WEBVTT 1 00:00:00.480 --> 00:00:04.440 Two Corinthians one twenty. Last time I was up, we 2 00:00:04.519 --> 00:00:08.919 talked about the promises of God and we talked about 3 00:00:08.960 --> 00:00:13.240 activating the promises of God a little bit. And this 4 00:00:13.359 --> 00:00:18.160 is Passover week? Are you excited about Passover week? This is? Uh? 5 00:00:18.239 --> 00:00:20.120 You know every week has passed Over week? Those you 6 00:00:20.160 --> 00:00:24.960 know that, well, it kind of is for us. I mean, 7 00:00:25.039 --> 00:00:27.960 every week has pass over. Every week is resurrection week. 8 00:00:28.000 --> 00:00:31.960 Did you know that every moment is Passover moment? Every 9 00:00:32.000 --> 00:00:35.520 moment is resurrection moment. Come on, That's the way it 10 00:00:35.600 --> 00:00:38.520 is for a true believer, right. So, I mean, we're 11 00:00:38.520 --> 00:00:43.200 going to commemorate and we're going to celebrate. But the 12 00:00:43.359 --> 00:00:48.560 commemorating and celebrating it never stops in our hearts, is it, ever? Right? 13 00:00:49.320 --> 00:00:54.039 Never stops? Come on? Every moment every day, right, I mean, 14 00:00:54.039 --> 00:00:56.880 this is we live and move and have our being 15 00:00:56.960 --> 00:00:59.920 in Him. So, but I was talking about the promise 16 00:01:00.280 --> 00:01:06.200 of God last time we were together, and how that 17 00:01:06.200 --> 00:01:11.599 that those promises are accessed in him, that he that 18 00:01:11.719 --> 00:01:19.040 he was the fulfillment of all that God required of 19 00:01:19.079 --> 00:01:26.079 mankind ever, and that he he was the one who 20 00:01:26.200 --> 00:01:31.959 was worthy for the promises to be fulfilled, And how 21 00:01:32.040 --> 00:01:36.560 that when we're in Him that we can activate those promises. 22 00:01:37.640 --> 00:01:43.920 And we read such Corinthians one twenty for know how, 23 00:01:44.519 --> 00:01:49.079 for no matter how many promises God has made, they 24 00:01:49.120 --> 00:01:57.079 are yes in Christ. And so through him a man 25 00:01:57.719 --> 00:02:04.879 is spoken by us to the glory of God. For 26 00:02:04.959 --> 00:02:08.319 no matter how many promises God has made, has God 27 00:02:08.360 --> 00:02:12.479 made a much promises? How many promise readers in the building, 28 00:02:12.599 --> 00:02:17.759 any promise readers, any promiskers, any promised lovers? You like 29 00:02:17.800 --> 00:02:21.840 promises from God. Now, promises weren't made to tease us 30 00:02:21.960 --> 00:02:27.479 or to tantalize us. Promises were made to be fulfilled. Right. So, 31 00:02:27.759 --> 00:02:32.439 but there there's usually an equation to a promise. There's 32 00:02:32.479 --> 00:02:37.080 an equation to that promise if you do your part, 33 00:02:37.240 --> 00:02:39.560 I do my part. I'd like to do this for you, 34 00:02:39.919 --> 00:02:43.479 if you do this for me. Right. So, a promise 35 00:02:43.680 --> 00:02:47.199 is a it's like a contractual relationship. It's got a 36 00:02:47.199 --> 00:02:50.840 bit of a covenant spin to it, right, And so 37 00:02:52.240 --> 00:02:56.039 the covenant keeper, Jesus is the covenant keeper. So I 38 00:02:56.159 --> 00:02:59.000 referred you back to Deuteronomy twenty eight. Last time we 39 00:02:59.000 --> 00:03:00.879 were together, I took you to do Neuroonomy twenty eight. 40 00:03:00.919 --> 00:03:04.159 It says that if you will obey and he's talking 41 00:03:04.199 --> 00:03:06.680 to Israel, he's talking to the children of Israel, and 42 00:03:06.680 --> 00:03:10.240 he says, if you will obey my law, if you 43 00:03:10.280 --> 00:03:15.039 will obey my word, then all these blessings will come 44 00:03:15.159 --> 00:03:18.120 upon you. Right. And he says, you'll be blessed in 45 00:03:18.159 --> 00:03:20.800 the country, you'll be blessed. In the city, you'll be blessed. 46 00:03:20.840 --> 00:03:23.840 Going out, you'll be blessed coming in. You'll be blessed. 