WEBVTT 1 00:00:00.000 --> 00:00:06.480 Real life presents the Jack Hibbs podcast with intention and boldness to proclaim truth, 2 00:00:06.480 --> 00:00:09.460 equip the saints and impact our culture. 3 00:00:09.460 --> 00:00:14.760 The law of God, the Ten Commandments are awesome, but they can't save you. 4 00:00:14.760 --> 00:00:20.280 And then, in the Old Testament, there are 613 rules that you are to keep. 5 00:00:20.280 --> 00:00:22.320 They can't save you. 6 00:00:22.320 --> 00:00:24.160 None of them claim to save you! 7 00:00:24.160 --> 00:00:29.880 Not a one! 8 00:00:29.880 --> 00:00:36.280 You can get the outlines of this podcast by going to jackhibbs.com slash podcast. 9 00:00:36.280 --> 00:00:42.240 Today, if this podcast lifts you up and encourages you to live a more fulfilled life in Christ, 10 00:00:42.240 --> 00:00:45.520 then make sure you leave us one of those five star ratings. 11 00:00:45.520 --> 00:00:52.080 To us, that's like saying, amen or yes, then that rating will encourage others to listen. 12 00:00:52.080 --> 00:00:55.440 Now, open your hearts to what God's Word has to say to you. 13 00:00:55.440 --> 00:00:58.440 Here is Jack Hibbs. 14 00:00:58.480 --> 00:01:03.120 So when we declared independence, who were we declaring independence from? 15 00:01:03.120 --> 00:01:04.320 Freedom! 16 00:01:04.320 --> 00:01:07.800 You're so well taught as a people. 17 00:01:07.800 --> 00:01:10.760 Don't let anyone ever question your history. 18 00:01:10.760 --> 00:01:17.760 And so you've got names in your heart and in your head like John Adams, Thomas Jefferson, 19 00:01:17.760 --> 00:01:20.680 and Ben Franklin and all of these guys, and so you should. 20 00:01:20.680 --> 00:01:27.720 But those guys said, we got our understanding of liberty and freedom from the Black Rogue Regiment. 21 00:01:27.760 --> 00:01:28.680 Did you know that? 22 00:01:28.680 --> 00:01:33.080 The Black Rogue Regiment were the pastors of the colonial era. 23 00:01:33.080 --> 00:01:38.880 The churches in the colonies taught the Word of God chapter by chapter, verse by verse, 24 00:01:38.880 --> 00:01:40.560 exactly what we do here. 25 00:01:40.560 --> 00:01:47.600 But listen, they preached that Christ set you free and that any subject of Christ, 26 00:01:47.600 --> 00:01:52.480 anyone who has submitted to Christ, listen, anyone who is a slave of Jesus Christ, 27 00:01:52.480 --> 00:01:54.680 that's the only way you can truly be free. 28 00:01:54.720 --> 00:01:58.160 Why? Because His Lordship liberates. 29 00:01:58.160 --> 00:02:02.000 It flies in the face of what I'm going to say, organized religion. 30 00:02:02.000 --> 00:02:07.600 Stand up, sit down, do this, pay that, read this, check this box, now you're accepted. 31 00:02:07.600 --> 00:02:09.280 No, no, no, no, not the Bible. 32 00:02:09.280 --> 00:02:10.760 That's not God's gospel. 33 00:02:10.760 --> 00:02:12.320 That's not the way it goes. 34 00:02:12.320 --> 00:02:13.440 Not at all. 35 00:02:13.440 --> 00:02:14.920 In fact, listen to this. 36 00:02:14.920 --> 00:02:22.120 Because those pastors were so faithful to proclaim the Word of God and I own hundreds of their sermons. 37 00:02:22.160 --> 00:02:29.200 And you ought to read them sometimes from about 1720, all the way out to about 1780, incredible sermons. 38 00:02:29.200 --> 00:02:36.640 But there was one young man who sat under the most powerful preacher in the day. 39 00:02:36.640 --> 00:02:39.320 And I'm going to, you'll figure out who this guy is in a moment. 40 00:02:39.320 --> 00:02:46.080 He actually began to imitate the pastor's ability to speak. 41 00:02:46.080 --> 00:02:49.880 He was known as one of the greatest orders in American history. 42 00:02:49.880 --> 00:02:53.960 And so was this young man who sat in his church. 43 00:02:53.960 --> 00:02:56.440 But let me give you a little bit of background. 