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Real life presents the Jack Kibs podcast with intention and boldness to proclaim truth,

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equip the saints and impact our culture.

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But because you don't look at it, you think this book is here to beat you up.

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But it's not to beat you up, it's to bring it to the understanding that the law of God

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is holy and you're not.

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And what you need to do is that you need to run to Jesus.

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That's what you need to do.

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You can get the outlines of this podcast by going to jackkibs.com slash podcast.

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Today, if this podcast lifts you up and encourages you to live a more fulfilled life in Christ,

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then make sure you leave us one of those five star ratings.

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To us, that's like saying amen or yes, then that rating will encourage others to listen.

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Now, open your hearts to what God's word has to say to you.

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Here is Jack Kibs Christian, I'm going to be talking about today a discipline and something

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that God is calling us to and then God will ultimately require of us and that is to get

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alone to be still and to listen to what God is saying and to be alone is a very terrifying thing.

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When there's no noise, it forces us to listen to our thoughts.

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It forces us to think about what's on the inside.

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Where have we been spending our thought affections?

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Where have we been investing our thought energy?

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But do we ever pause and you know that throughout the book of Psalms?

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Over and over again, the Psalms, each Psalm almost, each Psalm will end with those Hebrew words,

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S-E-L-A-H-S-E-L-A, which means pause here, pause, don't move, just pause.

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To have the word of God sink in, but we've been conditioned to have all of this noise around us.

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We're constantly bombarded. We have devices now that constantly keep us in tune with the world.

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We know things now worldwide within moments, as notifications light up.

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But as we get into our study today, I'm going to put up a cute little graphic that I want you

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to remember because it's going to be some hard going here in a moment.

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Now I have to be honest with you, I sent that graphic to the graphics team and I had them

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drop in John 3-16, everything else is original. The original graphics said free shipping,

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and then in the middle it said free shipping, and of course at the bottom it says free shipping.

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But why am I showing you this? Because at the top of your note taking page, you need to mark this

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down. Everything that you and I hear now from this moment on, you need to remember John 3-16.

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As we go through this study today, you're going to want to be reminded that God says,

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I have loved you so much that I sent my son to earth that if you would believe in him,

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trust him, you would not perish eternally, that is you would not see hell,

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but you would enjoy everlasting life if you would just believe in him.

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And I want you to remember that, that is the gospel. If you forget everything else,

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don't forget this, that God says, I love you, and I want you with me in heaven,

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but there's a way by which that happens. And so we need to be listened to what he's saying.

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We need to be silent so we can receive. In Psalm 46, verse 10, the Bible says,

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be still and know that I am God. You guys know that this is one of my favorite verses because

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it has that Hebrew word in there, Yadda, that word no, be still and no, Yadda. Y-A-D-A,

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it means watch this, listen, look at the screen, be still and discover in whatever situation you're in,

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I am God. That's such a great passage of Scripture, such a great verse to keep in mind.

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So church, we look at it right now, a moment of silence for all those who we see are lost in the

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noise of a misguided faith, misguided faith. Every single individual that you'll meet in life has faith.

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You need to probe them about what their faith is, but apart from Christ, your faith is misguided.

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You can have all the faith in the world, but if your faith is based upon something that is not

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Jesus Christ Himself, then you have wishful thinking. We live in a world today that will say,

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just have faith, there's songs about it, there's books about it, there's books about the power of faith,

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just have faith. And when you avoid the object of who you should have faith in, you wind up defaulting

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in having faith in faith, which is a disaster, or faith in something other than what God will expect.

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And the truth is, tradition is the number one killer in this area. Will you write that down, please,

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misguided faith is often something that clings to tradition. You may say you have a lot of faith,

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or that you have faith in God, but the traditions that you follow are the things that define you,

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rather than knowing Christ personally. And so I would ask you today, or anybody would ask you,

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regarding your faith and what it's based on, oh, all of my family and for generations,

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we've had these traditions of faith. Where's Jesus Christ? Who is Jesus Christ? What has he

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has done for you? What do these traditions achieve? Now look, I'm not knocking traditions for,

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you know, if they're beautiful and it's fine and it's nice and it's cute and we have this tradition.

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But when you take tradition and translate it over to be in a vehicle for your forgiveness and

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salvation, then something is very wrong according to the Bible. And so when he says, now we know

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that whatever the law says, which is a tremendous statement, that word says is a present tense.

