Hello, friends, and welcome
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to another Wednesday
night Bible study here
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at A Sharper Focus.
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We're coming to you live
from the 3ABN Worship Center
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right here in Southern Illinois.
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And if you're in the
Caribbean, pray for us,
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it's a lot colder
here than it is there.
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So we're here tonight
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and we're going to
rely on the Holy Spirit
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to warm up our hearts
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and strengthen our minds
as we study His word together.
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Get your Bibles, get your pens,
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and you can go to a website
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that I'll give you
the address right now.
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If you want to copy of
the lesson for tonight,
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that website is ASF.3abn.org,
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omit the www.
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We're getting
more techie nowadays.
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You don't have to put that.
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But if you do,
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it'll inhibit you from
finding this particular website.
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And the lesson
is lesson number 11,
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Facing or Face the Challenges.
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We've started already.
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So tonight,
we're going to continue
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in our study of
what those challenges are
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and how we can
face those successfully.
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But thank you
for all that you do
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for 3ABN, your
prayers, your financial support,
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and even those of you
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that have come here
periodically to volunteer,
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we do appreciate
that very, very much.
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And on a different note,
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many of you watch
from around the world.
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But tonight, I want to
send particular condolences
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to the Johnson family in Texas.
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We found out about
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one of our faithful
Wednesday night viewer's,
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he always looked
forward to the song,
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"Victory in
Jesus," and unfortunately,
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he was laid to rest last week.
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So our
condolences go out to you.
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And we know that you love 3ABN,
but our prayers are with you,
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Lavern, and your family
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during this time of bereavement.
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And because this
is a live program,
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we can stay
up-to-date on what's happening
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in our 3ABN
family around the world.
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So thank you for
all of you who tuned in.
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But now invite your
family and friends to join us
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as we invite the Lord's presence
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through prayer
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and then we're
going to sing our song,
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"Victory in Jesus."
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Let's pray together.
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Heavenly Father,
we thank you tonight
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that we do have
the victory in Jesus
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even though the battle
for humanity's salvation
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is still waging
fiercely around us.
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Help us to look to the
cross in the empty tomb
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and to know
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that we do have victory
already is ours to claim.
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We talked about
the human factor,
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and tonight, we talk
about the divine challenge
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of how to live
the victorious life,
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how to live a spiritual
life in a natural body,
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so guide us and
impress upon our minds
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how important it is
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to trust in
Christ and Him alone.
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In Jesus' name we pray, amen.
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Well, join us if
you like on our song,
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"Victory in Jesus."
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It's on our screen here
for those of you who are local,
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and if you know the
song, sing along with us.
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I heard an old, old story
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How a Savior came from glory
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How He gave His life on Calvary
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To save a wretch like me
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I heard about His groaning
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Of His precious blood's atoning
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Then I repented of my sins
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And won the victory
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Oh victory in Jesus
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My Savior forever
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He sought me and bought me
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With His redeeming blood
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He loved me 'ere I knew Him
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And all my love is due Him
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He plunged me to victory
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Beneath the cleansing flood
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I heard about a mansion
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He has built for me in glory
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And I heard about
the streets of gold
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Beyond the crystal sea
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About the angels singing
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And the old redemption story
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And some sweet day
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I'll sing up there
the song of victory
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Oh victory in Jesus
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My Savior forever
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He sought me and bought me
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With His redeeming blood
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He loved me 'ere I knew Him
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And all my love is due Him
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He plunged me to victory
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Beneath the cleansing flood
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He plunged me to victory
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Beneath the cleansing flood
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Amen? Amen.
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We continue on our topic,
How to Face the Challenges.
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There are challenges
in our lives every day,
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isn't that right?
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I mean, each of
us has a challenge,
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whether it is
financial, whether it is social,
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it could be family,
friends, it could be your job,
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it could be your automobile,
it could be incidents of life
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that are not planned
for or not anticipated.
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But all those challenges
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seem to fade into
a minimal importance
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when we think about
the challenge of salvation,
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the challenge of
living the spiritual life.
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So tonight, we have our
Bibles, we've got our pens,
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we've got our
papers, and once again,
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if you're just tuned in,
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go to our website ASF.3abn.org,
and download lesson number 11,
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titled Face the Challenges.
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Now just to lay the foundation,
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tonight, I thank the Lord
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that we are not who
we were created to be.
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Amen.
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Now to understand that,
I'm not speaking about gender,
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I'm thanking God
that I'm created,
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and I am still the gender
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I'm supposed to
be, amen, everybody.
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Amen. That's not my point.
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I am thanking God
that through the new birth,
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I am not who I was born to be.
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Amen.
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Did you get that?
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Everybody is...
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Now they are all
wiping their brows,
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they understand now.
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If you still are
who you were born as,
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you've got to be born again.
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Amen.
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But if you are not
who you were born as,
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that is, in the same nature,
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then you can thank God tonight
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because if you try
to face the challenges
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that are spiritual in a
completely natural nature,
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you're not going
to be victorious.
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You're going to
fail over and over.
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It's difficult
enough for those of us
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who are spiritual,
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for those of us who
are born again in Christ,
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it's difficult enough.
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So tonight, we're going
to talk about the challenges
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because when we
began this lesson,
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we talked about how
unreliable our hearts are,
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how unreliable our minds are,
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how our thoughts
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and God's
thoughts are far apart,
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His ways and our
ways don't even mesh,
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and that is,
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in fact, the continuing
truth about who we are.
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As John wrote in
the book of I John,
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he says, "If we
say we have no sin,
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we deceive ourselves."
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And so in this nature
that is very much spiritual,
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we're partakers
of a divine nature,
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but these
bodies are the problem.
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We still have natural
bodies and thus the topic,
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how to live a spiritual
life, follow me carefully,
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in what kind of body?
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In a natural body.
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How to live a spiritual
life in a natural body?
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We also found out
about the most vicious animal
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on the planet.
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Remember what
that vicious animal is?
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Somebody tell me.
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What's the most
vicious animal on the planet?
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Wolverine.
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The Wolverine?
No. The human tongue.
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Remember I said, if you
go to a pet's shop and say,
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"I want an," then they say,
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"What kind of
pet would you like?"
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Then I say,
"Well, I want the mean...
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I want a pet that is unruly
and evil, and when it bites,
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I want a one that has a bite
that's full of deadly poison."
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We even came to
find out that our tongues
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are an unruly evil
full of deadly poison.
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So we can't even
rely on our speech
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unless we put our mouths
under the control of the Lord.
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Hearts are messed
up, minds are messed up.
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Our speech is an indication
of the condition of our hearts.
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That's the divine,
that's the human challenge.
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But we also found out
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that in these
challenges that we have,
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there is a divine
process that brings to us
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the kind of victory
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that we can find only in Christ.
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And so tonight,
I'd like to begin
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with question number 15
which talks about that process.
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It reveals to us
what that process is.
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And when you read the text
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as we first give
you the question,
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you will discover, it
is not anything that we do
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but it's everything
that God does in us.
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Now look at question number 15.
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Here it is.
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"Through what process
are the changes made in our,"
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what natures?
"In our old natures."
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We've got an old one,
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and hopefully we have a new one.
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The old has
passed away hopefully.
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We're going to go to Ezekiel 36,
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and we're going to look together
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at verse 26 and verse 27.
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Ezekiel is a book that...
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It's a pretty heavy book.
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Not a lot of sermons come
out of the book of Ezekiel
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because there's a
lot of prophecy there.
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But in this particular vision,
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Ezekiel is faced with a
value of what kind of bones?
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Very dry bones.
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And the process of bringing
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those bones back
to life had to do
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with more than just putting skin
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and giving it sinew,
muscles, but it was something
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that was on the
inside of those bodies
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that led them to be
very dry dead bones.
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And the Lord not
wanting that to happen again,
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He said, "I'm going to do
something different this time.
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There is something I'm
going to put on the inside
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that wasn't there before."
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Look at the verses.
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Ezekiel 36:26-27,
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and wherever you
see a different color,
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I'd like you to
emphasize that with me
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as we all look at
the screen together.
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Are you ready? Let's
start on the first one.
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Let's say it
together. What is that phrase?
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"I will give you
a," what kind of heart,
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"new heart and put a,"
what, "new spirit within you."
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Together.
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"I will take the heart
of stone out of your flesh
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and give you a
heart of" what, "flesh."
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Together.
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"I will put My Spirit within you
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and cause you to do,"
what, "walk in My statutes,
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and you will keep My judgments
and," what else, "do them."
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What I want you to notice
is unless the Spirit of God
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is inside of you,
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it's not possible
to keep God's statutes.
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It's not possible to live
in harmony with God's laws.
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It's not possible
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because the spirit that's in us,
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that spirit that is against God,
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that is contrary
to the law of God,
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Paul talked about that Spirit,
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he says, "I serve the law of God
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with my mind
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but I find
there's another law in me
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bringing me into captivity
to the law of sin and death."
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So you find that if
you rely on your intellect,
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if you simply say,
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even if you went
as far as saying,
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"I believe in the
Commandments of God.
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I think the
Commandments of God are true.
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I think the
Commandments of God are right.
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And so today, Janik,
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I'm going to live
completely in harmony
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with the Commandments of God."
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You fall into the same
trap the Israelites did.
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Because when
Moses brought to them
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the Commandments of God,
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they said, "All that the
Lord has said, we will do."
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We will do.
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But this verse is not a we will,
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this verse is an I will.
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The Lord is the one
that's making the changes.
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I will.
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You need a new
heart, I'll put it there.
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You need a new
spirit, I'll put it there.
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You need a heart
that is not hard,
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I'll give you a heart
that is made of flesh.
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And then I'll put
my Spirit within you.
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So unless the
Spirit of God is in us
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and that's the part
of the Christian life
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that we often leave out,
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especially as
Adventist Christians
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who know the truth,
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have a
wonderful wealth of truth,
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sometimes, we say,
"Well, we have a lot of truth,
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so we must be on
the right track."
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Well, it's not having the truth,
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but get the twist,
it's the truth having you.
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It's not us
having it intellectually
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because it's right,
we can't argue with it.
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But if the wrong
spirit is within us,
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if that heart of
stone is still there,
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we can look at the
Commandments of God
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and say they're right,
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but then we don't want
to walk in harmony with them
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because the right
spirit is not within us.