44 00:02:56.440 --> 00:03:01.680 It was the second Virginia convention at St. John's Church in Richmond, Virginia. 45 00:03:01.680 --> 00:03:07.640 I mentioned that because I took many of you on our heritage tour to that very church. 46 00:03:07.640 --> 00:03:12.160 And they do a profound reenactment of what you're about to hear. 47 00:03:12.160 --> 00:03:13.600 The Word was going out. 48 00:03:13.600 --> 00:03:15.480 We're getting our teeth kicked in. 49 00:03:15.480 --> 00:03:19.160 There's no way that we can defeat what's coming to us. 50 00:03:19.160 --> 00:03:24.680 The powers of Great Britain are the biggest military on earth, and we're doomed. 51 00:03:24.680 --> 00:03:26.640 We're all going to be enslaved. 52 00:03:26.640 --> 00:03:28.960 And everybody's whining on and going on. 53 00:03:28.960 --> 00:03:38.280 And then one guy, and I'll read this, as the 13 state delegates gathered to discuss the looming prospects of war with Great Britain, 54 00:03:38.280 --> 00:03:45.400 most wavered and even suggested even greater submission to the tyrant King George III. 55 00:03:45.400 --> 00:03:52.000 But one man stood up and delivered one of history's most famous speeches. 56 00:03:52.000 --> 00:03:54.720 And I'll read it to you now, we'll put it on the board. 57 00:03:54.720 --> 00:03:59.160 Gentlemen, may cry, peace, peace, but there is no peace. 58 00:03:59.160 --> 00:04:01.080 The war has actually begun. 59 00:04:01.080 --> 00:04:06.920 The gale that sweeps from the north will bring to our ears the clash of resounding arms. 60 00:04:06.920 --> 00:04:09.480 Our brethren are already in the field. 61 00:04:09.480 --> 00:04:11.880 Why stand we here idle? 62 00:04:11.880 --> 00:04:18.040 Is life so dear or peace so sweet so to be purchased at the price of chains and slavery? 63 00:04:18.040 --> 00:04:19.720 Forbid at Almighty God. 64 00:04:19.720 --> 00:04:28.320 I know not what course others may take, but as for me, give me liberty or give me so shouted, Patrick Henry, 65 00:04:28.320 --> 00:04:36.280 which so stirred them up that they began to rise up and they began to consult and pray to God. 66 00:04:36.280 --> 00:04:40.920 And from that moment on, you read about American history and it is absolutely epic 67 00:04:40.920 --> 00:04:44.720 because we had a profound dependence upon God. 68 00:04:44.720 --> 00:04:48.200 It's the dependence upon God that led to independence. 69 00:04:48.200 --> 00:04:49.160 You get that? 70 00:04:49.160 --> 00:04:52.640 It's our dependence upon God that liberates our family. 71 00:04:52.640 --> 00:04:59.760 It liberates our husbands, our wives, our kids, our parents, our culture, our society. 72 00:04:59.760 --> 00:05:04.320 What American needs to do to get back under the graces of God is not... 73 00:05:04.320 --> 00:05:06.800 Listen, an election is not going to fix it. 74 00:05:06.800 --> 00:05:14.560 We need to repent as a nation and get back to God and seek His favor again so that we might be submitted to Him. 75 00:05:14.560 --> 00:05:20.080 And if we submit to God, then God is invited back into our schools and in their courtrooms 76 00:05:20.080 --> 00:05:22.640 and tragically even into our churches. 77 00:05:22.640 --> 00:05:24.400 He might even come back. 78 00:05:24.400 --> 00:05:26.320 Roman chapter 7, verse 24, 79 00:05:26.320 --> 00:05:30.560 Oh, wretched man that I am, you can hear the apostle almost rending his garments. 80 00:05:30.560 --> 00:05:36.880 I'm sick of myself who will deliver me from this body of death. 