Romans Chapter 7:9-14

Things that you see in the world war until the Lamb of God and through the reflection of God is a reflection of left people starving to death in the world. That's not because of God, not Karen because basically I was not sure crossed the bridge as the senior pastor of the bridge from Carolyn.

As we look around the world. We realize that there were a lot problem is really pastor helps us understand the heart today book of Romans chapter 7, but didn't. The devil is able to implement so many Christians today because they simply don't know the Bible about God's word. That's why we want to send you pastor David's DVD message Romans for recorded in the heart of this eye-opening teaching will show you beyond a doubt, the historical accuracy of the Bible Romans from home is our way of saying thank you for your gift today to help more people on this station crossed the bridge from across the bridge.com? Op again that's crossed the bridge. Now here's the part two is teaching what the Bible or in Romans chapter 7 with verse nine says I was alive once without the law, but when the commandment came, send revived and I was really that some of these parts rooms are kind of become a difficult week at the big and this verse in the new living translation. Romans seven on a new living translation as is often the same verse. I felt fine when I did understand what the law demanded. But when I learned the truth. I realize that broken the law and was the center doomed to die. There's that moment as you look into the word of God where it's kind of that moment when you look at ego.

I haven't done that haven't been this this is a problem that's a problem and I don't know what to do… Remember who Paul is writing to go back to verse one with chapter 7 Romans chapter verse one says or do you not know brother prospect of those who know the law that the law has dominion over a man as long as he lived through speaking of those who no longer actually trusting the law in order to be declared righteous before God, and Paul is dismantling that argument missing that you know you don't keep them along because you're not keeping the law. Now you've been well. New living translation doomed. You don't have to die. You don't have to.

In the sense of spiritually apart from God. You don't have to live the way you are right now you can be set free. You can walk filled with the joy of the Lord, but the admitting that there's a problem is part of the solution you don't know until your center that you need to save but in that moment you realize that you broken God's law and you really can't make it up and you you can't do perfect in that moment of despair Hope walks in the form of Jesus Christ. As you know what I won't forgive you. I know you're not perfect software which I forgot when I got I am perfect minute.

You can read this book and think you're perfect.

You can delete writing those who think they can be. You know like this.

The law are those who are proud unbelievers who don't believe in the law and don't think they said. Martin Luther said this, he said they would know the law. They would also note or sent they would know the law. They would often overset I not say what you know this is a deep theological book, but I like what Mark Twain says they were talking about the Bible and he said you know it's not the part of the Bible that I don't understand the bothersome is the part that I do understand see and while there are deep theological things in here are some real basic stuff of light love God, love people.

That's really enough if you're going to be honest today.

That's enough to realize you know what you don't do that. I don't we don't do so now that we just talk about how bad we feel, how is messed up. Now we look to Jesus and Jesus please help us but admitting again something is wrong. As part of the solution. People think the goal of Christianity is make people feel that it's not that's not real Christianity.

Some people think it is something will measure church service on how bad they feel when they leave. As I walk out the really miserable. I was really good. I feel horrible I feel like a worm. I'm just gonna walk under my car without ducking here because I'm just Bentall now I want to do that.

But again, realizing there's a problem as part of the solution to centralize and hearing what plan not doing the things and just be doing 90 Jesus to help me to do this point sees things out points out there's a problem there's a need if you will church at Galatia when you read that epistle. That letter become really sinful and immature.

What is a start trust in the law.

Paul uses strong words, he notices foolish Galatians who has bewitched you to think that you can be justified by the law what you think what happened and he and in another place he said you know what you're devouring each other with your mouth a lot because once you think you can earn God's favor by doing the law, that means you're a legalist, a legalist is a miserable person and they begin to devour one another while. That's what legalist or when everyone in the somebody that's extremely preoccupied with what's wrong with everybody else probably encountered a legal what's wrong with that. Well, they are trying to earn God's favor through the works of the law.

They become miserable. But rather than keep the misery to themselves. They want to make those around them miserable and then they begin overlooking a look at him, a look at her. They should be doing an but keep in mind every time he pointed somebody three more of those things going back to you and you know it's interesting legalist will hardly ever see anybody come the Lord through them. Nobody will ever get safely in a while because they can't see I'm presenting to you that you gotta keep the law in order to get saved. Guess what's not going to work if you're gonna be honest that I believe is what you give him learning the morning and but you quit doing this quit doing that doing this and that this is you get your consult cleaned up and coming out well if you're in your right mind is a not a candidate to you're not sorry that's what legalist would say so. Nobody's ever going to come to the Lord to but that doesn't keep a legalist from telling us what were doing wrong is wrong to doing this is legalist is always miserable. I want to be like that. I want to live that kind of Christian life that is not the kind of Christian life that God wants you to lead you, want you to be set free from legalism to walk in grace. There is legalist point.

