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CHRIS: Friends, thank you so
much for joining It Is Written.
The Book of Revelation is a book
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that we've been discussing, and
we have seen that it is not a
book that we need to fear. It is
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not some mystical secret book,
but rather, it is a book that
draws back the curtain of God's
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love toward us. We've been
talking about the assurance that
we have that God first loved us.
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To help me unpack the book of
Revelation even more, to help
understand the context of the
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Book of Revelation even more, I
have with me again in studio
Pastor Jon-Ross Ennest. Pastor,
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so glad to have you again.
JON-ROSS: Yeah, it's good to be
here, Chris, thanks for having
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me. CHRIS: You know, Pastor,
we've been discussing the issues
in the Book of Revelation in our
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last program. And by the way, if
you've missed any of our
programs, I want to encourage
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you to go to our website,
itiswrittencanada.ca, or you can
go to our youtube channel,
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youtube.com/iiwcanada. There,
you can find archives of all of
our programs, but in particular,
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the archives of this series,
"The Gospel in Revelation." Now,
Pastor, the last show, we were
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talking about this love of God
toward us, and we were looking
specifically at Romans chapter 5
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verses 1-11, because to be
honest, when we talk about God's
love for us, it just sounds too
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good to be true. JON-ROSS:
That's right. CHRIS: So as a
little bit of a review and a
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recap to bring us to where we
want to go today, let's talk a
little bit about this, and in
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brief summary, just talk about,
is it too good to be true? What
does it mean that God first
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loved us? JON-ROSS: Yeah, so no,
it's not too good to be true.
It's very true, it's very
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good. The struggle we have is
that sometimes, we think that
maybe we've done something to
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exclude ourselves from that
love. But what we talked about
last time - and it's such a
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beautiful and profound point -
is that God, from infinite past,
He looked down through time and
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He saw you, He saw me, He saw us
at our lowest. He saw us when,
as Romans 5 talks about, as when
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we were enemies. He saw that,
and He said, "I'll die for each
one individually anyway." And He
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wants to initiate that love
relationship with us because He
knows that we don't necessarily
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have the strength to do that.
And He loved us so much that He
wants to initiate, to draw us
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back to Himself. CHRIS: And
that's what the Book of
Revelation is all about. It
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really traces - and in our
series, we're not going to have
time to unpack all the different
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symbols and things like that -
but the Book of Revelation, the
beauty of it is, it's a book of
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history. It tells us what God
has done in the past. And then
about mid-Revelation, Revelation
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11, 12, 13, it makes this
transition to things that will
be coming in the future. But all
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of it - you know, because
sometimes we look at the
trumpets, we look at the seals,
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we look at the churches, we look
at the beasts, we look at all
these things, and we say, "Oh,
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I'm confused." The overarching
point that we've been talking
about is, God has initiated a
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relationship with us. And the
bottom line is, from end to
beginning, the Lamb Jesus Christ
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wins. JON-ROSS: That's right.
CHRIS: And He wants us to be
with Him in that win. Now, we
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have talked a lot about the
peace, the comfort, the
assurance, the hope that it can
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give us right now, right now
today. But we've also mentioned
the Second Coming of Jesus.
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Where does that lead us to?
What's the Second Coming of
Jesus? Why is that important to
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us? And I know you don't know a
date, but when do we look for
the Second Coming of Jesus to be
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happening? JON-ROSS: Yeah, and I
think, if we could turn to 1st
John chapter 2, there, there's
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actually verse 28. We already
touched on it once before.
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CHRIS: Okay. JON-ROSS: So John
has. he's saying, confidence. We
can have confidence in that
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return. And he's looking to the
future. And that's where we
look, is to the future. When we
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go through the Book of
Revelation, we take the time to
look at the history, which we're
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not doing here, but when we do
take the time to look at that,
we see that it's coming soon in
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the future. It's an imminent
coming. But it's still in the
future. And so John is trying to
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tell us, "Look with hope to the
future." CHRIS: Yes. And you
used a word there that I think
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is an important word, and it's
not necessarily a word we use
often in our modern language,
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and that is the word "imminent."
We, of course - Jesus is very
clear; we don't know when the
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Second Coming will happen. No
one knows the day or the hour.
