Speaker 1: Two Corinthians one twenty. Last time I was up, we
Speaker 1: talked about the promises of God and we talked about
Speaker 1: activating the promises of God a little bit. And this
Speaker 1: is Passover week? Are you excited about Passover week? This is? Uh?
Speaker 1: You know every week has passed Over week? Those you
Speaker 1: know that, well, it kind of is for us. I mean,
Speaker 1: every week has pass over. Every week is resurrection week.
Speaker 1: Did you know that every moment is Passover moment? Every
Speaker 1: moment is resurrection moment. Come on, That's the way it
Speaker 1: is for a true believer, right. So, I mean, we're
Speaker 1: going to commemorate and we're going to celebrate. But the
Speaker 1: commemorating and celebrating it never stops in our hearts, is it, ever? Right?
Speaker 1: Never stops? Come on? Every moment every day, right, I mean,
Speaker 1: this is we live and move and have our being
Speaker 1: in Him. So, but I was talking about the promise
Speaker 1: of God last time we were together, and how that
Speaker 1: that those promises are accessed in him, that he that
Speaker 1: he was the fulfillment of all that God required of
Speaker 1: mankind ever, and that he he was the one who
Speaker 1: was worthy for the promises to be fulfilled, And how
Speaker 1: that when we're in Him that we can activate those promises.
Speaker 1: And we read such Corinthians one twenty for know how,
Speaker 1: for no matter how many promises God has made, they
Speaker 1: are yes in Christ. And so through him a man
Speaker 1: is spoken by us to the glory of God. For
Speaker 1: no matter how many promises God has made, has God
Speaker 1: made a much promises? How many promise readers in the building,
Speaker 1: any promise readers, any promiskers, any promised lovers? You like
Speaker 1: promises from God. Now, promises weren't made to tease us
Speaker 1: or to tantalize us. Promises were made to be fulfilled. Right. So,
Speaker 1: but there there's usually an equation to a promise. There's
Speaker 1: an equation to that promise if you do your part,
Speaker 1: I do my part. I'd like to do this for you,
Speaker 1: if you do this for me. Right. So, a promise
Speaker 1: is a it's like a contractual relationship. It's got a
Speaker 1: bit of a covenant spin to it, right, And so
Speaker 1: the covenant keeper, Jesus is the covenant keeper. So I
Speaker 1: referred you back to Deuteronomy twenty eight. Last time we
Speaker 1: were together, I took you to do Neuroonomy twenty eight.
Speaker 1: It says that if you will obey and he's talking
Speaker 1: to Israel, he's talking to the children of Israel, and
Speaker 1: he says, if you will obey my law, if you
Speaker 1: will obey my word, then all these blessings will come
Speaker 1: upon you. Right. And he says, you'll be blessed in
Speaker 1: the country, you'll be blessed. In the city, you'll be blessed.
Speaker 1: Going out, you'll be blessed coming in. You'll be blessed.
Speaker 1: In the fruit of your womb. You'll be blessed. In
Speaker 1: your field, You'll be blessed. And it goes on for
Speaker 1: fifteen versus. It's fifteen versus the blessings, but it starts
Speaker 1: by saying, if you obey my word, right, So they
Speaker 1: didn't obey his word. They didn't obey his word, so
Speaker 1: they got into trouble. They got into deep trouble. The
Speaker 1: trouble got worse because they didn't obey his word. And
Speaker 1: you know, this is at the core of humanity is
Speaker 1: we don't want to obey. So Gejesus came to be
Speaker 1: the obeyor Jesus came to be the obeyor Jesus. Jesus
Speaker 1: came to obey fully the word of God. So that's
Speaker 1: why I was telling you if you remember were you
Speaker 1: here two Corinthians one twenty. That's why I was telling you,
Speaker 1: no matter how many promises God has made, they are
Speaker 1: yes and Christ. They are fulfilled in Christ, because he
Speaker 1: came to obey, He came to do what do Interonomy
Speaker 1: twenty eight required of man of these children of Israel
Speaker 1: who should have been covenant keepers because they were not
Speaker 1: ordinary sons of Adam, they were the children of Isral.
Speaker 1: They should have been covenant keepers. But they also fell
Speaker 1: and did not obey, and so the promises weren't fully
Speaker 1: actualized in them, or buy them or through them. This
Speaker 1: is why it says in Hebrews for that they had this.
