Amen we are in Romans chapter number seven this evening and we're actually going through
Romans on Thursdays but of course we've been having guest preachers we had Pastor Anderson
on Thursday and then we'll have Pastor Jimenez and so I'm just gonna cover what we don't
cover on those Thursdays I'm gonna cover those on Sunday night so we just stay on track there
but if you look down at your Bibles in Romans chapter number seven and verse number one
the Bible reads here know ye not brethren for I speak to them that know the law how
that the law hath dominion over a man as long as he liveth so we see here that there's a
continuation of the doctrines that we read about in Romans chapter one all the way up
to Romans chapter number seven and a good portion of that specifically from Romans chapter
three to Romans chapter six deals with this matter of the law now thank God that the Bible
teaches us that the Bible says in Romans chapter three verse twenty eight therefore
we conclude that a man is justified by faith without the deeds of the law amen and there's
a concept out there there's a doctrine a false doctrine out there that teaches that we have
to keep the law in order to be saved okay in order to have eternal life and that is
simply not true you said why is that don't we have to keep the commandments of God isn't
important to keep the Ten Commandments and and make sure we fall in line with what God
says are we supposed to do our part and the answer is no you say why is that we do have
to keep God's commandments but not to be saved okay you say why is that well simply for the
fact that many of the commandments we've already broken them and the Bible says if we keep
the commandments yet offended one point we're already guilty of all of them so let's say
you don't commit murder but you are lying according to the Bible you've already been
guilty of every single one of those Commandments and it's in the the Bible is not just subject
to Ten Commandments as the world would like to think it is there's hundreds of commandments
in the Bible and there's some that you know about and there's those those that you don't know about
there are sins of commission and then there are sins of omission so even if you don't do the
things that God tells you not to do more than likely you aren't doing the things that God tells
you to do and that is considered sin because the Bible says he that knoweth to do good and do it
than not to him it is sin the Bible says so it'd be impossible to keep all the commandments of God
in order to be saved now in Romans a large part of Romans is rebuking the false religion of Judaism
okay this matter of the Jews why because the Jews were a people who believed you had to keep the
law in order to be saved and Paul the Apostle throughout these chapters deals with this very
thoroughly explained you can't be justified by the works of the law he approaches it from a logical
perspective he approaches it from the Old Testament perspective and then he just simply approaches it
by this matter of explaining what is faith salvation by grace through faith and he's very
thorough but he says here that the law has the dominion over a man as long as he liveth so he's
speaking to those who would adhere to being under the law and he says don't you know that those who
excuse me he says no you're not brethren for I speak to them that know the law how that the law
had dominion over a man as long as he liveth now it's very interesting to know that in Romans
chapter number six he says this likewise reckoning yourselves also to be dead indeed and to sin but
alive unto God through Jesus Christ our Lord let not sin therefore have dominion over your bodies
for you and well let's go to Romans chapter 6 because I don't want to misquote it verse 14 13
neither yield your members as instruments of unrighteousness unto sin but yield yourselves
unto God as those that are alive from the dead and your members as instruments of righteousness unto
God for sin shall not have dominion over you for ye are not under the law but under grace so there
it's teaching us that if we're under the law sin has dominion over us if we're not under the law
but we're under grace we're saved we're no longer under that law law does not have dominion over us
now those who are under grace and excuse me those who are not under grace but are under the law they
still have the law dominating over them okay in other words they will still suffer the
consequences of their sin what is the consequence hell so if someone dies and they're not saved they
haven't trusted Christ as their personal Savior according to the Bible they will spend the rest
of eternity in a place called hell why because they are under the law they will suffer the
consequences of their sin now the Apostle Paul uses the example of marriage to shed light on this
matter of salvation he doesn't in Romans chapter number seven look what the Bible says in verse
number two for the woman which hath and husband is bound by the law to her husband so long as he
liveth but if the husband be dead she is loosed from the law of her husband so he talks about the
law and how the law person the law has dominion over a person as long as they live then he goes
into verse two talking about comparing it to this matter of marriage okay now first and foremost
marriage in the Bible was not just the covenant that man and a woman made to each other and before
God this was actually a law of the land now go with me if you went to Leviticus chapter number
20 hold your place there in Romans chapter number 7 go to Leviticus chapter number 20 brother David
thank you Leviticus chapter number 20 and the reason he uses this matter of marriage to compare
what it's like to be under the law is because adultery was punishable by death in the Bible
look at Leviticus chapter 20 verse 10 says and the man that committed adultery with another man's
wife verse number 10 even he that committed adultery with his neighbor's wife the adulterer
and the adulteress shall surely be put to death so according to the Bible adultery was a crime
punishable by death was it sin absolutely but in the Bible it was also a crime now let's make
a distinction here because we're not just talking about fornication fornication is a sexual act
committed between two people who are not married okay whereas so adultery is a sexual act committed
between two people that are married you say why would that be considered a crime punishable by
death well simply for the fact that you made a covenant before God into each other and God
is steams marriage so much that to break and to commit such a crime God says they're worthy of
death you say man that's a harsh punishment but you know that's God's law and it should go to show
the severity of God's rules and God's laws and the consequences he puts on breaking those
commandments you see sodomites in the Bible are put to death right but not just sodomites people
who kidnap people who commit adultery people who would rape these people were put to death
according to the law of God he said well you know what we're not in the Mosaic law anymore okay
we're not under the Mosaic law and we don't have God as our as our king in a sense of this land
that's that is very true but it will be instituted one day okay and here's the thing even though the
United States of America does not adhere to these laws does not mean that these laws are made null
and boy okay it's still wicked in the eyes of God and by the way there's countries all over the
world that still adhere to these laws that they still put sodomites to death adultery still
punishable by death all these crimes is still punishable by death so it's not like well you
we're in a we're in the 21st century you need to catch up with the times no we need to catch up
with what the Bible says okay and many of the reasons why there's such a smorgasbord of sin
in our country is because we have simply tolerated what God says we ought to condemn preach against
and put to death okay look we believe in the death penalty in this church now make no mistake about
it I'm not saying that any one of us ever become a vigilante and we go put people to death that's
not nothing that we've ever taught ever said about that what we are saying is that what God says is
that these people deserve to be put to death now we often hear that the sodomites should be put
to death but you know the Bible says the adulterers as well okay it's a wicked sin and it's a horrible
crime against God and God says those people need to be put to death now go back to Romans chapter
