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Title of this message is One Nature. They cannot sin. One nature they cannot do good. A spiritual nature from heaven? an ancient nature that is evil, sinful, vile, and devilish.
And we're going to start tonight. in Romans chapter seven.
So let's take it away. As we start with verses one through four. Know you not, brethren, For I speak to them that know the law, How that the law hath dominion over a man. As long as he liveth. For the woman which hath a husband, is bound by the law to her husband, To long as he liveth.
But if the husband Be dead? She is loosed from the law of her husband.
So then If while her husband liveth, She be married to another man. She shall be called an adulteress. But if her husband be dead She is free from the law.
so that she is no adulteress though she be married to another man. Wherefore My brethren, be you also Art become dead to the law of the body of Christ. That you may That you should be married to another, even to him that is raised from the dead. that we should bring forth fruit. Under God.
Well, here, jest as a woman could. Not Mary. A new husband Till only after the first husband had died We have been married to a a new bridegroom, After the law has died, Do you know what that means we we're talking about the the law has died? Um that's because uh Jesus fulfilled the prophecies.
Well, yeah. Uh but when you're de dead civil law, see You have the letter of the law and you have the spirit of the law. And Today people will tell you that There is no longer a letter of the law, but Um in fact I spoke at a Christian Christian Academy. One time Where Uh this was the senior class and at the end of the My message I took I spoke for about forty five minutes and I was there for over two hours taking questions. But I was challenged by A young uh couple.
Well, actually, you know, they were on different sides of the room, but a boy, a young boy, uh, and a young girl, seniors. And they got up and they said There is no More wall. The Old Testament is done away with. I said, Really? Yeah.
And I said, Well then how are we judged? We're judged by the spirit of the law. And I said, well.
So who is who is it that's judged by the spirit of the law? They said people that are saved. I said, Oh, I see You're right. You're right, because once we're saved then we're dead to the law, to the letter of the law. Because Christ fulfilled that.
and in him were dead to that letter of the law, but were alive, Uh in Christ, right? Yeah. I said, but If there is no longer any law, Then how are those that are not saved? The majority of the people in this world are not saved, a vast majority. Then how are they judged?
And uh The two didn't know what to how to answer. They looked at each other because What they have been doing is parroting what they've been hearing. But they never really question or thought of through, right? Mm-hmm. And they said, We don't know.
I said, Well, I can tell you, they're judged by the letter of the law. Because they're not dead to the letter of the law. But boy, they're dead in it, okay? And so Here now. you know, when when it talks about here you know, that a if a woman's She can't not as long as her husband's alive.
But if her husband's dead You know.
Some of those those women out there like Wadonna and some of those other, I think they'd rather stay with a dead husband. Yeah. I mean, think about it. I mean, well, you know. Yeah.
Hilary's caused a lot of dead husbands, hasn't she? Anyhow, so we go ahead and we read in verse five. For when we were in the flesh, the motions of sins which were by the law, did work. in our members to bring forth Unto death But now we are delivered from the wall, and being dead wherein we were held, that we should serve in newness of spirit, and not in the oldness of the letter.
So do you know what that word motions means there, Kenny? Actually it's an old fashioned term, huh? It it's the same word we use today for impulses.
Well, it's the meaning of the and that's in the Greek text, that's what it means, but Paul is saying that the law itself, by its very Prohibitions Generate sinful impulses which lead to breaking the law.
So Do you have any of those sinful impulses? Don't we all? Yeah, yeah, we did. That's good.
Well, why don't you tell us about yours and then all right. Oh, how long you got? Here and of course uh You know, the purpose of our being free. From the letter of the law And married to the risen Lord. is to produce fruit for God.
It's the whole purpose, for it's to produce fruit for God. And so Oh, we did it. I gotta flip my page here. What shall we say, then? Is the law Sin?
God forbid Nay, I had not known sin but by the law, for I had not known lust except The law has said, Thou shalt not covet. And so here Paul's saying here That uh What he's saying here truly defines. was What sin really is. He says it here again. What shall we say then?
