WEBVTT 00:00:00.300 --> 00:00:00.950 I'm going to invite you to Romans. 00:00:01.340 --> 00:00:04.280 Chapter five is where we are today, Romans Chapter five. 00:00:04.280 --> 00:00:10.200 And we're going to talk about living in God's abounding grace, which is a pretty general title for Christians. 00:00:10.220 --> 00:00:14.060 If we don't know anything about the grace of God as believers, Lord, help us, right? 00:00:14.080 --> 00:00:15.870 This is the anthem of what we are about. 00:00:16.200 --> 00:00:23.220 And so Paul is really sharing the heart of Christianity in Romans Chapter five today, living in God's abounding grace, which I know for some of 00:00:23.220 --> 00:00:25.760 us we might be very familiar with the idea of God's grace. 00:00:25.780 --> 00:00:32.920 And this might sound a little bit mundane, but it's important for us to remind us, like the idea of God's grace and how central it is 00:00:32.920 --> 00:00:33.860 to our life right now. 00:00:34.500 --> 00:00:41.520 You may be coming into church this morning just feeling broken and or hard hearted, and things just aren't working the way 00:00:41.520 --> 00:00:42.190 that you anticipated. 00:00:43.180 --> 00:00:49.380 And God's grace is a great reminder for what we need in our life to find ourselves renewed and refreshed in Jesus. 00:00:50.100 --> 00:00:55.800 And if you don't feel like you're really on the on the ledge of needing God's grace right now, you will get there, right? 00:00:55.820 --> 00:01:00.040 And so the idea of Romans Chapter five and truth be told, all of us need it all the time. 00:01:00.320 --> 00:01:00.580 But. 00:01:00.580 --> 00:01:07.620 Romans Chapter five is that passage that reminds us of the goodness of God's grace that Paul is going to reiterate over and over within this section that we're 00:01:07.620 --> 00:01:13.320 going to look at picking up in verse 12, and just a way of reminder of how we got to where we are in Romans. 00:01:13.880 --> 00:01:21.120 Romans one, two to verse 17 shares the anthem of what Romans is about, the anthem of Christianity, verse 16 and 17 00:01:21.120 --> 00:01:21.800 especially. 00:01:21.840 --> 00:01:29.140 Are those pinnacle passages of all of Romans, He says, for the righteousness of God is revealed to us for 00:01:29.140 --> 00:01:32.520 the for the just we're justified by faith in Christ. 00:01:33.280 --> 00:01:33.980 It says exactly. 00:01:34.240 --> 00:01:41.460 For I am not ashamed of the Gospel of Christ, for it is the power of God to salvation for those who believe the Jew first and also for the Gentile, for in it, the righteousness of God is revealed 00:01:41.460 --> 00:01:42.680 from faith to faith. 00:01:42.680 --> 00:01:44.020 The just shall live by faith. 00:01:44.780 --> 00:01:47.320 That's the theme of Romans. 00:01:47.400 --> 00:01:50.090 And then in verse 18, though, he then gives us that warning. 00:01:50.300 --> 00:01:57.300 Passage of the wrath of God is revealed against all ungodliness and he goes throughout Romans The first half of or the second half of chapter one all the way 00:01:57.300 --> 00:02:03.560 into chapter three telling us who exactly is under God's wrath, which is a great section of scripture to work through. 00:02:03.600 --> 00:02:03.780 Right? 00:02:03.820 --> 00:02:07.180 It's the table talk that you enjoy with other people. 00:02:07.180 --> 00:02:09.639 Let me tell you about God's wrath and how all of us are under it. 00:02:09.800 --> 00:02:11.570 That's the conclusion of Romans one, two and three. 00:02:11.940 --> 00:02:13.160 All of us are under God's wrath. 00:02:13.720 --> 00:02:19.660 But at the very end of chapter three, then he gives us this thought once again, He says, But the just shall live by faith. 00:02:21.040 --> 00:02:22.900 Those that are going to be justified by God. 00:02:22.900 --> 00:02:23.920 It happens by faith. 00:02:24.240 --> 00:02:29.140 And as if to say then, that the audience reading Paul's letter would say to Paul, okay, Paul, prove it. 00:02:29.160 --> 00:02:32.440 And in chapter four, he uses the example of Abraham. 00:02:33.420 --> 00:02:40.660 And if you remember, we looked at the life of Abraham through a couple of weeks, but he uses the example of Abraham because to the Jews there is no no greater Jew 00:02:40.660 --> 00:02:41.340 than Abraham. 00:02:41.360 --> 00:02:42.600 I mean, he's the Jew of the Jews. 00:02:42.600 --> 00:02:44.750 He's the one that started what we call Judaism. 00:02:45.320 --> 00:02:47.740 Abraham was the first one called out by God, right. 00:02:48.060 --> 00:02:49.030 And from a pagan place. 00:02:49.120 --> 00:02:51.520 And what we find about the life of Abraham is Abraham was a pagan. 00:02:52.540 --> 00:02:54.380 His name acknowledged paganism. 00:02:55.060 --> 00:02:58.960 And God pulled him out not because of Abraham being great, but because God was great. 00:02:59.060 --> 00:03:01.080 God demonstrated his faith towards Abraham. 00:03:02.580 --> 00:03:06.060 And now He reminds us in chapter five that you can be like Abraham, too. 00:03:06.760 --> 00:03:07.720 And it's not because you're great. 00:03:08.920 --> 00:03:13.240 It's because God's great and God's grace is poured out on us. 00:03:14.380 --> 00:03:15.490 And it's in that thought. 00:03:15.540 --> 00:03:20.660 Then we learn the importance of what it means to be in God's grace. 00:03:21.180 --> 00:03:28.380 And he's going to do it this morning by comparing us between the idea of Adam and what that means, being born from Adam, 00:03:28.740 --> 00:03:30.660 and then the idea of Jesus. 00:03:30.700 --> 00:03:35.640 And he talks about in the very beginning in verse 12, a theology that some people find uncomfortable. 00:03:36.900 --> 00:03:38.050 It's not a popular theology. 00:03:38.460 --> 00:03:43.720 When you start in Romans chapter five, verse 12, people don't pick these first few verses as their favorite verses in the Bible. 00:03:44.140 --> 00:03:46.470 These are uncomfortable verses. 00:03:46.660 --> 00:03:51.180 But the reason Paul does that is because in our spiritual life we tend to not do things. 