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 00:00:13,720 --> 00:00:15,760 Have your bibles tonight. I'm going to be in the same 6 00:00:15,760 --> 00:00:18,120 scripture I've been for about four services now. 7 00:00:18,120 --> 00:00:23,440 Can't get off of it. Second Corinthians chapter 5, 8 00:00:24,840 --> 00:00:29,680 verse 17. We ought to know this by now, 9 00:00:29,680 --> 00:00:33,240 huh? Anybody, everybody can quote it, 10 00:00:33,240 --> 00:00:36,480 right? I'm going to back up a few 11 00:00:36,480 --> 00:00:41,440 verses here to 12 and read, been a while since I've read the the 12 00:00:41,440 --> 00:00:45,200 first part of this and you know, this is setting here in Second 13 00:00:45,200 --> 00:00:49,800 Corinthians chapter 5, just after the apostle Paul declares 14 00:00:49,800 --> 00:00:56,120 that we will all stand before the judgment seat of Christ and 15 00:00:56,120 --> 00:00:59,440 give an account for things done in the body, whether it's good 16 00:00:59,440 --> 00:01:02,480 or bad. A lot of people forget that. 17 00:01:03,240 --> 00:01:06,480 I think, I think a lot of preachers today are forgetting 18 00:01:06,480 --> 00:01:09,480 that if we're going to give an account for what we did in the 19 00:01:09,480 --> 00:01:11,760 body, how much more we're going to give an account for what we 20 00:01:11,760 --> 00:01:14,120 put over the Airways or we put in people's ear. 21 00:01:14,840 --> 00:01:18,920 That's not the truth. And I, yeah, I'm, I'm seeing it 22 00:01:18,920 --> 00:01:22,280 every day, every day. But in Second Corinthians 23 00:01:22,280 --> 00:01:25,680 chapter 5 and verse 12, I'm going to be reading through 17, 24 00:01:25,680 --> 00:01:28,040 but I'm going to try to finish this up tonight. 25 00:01:28,040 --> 00:01:31,080 I know some of y'all's missed some services and it's, it's, 26 00:01:31,120 --> 00:01:35,080 it's hard to get 3 or 4, three or four series in a sermon and 27 00:01:35,080 --> 00:01:37,600 everybody here everything. So I am going to recap a little 28 00:01:37,600 --> 00:01:39,720 bit. But we've been talking about 29 00:01:39,720 --> 00:01:44,640 developing our new spirit. We have a new spirit or we 30 00:01:44,640 --> 00:01:49,080 should Amen when we come to Christ because 2nd Corinthians 5 31 00:01:49,080 --> 00:01:51,000 and 17, we're going to back up to 12. 32 00:01:51,000 --> 00:01:55,160 But it says, therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he's a new 33 00:01:55,160 --> 00:01:58,280 creation. Old things have passed away and 34 00:01:58,280 --> 00:02:01,640 behold, all things have become new. 35 00:02:02,480 --> 00:02:05,280 That's hard to find a life that all things become new. 36 00:02:05,280 --> 00:02:09,120 It doesn't mean the situation necessarily has changed and it's 37 00:02:09,120 --> 00:02:12,720 a new situation. We'll be waiting till Christ 38 00:02:12,720 --> 00:02:15,240 comes until we have our glorified body and we're in 39 00:02:15,240 --> 00:02:20,200 heaven for those some situations to change because people refuse 40 00:02:20,200 --> 00:02:23,120 to change. But it does say that that 41 00:02:23,120 --> 00:02:26,160 situation, somebody needs this tonight, that that situation 42 00:02:26,160 --> 00:02:29,520 that you're in or whatever that phase of life you're in right 43 00:02:29,520 --> 00:02:32,600 now, it can still become new to you. 44 00:02:32,680 --> 00:02:34,800 Amen. Because God can give you a new 45 00:02:34,800 --> 00:02:37,960 way to defeat that enemy. He can give you a new way to 46 00:02:37,960 --> 00:02:41,320 overcome that trial at that particular time in your life. 47 00:02:41,560 --> 00:02:43,800 And then it can become new very fast. 48 00:02:44,720 --> 00:02:47,520 Being new doesn't always mean it goes away. 49 00:02:48,840 --> 00:02:53,160 But in 2nd Corinthians 5 and 12, let's get what this says. 50 00:02:53,160 --> 00:02:57,880 It says, for we do not commend ourselves again to you, but give 51 00:02:57,880 --> 00:03:01,200 you opportunity to boast on our behalf that you may have an 52 00:03:01,200 --> 00:03:04,360 answer for those who boast in appearance. 53 00:03:05,000 --> 00:03:09,160 And I begin to read that and the Holy Spirit just begin to to 54 00:03:09,160 --> 00:03:11,040 flood me. There's a lot of people today, 55 00:03:11,040 --> 00:03:13,640 There's a lot of Christians today, There's a lot of churches 56 00:03:13,640 --> 00:03:19,880 today that focus on appearance and not in the heart. 57 00:03:19,960 --> 00:03:25,840 He says for if we are beside ourselves, it is for God. 58 00:03:27,800 --> 00:03:29,520 Really get what this means right here. 59 00:03:29,800 --> 00:03:32,480 Or if we are a sound mind, it is for you. 60 00:03:32,600 --> 00:03:35,640 For the love of Christ compels us. 61 00:03:35,800 --> 00:03:38,520 When you think about how much he loves you, and when you think 62 00:03:38,520 --> 00:03:41,400 about where he what, where you were when he came and got you, 63 00:03:41,560 --> 00:03:46,880 it should compel you. He says, because we judge thus, 64 00:03:46,880 --> 00:03:52,240 that if one man died talking about Christ for all men, I love 65 00:03:52,240 --> 00:03:54,480 what this says here, then all died. 66 00:03:55,600 --> 00:03:59,440 If one man died, he's saying we all should die right to the 67 00:03:59,440 --> 00:04:03,800 flesh. And he who died for all that, 68 00:04:03,800 --> 00:04:10,320 those who live should live no longer for themselves, but for 69 00:04:10,320 --> 00:04:14,000 him who died for them. And Rose again, what a powerful 70 00:04:14,000 --> 00:04:17,480 statement. It's very hard to find those 71 00:04:17,480 --> 00:04:20,200 today that aren't living for themselves. 72 00:04:20,680 --> 00:04:23,240 You don't believe me going to restaurant and just said it by 73 00:04:23,240 --> 00:04:24,480 yourself. You know, some people don't like 74 00:04:24,480 --> 00:04:26,200 to eat by their self. Anybody like that. 75 00:04:26,200 --> 00:04:28,640 They, you know, my wife, she doesn't like to go in and eat by 76 00:04:28,640 --> 00:04:30,800 herself. She just never has it. 77 00:04:30,880 --> 00:04:34,560 It's never bothered me. I can go in and if I'm hungry, I 78 00:04:34,560 --> 00:04:37,600 eat and it does and I listen, you know, and you going to 79 00:04:37,600 --> 00:04:40,240 places today and you just begin to listen. 