Now, Jesus was anything wrong which is absolutely not that keep them from point things out.

They thought no doing this wrong is doing the right thing and I was energy to hold his mouth wrong you should talk like that is always a on and on Burstyn in the commandment which was to bring life. I found the ring.

Paul was hoping that through keeping the law. He could be set free. He could find, like that's not what he found. He tried to keep the law.

Guess what he could and he found that condemnation and he became miserable and antecedent, then okay once you come in contact with law. This is all there something wrong, then you have to deny that inner struggle once you deny that inner struggle. Guess what now you are into mass now you are officially a hypocrite. All you mad about. They act like nothing drawing. They never have any problems and you sit there and you talk to them and their miserable and you know something's wrong but they won't reveal it.

Hypocrisy goes, legalism, you can't have legalism without hypoxic. I'm sitting here telling you that you need to learn you need to live a perfect life become the God you know online so I have to have a mass now there's churches that engage in legalism. We are not one and you know what I notice about legalistic charges. They don't usually grow. You want the king. How can you say we gotta be perfect in order to join our club. Who's going to join that club liars and hypocrites. That's what is going to track whatever real with one another and we admit what Paul is saying here you can the law we realize messed I want to be like this. And it's not through rules. Keep in rules that I can attain salvation to the Pharisees got trapped into thinking that God was more interested in their outer action and sometimes we do the same thing you know is outgrowing the Lord over the years. I it's it's not the outer action that really bothered me beyond a lot of those of dropped away and I don't engage in indulgence that it's hard sometimes it bothers is a real is what attitude I can have. Sometimes Jesus realized that he was like you're missing the point.

That's what he was going out the sermon on the Mount. Matthew 521 he speaking to him. He said you heard that it was said to those of old, you shall not murder, and whoever murders will be in danger of the judgment, but I say to you that whoever is angry with his brother without a cause shall be in danger of the judgment so they thought was unusual kill anybody you're okay and just admitting it's the attitude of the heart. If you're angry at somebody your Senate your guilty while we usually think of sinners or actions inducing the and it's not just in that one place versus later Matthew five present when is it you have heard that it was said to those of old, you shall not commit adultery but I said it.

Whoever looks at a woman to lust for her has already committed adultery with her in his heart decision was out, our actions and just banana our heart. A lot of people think Christianity is concerned about behaviors. It's really is concerned about the heart because you can change the behaviors without changing our friend. You cannot change the heart and not change the base and then you're being changed not from the outside in like manner does it mean change from the inside out is next life lesson Jesus wants the changes from the inside out, not from the outside and Jesus wants to change us from the inside out, not from the outside it. The problem is not with her actions. The problem is not with the law. The problem is with our sinful nature. I know this is the bad news and makes you uncomfortable. I want to lead you to the solution when you're not looking for the solution to your problem.

That's what Paul still to look. Here's the problem just how there some wrong with you but some wrong with you. I can fix it come to me.

So many people have a misperception of what Christianity is about. I wonder where they got it. God wants to bless us. He wants to draw students up and I vertically was able. How can a loving God send people to help us in anybody.

Some people choose hell wasn't even created for people courting book of Revelation is created for the devil and his angels, but some people in the rejection of God. Jesus has done everything. Do not enter sign all over with. Some will reject got some will reject God. The whole icon you know Jesus, I don't want you I don't want a relationship with God you know and your dying breath. He will honor your request say okay leave you alone me that describe no one in here.

See if you rejecting today you very well may rejecting with your dying breath. I don't know how many brass how many heartbeats are between this day and that one, and even the friend but I know that today there's an opportunity see the problem you see your listening to Pastor David McGee on cross the bridge will be back with more powerful insight from God's word in just a moment but first so many people today are losing faith simply because they don't know how much real evidence there is for the truth of the Bible.

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I may not be the man that man that I should be the praise God I'm not the man I used to be. God is at work in my life. An interesting thing is you're looking through it. The bottles a merit showing next life wasn't as you read the Bible. The Bible is reading you. So when somebody says whether something wrong with the Bible is not the Bible verse in the flaw wall isn't meant to drive you away from God.

It's desire to pull you to I can go to the police officer you know after he pulled me over to officer. I really don't like that gun that you point in my car and tells you how fast I'm going out there's a problem that God, no gun drive problems with me that you can deny that you can sit here and go all this I don't agree you know you know the quietness of your heart you know there is a problem. There's something wrong I don't say that to just leave you there. But to take you somewhere. Verse 13 has been what is good become that to me. Certainly not, but said that it might appear sin was producing death in me through what is good, so that send through the commandment might become exceedingly sinful again what itthe problem is not with the law. The problem is with us. The problem is not with the bottom of the problem promise is our own sinful nature, its own sinful nature was the problem. Another life lesson part of the human problem is the problem of the human heart. The heart of the human problem is the problem of the human heart. The things that you see in the world.

