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Please remain standing. If you're able, let's return. Let's turn, return
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to Romans and turn to Romans Nine, verse thirty. Romans nine verse thirty.
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This is Romans nine verse thirty,
and I'm going to read through ten,
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verse four. This is God's word. It's important that you give your
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attention to it. What shall we
say then, that gentile's, who did
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not pursue righteousness, have obtained it? That is a righteousness that is by
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faith, but that Israel, who
pursued a law that would lead to righteousness,
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did not succeed in reaching that law? Why? Because they did not
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pursue it by faith, but as
if it were based on works. They
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have stumbled over the stumbling stone,
as it is written. Behold, I
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am laying in Zion a stone of
stumbling and a rock of offense, and
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whoever believes in him will not be
put to shame. Brothers, my heart's
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desire and prayer to God for them
is that they may be saved, for
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I bear them witness that they have
a zeal for God, but not according
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to knowledge. For being ignorant of
the righteousness of God and seeking to establish
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their own, they did not submit
to God's righteousness. For Christ is the
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end of the law, for the
righteousness to everyone who believes. May God
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bless his word to us and please
be seated. Teachers want their students to
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learn the subject. Parents want their
children to grow up and be successful.
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What pastors want? Pastors want their
parishioners to be saved. They want the
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people that are hearing the words that
they speak to hear them and be saved,
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to find life, saved from what
to be saved? To have an
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understanding of salvation doesn't really make any
sense unless you have an understanding of what
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you're being saved from. Well,
fortunately, we've already spent a good time
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on that this morning, haven't we? Saved from our sin, which leads
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to death? I'm saved from our
pride, which enslaves us, anger that
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destroys us, lust that blinds us, guilt that pierces our heart makes us
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heavy. It's sin, of course, that we all share, its sin
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that we're born into, its sin
that we commit in this life. And
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in light of all this sin,
Paul feels for the Jews and he says
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in verse ten brothers, my Heart's
desire and prayer to God for them.
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That is Israel, that is that
they may be saved, and this,
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of course, is my prayer for
you as well this morning, my heart's
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desire, this is why I became
a pastors, so that you may be
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saved. But, as any parent, teacher or pastor knows, one thing
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I've learned in all these roles is
that you can't make anyone do anything is
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can't. I've experienced this as a
parent, as a cello teacher and as
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a pastor. No matter how much
I want something to happen, no matter
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how badly I want a thing,
I just can't make it happen. I
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can't. I can't save you,
I can't cause you to save yourself,
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but I can do that thing that
Paul does here and that parents do and
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the teachers do, and that's point
paints in this direction. Guide, lead,
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proud, yell, preach, do
everything we can to encourage and instruct
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and help, to understand so that
we can get you to that goal.
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But if you are to benefit from
it, you have to be teachable,
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you have to listen, you have
to pay attention, because there's certain instructions
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that are being given. Do this, do that, avoid this path,
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take this one, and this morning
that's exactly what I want to do.
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I want to show to you and
explain to you these two paths, these
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two choices that we have in this
life, one that leads to the righteousness
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of God and salvation and life everlasting, and the other that does not but
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leads to death. First let's start
by looking at some of the details in
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the text, and in doing that, the first thing will observe is an
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observation or a puzzle that Paul something
he observes, a puzzle that he presents,
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and it's the first verse that we
have, verse thirty. What shall
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we say then, in light of
everything that he's said thus far? What
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do we conclude? And then he
gives us the conclusion, which is itself
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a little bit of a puzzle.
So here's his conclusion. I'll read it
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to you again from verse dirty,
that Gentiles who did not pursue righteousness have
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obtained it, that is, a
righteousness that is by faith, but that
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Israel who pursued a law that would
lead to righteousness, did not succeed in
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reaching that law. So you see
what he's saying. He says there's these
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two groups, generally speaking, and
there's all kinds of exceptions and qualifications that
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he's made in other places, but
these setting forward this basic principle and fact
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of history that the gentiles who were
not given the law of Moses, who
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didn't pursue the Law of Moses,
ended up receiving justification the righteousness of God.
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There are all these gentiles, Paul
says, who are standing before God
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and said and who are accounted as
righteous, as holy. And yet then
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there is is real, who was
given the law, who has pursued the
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law, a law that was meant
to lead to righteousness, but they've not
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obtained it. How can the gentiles
be justified before God, entering into the
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blood these blessings? But Israel not
gentiles who are associated with paganism, idolatry,
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all kinds of sexual immorality, hatred, ignorance of God and all the
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things that he's given to Israel,
they've obtained the righteousness of God. And
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then is real, to whom belongs
the adoption and the glory and the covenants
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and the giving of the law and
all the rest. They missed it.