80 00:04:40,520 --> 00:04:43,400 You hear boasting, you hear of the things that are going on in 81 00:04:43,400 --> 00:04:46,520 this life. And you man, I said across and 82 00:04:46,520 --> 00:04:49,560 the guy, I wasn't trying to listen in, but he was so loud 83 00:04:49,560 --> 00:04:52,760 and boisterous, I couldn't help but hear him and what he was 84 00:04:52,760 --> 00:04:56,280 talking about the, the $1,000,000 deals he was making 85 00:04:56,280 --> 00:04:59,880 today at lunch and the things that he was going into and, and, 86 00:04:59,880 --> 00:05:01,200 and the work they were going to do. 87 00:05:01,200 --> 00:05:04,760 And then all of a sudden right after he begins to talk about, I 88 00:05:04,760 --> 00:05:07,920 don't know if it's his current wife or his ex-wife, but he's 89 00:05:07,920 --> 00:05:10,560 giving one of them a lot of money and it's never enough. 90 00:05:10,560 --> 00:05:13,560 And he's doing all the man. I, I could barely sit there. 91 00:05:13,560 --> 00:05:16,920 I started saying, won't you try giving her Jesus, but you got to 92 00:05:16,920 --> 00:05:19,200 have Jesus for you can give Jesus Amen. 93 00:05:19,840 --> 00:05:23,160 But we we hear just it's interesting to hear the things 94 00:05:23,160 --> 00:05:25,880 and to hear the conversation. You'll hear some godly stuff 95 00:05:25,880 --> 00:05:27,680 every now and then. I'm not denying that. 96 00:05:27,680 --> 00:05:30,360 But on the most part, you're going to hear what he said. 97 00:05:30,360 --> 00:05:32,440 They're going to boast about appearance and not have not 98 00:05:32,440 --> 00:05:36,880 things of the heart. But he says here in verse 17. 99 00:05:36,880 --> 00:05:41,480 Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he's a new creation. 100 00:05:42,320 --> 00:05:46,960 Old things have passed away. Behold, all things become new 101 00:05:47,480 --> 00:05:49,760 and I explained last Wednesday night, I'm going to recap a 102 00:05:49,760 --> 00:05:52,480 little bit. We are to be in Christ. 103 00:05:52,760 --> 00:05:55,960 We talked about that last week. I asked what are you walking in? 104 00:05:56,040 --> 00:05:59,400 We have to be walking in the spirit and to walk in the Spirit 105 00:05:59,600 --> 00:06:04,000 you must abide in the spirit that's to sit to dwell or to 106 00:06:04,000 --> 00:06:07,120 remain in the spirit. See develop this to to develop 107 00:06:07,120 --> 00:06:11,080 the new spirit that the apostle Paul talks about here to be the 108 00:06:11,080 --> 00:06:14,320 new creation. It starts out in the Spirit 109 00:06:15,240 --> 00:06:18,840 because the the Spirit has to has to get control of us and we 110 00:06:18,840 --> 00:06:21,640 have to walk in the spirit for the flesh to change. 111 00:06:21,840 --> 00:06:24,920 The church has become very good at changing the flesh and not 112 00:06:24,920 --> 00:06:28,240 ever changing the Spirit, right? So therefore we have to we can 113 00:06:28,240 --> 00:06:31,720 kind of make the flesh do right, But yet people and the Holy 114 00:06:31,720 --> 00:06:36,320 Spirit connect with the Spirit more than than than the flesh. 115 00:06:36,720 --> 00:06:40,240 So we must abide, we must to sit, we must dwell, and we must 116 00:06:40,240 --> 00:06:44,440 remain in the Spirit to develop this new spirit and this new 117 00:06:44,440 --> 00:06:47,160 creation that we're called to be in Christ Jesus. 118 00:06:47,480 --> 00:06:50,960 And I preached this Sunday on three ways that this happens. 119 00:06:50,960 --> 00:06:53,320 And number one was to walk in love. 120 00:06:53,680 --> 00:06:56,160 We have to walk in love in this Christian walk. 121 00:06:56,160 --> 00:06:59,480 If we do not walk in love, then we're not going to reach anybody 122 00:06:59,480 --> 00:07:02,520 because without love we're just a clanging cymbal that's just 123 00:07:02,520 --> 00:07:04,960 going to make a lot of racket and not bear much fruit. 124 00:07:05,040 --> 00:07:08,120 We have to walk in love. Number one, Write that down and 125 00:07:08,120 --> 00:07:12,200 #2 if you're that's the best way to be recreated is to walk in 126 00:07:12,200 --> 00:07:15,200 love. The second thing I talked about 127 00:07:15,200 --> 00:07:19,720 Sunday was to give the word first place in our life, first 128 00:07:19,720 --> 00:07:22,960 place and final authority. He said I'm the alpha and the 129 00:07:22,960 --> 00:07:26,160 Omega, Omega, I'm the 1st and the last. 130 00:07:26,160 --> 00:07:29,200 Give the word first place in your life and give it final 131 00:07:29,200 --> 00:07:31,640 authority in your life. Jesus knew what he was talking 132 00:07:31,640 --> 00:07:34,000 about there, right? Which he always does. 133 00:07:34,000 --> 00:07:38,600 But Proverbs 3 five and six, it says trust in the Lord, say 134 00:07:38,600 --> 00:07:42,000 trust with me, trust in the Lord with all your heart. 135 00:07:42,400 --> 00:07:45,320 Lean not on your own understanding and all your ways 136 00:07:45,320 --> 00:07:48,080 acknowledge Him and he shall direct your path. 137 00:07:48,080 --> 00:07:51,760 So we're walking in love for giving the word first place in 138 00:07:51,760 --> 00:07:53,800 our life. And then the third thing I 139 00:07:53,800 --> 00:07:57,280 talked about was obey the voice of the Spirit. 140 00:07:57,800 --> 00:08:00,480 And the voice of the Spirit is the written word of God. 141 00:08:00,480 --> 00:08:02,240 He speaks to us through his word. 142 00:08:02,440 --> 00:08:06,200 So when we're doing these three things, our spirit will begin to 143 00:08:06,200 --> 00:08:09,040 be renewed. We will begin to develop our new 144 00:08:09,040 --> 00:08:11,000 spirit. We will begin to be a new 145 00:08:11,000 --> 00:08:14,640 creation in Christ Jesus. But we have to read the word 146 00:08:14,640 --> 00:08:18,160 that is the voice of God and and then we will be his sheep and 147 00:08:18,160 --> 00:08:21,920 we'll begin to know His voice. In John chapter 4 and 24, I 148 00:08:21,920 --> 00:08:27,040 shared this, that God is a spirit and those that worship 149 00:08:27,400 --> 00:08:30,480 Him must worship Him in the flesh. 150 00:08:30,920 --> 00:08:34,720 That ain't what it says in the spirit and in truth. 