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Dialogue: 0,0:00:01.05,0:00:03.77,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Okay, brethren, we find ourselves
Dialogue: 0,0:00:03.77,0:00:09.70,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,in Ephesians 2 once again.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:09.70,0:00:20.15,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,This is part four of a five part series
Dialogue: 0,0:00:20.15,0:00:25.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,on these first three \Nverses of Ephesians 2.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:25.00,0:00:27.21,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We can read those together.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:27.21,0:00:28.58,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I've called this series:
Dialogue: 0,0:00:28.58,0:00:30.02,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"How Dead is Dead?
Dialogue: 0,0:00:30.02,0:00:32.31,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The Five-fold Fallenness of Man."
Dialogue: 0,0:00:32.31,0:00:33.65,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Today's part four.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:33.65,0:00:38.52,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Today, we're going to focus on the flesh.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:38.52,0:00:41.23,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We've looked at man dead in sin,
Dialogue: 0,0:00:41.23,0:00:43.77,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,dead with regards to the world,
Dialogue: 0,0:00:43.77,0:00:46.48,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,dead with regards to the devil.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:46.48,0:00:53.13,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Today, dead with regards to the flesh.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:53.13,0:00:56.06,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Next week, Lord willing,
Dialogue: 0,0:00:56.06,0:00:58.56,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the wrath of God.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:58.56,0:01:06.10,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Our deadness to God.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:06.10,0:01:08.12,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Ephesians 2:1,
Dialogue: 0,0:01:08.12,0:01:13.23,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"And you were dead..."
Dialogue: 0,0:01:13.23,0:01:16.77,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You were.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:16.77,0:01:19.96,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Only if you're a Christian, you were.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:19.96,0:01:26.52,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,If you're not a Christian, you are.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:26.52,0:01:30.50,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Let me just tell you up front here,
Dialogue: 0,0:01:30.50,0:01:38.17,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,nobody needs to embellish how bad man is.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:38.17,0:01:40.31,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,All we need to know
Dialogue: 0,0:01:40.31,0:01:42.43,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,is the reality of the situation,
Dialogue: 0,0:01:42.43,0:01:46.37,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and it's bad.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:46.37,0:01:48.89,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"You were dead in the trespasses and sins
Dialogue: 0,0:01:48.89,0:01:52.31,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,in which you once walked,
Dialogue: 0,0:01:52.31,0:01:55.31,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,following the course of this world,
Dialogue: 0,0:01:55.31,0:01:57.87,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,following the prince \Nof the power of the air,
Dialogue: 0,0:01:57.87,0:01:59.56,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the spirit that is now at work
Dialogue: 0,0:01:59.56,0:02:01.63,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,in the sons of disobedience,
Dialogue: 0,0:02:01.63,0:02:04.69,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,among whom we all once lived,
Dialogue: 0,0:02:04.69,0:02:06.77,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,in the passions of our flesh
Dialogue: 0,0:02:06.77,0:02:09.16,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,carrying out the desires of the body
Dialogue: 0,0:02:09.16,0:02:10.92,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and the mind,
Dialogue: 0,0:02:10.92,0:02:14.35,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and were by nature children of wrath
Dialogue: 0,0:02:14.35,0:02:17.23,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,like the rest of mankind."
Dialogue: 0,0:02:17.23,0:02:18.37,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So there you have it.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:18.37,0:02:21.41,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Three verses that spell out
Dialogue: 0,0:02:21.41,0:02:28.44,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,this five-fold fallenness of man.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:28.44,0:02:32.89,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Last week, when I got done preaching,
Dialogue: 0,0:02:32.89,0:02:36.03,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,one of our younger theologians came up
Dialogue: 0,0:02:36.03,0:02:38.80,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,after I was done and asked me
Dialogue: 0,0:02:38.80,0:02:44.89,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,why I hadn't included any application.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:44.89,0:02:47.97,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I preached about the prince \Nof the power of the air.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:47.97,0:02:51.31,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,This young man wanted to know
Dialogue: 0,0:02:51.31,0:02:56.21,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,how do I apply that to my life.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:56.21,0:02:59.71,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And brethren, what I told him,
Dialogue: 0,0:02:59.71,0:03:02.39,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,is that sometimes when we're confronted
Dialogue: 0,0:03:02.39,0:03:05.37,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,by the Word of God,
Dialogue: 0,0:03:05.37,0:03:11.04,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I told him it's enough if at times
Dialogue: 0,0:03:11.04,0:03:15.12,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,we're just simply left worshiping.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:15.12,0:03:21.08,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Brethren, that is not a bad \Napplication of Scripture.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:21.08,0:03:24.03,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,If we simply are confronted by it
Dialogue: 0,0:03:24.03,0:03:27.02,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and we come away seeing God as big
Dialogue: 0,0:03:27.02,0:03:30.16,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and ourselves as incredibly small.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:30.16,0:03:35.02,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,That is profitable.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:35.02,0:03:38.59,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,That is good.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:38.59,0:03:41.63,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Look, I recognize that in these verses
Dialogue: 0,0:03:41.63,0:03:42.89,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that we're dealing with -
Dialogue: 0,0:03:42.89,0:03:44.65,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,following the course of this world -
Dialogue: 0,0:03:44.65,0:03:48.01,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,you know, we could just get consumed
Dialogue: 0,0:03:48.01,0:03:49.15,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,with the world,
Dialogue: 0,0:03:49.15,0:03:50.96,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and how do we overcome the world,
Dialogue: 0,0:03:50.96,0:03:52.80,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and how do we not love the world,
Dialogue: 0,0:03:52.80,0:03:53.66,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and you know what?
Dialogue: 0,0:03:53.66,0:03:56.15,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Scripture deals with those \Nthings in other places.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:56.15,0:03:58.41,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But what I want to do is \Nwhat Paul wants to do.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:58.41,0:04:01.52,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And right now, Paul is not telling\Nus how to overcome the world.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:01.52,0:04:04.44,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Right now, Paul is not telling us\Nhow to overcome the devil.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:04.44,0:04:06.76,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,He's not telling us how \Nto overcome the flesh.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:06.76,0:04:08.55,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You know what he's doing right now?
Dialogue: 0,0:04:08.55,0:04:11.17,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,He is concerned that we have
Dialogue: 0,0:04:11.17,0:04:14.01,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,some recognition of the exceedingly
Dialogue: 0,0:04:14.01,0:04:17.17,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,immeasurable greatness of God's power
Dialogue: 0,0:04:17.17,0:04:18.52,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,toward us who believe.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:18.52,0:04:20.15,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,He wants us to measure it.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:20.15,0:04:22.73,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And by measuring it, what he wants to do
Dialogue: 0,0:04:22.73,0:04:24.13,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,is he wants to take us down
Dialogue: 0,0:04:24.13,0:04:27.06,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,into the depths of the pit \Nfrom which we came
Dialogue: 0,0:04:27.06,0:04:31.12,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,over against the exaltation \Nto which we've been saved.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:31.12,0:04:33.44,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And it's in that contrast;
Dialogue: 0,0:04:33.44,0:04:34.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,it's in that difference
Dialogue: 0,0:04:34.99,0:04:36.89,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that he wants us to step back
Dialogue: 0,0:04:36.89,0:04:39.78,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and just be amazed and be in awe
Dialogue: 0,0:04:39.78,0:04:41.13,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,at the power of God.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:41.13,0:04:44.01,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And brethren, if we look at these things -
Dialogue: 0,0:04:44.01,0:04:47.48,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the wretchedness, the \Nbrokenness of mankind
Dialogue: 0,0:04:47.48,0:04:50.31,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and we're left saying, "Wow!"
Dialogue: 0,0:04:50.31,0:04:51.67,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You know, that's enough?
Dialogue: 0,0:04:51.67,0:04:53.56,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Do you know if you're left coming away
Dialogue: 0,0:04:53.56,0:04:54.64,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,from the Word of God
Dialogue: 0,0:04:54.64,0:04:56.66,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and you fall down on your face,
Dialogue: 0,0:04:56.66,0:04:58.18,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,don't we get the sense that
Dialogue: 0,0:04:58.18,0:05:01.25,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that's exactly why God does \Neverything that He does?
Dialogue: 0,0:05:01.25,0:05:02.53,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Because in the end,
Dialogue: 0,0:05:02.53,0:05:06.10,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,it's not so much just about \Nthe application to our lives
Dialogue: 0,0:05:06.10,0:05:07.72,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,in the sense that, you know,
Dialogue: 0,0:05:07.72,0:05:09.13,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I have to walk out this door
Dialogue: 0,0:05:09.13,0:05:11.77,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and now I have a list of things to do.
Dialogue: 0,0:05:11.77,0:05:13.75,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Brethren, what God really wants us to do
Dialogue: 0,0:05:13.75,0:05:14.84,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,is walk out this door,
Dialogue: 0,0:05:14.84,0:05:17.66,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and fall down on our faces and say,
Dialogue: 0,0:05:17.66,0:05:21.59,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"Wow! Thank You, Lord!
Dialogue: 0,0:05:21.59,0:05:25.40,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Thank You! Thank You!"
Dialogue: 0,0:05:25.40,0:05:28.10,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You know what He wants us to do in this?
Dialogue: 0,0:05:28.10,0:05:30.89,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,He wants us to recognize
Dialogue: 0,0:05:30.89,0:05:35.100,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,what sort of people we were
Dialogue: 0,0:05:35.100,0:05:40.88,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that He rescued us from His wrath.
Dialogue: 0,0:05:40.88,0:05:42.09,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,That's what it is.
Dialogue: 0,0:05:42.09,0:05:44.62,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The end in view is worship.
Dialogue: 0,0:05:44.62,0:05:48.27,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The end in view is awe.
Dialogue: 0,0:05:48.27,0:05:51.45,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Brethren, we need to be gripped.
Dialogue: 0,0:05:51.45,0:05:55.91,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We need to be changed and amazed
Dialogue: 0,0:05:55.91,0:05:58.90,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that God would actually unleash
Dialogue: 0,0:05:58.90,0:06:04.49,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,His great might on such people as we were.
Dialogue: 0,0:06:04.49,0:06:05.88,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,That's the issue.
Dialogue: 0,0:06:05.88,0:06:09.47,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So, today, part four.
Dialogue: 0,0:06:09.47,0:06:14.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Turn our attention towards the flesh.
Dialogue: 0,0:06:14.99,0:06:18.88,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Brethren, what we have is man
Dialogue: 0,0:06:18.88,0:06:24.86,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,like an animal, but worse.
Dialogue: 0,0:06:24.86,0:06:29.32,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Because we have a mind.
Dialogue: 0,0:06:29.32,0:06:32.14,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Look at it.
Dialogue: 0,0:06:32.14,0:06:34.17,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Right at the end of v. 2,
Dialogue: 0,0:06:34.17,0:06:35.98,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"the sons of disobedience."
Dialogue: 0,0:06:35.98,0:06:38.86,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The devil was at work in \Nthese sons of disobedience -
Dialogue: 0,0:06:38.86,0:06:39.79,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,look what it says -
Dialogue: 0,0:06:39.79,0:06:43.65,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"among whom we all..."
Dialogue: 0,0:06:43.65,0:06:46.35,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,All of us.
Dialogue: 0,0:06:46.35,0:06:48.45,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Among them we lived.
Dialogue: 0,0:06:48.45,0:06:50.85,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,In other words, we were one of them.
Dialogue: 0,0:06:50.85,0:06:53.78,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,All of us.
Dialogue: 0,0:06:53.78,0:06:57.73,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,This is a summation, a summary statement
Dialogue: 0,0:06:57.73,0:07:02.98,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,of all mankind in their natural condition.