00:03:51.180 --> 00:03:58.200 And until we recognize something is broken or there's some discomfort or pain involved with where we are, I was 00:03:58.200 --> 00:04:00.000 reminded of that this week. 00:04:02.500 --> 00:04:07.280 This week, on Wednesday, I went and had my wisdom teeth taken out, which I know what some of you might be thinking. 00:04:07.380 --> 00:04:08.140 Very judgmental. 00:04:08.180 --> 00:04:10.430 Lee, aren't you a little old for that? 00:04:11.820 --> 00:04:14.220 I'm 41, just so you know. 00:04:14.220 --> 00:04:20.180 But when I went to the dentist, I would also like you to know that the dentist office remind me I'm a little old for this. 00:04:20.200 --> 00:04:20.920 All right? 00:04:20.980 --> 00:04:28.340 Every time I ask the question, the question about getting my wisdom teeth taken out, the response was, well, at your age, right, I'm 00:04:28.340 --> 00:04:31.040 only 41 and you guys make me feel like I'm ancient here. 00:04:31.040 --> 00:04:32.220 Like every response. 00:04:32.220 --> 00:04:32.720 I'm not kidding. 00:04:32.840 --> 00:04:36.120 Every person that walked in the room, they started off well at your age, you know. 00:04:36.460 --> 00:04:36.860 But. 00:04:36.980 --> 00:04:37.960 But here's the reason I did. 00:04:38.040 --> 00:04:38.390 I'll tell you. 00:04:38.860 --> 00:04:39.860 I'll tell you why I waited until I was 41. 00:04:39.920 --> 00:04:40.520 They didn't bother me. 00:04:41.420 --> 00:04:46.440 I'm not like I know some people are like, just take him out, and I'm I'll take him out When they're a problem, they're not a problem. 00:04:46.760 --> 00:04:50.830 But then there was a night where there was some pain. 00:04:50.860 --> 00:04:53.330 And I told Stacy, like, I probably shouldn't say this, but I will. 00:04:53.660 --> 00:04:59.650 I told her, like, if right now, if I could find just some crackhead in a back alley that would just knock me out with a hammer and pull it out with a pliers. 00:04:59.920 --> 00:05:04.520 Like that's where I'm at in this position is like, there is so much pain. 00:05:04.760 --> 00:05:08.880 But it got to the place where the discomfort like qualified the need to do this. 00:05:09.600 --> 00:05:13.230 And this is what Paul is saying in Romans chapter five. 00:05:14.860 --> 00:05:15.820 Romans Chapter five. 00:05:15.980 --> 00:05:18.780 He brings us this place to recognize our spiritual condition. 00:05:18.820 --> 00:05:21.970 We have this way in life to kind of just look at things and say, you know what? 00:05:21.980 --> 00:05:25.740 As long as we're progressing towards getting better, that's all that really matters, right? 00:05:26.780 --> 00:05:29.390 But Paul wants us to understand in Romans chapter five. 00:05:31.240 --> 00:05:38.460 There's something happening in our spiritual condition that warrants the need to do something about it 00:05:39.320 --> 00:05:41.500 to be able to experience God's abounding grace. 00:05:42.880 --> 00:05:48.740 Point number one in your notes is this To get to that place, we must acknowledge our position in Adam. 00:05:50.180 --> 00:05:52.180 We must acknowledge our position in Adam. 00:05:53.400 --> 00:05:54.440 And Paul here. 00:05:54.440 --> 00:05:57.220 In doing that, he wants us to see how much one we need. 00:05:57.320 --> 00:05:57.660 Jesus. 00:05:58.620 --> 00:06:03.180 And number two, how much Jesus makes our adversity approachable. 00:06:04.320 --> 00:06:05.800 That's the beautiful thing about the grace of God. 00:06:07.120 --> 00:06:09.520 You don't have to hide where you are with him. 00:06:11.160 --> 00:06:15.760 You can come directly to him because he is the great healer of our deepest problems. 00:06:17.260 --> 00:06:19.880 And that is ultimately our position without Christ. 00:06:21.460 --> 00:06:22.430 We need to know how much we need Jesus. 00:06:22.720 --> 00:06:26.100 We need to know how much Jesus makes our adversity approachable. 00:06:26.120 --> 00:06:27.580 And in verse 12, he starts off like this. 00:06:27.820 --> 00:06:32.460 Therefore, just as sin came into the world through one man and death through sin. 00:06:32.460 --> 00:06:36.940 And so death spread to all men because all had sinned. 00:06:38.380 --> 00:06:44.560 And so he's acknowledging our position in life because really, Adam, because of Adam, he's saying sin. 00:06:44.880 --> 00:06:47.360 Sin came into the world through one man and death through sin. 00:06:47.440 --> 00:06:50.080 So death spread to all because all have sinned. 00:06:51.020 --> 00:06:52.780 And so this one man, Adam. 00:06:52.920 --> 00:07:00.280 Adam is like he's the representative of I don't know if maybe you'll follow this illustration, but Katniss Everdeen, you remember The Hunger Games, 00:07:00.440 --> 00:07:01.120 right? 00:07:01.120 --> 00:07:02.300 The 12th District. 00:07:02.320 --> 00:07:02.910 You know how it goes. 00:07:03.080 --> 00:07:03.920 Just three fingers. 00:07:04.280 --> 00:07:11.120 But Katniss Everdeen was like this representative in The Hunger Games of all of her people in her district, and she went out and fought for them. 00:07:11.820 --> 00:07:13.880 She was that headship. 00:07:13.880 --> 00:07:17.660 And in fact, theologians refer to this as federal headship. 00:07:18.300 --> 00:07:22.440 Adam, is this federal headship one leader to represent a group? 00:07:23.040 --> 00:07:24.300 That's what Adam is for us. 00:07:24.320 --> 00:07:31.620 And if you don't follow the Katniss Everdeen representation, maybe like we could say just the president of a country, a leader of a country, when they sign a bill into law, 00:07:31.800 --> 00:07:35.650 the President would be acting on behalf of all of the people that he represents. 00:07:36.720 --> 00:07:40.100 And in light of that, Adam becomes our representative. 00:07:40.120 --> 00:07:45.820 And so when you read this verse, some people might ask the question, What does this mean because of Adam? 00:07:47.320 --> 00:07:49.800 We're born under the curse of sin and death. 00:07:51.060 --> 00:07:55.280 Or is it because of my sin that I am responsible for? 00:07:55.520 --> 00:07:57.160 And the answer to both of those is yes. 00:07:58.900 --> 00:08:02.300 Yes, we're born under the curse of sin and death because of Adam. 00:08:02.680 --> 00:08:04.500 And you are a sinner because you sin. 00:08:05.100 --> 00:08:06.180 Those are all true. 00:08:06.180 --> 00:08:07.960 And so there's accountability. 