WEBVTT 1 00:00:00.480 --> 00:00:04.360 Last week we celebrated, you know, resurrection and we had 2 00:00:04.400 --> 00:00:08.839 eighteen baptized and water. That was amazing. Yes, let's give 3 00:00:08.839 --> 00:00:10.039 them a hand. Some of them might be in the 4 00:00:10.039 --> 00:00:15.720 building right now. So that was exciting. And you know, 5 00:00:15.800 --> 00:00:21.000 the focus was with baptism is death and resurrection. The 6 00:00:21.039 --> 00:00:26.440 focus with baptism is that we are putting. We're deciding 7 00:00:27.199 --> 00:00:30.280 it's an act of the will, and it's an active faith, right, 8 00:00:30.640 --> 00:00:34.320 and we're deciding to put the old life to death. 9 00:00:34.799 --> 00:00:39.439 And this is a biblical thing that the only way 10 00:00:39.520 --> 00:00:43.439 out of Adam and Adam's lineage and the power of Satan. 11 00:00:43.920 --> 00:00:48.200 Satan has power over all of Adam's sons, all of 12 00:00:48.320 --> 00:00:52.840 Adam's lineage, all of Adam's daughters. Satan has power over 13 00:00:53.039 --> 00:00:58.880 that realm. And the heart is hard, So all of 14 00:00:58.960 --> 00:01:03.000 us in first atom before we come to the Lord, 15 00:01:03.039 --> 00:01:06.599 our heart is hard. We don't care about one another. 16 00:01:08.480 --> 00:01:12.719 We we step on people to climb up our ladder, 17 00:01:13.560 --> 00:01:19.640 right uh. And we we have this unregenerate inner man, 18 00:01:19.840 --> 00:01:25.680 this this heart of ours. It's so hard that we 19 00:01:25.799 --> 00:01:31.000 drive people off the road. We abuse one another sexually. 20 00:01:32.239 --> 00:01:39.120 We we abuse our own children sexually. Incest is massive, right, 21 00:01:40.560 --> 00:01:43.280 We we bring harm everywhere we go when our heart 22 00:01:43.400 --> 00:01:46.840 is hard and when we are still under the influence 23 00:01:46.879 --> 00:01:50.760 of first atom. And so the baptismal tank is an 24 00:01:50.760 --> 00:01:56.480 indication that number one, I've accepted Jesus as my Lord 25 00:01:56.519 --> 00:01:58.560 and savior. I'm going to allow him to leave me, 26 00:01:59.280 --> 00:02:02.439 and I welcome and accept what He's done for me, 27 00:02:04.000 --> 00:02:08.840 paying the price for my sin. So Jesus now his 28 00:02:09.759 --> 00:02:18.599 sacrifice is now gone before us to present us before 29 00:02:18.680 --> 00:02:21.520 Father Righteous, because we're hidden in Jesus and we're hidden 30 00:02:21.520 --> 00:02:25.560 in his sacrifice. So that's being born of the spirit, 31 00:02:25.599 --> 00:02:27.759 being born again over here. Maybe that was happening a 32 00:02:27.759 --> 00:02:30.199 little bit this morning and with some of you others 33 00:02:30.240 --> 00:02:35.599 as well. Being born again is welcoming Holy Spirit to 34 00:02:35.719 --> 00:02:40.400 be your life, and welcoming Holy Spirit to live on 35 00:02:40.439 --> 00:02:43.680 the inside of you and to lead you. And that's 36 00:02:43.759 --> 00:02:47.879 the spiritual experience where our spirit man, the Bible says, 37 00:02:47.879 --> 00:02:51.719 our spirit man, though it's the candle of the Lord, 38 00:02:52.800 --> 00:02:56.759 before we come to him, it's darkened. There's no communion, 39 00:02:57.120 --> 00:03:00.840 there's no influence or impartation of Righteous, and we don't 40 00:03:00.840 --> 00:03:03.719 have communion with God until we come to Jesus. Jesus 41 00:03:03.800 --> 00:03:06.080 is the way, the Truth in life, we have communion 42 00:03:06.120 --> 00:03:11.240 with Him. Then we get water baptized. Water baptized is 43 00:03:11.280 --> 00:03:14.360 where we say goodbye to the old life, right, we 44 00:03:14.400 --> 00:03:19.879 say goodbye to our life under first atom. And when 45 00:03:19.919 --> 00:03:22.199 we come out of the baptismal tank, the Bible says, 46 00:03:22.240 --> 00:03:26.120 we enter into resurrection. We enter into the life of 47 00:03:26.199 --> 00:03:29.639 the second Atom. We enter into the life of Jesus, 48 00:03:29.719 --> 00:03:32.280 who is the second atom or the last atom. The 49 00:03:32.280 --> 00:03:34.680 Bible says, he's the fountain head of all of those 50 00:03:34.719 --> 00:03:38.000 who've come into the New creation. And we begin to 51 00:03:38.080 --> 00:03:41.520 live this new creation life. The problem is we don't 52 