WEBVTT 00:00:00.880 --> 00:00:02.240 I love Herb just a second ago. 00:00:02.319 --> 00:00:02.640 I could see him. 00:00:02.720 --> 00:00:03.439 He's like, should I pray? 00:00:03.520 --> 00:00:04.639 Like Herb, you should always pray. 00:00:04.799 --> 00:00:07.440 Anytime you pray, you pray well. 00:00:07.599 --> 00:00:08.480 You pray well. 00:00:09.359 --> 00:00:11.599 Well, hey, uh, we have a treat this morning. 00:00:11.759 --> 00:00:14.640 Megan is actually gonna teach today, which is gonna be awesome. 00:00:14.960 --> 00:00:17.359 Um don't cheer too much. 00:00:17.600 --> 00:00:19.679 She hasn't even given the message yet, okay? 00:00:20.160 --> 00:00:20.879 Cheer on the front. 00:00:20.960 --> 00:00:26.000 No, um, it's funny, I actually originally had asked Megan to speak last week, uh, but last week was Mother's Day. 00:00:26.079 --> 00:00:30.320 And so as the week came on, it was kind of weird to be like, Happy Mother's Day, here's a lot of work to do. 00:00:30.480 --> 00:00:32.079 Thanks for giving me the morning off. 00:00:32.159 --> 00:00:34.880 Uh, that didn't feel right, so we moved it to this week. 00:00:35.039 --> 00:00:40.479 Um but I'm so excited about what she's sharing this morning, so excited about what God has shown her. 00:00:40.560 --> 00:00:43.200 And uh I know it's just gonna bless all of us this morning. 00:00:43.280 --> 00:00:46.880 So just be open to whatever God shares through his word and enjoy. 00:00:47.039 --> 00:00:47.439 All right. 00:00:47.520 --> 00:00:48.159 So there you go. 00:00:48.479 --> 00:00:49.679 Hey everybody. 00:00:50.479 --> 00:00:54.640 I am really excited to share about this um part of Romans. 00:00:54.799 --> 00:00:59.840 It has something in it that I am so passionate about and love talking about. 00:00:59.920 --> 00:01:04.319 So I feel really excited to get to talk about it with you guys this morning. 00:01:04.480 --> 00:01:10.480 Um but before we jump into the new stuff, we want to make sure that we understand the framework of what Romans has been talking about. 00:01:10.719 --> 00:01:12.959 Because it's been a lot of things. 00:01:13.200 --> 00:01:20.959 Romans gives so much information to us as Jesus followers, and the way Paul writes is a little messy. 00:01:21.120 --> 00:01:24.239 But this is the framework of what we've been talking about. 00:01:24.400 --> 00:01:27.200 That when we are born, we are born with flesh. 00:01:27.359 --> 00:01:35.040 Sometimes we call that sin nature, um, and you think of it like humanity, like that, that human part of us, we're born with that, and that leads to death. 00:01:35.120 --> 00:01:41.280 And Justin's gone over this a lot, that no matter what, this is the result, according to Scripture. 00:01:41.519 --> 00:01:47.280 But because of Jesus, we get to be born again, and we're born into the spirit, and that leads to life. 00:01:47.439 --> 00:01:50.159 And this is what all of Romans is talking about. 00:01:50.319 --> 00:01:55.840 Um, but as Romans talks about it, like I said before, it's a little messy. 00:01:56.000 --> 00:01:59.920 We've used this as our diagram to describe what this is like. 00:02:00.079 --> 00:02:12.159 This is what it feels like reading Romans sometimes, and this is what it feels like inside of us as we try to figure out how to live from the spirit birth and not the flesh birth. 00:02:12.240 --> 00:02:16.080 It can feel very tangled and it can feel very messy. 00:02:16.479 --> 00:02:21.840 What we're gonna do today is we're gonna pull at some of these strings and see what happens. 00:02:22.080 --> 00:02:22.400 Okay? 00:02:22.960 --> 00:02:28.080 We're gonna look at some of the things in Romans and we're gonna pull on them a little bit. 00:02:28.240 --> 00:02:38.639 I don't expect this whole mess to unravel and all of a sudden have great clarity, but we are gonna get clarity on some really important things for us as Jesus followers. 00:02:38.879 --> 00:02:44.400 We're gonna jump around in scripture a lot using Romans as our anchor as we pull on some of these threads. 