0:00:12.745,0:00:14.285 Romans 8. 0:00:14.285,0:00:17.715 And I'm sure if you are familiar at all 0:00:17.715,0:00:18.862 with your Bibles, 0:00:18.862,0:00:22.750 you have read the verse [br]that I want to look at. 0:00:22.750,0:00:23.930 You're familiar with it. 0:00:23.930,0:00:25.276 You know it. 0:00:25.276,0:00:29.506 Verse 13. 0:00:29.506,0:00:32.238 "For if you live according to the flesh, 0:00:32.238,0:00:37.903 you will die." 0:00:37.903,0:00:41.049 Now, just right there, 0:00:41.049,0:00:42.686 think about what the flesh is. 0:00:42.686,0:00:44.437 If you look back up in v. 7, 0:00:44.437,0:00:47.354 you see some interesting[br]things about the flesh. 0:00:47.354,0:00:48.592 You guys know, 0:00:48.592,0:00:51.629 Romans 8 is basically this comparison. 0:00:51.629,0:00:53.406 What you have is the comparison 0:00:53.406,0:00:55.027 of the life lived in the flesh 0:00:55.027,0:00:57.761 and the life lived in the what? 0:00:57.761,0:00:58.972 Spirit. 0:00:58.972,0:01:01.183 So you have true Christianity 0:01:01.183,0:01:03.495 against that which is not Christianity. 0:01:03.495,0:01:05.496 That's the comparison back and forth. 0:01:05.496,0:01:07.602 As you read through the chapter, 0:01:07.602,0:01:09.010 you can see that. 0:01:09.010,0:01:13.379 Paul is constrasting very specifically 0:01:13.379,0:01:15.281 those in the flesh, those in the Spirit. 0:01:15.281,0:01:18.283 Those with the mind on the flesh. 0:01:18.283,0:01:20.210 Those with the mind on the Spirit. 0:01:20.210,0:01:22.330 Back and forth it goes. 0:01:22.330,0:01:25.562 A quick look at v. 7, and you see 0:01:25.562,0:01:28.504 what is very characteristic 0:01:28.504,0:01:30.263 of those in the flesh: 0:01:30.263,0:01:32.986 They're at enmity, depending [br]on the translation you have. 0:01:32.986,0:01:33.862 Enmity. 0:01:33.862,0:01:35.662 They are hostile to God. 0:01:35.662,0:01:39.758 And they not only don't [br]keep His commandments 0:01:39.758,0:01:40.986 and do His Word, 0:01:40.986,0:01:44.317 the Scripture there says they can't. 0:01:44.317,0:01:49.301 Okay, when you come to v. 13, 0:01:49.301,0:01:52.057 we've got the people in the flesh. 0:01:52.057,0:01:54.412 They die. 0:01:54.412,0:01:59.886 So listen, if this basically [br]characterizes your life, 0:01:59.886,0:02:02.144 that you do your own thing - 0:02:02.144,0:02:05.390 that's what you need to [br]see about v. 7 back up there 0:02:05.390,0:02:08.669 is living in the flesh is not just 0:02:08.669,0:02:10.105 you go off to the saloon, 0:02:10.105,0:02:11.260 hang out in the bars, 0:02:11.260,0:02:14.890 and you're involved in the [br]wild parties all the time. 0:02:14.890,0:02:19.964 Living in the flesh is just simply this: 0:02:19.964,0:02:23.382 you're not going to have [br]God tell you what to do. 0:02:23.382,0:02:25.220 I mean, that's it. 0:02:25.220,0:02:26.637 That's what you see in v. 7. 0:02:26.637,0:02:29.346 That's characteristic of those [br]who live in the flesh. 0:02:29.346,0:02:32.625 V. 13, "if you live according [br]to the flesh, you will die." 0:02:32.625,0:02:35.304 Lay it down. 0:02:35.304,0:02:39.354 He's not opening this up for debate. 0:02:39.354,0:02:43.003 It's a straight deal here, folks. 0:02:43.003,0:02:45.328 If you live according [br]to the flesh, you die. 0:02:45.328,0:02:47.450 Basically, if your life is characterized 0:02:47.450,0:02:49.111 by doing what you want to do 0:02:49.111,0:02:50.498 and not really having regard 0:02:50.498,0:02:51.956 for what God wants you to do, 0:02:51.956,0:02:56.073 all you really have to [br]do to live in the flesh, folks, 0:02:56.073,0:02:58.181 you can be moral. 0:02:58.181,0:02:59.654 You don't have to be wild. 0:02:59.654,0:03:03.305 You don't have to be out of control. 0:03:03.305,0:03:07.173 Just say I'm going to do things my way 0:03:07.173,0:03:10.540 and you're going to die. 0:03:10.540,0:03:16.032 Okay, but if you, by the Spirit - 0:03:16.032,0:03:18.161 "if by the Spirit, you put to death 0:03:18.161,0:03:21.787 the deeds of the body, you will live." 0:03:21.787,0:03:26.073 Let me tell you something [br]about the life in Christ. 0:03:26.073,0:03:32.842 This is probably the greatest [br]external characteristic 0:03:32.842,0:03:35.141 of true Christianity in all the Bible. 0:03:35.141,0:03:37.792 You think about it.[br]You go to 1 John, what do you find? 0:03:37.792,0:03:40.051 You find: if you say you know Him 0:03:40.051,0:03:41.823 and you don't keep His commandments, 0:03:41.823,0:03:44.191 what's true about you? 0:03:44.191,0:03:45.597 You're a liar. 0:03:45.597,0:03:47.396 The truth isn't in you. 0:03:47.396,0:03:50.678 I mean, what you have [br]right here is this, folks: 0:03:50.678,0:03:53.703 live the way you want to live, you die. 0:03:53.703,0:03:56.784 Live the way God wants you to live, 0:03:56.784,0:03:59.664 and you live. 0:03:59.664,0:04:01.156 Now, just for the sake of it, 0:04:01.156,0:04:02.940 since we're right here, [br]I think it's important 0:04:02.940,0:04:04.850 that we probably go to the next verse, 0:04:04.850,0:04:07.328 lest we have some kind [br]of misunderstanding. 0:04:07.328,0:04:09.797 You know, if we just [br]had v. 13 all by itself, 0:04:09.797,0:04:12.546 it would almost seem to say what? 0:04:12.546,0:04:14.220 You almost have this idea 0:04:14.220,0:04:17.193 that if you put to death [br]the deeds of the body, 0:04:17.193,0:04:19.605 what happens? 