The Sermon Life On God's Terms by David McGee
Sep 23, 2012
Life On God's Terms (34:18)
Referenced Scriptures: Romans 8:1-17; Romans 7:21-23
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Romans 8:1-17
1) There is therefore now no condemnation to those who are in Christ Jesus, who don‘t walk according to the flesh, but according to the Spirit.
2) For the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus made me free from the law of sin and of death.
3) For what the law couldn‘t do, in that it was weak through the flesh, God, sending his own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh and for sin, condemned sin in the flesh;
4) that the ordinance of the law might be fulfilled in us, who walk not after the flesh, but after the Spirit.
5) For those who are after the flesh set their minds on the things of the flesh, but those who are after the Spirit the things of the Spirit.
6) For the mind of the flesh is death, but the mind of the Spirit is life and peace;
7) because the mind of the flesh is hostile towards God; for it is not subject to God‘s law, neither indeed can it be.
8) Those who are in the flesh can‘t please God.
9) But you are not in the flesh but in the Spirit, if it is so that the Spirit of God dwells in you. But if any man doesn‘t have the Spirit of Christ, he is not his.
10) If Christ is in you, the body is dead because of sin, but the spirit is alive because of righteousness.
11) But if the Spirit of him who raised up Jesus from the dead dwells in you, he who raised up Christ Jesus from the dead will also give life to your mortal bodies through his Spirit who dwells in you.
12) So then, brothers, we are debtors, not to the flesh, to live after the flesh.
13) For if you live after the flesh, you must die; but if by the Spirit you put to death the deeds of the body, you will live.
14) For as many as are led by the Spirit of God, these are children of God.
15) For you didn‘t receive the spirit of bondage again to fear, but you received the spirit of adoption, whereby we cry, "Abba! Father!"
16) The Spirit himself testifies with our spirit that we are children of God;
17) and if children, then heirs; heirs of God, and joint-heirs with Christ; if indeed we suffer with him, that we may also be glorified with him.
Romans 7:21-23
21) I find then the law, that, to me, while I desire to do good, evil is present.
22) For I delight in God‘s law after the inward man,
23) but I see a different law in my members, warring against the law of my mind, and bringing me into captivity under the law of sin which is in my members.
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As messages life on God 's terms life on God 's term terms and were looking at Romans chapter eight, verses one through seventeen. Romans chapter eight, verses one through seventeen of the reading from the message Bible with the arrival of Jesus the Messiah that fateful dilemma is resolved in order to read a little later. What a faithful Muslim faithful dilemma is, but also enter into Christ being here for us no longer have to live under the continuous low-lying black file under power is in operation, the Spirit of life in Christ like a strong wind has magnificently cleared the air, freeing you from a faith it lifetime of brutal irony at the hands of sin and death, God went for the jugular when he sent his own son. He didn't deal with the problem as something remote and unimportant. In his son Jesus, he personally took on the human condition, entered the disordered mess of struggling humanity in order to set it right once and for all the law code, weakened as it was by fractured human nature, could never done that. The law always ended up being used as a Band-Aid on sin instead of a deep healing of it. And now let the law code asked for more. Now what the law code asked for but we couldn't deliver is accomplished as we instead of redoubling our own efforts, simply embrace what the Spirit is doing in us. Those who think they can do it on their own end up obsessed with measuring their own moral muscle but never get around to exercising it in real life. Those who trust God 's action in them find that God 's Spirit is in them, living and breathing God Obsession with self in these matters is a daddy and attention to God leads us out into the open, into a spacious, free life, focusing on the self is the opposite of focusing on God. Anyone completely absorbed in self ignores God into thinking more about self than God. That person ignores who God is and what he is doing, and God isn't pleased at being ignored. But if God himself has taken up residence in your life, you can hardly be thinking more of yourself than of him. Anyone, of course, it has not welcomed this invisible but certainly present God, the Spirit of Christ, won't know what were talking about buffer year. The welcome him in whom he dwells even though you still experience all the limitations of sin, your personal experience life on God 's terms. It stands to reason, doesn't it, that if the alive and present God, who raised Jesus from the dead moves into your life. You'll do the same thing in you that he didn't Jesus bringing you alive to himself. When God lives and breathes and you and he does as surely as he did Jesus you are delivered from the deck from that dead life with this spirit living in you, your body will be as alive as Christ so that you see that we don't hold this all do-it-yourself life, one red cent. There's nothing in it for us. Nothing at all. The best thing to do is give it a decent burial and get on with your new life God 's spirit back in. There are things to do and places to go this resurrection life you received from God is not a timid, grave tending life is adventurously expectant, greeting God with childlike. What's next, Papa Jackson calls me, what next, God 's Spirit touches our spirits and confirms who we really are. We know who he is and we know who we are father and child is the father and children. And we know we are going to get what's coming to us on unbelievable inheritance we go through exactly what Christ goes through. If we go through the hard times with him, and were certainly going to go through the good times with him is that exciting. So as we read these passages only read the Scriptures we find out that God is at work doing a new thing. God is trying to get us to see things in a more complete manner