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What is the first thing that comes into your
mind when you hear the words law and grace

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Law and grace. Now, if you ask people, or most people, they believe
that these things, or the law and grace, could not coexist together

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It's either you will live under the
law or you will live under grace

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So most people would easily say that,
oh, we don't have to live under God's law

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have to keep the Sabbath. We don't have to
keep the food law, the appointed times of God

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We don't have to. We only have to love each other because all we
need is love. All we need is the grace of God and we can be saved

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So most people, the prevalent thinking of most Christians today is that you
are only, you only have to love God and then you don't have to follow this loss

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anymore. All right. So, there is one particular
passage in the Bible that seems to support this

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And if you're going through this passage, at
first glance, it looks confusing, all right

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It looks confusing because the writer says that the
law is good, and then he would explain that it is not

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So in the first glance, it's kind of confusing.
and he's making a contradiction out of his writings

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So some people would go to his
letters, actually most of his letters

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some people would use his letters to say or support
the teaching that God's law has already been done away

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Now this is a huge topic, but I just want to focus in this
one particular passage found in Romans chapter 7, verse 7

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Right? Romans 7 verse 7 Let's just
go through it very quickly so that

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we could see what my point here
that most people would kind of

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be confused and use this passage to support
their teaching Right, let's go there

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Actually this is Roman 7 from verse
7 to 12 What shall we say then

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Is the law seen? Certainly not.
On the contrary, I would not

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have known sin except through the law for I would
not have known covetousness unless the law had said

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You shall not covet. Verse 8. But sin, taking opportunity by
the commandment, produced in me all manner of evil desire

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For apart from the law, sin was dead.
I was alive once without the law

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So Paul was saying, I'm alive when there was no law.
But when the commandment came, sin revived and I died

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And the commandment which was to bring life, it
was supposed to give life, I found to bring death

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For sin, taking occasion by the commandment,
deceived me, and by it killed me

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Therefore, the law is holy, and
the commandment holy, just and good

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Can you get see, brethren? That it seems that the
apostle Paul was saying that the law is not seen

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and then at the middle of this passage is saying that,
It is causing him to sin, it has caused him death

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And then in verse 12, he would go on to say, therefore
the law is holy, the commandant holy and just in good

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So it's kind of confusing at first. So I want us to go through this verse and
look it up and see what the apostle longueau really have to say about the law

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And then later we will see the role that
grace have to do with our salvation

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So let's go to the first message here. verse. It says, what
shall we say then? Is the law sin? So apparently, the apostle

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poll has been accused by some people that he
was saying that, oh, in your teaching, you are

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saying that the law is sin. All right? So
he is addressing now this issue. So he said

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certainly not. Actually, this is an expression
that expresses the highest, I would say that

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the highest no all right You know what saying Certainly not On the contrary I would not have known sin except through the
law So this is the purpose of the law for I would not have known covetousness unless the law had said you shall not covet

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So do you know what's the purpose of the law, brethren?
The purpose of the law is to define what sin is

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He was saying that I would have not known that
I have seen already if I have not known what the

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the law said. Okay? So the Apostle Paul is
telling us that the law shows us what sin is

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It tells us what is good and evil. And it tells
us which way to go. It guides us, it teaches

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how to behave, and it helps us to understand
how we better live this life. All right. So

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in essence, brethren, naturally, when you look
in, when you look a newborn child and the

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that child grows up, he naturally doesn't know God's law. Have you heard of a
child saying that, oh, Daddy, we should go to the Sabbath service when it's Sabbath

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No. Oh, Daddy, you cannot eat pork. You cannot do that. You
cannot do this because they don't naturally know God's law

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So the law was introduced so that
we would understand what law is

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All right? So let's continue. so that is the purpose of the law that's and the
apostle poll used covetousness as an example he said i would have not known

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that covetousness is a sin if i if i didn't read
the ten commandments or one of the ten commandments

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and then he said here in verse verse eight but sin
taking opportunity by the commandment produced in me

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all manner of evil desire for
apart from the law sin was dead

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so if you're looking to the verse
8 here brethren he's saying that

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sin is taking advantage of
the law and because of the law

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plus because of the law and sin it
produces in him all manner of evil

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desire how is it possible brethren
that sin uses the law for

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the apostle pool to produce evil desire. Is the apostle telling
us that the law causes him to have this evil desires in him

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Is that what he's saying? Of course not, brethren.
What is saying is that human beings have the

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natural tendency to rebel against God's law. If
you look into, if you jump into verse 15 to 20

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of the same chapter, you will see here, the
Apostle Paul is describing his struggle in doing

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what God wants to do and what his carnal
mother, carnal flesh, wants him to do

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Look at here. Verse 15. For what
I am doing, I do not understand

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For what I will to do, I do not
practice. But what I hate that I do

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If then I do what I will not to do,
I agree with the law that is good

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But now it is no longer I who do
it, but seeing that dwells in me

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for I know that in me that is
in my flesh nothing good dwells

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for to wills present with me but
how to perform what is good I do

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not find for the good that
I will do I do not do

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but the evil I will not to do
that I practice so if you go to

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Romans 8 for 7 brethren Romans 8
verse 7 says because the carnal mind

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is enmity against God it is
not subject to the law of God

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nor indeed can be. Did you see that, brethren? So
the apostle Paul was saying here that when he said

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but sin, taking opportunity by the commandment,
produced in me all manner of evil desire

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He was saying that we have that
natural tendency to break God's law

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The mere fact that the law exists,
he has this evil desire already

