Today… I want to see You. I want to hear You. I want to know You. And I say yes to You before I even know what Your invitations might be for me during these next 24 hours.

I live in great expectation of experiencing You.

And as I get up from praying I will intentionally look for You and Your activity everywhere I venture today. I love You Lord… always and forever. Amen.

Hey, friends. Listen up. We’re gonna dive into the Bible, but before we do, I’m gonna ask you to take a deep breath and relax for a moment because I’m gonna shock you when the title, and the title is one hundred percent, biblically accurate.
Here it comes. We are all natural born sinners. I know that stings, but it’s true.
If you’re very honest with yourself, the Bible is very clear.
We are born into this world, very capable and quite proficient at sinning. But listen, there’s hope.
I’m reminded of the great theologian Frederick Godey who said, the book of Romans chapter eight is the greatest chapter in the Bible because, listen, it starts with no condemnation, and it ends with no separation, but listen to what CA Fox adds to that statement.
He says, in between the no condemnation and the no separation. Here it is.
This one, there is no defeat. That’s right, friends. Listen.
There is no defeat for the man, the woman, the boy, or girl who comes to Christ and says, Lord, I ask you to take away my sin and to me your righteousness.
I wanna know you that way.
So today, I want you to actually get fired up about the reality of a truth.
And if you can handle It announces that you and I are sinners, but we can be washed clean by the blood of Jesus.
All of us without Christ according to the Bible is condemned. But there’s hope. There’s great hope.
This message titled Natural Born Center is one that should set you free if you’re honest with yourself.
So grab your bibles. Let’s jump into this as we look at the book of Romans chapter eight, natural born sinners, and how god wants to transform your life
So when we declared independence, who were we declaring independence from?
You’re so well taught as a people. Don’t let anyone ever question your history.
And And so you’ve got names in your heart and in your head like John Adams, Thomas Jefferson, and Ben Franklin, and all of these guys, and so you should.
But those guys said, we got our understanding of liberty and freedom from the Black Grove regiment.
Did you know that? The Black Grove regiment were the pastors of the colonial era.
The churches in the colonies taught the word of god chapter by chapter verse by verse exactly what we do here.
But listen, they preach that Christ set you free.
And that any subject of Christ Anyone who has submitted to Christ, listen, anyone who is a slave of Jesus Christ, that’s the only way you can truly be free.
Why? Because his lordship liberates. It flies in the face of what I’m gonna say organized religion.
Stand up, sit down. Do this. Pay that. Read this. Check this box. Now you’re accepted. No. No. No. No.
No. Not the Bible. That’s not god’s gospel. That’s not the way it goes. Not at all.
In fact, listen to this. Because those pastors were so faithful to proclaim the word of god, and I own hundreds of their sermons.
And you ought to read them sometimes from about seventeen twenty all the way out to about seventeen eighty incredible sermons.
But, um, there was one young man who sat under the most powerful preacher in the day Uh, and I’m gonna you’ll figure out who this guy is in a moment.
He he actually began to imitate the pastor’s ability to to speak.
He was known as one of the greatest orders, uh, in American history, and so was this young man who sat in his church.
But let me give you a little bit of background.
Uh, it was the second Virginia convention at Saint John’s Church in Richmond, Virginia.
I mentioned that because I took many of you on our heritage tour to that very church, and they do a profound reenactment of what you’re about to hear.
The word was going out. We’re getting our teeth kicked in.
There’s no way that we can defeat what’s coming to us.
The British the great the the powers of Great Britain are the biggest military on earth, and we’re doomed.
We’re all gonna be enslaved. And it everybody’s whining on and going on.
And then one guy, um, and I’ll read this.
As the thirteen state delegates gathered to discuss the looming prospects of war, with Great Britain, most wavered and even suggested even greater submission to the tyrant King George the third.
But one man stood up and delivered one of of history’s most famous speeches, and I’ll read it to you now.
We’ll put it on the board. Gentlemen may cry peace, peace, but there is no peace.
The war has actually begun. The gale that sweeps from the north will bring to our ears, the clash of resounding arms.
Our brethren are already in the field. Why stand we here idle?
Is life so dear or peace so sweet?
So to be purchased at the price of chains and slavery, forbid at almighty God.