Speaker 1: They had the good news preached to them as well,
Speaker 1: but they did not mix it with faith, and so
Speaker 1: it did not produce. Now, faith is not some you know,
Speaker 1: I've talked to you a lot about faith. We talked
Speaker 1: about faith to Sundays gooes. I was talking about the
Speaker 1: way we activate the promises of God, and we were
Speaker 1: kind of drawing out of this, you know, for Sewod
Speaker 1: Corinthians one twenty, we activate the promises of God because
Speaker 1: it says and so through him the amen is spoken
Speaker 1: by us the amen is spoken by us. So the
Speaker 1: promises are yes in him, and we come into agreement
Speaker 1: with that, and we we say yes, we say yes,
Speaker 1: we say amen, so be it. And amen doesn't mean
Speaker 1: just so be it to what was said, but it
Speaker 1: means so be it unto me. So God calls us
Speaker 1: into a man that is a yes, because we are
Speaker 1: in him. We are in Christ Jesus right. And so
Speaker 1: I was you this amplifying that element of agreement and
Speaker 1: that element of believing in our heart. But today what
Speaker 1: I want to amplify a little bit is this, this
Speaker 1: calling that we have in him, this calling that we
Speaker 1: have in him that is also critical and key to
Speaker 1: activating the promises of God. And this calling that we
Speaker 1: have in him is to identify with his cross. This
Speaker 1: is Passion week, this is Crucifixion week. And the calling
Speaker 1: that we have in him is to identify with his
Speaker 1: cross and to be co crucified with him. We are
Speaker 1: called to be co crucified with him. In fact, it's
Speaker 1: Galatians two, verse twenty. And you might be familiar with it.
Speaker 1: And I don't know if we have it for the
Speaker 1: screens or how fast we can pop it in. But
Speaker 1: Galatians two twenty if I can find it. I don't
Speaker 1: know if I can find it even but they've got
Speaker 1: it right there. I have been crucified with Christ, and
Speaker 1: I no longer live. I have been crucified with Christ.
Speaker 1: I no longer live. It looks to me like you're
Speaker 1: all alive, anybody in the building alive, but you've been
Speaker 1: crucified with Christ. Paul says he'd been crucified with Christ,
Speaker 1: but he was so much alive. He was writing, how
Speaker 1: is it that his fingers was still working. He was
Speaker 1: moving the quill on the you know, he was somehow
Speaker 1: moving over the parchment, and something was happening. But he says,
Speaker 1: I've been crucified with Christ. Well, if he was crucified
Speaker 1: with Christ. When Christ was crucified, end of story, right
Speaker 1: for three days later, But I mean during the crucifixion
Speaker 1: period there, I mean, that was kind of the end
Speaker 1: of it. So he says, I have been crucified with
Speaker 1: Christ and I no longer live. But Christ lives in
Speaker 1: me and the life that I live that I now
Speaker 1: live in the body. I live by faith in the
Speaker 1: Son of God who loved me and gave himself for me.
Speaker 1: So he's talking about This is like covenant terminology. And
Speaker 1: he's talking about also that this former life, it's a
Speaker 1: former life. I have been crucified with Christ. The old eye,
Speaker 1: the atom eye, that eye that used to exist, the
Speaker 1: former person that existed has been crucified in Christ, crucified
Speaker 1: with Christ. We were co crucified, and I no longer live,
Speaker 1: but I'm still alive. That means the life I'm living
Speaker 1: is because of the spirit of God in me, the
Speaker 1: spirit of Christ in me, because I've been made alive
Speaker 1: in Him. So we're talking about two different people. How
Speaker 1: many of you recognize in you there's two different people.
Speaker 1: There's a B C. And there's an there's an a D. Right,
Speaker 1: there's a there's a there's a before Christ, there's an
Speaker 1: after death. And and this is this is something that
Speaker 1: I want us to talk about today and just kind
Speaker 1: of amplify the day. Is that when we have faith
Speaker 1: in Christ, when we have God word faith, when we
Speaker 1: when we have this amplified faith toward Him, and in
Speaker 1: doing so, we're activating the promises of God, like we
Speaker 1: talked about, and and I'm affirming that. But there's another
Speaker 1: part of this is that that that's really the resurrection
Speaker 1: part of our life. That's the resurrection part of your life.