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Have you experienced that, brethren?
There's, let's say, speed limit, all right

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There was a time that there no speed limit in let say in diversion road Okay When that
speed limit was put there you have this natural tendency to break that speed limit

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The mere fact that there's a law,
you want to suddenly want to break it

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Right? If you say, oh, what, quiet time, 10 a.m.
The mere fact that is 10 p.m., sorry, that is 10 a.m

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10 p.m. the mere fact that there's a law or there's a rule
that it should be 10 p.m., you suddenly want to break it

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That's how the carnal mind works. That's why the apostle, Paul, was saying that
when he was introduced to the law, he suddenly had this desire to break it

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Because, you know, he wants to break
it because that's the cardinal mind

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The Bible says that the cardinal mind is
enmity. it is naturally hostile galit

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caooy, a yahu no God's law so
we should not be surprised

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that a lot of people don't want
God's law anymore they just want

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to love grace that okay so
this is what the Apostle Paul

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was saying and he added for
apart from the law sin was dead

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what I mean said that he was saying
that There was no law, there was no sin

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When there's no law, there's nothing to break.
But when no, there's no law, then there is sin

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Sin is alive. There is now a possibility that he
is going to break that law and he will commit sin

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So that is what the apostle was
saying. And then in verse 9, here

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Some people use this as a way to say that
God's law is evil and it should not be

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should be cast away. That's why it's done away
with by Christ. He was said in verse 9, he wrote

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I was alive once without the law, but when
the commandment came, sin divide, and I died

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So, I reading this verse, he was
saying that, okay now I was alive

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No, no, no, no, no, no longer than law,
okay now I. But when the commandment came

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that bujah you sin and I died you know
why because a lot of people think

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just like the apostle Paul before he
came to know Christ he was thinking that

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he was a righteous man he was a good
man he was persecuting the Christians

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and he was thinking that he was doing
God of favor that he was serving God

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by killing all these Christians so when
he knew the commandment through Christ

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he suddenly understood that there
was sin and that sin was revived

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Let me just give you an ogy, okay, so that you would better understand
this. There was this person who has this yearly check-up to the doctor, okay

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So before going to the doctor, this person feels alive. I feel
healthy, I feel good, I could not feel better in my entire life

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but when he came down he came
down to and he saw the result

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the doctor found that he has a silent
disease and because of that the doctor

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said you have only a few years
to live did you see that brother

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all of a sudden the person feel
dead mummatine now I'm a long

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a long time now so once the examination
result came in that's when he

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found out that he's actually a sinner. So this is what is
happening to Paul, that he is finding out that through the law

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he slowly or he immediately see
the many sins that he is committing

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So that is what he was saying here. And first said, and the
commandment, which was to bring life, I found to bring death

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Of course, if you are going to keep
the commandments, it will bring life

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It will help you to live a blessed and fulfilling life.
But if we're going to break it, then there's death

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It will bring the death penalty. In verse 11 for sin taking occasion by the commandment deceived me and by it
killed me How does sin deceive you brethren A lot of ways Sin will tell you that it is okay to break God law

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It would try to deceive you
by the wealth of this world

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And yet it would lead to misery. It will
tell you that the sin is very, it's okay

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But at the end, it would be destruction.
That's how sin could deceive and kill you

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And that's why in verse 12, brethren, the apostle Paul was like, just
in case you didn't understand, let me conclude this with these words

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Therefore, the law is holy and the
commandment, holy and just and good

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Does that sound like a person who
wants to do away with God's law

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I don't think so, brethren. So he was saying that, yes, The law would introduce
you what sin is, what sin is, but at the end it is holy, it is just and good

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You know what, brethren? The fault is not in the law. The
fault is in us, human beings, because of our failure to keep it

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Now, the law can show us what sin is, but it
doesn't have the power to deliver us from sin

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that's where grace comes in did you understand
that brethren the law can only tell you

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what is right and good but it doesn't
have the power to change your heart

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it doesn't have the power to change your
behavior that's where grace comes in

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alright so grace fill in what the
law could not do and because of grace

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brethren we are given the chance to repent
of our sins and to do better with our lives

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Let's go to our final scripture
here. Efficient 2, verse 8 to 9

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Efficient 2 verse 8 to 9. Sadly, this
verse is being abused by a lot of people

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but this is actually a very beautiful
verse, brethren. Efficient 2 verse 8 to 9

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For by grace, you have been saved by... For
by grace you have been saved through faith

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and that not of yourselves. It
is the gift of God, not of works

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lest anyone should boast. You see,
brethren, the law cannot save you

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Even if you keep the law perfectly from this day
up to the end of your life, which is impossible

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you cannot undo your past sins in
your life. So you need a savior

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who needs to pay the penalty of sin,
which is death. And you see, brethren

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I don't know about you, but every time I
think of God's grace, it just amazes me

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God's grace is so incredible that because of
God knows me inside it out, he knows how sinful

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I am, how wretched I am and
yet he chose me to be part

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of his church. Did you see that,
brethren? Even though we are

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sinful, we are carnal, God still
gave us the chance to be part of

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his kingdom. And because of God, because
of his grace toward us, we need to extend

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the same grace to other people. We need to be
more patient and more forgiving to one another

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because of God's grace toward us.
If we're not patawed our God's

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Godin, how much more can we need to forgive one
another? So that brethren is the role of law and grace

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in our salvation. They don't contradict each
other, but grace is there to fulfill what the law

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cannot do. All right? So I hope, brethren, that
you now have a better understanding of what law

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what law is based on post-explanation and
the amazing role of grace in our salvation

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