00:00:00 --> 00:00:04 Well, if you'd like to get your Bibles, turn to Romans chapter 1.
00:00:06 --> 00:00:13 I've lived in Chatswood now for just over 13 years, and I can still remember vividly
00:00:13 --> 00:00:17 my first experience of moving to Chatswood.
00:00:17 --> 00:00:20 One of those experiences was rain.
00:00:22 --> 00:00:28 Amazingly, rain for me was weird in Chatswood because it came from every direction.
00:00:28 --> 00:00:35 My experience was rain always came from the west until I moved here and it came from
00:00:35 --> 00:00:37 any direction, unpredictably.
00:00:38 --> 00:00:41 Secondly, I noticed the noise never stopped.
00:00:42 --> 00:00:48 Thirdly, I remember not being able to sleep well because it was so bright at night.
00:00:48 --> 00:00:52 I was wondering who had left lights on in the house.
00:00:52 --> 00:00:57 Light pollution is a very real thing, and it's a real thing in Chatswood.
00:00:57 --> 00:01:03 It's not good for sleeping, but it is good if you want to go for a walk at night and
00:01:03 --> 00:01:04 you've forgotten your torch.
00:01:05 --> 00:01:12 The major downside is we miss something that is so glorious and spectacular.
00:01:13 --> 00:01:19 I have never experienced the wonder glittering night sky in Chatswood.
00:01:20 --> 00:01:20 Never.
00:01:21 --> 00:01:24 In 13 years, never seen it here at all.
00:01:24 --> 00:01:32 You've got to go west to experience the wonder of the universe and to sense your smallness.
00:01:33 --> 00:01:36 I've never seen the Milky Way or a shooting star in Chatswood.
00:01:37 --> 00:01:44 Every light I see in the sky in Chatswood at night is on track to land at Sydney Airport.
00:01:44 --> 00:01:49 Or it's on flashing the top of a building of a crane or something like that.
00:01:50 --> 00:02:04 What makes the heavenly lights so bright is and so attractive is that it's set against the scene of the ink blackness of the sprawling universe.
00:02:04 --> 00:02:09 That's what makes them stand out and so glorious.
00:02:10 --> 00:02:14 The night, the brighter the stars, and it's the same with the gospel.
00:02:15 --> 00:02:18 It's the same with the core message of the Christian faith.
00:02:19 --> 00:02:28 Last week, Romans chapter 1, verses 16 and 17, we investigated the Apostle Paul's thesis in a nutshell about the Christian faith.
00:02:28 --> 00:02:58 Why is that so glorious and spectacular?
00:02:58 --> 00:03:02 Why is that such great news?
00:03:03 --> 00:03:09 Why is receiving God's righteousness through Jesus Christ the only way to have a right standing with our creator God?
00:03:10 --> 00:03:17 We get the answer to that in verses 18 through to chapter 3, verse 20.
00:03:17 --> 00:03:28 What we have here is a devastating critique of human nature.
00:03:30 --> 00:03:43 It is a dark picture of humanity that shows us why we cannot earn, deserve, or attain righteousness ourselves.
00:03:43 --> 00:04:03 And yet it is against this spiritual backdrop of blackest night that the light of the good news of the gospel shines even brighter for us.
00:04:03 --> 00:04:10 So you've got an outline that will come up on the screen.
00:04:10 --> 00:04:11 Three major points.
00:04:11 --> 00:04:14 I'm going to kick off with revealing righteous anger.
00:04:15 --> 00:04:18 At the end of last week's text, it's as Paul's summary.
00:04:18 --> 00:04:22 His gospel nutshell, if you like, the heart of Christianity.
00:04:22 --> 00:04:24 He says, he writes here,
00:04:24 --> 00:04:32 I am not ashamed of the gospel because it is the power of God that brings salvation to everyone who believes.
00:04:32 --> 00:04:35 First to the Jew, then to the Gentile.
00:04:35 --> 00:04:40 For in the gospel, the righteousness of God is revealed.
00:04:41 --> 00:04:46 A righteousness that is by faith from first to last.
00:04:47 --> 00:04:47 First to last.
00:04:47 --> 00:04:53 Now in the original language, verse 18 begins with the word for.
00:04:54 --> 00:04:56 That is, it's connected, deeply connected.
00:04:56 --> 00:04:59 It flows directly on from verse 17.
00:05:00 --> 00:05:08 The connection is showing us that the gospel is necessary.
00:05:08 --> 00:05:17 Not just simply to make us happy or in John Piper's words, to give us a ticket out of hell.
00:05:18 --> 00:05:27 It is necessary because we have a big, big problem that needs to be resolved.
00:05:27 --> 00:05:37 And Paul's confidence, joy, and passion for the good news is resting on the assumption
00:05:37 --> 00:05:50 that all human beings, apart from Jesus, are under the righteous, justified anger of their creator God.
00:05:50 --> 00:05:56 Without a clear understanding of God's righteous anger,
00:05:57 --> 00:06:03 then the gift of his righteousness to us in Jesus will never thrill us,
00:06:04 --> 00:06:08 will never empower us, and it will never transform us.
00:06:08 --> 00:06:20 God's anger against human sin is a settled, fair, right, and a present reality.
00:06:22 --> 00:06:29 In verse 18, we are told that God's wrath is being revealed.
00:06:30 --> 00:06:36 It doesn't say that it will be revealed, but that it is being revealed.
00:06:36 --> 00:06:38 It's a reality now.
00:06:40 --> 00:06:44 And so it prompts two questions.
00:06:45 --> 00:06:49 The why question and the how question.
00:06:49 --> 00:06:52 Why is it being revealed and how is it being revealed?
00:06:53 --> 00:06:59 Verse 18 tells us that God is angry because of humanity's godlessness and wickedness.
00:07:00 --> 00:07:05 Godlessness is a word that summarizes, if you like,
00:07:05 --> 00:07:09 a disregard for God and a breaking of relationship with him.
00:07:10 --> 00:07:17 Wickedness is a word that summarizes disregard for people and breaking relationship with people.
00:07:17 --> 00:07:22 That is, it captures both our vertical and horizontal relationships.
00:07:23 --> 00:07:30 Mark chapter 12, verses 29 to 31 tells us the greatest commandment.
00:07:30 --> 00:07:34 It's to love God, love people, vertical and horizontal.
00:07:37 --> 00:07:43 Verses 19 and 20 says that the breaking of relationship with God and with people
00:07:43 --> 00:07:46 is something that all of us are responsible for.
00:07:46 --> 00:07:52 Since what may be known about God is plain to them, because God has made it plain to them,
00:07:53 --> 00:07:55 for since the creation of the world, God's invisible qualities,
00:07:56 --> 00:08:00 his eternal power and his divine nature have been clearly seen,
00:08:01 --> 00:08:06 being understood from what has been made, so that people are without excuse.
00:08:06 --> 00:08:15 So the beginning of verse 21 goes as far as saying that all human beings,
00:08:16 --> 00:08:21 everywhere and at all times, know God.
00:08:22 --> 00:08:23 They know God.
00:08:25 --> 00:08:32 God has made himself plain to them since and in the creation of the world.
00:08:32 --> 00:08:38 God reveals a God of eternal power, a being of divine nature,
00:08:39 --> 00:08:45 a God to whom we are utterly dependent and completely accountable.
00:08:48 --> 00:08:52 Now, creation doesn't reveal everything that we need to know about God.
00:08:52 --> 00:08:53 God is not.
00:08:53 --> 00:09:01 But it's not hard to conclude that if the universe is great,
00:09:02 --> 00:09:08 then there is something greater that is behind that universe.
00:09:11 --> 00:09:16 It philosophically does not work to hold to the view
00:09:16 --> 00:09:23 that there is a spectacular universe that happened by accident.
00:09:24 --> 00:09:30 It does not philosophically work to say that a God of order does not exist,
00:09:31 --> 00:09:38 but to point to scientific evidence at the same time.
00:09:38 --> 00:09:45 Scientific evidence works on the assumption of order and not chaos.
00:09:46 --> 00:09:52 But I'm not here to argue all those points.
00:09:53 --> 00:09:56 Verse 18 says that we suppress that truth.
00:09:57 --> 00:09:59 If we suppress that truth,
00:10:00 --> 00:10:03 we will never understand who we are
00:10:03 --> 00:10:06 or why the world is as it is.
00:10:07 --> 00:10:11 And so Paul says we are without excuse.
00:10:11 --> 00:10:14 As verse 21 says,
00:10:14 --> 00:10:15 every human knows God,
00:10:16 --> 00:10:20 but no human glorifies God or gives thanks to him.
00:10:21 --> 00:10:23 That is, God's issue with humanity
00:10:23 --> 00:10:27 is not so much that we're rude
00:10:27 --> 00:10:29 and that we've got bad manners.
00:10:30 --> 00:10:32 You know, I'm really cranky with people
00:10:32 --> 00:10:36 because they forgot to say please and thank you and pardon me.
