Title: The Gospel of Christ Powerfully Saves Meta: The greatest problem in all of Scripture is how can God who is just and holy cover your sin? Thanks be to God that the death Jesus died on the Cross is sufficient to pay for all your sins! It was there that the separation from God that you and I should experience throughout all of eternity was suffered for us by Jesus Christ on the Cross. Tags:Gospel,Jesus Christ,Salvation,Bible,Justification,Regeneration,true conversion 1 00:00:00,729 --> 00:00:02,270 I'm going to give you the hardest, 2 00:00:02,270 --> 00:00:06,060 greatest, problem in all of Scripture. 3 00:00:06,060 --> 00:00:08,259 This is it. 4 00:00:08,259 --> 00:00:10,360 If you've been here in this church you've heard it a million times 5 00:00:10,360 --> 00:00:11,409 but some of you haven't, 6 00:00:11,409 --> 00:00:15,230 so the people in this church are going to hear it a million and one times now. (P) 7 00:00:15,230 --> 00:00:18,660 This is the greatest problem in the Bible: 8 00:00:18,660 --> 00:00:24,419 If God is good He can't forgive you. 9 00:00:24,419 --> 00:00:26,669 If God is righteous and Holy, 10 00:00:26,669 --> 00:00:30,009 He cannot forgive you. 11 00:00:30,009 --> 00:00:33,500 And you say "What?!" 12 00:00:33,500 --> 00:00:36,539 That's it, really. 13 00:00:36,539 --> 00:00:39,370 The greatest problem in all of Scripture... 14 00:00:39,370 --> 00:00:41,079 we see it in Exodus, 15 00:00:41,079 --> 00:00:42,059 we see it in Psalms. 16 00:00:42,059 --> 00:00:43,329 We even see it in the book of Proverbs. 17 00:00:43,329 --> 00:00:46,609 We see Paul dealing with it in Romans Chapter 3.(P) 18 00:00:46,609 --> 00:00:47,739 And it is this problem: 19 00:00:47,739 --> 00:00:51,500 If God is just how can He, 20 00:00:51,500 --> 00:00:52,769 just simply, 21 00:00:52,769 --> 00:00:54,199 as He says, 22 00:00:54,199 --> 00:00:56,079 turn His back to your sin. 23 00:00:56,079 --> 00:00:57,929 How can He cover your sin? 24 00:00:57,929 --> 00:01:02,179 How can He cast your sin away from you as far as the east is from the west? 25 00:01:02,179 --> 00:01:07,210 Literally, in the book of Psalms, and again in Romans Chapter 4. 26 00:01:07,210 --> 00:01:08,970 It is He "covers it!" 27 00:01:08,970 --> 00:01:13,180 What do we think about a judge who sweeps crimes under the rug? 28 00:01:13,180 --> 00:01:14,420 Do we call Him righteous? 29 00:01:14,420 --> 00:01:15,800 No we don't, do we. 30 00:01:15,800 --> 00:01:17,360 We call him corrupt. 31 00:01:17,360 --> 00:01:19,280 Is he maintaining righteousness? 32 00:01:19,280 --> 00:01:20,660 Absolutely not! 33 00:01:20,660 --> 00:01:23,900 He is defaming righteousness. 34 00:01:23,900 --> 00:01:26,830 You see there in lies the great problem in the Bible. 35 00:01:26,830 --> 00:01:28,560 God is righteous! 36 00:01:28,560 --> 00:01:30,010 And because He is righteous, 37 00:01:30,010 --> 00:01:31,400 and because He is holy. 38 00:01:31,400 --> 00:01:32,930 And guess what? 39 00:01:32,930 --> 00:01:35,890 Because He is love, He hates. 