1 00:00:01,120 --> 00:00:03,400 Welcome to the Cross Power Church podcast. 2 00:00:03,720 --> 00:00:06,800 You're listening to a service from our church in Campbell, TX. 3 00:00:07,200 --> 00:00:10,480 We pray this message strengthens your faith and points you to the 4 00:00:10,480 --> 00:00:12,840 cross. Now let's join the service. 5 00:00:13,560 --> 00:00:14,960 Have your Bibles this morning, kids. 6 00:00:14,960 --> 00:00:16,239 You can be dismissed to the back. 7 00:00:16,239 --> 00:00:19,520 We got three classes back there. Just get with with someone and 8 00:00:19,520 --> 00:00:21,320 they will lead you in the right direction. 9 00:00:21,320 --> 00:00:24,440 And we're going to try to get through this this morning fast. 10 00:00:24,440 --> 00:00:26,680 I got a lot to cover. Hey, man, let's stay in the 11 00:00:26,680 --> 00:00:33,760 reading of the word titled this message this morning From a 12 00:00:33,760 --> 00:00:38,520 slave to a son. Can I say that again? 13 00:00:39,240 --> 00:00:44,760 From a slave to a son. You know, we listened today and 14 00:00:45,360 --> 00:00:49,400 slavery was a terrible thing, but yet today we're still in 15 00:00:49,400 --> 00:00:52,920 slavery. We're still slaves, many people, 16 00:00:53,800 --> 00:00:59,520 slaves to the world, slaves to career, slaves to relationships. 17 00:00:59,520 --> 00:01:02,640 I want to kind of teach today a little bit and preach to about 18 00:01:02,640 --> 00:01:07,120 how to how to not be a slave, but how how to go from a slave 19 00:01:07,600 --> 00:01:09,600 to a son. You know, there's many in the 20 00:01:09,600 --> 00:01:11,560 people. There's the many people in the 21 00:01:11,560 --> 00:01:15,200 body of Christ are still slaves because they're they're slaves 22 00:01:15,200 --> 00:01:17,240 to their former life. They haven't been born again. 23 00:01:17,240 --> 00:01:19,440 They haven't sold out to the things of the world. 24 00:01:19,440 --> 00:01:22,280 So it it feels like a little bit of bondage, a little bit of 25 00:01:22,280 --> 00:01:24,640 slavery that goes on in our spirit realm. 26 00:01:24,640 --> 00:01:28,840 Will y'all preach with me today? Galatians chapter 3 and verse 26 27 00:01:29,560 --> 00:01:33,400 it says for you are all sons of God through faith in Christ 28 00:01:33,400 --> 00:01:37,480 Jesus. Somebody ought to say man, for 29 00:01:37,480 --> 00:01:42,640 as many of you as were baptized into Christ have put on Christ. 30 00:01:43,560 --> 00:01:46,680 And in verse 28, he says there is neither Jew nor Greek. 31 00:01:48,280 --> 00:01:51,280 I like to throw in Baptist or Pentecostal right there, 32 00:01:52,080 --> 00:01:54,120 Presbyterian, Catholics or Lutherans. 33 00:01:54,120 --> 00:01:56,840 There's neither. We could add that right there. 34 00:01:56,840 --> 00:01:59,920 If you, if there's any place that could be added today that 35 00:01:59,920 --> 00:02:03,440 it was the same thing he was saying, Jew or Greek, there's 36 00:02:03,440 --> 00:02:07,520 neither slave nor free. He goes a little deeper, says 37 00:02:07,520 --> 00:02:10,160 there's neither male nor female. Those of you don't like women 38 00:02:10,160 --> 00:02:14,960 preachers, there's neither male nor female, for we're all one in 39 00:02:14,960 --> 00:02:17,520 Christ, man, If we could just grasp that, if we could just 40 00:02:17,520 --> 00:02:20,680 grasp that we're one in one in Christ, we could come out of so 41 00:02:20,680 --> 00:02:25,840 much slavery and bondage of of relationships, of denominational 42 00:02:25,840 --> 00:02:29,120 things that we're bound to, of things that we have been taught. 43 00:02:29,120 --> 00:02:31,400 That's incorrect. That's not in the word of God. 44 00:02:31,560 --> 00:02:33,640 Or maybe it's there that's been twisted. 45 00:02:33,720 --> 00:02:37,920 We could just come from a slave to a son, he said. 46 00:02:37,920 --> 00:02:42,000 There's neither slave nor free. There's neither male nor female 47 00:02:42,480 --> 00:02:46,360 for you are all one in Christ and if you are Christ, then 48 00:02:46,360 --> 00:02:50,360 you're Abraham's seed boy. That opens up a huge door and 49 00:02:50,360 --> 00:02:52,800 heirs. That means we're going to 50 00:02:52,800 --> 00:02:57,480 inherit something according to the promise over 7000 of them in 51 00:02:57,480 --> 00:03:02,680 this book and in verse four, he says, now I say that the heir, 52 00:03:03,320 --> 00:03:05,920 that's us, right? If we put on Christ. 53 00:03:06,880 --> 00:03:09,200 This really got me when I read this the air. 54 00:03:09,200 --> 00:03:11,880 The one that's going to receive this promise is us. 55 00:03:11,880 --> 00:03:17,200 But as long as he is a child, he does not differ from a slave. 56 00:03:18,320 --> 00:03:21,280 See, there's some things when I'm a child in the Kingdom, when 57 00:03:21,280 --> 00:03:24,760 I'm a child in Christ, I'm still a slave because there's some 58 00:03:24,760 --> 00:03:28,960 things that I have not learned. Well, we'll preach this today 59 00:03:30,360 --> 00:03:33,400 and we refuse to leave them because when we first come to 60 00:03:33,400 --> 00:03:36,880 Christ, we automatically think we know something that that 61 00:03:36,880 --> 00:03:39,440 other people already have learned and known. 62 00:03:39,440 --> 00:03:42,080 But yet he, the apostle Paul said you're a baby. 63 00:03:42,200 --> 00:03:44,040 He said you need the milk of the word. 64 00:03:44,080 --> 00:03:46,960 You can't live on what I chew on every day. 65 00:03:47,880 --> 00:03:51,560 Hello, he says, some of you need some milk, you need a bottle and 66 00:03:51,560 --> 00:03:53,560 I have to stick a pacifier in your mouth. 67 00:03:53,720 --> 00:03:56,000 You're not ready for the things that you're going to have to 68 00:03:56,000 --> 00:04:00,720 chew and digest and grind on a little bit, right? 69 00:04:01,480 --> 00:04:05,120 So he says that a heir, even though you're receiving the 70 00:04:05,120 --> 00:04:07,080 promise many, you're still a child. 71 00:04:07,640 --> 00:04:10,080 And a child does not differ from a slave. 72 00:04:10,800 --> 00:04:15,080 That's powerful, though he is master of all. 73 00:04:15,320 --> 00:04:18,079 That means there's something. We can master all things, but 74 00:04:18,079 --> 00:04:22,560 not if we're still a child. That's why he says he's under 75 00:04:22,560 --> 00:04:28,160 guardians and stewards until the time appointed by the father. 76 00:04:29,240 --> 00:04:32,720 Hello, I've never seen so many Christians that I've been 77 00:04:32,720 --> 00:04:35,880 walking with the Lord since 17 to 55, a long time. 78 00:04:35,880 --> 00:04:37,400 And he's taught me a lot of stuff. 79 00:04:37,400 --> 00:04:39,040 A lot of things I had to learn the hard way. 80 00:04:39,040 --> 00:04:42,080 But it amazes me how new converts automatically know more 81 00:04:42,080 --> 00:04:44,680 than we do today. I'm just going to be honest with 82 00:04:44,680 --> 00:04:47,280 you. They've read the scripture a few 83 00:04:47,280 --> 00:04:48,000 times. They know more. 84 00:04:48,000 --> 00:04:51,040 They're not willing to learn anything, not willing to know 85 00:04:51,040 --> 00:04:54,160 more about their Lord because they think they know everything. 86 00:04:54,880 --> 00:04:59,680 I'm just going to preach it. Verse 3 says, Even so, we, when 87 00:04:59,680 --> 00:05:04,400 we were children were in bondage under the elements of the world. 