00:08:07.960 --> 00:08:09.900 But Adam is your representative. 00:08:09.900 --> 00:08:12.940 And because of Adam, you were born under the curse of sin and death. 00:08:13.260 --> 00:08:15.840 Now, when people look at that, they say, well, I object, right? 00:08:15.840 --> 00:08:17.780 Because I don't want that kind of I don't want that leader. 00:08:17.840 --> 00:08:18.600 I want a different leader. 00:08:18.960 --> 00:08:21.260 This is this is not a good leader to have. 00:08:21.260 --> 00:08:23.820 So let's let's find something else to represent me. 00:08:23.820 --> 00:08:24.880 I don't want to be under Adam. 00:08:25.280 --> 00:08:26.520 He's a poor leader. 00:08:26.520 --> 00:08:28.120 If I'm under the curse of sin and death. 00:08:28.120 --> 00:08:29.360 So give me give me a different leader. 00:08:29.560 --> 00:08:35.460 Well, good news for you when you read the context of Romans chapter five verses 12 to 14. 00:08:35.460 --> 00:08:36.909 Paul starts with this thought. 00:08:37.220 --> 00:08:43.360 He leaves that thought for a minute in verse 15 to 17, and then he jumps back to this thought in verse 18 and 19. 00:08:43.360 --> 00:08:48.460 And so I'm going to skip ahead and read for those of you that are like, I want a different federal headship here. 00:08:48.660 --> 00:08:49.380 I want a different leader. 00:08:49.600 --> 00:08:56.000 Well, verse 18, it goes on and says, therefore, as one trespass led to the condemnation for all men. 00:08:57.520 --> 00:09:04.260 So one act of righteousness leads to justification and life for all men. 00:09:05.560 --> 00:09:08.120 For as by the one man's disobedience, the many were made sinners. 00:09:08.680 --> 00:09:12.710 So by the one man's disobedience, the many will be made righteous. 00:09:15.540 --> 00:09:18.290 What Paul is saying is if you want a different leader. 00:09:20.500 --> 00:09:23.480 The Bible gives you a different federal headship. 00:09:25.080 --> 00:09:27.400 And that one is Christ. 00:09:29.020 --> 00:09:34.160 So under the idea of Adam, we're not just we're not simply trying to get better. 00:09:34.160 --> 00:09:37.210 We're not life is not ultimately about just simply improving. 00:09:37.260 --> 00:09:39.170 What he's saying under Adam is we need a total transformation. 00:09:41.140 --> 00:09:44.940 We need something completely different because under the state of Adam, it's sin and death. 00:09:45.720 --> 00:09:47.820 It's not just trying to improve upon sin and death. 00:09:47.820 --> 00:09:49.080 I mean, if it's dead, it's dead. 00:09:49.080 --> 00:09:50.000 You can't improve on dead. 00:09:50.920 --> 00:09:54.320 We need something radically to transform and change your life. 00:09:54.620 --> 00:09:58.640 And this new federal headship that he represents here, he talks about is Jesus. 00:09:59.560 --> 00:10:00.920 And the way that he talks about him is interesting. 00:10:01.220 --> 00:10:01.340 Here. 00:10:01.660 --> 00:10:05.280 He talks about in verse 19, for by the one man's disobedience, many remained sinners. 00:10:05.360 --> 00:10:09.010 So by the one man's obedience, the many were made righteous. 00:10:09.520 --> 00:10:13.980 He identifies this individual to represent you being Jesus as a man. 00:10:14.780 --> 00:10:16.230 Now let me just say this. 00:10:16.240 --> 00:10:23.560 This is very important theologically in our understanding of the significance of Christ in our life as to his identity and how his identity 00:10:23.560 --> 00:10:24.420 matters for us. 00:10:25.000 --> 00:10:32.320 Very clearly, he's calling him a man, meaning Jesus became 100% man in order to be a sufficient sacrifice for 00:10:32.320 --> 00:10:35.380 you to represent you, he would have to become what you are. 00:10:36.200 --> 00:10:38.060 And Jesus was 100% man. 00:10:38.900 --> 00:10:44.900 And at the same time, while Jesus was 100% man, he did not lose his identity as 100% God. 00:10:46.040 --> 00:10:48.180 Jesus didn't become less God. 00:10:48.620 --> 00:10:50.800 Jesus all of a sudden didn't become God. 00:10:50.800 --> 00:10:52.800 Jesus has always been God. 00:10:52.800 --> 00:10:59.920 And that becomes essential to because in order for Jesus to be a perfect sacrifice for 00:10:59.920 --> 00:11:02.680 you, he would have he would have to be perfect in and of himself. 00:11:03.020 --> 00:11:07.050 And this is what it says at the end of verse 19, the one man's obedience, the many were made righteous. 00:11:07.540 --> 00:11:09.690 It's not just simply enough that Jesus was a man. 00:11:09.860 --> 00:11:14.460 Jesus must also be God in order to be a sufficient sacrifice for you. 00:11:14.680 --> 00:11:15.440 Here's the reason why. 00:11:15.900 --> 00:11:23.320 When you read in Romans chapter three, verse ten, it tells us there is no one righteous and Romans 323 All of us have sinned. 00:11:23.640 --> 00:11:24.980 There is no perfect human being. 00:11:25.520 --> 00:11:32.540 Another human being cannot adequately cover what you have to pay to God because of your sin, because all 00:11:32.540 --> 00:11:33.520 of us have a sin debt. 00:11:33.520 --> 00:11:35.300 We're all negative before a holy God. 00:11:35.520 --> 00:11:38.560 We're all negative in debt and the wages of our sin is death. 00:11:39.360 --> 00:11:44.220 So someone that is in debt can't then come pay your debt because they have nothing to offer for that. 00:11:45.180 --> 00:11:52.400 What Jesus told us in Mark chapter ten, verse 18, he was approached by the rich young ruler and he was referred to as good and Jesus is response 00:11:52.400 --> 00:11:55.020 in Mark 1018 is no one is good but God. 00:11:56.240 --> 00:11:57.560 Every human being is a sinner. 00:11:58.400 --> 00:12:03.320 But Jesus was perfect, and the reason Jesus was perfect was because He was God. 00:12:04.720 --> 00:12:06.840 And in his account there is there is no negative. 00:12:08.420 --> 00:12:14.280 And there is enough in his account, more than enough in his account to pay for all of our sin debt. 00:12:15.380 --> 00:12:23.300 Jesus is both God and man, and it is essential for what Jesus has done for us by 00:12:23.300 --> 00:12:25.040 acknowledging our position. 00:12:25.040 --> 00:12:29.300 And Adam, we have opportunity then to look for another solution. 