Adrian Rogers: Three Things That You Cannot Learn in School [#1999]

welcome to love Werth fine with Pastor teacher and author Adrian Rogers reaching out with God's love bringing people to Christ touching lives around the world and helping you find the answers you need today join us as we prepare to open God's Word and discover how your life can be changed forever by his great love worth finding I want you to take God's Word today and turn please to John chapter 16 and I want to talk to you about the convicting convincing power of the Holy Spirit type of a message three things that you cannot learn in school thank God for school but there's some things that no school teacher can teach you for that matter there's some things that no pastor can teach you no Sunday school teacher can teach you but only the Holy Spirit can teach you I think of Nicodemus he was a master in Israel a ruler of the Jews Jesus had remonstrate with him instead Oh aren't you a master in Israel and yet you don't know these things Jesus was talking to him about spiritual things I hope that you'll open your heart today to this truth now this is truth that only the Holy Spirit can give you you say well pastor if only the Holy Spirit can give this truth and why are you preaching because he uses human instruments he uses the Word of God but he is the teacher I've said many times I can preach truth but only he can impart truth now look in John chapter 16 in verse 7 Jesus says nevertheless I tell you the truth it is expedient for you that I go away for if I go not away the comforter will not come unto you but if I depart I will send him unto you now the comforter is the Holy Ghost the Holy Spirit the Divine Paraclete jesus said I am going to heaven but I will send the Holy Spirit to take my place now notice in verse 8 and when he has come that is the Holy Spirit when he has come he will reprove the world of sin and of righteousness and of judgment now the word reprove actually means convict our convenience he will convict he will convince the world of sin of righteousness and of judgment those are three things you'll never learn in school the truth concerning sin the truth concerning righteousness and the truth concerning judgment notice verse nine of sin because they believe not only of righteousness because I go to my father and you see me no more of judgment because the prince of this world is judged now I want you to open your heart today to truth because the need of this hour beyond the shut of any doubt is truth truth is the issue there is cowardice and there may be some today who are cowards who are afraid of the truth there is laziness that accepts part of the truth there's arrogance that thinks it knows all of the truth and there is true humility before God that opens one's heart so that you might receive what the Holy Spirit of God wants to teach I want to say there are three tremendous truths that if you've never seen them you've never been saved you say well I understand sin righteousness and judgment maybe you do intellectually but until the Holy Spirit of God teaches you these things you we'll never know them now let's think of them one at a time three things that you'll never learn in school first of all deals with the conception of sin what is sin look in verse 9 jesus said the holy spirit has come to convince men of sin now watch it because they believe not on me now the Bible teaches that a man is and a woman a boy a girl a human being is a sinner for three basic reasons first of all he is a sinner but because of what he is by nature he is a natural born sinner the Bible says in Ephesians chapter 2 and verse 3 that he is by nature a child of wrath your little grandson your little granddaughter your precious newborn baby is by nature a child of wrath now the Holy Spirit of God has to remove a certain kind of ignorance in our heart we think that men are wicked and sinful because of what they do we think a man is a sinner because he lies because he steals because he commits adultery because he kills he is not a sinner because he does these things he does these things because he is a sinner a man is not a liar because he tells lies he tells lies because he's a liar I'm not a man is not a thief because he steals he steals because he is a thief these things jesus said come out of the heart I've told you before if you find an apple with a worm hole you needn't worry all that much it doesn't mean there's a worm in the Apple it means there was a worm in the Apple the worm did not eat his way in he ate his way out the worm was born in the Apple you say how to get in there the egg was laid in the blossom and then that worm was hatched and ate his way out of that Apple now there is in the very blossom of human nature a thing that the Bible calls sin and what we see coming out is what has been born on the inside you see a man is a center because of what he is if there's a dog that's rabid that dog is killed perhaps he's not bitten anybody why is he killed not because of what he has done but what he is capable of doing you see the sin that we're capable of doing is the sin that is down in our hearts latent that God sees whether it ever comes to the surface or not whether the worm ever gets to the surface or not whether the dog ever bites anybody or not that's the reason the Reformation will never do for sin you tell a man he's a sinner if he's a man of this world not the convicting power of the Holy Spirit he says well I'll do better I'll quit maybe he's a drunkard and he says well I won't drink anymore maybe he's an adulterer and he says I will not commit adultery anymore take a log out of the forest cut it down and bring it to the sawmill that log may be crooked put it on the cradle there in the sawmill and run it through that sawmill and the saw that big buzzing blade cuts off one side turn that log run it through again and it'll cut off the other side turn it again and cut off the other and then finally you have a log from the outside