Becoming Better Theologians

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Father in heaven, we thank you this morning for Your word for your word taught For your word living for Jesus Christ our living sacrifice and father
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I just pray as we look to your word this morning that you would Bless our time that we would be reminded of what a great salvation is ours in Christ Jesus in his name.
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We pray. Amen Well, good morning I really didn't know that Mike was gonna take as many twists and turns in the road as he did this morning but It's in the providence of God that we are in Romans chapter 3 this morning.
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So I would invite you to turn your Bibles their Romans chapter 3 because knowing that I Had a
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Week off next week because the conference by the way, if you're not registered for the conference, it's not too late.
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Is it Bob? Okay Please register today Knowing that I had this week.
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I just thought well, let's just take a little detour. So We're gonna talk about Now, this is this is weird.
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I remember years ago Somebody came up to me. What was the word? Oh, yeah.
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Yeah. I remember now the the text the New Testament says impious
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And I guess I'd never it's funny. How many of you read aloud while you're reading? I mean, you don't necessarily say the words, but you hear the words in your head
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How many do that? Did you know that makes you a very slow reader? I do that and it and it does slow you down.
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But for some reason this word I'd probably read it I don't know how many times but it never rung in my head how it was supposed to be said
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So I said impious and it's actually what impious So, you know this person came up to me afterwards and very nicely said by the way, that's not how you say it and So this is a word here
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Propitiation and I hear it propitiation probe all different manners. I don't know.
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I just say propitiation So if I'm saying it wrong, please write it down submit in writing and you know, we'll go through all the proper channels on that But let me read
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Romans 3 verses 21 to 26 But now the righteousness of God has been manifested apart from the law
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Although the law and the prophets bear witness to it The righteousness of God through faith in Jesus Christ for all who believe for there is no distinction
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For all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God and are justified by his grace as a gift
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Through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus whom God put forward as a propitiation by his blood
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To be received by faith. This was to show God's righteousness because in his divine forbearance
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He had passed over former sins it was to show his righteousness at the present time so that he might be just and the justifier of the one who has faith in Jesus And I want to just focus.
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I mean there there's probably how many sermons in there? I don't know five six eight
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Now yeah now here's a funny thing allegedly and Some of you already know this
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Allegedly pastor Mike says he's gonna go through Romans in 16 weeks and I'm looking forward to that because I'm like There's 16 weeks right here
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But I just want to focus on propitiation This morning and I'm gonna start by asking what is propitiation?
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Who knows what that is? Satisfying God's anger.
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I think that's good. Any other thoughts on that? Turning away the wrath of God.
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Okay restitution
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I Think that kind of fits in there, too other ideas thoughts
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Brian okay satisfying the justice of God.
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I like that. Let me read you what a theologian see that's it's always a little unfair right,
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I ask everybody and they're like off the top and Here I get to quote a theologian
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The English verb to propitiate means to appease an offended person Propitiation is when an offensive or upsetting matter is dealt with in a manner that is satisfying to the offended person
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Now I think this is something we can all relate to. In fact, I hear pastor Mike often talk about this
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It seems he has customer service problems here and there But you rent a car from somebody and I'll just tell you that this actually happened in real life
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You rent a car from a company and while you're up at the counter getting this car the person behind the counter is
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Swearing using inappropriate language and your children are present now
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You might be offended at that and rightfully so I mean it's become pretty commonplace for people to just I Don't understand it, but everybody thinks it's perfectly okay to use whatever kind of language they want all the time
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But in this case if you were to write the company and say, you know, this happened this really isn't how
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Customers ought to be treated. This isn't how your representative should be taught to to speak in front of children then what would you expect in return a
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Coupon, you know good for 20 % off your next purchase Brian some kind of apology.
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I think that would be certainly appropriate I mean what's really terrible is when you get something back like What's the problem?
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You know you have an issue with that go somewhere else That could happen something like that what happened in this case was yeah
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You know, well, how about if we give you a free future future free future rental?
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I don't know why that's a tongue -twister How about if we give you a free coupon for some, you know future rental this individual said well
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How about how about the applying that to the last rental, you know, just give it to me now
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They're always willing, you know, it's always like how about if we give you a hamburger next week To take care of because they'd like to push the cost off and But that's that's what it means.
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There's In a customer relation sense, you know, you're trying to appease the offended customer so that they'll come back to you
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But the goal the goal is to restore the relationship broken by the offense that caused the anchor the anger.
