when i think of

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the cerebellum that's the involuntary response is it hit me i react curse me i curse back if it

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itches scratch it but feels good do it there's nothing good in the flesh he says that here in

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just a minute and i have to guard that fleshly aspect see in this dichotomy that makes uh

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polarity in human beings see that's pretty tremendous because god had to provide a mechanism

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that we might have and know the difference between good and evil isn't that right again

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propitiation separates the two the covering and you don't have to be worried about evil seeping

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into your life if you'll guard your heart he provided a mechanism for that roman 719 says for

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the good i would i do not that which i do not do that which i would not do i do and that's just

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plain good intentions gone amok and have you ever had that feeling like that's what has happened to

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i wanted to do good but i didn't get it done see and then when i think of this lower one here evil

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wow that's close enough isn't it and the evil which i would not do i do i sat in the jail

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knee to knee with a big old ugly guy at his head shaved his chest i know was four feet

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this way not this way it was more than that this way and he had a scar he said 37 stitches in his

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head he had run into a guy apparently that had a bigger chest than he did and he wept see there's

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not much grace in the law there's not much hope in the law there's not much hope that in manmade

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laws in any way only god's law and the jail isn't curing too many people of anything and so

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he wept as he said i held my little baby he says he's two years old my little boy

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and he said please please they took my baby away from me would you help me

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me i'd do what i can but the law's already acted hasn't it and sometimes it's the spiritual law

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that we need see and he wasn't quite ready for that see as you see that that dichotomy is very

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important to god now this is in in flamingo red so because it has some other things going for it

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and you'll notice it's love as opposed to hate wow was there ever bipolar phenomena in love and hate

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what is one of the hardest things that you find is in a marriage gone wrong hatred which started

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out to be love takes over sometimes doesn't it not always but that's often the case and the very

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most important emotions and passions within us often turn bad most quickly because i believe it's

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fleshly origin much of it love love romance 12 8 says oh no man anything but to love one another

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don't owe money rather oh brother i want to help you when you need help i owe you that why

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because we're brothers in the house of faith we're brothers in the lord jesus christ and sisters too

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for he that loveth another has fulfilled the law and jesus talks about that and i can't don't

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have time to go into it you know if you have love you have fulfilled the law sum it up jesus said

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and love god with all of your heart and love one another as i have loved you see and when i look at

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that hate part i'm i'm scared sometimes matthew 6 24 says no man can serve two masters for either he

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will hate the one and love the other or hold to the one and to despise the other now if you want to

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you can just substitute despise instead of hate that's probably even worse than hate is that i don't

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know it defines the snooty way of saying i hate your guts and there's plenty of that in the world

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don't you see a world which is filled with hate and we just work so hard to teach the little kids

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how to hate oh in a very sophisticated style i'm sure but the world is great at teaching the children

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about hate and that is an awful thing isn't it but out of love and out of hate and particularly

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out of love comes life and out of hate comes death talk about bipolar this is really true isn't it

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life as opposed to death roman 6 23 says for the wages of sin is death but the gift of god is eternal

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life through jesus christ our lord isn't that a powerful message what is life it's eternal life

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through the lord jesus christ i'm thankful that christians are strictly bipolar here we have a

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preference and it is eternal life and we are seeking that with all of our heart and notice that death

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roman 7 24 oh wretched man that i am who shall deliver me from the body of this death

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one version says through the bondage of this death and here now we are referring to the law

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more to um there were a lot of laws in roman this is the roman letter it was addressed to the wickedest

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most despicable kingdom the world has ever known it's the last kingdom that has ruled its entire

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world the roman empire and it dies in 483 and it's forever nothing doesn't mount to a hill of beans

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now but at one time it ruled all the world the law of the father's potria potestus the law of the

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roman gods that you had to believe in certain gods the raw laws of the empire but this one is

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ago in the law of death more to a mortuary from latin you don't have to be cool to know that

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in those days a guy v dunning said that one was required when he had retreated in the face of

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the enemy a soldier of god of rome when he had retreated in the face of the enemy he was tied

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face to face with a dead man with moisten thongs and he would say face to face lay face to face

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with that dead man until he died and so think of that oh wretched man that i am who will deliver

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me from the bondage of this body and isn't that sad wow the roman empire was great but it didn't

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think much of its own did it didn't bless its people the word of god blesses its people the

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kingdom of god the church blesses its people and we've shed of that well hey it's a terrible thing

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that we're facing what is that war total war total war i believe that with all of my heart

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i want to conclude with this thought verse 22 i delight in the law delight in the law of god

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after the inward man what's the inward man that's the heart isn't it's what's inside a man not the

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clothes he wears or the external physiognomy that matters heavens know it's not the size of

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his nose or the cut of his jib it's what's on the inside that makes christians what they are

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and what's make holy women and holy men and sanctified teeny boppers that's what the world

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needs with all of its heart and it's the inside man it's not what you put on or the cosmetic

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difference on the outside i see another war in my members warring against the law of my mind

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and bringing me into captivity to the law of sin which is in my members and so these hands

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which could have built a church you see steal money or reach out and smash someone and take their

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life or put a 20 37 stitch uh crack down a man's head simply because you're cool

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and you want to lord it over somebody else there's nothing that's good there it's the

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law of god as opposed to the law of man it's schizophrenia split mindedness that's another

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good word split split frontal lobe i can't set my heart on things that really matter i can't

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set my mind on things which are higher and thus make me successful and so old wretched man that i

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am who can deliver me from the body of this death and then he says i thank god through Jesus christ

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our lord so within the mind i serve the law of god but with the flesh the law of sin the thing i

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want to do i know that which i would not do i do and that which i would not do i do that

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why is that i i'm split minded i i'm not purposeful i don't have a heart of great resolve

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you know what a moon raker is and there was a day when men went about in the days of the dead

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and uh they would go through the swampy waters with rake they would wait till moon

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night and they could see the still water the reflection of the moon and thus would scrape

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the dead things from the bottom of the pool you want to be a moon raker what in the world

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is a moon raker in the kingdom of god someone who lays their body down in death burial and

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resurrection and then goes back to the grave and probes around there trying to bring up

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the old man one more time who will deliver us from that body then the only one that will

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deliver us is jesus christ don't go back to the watery grave and dig up the old one you left

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there because you're to rise and walk in a new kind of life how powerful how powerful it is and so

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we have to we have to cheat from pat and take the next verse we'd want to go home and take a shower

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because this is a tough chapter isn't it but listen he says there is therefore now no condemnation

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to those who are in christ jesus who walk after the spirit who walk not after the flesh but who

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walk after the spirit it doesn't matter which way you would say that but that's the correct way to

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say it there is therefore now no condemnation praise god almighty there is no condemnation for those

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who are in christ jesus as we sing our hymn of invitation today what an opportunity if you don't

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have a church home that there's a confession of faith that needs to be made

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if you just simply want to testify to the power of god as we stand and sing would you come

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Lord i come to you let my heart be changed

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renewed flowing from the grace that i found in you

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and lord i come to know the weaknesses i see in me

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for the good i would i do not that which i would not do i do if you want to be covered

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even in spite of that come to the lord jesus christ we're short of time but i tell you

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if you need to make a decision oh i don't wait too long jesus is coming

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and he's coming soon first Corinthians 16 says anathema

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maranatha blessed is coming or cursed is it coming which will it be thank you would you be

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you

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you

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you