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All right. Welcome back.
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Thank you for those that have been here.
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Why are you laughing dude? I don't know dude, just
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seriously. No, no dude, of course.
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But the dude Tasers. No, no, absolutely the welcome.
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God take it very seriously. Well, for those that have been
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listening, thank you for those that are a new welcome.
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And we're going to start off with a prayer.
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Lord, thank you so much for allowing us to be here.
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Guide us and lead us into the absolute truth.
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For there's no one greater than you.
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All glory goes to you. Amen.
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Amen. All right, bro.
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What do you got today? No, I mean something in my mind.
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Yeah, go for it. Maybe this might be a short
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episode, but or maybe not, I don't know.
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Here we go, all right. There's a Bible verse that a lot
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of people miss, like they don't really know what what it really
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means and it has to do with Paul.
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OK, what about Paul? Like I know people misuse his
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quotes a lot. Like, for example, Philippians
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413. I can do all things through
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Christ, which strengthens me. We talked about this and then
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people use like sports and stuff like that, you know, But Paul is
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speaking about spiritual stuff. I'm speaking about when Paul
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says, wretched man that I am, who will deliver me from this?
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What is that chapter Chapter 6 I.
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Think it's chapter No it's Chapter 7 I think.
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Or is it chapter 6? Forgot which one it was.
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I really. Yeah.
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Anyways, yeah, I see what you're saying.
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Yeah, you, I mean you keep talking about it while I find
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it. No, it's just that like if you
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read it, you really sit down and read it.
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Paul speaks about like the law and you know, he, he used to be
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like, you know, like a Pharisee. So, you know, he used to like,
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like study the law, live by the law, all this stuff, right?
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And he says, you know, the law is good.
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You know, the law points, you know, if it wasn't because of
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the law, then I wouldn't know that to do this is bad.
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So the law is good, yes, but he's like, but that's not really
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like what helps you? It persecutes you.
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What really helps you is Christ. So I don't know if you've you've
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found it or not. No, I have not found it.
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I think it's. I know it.
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I know it. It's a nine or eight.
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I'm pretty sure it's a nine or eight, but like more towards the
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end all. Right.
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Yeah, OK. Where he talks about that what I
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don't want to do, I do and that what I want to do I do.
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You know, I've seen a lot of people misuse that man.
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So many people misuse that in. What way?
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Like they think that when you come to Christ, OK, you come to
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Christ isn't that and you're still wretched.
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That is not what Paul is saying right there.
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He's not saying that. He was like, he says, thanks be
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through Christ I can serve the law of sin in one hand and the
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law of God in the other hand. Chapters.
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Chapter 7. It's Chapter 7, right towards
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the end, right? Yeah, it's Chapter 7 here, verse
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24. Let me just quote it, okay?
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Wretched man that I am, who will set me free from this body of
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this death question mark? Right, Okay, okay, but read,
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read, read before like few verses before that.
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Like we're talking about the. Law and all that stuff.
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So because I, I really do want to clarify this, because it's,
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this is getting out of hand the way people are using it.
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In my opinion, it's almost like when you come to Christ, you're
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still wretched. No, that's not true.
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OK, That's not true at all. So before we read in, in, in
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context, he writes to the, to the Romans, to the, to the
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church in Rome or the smart congregation in Rome.
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And he talks about what you just said right now about the law
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being under grace, right? All these things.
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How if you set your things, your mind on things of the flesh,
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that's chapter 8. But he talks about all these
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things. Now I, I think I know why you
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brought this up. Obviously, Paul wasn't a perfect
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being. No, definitely not.
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No. And because believers look up to
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him doesn't mean that they're idolizing him.
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He's just an example. Yeah, I think.
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You know what I mean, He. Left us a great example of what
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we should be doing, you know. So in Romans Chapter 7, right
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verse, I'll start from 14. For we know that the law is
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spiritual. Yes.
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All right. See, that's so.
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Yeah. Amen.
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Amen. But I am fleshly, meaning this
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body is flesh. But keep in mind what he is
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saying, not that. Not just the flesh.
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Mm hmm. The flesh and his spirit,
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because the spirit is dead, are essentially one, right?
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Alright, so keep that in mind. So by fleshly, that's what he's
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referring to, Sold into bondage, to sin.
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Now he says he was sold. Right to bondage.
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Where and where did this even happen to being sold?
