Fallen Families | Paul Washer 2021 - (English)

[Music] it is such a great privilege for me to be here with you tonight but remember i'm not just here with the adults also here with the teenagers the children and i want you to know that when we're preaching you're in our heart and mind we want so much for you you're growing up in a world quite different from the one i knew as a child but your god is not different and he has lost no power he's never voted out of office there's never a changing of the guard the god who has been faithful to all generations will be faithful to you but you must be faithful to him young people you must employ all the gifts that god has given you to know god's story and to know the god of the story and to know that the greatest revelation of god that has ever or ever will be given is the person of jesus christ now we're going to begin by looking at the command in genesis chapter 2 a command is given in verse 16. the lord god commanded the man saying from any tree of the garden you may eat freely but from the tree of the knowledge of good and evil you shall not eat for in the day that you eat from it you will surely die let's go to the lord in prayer father thank you for this time thank you for your word and thank you for the holy spirit please strengthen us in our weakness illuminates us in our dullness you who help the weak show yourself strong in jesus name amen now i'm going to be talking about a part of redemptive history but i want you young people to understand that i'm also preaching the gospel to you it's not enough to hear these things these things must enter into your heart and you must ask yourself is it well with me is it well with me do i know the lord now when we look at this command first of all there are some things that that i want you to see that if if you can grasp what's going on here then it will help you through the entirety of your christian life it will help you understand man's relationship to god and what it really means to show genuine devotion to god now when we look at this commandment the first thing that we need to see is that it's counter-intuitive it is truly counter-intuitive if we go over to chapter 3 and we look at verse 6 it says when the woman saw that the tree was good for food and that it was a delight to the eyes and that the tree was desirable now i suppose that they were well aware at least in some way of some of these things prior to the fall prior to taking the first bite when they looked at that tree i would not be surprised if it was the most beautiful tree in the garden i would not be surprised if its aroma was extraordinary i wouldn't be surprised if its fruit did not look absolutely delicious now what i'm trying to say is there was nothing that they could see in that tree that would indicate that it would bring death absolutely nothing there was no reason at all for them to think that that tree would do them harm except one thing the word of god and that's what the test is always about your relationship with god is determined by your relationship to his word and if we go down through the history of israel if we go down through the history of the church if we go down through our own brief history on this planet we will see that this is always the battle it's always the battle the battle never changes will i do what is right in my own eyes or will i trust the word of god that's always the question now why why is the test set up this way and why is this whole matter of the word of god so important it's important because of this the greatest way that we can show true devotion or let me say it differently the greatest demonstration of true piety is to believe god is to believe the word of god because throughout the scripture the word of god and the nature of god are are entirely or directly related you can't have one without the other if you disbelieve the word of god then you disbelieve everything he says about his character now this is very very important not just for the fall or the history of redemption but for our own life and this is the battle isn't it always will you believe the word of god will you because that's what he's calling adam and eve to do you know how your parents will say tell you to do something well why should i do it because it's right why is it right because i said so well that doesn't work with parents but it does work with god his word is an expression of his character his character is a character that is flawless it is pure it is holy it not only tells the truth it knows the truth and so young person listen to me throughout your entire life you're going to have to make a decision what are you going to do about the word of god because your relationship to the word will determine your relationship with god your devotion to the word when i was in seminary i was constantly being warned by professors to be very careful of making an idol out of the bible what a twisted lie what a twisted lie they were feeding young men because there is a real sense in which god's word and god's character are one and don't go parading yourself as someone who believes his character if you do not believe what he has spoken now i want to show you that this is not just found here i want you to hold your place for a moment and i want you to just run over to our lord in matthew chapter 4 verse 4 this is what's going on in the garden and he answered and said it is written man shall not live on bread alone but on every word that proceeds out of the mouth of god if adam and eve had followed this everything would have been different everything would have been different now go over just for a moment to the book of romans as i said i'm going to treat this a little bit sort of in an unusual way because i wanted to have a true impact i want you to see that these things that went on in ancient times they still go on today the battle is always the same look over in romans 4 verse 19 without becoming weak in faith he contemplated his own body now as good as dead since he was about a hundred years old and the deadness of sarah's womb yet with respect to the promise of god he did not waver in unbelief but grew strong in faith giving