number seven we saw in Leviticus go to Hebrews chapter 8 because often you know when you pull
out this card and you and you show them what Leviticus says look Leviticus is a wonderful book
okay and let me say this the law of the Lord is perfect okay and Leviticus ought to be adhered
to we ought to study it we ought to read it we ought to love it and then because it shows the
law of God the severity of God's wrath upon those who would think who would commit such crimes right
but often people will tell you well yeah but that's Old Testament though we're in the New
Testament well we are in the New Testament you're absolutely right but does that mean we're not
supposed to we're just disregard everything that just got put within the Old Testament absolutely
not now there are some things that we do need to disregard from the Old Testament why is that
because at the time of the Reformation when Jesus Christ came he was crucified and all that was
taken care of there were certain things in the Old Testament that the Bible says we're done away
with look at the Bible says in Hebrews chapter number nine we'll read from verse number one then
verily the first covenant had also ordinances of divine service and worldly sanctuary and a
worldly sanctuary for there was a tabernacle made the first wherein was the candlestick and the
table and the showbread which is called the sanctuary and after the second veil the tabernacle
which is called the holiest of all which had the golden censer and the Ark of the Covenant overlaid
round about with gold wherein was the golden pop that had manna and Aaron's rod that budded and the
tables of the covenants and over the cherubims of glory shadowing the mercy seat of which we cannot
cannot now speak particularly now when these things were thus ordained the priest went always
into the first tabernacle accomplishing the service of God but into the second went the high priest
alone once every year not without blood which he offered for himself and for the errors of the
people the Holy Ghost is signifying that the way to the holiest of all was not yet made manifest
well as yet the first tabernacle was yet standing look what it says here verse number nine which was
a figure for the time then present in which were offered both gifts and sacrifices that could not
make him that did the service perfect as pertaining to the conscience which stood only in meats and
drinks and divers washing and cardinal ordinances imposed on them until the time of the reformation
so according to the bible these ordinances were imposed upon God's people yes we're talking about
sacrifices cardinal ordinances meats and drinks and divers washings that we see all over leviticus
all over numbers in deuteronomy but what does the bible say as soon as Christ came all those things
were done away with why because he fulfilled those things and according to the bible these
ordinances were a shadow of things to come that's why we don't do sacrifices anymore why because the
lamb of God who should take away the sins of the world has already taken the sins of the world by
uh being crucified on the cross by raising again from the dead Jesus Christ has already come
and the fact of the matter is all a lot of these laws that we see in the old testament yes they're
already done away with but that's not referred we don't i don't see anything in there about
the moral laws right it says cardinal ordinances says meats and drinks and divers washings
you know back in the old testament we couldn't eat shrimp okay but new testament we can eat it
if it'd be if it'd be prayed for and giving thanksgiving to the lord we can eat it why is
that because it was a shadow of something to come in the future there was a biblical principle
within that uh law that would be basically shown in the new testament okay but here's the thing the
moral law adultery sodomy fornication all these other things lying stealing not coveting these
things are still are supposed to be imposed today okay and if for someone to say well that's
leviticus you know well here's the thing love thy neighbor as thyself is in leviticus so if
we're not to adhere to the levitical law then guess what i shouldn't love my neighbor as myself
because that's where it comes from but see obviously those who would bring up that argument
don't know that love thy neighbor as thyself is in leviticus all scripture is given by inspiration
of god all of it and it's profitable for doctrine for reproof for correction look what it says
for instruction in righteousness you see the levitical law was there to
instruct us in righteousness the moral law was to instruct us in righteousness why is that
because god doesn't want the reason god would command the children of israel to go into a
land and just wipe everything out is because these nations were very filthy and wicked
and they were guilty of these committing these crimes that he said don't do and so he wanted
his people to be a holy people so that is still very much a law that was imposed and then and so
it is today okay but here in romans chapter number seven go back to romans chapter number seven
here in romans chapter seven he uses this matter of marriage to basically uh picture what salvation
is now let me start off by saying that no parable in the bible is ever necessarily perfect in a
sense of we can't extract all our doctrines to the t from a parable okay we ought to get our
doctrines from clear statements in the word of god okay parables and reinforce our biblical
beliefs and reinforce biblical doctrines but we can never use a parable to explain a doctrine
or to build a foundation upon a doctrine okay we need to use clear statements and use parables
to reinforce what we believe and that's what he's doing here okay look what the bible says in verse
number two we'll read it again for the woman which hath and husband is bound by the law to
her husband so long as he liveth but if if the husband be dead she is loose from the law of her
husband so here's the thing this is the only way you could remarry is if your husband or your wife
dies now that's not a a command for you to go and kill your husband or your wife okay you're like
all right i was always wondering what i had to do to get out of this no you can't do that because
thou shall not kill amen so this is saying look but the bible is teaching us here that if your
husband or your wife dies you can remarry okay and that's the only one we said well doesn't the
bible isn't there an asterisk in the gospels that says you know uh except it be for the cause of
fornication well here's the thing remember what we said in the beginning adultery is a sexual
act between two people who are married fornication is the act between two people who are not married
so people who are married don't commit fornication right does that make sense
so this this is something that takes place before the actual act of marriage before they actually
come together okay and we can go into deuteronomy and show that but we're not for the sake of time
we're not going to do that but it's saying here if the husband dies or the wife dies you're
freed from that law okay why because if the woman goes out and and gets married to another man or
vice versa she is committing or he is committing a great crime okay she will suffer the consequences
of what leviticus says to be put to death however if the husband dies or the wife dies she's freed
from that consequence because once he's dead she could remarry the bible says she's no longer under
that law look at verse number three so then if while her husband liveth she be married to another
man she shall be called an adulteress but if her husband be dead she is free from that law so that
she is no adulteress though she be married to another man now you know i used to joke with my
wife and say you better not marry anybody after i die right i mean i know that we said death to his
part but it's eternity to his part okay but you know what once we die we're not even gonna think
of those things okay but still right don't don't don't no i'm just kidding because here and the
reason why obviously god says that is because once you're dead you're dead and we become as the
angels of heaven which are not given in marriage the bible says okay so those things don't even
matter anymore while on this earth obviously it matters but remember he's making correlation with
salvation because in romans chapter 6 he just got finished explaining and spending 23 verses talking
