1 00:00:02,840 --> 00:00:05,720 You're listening to Key Life Fellowship's pulpit ministry 2 00:00:05,720 --> 00:00:08,920 podcast. We thank you for tuning in as we 3 00:00:08,920 --> 00:00:12,280 learn from God's Word together. If you would like more 4 00:00:12,280 --> 00:00:15,760 information regarding Key Life or to speak with one of our 5 00:00:15,760 --> 00:00:20,920 pastors, please visit us at keylifefellow-ship.com. 6 00:00:22,800 --> 00:00:27,280 Said to the first service, and I'll say it again now, I believe 7 00:00:27,280 --> 00:00:29,600 even an Episcopalian can preach after that song. 8 00:00:33,680 --> 00:00:37,480 It was finished upon the cross. That is the hope that we have. 9 00:00:37,480 --> 00:00:41,080 That is the reason that we are here today, finished work of 10 00:00:41,080 --> 00:00:44,400 Calvary through the death, the burial, the resurrection of the 11 00:00:44,400 --> 00:00:46,720 Lord Jesus Christ and we rejoice in that. 12 00:00:46,720 --> 00:00:49,520 You have your Bibles. If you would go ahead and turn 13 00:00:49,520 --> 00:00:51,960 to Mark's Gospel. We're going to be looking at the 14 00:00:51,960 --> 00:00:54,560 1st chapter in the Gospel of Mark today. 15 00:00:56,760 --> 00:00:58,600 We're going to look at a few verses here. 16 00:00:59,440 --> 00:01:03,400 I'm going to take the time to exposit the truths that we see 17 00:01:03,400 --> 00:01:07,520 in them. Last week, if you were here, you 18 00:01:07,520 --> 00:01:12,120 learned something very important in regard to the gospel. 19 00:01:12,120 --> 00:01:15,840 As we've been going through a series entitled There is one 20 00:01:16,000 --> 00:01:19,080 gospel. We learned last week about an 21 00:01:19,080 --> 00:01:21,320 element that many people leave out of the gospel. 22 00:01:21,320 --> 00:01:24,960 That is the bad news. That makes the good news so 23 00:01:24,960 --> 00:01:26,680 good. And we learned that the bad news 24 00:01:26,680 --> 00:01:31,480 was delivered at Mount Sinai by God himself to Moses, who then 25 00:01:31,480 --> 00:01:35,560 distributed to God's people that law was given to Moses. 26 00:01:35,560 --> 00:01:38,240 We know that as the 10 commandments and and the 27 00:01:38,240 --> 00:01:41,320 Decalogue and those 10 commandments would would serve 28 00:01:41,320 --> 00:01:46,800 as a a synopsis of all of the 613 additional commandments that 29 00:01:46,800 --> 00:01:51,200 he would receive from the Lord. And we learned that a person is 30 00:01:51,200 --> 00:01:58,240 not set free by the law, but a person is actually condemned by 31 00:01:58,240 --> 00:02:00,640 the law. Because as we read through the 32 00:02:00,640 --> 00:02:04,680 10 commandments, what we learned very quickly is this, that there 33 00:02:04,680 --> 00:02:07,960 are none of us who do right all of the time. 34 00:02:07,960 --> 00:02:09,759 There's none righteous, no, not one. 35 00:02:09,759 --> 00:02:12,600 We walked through those commands and we found out very quickly 36 00:02:12,600 --> 00:02:15,840 last week that we don't meet God's holy standard. 37 00:02:17,080 --> 00:02:19,480 And there are none of you in this room who could, in and of 38 00:02:19,480 --> 00:02:23,840 yourself, by your own power, ever meet God's perfect 39 00:02:23,840 --> 00:02:27,000 standard. You are shamefully guilty of 40 00:02:27,000 --> 00:02:28,880 sin. We talked about it in detail 41 00:02:28,880 --> 00:02:31,280 last week. I don't intend to go back and 42 00:02:31,280 --> 00:02:33,760 preach that message again, though we might need to hear it. 43 00:02:34,960 --> 00:02:37,440 But hopefully you remember. But you get the gist of it 44 00:02:37,440 --> 00:02:41,160 today, where the 10 commandments weren't designed to bring us 45 00:02:41,160 --> 00:02:45,280 live, but to show us that we deserve death. 46 00:02:46,240 --> 00:02:48,560 And in fact, when we look at them, we realize that we are 47 00:02:48,560 --> 00:02:56,920 alienated from God and from His Holiness, and we deserve God's 48 00:02:56,920 --> 00:03:03,520 wrath and His judgment upon us. We learn by the law that we are 49 00:03:03,760 --> 00:03:10,840 all, as declared by the law, sinners, depraved, that we are 50 00:03:11,800 --> 00:03:18,720 idolatrous, slanderous, murderous, adulterous, envious, 51 00:03:20,520 --> 00:03:27,800 lying, thieving sinners. And the law clearly displays 52 00:03:27,800 --> 00:03:30,240 that for us. That's why we refer to it as the 53 00:03:30,240 --> 00:03:35,880 bad news. Because it's bad news, though 54 00:03:35,880 --> 00:03:38,720 the law itself is good and is holy, but because it came from 55 00:03:38,720 --> 00:03:46,440 God, the actual diagnosis to man is bad. 56 00:03:48,040 --> 00:03:51,800 It condemns us, and rightfully so, because we're worthy of that 57 00:03:51,800 --> 00:03:55,120 condemnation. And we began there with the bad 58 00:03:55,120 --> 00:03:58,560 news so that we could begin to talk this week about the good 59 00:03:58,560 --> 00:04:01,920 news because, oh, how good the good news is. 60 00:04:03,040 --> 00:04:09,200 When we know how bad the bad news is, we know that in his 61 00:04:09,200 --> 00:04:11,440 gospel. In fact, as we've already 62 00:04:11,440 --> 00:04:14,440 discussed, that is what the very word means, Good news, good 63 00:04:14,440 --> 00:04:18,760 tidings, good message, you and Galion of God, the gospel. 64 00:04:19,560 --> 00:04:26,160 Because of the gospel, we have received good news from God, and 65 00:04:27,000 --> 00:04:32,320 God has revealed that good news unto man, and he revealed that 66 00:04:32,320 --> 00:04:36,880 good news unto man through the person and the work of the Lord 67 00:04:36,960 --> 00:04:41,440 Jesus Christ upon this earth. And it's only through the good 68 00:04:41,440 --> 00:04:45,240 news and believing and trusting and the good news that causes us 69 00:04:45,240 --> 00:04:47,800 to repent of our sin and to cling to Christ. 70 00:04:49,200 --> 00:04:55,080 It is only through the good news of the gospel that we will ever 71 00:04:55,080 --> 00:04:58,480 be free from the penalty of the bad news, which is the Law. 72 00:04:58,480 --> 00:05:04,880 AW Pink said it like this. He said the gospel is not good 73 00:05:04,880 --> 00:05:09,760 advice, but good news. It does not speak of what man is 74 00:05:09,760 --> 00:05:15,280 to do, but tells what Christ has done. 75 00:05:16,000 --> 00:05:20,160 We sing about, just a moment ago, the Gospel. 76 00:05:21,840 --> 00:05:31,600 This message is a revelation from God to man of the good news 77 00:05:31,600 --> 00:05:37,400 that the Lord of Jesus Christ will save us from the guilt and 78 00:05:37,400 --> 00:05:42,520 the penalty and the agony and the eternal wrath that sin 79 00:05:42,520 --> 00:05:47,560 brings upon our lives. So this message is not self 80 00:05:47,680 --> 00:05:50,840 help. This message is not human 81 00:05:50,840 --> 00:05:55,080 psychology. This message is not some formula 82 00:05:55,080 --> 00:05:58,680 for a better life, for five steps to live your best life 83 00:05:58,680 --> 00:06:06,360 now. This message is the good news, 84 00:06:06,920 --> 00:06:08,560 as we're going to see in Mark's gospel. 85 00:06:09,400 --> 00:06:13,120 Of God, the good news of God, I told you last week when we 86 00:06:13,120 --> 00:06:14,800 looked at the law, the bad news is. 87 00:06:16,120 --> 00:06:19,000 That there will be no sin that goes unpunished. 88 00:06:20,760 --> 00:06:24,800 And the good news of God says this for all who believe and 89 00:06:24,800 --> 00:06:29,480 trust in Jesus Christ. He bore the punishment of their 90 00:06:29,480 --> 00:06:35,760 sin in stead of them. So let us look at the gospel 91 00:06:35,760 --> 00:06:38,720 being revealed today. In Mark's Gospel. 