00:03:41.520 --> 00:03:46.039 know a thing about it. Now, we have Holy spiritishing 53 00:03:46.159 --> 00:03:48.960 us on the inside, because he's the Spirit of truth 54 00:03:49.039 --> 00:03:52.000 and heed dwells on the inside. And initially that's what 55 00:03:52.039 --> 00:03:55.919 conviction feels like. By the way, initially what conviction feels 56 00:03:56.000 --> 00:04:00.000 like is when you don't really know who you are 57 00:04:00.240 --> 00:04:02.680 in Christ yet, and you don't know much about the 58 00:04:02.719 --> 00:04:07.560 Word yet, and you don't know what it is, how 59 00:04:07.560 --> 00:04:11.560 it is you're supposed to live. Then that's the living 60 00:04:11.599 --> 00:04:14.080 Word on the inside of you. The Bible says that 61 00:04:14.159 --> 00:04:18.439 all scripture or all of the Word is God breathed, 62 00:04:19.079 --> 00:04:24.279 and it is profitable for teaching, for training, for correction 63 00:04:24.839 --> 00:04:30.279 and reproof, second time of the three sixteen. So not only, 64 00:04:31.040 --> 00:04:35.759 not only is scripture profitable for teaching, training, correction, and reproof. 65 00:04:36.319 --> 00:04:38.160 So is the word of the Lord over your life, 66 00:04:40.160 --> 00:04:42.279 the word of the Lord over your life, the word 67 00:04:42.439 --> 00:04:46.480 of so the conviction of Holy Spirit on the inside 68 00:04:46.519 --> 00:04:50.160 of you, right have you? You know, I don't know, 69 00:04:50.720 --> 00:04:54.920 Like there's times where I've been spoken to by the 70 00:04:54.959 --> 00:04:57.519 Word of the Lord in such a way that it 71 00:04:57.600 --> 00:05:02.160 was training or correction. Right. So, one time I was 72 00:05:02.160 --> 00:05:04.160 being a goofball with a bunch of US staff members 73 00:05:04.480 --> 00:05:06.920 in a conference. I had a bunch of US staff 74 00:05:06.959 --> 00:05:10.560 members in a conference, and I was being the comic 75 00:05:11.199 --> 00:05:14.639 on row number five, and once the Holy Spirit spoke 76 00:05:14.720 --> 00:05:19.399 to me and said, he quoted First Strengthens Chapter thirteen 77 00:05:19.519 --> 00:05:22.040 to me, and he said, when I was a child, 78 00:05:22.160 --> 00:05:25.240 I spoke like a child, but when I became a man, 79 00:05:25.279 --> 00:05:28.279 I put away childish things. He just spoke that scripture 80 00:05:28.319 --> 00:05:30.720 to me on the inside. I had my whole staff 81 00:05:30.759 --> 00:05:32.600 cracking up, because I used to be quite a comic, 82 00:05:32.639 --> 00:05:38.560 you know. But the comedy that I was so caught 83 00:05:38.680 --> 00:05:43.319 up with was cynicism. It was mockerby and it wasn't 84 00:05:43.360 --> 00:05:47.040 of God, it wasn't edifying, right, so therefore it wasn't loving, 85 00:05:47.079 --> 00:05:50.600 and I wasn't being loving to the people on the platform. 86 00:05:50.720 --> 00:05:54.879 I was being a mocker. But I was so good 87 00:05:54.879 --> 00:05:57.079 at this that I had everybody, you know, all of 88 00:05:57.079 --> 00:05:58.959 my staff members, they were all cracking up over what 89 00:05:59.000 --> 00:06:00.920 I was doing and what I was. Then the Holy 90 00:06:00.959 --> 00:06:08.879 Spirit smote me, because all of God's word it's God breathed. 91 00:06:08.920 --> 00:06:12.360 If it's God breathed, then it's good for teaching, trading, correction, 92 00:06:12.680 --> 00:06:18.399 and reproof or rebuke. The Holy Spirit rebuked me, and 93 00:06:18.399 --> 00:06:22.560 I'm like, oh, okay, yeah, and I'm sure that the 94 00:06:22.600 --> 00:06:24.439 staff and they're like, oh, what in the world happened 95 00:06:24.480 --> 00:06:26.279 to him? But I just calmed right down, you know. 96 00:06:26.360 --> 00:06:30.199 And then afterwards I gathered them all together and I apologized. 