glory to god now look what's going on here it's the same as in the garden abraham is asked to do the same thing adam and eve is asked to do they look at the tree they study it they examine it they view it from afar they view it close up they smell it there is nothing that they could see to tell them that it was deadly except for the word of god now look at abraham hope against hope what does that mean he looked at his own body and he saw that it was good as dead he looked at his wife she was beyond the age of bearing children he had no reason whatsoever to believe that he would have a child except for one thing the word of god now i could go through the entirety of scripture and show you narratives historical examples where men have either done this or failed to do this to believe god or not to believe god now this shows us something very very important there are two deadly deadly things listen to me young person you're young right now you can begin to study the word right now you can change the course of your life there are two deadly things one of them is ignorance of god's word ignorance and everything that has happened in evangelicalism in the last few years part of it is the result of sheer ignorance of god's word ignorance or unbelief unbelief you would be surprised how many times unbelief and disobedience are related in the old and new testament you would be surprised that sometimes the word for obedience actually is is belief and belief obedience the two are related and here's the question not just will you understand genesis 3 better after this evening is over the question is will you commit the same error or will you believe god will you learn from our fallen parents or will you continue to repeat the same error will you fall in the line of of judges who did what is right in their own eyes or will you follow the word of the living god and by doing so give honor to god now we know they disobeyed if we go over to genesis chapter 3 verse 6 what do we see when the woman saw that the tree was good for food and that it was a delight to the eyes and that the tree was desirable to make one wise she took from it she took from its fruit and ate and she gave also to her husband with her and he ate she trusted in what she saw she trusted in what she heard from another voice maybe she trusted in what she smelled and she fell and her husband fell with her now so many times i hear people say yes he fell because he listened to his wife that's absurd he did not fall because he listened to his wife my wife has given me many great counsels my wife has helped me understand passages in scripture i owe a lot to my wife he fell he sinned because he listened to his wife when she was saying things contrary to god throughout your life there will be a lot of isaacs that you will have to sacrifice and what do i mean by that there are so many voices in this world and many of them dress themselves in sort of a religious garb even an evangelical garb even a reformed garb and they will say the same thing that the devil says here did god really say and then in time you'll hear out of the same fountain that it has devolved god did not you must know the word you must know the word why is disobedience to the word so so heinous why is it so vile i mean after all it was it wasn't like they committed genocide or did they it was a piece of fruit you see young person here's what you need to understand when i tell people they're a sinner it has very little impact upon them very little impact at all they laugh at sin they boast in sin they think of new ways to do sin why does the word sin no longer have an impact because they don't know the one against whom they are sinning and i will have to say this is by and large the fault of preachers whenever a country is on the verge of destruction don't chase down politicians chase down preachers they know not god i remember as a young man full of zeal street people street preacher lived with the street people all kinds of things wanted to study my bible and everything but not well instructed and i remember someone sending me it was a big video back then i put it in a little tv with a screen about that big and it was rc sprole's holiness of god and i remember sitting back in the chair plastic chair watching it for a few minutes then i noticed that i was sitting on the edge of the chair and then it wasn't much longer that i was on my knees and then i realized i'm watching this video sometimes looking up at rc sproles sometimes down with my face to the floor crying out to god he introduced me to a god the god of scripture and you know what that view of god did it changed my view of sin it changed my view of me it changed my view of salvation it changed my view of everything of everything when you sin you're not sinning against some some mayor of a small town you're sinning against the king of glory imagine this he on the day of creation this god that they are defying on the day of creation he told planets put yourself there and there and there and they obeyed he told stars galaxies solar systems start here run to there and then run back again and they obeyed he told mountains be lifted up valleys be cast down and they obeyed he told the great sea you will come to this border and you will go no further and the sea worshiped him and then he looked at two little specks of dust breathing air that he had given them and said in only one thing obey me no no that's why on the day of judgment even creation itself will stand up and testify to the justice of god when he sends men to hell you can't understand how heinous this sin if you do not understand god so young people for all you're getting the book of proverbs tells us get wisdom and for all you're getting of wisdom get wisdom about god so that you learn to walk in the fear of god now look at the immediate consequences of sin it's amazing it says in verse 7 of chapter 3 then the eyes of both of them were open and they knew that they were naked and they sewed fig leaves together and made coverings made themselves loin coverings they heard the sound of the lord walking in the garden in the cool of the day and the man and his wife hid