perfectly square perfectly straight but look at it from the end and the heart is still crooked that's the way men are that's what Reformation is you may clean up the outside you may say well I am good I am as straight and square as a man can be but the Bible says of your heart that your heart is deceitful above all things and desperately wicked therefore if a man is a drunkard and he stops drinking without getting saved he'll go to hell sober what I'm trying to say is this that man has a problem and the problem is on the inside and you might as well admit it you are a sinner not primarily because of what you do but because of what you are now people have tried to explain away sin the evolutionist says that man is a sinner because he hadn't had sufficient time to develop the environmentalist says that man is a center because he's been molded and shaped by sources on the outside and what he needs is a better atmosphere the educator says there is no such thing as sin it is only ignorance and if we could educate a man we would be able to deal with his sin but let me tell you what a Minnesota crime Commission report said studying the matter of juvenile delinquency I want your parents to listen to this every baby starts life as a little savage he is completely selfish and self-centred he wants what he wants when he wants it his bottled his mother's attention his playmates toys his uncle's watch or whatever deny him these and he see this with rage and aggressiveness which would be murderous if he were not so helpless he's dirty he has no morals no knowledge no developed skills this means that all children not just certain children but all children are born delinquent if permitted to continue in their self-centered world of infancy if given free rein to their impulsive actions to satisfy every one of them every child would grow up a criminal that's that's your little baby you say not my little baby yes your little baby or you he is by nature a child wrath now why is a man a sinner here's a senate number one because of what he is and then because of what he is he does what he does now if you say well I take umbrage at the fact that you say that I'm a sinner by Nature all right then let's talk about what you do Romans chapter 3 verse 10 as it is written there is none righteous no not one I want you to say in your heart not even me agree with God there's none righteous no not one there is none that understandeth there is none that seeketh after God they are all gone out of the way they are together become unprofitable there is none that doeth good no not one folks get that in your heart Romans 3:23 for all have sinned and come short of the glory of God now your nature is the poisoned well your sins that you do are the poison bitter water that comes out of that well you say well I don't I don't kill and I don't steal what about your thought life jesus said lust is adultery Jesus said hate is murder Jesus destroyed a civilization with a flood because of the imaginations of men's hearts now you know the word sin has gone out of vogue today we have redefined sin and defined it out of existence do you know what the word abortion used to me it used to mean a miscarriage if a baby inadvertently died in the mother's womb that was a sad and a tragic thing and they said well that baby was aborted what the real word is is not abortion it is infanticide killing a baby but now we don't we don't like abortion so the abortionists have changed that word even now they take the killing of a baby and they call that abortion but they said no let's see if we had a nicer sounding phrase and so they call it pro-choice then that sound a lot better than abortion certainly sounds better than infanticide but you know they they didn't like that so much they said let's get something better than pro-choice let's let's use reproductive rights and then let's oh no that's not enough let's call it reproductive freedom now let's call it killing babies let's call it killing babies rather than reproductive freedom but you see we don't like the idea of sin but you know the Bible speaks of lust but we will call it lust what do we call it adult entertainment and we look around and we see the rape sexual violence and immorality and rampant in our land but the word lust sounds too much like sin doesn't the Bible calls sexual immorality the Bible calls it fornication the Bible calls it adultery you know what we call it sexually active that's what they call fornication today that teenager is sexually active and what do we call adultery having an affair do you see what we've done you know what the Bible call a woman who sells sex the Bible calls her a and a harlot you know what the Bible calls a man who pays for her services the Bible calls him a monger what we called it today a call girl what we call him today a playboy the Bible calls sexual perversion sodomy calls these people who do this sodomites what we call them today homosexuals we call them gays what do we call it today an alternative lifestyle as if God has several lifestyles and you can pick the one you want what have we done we have defined sin out of existence but the Bible calls sin sin and the Bible says all have sinned and come short of the glory of God a man is a sinner because of what he is he is by nature a child of Wrath a man is a sinner because of what he does and he does what he does because he is what he is but what does our tech say what does the Bible say that the Holy Spirit has come to convicting of look again if you will and see what the Bible says that the Holy Spirit says in verse 9 he has come to convict men of sin because they believe not own me now that's the part most of us can understand thus far but when we get to this part then we see that the Holy Spirit of God can mix a man of sin not only because of what he is not only because of what he has done but the Bible convicts him of sin because of what he has not done of sin because he believes not when you talk about sin telling