Speaker 1: That were united with him in death, that we might
Speaker 1: also be united with him in resurrection. And just as
Speaker 1: he was raised from the dead this is Roman chapter
Speaker 1: just as he was raised from the dead, we too
Speaker 1: are raised up in newness of life. This is Roman
Speaker 1: chapter six, verses five through eleven. That whole passage covers
Speaker 1: some thoughts like that. And the key or the critical
Speaker 1: part that I want to emphasize today that I feel
Speaker 1: like the Holy Spirit wants us to amplify in our
Speaker 1: own hearts and our own minds, is that we are
Speaker 1: co crucified with Him. That we can't partake of the glory,
Speaker 1: that we can't partake of the promises. If it's all
Speaker 1: about just promises, if it's all about just glory, if
Speaker 1: it's all about just the whipped cream of glory and
Speaker 1: promises added to our disobedient life, then we can't partake
Speaker 1: of the glory. We will never fully actualize or taste
Speaker 1: of the fullness of what God has if we've just
Speaker 1: thrown being horn of the Spirit on top of our
Speaker 1: errand adam disobedient life. If it's all about our own choices,
Speaker 1: all about our own decisions, all about our independence, all
Speaker 1: about our self will, all about If it's all about us,
Speaker 1: then we really haven't come to the cross. We haven't
Speaker 1: identified with what we're called to in covenant. This is
Speaker 1: a covenant relationship, and Jesus modeled the Covenant for us.
Speaker 1: Jesus modeled the Covenant for us. Now Hebrew's nine to five,
Speaker 1: and I think we might have it. Hebrew's nine to
Speaker 1: five says that he became the mediator, So he's the sacrifice,
Speaker 1: He's the high priest. He is the mediator of a
Speaker 1: new covenant and a better covenant. Luke twenty two. He says,
Speaker 1: this wine that we're about to part take up coming
Speaker 1: into the passover is it's the new Covenant. It's actually
Speaker 1: the shedding of my blood. He was laying down his
Speaker 1: life in forming this new covenant. Right now, we're watching
Speaker 1: President Trump like it or not. Some of us don't
Speaker 1: like it. Some of us are worried about. You know,
Speaker 1: I'm always I'm always yapping about Chinese goods. Now I'm
Speaker 1: a little worried about my Chinese goods. I'm always I'm
Speaker 1: always criticizing anybody buying Chinese goods, including me. Now, I'm like,
Speaker 1: oh boy, I wonder what's gonna happen to my wallet.
Speaker 1: So Missus Wolf and I were having a talk about
Speaker 1: a few chure on Chinese goods when you need to
Speaker 1: purchase right away. Uh. But anyway, but we're watching President
Speaker 1: Trump right now negotiate these tariffs, right, and so he
Speaker 1: has become on behalf of the American people. He has
Speaker 1: become the mediator of a better covenant with all these nations.
Speaker 1: That's the idea. Anyway, that's what we think is happening.
Speaker 1: That's what we hope is happening. Right, anybody hoping, Let's hope,
Speaker 1: Let's hope, let's hope. So he's become the mediator of
Speaker 1: a better covenant, right with all these nations, with better promises. Well,
Speaker 1: this is what Jesus Jesus. It says multiple places, but
Speaker 1: I think Hebrews nine to five is one of them
Speaker 1: that Jesus is a became the mediator of a better covenant.
Speaker 1: And this is a covenant with better promises. So a
Speaker 1: mediator means that. So he's making he's making this covenant
Speaker 1: with God on our behalf. And like there's terms to
Speaker 1: the covenant. There were terms to the covenant. One was restitution.
Speaker 1: One was restitution. He had to pay off our debt,
Speaker 1: so there was restitution. So the sacrifice of his body
Speaker 1: now the ceiling of the covenant. The ceiling of the covenant,
Speaker 1: that was the shedding of his blood. The shedding of
Speaker 1: his blood was the laying down his life completely under
Speaker 1: Father's will. And he's representing us. And we were errant,
Speaker 1: we were rebellious, we were prideful, we were boastful, we
Speaker 1: were we were sinful, we were calloused. And and the
Speaker 1: essence of our sin, the full understanding of our sin,
Speaker 1: is not defined by our sin. The essence of our
Speaker 1: sin is defined by our disobedience. So when you even
Speaker 1: think about your own life and you think about your sinfulness,
Speaker 1: or your sins, or your lack of sin, just remember
Speaker 1: this that that it's it's not the numerical number of sins.
Speaker 1: It's not even the type of sins. It's not how
Speaker 1: many sins, it's not it's not whether you Because look
Speaker 1: at Paul. Paul says, I'm the Hebrew of Hebrews, and
Speaker 1: I've kept the law, but yet I count everything I've
Speaker 1: done as dung. Because keeping the law is counting yourself
Speaker 1: as righteous by not sinning. But the summary of our
Speaker 1: the summary of our sinfulness, is disobedience that we don't
Speaker 1: want to disobey. We don't want to. I mean, we
Speaker 1: don't want to obey. We don't we don't want to
Speaker 1: obey God's desires of us even so much. And you
Speaker 1: know you've experienced it. I don't know you've experienced it
Speaker 1: with yourself, experience it with your children, experience it with
Speaker 1: your spouse. But but Paul says in Roman Chef seven
Speaker 1: that it's so bad that even when I want to
Speaker 1: do something good, if if the word of God tells
Speaker 1: me to do something, then I don't want to do
Speaker 1: it anymore if the law tells you not to do it,
Speaker 1: or if the law tells you to do it. Like
Speaker 1: if somebody tells you, like you, you've got it in
Speaker 1: your heart to give somebody some money, and then somebody
Speaker 1: comes along and says, hey, you got to give them
Speaker 1: some money. You're like, I don't have to give anybody anything.
