Break the bread,
you'll have life.
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Eat my flesh, you'll have life.
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Drink my blood,
you'll have life.
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The evidence is our
willingness to hear and to obey
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the word of God,
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especially since we've realized,
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this is God speaking,
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this is not an ordinary book
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which we are
talking this morning,
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this is the word of
life, this is the word of God,
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we are in his presence.
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The Holy Spirit's
ability to inspire.
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There's absolutely no reason
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why we should
spend our lives doubting.
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Salvation, we're not to
be arrogant about it, we,
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I don't believe we're
told to run around saying,
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"I'm saved" and
things like that,
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that's not an
evidence of salvation
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but neither are we
told to be in doubt.
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And I'm not really sure,
several people came to me
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even yesterday,
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"Oh I just love to feel
more secure about salvation."
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Though I have
chosen this morning
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to make another attempt
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to bring the issues
of salvation through,
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with crystal clarity.
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Now open your Bibles with me
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this morning to
Romans Chapter 5,
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I believe Christians should
have an assurance of salvation.
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They shouldn't have to
spend their lives worrying,
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"Am I gonna make it"?
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Salvation is not
about "How well I am doing"?
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It's not based on
human performance,
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it's based on the
divine human performance.
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I don't know what it's going
to take to program our minds
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into hearing the word
that God has asked Jesus Christ
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to resolve the
sin problem, not us.
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And I'm reminded of those
beautiful verses in I John,
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let me just read it this
morning, I John 5:11, 12,
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"And the witness is this,
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that God has
given us eternal life,"
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did you hear that?
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He hasn't said "You
got to sweat over this,
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" He's given us
eternal life and this life,
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allow yourselves to
hear it this morning, please.
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This life is in his Son,
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are you grasping that?
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This life is in his Son,
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Jesus in human flesh,
is the only human being
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who's ever
lived this life fully.
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That's given him the ability
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to become the source
of life, it's in him.
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It's not some goal
that I'm setting after,
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to spend my life
trying to get eternal life.
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This life is in his Son.
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He lived it, He earned
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the right to impart it to us.
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I'm still dealing with people,
who measure their success
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in the Christian life
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by how well they're
doing or God forbid,
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how well or how well
others are not doing.
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Now, if you're focused
on others, I wish you luck.
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There's only one focus
that counts when you're talking
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about eternal life,
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it's the focus on Jesus Christ.
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Men, if you've got any
doubts about eternal life
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look at verse 12,
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"He who tries hard enough
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and finally
get's his act together
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will get eternal life"
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is that how the
Washington version reads?
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Well that's how many
versions appear to read
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and so I listen to what
people are saying to me.
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So verse 12, if
eternal life is in his Son, he,
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who has the Son,
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has the life.
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He, who has the
Son, has the life
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and he who does not
have the Son of God,
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does not have the life
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and what life is
being referred to there?
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Eternal life.
Are you hearing it?
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Can we chalk this up
for Washington camp today?
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He, who has the
Son, has the life
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and if you don't
have the Son today,
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you should be
falling down on your knees
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in repentance and begging God
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to bring the living Christ
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into you
through the Holy Spirit,
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this is the
Spirit's special ministry.
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We're in Romans chapter 5,
okay let's slip over to Romans
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chapter 5, there's
only two verses here,
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but how profound they are?
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Only Paul can pack so
much into two little verses,
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the whole gospel in two verses,
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Romans 5:9 &10.
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By the way, this is what's
known in theological circles
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as a "Parallelism",
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because there are two
statements in each verse
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and they are
parallel to each other.
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Let's look at the two
statements in verse 9,
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the first one is fairly clear,
"Much more than having now
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being justified," by what?
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"His blood," it's
a clear statement.
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"Having now being
justified by his blood,
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" and that little
conjunction slips in,
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it's repeated in both verses,
I'll put up here in the centre,
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much more, hard for me to
accept the fact that there's
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something much more than this,
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because this is so
overwhelming to me.
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Having being
justified by his blood,
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if I knew a dozen people
that really believed that,
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I'd probably be
translated to heaven today.
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Justified, simply and basically
meaning in the Greek...
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declared righteous.
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Declared righteous,
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then another word for
righteousness...holiness.
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Incredibly, God is declaring
us to be holy in his sight,
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when we looked in
the mirror this morning,
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we weren't convinced that we're
totally holy, but God said it,
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I believe it, that
should settle it, shouldn't it?