151 00:08:35,480 --> 00:08:37,520 So that's kind of what I've shared in this series in a 152 00:08:37,520 --> 00:08:39,919 nutshell. A whole lot more but but kind of 153 00:08:39,919 --> 00:08:42,000 close. But I've added a four thing to 154 00:08:42,000 --> 00:08:43,240 it and I'm going to close this out. 155 00:08:43,240 --> 00:08:47,600 Maybe get off the scripture. I don't know tonight, but #4I 156 00:08:48,440 --> 00:08:50,640 prayed about this, and God give me this. 157 00:08:50,640 --> 00:08:55,760 But quit waiting for a better life through someone else. 158 00:08:56,920 --> 00:08:59,840 A lot of people do that. We wait for a better life. 159 00:08:59,840 --> 00:09:02,040 We think we'll be a better person when we get a better 160 00:09:02,040 --> 00:09:04,680 life. But with a better life comes 161 00:09:04,680 --> 00:09:07,280 bigger problems, right? With a different life would come 162 00:09:07,280 --> 00:09:09,920 different problems. But the Holy Spirit give me 163 00:09:09,920 --> 00:09:12,080 these exact words. I'm going to read some of this. 164 00:09:12,080 --> 00:09:15,560 But a better life started when you were born again. 165 00:09:16,160 --> 00:09:19,480 If you're born again, you have a better life, you're going to 166 00:09:19,480 --> 00:09:21,040 heaven and you're not going to hell. 167 00:09:21,120 --> 00:09:24,560 You have a better life, right, because you're born again. 168 00:09:24,560 --> 00:09:26,440 And and we should think about that. 169 00:09:26,440 --> 00:09:29,160 You know, as I was sitting there in that cafe today by myself, I 170 00:09:29,160 --> 00:09:32,680 just closed my eyes while I was eating and I said I was there 171 00:09:32,680 --> 00:09:35,720 one time, I love God. Maybe this guy didn't take it 172 00:09:35,720 --> 00:09:39,560 that he knew who God was, but I was in there trying to please 173 00:09:39,560 --> 00:09:42,960 the flesh and try to trying to work all the time and, and meet 174 00:09:42,960 --> 00:09:46,680 the demands of what this life says and yet hold on to God and 175 00:09:46,680 --> 00:09:48,240 love him a little bit. Amen. 176 00:09:48,440 --> 00:09:51,760 But I was getting there today. I was thinking so greatly that 177 00:09:51,760 --> 00:09:54,640 that that God has created something in me that doesn't 178 00:09:54,640 --> 00:09:58,440 care about the world anymore. And I can honestly say I can. 179 00:09:58,440 --> 00:10:02,000 I just let it pass away because it's going to anyway. 180 00:10:02,240 --> 00:10:05,680 But quit looking for that better life and start living the life 181 00:10:05,680 --> 00:10:09,080 that God has give you, right? But we want that better life. 182 00:10:09,080 --> 00:10:11,880 But a better life started. Write this down when you were 183 00:10:11,880 --> 00:10:13,640 born again. It will start it. 184 00:10:14,240 --> 00:10:17,600 But here's the problem, God, give me this whole passage right 185 00:10:17,600 --> 00:10:18,600 here. I'm going to read to you in the 186 00:10:18,600 --> 00:10:20,880 parking lot. I was waiting and it just hit me 187 00:10:20,880 --> 00:10:23,200 and I began to talk on my phone. I didn't want to forget it 188 00:10:23,320 --> 00:10:27,000 because I knew it was from God. A better life started when you 189 00:10:27,000 --> 00:10:29,520 were born again. But the willingness in our 190 00:10:29,520 --> 00:10:34,880 spirit to become a new creation in Christ must be stirred. 191 00:10:35,240 --> 00:10:38,440 We have to stir it. God does not always stir it. 192 00:10:38,480 --> 00:10:40,040 Amen. You're probably not going to 193 00:10:40,040 --> 00:10:43,600 feel the same feeling you felt the night that you walk the owl, 194 00:10:43,720 --> 00:10:47,080 that God reach way down for you and he delivered you from that 195 00:10:47,080 --> 00:10:49,920 pit that you were in. It was a great feeling, and we 196 00:10:49,920 --> 00:10:53,640 long to feel that feeling again. But we have to be willing in our 197 00:10:53,640 --> 00:10:57,360 spirit to become a new creation. It must be stirred. 198 00:10:58,200 --> 00:11:01,840 We must exercise it. We must long to be the 199 00:11:01,840 --> 00:11:05,360 righteousness of God in Christ Jesus. 200 00:11:06,480 --> 00:11:10,520 And as we do that, we give the Holy Spirit free reign to work 201 00:11:10,520 --> 00:11:13,040 in our life. A lot of people are saying I 202 00:11:13,040 --> 00:11:15,720 don't want the Holy Spirit, I want to live this way. 203 00:11:15,720 --> 00:11:19,520 But we can only go this far. We can't go past this point in 204 00:11:19,520 --> 00:11:21,800 my life. I can't give up some of those 205 00:11:22,040 --> 00:11:24,040 things. You know, I got 2 buddies I hunt 206 00:11:24,040 --> 00:11:26,120 when they claimed they were having these bad headaches like 207 00:11:26,120 --> 00:11:28,360 I haven't. And they said they give up sugar 208 00:11:28,760 --> 00:11:30,680 and they drink gallons of coffee. 209 00:11:31,000 --> 00:11:33,840 And my wife said gallons of coffee can cause headaches and 210 00:11:33,840 --> 00:11:36,040 rebound headaches. And they said they quit the 211 00:11:36,040 --> 00:11:39,120 sugar and, and, and and the headache stopped. 212 00:11:39,120 --> 00:11:40,640 And I said what about the coffee? 213 00:11:40,640 --> 00:11:44,360 They said you're meddling now. That's the way we are sometimes. 214 00:11:44,360 --> 00:11:46,920 We think we know what the problem is and there's certain 215 00:11:46,920 --> 00:11:50,360 things we want to give God, but do we really give Him free reign 216 00:11:51,080 --> 00:11:56,280 to work in our life and to perform the changes that must 217 00:11:56,280 --> 00:11:59,000 take place to be this new creation? 218 00:11:59,360 --> 00:12:01,800 There has to be some changes to be a new creation. 219 00:12:02,200 --> 00:12:04,960 I know some people that that got saved and they had a big 220 00:12:04,960 --> 00:12:06,080 mouthful. They got saved. 221 00:12:06,080 --> 00:12:08,160 They've still got a big mouth, right? 222 00:12:09,280 --> 00:12:11,320 I know some people that didn't love nobody. 223 00:12:11,320 --> 00:12:14,640 They talked about everybody and and before they get out of the 224 00:12:14,640 --> 00:12:17,760 parking lot, they're talking about somebody else's business. 225 00:12:17,880 --> 00:12:20,800 That did not change. God will not drop down and 226 00:12:20,800 --> 00:12:23,840 change that. But you have to create and stir 227 00:12:23,840 --> 00:12:28,320 the Spirit and give the Holy Spirit reign to do that right, 228 00:12:29,720 --> 00:12:33,400 to perform the changes that must take place to be this new 229 00:12:33,400 --> 00:12:38,000 creation that Paul talks about so that all things can become 230 00:12:38,000 --> 00:12:40,600 new. But so many times, and yes, even 231 00:12:40,600 --> 00:12:43,800 in the life of Christians and believers that know God, that 232 00:12:43,800 --> 00:12:47,920 love God, we still look for happiness in the changes. 