may have noticed in the last few weeks I've been out of taking sections of Scripture, and just speaking about them as kind of like a textual sermon based upon what the Scriptures saying and putting it in in the context of what Howell was written and things like that saw been focusing on that for a while. No, after sometimes you you you you write sermons on topics and new. You find topics and then you have topic syntax and how they fit together and you build a message around the text while in the last few weeks or so I've been kind of looking at sections of Scripture and kind of going through them. Verse by verse, and that's what were going to do today. But as we look at this and and there's a couple things we see in this in this all does many things that we see in the section, but that they idea of life on God 's terms. Then you notice in the newspaper yesterday. Yesterday morning on the back page there was a lady who had found her family in up to see that a lady was looking for her birth family and there's a whole article written on hers. Her research and her desire to find her family and so much of what we are so much of who we are as individuals is taken for granted in the old adage that nothing is missed. ~ John is very true. Sometimes we have the idea that we're doing it can't be that important. If we have it, it can't be that valuable, but that's not true. There are so many things and so many good things involved in our life that we sometimes taken for granted. We sometimes don't see the value. We have with what we possess the value of even of even sitting and hearing the word is of God rent read to us and how that that the Spirit of God can take the simple passages that we've heard seemingly weekend and week out in the Sunday school lessons and in the Bible readings that you have. We look at these days was we don't realize the impact it has upon us and upon our families. It has a great impact. Whether we know it or not it has a great impact, and it's important that we see the value that is here and in the word of God, and in being here and singing in and doing the whole heart of what we do is without because God never wants us to doubt his relationship was think God never wants us to doubt his relationship to us know in the newspaper. The ladies had to go and find her family while we have here that God never wants us to doubt who will belong to who our family is where our family is going and where our relationship is going with him. Now in chapter seven versus twenty one twenty three this is these are the verses that precede never whatever starts off with an end with the arrival is cyan faithful dilemma is resolved. So what is the faithful dilemma. The faithful dilemma is in verse twenty one, it says it happened so regularly that it's predictable. The moment I decide to do good sin is there to trip me up. Though the times. All all when Paul is writing to the church at Rome is not that much different than us know what times we tried to do good on me. I may make New Year's resolutions, and never make it out of January and never make it to the first week now. So when we look at this install a times we decide to do good, but we always get tripped up. So this is the problem soon as their trip us up. I truly delight in God 's commands. Paul is telling us, but it's pretty obvious that not all of me joins in with that life those parts of me covertly covertly rebelling as a culvert rabble. There's something a part of something that's part of me that just kind of sabotages the whole thing. Verse twenty four. I've tried everything and nothing helped. I'm at the end of my rope and is there any info. No one who can do anything for me. Isn't that the real question. The answer. Thank God, is that Jesus Christ can and does so Jesus Christ can and spend into our life to help us deal with those covert operations in our own snarled life beds that you conduct ripping us off and are in our spiritual life, not in our attempts to do good. He acted to set things right in this life book on contradictions when I want to serve God with all my heart, mind, but I'm pooled by the influences of sin to do something totally different. So that fateful dilemma of wanting to do the right thing and not getting it done. That dilemma has been resolved. While life on God 's terms. You know, wanting to do right pool to the doing some things that are not quite right, so that covertly rebel inside of us that covertly thinking that goes on to try to get us to fall in trip something needs to happen so in this life of contradictions. No wanting to do good and not being fooled by the influences something has to happen. We have to kind of fullback and see life on God 's terms. We studied about this insight is the lesson got wrote a contract. There was an oil contract. The new contract would call the Old Testament, New Testament, and we are right in the middle of the new contract, we are right in the middle of this new agreement, the God is written. This new agreement that God has written as purpose for us in this life. Now, and rewards for us in the life to come. Haven't you. Chapter eight versus one to with the arrival of Jesus the Messiah, the faithful dilemma is resolved. This contradiction that goes on inside of us. This conflict between right and wrong. The desire to do good and not doing it bit and Paula sang its resolve. There is a solution, also enter into Christ being here for us. No longer have to live under continuous low-lying blacktop there is now, therefore, no condemnation to those who live in Christ Jesus walk not after the flesh, but after the spirit. No condemning nature. It means Christ has forgiven us of our sin there is no continuous ongoing condemnation. There is no low-lying black cloud that says you're not good enough. There is no line black file that says dark cloud that says you can't make it, you can't do it. You're not good, you don't have a talent you don't have the that isn't the nature of God, and that is not who we are in Christ, that's all gone. How did it happen until power is an operation there is no power in operation and the Spirit of Christ, and I like this picture says were no longer under a low lying black cloud, the Spirit of life in Christ like a strong wind has magnificently cleared the air blown out the black cloud. The dark file. The storm cloud of doubt has been blown away