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That's the goal That's what propitiation means to satisfy The wrath or the anger the righteous anger even
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I think as Brian said in this case when we're talking about God and that is what we're talking about in this sense, why did the
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Well, I guess that's my next question why do we need to propitiate the wrath of God why should it be mad
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What's he have to be mad about? It's right there in Romans 3 23 for all of sin and fall short of the glory of God Every single person and You know what?
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That's what right what I had my notes verse 23 all sin and fall short of the glory of God And really if we went back to chapter 1 verse 18
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What we read about in 118 in fact somebody read that chapter 118
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Romans 118 Pretty did you hear how he said that for the wrath of God?
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I just like that little you know, the little role of the beginning. Yeah, the wrath of God is Revealed and it has to do, you know starting in verse in 118 and then going
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Really through this whole passage here. Paul is outlining the universal guiltiness of mankind
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The Jews are guilty. The Gentiles are guilty. Everybody's guilty of Sinning and falling short of the glory of God So that's one reason why he's angry his sin needs or his wrath needs to be propitiated by nature
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We seek after our own interests. We are selfish in fact I've used this illustration many times before who teaches your child how to be selfish and Now, you know just kind of going through this watching
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January do it It's kind of hard it's hard to watch her slowly turn from this selfless little wonderful Child into a mildly selfish child who teach who teaches little children to be selfish
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If you put two two and a half year olds in a room with one toy do they fight Yes, well who taught them their parents their parents taught him to be selfish
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They told him that no, you don't have to teach any because they have a sin nature. They know
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What it is to be self -absorbed They really don't relate that well to other people and they're just coming into their own self -identity and they they know what it is to be selfish and You know is the world self -absorbed all you have to do to answer that is to do what
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Look at a magazine watch TV go to a bookstore. It's me me me. I I I How to get to a better you
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I mean you could start a whole TV network Called the
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Oprah Network. Oh, sorry, but that's what we do. We seek our own interests and not
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God's Interests naturally in fact look at Romans 2 verses 5 to 8
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Mm -hmm because of your hard and impenitent
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Unrepentant heart you are storing up wrath wrath
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For yourself on that day of wrath When God's righteous judgment will be revealed
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Righteous judgment will be revealed. He will render unto each one according to his works to those who by patient and well -doing
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Listen seek for glory and honor in immortality He will give eternal life in other words
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They weren't self -seeking and verse 8 says but for those who are self -seeking and who do not obey the truth, but obey unrighteousness
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There will be wrath and fury and you say well gee that sure sounds like we have to be better people
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We have to earn our salvation. We are about Doing good works and therefore earning heaven
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Well, that's not the point at all In fact Paul goes on to say, you know in Romans 3 that none who seeks after God There's none who do does righteous not even one righteousness not even one.
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So what's his point? His point is once you've been transformed by the Holy Spirit once your goal is to please
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God and all that you do That's what he's talking about here. Those kinds of people are going to go to heaven and those who are not transformed
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Will inevitably revert back to what self -seeking pleasing themselves By nature we seek after our own interests also by nature we choose sin
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We could talk about how you know before I was formed the psalmist says, you know
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I I was born or I was formed in iniquity, you know, all those kind of things, but I just thought this is
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Psalm 5 4 & 5 a verse that I really a couple verses that I really like and the reason
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I really like them Is because it so goes against the grain. I Mean even in evangelical churches today
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God is love and that's all God is When we're reading this book for the
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IBS class by Norman Geisler And he says I mean super smart
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Written a lot of great things. This book is probably not his best work. Believe me.
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He says that God is all -loving. Is that true? It's true, but it doesn't tell the whole story
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You know his attitude is basically God is love and that's all God is but look at Psalm 5 verses 4 & 5
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And does somebody have that by the way anybody there Psalm 5 Brian would you read that please I mean it's like somehow
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Christians are not not to judge. I agree with that as far as it goes but judging means
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We're just supposed to leave people alone. Not judging means we're just supposed to leave people alone. Just leave them in their sins
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Just leave them unaware of their problem But here it says you are not a
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God who delights in wickedness. He's not going to overlook sin Evil may not dwell with you
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Imperfect evil sinful creatures are not going to go to heaven and then in verse 5
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It says you hate all evildoers That's harsh
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What does that mean since everybody does evil does that mean that he hates everyone? No, it just means that he hates those who don't repent and you say well, how can an all -loving
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God? hate evildoers Because as we often say
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Well, what's true about God that isn't true about us? I mean, that's a big question, but but specifically pertaining to this
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Brian. That is a mind -boggling idea
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That's exactly right Brian. God can both love and hate someone at the same time. You say how is that possible? I can't do that.
