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            And he says, For I know that in me, that is in my flesh, nothing good dwells. Right? There's nothing good in my flesh. He says, this old body, it has these desires. It wants to do what it wants to do.   Mark 8:36 "For what will it profit a man if he gains the whole world, and loses his own soul?                John 14:6 Jesus said to him, “I am the way, the truth, and the life. No one...

Romans 7:14 For we know that the law is spiritual, but I am carnal, sold under sin. 15 For what I am doing, I do not understand. For what I will to do, that I do not practice; but what I hate, that I do. 16 If, then, I do what I will not to do, I agree with the law that it is good. 17 But now, it is no longer I who do it, but sin that dwells in me. 18 For I know that in me (that is, in my flesh) n...

Listen, the God who created me and you and everybody else and everything else, He wrote down in a book the things He wanted us to know. This is His love letter to us and how to get to heaven and how to trust Him. And he says, believe on the Lord Jesus Christ and thou shalt be saved. He didn't say do this, do that, and the other. He said believe. That's why we got a chapter in Hebrews that the whol...

And he says, for what I am doing, I do not understand. That's the proof of it. For what I will to do, that I do not practice. But what I hate, that I do. Paul says, you know, I don't want to do this, but I do it. And it makes me mad. And I'm like, why did I do this? What goes on in here? Mark 8:36 "For what will it profit a man if he gains the whole world, and loses his own soul?              John...

            And he says, For I know that in me, that is in my flesh, nothing good dwells. Right? There's nothing good in my flesh. He says, this old body, it has these desires. It wants to do what it wants to do.   Mark 8:36 "For what will it profit a man if he gains the whole world, and loses his own soul?                John 14:6 Jesus said to him, “I am the way, the truth, and the life. No one...

                Sin can even use the law of God and pervert it and twist it so that we end up in a bad place. Men are so evil that instead of realizing the holy purposes of God's law, they slam themselves against it. They're deceived. That's the wretchedness of sin. The sin perverts the law. It twists it and it brings forth death because people rebel against it. Mark 8:36 "For what will it profit...

Romans 7:9 I was alive once without the law, but when the commandment came, sin revived and I died. 10 And the commandment, which was to bring life, I found to bring death. 11 For sin, taking occasion by the commandment, deceived me, and by it killed me. 12 Therefore the law is holy, and the commandment holy and just and good. 13 Has then what is good become death to me? Certainly not! But sin, th...

                And I think I'll talk about this later on, but they didn't kill Jesus because anything bad he did. But he told them they couldn't continue the way they were living and they weren't going to heaven by practicing the law. And they didn't want him telling them what to do. They didn't want him to tell them they were wrong because these Pharisees, man, they were the... They were it. The...

And really, you know, the 10th commandment, thou shalt not covet, is really the sum of all the other commandments because that's where it all starts. This is really the commandment that starts it all because that's the commandment that what happened in the Garden of Eden. There was one tree that God says you cannot have. And the devil come along and said, hey, did God say? And she saw it was good...

And the law kind of lays out that here's the spiritual minefield you need to watch out for. you wouldn't want somebody to not put a sign out there on the road that says bridge out or elevator out and you open up the door and you step through and you know, wow, okay, you know, well, there went Marty, stand to him, you know, drove off the bridge and there's no bridge there, right? But that's what th...

Romans 7:7 What shall we say then? Is the law sin? Certainly not! On the contrary, I would not have known sin except through the law. For I would not have known covetousness unless the law had said, "You shall not covet."  8 But sin, taking opportunity by the commandment, produced in me all manner of evil desire. For apart from the law sin was dead. The value of the Law… Law reveals sin V7 What sh...

The law is complete. The law provides a penalty. But guess what? The law is impossible to keep. It's impossible to keep. The law is also weak, and that's why Jesus had to come down on the cross, right? It says in Romans 8, 3, For what the law could not do, and that it was weak through the flesh, God did by sending His own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh. On account of sin, He condemned sin in...

