WEBVTT 1 00:00:00.520 --> 00:00:01.919 Yeah, let's pray over the Word. Father. 2 00:00:01.960 --> 00:00:06.360 We just ask you to minister to our hearts, Holy Spirit, 3 00:00:07.719 --> 00:00:14.400 Minister clarity, Minister of wisdom, minister through the Word. We 4 00:00:14.400 --> 00:00:18.839 we welcome not only your anointing in the Word, but 5 00:00:18.879 --> 00:00:22.839 we welcome, uh, you to just talk to us through 6 00:00:22.879 --> 00:00:29.320 the Word, to affirm, to confirm things that we haven't 7 00:00:29.359 --> 00:00:33.759 seen before, things we've never heard before. And not only 8 00:00:33.960 --> 00:00:39.200 through your servant, but through the atmosphere as you brood 9 00:00:39.280 --> 00:00:42.039 over us, Holy Spirit, we welcome you. We thank you 10 00:00:42.079 --> 00:00:47.399 for it in Jesus' name. And everybody said, Amen, I've 11 00:00:47.439 --> 00:00:51.679 got a memory. I've got you know, it's it's it's 12 00:00:51.679 --> 00:00:55.119 a reoccurring memory. And I don't I don't have it perfect. 13 00:00:55.200 --> 00:00:57.719 But my parents, you know, we're really big berry pickers. 14 00:00:59.320 --> 00:01:00.399 Ever heard of the bear picker? 15 00:01:02.320 --> 00:01:02.679 Uh? 16 00:01:02.719 --> 00:01:05.920 And uh you know, so whenever it was berry's season, 17 00:01:07.439 --> 00:01:09.799 they would take us somewhere, my brother and I and 18 00:01:10.000 --> 00:01:12.200 older brother four years older than me, still alive. 19 00:01:13.000 --> 00:01:13.959 Uh and uh. 20 00:01:15.879 --> 00:01:17.599 I had to say that we're getting up there, you know, 21 00:01:19.480 --> 00:01:22.640 so live live, but we would go berry pick them 22 00:01:22.840 --> 00:01:27.640 and my parents they were they were like like eccentric 23 00:01:27.680 --> 00:01:30.000 about this, like they were over the top about this 24 00:01:30.680 --> 00:01:33.959 like my They would make little buckets for us and 25 00:01:34.159 --> 00:01:36.640 cut slots in the bucket and then put a belt on. 26 00:01:36.680 --> 00:01:39.200 Us, and the belt would go through the bucket. 27 00:01:42.079 --> 00:01:43.879 Yeah, and so the belt would go through the bucket, 28 00:01:43.920 --> 00:01:46.359 and so you know, essentially all you had to do 29 00:01:46.480 --> 00:01:48.239 was kind of you know, pull the berries and then 30 00:01:48.280 --> 00:01:52.319 get them into the bucket somehow. And of course, you know, 31 00:01:52.439 --> 00:01:55.560 as as young people, my brother and I we would 32 00:01:55.560 --> 00:01:59.799 probably eat more of the berries than we picked, you know, 33 00:02:00.120 --> 00:02:02.519 so it was hard to stay up with the very 34 00:02:02.519 --> 00:02:05.959 picking because the eating was so good. So this would 35 00:02:06.000 --> 00:02:08.759 be you know, every kind of berry, but the most 36 00:02:08.840 --> 00:02:14.599 dangerous berry was the BlackBerry, because you know, and I'm 37 00:02:14.680 --> 00:02:18.199 sure that I whimpered, and you know, who knows what 38 00:02:18.240 --> 00:02:21.360 else I did, you know, because I was I was 39 00:02:21.400 --> 00:02:24.319 the son they didn't know where he came from, and 40 00:02:24.400 --> 00:02:27.639 so because they were sure that I wasn't exactly like them, 41 00:02:28.360 --> 00:02:32.080 so you know, I would probably whimper and holler and 42 00:02:32.240 --> 00:02:35.759 cry and beller. And that was in between throwing berries 43 00:02:35.759 --> 00:02:41.439 at my brother, you know, over those thorns, those blasted thorns, 44 00:02:41.479 --> 00:02:43.319 you know I'm talking about, you know, all the prickly 45 00:02:43.360 --> 00:02:46.439 stuff on the blackberries. Anybody ever picked a BlackBerry. You're 46 00:02:46.479 --> 00:02:49.120 all looking at me like you've never picked a BlackBerry? 47 00:02:49.360 --> 00:02:50.000 Have you ever? 48 00:02:50.120 --> 00:02:52.919 Like come away with your hands all cut up? I 49 00:02:52.960 --> 00:02:57.159 mean your hands are are bleeding from the blackberries, right, 50 00:02:57.879 --> 00:03:01.719 and you know, no, little bitty guy, you know, what's 51 00:03:01.719 --> 00:03:03.960 that kind of a thing. But and the and the 52 00:03:04.000 --> 00:03:06.840 weird you know, the weird thing. The bummer about blackberries 53 00:03:06.919 --> 00:03:08.879 is that the best ones are always a little bit 54 00:03:08.879 --> 00:03:16.080 beyond reach, like some some thief got there before you 55 00:03:16.560 --> 00:03:18.520 and picked all the good ones that were just right 56 00:03:18.560 --> 00:03:19.479 there right. 