February 3, 2025 • 49 mins
In this episode, we dive deep into Romans 5, exploring the incredible grace of God and the hope we have through Jesus Christ. Paul reminds us that while we were still sinners, Christ died for us—demonstrating God’s love beyond our comprehension. We discuss the significance of justification by faith, the contrast between Adam and Christ, and the assurance we have in God’s favor.
As we unpack these verses, we see that where sin increases, grace abounds even more. No matter our past, God’s grace is greater, offering us a new identity in Christ. Have you moved from the headship of Adam to the headship of Jesus? If not, this is your invitation to step into the reign of grace.
Join us as we reflect on the depth of God’s love, the power of reconciliation, and the freedom found in standing in His favor. Take time this week to read Romans 5 again, and prepare your heart for Romans 6.
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But as we've been studyingthrough the book of Romans, that has been
the central theme, the gospel of Christ,which is the good news for salvation.
The interesting thing is we startedstudying that in the first few chapters.
It didn't sound like good newsbecause Paul was painting
a very clear pictureon our need for salvation.
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And in order to do that, he has to firstconvince us that we need to be saved.
And the way he didthat was by showing us our own sin.
And so the good news
didn't necessarilyseem so good at the beginning,
because it seemed likeit was a bunch of bad news about us.
But Paul turns a corner
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and we start looking at the grace of God,which, through the grace of God,
by the grace of God we have salvation,which is the good news, the gospel.
So we get into it. Really?
In, in really powerful, ways.
In chapter five, six, seven and eightand so we're in chapter five today.
And so if you have a Bible
brought one with you, open itto chapter of Romans, chapter five.
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There are times
when weread, especially the book of Romans,
that it feels like itsounds like it's difficult to understand.
And the reason is it was written
by this man called Paul,who had a brilliant mind.
Not only didhe have such a brilliant mind.
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His mind was so complex.
He was writing about an unknowable Godwho was completely other than that.
So you got a brilliant mindwriting about the unknown and unknowable
God, really, who's completelyother than us writing to a people
2000 years agoin a different part of the world,
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who spoke a different languageand had a different worldview.
And so you put all these things together.
It made sense to them.
Much more than that makes sense to us.
And so we have to do some unpackingto understand the depth of it all.
Now, I believe
that everything God wants to sayis super plain and easy to understand.
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But there are there are things
within the simple message of the gospelChrist and Him crucified.
There's a depth to itthat we have to unpack a little bit.
And so to unpack it,I think we'll get close.
But to unpack chapter five,
I want to unpack itin three different sections.
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And the way I want to unpack it for usis this.
We're going to start with verses12 through 19.
And then we're going to go back to versesone through 11.
And then we're going to end with verses20 and 21.
So that's how we'll unpack it. Okay. Now
to help us
understand chapter five,there's a principle
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we have to, solidify in our minds,because if we miss this principle,
we're going to miss, really the thrustand the emphasis of chapter five.
And the principle we have to understand
is calledthe principle of the federal head.
Let me show you what that is.
The principle of federal headis this that the actions
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of the representative impactall those under that representative.
So there's a representativethat represents everybody underneath
that representative and the actionsof that represent what happens.
That representative is going to affecteverybody under it.
Do you understand. Okay.
So to help you really understand this,if any of you seen
the series, the Mockingjay serieswith Katniss Everdeen.
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Yeah.
Okay, so that is a perfectexample of a federal hit.
Katniss in the moviewas the tribute for whom?
Her sister, prim.
And for the entire what district?
Which district? Nerds?
12. Okay,yeah, let's just give this year that.
So shall I say I'm teasinglike you shall we love this.
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That series.
It's fun to watch, but. But.
So she was the federal head.
Not just for prim hurt, the one she took,but for all of district 12.
So whatever happened to Katniss?
Happens to the entire district.
Does that make sense?
Okay,that's the principle of the federal head.
Whatever happens to the representativeof all happens to all.
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And we have to understand that principle,because what Paul will do in chapter
five is introduced to ustwo federal heads.
The first one will bethe federal head of Adam,
who was the federal headof the human race.
And so whatever happens to Adam and hisactions happens to the entire human race.
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And what happened with Adamis he brought sin or brought sin
and death to all the human race,because he is our federal head.
You follow so far,the second federal federal head
that Paul will introduce us to is Jesus,who's the federal head of all the redeemed
who've been justified, made right with Godthrough faith because of God's grace
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and because of the justificationof the federal head
of Jesus, brings life to all of uswho believe.
So Adam, as the federal head of humanity,brought sin and death.
Jesus as the federal head of all those whowill believe are justified brings life.
You follow?
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Yeah.
And so Paul is going to explainthis spiritual reality
through these two federal heads.
Adam and Jesus.
And so let's jump in verse 12.
So we're in the middle of the chapter
looking at these,this issue of federal heads.
It'll help us unpack the entire chapter.
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Therefore, whenever there's atherefore you have to stop.
And that's what it's there for. So
therefore, in light of everythinghe's just said that we'll get to
just as sin entered the world through oneman, the federal head of Adam, and death
through sin, because of the sin of the oneman, the federal head of Adam.
And in this way, death came to all peoplebecause all sinned
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through the federal head of Adam.
You follow so far.
Okay.
To be sure, sin was in the worldbefore the law was given.
But sin is not, charged againstanyone's account where there is no law.
Let's just keep going.
Nevertheless, death reigned from the timeof Adam to the time of Moses.
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Even over those who did not sinby breaking
the command, as did Adam,who was the pattern of the one to come.
Is this super crystal clear?
Okay, let me unpack this a little bit.
Okay.
So he's introduced us to the federal headof Adam,
the representative for all of mankind.
Adam sinned before God gave his law.
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Like the Mosaic law.
Before he wrote anythingdown. Adam sinned.
God had put his law in Adam's heart
when he said, don'tcross this line in the Garden of Eden.
Adam crossed that lineeven though there was no law written down.
So he was a law breaker. You follow.
And because of that, deathentered the world.
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The proof of sin is death.
And because death entered the worldwith Adam.
And people diedeven before the law was given.
It proves that everybody is a sinner
because death came from sin.
Adam's sin brought death effect, in fact,
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that everybody ever beforeGod ever made a command.
You follow.
This isexactly what God said would happen.
Adam, as our federal had brought sinto all of humanity,
and the proof of sin in all of humanityis death.
God told Adam in Genesis two,
but you must not eat from the treeof the knowledge of good and evil.
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For when you eat of it,you will certainly what die?
So God saidbefore he ever wrote a law for anybody,
he gave Adam his law in his heartand said, don't you can go this far, Noah?
Adam trespass crossed the line and Godsaid, why don't you do that?
Death.
Now, did Adam die right then?
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No. Why?
Because he's the federal headfor all of humanity.
So now death entered all of humanity.
You follow.It's exactly what God said would happen
because of Adam's sin.
As the federal headdeath entered all of humanity.
And the fact, again,the fact that every one of us is born into
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sin is proved by the fact
that at this point, I know in AmericaI haven't checked other countries yet,
but at this point mortalityrate is just about 100%
for us, right?
For all of humanity,
the reason why there's deaths,because their sins and brought death.
And so ever beforeGod ever even made a command.
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The proof is that we're all born into sin.
Because guess what?
We're all going to die.
And so,
Adam, our federal headthat brought sin and death.
Verses 15 1617
but the gift is not like the trespass.
For if many died by the trespassof the one man, Adam, our federal head,
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how much more did God's grace and the giftthat came by the grace of the one man,
Jesus, our federal head of righteousnessfor overflow to the man he
nor can the gift of God be comparedwith the result of one man sin.
The judgment followed one manor one sin, and brought condemnation.
But the gift followed many trespassesand brought justification.
For if by the trespass of the oneman death reigned through that one man,
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how much more will those who receiveGod's, abundant provision of grace
and of the gift of righteousness reignin life through the one man, Jesus Christ?
Is that super crystal clear for you?
Is what I'm saying.
Like Paul, it's such a gift for him,and it's hard for us.
He just has these long run on sentences,just keeps putting commas and commas
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and commas and.
But to unpack this,this is what he's saying.
It all has to dowith the two federal heads.