Is the law a sin? God forbid. Nay, I had not known sin. But by the haw, for I had not known lust except the law had said, thou shalt not covet.
So he's telling you exactly what sin really is there. Then he goes on to say But since Taken occasion By the commandment wrought in me All manner of concupiscence. For without the law Sin was dead. Do you have any concupiscence? I don't have any idea what concupiscence is.
And say It's a lust for sexual Sexual desires. That's all.
So Paul here is saying that But sin taketh occasion by the commandment wrought in me All men are of concupiscence, for without the law sin was dead. and so Paul is making it a mission here.
Now We don't know a lot about him, but he Paul was a Pharisee. In fact, he was a Pharisee of the Pharisees, in other words, Kind of a high ranking. And normally to be that, you had to be married. And now it doesn't Say that But that's that's the general opinion. And what do you think?
the family w would do. To a fellow who's A high-ranking Pharisee, someone with a lot of status, and all of a sudden he. He gets saved at And turns to Jesus, how do you think that would affect his family? Oh, they probably would disown him. I just visited a fellow where that exact same thing happened to him, okay?
Uh that's exactly what happened. He got converted to Christianity. He was a he's a Jew. His family disowned him. And so here He goes on.
For I was alive without the law, Once, but when the commandment came, sin revived, and I died.
Well here Prior to his The Sermon of the Wall. Paul reco records the uh The dawn of conscience here. He Uh he Had lived a Self-complacent. self-righteous. life in which he was free from the conviction of sin.
Do you know why he was free from the conviction of sin? Because he gave his life to Jesus?
Well, no, he was free from the conviction of sin. Because he didn't know about sin, that's what it says here. for I was alive without the law once. But when the commandment came, sin revived. And I died well he He was not knowledgeable.
of the letter of the law. See, the idea of the the letter of the law was perfect. And of course the whole purpose of of the letter of the law. was to promote what?
Well we're we'll read it in the next verse here. And the commandment which was ordained to life. I found to be into death.
So the purpose of the law was to bring forth life. What do you think? It did exactly the opposite. It brought forth death. Um Because people people didn't want to obey the law?
Well, it's because They had sin within their their bodies. They couldn't. They couldn't keep the law. The law was perfect. the only one that ever kept the law.
With Christ, he fulfilled the law, okay. Yeah. So the law being perfect. Man. not perfect in the flesh.
But having sinned in the flesh it was no good thing. All the law could do for us would be condemn us, even though. See, had we been able to keep the law? Had we been able to do that then it would have brought forth eternal life. But I'm about to So he goes on to say, For sin taketh occasion, By the commandments deceive me And it slew me.
Wherefore The law's holy. And the commandment holy, just and good, And so here When you say the g God's law is perfect, okay? Fact, you know, it says that over in Psalms nineteen seven. The believers should honour. It is it represents perfectly Yeah.
perfectness, I guess you would call it, and holiness and justice of God. But sinners condemned by the law Our need is not justice.
Well, what is our need? That's what is it? It's we need. By God's grace and by God's mercy, huh? Mm-hmm.
And so here He goes on to say For we know that the law is spiritual, But I am carnal, sold Under sin For that which I do I allow not. For what I Would that do I not But I hate that and I do, you know. I gotta tell you a story. I had a fellow who I knew when we were young together. And He had a terrible, terrible life.
Uh him and I were as young young kids. We were both pretty Uh, kinda rebellious kids, the two of us. And the first time we ever met, we got into a fight. and a couple of times thereafter, but then we became best friends. And He had come, like I said, from a very, very abusive background.
He but he could he knew how to handle himself in a fight.
So that's That's how he learned to live by taking what he wanted. And Uh I remember His brother and sister I wasn't there, but His brother and sister told me one time. Oh. They they said to. You better come see him.
And I said, why? They said, well, he's not in good shape. And I Said, why? What happened to him?
Now, this is where we're kids, you know. I'm talking about. Eleven, twelve years old. And Uh His mother came from France, he lived in France during World War Two. The Nazis had Come in.