0:04:19.605,0:04:21.006 You get eternal life. 0:04:21.006,0:04:23.272 It almost sounds like [br]you work it out, right? 0:04:23.272,0:04:25.036 Well, Paul realizes that it has 0:04:25.036,0:04:28.142 that sound to it, so [br]when he goes to v. 14, 0:04:28.142,0:04:30.219 he immediately clarifies himself. 0:04:30.219,0:04:32.555 And you see, v. 14 in your Bibles 0:04:32.555,0:04:34.934 starts with "for." 0:04:34.934,0:04:37.700 Or if you have an NIV, [br]it starts with "because." 0:04:37.700,0:04:40.542 It's because he's going to explain. 0:04:40.542,0:04:42.465 He's not moving on to a new subject. 0:04:42.465,0:04:45.230 He is just going to go in v. 14 0:04:45.230,0:04:48.347 to go a little deeper into [br]what he was saying. 0:04:48.347,0:04:51.121 "For all who are led..." 0:04:51.121,0:04:53.633 All who are thus led by the Spirit. 0:04:53.633,0:04:56.702 To do what? To put to [br]death the deeds of the body. 0:04:56.702,0:04:59.470 "All who are thus led by the Spirit of God 0:04:59.470,0:05:01.841 are sons of God." 0:05:01.841,0:05:03.703 Now look, this is what he's saying. 0:05:03.703,0:05:09.606 He's saying if you put to [br]death sin, you will live. 0:05:09.606,0:05:11.743 Now you don't live [br]because you put to death 0:05:11.743,0:05:12.946 the deeds of the body. 0:05:12.946,0:05:15.248 You live because you're a child of God. 0:05:15.248,0:05:16.535 You've been born again. 0:05:16.535,0:05:18.212 That's what he's saying there. 0:05:18.212,0:05:23.764 The whole point is 0:05:23.764,0:05:27.912 this is an evidence, not a cause. 0:05:27.912,0:05:29.866 It's an evidence of those 0:05:29.866,0:05:32.420 who have eternal life. 0:05:32.420,0:05:34.793 Now look, we can say this about anybody. 0:05:34.793,0:05:36.349 Anybody comes to this church, 0:05:36.349,0:05:38.110 anybody a member of this church, 0:05:38.110,0:05:41.786 anybody that we deal with [br]out in this community here, 0:05:41.786,0:05:43.644 we know this, if we come across them 0:05:43.644,0:05:45.618 and they tell us they're Christians, 0:05:45.618,0:05:48.362 this better characterize their life 0:05:48.362,0:05:50.995 because Paul says you live. 0:05:50.995,0:05:54.245 John says you're a child of God 0:05:54.245,0:05:57.960 if you give this characteristic evidence 0:05:57.960,0:06:00.615 that it is common in your life. 0:06:00.615,0:06:02.700 It is the general characteristic. 0:06:02.700,0:06:04.851 It is the general run of your life 0:06:04.851,0:06:07.288 that you kill sin. 0:06:07.288,0:06:09.104 Listen, you cannot say - 0:06:09.104,0:06:10.889 how many times have you heard this? 0:06:10.889,0:06:12.365 We get this in our church. 0:06:12.365,0:06:14.234 You guys have probably heard it here. 0:06:14.234,0:06:16.781 Well, you know, I was a teenager 0:06:16.781,0:06:21.180 and I professed Christ back when I was 14, 0:06:21.180,0:06:23.725 but you know I ran off [br]into all this kind of sin, 0:06:23.725,0:06:25.522 but I know I was a Christian. 0:06:25.522,0:06:26.991 Now, wait a second. 0:06:26.991,0:06:28.770 How do you know you were a Christian? 0:06:28.770,0:06:29.896 Well, I just know. 0:06:29.896,0:06:33.202 Or I had this experience or I did this. 0:06:33.202,0:06:34.679 Now listen, 0:06:34.679,0:06:40.051 this is not a call to Christian perfection 0:06:40.051,0:06:42.124 by any stretch of the imagination. 0:06:42.124,0:06:44.081 This doesn't have anything to do 0:06:44.081,0:06:45.759 with living day after day 0:06:45.759,0:06:47.723 with absolutely no sin in your life. 0:06:47.723,0:06:49.798 But what this is is characteristic. 0:06:49.798,0:06:51.815 This is definitely a pattern, folks. 0:06:51.815,0:06:53.667 And I can look at anybody 0:06:53.667,0:06:55.832 and I can make a general assessment 0:06:55.832,0:06:58.290 about their life based on this text. 0:06:58.290,0:07:00.348 I mean, Paul lays it down here. 0:07:00.348,0:07:06.396 There is a vital connection between 0:07:06.396,0:07:11.604 putting to death sin and life. 0:07:11.604,0:07:14.256 I'm telling you, every [br]single person in heaven 0:07:14.256,0:07:16.552 has lived this life 0:07:16.552,0:07:21.721 of putting to death deeds of the body. 0:07:21.721,0:07:22.837 Now that's interesting. 0:07:22.837,0:07:24.774 Obviously, he doesn't mean [br]every deed of the body. 0:07:24.774,0:07:27.053 He doesn't mean using [br]your hand to help a widow. 0:07:27.053,0:07:28.796 Obviously, he doesn't mean that. 0:07:28.796,0:07:35.791 It's plain that what we [br]have spoken about here 0:07:35.791,0:07:37.552 is using the body, 0:07:37.552,0:07:39.712 using facial expressions, 0:07:39.712,0:07:42.187 using the tones of the voice, 0:07:42.187,0:07:44.237 using sexual organs, 0:07:44.237,0:07:46.099 using hands, using feet, 0:07:46.099,0:07:48.271 using the body overall 0:07:48.271,0:07:52.106 to carry out deeds of wickedness. 0:07:52.106,0:07:54.971 We are to live a life of doing good. 0:07:54.971,0:07:56.372 Have you guys ever read that? 0:07:56.372,0:07:58.758 I mean, you go to 2 John, [br]you know what you have? 0:07:58.758,0:08:00.160 John can say this: 0:08:00.160,0:08:02.857 Look, we know children of God. 0:08:02.857,0:08:04.304 We know those who are saved. 0:08:04.304,0:08:05.842 And you know what he says there? 