88 00:05:05,240 --> 00:05:07,160 If you're in bondage, just one of the elements of the world, 89 00:05:07,160 --> 00:05:11,760 you're still a babe in Christ. But when the fullness of time 90 00:05:11,760 --> 00:05:14,600 had come, I heard a great theologian teaching on that the 91 00:05:14,600 --> 00:05:16,400 other day, and he thoroughly confused me. 92 00:05:17,160 --> 00:05:20,640 The fullness of time was when God decided to send forth truth 93 00:05:20,640 --> 00:05:25,280 into the world had come. God sent forth His Son, born of 94 00:05:25,280 --> 00:05:28,800 a woman, born under the law, to redeem those who were under the 95 00:05:28,800 --> 00:05:32,280 law, that we might receive adoption as sons. 96 00:05:32,280 --> 00:05:35,880 Verse 6. And because you are sons of God, 97 00:05:37,440 --> 00:05:40,840 God has sent forth the spirit of his Son into your hearts. 98 00:05:40,840 --> 00:05:46,600 Aren't you glad crying out, ABBA Father, ABBA, Father, therefore 99 00:05:46,600 --> 00:05:52,560 you are no longer a slave, but a son, and if a son, then an heir 100 00:05:52,560 --> 00:05:55,840 of God through Christ Jesus. What a promise. 101 00:05:55,840 --> 00:05:57,520 Father, we thank you for your word today. 102 00:05:57,840 --> 00:06:00,320 We think it's truth in life. We pray that your word would 103 00:06:00,320 --> 00:06:03,680 change us today, that it would fall upon good ground, Father, 104 00:06:03,680 --> 00:06:06,720 that you just embedded in our hearts and our minds that we're 105 00:06:06,720 --> 00:06:09,960 no longer slaves to this world. We're no longer slaves to 106 00:06:09,960 --> 00:06:13,360 religion, but we are. We are sons and heirs and join 107 00:06:13,360 --> 00:06:16,240 heirs through Christ Jesus. This morning I pray for the 108 00:06:16,240 --> 00:06:18,120 anointing to preach the gospel once again. 109 00:06:18,120 --> 00:06:19,960 It's in your son's name we do this. 110 00:06:20,520 --> 00:06:25,560 Amen. He said he sent forth his son 111 00:06:26,080 --> 00:06:30,240 and we can cry out. ABBA Father, I was on a 112 00:06:30,240 --> 00:06:32,920 conversation several years ago with a guy and he said, you 113 00:06:32,920 --> 00:06:36,120 know, my boys are 30 now and he'd give them a lot of stuff in 114 00:06:36,120 --> 00:06:39,240 the rodeo business and trucks and trailers and horses. 115 00:06:39,240 --> 00:06:41,840 And he asked me, he said, your kids are still little. 116 00:06:41,840 --> 00:06:45,640 But he said, when do we come to the point that that we're 117 00:06:45,640 --> 00:06:48,160 father? He said, I want to be father for 118 00:06:48,160 --> 00:06:51,880 a little while because every time I hear daddy, I know it 119 00:06:51,880 --> 00:06:53,600 means it's going to cost me a lot. 120 00:06:54,760 --> 00:07:00,040 Daddy, you have those that call that say, hey, what are you 121 00:07:00,040 --> 00:07:02,480 doing? Yeah, I just, I know it's a what 122 00:07:02,480 --> 00:07:08,000 in the voice I need. Sometimes it's the only time 123 00:07:08,000 --> 00:07:12,280 they call, right? Hey, what are you doing? 124 00:07:12,280 --> 00:07:14,440 My daughter-in-law does that. She admitted it the other day, 125 00:07:15,160 --> 00:07:22,760 Hey, when I say hey, that's what this is talking about here, he 126 00:07:22,760 --> 00:07:25,280 says that we're now sons so we can say ABBA. 127 00:07:25,280 --> 00:07:28,320 ABBA is the closest form of saying daddy. 128 00:07:28,960 --> 00:07:31,480 It moves us from father to it means father in the Hebrew, 129 00:07:31,480 --> 00:07:35,640 Greek, but it's a closeness. It's a, it's daddy father. 130 00:07:36,120 --> 00:07:39,120 See, we're an heir, one who inherits something or who is 131 00:07:39,120 --> 00:07:41,000 entitled to a future inheritance. 132 00:07:41,000 --> 00:07:44,960 That's us through Christ Jesus. If we, if we have claimed him as 133 00:07:44,960 --> 00:07:48,120 our Lord and savior, we are now an heir and a joint heir with 134 00:07:48,120 --> 00:07:52,000 Christ Jesus. We have a lot of promise, but 135 00:07:52,000 --> 00:07:54,000 we're no longer a slave, but a son. 136 00:07:54,160 --> 00:07:56,040 And if you're a son, then an heir of God. 137 00:07:56,040 --> 00:07:59,080 But see a slave, when we look at what a slave was and where 138 00:07:59,080 --> 00:08:02,360 slavery started in Egypt, it was slave labor. 139 00:08:02,360 --> 00:08:06,160 It was hard, hard work. Out of Egypt, the law begin to 140 00:08:06,160 --> 00:08:10,760 attach right to the children of Israel, and the law was a task 141 00:08:10,880 --> 00:08:14,760 master and we couldn't keep it. Many couldn't keep it. 142 00:08:15,160 --> 00:08:19,920 It was harsh punishment even to death when certain laws were 143 00:08:19,920 --> 00:08:21,600 broken. If you don't have anything to 144 00:08:21,600 --> 00:08:24,360 thank the Lord about today, thinking that we're not under 145 00:08:24,360 --> 00:08:26,560 the law, but we're under grace, Amen. 146 00:08:26,680 --> 00:08:29,800 It couldn't be kept, but he came to redeem those. 147 00:08:29,800 --> 00:08:33,559 Verse 5 says that was under the law that we might inherit 148 00:08:33,559 --> 00:08:37,880 something God sent forth his son that we can cry ABA Father in 149 00:08:37,880 --> 00:08:40,919 our time of need, but see in this world today. 150 00:08:40,919 --> 00:08:44,360 And yes, within the body of Christ there's mass confusion 151 00:08:45,240 --> 00:08:48,800 because many say that when Christ came, the law was null 152 00:08:48,800 --> 00:08:52,440 and void. But under the law there were 600 153 00:08:52,440 --> 00:08:56,440 and some odd commandments and there was 10 directly to those 154 00:08:56,440 --> 00:08:58,960 that believe in God and we couldn't keep them. 155 00:08:59,720 --> 00:09:04,320 Hello, we couldn't keep them. But here's what Jesus said about 156 00:09:04,320 --> 00:09:06,320 the law. Let's go to Matthew chapter 5. 157 00:09:06,320 --> 00:09:08,760 I think a lot of people, I hear this all the time. 158 00:09:08,760 --> 00:09:10,320 Well, I don't have to live this way. 159 00:09:10,320 --> 00:09:12,680 I don't have to do this because we're not under the law, we're 160 00:09:12,680 --> 00:09:14,320 under grace. Anybody ever heard that? 161 00:09:15,160 --> 00:09:17,520 That's not what Jesus said we are. 162 00:09:17,520 --> 00:09:20,320 That is a true statement, but that is a prime example of the 163 00:09:20,320 --> 00:09:23,400 word of God being twisted. We are not under the law. 164 00:09:23,440 --> 00:09:26,920 We are under the dispensation of grace on planet earth because 165 00:09:26,960 --> 00:09:30,640 Jesus Christ came and he was the ultimate blood sacrifice, right? 166 00:09:30,880 --> 00:09:34,760 But that does not annul us from the law because Apostle Paul 167 00:09:34,760 --> 00:09:37,480 said had it not been for the law, I wouldn't know how to 168 00:09:37,480 --> 00:09:38,520 live. Amen. 169 00:09:38,760 --> 00:09:42,080 And we'll see what Jesus said about it in in Matthew chapter 170 00:09:42,240 --> 00:09:44,120 5. He said, And because you are 171 00:09:44,120 --> 00:09:49,560 sons, because we are sons, God has sent forth his spirit of his 172 00:09:49,560 --> 00:09:54,760 Son into your hearts. Crying ABBA Father. 173 00:09:54,760 --> 00:10:00,600 We cry ABBA father in Matthew 5 here and in verse 17, it says, 174 00:10:00,600 --> 00:10:06,280 do not think that I came to destroy the law or the prophets. 175 00:10:07,040 --> 00:10:11,600 I did not come to destroy, but to fulfill. 176 00:10:11,680 --> 00:10:16,040 That's a powerful statement of the six hundreds of Jesus said I 177 00:10:16,040 --> 00:10:20,400 came that you can do it. For surely, I say to you, till 178 00:10:20,400 --> 00:10:24,400 heaven and earth pass away. He was very serious about this. 179 00:10:24,400 --> 00:10:28,520 Not one jot or title will by no means pass from the law till 180 00:10:28,520 --> 00:10:32,040 it's fulfilled. Whoever, therefore breaks one of 181 00:10:32,040 --> 00:10:36,440 the least of these commandments, and teaches men to do so, shall 182 00:10:36,440 --> 00:10:38,360 be called the least in the Kingdom of heaven. 