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Romans chapter 7 · Scripture Unscripted

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  Romans Chapter 7. Let us pray, oh Lord, our God
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  who reigns on high, we love you, King Jesus.
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  Lord, we exalt you over all of our emotions and circumstances.
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  We exalt you over every single person, over every single thing
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  that tries to tear us away. God, from the love and from the
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  communion. God that we share with you.
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  God, we lay down all of our own wants and desires and passions.
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  And God, we take up our cross, Lord, knowing that it brings the
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  eternal life, knowing that it brings the abundant life,
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  knowing that will never be put to shame.
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  Jesus Christ, because of what you did for us.
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  God, I pray that we can let go of all of the things that are
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  entangling us and ensnaring us. God, all of the briars and the
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  thistles and the tares, Lord, that try to choke out the
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  fruitfulness. God, we pray against the bird
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  coming and snatching the seed. God, we pray against the enemy.
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  God, we pray against the accuser of the brethren coming and
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  trying to snatch away the fruitfulness of your word that
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  goes out, Lord, as a beacon of light, as a lighthouse God,
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  drawing many men unto salvation in the remission of their sins.
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  God, I pray in the name of Jesus for a deep, deep, deep growth
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  roots that go down and support the mighty oaks that grow.
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  Father, I pray against shallow soil today.
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  God, I pray against shallowness today.
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  Let's go deep with you, Father. You're the Mariana Trench.
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  God, You're the unsearchable God.
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  You are the the treasure in the field, Father, and I pray that
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  Lord, we've counted the cost. We know that you are worth all
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  of our life from the birth all the way to our death.
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  Lord, come and get us. Father, bring us to yourselves.
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  Show us more of your glory, God, come and get your glory.
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  God, we just want more of you. We want to be found in you and
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  you and us and producing much fruit.
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  God, I pray that we do not leave the fruit on the branch.
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  I pray that the heart harvest will be plenty and the workers
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  will also be plenty. Father, I pray that many people
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  will come and join us. God, in the work that you're
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  doing. Lord, as we're going out into
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  the highways and the byways, Lord, as we're going out and
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  saving those firebrands out of the fire, God, put your
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  righteousness upon us. God, put your white robes.
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  God, put the robes dipped in your blood.
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  God on us. Lord, you are faithful and true.
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  Lord, you are coming soon. God, we see our redemption
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  drawing near. Lord, we just want you.
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  We want more of you. We want to be filled with your
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  self, Lord. We want to be filled with your
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  words, God. We want to be filled with the
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  mind of Christ, God, we just want you.
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  And so Lord, I just prayed that today will be the day of
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  salvation for many. I pray that there will be many
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  that come into the fold. We hear your voice, God, and we
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  obey your voice, God, and we hear that still small voice,
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  Lord, And we sit in your presence, Lord, and we receive
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  from you, God. Give us the impartation today of
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  your holiness, God. Sanctify us, God, as we
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  consecrate this temple. Lord, I pray that we can get rid
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  of anything that is holding us back.
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  God, I pray that Holy Spirit, you will put your finger on
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  anything in our lives that's holding us back from
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  experiencing the fullness of God Almighty.
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  And Lord, we love you. King Jesus, show us your eternal
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  paths. Take us to new heights with you.
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  Father, break our heart for what breaks yours.
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  Help us to see this world all around around us the way that
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  you do. Help us to see the people that
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  we come into contact with every single day the way that you do.
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  Father, I pray for the loss today.
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  I pray for those that are addicted today, God, I pray that
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  you will change that addiction towards you.
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  Let them get addicted to the Holy Spirit.
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  Let them get addicted to your word, God.
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  Let them be addicted to doing whatever it is that you've
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  called them into the perfect and pleasing will for their lives.
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  Father, I pray you'll switch those addictions, God.
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  And I pray in the name of Jesus for the hurting today, for the
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  malnourished today. I pray, God, that will be the
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  answer to that. God, I pray that we'll stay and
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  in the gap with intercessory prayer, I pray that we'll give
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  up the luxuries of this life to be able to send it ahead.
