>> Just 50 days after Jesus resurrection with his teachings 00:00:01.16\00:00:05.30 in Ascension still echoing in their hearts. Believers from 00:00:05.30\00:00:08.77 everywhere gathered in Jerusalem 00:00:08.77\00:00:10.91 as the cost on the United Nations in this pivotal moment, 00:00:10.91\00:00:16.54 define fire was 00:00:16.54\00:00:18.48 through their faith movement. Wasn't night forever. Changing 00:00:18.48\00:00:22.12 the course of his join us as we explore the use of you shall 00:00:22.12\00:00:26.89 receive power. 00:00:26.89\00:00:28.49 [MUSIC] 00:00:28.49\00:00:31.43 >> Hello and welcome to our 3ABN homecoming. Can't meeting. 00:00:31.43\00:00:35.23 Our Speaker of the hour is one of my favorite speakers, 00:00:35.23\00:00:38.07 Pastor John Lowe, McCain. He's a pastor that Tom Servo 00:00:38.07\00:00:41.80 7th Day Adventist Church. My pastor as well as 3 B and 00:00:41.80\00:00:45.17 director of World Evangelism. He and his wife, Angie, we love 00:00:45.17\00:00:49.51 them. He's an anointed preacher of the word. He studies his 00:00:49.51\00:00:53.68 Bible and I know he would be blessed as he brings the 00:00:53.68\00:00:57.05 message power to overcome. Soon before he speaks will be 00:00:57.05\00:01:01.72 blessed by special music from brother Ryan Day and after him. 00:01:01.72\00:01:06.33 The next voice you hear is that of our pastor and friend John 00:01:06.33\00:01:10.53 Long. Okay. 00:01:10.53\00:01:12.07 [MUSIC] 00:01:12.07\00:01:16.30 [MUSIC] 00:01:16.30\00:01:21.31 [MUSIC] 00:01:21.31\00:01:26.31 [MUSIC] 00:01:26.31\00:01:29.12 >> I called the fall Jesus Christ his own lease 00:01:29.12\00:01:36.29 when the U.S. to a whole new spin. 00:01:36.29\00:01:40.30 This team can't. 3 mom, Heidi, there is forgiveness. 00:01:40.30\00:01:47.94 Everything we've done that is with all the more will serve 00:01:47.94\00:01:55.31 food. 00:01:55.31\00:01:57.68 Hi, I'm the son of Kyle. Has crews tide of home the tree 00:01:57.68\00:02:04.89 lead with 2 ballroom team. 00:02:04.89\00:02:08.92 Not far from council. We kindly he he rose from the dead and 00:02:08.92\00:02:15.66 alive for all to see. That is all the war serve. 00:02:15.66\00:02:25.87 I have made my decision. 00:02:25.87\00:02:29.54 I have Stu, my code name 00:02:29.54\00:02:33.55 trauma pounds and 00:02:33.55\00:02:37.09 >> I'll not be shame when through world behind me. 00:02:37.09\00:02:43.66 >> And the draw. Speak. Fool my base. 00:02:43.66\00:02:49.26 >> Snow, though. 00:02:49.26\00:02:53.67 [MUSIC] 00:02:53.67\00:02:57.91 >> Oh, I bet you must be born again, 00:02:57.91\00:03:02.34 John. 3.16, news. True. I feel I can be washed away. 00:03:02.34\00:03:09.52 Everything they knew on Monday. The love Kyle to somehow find 00:03:09.52\00:03:17.23 its way to you. 00:03:17.23\00:03:18.96 >> It is all the I was served and 00:03:18.96\00:03:24.97 [MUSIC] 00:03:24.97\00:03:27.84 and decision. 00:03:27.84\00:03:29.57 I would say my name. 00:03:29.57\00:03:32.91 >> Drawn you down in the sand. 00:03:32.91\00:03:37.05 >> I'll not be shame when through behind me. 00:03:37.05\00:03:43.25 >> And the calls the fool by the grace of God owes to the 00:03:43.25\00:03:50.89 low. 00:03:50.89\00:03:53.29 >> And I know when safe to end is made come to toll are meant 00:03:53.29\00:03:58.97 to be when not getting the vote. The name of Jesus, 00:03:58.97\00:04:03.87 every team. The cost of food and 9. The time will come when 00:04:03.87\00:04:09.94 Jesus Christ we tour someday. 00:04:09.94\00:04:14.38 >> To then there's just one name over. 00:04:14.38\00:04:17.95 >> With time and these 2. 00:04:17.95\00:04:25.13 [MUSIC] 00:04:25.13\00:04:28.03 >> The service or right or wrong 00:04:28.03\00:04:33.54 time to live. And 00:04:33.54\00:04:36.00 and the Bible is the blueprint 00:04:36.00\00:04:40.94 mean shouldn't buy. 00:04:40.94\00:04:44.61 And I'm not a no with my feet. You know, she's a scroggs. 00:04:44.61\00:04:50.79 That is all them or we will serve. 00:04:50.79\00:04:57.26 [MUSIC] 00:04:57.26\00:04:59.46 >> A decision 00:04:59.46\00:05:00.76 [MUSIC] 00:05:00.76\00:05:03.03 I may we've drawn and you down this. We will not be ashamed. 00:05:03.03\00:05:11.04 Live to behind us. We're all speed fool by the grace of God. 00:05:11.04\00:05:20.38 We will see, though, by the grace of God and we know so. 00:05:20.38\00:05:32.19 >> My the racing new use more of. 00:05:32.19\00:05:42.67 [MUSIC] 00:05:42.67\00:05:47.68 [MUSIC] 00:05:47.68\00:05:52.68 [MUSIC] 00:05:52.68\00:05:57.22 >> Thank you, Ryan. Can we say that again 00:05:57.22\00:06:00.59 by the grace of God, 00:06:00.59\00:06:02.29 5, nothing else but the grace of God, 00:06:02.29\00:06:05.46 we will serve the Lord by the grace of God. I preach this 00:06:05.46\00:06:08.03 message. 00:06:08.03\00:06:09.46 And so you pray for me. It's been a journey 00:06:09.46\00:06:12.70 and understanding that in our weaknesses, strength is still 00:06:12.70\00:06:15.64 made perfect. 00:06:15.64\00:06:17.34 So let us go to the Lord in Prayer, 00:06:17.34\00:06:20.68 gracious father in heaven. 00:06:20.68\00:06:23.21 It is never about us is always about you. 00:06:23.21\00:06:27.95 And I pray, Lord, as I deal with this delicate topic, 00:06:27.95\00:06:30.69 the power 00:06:30.69\00:06:32.25 to overcome Sen 00:06:32.25\00:06:34.92 that you alone will be exalted. 00:06:34.92\00:06:38.23 Get my mind the clarity that it needs 00:06:38.23\00:06:41.30 for your holy spirit to have his way. 00:06:41.30\00:06:44.67 And when it is said and done 00:06:44.67\00:06:47.00 made that which seems confusing to humanity, 00:06:47.00\00:06:50.67 be clear because of divinity 00:06:50.67\00:06:53.74 in Jesus name. I pray 00:06:53.74\00:06:56.61 a man. 00:06:56.61\00:06:59.51 The power to overcome Sen 00:06:59.51\00:07:02.88 this topic is one that 00:07:02.88\00:07:06.05 I believe has been at the forefront of discussion for 00:07:06.05\00:07:10.49 millennia. 00:07:10.49\00:07:12.53 How do you deal with something so 00:07:12.53\00:07:15.70 deadly ascent? 00:07:15.70\00:07:18.13 And I think still today we're grappling with it. 00:07:18.13\00:07:21.30 And so this morning, my aim is not to become theologian, 00:07:21.30\00:07:25.57 but to simply become a conduit through which Jesus Christ can 00:07:25.57\00:07:28.91 be seen 00:07:28.91\00:07:30.51 and the gospel can be distilled to the simplicity 00:07:30.51\00:07:34.55 that the cross has presented it. 00:07:34.55\00:07:37.99 But we begin with an article I read about understatements, 00:07:37.99\00:07:41.89 the publisher of the contents titled It The 15 greatest 00:07:41.89\00:07:45.49 understatements of all time. 00:07:45.49\00:07:47.56 I'm not going to issue a time of 59 pick what I called 00:07:47.56\00:07:51.33 my top 6 understatements, 00:07:51.33\00:07:54.67 for example, 00:07:54.67\00:07:56.40 if you've been around long enough when Japanese Emperor, 00:07:56.40\00:07:59.91 Hirohito, sir, ended 00:07:59.91\00:08:02.01 to America during World War 2 00:08:02.01\00:08:04.48 in an interview, he said the war in the Pacific has not 00:08:04.48\00:08:08.15 necessarily develop in the favor of Japan 00:08:08.15\00:08:12.12 when asked what it was like to run against Jamaican 00:08:15.82\00:08:20.03 sprinter Usain Bolt 00:08:20.03\00:08:23.50 who set a world 100 meter record. 00:08:23.50\00:08:26.70 Olympian Walter Dix said he was fast 00:08:26.70\00:08:33.17 after the oxygen tanks of Apollo 13 exploded 200,000 00:08:33.17\00:08:36.68 miles from Earth. 00:08:36.68\00:08:38.08 Astronaut Jim Lovell radio, NASA in Houston and said 00:08:38.08\00:08:42.45 we have a problem 00:08:42.45\00:08:45.85 when serial killer Jeffrey Dahmer who killed and 00:08:45.85\00:08:48.96 dismembered 17 males 00:08:48.96\00:08:51.83 was caught and arrested in court. He said before the 00:08:51.83\00:08:54.30 judge, 00:08:54.30\00:08:55.26 I really messed up this time. 00:08:55.26\00:08:58.73 That's an understatement. 00:08:58.73\00:09:01.10 I have to volcanic ash cause all 4 inches of British Airways 00:09:01.10\00:09:04.61 flight 00:09:04.61\00:09:05.94 number 9 to fail while approaching Indonesia 00:09:05.94\00:09:09.44 pilot Eric Moody said ladies and gentlemen, this is your 00:09:09.44\00:09:12.91 captain speaking. 