57 00:03:19.680 --> 00:03:20.280 And now the. 58 00:03:20.240 --> 00:03:22.800 Best ones, you know, the more lush, the more plump, 59 00:03:23.159 --> 00:03:24.840 they're out there just far enough you. 60 00:03:24.759 --> 00:03:27.400 Get to really get cut up really good, you know 61 00:03:27.439 --> 00:03:28.120 what I'm talking about. 62 00:03:28.479 --> 00:03:30.800 And so you get to reach over like so many 63 00:03:30.879 --> 00:03:33.759 thorns and thistles, and you got to reach over all 64 00:03:33.800 --> 00:03:40.719 this stuff to get into the good berries. Praise the 65 00:03:40.800 --> 00:03:47.360 Lord for grocery stores. Praise the Lord for grocery stores. 66 00:03:47.520 --> 00:03:49.680 You know, we went to we went to Blueberry Hill 67 00:03:49.759 --> 00:03:52.879 and Shelane this last summer. So the whole family went 68 00:03:52.879 --> 00:03:55.080 over and did a trip and we went to Blueberry 69 00:03:55.120 --> 00:03:58.039 Hill and I saw the most amazing thing ever at 70 00:03:58.080 --> 00:04:02.240 Blueberry Hill is Shellanne. They've got these rows of blueberry bushes. Right, 71 00:04:02.719 --> 00:04:04.879 They've got a machine that looks like a big upside 72 00:04:04.919 --> 00:04:08.039 down horseshoe, and it's got four wheels and it drives 73 00:04:08.039 --> 00:04:15.080 and it picks the berries. Can you imagine such a blessing? 74 00:04:17.040 --> 00:04:18.560 I want you to I want you to focus for 75 00:04:18.600 --> 00:04:21.000 a minute. I want you to focus for on that 76 00:04:21.040 --> 00:04:25.199 crown of thorns up there, because as I'm talking about thorns, 77 00:04:25.319 --> 00:04:27.800 I want to draw your attention to what was on 78 00:04:27.839 --> 00:04:34.000 the head of Jesus while he was crucified. Genesis chapter three, 79 00:04:34.240 --> 00:04:38.040 I think it's seventeen. It says that of the curse, 80 00:04:38.120 --> 00:04:42.279 you know, of the curse. It says that thorns and 81 00:04:42.360 --> 00:04:45.439 thistles came in with the curse. There's a lot of 82 00:04:45.439 --> 00:04:48.480 stuff that came in with the curse, a lot of 83 00:04:48.560 --> 00:04:51.079 stuff that there's no you know. 84 00:04:51.120 --> 00:04:54.839 It's just like it's up in our face all the time. 85 00:04:55.800 --> 00:04:58.000 And if you weren't fighting the curse, the curse is 86 00:04:58.040 --> 00:05:00.040 fighting you. 87 00:05:00.040 --> 00:05:00.879 You know what I'm talking about. 88 00:05:01.720 --> 00:05:05.199 And the real truth is that we're fighting the curse 89 00:05:05.240 --> 00:05:08.079 every day. We're up against the curse every day because 90 00:05:08.079 --> 00:05:11.600 the curses up against us. And I'm not talking about curses. 91 00:05:11.639 --> 00:05:14.319 I'm not talking about witchcraft today, I'm talking about the 92 00:05:14.439 --> 00:05:19.040 curse that is upon the earth. Through the fall of Adam, 93 00:05:19.079 --> 00:05:22.920 everything was lost. It wasn't just eternal life that was lost. Yes, 94 00:05:22.959 --> 00:05:25.160 they could no longer go into the Tree of Life. 95 00:05:25.399 --> 00:05:30.680 There was a cherubim stationed at the eastern side of Paradise, 96 00:05:30.800 --> 00:05:34.160 the garden, so they couldn't get in. They were they 97 00:05:34.199 --> 00:05:37.680 were kicked out right, They were kicked out through their 98 00:05:37.839 --> 00:05:42.000 obedience to the demonic realm. When when when Adam obeyed, 99 00:05:42.160 --> 00:05:47.160 So if he's Romans six sixteen says to whoever you obey. 100 00:05:46.920 --> 00:05:48.279 To that one, you become a slave. 101 00:05:50.279 --> 00:05:56.199 And when Adam obeyed Lucifer Satan, this one in the garden, 102 00:05:56.240 --> 00:05:58.920 it empowered him. That's how he became the prince in 103 00:05:59.000 --> 00:06:02.000 the power of the air. You know who the Prince 104 00:06:02.040 --> 00:06:03.959 of the power of the air was. Prince just means 105 00:06:04.000 --> 00:06:06.319 first one, it means in charge. 