47 00:03:23.840 --> 00:03:25.800 In the fruit of your womb. You'll be blessed. In 48 00:03:25.840 --> 00:03:28.120 your field, You'll be blessed. And it goes on for 49 00:03:28.240 --> 00:03:32.759 fifteen versus. It's fifteen versus the blessings, but it starts 50 00:03:32.759 --> 00:03:38.680 by saying, if you obey my word, right, So they 51 00:03:38.680 --> 00:03:45.159 didn't obey his word. They didn't obey his word, so 52 00:03:45.199 --> 00:03:47.520 they got into trouble. They got into deep trouble. The 53 00:03:47.560 --> 00:03:52.599 trouble got worse because they didn't obey his word. And 54 00:03:53.159 --> 00:03:56.840 you know, this is at the core of humanity is 55 00:03:56.960 --> 00:04:01.080 we don't want to obey. So Gejesus came to be 56 00:04:01.319 --> 00:04:09.319 the obeyor Jesus came to be the obeyor Jesus. Jesus 57 00:04:09.360 --> 00:04:14.479 came to obey fully the word of God. So that's 58 00:04:14.479 --> 00:04:16.519 why I was telling you if you remember were you 59 00:04:16.519 --> 00:04:20.319 here two Corinthians one twenty. That's why I was telling you, 60 00:04:20.399 --> 00:04:22.959 no matter how many promises God has made, they are 61 00:04:23.319 --> 00:04:28.360 yes and Christ. They are fulfilled in Christ, because he 62 00:04:28.879 --> 00:04:33.920 came to obey, He came to do what do Interonomy 63 00:04:34.000 --> 00:04:40.759 twenty eight required of man of these children of Israel 64 00:04:41.160 --> 00:04:44.319 who should have been covenant keepers because they were not 65 00:04:44.519 --> 00:04:48.399 ordinary sons of Adam, they were the children of Isral. 66 00:04:48.399 --> 00:04:53.519 They should have been covenant keepers. But they also fell 67 00:04:54.000 --> 00:04:58.079 and did not obey, and so the promises weren't fully 68 00:04:58.439 --> 00:05:01.920 actualized in them, or buy them or through them. This 69 00:05:01.959 --> 00:05:05.639 is why it says in Hebrews for that they had this. 70 00:05:06.160 --> 00:05:08.920 They had the good news preached to them as well, 71 00:05:09.240 --> 00:05:11.839 but they did not mix it with faith, and so 72 00:05:11.959 --> 00:05:16.839 it did not produce. Now, faith is not some you know, 73 00:05:17.079 --> 00:05:18.720 I've talked to you a lot about faith. We talked 74 00:05:18.720 --> 00:05:21.480 about faith to Sundays gooes. I was talking about the 75 00:05:21.519 --> 00:05:24.639 way we activate the promises of God, and we were 76 00:05:24.720 --> 00:05:27.079 kind of drawing out of this, you know, for Sewod 77 00:05:27.120 --> 00:05:30.360 Corinthians one twenty, we activate the promises of God because 78 00:05:30.399 --> 00:05:36.079 it says and so through him the amen is spoken 79 00:05:37.279 --> 00:05:44.920 by us the amen is spoken by us. So the 80 00:05:45.000 --> 00:05:49.959 promises are yes in him, and we come into agreement 81 00:05:50.000 --> 00:05:52.560 with that, and we we say yes, we say yes, 82 00:05:52.600 --> 00:05:55.519 we say amen, so be it. And amen doesn't mean 83 00:05:55.600 --> 00:05:58.079 just so be it to what was said, but it 84 00:05:58.120 --> 00:06:03.680 means so be it unto me. So God calls us 85 00:06:03.680 --> 00:06:08.639 into a man that is a yes, because we are 86 00:06:08.959 --> 00:06:12.800 in him. We are in Christ Jesus right. And so 87 00:06:13.079 --> 00:06:18.319 I was you this amplifying that element of agreement and 88 00:06:18.360 --> 00:06:22.160 that element of believing in our heart. But today what 89 00:06:22.240 --> 00:06:27.920 I want to amplify a little bit is this, this 90 00:06:28.079 --> 00:06:31.839 calling that we have in him, this calling that we 91 00:06:32.000 --> 00:06:36.439 have in him that is also critical and key to 92 00:06:36.720 --> 00:06:39.879 activating the promises of God. And this calling that we 93 00:06:39.959 --> 00:06:44.839 have in him is to identify with his cross. This 94 00:06:44.920 --> 00:06:50.639 is Passion week, this is Crucifixion week. And the calling 95 00:06:50.680 --> 00:06:54.800 that we have in him is to identify with his 96 00:06:54.959 --> 00:07:01.079 cross and to be co crucified with him. We are 97 00:07:01.120 --> 00:07:04.360 called to be co crucified with him. In fact, it's 98 00:07:04.399 --> 00:07:08.040 Galatians two, verse twenty. And you might be familiar with it. 99 00:07:08.399 --> 00:07:09.759 And I don't know if we have it for the 100 00:07:09.800 --> 00:07:12.399 screens or how fast we can pop it in. But 101 00:07:12.639 --> 00:07:15.480 Galatians two twenty if I can find it. I don't 102 00:07:15.480 --> 00:07:18.000 know if I can find it even but they've got 103 00:07:18.000 --> 00:07:22.000 it right there. I have been crucified with Christ, and 104 00:07:22.160 --> 00:07:26.120 I no longer live. I have been crucified with Christ. 