DAILY TRUTH - Man’s Sin Is The Problem, Not God’s Law
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In order to understand the good news, we must first understand the bad news. Before sin is an action, it is a condition. The good news shines because of the backdrop of the bad, nasty, mean-spirited law of God.
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Jesus said, man cannot live on bread alone, but from every word that proceeds from the mouth of
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God. You're listening to Daily Truth. In order to properly understand the good news, we must first
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understand the bad news. Before sin is an action, it is a condition. Psalm 51 verse 5 says this,
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Behold, David speaking, I was brought forth in iniquity, and in sin did my mother conceive me.
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Let's pause. In order to understand the good news of God's gracious reconciliation, restoration,
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salvation glorification for all of creation which includes you and I through the person and work of
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Jesus Christ his son by grace alone through faith alone that is the gospel in order to understand
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the brilliance of the diamond the good news of the gospel we must properly place it in its context
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that is on the backdrop of the black velvet of sin.
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We must understand the bad news in order to properly understand the good news.
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And again, I want to pause here for a moment because many Christians misunderstand this point.
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And here I'll give a parenthetical disclaimer in addition.
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The beauty of the gospel of free grace does not shine as good news because of the backdrop of the bad, nasty, mean-spirited law of God.
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you read this book and it's a pretty easy story to figure out it's not complicated
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if you want to get the headline of the story of the overarching story and narrative of the bible
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and you want to figure out who the protagonist is who the enemy is what's the good news what's the
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bad news? What's the hope? What's the problem? With a plain reading of Scripture, you will find
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undoubtedly that the problem is not the holiness of God. The problem is the sinfulness of man.
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And yet, many evangelicals treat the law of God as though that were the enemy.
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rather than our sin. That is the equivalency of treating an MRI as something that gives you
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sickness, rather than revealing the sickness that's already there. Now that said, I don't
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trust pretty much 99% of medicine anymore, thanks to all the experts discrediting themselves. So an
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MRI, in objective terms, might actually give you sickness. At this point, you know what I mean,
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there's no conspiracy too far, right? I've run out of conspiracies because in three to six months,
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they all come true, right? So I don't know, but just, you know, suspended disbelief for a moment.
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For those of you who are thinking MRI is not a good analogy, Joel, right? I went down the Reddit
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hole on this one. Just, okay, just humor my ignorance for a moment. Let's just assume that,
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you know, that Dr. Fauci is not involved and all that kind of stuff and assume, you know, what the
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basic individual thought about MRIs, you know, 20 years ago before everybody, you know, became
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a mad evil scientist, you know, gathering, you know, in Switzerland with George Soros trying
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to figure out how to, you know, lower the human population, right? That's a, you know, that's going
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on sadly. So let's pretend, you know, without that in our minds that MRIs are good. I don't know.
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I don't know. Let's just assume for the point of argument. The point is that I'm making the device
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or procedure or method or person or expert or whatever that reveals a problem is not the
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problem itself. That's the point that I'm making. In fact, the person or device or method or
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procedure that reveals the problem is actually a help. That person or method or invention is a
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blessing to you. And that is the law of God. The law of God does not impute sin. The law of God
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reveals sin. The problem is not that we have a thrice holy God. The problem is not that he
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demands that we live in such a way that would garnish our own joy and his glory.
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That's not the problem. The problem with humanity is not that there is a God in heaven who has
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rules. The problem for humanity is our own defiance towards that God in heaven.
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The fact that we hate his rules when left to ourselves.
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So the problem, the bad news, which is the proper backdrop, the proper context for rightly being
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able to compare and contrast and appreciate the good news the bad news is not the law
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the bad news is that we are transgressors of the law the bad news is not god's holiness
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the bad news is man's sinfulness can i be frank with you for just a second right here at the end
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look some of you guys you're financially supporting this ministry and from the bottom
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of my heart, I say thank you. I cannot thank you enough. However, some of you, you just,
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you can't afford it. In fact, some of you, you shouldn't afford it. Let's be honest. I mean,
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we're living in Joe Biden's ridiculous economy. Our nation and our totalitarian political elites
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lost their minds over the last three years due to COVID. We have written checks that we simply
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cannot cash. It doesn't matter if people change the definition of a recession. We are living in
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a recession right now regardless. Some of you are struggling to afford a carton of eggs at the
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