106 00:06:06.399 --> 00:06:09.160 You know who that was? It was Adam. 107 00:06:09.319 --> 00:06:12.319 Later, when the Bible says that Satan is that, it's 108 00:06:12.439 --> 00:06:19.120 because he usurped that from Adam through the fall. And 109 00:06:19.199 --> 00:06:21.720 it wasn't. It wasn't just the Tree of life. He 110 00:06:21.720 --> 00:06:24.920 could no longer go in and partake it. The tree 111 00:06:24.920 --> 00:06:27.639 of life. It wasn't just life, eternal life that was lost. 112 00:06:29.240 --> 00:06:36.639 The whole earth shifted immediately, and overnight, the entire earth shifted, 113 00:06:37.120 --> 00:06:41.600 and suddenly there were thorns and thistles. Suddenly there were 114 00:06:41.600 --> 00:06:45.519 thorns and thistles. Suddenly there were weeds. Suddenly there was 115 00:06:45.639 --> 00:06:50.120 sickness and disease. As soon as death came in, as 116 00:06:50.160 --> 00:06:51.800 soon as death came in, as soon as they could 117 00:06:51.839 --> 00:06:57.360 no longer eat of that tree of life, and they 118 00:06:57.399 --> 00:07:00.920 were unrighteous to do their obedience to Satan. And as 119 00:07:00.959 --> 00:07:05.600 soon as that happened, sickness and disease came in. Suddenly 120 00:07:05.639 --> 00:07:08.600 they were up against sickness and disease, And sickness and 121 00:07:08.639 --> 00:07:17.199 disease was up against them. The curse was empowered, and 122 00:07:17.319 --> 00:07:21.600 the curse flourished, and the curse, and with it came. 123 00:07:22.199 --> 00:07:25.040 You know, we could name all the things we fight, 124 00:07:27.720 --> 00:07:33.600 but it's corruption, right, It's it's it's corruption in every way. 125 00:07:34.279 --> 00:07:35.040 It's poverty. 126 00:07:35.240 --> 00:07:40.680 Poverty came in, condemnation came in, Inferiority came in, Hatred 127 00:07:40.759 --> 00:07:46.279 came in, violence came in, murder came in, rage came in. 128 00:07:47.720 --> 00:07:52.160 We know all of the things that pertained to our 129 00:07:52.240 --> 00:07:56.439 humanity and to our relationship one another. Competition came in, 130 00:07:56.519 --> 00:08:01.600 Animosity came in, Separation came in. We were meant to 131 00:08:01.600 --> 00:08:05.720 compliment one another, not compete, but compliment. We were meant 132 00:08:05.759 --> 00:08:08.199 to build up one another and complete. We were meant 133 00:08:08.279 --> 00:08:13.800 to complete one another. That's why even racially today, every nation, 134 00:08:14.199 --> 00:08:16.959 that's because we complete one another. We don't compete with 135 00:08:17.079 --> 00:08:23.040 one another. We complete one another. So all of this 136 00:08:23.199 --> 00:08:25.439 came in with the fall. But here's what I want 137 00:08:25.480 --> 00:08:29.040 you to see. I want you to see that as sweeping, 138 00:08:29.199 --> 00:08:33.039 as broad, as deep, because it wasn't just the impact 139 00:08:33.159 --> 00:08:36.720 of you and I and our relationships and our own 140 00:08:36.759 --> 00:08:40.279 internal man and then our relationships one with another that 141 00:08:40.360 --> 00:08:42.679 was affected through the fall. I want you to see 142 00:08:42.720 --> 00:08:46.360 the entire earth was affected. The spirit realm was affected. 143 00:08:46.960 --> 00:08:53.600 Everything that we everything that we breathe, everything that we need, 144 00:08:54.200 --> 00:09:00.840 everything around us, everything experienced the fall. Roman Day twenty 145 00:09:00.919 --> 00:09:05.759 says that the entire earth was subject to futility. The 146 00:09:05.879 --> 00:09:09.440 entire earth was subject to flutility. Verse twenty two says 147 00:09:09.919 --> 00:09:14.480 that Verse twenty two of Roman Day says that the creation. 