1 00:00:09,880 --> 00:00:12,880 Welcome to the podcast of the White Church in Adelaide, South 2 00:00:12,880 --> 00:00:15,200 Australia. I'm going to invite Dave up to 3 00:00:15,200 --> 00:00:18,840 share this morning. Father, we bless your word and 4 00:00:19,320 --> 00:00:22,400 we know that your word You say Lord, that you would confirm 5 00:00:22,400 --> 00:00:24,120 Your word with signs and wonders following. 6 00:00:24,560 --> 00:00:26,880 So we asked just even on the back of what Dave is sharing 7 00:00:26,880 --> 00:00:29,840 this morning, that in our gathering you would confirm Your 8 00:00:29,840 --> 00:00:35,360 word in Jesus name. Amen. 9 00:00:36,960 --> 00:00:41,320 Excellent. I'm expecting the way we should 10 00:00:41,320 --> 00:00:44,960 be in the church, in his body, just off the back of what Justin 11 00:00:44,960 --> 00:00:47,360 just prayed there. Like we should be expecting to 12 00:00:47,360 --> 00:00:51,120 see God's mighty hand at work, to see, you know, signs and 13 00:00:51,120 --> 00:00:54,560 miracles and wonders. Like we serve the Lord. 14 00:00:54,840 --> 00:00:57,320 We serve a God that created all things. 15 00:00:57,320 --> 00:01:00,960 We serve a God who, you know, sent his Son, that the Lord God 16 00:01:00,960 --> 00:01:03,680 came as a man and did amazing things. 17 00:01:03,680 --> 00:01:05,840 You know, I was reading this week about the feeding of the 18 00:01:05,840 --> 00:01:08,880 5000. These are impossible things that 19 00:01:08,880 --> 00:01:11,600 God did. That God could take 7 loaves and 20 00:01:11,600 --> 00:01:14,280 feed thousands of people. Like that's impossible. 21 00:01:14,960 --> 00:01:18,040 This is the God we serve. This is the same God that we've 22 00:01:18,040 --> 00:01:21,000 been singing to this morning. This is the same God that that 23 00:01:21,000 --> 00:01:24,800 we, you know, we claim to worship because we do, but we 24 00:01:24,800 --> 00:01:28,080 claim to give our life to this God and to serve him and to 25 00:01:28,080 --> 00:01:31,160 follow him. So what could be impossible for 26 00:01:31,160 --> 00:01:34,640 for this God to be working in and through you as a vessel for 27 00:01:34,640 --> 00:01:35,880 his Holy Spirit. Amen. 28 00:01:36,440 --> 00:01:39,400 I'm just trying to stir us up to, you know, increase our 29 00:01:39,400 --> 00:01:42,200 expectation for what God can do innocent through us. 30 00:01:42,480 --> 00:01:46,080 We don't live a mediocre life. You know, the, the body of 31 00:01:46,080 --> 00:01:49,520 Christ, the church isn't, isn't just, you know, a club where we 32 00:01:49,520 --> 00:01:51,200 gather and we sing songs together. 33 00:01:51,200 --> 00:01:55,240 This is like the life of God is administered to the world around 34 00:01:55,240 --> 00:01:58,840 us through his body and we get to be involved in that. 35 00:01:58,960 --> 00:02:02,000 Like if you're in this room and and you believe that Christ is 36 00:02:02,000 --> 00:02:05,600 your Saviour and your Lord, like you get to be a part of what 37 00:02:05,600 --> 00:02:07,720 God's doing. And that excites me. 38 00:02:07,720 --> 00:02:10,080 I hope that excites you. Like it doesn't matter how old 39 00:02:10,080 --> 00:02:11,920 you are. It doesn't matter how young, 40 00:02:11,920 --> 00:02:14,120 young you are in the Lord, all these things you get to be a 41 00:02:14,120 --> 00:02:17,560 part of the same thing that we're all get to be a part of, 42 00:02:17,640 --> 00:02:20,280 you know, So that's that's wonderful. 43 00:02:20,280 --> 00:02:23,640 I hope it fills us with hope and strength. 44 00:02:23,640 --> 00:02:28,280 This morning we're going to talk about his the gospel Justin was 45 00:02:28,280 --> 00:02:30,920 sharing last week about who Jesus is. 46 00:02:31,840 --> 00:02:34,320 So if you haven't heard that, please go and listen to that 47 00:02:35,120 --> 00:02:38,120 because it this this week builds upon last week. 48 00:02:39,280 --> 00:02:41,400 You know, we're going to talk about the gospel, what what 49 00:02:41,440 --> 00:02:46,120 Jesus did, what it means that Jesus came and lived as God in 50 00:02:46,120 --> 00:02:49,680 the flesh and all these things. So go and check it out. 51 00:02:50,920 --> 00:02:54,640 But the gospel, the gospel, the word gospel, what does it mean? 52 00:02:54,920 --> 00:02:56,720 I mean, you guys know, I'm sure. Let's shout it out. 53 00:02:56,720 --> 00:02:59,880 What does the word gospel mean? It's the good news. 54 00:03:00,000 --> 00:03:00,560 Yeah. There we go. 55 00:03:00,600 --> 00:03:03,000 Good news. Bianca knows it's the good news. 56 00:03:03,000 --> 00:03:06,880 It's it's it's bringing, you know, good news, tidings of, of, 57 00:03:07,200 --> 00:03:10,520 of good news. And you know that question, what 58 00:03:10,520 --> 00:03:13,440 is the gospel? The first four books of our New 59 00:03:13,440 --> 00:03:15,880 Testament Bible are known as the Gospels. 60 00:03:16,840 --> 00:03:19,680 And it's simply just it's about Jesus, right. 61 00:03:20,080 --> 00:03:23,520 The gospels are about Jesus, the birth of Jesus, the life of 62 00:03:23,600 --> 00:03:26,440 Jesus, the death of Jesus, the resurrection of Jesus, the 63 00:03:26,440 --> 00:03:28,440 ascension of Jesus. It's all about Jesus. 64 00:03:28,440 --> 00:03:34,560 The gospel is about Jesus. There is 90 plus uses of this 65 00:03:34,560 --> 00:03:38,000 word gospel. I'm not going to try and 66 00:03:38,000 --> 00:03:40,680 pronounce the Greek word, but that word that's translated 67 00:03:40,680 --> 00:03:43,160 gospel in our in our English Bible. 68 00:03:43,320 --> 00:03:46,960 It's like over 90 times we find it in the scripture and to 69 00:03:46,960 --> 00:03:52,600 understand what a what a word or a topic means in the Bible, we 70 00:03:52,600 --> 00:03:54,600 got to go looking. We got to go looking through the 71 00:03:54,600 --> 00:03:58,120 Bible and see what the word of God has to say about what that 72 00:03:58,120 --> 00:04:01,160 word means. So, so when the first mention is 73 00:04:01,160 --> 00:04:04,200 important in in the word of God too, because quite often it will 74 00:04:04,200 --> 00:04:07,680 set a foundation for what that word actually means. 75 00:04:07,960 --> 00:04:11,360 So go looking for the first word and then read a whole bunch of 76 00:04:11,720 --> 00:04:17,640 other references to the word. And so let's seek some of these 77 00:04:17,640 --> 00:04:20,240 words. I didn't read all 90 of these 78 00:04:20,240 --> 00:04:22,720 words, just so you know, I didn't go like, you know, 79 00:04:22,760 --> 00:04:25,440 extensively look at them all. Just Full disclosure from me 80 00:04:25,440 --> 00:04:27,840 here. I did a few, probably more than 81 00:04:27,840 --> 00:04:29,560 a few. But anyway, where the first 82 00:04:29,560 --> 00:04:36,680 mention of this word gospel is found in Matthew 423 and it says 83 00:04:36,680 --> 00:04:40,240 this, it says Jesus went about all Galilee teaching in their 84 00:04:40,240 --> 00:04:43,480 synagogues, preaching the gospel of the Kingdom. 85 00:04:44,120 --> 00:04:49,760 So the Gospel of the Kingdom Scripture emphasis emphasizes 86 00:04:50,760 --> 00:04:53,600 that the gospel is about a king and his Kingdom. 87 00:04:54,360 --> 00:04:56,520 That's what the gospel is. Jesus is the king. 88 00:04:56,520 --> 00:04:58,240 We learned last week who Jesus is. 89 00:04:58,480 --> 00:05:01,120 He is the king. And the gospel is the message of 90 00:05:01,120 --> 00:05:04,200 the king and the and the Kingdom which he rules and reigns in 91 00:05:04,200 --> 00:05:05,640 which he rules and reigns from heaven. 92 00:05:05,640 --> 00:05:09,600 Now he's coming back to rule and reign in a very real way, in a 93 00:05:09,600 --> 00:05:13,760 very real earth, right? Like that's the Kingdom, Jesus 94 00:05:13,760 --> 00:05:17,920 is the king. And so, you know, this king in 95 00:05:17,920 --> 00:05:20,640 the Kingdom, it's central to the Gospel message. 96 00:05:21,120 --> 00:05:24,360 We can't understand the gospel without knowing that that Jesus 97 00:05:24,360 --> 00:05:28,560 is a king, is the king, and that we're we get to be a part of his 98 00:05:28,560 --> 00:05:31,960 Kingdom. We are subjects to the king in 99 00:05:31,960 --> 00:05:35,120 his Kingdom. That's not a bad thing. 