But you use this word
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"imminent." That means it's
happening soon. JON-ROSS That's
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right. CHRIS: Now, again, I
don't want to take us too far
off topic, because what I want
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to get to, because the obvious
question in all of this is, "How
can I make sure I'm ready for
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Jesus when He comes again?" So
I'm going to come back to that
in just a moment. But when we
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use this word "imminent", I
think something that's very
important to understand is that
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each of us on this earth has
been granted our lifetime. And
that lifetime may be ten years;
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that lifetime may be ninety
years; it may be sixty years; it
may be seventy years. And when
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we think about that amount of
time in the context of the
infinite existence of God, the
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coming of Jesus is imminent,
because all we have is our
lifetime. So that comes now to
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the key question: God is
relentlessly pursuing me. Jesus,
through His death, made
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propitiation, a word we unpacked
earlier, but the bottom line is
that He made atonement, he made
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the sacrifice for our sin. The
Book of Revelation is all about
that love relationship which God
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has initiated. But there's
something more, though, because
there's a response. So, Pastor,
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how can I make sure that I'm
ready for Jesus when He comes
again? JON-ROSS: You know,
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that's really the key, is we
want to be ready. We want, when
He comes back, like John, to
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rejoice, to have confidence, to
not shrink back. And how we do
that, really, it's actually very
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simple. It's not a complex
thing. It's not a big long
process, a drawn-out process, of
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things that we do, per se. What
it is, is it's responding to
that love. How will we respond
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to that love? So what I'd like
us to look at, if we could, is
in Romans 5 - we can go there -
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looking at how we respond, and
subsequently, how we're ready.
CHRIS: And we've looked at the
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apostle Paul and his writing a
number of different times in our
study. One of the things that I
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love about Paul is that God was
relentlessly pursuing Paul. And
you know, Paul calls himself the
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Jew of Jews, so to speak. So he
had this context of a religious
practice and a religious
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experience, and God is pursuing
him, so much so, that he's
running from it. But ultimately,
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Paul responds, and he's writing
about that response. So where
are we going to start in Romans
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chapter 5? JON-ROSS: We're going
to start in verse 15. So we had
talked about peace with God
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through faith last time we were
together. And in verse 15, I
just love the way Paul makes
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this statement. He says:
JON-ROSS: So immediately, that
makes the reader stop and say,
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"The trespass? The trespass?"
Just before it, he's been
talking about Adam, in verses 12
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to 14. He's been talking about
Adam and looking at Adam way
back when in his experience, and
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it's the disobedience that Adam,
you know, he chose, and how
that's brought the trespass. And
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he says in verse 15: So Paul is
starting to do a compare and
contrast between Adam and
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Christ. And here, he talks about
Adam's trespass. And so we have
to ask, "Well, what is Adam's
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trespass?" Which is fairly
obvious: he ate from the Tree of
the Knowledge of Good and Evil.
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But how has it affected me, is
really what we want to unpack.
CHRIS Absolutely. JON-ROSS: So
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in order to do that, we need to
go back to the beginning to
Genesis, the Book of Beginnings,
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Genesis chapter 3. CHRIS: Let's
go to Genesis chapter 3. And you
know, Pastor Jon-Ross,
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one of the things I love about
studying the Bible with you is,
you're an individual that
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doesn't take one or two
favourite passages, one book. In
order to understand the Book of
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Revelation, what we need to
understand is, actually - and
not that we need to. we should
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read the whole Bible - but we
don't need to read the whole
Bible to understand it. However,
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it is throughout the entirety of
the Bible that we have this
story of the relentless pursuit
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of God for His children. So
Romans 5 says, there's the free
gift. The free gift is better
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than the trespass, or better
than - I think the King James
Version uses the word "the
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offence." So what is this
offence? What is this trespass
of Adam? What passages are we
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going to look at here, Pastor?
JON-ROSS: Well, we're going to
look at verse 7, Genesis 3 verse
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7. So Adam and Eve, they've
taken the fruit from the Tree of
the Knowledge of Good and Evil
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and they've
eaten. Scripture records:
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CHRIS: Okay. So we have Adam and
Eve in the Garden of Eden, and
again, we could spend a lot
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of time, but just to help people
with the context of all of this,
the serpent, the devil, is given
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access to the Garden. Adam and
Eve have their loyalty kind of
put to the test. Eve makes a
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decision to partake of the
fruit. She brings the fruit to
her husband. Now, the irony of
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all of this, the interesting
thing about this, is Adam is
actually never tempted by the
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devil himself. Adam actually
makes a conscientious decision.