183 00:10:38,360 --> 00:10:41,800 But whoever does and teaches them shall be called great in 184 00:10:41,800 --> 00:10:45,000 the Kingdom of heaven. For I say unto you that unless 185 00:10:45,000 --> 00:10:48,680 your righteousness exceeds the righteousness of the scribes and 186 00:10:48,680 --> 00:10:53,160 the Pharisees, you will by no means enter the Kingdom of 187 00:10:53,160 --> 00:10:55,360 heaven. Jesus was pretty serious about 188 00:10:55,360 --> 00:10:58,200 the law. He said, I did not come to annul 189 00:10:58,200 --> 00:11:01,600 the law, but see under the law all these things were to be 190 00:11:01,600 --> 00:11:03,240 kept. You could be put to death. 191 00:11:03,240 --> 00:11:05,480 But he said I didn't come to abolish or destroy it. 192 00:11:05,640 --> 00:11:10,360 I came to fulfill the law so that not one jot or title could 193 00:11:10,360 --> 00:11:14,080 be taken out, but see to full to fulfill and obey the 194 00:11:14,080 --> 00:11:16,240 commandments of God. Anybody having trouble obeying 195 00:11:16,240 --> 00:11:18,520 the commandments of God? I'm going to teach you today a 196 00:11:18,520 --> 00:11:22,600 way to do it as a slave to Egypt, as a slave to the law. 197 00:11:22,760 --> 00:11:25,920 And now the children is were walking around in the desert for 198 00:11:25,920 --> 00:11:29,360 40 years, right? Because they were slaves 3 times 199 00:11:29,360 --> 00:11:31,240 over. They were a slave to Egypt 200 00:11:31,240 --> 00:11:34,400 because their mind kept going back to Egypt where their belly 201 00:11:34,400 --> 00:11:37,120 was fed, they had to work, but all needs were met. 202 00:11:37,120 --> 00:11:39,240 Kind of like the modern day American. 203 00:11:39,280 --> 00:11:41,560 Amen. We tend to not worry about the 204 00:11:41,560 --> 00:11:44,640 things of God until we see a shutdown or till we see 205 00:11:44,640 --> 00:11:47,960 something that cost us a little bit and then all of a sudden we 206 00:11:47,960 --> 00:11:50,680 get worried about it, right? We get to praying about it. 207 00:11:50,680 --> 00:11:53,600 We get to seeking God because we're a slave to Egypt. 208 00:11:54,240 --> 00:11:56,760 The children of Israel wandering around the desert, knowing God 209 00:11:56,760 --> 00:12:00,440 had a promise, knowing God had a destination that they were to 210 00:12:00,440 --> 00:12:03,600 arrive at, but yet they even said it many times. 211 00:12:03,600 --> 00:12:06,800 We wish we could have just stayed in Egypt even though we 212 00:12:06,800 --> 00:12:09,360 were under heavy bondage. Hello. 213 00:12:09,720 --> 00:12:12,240 I've heard Christians say that. Well, I'm just going to go back 214 00:12:12,240 --> 00:12:14,920 over here and go to doing the things I used to do with the 215 00:12:14,920 --> 00:12:18,160 world because it was a lot easier than trying to get those 216 00:12:18,160 --> 00:12:20,920 things off of me. It was a lot easier than than 217 00:12:20,920 --> 00:12:24,000 hoping that God would drop down out of heaven and do something 218 00:12:24,000 --> 00:12:26,440 for me. It was easier for a lot of 219 00:12:26,440 --> 00:12:29,720 people, and they've never tasted the goodness of God, so they 220 00:12:29,720 --> 00:12:32,800 don't know how to step into the realm of those things because 221 00:12:32,800 --> 00:12:37,760 they're a slave to Egypt. And then we become a slave to 222 00:12:37,760 --> 00:12:39,760 the law. The things that the Bible says 223 00:12:39,760 --> 00:12:42,640 we're supposed to do, like the Apostle Paul, and the things we 224 00:12:42,640 --> 00:12:45,880 want to do, we do not, right? We find ourselves doing those 225 00:12:45,880 --> 00:12:49,400 things. But see, there was one way to 226 00:12:49,400 --> 00:12:52,240 get to God, and it was to talk to God. 227 00:12:53,240 --> 00:12:56,800 The only way was a sacrifice of a blood sacrifice, and it had to 228 00:12:56,800 --> 00:13:01,440 be made for an atonement of sin. It had to be laid on the altar. 229 00:13:01,440 --> 00:13:04,560 We couldn't just walk in here this morning and worship God 230 00:13:04,680 --> 00:13:06,320 under the law. There were some things. 231 00:13:06,320 --> 00:13:09,800 Go to Hebrews Chapter 9 and you can go home and read about this. 232 00:13:09,800 --> 00:13:12,720 I'm going to read a little bit one through 15 just to tell you 233 00:13:12,720 --> 00:13:15,760 how thankful you ought to be today for grace. 234 00:13:16,640 --> 00:13:20,160 It says Then indeed even the first covenant had ordinance of 235 00:13:20,160 --> 00:13:24,920 divine service and the earthly sanctuary for the Tabernacle was 236 00:13:24,920 --> 00:13:27,840 prepared. The first part in which was the 237 00:13:27,840 --> 00:13:32,880 lampstand, the table, and the showbread, which is called the 238 00:13:32,880 --> 00:13:37,200 sanctuary, and behind the second veil as part of the Tabernacle. 239 00:13:37,200 --> 00:13:43,000 And Hebrews 9, which is called the holiest of all, which had 240 00:13:43,000 --> 00:13:46,560 the golden censor, the Ark of the Covenant overlaid on the 241 00:13:46,560 --> 00:13:48,720 sides with gold. The ark represented what the 242 00:13:48,720 --> 00:13:52,760 presence of God also in the Ark of the Covenant was what it was 243 00:13:52,760 --> 00:13:55,960 Aaron's staff, and it was also the tablets of the 10 244 00:13:55,960 --> 00:13:58,160 commandments. It wasn't just a blessing thing. 245 00:13:58,280 --> 00:14:00,240 It would kill you if you handled it wrong. 246 00:14:02,600 --> 00:14:05,480 And which were the golden pot that had manna Aaron's rod 247 00:14:05,480 --> 00:14:08,600 butted in the tablets of the covenant, and above it were the 248 00:14:08,600 --> 00:14:13,200 cherubims of glory over showing the mercy seat of these things, 249 00:14:13,640 --> 00:14:15,920 which we cannot now speak in detail. 250 00:14:16,360 --> 00:14:19,440 But he says now when these things had been thus prepared, 251 00:14:19,440 --> 00:14:22,520 the priest always went into the first part of the Tabernacle, 252 00:14:22,720 --> 00:14:26,560 performing the services only the priest, but into the second 253 00:14:26,560 --> 00:14:31,640 part, the high priest went alone once a year, not without blood, 254 00:14:32,240 --> 00:14:35,920 which he offered for himself and for the people's sins committed 255 00:14:35,920 --> 00:14:38,280 in ignorance. The Holy Spirit indicating this, 256 00:14:38,280 --> 00:14:43,000 that the way into the holiest of all was not yet made manifest. 257 00:14:43,000 --> 00:14:46,800 While the first Tabernacle was still standing, the priest would 258 00:14:46,800 --> 00:14:49,680 go in to speak with God, and they'd tie a rope around their 259 00:14:49,680 --> 00:14:52,160 foot. And if they weren't found holy 260 00:14:52,160 --> 00:14:54,040 and living right, they would drop dead. 261 00:14:54,040 --> 00:14:56,640 And they had the rope around their foot where they could drag 262 00:14:56,640 --> 00:14:59,160 them out. And and all these things go home 263 00:14:59,160 --> 00:15:02,120 and read about it was symbolic for the present time in which 264 00:15:02,240 --> 00:15:05,680 both gifts and sacrifices were offered, which cannot make him 265 00:15:05,680 --> 00:15:09,640 perform the service perfect in regard to consciousness 266 00:15:09,880 --> 00:15:13,200 concerned only with foods and drinks and various washings and 267 00:15:13,200 --> 00:15:19,600 fleshly ordinances impose impose until the time of reformation. 268 00:15:19,600 --> 00:15:23,200 Let's stay with me in verse 11. I love this right here it says 269 00:15:23,200 --> 00:15:26,120 but Christ came, but Christ came. 270 00:15:27,160 --> 00:15:31,320 Now you can talk to Him anytime. Christ came as a high priest of 271 00:15:31,320 --> 00:15:34,520 good things to come with the greater, more perfect 272 00:15:34,520 --> 00:15:38,640 Tabernacle, not made with hands, that is not of this creation, 273 00:15:39,160 --> 00:15:42,360 not with the blood of goats or cares, but with His own blood. 