lies stealing lust the average Americans as well yes everybody's got his little faults everybody makes mistakes but I don't think that God would let me go to hell forever because I told a lie that would be like putting a man in the penitentiary for life for stealing a loaf of bread old friend when you understand the nature of sin you can't help the way you were born and therefore you do what you do because you were born with a sinful nature but oh there is a sin a damning sin a horrible sin a wicked sin a vile sin a terrible sin a condemning sin that most of the world never thinks about do you know what it is not believing on Jesus Christ not believing on Jesus Christ of sin because they believe not on me what is sin sin is a clinched fist in the face of God sin is failing to bow the knee sin is high treason against heavens King only the Holy Spirit can teach you that only holy when you see that when you see that you are guilty of high treason against heaven's King that you have never bowed the knee to your maker the one who died in agony and blood for you upon that cross when you see that you've ignored spurn refused him then you'll understand why the Bible calls you a sinner I pray the Holy Spirit of God will convict you of that put this verse in your memory in your margin John 3 verse 18 Jesus said concerning himself the son of man he that believeth on him is not condemned but he that believeth not on him is condemned already because he has not believed in the name of the only begotten Son of God unbelief is the greatest sin and unbelief is the parents and it is the mother sin the father send the sin out of which all of the sins have grown it was unbelief that caused Adam and Eve to sin in the Garden of Eden Holy Spirit of God helped me to say this and I pray that people will hear it today and I pray that those of you and television will listen to this our courtroom making victory of crimes conscience where can victory of wrongdoing but only the Holy Spirit of God will truly convict you of sin when you understand what sin is you will not be strutting your way to hell thinking you too good to be damned when you understand that you have said no to the Lord Jesus Christ if you've never really opened your heart and received him as your Lord and Savior then you will say God be merciful to me a sinner the Holy Spirit of God teaches first of all our true conception of sin of sin because they believe not here's the second truth the Holy Spirit will teach you something you'll never learn in school not only the conception of sin but the completion of salvation the completion of salvation look if you will now in the next verse verse 10 of righteousness because I go to my father and you see me no more he comes convictive sin and of righteousness to give a conception of sin and to show the completion of salvation now why does he say of righteousness because I go to my father well he left the father's house he came down at through that dark Judea night out of the ivory palaces into this world of woe he lived a sinless perfect life as we sang today he came to that cross he took my sin your sin our sin upon that cross he suffered bled and died in agony unmentionable indescribable horror and pain he died upon that cross he was laid in that coal tomb he came out of that tomb the third day living risen victorious over sin death hell and the grave he ascended to the Father to present his blood there before the father in that tabernacle in heaven that's what he's talking about when he says I go to my father I am going back to my father it is done I have paid the price for redemption and now there is one way one and only one way that a man can be righteous it is through my death burial resurrection and ascension back to the Father now only the Holy Spirit of God can teach you that because man is ignorant he is ignorant not only concerning sin he's also ignorant concerning righteousness what is the average person thing the average person thinks he is a sinner if he does wrong so therefore he is righteous if he does right in that right in that pot the average person things the average person thinks that righteousness comes by doing and being good put this verse in your margin Romans 10 in verse 3 Paul spoke of the Jews of his day and here's what he said about them for they being ignorant of God's righteousness now listen to this being ignorant of god's righteousness and going about to establish their own righteousness have not submitted themselves unto the righteousness of God a man can be sincere and be sincerely wrong sulfuric acid and water look the same clear colorless liquid h2o and h2 so4 one is water one is deadly poison poor Willie he's gone from us his face will see no more for what he thought was h2o was h2so4 I mean if a man sincerely drinks a glass of sulfuric acid does it matter how sincere he is if he is sincerely dead the only hope that a man has of righteousness is Jesus you say but pastor Rogers I am NOT that bad I'm a pretty good person that's the reason that Jesus said to the Pharisees publicans and sinners and harlots are going to heaven before you will they were the crowds that sit in church on Sunday morning and when the invitation is given they'll look around to see if any of those old sinners are going to go forward and give the heart to Jesus Christ let me tell you what Isaiah said to the people of his day in Isaiah chapter 64 and verse 6 but we are all as an unclean thing and by the way the word unclean thing means the the bandage that would wrap the leprous putrifying saw but we're all as an unclean thing now watch this and all of our righteousnesses are as filthy rags in his sight he didn't say you're the bad things you do I'm talking about the things that you boast about all of our righteousnesses are as filthy rags in his sight and we do all fade as a leaf and our iniquities like the wind have taken us away the only way that you will ever see the portals of heaven the only way that you can ever