233 00:12:47,960 --> 00:12:52,800 You ready for this? In the changes of others, we get 234 00:12:52,800 --> 00:12:55,320 hung up on what others do. And we think if others would 235 00:12:55,320 --> 00:12:57,240 change. Hello. 236 00:12:57,600 --> 00:12:59,840 You got somebody at work that when you go to work, you're in a 237 00:12:59,840 --> 00:13:04,080 bad mood because of them and you think if they would change, you 238 00:13:04,080 --> 00:13:06,240 would be better. If the kids didn't act like they 239 00:13:06,240 --> 00:13:09,520 did, you would be better. And that's probably true. 240 00:13:09,520 --> 00:13:13,600 But there would be something else that, you know, we wanted 241 00:13:13,600 --> 00:13:16,920 rain, we wanted cool weather. And then the wind blows and we 242 00:13:16,920 --> 00:13:19,600 fuss about it, right? It's human nature. 243 00:13:20,400 --> 00:13:24,200 But quit waiting for people to change. 244 00:13:24,200 --> 00:13:28,560 We're still look for happiness in the changes of others or in 245 00:13:28,560 --> 00:13:32,200 the changes of a career or maybe in retirement. 246 00:13:32,200 --> 00:13:34,720 Retirement's a great thing, I guess, for some people. 247 00:13:34,720 --> 00:13:37,040 But when you get retired, things hurt. 248 00:13:37,600 --> 00:13:39,760 You don't feel like you want, I want to get to retirement. 249 00:13:39,760 --> 00:13:40,920 Why? You're going to be old. 250 00:13:41,440 --> 00:13:44,560 You're going to hurt. You may not have to go to work, 251 00:13:44,560 --> 00:13:46,480 but you're going to hurt. You're going to be old. 252 00:13:47,400 --> 00:13:49,920 You're not going to have as good a life as you do now. 253 00:13:50,440 --> 00:13:52,960 You may have a check coming in every week that you're not 254 00:13:52,960 --> 00:13:55,160 having to get up and go to work for, right? 255 00:13:55,360 --> 00:13:57,520 But you ain't going to be able to get up and go nowhere. 256 00:13:58,880 --> 00:14:05,080 But I want to retire. We live for retirement so we can 257 00:14:05,080 --> 00:14:08,040 be crippled and talk about all the days we clocked in. 258 00:14:10,000 --> 00:14:12,600 Money's no good if you can't walk around and spend it. 259 00:14:14,240 --> 00:14:20,720 Hey, man, they'll spend it. But we do look for those 260 00:14:20,720 --> 00:14:23,160 changes. Oh, if I could just retire. 261 00:14:23,400 --> 00:14:26,400 I can't wait. I hate this place I've spent 40 262 00:14:26,400 --> 00:14:28,720 years hating. Find a new job you love. 263 00:14:29,200 --> 00:14:30,920 Quit living for the day of retirement. 264 00:14:30,920 --> 00:14:34,240 You may die before you retire. Jesus is probably going to come 265 00:14:34,240 --> 00:14:36,120 back before a lot of people retire. 266 00:14:36,280 --> 00:14:41,880 The way it looks to me, right? But we think, and the Lord give 267 00:14:41,880 --> 00:14:45,680 me this, write this down. We think if they would change, 268 00:14:46,160 --> 00:14:50,240 it would change me. Not true, not true. 269 00:14:50,920 --> 00:14:54,160 If they didn't do this, I wouldn't do that. 270 00:14:56,040 --> 00:14:57,840 That starts at a young age, right? 271 00:14:58,280 --> 00:15:02,240 Somebody made me do it. If they wouldn't do this, I 272 00:15:02,240 --> 00:15:05,360 wouldn't do that. But the truth is that it 273 00:15:05,360 --> 00:15:09,720 wouldn't change us at all because this gets deep right 274 00:15:09,720 --> 00:15:11,440 here. Because we wouldn't be a new 275 00:15:11,440 --> 00:15:16,000 creation in Christ Jesus. We would be depending on 276 00:15:16,000 --> 00:15:19,760 something that was created outside the realm of the spirit, 277 00:15:19,800 --> 00:15:24,640 a someones other spirit that depended upon the outside world 278 00:15:24,640 --> 00:15:28,880 or something else that someone has done for me to be a new 279 00:15:28,880 --> 00:15:31,120 creation. Therefore, what I've been 280 00:15:31,120 --> 00:15:35,400 preaching on for four weeks now is all things wouldn't become 281 00:15:35,400 --> 00:15:38,280 new because all things Paul wasn't saying that everything's 282 00:15:38,280 --> 00:15:40,840 going to be new in your life and everything's going to change, 283 00:15:40,840 --> 00:15:43,080 but he said you're the new creation. 284 00:15:43,080 --> 00:15:46,240 So the way that your eyes now look at what's happening to you 285 00:15:46,240 --> 00:15:49,880 in this life become different. And at the at the point of being 286 00:15:49,880 --> 00:15:52,800 born again, you realize that this world is not your home. 287 00:15:53,080 --> 00:15:57,360 You realize that seasons don't come to stay, they come to pass. 288 00:15:57,560 --> 00:16:02,000 You realize that that eternity is your home and what happens in 289 00:16:02,000 --> 00:16:05,800 this life now does not dominate your thought process and who you 290 00:16:05,800 --> 00:16:09,880 are because I find my identity in the born again creation that 291 00:16:09,880 --> 00:16:13,560 I am now. See, we would be we would be a 292 00:16:13,560 --> 00:16:16,680 creation for the other person if this happened. 293 00:16:17,280 --> 00:16:20,280 Quit believing that lie as a child of God because the truth 294 00:16:20,280 --> 00:16:24,120 is you have something on the inside of you that the world 295 00:16:24,120 --> 00:16:26,520 didn't give you and the world can't take it away. 296 00:16:26,520 --> 00:16:29,480 We read about this in second Corinthians chapter 4. 297 00:16:29,840 --> 00:16:33,720 We back up just a little bit in 11 and 12. 298 00:16:33,720 --> 00:16:37,040 He let's go to verse 7. I always back up. 299 00:16:37,040 --> 00:16:40,480 I know I do, but I have to right here because in 2nd Corinthians 300 00:16:40,480 --> 00:16:44,640 4 and seven, it says, but we have this treasure in an earthen 301 00:16:44,640 --> 00:16:46,000 vessel. Do you ever think about the 302 00:16:46,000 --> 00:16:49,080 treasure that you have? Do you ever think about the 303 00:16:49,080 --> 00:16:52,360 person that you are? Now when the person pulls out in 304 00:16:52,360 --> 00:16:54,840 front of and you don't flip them off, you don't curse them and 305 00:16:55,000 --> 00:16:57,960 you don't have to run to the liquor store after work to cope 306 00:16:57,960 --> 00:17:00,320 with the problems that you couldn't cope with. 307 00:17:00,320 --> 00:17:03,640 But now you just have to close your eyes and reach out to 308 00:17:03,640 --> 00:17:06,800 heaven and say a little prayer because you're a new creation in 309 00:17:06,800 --> 00:17:10,480 Christ Jesus, because you have this treasure that's hidden on 310 00:17:10,480 --> 00:17:13,480 the inside of you that the blood of Jesus placed there. 