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Guilt vs. Grace, Part 1 · INSIGHT FOR LIVING: Biblical Wisdom For Everyday Living

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Speaker 1: Guilt is a nagging emotion that can ruin an otherwise
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Speaker 1: good day. For example, after consuming a big bowl of
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Speaker 1: chocolate ice cream, sometimes we feel remorseful. But it's nothing
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Speaker 1: like the shame we feel after we've really blown it.
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Speaker 1: That crushing weight of failure whispers, you'll never recover from this.
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Speaker 1: Today on Insight for Living. Chuck Swindoll reveals why guilt
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Speaker 1: usually wins over grace in our lives and how we
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Speaker 1: can break free from its stranglehold. In our study of
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Speaker 1: Paul's letter to the Romans, let's discover this magnificent truth together.
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Speaker 1: Where sin abounds, grace super abounds.
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Speaker 2: Well, we're in a section of Romans that is, um,
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Speaker 2: Challenging to say the least, but it is neither confusing
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Speaker 2: nor convoluted.
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Speaker 3: It is just simply compressed. Just compressed.
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Speaker 2: A lot of great thoughts surrounding a very simple principle
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Speaker 2: that we're going to unfold today that will help you
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Speaker 2: understand why we seem to live under such guilt and
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Speaker 2: under such fear of death. I'll be reading from Romans
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Speaker 2: 5 beginning at verse 12. down through verse 21. Romans 5, 12. Therefore,
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Speaker 2: just as through one man sin entered into the world,
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Speaker 2: and death through sin, and so death spread to all
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Speaker 2: men because all sinned. For until the law, sin was
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Speaker 2: in the world, but sin is not imputed. The word
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Speaker 2: means charged to the account of another. But sin is
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Speaker 2: not charged to the account of another when there is
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Speaker 2: no law. Nevertheless, death reigned from Adam until Moses, even
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Speaker 2: over those who had not sinned in the likeness of
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Speaker 2: the offense of Adam, who was a type of him
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Speaker 2: who was to come.
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Speaker 3: But the free gift is not like the transgression.
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Speaker 2: For if by the transgression of the one the many died,
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Speaker 2: Much more did the grace of God and the gift
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Speaker 2: by the grace of the one man, Jesus.
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Speaker 3: Christ, abound to the many.
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Speaker 2: The gift is not like that which came through the
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Speaker 2: one who sinned. For on the one hand, the judgment
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Speaker 2: arose from one transgression resulting in condemnation. But on the
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Speaker 2: other hand, the free gift arose from many transgressions resulting
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Speaker 2: in justifications. For if by the transgression of the one
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Speaker 2: death reigns through the one, much more those who receive
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Speaker 2: the abundance of grace and of the gift of righteousness
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Speaker 2: will reign in life through the one, Jesus Christ. So then,
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Speaker 2: as through one transgression there resulted condemnation to all men,
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Speaker 2: even so through one act of righteousness... there resulted justification
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Speaker 2: of life to all men. For as through the one
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Speaker 2: man's disobedience the many were made sinners, even so through
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Speaker 2: the obedience of the one the many will be made righteous.
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Speaker 2: The law came in so that the transgression would increase,
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Speaker 2: but where sin increased, grace abounded all the more so
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Speaker 2: that as sin reigned in death, even so grace would
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Speaker 2: reign through righteousness to eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord.
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Speaker 1: You're listening to Insight for Living. To dig deeper into
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Speaker 1: the book of Romans on your own, be sure to
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Speaker 1: to insight.org slash offer. Chuck titled today's message, Guilt vs. Grace.
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Speaker 2: Guilt and grace have been battling it out all throughout time.
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Speaker 2: It's like it never goes away, and tragically, guilt usually
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Speaker 2: wins over grace. I cannot figure it out, but I
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Speaker 2: have found that more people would rather This is true.
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Speaker 2: Would rather live under guilt than embrace a grace lifestyle.
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Speaker 3: I don't understand it.
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Speaker 2: And to make matters worse, many love making other people
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Speaker 2: feel as guilty about doing things as they could possibly
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Speaker 2: make them, especially things they don't think that they ought
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Speaker 2: to be doing.
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Speaker 3: Take Mildred the church gossip, for example.
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Speaker 2: Self-appointed monitor of the church's morals, she kept sticking her
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Speaker 2: nose in other people's business.
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Speaker 3: Several members did not.
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Speaker 2: Approve of her extracurricular activities, but they feared her enough
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Speaker 2: to maintain their silence. Mildred made a mistake, however, when
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Speaker 2: she accused George, a new member, of being an alcoholic
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Speaker 2: after she saw his old pickup parked in front of
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Speaker 2: the town's only bar one afternoon.