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How are these things true? How
does this work together? This reminds me
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of an experience I had in junior
hive. There was a teacher who,
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on the first day of class,
he was a math teacher, and he
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went to all the students and he
handed out a quiz. This was on
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the very first day and this was
a kind it was seventh grade, but
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it was an upper level math class. And he hands out this test all
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these students, and most of them
are really hard working, diligent, quick
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students. He hands it out and
he says, I want you to follow
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the instructions and then we'll will take
this quiz and and then we'll go on
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with the rest of the class.
Well, then you saw two things happen.
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First, you saw some of the
students just sort of sitting there quietly,
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looking lazy, not really doing anything, not paying an attention. Then
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after a few minutes they start getting
up and they just turn their quizzes and
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and then there's these other students working
really fast and really hard trying to answer
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all these questions, and then they
turn it in and they're looking around like,
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what am I doing wrong? And
they turn it out and they hand
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it in and then the teach sure
started dividing these tests into two piles and
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the students that seemed to be really
fast and turned it in the beginning without
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having really done any work. All
got a's and the students who were working
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really hard all failed, and everyone's
going well, well, I'll say everyone
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was confused. Well, not everyone. The students who passed knew exactly why
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they had passed. It was the
students who didn't pass. We're saying,
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I answered all the problems, I
did better than I thought I would do,
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I'd worked really hard and did it
fast. That's the sort of situation
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that the Israel is finding themselves in
and that's the puzzle that Paul is addressing,
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and he gives the answer in verse
thirty two. He says why?
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Answer? Because they did not pursue
it by faith, but as if it
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were based on works. They stumbled
over the stumbling stone. He goes on
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to say that they he's what he's
saying here is that they pursued it in
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a particular way. So what?
Going back to the test, what happened
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there? What happened is that the
teacher had directions on the very top of
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the quiz that said write your name, sit for three minutes, then turn
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in the quiz, and that's what
he said. When he hands out the
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test, he said follow the directions, and everyone did that. Those who
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followed the directions, who simply wrote
their name, sat for three minutes and
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turned it in. All past the
test and God a's the people that skipped
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the directions assumed they knew what was
going on, and we're working frantically because
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they're smart, good students. They
didn't pass just by getting all the answers
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correct. There were, there was
a direction given the teacher, of course,
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was the point at the beginning of
class was listened to me and follow
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my instructions. This was the real
lesson that was being taught. But something
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similar is going on here. There
is a way in which Israel is expecting
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to get the A, there's a
way in which they're expecting to obtain the
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righteousness of God, to stand before
him and be declared you are justified,
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you have done well, and they
think the way is by doing the works
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of the law. If we'd work
hard enough, if we do enough,
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if we're fast enough, if we're
good enough, if we're obedient enough,
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if we're holy enough, we'll get
the A, will get justification, will
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get glory, will get heaven.
But Paul says it was never that way.
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They pursued the law as if it
were based on works, he says,
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but it's not based on works.
You didn't hear the directions, you
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didn't understand you didn't follow them.
How do you obtain the righteousness of God?
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How do you pursue the law?
Through faith, through faith, that's
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how you pursue the law and that's
how you obtain justification. And that's why
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the gentiles got it, because they
they got all the benefits of obedience of
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the law through the one who obeyed
for them this law. To go a
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little deeper on what Paul is saying
and to expound a little more from other
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places, Paul tells us it served
this particular purpose. He gives two examples.
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In Galatians, for example, he
calls the law a schoolmaster. That
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is meant to lead us to Christ. The law under with Israel received was
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to teach them. It was to
teach them the requirements of God, it
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was to teach them their failures of
their requirements, and it was to teach
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them the forgiveness that they received.
That's what the sacrifices were all about.
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That's why the sacrifices were attached to
that law. It was all to teach
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them and lead them to Christ.
It was to show them, not if
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you do all these things you will
be saved. It was to show them
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you can't do all these things,
but I am providing for you a salvation
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in collossions to seventeen and Hebrews nine
nine. Another a metaphor is used.
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The law and all the ceremonies are
called a shadow of the things to come,
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like a like a shadow on a
body. It's very similar to the
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body. It in many ways is
it moves perfectly with it right, it's
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attached to it. Your shadow is
never sort of somewhere else, it's never
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in another room. You never have
to go get your shadow. It's always
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there, it's always with you.
It's that connected. And yet it's not
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you. You can jump on your
somebody can jump on your shadow and it
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doesn't hurt you. Right, somebody
can poke it or put a hat on
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it, but it doesn't affect you
personally. There's a separation between these two
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things and that's what Paul says about
the law. He says it's a shadow
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of the things to come. There's
an intimate connection, but they're not the
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same thing. The ultimate reality,
the alternate thing God is giving is not
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the law but righteousness through Christ.
But the Jews, he says, Israel,
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his brothers, didn't understand this.
They had this zeal for God.