92 00:06:39,400 --> 00:06:47,520 The truth is this that God sent his only Son, perfect, sinless, 93 00:06:47,520 --> 00:06:53,960 flawless to die on a cross in the place of wicked and evil 94 00:06:54,280 --> 00:07:03,560 transgressing law, breaking sinners to atone for them to 95 00:07:03,560 --> 00:07:05,120 make them right with their creator. 96 00:07:06,440 --> 00:07:09,280 And Jesus reveals that good news in Mark's gospel right here as 97 00:07:10,320 --> 00:07:13,280 his earthly ministry begins in Mark chapter one, verse 9. 98 00:07:13,280 --> 00:07:18,120 It says this At that time Jesus came from Nazareth in Galilee 99 00:07:18,120 --> 00:07:20,560 and was baptized by John in the Jordan. 100 00:07:21,400 --> 00:07:24,280 As Jesus was coming up out of the water, he saw heaven being 101 00:07:24,280 --> 00:07:27,200 torn open in the Spirit, descending on him like a dove, 102 00:07:27,840 --> 00:07:33,400 and a voice came from heaven. You are my son, whom I love with 103 00:07:33,400 --> 00:07:36,040 you. I am well. 104 00:07:36,240 --> 00:07:40,640 Pleased at once, the Spirit sent him out into the desert, and he 105 00:07:40,640 --> 00:07:43,320 was in the desert 40 days being tempted by Satan. 106 00:07:44,440 --> 00:07:47,080 He was with the wild animals and the angels attended him. 107 00:07:48,400 --> 00:07:51,920 And after John was put into prison, Speaking of John the 108 00:07:51,920 --> 00:07:56,920 Baptist, Jesus went into Galilee proclaiming the good news of 109 00:07:56,920 --> 00:07:59,560 God. The time has come, he said. 110 00:08:00,000 --> 00:08:02,160 In case you were ever wondering how Jesus preached the good 111 00:08:02,160 --> 00:08:05,960 news, the time has come. He said the Kingdom of God is 112 00:08:05,960 --> 00:08:07,680 near. In fact, the King is standing 113 00:08:07,680 --> 00:08:12,960 before you. He said repent and believe the 114 00:08:12,960 --> 00:08:15,920 good news. Let's pray together. 115 00:08:15,920 --> 00:08:22,280 Father, in the name of Jesus, we come to you today excited and 116 00:08:22,280 --> 00:08:26,280 anticipating the good news that was revealed in Christ. 117 00:08:27,080 --> 00:08:29,840 For some of us it may be the first time that we have heard 118 00:08:29,840 --> 00:08:33,360 this life changing, soul saving good news. 119 00:08:34,679 --> 00:08:39,240 To others, this may be thousands of times that we have heard this 120 00:08:39,240 --> 00:08:42,039 wonderful message. When I pray that those who have 121 00:08:42,039 --> 00:08:44,000 heard it many times would rejoice again. 122 00:08:45,400 --> 00:08:48,000 That those who have not heard it until this day. 123 00:08:49,360 --> 00:08:53,000 That you would use the proclamation of the gospel to 124 00:08:53,000 --> 00:08:58,000 stir them to life, to regenerate them, showing them their need 125 00:08:58,000 --> 00:09:03,080 for Savior, showing them the filthiness of their sin, showing 126 00:09:03,080 --> 00:09:06,240 them that apart from Jesus Christ, they will receive the 127 00:09:06,240 --> 00:09:08,280 judgment and wrath that they deserve. 128 00:09:08,760 --> 00:09:10,600 The Lord, I ask today that you would shower. 129 00:09:10,600 --> 00:09:14,440 Them with your mercy in Christ, rescuing them and freeing them 130 00:09:14,440 --> 00:09:18,480 from the penalty of sin. God, we pray that your will be 131 00:09:18,480 --> 00:09:20,560 done. We ask that your Spirit 132 00:09:20,560 --> 00:09:22,240 enlighten us and teach us the truth. 133 00:09:22,240 --> 00:09:26,640 Today we pray all these things in Christ's name, Amen. 134 00:09:28,160 --> 00:09:31,280 As we look at this small section of Scripture, I'm going to go 135 00:09:31,280 --> 00:09:34,360 ahead and tell you this. There is a lot here. 136 00:09:36,440 --> 00:09:39,840 If you came for a snack today, this is the wrong place. 137 00:09:41,120 --> 00:09:45,800 We came to feast on the word of God and that is what we intend 138 00:09:45,800 --> 00:09:48,640 to do and we're going to look at it until we are done. 139 00:09:49,640 --> 00:09:54,200 So we begin here in the first few verses, 9 through 13 as we 140 00:09:54,200 --> 00:09:57,600 look at the good news and, and, and man, don't we need good news 141 00:09:57,600 --> 00:09:59,280 after hearing the bad news last week? 142 00:10:01,520 --> 00:10:05,800 Because when we read the law of God, we quickly realize that we 143 00:10:05,800 --> 00:10:10,520 are in trouble. We are destined to perish. 144 00:10:10,520 --> 00:10:13,920 And apart from a work of God, we are in trouble. 145 00:10:14,000 --> 00:10:16,840 And it is in the gospel. That's why it says the gospel of 146 00:10:16,840 --> 00:10:20,560 God, the good news of God. It is a work of God. 147 00:10:21,120 --> 00:10:23,920 It's not something that you do or something that I do so that 148 00:10:23,920 --> 00:10:26,080 we can be saved from the wrath that we deserve. 149 00:10:26,160 --> 00:10:30,160 It is something that he has done and I want us to see the 150 00:10:30,160 --> 00:10:33,800 entirety of that in the beauty of it as the scriptures unfold 151 00:10:33,800 --> 00:10:37,880 for us today. Verse 9 we go back to the 152 00:10:37,880 --> 00:10:40,080 baptism of Jesus the. Christ. 153 00:10:40,840 --> 00:10:43,680 And it says this, At that time Jesus came from Nazareth in 154 00:10:43,680 --> 00:10:46,200 Galilee and was baptized by John in the Jordan. 155 00:10:47,240 --> 00:10:50,440 And as Jesus was coming up out of the water, he saw heaven 156 00:10:50,440 --> 00:10:53,360 being torn open, the Spirit descending on him like a dog, 157 00:10:54,200 --> 00:11:01,080 and a voice came from heaven. You are my Son whom I love with 158 00:11:01,080 --> 00:11:05,720 you I am well pleased. God could have never said that 159 00:11:05,720 --> 00:11:08,960 about me. He could have looked at my life 160 00:11:08,960 --> 00:11:12,040 and said with you, I am indignant and full of wrath 161 00:11:12,040 --> 00:11:16,880 towards your wickedness, toward your sin, toward your hatred 162 00:11:17,240 --> 00:11:20,640 toward me. But the Christ, he says, this is 163 00:11:20,640 --> 00:11:25,080 my Son whom I love, and he says with you I am well pleased. 164 00:11:25,600 --> 00:11:28,200 It says that once the spirits sent him out into the desert and 165 00:11:28,200 --> 00:11:31,040 he was in the desert 40 days being tempted by Satan and he 166 00:11:31,040 --> 00:11:33,360 was with the wild animals and angels attended him. 167 00:11:33,360 --> 00:11:36,320 I know there are lots of things going on when you read Mark's 168 00:11:36,320 --> 00:11:38,000 gospel. You'll know this about Mark. 169 00:11:38,080 --> 00:11:40,440 He is going to tell it and it is going to be quick and to the 170 00:11:40,440 --> 00:11:42,000 point. He's going on to the next thing. 171 00:11:43,160 --> 00:11:46,480 He uses that term immediately quite often here. 172 00:11:46,480 --> 00:11:48,520 He's saying this. These things happen just like 173 00:11:48,520 --> 00:11:50,760 this. Let's look at them together. 174 00:11:50,760 --> 00:11:53,600 What is going on here in reference to the good news? 175 00:11:55,000 --> 00:11:58,760 It is revealing things to us. First, it reveals to us God's 176 00:11:58,760 --> 00:12:04,240 provided Savior. It is God who has provided this 177 00:12:04,240 --> 00:12:06,120 Savior. Write this down. 178 00:12:06,440 --> 00:12:12,320 He is a sent Savior. Verses 9 through 13 we see how 179 00:12:12,320 --> 00:12:18,080 obvious that is that Jesus was sent by the Father to this earth 180 00:12:18,320 --> 00:12:21,600 to redeem those the Father desired to redeem. 