97 00:06:30.920 --> 00:06:35.000 I'm like, I have to repent. And it literally shifted 98 00:06:35.040 --> 00:06:37.720 my whole life. It shifted my life from then on. 99 00:06:41.879 --> 00:06:43.959 This is how we learn sometimes, this is how we 100 00:06:44.079 --> 00:06:47.560 learn who Jesus is. When we come out of the 101 00:06:47.600 --> 00:06:51.199 water baptismal tank, we are raised up in new life 102 00:06:51.680 --> 00:06:59.240 into Jesus, and from that moment on, we share his identity, 103 00:06:59.399 --> 00:07:03.279 we share his image. We share his character, we share 104 00:07:03.319 --> 00:07:06.279 his nature, we share who he is from the moment 105 00:07:06.319 --> 00:07:11.079 we come out of the water baptismal tank. And because 106 00:07:11.120 --> 00:07:17.600 we put Adam to death, we put the power of 107 00:07:17.720 --> 00:07:22.120 Satan to death. We no longer have to listen to 108 00:07:23.600 --> 00:07:27.920 the voices, the thoughts, the arguments of that old life 109 00:07:28.560 --> 00:07:30.920 telling us how to think and what to do. And 110 00:07:31.040 --> 00:07:35.800 if we do, if we still listen, that's the beautiful 111 00:07:35.879 --> 00:07:39.319 thing about the God breathed the voice of Holy Spirit 112 00:07:39.360 --> 00:07:43.639 on the inside. He will teach us, train us, correct us, 113 00:07:44.480 --> 00:07:49.560 and even rebuke us. So we're growing. We're growing, We're 114 00:07:49.560 --> 00:07:52.720 growing into the image of Christ. So this is a 115 00:07:52.759 --> 00:07:55.120 big deal. It's so big for you to realize, every 116 00:07:55.160 --> 00:07:58.199 one of us, to realize you are not just born again, 117 00:07:58.639 --> 00:08:01.480 You're not just forgiven, not just on your way to heaven. 118 00:08:01.879 --> 00:08:04.600 You are currently the image of God in the earth. 119 00:08:07.040 --> 00:08:13.079 You are currently you are currently those born in His likeness. 120 00:08:13.079 --> 00:08:15.120 To be born at the spirit is be born in 121 00:08:15.240 --> 00:08:21.639 His likeness. You literally are those who are being transformed. 122 00:08:21.959 --> 00:08:27.079 So you're instantly, instantly transformed through salvation and water baptisms, 123 00:08:27.079 --> 00:08:33.720 instantly transformed, but progressively transformed as well, because your mind 124 00:08:33.799 --> 00:08:37.799 is being renewed constantly as you learn who he is, 125 00:08:38.360 --> 00:08:45.720 and Jesus is perfect theology, the nature of Jesus, the 126 00:08:45.759 --> 00:08:50.480 lifestyle of Jesus, everything you see Jesus doing, everything, you 127 00:08:50.519 --> 00:08:53.799 see Jesus saying everything in scripture. That's why the New 128 00:08:53.840 --> 00:08:57.159 Testament has so much about Jesus in it. Like one 129 00:08:57.240 --> 00:08:59.679 half of the New Testament is all about Jesus. Five 130 00:08:59.679 --> 00:09:02.360 books all about Jesus. The other half of the New 131 00:09:02.399 --> 00:09:08.559 Testament is explaining the perfect law of liberty or the 132 00:09:08.720 --> 00:09:13.200 law of Christ. That's the other half of the New Testament, 133 00:09:16.000 --> 00:09:18.799 all except for revelation. The revelation is how it's going 134 00:09:18.879 --> 00:09:23.759 to wrap up. It's the revelation of Jesus, how he's triumphing. Right, 135 00:09:23.879 --> 00:09:28.320 But you have all about Jesus, then you have the Torah. Essentially, 136 00:09:28.320 --> 00:09:30.840 you have the Torah. The other half in the New 137 00:09:30.879 --> 00:09:34.639 Testament is the Torah of the New Testament, because it's 138 00:09:34.679 --> 00:09:38.720 all about how we should live. In the First Testament, 139 00:09:40.399 --> 00:09:44.720 they had six hundred and thirteen laws or commandments, plus 140 00:09:45.360 --> 00:09:49.639 the ten Commandments, right, six hundred and thirteen commandments in 141 00:09:50.080 --> 00:09:56.399 because they had hearts of stone. As the prophets look forward, 142 00:09:56.480 --> 00:09:59.759 Jeremiah Ezekiel as the prophets look forward from the old 143 00:09:59.759 --> 00:10:04.000 tes forward, they saw that there was a day coming 144 00:10:04.080 --> 00:10:07.279 when God would take out the heart of stone and 145 00:10:07.320 --> 00:10:10.639 he would put in a heart of flesh. Ezekiel thirty 146 00:10:10.679 --> 00:10:14.240 six twenty six is one of those says, He's going 147 00:10:14.279 --> 00:10:16.639 to take out a heart of stone and put in 148 00:10:16.679 --> 00:10:19.639 a heart of flesh. Well, the Torah, everybody say, Torah. 149 00:10:20.600 --> 00:10:24.840 You learn a new word. Torah. The Torah, that's Hebrew 150 00:10:24.960 --> 00:10:28.120 for the first five books of the Bible. The Torah, 151 00:10:28.240 --> 00:10:31.720 the first five books of the Bible, are God's laws. 152 00:10:32.919 --> 00:10:38.360 Torah is synonymous for the laws, and those books. Those 153 00:10:38.399 --> 00:10:42.519 first books contain all of these laws on how to live. Now, 154 00:10:42.519 --> 00:10:45.559 they had to have all of these laws. They had 155 00:10:45.559 --> 00:10:49.519 to have all of these laws because men had hard hearts. 