It's saying Adam's sin brought death.
But God's grace abounds through Jesus.
Adam's sin as our federal head
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brought condemnation to all of humanity.
But Jesus, as our federal head,brings the opportunity
for justificationto be made right with God.
That because of Adam's sin, death reigns.
Everybody dies.
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But because of Jesus as our federal head,
through faith, by God's grace, lifenow reigns.
Through one man came the trespass.
And through one man came the answer.
Verses 18 and 19.
Consequently, just as one trespassresulted in condemnation for all people,
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he is our federal head.
We're born into his stuff.
So also one righteous actresulted in justification and life
for all peoplewho will believe through faith
not as a result of works,but just because of God's grace.
For just as through the
disobedience of the one man, Adam,
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our federal head, and humanity,many were made sinners.
So also through the obedience of the oneman, the federal head of Christ,
the many will be made right with God.
One trespass crossed the line
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when God said, Adam, go this farno further.
He crossed the line.
Trespass as our federal head.
We're born into trespass.
And that's what Paul,that's what he went through.
Two chapters, two and a half chaptersexplaining to us.
He says, I don't care how much you crossthe line this much or this much,
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you cross the line
because you have as their federal head,Adam, who also crossed the line.
We've trespass.
And one act of righteousness,the work of Jesus on the cross.
As our federal headof being made right with God,
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brings about justificationto the many who will believe
through Adam all are made sinners
through faith by grace and Jesus.
Many are made right with God.
And so the question we have toto to answer for ourselves
is which federal headare you living under?
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You were born under this one.
Through faith.
By God's grace, you can move to this one.
You follow.
And the movement from this one to
this one has nothing to dowith what you do.
It's solely based on what Jesus has done.
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Now we, through faithbecause of God's grace,
have the opportunity to move.
And if you've not moved yet,
I want to invite you to.
And because that is the possibility,because you can move there.
Now, Paul will give us three benefitsof moving
from the federal head of Adamto the federal head of Jesus.
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He gives us three benefits.Do you wanna know what they are?
Paul tells
us what they are in chapterand start in verse one.
So we're kind of reverse engineering thisnow that we understand
now we'll learn what the benefits are.
And then and so back to the beginning,the three benefits of moving
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to the federal head of Jesus. Okay.
Verses one and two.
Therefore you got to ask what it went to.
Therefore everything you saidin the first four chapters.
Therefore,since we have been justified through faith
made right with God, through faithwe have peace with God through our Lord
Jesus Christ, through whom we have gainedaccess by the by faith into this grace
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in which we now stand and we boastin the hope of the glory of God.
Let me unpack this for you.Three benefits.
The first benefit for those who have movedfrom the federal ahead of Adam
to the federal head of Jesus, the firstbenefit is that we have peace with God.
Now, God's justice
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in his wrathagainst those who have trespassed
has to be leveled.
And God's justice towards us was satisfied
because Jesus paid the price of that
wrath on the cross.
And because that happened,and we've bought through
faith,have moved to the federal head of Jesus,
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now we can have peace with God.
Now please be understand
this is not the peace of God.
This is peace with God.
And they are very different.
The peace with Godis not the peace of God.
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The peace of God is this.
Philippians four six and seven.
Do not be anxious about anything.
So all you professional warriors,this is your life.
Verse.
Don't be anxious about anything.
But in every situation, by prayer
and petition, with thanksgiving,present your request to God and the peace.
What of God,which transcends all understanding,
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will guard your hearts and minds in ChristJesus?
So here's the problem.
Everybody wants the peace of Godwithout first establishing peace with God
to understand.
And when we stand, said God,I need the peace of you.
But we haven't been made right with him.
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You don't.
We don't get the peace of Godwithout first having peace with God.
The peace of God is reserved for those
who have come to peace with God.
And we cannot have the peace of God
apart from Christ.
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Ephesians two For he Himself is our.
What peace?
Who has made the two groupsone and has destroyed
the barrier,the dividing wall of hostility.
So the peace with God
before we choose
to change our allegianceto the federal head of Jesus, God
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took the initiativeto destroy the dividing wall between us.
And he said,I am taking the initiative to invite you
over through Christ on the crossto destroy the dividing wall.
Now there is nodivide. You can come to me,
but until you come to me through Jesus,
you will never have peace with me.
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It's not that we have somesome charge against God,
but God in his righteousness
has a charge against lawbreakers,
and through faith, by graceand Jesus work on the cross,
he's taken the charge againstour lawbreaking and put it on Jesus.
So now, through faith,
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by his grace, I can have peace with God.
He's at peace with me.
And because I can have peace with God now,
I can experiencethe peace of God to understand.
And so many people
have desired the peace of God
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and are clueless
about how to be have peace with God.
And that only comes through faithin Jesus.
By God's grace.
If you want the peace of God,
you must first be made right with God
through faith in Jesus.
Then there's a promise of peace of God.
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You follow.
All right. Yes.
All right.
So that's the first benefit. Peacewith God.
The second benefit is this
access into God's grace in which we stand.
This is what the first two verses say.
Through faith we have access into God'sgrace in which we now stand.
Now, this this one actually blows me away.
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The idea that I can have access to Godand the grace of God.
Grace is the undeservedand unmerited favor and blessing of God.
The fact that we have accessinto that grace
by faith it through faith is amazing.
Now, when Paul says,we have access now through faith in Jesus,
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that word access necessitatesan invitation.
You and I cannot go to
the father,have access to the father on our own.
We have to be invited into that,and we're invited into the access
to accessing God's grace through Jesus.
So through Christ, faith in Christ,I've been invited into the grace of God.
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And Paul says that gracethat undeserved merited favor.
And but I stand in that
through Jesus.
Please understand this
if you've accepted Jesus as your Savior,you've come to the father
through faith in the son.
Because of his grace, you now stand.
You stand in the very favorof Almighty God.
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You don't have to earn it.
You've been invited.
You now stand in that.
And here's what's amazing about it.
That verb stand in Greek is a
is in the perfect tense,which means it's a continuing action.
You perpetually stand in the favor of God.
You don't go in and go out.
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God, I was good, so I get your favorand blessing, but now it's bad.
So I go out and now I'm going to be good.
So I go back inand now I was bachelor. Goodbye.
You don't bounce in and out.
You perpetually stand in the favorof God through faith in Jesus,
because God's grace is so profound,not because our behavior is so good.
Thank you. Understand this.
This is for this part of the benefit ofjust being made right with God
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through faith.
See, grace
isn't just the way we come to salvation.
Grace is our present.
Stand the continuing present,standing before God.
It's the beginning of the Christian life,and it's the sustaining
of the Christian life. Grace,
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not behavior, not performance.
See, a lot of people think they beginto follow Jesus by grace
and then move to living by performance.
Well, I accepted Jesus alone,
but now I gotta really watch myself. Now.
And I feel like, man,sometimes I'm really good
and God is good to meand sometimes I'm not real good.
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And you know,God's got a right to be upset.
And the moment we make that transition,
as if we come to God by grace
and then we have to live by performance.
The Bible says in Galatiansfive that we've fallen from grace.
That's a scary place to be.
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Grace means.
That God's attitude toward
the Christ follower, the believer,the one who is made right with God
through faith, goes by gracemeans that God's attitude
towards me is favor because he sees me
through the eyes of joy.
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Have you ever have you ever been
have someone in your lifewhose eyes lit up when they saw you?
Yeah, well,
how about a dog?
Okay, so some of you are like, no,
no, I mean, I married them, but now,
you know, it's like, think about a dog.
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You know, like when you,
when a dog was just like, oh,
always. I didn't.
Right.
That's the attitude that God looks atthe eyes of God looks at you with
because of being right with themthrough faith,
by God's grace, he looks at you like, oh.
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Like I'm convinced.
I mean, God looks at me like, oh, girl.
That's grace.
It's this perpetual standing
that I stand before Almighty God,and he knows everything about me.
And yet he's still looks at me.
He's like, oh, Carl.
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Yes. Can you imagine?
Yes. It's awesome.
Oh it's incredible.
Just so many people think, you know,like, well, yeah, he, you know, he,
you know, he saved me.
But I'm still kind of the,you know, the red headed, you know, in.