105 00:07:26.360 --> 00:07:28.759 I no longer live. It looks to me like you're 106 00:07:28.800 --> 00:07:32.160 all alive, anybody in the building alive, but you've been 107 00:07:32.199 --> 00:07:35.319 crucified with Christ. Paul says he'd been crucified with Christ, 108 00:07:35.800 --> 00:07:40.720 but he was so much alive. He was writing, how 109 00:07:40.800 --> 00:07:42.680 is it that his fingers was still working. He was 110 00:07:42.759 --> 00:07:46.560 moving the quill on the you know, he was somehow 111 00:07:46.839 --> 00:07:51.199 moving over the parchment, and something was happening. But he says, 112 00:07:51.199 --> 00:07:53.399 I've been crucified with Christ. Well, if he was crucified 113 00:07:53.399 --> 00:07:59.079 with Christ. When Christ was crucified, end of story, right 114 00:08:00.160 --> 00:08:02.879 for three days later, But I mean during the crucifixion 115 00:08:02.920 --> 00:08:04.439 period there, I mean, that was kind of the end 116 00:08:04.439 --> 00:08:06.720 of it. So he says, I have been crucified with 117 00:08:06.800 --> 00:08:09.920 Christ and I no longer live. But Christ lives in 118 00:08:09.959 --> 00:08:13.279 me and the life that I live that I now 119 00:08:13.439 --> 00:08:15.680 live in the body. I live by faith in the 120 00:08:15.680 --> 00:08:18.519 Son of God who loved me and gave himself for me. 121 00:08:18.959 --> 00:08:22.720 So he's talking about This is like covenant terminology. And 122 00:08:22.759 --> 00:08:27.160 he's talking about also that this former life, it's a 123 00:08:27.439 --> 00:08:32.600 former life. I have been crucified with Christ. The old eye, 124 00:08:32.919 --> 00:08:38.159 the atom eye, that eye that used to exist, the 125 00:08:38.200 --> 00:08:44.480 former person that existed has been crucified in Christ, crucified 126 00:08:44.519 --> 00:08:48.919 with Christ. We were co crucified, and I no longer live, 127 00:08:50.600 --> 00:08:54.519 but I'm still alive. That means the life I'm living 128 00:08:54.759 --> 00:08:57.279 is because of the spirit of God in me, the 129 00:08:57.279 --> 00:09:00.639 spirit of Christ in me, because I've been made alive 130 00:09:01.000 --> 00:09:04.559 in Him. So we're talking about two different people. How 131 00:09:04.559 --> 00:09:06.720 many of you recognize in you there's two different people. 132 00:09:07.559 --> 00:09:10.559 There's a B C. And there's an there's an a D. Right, 133 00:09:10.600 --> 00:09:13.080 there's a there's a there's a before Christ, there's an 134 00:09:13.120 --> 00:09:16.600 after death. And and this is this is something that 135 00:09:16.639 --> 00:09:18.519 I want us to talk about today and just kind 136 00:09:18.559 --> 00:09:24.200 of amplify the day. Is that when we have faith 137 00:09:24.320 --> 00:09:27.039 in Christ, when we have God word faith, when we 138 00:09:27.399 --> 00:09:30.840 when we have this amplified faith toward Him, and in 139 00:09:30.960 --> 00:09:34.039 doing so, we're activating the promises of God, like we 140 00:09:34.120 --> 00:09:37.879 talked about, and and I'm affirming that. But there's another 141 00:09:38.000 --> 00:09:42.120 part of this is that that that's really the resurrection 142 00:09:42.320 --> 00:09:47.799 part of our life. That's the resurrection part of your life. 143 00:09:48.799 --> 00:09:53.440 That were united with him in death, that we might 144 00:09:53.519 --> 00:09:57.480 also be united with him in resurrection. And just as 145 00:09:57.559 --> 00:10:00.000 he was raised from the dead this is Roman chapter 146 00:10:00.840 --> 00:10:03.720 just as he was raised from the dead, we too 147 00:10:04.080 --> 00:10:07.759 are raised up in newness of life. This is Roman 148 00:10:07.879 --> 00:10:11.919 chapter six, verses five through eleven. That whole passage covers 149 00:10:11.960 --> 00:10:16.879 some thoughts like that. And the key or the critical 150 00:10:17.039 --> 00:10:20.240 part that I want to emphasize today that I feel 151 00:10:20.240 --> 00:10:24.240 like the Holy Spirit wants us to amplify in our 152 00:10:24.320 --> 00:10:28.000 own hearts and our own minds, is that we are 153 00:10:28.039 --> 00:10:33.559 co crucified with Him. That we can't partake of the glory, 154 00:10:33.919 --> 00:10:37.320 that we