274 00:15:42,520 --> 00:15:46,040 He entered the most Holy place. Say it with me once and for all, 275 00:15:46,040 --> 00:15:49,160 having it tame eternal redemption. 276 00:15:49,920 --> 00:15:53,840 For if the blood of bulls and goats and the ashes of a heifer 277 00:15:53,840 --> 00:15:57,720 sprinkling the unclean sanctifies for the impurity of 278 00:15:57,720 --> 00:16:01,880 the flesh, how much more shall the blood of Christ, who through 279 00:16:01,880 --> 00:16:06,000 eternal spirit offered himself without spot to God, cleanse 280 00:16:06,000 --> 00:16:10,160 your conscience from dead works to serve a living God? 281 00:16:10,160 --> 00:16:13,240 A lot of Christians need to be reminded your works are not 282 00:16:13,240 --> 00:16:16,040 dead, they're alive in Christ Jesus. 283 00:16:16,520 --> 00:16:20,080 And for this reason he is the mediator of the new covenant by 284 00:16:20,080 --> 00:16:23,440 means of death for the redemption of the transgression 285 00:16:23,440 --> 00:16:27,360 under the first covenant that those who are called may receive 286 00:16:27,360 --> 00:16:31,480 the promise of an eternal inheritance. 287 00:16:31,760 --> 00:16:36,120 See, the first covenant was slavery, could not do it. 288 00:16:36,720 --> 00:16:38,960 But the second covenant was freedom. 289 00:16:39,240 --> 00:16:42,480 I'm so thankful for that today. But see that the difference in 290 00:16:42,480 --> 00:16:44,880 the two. See, people would offer these 291 00:16:44,880 --> 00:16:47,640 things, but yet there was not much change. 292 00:16:47,640 --> 00:16:49,720 They would go out, they would break the commandments, they 293 00:16:49,720 --> 00:16:52,560 would come in, offer, do these things. 294 00:16:53,480 --> 00:16:56,240 But I want you to write this down if you're taking notes 295 00:16:56,240 --> 00:16:59,120 today. Deliverance gets you out of 296 00:16:59,120 --> 00:17:04,760 Egypt, but discipleship gets the Egypt out of you. 297 00:17:06,000 --> 00:17:09,040 See, deliverance will only get you out of the place. 298 00:17:09,040 --> 00:17:12,560 I'm not there anymore, but yet many people come out of that 299 00:17:12,560 --> 00:17:16,599 place, but there's still a slave to it because the mind has not 300 00:17:16,599 --> 00:17:19,720 been yet been renewed. The apostle Paul says I have to 301 00:17:19,720 --> 00:17:22,839 renew the mind daily. I have to take every thought 302 00:17:22,839 --> 00:17:25,880 that comes into this brain. Go try that tomorrow instead of 303 00:17:25,880 --> 00:17:28,000 worrying about all the other mess that you got to do. 304 00:17:28,119 --> 00:17:31,920 Take every thought captive and bring it under the authority and 305 00:17:31,920 --> 00:17:34,040 the submission of the Word of God. 306 00:17:35,920 --> 00:17:40,240 And then he says be ready to punish the disobedience. 307 00:17:41,400 --> 00:17:46,240 Be ready to punish. I was only I was going to a job 308 00:17:46,240 --> 00:17:48,760 one time of the contract and I needed it very badly. 309 00:17:49,440 --> 00:17:52,080 And the man I was talking to on the phone, every word, he was 310 00:17:52,080 --> 00:17:56,440 cussing God, every word. I had equipment on the trailer. 311 00:17:56,440 --> 00:17:57,920 I didn't know how I was going to pay for it. 312 00:17:57,920 --> 00:18:00,000 I was, I've been out of work for a while. 313 00:18:00,280 --> 00:18:03,040 All I know is I heard the voice of God that says, do not be 314 00:18:03,040 --> 00:18:04,880 unequally yoked with this person. 315 00:18:05,680 --> 00:18:08,240 They're cussing me and you think they're going to bless you. 316 00:18:08,880 --> 00:18:11,960 They're cussing me and you think they're going to pay you. 317 00:18:13,000 --> 00:18:14,680 And I called, I said, I can't work here. 318 00:18:14,680 --> 00:18:16,680 I said we're, we're unequally yoked. 319 00:18:17,600 --> 00:18:20,040 Go chew on that. Maybe it changed his life. 320 00:18:20,880 --> 00:18:23,840 I've heard that voice and I've obeyed that voice. 321 00:18:24,520 --> 00:18:27,760 I've also heard that voice. I said, but I need it. 322 00:18:28,040 --> 00:18:32,320 I'm going owe me $20,000 later, never getting paid. 323 00:18:32,480 --> 00:18:34,440 I learned to listen to that voice more. 324 00:18:34,640 --> 00:18:38,520 Hey man, we tend to not do that. We have to take the thoughts 325 00:18:38,520 --> 00:18:40,320 captive. We had to bring them because 326 00:18:40,320 --> 00:18:44,960 see, deliverance get you out of Egypt, but discipleship will get 327 00:18:44,960 --> 00:18:47,720 the Egypt out of you. The children of Israel, they 328 00:18:47,720 --> 00:18:51,480 were always wanting to go back. I see a Christian testimonies 329 00:18:51,480 --> 00:18:55,800 today and sometimes they act as if they miss that life. 330 00:18:56,440 --> 00:18:59,120 They act as if they want to go back to that. 331 00:18:59,120 --> 00:19:03,440 They act as if that life is is robbing of something and God is 332 00:19:03,440 --> 00:19:06,080 not replacing it. That's because they've only been 333 00:19:06,240 --> 00:19:08,560 delivered. They hadn't been discipled to 334 00:19:08,560 --> 00:19:11,720 get the Egypt out of us. A man the day and age that we 335 00:19:11,720 --> 00:19:14,320 live in, we got to get the Egypt out of us. 336 00:19:15,600 --> 00:19:17,960 The children of Israel always wanted to go back. 337 00:19:18,040 --> 00:19:20,760 We'd rather died over there where we had our needs met. 338 00:19:20,960 --> 00:19:23,160 Christians are like that too. As long as our needs met with 339 00:19:23,160 --> 00:19:24,720 this happy little smiley Christian. 340 00:19:24,840 --> 00:19:27,200 But you let the bank account get a little bit low, you let 341 00:19:27,200 --> 00:19:29,880 something go wrong, somebody offend us and we're no longer 342 00:19:29,880 --> 00:19:35,240 the smiley little Christian that will keep you from going 343 00:19:35,240 --> 00:19:38,480 forward. Can I say that again that will 344 00:19:38,480 --> 00:19:40,640 keep you from not not a lot of people's interested in going 345 00:19:40,640 --> 00:19:45,640 forward in the spirit realm. They only come to God so he can 346 00:19:45,640 --> 00:19:49,280 bless them in the flesh. Hello, Why? 347 00:19:49,360 --> 00:19:50,840 Because they still got Egypt in them. 348 00:19:51,080 --> 00:19:52,520 They hadn't been delivered from Egypt. 349 00:19:52,520 --> 00:19:55,360 I won't delivered from Egypt. It's so true today. 350 00:19:55,360 --> 00:19:59,040 To go forward as a child of God, you have to be delivered 351 00:19:59,600 --> 00:20:01,200 deliverance get you out of Egypt. 352 00:20:01,200 --> 00:20:06,600 I like that don't you? But discipleship, being Christ 353 00:20:06,600 --> 00:20:10,480 like get you out. Gets the Egypt out of you. 354 00:20:10,480 --> 00:20:14,560 Discipleship leads to sonship. Sonship leads to airship. 355 00:20:15,160 --> 00:20:16,800 I was working hard one day had a you. 356 00:20:16,800 --> 00:20:18,840 You want a job? You want to challenge your flesh 357 00:20:18,840 --> 00:20:21,360 today? Go work a couple 1314 year olds 358 00:20:21,360 --> 00:20:23,800 that people in the churches sent you and they want you to work 359 00:20:23,800 --> 00:20:29,400 their little baby. I don't do that no more because 360 00:20:29,400 --> 00:20:30,760 me and that parent don't think alike. 