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To bondage? To sin and by bondage to sin
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doesn't mean sin itself sin. It doesn't mean your sinful
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acts, but sin itself. What causes you for your sinful
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acts. That's mastering you, right?
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Right. Right.
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He talks about this in chapter 6.
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He does verse chapter 5. Now I'm remembering.
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Yeah, yeah. Went through the book of Romans.
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He was sold to bondage, to sin, meaning right, sold.
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It was a transaction done not by monetary things, but the the
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serpent sold Eve on this idea that you shall be like God and
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all this. Right?
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Right. So the serpent kind of
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redirected her direction to rest the mark.
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Yeah. So in that from that moment,
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he's referring to soul to bondage, OK.
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For I do not understand what I'm what I'm doing for I am not
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practicing what I want to do. But I do the very thing I hate.
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Now, remember, he's talking about this in bondage to sin,
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Yes, that in mind, Yes. And he's saying that the law is
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spiritual. So the law is spiritual.
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He says it's a good thing this is happening right now.
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Right, right. But you are also sold to bondage
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to sin. This is that's all that's
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happening right one to the left and one to the right.
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It's just you between both, right?
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Understand what's going on that what I want to do.
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However, if I do, but if I do the very thing I do not want to
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do, I agree with the law. Do you see what I'm saying?
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The law, which is spiritual, that the law is good, you see.
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Yeah. But now no longer am I the one
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doing it, but sin that dwells in me.
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For I know the good does not dwell in me.
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That is in my flesh. So the flesh is a receptor.
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You in there resistes or does right.
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For the willing is present in me, but the doing of the good is
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not. For the good that I want I do
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not do, but I practice the very evil that I don't, I do not
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want. But if I do the very thing I do
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not want, I do the no longer the the one doing it, but sin that
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dwells in me. I find then a principle that
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evil is present in me, the one who wants to do good in the
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inner person. But I see the difference of law
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in the parts of my body waging war against the law of my mind
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and making me a prisoner of the law of sin, the law which is the
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of the body, my body parts. Wretched man.
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OK, so mind you remember the law is spiritual.
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And he also understands there's a bondage to sin, right?
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He explains that interaction between what I want to do, what
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I don't want to do, and that what I want to do, I do, and
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that what I want to do I don't do.
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Right. Right.
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And if I do this, the law then fulfills itself.
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And if I don't do that, then I notice there's this evil that's
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present. He, he just clear as water.
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Yeah. I mean, you you really can't,
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right? Like, you know, misinterpret
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this. That's why he says, wretched
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man. Wretched man.
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Yeah, because he's like, oh man. Yeah.
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So he understands there's an inner person in there versus the
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flesh. That inner person is waging war.
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So he does talk about these Galatians.
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Your spirit, that's dead and your flesh, right?
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They have to be contrary to each other, right?
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Yeah, because when the Spirit becomes alive, it's going to
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want to do the things of the Spirit, right, And by the things
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of the Spirit referring to the Holy Spirit.
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Yes, absolutely. That's why he talks about
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keeping step by the Spirit. So he's talking about someone
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here who is a believer who abides by deadworks.
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Yeah. Hebrew 616 that he talks about
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that these are fundamental things, but elementary.
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It's not saying that they're bad.
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Remember, he says, the law is good.
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Yes, it's spiritual. OK, so this he's also describing
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something because remember in Romans he speaks about in the
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first few chapters how there is also a universal law that we
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know, right, Right. That there is no excuse that we
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wouldn't know that there is a creator, right?
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Yeah. So even we know, right?
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OK, he talks about that, yes, so.
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He's pointing out here the interaction between you and you.
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Yeah, right this battle, Right this war.
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Yeah, this law, yeah, that is spiritual.
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And then this bondage, that is insane.
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Now and you and you. Now you can.
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No, I was gonna say like, also like I, I'm pretty sure also
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Paul talks about like when the law comes, it like it's like a
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flashlight to your sin. Like it points.
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Like it makes sin become alive in your life.
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Say that again, like yes, the law is there because it
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basically when before the law you were dead.
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What? Was it that sin was like was
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like not alive? Like, yeah, so, so, so before
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the law, sin was not alive. Right, it was just there by.
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It meaning by that it meaning it wasn't visible to you.
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Yes, exactly. The law comes it makes
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invisible, but there's a caveat. You you caveat, you get
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destroyed. Yes, because the law kills you
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like well, Paul speaks. About it, too.
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Yeah. Now the law there makes it
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alive. Alive in the aspect of that.