I know not what course others may take, but as for me, give me liberty or give me so shouted Patrick Henry which so stirred them up that they began to rise up and they began to consult and pray, uh, to god.
And from that moment on, you read about American history, and it is absolutely epic because we had a profound dependence upon god.
It’s the dependence upon god that led to independence. You get that?
It’s our dependence upon god that liberates our family.
It liberates our husbands, our wives, our kids, our parents, our culture, our society.
What what American needs to do to get back under the graces of god is not listen, uh, an election is not gonna fix it.
We need to repent as a nation and get back to god and seek his favor again so that we might be submitted to him.
And if we submit to god, then god is invited back into our schools and into our courtrooms and tragically even into our churches.
He might even come back. Roman chapter seven verse twenty four. Oh, wretched man that I am.
He can hear the apostle almost rending his garments. I’m sick of myself.
Who will deliver me from this body of death? Here comes the flood of joy.
I thank God through Jesus Christ our lord.
So then with the mind, my myself, I serve the law of god.
I know what I know what I wanna do. I wanna bless god.
But with the flesh, the law of sin, I know in my heart, I wanna follow god, but my flesh is always screaming at me to do something else.
And with that, he takes off and he writes the apostle Paul, one of the greatest treaties of a chapter ever written to mankind.
Roman chapter eight. So we look at this church.
Second argument verses two to three is this that there is therefore now sins condemnation.
Well, we started with this announcement.
There is therefore now no condemnation to those who are in Christ Jesus. Everybody look at your bibles.
Don’t look on the screen. Look at your bibles. I’m gonna show you something that you need to know.
When the King James translators put together the Bible for the English king under King James decree, The translators took verse four in your Bible and took verse four and copied it and put it up under the last part of verse one.
That’s why if you look in your bibles, listen, if you come to this church, bring a bible.
You’re you’re even allowed to steal a Bible to come to this church.
You gotta you gotta come with a Bible.
So when you look at this, some of your Bible say that, uh, there is therefore now no condemnation to those who are in Christ Jesus.
Period. Some of your Bibles, like my King James Bible, says, There is therefore now no condemnation to those who are in Christ Jesus who walk not according to the flesh but according to the spirit.
That’s not in the original Greek language. It was added in sixteen eleven. Why?
Because the translators wanted you to know that verse four says it.
So we’re gonna put in verse one as well. It’s not an alteration.
It’s an unnecessary move or a copy and a paste that ought not to be there.
Hear me out. Every scholar will agree.
In fact, ancient manuscripts from third and fourth century says this. There is are you listening? Yes.
Watch. There is Now there is therefore now no condemnation to those who are in Christ.
Okay. Period. Watch this. The word in the language that god has given the apostle to speak.
Remember, the Bible says that god is the one who wrote the Bible. He’s like the poll wrote it.
God used Paul’s hand. That’s why I listen. I love Sanders. It gets people all upset.
Study, Genesis through Revelation, find mistakes, publish a book, and become a billionaire, because you’ll be the first one to ever find a mistake in the Bible.
In the original languages, there are none. And god ex god said the exact thing.
I will breathe out the scriptures and I used the hand of man to pen that to you.
Here we are in the twenty first century.
And the greatest authority on earth is still the Bible.
Drive some people nuts, but it’s a fact out of all the things that we’ve been able to achieve as a industrialized educated people.
There’s the Bible. There’s the Bible telling you that there’s hope and life after death.
There’s the Bible that’s telling you that god loved you so much that he gave his only begotten son.
That it’s the Bible. Still announcing that there’s a heaven and a hell and god wants you in heaven with him.
There’s a Bible that says that there is those who are rebel rebellious against god and wicked toward other people and they’re murderous and they’re dangerous.
The Bible is so honest. And in all of our achievements, the Bible is still standing there.
And by the way, you can burn every Bible on the planet. It doesn’t change the thing.
It’s eternal truth. But here’s what we’re looking at.
The declaration of dependence is looking at this, that there is therefore now sin’s condemnation.
This is good news.
We read a moment ago, sin has been condemned by god through the lord Jesus Christ.
You say, wait a minute, Jack. Remind me of condemnation.
Condemnation is being judged with no hope of ever getting out. Can you imagine getting a life sentence?