Dialogue: 0,0:07:02.98,0:07:06.03,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We lived among these sons of disobedience
Dialogue: 0,0:07:06.03,0:07:11.46,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"in the passions of our flesh,
Dialogue: 0,0:07:11.46,0:07:14.33,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,carrying out the desires of the body
Dialogue: 0,0:07:14.33,0:07:16.58,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and the mind."
Dialogue: 0,0:07:16.58,0:07:19.38,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Now, just get a feel for this.
Dialogue: 0,0:07:19.38,0:07:21.64,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The New King James:
Dialogue: 0,0:07:21.64,0:07:24.70,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"We all once conducted ourselves
Dialogue: 0,0:07:24.70,0:07:28.69,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,in the lusts..." the lusts.
Dialogue: 0,0:07:28.69,0:07:31.54,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Lust. What a word.
Dialogue: 0,0:07:31.54,0:07:33.23,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Just let that roll of your tongue.
Dialogue: 0,0:07:33.23,0:07:36.51,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Lust.
Dialogue: 0,0:07:36.51,0:07:39.02,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,That produces imagery in our minds.
Dialogue: 0,0:07:39.02,0:07:40.68,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"...The lusts of our flesh."
Dialogue: 0,0:07:40.68,0:07:42.51,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Or the New American Standard,
Dialogue: 0,0:07:42.51,0:07:48.43,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"We too all (all!) formerly..."
Dialogue: 0,0:07:48.43,0:07:51.29,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We - Christians. This was us too.
Dialogue: 0,0:07:51.29,0:07:59.11,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"We all formerly lived in \Nthe lusts of our flesh."
Dialogue: 0,0:07:59.11,0:08:01.44,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,King James Version:
Dialogue: 0,0:08:01.44,0:08:04.49,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"We all had our conversation..."
Dialogue: 0,0:08:04.49,0:08:07.20,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,That doesn't mean just what we speak.
Dialogue: 0,0:08:07.20,0:08:11.66,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,That's the full-orbed life of the man.
Dialogue: 0,0:08:11.66,0:08:14.38,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"We all had our conversation in times past
Dialogue: 0,0:08:14.38,0:08:16.46,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,in the lusts of our flesh."
Dialogue: 0,0:08:16.46,0:08:18.13,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So, here we have it.
Dialogue: 0,0:08:18.13,0:08:22.54,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Man - dead in sin is very much alive
Dialogue: 0,0:08:22.54,0:08:25.36,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to the lusts of the flesh.
Dialogue: 0,0:08:25.36,0:08:27.58,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Man, like an animal, like I said,
Dialogue: 0,0:08:27.58,0:08:29.64,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,he's an animal: base.
Dialogue: 0,0:08:29.64,0:08:31.51,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Animal: lust.
Dialogue: 0,0:08:31.51,0:08:35.07,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But worse, because what \Nhe breaks this out into
Dialogue: 0,0:08:35.07,0:08:37.66,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,as he seeks to go deeper,
Dialogue: 0,0:08:37.66,0:08:39.87,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,as he seeks to break this thing out
Dialogue: 0,0:08:39.87,0:08:42.06,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,into some subcategories,
Dialogue: 0,0:08:42.06,0:08:43.56,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,he goes to the mind.
Dialogue: 0,0:08:43.56,0:08:44.90,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You see, we have a mind
Dialogue: 0,0:08:44.90,0:08:46.10,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,unlike the animals,
Dialogue: 0,0:08:46.10,0:08:48.84,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,but even that mind is just an expression
Dialogue: 0,0:08:48.84,0:08:54.04,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,of the lusting, the cravings of the flesh.
Dialogue: 0,0:08:54.04,0:08:56.32,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Pollution. That's what \Nwe're talking about.
Dialogue: 0,0:08:56.32,0:08:58.03,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We're talking about the dirtiness
Dialogue: 0,0:08:58.03,0:09:00.54,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and the filthiness of man.
Dialogue: 0,0:09:00.54,0:09:04.14,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,He's one big bag of lusts.
Dialogue: 0,0:09:04.14,0:09:06.55,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,This is man like an animal, lusting.
Dialogue: 0,0:09:06.55,0:09:07.97,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Lusting.
Dialogue: 0,0:09:07.97,0:09:11.82,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Brethren, like a dog driven to its vomit.
Dialogue: 0,0:09:11.82,0:09:13.65,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You say, oh, that's about people
Dialogue: 0,0:09:13.65,0:09:14.100,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,who once made a profession
Dialogue: 0,0:09:14.100,0:09:17.29,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,or maybe even were teachers \Nand they came back.
Dialogue: 0,0:09:17.29,0:09:19.15,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Yes, but you think about that.
Dialogue: 0,0:09:19.15,0:09:20.97,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,For Scripture to liken a man like that
Dialogue: 0,0:09:20.97,0:09:23.14,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to a dog that returns to its vomit,
Dialogue: 0,0:09:23.14,0:09:24.45,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,you know what that implies?
Dialogue: 0,0:09:24.45,0:09:27.70,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,He was once at the vomit, \Nleft it, and came back.
Dialogue: 0,0:09:27.70,0:09:30.45,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Man at his vomit is a picture -
Dialogue: 0,0:09:30.45,0:09:35.26,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,or dogs at its vomit.
Dialogue: 0,0:09:35.26,0:09:37.31,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You know how many times
Dialogue: 0,0:09:37.31,0:09:41.88,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Scripture likens sinners to animals?
Dialogue: 0,0:09:41.88,0:09:43.75,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We're likened to pigs
Dialogue: 0,0:09:43.75,0:09:45.44,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and we're likened to dogs.
Dialogue: 0,0:09:45.44,0:09:46.85,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And you think about a dog
Dialogue: 0,0:09:46.85,0:09:48.58,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,licking up its vomit.
Dialogue: 0,0:09:48.58,0:09:52.16,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You say, that's gross!
Dialogue: 0,0:09:52.16,0:09:54.01,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,That's us.
Dialogue: 0,0:09:54.01,0:09:57.96,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,That's mankind.
Dialogue: 0,0:09:57.96,0:09:59.43,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,That's ugly.
Dialogue: 0,0:09:59.43,0:10:02.70,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,This is the ugliness of mankind.
Dialogue: 0,0:10:02.70,0:10:05.25,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,This is the dirt, the filth, the muck.
Dialogue: 0,0:10:05.25,0:10:07.26,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You think about a pig.
Dialogue: 0,0:10:07.26,0:10:16.17,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Listen, my uncle raised pigs.
Dialogue: 0,0:10:16.17,0:10:20.24,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You ought to see a pig and hear a pig
Dialogue: 0,0:10:20.24,0:10:21.69,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and watch them eat
Dialogue: 0,0:10:21.69,0:10:26.13,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and watch what they swim in.
Dialogue: 0,0:10:26.13,0:10:28.57,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You may have some refined idea.
Dialogue: 0,0:10:28.57,0:10:30.02,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You know, you walk out of here
Dialogue: 0,0:10:30.02,0:10:31.20,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,after it's been raining,
Dialogue: 0,0:10:31.20,0:10:32.54,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,your foot steps in grass
Dialogue: 0,0:10:32.54,0:10:35.05,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and it's a little muddy.
Dialogue: 0,0:10:35.05,0:10:39.42,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You ought to see it firsthand.
Dialogue: 0,0:10:39.42,0:10:42.66,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You get an idea of what God sees
Dialogue: 0,0:10:42.66,0:10:45.67,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,when He sees man in all the lusts.
Dialogue: 0,0:10:45.67,0:10:50.67,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Just like a pig greedy to \Nplunge into the slime.
Dialogue: 0,0:10:50.67,0:10:56.53,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Brethren, what I'm saying here is, again,
Dialogue: 0,0:10:56.53,0:11:00.07,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,this isn't embellishing on \Nthe badness of man.
Dialogue: 0,0:11:00.07,0:11:02.41,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,This is the picture.
Dialogue: 0,0:11:02.41,0:11:07.80,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So often Scripture is likening us
Dialogue: 0,0:11:07.80,0:11:09.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to some sort of animal.
Dialogue: 0,0:11:09.99,0:11:11.70,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Believer, this was you.
Dialogue: 0,0:11:11.70,0:11:13.44,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Unbeliever, this is you.
Dialogue: 0,0:11:13.44,0:11:16.22,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,All of us - we lived in lusts.
Dialogue: 0,0:11:16.22,0:11:17.30,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Somebody says,
Dialogue: 0,0:11:17.30,0:11:19.09,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"I'm not a murderer."
Dialogue: 0,0:11:19.09,0:11:21.43,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"I'm not part of the drug cartel."
Dialogue: 0,0:11:21.43,0:11:24.44,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"I'm not like these \Nhomeless drunks out here."
Dialogue: 0,0:11:24.44,0:11:25.48,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"I'm not like that."
Dialogue: 0,0:11:25.48,0:11:27.88,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"I'm not like the woman \Nthat prostitutes her body
Dialogue: 0,0:11:27.88,0:11:30.77,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,so that she can \Nsatisfy her drug addiction."
Dialogue: 0,0:11:30.77,0:11:31.97,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"I'm not like that."
Dialogue: 0,0:11:31.97,0:11:34.30,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"I wasn't born on the \Nwrong side of the tracks."
Dialogue: 0,0:11:34.30,0:11:35.70,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"I'm not like those sinners."
Dialogue: 0,0:11:35.70,0:11:39.62,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"I wear a white shirt when I go to work."
Dialogue: 0,0:11:39.62,0:11:41.95,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You know what Paul does?
Dialogue: 0,0:11:41.95,0:11:43.72,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,He puts out his finger,
Dialogue: 0,0:11:43.72,0:11:46.71,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and he places it on our lips.
Dialogue: 0,0:11:46.71,0:11:49.80,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Shhh...
Dialogue: 0,0:11:49.80,0:11:52.12,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Stop.
Dialogue: 0,0:11:52.12,0:11:56.59,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Just stop.
Dialogue: 0,0:11:56.59,0:11:58.82,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,This is you.
Dialogue: 0,0:11:58.82,0:12:02.22,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Or this is what you were.
Dialogue: 0,0:12:02.22,0:12:04.34,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,He closes our mouth here.
Dialogue: 0,0:12:04.34,0:12:05.83,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,All of us.
Dialogue: 0,0:12:05.83,0:12:13.13,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"Among whom we all once lived."
Dialogue: 0,0:12:13.13,0:12:15.44,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Shhh...
Dialogue: 0,0:12:15.44,0:12:18.48,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Stop the boasting in what you were,
Dialogue: 0,0:12:18.48,0:12:21.31,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,because this is you.
Dialogue: 0,0:12:21.31,0:12:23.20,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,This is me.
Dialogue: 0,0:12:23.20,0:12:25.49,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Lusts of the flesh.
Dialogue: 0,0:12:25.49,0:12:27.41,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It's an ugly picture, I know.
Dialogue: 0,0:12:27.41,0:12:29.86,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Paul means it to be.
Dialogue: 0,0:12:29.86,0:12:32.83,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,This is man as he is.
Dialogue: 0,0:12:32.83,0:12:36.94,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,His base, polluted, vulgar, offensive,
Dialogue: 0,0:12:36.94,0:12:42.89,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,lusting self.
Dialogue: 0,0:12:42.89,0:12:44.88,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But brethren, this is where we ought to
Dialogue: 0,0:12:44.88,0:12:47.59,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,go out and just fall down before the Lord.
