Episode Transcript
Alright, so last week we left off with Jesus being baptized by John the Baptist.
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And we learned what baptism was about, what it means.
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And I said when you think of the word "baptize" you should think of the word what?
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Wash.
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That's right.
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Baptism is a washing that did washings back in the Old Testament.
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They had the labor of brass and they were diverse washings, diverse baptisms.
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And the problem was the people, John the Baptist could only wash people clean on the outside with water.
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But he said there'd be one coming after him who would wash or baptize with the Holy Spirit
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because the place we really need to be washed clean is on the inside, right? Not the outside.
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We washed clean of our sins.
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Hello to whoever just tuned in this morning.
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Good to have you with us.
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We're in Mark chapter 1 and we're just beginning so you're not late.
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Just turn to Mark chapter 1.
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So I told you last week that when Jesus was baptized by John the Baptist,
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John the Baptist was saying, "Why am I washing you? You need to be washing me."
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And Jesus said, "Just do it."
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So John the Baptist washed Jesus off in the Jordan River.
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And when Jesus came up out of the Jordan River, God the Father said,
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"This is my beloved son in whom I'm well pleased."
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In other words, he doesn't need any cleaning.
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And so it was a testimony.
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Hello, Keaton's. Good to have you all tuned in this morning.
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And so it was a testimony to everybody that Jesus was someone who doesn't need to be cleaned.
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He is the one that's going to make us clean.
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And so now we're going to see, I told you this last week that this morning
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we would see how Jesus makes us clean.
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How he, through the Holy Spirit, is going to baptize or wash people's sins away.
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And so here's how it's going to happen.
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If you'll look here in Mark chapter 1, verse 11,
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it says, "This is after Jesus was baptized,
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and there came a voice from heaven, saying,
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'Thou art my beloved son in whom I am well pleased.'"
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Now look at the next verse.
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"And immediately the Spirit driveth him into the wilderness."
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Now remember, this is the one that John said was going to baptize or wash
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in a way that he couldn't wash.
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He's going to wash on the inside.
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Jesus is going to wash us by the Spirit.
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And as soon as Jesus is washed on the outside by John,
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the Spirit, by whom he is going to wash people clean on the inside,
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immediately does what?
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Drive Jesus into the wilderness.
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You'd think, "Wow."
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Why would the Spirit be driving him into the wilderness?
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You would think if he's coming to wash people clean by the Spirit,
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that the Holy Spirit would be driving him into the cities,
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into the crowds, into the places where sinners were
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so he could wash them clean, but that's not what the Holy Spirit did.
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Immediately the Holy Spirit drove him into the wilderness.
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If you'll look now in verse 13,
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"And he that is Jesus was there in the wilderness," how many days?
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Forty days.
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Now remember, the number 40 speaks of what in the Bible?
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Holiness.
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Holiness?
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Whole.
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Whole?
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It does.
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Really, that's more than number 7.
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So when you're looking at 40, what does 40...
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Yes, sir?
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A perfect trial.
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That's right, a perfect trial.
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So 40 speaks of a perfect trial.
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Forty days and nights with the ark, remember?
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And now 40 days in the wilderness.
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And remember, increments of 40, 400 years of captivity in Egypt,
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400 years under rules of judges, 400 years rules of kings,
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400 silent years between Malachi and Christ.
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It's all increments of 40, speaking of perfect trials, perfect testings.
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And so now Jesus immediately is being driven into the wilderness
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so he can be perfectly tested, perfectly tempted.
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So it says here in verse 13, "And he was there in the wilderness, 40 days,
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tempted of Satan, and was with the wild beasts and the angels ministered unto him."
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Now if you'll turn to the Gospel of Matthew, please,
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Matthew goes into greater detail explaining that 40-day trial.
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Matthew chapter 4...
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If anyone's hot, let me know and I'll go turn the AC on.
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Everyone okay?
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All right.