can't partake of the promises. If it's all 155 00:10:37.360 --> 00:10:41.799 about just promises, if it's all about just glory, if 156 00:10:41.840 --> 00:10:43.960 it's all about just the whipped cream of glory and 157 00:10:44.039 --> 00:10:51.360 promises added to our disobedient life, then we can't partake 158 00:10:51.360 --> 00:10:55.960 of the glory. We will never fully actualize or taste 159 00:10:56.000 --> 00:10:59.200 of the fullness of what God has if we've just 160 00:10:59.279 --> 00:11:02.480 thrown being horn of the Spirit on top of our 161 00:11:02.639 --> 00:11:08.120 errand adam disobedient life. If it's all about our own choices, 162 00:11:08.159 --> 00:11:11.279 all about our own decisions, all about our independence, all 163 00:11:11.279 --> 00:11:15.120 about our self will, all about If it's all about us, 164 00:11:16.159 --> 00:11:19.679 then we really haven't come to the cross. We haven't 165 00:11:19.759 --> 00:11:23.399 identified with what we're called to in covenant. This is 166 00:11:23.440 --> 00:11:29.279 a covenant relationship, and Jesus modeled the Covenant for us. 167 00:11:30.679 --> 00:11:33.679 Jesus modeled the Covenant for us. Now Hebrew's nine to five, 168 00:11:33.720 --> 00:11:35.799 and I think we might have it. Hebrew's nine to 169 00:11:35.879 --> 00:11:41.840 five says that he became the mediator, So he's the sacrifice, 170 00:11:42.720 --> 00:11:48.559 He's the high priest. He is the mediator of a 171 00:11:48.879 --> 00:11:53.639 new covenant and a better covenant. Luke twenty two. He says, 172 00:11:53.720 --> 00:11:57.240 this wine that we're about to part take up coming 173 00:11:57.240 --> 00:12:02.799 into the passover is it's the new Covenant. It's actually 174 00:12:02.840 --> 00:12:06.759 the shedding of my blood. He was laying down his 175 00:12:07.159 --> 00:12:11.639 life in forming this new covenant. Right now, we're watching 176 00:12:11.679 --> 00:12:14.559 President Trump like it or not. Some of us don't 177 00:12:14.600 --> 00:12:16.519 like it. Some of us are worried about. You know, 178 00:12:16.679 --> 00:12:23.120 I'm always I'm always yapping about Chinese goods. Now I'm 179 00:12:23.159 --> 00:12:28.519 a little worried about my Chinese goods. I'm always I'm 180 00:12:28.559 --> 00:12:35.399 always criticizing anybody buying Chinese goods, including me. Now, I'm like, 181 00:12:35.480 --> 00:12:38.600 oh boy, I wonder what's gonna happen to my wallet. 182 00:12:40.440 --> 00:12:42.159 So Missus Wolf and I were having a talk about 183 00:12:42.159 --> 00:12:43.840 a few chure on Chinese goods when you need to 184 00:12:43.879 --> 00:12:49.039 purchase right away. Uh. But anyway, but we're watching President 185 00:12:49.080 --> 00:12:55.399 Trump right now negotiate these tariffs, right, and so he 186 00:12:55.480 --> 00:12:59.480 has become on behalf of the American people. He has 187 00:12:59.559 --> 00:13:04.480 become the mediator of a better covenant with all these nations. 188 00:13:05.120 --> 00:13:08.399 That's the idea. Anyway, that's what we think is happening. 189 00:13:08.840 --> 00:13:12.279 That's what we hope is happening. Right, anybody hoping, Let's hope, 190 00:13:12.360 --> 00:13:15.960 Let's hope, let's hope. So he's become the mediator of 191 00:13:16.039 --> 00:13:22.240 a better covenant, right with all these nations, with better promises. Well, 192 00:13:22.240 --> 00:13:26.840 this is what Jesus Jesus. It says multiple places, but 193 00:13:26.840 --> 00:13:29.240 I think Hebrews nine to five is one of them 194 00:13:29.480 --> 00:13:34.360 that Jesus is a became the mediator of a better covenant. 195 00:13:34.600 --> 00:13:37.240 And this is a covenant with better promises. So a 196 00:13:37.399 --> 00:13:43.440 mediator means that. So he's making he's making this covenant 197 00:13:43.559 --> 00:13:46.879 with God on our behalf. And like there's terms to 198 00:13:46.960 --> 00:13:52.159 the covenant. There were terms to the covenant. One was restitution. 