100 00:05:35,360 --> 00:05:39,120 It's good thing to be a servant to God. 101 00:05:39,520 --> 00:05:42,240 It's a good thing to be a servant to a good king. 102 00:05:42,640 --> 00:05:46,320 It's a terrible thing to be a servant to a bad king, but Jesus 103 00:05:46,320 --> 00:05:48,720 is a good king. He is a righteous king, He is a 104 00:05:48,720 --> 00:05:52,320 holy king, and it's a great thing for us to lay down our 105 00:05:52,320 --> 00:05:55,240 lives and serve a good king. Amen. 106 00:05:56,160 --> 00:05:58,440 Excellent. So other mentions of this word 107 00:05:58,440 --> 00:06:04,160 gospel, this good news, it makes clear that this, this message, 108 00:06:04,160 --> 00:06:06,880 this gospel message should be preached. 109 00:06:07,240 --> 00:06:10,000 It should be spoken boldly. It should be shared. 110 00:06:10,200 --> 00:06:14,360 It should be defended. The gospel needs to be defended 111 00:06:14,640 --> 00:06:17,120 and it needs to be taken to the ends of the earth. 112 00:06:17,880 --> 00:06:21,080 That's our responsibility. Jesus has given us the gospel. 113 00:06:21,560 --> 00:06:23,920 Jesus. Jesus has given us his Holy 114 00:06:23,920 --> 00:06:27,320 Spirit, and we now have a responsibility to preach the 115 00:06:27,320 --> 00:06:32,040 good news boldly, to share, to defend it, and to take it. 116 00:06:32,400 --> 00:06:35,320 To take it wherever we go to the ends of the earth. 117 00:06:36,280 --> 00:06:41,080 And so that Jesus King Jesus and his coming Kingdom could be 118 00:06:41,080 --> 00:06:45,600 known so that it could be known and it could, and that Jesus the 119 00:06:45,600 --> 00:06:49,440 king could be obeyed, right. People need to know who Jesus 120 00:06:49,440 --> 00:06:50,680 is. They need to know that there's 121 00:06:50,680 --> 00:06:53,600 a, there's a Kingdom that he rules and they need to know how, 122 00:06:53,880 --> 00:06:57,240 how to be a follower of Jesus. And we need to teach them to do 123 00:06:57,240 --> 00:06:58,920 that. Jesus said that go and teach 124 00:06:58,920 --> 00:07:01,360 them all the things that I've spoken. 125 00:07:02,760 --> 00:07:04,760 So the the gospel needs to be obeyed. 126 00:07:05,080 --> 00:07:08,640 People need to know the gospel and obey the gospel in order to 127 00:07:08,640 --> 00:07:12,600 have hope and peace and glorious future and life. 128 00:07:12,800 --> 00:07:15,880 That's where those things are found through the gospel, 129 00:07:16,000 --> 00:07:18,840 through the good news, and only through the gospel. 130 00:07:19,880 --> 00:07:22,200 Amen. Excellent. 131 00:07:22,920 --> 00:07:26,440 So the message of Jesus offers us salvation. 132 00:07:27,560 --> 00:07:30,400 Jesus can save us. Amen. 133 00:07:30,440 --> 00:07:33,240 Jesus saved us if if we're believers in this room. 134 00:07:33,640 --> 00:07:36,800 Thank you Lord, like I hope that stirs some Thanksgiving in your 135 00:07:36,800 --> 00:07:39,440 heart. Thank you God for salvation. 136 00:07:39,680 --> 00:07:43,320 But what what is Jesus that that opens this question, what do we 137 00:07:43,320 --> 00:07:48,600 need to be saved from? So God is offering to save me. 138 00:07:48,600 --> 00:07:51,800 And the short answer is that that God that Jesus saves us 139 00:07:51,800 --> 00:07:53,400 from the judgement that's to come. 140 00:07:54,440 --> 00:07:57,840 God will judge the world. God will judge every single 141 00:07:57,840 --> 00:08:02,120 person for their sin. What is sin? 142 00:08:02,840 --> 00:08:04,880 The Bible clearly defines what sin is. 143 00:08:04,880 --> 00:08:08,520 This is the best definition that I could find. 1 John 3 verse 4, 144 00:08:09,600 --> 00:08:11,760 it says, I'll just give you a moment. 145 00:08:11,920 --> 00:08:15,320 We've been pushing for us guys to have our paper Bibles. 146 00:08:15,560 --> 00:08:17,360 So I'm not just going to move on from that. 147 00:08:17,360 --> 00:08:19,920 If you've got a paper Bible, just I'll give you a moment just 148 00:08:19,920 --> 00:08:23,160 to find it there. So that was 1 John 3 verse 4. 149 00:08:24,120 --> 00:08:27,360 This is the the Bible's definition for sin. 150 00:08:27,840 --> 00:08:33,120 It says whoever commits sin also commits lawlessness and catch 151 00:08:33,120 --> 00:08:41,080 this and sin is lawlessness. So sin is is lawlessness. 152 00:08:41,080 --> 00:08:45,880 Sin is not following God's law. That's basically what it is, 153 00:08:46,240 --> 00:08:47,240 right? Lawlessness. 154 00:08:47,240 --> 00:08:49,280 Sin is lawlessness. It's not following God. 155 00:08:49,280 --> 00:08:51,840 It's not doing his walking in his ways. 156 00:08:51,840 --> 00:08:55,280 God has ways, God has good ways. They're perfect, they're 157 00:08:55,280 --> 00:08:58,280 righteous, they're holy. And sin is when we don't follow 158 00:08:58,280 --> 00:09:02,480 those ways. That's the short answer, but in 159 00:09:02,480 --> 00:09:05,600 order to understand more, we need to, to go back to the start 160 00:09:05,840 --> 00:09:08,800 and look at God's plan for his creation. 161 00:09:10,680 --> 00:09:15,040 And so, you know, I would say that like God's plan for his 162 00:09:15,040 --> 00:09:17,840 creation, I, I think that this verse that you find all through 163 00:09:17,840 --> 00:09:19,320 the Bible wraps it up pretty well. 164 00:09:19,560 --> 00:09:23,720 It says I will be their God and they will be my people. 165 00:09:24,400 --> 00:09:28,160 That is God's desire and will for mankind, that He would be 166 00:09:28,160 --> 00:09:30,960 their God and that we would be His people. 167 00:09:30,960 --> 00:09:32,480 And we see that all through the Scripture. 168 00:09:32,480 --> 00:09:36,080 That's God's ultimate plan. And you know when that fits into 169 00:09:36,080 --> 00:09:38,960 the King and the Kingdom, I will be their king, they will be a 170 00:09:38,960 --> 00:09:40,840 part of My Kingdom. Do you see the picture here? 171 00:09:40,840 --> 00:09:44,040 It's the same picture. He is God, we are His people, 172 00:09:45,120 --> 00:09:49,280 God is perfect, God is only good all the time. 173 00:09:49,280 --> 00:09:52,680 Can we get an Amen for that? God is good all the time. 174 00:09:52,680 --> 00:09:54,960 He is only good. He can't be bad. 175 00:09:55,080 --> 00:09:57,880 He can't never be wrong. He is always right. 176 00:09:58,440 --> 00:10:00,520 There is no darkness in him at all. 177 00:10:00,960 --> 00:10:05,760 He only creates good. God can't make things that are 178 00:10:05,760 --> 00:10:08,720 bad. God can't make an unrighteous 179 00:10:08,720 --> 00:10:11,040 person. God created mankind, righteous, 180 00:10:11,040 --> 00:10:13,880 pure, holy, perfect in the Garden of Eden. 181 00:10:13,880 --> 00:10:19,320 That's what God did. 1 John 15 says that God is light and in 182 00:10:19,320 --> 00:10:23,520 him there is no darkness at all. That's amazing to me. 183 00:10:23,560 --> 00:10:26,160 That's like, you got to take a hold of that and believe that to 184 00:10:26,160 --> 00:10:30,160 be true, that God is light. There is no darkness in him at 185 00:10:30,160 --> 00:10:31,880 all. That means that I don't get to 186 00:10:31,880 --> 00:10:34,400 question whether God's right or wrong and whether what he's 187 00:10:34,400 --> 00:10:36,680 doing is the right thing. He is light. 188 00:10:37,040 --> 00:10:40,360 He is right all the time and I can just trust him and I don't 189 00:10:40,360 --> 00:10:43,240 need to question him because he's God and I'm his servant. 190 00:10:43,760 --> 00:10:46,360 I'm, I belong to him. He's never wrong. 191 00:10:46,880 --> 00:10:52,000 So this perfect God made a perfect world and in this 192 00:10:52,000 --> 00:10:54,320 perfect world he made a perfect garden. 193 00:10:55,440 --> 00:10:59,440 The garden was in a place called Eden, perfect garden. 194 00:11:00,120 --> 00:11:02,640 And he created Adam and Eve perfect in every way. 195 00:11:02,640 --> 00:11:04,520 He said they are this is very good. 196 00:11:04,840 --> 00:11:07,320 If God says something is very good, is it good? 197 00:11:07,720 --> 00:11:10,840 Is it very good? It's like, again, God can't 198 00:11:10,840 --> 00:11:13,640 create something that's bad. He made Adam and Eve. 199 00:11:13,880 --> 00:11:16,160 He declared them to be good, right? 200 00:11:16,160 --> 00:11:20,000 Good is good according to God. God let your yes be yes and your 201 00:11:20,000 --> 00:11:22,080 no be no. God doesn't speak in riddles. 202 00:11:22,480 --> 00:11:26,440 That is good, very good. So we trust that Adam and Eve 203 00:11:26,440 --> 00:11:29,760 were made perfect. God gave them authority to take 204 00:11:29,760 --> 00:11:32,360 care of this perfect place, right? 205 00:11:32,360 --> 00:11:34,080 They would, they were to keep this garden. 206 00:11:34,080 --> 00:11:36,760 They were to steward God's creation. 207 00:11:36,760 --> 00:11:40,400 That there was an authority that God gave mankind over his 208 00:11:40,400 --> 00:11:43,040 creation. They would they would rule over 209 00:11:43,360 --> 00:11:46,040 it that it would be in submission to them, right? 