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If you're a will please remain standing
and let's hear God's word. Now from
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Romans Chapter Seven. Romans seven,
the for just the first few verses,
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verses one through six. Roman seven
one through six. Or do you not
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know, brothers, for I am
speaking to those who know the law,
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that the law is binding on a
person only as long as he lives.
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For a married woman is bound by
law to her husband while she lives,
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but if her husband dies, she's
released from the law of marriage. Accordingly,
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she will be called an adultress if
she lives with another man while her
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husband is alive, but if her
husband dies, she's free from that law,
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and if she marries another man,
she is not an adultress. Likewise,
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my brothers, you also have died
to the law through the body of
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Christ, so that you may belong
to another, to him who has been
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raised from the dead, in order
that we may bear fruit for God,
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for while we were living in the
flesh, our sinful passions, aroused by
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the law, were at work in
our members to bear fruit for death.
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But now we are released from the
law, having died to that which held
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US captive, so that we may
serve in the new way of the spirit
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and not in the old way of
the written code. My God bless his
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word to us. Please be seated. When Paul begins this section of his
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letter, he brings up a concept
that you may or may not have given
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much thought to, and that's ignorance. It's something that came up in First
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Peter. To First Peter as well. Ignorance. Remember what we just read
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there in First Peter, Verse Fourteen, one hundred and fourteen. He says,
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do not be conformed to the passions
of your former ignorance. Do not
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be conformed to the passions of your
former ignorance. He says, conduct yourselves
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with fear throughout the time of your
exile, knowing that you are ransomed from
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the feudal ways you inherited from your
Fath forefathers. And he goes on to
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describe other things that we are to
know. Now some things, whether you
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know them are not, don't really
matter a lot. It's okay to be
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ignorant about some things. We can't
know everything. It's impossible. There may
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be a small way in which certain
things matter for a certain period of time
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or do a certain group of people, but not everything is always in the
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equally important to everyone. It's okay
to let some things go, but there
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are other things in life that are
very dangerous to let go, very dangerous
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to not know. We live here
in the desert, if we let our
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little children sort of run free and
don't warn them about the dangers of snakes
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and thorns and these kinds of things, it's a bad thing not to know
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that, and if you don't know
it, you'll find it out quickly.
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You might think of other kinds of
things, similar things, maybe weather related
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things. This is why early warning
detection systems are so needed and so helpful
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for tsunamis and earthquakes, tornadoes.
When you don't know that a tornado is
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about to hit your house, it's
a dangerous thing. If you know it,
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however, it's a really great thing. You can prepare for it,
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you can get ready, or you
could think of positive examples where ignorance could
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be a good bad thing. I
rather I'm imagine quitting your job moments before
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your boss is about to give you
the promotion that you've been waiting for.
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If only I'd known. Or imagine
receiving a gift card from a from a
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friend for Christmas or something, and
you think it's just five bucks or something
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like that, it doesn't really matter, not knowing that there's five hundred dollars
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there for you to spend. Ignorance
can be costly, it can hurt or
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you can miss out on important things. Well, if that's true of these
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earthly things of weather and money and
landscape, how much more true of eternal
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things, of knowing God? Listen, for example, to Paul's words and
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second Thessalonians, Chapter One, verses
seven through eight. He speaks and he
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says and to grant relief, yes, I'm right here, and to grant
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relief to those of you who are
afflicted as well as to us. And
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then he talks about some ignorance.
He says, when the Lord Jesus is
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revealed from Heaven with his mighty angels
in flaming fire, inflicting vengeance on those
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who do not know God and on
those who do not obey the gospel of
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our Lord Jesus. These people,
Paul says, who do not know God,
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when the Lord Jesus comes again,
they will suffer punishment of eternal destruction,
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away from the presence of the Lord
and the glory of his M Paul
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says, an effesions for a team
that the gentiles are darkened in their understanding,
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alienated from the life of God because
of the ignorance, the ignorance that
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is in them, due to their
hardness of heart. So, to make
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the point again or to summarize,
there are some things that it's okay to
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be ignorant about. So Ky to
look up how much air pressure goes in
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your tires every time you need to
fill them up. But it's not that
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big of a deal. But when
it comes to knowing God, when it
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comes to knowing the things of the
Lord Jesus Christ, if we do not
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know them, if you remain ignorant
about them, if you don't know them
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and walk in them, then when
the Lord Jesus comes, eternal destruction is
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promised, flaming fire and as mighty
angels. These are things you must know.