40 00:01:35,890 --> 00:01:38,720 He hates evil. 41 00:01:38,720 --> 00:01:39,230 Some people say, 42 00:01:39,230 --> 00:01:41,430 "Well God is love therefore He doesn't hate." 43 00:01:41,430 --> 00:01:45,930 No God is love, and therefore He must hate. 44 00:01:45,930 --> 00:01:48,480 He hates evil. 45 00:01:48,480 --> 00:01:50,630 He can't just turn His back on evil. 46 00:01:50,630 --> 00:01:53,160 And He can't just turn His back on your evil. 47 00:01:53,160 --> 00:01:53,960 Or my evil 48 00:01:53,960 --> 00:01:56,260 or on anyone elses evil. 49 00:01:56,260 --> 00:02:00,060 God is a righteous judge. 50 00:02:00,060 --> 00:02:03,430 And shall not the judge of all of the earth do right? (P) 51 00:02:03,430 --> 00:02:05,420 So the great question in the Bible is: 52 00:02:05,420 --> 00:02:12,670 How can God be just and yet simply forgive wicked men? 53 00:02:12,670 --> 00:02:15,890 How can He do it? 54 00:02:15,890 --> 00:02:18,959 The answer is in the person of Jesus Christ. 55 00:02:18,959 --> 00:02:23,420 And this is what so many people do not understand about the Cross. 56 00:02:23,420 --> 00:02:25,730 God in His righteousness condemns man. 57 00:02:25,730 --> 00:02:27,339 Every man, everyone here, 58 00:02:27,339 --> 00:02:29,930 everyone who has ever walked the planet since Adam. 59 00:02:29,930 --> 00:02:31,680 Condemned, in our sin. 60 00:02:31,680 --> 00:02:33,969 And all of the religion, all of the church going, 61 00:02:33,969 --> 00:02:36,200 everything else that you might want to add to it. 62 00:02:36,200 --> 00:02:40,510 It's not going to help you one bit. 63 00:02:40,510 --> 00:02:42,069 Your condemned. 64 00:02:42,069 --> 00:02:44,280 To be in heaven you must be perfect. 65 00:02:44,280 --> 00:02:45,999 Have perfect righteousness, 66 00:02:45,999 --> 00:02:48,400 and none of us have that! 67 00:02:48,400 --> 00:02:50,129 And God cannot do it any other way 68 00:02:50,129 --> 00:02:51,780 because He is righteous! 69 00:02:51,780 --> 00:02:54,980 He cannot sweep your sin in a basket 70 00:02:54,980 --> 00:02:58,079 or under a rug.(P) 71 00:02:58,079 --> 00:03:00,359 So God in His righteousness condemns you 72 00:03:00,359 --> 00:03:03,180 and me and all have humanity. 73 00:03:03,180 --> 00:03:05,760 And than God in His love becomes a man 74 00:03:05,760 --> 00:03:08,290 and He lives the life you could not live. 75 00:03:08,290 --> 00:03:09,799 The life that I could not live. 76 00:03:09,799 --> 00:03:13,590 Not only is He avoiding sin. 77 00:03:13,590 --> 00:03:18,480 But at the same time He is living a life of perfect righteousness. 78 00:03:18,480 --> 00:03:20,540 Not only avoiding the negative, 79 00:03:20,540 --> 00:03:22,030 but always doing the positive. 80 00:03:22,030 --> 00:03:25,010 A perfect righteous life. 81 00:03:25,010 --> 00:03:28,510 And than that Son of God, He goes to Calvary. 82 00:03:28,510 --> 00:03:31,599 And on Calvary He dies!(P) 83 00:03:31,599 --> 00:03:33,620 But now here is the problem. 84 00:03:33,620 --> 00:03:35,669 When you hear all of those Easter sermons and everything else, 85 00:03:35,669 --> 00:03:37,279 mainly what do you hear? 86 00:03:37,279 --> 00:03:41,959 You hear about the Romans nailing Him to a tree and 87 00:03:41,959 --> 00:03:44,700 beating Him and stabbing Him with a lance. 88 00:03:44,700 --> 00:03:48,010 And you hear about all of the things that the Romans did to Jesus 89 00:03:48,010 --> 00:03:48,959 and it killed Him. 90 00:03:48,959 --> 00:03:50,920 And when you hear that kind of preaching, 91 00:03:50,920 --> 00:03:55,599 that kind of preaching is totally missing the point! 