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Abundant Grace for a Hurting World - 12/7/25 - Pastor Charlie Branch · Meadows Baptist Church Podcast

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  Welcome to Meadows Baptist Church
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  [music] of Walnut Cove, North Carolina.
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  We're so glad you joined us today. If
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  you enjoy today's [music] message, be
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  sure to subscribe, follow, and share
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  with your friends. [music] Now, let's
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  join Pastor Charlie Branch with a word
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  from God.
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  All right. Amen. If you have a Bible,
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  take with take it and turn with me the
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  book of Romans. Romans, chapter number
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  five. If you would please, when you find
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  your place, if you would stand on a
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  reference to the reading of God's word.
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  Romans chapter number five.
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  know everything's been geared a whole
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  lot towards Christmas this morning, but
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  I'll be real honest with you what I'm
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  going to share with you this morning. I
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  don't uh I think personally it's um goes
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  right along with that. You going to have
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  to just uh look for it if you want to
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  find it. Amen. But I just uh just felt
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  like Lord would have us to be here in
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  this text today. And uh I'm not a
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  hallmark preacher. Amen. I've made no
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  bones about that since I came. Amen. And
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  uh I may I may preach pre preach
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  Christmas. Amen. Up until Christmas. I
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  may preach hell on Christmas week. So
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  just you know just just telling you I'm
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  going to do what the Lord tells me to.
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  Okay. And uh that's supposed to be
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  funny, but y'all too tight this morning.
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  And y'all going to have to loosen up a
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  little bit. Okay. Romans chapter number
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  five. And uh I want to preach a thought
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  here out of this text. And I don't claim
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  any originality to this thought. And I
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  just want to be obedient to the Lord.
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  This is what I woke up with on my heart
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  this morning. And I just want to be
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  obedient to the Lord. Romans chapter 5,
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  I want to begin reading verse number 12.
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  Romans chapter 5, verse number 12.
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  The Bible says, "Wherefore, as by one
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  man sin entered into the world, and
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  death by sin, and so death passed upon
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  all men, for that all have sinned. For
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  until the law, sin was in the world. But
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  sin is not imputed when there is no law.
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  Nevertheless, death reigned from Adam to
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  Moses, even over them that had not
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  sinned after the simitude of Adam's
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  transgression. Who is the figure of him
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  that was to come. But not as the
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  offense, so also is the free gift. For
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  if through the offense of one many be
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  dead, much more the grace of God, and
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  the gift by grace, which is by one man,
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  Jesus Christ, hath abounded unto many,
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  not as it was by one that sin, so is the
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  gift. For the judgment was by one to
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  condemnation, but the free gift is of
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  many offenses unto justification. For if
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  by one man's offense death reign by one,
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  much more they which receive abundance
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  of grace, and of the gift of
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  righteousness shall reign in life by
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  one, Jesus Christ. Therefore, as by the
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  offense of one, judgment came upon all
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  men to condemnation, even so by the
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  righteousness of one, the free gift came
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  upon all men under justification of
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  life. For as by one's man one man's
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  disobedience many were made sinners, so
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  by the obedience of one shall many be
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  made righteous. In verse number 20, the
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  Bible says, "Moreover, the law entered
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  that the offense might abound. But where
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  sin abounded, grace did much more
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  abound. That as sin hath reigned unto
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  death, even so my grace reigned through
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  righteousness unto eternal life by Jesus
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  Christ our Lord. Let's pray together
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  this morning. Our Father, thank you so
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  much for the privilege, Lord, to stand
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  and preach this morning. And God, I
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  realize, Lord, where I stand today,
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  Father, I have no ability in my flesh.
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  God, as the apostle said, I know that
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  dwelleth in me, that's in my flesh, no
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  good thing. And so, Lord, I pray that
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  you would remove the flesh from us,
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  clothe us in our calling this morning,
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  hide us behind the cross, and get glory
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  to yourself. I pray, God, that you would
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  enable us to preach, give us liberty and
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  vocabulary this morning. Help us to
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  recall to remembrance the things that
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  we've studied concerning this text. And
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  Lord, I pray, Father, you'd speak to us
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  and through us this morning from your
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  word. God, I ask you, Lord, that you
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  would work in every heart this morning.
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  Save that one that's nearest to hell.
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  Reclaim the backsliden. And God, help us
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  all to be closer to you as a result of
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  this service and this sermon this
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  morning. God, I pray, Lord, that through
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  this season of the year, God, that we
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  would not become dry or drab, but Lord,
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  that we would become more fervent, Lord,
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  more faithful. And God, I pray we would
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  be more bold in our witness for thee,
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  God, as we exit these doors today. Help
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  us, God, to find somebody to hand a
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  track to and to be obedient, Lord, to
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  the command you've given to us. Lord, I
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  pray, Father, that you get all glory
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  this morning. Help us to receive with
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  meekness the engrafted word. And for
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  what you do, we'll be sure to give you
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  the thanks because we ask it in Jesus'
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  name. And all God's people said, "Amen."
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  Thank you for standing. You can be
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  seated. This morning I'm preaching on
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  the thought out of this text Romans
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  chapter number five. Abundant grace for
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  a hurting world. Abundant grace
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  >> for a hurting world. Now I'll be honest
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  with you this morning when I come to
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  this text. There's a lot of things that
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  come to my mind. I want to share a few
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  of those by way of introduction this
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  morning. Some things that I believe is
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  important when we consider this chapter.
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  When you look at a chapter in the word
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  of God, it's easy. many times to
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  cherrypick truth and you can take a
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  verse and claim that verse and sometimes
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  that's good but many times you miss the
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  point that the writer is trying to make
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  when you refuse to consider the entire
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  context and so chapter five when you
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  consider the book of Romans is
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  expressing the works of God and it
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  begins here in chapter number five with
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  the fact that God is lifting us and you
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  say what do you mean by that well notice
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  the first verse of Roman Romans 5, the
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  Bible says, "Therefore, being justified
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  by faith, we have peace with God through
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  our Lord Jesus Christ." And there is
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  that great doctrine of justification
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  where Paul spoke in Romans 4 about
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  Abraham that when the Bible says he
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  believed God in Genesis chapter 15 and
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  verse number six and the Bible says that
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  God counted it unto him for
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  righteousness and God justified him by
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  his faith. And I'll say it this way. I
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  like the way Dr. Wearsby said. He said,
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  "Faith is not believing in spite of
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  evidence." He said, "But it is obeying
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  in spite of consequence." You want to
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  express your faith this morning. Don't
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  tell me what you believe, but show me
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  how you behave this morning. And I
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  consider this text. I think about the
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  fact that God lifts us. I'll say he
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  lifts us through Jesus. Notice it in
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  verse number one. The Bible says,
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  "Therefore, being justified by faith, we
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  have peace with God through our Lord
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  Jesus Christ." And so, our standing
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  before God is because Jesus Christ has
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  exalted us. He has justified us. You've
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  heard it said, "Justification just as if
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  I had never sinned. I've been made like
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  the Son of God." Amen. This morning, I
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  don't know about you, but it's starting
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  to feel pretty good up here. Amen. I've
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  been justified through Jesus. Amen. And
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  because of that we have joy. Notice what
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  he says in verse number two. By whom
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  also we have access by faith into this
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  grace wherein we stand. Notice it now.
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  And rejoice in hope of the glory of God
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  because I've been justified through
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  Jesus this morning. My heart is full of
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  joy. Amen. Knowing that my life has been
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  changed. My eternity has been made
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  different because I have been exalted.