00:09:12.91\00:09:15.15 We have a small problem. 00:09:15.15\00:09:17.42 All 4 engines have stopped and we're doing our best to get 00:09:17.42\00:09:20.82 them going again. I trust that you're not in too much 00:09:20.82\00:09:23.83 distress. 00:09:23.83\00:09:26.53 That's 00:09:26.53\00:09:27.83 an understatement. 00:09:27.83\00:09:30.30 And when Donald Rumsfeld in opposition to the war in Iraq 00:09:30.30\00:09:35.17 was asked 00:09:35.17\00:09:36.67 why he opposed it, he said, you know, death has a tendency to 00:09:36.67\00:09:40.34 encourage a depressing view of war. 00:09:40.34\00:09:45.21 Thats 00:09:45.21\00:09:46.31 an understatement. 00:09:46.31\00:09:48.68 But allow me to introduce one of my all 00:09:48.68\00:09:51.32 and I believe this is the understatement of all. 00:09:51.32\00:09:53.29 Understatements 00:09:53.29\00:09:55.36 sin is a big problem, 00:09:55.36\00:10:00.10 but we will never appreciate how much 00:10:00.10\00:10:02.53 and how great a CD we have 00:10:02.53\00:10:05.07 until we understand how great 00:10:05.07\00:10:07.57 the Senate is. 00:10:07.57\00:10:09.84 So let me introduce the question what ever happened to 00:10:09.84\00:10:12.77 Sen 00:10:12.77\00:10:14.58 when was 00:10:14.58\00:10:16.38 the challenge to overcome Sen less important, then 00:10:16.38\00:10:21.18 music? 00:10:21.18\00:10:24.22 How did Christian entertainment 00:10:24.22\00:10:27.09 successfully eclipse 00:10:27.09\00:10:31.19 the journey to overcome something so tenacious ascent? 00:10:31.19\00:10:35.80 How did the Christian Church forget that its greatest 00:10:35.80\00:10:39.77 call is not to entertain 00:10:39.77\00:10:42.77 but to lead somebody to victory over Sen 00:10:42.77\00:10:47.64 this generation is suffering from a limited and in adequate 00:10:47.64\00:10:52.08 understanding of the ignominiously carcinogen and 00:10:52.08\00:10:56.58 lethality of Sen 00:10:56.58\00:10:59.12 because cent in fact could kill you. 00:10:59.12\00:11:02.36 The problem is the rejection of Gaza law has left Christianity 00:11:02.36\00:11:05.99 unaware of the impact of Sen. That's why revelation 3 verse 00:11:05.99\00:11:09.80 17 says, 00:11:09.80\00:11:11.40 you know, we're so simple that we do not know that we on the 00:11:11.40\00:11:14.00 wretched miserable, poor line and make it 00:11:14.00\00:11:17.77 one of the effects of Sen is its ability to blind us to our 00:11:17.77\00:11:22.91 own real condition. So before I get into the heart of the 00:11:22.91\00:11:26.38 message, allow me to introduce Sen 00:11:26.38\00:11:29.58 since the nemesis, the arch enemy, the antagonists, 00:11:29.58\00:11:32.95 Santa has been around for a long time. 00:11:32.95\00:11:36.19 San lives in every community and every human heart 00:11:36.19\00:11:40.30 Singh holds the patent for every evil creation 00:11:40.30\00:11:44.03 among some of its inventions, our sorrow, crying pain, 00:11:44.03\00:11:47.47 death, lying, stealing coverage of snus, adultery, fornication, 00:11:47.47\00:11:53.24 sexual immorality, uncleanness lewdness idolatry saw Surrey, 00:11:53.24\00:11:58.58 shall I continue. 00:11:58.58\00:12:00.32 Witchcraft, hatred, contention, deception, jealousy, outburst 00:12:00.32\00:12:06.19 of RAF selfishness, self worship, self-love, dissension 00:12:06.19\00:12:11.99 Harris Env mur de drunkenness and revelry. And that's just a 00:12:11.99\00:12:16.16 limited list. 00:12:16.16\00:12:17.93 What's in does centers tasteless, odorless and 00:12:17.93\00:12:22.80 colorless, 00:12:22.80\00:12:24.34 but it will destroy you in small doses. 00:12:24.34\00:12:27.44 Send created racism but says he's not prejudice. 00:12:27.44\00:12:31.01 Sin is an equal opportunity killer. It excludes no one 00:12:31.01\00:12:34.98 based on race from the grave 00:12:34.98\00:12:37.35 sin does not love us like us and could care less about us. 00:12:37.35\00:12:41.16 Sin wants us to hurt. 00:12:41.16\00:12:43.22 I and I 00:12:43.22\00:12:45.13 sin wants us to live divided, derided and undecided. 00:12:45.13\00:12:50.60 Because of sin human actions misinterpreted human thought 00:12:50.60\00:12:54.90 saw corrupted and human nature is infected and the reason is 00:12:54.90\00:12:59.57 clear. Romans, 3 verse. 23 for all have sinned and fall in 00:12:59.57\00:13:04.31 short of the glory of God. 00:13:04.31\00:13:06.48 Sin is responsible for every war and every human casualty 00:13:06.48\00:13:13.12 sin rejoices over division and laments over unity. That's why 00:13:13.12\00:13:17.86 the church on work on unity. More than division can use a 00:13:17.86\00:13:20.73 man. 00:13:20.73\00:13:21.83 One would think that something so hideous would be easy to 00:13:21.83\00:13:24.90 spot but Sen knows how to hide itself. It has been camouflaged 00:13:24.90\00:13:29.17 concealed in the skies, reinterpreted exalted and 00:13:29.17\00:13:32.71 embraced and the moral deficit of our world today is steadily 00:13:32.71\00:13:36.24 increasing because the standard by which Sen is defined has 00:13:36.24\00:13:40.65 been 00:13:40.65\00:13:41.58 disregarded, ignored and criticize 00:13:41.58\00:13:45.65 and then you ask Christians theologically and spiritually 00:13:45.65\00:13:48.52 want to send and we all have the same non thoughtful ansa 00:13:48.52\00:13:53.26 which is scriptural correct. Sen is the transgression of the 00:13:53.26\00:13:57.00 law. But consider the impact of that text for a moment. The 00:13:57.00\00:14:00.84 Senate is the transgressions of the law. 00:14:00.84\00:14:04.37 A man who violate civil laws of the land is considered a 00:14:04.37\00:14:08.11 criminal is not. 00:14:08.11\00:14:10.75 He is in rebellion against the government of the land and the 00:14:10.75\00:14:14.18 citizens of the land. 00:14:14.18\00:14:16.48 He does not deserve pity and sympathy. He deserves 00:14:16.48\00:14:20.52 punishment. 00:14:20.52\00:14:21.92 That's when I think about how God is dealt with us. Praise 00:14:21.92\00:14:25.43 the Lord. He has not dealt with us according to our cent. 00:14:25.43\00:14:31.13 That was terrible. If God has had dealt with us according to 00:14:31.13\00:14:37.34 ICE and I would be preaching to no one. This morning 00:14:37.34\00:14:41.48 matter of fact, I will be preaching 00:14:41.48\00:14:47.25 the reality of it is man's laws and not always in harmony with 00:14:47.25\00:14:49.95 God's laws. 00:14:49.95\00:14:51.32 Man's lawn, God's law are not always synonymous. 00:14:51.32\00:14:55.12 When you look at the world today and the things that are 00:14:55.12\00:14:57.09 happening in our world today on so many different fronts, 00:14:57.09\00:15:00.60 we are living in a society where the darkest things up 00:15:00.60\00:15:03.53 phrased and the most glorious things are being said strangle 00:15:03.53\00:15:07.47 out of even the church. 00:15:07.47\00:15:10.27 But churches begin to become camps for the LGBT community 00:15:10.27\00:15:13.78 rather than the foundation upon which deliverance from Senate 00:15:13.78\00:15:17.31 Screech. There's something wrong. 00:15:17.31\00:15:20.55 The church is becoming a place of tolerance for Sen rather 00:15:20.55\00:15:23.82 than victory over Sen. 00:15:23.82\00:15:26.42 And I encourage you to day no matter how popular it becomes a 00:15:26.42\00:15:29.36 no matter how much it's legislated. 00:15:29.36\00:15:32.19 Remember the words of doctor Luke? Look, 16 versus 15 for 00:15:32.19\00:15:35.90 what is highly esteemed among men 00:15:35.90\00:15:39.47 is an abomination in the sight of God. 00:15:39.47\00:15:42.64 Don't ever allow yourself to the be entertained into 00:15:42.64\00:15:47.54 accepting the hideous nature of sin. You know what happens? 