181 00:12:24,360 --> 00:12:31,280 The Lord Jesus was provided by the Father to do His sovereign 182 00:12:31,280 --> 00:12:35,400 will and bringing sinners unto a holy God. 183 00:12:35,720 --> 00:12:38,600 Don't miss that. Don't miss that going on in this 184 00:12:38,600 --> 00:12:42,040 text. Jesus was sent from the Father. 185 00:12:42,760 --> 00:12:47,360 Look how he speaks here. He says you are my son. 186 00:12:48,280 --> 00:12:51,880 He wants everybody to know that my stamp of approval is on the 187 00:12:51,880 --> 00:12:53,360 Christ. This is the Christ. 188 00:12:53,400 --> 00:12:56,960 When He says you are my son, He is saying we are of the same 189 00:12:57,160 --> 00:13:00,080 essence. He is saying, in fact, this is 190 00:13:00,080 --> 00:13:05,760 Emmanuel, God with us, the one that the prophets spoke of here, 191 00:13:05,760 --> 00:13:09,120 He. Is my son whom I love. 192 00:13:10,440 --> 00:13:14,640 Oh, the love that the Father has for the Son being displayed 193 00:13:14,640 --> 00:13:19,640 here. He says with you, I am well 194 00:13:19,640 --> 00:13:22,280 pleased. I want you to see that the 195 00:13:22,280 --> 00:13:27,680 Christ, the Son, the second person of the Triune Godhead, 196 00:13:27,680 --> 00:13:31,480 came. Because he was sent by the 197 00:13:31,480 --> 00:13:34,280 Father. It's important that we 198 00:13:34,280 --> 00:13:38,080 understand that because in that we see the beauty of the gospel. 199 00:13:38,360 --> 00:13:42,080 Because the gospel is not just trusting in the fact that 200 00:13:42,080 --> 00:13:49,080 someone died on a cross. It is knowing who that someone 201 00:13:49,240 --> 00:13:51,880 really is. It is knowing the person of 202 00:13:52,000 --> 00:13:54,960 Jesus Christ. And you see it here so plainly. 203 00:13:55,080 --> 00:13:57,800 I know we read through it often, so quickly that we say, oh, 204 00:13:57,800 --> 00:13:59,640 let's go, Jesus got baptized like me. 205 00:13:59,760 --> 00:14:05,160 No, you got baptized like him, and it's because of Him that the 206 00:14:05,160 --> 00:14:08,760 Father can now look at you and He can actually love you with 207 00:14:08,760 --> 00:14:10,960 the love that the Father has for the Son. 208 00:14:11,120 --> 00:14:13,960 And he can actually say I am well pleased with you, not 209 00:14:13,960 --> 00:14:16,560 because of you, but I am well pleased with you because you are 210 00:14:16,560 --> 00:14:19,280 in Christ and you are covered by His righteousness. 211 00:14:21,160 --> 00:14:23,600 So we see that he's sent by the Father. 212 00:14:23,600 --> 00:14:25,880 He is a sent Savior. John Calvin said this. 213 00:14:25,880 --> 00:14:30,160 He said, for the first thing we ought to observe is that what 214 00:14:30,160 --> 00:14:35,320 Christ did and suffered was by the appointment of the Father. 215 00:14:35,720 --> 00:14:43,200 Please understand this, Jesus was sent to this world from the 216 00:14:43,200 --> 00:14:46,480 Father. He was sent from the Father to 217 00:14:46,520 --> 00:14:50,480 save sinners. John 17 verse 3 says now this is 218 00:14:50,480 --> 00:14:55,800 eternal life, that they know you, the only true God and Jesus 219 00:14:55,800 --> 00:15:01,560 Christ whom you sent. It is the Son there coming, 220 00:15:02,280 --> 00:15:05,520 being sent by the Father to redeem sinners. 221 00:15:05,520 --> 00:15:09,200 John 317 says for God did not send his Son into the world to 222 00:15:09,200 --> 00:15:11,200 condemn the world. He didn't have to. 223 00:15:11,840 --> 00:15:14,160 Why? The law had already taken care 224 00:15:14,160 --> 00:15:16,600 of that. We saw the bad news, right? 225 00:15:16,600 --> 00:15:18,800 The bad news is that the law condemns all of us. 226 00:15:19,760 --> 00:15:23,080 He didn't send his Son into the world to condemn the world, but 227 00:15:23,080 --> 00:15:27,880 to save the world through him. So the Father sent the Son to 228 00:15:27,880 --> 00:15:30,840 save sinners. That's good news, isn't it? 229 00:15:31,000 --> 00:15:33,480 Because we discovered last week what we're. 230 00:15:33,480 --> 00:15:37,080 All sinners, you say? Well, Kirk, I didn't discover 231 00:15:37,080 --> 00:15:38,560 that last week. I've been knowing that my whole 232 00:15:38,560 --> 00:15:41,200 life, and rightfully so. You have, and you've proved it. 233 00:15:43,560 --> 00:15:46,200 But aren't you thankful for the good news that says God sent his 234 00:15:46,200 --> 00:15:51,120 only Son with the purpose of saving sinners, just like you 235 00:15:51,120 --> 00:15:54,600 and just like me? And not only did Jesus come sent 236 00:15:54,600 --> 00:15:58,360 by the Father to save sinners, he also came to reveal and to 237 00:15:58,360 --> 00:16:00,680 teach the Father's plan of salvation. 238 00:16:00,680 --> 00:16:03,200 That's why it's important that we get the Gospel right, because 239 00:16:03,200 --> 00:16:05,320 we saw a moment ago when we read through the entirety. 240 00:16:05,320 --> 00:16:09,520 Of the text, This is the good news of God, this is His story, 241 00:16:11,280 --> 00:16:15,520 this is His truth, so we have to believe it according to how He 242 00:16:15,520 --> 00:16:18,800 has revealed it. And Jesus was sent to this world 243 00:16:18,800 --> 00:16:23,360 to reveal and to teach the Father's plan according to the 244 00:16:23,360 --> 00:16:27,560 Father. John 7 verse 16 says Jesus 245 00:16:27,560 --> 00:16:29,480 answered, My teaching is not my own. 246 00:16:30,240 --> 00:16:31,760 It comes from the one who. Sent me. 247 00:16:32,600 --> 00:16:35,520 So when Jesus comes teaching the good news of the Gospel, he's 248 00:16:35,520 --> 00:16:38,520 actually teaching the plan of the Father that was preordained 249 00:16:38,520 --> 00:16:42,840 before the foundations of the earth to rescue people for his 250 00:16:42,840 --> 00:16:48,000 name's sake and for his glory. Here Jesus is here in Mark 251 00:16:48,000 --> 00:16:53,080 chapter 1 on the scene that sent Savior who came from the Father 252 00:16:53,080 --> 00:16:56,560 to save sinners and to reveal and to teach the Father's plan 253 00:16:56,560 --> 00:16:59,560 of salvation accurately, precise. 254 00:17:00,320 --> 00:17:03,160 That's why it's important that we get the gospel accurately and 255 00:17:03,160 --> 00:17:05,800 precise. God has not hidden these truths 256 00:17:05,960 --> 00:17:08,200 from us. We have just altered them to fit 257 00:17:08,200 --> 00:17:14,400 our culture. Jesus comes revealing God's 258 00:17:14,400 --> 00:17:17,760 provided Savior. He's here. 259 00:17:19,359 --> 00:17:25,960 He's doing what God desires that he does with God's approval. 260 00:17:25,960 --> 00:17:30,480 This is my Son that I love and whom I am well pleased. 261 00:17:30,960 --> 00:17:36,560 So he is here from the Father, but he's here for the Father to 262 00:17:36,560 --> 00:17:39,960 accomplish. The Father's will. 263 00:17:41,360 --> 00:17:43,040 You can go ahead and take your Bible now. 264 00:17:43,040 --> 00:17:45,960 If you have a bookmark or a pencil, just go ahead and put it 265 00:17:45,960 --> 00:17:48,040 in the Gospel of John. You're going to need it this 266 00:17:48,040 --> 00:17:52,160 morning. But because it is John who does 267 00:17:52,160 --> 00:17:57,120 such a great job and defining for us the the person of the 268 00:17:57,120 --> 00:18:02,960 Lord Jesus Christ and the fact that he came to accomplish the 269 00:18:02,960 --> 00:18:06,200 Father's will. This is not something that was 270 00:18:06,200 --> 00:18:09,960 created by any man. Man didn't look at the law and 271 00:18:09,960 --> 00:18:15,360 say Oh no, we need a savior. God gave man the law to show 272 00:18:15,360 --> 00:18:18,120 them that they needed a savior. And now here we have God 273 00:18:18,120 --> 00:18:22,960 providing and sending that Savior to do and to accomplish 274 00:18:23,080 --> 00:18:26,440 the Father's will. John chapter 5 verse 30. 