by Christ, freeing you from a vacant lifetime of brutal tyrant. He states that lifetime fainted. It's just a that you live under this circumstance, if they know we don't believe in fate. We believe in choice. We believe in the will of God. The purpose of God, and there there is a will that God wants us to follow and in his wording here in the middle of this new agreement is the word made flesh and dwelt among us, Jesus Christ is alive inside of us and he is freeing us from a fated lifetime of tyranny at the hands of sin and death. We no longer live under the tyranny of sin. We no longer live under the tyranny of death, fear of death and dying, no long for all life within us, we have life in Christ, and we have it now and we haven't for eternity, not based upon who we are gone. Christ is, were no longer live under this new powers in operation, there is a new power in town, resident gunfighter in town. In addition, the method there is no power in town, and it is Jesus Christ. And you know what lies always ride the back of truth, error always rides the back truth now, how does guilt and condemnation work. It works by telling us an element of truth, the accuser, the accusations may be true, you did fail, you did say you did make a mistake you have done wrong, see, that's all true. That's the low-lying dark cloud to store, but what happens twice the strong wind blows it out. It says that the attributes users. The accuser and the accusations are thrown out the enemy of our soul, the enemy of our life has been defeated by Christ. So you see, we no longer live under what we did, because those things are forgiven those things are brought Paul wrote to the church of Rome, telling him the same thing that we need to hear. We no longer live under a condemning low clouds, guilt and manipulation, it's gone. The Spirit of life in Christ, like a strong wind has magnificent please, I like that word is only clear the air free from sin, free from sin. If guilt is condemnation. This effort if the facts have been provided a method to do that very well could you did brush your teeth right click right you have grappled in a not too windy today entrée were called itself one two three five- blown away. It. Now drop the gun lived with government people back where you these is love, not that John yet young enough to understanding a strong when will I I I personally gone for the jugular when we know the jugular vein to mean the main artery. He nearly got your jugular chances of survival are slim to none. So God went for the jugular when he sent his son. He didn't get what the problem as something remote and unimportant. God instead of having somewhere to go way to do something about them people down there now. He became personally involved why he said his son. He, God came to be with us, he personally took on the human condition, even if no sin became sin for us, they became became birth of Christ Virgin conceived and bare a son his name shall be called the manual, God with us. God became a loss so we could become like because death, hell and the grave. He defeated the sin eater free that the things that were covertly attack and twist off and in college or alive causes to stumble and fall be entered into the disordered mess of struggling humanity for what reason to set it right once and for all. God came to set it right, make it right once and for all you see the law failed to do this, the law, the ten Commandments weekend as a wife by a fractured human nature. I like that word fractured. Not that I want a fractured bone broken bone. But we have a fractured human nature and and I don't look at fracture. There's like a you take a clay pot. We thrown on the ground and bustle a lot. I look at it younger than the Liberty Bell has a has a crack in it. I is busted. If the fracture. There's a break in the breaking human nature is that we were created to walk with God and be one with him, but soon came and broke the human nature crime fractured it and broke it so that is not connected and God came to what toy back together again. He came to heal the human nature saw that the covert operations of sin would not continue to work in the lives of individuals and they would be healed to the point where God 's nature could limit not easy. The law couldn't do it. Law doesn't change heart law changes actions governs actions but blog doesn't change the hi, God sent his son in the likeness of wife like us so that we could become one with him and he would not, and feel that fractured nature. The law always ends up being a mandate it out. They can slaughter the bell, but it will never ever have the quality of sound. It had before the fracture but when God comes in. He feels the fracture to the point that we can become exactly what God intended for us to be, and his spirit comes in and blows away that influential. That's simple things that will destroy us. He has come to want to take it out to to get it out, take it out. Government take it out, you know is going to get rid of it, remove it from our life, whereas the law can only govern what we do, God has come to with to heal the brokenness. The fracture of our soul and give us hope so that we can be the original quality person than he intended us to be first five also think they can do it on their own end up obsessed with measuring their own moral muscle in your people talk about it on a night. I member five hundred and church all my life. I hear many stories about people putting together a former righteousness. The ideas that do not address a certain way you act a certain way to do certain things very from the church& that's not what I'm saying is other people. I member and longtime ago by an individual, met some of the youth of his church and met them at the door and told me to hold if they didn't get dressed up, they couldn't come to church the always one that when people set certain standards that they themselves than that person himself was arrested for receiving to Social Security Jackson, Linda and and not robbing the government. So there is an individual greeting someone at the door, telling them they couldn't come to his church, that his church address the way they were and he himself was arrested because he was taking, receiving to so security check. You take. They do, and any NSS with more with measuring their own moral muscle never get around to exercising it in