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  He has brought me up. He picked me up
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  out of the muck and mire of sin in this
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  world and brought me to his level right
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  by his side. Hallelujah. To fellowship
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  with him. And so I would say God lifts
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  us this morning. And I don't know about
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  you, but I'm thankful for the day love
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  lifted me. Amen. Out of the depths and
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  pits of sin. Amen. You say, "Preacher,
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  you was just seven years old." Oh,
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  friend, I still lost as a BALL AND TALL
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  WINGS. THANK GOD HE LIFTED ME OUT. AMEN.
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  And saved my never dying soul. AND SO
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  I'D SAY GOD LIFTS us this morning, but I
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  like this this morning. You consider
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  this chapter. And I've not got time to
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  preach it all, but I'm going to hit the
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  highlights. Amen. AND SO GOD LIFTS US.
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  BUT I'LL say this in this chapter of
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  verse, we all know God. He shows us that
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  he loves us. In verses number 1 through
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  5, he lifts us. But in verses 6 through
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  11, the Bible says that he loves us.
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  Notice what the Bible says. For when we
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  were yet without strength, in due time
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  Christ died for the ungodly. I'm saying
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  to you this morning that God loved you
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  when you were without ability to save
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  yourself. You had no ability, you had no
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  strength to bring deliverance in your
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  life. But God in his love, God in his
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  mercy, SHOWING YOU HIS GRACE, HE CHOSE
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  TO LOVE YOU IN SPITE OF THE FACT THAT
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  YOU had nothing to offer him this
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  morning. And that's the truth this
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  morning. For those of us that are saved,
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  as well as those of us that are lost
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  this morning, it does not matter. You
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  say, "Preacher, well, I'm saved now. I
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  can give in my life, but you understand
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  the best that we have is worthless in
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  the sight of God." Oh, BUT IF WE'LL JUST
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  TURN IT OVER TO HIM AND LET HIM WORK
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  THROUGH US. I'M SAYING HIS LOVE CAN
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  SHINE IN OUR LIFE. AMEN. And we can show
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  the love of God to those that are around
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  us. He loved us in spite of the fact
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  that we had no ability. He loved us in
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  spite of the fact that we had no
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  advantage. Notice verse seven. For
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  scarcely for a righteous man will one
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  die. Yet per ad venture for a good man
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  some would even dare to die. But in
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  verse number eight he says but God
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  commendeth his love toward us in that
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  while we were yet sinners Christ died
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  for us. I'm saying friend he had no
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  REASON TO LOVE US. THERE WAS NOTHING
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  GOOD IN ME. THERE'S NOTHING GOOD IN YOU
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  THIS MORNING. THERE'S NOTHING WORTH
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  LOVING IN ANY OF US HERE TODAY. BUT
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  AREN'T YOU THANKFUL THAT A THRICE HOLY
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  GOD TOOK TIME OUT TO CONSIDER YOU AND I
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  THAT HE WOULD LOVE US SO MUCH TO SEND
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  HIS DARLING SON TO SAVE US. AMEN. And
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  seal us. I'm saying he loved us EVEN IN
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  SPITE OF THE FACT THAT WE HAD NO ABILITY
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  AND IN SPITE OF THE FACT THAT WE HAD NO
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  ADVANTAGE. BUT I'LL SAY this this
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  morning. The Bible says here, his
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  affection is shown to us. Verse number
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  nine, look what he says. much more than
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  being now justified by his blood, we
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  shall be saved.
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  >> Amen. If y'all not going to help me this
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  morning, me and the Lord just going to
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  have us a time. AMEN. MUCH MORE than
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  hey, being justified. There's that word
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  again.
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  >> I've been made righteous, declared right
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  >> before God. You say, "Preacher, well, I
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  know what you are." I I got one better
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  on you. I know what I am.
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  >> Amen. But I got one even better than
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  that. He knows what I am. And you know
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  what? He justified me anyway.
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  >> Hallelujah. Amen. Praise God. I'm saying
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  he loves us this morning. I consider the
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  fact that God lifts us in verses 1-5. I
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  consider the fact that God loves us in
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  verses 6 through 11. And he notice,
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  notice that in verse 11, there's that
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  joy that's brought up again. Not only
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  so, but we also joy in God.
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  >> Amen.
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  >> Through our Lord Jesus Christ, by whom
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  we have now received the atonement.
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  There is forgiveness. There is
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  remission. Amen. There is fellowship in
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  the presence of the father because of
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  Jesus Christ. And I want to consider
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  this this morning. This is the message
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  today. We consider that he he lifts us.
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  We consider that he loves us. We
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  consider thirdly this morning the
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  remainder of the chapter verses 12- 21.
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  We consider that God looses us.
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  >> God looses us. Now, Brother Andrew read
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  that text this morning and I thought he
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  was going to talk about that colt over
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  there and I was about to start jumping
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  up and down. Amen. Thinking about this
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  message. Amen. God just put it all
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  together. That's all right. She wasn't
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  off. All right. It was good. Amen.
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  Wasn't that good this morning?
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  >> But I was thinking about this text and
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  the fact that God looses us. And when I
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  consider this, Paul paints a picture
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  here in this text. And y'all pray for
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  me. I'm about stopped up this morning.
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  Pray God will help me. Verse number 12,
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  he says, "Wherefore, as by one man sin
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  entered into the world, and death by
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  sin, and so death passed upon all men,
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  for that all have sinned." And Paul here
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  begins to point out the problem of sin.
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  And he points out first of all about
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  this problem of sin. He he states the
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  problem first of all. Notice that.
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  Wherefore, as by one man, what entered
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  into the world? Sin. By one man, who's
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  that one man? That's Adam, ain't it?
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  Adam's the one that brought sin into
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  this world. his disobedience to the
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  command of God. He plunged the human
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  race into iniquity. And so there is the
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  presence of sin because of Adam. In
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  verse 12, there is the penalty of sin
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  because of Adam. In verse number 12,
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  look what he says. Sin entered into the
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  world and death by sin. You know the
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  reason why death has a 100% fatality
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  rate is because all in Adam all die. The
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  Bible says and Adam's sin brought death.
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  And that is the penalty for the wages of
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  sin is death. And so Adam is the one
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  that brought the presence of sin. He
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  brought sin into this world. But he also
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  brought along with it the penalty. But
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  I'll say this. He points out not only
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  the presence and the penalty, but he
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  points out the power of sin in verse 13
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  and 14. Look what he says. He says, "For
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  until the law, sin was in the world, but
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  sin is not imputed when there is no law.
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  Nevertheless, notice these next two
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  words. Death reigned.
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  >> You know what that means? Had control.
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  >> You say, "Preacher, well, they lived
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  long lives." But you know what? Even
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  though they lived almost a thousand
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  years, you know what still happened to
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  him? They all died,
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  >> right?
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  >> They all passed away and death reigned.
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  Death was sovereign. Let me just say
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  this to you this morning. Put in a
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  little parenthetical statement here this
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  morning. If you're lost, death's
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  reigning in your life. You're
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  >> right.
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  >> Amen. You are controlled. The sovereign
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  control in your life is death. And
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  what's going to happen to you if you do
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  not if you do not choose to trust
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  Christ, you will live out your life
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  under the reign of death. And death will
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  ultimately take you away
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  >> where you will forever be in the grips
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  and its clutches in hell. And I notice
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  this. He points out the problem of sin.
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  He states that problem verses 12 and 14.