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Actually, I wouldn't do it.
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I'd have the thermal queen do it back there.
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All right.
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So Matthew chapter 4, and let's zoom in now on this 40-day testing
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that Jesus is going to have.
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It says in verse 1, Matthew 4, 1,
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"Then was Jesus led up of the Spirit into the wilderness,"
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why?
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"to be tempted of the devil."
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Why would the Holy Spirit lead Jesus into the wilderness
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to be tempted of the devil when Jesus didn't come
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to go into the wilderness?
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He came to wash people's sins away by the Holy Ghost.
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Why would the Holy Spirit lead Jesus into the wilderness
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to be tempted by the devil?
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Because this 40-day temptation is the means by which our sins
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could be washed away by the Holy Spirit.
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So this is why the Holy Spirit sends him into the wilderness
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to be tempted by the devil.
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And we'll look at that here in just a moment.
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If you'll look now in verse 2,
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"And when he that is Jesus had fasted forty days and forty nights,
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he was afterward and hungered."
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So Jesus is now gone without food in the wilderness
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for forty days and forty nights.
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That's a long time to go without food.
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I did good for twelve hours.
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Me too.
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I didn't really mean to go to the devil or Satan's devil
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after forty days.
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That's the way it appears here.
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But, you know, we don't know.
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But by going what it says here, that's what it shows.
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And so for forty days and forty nights, he's gone without food.
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He fasted.
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And the reason they fasted,
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and the reason people fast today,
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of course there's health benefits to it,
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but forty days and forty nights is definitely not for health benefits.
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But the reason they fasted back then,
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they would set aside a particular time
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when they would just give themselves to prayer
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into seeking God's face.
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And so they would set food away.
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In this particular instance, God the Father,
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the Holy Spirit led him into the wilderness,
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and the Holy Spirit led him to not eat, but to just pray.
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And so Jesus, being the perfect man,
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is going to perfectly obey whatever God tells him to do.
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And God told him, "Don't eat."
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Right? You're just going to fast and pray.
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So he's in the wilderness for forty days, fasting and praying.
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And now he's very, very hungry.
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And now this is when the devil is going to come to him,
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and tempt him in one of the aspects of his manhood.
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Now we learned, when we learned about the creation of man,
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we learned that God is a trinity.
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He's three persons that make up one God.
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Man is a trichotomy.
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We are three parts that make up one person.
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What are those three parts? Anyone remember?
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What?
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The Holy Spirit?
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No, we're not the Holy Spirit.
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We're three parts that make up one person. Yes, sir?
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Body, soul, and spirit.
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Body, soul, and spirit. That's a trichotomy.
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I have a body.
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I have an inner man that's my soul.
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I have a spirit which allows me to be able to communicate with God.
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God is spirit.
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They that worship him must worship him in spirit.
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That's the frequency that we communicate with God and know God.
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And so Jesus first is going to be tempted here to eat.
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When Jesus is tempted to eat, what part of his manhood will he be tempted in?
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His body.
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He's going to be tempted in all parts of his manhood.
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Or as the Bible puts it in another place,
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he would be tempted in all points like as we are, yet without sin.
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So let's look here now.
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It says in verse 2,
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"And when he had fasted forty days and forty nights,
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he was afterward and hungered.
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And when the tempter came to him, he said,
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'The Son of God, command that these stones be made bread.'"
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In other words, if you're the Son of God, just turn these stones into bread.
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Well now who does Jesus need to be listening to?
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The Holy Spirit or the unholy spirit?
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Yeah, does he need to be listening to God?
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Or do he need to be listening to the devil?
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I mean, the whole reason we got in trouble the first time is because
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somebody listened to the devil instead of listening to God.
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That was Adam.
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And so what we see is this.
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How did man get into the position of being a sinner to begin with?
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It was through Adam following the devil's temptation.
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Alright?
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So here's what's happening.