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David prayed the
prayer, "Create in me a,"
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what kind of heart,
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"clean heart, O
God and renew a,"
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what, "right, right spirit."
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New King James
says, "A steadfast."
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A right, steadfast.
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The reason for those two
words being very appropriate is
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because when you
have the right spirit,
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then you are steadfast.
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The word steadfast mean
you're not going to move,
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you are founded on a principle
that's going to stay there.
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And so in order for
us, look at the answer,
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through what
process are the changes made
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in our own nature.
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Who makes the changes? God does.
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His will makes the changes.
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That's what you
want to put down.
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His will makes the
changes, not our will
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because the natural will
needs no help to do wrong.
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Matter of fact, if
you get up in the morning,
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and I suggest this to you,
if you want to see failure,
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get up in the morning
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and fail to spend time with God.
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Really.
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If you get up in the
morning and fail to at least get
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some spiritual food in
there, you're going to find
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you've gone on
natural stuff all day long,
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and you'll find out very quickly
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that the natural can't work
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in a spiritual
walk, am I right, Karen?
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Right. You find it can't work.
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I got up this
morning, it was so good.
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I said to my wife,
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"Honey, I read three
devotions this morning,
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had a good old slow
conversation with God."
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You know, sometimes,
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you got to slow
down instead of saying,
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"Okay, let me pray.
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Father in heaven, as I
rush to work, be with me,
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I can only play a
really short prayer
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this morning."
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Sometimes, you got to stop
and just talk to God and say,
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"You know, Lord..."
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I had a good old talk with God.
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And as Ellen White says,
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"We should talk to
God as to a friend."
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Feel that we can talk,
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"You know, Lord,
been really busy,
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but I need to
really get my mind in gear
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'cause I have a lot
of things to do today.
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So talk to me
through your Word."
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And the devotion was great.
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It was in Maranatha, November,
and I read three of them,
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I was only supposed to
read one but it got so good,
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I read the days ahead.
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It is about the judgment.
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If you want something
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that will really
get you into focus,
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read about the judgment.
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That will get you
focused because oftentimes,
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Christians don't live
with the judgment in mind.
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We don't live with the idea
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that every ideal word you speak,
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everything you do,
you will be in judgment,
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even the young folk.
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The Bible says in Ecclesiastics.
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Let me give the
young folk a text tonight.
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Go with me to Ecclesiastics.
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That wonderful book,
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to show you how important
it is even for the young folks
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'cause a lot of
young people nowadays feel
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they have time before
they become a Christian.
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Well, I don't know about
that but there were people,
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there were young folks
that were lost in the flood,
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and they're going
to be some young folk
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when Jesus comes
back, isn't that right?
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So we have to remember,
when you read this text,
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I want you to notice something.
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There's going to be
an abundance of word
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that's going to be repetitive,
"Your, your, your, your."
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Ecclesiastics 11.
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Okay?
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No, 11.
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Yeah, 11.
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I'll get to 12 in a moment.
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Twelve is actually the
continuation of the verse
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that's in Ecclesiastics 11.
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All right?
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And Ecclesiastics 11,
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and we're going to
start with verse 9.
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All right.
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I want you to notice
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the difference
between I and your.
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"Rejoice, O young man,
in," in what, "your youth,
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and let your heart,"
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notice the difference
between Ezekiel and this.
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I'll put my heart,
notice, "Rejoice, O young man,
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in your youth,
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and let your heart cheer
you in the days of your youth.
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Walk in the ways of your heart,
and in the sight of your eyes.
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But know that for all these,
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God will bring
you into judgment.
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Therefore, remove sorrow from,"
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what, "your heart, put
away evil from your flesh,
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for childhood and
youth are vanity."
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That was the continuation.
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When this was written,
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there were no
separations in chapters.
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So the natural
next verse was what?
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"Remember now the creator
in the days of your youth."
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So even young people, nowadays,
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need to live with the reality
of the judgment of God in view.
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Without
remembering that, we think,
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"Well, we can be in the river,
on the bank, in the river,
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on the bank, in the
river, on the bank."
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I'll tell you what.
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Or let me use a
different analogy.
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We could be in the boat,
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on the bank, in
the boat, on the bank.
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Sooner or later, the
boat is going to move away,
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and there is no
boat left to get on to.
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And so when you
think about this,
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the greatest desire
that we must all move toward
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and pray toward, and
when I use the word work,
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I don't mean
work in our own effort
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but cooperate with the
work of the Holy Spirit
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as we must all pray
for that divine change
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to take place within us
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for God's will
to be accomplished.
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Amen? Number 16.
Let's go to number 16.
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Number 16, here it is.
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"How completely
will our past sins
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be expunged?"
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I was going to use a
simple word like wiped out,
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but I thought, "Let me give them
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a new word, expunged."
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Have you heard that word before?
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That's like a
sponge then ex, expunge.
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Okay, let's look at this.
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And we're going
to the book of Micah.
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You all know where Micah
is. Micah is a powerful book.
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How completely will
our past sins be expunged?
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One of my favorite verses.
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How many times have I said that?
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It's true. Micah 7:19.
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Look at what the Bible
says. Very encouraging text.
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"He will again...
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He will again have," what,
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"compassion on us,"
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I want you to pay attention
to the word, "He will again."
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God doesn't have
compassion one time and stop,
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He will again
have compassion on us
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and will do what?
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"Subdue our iniquities."
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And then it says,
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"You will cast,"
how many of our sins,
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"all our sins into
the depths of the sea."
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And as one preacher once said
00:19:29.56\00:19:30.90
and he'll put out
a no fishing sign.
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Because what's
happening there in that text
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when the Lord expunges our sins
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and casts them into
the depths of the sea,
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don't know if you
know how deep the ocean is,
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that the Mariana's Trench,
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I heard it's about
00:19:44.38\00:19:46.48
a lot deeper than
Mt. Everest is tall.
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Yeah, about, it is very thirty
something thousand feet deep
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and Mt. Everest
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is twenty-nine
thousand something.
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I remember talking about that.
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All of Mt.
Everest will be plunged
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under the sea and
still about 5, 000 feet
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above that before you get
to the depth of that ocean.
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Lord is, in essence, saying
He is not casting our sins
00:20:04.80\00:20:07.74
into a pond,
into a glass of water.
00:20:07.77\00:20:12.77
But He is casting
them into the what?
00:20:12.81\00:20:15.21
What tells you
is a long way down?
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Depths. Depths.
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He is saying, "I'm burying them
and I will not remember them."
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I think we should
say amen on that one.
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He is getting rid of
them and burying them
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in the depths of the
sea, and the compassion
00:20:27.66\00:20:29.56
that we have here
is what lets us know
00:20:29.59\00:20:31.89
that He completely
expunges our past sins.
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The confidence we have
is not so much how we were,
00:20:35.53\00:20:38.73
but when we come to Christ,
what He does in transforming us
00:20:38.77\00:20:41.97
from who we were to
who we can be in Him.
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So you want to write this down.
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How completely will
our past sins be expunged?
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How completely?
Give me the answer.
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Exactly.
00:20:52.81\00:20:54.15
I think the answer
is in the question.
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How completely, the
answer is in the question.
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Completely. Okay?
00:20:57.45\00:21:00.09
Almost a
repetitious redundant question,
00:21:00.12\00:21:04.69
answer I was going to say.
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How completely will
our past sins be expunged?
00:21:06.33\00:21:09.03
Completely. All right.
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Now when we know
our sins are expunged,
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it should give us a
level of confidence.
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We read last week or
last time we had the study,
00:21:22.54\00:21:25.38
yeah, last week,
00:21:25.41\00:21:26.75
"Come boldly before
the throne of grace."
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Now if you know...
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Let me give the illustration
of a child and a parent,
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if the child had
done something wrong,
00:21:34.69\00:21:37.23
and they thought the parent
were still upset with them,
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would they run to their parents?
00:21:41.16\00:21:43.70
Huh?
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What would they do?
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"Mom, uh, mom."
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They'll walk very
cautiously toward the parent.
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Huh? Cower down.
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Cower down.
00:21:56.01\00:21:57.35
They would come very
cautiously almost in a sense of,
00:21:57.38\00:22:00.65
"Mom, could I talk to
you without getting hit?
00:22:00.68\00:22:03.82
Could I talk you, Dad,
without getting in trouble?"
00:22:03.85\00:22:06.96
But that's not what
the Lord wants us to have.
00:22:06.99\00:22:09.06
That's not the
Spirit He wants us to have.
00:22:09.09\00:22:10.63
If we know that
our sins are expunged
00:22:10.66\00:22:12.23
and our sins are forgiven,
00:22:12.26\00:22:13.60
He wants us to have
a level of confidence.
00:22:13.63\00:22:15.06
Look at question number 17.
00:22:15.10\00:22:17.13
"What depth of
confidence can we have
00:22:17.17\00:22:19.67
in the cleansing
blood of Christ?"
00:22:19.70\00:22:22.80
"What depth of
confidence can we have
00:22:22.84\00:22:25.87
in the cleansing
blood of Christ?"
00:22:25.91\00:22:29.08
He talked about the ocean
00:22:29.11\00:22:30.48
but He gives another wonderful
00:22:30.51\00:22:32.38
illustration in Psalm 103:12.
00:22:32.41\00:22:37.12
Psalm 103:12.
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I actually put 13
on the page but it's...
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I mean, make sure
I'm in the right one now
00:22:45.09\00:22:46.43
'cause I have one on
one, Psalms 103, here I am.
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Right. Psalms 103:12. All right?
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It's correct on the
slide. Praise the Lord for that.
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"What depth of
confidence can we have
00:23:01.58\00:23:03.18
in the cleansing
blood of Christ?"
00:23:03.21\00:23:04.98
Here is the
answer. Psalms 103:12.
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"As far as the
east is from the west,
00:23:09.68\00:23:16.56
so far has He removed
our transgressions from us."
00:23:16.59\00:23:22.90
So how far is the east
before it becomes the west?
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If you are traveling west,
00:23:28.87\00:23:31.54
how far west do
you have to travel
00:23:31.57\00:23:32.97
to you start traveling east?
00:23:33.01\00:23:34.81
East is always east.