The wars in people being killed the name of God and through religion.

That's not a reflection of God friend is a reflection on us. People starving to death in this world that's not because of God, not Karen is basically us not share promise with the beat you up. Now here's the thing. If we can understand what's wrong to the law than we can fix it to the law know we can see your sinful nature is not changed by the law can't make I can do is recognize your sinful nature will what I do. My sinful nature is gotta this. Gotta die. It's gotta die to be honest, sometimes slow and painful death, but you've got it be walking in that new nature and in the meanwhile, the battle is gonna be on Fran. It's going to be but instantly what you know when I was when I was a Gentile, even though one saying you know, this didn't bother me as much right one is a spirit of God is now wanting to create a new a new nature and is doing and that new nature doesn't want anything to do with the old. When you realize something is wrong, then you know you need help within the law. You see, the desire to be forgiven. I realize I need a safe, now move on to the site over verse 14 for we know that the law is spiritual, but I am carnal, sold understand his own nature knows no law and the new nature really doesn't need a wall is a positive.

Are you telling us were not under law.

I'm not telling you this is tell me that the Bible tells you will Pastor David, you were not under laws that mean we go do whatever you want to actually not because once you understand grace of Jesus Christ blend and died for you and your something in me that I think you nobody's ever love me like what I consider he knows everything about me and still loves me for he knows everything about there may be things about you than nobody else not always is. God knows still loves you so carefully still calls out for nobody else knows that not even your spouse.

We all Jewish thing thereby mirrors a stranger you knew what I was wrong with your spouse, probably when I got married. The reality you slowly are informed and your spouse didn't know what all is wrong with but God knows still he makes this incredible offer to be forgiven is your pulling the wool over, you may pull the wool over a lot of people.

Whatever God's law, spiritual work, carnal, there's that there's that there's part of us that wants to go back to Egypt as part of us want to go back to old life in the next part of you wants to be free there really Paul talking about the war going on inside of him in this passage I want to do the right thing.

I want to do the wrong thing.

That's what's going on in our Christian life that we can yield to the spirit and do what's right, and God will continue to to build and create in us the new nature, but if we continue to yield to the old nature were going back don't do that please don't sit here and go out. I don't have problems in a different we all do. And if you deny it you can come to the cross while you're sitting there in your blaming other people you're blaming your kids, your blaming your parents or blaming your brother, your sister, your old church or new church you're not taking responsibility for what's really wrong that's inside you can go from church to church friend that you can take a problems with God doesn't stop with declaring you guilty he wants to declare you and not see your good works, not through keeping the law, not there, you engaging in the bitterness and the cynicism of legalism and grabbing hold of cross grab hold of Jesus's in a moment friend you can be set free. You can be forgiven. Maybe there's some sit here that although I thought that I thought that you, you had to do all these rules in order to be a Christian.

Know the rules are there to point out you need Jesus. And really when you grab a hold of Jesus, you begin to love God and you begin to love people just what he said all the commandments all the law all the prophets are wrapped up in this you can begin the walk in your new nature is what he wants for dialysis is set free.

I brought you to the point in the word were friend of your being honest if you're being real at all. You're sitting there man I am I am messed up there some problems. I was sitting there thinking about thin branch that had killed anybody felt pretty good, and Pastor David the word said if I've been angry at somebody I've killed… I got a solution solution is and try harder solution is understand. You need a Savior and come to come to Jesus knows more than anybody else. Things are going on in your life.

He knows being real honesty knows how messed up we are.

He knows how messed up I still he extends his hand great success come to me. Don't deny your messed up. Come to me. Jesus made such appeals when he said you know your burden, then your heavy Lane come to me. He went up the Matthew a tax collector hood with a bunch of people all and went to Matthew's half of all the proceeds of ripping people off the share the good news with 20 wants to do today with you friend and say tomorrow, Saturday. Right now nobody is ever known so much about you and love you so much pain that he felt on the cross was his.

The solution is his shame and agony with his but the decision is yours in the next moment you're going to decide whether you can accept the gracious offer of forgiveness from God. Are you going to reject friend. You know for sure that your sins have been forgiven.

You can know right now own Legion. A short simple prayer simply telling God you're sorry and asking him to help you to live for him. God wants you to pray this prayer so much that he died to give you the opportunity and the ability to ask him to forgive you. Please pray this prayer with me out loud right now. Dear Jesus, I believe you died for me that I could be forgiven and I believe you were raised from the dead that I can have a new life not done wrong things I have sent and I'm sorry. Please forgive me of all those things.

Please give me the power to live for you. All of my days in Jesus name, amen it friend if you prayed that prayer according to the Bible you've been forgiven you've been born again.

Jesus said he would not turn anybody away who comes to him and he came for those people who knew they needed forgiveness. Those who were sick, not the righteous.

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