real life. They have a form of understanding what God is about, but they really don't get it. It seems we often are tripped up by those types of individuals never be tripped up by a person like that if they had to make it on their own their own moral muscle but they get, but what they are trying to do never really trends transfers to the real-life situation of being able to be more than a conqueror in Christ, and that person fail miserably, but they were trying to put people in a in a box doesn't work if that uses starting Sunday night I was in this morning, Sunday school and did it again. There was individual who had a very little understanding of God and of church and of the Scriptures. And they were facing a very life crises in their life and they are trying to exercise their own moral muscle fly trying to find God in trying to find a solution to what they are known for their problems. Okay, in a presentation at me and told me about their belief in God, and they were not interested in how and what I felt that resident telling me what they had found out and they told me in this is true story they told me that a praying mantis had somehow gotten into their house and had prayed for them, and now everything was that be okay with a praying mantis and you know they had no of my knowledge, no experience with church God Bible scriptures to see how fortunate you are but in a crises of time not to be looking for a bug that you search for God is not going to be a thing of sandstorm accomplishments or of moral muscle or of not doing or doing certain religious rituals in order to find God, and have God come through for you. So here's a person in the crisis of the life was looking for something that was going to throw to them that God was around and it was so it was finding a praying mantis in the house and thinking that this bug could pray for them and everything is all right in the life to see how far ahead of that type of thinking you are why because you're here. You've heard the Scriptures, the Spirit of God has read the license you and you know that that type of bug isn't going to isn't going to make a big difference in your life but that person captured it, put in a box and took pictures of them and set it free because they pray for their family and now is all going to be okay. She felt to try got actions in them find that God 's Spirit is in them, living and breathing God, the living, breathing God is in you, he is alive and you he has a purpose and you and attention to God leads us out of the open, into a spacious life in a free live in a great line, you know, but God is lobbing his peers, forgiveness, and his word are alive in us and all that condemnation guilt of our past is blown away by the Spirit of God. Those who trust in God 's actions find themselves in the place where God 's Spirit is living and breathing and conspirators living and breathing in them but. Verse nine but if God himself was taken up residence in your life, you can hardly be thinking more of yourself than of him. There's more to this life than just me and my problems. There's more to this life just me and my blessings. Anyone, of course, who has not welcomed the invisible but clearly present God 's Spirit of Christ, won't know what were talking about, but for you who welcome him in whom he dwells even though you still experience the limitations of life. You yourself experience life on God 's terms. He has a way working in our life stands to reason that if the ally and present God, who raised Jesus from the dead moves into your life. You'll do the same thing in you that he did in Jesus bringing you will live to himself. We have a life that is alive in Christ, and it goes on when God lives of breeze in you. You are delivered from life the dead life is the life that was missing under the condemnation of guilt. You see, there is true. We have said we have all done wrong. But the reality of the life-giving spirit. If we ask for forgiveness. God forgives us we have a new life in Christ, and the breath of God 's reign as well that stuff right out of our life and we have a new life in Christ. It is the living Christ is the living spirit is alive in us and we are delivered from the dead, you and I you and I all who are in Christ will live forever. Why is spirit is living in you, your body would be as alive as Christ's Nima polygamy will never know what version of the there's a song I heard this is Johnny Cash 's song, anything with giant hydronic at the concerts, movies that but the buddy has a song called dirt and the reason I was attracted to this is underneath the caption for on the YouTube that it talks about how that Paul counted all things, but were done all that he had no of his previous life was done, newer compared to the knowledge of knowing Christ in the song kind of fits writing here so don't you see that we owe this old do-it-yourself life, not one red cent in-flight Empire of dirt. And that's only L the matter what we put together in this life means absolutely nothing without Christ. So don't you see that we don't all this old do-it-yourself life, one red cent. There's nothing in it for us nothing at all. The best thing to do is give it a decent burial and get on with your new life God 's spirit back in. There are things to do and places to go. There is a life to live and is that not under the low cloud of sin and guilt and wrong that we have done one under the forgiveness of what God has accomplished in us and Donald life is gone, the new life is in Christ. This resurrected life verse fifteen this resurrection life you received from God is not a timid, grave tending life. It is an adventurous expectant, greeting God with a childlike. What's next, Papa Watts God. It had a life changing experience God 's Spirit touches our spirit and confirms we are really you and we know we know who he is and we know what we are we. He is our father and me are his child. And we know where we are going to, and we know we are going to get what's coming to us an unbelievable inheritance. We are going to get what's coming to us and unbelievable inheritance because all things pass away sins are gone. Condemnation and guilt are blown out and the life-giving Spirit of God is alive in us. Amen, and sold this empire your is going to go away, but the life we have in Christ is going to go on forever. Amen. So we go through exactly