You’re condemned. The Bible says all of us without Christ are condemned. Did you know that?
It doesn’t matter if you believe it or not. The Bible says all people without Christ are condemned.
We’re born into this world as condemned creatures. We are we are naturally born sinners.
And when we hear the word of god and we are to respond to it, listen, I pray it happens today, that something happens in your heart.
You don’t even realize it, but maybe five, ten, twenty minutes from right now, something’s gonna happen to you where you say, and it’s not gonna be easy.
I’m gonna tell you right now.
It might be a revelation where god speaks to you on the inside, and it’s gonna hurt, because god is gonna say, or he’s gonna have you feel like you’re the only one in this room.
Like he’s calling you out, and he’s saying, listen. I love you and how your living’s wrong.
I don’t want you to reform yourself. I don’t want you to change yourself.
I want you to agree with me that how you’re living is wrong.
And I want you to give me your life right now.
He’s gonna say it to some of you today. Just hand it over to me.
And you’re gonna start having a struggle. Inside of you. You’ll look normal.
You’ll sit here tonight today, and you’ll be like totally normal. And inside, there’ll be a storm raging.
And you’ll hear god speak to you.
He’ll use your voice, but he’ll use language that you’ve never heard before.
And you’ll know it’s him because you would never say such a thing to you.
So listen, god in Christ Jesus condemned sin at the cross. That’s what the cross is all about.
Listen, Jesus went to the cross and as he was there crucified, what was really going on was the absolute destruction of the power of the condemnation of sin and death In the sacrifice of Jesus Christ, the word is called atonement.
Jesus died in my place and in your place.
And when he did that, he broke the power of sin and death. I love to say this.
Listen, Jesus busted the grave. That’s why he walked out of the tomb. It couldn’t hold him.
And that’s why it had to be him. It had to be the son of god.
It had to be the one that came from heaven to earth.
Not comes out of earth and lives a good life and goes to heaven. No. No. No.
There’s no hope in that. The fact of the matter is Christ came from heaven.
He’s got the sun, and he came into this world born into human skin.
All according to the ancient prophecies, by the way. It’s no surprise.
If you know your Hebrew scriptures, the Messiah must come by way of a virgin. Said the prophet Isaiah.
He must be born in Bethlehem says the prophet Micah.
He must ride on a donkey and be uh, announced as king, but rejected by the nation of Israel.
So says Zechariah. All of these things recorded in the Bible.
The Bible says on Isaiah thirty five that the Messiah would open the eyes of the blind and raise the dead.
Who do you know that’s done that? And our world looks around at people. Oh, we’ll pick that guy.
We’ll pick that one. We’ll pick them. We’ll pick that crew over there. They can save us.
They can help us. You know what? The man can implement anything he wants.
It’s not gonna change a thing about your internal soul. Only Jesus can do that.
And please know we’re not asking you to join this church. It’s not that. We’re not talking about religion.
There’s no club to join. We don’t want your money. We don’t want you to sign up.
We don’t want none of that. You need to meet him.
We need to stay out of the way.
What what we’re here doing right now is pointing you to him.
We want you to have a declaration of dependence upon god. Why should I?
Well, for this reason, verse two teaches us that there’s a new law in effect.
There’s a new law in effect.
Here in verse two, the Bible tells us, for the law of the spirit, notice that’s capital s, the Holy Spirit of Life in Christ Jesus.
That is the new law. There’s a new law in town. If I could put it that way.
You see that little word for at the opening of verse two?
Look at the meaning of this little tiny word, by the way, look at it in Greek.
It’s it’s g a r It means to express cause to give explanation the way of a matter or because.
So look at the verse again.
Because the law of the spirit of life in Christ Jesus will go on to learn that is our lives because As a matter of fact, that little word is a strong word.
Everything about Romans chapter eight is so incredibly strong. Listen, Uh, the word because I know as parents, right?
We say, uh, to our kids, sit down. They say why? Because We shouldn’t do that.
I know we all do it. We shouldn’t do that. Here’s the reason why.
When kids ask a question, they they’re built, they’re designed to receive an answer.
As parents, we need to slow down and give them the answer. Don’t do that. Why?
Because I said so, is not an answer.
Hopefully, your kids are hearing this same message in their room right now, and they’ll play it on you later.
And good for them. You can’t say because.
