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So, we've been continuing our study through Romans, which has been a great joy and a challenge so far.
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Last week, I talked to you a bit about Paul's case that he's been building for us, justification by faith alone, and he's talked to us quite a bit about the law up to this point.
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But mostly about what the law cannot do. The law cannot save us, he said in chapters 3 through 5. It cannot sanctify us, he said in chapter 6.
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It can no longer condemn us, the first six verses of chapter 7.
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We are justified through grace alone, by faith alone, in Christ alone, forever. Praise God.
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That our right standing before him is conditioned only on our belief in him.
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And that belief is a gift from him.
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Jesus sought me when a stranger.
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We are now bound up with Jesus Christ.
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Last week, we talked about what the law can and does do.
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The purpose that it does in fact serve.
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And we saw from the text that it exposes, arouses, and reveals the magnitude of our sin.
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Those verses 7 through 13.
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And now we get back to what the law cannot do.
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We get back to the fact that the law cannot sanctify us.
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So, we were saved by faith.
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We're not now being perfected by the law.
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We were saved by faith and we shall be perfected by faith.
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That's the major point of the text that's before us.
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But I think for us to really properly understand this, to wrap our minds around it, to find the value in the text for us,
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we must first understand the vantage point that Paul is speaking from.
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We have to know what it is that he means.
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There's varying opinions.
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Commentators say different things about who Paul is, what he's referring to as he says this.
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I do what I want, I don't do what I want.
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Here's what's going on in me, this battle that's waging within me.
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There are those who think that Paul is giving us an account of him prior to conversion,
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before he places faith in Christ.
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There are those, the majority, church history would agree, I agree,
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that this is Paul as he sat down to write this letter.
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This is Paul, this is his present day experience that he's penning for us.
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I want to show you why I believe that to be true before we continue our study together.
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Number one reason I believe this to be true,
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Paul's use of first person, present pronouns.
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Not just first person, but first person, present pronouns.
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He uses I or me or my in the present tense 39 times in these verses.
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I hope I counted them right.
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I did it this morning at 530, so I'm not sure, but I'm pretty sure I counted that right.
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It's a lot.
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A lot of times he uses these personal, present pronouns to speak of himself.
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Second reason, Paul speaks of the law as only a Christian can.
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Verse 22, he says,
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For I delight in the law of God.
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I find great joy in the holiness of God.
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That's what he's saying.
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And not just that he has a mental assent to it,
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not just that he says,
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Yeah, that seems good to me.
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But he delights in it in his inner being.
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He has an abiding delight in the law of God.
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An internal joy that only a Christian can have.
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Third reason I believe he's speaking of his present condition
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is that Paul speaks of himself as only a Christian can.
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Look at verse 18.
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He says,
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For I know that nothing good dwells in me, that is in my flesh.
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That is a man that has been broken over who he is.
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That is a man that understands his fallen state,
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who knows that he was created in the image of God,
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but that it was completely destroyed by sin.
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He gets that weight.
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He's broken of spirit.
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But lest we misunderstand who he is,
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he clarifies,
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that is in my flesh.
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My body has fallen.
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My spirit has been renewed.
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Paul gives us another example of a matured Christian
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also living in this way,
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having this present day struggle with sin.
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in Galatians chapter 2,
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verse 11 through 13.
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I ask you to turn there with me.
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Galatians 2,
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verse 11.
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This event happens at the Council of Jerusalem.
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And Paul starts verse 11 by saying,
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but when Cephas,
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now Cephas is the Greek word for rock,
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so it would have been the equivalent,
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the Greek equivalent of Peter's Hebrew name.
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And you'll understand why in a second,
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why he calls him Cephas.
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But when Cephas came to Antioch,
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I opposed him to his face
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because he stood condemned.
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For before certain men came from James,
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he was eating with the Gentiles.
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But when they came,
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he drew back and separated himself,
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fearing the circumcision party.
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And the rest of the Jews acted hypocritically,
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hypocritically,
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excuse me,
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hypocritically,
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okay, reset,
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hypocritically, thank you,
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along with him,
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so that even Barnabas was led astray
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by their hypocrisy.
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You remember the life of Peter?
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Some of the first real account
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of his sinfulness
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was his denial of Jesus Christ.
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What was the sin that motivated that?