275 00:18:26,600 --> 00:18:29,360 Jesus declares this by myself. I can do nothing. 276 00:18:29,920 --> 00:18:33,080 I judge only as I hear my judgement is just, for I seek 277 00:18:33,080 --> 00:18:36,920 not to please myself but. Him who sent me? 278 00:18:37,000 --> 00:18:40,080 What is Jesus saying? In eternity past, the Father and 279 00:18:40,080 --> 00:18:42,920 the Son have always been in 100% agreeance. 280 00:18:44,760 --> 00:18:48,160 Now I'm here to do His work precisely to accomplish the 281 00:18:48,160 --> 00:18:51,720 Father's will. John Chapter 7 verse 28 says 282 00:18:51,720 --> 00:18:53,080 this. Then Jesus, still teaching in 283 00:18:53,080 --> 00:18:55,560 the temple courts, cried out, Yes, you know me and you know 284 00:18:55,560 --> 00:18:58,080 where I'm from. I'm not here on my own 285 00:18:58,080 --> 00:19:01,360 authority, but he who sent me is true. 286 00:19:01,800 --> 00:19:06,000 You do not know Him, but I know Him because I am from Him and He 287 00:19:06,200 --> 00:19:10,400 sent me. Jesus making it very clear who 288 00:19:10,400 --> 00:19:13,240 he is. He's the one sent to accomplish 289 00:19:13,240 --> 00:19:19,200 the Father's will as our Savior. John chapter 8, verse 42. 290 00:19:19,200 --> 00:19:21,960 Jesus said to them, if God or your Father, you would love me 291 00:19:22,760 --> 00:19:26,080 for I've come here from God. I've not come on my own. 292 00:19:26,480 --> 00:19:29,920 God sent me. He said, well, Kirk, is it that 293 00:19:29,920 --> 00:19:33,080 poor important that we understand that Jesus came from 294 00:19:33,080 --> 00:19:35,200 the Father? It is crucial. 295 00:19:36,040 --> 00:19:38,560 It is crucial to knowing the true gospel. 296 00:19:38,680 --> 00:19:42,120 It is crucial to understanding orthodox Christianity. 297 00:19:42,240 --> 00:19:46,400 If you miss this, you miss the gospel. 298 00:19:47,000 --> 00:19:51,000 If you don't get this right, you don't have an adequate Savior. 299 00:19:51,360 --> 00:19:53,920 If you don't get this right, there is no forgiveness. 300 00:19:54,000 --> 00:19:56,720 If you don't get this right, the sacrifice of Jesus was for 301 00:19:56,720 --> 00:20:00,480 nothing, however, but Scripture gets it right. 302 00:20:00,520 --> 00:20:04,440 John 6, verse 38. Jesus does thrive come down from 303 00:20:04,440 --> 00:20:08,400 heaven to do my will, or not to do my will, Excuse me, but to do 304 00:20:08,400 --> 00:20:12,480 the will of him who sent me. And this is the will of him who 305 00:20:12,480 --> 00:20:18,960 sent me, that I shall. Lose none of all those he has 306 00:20:18,960 --> 00:20:23,440 given me, but raise them up at the last day. 307 00:20:24,440 --> 00:20:30,200 The Lord Jesus Christ on this earth, God Incarnate, the very 308 00:20:30,200 --> 00:20:33,040 second person of the triune and eternal Godhead. 309 00:20:33,040 --> 00:20:36,120 Here he is saying that I have come to do the will of the 310 00:20:36,120 --> 00:20:37,320 Father. And what is the will of the 311 00:20:37,320 --> 00:20:40,320 Father? It is to rescue all that the 312 00:20:40,320 --> 00:20:43,360 Father has given unto him. You know, that tells me very 313 00:20:43,360 --> 00:20:48,120 quickly there will be no vacant seats in heaven that the good 314 00:20:48,120 --> 00:20:51,320 news of the gospel will accomplish exactly what Jesus 315 00:20:51,320 --> 00:20:54,240 Christ declared it to accomplish. 316 00:20:54,680 --> 00:20:56,720 Through the message of this good news. 317 00:20:57,120 --> 00:21:02,400 Jesus Christ will rescue all that the Father has given unto 318 00:21:02,400 --> 00:21:07,920 him, no more, no less. I know that bothers some people, 319 00:21:07,920 --> 00:21:11,160 but you just go ahead and go back to John chapter 6 and you 320 00:21:11,160 --> 00:21:14,400 read the words of Jesus one more time there in 38 and 39. 321 00:21:16,640 --> 00:21:19,600 He's a sent Savior. Who came to accomplish the 322 00:21:19,600 --> 00:21:21,520 Father's will? And what is the Father's will? 323 00:21:21,520 --> 00:21:25,280 You know what the Father's will is in Christ. 324 00:21:27,520 --> 00:21:31,160 We saw last week that we are all under the condemnation of sin. 325 00:21:32,000 --> 00:21:35,960 We are all deserving of His wrath, and Jesus Christ did not 326 00:21:35,960 --> 00:21:39,000 come to this. Earth to rescue everyone from 327 00:21:39,000 --> 00:21:40,320 the wrath of God. You know how I know this? 328 00:21:40,320 --> 00:21:45,960 Everyone would be rescued. He came to rescue. 329 00:21:45,960 --> 00:21:49,600 Those that the father has willed to rescue. 330 00:21:50,280 --> 00:21:51,720 He said, well, that doesn't seem very gracious. 331 00:21:51,720 --> 00:21:53,440 It doesn't. I told you last week that we all 332 00:21:53,440 --> 00:21:55,160 deserve wrath and judgement in hell. 333 00:21:56,000 --> 00:21:58,440 The fact that he would save one is amazing. 334 00:21:58,680 --> 00:22:01,400 The fact that he would save one is grace beyond anything that 335 00:22:01,400 --> 00:22:06,000 mankind has ever deserved. But he saved the many, the all 336 00:22:06,280 --> 00:22:08,480 who's the Father has deemed for him to save. 337 00:22:08,640 --> 00:22:14,040 He came as a sent Savior, provided Savior. 338 00:22:15,240 --> 00:22:20,320 From the Father before the Father to accomplish God's 339 00:22:20,360 --> 00:22:24,840 eternal will and redemption. I want you to understand that 340 00:22:24,840 --> 00:22:27,000 because I don't want you, any of you thinking this, that God was 341 00:22:27,000 --> 00:22:28,840 sitting up in the heaven. This is how some people talk and 342 00:22:28,840 --> 00:22:32,440 it's foolishness that God was sitting up in the heaven and he 343 00:22:32,440 --> 00:22:37,040 saw that man fell into iniquity and said, Oh no, what am I going 344 00:22:37,040 --> 00:22:41,280 to do? Oh, if I just had enough wisdom 345 00:22:41,280 --> 00:22:46,320 to know what to do. No, before God ever sovereignly 346 00:22:46,320 --> 00:22:49,760 allowed man to fall into iniquity, you know this, he had 347 00:22:49,760 --> 00:22:51,680 already made a plan to redeem them. 348 00:22:51,760 --> 00:22:55,640 And when Jesus came to this earth, he revealed that plan 349 00:22:56,640 --> 00:23:01,360 sent from God sent Savior. Not only was this was he a sent 350 00:23:01,360 --> 00:23:03,880 Savior as we see here, he says this is my son. 351 00:23:04,240 --> 00:23:06,280 Don't just read over that as if. It's not important. 352 00:23:06,800 --> 00:23:10,000 This is His Son, second person of the Triune Godhead. 353 00:23:10,000 --> 00:23:12,440 Make no mistake who he is standing before you. 354 00:23:16,240 --> 00:23:24,080 Who I'm well pleased not only is this the one who was sent as a 355 00:23:24,080 --> 00:23:28,040 Savior from the Father for the Father to save sinners, to 356 00:23:28,040 --> 00:23:30,600 reveal and to teach the Father's plan of salvation and to 357 00:23:30,600 --> 00:23:32,840 accomplish the Father's will and saving sinners. 