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  But he begins to study this problem in
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  verses 15- 21. And I want to give you
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  three points this morning. And like I
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  said, all right, I claim no originality
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  to any of this. This is just what God
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  put on my heart for this tech, this this
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  service today. I want you to know, first
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  of all, in this text, number one, I'm
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  talking about abundant grace for a
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  hurting world. Number one, I see there's
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  a problem that is universal,
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  >> right?
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  >> There's a problem that is universal. And
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  you say, preacher, what do you mean?
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  Well, notice it again in verse number
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  12. Wherefore, as by one man sin entered
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  into the world, and death by sin, notice
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  this, and so death passed upon what?
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  >> All men.
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  >> What's the rest of the verse say,
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  church? For that all have sinned. I'm
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  talking about a universal problem this
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  morning. You realize from the oldest to
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  the youngest, from the strongest to the
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  weakest, from the richest to the
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  poorest, wherever you are this morning
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  and WHEREVER YOU MAY FIND YOURSELF
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  TOMORROW, SIN IS THE problem that
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  plagues this human race.
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  >> Adrien Rogers said this. He said, "The
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  heart of the human problem is the
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  problem of the human heart." And you
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  know what it is? It's sin.
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  >> Amen. The heart OF THE HUMAN PROBLEM IS
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  OUR HEART. AND THAT IS DECEITFUL AND
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  DESPERATELY WICKED ABOVE ALL THINGS. WHO
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  CAN KNOW IT? IT'S SINFUL. IT'S
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  DECEITFUL. AND EVERY PERSON IN HERE,
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  THOSE PRECIOUS LITTLE BABIES. AMEN. I
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  GOT a pretty little girl sitting right
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  there.
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  >> Prettiest thing I've ever seen in my
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  life besides my wife,
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  >> looks just like her.
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  >> She's going to go to sleep.
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  >> You know what? She's a sinner.
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  >> Right. You say, "Preacher, how could you
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  say that about that little child?"
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  >> You've heard me say it here time and
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  time again. David said this. He said,
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  "Behold, I was shapen in iniquity."
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  That's
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  >> right.
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  >> He said, "My mother's womb, I was shapen
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  in sin." He said, "And in sin did my
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  mother conceive me." He said, "I was
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  born in this world of sin."
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  >> You understand this morning, you're a
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  sinner by birth this morning because of
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  Adam's sin in the garden. You're a
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  sinner by nature because the nature of
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  Adam is within you. The reason why
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  children are bit to sin, the reason why
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  you never have to teach a child to cuss
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  and you never HAVE TO TEACH A CHILD TO
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  LIE AND you never HAVE TO TEACH A CHILD
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  TO GET MAD AT THEIR PARENTS IS BECAUSE
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  WE ARE BIT TO SIN.
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  >> And you are as well. You say, "Preacher,
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  but I'm more dignified than that." Oh,
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  no, friend. You see, it is your d it is
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  your dignification. Amen. That points
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  out your sin.
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  >> Amen. The truth is this morning, those
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  of us that's been saved, they know that
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  we know that there ain't an ounce of us
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  that's any good at all.
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  >> Amen. And when I consider this text, I
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  think about the fact that the problem of
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  sin is universal. I know first of all
• 17:58
  the totality of this problem. Notice the
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  Bible there, verse 12. And so death
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  passed upon all men. So the problem, the
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  presence of sin is universal. The
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  penalty of sin is universal. Death
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  passed upon all men. And I want you to
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  think about this. All right? The power
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  of sin is universal.
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  >> The same temptation that I struggle with
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  is going to be the same temptation that
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  you struggle with.
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  >> The Bible says there's nothing new under
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  the sun. And let me say this to you this
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  morning. Wherever you stand, do not feel
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  alone. Let me say this to you, child of
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  God. Take time out here just for a
• 18:34
  minute. You do not do not feel alone,
• 18:37
  child of God. If there's a temptation of
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  sin that you struggle with in your life,
• 18:41
  do not let the devil single you out and
• 18:43
  tell you that you're the only one that
• 18:46
  you're the scum OF THE EARTH. HEY, YOU
• 18:47
  JUST let him know that where he's going
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  one OF THESE DAYS. AMEN. YOU TELL HIM,
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  "I'LL NEVER go there cuz I've been saved
• 18:54
  and God's going to help me defeat the
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  THING THAT'S GOING TO TAKE YOU UNDER."
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  AMEN. WHAT I'M SAYING THIS MORNING IS
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  THIS. THE POWER OF SIN is universal. IT
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  IS A TOTAL PROBLEM THIS MORNING across
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  the board. YOUNG AND OLD, RICH AND POOR.
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  EVERY GENERATION OF EVERY PERSON THAT'S
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  EVER BEEN BORN ON GOD'S EARTH HAS A
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  PROBLEM with sin. Amen.
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  >> Yeah.
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  >> It's a universal. It's a total problem.
• 19:19
  I'm moving. Notice not only this problem
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  in universal, the totality, notice the
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  time. You say, "Preacher, if this is a
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  universal problem, where'd it begin?"
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  Well, notice the text. Look what your
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  Bible says in verse number 14.
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  Nevertheless, death reigned. What's the
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  next two words from Adam? You know what
• 19:41
  happened when Adam decided to step out?
• 19:45
  There's a principle here that I'm not
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  going to actually I'm going to go over
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  this because I just feel impressed to.
• 19:49
  Look what the Bible says here in verse
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  14. Nevertheless, death reigned from
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  Adam to Moses, even over them that had
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  not sinned after the simitude of Adam's
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  transgression. And you say, "Preacher,
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  what was Adam's transgression?" It was
• 20:02
  willful disobedience,
• 20:04
  >> right?
• 20:05
  >> Willful disobedience. You say, "What do
• 20:06
  you mean?" When Eve took of that fruit
• 20:08
  in the garden, the Bible says that the
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  the serpent begiled Eve, she was fooled
• 20:15
  by what he said. His deceit, his
• 20:18
  trickery caught her eye, grabbed her
• 20:21
  heart. So, she was deceived. But you
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  know what the Bible says? Adam was not
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  deceived. Right?
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  >> Eve was tempted and deceived. Adam was
• 20:31
  tempted and not deceived.
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  >> Right?
• 20:33
  >> And you know what he did? He chose to
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  disobey.
• 20:37
  >> And so Adam's transgression, look what
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  he says there in the text. The Bible
• 20:41
  says, even over them that had not
• 20:43
  sinned, after the similitude of Adam's
• 20:45
  transgression, he said, "Not everybody
• 20:47
  that followed after him committed this
• 20:49
  same willful disobedience." But you know
• 20:51
  what? Because they were all conceived
• 20:54
  from the womb of Eve. And
• 20:57
  >> they had Adam's seed in them.
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  >> Right.
• 21:01
  >> Every soul.
• 21:02
  >> Yeah.
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  >> If you could live your entire life and
• 21:05
  never willfully sin. That's something I
• 21:07
  need to teach here at the church in the
• 21:08
  future. There's a difference between
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  willful disobedience as a sin of
• 21:12
  presumptuous sin. As David talks about,
• 21:16
  there is willful disobedience and then
• 21:18
  there is disobedience out of ignorance.
• 21:20
  >> Right?
• 21:20
  >> There's a difference. Amen. There's a
• 21:22
  big difference. What I'm saying this
• 21:24
  morning is this. Regardless whether or
• 21:27
  not if it were possible that you could
• 21:29
  live your whole life and never even sin,
• 21:32
  you know what? You would still be
• 21:34
  condemned.