81 00:05:36.880 --> 00:05:39.000 Here comes the flood of joy. 82 00:05:39.000 --> 00:05:42.280 I thank God through Jesus Christ our Lord. 83 00:05:42.280 --> 00:05:46.280 So then with the mind, myself, I serve the law of God. 84 00:05:46.280 --> 00:05:47.800 I know what I want to do. 85 00:05:47.800 --> 00:05:49.120 I want to bless God. 86 00:05:49.120 --> 00:05:50.920 But with the flesh, the law of sin. 87 00:05:50.920 --> 00:05:57.040 I know in my heart I want to follow God, but my flesh is always screaming at me to do something else. 88 00:05:57.040 --> 00:05:59.800 And with that, he takes off and he writes, 89 00:05:59.800 --> 00:06:04.280 the apostle Paul, one of the greatest treaties of a chapter ever written to mankind. 90 00:06:04.280 --> 00:06:05.640 Roman chapter 8. 91 00:06:05.640 --> 00:06:07.120 So we look at this church. 92 00:06:07.120 --> 00:06:09.960 Second argument, verses 2 to 3 is this, 93 00:06:09.960 --> 00:06:14.480 that there is therefore now sins, condemnation. 94 00:06:14.480 --> 00:06:20.440 What we started with this announcement, there is therefore now no condemnation to those who are in Christ Jesus. 95 00:06:20.440 --> 00:06:22.920 Everybody look at your Bibles, don't look on the screen. 96 00:06:22.920 --> 00:06:28.960 Look at your Bibles, I'm going to show you something that you need to know. 97 00:06:28.960 --> 00:06:36.920 When the King James translators put together the Bible for the English under King James's decree, 98 00:06:36.920 --> 00:06:49.360 the translators took verse 4 in your Bible and took verse 4 and copied it and put it up under the last part of verse 1. 99 00:06:49.360 --> 00:06:53.200 That's why if you look in your Bibles, listen, if you come to this church, bring a Bible. 100 00:06:53.200 --> 00:06:57.280 You're even allowed to steal a Bible to come to this church. 101 00:06:57.280 --> 00:06:59.280 You got to come with a Bible. 102 00:06:59.280 --> 00:07:07.320 So when you look at this, some of your Bibles say that there is therefore now no condemnation to those who are in Christ Jesus, period. 103 00:07:07.320 --> 00:07:10.840 Some of your Bibles, like my King James Bible, says, 104 00:07:10.840 --> 00:07:18.120 there is therefore now no condemnation to those who are in Christ Jesus who walk not according to the flesh but according to the Spirit. 105 00:07:18.120 --> 00:07:21.080 That's not in the original Greek language. 106 00:07:21.080 --> 00:07:24.880 It was added in 1611. 107 00:07:24.880 --> 00:07:25.560 Why? 108 00:07:25.560 --> 00:07:33.800 Because the translators wanted you to know that verse 4 says it, so we're going to put it in verse 1 as well. 109 00:07:33.800 --> 00:07:40.720 It's not an alteration, it's an unnecessary move or a copy and a pace that ought not to be there. 110 00:07:40.720 --> 00:07:42.040 Hear me out. 111 00:07:42.040 --> 00:07:44.080 Every scholar will agree. 112 00:07:44.080 --> 00:07:51.120 In fact, ancient manuscripts from 3rd and 4th century says this. 113 00:07:51.120 --> 00:07:53.400 There is, are you listening? 114 00:07:53.400 --> 00:08:05.480 Watch, there is now, there is therefore now no condemnation to those who are in Christ, okay? 115 00:08:05.480 --> 00:08:06.840 Period. 116 00:08:06.840 --> 00:08:08.440 Watch this. 117 00:08:08.440 --> 00:08:15.560 The word in the language that God has given the Apostle to speak, remember the Bible says that God is the one who wrote the Bible. 118 00:08:15.560 --> 00:08:18.760 You know, it's a pull, wrote it, God used Paul's hand. 119 00:08:18.760 --> 00:08:23.040 That's why I listen, I love saying this, it gets people all upset. 120 00:08:23.040 --> 00:08:29.840 Study, Genesis to Revelation, find mistakes, publish a book, and become a billionaire. 121 00:08:29.840 --> 00:08:33.520 Because you'll be the first one to ever find a mistake in the Bible. 122 00:08:33.520 --> 00:08:36.560 In the original languages, there are none. 123 00:08:36.640 --> 00:08:39.520 And God said the exact thing. 124 00:08:39.520 --> 00:08:47.760 I will breathe out the scriptures and I used the hand of man to pen that to you. 125 00:08:47.760 --> 00:08:50.840 Here we are in the 21st century. 