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And so the thing that shows a sinner that his desires are unclean is the moral law, those Ten Commandments.
See, the rich young ruler came to Jesus and he said, good master, what shall I do to inherit eternal life?
Jesus immediately reproved his understanding of the word good.
Most people don't know what good is.
They say, I'm a good person.
No, no, no.
You need the moral law to show you're not.
And Jesus gave the rich young ruler five of the Ten Commandments.
Actually, there's another commandment snuck in there that's not one of the commandments.
The words defraud not, Jesus tucked into those commandments, which gives us insight to probably that rich young ruler who was so self-righteous got his money by fraud, probably.
When you say to someone, do you think you'll go to heaven?
They'll say, yeah, I'm going to heaven.
Why is it?
Because you're a good person.
They'll almost certainly say, yes, I'm a good person.
Proverbs says that most every man will proclaim his own goodness.
Why did they do that?
Well, they go about to establish their own righteousness, being ignorant of the righteousness which is of God.
So what we must do is what Jesus did, bring in that moral law, bring in the light of the law, and it shows sinners being exceedingly sinful.
And this is how I do it.