0:08:05.842,0:08:07.311 They do good. 0:08:07.311,0:08:09.100 2 John. You read that sometime. 0:08:09.100,0:08:12.511 He basically says we can know 0:08:12.511,0:08:14.473 the saved from the lost. 0:08:14.473,0:08:15.713 The saved do good. 0:08:15.713,0:08:18.044 These people over here don't do good. 0:08:18.044,0:08:20.204 This idea that Christians do good 0:08:20.204,0:08:22.711 is a very biblical idea. 0:08:22.711,0:08:28.414 You see, being saved is just about 0:08:28.414,0:08:30.091 being saved from sin 0:08:30.091,0:08:32.183 in its practice right here 0:08:32.183,0:08:34.693 as much as being saved from its guilt, 0:08:34.693,0:08:37.203 as much as being saved [br]from the wrath of God. 0:08:37.203,0:08:40.201 We are saved from the power of sin. 0:08:40.201,0:08:42.248 All we have to do is go back to chapter 6 0:08:42.248,0:08:43.755 and you read in v. 14, 0:08:43.755,0:08:45.876 "Sin will not have dominion over you." 0:08:45.876,0:08:48.541 Folks, this is the working out of that. 0:08:48.541,0:08:51.407 Sin will not dominate your life 0:08:51.407,0:08:52.988 if you're a Christian. 0:08:52.988,0:08:54.191 That's what that says. 0:08:54.191,0:08:58.844 V. 13 of chapter 8 - you cannot [br]make it say anything else. 0:08:58.844,0:09:00.778 Purity of life. 0:09:00.778,0:09:05.581 You as a Christian have been led by Christ 0:09:05.581,0:09:06.834 through His Spirit 0:09:06.834,0:09:08.767 to do battle with sin. 0:09:08.767,0:09:11.107 If that is not characteristic of your life, 0:09:11.107,0:09:15.008 then your life is not [br]characteristic of the Christian life. 0:09:15.008,0:09:17.875 Now look, here's the thing. 0:09:17.875,0:09:23.508 Okay, we've got to do this.[br]We've got to kill sin. 0:09:23.508,0:09:24.577 You know what? 0:09:24.577,0:09:28.545 As I've really thought [br]about this, I realize this: 0:09:28.545,0:09:33.054 deeds of the body come from somewhere. 0:09:33.054,0:09:35.888 So, it definitely is to [br]our great advantage 0:09:35.888,0:09:37.862 to figure out where they come from, 0:09:37.862,0:09:39.534 because if you want to attack this thing; 0:09:39.534,0:09:40.855 if you're going to do battle, 0:09:40.855,0:09:42.876 we need to go to the root of the problem. 0:09:42.876,0:09:45.622 And if you go back to chapter 6:12, 0:09:45.622,0:09:49.075 you'll see exactly the root; 0:09:49.075,0:10:01.154 exactly where these deeds come from. 0:10:01.154,0:10:03.999 Romans 6:12, 0:10:03.999,0:10:08.684 "Let not sin therefore reign 0:10:08.684,0:10:10.152 in your mortal bodies..." 0:10:10.152,0:10:12.862 Okay, see, right there you've [br]got the mortal bodies. 0:10:12.862,0:10:15.094 Now remember what we have to put to death. 0:10:15.094,0:10:17.857 We have to put to death [br]these deeds of the body. 0:10:17.857,0:10:19.685 Right here you have the mortal body. 0:10:19.685,0:10:24.582 Sin is seeking to reign in the mortal body 0:10:24.582,0:10:28.911 to make you it obey, [br]there, the body's passions. 0:10:28.911,0:10:30.636 Now that's interesting. 0:10:30.636,0:10:32.222 Here's what you've got. 0:10:32.222,0:10:36.229 Sin is not plural here. It is singular. 0:10:36.229,0:10:39.823 Which means it's not speaking about sins 0:10:39.823,0:10:42.125 as in individual sins. 0:10:42.125,0:10:45.381 It's speaking about sin as a power. 0:10:45.381,0:10:47.344 Sin as a force. 0:10:47.344,0:10:51.984 Sin as an evil force seeks to dominate. 0:10:51.984,0:10:53.567 It seeks to rule. 0:10:53.567,0:11:00.251 It seeks to reign in your body by what? 0:11:00.251,0:11:06.606 By making you obey your body's passions. 0:11:06.606,0:11:09.695 You see that? 0:11:09.695,0:11:12.841 Is that plain? Did I just make that up? 0:11:12.841,0:11:14.298 That's there right? 0:11:14.298,0:11:15.450 You guys see that. 0:11:15.450,0:11:18.889 Well, what's key about that? 0:11:18.889,0:11:20.099 Well, here's the thing, 0:11:20.099,0:11:22.023 if I'm saved 0:11:22.023,0:11:24.087 and the Spirit of God leads me, 0:11:24.087,0:11:28.937 and listen, we do it by the Spirit. 0:11:28.937,0:11:31.206 But we do it. 0:11:31.206,0:11:34.395 This idea of putting to [br]death deeds of the body - 0:11:34.395,0:11:40.070 if you by the Spirit put to death 0:11:40.070,0:11:42.650 deeds of the body, you will live. 0:11:42.650,0:11:44.654 This isn't a kind of hyper-Calvinism. 0:11:44.654,0:11:46.024 You know, we sit back 0:11:46.024,0:11:48.174 and the Spirit of God's [br]just going to purify me. 0:11:48.174,0:11:49.994 You remember, the Scripture tells us 0:11:49.994,0:11:52.558 to work out our salvation [br]with fear and trembling. 0:11:52.558,0:11:54.756 There's a battle here, [br]folks, and we fight it. 0:11:54.756,0:11:57.135 We do it. Yes, we do it in [br]the power of the Spirit. 0:11:57.135,0:11:58.917 You can't do it outside of the Spirit. 0:11:58.917,0:12:00.722 You can't do it outside of Christ. 0:12:00.722,0:12:04.439 But in Christ, that which [br]is impossible otherwise 0:12:04.439,0:12:06.303 by nature when you're in the flesh 0:12:06.303,0:12:07.766 is very possible. 0:12:07.766,0:12:10.635 In fact, so possible [br]that if you have life, 0:12:10.635,0:12:12.973 you will put these things to death. 0:12:12.973,0:12:15.827 And what you put to death is this: 0:12:15.827,0:12:20.618 Sin seeking to rule in your bodies. 