126 00:08:50.840 --> 00:08:56.320 And the greatest authority on earth is still the Bible, drive some people nuts, but it's a fact 127 00:08:56.320 --> 00:09:02.720 out of all the things that we've been able to achieve as a industrialized educated people. 128 00:09:02.720 --> 00:09:04.880 There's the Bible. 129 00:09:04.960 --> 00:09:09.040 There's the Bible telling you that there's hope and life after death. 130 00:09:09.040 --> 00:09:13.520 There's the Bible that's telling you that God loved you so much that he gave his only begotten son. 131 00:09:13.520 --> 00:09:20.520 That it's the Bible still announcing that there's a heaven and a hell and God wants you and heaven with him. 132 00:09:20.520 --> 00:09:26.520 There's a Bible that says that there's those who are rebellious against God and wicked toward other people 133 00:09:26.520 --> 00:09:29.000 and they're murderous and they're dangerous. 134 00:09:29.000 --> 00:09:36.040 The Bible is so honest and in all of our achievements, the Bible is still standing there. 135 00:09:36.040 --> 00:09:40.240 And by the way, you can burn every Bible on the planet, it doesn't change the thing. 136 00:09:40.240 --> 00:09:43.000 See, eternal truth. 137 00:09:43.000 --> 00:09:44.640 But here's what we're looking at. 138 00:09:44.640 --> 00:09:52.440 The declaration of dependence is looking at this, that there is therefore now sin's condemnation. 139 00:09:52.440 --> 00:09:54.000 This is good news. 140 00:09:54.000 --> 00:10:00.640 We read a moment ago, sin has been condemned by God through the Lord Jesus Christ. 141 00:10:00.640 --> 00:10:03.320 So wait a minute, Jack, remind me of condemnation. 142 00:10:03.320 --> 00:10:07.840 Condemnation is being judged with no hope of ever getting out. 143 00:10:07.840 --> 00:10:10.440 Can you imagine getting a life sentence? 144 00:10:10.440 --> 00:10:11.920 You're condemned. 145 00:10:11.920 --> 00:10:14.960 The Bible says all of us without Christ are condemned. 146 00:10:14.960 --> 00:10:16.480 Did you know that? 147 00:10:16.480 --> 00:10:17.880 It doesn't matter if you believe it or not. 148 00:10:17.880 --> 00:10:21.120 The Bible says all people without Christ are condemned. 149 00:10:21.120 --> 00:10:24.240 We're born into this world as condemned creatures. 150 00:10:24.240 --> 00:10:27.840 We are naturally born sinners. 151 00:10:27.840 --> 00:10:31.920 And when we hear the word of God and we are to respond to it, listen, I pray it happens 152 00:10:31.920 --> 00:10:34.440 today, that something happens in your heart. 153 00:10:34.440 --> 00:10:35.440 You don't even realize it. 154 00:10:35.440 --> 00:10:39.920 But maybe 5, 10, 20 minutes from right now, something's going to happen to you where you 155 00:10:39.920 --> 00:10:44.200 say, and it's not going to be easy, I'm going to tell you right now, it might be a revelation 156 00:10:44.200 --> 00:10:47.960 where God speaks to you on the inside and it's going to hurt. 157 00:10:47.960 --> 00:10:51.480 Because God is going to say, or he's going to have you feel like you're the only one 158 00:10:51.480 --> 00:10:59.120 in this room, like he's calling you out and he's saying, listen, I love you and how 159 00:10:59.120 --> 00:11:01.040 you're living is wrong. 160 00:11:01.040 --> 00:11:02.720 I don't want you to reform yourself. 161 00:11:02.720 --> 00:11:04.720 I don't want you to change yourself. 162 00:11:04.720 --> 00:11:09.160 I want you to agree with me that how you're living is wrong and I want you to give me 163 00:11:09.160 --> 00:11:10.160 your life right now. 164 00:11:10.160 --> 00:11:15.120 He's going to say it to some of you today, just hand it over to me. 165 00:11:15.120 --> 00:11:18.600 And you're going to start having a struggle inside of you. 166 00:11:18.600 --> 00:11:22.800 You look normal, you'll sit here today and you'll be like totally normal and inside there 167 00:11:22.800 --> 00:11:27.840 will be a storm raging and you'll hear God speak to you. 168 00:11:27.840 --> 00:11:33.240 He'll use your voice but he'll use language that you've never heard before and you'll 169 00:11:33.240 --> 00:11:38.440 know it's him because you would never say such a thing to you. 170 00:11:38.440 --> 00:11:43.440 So listen, God in Christ Jesus condemned sin at the cross. 