00:23:34.84\00:23:36.18
East is always east
and west is always west.
00:23:36.21\00:23:37.71
When I went like this,
00:23:37.75\00:23:39.08
I actually pointed
in the wrong direction
00:23:39.11\00:23:40.45
because here,
that's east and that's west
00:23:40.48\00:23:44.39
as I'm standing in the building,
00:23:44.42\00:23:45.75
am I right, Karen?
00:23:45.79\00:23:48.36
That's east, going
toward downtown Thompsonville,
00:23:48.39\00:23:51.26
that's west going
towards West Frankfort.
00:23:51.29\00:23:54.76
So how far has He
removed our sins from us?
00:23:54.80\00:23:56.83
"As far as the
east is from the west."
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So that means, if you
wake up in the morning
00:24:00.77\00:24:02.24
and you're
looking for your sins,
00:24:02.27\00:24:04.17
you've got to
travel real far west
00:24:04.21\00:24:07.14
to find out.
00:24:07.18\00:24:08.51
And you still won't find out.
And thank you. Say it again.
00:24:08.54\00:24:10.81
And you still won't find
out. Because how far they?
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As far as the east
is what? From the west.
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You won't find them.
00:24:16.52\00:24:18.05
What the Lord is, in essence,
00:24:18.09\00:24:19.42
saying by that
is He desires for us
00:24:19.45\00:24:21.79
not to be bound in
our transgressions,
00:24:21.82\00:24:24.99
not for us to remain
in our transgressions,
00:24:25.03\00:24:27.66
but not just to
cleanse us because sometimes,
00:24:27.70\00:24:29.70
you can clean clothes...
00:24:29.73\00:24:31.27
Well, let me
use an illustration,
00:24:31.30\00:24:32.63
this fits really well.
00:24:32.67\00:24:36.47
Try to be really vague here.
00:24:36.50\00:24:37.94
But we had somebody come over
and did some yard work for us,
00:24:37.97\00:24:42.28
and it really
went very, very well.
00:24:42.31\00:24:43.75
But after they did the
yard work, they actually...
00:24:43.78\00:24:45.71
I gave them jeans and
shoes to do the yard work in.
00:24:45.75\00:24:49.32
And when the yard
work was all done,
00:24:49.35\00:24:51.15
I found my jeans and my shoes
completely covered with dirt.
00:24:51.19\00:24:54.52
I mean I expected
00:24:54.56\00:24:55.89
that because
you're doing yard work.
00:24:55.92\00:24:58.03
But the reason I found them
is because they were not as far
00:24:58.06\00:25:01.96
as east is from the west,
00:25:02.00\00:25:03.33
they were right
there on the floor.
00:25:03.37\00:25:05.13
I kept on tumbling over
them at the washing machine,
00:25:05.17\00:25:07.34
and I'm looking at
them and I'm wondering,
00:25:07.37\00:25:08.80
"I don't remember doing that."
00:25:08.84\00:25:10.67
Then all of a sudden dawned
on me that I didn't do that.
00:25:10.71\00:25:13.44
The person who muddied
it up and dirtied it up,
00:25:13.48\00:25:17.48
dropped it right in
front of the washing machine.
00:25:17.51\00:25:19.45
Now get this.
00:25:19.48\00:25:20.82
How close is the washing machine
00:25:20.85\00:25:22.18
to dirty clothes?
00:25:22.22\00:25:25.92
They could've just thrown
it in the washing machine,
00:25:25.95\00:25:29.06
hit the wash
cycle, cleaned it up,
00:25:29.09\00:25:31.36
and there would be no evidence
of the dirt still being there.
00:25:31.39\00:25:34.83
But they left it there.
00:25:34.86\00:25:36.36
And so it wasn't as far
as the east is from the west.
00:25:36.40\00:25:40.54
But when those clothes were put
00:25:40.57\00:25:41.90
in the washing
machine and cleansed,
00:25:41.94\00:25:43.87
I still don't know
where the water went,
00:25:43.91\00:25:45.24
I still don't know
where the dirt went,
00:25:45.27\00:25:47.11
but it's not in the machine.
00:25:47.14\00:25:48.64
And if you look in
there for any traces of it,
00:25:48.68\00:25:50.05
it's not there any longer.
00:25:50.08\00:25:51.41
Where it went?
00:25:51.45\00:25:52.78
I don't know, and
really, I don't care
00:25:52.81\00:25:54.15
as long as it's no
longer where it used to be.
00:25:54.18\00:25:55.85
Am I telling the truth? Amen.
00:25:55.88\00:25:57.25
So when we look at our lives...
00:25:57.29\00:25:58.85
If we look in it, our lives,
00:25:58.89\00:26:00.22
and looking for the
evidences of our past sins,
00:26:00.26\00:26:03.29
what the Lord, in essence,
saying is when He cleanses us
00:26:03.32\00:26:06.76
and this is the sanctification
aspect of your life.
00:26:06.80\00:26:10.27
When you're walking
in a sanctified walk,
00:26:10.30\00:26:13.23
you should get to the place
00:26:13.27\00:26:14.60
where you cannot
find those former sins
00:26:14.64\00:26:16.97
in your life any longer.
00:26:17.01\00:26:18.57
That's what this,
in essence, is saying.
00:26:18.61\00:26:20.48
It's saying you
should get to the place
00:26:20.51\00:26:21.84
where the things
that you struggled
00:26:21.88\00:26:23.21
with should no
longer be a struggle,
00:26:23.24\00:26:24.61
the things that
you were challenged
00:26:24.65\00:26:25.98
by should no
longer be a challenge
00:26:26.01\00:26:27.85
because God is removing
our transgressions from us.
00:26:27.88\00:26:32.15
He is cleansing
us of our iniquity,
00:26:32.19\00:26:34.56
our pet sins,
removing our transgressions
00:26:34.59\00:26:37.19
from us as far as the
east is from the west.
00:26:37.23\00:26:40.03
So let me ask the question.
00:26:40.06\00:26:42.30
If you've been Christian
for longer than five years,
00:26:42.33\00:26:44.60
how many of you,
don't tell me what,
00:26:44.63\00:26:48.30
believe that you have victory
00:26:48.34\00:26:49.67
over certain
things in your life?
00:26:49.70\00:26:51.07
We need more hands.
00:26:54.91\00:26:57.78
There are certain things
00:26:57.81\00:26:59.15
that we used to be tempted
by that no longer tempt us.
00:26:59.18\00:27:00.98
Amen? Amen.
00:27:01.02\00:27:02.35
But there are others
00:27:02.38\00:27:03.72
that we're still
working on, right?
00:27:03.75\00:27:05.15
Because whatever reason...
00:27:05.19\00:27:07.16
Huh? He is working on us.
00:27:07.19\00:27:08.52
You beat me to it.
I was going to say it.
00:27:08.56\00:27:10.36
I was setting
them up, Karen. Okay.
00:27:10.39\00:27:13.60
What I was going to say is
that's why it's still there
00:27:13.63\00:27:15.06
because you're working on it.
00:27:15.10\00:27:17.13
If you let the Lord work
on it, what's He going do?
00:27:17.17\00:27:18.87
He's going to move
it as far as the east
00:27:18.90\00:27:21.10
is from the west.
00:27:21.14\00:27:22.97
Let Him remove
it. You won't find it.
00:27:23.00\00:27:24.41
But if you try to remove it,
00:27:24.44\00:27:25.77
some people like my good
friend Doug Batchelor said,
00:27:25.81\00:27:28.01
"Some people run away from sin
00:27:28.04\00:27:29.38
and they look behind them
to see if it's catching up."
00:27:29.41\00:27:32.88
Run to the arms of God
00:27:32.91\00:27:35.18
and He'll separate your
sins a long way from you.
00:27:35.22\00:27:37.39
Amen for that?
00:27:37.42\00:27:38.92
Now let's go to number...
00:27:38.95\00:27:40.36
So if you answer the question,
"What depth of confidence
00:27:40.39\00:27:43.89
can we have in the
cleansing blood of Christ?"
00:27:43.93\00:27:47.10
Our sins are removed,
removed and separated,
00:27:47.13\00:27:51.03
this is not just
removal but separated from us.
00:27:51.07\00:27:55.77
Wonderful. Wonderful.
00:27:55.80\00:27:57.41
Number 18.
00:27:57.44\00:27:58.77
We're moving right along.
00:27:58.81\00:28:01.11
"How can I know that
Jesus will completely remake me
00:28:01.14\00:28:06.08
into His image?"
00:28:06.11\00:28:08.48
"How can I know
00:28:08.52\00:28:10.12
that Jesus will
completely remake me
00:28:10.15\00:28:12.75
into His image?"
00:28:12.79\00:28:15.09
We have this...
00:28:15.12\00:28:17.99
I think we still have
it, honey, around the house.
00:28:18.03\00:28:20.26
It's incased in plastic.
00:28:20.30\00:28:22.60
A number of years ago,
my wife's aunt, Aunt Sissy,
00:28:22.63\00:28:28.94
some of you who know our family,
00:28:28.97\00:28:30.61
you'll know
exactly who that person is.
00:28:30.64\00:28:33.01
She had this
really wonderful old
00:28:33.04\00:28:35.31
kind of a China vase.
00:28:35.34\00:28:37.15
It was something
beautiful made of pottery.
00:28:37.18\00:28:39.98
And after she passed
away, my wife really liked that
00:28:40.02\00:28:42.95
and was trying to bring it home,
00:28:42.98\00:28:46.42
wrapped it in plastic,
00:28:46.45\00:28:48.16
or can you all tell
where I'm headed with this?
00:28:48.19\00:28:50.66
This wonderful,
nice, old family piece of,
00:28:50.69\00:28:55.66
what do you
think happened to it?
00:28:55.70\00:28:57.47
It broke.
00:28:57.50\00:28:59.07
And it didn't
just break, it broke,
00:28:59.10\00:29:02.37
but it stayed
wrapped in the plastic.
00:29:02.40\00:29:03.74
And I said to my wife,
"Honey, can we throw that out?"
00:29:03.77\00:29:07.41
She said, "No, it's
important. It's special."
00:29:07.44\00:29:12.28
I said, "Honey,
but it's broken."
00:29:12.31\00:29:13.78
She said, "But no.
It's Aunt Sissy's."