361 00:20:30,760 --> 00:20:34,360 A lot of times when I was growing up, you got paid, you 362 00:20:34,360 --> 00:20:37,840 did the work or else a boot would come your way. 363 00:20:39,280 --> 00:20:41,080 Nowadays you can't even say get to work. 364 00:20:41,080 --> 00:20:42,920 You're pushing them. Amen. 365 00:20:44,760 --> 00:20:47,200 But I was working someone day. We man. 366 00:20:47,200 --> 00:20:49,320 Well, they did good that day. They don't even go here. 367 00:20:49,320 --> 00:20:51,240 No more time has passed. They're grown. 368 00:20:51,240 --> 00:20:54,720 But we're sitting on there and it was hot and we'd done a day's 369 00:20:54,720 --> 00:20:57,280 work, but I'd worked in about 12 hours of Chase knows I used to 370 00:20:57,280 --> 00:21:01,000 not feed them real good. His mother would always call me 371 00:21:01,000 --> 00:21:04,680 when he was much smaller. Did you feed that baby? 372 00:21:04,680 --> 00:21:06,240 I said baby's OK. Look at it. 373 00:21:06,240 --> 00:21:09,520 He's bigger than me. But when I was young, I didn't 374 00:21:09,520 --> 00:21:12,520 like to eat lunch. And he would find something 375 00:21:12,520 --> 00:21:13,920 somewhere. We would eat something. 376 00:21:14,600 --> 00:21:19,000 But I'm sitting there with these 1314 year olds and we were 377 00:21:19,000 --> 00:21:20,880 sitting there. I said, look at that. 378 00:21:20,880 --> 00:21:22,120 What we just did. We built that. 379 00:21:22,120 --> 00:21:23,480 We did. I was proud of what we did. 380 00:21:23,480 --> 00:21:25,680 They did good, you know, And they're sitting there and it's 381 00:21:25,680 --> 00:21:27,440 hot. And I said, man, don't it feel 382 00:21:27,440 --> 00:21:30,040 good to get out of the house and get something done. 383 00:21:30,040 --> 00:21:32,320 And I said, don't it help your manhood a little bit? 384 00:21:32,320 --> 00:21:34,240 One of them said, no, not really. 385 00:21:34,240 --> 00:21:37,960 It just makes me tired. I said it don't feel different 386 00:21:37,960 --> 00:21:40,600 to accomplish something today that you've never done. 387 00:21:40,760 --> 00:21:43,680 Don't it, boy, I'm trying to line up, you know, pretty soon 388 00:21:43,680 --> 00:21:46,520 you just say I ain't sure I can help them. 389 00:21:47,080 --> 00:21:51,200 There's no motivation. It's no different in the body of 390 00:21:51,200 --> 00:21:54,120 Christ. Some people can sit back at the 391 00:21:54,120 --> 00:21:56,320 end of the day and know that they've done nothing for Christ 392 00:21:56,320 --> 00:22:03,400 and it not really bother, not really matter, but it matters to 393 00:22:03,400 --> 00:22:06,760 God. In Ephesians 4 and 11 and 13, he 394 00:22:06,760 --> 00:22:10,640 says until we all come to the unity of the faith and the 395 00:22:10,640 --> 00:22:13,920 knowledge of the Son of God to a perfect man. 396 00:22:14,760 --> 00:22:16,880 I don't think the apostle Paul would put that in there if we 397 00:22:16,880 --> 00:22:22,200 couldn't be that to the measure of the stature of the fullness 398 00:22:22,640 --> 00:22:25,920 of Christ. But see, the problem is passing, 399 00:22:26,120 --> 00:22:30,200 passing from sonship, from slavery to sonship. 400 00:22:30,720 --> 00:22:35,120 Hebrews says that there's a great verse in Hebrews that says 401 00:22:35,120 --> 00:22:37,400 that we can approach how many know where that is? 402 00:22:38,680 --> 00:22:40,920 That we can approach the throne of grace. 403 00:22:43,080 --> 00:22:46,080 Thank God because of Jesus, there's now a throne of grace 404 00:22:46,880 --> 00:22:52,920 and he says that we can approach it with boldness in our time of 405 00:22:52,920 --> 00:22:55,560 need. I've noticed there's two ways 406 00:22:55,560 --> 00:22:59,040 that many approach the throne of grace with boldness. 407 00:22:59,800 --> 00:23:02,720 We approach it many with many ways. 408 00:23:02,880 --> 00:23:05,480 It's approached many times. And I think if we could get 409 00:23:05,480 --> 00:23:11,000 this, if we could get that, we're not a slave anymore, but 410 00:23:11,240 --> 00:23:14,920 we're a son of God. But see, the first way is to 411 00:23:14,920 --> 00:23:18,400 approach the throne of grace. If you're in slavery, you can't 412 00:23:18,400 --> 00:23:20,520 approach it with boldness, right? 413 00:23:21,040 --> 00:23:23,400 If you're living in the world, if you're living in things that 414 00:23:23,520 --> 00:23:27,880 the Holy Spirit has tugged at your heart about stopping doing 415 00:23:27,880 --> 00:23:31,960 in your life, whatever it is, you know, we brush it off. 416 00:23:31,960 --> 00:23:34,320 We're not that important. Like I said, we're like the boys 417 00:23:34,320 --> 00:23:36,480 on the tailgate. We just long as it didn't cost 418 00:23:36,480 --> 00:23:38,240 us nothing that day, didn't have to make us tired. 419 00:23:38,240 --> 00:23:40,200 We didn't have to get out of bed, We didn't have to sweat. 420 00:23:40,320 --> 00:23:42,040 We didn't have to show up for work that day. 421 00:23:42,040 --> 00:23:44,320 Spiritually, it's OK with a lot of people. 422 00:23:45,160 --> 00:23:47,200 But see, all the time we're doing that, the enemy's tearing 423 00:23:47,200 --> 00:23:50,640 us apart. Because when we, when we fall 424 00:23:50,640 --> 00:23:54,160 short of the glory of God, when we just walk away from God, when 425 00:23:54,160 --> 00:23:57,400 we miss church on a regular basis, when we don't pray on a 426 00:23:57,400 --> 00:24:00,240 regular basis, when we don't read the word of God on a 427 00:24:00,240 --> 00:24:02,880 regular basis. You can't approach the throne of 428 00:24:02,880 --> 00:24:06,200 grace with boldness because it's in your mind, right, that I 429 00:24:06,200 --> 00:24:08,800 haven't spent time with God. Why would God do anything for 430 00:24:08,800 --> 00:24:10,120 me? I hadn't even been living for 431 00:24:10,120 --> 00:24:11,520 him. I hadn't been doing these 432 00:24:11,520 --> 00:24:14,280 things. So we're approaching this throne 433 00:24:14,440 --> 00:24:19,520 at this time as a beggar. I don't like approaching the 434 00:24:19,520 --> 00:24:22,560 throne as a beggar. It has helped me get over a lot 435 00:24:22,560 --> 00:24:25,080 of things in my life because I don't like to have to come and 436 00:24:25,080 --> 00:24:27,520 beg. God forgive me, I'm not worthy. 437 00:24:28,000 --> 00:24:30,720 But see, the Bible says that's a slave. 438 00:24:31,480 --> 00:24:34,640 But when I'm a son, it says that I can approach the throne of 439 00:24:34,640 --> 00:24:39,000 grace with boldness. God will meet you as a beggar, 440 00:24:40,040 --> 00:24:43,520 but he will also allow you to leave that place of begging and 441 00:24:43,520 --> 00:24:45,360 get up as a millionaire. Amen. 442 00:24:45,440 --> 00:24:47,760 He'll allow you to leave that place that you're just an old 443 00:24:47,760 --> 00:24:50,680 beggar begging for. Always forgiveness to get up to 444 00:24:50,680 --> 00:24:54,200 a place that says, I'm redeemed by the grace of God today. 445 00:24:54,200 --> 00:24:57,160 I'm going to walk in his, in his commandments, and I'm going to 446 00:24:57,160 --> 00:24:59,520 live for God. And at the end of the day, I'm 447 00:24:59,520 --> 00:25:02,200 going to sit on the tailgate and I'm going to look at something 448 00:25:02,320 --> 00:25:05,640 that I've done spiritually for God and say, and God is building 449 00:25:05,640 --> 00:25:08,320 something within me that the enemy cannot tear down. 450 00:25:09,600 --> 00:25:12,880 I'm not condemned as I preached a few weeks ago, because I'm now 451 00:25:13,120 --> 00:25:15,520 in Christ Jesus. I'm not a slave. 452 00:25:15,520 --> 00:25:18,320 Amen to the world because I've become a disciple. 453 00:25:19,320 --> 00:25:23,280 And you can't become a disciple of Christ, which is Christ like. 454 00:25:23,600 --> 00:25:28,320 And a Christian is what Christ like without coming out from 455 00:25:28,320 --> 00:25:33,360 under the slavery. I'm not a slave, but I'm a son. 456 00:25:33,640 --> 00:25:36,840 If I'm a son, I'm an heir. That makes me a candidate. 