00:02:44.639 --> 00:02:45.840 Is everyone good with that? 00:02:46.159 --> 00:02:46.479 Okay. 00:02:47.280 --> 00:02:52.319 So let's start where Justin left off last week, and we're in Romans 8, verse 5. 00:02:52.479 --> 00:02:54.080 We're gonna read five to ten. 00:02:55.199 --> 00:03:04.000 For those who are according to the flesh, set their minds on the things of the flesh, but those who are according to the spirit, the things of the spirit. 00:03:04.319 --> 00:03:09.439 For the mind set on the flesh is death, but the mind set on the spirit is life and peace. 00:03:09.599 --> 00:03:11.520 Okay, so again, we're getting that same framework. 00:03:11.680 --> 00:03:14.240 Set on the flesh is death, spirit is life. 00:03:14.479 --> 00:03:14.800 Okay. 00:03:15.439 --> 00:03:26.960 Verse 7, because the mind set on the flesh is hostile towards God, for it does not subject itself to the law of God, for it is not even able to do so, and those who are in the flesh cannot please God. 00:03:27.120 --> 00:03:28.960 And Justin talked about the law before. 00:03:29.120 --> 00:03:30.560 If you miss that, go back and listen to it. 00:03:30.639 --> 00:03:32.479 We're not going to spend a lot of time on law today. 00:03:32.560 --> 00:03:33.919 That's not the thread we're gonna pull. 00:03:34.000 --> 00:03:34.319 Okay? 00:03:34.560 --> 00:03:42.879 Verse 9, however, you are not in the flesh, but in the spirit, if indeed the spirit of God dwells in you, but if anyone does not have the spirit of Christ, he does not belong to him. 00:03:43.360 --> 00:03:48.639 If Christ is in you, though the body is dead because of sin, yet the spirit is alive because of righteousness. 00:03:48.960 --> 00:03:51.199 Now, in that section, there's a lot going on. 00:03:51.360 --> 00:03:55.599 You have Paul talking about mind and spirit and body and flesh and all these things. 00:03:55.759 --> 00:04:01.039 And you start to really get a sense of the picture that you're not just one part. 00:04:02.080 --> 00:04:02.400 Okay? 00:04:02.719 --> 00:04:06.719 Now I'm gonna ask for a show of hands, and if you're at home, you can interact with this online. 00:04:07.199 --> 00:04:08.479 Be honest, okay? 00:04:08.639 --> 00:04:10.719 And I'll tell you, I will raise my hand on this. 00:04:10.879 --> 00:04:12.879 How many of you talk to yourself? 00:04:13.360 --> 00:04:13.599 Okay. 00:04:14.000 --> 00:04:15.039 Now, wait, wait. 00:04:15.280 --> 00:04:17.680 How many of you answer yourself? 00:04:18.720 --> 00:04:19.040 Okay. 00:04:19.519 --> 00:04:24.319 How many of you answer yourself out loud accidentally in front of other people and they hear it? 00:04:24.720 --> 00:04:25.040 Okay. 00:04:25.519 --> 00:04:26.240 I do that. 00:04:26.399 --> 00:04:30.639 I'm talking myself through something, and we shouldn't be surprised. 00:04:30.800 --> 00:04:31.920 We're not one part. 00:04:32.079 --> 00:04:39.439 We can have like inner conversations with ourselves, inner arguments with ourselves, trying to convince ourselves to do something or not do something. 00:04:39.759 --> 00:04:43.360 But we shouldn't be surprised because God made us that way. 00:04:43.519 --> 00:04:45.439 We're gonna take a look at Genesis. 00:04:45.839 --> 00:04:50.560 Genesis 1, very beginning, okay, verse 26. 00:04:51.519 --> 00:04:56.480 And it says, Then God said, listen to watch the pronouns, it's really cool. 00:04:56.800 --> 00:05:03.680 Let us make man in our image, according to our likeness. 00:05:04.399 --> 00:05:05.680 Isn't that interesting? 00:05:05.920 --> 00:05:13.120 When God made us, he made us in his image, but he said our image, because God is not one part. 00:05:13.360 --> 00:05:17.519 So we should not be surprised, being made in the image of God, that we are not one part either. 00:05:17.759 --> 00:05:19.680 God is actually three parts. 00:05:20.399 --> 00:05:20.720 Okay? 00:05:21.519 --> 00:05:23.199 Father, Son, and Holy Spirit. 00:05:23.360 --> 00:05:28.399 We hear that when we baptize people, I baptize you in the name of the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit. 00:05:28.720 --> 00:05:36.639 This is God all together, but each part has a function and they all work together in perfect harmony. 