Speaker 1: Who were you telling me? But you were just thinking
Speaker 1: a moment ago you'd like to give them some money.
Speaker 1: But then when somebody demands you give them the money,
Speaker 1: suddenly like it's it's disobedience. Ephesians two one and two
Speaker 1: says that the spirit of disobedience was implanted in us.
Speaker 1: It literally was deposited when Adam fell the spirit of
Speaker 1: disobedience against the perfection of God, against the perfection of
Speaker 1: his desire against and the law. All the law is
Speaker 1: is the codified desire of God. That's why the law
Speaker 1: is called perfect. In the Psalms, it's called perfect. The
Speaker 1: law of the Lord is perfect. That's why in Roman
Speaker 1: chapter seven, Paul says, the law is holy. Why am
Speaker 1: I bucking against the thing that is holy, the thing
Speaker 1: that is holy that was meant to actually stimulate goodness
Speaker 1: in me? Sin rose up. And when the law says
Speaker 1: thou shalt not covet, I sin revived in my members
Speaker 1: and I suddenly wanted to covet. Does that mean the
Speaker 1: law is unholy? No, Paul says, the law is not unholy.
Speaker 1: The law is good. But it's disobedience in me, disobedience
Speaker 1: in me. And this is when Jesus was negotiating. He
Speaker 1: was the mediator on our behalf, in his humanity, not
Speaker 1: in his divinity. Jesus fully human, fully human. And when
Speaker 1: we think about Jesus, like if you think your intelligent.
Speaker 1: He love somebody if you think you know, if you
Speaker 1: think you know a thing, uh huh uh huh, let's
Speaker 1: just line you up up against Jesus, right. So, I mean,
Speaker 1: we're talking about learned, We're talking about we're talking about perfection.
Speaker 1: We're talking about memory, understanding, We're talking about insight. Counsel.
Speaker 1: That says in Isaiah eleven, the sevenfold spirit of God
Speaker 1: was on him, not in his divinity, in his humanity.
Speaker 1: The spirit of counsel was resting on him. The spirit
Speaker 1: of wisdom was resting on him. We're talking about somebody
Speaker 1: that could make a decision or two. We're talking about
Speaker 1: somebody that could have been independent. We're talking about somebody
Speaker 1: that could have had an independent thought. We're talking about
Speaker 1: somebody who could have been in control. We're talking about
Speaker 1: somebody who you follow what I'm saying. And yet, and
Speaker 1: yet he brought he, He in this mediation, mediating a
Speaker 1: new covenant for us that we would be brought into
Speaker 1: as we yielded ourselves to him. He had to conquer
Speaker 1: in the mediation. He had to conquer the biggest thing
Speaker 1: ever that humanity will ever deal with, disobedience. He had
Speaker 1: to conquer disobedience. This is the suffering he endured, the primary,
Speaker 1: and the first, and the major and the most important
Speaker 1: suffering that he endured. We see it in the garden
Speaker 1: in Matthew twenty six. We see it in first Peter four,
Speaker 1: or me to two you in a minute. The primary
Speaker 1: suffering that he endured that we're called to endure now
Speaker 1: is the suffering of obedience. That he would bring every
Speaker 1: thought to Father, that he would bring every thought to Father,
Speaker 1: that he would subject to every thought to Father. Why
Speaker 1: because in this mediation, Adam had never done it. Adam
Speaker 1: couldn't do it. Adam wouldn't do it. Adam was sold
Speaker 1: to disobedience and would not yield his or her thoughts
Speaker 1: to God, would not obey. And so Jesus, the mediator
Speaker 1: of this new covenant, had to yield every thought to God.
Speaker 1: And he did it on our behalf. But he calls
Speaker 1: us into the same calling. This is the this is
Speaker 1: the this is the this is the sweat on his brow,
Speaker 1: This is the agony in the garden. This is him embracing,
Speaker 1: embracing what Father has called him to do. And we
Speaker 1: say it in Matthew twenty six, I think thirty eight.
Speaker 1: Let's go there real quick, and this is a familiar passage.