156 00:10:49.559 --> 00:10:54.399 People had hard hearts, So the laws were meant to 157 00:10:54.720 --> 00:10:58.039 govern people with hard hearts, because the time had not 158 00:10:58.200 --> 00:11:02.120 come where Ezekiel thirty six twenty six could be fulfilled. Right, 159 00:11:02.320 --> 00:11:03.639 I will give you a new heart and put a 160 00:11:03.679 --> 00:11:06.440 new spirit within you. I will take out the heart 161 00:11:06.480 --> 00:11:10.320 of stone out of your flesh and give you a 162 00:11:10.519 --> 00:11:13.840 heart of flesh. So God replaces our heart of stone 163 00:11:13.879 --> 00:11:18.080 with a soft heart. But until that happens. We have 164 00:11:18.159 --> 00:11:20.919 to have all these laws to govern us. Otherwise we 165 00:11:20.960 --> 00:11:24.840 would devour one another and devour ourselves. So we have 166 00:11:24.919 --> 00:11:27.039 to have these laws. I'll give you an example of 167 00:11:27.039 --> 00:11:28.519 one of these laws. Can I give you an example. 168 00:11:30.360 --> 00:11:32.480 Here's these examples. I'll give you an example of one 169 00:11:32.480 --> 00:11:35.519 of these laws. Because it's not just the Ten commandments. 170 00:11:36.279 --> 00:11:38.840 There's all these laws. This is Deuteronomy twenty two one 171 00:11:38.879 --> 00:11:42.960 through four. If you see your fellow Israelites ox or 172 00:11:43.000 --> 00:11:46.919 sheep straying away, do not ignore it, but be sure 173 00:11:46.919 --> 00:11:49.159 and take it back to its owner. If they do 174 00:11:49.200 --> 00:11:51.200 not live near you, or if you do not know 175 00:11:51.240 --> 00:11:53.879 who owns it, take it home with you and keep 176 00:11:53.919 --> 00:11:57.399 it until they come looking for it. Then give it back. 177 00:12:00.480 --> 00:12:02.440 One of our church members one day, he was driving 178 00:12:02.480 --> 00:12:04.759 down the road, and he was driving down the road 179 00:12:04.759 --> 00:12:09.000 behind one of these Omaha Omaha steak trucks you know 180 00:12:09.039 --> 00:12:13.320 I'm talking about, And all at once, the Omaha steak 181 00:12:13.320 --> 00:12:16.840 truck the back door opened up and like one hundred 182 00:12:16.879 --> 00:12:21.000 pounds of steaks flew out on the road, and he's like, 183 00:12:21.039 --> 00:12:26.080 glory to God. He pulled over and grabbed the steak 184 00:12:26.120 --> 00:12:28.480 through him in the car. Thank you Jesus and drove away. 185 00:12:28.679 --> 00:12:33.039 That wasn't from God, that wasn't love. It said, Omaha, 186 00:12:33.120 --> 00:12:40.480 steaks right on the back of the truck. God had 187 00:12:40.559 --> 00:12:43.399 all these commandments in the Bible so we wouldn't bite 188 00:12:43.440 --> 00:12:46.519 and devour one another as long as we had hard hearts. 189 00:12:47.639 --> 00:12:50.240 But now he's put these soft hearts in us. And 190 00:12:50.320 --> 00:12:54.039 the soft hearts, you know what the soft hearts are, 191 00:12:54.799 --> 00:13:00.159 They are hearts of love. So he's telling us. He 192 00:13:00.240 --> 00:13:02.679 had to tell us all this intricate stuff. If they 193 00:13:02.679 --> 00:13:05.279 don't live near you, you know, just wait, they'll come 194 00:13:05.320 --> 00:13:07.559 find it, then give it back. Do the same. If 195 00:13:07.600 --> 00:13:12.159 you find their donkey or their cloak or anything else 196 00:13:12.440 --> 00:13:15.240 that they have lost, do not ignore it. You know 197 00:13:15.279 --> 00:13:17.879 why we have a lost and found? Who would create 198 00:13:18.039 --> 00:13:24.279 or invent a lost and found in life? Christians? Christians 199 00:13:24.320 --> 00:13:27.480 would invent a lost and found? Why because we care 200 00:13:27.519 --> 00:13:31.000 who it belongs to, Because we just we aren't called 201 00:13:31.039 --> 00:13:34.679 to claim everything that falls on the ground. See, Love 202 00:13:34.759 --> 00:13:37.200 says somebody lost it, So love says, I want to 203 00:13:37.200 --> 00:13:40.159 get that back to them. Love says this was costly. 