themselves from the presence of the lord god among the trees of the garden now look at two things they were made by god for god and now they're hiding themselves from god but look at this and this is a very important point young person especially those of you who are about thinking about marriage verse 23 the man said this is now bone of my bone and flesh of my flesh he shall be called woman because she has she was taken out of man so both of them created by god are hiding from god and now you have two individuals made by god that have become one bone of bone and flesh of flesh and now what's going on they're hiding from each other young person listen our world is filled with so much controversy and chaos absurdity stupidity danger so many complex problems but the root of it is not complex it's not complex at all the root of the problem is sin and the only answer to that problem is the gospel of jesus christ so if you want to heal the world don't run after some social construct don't chase philosophies of men born out of speculation give rise to speculation and heal nothing the gospel for healing relationships vertical relationships between god and man the gospel for healing relationships horizontally between individuals between men and women between peoples of all different shapes and sizes and types and colors all of it has a solution only in one place the gospel of jesus christ where the root of sin is destroyed it is only only there now let's look at the judgment chapter 3. the judgment on the woman and the man to the woman he said i will greatly multiply your pain in childbirth in pain you will bring forth children yet your desire will be for your husband and he will rule over you then he said to adam then to adam he said because you have listened to the voice of your wife and have eaten from the tree about which i commanded you saying you shall not eat from it cursed is the ground because of you in toil you will eat of it all the days of your life both thorns and thistles it shall grow for you and you will eat the plants of the field by the sweat of your face you will eat bread till you return to the ground because from it you were taken for you are dust and to dust you shall return they say that philosophy was born somewhere around five centuries or fifth century bc some attributed to thales others to others but if you could bring all those men into a room this is what they dealt with you see there's something in us that is finds mortality disagreeable that there's something still in us that says we weren't made to die there is something about death that fills us full of anguish because it's just not right it's just not natural it's because it's not natural if your nature is adverse to it there's a reason for it it's not natural it's supernatural it's imposed in punishment and it is the bane of all thinking men many of you young people you've probably seen works of art where you see either a monk or a philosopher looking out a window of a cathedral or of an academy and he's standing there and he has a skull in his hands you think oh how morbid is this person we're not understanding what's going on here he's not delighting in death he's contemplating his own existence he's contemplating his mortality he's trying to come to grips with what am i because now the definition is lost to death why do i exist what is the meaning of life i remember i was a young man i was 17 i was kind of full of life i didn't really have a worry in the world my father was a very strong man a very intelligent man i wanted to be like him but i just wanted to be like him and we're rolling out wire one day around we raised quarter horses in charlotte cattle and we were rolling out wire one day and i had one side of the bar he had the other side of the bar we were talking about the upcoming basketball year and everything and all of a sudden i was looking forward but i heard him scream i remember the wire dropped on the other side and i saw him fall and i caught him we fell to the ground he was dead at that moment something happened i joined although not academically trained i joined that long list of philosophers didn't i and i became angry because i had no answer you see i wanted to be like him he's dead i never thought i would measure up to him but even if i did i would die i would follow him so what does it matter what does it matter if i'm strong i'll become weak what does it matter if i'm a youth in my prime i will grow old what does it matter if i i train my mind and can do mathematics like my father could i will lose my mind one day possibly all at once possibly gradual gradually i'll sit on a couch as an old man and watch my thoughts just drift away what if i fall in love i mean what is the use of poetry now my wife will die i will die then i think about what about all the things i've seen stars moons autumns sunrises sunsets my sister dancing with flowers in her hair on top of a horse riding in its full strength it will all be lost and because it will be lost it doesn't matter maybe the contemporary philosophers after jean-paul sartre were right that everything's just absurd maybe solomon was right a day the day of a man's death is better than his birth because at least the anguish of death would cease you see this is all because of sin all of it is because of sin once our vertical relationship our relationship with our creator was severed everything else dissolved and that's the way we are aren't we imagine the idiocy the the stupidity of a man hooked up to a life support system who is using whatever strength he has to rip the cord out of the wall sin that's why the puritans referred to sin as insanity and this is the judgment of god and that is why even even those peoples who in times past were outside of israel who did not have the oracles of the law they still struggled with this uncomfortable idea that something in my existence is dislocated it's just not right so what do you do you can be a thinking man in misery or you can eat and drink and satiate your lust because tomorrow we die or in this judgment you can find mercy you can find mercy and what is that mercy pain in childbirth what is that