I'm sorry.
I'm sorry. I should do likewise.
I didn't meanthink of the redheads out there.
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You know, you're all loved and beautifuland all that stuff.
Yeah.
You know, we feel so we're, you know,we're the, you know, the the bald in laws.
And I don't know what to say,you know what I'm saying?
Like,you know, I'm offended at myself. I just,
you know, like like we're second
and that's not it.
That's not grace, it's religion.
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It's not grace.
See, we would all we've said.
No, no, I believe God loves me
because it kind of has to, you know,I mean, the Bible says he's love
and he's got to let me inbecause I'm leaving a son.
And. Yeah,
but sometimes you feel likeyou didn't like us.
Grace means God didn't.
He doesn't just love me. He likes me.
Yeah, yeah,grace means he doesn't just love you.
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He likes you.
And so when he looks at you,it's like, oh, yeah.
Yeah.
Man, I like you.
Can you imaginehaving that type of relationship
with Almighty God?
You do?
Yeah.
The problem is,most people haven't realized it yet.
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That's grace.
It's one of the benefits
of moving from the federal head of Adamto the federal head of Jesus.
We're invited into this grace,
invited into the faith
to stand firm in the favor
of God, who to stand there
with the twinkling eyes of God,looking at us like,
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not because of what we've done,
but simply through faith.
Father, I believe in your son.
And he goes.
Man, I like you.
You know,
to understand.
This is the invitation. No.
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To stand in the grace of God
means I don't have to prove anymorethat I'm worthy of God's love.
To stand in the grace of Godmeans the door of access to God
is permanently open.
To stand in the grace of God
means I am free from tryingto keep a score sheet with God.
To prove that I'm good.
To stand in the grace of Godmeans I spend more time praising
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God for who he is than hating myselfand hating my past.
To stand in the grace of God meansI refuse to make resolutions and vows.
Don't let any teacher ever manipulate youinto trying to prove how much you love
God, by making commitmentsthat you already know you can't keep.
You stand in the favor of Godby his grace, not by your vows
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and not by your commitmentsand not by your devotion.
When I stand in the presencein the grace of God,
I expect his blessings, thoughI know I don't deserve his blessings.
That's grace.
When I stand in the grace of God,I testify to the goodness
of God at all times.
And when I stand in the grace of God,
I stand in the certaintyof God's future favor.
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Oh that's grace.
Oh don't the benefits
of being made right with God sound toogood to be true.
Yeah.
Oh yeah.
Mr. reality
the first benefit I have peace with God.
The second I stand in the favor of Goddoing the third benefit.
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Yeah, yeah.
It's not going to seem so fun.
But not only so,
but we also glory in our sufferings. We.
I heard some of you I saw on your fifth.
Go back to the other two.
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We glory in our sufferings because.
Because we know that suffering producesperseverance, perseverance, character
and character.
Hope.
Here's here's the truth, man.
The third benefit.
Is that we can glory in suffering.
Let me tell you why.
When Paul uses that word suffering, he'snot talking about minor inconveniences.
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You go to Sam's Club on a Saturdayafternoon.
That's a minor inconvenience.There's no place to party.
They put the damn gas station in there.
And now you got to walkfrom Chuck-E-Cheese all the way over.
That's not what he's talking about.
He's talking about real pain.
Yeah, real suffering,
real trials, troubles and tribulations.
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And he said,you can glory in those times. Why?
Because suffering produces perseverance.
Perseverance produces character.
Character produces hope.
And we're never disappointed by hope.
Hope is the certainty of God's
continued and future activity.
And when we're going through thesedifferent, really difficult times,
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we need the certainty of God'scontinued and future activity, right?
Right, right.
That'll never disappoint.
Here's the truth everybody.
Experience is suffering.
Whether you're underthe federal head of Adam
or the federal head of Jesus,we all experience suffering.
However,
those who are
justified experience benefit through it.
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Those from the central heard of Adamjust suffer.
You understand?
Spurgeon, one of the greatest preacherswho's ever graced
this planet, he said thatjust is just part of his quote.
He said the Christianshould be willing to be tried.
Do you want to be carriedto heaven on a featherbed?
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Some of us be like, yeah,
actually, that's I mean, that's that'skind of why I did the whole Jesus thing.
So, you know, are you kidding me?
But think about a man.
Not not the Christ follower.
Not the disciple.
I should say mean, don't you?
In the part of you that just wants.
You know what I want.
I will slide into heavenwith my hair on fire.
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Like you know.
And I realize we don't pray for testing.
But if we want to develop character,
if we want to be people of hopethat lasts.
This is the golden chainof the Christian's growth and maturity
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through suffering.
Yeah. See,
we can glory in suffering
because it develops perseverance.
Literally.That word is patience develops patience.
Because when I'm in suffering,when I'm willing to wait,
because I know that God'sworking through it,
I can be patient.
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And when I'm willing to waitbecause I know God's
working through, I'm patient in it.
It develops my character.
The literal word for characteris experience.
It develops your experience.
Perseverance produces experiencethat's been tried through suffering.
So when I go into suffering
and I said, God, I know you'reworking in this, I'm going to be patient.
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You experience
the fact that God is working in it
and developing a Christ like character
so that that experi ence of waitingthrough suffering produces hope
because God proves himself time and time
and time and time again
to understand.
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Yeah, I'm
now let me just,
This is so important.
Not just for us,but it's really important for parents.
And I don't care if you're a parent.
I don't care how old your kids are.
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We would all say that.
Not just us, but we want for our kids
to grow up
with great character, right?
Right.
And to be people of hope
that whatever they grow through,they're not going to get beat
right.
Like what they go throughis not going to crush them.
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We don't want that.
We have to be very careful,
especially with our kids,
that when they go through difficulty,
trials, troubles and pains,
we don't just want to rescue themout of it,
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but we disciple them through it.
There's a vast and profound difference.
Parents, please pray over your kidsevery day.
Father, I ask for your mercyand grace over my kids.
Put a hedge around them,a fortress about them.
It's all biblical.
Protect them from the evil onewho only seeks to steal, kill,
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and destroy their presentand their future.
I pray your watch over them,your mercy and grace on them.
Pray all of that.
But when they're going through it.
Discipled them through it.
Don't just try to rescue them out of it.
Because that's the only waythey will grow up
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to be people of characterand have godly hope.
When parents
rescue their kids out of difficulty,
we stunt and destroy their discipleship
and ruin their character.
Do you understand?
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I get it, it's so hard
as a daddy, as a mama, you're like,you know her?
But we've got to get to the point saying,
sweetie, listen, I know this is hard,and I know you're hurting and I love you.
And I'm going to suffer with you in this,
and we're going to work together.
Let's remember who God is.
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Let's remember togetherwhat he's done in the past.
Let's remember how he has moved.
Let's remember.
Remember what the Bible says,that somehow God's working in this.
Remember what Scripture tells usthat even Jesus went through difficulty.
Remember what Scripture saysthat that were never outside of his hand.
He doesn't sleep or slumber.
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He knows what's going on and he will be.
Here's the thing it's okay for your kidsnot to be happy
so that they'llfind their joy in the Lord.
It's okay for our kids to be sad
so they'll find their sustenancein Christ.
It's okay for our kids
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to be alone, so they'll learn to draw
on the presence of Christ.
Discipled them through it.
Don't rob them of that character
that God is trying to build in him.
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Okay.
I don't want emails and texts
about that at all,so just keep it to yourself.
All right?
Let me finish this up here.
Verse five.
And hope does not put us to shame,because God's love has been poured out
into our hearts through the Holy Spiritwho has been given to you.
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Please understand.
We gain the hope of God
through the Holy Spiritthat God has given to us.
The moment we accept Jesus as our Savior.
The result of all this is hope.
The Holy Spirit has been given to everyperson who receives Jesus as their Savior.
The Bible says, first Corinthians1213. Galatians three two.
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Galatians four six
that the moment you come to faith,the Holy Spirit has been implanted in you.
God has entered your lifethrough the Holy Spirit,
and then we're given the permissionin Luke 1113
to request the Holy Spirit come upon.
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I, I did this on the first service,just on a kind of a spur.
I didn't know how I was going to do it.
The service.
