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Romans chapter 1 · Scripture Unscripted

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  Romans chapter one. Let us pray.
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  Lord our God who reigns on high. You are El Elyon, the most high
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  God. I don't I You are the Lord, you
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  are the master, you are the teacher.
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  Yes, you are our provider. You're the banner over our lives
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  that we wave over every circumstance.
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  God, we wave the banner of Jesus Christ over our house.
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  We wave the banner of Jesus Christ over our workplace.
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  We wave the banner of Jesus Christ over our health and over
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  our wealth. We wave the banner of Jesus
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  Christ over all circumstances and emotions, all of our
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  feelings. God, let us have an unoffendable
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  spirit today. Lord, I pray in the name of
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  Jesus that you will supernaturally embolden us for
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  the fight today. God, we war on our knees.
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  We war against principalities. We war against the darkness of
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  the demonic. God, we war and press against
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  all of the accusations of the enemy, the lies of the enemy.
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  God, we silence those by the name of the Lord Jesus Christ of
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  Nazareth, the long-awaited Messiah.
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  We love you, King Jesus, we thank you for being seated at
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  the right hand of God and going to prepare a place for us.
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  We thank you that we can be seated there with you in
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  heavenly places. We thank you, Lord Jesus, that
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  where you are, we will be. We thank you, Lord Jesus, that
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  you're coming back. And Lord, we thank you that we
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  can wait well in between time. And in the meantime, God help us
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  to finish this race well. Help us to run this race with
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  all perseverance. God help us to extend grace to
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  all those all around us, no matter the class, no matter
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  their skin type, no matter their language, no matter their
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  stature, no matter their status, no matter God, We extend grace
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  out to all mankind, every woman and every child.
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  God, we, Lord, are your ambassadors.
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  And God, we are the ministers of reconciliation for this twisted
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  and dark and perverse world. God, we press against all of the
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  greed and all of the lies and all of the violence.
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  God, and we press against all of the evil.
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  Father and Lord, I pray that you'll form a hedge of
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  protection around us. God protect our families,
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  protect our ministries. God, protect our very minds and
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  our hearts. Lord, I pray that we will be
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  hardened for this fight. Lord as we get into the fight.
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  Father, I pray that you will be the one with the two edged sword
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  that annihilates all of the opposition in the name of Jesus
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  Christ. That is the only power that we
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  possess. God, there is nothing good in
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  US. No.
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  And Lord, we only are resting on the finished work of the cross
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  of what Christ wrought for us at Calvary.
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  So God, that is the only power that we have.
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  And so, Lord, we rest in that, and we know that your yoke is
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  easy and that your burden is light.
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  And so, God, I just pray that by faith we can put our hand to the
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  plow and that we cannot live distracted.
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  Lord, open up our hearts and our minds as we open up your word.
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  Hide your word in our hearts so that we might not sin against
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  you. Holy Spirit, you come and teach
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  us and give us discernment. I decrease as you increase.
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  And it's all about King Jesus. We love you, King Jesus, and
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  it's in your holy and precious and awesome powerful name that I
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  pray. Amen.
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  Let's start in verse one. Paul, servant of Jesus Christ,
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  called to be an apostle, separated unto the Gospel of
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  God. Here we are the book of Romans.
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  This is an entire book about God.
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  God is the number one word that is used repetitively throughout
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  this entire book and this is the gospel of God.
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  And you can see how Paul was a bond servant to the Lord Jesus
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  Christ. And we can see that he had a
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  peculiar apostleship as he was called on the road to Damascus.
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  And he received his apostleship and he received his doctrine
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  from Jesus Christ himself. For three days Paul took no
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  water and no food, as the Lord Jesus Christ himself took him to
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  task and showed him all the things that he must suffer for
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  his namesake. We can see here that this is the
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  good news of God, friends, the God from the foundations of the
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  earth. Before he formed man in his own
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  image and breathed his breath into him, God had a plan and God
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  knew all the things that would happen.
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  He gives us free will, but He already knows what we're going
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  to do. He's the Alpha and the Omega,
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  friends. There is nothing that is hidden
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  from him. He can see it all played out
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  before He even creates it. And it well pleased God to put
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  the Tree of the Knowledge of good and Evil in the garden.
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  And it well pleased God to put the serpents in the garden,
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  because he knew that through all of the trials and tribulations
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  and all of the things that come against us, we would give him
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  all due honor and glory, and it would be from our free will, and
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  it would bring Him the most amount of glory, Friends.