00:15:47.54\00:15:51.91 They put him on television shows and we laugh 00:15:51.91\00:15:54.78 until we realize that what was really dark and central is no 00:15:54.78\00:15:58.35 longer darken simple, but just funny, 00:15:58.35\00:16:01.72 he will have our way into accepting those things that are 00:16:01.72\00:16:04.49 a reproach in the sight of God. That's what you've got to. 00:16:04.49\00:16:07.56 You've got to really take the time to filter what comes into 00:16:07.56\00:16:10.90 your home. 00:16:10.90\00:16:12.17 What comes into your mind what you expose yourself to. 00:16:12.17\00:16:16.40 And even though it may be rated PG, 00:16:16.40\00:16:20.48 it may not be rated G. 00:16:20.48\00:16:25.28 So we've got a filter on mines because this is it 00:16:25.28\00:16:29.12 taking on the art and the art of this generation is the 00:16:29.12\00:16:32.62 destruction of human nature, degrading it to the point where 00:16:32.62\00:16:36.89 it is irreversible. 00:16:36.89\00:16:38.76 I've seen the impact of sin not only in the world but on my own 00:16:38.76\00:16:41.40 life and praise God God does not accept sin. He demonstrates 00:16:41.40\00:16:46.87 his love toward centers. 00:16:46.87\00:16:51.11 When you think about 00:16:51.11\00:16:52.94 the perfection of God's law 00:16:52.94\00:16:54.68 when the perfect holy law of God is violated, 00:16:54.68\00:16:57.68 it is not a civil crime. It is a moral crime 00:16:57.68\00:17:01.58 man becomes rebellious not against the authorities of 00:17:01.58\00:17:05.05 Earth alone but against the government of God. And Sen 00:17:05.05\00:17:09.16 brings us 00:17:09.16\00:17:10.49 out of harmony with the Purity, Holiness and goodness of God. 00:17:10.49\00:17:14.30 And since goal 00:17:14.30\00:17:16.26 is our extinction. 00:17:16.26\00:17:20.04 Let's just remember that 00:17:20.04\00:17:22.37 it is our extinction. If the devil can shorten his attack on 00:17:22.37\00:17:26.31 us, he would take us from sin to death but praise God in 00:17:26.31\00:17:30.25 between. That is the grace of God. 00:17:30.25\00:17:33.52 If you forget about the power of sin, the antediluvian record 00:17:36.92\00:17:41.72 might awaken your understanding. 00:17:41.72\00:17:44.03 Look, 17 29. But on the day that Lott went out of sight on 00:17:44.03\00:17:47.40 that rain fire and brimstone from heaven and destroyed them 00:17:47.40\00:17:51.97 all, 00:17:51.97\00:17:53.50 not a one of them. Can you imagine the generation where 00:17:53.50\00:17:56.47 the thoughts and intentions of their hearts only evil? How 00:17:56.47\00:17:59.31 long 00:17:59.31\00:18:02.28 continually? 00:18:02.28\00:18:04.21 And we're getting to that place today. 00:18:04.21\00:18:07.68 I have made to find the decisions about even social 00:18:07.68\00:18:10.52 media because social media is really not social 00:18:10.52\00:18:15.39 because when you get on social media, you no longer 00:18:15.39\00:18:17.46 communicate with the person sitting right next to you. 00:18:17.46\00:18:21.86 As one young lady said to the other sitting in my office 00:18:21.86\00:18:24.80 number of years ago, 00:18:24.80\00:18:27.20 how was to ignoring them? And they said to one another, 00:18:27.20\00:18:29.67 did you get that? 00:18:29.67\00:18:30.91 And I didn't hear anything. I said get what they said. 00:18:30.91\00:18:33.07 I just sent you a text 00:18:33.07\00:18:35.01 that was sitting right there, just turn around and talk to 00:18:35.01\00:18:37.01 them 00:18:37.01\00:18:38.68 and some of us drawn and so much by social media instead of 00:18:38.68\00:18:41.48 instead of telling a wife who is one foot away from us may be 00:18:41.48\00:18:44.95 inches away. Honey, I love you. We put it on Facebook until the 00:18:44.95\00:18:48.32 whole world. Honey, I love you. Just turn around. He a wife and 00:18:48.32\00:18:51.53 tell right there, come on somebody saying that 00:18:51.53\00:18:54.10 that that media has drawn us and we've got to declare the 00:18:54.10\00:18:56.43 whole world. I love my wife. And she said want to just tell 00:18:56.43\00:18:59.93 me 00:18:59.93\00:19:02.74 and some people, you know what? 00:19:02.74\00:19:05.04 I'm in Wal-Mart, who cares? 00:19:05.04\00:19:08.28 Social media has made some of us stupid. 00:19:12.21\00:19:16.05 You know, I just I just got out of the shower. 00:19:16.05\00:19:19.65 That is a detail that no one really needs to know about. 00:19:19.65\00:19:23.66 But that's what sense does it docking system makes a slaves 00:19:23.66\00:19:27.00 to something that God never intended us to be a slave to. 00:19:27.00\00:19:31.93 The reality of it is it's it is not destroyed. Send will 00:19:31.93\00:19:35.74 destroy us. And so create sickness created so many ways. 00:19:35.74\00:19:39.31 So many inventive ways to bring us to the point where it catch. 00:19:39.31\00:19:42.81 It's become more important than our study on how to live in 00:19:42.81\00:19:48.08 harmony with the power that God has made available to us. 00:19:48.08\00:19:52.79 The reality is if Sen is not destroyed, sin will destroy us. 00:19:52.79\00:19:57.83 You know, we've all heard the shocking phrase for extreme 00:19:57.83\00:20:00.86 circumstances. So many use it today. 00:20:00.86\00:20:04.60 What I'm about to tell you is just the tip of the iceberg, 00:20:04.60\00:20:08.00 the impact of that statement he's often followed by the 00:20:08.00\00:20:10.87 question. You mean to tell me 00:20:10.87\00:20:13.94 there's more. 00:20:13.94\00:20:17.71 The reality is when the ice for a debt, something Titanic was 00:20:17.71\00:20:21.95 unveiled, there is a whole lot more. And when you study the 00:20:21.95\00:20:26.42 topic of send in salvation, there's a lot more that we 00:20:26.42\00:20:30.59 don't see. Then we actually do see 00:20:30.59\00:20:35.33 icebergs are hardly understood and deceptive because what's 00:20:35.33\00:20:38.77 below the surface exists mostly in on that a nation you see 00:20:38.77\00:20:42.67 many of us don't go below the surface when it comes to 00:20:42.67\00:20:45.24 studying about Senate salvation. We stay on the top. 00:20:45.24\00:20:48.44 We water skier Christianity. 00:20:48.44\00:20:51.81 But when we go below the surface, 00:20:51.81\00:20:55.25 understanding of salvation and Sen 00:20:55.25\00:21:01.09 to see the word expands is an understatement. 00:21:01.09\00:21:07.40 You have to be in the ministry. 37 years. 00:21:07.40\00:21:11.37 I just cited or let me really spend time on studying the only 00:21:11.37\00:21:14.94 thing that could keep me out of heaven 00:21:14.94\00:21:19.31 and let me focus on the only one that can get me into 00:21:19.31\00:21:22.01 haven't cheeses 00:21:22.01\00:21:23.98 when I was young man, I would preach all the lists. 00:21:23.98\00:21:27.12 You know what I could argue. I could argue any one of the 28 00:21:27.12\00:21:30.15 fundamentals and when, 00:21:30.15\00:21:32.72 but I've got to the point, my life as I get older, 00:21:32.72\00:21:35.42 I want to fit. I do want to win the fundamentals. I want to 00:21:35.42\00:21:38.19 introduce to you the most fundamental of all. She says 00:21:38.19\00:21:41.83 not displaying not discounting any of our fundamentals. 00:21:41.83\00:21:44.83 They all very necessary. But sometimes we get so focused 00:21:44.83\00:21:48.24 on the 28th that we missed the one and his name is Jesus. 00:21:48.24\00:21:52.41 Come on. Somebody say that 00:21:52.41\00:21:54.58 such is the case. 00:21:54.58\00:21:56.28 We often look at salvation. We even in our limited 00:21:56.28\00:21:59.48 understanding of its we are saying, but I asked people when 00:21:59.48\00:22:02.75 they say we are saved because somebody asked me that once and 00:22:02.75\00:22:05.89 I confuse them, I could see it all over their faces that are 00:22:05.89\00:22:08.72 you saying just that? I am. I am being and I will be 00:22:08.72\00:22:13.53 they said or you say this that I am. I am being and I will be 00:22:13.53\00:22:19.10 there's no answer. 00:22:19.10\00:22:21.34 I'm safe from the penalty of Sen. I'm being safe from the 00:22:21.34\00:22:24.97 power of Sani. Not one day will be safe from the presence of 00:22:24.97\00:22:28.14 sentiments about 00:22:28.14\00:22:30.31 so what's below the surface is far greater than what's above 00:22:30.31\00:22:33.08 the surface. 00:22:33.08\00:22:35.78 So this morning to tell you about what's more, what's below 00:22:35.78\00:22:38.22 the surface 00:22:38.22\00:22:39.92 with salvation is better. Understood. The reality will 00:22:39.92\00:22:43.56 eliminate the perception. 