But Jesus has told us he,
the Scripture has told us.
That if we fatherswho are evil know how to give good gifts,
how much more doesthe Heavenly Father know how to give good,
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good gifts to those who ask, especiallythe Holy Spirit, to those who seek
so God will get.
If you've been made right with Godthrough faith.
The Holy Spirit's been placed in you,and the result of that
is eternal life.
But we've been toldwe can ask the father to
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put the spirit on us, not just within us.
And all I have to do is ask,
and the proof that the Holy Spirit is in
you and uponyou is not some crazy language.
And cackling like a chicken.
It's love, joy, peace, patience,
kindness, goodness,faithfulness, gentleness, self-control
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and hope.
Many of us have trusted God
for salvation and the Holy Spirit liveswithin the scriptures.
Scripture is clear about that.
Few of us have said, father,
true Holy Spirit, come upon.
And we've been promisedby the father that that will happen.
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Yeah.
And so I'm going to give you the chance.
Did youmaybe you've never done this before,
but to ask that the father placesHis Holy Spirit upon you
and that you're filled with the spirit?
Ephesians 518 says,be continually filled with the spirit.
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And there are some times in our livesmeant we just need
the presence of the Holy Spirit,
especially for hope.
And so if you have a relationshipwith Jesus, I'm
gonna invite you in this moment of prayerright now.
I'm not done preaching yet,
but I want to stopand give you the opportunity to do what
Scripture has said and invite the spiritupon your life.
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Pray with me, father.
Thank you that you have promised us
and given us the indwellingof the Holy Spirit and promised the Holy
Spirit upon us.
Father, I know that you're
that the fruit of your spirit,the proof of your spirit is love,
joy, peace, patience, kindness,goodness, faithfulness, gentleness,
self-control, and hope.
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So, father,
hear these hearts, these who are yours,
who ask you for the presenceof the Holy Spirit
in and upon their lives.
Do what you saidyou would do in Your Word. You.
You've tied your action to your word,and you've said you would do it.
And so here are these hearts.
I would just encourage you in this moment.
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Any of you who have a relationshipwith Jesus.
To say, father, give me your Holy Spirit.
I want your Holy Spirit to come upon me.
Fill me with Your Holy Spirit.
Let me experience the fullnessof the Spirit's presence in my life
the fullness of love,
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joy, peace, patience, kindness,goodness, faithfulness, and self-control.
The fullness of hope.
Don't say, father,I receive that right now.
Your spirit in me, your spirit upon me.
Father, thank youthat you're faithful to your word.
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In your name I pray, Amen. Amen.
I hope
because of the spirit God has given you.
Let me go through these last few verses.
You see, at just the right time,when we were still powerless,
Christ died for the ungodly.
Very rarelywould anyone die for a righteous person,
though for a good person,someone might possibly dare to die.
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But God demonstrateshis own love for us in this.
I love this verse while we're stillsinners, Christ died for us.
If God did all of this for uswhile we were denying him,
he set all this in actionbefore we ever turned him,
if he would be this good to us.
Said all this in action before we turn,
how much better do you think he'llbe after we have turned?
You understand?
I'm saying
the riches of heaven.
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Since we have nowbeen justified by his blood,
how much more shall we besaved from God's wrath through him?
For if while we were God's enemies,we were reconciled to him
through the death of his son,how much more have him been reconciled?
Shall we be saved through his life?
Not only is this so,but we also boast in God through our Lord
Jesus Christ, throughwhom we have now received reconciliation.
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It is all. Jesus has done it.
And if God loved us so muchand did so much for us
before we ever turned to him,how much more?
Now that we have turned,
can we have comfort that we standin the grace and favor of God?
He's so good
and he's been so good.
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Now here's
the biggest deal of this whole thing.
The law was brought in so that trespassmight increase, but here it is.
But where sin increased, grace.
Grace increased all the more
so that just as sin reigned in death,so also grace might reign
through the righteousness to bring eternallife through Jesus Christ our Lord.
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Here's what this means
God makes the rules
and God provides the solution.
God gave the law
so we would know what great law breakerswe are
here.
Here's the ideaif there's no speed limit posted
and I drive 80 miles an hourin a residential zone,
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I still breaking the law.
I just don't know it.
But once the sign the 30 milesan hour is posted and I drive 80.
Now I know I'm a law breaker. You follow?
So what Paul is saying here is this
the only reason God gave us the law
is not so that we would break itand become a law breaker.
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He gave us the law to prove to uswe are already law breakers,
because death happened before the law
was ever given, provingthat everybody lives in sin.
You understand?
Now, he gave us the law provingthat we're law breakers.
Now, I know,
okay, but the big thing ofthis whole deal is verse
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20, where sin increased,what grace increased, all the more.
See, here's what we think.
If I'm really, really bad,God gets really, really angry.
And if I'm not so bad, God isn't as angry.
And if I'm really good, maybe God blesses.
We would think that when my sin increases,so does God's anger.
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That's not what the Bible says.
The Bible says,because I've been justified through what
Jesus did, and I have this perpetualstanding of favor before God
when my sin increases,guess what his grace increases.
It's amazing.
Grace.
The truth is thisthat grace is greater than you.
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Fill the bank in.
I stand
in the perpetual,the perpetual standing in God's favor,
that even when my sin increases,he looks at me like,
oh, cool.
Wow. Because his grace is more.
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The fact is this that
I cannot allow sin, God's grace,
and neither can you.
When we've been justified through faithby God's grace,
we have this perpetualstanding in the favor
of God.
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Indicates that vindicated
and liberated. Him.
Grace is a thing that gives us something.
And grace is the thingthat takes us somewhere
into the favor of God.
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So in wrap back to the federal head.
We've been bornunder the federal head of Adam
and are separated from God's special
favor and grace, and bear wrath for sin.
But through
faith, bygrace, we can live under the federal head
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of Jesus and stand by faith
through faith in the favorof Almighty God.
And so here's the question.
Have you moved
from Adam to Jesus?
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If you haven't, do you
not realize the benefits of doing so?
And the peril of not.
And I want to invite you into that.
And beginningto live under the reign of grace.
And you prove me.
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God, you are a good God. The.
And you have been all good to us. You.
And there are some
this morning who are ready to move
from the headship of Adamto the headship of Jesus.
Thank you for hearing their prayers,
friends.
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I would invite you in this moment.
If you've never done that, to do that now,
in simplicityof faith and the faith of a child
simply between you and God, say, God,I agree with you.
I am a trespasser.
I broken your rule.
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And I repent of it.
Oh, yeah.
Yeah,
I accept the work
Jesus that you did on the cross
for my forgiveness.
And I accept you into my life.
And I choose you as my forgiver
and my leader. Oh.
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Simple faith.
Those of you who have prayed that.
Welcome to the family.
God now looks at you
as you stand before himwith excited, joyful eyes.
And he doesn't just love you,he likes you.
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Welcome.
For some of you, you've prayed that prayer
and you've livedstill as if you have to earn God's smile.
Yeah,
and I want to invite you into God's grace.
And for you, I would encourageyou just to say something like this.
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Father,thank you that you don't just love me.
You like me.
And thank you that I don't have to try
to be good enough to make you smile.
I trust you by faith.
And I receive all that your grace offers.
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I thank you
that I can forever stand in your presence
with your favor
and with your smile.
Help me live in that liberation
and with that hope and joy. Oh!
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Father, you are a good God,
and you've been so good to usthrough your son. So,
God, I pray that the truth of your wordwould resonate in us,
that you would protect itfor being stolen from our hearts,
that we would feed.
Father, I pray
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that NSU would raise up a people.
Who live under the reign of grace
through faith in your son.
By your grace,
in your name I pray. Amen.
Amen.
It's an I love you.
Thank you for going through Romansfive with us.
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Here's here'stake this week and read Romans five again.
And then read Romans sixand get ready for next week.
Be good.
Listen, some of you made some commitments.
Some of you made commitments.
And here's my ask.
I did in the firstI forgot to do it this year.
So I was going to ask you to raise upyour hand for these commitments.
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You're amazing. I forgot that to do that.
And so here's, here's, here's my askif you made some commitment,
I want to make sure that we'repraying with you and for you specifically.