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  And that is a divine mystery, and it calls for wisdom.
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  But this is the Gospel of God 2 which He had promised before by
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  his prophets in the Holy Scriptures.
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  If all the Jews of old would have just paid attention to what
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  God had said throughout the entire Old Testament, they
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  wouldn't have missed Jesus as the Messiah.
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  But thank God for their disobedience so that us wild
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  branches can get grafted in to the natural.
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  But we can see that there is this natural tree that those
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  natural branches will be grafted back into.
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  And you being the unnatural, how much easier would it be for you
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  to be cut off? Don't forget it.
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  We need to bow and reverence and bow and holy fear unto God.
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  Work out your salvation with fear and trembling, friends. 3
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  Concerning his Son Jesus Christ our Lord, which was made of the
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  seed of David according to the flesh.
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  So we know he came from the stump of Jesse.
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  We know that he was from the line of Judah.
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  We know that the lineage of the Lord Jesus Christ can be traced
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  back all the way to David. And God told David that they
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  would never fail for one of his descendants to sit on the
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  throne. And he was talking about Jesus
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  Christ who sits at the throne right now, friends.
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  And he will be seated in Jerusalem, literal geographical
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  Jerusalem, for 1000 years in the Ezekiel temple.
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  And we look forward to that, friends, for and declared to be
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  the Son of God with power according to the spirit of
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  holiness by the resurrection from the dead.
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  So here we can see that Jesus Christ is God because He is the
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  Son of God, which he makes himself equal with God.
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  And you can see that He has all power and that He has the spirit
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  of holiness. There is no holiness apart from
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  Jesus Christ. He is holy, holy, holy friends,
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  and we cover our eyes because of how holy He is.
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  He He was was the the first first born born, the the
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  resurrection resurrection of of the the dead dead, and and the
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  the same same spirit spirit that that raised raised Jesus Jesus
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  Christ Christ from from the the dead dead lives lives in in you
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  you and and lives lives in in me me. and we will rise friends
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  when we're pushed down into the earth 5 by whom we have received
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  grace and apostleship 5 By whom we have received grace and
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  apostleship for obedience to the faith among all nations.
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  For His name there is no name that is higher than the name of
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  the Lord Jesus Christ. And we can see that we are His
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  messengers, and we have received grace.
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  And that is the period that we are in right now, this period of
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  grace, where He's calling many unto repentance, and many unto
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  salvation, and many unto the remission of sins.
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  And blessed is the man whose sins will never be counted
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  against him because of the work of the Lord Jesus Christ on the
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  cross, friends, and that is for all nations.
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  And it is all for His name's sake.
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  Everything is for the name of the Lord Jesus Christ.
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  And we lift that name up higher than any other name on planet
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  earth, friends. And it is the name of Jesus that
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  should be propagated to all nations throughout all times.
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  Sake forever and ever to be blessed.
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  Amen and Amen. 6 and among whom you are also the called of Jesus
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  Christ. We are the called out ones, we
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  are the ecclesia, and the gates of hell will not prevail against
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  the Church. Friend 7 To all that be in Rome,
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  beloved of God, called to be Saints, grace to you, and peace
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  from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ.
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  So he's writing this letter from Corinth, which was a very
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  debaucherous, idolatrous place where lots and lots of
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  disgusting things were happening.
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  And he was thinking about the believers there in Rome who were
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  present on the day of Pentecost, and Paul was eager to go and
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  visit them. And he was withheld because of
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  all of the constraints of travel and because of his missionary
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  efforts. When he's writing this to Rome,
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  he was not there in Rome yet. And so here we can see that Paul
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  is writing to them, and he wants to impart something to them.
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  And he wants to come to them to be blessed as well.
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  And he's calling us Saints, friends.
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  And you might think that you have to become Saints, but it is
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  not the case. When you are identified by the
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  blood of the Lord Jesus Christ, when He has marked you with
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  that, you are automatically, immediately a St.
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  Friends, because you are holy, because He is holy and you are
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  without sin in His sight on the day of judgment, because of the
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  work that He did on the cross. Praise God, Hallelujah that we
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  can be Saints even though we have done things that were
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  counterproductive to the good news and the gospel of the Lord
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  Jesus Christ and the Law. Jesus came and fulfilled the
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  law, friends, and when we come to Him and we receive Him as our
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  Lord and our Savior, we can have the righteousness of Christ and
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  we can be confident that none of the sins that we've ever
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  committed will ever be counted against us on that day.