• 21:35
  >> Right?
• 21:36
  >> Say, "Preacher, how is that? How is
• 21:38
  that?" Because you was born in sin.
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  >> Amen.
• 21:41
  >> Amen. And so we consider here the
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  totality of this problem, the time of
• 21:46
  this problem from Adam. But what's the
• 21:48
  truth? Let me give you this. The truth
• 21:50
  of this problem, what's what's the truth
• 21:52
  about this problem? Now, the Bible
• 21:54
  points out a few things here in verses
• 21:56
  15, 16, and 17. I would say first of
• 21:59
  all, in verse 15, you're going to find
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  out that we are corrupted. You say,
• 22:04
  "What do you mean, preacher?" Well,
• 22:05
  notice verse 15. But not as the offense,
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  so also as the free gift. For if through
• 22:10
  the offense of one, notice this, many be
• 22:13
  dead. Adam's wrongdoing caused an entire
• 22:18
  human race to be corrupted. You know the
• 22:21
  reason why this body has to die because
• 22:23
  it's corrupted. The Bible teaches us in
• 22:25
  1 Corinthians 15 when the rapture takes
• 22:27
  place, what does the Bible say? For this
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  corruptible must put on incorruption. We
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  have been corrupted by the offense of
• 22:35
  Adam. You are a sinner this morning
• 22:37
  because of somebody else's wrongdoing.
• 22:40
  You say, "Preacher, well that's not
• 22:41
  fair." Well, there's never been a one
• 22:43
  other than Jesus that lived a sinless
• 22:45
  life.
• 22:46
  >> Amen. And so that tells me that if you'd
• 22:48
  been in Adam's place, you've done the
• 22:50
  same thing.
• 22:50
  >> That's right.
• 22:51
  >> Amen. That's exactly right. Say,
• 22:52
  "Preacher, I don't believe that." You
• 22:53
  don't have to. I'm right. Amen.
• 22:56
  >> Amen.
• 22:56
  >> And so we are corrupted. HOW DO WE KNOW
• 22:58
  THAT? Many be dead. When he says many be
• 23:02
  dead, he's not just talking about a
• 23:03
  majority. You're
• 23:04
  >> right.
• 23:04
  >> That word many there really means all.
• 23:06
  >> You're right.
• 23:07
  >> Amen. Many be dead. We are corrupted.
• 23:10
  Death has went in. You say, "Preacher,
• 23:13
  what's an illustration of that?" When
• 23:14
  you think about about meat, you take
• 23:18
  some meat. What happens to that thing
• 23:20
  after you you you take a deer and you
• 23:23
  kill that thing? You you flay that meat
• 23:25
  off of there. If you leave it laying
• 23:27
  outside,
• 23:28
  >> you know what happens? That corruption
• 23:31
  begins to show the longer it sits,
• 23:33
  doesn't it?
• 23:34
  >> You say, "Preacher, was that corruption
• 23:35
  always there?" Sure was.
• 23:37
  >> Amen. But you just got there's just a
• 23:39
  period of time you get before you get to
• 23:41
  cook it out.
• 23:42
  >> Amen. And if you leave it too long, it's
• 23:44
  going to be corrupted perpetually.
• 23:47
  >> Here's the truth about it. Your life is
• 23:49
  a space.
• 23:52
  >> You're corrupted.
• 23:54
  >> But if you live your whole life in that
• 23:55
  corrupted state, you know what you're
• 23:57
  going to do? You're going to go to hell
• 23:58
  and rot. You're
• 23:59
  >> right.
• 24:00
  >> Yeah.
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  >> I'll be I know that's graphic, but it's
• 24:02
  the truth. You're
• 24:03
  >> right.
• 24:04
  >> Truth is, you've got a space of grace,
• 24:07
  but you are corrupted this morning.
• 24:09
  >> You are a sinner, though. For all have
• 24:11
  sinned and come short of the glory of
• 24:13
  God. There's none that doeth good.
• 24:15
  There's none that's righteous. Know not
• 24:17
  one. And so we are corrupted. Verse 15.
• 24:20
  Through the offense of one, many be
• 24:21
  dead. Notice verse 16. I'm moving. Not
• 24:24
  only are we corrupted, but we're also
• 24:25
  condemned. Look what the Bible says. And
• 24:28
  not so not as it was by one that sinned,
• 24:30
  so is the gift. For the judgment was by
• 24:33
  one, notice this, to condemnation.
• 24:35
  Because of Adam's sin, the entire human
• 24:38
  race is not only corrupted, but
• 24:40
  condemned. You're right.
• 24:41
  >> You are condemned not because of what
• 24:43
  you do.
• 24:45
  >> Listen to the preacher now. You are not
• 24:47
  condemned because of what you do. You
• 24:48
  are condemned because of who you are.
• 24:51
  >> And because of who you are, you do what
• 24:52
  you do.
• 24:54
  >> Amen. You don't Hey, listen to me now.
• 24:56
  All right. You are not a sinner because
• 24:58
  you sin.
• 24:59
  >> You are a You are You sin because you
• 25:02
  are a sinner.
• 25:02
  >> You're right.
• 25:03
  >> Amen. And so you are condemned. For the
• 25:06
  wages of sin is death.
• 25:09
  >> Amen. John chapter number three. I want
• 25:11
  to read this verse. John chapter number
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  three. The cardinal sin of the human
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  race is unbelief.
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  >> Amen.
• 25:18
  >> John chapter number three. The cardinal
• 25:20
  sin. Verse 36. He that believeth on the
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  son hath everlasting life. And he that
• 25:26
  believeth not the son shall not see
• 25:28
  life, but the wrath of God what?
• 25:31
  Abideth.
• 25:32
  It abideth on him. You are presently
• 25:35
  condemned this morning. You are
• 25:37
  corrupted, but you are presently
• 25:39
  condemned. You say, "Preacher, I'm not
• 25:40
  in hell yet." You're as good as there if
• 25:42
  you're lost.
• 25:43
  >> That means you say, "Preacher, how could
• 25:45
  you say that?" If you died right now,
• 25:48
  >> you'd be in hell.
• 25:49
  >> Amen.
• 25:50
  >> Because you're corrupted. Not only
• 25:51
  corrupted, you're condemned.
• 25:53
  >> Amen. You say, "Preacher, that's you.
• 25:55
  You said that it's just by Adam." It is.
• 25:57
  Adam's sin has corrupted you and
• 26:00
  condemned you. But remember,
• 26:02
  >> you'd have done the same thing,
• 26:04
  >> right? Amen.
• 26:05
  >> And you prove it every day of your life.
• 26:06
  You're
• 26:07
  >> right.
• 26:08
  >> Unbelief.
• 26:09
  We are corrupted. We are condemned.
• 26:11
  Notice this. Thirdly, and I'm going to
• 26:12
  move on to the next point of the
• 26:14
  message. We're not only corrupted and
• 26:15
  condemned, but we're also controlled.
• 26:17
  Notice verse 17. For if by one man's
• 26:20
  offense, notice the next two words,
• 26:22
  death reigned.
• 26:25
  You are corrupted by sin. You are
• 26:28
  condemned because of your sin. But I'll
• 26:30
  say this, you're controlled.
• 26:32
  >> Right?
• 26:33
  >> Amen. Death reigned. The reason why,
• 26:36
  listen to me now. Death is not just a
• 26:39
  happening. It's not just an event. Okay?
