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Pastor Chuck Swindoll | Insight for Living – Guilt vs. Grace, Part 1 · INSIGHT FOR LIVING: Biblical Wisdom For Everyday Living

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  Speaker 1: Guilt is a nagging emotion that can ruin an otherwise
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  Speaker 1: good day. For example, after consuming a big bowl of
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  Speaker 1: chocolate ice cream, sometimes we feel remorseful, but it's nothing
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  Speaker 1: like the shame we feel after we've really blown it.
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  Speaker 1: That crushing weight of failure whispers.
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  Speaker 2: You'll never recover from this.
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  Speaker 1: Today, on Insight for Living, Chuckswindaul reveals why guilt usually
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  Speaker 1: wins over grace in our lives and how we can
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  Speaker 1: break free from its stranglehold. In our study of Paul's
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  Speaker 1: Letter to the Romans, let's discover this magnificent truth together.
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  Speaker 1: Where sin abounds, grace superabounds.
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  Speaker 2: Well, we're in a section of Romans that is challenging,
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  Speaker 2: to say the least, but it is neither confusing convoluted.
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  Speaker 2: It is just simply compressed, just compressed a lot of
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  Speaker 2: great thoughts surrounding a very simple principle that we're going
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  Speaker 2: to unfold today that will help you understand why we
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  Speaker 2: seem to live under such guilt and under such fear
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  Speaker 2: of death. I'll be reading from Romans five, beginning in
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  Speaker 2: verse twelve down through verse twenty one. Romans five twelve. Therefore,
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  Speaker 2: just as through one man, sin entered into the world
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  Speaker 2: and death through sin. And so death spread to all
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  Speaker 2: men because all sin. For until the law, sin was
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  Speaker 2: in the world. But sin is not imputed. The word
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  Speaker 2: means charged to the account of another, but sin is
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  Speaker 2: not charged to the account of another when there is
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  Speaker 2: no law. Nevertheless, death reigned from Adam until Moses, even
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  Speaker 2: over those who had not sinned, in the likeness of
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  Speaker 2: the offense of Adam, who was a type of him
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  Speaker 2: who was to come. But the free gift is not
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  Speaker 2: like the transgression. For if by the transgression of the One,
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  Speaker 2: the many died, much more did the grace of God
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  Speaker 2: and the gift by the grace of the one man
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  Speaker 2: Jesus Christ, abound to the many. The gift is not
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  Speaker 2: like that which came through the one who sinned. For
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  Speaker 2: on the one hand, the judgment arose from one transgression,
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  Speaker 2: resulting in condemnation, But on the other hand, the free
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  Speaker 2: gift arose from many transgressions, resulting in justification. For if
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  Speaker 2: by the transgression of the One, death reigned through the One,
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  Speaker 2: much more those who received the abundance of grace and
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  Speaker 2: of the gift of righteousness will reign in life through
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  Speaker 2: the One Jesus Christ. So then, as through one transgression
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  Speaker 2: there resulted condemnation to all men, even so through one
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  Speaker 2: act of righteousness there resulted justification of life to all men.
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  Speaker 2: For as through the one man's disobedience, the many were
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  Speaker 2: made sinners, even so through the obedience of the one,
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  Speaker 2: the many will be made righteous. The law came in
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  Speaker 2: so that the transgression would increase. But where sin increased,
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  Speaker 2: grace abounded, all the more so that as sin reigned
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  Speaker 2: in death, even so grace would reign through righteousness to
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  Speaker 2: eternal life. Through Jesus Christ, our Lord.
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  Speaker 1: You're listening to Insight for Living. To dig deeper into
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  Speaker 1: to insight dot org slash offer Chuck title Today's message
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  Speaker 1: Guilt versus Grace.
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  Speaker 2: Guilt and grace have been battling it out all throughout time.
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  Speaker 2: It's like it never goes away, and tragically, guilt usually
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  Speaker 2: wins over grace. I cannot figure it out, but I
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  Speaker 2: have found that more people would rather this is true,
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  Speaker 2: would rather live under guilt than embrace a grace lifestyle.
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  Speaker 2: I don't understand it and to make matters worse. Many
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  Speaker 2: love making other people feel as guilty about doing things
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  Speaker 2: as they could possibly make them, especially things they don't
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  Speaker 2: think that they ought to be doing. Take Mildred the
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  Speaker 2: Church Gossip, for example. Self appointed monitor of the church's morals,
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  Speaker 2: she kept sticking her nose in other people's business. Several
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  Speaker 2: members did not approve of her curricular activities, but they
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  Speaker 2: feared her enough to maintain their silence. Mildred made a mistake, however,
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  Speaker 2: when she accused George, a new member, of being an alcoholic.