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He says. That's a positive thing, a good thing, but not according
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to knowledge. Zeal is, of
course, very impressive, but it doesn't
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really mean anything if you're not using
it properly. Imagine a the we just
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had the Olympics. Imagine Olympic runner, toned perfectly, training all the time,
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the fastest in the world, on
your mark, gets a go and
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then he runs the other way right. You can be impressed at his strength,
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is stamina, at all the training
he did, and yet go,
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oh no, what are you doing? You're going the wrong way. You
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this is zealous, this is powerful, this is good, but it's not
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according to knowledge. This is what
they did, and that's kind of like
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what these students in this class did
that I described. They were zealous,
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they wanted to perform, they wanted
to do it right, but they weren't
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doing it according to knowledge because they
hadn't paid attention, they hadn't listened well
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in scripture. It's worse. It's
not merely a lack of understanding. Its
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Sin, Sin that clouds the heart, sin that blinds our eyes, and
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that's why God comes into the world
to remove these things from us. Zeal
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is, of in course, impressive, but it has to go the right
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way. And what happened, Paul
says, with Israel, is that they're
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moving along this path of the law, they're moving along it in an historical
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kind of way, historically moving through. But then, but then when they
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reach the end of the law,
when they get to the end of the
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road and there is Christ, this
great stone, this great rock of Salvation,
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they stumble over it, they fall
over it because they were never going
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to reach Christ. They were trying
to establish something on their own. Everything
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that they were doing, he says, wasn't to find the righteousness of God,
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it was to establish their own righteousness. The gentiles, on the other
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hand, coming from the other direction, not coming in their own power and
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their own strength, but recognizing how
evil they are, recognizing how fallen they
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are, seeing that they cannot please
God on their own, they come by
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faith and instead of seeing a stumbling
stone and a rock of offense, it's
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the foundation of the temple, it's
the House of salvation that God welcomes them
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into and they come in and they
rejoice. These are the two ways that
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we have, a way of building
our own righteousness, of establishing our own
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glorious house, or trusting in Jesus. Charles Hodge says, the knowledge that
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the Jews had was neither enlightened nor
wise, neither right about its objects nor
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correct about its character. In many
ways this shouldn't have been a surprise.
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God was saying these things all along. The prophets were telling them, they
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were being reminded, the covenants encapsulated
them. But sin is stubborn, and
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that's our lesson. We are meant
to hear Israel and hear her experiences and
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not say you guys were idiots.
No, we see ourselves in them.
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We see that this is our experience, our stubbornness, our failures. But
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when Jesus Christ comes into the world, lives a perfect life on our behalf,
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provides for us everything that God has
promised in his covenants, and he
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says this is yours by faith alone, not by the works of the law.
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It allows us to jump tracts.
God allows us to jump tracks.
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He says, you don't have to
stay on this path. Anymore. You
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don't have to continue building your righteousness
and depending on it. And if you
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know how good, for those of
you are listening on audio and putting that
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in quotes, good your righteousness is. This is good news because when we
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look at our hearts and we see
our failures and we see our stumbling and
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we see how badly we are doing
life, how badly we are actually meeting
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the righteous requirements of God, the
fact that God is saying, I'm giving
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it to you all through the sacrifice
of my son. It belongs to you
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here receive it. That's good news. To be forgiven of our sins,
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to be given the righteousness of God
and all the things that we inherit as
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a result of that. That's wonderful. Staying on that old path would be
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like finding a box of like.
You go to a you find a a
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box of like an Ikea bookshelf in
a dumpster. You say I'm going to
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build something great and you pull it
out and you find that the woods warped
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in, the pieces are missing and
your but you're going to do it anyway,
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right and you're putting it together and
there's no shelf in the backs missing.
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There isn't the proper side, there's
no screws and the little turnything they
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give you isn't there. But yeah, you're going to keep working on it.
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That's what we are doing when we
pursue our own paths of self righteousness.
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We're working on this dumpster project.
Meanwhile, God has said here is
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a house, a mansion, a
Seity, a new heavens and a new
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earth, and it's it's yours.
I've built it it, I've built it,
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I've constructed it and I've put the
foundation. The thing that you used
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to stumble over is now the corner
stone, The rock of righteousness, the
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security of all of your life.
Don't keep building your bookshelves, but trust
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in the Lord, Jesus Christ.
Hear what Paul is saying and be saved.
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Pursue The Lord and his righteousness and
pursue it with zeal, but don't
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pursue it by continuing to work on
your on yourself, thinking that one day
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you will finally please God by doing
enough good or atoning for enough bad.
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Please God by accepting the gift that
he is giving to you, and the
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rock of offense that is Jesus Christ
will become the one on whom in whom
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you will never, ever be put
to shame. You will never be embarrassed.
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No one will ever look at you
when when the judgment comes and say,
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well, that was a silly thing
you've been working on. When we
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receive the glory of God that comes
through faith in Christ, none of us
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will be ashamed, none of us
will be embarrassed, none of us will
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think we lost a single thing,
and indeed we won't. Christ is the
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end of the law. He is
the righteousness of everyone who believes. Believe
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on him and be saved. Let's
pray