148 00:09:14.879 --> 00:09:21.440 Since then, the creation has been groaning, groaning like a 149 00:09:21.519 --> 00:09:27.840 mother in with birth. Thanks with groaning desiring, longing to 150 00:09:27.879 --> 00:09:32.399 be delivered, redeemed, out of the curse, out of this futility, 151 00:09:32.480 --> 00:09:37.000 out of this loss, out of this this uncleanness that 152 00:09:37.039 --> 00:09:40.600 the earth was made subject to. So this is this 153 00:09:40.679 --> 00:09:44.000 is a reality. We're up against it. It's up against us. 154 00:09:44.360 --> 00:09:48.120 And what I want you to see today, I want 155 00:09:48.159 --> 00:09:53.519 you to see something today is that Jesus came. Jesus 156 00:09:53.559 --> 00:09:59.440 came to completely reverse the curse. Now, when we get 157 00:09:59.440 --> 00:10:02.720 together a weekend like this, we get together, this was 158 00:10:02.840 --> 00:10:05.600 this was Passion week for the Church, for the for 159 00:10:05.639 --> 00:10:08.399 the Body of Christ, for all Christians globally worldwide. This 160 00:10:08.440 --> 00:10:10.679 is passion week. When we get together on a week 161 00:10:10.759 --> 00:10:13.720 like this, and we did Friday night for a good Friday. 162 00:10:13.799 --> 00:10:16.200 And yes, it's called good Friday because there was Sunday. 163 00:10:16.200 --> 00:10:18.759 If there wouldn't have been a resurrection Sunday, it wouldn't 164 00:10:18.759 --> 00:10:20.200 have been a good Friday. It would have been a 165 00:10:20.279 --> 00:10:24.320 terrible Friday. But because Sunday came, it's a good Friday. 166 00:10:24.840 --> 00:10:27.519 That's why we call it good Friday. When we get 167 00:10:27.559 --> 00:10:30.879 together for a weekend like this, though, our minds go 168 00:10:31.000 --> 00:10:35.080 to the Cross and they go to mainly in Christendom, 169 00:10:35.440 --> 00:10:38.879 our minds go to forgiveness, and that's a beautiful thing. 170 00:10:38.919 --> 00:10:41.919 Our minds go to forgiveness of sin. That's a beautiful thing. 171 00:10:42.279 --> 00:10:46.919 And then Sunday comes and we're here Easter morning, and 172 00:10:47.000 --> 00:10:49.799 we're here to celebrate the resurrections to our minds go 173 00:10:49.919 --> 00:10:55.240 to eternal life, and our minds go to because we're 174 00:10:55.240 --> 00:10:58.120 now partakers of the Tree of life again. Right, so 175 00:10:58.159 --> 00:11:01.720 that's been opened up to us again. So our minds 176 00:11:01.759 --> 00:11:07.200 go to eternal life and our home with heaven. We 177 00:11:07.240 --> 00:11:11.440 have an assurance salvation. Believing in the Lord and believing 178 00:11:11.519 --> 00:11:15.519 upon the Lord, Jesus Christ gives us this assurance that 179 00:11:15.559 --> 00:11:20.919 we know where we're headed. Right, So that's a beautiful thing. 180 00:11:20.960 --> 00:11:23.159 We want that solved, we want that settled. That's a 181 00:11:23.200 --> 00:11:27.919 big thing. But sometimes what happens is we skip. Sometimes 182 00:11:27.919 --> 00:11:32.120 we skip, sometimes we miss. Sometimes we overlook in Christianity 183 00:11:32.399 --> 00:11:36.559 that this is much more that. If that's all there was, 184 00:11:37.080 --> 00:11:40.600 if that's all there was, those two elements, we could 185 00:11:40.600 --> 00:11:44.120 be potentially content. I don't know, so many of us 186 00:11:44.240 --> 00:11:50.960 maybe are content with that. But God isn't. God isn't 187 00:11:51.039 --> 00:11:55.720 The scope of the redemption of Jesus is as big 188 00:11:56.240 --> 00:12:01.159 as the scope of the fall this single thing that 189 00:12:01.240 --> 00:12:07.960 the Fall touched. Jesus came to restore every single element, 190 00:12:08.080 --> 00:12:13.080 every single thing, every single issue. I mean, it gets 191 00:12:13.120 --> 00:12:15.360 so vast that when you get over to Isaiah sixty five, 192 00:12:15.399 --> 00:12:18.279 we're not gonna read it this morning. You know, if 193 00:12:18.320 --> 00:12:19.840 you've been here, it's my favorite. It's one of my 194 00:12:19.879 --> 00:12:23.600 favorite passages. Isaiah sixty five, seventeen through twenty three. Write 195 00:12:23.600 --> 00:12:26.759 it down, read it later. But you'll see that as 196 00:12:26.879 --> 00:12:31.679 restoration goes, the restoration gets so vast that even the 197 00:12:31.799 --> 00:12:37.000 violence between the animals receives the shaloma the Lord, and 198 00:12:37.080 --> 00:12:40.480 everything is shifted as God's redeeming the planet. This is 199 00:12:40.519 --> 00:12:44.240 before the Second Coming, before the Second Coming. The shift 200 00:12:44.320 --> 00:12:48.639 is so vast that the violence between the nations is 201 00:12:48.679 --> 00:12:51.639 no more, the violence between the animals no more. 202 00:12:52.159 --> 00:12:53.159 That peace is. 203 00:12:53.080 --> 00:12:55.559 Flooding the earth, and the knowledge of the glory of 204 00:12:55.559 --> 00:12:59.000 the Lord fills the earth like the waters cover the sea. 205 00:12:59.279 --> 00:13:03.759 So does the peace of God. So does the peace 206 00:13:03.799 --> 00:13:09.000 of God. So God is working out this restoration, and 207 00:13:09.039 --> 00:13:15.440 this restoration is removing and overcoming the curse and pouring 208 00:13:15.440 --> 00:13:19.279 out a blessing that exceeds the power or the influence 209 00:13:19.320 --> 00:13:24.320 of the curse. The blessing of God, the blessing of 210 00:13:24.360 --> 00:13:29.799 God in Christ exceeds the power of the curse, the 211 00:13:29.840 --> 00:13:33.399 influence of the curse. Let me read this to you. 212 00:13:32.919 --> 00:13:39.320 You gotta hear this one. This is Romans five seventeen. 213 00:13:39.480 --> 00:13:41.480 Romans five seventeen. I think we can go to it. 214 00:13:42.039 --> 00:13:47.879 For if by the trespass of the one man, death 215 00:13:47.960 --> 00:13:51.879 reigned through that one man. And this literally, this is 216 00:13:51.919 --> 00:13:56.480 literally death touching everything, right, This is death touching everything. 217 00:13:57.080 --> 00:14:03.399 Death reigned, Death reigned, Death was reigning. Death reigned through 218 00:14:03.440 --> 00:14:05.519 that one man. He's talking about first atom. Through the 219 00:14:05.600 --> 00:14:09.919 trespass of that first atom, Death reigned through that one man. 220 00:14:10.120 --> 00:14:11.279 How much more will. 221 00:14:11.120 --> 00:14:17.759 Those who receive God's abundant provision of grace. I love 222 00:14:17.840 --> 00:14:20.080 what Pastor Dennis was doing this morning. He was kind 223 00:14:20.080 --> 00:14:22.440 of getting this worked up a little bit, right, Were 224 00:14:22.519 --> 00:14:28.240 you worked up? Were you unhappy? Because he was reading 225 00:14:28.320 --> 00:14:31.519 John ten ten And you'll notice Jesus said that. 226 00:14:31.519 --> 00:14:33.720 I came to give you life. 227 00:14:33.799 --> 00:14:36.120 He was giving it to us oudam an expanded translation, 228 00:14:36.279 --> 00:14:39.159 really helping us. But Jesus said I came to give 229 00:14:39.200 --> 00:14:44.080 you life and life more abundantly. Now you notice he 230 00:14:44.120 --> 00:14:47.480 didn't say I've come to give you religion and religion 231 00:14:47.480 --> 00:14:50.639 more abundantly. And we know we know the Lord. We 232 00:14:50.679 --> 00:14:52.600 know that, we know that we know the Lord. But 233 00:14:52.679 --> 00:14:56.480 what happens is, sometimes in Christianity we missed the life part. 234 00:14:57.320 --> 00:15:00.440 We aren't supposed to believe for a good life. Now, 235 00:15:00.480 --> 00:15:03.120 your good life, that's coming after the Second Coming, that's 236 00:15:03.120 --> 00:15:07.000 coming after you depart, that's coming after Heaven, that's coming after. 237 00:15:06.919 --> 00:15:08.320 Whatever the end is for you. 238 00:15:08.720 --> 00:15:12.960 That's what we Sometimes we frame it that way in Christianity. 239 00:15:13.000 --> 00:15:15.679 But when we do so, we miss that he's dealt 240 00:15:15.720 --> 00:15:18.440 with the curse. We miss that that crown of thorns 241 00:15:18.480 --> 00:15:20.879 on his head went all the way back to Genesis 242 00:15:20.879 --> 00:15:24.360 three seventeen and eighteen, that the curse came in, and 243 00:15:24.399 --> 00:15:28.159 by the curse came thorns and thistles, and he wore 244 00:15:28.240 --> 00:15:33.039 that crown on purpose to symbolize the destruction of the curse, 245 00:15:33.480 --> 00:15:39.000 the overcoming of the curse, the complete removal of the curse. 246 00:15:42.480 --> 00:15:45.559 So here he's calling this grace that we've received, and 247 00:15:45.679 --> 00:15:48.080 the grace that we've received we know from Ephesians two 248 00:15:48.120 --> 00:15:51.120 six through eight even that the grace flows by faith. 