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Speaker 3: She emphatically told George.
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Speaker 2: And several others that everyone seeing it there would know
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Speaker 2: what he was doing. George, a man of few words,
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Speaker 2: stared at her for a moment and just turned and
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Speaker 2: walked away. He didn't explain, defend, or deny.
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Speaker 3: He said nothing. However, later that evening.
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Speaker 2: George quietly parked his pickup in front of Mildred's house,
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Speaker 2: walked home, and left it there all night. You gotta
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Speaker 2: love George. Now I got a question. How come the
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Speaker 2: church is full of more Mildreds and we don't have
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Speaker 2: enough Georges? Why is it that we would love that
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Speaker 2: kind of thing rather than want a free people to
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Speaker 2: be all they can be under the grace of God?
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Speaker 2: Where did all this get started? How did this guilt
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Speaker 2: thing get kicked in? And especially in the ranks of
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Speaker 2: the Christian. Since when do we think we can somehow
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Speaker 2: manipulate people into believing in Jesus? Or by judgment and
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Speaker 2: argument think that we can attract them to Christ? I've
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Speaker 2: never heard anybody say, well I lost an argument so
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Speaker 2: I just had to come to Christ. I was so embarrassed.
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Speaker 2: I just had to believe in Jesus.
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Speaker 3: It doesn't work like that.
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Speaker 2: It's like one theologian wrote, you may be able to
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Speaker 2: compel people to maintain certain minimum standards by stressing duty,
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Speaker 2: but the highest moral and spiritual achievements depend not upon
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Speaker 2: a push, but a pull. People must be charmed into righteousness.
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Speaker 2: Makes you think, doesn't it? There's not an ounce of
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Speaker 2: charm in Mildred. There's some charm in George. But he
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Speaker 2: makes me nervous.
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Speaker 3: Why? Because you don't understand the issue of guilt and sin.
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Speaker 2: You've never really thought how deeply entrenched you have been
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Speaker 2: for far too long. And you don't have to live
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Speaker 2: like that. Nor does it mean when you live with Christ,
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Speaker 2: you live as you please.
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Speaker 3: So don't go there. That's chapters 6 and 7 of Romans.
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Speaker 2: It means for the first time in your life, under grace,
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Speaker 2: you're able to do.
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Speaker 3: As Christ would have you do and live a life
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Speaker 3: free of guilt. How good is that? So we have
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Speaker 3: to go back, to go way back.
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Speaker 2: Romans 5.12 takes us far back in time to a
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Speaker 2: place called the Garden of Eden.
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Speaker 3: You've heard of that. That's where God placed the first.
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Speaker 2: Man he created and shortly thereafter placed the woman alongside him.
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Speaker 2: And he made it clear to Adam and Eve that
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Speaker 2: everything in the garden they were to enjoy.
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Speaker 3: How gracious is that?
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Speaker 2: But, but, But the tree of the knowledge of good
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Speaker 2: and evil, don't eat of it. The day you eat
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Speaker 2: of it, dying, you will die, literally. Dying physically, that
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Speaker 2: will kick in. You will die instantly, spiritually. There will
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Speaker 2: be a gap between your relationship with me as soon
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Speaker 2: as you eat. To make matters worse, you will open
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Speaker 2: a sewage pipe that will pollute the stream of humanity
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Speaker 2: the rest of time.
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Speaker 3: Don't eat. Don't take of the tree. You and I
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Speaker 3: know that Adam ate.
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Speaker 2: And as a result, theologians tell us he acted as
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Speaker 2: our federal head. And because he ate and sinned, so
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Speaker 2: we have the same pollution in our system. It's impossible
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Speaker 2: to bring a child into this world free of sin.
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Speaker 2: Because there's never been a parent. free of sin who
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Speaker 2: came from parents who were sinful. All of this takes
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Speaker 2: us to Romans 5 and verse 12. However, before plunging
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Speaker 2: into them, and really they are not as complicated as
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Speaker 2: they may appear to be, Let's kind of get a
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Speaker 2: sort of an overview of where we have been and
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Speaker 2: where we're going. See the first word in verse 1
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Speaker 2: and compare it to the first word in verse 12.
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Speaker 2: Got your Bible open? Romans 5, 1. Therefore, being justified
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Speaker 2: by faith, we have peace with God through our Lord
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Speaker 2: Jesus Christ.
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Speaker 3: Look at the first word, therefore. He's connecting it to
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Speaker 3: the fourth chapter.