0:12:20.618,0:12:30.189 Seeking to dominate by making you obey 0:12:30.189,0:12:33.556 the passions of this body. 0:12:33.556,0:12:35.817 Now listen, as I began [br]to think about that, 0:12:35.817,0:12:39.970 I thought, yeah, that's [br]exactly what happens. 0:12:39.970,0:12:45.319 I mean, think about when you sin. 0:12:45.319,0:12:47.547 Think about the whole chemistry here. 0:12:47.547,0:12:50.804 If you begin to dissect this thing, 0:12:50.804,0:12:53.655 and you begin to pull [br]it apart piece by piece, 0:12:53.655,0:12:55.418 what happens? 0:12:55.418,0:12:56.957 I sin. 0:12:56.957,0:12:58.674 I use my mouth. 0:12:58.674,0:13:00.721 I use my eyes. 0:13:00.721,0:13:02.914 I use my hands 0:13:02.914,0:13:06.167 in a way that I shouldn't use them. 0:13:06.167,0:13:08.406 And I sin. 0:13:08.406,0:13:10.072 When I do what? 0:13:10.072,0:13:18.019 When I try to gratify some desire. 0:13:18.019,0:13:20.196 That's what drives us to sin. 0:13:20.196,0:13:22.885 But how? 0:13:22.885,0:13:25.181 And you know, as I began to contemplate 0:13:25.181,0:13:27.596 both of these things 0:13:27.596,0:13:32.856 and just mulling these [br]things over in my head, 0:13:32.856,0:13:35.896 I'm thinking okay, 0:13:35.896,0:13:38.712 well, let's just look at desires. 0:13:38.712,0:13:41.021 So I looked through the [br]entire New Testament. 0:13:41.021,0:13:42.753 Everywhere that word came up. 0:13:42.753,0:13:44.776 And I'm trying to focus in on that 0:13:44.776,0:13:46.527 and trying to find out about the character 0:13:46.527,0:13:47.381 of these desires. 0:13:47.381,0:13:49.945 And then also sin - not sins plural, 0:13:49.945,0:13:51.191 but sin as a power. 0:13:51.191,0:13:53.722 Let's look at that and go all the [br]way through the New Testament 0:13:53.722,0:13:54.867 and examine that, 0:13:54.867,0:13:56.888 and even some places in the Old Testament. 0:13:56.888,0:13:58.986 And what's very interesting is this, 0:13:58.986,0:14:18.092 turn in your Bibles to Ephesians 4:22. 0:14:18.092,0:14:23.552 "Put off your old self..." 0:14:23.552,0:14:26.959 I'm reading from the ESV. 0:14:26.959,0:14:29.248 But you guys can kind [br]of catch the drift here. 0:14:29.248,0:14:31.757 Ephesians 4:22 if you've [br]got a different translation. 0:14:31.757,0:14:34.169 "Put off your old self 0:14:34.169,0:14:37.628 which belongs to your [br]former manner of life 0:14:37.628,0:14:42.586 and is corrupt through deceitful desires." 0:14:42.586,0:14:44.346 You see that right there? 0:14:44.346,0:14:45.946 The word desires there - 0:14:45.946,0:14:50.076 exact same one you've [br]got back in Romans 6:12. 0:14:50.076,0:14:52.308 Notice what it calls it: 0:14:52.308,0:14:54.590 deceitful. 0:14:54.590,0:14:56.289 You know something very interesting 0:14:56.289,0:14:59.011 about these desires that sin seeks 0:14:59.011,0:15:02.534 to have us obey is [br]they are deceitful desires. 0:15:02.534,0:15:05.685 But you know, then as you begin to study 0:15:05.685,0:15:08.185 and you begin to think about 0:15:08.185,0:15:12.919 the reality of sin. 0:15:12.919,0:15:17.196 Turn to Hebrews 3:13. 0:15:17.196,0:15:20.415 I mean, basically, this is [br]what we're confronted with 0:15:20.415,0:15:21.614 when we sin. 0:15:21.614,0:15:25.157 We have sin as a power 0:15:25.157,0:15:26.804 who's an enemy in this, 0:15:26.804,0:15:30.273 seeking to make us obey corrupt desires 0:15:30.273,0:15:31.404 which is the enemy. 0:15:31.404,0:15:33.316 Basically, there are two enemies here 0:15:33.316,0:15:35.974 when it comes to my sin as a Christian. 0:15:35.974,0:15:39.112 I've got sin as a power seeking to reign 0:15:39.112,0:15:43.616 by making me obey sinful passions. 0:15:43.616,0:15:46.642 And so I've got sin. I've got passions. 0:15:46.642,0:15:48.767 If I can deal with those two dogs, 0:15:48.767,0:15:51.406 I can nail this thing. 0:15:51.406,0:15:54.031 Now, in 4:22 of Ephesians, 0:15:54.031,0:15:55.605 what I wanted to show you 0:15:55.605,0:16:00.324 is that these desires [br]are called deceitful. 0:16:00.324,0:16:02.100 Now what I want you to see right here 0:16:02.100,0:16:05.291 in Hebrews, "Exhort one another every day 0:16:05.291,0:16:06.851 as long as it is called today, 0:16:06.851,0:16:09.284 that none of you may be hardened 0:16:09.284,0:16:17.129 by the deceitfulness of sin." 0:16:17.129,0:16:19.575 Listen! 0:16:19.575,0:16:27.770 Sin's power to have sway in your life 0:16:27.770,0:16:31.587 goes only so far in the fact that it has 0:16:31.587,0:16:33.929 the ability to deceive you. 0:16:33.929,0:16:36.054 What I want you guys to understand 0:16:36.054,0:16:38.940 is if I'm to put to death 0:16:38.940,0:16:40.471 deeds of the body, 0:16:40.471,0:16:43.859 and they come from sin trying to reign 0:16:43.859,0:16:46.358 in my body - the sin is deceitful, 0:16:46.358,0:16:48.697 the desires are deceitful. 0:16:48.697,0:16:50.802 Guess what that tells me? 0:16:50.802,0:16:56.120 It tells me I sin when I do what? 0:16:56.120,0:17:01.144 When I believe a lie. 0:17:01.144,0:17:05.386 You know how you put to death sin? 0:17:05.386,0:17:07.199 When you stop believing the lie 0:17:07.199,0:17:10.425 that you believe every [br]time you do the sin. 0:17:10.425,0:17:14.386 I'll guarantee you, 0:17:14.386,0:17:19.411 those of you in this [br]room that sin the most, 0:17:19.411,0:17:22.926 are the most given to believe a lie. 0:17:22.926,0:17:25.241 You're doing it because [br]I'll tell you what, 0:17:25.241,0:17:28.659 sin is stupid. It is asinine. 