00:05:36.959 --> 00:05:41.920 So we shouldn't be surprised when we feel like we've got more than one part going on inside of us. 00:05:42.160 --> 00:05:43.600 Does that make sense? 00:05:43.920 --> 00:05:44.240 Okay. 00:05:44.800 --> 00:05:47.199 The cool thing about that is it was on purpose. 00:05:47.360 --> 00:05:58.800 Okay, Psalm 139, verse 13 and 14 says, For you form my inward parts, you wove me in my mother's womb. 00:05:58.959 --> 00:06:06.399 I will give thanks to you, for I'm fearfully and wonderfully made, wonderful are your works, and my soul knows it very well. 00:06:06.800 --> 00:06:09.600 The parts of you were made on purpose. 00:06:09.839 --> 00:06:14.639 That's not a curse, that's not something that we have to be afraid of. 00:06:14.959 --> 00:06:19.120 God looked at you and made you in different parts on purpose. 00:06:19.439 --> 00:06:20.800 He has a plan for that. 00:06:21.040 --> 00:06:23.439 And that's the thread we're gonna pull out a little bit. 00:06:24.000 --> 00:06:26.560 What are these parts exactly? 00:06:27.279 --> 00:06:38.800 In the New Testament, we get a lot of language about our minds, our bodies, our hearts, our souls, our spirits, all of these different things, all alluding to the different parts of us. 00:06:39.199 --> 00:06:47.120 But God is really good because he packaged it for us all in one little verse that we can just pull at and look at and see the parts of us. 00:06:47.279 --> 00:06:51.519 So I'm gonna read this verse and I want you to pick out the parts of you, okay? 00:06:51.680 --> 00:06:53.120 It's 1 Thessalonians. 00:06:53.199 --> 00:06:54.560 I told you we're jumping around a lot. 00:06:54.720 --> 00:06:57.920 I have paper clips in my Bible, so it makes it a little bit faster. 00:06:58.160 --> 00:07:02.079 Okay, 1 Thessalonians 5, verse 23. 00:07:02.720 --> 00:07:04.639 Listen for the parts, okay? 00:07:04.879 --> 00:07:18.160 Now may the God of peace himself sanctify you entirely, and may your spirit and soul and body be preserved complete without blame at the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ. 00:07:18.319 --> 00:07:19.360 Did you see them? 00:07:19.680 --> 00:07:20.000 Okay. 00:07:20.480 --> 00:07:24.000 It's your spirit, your soul, and your body. 00:07:24.319 --> 00:07:26.319 So we have three parts. 00:07:26.560 --> 00:07:27.519 This is us. 00:07:27.759 --> 00:07:28.079 Okay? 00:07:28.399 --> 00:07:31.199 And I have a little diagram because I'm a teacher and I love this. 00:07:31.360 --> 00:07:31.680 Okay. 00:07:33.040 --> 00:07:36.319 You have a body, you have a soul, and you have a spirit. 00:07:36.560 --> 00:07:41.600 Some of these things are really easy to identify in ourselves, some of them are not. 00:07:41.759 --> 00:07:43.600 But we're gonna start with the easy one. 00:07:43.759 --> 00:07:49.120 Okay, the Greek word for body used in that part of um Thessalonians is soma. 00:07:49.279 --> 00:07:51.519 Okay, the body is easy to identify. 00:07:51.680 --> 00:07:52.879 Do you know why? 00:07:53.199 --> 00:07:54.319 Because it's visible. 00:07:54.560 --> 00:07:56.079 We can see our bodies. 00:07:56.319 --> 00:08:00.160 It's really, really easy to pinpoint what our bodies are. 00:08:00.319 --> 00:08:12.639 Okay, our bodies are our appearance, our physical features, our energy, our fitness, our talent, all of the things that you can see and touch and feel. 00:08:12.720 --> 00:08:14.079 This is it's your body. 00:08:14.240 --> 00:08:17.759 And that's part of you that God made, fearfully and wonderfully made. 00:08:17.920 --> 00:08:19.199 He picked you out. 00:08:19.680 --> 00:08:21.360 He picked out your height. 00:08:21.680 --> 00:08:23.600 He knows the hairs on your head. 00:08:23.839 --> 00:08:26.079 This is precious to God. 00:08:26.639 --> 00:08:28.160 He made this in you. 00:08:28.399 --> 00:08:29.839 You are a body. 00:08:30.480 --> 00:08:33.360 But you are also a soul and a spirit. 