what Christ goes through. If we go through the hard times with him, then were certainly going to go through the good times with him. It is God who has given us why and eternal life, and it's in us now the men shall we stay so you don't have to look for a bug in your house to offer a prayer for you. You don't have to look at your empire of dirt to come through for you. We look to the saving grace of Jesus Christ and how that he has come into our life to deal with the fractured heart fractured life, and to get rid of blow away by his Spirit combination guilt and bring forgiveness and healing to our life we live in the life of God 's presence. Amen. And he is making a difference in us and just think of the truth that you have. You don't have to look for about, we heard the word and is alive in us today. It meant father, forgive us of our sins forgive us. The Lord of that fractured bizarre life, forgive us all Lord and heal the brokenness brings to life the Lord your spirit bring to life. Oh God, your spirit in us breathe in a house rated to last. In Christ's give us hope the Lord, and every time the clouds, may the spirit and the breath of read on us and those clouds disappear for there is no condemnation, no guilt in the things we have done are forgiven and we have a new life in Christ. Amen. Unless youAs messages life on God 's terms life on God 's term terms and were looking at Romans chapter eight, verses one through seventeen. Romans chapter eight, verses one through seventeen of the reading from the message Bible with the arrival of Jesus the Messiah that fateful dilemma is resolved in order to read a little later. What a faithful Muslim faithful dilemma is, but also enter into Christ being here for us no longer have to live under the continuous low-lying black file under power is in operation, the Spirit of life in Christ like a strong wind has magnificently cleared the air, freeing you from a faith it lifetime of brutal irony at the hands of sin and death, God went for the jugular when he sent his own son. He didn't deal with the problem as something remote and unimportant. In his son Jesus, he personally took on the human condition, entered the disordered mess of struggling humanity in order to set it right once and for all the law code, weakened as it was by fractured human nature, could never done that. The law always ended up being used as a Band-Aid on sin instead of a deep healing of it. And now let the law code asked for more. Now what the law code asked for but we couldn't deliver is accomplished as we instead of redoubling our own efforts, simply embrace what the Spirit is doing in us. Those who think they can do it on their own end up obsessed with measuring their own moral muscle but never get around to exercising it in real life. Those who trust God 's action in them find that God 's Spirit is in them, living and breathing God Obsession with self in these matters is a daddy and attention to God leads us out into the open, into a spacious, free life, focusing on the self is the opposite of focusing on God. Anyone completely absorbed in self ignores God into thinking more about self than God. That person ignores who God is and what he is doing, and God isn't pleased at being ignored. But if God himself has taken up residence in your life, you can hardly be thinking more of yourself than of him. Anyone, of course, it has not welcomed this invisible but certainly present God, the Spirit of Christ, won't know what were talking about buffer year. The welcome him in whom he dwells even though you still experience all the limitations of sin, your personal experience life on God 's terms. It stands to reason, doesn't it, that if the alive and present God, who raised Jesus from the dead moves into your life. You'll do the same thing in you that he didn't Jesus bringing you alive to himself. When God lives and breathes and you and he does as surely as he did Jesus you are delivered from the deck from that dead life with this spirit living in you, your body will be as alive as Christ so that you see that we don't hold this all do-it-yourself life, one red cent. There's nothing in it for us. Nothing at all. The best thing to do is give it a decent burial and get on with your new life God 's spirit back in. There are things to do and places to go this resurrection life you received from God is not a timid, grave tending life is adventurously expectant, greeting God with childlike. What's next, Papa Jackson calls me, what next, God 's Spirit touches our spirits and confirms who we really are. We know who he is and we know who we are father and child is the father and children. And we know we are going to get what's coming to us on unbelievable inheritance we go through exactly what Christ goes through. If we go through the hard times with him, and were certainly going to go through the good times with him is that exciting. So as we read these passages only read the Scriptures we find out that God is at work doing a new thing. God is trying to get us to see things in a more complete manner may have noticed in the last few weeks I've been out of taking sections of Scripture, and just speaking about them as kind of like a textual sermon based upon what the Scriptures saying and putting it in in the context of what Howell was written and things like that saw been focusing on that for a while. No, after sometimes you you you you write sermons on topics and new. You find topics and then you have topic syntax and how they fit together and you build a message around the text while in the last few weeks or so I've been kind of looking at sections of Scripture and kind of going through them. Verse by verse, and that's what were going to do today. But as we look at this and and there's a couple things we see in this in this all does many things that we see in the section, but that they idea of life on God 's terms. Then you notice in the newspaper yesterday. Yesterday morning on the back page there was a lady who had found her family in up to see that a lady was looking for her birth family and there's a whole article written on hers. Her research and her desire to find her family and so much of what we are so much of who we are as individuals is taken for granted in the old adage that nothing is missed. ~ John is very true. Sometimes we have the idea that we're doing it can't be that