00:10:36 --> 00:10:38 It's not that.
00:10:38 --> 00:10:43 The issue is that we are glory stealers.
00:10:43 --> 00:10:46 We are glory stealers.
00:10:46 --> 00:10:49 We take what God has made
00:10:49 --> 00:10:53 and we pass it off as if it's our own.
00:10:54 --> 00:10:55 Ours.
00:10:55 --> 00:10:58 Which really is another way of saying
00:10:58 --> 00:11:02 that we don't acknowledge our dependence upon our creator
00:11:02 --> 00:11:05 and we claim independence instead.
00:11:07 --> 00:11:09 We live under the illusion
00:11:09 --> 00:11:11 that we call the shots
00:11:11 --> 00:11:14 and that we can decide what is right
00:11:14 --> 00:11:15 and what is wrong.
00:11:17 --> 00:11:19 What's interesting in these verses
00:11:19 --> 00:11:21 is what it says
00:11:21 --> 00:11:24 about how we practice
00:11:24 --> 00:11:27 this suppression of the knowledge of God.
00:11:27 --> 00:11:29 We push it down.
00:11:29 --> 00:11:30 We hold it down.
00:11:32 --> 00:11:33 We are people
00:11:33 --> 00:11:35 made in the image of God
00:11:35 --> 00:11:37 and we are made to worship God.
00:11:37 --> 00:11:39 And when we reject God,
00:11:39 --> 00:11:42 we don't by nature stop worshipping.
00:11:43 --> 00:11:46 We transfer our worship to another thing.
00:11:47 --> 00:11:48 That's what we do.
00:11:48 --> 00:11:51 We simply shift at the object of our worship.
00:11:52 --> 00:11:54 Have a look at verse 23.
00:11:55 --> 00:11:57 They exchanged.
00:11:58 --> 00:12:00 It's a key word here in this text.
00:12:01 --> 00:12:04 Exchanged the glory of the immortal God
00:12:04 --> 00:12:08 for images made to look like a mortal human being
00:12:08 --> 00:12:10 and birds and animals and reptiles.
00:12:10 --> 00:12:12 It's there again in verse 25.
00:12:13 --> 00:12:17 They exchanged the truth about God for a lie
00:12:17 --> 00:12:19 and worshipped and served,
00:12:20 --> 00:12:22 created things rather than the creator.
00:12:24 --> 00:12:27 So people are created for worship
00:12:27 --> 00:12:32 and if they don't worship their creator God,
00:12:32 --> 00:12:35 then they worship something else.
00:12:35 --> 00:12:36 They don't stop worshipping.
00:12:36 --> 00:12:38 They just worship something else.
00:12:38 --> 00:12:42 There must be something which captures our attention,
00:12:43 --> 00:12:45 which shapes our hope
00:12:45 --> 00:12:48 and in which we put our security.
00:12:49 --> 00:12:52 It becomes our centre of our being.
00:12:53 --> 00:12:55 This thing we must have
00:12:55 --> 00:12:57 for our sense of validation
00:12:57 --> 00:12:58 and for our worth
00:12:58 --> 00:13:01 and whatever it is, we serve it.
00:13:01 --> 00:13:03 You can generally tell what it is
00:13:03 --> 00:13:06 because when I kick it for you,
00:13:06 --> 00:13:07 you get angry.
00:13:08 --> 00:13:12 When someone challenges it in any kind of way,
00:13:12 --> 00:13:15 your response is an angry response.
00:13:15 --> 00:13:19 We give ultimate affection
00:13:19 --> 00:13:22 to a created and a good thing
00:13:22 --> 00:13:25 rather than the God who alone
00:13:25 --> 00:13:27 is worthy of ultimate affection
00:13:27 --> 00:13:29 and ultimate worship.
00:13:30 --> 00:13:32 Rather than worshipping the immortal,
00:13:33 --> 00:13:36 we worship what he has made.
00:13:37 --> 00:13:39 That's why he is angry
00:13:39 --> 00:13:42 against humanity.
00:13:42 --> 00:13:45 But Paul also explains
00:13:45 --> 00:13:48 how God's anger is being revealed
00:13:48 --> 00:13:49 in the present here.
00:13:50 --> 00:13:51 Verse 24.
00:13:52 --> 00:13:56 Therefore, God gave them over
00:13:56 --> 00:13:59 in the sinful desires of their hearts.
00:14:00 --> 00:14:02 The two words sinful desires there
00:14:02 --> 00:14:03 in verse 24
00:14:03 --> 00:14:06 comes from a single word
00:14:06 --> 00:14:08 in the original New Testament language
00:14:08 --> 00:14:11 which literally means an over desire.
00:14:12 --> 00:14:13 An over desire.
00:14:13 --> 00:14:14 That is,
00:14:15 --> 00:14:19 it means an all controlling drive
00:14:19 --> 00:14:21 and longing and passion.
00:14:22 --> 00:14:24 The main issue for us
00:14:24 --> 00:14:26 is not so much
00:14:26 --> 00:14:28 that we have desires
00:14:28 --> 00:14:31 for evil and bad things,
00:14:32 --> 00:14:34 but that we have over desires
00:14:34 --> 00:14:36 for created good things.
00:14:37 --> 00:14:38 Over desires.
00:14:38 --> 00:14:40 Controlling passions for those things.
00:14:40 --> 00:14:42 We turn good,
00:14:42 --> 00:14:43 created things
00:14:43 --> 00:14:46 into ultimate God things.
00:14:47 --> 00:14:49 We go from good things
00:14:49 --> 00:14:49 to God things.
00:14:49 --> 00:14:51 We just take an O out
00:14:51 --> 00:14:52 is what we do.
00:14:52 --> 00:14:53 They go from being good things
00:14:53 --> 00:14:54 to God things.
00:14:56 --> 00:14:57 And those good things,
00:14:57 --> 00:14:58 when they become God things,
00:14:58 --> 00:15:00 turn into being evil things,
00:15:00 --> 00:15:01 bad things,
00:15:01 --> 00:15:02 destructive things.
00:15:02 --> 00:15:07 The worst thing that can happen to us
00:15:07 --> 00:15:10 is to be given
00:15:10 --> 00:15:13 what our hearts desire
00:15:13 --> 00:15:17 if it's not God.
00:15:18 --> 00:15:20 As Oscar Wilde,
00:15:20 --> 00:15:21 not a Christian himself,
00:15:21 --> 00:15:22 summed it up well,
00:15:23 --> 00:15:25 when the gods wish to punish us,
00:15:25 --> 00:15:27 they answer our prayers.
00:15:28 --> 00:15:30 They answer our prayers.
00:15:30 --> 00:15:33 God's judgment on godlessness
00:15:33 --> 00:15:34 and wickedness
00:15:34 --> 00:15:37 is to give us
00:15:37 --> 00:15:38 what we want.
00:15:41 --> 00:15:42 And that ultimately
00:15:42 --> 00:15:43 is the picture of hell.
00:15:45 --> 00:15:47 Every person who will be there
00:15:47 --> 00:15:49 will want to be there.
00:15:50 --> 00:15:52 It's what we have chosen
00:15:52 --> 00:15:52 for ourselves.
00:15:52 --> 00:15:57 Since our hearts
00:15:57 --> 00:15:58 were made to be centered
00:15:58 --> 00:15:58 on God
00:15:58 --> 00:16:01 and since he is our creator
00:16:01 --> 00:16:02 and our provider,
00:16:02 --> 00:16:04 the provider of our satisfaction
00:16:04 --> 00:16:05 and our significance
00:16:05 --> 00:16:06 and our identity,
00:16:06 --> 00:16:08 every alternative
00:16:08 --> 00:16:10 that we set our hearts on
00:16:10 --> 00:16:13 ultimately will not satisfy us.
00:16:13 --> 00:16:15 God gives us over
00:16:15 --> 00:16:17 to whatever it is
00:16:17 --> 00:16:18 that we have exchanged
00:16:18 --> 00:16:20 worship of God for
00:16:20 --> 00:16:21 and we will worship
00:16:21 --> 00:16:23 and we will serve those things.
00:16:23 --> 00:16:25 They will control us
00:16:25 --> 00:16:27 because they are not God
00:16:27 --> 00:16:28 and they will control us
00:16:28 --> 00:16:29 because they are not God.
00:16:29 --> 00:16:31 They will never satisfy us.
00:16:31 --> 00:16:33 They are created things.
00:16:33 --> 00:16:34 They are less than us
00:16:34 --> 00:16:37 and they will always control us.
00:16:38 --> 00:16:39 They will enslave us.
00:16:39 --> 00:16:41 We will always want more.
00:16:42 --> 00:16:43 The tragedy of humanity
00:16:43 --> 00:16:45 of which I am one.
00:16:45 --> 00:16:47 I want you to be clear about this.
00:16:47 --> 00:16:51 I am deeply in this text.