311 00:17:14,280 --> 00:17:18,079 And he says that the excellence of power may be of God and not 312 00:17:18,079 --> 00:17:20,520 of us. And he didn't say that all this 313 00:17:20,520 --> 00:17:23,200 had changed. He said, yes, we are still hard 314 00:17:23,200 --> 00:17:26,079 pressed on every side, yet we're not crushed. 315 00:17:26,079 --> 00:17:29,360 Remember when you were hard pressed in the former life BC 316 00:17:29,360 --> 00:17:32,440 before Christ when you got a little hard pressed, it seems 317 00:17:32,440 --> 00:17:35,800 that life just fell apart. But now you get hard pressed, 318 00:17:35,880 --> 00:17:37,960 but yet you're not crushed. And that's something to praise 319 00:17:37,960 --> 00:17:41,440 God about. We're perplexed but not in 320 00:17:41,440 --> 00:17:44,240 despair. We're persecuted but not 321 00:17:44,240 --> 00:17:47,000 forsaken. And yes, we may be struck down, 322 00:17:47,120 --> 00:17:48,760 but we're not destroyed. Why? 323 00:17:48,760 --> 00:17:52,280 Because we're always carrying about in the body the dying of 324 00:17:52,280 --> 00:17:55,600 the Lord Jesus Christ. That the life of Jesus also may 325 00:17:55,600 --> 00:18:00,800 be manifested in our bodies. For we who live, I love what he 326 00:18:00,800 --> 00:18:03,800 says right here. For we who live are always 327 00:18:03,800 --> 00:18:08,240 delivered to death for Jesus sake, that the life of Jesus 328 00:18:08,240 --> 00:18:11,320 also may be manifested in our mortal flesh. 329 00:18:11,520 --> 00:18:15,040 So then death is working in us, but life in you. 330 00:18:15,480 --> 00:18:18,240 And since we have the same spirit of faith according to 331 00:18:18,240 --> 00:18:21,680 what is written, I believed and therefore I spoke, we also 332 00:18:21,680 --> 00:18:25,560 believe and therefore speak, knowing that he who raised up 333 00:18:25,560 --> 00:18:28,800 the Lord Jesus will also. Isn't that powerful to know that 334 00:18:28,800 --> 00:18:33,760 I will also raise us up with Jesus and will present us with 335 00:18:33,760 --> 00:18:38,160 you for all things or for our your sakes. 336 00:18:38,160 --> 00:18:41,960 That grace having spread through many calls Thanksgiving to a 337 00:18:41,960 --> 00:18:47,120 bound to the glory of God. Therefore, he says do not lose 338 00:18:47,120 --> 00:18:51,920 heart even though our outward man is perishing yet inward the 339 00:18:51,920 --> 00:18:54,640 inward man is being renewed day by day. 340 00:18:55,240 --> 00:18:58,280 See, we realize this because we're a new creation that are a 341 00:18:58,280 --> 00:19:02,760 lot of afflictions, which is but for a moment is working for us a 342 00:19:02,760 --> 00:19:07,400 far more excellent and eternal weight of glory, while we do not 343 00:19:07,400 --> 00:19:09,680 look at the things which are seen. 344 00:19:09,680 --> 00:19:11,960 You want something to work on this week, Go look at the thing. 345 00:19:12,160 --> 00:19:14,640 Go, go, go not. Look at the things which you 346 00:19:14,640 --> 00:19:17,880 see. Stop believing your eyes, but at 347 00:19:17,880 --> 00:19:21,680 the things which are not seen. For the things which are seen 348 00:19:21,880 --> 00:19:24,240 are temporary. That's mind boggling. 349 00:19:24,240 --> 00:19:27,120 They're only temporary. They're not going to last and 350 00:19:27,120 --> 00:19:28,600 they're going to melt with forever and heat and be 351 00:19:28,600 --> 00:19:31,200 destroyed. But the things which are not 352 00:19:31,200 --> 00:19:34,760 seen, the things which we cannot see are eternal. 353 00:19:34,840 --> 00:19:37,280 They're going to last forever. And the only way we're going to 354 00:19:37,280 --> 00:19:43,320 see it is by faith. See, our worship, our happiness 355 00:19:43,680 --> 00:19:46,080 doesn't depend on the outside circumstance. 356 00:19:46,080 --> 00:19:49,120 You know, if, if pastoring a church has taught me anything, I 357 00:19:49,120 --> 00:19:53,280 have learned this. I have learned this. 358 00:19:53,280 --> 00:19:56,040 Have you, Sister Linda, all the times you had to go to church 359 00:19:56,040 --> 00:19:58,560 and step behind the pulpit and all hell was breaking loose in 360 00:19:58,560 --> 00:20:01,280 your life and you got to get up there and you got to preach, you 361 00:20:01,280 --> 00:20:02,840 got to smile, you got to worship God. 362 00:20:02,840 --> 00:20:05,280 I didn't before I started pastoring, I really I'd, I'd 363 00:20:05,280 --> 00:20:08,160 kind of, I'd kind of take a little break from worshiping God 364 00:20:08,160 --> 00:20:09,880 when things went wrong in life sometime. 365 00:20:09,880 --> 00:20:13,480 Anybody ever did that? But see that it doesn't depend 366 00:20:13,480 --> 00:20:17,760 on the outside circumstances or what's going on around us. 367 00:20:18,240 --> 00:20:20,520 Most Christians never reached that point. 368 00:20:21,520 --> 00:20:24,920 That knowing that no, they're just up if things are good and 369 00:20:24,920 --> 00:20:26,680 if God didn't meet it, they're down. 370 00:20:28,960 --> 00:20:32,880 But I know it's about to change. We know it's about to change 371 00:20:33,120 --> 00:20:35,920 because on the inside, because on the outside we're wasting 372 00:20:35,920 --> 00:20:37,960 away, but on the inside we're being renewed. 373 00:20:37,960 --> 00:20:41,120 I love where I love that word He put in there daily. 374 00:20:41,600 --> 00:20:45,360 It's not a long time from now I can be renewed daily. 375 00:20:46,120 --> 00:20:49,800 Philippians 4 and 11 and 12 is another great one to go to. 376 00:20:49,800 --> 00:20:54,680 As we read on, it says not that I speak in regard to need, for I 377 00:20:54,680 --> 00:21:00,560 have learned in whatever state I am, to be content. 378 00:21:00,560 --> 00:21:03,840 That'd be a great characteristic to have, wouldn't it? 379 00:21:04,480 --> 00:21:06,560 He goes on to say. I know how to. 380 00:21:06,880 --> 00:21:10,120 I know how to be a base, and I know how to abound everywhere in 381 00:21:10,120 --> 00:21:12,640 all things. I've learned both to be full and 382 00:21:12,640 --> 00:21:16,520 to be hungry, both to abound and to suffer need. 383 00:21:17,280 --> 00:21:19,160 Most people don't. You know, there's a lot of 384 00:21:19,160 --> 00:21:22,640 people right now not getting a paycheck due to people that's 385 00:21:22,640 --> 00:21:25,360 getting paid not doing their job, right? 