358 00:23:34,360 --> 00:23:36,960 This text also shows us who he is by the fact that he is a 359 00:23:36,960 --> 00:23:40,720 sinless savior. So he is a sin savior and he is 360 00:23:40,720 --> 00:23:42,560 a sinless savior. How do I know this? 361 00:23:44,280 --> 00:23:47,880 The Father said I'm well pleased with you and the Father who is 362 00:23:48,640 --> 00:23:53,720 holy could never say that he is well pleased with anything that 363 00:23:53,720 --> 00:23:57,360 is blemished by sin. And in fact, as we read. 364 00:23:57,360 --> 00:24:01,280 Through this text you're going to see that Jesus is fully 365 00:24:01,680 --> 00:24:04,360 perfect. He says you are my son, whom I 366 00:24:04,360 --> 00:24:06,320 love with you. I am well pleased. 367 00:24:06,320 --> 00:24:09,720 What does that say for a guy like me, A law breaker, 368 00:24:09,720 --> 00:24:12,640 transgressor, A Sinner? He's not pleased with me. 369 00:24:15,280 --> 00:24:17,840 And he doesn't love me with the love that he has for His Son. 370 00:24:19,240 --> 00:24:21,720 In fact, I am his enemy according to the Word of God. 371 00:24:21,720 --> 00:24:23,840 Apart from Jesus Christ, He's the only one who brings 372 00:24:23,840 --> 00:24:27,800 reconciliation to the Father. He is not well pleased with me. 373 00:24:28,440 --> 00:24:32,400 I am not His Son, and I'm deserving of His wrath. 374 00:24:33,360 --> 00:24:36,000 But he says the opposite about the Lord Jesus Christ. 375 00:24:37,000 --> 00:24:40,840 You are my Son whom I love with you. 376 00:24:40,880 --> 00:24:46,240 I am well pleased declaring that he is truly the sinless Messiah, 377 00:24:46,240 --> 00:24:50,400 the sinless Savior, fully perfect in all of his ways. 378 00:24:50,560 --> 00:24:53,960 First Peter chapter 2 verse 22 says is he committed no sin and 379 00:24:53,960 --> 00:24:57,280 no deceit was found in his mouth. 380 00:24:58,520 --> 00:25:03,160 Jesus pure and perfect. Why is this important? 381 00:25:03,720 --> 00:25:06,160 Well, there's many reasons why it is important, but let's look 382 00:25:06,160 --> 00:25:11,000 back at the law. The law required perfect 383 00:25:11,640 --> 00:25:17,320 sacrifice of atonement and there never had been one. 384 00:25:18,840 --> 00:25:21,640 Please understand that all of the lambs, all of the calves, 385 00:25:21,640 --> 00:25:25,000 without spot or without blemish. That means there were without 386 00:25:25,000 --> 00:25:28,280 spot and without blemish. According to a depraved human 387 00:25:28,280 --> 00:25:32,920 mind. They were all affected by sin. 388 00:25:32,920 --> 00:25:38,760 They were all equally not able to take away sin. 389 00:25:40,120 --> 00:25:41,720 Hebrews tells us that, doesn't it? 390 00:25:41,760 --> 00:25:45,280 Hebrews chapter 10. We're going to read 10 verses to 391 00:25:45,280 --> 00:25:49,040 buckle your seat belt. It says this. 392 00:25:49,040 --> 00:25:51,720 The law is only a shadow of the good things that are coming, not 393 00:25:51,720 --> 00:25:55,080 the realities themselves. For this reason, it can never be 394 00:25:55,080 --> 00:25:58,000 by the same sacrifice as repeated endlessly year after 395 00:25:58,000 --> 00:25:59,840 year. Make perfect those who draw near 396 00:25:59,840 --> 00:26:02,520 to worship. If it could, would they not have 397 00:26:02,520 --> 00:26:05,240 stopped being offered? He says sacrifices of animals 398 00:26:05,240 --> 00:26:07,040 don't get it done. They're they're just shadows 399 00:26:07,040 --> 00:26:09,600 that point to the ultimate sacrifice, which is Christ the 400 00:26:09,600 --> 00:26:13,480 Savior for the worshippers would have been cleansed once for all 401 00:26:13,560 --> 00:26:16,120 and would no longer have felt guilty for their sins. 402 00:26:16,720 --> 00:26:20,080 But those sacrifices are an annual reminder of sins. 403 00:26:20,400 --> 00:26:22,560 Isn't that what the law is to remind? 404 00:26:22,560 --> 00:26:26,240 Us of our sin. Because it is impossible for the 405 00:26:26,240 --> 00:26:28,520 blood of bulls and goats to take away sins. 406 00:26:29,920 --> 00:26:32,920 Therefore when Christ came into the world, he said, Sacrifice 407 00:26:32,920 --> 00:26:36,720 and offering you did not desire, but a body you prepared for me 408 00:26:37,800 --> 00:26:41,200 perfect, fully perfect, acceptable unto God, 409 00:26:41,520 --> 00:26:44,040 unblemished, He said with. Burnt offerings and sin 410 00:26:44,040 --> 00:26:46,160 offerings. You were not pleased, but here 411 00:26:46,160 --> 00:26:49,400 he's saying you're my son and whom I am well pleased, he says. 412 00:26:49,400 --> 00:26:52,120 I wasn't pleased with the sacrifices of old because they 413 00:26:52,120 --> 00:26:54,440 didn't take away your sin, they didn't restore your relationship 414 00:26:54,440 --> 00:26:56,200 to me. They were just pointing to the 415 00:26:56,200 --> 00:26:59,320 one who would. He said, therefore Christ came 416 00:26:59,320 --> 00:27:00,920 into the world. He said, sacrifice and offering 417 00:27:00,920 --> 00:27:02,960 you did not desire, but a body you prepared for me with burnt 418 00:27:02,960 --> 00:27:04,560 offerings and sin offerings. You were not pleased. 419 00:27:04,840 --> 00:27:07,400 And then I said, here am I. It is written about me in the 420 00:27:07,400 --> 00:27:09,600 scroll. I have come to do your will. 421 00:27:09,600 --> 00:27:12,760 O God, Why did He come to do the will of God the Father? 422 00:27:13,000 --> 00:27:15,360 First He said, sacrifices and offerings, burnt offerings and 423 00:27:15,360 --> 00:27:17,880 sin offerings you did not desire, nor were you pleased 424 00:27:17,880 --> 00:27:22,000 with them, though the law required them to be made, He 425 00:27:22,000 --> 00:27:24,760 says in nine. Then he said, Here am I, I've 426 00:27:24,760 --> 00:27:27,120 come to do your will. He sets aside the first to 427 00:27:27,120 --> 00:27:30,840 establish the second. Ten says, And by that will we 428 00:27:30,840 --> 00:27:35,760 have been made holy through the sacrifice of the body of Jesus 429 00:27:35,760 --> 00:27:38,320 Christ. Once for all. 430 00:27:38,440 --> 00:27:41,080 And why was this sacrifice acceptable? 431 00:27:41,200 --> 00:27:46,320 Because he was fully perfect, a sinless Savior who is fully 432 00:27:46,640 --> 00:27:48,920 perfect. The Law required a perfect 433 00:27:48,920 --> 00:27:51,200 sacrifice. Those are the law never 434 00:27:51,200 --> 00:27:57,560 delivered a perfect sacrifice. But we know Christ came as one 435 00:27:57,560 --> 00:28:01,880 being born under the Law, perfect in all of His ways, 436 00:28:03,560 --> 00:28:06,120 providing that perfect sacrifice once for all. 437 00:28:06,120 --> 00:28:10,120 Who would trust in Him? We see He's fully perfect, 438 00:28:11,520 --> 00:28:16,960 please, and pleasing to the Father. 439 00:28:17,920 --> 00:28:19,440 He pleased Him in all of His ways. 440 00:28:21,360 --> 00:28:22,480 He says. I'm well pleased with Him 441 00:28:23,520 --> 00:28:27,600 declaring that he is fully perfect, but not only declaring 442 00:28:27,600 --> 00:28:31,040 that he is fully perfect. This is fully proven. 443 00:28:31,040 --> 00:28:34,120 We, we, we think that this is just by accident that these 444 00:28:34,320 --> 00:28:39,640 theories of events happen. What happens next in this? 445 00:28:39,640 --> 00:28:43,120 Text. It says that once the spirits 446 00:28:43,120 --> 00:28:46,160 saim out into the desert, he was in the desert 40 days being 447 00:28:46,160 --> 00:28:49,320 tempted by Satan and he was with the wild animals and angels 448 00:28:49,320 --> 00:28:51,320 attended him. That's Mark's account of this. 449 00:28:51,320 --> 00:28:53,880 Mark again giving that brief Cliff note account. 