0:17:28.659,0:17:30.254 Every time. 0:17:30.254,0:17:31.535 It is destructive. 0:17:31.535,0:17:32.868 It doesn't help you. 0:17:32.868,0:17:34.287 It only separates. 0:17:34.287,0:17:35.756 It only damages. 0:17:35.756,0:17:38.847 It's only destructive. 0:17:38.847,0:17:41.260 And why do you do it? 0:17:41.260,0:17:45.148 Because you buy into some lie. 0:17:45.148,0:17:47.535 You know what, we see it in our kids. 0:17:47.535,0:17:49.267 We see it in the lost. 0:17:49.267,0:17:51.981 We've got a young man 0:17:51.981,0:17:53.677 who's a member of our church, 0:17:53.677,0:17:59.251 and just traded Christ for a woman. 0:17:59.251,0:18:01.627 Why? 0:18:01.627,0:18:03.791 Was that wise? 0:18:03.791,0:18:07.421 Was that to his eternal benefit? 0:18:07.421,0:18:09.465 Is that going to be helpful to him? 0:18:09.465,0:18:14.085 Is that going to make him [br]happy down the road? 0:18:14.085,0:18:16.719 You know it won't. 0:18:16.719,0:18:19.687 But see, it's not as [br]though he's some alien 0:18:19.687,0:18:21.264 and that's foreign to us. 0:18:21.264,0:18:24.289 We've walked that path, folks. 0:18:24.289,0:18:26.039 We have chosen sin, 0:18:26.039,0:18:27.938 and even now as a Christian, 0:18:27.938,0:18:30.170 when you choose sin, 0:18:30.170,0:18:33.757 you do so because just like that young man 0:18:33.757,0:18:37.674 you believe a lie. 0:18:37.674,0:18:40.632 Every single time. 0:18:40.632,0:18:45.635 You sin only when you believe a lie. 0:18:45.635,0:18:46.812 Your pride is a lie. 0:18:46.812,0:18:48.576 Your unrighteous anger is a lie. 0:18:48.576,0:18:51.053 Your materialism, obsession with comfort, 0:18:51.053,0:18:53.390 your greed, your idolatry, 0:18:53.390,0:18:56.197 your covetousness, lust, jealousy - 0:18:56.197,0:18:58.714 all lies. 0:18:58.714,0:19:01.079 Whenever you give into sin, 0:19:01.079,0:19:02.765 mark it down, 0:19:02.765,0:19:06.355 you have bought a lie. 0:19:06.355,0:19:09.192 And if you'll really come [br]to grips with this, 0:19:09.192,0:19:11.704 it will help you. 0:19:11.704,0:19:14.144 My brother, my sister, 0:19:14.144,0:19:18.983 think about what lie you believe 0:19:18.983,0:19:21.779 when you worry. 0:19:21.779,0:19:23.705 What lie is it you've bought 0:19:23.705,0:19:26.406 lock, stock, and barrel [br]when you look with lust 0:19:26.406,0:19:28.338 at a woman? 0:19:28.338,0:19:31.743 What lie have you bought into [br]when you interrupt others? 0:19:31.743,0:19:34.384 Or feel superior? Or get angry? Or gossip? 0:19:34.384,0:19:37.091 Or feel jealous? Or fight? 0:19:37.091,0:19:41.255 Fight for comfort in this life? 0:19:41.255,0:19:43.272 Or have to have your new toy? 0:19:43.272,0:19:44.966 Count on it. There's a lie 0:19:44.966,0:19:47.231 behind each one of these. 0:19:47.231,0:19:49.219 Your struggle with sin 0:19:49.219,0:19:50.706 is a struggle with lies. 0:19:50.706,0:19:52.037 I guarantee you this. 0:19:52.037,0:19:54.502 Those of you who sin most in this room, 0:19:54.502,0:19:55.640 mark this down, 0:19:55.640,0:19:59.224 are the ones most given to believe 0:19:59.224,0:20:00.313 what is not true. 0:20:00.313,0:20:02.912 You're the most gullible.[br]You're the most ignorant. 0:20:02.912,0:20:07.414 And you are the most deceived. 0:20:07.414,0:20:14.002 Now listen, 0:20:14.002,0:20:19.576 I want to leave you [br]guys with this thought. 0:20:19.576,0:20:33.628 Because sometimes what happens is 0:20:33.628,0:20:35.982 we have some difficulty 0:20:35.982,0:20:40.267 getting a grasp on what that is. 0:20:40.267,0:20:45.704 You can say, okay brother, I believe that. 0:20:45.704,0:20:47.714 You've shown us. 0:20:47.714,0:20:51.783 Sin, desires. They're deceitful. 0:20:51.783,0:20:55.163 When I buy into them, I'm being deceived. 0:20:55.163,0:20:57.245 You see, sometimes what's difficult though 0:20:57.245,0:21:03.545 is figuring out what is [br]the lie that I believe? 0:21:03.545,0:21:06.796 Do you know one thing that I've seen? 0:21:06.796,0:21:09.015 You know one thing that I've seen 0:21:09.015,0:21:16.150 in Calvinistic circles, reformed circles? 0:21:16.150,0:21:25.395 One lie that is so prevalent. 0:21:25.395,0:21:27.056 And I'll guarantee you, the devil will 0:21:27.056,0:21:30.256 have you believe this every time. 0:21:30.256,0:21:35.743 It's the lie that I can't have victory. 0:21:35.743,0:21:41.705 I am just doomed to perpetual failure. 0:21:41.705,0:21:45.371 Listen, folks. 0:21:45.371,0:21:47.907 You may come to that conclusion 0:21:47.907,0:21:50.140 by some distorted hyper-Calvinism, 0:21:50.140,0:21:52.249 but you will not come to that conclusion 0:21:52.249,0:21:54.364 by the Word of God. 0:21:54.364,0:21:57.715 In fact, the verse we just [br]looked at in Romans 8:13 0:21:57.715,0:22:00.020 tells me exactly otherwise. 0:22:00.020,0:22:04.075 It tells me if the power of [br]God is real in your life, 0:22:04.075,0:22:06.015 if you're truly in Jesus Christ, 0:22:06.015,0:22:07.547 you have His Spirit. 0:22:07.547,0:22:09.845 If you have His Spirit, by that Spirit 0:22:09.845,0:22:12.468 you will put these things to death. 