mercy futility of labor and life you see those are judgments not mercies yes they are judgments but they are the greatest mercies if you understand them correctly every time a woman is giving birth and suffering pain pain pain god is screaming out to that woman fallen fallen fallen return return every time a man gets up in the morning before the sun and goes out to work for hours and hours a day to reap nothing and he comes back to the home defeated it is god's mercy crying out to him fallen fallen fallen return return return every time a man and a woman are torn apart at the seams are parents from children and there's nothing but fighting there is a grace in that it is a warning of things to come you are fallen fallen fallen return return return to me that's one aspect of repentance that isn't emphasized enough it's not just feel sad the pagan philosopher can do that it's return but to return you must believe god now return return but now here is the question of the ages for theologian [Music] for philosopher how shall we return how can we return our father and yes we all have one father our father has fallen and we have fallen with him and we have not only fallen with him we have followed him in his rebellion against god how can we return is it not absolutely spectacular the highest demonstration of wisdom that in god's judgment upon the serpent he brings us hope look at verse 3 315 and i will put enmity between you speaking to the devil and the woman and between your seed and her seed and he shall bruise you on the head and you shall bruise him on the heel now first of all let's look at a general application here this is more than what has to do with men and their adversity common adversity to snakes but it does have a lot to do with something that we're going to see immediately after this chapter in chapter four we're going to see that there will be a redeemed people but that redeemed people will have to live and struggle and fight and suffer in a fallen world because the bible sees two lines that are going to spring out we have able believing we have came unbelieving and the one persecutes the other even unto death there will be a people of god throughout human history but that people who has rejected mercy will fight against that people until the very end and the consummation of all things that's one application but the greater application is this he is speaking as the rabbi says he is speaking of messiah he is speaking of christ in the very curse given to the devil in the very judgment pronounced upon him we find the proto evangelicum we find the first promise of the gospel that god would send someone born of our line bone of our bone flesh of our flesh an elder brother if you will who would destroy the works of the devil and bring his people back to god never forget in the story of redemption there is only one hero only one hero in every category there is only one hero it is messiah it is christ you know him as jesus now we're going to go on with this but i want before we leave this chapter i just want you to see something that verse 21 after receiving the promise that someone would come we have a hint just a hint that somehow with that someone who comes sacrifice will be involved 21 the lord god made garments of skin for adam and his wife and clothe them cover them now we get to chapter four and what's going on sin spreads like gangrene a true pandemic a true plague so we see we have cain and abel and what do we notice especially about the family because because the closest relationship that we can have humanly speaking is family and what happens the vertical relationship is destroyed and what happens in the family destruction and death hold your place here for just a moment and i want to show you how quickly man became vile go to first john and go to chapter 3 verse 11 for this is the message which you have heard from the beginning that we should love one another not his cain who was of the evil one and slew his brother this is adam's son but look what's already happened this son is now his chief characteristic the thing that describes him above every other description is this he is of the evil one that quick he's of him defined by him empowered by him described by him if you wanted to know the chief characteristic of cain he was of the evil one and what does he do he kills his brother you say yes here in this case we have a demonstration of violence brother against brother i think we have something far deeper because when john says that cain killed abel he uses a very specific word which is oftentimes used in religious literature with regard to sacrifice to butcher yes to murder yes but oftentimes with regard to sacrifice i believe that what we're seeing here is such a hatred now manifested to god by this young man that it basically the narrative goes like this you didn't accept my sacrifice you didn't like my sacrifice you liked my brother's sacrifice you liked his sacrifice so much i'll give you a sacrifice i wouldn't be surprised as many greek scholars have said that he not only killed his brother he sacrificed him here we can see something that men refuse to believe we are not only fallen we are not only in love with sin delighting in sin but we are a race that vehemently hates god and why do we hate god well that's easy because he's good why do we hate god when i'm speaking to university they're always about you know they they try to use the idea we're opposed to god because of this archaic view of holiness and i said no you hate god because he's good you hate god because god is love and you are loveless and evil that's man as a matter of fact i find it quite amazing when i'm preaching that if i use the word sin or sinner no one really has a problem with it but if i tell the congregation they're evil it's a whole different story here we see look what we see in one half generation we go from a man and a woman created in the image of god to someone filled with hatred for god and then we make our way over to chapter six and what do we see the corruption of mankind the end of any separation it seems between godly and ungodly the ancients believed it was an alliance even with