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It's visible now. Now you die.
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Yes. Because it wasn't alive.
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Meaning it wasn't visible. It wasn't visible.
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You couldn't see it. The law couldn't, didn't point
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it. You were only determining it by
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your conscience. Right, right.
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Right, yes, you know, So there was a sense of naivety.
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Yes, naivety. That's a good way to.
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Put it but now that the law is there, which he says is
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spiritual, which is good because it does its job.
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Right. It points out to sin.
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It makes it a live, meaning now it's visible, yes, but you get
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destroyed. You do, yes.
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And we want that. That's.
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Because that's his function. Yes, that's his job, but you?
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Cannot seek justification by that.
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No, it is through Christ, right? He talks about this in I believe
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chapter 6 right if I'm not mistaken?
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Right. If you try to seek righteousness
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through the law, you pretty much become like a hypocrite.
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That's. What's happening?
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Yeah, yeah, yeah. So he talks about what's going
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on in this inside here. So if you do find yourself, you
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know, in that state, then you are wretched.
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Yes, I agree. Absolutely.
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You are. Yeah, yeah, absolutely.
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If you're trying to do this with your own strengths.
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Like you are No, no, without Christ, you're.
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Wretched without Christ? Yes, yes, absolutely.
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So that's why it says the next following thanks be to God.
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Say one more time. Say.
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Verse 25 of of of verse 7 thanks be to God, here's the vicious
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cycle that's being broken or understood or put to balance if.
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You will, yeah. Thanks be to God, through Jesus
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Christ our Lord, through through your peace, your piercing,
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through who are you abiding under, right under grace, right
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through. Thanks be to God through Jesus
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Christ our Lord. So then on the hand of my eye,
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myself with my mind am serving the law of God.
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That's the law that's spiritual on one hand, but on the other
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with the my flesh of the law of sin, bondage to sin.
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Now, through Christ, these two things are not a problem.
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Right, right. Absolutely.
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Thanks be through. Christ through Christ though,
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right? It is through Christ.
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Yes, Amen, I'll read. It one more time, thanks be to
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God through Jesus our Lord. So then on one hand, I myself
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with my mind am serving the law of God, right?
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He is serving. The law of God.
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In service to it, right on one hand, but on the other, ready in
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servitude with my flesh, the law of sin.
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I see now give us a little example of the law of God like
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spiritual. Christ.
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Christ, Right? Yes.
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He's the one that can. So break you from those.
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The law is spiritual, right? Uh huh.
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So that means that when Christ speaks to the Pharisees and to
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the Sadducees and to other Zealots, they're there and tells
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them about the law, right? They know the law of the outer
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part. Right.
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Well, if I don't move this bottle, I didn't sin, but Christ
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is. But if you moved it in your
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heart, you have already sinned. Right, right, right.
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Yes, exactly. So what is within?
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So it's. From within there's an inner.
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Person, I agree. Just because I moved the just
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because like I want to move the bottle.
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Just an example. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
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But. I didn't move it right.
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No, yeah. I didn't sin be cool because I
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thought it, but I didn't move it.
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Christ is going further. Further, Yeah.
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You sinned already? Yes.
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I mean, that's a bottle. Right.
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No, You're using an example. You're using the example of the
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idolatry, right? Right.
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Yeah. Well, if I don't commit it well,
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but you thought it, yes, you made it alive inside, right?
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Right. It's like what James talks
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about, too, about when it's conceived in the heart and it
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gives birth to sin, you know? Yeah.
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All that stuff. Yeah.
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That that very action right there, the law of sin took
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place. Yeah, right here.
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On the other hand, the law of sin, that flesh that was
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receiving that information receptor to want to go a mate to
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want to go do that that was happening.
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But since you know the law that it's wrong, you just said, well,
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if I don't do that action, right, right.
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But you did it in your heart. Right.
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Yes, exactly. That is what he describes, that
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what I want to do I don't do, and what I don't want to do, I
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do. That friction, that tension,
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that resistance, right? And that it folds into each
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other that the law is spiritual, but you're also bondage to sin.
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So you can, you, you can't essentially like serve the law
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of, of God in the mind. You can't, You can't.
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Yeah, ignore. And you can appropriately break
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the bondage to sin because you're trying to do it on your
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own. Right, right, right.
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So you are wretched, yes. So that's what I mean by the
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law, right? By the law.
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We're not talking about like certain rules.