00:22:43.56\00:22:45.96 So let's begin with the basics, Matthew, one, 21 00:22:45.96\00:22:49.36 and she will bring forth the sun 00:22:49.36\00:22:51.90 and you shall call his name Jesus for. He will save is 00:22:51.90\00:22:58.17 people from there since no sweet. Its statement could have 00:22:58.17\00:23:04.41 been made. 00:23:04.41\00:23:06.48 I think of the children of Israel were awake when Jesus 00:23:06.48\00:23:09.38 was about to be introduced to the back door of the major. 00:23:09.38\00:23:13.36 They would have been rejoicing that they could finally get rid 00:23:13.36\00:23:16.12 of all the feasts, 00:23:16.12\00:23:18.29 killing all the Lans, 00:23:18.29\00:23:20.30 all the ceremonial services. 00:23:20.30\00:23:22.80 What am I saying? It's strange to me today. 00:23:22.80\00:23:25.47 I would need 7 day Adventists who think that they could be 00:23:25.47\00:23:27.80 saved by keeping fees. 00:23:27.80\00:23:30.51 It's an eclipse. 00:23:35.11\00:23:36.85 It's an eclipse. 00:23:36.85\00:23:39.35 We're touches. 00:23:39.35\00:23:41.12 It served its purpose at the time it was instituted. But if 00:23:41.12\00:23:44.15 you think that you can at your salvation by keeping feast, 00:23:44.15\00:23:47.46 you will exhaust yourself only to realize that you are still 00:23:47.46\00:23:50.56 lost. 00:23:50.56\00:23:54.76 When you read that verse, the benefit of that first is only 00:23:54.76\00:23:58.63 for those that accept the invitation to be his people. 00:23:58.63\00:24:02.84 He shall save his people from their scent. You see friends, 00:24:02.84\00:24:07.91 the tip of the salvation iceberg obscures the complete 00:24:07.91\00:24:11.15 picture. 00:24:11.15\00:24:12.31 But when the fog lifts salvation from Sen becomes 00:24:12.31\00:24:15.52 overwhelming and powerful, 00:24:15.52\00:24:19.49 you not even I-40 years. Anybody married more than 40 00:24:19.49\00:24:22.46 years and that 00:24:22.46\00:24:24.33 raise your hand. Show you a great here. Come and help me 00:24:24.33\00:24:26.93 out. 00:24:26.93\00:24:27.86 Raise your hand. 00:24:27.86\00:24:29.26 You know, you didn't get there on a flowery bed of ease 00:24:29.26\00:24:35.44 some husbands and looking straight forward. 00:24:35.44\00:24:37.71 [MUSIC] 00:24:37.71\00:24:40.81 He had to make it a 40 years. You you have to want to make it 00:24:40.81\00:24:43.48 to 40 years 00:24:43.48\00:24:45.11 through the good and the bad, right, 00:24:45.11\00:24:47.78 the prosperity and the adversity, 00:24:47.78\00:24:51.35 the sickness and the health, 00:24:51.35\00:24:53.59 the stupidity and the sensibility. 00:24:53.59\00:24:56.59 It's all in the am. I right? 00:24:56.59\00:24:59.03 You know, when when when a couple that's a matter for more 00:24:59.03\00:25:01.23 than 40 years goes out in society, 00:25:01.23\00:25:03.90 they declared don't let anyone else now 00:25:03.90\00:25:07.77 how stupid we have been for the last 40 years. 00:25:07.77\00:25:11.54 Now. Why am I saying that 00:25:11.54\00:25:14.58 marriage is 00:25:14.58\00:25:16.31 to the husband and wife, but the relationship between Jesus 00:25:16.31\00:25:20.38 and his church should be? 00:25:20.38\00:25:23.08 And I've learned and I continue to learn and my wife is still 00:25:23.08\00:25:25.95 teaching me 00:25:25.95\00:25:27.29 that 00:25:27.29\00:25:28.62 we're teaching each other, 00:25:28.62\00:25:30.56 that there is an endurance that marriage gives you 00:25:30.56\00:25:34.73 that nothing else can give you. 00:25:34.73\00:25:37.20 It teaches you that 00:25:37.20\00:25:39.17 in spite of who you are, 00:25:39.17\00:25:41.20 you can be something better 00:25:41.20\00:25:43.67 in spite of what you've done, you can still be a better 00:25:43.67\00:25:47.38 husband. You can still be a better wife. 00:25:47.38\00:25:51.05 You can have a better marriage. 00:25:51.05\00:25:53.21 You can get to the place where you don't have to fight each 00:25:53.21\00:25:55.42 other's weaknesses. But you praise each other's strengths. 00:25:55.42\00:26:00.19 You love each other in spite of not because of 00:26:00.19\00:26:05.33 and then you get up and you realize there's nothing that I 00:26:05.33\00:26:08.06 can do 00:26:08.06\00:26:09.36 to get my wife to make breakfast moment for me. 00:26:09.36\00:26:11.83 She makes it for me because she loves me. 00:26:11.83\00:26:16.27 I take out the garbage because I love her. 00:26:16.27\00:26:22.18 We travel together because we want to keep that love strong. 00:26:22.18\00:26:27.88 My my using that illustration 00:26:27.88\00:26:30.62 I've learned in my battle with Sen 00:26:30.62\00:26:34.76 the Lord has been there on my good days and my bad day, 00:26:34.76\00:26:38.99 my weekdays and my strong case, 00:26:38.99\00:26:41.93 he's been there to see me through and to see me in spite 00:26:41.93\00:26:45.33 of 00:26:45.33\00:26:46.23 not always in light of. 00:26:46.23\00:26:48.94 And so today I want to talk about something that, 00:26:48.94\00:26:52.14 by the way, so far, I've just laid the foundation. 00:26:52.14\00:26:55.48 I've got 30 minutes to give you the rest of the salmon 00:26:55.48\00:26:59.68 because the fog is about to lift 00:26:59.68\00:27:03.42 on Jesus. 00:27:03.42\00:27:05.92 We as a church, we have so much knowledge. We've got the read 00:27:05.92\00:27:08.86 books. 00:27:08.86\00:27:10.03 We've got the 28 fundamentals. We got institutions that most 00:27:10.03\00:27:13.50 of us should be in. 00:27:13.50\00:27:15.80 We've got educational institutions. We've got health 00:27:15.80\00:27:18.00 institutions. 00:27:18.00\00:27:19.00 We've got even valley 00:27:19.00\00:27:21.40 we've got while would we've got black hills 00:27:21.40\00:27:25.04 and all that stuff is finally 00:27:25.04\00:27:27.98 a blessing. 00:27:27.98\00:27:29.94 It's good. It teaches us things we need to know, 00:27:29.94\00:27:33.58 but don't ever confuse all of that. But she says 00:27:33.58\00:27:38.12 we don't have allowed all of that stuff 00:27:38.12\00:27:40.82 because given to us to get rid of chases 00:27:40.82\00:27:46.29 because you're not going to find salvation 00:27:46.29\00:27:49.26 indeed. In valley you'll find in the lily of the valley. 00:27:49.26\00:27:54.34 So often we focus on 00:27:54.34\00:27:57.64 we've got churches nowadays that become 00:27:57.64\00:28:00.31 and I'm going to say this in the right way. I want to say it 00:28:00.31\00:28:04.05 the right way and I want you to hear it the right way. 00:28:04.05\00:28:06.72 We have churches that have become Ellen White camps 00:28:06.72\00:28:09.78 instead of Jesus camps. 00:28:09.78\00:28:12.72 And we gauge everybody based on what we just read in our life. 00:28:12.72\00:28:16.42 Let me say something. I you probably don't meet many people 00:28:16.42\00:28:19.59 that respect and use her writings as much as I do. 00:28:19.59\00:28:22.33 So this is not any slam against her, 00:28:22.33\00:28:24.97 but she would never even put herself before she says. 00:28:24.97\00:28:28.80 So. We've got to cut that out when if if, if somebody says, 00:28:28.80\00:28:31.51 well, my church is for people that I'm a chore at that, 00:28:31.51\00:28:34.01 it sends the wrong church. 00:28:34.01\00:28:36.54 Let me say that again. I've heard some people say, well, 00:28:36.54\00:28:39.31 the our churches for people that are really strong at and 00:28:39.31\00:28:41.55 his no, no, your church should be for people that weekend Sen 00:28:41.55\00:28:47.72 anybody should be able to walk in the doors of the church and 00:28:47.72\00:28:50.09 find hope 00:28:50.09\00:28:51.36 and finding courage and we should not take our time to 00:28:51.36\00:28:54.30 beat people up from the pulpit. But let them see that Jesus is 00:28:54.30\00:28:57.97 the surgeon that cuts and heels 00:28:57.97\00:29:02.30 but getting confused. 00:29:02.30\00:29:04.51 So when we talk about salvation, 2 things had to 00:29:04.51\00:29:06.71 happen. 00:29:06.71\00:29:07.74 Someone must qualify to confront the tenacity of Sen 00:29:07.74\00:29:12.15 and something must occur to you advocate the power sin. I say 00:29:12.15\00:29:16.85 that again, someone must qualify to confront the 00:29:16.85\00:29:20.46 tenacity of cent and something must occur to eradicate the 00:29:20.46\00:29:24.56 power of Sen. 00:29:24.56\00:29:26.33 Another statement that I've been studying this and I know 00:29:26.33\00:29:29.16 you can understand it. 00:29:29.16\00:29:30.77 Some of you will get it on Tuesday. But most of you get it 00:29:30.77\00:29:33.10 today. 