the demonic however you want to take this know that it just keeps going down hill until there is nothing left but judgment but judgment but judgment what did man look like before the flood look in genesis chapter six look at verse five then the lord saw the wickedness of man it was great on the earth that every intent of the thoughts of his heart was only evil continually [Music] it seems like a hyperbole doesn't it like an exaggeration but it's not apart from the restraining grace of god men women children run run head long in to evil now so that you don't detach yourself from this narrative if if i could take out your heart every thought you've ever thought every deed you've ever done and i could put it on a thumb drive and i held that thumb drive up and i said now i'm going to place it into the computer and we're going to show it on this screen you would jump out of your seat screaming no you would run up here and if necessary by violence you would take it out of my hand why young person listen to me because you have thought things so vile so wicked that you can't even share them with your closest friend you see this is not some detached narrative this is true how do i know that because i'm a prophet no because it's what the word of god teaches and because it's my own reality it's everyone's reality we are a defiled race a defiled race now look at man after the flood chapter 8 verse 21 and the lord smelled the soothing aroma and the lord said to himself i will never again curse the ground on account of man for the intent of man's heart is evil from his youth now this word youth can also include a very very young child isn't it amazing you do not have to teach a child to do evil you have to teach a child to do good and that by discipline and reward let's say that i take a a four-year-old child in a they're in an observation room and i have a four-year-old child and i present before that child the most fantastic toys that anyone's ever created until finally i find a toy that every time i put it in the child's hand the child throws it down so i pick it up put it in its hand again throws it down put it in tandy it doesn't want the toy begins to cry and throws the toy across the room how can i get that child to want that toy more than any other toy that i have presented i just bring another four-year-old in and i give that other child the toy what happens world war iii see even from our youth this is ontological this is not a learned behavior this is not something cultivated my friend this is essence this is nature by nature children of wrath by nature sinners theologically philosophically there is no there is no separation between will and nature nature demonstrates will i was on the amazon years and years ago i was very young and uh i remember walking down this one stretch of the river it had actually had a kind of a sandy beach which was very unusual and i was walking down it and there were two children playing and just for a moment there was a there was just this careless thought in my mind very careless very stupid i thought to myself look at these two children unstained by television by media they've not the evil of this world has not been presented to them and there they are playing well i walked down the beach for about five minutes and i came back and they were tearing one another apart i said goodbye paradise hello cain and abel it is within us you know what's wrong with this culture it's always somebody else it's always somebody else it's always somebody else hell is full of people with that philosophy no it's me it's me it's me it is me so before the flood we have sinners after the flood nothing has changed all that water couldn't wash clean the race of humanity all that judgment could not instill fear even in those whom god saved immediately after noah's drunk noah is drunk then there is the perversion of his son ham and then in chapter 11 there is the tower of babel then in chapter 18 and 19 there is sodom and gomorrah and as man spread throughout the world so did his moral corruption and it has blanketed the planet now i want us to go quickly run over to the book of romans in chapter 1 romans 1 2 and 3 is very very important what is paul seeking to do what is his primary purpose in romans 1 2 and 3 to condemn the entire world and leave it without hope that's his purpose to condemn the entire world now we will divide this up a bit 18 through 32 of chapter one it is very possible paul is talking about that wild barbarian the pagan of pagans and he begins to point after sin after sin after sin he points to he describes it very clearly and as paul goes on condemning the pagan of pagans what happens well the philosopher stands up and he says paul we had no idea we had no idea although you're not part of our company you have hit the nail on the head those barbarians those pagan barbarians those uneducated uncoast uncivilized people outside of the roman empire they are vile paul we applaud you extremely insightful and helpful your lecture and then paul turns his finger and goes and woe is you because you're the same thing and then he tears into the moralist and the ethicist i remember before i was converted in philosophy or literature and and reading poetry about virtue and love and all sorts of things and i would sit there and go words words words words words where can it be shown where can it be seen useless words so when they applaud paul paul turns on them and says woe is you because you are just as vile with all your academics all your high thinking all your philosophy has done you no good at that moment paul caught the attention of even his greatest enemies the rabbis the judaizers they stood up and said paul maybe we need to rethink this you have brilliantly denounced the barbarian and the moralist you're right paul and then paul making no friends turned his finger on them and said and woe is you above all men because you were granted the very oracles of god and you have not obeyed and so paul leaves the entire world condemned so from that fall we now go thousands of years into the future we have one of the most sophisticated civilizations coming out of the greek civilization