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There is a law. A law doesn't necessarily mean
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rules. A law is.
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You're making something factual. Yeah, Right.
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There's gravity. Yes.
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The laws of physics, Right. There's just certain things that
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this is how the world works, right?
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Right. Here comes someone and defies
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those laws. It transcends those laws.
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That means it doesn't abide by those laws.
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Yeah, exactly. Because that person is greater
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than these laws of physics, meaning factual things that
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supposed to happen, this battle falls.
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It falls. Right, Right.
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Yep. Right.
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Yeah. Christ transcends those laws.
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Right, and goes deeper than. We stay under him, right?
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And now we are above the law now.
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Right. We are above Scripture, what
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Romans calls it. He calls it Scripture because
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that's what they considered the law was scripture.
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Yeah, yeah, yeah. Above it, below Grace.
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Absolutely. So you can see it in one hand.
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And then in one hand. The other yes in between.
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Exactly. Absolutely.
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So you're not no longer under the law.
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You're above it. Being above it doesn't mean it's
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garbage. No.
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Yeah, if anything, we uphold it. You now uphold it, but it is
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through Christ. Yes.
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And what law are we talking about?
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Love your neighbor as you love yourself.
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Love. No, no, no.
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Love God with all your heart minded soul and strength and
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love your neighbor as this holds, right?
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The what? The law.
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The law. The law is factual, visible,
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right? The law meaning reality.
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If you are of mine, you have these fruits, right?
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And if you are of mine, you develop.
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These fruits are fruits of the Spirit, because your mind are
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set on the things of the Spirit. That's law, it's factual.
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Amen. But how can you be above the law
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and still bondage to sin? Makes no sense you.
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Can't. You can't.
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No, absolutely not. So when you come to Christ.
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So when you come to Christ, sin is not disappearing.
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No, it's not. No, no, no, no, no.
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It's just visible. And when you're born, you're not
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born as a Sinner. Are you kidding me?
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No, you inherit the ability this knowledge that Adam and Eve had
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passed down. Could it?
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Be we developed this later. But you're not born as a Sinner.
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No, don't be ridiculous. How can you be born as a Sinner?
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A Sinner would imply the one who commits the Sinner bond slave to
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it. The child is now born mortal
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because we're not in eternity having the nutrients of a tree
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of life. Yeah, that would essentially
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give us the the sustenance to extend our life.
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Get a tree of life. The fruit of the tree of life.
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Like, I don't, right? I understand.
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No, no, Exactly, exactly. You don't have access to that,
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so therefore we die with another thing, knowing the good and bad.
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Yep, that's the state we're in. Right.
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That's it. Yes.
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That's it. Nothing more.
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Nothing. Less exactly, yeah.
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A conscience prior to the law would determine what was good
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and right. But then this stiff necked
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people that came out of Egypt needed to have a certain amount
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of 10 commandments and then Moses, through the discernment
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of God had to elaborate for them because they couldn't
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understand. Right, right.
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Right. This is why Jesus said Moses
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wrote these things, because of your hardening of your hearts.
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Although that was in reference to, you know, marriage.
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It's still the same concept. Yeah.
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That he wrote these things because of the hardening of
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their hearts. So the law is spiritual, meaning
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that factual facts, reality, right of of what conscience can
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determine is a good thing. It's spiritual.
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Amen. It is, but we're.
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Bondage to sin. And by that it means this sin in
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Hebrew just means missing the mark.
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More accurate translation. Yeah.
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Just means sin. Yeah.
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So what that means is you're supposed to be doing this, but
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you're doing that. In other words, you're missing
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the what? You're missing the mark.
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You're. Missing the mark.
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Now if you're bondage to sin, that means you're bondage.
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You're a slave to always missing the mark.
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Yep, that's what I'm saying. Exactly.
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Do you know what I'm saying? Yeah.
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So then the law is there so that you see so that when you miss
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the mark, you then can see that what you just did was wrong, but
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it killed you anyways. Exactly.
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OK, yeah, through Christ you can uphold.
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You're above it. Yes.
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And you won't miss the mark. Amen.
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You're not mastered by it. You're not a bondage to it.
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No, you're not. So if through Christ, whoever is
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listening, you are through Christ, how are you, wretched
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man? Right, explain that to me like
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that makes no sense. He explains before he says
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wretched man. Yeah, he yeah, exactly because.
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He says wretched man because there is no hope.