00:08:33.519 --> 00:08:34.799 This is harder. 00:08:35.120 --> 00:08:35.440 Okay? 00:08:35.759 --> 00:08:42.559 And it's harder for one main reason: because both of these are unseen parts of us. 00:08:42.879 --> 00:08:47.200 You cannot see your soul, and you cannot see your spirit. 00:08:47.519 --> 00:08:53.600 So it's hard for us to identify what is our soul and what is our spirit. 00:08:53.840 --> 00:08:56.799 But the Greek words give us a little bit of a hint, okay? 00:08:57.120 --> 00:08:58.080 Psyche. 00:08:58.320 --> 00:09:01.120 Psychiatry, psychology. 00:09:01.840 --> 00:09:06.320 It's that part of us that's unseen, but it like makes up who we are. 00:09:06.559 --> 00:09:08.000 That's our souls. 00:09:08.320 --> 00:09:09.600 Things like this. 00:09:10.159 --> 00:09:12.240 Our emotions, oh, it's tearing. 00:09:12.399 --> 00:09:13.200 Hold on. 00:09:14.639 --> 00:09:16.159 My tape is too strong. 00:09:16.320 --> 00:09:16.639 Okay. 00:09:17.440 --> 00:09:21.279 It's our emotions, our thoughts, our opinions. 00:09:21.600 --> 00:09:22.480 You have opinions? 00:09:22.639 --> 00:09:23.519 I have opinions. 00:09:23.759 --> 00:09:24.080 Okay. 00:09:24.720 --> 00:09:32.080 Our preferences, our intellect, how you think, passions, dreams, desires, personality. 00:09:32.320 --> 00:09:38.000 These are all parts of you, and they make you uniquely you, but you can't see them. 00:09:38.320 --> 00:09:38.639 Okay? 00:09:38.879 --> 00:09:40.000 Sometimes we get in trouble. 00:09:40.159 --> 00:09:43.759 People can't always see my opinions until I roll my eyes. 00:09:43.919 --> 00:09:45.120 Then they can see it. 00:09:45.360 --> 00:09:45.679 Okay. 00:09:46.559 --> 00:09:48.559 But you this is all a part of you. 00:09:48.720 --> 00:09:50.879 You are designed with these things. 00:09:51.039 --> 00:09:54.480 You are designed with a soul, but it's unseen. 00:09:55.039 --> 00:09:56.799 Does everybody understand what we're talking about? 00:09:56.960 --> 00:10:00.480 Okay, so you've got body and you've got soul and you've got spirit. 00:10:00.720 --> 00:10:04.960 So if this is our soul, what is our spirit? 00:10:05.519 --> 00:10:15.519 And it's really cool because we have another little like treasure of a verse in Hebrews that talks exactly about soul and spirit. 00:10:15.759 --> 00:10:16.080 Okay? 00:10:16.639 --> 00:10:20.080 It's in Hebrews 4, verse 12. 00:10:20.960 --> 00:10:24.080 I love these little treasures of verses that just tie it all together. 00:10:24.320 --> 00:10:43.200 Hebrews 4 12 says, For the word of God is living and active and sharper than any two-edged sword, piercing as far as the division of soul and spirit, of both joints and marrow, and able to judge the thoughts and intentions of the heart. 00:10:43.519 --> 00:10:45.039 So there, Hebrews is really clear. 00:10:45.120 --> 00:10:46.320 There's a division here. 00:10:46.559 --> 00:10:48.960 These are not the same thing. 00:10:49.440 --> 00:10:52.480 They're different and they're divided. 00:10:52.720 --> 00:11:00.480 Okay, just like we talked about God has different parts and they all work together, all of our parts influence each other, but they're all separate things. 00:11:00.720 --> 00:11:04.000 Okay, you can see how your soul would influence your body, right? 00:11:04.320 --> 00:11:08.720 You know, your thoughts and emotions might make you do things physically. 00:11:09.039 --> 00:11:13.120 Okay, your spirit also has influence over your soul and your body. 00:11:13.360 --> 00:11:17.039 The word spirit pneuma means breath. 00:11:17.919 --> 00:11:21.679 That's how the God's word describes our spirits. 00:11:21.919 --> 00:11:23.360 It's our breath. 00:11:23.840 --> 00:11:29.360 And this is really cool in this verse, and as I was praying about this today, and God showed me this, I was so excited, okay? 00:11:29.519 --> 00:11:34.000 This is where you're gonna need to turn on your nerdy brain a little bit, okay? 00:11:34.320 --> 00:11:39.279 And we're gonna let God use that to teach us something deeply spiritual. 