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April 23, 2020 1:00 am
What we need right now is hope because of adherence sharing the light we've chosen to bring out one of our most requested vintage series. I hope so. From Pastor Alan Wright. Paul says sure because you are trying so hard to keep it that you missed the mark you get so depressed from all the anxiety that you've turned anywhere that you can't function anymore so now you're disappointing. Even more, or rebel altogether and say I'll have nothing to do with what's holy and right. It caused there to be an impossible situation, pastor, author and Bible Allen right welcome to shearing the light of program of healing and hope shearing. The good news of what God is done for us in Jesus Christ. I am Daniel Britt eager for you to hear Allen's message in a series called I hope so they can from the pulpit at Minolta church in Winston-Salem North Carolina. If you want to know more about.
I hope so listen up next year on shearing the light did Allen writes daily shearing. The light devotional when you sign up@shearingthelight.org and stay with us at the end of today's broadcast for a special offer to help you in your spiritual life. Now with today's teaching is Allen right Paul says if you're married to the law that not only does it limit the freedom of your song but also he says that verse five of Romans seven that while we were living in the flash and by the flash. Here he means old way of our fallen nature trying out of human will to keep the law. That is really what he means by the flashier that while we were living in the flesh, our sinful passions aroused by the wall not caused by the law. The law was not responsible for sin. The law came in alongside of sin, but when the law is alongside of the flesh are sinful passions are around next and it bears fruit for death. It is as we seen in recent messages obvious that the very fact that something is forbidden by law can draw our attention to it.
St. Augustine said that as a youth he once stole some payers from the pear orchard Orchard next door and he said this was most interesting to me because I do not like payers and I was not hungry but the fact that they were fenced off and forbidden. He got a pair.
It can arouse our sin nature in that way, but more so when you're married to Mr. perfect law and you're trying yourself to be perfect.
Isn't it amazing how things can get worse because were trying to be so dutifully perfect. This is why perfectionism is an enemy to relationship and to all that is good.
I was thinking of a story. Perhaps I shared some time back last year. I think it was. We are driving to the beach and for some reason were taking both cars and is got Abby and there are car. I got Bennett with me and were traveling to the beach and were already hungry and we need to stop and get some lunch.
It's growing late and we're trying to get a few miles behind us and so we get down there into the area of Ashburn, just south of Asheboro where you're starting to go into that no man's land for a while until you get to rocking him and we didn't want to wait till rocking him to eat were too hungry for that. So I'm talking to her on the phone and say where would you like to eat and I wanted to please my wife I wanted to I wanted to to get the perfect stopping place which would in this situation mean that it's fast but not fast food and I wanted I wanted it to be just right because I knew that she wouldn't want to see the fast food place and yet we can take a long time to eat a meal so I said honey I said I got my new GPS video on my blackberry and so I can look up the restaurants in the area showing off my cool ability to find points of interest in restaurants within whatever radius we desire and see light. Well, okay, she said no that's fine. I said what, where would you like that.
She said there really anything's fine, just that I think you know probably not a fast food place but be fine.
Just he said if we do probably not hearties.
She says I don't I don't know if parties has a salad on McDonald's got a salad and that's what I'd like she's a Bobby found a that's okay will find us a place but acid Bennett get that crank up the GPS search.
The information we can find a great quick but non-Fast Food Pl. in Montville oven and William is an emphasis this is my commitment to be the perfect husband and so he searches and and finds that there's a deli that's a few miles off the road that we could find. Using the GPS I called back and said there's an interesting deli she so that sounds good as it's a few miles off the roaches are well.
It is also not too far is it okay I put thing on it has been a navigate navigate quick while things will slow cranking itself up in eventually comes up and it says to make the next legal U-turn and I realize that we've passed this place and so I said no we pass the place on what will keep search of� It was upon us and she said I'm fine with anything just to note probably not hearties as a fun so we go back and every time that he get the information it would be. We just passed it a couple miles just right back that way and they didn't want to admit I'm a man I'm not going to turn around and lose progress on a trip to buy just by the fact were stopping for lunch, but I'm not going to go backwards and let even more cars go by. But I still want to be the perfect husband and find the perfect place to eat, so we keep you know the thing. Finally, time is going back. We are running out of space. This can be nothing left and then it's good to be rocking him and rocking him is not going to make my wife happy because we are already hungry and everybody's ready to eat. So finally in desperation is what one place left the comes up on her is McDonald's and it says go up next exit. Take a left 1.8 miles so we go up. And ironically, as we pull off the exit there on the right was a hearties we turn left we turn left, drive 1.8 miles and 2.8 miles. GPS is freaking out it's were in the boondocks I go 5 miles and were in the middle of no man's land and I finally pull over and pulls over behind me our call so they're supposed to been a McDonald's down here.