00:16:52 --> 00:16:54 The tragedy of my life
00:16:54 --> 00:16:54 and your life
00:16:54 --> 00:16:55 and humanity
00:16:55 --> 00:16:57 is we strive for
00:16:57 --> 00:16:59 and we fail to find
00:16:59 --> 00:17:00 in creation
00:17:00 --> 00:17:03 what we could simply receive
00:17:03 --> 00:17:04 and enjoy
00:17:04 --> 00:17:06 from our creator.
00:17:08 --> 00:17:10 We suppress the truth
00:17:10 --> 00:17:12 which would free
00:17:12 --> 00:17:13 and satisfy us.
00:17:13 --> 00:17:16 But the tragedy is
00:17:16 --> 00:17:18 what the heart loves
00:17:18 --> 00:17:20 the will chooses
00:17:20 --> 00:17:23 and the mind justifies.
00:17:25 --> 00:17:27 What the heart loves
00:17:27 --> 00:17:28 the will chooses
00:17:28 --> 00:17:30 and the mind justifies.
00:17:33 --> 00:17:33 Secondly
00:17:33 --> 00:17:36 revealing the consequences of sin
00:17:36 --> 00:17:38 until verse 24
00:17:38 --> 00:17:40 Paul's been focusing
00:17:40 --> 00:17:41 on humanity's
00:17:41 --> 00:17:42 vertical relationship
00:17:42 --> 00:17:43 with their creator.
00:17:44 --> 00:17:45 While not everything
00:17:45 --> 00:17:46 about him
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00:17:47 --> 00:17:48 from creation
00:17:48 --> 00:17:49 he has made
00:17:49 --> 00:17:50 his presence
00:17:50 --> 00:17:51 and his power
00:17:51 --> 00:17:52 known in the fabric
00:17:52 --> 00:17:53 of what he has made.
00:17:54 --> 00:17:54 Sin
00:17:54 --> 00:17:55 is where
00:17:55 --> 00:17:56 instead of
00:17:56 --> 00:17:57 honouring him
00:17:57 --> 00:17:58 by living
00:17:58 --> 00:17:59 independent
00:17:59 --> 00:17:59 gratitude
00:17:59 --> 00:18:01 we suppress the truth
00:18:01 --> 00:18:02 and we give honour
00:18:02 --> 00:18:04 to created things.
00:18:05 --> 00:18:05 But sin
00:18:05 --> 00:18:06 doesn't just ruin
00:18:06 --> 00:18:08 relationship with God
00:18:08 --> 00:18:08 it ruins
00:18:08 --> 00:18:09 everything else
00:18:09 --> 00:18:10 as well.
00:18:11 --> 00:18:11 Damaging our
00:18:11 --> 00:18:12 vertical relationships
00:18:12 --> 00:18:13 with God
00:18:13 --> 00:18:13 also damages
00:18:13 --> 00:18:14 our horizontal
00:18:14 --> 00:18:15 relationships
00:18:15 --> 00:18:16 with people.
00:18:16 --> 00:18:18 As I said previously
00:18:18 --> 00:18:18 and I'll say it again
00:18:18 --> 00:18:20 the word exchanged
00:18:20 --> 00:18:22 is key
00:18:22 --> 00:18:23 in understanding
00:18:23 --> 00:18:23 what sin is
00:18:23 --> 00:18:24 in verse 23
00:18:24 --> 00:18:26 and 25
00:18:26 --> 00:18:27 we exchange
00:18:27 --> 00:18:28 the created God
00:18:28 --> 00:18:30 for created things
00:18:30 --> 00:18:31 we make those things
00:18:31 --> 00:18:32 our God
00:18:32 --> 00:18:32 instead
00:18:32 --> 00:18:34 that is
00:18:34 --> 00:18:35 what we have here
00:18:35 --> 00:18:37 is an upheaval
00:18:37 --> 00:18:38 of the created order
00:18:38 --> 00:18:41 this exchanging
00:18:41 --> 00:18:42 and disordering
00:18:42 --> 00:18:43 of creation
00:18:43 --> 00:18:45 continues
00:18:45 --> 00:18:46 because of our
00:18:46 --> 00:18:48 fractured relationship
00:18:48 --> 00:18:48 with God
00:18:48 --> 00:18:49 it flows on
00:18:49 --> 00:18:50 from there
00:18:50 --> 00:18:51 and so in verses
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00:18:52 --> 00:18:53 because of this
00:18:53 --> 00:18:54 God gave them
00:18:54 --> 00:18:56 over to shameful lust
00:18:56 --> 00:18:57 even their women
00:18:57 --> 00:18:58 exchanged
00:18:58 --> 00:19:00 natural sexual relations
00:19:00 --> 00:19:01 for unnatural ones
00:19:01 --> 00:19:02 in the same way
00:19:02 --> 00:19:03 the men also
00:19:03 --> 00:19:04 abandoned
00:19:04 --> 00:19:05 natural relations
00:19:05 --> 00:19:05 with women
00:19:05 --> 00:19:06 and were inflamed
00:19:06 --> 00:19:07 with lust
00:19:07 --> 00:19:07 for one another
00:19:07 --> 00:19:08 men committed
00:19:08 --> 00:19:09 shameful acts
00:19:09 --> 00:19:10 with other men
00:19:10 --> 00:19:11 and received
00:19:11 --> 00:19:12 in themselves
00:19:12 --> 00:19:12 the due penalty
00:19:12 --> 00:19:13 for their error
00:19:13 --> 00:19:15 and this is one
00:19:15 --> 00:19:15 of the more
00:19:15 --> 00:19:18 controversial passages
00:19:18 --> 00:19:18 in the Bible
00:19:18 --> 00:19:20 it's the longest
00:19:20 --> 00:19:21 passage on the Bible
00:19:21 --> 00:19:22 on the issue
00:19:22 --> 00:19:23 of homosexuality
00:19:23 --> 00:19:25 let me say
00:19:25 --> 00:19:26 that more recently
00:19:26 --> 00:19:27 many have attempted
00:19:27 --> 00:19:28 to suggest
00:19:28 --> 00:19:29 that the
00:19:29 --> 00:19:30 historic
00:19:30 --> 00:19:33 traditional
00:19:33 --> 00:19:34 understanding
00:19:34 --> 00:19:34 of these verses
00:19:34 --> 00:19:35 has been mistaken
00:19:35 --> 00:19:38 for instance
00:19:38 --> 00:19:39 there is a suggestion
00:19:39 --> 00:19:40 that these verses
00:19:40 --> 00:19:41 refer to people
00:19:41 --> 00:19:42 who act against
00:19:42 --> 00:19:44 their own nature
00:19:44 --> 00:19:46 rather than
00:19:46 --> 00:19:46 the nature
00:19:46 --> 00:19:48 however
00:19:48 --> 00:19:49 there's a number
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00:19:50 --> 00:19:50 against that
00:19:50 --> 00:19:52 the reference
00:19:52 --> 00:19:52 to unnatural
00:19:52 --> 00:19:53 relations
00:19:53 --> 00:19:54 in verses 26
00:19:54 --> 00:19:55 and 27
00:19:55 --> 00:19:56 is literally
00:19:56 --> 00:19:58 against nature
00:19:58 --> 00:20:00 against nature
00:20:00 --> 00:20:02 in the original
00:20:02 --> 00:20:02 language
00:20:02 --> 00:20:03 that is
00:20:03 --> 00:20:05 homosexual practice
00:20:05 --> 00:20:05 and I'm talking
00:20:05 --> 00:20:06 about practice
00:20:06 --> 00:20:06 here
00:20:06 --> 00:20:08 not orientation
00:20:08 --> 00:20:09 homosexual practice
00:20:09 --> 00:20:11 is a violation
00:20:11 --> 00:20:13 of the nature
00:20:13 --> 00:20:14 the created
00:20:14 --> 00:20:16 nature of God
00:20:16 --> 00:20:17 Paul does not
00:20:17 --> 00:20:17 here
00:20:17 --> 00:20:18 state
00:20:18 --> 00:20:19 these people
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00:27:54 --> 00:27:57 let me
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00:28:00 --> 00:28:00 issue