00:11:39.519 --> 00:11:39.840 Okay. 00:11:40.879 --> 00:11:45.600 He says it divides soul and spirit like joint and marrow. 00:11:45.840 --> 00:11:46.960 That's weird. 00:11:47.360 --> 00:11:50.559 Whenever I come across something in the Bible, I'm like, that's weird. 00:11:50.720 --> 00:11:51.919 There's a reason. 00:11:52.240 --> 00:11:55.279 God doesn't waste anything. 00:11:55.600 --> 00:11:59.679 And when he gives us an analogy or he gives us a metaphor, he picked it out. 00:11:59.840 --> 00:12:01.039 There's something there for us. 00:12:01.120 --> 00:12:03.039 He could have said it divides right and left. 00:12:03.279 --> 00:12:04.559 That's very high concept, right? 00:12:04.639 --> 00:12:05.200 Right and left? 00:12:05.279 --> 00:12:06.320 Wouldn't that be better? 00:12:06.559 --> 00:12:09.440 Or it divides horizon and sea. 00:12:10.320 --> 00:12:11.840 I don't know, but he didn't. 00:12:12.000 --> 00:12:13.759 He said joint and marrow. 00:12:14.159 --> 00:12:14.799 Why? 00:12:15.919 --> 00:12:22.000 Because our soul is like our joints, and our spirit is like our marrow. 00:12:22.480 --> 00:12:25.360 See, our soul, our joints are in our body. 00:12:25.519 --> 00:12:32.240 You can kind of see my wrist, but you can't see the inner workings of my wrist, or something really bad has happened to my wrist. 00:12:32.480 --> 00:12:32.799 Okay? 00:12:33.120 --> 00:12:37.279 You can't see the bones and the ligaments and the tendons, but you kind of know it's there. 00:12:37.440 --> 00:12:38.639 That's what our soul's like. 00:12:38.799 --> 00:12:42.159 It's unseen, but it moves us around. 00:12:42.480 --> 00:12:44.240 It's what moves us. 00:12:44.639 --> 00:12:47.039 We do the things that we do because of our souls. 00:12:47.120 --> 00:12:49.759 Any psychiatrist or psychologist would tell you that. 00:12:50.000 --> 00:12:54.080 That the things you do, you do because of your soul. 00:12:54.399 --> 00:12:58.159 The things you do in your body, you do because of your soul. 00:12:58.320 --> 00:12:58.639 Okay? 00:12:59.039 --> 00:13:03.519 If I go eat a bunch of ice cream because I'm sad, that's my soul. 00:13:03.840 --> 00:13:04.159 Okay. 00:13:05.039 --> 00:13:07.440 We do the things we do because of our souls. 00:13:07.600 --> 00:13:10.000 It's like our joints that move us around. 00:13:10.159 --> 00:13:12.000 We can't see it exactly. 00:13:12.240 --> 00:13:14.720 We know it's there and it moves us. 00:13:14.960 --> 00:13:15.279 Okay? 00:13:15.919 --> 00:13:19.440 But spirit, spirit is marrow. 00:13:20.399 --> 00:13:23.600 Marrow is the deep center of your bones. 00:13:24.320 --> 00:13:29.200 So unseen and so core to our beings. 00:13:30.240 --> 00:13:33.279 Spirit is marrow, and you have a spirit. 00:13:35.759 --> 00:13:43.679 That deep core of you, that deep center of you is what God talks to. 00:13:44.000 --> 00:13:46.480 And I want to show you this through the analogy of marrow, okay? 00:13:46.559 --> 00:13:48.320 So, nerdy brain, here we go. 00:13:48.399 --> 00:13:48.799 All right. 00:13:48.960 --> 00:13:52.399 I don't have a lot of medical knowledge, so we're just gonna use like the basic medical knowledge. 00:13:52.480 --> 00:13:56.559 I'm sure some of you in here know way more about bone marrow than I do, but here we go. 00:13:56.799 --> 00:13:59.759 So bone marrow makes your blood. 00:14:00.240 --> 00:14:02.879 Okay, it makes the blood in your body. 00:14:03.120 --> 00:14:09.440 And it makes three different cells of blood, and that directly correlates to what our spirit does. 00:14:09.519 --> 00:14:10.480 I think this is so cool. 00:14:10.639 --> 00:14:14.879 Written before modern medical science, God knew what he was talking about. 00:14:15.120 --> 00:14:17.759 And he said, the marrow makes red blood cells. 00:14:17.919 --> 00:14:18.720 Are you with me? 00:14:18.960 --> 00:14:21.279 I know I'm a teacher, it's early. 00:14:22.000 --> 00:14:24.799 Okay, sorry, I get nerdy early in the morning. 