00:29:33.10\00:29:35.07 God does not save us because he loves us. 00:29:35.07\00:29:40.41 He saves us because of the toning work of cheeses because 00:29:40.41\00:29:45.51 he loves everyone. 00:29:45.51\00:29:47.52 He even loves to center. 00:29:47.52\00:29:49.75 But he doesn't save us on the basis of his love. 00:29:49.75\00:29:53.42 If he would, if he was going to save us on the basis of his 00:29:53.42\00:29:56.12 love alone, Jesus would be unnecessary. 00:29:56.12\00:30:01.06 That's why he said 00:30:01.06\00:30:02.80 you believe in God. 00:30:02.80\00:30:05.00 We've also on me, no man comes into the father. But by me, 00:30:05.00\00:30:09.54 God is not save us because he loves us. He said that's 00:30:09.54\00:30:12.47 because of the toning work of his son and his name is Jesus. 00:30:12.47\00:30:18.08 God is love. That will never change. 00:30:18.08\00:30:20.72 God does not excuse it on the basis of his love. Yet God's 00:30:20.72\00:30:24.39 love has everything to do with a victory over Sen. He doesn't 00:30:24.39\00:30:27.99 excuse it. He demonstrates his love 00:30:27.99\00:30:32.36 how to be demonstrated 00:30:32.36\00:30:34.03 John, 3 verse 17. We all know John, 3.16, but who knows? 00:30:34.03\00:30:37.50 John? 3.17, 00:30:37.50\00:30:39.43 for God did not send a son into the world to condemn the world 00:30:39.43\00:30:43.44 but that the world through him might be saved. God did not 00:30:43.44\00:30:48.98 send Jesus 00:30:48.98\00:30:51.41 to reveal since effect on humanity. That was obvious 00:30:51.41\00:30:54.98 4,000 years of Sen had made its presence obvious 00:30:54.98\00:31:00.12 4,000 years of sin inflicted havoc on humanity sends 00:31:00.12\00:31:04.79 devastation was obvious. Roman 6 0st. 23 for the wages 00:31:04.79\00:31:10.07 of sin is what death send. Turned God's perfect creation 00:31:10.07\00:31:14.14 into a mortuary 00:31:14.14\00:31:18.04 was littered with gravestones. When Jesus came, 00:31:18.04\00:31:21.38 no one was able to escape the moral impact of sin. God sent 00:31:21.38\00:31:26.61 Jesus at a time where Cent had Rick havoc on our planet. 00:31:26.61\00:31:33.29 And that the beauty of that story was he was willing to 00:31:33.29\00:31:35.72 come. 00:31:35.72\00:31:37.73 You know, if I was Jesus, 00:31:37.73\00:31:41.30 how to set that? Is there another way 00:31:41.30\00:31:43.97 20 to go down there for them? 00:31:43.97\00:31:47.57 But you know what? Friends when you pause and think about it, 00:31:47.57\00:31:50.04 he we talk about salvation being free. That's not true 00:31:50.04\00:31:54.44 because Jesus, everything 00:31:54.44\00:31:57.21 because he came down knowing that there's a chance he would 00:31:57.21\00:32:01.92 not be able to go back. 00:32:01.92\00:32:04.39 But he came down. He went into the he went into the to the to 00:32:04.39\00:32:09.86 the belly of the war 00:32:09.86\00:32:13.13 without any weapons other than his reliance on his father. 00:32:13.13\00:32:17.27 He couldn't yet not use any of his divinity. 00:32:17.27\00:32:21.44 Not in thought action. Word or deed. 00:32:21.44\00:32:24.44 He couldn't say I am the great I am and use his power to 00:32:24.44\00:32:28.21 overcome. Send. He had to do it like you and I would have to do 00:32:28.21\00:32:33.68 it. 00:32:33.68\00:32:34.85 Reliance on his heavenly father. 00:32:34.85\00:32:37.55 You see when you read the wages of Sine is death. 00:32:37.55\00:32:40.59 The 1st half of Roman 6 0st. 23 have reigned 00:32:40.59\00:32:44.29 supreme. It reigned supreme and check for 4,000 years. But 00:32:44.29\00:32:49.23 remember this, the 2nd half of Roman 6 0st 23 could not be 00:32:49.23\00:32:53.97 written until the victory over Sen was won. 00:32:53.97\00:33:00.11 Let me demonstrate that 00:33:00.11\00:33:01.78 the wages of sine is death, but the gift of God is eternal life 00:33:01.78\00:33:07.72 in Christ. Jesus, our Lord. Let me say it again. The 1st 00:33:07.72\00:33:11.29 half was true for sick for 4,000 years. 00:33:11.29\00:33:16.73 The Apostle Paul could not put the word but 00:33:16.73\00:33:20.43 until Jesus was victorious over Sen 00:33:20.43\00:33:24.10 and when did he do it? 00:33:28.37\00:33:30.34 When Satan became comfortable as Earth's mortician, Jesus 00:33:30.34\00:33:34.11 showed up, 00:33:34.11\00:33:38.11 however, just by myself, 00:33:38.11\00:33:41.15 Saint said, I'm going to kill them all. And then he heard the 00:33:41.15\00:33:43.95 announcement. 00:33:43.95\00:33:45.29 Jesus is on his way, 00:33:45.29\00:33:48.99 try to kill him as a baby. 00:33:48.99\00:33:51.33 But Jesus had Secret Service protection 00:33:51.33\00:33:55.40 try to he got his people to reject him. 00:33:55.40\00:33:58.20 But the mission was still set. 00:33:58.20\00:34:01.20 He dogged his footsteps. He called him everything he 00:34:01.20\00:34:04.31 could. He even got in the family circle. He was even 00:34:04.31\00:34:07.34 suggesting that Jesus was an illegitimate child to Jesus. 00:34:07.34\00:34:10.51 Kept focusing for the joy that was set before him endured the 00:34:10.51\00:34:14.02 cross Despising. The shame you see the cross was a stop along 00:34:14.02\00:34:18.52 the way Jesus focus be on the cross to the joy that was set 00:34:18.52\00:34:23.06 before him. 00:34:23.06\00:34:24.59 When you have to face their cross in this life. Focus on 00:34:24.59\00:34:27.66 the joy that is be on the cross. She's heard that Hans 00:34:27.66\00:34:32.47 Satan had become a comfortable mortician. And then he heard 00:34:32.47\00:34:36.94 this Klang in heaven 00:34:36.94\00:34:39.91 nations for for buying. 00:34:39.91\00:34:43.95 And so what's that noise? And the father says it's time 00:34:43.95\00:34:48.68 when the fullness of time had come, God sent forth his son 00:34:48.68\00:34:54.26 born of a woman born under the law to redeem those who are 00:34:54.26\00:34:59.19 under the law. 00:34:59.19\00:35:00.43 >> That we might receive the adoption has sons. 00:35:00.43\00:35:05.87 He heard that claim 00:35:05.87\00:35:09.64 and the presentation that she that rocked Satan's world 00:35:09.64\00:35:14.98 came from the lips of a man named John. 00:35:14.98\00:35:21.12 You get that on Wednesday, 00:35:21.12\00:35:22.88 [MUSIC] 00:35:22.88\00:35:26.35 John. I got it. I'm going to take up where you left off. 00:35:26.35\00:35:30.86 Behold the lamb of God 00:35:30.86\00:35:33.46 that taketh away the sins of the world I identify. Thank you 00:35:33.46\00:35:37.73 mom for giving me the name. 00:35:37.73\00:35:40.80 I want to do what he did. 00:35:40.80\00:35:42.97 The presentation that rocked Satan's world was 00:35:42.97\00:35:46.74 behold the lamb of God that taketh away the Sen the world 00:35:46.74\00:35:53.98 when that was heard, not one that was said not only did John 00:35:53.98\00:35:57.05 see Jesus coming, but Satan saw Jesus coming. 00:35:57.05\00:36:00.86 Let me say it. Well, I want you to grab this saying maybe the 00:36:00.86\00:36:03.73 roaring lion, but the introduction of the lamb of God 00:36:03.73\00:36:07.23 sent shivers down his spine. 00:36:07.23\00:36:11.60 That's the only time a lion was afraid of a Lamb. 00:36:11.60\00:36:16.10 Satan. Remember the declaration in the Garden of Eden 4,000 00:36:16.10\00:36:19.57 years earlier 00:36:19.57\00:36:22.81 when he heard John introduce Jesus his memory flashback back 00:36:22.81\00:36:28.32 to the Garden of Eden, 00:36:28.32\00:36:30.65 Genesis. 3.15, I will put enmity between Vian, the woman 00:36:30.65\00:36:34.49 between dicey to her seat. He shall bruise your head and 00:36:34.49\00:36:37.49 you shall. Bruce is healed and saying started feeling his head 00:36:37.49\00:36:40.96 to see if you have been bruised hip. That was on the way 00:36:40.96\00:36:45.33 Jesus. 00:36:45.33\00:36:47.34 The land 00:36:47.34\00:36:49.74 represents 00:36:49.74\00:36:51.31 resident power, silent and omnipotent. 