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  Friends, we are Saints and we have grace, grace abounding, and
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  it is nothing that we have done. It is unmerited.
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  It is not by works, friends. It is not that we have done
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  anything. All of our righteousness is
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  filthy rags in the sight of Jesus Christ, friends.
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  It is only by what He did. It is not by what we do,
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  friends, and we have peace. We have peace and we can only
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  have peace with God through a relationship with Jesus Christ.
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  That is the only peace that you will ever experience on this
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  side of heaven. There is no peace outside of a
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  relationship with God Almighty through his Son Jesus Christ.
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  A first. I thank my God through Jesus
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  Christ for you all that your faith is spoken of throughout
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  the whole world. So you can see here that these
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  Romans, this Roman church was known for their faith.
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  They were known for the devotion to the Lord Jesus Christ and it
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  was spoken of and that is what Paul was eager to partake in.
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  He wanted to go into iron, sharpen iron, and to to be
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  refueled and refilled and encouraged by this early church
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  in Rome. And you can see here that Peter
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  did not establish this church. Paul did not establish this
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  church. We can see here that the fame of
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  the Lord Jesus Christ has been spread abroad, and that people
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  were naturally speaking that name, and naturally they were
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  coming in and forming these congregations. 94 God is my
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  witness, whom I serve with my spirit in the gospel of his Son,
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  that without ceasing I make mention of you always in my
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  prayers. So he is saying that God knows
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  my heart. God knows that I am forever in
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  prayer, and I mention you in those prayers often.
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  And that should be our call. Friends, Pray without ceasing.
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  Rejoice always. Don't worry about anything, but
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  pray about everything. Take every thought captive and
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  turn it into a prayer. Friends, 10 Making requests.
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  If by any means now at length I might have a prosperous journey
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  by the will of God to come unto you.
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  And we know from the last chapter of the book of Acts, we
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  know that Paul had a first class ticket to Rome on Rome's dime.
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  11 For I long to see that I may impart unto you some spiritual
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  gift to the end you may be established.
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  So this is that impartation, friends, this divine exchange as
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  we go in and share the facets of God that He has been well
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  pleased to reveal to us and others who have seen other
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  facets of God because he is so multifaceted that we could live
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  10 lifetimes and not know everything about God.
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  God is in heaven and does whatever He pleases, friends,
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  and God is a spirit and dwells in unapproachable light.
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  And friends, we can only know the things that He chooses to
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  reveal to us about Himself. And He is so well pleased to
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  give us the complete authority from Genesis to Revelation.
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  And that is all we need to know, friends.
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  And it is complete and it is infallible and inerrant, and
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  there is no special teachings out there that we need to try to
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  come into. The knowledge of.
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  God gave us all that we need to know in the complete authority
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  of His Word. But He is unlimited, and God
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  only tells us what we need to know to be saved and to make it
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  into heaven and to be there in His presence.
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  Friends, 12 That is, that I may be comforted together with you
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  by the mutual faith, both of you and me.
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  This Koinonia, this one another ring, one another, is what
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  pleases God. And we should love on our
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  brothers and sisters, and be loved.
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  On 13 Now I would not have you ignorant brothers, that
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  oftentimes I purpose to come to you, but was let hitherto, that
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  I might have some fruit among you also, even as among other
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  Gentiles. So Paul's saying that I am
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  zealous for you and that I desire to come and to share with
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  you what God has revealed to me, and I desire to have the
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  shepherding over you. And that is the heart of God, is
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  that we will feed his lambs and we will feed his sheep.
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  And God, when he gives us divine counsel and when he imparts to
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  his spiritual truths, we should be feeding those and teaching
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  those, and not stay babes in Christ. 14 For I am a debtor
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  both to the Greeks and to the Barbarians, both to the wise and
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  to the unwise. So Paul knew his past, and he
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  knew that the gravity of God revealing his complete authority
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  to him was a responsibility, and he carried that responsibility.
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  And he knew that the gospel were was for all peoples, for the
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  ignorant, and for the learning. 15 So as much as in me is I am
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  ready to preach the gospel to you that are at Rome also.
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  Paul stayed ready. Paul was always ready and thank
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  God for the man or the woman who keeps themselves ready.
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  And when God says go, they have no hindrance, they can go.