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The law is same. Here the scripture is saying that the law of God is speaking, always speaking,

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but that word no means that we know intuitively. So you may or may not be a believer right now,

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or you may be a believer or not tuning in right now. According to the Bible, the Bible says,

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you know, down deep inside, God has revealed to you, if you believe in God or not, that there's

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a law at work within you. Think about that. There's a law at work. Some 14 verse 1 says,

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the fool has said in his heart, there is no God. I love that verse. By the way, it's fantastic.

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It's so encouraging because when it says the fool has said in his heart, I'm so grateful. The

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Bible is so accurate. It does not say the fool has said in his mind, there is no God. See,

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this is an interesting thing. What's in your heart? First went through your mind.

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It was processed in your head, and then you determine, you picked and choose what you were

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going to put in your heart, and determine this to be your worldview. What is it that you believe,

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and why is it that you believe it? Those things are only true, by the way. What you claim to believe

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can only really be true in your life if you can defend what it is that you believe. I believe in

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Jesus. That means nothing. What do you mean by that? You see? And so when the fool has said in his

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heart, there is no God. It's a tremendous statement about the fact that he's intellectually dishonest

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with himself. The fool is lying to himself. In other words, his mind knows that there's a God,

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but he doesn't want to be accountable to God for his sinful actions. So what does he do? He fills

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his life with noise, and that noise is anything other than considering God. And so he convinces his

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heart, which is the seat of emotions. Doesn't that say a lot? You can always tell in somebody when

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you're in a debate with somebody, if they start getting all freaked out emotional on you, and

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they start calling you names because they don't like what you're saying. You know what that means?

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It means that they have lost their ability to defend their position, and they're losing to you.

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So what they do is they call your mother a name. They go after you personally. Why? Because they've

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lost, they don't know what they believe. They've just paraded whatever might be out there. But we

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need to remember, we ought to pause and be silent before God. And think in Mark's Gospel, chapter 7,

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the Bible says in verses 5 through 9, then the Pharisees and the scribes asked Jesus, why do

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your disciples not walk according to the traditions of the elders? But eat bread with unwashed hands.

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He said to them, verse 6, well, did Isaiah prophesy of you, hypocrites, as it is written? This

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people honors me with their lips, but their heart is far from me. And in vain, they worship me,

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teaching as doctrines, the commandments of what is the church? Men. For laying aside the

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commandment of God, you hold the traditions of men, the washing of pictures in cups and many

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other such things you do, verse 9. And Jesus said to them, all too well, you reject the commandment

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of God that you may keep your tradition. Men made things. Wow, we need to be silent. And listen

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to what God is saying. God's Word is up. I think this is one of the reasons why. And by the way,

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listen, I'll be honest with you, people don't want to hear about the Word of God. And when we become

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Christians, we do want to hear about the Word of God. But let's be honest, I'm going to throw all

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of us under the bus together at the same time believers. We want to hear from the Word of God,

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we know we should hear from the Word of God, but we are also almost always too open to any

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distraction that pulls us away from the Word of God. And we have that struggle. That's one of the

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reasons how we know that we're a believer. I know I should read the Bible, but I can't think of when

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I changed the oil last in my car. Oh, wait a minute, I don't do that. Jiffy lubed does that.

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Right? I'm just constantly distracted. So then you got to double down and go to your Bible,

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pick it up. And if you have ADD like me, you've got to read it in the bathroom or you've got to go

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stand somewhere in a closet with a light on because I'll be distracted by the slightest things.

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I've got to fight myself. I'm my biggest problem. I thank God the Bible says that he knows that

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we are just dust. Isn't that good news? I remind him of that often, by the way. It's in the

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Bible. It's a good one. But Lord, I am just dust, you know. But one of the reasons why

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even a believer has this awe in this terror with the Word of God is because in Hebrews chapter 4,

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verse 12, it says, for the Word of God is living and powerful. This is not a poem. The Bible is alive.

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I'm not talking about your Bible breathing and seeing the pages and the covers swell.

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It is spiritually alive. You can quote Amway. You can quote the Quran. You can quote a menu from

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Memes. It's not going to affect anybody. You quote the Bible and the world stops. Remember back

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in the ancient days, well, there was a commercial that says when E.F. Hutton speaks, people listen

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or something like that. I don't know what it was. But it was, we were always talking and then

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E.F. Hutton says, and we stopped. Have you noticed? You go out to some restaurant or something

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with your Bible. Maybe you go to breakfast after service to some business that's open with

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enough courage to be open and employees. And you take your Bible with you to breakfast and you

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set that Bible down on a table. Watch what happens. Everybody is going to be looking at your table.