• 26:42
  Death is not just the physical act of
• 26:44
  this body giving up life. Death is the
• 26:46
  state of who you are before you get
• 26:48
  saved. You're
• 26:49
  >> right.
• 26:49
  >> Amen. Bible says Ephesians 2, you hath
• 26:51
  he quickened. Amen. You've been saved.
• 26:54
  You hath HE QUICKENED WHO ARE DEAD.
• 26:57
  >> RIGHT?
• 26:57
  >> You can't get saved if you're not
• 26:58
  breathing.
• 26:59
  >> Amen.
• 27:00
  >> Amen. You say, "Well, what's he talking
• 27:01
  about?" He's talking about spiritually
• 27:04
  dead. When Adam sinned in the garden and
• 27:07
  Satan deceived him, told Eve said, "You
• 27:09
  shall not surely die." Oh, but he was
• 27:11
  lying.
• 27:12
  >> You say, "Preacher, well, they didn't
• 27:13
  die immediately." He wasn't talking
• 27:15
  about physical death.
• 27:16
  >> He was talking about spiritual death.
• 27:19
  And the moment, listen to me now, the
• 27:21
  moment, the very moment that you're born
• 27:24
  into this world, you are dead
• 27:27
  >> spiritually.
• 27:32
  You say, "Preacher, what about children
• 27:34
  for the age of accountability?" God
• 27:37
  gives grace. Amen.
• 27:40
  >> There will no soul of any baby.
• 27:43
  >> You're right.
• 27:44
  >> Child before knowledge of sin ever. You
• 27:47
  hear me? They will never go to hell.
• 27:50
  >> Right.
• 27:51
  >> Calvinists buy that stuff. Okay. They
• 27:54
  believe that. They say that babies that
• 27:55
  die before the age of accountability
• 27:57
  that weren't elected to go to heaven,
• 27:58
  they die to go to hell. Could you
• 28:00
  believe that?
• 28:01
  >> God never sends anybody to hell without
• 28:04
  them choosing to go there.
• 28:05
  >> You're right.
• 28:06
  >> Amen. That's exactly right. This
• 28:08
  morning, you you notice this in this
• 28:10
  text, I'm talking about the fact that we
• 28:12
  are controlled. For if by one man's
• 28:14
  offense, death reign by one. DEATH HAS
• 28:17
  HAD CONTROL. SIN HAS HAD CONTROL. THAT'S
• 28:20
  THE REASON WHY WE'RE BENT to sin.
• 28:22
  Because death has control. But oh,
• 28:25
  remember who's got the keys.
• 28:26
  >> Amen.
• 28:27
  >> Amen. Right. In
• 28:30
  >> fact, I'm going to move. We consider the
• 28:32
  problem that's universal. You get the
• 28:34
  point this morning. Amen. We are
• 28:36
  corrupted because of our corruption. We
• 28:38
  are condemned. We are controlled
• 28:41
  >> right
• 28:42
  >> by that corruption in our life. Notice
• 28:44
  this. Second of all, and we going to get
• 28:46
  to the good part of the message. Amen.
• 28:48
  Amen. Y'all ain't no hurry, I hope.
• 28:49
  Amen. We going to preach a little while.
• 28:51
  I feel like preaching.
• 28:52
  >> The problem that's universal. Second of
• 28:54
  all, I note this. The provision that's
• 28:56
  undeniable.
• 28:58
  the provision that is undenied.
• 29:01
  You say, "Preacher, where do you find
• 29:03
  that in these verses?" Well, notice what
• 29:05
  the Bible says. Verse number 14.
• 29:09
  Nevertheless, death reigned from Adam to
• 29:11
  Moses, even over them that had not
• 29:13
  sinned after the simult of Adam's
• 29:16
  transgression. Notice this. Who is the
• 29:18
  figure of him that was to come? Who's he
• 29:22
  talking about? He's talking about Jesus.
• 29:24
  You say, "Preacher, how could Adam be
• 29:26
  the figure of the one that was to come?"
• 29:29
  Well, you see, Adam didn't have father
• 29:31
  or mother.
• 29:32
  >> Amen. Adam was not born to a man and a
• 29:36
  woman in this world.
• 29:37
  >> Jesus didn't have an earthly father.
• 29:40
  Galatians chapter 4 and verse number
• 29:41
  four, the Bible says, "But when the
• 29:42
  fullness of time was come, God sent
• 29:44
  forth his son made of a woman to redeem
• 29:47
  them which were under the law." Amen. He
• 29:49
  was delivered to this world, having not
• 29:51
  a earthly father. He had a womb. Amen.
• 29:54
  That mother that raised him on this
• 29:56
  earth. But like Adam, he was God's only
• 29:59
  begotten.
• 30:01
  >> And so the first Adam, the Bible said he
• 30:03
  brought death.
• 30:04
  >> But this last Adam,
• 30:06
  >> he's going to bring life.
• 30:08
  >> And notice what's said in this text, the
• 30:11
  provision that's undeniable. You say,
• 30:12
  "What's this provision?" Notice verse
• 30:14
  15. There's a man in verse number 14,
• 30:17
  but there's a gift in verse 15. But not
• 30:19
  as the offense, so also is the I love
• 30:22
  this part. free gift. Amen. We all like
• 30:25
  free gifts. Amen. You ladies prove that
• 30:27
  very well last night. I ain't seen some
• 30:29
  of y'all smile like that in I don't know
• 30:30
  how long. Amen. Them free gifts. We like
• 30:33
  those kinds of things.
• 30:34
  >> Amen.
• 30:35
  >> But when I read this, you say, "What's
• 30:37
  that referring to?" Well, that is
• 30:39
  referring to the gift of Jesus Christ.
• 30:43
  >> He is the gift.
• 30:46
  Them angels told them boys that field,
• 30:50
  >> for behold, I bring you good tidings
• 30:53
  >> of great joy. What do you say? Which
• 30:55
  shall be to all [screaming]
• 30:57
  people,
• 30:58
  >> a gift for all nations, a gift FOR ALL
• 31:02
  PEOPLE FOR SALVATION TO BE OFFERED. HE
• 31:05
  IS THE GIFT. WHAT DOES HE BRING? WELL,
• 31:08
  for our corruption, he brings a promise
• 31:10
  of life. Notice verse number 15. But not
• 31:13
  as the offense, so also as the free
• 31:16
  gift. For if through the offense of one
• 31:18
  many be dead, notice this. Much more the
• 31:20
  grace of God, and the gift by grace,
• 31:23
  notice this, which is by one man, Jesus
• 31:26
  Christ.
• 31:27
  >> Amen.
• 31:28
  >> What did Jesus bring,
• 31:30
  John 10:10, the thief cometh not, but
• 31:33
  for to steal, to kill, and destroy. He
• 31:35
  said, but I am come that they might have
• 31:38
  life. He gives a promise of life. What
• 31:41
  is that? You say it. No. You said,
• 31:43
  "Preacher, I don't see that in the
• 31:44
  text." Notice what he says. Much more
• 31:46
  the grace of God and the gift
• 31:50
  >> by grace. It is the life that is
• 31:52
  imparted INTO THE BELIEVER WHEN WE ARE
• 31:54
  SAVED. You understand this morning?