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And what is that? That being bond, bondage to sin
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while trying to embrace the law which is spiritual, makes you
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wretched. It does.
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You're misfiring all the time. You think you're alive, walking,
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thinking you're alive, right, right, right.
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You're still dead. You're.
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Still dead? Yeah.
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Now mind you, Moses and all of these, they believe and they
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have faith 100% and they understood it.
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David understood it. Samuel understood it.
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Yeah, Solomon at the end understood it.
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They understood how beautiful scriptures.
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Are yeah right. But they also understood that
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there was this mystery in which he also points out.
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Right, right. This, this, this.
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Inside the evil is present. What is that?
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That he considers evil that is present in sin.
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Yeah. Why is it evil?
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Because it essentially impulses you to miss the mark.
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That's why it's evil. Because you have the capacity to
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do good, but you don't want to do it.
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Exactly. So I don't know if that that.
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No, no, you pretty much said it all man.
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Like that's exactly how how I see it man.
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I know there's people online, you know, they do a great job,
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you know, talking to the youth, that's great.
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But to to to come to a conclusion that that he spoke,
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he said that he was wretched because of his thorn of his
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flesh. And that that thorn was a
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temptation, but somehow simultaneously pain and and and
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trauma. How does that even work?
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Right? Like it's one or the other.
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Yeah. Like you think he was desiring
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that thorn. What do you mean?
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No, he. Was not.
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And just because he had the thorn, he then thought he was
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wretched. He understood what it meant to
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be wretched. Yeah.
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Right, because of what he did. But then, thanks be to Christ,
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right? Thanks be through Christ, yes
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right, I can do this one hand the.
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Other one. Now we don't know what that
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thorn is, of course. Yeah, we can talk about it,
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conclude to whatever, and that's a different conversation.
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But when he speaks about wretched Mandarin, it's because
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he understood the difference when he was without Christ
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versus when he's with Christ. Right.
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Yes, exactly. There's a difference.
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He explains it right there in this place.
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Think of it this way, when the Father said I forgive you to the
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world, that very action, OK, let me say it this way.
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I say I forgive you that that phrase itself, I forgive you.
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It's like God with the brush on a paint canvas painting Christ's
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death. That's how he says I forgive
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you. Christ is the Word, so he
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essentially executes it. Yes.
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Christ comes back and the breath of life comes among us, the
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Spirit of the Lord, right? Yeah.
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So that's what's happening. If we don't, if we can't, if it
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is not through Christ, OK, you will be bonded to sin, right?
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You have to pick one. Slavery.
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He does talk about this. Yeah, either a slave to sin or.
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A slave to righteousness. Yes.
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He's not. I've said this multiple times in
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other episodes. He's not going to just break
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your chains. You're free now.
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He's not going to let you roam freely.
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No. Oh, oh, you're free now.
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It's like, oh, thank you. OK.
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You trusted that I would break your chains.
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Yes. Go ahead and pick up your cross.
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You went from one bondage to the next.
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Bondage of righteousness, yes. And now since you're in bondage
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of righteousness, the law, you can serve the law.
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What does it say there? In one hand that can serve the
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law of God, and the other hand that can.
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Serve I myself and the mind, and serving the law of God.
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Yes. And on the other hand, the other
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hand, with the flesh, the law of sin, what's the law of God,
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Christ, what's the law of sin? Morality.
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You cannot do that on your own. No.
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It has to be through Christ. Amen, because he is what renews
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you inside. How do you know when it's a law?
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If you say if you're going above, let's say you're driving
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on a road 7080 mph, there was never a speed limit sign.
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Never. So you were just You knew when
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to slow down, you knew when to speed.
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Yeah, she could. Yeah, You could recognize your
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environment, right? Yeah.
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You knew that if people were around, you would slow down.
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That's without the speed limit sign, right?
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Right. Do you understand how this is
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working? No, absolutely.
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Before the law, if you will, you would slow down.
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You would speed up, people would pass.
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You know what, to slow down all this stuff.
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But then there's a law that's passed anybody who speeds more
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than 55. Well, yeah, I don't know.
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Take your license away for a year for example Speed limit.
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They put a crosswalk traffic like everything so you can't
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speed anymore at 6070 right? Because there's a law now.
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There is a law that says you can't do that now it causes you.
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You now see it. You see now the danger.
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You see what you weren't seeing before.
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It becomes alive now. It becomes alive.
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Visual, yeah. But now it kills you because now
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you want to do it, but you can't.