00:28:00 --> 00:28:03 elsewhere
00:28:03 --> 00:28:03 in his
00:28:03 --> 00:28:04 letters
00:28:04 --> 00:28:05 Paul
00:28:05 --> 00:28:06 mentions
00:28:06 --> 00:28:06 other
00:28:06 --> 00:28:07 examples
00:28:07 --> 00:28:08 of
00:28:08 --> 00:28:09 idolatrous
00:28:09 --> 00:28:09 behaviour
00:28:09 --> 00:28:10 he doesn't
00:28:10 --> 00:28:11 just think
00:28:11 --> 00:28:11 of sex
00:28:11 --> 00:28:12 as idolatrous
00:28:12 --> 00:28:12 behaviour
00:28:12 --> 00:28:13 other
00:28:13 --> 00:28:13 examples
00:28:13 --> 00:28:14 of idolatrous
00:28:14 --> 00:28:14 behaviour
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00:28:15 --> 00:28:15 in
00:28:15 --> 00:28:16 Colossians
00:28:16 --> 00:28:16 3
00:28:16 --> 00:28:17 verse 5
00:28:17 --> 00:28:18 he calls
00:28:18 --> 00:28:18 greed
00:28:18 --> 00:28:20 idolatry
00:28:20 --> 00:28:21 that is
00:28:21 --> 00:28:22 greed
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00:28:23 --> 00:28:25 for more
00:28:25 --> 00:28:26 more
00:28:26 --> 00:28:27 my sense
00:28:27 --> 00:28:27 of worth
00:28:27 --> 00:28:28 validation
00:28:28 --> 00:28:29 is in
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00:28:30 --> 00:28:31 and my
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00:28:34 --> 00:28:36 that is
00:28:36 --> 00:28:36 greed
00:28:36 --> 00:28:38 is just
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00:28:40 --> 00:28:41 idolatry
00:28:41 --> 00:28:42 and a
00:28:42 --> 00:28:43 giving over
00:28:43 --> 00:28:44 as sexual
00:28:44 --> 00:28:45 immorality
00:28:45 --> 00:28:45 is
00:28:45 --> 00:28:48 I'll go
00:28:48 --> 00:28:49 even further
00:28:49 --> 00:28:51 Galatians
00:28:51 --> 00:28:51 4
00:28:51 --> 00:28:52 verses
00:28:52 --> 00:28:52 8
00:28:52 --> 00:28:52 and 9
00:28:52 --> 00:28:53 Paul
00:28:53 --> 00:28:54 addresses
00:28:54 --> 00:28:54 Christians
00:28:54 --> 00:28:55 who have
00:28:55 --> 00:28:56 been pagans
00:28:56 --> 00:28:57 before they
00:28:57 --> 00:28:57 became
00:28:57 --> 00:28:58 Christians
00:28:58 --> 00:28:59 in Jesus
00:28:59 --> 00:29:00 and who
00:29:00 --> 00:29:01 are now
00:29:01 --> 00:29:01 tempted
00:29:01 --> 00:29:03 to take
00:29:03 --> 00:29:03 on
00:29:03 --> 00:29:04 Jewish
00:29:04 --> 00:29:04 religious
00:29:04 --> 00:29:05 laws
00:29:05 --> 00:29:06 in order
00:29:06 --> 00:29:06 to be
00:29:06 --> 00:29:07 saved
00:29:07 --> 00:29:08 this is
00:29:08 --> 00:29:08 what he
00:29:08 --> 00:29:08 says
00:29:08 --> 00:29:09 formally
00:29:09 --> 00:29:10 when you
00:29:10 --> 00:29:11 did not
00:29:11 --> 00:29:11 know
00:29:11 --> 00:29:11 God
00:29:11 --> 00:29:12 you were
00:29:12 --> 00:29:12 slaves
00:29:12 --> 00:29:13 to those
00:29:13 --> 00:29:13 who by
00:29:13 --> 00:29:14 nature
00:29:14 --> 00:29:14 are not
00:29:14 --> 00:29:15 gods
00:29:15 --> 00:29:16 but now
00:29:16 --> 00:29:16 that you
00:29:16 --> 00:29:17 know
00:29:17 --> 00:29:17 God
00:29:17 --> 00:29:18 or rather
00:29:18 --> 00:29:18 are known
00:29:18 --> 00:29:19 by God
00:29:19 --> 00:29:20 how is it
00:29:20 --> 00:29:21 that you
00:29:21 --> 00:29:21 are turning
00:29:21 --> 00:29:22 back to
00:29:22 --> 00:29:22 those
00:29:22 --> 00:29:23 weak
00:29:23 --> 00:29:24 and miserable
00:29:24 --> 00:29:24 forces
00:29:24 --> 00:29:25 do you
00:29:25 --> 00:29:25 think
00:29:25 --> 00:29:26 do you
00:29:26 --> 00:29:26 wish to
00:29:26 --> 00:29:27 be enslaved
00:29:27 --> 00:29:28 by them
00:29:28 --> 00:29:29 all over
00:29:29 --> 00:29:29 again
00:29:29 --> 00:29:31 Paul's
00:29:31 --> 00:29:31 point
00:29:31 --> 00:29:32 there
00:29:32 --> 00:29:33 is
00:29:33 --> 00:29:33 that the
00:29:33 --> 00:29:34 seeking
00:29:34 --> 00:29:35 of blessing
00:29:35 --> 00:29:36 and salvation
00:29:36 --> 00:29:38 through
00:29:38 --> 00:29:39 biblical
00:29:39 --> 00:29:40 morality
00:29:40 --> 00:29:42 through
00:29:42 --> 00:29:43 religious
00:29:43 --> 00:29:44 practice
00:29:44 --> 00:29:46 is
00:29:46 --> 00:29:46 just
00:29:46 --> 00:29:47 as much
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00:29:48 --> 00:29:49 idolatry
00:29:49 --> 00:29:50 as
00:29:50 --> 00:29:50 greed
00:29:50 --> 00:29:51 and
00:29:51 --> 00:29:51 sexual
00:29:51 --> 00:29:52 immorality
00:29:52 --> 00:29:54 we
00:29:54 --> 00:29:55 worship
00:29:55 --> 00:29:55 whatever
00:29:55 --> 00:29:56 we think
00:29:56 --> 00:29:57 will give
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00:29:58 --> 00:29:58 sense
00:29:58 --> 00:29:58 of
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00:29:59 --> 00:30:00 worth
00:30:00 --> 00:30:01 validation
00:30:01 --> 00:30:02 and a
00:30:02 --> 00:30:02 sense
00:30:02 --> 00:30:02 of
00:30:02 --> 00:30:03 fulfillment
00:30:03 --> 00:30:05 if we
00:30:05 --> 00:30:05 do not
00:30:05 --> 00:30:05 worship
00:30:05 --> 00:30:06 our
00:30:06 --> 00:30:06 creator
00:30:06 --> 00:30:07 God
00:30:07 --> 00:30:08 then we
00:30:08 --> 00:30:08 will
00:30:08 --> 00:30:08 worship
00:30:08 --> 00:30:09 something
00:30:09 --> 00:30:09 else
00:30:09 --> 00:30:10 it could
00:30:10 --> 00:30:11 well be
00:30:11 --> 00:30:11 sexual
00:30:11 --> 00:30:12 gratification
00:30:12 --> 00:30:13 increasing
00:30:13 --> 00:30:14 our wealth
00:30:14 --> 00:30:14 and our
00:30:14 --> 00:30:15 possessions
00:30:15 --> 00:30:16 or
00:30:16 --> 00:30:16 practicing
00:30:16 --> 00:30:18 religion
00:30:18 --> 00:30:19 the point
00:30:19 --> 00:30:20 is
00:30:20 --> 00:30:21 none of
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00:30:22 --> 00:30:23 and this
00:30:23 --> 00:30:24 is absolutely
00:30:24 --> 00:30:24 essential
00:30:24 --> 00:30:25 for us
00:30:25 --> 00:30:25 to get
00:30:25 --> 00:30:26 none of
00:30:26 --> 00:30:27 these
00:30:27 --> 00:30:27 things
00:30:27 --> 00:30:29 are
00:30:29 --> 00:30:30 more
00:30:30 --> 00:30:31 or
00:30:31 --> 00:30:31 less
00:30:31 --> 00:30:32 serious
00:30:32 --> 00:30:33 than
00:30:33 --> 00:30:33 the
00:30:33 --> 00:30:33 others
00:30:33 --> 00:30:36 this
00:30:36 --> 00:30:37 leads me
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00:30:38 --> 00:30:40 while
00:30:40 --> 00:30:41 I want
00:30:41 --> 00:30:41 to