And so David is right over there.I'm right here.
Sarah is there, too.
Jeff is here like,we're around here, John, or right down
here, like, would you come and say, hey,I prayed one of those prayers
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and just let us praywith you and confirm that,
like, don't be afraid of that.
You stand with the favorand smile of God on your life.
You got nothing to be afraid of.
You understand what I'm saying?
Yeah. Let's sing.
But as we've been studyingthrough the book of Romans, that has been
the central theme, the gospel of Christ,which is the good news for salvation.
The interesting thing is we startedstudying that in the first few chapters.
It didn't sound like good newsbecause Paul was painting
a very clear pictureon our need for salvation.
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And in order to do that, he has to firstconvince us that we need to be saved.
And the way he didthat was by showing us our own sin.
And so the good news
didn't necessarilyseem so good at the beginning,
because it seemed likeit was a bunch of bad news about us.
But Paul turns a corner
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and we start looking at the grace of God,which, through the grace of God,
by the grace of God we have salvation,which is the good news, the gospel.
So we get into it. Really?
In, in really powerful, ways.
In chapter five, six, seven and eightand so we're in chapter five today.
And so if you have a Bible
brought one with you, open itto chapter of Romans, chapter five.
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There are times
when weread, especially the book of Romans,
that it feels like itsounds like it's difficult to understand.
And the reason is it was written
by this man called Paul,who had a brilliant mind.
Not only didhe have such a brilliant mind.
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His mind was so complex.
He was writing about an unknowable Godwho was completely other than that.
So you got a brilliant mindwriting about the unknown and unknowable
God, really, who's completelyother than us writing to a people
2000 years agoin a different part of the world,
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who spoke a different languageand had a different worldview.
And so you put all these things together.
It made sense to them.
Much more than that makes sense to us.
And so we have to do some unpackingto understand the depth of it all.
Now, I believe
that everything God wants to sayis super plain and easy to understand.
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But there are there are things
within the simple message of the gospelChrist and Him crucified.
There's a depth to itthat we have to unpack a little bit.
And so to unpack it,I think we'll get close.
But to unpack chapter five,
I want to unpack itin three different sections.
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And the way I want to unpack it for usis this.
We're going to start with verses12 through 19.
And then we're going to go back to versesone through 11.
And then we're going to end with verses20 and 21.
So that's how we'll unpack it. Okay. Now
to help us
understand chapter five,there's a principle
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we have to, solidify in our minds,because if we miss this principle,
we're going to miss, really the thrustand the emphasis of chapter five.
And the principle we have to understand
is calledthe principle of the federal head.
Let me show you what that is.
The principle of federal headis this that the actions
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of the representative impactall those under that representative.
So there's a representativethat represents everybody underneath
that representative and the actionsof that represent what happens.
That representative is going to affecteverybody under it.
Do you understand. Okay.
So to help you really understand this,if any of you seen
the series, the Mockingjay serieswith Katniss Everdeen.
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Yeah.
Okay, so that is a perfectexample of a federal hit.
Katniss in the moviewas the tribute for whom?
Her sister, prim.
And for the entire what district?
Which district? Nerds?
12. Okay,yeah, let's just give this year that.
So shall I say I'm teasinglike you shall we love this.
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That series.
It's fun to watch, but. But.
So she was the federal head.
Not just for prim hurt, the one she took,but for all of district 12.
So whatever happened to Katniss?
Happens to the entire district.
Does that make sense?
Okay,that's the principle of the federal head.
Whatever happens to the representativeof all happens to all.
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And we have to understand that principle,because what Paul will do in chapter
five is introduced to ustwo federal heads.
The first one will bethe federal head of Adam,
who was the federal headof the human race.
And so whatever happens to Adam and hisactions happens to the entire human race.
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And what happened with Adamis he brought sin or brought sin
and death to all the human race,because he is our federal head.
You follow so far,the second federal federal head
that Paul will introduce us to is Jesus,who's the federal head of all the redeemed
who've been justified, made right with Godthrough faith because of God's grace
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and because of the justificationof the federal head
of Jesus, brings life to all of uswho believe.
So Adam, as the federal head of humanity,brought sin and death.
Jesus as the federal head of all those whowill believe are justified brings life.
You follow?
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Yeah.
And so Paul is going to explainthis spiritual reality
through these two federal heads.
Adam and Jesus.
And so let's jump in verse 12.
So we're in the middle of the chapter
looking at these,this issue of federal heads.
It'll help us unpack the entire chapter.
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Therefore, whenever there's atherefore you have to stop.
And that's what it's there for. So
therefore, in light of everythinghe's just said that we'll get to
just as sin entered the world through oneman, the federal head of Adam, and death
through sin, because of the sin of the oneman, the federal head of Adam.
And in this way, death came to all peoplebecause all sinned
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through the federal head of Adam.
You follow so far.
Okay.
To be sure, sin was in the worldbefore the law was given.
But sin is not, charged againstanyone's account where there is no law.
Let's just keep going.
Nevertheless, death reigned from the timeof Adam to the time of Moses.
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Even over those who did not sinby breaking
the command, as did Adam,who was the pattern of the one to come.
Is this super crystal clear?
Okay, let me unpack this a little bit.
Okay.
So he's introduced us to the federal headof Adam,
the representative for all of mankind.
Adam sinned before God gave his law.
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Like the Mosaic law.
Before he wrote anythingdown. Adam sinned.
God had put his law in Adam's heart
when he said, don'tcross this line in the Garden of Eden.
Adam crossed that lineeven though there was no law written down.
So he was a law breaker. You follow.
And because of that, deathentered the world.
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The proof of sin is death.
And because death entered the worldwith Adam.
And people diedeven before the law was given.
It proves that everybody is a sinner
because death came from sin.
Adam's sin brought death effect, in fact,
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that everybody ever beforeGod ever made a command.
You follow.
This isexactly what God said would happen.
Adam, as our federal had brought sinto all of humanity,
and the proof of sin in all of humanityis death.
God told Adam in Genesis two,
but you must not eat from the treeof the knowledge of good and evil.
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For when you eat of it,you will certainly what die?
So God saidbefore he ever wrote a law for anybody,
he gave Adam his law in his heartand said, don't you can go this far, Noah?
Adam trespass crossed the line and Godsaid, why don't you do that?
Death.
Now, did Adam die right then?
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No. Why?
Because he's the federal headfor all of humanity.
So now death entered all of humanity.
You follow.It's exactly what God said would happen
because of Adam's sin.
As the federal headdeath entered all of humanity.
And the fact, again,the fact that every one of us is born into
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sin is proved by the fact
that at this point, I know in AmericaI haven't checked other countries yet,
but at this point mortalityrate is just about 100%
for us, right?
For all of humanity,
the reason why there's deaths,because their sins and brought death.
And so ever beforeGod ever even made a command.
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The proof is that we're all born into sin.
Because guess what?
We're all going to die.
And so,
Adam, our federal headthat brought sin and death.
Verses 15 1617
but the gift is not like the trespass.
For if many died by the trespassof the one man, Adam, our federal head,
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how much more did God's grace and the giftthat came by the grace of the one man,
Jesus, our federal head of righteousnessfor overflow to the man he
nor can the gift of God be comparedwith the result of one man sin.
The judgment followed one manor one sin, and brought condemnation.
But the gift followed many trespassesand brought justification.
For if by the trespass of the oneman death reigned through that one man,
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how much more will those who receiveGod's, abundant provision of grace
and of the gift of righteousness reignin life through the one man, Jesus Christ?
Is that super crystal clear for you?
Is what I'm saying.
Like Paul, it's such a gift for him,and it's hard for us.
He just has these long run on sentences,just keeps putting commas and commas
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and commas and.
But to unpack this,this is what he's saying.
It all has to dowith the two federal heads.
It's saying Adam's sin brought death.
But God's grace abounds through Jesus.
Adam's sin as our federal head
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brought condemnation to all of humanity.
But Jesus, as our federal head,brings the opportunity
for justificationto be made right with God.
That because of Adam's sin, death reigns.
Everybody dies.
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But because of Jesus as our federal head,
through faith, by God's grace, lifenow reigns.
Through one man came the trespass.