Dialogue: 0,0:12:47.59,0:12:49.40,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The absolutely astounding thing
Dialogue: 0,0:12:49.40,0:12:52.09,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,is that God would ever ever ever
Dialogue: 0,0:12:52.09,0:12:59.53,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,want something to do with us.
Dialogue: 0,0:12:59.53,0:13:04.10,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Thank You, Lord.
Dialogue: 0,0:13:04.10,0:13:06.93,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The flesh.
Dialogue: 0,0:13:06.93,0:13:08.07,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Look at it.
Dialogue: 0,0:13:08.07,0:13:14.50,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"The passions (or the lusts)
Dialogue: 0,0:13:14.50,0:13:17.41,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,of our flesh."
Dialogue: 0,0:13:17.41,0:13:19.01,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The flesh.
Dialogue: 0,0:13:19.01,0:13:21.26,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We've got to be confronted by this term.
Dialogue: 0,0:13:21.26,0:13:23.63,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The flesh.
Dialogue: 0,0:13:23.63,0:13:25.28,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Because it's used in Scripture.
Dialogue: 0,0:13:25.28,0:13:26.37,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It's used quite often.
Dialogue: 0,0:13:26.37,0:13:31.78,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Paul especially uses this terminology.
Dialogue: 0,0:13:31.78,0:13:34.93,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Perhaps you're not aware.
Dialogue: 0,0:13:34.93,0:13:38.97,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We have friends in different places
Dialogue: 0,0:13:38.97,0:13:42.85,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that have been involved
Dialogue: 0,0:13:42.85,0:13:47.66,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,in various degree of debate
Dialogue: 0,0:13:47.66,0:13:50.74,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,over the meaning of this word.
Dialogue: 0,0:13:50.74,0:13:53.06,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,There is a debate among men who we know
Dialogue: 0,0:13:53.06,0:13:56.80,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,concerning what does it actually mean?
Dialogue: 0,0:13:56.80,0:13:59.70,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And what are the consequences\Nof what it means?
Dialogue: 0,0:13:59.70,0:14:02.90,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And what should we expect from Christians
Dialogue: 0,0:14:02.90,0:14:06.01,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,because of what it means?
Dialogue: 0,0:14:06.01,0:14:08.61,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We have to ask the question:\NWhat is Paul referring to?
Dialogue: 0,0:14:08.61,0:14:10.54,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And the first thing we need to recognize
Dialogue: 0,0:14:10.54,0:14:13.25,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,is much like we looked at when \Nwe dealt with the world,
Dialogue: 0,0:14:13.25,0:14:14.57,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,so it is with the flesh,
Dialogue: 0,0:14:14.57,0:14:17.13,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that it's a word that carries
Dialogue: 0,0:14:17.13,0:14:19.59,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,different shades of meaning.
Dialogue: 0,0:14:19.59,0:14:21.76,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So we need to recognize that right away
Dialogue: 0,0:14:21.76,0:14:23.84,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that when you come across the word flesh
Dialogue: 0,0:14:23.84,0:14:26.52,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,in your Bibles, it's not \Njust enough to say
Dialogue: 0,0:14:26.52,0:14:28.46,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,it means the same thing all the time,
Dialogue: 0,0:14:28.46,0:14:30.04,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,so it must mean that right there.
Dialogue: 0,0:14:30.04,0:14:32.86,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We actually have to examine the context
Dialogue: 0,0:14:32.86,0:14:34.27,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to really figure out
Dialogue: 0,0:14:34.27,0:14:36.21,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,what in the world we're dealing with.
Dialogue: 0,0:14:36.21,0:14:38.38,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I'll just tell you this right off,
Dialogue: 0,0:14:38.38,0:14:40.26,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,in the ESV, you don't see it,
Dialogue: 0,0:14:40.26,0:14:43.07,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,but if you've got another \Ntranslation in your hands,
Dialogue: 0,0:14:43.07,0:14:45.80,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,you may well see that the term "flesh"
Dialogue: 0,0:14:45.80,0:14:47.66,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,is actually used here twice.
Dialogue: 0,0:14:47.66,0:14:51.45,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The ESV says "flesh" the first time,
Dialogue: 0,0:14:51.45,0:14:55.26,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"body" the second time.
Dialogue: 0,0:14:55.26,0:14:59.20,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But in the original, same word.
Dialogue: 0,0:14:59.20,0:15:00.25,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Same word.
Dialogue: 0,0:15:00.25,0:15:01.18,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,What's he doing?
Dialogue: 0,0:15:01.18,0:15:03.19,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Is he just redundantly repeating himself?
Dialogue: 0,0:15:03.19,0:15:05.85,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,He talks about the passions \Nor the lusts of the flesh,
Dialogue: 0,0:15:05.85,0:15:07.70,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and then he talks about the passions
Dialogue: 0,0:15:07.70,0:15:09.24,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,or the lusts of the flesh again.
Dialogue: 0,0:15:09.24,0:15:12.29,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,No, he's actually giving us an overall,
Dialogue: 0,0:15:12.29,0:15:13.88,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and then he's subdividing it
Dialogue: 0,0:15:13.88,0:15:18.18,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,into two categories.
Dialogue: 0,0:15:18.18,0:15:20.79,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,He's not just redundantly \Nrepeating the same thing.
Dialogue: 0,0:15:20.79,0:15:22.100,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And the reason it's not the same thing
Dialogue: 0,0:15:22.100,0:15:24.84,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,is because he's actually using flesh
Dialogue: 0,0:15:24.84,0:15:27.33,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,with two different meanings here.
Dialogue: 0,0:15:27.33,0:15:30.41,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And you have to recognize from \Nthe context what's going on.
Dialogue: 0,0:15:30.41,0:15:31.60,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But just very quickly,
Dialogue: 0,0:15:31.60,0:15:34.11,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I want to run through \Nsome shades of meaning
Dialogue: 0,0:15:34.11,0:15:36.33,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that you find in the term "flesh"
Dialogue: 0,0:15:36.33,0:15:38.59,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,when you find it in Scripture.
Dialogue: 0,0:15:38.59,0:15:42.25,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,For instance, it can just simply mean
Dialogue: 0,0:15:42.25,0:15:44.37,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"human nature."
Dialogue: 0,0:15:44.37,0:15:45.93,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,In other words, Paul is using it
Dialogue: 0,0:15:45.93,0:15:47.30,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,in a very negative way,
Dialogue: 0,0:15:47.30,0:15:49.58,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,when he talks about \Nthe lusts of the flesh.
Dialogue: 0,0:15:49.58,0:15:52.83,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,That obviously is the ugliness of mankind.
Dialogue: 0,0:15:52.83,0:15:57.05,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,However, we have the word used this way:
Dialogue: 0,0:15:57.05,0:16:01.67,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"the Word became flesh \Nand dwelt among us."
Dialogue: 0,0:16:01.67,0:16:03.49,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Or, "tabernacled among us."
Dialogue: 0,0:16:03.49,0:16:06.67,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Christ became flesh.
Dialogue: 0,0:16:06.67,0:16:09.96,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,That obviously carries no negative
Dialogue: 0,0:16:09.96,0:16:13.44,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,overtones or undertones.
Dialogue: 0,0:16:13.44,0:16:14.36,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Not at all.
Dialogue: 0,0:16:14.36,0:16:15.76,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,What does that mean?
Dialogue: 0,0:16:15.76,0:16:18.20,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,He became a man.
Dialogue: 0,0:16:18.20,0:16:21.29,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It has to do with our human nature.
Dialogue: 0,0:16:21.29,0:16:23.53,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"In the days of His flesh,
Dialogue: 0,0:16:23.53,0:16:25.72,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Jesus offered up prayers and supplications
Dialogue: 0,0:16:25.72,0:16:29.61,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,with loud cries and tears."
Dialogue: 0,0:16:29.61,0:16:32.45,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So, just like the world can,
Dialogue: 0,0:16:32.45,0:16:35.13,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,flesh can carry meaning
Dialogue: 0,0:16:35.13,0:16:37.59,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that is no way negative.
Dialogue: 0,0:16:37.59,0:16:38.93,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Or how about this?
Dialogue: 0,0:16:38.93,0:16:42.36,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It can mean our common ancestry
Dialogue: 0,0:16:42.36,0:16:44.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,or our bloodlines.
Dialogue: 0,0:16:44.00,0:16:46.48,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,For instance,
Dialogue: 0,0:16:46.48,0:16:48.79,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the New King James Version,
Dialogue: 0,0:16:48.79,0:16:52.76,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Romans 11:14,
Dialogue: 0,0:16:52.76,0:16:55.65,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Paul is speaking about \Nprovoking to jealousy
Dialogue: 0,0:16:55.65,0:17:00.11,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,those who are "my flesh."
Dialogue: 0,0:17:00.11,0:17:01.82,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And I refer to the New King James
Dialogue: 0,0:17:01.82,0:17:05.58,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,because it actually translates it "flesh."
Dialogue: 0,0:17:05.58,0:17:08.17,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,He wants to provoke to jealousy
Dialogue: 0,0:17:08.17,0:17:09.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,those who are my flesh
Dialogue: 0,0:17:09.99,0:17:11.24,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and save some of them.
Dialogue: 0,0:17:11.24,0:17:13.48,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Well, the ESV says, "fellow Jews."
Dialogue: 0,0:17:13.48,0:17:16.06,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The New American Standard \Nsays "fellow countrymen."
Dialogue: 0,0:17:16.06,0:17:17.92,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You see, what he's talking about there.
Dialogue: 0,0:17:17.92,0:17:23.40,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Flesh are those that he's related to.
Dialogue: 0,0:17:23.40,0:17:29.06,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,My own flesh and blood, we might say.
Dialogue: 0,0:17:29.06,0:17:34.39,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It has to do also with \Njust this earthly life.
Dialogue: 0,0:17:34.39,0:17:35.74,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Single people,
Dialogue: 0,0:17:35.74,0:17:40.32,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Paul would say to you -
Dialogue: 0,0:17:40.32,0:17:43.35,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,again, I'm going to read from \Nthe New King James
Dialogue: 0,0:17:43.35,0:17:47.100,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,because it's actually not
Dialogue: 0,0:17:47.100,0:17:51.37,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,trying to translate this
Dialogue: 0,0:17:51.37,0:17:56.19,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,away from the original meaning.
Dialogue: 0,0:17:56.19,0:17:59.68,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Paul says, look, if you marry,
Dialogue: 0,0:17:59.68,0:18:01.04,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,you have not sinned.
Dialogue: 0,0:18:01.04,0:18:03.30,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And if a virgin marries, \Nshe has not sinned,
Dialogue: 0,0:18:03.30,0:18:08.46,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,nevertheless, such will \Nhave trouble in the flesh.
Dialogue: 0,0:18:08.46,0:18:12.39,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The NAS translates that: "this life."
Dialogue: 0,0:18:12.39,0:18:16.42,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Single people, you really \Nbadly want to get married.
Dialogue: 0,0:18:16.42,0:18:18.88,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Paul says I'll spare you.
Dialogue: 0,0:18:18.88,0:18:21.78,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You'll be spared problems.
Dialogue: 0,0:18:21.78,0:18:24.83,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I know he says that - I've tried both.
Dialogue: 0,0:18:24.83,0:18:27.35,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I prefer the married life \Na whole lot better.
Dialogue: 0,0:18:27.35,0:18:29.92,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I commend that.
Dialogue: 0,0:18:29.92,0:18:31.13,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But anyways, you see,
Dialogue: 0,0:18:31.13,0:18:33.22,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that's getting away from the flesh.
Dialogue: 0,0:18:33.22,0:18:34.34,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The flesh.