00:14:25.919 --> 00:14:31.360 Your red blood cells carry oxygen to your body. 00:14:32.000 --> 00:14:37.200 Your spirit carries the breath of God to you. 00:14:38.000 --> 00:14:39.919 It communes with God. 00:14:40.399 --> 00:14:42.720 That's what your spirit does. 00:14:43.279 --> 00:14:51.360 Okay, in Genesis 2.7, it says, when God created man, this is the story of God making Adam. 00:14:53.360 --> 00:14:54.799 This is how God made Adam. 00:14:54.879 --> 00:15:02.879 It says, Then the Lord God formed man of dust from the ground and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life. 00:15:03.440 --> 00:15:05.440 And the man became a living being. 00:15:05.679 --> 00:15:09.039 Do you know how many things God breathed into when he created them? 00:15:10.080 --> 00:15:10.720 Us. 00:15:11.600 --> 00:15:12.480 Just us. 00:15:13.919 --> 00:15:19.200 He made the trees and the oceans and the clouds and the sunsets and the birds and all of the things. 00:15:19.360 --> 00:15:21.840 But he breathed into you. 00:15:23.279 --> 00:15:26.480 And that breath is the spirit. 00:15:26.639 --> 00:15:28.639 That's what talks to God. 00:15:29.200 --> 00:15:33.600 When you're in worship and you're in that moment where you're worshiping and you can-that's that. 00:15:33.919 --> 00:15:35.200 That's spirit. 00:15:35.600 --> 00:15:36.879 It communes with God. 00:15:36.960 --> 00:15:43.120 Just like red blood cells take oxygen all through our body, our spirit takes God's spirit all through our lives. 00:15:43.279 --> 00:15:43.600 Okay? 00:15:44.240 --> 00:15:47.440 Marrow also creates platelets. 00:15:47.759 --> 00:15:48.000 Okay? 00:15:48.159 --> 00:15:52.879 Platelets are the part of your blood that forms like a scab when you're cut. 00:15:53.440 --> 00:15:58.159 So when we're hurt, our body physically makes something to heal us. 00:15:58.720 --> 00:16:00.879 Your spirit is marrow. 00:16:01.360 --> 00:16:05.200 Your spirit makes what you need to be healed. 00:16:06.399 --> 00:16:06.720 Okay? 00:16:07.919 --> 00:16:12.080 When we walk around in this world, it's a broken world. 00:16:12.559 --> 00:16:19.200 There are things that hurt us, and there are things that wound us, and they're deep, and they're unseen. 00:16:20.159 --> 00:16:25.039 But we have a spirit that brings healing to those wounds. 00:16:25.840 --> 00:16:28.000 Now listen to me when I say this. 00:16:28.480 --> 00:16:33.440 We often try to heal ourselves out of our souls. 00:16:34.720 --> 00:16:39.200 How many times do you try to fix a problem with your logic? 00:16:40.720 --> 00:16:41.600 Guilty. 00:16:42.879 --> 00:16:46.320 Or you're just gonna sit and cry it out and hope it goes away. 00:16:46.559 --> 00:16:46.879 Okay. 00:16:48.320 --> 00:16:58.159 We need our spirits alive so that we can be healed from all the stuff that goes on and we can be walking around as whole people. 00:16:58.720 --> 00:16:59.039 Okay. 00:16:59.360 --> 00:17:00.399 But wait, there's more. 00:17:00.879 --> 00:17:02.720 Marrow has one more cell, okay? 00:17:02.799 --> 00:17:04.400 And it's the white blood cell. 00:17:04.640 --> 00:17:10.160 White blood cells are made by marrow to fight off infection. 00:17:10.400 --> 00:17:10.720 Okay? 00:17:11.200 --> 00:17:13.200 So guess what your spirit does? 00:17:13.519 --> 00:17:17.359 It fights off the infection of sin. 00:17:18.799 --> 00:17:20.000 Yes, it's true. 00:17:20.079 --> 00:17:20.480 It does. 00:17:20.559 --> 00:17:22.319 It fights the infection of sin. 00:17:23.200 --> 00:17:25.119 Like I said, we live in a broken world. 00:17:25.279 --> 00:17:26.480 We're walking around. 00:17:26.720 --> 00:17:27.680 Sin is everywhere. 00:17:27.759 --> 00:17:31.759 The enemy tries, it says he prowls around like a roaring lion looking for who he can devour. 00:17:31.920 --> 00:17:33.440 How do we fight that off? 00:17:33.680 --> 00:17:35.839 We fight that off with our spirits. 00:17:36.079 --> 00:17:37.920 Because our spirits have won. 00:17:38.160 --> 00:17:38.480 Okay? 00:17:38.640 --> 00:17:40.480 Our spirits are victorious. 