• 31:56
  Because of the blood of Jesus, life is
• 31:59
  on the inside of me this morning. I'm
• 32:01
  not preaching to you just because I'm in
• 32:03
  a human body swelling up my flesh and
• 32:06
  yelling, "Amen, just because I feel like
• 32:07
  it." I'm preaching TO YOU BECAUSE
• 32:09
  THERE'S LIFE ON THE INSIDE THAT SAYS,
• 32:12
  "OH, SON, TELL THE STORY. TELL THE
• 32:15
  STORY. TELL THE GOSPEL ONE MORE TIME.
• 32:18
  HE'S COME TO BRING LIFE." AND HIS GIFT
• 32:20
  to you is life. Amen.
• 32:23
  >> Amen.
• 32:24
  >> He is bringing a promise of life. He
• 32:26
  brought with him for our corruption a
• 32:28
  promise of life. You see, death is what
• 32:31
  has corrupted us. But Jesus, hallelujah,
• 32:34
  he's going to REVERSE THE CURSE. AMEN.
• 32:36
  AND DEATH IS NO LONGER GOING TO BRING
• 32:38
  DECAY IN OUR LIFE. BUT HALLELUJAH, LIFE
• 32:41
  IS GOING TO RAIN. And there's a promise
• 32:43
  to you and I that it's not just here.
• 32:46
  >> Paul said, if in this life only we have
• 32:47
  hope in Christ, we're of all men most
• 32:49
  miserable. Aren't you thankful that life
• 32:51
  is not just for here, but life really
• 32:53
  only begins when we get over there.
• 32:55
  Amen. I'm saying he has BROUGHT A
• 32:58
  PROMISE OF LIFE. AMEN.
• 33:00
  >> He has brought deliverance from our
• 33:03
  corruption. Notice second of all, not
• 33:05
  only he's brought a promise of life for
• 33:07
  our corruption, but second of all, he's
• 33:09
  brought this power of lifting for our
• 33:12
  condemnation.
• 33:14
  Oh yeah. Verse 16. And not as it was by
• 33:18
  one that sinned, so is the gift. For the
• 33:21
  judgment was by one to condemnation, but
• 33:24
  the free gift is of many offenses under
• 33:27
  justification. You say, "Preacher,
• 33:28
  what's all that mean?" Let me tell you,
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  one sin, hear me now, one sin brought
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  universal condemnation.
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  >> But I'll say this, one sacrifice,
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  >> brought universal forgiveness,
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  >> right?
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  >> Oh, friend, if sin was bad enough,
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  [laughter]
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  if sin was bad enough to condemn to to
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  condemn an entire race of people,
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  >> Amen. If one sin was bad enough to
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  condemn entire race of people, how how
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  much better you think one sacrifice
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  >> will take care of every sin? I'm saying,
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  oh friend, the writer said it best,
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  where sin abounds, grace did much more
• 34:09
  abound. I'm saying where THERE WAS
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  CONDEMNATION, WE'VE BEEN LIFTED OUT
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  [screaming] NO LONGER UNDER THE
• 34:15
  CONDEMNATION OF SIN ANYMORE. NO LONGER
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  TO SUFFER, NO LONGER TO FEAR JUDGMENT.
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  I'M SAYING THE CURSE HAS BEEN LIFTED.
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  AMEN. AMEN.
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  >> NO MORE CONDEMNATION. HALLELUJAH.
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  There's therefore now no condemnation TO
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  THEM WHICH ARE IN CHRIST JESUS. NOBODY
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  CAN LAY A CHARGE TO GOD'S ELECT, GOD'S
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  PEOPLE. NOBODY CAN MARK THE CHILDREN OF
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  GOD BECAUSE THE CONDEMNATION HAS been
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  lifted. Amen.
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  >> I'm saying, friend, that that
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  condemnation has been LIFTED OFF US BY
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  THE POWER OF GOD.
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  >> This free gift takes care of all the
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  offenses.
• 34:53
  >> Right? Notice that verse 16, but the
• 34:55
  free gift is of many offenses under
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  justification. He's saying every sin. Oh
• 34:59
  man, I love this.
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  >> Go ahead.
• 35:02
  >> Every sin, he said, this gift is good
• 35:04
  enough to justify every sinner.
• 35:07
  >> You're right.
• 35:09
  >> That's right.
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  >> What John say? He is the propitiation
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  for our sins, but not for ours only.
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  >> Right.
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  >> But also,
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  >> for the sins of the whole world.
• 35:19
  >> You're right.
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  >> You can be justified this morning.
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  There's the promise of life for our
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  corruption. There's the power of lifting
• 35:25
  for our condemnation. But I'll say this,
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  and I like this one best. We have
• 35:30
  deliverance. We have a departure. We are
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  able to be away from the condemnation.
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  When Jesus judges this world on that
• 35:38
  great white throne, you know what? I'm
• 35:39
  going to be behind him.
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  >> Amen.
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  >> That's right.
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  >> I won't have to flee away.
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  >> I won't be afraid, but I'll be safe,
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  protected in my master's arms.
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  I consider not only the promise of life
• 35:52
  for our corruption, the prayer of li the
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  power of lifting for our condemnation,
• 35:56
  but I consider this. Thirdly, I consider
• 35:59
  the perpetual liberty to override our
• 36:03
  past control.
• 36:05
  >> Notice verse 17. For by one man's
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  offense, death reigned by one. There's
• 36:09
  that control.
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  Much more they which receive abundance
• 36:13
  of grace and of the gift of
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  righteousness, oh I love this, shall
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  reign.
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  Now get this now. The first part of the
• 36:21
  verse said death reigned.
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  The second part of the verse says you
• 36:26
  reign. That's
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  >> right.
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  >> Notice it again. He said which much more
• 36:30
  they which receive abundance of grace
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  and of the gift of righteousness shall
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  reign where? In life? by one Jesus
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  Christ. You say, "Preacher, does that
• 36:42
  mean I'm gonna be a king?" Well, here's
• 36:44
  the thing about it.
• 36:46
  It ain't got nothing to do with an
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  earthly throne. That's
• 36:49
  >> right.
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  >> Amen. Ain't that good, brother Matt?
• 36:53
  >> What are we? We're joint hes.
• 36:55
  >> Amen.
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  >> My brother's the king.
• 36:58
  >> Amen. We are joint hes with Jesus Christ
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  equal.
• 37:03
  All his rights are our rights.
• 37:05
  >> I'm saying death reigned. We were
• 37:08
  controlled by sin, by Satan, AND MYSELF.
• 37:11
  BUT OH, THANK GOD. WHEN LIFE TOOK OVER,
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  NO LONGER DID DEATH REIGN. BUT THANK
• 37:16
  GOD, WE ARE NOW DOMINANT IN THE PERSON
• 37:19
  OF JESUS CHRIST. THE REASON WHY I CAN
• 37:22
  STAND UP HERE AND PREACH TO YOU AND
• 37:24
  REJOICE KNOWING THAT THERE'S A
• 37:26
  DIFFERENCE IN MY LIFE IS BECAUSE DEATH
• 37:29
  IS NOT REIGNING OVER ME ANYMORE.
• 37:32
  >> DEATH IS NOT REIGNING OVER ME. HEY
• 37:35
  FRIEND, I AM DOMINATING DEATH. YOU SAY,
• 37:37
  "PREACHER, how can YOU SAY THAT?" WELL,
• 37:39
  notice verse number two of chapter 6.
• 37:42
  Look what he says. God forbid. How shall
• 37:45
  we that are dead to sin live any longer
• 37:48
  therein?
• 37:50
  >> You know what the truth is this morning?
• 37:53
  Don't fall out with me right here. Okay?
• 37:55
  When you got saved, you know what
• 37:56
  happened? You died to death.