Taken her. All the men in the family, her father and her brothers out, lined them up and f and made the women watch and they mowed them down with machine guns. Then they raped the women. And she ended up being in a con convent And where that was, they were actually using these young women Yeah. But she hated She ended up hating anything with the mention of God in it, okay?
She hated.
Well When Andrea and I grew up. Uh he did work for me. And I I used to own a couple of furniture stores. And One day. When I went in there, now this fellow had a A way of um And so Uh let me let me Go back just a little bit.
His name His name would have been if they'd have called him Ornery, Ornery, it would have been a sufficient name, 'cause he was Ornery. Yeah. And His parents uh was brutal to him. But what is what is Brother and sister told me was that His mother had thrown a white sheet over him. and hit every lump with a ball bat till the sheet was covered with red, with blood.
Oh. Okay. And Uh like I said, when you talk about orangery, He had some he had some habits. One of wh one of his specialties would be But he'd be riding in the car. If he was in the front seat.
He would reach over with his foot and jam it down on a gas pedal and hold it there. Why? Oh, yeah, yeah, he He would do I mean l yeah, he would do that. He would do things like that, huh?
Well They had a They had a neighbour. And uh The neighbour lives away through a little patch of wood. One day, his parents were gone. and him and his brother they found a rifle, his dad's rifle. And they could see the light.
in uh this house which probably was A little mor about the length of a football field, about a hundred yards away. Um And but they can see this guy in the back the light going on. And they can see A man in there. And so uh then they could see him but then they couldn't see him.
So they didn't see him, he was looking through there, he decided he was gonna shoot the light out in that bathroom. Uh w with a rifle. And that was a that was happening to be a bathroom. The guy was sitting on a toilet. He shot the shot the light out.
and the guy could run it out out with no pants on. Yeah. And so, yeah, and Yeah. I it was uh this is just some of the things that he did. But I I said all that to say this.
One day I'd come into the into the store early in the morning and There was no lights on her store, store was dark. And I heard a strange sound, a strange noise. Uh And so I went in the other room and I looked and there he was. He was sitting at my desk Okay. And he had the Bible open and he had a little one of these little flashlights.
Instead of turning on the light he he was reading the Bible. And he was crying. He was crying now. I thought at first, yeah, he's he's he's he's you know gonna prank me, so you know, so I went in there. I said, All right, what are you up to?
Spill it, okay? And he pointed to this verse. He said this is me. Right here, this is me He said, For that which I do, I allow not. For what I would That do I not But what I hate, that I do.
If I then I do that which I would not, I consent to the law that it is good.
Now then, it is no more I that do it, but the sin that dwelleth in me. And so he said, This is me, this is me. He said, I hate everything that I do, he said. I want to do good I want to do good things. He said, but I I can't.
He said, I always seem to do evil things and uh And I mean, boy, he did. He had a Like I said, he was a he had a He was a tough son of a gun. And Do you ever there there used to be a movie out some years ago about a bad about a fellow. The madman of a town where he had this he terrorized this town, this guy, everybody was afraid of him. And that's exactly kind of how this went.
This was when Uh the town wasn't very big where he was at out there. And It was like a little bitty country town. But if he wanted something everybody feared him out there, they feared him. And would he wanted something if he went into a a hardware store and He picked it up. He said, I'm going to take this.
You have a problem with it. The guy would just. He never really took a b uh, you know, a lot. But he would take what he wanted, and they would let him go. They were they were afraid to call the police because They know well once he got back out he'd come for 'em, okay?
And so they would just let him have it. I mean, he he was d doing that, okay.
Okay. And that went on and he committed some more crimes and then They got a prosecutor. You never want to get arrested or charged when the when the prosecutor uh is running for office, running for election. Yeah. Especially to Judge Nye.
I knew this prosecutor, and this guy was What's cool? cro crooked as the day is long. But he saw an opportunity here. And so And I went I went to The trial And if you, I've never seen such a kangaroo court in my life. I mean, it was like.
