"Eat the bread,
you will have life.
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Eat My flesh,
you will have life.
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Drink My blood,
you will have life."
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The evidence is our willingness
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to hear and
obey the Word of God,
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especially since we
realize this is God speaking.
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This is not an ordinary book
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we are talking
about this morning,
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this is the word of life.
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This is the Word of
God. We are in His presence.
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The Holy Spirit's
ability to inspire.
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It's not by accident
that God called Abraham
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and promised to him
that he would become
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a great nation
and would be blessed
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of all men on the earth.
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Abraham would have
turned over in his grave
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if he'd have heard Jesus
say to the Jewish leaders
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I'm taking the kingdom from you,
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and giving it to the Gentiles
who were once not my people.
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So God raised up Jesus,
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His own Son in human flesh
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and asked Him to form a movement
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which became a magnificent
movement called Christianity.
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A woman clothed in the
sun, the righteousness of Jesus.
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The same message is
being given every time
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God has raised up a people.
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Abraham, Jesus
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and in these last days,
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a Baptist farmer on the board
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of River
Mountain New York State.
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Some of you may have visited
the home of William Miller.
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A man of prayer, a dairy farmer.
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Is God a
respecter of persons? No.
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A dairy farmer who is in
the daily habit of going out
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and praying in that
little line of trees
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that are still
there on his property.
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Kneeling down and
God speaks to him,
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and we have the
beginning of a movement
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that has become a
worldwide movement.
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Who would have dreamed that
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the Seventh-day Adventist church
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would come out of that
little humble beginning?
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A man who didn't even
want the message laid on him,
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but God said preach it,
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so he decided to go
ahead and preach it.
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Some people think this church
was founded on Ellen White,
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it was not.
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It was not.
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We're grateful for her gift,
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but the church
was not built on her.
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I'm glad for that, aren't you?
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And this third movement,
I'm intrigued by the fact,
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that's why I became
a Seventh-day Adventist
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because I
realized that the sanctuary
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was the one message
that God kept giving
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every time He
raised up a people.
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So I decided I
better look at this message
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a little bit more carefully
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and God has instructed me
by the way in the night season
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to be very bold this morning
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because there are
many children of God,
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professed children of God
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who are playing
very dangerous games
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with the kingdom of God.
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And because the end
of all things is near,
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it's important today they
call sin by its right name
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and to show the provision
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that God has made
for sin in Jesus Christ.
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And God told me
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I'm called for
repentance today from unbelief.
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Is that hitting
you this morning?
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That wretched, cursed, unbelief,
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so it's a simple
message this morning.
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Open your Bibles with
me to Ephesians Chapter 5.
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The sanctuary message
is all through Scripture.
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It's especially all through
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the writings of the Apostle Paul
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and here is a classic
example three verses only.
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I love it when three verses
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can bring the whole
message out, don't you?
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I have a sermon where
I bring the whole gospel
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out of just one verse,
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but here we have three verses
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and it's probably
very appropriate today
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because it's in the
context of the relationship
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between husbands and wives.
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Isn't that beautiful.
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And the whole
message comes through
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in just three little
verses in Ephesians Chapter 5,
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and I'm looking at verses
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25, 26 and 27.
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Three little verses.
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By the way those
three little verses
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contain the three
elements of the sanctuary.
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The courtyard, the holy place
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and the most holy place
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and I can show you this a dozen
times in the writings of Paul
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where he keeps
bringing the sanctuary up.
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By the way in
case you didn't know,
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listen very carefully to this,
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in case you didn't know
the whole of the New Testament
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is also structured
like the sanctuary.
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That's why the New Testament
begins with... the gospels.
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The gospels are the story
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of the life and
death of the sacrifice,
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that's the
courtyard in the sanctuary.
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The New Testament
moves into the epistles,
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which are the story of a church
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struggling to
put on Jesus Christ
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and to grow up and become mature
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and holy in His presence
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through the
abiding of Christ in them,
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that's the vast
majority of the New Testament,
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emphasis on the daily ministry.
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Now, I wonder the beast tried
so hard to get rid of the daily
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because it's the daily ministry
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that brings the
living Christ into us.
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Now you may be
forcing me this morning.
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Just recently I was
forced to fall down on my knees
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in front of a group
like this for five minutes,
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and I kept praying that
God would open their eyes
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and their mouth that we
can actually hear and see
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some evidence that
they were living saints
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and I was not
actually standing in a morgue.
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The daily... is the time
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where we receive the
indwelling of Christ.
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That's the oil and
the bread and the incense
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all crushed and then consumed.