• 37:59
  [laughter]
• 38:00
  >> Oh, that'll help you THIS MORNING. YOU
• 38:02
  DIED to sin.
• 38:04
  >> You're right. And any effect of sin in
• 38:06
  your life that comes upon you, you allow
• 38:08
  it to come.
• 38:09
  >> That's right. Good pre.
• 38:10
  >> Amen.
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  >> There's no temptation taking you but
• 38:13
  such as is common to man. But the Bible
• 38:15
  says he that he will make a way of
• 38:18
  escape for you that you may be able to
• 38:20
  bear. How is that? Through and by the
• 38:22
  power of the spirit of God.
• 38:25
  >> I'm saying there is dominance. There's
• 38:27
  deliverance. There's a departure from
• 38:29
  condemnation. But there is DOMINANCE
• 38:31
  OVER THE CONTROL OF THIS WORLD. IF YOU
• 38:34
  ARE A CHILD OF GOD, YOU DO NOT HAVE TO
• 38:36
  live ruled by your feelings, ruled by
• 38:39
  the people around you, RULED BY THIS
• 38:41
  WORLD. YOUR SIN DOES NOT CONTROL YOU
• 38:44
  this morning. If you allow it to do so,
• 38:46
  that is on your own terms.
• 38:48
  >> Amen.
• 38:50
  >> You say, "Preacher, where you going with
• 38:51
  all this?" Well,
• 38:54
  I was hoping somebody get happy. Amen.
• 38:57
  Good tonight.
• 38:59
  Verse number 18. Y'all about to kill me.
• 39:02
  I'll say this. Verse number 18, where
• 39:04
  judgment was, now there's justification.
• 39:08
  Therefore, as by the offense of one,
• 39:10
  judgment came upon all men to
• 39:11
  condemnation, even so by the
• 39:13
  righteousness of one, the free gift came
• 39:15
  upon all men
• 39:17
  >> under justification of life. You say,
• 39:18
  "Preacher, does that mean everybody's
• 39:19
  saved?" No, that means everybody can be
• 39:21
  saved. Amen.
• 39:23
  >> Where judgment was, now there is
• 39:25
  justification. Second of all, verse 19,
• 39:27
  where condemnation was, now there is
• 39:29
  conversion. For as by one man's
• 39:31
  disobedience, many were made sinners, so
• 39:33
  by the obedience of one shall many be
• 39:35
  made righteous.
• 39:37
  >> Amen.
• 39:38
  >> Verse number 20. Moreover, the law
• 39:41
  entered that the offense might abound.
• 39:42
  But where sin abounded, grace did much
• 39:44
  more abound. Now, this is the last point
• 39:46
  this morning.
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  We've considered the problem that's
• 39:49
  universal. We've considered the
• 39:52
  provision that is undeniable.
• 39:54
  But there thirdly, and I'm done. There's
• 39:57
  two possibilities that must be
• 39:58
  understood this morning.
• 39:59
  >> You're right, brother.
• 40:00
  >> There's two possibilities that must be
• 40:02
  understood. And you say, "What are
• 40:03
  those, preacher?" Well,
• 40:05
  it comes down simply to this. What
• 40:08
  you're willing to choose.
• 40:11
  [snorts] And now, there's many in this
• 40:13
  world today say that man is totally
• 40:15
  depraved, that he has no ability to
• 40:18
  choose for himself. He would not choose
• 40:20
  salvation. But the truth is this morning
• 40:23
  the Bible does not teach that. You're
• 40:24
  >> right.
• 40:25
  >> God gives man a free will. Man was a
• 40:27
  free moral agent in the garden. Man is a
• 40:29
  free moral agent in the Baptist church
• 40:31
  this morning.
• 40:31
  >> You're right.
• 40:32
  >> Some 6,000 7,000 however many years it's
• 40:35
  been. Man is still a free moral agent.
• 40:37
  And it is a choice that's left up to
• 40:39
  you. You say, "Preacher, what's the
• 40:40
  choices?" Well, it's Jesus.
• 40:42
  >> You're right.
• 40:44
  >> Come on.
• 40:45
  >> Or whatever else you want to choose.
• 40:47
  >> Amen.
• 40:48
  >> You say, "Preacher, well, I'm going to
• 40:49
  choose not to choose." Well, to choose
• 40:50
  not to choose is to choose.
• 40:52
  >> That's right. You're right.
• 40:53
  >> You hear what I'm saying?
• 40:54
  >> Amen.
• 40:55
  >> To choose not to choose is to refuse.
• 40:58
  >> Right.
• 40:58
  >> The grace of God.
• 41:00
  >> Yeah.
• 41:00
  >> You say, "Preacher, what's my choices?
• 41:02
  Heaven or hell?"
• 41:03
  >> That's right.
• 41:04
  >> You say, "Preacher, how how do you see
• 41:06
  that in this text?" WELL, YOU SEE IN
• 41:08
  THIS TEXT, THE BIBLE SAID IN VERSE 18,
• 41:10
  notice again, verse 16, verse 18, same
• 41:12
  truth. Therefore, as by the offense of
• 41:14
  one, judgment came upon all men to
• 41:16
  condemnation, even so by the
• 41:18
  righteousness of one. Notice those three
• 41:20
  words, the free gift.
• 41:24
  You say, "Preacher, I don't see a
• 41:25
  choice." Well, let me just ask you
• 41:27
  something. All right.
• 41:29
  Have you ever been given a gift
• 41:34
  and you didn't reach out for it and take
• 41:36
  it?
• 41:36
  >> That's good.
• 41:38
  >> You say, "Preacher, that's not a
• 41:39
  choice." Well, you had to decide whether
• 41:40
  or not you was going to receive it.
• 41:42
  >> Right.
• 41:43
  >> Yeah.
• 41:44
  >> Salvation is a gift.
• 41:46
  >> Right.
• 41:46
  >> It's a gift. The Bible says in Ephesians
• 41:48
  2:89, "For by grace are you saved
• 41:50
  through faith that not of yourselves.
• 41:51
  It's the gift of God." That's
• 41:53
  >> right.
• 41:53
  >> Not of works, lest any man should boast.
• 41:56
  >> And what he is doing this morning is
• 41:58
  he's holding out his gift.
• 41:59
  >> You're right.
• 41:59
  >> And you going to have to do one of two
• 42:00
  things.
• 42:02
  >> You're going to have to say, "Lord, I
• 42:03
  want it."
• 42:04
  >> Yes.
• 42:04
  >> Lord, I'll take it.
• 42:06
  >> Come on.
• 42:08
  >> Boy, I felt something on that.
• 42:09
  Hallelujah. I'm glad that little
• 42:11
  seven-year-old boy didn't know no better
• 42:12
  than nothing on that altar in Greater
• 42:15
  Vision Baptist Church in Wils County,
• 42:16
  North Carolina. Hey, I didn't know a
• 42:18
  thing. All I knew is my daddy was a
• 42:20
  great man. I was going to die and go to
• 42:22
  hell THAT NIGHT IF GOD DIDN'T SAVE ME.
