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Today's talk comes from Pastor Louis Gaglio.

I love that we use the imagery today of a rocket going to the moon and I know that that's a difficult hurdle for some of you who came today

because you do believe in Jesus but you don't believe that we've gone to the moon and so that's problematic but we're going to continue to celebrate the fact that we did go to the moon at our house and also proclaim the gospel of Jesus.

To get to the moon or to get the first flight off the ground, the Wright brothers and the rocketeers of earlier days had to fight against Newton's law of gravity.

They had to fight against this formula.

Anybody who knows physics would grab onto it right away.

Newton's law of gravity had to be overcome if we were going to experience what we just witnessed or if we were going to get on an airplane and fly from here to another city.

One of the early inventors of the rocket, one of the pioneers of rocket launching, Werner von Braun, he said this, he said it's the rocket.

The rocket will free man from his remaining chains, the chains of gravity which still tie him to this planet.

The rocket will open him up to the gates of heaven.

That's vision. That's somebody who's thinking above and beyond.

Now, he may have overstated the heaven part just a little bit but the general consensus is that we have been able to step out into a broader sphere and we have been able to go into the heavens because someone said we're going to overcome this law that man for centuries has not been able to overcome.

It's a real law. We all deal with it every single day. It's a part of our lives and a part of our story but mankind together has figured out how to overcome the law of gravity.

But there's one law that mankind cannot overcome.

That's the law of sin and death. This is the heart of above and beyond Sunday and above and beyond thinking and the above and beyond gospel that we're proclaiming today.

There was something man couldn't do. Yes, we could build a rocket. Yes, we could go to the moon. Yes, we could build an airplane. Yes, we can fly over oceans but we cannot overcome the law of sin and death.

That's a problem because that also is a real law and all of us are living in that law. Paul wrote it this way in Romans 7.

He said, so I find this law at work. When I want to do good, evil is right there with me. For in my inner being, I delight in God's law.

But I see another law at work in the members of my body, waging war against the law in my mind and making me a prisoner to the law of sin at work within my members.

Anybody operating inside of this law, anybody know the reality and the power of that law?

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