00:29:13.82\00:29:17.65
"But what are we
going to do with it?"
00:29:17.69\00:29:19.02
She said, "Glue
it back together."
00:29:19.05\00:29:22.89
Now how do you glue something
00:29:22.92\00:29:25.09
that's in like
more than 100 pieces
00:29:25.13\00:29:27.63
not including the splinters?
00:29:27.66\00:29:29.66
And I said, "Honey..."
00:29:29.70\00:29:31.40
It's in the house somewhere.
00:29:31.43\00:29:32.87
I'm just doing that
for posterity purposes.
00:29:32.90\00:29:35.34
But based on my work,
00:29:35.37\00:29:37.31
it'll never be
like it used to be.
00:29:37.34\00:29:39.54
Because if I start that
process of trying to get
00:29:39.57\00:29:41.34
that thing together,
00:29:41.38\00:29:42.71
it is not going to be
what it used to be originally.
00:29:42.74\00:29:45.75
But that is different.
Huh? Make a mosaic out of it.
00:29:45.78\00:29:49.65
Mosaic, that's a good thing.
00:29:49.68\00:29:51.02
Hey, you know, that's good idea.
00:29:51.05\00:29:52.39
Put it in pottery.
00:29:52.42\00:29:54.09
Maybe there's some
help for that or some hope.
00:29:54.12\00:29:55.62
Maybe we could
maintain its nostalgic value.
00:29:55.66\00:29:58.69
However, it's not
going to be how it used to be
00:29:58.73\00:30:00.86
because I cannot put
it back to where it was.
00:30:00.90\00:30:03.26
However, when the Lord
begins a work to restore a man,
00:30:03.30\00:30:07.24
this question, the answer
to this question should give us
00:30:07.27\00:30:09.84
all confidence.
00:30:09.87\00:30:11.21
That the Lord doesn't
stop part way and say, "Oh man.
00:30:11.24\00:30:15.94
Man, Glenn is a
really hard case.
00:30:15.98\00:30:18.41
There are a certain
things I just can't fix.
00:30:18.45\00:30:20.85
Well, I'm just going to
have to put Glenn to the side
00:30:20.88\00:30:22.25
and work on somebody else."
00:30:22.28\00:30:23.75
Look at this text. You know it.
00:30:23.79\00:30:26.05
It's one of our
favorite ones. Philippians 1:6.
00:30:26.09\00:30:28.89
It answers the question,
"How can I know that Jesus will
00:30:28.92\00:30:30.69
completely remake
me into His image?"
00:30:30.73\00:30:32.93
Here's the answer.
Here is the answer.
00:30:32.96\00:30:35.86
You want to read
it together with me.
00:30:35.90\00:30:37.37
It's on the screen.
What are the first two words?
00:30:37.40\00:30:39.90
Being confident.
00:30:39.93\00:30:41.27
"Being confident
of this very thing,
00:30:41.30\00:30:44.17
that He who has begun
00:30:44.21\00:30:45.91
a good work in
you will," do what,
00:30:45.94\00:30:49.74
"complete it until
the day of Jesus Christ."
00:30:49.78\00:30:54.12
Thank God for completion
00:30:54.15\00:30:55.72
'cause there are
a lot of projects
00:30:55.75\00:30:57.09
that are done but
they're not completed.
00:30:57.12\00:30:58.55
Somebody once said to me,
00:30:58.59\00:30:59.92
"It's not how much you do
but how much do you get done."
00:30:59.95\00:31:04.29
Right?
00:31:04.33\00:31:05.66
And I heard another definition
for busy this weekend.
00:31:05.69\00:31:07.73
What is the definition?
00:31:12.73\00:31:14.57
I have it in my
Bible. I wrote it down here.
00:31:14.60\00:31:16.91
Oh, here it is. Great.
00:31:16.94\00:31:19.94
Bound under Satan's yoke.
00:31:19.97\00:31:23.35
B-U-S-Y, bound
under Satan's yoke.
00:31:23.38\00:31:25.81
Busy, bound under
Satan's yoke. Busy.
00:31:25.85\00:31:28.98
There are a lot of
people that are busy,
00:31:29.02\00:31:30.35
they're getting nothing done.
00:31:30.39\00:31:32.39
But the Lord is not
that way. He is confident.
00:31:32.42\00:31:34.66
We have to be confident.
00:31:34.69\00:31:36.02
Paul is saying to
us, "Be confident,
00:31:36.06\00:31:39.43
be confident that the
Lord will finish the work
00:31:39.46\00:31:41.60
He started in us."
00:31:41.63\00:31:42.96
So if you see bits of
yourself still showing up
00:31:43.00\00:31:45.33
on a day-by-day basis,
00:31:45.37\00:31:48.74
don't long to see that
00:31:48.77\00:31:50.11
but know that
whatever you see now,
00:31:50.14\00:31:51.61
one day will not appear anymore.
00:31:51.64\00:31:53.78
The Lord will completely
remake us in His image.
00:31:53.81\00:31:56.64
Amen for that? Amen.
00:31:56.68\00:31:59.68
Number 19. Number 19.
00:31:59.71\00:32:03.59
Now put this,
we're going to transition
00:32:03.62\00:32:05.02
just a moment to a section
that we don't often consider,
00:32:05.05\00:32:07.82
and question number 19
00:32:07.86\00:32:09.19
is that
transitional aspect of it.
00:32:09.22\00:32:12.13
Because sometimes,
in the process of us
00:32:12.16\00:32:13.86
being remade in
the image of Christ,
00:32:13.90\00:32:16.03
sometimes we get
discouraged, don't we all?
00:32:16.06\00:32:18.87
Sometimes, we say,
00:32:18.90\00:32:20.24
"Oh, man, I
really blew it today,"
00:32:20.27\00:32:24.57
or "I didn't see
that one coming,"
00:32:24.61\00:32:27.84
or "If I had only known,
I could have avoided that."
00:32:27.88\00:32:31.05
Well, the Lord wants
us not to be discouraged,
00:32:31.08\00:32:32.81
and so I included this question,
00:32:32.85\00:32:34.62
question number 19,
and read it with me.
00:32:34.65\00:32:37.25
It says, "When discouraged...
00:32:37.29\00:32:39.25
When discouraged
by our character,
00:32:39.29\00:32:42.32
what assurance do we have?"
00:32:42.36\00:32:45.73
"When
discouraged by our character
00:32:45.76\00:32:48.66
what assurance do we have?"
00:32:48.70\00:32:52.03
Because sometimes,
we get discouraged.
00:32:52.07\00:32:54.00
There are those that
said, "For six months,
00:32:54.04\00:32:57.27
I didn't even try a cigarette,
I didn't even want a cigarette.
00:32:57.31\00:33:01.74
I didn't even want a drink.
00:33:01.78\00:33:03.11
I mean I knew I was
clear but I want to see
00:33:03.14\00:33:05.71
how delivered I really was."
00:33:05.75\00:33:09.72
That's a danger.
00:33:09.75\00:33:11.09
Don't go to the places
that were your temptations
00:33:11.12\00:33:12.99
to find out whether or
not you're no longer tempted
00:33:13.02\00:33:15.19
because as long as
the devil's around,
00:33:15.22\00:33:16.62
what's going to be around?
00:33:16.66\00:33:17.99
Temptation.
00:33:18.03\00:33:19.36
Don't expose
yourself to temptation to see
00:33:19.39\00:33:21.56
whether or not
you could resist it.
00:33:21.60\00:33:23.80
The Bible says,
"Resist the devil
00:33:23.83\00:33:26.20
and," he'll do
what, "flee from you."
00:33:26.23\00:33:28.04
So don't meander in the maze
00:33:28.07\00:33:30.91
where temptation will catch you.
00:33:30.94\00:33:32.37
But if you're discouraged,
00:33:32.41\00:33:33.74
here's a text that
should encourage you.
00:33:33.78\00:33:35.28
I John 3:2 is the verse
we're going to read together.
00:33:35.31\00:33:39.18
1 John 3:2.
00:33:39.21\00:33:42.02
"When
discouraged by our character,
00:33:42.05\00:33:44.15
what assurance do we have?"
00:33:44.19\00:33:46.19
"What assurance do
we have?" Here it is.
00:33:46.22\00:33:49.46
"Beloved," the word
that comes next is what word?
00:33:49.49\00:33:54.33
"Now we are children of
God," and if you're discouraged,
00:33:54.36\00:34:00.44
this part should
really find home,
00:34:00.47\00:34:02.64
"and it has not
yet been revealed
00:34:02.67\00:34:04.87
what we shall be."
00:34:04.91\00:34:07.31
Matter is I don't know
what I'm going to look like
00:34:07.34\00:34:08.68
when this is all done.
00:34:08.71\00:34:10.75
"But we know that
when He is revealed,
00:34:10.78\00:34:13.82
we shall be
like," who, "like Him,
00:34:13.85\00:34:16.82
for we shall see Him as He is."
00:34:16.85\00:34:19.95
Now I want to
emphasize something there that
00:34:19.99\00:34:22.52
maybe we've read
this text before,
00:34:22.56\00:34:23.89
and I know we have,
00:34:23.93\00:34:25.26
I have read this
text a lot of times,
00:34:25.29\00:34:26.90
but the reason why
we're going to see him
00:34:26.93\00:34:28.40
as He is
00:34:28.43\00:34:30.00
is because we're
going to see Him in us
00:34:30.03\00:34:33.84
and us in Him
00:34:33.87\00:34:35.34
because we're
going to be like Him.
00:34:35.37\00:34:37.74
Did you get that?
00:34:37.77\00:34:39.51
When you meet...
00:34:39.54\00:34:40.88
If you ever had a twin,
00:34:40.91\00:34:42.24
or you know, I
don't have a twin,
00:34:42.28\00:34:44.18
but I know, I could imagine,
00:34:44.21\00:34:45.91
I'm imagining here
because I don't have a twin.
00:34:45.95\00:34:48.48
But I've seen
people that are identical,
00:34:48.52\00:34:50.99
so identical that some of
them said, "We used to play,
00:34:51.02\00:34:54.02
you know, we used to play tricks
00:34:54.06\00:34:55.39
on our teachers in high school
00:34:55.42\00:34:57.03
where I'll take my
brother's math test
00:34:57.06\00:34:58.66
and the teacher
wouldn't even know,
00:34:58.69\00:35:00.46
and I go to the
bathroom, when I came back,
00:35:00.50\00:35:02.00
it was him that
was coming back."