199 00:13:53.720 --> 00:13:56.759 One was restitution. He had to pay off our debt, 200 00:13:58.679 --> 00:14:03.240 so there was restitution. So the sacrifice of his body 201 00:14:03.399 --> 00:14:06.480 now the ceiling of the covenant. The ceiling of the covenant, 202 00:14:06.519 --> 00:14:08.279 that was the shedding of his blood. The shedding of 203 00:14:08.279 --> 00:14:13.360 his blood was the laying down his life completely under 204 00:14:13.480 --> 00:14:21.039 Father's will. And he's representing us. And we were errant, 205 00:14:22.000 --> 00:14:26.440 we were rebellious, we were prideful, we were boastful, we 206 00:14:26.440 --> 00:14:31.759 were we were sinful, we were calloused. And and the 207 00:14:31.919 --> 00:14:35.360 essence of our sin, the full understanding of our sin, 208 00:14:35.559 --> 00:14:40.360 is not defined by our sin. The essence of our 209 00:14:40.399 --> 00:14:47.679 sin is defined by our disobedience. So when you even 210 00:14:47.759 --> 00:14:52.120 think about your own life and you think about your sinfulness, 211 00:14:52.240 --> 00:14:59.200 or your sins, or your lack of sin, just remember 212 00:14:59.279 --> 00:15:03.799 this that that it's it's not the numerical number of sins. 213 00:15:03.960 --> 00:15:06.559 It's not even the type of sins. It's not how 214 00:15:06.600 --> 00:15:10.080 many sins, it's not it's not whether you Because look 215 00:15:10.080 --> 00:15:13.559 at Paul. Paul says, I'm the Hebrew of Hebrews, and 216 00:15:13.799 --> 00:15:17.440 I've kept the law, but yet I count everything I've 217 00:15:17.480 --> 00:15:25.799 done as dung. Because keeping the law is counting yourself 218 00:15:25.840 --> 00:15:33.000 as righteous by not sinning. But the summary of our 219 00:15:33.279 --> 00:15:38.679 the summary of our sinfulness, is disobedience that we don't 220 00:15:38.679 --> 00:15:42.320 want to disobey. We don't want to. I mean, we 221 00:15:42.360 --> 00:15:44.639 don't want to obey. We don't we don't want to 222 00:15:44.720 --> 00:15:50.919 obey God's desires of us even so much. And you 223 00:15:50.960 --> 00:15:53.960 know you've experienced it. I don't know you've experienced it 224 00:15:54.000 --> 00:15:56.679 with yourself, experience it with your children, experience it with 225 00:15:56.720 --> 00:16:00.639 your spouse. But but Paul says in Roman Chef seven 226 00:16:01.240 --> 00:16:04.519 that it's so bad that even when I want to 227 00:16:04.559 --> 00:16:08.320 do something good, if if the word of God tells 228 00:16:08.360 --> 00:16:12.080 me to do something, then I don't want to do 229 00:16:12.120 --> 00:16:18.720 it anymore if the law tells you not to do it, 230 00:16:19.639 --> 00:16:21.799 or if the law tells you to do it. Like 231 00:16:21.840 --> 00:16:23.759 if somebody tells you, like you, you've got it in 232 00:16:23.840 --> 00:16:25.919 your heart to give somebody some money, and then somebody 233 00:16:25.919 --> 00:16:27.759 comes along and says, hey, you got to give them 234 00:16:27.759 --> 00:16:30.440 some money. You're like, I don't have to give anybody anything. 235 00:16:31.120 --> 00:16:33.120 Who were you telling me? But you were just thinking 236 00:16:33.120 --> 00:16:35.440 a moment ago you'd like to give them some money. 237 00:16:35.720 --> 00:16:37.960 But then when somebody demands you give them the money, 238 00:16:38.080 --> 00:16:44.279 suddenly like it's it's disobedience. Ephesians two one and two 239 00:16:44.440 --> 00:16:49.320 says that the spirit of disobedience was implanted in us. 240 00:16:49.399 --> 00:16:53.360 It literally was deposited when Adam fell the spirit of 241 00:16:53.399 --> 00:16:58.559 disobedience against the perfection of God, against the perfection of 242 00:16:58.559 --> 00:17:02.879 his desire against and the law. All the law is 243 00:17:02.879 --> 00:17:07.319 is the codified desire of God. That's why the law 244 00:17:07.359 --> 00:17:10.799 is called perfect. In the Psalms, it's called perfect. The 245 00:17:10.960 --> 00:17:13.319 law of the Lord is perfect. That's why in Roman 246 00:17:13.400 --> 00:17:17.200 chapter seven, Paul says, the law is holy. Why am 247 00:17:17.279 --> 00:17:20.119 I bucking against the thing that is holy, the thing 248 00:17:20.160 --> 00:17:24.960 that is holy that was meant to actually stimulate goodness 249 00:17:24.960 --> 00:17:30.839 in me? Sin rose up. And when the law says 250 00:17:30.920 --> 00:17:35.519 thou shalt not covet, I sin revived in my members 251 00:17:35.759 --> 00:17:40.720 and I suddenly wanted to covet. Does that mean the 252 00:17:40.799 --> 00:17:43.640 law is unholy? No, Paul says, the law is not unholy. 