00:36:51.31\00:36:55.88 Satan. The roaring lion represents pretentious power, 00:36:55.88\00:37:00.62 boisterous, but limited. 00:37:00.62\00:37:03.42 So whenever you face in, 00:37:03.42\00:37:05.59 remember, Satan's POW is limited. Jesus always can stop 00:37:05.59\00:37:09.62 of the power of Satan. 00:37:09.62\00:37:12.33 That is why people that don't have power try to scare you 00:37:12.33\00:37:14.96 with their loud mouth 00:37:14.96\00:37:17.00 roaring lion. 00:37:17.00\00:37:19.27 But people that have power are silent and steady 00:37:19.27\00:37:22.87 Jesus. The lamb. 00:37:22.87\00:37:24.54 Isaiah 53 for 7 says he was let as a lamb to the slaughter 00:37:24.54\00:37:28.11 as a sheep before it shares a silent. 00:37:28.11\00:37:31.11 So we open not as now. 00:37:31.11\00:37:33.35 Why did he not open his mouth? 00:37:33.35\00:37:35.78 Jesus didn't come to open his mouth. He came to open the 00:37:39.92\00:37:43.29 grave 00:37:43.29\00:37:44.09 [MUSIC] 00:37:44.09\00:37:47.46 throughout his mocking his trial, discouraging as false 00:37:47.46\00:37:50.13 accusations. 00:37:50.13\00:37:51.30 He did not say a word. And I always wondered why and I study 00:37:51.30\00:37:54.57 the word of God. And I found out loud. Jesus held his peace 00:37:54.57\00:37:58.51 until the victory was won 00:37:58.51\00:38:02.24 and revelation one verse 18 after the victory was Lonnie 00:38:02.24\00:38:05.21 said I am he that liveth 00:38:05.21\00:38:07.38 and was dead and behold, I am alive for evermore come once a 00:38:07.38\00:38:10.22 month of August 00:38:10.22\00:38:11.45 and I have the keys of h*** and death. 00:38:11.45\00:38:14.36 So 2 things did occur. Someone did qualified to confront the 00:38:14.36\00:38:19.13 tenacity of Sen 00:38:19.13\00:38:20.73 she's as qualified. 00:38:20.73\00:38:22.56 Something did occur to eradicate the power of Sen what 00:38:22.56\00:38:26.47 happened? 00:38:26.47\00:38:27.70 Jesus happened. 00:38:27.70\00:38:29.57 Redemption happened. You know, I looked at this word sin and 00:38:29.57\00:38:34.51 salvation and I decided 00:38:34.51\00:38:37.11 Senate salvation. We always talk about that. But let me 00:38:37.11\00:38:39.55 look at redemption. Redemption takes you beyond just Senate 00:38:39.55\00:38:42.78 Salvation Redemption takes you to a place where you begin to 00:38:42.78\00:38:45.79 see the forensics of salvation. It takes you that to to the 00:38:45.79\00:38:50.19 transaction Arie stages of salvation. What is redemption 00:38:50.19\00:38:54.30 mean? Redemption means the lamb of God changed our standing 00:38:54.30\00:39:00.20 before God. That's the first thing he did colossians one 00:39:00.20\00:39:02.94 verse. 21 and you who once alienated and enemies in your 00:39:02.94\00:39:06.31 mind by week and works yet now have been reconciled. So sin so 00:39:06.31\00:39:11.58 salvation saves us from sin. But redemption reconciles us to 00:39:11.58\00:39:16.75 God 00:39:16.75\00:39:18.75 changing our stand before God. What else does redemption to 00:39:18.75\00:39:22.32 the lamb closes the gap Ephesians to 13 but now in 00:39:22.32\00:39:26.56 Christ Jesus, you who once were far off have now been brought 00:39:26.56\00:39:30.93 nearby the blood of Christ. 00:39:30.93\00:39:35.64 The lamb closes the gap. The lamb changes are standing 00:39:35.64\00:39:39.61 before God. 00:39:39.61\00:39:40.98 What else? Islam, too. 00:39:40.98\00:39:43.01 The land paid our debt first, Peter one verse 18 knowing that 00:39:43.01\00:39:46.75 you're not redeemed with corruptible. Things like silver 00:39:46.75\00:39:49.15 and gold from your misconduct received by tradition from 00:39:49.15\00:39:53.15 their fathers, but with the precious blood of Christ as of 00:39:53.15\00:39:57.59 a land without blemish and without spot, 00:39:57.59\00:40:01.23 the lamb pays our debt changes are standing close the gap. 00:40:01.23\00:40:05.00 What else to do? 00:40:05.00\00:40:06.87 He doesn't leave us out there in the crowd. The lamb adopt us 00:40:06.87\00:40:11.17 too. Romans 8 for 15 for you. Did not receive the spirit of 00:40:11.17\00:40:15.68 bondage again to fear. But you received the spirit of adoption 00:40:15.68\00:40:18.88 by whom we cry out. Father, I've got a father. What about 00:40:18.88\00:40:23.69 you 00:40:23.69\00:40:25.45 for attention to the Lamb provides for us for the PS 00:40:25.45\00:40:28.56 4.19. This is something that we don't often see when we talk 00:40:28.56\00:40:31.59 about salvation. But redemption is a transaction. Every 00:40:31.59\00:40:34.83 process. The Apostle Paul sees the process of slavery, sees us 00:40:34.83\00:40:39.23 down in the chains of Cent, sees us at the at the place 00:40:39.23\00:40:42.77 where we're about to be sold into eternal destruction. 00:40:42.77\00:40:46.07 And Jesus comes along and says 00:40:46.07\00:40:48.14 I want to pay for them 00:40:48.14\00:40:50.18 a pay for their debt. 00:40:50.18\00:40:51.71 I'm gonna change is standing going to close the gap. 00:40:51.71\00:40:54.75 I'm going to adopt them and I'm going to provide for them 00:40:54.75\00:40:57.35 flipping for 19 and my God shall supply all my needs. 00:40:57.35\00:41:00.99 According to his riches in glory. Can you say then 00:41:00.99\00:41:04.16 not only that 00:41:04.16\00:41:05.79 as a as as a child that was adopted. I saw this to the lamb 00:41:05.79\00:41:11.07 places us in God's will. 00:41:11.07\00:41:14.54 You have received anything from somebody who die 00:41:14.54\00:41:17.91 make this very clear 00:41:17.91\00:41:20.58 until Jesus died. You did not. You did not have access to the 00:41:20.58\00:41:23.41 will of God. 00:41:23.41\00:41:25.05 That's what really bothers me. When people say I wonder what 00:41:25.05\00:41:27.65 the will of God it is. If God told me you couldn't do it. 00:41:27.65\00:41:31.72 If God told you he is my will. You couldn't do it. We are 00:41:31.72\00:41:35.19 incapable of fulfilling the will of God without Jesus 00:41:35.19\00:41:37.89 Christ working out as well. For to us for it is God who 00:41:37.89\00:41:40.66 works in us both to will and to do of his good pleasure. 00:41:40.66\00:41:45.27 So stop asking the question, what is God's will for my life 00:41:45.27\00:41:48.27 and simply submit your life to Christ and he will work in you 00:41:48.27\00:41:51.94 both to will awaken it and to accomplish it to do out here is 00:41:51.94\00:41:56.38 good pleasure. Cotton said 00:41:56.38\00:41:59.18 the land places us in God's will fusions one verse 11 in 00:41:59.18\00:42:03.28 him. Also we have obtained an inheritance. 00:42:03.28\00:42:08.29 We've got an inheritance Shaw, 00:42:08.29\00:42:11.49 the ink predestined according to the purpose of him who works 00:42:11.49\00:42:15.26 all things according to the counsel of his. Well, let me 00:42:15.26\00:42:19.43 pause for a moment to say this. 00:42:19.43\00:42:21.64 I want to bring this out. 00:42:21.64\00:42:23.64 Excuse my. 00:42:23.64\00:42:25.07 My nose is in the way 00:42:25.07\00:42:28.61 going to bring this out. 00:42:28.61\00:42:31.18 We are able to pay our bills based on our bottom line. 00:42:31.18\00:42:36.02 You know, you've got to like Bill Gas. Bill, you car note, 00:42:36.02\00:42:39.82 whatever else you have there, you put it all together and you 00:42:39.82\00:42:42.46 say, 00:42:42.46\00:42:43.59 okay, what's my salary and you look at the bottom, you say, 00:42:43.59\00:42:45.59 well, my bottom line is greater than my salary. 00:42:45.59\00:42:51.17 I can't afford it. 00:42:51.17\00:42:53.23 As I started this thing far that 00:42:53.23\00:42:55.34 Jesus provides for us based on his top line. 00:42:55.34\00:43:01.04 You've got to grab this powerful. 