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So when Paul says, going back
to Roman seven, when he begins
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this passage and says, or do
you not know, brothers, that the
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law is binding on a person only
as long as he lives, and then
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reminds them of who they are as
people who are not under the law but
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under a state of grace, there
is something very very important for you to
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know, for you to not be
ignorant about. In this passage, God
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announces that our salvation, or a
salvation that is possible for you and Jesus
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Christ, is something that we can't
be ignorant of. But the good news
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is that he teaches it to us
here, so that if you are ignorant
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of these things, if you don't
know what it means to be freed from
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the law and under grace, to
no longer be bound to the law but
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to belong to Jesus Christ, then
be glad you're here. Be Glad that
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the spirit speaks here. Be Glad
because here he teaches us that we might
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learn. He shines a light into
the darkness so that we may know.
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So let's consider what he has to
say. Paul here talks about a state
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of being that everyone belongs to that
does not know Jesus Christ as their savior,
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everyone who's not been regenerated or reborn
by the spirit through faith, everyone
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who is still in a state of
sin and misery. This is who Paul
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talks about. Any describes a being
under the law. If you are not
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a Christian, this describes you.
If you are a Christian, this describes
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your former state. He talks about
it throughout here, but especially in verses
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four through six. He describes this
state of sin, state of being under
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the law. You notice it particularly
in verse five. He says, while
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we were living in the flesh,
are sinful passions aroused by the law were
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at work in our members to bear
fruit for death. So let's take that
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apart. The first thing he says
is that we were those who let it.
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We're living in the flesh. What
does this mean, to live in
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the flesh? The Bible uses the
word flesh in both positive and negative ways,
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or maybe even neutral ways. For
example, Jesus was born and took
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on flesh. There's nothing negative about
that. It means that he became incarnate,
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he took on the form of a
man, as Paul says in Philippians.
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There's nothing evil about that, nothing
nothing sinful about that. But here
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Paul doesn't use it in that sense. He's not talking about flesh as in
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physical bodies, but he uses flesh
and in a moral sense, and will
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in many ways throughout the rest of
this letter. This is the first instance
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of it here, I believe.
So he talks about it in terms of
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living in a way that in you
are completely given over to evil. He
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gives his own definition here. He
says someone who is ruled by their sinful
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passions, passions inside, lusts and
desires, not just any lusts and desires,
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but evil ones, sinful ones,
bad ones. This is what describes
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a person who's in a state of
sin and misery. This describes a person
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who isn't a Christian. They live
in the flesh, they are given over
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to sin and to evil. They're
ruled by their passions. This happens,
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he says, because their sinful passions
are aroused by the law. Now,
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the law is a good thing,
he says. The Laws of course given
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to God or given by God to
us for obedience. The law is a
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good thing, and he's going to
talk about this more in the next passage.
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But he says, but sin,
because of sinfulness, is aroused by
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the law. He gives us his
own example in the next passages, in
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the next passage. So take a
look at verse seven. He says,
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for I would not have known what
it is to covet if the law had
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said you shall not cove it.
But sin seizing an opportunity through the commandment
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produced in me all kinds of covetousness. Again, going back to the parents
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and children example. I'm sorry if
I use these too often. There's just
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so familiar to me, but it
was parents. Sometimes you worry about telling
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your kids not to do something,
lest you suggest this thing that you know
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they're about to do. Now,
I don't want you to take these cookies
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that are right here on this shelf. Okay, don't pay attention to them.
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And we what we worry about saying
those kinds of things, because immediately,
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kids, what do you do?
you think cookies. Ah, I
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wasn't thinking about cookies before I had
it, I didn't have it in my
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mind. But now, all of
a sudden, even though mom said,
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even though Dad said, I don't
want cookies, I find myself wanting cookies
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and maybe I could. And we
start thinking about those things. And that's
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exactly what Paul says, the Apostle
Paul, this great holy man whom the
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spirit has been poured out on.