253 00:17:44.079 --> 00:17:51.480 The law is good. But it's disobedience in me, disobedience 254 00:17:51.519 --> 00:17:56.640 in me. And this is when Jesus was negotiating. He 255 00:17:56.680 --> 00:18:00.200 was the mediator on our behalf, in his humanity, not 256 00:18:00.359 --> 00:18:06.240 in his divinity. Jesus fully human, fully human. And when 257 00:18:06.279 --> 00:18:10.519 we think about Jesus, like if you think your intelligent. 258 00:18:11.039 --> 00:18:14.319 He love somebody if you think you know, if you 259 00:18:14.400 --> 00:18:20.799 think you know a thing, uh huh uh huh, let's 260 00:18:20.839 --> 00:18:25.079 just line you up up against Jesus, right. So, I mean, 261 00:18:25.119 --> 00:18:30.000 we're talking about learned, We're talking about we're talking about perfection. 262 00:18:30.200 --> 00:18:34.519 We're talking about memory, understanding, We're talking about insight. Counsel. 263 00:18:34.640 --> 00:18:39.359 That says in Isaiah eleven, the sevenfold spirit of God 264 00:18:39.519 --> 00:18:43.039 was on him, not in his divinity, in his humanity. 265 00:18:43.319 --> 00:18:45.880 The spirit of counsel was resting on him. The spirit 266 00:18:45.920 --> 00:18:49.559 of wisdom was resting on him. We're talking about somebody 267 00:18:49.599 --> 00:18:53.559 that could make a decision or two. We're talking about 268 00:18:53.559 --> 00:18:56.079 somebody that could have been independent. We're talking about somebody 269 00:18:56.079 --> 00:18:58.680 that could have had an independent thought. We're talking about 270 00:18:58.680 --> 00:19:01.559 somebody who could have been in control. We're talking about 271 00:19:01.559 --> 00:19:07.480 somebody who you follow what I'm saying. And yet, and 272 00:19:07.559 --> 00:19:12.319 yet he brought he, He in this mediation, mediating a 273 00:19:12.480 --> 00:19:16.839 new covenant for us that we would be brought into 274 00:19:18.200 --> 00:19:23.279 as we yielded ourselves to him. He had to conquer 275 00:19:23.480 --> 00:19:27.279 in the mediation. He had to conquer the biggest thing 276 00:19:27.440 --> 00:19:34.000 ever that humanity will ever deal with, disobedience. He had 277 00:19:34.000 --> 00:19:39.839 to conquer disobedience. This is the suffering he endured, the primary, 278 00:19:39.960 --> 00:19:42.680 and the first, and the major and the most important 279 00:19:42.720 --> 00:19:45.640 suffering that he endured. We see it in the garden 280 00:19:45.640 --> 00:19:48.480 in Matthew twenty six. We see it in first Peter four, 281 00:19:48.559 --> 00:19:50.640 or me to two you in a minute. The primary 282 00:19:50.799 --> 00:19:54.039 suffering that he endured that we're called to endure now 283 00:19:55.960 --> 00:20:00.720 is the suffering of obedience. That he would bring every 284 00:20:00.799 --> 00:20:04.960 thought to Father, that he would bring every thought to Father, 285 00:20:05.240 --> 00:20:07.960 that he would subject to every thought to Father. Why 286 00:20:08.079 --> 00:20:12.279 because in this mediation, Adam had never done it. Adam 287 00:20:12.359 --> 00:20:16.039 couldn't do it. Adam wouldn't do it. Adam was sold 288 00:20:16.279 --> 00:20:21.119 to disobedience and would not yield his or her thoughts 289 00:20:21.200 --> 00:20:27.319 to God, would not obey. And so Jesus, the mediator 290 00:20:27.480 --> 00:20:32.480 of this new covenant, had to yield every thought to God. 291 00:20:32.559 --> 00:20:36.160 And he did it on our behalf. But he calls 292 00:20:36.400 --> 00:20:44.559 us into the same calling. This is the this is 293 00:20:44.599 --> 00:20:47.920 the this is the this is the sweat on his brow, 294 00:20:48.640 --> 00:20:53.319 This is the agony in the garden. This is him embracing, 295 00:20:54.480 --> 00:20:57.720 embracing what Father has called him to do. And we 296 00:20:57.759 --> 00:21:01.200 say it in Matthew twenty six, I think thirty eight. 297 00:21:01.720 --> 00:21:04.799 Let's go there real quick, and this is a familiar passage. 