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  God, let us send the treasures ahead unto you, God, by
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  supporting all of the things that you're doing in this world
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  all around us. God, I pray against the schemes
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  of the enemy. God silenced the voice of the
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  accuser today God. Silence that voice today.
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  Silence the lies that are getting spoken over your
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  children today, God. I pray that we can let go of the
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  rat race of this world that will let go of all of the things,
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  Lord, that are trying to distract us from you, Lord.
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  And I pray that we will be hyper fixated upon your face, hyper
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  fixated upon your will for our lives, God, and not going off
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  either side of the road. But we will stay, God, rooted
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  and grounded in your word today and reveal to us the unrevealed
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  things, Lord, of where we should go and what we should do God,
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  and how this day should go. Reveal to us those things by us
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  getting into the word. Let us be like the Bereans, God
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  searching the scriptures daily. I thank you, God, for your
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  eternal words. God, I thank you for the
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  infallible, inerrant word. God, I thank you for the Rhema.
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  Thank you God, that this word is alive and active.
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  God, let us rightly divide it today.
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  Lord, we love you, King Jesus, and it's in your holy and
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  precious name that I pray. Amen.
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  Let's start in verse one. Know you not brothers, for I
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  speak to them that know the law how that the law has dominion
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  over a man as long as he lives. So here he is.
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  Paul's about to wax eloquently. He's about to let us know that
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  the law is in opposition to to the Spirit.
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  Friends, the flesh and the spirit, they do not cohabitate
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  and they are at war with one another.
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  And we must choose who we're going to obey.
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  Are you going to obey your carnal fleshly desires, or are
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  you going to give in to this grace and in to the Spirit?
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  And if you walk in the Spirit, you will not satisfy the lusts
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  of the flesh, the lust of the eyes, and the pride of life will
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  have no power over you. Friends, those are not from God.
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  And Paul is going to show us here how to have victory.
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  We must first identify that there are two warring members
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  within us trying to rule the day.
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  And we must subdue the flesh. We must subdue the carnal
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  desires, and we must walk in the Spirit.
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  Verse 2 For the woman which has a husband is bound by the law to
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  her husband so long as he lives. But if the husband be dead,
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  she's loosed from the law of her husband.
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  So what He's wanting us to know is that the law died, Friends,
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  whenever Jesus Christ was risen from the dead and He snatched
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  the keys to death and to Hades, you need to know that He
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  satisfied all of the Law. We cannot let our works be the
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  measure of how much we love God or where our standing is with
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  God, where our right standing is with God.
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  You cannot see that from your works, friends.
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  It is only by being indwelled by the Holy Spirit and knowing
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  Jesus Christ Christ as your personal Savior that you can
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  start to walk in the Spirit as He gives you the Holy Spirit.
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  Verse 3. So then if while her husband
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  lives she be married to another man, she shall be called an
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  adulteress, but if her husband is dead, she's free from the
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  law, so that she is no adulteress though she be married
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  to another man. We were once married to the
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  flesh. We were once married to the law,
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  and it was through the law that revealed our need for the Lord
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  Jesus Christ. But now that law is dead and we
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  are married and yoked up with Jesus Christ.
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  We are the bride and He is the groom, and we are waiting for
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  Him. We're married, we are his bride.
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  For wherefore, my brothers, you also are become dead to the law
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  by the body of Christ, that you should be married to another,
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  even to him who is raised from the dead, that we should bring
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  forth fruit unto God. So here He's letting us know
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  that when we are in Christ Jesus and the Holy Spirit is in us, we
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  are not a slave to the law, we're not a slave to the flesh
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  anymore. We're not married to that.
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  And this would have been of great importance to the first
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  early century Christians who were coming in.
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  And there was an idea here that they had to come through Moses
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  and had to be circumcised, and they had to obey all of the law
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  in order to come in to God's acceptance.
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  And Paul here is refuting that whole idea and letting them know
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  that all of that is dead. It was fulfilled and Christ
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  expounded upon it. He didn't just abolish it, He
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  expounded upon it and He made it.