There was not gonna be no justice in there. Yeah. the prosecutor actually came to me And asked me if I would lie on the witness stand. He came to me. Yeah, yeah.
And uh Uh So I said, look. I said, You're supposed to be prosecuting on him for things that he g got charged with. And the prosecutor says Yeah, but you know you know as well as I do he's gotten away with a lot of things. A lot of things. And I said, look, You cut do you understand what you did?
You asked me to lie. I'm the witness, then. And Here Uh I I told him, You charge him For what he did, and that's it. I went in there. and they had a jury And this jury looked like a bunch of lesbians.
They were all female. It was like three men. All female. And these were not Ladies, okay? Um Anyhow.
So what happened, Kenny, was When they they put me On the witness stand, when I was talking, you got a picture. The room was the courtroom, it was long, it was long. probably thirty feet across. and you had uh seats on both sides. And the jury, instead of facing You know The judge, the jury was facing a blank wall, a blank wall.
So I'm giving, they've got me in there asking me questions. And I'm talking, but nobody's looking at me. Nobody's looking at me. And so I I s you know, I start speaking louder. And they're still I think they can't hear me 'cause the acoustics I think is bad, right?
So And I speak louder. And finally the judge said, You don't have to shout. They can hear you. I said, Then why aren't they looking at me? He said, Never mind that.
Well, I find out afterwards Uh from the defense attorney. The judge had told the jury to have no eye contact with me because I was a pastor And I could hypnotize them. Wait, what? I'm not kidding you. I'm not kidding you.
Did you know you had that kind of power? No, I didn't know until afterwards. Oh, bad. I mean, think of. If I'd have known I'd had it, I'd have used it on that judge.
But anyhow, and And here here's how that even that whole thing started, okay? Uh this judge did not like Christians, and especially didn't like pro life Christians.
So when I got subpoenaed, To come to the court I was sitting before court started, on the outside of the court room, on a bench, And he comes up to me because he knew I was the president of the Joe County Right to Life. And he said What are you doing here? I said, I'm sitting here. He said, I know that. He said Get out of my sight.
I said, No. I said, You get out of my sight. I was sitting here first. I said, So you get out of my sight, okay? And he stormed into the courtroom.
Well, this guy now later on Uh uh uh you know, God is God has really got A sense of humour. I had went to a Grange, what they call I was invited to go to a Grange meeting, and this Uh The head of that meeting was a lawyer. It was the head of the lawyers guild, which was a friend of mine. And what happened was, I was sitting there just, you know, being a part of this, listening to it, because I'd never been to a Grange meeting before. And I look and here's this same judge.
Uh, his name is Hans. I'm not gonna say his whole name because I don't wanna you know, put any blame or any disrespect to his family members that are still around. But anyhow, so he's sitting no more than about six feet away from me. And uh I'm looking at it.
Well, anyhow, it got to the point where Kevin, the guy that was running the Grange meeting, the lawyer. He said we have a very, very uh Honorable man here tonight with us. for the first time and This man is a man of integrity. And I and it's my pleasure to introduce you.
Well, guess what? I'm sitting there. Old Hans stands up. And then he says, Pastor Ernie Sanderson. Yeah.
And oh, he he oh, I'm gonna tell you, if Lux could kill And so God's got a sense of humor, he really does. And so Anyhow. That's what happened. But that that courtroom You just would not believe the corruption in that courtroom. Absolutely corrupt.
You know. Back when I was young I used to think The good guys were in prison and the bad guys put em there. Then I learned in our judicial system You got two groups of criminals, one in charge of the other, basically. That's the way it works out nowadays. But anyhow, we gotta pick it up where we left off because that's where I wanted to say here's what.
Andre had said he'd said that Uh This is me and he was crying. He was crying. And I And I led him to the Lord. He said this in his prayer that he got saved. Unfortunately he was on his way to prison, and he went to prison in nineteen eighty five.
and he died in prison. He got saved and turned into a A good uh Evangelist within the prison system. I mean, here's a guy that went from as as mean as can be uh to a A Bible teacher. And a real witness for the Lord. He had a a a heart a real heart for the Lord.