249 00:15:53.080 --> 00:15:56.440 It's not of our works, lest any of us could 250 00:15:56.440 --> 00:16:01.080 boast The grace we receive is the outpour of God's favor. 251 00:16:01.399 --> 00:16:04.480 It is not by works lest any of us could boast. 252 00:16:05.559 --> 00:16:09.600 It is the outpouring of God's favor shown us in Christ, 253 00:16:09.679 --> 00:16:14.360 Jesus demonstrated through the sacrifice of the Sun on our behalf, 254 00:16:15.720 --> 00:16:19.639 and we partake of it by faith. So this grace, 255 00:16:20.279 --> 00:16:24.440 God's favor, God's kindness, God's outpouring. It's the power to 256 00:16:24.559 --> 00:16:28.120 walk in his divine will. It's the power to walk 257 00:16:28.159 --> 00:16:32.519 with him. It's the power to enter into communion. That 258 00:16:32.600 --> 00:16:41.320 grace is abundant. It's an abundant grace. I want to 259 00:16:41.360 --> 00:16:42.919 go back to Romans five seventeen. 260 00:16:44.120 --> 00:16:44.919 How much were. 261 00:16:44.840 --> 00:16:50.639 Will those who receive God's abundant provision of grace and 262 00:16:50.720 --> 00:16:56.080 the gift of righteousness reign in life through the one 263 00:16:56.360 --> 00:16:58.519 man Christ, Jesus. 264 00:17:01.000 --> 00:17:03.559 Reign in life? Does he hear that? 265 00:17:05.559 --> 00:17:08.720 Hey, listen, if you're here for baptism, I'm gonna dismiss 266 00:17:08.720 --> 00:17:12.319 you right now. We've got a bunch of these seventeen 267 00:17:12.359 --> 00:17:23.200 getting baptized at the end of our server. So go 268 00:17:23.240 --> 00:17:29.839 ahead and get ready and then come back into the auditorium. Halleluja. 269 00:17:29.920 --> 00:17:43.720 Give them another hand as they go I'm gonna go 270 00:17:43.759 --> 00:17:47.119 back to that. It's it's worth going back to because 271 00:17:47.160 --> 00:17:51.319 here I I want you to hear this. Those who 272 00:17:51.359 --> 00:17:54.440 receive the abundance of grace, what how, what is the 273 00:17:54.519 --> 00:18:01.680 quantity of the grace? Abundance of grace will rain in life? Wow, 274 00:18:02.359 --> 00:18:04.480 now this is interesting. He didn't say they will rain 275 00:18:04.599 --> 00:18:07.839 in church. He didn't say they were rain in the sanctuary. 276 00:18:07.880 --> 00:18:10.400 He didn't say they'll reign in the synagogue. He didn't 277 00:18:10.400 --> 00:18:12.960 say they'll reign in religion. He didn't say they'll reign 278 00:18:13.039 --> 00:18:16.160 in religious traditions. He didn't say they'll reign in the 279 00:18:16.200 --> 00:18:20.319 sacrificial system. He didn't say they'll reign in ministry. Now, 280 00:18:20.400 --> 00:18:22.559 all of that could be true. All of that could 281 00:18:22.640 --> 00:18:25.359 be true as well, because I'm going to read two 282 00:18:25.440 --> 00:18:27.519 Peter chapter one to you in a moment. 283 00:18:28.079 --> 00:18:28.799 That's all true. 284 00:18:28.880 --> 00:18:31.839 But God is trying to get something across through the 285 00:18:31.880 --> 00:18:35.640 writer that sometimes we miss. Sometimes we miss what God 286 00:18:35.720 --> 00:18:38.640 is trying to communicate through the writer or the writing. 287 00:18:39.279 --> 00:18:43.359 Because what really what we we're gonna leave here today? 288 00:18:43.400 --> 00:18:46.640 We came to the house, we are believers in Jesus. 289 00:18:46.759 --> 00:18:50.480 We got lint on our shirt. I'm dropping plastic wrappers 290 00:18:50.519 --> 00:18:53.839 out of my pocket. You didn't see it because you 291 00:18:53.880 --> 00:18:56.559 had your eyes closed praying over the sermon. 292 00:18:57.160 --> 00:19:01.359 Oh you did see. You were cheety, so you know 293 00:19:01.440 --> 00:19:02.799 it might have been a muffin. I don't know, but 294 00:19:03.160 --> 00:19:04.680 you know, here we are, we're trying. 