298 00:21:05.039 --> 00:21:09.799 Going a little further, he fell with his face to 299 00:21:09.839 --> 00:21:12.839 the ground and prayed, my Father, if it is possible, 300 00:21:12.920 --> 00:21:17.559 may this cup be taken from me? Yet not as 301 00:21:17.599 --> 00:21:21.160 I will, but as you will. Now we know that 302 00:21:21.240 --> 00:21:26.519 as like this famous this famous prayer. Nevertheless, not my will, 303 00:21:28.000 --> 00:21:31.440 but yours be done. And you'll notice too. And Luke, 304 00:21:31.480 --> 00:21:34.079 it says, no one takes my life from me, but 305 00:21:34.119 --> 00:21:36.759 I lay it down. Why because this was part of 306 00:21:36.759 --> 00:21:41.839 the mediation. God's not going to take your life from you. 307 00:21:41.839 --> 00:21:44.799 You have to lay it down. This is part of 308 00:21:44.799 --> 00:21:48.960 the mediation. Part of the mediation on our behalf is 309 00:21:49.000 --> 00:21:53.319 that he would become that gentle lamb, that he would 310 00:21:53.400 --> 00:21:58.880 become that submitted one, that he would become that yielded one, 311 00:21:59.640 --> 00:22:05.759 and in doing so bridge the gap and make this 312 00:22:05.880 --> 00:22:09.720 covenant with Father on our behalf, that we could be 313 00:22:09.799 --> 00:22:12.559 brought in, that we could receive the spirit, we could 314 00:22:12.640 --> 00:22:15.880 receive a heart of flesh, and that we too, then 315 00:22:15.920 --> 00:22:20.559 would bring our lives, that we would bring our disobedience 316 00:22:20.839 --> 00:22:23.880 to the cross, and that we would be co crucified 317 00:22:23.920 --> 00:22:29.440 with him, co crucified with him. Let's go over to 318 00:22:29.440 --> 00:22:31.720 the first Peter chapter four. I want you to see that, 319 00:22:34.759 --> 00:22:36.240 and then I want to go to Romans eight. A 320 00:22:36.240 --> 00:22:39.200 lot of times I quote out of Romans eight, I 321 00:22:39.279 --> 00:22:43.759 quote the juicy parts of Romans eight, but we forget 322 00:22:43.759 --> 00:22:46.359 about the hard parts. So today I'm going to talk 323 00:22:46.359 --> 00:22:49.119 about the hard part, not just the juicy part. First 324 00:22:49.160 --> 00:22:52.720 Peter four. Therefore, since Christ separate in his body, arm 325 00:22:52.759 --> 00:23:00.480 yourselves also with the same attitude, because whoever supped in 326 00:23:00.559 --> 00:23:03.480 the body is done with sin. Now this is interesting. 327 00:23:03.519 --> 00:23:10.400 He's talking about he's talking about arm yourselves. This is interesting. 328 00:23:10.599 --> 00:23:14.960 Arm yourselves. Arm yourselves against the devil, Arm yourselves against 329 00:23:15.039 --> 00:23:21.039 the curse, Arm yourselves against wickedness, Arm yourselves against darkness. 330 00:23:21.200 --> 00:23:28.640 Arm yourselves. Arm yourselves out through suffering, through suffering by 331 00:23:28.839 --> 00:23:36.200 not feeding your flesh, by coming into disobedience to Holy Spirit. 332 00:23:36.720 --> 00:23:41.240 Arm yourselves, Arm yourself, because this is what he did. 333 00:23:41.599 --> 00:23:45.359 He's suffered in the flesh, is what it says in 334 00:23:45.440 --> 00:23:49.160 the body here, But it's sarks in the Greek. It's 335 00:23:49.200 --> 00:23:53.039 the flesh. It's the flesh nature. The NIV doesn't do 336 00:23:53.200 --> 00:23:56.519 a true justice. It's not just the suffering in the body. 337 00:23:56.720 --> 00:23:58.680 It's not like it's oh yeah, he went without a 338 00:23:58.720 --> 00:24:00.880 meal or two or oh yeah, that's what when he 339 00:24:00.920 --> 00:24:04.559 had his forty days. No, no, no, he lived a 340 00:24:04.720 --> 00:24:11.000 life of moment by moment, being armed against the flesh, 341 00:24:12.279 --> 00:24:20.319 by suffering and not disobeying Holy Spirit, submitting and subjecting 342 00:24:20.559 --> 00:24:25.960 every thought to God and bringing his thoughts we'll talk 343 00:24:25.960 --> 00:24:28.480 about it in a moment out of Southern Corinthians, chapter ten, 344 00:24:29.039 --> 00:24:34.440 bringing his thoughts into subjection to God. We're called to 345 00:24:34.440 --> 00:24:37.720 bring our thoughts into subjection to Christ. He brought his 346 00:24:37.880 --> 00:24:43.039 every thought into subjection to God. This is actually spiritual warfare. 347 00:24:43.319 --> 00:24:48.039 He was engaging daily and moment by moment in spiritual warfare. 