457 00:25:36,840 --> 00:25:39,360 To do what? To receive the promise. 458 00:25:39,920 --> 00:25:45,680 So today what happens is the grace and the law. 459 00:25:45,720 --> 00:25:51,040 Grace is what unmerited favor. It is God withholding that from 460 00:25:51,040 --> 00:25:54,400 you and I, which we deserve. That is grace. 461 00:25:54,880 --> 00:25:58,760 I'm forgiven if I repent. That is so true. 462 00:25:59,320 --> 00:26:01,200 But what happens if I keep on doing it? 463 00:26:02,240 --> 00:26:05,160 Does grace cover it? You know, who knows the answer 464 00:26:05,160 --> 00:26:06,800 to that? You and I don't. 465 00:26:07,320 --> 00:26:10,520 He said he's faithful and just to forgive us of all of our sins 466 00:26:10,760 --> 00:26:13,520 if we repent. When Jesus said repent, when the 467 00:26:13,520 --> 00:26:16,560 apostle Paul said repent, it meant to turn and go the other 468 00:26:16,560 --> 00:26:18,280 way. It didn't say to come back 469 00:26:18,280 --> 00:26:22,880 tomorrow, right? So the forgiveness that I have, 470 00:26:23,360 --> 00:26:26,400 I have to accept it. I have to believe it. 471 00:26:26,400 --> 00:26:30,000 So grace is unmerited favor. But if I keep doing it over and 472 00:26:30,000 --> 00:26:34,160 over again, I'm not judging you. You ask God the question is that 473 00:26:34,160 --> 00:26:38,000 OK, Does grace have me? I can tell you this, if you're 474 00:26:38,000 --> 00:26:42,800 living that way, you're a gambler and it's a high stakes 475 00:26:43,480 --> 00:26:46,320 because it's eternity that you're gambling with because God 476 00:26:46,320 --> 00:26:49,160 only knows that question. God only knows if you truly 477 00:26:49,160 --> 00:26:52,000 repented. But see, our actions can show 478 00:26:52,000 --> 00:26:55,440 that we truly repented if we do not return to it again, right? 479 00:26:55,440 --> 00:26:57,840 It means we're done with it. We've come out from under that 480 00:26:57,840 --> 00:27:03,360 slavery, but you're gambling with a soul for eternity and one 481 00:27:03,360 --> 00:27:09,920 day you could lose. But see the law, There's a lot 482 00:27:09,920 --> 00:27:14,720 of people that live by that. I've quit all the old vices. 483 00:27:15,680 --> 00:27:16,440 Really. That's good. 484 00:27:16,440 --> 00:27:19,080 What are you doing for God? I have this gift. 485 00:27:19,080 --> 00:27:20,360 I had that gift. I have this. 486 00:27:20,360 --> 00:27:21,960 You know, some people want to tell you all the gifts they got. 487 00:27:21,960 --> 00:27:25,560 What are you doing with it? Are you producing fruit with the 488 00:27:25,560 --> 00:27:28,320 gift God give you? If not, it's just a gift that 489 00:27:28,320 --> 00:27:32,440 doesn't produce who? It's getting quiet. 490 00:27:34,720 --> 00:27:40,160 I've quit this and I've quit that and many find justification 491 00:27:40,920 --> 00:27:43,080 under what they quit. Hello. 492 00:27:44,040 --> 00:27:46,520 Why did you quit it? Why did God deliver you from it? 493 00:27:46,680 --> 00:27:50,160 So you can go tell your story, so you can go help somebody 494 00:27:50,240 --> 00:27:52,960 that's struggling, not tell them that I'm not doing anymore. 495 00:27:52,960 --> 00:27:54,640 You say, brother, I've been there. 496 00:27:54,680 --> 00:27:58,320 I'm facing what you're facing. But by the grace of God, one day 497 00:27:58,320 --> 00:28:01,960 I walked out of that old pit of slavery and whom the sunset free 498 00:28:01,960 --> 00:28:05,200 was free indeed. I've walked out of that. 499 00:28:06,000 --> 00:28:09,440 Don't mean that I couldn't be under it again very quickly, but 500 00:28:09,440 --> 00:28:14,160 I've walked out of it. But many people find 501 00:28:14,160 --> 00:28:16,600 justification in what they've quit. 502 00:28:17,600 --> 00:28:20,080 I look at the things that I've quit as I could be right back in 503 00:28:20,080 --> 00:28:27,040 them at any moment if I don't seek God in my life. 504 00:28:28,280 --> 00:28:34,560 But just as Hebrews says, what the law could not do, Christ did 505 00:28:34,920 --> 00:28:39,000 in his fullness by coming, by coming for us. 506 00:28:39,720 --> 00:28:46,760 See, many Christians, they never receive things because they're 507 00:28:46,760 --> 00:28:50,400 like the boys on the tailgate. I think many Christians never 508 00:28:50,480 --> 00:28:56,840 receive things because we don't lay down the habits and the sins 509 00:28:56,840 --> 00:28:59,280 that so easily beset us. Hello. 510 00:29:00,760 --> 00:29:03,480 When God's dealing with us about something in our life, it's for 511 00:29:03,480 --> 00:29:05,440 a reason. And I know most of us here, 512 00:29:05,440 --> 00:29:08,160 we've overcome a lot of those things, but they're still things 513 00:29:08,160 --> 00:29:11,400 that can keep us from being the fullness of Christ. 514 00:29:12,720 --> 00:29:16,560 He said it was the sin that so easily besets us, and there's 515 00:29:16,560 --> 00:29:21,240 even sin the Bible speaks of that doesn't lead to death, but 516 00:29:21,240 --> 00:29:23,680 yet it can separate us from the blessings of God. 517 00:29:24,800 --> 00:29:28,840 But so many times I think we don't receive the fullness of 518 00:29:28,840 --> 00:29:31,920 Christ. Ephesians 4 and and 17 and six 519 00:29:31,920 --> 00:29:34,840 goes on talking about fivefold ministries, about apostles, 520 00:29:34,840 --> 00:29:37,600 prophets, evangelists, pastors and teachers in the church. 521 00:29:37,920 --> 00:29:40,640 God longs to give each and every one of those those gifts. 522 00:29:41,080 --> 00:29:43,600 But it's easier to sit on the tailgate and say God didn't give 523 00:29:43,600 --> 00:29:46,360 me that. I've never read where God 524 00:29:46,360 --> 00:29:48,640 wouldn't give it. He said when he ascended on 525 00:29:48,640 --> 00:29:53,960 high, he give gifts to men. So if he give it, I got to 526 00:29:53,960 --> 00:29:56,640 receive it. And I can't just receive it and 527 00:29:56,640 --> 00:29:58,000 look at it. I got to open it. 528 00:29:58,760 --> 00:30:00,720 Hey, man, I got to see what's in it. 529 00:30:01,040 --> 00:30:03,080 And most time when God gives you a gift, there's a little 530 00:30:03,080 --> 00:30:05,480 instruction in there about what you're going to have to do to 531 00:30:05,480 --> 00:30:07,840 operate in this gift. Hey, man. 532 00:30:08,680 --> 00:30:10,200 And the gift will change your life. 533 00:30:11,000 --> 00:30:13,600 The gift will change your life. But it's easier to sit well like 534 00:30:13,600 --> 00:30:14,600 that. It's easier to sit on the 535 00:30:14,600 --> 00:30:17,840 tailgate. It's easier to not get up. 536 00:30:18,360 --> 00:30:24,160 It's easier to not do anything. But many don't receive the gifts 537 00:30:25,160 --> 00:30:27,920 because they returned to bondage. 538 00:30:28,760 --> 00:30:31,800 As I read in Galatians 4 it's we're in this week beggarly 539 00:30:31,800 --> 00:30:33,880 elements to whom? Let's go. 540 00:30:33,880 --> 00:30:35,480 Let's go back to that. I want to read it again. 541 00:30:35,480 --> 00:30:39,480 Galatians 4. We're in the week beggarly 542 00:30:39,480 --> 00:30:43,240 elements. Where'd we stop at a while ago 543 00:30:44,160 --> 00:30:47,800 8. I think it's five. 544 00:30:47,800 --> 00:30:54,840 I'm looking 4 to redeem those under the law, Galatians four 545 00:30:54,840 --> 00:30:59,120 and five, that we might receive adoption of sons as sons. 546 00:30:59,120 --> 00:31:02,840 Because you are sons. God has sent forth the Spirit 547 00:31:02,840 --> 00:31:07,200 into our hearts, crying ABBA, Father, therefore you're no 548 00:31:07,200 --> 00:31:10,120 longer a slave, but a son, And if a son, then an heir of God in 549 00:31:10,120 --> 00:31:13,280 Christ Jesus. But then indeed, when you did 550 00:31:13,280 --> 00:31:20,680 not know God, you serve those which by nature are not gods. 551 00:31:20,720 --> 00:31:23,840 Anybody ever been there, anybody ever had a God in their life, 552 00:31:23,840 --> 00:31:28,240 but it wasn't a God at all. But now after you have known 553 00:31:28,240 --> 00:31:30,360 God, they he explains the difference here. 554 00:31:30,360 --> 00:31:37,520 But now I know God. Now I know better, right? 