What does he say? He says the
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law says, do not cove it, and immediately I starts coveting all kinds
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of covetousness. He says, not
just one little kind but if this and
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it's not because of the law,
as though the law were bad, he
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says, but this happens because the
law relates to my sinfulness. When I
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come up against the law, I
don't say what a great law I think.
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I'll do it because of the sinfulness
inside of us, because of our
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perversion, because of our bentness towards
sin, we start going the wrong way.
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Sinfulness is awakened, aroused by the
law in our sinful passions start working.
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So God giving his laws a good
thing. And again, will consider
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this more in depth next time.
But the fact that we're bound to the
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law in combination that we have a
sinful nature means that we are in a
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bad, bad situation. He says. We're bound to the law, not
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just in the sense of being obedient
and requiring obedience, but he means we're
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under this particular covenant in which God
promises good things for our obedience and promises
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curse for our disobedience. And as
people who are naturally disobedient because of the
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fall and atom, we are servants
of death. That's what he says.
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He says again, going back to
verse five, for while we were living
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in the flesh, are sinful passions
aroused by the law, we're at work
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in our members to bear fruit for
death. Death he personifies here is kind
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of this master which we are now
serving. We do things in our sinful
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nature, aroused by the law,
that are fitting for death, in service
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to death. And perhaps you've read
a story about this. This sometimes these
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characters appear, these kind of arch
villains, totally evil, totally corrupt,
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terrible things, but then right next
to them, their right hand man or
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woman, whatever the case is,
is this sort of equally evil servant who
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does everything they can to serve that
master. The Servant is bound to give
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them everything they can do and they're
planning and plotting and helping in all kinds
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of ways. But the personification of
death here, it's this kind of thing.
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We are servants of death. We're
bringing fort fruit in service of this
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kind of thing, fruit that leads
to death, fruit that makes sense in
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death. And all this is explained
because of our Um station, our status
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of being under the law, as
long as we're under this covenant in which
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God Demands Obedience, and we have
already fallen in it in Adam. And
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yet and we continue to produce evil
and Sin Death is the result, and
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it is fittingly described as being in
slavery and in Bondage. And so this
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is the state that Paul describes when
he starts Chapter Seven and says, do
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you not know, brothers, for
I'm speaking to those who know the law,
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that the law is binding on a
person, but he says, only
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as long as he lives. So
he gives this example. Now and he
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says there is this way out of
this situation, this being under the law
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that every person is born into.
There's a way out of it death,
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and he gives an example. Let's
look at it in verse versus two and
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three. He gives this example of
marriage. He says, for a married
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woman is bound by law to her
husband while he lives, but if her
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husband dies, she was released from
the law of marriage. He gives sort
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of the perhaps somewhat obvious explanation of
this in verse three. Accordingly, she'll
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be called an adulterss if she lives
with another man while her husband is alive,
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but if her husband dies, she
set free from the law, and
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if she marries another man she is
not an adultress. So uses this example
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of marriage to describe our relationship with
the law as a whole. He says
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that a person who's married, if
their spouse dies, they're no longer obligated
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to that spouse. They're free to
marry another and they won't be uncalled an
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adulteress. They're free to to marry
and that and that is a fine thing.
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So what could possibly free us from
this bondage? Well, there's only
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one possibility. Death has to happen. But that creates something of a problem.
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How are we going to die and
yet be free? In other words,
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in order for us to be out
from under the law, the penalty
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for disobedience to the law needs to
be paid. The wrath of God,
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the curse of God, needs to
come against the disobedience. In addition to
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that, the righteous requirements of the
law must be filled. So again,
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in order to come out from under
the law, the penalty for disobedience must
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be paid and the requirement for obedience
must be fulfilled. This, and only
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that were this releases us from the
debt of which we owe. But how
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is this possible? Because if we
die the death that we deserve, well,
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then we're dead. If you are
in hell and suffering eternal destruction,
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well, I suppose you are released
from the law, but all your feeling
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now is the consequences of it.
There's no getting out from that, there's
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no paying it off. The Bible
does not speak of a kind of purgatory,
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an invented doctrine by men, only
eternal destruction. As First Peter says,
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our death is the eternal end of
us. And of course, if
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that's true, it leaves us no
hope of giving exactly what's required. Not
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only can we not, not only
will the penalty be always on us,
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not freeing US but eternally holding us
in that, but we have no hope
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of actually paying the debt or fulfilling
fulfilling the law. So how can we
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be set free from under the law? Well, the answer Paul gives,
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the answer which you must not be
ignorant of, is that God does it
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for us. God saves us by
His grace. He does this without us
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deserving it, he does it without
US paying the debt off, he does
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it without US fulfilling the law.