And again, we could spend a lot
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of time talking about this. But
he makes a conscientious
decision not to trust God's
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plan, because God certainly -
and we can't speculate what God
would have done - but he could
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have trusted that God would have
a plan on how to redeem this
situation that happened with
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Eve. But instead of that, he
makes a decision,
conscientiously, to join Eve in
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her sin. And so now he's got
this offence. And interestingly
enough, it says that they sew
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fig leaves. Why do they sew fig
leaves together? JON-ROSS Well,
Scripture says right
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there, they were naked. And we
can only. I don't think it's
very difficult for us to reflect
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on our experience and say if
we're naked, we'd feel shame and
we'd want to cover ourselves up.
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So for them, as soon as they
eat, as soon as Adam eats and
there's this disobedience, this
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separation that's now come in,
immediately, shame enters the
picture. There's shame. But it
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continues on. Verse
10, Adam says to God:
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CHRIS: Which, God has created
Adam and Eve. God is Adam's
friend. God spends time with
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Adam. And now Adam says, "I was
afraid." JON-ROSS: God's heart
broke. You know, it's a strong
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statement to make, but you could
only imagine that love God has
had. He's demonstrated it,
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clearly. And then for the one
that He's showered so much love
on, "I was afraid of you."
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CHRIS: "And not only was I
afraid of You, I hid from You,"
which, you know, you have the
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fig leaves sewn, you have the
hiding from God. And I don't
want to get away from the
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literal aspects of the story,
but understanding the spiritual
context of this, it is often
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what happens to each of us. As
we separate from God, as we have
shame in our life, we try to
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cover it. We try to make
everything look pretty on the
outside, and we often hide
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ourselves from the pursuit that
God has. So God comes and
visits. Adam says, "I was
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afraid." God's heart is broken.
What else do we have happen in
this passage? JON-ROSS: Well,
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verses 12 and 13 is a very
interesting interaction that
takes place, because you know,
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God says, "Who told you you were
naked? Have you eaten from the
tree that I told you not to eat
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from?" Then the man
responds, in verse 12, it says:
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CHRIS: So the blame game starts.
JON-ROSS: Yes. But what's
interesting is, that
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blame is nothing more than
hiding. They were just trying to
hide. And I think it's telling,
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is that in their effort to hide,
the human relationship between
Adam and Eve also became
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separated. There was a distance
that came in. All relationships
were affected when sin came into
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the picture. The relationship of
human beings toward their
Creator, the relationship of
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human beings towards one
another. And too, because of the
fear and the shame and the
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guilt, our own personal selves
fragmented even within our own
selves. And so we see, this is
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really what we've inherited from
Adam in his transgression, is
we've inherited shame, guilt,
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fear, hiding, a sense of, you
know, shame. CHRIS Brokenness.
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JON-ROSS: Brokenness. CHRIS:
This broken relationship.
JON-ROSS Absolutely. CHRIS: And
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you know, the reality is, I
mean, many of us have
experienced it in our own lives,
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in our own families, in our own
journey, but there is a. when
the relationship that is
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vertical, our relationship with
God, when that is broken, it
fragments and breaks those
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relationships. But what we have
here is - reflecting back on
what Paul was saying - is the
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gift of God is greater than the
offence. And the offence, or the
transgression that occurred, is
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where Adam breaks this
relationship with God, and out
of it comes shame, fear,
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blaming. JON-ROSS: Hiding from
God. Running. CHRIS: Yeah. It's
so interesting that. you know,
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and there may be somebody
watching right now that has
blamed God for a number of the
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things that have happened in
their life. And often, our
blaming of God is simply just
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our fear and our shame and our
guilt coming out. And so these
are all the consequences of
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Adam's sin. So we've talked
about, you know, we've been
talking about love, we've been
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talking about hope. This isn't
very hopeful, Pastor, so bring
us back to some hope. How can we
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find some hope out of this
trespass? JON-ROSS: That's
right, that's right. And so Paul
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is referencing this experience.