450 00:28:53,880 --> 00:28:56,480 But when we go to Matthew's account, we see something 451 00:28:56,480 --> 00:28:59,840 interesting. He gives the detail of the 452 00:28:59,840 --> 00:29:03,800 temptation of Christ there in Matthew chapter 4 and verses one 453 00:29:03,800 --> 00:29:06,480 through 11. You don't have to turn there 454 00:29:06,480 --> 00:29:07,560 now. Turn there when you have an 455 00:29:07,560 --> 00:29:09,640 opportunity to read the detailed account. 456 00:29:10,280 --> 00:29:15,240 But he gives the account of Jesus temptation and Hebrews 457 00:29:15,240 --> 00:29:17,600 chapter 4 verse 15 tells us something. 458 00:29:17,600 --> 00:29:20,320 It does this for we do not have a high priest who is unable to 459 00:29:20,880 --> 00:29:24,240 empathize with our weaknesses, but we have one who has been 460 00:29:24,240 --> 00:29:28,520 tempted in every way just as we are, yet he did not sin. 461 00:29:30,040 --> 00:29:31,800 What does that saying? Does that mean that Christ 462 00:29:31,800 --> 00:29:34,920 actually faced every single temptation that man has ever 463 00:29:34,920 --> 00:29:37,400 faced? No, there are temptations now 464 00:29:37,400 --> 00:29:40,880 that you faced that weren't even around when Christ walked this 465 00:29:40,880 --> 00:29:44,080 earth, when He was tempted in all ways. 466 00:29:44,080 --> 00:29:46,840 If you go back to Matthew's account, he was tempted in every 467 00:29:46,840 --> 00:29:50,080 way that a man could possibly be tempted throughout time. 468 00:29:51,400 --> 00:29:53,920 If we go back to that account in Matthew chapter 4, you see this. 469 00:29:53,920 --> 00:29:56,760 He was tempted by the lust of the flesh, the lust of the eyes, 470 00:29:57,080 --> 00:29:59,320 and the pride of life. And every time that you have 471 00:29:59,320 --> 00:30:02,280 ever fallen to sin, you fell to sin, because you fell to the 472 00:30:02,280 --> 00:30:05,160 temptation of the lust of the flesh, the lust of the eyes, and 473 00:30:05,160 --> 00:30:08,440 the pride of life. Those temptations always lead 474 00:30:08,440 --> 00:30:11,280 you into sin. Jesus, being tempted by Satan 475 00:30:11,280 --> 00:30:14,040 himself, did not fall into sin. You say? 476 00:30:14,040 --> 00:30:17,360 Kirk, what does this have to do with the good news of the Gospel 477 00:30:17,360 --> 00:30:20,560 being revealed in Christ? It shows and it proves that He 478 00:30:20,560 --> 00:30:25,720 really is and was a perfect man on this earth. 479 00:30:25,920 --> 00:30:29,640 Fully God, truly God, fully man, truly man. 480 00:30:29,720 --> 00:30:35,160 He was perfect, therefore He was able to be the Savior. 481 00:30:35,680 --> 00:30:39,720 And He is the Savior that God provided, fully perfect, fully 482 00:30:40,000 --> 00:30:43,440 proven His sinless life confirmed it. 483 00:30:44,480 --> 00:30:47,600 It's not by happenstance that these events happened the way 484 00:30:47,600 --> 00:30:51,120 that they are. The Father says this is my Son, 485 00:30:51,120 --> 00:30:54,720 whom I love, who I am well. Pleased showing us that the 486 00:30:54,720 --> 00:30:58,600 Father recognizes the full perfection of the Son, and then 487 00:30:58,600 --> 00:31:02,360 the Son being led by the third Person of the Holy, the third 488 00:31:02,360 --> 00:31:06,680 Person of the Trinity, the Holy Spirit is LED into the desert 489 00:31:06,680 --> 00:31:09,080 where he is tempted by Satan To do what? 490 00:31:09,240 --> 00:31:13,160 To prove that I am who the Father says that I am. 491 00:31:13,400 --> 00:31:16,240 He didn't just say that that I'm pleasing to him. 492 00:31:16,360 --> 00:31:19,160 I'm going to prove to you that I'm going to please Him. 493 00:31:19,240 --> 00:31:22,160 When I am faced with the lust of the flesh, the lust of the eyes, 494 00:31:22,160 --> 00:31:26,080 and the pride of life, I'm going to resist sin under the power of 495 00:31:26,080 --> 00:31:29,400 the Spirit. Showing who he really is. 496 00:31:30,160 --> 00:31:32,440 You say, well, Kirk, I thought the gospel was just. 497 00:31:32,640 --> 00:31:37,440 I accept, believe and confess. Stop letting people lie to you 498 00:31:37,440 --> 00:31:38,960 and not tell you the whole truth. 499 00:31:40,280 --> 00:31:43,200 We must establish who the Savior really is. 500 00:31:43,320 --> 00:31:47,160 He is a Savior provided by God the Father himself. 501 00:31:48,320 --> 00:31:51,640 It's not just some guy who decided to die. 502 00:31:51,640 --> 00:31:55,120 And perhaps it would be counted as worthy to rescue you. 503 00:31:56,880 --> 00:32:03,720 It's truly God Incarnate, fully perfect, fully proven, coming to 504 00:32:03,720 --> 00:32:07,520 this earth to reveal the good news that God has provided A 505 00:32:07,520 --> 00:32:11,320 savior, and that Savior is Jesus the Christ. 506 00:32:13,000 --> 00:32:17,440 So the good news of God in the gospel reveals God's provided 507 00:32:17,440 --> 00:32:21,080 Savior. Secondly, the good news of God 508 00:32:21,080 --> 00:32:24,240 reveals God's promised salvation. 509 00:32:25,720 --> 00:32:29,480 Verses. 14 And the first part of 15 make this very clear. 510 00:32:29,640 --> 00:32:33,320 He says after John was put in prison, Jesus went into Galilee 511 00:32:33,800 --> 00:32:37,080 proclaiming the good news of God. 512 00:32:38,880 --> 00:32:42,880 And it says verse 15 the time has come. 513 00:32:42,960 --> 00:32:46,360 He said the Kingdom of God. Is near. 514 00:32:46,960 --> 00:32:51,920 So Jesus came preaching the good news of God, the good news that 515 00:32:51,920 --> 00:32:55,440 the prophets had declared would come. 516 00:32:56,360 --> 00:32:59,080 In fact, the very message that Christ preached. 517 00:32:59,560 --> 00:33:05,400 In that message God revealed that Christ is the one who would 518 00:33:05,400 --> 00:33:11,760 bring salvation to man from God. That's what Jesus is preaching 519 00:33:11,760 --> 00:33:15,400 here. He's not preaching a man made 520 00:33:15,400 --> 00:33:18,320 gospel. He's not preaching an American 521 00:33:18,320 --> 00:33:22,880 church easy believism gospel. He's not again, preaching some 522 00:33:22,880 --> 00:33:29,160 kind of psychological gospel. He is preaching the good news of 523 00:33:29,160 --> 00:33:32,760 God and in preaching the good news of God. 524 00:33:32,800 --> 00:33:35,080 Do you know what Jesus actually does? 525 00:33:36,440 --> 00:33:41,680 He unveils his identity. He shows people who he truly is. 526 00:33:41,680 --> 00:33:44,560 Luke chapter 4 from our scripture reading today, verse 527 00:33:44,560 --> 00:33:47,080 17, He was handed the scroll of the prophet Isaiah. 528 00:33:47,200 --> 00:33:49,600 Jesus, not even a formal rabbi, and they're handing him scrolls 529 00:33:49,600 --> 00:33:53,720 in synagogue as if this wasn't God ordained and appointed. 530 00:33:55,160 --> 00:33:57,480 Unrolling it, he found the place where it is written. 531 00:33:58,120 --> 00:34:00,240 The Spirit of the Lord is on me because he's anointed me to 532 00:34:00,240 --> 00:34:03,080 proclaim good news to the poor, the gospel. 533 00:34:03,320 --> 00:34:06,160 He sent me to proclaim freedom for the prisoners in recovery of 534 00:34:06,160 --> 00:34:09,280 sight for the blind, and set the oppressed free to proclaim the 535 00:34:09,280 --> 00:34:11,920 year of the Lord's favor. Then he rolled up the scroll and 536 00:34:11,920 --> 00:34:12,960 he gave it back to the attendant. 