92 00:03:55,599 --> 00:03:59,930 We are not saved from our sins because the Romans beat up Jesus 93 00:03:59,930 --> 00:04:01,279 and killed Him! 94 00:04:01,279 --> 00:04:04,700 We are saved from our sins because when He was on the tree 95 00:04:04,700 --> 00:04:08,669 all of your sin was imputed to Him, 96 00:04:08,669 --> 00:04:13,599 and than God in heaven turned away from His only Son - 97 00:04:13,599 --> 00:04:16,579 not because He lacked the moral fortitude to see Him suffer - 98 00:04:16,579 --> 00:04:17,440 No! 99 00:04:17,440 --> 00:04:23,440 He turned away from His only Son because His only Son became sin! 100 00:04:23,440 --> 00:04:26,760 And the separation from God, that you should experience 101 00:04:26,760 --> 00:04:27,620 that I should experience 102 00:04:27,620 --> 00:04:29,100 throughout all of eternity. 103 00:04:29,100 --> 00:04:32,560 The Son of God experienced on that tree! 104 00:04:32,560 --> 00:04:36,370 And then there was not just the negative withdraw of God's presence 105 00:04:36,370 --> 00:04:39,590 from Christ so that He cried out "Eli, Eli, lema sabachthani?" 106 00:04:39,590 --> 00:04:42,540 My God, my God why have you forsaken me? 107 00:04:42,540 --> 00:04:47,670 But then all the full force of God's wrath 108 00:04:47,670 --> 00:04:51,660 of His holy hatred against you. 109 00:04:51,660 --> 00:04:52,960 And your crimes. 110 00:04:52,960 --> 00:04:54,960 And me, and my crimes. 111 00:04:54,960 --> 00:04:59,100 That as a Holy God He must pour out. 112 00:04:59,100 --> 00:05:02,440 He poured out on His own Son! 113 00:05:02,440 --> 00:05:05,410 As the prophet in Isaiah 53 verse 10 says: 114 00:05:05,410 --> 00:05:14,040 And it pleased the Lord to crush the Messiah! 115 00:05:14,040 --> 00:05:15,650 To crush Him 116 00:05:15,650 --> 00:05:17,560 under the full force of His wrath! 117 00:05:17,560 --> 00:05:18,990 You know, many of you have read the Bible. 118 00:05:18,990 --> 00:05:21,230 He is in the garden and He cries out 119 00:05:21,230 --> 00:05:25,420 "Let this cup pass from me, let this cup pass from me, let this cup pass from me." 120 00:05:25,420 --> 00:05:27,010 Three times. 121 00:05:27,010 --> 00:05:34,240 Do you honestly think that our Savior was afraid of a Roman lance? 122 00:05:34,240 --> 00:05:37,000 So many people think that when Jesus is looking at this cup 123 00:05:37,000 --> 00:05:39,630 He is thinking about the Cross, 124 00:05:39,630 --> 00:05:40,810 and the beatings 125 00:05:40,810 --> 00:05:42,810 and everything else. 126 00:05:42,810 --> 00:05:45,340 And it causes Him to sweat drops of blood. 127 00:05:45,340 --> 00:05:46,340 Really? 128 00:05:46,340 --> 00:05:50,680 How is it than that all of the apostles but John, 129 00:05:50,680 --> 00:05:52,370 and countless of martyrs, 130 00:05:52,370 --> 00:05:53,440 went to the Cross 131 00:05:53,440 --> 00:05:57,620 and church history tells us they were singing hymns. 132 00:05:57,620 --> 00:06:01,490 They were full of joy at being crucified like their Lord. 133 00:06:01,490 --> 00:06:05,370 So how is it that they had more boldness than their Savior? 