about how we're not under the law but under grace and he uses marriage to simply uh signify and
explain how that looks like why because once we get saved it's almost as if we're married to christ
it doesn't mean that christ is our husband okay it just it's a symbol it's a picture we're married
to christ therefore we're dead okay now look at romans chapter number six in verse number six the
bible says here knowing this that our old man is crucified with him that the body of sin might be
destroyed that henceforth we should not serve sin look at verse four therefore we are buried with
them by baptism into death that like as christ was raised up from the dead by the glory of the father
even so we also should walk in newness of life for if we've been planted together in the likeness
of his death we shall also be in the likeness of his resurrection so when we are saved it's like
we are crucified with christ so we're dead we're no longer under that law okay why because we're
married to another and look what it says in romans chapter seven and verse number the latter end of
verse number three it says so that she is no adulterous though she be married to another man
okay it's very important because it's almost as if you can say you know when someone is saved
they're saved though they commit sin right though you break god's commandments though you do
something why because our salvation is not based upon whether we sin or we don't sin okay the
bible says for all have sinned to come short of the glory of god the bible says there's not a
just man upon earth that doeth good and sin is not okay so you there's never a time in your life
where you can say i am 100 sinless it's impossible and the reason why is because when we get saved
it's our spirit that gets saved not our flesh and in this flesh we have temptations we have desires
ungodly that are contrary to god's word contrary to god's law and there are times when we have
victories and there's times when we have defeats so we sin against god on a daily basis okay
and we're going to look at it but paul said for me that is in my flesh dwells no good thing
so there's things within this flesh that are displeasing unto the lord but our spirit is saved
okay so that goes to show that once we trust christ as our personal savior
go to ephesians chapter number one ephesians chapter number one
ephesians chapter number one this is a great soul winning verse i love using it
i think it explains eternal security very well in verse 13 the bible says in whom he also trusted
after that he heard the word of truth the gospel of your salvation in whom also after that he
believed ye were sealed with that holy spirit of promise which is the earnest of our inheritance
until the redemption of the purchase possession unto the praise of his glory so it gives some
steps there it says in whom you also trusted after that you heard the word of truth the gospel of
your salvation it says after that we believe we were sealed with that holy spirit of promise
so the the sequence of events that takes place when we get saved is that when we believe
the holy spirit actually comes to live within us okay now look at ephesians chapter number four
in verse number 30 it says in grief not the holy spirit of god whereby ye are sealed unto unto
the day of redemption now what is the day of redemption it's the day that either when you die
okay and you're in heaven or when christ comes back to rapture christians okay that's redemption
you know then for instance in leviticus leviticus and luke chapter 21 says lift up your heads for
your redemption draweth nigh and the redemption that is referring to obviously is the redemption
of our bodies to it the redemption of our bodies but here's teaching us that the holy spirit of
god after we get saved is sealed within us and i often use the the illustration of an envelope you
stick a letter into an envelope you lick it and it's sealed throw it into the mailbox it doesn't
get reopened until it reaches its final destination and god is saying here that
once we trust christ as our savior we're sealed with the holy spirit of promise until when until
our final destination but here's the thing he says that the holy spirit is the earnest of our
inheritance go back to ephesians chapter 1 and verse 14 it says which the is the earnest of our
inheritance until the redemption of the purchased possession because according to god once you get
saved god has purchased your body okay you're about what the price the bible says therefore
glorify god in your body and your spirit which are gods right so the bible says that we're
purchased by the blood of jesus christ but it says here in ephesians chapter 1 verse 14
that the earnest of our inheritance until the redemption of the purchased possession so in other
words your spirit is saved okay and one day your body will be redeemed the entire thing will be
purchased i often give the illustration of a down payment because that's exactly what it is the holy
spirit is like a down payment on you uh for salvation what it is is this when we make a down
payment it's not the full payment right it's a partial payment but it's letting the owner know
hey i'm i'm serious about buying this okay so when we get saved god places a down payment the
earnest of our inheritance within us which is the holy spirit and it basically what does it do the
bible says it bears witness witness with our spirit that we are children of god okay it's
that assurance that hey we're saved he's sealed until the day of redemption we've passed from
death into life he's given it to us eternal life we will never perish neither shall any man pluck
them out of that out of his hand amen and so the purchase possession obviously is the body that's
when we would get redeemed but guess what the body is not redeemed as of yet therefore this
flesh desires to commit sin okay and no christian could ever say i am not tempted to sin impossible
because you're not redeemed yet your body's not redeemed your spirit is okay but your body isn't
we don't have a glorified body as of yet okay there will be a day when we get glorified and we
will no longer be tempted by sin and praise god for that i mean that's an insane way to even think
about it to know why because we've been tempted since forever right i mean as far back as we can
remember but there will be a day when we're not tempted to sin our bodies will not desire the
wickedness of this world but right now it is okay and so what is the bible teaching us in
romans chapter number seven go back there if you would romans chapter number seven
that though you be married to another man though you fall short of the glory of god though you do
wrong in the eyes of the lord guess what you're not going to lose your salvation okay because
you're no longer under that law you're dead with christ amen and i like the verse where it says the
steps of a good man are ordered by the lord and he delighted in his way though he fall he will not
be utterly cast down for the lord upholdeth him with his hand the bible says so even though you
fall you mess up you know what you're not going to fall into perdition you're not going to lose
your salvation it's never going to happen we're not of them to believe to the uh the the what is
it to the perdition but to the saving of the soul the bible says the bible says if any man draw back
my soul shall have no pleasure in him draw back means you fall back away from the lord you stop
doing the things you're supposed to do you no longer read your bible you no longer pray you're
not coming to church you're not sowing you're not trying to keep sin out of your life and the
bible says but we're not of them to believe to the uh let's go to hebrew chapter 10 because i
don't want to misquote it it's such a good verse i think it's in hebrew chapter 10 let's see
yeah hebrew chapter 10 and verse number 38 says now the just shall live by faith
but if any man draw back my soul shall have no pleasure in him but we are not of them who draw
back into perdition but of them that believe to the saving of the soul okay so when we draw back
yeah we're backslitting but we don't draw back into perdition why because we believe to the
saving of the soul okay and so it's a great picture that god is showing us here in regards
to marriage because once if when people are under the law and they're married they commit adultery
they suffer the consequence of that crime which is death well the consequence of us breaking god's
law is a spiritual death it's hell but once we get saved we're no longer under that law we're under