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God in his infinite mercy has
accepted the magnificent life
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of Jesus Christ as my life.
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And when he laid
it down in death,
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God has accepted that death
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as my death,
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I died in him.
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I'm overwhelmed again
this morning as I always am,
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when I think about the
fact that this is the single
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greatest bargain in history.
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God has lifted my
filthy garments from me
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and he hasn't
thrown them into the sea,
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you know what He
has done with them?
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He has put them on,
thank you for such a beautiful
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faith statement
here this morning.
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He took my
filthy garments from me
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and He actually
put them on himself.
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He became sin, He who
knew no sin became sin.
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So that we might become
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the righteousness of God in him,
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what a bargain.
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My filthy garments taken
from me, placed on Jesus,
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which crushed him and his
magnificent robe of holiness,
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that holy robe,
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placed on me
every day of my life,
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that's what the death
of Jesus has granted us.
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The privilege of being declared
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righteous every single day.
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Because Jesus has
changed places with us,
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he's lived our perfect life
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and he's died our perfect death,
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and we don't believe
it, so we keep struggling,
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we keep trying
harder, we keep trying to do
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all the right things
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until we finally
reach the point where,
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I'm never gonna be
good enough, what the heck?
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And God allows
something to happen in our lives
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and we put our eyes back
on the cross and we say, "Ah,
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I've had the wrong focus,
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I should have been
looking at Jesus Christ,"
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because God has
given us eternal life
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and that life is in his Son.
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Jesus has
resolved the sin problem.
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What is the parallel
statement in verse 10?
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"For if while we
enemies, we were,
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" here it comes "reconciled"
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another one of the great
benefits of the death of Jesus,
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"We were
reconciled, " through what?
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"The death of his Son,"
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there is the parallel statement.
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Wow, so we're
justified by his blood,
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we're reconciled by his death.
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Both of these statements
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have a reference
to the atoning death
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of Jesus on the cross.
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And there are
many more benefits,
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I have a list in my
Bible of 30 benefits
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of the atoning death of Jesus,
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I'm justified, I'm reconciled,
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my enemy's powers being taken
from him, I'm totally forgiven,
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all of these blessings are mine.
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My guilt, my
condemnation, my judgment,
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even my second death
has all fallen on Jesus
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and been lifted from me.
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If only we could
believe it, we would be so free.
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You're not free to sin,
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we would be free to encounter
the living Christ every day,
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that which brings the assurance
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of salvation into our lives.
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God has made every
provision for what sin has done
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to the human race,
he's covered all the basis,
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so why are we still trying to
help him out with the process.
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Instead of taking hold by faith,
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if you were taking hold of
the atoning death of Jesus,
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have you been to
the cross this morning?
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If you have, you walked
into this church knowing
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that your guilt
was laid on Jesus,
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that you are no
longer under condemnation,
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that your
judgment was placed on him.
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And that he even died
your future eternal death,
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you have actually
passed from death into life.
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If you've been to
the cross this morning,
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you have entered
into eternal life,
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it's a present reality.
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I want to challenge all
those traditional theories
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of eternal life,
here this morning.
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Some people think eternal life
is finally making it to heaven.
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I'm gonna make it at last,
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even if I just
squeeze through the gate,
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you know, that's
not eternal life.
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Eternal life is
a present reality,
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you can have it every
single day of your life,
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you can even have the
quiet assurance that you have it
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because God has
given us eternal life
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and that life is in his Son.
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And if I have been to
the cross this morning,
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where is the Son
of God dwelling today?
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He's in me,
through the Holy Spirit
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and he's in you,
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that is the great
assurance of eternal life
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because that life is in the Son
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and the good news is,
He's alive, thank you.
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And if you've embraced
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the death of Jesus this morning,
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the Holy Spirit has brought
the living Christ into you.
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And the really good
news this morning is,
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having declared you
righteous, for how long?
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We read it the other
day, you're perfect for ever,
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in God's sight.
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You know what he will now do?
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He will now grow
you up into a holiness
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that will truly reveal and
glorify Jesus in your life.
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And all along, at the end of
the journey you're gonna say,
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"Well that wasn't me at
all, that was Jesus in me,
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" manifesting his
holiness every day of my life
00:15:07.07\00:15:11.07
and I was simply
privileged by faith
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to act upon it and walk in it.