386 00:21:26,560 --> 00:21:30,840 Surely somebody could figure out a way to get along, to get the 387 00:21:30,840 --> 00:21:34,560 same things done. But there's people going crazy 388 00:21:34,560 --> 00:21:36,120 because they don't get a paycheck. 389 00:21:36,600 --> 00:21:39,560 And it's rightfully so. But I've been in that situation 390 00:21:39,560 --> 00:21:41,560 all my life, rodeoing, contracting. 391 00:21:41,560 --> 00:21:45,160 But but the thing of it is we got to know where the paycheck 392 00:21:45,160 --> 00:21:47,320 comes from. God, it says that he's the one 393 00:21:47,560 --> 00:21:50,320 that gives us the power to get wealth. 394 00:21:50,320 --> 00:21:53,560 Sure, it takes a job, but he's the one that gives you the power 395 00:21:53,840 --> 00:21:55,520 to get that. Aren't you glad you're a new 396 00:21:55,520 --> 00:21:59,880 creation tonight and you can go on as apostle, as apostle Paul 397 00:21:59,880 --> 00:22:04,520 said, I can do all things through Christ who strengthens 398 00:22:04,520 --> 00:22:07,120 me. Do you remember where you were 399 00:22:07,120 --> 00:22:09,280 when the Savior reached down for you? 400 00:22:09,280 --> 00:22:12,760 Aren't you glad to know that who you are tonight because you know 401 00:22:12,760 --> 00:22:17,040 who he is and Psalms chapter 51. I want to do a little reading 402 00:22:17,040 --> 00:22:18,280 here. It's a great passage of 403 00:22:18,280 --> 00:22:22,520 Scripture. But the reason we we need to 404 00:22:22,520 --> 00:22:29,240 keep this new spirit about us. We have to keep this new spirit 405 00:22:29,240 --> 00:22:34,720 about us is because I've never we we look to the returning of 406 00:22:34,720 --> 00:22:38,080 Christ, but in the returning of Christ there's going to be a 407 00:22:38,080 --> 00:22:43,120 great falling away. The Bible speaks of, I hear it 408 00:22:43,120 --> 00:22:47,080 every, it seems like every few weeks I hear of it churches 409 00:22:47,080 --> 00:22:50,320 closing. That's been around longer than 410 00:22:50,320 --> 00:22:54,520 this one pastor and his wife getting a divorce after 30 years 411 00:22:54,520 --> 00:22:56,960 and having to shut the church down. 412 00:22:57,960 --> 00:23:00,400 And you know the thing that always rings, I've always kept 413 00:23:00,400 --> 00:23:02,520 this at the top of my Christian walk. 414 00:23:02,520 --> 00:23:04,640 And I was sharing on the phone yesterday. 415 00:23:04,640 --> 00:23:08,760 A guy told me he said I like a church, but we, we, we disagree 416 00:23:08,760 --> 00:23:11,680 on on being once saved, always saved. 417 00:23:11,680 --> 00:23:13,560 He said you can't lose your salvation. 418 00:23:13,560 --> 00:23:15,240 I said we don't disagree on that. 419 00:23:15,240 --> 00:23:19,560 I said you word it differently because you think they weren't 420 00:23:19,560 --> 00:23:22,520 saved if they weren't truly if they there, if there wasn't a 421 00:23:22,520 --> 00:23:24,640 change in their life, they weren't truly saved. 422 00:23:24,640 --> 00:23:27,280 And I said I don't discourage people with telling them when 423 00:23:27,280 --> 00:23:30,440 they prayed the sinner's prayer that God didn't move in their 424 00:23:30,440 --> 00:23:31,960 life and there was something different. 425 00:23:31,960 --> 00:23:34,800 But I but, but I said, if you want to sit down and look at the 426 00:23:34,800 --> 00:23:38,240 scripture, I can show you that we don't agree, disagree because 427 00:23:38,240 --> 00:23:39,760 I know you know what the word says. 428 00:23:39,760 --> 00:23:43,000 And if you let me show you, you will, you will see it like I see 429 00:23:43,000 --> 00:23:45,280 it. And I really believe that. 430 00:23:46,400 --> 00:23:51,920 But it's a bad place to live in to think that you're all, you're 431 00:23:51,920 --> 00:23:55,600 sealed for eternity. And no matter what you do on 432 00:23:55,600 --> 00:24:00,240 this earth, it's really prideful because I know without God, I 433 00:24:00,240 --> 00:24:03,400 can do nothing. And I know if I turn my back on 434 00:24:03,400 --> 00:24:06,640 God and walk over, walk the other way, there's no telling 435 00:24:06,640 --> 00:24:09,680 what I would be. And I think that's what keeps us 436 00:24:09,680 --> 00:24:12,280 going. I think that's what fuels the 437 00:24:12,280 --> 00:24:15,480 fire of the believer. And I believe if David could 438 00:24:15,480 --> 00:24:19,480 come back today, and I'm talking about being a a new creation in 439 00:24:19,480 --> 00:24:23,480 Christ Jesus, I used to hear Charles Stanley and Jared, you 440 00:24:23,480 --> 00:24:24,840 might not put this on there tonight. 441 00:24:24,840 --> 00:24:28,400 I don't care if you do. But if I save me some phone 442 00:24:28,400 --> 00:24:34,120 calls, pick you another one to put on the deal, but I really 443 00:24:34,120 --> 00:24:35,880 don't care anymore. The truth's the truth. 444 00:24:35,880 --> 00:24:38,480 I love Charles Stanley, I loved a lot of his teachings. 445 00:24:39,000 --> 00:24:42,360 I think he was a great man of God, but he believed in the 446 00:24:42,360 --> 00:24:45,040 Calvinistic belief of once saved, always saved. 447 00:24:45,040 --> 00:24:48,200 He believed that no matter what you did in this life, you would 448 00:24:48,200 --> 00:24:51,240 not lose your salvation. You would suffer repercussions 449 00:24:51,240 --> 00:24:53,760 in this life. The devil could attack you more 450 00:24:53,760 --> 00:24:56,760 if you send more in this life and and you would you know, you 451 00:24:56,760 --> 00:25:00,040 would have to deal with some of the repercussions of the sin. 452 00:25:00,040 --> 00:25:03,680 What reap what you sowed in this life, but it was never going to 453 00:25:03,680 --> 00:25:09,000 affect your eternal destiny. But when we read about the 454 00:25:09,000 --> 00:25:11,760 judgement seat of Christ that we're going to give an account 455 00:25:12,440 --> 00:25:15,080 of those things and they will be rewarded. 