So let's go back to Romans 5.
Now that we have a better
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understanding of what it is that
we got when Adam trespassed,
Adam sinned, we see that Paul
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references that, because he's
going to start comparing and
contrasting with what Jesus has
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done for us. And this is where
the hope, this is where the joy
comes in. CHRIS: Let's get
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right into it. JON-ROSS: Yeah,
verses 16 and 17, I can read
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them for you. JON-ROSS: Big
statements. CHRIS: Big
statements. So let's unpack them
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just a little bit here to help
us. Just really startling
statements that Paul is making
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here. JON-ROSS: Yeah. So
basically, Adam's sin has
brought trespass to the whole
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world. But really, the biggest
thing that Adam's sin brought
was death. Adam's trespass
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brought death and separation
from God, and that God's gift
through Jesus Christ is the
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promise of life. It's the
promise of life. So we have
justification, just as if I
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never sinned; we have
reconciliation, the restoring
of. the renewal of this loving
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relationship. And then in verse
17, there's just that blunt
statement, that death has
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control over us, or had control
over us, through Adam's
trespass, but now life reigns.
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We reign in life with Jesus
Christ. But that's a really
significant statement because,
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when death reigns, Paul says we
die. But when Jesus reigns, we
live and reign with Him. CHRIS
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That is a powerful, powerful. I
mean, that's a game-changer in
all of this. I mean, Christ is
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our substitute. He's standing
before the Father. The Father
looks at Jesus, counts His
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righteousness. And I've talked
about this many times in my own
preaching. The Gospel is such a
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win-win proposition, because
Jesus is there on our behalf.
He's sacrificed. He's
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everything. So, you know, many
people live in fear of death.
But Pastor, it doesn't need to
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be this way. JON-ROSS:
Absolutely not. Because Jesus is
our substitute in all things and
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He stepped in for us and He died
for us and He intercedes for us,
we can have hope for the future
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that as He raised from the dead
and lives forever, we can do the
same. CHRIS: Okay. And so tell
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me, though, I mean, does the
Book of Revelation give us that
hope that you're talking about?
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JON-ROSS: And that's it. And I
was just about to say, let's go
to Revelation 20. CHRIS: Okay.
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So we're going right toward the
end of the Book of Revelation,
going to the end of the story.
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And for those that have not read
the whole Bible before, it's
good to know the end of the
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story before the beginning of
the story, because the end of
the story gives us a great deal
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of hope. Talk to me, where are
we at, where are we? JON-ROSS:
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Verse 4, 5, and 6: JON-ROSS: So
this is beautiful, is it says
right here in Revelation 20 that
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there are some who will reign in
life - because eternal life is
truly life to the fullest -
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CHRIS: Absolutely. JON-ROSS:
There are some who will reign in
life with Christ. Paul is saying
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that by faith in Christ as our
substitute, we reign with Him.
So in other words, my ability to
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reign with Christ, Revelation
20, is made possible by my faith
in Jesus as my substitute. I put
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faith in Him. I trust in His
grace. And I have hope that when
this first resurrection happens,
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this thousand-year reign, when I
sit on a throne next to Jesus,
it's not by anything I've done,
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but it's by the promise that
faith in Him brings me there.
CHRIS: So the bottom line is,
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just so we don't miss it, so the
viewer doesn't miss the picture,
the bottom line is, we ask the
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question, "How can I be ready?
How can I be prepared for the
Second Coming of Jesus?" You
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used that word "by faith."
JON-ROSS: Yes. By faith we
receive the favour of God, and
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this is the favour of God: to
restore us to a right
relationship with Him. CHRIS:
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And so, He offers us that
forgiveness. He gives
righteousness to us because we
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have placed our faith in Him.
JON-ROSS: That's right. CHRIS
And so we are able to face, you
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know. and in our next show we're
going to unpack a little bit
more, because the books are
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opened and there's judgment.
We're going to peer into that in
our next show. But let's end on
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this note, though: We enter into
the judgment. The books are
opened. And we can have
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confidence and assurance that
we'll be ready by one thing, and
what is that one thing?
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JON-ROSS: By faith. CHRIS: By
faith. JON-ROSS: That's right.