555 00:31:38,320 --> 00:31:42,760 I know God. But now after you have known God 556 00:31:42,760 --> 00:31:45,520 and and look how deep the look how deep Paul says here, he 557 00:31:45,520 --> 00:31:49,360 says, or rather now you are even known by God. 558 00:31:51,240 --> 00:32:01,560 How is it that you turn again to the weak, beggarly elements to 559 00:32:01,560 --> 00:32:04,600 which you desire again to be in bondage? 560 00:32:04,600 --> 00:32:08,200 Anybody ever been there? You observed days and months and 561 00:32:08,200 --> 00:32:10,720 seasons and years. I'm afraid for you lest I have 562 00:32:11,040 --> 00:32:13,840 labored in vain, Apostle Paul said. 563 00:32:13,840 --> 00:32:15,440 I haven't preached all this stuff to you. 564 00:32:15,440 --> 00:32:17,120 You ought to know better. You known by God. 565 00:32:17,120 --> 00:32:18,640 God loves you. You ought to know better. 566 00:32:18,640 --> 00:32:20,680 But why do you want to go back to Egypt? 567 00:32:22,000 --> 00:32:24,160 Many go back to Egypt because they ain't been discipled. 568 00:32:24,480 --> 00:32:27,160 Many today ain't been discipled because they're unwilling to 569 00:32:27,160 --> 00:32:28,760 learn, because they think it's salvation. 570 00:32:28,760 --> 00:32:34,480 They know the whole Bible. Somebody say, man, I remember 571 00:32:34,480 --> 00:32:36,360 the day I was a beggar. How about you? 572 00:32:37,040 --> 00:32:41,960 But I came up a millionaire. You remember the day. 573 00:32:41,960 --> 00:32:46,000 Maybe you went down sick, but you come up well, you went down 574 00:32:46,000 --> 00:32:51,640 addicted, but you're free. Discipleship will teach you how 575 00:32:51,640 --> 00:32:57,960 to never go back to Egypt, come out of slavery into sonship. 576 00:32:57,960 --> 00:33:01,960 Romans 6, let's read. I'm giving you the word this 577 00:33:01,960 --> 00:33:03,400 morning. Reading a lot of scripture here, 578 00:33:03,400 --> 00:33:08,280 but Romans 6, Romans 6, go home and read the whole chapter. 579 00:33:08,280 --> 00:33:12,120 But I'm going to read here in verse 15 and I'm going to start 580 00:33:12,120 --> 00:33:23,720 in verse 15 from slaves of sin, the slaves of God, what the 581 00:33:23,720 --> 00:33:27,280 title of my of it says here, but it's a different type of 582 00:33:27,280 --> 00:33:30,200 slavery. It's a freedom. 583 00:33:33,040 --> 00:33:38,040 Apostle Paul says what then? Shall we sin because we are not 584 00:33:38,040 --> 00:33:41,720 under the law, but under grace? Certainly not. 585 00:33:42,720 --> 00:33:48,960 Do you not know that to whom you present yourself slaves to obey, 586 00:33:50,400 --> 00:33:54,360 you're that one slaves whom you obey, whether a sin leading to 587 00:33:54,360 --> 00:33:57,400 death or of obedience leading to righteousness. 588 00:33:57,920 --> 00:34:02,440 Could God be think that though you were slaves of sin, yet you 589 00:34:02,440 --> 00:34:05,120 obeyed from the heart? How do you remember the day you 590 00:34:05,120 --> 00:34:07,200 obeyed from the heart and got it out of your mind? 591 00:34:08,120 --> 00:34:10,199 I'll never forget a rodeo. One time this big old, tough, 592 00:34:10,199 --> 00:34:13,520 stout bulldog came to God and came to the Lord, came to know 593 00:34:13,520 --> 00:34:15,159 Jesus. And we was waiting for this big, 594 00:34:15,159 --> 00:34:17,280 old powerful testimony. There was a lot of people there. 595 00:34:17,280 --> 00:34:19,199 I thought, man, this guy was a heathen for the world. 596 00:34:19,199 --> 00:34:22,440 I want to hear him preach. And he got up there and he 597 00:34:22,440 --> 00:34:24,159 looked around. There's a lot of people there 598 00:34:24,159 --> 00:34:27,239 that day. Coy put him front and center and 599 00:34:27,239 --> 00:34:33,600 they, he said, he said, you know, it's, it's really easy to 600 00:34:33,600 --> 00:34:35,400 serve God and to become a Christian. 601 00:34:35,400 --> 00:34:38,960 He said all I did was take him out of here and put him in here 602 00:34:39,520 --> 00:34:42,040 and he walked and sat down. I thought that's powerful. 603 00:34:42,760 --> 00:34:44,199 That's what a lot of people need to do. 604 00:34:44,960 --> 00:34:48,320 Take him out of your head. Quit talking yourself into not 605 00:34:48,320 --> 00:34:50,239 obeying. Many people talk their self into 606 00:34:50,239 --> 00:34:53,040 not obeying and you can get on YouTube and find a teaching of 607 00:34:53,040 --> 00:34:55,000 why you shouldn't obey the Bible today. 608 00:34:56,840 --> 00:35:00,040 But he says here of obedience leading to righteous but God be 609 00:35:00,040 --> 00:35:04,600 think that though you were slaves of sin, yet you obeyed 610 00:35:04,600 --> 00:35:06,080 from the heart. I challenge you today. 611 00:35:06,080 --> 00:35:11,440 Obey from the heart that form of doctrine to which you were 612 00:35:11,800 --> 00:35:14,600 delivered. I love that people need 613 00:35:14,600 --> 00:35:16,400 delivered from their doctrine today. 614 00:35:17,280 --> 00:35:21,680 And having been set free from sin, you become a slave to 615 00:35:21,680 --> 00:35:24,760 righteousness. Hold on, pastor, you said we're 616 00:35:24,760 --> 00:35:29,280 not slaves, we're a son. We're slaves to righteousness. 617 00:35:30,000 --> 00:35:33,160 I speak in human terms because of the weakness of your flesh. 618 00:35:33,640 --> 00:35:37,080 For just as you presented your members as slaves of uncleanness 619 00:35:37,080 --> 00:35:41,720 and of lawlessness, leading to more lawlessness, so now present 620 00:35:41,720 --> 00:35:45,680 your members of slaves of righteousness for holiness. 621 00:35:46,360 --> 00:35:49,520 For when you were slaves of sin, you were free in regard to 622 00:35:49,520 --> 00:35:51,560 righteousness. Didn't think about it much. 623 00:35:52,840 --> 00:35:56,680 What fruit did you have then in the things of which you are now 624 00:35:56,680 --> 00:35:58,920 ashamed? Was there any fruit in that? 625 00:36:01,800 --> 00:36:04,800 For the end of those things is death. 626 00:36:05,640 --> 00:36:10,680 But now, having been set free from sin, having become slaves 627 00:36:10,680 --> 00:36:15,880 of God, you have your fruit of holiness and the end everlasting 628 00:36:15,880 --> 00:36:20,040 life. In verse 23, one of the most 629 00:36:20,040 --> 00:36:23,080 educating scriptures in the Bible that we just can't get. 630 00:36:23,080 --> 00:36:27,440 It's like 2 + 2 is 4, but we can't get the scripture. 631 00:36:27,440 --> 00:36:31,840 Many people can't get the scripture it says for the wages 632 00:36:31,840 --> 00:36:38,840 of sin is death, but the gift of God is what eternal life. 633 00:36:40,680 --> 00:36:45,200 See the only way this happens. I believe it's the hardest thing 634 00:36:45,200 --> 00:36:48,160 that I've ever done. Anybody ever had to lay down 635 00:36:48,160 --> 00:36:51,280 habits because you felt God telling you that'll kill you, 636 00:36:51,280 --> 00:36:53,760 that'll, that'll, that'll ultimately kill you or that 637 00:36:53,760 --> 00:36:57,200 habit or, or you knew you was just drinking what you want to 638 00:36:57,200 --> 00:36:58,880 drink, getting in a vehicle and driving it. 639 00:36:58,880 --> 00:37:00,720 Maybe he's going to kill somebody else and you heard the 640 00:37:00,720 --> 00:37:02,400 voice of God saying don't do that. 641 00:37:02,600 --> 00:37:05,560 You don't need to do this. Or maybe it was when somebody 642 00:37:05,560 --> 00:37:07,920 makes you mad, you just free flow with the tongue and you 643 00:37:07,920 --> 00:37:11,520 hurt people and and these things or you get mad and all the I'm 644 00:37:11,520 --> 00:37:13,560 going to meddle a little bit now, but this will change your 645 00:37:13,560 --> 00:37:17,080 life. See the only way you become not 646 00:37:17,080 --> 00:37:20,160 a slave to those things and there's people battling them for 647 00:37:20,160 --> 00:37:23,880 years and we look at the how we get our eyes on the thing. 