134 00:06:05,370 --> 00:06:08,760 Jesus was not sweating drops of blood in the garden 135 00:06:08,760 --> 00:06:12,180 simply because of a roman cross. 136 00:06:12,180 --> 00:06:17,220 It was because He had always dwelt in the bosom of the Father 137 00:06:17,220 --> 00:06:19,750 perfect delight between one another. 138 00:06:19,750 --> 00:06:23,860 He had always been the beloved Son in whom the Father was well pleased. 139 00:06:23,860 --> 00:06:28,930 And on that tree the Father withdrew His presence from His Son, 140 00:06:28,930 --> 00:06:30,400 as He should from us. 141 00:06:30,400 --> 00:06:34,930 And His Father crushed His Son! 142 00:06:34,930 --> 00:06:37,190 That's what was in the cup. 143 00:06:37,190 --> 00:06:42,460 The wrath of almighty God against every sin that we've committed. 144 00:06:42,460 --> 00:06:44,670 And He drank it down. 145 00:06:44,670 --> 00:06:47,120 And when He cried out "It is finished!" 146 00:06:47,120 --> 00:06:51,170 He turned the cup over and not one drop came out. 147 00:06:51,170 --> 00:06:53,680 He drank it all. 148 00:06:53,680 --> 00:06:56,330 Paid in full. 149 00:06:58,030 --> 00:07:00,490 And He died. 150 00:07:00,490 --> 00:07:03,900 And on the third day He was raised. 151 00:07:03,900 --> 00:07:05,240 By His own power, 152 00:07:05,240 --> 00:07:06,890 by the Spirit's power. 153 00:07:06,890 --> 00:07:08,690 By the power of the Father, 154 00:07:08,690 --> 00:07:09,700 He was raised. 155 00:07:09,700 --> 00:07:13,420 And Romans tells us that that is God's sign, 156 00:07:13,420 --> 00:07:16,430 that it is God's vindication of His Son and proof 157 00:07:16,430 --> 00:07:21,750 that the death He died on Calvary was sufficient to pay for all your sins.(P) 158 00:07:21,750 --> 00:07:24,500 So what does it mean to believe that Jesus is the Messiah, 159 00:07:24,500 --> 00:07:25,620 the Son of God. 160 00:07:25,620 --> 00:07:29,330 It's not just "I love His teachings and I follow Him." 161 00:07:30,200 --> 00:07:33,890 It is this: 162 00:07:33,890 --> 00:07:35,740 I have nothing, 163 00:07:35,740 --> 00:07:38,180 I have no righteousness, 164 00:07:38,180 --> 00:07:40,180 I have no hope, 165 00:07:40,180 --> 00:07:44,150 expect what God did for me on Calvary. 166 00:07:44,150 --> 00:07:47,100 And in the resurrection of Christ from the dead. 167 00:07:47,100 --> 00:07:51,860 That is my hope.(P) 168 00:07:51,860 --> 00:07:58,740 If I stood in the midst of the most horribly wicked people 169 00:07:58,740 --> 00:08:01,950 in a massive den of iniquity. 170 00:08:01,950 --> 00:08:02,890 And I stood there, 171 00:08:02,890 --> 00:08:05,760 and I was translated there right now, 172 00:08:05,760 --> 00:08:06,940 to that place. 173 00:08:06,940 --> 00:08:10,150 The only place that separates from me, 174 00:08:10,150 --> 00:08:11,880 in the eyes of God, 175 00:08:11,880 --> 00:08:14,490 from them, is the Cross of Calvary. 176 00:08:14,490 --> 00:08:18,860 Where Jesus Christ died for my sins.(P) 177 00:08:18,860 --> 00:08:21,390 And I want to tell you something: 178 00:08:21,390 --> 00:08:25,150 If you add any your supposed virtue to that, 179 00:08:25,150 --> 00:08:29,930 you do not believe in the Son of God. 180 00:08:30,880 --> 00:08:32,440 I hear so many people 181 00:08:33,690 --> 00:08:35,490 "Ya, I'm a Christian." 182 00:08:35,490 --> 00:08:36,279 You are believing in Jesus? 