What how boy he really turned around And um Here They put an and he's an older guy, he was an older man. In fact, him and I are the same age. He was actually one year older than me. And uh They put a young Satanist, a young Satan on purpose, in the cell with him. And when he had fallen asleep, the Satanist tried to kill him and beat him, beat him.
Over the heads. Unbelievable. And would put him in the hospital.
So he spent the last four years of his life. in the prison hospital there in Columbus. And uh But he was And and the thing of it was, is when he All the money that he had, you know, most we help prison inmates all the time in our ministry here. Uh because they don't have anybody. They don't have anybody.
You know, a lot of these have no family at all.
Okay. And if they don't get letters in that, the inmates that get the fewest amount of letters, the fewest amount of phone calls and stuff. They have the most amount of accidents in prison, if you know what I mean. Mm-hmm. And so And we help 'em out all all the time.
But Andre He never spent any of his money. When he died, he left He left a check to the doers of the word church for four thousand dollars.
Well And I mean, he he lived off of nothing and yeah. And so What a testimony he had. But anyhow. He goes on to say For I know that in me That is in my flesh dwelleth no good thing. For to will is present with me.
But how to perform that which is good I find not. For the good that I would I do not. but the evil which I would not That I do, an' an' that's what he kept saying here. You know, Paul before his conversion, could boast that he was as touching righteousness which is uh in the law blameless, but Then he came to see that all his righteousness were as filthy rags. Isaiah sixty four six And he accepted Uh eternal life through Jesus.
And here Yeah, nuts and Now, if such a man as Paul. would have to confess that Well, if you say that in the flesh that there was nothing good at all, Then Do you think that would apply to all of us as the same? I would think I would think so. Yeah, I would think so too. He goes on and he says Yeah.
Now Yeah. For the good that I would do, I do not, but the evil that I would not, that I do.
Now if I do that which I Would not. It is no more I that do it, but sin that dwelleth in me. That's the new nature. That's the Uh that he's the new man that does that doesn't do it, When Christ died for our sins, What percentage of our sins did He die for? All of them.
So did he was it for For what period of time? Absolutely.
So But past, present, and future, once we're saved. Uh All of our sins are forgiven, right? But we have it's gotta be repentance first, right? Yeah. And so Here He goes on and he says, Now, if I do that which I would not, It is no more I that do it, but the sin that dwelleth in me.
He's talking about the old man, the old nature. The sinful nature, huh? Mm-hmm. So Paul recognizes that he He didn't have the ability to do good. He didn't.
His will. is to do good But he didn't know How to accomplish it. No. He goes on to say. I find in their law that when I would do good, evil is present with me.
For I delight in the law of God. After the inward man So now here Um His desire was to love. and obey the law of God, His mind was all for the law of God. But in his body. His hands His tongue The law of sin.
frustrated him.
So let me ask you a question. Yeah. How is it that in your body? that your hands bring forth this sin. How do you sin with your hands?
Um Well, one way would be stealing. By stealing? Go ahead. Um How about Punching out a Democrat. Yeah.
Well, is that really a sin? I don't know. I was thinking fighting, but I I I'm I was going through I was going through the Ten Commandments and I'm like, well Alshana Fight's not one of them. Um But uh Let's see. Murder.
Murder. What if you're an abortionist? Yeah, well, there that'd be Big time. Big time, that's a that's masculine, isn't it? Yeah.
Okay, so there's a lot of things you said. That's what he's saying here. Uh But I see another law of my members, warring against the law of my mind, bringing me into captivity to the law of sin which is in my members. They he talks about that sin that dwelleth in him Uh where I find that the law that when I would do good evil is present, And so What about with the lips? What about with his lips?
Um, well you can lie. Uh Commit adultery. What about, um What about just being disrespectful? Um Yeah, I guess. I mean.