Dialogue: 0,0:18:34.34,0:18:35.67,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,This life.
Dialogue: 0,0:18:35.67,0:18:39.15,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Or how about sometimes it \Njust means all mankind.
Dialogue: 0,0:18:39.15,0:18:42.52,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It means human beings in general.
Dialogue: 0,0:18:42.52,0:18:45.77,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Luke 3:6, "All flesh shall see
Dialogue: 0,0:18:45.77,0:18:47.23,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the salvation of God."
Dialogue: 0,0:18:47.23,0:18:49.33,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,That's just all humanity.
Dialogue: 0,0:18:49.33,0:18:51.74,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Or John 17:2 where Jesus is speaking
Dialogue: 0,0:18:51.74,0:18:53.73,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,of His Father having given Him
Dialogue: 0,0:18:53.73,0:18:56.03,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,authority over all flesh.
Dialogue: 0,0:18:56.03,0:18:59.01,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The New American Standard\Nsays "over all mankind."
Dialogue: 0,0:18:59.01,0:19:02.54,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"...To give eternal life to all \Nwhom He has given Him."
Dialogue: 0,0:19:02.54,0:19:09.09,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Sometimes flesh means the \Nsoft part of our body.
Dialogue: 0,0:19:09.09,0:19:11.77,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,For instance, Luke 24:39.
Dialogue: 0,0:19:11.77,0:19:15.16,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Jesus says, remember - they're blown away.
Dialogue: 0,0:19:15.16,0:19:16.51,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Here's the risen Christ.
Dialogue: 0,0:19:16.51,0:19:19.21,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,He just kind of appeared in the room.
Dialogue: 0,0:19:19.21,0:19:22.87,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You can imagine they're a bit amazed.
Dialogue: 0,0:19:22.87,0:19:24.100,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,They're not certain what they're seeing,
Dialogue: 0,0:19:24.100,0:19:27.93,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and He wants to assure them,
Dialogue: 0,0:19:27.93,0:19:29.93,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"I'm here. I'm here as a man.
Dialogue: 0,0:19:29.93,0:19:31.35,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I'm here in flesh and blood."
Dialogue: 0,0:19:31.35,0:19:34.29,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And He says this to them,
Dialogue: 0,0:19:34.29,0:19:37.47,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"See My hands and My \Nfeet that it is I Myself.
Dialogue: 0,0:19:37.47,0:19:39.67,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Touch Me and see, for \Na spirit does not have
Dialogue: 0,0:19:39.67,0:19:43.03,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,flesh and bones as \Nyou see that I have."
Dialogue: 0,0:19:43.03,0:19:45.15,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,See, flesh is over against the bones.
Dialogue: 0,0:19:45.15,0:19:49.65,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The flesh is that which covers the bones.
Dialogue: 0,0:19:49.65,0:19:52.58,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It's the soft part of us.
Dialogue: 0,0:19:52.58,0:19:55.49,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It's the stuff our bones are covered with.
Dialogue: 0,0:19:55.49,0:19:57.18,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And I often think,
Dialogue: 0,0:19:57.18,0:20:00.37,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Brother Charles Leiter,
Dialogue: 0,0:20:00.37,0:20:04.36,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,he often refers to the fact
Dialogue: 0,0:20:04.36,0:20:07.39,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that the Romanian \Ntranslation of the Scripture
Dialogue: 0,0:20:07.39,0:20:12.30,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,literally translates this "meat."
Dialogue: 0,0:20:12.30,0:20:13.77,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,In our Bibles, it's "flesh."
Dialogue: 0,0:20:13.77,0:20:16.31,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,In the Romanian Bible, \Nevery place you see "flesh"
Dialogue: 0,0:20:16.31,0:20:18.34,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,it says, "meat."
Dialogue: 0,0:20:18.34,0:20:21.28,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"The lusts of the meat."
Dialogue: 0,0:20:21.28,0:20:24.45,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,What a word.
Dialogue: 0,0:20:24.45,0:20:26.77,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Sometimes, this idea of flesh,
Dialogue: 0,0:20:26.77,0:20:31.52,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,it's the whole body.
Dialogue: 0,0:20:31.52,0:20:34.72,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"For we who live are always \Nbeing given over to death
Dialogue: 0,0:20:34.72,0:20:37.18,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,for Jesus' sake, so that \Nthe life of Jesus also
Dialogue: 0,0:20:37.18,0:20:40.98,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,may be manifested in our mortal flesh."
Dialogue: 0,0:20:40.98,0:20:44.02,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Just our mortal bodies.
Dialogue: 0,0:20:44.02,0:20:46.63,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It's interchangeable with that.
Dialogue: 0,0:20:46.63,0:20:49.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But brethren, the most sinister,
Dialogue: 0,0:20:49.99,0:20:54.80,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the most dark -
Dialogue: 0,0:20:54.80,0:20:58.11,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that way that it is used
Dialogue: 0,0:20:58.11,0:21:03.15,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,when it's just the base ugliness of man.
Dialogue: 0,0:21:03.15,0:21:06.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,If you search it out in all of its uses,
Dialogue: 0,0:21:06.00,0:21:09.55,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,you know what you so often see?
Dialogue: 0,0:21:09.55,0:21:17.04,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It is that which pertains to our humanity
Dialogue: 0,0:21:17.04,0:21:24.26,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,which is contrary to the Spirit of God.
Dialogue: 0,0:21:24.26,0:21:26.89,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"That which is born of the flesh is flesh.
Dialogue: 0,0:21:26.89,0:21:30.14,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,That which is born \Nof the Spirit is spirit."
Dialogue: 0,0:21:30.14,0:21:33.62,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It is that which is separated from,
Dialogue: 0,0:21:33.62,0:21:35.70,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,contradictory to.
Dialogue: 0,0:21:35.70,0:21:38.34,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You've got flesh. You've got spirit.
Dialogue: 0,0:21:38.34,0:21:41.63,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Oh, that separation - that distinction,
Dialogue: 0,0:21:41.63,0:21:44.16,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,yes, right there is made \Nby our Lord Jesus Himself,
Dialogue: 0,0:21:44.16,0:21:46.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,but so often it's Paul
Dialogue: 0,0:21:46.00,0:21:49.42,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,who sets that on the table for us.
Dialogue: 0,0:21:49.42,0:21:52.20,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"For to set the mind \Non the flesh is death,
Dialogue: 0,0:21:52.20,0:21:54.29,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,but to set the mind on the Spirit
Dialogue: 0,0:21:54.29,0:21:55.46,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,is life and peace."
Dialogue: 0,0:21:55.46,0:21:58.06,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Or this, "the desires of the flesh."
Dialogue: 0,0:21:58.06,0:22:00.31,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,They are against the Spirit.
Dialogue: 0,0:22:00.31,0:22:02.58,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And the desires of the Spirit
Dialogue: 0,0:22:02.58,0:22:04.11,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,are against the flesh.
Dialogue: 0,0:22:04.11,0:22:07.75,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Flesh is used in this fashion to express
Dialogue: 0,0:22:07.75,0:22:10.41,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that which is in complete antithesis
Dialogue: 0,0:22:10.41,0:22:12.61,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to the Spirit of God.
Dialogue: 0,0:22:12.61,0:22:13.96,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It is opposed.
Dialogue: 0,0:22:13.96,0:22:18.27,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The flesh is all that man is.
Dialogue: 0,0:22:18.27,0:22:21.12,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It's his man-ness.
Dialogue: 0,0:22:21.12,0:22:22.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It is his humanness
Dialogue: 0,0:22:22.99,0:22:26.56,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,apart from the work of \Nthe Holy Spirit in him.
Dialogue: 0,0:22:26.56,0:22:27.94,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Just think about these words
Dialogue: 0,0:22:27.94,0:22:29.72,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that Paul spoke to the Corinthians.
Dialogue: 0,0:22:29.72,0:22:31.01,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You know them. Remember,
Dialogue: 0,0:22:31.01,0:22:32.47,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,they're acting carnal.
Dialogue: 0,0:22:32.47,0:22:34.35,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Even there - carnal.
Dialogue: 0,0:22:34.35,0:22:36.70,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Some of the translations use carnality
Dialogue: 0,0:22:36.70,0:22:39.33,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,in 1 Corinthians 3.
Dialogue: 0,0:22:39.33,0:22:42.07,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Carnal.
Dialogue: 0,0:22:42.07,0:22:44.19,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Remember the Romanian translation: meat.
Dialogue: 0,0:22:44.19,0:22:47.53,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,What is the Spanish word for meat.
Dialogue: 0,0:22:47.53,0:22:48.38,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Carne.
Dialogue: 0,0:22:48.38,0:22:49.57,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Carnal.
Dialogue: 0,0:22:49.57,0:22:50.97,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It's the meat.
Dialogue: 0,0:22:50.97,0:22:53.55,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It's the lusts of the meat.
Dialogue: 0,0:22:53.55,0:22:57.92,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It's the lusts of the man-ness of man -
Dialogue: 0,0:22:57.92,0:23:00.32,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the humanness.
Dialogue: 0,0:23:00.32,0:23:01.98,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Listen to this.
Dialogue: 0,0:23:01.98,0:23:03.68,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,1 Corinthians 3:3,
Dialogue: 0,0:23:03.68,0:23:07.45,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"You are still..." and he's \Nspeaking to Christians here.
Dialogue: 0,0:23:07.45,0:23:11.86,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You don't want this said of \Nyou if you're a Christian.
Dialogue: 0,0:23:11.86,0:23:14.26,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"You are still of the flesh."
Dialogue: 0,0:23:14.26,0:23:15.97,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You are still of the meat.
Dialogue: 0,0:23:15.97,0:23:18.15,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You're carnal. You're carne.
Dialogue: 0,0:23:18.15,0:23:20.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"For while there is jealousy \Nand strife among you,
Dialogue: 0,0:23:20.99,0:23:23.62,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,are you not of the flesh
Dialogue: 0,0:23:23.62,0:23:26.11,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and behaving only in a human way?"
Dialogue: 0,0:23:26.11,0:23:28.21,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Or, your translation says,
Dialogue: 0,0:23:28.21,0:23:30.88,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"behaving like mere men?"
Dialogue: 0,0:23:30.88,0:23:35.79,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You say, well, that \Ndoesn't sound that bad.
Dialogue: 0,0:23:35.79,0:23:37.39,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Just to behave like a mere man?
Dialogue: 0,0:23:37.39,0:23:39.16,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,That doesn't sound so bad.
Dialogue: 0,0:23:39.16,0:23:41.67,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Don't you hear what Paul is saying?
Dialogue: 0,0:23:41.67,0:23:45.40,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,All men are sons of disobedience
Dialogue: 0,0:23:45.40,0:23:49.55,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and we all lived - or still live -
Dialogue: 0,0:23:49.55,0:23:52.38,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,among the sons of disobedience
Dialogue: 0,0:23:52.38,0:23:54.02,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,carrying out the lusts
Dialogue: 0,0:23:54.02,0:23:56.51,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,of our mere man-ness.
Dialogue: 0,0:23:56.51,0:23:57.48,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,That's the issue.
Dialogue: 0,0:23:57.48,0:23:59.20,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You say that doesn't sound that bad
Dialogue: 0,0:23:59.20,0:24:00.65,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to merely be a man,
Dialogue: 0,0:24:00.65,0:24:01.95,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,but to merely be a man
Dialogue: 0,0:24:01.95,0:24:05.52,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,means everything rotten about man
Dialogue: 0,0:24:05.52,0:24:07.78,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,who is without God;
Dialogue: 0,0:24:07.78,0:24:09.32,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,who is separated.