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The reason the Holy Spirit is driving Jesus into the wilderness
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to be tempted by the devil.
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Have you ever thought in your mind,
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if only Adam wouldn't have sinned in the Garden of Eden,
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we wouldn't be in the mess we're in right now.
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Has anyone thought like that before?
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All of us have.
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This is what's taking place.
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God is causing what happened in the Garden of Eden to be completely undone.
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Here's what's happening.
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The first time we had Adam representing all mankind
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being tempted by the devil in a garden.
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And now what's happening in the New Testament is
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it's going to be Adam versus the devil round two.
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But this time Adam would be going into the ring with a substitute fighter.
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This time instead of Adam being tempted by the devil in the garden,
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it would be Jesus being tempted by the devil in a desert.
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See what's happening?
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This is why the whole problem, the whole reason we fell into sin to begin with
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was because of what happened with Adam representing humanity in the garden.
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He failed to follow God and he brought us all into sin.
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And so God says, "I will send Jesus."
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Jesus is going to be the second Adam.
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The Bible calls Jesus the last Adam.
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He calls the Adam in the garden the first Adam.
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He calls the Adam in the desert the last Adam.
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That's what the Bible calls Jesus.
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So the first Adam gets tempted by the devil in the garden.
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The last Adam or the second Adam gets tempted by the devil in a desert.
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Interestingly, how did sin enter into the world?
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It entered into the world by Adam eating something he wasn't supposed to.
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Now God told Adam, "All the trees of the garden you may freely eat."
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Except for this one, the tree of the knowledge of good and evil.
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So when Adam was tempted to eat from the tree of the knowledge of good and evil,
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he was tempted to eat something on the full belly.
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Jesus is not being tempted in a garden where he's surrounded by food.
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He's being tempted in the desert when he hasn't eaten for 40 days.
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Adam was tempted to eat something when he had a full belly.
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Jesus is tempted to eat something when he hasn't eaten in over a month.
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Which temptation is the hardest?
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The second Adam, right?
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If the second Adam's temptation is harder than the first Adam, then watch what happens.
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If his disobedience was on the full belly and his obedience is on an empty belly,
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then he has a greater obedience than Adam's disobedience.
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You see what's happening?
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So the obedience is going to undo and outdo the disobedience.
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So God's grace is going to be greater than Adam's sin.
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Does that make sense?
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So now, here he is tempted to eat.
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Let's see what Jesus does when he's tempted to eat when the Father tells him no,
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as compared to Adam.
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Look here now in verse 4.
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"But he that is Jesus answered and said it is written."
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Now Jesus is going to quote scripture.
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Now that's what Adam should have done when the devil tempted,
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or where Eve came to, that's what Eve should have done when the devil tempted her.
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That's what Adam should have done when Eve brought the devil's temptation to him.
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He should have said, "Now God said," right?
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But he didn't do it.
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He went by what the devil said, what the wife said, not what God said.
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"It is written, 'Jesus said, 'Man shall not live by bread alone.'"
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Now he's quoting from the Old Testament,
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"by every word that proceeds out of the mouth of God.'"
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In other words, we didn't do what God says.
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It's better for me to obey God and not eat than to eat and disobey God.
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So Jesus did the second Adam did what the first Adam didn't do.
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Watch this now.
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Jesus did the second Adam did what the first Adam didn't do.
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And by doing what the first Adam didn't do,
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he would undo what the first Adam did.
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That make sense?
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He's undoing it.
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By undoing the sin that we were born in,
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we could be born again and have the sin washed away.
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So by the Spirit, he washes us, baptizes us on the inside.
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This is why the Holy Spirit led him into the wilderness.
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So by doing what the first Adam didn't do,
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he would undo what the first Adam did.
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Now watch.
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Verse 5, Matthew 4, 5.
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"Then the devil taketh him up into the holy city,
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and seteth him on a pinnacle of the temple."
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We're getting all holy now, aren't we?