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Why? Because that book is saying, I'm over here. I'm right here and I'm the Bible. I'm alive

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and you are terrified to find out what's inside. But because you don't look at it, you think this

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book is here to beat you up. But it's not to beat you up. It's to bring it to the understanding

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that the law of God is holy and you're not. And what you need to do is that you need to run to

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Jesus. That's what you need to do. A moment of silence, we would look also to the fact that a

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misguided faith elevates morality. Have you noticed that? Misguided faith always exalts morality.

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Legalism. The old saying back in the wild, wild west of the day was, I don't smoke or chew

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or go with girls who do. Boy, aren't you something. Right. Because it was a moral call. It was a moral

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judgment. I've been a member of the first Bapticostal Church for years. My dad was the pastor,

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my grandfather played in the, sang in the choir. Who cares? Doesn't matter. God's not impressed by

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that. But we elevate morality. Listen, a misguided faith will elevate human performance. And God's word

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says there in verse 19. It says to those who are under the law, meaning everyone. There's a bit of

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reverent apostolic sarcasm with Paul's statement here. I believe Paul is the author of the book of

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Romans as scripture teaches in correlation to the book of Hebrews, both saying the exact same thing

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on this, under the law. It means that the law is presiding over us. If you know it or not, it's there.

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Always there. We learned in Romans chapter 2 verse 1, therefore you are inexcusable. Look at that

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verse. You are inexcusable, O man, whoever you are who judge for and whatever you judge another,

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you condemn yourself for you who judge practice the same things. And do you remember what that meant,

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you guys? That the legalist says you shouldn't do that. And you, according to the Bible, go about

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doing the same thing or a version of it or according to God because these more concerned about the inside

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of you, you say to somebody you should never do that, but in your mind you do it all the time.

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You point out to somebody that they should have never criticized that individual, but inside

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you're criticizing everybody. And you think you're safe because nobody can hear you.

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But if you get silent with God, in a moment of silence you'll hear God speak to you. You ought not

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to be doing that. It's remarkable and powerful. Should we be moral? We should be moral. Should we

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be good citizens? Of course, but never put the cart before the horse. You're never going to show up

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and stand before God at your moment of death and say, I was the most moral man in town. I was the

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best citizen. It's not going to work. It doesn't work. But we are under the law, all of us.

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For those of us who are believers, we know how this ends and we have a smile on our face. For those

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of you who are not, there shouldn't be a smile on your face. Because as of this moment, the law

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is suspended over your head. Imagine Moses with the 10 commandments, three inches from your head.

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And those 10 commandments weigh a billion pounds. Remarkable, Galatians chapter 4 verse 21 says,

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tell me, you who desire to be under the law. Do you not hear the law? It would be a bad day if we all

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read through the Bible and then put it down and got on the freeway or whatever in a minute, two,

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10 minutes, half an hour after we read it, we couldn't recite one thing of what we read.

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We don't want to do that. We want to slow down and let that Bible get into us.

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We can declare the law. We can read the law. We can state the law. We can study the law

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theologically. But do you hear what the law says? That's what Paul was saying to the Galatians. Do you

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hear what it's saying? Those of you who say that you're going to go to heaven on good works and by

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keeping the law, Paul was saying, are you listening to the law? What does he mean? The law of God

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never, never, never, never says it will save you. The law of God has no salvation in it by design.

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God's law was never given to save. Are there guiding principles? Absolutely. Is God true and holy

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and is it pure? Totally. But the moment God gave the law, he said here now, take an animal and

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sacrifice its blood in the day that you break my law. Did you guys all hear that? My Jewish

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friends, did you hear that? The day that God gave the law to Moses is the same day God says now

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the day that you break the law, here is an animal sacrifice that's required. I need innocent blood

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to cover your sin. And yet there's people all around the world saying, I can get to heaven by

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being good enough. No, you cannot. The third thing we see under this is that a misguided faith

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makes excuses. It says in verse 19 that every mouth might be stopped and all the world might become

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guilty before God. That's why God gave the law. Churchless enough, again, don't leave the building

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right now. Usher's locked the doors. God's word says regarding the law, you're guilty.

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And he doesn't tell you that to beat you up. See, people read the Bible, they read this and they

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stop and then they run out of the building or they put down the Bible and they say, I don't,

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why would anybody ever read this book? Keep reading because here's the deal. You got to know why he

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is the savior, the savior saves people. Why do I need saving? Because you have broken the law.

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You've broken the Ten Commandments. And it's like a gigantic signpost saying, you need

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salvation, you need hope. And it's to drive you to Jesus.

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