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A man who believed,
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who had professed
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that Jesus Christ was the Son of God.
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Fear,
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which was hypocrisy.
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He feared who?
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He feared the Jews.
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He feared those who were
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putting to death Jesus Christ.
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So here we see then
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the same sin cycling back up
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in the life of Peter.
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This is present day experience.
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This is the life of every Christian.
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Paul now,
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at this point of writing Romans,
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has been a Christian for 20 years.
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And yet still he wages war
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against sin.
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We all experience that.
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You've placed your faith in Christ.
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You experience this.
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You battle with your old self.
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It still exists.
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And that's why we must understand
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this text properly
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to wring the value out of it
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for our living.
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The opposite view,
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the opposition that says
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this was pre-regeneration for Paul,
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primarily pulls that from verse 14
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where he says,
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but I am of the flesh
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sold under sin.
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The idea of bond servanthood
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to sin.
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But he clarifies that
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in verse 23.
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He says,
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the sin that dwells
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in his members,
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in that old self.
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So I think it's a very simple
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understanding of that
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that we can get around that with.
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J.I. Packer,
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in an article
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defending the view
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that I'm presenting to you
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on this text,
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wrote this,
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Paul is not telling us
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that the life
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of the wretched man
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is as bad as it could be,
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only that it is not as good
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as it should be.
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And that because the man
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delights the law
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and longs to keep it
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perfectly,
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his continued inability
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to do so
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troubles him acutely.
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The wretched man
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is Paul himself,
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spontaneously voicing
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his distress
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at not being a better Christian
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than he is.
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So you see that?
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Part of the fear
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that comes from
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the opposing view
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that this is Paul
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pre-regeneration,
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pre-conversion,
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is that this gives us
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some sort of license.
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Gives us an air
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of defeatism.
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Well,
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I can't have victory
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over sin.
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Look at Paul.
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This is Paul.
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He's been a Christian
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for 20 years.
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Amazing man of faith.
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And yet,
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he still struggles.
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How can I possibly
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have victory
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in all of this?
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He gives us
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the answer
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so clearly
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at the end
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of this text
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about how we will
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have victory
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in this.
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And we'll certainly
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get there together.
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So what is it
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that Paul desires
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us to learn?
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We have a proper
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perspective of it.
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What is it that Paul
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desires to teach us,
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at least in part,
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today?
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Firstly,
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he's arguing
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for the goodness
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and spirituality
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of the law of God.
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Verse 13,
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he says,
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Did that which is good
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then bring death
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to me?
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By no means.
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Verse 12,
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So the law is holy
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and the commandment
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is holy and righteous
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and good.
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He's continuing
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that argument.
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So, firstly,
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he's arguing
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for the goodness
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and spirituality
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of the law of God.
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Secondly,
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he's arguing
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for the reality
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of what he calls
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indwelling sin.
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Indwelling sin.
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To explain
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why Christians
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are not perfect
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and don't measure up
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to our own
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high standards.
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is presenting
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this idea
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of indwelling sin.
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And I want to show
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you these two things.
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The affirmation
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of the law,
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his esteem
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for the law,
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and his acknowledgement
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of indwelling sin
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in four pairs
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of statements
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here in our text.
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Okay?
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So,
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pair number one,
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Romans 7,
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14a,
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the first part of it,
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his esteem
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for the law,
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for we know
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that the law
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is spiritual.
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The law is from God.
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The second part
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of 14,
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acknowledgement
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of indwelling sin.
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But I,
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am of flesh,
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sold under sin.
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Second pair,
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Romans 7,
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16,
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his esteem
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for the law.
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Now,
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if I do
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what I do not want,
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I agree with the law
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that it is good.
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His acknowledgement
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of indwelling sin,
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Romans 7, 17.
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So,
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now it is no longer
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I who do it,
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but sin
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that dwells
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within me.
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And this is where
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we get that phrase.
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Here's that
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indwelling sin
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term.
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You can see it again
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in verse 20.
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And if I do
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what I do not want,
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it is no longer
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I who do it,
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but sin
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that dwells
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within me.
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Same phrasing there.
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Pair number three
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is the theme
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for the law.
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Verse 22,
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For I delight
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in the law of God
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and my inner being.