537 00:34:12,960 --> 00:34:15,960 He sat down and the eyes of everyone in the synagogue were 538 00:34:15,960 --> 00:34:19,760 fastened on him, and he began by saying to them. 539 00:34:20,800 --> 00:34:29,360 Today, Today, this scripture is fulfilled in your hearing. 540 00:34:29,760 --> 00:34:31,560 What was Jesus saying and preaching? 541 00:34:31,560 --> 00:34:35,239 That I am the promised salvation. 542 00:34:35,520 --> 00:34:38,280 I am the one that the Father has sent. 543 00:34:38,560 --> 00:34:43,000 I am preaching to you the good news from God that yes, you are 544 00:34:43,040 --> 00:34:45,719 weighted down by the burden of the law. 545 00:34:45,800 --> 00:34:49,880 You are hindered by the fact that you cannot please God. 546 00:34:50,000 --> 00:34:53,880 You are facing the wrath and the indignation of God and I have 547 00:34:53,880 --> 00:34:58,600 come to be a Savior bringing salvation to those who will 548 00:34:58,600 --> 00:35:02,640 believe and trust in me. It confirms that he is the 549 00:35:02,640 --> 00:35:04,760 Messiah, the long-awaited Messiah. 550 00:35:04,760 --> 00:35:07,240 For hundreds of years they have been waiting for him. 551 00:35:07,520 --> 00:35:10,680 And he walks into the synagogue. He takes the scroll and he says, 552 00:35:10,760 --> 00:35:13,200 I am here preaching. What? 553 00:35:13,320 --> 00:35:15,400 The good news of God? Isn't that good news? 554 00:35:15,480 --> 00:35:16,960 You know, it was good news for them. 555 00:35:17,640 --> 00:35:21,040 They lived under the burden of the law now for quite some time, 556 00:35:22,080 --> 00:35:24,080 knowing that they can never get it right. 557 00:35:26,000 --> 00:35:31,240 And Jesus comes in and he says I'm the one, I'm the one who 558 00:35:31,240 --> 00:35:33,800 they spoke of. I'm the one who Isaiah spoke of. 559 00:35:33,800 --> 00:35:37,120 He took the scroll and he turned there to Isaiah 61 and he 560 00:35:37,120 --> 00:35:40,280 proclaimed the Scripture is fulfilled in your hearing. 561 00:35:41,040 --> 00:35:46,560 I am here. He came as God's promised 562 00:35:46,560 --> 00:35:48,120 salvation. That's the message that he 563 00:35:48,120 --> 00:35:51,720 declared there in Luke chapter 4, unveiling his identity. 564 00:35:51,720 --> 00:35:54,800 But not only that, Jesus also came, unveiling the Father's 565 00:35:54,800 --> 00:35:56,800 intentions. That's the message that he 566 00:35:56,800 --> 00:36:00,360 preached what the Father intended to do, how this all 567 00:36:00,360 --> 00:36:04,520 comes together, how this this mystery is is clarified. 568 00:36:05,360 --> 00:36:08,480 Matthew chapter one verse 21 says this. 569 00:36:08,680 --> 00:36:11,480 She will give birth to a son and you are to give him the name. 570 00:36:11,600 --> 00:36:16,320 Jesus, Yahweh, Jehovah saves you're to give him this name 571 00:36:16,320 --> 00:36:19,360 because he will save his people from their sins. 572 00:36:19,960 --> 00:36:22,440 All this took place to fulfill what the Lord had said through 573 00:36:22,440 --> 00:36:24,560 the prophet. The virgin will conceive and 574 00:36:24,560 --> 00:36:28,040 give birth to a son, and they will call him Emmanuel, which 575 00:36:28,040 --> 00:36:31,920 means God with us there in Matthew chapter 1, verses 21 576 00:36:31,920 --> 00:36:35,400 through 23, we see the unveiling of the Father's intentions. 577 00:36:35,720 --> 00:36:42,280 I'm going to send a man, the God man born of a virgin, so he does 578 00:36:42,280 --> 00:36:46,720 not inherit the sin nature of a man, the sin nature of Adam. 579 00:36:47,000 --> 00:36:51,440 I'm going to buy my spirit, implant this virgin woman with 580 00:36:51,440 --> 00:36:55,280 the seed of God, and He is going to be birthed into this world 581 00:36:55,280 --> 00:36:59,120 and He is coming as a Savior, bringing salvation to His 582 00:36:59,240 --> 00:37:02,880 people, unveiling the Father's intention for the whole entire 583 00:37:02,880 --> 00:37:04,640 reason that Christ came to this earth. 584 00:37:05,320 --> 00:37:09,680 Include that in the gospel. That's good news. 2nd 585 00:37:09,680 --> 00:37:11,480 Corinthians 5. As we learned last week in verse 586 00:37:11,480 --> 00:37:15,280 21, He came to this earth, and the intentions of the Father 587 00:37:16,160 --> 00:37:20,080 were these intentions to have the wrath that belonged to us 588 00:37:21,800 --> 00:37:26,280 exercised upon His only begotten Son, and have the righteousness 589 00:37:26,280 --> 00:37:31,800 that belonged to Him imputed to those who deserve His wrath. 590 00:37:33,240 --> 00:37:36,400 That is the gospel. That is the intention of the 591 00:37:36,400 --> 00:37:41,960 Father sending the promised salvation through the Son, 592 00:37:43,120 --> 00:37:44,840 unveiling the Father's intentions. 593 00:37:44,840 --> 00:37:48,520 Romans chapter 8. It tells us this, what the Law 594 00:37:48,520 --> 00:37:50,800 was powerless to do because it was weakened by the flesh. 595 00:37:51,640 --> 00:37:54,480 God did by sending His own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh 596 00:37:54,480 --> 00:37:58,440 to be a sin offering. And so He condemned sin in the 597 00:37:58,440 --> 00:38:01,640 flesh in order that the righteous requirement of the Law 598 00:38:01,800 --> 00:38:05,680 might be fully met in US who do not live according to the flesh, 599 00:38:06,040 --> 00:38:10,520 but according to spirits. What is He saying there? 600 00:38:13,320 --> 00:38:15,720 He's saying this, that the law brought condemnation into our 601 00:38:15,720 --> 00:38:18,320 lives. It's so that we're guilty. 602 00:38:20,560 --> 00:38:25,200 And we are guilty as charged, and that there is no hope apart 603 00:38:25,720 --> 00:38:33,000 from the righteousness of Jesus Christ who comes, who condemns 604 00:38:33,000 --> 00:38:37,680 sin and us through the condemnation that he bore on the 605 00:38:37,680 --> 00:38:40,920 cross in our place. And he gives us his 606 00:38:40,920 --> 00:38:44,920 righteousness so that the standard of God might be met in 607 00:38:44,920 --> 00:38:47,080 us. And we can stand before God now 608 00:38:47,080 --> 00:38:51,880 as sons and daughters, no longer alienated, no longer cut off, 609 00:38:52,280 --> 00:38:57,280 but accepted and loved and adopted as part of the family. 610 00:38:58,080 --> 00:39:03,640 So he unveiled the Father's intention to bring salvation to 611 00:39:04,320 --> 00:39:09,360 those who would believe. And this promised salvation as 612 00:39:09,360 --> 00:39:13,000 preached by Jesus was also as prophesied beforehand. 613 00:39:14,240 --> 00:39:18,400 We know that the Old Testament is full of scriptures that 614 00:39:18,400 --> 00:39:22,800 confirm that Jesus Christ is the one that the prophets spoke of. 615 00:39:24,680 --> 00:39:27,800 In fact, there are so many prophecies that Christ 616 00:39:27,960 --> 00:39:32,720 fulfilled, most scholars can't even agree on how many there 617 00:39:32,720 --> 00:39:34,600 are. There are hundreds. 618 00:39:35,880 --> 00:39:41,320 We see that Paul says this in Romans chapter 1, confirming 619 00:39:41,320 --> 00:39:43,840 that the gospel was preached beforehand. 620 00:39:45,240 --> 00:39:49,880 This salvation that God desired to bring unto sinners was God's 621 00:39:49,880 --> 00:39:54,320 plan revealed here. Christ is fulfilling that 622 00:39:54,320 --> 00:39:56,080 promise. Paul says this in Romans one 623 00:39:56,280 --> 00:39:58,840 verse one Paul, a servant of Christ Jesus, called to be an 624 00:39:58,840 --> 00:40:00,960 apostle and set apart for the gospel of God. 625 00:40:02,400 --> 00:40:05,080 The gospel he promised beforehand through his prophets 626 00:40:05,400 --> 00:40:10,440 in the Holy Scriptures. Jesus comes here on this scene 627 00:40:11,840 --> 00:40:15,360 fulfilling that He says an interesting term here. 628 00:40:15,360 --> 00:40:20,000 The time has come, the time has come. 629 00:40:20,000 --> 00:40:22,840 Underline that in your Bible. This is not Chronos time. 630 00:40:23,320 --> 00:40:26,000 Chronos time is seconds and minutes on a clock. 