go to heaven is through the death burial resurrection and ascension of Jesus Christ and your faith in that fact you need to learn this if there was some other way if if a person could be saved by Reformation if a person could be saved by doing good then let me ask you a question if a person could be saved any other way was not then Calvary the blunder of the ages think about it do you understand Calvary do you think that was one of the options whereby people can be saved do you mean there is some other way but God chose to let his son die in agony in blood when there could have been some other way that's the reason that the Apostle Paul said in Galatians 2 verse 21 I do not frustrate the grace of God for if righteousness come by the law then Christ is dead in vain what does that mean in plain English if you could be saved by keeping the Ten Commandments Calvary was a blunder most of us think we're too good to be damned I've said before the worst form of badness is human goodness when human goodness becomes a substitute for the new birth you say I don't agree with you and I'm sure you don't but when the Holy Spirit of God speaks to your heart then you'll agree you say I can't talk you into that you sit here and mentally argue with me you say I don't agree with that that's the reason I'm saying friend that you'll not learn this in school and no preacher can teach you this the Holy Spirit of God will teach you one of these days that you're a sinner because you refuse the Lord Jesus Christ and the Holy Spirit of God will convict you one of these days that the only way the only way your only hope of heaven is to receive Christ as your personal Lord and Savior and when you do receive the Lord Jesus Christ I want you to see what he'll do for you remember we said that you're a sinner because of what you are what you do and what you've not done when you receive the Lord Jesus Christ in His righteousness then he deals with what you are we are by nature children of Wrath but when we get saved we become what partakers of the divine nature the Bible calls this the new birth Christians are not just people who are reformed they're just not nicer people Christians are those have had a change of nature he changes what you are and then he forgives what you've done remember you do what you do because of what you are he changes what you are and he forgives what you've done every stain every block every blur every blemish gone buried in the grave of God's forgetfulness and those sins be as scarlet they'll be white as snow though they be red like crimson they become as wool for him that's the gospel but wait a minute not only does he change what we are not only does he cleanse what we've done but he gives what we need which is righteousness you see he took our sin that we might take his righteousness these are precious verses I'm going to share with you Romans four verses five and six put them in your margin but to him that worketh not but believeth on him that justifieth the ungodly his faith is in' his faith is counted for righteousness his faith is counted for righteousness even as david also describeth the blessedness of the man unto whom god imputeth right miss imputed righteousness without works what does that mean when you say Lord Jesus I believe you died for me upon that cross I believe you paid my sin debt I know that I'm a sinner I need to bow my knee before you and believe on you and trust you then God says yes how come into your heart I'll give you a new nature I'll forgive your sin and then I'll take my righteousness and I will impute it to you that means I'll put it on your account then how righteous are you you're as righteous as Jesus Christ because you have his righteousness there was a maid who worked for a man and she got saved he was an infidel he ridiculed her her name was Betty he said Betty you claim to be saved what is it feel like to be saved he said I don't think I could explain it where you could understand it but she said it feels to me as if I am standing in Jesus shoes and he's standing in mind a theologian couldn't have said it better he took my sin I take his righteousness I can preach this truth I pray God the Holy Spirit would teach you this truth when he has come he will convict you of sin he will convict you of righteousness you will see a proper conception of sin and you see a proper completion of salvation that Jesus ascended to the heaven he backed to the Father to pay that sin dead now here's a third and final thing that you will not learn in school and you not learned from any preachers preaching until the Holy Spirit of God brings it to your heart not only the truth concerning sin and not only the truth concerning righteousness but the truth concerning judgment continue to read in verse 11 then he says here's the third thing of judgment because the prince of this world is judged it doesn't say he's going to be judged this is perfect tense it means it's already taken place who is the prince of this world the prince of this world is the devil he's the god of this age the prince of this world but jesus said he has already been judged the people of this world seem to think somehow we're waiting on the outcome of things to see who's going to win Christ or Antichrist God or Satan remember john 12 verse 31 jesus facing that cross said this now is the judgment of this world now right now is the prince of this world is cast out don't get the idea that one of these days we're going to see how it works out north average person thinks the average person has the idea that either somehow the whole scheme of things will be nullified or that somehow sin will get by that God will be merciful even if men do not repent of sin and receive his righteousness that is not true our Lord must reign his enemies will lick the dust there's no contest out there truth is mightier than error love is stronger than hate holiness is higher than sin and our Lord has won the victory now folks listen to me the Holy Spirit of