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Verse 23,
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his acknowledgement
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of indwelling sin,
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but I see in my members
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another law
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waging war
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against the law
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of my mind
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and making me
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captive to the law
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of sin
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that dwells
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in my members.
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Pair number four,
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the middle part
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of verse 25,
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his esteem
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for the law,
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so that I myself
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serve the law
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of God
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with my mind
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and in his
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acknowledgement
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of indwelling sin,
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the last part
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of verse 25,
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but with my flesh
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I serve the law
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of sin.
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So you can see
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this battle
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going on
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within him.
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Now I'm just going
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to take a quick
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aside here
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just in case
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your mind
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is going this way.
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I am not
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a dualist.
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No one who is
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a member of
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Christ's family
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church here
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is a dualist
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and dualism
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is the idea
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of the little devil
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and the little angel
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on your shoulder
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debating it out
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with you
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and you don't know
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who's going to win.
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We know
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who's going to win.
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I am not
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a dualist
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but yet
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there's still
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a war
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going on
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within us.
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You see that
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in verse 22,
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the law
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of sin
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versus the law
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of the mind
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or our new being
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is this war
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that I'm referring to.
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So there's
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two practical points
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for this morning.
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We see that
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this is the experience
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of all of us.
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Those of us
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who are in Christ
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still deal
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with the burden
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of our flesh.
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Paul says,
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Wretched man
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that I am,
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who will deliver me
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from this
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body
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of death?
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Where Paul was from
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there was an ancient
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tribe that used
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to strap
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dead people
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onto people's backs
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if they committed
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murder.
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The person they murdered
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would be strapped
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onto their back
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and the punishment
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would be that
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this person
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rotted
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and their rot
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spread to the
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living person
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and killed them.
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This could be
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what Paul had in mind.
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He used this
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phrasing.
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Wretched man
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that I am,
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who will deliver me
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from this body
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of death?
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It's killing me.
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Praise be
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to Jesus Christ,
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our Lord.
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Point one is,
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we must fight.
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There is a war.
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We must fight.
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If you are a Christian,
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you must wage war
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against your sin.
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Clay shared with me
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a great analogy,
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which I am making my own,
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but I want to give him
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credit for it.
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I had a friend
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in high school
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named Josh
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that I used to
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slap box with.
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Most of the guys
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in here will probably
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get this, ladies.
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I will try to explain
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how this goes down.
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We would slap box
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and the idea
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is that you don't
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hurt each other.
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It's not quite like
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close-fisted boxing,
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but it still hurts.
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And I'm not
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saying that I'm
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a good slap boxer,
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but I usually won.
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So probably that means
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that Josh was
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a poor slap boxer,
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but occasionally
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I'd get a really
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good shot in on him
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and it would make
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him very mad at me.
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And guys,
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you've all experienced
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this,
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that moment where
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you took it
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just a little too far,
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my handprint
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would be left
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on his cheek
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and he'd get mad.
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And he would come
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after me.
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He was ready
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to kill me.
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He was mad.
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What was my response?
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We were playing a game,
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so I continued
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to have fun with him.
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I continued to
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bob and weave
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and slap him
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and knock him down
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and do those things
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until he would
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calm down.
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That's how we are
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with our sin
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as Christians often.
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We're very
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goofy with it.
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We have fun.
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We're cavalier
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even with it.
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Your sin
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is trying
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to kill you.
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It should be
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taken seriously.
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If I actually
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thought Joshua
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was trying to
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kill me,
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I would have
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acted much
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differently.
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We must
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make war
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against our sin.
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A lot of us
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complain about it.
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A lot of us
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are unhappy.
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We lament
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the sin in our life.
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But we do
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nothing
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about it.
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We must
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make war.
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I started
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reading a book
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this week
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by J.C.
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Ryle
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called
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Holiness.
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It's
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Nature,
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Hindrances,
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Difficulties,
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and Roots.
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It's been a
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fantastic read
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so far.
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He said this
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in that book.
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The true
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Christian is
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called to be
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a soldier
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and must
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behave as such
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from the day
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of his conversion
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to the day
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of his death.
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He is not
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meant to live
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a life of
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religious ease,
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indolence,
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and security.
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He must
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never imagine
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for a moment
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that he can
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sleep and
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doze along
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away to
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heaven,
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like one
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traveling in
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an easy
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carriage.