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  There is no, let me go back and bury my family, let me go back
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  and tell them what I'm doing. No, it is immediate obedience
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  unto Christ that pleases the Lord, and we will be blessed by
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  that immediate obedience. 16 For I am not ashamed of the gospel
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  of Christ, for it is the power of God unto salvation to
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  everyone that believes, to the Jew 1st and also to the Greek.
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  What a famous passage of our Bible.
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  Friends, I pray that you could say that you are unashamed of
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  the gospel. I pray that there is not a work
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  you and a church you. I pray that there's not a
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  Saturday night you and a Sunday morning you.
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  I pray in the name of Jesus Christ that you are unashamed.
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  No matter where you go. You preach the name of the Lord
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  Jesus Christ. You remember your testimony.
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  You remember your salvation story.
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  You remember where you were at and how far you have come.
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  And we bring that on our minds, friends, as we go out and as we
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  share the good news of the Lord Jesus Christ.
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  We cannot be ashamed of it. We must boldly proclaim that
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  name over all people, no matter how hostile they are towards it.
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  And he's saying that it is the good news of the Lord Jesus
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  Christ that has the power of God to salvation.
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  It saves people. Friends, this power of God has
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  been imparted to Jesus, and all we must do is believe.
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  And we can see here that God's plan is for the Jew first.
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  He always goes to the Jews before he lets the dogs come and
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  eat, which is us. And we are blessed if we have an
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  unoffendable spirit. Friends, we see that God is for
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  the Jews, and we see that God is well pleased to call all unto
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  repentance, regardless of their nationality. 17 For therein is
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  the righteousness of God revealed from faith to faith.
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  As it is written, the just shall live by faith.
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  So you can see here that we don't just start off in faith
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  and then move on into works. We cannot just by faith receive
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  the Lord Jesus Christ and then try to earn our salvation
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  through works. It is from faith to faith,
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  friends, and we have to live by this faith, not by works, so
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  that any man should boast. And James reminds us that if we
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  are living by faith, the natural abundance and the natural
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  overflow will be our works. But we cannot gauge our place
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  with the Lord Jesus Christ by works.
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  It is by faith and faith alone that saves us. 18 For the wrath
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  of God is revealed from heaven against all ungodliness and
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  unrighteousness of men who hold the truth in unrighteousness.
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  So we can see here this world that is guilty before God
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  without the covering of the blood of Jesus Christ.
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  We can see here that the good news of the Lord Jesus Christ
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  reveals our our sinfulness and the fact that we cannot save
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  ourselves. And that is the purpose of this
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  next section of this first chapter here is that God wants
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  us to see our depravity. And it is not by trying to
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  uphold the law that we're going to get in to heaven.
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  And it is not by good works and good deeds that we are going to
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  get into heaven. It is by Jesus Christ alone the
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  blood of Jesus Christ. It is faith in the Lord Jesus
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  Christ alone, friends, that allows us to be covered in His
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  blood and to be seen as holy in the sight of God. 19 because
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  that which may be known of God is manifest in them, for God has
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  showed it unto them. God has placed eternity into the
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  hearts of man. Even those who have never heard
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  the gospel of the Lord Jesus Christ has eternity placed into
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  them. And whenever the gospel of the
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  Lord Jesus Christ is displayed accurately, deep calls to deep.
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  And there is this connection that people understand what it
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  is they have had placed inside of them from birth.
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  That they know that there has to be something more.
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  And whenever Jesus Christ and the Gospel of Jesus Christ is
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  presented, it leaps within them, friends, and they have to make a
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  decision. 20 For the invisible things of him from the creation
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  of the world are clearly seen, being understood by the things
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  that are made, even his eternal power in Godhead, so that they
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  are without excuse. No one will ever stand before
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  God Almighty and say, I didn't know all of creation proclaims
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  His name. Even the Godhead, God the Father
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  and God the Son and God the Holy Ghost has been placed inside of
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  us. Friends, we can see the triune
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  nature even within the human body as a soul and as a spirit
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  and as a body. We can see that God has
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  displayed it in all of creation all around us, and we can see
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  that there is a Creator, and we would do well to worship Him and
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  not worship the creation, which we're going to see as we
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  progress through this passage here. 21 because that when they
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  knew God, they glorified Him not as God.
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  Neither were thankful, but became vain in their
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  imaginations and their foolish heart was darkened.
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  So you can see this Gentile world apostasy being displayed.