Only God can say because, because then when he says because he’s gonna give you the answer.
Because here’s the answer. Boom. When God gives the answer, it’s yes.
So when that little one says, how come I can’t microwave the cat because we don’t do that.
That’s not an answer. You need to say cats. That’s not how you treat a cat.
And we’d never want to mess up the microwave. And and all that. There’s a new lawn effect.
And it’s very emphatic, by the way. The word the verbiage is very strong.
There’s no contradiction by the way in the in the word law here for the law of the spirit.
So wait a minute. We’ve been talking for seven chapters about how the law can’t save me. That’s true.
Friends, listen. The law of god, the ten commandments are awesome, but they can’t save you.
And then in the old testament, there’s six hundred and thirteen rules that you are to keep.
They can’t save you. None of them claim to save you. Not a one.
I said, wait, I thought if I was really good, I’d go to heaven. Where’d you get that from?
Honestly, where did you ever take that up? That is nowhere.
Not only not only is that none in the Bible. Somehow that was whispered to you. Just be good.
And it will you know what? At the end, your good will outweigh your bad.
And the scale will tip, and you would just slip right on into heaven. No.
The Bible is the scale will tip, and you slip right on your nail. Why?
Because you can’t go Listen. God doesn’t have that kind of currency.
What I wrote in my book called the Bible is that if you wanna get up here, you’ve got to be as good or better than Jesus.
So do everything perfect, raise the dead, cleanse the leper, and never violate the law of god.
Get yourself crucified for the sins of the entire world.
And then on the third day, be resurrected from the dead, and then I’ll ask my son to scoot over and there’ll be two of you up here.
That ain’t gonna happen. That’s not gonna happen.
The fact of the matter is there’s a thank god. There’s a new lawn effect.
And that law that’s in effect is the law of the spirit of god.
And it’s all about, look at your Bible. It’s about you being in Christ. That’s the key.
God does it. What’s the new law? Are you in Christ? In Christ? In Christ? What is that?
In look, I’m I’m wearing a pants. I got a shirt. I have a suit on.
I’m in these clothes. You’re very grateful for that. I’m in these clothes.
And to be in Christ is to be in him, meaning that it’s it’s not his jacket you’re seeing.
It’s his righteousness that you’re seeing. Where are you, Jack? Hey.
The the real Jack who cries out with Paul, oh, wretched man, that I am?
Is the one who puts his trust in what Jesus did at the cross for me.
I believe he died there for me.
I believe he rose again from the dead exactly as the Bible says for me.
And then all he says to me is, Jack, will you a agree that what I did on the cross for you was that you might receive the forgiveness of sins and be given a new life by my Holy Spirit and that I rose again from the dead.
Do you believe the word of god, Jack? Yes.
Then listen, I’ve I I’m writing my name on you as it were. I love that.
He also says he’ll write our name down in his book of life and the lamb’s book of life.
I love that.
Well, my friends, listen. Obviously, the book of Romans chapter eight is very, very personal.
It has to be The god of the Bible desires to get not only under your skin and my skin, but it desires to pry us open and to have ourselves exposed before his holiness and his righteousness.
I’m asking you as one human to another as one sinner to another.
To make that incredible decision, that he has invented for us, the one that he has invited us to take him up on.
And that is to come to him, honestly, to stop playing games and to say to him, lord, I agree. I am a natural born sinner.
I have done the wrong things in life. I’ve had the wrong thoughts I have been selfish.
I have been promiscuous. I have been greedy. I have been angry.
Whatever those things that you know in your life that you’ve tried to cover up over time.
Remember those things? Those issues, God wants to not only take out of your life, friends.
Listen, he wants to make you a brand new person. It’s a fact. It’s true.
That’s why we are here, by the way, to bring you the truth of God, not religion.
Not exposing you to some group or some click or some movement, but to invite you to know the lord Jesus Christ personally, and you can do that right now right where you’re at.
Even though you’re filled with doubt, you’re wondering what does all this mean?
But you are interested and honest enough to say this.
Lord, Jesus Christ If you’re real, will you come into my life?
Will you wash me clean and make me your own?
I confess to you my sins god and I invite you into my life.
I’m asking you to make me your own.
Friends, if you are saying that right now to him, we wanna know.
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