the roman empire and we see that nothing has changed and then we go forward another 2000 years and we see that nothing has changed sin is deadly now let's go back to genesis 9. verse 8 then god spoke to noah and to his sons with him saying now behold i myself do establish my covenant with you notice we don't have time to go into it i myself establish my covenant with you that's very important language extremely important language this is not noah and god sitting down at the table and having negotiations covenants aren't that way not covenants with god says i myself do establish my covenant with you and with your descendants after you and with every living creature that is with you the birds the cattle and every beast of the earth with you and all that comes out of the ark even every beast of the earth i established my covenant with you and all flesh shall never again be cut off by water of the flood neither shall there again be a flood to destroy the earth god said this is the sign of the covenant which i am making between me and you and every living creature that is with you for all successive generations i set my bow in the cloud and it shall be for a sign of a covenant between me and the earth this is known as the noedic covenant but i prefer another title it is the covenant of preservation write that down it'll help you understand what's going on here the old scholars the old men referred to this primarily as the covenant of preservation why because if you look closely this is what is being said are you ready listen noah all of you should die every day every one of you who came out of the ark you should die every day and as the long years and centuries of history have gone by there hasn't been a day on this planet in which god should not have killed everyone and that's what you've got to understand you must understand this it is because of covenant that god does not wipe everyone off the face of the earth every day of human history just turn with me hold your place real quick i'll show you something just go to matthew chapter 5 verse 45 or verse 44. but i say to you love your enemies and pray for those who persecute you so that you may be sons of your father who is in heaven for he causes his son to rise on the evil and the good and sends rain on the righteous and the unrighteous you know how that happens it's covenanted this i believe relates directly back to the noetic covenant how can a holy righteous god be kind to evil men how can he do anything but destroy them because he himself has made a covenant of preservation and what is the purpose of that covenant of preservation oh it is glorious what is the purpose of the covenant of preservation you should die every day but i will preserve the earth in order to carry out my work of redemption and bring forward the fulfillment of my promise in genesis 3 15. why does god preserve the earth for his own glory because upon this earth he has determined to do a work of recommendation a work of of redemption of salvation yes motivated by the fact that he is love but so far beyond that to reveal to all of creation both heaven and earth who he is everything in the great mystery of god's providence yea even the fall has been decreed so that through it both men and angels may know god that they may know god now i want to get to the marrow of this the marrow of this god is doing a work of redemption he is saving a people for himself but this work of redemption can only be carried out in a manner that is consistent with the attributes of god let me show you the problem from the sparse knowledge we have from scripture we can draw certain conclusions regarding satan that when he fell he met with perfect justice perfect justice no mercy perfect justice can you imagine how it shook the heaven when adam and eve although met with perfect justice they also found a promise of redemption you're not hearing me this chat this this troubled heaven you see man says they're troubled about the fact god judges men heaven is troubled by the fact that god saves them when god showed perfect justice to satan and the angels who rebelled with him there was no murmuring in heaven there was no philosophical problem but when man fell and god offered mercy there began the problem of the ages that is not solved until christ dies on calvary how can a just god justify unrighteous men how can he do it adam should have died that moment without one promise that would have been right here's another problem noah should have died in the flood with everyone else do you ever realize that well but noah found grace in the eyes of the lord and what do you suppose that is that was sovereign grace that was not a result of noah's merit and the distinction in noah's morality compared with the rest of the world is the result of god's act of grace working in him but mark it down the whole thing goes back to god's sovereign grace noah should have died and abraham a friend of god where's your justice god he doubted you he put his wife in jeopardy he should have died and israel israel your people can you imagine satan standing there accusing your people they worshipped me in the desert not you that you said so yourself they should die oh and david david really a man after your own heart he's a murderer and an adulterer he should die the problem of the ages the divine dilemma they should all die how can god forgive them how can god redeem a people a sinful rebellious wicked corrupt people while at the same time maintain his justice at the risk of over dramatizing the matter can you imagine the railings of the accuser against god over and over and over don't you know that that's how he had the power of death accusations accusations accusations this one should die where is your justice that one should die where is your justice this whole people should die where is your justice this redemptive plan throughout the ages how can you call these your people has the justice of god diminished well all those questions were answered 2 000 years ago for the sake of illustration let's say god calls satan before the throne do you want to know how i can give those fallen first parents a promise of hope do you