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🗓️ 29 September 2023
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Martin Luther described a Christian as "simul justus et peccator," one who is simultaneously just and a sinner. In this episode, R.C. Sproul teaches that the church, though filled with flawed people, consists of those who are clothed in Christ's righteousness and consecrated to a holy destiny.
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0:00.0 | The church is holy because it is indwelt by the Holy Spirit. |
0:11.0 | Because if you are a Christian, the Holy Spirit lives in you. |
0:21.0 | How can anybody look at the church and call it holy? |
0:24.0 | The second world does not consider the Christian church holy, not with all the scandals that have marked the track record of the religious community. |
0:37.0 | They laugh. They laugh us to score when we say the church is holy. Holy church. It is more like an unholy fellowship. |
0:49.0 | Well, again, we must go back to the Protestant Reformation and even to Augustine before it. |
1:00.0 | But for a moment, let's stop at Luther and Luther's famous citation that a Christian is one who is |
1:10.0 | similar, useless, at packet tour. |
1:19.0 | The Latin symbol, we get the English word from it, simultaneous or simultaneously. |
1:28.0 | Justices simply means just or righteous. |
1:35.0 | And at, we all know, is the past tense of the English verb to eat. |
1:45.0 | At least the way my grandmother used it, my grandmother used to always ask me if you are at your lunch yet. |
1:52.0 | And I said, at my lunch. Now, you remember from Shakespeare, Julius Caesar, when Caesar gets stabbed and he falls dead at the base of the statue to whom? |
2:03.0 | Pompey statue, right? And the knife goes in and he says, |
2:08.0 | Help me. At two. Brute. |
2:17.0 | Then what do you say? What do you say then? What do you say then? Carry up, I'm dying up here. |
2:25.0 | Come on, I'm dying here at the base of Pompey statue. At two, Brute, then fall Caesar. |
2:34.0 | And you too, Brutus. Just simply means and. |
2:42.0 | All that, just for that little word. |
2:47.0 | I go through this so that you'll remember these things. |
2:51.0 | Simuliusus, at the same time, just and packet tour. |
2:58.0 | That's the Latin word simply for sinner. |
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