456 00:25:15,080 --> 00:25:19,560 But but I think of David when I think of that because I don't 457 00:25:19,560 --> 00:25:23,120 see how you could have a new created spirit because he would 458 00:25:23,120 --> 00:25:26,240 preach against sin. He would preach all these things 459 00:25:26,240 --> 00:25:29,520 against sin and and then I was listening one day and then he 460 00:25:29,520 --> 00:25:34,680 said, but no matter what you do, nothing can separate you from 461 00:25:34,680 --> 00:25:36,360 God. You have an eternal home in 462 00:25:36,360 --> 00:25:37,560 heaven. You will suffer that. 463 00:25:37,560 --> 00:25:41,040 And I thought, why try, Why pray? 464 00:25:41,040 --> 00:25:44,240 Why overcome all these and all these things? 465 00:25:44,240 --> 00:25:47,400 It just kind of takes the, the, the glory out of it. 466 00:25:47,400 --> 00:25:49,360 But I think a David, David was a king. 467 00:25:49,360 --> 00:25:53,000 David was anointed by God. He was appointed king. 468 00:25:53,000 --> 00:25:57,480 We know that, right? And the Bible teaches that David 469 00:25:57,480 --> 00:26:02,480 was a man after God's own heart. He was the apple of his eye. 470 00:26:02,480 --> 00:26:08,080 And and we know those things. But in Psalms chapter 51, David 471 00:26:08,080 --> 00:26:11,760 wrote a lot of the Psalms. But this Psalm 51 is very 472 00:26:11,760 --> 00:26:15,600 different that David wrote because David wrote the Psalm. 473 00:26:15,600 --> 00:26:20,080 It's believed to be when Nathan the prophet had went to him 474 00:26:20,920 --> 00:26:25,000 after he had had a a marital extramarital affair with 475 00:26:25,000 --> 00:26:30,080 Bathsheba and he had had her husband killed by placing him on 476 00:26:30,080 --> 00:26:33,120 the front battle line so he could take her as his wife and 477 00:26:33,120 --> 00:26:37,240 had a child with her. And we know the story. 478 00:26:37,240 --> 00:26:41,800 The child did not live. God did not allow that to 479 00:26:41,800 --> 00:26:45,520 happen. But David had come to the place 480 00:26:45,520 --> 00:26:49,320 that that I think maybe he, you know, maybe was feeling like he 481 00:26:49,320 --> 00:26:55,360 was OK, but he wrote this Psalm after that happened. 482 00:26:56,120 --> 00:26:58,480 He wrote these things I'm going to read to you in closing 483 00:26:58,480 --> 00:27:04,320 tonight because David now knew how important the new created 484 00:27:04,320 --> 00:27:07,880 spirit that I've been preaching for four weeks about was. 485 00:27:08,800 --> 00:27:12,760 We have to have a new spirit. And he starts out in verse one 486 00:27:12,760 --> 00:27:16,160 of Psalms 51. It says, Have mercy upon me, O 487 00:27:16,160 --> 00:27:20,480 God, according to your love and kindness, and according to your 488 00:27:20,480 --> 00:27:23,960 tender mercies. Blot out my transgressions, wash 489 00:27:23,960 --> 00:27:29,000 me thoroughly from my iniquity, and cleanse me from my sin. 490 00:27:29,560 --> 00:27:32,520 And I begin to think about that David was praying something 491 00:27:32,520 --> 00:27:35,840 there that he really had not seen. 492 00:27:36,040 --> 00:27:39,440 He was asking for forgiveness. But let's keep in mind, the 493 00:27:39,440 --> 00:27:41,680 blood of Jesus had not been shed yet. 494 00:27:42,280 --> 00:27:46,560 There had been no nothing that could wipe it away forever. 495 00:27:47,440 --> 00:27:50,000 And David was yet crying out for men. 496 00:27:50,000 --> 00:27:53,360 I this guy beside me when I read this today, he was crying out 497 00:27:53,360 --> 00:27:58,600 for that which we now have. He was crying out that all this 498 00:27:58,600 --> 00:28:02,200 thing that I've done could just be forgotten and and be wiped 499 00:28:02,200 --> 00:28:05,240 away and never I wish I'd have never done. 500 00:28:05,240 --> 00:28:09,160 Can you imagine being a king and being in that place and and, and 501 00:28:09,160 --> 00:28:12,040 having this? I begin to think men of standing 502 00:28:12,040 --> 00:28:15,360 behind the pulpit preaching the gospel every week. 503 00:28:15,360 --> 00:28:18,440 What if I stumbled for a minute? What if I failed? 504 00:28:18,440 --> 00:28:23,640 And what if this was me? And it could be, it could be 505 00:28:23,640 --> 00:28:25,600 you. You could be the one that 506 00:28:25,720 --> 00:28:29,080 they're talking about next week at church that that used to go 507 00:28:29,080 --> 00:28:30,720 to church. Man, they were in tune. 508 00:28:30,840 --> 00:28:34,200 They knew Christ, they knew God and they love God. 509 00:28:34,200 --> 00:28:36,240 But but I don't know what happened to him. 510 00:28:36,240 --> 00:28:39,000 Look at what they're doing now. We could be, you could be the 511 00:28:39,000 --> 00:28:43,480 very next one and never saying you can't come back. 512 00:28:43,840 --> 00:28:47,440 But you, you kill your witness, nobody's going to listen to you. 513 00:28:47,760 --> 00:28:50,680 And all the good that we that we've done for people, it would 514 00:28:50,680 --> 00:28:54,240 just be, it would just be vanished because they look at 515 00:28:54,240 --> 00:28:58,600 the one time you fail. That's why I think about Jimmy 516 00:28:58,600 --> 00:29:01,440 Swaggart many times. What a great, what a great man 517 00:29:01,440 --> 00:29:04,040 to come back. I don't know that I could have 518 00:29:04,040 --> 00:29:07,040 come back from that. Most preachers sit down and say, 519 00:29:07,040 --> 00:29:10,040 well, I failed and I'm done. Yet he went on to do mighty 520 00:29:10,040 --> 00:29:13,280 things of work, work for God. We call it blasphemy. 521 00:29:13,280 --> 00:29:16,400 I've heard people do that because he, he once fell and now 522 00:29:16,400 --> 00:29:18,760 I did that. But I think it's better to get 523 00:29:18,760 --> 00:29:23,800 up and keep going and still leading people to Jesus because 524 00:29:23,800 --> 00:29:27,280 now you can tell somebody, you can take that filthy rag that's 525 00:29:27,280 --> 00:29:29,840 in your life and you can say, look what God did to it. 526 00:29:30,080 --> 00:29:34,440 Look what he made of it because it says that our greatest 527 00:29:34,440 --> 00:29:38,400 righteousness before God is but what filthy rags. 528 00:29:39,600 --> 00:29:41,480 But think about David, how he wrote this. 529 00:29:41,480 --> 00:29:43,480 Go home and read it. I'm not going to read it all, 530 00:29:43,480 --> 00:29:46,720 but I want to go back up here to verse 5. 531 00:29:46,720 --> 00:29:50,280 It said, behold, I was brought forth in iniquity. 