She said oh I thought you'd found a shortcut to the beach to starve turnaround it would draw 5 miles back hearties. I wanted to be perfect, but in my attempt to be perfect. Not wanting to disappoint my wife and all led me into the only thing that could have disappointed her when you're married to the law. Paul says your sin was around just because you either are trying so hard to keep it that you missed the mark or you get so depressed from all the anxiety that you turned inward that you can't function anymore so now you're disappointing. Even more, or you rebel altogether and say I'll have nothing to do with what's holy and right. I can't stand it anymore. In any event, he said the law was not wrong when the law juxtaposed next to sand and you and your flask were married to the law because they are demeaning and impossible situation that's listening to shearing the will have more teaching in a moment. Today's series felt the day before Christmas stockings hung by the fireplace is waiting to be filled colorful packages just waiting to be ripped open the wonderful feeling when you're certain something that is coming and there's a word for that posture of high hope it's not certainty left future child size for Christmas not wishful thinking that if a child size for Christmas but I know it's going to be good models have if you doing Pastor Alan) amazing exploration of Bremen's final 612 message CD album called I hope so delve deep into the writers of grace. We have the scatter watermark and heal or deliver. Discover how hope can for chiefly CVM it's time for you to feel like a kid at Christmas.
Again, we are happiest in the series I banks from sharing the right ministries, 877-544-4860 or come to my website sharing the right like listening to shearing the entities teaching them to you. Once again Alan running through me to Exodus chapter 19 second look at your Bible. Chapter 19 the giving of the law to Moses comes at Mount Sinai and in chapter 19 of Exodus. You hear the covenant spoken midway at verse three of Exodus 19. This is the covenant of the law. The Lord called Moses out of the mountain, saying, thus you shall say to the house of Jacob, and tell the people of Israel. You yourselves have seen what I did to the Egyptians, and how I bore you on eagles wings, and brought you to myself. Now therefore, if you will indeed obey my voice and keep my covenant, if you do that you shall be my treasured possession among all peoples, for all the earth is mine and you shall be to me a kingdom of priests and a holy nation. These are the words that you shall Pete speak to the people of Israel see the heart of God throbbing there don't you treasure you want to possession want to be with me.
I want to be a kingdom of priests, which means you have intimate full access to the throne, and your set apart to holy people to be blessed in the land of your inheritance. This is part of God. So Moses call the elders and the people set before them. All of these words that the Lord had commanded them the law came the proposal was made in the bride, the people of God. Verse eight.
All the people answered together and said we do all that the Lord is spoken we will do. We are persuaded and the people were married through the wall to the hall, confident of the law immediately upon their acceptance of this proposal and the wedding of the people in the law, God began to give protective instructions verse 10 Lord said to Moses, go the people consecrate them today and tomorrow, let them wash their garments and be ready for the third day from the third day the Lord will come down on Mount Sinai on the side of all the people, and you shall set limits. This is the grace of God setting limits so that people will not profane themselves and come to close to that which is holy, thus bringing about their own destruction.
Set limits for the people all around saying take care not to go up into the mountain or touch the edge of it. Whoever touches the mountain shall be put to death. You can't get too close because the glory of God will consume you like a holy fire because you're not you, not pure enough even though you will consecrate yourself and you go through the rituals that I give you your stills you are still caught up in the fact that even the best of you still has dust. You'll never be able to come into direct contact with the glory of God. I want you so much, but you in the in this covenant, you must be protected so the people were persuaded and the people were given the laws of protection. But what they would never have is a reliability or security of the blessings of this covenant and the reason that they would not and could not is because if a pure and holy and righteous God makes a covenant with an impure people who even try their best will never be able to be without sin, by their own efforts and you've made a covenant that says if you will obey all of my commands, then you'll be my treasured possession and you will receive your inheritance and you will be blessed the coven that is utterly unreliable because it rests upon the ability of the people to not sin. The old covenant of law, rested not only on the promise provision and persuasion of God, but on the capacity of a sinful people to not sin.