171 00:11:43.440 --> 00:11:45.480 That's what the cross is all about. 172 00:11:45.480 --> 00:11:51.680 Listen, Jesus went to the cross and as he was there crucified, what was really going 173 00:11:51.680 --> 00:12:00.920 on was the absolute destruction of the power of the condemnation of sin and death in the 174 00:12:00.920 --> 00:12:03.920 sacrifice of Jesus Christ, the word is called atonement. 175 00:12:03.920 --> 00:12:07.560 Jesus died in my place and in your place. 176 00:12:07.560 --> 00:12:12.120 And when he did that, he broke the power of sin and death. 177 00:12:12.160 --> 00:12:16.360 I love to say this, listen, Jesus busted the grave. 178 00:12:16.360 --> 00:12:17.840 That's why he walked out of the tomb. 179 00:12:17.840 --> 00:12:19.760 It couldn't hold him. 180 00:12:19.760 --> 00:12:21.680 And that's why it had to be him. 181 00:12:21.680 --> 00:12:23.880 It had to be the son of God. 182 00:12:23.880 --> 00:12:27.160 It had to be the one that came from heaven to earth. 183 00:12:27.160 --> 00:12:30.280 Not comes out of earth and lives a good life and goes to heaven. 184 00:12:30.280 --> 00:12:31.280 No, no, no. 185 00:12:31.280 --> 00:12:32.600 There's no hope in that. 186 00:12:32.600 --> 00:12:35.200 The fact of the matter is Christ came from heaven. 187 00:12:35.200 --> 00:12:40.600 He's God the Son and he came into this world bored into human skin. 188 00:12:40.600 --> 00:12:43.800 All according to the ancient prophecies, by the way, it's no surprise. 189 00:12:43.800 --> 00:12:48.520 If you know your Hebrew scriptures, the Messiah must come by way of a virgin, said the prophet 190 00:12:48.520 --> 00:12:49.520 Isaiah. 191 00:12:49.520 --> 00:12:52.920 He must be born in Bethlehem, says the prophet Micah. 192 00:12:52.920 --> 00:12:58.880 He must write on a donkey and be announced as king, but rejected by the nation of Israel. 193 00:12:58.880 --> 00:13:00.640 So says Zechariah. 194 00:13:00.640 --> 00:13:02.760 All of these things recorded in the Bible. 195 00:13:02.760 --> 00:13:07.120 The Bible says on Isaiah 35 that the Messiah would open the eyes of the blind and raise 196 00:13:07.120 --> 00:13:08.120 the dead. 197 00:13:08.120 --> 00:13:10.160 Who do you know that's done that? 198 00:13:10.160 --> 00:13:13.040 And our world looks around at people, oh, we'll pick that guy. 199 00:13:13.040 --> 00:13:14.040 We'll pick that one. 200 00:13:14.040 --> 00:13:15.040 We'll pick them. 201 00:13:15.040 --> 00:13:16.040 We'll pick that crew over there. 202 00:13:16.040 --> 00:13:17.040 They can save us. 203 00:13:17.040 --> 00:13:19.120 They can help us. 204 00:13:19.120 --> 00:13:20.120 You know what? 205 00:13:20.120 --> 00:13:23.280 Men can implement anything he wants. 206 00:13:23.280 --> 00:13:26.400 It's not going to change a thing about your internal soul. 207 00:13:26.400 --> 00:13:28.520 Only Jesus can do that. 208 00:13:28.520 --> 00:13:31.080 And please know, we're not asking you to join this church. 209 00:13:31.080 --> 00:13:32.080 It's not that. 210 00:13:32.080 --> 00:13:33.680 We're not talking about religion. 211 00:13:33.680 --> 00:13:34.680 There's no club to join. 212 00:13:34.680 --> 00:13:35.880 We don't want your money. 213 00:13:35.880 --> 00:13:36.960 We don't want you to sign up. 214 00:13:36.960 --> 00:13:38.200 We don't want none of that. 215 00:13:38.200 --> 00:13:40.800 We don't need to meet him. 216 00:13:40.800 --> 00:13:42.360 We need to stay out of the way. 217 00:13:42.360 --> 00:13:45.560 What we're here doing right now is pointing you to him. 218 00:13:45.560 --> 00:13:48.840 We want you to have a declaration of dependence upon God. 219 00:13:48.840 --> 00:13:49.840 Why should I? 220 00:13:49.840 --> 00:13:54.280 Well, for this reason, verse two teaches us that there's a new law in effect. 