And through one man came the answer.
Verses 18 and 19.
Consequently, just as one trespassresulted in condemnation for all people,
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he is our federal head.
We're born into his stuff.
So also one righteous actresulted in justification and life
for all peoplewho will believe through faith
not as a result of works,but just because of God's grace.
For just as through the
disobedience of the one man, Adam,
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our federal head, and humanity,many were made sinners.
So also through the obedience of the oneman, the federal head of Christ,
the many will be made right with God.
One trespass crossed the line
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when God said, Adam, go this farno further.
He crossed the line.
Trespass as our federal head.
We're born into trespass.
And that's what Paul,that's what he went through.
Two chapters, two and a half chaptersexplaining to us.
He says, I don't care how much you crossthe line this much or this much,
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you cross the line
because you have as their federal head,Adam, who also crossed the line.
We've trespass.
And one act of righteousness,the work of Jesus on the cross.
As our federal headof being made right with God,
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brings about justificationto the many who will believe
through Adam all are made sinners
through faith by grace and Jesus.
Many are made right with God.
And so the question we have toto to answer for ourselves
is which federal headare you living under?
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You were born under this one.
Through faith.
By God's grace, you can move to this one.
You follow.
And the movement from this one to
this one has nothing to dowith what you do.
It's solely based on what Jesus has done.
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Now we, through faithbecause of God's grace,
have the opportunity to move.
And if you've not moved yet,
I want to invite you to.
And because that is the possibility,because you can move there.
Now, Paul will give us three benefitsof moving
from the federal head of Adamto the federal head of Jesus.
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He gives us three benefits.Do you wanna know what they are?
Paul tells
us what they are in chapterand start in verse one.
So we're kind of reverse engineering thisnow that we understand
now we'll learn what the benefits are.
And then and so back to the beginning,the three benefits of moving
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to the federal head of Jesus. Okay.
Verses one and two.
Therefore you got to ask what it went to.
Therefore everything you saidin the first four chapters.
Therefore,since we have been justified through faith
made right with God, through faithwe have peace with God through our Lord
Jesus Christ, through whom we have gainedaccess by the by faith into this grace
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in which we now stand and we boastin the hope of the glory of God.
Let me unpack this for you.Three benefits.
The first benefit for those who have movedfrom the federal ahead of Adam
to the federal head of Jesus, the firstbenefit is that we have peace with God.
Now, God's justice
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in his wrathagainst those who have trespassed
has to be leveled.
And God's justice towards us was satisfied
because Jesus paid the price of that
wrath on the cross.
And because that happened,and we've bought through
faith,have moved to the federal head of Jesus,
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now we can have peace with God.
Now please be understand
this is not the peace of God.
This is peace with God.
And they are very different.
The peace with Godis not the peace of God.
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The peace of God is this.
Philippians four six and seven.
Do not be anxious about anything.
So all you professional warriors,this is your life.
Verse.
Don't be anxious about anything.
But in every situation, by prayer
and petition, with thanksgiving,present your request to God and the peace.
What of God,which transcends all understanding,
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will guard your hearts and minds in ChristJesus?
So here's the problem.
Everybody wants the peace of Godwithout first establishing peace with God
to understand.
And when we stand, said God,I need the peace of you.
But we haven't been made right with him.
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You don't.
We don't get the peace of Godwithout first having peace with God.
The peace of God is reserved for those
who have come to peace with God.
And we cannot have the peace of God
apart from Christ.
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Ephesians two For he Himself is our.
What peace?
Who has made the two groupsone and has destroyed
the barrier,the dividing wall of hostility.
So the peace with God
before we choose
to change our allegianceto the federal head of Jesus, God
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took the initiativeto destroy the dividing wall between us.
And he said,I am taking the initiative to invite you
over through Christ on the crossto destroy the dividing wall.
Now there is nodivide. You can come to me,
but until you come to me through Jesus,
you will never have peace with me.
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It's not that we have somesome charge against God,
but God in his righteousness
has a charge against lawbreakers,
and through faith, by graceand Jesus work on the cross,
he's taken the charge againstour lawbreaking and put it on Jesus.
So now, through faith,
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by his grace, I can have peace with God.
He's at peace with me.
And because I can have peace with God now,
I can experiencethe peace of God to understand.
And so many people
have desired the peace of God
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and are clueless
about how to be have peace with God.
And that only comes through faithin Jesus.
By God's grace.
If you want the peace of God,
you must first be made right with God
through faith in Jesus.
Then there's a promise of peace of God.
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You follow.
All right. Yes.
All right.
So that's the first benefit. Peacewith God.
The second benefit is this
access into God's grace in which we stand.
This is what the first two verses say.
Through faith we have access into God'sgrace in which we now stand.
Now, this this one actually blows me away.
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The idea that I can have access to Godand the grace of God.
Grace is the undeservedand unmerited favor and blessing of God.
The fact that we have accessinto that grace
by faith it through faith is amazing.
Now, when Paul says,we have access now through faith in Jesus,
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that word access necessitatesan invitation.
You and I cannot go to
the father,have access to the father on our own.
We have to be invited into that,and we're invited into the access
to accessing God's grace through Jesus.
So through Christ, faith in Christ,I've been invited into the grace of God.
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And Paul says that gracethat undeserved merited favor.
And but I stand in that
through Jesus.
Please understand this
if you've accepted Jesus as your Savior,you've come to the father
through faith in the son.
Because of his grace, you now stand.
You stand in the very favorof Almighty God.
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You don't have to earn it.
You've been invited.
You now stand in that.
And here's what's amazing about it.
That verb stand in Greek is a
is in the perfect tense,which means it's a continuing action.
You perpetually stand in the favor of God.
You don't go in and go out.
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God, I was good, so I get your favorand blessing, but now it's bad.
So I go out and now I'm going to be good.
So I go back inand now I was bachelor. Goodbye.
You don't bounce in and out.
You perpetually stand in the favorof God through faith in Jesus,
because God's grace is so profound,not because our behavior is so good.
Thank you. Understand this.
This is for this part of the benefit ofjust being made right with God
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through faith.
See, grace
isn't just the way we come to salvation.
Grace is our present.
Stand the continuing present,standing before God.
It's the beginning of the Christian life,and it's the sustaining
of the Christian life. Grace,
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not behavior, not performance.
See, a lot of people think they beginto follow Jesus by grace
and then move to living by performance.
Well, I accepted Jesus alone,
but now I gotta really watch myself. Now.
And I feel like, man,sometimes I'm really good
and God is good to meand sometimes I'm not real good.
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And you know,God's got a right to be upset.
And the moment we make that transition,
as if we come to God by grace
and then we have to live by performance.
The Bible says in Galatiansfive that we've fallen from grace.
That's a scary place to be.
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Grace means.
That God's attitude toward
the Christ follower, the believer,the one who is made right with God
through faith, goes by gracemeans that God's attitude
towards me is favor because he sees me
through the eyes of joy.
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Have you ever have you ever been
have someone in your lifewhose eyes lit up when they saw you?
Yeah, well,
how about a dog?
Okay, so some of you are like, no,
no, I mean, I married them, but now,
you know, it's like, think about a dog.
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You know, like when you,
when a dog was just like, oh,
always. I didn't.
Right.
That's the attitude that God looks atthe eyes of God looks at you with
because of being right with themthrough faith,
by God's grace, he looks at you like, oh.
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Like I'm convinced.
I mean, God looks at me like, oh, girl.
That's grace.
It's this perpetual standing
that I stand before Almighty God,and he knows everything about me.
And yet he's still looks at me.
He's like, oh, Carl.
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Yes. Can you imagine?
Yes. It's awesome.
Oh it's incredible.
Just so many people think, you know,like, well, yeah, he, you know, he,
you know, he saved me.
But I'm still kind of the,you know, the red headed, you know, in.
I'm sorry.
I'm sorry. I should do likewise.
I didn't meanthink of the redheads out there.
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You know, you're all loved and beautifuland all that stuff.
Yeah.
You know, we feel so we're, you know,we're the, you know, the the bald in laws.
And I don't know what to say,you know what I'm saying?
Like,you know, I'm offended at myself. I just,
you know, like like we're second
and that's not it.