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And when you do it, you get penalized.
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You understand? 100%.
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Do you understand now? Now you want to do it, but you
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can't now, right? So that's why Thanks B.
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So you want to do it, but you can't, but you do it anyways.
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That way you're not supposed to do and you get penalized for it,
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right? That's what's happening now.
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That's what's happening. Exactly.
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That's why you're a wretched. Exactly.
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That's why when you come to Christ bro, it's how can you say
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you're wretched? You can't that.
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Makes no sense you're. Not you're not any longer.
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You're not. It makes no sense to me when 1
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says, wretched man, that I am after Christ.
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That makes no sense if I'm to be very honest.
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Like I know Johnny Chang means well and I'm sure he's reached
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out to so many people and has baptized other.
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But in this case man, if you ever get to listen to this as a
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brother in Christ, you are off. You're so wrong.
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Yeah. And that's unfortunate.
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Yeah, you're wretched because you're not through Christ.
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Amen. The moment you come through
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Christ, your spirit becomes alive.
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Exactly your spirit becomes alive.
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You're now under grace above the law.
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So now your justification. It is through Christ now.
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Yes, let the law do. Let the law fulfill itself.
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Amen. All right.
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And what is that? That it kills you and it will
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kill you and and you can't do anything about it.
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Exactly. Let it do it's.
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Job. Let it do it's job.
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Yes, exactly. And by that it means you will
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constantly want to, but you have to resist it.
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You are under Christ now. Sin doesn't just disappear.
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No, doesn't mean you're exempt from it, no.
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And like I said one more time, sin just means missing the mark
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and we can go on a deeper conversation about that.
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Yes. About what sin is.
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But once you're with Christ, your chains are broken.
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Yeah, exactly. You can now.
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Serve the law of God in one hand with your mind, and on the other
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hand the law of the flesh, the law of sin, and the other hand
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through who? Through Christ, exactly?
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Without being a slave. But now you're a slave to
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righteousness. Amen.
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Amen. I don't know if that makes
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sense. No, no, no, no.
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It makes so much sense. Absolutely.
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So yeah, it's simple really to understand.
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Yeah. You know, it's sad to say that
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these teachings, according to what Paul says, is these are
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just basic teachings. Yeah, and he says this.
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I'm talking to you like babes. Like babies.
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Yeah, exactly. So even then we have a hard
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time. But glory to God, that's
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beautiful if anything. Like, yeah, when you come to
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Christ. You're not wretched.
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You're not. Wretched.
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There is a process, Yeah. You come to Christ, you become
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alive. Yeah, because there's, there's
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another part, I think in Peter or somewhere else, I forgot
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where, but it talks about like, you know, like don't pay
30:22
attention to the outside because the outside is being like, you
30:24
know, it's being destroyed, it's being rotten, you know, pay
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attention to like what's what's inside.
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It's being renewed. It's become something new.
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So coming to Christ, you are a new creature.
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Remember, there's a reason why it says that in Scripture.
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You are a new creature. The old has passed, the new has
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come. Yeah, the new has come.
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Yes, the new has come. All right, So thanks.
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Be through Christ now. Now.
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Serve. Amen.
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Right, that servitude doesn't come to his full completion.
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No, you're always. It's a process.
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It's a process. You become alive, you got to
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walk step by step with the Holy Spirit.
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You got to set your minds and your things on the Spirit,
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right? Repentance means to turn away,
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yes, but towards God. Amen.
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And that also implies that you have to transcend your mind
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simultaneously. There's no two types of
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repentance. I don't understand where this is
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coming from. And that's a different
31:22
conversation. And mind you, unless I'm going
31:25
to be brutally honest, I know why you came up with this.
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You, I know that I shared a real with you or two or whatever.
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Yeah. And when I showed it to you, you
31:35
were just like, stomped. Yeah, cuz I was like.
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What's going on? Yeah, yeah, no, cuz like do
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Christians like, forget that there's a fruit of the Spirit
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called long-suffering? I'm sorry, but when you abstain
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from sin, you want to do it. You're going to suffer.
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You're going to suffer. And that's a good sign.
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Really good sign. Not in the way in which Johnny
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Chang says that you're struggling.
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That means you're no, no, no. If you're struggling, you're
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wretched, man. That's what you are, exactly.
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But if you're suffering, it's because you're under grace and
32:04
you're above the law, suffering meaning like you want to, but
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you're not going to. So what he describes here is
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that what I want to do I don't do, and that what I don't want
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to do I end up doing. Yeah, but with.