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Speaker 2: We won't go there, but The whole point of chapter
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Speaker 2: 5 verses 1 to 11. These are the benefits of
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Speaker 2: now that you have believed in Christ. We have peace
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Speaker 2: with God. And with peace comes a large number of things. Hope.
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Speaker 2: Exulting in tribulation. Exulting in God himself. And the love
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Speaker 2: of God has proven itself to us in sending his
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Speaker 2: son for us. What benefits come our way? Verse 12.
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Speaker 3: Therefore.
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Speaker 1: Ah.
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Speaker 2: That little connecting particle is saying there's a logic thought
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Speaker 2: that's continuing on. This is no alien intrusion into the
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Speaker 2: argument of Paul. This is all part of the thought.
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Speaker 2: It's as if there's no period. It's as if there
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Speaker 2: are only commas and semicolons taking you through all of
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Speaker 2: chapter 5. All the benefits of verses 1 through 11
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Speaker 2: introducing us to a problem much deeper. that keeps people
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Speaker 2: from enjoying the benefits. It also helps us understand how
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Speaker 2: those benefits came to be ours in Christ. So don't
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Speaker 2: miss the two therefores. There's a second observation I want
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Speaker 2: you to notice. There's a progression of thought in the
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Speaker 2: verses in front of us, 12 through 21.
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Speaker 3: Some people like alliteration.
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Speaker 2: It's a four-bit word for the outline starting with the
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Speaker 2: same letter. So here's one to put on for size.
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Speaker 2: Humanity's ruin is in verses 12, 13.
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Speaker 3: And 14. The ruin of humanity.
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Speaker 2: The rescue is described in 15 through 19. Humanity's rescue,
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Speaker 2: 15 to 19. And then the reign, R-E-I-G-N. The reign
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Speaker 2: of the believer in grace is verses 20 and 21.
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Speaker 3: The ruin leads to the rescue, which results in the reign.
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Speaker 3: Now we're ready. Let's dig in.
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Speaker 2: Verse 12 introduces the entrance of sin and death to
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Speaker 2: begin with. Now, you've got to put your thinking caps on.
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Speaker 2: I said it will come clear to you, but you
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Speaker 2: can't drift and wander.
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Speaker 3: Okay? You've got to concentrate. So let's concentrate. Therefore, as
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Speaker 3: through one man, sin entered into the world and death entered.
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Speaker 3: Through sin. Stop there.
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Speaker 2: With the sin of Adam, there was introduced into the world,
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Speaker 2: and from then on, the problem of sin. Sin became king,
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Speaker 2: and the queen, death, reigned alongside the king. They're always connected.
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Speaker 2: Like grace and peace are always connected, so sin and death.
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Speaker 2: Where you see death, you find sin. Where you find sin,
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Speaker 2: you locate death. Sin and death came from Adam. When
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Speaker 2: he sinned, we all have sinned. We all have sinned.
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Speaker 2: So it introduces sin and death.
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Speaker 3: Read on.
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Speaker 2: And death through sin. And so death spread to all
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Speaker 2: men and women, boys and girls.
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Speaker 3: Because all sinned. Remember what I said?
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Speaker 2: Death and sin always connected like Siamese twins connected at
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Speaker 2: the hip. Like king and queen reigning together right alongside
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Speaker 2: each other. So sin and death spread to all men.
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Speaker 2: You can just feel the pollution as it runs through
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Speaker 2: the system.
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Speaker 3: Sin and death. Sin and death. There's never been a
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Speaker 3: person who hasn't sinned. There's never been one who won't die. Oh,
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Speaker 3: save a couple that were set aside.
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Speaker 2: For another purpose. But, you know, as one man said,
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Speaker 2: the statistics on death are quite impressive.
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Speaker 3: One out of one dies. So if you sin, you die. Okay?
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Speaker 3: And it spread to all humanity. Let's go further.
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Speaker 2: Until the law, sin was in the world. But sin
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Speaker 2: is not charged to our account where there is.
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Speaker 3: No law.
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Speaker 2: Nevertheless, death reigned from Adam until Moses, even over those
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Speaker 2: who had not sinned, in the likeness of the offense
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Speaker 2: of Adam. What does that mean? Now look again at
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Speaker 2: the verses. Until the law, sin was in the world.
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Speaker 2: How do we know that? Because people died.
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Speaker 3: Wherever there is death, there is the presence of sin.
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Speaker 3: But with Moses came the law. What did that do?
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Speaker 3: It specified sin. It spelled out what sin is. You
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Speaker 3: shall not covet.
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Speaker 2: You shall not have any other God before you. You
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Speaker 2: shall not use the Lord's name in vain. You shall
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Speaker 2: not commit adultery. You shall not steal. You shall not murder.