00:12:31.520 --> 00:12:38.200 Not to just simply improve on what's broken, but to find incredible transformation through another way. 00:12:39.920 --> 00:12:43.400 And Paul is bringing us to this place to represent humanity under two headships. 00:12:44.220 --> 00:12:44.660 These are the options. 00:12:46.120 --> 00:12:47.460 The federal headship of Adam. 00:12:48.720 --> 00:12:50.640 Are the federal headship of Christ. 00:12:51.840 --> 00:12:58.840 And the reason Paul is doing this is because in the Jewish mind and in the religious mind, they would come to this discussion 00:12:58.840 --> 00:13:00.290 with a third option. 00:13:00.440 --> 00:13:02.660 And Paul goes back and he talks about this in verse 13. 00:13:02.660 --> 00:13:06.080 He says, For sin indeed was in the world before the law was given. 00:13:07.000 --> 00:13:08.490 But sin is not counted where the law. 00:13:08.600 --> 00:13:15.780 There is no law yet death reign from Adam to Moses, even over those whose sinning was not like the transgressions of Adam, 00:13:16.060 --> 00:13:17.730 who was a type of the one who was to come. 00:13:18.240 --> 00:13:25.260 And what he's saying in verse 13 and 14, he's coming to these religious leaders and before these religious leaders, if they pose the question, how are you getting to 00:13:25.260 --> 00:13:25.460 heaven? 00:13:25.880 --> 00:13:27.380 What's your eternal hope in. 00:13:27.480 --> 00:13:32.120 And their response would not be Adam and their response would not be Jesus, but their response would be religion. 00:13:33.020 --> 00:13:40.100 I'm going to live these laws that God has given us and based on my performance of this law, God will then see that I'm worthy of his love and 00:13:40.100 --> 00:13:41.110 give me his grace. 00:13:42.620 --> 00:13:49.640 And Paul is saying to them, How can that even be possible when Moses was the one who received the law, 00:13:50.000 --> 00:13:50.820 what did people do? 00:13:50.840 --> 00:13:53.720 From the time of Adam and Moses, people were still dying. 00:13:54.860 --> 00:13:59.340 The wages of sin was still upon them, even before they had the law and before they had the law. 00:13:59.360 --> 00:14:00.980 What option did they have then? 00:14:00.980 --> 00:14:07.980 And in order to get them to think that there was something that existed before religious law and so therefore, before the Jewish Old Testament gave you a certain 00:14:07.980 --> 00:14:13.930 law to live by, what is it people had to live by in order to help them to think that there was something outside of their religious structure? 00:14:14.540 --> 00:14:17.160 There was something that people needed more than just law. 00:14:17.160 --> 00:14:23.780 And he's saying, look, the law certainly pointed to us how much we need to God, but how much we need the Lord. 00:14:23.780 --> 00:14:28.260 When you have the religious law, it identifies for you where you've gone wrong. 00:14:29.320 --> 00:14:33.700 But still people suffered under the wages of sin, which was death. 00:14:33.740 --> 00:14:38.400 And by the way, when we talk about death in this passage of scripture, we're not just simply talking about buried under the ground. 00:14:39.320 --> 00:14:45.620 What you'll find within verse 12 to verse 21, when it mentions the idea of death, it often contrasts it to the idea of life. 00:14:47.000 --> 00:14:52.020 And when it talks in terms of life, what it's talking about is eternal life, living forever in the presence of God. 00:14:52.960 --> 00:15:00.080 Juxtapose against this idea of death and death in this that communication is being separated from the relationship with God. 00:15:00.520 --> 00:15:05.860 Since Jesus himself is life and gives life when you're cut off from Jesus, what you have is death. 00:15:05.860 --> 00:15:09.380 You're separated from life itself, being separated from God himself. 00:15:12.370 --> 00:15:14.980 What Paul is acknowledging is there isn't a third option. 00:15:18.180 --> 00:15:19.420 Law does not set you free. 00:15:21.520 --> 00:15:23.220 There was the federal headship of Adam. 00:15:25.040 --> 00:15:26.500 Or there is the headship of Christ. 00:15:26.600 --> 00:15:31.780 And so point number two Paul makes for us is this embrace the gift of Christ. 00:15:33.760 --> 00:15:35.000 Embrace the gift of Christ. 00:15:35.000 --> 00:15:36.700 Verses 15 to 17. 00:15:38.060 --> 00:15:41.260 Well, Paul desires to do is to stir our affections for Christ. 00:15:43.220 --> 00:15:43.800 In. 00:15:43.800 --> 00:15:44.040 Adam. 00:15:44.160 --> 00:15:44.640 We have sin. 00:15:46.200 --> 00:15:48.100 But in Christ, we have a gift. 00:15:50.320 --> 00:15:57.380 And for our hearts to marinate on this richness of Jesus as he peppers our lives with thoughts of 00:15:57.380 --> 00:15:59.560 refreshment in the hope that His Christ. 00:16:01.260 --> 00:16:02.880 Knowing we're not called to stay in. 00:16:03.060 --> 00:16:03.160 Adam. 00:16:04.700 --> 00:16:06.960 But to walk in the goodness of the Lord. 00:16:08.080 --> 00:16:10.080 And so he says, But the free gift. 00:16:11.580 --> 00:16:13.270 Is not like the trespass. 00:16:16.800 --> 00:16:18.620 For many, died through one man's trespass. 00:16:20.300 --> 00:16:23.900 Much more had the grace of God and the free gift. 00:16:23.940 --> 00:16:28.660 By the grace of that one man, Jesus Christ, abounded for many. 00:16:30.660 --> 00:16:32.340 I love the way that God describes it here. 00:16:34.140 --> 00:16:41.400 Because when we think about what Jesus has done for us, sometimes there's this reluctant reluctance in our in our soul to say, Am I really good enough? 00:16:44.460 --> 00:16:46.760 Does he really care for me? 00:16:47.780 --> 00:16:51.780 And he starts verse 15 by saying this He has this free gift. 00:16:54.720 --> 00:16:57.060 It's free. 00:16:57.140 --> 00:16:59.160 Gifts are intended to be given away. 00:17:00.340 --> 00:17:01.790 But you've got to receive the gift. 00:17:03.260 --> 00:17:05.500 You've got to take the gift. 00:17:05.500 --> 00:17:12.599 And he's saying, how much more have the grace of God and the free gift, by the grace that one man of 00:17:12.599 --> 00:17:14.579 Jesus abounded for many. 00:17:17.579 --> 00:17:22.000 It's as if to say, it's not fun to talk about our position in Adam, Right? 