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And the life and the character
of Jesus became mine gradually
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through out my whole
life and one day somebody
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will walk up to you
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and you will
probably faint like I did
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and someone might say
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"You know, I think I
might have seen Jesus in you."
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What a
revelation, what a privilege,
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because we don't see these
things in ourselves, do we?
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God's made sure of
that, he's kept this imbalance
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but others might
just see it in you
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and you'll look
up and you'll say
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"Thank you father."
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Because the living Christ
in me, everyday, is gradually,
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beginning to transform my
life and by the grace of God,
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I'm starting to look
like him, what a privilege?
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This is not something I'm
deliberately trying to do,
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it's come about because
I'm moving into faith everyday,
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how about you?
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So here's the good
news, as I come to the cross,
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this is the path to assurance.
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I come to the cross and I
have another day of my life,
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a whole day, with a
total peace of mind,
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knowing that in the sight
of God, what condition am I in?
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I'm perfect for ever,
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I'm holy because God incredibly,
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in a generous
moment, when he looks at me,
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he sees Jesus Christ,
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because when he looked at Jesus,
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he saw me, and he let Jesus die.
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I died at that moment, in
him, I'm so grateful for that.
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Salvation has always consisted
of an accomplished fact
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and an ongoing
process in the life.
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There are two
elements in salvation,
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they are both
absolutely essential
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because the established fact,
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the accomplished fact frees us
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from all the burden
that sin has placed upon us.
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So that we are now free for
God to break the power of sin
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within us and how does he break
the power of sin within us?
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By making us strong
enough to resist, oh no,
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he breaks the power of
sin within us by indwelling us
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with his holy presence.
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He actually comes into our
minds through the Holy Spirit
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and incredibly, we
start thinking his thoughts,
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which is such a
shock to our system.
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We start feeling his feelings,
we start acting on his motives,
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we even start realizing
when it's God who's speaking
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and communicating with us.
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And what a joy it is
to start acting on that,
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what a joy it is,
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and it can happen
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in the most
ordinary circumstances
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but let's quickly move
in to the second part here,
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come back to verse 9 again,
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look at the second part
now, what word kicks in now?
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We shall be, oh there it is and
I want you to notice something
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very significant, this
morning, the term saved,
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does not come
together in the same breath
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as blood and death,
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I hope you're picking up on that
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because this is
something very good,
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this is something much more
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than what he's given us.
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Can you think of
anything that's much more
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than the atoning death of Jesus?
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Well, Paul can,
he says it twice,
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much more than having
being justified by his blood,
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we shall be saved by,
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that's a pretty
feeble response out there,
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we shall be saved by,
verse 9, saved from, I mean,
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it's a very
interesting statement,
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saved from, not
by, saved from wrath,
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and how does it
conclude, through him.
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And if you're in any
doubt as to what the through him
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is referring to,
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go to the parallel
statement in verse 10,
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it will clarify it,
the end of verse 10,
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look at it very carefully,
"While we are enemies,
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we were reconciled to God
through the death of his Son,
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much more,
having being reconciled,
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we shall be saved by his life."
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We have moved from a
focus on the death of Jesus,
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we have now moved to a focus
on his amazing and holy life,
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isn't that good news?
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So his death has
lifted all the burden
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that sin has placed on us,
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his life now coming
into us, is going to do what?
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It's going to save us, I hope
you're hearing it this morning.
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Saved is not tied
together with he death of Jesus,
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even though it's a
very popular thing to say,
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Jesus died to save me.
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It's not Paul, Paul says
Jesus died to justify me,
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he died to reconcile me,
he died to defeat the enemy
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but his perfect
life coming into me,
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is what moves me into salvation,
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to save, means
to enter into life.
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Did you know the
first use of the word saved
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in the New Testament,
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is Mathew 1:21, the
root word for saved.
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Mathew 1:21, first time it
pops up in the New Testament,
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"Where you shall
call his name Jesus,
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for he shall save his
people from their sins,
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"the New Testament
understanding of salvation
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is not finally getting to heaven
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and living on for
ever and ever and ever.
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The New Testament understanding
of salvation is to be
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delivered from sin,
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the New Testament
understanding of salvation
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is to be delivered from sin.
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And how does God bring it about,
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he brings the
overcoming life of Jesus into us
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through the Holy Spirit.