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"The pinnacle of a temple now,
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and saith unto him, If thou be the Son of God,
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cast thyself down, for it is written,
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He shall give his angels charge concerning thee,
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and in their hands they shall bear thee uplest,
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and any time thou dash thy foot against his tongue."
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Now watch what's happening.
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The devil takes Jesus to church, takes him to the temple.
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The devil then quotes scripture to Jesus.
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The only problem is he took scripture out of context.
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He twisted it around.
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And so now the first time Jesus is tempted in his body,
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to eat when you don't suppose to,
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now the devil takes Jesus to church,
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starts quoting scripture to him.
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Now what part of Jesus is being tempted?
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His spirit.
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His spirit, very good.
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Now he's tempted in his spirit.
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All parts of his manhood,
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tempted in all points, like as we are.
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All parts of his manhood.
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And so let's look and see what Jesus does.
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Verse 7, "And Jesus saith unto him,
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It is written again."
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If you quoted scripture to me,
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well let me quote scripture to you.
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"Thou shalt not tempt the Lord thy God."
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And what you're trying to do is get me to tempt the Lord your God.
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You're twisting scripture around,
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and I am not going to jump off the temple and tempt God,
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and say, "You better catch me because the Bible says."
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Well if that's the case,
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God would just sit back there and watch us fall.
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And say, "Oh you know better than that."
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So now Jesus resisted the devil's temptation in his body,
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and now in his spirit.
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Adam, was Adam tempted spiritually?
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Yes.
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Remember what Adam said?
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"Ye shall be as gods, knowing good and evil."
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So Adam fell all the way around.
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Jesus is succeeding all the way around.
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Let's see what happens next.
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Verse 8, Matthew 4, 8.
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"Again the devil taketh him up into an exceeding high mountain,
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and sheweth him all the kingdoms of the world,
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and the glory of them.
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And saith unto him, All these things will I give thee,
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if thou will fall down and worship me."
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Just look at all these kingdoms.
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Wouldn't you love to rule all these kingdoms?
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Wouldn't you love to not just be the carpenter's son,
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but rule the entire world?
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Hey, the world's following me.
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I'll put you in charge of these kingdoms.
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And now Jesus is being tempted in his soul.
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That "Ahh!" kind of like a lot did when he looked at the plains of Sodom.
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"Oh that looks nice. I'd like to have that for my cows."
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Now watch what Jesus does.
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He says in verse 9,
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"Then saith Jesus unto him, Get thee in Satan,
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or get out of here Satan. For it is written,
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Thou shalt worship the Lord thy God, and him only shalt thou serve."
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So in all parts of his manhood,
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Jesus obeyed God perfectly.
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Verse 11, "Then the devil leaiveth him,
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and behold angels came and ministered unto him."
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So look what's happening here.
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By doing what the first Adam didn't do,
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he's undoing what the first Adam did.
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If you'll take your Bibles and turn to the book of Romans, please,
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the book of Romans, if you're in Mark, just turn to your right,
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go past Matthew, go past Mark, Luke, and John, and go past Acts.
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Once you pass Acts, stop at the book of Romans, chapter 5.
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And we're going to see why Jesus was tempted and how this works.
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Romans, chapter 5.
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Now I'm going to go ahead and erase this while you all are turning there
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so I can do another illustration.
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Romans, chapter 5. Look with me if you would in verse 12.
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"Wherefore, as by one man sin entered into the world..."
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Now who's that one man by which sin entered?
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That is the first Adam, right?
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"...by one man sin entered into the world..."
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And how does that go?
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"...sin entered into the world and death by sin..."
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So Adam brought sin into the world, and then sin brought death.
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That's why we all die. We're all sinners, so we all die.
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So let's go ahead and look back here now, Romans 5, verse 12.
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"...wherefore, as by one man sin entered into the world and death by sin..."
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"...and so death passed upon all men..."
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That's us. "...for that all have sinned."