00:17:22.060 --> 00:17:23.099 That's not the most enjoyable conversation. 00:17:24.619 --> 00:17:31.620 But in looking at our position in Adam, it surely brings to light the beauty of what we can have in Christ is as 00:17:31.620 --> 00:17:35.920 if to say, Paul is saying in this passage, look, and all the challenges that we found in Adam. 00:17:36.200 --> 00:17:40.000 Hang on just for a minute, because I want to I want to tell you about something Jesus wants to give you. 00:17:40.000 --> 00:17:43.040 He wants to give you this free gift of grace. 00:17:43.040 --> 00:17:45.740 And then in verse 16 and 17, he starts to unpack what that looks like in our life. 00:17:45.840 --> 00:17:47.700 Like now talking about this free gift of grace. 00:17:47.700 --> 00:17:51.040 Then in verse 16, let me let me communicate what this brings into your life. 00:17:51.100 --> 00:17:52.840 When you receive this in Jesus, he says. 00:17:53.020 --> 00:17:56.140 And the free gift is not like the result of that one man sin. 00:17:57.880 --> 00:18:02.440 For the judgment following one trespass brought condemnation. 00:18:04.200 --> 00:18:05.420 And you know what that's like. 00:18:06.620 --> 00:18:06.720 All right. 00:18:06.760 --> 00:18:13.610 The idea of condemnation that no matter how much you might try, you're still not good enough, you're not loved enough, you're not you're not cared for enough. 00:18:13.940 --> 00:18:15.360 You're not worthy enough. 00:18:16.480 --> 00:18:17.720 You can't measure up. 00:18:19.120 --> 00:18:20.040 And he just feel defeated. 00:18:21.540 --> 00:18:23.600 And we try to live that religiously. 00:18:23.880 --> 00:18:27.240 That's the idea of what this religious performance brings to us. 00:18:27.280 --> 00:18:27.770 You'll see that. 00:18:27.900 --> 00:18:34.400 And when we read verse 20 in just a minute that no matter how much you try in religion, religion leads to two places pride or despair. 00:18:34.540 --> 00:18:37.980 You start believing that, yeah, you're great and that's why God loves you. 00:18:37.980 --> 00:18:40.880 He just can't resist it about how awesome you are in your performance. 00:18:41.260 --> 00:18:45.650 Or you look at all the religious laws and you realize you can never measure up to that, and you get to this place of despair. 00:18:47.700 --> 00:18:48.200 This idea of condemnation. 00:18:50.860 --> 00:18:52.120 But then he goes from there. 00:18:53.380 --> 00:18:55.680 But the free gift if you want to know what that's like. 00:18:56.720 --> 00:18:58.040 Following many trespasses. 00:18:59.380 --> 00:19:00.740 Brought justification. 00:19:02.920 --> 00:19:03.640 This free gift. 00:19:04.860 --> 00:19:06.620 Looking past your sin. 00:19:06.620 --> 00:19:12.670 Forgiving your sin brings about for you justification meaning right? 00:19:12.980 --> 00:19:13.880 Relationship with God. 00:19:15.220 --> 00:19:17.500 What Jesus wants to offer you is complete transformation. 00:19:18.000 --> 00:19:18.560 Right? 00:19:19.030 --> 00:19:20.640 Relationship in God. 00:19:22.360 --> 00:19:24.180 If you bring us to the place to ask the question. 00:19:24.340 --> 00:19:24.480 What? 00:19:25.760 --> 00:19:26.720 What do you believe right now? 00:19:30.080 --> 00:19:30.780 Before the Lord. 00:19:30.780 --> 00:19:32.260 Do you see yourself as a place of condemnation? 00:19:35.460 --> 00:19:36.550 Or in the free gift of Jesus. 00:19:36.840 --> 00:19:38.940 Do you see yourself as justified? 00:19:41.020 --> 00:19:41.840 Verse 17. 00:19:41.840 --> 00:19:49.200 Then he goes on and says, For if because of one's man's trespass, death reigned through 00:19:49.200 --> 00:19:49.960 that one man. 00:19:51.120 --> 00:19:58.560 Much more will those who receive the abundance of grace and the free gift of righteousness reign in life through the one man, 00:19:58.820 --> 00:19:59.280 Jesus Christ. 00:20:00.800 --> 00:20:07.820 He gives this idea of two types of reigning right, the idea of death reigning in Adam, but life 00:20:07.820 --> 00:20:09.340 reigning in Christ. 00:20:10.580 --> 00:20:15.940 And when we talk about this idea of life reigning, he means actively now in the presence of the Lord. 00:20:16.020 --> 00:20:23.120 The life of Christ can reign in you both now and for all of eternity in Jesus right 00:20:23.120 --> 00:20:26.670 now, in Christ, you are referred to as a royal priesthood. 00:20:27.120 --> 00:20:28.180 First, Peter, chapter two. 00:20:28.180 --> 00:20:32.060 That is your position in Jesus because of this free gift that He offers. 00:20:32.180 --> 00:20:36.080 If you receive the gift, you are a royal priesthood. 00:20:36.080 --> 00:20:43.400 And in Second Corinthians chapter five, verses 17 to 21, you are an ambassador for the king representing him because you 00:20:43.400 --> 00:20:47.000 belong to him in this life that reigns both now and for eternity. 00:20:47.000 --> 00:20:48.720 This king reigns now. 00:20:48.720 --> 00:20:49.900 And you in him. 00:20:53.830 --> 00:20:57.490 Your spirit has life right now. 00:20:59.430 --> 00:21:00.560 Paul's hope for us. 00:21:02.560 --> 00:21:06.140 Never get over what Jesus has done. 00:21:08.450 --> 00:21:12.910 This gospel truth is the foundation for shaping your soul. 00:21:15.050 --> 00:21:22.070 And when you look at a world that struggles with identity and value and then you look at what Christ has done for 00:21:22.070 --> 00:21:24.110 us, it begs the question, why? 00:21:24.310 --> 00:21:25.570 Why reject Jesus? 00:21:25.650 --> 00:21:25.750 Why? 00:21:25.910 --> 00:21:27.140 Why do people hate Jesus? 00:21:27.410 --> 00:21:27.610 Why? 00:21:27.630 --> 00:21:30.350 Why can't people find their identity in Jesus? 00:21:33.710 --> 00:21:34.930 Can I tell you? 00:21:36.050 --> 00:21:37.100 I love the position. 00:21:38.650 --> 00:21:41.990 That I have not because of me, but because of Christ. 00:21:44.470 --> 00:21:45.750 One because it's true. 00:21:48.810 --> 00:21:49.920 But to because. 00:21:51.670 --> 00:21:54.670 He speaks with hope and my greatest despair. 00:21:57.790 --> 00:22:01.910 Under the idea of Adam, Jesus brings freedom to me. 00:22:03.570 --> 00:22:04.410 It's what everyone needs. 00:22:07.230 --> 00:22:08.090 Stop fighting. 