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We are
privileged to eat the flesh
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and drink the blood of
Jesus every day of our lives
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which is the same
as receiving the spirit
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which according to
Jesus is the equivalent of...
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My first meeting was
obviously not successful.
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Hearing the word,
thank you in acting upon it,
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That was the teaching of
Jesus, if you eat My flesh,
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you will have eternal life,
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but it's actually the
sprit that gives you a life,
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it's actually My words.
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And that's why those
elements were all consumed
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because it's trying to
teach us we need to consume
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Jesus everyday through His word.
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And finally we have
Revelation which simply means
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the revealing and
the first verse says
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the revealing of Jesus Christ.
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The Book of Revelation
is all about our people
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finally emerging who
revealed Jesus Christ.
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Why do you think the first
symbolic picture in Revelation
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is seven golden
candlesticks which John says
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are the seven churches, seven.
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The symbolic, not
perfection, not at all.
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Seven, the symbolic
figure of completion.
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Thank you, Carol, of completion.
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We finally have a picture
of God's completed people.
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Jesus is standing
in the middle of them
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and the oil is flowing through
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and their filthy
garments are being soaked in it
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and they are
bringing forth light
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and its all shining on Jesus.
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They are bringing
forth a revelation of Jesus
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over sanctuaries
in the New Testament,
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the three sections
of the New Testament.
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This message is all
the way through scripture.
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I can show you
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in 50 different
places this same message.
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But let's quickly I got
to remember the time here.
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Let's quickly move into
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Ephesians 5:25,
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"Husbands, love your wives,
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just as Christ
also loved the church
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and gave himself"
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Jesus gave, let that
word sink in, "gave himself."
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He wasn't put to
death, He laid down His life.
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Gave Himself for
the church, for her.
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Jesus gave Himself a clear
reference to what He meant.
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The cross, thank you.
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It's a clear
reference to the cross.
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Jesus gave Himself for her
and I remind you this morning
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of that magnificent
verse in Corinthians
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that Jesus became...
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...sin for us.
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What's that reference?
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1 Corinthians 5, well,
you have that of there,
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1 Corinthians 5:21.
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Thank you very much.
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You rattled that off so quickly.
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Praise the Lord.
1 Corinthians 5:21.
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Jesus gave Himself for what?
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I'm sorry, Jesus
became sin for us
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so that we might become
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the righteousness of God in Him.
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That's the whole
gospel in a nutshell.
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Jesus became sin so that
we might become righteousness.
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And another word
for righteous is?
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Holy, thank you.
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Jesus became
sin so that we might
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become righteous.
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That is the
whole gospel message.
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Then why do we still have
people trying to rationalize
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and justify sin?
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I have people walking up to me
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every day of
life and saying, oh,
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but I'm gonna keep
on sinning till the end.
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I'll say well,
bless you, my son.
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Bless you because if
you do make a mistake
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even right up till the end yes,
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forgiveness will
still be available.
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But the good news
is God want's to break
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the power of sin in our lives.
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Amen. Amen.
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He's already broken it in
the person of Jesus Christ.
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Romans 8,
quickly flip over there
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and remind yourselves Romans 8.
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Powerful passage here
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breaking up the
atoning death of Jesus.
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Roman 8,
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"Therefore, there
is now no condemnation"
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remember that's the
same word as judgment?
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"There is no condemnation for
those who are in Christ Jesus,"
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and I'm jumping down to verse 3.
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"For what the Law could not do,
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weak as it was
through the flesh,
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God did, sending His own Son
in the likeness of sinful flesh
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and as an offering for
sin, He condemned sin in"
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Flesh. In whose flesh?
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Jesus.
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Be very careful now,
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I notice you risk coming to
the front seat this morning.
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You moved from halfway
back there I was watching you.
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You came right up
to the front seat.
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In whose flesh
was sin condemned?
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If you saying our you
should repent immediately.
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If you were
right the first time,
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thank you very much.
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Of course, its
talking about Jesus here
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who came in the
likeness of sinful flesh
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and died in the
likeness of sinful flesh.
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That's because our condemnation
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was falling on Him at that time.
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And if you are in
Christ you are not condemned.
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Well, that mean you are perfect?
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I never use the word perfect,
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it's a term that belongs to God.
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If you're
justified in God's sight
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you are perfect.
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The word justified
means declared righteous.
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God has taken your filthiness
and placed it on Jesus
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and He's taken Jesus'
holiness and credited to you.
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It's the most uneven
transaction in history.
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It's called justification.
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And God says if you can
bring yourself to believe
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that I have been that generous
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I will look at you every day
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and when I look at
you I will see Jesus.