295 00:19:04.960 --> 00:19:07.319 We're gonna leave here and we're gonna be back up 296 00:19:07.359 --> 00:19:10.960 against the curse and the curses up against us. And 297 00:19:11.039 --> 00:19:16.799 so that's life. That's life. That's life. That's life. We're 298 00:19:16.799 --> 00:19:20.079 gonna leave here and engage in life again. But he said, 299 00:19:20.160 --> 00:19:28.319 we're gonna reign in life. This is important because if 300 00:19:28.319 --> 00:19:31.279 we don't wrap our hearts around this, if we don't 301 00:19:31.279 --> 00:19:33.839 wrap our mind and our hearts and our thinking and 302 00:19:33.880 --> 00:19:37.480 our thoughts around this, we can't wrap our faith around it. 303 00:19:37.519 --> 00:19:39.519 If we don't wrap our faith around it, we can't 304 00:19:39.559 --> 00:19:43.880 partake of it. You can't partake of what you don't 305 00:19:44.000 --> 00:19:48.559 wrap your faith around because because if you can't wrap 306 00:19:48.599 --> 00:19:53.279 your heart and your mind around what, he's literally overtaking 307 00:19:53.319 --> 00:19:55.839 you with wow. 308 00:19:57.079 --> 00:19:59.640 Grace, the grace poured out. 309 00:19:59.559 --> 00:20:03.599 Upon you in Jesus is not something you need to 310 00:20:03.640 --> 00:20:07.799 beg God for petition, God for Jesus. 311 00:20:08.279 --> 00:20:09.319 He tells us. 312 00:20:09.279 --> 00:20:16.000 We can't earn it, and we don't deserve it. It's 313 00:20:16.079 --> 00:20:18.680 more like the blessing of Deuteronomy chapter twenty eight and 314 00:20:18.720 --> 00:20:22.400 Deuteronomy chapter twenty eight. It says, all these blessings will 315 00:20:22.680 --> 00:20:23.799 overtake you. 316 00:20:25.319 --> 00:20:26.920 There. He's in there. 317 00:20:29.480 --> 00:20:34.319 So many times, our thinking, our Christian thinking, our background, 318 00:20:34.440 --> 00:20:37.279 our theology, what we've been trained or taught or heard 319 00:20:37.920 --> 00:20:40.640 it positions us as a beggar. We're still a beggar. 320 00:20:41.200 --> 00:20:44.480 We're still a beggar. We still don't deserve anything, and 321 00:20:44.519 --> 00:20:46.680 we're still a beggar. And so we have to petition 322 00:20:46.720 --> 00:20:50.559 and petition and petition, and maybe after a long period 323 00:20:50.559 --> 00:20:53.319 of petitioning you, we might get God's favor. We might 324 00:20:53.359 --> 00:20:55.920 earn an answer from God. We might get a breakthrough 325 00:20:55.920 --> 00:20:59.000 from God. We might deserve something before God. We really, 326 00:20:59.480 --> 00:21:02.160 we need to say, subdue ourselves, and we need to 327 00:21:02.160 --> 00:21:04.319 get really calm, We need to get pious, we need 328 00:21:04.319 --> 00:21:06.440 to get very, We need to get and we need 329 00:21:06.480 --> 00:21:09.440 to earn this thing we need to And an earning 330 00:21:09.599 --> 00:21:14.039 can get woven into our thinking subconsciously, and we don't 331 00:21:14.079 --> 00:21:17.359 even realize it. And so even when we wake in 332 00:21:17.440 --> 00:21:19.759 the morning, we don't wake with expectancy. 333 00:21:20.160 --> 00:21:23.359 We wake wondering what we have to do. 334 00:21:23.440 --> 00:21:28.359 First in order to get God's favor, God's word, God's help, 335 00:21:28.440 --> 00:21:32.119 God's insight, God's wisdom. 336 00:21:32.160 --> 00:21:34.920 But that isn't the way this operates. That isn't. 337 00:21:35.119 --> 00:21:37.720 This is called the gospel, and the gospel means good 338 00:21:37.759 --> 00:21:42.519 news and the good news of God's grace that's accessed 339 00:21:42.519 --> 00:21:43.359 by your faith. 340 00:21:45.000 --> 00:21:47.640 The good news of this is that when you believe, 341 00:21:48.160 --> 00:21:49.799 when you just believe. 342 00:21:49.960 --> 00:21:53.960 Before you've said one prayer, before you've earned anything, before 343 00:21:54.000 --> 00:21:57.319 you've served anybody, before you've even got the second eye 344 00:21:57.319 --> 00:22:02.279 lid open, it's already pull is already there, wanting to 345 00:22:02.359 --> 00:22:06.799 overtake you with answers for today, with insight for today, 346 00:22:07.359 --> 00:22:10.680 with blessings for today, so that the blessing on you 347 00:22:11.079 --> 00:22:12.079 will cause you to. 348 00:22:12.039 --> 00:22:12.839 Reign in life. 349 00:22:13.279 --> 00:22:20.680 And it'll be greater than the curse Jesus. It's greater 350 00:22:20.799 --> 00:22:28.480 than the curse tewod Peter, Chapter one, verse two. Grace 351 00:22:28.519 --> 00:22:32.000 and peace be multiplied to you. Grace and peace, oh, oh, 352 00:22:32.039 --> 00:22:35.640 even more be multiplied to you in the knowledge of 353 00:22:35.680 --> 00:22:38.559 God and of Jesus our Lord, seeing that his divine 354 00:22:38.640 --> 00:22:45.240 power has granted to us everything, how many things, everything 355 00:22:45.640 --> 00:22:51.839 pertaining to life and godliness pertaining to life, Why did 356 00:22:51.839 --> 00:22:53.759 he put that in there? Why didn't he just stick 357 00:22:54.079 --> 00:22:57.440 with the spiritual stuff. Why didn't he say everything pertaining 358 00:22:57.519 --> 00:22:59.640 that godliness? Why did he have to throw. 