00:43:01.04\00:43:04.05 He starts with this top line. Let me let me let me stay with 00:43:04.05\00:43:07.05 this. Top line includes 00:43:07.05\00:43:09.35 the Earth is the lord's in the fullest thereof, 00:43:09.35\00:43:12.25 the world. And they that, well, they're in. That's his top 00:43:12.25\00:43:14.79 line. 00:43:14.79\00:43:15.89 The gold and silver is mine. 00:43:15.89\00:43:18.19 The cattle on 1000 hills is my. 00:43:18.19\00:43:20.90 If I were hungry, I would not tell you 00:43:20.90\00:43:23.77 the earth is the lord's and the fullest era. 00:43:23.77\00:43:27.27 The heavens to clear the glory of God. There's no place with 00:43:27.27\00:43:30.44 his speech in his language. The stars declare the glory 00:43:30.44\00:43:33.48 about. There's nothing that does not belong to God. So God 00:43:33.48\00:43:36.44 looks at his inventory 00:43:36.44\00:43:39.38 and he says since I own everything in the universe, 00:43:39.38\00:43:42.58 I think my wealth is good enough to provide for those 00:43:42.58\00:43:44.95 little guys on that little planet called Earth 00:43:44.95\00:43:49.26 Kadlec said his top line 00:43:49.26\00:43:51.73 and we look at our bottom line. That's why God is able to 00:43:51.73\00:43:54.66 provide for every one of us. 00:43:54.66\00:43:57.17 According to his riches in glory. Can I get an amen? 00:43:57.17\00:44:01.27 Somebody 00:44:01.27\00:44:02.70 so we see today 00:44:02.70\00:44:05.01 we are the lamb to redemption. Does so much for us to 00:44:05.01\00:44:08.54 sometimes we miss it. The land. Let's go over that again. 00:44:08.54\00:44:11.58 Changes are standing before God say that with me the lamp did 00:44:11.58\00:44:15.12 what changed our standing before. God. We are no longer 00:44:15.12\00:44:19.42 aliens. 00:44:19.42\00:44:23.99 Then he closes the gap. Send. Push us away from God. Jesus 00:44:23.99\00:44:28.26 came in close the gap and brought us near by his blood. 00:44:28.26\00:44:34.64 Thirdly, 00:44:34.64\00:44:36.17 the land paid our debt 00:44:36.17\00:44:38.47 not with a credit card, but with his own blood. 00:44:38.47\00:44:43.58 Fourthly, he adopted us. 00:44:43.58\00:44:49.55 And at this one is not part of my notes 00:44:49.55\00:44:52.49 and he opened an adoption agency. 00:44:52.49\00:44:55.99 You know, the churches, 00:44:55.99\00:44:57.79 an adoption agency. 00:44:57.79\00:44:59.59 You know, messages when you meet somebody say you want to 00:44:59.59\00:45:01.96 be adopted. 00:45:01.96\00:45:05.47 You can see that 00:45:05.47\00:45:07.64 when you meet folk don't say you want to join my church. 00:45:07.64\00:45:10.27 Say do you want to be adopted by the wealthiest person I've 00:45:10.27\00:45:12.81 ever met. 00:45:12.81\00:45:15.14 You want to be adopted by the only one that can save you. 00:45:15.14\00:45:18.61 Do you do want to be in the will to want to be adopted by 00:45:18.61\00:45:21.18 the one who has everything in his will and is designed just 00:45:21.18\00:45:24.02 for you. 00:45:24.02\00:45:25.09 We are the adoption agency. 00:45:25.09\00:45:27.82 That's why the devil has tried so hard to keep us from 00:45:27.82\00:45:30.29 carrying forth the message. It gives a completely different 00:45:30.29\00:45:33.13 spin on the message of salvation. It's an adoption 00:45:33.13\00:45:35.83 message. 00:45:35.83\00:45:37.10 It's not just the salvation message. It's a redemption 00:45:37.10\00:45:39.73 message. Jesus alone can save us from the ignominy us nature 00:45:39.73\00:45:43.91 of sin 00:45:43.91\00:45:45.44 and places in as well. 00:45:45.44\00:45:47.44 And then number 7, 00:45:47.44\00:45:49.41 the lamb assures us our inheritance. 00:45:49.41\00:45:52.38 Matthew, 25 and verse 34 00:45:52.38\00:45:55.02 then the king will say to those on his right hand come you 00:45:55.02\00:45:58.95 blessed that my father inherit the kingdom prepared for you 00:45:58.95\00:46:02.92 from the foundation of the world. You know the reason why 00:46:02.92\00:46:06.70 we have that in here just waiting for us. It's because of 00:46:06.70\00:46:09.40 the lamb. 00:46:09.40\00:46:11.03 The lamb. 00:46:11.03\00:46:12.63 What was that? I just say plant. 00:46:12.63\00:46:15.70 We don't have that because of all the institutions we have. 00:46:15.70\00:46:18.77 We don't have that because of all the knowledge we have. 00:46:18.77\00:46:21.71 We don't have that because of the diet we have. 00:46:21.71\00:46:24.58 We don't have that because of the number of churches that we 00:46:24.58\00:46:27.68 have or the number of companies we have. We have that because 00:46:27.68\00:46:31.32 of the blood of the lamb Christ Jesus. 00:46:31.32\00:46:34.46 So the plan of salvation, 00:46:38.96\00:46:41.26 it means that we are redeemed, that 00:46:41.26\00:46:44.80 it means that we are reclaimed. 00:46:44.80\00:46:47.57 It means that we purchased back. 00:46:47.57\00:46:50.94 Why does that mean so much to me? 00:46:50.94\00:46:55.14 When I was 3 months old, 00:46:55.14\00:46:58.11 I had no clue. 00:46:58.11\00:47:01.05 You know, 3 month-old kids. I don't know anything. 00:47:01.05\00:47:04.32 Just a bottle in a diaper and a credit 00:47:04.32\00:47:08.22 when I was 3 months old, 00:47:08.22\00:47:11.49 abandoned by one parent 00:47:11.49\00:47:15.16 accepted by another. 00:47:15.16\00:47:17.67 That's the story of every one of us abandoned by Adam. 00:47:17.67\00:47:21.94 The 1st half 00:47:21.94\00:47:23.71 adopted by the last 10 00:47:23.71\00:47:27.41 when the first Adam left us in a quandary. The last Adam solve 00:47:27.41\00:47:31.61 the quandary 00:47:31.61\00:47:33.31 when the first out of left us on the road to death. The last 00:47:33.31\00:47:36.85 Adam put us on the road to life 00:47:36.85\00:47:39.55 when the first out of left us bleeding and bruised and broken 00:47:39.55\00:47:42.86 and and abandoned. The last Adam adopted a son pulled us 00:47:42.86\00:47:46.63 into his family law 00:47:46.63\00:47:49.06 and made a subject to his will. 00:47:49.06\00:47:51.77 I told you this could be a simple message 00:47:51.77\00:47:54.27 because sometimes we get so discombobulated into the 00:47:54.27\00:47:58.04 theological over the dictum says pass to see are used to 00:47:58.04\00:48:01.14 say because bound down by all the terminologies that we miss, 00:48:01.14\00:48:05.25 that the Gospel is not difficult. 00:48:05.25\00:48:07.65 The plan of salvation means we are redeemed. We have reclaimed 00:48:07.65\00:48:10.55 we are purchase, backed. The plan to purchase is back 00:48:10.55\00:48:14.36 was in place before Sunday. Even into the world. 00:48:14.36\00:48:18.99 What is that plan? 00:48:18.99\00:48:20.93 What is the focal point of the Gospel? Where does the power to 00:48:20.93\00:48:24.27 overcome son reside revelation? 13, 8. Very short. Don't forget 00:48:24.27\00:48:28.90 it. Here it is. 00:48:28.90\00:48:30.77 Don't jump up and shout 00:48:30.77\00:48:32.71 if you want to. You can. 00:48:32.71\00:48:35.11 The lamb slain from the foundation of the world. 00:48:35.11\00:48:40.55 The lamb slain. Before the fire started. Jesus put the one who 00:48:40.55\00:48:45.65 can put out the flames 00:48:45.65\00:48:48.32 in the plan. 00:48:48.32\00:48:50.09 If you do believe that asked the Hebrews that when the 00:48:50.09\00:48:51.96 furnace 00:48:51.96\00:48:53.36 Jesus, the firemen joined them in the furnace. Jesus, the team 00:48:53.36\00:48:57.73 of Lions joined Daniel in the den Jesus, the one who controls 00:48:57.73\00:49:02.57 the winds and the waves when the boat with his disciples. 00:49:02.57\00:49:05.37 And I'm gonna tell you today, you may be in a storm in your 00:49:05.37\00:49:07.64 own life and send, but Jesus can come in and give you the 00:49:07.64\00:49:11.38 power to overcome by doing something that is far deeper 00:49:11.38\00:49:16.18 than just what we think is included. The power to overcome 00:49:16.18\00:49:20.09 Cent is a transference. And here's how the Bible describes 00:49:20.09\00:49:23.96 it. Second Corinthians 5 and verse. 21 00:49:23.96\00:49:27.96 second Corinthians 5 and verse. 21 00:49:27.96\00:49:31.70 for he made him who knew no scent 00:49:31.70\00:49:35.10 to be sent for us. Let me pause right there for a moment. 00:49:35.10\00:49:39.11 What does that mean? What does that mean? And I sat down and 00:49:39.11\00:49:42.31 studied at what does that mean? It doesn't mean Jesus became. 