grace now go back there to roman chapter number seven and we'll continue there let me get up there
myself roman chapter seven verse number four it says wherefore my brethren uh wherefore my
brethren he also are become dead to the law by the body of christ that ye should be married to
another even to him who is raised from the dead that we should bring forth fruit unto god and so
now that we're saved guess what we can do works for god and they matter to the lord you see there's
a lot of religious people out there who are doing works but it means nothing yeah it's all in vain
okay why because they're not children of god they're not they can't do it as unto the lord
their spirit is they're dead and their trespasses and sin and works only matter after salvation now
by the way to him that worketh not but believe it on him to justify the ungodly his faith is counted
for righteousness so if you get saved and you trust christ but you never do anything for the lord
you're still saved because the bible says therefore we conclude that a man is justified by
faith without the deeds of the law not by works of righteousness which we have done but according to
his mercy he saved us so the bible tells us over and over and over again that you can be saved by
simply by believing on christ but here's the thing after we believe on christ it's good to work
it's good to get to work to do works for god not to maintain our salvation okay not to make sure
just to make sure that i'm safe or to prove that i'm safe to god no no it's to make sure that we
can get rewards when we get to heaven okay that's the reason why we work for the lord
and it says there to bring forth fruit unto god verse number five says for when we were in the
flesh the motions of sin which were by the law did work in our members to bring forth fruit unto
death and that's very reminiscent of what the bible says in romans chapter number six and verse
21 where the bible reads what fruit had he then in those things whereof ye are now ashamed for
the end of those things is death i mean the end of the works that people have done before salvation
to please god those things are death you know you think of the the false prophet in matthew
chapter number seven who says have we not prophesied in thy name and thy name have done
many wonderful works and cast out devils and when he said depart from me ye that work iniquity i
never knew you so these people are going to go to hell even though they did all kinds of works and
they work for god and they preach and they're on the street preaching with their megaphone and
doing all these works it's worth nothing okay it's gonna all burn because god does not know them
god knows those who have trusted christ as their personal savior and the bible says there that it
brings forth fruit unto death verse number six but now we are delivered from the law amen
that being dead wherein we were held that we should serve in newness of spirit and not in the
oldness of the letter what is it saying there look it's the same thing we talked about last week how
we should walk in the spirit so we should not fulfill the lust of the flesh okay and when we're
walking in the spirit as we live in the spirit we can live a life that's pleasing unto the lord
we can win souls to christ okay look all those people who got saved today praise god for that
that came from people who were walking in the spirit okay that came from people who were doing
the work of god they were preaching god's word and they were filled with the holy spirit those
are people who are walking in the spirit but you know what if you're not walking in the spirit
you're not going to do the things of god you know you're going to give into your fleshly desires
you're going to do things that are not pleasing to god and you're not going to bring forth any fruit
look at verse number seven says now it makes a switch here a little segue kind of still talking
about the same thing but against it gets into a really important subject here verse number seven
says what shall we say then is the law sin god forbid name i had not known sin but by the law
for i had not known lust except the law had said thou shalt not covet now this is very very very
important to note here in verse number seven because this is who's the writer here paul
right and paul said this i had not known sin except the law had said thou shall not covet
okay i had not known uh lust except the law had said thou shall not covet so according to the
bible the bible shows us that the law is not meant to save us okay because many use the law to be
saved i mean how many times have you knocked on the door and you know you ask someone how do you
be saved and they'll say yeah you got to keep the commandments of god you got to make sure you keep
the law of god live a life that's pleasing unto the lord but here's the thing the law was never
meant to save anybody okay it's it's impossible to use the law in fact go to galatians chapter
number three we're going to see what the purpose of the law was now do we disregard the law and
say yeah you know we're not under the law therefore let's commit adultery you know let's
commit fornication no okay god forbid exactly you know the bible says in romans chapter 6 and verse
number verse number one what shall we say this shall we continue in sin that grace may abound
god forbids it okay but we don't use the law to be saved why is that look at galatians 3 24
wherefore the law was our schoolmaster to bring us unto christ that we might be justified by the law
no by faith okay but after that faith has come we are no longer under a schoolmaster for you are all
the children of god by faith in christ jesus you know what the bible is telling us there that the
law was meant to teach us and to show us our need for a savior you see the law how short you fall
of the glory of god you recognize i can't keep all these commandments i can't keep them perfectly
i need a savior and the law teaches you hey you can't keep the law perfectly you need someone who
can keep it perfectly and have them impute his righteousness unto your account there's only one
man who was ever perfect who's ever been on this earth and that's the lord jesus christ
okay and because he kept the law he has righteousness therefore when we trust christ
as our savior the bible says that his righteousness is imputed unto our account
okay when god looks at saved people he doesn't see them through our own righteousness why because
the bible says that our righteousness are his filthy rags in his eyes okay it means nothing to
god he sees us through the righteousness of jesus christ okay so in a sense when he sees us he sees
us being perfect sinless i'm talking about our spirit he sees us as being sinless okay but the
law the bible says that the law was our schoolmaster it was to teach us that we are
sinners that we need the lord that's why it was so heavily emphasized to teach your children the
law and teach them the law so they can recognize their need for a savior verse number eight of
romans chapter number seven says but sin taken occasion by the commandment wrought in me all
manner of concupiscence for without the law sin was dead for i was alive look what it says for i
was alive without the law once but when the commandment came sin revived and i died so
according to the bible paul saying because there's a false doctrine that says that basically though
yes we're born sinners in the sense of our bodies are corrupt we're not all born sinners the way
people would say we know we're just born with the with the dead spirit we're not born with the
dead spirit because paul saying here for i was alive without the law once and this is a good
doctrine this is a good verse to prove that children babies infants they're in a sense
they're saved okay why is that because like paul said earlier i had not known lust except the law
had said thou shall not covet and he says that because he knew that the law slew him and he died
so before he had the knowledge that he had done wrong the bible says he was alive okay but as
soon as he recognized what the law said that lust was covetousness he realized that he basically
had broken god's law it slew him and he died is what the bible says okay so according to the bible
paul understood that the law said he was alive according to the bible this will this is something
that we would refer to as the age of accountability okay because often people wonder like you know so
shouldn't we baptize our children you know or you know aren't babies supposed to get baptized