348 00:24:48.319 --> 00:24:51.160 He didn't take up his cross in the end. Only 349 00:24:51.519 --> 00:24:55.319 he was taking up his cross daily, the cross of 350 00:24:56.400 --> 00:25:03.160 not asserting my will, having it my way, not staying 351 00:25:03.200 --> 00:25:08.640 in control, not being in charge of everything. No, the 352 00:25:08.759 --> 00:25:13.000 Father is in charge. The Father is leaving me, the 353 00:25:13.240 --> 00:25:17.400 Father is calling me, the Father is directing me. I'm 354 00:25:17.440 --> 00:25:25.119 subjecting every thought to the Father. Have the same attitude 355 00:25:25.119 --> 00:25:28.920 in you, because whoever suffers in the flesh is done 356 00:25:29.039 --> 00:25:31.720 with sin. As a result, they do not live the 357 00:25:31.720 --> 00:25:36.359 rest of their earthly lives for evil human desires, but 358 00:25:36.519 --> 00:25:38.920 rather for the will of God. Who do they live for? 359 00:25:40.000 --> 00:25:42.480 Who do they live for? Who do they live for? 360 00:25:43.440 --> 00:25:49.720 Who they live for the will of He says, Jesus 361 00:25:49.720 --> 00:25:54.039 did this as an example. Jesus did this as an example. 362 00:25:54.119 --> 00:25:57.279 And we are called to arm ourselves in the same 363 00:25:57.359 --> 00:26:02.880 way that we would. We would present ourselves as dead 364 00:26:04.319 --> 00:26:09.039 to the old life, dead to the adam life, dead 365 00:26:09.119 --> 00:26:14.839 to the desires of the old life, dead to self government, 366 00:26:15.519 --> 00:26:22.000 self will, dead to disobedience, dead to pride and rebellion. 367 00:26:22.799 --> 00:26:27.680 Look at uh, go over to uh. Let's let's go. 368 00:26:31.240 --> 00:26:38.160 I'm Romans eight. Here we go, Romans eight seventeen. I 369 00:26:38.279 --> 00:26:40.160 like to quote the juicy parts out of this Romans 370 00:26:40.240 --> 00:26:44.839 eight passage where it says, you know that the whole 371 00:26:44.880 --> 00:26:48.319 earth is groaning for the sons of God to be manifest, 372 00:26:48.559 --> 00:26:51.079 you know. And I like to get us all excited 373 00:26:51.119 --> 00:26:54.680 about that stuff. And it's true. It's good that we 374 00:26:54.799 --> 00:26:57.359 are called, and Joe is talking about it during the offering, 375 00:26:58.240 --> 00:27:01.319 that we are called Royal Team, we're called the sons 376 00:27:01.319 --> 00:27:05.200 of God, we're called the heirs of God. That the 377 00:27:05.920 --> 00:27:11.480 earth is groaning for us to manifest our redemption. Essentially, right, 378 00:27:11.960 --> 00:27:17.039 that's all good. That's all the juicy parts Verse seventeen. Now, 379 00:27:17.079 --> 00:27:21.240 if we are sons of God, if we are children, 380 00:27:21.440 --> 00:27:25.440 then we are heirs errors of God and coheres with Christ. 381 00:27:25.799 --> 00:27:28.400 Heirs of God, coheres with Christ. We are heirs of 382 00:27:29.400 --> 00:27:32.720 the fullness of the Spirit. We are heirs of righteousness. 383 00:27:33.039 --> 00:27:38.200 We are heirs of this earth. We are He's inherited 384 00:27:38.200 --> 00:27:41.599 the earth by virtue of his victory over darkness and 385 00:27:42.160 --> 00:27:44.720 this covenant that He's made, So we are heirs. We 386 00:27:44.759 --> 00:27:48.319 are heirs of God coheres with Christ if indeed, we 387 00:27:48.400 --> 00:27:54.880 share in his sufferings in order that we may share 388 00:27:54.880 --> 00:28:02.000 in His glory. So death precedes resurrection. And it's it's 389 00:28:02.039 --> 00:28:03.839 not a one time thing. It's not like you can 390 00:28:03.920 --> 00:28:06.759 just die now. We're gonna have water baptism next week. 391 00:28:07.160 --> 00:28:10.920 And according to Roman chapter six and Colossians and all 392 00:28:10.960 --> 00:28:15.680 sorts of passages, we're told that water baptism is your 393 00:28:15.960 --> 00:28:21.160 entry into death. It's significant if you haven't been water baptized. 394 00:28:21.519 --> 00:28:24.319 Water baptism is not for people that are going to die. 395 00:28:24.400 --> 00:28:27.079 By the way, if you plan on the next Sunday 396 00:28:27.279 --> 00:28:29.960 Easter Sunday, we'll have water baptism. But if you planned 397 00:28:30.000 --> 00:28:35.240 on dying next Sunday, not spiritually. Literally, if you plan 398 00:28:35.279 --> 00:28:37.119 on dying, you don't need to be water baptized. You'ld 399 00:28:37.119 --> 00:28:40.400 be fine. Water baptism is people. Is for people who 400 00:28:40.440 --> 00:28:45.720 plan on living. If you plan on living, then you 401 00:28:45.880 --> 00:28:49.319