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  You can see how we have been given over to a reprobate mind
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  whenever we turn our backs on God, when we refuse to be
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  thankful for the very breath in our lungs, for the very food and
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  the clean drinking water, the shelter and the love that we
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  have for all of the many provisions that God gives us.
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  And we're not thankful. We become hostile towards God.
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  Our hearts become darkened. We start going off into our own
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  vanity and our own imaginations, and we start making idols with
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  our own hands. 22 professing themselves to be wise.
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  They became fools. There are many people who have
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  very high degrees in education that are foolish because they
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  are teaching this evolution of a single cell amoeba.
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  They are teaching that. The world just keeps going on
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  and on. They're teaching that all of the
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  things that are counter biblical are what is right, and they are
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  trying to bring people down to the depths of depravity and
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  making them twice the children of hell that they are.
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  And they are well pleased to teach all of this heresy and
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  they are well pleased to try to explain God away.
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  And they are well pleased to tell the young people who are
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  very impressionable not to believe in an archaic, barbaric
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  book is the Bible that teaches against women and teaches
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  against the modernism and progression that we are seeing
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  in our culture. And they are fools and their
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  hearts are darkened and do not believe the lies of the
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  propaganda that the devil himself is giving the doctrine
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  of demons out. Friends, we do not need those
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  degrees and those plaques on our walls.
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  We are unlearned men that are being completely undone from
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  this world, being unravelled and untangled from this world.
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  And we have received divine counsel from on high, Friends,
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  praise God. Hallelujah for God's sound
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  doctrine and theology. And we need not try to place our
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  worth upon the systems of this world, because they will lead
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  you off and they will lead you astray, friends.
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  And God confounds the wise, and he uses the foolish things of
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  this world to do so. 23 and change the glory of the
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  uncorruptible God into an image made like the corruptible man
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  and birds and four footed beasts and creeping things.
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  This is idol worship at its core.
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  We will serve self and we will call our self gods, and we will
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  become our own idols when we worship other men and women,
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  when we worship politicians and celebrities, when we worship
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  these false teachers, that is idol worship.
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  And then we'll become so depraved and so debased that we
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  actually start worshipping the creation and it is apostasy at
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  its core. 24 Wherefore God also gave them up to uncleanness
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  through the lusts of their own hearts, to dishonor their own
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  bodies between themselves. So here we can see that God
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  gives them over to a powerful delusion so that they will
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  believe the lie, because they refuse to love the truth, and
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  they delighted themselves in evil.
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  You could see this reprobate mind creeping up whenever we
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  turn our backs on God, when we do not care anything for His
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  words, for His teachings, for what does God say about a
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  subject matter? When we try to come into this
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  progressive society that we're trying to create, all you will
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  find is disease and decay and death because the enemies
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  tactics are to steal, kill and destroy.
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  And at the 1st and at the beginning it looks beautiful and
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  it looks like an Angel of light as he masquerades himself
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  around. And then you are going to see
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  that it is nothing but Demise 25 who changed the truth of God
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  into a lie and worshipped and served the creature more than
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  the Creator who is blessed forever.
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  Amen. God Almighty deserves all of our
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  praise and all of our honor and all of our worship.
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  And we do not need to worship the things that He created.
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  How incredibly despicable is it when we fix our eyes and our
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  tension and our adoration upon the very things that God has
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  created? Whether it is beauty, whether it
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  is vanity, whether it is money, whether it is greed and power,
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  whether it is our own selfish ambitions, whether it is the
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  things of this world. When we take our eyes off of
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  God, we become debased friends. We must set our eyes upon God
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  Almighty and allow Him to have the last say.
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  Allow Him to be preeminent in our lives.
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  He is the Alpha and the Omega, forever to be blessed. 26 For
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  this, 'cause God gave them up unto vile affections, for even
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  their women did change the natural use into that which is
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  against nature. So here we're going to get into
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  the realm of homosexuality, which is an abomination unto the
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  Lord, and we try to relegate it to the other sins.
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  And we see our sinful nature and we know that God sees sins as
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  the things that keep us from him.
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  But we need to know that homosexuality is in the category
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  of an abomination unto the Lord, because his natural order is for
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  procreation. His natural order is for the
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  human anatomy to fit together in a way where life brings life in.
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  The marriage bed is holy unto God.
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  The marriage bed is acceptable, and God knows that whenever a
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  husband and a wife stay together, they rear up children
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  who are warriors for Christ, and they train them up in the way
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  they should go, and they draw circles around them of
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  protection. And these men and women go off
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  into the world to take the gospel and to take the whole
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  world, the whole Word, to the whole world.