00:49:42.31\00:49:47.25 >> Sent for me. I mean, jeez that became sing for you, 00:49:47.25\00:49:50.45 you, you, you, you, you, you, you, you, you, you, you and you 00:49:50.45\00:49:55.39 and you. 00:49:55.39\00:49:56.39 >> And all those in that section, all those in this 00:49:56.39\00:49:58.53 section, all of those in that section, all those that 00:49:58.53\00:50:01.16 watching all those that walking the streets of the city, 00:50:01.16\00:50:04.93 if you can call Thompsonville the city, all of those that 00:50:04.93\00:50:08.34 welcome the streets of New York, put all that on your 00:50:08.34\00:50:10.77 shoulder. It put the weight of the world on your shoulder. 00:50:10.77\00:50:14.04 Put all the simple acts Everett ever committed on this planet. 00:50:14.04\00:50:18.51 Ever since the entrance of the doctors have sent put all of 00:50:18.51\00:50:21.75 that together and say to Jesus, are you willing to bear it? 00:50:21.75\00:50:27.56 God had laid on him, 00:50:30.13\00:50:32.49 the iniquity of us all. 00:50:32.49\00:50:34.96 So how dearest think that sent us some easy thing to Jesus 00:50:34.96\00:50:39.67 just came to eradicate. He had to put all that on him. He 00:50:39.67\00:50:44.81 became sent for us. 00:50:44.81\00:50:47.74 He took all that 00:50:47.74\00:50:50.78 and dragged to the cross 00:50:50.78\00:50:53.48 because he looked at the cross and said if this is what it's 00:50:57.39\00:51:00.36 going to take 00:51:00.36\00:51:02.29 to open the door for my children, 00:51:02.29\00:51:06.16 father, 00:51:06.16\00:51:07.60 I will be time. 00:51:07.60\00:51:10.10 So why do we get together like this? We get together like this 00:51:14.44\00:51:17.77 to rejoice. Not only because of the 1st half of second 00:51:17.77\00:51:20.88 Corinthians fibers, 21, 00:51:20.88\00:51:23.35 but the 2nd half 00:51:23.35\00:51:26.05 for he made him who know cent to be sent for us that we might 00:51:26.05\00:51:29.98 become the righteousness of God in him. 00:51:29.98\00:51:36.02 So let me let me just still the message down to 4 very quick 00:51:36.02\00:51:39.73 points. 00:51:39.73\00:51:40.86 You see we're here today because she's a sound away 00:51:40.86\00:51:45.13 we had today because Jesus paid the price 00:51:45.13\00:51:48.67 we had today 00:51:48.67\00:51:50.54 because Jesus forgave our cent. 00:51:50.54\00:51:52.57 We are today because Jesus atoned and pay that ignominious 00:51:52.57\00:51:56.28 debt to pull us into his family lived. 00:51:56.28\00:51:59.31 We are here today waiting for the inheritance to be to live 00:51:59.31\00:52:01.95 it and I learned something else. 00:52:01.95\00:52:04.29 Not only do we have an inheritance, but this is D 00:52:04.29\00:52:08.06 God 00:52:08.06\00:52:09.42 once us as kids inheritance, 00:52:09.42\00:52:13.60 why did God send Jesus? He didn't just sent Jesus to 00:52:13.60\00:52:17.40 resolve the issue of sin. He sent Jesus to get his 00:52:17.40\00:52:21.00 children back. 00:52:21.00\00:52:25.87 So when Jesus came to the first 2015, then come at the end when 00:52:25.87\00:52:31.15 he delivers to keep them up to his father. 00:52:31.15\00:52:35.28 That Deliverance is not just a city called the new Jerusalem, 00:52:35.28\00:52:38.65 but the Saints in that city will be there because of what 00:52:38.65\00:52:41.99 Jesus did. 00:52:41.99\00:52:43.79 The power to overcome cent is not that difficult, 00:52:43.79\00:52:47.46 but we wrap it up and so many things. So let me make it very 00:52:47.46\00:52:49.70 clear to you today. 00:52:49.70\00:52:51.60 We do not gain victory over Sen by substitute meets that. 00:52:51.60\00:52:56.71 But by the substitution, every sacrifice of Jesus, 00:52:56.71\00:53:00.48 you can't eat enough tofu to be saved 00:53:00.48\00:53:04.55 and salvation is not in Loma Linda. 00:53:04.55\00:53:08.18 Salvation is not and Morningstar. It's in the bright 00:53:08.18\00:53:11.42 and morning stocked. 00:53:11.42\00:53:14.46 So when you are choking down your next vigil link, 00:53:14.46\00:53:18.86 I don't think that that means you're more safe in the person 00:53:18.86\00:53:21.60 sitting next to you to some. It won't send me an email and 00:53:21.60\00:53:25.07 this was amazing was from an avenue. 00:53:25.07\00:53:27.94 He said I read that after Jesus his resurrection. He ate fish 00:53:27.94\00:53:31.61 and I'm having a hard time with that. 00:53:31.61\00:53:35.11 Why you haven't heard what you did. They were very they were 00:53:35.11\00:53:37.78 very they were very adamant in the email. They said she's a 00:53:37.78\00:53:40.58 fish at his resurrection. Wanted to do that. And I'm 00:53:40.58\00:53:43.62 vegan 00:53:43.62\00:53:47.69 I thought the since when was salvation based on official 00:53:47.69\00:53:50.39 veganism, 00:53:50.39\00:53:52.96 some of you all kind of trouble. I did that 00:53:52.96\00:53:54.86 intentionally 00:53:54.86\00:53:56.43 because I'm not minimizing health message. But the health 00:53:56.43\00:53:59.10 message is not the salvation message. It's the result of a 00:53:59.10\00:54:02.47 saving relationship with Christ. So do not think that 00:54:02.47\00:54:05.07 you will gain victory by substitution area meets only by 00:54:05.07\00:54:08.01 the substitution, every sacrifice of Jesus. 00:54:08.01\00:54:12.38 We are not saved by keeping the Sabbath, but by the Lord of the 00:54:12.38\00:54:16.32 sap of keeping us. 00:54:16.32\00:54:21.29 But make no mistake about it, 00:54:21.29\00:54:23.76 you eat right? 00:54:23.76\00:54:25.79 You do. It sent righteousness by faith. 00:54:25.79\00:54:28.70 You do observe the Sabbath, but don't ever get any of those 00:54:28.70\00:54:31.90 mixed up 00:54:31.90\00:54:33.84 salvation over Sen 00:54:33.84\00:54:38.87 we cannot overcome send by our fundamentals 00:54:38.87\00:54:42.18 by faithfulness to the 28 fundamentals. But by the most 00:54:42.18\00:54:45.41 fundamental fact of all the faithfulness of Jesus Christ 00:54:45.41\00:54:49.55 alone. 00:54:49.55\00:54:52.22 So when you have when you're fighting over Sen and you want 00:54:52.22\00:54:55.06 and how to overcome it, 00:54:55.06\00:54:58.13 allow me to end this message with an understatement. 00:54:58.13\00:55:01.30 I began with an understatement. 00:55:01.30\00:55:04.87 One of those was 00:55:04.87\00:55:06.80 Santa is a big problem. 00:55:06.80\00:55:09.94 Can I ended with a better one? 00:55:09.94\00:55:11.97 Jesus is a big say fit. 00:55:11.97\00:55:13.88 [MUSIC] 00:55:13.88\00:55:16.58 That's right. He is. And they overcame him by the bull lot of 00:55:16.58\00:55:20.78 the land when he say that again and they overcame him Biden. 00:55:20.78\00:55:27.09 So don't get it mixed up. We've got a whole lot, but we 00:55:27.09\00:55:29.72 don't need a whole lot. 00:55:29.72\00:55:31.49 We just need Jesus. And by the way, just in case to stop me 00:55:31.49\00:55:36.06 into your mind by some Satanic suggestion, I'm not a Jesus 00:55:36.06\00:55:39.93 only and you don't need anything else. Preach it. 00:55:39.93\00:55:42.84 I'm a Jesus first 00:55:42.84\00:55:45.74 and everything else after preaching 00:55:45.74\00:55:48.28 because we've got that. We've got that false cry centered his 00:55:48.28\00:55:51.08 preaching nowadays. Don't keep the Sabbath. Don't do this. 00:55:51.08\00:55:54.05 Don't do that. Just Jesus alone. No Jesus first. 00:55:54.05\00:55:58.92 And everything else can fall in line behind him. Not Jesus only 00:55:58.92\00:56:02.79 but when it comes to salvation. Don't miss this. 00:56:02.79\00:56:05.79 We cannot overcome send by anything external 00:56:05.79\00:56:09.83 we can only overcome sent by the blood of the lamb. 00:56:09.83\00:56:15.14 Yes. The question today, how many of you want that 00:56:15.14\00:56:17.24 overcoming power to be in your life? 00:56:17.24\00:56:20.24 It's so simple. The power to overcome Sen 00:56:20.24\00:56:23.65 in anything you place your eyes on except the person of chases. 00:56:23.65\00:56:28.35 Looking on to Christ the author and the finish of our faith. 00:56:28.35\00:56:32.65 So can we have the power to overcome cent? Yes. 00:56:32.65\00:56:36.56 Behold the lamb of God 00:56:36.56\00:56:39.43 that taketh away. 00:56:39.43\00:56:41.13 The scent of 00:56:41.13\00:56:43.26 [MUSIC] 00:56:43.26\00:56:48.27 [MUSIC] 00:56:48.27\00:56:53.27 [MUSIC] 00:56:53.27\00:56:58.28 [MUSIC] 00:56:58.28\00:57:03.28 [MUSIC] 00:57:03.28\00:57:08.29 [MUSIC] 00:57:08.29\00:57:13.29 [MUSIC] 00:57:13.29\00:57:16.36