00:35:02.03\00:35:04.30
They were so identical.
00:35:04.33\00:35:05.77
When they saw each
other, they saw themselves.
00:35:05.80\00:35:09.94
When they saw themselves,
00:35:09.97\00:35:11.31
they saw each other
because they were identical.
00:35:11.34\00:35:13.84
What this text is, in essence,
00:35:13.88\00:35:15.21
saying is the reason
why we're going to see Him
00:35:15.24\00:35:17.05
as He is because
for the first time,
00:35:17.08\00:35:19.01
we're going to see ourselves,
00:35:19.05\00:35:22.02
we're going to see Him
completely reproduced in us,
00:35:22.05\00:35:25.99
and us reflecting
exactly who He is.
00:35:26.02\00:35:29.02
Now you know what that means?
00:35:29.06\00:35:30.39
There's going to
be no more of us left.
00:35:30.43\00:35:32.26
It's going to all be Him.
00:35:32.29\00:35:34.36
That's what is in
essence being said here.
00:35:34.40\00:35:36.20
We're not going be
seeing a copy of ourselves.
00:35:36.23\00:35:40.54
He is going to be
seeing a copy of himself.
00:35:40.57\00:35:44.54
Amen for that?
00:35:44.57\00:35:45.91
Because Christ doesn't
need to become like me,
00:35:45.94\00:35:47.94
I need to become like Him.
00:35:47.98\00:35:50.85
So when that finally happens,
00:35:50.88\00:35:52.95
we're going to see Him as He is
and we're going to be like Him.
00:35:52.98\00:35:56.75
Now I don't know about
you, I can't wait for that.
00:35:56.79\00:35:58.12
What do you say?
00:35:58.15\00:35:59.49
Amen. Wow.
00:35:59.52\00:36:00.86
To be like Jesus.
00:36:00.89\00:36:02.22
Remember, years ago,
00:36:02.26\00:36:03.59
and I don't want you
to get sidetracked by this
00:36:03.63\00:36:05.06
but this just came to my
mind, says some residue there
00:36:05.09\00:36:08.06
as one of our
guests said this weekend.
00:36:08.10\00:36:10.20
Remember years
ago, Elvis sang a song,
00:36:10.23\00:36:12.13
"These hands of mine
will touch the hands of God."
00:36:12.17\00:36:15.44
Beautiful thought.
00:36:15.47\00:36:16.84
And then when
you read the Bible,
00:36:16.87\00:36:18.24
it points out from
Genesis all the way
00:36:18.27\00:36:20.61
to almost Revelation
00:36:20.64\00:36:22.51
that no man has
seen God at any time.
00:36:22.54\00:36:26.75
But Revelation
tells us in Revelation 21,
00:36:26.78\00:36:29.58
"And we will see His face."
00:36:29.62\00:36:34.52
And when we see His face,
00:36:34.56\00:36:35.89
we're going to see a
reflection of Him in us,
00:36:35.92\00:36:39.03
not a reflection of us in Him.
00:36:39.06\00:36:41.50
We will be complete in
Him. We will see him as he is.
00:36:41.53\00:36:44.33
So what do you put
down for the answer?
00:36:44.37\00:36:46.57
"When
discouraged by our character,
00:36:46.60\00:36:47.94
what assurance do we have?"
00:36:47.97\00:36:49.37
Put it this way.
00:36:49.40\00:36:50.74
One day, we will
be just like Him.
00:36:50.77\00:36:53.84
We will be just like Him.
00:36:53.88\00:36:55.21
But connected
to Philippians 1:6,
00:36:55.24\00:36:57.11
because He's working on that,
00:36:57.15\00:36:58.81
that's a process
that's still going on.
00:36:58.85\00:37:01.42
Now we're going to
transition a little here,
00:37:01.45\00:37:03.32
and in the question number 20,
00:37:03.35\00:37:05.55
we're going to begin
to consider something
00:37:05.59\00:37:06.99
that we often don't consider.
00:37:07.02\00:37:10.06
All right?
00:37:10.09\00:37:11.43
Something we
often don't consider.
00:37:11.46\00:37:13.53
Here it is.
00:37:16.73\00:37:21.17
Number 20.
00:37:21.20\00:37:22.64
"From what vantage point
do we find our assurance?"
00:37:22.67\00:37:28.91
From what vantage point
do we find our assurance?"
00:37:28.94\00:37:34.98
In other words,
where do we find it?
00:37:35.02\00:37:36.38
Where is it discovered?
00:37:36.42\00:37:38.42
Where do we get connected to it?
00:37:38.45\00:37:40.12
And we're going to
the book of Colossians 1.
00:37:40.16\00:37:43.12
Colossians 1:27.
00:37:43.16\00:37:47.00
Colossians 1:27.
00:37:47.03\00:37:51.33
Okay. Here it is.
00:37:51.37\00:37:53.80
I hear pages turning.
00:37:53.84\00:37:55.77
But let's turn to
that text together.
00:37:55.80\00:37:57.77
All right.
00:37:57.81\00:37:59.14
On the screen, it
says, "To them," who willed,
00:37:59.17\00:38:02.94
"God willed to make known
00:38:02.98\00:38:05.45
what are the riches
00:38:05.48\00:38:07.18
of the glory of this mystery
00:38:07.22\00:38:10.55
among the
Gentiles, which is," what,
00:38:10.59\00:38:13.69
"Christ," where, "in
you, the hope of glory."
00:38:13.72\00:38:17.49
Now do you see the connection
00:38:17.53\00:38:18.86
with the verse we
just read before that?
00:38:18.89\00:38:21.23
The reason why
we're going to see Christ
00:38:21.26\00:38:22.60
as He is is
00:38:22.63\00:38:23.97
because where is He going to be?
00:38:24.00\00:38:25.33
In us.
00:38:25.37\00:38:27.00
He is going to be
completely reproduced in us.
00:38:27.04\00:38:29.17
Our characters are
going to be consumed
00:38:29.20\00:38:30.77
by His character.
00:38:30.81\00:38:32.27
We're going to see Him finally
00:38:32.31\00:38:33.64
because we're going
to be just like Him.
00:38:33.68\00:38:35.14
But here's the
key to the question.
00:38:35.18\00:38:36.81
"From what vantage point
do we find our assurance?"
00:38:36.85\00:38:39.85
Now I want to ask you
to give me the answer.
00:38:39.88\00:38:41.72
"From what vantage point
do we find our assurance?"
00:38:41.75\00:38:47.32
It's in that verse.
00:38:47.36\00:38:50.19
What in that verse
gives you the assurance?
00:38:50.23\00:38:52.19
Okay. That's true. Christ in us.
00:38:57.83\00:39:02.00
What keeps us
going? What keeps us going?
00:39:02.04\00:39:04.67
Hope of glory.
00:39:04.71\00:39:06.04
Ha. Hope. I just
want you to put hope.
00:39:06.07\00:39:09.41
From what vantage point...
00:39:09.44\00:39:11.65
I have hope.
00:39:11.68\00:39:13.18
I don't see myself
like I am supposed to be,
00:39:13.21\00:39:15.15
but I have hope.
00:39:15.18\00:39:16.58
I don't know how it's going
to happen, but I have hope.
00:39:16.62\00:39:20.06
I don't know if I'm
going to ever overcome this,
00:39:20.09\00:39:21.69
but I'll submit
to Christ every day,
00:39:21.72\00:39:23.06
and I have hope.
00:39:23.09\00:39:24.69
And hope does
not disappoint. Amen.
00:39:24.73\00:39:28.13
Paul even says, "We
are saved in this hope."
00:39:28.16\00:39:31.23
So as long as hope,
00:39:31.27\00:39:32.93
I don't want to
sound like a cliche,
00:39:32.97\00:39:35.40
you can't get
away from the phrase,
00:39:35.44\00:39:36.77
"Keep hope alive," but
as long as hope is alive,
00:39:36.81\00:39:40.04
we know that who we are now
00:39:40.08\00:39:41.68
is not who we are
going to be eternally.
00:39:41.71\00:39:43.85
If you can keep that hope alive,
00:39:43.88\00:39:45.61
Christ in you is the,
together, hope of glory.
00:39:45.65\00:39:51.02
So long as we have
Christ working in us,
00:39:51.05\00:39:53.15
we've got hope that one
day we will be in glory,
00:39:53.19\00:39:55.76
and not only that, one day,
00:39:55.79\00:39:57.13
we will
completely reflect His glory,
00:39:57.16\00:40:00.10
not just be in
glory, but one day,
00:40:00.13\00:40:01.80
completely reflect His glory.
00:40:01.83\00:40:03.87
But without hope, sometimes...
00:40:03.90\00:40:06.53
Let me use an illustration.
00:40:06.57\00:40:07.90
When our car was in an accident,
00:40:07.94\00:40:11.37
and we had over
$10,000 worth of damage,
00:40:11.41\00:40:14.64
I looked at it and I thought,
00:40:14.68\00:40:17.85
"I hope they totaled it out,"
00:40:17.88\00:40:20.75
because there's nothing more sad
00:40:20.78\00:40:22.12
than having a brand new car,
00:40:22.15\00:40:23.49
and before you
drive it for seven months,
00:40:23.52\00:40:26.05
it just gets hit by a deer.
00:40:26.09\00:40:29.02
We didn't hit a
deer, deer hit us.
00:40:29.06\00:40:31.76
No, really.
00:40:31.79\00:40:33.13
On our way to somebody's house,
00:40:33.16\00:40:34.50
the deer stood on the side
of the road, saw us coming,
00:40:34.53\00:40:38.33
waited until we
got really close,
00:40:38.37\00:40:39.83
lowered its horns,
and ran right into us.
00:40:39.87\00:40:42.47
Hit him at 62 miles an
hour, the car didn't flip,
00:40:42.50\00:40:45.94
God was in
control of the vehicle,
00:40:45.97\00:40:48.08
but I looked at the
damage and I thought,
00:40:48.11\00:40:51.01
"Look at the car.
00:40:51.05\00:40:52.38
There's no hope of it
ever being like it was before."