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Of course, you can't do that You also can't speak and create everything You also can't change the heart of a sinful person
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You also can't part the Red Sea You also can't stop the world from turning you also can't dissolve the heavens and the earth
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There are a lot of things that we can't do our thoughts of God are
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Too human we think I I don't see how he could possibly hate someone and love someone at the same time
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Well, he does There's common grace We know that he what takes no delight in the death of the wicked he's not happy where they're going
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But he's satisfied It's just But he has no joy in it by nature.
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We choose sin Hates all evildoers means it's their nature.
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They just continually do evil Now how serious a problem is sin?
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Somebody I went to seminary wrote this and I thought it was pretty good Sin brings us under the control of Satan.
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It brings misery It makes us children of wrath who are enslaved to sin under the lordship of the evil one
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That's right in Ephesians 2 verses 1 to 3 Sin renders us unable to love
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God and to please God Sin is lawlessness according to 1st. John 3 for it is the violation of God's immutable law
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Scripture describes sin as law in the lawlessness transgression moral stumbling
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Enslavement to lusts and passions pollution and rebellion Sin produces listen a moral debt to God Sin racks up a debt of moral obligation to God that ignites
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The fires of hell gets them warmed up for us That's our problem.
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That's our sin problem Now why does God hate sin so much?
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Well again, I think we have to consider a few things before we even answer that How do we think about sin?
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Even Christians, how do we think about sin? when it says in 1st,
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John that If we confess our sins Then he is faithful to forgive us right?
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Isn't that 1st? John 1 a What does that mean? God I I confess it by the way, it doesn't mean going into a booth and tell some priest about your issues
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What does it mean to really confess your sins Stephen okay to repent of it
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Brian to agree with God Tom. Did you have something else?
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Yes, it does mean to agree with God But do we just I and I think this is important to just think about for a moment
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When we say I agree with you God that my act was sinful do we say to ourselves
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Okay. Now I'm now I can move on God's forgive me. I've confessed it. I'm done with it I said
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I agree with him if we understood how much our sin grieves
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God How much and even as we look at how much he hates it? If we think about how much our sin
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Causes him to grieve and what Christ suffered on our behalf because of our sin
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It takes kind of confessing agreeing with God about sin to a whole new level if you think okay
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I lied today. I'm really sorry about that God. I lied today and My lying put
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Jesus on the cross Jesus suffered because I lied he had to suffer that I might be forgiven our goal is or our
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Mode of thinking is we typically I think we think too little of our sin too much of ourselves and we're too quick to Kind of get over the offense that we've committed against God if we saw what if we saw every sin as a
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Form of treason that is think about what God has done for us that he sent his son to die in our place
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That he transferred us from the orphanage of Satan as I like to say and brought us into his own home into his own family
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Adopted us as sons and daughters, and then we say thank you
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God. I'm going to go sin now Thanks for the salvation. I'll go my own way if We thought about it in that sense we thought about it really as what it is kind of spiritual treason
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Then we recognize that sin is serious business It's a serious offense against God.
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I was also reminded just thinking about you know when my classmate there wrote about How it kindles the fire of hell
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Made me think about Hebrews 12 Therefore let us be grateful for receiving a kingdom that cannot be shaken talking about the kingdom of God and thus let us offer to God acceptable worship with reverence and awe for our
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God is a consuming fire We you know so often in evangelicalism.
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God is is Presented as the stave puff marshmallow, man. You know just nice and fluffy and soft and Our God is a consuming fire all that wrath poured out on Christ on the cross
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Next question who is our? Propitiation when we know it's Jesus listen to what the scholar says here.
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He says as a faithful high priest one who intervenes for his people Jesus is the covering over the sins of his people he is their propitiation
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He did what the priest of the Old Testament could only symbolize. What did they do they went and made sacrifice for the people what?
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For their sins, but did it take them away? Jesus once for all took them away listen
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He goes on he says the effectiveness of the ancient sacrifices was based upon the future work of Jesus the great propitiator
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He paid the debt by dying in place of the repentant sinner His work covers their guilt to satisfy
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God's justice and turn away God's wrath That wrath now.