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  Speaker 2: After she saw his old pickup parked in front of
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  Speaker 2: the town's only bar one afternoon. She emphatically told George
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  Speaker 2: and several others that everyone seeing it there would know
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  Speaker 2: what he was doing. George, a man of few words,
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  Speaker 2: stared at her for a moment and just turned and
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  Speaker 2: walked away. He didn't explain, defend, or deny. You said nothing. However,
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  Speaker 2: later that evening, George quietly parked his pick up in
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  Speaker 2: front of Mildred's house, walked home, and left it there
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  Speaker 2: all night. You gotta love George. Now, I got a question,
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  Speaker 2: how come the church is full of more Mildreds and
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  Speaker 2: we don't have enough Georges. Why is it that we
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  Speaker 2: would love that kind of thing rather than want of
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  Speaker 2: free people to be all they can be under the
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  Speaker 2: grace of God. Where did all this get started? How
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  Speaker 2: did this guilt thing get kicked in and especially in
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  Speaker 2: the ranks of the Christian Since when do we think
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  Speaker 2: we can somehow manipulate people into believing in Jesus, or
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  Speaker 2: by judgment and argument, think that we can attract them
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  Speaker 2: to Christ. I've never heard anybody say, well, I lost
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  Speaker 2: an argument, so I just had to come to Christ.
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  Speaker 2: Was so embarrassed, I just had to believe in Jesus.
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  Speaker 2: It doesn't work like that. Just like one theologian wrote,
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  Speaker 2: you may be able to compel people to maintain certain
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  Speaker 2: minimum standards by stressing duty, but the highest moral and
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  Speaker 2: spiritual achievements depend not upon a push, but a pull.
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  Speaker 2: People must be charmed into righteousness. Makes you think, doesn't it.
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  Speaker 2: There's not an ounce of charm in Mildred. There's some
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  Speaker 2: charm in George, but he makes me nervous. Why because
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  Speaker 2: you don't understand the issue of guilt and sin. You've
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  Speaker 2: never really thought how deeply entrenched you have been for
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  Speaker 2: far too long, and you don't have to live like that.
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  Speaker 2: Nor does it mean when you live with Christ, you
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  Speaker 2: live as you please. So don't go there. That's chapters
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  Speaker 2: six and seven of Romans. It means, for the first
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  Speaker 2: time in your life under grace, you're able to do
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  Speaker 2: as Christ what have you do, and live a life
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  Speaker 2: free of guilt. How good is that? So we have
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  Speaker 2: to go back, to go way back. Romans five twelve
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  Speaker 2: takes us far back in time to a place called
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  Speaker 2: the Garden of Eden. You've heard of that. That's where
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  Speaker 2: God placed the first man he created, and shortly thereafter
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  Speaker 2: placed the woman alongside him. And he made it clear
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  Speaker 2: to Adam and Eve that everything in the garden they
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  Speaker 2: were to enjoy. How gracious is that? But but the
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  Speaker 2: tree of the knowledge of good and evil, don't eat
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  Speaker 2: of it. The day you eat of it dying, you
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  Speaker 2: will die literally, dying physically that will kick in. You
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  Speaker 2: will die instantly spiritually. There will be a gap between
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  Speaker 2: your relationship with me. As soon as you eat. To
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  Speaker 2: make matters worse, you will open a sewage pipe that
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  Speaker 2: will pollute the stream of humanity the rest of time.
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  Speaker 2: Don't eat, don't take of the tree. You and I
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  Speaker 2: know that Adam ate and as a result. Theologians tell
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  Speaker 2: us he acted as our federal head, and because he
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  Speaker 2: ate and sinned, so we have the same pollution in
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  Speaker 2: our system. It's impossible to bring a child into this
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  Speaker 2: world free of sin, because there's never been a parent
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  Speaker 2: two free of sin who came from parents who were sinful.
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  Speaker 2: All of this takes us to Romans five and verse twelve, however,
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  Speaker 2: before plunging into them, and really they are not as
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  Speaker 2: complicated as they may appear to be. Let's kind of
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  Speaker 2: get a sort of an overview of where we have
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  Speaker 2: been and where we're going. See the first word in
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  Speaker 2: verse one and compare it to the first word in
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  Speaker 2: verse twelve. Got your bible open Romans five to one. Therefore,
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  Speaker 2: being justified by faith, we have peace with God through
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  Speaker 2: our Lord Jesus Christ. Look at the first word. Therefore,
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  Speaker 2: he's connecting it to the fourth chapter. We won't go there,
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  Speaker 2: but the whole point of chapter five, verses one to eleven.