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If he takes
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his standard
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of Christianity
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from the
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children of
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this world,
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he may be
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content with
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such notions,
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but he will
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find no
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countenance for
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them in the
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word of God.
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If the Bible
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is the rule
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of his faith
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and practice,
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he will find
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his course
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laid down
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very plainly
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in this
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matter.
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He must
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fight.
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Number two,
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our victory
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is sure.
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I love
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that we
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serve the
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sovereign God.
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I love
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that I have
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come to
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understand him
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in that way.
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I know
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that our
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God is
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totally in
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control.
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Our victory
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is sure.
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We have
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been bought.
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That is
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finished.
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What a
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motivation to
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fight.
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I don't
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have to be
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put down
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by these
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temporary
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setbacks
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and my
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failures.
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I can
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continue to
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wage war
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even when I
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lose a
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battle.
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Paul wrote
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to Timothy
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in 1 Timothy
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6.12,
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Fight the
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good fight
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of the
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faith.
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The article
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in front of
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faith that's
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in the ESV
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doesn't actually
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exist in the
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original text.
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The fight
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of faith
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is what
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Paul is
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saying.
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It's a
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fight that we
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fight in
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light of
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this victory.
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It's a
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fight that we
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fight out of
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dependency on
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Christ.
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Our
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salvation, our
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justification was
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bought by
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faith.
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So is our
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sanctification.
17:26
In believing in
17:28
the promises of
17:29
God, he will
17:30
get us
17:31
through.
17:33
But isn't it
17:34
interesting in
17:34
that verse
17:35
that we're
17:36
told Paul's
17:38
commanding
17:39
Timothy, it's
17:40
the imperative
17:40
form, fight.
17:44
Be active.
17:46
Right?
17:47
Nobody who's
17:48
ever fought in a
17:49
war just sat
17:50
in the trenches
17:50
and it was
17:51
said of them
17:52
that they
17:52
fought.
17:53
You've got to
17:54
be active.
17:55
You've got to
17:55
be advancing
17:57
to fight.
17:59
So we see
18:00
that we play
18:00
a part.
18:01
There's a
18:02
responsibility
18:02
on our
18:03
part to
18:04
fight.
18:07
Isn't it
18:07
interesting?
18:08
All throughout
18:09
scripture that
18:09
happens.
18:10
You see those
18:11
two truths
18:11
taught.
18:12
That we are
18:13
to work
18:14
ourselves, but
18:16
yet it's God
18:17
who provides
18:18
the ability to
18:19
do so.
18:20
What does that
18:21
mean for us?
18:22
If you're a
18:22
Christian who
18:23
doesn't wage war
18:23
against sin,
18:25
what do you
18:25
do?
18:25
Do you sit
18:27
around and
18:27
wait for the
18:28
motivation for
18:29
it to happen?
18:30
You suddenly
18:31
find that you
18:32
get up off
18:33
the couch
18:33
and you
18:33
walk to
18:34
your desk
18:34
and you
18:35
open your
18:35
Bible and
18:36
you say,
18:37
what is
18:37
happening to
18:37
me?
18:38
I don't
18:38
know.
18:38
God must
18:38
be providing
18:39
you with
18:39
power to
18:40
do so.
18:42
You'll find
18:43
in the very
18:44
recognition the
18:45
things that you
18:46
should be doing
18:47
to wage war
18:48
against sin,
18:49
the hand of
18:49
God moving
18:50
in your life.
18:52
Be obedient.
18:53
Do what
18:55
you're told
18:55
to do.
18:57
And when you
18:57
do, you
18:58
will see the
18:59
hand of God
18:59
in your life.
19:02
God pushing
19:03
you on to
19:05
where you
19:05
must go.
19:06
I love
19:07
having a
19:08
toddler now.
19:10
I am
19:11
continually
19:12
understanding
19:13
God's grace
19:13
to me with
19:15
a one and a
19:15
half year
19:16
old.
19:17
Because when
19:18
I want
19:18
Cade to go
19:19
someplace,
19:20
Cade is
19:20
utterly sinful
19:21
right now.
19:23
And however
19:23
he feels,
19:24
he acts
19:24
out on it.
19:26
We tend
19:26
to mask
19:27
the way we
19:27
feel.