204 00:13:41.799 --> 00:13:44.360 Love says, I don't need the prosper This is interesting. 205 00:13:44.639 --> 00:13:47.360 When we come under grace in the New Covenant. I 206 00:13:47.399 --> 00:13:51.039 don't need to prosper by extracting from you your goods. 207 00:13:51.720 --> 00:13:55.080 I don't need the prosper because God's already determined to 208 00:13:55.200 --> 00:14:01.279 overwhelm me with an abundance of grace and prosperity. God 209 00:14:01.360 --> 00:14:05.000 is already prospering me. God is already pouring into me 210 00:14:05.080 --> 00:14:09.600 and over me. Blessings are chasing me down. Every single 211 00:14:09.759 --> 00:14:13.639 day I wake up with blessings trying to find me. 212 00:14:14.320 --> 00:14:17.360 Blessings are trying to find me. I don't need to 213 00:14:17.480 --> 00:14:23.120 take your stuff to get my blessing. That is deception, 214 00:14:23.759 --> 00:14:26.840 that is folly. That's the work of Satan. That's the 215 00:14:26.879 --> 00:14:29.639 work of a hard heart, and that is the opposite 216 00:14:29.679 --> 00:14:35.159 of love. God has given us a heart of love. Now, 217 00:14:35.200 --> 00:14:38.879 I'm telling you that Paul's writings and the other half 218 00:14:38.919 --> 00:14:41.759 of the New Testament, first we learn about who Christ is. 219 00:14:42.120 --> 00:14:45.200 Then we learn about the law of love. And the 220 00:14:45.240 --> 00:14:48.679 majority of the Pauline epistles and the majority of these 221 00:14:48.720 --> 00:14:52.080 other passages they're about the law of love, the law 222 00:14:52.080 --> 00:14:57.360 of Christ. What does that law look like, because because 223 00:14:57.519 --> 00:15:03.200 that's the nature we've received, and we grow into that 224 00:15:03.320 --> 00:15:08.399 nature by learning about it. We grow into that nature. 225 00:15:08.559 --> 00:15:17.799 By learning about it with a yes. This is another 226 00:15:17.879 --> 00:15:22.080 problem with religion. Another problem with religion is we see 227 00:15:22.279 --> 00:15:28.799 Jesus as this significant figure, this redemptive figure, this redeeming figure, 228 00:15:29.080 --> 00:15:32.039 the one through whom we have salvation, but we don't 229 00:15:32.080 --> 00:15:37.600 see him as the fountain head of a new creation, 230 00:15:38.120 --> 00:15:45.679 wherein I've now received his nature. But the more we 231 00:15:45.759 --> 00:15:48.320 learn about him, the more we grow into him. And 232 00:15:48.360 --> 00:15:51.399 this is the calling of the new covenant life, the 233 00:15:51.440 --> 00:15:54.360 calling of the new creation life. Second Corinthian chapter three, 234 00:15:54.480 --> 00:15:57.200 seven through eighteen. Now the Lord is the spirit, and 235 00:15:57.200 --> 00:16:00.360 where the Spirit of the Lord is there is liberty. 236 00:16:01.320 --> 00:16:05.240 But we all with unveiled face beholding as in a mirror, 237 00:16:05.279 --> 00:16:09.879 the glory of the Lord. Now, I think the Lord 238 00:16:09.879 --> 00:16:11.559 talked to me this morning while I was sitting here 239 00:16:11.600 --> 00:16:15.279 this morning, and he said, uh, glory actually has a name. 240 00:16:18.000 --> 00:16:20.399 Glory has a name. The glory of God actually has 241 00:16:20.399 --> 00:16:31.759 a name, and the name is love. Oh see, sometimes glory. 242 00:16:32.519 --> 00:16:35.720 Sometimes when we talk about these things, they're they're kind 243 00:16:35.720 --> 00:16:38.559 of nebulous, they're kind of out there, they're kind of oohoo, 244 00:16:39.279 --> 00:16:41.960 they're kind of mysterious, and we don't have a good 245 00:16:42.080 --> 00:16:45.039 handle to hang them on. What does glory look like, well, 246 00:16:45.039 --> 00:16:49.960 the glory of God is love Church. We all, with 247 00:16:50.080 --> 00:16:52.440 unveiled face, behold as in a mirror, the glory of 248 00:16:52.440 --> 00:16:54.440 the Lord. Why would it say as in a mirror, 249 00:16:56.039 --> 00:17:00.000 because he's trying to get this across. Is that you 250 00:17:00.200 --> 00:17:04.359 bear the same image as Jesus. Now, the moment you 251 00:17:04.559 --> 00:17:06.279 come to the Lord and come out of that tank, 252 00:17:06.920 --> 00:17:12.759 it's not been perfected. Instantly you're transformed, but progressively you 253 00:17:12.920 --> 00:17:16.160 become