0:22:12.468,0:22:14.928 And one of the biggest [br]lies that I have seen 0:22:14.928,0:22:18.519 that Christians oftentimes fall into 0:22:18.519,0:22:21.563 is this idea I am just wretched, 0:22:21.563,0:22:22.905 I am just defeated, 0:22:22.905,0:22:25.155 I just cannot have victory in this. 0:22:25.155,0:22:27.354 I'll tell you what, you read Romans wrong 0:22:27.354,0:22:29.009 if you're reading it that way. 0:22:29.009,0:22:31.674 You look at Romans 6 0:22:31.674,0:22:33.539 and you look at v. 14. 0:22:33.539,0:22:35.295 Sin will not have dominion over you. 0:22:35.295,0:22:36.757 You look at v. 17. 0:22:36.757,0:22:38.781 It says God makes men and women 0:22:38.781,0:22:41.441 obedient from the heart. 0:22:41.441,0:22:45.523 Sin, if you are a Christian, we are told, 0:22:45.523,0:22:49.387 you are dead to sin. 0:22:49.387,0:22:52.474 Now, I'll tell you, those [br]are strong expressions, 0:22:52.474,0:22:54.263 but that does not just have to do 0:22:54.263,0:22:57.047 with our justification before God. 0:22:57.047,0:22:59.176 That has to do with the power of sin 0:22:59.176,0:23:02.300 in a practical and demonstrable [br]way in our lives. 0:23:02.300,0:23:05.412 Folks, if you're not putting it to death, 0:23:05.412,0:23:10.166 then you will die. 0:23:10.166,0:23:14.331 Now listen, that's one of the [br]great lies that's believed. 0:23:14.331,0:23:17.382 But there's another one. 0:23:17.382,0:23:20.657 I can remember as a young Christian. 0:23:20.657,0:23:23.691 I can remember as I was reading [br]through my Old Testament. 0:23:23.691,0:23:25.678 I was raised in a Catholic home. 0:23:25.678,0:23:28.325 I was not exposed to [br]the truth of the Word. 0:23:28.325,0:23:31.284 And so when was first saved,[br]I didn't have a church. 0:23:31.284,0:23:33.721 I was listening to John [br]MacArthur on the radio. 0:23:33.721,0:23:35.834 And I didn't have anybody mentoring me. 0:23:35.834,0:23:37.380 I wasn't hooked in somewhere. 0:23:37.380,0:23:40.544 As I'm reading through my [br]Bible for the first time, 0:23:40.544,0:23:42.470 this stuff is new. 0:23:42.470,0:23:44.582 I read about David numbering the people 0:23:44.582,0:23:46.899 and God came in and brought a plague. 0:23:46.899,0:23:49.805 I read about one fellow reaching out 0:23:49.805,0:23:50.966 and touching the ark 0:23:50.966,0:23:53.507 and God striking him down dead, 0:23:53.507,0:23:55.183 and I was scared. 0:23:55.183,0:23:57.353 I began to think this God is not like 0:23:57.353,0:23:59.364 I thought He was. 0:23:59.364,0:24:03.861 In fact, I was finding God [br]to be very terrifying. 0:24:03.861,0:24:07.430 Let me tell you something, 0:24:07.430,0:24:10.376 there was a day - this struck me too - 0:24:10.376,0:24:12.228 as a young Christian, there was a day 0:24:12.228,0:24:14.318 when a prophet - you guys know about this. 0:24:14.318,0:24:17.081 In Isaiah 6, a prophet, [br]very famous prophet - 0:24:17.081,0:24:19.136 probably the most famous one of all 0:24:19.136,0:24:20.998 aside from Jesus Christ - 0:24:20.998,0:24:23.321 at least Old Testament prophet. 0:24:23.321,0:24:25.556 Isaiah. 0:24:25.556,0:24:28.185 This man, he's probably [br]one of the godliest men 0:24:28.185,0:24:33.232 among the nation of [br]the Hebrews at that time. 0:24:33.232,0:24:36.914 He comes in to the temple 0:24:36.914,0:24:39.316 and he beholds the Lord 0:24:39.316,0:24:41.855 high and lifted up. 0:24:41.855,0:24:45.924 And I'm telling you, [br]this guy, he saw this. 0:24:45.924,0:24:48.933 You can be sure he [br]went right to his knees. 0:24:48.933,0:24:50.824 I mean, he probably covered up. 0:24:50.824,0:24:53.198 The glory of the Lord, 0:24:53.198,0:24:56.474 the train of His robe filled that temple, 0:24:56.474,0:24:57.948 and the doorposts shook 0:24:57.948,0:25:00.193 and you've got seraphim [br]and they're shouting 0:25:00.193,0:25:01.996 back and forth antiphonally: 0:25:01.996,0:25:03.705 Holy, holy, holy! 0:25:03.705,0:25:06.467 And the place is just in smoke 0:25:06.467,0:25:08.774 and shaking and he's saying, 0:25:08.774,0:25:11.788 "Woe is me!" 0:25:11.788,0:25:13.791 You know what? 0:25:13.791,0:25:16.915 You know what he was not [br]doing right at that moment? 0:25:16.915,0:25:19.098 He was not thinking about the young lady 0:25:19.098,0:25:21.108 he passed on the way to the temple! 0:25:21.108,0:25:23.113 He was not lusting over her! 0:25:23.113,0:25:25.122 He was not thinking about going home 0:25:25.122,0:25:28.876 and fighting with his wife! 0:25:28.876,0:25:33.493 You know why? 0:25:33.493,0:25:35.229 Because when you're confronted 0:25:35.229,0:25:38.215 by the glory of the Lord - 0:25:38.215,0:25:39.724 I'll tell you this, 0:25:39.724,0:25:44.591 one of the lies you buy into when you sin 0:25:44.591,0:25:49.085 is you buy into the lie that [br]God is not what He is like. 0:25:49.085,0:25:50.507 You forget who God is. 0:25:50.507,0:25:53.106 You buy a lie that He is [br]somewhat knocked down, 0:25:53.106,0:25:55.947 subordinate, sub-standard, sub-biblical 0:25:55.947,0:25:57.880 to what He really is in the Scriptures. 0:25:57.880,0:25:58.923 You know why? 0:25:58.923,0:26:03.653 You know what, he sees this, 0:26:03.653,0:26:05.684 and the thought in his mind right now 0:26:05.684,0:26:08.438 is not go gossip and back-stab somebody 0:26:08.438,0:26:12.292 and be bitter over somebody. 0:26:12.292,0:26:16.959 Because when you see God for who He is, 0:26:16.959,0:26:19.914 that has a way of burning through 0:26:19.914,0:26:22.075 all the falsehoods. 