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God practices
incarnational ministry,
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he indwells
incredibly sinful human flesh.
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A holy God
inhabits sinful human flesh,
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my mind can hardly contain
that, it's a radical thought.
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Holiness coming into un-holiness
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always results in holiness,
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you don't have to
struggle to become holy.
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Your challenge is to
come to the cross every day,
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so that God's response will
be to put his spirit within you
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and he will bring the
holy life of Jesus into you.
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So that, you, through out your
life will have the privilege
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of becoming like him,
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you're going to have
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different
thoughts, different feelings.
00:23:01.71\00:23:06.28
You're going to find yourself
acting from totally un-selfish
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and different motives, you
may even question at times,
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where did that come from?
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And God will go
knock, knock, it's me,
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I'm the one who's
bringing this about within you.
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So when you
enter into salvation,
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it's through the life of Christ,
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he is this
beautiful statement here.
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We're saved from
wrath through him,
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we're saved by his life.
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I've got news
for you this morning,
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you can't have the life of
Jesus and bypass his death.
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You must come to the
cross and let God lift
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all the burden of
guilt and sin from you
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which frees you up now
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to receive the
in-dwelling life of Jesus
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through the spirit.
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By the way, saved from what?
00:24:01.14\00:24:07.38
Wrath, and notice we're
saved from wrath through him
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or through his life.
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What are we
actually being saved from?
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I wonder, have a look at Romans
1:18 "For the wrath of God is
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revealed from heaven
against all ungodliness
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and unrighteousness of men,"
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now allow yourself to
hear this, this morning,
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if God's wrath is
revealed against ungodliness
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and unrighteousness, and
God saves you from his wrath,
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what is he actually giving you?
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Righteousness and
godliness, absolutely,
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the only way you
can be saved from wrath,
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is to move into
righteousness and godliness,
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because God's
wrath is poured out
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against ungodliness
and unrighteousness.
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So salvation is
moving into the righteousness
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and the godliness of God,
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it's the holy life
that he brings in us,
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every single day of our lives,
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and it's a growth
process, isn't it?
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I wish I could have
it instantly, don't you?
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But character
isn't formed instantly,
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it's a process in our
lives and God knows that,
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it's a life long process.
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For anyone who understands
what Paul is saying here,
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you know what they have?
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They're not
struggling and resting,
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am I going to make it?
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Will I be good enough?
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Oh, what if something happens,
right at the last minute?
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My faith challenges to take hold
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of the death of Jesus Christ
00:25:57.99\00:26:00.26
and the abiding of Christ in me,
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every single day.
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How is your faith this
morning, as we conclude?
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Let's bow our heads together.
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Father in heaven,
forgive us for our unbelief.
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We see how much provision
00:26:20.71\00:26:22.58
you have made
for the sin problem
00:26:22.61\00:26:25.78
through the
atoning death of Jesus.
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Thank you again this morning,
father, for allowing our guilt,
00:26:27.85\00:26:32.72
our condemnation, our
judgment, even our second death
00:26:32.75\00:26:37.26
to fall on Jesus,
00:26:37.29\00:26:40.00
thereby freeing us
so that we can receive
00:26:40.03\00:26:42.46
the indwelling of
Christ through the Holy Spirit
00:26:42.50\00:26:46.07
for another day of our lives.
00:26:46.10\00:26:48.54
And as the holy Jesus
comes into us, father,
00:26:48.57\00:26:51.87
and imparts his beautiful
character to us everyday,
00:26:51.91\00:26:55.98
we trust you with
the end-product here.
00:26:56.01\00:26:59.61
We trust you that
finally having begun
00:26:59.65\00:27:02.25
our work within us,
00:27:02.28\00:27:03.72
you will bring it to completion,
00:27:03.75\00:27:05.79
so that when he comes, we
really will look like him.
00:27:05.82\00:27:09.52
We trust you and we
are absolutely confident,
00:27:09.56\00:27:12.53
in your ability to
reproduce your Son in our lives.
00:27:12.56\00:27:16.46
Thank you for the absolute
assurance we have this morning,
00:27:16.50\00:27:20.00
of eternal life,
because it's in your Son,
00:27:20.04\00:27:23.41
and we have
your Son in us today.
00:27:23.44\00:27:26.04
We praise you in
Jesus's precious name.
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Amen.
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