and stuff like that look i baptize my son every single night well i know my wife does she gives
them a bath okay that's all they're doing when they when they get baptized is you're just getting
wet because here's the thing children infants they don't have sin okay now why is that because they
don't know that they're sinning they have a clear conscience they haven't recognized that they've
sinned against god now let me say this that's why it's important that the bible teaches us
to chastise our children what the bible says to beat your children okay and when it says beat it
doesn't mean like you know just you just whoop them no god made a specific area in the body that
you can chastise that won't leave brain damage okay it's called the bottom okay the the rear end
right and you use that and you chastise that and what does it do that's what the bible says you
will deliver them from hell why because that teaches them that actions have consequences
and when you teach them that actions have consequences they grow up recognizing that
they'll see what the bible says that the wages of sin is death but the gift of god is eternal life
through jesus christ our lord and lord willing of course they would come to the knowledge i've
sinned against god i need a savior okay but how do you do that you condition them since they're
children to recognize that you see some of the worst people on this earth are those who have
never been chastised those who have never been uh whooped okay and we live in a culture that
just looks down on on spanking children okay it's like no you can't don't tell them no you know
it's like don't don't say no to any child and let them have whatever they want you're gonna create
a wicked evil child adult okay because you need to chastise your child the bible says that will
deliver their souls from hell it doesn't mean that that they'll well they might cry call upon
the name of the lord when you're chastising them right but that's not exactly what it means what
it means is this is they recognize that there's consequences to actions and the bible clearly
teaches over and over again that the consequence to not trust in christ is hell okay and so this
is a great teaching right here that children do go to heaven when they die you say why is that
because millions of babies are being aborted every year right and heaven is filled with infants
you know and it's a sad thing to think about that so many children are aborted and killed and
murdered but it's comforting to know that they're in heaven okay and by the way a new heaven and
new earth that's why you have all that land because there's so many children i mean heaven
the new heaven and new earth is just going to be packed out with children praise the lord
but here the bible is teaching us that now go to deuteronomy chapter number one
hold your place there in roman chapter number seven deuteronomy chapter number one
so the eight so you say what's the age of accountability well the bible doesn't say
what the age of accountability is and there are exceptions to this because sometimes you even
have a child who's autistic they have some sort of mental handicap where it's hard for them to
understand what is good and what is bad what is evil okay and children of such you know they may
not get saved until later on in life or sometimes to be honest maybe maybe they don't even come to
the recognition of that and i believe that those children or those people who are autistic who
can't come to that knowledge they still go to heaven because they haven't reached the age of
accountability okay now i'm not saying that's a rare case but if they look god is faithful
okay and if he says that that means even yes a 50 year old who's autistic who can't understand
certain concepts and doesn't understand what sin is yes he he will go to heaven when he dies okay
but with children is different i've heard from in my experience the child who's been saved the
youngest the child has been saved is five years old my my brother-in-law uh joseph has a daughter
his name is her name is mary and she got saved when she was five years old you know and i've
heard of many children being saved at the age of five they recognize their condition and by the way
he chastises his daughter okay and that's one of the reasons why she's come to the knowledge of
christ it's because of that that's why it's important but that's the youngest but there's
not an exact age where we can say okay that's the age right here okay it's at five it's at six it's
at seven no it differs with everyone it's when they recognize they've sinned against god and they
recognize that basically they're naked you know as genesis chapter 3 tells us okay now what i
have to do to ramen chapter 1 verse 39 says moreover your little ones which he said should
be a prey and your children which in that day had no knowledge between good and evil they shall go
in thither and unto them will i give it and they shall possess it so here we see that the children
have no knowledge of good and evil we would call that being innocent okay children who don't
understand anything now go to second samuel chapter number 12
second samuel chapter number 12 so god doesn't necessarily make an exception for children
they're kind of held to the same standard the only difference is children don't know that they're
sinning okay they don't understand that they don't understand you know or to a certain age obviously
now look at second samuel chapter number 12 and verse number 18 the bible says here and it came to
pass on the seventh day that the child died by the way this is referring to david's child okay
david had committed adultery with the woman by the name of bathsheba who had a husband by the
name of uraya he committed adultery this child that they're referring to here is the product
of that adulterous uh a relationship okay now because of david's sin god basically struck the
child with sickness and it was very sick and obviously eventually the child dies so this is
what it's referring to the child died the servants of david feared to tell him that the child was
dead for this and behold while the child was yet alive we spake unto him and he would not hearken
unto our voice how will he then vex himself if we tell him that the child is dead but when david
saw that his servants whispered david perceived that the child was dead therefore david said
unto his servants is the child dead and they said he is dead then david arose from the earth
and washed and anointed himself and changed his apparel and came into the house of the lord and
worshiped then he came to his own house and when he required they set bread before him and he did
eat then said his servants unto him what thing is this that thou has done thou didst fast and weep
for the child while it was alive but when the child was dead thou didst rise and eat bread
and he said while the child was yet alive i fasted and wept for i said who can tell whether god will
be gracious to me that the child may live and look at this verse 23 but now he is dead wherefore
shall i fast can i bring him back again i shall go to him but he shall not return unto me now david
was a saved man okay the bible calls him it says that he's a man after god's own heart read the
psalms how the how jesus is the rock of his salvation and he talks about salvation and even
when he sinned against god by committing adultery with that shiba he said restore to me the joy of
thy salvation he didn't say restore to me salvation he said restore to me the joy he lost his joy when
he sinned against god so we obviously know that david was a saved man so that's why he says i
shall go to him well where's david going he's going to heaven going to show that his child
the one who died is in heaven as well david understood that his child who was just a baby
infant dying went to heaven okay now go with me forward to genesis chapter number two
genesis chapter number two and this should be a comfort to know that children are in heaven okay
because there's people who teach like you know that the infant babies you know if they don't
get baptized you know they will go to hell no no that's false now there is an exception to this
rule right here because there are children who are wicked and that's that's very few far and in
between but it does happen okay where they're literally sons of the devil okay they can become
reprobate i mean just look it up children who actually murder their own parents i'm talking