210 00:11:46,840 --> 00:11:48,080 It's a hierarchy. It's God. 211 00:11:48,320 --> 00:11:51,680 God gives authority to Adam and Eve and everything else was 212 00:11:51,680 --> 00:11:53,560 under them, which is pretty cool. 213 00:11:53,560 --> 00:11:56,920 That's that's God's intention for mankind to rule and reign 214 00:11:56,920 --> 00:11:58,920 with him. Isn't that cool? 215 00:11:59,280 --> 00:12:02,800 The king and the Kingdom, we are going to be reigning and ruling 216 00:12:02,800 --> 00:12:05,160 with Christ in his Kingdom, those that belong to him. 217 00:12:05,160 --> 00:12:07,400 It's pretty cool. Everyone has a place. 218 00:12:07,920 --> 00:12:13,240 It's very amazing. And so you know, God created 219 00:12:13,240 --> 00:12:15,600 them in this perfect place and he walked with them. 220 00:12:15,960 --> 00:12:19,480 That's amazing to me that the that the creator of all says 221 00:12:19,480 --> 00:12:21,320 that he was walking in the cool of the garden. 222 00:12:21,320 --> 00:12:24,200 He was with them, he was with them in the garden. 223 00:12:24,200 --> 00:12:27,200 Isn't that amazing? And again, this is God's 224 00:12:27,200 --> 00:12:29,440 intention. He wants to he wanted to create 225 00:12:29,440 --> 00:12:32,040 people to be with him, to know him, right? 226 00:12:32,440 --> 00:12:35,240 It's relational. God is a relational God. 227 00:12:35,600 --> 00:12:39,680 He wants to know us. And so he walked with them and, 228 00:12:39,680 --> 00:12:45,120 and I think that, you know, he taught them, he instructed them. 229 00:12:45,480 --> 00:12:48,600 Like when God created an Adam and Eve and walked with him in 230 00:12:48,600 --> 00:12:51,080 the garden, who were they going to go ask questions? 231 00:12:51,520 --> 00:12:53,280 What is this thing? What does that mean? 232 00:12:53,280 --> 00:12:55,120 Who are they not going to ask each other? 233 00:12:55,280 --> 00:12:57,080 Who are they going to ask? They're going to ask God, Hey, 234 00:12:57,080 --> 00:12:59,520 God, what's this thing over here that's called a lake? 235 00:12:59,520 --> 00:13:00,920 Go and swim in it. It's wonderful. 236 00:13:01,120 --> 00:13:02,920 Like, do you see what I'm saying? 237 00:13:02,920 --> 00:13:06,080 Like God's with them and He's instructing them and He's 238 00:13:06,080 --> 00:13:08,480 teaching them. And that's the God that we 239 00:13:08,480 --> 00:13:11,240 serve. He wants to lead us into good 240 00:13:11,240 --> 00:13:14,320 things. He wants to show us the amazing 241 00:13:14,320 --> 00:13:17,120 things that He's made. He wants us to partake in his 242 00:13:17,120 --> 00:13:18,920 goodness. Isn't that cool? 243 00:13:19,560 --> 00:13:22,720 Thank you, Lord. And he gives them one warning. 244 00:13:23,760 --> 00:13:26,760 Our God warns us because he's a good God. 245 00:13:27,480 --> 00:13:31,240 Our God warns us of the things to stay away from, of the things 246 00:13:31,240 --> 00:13:33,680 that are harmful. God's not giving. 247 00:13:33,720 --> 00:13:36,480 Like I'm just getting sidetracked here for a second, 248 00:13:36,480 --> 00:13:40,320 but as believers, as followers of Christ, this is not law to 249 00:13:40,320 --> 00:13:42,480 you. Do what I say and everything 250 00:13:42,480 --> 00:13:44,800 will be good. It's like, do what I'm asking 251 00:13:44,800 --> 00:13:49,000 you to do, show, follow me, you know, submit to my ways because 252 00:13:49,000 --> 00:13:51,560 they're good and I will lead you into good things. 253 00:13:51,560 --> 00:13:54,680 God's word is life to us. He is a good God. 254 00:13:54,680 --> 00:13:59,080 He wants to lead us in truth and, and light, you know, be the 255 00:13:59,080 --> 00:14:01,560 lamp to our feet. This is the God that we follow, 256 00:14:02,400 --> 00:14:05,040 same God in the garden. It's the same God that's leading 257 00:14:05,040 --> 00:14:06,520 us today through his Holy Spirit. 258 00:14:06,840 --> 00:14:08,680 Getting ahead of myself, come back to your notes. 259 00:14:09,200 --> 00:14:13,040 So God gave them one warning. Don't eat of the tree, of the 260 00:14:13,040 --> 00:14:16,600 fruit of this one tree, because in the day that you do that, you 261 00:14:16,600 --> 00:14:20,000 will surely die. They did it right. 262 00:14:20,080 --> 00:14:22,920 They they ate of this tree. So, so they stepped outside of 263 00:14:22,920 --> 00:14:26,880 God's, God's instruction. And what happens when you, when 264 00:14:26,880 --> 00:14:30,960 they stepped outside of God's instruction, they, they, well, 265 00:14:30,960 --> 00:14:33,160 they died, yes. And they sinned against God's 266 00:14:33,160 --> 00:14:36,320 law, lawlessness. Sin is lawlessness, right? 267 00:14:36,320 --> 00:14:40,600 They stepped outside of God's law and they sinned and they, 268 00:14:40,720 --> 00:14:44,320 they died in that day. Jesus, God said that they would 269 00:14:44,320 --> 00:14:46,800 die on that day and they died to death in that day. 270 00:14:47,040 --> 00:14:52,160 They went from being righteous and pure and perfect to, to 271 00:14:52,160 --> 00:14:55,480 becoming unrighteous and sinful and rebellious. 272 00:14:55,920 --> 00:14:59,280 That's what they become. So they died a spiritual death 273 00:15:00,520 --> 00:15:03,800 and now straight away they're experiencing things that God 274 00:15:03,800 --> 00:15:06,440 never intended. They're experiencing shame, 275 00:15:06,720 --> 00:15:09,240 they're experiencing fear, right? 276 00:15:09,280 --> 00:15:12,120 They're they're hiding from God. They're insecure. 277 00:15:12,760 --> 00:15:15,080 God never intended for us to be living that way. 278 00:15:16,120 --> 00:15:19,040 It was never God's intention. God didn't create us for fear. 279 00:15:19,040 --> 00:15:22,800 God didn't create us for shame. Our stepping outside of God's 280 00:15:22,800 --> 00:15:25,360 perfect will is what brought those things upon ourselves. 281 00:15:25,920 --> 00:15:30,400 And so they hid from God and, and it says that Adam and Eve 282 00:15:30,400 --> 00:15:33,040 were, were made to leave this perfect place. 283 00:15:33,040 --> 00:15:35,880 They could no longer say they were no longer perfect. 284 00:15:36,240 --> 00:15:40,480 They no longer fit in God's perfect creation with a perfect 285 00:15:40,480 --> 00:15:45,120 God in a perfect place. God forces them out, but but not 286 00:15:45,120 --> 00:15:48,240 before he covers them, not before he takes care of them, 287 00:15:48,520 --> 00:15:50,200 not before he speaks hope, right? 288 00:15:50,200 --> 00:15:53,640 Because, because the gospel is declared when, when sin happens, 289 00:15:54,000 --> 00:15:56,720 you know, it's not in my notes, but he, he talks about the, the 290 00:15:56,720 --> 00:15:59,480 fall, when he talks about the things that will now happen. 291 00:15:59,880 --> 00:16:03,760 But he talks about Jesus. You know, he, he, he talks about 292 00:16:03,760 --> 00:16:06,440 him and says that, you know, the, the serpent will nip at his 293 00:16:06,440 --> 00:16:08,760 heel, but he will crush the head. 294 00:16:09,080 --> 00:16:12,200 This is Jesus. So he's in that God's giving 295 00:16:12,200 --> 00:16:14,720 hope. He's declaring the gospel. 296 00:16:14,720 --> 00:16:18,400 He's declaring that Jesus is coming right from the moment 297 00:16:18,400 --> 00:16:21,640 that sin enters. And so they're made to leave and 298 00:16:21,640 --> 00:16:24,560 and they're separated from God and and they can follow him no 299 00:16:24,560 --> 00:16:27,440 more. That is the worst thing that 300 00:16:27,440 --> 00:16:29,720 could possibly happen for mankind, that they couldn't 301 00:16:29,720 --> 00:16:32,400 follow him anymore. So now they're out in this world 302 00:16:32,400 --> 00:16:35,920 that, you know, because it creation itself falls, thorns 303 00:16:35,920 --> 00:16:37,640 and thistles. Things aren't the way that it 304 00:16:37,640 --> 00:16:40,000 was intended. And now they're going to have to 305 00:16:40,000 --> 00:16:41,400 try and work it out for themselves. 306 00:16:41,400 --> 00:16:43,600 If they've got any questions who they're going to ask now they're 307 00:16:43,600 --> 00:16:46,640 asking themselves and they're like, you know, led by their own 308 00:16:46,640 --> 00:16:48,280 understanding and all of these things. 309 00:16:49,000 --> 00:16:51,040 God doesn't leave them completely on their own, but 310 00:16:51,040 --> 00:16:53,840 they're they're not walking with him in the way that they once 311 00:16:53,840 --> 00:16:56,240 were. They don't have his leading in 312 00:16:56,240 --> 00:16:58,400 his guidance anymore. They can't follow him 313 00:16:59,000 --> 00:17:01,320 spiritually dead. They're dead on the inside. 