That would be I mean, 'cause i I mean it's following Do unto others as you would have done unto you. Let me tell you that that court case that I was just telling you about. There was so much sin in that court case, so much lying, so much perversion of the truth. What is probably the worst examples of that Here. How about from the pulpits?
Oh, yeah. Not not Telling people what they want to hear, or not telling people what they need to hear, but what they want to hear. Um Perverting the word of God. and twisting it and to make it mean something that it didn't. Twisting, spinning.
Uh So that's it's one of the worst things. You you're blaspheming God, huh? Mm-hmm. And so Here Paul recognizes that he was helpless, helpless to To rid himself of of this law of sin and its members. Then he says, O wretched man, that I am Who shall deliver me from this body?
of this death I thank God through Jesus Christ our Lord, so then that. The mind I myself serve the law of God but with the flesh the law of sin. And so with a mind whereunto the spirit of the law, huh? Mm-hmm. And so Now why why is it that actually that we can do that?
I mean all the children that are conceived are conceived. with Siddhan's book. That there's a purpose though. There's a purpose here. Uh That God has made for us.
And um What uh what was that the well, let's go on here. There is therefore now no condemnation to them. which are in Christ Jesus. who walk n walk not after the flesh, but after the spirit. For the wall Of the spirit of life.
And Christ Jesus hath made me free from the law of sin and death. For what the law could not do In what it was weak through the flesh, God is sending His own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh, How did he do that? Because it and and for Sin Condemned sin in the flesh. How did he do that? Um He nailed it to the cross.
Oh, okay. Christ literally became flesh up on that cross. He became flesh upon the cross. Remember what you said that he died for your sins, past, present, and future? Yeah.
And so Most historians and theologians believe that well God put Adam and Eve on the on the planet earth. That there's little Approximately one hundred billion people have lived and died upon the earth. A hundred billion. Wow.
Now When Christ hung upon that cross The sins of the entire world, past, present, and future, were placed upon him.
So he literally had to become sin. He literally became sin. And he nailed that sin to the cross. He crucified sin there. For the law of the spirit of life And Christ Jesus hath made me free from the law of sin and death.
For what the law could not do in that it was weak through the flesh, God sending His own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh, For sin condemneth sin in the flesh.
So here The condemnation, the word condemnation, is the same. uh in the Greek is judgment here. The Christian is not to be judged. As to salvation, since Christ has already been judged, Four sins on the crust So as Christians, however, we will be judged for rewards or loss of rewards at the judgment seat. We call that the baby judgment, don't we?
Mm-hmm. So when he says here in verse 1. Therefore Now no condemnation to them which are in Christ Jesus.
So what he s he said That Who walk not after the flesh, but after the spirit. Um The cause beginning with Who walk, who walk Uh you you won't find it well You'll find that in only a very few of the ancient manuscripts actually out there. But it's in the old manuscripts. But it's not redundant. As some would claim, since it's Synonymous with descriptive Of them which are in Christ Jesus is what he's telling you there.
And so When he talks about the law of the spirit. The Law of the Spirit, verse two For the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus has made me free from the law of sin and death.
So the law of the spirit has Invaded and opposed. the law of sin which is in my members That's freeing us from the bondage. We cannot obey God's law. And the strength of our flesh. But um This is this is a truth that Well, it increasingly becomes practical truth in our lives as we wreck.
In other words, Uh You have two natures there. Which other nature you feed the most becomes the strongest, doesn't it? Mm-hmm. And so Here. If we feed the old men And we we do that By Sorry.
Starving The new man. Mm-hmm. And so here The Bible says, think on these things: things that are good, things that are pure, things. And when we when we do that, okay, when we're thinking on decent things and good things. If we set around.
Uh thinking about killing babies, thinking about LGBTQ, thinking about drug dealers, thinking about pedophilia. How is that workforce? Yeah. Okay. Right.
So he goes on to say, This is the righteousness of the law. might be fulfilled in us who walk not after the flesh, But after the spirit For they that are after the flesh do mind the things of the flesh. but they that are after the Spirit the things of the Spirit.