about infants toddlers not infants but toddlers okay seven years of age five years of age or
six or seven years of age and they have these wicked tendencies and they just for whatever
reason you know they become reprobate in the way of thinking what happens they murder they
commit these wicked acts of murder okay and these are evil children the bible actually talks about
that as well but that's very few far few and in between okay the majority of time children that
die who don't have the knowledge of sin we obviously understand that they will be in heaven
now look at genesis chapter 2 and verse number 21 and the lord god caused the deep sleep to fall
upon adam and he slept and he took one of his ribs and closed up the flesh instead thereof
and the rib which the lord god hath taken from man made he a woman and brought her unto
unto the man and adam said this is now bone of my bones and flesh of my flesh she shall be
called woman because she was taken out of man therefore shall a man leave his father and his
mother and shall cleave unto his wife and they shall they shall be one flesh and they were both
naked the man and his wife and look what it says and we're not ashamed so obviously we understand
what the bible teaches us about nakedness it's sinful okay we need to cover our bodies all right
specifically the certain areas of our bodies that we must cover and the bible calls it a shame if we
reveal it okay but here we see that they weren't ashamed it wasn't like they were just toting
they're just proud or something like i ain't ashamed of this i don't care like they're just
hippies or something like that no it just simply meant they didn't have the knowledge of good and
evil much like a child okay my son will have no problem when my wife's getting them ready for to
take a bath to just run out butt naked i'm like son what are you doing go back you need to go
take a shower he's like ah you know and he's just like running around like what's the problem what's
going on you know he's not ashamed it doesn't bother him now you know we have adults today
running around in the streets naked and they're not ashamed either but the difference is is they
have the knowledge of good and evil yeah okay whereas the children they don't children they're
just like i don't know what's the big deal you know this is how it's born you know these are
my birthday clothes but here's the thing is adam we see adam and eve had the same thing and obviously
they were adults right but because they didn't have the knowledge of good and evil they were
naked and they were not ashamed now look what genesis chapter 3 verse number 1 says now the
serpent was more subtle than any beast of the field which the lord god had made and he said
unto the woman yea had god said ye shall not eat of every tree of the garden and the woman said
unto the serpent we may eat of the fruit of the trees of the garden but of the fruit of the tree
which is in the midst of the garden god had said ye shall not eat of it neither shall you touch it
lest he die and the serpent said unto the woman ye shall not surely die for god doth know that in
the day he eat thereof then your eyes shall be opened and you shall be as gods knowing good and
evil so there's some truth to what he's saying okay and when the woman saw that the tree was
good for food and that it was pleasant to the eyes and a tree to be desired to make one wise
she took up the fruit thereof and did eat and gave also unto her husband with her and he did eat and
the eyes of them both were open and they knew that they were naked and they sewed fig leaves together
and made themselves aprons so on and so forth so now we see when a bit of the tree of the knowledge
of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil what happened their eyes were open they realized
that they were naked they at that point they died okay it's what the bible teaches us there
why because that's basically what the law does as soon as we recognize oh man this is wrong guess
what we're slain okay now later on he even says you know when when god's looking for him he says
you know we were naked we're ashamed so we hid ourselves and he's like who told you you were naked
and at that point it's just like did you eat of the tree that i told you not to eat of so in
other words he they understood they did they sinned against god by disobeying his commandment
and therefore they knew they understood that they were naked and therefore the law slew them now go
back to romans chapter number seven so this is a clear teaching in the bible that we're alive when
we're born now obviously our bodies are corrupt okay the minute we are born you know the bodies
are corrupt because we live in this sin nation or excuse me this this sinful uh world and and
this fallen nature that we have we're born with corrupt bodies but the spirit is alive it is slain
when we recognize what god says regarding sin we see his commandments and we know we understand
why i've broken that the bible says that the law slays us okay and that's why the bible says you
know that we uh you have to be quickened who are what dead and trespasses and sin okay quicken
means to be brought back to life all right to be to be brought to life so the bible is saying that
when we trust christ we're quite quickened together with christ for by grace are you saved
who were dead and trespasses and sin okay now romans chapter 7 verse number 10 let's read on
the bible says in the commandment which was ordained to life i found to be unto death for
sin taken occasion by the commandment deceived me and by it slew me wherefore the law is holy and
the commandment holy and just and good was then that which is good made death unto me god forbid
but sin that it might appear sin work in death in me by that which is good that sin by the
commandment might become exceeding sinful so here's the thing even before our sin becomes
exceeding sinful we obviously recognize that we've sinned or we've done wrong okay because the bible
tells us that we have the law of god written in our hearts you know and and and we obviously know
what is right and what's wrong okay obviously later on in life uh once once we recognize that
but the bible that goes to show right there that those who die without law or they never had a
bible wherever in country they're still going to go to hell you say why is that because there are
law unto themselves the bible says okay now once they get the law of god guess what sin becomes
exceeding sinful okay because obviously each and every one of us understood lying was wrong
right or that fornication was wrong or adultery was wrong but once we realize what the bible
says about it and how god condemns it guess what it becomes exceeding sinful okay you know
fornication is like yeah fornication was wrong but you know everyone's doing it and all this
stuff well once you see the form the bible says flee fornication and how wicked fornication is
it's like it becomes exceeding sinful but even before it's exceeding simple we understand it's
sinful okay now go to uh let's see here verse 14 it says for we know that the law is spiritual but
i am carnal sold under sin okay now this is an important verse that just refutes and just
demolishes this stupid uh doctrine of calvinism amen and it is a stupid doctrine okay because
calvinists teach that you can be sinless like once you get saved you know you're not going to desire
to sin you won't desire to do anything uh anything wicked you know you'll always have righteous
desires you always want to do that which is right because you're saved you have the holy
spirit of god living within you well you know what paul who's one of the who's the greatest
christian in the new testament right he said i am carnal now there's a um a a false prophet out
there his name is paul washer okay and paul washer is this calvinist who teaches there's
no such thing as a carnal christian okay now who knows spanish here anybody know spanish
you know spanish okay um what is carne flesh or meat right the spanish is like it's me
carne asada you know so carnal means fleshly okay what is this it's flesh what am i
i'm a christian i am a carnal christian why is that because i am still in this flesh
paul is not speaking this in heaven you know or he's in other places he's in his body
and you know what he's saying i am carnal okay you see paul was a holy man he loved the lord
i believe he was a righteous man but he wasn't a man who was exempt from sinning
he said it himself i am carnal so for paul washer to get up and say there's no such there's no such