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  Of importance to those who will come to Him is that they need to
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  know that all of it was fulfilled in Him and they do not
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  need to be circumcised. They do not need to try to
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  uphold all of the traditions that Christ fulfilled every
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  single bit of it. Not that He went and said it
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  wasn't good. It was just for us to see that
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  there was no way we could ever make it to God Almighty without
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  Him coming and living the perfect life that He did.
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  We got to bring the fruit unto God, and it must come from our
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  relationship with Him through Jesus Christ. 5 For when we were
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  in the flesh, the motions of sins which were by the law, did
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  work in our members to bring forth fruit unto death.
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  That is not a a hard concept for anybody who came to the Lord
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  Jesus Christ late in the game. It's not a hard concept to
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  understand that when we were following after our sinful
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  desires, all it produced was death. 6 But now we are
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  delivered from the law, that being dead, wherein we were
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  held, that we should serve in newness of spirit, and not in
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  the oldness of the letter. So that's what you need to know.
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  This newness, friends, if anyone is in Christ, he's a new
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  creation, and we can have that renewing of our minds, friends,
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  through the washing of the word over us and cleansing us. 7 What
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  shall we say then? Is the law sin?
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  God forbid? No, I had not known sin, but by
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  the law, for I had not known lust, except the law had said
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  you shall not covet. So that's what you need to know
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  here, friends, is that he's saying, should we?
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  What shall we say then? Is the law sin?
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  Should we consider the law sin? Absolutely not.
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  But the law revealed to us our sinfulness and our inability to
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  ever save ourselves. That was the whole point of the
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  whole crux of the whole matter, friends, is that God gave the
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  Law in order to point us to Christ.
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  He knew that we could never fulfill it to the letter, but we
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  desperately needed one who could.
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  And that's exactly what Christ did in His 33 years on this
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  earth. He lived a perfect, sinless life
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  and fulfilled all of the law. So that you and I are not under
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  the law, but we are under grace. Friends, we would not even know
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  what sin is unless the Law had showed us what sin was a But sin
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  taking occasion by the commandment, wrought in me all
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  manner of coveting. For without the law, sin was
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  dead. So that's what you need to know
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  is that from Adam all the way to Moses that they were unaware of
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  all of the sins, even though God had placed eternity into our
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  hearts and minds and we have conscience.
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  God gave the Law through Moses to show us as we progressed
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  further and further on that we were guilty and we were in
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  desperate need of a Savior and his name is Jesus Christ. 9/4 I
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  was alive without the law once, but when the commandment came,
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  sin revived and I died. So here Paul is trying to paint
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  the picture to us that before we could see sin and what sin
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  actually was, we thought that we were alive, but we were only
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  deceived and we were heading down into the darkest pits of
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  despair. And once we can see sin for what
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  it actually truly is, it's death, friends.
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  And there are many today who think that hell is a joke.
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  There are many today who think that their lifestyle is
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  happiness, that their lifestyle is joyful.
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  Their simple lifestyle brings them so much.
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  But what they're going to find as time goes on, that they are
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  serving the Father of lies. And it is only thieving.
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  It is only stealing, killing. It is only destruction and it is
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  only eternal damnation. And Paul here was saying before
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  he knew Christ, he thought he was alive, but he realized he
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  was just dead. 10 And the commandment which was ordained
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  to life I found to be unto death.
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  So he's saying that as he went about trying to fulfill all the
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  law as a Pharisee of the Pharisees, thinking that was
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  going to bring eternal life. Now that he is in Christ, he
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  sees that it was only death upon death. 11 For sin taking
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  occasion by the commandment deceived me, and by it slew me.
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  That is why Paul was upholding all of the traditions, all of
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  the requirements of a Pharisee. He was a Pharisee of Pharisees,
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  came from the school of Gamaliel and was looked up to.
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  He was so zealous for God that he even persecuted the early
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  church. And here, now that he is
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  indwelled with the Holy Spirit, now that he has met the
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  resurrected Christ and communed with him, now he could see that
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  there was perpetual frustration. There was no satisfaction, there
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  was no atonement. There was no peace with God
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  because he did not have Jesus Christ.