So Here For to be carnally minded is death But to be spiritually minded is peace. Because the carnal mind is enmity against God, for it's not subject to the law of God, Neither indeed can be.
So, when we think about the bottom line here. When we looked at no condemnation. You know, it indicates that we are not servants of sin. or the penalty for us then because The guilt and the penalty had been removed at the cross, right? Yeah.
And here he's talking about how God fulfills the law in us. when we walk after the Spirit of God, because the carnal mind is enmity against God, for it is not subject to the law of God, neither indeed can be.
So then they that are in the flesh cannot please God.
Now what is the The purpose our purpose Um is to But oh. Please God provide Fruit to bear fruit. For God. That's our purpose in obedience in obedience to God.
So then they are in the flesh cannot please God, but you are not in the flesh. But in the spirit, Is so that That the Spirit of God dwell in you.
Now if any man have not the Spirit of Christ, he is none of his.
So When he said none of his is essential, Kenny, that a a person have the Holy Spirit to be. belong to the family of God.
Now there are those that teach That that When you get saved, you You don't get the Holy Spirit right away. That's that's that comes much later. Why do you think they do that? Um I'm not sure. I don't know why you would teach that.
Well, they talk about back in the book of Acts where. They had asked if they had received the Holy Spirit, and they said they were not. didn't even know that there was the Holy Spirit there, okay. or the baptism, they they weren't aware of that. Things were done differently in those days Um then after When the Lord told us That we must Call by the name Of the Father, the Son, and the Holy Ghost.
And today when we get saved Uh Jesus made it very clear. Oh. You prayed to the Father. You prayed to the Father. You asked for forgiveness.
That goes back to when he died. What was the last thing Christ said on the cross? It is finished. Right.
And then what happens?
Something some very important things happened. The veil of the temple rent from top to the bottom, and from that point on We could go directly to the Father. We have access directly to the Father through the Lord Jesus Christ.
So we prayed to the Father. Yeah. And we Offered up we ask for uh forgiveness of our sins, repentance, and And then We call upon the name of the Lord Jesus. And we ask Him to be the Lord of our life, all of our life. Why do we do that?
Why is it that we call upon His name? Because he's In a sense, he's kinda like our Our lawyer. He's our representation.
Well, he's an intercessor, but he. But he's the one that paid our price. He's the one that. that paid the price so we ask him to be the Lord of our life when he hung upon that cross, did he esteem us higher or himself higher? Oh, this Yeah.
And so Now, he said, all right.
Now we have to put him before everyone and everything, including ourselves, the cape.
So he said uh But you are not in the flesh, but in the spirit. if so that you be in the Spirit of God dwell in you, Now, if any man have not the Spirit of Christ, he is none of his.
So, once you pray, you ask the Lord Jesus to be the Lord of your life all of his life, then you receive. The Holy Spirit. He comes upon you the moment you're you're saved.
Now, That doesn't mean see the Holy Spirit's got to w work He You have to You have to uh want to work with the Holy Spirit uh In your life, you don't want to grieve the Holy Spirit. You gotta give the Holy Spirit room to work, right? Yeah. And so he goes on And if Christ be in you, the body is dead Because of sin But the Spirit is life because of righteousness. And so He says, But if this But if the spirit of him that raised up Jesus from the dead dwell in you, He that raised up Christ from the dead, shall also quicken your mortal bodies.
by His Spirit that dwelleth in you.
So he's talking about here the quickening of your your mortal bodies. That means that our spirits have been regenerated by the Holy Spirit. In our physical bodies, ultimately we will be resurrected by the Holy Spirit, who continues to and dwell In our spirit bodies. Even after death. And so He goes on to say.
Therefore, brethren. We are debtors not to the flesh to live after the flesh, For if we live after the flesh, we shall die, but if we live through the Spirit To mortify the deeds of the body, we shall live. For as many that are led by the Spirit of God, They are the sons of God. And so He goes on to say, For you have not received the spirit of bondage again to fear. But you have received the spirit of adoption, whereby we cry Abba, Father, The Spirit itself beareth witness with our spirit that we are the children of a god.