By His grace he pays the debts that
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DIS old, he pays the penalty
for disobedience and he fulfills the righteous requirement
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of the law. You see it
in verse four, he says, my
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brothers, you also have died to
the law. What you have died to
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the law? You are no longer
under the law because you have died.
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How? He says, through the
body of Christ, so that you may
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belong to another. That goes he
picks up on his marriage analogy. There
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he says, you have died to
the law so that you may belong to
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Christ. And we died to the
law through Christ. My brothers, you
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also have died to the law through
the body of Christ, so that you
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may belong to another, to him
who has been raised from the dead,
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in order that we may bear fruit, not for death but for God.
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God has saved us. God does
this by sending his son. The father
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sends his son into the world.
The son promises, and indeed offers obedience
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to the father as our mediator.
He promises to fulfill that law on our
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behalf, and he does that perfectly. And he goes to the Cross and
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promises to pay the penalty for our
death, and he does that perfectly.
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And not only does the father send
the son, and not only does the
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son fulfill the obedience that require is
required and pay the penalty that is owed,
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but he defeats death and then the
spirit of God unites us to the
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son in this victorious death, so
that he did, when he dies,
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we die. That's how he can
say. It is because the spirit of
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God, through faith, has united
us with Christ, so that when Jesus
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died on the cross, you died
on the cross in him. The curse
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that was owed was paid. Now, you and I could never pay for
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this on our own, but Jesus, as the divine son of God,
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could good and did proof question Mark
The resurrection. He rose from the dead,
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he says, Paul says here through
we died to the law, through
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the body of Christ, so that
we may belong to another, to him
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who has been raised from the dead. And this thing that God did in
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the world on the cross was not
a simply a one time a kind of
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event. He is the eternal God
who continues this Trinitarian Work of salvation even
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to today. This work continues in
the life of the sun, as he
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continues to mediate on our behalf and
serve the father. It continues as the
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spirit is united to us and brings
forth this fruit. Notice what he says
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in for six now that we have
been released from the law, having died
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to that which held US captive.
We serve in the new way of the
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spirit. You see, it wasn't
just a one time event two thousand plus
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years ago. It's now, it's
today. The spirit working in US,
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living in US, dwelling in us, to bring forth something new, resurrection,
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New the world to come, a
kind of new so we take all
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this together, and what do we
have? We have the apostle paub by,
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the spirit of God, telling us
something which we do not need to
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be ignorant of any longer, because
I've just told it to you, that
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before we were saved, we were
bound in darkness, bound under the law,
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incapable of fulfilling it and owing eternal
owing to God, eternal, I'm
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deaf, God, owing to us
our eternal destruction. But through the death
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and resurrection of Jesus Christ, you
have been set free. You no longer
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are under that covenant, you are
no longer under that law, but you
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belong to Jesus Christ, so that
you are no longer bearing fruit for death.
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But when you hear the law now
you serve in the new way of
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the spirit. We must not be
ignorant of these things. Christians, you
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have been released from the law.
We are required to understand what this all
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means, to be in the spirit, to be united to Christ and under
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grace. If you deny these things, in other words, you deny the
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work of God, you deny the
promise of God, the Word of God,
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the hope of salvation. Being ignorant
of these things is to not know
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what he has done. It's to
not believe his promise, and it leaves
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you stranded and bound and in danger. It's like being on a desert island
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and watching that ship just or not
watching the ship float by. There it
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goes, but here God brings the
ship and he docks it on the island
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and he says, come aboard,
this salvation is for you. Believe and
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you will be saved. And as
Christians, by definition, these things are
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things that you do know, you
do understand and you do believe. When
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Paul speaks to these brothers, these
Christian brothers and sisters, he speaks to
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them as people who know these things, and he's reminding of, reminding them
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of these things, even as I
do. I'm to you this morning.
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And so let us remember and believe
and serve accordingly. Let us pray and
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ask that God would help us in
these things,