00:22:11.130 --> 00:22:12.210 Stop pretending. 00:22:14.310 --> 00:22:14.730 Stop struggling. 00:22:17.750 --> 00:22:22.590 And just take what Jesus calls you to be in him. 00:22:22.810 --> 00:22:24.790 Guys. 00:22:24.830 --> 00:22:26.630 This is the beautiful message of Christianity. 00:22:28.790 --> 00:22:32.310 Doesn't matter who people are or where they've come from. 00:22:34.650 --> 00:22:36.410 Our message remains the same. 00:22:36.570 --> 00:22:37.470 Jesus loves you. 00:22:38.890 --> 00:22:40.050 Gave his life for you. 00:22:41.110 --> 00:22:42.850 I want you to find new life in him. 00:22:44.990 --> 00:22:51.730 Jesus loves you, forgives you, gave his life for you and wants you to find new life in him. 00:22:53.630 --> 00:22:57.610 Doesn't matter if you're an alcoholic or a shopaholic. 00:22:58.730 --> 00:22:59.470 Jesus loves you. 00:23:00.910 --> 00:23:01.850 Gave his life for you. 00:23:03.290 --> 00:23:04.950 I want you to find new life in him. 00:23:05.310 --> 00:23:05.710 It doesn't. 00:23:06.170 --> 00:23:08.430 It doesn't matter if you're a drug addict or a porn addict. 00:23:08.930 --> 00:23:10.630 It doesn't matter if you're a Democrat or Republican. 00:23:11.070 --> 00:23:18.130 It doesn't matter if you if you struggle with anger or fear or resentment or unforgiveness or whatever it is in 00:23:18.130 --> 00:23:18.990 your life. 00:23:19.130 --> 00:23:25.860 Jesus loves you, loves you, gave his life for you and wants you to find your life in him. 00:23:29.350 --> 00:23:29.950 No strings attached. 00:23:32.570 --> 00:23:34.270 It is a free gift. 00:23:36.890 --> 00:23:37.590 A free gift. 00:23:37.630 --> 00:23:38.510 But here's the question. 00:23:41.310 --> 00:23:42.610 Do you want to give your life in return? 00:23:46.070 --> 00:23:50.050 Will you give your life in response as Jesus has given his life for us? 00:23:50.470 --> 00:23:53.190 Will we give our life in response to him? 00:23:53.270 --> 00:23:57.650 It doesn't matter where we've come from, what we've gone through. 00:23:57.650 --> 00:23:59.310 This text is intended to. 00:23:59.610 --> 00:24:07.010 To stir our hearts with the depth of his richness so that we are reminded again of his goodness and allow 00:24:07.010 --> 00:24:14.490 that to flow into our lives and walk with the richness of Christ and experience the newness of 00:24:14.490 --> 00:24:15.710 his grace every day. 00:24:17.730 --> 00:24:22.590 In the 1960s and 70s, there was this man that rose to fame. 00:24:23.910 --> 00:24:26.710 His name was Robert Craig Knievel. 00:24:27.710 --> 00:24:30.160 You might know him as Evel knievel. 00:24:31.710 --> 00:24:39.090 In the 60s and 70s Evel knievel jumped over everything, but he made $30 00:24:39.090 --> 00:24:40.350 million doing it. 00:24:41.030 --> 00:24:42.350 But it came at a cost. 00:24:42.990 --> 00:24:44.570 He broke over 40 bones. 00:24:44.870 --> 00:24:47.500 He broke his back seven times. 00:24:48.390 --> 00:24:52.340 Seven times I could I could see maybe an experience once or twice. 00:24:52.490 --> 00:24:52.650 Right. 00:24:53.030 --> 00:24:55.030 But seven times is a level of insanity. 00:24:55.030 --> 00:24:58.470 I hope I never get to seven times. 00:24:58.470 --> 00:25:00.020 This man broke his back. 00:25:00.270 --> 00:25:00.390 But. 00:25:00.470 --> 00:25:06.710 But he not only lived the daredevil life when he was jumping, I mean, he lived that kind of life, I think, in everything that he did. 00:25:07.590 --> 00:25:12.010 In fact, the story goes at 69 years old. 00:25:13.850 --> 00:25:15.090 His body was so broken. 00:25:16.670 --> 00:25:17.250 He was. 00:25:18.410 --> 00:25:19.310 At that point in his life. 00:25:19.430 --> 00:25:25.910 He had direct injections daily, straight into his back with synthetic medication because of the pain that he was in. 00:25:27.030 --> 00:25:33.030 At 69 years old, he had smoked like a freight train his whole life to the point that he had developed some lung diseases. 00:25:33.310 --> 00:25:36.110 As long as we're significantly scarred, he was on oxygen. 00:25:36.770 --> 00:25:41.830 He drank so heavily that his liver was suffering tremendously from that. 00:25:42.230 --> 00:25:45.170 He was held together with screws and fasteners. 00:25:47.690 --> 00:25:48.890 And at 69 years old. 00:25:51.130 --> 00:25:52.190 In this broken state. 00:25:53.870 --> 00:25:54.530 April 1st. 00:25:55.910 --> 00:25:58.610 Palm Sunday, 2007. 00:26:00.270 --> 00:26:02.170 Evel Knievel got up in front of a church. 00:26:03.850 --> 00:26:05.210 In Garden Grove, California. 00:26:06.910 --> 00:26:08.410 And he gave his life to Christ. 00:26:10.650 --> 00:26:16.150 Even a daredevil like Evel Knievel was not foolish enough to take the grape leaf leap into eternity without Jesus. 00:26:19.190 --> 00:26:20.030 It doesn't matter. 00:26:21.770 --> 00:26:22.530 Where you've come from. 00:26:24.490 --> 00:26:25.070 What you've done. 00:26:26.950 --> 00:26:28.680 That the free gift of God's grace. 00:26:29.810 --> 00:26:31.110 Cannot reach you. 00:26:33.450 --> 00:26:37.650 And that grace is transforming in our lives. 00:26:39.650 --> 00:26:45.310 There was a study done by the Barna Group, and I know the writing on here is very small, so don't worry. 00:26:45.370 --> 00:26:46.250 I'll tell you what it says. 00:26:46.470 --> 00:26:48.710 All I really want you to see are the three boxes, okay? 00:26:49.410 --> 00:26:50.830 But the Barna Group in 2018. 00:26:53.310 --> 00:26:58.130 They did a study on digital media and they called it Digital Babylon. 00:26:58.470 --> 00:27:02.670 And they talked about the influence of Digital Babylon over young people. 00:27:02.690 --> 00:27:08.380 And they did a demographic study on the ages of 15 to 23, and they played up on the idea of the word Babylon. 00:27:08.670 --> 00:27:15.140 If you know anything biblically about about what Babylon represents right now as a church, we're reading through the Bible in a year. 00:27:15.410 --> 00:27:19.790 And if you're interested in that, we'll present the new plan here in the in the next weeks. 00:27:19.790 --> 00:27:23.460 As the new year starts, you'll be able to jump on and do a Bible through the year reading. 