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  Speaker 2: These are the benefits of now that you have believed
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  Speaker 2: in Christ. We have peace with God. And with peace
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  Speaker 2: comes a large number of things. Hope, exalting in tribulation,
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  Speaker 2: exulting in God himself, and the love of God has
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  Speaker 2: proven itself to us in sending his son for us.
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  Speaker 2: What benefits come our way? Verse twelve. Therefore, Ah, that
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  Speaker 2: little connecting particle is saying, there's a logic thought that's
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  Speaker 2: continuing on. This is no alien intrusion into the argument
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  Speaker 2: of Paul. This is all part of the thought. It's
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  Speaker 2: as if there's no period. It says, if there are
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  Speaker 2: only commas and semicolons taking you through all of chapter five,
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  Speaker 2: all the benefits of verses one through eleven, introducing us
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  Speaker 2: to a problem much deeper. That keeps people from joining
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  Speaker 2: the benefits. It also helps us understand how those benefits
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  Speaker 2: came to be ours in Christ. So don't miss the two. Therefore,
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  Speaker 2: there's a second observation. I'll want you to notice there's
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  Speaker 2: a progression of thought in the verses in front of
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  Speaker 2: us twelve through twenty one. Some people like a literation.
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  Speaker 2: It's a four bit word for the outlines starting with
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  Speaker 2: the same letter. So here's one to put on for size.
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  Speaker 2: Humanity's ruin is in verses twelve, thirteen, and fourteen. The
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  Speaker 2: ruin of humanity the rescue is described in fifteen through nineteen.
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  Speaker 2: Humanities rescue fifteen to nineteen, and then the rain r eign.
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  Speaker 2: The rain of the believer in Grace is Verses twenty
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  Speaker 2: and twenty one. The ruin leads to the rescue, which
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  Speaker 2: results in the rain. Now we're ready, let's dig. In
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  Speaker 2: Verse twelve introduces the entrance of sin and death to
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  Speaker 2: begin with. Now you got to put your thinking caps on.
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  Speaker 2: I said, it will come clear to you. But you
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  Speaker 2: can't drift and wander. Okay, you gotta concentrate. So let's concentrate. Therefore,
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  Speaker 2: through one man, sin entered into the world, and death
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  Speaker 2: through sin stop. There with the sin of Adam, there
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  Speaker 2: was introduced into the world. And from then on the
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  Speaker 2: problem of sin. Sin became king and the queen Death
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  Speaker 2: reigned alongside the king. They're always connected, like grace and
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  Speaker 2: peace are always connected. So sin and death. Where you
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  Speaker 2: see death, you find sin. Where you find sin, you
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  Speaker 2: locate death. Sin and death came from Adam when he sinned.
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  Speaker 2: We all have sinned. We all have sinned. So it
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  Speaker 2: introduces sin and death. Read on, and death through sin,
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  Speaker 2: and so death spread to all men and women, boys
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  Speaker 2: and girls, because all sin. Remember what I said, Death
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  Speaker 2: and sin aways connected like Siamese twins connected at the hip,
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  Speaker 2: like king and queen reigning together right alongside each other.
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  Speaker 2: So sin and death spread to all men. You can
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  Speaker 2: just feel the pollution as it runs through the system.
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  Speaker 2: Sin and death, Sin and death. There's never been a
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  Speaker 2: person who hasn't sinned. There's never been one who won't die.
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  Speaker 2: Oh save a couple that were set aside for another purpose.
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  Speaker 2: But you know, as one man said, the statistics on
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  Speaker 2: death are quite impressive. One out of one dies. So
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  Speaker 2: if you sin, you die, okay, and has spread to
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  Speaker 2: all humanity. Let's go further. Until the law sin was
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  Speaker 2: in the world, but sin is not charged to our
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  Speaker 2: account where there is no law. Nevertheless, death reigned from
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  Speaker 2: Adam until Moses, even over those who had not sinned
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  Speaker 2: in the likeness of the offense of Adam. What does
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  Speaker 2: that mean? Now, look again at the verses. Until the
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  Speaker 2: law sin was in the world, how do we know
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  Speaker 2: that because people died. Wherever there is death, there is
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  Speaker 2: the presence of sin. But with Moses came the law.