Dialogue: 0,0:24:09.32,0:24:14.57,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Mere man-ness - don't you recognize?
Dialogue: 0,0:24:14.57,0:24:17.73,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Mere man-ness is ugly.
Dialogue: 0,0:24:17.73,0:24:20.22,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It is depraved.
Dialogue: 0,0:24:20.22,0:24:22.56,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,He looks at these Corinthians.
Dialogue: 0,0:24:22.56,0:24:27.13,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,They were whoring after prostitutes still.
Dialogue: 0,0:24:27.13,0:24:28.82,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,1 Corinthians 6
Dialogue: 0,0:24:28.82,0:24:31.11,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,He has to talk to them about drunkenness.
Dialogue: 0,0:24:31.11,0:24:32.81,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The rich are getting together
Dialogue: 0,0:24:32.81,0:24:34.20,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and despising the poor,
Dialogue: 0,0:24:34.20,0:24:36.20,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and they're glutting themselves
Dialogue: 0,0:24:36.20,0:24:38.63,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and getting drunk.
Dialogue: 0,0:24:38.63,0:24:40.48,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,They're taking each other to court.
Dialogue: 0,0:24:40.48,0:24:41.78,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,They're full of envy.
Dialogue: 0,0:24:41.78,0:24:43.42,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,They're full of jealousy.
Dialogue: 0,0:24:43.42,0:24:48.20,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,They are pitting one another \Nagainst each other in disunity
Dialogue: 0,0:24:48.20,0:24:50.98,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and exalting man.
Dialogue: 0,0:24:50.98,0:24:53.67,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,That's mere man-ness. It's ugly.
Dialogue: 0,0:24:53.67,0:24:58.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It's horrible.
Dialogue: 0,0:24:58.99,0:25:01.05,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Now these different shades of meaning
Dialogue: 0,0:25:01.05,0:25:02.29,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,are important,
Dialogue: 0,0:25:02.29,0:25:05.89,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,because just look at the text.
Dialogue: 0,0:25:05.89,0:25:07.88,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"The sons of disobedience,
Dialogue: 0,0:25:07.88,0:25:11.39,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,among whom we all once lived..."
Dialogue: 0,0:25:11.39,0:25:18.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,First, "in the lusts of our flesh,
Dialogue: 0,0:25:18.00,0:25:22.62,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,carrying out the desires
Dialogue: 0,0:25:22.62,0:25:27.100,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,of the flesh (or body) and the mind."
Dialogue: 0,0:25:27.100,0:25:30.64,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The word flesh shows up here twice.
Dialogue: 0,0:25:30.64,0:25:33.38,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It carries two different meanings.
Dialogue: 0,0:25:33.38,0:25:34.84,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I mean, this is clear
Dialogue: 0,0:25:34.84,0:25:36.34,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to the translators of the ESV.
Dialogue: 0,0:25:36.34,0:25:38.69,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,That's why they translate \Nit two different ways.
Dialogue: 0,0:25:38.69,0:25:39.95,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,First, flesh, then body.
Dialogue: 0,0:25:39.95,0:25:43.20,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The first use of flesh - \Nit's this broad concept
Dialogue: 0,0:25:43.20,0:25:46.32,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,which contains - notice -
Dialogue: 0,0:25:46.32,0:25:48.27,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,it's the broad concept.
Dialogue: 0,0:25:48.27,0:25:53.78,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It contains both the desires of the flesh
Dialogue: 0,0:25:53.78,0:25:55.76,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,or the desires of the body
Dialogue: 0,0:25:55.76,0:25:59.70,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and of the mind.
Dialogue: 0,0:25:59.70,0:26:03.06,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And you see, the \NESV translators are right.
Dialogue: 0,0:26:03.06,0:26:04.42,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Body - because what?
Dialogue: 0,0:26:04.42,0:26:06.74,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It's that part of our humanness
Dialogue: 0,0:26:06.74,0:26:10.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,over against the mind.
Dialogue: 0,0:26:10.99,0:26:14.91,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You have it used flesh \Nin this broad ugly way,
Dialogue: 0,0:26:14.91,0:26:17.14,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and then it's used of the body.
Dialogue: 0,0:26:17.14,0:26:18.53,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,When it's used of the body,
Dialogue: 0,0:26:18.53,0:26:21.20,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,it doesn't necessarily need to carry
Dialogue: 0,0:26:21.20,0:26:22.63,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,any negative connotation,
Dialogue: 0,0:26:22.63,0:26:24.48,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,just like "mind" by itself
Dialogue: 0,0:26:24.48,0:26:26.85,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,doesn't carry any negative connotation.
Dialogue: 0,0:26:26.85,0:26:29.06,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But because these are outworkings
Dialogue: 0,0:26:29.06,0:26:31.90,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,of the lusts of the flesh,
Dialogue: 0,0:26:31.90,0:26:35.56,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,it's all negative here.
Dialogue: 0,0:26:35.56,0:26:37.32,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And what Paul does is he narrows in
Dialogue: 0,0:26:37.32,0:26:40.25,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,on these two particular ways
Dialogue: 0,0:26:40.25,0:26:43.06,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,in which these lusts of the flesh
Dialogue: 0,0:26:43.06,0:26:45.40,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,manifest themselves.
Dialogue: 0,0:26:45.40,0:26:48.88,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The desires of the body,
Dialogue: 0,0:26:48.88,0:26:52.49,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the desires of the mind.
Dialogue: 0,0:26:52.49,0:26:54.82,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So let's look at these two things.
Dialogue: 0,0:26:54.82,0:26:57.64,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,First, think about the body.
Dialogue: 0,0:26:57.64,0:27:02.11,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The desires of the body.
Dialogue: 0,0:27:02.11,0:27:04.01,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You know, what's interesting here
Dialogue: 0,0:27:04.01,0:27:08.06,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,is we first have the term passion
Dialogue: 0,0:27:08.06,0:27:12.17,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,or lust - isn't that a desire?
Dialogue: 0,0:27:12.17,0:27:14.07,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Yeah, that's a desire.
Dialogue: 0,0:27:14.07,0:27:16.73,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And then he uses the term
Dialogue: 0,0:27:16.73,0:27:21.01,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that's translated "desire" again.
Dialogue: 0,0:27:21.01,0:27:25.93,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It almost can sound like \Nhe's being redundant here.
Dialogue: 0,0:27:25.93,0:27:28.56,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The second word that he uses
Dialogue: 0,0:27:28.56,0:27:31.19,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,is the idea of the will.
Dialogue: 0,0:27:31.19,0:27:33.83,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It's determination.
Dialogue: 0,0:27:33.83,0:27:36.21,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You need to think about this.
Dialogue: 0,0:27:36.21,0:27:40.02,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,As lost people, our bodies -
Dialogue: 0,0:27:40.02,0:27:42.62,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,they are determined.
Dialogue: 0,0:27:42.62,0:27:44.73,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,They are willed.
Dialogue: 0,0:27:44.73,0:27:47.76,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,There is something at work
Dialogue: 0,0:27:47.76,0:27:51.70,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that is driving - driving.
Dialogue: 0,0:27:51.70,0:27:52.71,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It's the will.
Dialogue: 0,0:27:52.71,0:27:55.48,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Paul is hitting on what slaves we were
Dialogue: 0,0:27:55.48,0:27:58.62,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to our bodies as they willed
Dialogue: 0,0:27:58.62,0:28:00.83,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to have done to them certain things.
Dialogue: 0,0:28:00.83,0:28:02.66,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,There was the determination.
Dialogue: 0,0:28:02.66,0:28:03.62,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,This is sin.
Dialogue: 0,0:28:03.62,0:28:05.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We see this concept over in Romans 6.
Dialogue: 0,0:28:05.99,0:28:10.10,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Sin that seeks to reign in the mortal body
Dialogue: 0,0:28:10.10,0:28:14.46,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and to have us obey the \Npassions of the body.
Dialogue: 0,0:28:14.46,0:28:17.62,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Sin is at work. It's pressing us.
Dialogue: 0,0:28:17.62,0:28:19.16,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The will of the body.
Dialogue: 0,0:28:19.16,0:28:22.34,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The determination of the body to gratify.
Dialogue: 0,0:28:22.34,0:28:25.46,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,There's an urge. There's a driving.
Dialogue: 0,0:28:25.46,0:28:29.57,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,There's a lusting to gratify its passions
Dialogue: 0,0:28:29.57,0:28:31.98,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,in a way that opposes God.
Dialogue: 0,0:28:31.98,0:28:32.100,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,That's the issue.
Dialogue: 0,0:28:32.100,0:28:35.30,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,That's how sin seeks to reign.
Dialogue: 0,0:28:35.30,0:28:37.06,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Look, we have to recognize,
Dialogue: 0,0:28:37.06,0:28:38.79,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the appetites of the body
Dialogue: 0,0:28:38.79,0:28:41.07,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,were created by God.
Dialogue: 0,0:28:41.07,0:28:42.79,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And it was good.
Dialogue: 0,0:28:42.79,0:28:44.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,He created us to hunger.
Dialogue: 0,0:28:44.99,0:28:46.47,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,That's good.
Dialogue: 0,0:28:46.47,0:28:49.20,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,He created us with these appetites.
Dialogue: 0,0:28:49.20,0:28:51.80,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Thirst.
Dialogue: 0,0:28:51.80,0:28:54.57,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You know, He designed pleasure.
Dialogue: 0,0:28:54.57,0:28:57.08,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Do you know He designed the nerves
Dialogue: 0,0:28:57.08,0:29:00.43,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that release that into our brains
Dialogue: 0,0:29:00.43,0:29:03.47,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,which get processed and produce
Dialogue: 0,0:29:03.47,0:29:07.48,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,feelings that are good and pleasurable.
Dialogue: 0,0:29:07.48,0:29:09.62,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,He did that.
Dialogue: 0,0:29:09.62,0:29:14.26,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,(incomplete thought)
Dialogue: 0,0:29:14.26,0:29:15.77,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Some of my children, you know,
Dialogue: 0,0:29:15.77,0:29:18.45,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,you try to scratch their backs \Nwhen they were younger,
Dialogue: 0,0:29:18.45,0:29:19.76,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and it just tickled them,
Dialogue: 0,0:29:19.76,0:29:22.34,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and they couldn't stand it.
Dialogue: 0,0:29:22.34,0:29:25.55,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,To me, it's wonderful.
Dialogue: 0,0:29:25.55,0:29:28.31,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You massage my wife's \Nfeet, she just melts.
Dialogue: 0,0:29:28.31,0:29:31.32,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You touch mine and it's \Nlike, ugh, I can't stand that.
Dialogue: 0,0:29:31.32,0:29:35.90,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But God created in His kindness,
Dialogue: 0,0:29:35.90,0:29:38.94,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,He created our ability to have
Dialogue: 0,0:29:38.94,0:29:40.88,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,somebody scratch our back,
Dialogue: 0,0:29:40.88,0:29:45.14,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and it's like, ah, that feels so good.
Dialogue: 0,0:29:45.14,0:29:46.75,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Isn't that kind of Him?
Dialogue: 0,0:29:46.75,0:29:50.23,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,He didn't have to do that.
Dialogue: 0,0:29:50.23,0:29:51.40,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Kind of Him.
Dialogue: 0,0:29:51.40,0:29:57.02,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Have you ever taken a big scoop
Dialogue: 0,0:29:57.02,0:30:00.76,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,of carrot cake or cheesecake,
Dialogue: 0,0:30:00.76,0:30:05.06,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and it's like, that's wonderful!