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00:30:41 --> 00:30:42 that
00:30:42 --> 00:30:42 homosexual
00:30:42 --> 00:30:43 practice
00:30:43 --> 00:30:44 is a
00:30:44 --> 00:30:44 sin
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00:30:45 --> 00:30:46 all
00:30:46 --> 00:30:46 sexual
00:30:46 --> 00:30:47 immorality
00:30:47 --> 00:30:48 as a
00:30:48 --> 00:30:48 sin
00:30:48 --> 00:30:51 it is
00:30:51 --> 00:30:52 not the
00:30:52 --> 00:30:52 worst
00:30:52 --> 00:30:52 sin
00:30:52 --> 00:30:55 it is
00:30:55 --> 00:30:55 not the
00:30:55 --> 00:30:56 worst
00:30:56 --> 00:30:56 sin
00:30:56 --> 00:30:59 all
00:30:59 --> 00:30:59 sexual
00:30:59 --> 00:31:00 immorality
00:31:00 --> 00:31:00 is
00:31:00 --> 00:31:00 sinful
00:31:00 --> 00:31:02 including
00:31:02 --> 00:31:02 you
00:31:02 --> 00:31:03 married
00:31:03 --> 00:31:03 men
00:31:03 --> 00:31:04 who are
00:31:04 --> 00:31:04 engaged
00:31:04 --> 00:31:04 in
00:31:04 --> 00:31:05 pornography
00:31:05 --> 00:31:06 it's
00:31:06 --> 00:31:07 sinful
00:31:07 --> 00:31:09 sexual
00:31:09 --> 00:31:10 immorality
00:31:10 --> 00:31:14 and
00:31:14 --> 00:31:14 Paul
00:31:14 --> 00:31:15 will in
00:31:15 --> 00:31:15 a moment
00:31:15 --> 00:31:15 go on
00:31:15 --> 00:31:16 and list
00:31:16 --> 00:31:16 a whole
00:31:16 --> 00:31:16 bunch
00:31:16 --> 00:31:17 of sins
00:31:17 --> 00:31:17 in the
00:31:17 --> 00:31:18 following
00:31:18 --> 00:31:18 verses
00:31:18 --> 00:31:20 and he
00:31:20 --> 00:31:20 calls
00:31:20 --> 00:31:21 all of
00:31:21 --> 00:31:21 these
00:31:21 --> 00:31:21 acts
00:31:21 --> 00:31:22 wickedness
00:31:22 --> 00:31:22 that flow
00:31:22 --> 00:31:23 out of
00:31:23 --> 00:31:23 rejection
00:31:23 --> 00:31:24 of the
00:31:24 --> 00:31:24 truth
00:31:24 --> 00:31:25 of God
00:31:25 --> 00:31:27 so
00:31:27 --> 00:31:27 friends
00:31:27 --> 00:31:27 what I
00:31:27 --> 00:31:28 want to
00:31:28 --> 00:31:28 do
00:31:28 --> 00:31:28 here
00:31:28 --> 00:31:28 the
00:31:28 --> 00:31:29 line
00:31:29 --> 00:31:29 I
00:31:29 --> 00:31:29 want us
00:31:29 --> 00:31:29 to walk
00:31:29 --> 00:31:30 as a
00:31:30 --> 00:31:30 church
00:31:30 --> 00:31:32 is to
00:31:32 --> 00:31:33 have such
00:31:33 --> 00:31:33 confidence
00:31:33 --> 00:31:34 in God
00:31:34 --> 00:31:34 and his
00:31:34 --> 00:31:35 word
00:31:35 --> 00:31:36 that we
00:31:36 --> 00:31:37 call sin
00:31:37 --> 00:31:38 what he
00:31:38 --> 00:31:39 calls sin
00:31:39 --> 00:31:41 I do
00:31:41 --> 00:31:41 want to
00:31:41 --> 00:31:42 avoid the
00:31:42 --> 00:31:42 error of
00:31:42 --> 00:31:43 some
00:31:43 --> 00:31:44 churches
00:31:44 --> 00:31:45 possibly
00:31:45 --> 00:31:46 for some
00:31:46 --> 00:31:47 in a
00:31:47 --> 00:31:48 desire for
00:31:48 --> 00:31:48 relevance
00:31:48 --> 00:31:49 and to
00:31:49 --> 00:31:50 be welcoming
00:31:50 --> 00:31:51 and loving
00:31:51 --> 00:31:52 for those
00:31:52 --> 00:31:53 of the
00:31:53 --> 00:31:55 homosexual
00:31:55 --> 00:31:56 community
00:31:56 --> 00:31:57 and others
00:31:57 --> 00:31:59 and I
00:31:59 --> 00:32:01 embrace
00:32:01 --> 00:32:02 that idea
00:32:02 --> 00:32:04 but what
00:32:04 --> 00:32:05 they've done
00:32:05 --> 00:32:05 in that
00:32:05 --> 00:32:06 they have
00:32:06 --> 00:32:07 downplayed
00:32:07 --> 00:32:07 or denied
00:32:07 --> 00:32:08 the clear
00:32:08 --> 00:32:08 teaching of
00:32:08 --> 00:32:09 scripture
00:32:09 --> 00:32:09 on this
00:32:09 --> 00:32:10 issue
00:32:10 --> 00:32:12 I also
00:32:12 --> 00:32:13 at the
00:32:13 --> 00:32:13 same time
00:32:13 --> 00:32:14 want to
00:32:14 --> 00:32:14 avoid the
00:32:14 --> 00:32:15 error of
00:32:15 --> 00:32:16 those who
00:32:16 --> 00:32:16 take the
00:32:16 --> 00:32:16 Bible
00:32:16 --> 00:32:17 seriously
00:32:17 --> 00:32:17 on
00:32:17 --> 00:32:18 homosexuality
00:32:18 --> 00:32:20 but do
00:32:20 --> 00:32:21 so
00:32:21 --> 00:32:22 from a
00:32:22 --> 00:32:22 very
00:32:22 --> 00:32:23 self
00:32:23 --> 00:32:23 righteous
00:32:23 --> 00:32:24 way
00:32:24 --> 00:32:26 for them
00:32:26 --> 00:32:28 this is
00:32:28 --> 00:32:28 the sin
00:32:28 --> 00:32:30 that really
00:32:30 --> 00:32:30 matters
00:32:30 --> 00:32:34 they may
00:32:34 --> 00:32:34 not do it
00:32:34 --> 00:32:35 overtly
00:32:35 --> 00:32:37 and you
00:32:37 --> 00:32:38 may not do
00:32:38 --> 00:32:38 it overtly
00:32:38 --> 00:32:40 but they
00:32:40 --> 00:32:41 speak and
00:32:41 --> 00:32:41 live
00:32:41 --> 00:32:43 as if
00:32:43 --> 00:32:44 this is
00:32:44 --> 00:32:44 it
00:32:44 --> 00:32:45 this is
00:32:45 --> 00:32:46 the sin
00:32:46 --> 00:32:50 they do
00:32:50 --> 00:32:51 not seek
00:32:51 --> 00:32:51 to love
00:32:51 --> 00:32:52 and welcome
00:32:52 --> 00:32:53 gay people
00:32:53 --> 00:32:56 but they
00:32:56 --> 00:32:57 seek to
00:32:57 --> 00:32:57 love and
00:32:57 --> 00:32:58 get alongside
00:32:58 --> 00:32:58 their Hindu
00:32:58 --> 00:32:59 neighbours
00:32:59 --> 00:33:01 or their
00:33:01 --> 00:33:02 friends who
00:33:02 --> 00:33:02 are committing
00:33:02 --> 00:33:03 adultery
00:33:03 --> 00:33:06 or some
00:33:06 --> 00:33:07 other sexual
00:33:07 --> 00:33:07 sin
00:33:07 --> 00:33:12 Romans 1
00:33:12 --> 00:33:12 is not
00:33:12 --> 00:33:12 doing either
00:33:12 --> 00:33:13 of those
00:33:13 --> 00:33:13 things here
00:33:13 --> 00:33:17 Paul is
00:33:17 --> 00:33:17 not saying
00:33:17 --> 00:33:18 it doesn't
00:33:18 --> 00:33:18 matter what
00:33:18 --> 00:33:18 you do
00:33:18 --> 00:33:19 God's
00:33:19 --> 00:33:19 okay with
00:33:19 --> 00:33:20 it so
00:33:20 --> 00:33:20 get along
00:33:20 --> 00:33:20 with it
00:33:20 --> 00:33:21 and be
00:33:21 --> 00:33:21 happy
00:33:21 --> 00:33:21 he's not
00:33:21 --> 00:33:22 saying that
00:33:22 --> 00:33:23 but he's
00:33:23 --> 00:33:24 also not
00:33:24 --> 00:33:24 saying what
00:33:24 --> 00:33:25 you do
00:33:25 --> 00:33:25 matters so
00:33:25 --> 00:33:26 much
00:33:26 --> 00:33:27 that I
00:33:27 --> 00:33:27 don't want
00:33:27 --> 00:33:27 to love
00:33:27 --> 00:33:27 you
00:33:27 --> 00:33:28 I don't
00:33:28 --> 00:33:28 want to
00:33:28 --> 00:33:29 witness
00:33:29 --> 00:33:29 to you
00:33:29 --> 00:33:30 and if