important. If we have it, it can't be that valuable, but that's not true. There are so many things and so many good things involved in our life that we sometimes taken for granted. We sometimes don't see the value. We have with what we possess the value of even of even sitting and hearing the word is of God rent read to us and how that that the Spirit of God can take the simple passages that we've heard seemingly weekend and week out in the Sunday school lessons and in the Bible readings that you have. We look at these days was we don't realize the impact it has upon us and upon our families. It has a great impact. Whether we know it or not it has a great impact, and it's important that we see the value that is here and in the word of God, and in being here and singing in and doing the whole heart of what we do is without because God never wants us to doubt his relationship was think God never wants us to doubt his relationship to us know in the newspaper. The ladies had to go and find her family while we have here that God never wants us to doubt who will belong to who our family is where our family is going and where our relationship is going with him. Now in chapter seven versus twenty one twenty three this is these are the verses that precede never whatever starts off with an end with the arrival is cyan faithful dilemma is resolved. So what is the faithful dilemma. The faithful dilemma is in verse twenty one, it says it happened so regularly that it's predictable. The moment I decide to do good sin is there to trip me up. Though the times. All all when Paul is writing to the church at Rome is not that much different than us know what times we tried to do good on me. I may make New Year's resolutions, and never make it out of January and never make it to the first week now. So when we look at this install a times we decide to do good, but we always get tripped up. So this is the problem soon as their trip us up. I truly delight in God 's commands. Paul is telling us, but it's pretty obvious that not all of me joins in with that life those parts of me covertly covertly rebelling as a culvert rabble. There's something a part of something that's part of me that just kind of sabotages the whole thing. Verse twenty four. I've tried everything and nothing helped. I'm at the end of my rope and is there any info. No one who can do anything for me. Isn't that the real question. The answer. Thank God, is that Jesus Christ can and does so Jesus Christ can and spend into our life to help us deal with those covert operations in our own snarled life beds that you conduct ripping us off and are in our spiritual life, not in our attempts to do good. He acted to set things right in this life book on contradictions when I want to serve God with all my heart, mind, but I'm pooled by the influences of sin to do something totally different. So that fateful dilemma of wanting to do the right thing and not getting it done. That dilemma has been resolved. While life on God 's terms. You know, wanting to do right pool to the doing some things that are not quite right, so that covertly rebel inside of us that covertly thinking that goes on to try to get us to fall in trip something needs to happen so in this life of contradictions. No wanting to do good and not being fooled by the influences something has to happen. We have to kind of fullback and see life on God 's terms. We studied about this insight is the lesson got wrote a contract. There was an oil contract. The new contract would call the Old Testament, New Testament, and we are right in the middle of the new contract, we are right in the middle of this new agreement, the God is written. This new agreement that God has written as purpose for us in this life. Now, and rewards for us in the life to come. Haven't you. Chapter eight versus one to with the arrival of Jesus the Messiah, the faithful dilemma is resolved. This contradiction that goes on inside of us. This conflict between right and wrong. The desire to do good and not doing it bit and Paula sang its resolve. There is a solution, also enter into Christ being here for us. No longer have to live under continuous low-lying blacktop there is now, therefore, no condemnation to those who live in Christ Jesus walk not after the flesh, but after the spirit. No condemning nature. It means Christ has forgiven us of our sin there is no continuous ongoing condemnation. There is no low-lying black cloud that says you're not good enough. There is no line black file that says dark cloud that says you can't make it, you can't do it. You're not good, you don't have a talent you don't have the that isn't the nature of God, and that is not who we are in Christ, that's all gone. How did it happen until power is an operation there is no power in operation and the Spirit of Christ, and I like this picture says were no longer under a low lying black cloud, the Spirit of life in Christ like a strong wind has magnificently cleared the air blown out the black cloud. The dark file. The storm cloud of doubt has been blown away by Christ, freeing you from a vacant lifetime of brutal tyrant. He states that lifetime fainted. It's just a that you live under this circumstance, if they know we don't believe in fate. We believe in choice. We believe in the will of God. The purpose of God, and there there is a will that God wants us to follow and in his wording here in the middle of this new agreement is the word made flesh and dwelt among us, Jesus Christ is alive inside of us and he is freeing us from a fated lifetime of tyranny at the hands of sin and death. We no longer live under the tyranny of sin. We no longer live under the tyranny of death, fear of death and dying, no long for all life within us, we have life in Christ, and we have it now and we haven't for eternity, not based upon who we are gone. Christ is, were no longer live under this new powers in operation, there is a new power in town, resident gunfighter in town. In addition, the method there is no power in town, and it is Jesus Christ. And you know what lies always ride the back of truth, error always rides the back truth now, how does guilt and condemnation work. It works by telling us an element of truth, the accuser, the accusations may be true, you did fail, you did say you did make a mistake you have done wrong, see, that's all true. That's the low-lying