00:40:52.41\00:40:54.35
Well, somebody
saw the car and said,
00:40:54.38\00:40:55.72
"Oh, we could
restore it completely,
00:40:55.75\00:40:57.22
exactly how it was."
00:40:57.25\00:40:58.89
And when I got it back
three or four weeks later,
00:40:58.92\00:41:01.92
there were no
traces of what happened
00:41:01.96\00:41:03.89
that fateful night in
December, a number of years ago.
00:41:03.93\00:41:07.76
What that's in essence saying is
00:41:07.80\00:41:09.33
when we look at the
brokenness in our lives,
00:41:09.36\00:41:11.43
if hope is not
continuing to be alive,
00:41:11.47\00:41:13.97
pulsating in us
that we can be exactly
00:41:14.00\00:41:15.94
where God intends for us to be,
00:41:15.97\00:41:18.01
then we won't
see the rest of it."
00:41:18.04\00:41:19.87
Christ is in us is our hope,
00:41:19.91\00:41:21.98
but keep that hope burning
00:41:22.01\00:41:24.21
that one day we
will not only be in glory
00:41:24.25\00:41:27.25
but we're going to
reflect God's glory.
00:41:27.28\00:41:29.18
So the answer is one word.
00:41:29.22\00:41:30.55
From what vantage point
do we find our assurance?
00:41:30.59\00:41:33.02
From the vantage point of what?
00:41:33.05\00:41:34.39
Hope. Hope.
00:41:34.42\00:41:35.76
Keep that hope alive. Okay.
00:41:35.79\00:41:39.59
Moving right along to number 21.
00:41:39.63\00:41:41.26
We may not get to them all,
but we're going to move along,
00:41:41.30\00:41:44.43
and you keep
following along with us.
00:41:44.47\00:41:46.23
We're at question
number 21 did I say?
00:41:46.27\00:41:49.60
Okay. Here it is.
00:41:49.64\00:41:51.84
Now let's get down
00:41:54.98\00:41:56.31
to the functional aspects of it.
00:41:56.34\00:41:57.85
And let me just
lay the foundation.
00:41:57.88\00:42:00.08
All that we read
thus far is true.
00:42:00.12\00:42:01.72
The Word of God is true,
00:42:01.75\00:42:03.08
but now I want to get
down to the functional aspect.
00:42:03.12\00:42:05.75
If I said, "Okay, we have
00:42:05.79\00:42:07.12
a great big
project to accomplish."
00:42:07.16\00:42:09.19
Somebody says,
00:42:09.22\00:42:10.56
"Okay, what's the
first thing I do tomorrow?"
00:42:10.59\00:42:13.53
That's going to
be the first thing.
00:42:13.56\00:42:14.90
We're going to begin
with building this project.
00:42:14.93\00:42:16.63
What's the first thing I
do when we begin this project?
00:42:16.67\00:42:19.70
Here it is. This
is the first thing.
00:42:19.73\00:42:22.10
And let's lay the
foundation with a question.
00:42:22.14\00:42:24.77
"How is the daily sin challenge
victoriously experienced?"
00:42:24.81\00:42:30.11
"How is the daily sin challenge
victoriously experienced?"
00:42:30.15\00:42:35.02
1 Corinthians 15:31
00:42:35.05\00:42:38.39
is where we find our answer.
00:42:38.42\00:42:40.16
If you have a project
00:42:40.19\00:42:41.52
that's going to be
an ongoing project,
00:42:41.56\00:42:43.49
you have to know
what to do every day
00:42:43.53\00:42:44.86
when you begin this project.
00:42:44.89\00:42:46.46
So there is a
project going on in us.
00:42:46.49\00:42:48.70
As a matter of fact,
Jim, if you think about us,
00:42:48.73\00:42:51.97
we are the site of the
project, we are the project,
00:42:52.00\00:42:55.44
we are God's project.
00:42:55.47\00:42:57.31
And every day, He wants us
to cooperate in that project.
00:42:57.34\00:42:59.67
How do we cooperate?
Here's how we cooperate.
00:42:59.71\00:43:02.28
In the morning when we wake
up, the Lord says, "Okay..."
00:43:02.31\00:43:06.01
Kabana? "Good morning, Kabana.
00:43:06.05\00:43:09.35
Today, I'm going
to take one more step
00:43:09.38\00:43:12.15
in making you more like me,
00:43:12.19\00:43:13.52
but I want you to do something,
00:43:13.56\00:43:14.89
so this is going to work.
00:43:14.92\00:43:16.26
Here's the answer,
okay? Are you ready, Kabana?
00:43:16.29\00:43:18.89
She is looking at me
like, "What are you saying?"
00:43:18.93\00:43:22.43
Celestine? Good
morning, Celestine.
00:43:22.46\00:43:24.90
I am the Lord.
00:43:24.93\00:43:26.27
I hope you had a
good night's rest.
00:43:26.30\00:43:27.64
Today, I'm going
to make one more step
00:43:27.67\00:43:29.37
in making you
become more like me,
00:43:29.40\00:43:30.91
but I have
something I want you to do."
00:43:30.94\00:43:33.48
Here's how we participate
in that daily project
00:43:33.51\00:43:36.71
of becoming more like Christ.
00:43:36.75\00:43:38.18
You ready? 1 Corinthians 15:31.
00:43:38.21\00:43:41.55
Paul says, "I affirm
by the boasting in you
00:43:41.58\00:43:45.25
which I have in
Christ Jesus our Lord."
00:43:45.29\00:43:48.26
What does he
want us to do today?
00:43:48.29\00:43:50.23
"I die daily."
00:43:50.26\00:43:53.50
If we don't...
00:43:53.53\00:43:54.86
'Cause matter of fact,
00:43:54.90\00:43:56.23
I had surgery once
and somebody told me
00:43:56.26\00:43:57.73
that when I woke
up out of the surgery,
00:43:57.77\00:43:59.13
I woke up fighting.
00:43:59.17\00:44:01.14
Have you ever heard that before?
00:44:01.17\00:44:03.74
The Lord does not
want us to wake up
00:44:03.77\00:44:05.21
in the morning
fighting with Him.
00:44:05.24\00:44:07.74
If we don't put
our old nature to rest,
00:44:07.78\00:44:10.18
if we don't
kill that old nature,
00:44:10.21\00:44:11.55
there's going to be
00:44:11.58\00:44:12.91
a daily morning battle with God.
00:44:12.95\00:44:15.78
We're going to get
up fighting with Him
00:44:15.82\00:44:17.59
because the
carnal nature is enmity
00:44:17.62\00:44:21.32
with the spiritual nature.
00:44:21.36\00:44:23.19
They are constantly in
battle. They are feuding.
00:44:23.22\00:44:26.49
And the old man
wants to come back to life
00:44:26.53\00:44:28.50
if we give him a
breath of oxygen.
00:44:28.53\00:44:31.03
If we don't determine
to kill him in the morning,
00:44:31.07\00:44:34.60
then we
discover how much failure
00:44:34.64\00:44:36.71
that we experience in that day.
00:44:36.74\00:44:38.17
But when we kill
him, when we say,
00:44:38.21\00:44:40.18
"Oh, I know
what you're thinking,
00:44:40.21\00:44:43.45
but you're going to die."
00:44:43.48\00:44:46.31
And when he's dead,
00:44:46.35\00:44:47.68
you actually
walk away feeling good
00:44:47.72\00:44:49.05
because you know
what you've done,
00:44:49.08\00:44:50.42
you've submitted to the process.
00:44:50.45\00:44:51.79
And I want to tell
you, when I'm not too busy,
00:44:51.82\00:44:54.76
and I praise the Lord
that I'm starting to get
00:44:54.79\00:44:57.03
a little less busy
00:44:57.06\00:44:58.53
by making sure that we
keep the essential things,
00:44:58.56\00:45:01.96
the essential things
00:45:02.00\00:45:03.40
because if you are
going to work for God,
00:45:03.43\00:45:06.13
you've got to make sure
that you're working with Him,
00:45:06.17\00:45:09.47
not just for Him.
00:45:09.50\00:45:10.84
You could do a
lot of things for Him
00:45:10.87\00:45:12.21
and never allow Him
to do anything for you
00:45:12.24\00:45:13.81
or in you.
00:45:13.84\00:45:15.18
But when you die
daily, here's the answer.
00:45:15.21\00:45:17.38
"How is the daily sin challenge
victoriously experienced?"
00:45:17.41\00:45:21.18
I want you to put two
words. What are those two words?
00:45:21.22\00:45:23.52
Die daily. Die daily. Die daily.
00:45:23.55\00:45:26.99
You know that if you die...
00:45:27.02\00:45:28.72
Then half of the battle is done.
00:45:31.79\00:45:34.66
How much of the
battle is done? Half.
00:45:34.70\00:45:37.40
I'm going to give
you the other half
00:45:37.43\00:45:39.00
in the next question.
00:45:39.03\00:45:41.07
When you die, half
of the battle is done.
00:45:41.10\00:45:45.11
But now question
22. Your favorite text?
00:45:45.14\00:45:48.21
Okay, here it is.
00:45:48.24\00:45:49.58
See, somebody else
said favorite text.
00:45:49.61\00:45:51.58
But it's one of
my favorites also.
00:45:51.61\00:45:53.65
Okay. Question 22.
00:45:53.68\00:45:55.78
"If we choose to
die to our desires,
00:45:55.82\00:46:00.49
how then do we
obtain the victory?"
00:46:00.52\00:46:03.02
I've never seen a
dead person win anything.
00:46:03.06\00:46:06.86
But this text tells you
how you get the victory.
00:46:06.90\00:46:09.10
If you choose to die, how
do we continue the battle?
00:46:09.13\00:46:12.73
Now I want you to
get this. Here it is.
00:46:12.77\00:46:15.87
Where are we
turning? Tell me, everybody.
00:46:15.90\00:46:18.37
Galatians 2:20,
00:46:18.41\00:46:21.14
one of the most beautiful verses
00:46:21.18\00:46:22.54
in the Bible.
00:46:22.58\00:46:24.18
Okay, let's talk about
the death part of it first.
00:46:24.21\00:46:26.92
Here it is.
00:46:26.95\00:46:28.38
"I have been," next
word, "crucified with Christ."