183 00:08:36,279 --> 00:08:37,299 "Yes I am." 184 00:08:37,299 --> 00:08:39,889 Well, if you died right now where would you go? 185 00:08:39,889 --> 00:08:42,589 "Well I think I would go to heaven." 186 00:08:42,589 --> 00:08:43,249 Why? 187 00:08:43,249 --> 00:08:44,540 "Well, I've been good." 188 00:08:44,540 --> 00:08:45,740 "I've been a good person." 189 00:08:47,590 --> 00:08:51,449 Do you see the disconnect? 190 00:08:52,379 --> 00:08:54,319 What!?!?! 191 00:08:55,189 --> 00:08:57,059 What?!? 192 00:08:57,059 --> 00:08:58,619 You've been a good person? 193 00:08:58,619 --> 00:09:01,220 Really? 194 00:09:01,220 --> 00:09:03,459 Really? 195 00:09:03,459 --> 00:09:06,019 Good enough to take any one of those thoughts and stand before God 196 00:09:06,019 --> 00:09:11,499 and risk all of eternity on it?(P) 197 00:09:11,499 --> 00:09:12,319 Some people will say, 198 00:09:12,319 --> 00:09:14,939 and they said this in Romans 5 and in Romans 6. 199 00:09:14,939 --> 00:09:16,689 That is what Paul was answering to. 200 00:09:16,689 --> 00:09:22,550 "If your saying it is just faith in Jesus and not our works 201 00:09:22,550 --> 00:09:25,310 than people will just believe in Jesus 202 00:09:25,310 --> 00:09:27,320 and live like the devil and they're going to heaven." 203 00:09:27,320 --> 00:09:28,250 Absolutely not!(P) 204 00:09:28,250 --> 00:09:30,969 You see there are two doctrines in the Bible that you need to understand. 205 00:09:30,969 --> 00:09:33,389 The first one is justification. 206 00:09:33,389 --> 00:09:34,269 What is justification? 207 00:09:34,269 --> 00:09:35,850 It is a legal declaration. 208 00:09:35,850 --> 00:09:41,000 The person who believes in Jesus Christ is legally justified before God. 209 00:09:41,000 --> 00:09:43,050 God looks at this person as right with Him 210 00:09:43,050 --> 00:09:45,110 not on the basis of their virtue 211 00:09:45,110 --> 00:09:49,379 but on the basis of what Christ did for them. 212 00:09:49,379 --> 00:09:50,759 God declares them righteous. 213 00:09:50,759 --> 00:09:52,269 That's the believer's standing.(P) 214 00:09:52,269 --> 00:09:53,259 But than there is another doctrine 215 00:09:53,259 --> 00:09:54,730 called the doctrine of regeneration. 216 00:09:54,730 --> 00:09:58,120 If you've read the Bible you've heard it in 2 Corinthians 5:17 217 00:09:58,120 --> 00:10:00,300 If any man be in Christ he is a new creation 218 00:10:00,300 --> 00:10:02,649 old things pass away behold all things are new. 219 00:10:02,649 --> 00:10:03,829 What does that mean? 220 00:10:03,829 --> 00:10:06,699 It means that those who truly believe in Jesus Christ have also 221 00:10:06,699 --> 00:10:10,970 been born again, or what we call regenerated by the Holy Spirit. 222 00:10:10,970 --> 00:10:13,240 They've been made alive. 223 00:10:13,240 --> 00:10:17,059 So that it is not them believing in Jesus 224 00:10:17,059 --> 00:10:21,120 and than doing a bunch of righteous things that they hate. 225 00:10:21,120 --> 00:10:23,779 But it's their believing in Jesus and their saved 226 00:10:23,779 --> 00:10:25,209 and because of that salvation 227 00:10:25,209 --> 00:10:28,160 and because of the power of God to transform a life 228 00:10:28,160 --> 00:10:30,509 they now begin to walk in newness of life 229 00:10:30,509 --> 00:10:37,290 But never is their standing before God based upon what they do 230 00:10:37,290 --> 00:10:39,910 it's based upon the Cross of Calvary. 