dark cloud to store, but what happens twice the strong wind blows it out. It says that the attributes users. The accuser and the accusations are thrown out the enemy of our soul, the enemy of our life has been defeated by Christ. So you see, we no longer live under what we did, because those things are forgiven those things are brought Paul wrote to the church of Rome, telling him the same thing that we need to hear. We no longer live under a condemning low clouds, guilt and manipulation, it's gone. The Spirit of life in Christ, like a strong wind has magnificent please, I like that word is only clear the air free from sin, free from sin. If guilt is condemnation. This effort if the facts have been provided a method to do that very well could you did brush your teeth right click right you have grappled in a not too windy today entrée were called itself one two three five- blown away. It. Now drop the gun lived with government people back where you these is love, not that John yet young enough to understanding a strong when will I I I personally gone for the jugular when we know the jugular vein to mean the main artery. He nearly got your jugular chances of survival are slim to none. So God went for the jugular when he sent his son. He didn't get what the problem as something remote and unimportant. God instead of having somewhere to go way to do something about them people down there now. He became personally involved why he said his son. He, God came to be with us, he personally took on the human condition, even if no sin became sin for us, they became became birth of Christ Virgin conceived and bare a son his name shall be called the manual, God with us. God became a loss so we could become like because death, hell and the grave. He defeated the sin eater free that the things that were covertly attack and twist off and in college or alive causes to stumble and fall be entered into the disordered mess of struggling humanity for what reason to set it right once and for all. God came to set it right, make it right once and for all you see the law failed to do this, the law, the ten Commandments weekend as a wife by a fractured human nature. I like that word fractured. Not that I want a fractured bone broken bone. But we have a fractured human nature and and I don't look at fracture. There's like a you take a clay pot. We thrown on the ground and bustle a lot. I look at it younger than the Liberty Bell has a has a crack in it. I is busted. If the fracture. There's a break in the breaking human nature is that we were created to walk with God and be one with him, but soon came and broke the human nature crime fractured it and broke it so that is not connected and God came to what toy back together again. He came to heal the human nature saw that the covert operations of sin would not continue to work in the lives of individuals and they would be healed to the point where God 's nature could limit not easy. The law couldn't do it. Law doesn't change heart law changes actions governs actions but blog doesn't change the hi, God sent his son in the likeness of wife like us so that we could become one with him and he would not, and feel that fractured nature. The law always ends up being a mandate it out. They can slaughter the bell, but it will never ever have the quality of sound. It had before the fracture but when God comes in. He feels the fracture to the point that we can become exactly what God intended for us to be, and his spirit comes in and blows away that influential. That's simple things that will destroy us. He has come to want to take it out to to get it out, take it out. Government take it out, you know is going to get rid of it, remove it from our life, whereas the law can only govern what we do, God has come to with to heal the brokenness. The fracture of our soul and give us hope so that we can be the original quality person than he intended us to be first five also think they can do it on their own end up obsessed with measuring their own moral muscle in your people talk about it on a night. I member five hundred and church all my life. I hear many stories about people putting together a former righteousness. The ideas that do not address a certain way you act a certain way to do certain things very from the church& that's not what I'm saying is other people. I member and longtime ago by an individual, met some of the youth of his church and met them at the door and told me to hold if they didn't get dressed up, they couldn't come to church the always one that when people set certain standards that they themselves than that person himself was arrested for receiving to Social Security Jackson, Linda and and not robbing the government. So there is an individual greeting someone at the door, telling them they couldn't come to his church, that his church address the way they were and he himself was arrested because he was taking, receiving to so security check. You take. They do, and any NSS with more with measuring their own moral muscle never get around to exercising it in real life. They have a form of understanding what God is about, but they really don't get it. It seems we often are tripped up by those types of individuals never be tripped up by a person like that if they had to make it on their own their own moral muscle but they get, but what they are trying to do never really trends transfers to the real-life situation of being able to be more than a conqueror in Christ, and that person fail miserably, but they were trying to put people in a in a box doesn't work if that uses starting Sunday night I was in this morning, Sunday school and did it again. There was individual who had a very little understanding of God and of church and of the Scriptures. And they were facing a very life crises in their life and they are trying to exercise their own moral muscle fly trying to find God in trying to find a solution to what they are known for their problems. Okay, in a presentation at me and told me about their belief in God, and they were not interested in how and what I felt that resident telling me what they had found out and they told me in this is true story they told me that a praying mantis had somehow gotten into their house and had prayed for them, and now everything was that be okay with a praying mantis and you know they had no of my knowledge, no experience