00:33:30 --> 00:33:31 you are
00:33:31 --> 00:33:32 somehow
00:33:32 --> 00:33:33 that's as if
00:33:33 --> 00:33:33 somehow you're
00:33:33 --> 00:33:34 beyond the
00:33:34 --> 00:33:34 gospel
00:33:34 --> 00:33:35 or that you're
00:33:35 --> 00:33:36 beyond God's
00:33:36 --> 00:33:36 mercy
00:33:36 --> 00:33:37 or you're
00:33:37 --> 00:33:38 beyond the
00:33:38 --> 00:33:38 welcoming and
00:33:38 --> 00:33:39 embracing
00:33:39 --> 00:33:41 of the local
00:33:41 --> 00:33:41 church
00:33:41 --> 00:33:44 can I say
00:33:44 --> 00:33:45 that you
00:33:45 --> 00:33:46 can always
00:33:46 --> 00:33:47 tell if the
00:33:47 --> 00:33:47 latter is
00:33:47 --> 00:33:48 ultimately your
00:33:48 --> 00:33:49 attitude
00:33:49 --> 00:33:51 because you
00:33:51 --> 00:33:52 will see
00:33:52 --> 00:33:53 sexual sin
00:33:53 --> 00:33:54 and in our
00:33:54 --> 00:33:54 day and age
00:33:54 --> 00:33:55 you will see
00:33:55 --> 00:33:56 homosexuality
00:33:56 --> 00:33:57 as a
00:33:57 --> 00:33:57 perversion
00:33:57 --> 00:34:02 but you
00:34:02 --> 00:34:02 do not see
00:34:02 --> 00:34:03 your gossip
00:34:03 --> 00:34:05 your greed
00:34:05 --> 00:34:07 your rampant
00:34:07 --> 00:34:08 materialism
00:34:08 --> 00:34:10 your slandering
00:34:10 --> 00:34:10 of another
00:34:10 --> 00:34:11 your anger
00:34:11 --> 00:34:12 you don't see
00:34:12 --> 00:34:13 any of those
00:34:13 --> 00:34:13 things a
00:34:13 --> 00:34:14 perversion
00:34:14 --> 00:34:15 you don't
00:34:15 --> 00:34:15 feel the
00:34:15 --> 00:34:16 weight of
00:34:16 --> 00:34:16 any of
00:34:16 --> 00:34:16 that
00:34:16 --> 00:34:24 how can
00:34:24 --> 00:34:25 you possibly
00:34:25 --> 00:34:25 think
00:34:25 --> 00:34:27 that one
00:34:27 --> 00:34:28 sin like
00:34:28 --> 00:34:29 sexual sin
00:34:29 --> 00:34:29 is a
00:34:29 --> 00:34:29 perversion
00:34:29 --> 00:34:30 but your
00:34:30 --> 00:34:31 impatience is
00:34:31 --> 00:34:32 justified in
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00:34:33 --> 00:34:40 we do
00:34:40 --> 00:34:41 not have a
00:34:41 --> 00:34:41 hierarchy
00:34:41 --> 00:34:42 of sin
00:34:42 --> 00:34:45 there is
00:34:45 --> 00:34:46 no gospel
00:34:46 --> 00:34:46 breakthrough
00:34:46 --> 00:34:47 for any
00:34:47 --> 00:34:47 of us
00:34:47 --> 00:34:48 until we
00:34:48 --> 00:34:49 feel the
00:34:49 --> 00:34:49 weight of
00:34:49 --> 00:34:50 our sin
00:34:50 --> 00:34:51 not someone
00:34:51 --> 00:34:51 else's sin
00:34:51 --> 00:34:52 our sin
00:34:52 --> 00:34:57 and so
00:34:57 --> 00:34:57 that is the
00:34:57 --> 00:34:58 first step
00:34:58 --> 00:34:58 needed to
00:34:58 --> 00:34:59 break through
00:34:59 --> 00:34:59 to gospel
00:34:59 --> 00:35:00 hope and for
00:35:00 --> 00:35:01 a joy and
00:35:01 --> 00:35:01 freedom
00:35:01 --> 00:35:03 is to be
00:35:03 --> 00:35:03 confronted by
00:35:03 --> 00:35:04 our own
00:35:04 --> 00:35:04 sinfulness
00:35:04 --> 00:35:06 our own
00:35:06 --> 00:35:06 sinfulness
00:35:06 --> 00:35:08 we need to
00:35:08 --> 00:35:10 come to
00:35:10 --> 00:35:10 that place
00:35:10 --> 00:35:11 where we
00:35:11 --> 00:35:12 realize like
00:35:12 --> 00:35:12 the apostle
00:35:12 --> 00:35:13 Paul in
00:35:13 --> 00:35:14 1 Timothy
00:35:14 --> 00:35:15 1 15
00:35:15 --> 00:35:17 I
00:35:17 --> 00:35:19 I am
00:35:19 --> 00:35:20 the worst
00:35:20 --> 00:35:21 sinner I
00:35:21 --> 00:35:22 know
00:35:22 --> 00:35:25 me
00:35:25 --> 00:35:29 if you
00:35:29 --> 00:35:29 can
00:35:29 --> 00:35:30 specifically
00:35:30 --> 00:35:32 outline
00:35:32 --> 00:35:33 a history
00:35:33 --> 00:35:34 of people's
00:35:34 --> 00:35:35 sin
00:35:35 --> 00:35:35 against you
00:35:35 --> 00:35:36 but you
00:35:36 --> 00:35:37 cannot go
00:35:37 --> 00:35:38 clearly to
00:35:38 --> 00:35:38 your own
00:35:38 --> 00:35:39 sin
00:35:39 --> 00:35:40 and if
00:35:40 --> 00:35:40 one makes
00:35:40 --> 00:35:41 you angry
00:35:41 --> 00:35:41 and the
00:35:41 --> 00:35:42 other one
00:35:42 --> 00:35:42 doesn't
00:35:42 --> 00:35:43 break you
00:35:43 --> 00:35:44 you haven't
00:35:44 --> 00:35:44 yet had
00:35:44 --> 00:35:45 gospel
00:35:45 --> 00:35:45 breakthrough
00:35:45 --> 00:35:47 you're living
00:35:47 --> 00:35:48 in Chatswood
00:35:48 --> 00:35:48 with light
00:35:48 --> 00:35:49 pollution
00:35:49 --> 00:35:50 you can't
00:35:50 --> 00:35:50 see the
00:35:50 --> 00:35:51 glory of
00:35:51 --> 00:35:52 the stars
00:35:52 --> 00:35:58 if Jesus
00:35:58 --> 00:35:59 would come
00:35:59 --> 00:36:00 and die
00:36:00 --> 00:36:01 for my
00:36:01 --> 00:36:01 sin
00:36:01 --> 00:36:02 then there
00:36:02 --> 00:36:02 is no
00:36:02 --> 00:36:03 one he
00:36:03 --> 00:36:04 would not
00:36:04 --> 00:36:04 die for
00:36:04 --> 00:36:07 I've already
00:36:07 --> 00:36:07 jumped into my
00:36:07 --> 00:36:08 third point
00:36:08 --> 00:36:09 seeing ourselves
00:36:09 --> 00:36:09 here
00:36:09 --> 00:36:11 that's my
00:36:11 --> 00:36:12 final point
00:36:12 --> 00:36:12 we see
00:36:12 --> 00:36:13 ourselves
00:36:13 --> 00:36:13 in this
00:36:13 --> 00:36:14 text
00:36:14 --> 00:36:15 Romans 1
00:36:15 --> 00:36:16 is not
00:36:16 --> 00:36:17 about some
00:36:17 --> 00:36:17 people
00:36:17 --> 00:36:18 it's about
00:36:18 --> 00:36:18 all of us
00:36:18 --> 00:36:19 one way or
00:36:19 --> 00:36:19 another
00:36:19 --> 00:36:21 verses 28
00:36:21 --> 00:36:22 to 32
00:36:22 --> 00:36:23 we have
00:36:23 --> 00:36:23 this
00:36:23 --> 00:36:24 unsettling
00:36:24 --> 00:36:25 list
00:36:25 --> 00:36:26 not an
00:36:26 --> 00:36:27 exhaustive
00:36:27 --> 00:36:27 list
00:36:27 --> 00:36:28 but an
00:36:28 --> 00:36:28 unsettling
00:36:28 --> 00:36:29 list
00:36:29 --> 00:36:30 of an
00:36:30 --> 00:36:30 outworking
00:36:30 --> 00:36:31 of idolatry
00:36:31 --> 00:36:32 it's the
00:36:32 --> 00:36:33 outworking
00:36:33 --> 00:36:33 of the
00:36:33 --> 00:36:33 suppression
00:36:33 --> 00:36:34 of the
00:36:34 --> 00:36:34 knowledge
00:36:34 --> 00:36:35 of God
00:36:35 --> 00:36:37 of not
00:36:37 --> 00:36:37 thinking it
00:36:37 --> 00:36:38 worthwhile
00:36:38 --> 00:36:39 to retain
00:36:39 --> 00:36:40 the knowledge
00:36:40 --> 00:36:40 of God
00:36:40 --> 00:36:41 the list
