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And you may be seated.

Well, good morning, I am Pastor John Mark.

If you are wondering, I don't know, Pastor Ben had glasses.

I am not he in that is because he is unfortunately sick and not feeling well has not been for the past week has had a fever and we want to be in prayer for his family.

I know he and Elias have had it pretty bad.

So, We are changing our direction for the second week of Advent by necessity, I've Loved Advent, but something else was prepared.

So if you'll give me that Grace so we can move forward as well.

I would like to on a personal note on behalf of myself, my wife and our daughter Haven.

Say, thank you so much for all the gifts of food and a kindness and love and kind words encouragement and prayer.

There is truly no way that we can say, thank you at the sufficiently or in such a way as we have been loved.

I don't know if you guys understand that feeling when one person gives you a gift, you say, thank you.

You are able to make that person feel appreciated when Dozens of people, give you gifts your eyes, get big, and you feel overwhelmed.

And you say, I don't know how to say, thank you.

So, please take it.

Sufficiently, we love you, and we appreciate you, and we feel loved and appreciated.

And please be in prayer for Pastor Ben and his family.

We are hopeful that they will be recovering quickly.

If you would, please pray with me.

And for me this morning, Lord, we are in need of you this morning, we are in need of your piece of your grace.

We are always in need of you and so often we do not acknowledge it.

So often we do not recognize you as we ought to know.

Do we see reality as it is that we see through the lens of sin? Would you give us Grace to hear your word?

Was you speak through me by your grace?

Would you speak to our church?

Would you work?

Because you are active and living in the name of Jesus.

Amen.

I am the state.

These words are said by King Louis, the fourteenth of the 17th century.

He thought a lot of himself, he had the perspective that he was an absolute monarch and he was such, that is an absolute King, The King in which all power resides because he perceived that God himself had given him that position.

If we look through history, we see that that's fairly normal for Kings who like to take power, they say, will God gave it to me.

So if you're questioning me, you're questioning God, he took power and he liked power.

He is known to history as the Sun King.

He had a lot of Art in the Palace of Versailles, which he made as a moderate 700,000 square foot Palace to behold his glory with a few 2300 rooms.

He said this is well my dominant passion.

my dominant passion is certainly Love Of Glory, he was concerned with achieving glory for himself and others knowing that he had it This is fairly normal for Kings.

He sought to expand his territory.

He try to invite invade Spanish territory Dutch territory.

He also perceived that his subjects should do as they're told.

To the point when his kingdom was under.

Attack.

He sent out a letter to all of his subjects and he said, please, please would you, and enlist they were half-starved.

Their country was in defense of itself and they came to his Aid and half-starved that he defended against the invading armies Kings need kingdoms and kingdoms need Kings.

We don't get to choose whether or not kingdoms or reality of our world.

They just are.

I'm not going to sit here with you after the service and say so do you want there to be a kingdom in the world?

There just is its reality and perhaps the two realities of our world, the two kingdoms are that of the kingdom of God and the kingdom of sin, and they might be communicated.

There are many kingdoms, but if we take a step back and don't work, look at our world on the micro-level, but on, Macro.

We begin to perceive this reality.

There is the kingdom of God and the kingdom of sin.

King Louis was unrealistic and had an inflated view of himself.

He said he was ordained by God, but by his actions we see that he was not doing what was good or wise and there are many things that he did.

That do not glorify God.

My question for you, what I'd like to explore with you this morning and Romans 6:12 and 14 is what kingdom do you ascribe loyalty Sue and your words in your heart and in your mind in what kingdom are you living in to what kingdom do?

We say we are a part of and what kingdom do?

We actually live as though, we are a part of because so often those two do not align, it is not my work here this morning to convinced you or to condemn you it is my work here this morning to communicate the word of God as its truth revealed and the Holy Spirit will act as he is faithful to do because it's who God Is.

So if you would we stand with me for the reading of God's word from Romans 6 12 to 14. Starting in verse 12 of chapter 6.

In the Book of Romans, let not send their for rain in your mortal body to make you obey.

Its passions, do not present your members descend as instruments for unrighteousness present yourselves to God as those who have been brought from Death to life and your members to God as instruments.

For righteousness, for sin will have no dominion over you since you are not under the law.

But under God, under grace, this is God's word.

Please take a seat.

Sentence for jumping in to what is about the middle of Romans to look at this text, I'd like to give us a little contacts.

When we read the text, we should have some contacts.

The Book of Romans is being written to the church at Rome by the Apostle.

Paul, the Gentiles for the first time is Shore for one of the first times are experiencing the sense of importance that is been so laid on the Jewish people.

The Jews have been expelled by the emperor Claudius and all the Jewish people laughed.

And now, after his death, they are beginning to return until Paul as addressing issues that have come between the Gentiles and the Jews, they tend to have issues and in the church he's expressing what that looks like in the call to the gospel that they need to adhere to.

Intex, truly, we see in chapter 6 that the main thrust is that in Christ.

We die too thin and live for God.

At the beginning of the chapter, Paul is refuting or addressing the antinomian.

You probably use that in a normal day, antinomian hits and only under those who believe that because of God's grace that we are not subject to the law in any way.

Antinomian perceived that because God gives us Grace.

We should actually send more cuz it actually tends to produce God's grace even more and so Paul address them and he said, rhetorically should we send that Grace May abound props and flying?

That's what summer saying.

He rebukes them by saying by no means in other words.

Absolutely not no of course not, that's crazy talk.

That's lunacy.

We have one side or the it's no means those who believe because of God's grace we don't need to live in any certain way and we're all too familiar with legalism.

So the thought is not to reject antinomianism to become a legalistic person.

It's a hold intention.

The reality.

That what we do with our bodies matters, it is not learning Godfrey.

But if we do not live in God's grace, we are not actively.

Living out who we are in Christ.

Luther puts it this way.

Simultaneously, Saint and sinner.

We live in the reality that we are synced of God.

If we are in Christ, we acknowledge that sin, still affects us.

After this part of the chapter, Paul then goes into what this looks like because he is just told them.

If you've been baptized into the death of Christ on the cross, if you been baptized into that Union, then you are also raised to newness of life and that means that you are dead to sin and a life to God.

He says, so in verse 11 of chapter 6 and now we get what that looks like, how that is supposed to play out and there lies.

He says, let not sit in there for rain in your mortal body to make you obey its Passions.

This might also be translated and maybe some of us need to hear it.

Stop letting thin rain.

Kings demand of their subjects, taxes Kings demand of their subjects Kings demand, royalty demands, any idea that we are not in a kingdom is nonsense, it's not reality.

There are two kingdoms, it's not our choice.

The reality is we are in the kingdom of God or under the kingdom of sin.

And it before you disengage and say, I've got this in thing.

Figured out my passions are pretty under control.