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  And now that Jesus Christ has arrived on the scene, He flipped
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  everything over. He turned the world right side
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  up, friends. And we can see our need for a
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  Savior. We can see that we could never
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  save ourselves. 12 Wherefore the law is holy, and the commandment
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  holy, and just and good. So he's saying that Jesus Christ
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  did not come to abolish the law, but to fulfill it, and he filled
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  it to the last letter, Friends. 13 Was then that which is good
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  made death unto me, God forbid. How many of these God forbids.
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  As Paul said here, we can see that there is futile thinking
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  whenever we try to rationalize our sinful behavior.
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  You can see here that we cannot abolish the law.
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  We cannot just call the law sin. Friends, we cannot just sin so
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  that grace can abound. He's showing us the futility of
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  that reasoning and we should not approach God that way.
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  And this to to wrap it all up and to show you what he's trying
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  to say in the most simple terms, friends, is this.
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  When you came to the Lord Jesus Christ, he gave you a license to
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  sin. There might be many of you who
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  understand that that is not right, but bear with me.
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  You have a license. Every single sin that you've
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  ever committed, our committing or will commit is under the
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  blood of Jesus Christ. But if you truly know Him, you
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  will never use that license. That's what you need to know.
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  You are forgiven and it is by grace.
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  But we do not abuse that. We do not abuse it, but when we
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  sin, not if, but when we sin, we do not let condemnation rule the
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  day. We do not let the devil have a
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  heyday by calling our salvation into question.
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  All we do is we confess those things, we repent of those
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  things, and we allow him to sanctify us.
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  God forbid. That we keep sinning so that
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  it'll work death and that death try to tries to get turned
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  around into good. 14 four, We know that the law is spiritual,
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  but I am carnal, sold under sin. So there was a purpose and a
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  reasoning for God to give the law and to Moses for all the
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  Israelites to try and follow. And the reasoning behind it is
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  to point them towards Christ. And here Paul is showing
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  humility. Paul is showing his inability as
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  a Pharisee of Pharisees to try and uphold all of the letter of
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  the law. Here we go. 15 For that which I
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  do, I allow not for what I would that do I not, but what I hate
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  that do I, I do the things that I don't want to do and I don't
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  do the things that I do want to do is essentially what Paul is
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  trying to show us here, that we need Christ, we need the Holy
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  Spirit. We have to rely on the Holy
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  Spirit. We cannot rely on our own flesh
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  and our own reasonings and our own instincts and our own power.
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  We will be put to shame and dismay every single time we
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  leave the leading and the promptings of the Holy Spirit.
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  When we grieve the Holy Spirit, we sear our consciences,
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  friends, and he becomes silent in our lives and we go off just
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  like Samson. We go off thinking the Lord is
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  with us and he's not. And we get pummeled by sin, we
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  get pummeled by the demonic, we get pummeled by Satan whenever
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  we are not indwelled with the Holy Spirit and full of the Holy
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  Spirit. And it's available to us.
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  Friends, we do not have to give in to all of this.
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  What you will find as time goes on is that this Romans 7, do
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  what I don't want to do and do the things I don't want to do,
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  and don't do the things I do want to do.
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  What you're going to find is this window starts to shut and
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  it gets closer and closer together, and as sanctification
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  increases, you will not fall for all of these traps any longer.
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  You're going to see this gap getting shorter and shorter and
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  shorter, and that is the goal. Friends 16 If then I do that
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  which I would not, I consent unto the law that it is good. 17
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  Now then it is no more I that do it, but sin that dwells in me.
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  18 For I know that in me that is in my flesh dwells no good
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  thing, for to will is present with me.
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  But how to perform that which is good?
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  I find not. There is nothing good in US, no,
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  not one thing. Let every man be a liar, and all
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  of our righteousness is filthy rags.