thing as a carnal christian if you're sinning brother then you haven't repented of your sin
no you need to get right you need to get saved well he's not gonna get saved because he's
reprobate but you stop teaching those those doctrines because the bible teaches we are
carnal and here's the thing if if if right when you get saved you wouldn't have a desire to do any
sin then why does god command us not to sin i mean if it was just like no sin i don't no lust
no drinking no nothing you know god wouldn't have to put those commandments in the bible
he would just he would just basically say yeah just live life you know be you know i'm not gonna
tell you to be righteous because you don't need to know that you're gonna do it you know it's like
ye that love the lord hate evil or love the lord that god with all our why would he command us to
do that if that just comes naturally was it like a reminder or something no the bible teaches us
the reason there's these commandments is because we're gonna fall short we're gonna do wrong
and the christian who uh wants to grow and wants to live life that's pleasing to the lord obviously
he's gonna read the word of god and what happens we behold the perfect law of liberty and when we
walk away lord willing like james says we don't forget the manner of man we were when we saw that
perfect law of liberty and we make changes we become doers of the law not here is only
deceiving our own selves but what happens we look at the perfect law of liberty we see oh man i fall
short in this area i need to fix this in my life i need to get this sin out of my life or i'm doing
this wrong i need to make sure that i'm trusting in the lord i need to pray more i need to read
the bible more i'm struggling with this sin what is it it's a constant battle between the flesh
and the spirit okay but paul said right here i'm carnal so the difference between paul washer uh
yeah paul washer right is that his name paul washer and paul the apostle is that paul the
apostle is carnal and apparently paul washer is not no here's the difference is paul washer is
not even saved and paul the apostle is saved but he's being humble and he recognizes i'm carnal
by the way we're all carnal okay now go to first corinthians chapter number three
because what does it mean to be carnal it means to be fleshly you see when someone gets saved
they don't have their ducks in order right off the bat okay in other words you know someone who's
just barely gets saved they're not going to come to the door shirt tie hair parted bible in hand
amen brother king james only post-trip replacement they're not going to have all those ducks in order
all those ducks in order you know it's not going to happen what are they going to be they're going
to be carnal because obviously we come with baggage to the christian life right we come
with bad habits you know ideologies that are contrary to god's word you know we're going
to struggle with certain things that we did in our past life because we're in our flesh
okay but the bible equates being carnal with being a babe which is perfectly you know doctrinal look
what the bible says in verse number one and i brethren could not speak unto you as unto
spiritual but as unto carnal even as unto babes in christ so babes and carnal are used interchangeably
i have fed you with milk and not with meat for you hitherto you are not able to bear it neither
yet now are you able now don't you find it interesting that those who are babes or carnal
can't eat meat which is right but they are which are spiritual can you see those who are babes they
need milk they need someone to teach them they need someone to show them what the word of god
says verse number three for ye are yet carnal for whereas there is among you envying and strife and
divisions are you not yet carnal and walk as men why does it say walk as men because when we are
fleshly we're carnal we're walking in the flesh we're not walking in the spirit when we're walking
in the spirit we're walking as sons of god as children of god we're obeying the commandments
but when we're fleshly we're carnal we're babes in christ we're acting like babes in christ
we're walking as men does that make sense okay verse four for a while one saith i am of paul
another i am of apollos are you not carnal who then is paul and who is the pauls of ministers of
by whom he believed even as the lord gave to every man so this false doctrine that says you know no
you're just gonna get everything right off the bat then forget the bible we don't need it then
yeah yeah why i'm good man i'm perfect you know i got everything and you know these these these
guys are arrogant prideful fools when they say well i don't sin what you just sinned right there
you just lied okay there's not a just man upon earth to do with good and sin is not yeah but
that doesn't apply to me you know yeah for all have sin to come sure yeah but all doesn't really
mean all or whatever you know they all try to see look for any little thing to say that you know
to to to excuse themselves as being perfect and not and and sinless and and not carnal no no
there is such thing as a carnal christian okay because what we do our salvation is not based
upon what we do it's based upon what he's already done all right go back to romans chapter number
seven and look verse 15 basically solidifies this and it shows the struggle that the apostle
paul faced now i'm sure if you've read romans chapter seven this resonates this has to resonate
with you okay when you read this it's like man i feel like this all time and someone as holy and
righteous as the apostle paul he's the one who's saying this look what it says for that which by
the way this is a tongue twister so when you read it read it slowly okay or else you might get your
tongue in the knot for that which i do i allow not for what i would that do i not but what i hate
that do i man that sums up the christian a lot we do that which we hate we don't do that which
we're supposed to do that which we would what is that that is the flesh versus the spirit okay
verse 16 if then i do that which i would not i consent unto the law that it is good now then it
is no more i that do it but sin that dwelleth in me now what is he saying there he says when he
says it is not i that do it it's referring to the spirit because the spirit cannot sin for it is
born of god okay when he says it is i that do is referring to his flesh okay now don't take this
and say when you sin oh it's not me that's doing it it's it's my it's my flesh man i just can't
stop doing this you know can't stop smoking pot it's it's you know for me that isn't my flesh
no good thing you know it's no more i that do it mom there's no more higher than do it dad
you know it is the sin that's dwelling in me no no you're responsible for that okay and god has
given us commands he's given us a way to escape those temptations right but he says there in
verse 17 now then there's no more i that do it but sin that dwelleth in me now i quoted the
verse but let me let me read it to you in first john chapter 3 in verse number 9 if you want to
write it down little children let no man deceive you he that doeth righteous and is righteous even
as he is righteous he that committed sin is of the devil for the devil sinneth from the beginning
for this purpose the son of god was manifested that he might destroy the works of the devil
whosoever is born of god doth not commit sin for his seed remaineth in him and he cannot sin
because he is born of god so according to the bible when we get saved we're born again we're
born of god but that's the spirit and that does not sin okay now verse 18 of romans chapter 7 it
says for i know that in me that is in my flesh see that's important right there and i'm glad
you put those parentheses right there because that is for and me oh wait just pause here that
is in my flesh dwelleth no good thing for to will is present with me but how to perform that which
is good i find not so this goes to show us that we need to learn how to do good for to will is
present with me but how to perform that which is good i find not you see we don't come to the
christian life already packaged with the whole entire deal no we need to learn how to do good
okay go go to um isaiah chapter number one isaiah chapter number one we're running out of time i'm
gonna read to you from psalms 143 verse number nine where the bible reads deliver me your lord
from mine enemies i flee unto thee to hide me teach me to do thy will for thou art my god thy