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  And you can see here that God's plan all the way back from the
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  garden is for a monogamous relationship between one man and
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  one woman, and to stay together, and to rear children unto God.
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  And that is why it is an abomination unto Him.
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  And we need to know that God Almighty desires for one man and
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  one woman to come together. 27 And likewise also the men
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  leaving the natural use of the woman burned in their lust
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  toward one another, men with men working that which is unseemly
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  and receiving in themselves that repayment of their error which
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  was meet. So you can see here that this is
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  where sexually transmitted diseases start coming in.
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  Whenever we have multiple partners, whenever we are
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  engaged in the homosexual lifestyle, whenever we turn our
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  backs on God and we know that God is not in it, it causes us
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  to be hostile towards God. And you see it in our day and it
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  was happening here in Pauls day. During this time in Rome there
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  was a law that actually allowed homosexual marriage and it's no
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  different in our day. And God wasn't in it then and
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  God isn't in it now. And I want you to know, friends,
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  that it is only God that can put people in holy matrimony and it
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  is only God who can separate them.
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  Friends, it is a holy institution.
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  It is not a government institution.
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  It is not a man made institution.
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  It is God ordained. And the reason it is attacked is
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  because Satan knows how important the family unit is.
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  And that is why you see so much hostility towards the family
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  unit. You see so much hostility
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  towards marriage, and you can see it getting muddled and
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  getting tainted. And we call it marriage, but we
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  must just call it something else.
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  It is disgusting and reprobate in the sight of God, and He
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  gives us over to that, and we have the payment of the disease,
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  and have the payment of the hostility towards him, because
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  God's not in it. Friends 28 And even as they did
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  not like to retain God in their knowledge, God gave them over to
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  a reprobate mind to do those things which are not convenient.
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  God's long-suffering with us is His grace.
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  And as you can see from the text, Friends, that eventually
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  God sends that powerful delusion.
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  Eventually God gives them over to the reprobate mind.
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  And you can see it happening all around us, Friends and
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  unreasonable people are unreasonable by definition.
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  You cannot give them reason to try to bring them back over.
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  They are gone over by the wayside and praise God
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  Hallelujah whenever the Spirit of God draws them to himself.
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  And He has many in those homosexual camps that he's
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  calling unto himself. They're there, but their
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  conscience is pricked and they know that it's wrong and God
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  will call them into salvation. Friends, it is not convenient.
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  Whenever we do not retain God in our knowledge, when we turn our
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  backs on Him, it will not be convenient. 29 Being filled with
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  all unrighteousness, fornication, wickedness,
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  covetousness, maliciousness, full of envy, murder, debate,
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  deceit, malignity, whisperers, 30 backbiters, haters of God,
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  despiteful, proud boasters, inventors of evil things,
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  disobedient to parents. 31 without understanding covenant
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  Breakers, without natural affection, implacable,
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  unmerciful so you can see here what is the result of a society
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  that turns their back on God, period.
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  In the story not open for debate, it is exactly what
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  happens whenever we leave the judeo-christian values, when we
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  leave the God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob, when we leave the
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  natural order of the marriage, when we.
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  Enter into the depravity of humanity when we're only relying
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  upon our own common sense theories.
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  Whenever we try to explain away the God of the Bible.
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  These are the things that happen, friends.
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  And you'll see it as time goes on, friends, you will see
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  unrighteousness, will be filled with unrighteousness.
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  You're already seeing a world filled with fornication.
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  You're already seeing a world filled with wickedness.
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  You're already seeing a world filled with covetousness, which
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  is lusting after what is not yours.
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  You already see a world that is filled with maliciousness.
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  This malice, friends, this is the evil intentions against your
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  fellow man. You can already see a world
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  filled with envy. Friends, we are not, we are not
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  happy when somebody else gets something that we want and we'll
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  break them down in order to get it ourselves.
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  You're already seeing a world filled with murder.
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  I need not say another word on it, friends.
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  Just check the statistics. You're seeing a world filled
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  with debate. People love to debate, and it's
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  not about our interpretation of the scripture.