That's not grace, it's religion.
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It's not grace.
See, we would all we've said.
No, no, I believe God loves me
because it kind of has to, you know,I mean, the Bible says he's love
and he's got to let me inbecause I'm leaving a son.
And. Yeah,
but sometimes you feel likeyou didn't like us.
Grace means God didn't.
He doesn't just love me. He likes me.
Yeah, yeah,grace means he doesn't just love you.
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He likes you.
And so when he looks at you,it's like, oh, yeah.
Yeah.
Man, I like you.
Can you imaginehaving that type of relationship
with Almighty God?
You do?
Yeah.
The problem is,most people haven't realized it yet.
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That's grace.
It's one of the benefits
of moving from the federal head of Adamto the federal head of Jesus.
We're invited into this grace,
invited into the faith
to stand firm in the favor
of God, who to stand there
with the twinkling eyes of God,looking at us like,
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not because of what we've done,
but simply through faith.
Father, I believe in your son.
And he goes.
Man, I like you.
You know,
to understand.
This is the invitation. No.
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To stand in the grace of God
means I don't have to prove anymorethat I'm worthy of God's love.
To stand in the grace of Godmeans the door of access to God
is permanently open.
To stand in the grace of God
means I am free from tryingto keep a score sheet with God.
To prove that I'm good.
To stand in the grace of Godmeans I spend more time praising
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God for who he is than hating myselfand hating my past.
To stand in the grace of God meansI refuse to make resolutions and vows.
Don't let any teacher ever manipulate youinto trying to prove how much you love
God, by making commitmentsthat you already know you can't keep.
You stand in the favor of Godby his grace, not by your vows
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and not by your commitmentsand not by your devotion.
When I stand in the presencein the grace of God,
I expect his blessings, thoughI know I don't deserve his blessings.
That's grace.
When I stand in the grace of God,I testify to the goodness
of God at all times.
And when I stand in the grace of God,
I stand in the certaintyof God's future favor.
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Oh that's grace.
Oh don't the benefits
of being made right with God sound toogood to be true.
Yeah.
Oh yeah.
Mr. reality
the first benefit I have peace with God.
The second I stand in the favor of Goddoing the third benefit.
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Yeah, yeah.
It's not going to seem so fun.
But not only so,
but we also glory in our sufferings. We.
I heard some of you I saw on your fifth.
Go back to the other two.
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We glory in our sufferings because.
Because we know that suffering producesperseverance, perseverance, character
and character.
Hope.
Here's here's the truth, man.
The third benefit.
Is that we can glory in suffering.
Let me tell you why.
When Paul uses that word suffering, he'snot talking about minor inconveniences.
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You go to Sam's Club on a Saturdayafternoon.
That's a minor inconvenience.There's no place to party.
They put the damn gas station in there.
And now you got to walkfrom Chuck-E-Cheese all the way over.
That's not what he's talking about.
He's talking about real pain.
Yeah, real suffering,
real trials, troubles and tribulations.
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And he said,you can glory in those times. Why?
Because suffering produces perseverance.
Perseverance produces character.
Character produces hope.
And we're never disappointed by hope.
Hope is the certainty of God's
continued and future activity.
And when we're going through thesedifferent, really difficult times,
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we need the certainty of God'scontinued and future activity, right?
Right, right.
That'll never disappoint.
Here's the truth everybody.
Experience is suffering.
Whether you're underthe federal head of Adam
or the federal head of Jesus,we all experience suffering.
However,
those who are
justified experience benefit through it.
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Those from the central heard of Adamjust suffer.
You understand?
Spurgeon, one of the greatest preacherswho's ever graced
this planet, he said thatjust is just part of his quote.
He said the Christianshould be willing to be tried.
Do you want to be carriedto heaven on a featherbed?
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Some of us be like, yeah,
actually, that's I mean, that's that'skind of why I did the whole Jesus thing.
So, you know, are you kidding me?
But think about a man.
Not not the Christ follower.
Not the disciple.
I should say mean, don't you?
In the part of you that just wants.
You know what I want.
I will slide into heavenwith my hair on fire.
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Like you know.
And I realize we don't pray for testing.
But if we want to develop character,
if we want to be people of hopethat lasts.
This is the golden chainof the Christian's growth and maturity
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through suffering.
Yeah. See,
we can glory in suffering
because it develops perseverance.
Literally.That word is patience develops patience.
Because when I'm in suffering,when I'm willing to wait,
because I know that God'sworking through it,
I can be patient.
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And when I'm willing to waitbecause I know God's
working through, I'm patient in it.
It develops my character.
The literal word for characteris experience.
It develops your experience.
Perseverance produces experiencethat's been tried through suffering.
So when I go into suffering
and I said, God, I know you'reworking in this, I'm going to be patient.
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You experience
the fact that God is working in it
and developing a Christ like character
so that that experi ence of waitingthrough suffering produces hope
because God proves himself time and time
and time and time again
to understand.
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Yeah, I'm
now let me just,
This is so important.
Not just for us,but it's really important for parents.
And I don't care if you're a parent.
I don't care how old your kids are.
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We would all say that.
Not just us, but we want for our kids
to grow up
with great character, right?
Right.
And to be people of hope
that whatever they grow through,they're not going to get beat
right.
Like what they go throughis not going to crush them.
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We don't want that.
We have to be very careful,
especially with our kids,
that when they go through difficulty,
trials, troubles and pains,
we don't just want to rescue themout of it,
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but we disciple them through it.
There's a vast and profound difference.
Parents, please pray over your kidsevery day.
Father, I ask for your mercyand grace over my kids.
Put a hedge around them,a fortress about them.
It's all biblical.
Protect them from the evil onewho only seeks to steal, kill,
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and destroy their presentand their future.
I pray your watch over them,your mercy and grace on them.
Pray all of that.
But when they're going through it.
Discipled them through it.
Don't just try to rescue them out of it.
Because that's the only waythey will grow up
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to be people of characterand have godly hope.
When parents
rescue their kids out of difficulty,
we stunt and destroy their discipleship
and ruin their character.
Do you understand?
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I get it, it's so hard
as a daddy, as a mama, you're like,you know her?
But we've got to get to the point saying,
sweetie, listen, I know this is hard,and I know you're hurting and I love you.
And I'm going to suffer with you in this,
and we're going to work together.
Let's remember who God is.
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Let's remember togetherwhat he's done in the past.
Let's remember how he has moved.
Let's remember.
Remember what the Bible says,that somehow God's working in this.
Remember what Scripture tells usthat even Jesus went through difficulty.
Remember what Scripture saysthat that were never outside of his hand.
He doesn't sleep or slumber.
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He knows what's going on and he will be.
Here's the thing it's okay for your kidsnot to be happy
so that they'llfind their joy in the Lord.
It's okay for our kids to be sad
so they'll find their sustenancein Christ.
It's okay for our kids
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to be alone, so they'll learn to draw
on the presence of Christ.
Discipled them through it.
Don't rob them of that character
that God is trying to build in him.
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Okay.
I don't want emails and texts
about that at all,so just keep it to yourself.
All right?
Let me finish this up here.
Verse five.
And hope does not put us to shame,because God's love has been poured out
into our hearts through the Holy Spiritwho has been given to you.
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Please understand.
We gain the hope of God
through the Holy Spiritthat God has given to us.
The moment we accept Jesus as our Savior.
The result of all this is hope.
The Holy Spirit has been given to everyperson who receives Jesus as their Savior.
The Bible says, first Corinthians1213. Galatians three two.
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Galatians four six
that the moment you come to faith,the Holy Spirit has been implanted in you.
God has entered your lifethrough the Holy Spirit,
and then we're given the permissionin Luke 1113
to request the Holy Spirit come upon.
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I, I did this on the first service,just on a kind of a spur.
I didn't know how I was going to do it.
The service.
But Jesus has told us he,
the Scripture has told us.
That if we fatherswho are evil know how to give good gifts,
how much more doesthe Heavenly Father know how to give good,
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good gifts to those who ask, especiallythe Holy Spirit, to those who seek
so God will get.
If you've been made right with Godthrough faith.
The Holy Spirit's been placed in you,and the result of that
is eternal life.