Dialogue: 0,0:30:05.06,0:30:09.03,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,He's created that.
Dialogue: 0,0:30:09.03,0:30:10.39,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I mean, men and women
Dialogue: 0,0:30:10.39,0:30:12.11,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,look forward to their honeymoon.
Dialogue: 0,0:30:12.11,0:30:14.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Why? They are going to experience
Dialogue: 0,0:30:14.00,0:30:17.29,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,such things as - I mean,
Dialogue: 0,0:30:17.29,0:30:22.53,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,they're a picture of our \Nrelationship with Christ.
Dialogue: 0,0:30:22.53,0:30:25.83,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Just absolutely good.
Dialogue: 0,0:30:25.83,0:30:28.90,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Very good.
Dialogue: 0,0:30:28.90,0:30:31.30,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,That's how He created us.
Dialogue: 0,0:30:31.30,0:30:34.69,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And so, we don't want \Nto despise these things,
Dialogue: 0,0:30:34.69,0:30:37.08,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,but listen.
Dialogue: 0,0:30:37.08,0:30:39.70,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,He created these appetites for us
Dialogue: 0,0:30:39.70,0:30:41.34,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to be in control of,
Dialogue: 0,0:30:41.34,0:30:43.68,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,not for them to control us.
Dialogue: 0,0:30:43.68,0:30:48.12,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And He created these \Nappetites to serve Him.
Dialogue: 0,0:30:48.12,0:30:53.28,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,He created these appetites \Nto be for His glory.
Dialogue: 0,0:30:53.28,0:30:57.71,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Not for His glory to be \Ndragged through the muck.
Dialogue: 0,0:30:57.71,0:30:59.88,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,That's the issue.
Dialogue: 0,0:30:59.88,0:31:04.48,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,What happens is sin seeks to reign -
Dialogue: 0,0:31:04.48,0:31:05.58,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,reign!
Dialogue: 0,0:31:05.58,0:31:08.97,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It seeks to commandeer these appetites
Dialogue: 0,0:31:08.97,0:31:11.44,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and use them against God.
Dialogue: 0,0:31:11.44,0:31:12.74,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,That's what happens.
Dialogue: 0,0:31:12.74,0:31:15.04,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,This is the ugly part.
Dialogue: 0,0:31:15.04,0:31:18.52,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And these passions, these appetites,
Dialogue: 0,0:31:18.52,0:31:20.68,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,they're in the grip of sin.
Dialogue: 0,0:31:20.68,0:31:21.72,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And what happens?
Dialogue: 0,0:31:21.72,0:31:24.78,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,They scream at us to be satisfied,
Dialogue: 0,0:31:24.78,0:31:26.88,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and they're relentless in their demands.
Dialogue: 0,0:31:26.88,0:31:29.41,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And they don't care what God has said
Dialogue: 0,0:31:29.41,0:31:30.92,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,or what has commanded.
Dialogue: 0,0:31:30.92,0:31:33.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Just do it because \Nit's going to feel good!
Dialogue: 0,0:31:33.00,0:31:34.22,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Do it! Do it!
Dialogue: 0,0:31:34.22,0:31:37.35,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And they drive us! Do it!
Dialogue: 0,0:31:37.35,0:31:38.77,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Oh, God will understand.
Dialogue: 0,0:31:38.77,0:31:40.77,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,God will understand. You hear that.
Dialogue: 0,0:31:40.77,0:31:42.20,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"I'm going to leave my wife
Dialogue: 0,0:31:42.20,0:31:44.42,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,because I don't love her anymore."
Dialogue: 0,0:31:44.42,0:31:47.45,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Why? "I think God just \Nwants me to be happy."
Dialogue: 0,0:31:47.45,0:31:50.34,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,No, designed us to glorify Him.
Dialogue: 0,0:31:50.34,0:31:53.37,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And He gave us these \Nappetites to glorify Him.
Dialogue: 0,0:31:53.37,0:31:54.49,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And we're just driven.
Dialogue: 0,0:31:54.49,0:31:56.16,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We'll go from one woman to the next
Dialogue: 0,0:31:56.16,0:31:57.28,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,or one man to the next.
Dialogue: 0,0:31:57.28,0:31:59.61,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You just see this works out
Dialogue: 0,0:31:59.61,0:32:01.47,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,in such a hideous, ugly way
Dialogue: 0,0:32:01.47,0:32:03.22,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,when you get the drug addict
Dialogue: 0,0:32:03.22,0:32:05.91,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,who they've just got \Nto have their next fix.
Dialogue: 0,0:32:05.91,0:32:07.89,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And you say, oh, I'm not like that.
Dialogue: 0,0:32:07.89,0:32:09.37,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Yes, you are.
Dialogue: 0,0:32:09.37,0:32:11.83,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Even if it hasn't manifested \Nitself like that.
Dialogue: 0,0:32:11.83,0:32:12.74,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You are.
Dialogue: 0,0:32:12.74,0:32:16.26,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Our will held captive.
Dialogue: 0,0:32:16.26,0:32:19.26,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We love to think, oh, we're free.
Dialogue: 0,0:32:19.26,0:32:21.01,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We're free.
Dialogue: 0,0:32:21.01,0:32:23.16,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The guy dragging on his cigarette -
Dialogue: 0,0:32:23.16,0:32:24.88,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"I could give it up anytime I want.
Dialogue: 0,0:32:24.88,0:32:26.37,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I just don't want."
Dialogue: 0,0:32:26.37,0:32:28.76,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,That's exactly right.
Dialogue: 0,0:32:28.76,0:32:31.56,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You could if you wanted.
Dialogue: 0,0:32:31.56,0:32:35.42,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But you see, your body \Nscreams for nicotine.
Dialogue: 0,0:32:35.42,0:32:38.60,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And you know what?
Dialogue: 0,0:32:38.60,0:32:43.90,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,When these lusts scream at us,
Dialogue: 0,0:32:43.90,0:32:46.75,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,we don't have the power to resist.
Dialogue: 0,0:32:46.75,0:32:49.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,One lust may trump another.
Dialogue: 0,0:32:49.99,0:32:51.84,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I've seen plenty of sinners
Dialogue: 0,0:32:51.84,0:32:55.84,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,get rid of one for another.
Dialogue: 0,0:32:55.84,0:32:58.40,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But you don't have power over them.
Dialogue: 0,0:32:58.40,0:33:01.56,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,One stronger than the one you're presently
Dialogue: 0,0:33:01.56,0:33:05.47,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,if you're lost, controls your life.
Dialogue: 0,0:33:05.47,0:33:07.52,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,A stronger one may come along
Dialogue: 0,0:33:07.52,0:33:09.22,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and boot that one out.
Dialogue: 0,0:33:09.22,0:33:10.74,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Kind of like the stronger demon
Dialogue: 0,0:33:10.74,0:33:13.96,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,comes along and boots out the lesser one.
Dialogue: 0,0:33:13.96,0:33:16.69,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,That may be true.
Dialogue: 0,0:33:16.69,0:33:18.79,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You've heard of the bondage of the will -
Dialogue: 0,0:33:18.79,0:33:20.98,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,here we are.
Dialogue: 0,0:33:20.98,0:33:23.97,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We are given to the will of the body.
Dialogue: 0,0:33:23.97,0:33:26.28,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,That's what he's talking about here.
Dialogue: 0,0:33:26.28,0:33:32.52,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,God gave us appetites \Nto be subordinate to us.
Dialogue: 0,0:33:32.52,0:33:37.03,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,He wants us to keep them under control,
Dialogue: 0,0:33:37.03,0:33:39.12,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,but they dominate.
Dialogue: 0,0:33:39.12,0:33:40.98,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,They dominate.
Dialogue: 0,0:33:40.98,0:33:45.34,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,What happens is we \Nbuckle to their authority.
Dialogue: 0,0:33:45.34,0:33:47.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,God is to be on the throne.
Dialogue: 0,0:33:47.00,0:33:48.30,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But what happens?
Dialogue: 0,0:33:48.30,0:33:51.12,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Sin takes the place on the throne,
Dialogue: 0,0:33:51.12,0:33:53.59,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and our passions take \Na place on the throne.
Dialogue: 0,0:33:53.59,0:33:56.45,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We get down and we bow before them.
Dialogue: 0,0:33:56.45,0:33:58.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And we bow, and we bow.
Dialogue: 0,0:33:58.99,0:34:02.28,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You find people out here,
Dialogue: 0,0:34:02.28,0:34:05.80,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,they eat when they're not hungry.
Dialogue: 0,0:34:05.80,0:34:07.65,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,There's enough fat on their bodies.
Dialogue: 0,0:34:07.65,0:34:09.43,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,They don't need to eat.
Dialogue: 0,0:34:09.43,0:34:12.02,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And they eat.
Dialogue: 0,0:34:12.02,0:34:13.74,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Undoubtedly throughout this city,
Dialogue: 0,0:34:13.74,0:34:17.14,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,people will drink today \Nwho are not thirsty.
Dialogue: 0,0:34:17.14,0:34:20.81,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And they will drink to get drunk.
Dialogue: 0,0:34:20.81,0:34:23.27,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And they will bow down to that.
Dialogue: 0,0:34:23.27,0:34:27.05,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Drug use. Prescription pain killers.
Dialogue: 0,0:34:27.05,0:34:30.26,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,People just bowing down, bowing down,
Dialogue: 0,0:34:30.26,0:34:32.67,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,bowing down.
Dialogue: 0,0:34:32.67,0:34:36.60,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And then there's sex.
Dialogue: 0,0:34:36.60,0:34:39.87,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Sex is a god in this country.
Dialogue: 0,0:34:39.87,0:34:42.09,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And how many people bowing down -
Dialogue: 0,0:34:42.09,0:34:44.59,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,sex-crazed, pornographic society.
Dialogue: 0,0:34:44.59,0:34:45.100,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And brethren, the thing is,
Dialogue: 0,0:34:45.100,0:34:48.55,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,we're not talking just \Nabout the society out there.
Dialogue: 0,0:34:48.55,0:34:53.34,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Paul is saying this - Christian -
Dialogue: 0,0:34:53.34,0:34:57.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,this was you.
Dialogue: 0,0:34:57.99,0:35:00.95,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Unbeliever, this is you.
Dialogue: 0,0:35:00.95,0:35:07.75,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,This is man in his ugliness.
Dialogue: 0,0:35:07.75,0:35:09.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We all know about these things.
Dialogue: 0,0:35:09.99,0:35:12.93,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We all know about the relentless demands
Dialogue: 0,0:35:12.93,0:35:16.66,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,of our bodies and how we serve them.
Dialogue: 0,0:35:16.66,0:35:19.83,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Now, let's go to the \Nother subcategory here.
Dialogue: 0,0:35:19.83,0:35:21.07,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Look at the text.
Dialogue: 0,0:35:21.07,0:35:23.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It's not just carrying out the desires
Dialogue: 0,0:35:23.00,0:35:28.13,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,of the body... "and the mind."
Dialogue: 0,0:35:28.13,0:35:30.61,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Paul doesn't stop. There's more.
Dialogue: 0,0:35:30.61,0:35:33.37,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And see, both of these things
Dialogue: 0,0:35:33.37,0:35:38.30,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,are subgroups of the overriding lusts -
Dialogue: 0,0:35:38.30,0:35:41.66,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,lusts of the flesh.
Dialogue: 0,0:35:41.66,0:35:44.63,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,There is this other subdivision,
Dialogue: 0,0:35:44.63,0:35:46.18,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,this other component.
Dialogue: 0,0:35:46.18,0:35:50.13,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,What? The mind.