648 00:37:25,480 --> 00:37:28,200 We get our eyes on all the things in our life that aren't 649 00:37:28,200 --> 00:37:30,160 lining up with the word of God. And they're a bunch. 650 00:37:31,800 --> 00:37:35,040 But you know what I got to do every day I've learned it's the 651 00:37:35,040 --> 00:37:38,280 hardest thing I've ever done. I'll never I'll never forget 652 00:37:38,280 --> 00:37:41,240 when God called me in the ministry full time at one place. 653 00:37:41,240 --> 00:37:43,920 I didn't want to hear one place I wanted to preach, but not in 654 00:37:43,920 --> 00:37:47,200 one place. I had new pastors, I had friends 655 00:37:47,200 --> 00:37:50,320 and and now today it's still it's just like eras are being 656 00:37:50,320 --> 00:37:54,160 fired man five times this week. See what the Satan is not just 657 00:37:54,160 --> 00:37:57,600 attacking the church, he's attacking the the leadership, 658 00:37:57,600 --> 00:38:01,200 he's attacking the pastors and their wife 55 divorces in the 659 00:38:01,200 --> 00:38:05,280 body of Christ as pastors. I've heard of this week this 660 00:38:05,280 --> 00:38:08,320 week because see if he can get me to fall. 661 00:38:09,160 --> 00:38:12,760 He can get you to question shouldn't be that way because 662 00:38:12,760 --> 00:38:16,400 I'm going to fall if I get out from on the grace of God and and 663 00:38:16,400 --> 00:38:20,840 every day you're going to fall. There's habits you don't like. 664 00:38:20,840 --> 00:38:22,280 There's things you don't like in your life. 665 00:38:22,360 --> 00:38:25,440 You're going to go back to in the flesh, but the only way that 666 00:38:25,440 --> 00:38:30,160 I found to be a son and not a slave you as we stand our feet 667 00:38:30,160 --> 00:38:32,480 today I want you to hear me if you've heard anything I say 668 00:38:32,480 --> 00:38:34,880 today is your eyes are closed and your heads are bad. 669 00:38:34,880 --> 00:38:38,560 If there's any way that we're going to be not become a slave 670 00:38:38,560 --> 00:38:42,960 to Egypt, if we can deliver ourself, you know, I know people 671 00:38:42,960 --> 00:38:45,440 that's delivered their self through of things just by 672 00:38:45,440 --> 00:38:48,240 thinking on it with with positive talks. 673 00:38:48,240 --> 00:38:49,880 That's a great thing. It can be delivered. 674 00:38:49,880 --> 00:38:51,720 But see, the Egypt will still be in you. 675 00:38:53,280 --> 00:38:56,000 But I'm going to tell you, get your eyes off of whatever it is. 676 00:38:56,440 --> 00:38:58,880 Think about the things today that God's told you. 677 00:38:59,040 --> 00:39:00,680 It's got to go. It needs to go. 678 00:39:01,080 --> 00:39:03,880 The reason God wants us to go is to make room for something 679 00:39:03,880 --> 00:39:05,600 better that he's going to give you. 680 00:39:07,080 --> 00:39:09,000 He wants it to be better. Amen. 681 00:39:09,880 --> 00:39:13,760 Because see as salvation sticks with us as it as it doesn't just 682 00:39:14,000 --> 00:39:17,120 just leave us. We can all we can go back and we 683 00:39:17,120 --> 00:39:20,280 can repent and we can change that salvation's there. 684 00:39:21,600 --> 00:39:25,640 But see, the Helper, the third member of the Godhead, the Holy 685 00:39:25,640 --> 00:39:29,760 Spirit, He tells you it's wrong. And when you walk out and you go 686 00:39:29,760 --> 00:39:34,360 to do in the whatever it is or your mind wandering, I'm not 687 00:39:34,360 --> 00:39:37,000 just talking about the fleshly sins, I'm talking about just not 688 00:39:37,000 --> 00:39:39,920 obeying God can become a sin in your life. 689 00:39:40,600 --> 00:39:44,320 But see, when you do that, the Holy Spirit, he begins to 690 00:39:44,320 --> 00:39:48,840 withdraw. And then we have to go back to 691 00:39:48,840 --> 00:39:51,760 this place of repentance. And then we have to work our 692 00:39:51,760 --> 00:39:54,760 step, get back to where we're hearing from God and where we're 693 00:39:54,760 --> 00:40:00,360 knowing what God wants us to do. But I'm fixing to give it to you 694 00:40:00,360 --> 00:40:07,080 the only way. That I have found not to go back 695 00:40:07,080 --> 00:40:11,160 to Egypt, not to go back to Egypt. 696 00:40:12,080 --> 00:40:15,440 And it's the hardest thing. We, we put things on the altar 697 00:40:15,440 --> 00:40:19,000 many times. The thing that we think is 698 00:40:19,000 --> 00:40:22,200 keeping us from serving God. The thing that we think is 699 00:40:22,200 --> 00:40:24,240 pulling us down. But I challenge you. 700 00:40:24,440 --> 00:40:27,840 The hardest thing that you will ever do, I have found in my 701 00:40:27,840 --> 00:40:33,280 life, is to put me on the altar, to lay down my life. 702 00:40:36,120 --> 00:40:39,560 That's the hardest thing. And then you will not be a 703 00:40:39,560 --> 00:40:43,640 slave, but you will be a son. It's here that I become free to 704 00:40:43,640 --> 00:40:45,920 worship. It's here that I become free to 705 00:40:45,920 --> 00:40:48,800 praise and free to lift up holy hands. 706 00:40:49,120 --> 00:40:54,360 It's there on the altar. Would you tell him I'm going to 707 00:40:54,360 --> 00:40:57,280 put myself on the altar? I'm going to forget about the 708 00:40:57,280 --> 00:41:00,960 vices and the habits today, and I'm going to put myself on the 709 00:41:00,960 --> 00:41:05,840 altar today. Just as Abraham offered up 710 00:41:05,840 --> 00:41:07,560 Isaac. He didn't pull no punches. 711 00:41:07,560 --> 00:41:09,280 He said this is what you require, God. 712 00:41:09,440 --> 00:41:13,280 This is what I'm going to give so that I can come from a flood, 713 00:41:13,280 --> 00:41:18,440 a slave to a son, from a son to an heir. 714 00:41:19,800 --> 00:41:22,440 How many would come today and say, I want to put myself on the 715 00:41:22,440 --> 00:41:25,000 altar? I put some things on the altar, 716 00:41:25,000 --> 00:41:27,600 pastor. But today I want to lay down my 717 00:41:27,600 --> 00:41:30,560 life. I want to hear the voice of God. 718 00:41:31,040 --> 00:41:33,360 I want to respond when I hear him call. 719 00:41:33,560 --> 00:41:35,800 I'm tired of the battle. I'm tired of the struggle. 720 00:41:35,880 --> 00:41:38,280 I want to lay down once and for all my life. 721 00:41:40,040 --> 00:41:45,280 To put me on the altar is the hardest thing because see, when 722 00:41:45,280 --> 00:41:49,440 you put yourself on the altar, your will dies, Your will 723 00:41:49,440 --> 00:41:55,480 changes by the Holy Spirit. I've never seen a time that 724 00:41:55,480 --> 00:41:58,360 God's children aren't willing to put their self on the altar. 725 00:41:59,880 --> 00:42:03,760 We put our wants on the altar, but what about our self? 726 00:42:04,960 --> 00:42:07,520 Thanks for listening to the Cross Power Church podcast. 727 00:42:07,880 --> 00:42:11,480 May you know that true hope, peace, and salvation can only be 728 00:42:11,480 --> 00:42:14,880 found in Jesus. If you're near Campbell, TX, we 729 00:42:14,880 --> 00:42:17,040 would love for you to join us in person. 730 00:42:17,440 --> 00:42:20,600 You can find service times at crosspowerchurch.com.