00:27:24.050 --> 00:27:29.760 But if you're doing it right now and you're in the Old Testament, we're reading about the book or reading from the book of Daniel in the Old Testament. 00:27:30.210 --> 00:27:32.440 And Daniel was a young man carried away into Babylon. 00:27:32.450 --> 00:27:37.060 Babylon was a group that came and conquered Israel, and they took them captive and they carried them away. 00:27:37.410 --> 00:27:44.890 And representation of that, they're talking about this digital media being the idea of Babylon, meaning media goes 00:27:44.890 --> 00:27:46.970 and captures the minds of young people. 00:27:47.150 --> 00:27:50.810 15 to 23 they did a demographic study on and they speak into their life. 00:27:50.910 --> 00:27:51.550 They're carrying them away. 00:27:51.570 --> 00:27:53.030 They have all this influence over them. 00:27:53.830 --> 00:28:00.430 And so much of the Barna Group did a study on how much influence actually exists over this demographic age of between 15 and 23. 00:28:00.830 --> 00:28:04.090 And what they found is there's over 2700 hours. 00:28:04.090 --> 00:28:11.570 That large green box, over 2700 hours annually poured into the minds of young people, influencing 00:28:11.570 --> 00:28:13.370 them, carrying them away like a digital. 00:28:13.610 --> 00:28:14.030 Babylon Right. 00:28:14.450 --> 00:28:15.350 That's if you do the math. 00:28:15.470 --> 00:28:17.470 It's over 7.5 hours every day. 00:28:18.130 --> 00:28:25.330 That influence in the hearts and minds of young people and the smaller boxes, the black box in the bottom right corner represents 00:28:25.330 --> 00:28:30.130 the average young person, which is in their spiritual influence, right? 00:28:30.130 --> 00:28:37.250 So spiritually, the average young person gets 25 minutes of spiritual influence a day versus the 7.5 00:28:37.250 --> 00:28:39.170 hours of digital media from Babylon. 00:28:39.250 --> 00:28:42.310 And it's not saying like that the spiritual influence is even good influence. 00:28:42.310 --> 00:28:45.650 It's just the spiritual influence 25 minutes a day verses 7.5 hours. 00:28:46.210 --> 00:28:48.600 And then the other box are the churchgoing kids. 00:28:48.830 --> 00:28:52.490 It doesn't mean even again, that it's a healthy church or what kind of church it is. 00:28:52.730 --> 00:28:58.050 But the churchgoing kids get about an average of 45 minutes a day of a spiritual influence in their life. 00:28:58.650 --> 00:29:02.750 Now, you look at that and some parents might look at that and start to freak out, right? 00:29:02.750 --> 00:29:08.530 Like, oh, my word, my little baby, all these voices speaking into them, they're taking away their captive. 00:29:08.530 --> 00:29:11.210 And you start getting really concerned and you start obsessing about that. 00:29:11.210 --> 00:29:14.490 And all of a sudden you want that little black box to be as big as the green box. 00:29:14.550 --> 00:29:21.110 And you start worrying about what people are saying to the to the kids as they're being influenced in this green box. 00:29:21.250 --> 00:29:23.370 And you just want to put them in this little bubble and never let them out. 00:29:23.410 --> 00:29:30.250 And you just only want to speak true things to them and you're the only one that wants to say things to them because you can you can never trust what someone else might say to them. 00:29:30.250 --> 00:29:32.210 You could live like that in fear. 00:29:34.550 --> 00:29:35.270 But rather. 00:29:36.750 --> 00:29:38.210 I think God's heart's desire. 00:29:39.930 --> 00:29:40.830 It's to walk in faith. 00:29:42.530 --> 00:29:48.650 And the way that we do that is to understand, look, you're going to go into this world and people are going to say all things to you, all kinds of things to you. 00:29:50.210 --> 00:29:52.650 But it doesn't mean everything is equal and importance. 00:29:53.310 --> 00:29:54.890 In fact, it doesn't even mean everything is always true. 00:29:56.790 --> 00:30:01.310 There are some truths that should take precedence over all truths. 00:30:01.350 --> 00:30:08.170 In fact, there are some truths that should help us navigate towards what anyone else says in any other arena. 00:30:09.630 --> 00:30:11.980 In fact, if you read the book of Daniel as we're in together. 00:30:13.090 --> 00:30:14.690 Chapter one, verse eight. 00:30:14.690 --> 00:30:15.890 Daniel is just a teenager. 00:30:17.490 --> 00:30:18.810 And he's carried off into Babylon. 00:30:20.190 --> 00:30:24.070 And he's taught the Babylonian ways and raised in Babylonian education. 00:30:25.330 --> 00:30:30.430 But you know what happens in the life of Daniel with all of that Babylonian teaching in his heart and mind. 00:30:32.790 --> 00:30:34.010 Daniel lives for the Lord. 00:30:36.070 --> 00:30:37.070 How did Daniel do that? 00:30:38.670 --> 00:30:45.300 Well, in Daniel chapter one, verse eight, it tells you he determined in his heart not to defile himself before the Lord. 00:30:46.430 --> 00:30:53.450 Daniel knew there were certain truths that should take precedence over all truth, all truths taught or all not 00:30:53.450 --> 00:30:54.150 even truths. 00:30:54.150 --> 00:30:54.530 Lies told. 00:30:56.670 --> 00:31:01.690 And that truth should govern how he views the rest of life. 00:31:03.410 --> 00:31:06.000 You don't have to be there for everything your teenager goes through. 00:31:07.370 --> 00:31:12.470 But I think it's important to help your teenager learn how to think and why to think. 00:31:14.570 --> 00:31:16.270 Why do we do what we do? 00:31:17.830 --> 00:31:19.310 And what truth should take precedent. 00:31:21.450 --> 00:31:23.390 The world will speak to you in condemnation. 00:31:24.790 --> 00:31:25.690 You're not worthy enough. 00:31:25.870 --> 00:31:26.690 You're not good enough. 00:31:27.210 --> 00:31:28.870 You don't deserve this unless you conform. 00:31:32.910 --> 00:31:33.590 But God's truth. 00:31:36.030 --> 00:31:36.770 God's free gift. 00:31:38.050 --> 00:31:40.600 Is what sets us free in righteousness. 00:31:42.710 --> 00:31:42.890 Right. 00:31:42.910 --> 00:31:45.740 And if I just at the very end here, I'm just going to read these last two verses. 