NT Framework - Got Sin?

There has been only one that can answer this question in the negative. only one who never possessed inherited or personal sin. 

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Jeremy Thomas is the pastor at Spokane Bible Church in Spokane, Washington and a professor at Chafer Theological Seminary. He has been teaching the Bible for over 20 years, always seeking to present its truths in a clear and understandable manner. 

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
Welcome to Beyond the Walls with Jeremy Thomas and
our series on the New TestamentFramework.
Today a smaller, bite-sizedpiece from the larger lesson.
We hope you enjoy it.

Speaker 2 (00:10):
So Romans, chapter 8, verse 3, says something very
interesting about him.
So we understand that he waswithout a sin nature or flesh.
Romans 8 3, for what the lawcould not do, speaking of the
law of Moses weak as it wasthrough the flesh.
Romans 8.3, for what the lawcould not do, speaking of the
law of Moses, weak as it wasthrough the flesh.
In other words, the lawbasically caused the human,

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sinful flesh to want to rebel.
You know, you tell a kid don'teat those cookies while I'm gone
.
Don't eat those cookies whileI'm gone.
All they want to do now is tryto see how they can get a cookie

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, because what you've done isthe flesh.
You've given a standard, butthe flesh uses the standard as a
base to push off of, to exertitself, and so they want to
break the law.
And that's what he's saying thelaw, the law of Moses, weak as
it was through the flesh,meaning causing people to
stumble and get into sin.
Well, it couldn't do this, butGod did.

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It's sending his own son in thelikeness of sinful flesh.
In the likeness of sinful flesh.
Note the key word, obviously,likeness.
He looked like sinful flesh inthe sense that he looked like
you.
He looked like me, he had atrue human body, he had a true
human spirit and he was a truehuman soul.

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So he had a physical appearance, he was real.
He wasn't just a phantom.
He had a true human spirit,which means he had personality,
had conscience, he had all thethings that are aspects of our
immaterial being and he was atrue human soul.
That's why we say he's truehumanity, he's 100% a true human
being.

(01:55):
Okay, but he wasn't sinfulflesh, was he?
According to this verse, he camein the likeness of sinful flesh
, so he didn't have one like youhave and like I have, and
that's the point of bringingthis verse up.
He was unique in this sense.
He avoided it.
How did he avoid it?
He avoided this inherited sinbecause his?

(02:17):
Well, two points.
First of all, because thetransmission is direct through
the male.
We looked at that that lastweek.
Hebrews 7, 1 through 10.
And since he's born of Maryalone, and not Mary and Joseph,
but Mary alone, then he avoidsthe transmission.
Because the transmission isthrough the male, okay.
And secondly, jesus avoids itby the work of the Spirit upon

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Mary at the virgin conception,because he's the one who was
involved in the conception.
If Joseph wasn't, who was?
Well, the Holy Spirit providedthat aspect of his humanity.
So that's how he avoidsinherited sin.
And this is interesting Now,since he has none of the three
kinds of sin right.

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He avoided the temptations,tempted in all things as we, yet
without sin.
He avoids imputed sin by theoverpowering work of the Father,
this barrier that was put up,luke 135.
And he avoids the inherited sinbecause the Holy Spirit, not
Joseph, conceived the childwithin her.

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Then this means somethingunique.
It means that Jesus didn't haveto die physically.
Doesn't it mean that?
In other words, here's what I'msaying If Jesus had wanted to
continue living in this world,could he still be here today?
Yes, because he has no cause ofdeath residing within him.

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Sin is the cause of death, sinis the cause of sickness, sin is
the root cause of all thesethings.
If he doesn't have sin, theroot cause, then he can't die
physically.
And that's why he'll say thingsin the Gospels that well, quite
frankly, they sound amazing.
Like who could say that?
He'll say something like no onetakes my life from me, but I

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lay it down of my own accord,meaning, if I'm going to die,
it's because I'm going towillingly give my life up, but
I'm not just going to die, Ican't just die.
The great story at Nazarethwhere he says a prophet is not
welcome in his own town.
It's a village, really, it's avery small place.

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They ran him out of town to anedge and they were going to push
him off the cliff.
And you've got to imaginethere's got to be several dozen
people here at least.
They're going to shove him offthe cliff.
And then the text says and hewent through them and they could
no longer find him.
You're like what?
How could you miss the guy?
I mean, there's 30, 40, whoknows how many people there and

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he just goes through the midstof you and well, he couldn't die
.
He could not until he and whenhe chose to die for us.
So he says these unique thingsand they're arising out of the
fact that he didn't have any sin, so no cause of death residing
within him.
He could still be with us today.

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He'd be about 2,030 years old,if my math is right.
As far as the birth.

Speaker 1 (05:18):
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Jeremy Thomas.
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