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"...for until the law sin was in the world, but sin is not imputed when there is no law."
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"Nevertheless, death reigned from Adam to Moses, even over them that had not sinned..."
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"...and the similitude of Adam's transgression."
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We read that, and by doing so we need to see that we're talking about that man Adam in the garden.
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He's the one that transgressed.
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Now look here what it says.
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"...after the similitude of Adam's transgression..."
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Watch this now.
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"...who is the figure of him that was to come..."
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You're seeing that?
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"...Adam sitting in the garden was a figure of the man who would come and not sin in the wilderness."
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Ah!
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So we got the first man, Adam, he brought sin, he brought death,
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but Adam was a figure of another man who would come in the future.
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That would be the second Adam, the Lord Jesus.
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Now let's look at the difference between the two.
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"Adam brought sin, sin brought death."
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He was the figure of a second Adam who would come.
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Let's look at this now.
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"Who was the figure of him that was to come..."
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Look now in verse 15.
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"But not as the offense..."
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Here's the offense here.
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The offense was sin, right?
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"...not as the offense..."
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Go back here again to verse 15.
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"So also is the free gift..."
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Okay, so the first Adam brought an offense.
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The second Adam is going to bring a gift.
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The gift is going to be free, free gift.
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Watch this now.
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"Not as..."
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Verse 15.
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"But not as the offense, so also is the free gift.
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For if through the offense of one..."
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That's Adam.
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"...many be dead..."
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Yes.
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"...much more the grace of God in the gift by grace..."
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Which is by one man, look up here now.
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"...Jesus Christ hath abounded unto many."
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So Adam was the figure of the second Adam, Jesus.
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The first Adam brought an offense.
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The second Adam brings a free gift.
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And the free gift is different than the offense.
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Nobody wants the gift of death.
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So let's see what gift we're getting here through the second Adam.
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So he says in verse 16.
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"...and not as it was by one that sinned..."
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That's Adam, "so is the gift.
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"...for the judgment was by one to condemnation.
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But the free gift is of many offenses unto justification."
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Let's pause right there just a moment.
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"God's judgment of the offense brings condemnation."
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Death.
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"But the free gift that Jesus brings does not bring condemnation, it brings..."
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What?
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"Justification."
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Now here's the difference between justification and condemnation.
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Justification, condemnation says, "You're guilty, you're condemned, you die."
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Justification says, "You're not guilty, you're not condemned, you live."
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So the first Adam brings an offense that brings death, condemnation.
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The second Adam brings a free gift that brings life, justification.
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In other words, God looks at this Adam, this Adam disobeyed.
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I'm sorry, this Adam disobeyed.
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This Adam disobeyed.
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All right.
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The second Adam comes, we just read about him obeying.
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And so now his obedience becomes a gift.
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Now what do you do with a gift?
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You give it away.
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This morning I bought flowers for my mother-in-law, I bought flowers for my wife,
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I bought flowers for my mother.
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Those were gifts.
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What did I do with them?
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I gave them away.
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And so Jesus is going to come with a gift that he can give away,
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and that gift is justification.
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Watch this now.
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Verse 17, "For if by one man's offense death reign by one, much more they which receive,"
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receive what?
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"The gift, abundance of grace and of the gift of righteousness,
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shall reign in life by one Jesus Christ."
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So sin is unrighteous, means you didn't do what was right.
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Obedience is righteousness.
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Jesus obeyed, he did what was right in the desert.
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Adam did what was wrong in the garden.
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We were born into this sin and death, but we can receive righteousness in life as a gift.
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See the difference?
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Now watch.
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Look now if you would in verse 18, "Therefore, as by the offense of one,
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judgment came upon all men to condemnation, even so by the righteousness of one,
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the free gift came upon all men unto justification of life."
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Under how many men?
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Some men?
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Most men?
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All men.
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That means every one of us in here is eligible to receive the gift.