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Because when I
looked at Jesus I saw you.
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Why do you think Jesus
cried out on the cross,
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My God, My God,
why has thou? Forsaken.
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Had He done
something to offend His Father?
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No, He was without sin
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and yet He became sin for us.
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That was our guilt,
it was our condemnation
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that was crushing Jesus
and caused Him to cry out,
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I finally open my eyes
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and realized that
was me hanging there
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in the person of Jesus Christ.
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He changed His name
to Bill at that moment
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and it was Bill who
needed the forgiveness
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and the love that
God was about to extend
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through the death of Jesus.
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How is your faith this morning?
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I know so few people
that are appreciating
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the atoning death of Jesus.
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They should be reading
Romans 6:11 every morning
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of their lives and
claiming that promise.
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"Consider yourself" says
Paul, "to be dead to sin,
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and alive unto God."
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Wow.
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Is that because you are
feeling a little more holy?
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No, it's because Jesus Christ
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has died your death to sin.
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He has lifted your
condemnation from you.
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Wow.
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By the way, please don't
misunderstand the statement.
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I have had the
experience over the years
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that people hear
what they want to hear.
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But please hear the
statement very carefully.
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If you are coming to the
cross every day you can spend
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the rest of your life
free from condemnation
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even though you are
still growing up into Jesus.
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For the rest of
your life as you learned
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to put on Jesus every
day sometimes we slip back,
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we go forward, we
learn from our mistakes,
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we become more
like Christ every day.
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The whole time,
this is the statement,
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the whole time we are growing up
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into maturity in Jesus Christ.
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The whole time
which is a life time--
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sanctification is
the work of a lifetime.
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The whole time we are
growing up into Jesus,
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we are not...
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...condemned.
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Maybe He is on vacation today.
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The whole time
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we are growing up into Jesus
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we are not condemned.
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And people come to me,
what if I make a mistake,
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what if I fall back?
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I say we will do what
a child of God should do
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if they make a mistake.
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Repent, come
back to your Father,
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feel His arms around
you but you won't hear Him
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saying I'm kicking you out,
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I'm taking away from you
all the benefits of the cross.
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You won't hear Him say that.
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You know, what
you will hear Him say?
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You are still my child.
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All the benefits of
the cross are still yours
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because you did noting
to earn them a first place.
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They were given to us
while we were yet sinners.
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While we were ungodly.
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While we were even at enmity
with God Christ died for us.
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How is your faith today?
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We need to move into
belief in these matters.
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The one thing that will
lead us to quit playing games
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with sin with its
terrible consequences.
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Has God not demonstrated
His concern about sin?
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He was willing
to let His own Son,
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give Himself to
resolve the sin problem.
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Even they let Jesus
allowed to fall on Him.
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Can you honestly say this
morning by the grace of God,
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thank You Father,
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I'm free this
morning from guilt,
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I'm free from condemnation,
I'm free from judgment,
00:20:36.97\00:20:42.40
I'm even free
from the second death.
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I've been there and
done that already in Jesus.
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And this is not a
freedom to sin, is it?
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It's a freedom from sin.
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It's the only path we can
thread that will enable us
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to leave sin behind us,
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is to get into the daily
habit of coming to the cross.
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Look at verse 26.
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Verse 26, back in Ephesians 5.
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Now second point,
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notice what joins Verse
25 together with Verse 26.
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Anyone picking it up?
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What's the little
conjunction there?
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The little
conjunction that joins Verse 25,
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it's your version says that,
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anyone have
something stronger than that?
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Some versions say so
that the real Greek says,
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in order that.
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Thank you.
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Yes, in Greek its
much more emphatic.
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In order, that's
how Paul says it.
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We soften it. We
soften it to that.
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It's much softer isn't it?
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Jesus died, gave Himself up
for the church in order that,
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this is the reason that He died.
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Then what is it?
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In order that He
might sanctify her.
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What's He done
in here by the way?
00:22:19.63\00:22:20.97
What's the big
theological word here?
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Justify. God has justified her.
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He has declared
her to be righteous
00:22:27.71\00:22:29.98
because He has expected
the perfect life of Jesus
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in our place
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and He has done this so
that He might now sanctify us,
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make us holy.
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Here He declares you to be holy
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but now He will make
you holy whoever risks
00:22:51.93\00:22:58.61
coming to the
cross just as they are.
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He is taking a huge risk
00:23:01.21\00:23:02.54
because God never
leaves you as He finds you.
00:23:02.58\00:23:06.08
You can come to
Him just as you are
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but He sends you away cleansed
00:23:07.92\00:23:10.65
and begins a work of
purification within you
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which will transform your life
throughout your entire life.