314 00:17:01,480 --> 00:17:03,640 They're not connected to the life source. 315 00:17:04,520 --> 00:17:08,280 The Bible describes this state as as walking in the flesh. 316 00:17:08,839 --> 00:17:11,800 You know, it's, it's being led by our carnal nature. 317 00:17:11,800 --> 00:17:14,119 Like we're no longer led by the Spirit of God. 318 00:17:14,359 --> 00:17:17,160 We're no longer led by God. Now we're, we're left to our own 319 00:17:17,160 --> 00:17:21,640 devices, we're left to our own carnal understanding, our own 320 00:17:21,640 --> 00:17:25,280 instincts and emotions. And remember our instincts and 321 00:17:25,280 --> 00:17:28,319 our emotions are now broken. Now we're feeling fear. 322 00:17:28,319 --> 00:17:30,600 Now we're feeling hurt. So now there's the, there's a 323 00:17:30,600 --> 00:17:33,640 response that we, that we have. It's like the fight or flight 324 00:17:33,640 --> 00:17:35,640 thing. Fight or flight was never God's 325 00:17:35,640 --> 00:17:37,400 intention, right? You're either going to have to 326 00:17:37,400 --> 00:17:38,640 fight or you're going to have to run. 327 00:17:38,760 --> 00:17:41,080 That was never God's intention, right? 328 00:17:41,080 --> 00:17:44,920 So, but but that now we're, we're acting out of out of these 329 00:17:44,920 --> 00:17:48,320 emotions and, and these this brokenness from the inside. 330 00:17:48,640 --> 00:17:51,320 And we do feel that we need to fight and defend ourselves and 331 00:17:51,320 --> 00:17:54,320 we do feel that we need to run and we do feel that we need to 332 00:17:54,320 --> 00:17:55,920 hide. We still experience that right 333 00:17:55,920 --> 00:17:59,800 now, like I'm sure that we do like we are hide from God 334 00:17:59,800 --> 00:18:02,680 sometimes not for long. He doesn't let me hide for long 335 00:18:02,680 --> 00:18:05,120 anymore, but that, you know, the period of me hiding from him is 336 00:18:05,120 --> 00:18:08,280 getting shorter. But he like, I know that I know 337 00:18:08,280 --> 00:18:11,240 when I'm hiding from him now and I don't, I don't hide from God 338 00:18:11,240 --> 00:18:13,200 anymore. I mean, I don't not in the same 339 00:18:13,200 --> 00:18:15,320 way that I used to. I don't hide from him anymore. 340 00:18:15,520 --> 00:18:18,600 I turn to him because I know I've trusted him. 341 00:18:18,600 --> 00:18:20,840 I've walked down the road a bit. I know that he's got good 342 00:18:20,840 --> 00:18:23,680 intentions for me. I know that when I find myself 343 00:18:23,680 --> 00:18:26,920 falling and falling short of him, you know, in lawlessness, I 344 00:18:26,920 --> 00:18:28,720 know that he welcomes me straight back in. 345 00:18:28,880 --> 00:18:30,960 He wants me to be living a good life with him. 346 00:18:31,160 --> 00:18:33,600 He wants to protect me. He wants to keep me safe. 347 00:18:33,840 --> 00:18:37,240 He wants to for me to be blessed and be a blessing, right? 348 00:18:37,480 --> 00:18:41,360 So I don't run from him anymore. I turn to him all right, so 349 00:18:41,360 --> 00:18:44,560 another thing that we experience is, you know, with all this 350 00:18:44,920 --> 00:18:49,000 brokenness and, and, and our instincts being messed up is 351 00:18:49,000 --> 00:18:51,240 that we're living at the expense of each other. 352 00:18:51,240 --> 00:18:53,960 Now, you know, you see it straight away, Adam and Eve, 353 00:18:53,960 --> 00:18:55,840 just, you know, at the expense of each other. 354 00:18:55,840 --> 00:18:58,240 This is one of the things that you and I have to face today in 355 00:18:58,240 --> 00:19:01,720 battle because our flesh wants us to live at the expense of 356 00:19:01,720 --> 00:19:03,240 others. And we're called to lay down our 357 00:19:03,240 --> 00:19:07,600 flesh, lay down our lives for, you know, love God and one love 358 00:19:07,600 --> 00:19:09,680 one another. That's the picture. 359 00:19:09,680 --> 00:19:12,320 That's how we get back into following God in his ways. 360 00:19:12,320 --> 00:19:14,400 We've got to, we've got to live for one another. 361 00:19:14,760 --> 00:19:17,280 We've got to live for him. We're not living for ourselves, 362 00:19:18,400 --> 00:19:20,600 right? So through the Bible, you know, 363 00:19:20,680 --> 00:19:25,520 after Adam and Eve are cast out of the garden, the, the Bible 364 00:19:25,520 --> 00:19:29,480 pattern is just this pattern of God just reaching out to mankind 365 00:19:29,480 --> 00:19:32,960 again and in various ways through people and through 366 00:19:32,960 --> 00:19:35,280 prophets. And you know, he, he comes to a, 367 00:19:35,480 --> 00:19:38,000 a nation himself and he comes down and onto the mountain and 368 00:19:38,000 --> 00:19:41,480 he reveals himself. God reaching out, God giving 369 00:19:41,480 --> 00:19:43,680 direction again. Think about that. 370 00:19:43,680 --> 00:19:46,880 They've gone from following God and, and walking closely with 371 00:19:46,880 --> 00:19:49,880 him and asking him any question to being cut off from him. 372 00:19:50,280 --> 00:19:53,640 And now God raises up a nation and says, I'll put my name with 373 00:19:53,640 --> 00:19:55,920 them and they will follow me and I'll give them my laws. 374 00:19:56,000 --> 00:19:58,800 What's he doing? He's back showing them how to 375 00:19:58,800 --> 00:20:01,560 live. He's giving them his laws again. 376 00:20:01,560 --> 00:20:05,200 He's saying don't do these things, do these things. 377 00:20:05,200 --> 00:20:07,600 You do these things. You live in the curse, you do 378 00:20:07,600 --> 00:20:09,200 these things, you live in my blessing. 379 00:20:09,200 --> 00:20:12,520 God is directing his people. This is a good covenant. 380 00:20:12,720 --> 00:20:15,360 You know, the, the word says that the law is good, God is 381 00:20:15,360 --> 00:20:18,000 good. He's wanting to lead his people. 382 00:20:18,000 --> 00:20:19,720 And so we see that through the Scripture. 383 00:20:20,400 --> 00:20:24,360 God makes promises to restore all things. 384 00:20:24,360 --> 00:20:27,440 I said that he made this declaration back in the garden, 385 00:20:27,440 --> 00:20:31,120 but all through the Scripture. We see that God is promising 386 00:20:31,520 --> 00:20:36,400 that things will be made right, right, that that the gospel is 387 00:20:36,400 --> 00:20:40,360 is coming, that Jesus is coming and he will set things right. 388 00:20:40,360 --> 00:20:42,080 There's this promise all through the Scripture. 389 00:20:42,880 --> 00:20:46,880 And God allows, you know, rebellion to go on for a certain 390 00:20:46,880 --> 00:20:49,320 time, but eventually judgement must come. 391 00:20:50,480 --> 00:20:53,520 Eventually judgement must come. And he does. 392 00:20:53,520 --> 00:20:56,680 You think about God flooding the earth and Sodom and Gomorrah. 393 00:20:56,680 --> 00:21:00,600 Eventually God judges. Why does God do that? 394 00:21:01,240 --> 00:21:04,360 Because God must clean things up right? 395 00:21:04,360 --> 00:21:07,880 The the the great flood is this picture of just washing it all 396 00:21:07,880 --> 00:21:08,960 away. What's he doing? 397 00:21:08,960 --> 00:21:12,040 He's cleaning up the mess, right? 398 00:21:12,960 --> 00:21:15,920 When fire comes down and in Sodom and Gomorrah, what is he 399 00:21:15,920 --> 00:21:17,760 doing? He's burning out all of the 400 00:21:17,760 --> 00:21:20,080 ungodliness. He's burning out all the 401 00:21:20,120 --> 00:21:23,360 unrighteousness. God has to clean up his mess. 402 00:21:23,640 --> 00:21:27,320 This is why judgement is coming. God will not allow 403 00:21:27,680 --> 00:21:31,040 unrighteousness and unholiness to continue on forever. 404 00:21:31,240 --> 00:21:35,200 God has set a date where He will deal with it and that is the 405 00:21:35,200 --> 00:21:37,720 end. Never again will there be 406 00:21:37,720 --> 00:21:39,440 rebellion. Never again will there be 407 00:21:39,440 --> 00:21:41,720 unrighteousness and sin and brokenness and all of this 408 00:21:41,720 --> 00:21:43,600 stuff. God's coming and He's going to 409 00:21:43,600 --> 00:21:46,440 clean it up. Jesus Himself taught this. 410 00:21:46,800 --> 00:21:53,040 Matthew 25 verse 31 if you want to turn there, Matthew 25 verse 411 00:21:53,040 --> 00:21:57,960 31, it says when the Son of Man comes in His glory and all His 412 00:21:57,960 --> 00:22:01,600 holy angels with him, then He will sit on the throne of His 413 00:22:01,600 --> 00:22:05,720 glory and all the nations will be gathered before Him and He 414 00:22:05,720 --> 00:22:09,400 will separate them one from another as a shepherd divides 415 00:22:09,400 --> 00:22:12,760 His sheep from His goats. So Jesus, you know this is 416 00:22:12,760 --> 00:22:14,640 talking about Jesus is sitting on this throne. 