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There's a great Definition right there of propitiation satisfy God's justice by turning away
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God's wrath That wrath was poured out on him on Jesus and Satisfied God's demand for justice toward his people when we think about sin as cosmic treason when we think about it as a violation of God's law and not just God's law, but a violation of God's law given to those whom he loves
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When we think about it that way and we understand that every sin has to be paid for God can't have his law violated and not exact some manner of justice for it
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So the question is even as Pastor Mike was saying this morning the question is will you will we pay for it ourselves?
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Eternally in hell and when we think about our God being a consuming fire That's a sobering thought or did
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Jesus pay for it on the cross? Let's look at 1st.
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John 4 10 for a moment 1st. John 4 10 Again talking about Jesus being our propitiation the satisfaction for our sins 1st.
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John 4 10 who has that? Yeah, Tom, and we know that I mean right there
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God Loved us and sent his son. Well, when did he decide to do that before the foundation of the world before he?
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created anything before we even existed God set his affection upon us and Sent his son to be the propitiation the satisfaction for our sins.
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This was the plan from the beginning Now there are a few things that are amazing. One is that God would set his affection on us when we were lovable No Romans tells us that when we were his enemies knowing that we would sin against him and Then think about the son knowing what he was going to have to suffer what he was going to have to do
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He went willingly to do it Now, how did
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Jesus propitiate the wrath of God back in Romans 3 and I'm going to read
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From 23 to 25 for all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God and are justified
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Declared righteous by his grace his unmerited favor as a gift through the redemption
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That is in Christ Jesus whom God put forward as a propitiation See I said it a different way that way that time propitiation by his blood by his blood the significance of blood number years ago you know
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John MacArthur got caught up in a controversy because he He said what about the blood of Jesus?
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I mean, this is a bloody death, right and Bob's exactly right It wasn't the blood the physical blood because when they stabbed his side and he bled when he was bleeding from the cross you know the people who then came up came along and Removed the cross or touched the blood in some way or the soldiers who might have been there when it came out.
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They weren't Saved by virtue of touching the blood of Jesus Blood is consistently in Scripture shorthand for Death it's the death of Jesus In fact
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Kistemacher says the words by the shedding of blood referred to the Messiah's Voluntary sacrifice of his life in the place of those whom he came to save Jesus gave his life once the just for the unjust
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Kistemacher goes on to say when atonement is rendered God's wrath is removed You know, why is it that we come in and worship?
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It's because We've appropriated by faith salvation and God's righteous wrath the wrath that we deserve has been removed from us
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We're happy He goes on Kistemacher does he says that?
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Romans 325 mentions a wrath removing or propitious Propitiatory sacrifice namely
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Christ Jesus himself. It was he who gave voluntarily offered his blood his life hence himself
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For his sheep bearing the wrath of God in their stead thereby causing them to be reconciled to God when this wrath is removed when propitiation is made when the
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Just wrath of God is satisfied Then we're reconciled were brought into a right relationship with God.
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We have peace with them as Romans 8 would say Or Romans 5.
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Sorry. Let's see. I want to read
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Leon Morris the Greek word Talking about propitiation means the removal of wrath
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Paul has mounted heavy artillery I like that in the section 1 18 to 320 to show that all our sinners and subject to the wrath of God But unless the present term means the removal of wrath has left them there
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Still are he says unless it means the removal of wrath then he they're still there. They're still under God's wrath
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Nothing else. He says here means the averting of wrath on both accounts We should see Paul is saying that from one point of view
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Christ death means the removal of divine wrath from believing sinners In other words, if God's still angry with us, then there's no hope it has to be a satisfactory sacrifice
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Or we have no hope of escaping the wrath of God Next question number five.
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How is our propitiation? Appropriated how is it that we? Get that wrath removed
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Christ propitiatory Sacrifice does not go into effect automatically if a person wishes to obtain this great blessing this turning away of God's wrath
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Forgiveness acceptance with God. He must exercise genuine faith in Christ in and through whom
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The triune God reveals himself Faith is indispensable, but it is not the cause of our salvation
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I don't have faith and therefore I'm saved. I don't have faith and therefore the wrath of God is removed
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What is right to say about faith? What does the text even say there in Romans 3 it's through faith.
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In other words faith is the Brian right
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Yes, it's it's the object it is the instrument it's not it's not something self -generated and how do we know that?
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I mean, we know that because it is a gift of God if you walk through the context in Ephesians 2 Which is interesting,
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I'll just give you another little Geisler tidbit reading through his book And you know, what's the first rule of hermeneutics?