00:36:41 --> 00:36:41 is an
00:36:41 --> 00:36:41 all
00:36:41 --> 00:36:44 encompassing
00:36:44 --> 00:36:44 list
00:36:44 --> 00:36:44 even if
00:36:44 --> 00:36:45 it's not
00:36:45 --> 00:36:45 detailed
00:36:45 --> 00:36:46 that is
00:36:46 --> 00:36:47 it includes
00:36:47 --> 00:36:48 economic
00:36:48 --> 00:36:49 disorder
00:36:49 --> 00:36:49 in verse
00:36:49 --> 00:36:50 29
00:36:50 --> 00:36:51 with greed
00:36:51 --> 00:36:53 in getting
00:36:53 --> 00:36:53 verse 29
00:36:53 --> 00:36:54 social
00:36:54 --> 00:36:54 disorder
00:36:54 --> 00:36:55 with murder
00:36:55 --> 00:36:56 and strife
00:36:56 --> 00:36:56 and deceit
00:36:56 --> 00:36:57 and malice
00:36:57 --> 00:36:58 in verse
00:36:58 --> 00:36:59 30
00:36:59 --> 00:37:00 we family
00:37:00 --> 00:37:01 disorder
00:37:01 --> 00:37:02 with disobeying
00:37:02 --> 00:37:03 parents
00:37:03 --> 00:37:05 in verse
00:37:05 --> 00:37:05 31
00:37:05 --> 00:37:06 further
00:37:06 --> 00:37:06 relational
00:37:06 --> 00:37:07 disorder
00:37:07 --> 00:37:08 with senselessness
00:37:08 --> 00:37:09 and faithless
00:37:09 --> 00:37:10 and heartless
00:37:10 --> 00:37:11 and ruthless
00:37:11 --> 00:37:12 the point
00:37:12 --> 00:37:13 this all
00:37:13 --> 00:37:14 points to
00:37:14 --> 00:37:16 what is
00:37:16 --> 00:37:17 known here
00:37:17 --> 00:37:17 as
00:37:17 --> 00:37:19 historically
00:37:19 --> 00:37:21 the Christian
00:37:21 --> 00:37:21 doctrine
00:37:21 --> 00:37:22 of total
00:37:22 --> 00:37:22 depravity
00:37:22 --> 00:37:24 it touches
00:37:24 --> 00:37:24 everything
00:37:24 --> 00:37:25 it means
00:37:25 --> 00:37:25 that sin
00:37:25 --> 00:37:26 has touched
00:37:26 --> 00:37:28 every single
00:37:28 --> 00:37:28 part
00:37:28 --> 00:37:30 of who we
00:37:30 --> 00:37:30 are
00:37:30 --> 00:37:31 and everything
00:37:31 --> 00:37:31 that we
00:37:31 --> 00:37:31 do
00:37:31 --> 00:37:33 it doesn't
00:37:33 --> 00:37:33 mean that
00:37:33 --> 00:37:33 we're
00:37:33 --> 00:37:34 that human
00:37:34 --> 00:37:34 beings
00:37:34 --> 00:37:35 are as bad
00:37:35 --> 00:37:35 as they
00:37:35 --> 00:37:36 possibly
00:37:36 --> 00:37:37 could be
00:37:37 --> 00:37:38 because God's
00:37:38 --> 00:37:39 grace to
00:37:39 --> 00:37:40 all of
00:37:40 --> 00:37:40 humanity
00:37:40 --> 00:37:42 is that he
00:37:42 --> 00:37:42 doesn't just
00:37:42 --> 00:37:43 hand us
00:37:43 --> 00:37:44 over to the
00:37:44 --> 00:37:45 full extent
00:37:45 --> 00:37:45 of our
00:37:45 --> 00:37:46 sin
00:37:46 --> 00:37:47 he by his
00:37:47 --> 00:37:47 grace
00:37:47 --> 00:37:48 restrains
00:37:48 --> 00:37:49 so much
00:37:49 --> 00:37:49 wickedness
00:37:49 --> 00:37:52 hell
00:37:52 --> 00:37:53 is where
00:37:53 --> 00:37:53 he lets
00:37:53 --> 00:37:54 go
00:37:54 --> 00:37:57 and you're
00:37:57 --> 00:37:57 on your
00:37:57 --> 00:37:57 own
00:37:57 --> 00:38:00 right now
00:38:00 --> 00:38:01 we exist
00:38:01 --> 00:38:01 with the
00:38:01 --> 00:38:01 blessings
00:38:01 --> 00:38:02 of his
00:38:02 --> 00:38:02 gracious
00:38:02 --> 00:38:03 hand on
00:38:03 --> 00:38:03 our lives
00:38:03 --> 00:38:06 this here
00:38:06 --> 00:38:06 chapter is a
00:38:06 --> 00:38:07 dark view
00:38:07 --> 00:38:08 of humanity
00:38:08 --> 00:38:09 but
00:38:09 --> 00:38:12 it fits
00:38:12 --> 00:38:12 so well
00:38:12 --> 00:38:13 with the
00:38:13 --> 00:38:13 reality
00:38:13 --> 00:38:14 of the
00:38:14 --> 00:38:14 world in
00:38:14 --> 00:38:15 which we
00:38:15 --> 00:38:15 live
00:38:15 --> 00:38:16 every
00:38:16 --> 00:38:17 religion
00:38:17 --> 00:38:18 and system
00:38:18 --> 00:38:18 of thinking
00:38:18 --> 00:38:20 must account
00:38:20 --> 00:38:21 every religion
00:38:21 --> 00:38:21 and system
00:38:21 --> 00:38:22 of thinking
00:38:22 --> 00:38:22 including
00:38:22 --> 00:38:23 secularism
00:38:23 --> 00:38:24 must account
00:38:24 --> 00:38:26 both
00:38:26 --> 00:38:27 for the
00:38:27 --> 00:38:28 awesomeness
00:38:28 --> 00:38:29 of the
00:38:29 --> 00:38:29 universe
00:38:29 --> 00:38:31 and at
00:38:31 --> 00:38:31 the same
00:38:31 --> 00:38:32 time
00:38:32 --> 00:38:33 of the
00:38:33 --> 00:38:34 sorry
00:38:34 --> 00:38:35 the awesomeness
00:38:35 --> 00:38:35 of the
00:38:35 --> 00:38:36 universe
00:38:36 --> 00:38:36 the goodness
00:38:36 --> 00:38:38 of that
00:38:38 --> 00:38:39 human beings
00:38:39 --> 00:38:39 are so
00:38:39 --> 00:38:41 capable of
00:38:41 --> 00:38:42 and at
00:38:42 --> 00:38:42 the same
00:38:42 --> 00:38:43 time
00:38:43 --> 00:38:44 the brokenness
00:38:44 --> 00:38:44 of our
00:38:44 --> 00:38:45 world
00:38:45 --> 00:38:45 and our
00:38:45 --> 00:38:46 bodies
00:38:46 --> 00:38:46 and our
00:38:46 --> 00:38:47 lives
00:38:47 --> 00:38:47 and our
00:38:47 --> 00:38:47 hearts
00:38:47 --> 00:38:47 and our
00:38:47 --> 00:38:48 relationships
00:38:48 --> 00:38:50 holding both
00:38:50 --> 00:38:50 of those
00:38:50 --> 00:38:51 things in
00:38:51 --> 00:38:51 tension
00:38:51 --> 00:38:52 the scriptures
00:38:52 --> 00:38:53 the christian
00:38:53 --> 00:38:54 message has
00:38:54 --> 00:38:55 got a clear
00:38:55 --> 00:38:55 understanding
00:38:55 --> 00:38:57 of how those
00:38:57 --> 00:38:57 two things
00:38:57 --> 00:38:58 connect
00:38:58 --> 00:39:00 why is there
00:39:00 --> 00:39:01 so much beauty
00:39:01 --> 00:39:02 in this world
00:39:02 --> 00:39:03 and yet
00:39:03 --> 00:39:04 why is it
00:39:04 --> 00:39:05 so flawed
00:39:05 --> 00:39:07 the bible's answer
00:39:07 --> 00:39:08 is god
00:39:08 --> 00:39:10 god
00:39:10 --> 00:39:13 in the beauty
00:39:13 --> 00:39:13 of the world
00:39:13 --> 00:39:14 we are to see
00:39:14 --> 00:39:15 god's existence
00:39:15 --> 00:39:16 and in the
00:39:16 --> 00:39:16 brokenness of the
00:39:16 --> 00:39:17 world we are to
00:39:17 --> 00:39:17 see his
00:39:17 --> 00:39:18 justice
00:39:18 --> 00:39:21 this
00:39:21 --> 00:39:21 this
00:39:21 --> 00:39:21 this ultimately
00:39:21 --> 00:39:22 takes us
00:39:22 --> 00:39:23 to the cross
00:39:23 --> 00:39:23 both of those
00:39:23 --> 00:39:23 things
00:39:23 --> 00:39:24 take us
00:39:24 --> 00:39:25 to the cross
00:39:25 --> 00:39:25 of jesus christ
00:39:25 --> 00:39:26 where
00:39:26 --> 00:39:27 with both