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Now when I bought flowers this morning, I bought them for mamas.
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So as much as I love Brother Jim, had I come out of brookers with those flowers
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and he said, "Why thank you, brother."
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I was so, "No, these are not for you.
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These are for your wife and my wife and my mom."
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But it's not so with Jesus' obedience and righteousness.
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He gives that gift to all men. It's available to everyone that wants it.
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All right? Now watch.
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Verse 19, "For as by one man's disobedience," that's Adam,
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"many were made sinners, so by the obedience of one shall many be made righteous."
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Adam's disobedience brought death, sin, condemnation.
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Jesus' obedience in the wilderness brought justification and life,
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that reign in life by one it says, and it's given to us as a free gift.
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Nothing to work for, nothing to ask for, just something to receive.
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Now here's the thing.
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You have the first Adam, you have the second Adam.
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How did we get into the first Adam?
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How did we get into the first Adam?
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Well, how did Adam end up representing you?
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He was created, but how did he end up representing you?
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How are we of Adam?
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Through birth.
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His offspring, that's it.
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So we were in Adam, okay?
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It is in his lineage, in his situation, in his condemnation, in his sin, through birth.
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So every one of us are born with Adam representing us.
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We're born sinners, and his disobedience was passed down to us,
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and that's how come?
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You don't have to, I mean, I've had five children,
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I've raised up five children, and there's some things you never have to teach a child.
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You never have to teach a child how to be selfish.
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You never have to teach a child how to lie.
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You never have to teach a child how to die.
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They come natural to us.
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All that comes natural.
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Why?
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Because we were born in Adam, we inherited his sin,
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we're all sinners, and we all die.
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We have to teach our children not to do wrong,
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but we can't teach them how not to die.
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And so every one of us are born like this.
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That's the first Adam.
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So as we were born in the first Adam,
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we can be born again in the second Adam.
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That's why Jesus said to Nicodemus in John chapter 3,
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"Unless a man is born again, he cannot see the kingdom of God."
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So as we were born the first time, our first birth, we were born in Adam.
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So we can be born the second time, our new birth, born again, in the second Adam.
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You say, "Well, okay, how do we get born the first time?"
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Well, how much work did we put into our first birth?
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None.
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How much work did we put into our second birth?
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None.
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Our first birth came upon us without our choice.
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The second birth is a free gift.
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I could have taken those flowers out this morning.
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They're paid for.
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I bought those flowers.
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I could have taken them out to my mother-in-law this morning.
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I could have said, "Here, mother-in-law, here's you some roses."
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She could have said, "I don't want those roses.
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They stink."
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Now, she didn't do that, but she could have.
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I could have said, "Well, here, Tammy.
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Have your mother's day.
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Here, here's some flowers."
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Oh, I'm allergic to roses.
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I don't want roses either.
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I could have taken the other bouquet and I could have brought it to my mom
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and I could have said, "Here, mom, here's some roses."
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My mom would take mud pies from me.
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She loves me.
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And she would receive them.
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You see, in every situation, the gift was paid for,
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but it wasn't always received.
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Right?
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And so it's the same way with Christ.
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Jesus went into the wilderness for you, for me, as we just read.
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He went into the wilderness for all men.
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He died for all men.
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He lived a perfect life for all men,
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so that we could get credit for how He obeyed God.
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Let me ask you this.
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Suppose that God was up here right now,
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and let's say that this was a courtroom.
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And let's say that this podium was the judge's bench.
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And let's say that Jess is about to be called up to be judged by God.
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Okay?
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Jess is about to be called up to be judged by God.
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And here, I don't want to get away from the camera.
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Brother Jess, I want you to take this.
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I'm going to give this to you.
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I want to give that to you.
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That book that I just handed Jess, that is the book of Jess's life.
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You open up the first page, it has his birth, born in whatever year,
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19, 20, something.
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I'm kidding, Jess.
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Born in whatever year.