532 00:29:50,280 --> 00:29:53,120 He begins to think about his life and in sin my mother 533 00:29:53,120 --> 00:29:56,680 conceived me. Behold, you desire truth and 534 00:29:56,680 --> 00:30:01,000 inward parts and in the hidden part you will make me to know 535 00:30:01,000 --> 00:30:04,600 wisdom. And he said in verse 7, he said, 536 00:30:04,880 --> 00:30:10,000 he said, purge me with hasop. See, David was begging for 537 00:30:10,000 --> 00:30:12,280 cleansing. He was begging forgiveness. 538 00:30:12,280 --> 00:30:16,240 Hasop was a it was a, an Evergreen plant that they use 539 00:30:16,240 --> 00:30:18,520 for purity, kind of like germ X today. 540 00:30:18,520 --> 00:30:22,000 I guess it they would use hasop and they had in their mind that 541 00:30:22,000 --> 00:30:24,400 it would clean. And Davis just pour the hasop 542 00:30:24,400 --> 00:30:27,120 all over me that I shall be cleansed. 543 00:30:27,120 --> 00:30:30,120 Wash me and I shall be whiter than snow. 544 00:30:31,760 --> 00:30:38,560 Make me hear joy and gladness that the bones you have broken 545 00:30:38,560 --> 00:30:41,520 may rejoice. Hide your face from my sins and 546 00:30:41,800 --> 00:30:45,360 blot out all of my iniquities. He was pleading for the blood 547 00:30:45,360 --> 00:30:48,200 right here. He knew what the blood was 548 00:30:48,200 --> 00:30:52,080 before the blood was shed. But I love what he said right 549 00:30:52,080 --> 00:30:56,080 here. He realized his heart wasn't 550 00:30:56,080 --> 00:30:58,800 clean. See, we have to realize our 551 00:30:58,800 --> 00:31:02,360 heart is not clean apart from Jesus Christ and he's the only 552 00:31:02,360 --> 00:31:08,400 one that can create this in us. He said created me a clean 553 00:31:08,400 --> 00:31:11,480 heart. O God, can you think about David 554 00:31:11,480 --> 00:31:14,560 this this prayer really meant something to David right here. 555 00:31:15,080 --> 00:31:18,000 I failed you. I committed adultery. 556 00:31:18,000 --> 00:31:21,120 I had a man murdered in I was the king. 557 00:31:21,120 --> 00:31:24,440 I'm supposed to know God. I'm supposed to be close to God 558 00:31:24,440 --> 00:31:28,080 and yet this is happening. And look what he said right 559 00:31:28,080 --> 00:31:29,800 here. He said, just create a clean 560 00:31:29,800 --> 00:31:34,360 heart in me, oh God, and renew a steadfast spirit. 561 00:31:34,360 --> 00:31:38,760 David knew the importance right here now, after he had fell, 562 00:31:38,840 --> 00:31:43,160 after his life was about to be in shambles, after he had prayed 563 00:31:43,160 --> 00:31:47,600 for God not to take his child, he said, renewing me a 564 00:31:47,600 --> 00:31:50,240 steadfastness. See, there's an importance in 565 00:31:50,240 --> 00:31:53,640 staying steadfast with God. There's importance in coming and 566 00:31:53,640 --> 00:31:55,840 hearing the word of God when you don't feel like it. 567 00:31:55,840 --> 00:31:59,160 Hey, man, there's an importance in staying steadfastness because 568 00:31:59,160 --> 00:32:01,680 when God, when the enemy is trying to keep you from hearing 569 00:32:01,680 --> 00:32:04,360 the word of God, he's trying to keep you from getting faith to 570 00:32:04,360 --> 00:32:07,480 overcome the struggles and the battles that you're facing. 571 00:32:09,800 --> 00:32:13,920 Do not cast me away from your presence, man. 572 00:32:13,920 --> 00:32:17,840 Look what he said right here. Do not take your Holy Spirit 573 00:32:18,640 --> 00:32:25,440 from me. Restore to me the joy of your 574 00:32:25,440 --> 00:32:28,600 salvation. Do you think David thought he 575 00:32:28,600 --> 00:32:31,880 had lost something right here? Sounds like it. 576 00:32:32,320 --> 00:32:36,080 He said restore. I know before I did that there 577 00:32:36,080 --> 00:32:38,360 was something that was wrong in my spirit. 578 00:32:39,040 --> 00:32:40,440 That's why I'm preaching to y'all. 579 00:32:40,440 --> 00:32:43,400 I'm preaching to all these people every week about create 580 00:32:43,400 --> 00:32:46,080 this new thing. You got to stir it. 581 00:32:46,080 --> 00:32:48,920 God will do the work, but you got to stir it and you got to 582 00:32:48,920 --> 00:32:52,240 give the Holy Spirit free reign in your life. 583 00:32:53,080 --> 00:32:58,480 Do not cast me away from Your presence and do not take Your 584 00:32:58,480 --> 00:33:03,400 Holy Spirit from me. Restore to me the joy of Your 585 00:33:03,400 --> 00:33:08,840 salvation and uphold me by Your generous Spirit as you stand 586 00:33:08,840 --> 00:33:14,160 Your feet tonight. This one really got me, he says. 587 00:33:14,160 --> 00:33:21,040 Then I will teach transgressors, transgressors your ways, and 588 00:33:21,040 --> 00:33:24,040 sinners shall be converted to you. 589 00:33:25,520 --> 00:33:28,560 And then awesome. So you after you've had that 590 00:33:29,440 --> 00:33:32,640 clean heart created in you, after you've had that 591 00:33:32,640 --> 00:33:35,640 steadfastness of that new created spirit that we're 592 00:33:35,640 --> 00:33:39,240 talking about, and after you realize that the Holy Spirit has 593 00:33:39,240 --> 00:33:43,640 left you, but it's returned, you got something to to joy about, 594 00:33:45,120 --> 00:33:50,480 but it's a whole lot easier. It's a whole lot easier if we 595 00:33:50,480 --> 00:33:54,480 would do that first, if we would do that first. 596 00:33:54,960 --> 00:33:57,400 Thank God, he loves us where we were at. 597 00:33:57,400 --> 00:34:02,040 Thank God he reached way down. I love to tell young people, you 598 00:34:02,040 --> 00:34:05,200 know, testimonies are great, but you don't have to have one. 599 00:34:06,560 --> 00:34:11,280 You don't have to go through all those bad things if you're just 600 00:34:11,280 --> 00:34:16,080 asking to come into your life. As this song plays. 601 00:34:16,080 --> 00:34:19,159 Would you gather around tonight and thank Him that He reach way 602 00:34:19,159 --> 00:34:21,600 down for you? Would you say God just clean, 603 00:34:21,600 --> 00:34:23,560 Create a clean heart in me tonight? 604 00:34:25,040 --> 00:34:27,639 Thanks for listening to the Cross Powered Church podcast. 605 00:34:27,960 --> 00:34:31,600 May you know that true hope, peace, and salvation can only be 606 00:34:31,600 --> 00:34:35,000 found in Jesus. If you're near Campbell, TX, we 607 00:34:35,000 --> 00:34:37,120 would love for you to join us in person. 608 00:34:37,679 --> 00:34:40,679 You can find service times at crosspowerchurch.com.