417 00:22:14,720 --> 00:22:16,760 Jesus is going to be doing the dividing. 418 00:22:17,360 --> 00:22:22,080 He will divide all of mankind. How will He know those that 419 00:22:22,080 --> 00:22:24,440 belong to Him? How is Jesus going to know who 420 00:22:24,440 --> 00:22:26,040 are the sheep and who are the goats? 421 00:22:26,880 --> 00:22:31,240 Romans 89 This is how he's going to know. 422 00:22:31,880 --> 00:22:36,760 Romans 8-9 But you who are not in the flesh, but in the Spirit, 423 00:22:37,360 --> 00:22:39,760 if indeed the Spirit of God dwells in you. 424 00:22:40,360 --> 00:22:45,000 Now if anyone does not have the Spirit of Christ, he is not his. 425 00:22:46,120 --> 00:22:49,840 Jesus is going to be looking for the Spirit of God, those that 426 00:22:49,840 --> 00:22:51,960 belong to him. The the Scripture says they are 427 00:22:51,960 --> 00:22:55,640 sealed by the Holy Spirit, not by your works, not because 428 00:22:55,640 --> 00:22:57,400 you're a good person, not because you've done all the 429 00:22:57,400 --> 00:22:59,240 right things. He's looking for himself. 430 00:22:59,720 --> 00:23:01,880 God's looking for himself in you. 431 00:23:02,520 --> 00:23:06,120 And that is the if he sees himself, if Jesus sees the Holy 432 00:23:06,120 --> 00:23:08,520 Spirit sealing you, he goes, come with me. 433 00:23:09,040 --> 00:23:13,040 You are, you belong to me. So it's the Spirit of God that 434 00:23:13,040 --> 00:23:16,080 that separates the sheep from the goats. 435 00:23:16,080 --> 00:23:17,640 That's the in the final judgement. 436 00:23:17,640 --> 00:23:22,800 That's what God's looking for. One group has the Spirit, they 437 00:23:22,800 --> 00:23:26,360 have become alive. Those that receive the Spirit of 438 00:23:26,360 --> 00:23:28,800 God become alive. The rest do not. 439 00:23:28,800 --> 00:23:32,040 They remain spiritually dead. I, I said that, you know, Adam 440 00:23:32,040 --> 00:23:36,680 and Eve became spiritually dead. They were they, they, they lost, 441 00:23:36,720 --> 00:23:38,720 you know, this connection with the Spirit of God. 442 00:23:39,160 --> 00:23:43,840 And so those that are alive again receive the Spirit of God. 443 00:23:43,840 --> 00:23:46,040 Those that don't remain spiritually dead. 444 00:23:46,880 --> 00:23:51,480 Every single one of us, every person put your hand up if you 445 00:23:51,480 --> 00:23:54,960 were born in this place. Yay, There we go. 446 00:23:54,960 --> 00:23:56,320 I'm just making sure we're all awake. 447 00:23:56,320 --> 00:24:00,680 We're all born, right? Every single one of us is a 448 00:24:00,680 --> 00:24:04,640 descendant of Adam and Eve. We were born in sin. 449 00:24:05,160 --> 00:24:10,120 Adam and Eve reproduced in after their own kind, and they were 450 00:24:10,120 --> 00:24:12,800 unrighteous. They were impure and they 451 00:24:12,800 --> 00:24:16,040 reproduced. And every single person that was 452 00:24:16,040 --> 00:24:22,080 born after Adam and Eve was born in sin, spiritually dead. 453 00:24:22,680 --> 00:24:27,760 This is what the Bible teaches. And I, this is how I know that 454 00:24:27,760 --> 00:24:30,480 that's true. Because like, I've got young 455 00:24:30,480 --> 00:24:35,480 kids and I don't need to teach them to lie, to steal, to, to 456 00:24:35,480 --> 00:24:38,040 hurt one another. You don't need to be taught how 457 00:24:38,040 --> 00:24:40,480 to be unrighteous. We just are. 458 00:24:40,480 --> 00:24:44,600 We're, we're trying to teach our kids how to be right. 459 00:24:45,320 --> 00:24:48,120 You know, you don't have to be a believer to realize that like, 460 00:24:48,520 --> 00:24:51,080 oh, I'm just, I'm just trying to help my kids to do the right 461 00:24:51,080 --> 00:24:53,600 thing. Yeah, because they're born into 462 00:24:53,600 --> 00:24:56,000 sin. There's something in them that's 463 00:24:56,000 --> 00:24:58,160 not right. I've been born into sin. 464 00:24:58,160 --> 00:25:01,880 They're spiritually dead. Most of us, like, don't want to 465 00:25:01,880 --> 00:25:05,560 sin, do we? Doesn't anyone in this room that 466 00:25:05,560 --> 00:25:07,560 just enjoys sinning and likes to sin? 467 00:25:08,280 --> 00:25:10,400 Of course not. We're not created for sin. 468 00:25:11,000 --> 00:25:15,240 We're created for a life of holiness and purity. 469 00:25:15,240 --> 00:25:18,320 God's made us for that. That's why it doesn't feel right 470 00:25:18,320 --> 00:25:20,560 to live outside of God's plan and purpose. 471 00:25:21,880 --> 00:25:26,080 So the final judgement, people will be giving an account of the 472 00:25:26,080 --> 00:25:31,040 sin that they've lived. Each one, like each one's 473 00:25:31,040 --> 00:25:34,280 lawlessness is going to be exposed in the final judgement. 474 00:25:34,640 --> 00:25:39,840 And, and the exposure of our sin and our unworthiness makes us 475 00:25:39,840 --> 00:25:43,160 worthy of death. It means that you, you don't 476 00:25:43,160 --> 00:25:45,720 deserve life. You've lived outside of God's 477 00:25:45,720 --> 00:25:49,160 plan in the same way that Adam and Eve stepped outside of God's 478 00:25:49,160 --> 00:25:50,840 will. Don't do that thing. 479 00:25:51,480 --> 00:25:53,920 We've all done that. We've all stepped outside. 480 00:25:53,920 --> 00:25:55,840 And so this is where we find ourselves. 481 00:25:56,160 --> 00:26:00,200 And if we have to stand before a holy God in that, there's no 482 00:26:00,200 --> 00:26:03,800 escaping. You can't come back into 483 00:26:03,920 --> 00:26:06,840 perfection. You can't just, God can't just 484 00:26:06,840 --> 00:26:09,600 go, oh, don't worry about it. Just come back in because God is 485 00:26:09,600 --> 00:26:12,400 perfect. His judgements are right. 486 00:26:12,880 --> 00:26:15,920 If you're coming back into the perfect place, you need to be 487 00:26:15,920 --> 00:26:19,000 perfect because nothing impure can come back in. 488 00:26:20,640 --> 00:26:24,960 And so we're worthy of death. If we stand before God without 489 00:26:25,400 --> 00:26:28,560 the Holy Spirit, without the saving grace of our Lord Jesus 490 00:26:28,560 --> 00:26:31,680 Christ, we're going to, we're worthy of death. 491 00:26:31,800 --> 00:26:34,240 That's, that's what's worthy. We're worthy of. 492 00:26:34,600 --> 00:26:37,160 We will receive that. That is our fate. 493 00:26:37,160 --> 00:26:40,800 Our fate is set. We'll be cut off permanently 494 00:26:40,800 --> 00:26:43,040 from God, the source of perfect light. 495 00:26:43,920 --> 00:26:46,400 We will remain spiritually dead forever and ever. 496 00:26:46,640 --> 00:26:49,840 This is the fate of every single person that's born after Adam 497 00:26:49,840 --> 00:26:53,600 and Eve that doesn't receive their their Savior, Jesus 498 00:26:53,600 --> 00:26:57,040 Christ. And so Jesus offers us the way 499 00:26:57,040 --> 00:26:58,760 to life. You know these words, I am the 500 00:26:58,760 --> 00:27:00,680 way, I am the truth. I am the life. 501 00:27:00,680 --> 00:27:03,600 These aren't just fancy words. That's the truth. 502 00:27:03,680 --> 00:27:06,520 Jesus is just saying I am the way to life. 503 00:27:06,560 --> 00:27:10,080 I am the truth, like no one comes to the Father but through 504 00:27:10,080 --> 00:27:12,600 me. I'm the only way to enter back 505 00:27:12,600 --> 00:27:19,440 into God's perfect plan. So Jesus died the death that you 506 00:27:19,440 --> 00:27:22,720 and I deserve. If we're over here, we deserve 507 00:27:22,720 --> 00:27:26,360 death. Jesus died a death on the cross, 508 00:27:26,360 --> 00:27:28,200 didn't he? Didn't he? 509 00:27:28,800 --> 00:27:31,280 Jesus died for us, right? Amen. 510 00:27:31,280 --> 00:27:35,520 Yes he did, and he died the the life, the the death that we 511 00:27:35,520 --> 00:27:37,760 deserved. He died so that we could have 512 00:27:37,760 --> 00:27:41,160 life. Jesus was born of God's Spirit, 513 00:27:41,160 --> 00:27:44,520 the virgin birth. Jesus was not born of the seed 514 00:27:44,520 --> 00:27:47,520 of Adam. Jesus was born of God's seed 515 00:27:47,520 --> 00:27:50,600 which made him perfect. Jesus was not born into sin like 516 00:27:50,600 --> 00:27:55,520 you and I Jesus was born perfect, holy and righteous. 517 00:27:56,560 --> 00:28:01,760 And Jesus went on in perfection as a man, God as a man, and 518 00:28:01,760 --> 00:28:07,880 lived a perfect sinless life untainted, still pure and so he 519 00:28:07,880 --> 00:28:11,400 was able to be raised back to life when he died when they put 520 00:28:11,400 --> 00:28:15,440 him to death or when he laid down his life willingly, he was 521 00:28:15,440 --> 00:28:17,320 able to be raised back to life again. 