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  It's about obedience, friends. You're already seeing a world
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  filled with deceit. People are looking the part, but
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  deep down their hearts are darkened and full of evil
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  intentions. You're seeing a world filled
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  with malignity. This is the cancerous tumor that
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  grows, friends, that is killing us and eating away and eroding
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  all of our dignity, all of our place here in this land that is
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  filled with the Lord. You see it being eaten away and
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  eroded at the highest levels. You're seeing a world filled
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  with whisperers, those that gossip, those that are tattle
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  tellers, those that lie and tell little white lies.
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  These whisperers friends, you can see a world filled with
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  backbiters, those that as soon as you turn around, they're
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  ready to stab you in the back to take your position.
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  You see a world filled with haters of God.
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  Need I say anything else friends?
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  You see it all around you. People are hostile towards God.
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  You see a world filled with despiteful people.
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  People are not willing to admit whenever they're wrong, they
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  just keep going deeper down and to sin.
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  They're despiteful of anything that is holy, anything that is
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  reverent. You see A world that is filled
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  with pride, friends. We even put it mainstream and
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  make parades out of it, friends, and we think that it's something
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  to tout, but it is despicable in the sight of God.
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  You see a world that is filled with boasters.
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  That is the way of the world. You see people who boast about
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  all of their accolades and that is not the way of God.
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  You see world that is filled with inventors of evil things.
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  We have used all of the modernism to invent new ways of
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  sinning against God and it is blasphemous at the highest
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  levels. Friends.
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  You see a world that is filled with disobedient children to
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  their parents. You see this natural order that
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  has been disrupted and Satan is having a heyday as he puts the
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  nose in the ring. As he puts the ring in the nose
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  and he leads the little children astray off into the doctrine of
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  demons, you see a world that is filled without understanding.
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  They have so much information that is coming their way and
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  they still have no understanding because there is no knowledge
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  apart from the knowledge of God Almighty.
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  Friends, He is the one that put it all into place.
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  And ever since the garden and ever since we chose to eat the
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  fruit, the forbidden fruit, and ever since Cain killed and ever
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  since Ham uncovered the nakedness of his Father, you see
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  that we are despicable in all of our ways and we're hostile
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  towards God and we desperately need a Savior and we cannot save
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  ourselves. This is a world that is filled
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  with covenant Breakers. Promises mean nothing.
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  The yes means no and the no means no.
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  Friends is what we're after. We cannot swear by God or swear
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  by Jerusalem. We cannot make promises,
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  Friends, we have to keep everything that we say.
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  Your word is bond and it should not be broken for anybody.
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  You see a world that is without natural affection.
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  Look around friends. Parents are so disconnected,
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  affected from the affection of their own children, and that is
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  not the way of God. These parents are so preoccupied
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  with the world and with greed and with their own selves.
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  These are children raising children and they have not
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  matured into the place of this natural affection that comes
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  only from God. Friends, it is a world that is
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  filled with implacable people that will not bend towards
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  reason. This is a world that is filled
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  with unmerciful people who no matter how much forgiveness they
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  have received, they will not forgive others who have wronged
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  them. And they hold them to the fire.
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  And they are like the one who has been forgiven of a little
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  debt, but they go and find the one who has debt against them,
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  and they do not forgive them. And you see it, friends, This is
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  a world that is filled with so much reprobate minds and
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  delusion, and it is not the way of God.
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  We'll end on. 32 Who, knowing the judgment of God, that they
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  which commit such things are worthy of death, not only do the
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  same, but they have pleasure in them that do them.
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  You can see it, friends. You can see it all around us.
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  You can see how people that commit these vile acts take
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  great pleasure when they see others doing it and they
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  actually teach them how to do it.
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  And it's not missed upon God. And thank God for the grace of
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  the Lord Jesus Christ that we can come to Him, we can receive
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  Him as our Savior. And none of the things that are
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  mentioned just now will ever be counted against us, friends.
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  But if we die in those sins, what God wanted us to see in
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  that whole list of things is that we cannot save ourselves.
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  And you might be a moralistic person and say that God would
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  not send a good person to hell. But given the pedigree that we
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  just read, you can see that every single person on planet
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  earth is guilty as charged. And it is only by the
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  righteousness of Jesus Christ. It is only by the sinless life
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  that He lived that we can come unto the Father.
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  This propitiation, friends, of this sacrifice of the Lord Jesus
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  Christ that He gave us instead of our own merit.
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  And thank God for that. We would never make it there
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  without Jesus Christ. I hope you've been blessed by
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  this amazing first chapter of Romans.
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  I know I sure have many times over.
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  Praying for you. I love you.
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  We'll see you back here tomorrow.
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  God bless you.