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Isn't a beautiful thing?
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For the reason Jesus
died was so that He might
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sanctify her doing what?
00:23:22.30\00:23:26.84
Cleansing her
by-- cleansing her.
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This is beautiful language here.
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The sanctuary
language by the way,
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cleansing her with
the washing of water and?
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Did you hear that?
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Water and the word--
00:23:45.19\00:23:47.89
there is that
word popping up again.
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I love that.
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The Word of God,
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the word of
life as we digest it,
00:23:52.89\00:23:56.50
consume it the very life
of Jesus is imparted to us.
00:23:56.53\00:24:03.57
The holiness of
Jesus here fed it to us
00:24:03.61\00:24:09.41
the holiness of Jesus
here now actually given to us.
00:24:09.44\00:24:14.72
We have the living
Christ in us every single day
00:24:14.75\00:24:19.45
and which member of the
God head makes that possible?
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No wonder the Holy
Spirit so under attack today
00:24:22.92\00:24:25.69
because He is the
dynamic member of this trio.
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He makes it possible
with the resurrected Jesus
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to come into
the life of everyone
00:24:32.63\00:24:34.94
of His children every day.
00:24:34.97\00:24:37.97
Isn't that powerful? Amen.
00:24:38.01\00:24:40.54
And now look at
the third step here.
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Verse 27, how does this,
00:24:43.55\00:24:45.48
these two--
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how are these two
verses get linked together?
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What's the conjunction here?
00:24:48.78\00:24:51.32
There we have it again
it's the same little term,
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in order that.
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This is the
fantastic passage of scripture.
00:24:56.79\00:24:59.49
This happened in order
that this might take place
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and this takes
place in order that,
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this might now take place.
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Notice it there in verse 27.
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"In order that he might"
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and this is
incredible language here
00:25:13.98\00:25:16.14
"He might present
to" you are hearing it.
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Jesus is presenting to
Himself a glorious church
00:25:22.15\00:25:29.29
without spot or wrinkle.
00:25:33.70\00:25:38.27
This is the bride of Christ.
00:25:38.30\00:25:43.07
This is the very witness of God.
00:25:43.10\00:25:45.47
This is the testimony of
Jesus we are going to find.
00:25:45.51\00:25:50.05
These are the
witnesses to the justice
00:25:50.08\00:25:53.42
and the mercy of the God.
00:25:53.45\00:25:54.78
When their
lives are investigated
00:25:54.82\00:25:57.75
they are without
spot and wrinkle.
00:25:57.79\00:25:59.65
Not because they have
been trying harder every day
00:25:59.69\00:26:02.69
and begging God to
make them cleaner than,
00:26:02.72\00:26:04.66
they are not doing that.
00:26:04.69\00:26:06.33
They are putting on the
living Christ every day.
00:26:06.36\00:26:10.53
They are acting
on the Word of God
00:26:10.57\00:26:12.23
and in the process they
are becoming just like Him.
00:26:12.27\00:26:17.87
Let's bow our heads together.
00:26:17.91\00:26:21.48
Father in
heaven, what a powerful
00:26:21.51\00:26:23.14
and loving and
gracious God You are.
00:26:23.18\00:26:27.58
Thank You for the
sanctuary message.
00:26:27.62\00:26:30.99
Thank You for the
plan of redemption
00:26:31.02\00:26:34.96
that enabled your son
00:26:34.99\00:26:36.36
to voluntarily lay down His life
00:26:36.39\00:26:40.23
and take upon Himself all
our guilt and condemnation
00:26:40.26\00:26:44.17
thus freeing us so
that we can now put
00:26:44.20\00:26:47.24
on the living
Christ every single day
00:26:47.27\00:26:50.81
and be washed with
water and the word.
00:26:50.84\00:26:54.41
So we can be transformed Father,
00:26:54.44\00:26:56.95
into a glorious and holy
church that You will present
00:26:56.98\00:27:01.05
to Yourself in
marriage and You will use
00:27:01.08\00:27:04.89
as the means of vindicating
Your own magnificent character
00:27:04.92\00:27:09.46
before the entire universe.
00:27:09.49\00:27:12.13
Thank You Father, for
being such a generous God
00:27:12.16\00:27:14.56
and forgive us for any unbelief
00:27:14.60\00:27:18.13
that any one of
these three steps Father,
00:27:18.17\00:27:20.24
that may have held
us back from becoming
00:27:20.27\00:27:22.80
all that You wishes to become.
00:27:22.84\00:27:25.17
We claim this privilege today
in Jesus precious name, amen.
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Amen.
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