00:46:28.42\00:46:33.22
Stop.
00:46:33.25\00:46:35.06
Crucifixion takes
place, what's next?
00:46:35.09\00:46:37.83
"It is no longer I
who," what, "live."
00:46:37.86\00:46:40.43
Why? Because you
did what? You died.
00:46:40.46\00:46:43.23
Stop. Next part.
00:46:43.26\00:46:46.10
"But Christ lives,"
where, "in me," get it again,
00:46:46.13\00:46:50.61
Christ in you,
the hope of glory.
00:46:50.64\00:46:53.04
You got to get this
in an experiential way.
00:46:53.07\00:46:54.51
Don't run through
it. I'm dead, why?
00:46:54.54\00:46:57.35
'Cause I went to
the cross this morning.
00:46:57.38\00:46:59.55
I went to the cross, and
the Lord nailed me there,
00:46:59.58\00:47:02.32
I went with Him to the
cross and He nailed me there,
00:47:02.35\00:47:05.49
and I'm still
there all day long.
00:47:05.52\00:47:07.16
I want you to understand.
00:47:07.19\00:47:08.52
Paul, the Apostle
says, "For your sake,
00:47:08.56\00:47:10.59
I am crucified all day long."
00:47:10.63\00:47:13.76
You ever heard that text before?
00:47:13.80\00:47:15.13
I'll show it you.
00:47:15.16\00:47:16.50
For His sake, we are
crucified all day long.
00:47:16.53\00:47:19.83
But let's keep going.
00:47:19.87\00:47:22.64
"It is no longer I who
live, but Christ lives," where,
00:47:22.67\00:47:25.74
"in me."
00:47:25.77\00:47:27.11
Now we got to deal
with this natural body
00:47:27.14\00:47:29.08
that's still hanging around,
00:47:29.11\00:47:30.78
"And the life which I
now live in the flesh,
00:47:30.81\00:47:34.42
I live by," what,
00:47:34.45\00:47:35.78
"faith in the Son
of God who," did what,
00:47:35.82\00:47:39.19
"loved me and gave
Himself," how, "for me."
00:47:39.22\00:47:42.56
Now let's get this.
00:47:42.59\00:47:43.93
Let's not run past
this very familiar text.
00:47:43.96\00:47:46.29
It's so familiar
that sometimes we miss it.
00:47:46.33\00:47:49.83
When the Lord went to the
cross some 2,000 years ago,
00:47:49.86\00:47:53.84
you've heard
the song writer said
00:47:53.87\00:47:55.20
"When He was on the
cross, I was on His mind."
00:47:55.24\00:47:58.64
That's the truth.
00:47:58.67\00:48:00.41
That is the
Emancipation Proclamation.
00:48:00.44\00:48:02.44
"If I don't go on
this cross and die
00:48:02.48\00:48:07.28
and take man's sin nature
and nail it on that cross,
00:48:07.32\00:48:11.12
there's going to be
no hope for Marlena,
00:48:11.15\00:48:12.95
there's going to
be no hope for Dan,
00:48:12.99\00:48:14.56
there's going to
be no hope for Greg,
00:48:14.59\00:48:16.09
there's going to
be no hope for Mike,
00:48:16.12\00:48:17.46
nobody's going to have hope.
00:48:17.49\00:48:18.99
If I don't take that sin nature
and nail it to the cross today,
00:48:19.03\00:48:22.30
I'll have nothing to offer.
00:48:22.33\00:48:23.67
I'll have no hope.
00:48:23.70\00:48:25.03
I'll have no
prescription for you."
00:48:25.07\00:48:26.80
So that's why He
could not save Himself,
00:48:26.84\00:48:29.10
when the suggestion was,
00:48:29.14\00:48:31.87
"Come down from the
cross and save yourself."
00:48:31.91\00:48:34.01
If Jesus
decided to save himself,
00:48:34.04\00:48:36.44
every one of us
would have been lost.
00:48:36.48\00:48:40.48
"So to make a way for Lorraine,
00:48:40.52\00:48:44.12
I've got to crucify myself,
00:48:44.15\00:48:47.89
take that nature to the
cross and nail it there,
00:48:47.92\00:48:50.56
so that later on I can
offer the resurrected life,
00:48:50.59\00:48:55.23
not the crucified life."
00:48:55.26\00:48:56.60
I want you to get this now.
00:48:56.63\00:48:58.07
We've got a
crucified life, justification,
00:48:58.10\00:49:01.77
but we have to
have a sanctified life,
00:49:01.80\00:49:04.84
that's the resurrected
life is the sanctified life.
00:49:04.87\00:49:07.08
We come to walk in
the newness of life.
00:49:07.11\00:49:08.71
So here it is.
00:49:08.74\00:49:10.08
When we die daily,
00:49:10.11\00:49:11.98
justification is
being imputed to us.
00:49:12.01\00:49:15.25
When we now begin to live
in Christ's sanctification,
00:49:15.28\00:49:18.15
now righteousness
is imparted to us.
00:49:18.19\00:49:21.09
Sounds confusing? Not really.
00:49:21.12\00:49:23.32
You die, you're dead.
00:49:23.36\00:49:24.99
Christ is alive,
00:49:25.03\00:49:26.36
and now His
life is now lived out
00:49:26.39\00:49:28.36
in your body.
00:49:28.40\00:49:30.23
So how do we have hope
that this flesh won't lead me
00:49:30.27\00:49:33.70
in the wrong direction today?
00:49:33.74\00:49:36.34
By letting Christ
come on the inside.
00:49:36.37\00:49:39.21
Have you ever had a glove?
00:49:39.24\00:49:40.58
I got a pair of
gloves in my bag.
00:49:40.61\00:49:42.14
They're all the way over there.
00:49:42.18\00:49:43.55
But if I can use
the illustration,
00:49:43.58\00:49:44.95
my glove has no life in itself.
00:49:44.98\00:49:48.35
When I put my
hand on the inside,
00:49:48.38\00:49:50.45
it could do some amazing things.
00:49:50.49\00:49:53.36
But when my hand comes
out, it's just a glove.
00:49:53.39\00:49:56.32
That's why I'm always amazed
00:49:56.36\00:49:57.69
why people pay
so much for gloves
00:49:57.73\00:49:59.73
'cause they're dead.
00:49:59.76\00:50:01.13
Now they're warm,
I understand that.
00:50:01.16\00:50:02.96
Then in the very same way,
00:50:03.00\00:50:04.47
there is no
value in our structure.
00:50:04.50\00:50:06.30
The value is when
Christ is on the inside.
00:50:06.33\00:50:10.41
"I can do all
things through Christ
00:50:10.44\00:50:13.04
which strengthens me."
00:50:13.07\00:50:14.58
Can you be victorious, Karen?
00:50:14.61\00:50:16.54
"I can do all things
through Christ with," what,
00:50:16.58\00:50:18.68
"which gives me that strength."
00:50:18.71\00:50:20.45
Can a glove pick up 100 pounds?
00:50:20.48\00:50:23.15
If you think it could,
just throw your glove at it.
00:50:23.18\00:50:26.22
Carry the 100 pounds from
it. There will be no response.
00:50:26.25\00:50:30.09
But if you put
your hand on the inside
00:50:30.13\00:50:31.53
and have the strength,
00:50:31.56\00:50:33.29
that glove can
do amazing things.
00:50:33.33\00:50:35.20
But it's really not
the glove, who is it?
00:50:35.23\00:50:38.93
It's the hand in
the glove. Christ in us.
00:50:38.97\00:50:42.87
So when you are
dead to self every day,
00:50:42.90\00:50:45.51
you have to keep in
mind that the transaction
00:50:45.54\00:50:47.41
that was made at
the cross was done
00:50:47.44\00:50:50.21
because He loved us
and gave Himself for us.
00:50:50.25\00:50:54.65
He didn't do that just
because it had to be done.
00:50:54.68\00:50:56.99
He did it out of what?
00:50:57.02\00:50:58.39
Out of love for every one of us.
00:50:58.42\00:51:00.16
Amen for that? Amen.
00:51:00.19\00:51:01.89
Wow.
00:51:01.92\00:51:03.26
That's a whole
sermon right there.
00:51:03.29\00:51:05.96
Number 23.
00:51:05.99\00:51:07.33
So if you answer the question,
00:51:07.36\00:51:08.70
"If we choose to
die to our desires,
00:51:08.73\00:51:10.67
how then do we
obtain the victory?"
00:51:10.70\00:51:15.24
Christ lives in us.
00:51:15.27\00:51:19.47
Christ lives in us.
00:51:19.51\00:51:24.71
I've heard that
they'd tell me houses...
00:51:24.75\00:51:27.02
A house will
fall apart naturally
00:51:27.05\00:51:28.58
if you do nothing to it,
just the cause of corrosion,
00:51:28.62\00:51:31.79
it will just
fall apart naturally.
00:51:31.82\00:51:33.92
I've seen
abandoned homes, people...
00:51:33.96\00:51:35.96
As a matter of fact,
00:51:35.99\00:51:37.33
I was driving the back
roads of Thompsonville one day,
00:51:37.36\00:51:38.69
there was a shortcut to 64,
00:51:38.73\00:51:40.83
don't take it,
there's a lot of gravel.
00:51:40.86\00:51:42.66
Have you taken it
before? You know what I mean.
00:51:42.70\00:51:44.47
Lots of gravel, lots of
dust, and Lord, have mercy,
00:51:44.50\00:51:47.67
when it's hot and no rain,
00:51:47.70\00:51:49.44
it's worse because your
windows are tightly closed,
00:51:49.47\00:51:52.11
have you noticed
the dust stills get?
00:51:52.14\00:51:54.54
Well, along that road,
there was an abandoned house.
00:51:54.58\00:51:57.05
You could see on the
outside, the paint chips,
00:51:57.08\00:51:58.58
and you could see the
windows are not broken,
00:51:58.61\00:52:00.62
but the house looks dilapidated.
00:52:00.65\00:52:02.28
All that has to happen for you
00:52:02.32\00:52:03.65
to fall apart is you do nothing.
00:52:03.69\00:52:08.19
For the Christian, that
does absolutely nothing,
00:52:08.22\00:52:12.16
by not allowing
Christ to come in,
00:52:12.19\00:52:14.00
that life will
fall apart naturally.