359 00:22:59.480 --> 00:23:03.160 In that life stuff? Because this is God's kindness. 360 00:23:03.319 --> 00:23:06.319 This is God's favor, this is God's love, This is 361 00:23:06.400 --> 00:23:17.319 God in Christ, completely redeeming us holy, reversing the curse, 362 00:23:17.640 --> 00:23:22.920 reversing the curse, this is God. God desires to fully 363 00:23:23.119 --> 00:23:25.480 reverse the curse. I want to read to you out 364 00:23:25.480 --> 00:23:30.559 of Romans chapter eight, if I can find it, Romans 365 00:23:30.640 --> 00:23:34.920 chapter verse twenty. This is one I kind of alluded 366 00:23:34.960 --> 00:23:37.599 to before, but it's worth reading again for the creation 367 00:23:38.319 --> 00:23:41.680 with subjected to futility, not willingly, because of Him who 368 00:23:41.720 --> 00:23:42.559 subjected it. 369 00:23:43.200 --> 00:23:47.480 In hope, in what? In what? 370 00:23:48.799 --> 00:23:56.680 In hope, God saw the redemption from the moment that 371 00:23:56.799 --> 00:24:01.400 he cursed the earth because of our all, because of 372 00:24:01.440 --> 00:24:05.119 our separation, because of our disobedience, because of Adam's allegiance 373 00:24:05.160 --> 00:24:09.480 to Satan, which loosed all of this on the earth. 374 00:24:09.799 --> 00:24:13.839 God saw at that moment he saw something hope sees. 375 00:24:14.319 --> 00:24:18.440 Hope is the power of imagination to see something good. 376 00:24:18.960 --> 00:24:24.640 God saw redemption, He saw the earth restored, He saw 377 00:24:24.759 --> 00:24:28.559 the cursory verse. He saw the working of the sun 378 00:24:29.119 --> 00:24:32.880 at that very moment. He subjected it in hope because 379 00:24:33.000 --> 00:24:38.960 the creation itself will also be delivered from the bondage 380 00:24:39.000 --> 00:24:46.359 of corruption into the glorious liberty of the children of God. Now, 381 00:24:46.400 --> 00:24:48.519 I want to submit this to you. I want to 382 00:24:48.559 --> 00:24:52.880 submit that this is not this is not an instantaneous 383 00:24:52.960 --> 00:24:55.880 thing that happens. This is something that's being worked out 384 00:24:55.920 --> 00:25:00.759 right now. This is being worked out right now. God 385 00:25:01.000 --> 00:25:04.960 is actually restoring the earth right now. God is because 386 00:25:05.000 --> 00:25:08.200 he's restoring the sons and daughters of God. And this 387 00:25:08.319 --> 00:25:13.279 says that even as we've received liberty, the glorious liberty 388 00:25:13.279 --> 00:25:16.559 of the children, even as we've received liberty, we are 389 00:25:16.599 --> 00:25:19.920 the ones who lead the way for the curse to 390 00:25:19.920 --> 00:25:22.880 be reversed in the earth. We're the ones who lead 391 00:25:22.920 --> 00:25:26.240 the way for the earth to be restored. We're leading 392 00:25:26.279 --> 00:25:38.200 the way. So I want you to think about that 393 00:25:38.279 --> 00:25:41.960 cross for a moment. Think about that cross for a moment, 394 00:25:42.039 --> 00:25:47.720 and the reversing of the curse. The crown of thorns 395 00:25:47.759 --> 00:25:52.160 represented the curse on the earth. He's taken it on. 396 00:25:53.440 --> 00:25:58.640 The males represented the victory of his perfection over sin 397 00:25:58.839 --> 00:26:05.240 and Satan. The nails represented his victory, the victory of 398 00:26:05.319 --> 00:26:12.759 His perfection, his perfection offered in our place. Colossians chapter 399 00:26:12.799 --> 00:26:18.400 two says that every nail, every hammer blow on those nails, 400 00:26:19.000 --> 00:26:25.880 was actually God nailing the judgment of Satan against us, 401 00:26:25.960 --> 00:26:30.880