00:17:40.799 --> 00:17:51.039 How often, reality check for myself too, do I try to fight off sin with my soul? 00:17:52.000 --> 00:17:53.759 I'm gonna muster it. 00:17:54.160 --> 00:17:56.319 I'm gonna will it to happen. 00:17:57.279 --> 00:18:00.960 But our spirits are what fight off sin. 00:18:02.079 --> 00:18:02.400 Okay? 00:18:02.960 --> 00:18:04.319 Now here's a good question. 00:18:04.880 --> 00:18:08.319 We've been talking in Romans about flesh versus spirit. 00:18:09.119 --> 00:18:14.400 So which part is flesh and which part is spirit? 00:18:15.200 --> 00:18:16.880 We'll start with the easy one. 00:18:17.359 --> 00:18:18.640 Which one is spirit? 00:18:20.240 --> 00:18:22.000 Spirit, that's right, okay. 00:18:22.240 --> 00:18:23.279 Spirit is spirit. 00:18:23.359 --> 00:18:24.319 That one was easy. 00:18:24.559 --> 00:18:26.640 So which part is flesh? 00:18:28.240 --> 00:18:29.839 Body for sure. 00:18:30.480 --> 00:18:31.440 And soul. 00:18:32.000 --> 00:18:34.880 We don't like to call our souls flesh, though. 00:18:35.519 --> 00:18:36.799 We don't like it. 00:18:37.839 --> 00:18:39.920 Because we really like our souls. 00:18:40.319 --> 00:18:45.359 We love our opinions and we love our preferences and our personalities. 00:18:45.759 --> 00:18:47.200 But it's flesh. 00:18:48.319 --> 00:18:51.759 We don't like to call it flesh because we know where flesh leads, right? 00:18:54.240 --> 00:18:54.559 Okay. 00:18:55.359 --> 00:18:59.839 We don't like to call it flesh because we don't want it to lead to death. 00:19:01.279 --> 00:19:06.160 But the truth is our soul is flesh. 00:19:06.480 --> 00:19:09.440 Okay, we're gonna take a look at Galatians. 00:19:09.680 --> 00:19:10.880 Galatians 5. 00:19:11.039 --> 00:19:17.359 And I'm telling you, when Paul wrote Galatians, he had to be thinking the same things he was thinking when he wrote Romans. 00:19:17.680 --> 00:19:21.599 Um, because it's very parallel, Galatians 5. 00:19:21.759 --> 00:19:26.960 So as we read it, you're gonna see things like that sounds familiar, and it should, because we've been talking about this stuff. 00:19:27.119 --> 00:19:29.440 Galatians 5, 16 through 21. 00:19:29.759 --> 00:19:38.400 But I say, walk by the spirit, and you will not carry out the desire of the flesh, for the flesh sets its desire against the spirit, and the spirit against the flesh. 00:19:38.640 --> 00:19:42.480 For these are in opposition to one another, so that you may not be able to do the things that you please. 00:19:42.640 --> 00:19:48.160 Does it sound familiar, what Justin's been talking about week after week, that flesh versus spirit, all of this stuff is going on? 00:19:48.319 --> 00:19:50.559 But if you are led by the spirit, you are not under the law. 00:19:50.720 --> 00:19:51.839 See, he's talking about law again. 00:19:51.920 --> 00:19:55.759 I'm telling you, Paul was having like deja vu when he was writing this. 00:19:56.319 --> 00:20:00.559 Now, I'm about to read a list in verse 19. 00:20:00.799 --> 00:20:02.880 It's a really ugly list, okay? 00:20:02.960 --> 00:20:04.720 It's a list of a bunch of sins. 00:20:04.880 --> 00:20:10.960 And it's tempting when we read this list to start going, like, oh, I did that, okay, and start getting discouraged. 00:20:11.279 --> 00:20:12.960 That's not how I want to read it today. 00:20:13.200 --> 00:20:20.559 I want you to read this list of flesh and ask, where does it come from? 00:20:20.799 --> 00:20:23.119 And see if it's really coming from the soul. 00:20:23.359 --> 00:20:23.680 Okay. 00:20:24.799 --> 00:20:32.240 The deeds of the flesh are evident, and this is verse 19, which are immorality, impurity, sensuality. 00:20:32.480 --> 00:20:37.039 Now I might look at that and go, well, that's body, but it's body driven by soul. 00:20:37.599 --> 00:20:37.920 Okay. 00:20:39.599 --> 00:20:46.079 Verse 20, idolatry, sorcery, enmities, strife, jealousy. 