But we've been toldwe can ask the father to
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put the spirit on us, not just within us.
And all I have to do is ask,
and the proof that the Holy Spirit is in
you and uponyou is not some crazy language.
And cackling like a chicken.
It's love, joy, peace, patience,
kindness, goodness,faithfulness, gentleness, self-control
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and hope.
Many of us have trusted God
for salvation and the Holy Spirit liveswithin the scriptures.
Scripture is clear about that.
Few of us have said, father,
true Holy Spirit, come upon.
And we've been promisedby the father that that will happen.
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Yeah.
And so I'm going to give you the chance.
Did youmaybe you've never done this before,
but to ask that the father placesHis Holy Spirit upon you
and that you're filled with the spirit?
Ephesians 518 says,be continually filled with the spirit.
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And there are some times in our livesmeant we just need
the presence of the Holy Spirit,
especially for hope.
And so if you have a relationshipwith Jesus, I'm
gonna invite you in this moment of prayerright now.
I'm not done preaching yet,
but I want to stopand give you the opportunity to do what
Scripture has said and invite the spiritupon your life.
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Pray with me, father.
Thank you that you have promised us
and given us the indwellingof the Holy Spirit and promised the Holy
Spirit upon us.
Father, I know that you're
that the fruit of your spirit,the proof of your spirit is love,
joy, peace, patience, kindness,goodness, faithfulness, gentleness,
self-control, and hope.
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So, father,
hear these hearts, these who are yours,
who ask you for the presenceof the Holy Spirit
in and upon their lives.
Do what you saidyou would do in Your Word. You.
You've tied your action to your word,and you've said you would do it.
And so here are these hearts.
I would just encourage you in this moment.
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Any of you who have a relationshipwith Jesus.
To say, father, give me your Holy Spirit.
I want your Holy Spirit to come upon me.
Fill me with Your Holy Spirit.
Let me experience the fullnessof the Spirit's presence in my life
the fullness of love,
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joy, peace, patience, kindness,goodness, faithfulness, and self-control.
The fullness of hope.
Don't say, father,I receive that right now.
Your spirit in me, your spirit upon me.
Father, thank youthat you're faithful to your word.
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In your name I pray, Amen. Amen.
I hope
because of the spirit God has given you.
Let me go through these last few verses.
You see, at just the right time,when we were still powerless,
Christ died for the ungodly.
Very rarelywould anyone die for a righteous person,
though for a good person,someone might possibly dare to die.
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But God demonstrateshis own love for us in this.
I love this verse while we're stillsinners, Christ died for us.
If God did all of this for uswhile we were denying him,
he set all this in actionbefore we ever turned him,
if he would be this good to us.
Said all this in action before we turn,
how much better do you think he'llbe after we have turned?
You understand?
I'm saying
the riches of heaven.
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Since we have nowbeen justified by his blood,
how much more shall we besaved from God's wrath through him?
For if while we were God's enemies,we were reconciled to him
through the death of his son,how much more have him been reconciled?
Shall we be saved through his life?
Not only is this so,but we also boast in God through our Lord
Jesus Christ, throughwhom we have now received reconciliation.
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It is all. Jesus has done it.
And if God loved us so muchand did so much for us
before we ever turned to him,how much more?
Now that we have turned,
can we have comfort that we standin the grace and favor of God?
He's so good
and he's been so good.
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Now here's
the biggest deal of this whole thing.
The law was brought in so that trespassmight increase, but here it is.
But where sin increased, grace.
Grace increased all the more
so that just as sin reigned in death,so also grace might reign
through the righteousness to bring eternallife through Jesus Christ our Lord.
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Here's what this means
God makes the rules
and God provides the solution.
God gave the law
so we would know what great law breakerswe are
here.
Here's the ideaif there's no speed limit posted
and I drive 80 miles an hourin a residential zone,
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I still breaking the law.
I just don't know it.
But once the sign the 30 milesan hour is posted and I drive 80.
Now I know I'm a law breaker. You follow?
So what Paul is saying here is this
the only reason God gave us the law
is not so that we would break itand become a law breaker.
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He gave us the law to prove to uswe are already law breakers,
because death happened before the law
was ever given, provingthat everybody lives in sin.
You understand?
Now, he gave us the law provingthat we're law breakers.
Now, I know,
okay, but the big thing ofthis whole deal is verse
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20, where sin increased,what grace increased, all the more.
See, here's what we think.
If I'm really, really bad,God gets really, really angry.
And if I'm not so bad, God isn't as angry.
And if I'm really good, maybe God blesses.
We would think that when my sin increases,so does God's anger.
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That's not what the Bible says.
The Bible says,because I've been justified through what
Jesus did, and I have this perpetualstanding of favor before God
when my sin increases,guess what his grace increases.
It's amazing.
Grace.
The truth is thisthat grace is greater than you.
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Fill the bank in.
I stand
in the perpetual,the perpetual standing in God's favor,
that even when my sin increases,he looks at me like,
oh, cool.
Wow. Because his grace is more.
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The fact is this that
I cannot allow sin, God's grace,
and neither can you.
When we've been justified through faithby God's grace,
we have this perpetualstanding in the favor
of God.
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Indicates that vindicated
and liberated. Him.
Grace is a thing that gives us something.
And grace is the thingthat takes us somewhere
into the favor of God.
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So in wrap back to the federal head.
We've been bornunder the federal head of Adam
and are separated from God's special
favor and grace, and bear wrath for sin.
But through
faith, bygrace, we can live under the federal head
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of Jesus and stand by faith
through faith in the favorof Almighty God.
And so here's the question.
Have you moved
from Adam to Jesus?
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If you haven't, do you
not realize the benefits of doing so?
And the peril of not.
And I want to invite you into that.
And beginningto live under the reign of grace.
And you prove me.
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God, you are a good God. The.
And you have been all good to us. You.
And there are some
this morning who are ready to move
from the headship of Adamto the headship of Jesus.
Thank you for hearing their prayers,
friends.
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I would invite you in this moment.
If you've never done that, to do that now,
in simplicityof faith and the faith of a child
simply between you and God, say, God,I agree with you.
I am a trespasser.
I broken your rule.
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And I repent of it.
Oh, yeah.
Yeah,
I accept the work
Jesus that you did on the cross
for my forgiveness.
And I accept you into my life.
And I choose you as my forgiver
and my leader. Oh.
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Simple faith.
Those of you who have prayed that.
Welcome to the family.
God now looks at you
as you stand before himwith excited, joyful eyes.
And he doesn't just love you,he likes you.
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Welcome.
For some of you, you've prayed that prayer
and you've livedstill as if you have to earn God's smile.
Yeah,
and I want to invite you into God's grace.
And for you, I would encourageyou just to say something like this.
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Father,thank you that you don't just love me.
You like me.
And thank you that I don't have to try
to be good enough to make you smile.
I trust you by faith.
And I receive all that your grace offers.
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I thank you
that I can forever stand in your presence
with your favor
and with your smile.
Help me live in that liberation
and with that hope and joy. Oh!
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Father, you are a good God,
and you've been so good to usthrough your son. So,
God, I pray that the truth of your wordwould resonate in us,
that you would protect itfor being stolen from our hearts,
that we would feed.
Father, I pray
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that NSU would raise up a people.
Who live under the reign of grace
through faith in your son.
By your grace,
in your name I pray. Amen.
Amen.
It's an I love you.
Thank you for going through Romansfive with us.
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Here's here'stake this week and read Romans five again.
And then read Romans sixand get ready for next week.
Be good.
Listen, some of you made some commitments.
Some of you made commitments.
And here's my ask.
I did in the firstI forgot to do it this year.
So I was going to ask you to raise upyour hand for these commitments.
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You're amazing. I forgot that to do that.
And so here's, here's, here's my askif you made some commitment,
I want to make sure that we'repraying with you and for you specifically.
And so David is right over there.I'm right here.
Sarah is there, too.
Jeff is here like,we're around here, John, or right down
here, like, would you come and say, hey,I prayed one of those prayers
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and just let us praywith you and confirm that,
like, don't be afraid of that.
You stand with the favorand smile of God on your life.
You got nothing to be afraid of.
You understand what I'm saying?
Yeah. Let's sing.
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