00:39:27 --> 00:39:27 those things
00:39:27 --> 00:39:28 the ugliness
00:39:28 --> 00:39:29 and the beauty
00:39:29 --> 00:39:30 collide
00:39:30 --> 00:39:31 for the display
00:39:31 --> 00:39:32 of god's
00:39:32 --> 00:39:32 mercy
00:39:32 --> 00:39:34 towards us
00:39:34 --> 00:39:35 the ones
00:39:35 --> 00:39:36 who have
00:39:36 --> 00:39:36 rejected him
00:39:36 --> 00:39:38 this
00:39:38 --> 00:39:39 dark
00:39:39 --> 00:39:40 view of
00:39:40 --> 00:39:40 humanity
00:39:40 --> 00:39:42 in this text
00:39:42 --> 00:39:43 draws us
00:39:43 --> 00:39:44 into it
00:39:44 --> 00:39:45 every single
00:39:45 --> 00:39:46 one of us
00:39:46 --> 00:39:46 there is no
00:39:46 --> 00:39:48 them and us
00:39:48 --> 00:39:49 these verses
00:39:49 --> 00:39:50 blow away
00:39:50 --> 00:39:51 self-righteous
00:39:51 --> 00:39:51 pride
00:39:51 --> 00:39:53 if that doesn't
00:39:53 --> 00:39:54 do it for you
00:39:54 --> 00:39:54 then come back
00:39:54 --> 00:39:55 next week
00:39:55 --> 00:39:56 come back next
00:39:56 --> 00:39:57 week as the
00:39:57 --> 00:39:58 apostle paul
00:39:58 --> 00:40:00 turns his guns
00:40:00 --> 00:40:00 and does a
00:40:00 --> 00:40:01 devastating
00:40:01 --> 00:40:02 rebuke
00:40:02 --> 00:40:03 on the
00:40:03 --> 00:40:05 self-righteous
00:40:05 --> 00:40:06 those who
00:40:06 --> 00:40:07 are pursuing
00:40:07 --> 00:40:07 a self-righteous
00:40:07 --> 00:40:08 morality
00:40:08 --> 00:40:10 the religious
00:40:10 --> 00:40:13 you see the
00:40:13 --> 00:40:13 thing is
00:40:13 --> 00:40:14 self-righteousness
00:40:14 --> 00:40:16 and if this
00:40:16 --> 00:40:16 is you at
00:40:16 --> 00:40:17 the moment
00:40:17 --> 00:40:18 let me just
00:40:18 --> 00:40:20 say self-righteousness
00:40:20 --> 00:40:21 is always
00:40:21 --> 00:40:23 without
00:40:23 --> 00:40:25 without
00:40:25 --> 00:40:25 failure
00:40:25 --> 00:40:26 it is
00:40:26 --> 00:40:27 always
00:40:27 --> 00:40:29 self-condemnatory
00:40:29 --> 00:40:31 always
00:40:31 --> 00:40:35 and it's the
00:40:35 --> 00:40:36 playing field
00:40:36 --> 00:40:36 of the
00:40:36 --> 00:40:37 moralist
00:40:37 --> 00:40:40 the gospel
00:40:40 --> 00:40:41 does not
00:40:41 --> 00:40:42 shine brightly
00:40:42 --> 00:40:44 brilliantly
00:40:44 --> 00:40:45 in our
00:40:45 --> 00:40:45 lives
00:40:45 --> 00:40:46 until we
00:40:46 --> 00:40:47 see the
00:40:47 --> 00:40:47 darkness
00:40:47 --> 00:40:47 of our
00:40:47 --> 00:40:48 hearts
00:40:48 --> 00:40:51 but this
00:40:51 --> 00:40:51 view of
00:40:51 --> 00:40:52 humanity
00:40:52 --> 00:40:52 must be
00:40:52 --> 00:40:53 read in
00:40:53 --> 00:40:53 the light
00:40:53 --> 00:40:53 of verses
00:40:53 --> 00:40:54 16 and
00:40:54 --> 00:40:55 17
00:40:55 --> 00:40:57 and considering
00:40:57 --> 00:40:58 those verses
00:40:58 --> 00:41:00 we do
00:41:00 --> 00:41:00 we do not
00:41:00 --> 00:41:00 need to
00:41:00 --> 00:41:01 fear
00:41:01 --> 00:41:01 God's
00:41:01 --> 00:41:02 righteousness
00:41:02 --> 00:41:03 because we
00:41:03 --> 00:41:04 can receive
00:41:04 --> 00:41:05 his
00:41:05 --> 00:41:05 righteousness
00:41:05 --> 00:41:07 the gospel
00:41:07 --> 00:41:08 is the
00:41:08 --> 00:41:08 motivation
00:41:08 --> 00:41:09 and the
00:41:09 --> 00:41:09 freedom
00:41:09 --> 00:41:10 and the
00:41:10 --> 00:41:10 power that
00:41:10 --> 00:41:11 we need
00:41:11 --> 00:41:11 to stop
00:41:11 --> 00:41:12 suppressing
00:41:12 --> 00:41:12 the truth
00:41:12 --> 00:41:13 through
00:41:13 --> 00:41:14 idolatry
00:41:14 --> 00:41:14 and instead
00:41:14 --> 00:41:15 finding our
00:41:15 --> 00:41:16 greatest
00:41:16 --> 00:41:16 sense of
00:41:16 --> 00:41:17 satisfaction
00:41:17 --> 00:41:18 and worth
00:41:18 --> 00:41:18 and identity
00:41:18 --> 00:41:19 in him
00:41:19 --> 00:41:21 so that
00:41:21 --> 00:41:22 we might
00:41:22 --> 00:41:22 give God
00:41:22 --> 00:41:23 the praise
00:41:23 --> 00:41:23 and the
00:41:23 --> 00:41:23 gratitude
00:41:23 --> 00:41:24 that he
00:41:24 --> 00:41:24 deserves
00:41:24 --> 00:41:27 so let me
00:41:27 --> 00:41:27 swing this
00:41:27 --> 00:41:28 back around
00:41:28 --> 00:41:30 this church
00:41:30 --> 00:41:31 under my
00:41:31 --> 00:41:32 leadership
00:41:32 --> 00:41:33 seeks to
00:41:33 --> 00:41:34 be a safe
00:41:34 --> 00:41:35 place
00:41:35 --> 00:41:36 for everyone
00:41:36 --> 00:41:37 for everyone
00:41:37 --> 00:41:39 we are
00:41:39 --> 00:41:41 a hospital
00:41:41 --> 00:41:41 for rescued
00:41:41 --> 00:41:42 sinners
00:41:42 --> 00:41:43 none of us
00:41:43 --> 00:41:45 are more
00:41:45 --> 00:41:46 needed of
00:41:46 --> 00:41:47 that rescue
00:41:47 --> 00:41:48 than anyone
00:41:48 --> 00:41:49 else
00:41:49 --> 00:41:50 some of us
00:41:50 --> 00:41:51 are not just
00:41:51 --> 00:41:51 in the waiting
00:41:51 --> 00:41:51 room
00:41:51 --> 00:41:52 and some
00:41:52 --> 00:41:52 of us
00:41:52 --> 00:41:52 in ICU
00:41:52 --> 00:41:53 we're all
00:41:53 --> 00:41:54 in ICU
00:41:54 --> 00:41:56 all of us
00:41:56 --> 00:41:59 if you
00:41:59 --> 00:41:59 don't see
00:41:59 --> 00:42:00 that yet
00:42:00 --> 00:42:00 gospel
00:42:00 --> 00:42:01 breakthrough
00:42:01 --> 00:42:02 awaits
00:42:02 --> 00:42:02 for you
00:42:02 --> 00:42:03 where you
00:42:03 --> 00:42:04 can live
00:42:04 --> 00:42:04 with joy
00:42:04 --> 00:42:05 and freedom
00:42:05 --> 00:42:10 this gospel
00:42:10 --> 00:42:12 calls us
00:42:12 --> 00:42:12 to be a
00:42:12 --> 00:42:12 welcoming
00:42:12 --> 00:42:13 church
00:42:13 --> 00:42:13 for all
00:42:13 --> 00:42:14 people
00:42:14 --> 00:42:15 who are
00:42:15 --> 00:42:15 listened
00:42:15 --> 00:42:16 to
00:42:16 --> 00:42:17 with
00:42:17 --> 00:42:18 humility
00:42:18 --> 00:42:20 patience
00:42:20 --> 00:42:21 love
00:42:21 --> 00:42:23 but we
00:42:23 --> 00:42:24 are also
00:42:24 --> 00:42:25 a discipling
00:42:25 --> 00:42:25 community
00:42:25 --> 00:42:26 following
00:42:26 --> 00:42:26 Jesus
00:42:26 --> 00:42:26 as our
00:42:26 --> 00:42:27 Lord
00:42:27 --> 00:42:29 this gospel
00:42:29 --> 00:42:29 calls us
00:42:29 --> 00:42:30 to be a
00:42:30 --> 00:42:30 welcoming
00:42:30 --> 00:42:31 community
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