Speaker 1: Going a little further, he fell with his face to
Speaker 1: the ground and prayed, my Father, if it is possible,
Speaker 1: may this cup be taken from me? Yet not as
Speaker 1: I will, but as you will. Now we know that
Speaker 1: as like this famous this famous prayer. Nevertheless, not my will,
Speaker 1: but yours be done. And you'll notice too. And Luke,
Speaker 1: it says, no one takes my life from me, but
Speaker 1: I lay it down. Why because this was part of
Speaker 1: the mediation. God's not going to take your life from you.
Speaker 1: You have to lay it down. This is part of
Speaker 1: the mediation. Part of the mediation on our behalf is
Speaker 1: that he would become that gentle lamb, that he would
Speaker 1: become that submitted one, that he would become that yielded one,
Speaker 1: and in doing so bridge the gap and make this
Speaker 1: covenant with Father on our behalf, that we could be
Speaker 1: brought in, that we could receive the spirit, we could
Speaker 1: receive a heart of flesh, and that we too, then
Speaker 1: would bring our lives, that we would bring our disobedience
Speaker 1: to the cross, and that we would be co crucified
Speaker 1: with him, co crucified with him. Let's go over to
Speaker 1: the first Peter chapter four. I want you to see that,
Speaker 1: and then I want to go to Romans eight. A
Speaker 1: lot of times I quote out of Romans eight, I
Speaker 1: quote the juicy parts of Romans eight, but we forget
Speaker 1: about the hard parts. So today I'm going to talk
Speaker 1: about the hard part, not just the juicy part. First
Speaker 1: Peter four. Therefore, since Christ separate in his body, arm
Speaker 1: yourselves also with the same attitude, because whoever supped in
Speaker 1: the body is done with sin. Now this is interesting.
Speaker 1: He's talking about he's talking about arm yourselves. This is interesting.
Speaker 1: Arm yourselves. Arm yourselves against the devil, Arm yourselves against
Speaker 1: the curse, Arm yourselves against wickedness, Arm yourselves against darkness.
Speaker 1: Arm yourselves. Arm yourselves out through suffering, through suffering by
Speaker 1: not feeding your flesh, by coming into disobedience to Holy Spirit.
Speaker 1: Arm yourselves, Arm yourself, because this is what he did.
Speaker 1: He's suffered in the flesh, is what it says in
Speaker 1: the body here, But it's sarks in the Greek. It's
Speaker 1: the flesh. It's the flesh nature. The NIV doesn't do
Speaker 1: a true justice. It's not just the suffering in the body.
Speaker 1: It's not like it's oh yeah, he went without a
Speaker 1: meal or two or oh yeah, that's what when he
Speaker 1: had his forty days. No, no, no, he lived a
Speaker 1: life of moment by moment, being armed against the flesh,
Speaker 1: by suffering and not disobeying Holy Spirit, submitting and subjecting
Speaker 1: every thought to God and bringing his thoughts we'll talk
Speaker 1: about it in a moment out of Southern Corinthians, chapter ten,
Speaker 1: bringing his thoughts into subjection to God. We're called to
Speaker 1: bring our thoughts into subjection to Christ. He brought his
Speaker 1: every thought into subjection to God. This is actually spiritual warfare.
Speaker 1: He was engaging daily and moment by moment in spiritual warfare.
Speaker 1: He didn't take up his cross in the end. Only
Speaker 1: he was taking up his cross daily, the cross of
Speaker 1: not asserting my will, having it my way, not staying
Speaker 1: in control, not being in charge of everything. No, the
Speaker 1: Father is in charge. The Father is leaving me, the
Speaker 1: Father is calling me, the Father is directing me. I'm
Speaker 1: subjecting every thought to the Father. Have the same attitude
Speaker 1: in you, because whoever suffers in the flesh is done
Speaker 1: with sin. As a result, they do not live the
Speaker 1: rest of their earthly lives for evil human desires, but
Speaker 1: rather for the will of God. Who do they live for?
Speaker 1: Who do they live for? Who do they live for?
Speaker 1: Who they live for the will of He says, Jesus
Speaker 1: did this as an example. Jesus did this as an example.
Speaker 1: And we are called to arm ourselves in the same
Speaker 1: way that we would. We would present ourselves as dead
Speaker 1: to the old life, dead to the adam life, dead
Speaker 1: to the desires of the old life, dead to self government,
Speaker 1: self will, dead to disobedience, dead to pride and rebellion.
Speaker 1: Look at uh, go over to uh. Let's let's go.