231 00:10:39,910 --> 00:10:42,580 Christ and Christ alone.(P) 232 00:10:42,580 --> 00:10:45,019 Now I'm going to finish with an illustration. 233 00:10:45,019 --> 00:10:47,579 Hopefully it doesn't apply to you 234 00:10:47,579 --> 00:10:51,189 but it may give you some insight into what I'm talking about. 235 00:10:51,899 --> 00:10:54,749 I first heard this from a dear friend of mine Charles Leiter. 236 00:10:54,749 --> 00:10:57,259 It's a wonderful illustration. 237 00:10:57,259 --> 00:11:00,509 Let's say that we own a bunch of sheep. 238 00:11:00,509 --> 00:11:04,550 And we've got a problem, there are a bunch of coyotes. 239 00:11:04,550 --> 00:11:06,209 Now how do we solve the problem? 240 00:11:06,209 --> 00:11:10,120 Well, there are a few ways we can solve the problem. 241 00:11:10,120 --> 00:11:11,339 One is: 242 00:11:11,339 --> 00:11:15,699 we can get a gun and shoot the coyotes. 243 00:11:15,699 --> 00:11:17,889 Now that solves the sheep's problem 244 00:11:17,889 --> 00:11:19,100 solves our problem, 245 00:11:19,100 --> 00:11:22,709 but it doesn't solve the coyotes problem.(P) 246 00:11:22,709 --> 00:11:24,100 What else can we do? 247 00:11:24,100 --> 00:11:27,240 Well, we can get a cage 248 00:11:27,240 --> 00:11:29,120 and we can trap the coyote. 249 00:11:29,120 --> 00:11:32,569 We can trap him. 250 00:11:32,569 --> 00:11:34,389 So we've solved the sheep's problem, 251 00:11:34,389 --> 00:11:35,990 we've solved our problem. 252 00:11:35,990 --> 00:11:38,540 But we really haven't solved the coyotes problem. 253 00:11:39,410 --> 00:11:40,860 You say, "Well he is reformed!" 254 00:11:40,860 --> 00:11:41,790 No he is isn't. 255 00:11:41,790 --> 00:11:43,199 He is just caged. 256 00:11:43,199 --> 00:11:45,550 He is not reformed. 257 00:11:45,550 --> 00:11:47,329 He walks back and forth in that cage 258 00:11:47,329 --> 00:11:49,079 back and forth like this 259 00:11:49,079 --> 00:11:51,860 and just wanting to get out. 260 00:11:51,860 --> 00:11:53,110 You let that door open 261 00:11:53,110 --> 00:11:54,410 and he is coming out of there. 262 00:11:54,410 --> 00:11:55,579 So we haven't solved his problem. 263 00:11:55,579 --> 00:11:57,209 Do you know what I just described? 264 00:11:57,209 --> 00:11:58,779 Religion. 265 00:11:58,779 --> 00:12:02,069 And a lot of Christian religion. 266 00:12:03,889 --> 00:12:05,439 "I go to church, I hate it, 267 00:12:05,439 --> 00:12:08,249 but I'm going because it's the right thing to do." 268 00:12:08,249 --> 00:12:11,899 "I do this because it's the right thing to do and because I gotta do it."(P) 269 00:12:11,899 --> 00:12:13,499 There is no really love for God. 270 00:12:13,499 --> 00:12:15,550 There is no genuine desire to serve Him. 271 00:12:15,550 --> 00:12:17,269 "I've just got to do these things!" 272 00:12:17,269 --> 00:12:17,819 That's legalism. 273 00:12:17,819 --> 00:12:18,540 That's religion. 274 00:12:18,540 --> 00:12:19,849 That's church. 275 00:12:20,559 --> 00:12:22,730 "Why do we have to go?" 276 00:12:23,660 --> 00:12:25,699 It's the same way as the coyote saying 277 00:12:25,699 --> 00:12:28,050 "Why can't I just eat sheep?" 