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Christ, that what I want to do. You're going to do it.
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Yes, and that what I don't want to do, You're right, I'm not
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going to do it. I'll give you an example, trying
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to use an example here. Anyway, let's say someone who
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was addicted to something, they come to Christ.
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They love God so much. They became this new person.
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Genuinely, he would remember the things that he would want to do,
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and it's coming as a wretched man, he doesn't want to do it,
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but he ends up doing it. Yeah, through Christ now, he
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says. That's what we.
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Used to do no longer. Well, I want to do it, but I'm
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not going to do it. Yes, you are no longer mastered
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by that exactly. I will not do it. 100%, 100% and
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that is evidence of you having faith in Christ.
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And that's, and that's what we spoke about the impulse, yes,
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that when in Christ, when the flesh remembers that you're
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like, no, there's a resistance. Yeah, 100%.
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Now you are in agreement, because now he says thanks me
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through Christ, now I can. Now I can, yes.
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Amen. Now I can do both.
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Exactly. Amen without Christ.
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Nah, without Christ. Then you're going to be wanting
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to do it and you don't do it that way.
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You don't want to do. You end up doing that, you're
33:47
going to be doing that. Exactly.
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US, then you are wretched. 100% you are wretched.
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Through Christ, you're not wretched.
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And if in fact you do believe and you have faith in that, what
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is untangible, right? You're not going to want to do
34:05
it. Amen.
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Amen, 100%. I'm full agreement with you.
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Thanks be through Christ. And you know why?
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Because James Ford says submit to God and resist.
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Yes. There's a resistance where is
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that all that what I want to do I don't do, and that what I
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don't want to do anything What Paulsa.
34:25
That means there's no resistance.
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Exactly. That means you're just giving up
34:29
because there's this evil at present.
34:30
Because there is. You're right.
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But with Christ, submit to God. Yes, exactly.
34:36
Then you can resist. You can, because when there's
34:39
good, there's always bad. And that is temptation, meaning
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that what you want to do, but you know that it feels good, you
34:45
do it anyways. Temptation feels good, it does
34:47
OK, there's memory to it. Unfortunately, you do remember,
34:50
right? Your memory is just erased.
34:52
Of course, you, you undergo a process of unlearning and
34:55
learning and unlearning. But you're under grace, Yes, and
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you're above Scripture. Exactly, exactly.
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Wow. Well, I think we covered it all
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for today, unless you have something else to say.
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No, I just whoever listens just read your scripture.
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I mean he reads it, but his sense of theology and whereas
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it's bases basing it off, it's trying to fit it, it just
35:19
doesn't work, it collapse. Yeah, like backfires.
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And and if you don't read it, you're going to agree to it.
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Exactly no, because you know someone that's not well-rounded
35:30
in Scripture. Or reading, but he's
35:32
well-rounded in Scripture. Yeah, he is, I guess, like, yes,
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someone that's, that's new. I mean, his words sound very
35:39
pleasant and they sound, they sound like they make sense.
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He's a brother in Christ, No 100.
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Percent No, no, no, I that's one thing I don't want people to
35:46
mistaken like no, I know he's a brother in Christ and I know he
35:49
loves God and I know God loves him too, but it's just that the
35:53
way his a way of thinking is what really throws me off.
35:58
But like I said, I know he's a brother in Christ.
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But yeah, for those that have been listening, thank you so
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much. We're going to end it up in
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prayer. Amen.
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Father, thank you so much for forgiving us.
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And the moment you spoke that everything came to pass and your
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son died for us, for the forgiveness of our sins.
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And once we were under a conscience and then the once
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under the law. Now we're above it because we're
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under grace, we're under the law of God, which your law is your
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word, your mouth, which is your son.
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And that is who we're under. And we are thankful and for this
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opportunity to speak about and keep blessing the lives of those
36:45
out there in social media trying to guide those.
36:47
And they mean well. We pray for Johnny Chang as
36:50
well, that you also keep guiding in.
36:51
And if there's ever an opportunity, you know, to have a
36:55
conversation, it'd be welcome. And iron sharpens iron.
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And those who are listening, take into account that if you're
37:03
in Christ, if you're through Christ, if you're under grace,
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you are not wretched, right? And all those listening, that
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may be two or three, keep abiding, stay strong, keep your
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eyes on the Kingdom of heaven. Till next one guys.