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And then from that point forward,
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every page has everything that Jess ever did,
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everything Jess ever said,
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everything Jess ever thought in his mind his entire life.
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Would you want everyone reading that book?
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Me either.
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But let's say in a minute,
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the judge is going to call you up,
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and he is going to take his book of his law.
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And he's going to take the book of your life.
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He is going to take these two books side by side,
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and he is going to judge you to see if you lived up to his law.
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Now, if he judged you according to how you lived,
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he's going to find you in sin,
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commit an offense, worthy of death, and you'll be condemned,
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because you're in the first Adam.
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But let's say that before he called you up
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to judge you according to the book of your life,
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let's say that the judge,
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let's say that the judge offers you a free gift.
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And the judge says,
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" Jess, I have an offer for you.
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I'm going to make you an offer.
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I've got a gift for you.
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So choose.
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You can take the book of your life,
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and you can toss it in the court shredder.
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And when you come up to be judged,
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you can bring the book of Jesus' life instead.
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And instead of me judging you according to how you lived and died,
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I'll judge you according to how Jesus lived and died."
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Would you take him up on that offer?
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That's the free gift that the Bible's talking about right there.
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That's the free gift.
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That's why the Bible says the wages of sin is death,
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but the gift of God is eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord,
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the one who lived that perfect life for us,
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who was tempted like we are by the devil, and he never sinned.
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And so he did this.
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Here's the gospel.
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The gospel is God has made a way
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where you and I can be judged by him on the merit of another person.
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Isn't that beautiful?
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And so the gift is this.
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Yes, I recognize I was born here,
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and I recognize this is wrong.
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That's called repentance.
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Repentance is where you recognize,
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"I'm not standing up there and being judged by my life.
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I've done wrong."
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Faith is, "But I'll accept the gift of the one who lived and died for me."
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See the difference?
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And so by faith, I realize,
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"Man, I'm not going to be judged by how I lived,
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but I accept the gift that God's offering me,
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and my choice, like my mother-in-law when she received those roses
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this morning that I paid for,
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my choice is to receive what Jesus did for me when he came,
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when he was tempted, when he obeyed God in my place,
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and he obeyed God all the way up to the cross,
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and on the cross he died to pay the penalty for the sins I committed.
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And so basically, the new birth is,
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you decide, "I've got this representation.
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I was born into the world with this representation,
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but I want a new representative."
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I don't want the life of Adam, which is the life of me,
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to represent me when God judges me.
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I want how Jesus lived and died to represent me instead.
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So I choose to say goodbye to my old representative,
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and I accept the representation of the one who was led into the wilderness
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to be tempted by the devil, overcame him on my behalf,
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and then that is faith.
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Remember when Abel laid that lamb on the altar in the Old Testament?
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That lamb represented the second Adam.
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Do you know what he was doing when he laid that lamb on the altar
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in the Old Testament?
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He was simply taking the book of Jesus' life,
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laying it up there on the judges' bench and saying,
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"God, I'm not worthy to be accepted,
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but will you be accepted on the basis of this lamb that died for me?"
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See how that works?
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That is how Jesus, through the Spirit, washes our sins away,
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because when I choose this representation,
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you can look all you want to. You'll find no sin,
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because the book of Jesus' life is sinless,
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and that sin's washed away,
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because when Jesus died, I died with Jesus,
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and all that sin has gone and been put in the tomb,
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and it's still there. It's gone, gone, gone.
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With that, we'll go ahead and stop today,
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and Lord willing, we'll take back up next week with Jesus' ministry.
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Okay?
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All right, let's pray.
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Father, we thank you so much for your precious Word,
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and I pray, Lord, that you'll give us a wonderful time in church next door this morning.
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Thank you to the people who came and the people who tuned in.
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Thank you most of all for your Son who came,
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and the free gift which is by grace given to all men that will receive it.
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In His name we pray. Amen.
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