0:26:22.075,0:26:25.966 You see, one of the problems, folks, 0:26:25.966,0:26:28.710 we buy into a small God. 0:26:28.710,0:26:31.584 That is a lie we buy into when we sin. 0:26:31.584,0:26:33.711 I'll tell you what, 0:26:33.711,0:26:36.571 if the glory of the living Christ 0:26:36.571,0:26:38.750 hovered at the end of your kitchen 0:26:38.750,0:26:41.384 the way He did in the temple that day, 0:26:41.384,0:26:44.337 when you go home tonight, 0:26:44.337,0:26:46.219 you might not say the things 0:26:46.219,0:26:48.436 you would otherwise say. 0:26:48.436,0:26:55.366 You might not do the things [br]you would otherwise do. 0:26:55.366,0:26:57.615 And I'll tell you what, 0:26:57.615,0:27:00.877 when Isaiah saw himself - 0:27:00.877,0:27:04.345 when he saw God, he saw himself as well. 0:27:04.345,0:27:06.451 And you see, that's one of the problems 0:27:06.451,0:27:07.786 in our sin as well. 0:27:07.786,0:27:10.566 We think way too highly of ourselves. 0:27:10.566,0:27:11.758 Way too highly. 0:27:11.758,0:27:14.406 We think our way. 0:27:14.406,0:27:19.231 We think what we want trumps all. 0:27:19.231,0:27:22.352 That's true every single time you sin, 0:27:22.352,0:27:25.155 you totally blow off and cast off 0:27:25.155,0:27:27.335 the Lordship of Jesus Christ. 0:27:27.335,0:27:28.892 You despise it. 0:27:28.892,0:27:30.398 You count it as a little thing 0:27:30.398,0:27:33.068 and you certainly are exalting yourself. 0:27:33.068,0:27:34.737 You know pride is behind every sin. 0:27:34.737,0:27:36.324 You are exalting yourself. 0:27:36.324,0:27:39.056 You know a lie you believe [br]every time you sin? 0:27:39.056,0:27:41.187 You believe you're pretty great. 0:27:41.187,0:27:44.100 You believe your ways, your agenda, 0:27:44.100,0:27:48.824 your needs trump Christ's commands. 0:27:48.824,0:27:51.014 Now listen, there may [br]be a lot of other lies 0:27:51.014,0:27:52.943 that you believe, but you know what? 0:27:52.943,0:27:55.025 This does help. 0:27:55.025,0:27:57.824 Listen, some people come along - 0:27:57.824,0:27:59.630 Christians will come along 0:27:59.630,0:28:02.420 and they'll say, 0:28:02.420,0:28:04.706 "I've tried to fight that sin." 0:28:04.706,0:28:05.961 And I know they have. 0:28:05.961,0:28:08.285 The guy's not lying to me. 0:28:08.285,0:28:10.348 The guy's not trying to deceive me. 0:28:10.348,0:28:13.665 I know that sin grieves that brother. 0:28:13.665,0:28:15.509 I know it grieves him. 0:28:15.509,0:28:17.732 I can see the grief on his face. 0:28:17.732,0:28:19.657 I know he's prayed over that sin. 0:28:19.657,0:28:21.611 I know he struggles over that sin. 0:28:21.611,0:28:23.979 I know he's repented of that sin 0:28:23.979,0:28:25.539 and he's been sincere. 0:28:25.539,0:28:29.511 But then he says why do [br]I keep going back to it? 0:28:29.511,0:28:30.546 And you know what? 0:28:30.546,0:28:33.024 It's because even though 0:28:33.024,0:28:36.483 he may not like that sin, 0:28:36.483,0:28:38.842 and even though he may [br]be trying to fight it, 0:28:38.842,0:28:43.079 he has never yet gotten [br]to the root of the matter. 0:28:43.079,0:28:45.850 He has never really gone after the lie 0:28:45.850,0:28:49.060 that he believes every [br]time he commits that sin. 0:28:49.060,0:28:52.992 It will really help you, it will help me, 0:28:52.992,0:28:58.737 it will help us if we come to grips - 0:28:58.737,0:29:01.445 identify the sin. 0:29:01.445,0:29:03.183 And then, figure out, 0:29:03.183,0:29:06.731 what am I believing every time 0:29:06.731,0:29:08.338 I give in to that? 0:29:08.338,0:29:10.192 Because there is a thought process. 0:29:10.192,0:29:12.023 We don't sin in a vacuum. 0:29:12.023,0:29:13.857 There is thinking. 0:29:13.857,0:29:15.816 We weigh things out. 0:29:15.816,0:29:16.845 We do things. 0:29:16.845,0:29:18.554 There's a perception. 0:29:18.554,0:29:20.407 We size things up. 0:29:20.407,0:29:22.771 We look at things from a standpoint 0:29:22.771,0:29:24.500 of what is desirable. 0:29:24.500,0:29:27.560 Remember, desires are [br]in this thing, folks. 0:29:27.560,0:29:29.044 We have to figure out 0:29:29.044,0:29:31.744 how is it that those desires, 0:29:31.744,0:29:34.952 how is it that sin is deceiving me? 0:29:34.952,0:29:36.929 What lie am I buying into? 0:29:36.929,0:29:38.342 And I'll tell you this, 0:29:38.342,0:29:44.022 once you identify the lie, 0:29:44.022,0:29:47.223 how do you battle sin? 0:29:47.223,0:29:54.449 How do you battle corrupt desires? 0:29:54.449,0:29:56.138 I'll tell you, 0:29:56.138,0:29:59.401 if they're both deceitful, 0:29:59.401,0:30:08.551 your weapon to kill these things is truth. 0:30:08.551,0:30:12.339 If lies and deception are at the root, 0:30:12.339,0:30:14.065 truth. 0:30:14.065,0:30:15.690 You've got to come to the place 0:30:15.690,0:30:17.899 where you have a handle, you have a grip 0:30:17.899,0:30:22.791 on what is true. 0:30:22.791,0:30:28.238 You think with me. 0:30:28.238,0:30:31.012 Nadab and Abihu laying there dead. 0:30:31.012,0:30:36.790 They've been incinerated. 0:30:36.790,0:30:41.682 Aaron was not all of a sudden prone 0:30:41.682,0:30:42.929 to get angry with God. 0:30:42.929,0:30:44.690 The Scripture said he held his peace. 0:30:44.690,0:30:47.987 You better believe he held his peace. 