That's why the hope prophesied to Ezekiel and Jeremiah and Isaiah in every profit in one way or another, pointed to a coming day of the Lord, a coming time in which this current system. In this covenant of the law will be transformed or superseded or somehow made altogether better. The days coming.
The Lord said, in which you will not try to live by an external code, but you're going to be married again. I have a new life is going to be by the means of the Holy Spirit coming within you. I will put my spirit in my people and my spirit will empower them and calls them to keep my statutes. There is a different day that is coming. Jeremiah said in chapter 31, in which no longer will people say oh that we could know the Lord for you will know the Lord and I will work a new covenant out. I'll give them a new company will not be like the old, over and over.
It was foretold, and Joel said the time is coming, in which not just a few priests will have this intimate access to hear my voice and not just Moses on a mountain, but all flesh will receive the infilling of the Holy Spirit that day is coming, what Paul recognize as he spoke to Christians in Rome to people who had encountered the Holy Spirit had encountered the gospel had received the gospel was how much they were hindered by being pulled back into the flesh into the old nature that didn't know any better than to just try to keep the written code what he's saying is you must understand that that's spouse has died. You are no more still bound to the code of the wall of the old way of living, then a woman would be bound to a husband who was in the grave. You are not bound that that that had its day that had his purpose.
The law was good the law. The law came the law help direct the law pointed out our need for Christ.
The law pointer said it was for the revelation but you die to the law through the body of Christ therefore be alive to the newness of the Spirit, you will never be free slowly available to God. If you come back under the old system and he wants church for us to be empowered to receive the bountiful inheritance. It's always been in the throbbing heart of a loving God. So what is the change back in Romans one more time. Verse four my brothers you have died to the law through the body of Christ, so that you may belong to another. To him who has been raised from the debt that through the body of Christ.
Somehow in the mystery of the gospel in some mystical way you died to the law through the body of Christ being crucified so that you would no longer be married to the law, but you could be wed to another and belong to him who has been raised from the dead. What an extraordinary picture what it means is that by the mystery of God's plan. Jesus came, lived a sinless life and was crucified, dead and buried, he was crucified as the penalty for my sin. Your sin for the sin of all who would receive him and he died paying that penalty fully.
He died paying the debt completely so for those who accept what he did on the cross. There's no more penalty and there's no more that this is so powerful and so real. God says that your sin, you must understand, was not just paid for in a figurative way but that your sin was actually put upon Jesus or somehow he took it within his actual being his body and so my sin was crucified to their my old nature was prescribed. This is why Paul can say we were crucified with Christ.
It is as though we were also crucified, referring to the flesh of the old nature and all of our sin all the penalty. All of the curse. All of the punishment. All of the debt.
All completed and Jesus before he breathes his last since it is and because that is taken place what's happened is something more than just the penalty being paid at that same time that Jesus says it is finished. Therefore, the whole system of law will fear punishment, curse and condemnation all that system because all the punishment all the penalty and all the debt was paid. The system itself becomes extinct and doesn't exist anymore and instead your bed to the mall and write you listening to sharing the line in today's changing widows of the law you felt as a candidate for Christmas stockings hanging by the fireplace is waiting to be filled colorful packages just waiting to be ripped open the wonderful feeling when you're certain something that is coming and there's a word for that posture of high hope.
Physical health isn't about how in the sky doing that certainty left feature for child size for Christmas not wishful thinking that if a child size many different Christmas, but I know it's going to be good models have if you want me to fax hope Pastor Alan) amazing exploration of Bremen's final 612 message CD album called I hope so delve deep into the writers of grace.
We have the scatterplot of law cannot save, heal or deliver you discover how hope can fix you flee and miss you Pastor Alan writes CD album.
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He would say that your your you are is like you were wed the law and then you you become dead to the wall so you're like a widow to the wall. It's heat. That's how strong an image it is. He says you want someone's spouses died there no longer wet as a what Paul is saying is the system of the wall has is gone away with Christ in the new covenant has come in so we are wed now to grace and so give yourself over to grace.
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