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  Speaker 2: What did that do? It specified sin? It spelled out
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  Speaker 2: what sin is. You shall not covet you shall not
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  Speaker 2: have any other God before you. You shall not use
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  Speaker 2: the Lord's name in vain. You shall not commit adultery,
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  Speaker 2: you shall not steal, you shall not murder. All those
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  Speaker 2: commands and many others came with the writing of the law,
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  Speaker 2: so there was a specificity given to sin. But until
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  Speaker 2: Moses came, there was just sin in general. We know
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  Speaker 2: that because death still reigned supreme. Remember death is the queen,
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  Speaker 2: Sin is the king. So it spread to all humanity,
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  Speaker 2: and guilt from sin by the law came along when
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  Speaker 2: the law came. Hoh, there came along guilt. I know
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  Speaker 2: now that this is wrong, because God has written it,
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  Speaker 2: and I know by reading it that it's wrong. Somebody
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  Speaker 2: gave me a little cartoon of Dennis the Menace for
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  Speaker 2: one of the services this morning. On the fence, Dennis
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  Speaker 2: is straddling. It says, keep out on the tree. It
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  Speaker 2: reads no trespassing private property. Dennis says to his buddy Joey.
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  Speaker 2: Soon as you learn to read, Joey, the whole world's
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  Speaker 2: against you. As soon as you learn to read the law, friend,
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  Speaker 2: it's all against you. And you suddenly know, Ah, I
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  Speaker 2: am really under guilt because the law brings all of that.
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  Speaker 2: It's for a purpose to make anybody who thinks he
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  Speaker 2: isn't a center aware that he is. To cause any
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  Speaker 2: woman to realize that she who thinks she is so perfect,
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  Speaker 2: read the law and you'll realize how imperfect you are. However,
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  Speaker 2: until the law came, there was no specificity. There was
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  Speaker 2: no detail given on what's right and what's wrong. But
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  Speaker 2: there was still sin. You got to think like Paul
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  Speaker 2: here verse fourteen. Nevertheless, death reigned from Adam until Moses,
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  Speaker 2: even over those who had not sinned, and the likeness
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  Speaker 2: of the offense of Adam. Even though we didn't eat
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  Speaker 2: of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil,
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  Speaker 2: still we sin, and therefore there is still the presence
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  Speaker 2: of sin. However, with the coming of the Law, guilt
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  Speaker 2: a rose, and from then on it's a whole nother story.
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  Speaker 2: We'll get there next time. Now we get to verse fifteen.
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  Speaker 2: Here's where it gets very interesting. We've looked at Adam,
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  Speaker 2: who introduced sin and death. Think of Adam on one
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  Speaker 2: side and the column of your mind, and think of
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  Speaker 2: Christ on the other. Put a vertical line in the middle,
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  Speaker 2: and we'll draw some contrasts in fifteen, sixteen, and seventeen.
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  Speaker 2: Then we'll do some comparing in eighteen and ninety. Look
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  Speaker 2: at the contrast between Adam, who introduced sin in the Fall,
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  Speaker 2: and Christ, who introduced righteousness at the cross got him.
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  Speaker 2: Adam in the fall transgression, Christ on the cross righteousness.
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  Speaker 2: Now look at fifteen. But the free gift is not
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  Speaker 2: like the transgression. The Cross and what was provided is
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  Speaker 2: not at all like the fall and what resulted. For
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  Speaker 2: if by the transgression of the one that's Adam, the
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  Speaker 2: many died, much more did the grace of God and
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  Speaker 2: the gift, by the grace of the one man Jesus,
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  Speaker 2: abound to many. You see it. This is contrasting the
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  Speaker 2: results of the act, the results of the fall. Verse
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  Speaker 2: fifteen tells us many died. As a matter of fact,
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  Speaker 2: it was a pollution that impacted all of humanity. But
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  Speaker 2: as a result of the Cross and the gift of
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  Speaker 2: eternal life, there are many who live on because of
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  Speaker 2: one man. Some of us are old enough to remember
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  Speaker 2: the speeches of Sir Winston Churchill in the dark dog
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  Speaker 2: days of the United Kingdom. He was the hope of
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  Speaker 2: the nation. As the blitzkrig of the Nazis continued to
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  Speaker 2: plague London and other parts of the countryside around England.
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  Speaker 2: On one occasion in nineteen forty, the Royal Air Force
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  Speaker 2: flew against them the Luftwaffe, and turned them around and
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  Speaker 2: sent them the other way and won that battle. And
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  Speaker 2: shortly thereafter Churchill appeared before the House of Commons August
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  Speaker 2: nineteen forty. The record is there. He delivered a wonderful speech,
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  Speaker 2: and it was a line that lives in his legacy.
