Beyond the Walls with Jeremy Thomas
Jeremy approaches Bible teaching with a passion for getting the basic doctrines explained so that the individual can understand them and then apply them to circumstances in their life. These basic and important lessons are nestled in a framework of history and progression of revelation from the Bible so the whole of Scripture can be applied to your physical and spiritual life.
Beyond the Walls with Jeremy Thomas
NT Framework - Got Sin?
There has been only one that can answer this question in the negative. only one who never possessed inherited or personal sin.
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Jeremy Thomas is the pastor at Spokane Bible Church in Spokane, Washington and a professor at Chafer Theological Seminary. He has been teaching the Bible for over 20 years, always seeking to present its truths in a clear and understandable manner.
Welcome to Beyond the Walls with Jeremy Thomas and our series on the New Testament Framework. Today a smaller, bite-sized piece from the larger lesson. We hope you enjoy it.
Speaker 2:So Romans, chapter 8, verse 3, says something very interesting about him. So we understand that he was without a sin nature or flesh. Romans 8 3, for what the law could not do, speaking of the law of Moses weak as it was through the flesh. Romans 8.3, for what the law could not do, speaking of the law of Moses, weak as it was through the flesh. In other words, the law basically caused the human, sinful flesh to want to rebel. You know, you tell a kid don't eat those cookies while I'm gone. Don't eat those cookies while I'm gone. All they want to do now is try to see how they can get a cookie, because what you've done is the flesh. You've given a standard, but the flesh uses the standard as a base to push off of, to exert itself, and so they want to break the law.
Speaker 2:And that's what he's saying the law, the law of Moses, weak as it was through the flesh, meaning causing people to stumble and get into sin. Well, it couldn't do this, but God did. It's sending his own son in the likeness of sinful flesh. In the likeness of sinful flesh. Note the key word, obviously, likeness. He looked like sinful flesh in the sense that he looked like you. He looked like me, he had a true human body, he had a true human spirit and he was a true human soul. So he had a physical appearance, he was real. He wasn't just a phantom. He had a true human spirit, which means he had personality, had conscience, he had all the things that are aspects of our immaterial being and he was a true human soul. That's why we say he's true humanity, he's 100% a true human being. Okay, but he wasn't sinful flesh, was he?
Speaker 2:According to this verse, he came in the likeness of sinful flesh, so he didn't have one like you have and like I have, and that's the point of bringing this verse up. He was unique in this sense. He avoided it. How did he avoid it? He avoided this inherited sin because his? Well, two points. First of all, because the transmission is direct through the male. We looked at that that last week. Hebrews 7, 1 through 10.
Speaker 2:And since he's born of Mary alone, and not Mary and Joseph, but Mary alone, then he avoids the transmission. Because the transmission is through the male, okay. And secondly, jesus avoids it by the work of the Spirit upon Mary at the virgin conception, because he's the one who was involved in the conception. If Joseph wasn't, who was? Well, the Holy Spirit provided that aspect of his humanity. So that's how he avoids inherited sin. And this is interesting Now, since he has none of the three kinds of sin right.
Speaker 2:He avoided the temptations, tempted in all things as we, yet without sin. He avoids imputed sin by the overpowering work of the Father, this barrier that was put up, luke 135. And he avoids the inherited sin because the Holy Spirit, not Joseph, conceived the child within her. Then this means something unique. It means that Jesus didn't have to die physically. Doesn't it mean that? In other words, here's what I'm saying If Jesus had wanted to continue living in this world, could he still be here today? Yes, because he has no cause of death residing within him. Sin is the cause of death, sin is the cause of sickness, sin is the root cause of all these things. If he doesn't have sin, the root cause, then he can't die physically. And that's why he'll say things in the Gospels that well, quite frankly, they sound amazing. Like who could say that? He'll say something like no one takes my life from me, but I lay it down of my own accord, meaning, if I'm going to die, it's because I'm going to willingly give my life up, but I'm not just going to die, I can't just die.
Speaker 2:The great story at Nazareth where he says a prophet is not welcome in his own town. It's a village, really, it's a very small place. They ran him out of town to an edge and they were going to push him off the cliff. And you've got to imagine there's got to be several dozen people here at least. They're going to shove him off the cliff. And then the text says and he went through them and they could no longer find him. You're like what? How could you miss the guy? I mean, there's 30, 40, who knows how many people there and he just goes through the midst of you and well, he couldn't die. He could not until he and when he chose to die for us. So he says these unique things and they're arising out of the fact that he didn't have any sin, so no cause of death residing within him. He could still be with us today. He'd be about 2,030 years old, if my math is right. As far as the birth.
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