Dialogue: 0,0:35:50.13,0:35:57.19,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Think about the filth of the mind.
Dialogue: 0,0:35:57.19,0:36:01.62,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The thoughts of fallen man.
Dialogue: 0,0:36:01.62,0:36:04.30,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I know there may be those who imagine,
Dialogue: 0,0:36:04.30,0:36:07.30,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,look, I'm not some great sinner
Dialogue: 0,0:36:07.30,0:36:10.85,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,like you're describing.
Dialogue: 0,0:36:10.85,0:36:15.48,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I never got drunk in my life.
Dialogue: 0,0:36:15.48,0:36:22.84,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Never fornicated with my neighbor.
Dialogue: 0,0:36:22.84,0:36:26.61,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I've not done drugs in my life.
Dialogue: 0,0:36:26.61,0:36:33.45,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Well, it's true, you may not have.
Dialogue: 0,0:36:33.45,0:36:35.78,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We may think ourselves \Nnot like the gluttons,
Dialogue: 0,0:36:35.78,0:36:38.30,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,not like the drunks, \Nnot like the drug addicts,
Dialogue: 0,0:36:38.30,0:36:40.12,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,but you know what Paul says?
Dialogue: 0,0:36:40.12,0:36:44.70,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,He said you just wait a second.
Dialogue: 0,0:36:44.70,0:36:48.40,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Again, before there's any boasting,
Dialogue: 0,0:36:48.40,0:36:52.31,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,shhh...
Dialogue: 0,0:36:52.31,0:36:58.04,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Hear what God says about your condition.
Dialogue: 0,0:36:58.04,0:36:59.75,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,There's the mind.
Dialogue: 0,0:36:59.75,0:37:02.02,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,What are we talking about here?
Dialogue: 0,0:37:02.02,0:37:06.100,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,That part of the flesh
Dialogue: 0,0:37:06.100,0:37:08.98,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that has to do with the thoughts,
Dialogue: 0,0:37:08.98,0:37:10.86,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the thinking, the intellect,
Dialogue: 0,0:37:10.86,0:37:12.76,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the affections.
Dialogue: 0,0:37:12.76,0:37:15.04,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,This is just as much an expression
Dialogue: 0,0:37:15.04,0:37:17.66,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,of the carnal lusting of our flesh
Dialogue: 0,0:37:17.66,0:37:20.60,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,as is sexual immorality,
Dialogue: 0,0:37:20.60,0:37:22.69,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,gluttony, sloth.
Dialogue: 0,0:37:22.69,0:37:24.56,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,What are these desires of the mind
Dialogue: 0,0:37:24.56,0:37:26.21,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,or the will of the mind that is
Dialogue: 0,0:37:26.21,0:37:27.88,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,such an expression of the flesh?
Dialogue: 0,0:37:27.88,0:37:30.11,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We're talking about anything
Dialogue: 0,0:37:30.11,0:37:33.67,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,you live for and dwell on in your thoughts
Dialogue: 0,0:37:33.67,0:37:35.55,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,apart from God.
Dialogue: 0,0:37:35.55,0:37:37.44,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We're talking about godless thoughts.
Dialogue: 0,0:37:37.44,0:37:40.08,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We're talking about the \Nthings that you're after.
Dialogue: 0,0:37:40.08,0:37:41.82,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And see, this is the thing,
Dialogue: 0,0:37:41.82,0:37:45.06,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,what God has designed us for is Him.
Dialogue: 0,0:37:45.06,0:37:46.100,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,God has designed us to worship Him.
Dialogue: 0,0:37:46.100,0:37:49.81,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,God has designed our minds \Nto be used for His glory.
Dialogue: 0,0:37:49.81,0:37:52.36,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And when your mind is after
Dialogue: 0,0:37:52.36,0:37:54.68,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,other things than Him,
Dialogue: 0,0:37:54.68,0:37:56.83,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and not after them for His glory,
Dialogue: 0,0:37:56.83,0:37:59.61,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,but after them because that's \Nwhat you've got to have,
Dialogue: 0,0:37:59.61,0:38:01.70,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and you've got to have them at any price,
Dialogue: 0,0:38:01.70,0:38:03.18,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and that's what you're driven.
Dialogue: 0,0:38:03.18,0:38:05.20,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And it's lust, and it's driving.
Dialogue: 0,0:38:05.20,0:38:06.66,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And there you go.
Dialogue: 0,0:38:06.66,0:38:10.24,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You're plowing deeper and \Ndeeper into this thing.
Dialogue: 0,0:38:10.24,0:38:11.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And you're dwelling on these things.
Dialogue: 0,0:38:11.99,0:38:14.46,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And you're filling your mind full of them.
Dialogue: 0,0:38:14.46,0:38:15.88,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,What you have to understand
Dialogue: 0,0:38:15.88,0:38:18.54,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,is God looks at that and He says,
Dialogue: 0,0:38:18.54,0:38:22.37,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that is like a dog running to the vomit.
Dialogue: 0,0:38:22.37,0:38:24.38,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,That is that disgusting.
Dialogue: 0,0:38:24.38,0:38:25.84,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,That's what that's like.
Dialogue: 0,0:38:25.84,0:38:27.63,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It is unclean.
Dialogue: 0,0:38:27.63,0:38:28.86,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It is dirty.
Dialogue: 0,0:38:28.86,0:38:30.72,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It is the pollution of man.
Dialogue: 0,0:38:30.72,0:38:32.14,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It's in the mind.
Dialogue: 0,0:38:32.14,0:38:33.57,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,When we think about the dog
Dialogue: 0,0:38:33.57,0:38:34.84,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,going to its vomit,
Dialogue: 0,0:38:34.84,0:38:36.86,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,it isn't just like the man -
Dialogue: 0,0:38:36.86,0:38:39.20,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,you know, the man, \Nyou try to clean him up.
Dialogue: 0,0:38:39.20,0:38:41.44,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,He's been a drug addict.\NHe goes to drug rehab.
Dialogue: 0,0:38:41.44,0:38:43.98,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,He comes back out again,\Nand he runs back to it.
Dialogue: 0,0:38:43.98,0:38:45.39,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Brethren, don't you recognize
Dialogue: 0,0:38:45.39,0:38:46.85,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,what we're talking about here?
Dialogue: 0,0:38:46.85,0:38:48.95,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We're talking about people \Nwho in their mind
Dialogue: 0,0:38:48.95,0:38:51.26,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,are full of jealousy.
Dialogue: 0,0:38:51.26,0:38:54.49,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You can't escape that.
Dialogue: 0,0:38:54.49,0:38:57.44,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We're talking about minds full of hatred.
Dialogue: 0,0:38:57.44,0:39:05.10,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Bitterness, malice, envy, jealousy.
Dialogue: 0,0:39:05.10,0:39:07.79,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Jesus hits on it.
Dialogue: 0,0:39:07.79,0:39:10.43,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It's not the guy that \Nsleeps with prostitutes
Dialogue: 0,0:39:10.43,0:39:11.89,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and you try to clean him up
Dialogue: 0,0:39:11.89,0:39:15.84,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and he keeps going back.
Dialogue: 0,0:39:15.84,0:39:17.85,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It's the man who sits at his office
Dialogue: 0,0:39:17.85,0:39:20.83,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and lusts after the secretary.
Dialogue: 0,0:39:20.83,0:39:23.21,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Day after day.
Dialogue: 0,0:39:23.21,0:39:25.23,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And his mind is filled
Dialogue: 0,0:39:25.23,0:39:30.32,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,with the pornographic thoughts.
Dialogue: 0,0:39:30.32,0:39:34.69,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It's everything you go after \Nin your mind apart from God.
Dialogue: 0,0:39:34.69,0:39:37.09,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It may be learning.
Dialogue: 0,0:39:37.09,0:39:40.75,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It may be having books, having classes,
Dialogue: 0,0:39:40.75,0:39:42.30,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,being in the university,
Dialogue: 0,0:39:42.30,0:39:45.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,just lusting after more knowledge;
Dialogue: 0,0:39:45.00,0:39:46.55,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,lusting to learn;
Dialogue: 0,0:39:46.55,0:39:48.58,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,lusting after degrees.
Dialogue: 0,0:39:48.58,0:39:50.94,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It can be very white collar.
Dialogue: 0,0:39:50.94,0:39:52.77,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It can be very clean.
Dialogue: 0,0:39:52.77,0:39:56.41,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It can look really neat.
Dialogue: 0,0:39:56.41,0:39:58.25,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You're not visiting the brothels.
Dialogue: 0,0:39:58.25,0:40:00.10,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You're not over in India
Dialogue: 0,0:40:00.10,0:40:03.22,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,dealing and plying with \Nthe sex trade over there.
Dialogue: 0,0:40:03.22,0:40:06.58,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,No, but you're in the college classroom
Dialogue: 0,0:40:06.58,0:40:08.34,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and you're doing the same thing
Dialogue: 0,0:40:08.34,0:40:10.53,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,in your dirty, filthy mind.
Dialogue: 0,0:40:10.53,0:40:13.31,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And you're full of hatred towards others
Dialogue: 0,0:40:13.31,0:40:15.15,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,because you're a god in your own mind
Dialogue: 0,0:40:15.15,0:40:16.70,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and other people challenge that
Dialogue: 0,0:40:16.70,0:40:18.42,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and you're jealous because you want
Dialogue: 0,0:40:18.42,0:40:19.56,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,what other people have.
Dialogue: 0,0:40:19.56,0:40:21.44,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And you're envious.
Dialogue: 0,0:40:21.44,0:40:25.75,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Brethren, this is mankind.
Dialogue: 0,0:40:25.75,0:40:27.71,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And we know the filth of it.
Dialogue: 0,0:40:27.71,0:40:29.32,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We know the dirt of it.
Dialogue: 0,0:40:29.32,0:40:32.55,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,This is where Paul is saying,
Dialogue: 0,0:40:32.55,0:40:36.10,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,do you not recognize the power of God
Dialogue: 0,0:40:36.10,0:40:41.18,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that takes you up out of this?
Dialogue: 0,0:40:41.18,0:40:42.76,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,There may be those here
Dialogue: 0,0:40:42.76,0:40:44.79,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that have never gotten drunk.
Dialogue: 0,0:40:44.79,0:40:47.08,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I know it. Never been high on cocaine.
Dialogue: 0,0:40:47.08,0:40:49.16,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Never had sex outside of marriage.
Dialogue: 0,0:40:49.16,0:40:52.63,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Never... never, but you just simply
Dialogue: 0,0:40:52.63,0:40:55.51,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,can't escape jealousy.
Dialogue: 0,0:40:55.51,0:41:00.24,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Because it's right there.
Dialogue: 0,0:41:00.24,0:41:02.69,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You want what they have.
Dialogue: 0,0:41:02.69,0:41:07.24,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Covet. Covet.
Dialogue: 0,0:41:07.24,0:41:09.94,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You need wealth.
Dialogue: 0,0:41:09.94,0:41:11.91,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You need popularity.
Dialogue: 0,0:41:11.91,0:41:13.82,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You need a car like the neighbors.
Dialogue: 0,0:41:13.82,0:41:16.60,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You need your children \Nto succeed like theirs.
Dialogue: 0,0:41:16.60,0:41:18.65,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You need this.
Dialogue: 0,0:41:18.65,0:41:20.71,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And we're just driven all our lives.
Dialogue: 0,0:41:20.71,0:41:23.62,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Brethren, is that not how it \Nwas when we were lost?
Dialogue: 0,0:41:23.62,0:41:25.94,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,No care for God. No care for His glory.