522 00:28:17,320 --> 00:28:21,200 Acts 224 Let me just read it here for time's sake. 523 00:28:21,360 --> 00:28:25,760 It says whom God raised up, having loosed the pains of 524 00:28:25,760 --> 00:28:28,320 death. Catch this because it was not 525 00:28:28,320 --> 00:28:34,800 possible that that he should be held by it, that a righteous and 526 00:28:34,800 --> 00:28:38,040 a holy God did not deserve death. 527 00:28:38,960 --> 00:28:42,560 You and I deserve death. That at the judgement we will 528 00:28:42,560 --> 00:28:44,440 receive death because we deserve it. 529 00:28:44,440 --> 00:28:49,560 Jesus, on the other hand, died and death couldn't hold him, 530 00:28:49,800 --> 00:28:52,400 couldn't keep him down, couldn't get a grasp on him. 531 00:28:52,400 --> 00:28:54,640 Why? Because he's sinless, Because 532 00:28:54,640 --> 00:28:56,280 he's perfect. He's like slipped through the 533 00:28:56,280 --> 00:29:00,040 hands of death, right? And he's raised again and God 534 00:29:00,040 --> 00:29:03,440 justly raises him from the grave because he didn't deserve to be 535 00:29:03,440 --> 00:29:06,800 there. This is the Lord that we serve 536 00:29:06,800 --> 00:29:08,600 Gods. He died for us. 537 00:29:08,920 --> 00:29:12,480 He laid down his life for you and I raised back to life. 538 00:29:13,000 --> 00:29:17,960 So we can choose to come to God now, now not wait like I'm 539 00:29:18,040 --> 00:29:20,040 preaching to the to the saved in this room. 540 00:29:20,400 --> 00:29:23,280 But we came to God. We gave our lives to him. 541 00:29:23,280 --> 00:29:29,280 Now we didn't wait until later. We died now with him, you know, 542 00:29:29,280 --> 00:29:32,680 we repent. We excuse me, we, we admit our 543 00:29:32,680 --> 00:29:35,760 sin and our lawless lawlessness. We we repent. 544 00:29:36,080 --> 00:29:40,080 It's like I come to God and I say, gosh, I deserve to die. 545 00:29:41,600 --> 00:29:44,320 That's repentance. He's like, Lord, I'm, I'm just 546 00:29:44,320 --> 00:29:47,680 living like I'm like, I'm just separated from you. 547 00:29:48,240 --> 00:29:51,560 I need to come back to you. Lord, forgive me, forgive me. 548 00:29:51,560 --> 00:29:54,920 Let me turn from that way. Let me turn again to your ways 549 00:29:54,920 --> 00:29:57,600 and follow you. Repentance following him, 550 00:29:58,520 --> 00:30:02,400 turning from lawlessness, turning to God's perfect law by 551 00:30:02,400 --> 00:30:04,480 accepting Jesus and His work on the cross. 552 00:30:04,680 --> 00:30:09,080 We believe that we died with Christ and that we're alive in 553 00:30:09,080 --> 00:30:11,520 him. Like I died with him on that 554 00:30:11,520 --> 00:30:15,120 cross, right? My life was put to death, that I 555 00:30:15,120 --> 00:30:18,040 was dead, spiritually dead already, and I died with him on 556 00:30:18,040 --> 00:30:20,480 the cross. And he rose again because death 557 00:30:20,480 --> 00:30:23,440 couldn't hold him. And now I get to be alive again 558 00:30:23,440 --> 00:30:26,200 by his Spirit and be with Christ and live with him forever. 559 00:30:27,400 --> 00:30:29,960 It's an amazing thing. The gospel is pretty cool. 560 00:30:30,760 --> 00:30:32,680 I feel it feels weird saying that the gospel is cool. 561 00:30:32,680 --> 00:30:35,120 The gospel is amazing. It's so cool. 562 00:30:35,680 --> 00:30:39,600 So this releases us from the need to be judged worthy of 563 00:30:39,600 --> 00:30:44,040 death at the final judgement in Christ with the Holy Spirit 564 00:30:44,240 --> 00:30:47,600 having repented from our sins, having saying, Lord, I died with 565 00:30:47,600 --> 00:30:51,080 you on that cross, I'm alive with you, releases you from 566 00:30:51,080 --> 00:30:55,520 being worthy of death because God's judgement has already been 567 00:30:55,520 --> 00:30:58,840 put on his Son. The debt has been fully paid. 568 00:30:59,560 --> 00:31:01,240 There's no debt to be paid anymore. 569 00:31:01,240 --> 00:31:05,160 Jesus paid the debt in full. How does that make you feel on 570 00:31:05,160 --> 00:31:07,240 the inside? To know that Jesus did that for 571 00:31:07,240 --> 00:31:10,920 you, that you could have good things, that you could live a 572 00:31:10,920 --> 00:31:14,040 righteous and holy life, that you could follow him again, that 573 00:31:14,040 --> 00:31:17,920 you could hear his voice, that you could be back in perfection 574 00:31:18,200 --> 00:31:20,800 listening to him and following him and asking him questions. 575 00:31:20,800 --> 00:31:22,000 Hey, Lord, what's that over there? 576 00:31:22,440 --> 00:31:23,800 That's a river. Go and jump in it. 577 00:31:23,800 --> 00:31:27,480 Like like you said, God wants it like for us to enjoy his 578 00:31:27,480 --> 00:31:33,280 creation Now, even now God was just the Holy Spirit speaks to 579 00:31:33,280 --> 00:31:36,520 you and you have fellowship with him and you look at the sunsets 580 00:31:36,520 --> 00:31:39,040 and you go, Lord, you're so beautiful like you, you you 581 00:31:39,040 --> 00:31:42,760 start to just connect with God and his creation on a way that 582 00:31:43,080 --> 00:31:45,960 you were spiritually dead to. It's very amazing. 583 00:31:46,840 --> 00:31:51,600 One Peter 3 verse 18, it says this for Christ also. 584 00:31:51,600 --> 00:31:55,520 He suffered once for sins, the just for the unjust, just 585 00:31:55,520 --> 00:31:58,800 confirming the words that I've spoken that he might bring us to 586 00:31:58,800 --> 00:32:03,600 God being put to death in the flesh but made alive in the 587 00:32:03,600 --> 00:32:06,560 Spirit. We have been made alive in the 588 00:32:06,560 --> 00:32:09,040 spirit. When we receive the good news of 589 00:32:09,040 --> 00:32:13,480 the gospel as true, the Spirit of God enters us and we become 590 00:32:13,480 --> 00:32:16,040 alive. It's good to be alive. 591 00:32:16,680 --> 00:32:19,680 I like to be alive. I will never go back to being 592 00:32:19,680 --> 00:32:21,720 dead again. Once you taste life, you are 593 00:32:21,720 --> 00:32:23,680 never wanting to die again. Amen. 594 00:32:24,520 --> 00:32:25,960 This is why we want to follow Him. 595 00:32:25,960 --> 00:32:28,520 This is why I want to serve Him and do things His way because I 596 00:32:28,520 --> 00:32:30,320 don't want to. I don't want to be found living 597 00:32:30,320 --> 00:32:33,200 in death again. I want to be in life. 598 00:32:33,440 --> 00:32:36,480 I want to turn my life in His direction and do the things that 599 00:32:36,480 --> 00:32:40,120 He says are good and right. So the gospel ultimately is 600 00:32:40,120 --> 00:32:41,960 this. It's I said before, it's this 601 00:32:41,960 --> 00:32:44,840 fulfilment of Scripture that He's given us over and over 602 00:32:44,840 --> 00:32:49,880 again, but one that I really enjoy and love is, is Ezekiel 36 603 00:32:50,560 --> 00:32:54,600 might have read this for us recently, but Ezekiel 36 verse 604 00:32:54,600 --> 00:33:00,760 25, it says this, I'll sprinkle think about, think about the 605 00:33:00,760 --> 00:33:04,960 gospel message here, right? I'll sprinkle clean water on you 606 00:33:05,720 --> 00:33:09,560 and you shall be clean from all your uncleanness and from all 607 00:33:09,560 --> 00:33:11,080 your idols. I will cleanse you. 608 00:33:11,120 --> 00:33:14,920 I will give you a new heart and a new spirit I will put within 609 00:33:14,920 --> 00:33:18,600 you, and I will remove the heart of stone from your flesh, and 610 00:33:18,800 --> 00:33:22,760 I'll give you a heart of flesh, and I'll put my spirit within 611 00:33:22,760 --> 00:33:23,880 you. Listen to this. 612 00:33:23,920 --> 00:33:28,280 And I'll cause you to walk in my statutes and to be careful to 613 00:33:28,280 --> 00:33:31,880 obey my rules. Oh, that's just putting us under 614 00:33:31,880 --> 00:33:33,120 law again. No, it isn't. 615 00:33:33,120 --> 00:33:35,560 It's showing you the way of life. 616 00:33:35,880 --> 00:33:39,400 It's showing you if you follow my rules, if you obey my 617 00:33:39,400 --> 00:33:41,960 commands, you will do well. You will live, you will enjoy 618 00:33:41,960 --> 00:33:43,520 life. Life will be good. 619 00:33:44,880 --> 00:33:47,040 This is why we're not under law, but we're under grace. 