with church God Bible scriptures to see how fortunate you are but in a crises of time not to be looking for a bug that you search for God is not going to be a thing of sandstorm accomplishments or of moral muscle or of not doing or doing certain religious rituals in order to find God, and have God come through for you. So here's a person in the crisis of the life was looking for something that was going to throw to them that God was around and it was so it was finding a praying mantis in the house and thinking that this bug could pray for them and everything is all right in the life to see how far ahead of that type of thinking you are why because you're here. You've heard the Scriptures, the Spirit of God has read the license you and you know that that type of bug isn't going to isn't going to make a big difference in your life but that person captured it, put in a box and took pictures of them and set it free because they pray for their family and now is all going to be okay. She felt to try got actions in them find that God 's Spirit is in them, living and breathing God, the living, breathing God is in you, he is alive and you he has a purpose and you and attention to God leads us out of the open, into a spacious life in a free live in a great line, you know, but God is lobbing his peers, forgiveness, and his word are alive in us and all that condemnation guilt of our past is blown away by the Spirit of God. Those who trust in God 's actions find themselves in the place where God 's Spirit is living and breathing and conspirators living and breathing in them but. Verse nine but if God himself was taken up residence in your life, you can hardly be thinking more of yourself than of him. There's more to this life than just me and my problems. There's more to this life just me and my blessings. Anyone, of course, who has not welcomed the invisible but clearly present God 's Spirit of Christ, won't know what were talking about, but for you who welcome him in whom he dwells even though you still experience the limitations of life. You yourself experience life on God 's terms. He has a way working in our life stands to reason that if the ally and present God, who raised Jesus from the dead moves into your life. You'll do the same thing in you that he did in Jesus bringing you will live to himself. We have a life that is alive in Christ, and it goes on when God lives of breeze in you. You are delivered from life the dead life is the life that was missing under the condemnation of guilt. You see, there is true. We have said we have all done wrong. But the reality of the life-giving spirit. If we ask for forgiveness. God forgives us we have a new life in Christ, and the breath of God 's reign as well that stuff right out of our life and we have a new life in Christ. It is the living Christ is the living spirit is alive in us and we are delivered from the dead, you and I you and I all who are in Christ will live forever. Why is spirit is living in you, your body would be as alive as Christ's Nima polygamy will never know what version of the there's a song I heard this is Johnny Cash 's song, anything with giant hydronic at the concerts, movies that but the buddy has a song called dirt and the reason I was attracted to this is underneath the caption for on the YouTube that it talks about how that Paul counted all things, but were done all that he had no of his previous life was done, newer compared to the knowledge of knowing Christ in the song kind of fits writing here so don't you see that we owe this old do-it-yourself life, not one red cent in-flight Empire of dirt. And that's only L the matter what we put together in this life means absolutely nothing without Christ. So don't you see that we don't all this old do-it-yourself life, one red cent. There's nothing in it for us nothing at all. The best thing to do is give it a decent burial and get on with your new life God 's spirit back in. There are things to do and places to go. There is a life to live and is that not under the low cloud of sin and guilt and wrong that we have done one under the forgiveness of what God has accomplished in us and Donald life is gone, the new life is in Christ. This resurrected life verse fifteen this resurrection life you received from God is not a timid, grave tending life. It is an adventurous expectant, greeting God with a childlike. What's next, Papa Watts God. It had a life changing experience God 's Spirit touches our spirit and confirms we are really you and we know we know who he is and we know what we are we. He is our father and me are his child. And we know where we are going to, and we know we are going to get what's coming to us an unbelievable inheritance. We are going to get what's coming to us and unbelievable inheritance because all things pass away sins are gone. Condemnation and guilt are blown out and the life-giving Spirit of God is alive in us. Amen, and sold this empire your is going to go away, but the life we have in Christ is going to go on forever. Amen. So we go through exactly what Christ goes through. If we go through the hard times with him, then were certainly going to go through the good times with him. It is God who has given us why and eternal life, and it's in us now the men shall we stay so you don't have to look for a bug in your house to offer a prayer for you. You don't have to look at your empire of dirt to come through for you. We look to the saving grace of Jesus Christ and how that he has come into our life to deal with the fractured heart fractured life, and to get rid of blow away by his Spirit combination guilt and bring forgiveness and healing to our life we live in the life of God 's presence. Amen. And he is making a difference in us and just think of the truth that you have. You don't have to look for about, we heard the word and is alive in us today. It meant father, forgive us of our sins forgive us. The Lord of that fractured bizarre life, forgive us all Lord and heal the brokenness brings to life the Lord your spirit bring to life. Oh God, your spirit in us breathe in a house rated to last. In Christ's give us hope the Lord, and every time the clouds, may the spirit and the breath of read on us and those clouds disappear for there is no condemnation, no guilt in the things we have done are forgiven and we have a new life in Christ. Amen. Unless you