221 00:13:54.280 --> 00:13:56.920 There's a new law in effect here in verse two. 222 00:13:56.920 --> 00:14:03.040 The Bible tells us for the law of the Spirit, notice that's capitalist, the Holy Spirit 223 00:14:03.040 --> 00:14:06.640 of life in Christ Jesus, that is the new law. 224 00:14:06.640 --> 00:14:10.320 There's a new law in town if I could put it that way. 225 00:14:10.320 --> 00:14:14.600 You see that little word for at the opening of verse two? 226 00:14:14.600 --> 00:14:16.480 Look at the meaning of this little tiny word. 227 00:14:16.480 --> 00:14:18.280 By the way, look at it in Greek. 228 00:14:18.280 --> 00:14:21.920 It's G-A-R. 229 00:14:21.920 --> 00:14:27.560 It means to express cause to give explanation the way of a matter or because. 230 00:14:27.560 --> 00:14:29.640 So look at the verse again. 231 00:14:29.640 --> 00:14:35.800 Because the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus will go on to learn that is our lives 232 00:14:35.800 --> 00:14:42.760 because as a matter of fact, that little word is a strong word. 233 00:14:42.760 --> 00:14:45.760 Everything about Romans chapter 8 is so incredibly strong. 234 00:14:45.760 --> 00:14:51.880 Listen, the word because I know as parents, right, we say to our kids, sit out. 235 00:14:51.880 --> 00:14:52.880 They say why? 236 00:14:52.880 --> 00:14:55.240 Because we shouldn't do that. 237 00:14:55.240 --> 00:14:56.240 I know we all do it. 238 00:14:56.240 --> 00:14:57.240 We shouldn't do that. 239 00:14:57.240 --> 00:14:58.920 Here's a reason why. 240 00:14:58.920 --> 00:15:05.600 When kids ask a question, they're built, they're designed to receive an answer. 241 00:15:05.600 --> 00:15:09.120 As parents, we need to slow down and give them the answer. 242 00:15:09.120 --> 00:15:10.120 Don't do that. 243 00:15:10.120 --> 00:15:11.120 Why? 244 00:15:11.120 --> 00:15:16.280 Because I said so is not an answer. 245 00:15:16.280 --> 00:15:19.160 Hopefully your kids are hearing the same message in their room right now and they'll play 246 00:15:19.160 --> 00:15:22.000 it on you later and good for them. 247 00:15:22.000 --> 00:15:23.920 You can't say because. 248 00:15:23.920 --> 00:15:26.960 Only God can say because because then when He says because He's going to give you the 249 00:15:26.960 --> 00:15:28.960 answer. 250 00:15:28.960 --> 00:15:30.800 Because here's the answer. 251 00:15:30.800 --> 00:15:31.800 Boom. 252 00:15:31.800 --> 00:15:35.240 When God gives the answer, it's yes. 253 00:15:35.240 --> 00:15:39.680 So when that little one says, how come I can't microwave the cat? 254 00:15:39.680 --> 00:15:40.680 Because we don't do that. 255 00:15:40.680 --> 00:15:41.680 That's not an answer. 256 00:15:41.680 --> 00:15:42.680 You need to say cats. 257 00:15:42.680 --> 00:15:49.480 That's not how you treat a cat and we'd never want to mess up the microwave and all that. 258 00:15:49.480 --> 00:15:54.000 There's a new law in effect and it's very emphatic by the way. 259 00:15:54.000 --> 00:15:56.080 The verbage is very strong. 260 00:15:56.080 --> 00:16:02.520 There's no contradiction by the way in the word law here for the law of the spirit. 261 00:16:02.520 --> 00:16:03.520 So wait a minute. 262 00:16:03.520 --> 00:16:06.880 You've been talking for seven chapters about how the law can't save me. 263 00:16:06.880 --> 00:16:07.880 That's true. 264 00:16:07.880 --> 00:16:08.880 Friends, listen. 