620 00:33:47,040 --> 00:33:48,800 It's not a command just to do well. 621 00:33:48,800 --> 00:33:52,360 It's a, it's a, it's an invitation to life. 622 00:33:53,160 --> 00:33:56,280 Come and follow me. Jesus said that's the invitation 623 00:33:56,280 --> 00:33:59,680 to life. So salvation is the work of God. 624 00:33:59,680 --> 00:34:02,000 We read that God does a heart work in US. 625 00:34:03,480 --> 00:34:07,440 And so God has to do something in here in order for us to 626 00:34:07,440 --> 00:34:10,679 receive him as the king and, and know anything about the Kingdom 627 00:34:10,679 --> 00:34:14,280 of God because he's making us fit for his Kingdom. 628 00:34:15,800 --> 00:34:19,000 Salvation is preparing us for for the king and for the 629 00:34:19,000 --> 00:34:21,480 Kingdom. It's showing us who the king is 630 00:34:21,840 --> 00:34:25,360 and it's preparing us for the Kingdom that's coming, making us 631 00:34:25,360 --> 00:34:28,960 a fit for his Kingdom, the welcoming back into perfection. 632 00:34:30,080 --> 00:34:33,239 How does this become my reality? You guys know this. 633 00:34:33,239 --> 00:34:36,000 We've we've given our our life to the Lord. 634 00:34:36,360 --> 00:34:40,320 How do I receive Jesus? Romans 10/9 it says that if I 635 00:34:40,320 --> 00:34:44,320 confess with my mouth that the Lord Jesus and believe in my 636 00:34:44,320 --> 00:34:47,400 heart that God has raised him from the dead, you will be 637 00:34:47,400 --> 00:34:49,000 saved. See how important it is to 638 00:34:49,000 --> 00:34:52,239 declare and believe that Jesus was raised from the dead? 639 00:34:52,719 --> 00:34:55,000 Because if you don't believe that, how Can you believe that 640 00:34:55,000 --> 00:34:57,240 you could be raised from the dead and that you could have 641 00:34:57,240 --> 00:34:59,440 life? If you don't believe that Jesus 642 00:34:59,440 --> 00:35:01,320 was raised from the dead, how do you think that? 643 00:35:01,320 --> 00:35:03,640 You're walking around and alive now, right? 644 00:35:03,640 --> 00:35:06,400 That's the only reason that we are alive because Jesus was 645 00:35:06,400 --> 00:35:08,160 raised from the dead and we are alive in him. 646 00:35:08,840 --> 00:35:12,760 So it's by faith, it's by faith, it's by confession, it's by a 647 00:35:12,760 --> 00:35:15,240 heart position. It's by we do confess it with 648 00:35:15,240 --> 00:35:17,680 our words. Can I say that the the Scripture 649 00:35:17,680 --> 00:35:20,360 says that what, what goes in on the heart comes out of the mouth 650 00:35:20,720 --> 00:35:23,760 when God does a heart work in you and that you receive the 651 00:35:23,760 --> 00:35:25,880 gospel, You know what happens? It comes out of your mouth. 652 00:35:25,920 --> 00:35:28,000 You can't help it comes out of your mouth. 653 00:35:28,320 --> 00:35:31,000 What's coming out of your mouth, guys, what's in your heart? 654 00:35:31,000 --> 00:35:34,160 This is a good, there's a good test for us. 655 00:35:34,560 --> 00:35:38,840 What's going on in here? So we we take a hold of it by 656 00:35:38,840 --> 00:35:42,800 Faith. Justin pointed me to, to what 657 00:35:42,800 --> 00:35:44,520 Billy Graham had to say about Faith. 658 00:35:44,520 --> 00:35:46,080 And I love her. I watched that I was there was 659 00:35:46,080 --> 00:35:48,760 tears in my eyes. He said that, you know, when you 660 00:35:48,760 --> 00:35:51,560 came into this place, you sat on that chair by Faith. 661 00:35:52,360 --> 00:35:55,720 You sat on it by Faith, who here grabbed the chair before they 662 00:35:55,720 --> 00:35:58,800 sat down and had a good look at it, made sure that it was 663 00:35:58,800 --> 00:36:02,040 strong, made sure that none of the screws had fallen out. 664 00:36:02,440 --> 00:36:04,120 None of us did that. I didn't see any of you do it. 665 00:36:04,200 --> 00:36:07,000 Did anyone do it? You sat on that chair just 666 00:36:07,000 --> 00:36:09,280 believing that that chair was going to hold you, right? 667 00:36:11,160 --> 00:36:14,440 I had, there was no question in my mind that as I sat down, that 668 00:36:14,440 --> 00:36:16,920 thing was going to catch me. If it didn't, I'll be like, Oh 669 00:36:16,920 --> 00:36:19,640 my gosh, what just happened? So faith is the same. 670 00:36:19,640 --> 00:36:22,960 Faith in Jesus is the same. It's just trusting that he is 671 00:36:22,960 --> 00:36:26,560 who he says he is and that he will do what he said He will do. 672 00:36:26,880 --> 00:36:29,200 You just, you believe it and you believe it in your heart. 673 00:36:29,200 --> 00:36:31,760 It's like it's a spiritual work, guys. 674 00:36:32,200 --> 00:36:34,880 It's not an intellectual understanding that like if I 675 00:36:34,880 --> 00:36:38,600 just understand enough of what Jesus said and who he is that 676 00:36:38,600 --> 00:36:41,680 then I'll get it and then I'll be able to trust him and follow 677 00:36:41,680 --> 00:36:44,160 him. No, we, we choose in our hearts 678 00:36:44,160 --> 00:36:46,840 to follow him and believe him for what he is, for who he is. 679 00:36:47,400 --> 00:36:50,160 And then from that point we get to live in the fullness of, of 680 00:36:50,160 --> 00:36:52,680 God. And he and he releases his 681 00:36:52,680 --> 00:36:56,160 spirit to us and, and he awakens us and he leads us and he guides 682 00:36:56,160 --> 00:36:58,720 us and he shapes us. We're being shaped into the 683 00:36:58,720 --> 00:37:02,160 image of God, and that's a partnership between man and God. 684 00:37:02,160 --> 00:37:05,920 I need to allow him to shape me. I need to follow him once again. 685 00:37:06,920 --> 00:37:11,400 And so when we've received Jesus as our Lord and Savior, I'm, I'm 686 00:37:11,400 --> 00:37:13,400 going to rap. I'm realizing that I need to 687 00:37:13,400 --> 00:37:15,960 hurry up. So when we receive the Lord as 688 00:37:15,960 --> 00:37:18,680 our Savior, our life looks very different. 689 00:37:19,880 --> 00:37:21,480 Why does our life look different? 690 00:37:22,360 --> 00:37:25,600 Well, because I was dead once and now I'm alive. 691 00:37:25,960 --> 00:37:29,280 There's a big difference between a corpse and someone that's 692 00:37:29,280 --> 00:37:31,680 walking around. If you can't tell the difference 693 00:37:31,680 --> 00:37:35,160 between a corpse and someone that's alive, I don't know what 694 00:37:35,160 --> 00:37:37,600 to say to you. Like go into a morgue and find 695 00:37:37,600 --> 00:37:41,760 some some living people, right? Like there is a huge difference 696 00:37:41,760 --> 00:37:45,480 between someone who is alive in the spirit of God and someone 697 00:37:45,480 --> 00:37:48,680 who is spiritually dead. And if they if if the world 698 00:37:48,680 --> 00:37:51,960 around you can't see it, something's wrong, right? 699 00:37:52,560 --> 00:37:57,360 If no one knows, that's for you to question what's going on in 700 00:37:57,360 --> 00:37:59,520 your heart here? Are you following him? 701 00:37:59,800 --> 00:38:02,680 Is he your king? Are you serving him? 702 00:38:02,960 --> 00:38:06,160 Are you following him? Are you allowing the word of God 703 00:38:06,160 --> 00:38:09,240 to wash over you and cleanse you and make you like him? 704 00:38:10,160 --> 00:38:16,480 Because if there should be some signs, signs of life when this, 705 00:38:16,520 --> 00:38:21,480 when I became alive in the spirit, there's now fruit in my 706 00:38:21,480 --> 00:38:24,800 life. Galatians 5 gives us a list of 707 00:38:24,800 --> 00:38:28,560 some of these spiritual fruits. But the fruit of the spirit is 708 00:38:28,560 --> 00:38:33,800 love, it's joy, it's peace, it's long-suffering, patience, it's 709 00:38:33,800 --> 00:38:39,720 kindness, it's goodness, it's faithfulness, it's gentleness, 710 00:38:39,720 --> 00:38:43,600 it's self-control. But the way that you live should 711 00:38:43,600 --> 00:38:46,400 show that the Spirit of God is a work in you. 712 00:38:46,720 --> 00:38:50,520 Now, I don't walk this out perfectly, don't ask my wife, 713 00:38:50,520 --> 00:38:52,480 but like you, just just trust me. 714 00:38:52,480 --> 00:38:55,360 I don't walk. I'm not always gentle, I'm not 715 00:38:55,360 --> 00:38:58,000 always kind, I'm not always faithful. 716 00:38:59,240 --> 00:39:01,960 And it's not about walking this out perfectly. 717 00:39:02,400 --> 00:39:04,480 It's about our relationship with Him. 718 00:39:04,840 --> 00:39:06,920 It's about turning to Him and following Him. 719 00:39:07,080 --> 00:39:09,840 Sometimes I slip back into my dead self. 720 00:39:10,480 --> 00:39:14,520 How do I get back out of that? I remind myself that I'm alive 721 00:39:14,520 --> 00:39:18,040 in Him, that I was dead and now I've become alive. 722 00:39:18,120 --> 00:39:20,520 I have to take every thought captive. 