spirit is good lead me into the land of all brightness david is saying teach me to do thy will
you know and that ought to be a constant prayer of ours unto the lord to say lord please teach me how
to obey you teach me to do right help me to do right teach me to live that which is pleasing in
your sight look what the bible says in isaiah chapter 1 in verse number 16 wash you make you
clean put away the evil of your doings from before mine eyes cease to do evil learn to do well seek
judgment relieve the oppressed judge the fatherless plead for the widow so again it teaches
us there learn it you say man i'm struggling with this sin then you need to learn how to do well
you need to learn how to be righteous you need to learn these things it doesn't come overnight
there are things that we have to learn in our personal lives okay it doesn't come overnight
go to uh ephesians chapter number four ephesians chapter number four
i'm gonna read to you from romans chapter 7 again verse number 19 says for the good that i would i
do not but the evil which i would not that i do now if i do that i would not it is no more i that
do it but sin that dwells in me i find in the law that when i would do good evil is present with me
for i delight in the law of god after the inward man but i see another law in my members warring
against the law of my mind and bringing me into captivity to the law of sin which is in my members
so he's saying this we delight in the law of god in our mind after the inward man the bible says
okay you say how do you know if that's true well how many of you just wake up in the morning and
say whoo i want to read my bible no one does and if you if you say you do you're a liar
your flesh doesn't want to get up in the morning to read to read your bible
now the inward man does the inner man desires to read the word of god but the inner man has
to lead the flesh and say get up thou slothful sluggard you know get up and read the bible
make yourself read the word of god so we see a law the bible says i delight in the law of god
after the inward man but i see another law in what my members my legs my arms to get up out of bed
to go to the word of god to open it up grab my cup of coffee and read it okay look you know the
spirit indeed is women but the flesh is weak right no but the members warn against the law
of my mind and bringing me into captivity to the law of sin which is in my members look at
ephesians 4 verse 21 says if so be that you have heard him and have been taught by him as the truth
is in jesus that he put off concerning the former conversation the old man which is corrupt according
to the deceitful lust and be renewed in the spirit of your mind and that he put on the new man which
after god is created in righteousness and true holiness so he says here that we got to put on
the new man and by the way that's a daily thing that we have to do that's why the bible says we
have to die daily okay take up our cross daily okay we just as we change our clothes daily
or at least you should all right uh we need to put on the lord jesus christ every single day
we need to make sure that we're walking in the spirit every single day put on the new man and
you say well how does that look like when you put on the new man well he says it right there
verse 25 wherefore putting away lying speak every man's truth with his neighbor for your
members one of another be angry and sin not let not the sun go down upon your wrath neither give
place to the devil let him that stole steal no more but rather let him labor working with his
hands the thing which is good that he may have to give to him that needed let no corrupt communication
proceed out of your mouth but that which is good to the use of edifying that him administer grace
into the hearers so we see here that when we put off the old man we stop lying we don't steal
corrupt communication proceed out of your mouth what happens when you put on the new man we tell
the truth okay we're angry because that's a righteous thing but we don't sin when we're angry
okay we don't steal but what do we do we labor with our hands that which is good and it says
agree not the holy spirit of god whereby ye are sealed until the day of redemption then he says
let all bitterness and wrath and anger and clamor and evil speaking be put away from you with all
malice and be kind one to another tender hearted forgiving one another even as god for christ sake
has forgiven you so verse 31 is what happens when you put off the old man well what happens
when you put on the new man verse 32 you're kind one to another tender hearted forgiving one another
even as god for christ sake has forgiven you and so the bible is clearly teaching us here
that our inward man desires these things but we got to walk in the inward man we got to walk in
the spirit but when we put off when we're walking in the flesh we're not going to do those things
that are pleasing unto the lord and i'm completely out of time go back to romans chapter number seven
we'll finish off the last two verses by the way the bible says in second corinthians chapter number
10 for though we walk excuse me but i beseech you that i may not be bold when i am present with that
confidence wherewith i think to be bold against some which think of us as if we walked according
to the flesh for though we walk in the flesh we do not war after the flesh so don't use fleshly
means to not walk in the flesh you need to use spiritual means okay prayer bible reading
scripture quotation so on and so forth verse 24 oh wretched man that i am who shall deliver me
from the body of this death verse 25 i thank god through jesus christ our lord so then with the
mind i myself serve the law of god but with the flesh the law of sin so he finishes off chapter
seven saying look that's the that's the only solution right there with the mind you serve the
law of god but unfortunately until you die or until christ comes back we're serving the law of
sin okay and there's always going to be that battle between the flesh and the spirit we didn't
get a time we didn't get a chance to go to galatians chapter five where it talks about
that how they're contrary one to the other so that you cannot do the things that you would
so what is the principle that we learned from romans chapter number seven well romans chapter
seven simply shows us hey we're carnal okay and it's a constant battle on a day to day that we
have to fight every single day and war against the the members of our flesh so we can live a
life that's pleasing unto the lord does that mean oh you know in me in my flesh well no good thing
does that mean we're just given to sin and hey man i'm just i'm just fleshly man i'm just i can't
i can't help it well yeah god forbid but not only that the bible says that he's made a way to escape
okay he's made a way to escape and god doesn't want you to live in sin god forbids that okay
he's given us the power to be we should be strong in the lord and in the power of his might
to overcome those things he's given us the resources necessary to have victory in our
lives when it comes to these things but don't get so proud and confident once you cleaned up your
life you're gonna think well you know i'm not i'm not carnal you're still carnal because you're
still in your flesh okay and you're gonna fight the flesh till the day that you die amen let's
bow our heads and have a word of prayer father we thank you so much for romans chapter number
seven we're thankful for the transparency of the apostle paul of course inspired by the holy ghost
the apostle paul obviously is someone who we would esteem and and and he's someone who's of
like passions and so to see him struggle with these things and openly say that he was yet carnal
it gives us the confidence to know that when we struggle it's not nothing abnormal it's very much
normal but we also know that the apostle paul fought his flesh that he did what he could
according to the word of god to overcome those those things and it also gives us a template to
go by to to escape temptation and and flee fornication and flee those things that would
be displeasing to you and we're thankful for the principles you taught within his word within your
word and we're thankful for the commandments of god because it shows that this is how you want us
to live and it gives us a rule to go by and i pray god that you'd help us each and every one of us to
to have victory over the flesh on a day-to-day basis to walk in the spirit that we may not fulfill
those lusts in jesus name we pray amen