00:20:46.480 --> 00:20:47.680 Where does that come from? 00:20:48.079 --> 00:20:49.680 It comes from my soul. 00:20:51.200 --> 00:21:05.279 Outbursts of anger, soul, disputes, dissensions, factions, envying, drunkenness, carousing, and things like these, of which I forewarn you, just as I have forewarned you that those who practice such things will not inherit the kingdom of God. 00:21:05.440 --> 00:21:16.720 You see, we can read that list and we're tempted to throw everything into the body category, you know, drunkenness and immorality, and those are things we do in our bodies, but they are driven by our souls. 00:21:16.960 --> 00:21:19.440 Our souls are flesh. 00:21:20.240 --> 00:21:21.200 They are flesh. 00:21:21.279 --> 00:21:23.839 And we have to be honest and truthful about that. 00:21:24.640 --> 00:21:25.599 All of it. 00:21:26.960 --> 00:21:29.680 But Psalm 139 says, fearfully and wonderfully made. 00:21:29.839 --> 00:21:31.599 Didn't God make this stuff? 00:21:32.079 --> 00:21:33.039 And he did. 00:21:34.079 --> 00:21:34.720 He did. 00:21:35.359 --> 00:21:46.720 He gave you dreams, he gave you your goals, he wrote out your days and gave you a personality and gave you opinions and gave you the ways that you do things, all the little quirky things you do. 00:21:46.880 --> 00:21:50.160 Psalm 139 says, You are intimately acquainted with all of my ways. 00:21:50.400 --> 00:21:51.519 He knows your soul. 00:21:51.680 --> 00:21:52.799 He made it. 00:21:53.440 --> 00:21:59.680 And the thing is, it's not all bad, but it is all flesh here. 00:22:01.119 --> 00:22:05.359 Okay, so when we label this, all right, we have soul, hold on. 00:22:06.880 --> 00:22:08.160 Moms need three hands. 00:22:08.480 --> 00:22:08.799 Okay. 00:22:09.519 --> 00:22:14.720 We have soul, this is flesh. 00:22:18.079 --> 00:22:19.359 It has to be. 00:22:19.920 --> 00:22:20.240 Okay? 00:22:21.359 --> 00:22:25.519 If you keep reading in Galatians 5, it gives you a list of the things that come from the Spirit. 00:22:25.680 --> 00:22:26.960 And I love this list. 00:22:27.279 --> 00:22:40.640 Verse 22, it says the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, self-control. 00:22:40.880 --> 00:22:43.359 Against such things there is no law. 00:22:43.759 --> 00:22:48.559 And when you look at that list, love, joy, peace, those are the things that we want. 00:22:48.880 --> 00:22:49.839 Self-control. 00:22:50.000 --> 00:22:52.559 We try to muster self-control. 00:22:53.200 --> 00:22:54.319 You can't. 00:22:54.559 --> 00:22:56.000 It's spirit. 00:22:56.640 --> 00:22:58.079 Love is spirit. 00:22:58.240 --> 00:23:03.359 And yes, emotions, we feel love and we feel joy. 00:23:04.000 --> 00:23:11.279 But when the spirit gives us love and the spirit gives us joy and the spirit gives us peace, he gives it to us at times, it doesn't make sense. 00:23:11.920 --> 00:23:26.880 For instance, how many of you have ever been praying and there's something going on and you're going to God with this trouble or this situation or this conflict, and you go in prayer and you go in troubled and you leave with peace? 00:23:28.480 --> 00:23:34.000 It's because you went in troubled and you left with the peace of the spirit. 00:23:34.400 --> 00:23:43.519 How many of you have walked into this building after a long week with many things going on, and you get into worship and you feel joy? 00:23:43.759 --> 00:23:45.440 It doesn't make sense. 00:23:45.839 --> 00:23:47.680 But it's from the spirit. 00:23:47.920 --> 00:23:54.799 Those fruits are from the spirit, and hear me, cannot be mustered by your souls. 00:23:55.279 --> 00:23:55.599 Okay? 00:23:56.000 --> 00:23:58.079 Those are spirit things. 00:23:58.799 --> 00:24:00.000 So what do we do with this? 00:24:00.160 --> 00:24:01.920 We have our flesh, we have our spirit. 00:24:02.079 --> 00:24:07.359 We're going to keep pulling on the thread, okay, and go a little further down Galatians 5. 00:24:07.680 --> 00:24:09.039 It's the fun part. 00:24:09.759 --> 00:24:17.920 Now, those who belong to Jesus Christ have crucified the flesh with its passions and desires. 00:24:19.359 --> 00:24:29.839 When we follow Jesus, there is only one way that we can live, and it has to be with our flesh crucified. 00:24:30.720 --> 00:24:31.039 Okay. 00:24:31.519 --> 00:24:34.960