Uh When he says the spirits it's because Here. There have been some who have wrongly concluded. uh in in this passage of scripture here uh Kenny, that the Holy Spirit is merely Like the force. Like the yeah, or or like the Or are m Maybe like just like an influence. rather than a person.
How do we know that the Holy Spirit is a person? There are those out there that have written these New Age perversions of the Bible. And some even refer to the Holy Spirit as Um Mother God His mother God Yeah, that yeah, they some of it And they take they take scripture out of context, okay? Uh, like in Psalm, they'll use that in Psalm two. Or um Psalm three.
They'll take scripture out of context in Proverbs one and two, okay. where it refers to And the wisdom You know, as the spirit of Kevin, well, yeah, it is. But in the scripture where it says she, when it talked about wisdom, Um it it just in many places in their They refer to Uh things in a female sense. But You don't have Uh The female Holy Spirit. How do we know He doesn't have the female Holy Spirit?
When Jesus said, When he I will send you a comforter, I will send you a comforter. And he will what? He'll guide you. He's going to give you guidance in that. And he's going to do exactly what I've told him to do.
Mm-hmm. And so that's very clear. Yeah. I mean uh You know, we We don't get into this pronoun stuff out there. Ah, he means he, doesn't it?
Okay. And so he goes on to say. The Spirit itself beareth witness with our Spirit that we are the children of God. And the children Then heirs and heirs of God would joint heirs with Christ, If so, Be that we suffer with him That we may also be glorified together. I'm going to stop right there here.
But So That answers a lot of our questions when you want to know why do you What do we do? Why do we do the things we do? Why do we Uh And it's because it's Not us. That does it, but the sin that dwelleth in us.
Now There's a real danger there if people take this passage of Scripture and they try to say, well, I know that it's not me that's going to do this, right? It's not me. I'm going to go out and get drunk tonight. And it's not me that's doing it, it's that spirit that dwells in me, right? Yeah.
And they're trying to pass the buck. Yeah, that's not my fault. Yeah. Okay, so no, it don't work that way because here it's the mind. And is is that a mind of Christ?
No. Okay. So under the spirit of the law we have the mind o' Christ, and that's not the mind of Christ, is it? Mm-hmm. And so We're we're living in We today are living in perilous, perilous times.
But I'll tell you where. The folks, if you want to get Uh Bible teacher, where we take it, we hold to Uh the traditions Of the apostles. Scripture says hold to There are those out there like I was telling you about well, Rick Warren with that New Age church of his. Where they were telling you, Get rid of o the hymns, get rid of your hymnals, no hymnals, get a rock band in there. Uh Do not forget preaching about sin.
Don't preach about sin. All that does is make people feel bad, okay? Conform the church. uh to the world. You don't want it you'll never get unchurched Harry into the church by beating him over the head with the Bible.
So it you gotta make it Uh, you got to conform to where he wants to come in the church.
Well, why would Harry want to come in? He's already got that in the world. Doers of the word Baptist Church, we're very, very different in the sense. We don't compromise. We hold to the old traditions.
And Uh Because change is not always good, okay? Change can be good, but not the change that they're having today. You've got all this emergent church, the emergent church out there. This is not good.
Okay. And there's something happening, Kenny, out there. With a lot of your mega church and especially the prosperity churches. People are starting to awaken. And there's something o other happening too.
Church attendance across the board has fallen off. The younger people They're ha they're having a kind of revival thing, Kenny. But it's it's more That they want to have like rall rallies, like rallies and things. uh and not stay with the traditions of of the apostles So tho those rallies and things will end. But those who stay and hold to the tradition of the Apostles, They're going to bear fruit, and that's what the whole purpose we are to Bear fruit.
Our lives are to bear fruit. To bear fruit for God. And that's what we do, doers of the Word Baptist Church. We're out of time for tonight, so I want to say thanks for being here. Thanks for your support.
Have a good night. God bless and always, always, always. You ready? Keep Fighting the fight. Fight.
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