more and more transformed as you learn of him 254 00:17:16.200 --> 00:17:22.559 and gaze at him with a yes, with a yes, Oh, 255 00:17:22.559 --> 00:17:26.839 that was a good opportunity to say yes, beholding as 256 00:17:26.880 --> 00:17:28.480 a mirror the glory of the Lord. We are being 257 00:17:28.519 --> 00:17:34.440 transformed into the same image, from glory to glory, just 258 00:17:34.519 --> 00:17:39.039 as from the Lord the spirit. So the sphere of 259 00:17:39.079 --> 00:17:44.799 the Lord is liberty. Liberty is freedom from the lies, 260 00:17:44.920 --> 00:17:49.720 the deceit, the constraints, the obligations, the strongholds, the bondages, 261 00:17:49.759 --> 00:17:53.960 the hatred and the bitterness of first Adam. We're liberated 262 00:17:54.079 --> 00:17:58.079 out of that, and we're liberated into Christ and we're 263 00:17:58.119 --> 00:18:07.880 liberated crazy enough to we're liberated the love. Let that 264 00:18:07.960 --> 00:18:16.599 mean news to you. You're liberated to love Roman the 265 00:18:16.599 --> 00:18:19.400 eight twenty nine, for those who for those God fore knew, 266 00:18:19.960 --> 00:18:23.319 He also predestined to be conformed to the image of 267 00:18:23.319 --> 00:18:26.440 his son, that he might be the first born among 268 00:18:26.599 --> 00:18:30.240 many brothers and sisters Colossians three nine and ten. Do 269 00:18:30.240 --> 00:18:32.400 not lie to one another, since she laid aside the 270 00:18:32.440 --> 00:18:38.200 old self and it's evil practices. Every commandment in the 271 00:18:38.240 --> 00:18:42.240 Torah of the New Testament, every commandment in the epistles, 272 00:18:42.279 --> 00:18:47.519 every commandment, is all in the framework of bringing clarity 273 00:18:47.960 --> 00:18:50.720 to the perfect law of liberty, or the law of Christ, 274 00:18:50.960 --> 00:18:57.079 which is the law of love. It's all about love. 275 00:18:58.480 --> 00:19:00.640 Do not lie to one another, since you laid side 276 00:19:00.839 --> 00:19:04.200 the old self in that baptismal tank, and you've put 277 00:19:04.240 --> 00:19:06.599 on the new self. You've been raised up in Christ. 278 00:19:06.839 --> 00:19:11.559 Who is being renewed, Who's being renewed to a true 279 00:19:11.640 --> 00:19:15.960 knowledge according to the image of the One who created him, 280 00:19:16.160 --> 00:19:20.440 who created you, who's the fount of a new creation, 281 00:19:21.319 --> 00:19:24.599 who gave you his righteousness, who covered you with his blood, 282 00:19:24.839 --> 00:19:29.759 who presents you before Father, who calls you righteous, who's 283 00:19:29.759 --> 00:19:34.279 declared over your you'ar justified. Jesus has created you. Jesus 284 00:19:34.279 --> 00:19:41.000 has created us. And now we are progressively renewed fully 285 00:19:41.039 --> 00:19:51.079 into his image as we grow in knowledge about him. 286 00:19:51.279 --> 00:19:55.400 This is why it's important to read the Bible. This 287 00:19:55.480 --> 00:19:58.279 is why it's important to read about Jesus. This is 288 00:19:58.319 --> 00:20:03.160 why it's important to have devotions and have time with him, 289 00:20:03.720 --> 00:20:06.720 because if you don't have time with him, then you 290 00:20:06.880 --> 00:20:12.359 are not imaging him. You're not seeing yourself. You can 291 00:20:12.440 --> 00:20:16.680 only see yourself in the new creation raised up in 292 00:20:16.720 --> 00:20:20.279 resurrection life. If you have time looking at who he is, 293 00:20:20.720 --> 00:20:27.839 because he is who you have become. So Christians who 294 00:20:27.880 --> 00:20:33.599 have no time for the word, guess what happens. Christians 295 00:20:33.599 --> 00:20:36.519 who have no time for the Word don't have the 296 00:20:36.680 --> 00:20:40.000 image of love developing in them. If you don't have 297 00:20:40.079 --> 00:20:43.039 the image of love developing in you, you're hanging on 298 00:20:43.200 --> 00:20:45.480 to a hard heart. If you're hanging on to a 299 00:20:45.519 --> 00:20:48.079 hard heart, you have to be regulated by the law. 300 00:20:48.400 --> 00:20:50.960 If you're regulated by the law, then that means you're 301 00:20:50.960 --> 00:20:54.799 earning your righteousness with your works instead of earning your 302 00:20:54.880 --> 00:21:02.960 righteousness out of relationship. Fall back into works based We 303 00:21:03.079 --> 00:21:08.839 fall back into works based righteousness and works based living. 