265 00:16:08.880 --> 00:16:14.120 The law of God, the Ten Commandments are awesome, but they can't save you. 266 00:16:14.120 --> 00:16:19.600 And then in the Old Testament, there's 613 rules that you are to keep. 267 00:16:19.600 --> 00:16:21.720 They can't save you. 268 00:16:21.720 --> 00:16:23.720 None of them claim to save you. 269 00:16:23.720 --> 00:16:24.720 Not a one. 270 00:16:24.720 --> 00:16:27.600 I said, wait, I thought if I was really good, I'd go to heaven. 271 00:16:27.600 --> 00:16:29.400 Where did you get that from? 272 00:16:29.400 --> 00:16:32.280 Honestly, where did you ever think that up? 273 00:16:32.280 --> 00:16:37.200 That is nowhere, not only is that not in the Bible. 274 00:16:37.200 --> 00:16:39.200 Somehow that was whispered to you. 275 00:16:39.200 --> 00:16:45.240 Just be good and it will, you know what, at the end your good will outweigh your bad and 276 00:16:45.240 --> 00:16:50.480 the scalable tip and you would just slip right on into heaven. 277 00:16:50.480 --> 00:16:51.960 No. 278 00:16:51.960 --> 00:16:57.920 The Bible says the scalable tip and you slip right on into hell. 279 00:16:57.920 --> 00:17:01.160 Because you can't go, listen, God doesn't have that kind of currency. 280 00:17:01.160 --> 00:17:04.560 What I wrote in my book called the Bible is that if you want to get up here, you've 281 00:17:04.560 --> 00:17:08.600 got to be as good or better than Jesus. 282 00:17:08.600 --> 00:17:14.840 So do everything perfect, raise the dead, cleanse the leper and never violate the law of 283 00:17:14.840 --> 00:17:15.840 God. 284 00:17:15.840 --> 00:17:19.920 Get yourself crucified for the sins of the entire world and then on the third day be resurrected 285 00:17:19.920 --> 00:17:25.120 from the dead and then I'll ask my son to scoot over and there'll be two of you up here. 286 00:17:25.120 --> 00:17:28.200 That ain't going to happen. 287 00:17:28.200 --> 00:17:29.200 That's not going to happen. 288 00:17:29.200 --> 00:17:33.440 The fact of the matter is there's a thank God there's a new law in effect and that law 289 00:17:33.440 --> 00:17:38.280 that's in effect is the law of the spirit of God and it's all about look at your Bible. 290 00:17:38.280 --> 00:17:41.440 It's about you being in Christ. 291 00:17:41.440 --> 00:17:42.920 That's the key. 292 00:17:42.920 --> 00:17:43.920 God does it. 293 00:17:43.920 --> 00:17:44.920 What's the new law? 294 00:17:44.920 --> 00:17:45.920 Are you in Christ? 295 00:17:45.920 --> 00:17:46.920 In Christ. 296 00:17:46.920 --> 00:17:47.920 In Christ. 297 00:17:47.920 --> 00:17:48.920 What is that? 298 00:17:48.920 --> 00:17:51.200 Look, I'm wearing a pants. 299 00:17:51.200 --> 00:17:52.200 I got a shirt. 300 00:17:52.200 --> 00:17:53.200 I have a suit on. 301 00:17:53.200 --> 00:17:55.000 I'm in these clothes. 302 00:17:55.000 --> 00:17:57.320 You're very grateful for that. 303 00:17:57.320 --> 00:18:05.080 I'm in these clothes and to be in Christ is to be in him meaning that it's not his jacket 304 00:18:05.080 --> 00:18:06.080 you're seeing. 305 00:18:06.080 --> 00:18:07.840 It's his righteousness that you're seeing. 306 00:18:07.840 --> 00:18:08.840 Where are you, Jack? 307 00:18:08.840 --> 00:18:15.640 Hey, the real Jack who cries out with Paul, a wretched man that I am is the one who puts 308 00:18:15.640 --> 00:18:19.480 this trust in what Jesus did at the cross for me. 309 00:18:19.480 --> 00:18:21.800 I believe he died there for me. 310 00:18:21.800 --> 00:18:26.560 I believe he rose again from the dead exactly as the Bible says for me. 311 00:18:26.560 --> 00:18:30.680 And then all he says to me is, Jack, well, you agree that what I did in the cross for 312 00:18:30.680 --> 00:18:37.840 you was that you might receive the forgiveness of sins and be given a new life by my Holy 313 00:18:37.840 --> 00:18:41.400 Spirit's power and that it rose again from the dead. 314 00:18:41.400 --> 00:18:43.600 Do you believe the word of God, Jack? 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