00:52:14.03\00:52:17.03
That's why I've often said,
00:52:17.07\00:52:19.60
"All that needs
to happen for there
00:52:19.63\00:52:22.24
to be no progress in your life
00:52:22.27\00:52:23.61
is for the
Christian to do nothing."
00:52:23.64\00:52:25.47
But if you decide to die daily,
00:52:25.51\00:52:27.24
then the Lord can
begin to work in you
00:52:27.28\00:52:29.11
and carry forth that work in you
00:52:29.14\00:52:31.25
to completion.
00:52:31.28\00:52:32.68
Praise Him for that.
That's why this is important.
00:52:32.71\00:52:35.88
Number 23. Number
23. Let's look at this.
00:52:35.92\00:52:41.09
So now you're
dead, now you're what?
00:52:41.12\00:52:44.36
Say that, now you're dead.
00:52:44.39\00:52:46.19
Say I'm dead. Say
I'm dead. I'm dead.
00:52:46.23\00:52:51.47
Didn't that sound terrible?
00:52:51.50\00:52:53.87
But all Christians are
dead. They ought to be.
00:52:53.90\00:52:56.57
Dead to sin,
dead to self, right?
00:52:56.60\00:53:00.14
You got to get that
00:53:00.18\00:53:01.51
because I'm
leading you to a question
00:53:01.54\00:53:02.88
because if you
don't admit you're dead,
00:53:02.91\00:53:04.25
then this next verse
00:53:04.28\00:53:05.61
is not going to help you at all.
00:53:05.65\00:53:06.98
Here's the question. Number 23.
00:53:07.02\00:53:09.35
"What does the
daily dying to self
00:53:09.38\00:53:11.55
actually accomplish
in my Christian walk?"
00:53:11.59\00:53:15.32
"What does the
daily dying to self
00:53:15.36\00:53:17.63
actually accomplish
in my Christian walk?"
00:53:17.66\00:53:21.20
Okay. Let's look
at this. Romans 8:13.
00:53:21.23\00:53:24.77
You got to understand.
What is this daily dying?
00:53:24.80\00:53:26.84
I decided to break
this down really carefully.
00:53:26.87\00:53:29.57
It's like a pizza cut
up into not just 8 slices,
00:53:29.60\00:53:31.81
this is like
16-sliced pizza in small bits
00:53:31.84\00:53:35.21
because, keep this in mind,
00:53:35.24\00:53:36.68
I die daily, didn't we say that?
00:53:36.71\00:53:38.81
If we die, who
lives inside? Christ does.
00:53:38.85\00:53:41.72
And the life we
live in the flesh,
00:53:41.75\00:53:43.08
we do it by faith.
00:53:43.12\00:53:45.09
Okay, now what happens
00:53:45.12\00:53:46.45
if I decide to
die daily to self?
00:53:46.49\00:53:49.89
What actually happens?
00:53:49.92\00:53:51.26
What's actually
accomplished in our lives?
00:53:51.29\00:53:53.06
Romans 8:13. Look at this.
This is if you decide not to.
00:53:53.09\00:53:58.30
Here it is.
00:53:58.33\00:54:01.84
"For if you live according
00:54:01.87\00:54:04.14
to the flesh, you
will," what, "die."
00:54:04.17\00:54:07.31
Now is that dying spiritually
or what is that dying?
00:54:07.34\00:54:10.88
That's death,
that's spiritual death,
00:54:10.91\00:54:12.45
that's physical
death, that's eternal death.
00:54:12.48\00:54:14.85
"But if by the
Spirit you put to death
00:54:14.88\00:54:20.06
the deeds of the body, you
will, what, you will live."
00:54:20.09\00:54:22.69
So when you say,
00:54:22.72\00:54:24.06
"I die daily," what, in essence,
00:54:24.09\00:54:25.43
are you saying?
00:54:25.46\00:54:26.80
You're in essence saying,
"You didn't commit suicide,
00:54:26.83\00:54:30.30
what you, in essence,
00:54:30.33\00:54:31.67
did is your
flesh has certain deeds
00:54:31.70\00:54:35.34
that it lusts to do."
00:54:35.37\00:54:38.54
Are you following me carefully?
00:54:38.57\00:54:39.94
Everybody has a
different struggle,
00:54:39.97\00:54:42.04
but that struggle is
often based on the things
00:54:42.08\00:54:43.61
that you imbibe in,
00:54:43.65\00:54:44.98
the things that you
continue to yield to.
00:54:45.01\00:54:47.02
Your flesh has a certain desire,
00:54:47.05\00:54:48.88
and if you don't
put yourself to death,
00:54:48.92\00:54:51.32
these deeds are
going to find themselves
00:54:51.35\00:54:53.39
working every day in your life.
00:54:53.42\00:54:56.02
That's why it says,
"But if by the Spirit,
00:54:56.06\00:54:58.66
you put to death the deeds
of the body, you will die."
00:54:58.69\00:55:02.23
The deeds of the
body happen naturally
00:55:02.26\00:55:05.13
when you don't put
your spiritual life
00:55:05.17\00:55:07.50
on the front line.
00:55:07.54\00:55:08.87
When you don't
give Christ the place
00:55:08.90\00:55:10.24
that He desires to have,
00:55:10.27\00:55:11.64
these deeds happen
without you even knowing.
00:55:11.67\00:55:15.58
That's why some
people can tell you off
00:55:15.61\00:55:17.11
in a Christian
environment that are Christians.
00:55:17.15\00:55:21.95
And they'll do it
like a second nature,
00:55:21.98\00:55:25.69
in fact, it's first nature.
00:55:25.72\00:55:28.42
Something's Christians
can do and they wonder,
00:55:28.46\00:55:30.29
"I didn't mean to do that,"
00:55:30.33\00:55:32.06
when you don't put to
death the deeds of the flesh.
00:55:32.09\00:55:35.46
And if you want to see
the deeds of the flesh,
00:55:35.50\00:55:36.83
go quickly with me,
since we don't have to rush.
00:55:36.87\00:55:39.47
I know we don't
have much time left
00:55:39.50\00:55:41.00
but I want you to see
the deeds very carefully.
00:55:41.04\00:55:43.04
Galatians, are you
turned to Galatians?
00:55:43.07\00:55:45.47
Yes, you are.
00:55:45.51\00:55:48.21
I was going to
tell you what page,
00:55:48.24\00:55:49.64
we do it in our
Sabbath school class.
00:55:49.68\00:55:52.18
All right? Galatians 5.
00:55:52.21\00:55:55.35
We may wind down
with this tonight
00:55:55.38\00:55:56.72
because I don't have much time.
00:55:56.75\00:55:58.49
Okay. Galatians 5:16.
00:55:58.52\00:56:01.66
"I say then, walk in the Spirit,
00:56:01.69\00:56:05.63
and you shall not
fulfill the lust of the flesh.
00:56:05.66\00:56:08.26
For the flesh lusts against
the Spirit," Galatians 5:17,
00:56:08.30\00:56:12.37
"And the Spirit
against the flesh."
00:56:12.40\00:56:13.74
Do you see the battle there?
00:56:13.77\00:56:15.10
So you have to decide
00:56:15.14\00:56:16.47
which side you're going to join.
00:56:16.50\00:56:17.84
And it says,
00:56:17.87\00:56:19.21
"And these are
contrary to one another,"
00:56:19.24\00:56:20.58
they love to fight,
00:56:20.61\00:56:21.94
"so that you do not do
the things that you wish.
00:56:21.98\00:56:24.58
But if you are
led by the spirit,
00:56:24.61\00:56:30.12
you are not under the law."
00:56:30.15\00:56:32.62
The biggest mistake
that people have made there
00:56:32.65\00:56:34.72
is thinking that
you're under the Commandments.
00:56:34.76\00:56:36.93
This is the law
of sin and death.
00:56:36.96\00:56:39.33
If you are led by the spirit,
00:56:39.36\00:56:40.86
that carnal law
can't control you.
00:56:40.90\00:56:43.13
In other words, Christ
has cut all the strings
00:56:43.16\00:56:45.17
to the puppeteer called Satan.
00:56:45.20\00:56:47.54
You're no longer
under his control,
00:56:47.57\00:56:48.97
that's what that actually means.
00:56:49.00\00:56:51.04
But if the strings are not
cut, look at the next verse.
00:56:51.07\00:56:53.88
"Now the works of
the flesh are evident
00:56:53.91\00:56:56.28
which are adultery,
00:56:56.31\00:56:58.15
fornication, uncleanness,
licentiousness, idolatry,
00:56:58.18\00:57:01.75
sorcery, hatred, contentions,
jealousies, outbursts of wrath,
00:57:01.78\00:57:05.05
selfish ambition, dissensions,
heresies, envy, murder,
00:57:05.09\00:57:08.29
drunkenness, revelries,"
00:57:08.32\00:57:09.69
I've got to stop
and take a breath.
00:57:09.72\00:57:11.99
"And the like of
which I tell you beforehand,
00:57:12.03\00:57:14.46
just as I also
told you in time past,
00:57:14.50\00:57:16.16
that those who
practice such things
00:57:16.20\00:57:17.77
will not inherit
the kingdom of God."
00:57:17.80\00:57:20.30
Breath.
00:57:20.34\00:57:22.30
"But the fruit
of the spirit is."
00:57:22.34\00:57:25.27
See the contrast between those
00:57:25.31\00:57:27.18
who don't die
and those who do die?
00:57:27.21\00:57:29.14
What a list of things
that happen that you'll say,
00:57:29.18\00:57:31.35
"Lord, have mercy, save me."
00:57:31.38\00:57:34.68
But if you die daily,
00:57:34.72\00:57:36.82
if you die and allow
the Lord to live in you,
00:57:36.85\00:57:39.92
the deeds of the flesh
will be not only mortified,
00:57:39.95\00:57:43.43
they'll be crucified,
they'll be obliterated,
00:57:43.46\00:57:47.13
and you'll be able to experience
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what it really means
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to have a strong
spiritual walk with Christ.
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It's always nice
when the day ends
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and there is nothing to fail.
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So friends,
continue studying God's Word,
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and the subjects
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that are not very
clear will one day
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come into a sharper focus.
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God bless you.
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