Speaker 1: I'm Romans eight. Here we go, Romans eight seventeen. I
Speaker 1: like to quote the juicy parts out of this Romans
Speaker 1: eight passage where it says, you know that the whole
Speaker 1: earth is groaning for the sons of God to be manifest,
Speaker 1: you know. And I like to get us all excited
Speaker 1: about that stuff. And it's true. It's good that we
Speaker 1: are called, and Joe is talking about it during the offering,
Speaker 1: that we are called Royal Team, we're called the sons
Speaker 1: of God, we're called the heirs of God. That the
Speaker 1: earth is groaning for us to manifest our redemption. Essentially, right,
Speaker 1: that's all good. That's all the juicy parts Verse seventeen. Now,
Speaker 1: if we are sons of God, if we are children,
Speaker 1: then we are heirs errors of God and coheres with Christ.
Speaker 1: Heirs of God, coheres with Christ. We are heirs of
Speaker 1: the fullness of the Spirit. We are heirs of righteousness.
Speaker 1: We are heirs of this earth. We are He's inherited
Speaker 1: the earth by virtue of his victory over darkness and
Speaker 1: this covenant that He's made, So we are heirs. We
Speaker 1: are heirs of God coheres with Christ if indeed, we
Speaker 1: share in his sufferings in order that we may share
Speaker 1: in His glory. So death precedes resurrection. And it's it's
Speaker 1: not a one time thing. It's not like you can
Speaker 1: just die now. We're gonna have water baptism next week.
Speaker 1: And according to Roman chapter six and Colossians and all
Speaker 1: sorts of passages, we're told that water baptism is your
Speaker 1: entry into death. It's significant if you haven't been water baptized.
Speaker 1: Water baptism is not for people that are going to die.
Speaker 1: By the way, if you plan on the next Sunday
Speaker 1: Easter Sunday, we'll have water baptism. But if you planned
Speaker 1: on dying next Sunday, not spiritually. Literally, if you plan
Speaker 1: on dying, you don't need to be water baptized. You'ld
Speaker 1: be fine. Water baptism is people. Is for people who
Speaker 1: plan on living. If you plan on living, then you
Speaker 1: really want to get out of Adam and you want
Speaker 1: to get into Christ, and so you need a burial service.
Speaker 1: The water baptism is a burial service. It's a literal spiritual.
Speaker 1: It's not figurative. It's not like a game. It is
Speaker 1: a literal spiritual. It is a burial service. And we
Speaker 1: put Adam to death, We put the and we put
Speaker 1: our obligation to Adam, and we put our disobedience to Adam,
Speaker 1: and we put we put everything about Adam to death
Speaker 1: in the waters of baptism to burial service. This is
Speaker 1: Drawman chapter six. To burial service. But we're called the resurrection.
Speaker 1: And he says that we are heirs of God and
Speaker 1: co ers with Christ if indeed we share in his sufferings.
Speaker 1: Now what are the sufferings? It's the sufferings I'm talking
Speaker 1: about the primary suffering that He's called us to share him,
Speaker 1: the first, the primary It will be later today. A
Speaker 1: moment by moment is going to be the primary it's
Speaker 1: going to This is going to happen several times the
Speaker 1: rest of this day. Today. It's the suffering of obedience.
Speaker 1: And it's not just the suffering of obedience like distance obedience.
Speaker 1: It's the suffering of obedience to the point of yearning
Speaker 1: to obey. It's the point of yearning to obey like
Speaker 1: wanting to include. So the soft heart, Jeremiah says, I'll
Speaker 1: make a new covenant with them. And when I make
Speaker 1: a new covenant with them, I'm going to pull out
Speaker 1: their heart of stone and I'm going to put in
Speaker 1: a heart of flesh. That means that when we are
Speaker 1: co crucified with them and we receive the Holy Spirit,
Speaker 1: then we begin to think about how to include him.
Speaker 1: We begin to think about thoughts that please him. We
Speaker 1: begin to bring him into every realm. We aren't ignoring him.
Speaker 1: The life of the resurrected believer is the right life
Speaker 1: of including him. Right, I'm not I'm not trying to
Speaker 1: ignore him. I'm trying to include him. And this is
Speaker 1: part of part of why we have Uh. You know,
Speaker 1: you can have devotions in the morning, right, anybody ever
Speaker 1: had devotions in the morning, any morning devotion. People, you
Speaker 1: can have devotions in the morning, but how many of
Speaker 1: you know you're not done. How many of you know
Speaker 1: your relationship with God is not some summarized by devotion,
Speaker 1: by a devotion, by devotions in the morning, that your
Speaker 1: relationship with Him is throughout the day, that we're constantly
Speaker 1: in this relationship with Him. We're feeding on the spirit.
Speaker 1: Were led by the spirit, the sons of God. It
Speaker 1: goes on to say here that the sons of God
Speaker 1: are those who are led by the Spirit of God.
Speaker 1: It's an ongoing relationship, and there there's literally times throughout
Speaker 1: the day where you embrace the cross again, like something
Speaker 1: happens and somebody cuts you off, and then somebody says
Speaker 1: something harsh, and then there's a chance to get offended.