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How do we end how we interpret the Bible? What's the first rule? Context what's the second rule?
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Context third rule context And so he comes to Ephesians 2 1 he says, you know, it says that you were dead in your sins and trespasses
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But it can't mean completely dead and here's why Isaiah says Matthew So we know it doesn't mean completely dead
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Ephesians 2 3 says that Well, we know that from Jeremiah it doesn't mean
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And I'm just like so he just he talks about Ephesians 2 verse 1 and then verse 3 and I'm going but it was interesting to me that he never got to verse 4
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Because we affect let's just look there for a moment Ephesians chapter 2 verse 4 if you're because the point of his
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Argument Was to say that, you know, you have a free will that you choose to believe that it's not an instrument
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But it's something that you must do in order to appropriate these blessings for yourself.
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But look that the sad truth is If you look at verse 4 It's not a sad truth.
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It's sad if you're if you have the wrong view here But God verse 4 the the best two words in the
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Bible In fact, you could argue it's the best one word because of it said and God There'd be trouble following but it says but God being rich in mercy because of the great love with which he loved us
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Even when we were dead in our trespasses made us alive together with Christ I mean if you're gonna say you weren't all the way dead
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You were only mostly dead then I guess God doesn't make you all Alive he only makes you mostly alive.
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I I don't even know how you do that to the language Dead means dead Made you alive together with Christ and then he goes down to Or go down to verse 8 and he says for by grace you have been saved through faith again
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Through faith and this is not your own doing it is the gift of God You have faith as a gift from God.
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He causes you to be born again He gives you that faith and then it is through that faith that the wrath of God is turned aside
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Other truths about faith without faith no one can please God, you know, I mean, it's amazing
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We live in a world that likes to think that it can please God some other way That if they do enough that they can somehow tip the balance they can tip the scales in their favor
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That I'm gonna get you know, it's like the Electoral College is tied and you know, I'm gonna get to st.
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Peter and I'm gonna go you know what Electoral College is tied But I think
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I have the votes in the Senate and the house to get me the presidency. In other words to get me into heaven It's not how it works
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If there was such a thing as st. Peter waiting at the gates and talking. I mean, which is just patently ridiculous
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Like he's handing out wings at the gate or whatever But if there was something like that you said, you know what? I have
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I have a lot of good things to offer We'd be told to hit the road because there's nothing good
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Without faith, no one can please God You can be as good as you want.
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You can try to be as good as you want But you're never gonna earn yourself all the way to heaven. Leon Moore says this through faith repeats the construction of verse 22
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Once more Paul reminds us of our inability to do anything to merit our salvation
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We receive the propitiation through faith. The wrath is of God has turned aside through faith
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For Paul faith is in Jesus Christ, and it is not easy to see him speaking of faith in blood
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In other words, it's not in in death or you know in sacrifice
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He's talking about this propitiation we have faith in the the action of God in Christ Jesus Question number six.
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What is the extent of the Propitiation of God in light of first John 2 2
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In other words who to whom is the wrath of God?
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Being removed to whom is that extended first John 2 2 Speaking of Jesus Christ says this he
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Jesus is the propitiation for our sins and not for ours only but also for the sins of the whole world
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Now, let's just think about this for a moment. Let's say that the wrath of God For the sins of every single person
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Who's ever lived was satisfied? By Jesus Christ on the cross
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What then is the result? Universalism Everyone goes to heaven if God's no longer angry with them if he's satisfied with the sacrifice of Jesus Christ on behalf of every single person
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Then all go to Heaven, why wouldn't they and you say well or some people will say well, it's because they don't have faith
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But we've already talked about faith is not the cause it is the instrument It is the
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God -given instrument by which we come to be the beneficiary of all these blessings
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Scholar named Burrage said this this verse isn't saying that the sins of all people were covered by the works of Christ It corrects an error some
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Jews thought that they were the Only ones to have a propitiator
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Here John says that Jesus wasn't just the propitiation for the Jews He is the only propitiation
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God provides for the whole race of humans This included even those who were not
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Jews Not all Jews were included in the work of the Savior, but not all non Jews were included either
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The point is that all people from all the nations of the world need to turn to him as the only possible
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Propitiation for sin there is no other hope There is no other plea there is no other way to escape the wrath of God other than Jesus Christ Now if we understood it
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Differently Remember we read Romans 1 18 the wrath of God is revealed
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Against all mankind, right? How can we using the principle of analogy of faith, which
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I said last Thursday night was the last check How can we rationalize those two statements here between 1st
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John 2 2 which says he's the propitiation Not for our sins only but for the whole world and with the idea that because if we understand propitiation is the removal of wrath
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So he's propitiating is removed the wrath of all the world and yet in Romans 1 18.