• 42:24
  AND I WENT UP THERE TO THAT ALTAR AND I
• 42:26
  SAID, "LORD, I DON'T KNOW WHAT YOU WANT
• 42:27
  ME TO DO. BUT LORD, I'LL DO WHATEVER YOU
• 42:30
  ASKED. JUST SAVE ME. JUST SAVE ME." AND
• 42:32
  YOU KNOW WHAT HE DID? HE SAVED ME. AND
• 42:34
  THERE AIN'T NEVER BEEN A DAY SINCE THAT
• 42:36
  I AIN'T BEEN SAVED. SOMEBODY SAY,
• 42:38
  "AMEN." THERE AIN'T NEVER BEEN A MOMENT,
• 42:40
  AIN'T NEVER BEEN A TIME, AIN'T NEVER
• 42:42
  BEEN A PLACE THAT I'VE WENT THAT I GOT
• 42:44
  OUTSIDE OF HIS REACH BECAUSE I TOOK THE
• 42:47
  FREE GIFT.
• 42:48
  >> AMEN.
• 42:49
  >> LORD, I want it.
• 42:52
  >> But as the offense, so also is the free
• 42:54
  gift. Let me ask you, do you want it?
• 42:56
  >> Amen.
• 42:59
  >> Are you tired of your sin?
• 43:01
  >> Come on.
• 43:03
  See, you going to have to realize you
• 43:05
  you're you're
• 43:07
  I don't say this to be vulgar, but the
• 43:09
  truth is if you're lost, you're
• 43:10
  hellbound, friend.
• 43:12
  >> You're right.
• 43:13
  >> With the hammer down,
• 43:15
  >> and you're going to get there quicker
• 43:16
  than you know it. One thing I've
• 43:17
  realized in the last year, and I don't
• 43:20
  know nothing about it, but I've realized
• 43:23
  so much more. Seems like just
• 43:25
  exponentially more in the last year of
• 43:26
  pastoring. God has been so good,
• 43:28
  >> right?
• 43:29
  >> But this thing really goes by fast.
• 43:31
  >> Amen.
• 43:33
  I mean, it gets by fast.
• 43:35
  >> I told my wife the other day, I said,
• 43:37
  "Honey," I said, "Really, everything's
• 43:39
  been so good." I said, "I really just
• 43:40
  want it to slow down a little bit."
• 43:42
  >> Right.
• 43:43
  >> I said, "I'm just thankful for where
• 43:44
  we're at. I just want us to just enjoy
• 43:47
  this for a little while, and it just
• 43:49
  feels like it's just slipping away."
• 43:51
  That's
• 43:51
  >> right.
• 43:53
  >> But you know what the truth is this
• 43:54
  morning? If you're lost, you've got
• 43:56
  nothing to look forward to.
• 43:58
  >> Right.
• 43:59
  >> Yeah. The best life you're going to live
• 44:01
  is here.
• 44:02
  >> Right.
• 44:02
  >> And the sad thing is this life's
• 44:04
  terrible.
• 44:04
  >> Yeah.
• 44:06
  >> Say, "Preacher, you just said it's
• 44:07
  great. It is for me. I'm saved."
• 44:09
  >> Amen.
• 44:11
  >> Yeah. We got to put up with a lot of
• 44:13
  junk, deal with a lot of things. But you
• 44:14
  know what the truth is? Heaven's our
• 44:16
  home, friend.
• 44:19
  >> And the choice is yours. You see, it
• 44:21
  comes down to this choice. To choose, to
• 44:23
  not choose or to refuse brings death and
• 44:25
  damnation and hell. But I'll say this,
• 44:27
  but there is a hope that's revealed.
• 44:29
  >> Amen.
• 44:30
  >> For the child of God. There's a higher
• 44:32
  realm that you can live on. There's a
• 44:34
  holy race of people that you can join.
• 44:37
  And there's a heavenly reward that you
• 44:39
  can receive.
• 44:40
  >> Amen.
• 44:41
  >> If you'll just say, "Lord,
• 44:44
  please
• 44:46
  >> forgive me.
• 44:48
  Please save me from hell."
• 44:50
  >> Amen.
• 44:51
  >> You say, "Preacher, what's it going to
• 44:52
  take?" You accepting the gift. Amen.
• 44:55
  >> As we stand this morning, every head
• 44:57
  bowed and every eye closed, she begins
• 44:58
  to play. I'm talking about abundant
• 45:01
  grace for a hurting world. You're
• 45:03
  hurting this morning.
• 45:05
  I'll tell you, the only thing that'll
• 45:07
  fix it [music] is Jesus.
• 45:10
  That's the only thing that'll fix it.
• 45:15
  He's the only one that gives life. He's
• 45:18
  the only one that forgives sin. He's the
• 45:21
  only one that'll bring joy into your
• 45:22
  life.
• 45:24
  You say, "Preacher,
• 45:27
  preacher, I'm not saved this morning.
• 45:29
  Would you please pray for me?" There's
• 45:30
  nobody looking around. Just slip your
• 45:32
  hand up where I can see it. All right,
• 45:34
  preacher, I'm not saved. Would you
• 45:36
  please pray [music] for me? Slip your
• 45:38
  hand up where I can see it and hold it.
• 45:41
  All right. [music]
• 45:44
  God sees that.
• 45:50
  Here's
• 45:52
  the truth this morning. [music]
• 45:57
  When it comes down to your life and
• 45:58
  mine,
• 46:01
  there's none of us good. [music] And
• 46:04
  your good is not going to be good enough
• 46:06
  to get you to heaven.
• 46:10
  [music]
• 46:11
  And so what you need to do is you need
• 46:12
  to trust Jesus.
• 46:15
  You say, "Preacher, how do I do that?
• 46:17
  Preacher, how do I do that?" Let me let
• 46:20
  me say this this morning.
• 46:23
  It is simple [music]
• 46:25
  simple trust
• 46:29
  [music] in the fact that he paid your
• 46:31
  sin debt. And what you're doing is
• 46:34
  saying, "Lord, [music] I take who I am
• 46:37
  and I place it on you. Please forgive me
• 46:39
  of my sins. Take my sin and give me your
• 46:42
  righteousness."
• 46:45
  And he will save you.
• 46:50
  You just pray and ask God forgive you
• 46:52
  and he'll save you. Let me say this to
• 46:55
  you. This altar is open. If you're here
• 46:58
  and you're lost this morning, don't
• 46:59
  wait.
• 47:01
  Don't wait. Come to this altar and get
• 47:03
  saved.
• 47:09
  Don't wait. [music]
• 47:12
  His grace is good enough for you
• 47:15
  wherever you are.
• 47:18
  >> [music]
• 47:19
  >> I promise you if he'll save me,
• 47:22
  he'll save you. [music]
• 47:27
  >> You see, I know what I am.
• 47:31
  And the fact that he would save me and
• 47:33
  he would love me boggles my mind.
• 47:37
  [music] I can tell you this, he loves
• 47:38
  you this morning.
• 47:43
  Why don't you come? [music] Won't you
• 47:45
  come?
• 47:52
  You can be saved today. Don't wait.
• 47:56
  [music]
• 48:00
  Thank you for loving me. I ask it in
• 48:02
  Jesus name. Amen.
• 48:04
  >> Thank you for joining our service today.
• 48:06
  We'd love it [music] if you'd join us in
• 48:08
  person the next time you are able at
• 48:10
  Meadows Baptist Church. Our physical
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  [music] address is 2988 Stewart Road in
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  Walnut Cove, North Carolina. Our service
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  [music] times are Sunday school at 10:00
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  a.m., Sunday morning worship at 11:00
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  a.m., Sunday evening worship at 6:00
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  p.m., and Wednesday evening [music]
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  Bible study at 7:00 p.m. For more
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  information, visit us at
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  meadowsbaptisturch.com.
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  Thanks again for [music] tuning in.