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Speaker 2: All those commands and many others came with the writing
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Speaker 2: of the law. So there was a specificity given to sin.
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Speaker 2: But until Moses came, there was just sin in general.
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Speaker 2: We know that because death still reigned supreme. Remember, death
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Speaker 2: is the queen. Sin is the king. So it spread
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Speaker 2: to all humanity and guilt from sin by the law
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Speaker 2: came along. When the law came, there came along guilt.
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Speaker 2: I know now that this is wrong because God has
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Speaker 2: written it. And I know by reading it that it's wrong.
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Speaker 2: Somebody gave me a little cartoon of Dennis the Menace
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Speaker 2: for one of the services this morning. On the fence,
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Speaker 2: Dennis is straddling. It says, keep out. On the tree
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Speaker 2: it reads, no trespassing, private property. Dennis says to his
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Speaker 2: buddy Joey, as soon as you learn to read, Joey,
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Speaker 2: the whole world's against you. As soon as you learn
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Speaker 2: to read the law, friend, it's all against you.
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Speaker 3: And you suddenly know, oh, I am really under guilt.
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Speaker 3: Because the law brings all of that.
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Speaker 2: It's for a purpose to make anybody who thinks he
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Speaker 2: isn't a sinner aware that he is. To cause any
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Speaker 2: woman to realize that she who thinks she is so perfect,
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Speaker 2: read the law and you'll realize how imperfect you are. However,
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Speaker 2: until the law came, there was no specificity. There was
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Speaker 2: no detail given on what's right and what's wrong. But
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Speaker 2: there was still sin. You've got to think like Paul here.
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Speaker 2: Verse 14. Nevertheless, death reigned from Adam until Moses... even
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Speaker 2: over those who had not sinned in the likeness of
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Speaker 2: the offense of Adam. Even though we didn't eat of
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Speaker 2: the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, still
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Speaker 2: we sin, and therefore there is still the presence of sin. However,
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Speaker 2: with the coming of the law, guilt arose, and from
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Speaker 2: then on it's a whole other story. We'll get there
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Speaker 2: next time. Now we get to verse 15. Here's where
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Speaker 2: it gets very interesting. We've looked at Adam, who introduced
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Speaker 2: sin and death. Think of Adam on one side in
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Speaker 2: the column of your mind, and think of Christ on
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Speaker 2: the other. Put a vertical line in the middle and
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Speaker 2: we'll draw some contrasts in 15, 16, and 17. And
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Speaker 2: we'll do some comparing in 18 and 19. Look at
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Speaker 2: the contrast between Adam, who introduced sin in the fall,
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Speaker 2: and Christ, who introduced righteousness at the cross.
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Speaker 3: Got them?
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Speaker 2: Adam in the fall, transgression. Christ on the cross, righteousness.
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Speaker 2: Now look at 15. But the free gift is not
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Speaker 2: like the transgression. The cross and what was provided is
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Speaker 2: not at all like the fall and what resulted. For
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Speaker 2: if by the transgression of the one, that's Adam, the
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Speaker 2: many died, much more did the grace of God and
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Speaker 2: the gift by the grace.
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Speaker 3: Of the one man, Jesus, abound to many. You see it?
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Speaker 3: This is contrasting the results of the act. The results
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Speaker 3: of the fall.
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Speaker 2: Verse 15, tells us many died. As a matter of fact,
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Speaker 2: it was the pollution that impacted all of humanity. But
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Speaker 2: as a result of the cross and the gift of
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Speaker 2: eternal life, there are many who live on.
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Speaker 3: Because of one man.
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Speaker 2: Some of us are old enough to remember the speeches
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Speaker 2: of Sir Winston Churchill in the dark dog days.
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Speaker 3: Of the United Kingdom.
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Speaker 2: He was the hope of the nation as the blitzkrieg
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Speaker 2: of the Nazis continued to plague London and other parts
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Speaker 2: of the countryside around England. On one occasion in 1940,
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Speaker 2: the Royal Air Force flew against the Luftwaffe and turned
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Speaker 2: them around and sent them the other way and won
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Speaker 2: that battle. And shortly thereafter, Churchill appeared before the House
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Speaker 2: of Commons, August 1940.
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Speaker 3: The record is there.
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Speaker 2: He delivered a wonderful speech and it was a line
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Speaker 2: that lives in his legacy. Never in the field of
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Speaker 2: human conflict was so much owed by so many to
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Speaker 2: so few. If I could borrow from Churchill's thought and
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Speaker 2: apply it to Adam and Christ, never in the history
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Speaker 2: of humanity was so much owed by so many to
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Speaker 2: only one person.