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  That is the purpose and the plan that Jesus Christ wants us to
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  know, that it is only by the indwelling of the Holy Spirit
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  that we can do anything good. He asked the rich young ruler,
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  Why do you you call me good? Only God is good and you need to
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  know that Jesus Christ is God and if we are indwelled with the
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  Holy Spirit, that is all the good that we can possess in our
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  flesh. There is nothing good, and even
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  as a new regenerate creation, we still have to war within our
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  flesh until we are delivered from this body of death. 19 For
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  the good that I would, I do not, but the evil which I would not,
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  that I do. So here you can see this inner
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  turmoil, and this really describes a new believer as they
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  are being sanctified. And as you get a little along
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  with the Lord, you're going to see this gap closing.
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  And it does not mean that we ever arrive on this side of
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  glory. You are going to struggle from
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  now until the end of your life, and that might be dampening to
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  your Spirit. But I want you to know there is
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  victory in Christ and we do not have to keep repeating the same
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  sins. He's going to work on sins that
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  you're not even aware of yet, as He sanctifies you and gets you
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  ready for all of eternity. 20 Now if I do that, I would not.
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  It is no more I that do it, but sin that dwells in me. 21 I find
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  then a law that when I would do good, evil is present with me.
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  22 For I delight in the law of God after the inward man. 23 But
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  I see another law in my members, warring against the law of my
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  mind, and bringing me into captivity to the law of sin,
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  which is in my members. So that is the importance,
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  friends, of bringing every thought into captivity and
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  making them obedient unto Christ.
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  And that is the discipline and the daily practice that we all
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  must adhere to. When you allow your mind to
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  want, when you allow your eyes to wander, when you allow your
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  ears to just take in anything without even being conscience of
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  what it is doing to the inner man, to the Spirit of God that
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  lives inside of you as it grieves the Spirit.
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  As you watch that garbage, as you lust after the material
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  things in this world, you will see that there is this war
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  that's going on within you as you finally get to a place where
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  you can start to take every thought captive when you no
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  longer just allow your mind to wander on, which will result in
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  your actions later. Friends, you must have sin that
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  is perceived before it is ever conceived.
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  And you see that with David on the rooftop when he stares down
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  at Bathsheba. He was perceiving that sin
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  before he ever called for and before he ever had the
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  adulterous affair, before he ever murdered her husband.
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  And that is what you're going to find when you will not take your
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  thoughts into captive is it leads to death.
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  It leads to separation from God Almighty.
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  It leads to your demise, friends.
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  It leads to the grieving of the Holy Spirit and the searing of
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  your conscience. You must pray about everything.
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  You must have Him in the forefront of every decision of
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  every day for every second, friends, and it is disciplined
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  that that can happen. And if you are not there yet,
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  pray to God Almighty to help you to get rid of all of the lusts
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  and to get rid of all of the things that are more
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  entertaining to you than God and His Word and prayer.
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  If you are addicted to sin and addicted to this culture and
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  addicted to all of the disgusting things that this
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  world keeps propagating, ask God for deliverance from those
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  things today. Friends, there's hope for you
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  today because you woke up. Today is the day of salvation
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  for you. 24 O wretched man that I am, who shall deliver me from
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  the body of this death. What you need to know is one of
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  the capital punishments of Paul's day is they would chain a
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  man up to a dead body and the rotting of that person's flesh
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  would spread unto the man that was chained to him.
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  And that is what he's referencing here.
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  But he's also referencing the lustful, carnal man.
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  And we need deliverance from him.
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  And the only one who has the power to deliver us from it is
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  Jesus Christ and Jesus alone. There's no deliverance apart
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  from the name of the Lord Jesus Christ, which is the name above
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  all names. Bring that name upon your lips
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  and watch the darkness flee. We'll end on 25I thank God
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  through Jesus Christ our Lord. So then with the mind, I myself
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  serve the law of God, but with the flesh, the law of sin, we
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  will one day be rescued from this carnal mortal body that is
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  wasting away, that is subject to the judgment that God gave it
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  back in the garden, and we will be with Him forever as immortal.
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  And all we really want is Him and everything we do is for Him.
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  It is not for eternal life. It is not for the rewards.
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  And because we have that mindset, eternal life and reward
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  shall follow. It is Jesus Christ alone that we
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  press towards. I hope you've been blessed by
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  this amazing chapter here in God's Word.
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  I love you, I'm praying for you. We'll see you back here
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  tomorrow. God bless you.