Dialogue: 0,0:41:25.94,0:41:28.48,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Even religious. Religious. Do this.
Dialogue: 0,0:41:28.48,0:41:30.89,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Self-righteous. Earn your way.
Dialogue: 0,0:41:30.89,0:41:33.19,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Be something before God.
Dialogue: 0,0:41:33.19,0:41:35.12,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Be good enough!
Dialogue: 0,0:41:35.12,0:41:36.84,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You don't need that Christ.
Dialogue: 0,0:41:36.84,0:41:38.37,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You don't need that.
Dialogue: 0,0:41:38.37,0:41:40.30,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You don't need justification.
Dialogue: 0,0:41:40.30,0:41:42.56,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You need to be good. Work it out.
Dialogue: 0,0:41:42.56,0:41:44.25,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Keep the law. Keep going.
Dialogue: 0,0:41:44.25,0:41:46.20,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Just driving, driving.
Dialogue: 0,0:41:46.20,0:41:47.53,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The lusts of the flesh.
Dialogue: 0,0:41:47.53,0:41:49.28,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,This lust of pride
Dialogue: 0,0:41:49.28,0:41:51.37,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to be able to stand before God
Dialogue: 0,0:41:51.37,0:41:52.79,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and say, "Look at me,
Dialogue: 0,0:41:52.79,0:41:54.51,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and look what I've done."
Dialogue: 0,0:41:54.51,0:41:56.36,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Rather than bowing and saying,
Dialogue: 0,0:41:56.36,0:42:00.39,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"Thank You, Lord. I know what I was."
Dialogue: 0,0:42:00.39,0:42:02.37,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Brethren, this is it. Just think.
Dialogue: 0,0:42:02.37,0:42:03.83,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Think. Think.
Dialogue: 0,0:42:03.83,0:42:05.59,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,A desire to be right.
Dialogue: 0,0:42:05.59,0:42:07.61,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,A desire to win the debate.
Dialogue: 0,0:42:07.61,0:42:10.11,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,A desire - this desire -
Dialogue: 0,0:42:10.11,0:42:12.16,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,lusting after social media.
Dialogue: 0,0:42:12.16,0:42:14.62,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Lusting after all the gossip of it.
Dialogue: 0,0:42:14.62,0:42:16.66,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Just wanting to hear the latest thing.
Dialogue: 0,0:42:16.66,0:42:19.14,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Hear the garbage. Hear the trash.
Dialogue: 0,0:42:19.14,0:42:21.43,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Have something to debate about out there.
Dialogue: 0,0:42:21.43,0:42:22.78,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You want to win.
Dialogue: 0,0:42:22.78,0:42:26.20,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,There's just this lust after video games.
Dialogue: 0,0:42:26.20,0:42:28.03,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Why? It makes me feel good.
Dialogue: 0,0:42:28.03,0:42:29.61,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It does something in my mind.
Dialogue: 0,0:42:29.61,0:42:31.87,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It produces these things in my mind.
Dialogue: 0,0:42:31.87,0:42:33.95,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I need more. I need more.
Dialogue: 0,0:42:33.95,0:42:36.63,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You make your resolutions.\NAnybody ever been there?
Dialogue: 0,0:42:36.63,0:42:38.81,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,As a lost person, I made resolutions.
Dialogue: 0,0:42:38.81,0:42:42.40,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Okay, I'm not going to do this anymore
Dialogue: 0,0:42:42.40,0:42:44.05,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,when I get out of high school.
Dialogue: 0,0:42:44.05,0:42:45.72,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And I did it and I did it worse.
Dialogue: 0,0:42:45.72,0:42:48.54,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Okay, I'm not going to do this \Nwhen I get out of college.
Dialogue: 0,0:42:48.54,0:42:49.53,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And you know what?
Dialogue: 0,0:42:49.53,0:42:50.94,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Shortly before God saved me,
Dialogue: 0,0:42:50.94,0:42:53.03,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I just came to resign myself:
Dialogue: 0,0:42:53.03,0:42:55.09,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I'm never giving those things up.
Dialogue: 0,0:42:55.09,0:42:56.77,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I didn't have the power to do it.
Dialogue: 0,0:42:56.77,0:42:58.85,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The first time it was really sinking in -
Dialogue: 0,0:42:58.85,0:43:00.66,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,all our resolutions are trash.
Dialogue: 0,0:43:00.66,0:43:02.69,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,They don't go anywhere. Why?
Dialogue: 0,0:43:02.69,0:43:05.54,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Because inside of us \Nthere is this craving,
Dialogue: 0,0:43:05.54,0:43:07.34,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,there is this driving -
Dialogue: 0,0:43:07.34,0:43:08.92,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that's the idea: lusting.
Dialogue: 0,0:43:08.92,0:43:10.62,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Lusting, lusting.
Dialogue: 0,0:43:10.62,0:43:11.73,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We've got to have.
Dialogue: 0,0:43:11.73,0:43:13.29,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,See, we so often think about it
Dialogue: 0,0:43:13.29,0:43:15.62,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,just in the category of sexual immorality.
Dialogue: 0,0:43:15.62,0:43:18.15,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But we're talking just our desire
Dialogue: 0,0:43:18.15,0:43:21.05,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,in our mind to have whatever it is.
Dialogue: 0,0:43:21.05,0:43:23.04,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Movies coming in or TV -
Dialogue: 0,0:43:23.04,0:43:24.52,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,just lusting after it.
Dialogue: 0,0:43:24.52,0:43:26.37,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I've got to know the next episode.
Dialogue: 0,0:43:26.37,0:43:28.91,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Just some new thing - fill my mind.
Dialogue: 0,0:43:28.91,0:43:31.81,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We've just got to have - always looking,
Dialogue: 0,0:43:31.81,0:43:33.81,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,always some new thing in this world.
Dialogue: 0,0:43:33.81,0:43:35.50,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Never content in God.
Dialogue: 0,0:43:35.50,0:43:37.83,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Always needing something more.
Dialogue: 0,0:43:37.83,0:43:40.59,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,That's why our sin just \Ngets worse and worse.
Dialogue: 0,0:43:40.59,0:43:42.06,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,That's why the drug addict,
Dialogue: 0,0:43:42.06,0:43:43.88,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,they can handle a little bit at first,
Dialogue: 0,0:43:43.88,0:43:45.98,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,but then they've got to have\Nmore and more.
Dialogue: 0,0:43:45.98,0:43:48.04,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The drunk - a little bit in the beginning.
Dialogue: 0,0:43:48.04,0:43:49.14,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,More and more and more.
Dialogue: 0,0:43:49.14,0:43:50.89,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Sexual people that reach
Dialogue: 0,0:43:50.89,0:43:52.98,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,these stages of perversion.
Dialogue: 0,0:43:52.98,0:43:54.68,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It doesn't start that way.
Dialogue: 0,0:43:54.68,0:43:56.45,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It's more and more. Why?
Dialogue: 0,0:43:56.45,0:43:59.58,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Just lusting, lusting, lusting!
Dialogue: 0,0:43:59.58,0:44:01.77,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Brethren, this is what we were.
Dialogue: 0,0:44:01.77,0:44:04.92,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Can you imagine God looking \Nat such people as us
Dialogue: 0,0:44:04.92,0:44:09.13,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and saying, "I think I'm \Ngoing to send My Son
Dialogue: 0,0:44:09.13,0:44:18.56,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to die under My wrath in their place."
Dialogue: 0,0:44:18.56,0:44:27.22,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Paul wants us to look at that and say,
Dialogue: 0,0:44:27.22,0:44:31.93,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"What have You done, Lord?"
Dialogue: 0,0:44:31.93,0:44:35.02,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,What have You done?
Dialogue: 0,0:44:35.02,0:44:43.54,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,In such a state of lust,
Dialogue: 0,0:44:43.54,0:44:48.31,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,none of us can stand before God.
Dialogue: 0,0:44:48.31,0:44:50.73,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Can you imagine walking before
Dialogue: 0,0:44:50.73,0:44:59.03,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the holy, holy, holy God?
Dialogue: 0,0:44:59.03,0:45:05.80,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Children of wrath like \Nthe rest of mankind.
Dialogue: 0,0:45:05.80,0:45:08.09,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We'll be engulfed.
Dialogue: 0,0:45:08.09,0:45:11.75,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We'll be consumed.
Dialogue: 0,0:45:11.75,0:45:18.40,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Paul seeks to put his \Nfinger to our lips now.
Dialogue: 0,0:45:18.40,0:45:20.18,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I have heard sinners say,
Dialogue: 0,0:45:20.18,0:45:21.80,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"Well, when I stand before God,
Dialogue: 0,0:45:21.80,0:45:28.10,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I'm going to tell Him..."
Dialogue: 0,0:45:28.10,0:45:31.54,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,One sight of the holy God,
Dialogue: 0,0:45:31.54,0:45:35.95,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,you won't be saying anything.
Dialogue: 0,0:45:35.95,0:45:42.19,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You may cry "mercy," but it's too late.
Dialogue: 0,0:45:42.19,0:45:47.70,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But God has unleashed such power
Dialogue: 0,0:45:47.70,0:45:50.12,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,through the Son of God
Dialogue: 0,0:45:50.12,0:45:52.59,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and His coming and His life
Dialogue: 0,0:45:52.59,0:45:55.76,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and His death and His exaltation
Dialogue: 0,0:45:55.76,0:45:59.59,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,far above all rule and authority \Nand power and dominion.
Dialogue: 0,0:45:59.59,0:46:02.03,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And there is such a power here.
Dialogue: 0,0:46:02.03,0:46:04.54,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,A power like Peter talks about.
Dialogue: 0,0:46:04.54,0:46:08.86,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We no longer live for the \Npassions of the flesh,
Dialogue: 0,0:46:08.86,0:46:10.90,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,but for the will of God.
Dialogue: 0,0:46:10.90,0:46:14.02,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,There is a power whereby we no longer
Dialogue: 0,0:46:14.02,0:46:15.90,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,surrender our members
Dialogue: 0,0:46:15.90,0:46:18.37,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,as these servants of unrighteousness.
Dialogue: 0,0:46:18.37,0:46:20.55,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But now, to righteousness,
Dialogue: 0,0:46:20.55,0:46:24.87,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the body becomes the \Ndwelling place of God.
Dialogue: 0,0:46:24.87,0:46:26.100,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The very temple of the Holy Spirit.
Dialogue: 0,0:46:26.100,0:46:30.23,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Brethren, there is power in regeneration.
Dialogue: 0,0:46:30.23,0:46:32.94,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Transforming power.
Dialogue: 0,0:46:32.94,0:46:35.61,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,That is where the power of God unleashed.
Dialogue: 0,0:46:35.61,0:46:39.21,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It's in His Son.\NIt's in the cross.
Dialogue: 0,0:46:39.21,0:46:43.39,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And that's what Paul is doing here.
Dialogue: 0,0:46:43.39,0:46:45.22,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,He's just wanting to show us
Dialogue: 0,0:46:45.22,0:46:47.94,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,this wretchedness of man,
Dialogue: 0,0:46:47.94,0:46:53.87,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,so that it magnifies the power
Dialogue: 0,0:46:53.87,0:46:58.13,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and the grace of God.
Dialogue: 0,0:46:58.13,0:47:02.76,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Isn't our salvation just amazing?
Dialogue: 0,0:47:02.76,0:47:04.91,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Amen.
Dialogue: 0,0:47:04.91,0:47:07.02,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Thank You, Lord.
Dialogue: 0,0:47:07.02,0:47:08.44,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You're dismissed.