723 00:39:20,840 --> 00:39:24,880 I have to know what's going on inside me to make sure that I'm 724 00:39:24,880 --> 00:39:27,880 not being LED astray and allowing the thoughts of the 725 00:39:27,880 --> 00:39:31,320 enemy and thoughts from the past keep me dead. 726 00:39:31,760 --> 00:39:34,400 I'm going to put, I'm going to, I'm going to replace all of 727 00:39:34,400 --> 00:39:37,240 those things with the word of God that speaks life and 728 00:39:37,240 --> 00:39:40,360 wholeness and joy and peace. And I'm going to when, when you 729 00:39:40,360 --> 00:39:43,320 do that, when you replace the way that you think and the 730 00:39:43,320 --> 00:39:46,040 direction of your life, those fruits are just there. 731 00:39:46,040 --> 00:39:48,960 They just, they just happen right when I'm thinking about 732 00:39:48,960 --> 00:39:51,320 the Lord, like I said, when I'm looking at the sunset and 733 00:39:51,320 --> 00:39:53,680 thinking about the Lord and saying, you are so good. 734 00:39:53,680 --> 00:39:57,080 Do you know what I feel in here? Peace, joy. 735 00:39:57,080 --> 00:39:59,680 It's the fruit of the spirit, guys. 736 00:39:59,680 --> 00:40:02,240 The Spirit of of God is, is alive in us. 737 00:40:03,840 --> 00:40:07,160 But I have to remind myself regularly, Romans 66, I'm going 738 00:40:07,160 --> 00:40:09,760 to land somewhere around here. Romans 6/6. 739 00:40:10,400 --> 00:40:13,080 This is what Paul says in how we walk this out. 740 00:40:13,080 --> 00:40:16,960 He says. Likewise, you also reckon 741 00:40:16,960 --> 00:40:22,480 yourselves to be dead, indeed to sin, but alive to Christ Jesus 742 00:40:22,480 --> 00:40:26,480 our Lord. There's a that that that means 743 00:40:26,480 --> 00:40:29,360 that I have to do something. What do I have to do? 744 00:40:29,360 --> 00:40:34,560 I have to consider myself dead to sin and alive to him. 745 00:40:34,560 --> 00:40:37,160 There has to be an understanding that I have where I can move 746 00:40:37,160 --> 00:40:41,240 myself from, from dead works and feeling dead and responding in 747 00:40:41,240 --> 00:40:44,360 dead ways to no, I'm alive in him. 748 00:40:45,040 --> 00:40:47,280 He has made me alive. He died for me. 749 00:40:47,280 --> 00:40:49,200 He's risen again. I'm alive in Him. 750 00:40:49,400 --> 00:40:51,240 You pray that out, you speak those words. 751 00:40:51,240 --> 00:40:54,400 As soon as you start to speak words of life over yourself, you 752 00:40:54,400 --> 00:40:57,040 start to feel alive again. And we have to do that. 753 00:40:57,480 --> 00:41:00,800 There's a responsibility on us to make sure that we're stepping 754 00:41:00,800 --> 00:41:04,800 out in faith, taking a hold of His word by faith, you know, 755 00:41:05,080 --> 00:41:08,000 praying those words over ourselves, speaking those words 756 00:41:08,000 --> 00:41:10,520 over each other. Guys, like when someone's heavy 757 00:41:10,520 --> 00:41:12,640 and they come to you and they say and you say, how's your 758 00:41:12,640 --> 00:41:15,400 week? And, and they say pretty bad. 759 00:41:15,400 --> 00:41:17,520 What are you going to do? Are you just going to go, Oh, 760 00:41:17,520 --> 00:41:19,040 that sucks. Oh, today's a better day? 761 00:41:20,800 --> 00:41:23,480 Or are you going to speak words of life and say, wow, man, like, 762 00:41:23,760 --> 00:41:25,520 you know, I'm sorry, I'm sorry to hear that. 763 00:41:25,520 --> 00:41:27,880 I'm sorry that life's been hard this week. 764 00:41:28,200 --> 00:41:30,600 But gosh, I'm so glad that you're alive in him. 765 00:41:31,120 --> 00:41:33,440 Let's pray together. Lord, thank you that you know, 766 00:41:33,440 --> 00:41:36,400 like our old lives are behind us and although we experience 767 00:41:36,400 --> 00:41:39,800 hardship, that you are a God that has an inheritance for us. 768 00:41:40,040 --> 00:41:43,560 You have opened up doors for us to have peace and life and joy 769 00:41:43,840 --> 00:41:46,280 that you've put us in your Kingdom and made us a part of 770 00:41:46,280 --> 00:41:48,880 your plan. These words speak words of life. 771 00:41:49,120 --> 00:41:52,040 Wash with the water. Jesus says that he washes his 772 00:41:52,040 --> 00:41:55,600 bride with the water, right? That's what's happening in those 773 00:41:55,600 --> 00:41:59,360 times you're washing over his bride with with with water and 774 00:41:59,360 --> 00:42:02,240 it's not your word. It's not your water, it's his 775 00:42:02,240 --> 00:42:05,200 word, it's his water, but you could be a mouthpiece with for 776 00:42:05,200 --> 00:42:08,720 the word of God. He could use your vessel and the 777 00:42:08,720 --> 00:42:11,080 Spirit of God could flow in you and through you. 778 00:42:11,480 --> 00:42:15,280 We read we read that scripture this morning about you know all 779 00:42:15,280 --> 00:42:17,160 that are thirsty. Come to me and I'll give you 780 00:42:17,160 --> 00:42:20,040 drink. And Jesus later in the next 781 00:42:20,040 --> 00:42:23,560 verse, he talks about talking about the Spirit of God that you 782 00:42:23,560 --> 00:42:26,840 could drink from me and rivers of water could flow out of you. 783 00:42:27,080 --> 00:42:31,240 That's the Spirit of God. That's like the washing over one 784 00:42:31,240 --> 00:42:32,960 another and the washing over yourself. 785 00:42:32,960 --> 00:42:36,440 Let the Spirit of God wash. And when you speak the words of 786 00:42:36,440 --> 00:42:40,120 life over one another, the Spirit of God in you washes over 787 00:42:40,360 --> 00:42:42,640 the rivers flow out of your heart. 788 00:42:42,920 --> 00:42:45,000 We need to be a church that does that for each other. 789 00:42:45,000 --> 00:42:46,800 Amen. Excellent. 790 00:42:46,800 --> 00:42:52,840 So in landing, what sort of response does the gospel does 791 00:42:52,840 --> 00:42:56,320 this message of the gospel require from us? 792 00:42:57,040 --> 00:43:01,040 What are we going to do now? We're just going to go thank you 793 00:43:01,040 --> 00:43:04,720 Lord, and then just go home. I think we should praise him. 794 00:43:05,480 --> 00:43:08,800 I think we should lift up our voices and and praise the Lord. 795 00:43:08,800 --> 00:43:09,960 I don't know how we're going to do this. 796 00:43:09,960 --> 00:43:12,000 Can we? Bianca's right there. 797 00:43:12,000 --> 00:43:14,160 There we go. Bianca could lead us. 798 00:43:14,920 --> 00:43:16,480 Check it out. She's got the Spirit of God in 799 00:43:16,480 --> 00:43:19,400 her. Awesome, awesome. 800 00:43:19,400 --> 00:43:25,040 I think that a message about the gospel and coming alive and 801 00:43:25,040 --> 00:43:27,880 coming from death to life requires something of us, 802 00:43:28,360 --> 00:43:32,800 Thanksgiving and praise. Let's give the Lord some glory. 803 00:43:32,840 --> 00:43:34,600 Amen. Amen. 804 00:43:34,600 --> 00:43:35,800 So I don't know what she's going to do. 805 00:43:35,800 --> 00:43:37,800 You know what I'm going to hand over to Justin? 806 00:43:37,800 --> 00:43:41,200 Justin's going to pray. So, Father, we thank you for 807 00:43:41,200 --> 00:43:44,200 your gospel in this place. We thank you for the power of 808 00:43:44,200 --> 00:43:47,800 the gospel. This isn't a gospel about making 809 00:43:48,680 --> 00:43:50,960 bad people good. It's a gospel that makes dead 810 00:43:50,960 --> 00:43:53,880 people alive. And we thank you for this 811 00:43:53,880 --> 00:43:56,600 wonderful power that is found in the gospel. 812 00:43:57,200 --> 00:44:01,080 And we praise you in this place because we have been taken from 813 00:44:01,080 --> 00:44:03,960 death to life. We have been ripped out, 814 00:44:03,960 --> 00:44:07,360 snatched out of a Kingdom of darkness and bought into a 815 00:44:07,360 --> 00:44:10,520 Kingdom of light. We thank you for this incredible 816 00:44:10,520 --> 00:44:14,760 power that is found in the gospel, this resurrection power 817 00:44:15,080 --> 00:44:17,840 that takes dead people and makes them alive again. 818 00:44:18,320 --> 00:44:20,080 We've praised you for this power. 819 00:44:20,080 --> 00:44:24,280 We lift our voice and we lift our our words to you, our praise 820 00:44:24,280 --> 00:44:25,760 to you as we kicked off this meeting. 821 00:44:25,760 --> 00:44:29,960 We lift our song to you and offer you praise in this place 822 00:44:30,200 --> 00:44:34,080 for this wonderful, incredible, marvellous power that is found 823 00:44:34,400 --> 00:44:39,160 in the gospel in Jesus name. Thank you for joining us for 824 00:44:39,160 --> 00:44:41,560 today's message. For more information about The 825 00:44:41,560 --> 00:44:45,760 Way Church, please visit ourwebsite@thewaychurch.com dot 826 00:44:45,800 --> 00:44:47,120 AU. Have a blessed day.