Speaker 1: And there's this, that and the other thing. And you're
Speaker 1: constantly bringing that endemic nature to the cross and presenting
Speaker 1: it crucified, and you're leaning into Holy Spirit, and you're
Speaker 1: activating Holy Spirit, and you're coming into agreement with Holy
Speaker 1: Spirit that you are that resurrected person. You are that
Speaker 1: new creation person. You are that one who is in
Speaker 1: the second atom. You're not that one who is in
Speaker 1: the first atom. Let's govern the Second Corinthians, chapter ten.
Speaker 1: We're so familiar with that passage most of us, and
Speaker 1: so many of us are familiar with that passage because
Speaker 1: of restored life. And I'll use that passage. Any of
Speaker 1: us there are that are beaten up devils will use
Speaker 1: this passage. But I want you to see this passage
Speaker 1: in light of what we're talking about. That the suffering
Speaker 1: that we're called to is the suffering to bring disobedience
Speaker 1: to the cross and to put disobedience to death. And
Speaker 1: this is what Jesus did as he negotiated as the
Speaker 1: mediator of the New Covenant. This is what Jesus did,
Speaker 1: not only in the Garden Matthew twenty six, but this
Speaker 1: is what Jesus did throughout his life, throughout his life.
Speaker 1: So even his expression in Matthew twenty six in the Garden, nevertheless,
Speaker 1: not my will, but yours be done, he had been
Speaker 1: saying that for thirty three years. This was his life.
Speaker 1: Tewod Trinthens, Chapter ten, three through five. The weapons we
Speaker 1: fight with are not the weapons of the world. Did
Speaker 1: you start a verse three? Huh? Go back to verse three, Oh,
Speaker 1: there is there is there. I got ahead for though
Speaker 1: we live in the world. We do not wage war
Speaker 1: as the world does. So let's talk about that for
Speaker 1: a minute. Waging war, because we've introduced this idea first,
Speaker 1: Peter four, arm yourselves this war. It's a war. It's
Speaker 1: a war to be bringing like our war is to
Speaker 1: overcome darkness and to overcome the enemy and to overcome
Speaker 1: the curse. That's our war. But the weapons that we
Speaker 1: have are to suffer. The weapon that we have is obedience,
Speaker 1: and to arm ourselves with this weapon of obedience, wherein
Speaker 1: we will not disobey the Holy Spirit, and we will
Speaker 1: include him in all that we are and all that
Speaker 1: we do. So let's keep it in that context instead
Speaker 1: of today, instead of that context of beating up principalities
Speaker 1: and powers, I want to keep it in the near
Speaker 1: context of beating up everything that wants to get in
Speaker 1: the way of the glory that God has for my life.
Speaker 1: Go back to it. So, though we live in the world,
Speaker 1: we do not wage war as the world does. The
Speaker 1: weapons we fight with are not the weapons of the world.
Speaker 1: On the contrary, they have divine power to demolish strongholds.
Speaker 1: Where are the first strongholds that I'm concerned about? They're
Speaker 1: in me. We demolish arguments. Oh, this is interesting. We
Speaker 1: demolish arguments and every pretension or imagination that sets itself
Speaker 1: up against the knowledge of God. And we take captive
Speaker 1: every thought to make it obedient to Christ. Wow, now
Speaker 1: this is interesting. This is really wild. And we're talking
Speaker 1: about a Coro crucifixion. We want a co glory, we
Speaker 1: want a co resurrection, but it can't happen without a
Speaker 1: co crucifixion. And he says, and I think this is
Speaker 1: interesting that the Holy Spirit was highlighting this to me
Speaker 1: with conviction. No, we don't just bring our sinful thoughts.
Speaker 1: It doesn't say and we and we take captive every
Speaker 1: sinful thought. That's what I tend to do. Can I
Speaker 1: just be honest, anybody in the building, are you listening,
Speaker 1: don't record this part. What I tend to do is
Speaker 1: I take captive every sinful thought. So if I if
Speaker 1: I know a thought is sinful, I'm working on that
Speaker 1: one right there. You know, don't do that, don't do that,
Speaker 1: don't do that, don't do that. I'm thinking captive every
Speaker 1: sinful thought. But no, this is a relationship of covenant
Speaker 1: submission and covenant unity. This is a relationship of common union. Hello, somebody,
Speaker 1: I mean, this relationship is so close. You think you're
Speaker 1: close with your spouse, This relationship is so much closer,
Speaker 1: but so much similar. That he says that the weapons
Speaker 1: of our warfare are to bring every thought into captivity.