I know that's kind of confusing. But we died to the law. We died to the law and it no longer has dominion over us. But we're not lawless. Because guess what? We're united to Christ. We're sharing his life. And thus we're walking in newness of life. Romans 8.4 says that the righteousness of the law might be fulfilled in us. Who walk not after the flesh but after the spirit. In the old life, we brou...

Living for God, he says, the fruit of the spirit is what? Love, joy, peace, long-suffering, gentleness, goodness. Meekness, faith, difference. That's not fruits, but that's fruit. That's one thing that happens. We get all of those things when we live for Jesus. And those don't happen naturally. I mean, you don't see a fruit tree and when it grows, there's an apple. You know, straining to make an a...

And that's what he's saying here is that so many times people want to try to just set these rules and standards and we come up with a list of do's and don'ts, of do's and don'ts, do's and don'ts. And we hold ourselves and everybody else to this standard. But instead of trying to live by those rules, Let's just love the one who died for us and then we'll serve him and live for him because we want t...

A poet said, Do this and live, the law commands, but it gives me neither feet nor hands. A better word the gospel brings, it bids me fly and gives me wings. The gospel tells us to do something, to fly, and yet it gives us wings. It gives us the power to live for Christ.   Mark 8:36 "For what will it profit a man if he gains the whole world, and loses his own soul?                John 14:6 Jesus sa...

Romans 7:1 Or do you not know, brethren (for I speak to those who know the law), that the law has dominion over a man as long as he lives? 2 For the woman who has a husband is bound by the law to her husband as long as he lives. But if the husband dies, she is released from the law of her husband. 3 So then if, while her husband lives, she marries another man, she will be called an adulteress; but...

That we were slaves to sin. And we didn't have any choice. But the moment we trust Christ and we begin to live for him, we become voluntary servants. We become voluntary slaves. We don't have to live for him, but we want to live for him. We get to live for him. And we love Jesus and God so much. That we want to serve him, right?             Mark 8:36 "For what will it profit a man if he gains the...

Do you not know to whom you present yourselves slaves to obey? You are that one slaves whom you obey whether of sin leading to death or of obedience leading to righteousness. but god be thanked that though you were slaves of sin yet you obeyed from the heart that form of deliverance or doctrine excuse me to which you were delivered and having been set free from sin you became slaves of righteousne...

And I said, look where you're at right now. Somebody tells you when to eat, when to sleep, when to get up, when to go to bed. They tell you when to do this, when to do that. And you're locked up in a facility. You're enslaved. That's what your sin has cost you, your freedom, right?          Mark 8:36 "For what will it profit a man if he gains the whole world, and loses his own soul?               ...

from somebody and it says, sin will take you further than you want to go, keep you longer than you wanted to stay, and cost you more than you ever wanted to pay.   Mark 8:36 "For what will it profit a man if he gains the whole world, and loses his own soul?              John 14:6 Jesus said to him, “I am the way, the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father except through Me. Have you trust...

Because see, eternal life is not just going to heaven one day. But eternal life. is a new quality of life it's not only quantity of life but it is quality of life and that's what makes Christianity so wonderful is not only the one day I get to go to heaven but now I have a new quality of life while I'm here That I live for God and I don't have to live the way I used to. I don't get myself in troub...

He says, do you not know that to whom you present yourselves slaves to obey, you are that one slaves whom you obey whether of sin leading to death or of obedience leading to righteousness. So what does he say here? There is no middle ground between being a slave to sin and a slave to obedience. Mark 8:36 "For what will it profit a man if he gains the whole world, and loses his own soul?           ...

Romans 6:15 What then? Shall we sin because we are not under law but under grace? Certainly not! 16 Do you not know that to whom you present yourselves slaves to obey, you are that one's slaves whom you obey, whether of sin leading to death, or of obedience leading to righteousness?  17 But God be thanked that though you were slaves of sin, yet you obeyed from the heart that form of doctrine to wh...

What I tell people is like Ephesians 3.20 says, for he is able to do exceedingly abundantly above all we ask or think according to his power that works in us mightily, right? Paul talks about I strive mightily through god's power right and so here's the deal we have the power to overcome sin and suffering and temptation anything in this world what what do we read in second peter i think we talked...