278 00:12:28,050 --> 00:12:29,509 And every time someone is not looking 279 00:12:29,509 --> 00:12:31,160 and every time that door is open 280 00:12:31,160 --> 00:12:32,699 your going to eat sheep. 281 00:12:32,699 --> 00:12:36,629 Your going to sin because that is what you love.(P) 282 00:12:36,629 --> 00:12:40,290 Now what is Christianity? 283 00:12:40,290 --> 00:12:42,240 God changes the coyote 284 00:12:42,240 --> 00:12:43,980 into a sheep. 285 00:12:43,980 --> 00:12:45,300 That's Christianity. 286 00:12:45,300 --> 00:12:47,509 From the inside 287 00:12:47,509 --> 00:12:48,559 He changes their heart 288 00:12:48,559 --> 00:12:51,550 He takes out their heart of stone 289 00:12:51,550 --> 00:12:53,740 and He gives them a heart of flesh. 290 00:12:53,740 --> 00:12:56,249 And that's how you know you've become a Christian. 291 00:12:56,249 --> 00:12:59,110 Not just because you give some empty profession that 292 00:12:59,110 --> 00:13:01,410 "Ya I believe Jesus is the son of God." 293 00:13:01,410 --> 00:13:04,479 But because something, as it happened to Peter, 294 00:13:04,479 --> 00:13:07,629 something more than flesh and blood happened to you. 295 00:13:07,629 --> 00:13:10,170 God showed you, this is His Son 296 00:13:10,170 --> 00:13:14,269 and He put an overwhelming, new desire in you 297 00:13:14,269 --> 00:13:15,369 to follow Him 298 00:13:15,369 --> 00:13:16,769 and to please Him. 299 00:13:16,769 --> 00:13:18,540 Do you see that?(P) 300 00:13:18,540 --> 00:13:23,589 I'll give you a lecture right now in ontology. 301 00:13:23,879 --> 00:13:27,689 And it's this. 302 00:13:27,689 --> 00:13:30,220 I have a nature. 303 00:13:30,220 --> 00:13:32,459 I have a will. 304 00:13:32,459 --> 00:13:37,639 And I have activity, things I do. 305 00:13:39,489 --> 00:13:43,629 If my heart loves evil, 306 00:13:43,629 --> 00:13:46,430 my desire is for evil. 307 00:13:46,430 --> 00:13:47,530 Things of this world, 308 00:13:47,530 --> 00:13:48,779 the immoralities, 309 00:13:48,779 --> 00:13:49,879 the sensuality's, 310 00:13:49,879 --> 00:13:52,529 the money, everything that is in this world. 311 00:13:52,529 --> 00:13:55,110 If that is what my heart loves, 312 00:13:55,110 --> 00:13:57,369 than those desires, 313 00:13:57,369 --> 00:13:59,220 they influence my will, 314 00:13:59,220 --> 00:14:01,759 and my will pushes my activities. 315 00:14:01,759 --> 00:14:04,399 I'm driven, I'm driven 316 00:14:04,399 --> 00:14:05,549 by my will. 317 00:14:05,549 --> 00:14:08,259 That is driven by my evil desires. 318 00:14:08,259 --> 00:14:09,680 And I do evil. 319 00:14:09,680 --> 00:14:14,999 But if someone can change this heart of mine 320 00:14:14,999 --> 00:14:20,100 so that the things I once loved I now hate. 321 00:14:20,100 --> 00:14:22,499 And the things I once hated, like righteousness, 322 00:14:22,499 --> 00:14:25,939 I now love. 323 00:14:25,939 --> 00:14:28,149 There's not much to worry about after that 324 00:14:28,149 --> 00:14:31,139 because my new desires push my life 325 00:14:31,139 --> 00:14:33,730 in a completely different direction. 326 00:14:33,730 --> 00:14:35,699 And when I do sin it breaks my heart 327 00:14:35,699 --> 00:14:37,950 because my heart has been made new.