00:31:45.990 --> 00:31:53.050 And if I could just say if we could walk out with a truth and allow it to hang in our lives and govern the way 00:31:53.050 --> 00:31:54.470 we choose to move forward. 00:31:55.610 --> 00:31:57.690 This truth determines all else. 00:31:59.290 --> 00:32:02.150 And in Romans chapter five, verse 20, he goes on and says this. 00:32:03.790 --> 00:32:04.610 Now the law came. 00:32:04.610 --> 00:32:12.370 He tells us the purpose of the law to increase the trespasses, like religious law is not given to show you how to how to earn 00:32:12.370 --> 00:32:13.850 your spiritual life forever. 00:32:14.510 --> 00:32:16.910 In fact, religious law only points out where you fail. 00:32:16.930 --> 00:32:18.110 That's the whole point of religion. 00:32:18.290 --> 00:32:18.490 It does. 00:32:18.710 --> 00:32:19.410 It's not. 00:32:19.410 --> 00:32:23.100 It's only going to show you why, how you mess up and why you're not worthy right now. 00:32:23.310 --> 00:32:27.410 The law came in to increase the trespasses, but where sin increase. 00:32:28.950 --> 00:32:34.410 Grace abounded all the more. 00:32:34.910 --> 00:32:36.930 So the sin reigned in death. 00:32:38.630 --> 00:32:46.450 Grace also might reign through the righteousness leading to eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord. 00:32:48.850 --> 00:32:49.620 Wir sind ringde. 00:32:52.370 --> 00:32:57.230 Grace abounded all the more and it reigns in Christ forever. 00:32:58.990 --> 00:33:04.290 What he's saying is this No matter how high you think your sin might be before God. 00:33:06.030 --> 00:33:08.070 Grace abounds and flows beyond it. 00:33:09.370 --> 00:33:12.370 No matter how deep your sin might go in your life. 00:33:13.590 --> 00:33:16.010 Grace goes even deeper still. 00:33:17.390 --> 00:33:24.650 And God desires that grace to abound in your life so that every day you have the opportunity to be renewed 00:33:24.650 --> 00:33:27.310 in Jesus again and again. 00:33:27.310 --> 00:33:29.050 It's like waves of the ocean. 00:33:29.390 --> 00:33:36.770 It never stops washing up on the shores of your life so that you can find that freedom in Christ and be renewed 00:33:36.770 --> 00:33:37.510 in him. 00:33:38.010 --> 00:33:45.250 No matter how much you feel like you have failed, it is not enough to turn Jesus away from you because Jesus 00:33:45.250 --> 00:33:46.770 is more than enough. 00:33:46.890 --> 00:33:50.230 His grace abounds over and over. 00:33:50.230 --> 00:33:52.160 Which leads me to this last illustration. 00:33:52.510 --> 00:33:53.930 One of the best I can give you. 00:33:56.230 --> 00:33:56.880 Lord of the Rings. 00:33:58.510 --> 00:33:59.110 Return of the king. 00:34:01.150 --> 00:34:08.250 There is this area known as Gondor, and in Gondor there is this capital called Minas 00:34:08.250 --> 00:34:11.650 Tirith or Tirith excuse me, Minas Tirith. 00:34:11.969 --> 00:34:19.290 And at this capital, if you watch The Lord of the Rings, the Return of the King, this is where a massive orc army came in and besieged 00:34:19.290 --> 00:34:20.139 the capital. 00:34:20.270 --> 00:34:27.969 And inside this capital there is one little character known as Pippin The Hobbit and Pippin. 00:34:27.969 --> 00:34:32.790 And when he's in this castle, as the orcs are besieging the city, they've overrun it and they're taking it by storm. 00:34:33.929 --> 00:34:38.250 Thousands and thousands of orcs fighting against the city. 00:34:38.250 --> 00:34:41.780 And Pippin knows their fate, but they continue to fight valiantly. 00:34:44.630 --> 00:34:45.600 But at the midnight hour. 00:34:47.710 --> 00:34:49.270 At the hills just above. 00:34:50.389 --> 00:34:50.850 Gondor. 00:34:52.650 --> 00:34:54.290 The army of men show up. 00:34:55.969 --> 00:34:57.790 And just when they're about to be defeated. 00:34:59.210 --> 00:35:01.230 The army of men Blow the trumpet of Rohan. 00:35:02.870 --> 00:35:04.400 And right into battle victorious. 00:35:06.470 --> 00:35:07.470 And Gondor is spared. 00:35:09.510 --> 00:35:10.660 And in this story. 00:35:11.850 --> 00:35:15.190 Pippin shares in the book he shares about this moment, he says. 00:35:15.950 --> 00:35:18.610 But Pippin, when he heard that horn, Pippin rose to his feet. 00:35:20.470 --> 00:35:23.860 As if a great weight had been lifted from him. 00:35:24.290 --> 00:35:26.360 And he stood listening to the horns. 00:35:26.990 --> 00:35:30.790 And it seemed to him that they would break his heart with joy. 00:35:31.950 --> 00:35:39.390 And never in after years could he hear a horn blow in the distance without tears starting 00:35:39.530 --> 00:35:40.050 in his eyes. 00:35:42.270 --> 00:35:43.040 I think it's an incredible story. 00:35:43.350 --> 00:35:50.350 You think about you're looking at death and in the moments that you think that your life 00:35:50.350 --> 00:35:54.350 is about to end, you hear the sweet sound of rescue. 00:35:56.150 --> 00:35:58.250 Salvation has come. 00:35:58.550 --> 00:36:01.550 And the horns become a horn of rejoicing for your soul. 00:36:03.410 --> 00:36:06.150 And that moment impacted Pippin so deeply. 00:36:06.550 --> 00:36:12.430 The story goes that any moment in his life after that, any time he ever heard a horn. 00:36:13.070 --> 00:36:19.030 Tears would well in his eyes because it was a reminder to him of the salvation that he received. 00:36:21.250 --> 00:36:23.570 And guys, it's the same thing with Romans chapter five. 00:36:25.090 --> 00:36:29.050 I know for some of us, a story of God's grace can sound like monotony. 00:36:31.510 --> 00:36:32.530 But the truth be told. 00:36:34.010 --> 00:36:35.220 It is the horn of salvation. 00:36:37.810 --> 00:36:40.330 That when you stare at death. 00:36:42.510 --> 00:36:43.810 And you think you have no hope? 00:36:45.610 --> 00:36:47.470 You're reminded of what Jesus did. 00:36:49.070 --> 00:36:56.150 The horn of his grace abounded beyond the depth of your brokenness that 00:36:56.150 --> 00:37:03.250 you forever could celebrate the sound of that salvation and the freedom through which you received in 00:37:03.250 --> 00:37:03.970 Jesus. 00:37:04.290 --> 00:37:11.530 And when that becomes your life Anthem, that message takes precedent over every 00:37:11.530 --> 00:37:16.960 message and becomes the governance of your life under the federal headship of Christ.