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  Speaker 2: Never in the field of human conflict was so much
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  Speaker 2: owed by so many to so few. If I could
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  Speaker 2: borrow from Churchill's thought and apply it to Adam and Christ,
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  Speaker 2: never in the history of humanity was so much owed
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  Speaker 2: by so many to only one person. One person died,
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  Speaker 2: and all the world can benefit from the death of Christ.
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  Speaker 2: I say can, because not all have Jesus paid it
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  Speaker 2: all for us, And as a result we have the
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  Speaker 2: opportunity to trust in Christ and to get the benefits
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  Speaker 2: that follow that trust. So the contrast continues into verse sixteen.
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  Speaker 2: The gift. Now we're back to Christ. He's starting on
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  Speaker 2: that side of the column. The gift is not like
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  Speaker 2: that which came through the one who sinned. So the
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  Speaker 2: gift brought at the cross from Christ you read here
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  Speaker 2: is not like the one that sinned. For on the
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  Speaker 2: one hand, the judgment arose from one transgression resulting in
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  Speaker 2: condemnation as a result of his fall, Judgment flowed in
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  Speaker 2: the wake of sin and death. Condemnation flowed along with
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  Speaker 2: the pollution of humanity. Now look at the change. But
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  Speaker 2: on the other hand, the free gift arose from many
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  Speaker 2: transgressions resulting in justification. There's our word again, the sovereign
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  Speaker 2: act of God, whereby he declares righteous the believing sinner,
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  Speaker 2: while we are still in a sinning state, still carrying
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  Speaker 2: around in our bodies the nature of sin. However, the
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  Speaker 2: great benefit is that Christ declares us righteous in himself
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  Speaker 2: when we believe in him, and it breaks that grip
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  Speaker 2: of guilt and sin on us. Hold on, we'll get
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  Speaker 2: to it in chapter six. But the good news is
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  Speaker 2: when that grip is broken, we can now live above
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  Speaker 2: the drag and domination of sin's impulse. That's what the
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  Speaker 2: gift provides. It's by grace, and what a wonderful way
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  Speaker 2: to live, rather than under the guilt of condemnation or
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  Speaker 2: the condemnation of guilt. There's a third contrast. First was
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  Speaker 2: the contrast of results verse fifteen. Then the contrast of
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  Speaker 2: the cause verse sixteen. Now the contrast of choice seventeen.
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  Speaker 2: For if by the transgression of one, now you answer me,
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  Speaker 2: who is that? Referring to who is the one here?
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  Speaker 2: That's it Adam. By the transgression of Adam, death reign
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  Speaker 2: through the One. Much more, those who receive the abundance
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  Speaker 2: of grace and the gift of righteousness will reign in
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  Speaker 2: the life through the One. We don't even have to
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  Speaker 2: answer here, he tells us, Jesus Christ. Look closely at
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  Speaker 2: the verse. By the transgression of Adam, death reigned through him.
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  Speaker 2: Remember he's our federal head. Much more, those who received
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  Speaker 2: the abundance of grace and that gift of righteousness being justified,
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  Speaker 2: will reign in life through the One Jesus Christ. I
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  Speaker 2: came across an interesting explanation of this, and I found
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  Speaker 2: it in the message written by Eugene Peterson. Listen to
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  Speaker 2: these words. Sin disturbed relations with God and everything and everyone.
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  Speaker 2: But the extent of the disturbance was not clear until
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  Speaker 2: God spelled it out in detail to Moses. So death,
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  Speaker 2: this huge abyss separating us from God, dominated the landscape
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  Speaker 2: from Adam to Moses. Even those who didn't sin precisely
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  Speaker 2: as Adam did by this obeying a specific command of God,
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  Speaker 2: still had to experience this termination of life, the separation
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  Speaker 2: from God. But Adam, who got us into this, also
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  Speaker 2: points ahead to the one who will get us out
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  Speaker 2: of it. What a magnificent relief it is for us
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  Speaker 2: to see ourselves no longer in Adam and under the
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  Speaker 2: domination of a king and queen who ruled our lives
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  Speaker 2: long enough. We are now living under the authority of
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  Speaker 2: a new monarch whose name is Jesus the Lord, and
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  Speaker 2: he provides a way of life called grace. The freedom
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  Speaker 2: of the guilt of the old life is now ours
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  Speaker 2: to enjoy.
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  Speaker 1: Isn't that a relief? We're no longer ruled by the
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