God needs to teach you that Satan's cause is a lost cause Satan sails a sinking ship Satan rules a doomed domain he has all ready been sentenced adjudicated a criminal he has been judged sooner or later he's going to be thrown into that penitentiary that lake of fire God did not prepare hell for you if you go to hell which you may but if you go to hell you be an intruder jesus said in Matthew chapter 25 and verse 41 eventually say also unto them on the left hand depart from me you cursed into everlasting fire prepared for the devil and his angels I was watching television and I saw a little bit of a program before I turned it off that dealt with the subject of Hell and the idea of this program was that in the Middle Ages the church was losing his hold upon people so the church invented the idea of Hell to keep people around so that the preachers would have some tool to hold over people's heads to convince them they better turn a burn that was the idea that somehow this idea of Hell was something that Dante our somebody invented do you know who the greatest hellfire preacher in the Bible was jess85 M 'less love and it was Jesus who warned about Hell and he said that he'll was prepared for the devil and his angels and Satan has already been judged he is a condemned criminal sin can't win and faith can't fail you need to learn that only the Holy Spirit of God can teach you that of sin righteousness and judgment the conception of sin the completion of salvation the condemnation of Satan that's what the Holy Spirit of God teaches suppose you're sick you call the doctor the doctor gives you an examination and then you can tell by the look on the doctors face that he's he's very worried yes a doctor give it to me straight don't put it in fancy language don't hold out false hope if I'm that gravely ill I need to know it he says all right you have an incurable illness you're going to die you save a doctor I'm not ready to die I've got a lot of living to do I want to see my children's children I've got plans doctor isn't there some way that I can live you said it's incurable he said well let me say this there is a new vaccine a serum that has just been developed it is very rare very expensive not available therefore your case is hopeless but doctor doctor if is there I mean if it's somewhere then get it the doctor says well do you have any money not much just a little doctor says I'll see what I can do imagine in a few days the doctor comes back to your bedside he's not the man that left the bedside he he looks different his hair is disheveled his eyes are sunken back in his face his clothing is torn his clothing is bloody his hands have tremors he's shaking and I say doctor where have you been you're like you look like you've been through hell what's happened to your doctor he said I went out to get this medicine for you he said I went to the Foundation's I got what I could get that was not enough I took my own savings out of the bank that was not enough i mortgaged my house finally I got enough to get this vial of medicine for you then in my hurry to come to your bedside I wrecked my automobile I've just come from a rank I had my son in the car with me my only son my darling son the light of my life my one son he was killed in the rack the blood on my garments is the blood of my son here's the medicine take it you will live suppose you took that vial of medicine looked at it and then dashed it on the floor and the contents ran out in the rug never to be reclaimed suppose you did that then would you be able to point a finger in the face of that doctor and say doctor if I die it'll be your fault doctor wouldn't be fair to let me die no of course not you say Adrian that that would be absurd yes let me ask you another question if God took Heaven's riches his own dear son and if he died in agony and blood upon that cross and you refused such love then you'll understand why the Bible says the Holy Spirit has come to convicting of sin because they believe not on me I'm sin because they believe not on me of righteousness because I go to my father of judgment because the prince of this world is judged many of you need to be saved today some have your name on church rules but that won't get you to heaven the devil had rather send you to hell from the pew than from the gutter bow your heads in prayer heads are bowed and eyes are closed if you're saved begin to pray for those round about you who are not saved if you're not certain that you're saved then right now is the time for you to get certain receive the Lord my prayer my prayer is that the Holy Spirit of God has used the message today to speak to your heart because if the Holy Spirit of God is not speaking to you just heard one more sermon that's all but if the Spirit of God is saying yes you're the one that needs to be saved there's no greater sin than to refuse my son Jesus and all of your righteousness is as filthy rags and there's no possible way that your sin can go unjust if you don't get saved if you can hear that and really hear it then you will hear what the Holy Spirit of God is saying father I pray today in the name of Jesus that many will trust in him and be saved Lord you must open hearts it is your work do it we pray in the name of Jesus amen do you know that Jesus Adrian Rogers just spoke about you can know abundant eternal life through Jesus Christ right now just speak to him ask him to save you trust in Jesus today but realize that saying a prayer or walking an aisle does not bring salvation you have to sincerely and fully surrender your life to him you might pray something like this Lord Jesus I know I'm a sinner and my sin deserves judgment but you died to pay the penalty for my sin so I repent of those sins now lord I ask you to forgive me come into my life make me a new person in you thank you for saving me Jesus and help me to live for you from now on amen well today if 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Published: Sun Sep 04 2016