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It says the wrath of God is revealed against all mankind, so how can we
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Understand those two scriptures Peggy Yes Cosmos is the same word in John 3 16.
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So yeah, just just as I was saying a little bit earlier I think that would include Jews and non
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Jews Every type of person exactly and then how could we how can we reconcile that idea with Romans 1 18?
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That says the wrath of God is revealed against all mankind In other words the wrath of God is propitiated in 1st
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John 2 2 and then it's revealed in Romans 1 18, how do we reconcile those two
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Okay, Joni Yeah So in 1st
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John 2 2 good point Joni and 1st John 2 2 if you read on to 2 3 it talks about how you could
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Know that you are one of the ones for whom Christ died from for whom the wrath of God has been propitiated or removed and In Romans 1 18 is talking about this universal wrath and letting us know that these are all the reasons we can know that God hates sin that he's angry with sin and really 1st
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John 2 2 is kind of the it's the antidote to Romans 1 18. Look everybody deserves condemnation
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They know that there's a God and they suppress that truth and unrighteousness. They say aren't we lucky that You know a
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Blob of magma cooled off years ago and you know spontaneously life combusted into the world and etc etc, etc, and the world just revolves at the right speed and Isn't life, you know as an evolution grand they suppress the truth and unrighteousness and therefore
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God gave them over God that gave them over Etc, etc, but the point is there that we are justly under the condemnation of God And then it says the first John 2 2 that he has removed that condemnation
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From the whole world, but doesn't mean every single person it means those who are saved by faith if we studied it out fully
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Question number seven last question. What does this mean? What are the practical implications? and this is what really got me thinking about it because I am
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I mean I Feel like Paul most days that the chief of sinners not the you know, not the inspired
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Apostle who writes the New Testament But on your worst day if the wrath of God is removed from you on your worst day
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What do you think? I am such a sinner You are no less forgiven than on your best day
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You face no more wrath of God that you do when you're sinning less Because It's still zero.
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You can't earn the favor of God It's not your work that satisfied the righteous wrath of a holy
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God, but the finished work of Christ And I think if we if we view the propitiatory
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Sacrifice of Jesus Christ rightly then what do we think to ourselves? If you have peace with God, what else do you have?
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What else do you need is a good answer. You don't need anything else If you've got peace with God and you've got a secure hope of the future as first Peter would say if we know where we're
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Going because it's reserved in heaven for us Then what are we worried about? Well, I don't have a job.
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I have problems with my spouse. I have problems with my kids. I'm behind in my homework I think
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I might lose my job. I don't have a job go down the list I can't pay my bills, but I'm not facing the wrath of God.
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I know that when I get to heaven He's not gonna beat me
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He's gonna welcome me Because I'm his child and he sent his son to redeem me if we have the mindset that we have been forgiven so much
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That so much has been removed from us By virtue of the work of Jesus Christ.
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I think we have great peace in that Even though you sin the sins that you don't want to sin and fail to obey and still other areas
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Can you not say with Paul and I'll just close with this Romans 8 verses 1 to 4 this is how we should think
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Even though there are gonna be days where we go. I can't believe what I just did. I can't believe what
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I just said How could
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God possibly still love me listen to Paul in Romans 8? There is therefore now
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No condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus For the law of the
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Spirit of life has set you free in Christ Jesus from the law of sin and death
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For God has done what the law weakened by the flesh could not do by sending his own
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Son in the likeness of sinful flesh and For sin he condemned sin in the flesh in order that the righteous
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Requirement of the law might be fulfilled in us Who walk not according to the flesh but according to the
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Spirit We have a great Savior who's saved us from a great Judgment, let's pray our
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Father in heaven We praise you this morning that even though we deserve hell we deserve deserve your just wrath
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Father you sent your son Jesus Christ to live a
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Perfect life the life that we ought to have lived the life that you command that we live That he
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Suffered and died in our place taking the death that we deserved father that you would
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Then raise him from the dead Showing that he is the Son of God and father we
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Praise you for all these things and praise you that you would grant us faith and that through faith
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You would grant us propitiation that is the satisfaction of Of your wrath your wrath being turned away forever