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Speaker 3: One person died.
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Speaker 2: And all the world can benefit from the death of Christ.
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Speaker 2: I say can because not all have. Jesus paid it
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Speaker 2: all for us. And as a result, we have the
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Speaker 2: opportunity to trust in Christ and to get the benefits
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Speaker 2: that follow that trust. So the contrast continues into verse 16.
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Speaker 2: The gift, now we're back to Christ. He's starting on
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Speaker 2: that side of the column. The gift is not like
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Speaker 2: that which came through the one who sinned. So the
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Speaker 2: gift brought at the cross from Christ, you read here,
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Speaker 2: is not like the one that sinned. For on the
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Speaker 2: one hand, the judgment arose from one transgression resulting in condemnation.
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Speaker 2: As a result of his fall, judgment flowed In the
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Speaker 2: wake of sin and death, condemnation flowed along with the
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Speaker 2: pollution of humanity.
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Speaker 3: Now look at the change.
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Speaker 2: But, on the other hand, the free gift arose from
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Speaker 2: many transgressions.
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Speaker 3: Resulting in justification. There's our word again.
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Speaker 2: The sovereign act of God whereby he declares righteous the
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Speaker 2: believing sinner while we are still in a sinning state.
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Speaker 2: Still carrying around in our bodies the nature of sin. However,
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Speaker 2: the great benefit is that Christ declares us righteous in himself.
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Speaker 3: When we believe in him. And it breaks that grip
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Speaker 3: of guilt and sin on us. Hold on.
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Speaker 2: We'll get to it in chapter 6. But the good
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Speaker 2: news is when that grip is broken. We can now
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Speaker 2: live above the drag and domination of sin's impulse.
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Speaker 3: That's what the gift provides. It's by grace.
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Speaker 2: And what a wonderful way to live rather than under
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Speaker 2: the guilt of condemnation or the condemnation of guilt. There's
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Speaker 2: a third contrast. First was the contrast of results, verse 15.
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Speaker 2: Then the contrast of the cause, verse 16. Now the
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Speaker 2: contrast of choice, 17. For if by the transgression of one,
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Speaker 2: now you answer me, who is that referring to?
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Speaker 3: Who is the one here? That's it, Adam.
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Speaker 2: By the transgression of Adam, death reigned through the one.
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Speaker 2: Much more those who receive the abundance of grace and
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Speaker 2: the gift of righteousness will reign in the life through
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Speaker 2: the one. We don't even have to answer here. He
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Speaker 2: tells us, Jesus Christ. Look closely at the verse.
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Speaker 3: By the transgression of Adam, death reigned through him. Remember,
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Speaker 3: he's our federal head.
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Speaker 2: Much more those who receive the abundance of grace and
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Speaker 2: that gift of righteousness being justified will reign in life
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Speaker 2: through the one Jesus Christ. I came across an interesting
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Speaker 2: explanation of this and.
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Speaker 3: I found it in the message. written by Eugene Peterson.
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Speaker 3: Listen to these words.
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Speaker 2: Sin disturbed relations with God in everything and everyone, but
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Speaker 2: the extent of the disturbance was not clear until God
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Speaker 2: spelled it.
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Speaker 3: Out in detail to Moses.
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Speaker 2: So death, this huge abyss separating us from God, dominated
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Speaker 2: the landscape from Adam to Moses, Even those who didn't
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Speaker 2: sin precisely as Adam did by disobeying a specific command
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Speaker 2: of God still had to experience this termination of life.
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Speaker 3: This separation from God.
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Speaker 2: But Adam who got us into this also points ahead
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Speaker 2: to the one who will get us out of it.
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Speaker 2: What a magnificent relief it is for us to see
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Speaker 2: ourselves no longer in Adam and under the domination of
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Speaker 2: a king and queen who ruled our lives long enough.
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Speaker 2: We are now living under the authority of a new
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Speaker 2: monarch whose name is Jesus the Lord, and.
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Speaker 3: He provides a way of life called grace. The freedom
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Speaker 3: of the guilt of the old life is now ours
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Speaker 3: to enjoy.
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Speaker 1: Isn't that a relief? We're no longer ruled by the
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Speaker 1: sin of Adam. There's much more in this passage that
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Speaker 1: Chuck Swindoll wants to show us. He titled today's message,
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Speaker 1: Guilt vs. Grace. If you're ready to learn more, Insight
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Speaker 3: I'm Bill Meyer.
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Speaker 1: Guilt vs. Grace, Tuesday on Insight for Living. The preceding message,
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