Speaker 1: Bring every thought, not just our sinful thoughts, bring every
Speaker 1: thought into captivity, and submit those thoughts to our husband,
Speaker 1: to our marriage partner, to the one who covers us,
Speaker 1: the one who made this covenant on our behalf with father,
Speaker 1: and that we've entered into. We've entered into that covenant.
Speaker 1: The only way we can enter into a covenant is
Speaker 1: we have to die to ourselves. We have to die.
Speaker 1: A covenant is a death expression. You know that, marriage partners,
Speaker 1: how's it working out for you when you try to
Speaker 1: keep your life? Those of you that got married you,
Speaker 1: you didn't know you were getting married to die. Nobody
Speaker 1: told you that. You thought you thought it was wedded bliss.
Speaker 1: Well it is wedded bliss if you die. But if
Speaker 1: you don't die, then it's wedded misery. You have to die.
Speaker 1: That's what a covenant is all about. A covenant is
Speaker 1: all about death. A covenant is all about because in
Speaker 1: death you're essentially giving the fullness of you, Like there's
Speaker 1: no greater sacrifice than laid down your life for the
Speaker 1: other person. So that's what a covenant symbolizes, that I
Speaker 1: no longer live for you. I live I mean for me.
Speaker 1: I live for you. So I'm laying my life fully
Speaker 1: down and trusting it will result in resurrection. The stand
Speaker 1: is worn. Let's just pray together, heads bowed, eyes closed,
Speaker 1: just for a moment. And that's the destiny theme to
Speaker 1: come and help us up front. The riches of his inheritance,
Speaker 1: the powers of the age to come, the glory of Heaven,
Speaker 1: the manifestation of the promises of God. They aren't whit
Speaker 1: cream just to be thrown on top of your already
Speaker 1: hon rebellious, self, willed, disobedient self. If that's the Christianity
Speaker 1: you're looking for, you're looking in the wrong place. It
Speaker 1: won't work. It won't work. Your opinions don't matter. Your
Speaker 1: opinions don't matter. My opinions don't matter. His opinion is
Speaker 1: the only opinion that matters. And when I come to Jesus,
Speaker 1: I have to give up my life to enter into
Speaker 1: the covenant that he gave up his life to make
Speaker 1: on my behalf. If you're here this morning and you
Speaker 1: just Holy spirits calling you to a deeper place. Now,
Speaker 1: I want you to just, with our heads a bowed
Speaker 1: and eyes clothes, I want you to just examine your
Speaker 1: life for a moment. Is there something you're keeping from him?
Speaker 1: Is there something you're not even allowing him into? Are
Speaker 1: there thoughts in your world? They aren't even sinful thoughts
Speaker 1: in your understanding, but you don't include him in them?
Speaker 1: Are their opinions you're making, even about church, religion, ministry, life, culture, family, money, serving.
Speaker 1: Are there opinions you're making where you haven't invited him in.
Speaker 1: That's called independence, that's called self will. And you don't
Speaker 1: know it, but you're limiting your glory. You're harming resurrection life.
Speaker 1: You're quenching the glory to be revealed in you, every
Speaker 1: one of us by keeping a little bit of the
Speaker 1: old life alive. So, Holy Spirit, we ask you right
Speaker 1: now just calm and rest upon all of us. Let
Speaker 1: your conviction rest upon us, as you call us to royalty,
Speaker 1: as you've knitted to the beloved, as we've joined our
Speaker 1: heart to you, Holy Spirit, Come even as we go
Speaker 1: into this week, and we commemorate the death of the Song.
Speaker 1: Let us not look at it this week without seeing
Speaker 1: that we are co crucified with them. That all of
Speaker 1: our stubbornness, all of our independence, all of our self will,
Speaker 1: all of our opinions, they were brought to the cross
Speaker 1: and placed on the cross with him. And the only
Speaker 1: way for us to participate and receive and partake of
Speaker 1: resurrection is by leaving all of those there right at
Speaker 1: that cross quickness. Today, we're gonna worship as we go.
Speaker 1: I invite you to come and be prayed for. We've
Speaker 1: got a lot of stuff going on. We're an active body.
Speaker 1: We're gonna have a little meet and greet if you're
Speaker 1: newer with us, right back at the my church wall.
Speaker 1: So if you're newer to our body, we welcome come
Speaker 1: back and have a cookie with us at the meet
Speaker 1: at the my church wall. Then we've got the nacho
Speaker 1: bar going. But you know, I don't run out of
Speaker 1: here without praying or just being prayed for the Holy
Speaker 1: Spirit touching you and talking to you about drawing near
Speaker 1: to Him through the suffering of obedience. Then come and
Speaker 1: be prayed for today, and God bless you. We love
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