want to know how i can save noah yes sinful noah from the flood do you want to know how i can call abraham my friend is that your question do you want to know how i can call israel my people do you want to know how i can call david my son look to calvary look to calvary because right now my son bears the sin and the curse of them all and my wrath falls down upon him until my justice is fully appeased satisfied you see here's something that you need to understand the the the puritans uh octavius winslow bates especially bates so many see you bates wrote a book william bates the harmony of the attributes of god you say well what do you mean well you see there's a problem let me show it to you let me use biblical language to show it to you looking look in romans in verse 25 whom god displayed publicly speaking of jesus christ he placarded him as martin lloyd jones used to say love to say you know placards like when you go to somewhere in this area where you're wanting to see the beautiful mountainside you can't see it because there's billboards everywhere he billboarded him he placarded him why did god have his son die in the religious center of the universe hanging upon a tree why verse 25 this was to demonstrate his righteousness hold it why does god have to demonstrate he's righteous why would he have to do that well because he in the forbearance of god he passed over sins previously committed that's what my illustration was about adam and eve should have died judged immediately with no hope noah should have died abraham should have died the fact that they didn't means god's got some explaining to do is he as righteous as he says he is david should have died he didn't is god really righteous because he passed over since previously committed 26 for the demonstration i say of his righteousness at the present time again why is god having to demonstrate that he is a righteous god again i want to go back to this in our stupid pitiful little world we hold court against god and we say if god judges us he can't be righteous and yet heaven's court says if god doesn't judge us all he is not righteous but god demonstrated himself to be righteous and merciful that's why bates wrote about the harmony of the attributes of god in the cross of christ this no one preached the gospel in ancient days without talking about this and yet some of you have never heard it that's why our gospel preaching is so poor you see this whole thing someone said one time to me they said well jesus had to die because of the fall and i said well there had to be a fall so that jesus could die because it was only in that that all the attributes of god could be revealed to men and angels in perfect harmony and that's what's going on on calvary in calvary is the greatest i'm not speaking in superlative or it down the greatest revelation of god that has ever been given ever will be given is the cross of jesus christ where he proved to be merciful through it our sins are pardoned and he proved to be just in what way when his own son bore our sins as our substitute god crushed him under the fury of his wrath until justice said satisfied not just as some overarching principle to which god had to submit but the very justice of god and in him now in the cross all the attributes all the glories of god are there are there that's why the cross was everything for paul everything everything the cross the cross the cross the cross the son of god is the last adam bone of our bone and flesh of our flesh our champion we had two great problems mankind we are devoid of righteousness we have none and we were under penalty of the covenant of works because of our disobedience christ solved both of those problems he dealt with the penalty in that he died under it but oh don't miss this part he dealt with our poverty our destitution of righteousness and that he not only died for us he lived for us he obeyed for us and then he's far greater than joseph joseph did not share his coat of many colors with his brethren but praise god christ shared his coat of righteousness with his people even the most destitute he has done it all brother paul do you believe we're saved by works oh yes oh yes i do the works of christ god making covenant with god our brother our brother oh the majesty of that one oh take the royal diadem and crown him lord of all remember young people only one hero in this story run to him see i i have no strength take hold of him my grip is slight then fall upon him you can fall can't you just give up fall fall fall and he will catch you fall upon him he is a rock bigger than the world fall upon him trust in him trust his word don't wait to get yourself right don't wait to get yourself clean just fall fall believing that for god so loved the world he gave his only son that whoever believes in him will not perish but have everlasting life my son evan came to me when he was about 12 or 13. he said dad i said what he said all night all night what i couldn't sleep there all night it was just christ it's just christ dead i couldn't sleep it was so beautiful it was just christ i believe he saved me i said really i said well let let's just we'll continue studying the word we'll go talk to our elders but let's just continue studying the word okay a year later he comes back he said dad remember when i told you that yes i do son because it was true but dad i've been reading the gospel of john do you know what i've learned what i think god has saved me last year no today why well because i was reading the gospel of john and i realized something you're not saved because you have an experience no matter how real or wonderful it may be or you think it is you are saved because you find yourself believing the word of christ dad i believe the words of christ so young people so many times we use wrong language and we make you think that you must have something to add to simple faith no trust trust in his word believe his word believe his word let's pray father thank you for your word thank you for your mercies thank you for weakness if weakness is necessary to drive us to christ in jesus name amen you

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