304 00:21:10.000 --> 00:21:14.440 If we aren't imaging Jesus within and seeing ourselves grow 305 00:21:16.319 --> 00:21:23.200 in becoming who he is, do you understand what I'm 306 00:21:23.200 --> 00:21:28.079 saying this makes sense at all? That illusion? Are you okay? 307 00:21:29.319 --> 00:21:33.039 Galatians Chapter six one and two. Brothers and Sisters, if 308 00:21:33.079 --> 00:21:38.400 someone is caught in a sin, caught or ensnared, caught 309 00:21:38.480 --> 00:21:41.480 or ensnared, not literally caught. Oh I caught you, but 310 00:21:42.119 --> 00:21:47.039 ensnared is well another right. It could be I caught 311 00:21:47.079 --> 00:21:48.599 you as well, though it could be it could be 312 00:21:48.640 --> 00:21:50.559 either one right. If I caught you, it could be 313 00:21:50.599 --> 00:21:53.640 you're ensnared. If you're ensnared, maybe I didn't catch you, 314 00:21:53.720 --> 00:21:59.559 but you need to be caught. Brothers and sisters, is 315 00:21:59.640 --> 00:22:02.119 someone who caught in a sin, you, who live by 316 00:22:02.119 --> 00:22:06.759 the spirit, should restore that person gently. But watch yourselves 317 00:22:06.880 --> 00:22:12.519 unless you also may be tempted. Carry each carry each 318 00:22:12.519 --> 00:22:21.880 other's burdens, carry each other's burdens. That's a sensitivity, have 319 00:22:22.000 --> 00:22:26.079 a sensitivity to one another. And in this way you 320 00:22:26.240 --> 00:22:32.279 fulfill the law of Christ. Now maybe you didn't even 321 00:22:32.359 --> 00:22:36.359 know that there was a New Testament law, because we 322 00:22:36.440 --> 00:22:38.119 tell you all the time you're not under law, you're 323 00:22:38.200 --> 00:22:41.519 under grace. But when we say that, what we're trying 324 00:22:41.559 --> 00:22:44.200 to say is you're not under the Old Testament law 325 00:22:44.400 --> 00:22:48.480 or laws. You're not under the Torah. You're under grace. 326 00:22:48.920 --> 00:22:51.519 But grace has a law, and the law is the 327 00:22:51.599 --> 00:22:53.799 law of Christ. And the law of Christ is the 328 00:22:53.880 --> 00:22:57.319 law of love. And the love of God is shed 329 00:22:57.599 --> 00:23:01.319 in you, shed abroad in you. The love of God 330 00:23:01.319 --> 00:23:06.160 has found a fountain expression in you. Out of your 331 00:23:06.440 --> 00:23:11.880 innermost being will flow rivers of living water, living dead water, 332 00:23:12.119 --> 00:23:16.920 living water, living water. Love is a living water. Love 333 00:23:17.039 --> 00:23:20.680 is a fountain of living water out of your innermost 334 00:23:20.680 --> 00:23:23.720 being John seven thirty nine. Out of your innermost flow 335 00:23:23.759 --> 00:23:27.960 a fountain of living water. This he spoke concerning the spirit. 336 00:23:29.559 --> 00:23:38.119 The spirit is love. John thirteen thirty four. A new commandment. 337 00:23:38.240 --> 00:23:43.799 I give you love one another as I have loved you, 338 00:23:45.680 --> 00:23:49.119 not partially as I've loved you, but fully as I've 339 00:23:49.160 --> 00:23:53.119 loved you. So you must love one another. By this, 340 00:23:53.319 --> 00:23:56.480 everyone will know that you're my disciples. If you love 341 00:23:56.519 --> 00:24:01.400 one another. This is the crazy thing about the new 342 00:24:01.440 --> 00:24:07.559 creation life. Because we've put Adam to death, first Adam, 343 00:24:08.759 --> 00:24:11.319 and we have sprung up out of first atom into 344 00:24:11.519 --> 00:24:15.599 last atom, second atom. Resurrection. Life, Holy Spirit is now 345 00:24:15.680 --> 00:24:18.480 living on the inside of us, empowering us, giving us 346 00:24:18.960 --> 00:24:24.519 Romans five seventeen, and abundance of grace Grace's favor, Grace's 347 00:24:24.640 --> 00:24:29.119 unmerited favor. Grace is the power to do God's will 348 00:24:29.200 --> 00:24:32.799 or to walk with God. So we have this abundance 349 00:24:32.839 --> 00:24:36.240 of grace literally springing up on the inside. And if 350 00:24:36.240 --> 00:24:38.680 you're not feeling that, if you're not like tapped into that, 351 00:24:39.000 --> 00:24:41.880 it just means there's some stuff over here because you're 352 00:24:41.880 --> 00:24:45.720 not delivered. I just I got some words for him. 353 00:24:46.960 --> 00:24:54.759 Legal freedom out of Adam isn't deliverance. You knew that. 354 00:24:54.759 --> 00:24:56.920 If you've been to restored life, you knew that legal 355 00:24:56.960 --> 00:25:06.759 freedom is not deliverance. Optismal experience is your death. Now 356 00:25:07.119 --> 00:25:14.079 you need to dismiss the partnerships that you had in 357 00:25:14.119 --> 00:25:16.880 the unclean realm. Now you could have never done that 358 00:25:17.359 --> 00:25:22.079 until you were recognized that you were dead to that past. Right, 359 00:25:23.720 --> 00:25:29.079 So now I come over here into resurrection life. Yes, 360 00:25:30.160 --> 00:25:34.559 but I've got stuff. I've got stuff still talking to me. 361 00:25:35.359 --> 00:25:38.519 I've got coveteous desires. I can't figure out why they 362 00:25:38.559 --> 00:25:42.799 have an airplane, and I don't why they have ten 363 00:25:42.880 --> 00:25:47.920 inch mags and I have skinny little wheels. Why they 364 00:25:47.920 --> 00:25:54.200 have you know, vinyl sighting? And I've just got would right, 365 00:25:55.440 --> 00:25:57.400 We've got all sorts of things that happen over here 366 00:25:57.440 --> 00:26:03.880 on this side, and we're gonna get ministered to by 367 00:26:04.000 --> 00:26:09.920 some of these voices. But because we put them to death, 368 00:26:11.200 --> 00:26:16.359 we have power over them. Right. So here we are, 369 00:26:16.680 --> 00:26:19.440 here we are a new commandment. I give you to 370 00:26:19.599 --> 00:26:23.839 love one another. And by this they will know you're 371 00:26:23.920 --> 00:26:29.400 my disciples. If you love one another, who will know? 372 00:26:34.160 --> 00:26:39.240 Shouldn't we just love Christians? I mean, isn't that what 373 00:26:39.359 --> 00:26:42.960 Jesus did? Pretty much? What Jesus did, Jesus is perfect theology. 374 00:26:43.440 --> 00:26:45.799 Jesus ran around for thirty three and a half years, 375 00:26:46.400 --> 00:26:48.839 three and a half years of ministry. Didn't he pretty 376 00:26:48.880 --> 00:26:57.480 much just love Christians? Righteous people? Okay, so let's let's 377 00:26:57.559 --> 00:26:59.640 let's go with that. Let's let's go over here and 378 00:26:59.680 --> 00:27:03.000 read that at Luke six. If you love those who 379 00:27:03.079 --> 00:27:07.960 love you, what credit is that to you? Even sinners 380 00:27:08.039 --> 00:27:14.480 love those who love them. So this is interesting. Uh, 381 00:27:14.519 --> 00:27:16.960 If you love those who love you, that's not a gope. 382 00:27:17.400 --> 00:27:23.559 That's conditional love. The calling, the anointing, the flow of 383 00:27:23.640 --> 00:27:28.079 God in us who are new creation believers, is a 384 00:27:28.079 --> 00:27:34.559 gope love. It's unconditional love, it's without precondition. Sinners can 385 00:27:34.640 --> 00:27:38.920 fileao one another brotherly love Philadelphia. That's where we get 386 00:27:38.920 --> 00:27:44.319 the city fileo. Sinners can fileyo one another, they can 387 00:27:44.519 --> 00:27:49.279 errous one another. But our calling is to agape one another. 388 00:27:50.119 --> 00:27:53.359 And agape means we don't look for precondition with people. 389 00:27:53.960 --> 00:27:56.559 A gope means we don't have. People don't have to 390 00:27:56.599 --> 00:27:59.720 measure up, they don't have to get worthy. We're called 391 00:27:59.759 --> 00:28:05.240 the like Jesus loves right. And if you do good 392 00:28:05.279 --> 00:28:07.680 to those who do good to you, what credit is that? 393 00:28:07.720 --> 00:28:11.160 Even sinners do that? And if you lend, he's gonna 394 00:28:11.200 --> 00:28:14.559 get it in your back pocket? Now, everybody, grab your wallet. 395 00:28:16.200 --> 00:28:20.079 If you lend to those whom you expect repayment, what 396 00:28:20.119 --> 00:28:23.200 credit is that to you? Even as sinners lend to 397 00:28:23.240 --> 00:28:27.279 sinners expecting to be repaid in full. But love your 398 00:28:27.359 --> 00:28:30.880 enemies and do good to them, and lend to them 399 00:28:30.920 --> 00:28:37.319 without expecting to get anything back. Then your reward would 400 00:28:37.359 --> 00:28:46.079 be great. Did you hear that? Maybe that's why some 401 00:28:46.119 --> 00:28:50.160