CHRIS: Faith in the promise of
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His Word that Jesus has done it
all and made the sacrifice for
us. JON-ROSS: And as I said
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before, we receive that as a
gift offered to us freely.
CHRIS: Pastor, that's powerful.
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Let's end in prayer, and I'd ask
that you pray for us. JON-ROSS
Sweet Jesus, we want to thank
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you for all that You've done for
us and that You are our
substitute in all things. We
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thank You that we have hope for
the future for when You return.
Help us to receive it for the
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gift that it is. In
Jesus' name, amen. CHRIS: Amen.
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Bev: Hi everyone. We've been
focusing on the NEWSTART acronym
that's: N, E, W, S, T, A, R, T
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and today we are looking at "R"
for rest. Are you tired of being
tired? If you're like me, 24
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hours is just not enough for one
day. If I could purchase extra
bonus hours, believe me, I
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would! But, God, in his great
wisdom knew that 24 hours would
be all we could handle. How much
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sleep are you getting each
night? Research shows that 7 to
8 hours is ideal for most
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people. And the old saying,
"early to bed, early to rise
makes a person healthy, wealthy
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and wise" appears to be so true.
Studies indicate that getting to
sleep a few hours before
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midnight is quite important to
the restorative growth and
repair our bodies undertake
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while we are sleeping.
Furthermore, research shows that
a chronic lack of sleep can be
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very serious, resulting in a
depressed immune system which,
in turn, results in you being
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more prone to illness and
depression. Many people have
trouble sleeping, though. If
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you're one of them, here are
some proven ideas for you to
try: 1) finish eating your last
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meal and also drinking any
fluids at least two hours before
you go to bed 2) go to bed at
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the same time each evening 3)
get all the clutter out of your
bedroom and make it a serene
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place to unwind 4) be sure to
sleep in complete darkness 5)
get adequate amounts of sunshine
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during the day! 6) exercise
regularly! Researchers at the
Stanford University School of
00:26:09.20\00:26:16.74
Medicine studied 43 women and
men, aged 50 to 76 who led a
sedentary lifestyle and who were
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experiencing trouble sleeping.
After 16 weeks of 30-40 minutes
of low-impact aerobics or brisk
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walking four times a week, the
group that exercised was able to
increase their sleeping hours by
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almost an hour. 7) eat foods
that are high in melatonin
Melatonin is a hormone that is
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produced naturally by our bodies
that, amongst other things, acts
as a natural sleep aid. Foods
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high in melatonin include corn,
oats, brown rice, tomatoes, and
bananas 8) and last, but
00:26:51.74\00:26:57.81
certainly not least, give God
any worries you may have, and
Psalm 127:2 tells us that He
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will grant sleep to those He
loves. Also, Psalm 121:4 tells
us that God never sleeps and He
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never slumbers, so we can rest
assured that He's keeping a
careful and loving watch over
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us. I love that! If you want
additional information on
getting a good night's sleep,
00:27:17.30\00:27:23.51
visit www.pcrm.org and you'll
find links to great resources. I
hope you sleep well tonight. See
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you next time!
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CHRIS: The Book of Revelation,
the gospel in Revelation, gives
us hope. It gives us
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encouragement because by faith,
we can know with assurance that
Jesus is coming soon, and we can
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be ready for Him when He comes
again. Friend, I want to give
you something to put as a part
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of your spiritual library to
help you in that journey with
Jesus, and that is the booklet
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Daniel and Revelation: The
Secrets of Prophecy. This book
will delve more deeply into some
00:28:03.85\00:28:10.59
of the symbols and meanings that
Pastor Jon-Ross and I have not
been able to go into. It will
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encourage you, though, to know
that the Lamb wins and we can
win with Him. Here's what you
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need to get the offer.
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CHRIS: Pastor Jon-Ross, thank
you so much for joining us
today. JON-ROSS: Yeah, it's
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good to be here, thanks so much,
Chris. CHRIS: You know, dear
friend, the gospel in Revelation
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is a powerful testimony to the
life-changing ability that Jesus
has in your own life. I want to
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encourage you to follow Jesus,
respond to His relentless
pursuit for you. I hope you
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enjoyed today's program. I want
to invite you to be with us
again next week. Until then,
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remember, it is written: "Man
shall not live by bread alone,
but by every word that proceeds
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from the mouth of God."
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