0:30:47.987,0:30:51.037 It didn't all of a sudden occur to him 0:30:51.037,0:30:54.715 to get lazy with worship. 0:30:54.715,0:30:56.908 It didn't all of a sudden occur to him 0:30:56.908,0:30:59.166 to get sloppy as a Christian. 0:30:59.166,0:31:01.577 It didn't all of a sudden occur to him. 0:31:01.577,0:31:04.369 Why? Because the presence of God 0:31:04.369,0:31:06.232 was so real in the midst of that. 0:31:06.232,0:31:08.514 And I'll tell you, why do I [br]keep bringing that back in? 0:31:08.514,0:31:10.735 Because that has a whole [br]lot to do with truth, folks. 0:31:10.735,0:31:13.404 When you begin to see God more clearly, 0:31:13.404,0:31:17.927 you begin to see the way [br]things are more truly. 0:31:17.927,0:31:20.278 You see, one of the [br]problems we have, folks; 0:31:20.278,0:31:22.736 one of the reasons sin [br]is so rampant oftentimes 0:31:22.736,0:31:24.475 in our lives or in our churches, 0:31:24.475,0:31:26.101 is because the presence of God 0:31:26.101,0:31:29.748 is so little felt and experienced. 0:31:29.748,0:31:31.755 I'll tell you what, when [br]the glory of the Lord 0:31:31.755,0:31:32.931 descends on a church 0:31:32.931,0:31:34.918 and the fear of God descends on people 0:31:34.918,0:31:36.545 and there is a presence there 0:31:36.545,0:31:38.060 and people begin to draw close, 0:31:38.060,0:31:41.505 and there's at least some manifestation 0:31:41.505,0:31:45.833 similar to that which was [br]experienced by Isaiah 0:31:45.833,0:31:47.535 or experienced by Job 0:31:47.535,0:31:49.597 or experienced by Aaron - 0:31:49.597,0:31:55.408 listen, sin begins to [br]go out of the church. 0:31:55.408,0:31:59.518 When people really begin [br]to see God for who He is, 0:31:59.518,0:32:06.529 and they begin to take that [br]vision of God through their life, 0:32:06.529,0:32:08.595 then putting to death [br]the deeds of the body 0:32:08.595,0:32:15.073 becomes something that is [br]going to be more of a reality. 0:32:15.073,0:32:21.064 Do you guys see this [br]connection with truth in all this? 0:32:21.064,0:32:22.820 I mean, I hope you guys see this. 0:32:22.820,0:32:26.411 I hope you guys see, first - 0:32:26.411,0:32:27.709 I'm going to end with this. 0:32:27.709,0:32:29.588 But just to kind of summarize this, 0:32:29.588,0:32:30.819 there's a connection. 0:32:30.819,0:32:33.839 You put to death the deeds of the body. 0:32:33.839,0:32:36.413 That's evidence you're going to live. 0:32:36.413,0:32:39.437 This is life and death, folks. 0:32:39.437,0:32:42.117 Putting to death the deeds of the body. 0:32:42.117,0:32:44.974 You've got sin. It's deceitful. 0:32:44.974,0:32:47.250 Hebrews 3:13 says so. 0:32:47.250,0:32:51.112 Ephesians 4:22 says that these desires, 0:32:51.112,0:32:52.234 they're deceitful. 0:32:52.234,0:32:53.518 You've got these things. 0:32:53.518,0:32:55.608 Sin trying to make you obey 0:32:55.608,0:32:56.942 these corrupt desires. 0:32:56.942,0:32:59.999 This thing is deceitful.[br]This thing is deceitful. 0:32:59.999,0:33:02.271 You ought to do battle [br]with this thing, folks. 0:33:02.271,0:33:05.137 Truth is your weapon. 0:33:05.137,0:33:07.242 You've got to nail truth. 0:33:07.242,0:33:09.230 You begin to pinpoint the lies 0:33:09.230,0:33:10.965 you believe when you sin. 0:33:10.965,0:33:12.906 And you begin to attack that with truth. 0:33:12.906,0:33:14.134 You begin to memorize 0:33:14.134,0:33:15.882 those Scripture texts 0:33:15.882,0:33:20.203 that lie in direct contradiction 0:33:20.203,0:33:22.038 to that lie that you believe. 0:33:22.038,0:33:24.369 That truth that is in direct opposition 0:33:24.369,0:33:26.390 to that lie that you fall for. 0:33:26.390,0:33:28.189 You begin to permeate yourself 0:33:28.189,0:33:30.085 with the reality of the presence of God 0:33:30.085,0:33:32.917 and begin to see Him how He is. 0:33:32.917,0:33:35.994 You begin to come to [br]approaching day by day 0:33:35.994,0:33:38.354 your Christian life from this perspective: 0:33:38.354,0:33:40.146 I can have victory. 0:33:40.146,0:33:41.965 No, not only, I can have it - 0:33:41.965,0:33:45.239 I must have it. I will have it! 0:33:45.239,0:33:49.248 And if I don't have it, I'm going to die. 0:33:49.248,0:33:52.450 Not that I gain life by this battle, 0:33:52.450,0:33:55.992 but I prove that I have [br]life by this battle. 0:33:55.992,0:33:59.379 I get this life to battle 0:33:59.379,0:34:02.973 by becoming a child of God. 0:34:02.973,0:34:04.762 By being born again. 0:34:04.762,0:34:08.251 That's where this power's [br]unleashed by the Spirit. 0:34:08.251,0:34:11.930 And listen, the Spirit doesn't do it. 0:34:11.930,0:34:17.471 You must do it by the power of the Spirit. 0:34:17.471,0:34:19.470 He does it through you. 0:34:19.470,0:34:23.714 Not aside from you. Not without you. 0:34:23.714,0:34:26.146 He does it as you do it. 0:34:26.146,0:34:27.860 He calls us to an impossible life, 0:34:27.860,0:34:31.262 but we're given the third [br]Person of the very Trinity 0:34:31.262,0:34:34.554 to cause us to carry this thing out. 0:34:34.554,0:34:36.335 And listen, this is no small matter. 0:34:36.335,0:34:37.829 This is a life and death deal. 0:34:37.829,0:34:39.675 This is not only a life and death deal, 0:34:39.675,0:34:44.868 this is a really major church deal. 0:34:44.868,0:34:49.266 Holiness.