19:27
We logic it
19:29
away.
19:29
We come up
19:31
with excuses.
19:32
Cade does
19:32
exactly what
19:32
he's thinking.
19:33
So I want
19:33
him to
19:34
come.
19:34
He doesn't
19:35
want to.
19:35
He just
19:36
doesn't
19:36
come.
19:38
He ignores
19:38
me.
19:39
He'll lay
19:39
down on
19:40
the ground,
19:40
throw temper
19:41
tantrums.
19:43
What I do
19:43
is his
19:44
father.
19:45
I go and
19:46
I get him
19:47
and I pick
19:47
him up and
19:48
I hold him
19:49
by the hand
19:49
and I walk
19:50
him to where
19:51
I want him
19:51
to go.
19:53
So is
19:53
Cade
19:54
walking?
19:54
Yes.
19:56
Is there
19:56
an external
19:57
force taking
19:58
him to where
19:59
he should be?
19:59
Yes.
20:02
Absolutely.
20:03
The very
20:04
end of the
20:05
text,
20:07
verse 25,
20:10
Paul says,
20:11
Thanks be to
20:12
God through
20:14
Jesus Christ
20:14
our Lord,
20:15
who will
20:16
deliver me
20:17
from this
20:17
body of
20:18
flesh.
20:19
Thanks be
20:20
to God
20:20
through Jesus
20:21
Christ our
20:23
Lord.
20:25
And here's
20:25
the model he
20:26
gives us
20:27
of repentance
20:28
and belief
20:29
our salvation
20:31
began that
20:32
way,
20:32
turning from
20:33
our sin
20:33
and turning
20:34
toward God.
20:35
But the
20:35
Christian life
20:36
is a life
20:36
of repentance
20:37
and belief,
20:39
turning from
20:39
sin and
20:40
turning toward
20:40
God,
20:41
turning from
20:42
sin and
20:42
turning toward
20:43
moment by
20:44
moment,
20:45
day by
20:45
day,
20:46
turning from
20:47
our sin
20:48
and turning
20:48
toward God.
20:50
This is the
20:50
model of
20:51
repentance
20:51
that Paul
20:52
gives us
20:52
here.
20:53
Number one,
20:54
I love the
20:55
law of God.
20:56
Verse 22,
20:56
I love
20:57
the law
20:58
of God.
20:59
Verse 2,
21:00
I hate
21:00
what I just
21:01
did.
21:02
Sorry,
21:02
not verse 2,
21:03
number 2.
21:04
Verse 15,
21:05
I hate
21:05
what I just
21:06
did.
21:08
Number 3,
21:09
verse 24,
21:10
wretched man
21:10
that I am
21:11
who will set
21:11
me free
21:12
from this
21:12
body of
21:12
death.
21:14
Number 4,
21:15
thanks be
21:15
to God,
21:16
the victory
21:16
will come
21:17
through Jesus
21:18
Christ my
21:19
Lord.
21:20
That is this
21:21
model set
21:23
for us
21:24
of repentance
21:25
and faith
21:26
in Jesus
21:27
Christ.
21:29
We just
21:29
sang a
21:30
wonderful song
21:31
that I love
21:32
and it's
21:32
such an
21:32
encouragement
21:33
to me.
21:33
I know
21:33
you guys
21:33
weren't
21:34
singing for
21:34
me,
21:35
but it
21:36
served me
21:36
this morning.
21:38
Oh,
21:38
that day
21:39
when freed
21:40
from sinning,
21:41
I shall
21:42
see his
21:42
lovely face
21:43
clothed
21:44
then in
21:45
blood
21:45
washed
21:45
of linen,
21:46
how I'll
21:47
sing his
21:48
sovereign
21:49
grace.
21:50
That is
21:51
what we
21:52
look forward
21:52
to as
21:53
Christians
21:53
when we
21:54
can be
21:55
unfettered
21:56
by our
21:56
flesh.
21:57
When it's
21:57
no longer
21:59
an object
22:00
of obstacle
22:01
in our
22:02
lives to
22:02
praising
22:03
Christ
22:04
our
22:04
Lord.
22:06
Our
22:06
victory
22:07
in that
22:07
is sure
22:08
and therefore
22:10
we must
22:12
fight.
22:14
Let's pray
22:14
together.