631 00:40:26,000 --> 00:40:30,360 It is hours in the day. It is days in the week and weeks 632 00:40:30,360 --> 00:40:31,840 in the month. We know chronos. 633 00:40:31,840 --> 00:40:34,600 That's not what he's talking about. 634 00:40:34,840 --> 00:40:40,960 This Greek word here is Kairos time, meaning that Jesus came as 635 00:40:40,960 --> 00:40:45,680 prophesied at the exact point in God's prophetic timetable that 636 00:40:45,680 --> 00:40:51,400 he had already laid out. Here Jesus is on the scene, the 637 00:40:51,400 --> 00:40:54,280 one who was prophesied beforehand to bring salvation 638 00:40:54,280 --> 00:40:58,360 from God, and he's saying, I'm here, the time has come, the 639 00:40:58,360 --> 00:41:00,080 Kingdom of God is near. How near? 640 00:41:00,080 --> 00:41:03,320 Right in their face. He's standing in their midst, 641 00:41:03,320 --> 00:41:05,120 the King of kings and Lord of Lords. 642 00:41:05,600 --> 00:41:07,320 Did you know this? Everywhere the King of kings and 643 00:41:07,320 --> 00:41:09,840 Lord of Lords goes, he carries his Kingdom with him. 644 00:41:10,600 --> 00:41:12,840 Here he is the King in their presence. 645 00:41:12,920 --> 00:41:20,880 He says I've arrived bringing God's promise of salvation, the 646 00:41:20,880 --> 00:41:24,080 promises that were made through the prophets of old. 647 00:41:24,080 --> 00:41:26,280 I don't have time to go through all of them, but let's look at 648 00:41:26,280 --> 00:41:29,240 some of them. We saw in Isaiah 61 verses one 649 00:41:29,240 --> 00:41:36,920 through three that Jesus read that he came as a savior, as the 650 00:41:36,920 --> 00:41:44,240 Messiah to preach the good news of God, offer hope to people 651 00:41:45,080 --> 00:41:46,960 when he says the spirit of the sovereign Lord is on me because 652 00:41:46,960 --> 00:41:49,760 the Lord has anointed me to proclaim good news to the. 653 00:41:49,760 --> 00:41:52,600 Poor. He's not talking about people 654 00:41:52,600 --> 00:41:54,480 who don't have money in their bank account. 655 00:41:55,720 --> 00:41:58,960 He's talking about the poor in the bankrupt in spirit, those 656 00:41:58,960 --> 00:42:03,120 who have been ravished by sin. I'm so thankful that the Lord of 657 00:42:03,120 --> 00:42:06,640 Jesus Christ fulfilled that. He's the one who came offering 658 00:42:06,640 --> 00:42:09,160 salvation to those who have been ravished by sin. 659 00:42:09,160 --> 00:42:14,440 They're poor in spirit, broken. Then he extends it in Isaiah's. 660 00:42:15,440 --> 00:42:20,560 Prophecy and 49 verse 6 even to the Gentiles, and that's helpful 661 00:42:20,560 --> 00:42:22,880 for those of us who aren't Jewish by descent here today, 662 00:42:22,880 --> 00:42:24,360 isn't it? He said. 663 00:42:24,360 --> 00:42:27,040 I will also make you a light for the Gentiles that my salvation. 664 00:42:27,040 --> 00:42:28,360 May reach to the ends of the earth. 665 00:42:29,080 --> 00:42:33,240 Jesus came as the prophesied light to the Gentiles, offering 666 00:42:33,240 --> 00:42:35,560 salvation to them. If you know your Bible, you know 667 00:42:35,560 --> 00:42:38,400 that He came first for the Jew and then for the Gentile. 668 00:42:41,000 --> 00:42:46,760 We've been given grace through Christ just as they This is the 669 00:42:46,760 --> 00:42:53,840 prophesied Messiah that Genesis 315 speaks of, one of the first, 670 00:42:53,840 --> 00:42:56,440 if not the first prophecy of the Lord Jesus Christ. 671 00:42:56,440 --> 00:43:00,320 It says this to Satan. He says, and I will put enmity 672 00:43:00,320 --> 00:43:03,040 between you and the woman and between your offspring and hers, 673 00:43:03,480 --> 00:43:07,840 and he will crush your head and you will strike his heel. 674 00:43:09,600 --> 00:43:12,200 First prophecy of Christ being the head crusher who will crush 675 00:43:12,200 --> 00:43:14,560 the head of the enemy. There in Genesis 315, though, 676 00:43:14,560 --> 00:43:17,480 the enemy strikes his heel, the head. 677 00:43:17,480 --> 00:43:20,640 Crusher is here, standing before them, just as prophesied. 678 00:43:20,640 --> 00:43:25,640 He is that Savior who rescues us from sin, who rescues us from 679 00:43:25,640 --> 00:43:30,040 Satan, and who literally crushes his head, defeating him, 680 00:43:30,640 --> 00:43:33,000 defeating him. Through his death, his burial 681 00:43:33,200 --> 00:43:38,160 and his resurrection. So we see the proclaimed message 682 00:43:38,240 --> 00:43:43,000 mission of Christ. He would bring salvation, but we 683 00:43:43,000 --> 00:43:47,480 also see the predicted method of it, not just the mission and the 684 00:43:47,480 --> 00:43:49,640 message. We see the method of Christ 685 00:43:49,640 --> 00:43:54,080 bringing salvation. Isaiah 53 verse 4. 686 00:43:55,920 --> 00:43:58,680 Isaiah says, surely He took up our pain and bore our suffering. 687 00:43:58,680 --> 00:44:03,600 I'm sure he did. Nails in his hands, nails and 688 00:44:03,600 --> 00:44:08,200 his ankle bones. Crown of thorns smashed into his 689 00:44:08,200 --> 00:44:11,720 head, Cat of nine tails ripping flesh from his back. 690 00:44:12,440 --> 00:44:15,040 The shame and the agony of hanging naked on the cross. 691 00:44:15,320 --> 00:44:16,800 I know that's not the image you have. 692 00:44:16,800 --> 00:44:19,920 You have an loincloth from the Easter program. 693 00:44:21,560 --> 00:44:24,240 They hang there in shame. They hang there in 694 00:44:24,240 --> 00:44:29,920 embarrassment, it says. Yet we considered him punished 695 00:44:29,920 --> 00:44:31,800 by God, stricken by him and afflicted. 696 00:44:32,920 --> 00:44:34,600 He was pierced for our transgressions. 697 00:44:34,600 --> 00:44:36,200 He was crushed for our iniquities. 698 00:44:36,600 --> 00:44:38,960 The punishment that brought us peace was on Him, and by His 699 00:44:38,960 --> 00:44:42,080 wounds we are healed. We all, like sheep, have gone 700 00:44:42,080 --> 00:44:44,280 astray. Each of us has turned to our own 701 00:44:44,280 --> 00:44:50,120 way, and the Lord has laid on him the iniquity of us all. 702 00:44:50,120 --> 00:44:54,680 What do we see Here we see Christ. 703 00:44:57,240 --> 00:44:59,360 The prophet Isaiah declaring that the Christ would come in 704 00:44:59,360 --> 00:45:03,720 the method to bring salvation to mankind would be this. 705 00:45:04,440 --> 00:45:08,040 At the suffering servant. Suffer in agony in the place of 706 00:45:08,040 --> 00:45:10,760 sinners. That's exactly what Christ. 707 00:45:10,760 --> 00:45:14,080 Did Matthew chapter. 8 verse 17 it says this was fulfilled. 708 00:45:14,160 --> 00:45:15,840 What was spoken through the prophet Isaiah. 709 00:45:15,960 --> 00:45:18,760 He took up our infirmities and he bore our diseases. 710 00:45:18,880 --> 00:45:22,280 First Peter chapter 2, verse 24, He himself referencing Christ, 711 00:45:22,280 --> 00:45:24,360 bore our sins. And his body on the cross so 712 00:45:24,360 --> 00:45:26,680 that we might die to sins and live for righteousness. 713 00:45:26,680 --> 00:45:28,520 And then he quotes Isaiah perfectly. 714 00:45:28,680 --> 00:45:32,280 By his wounds you have been healed. 715 00:45:32,440 --> 00:45:34,200 What is the method that Jesus revealed? 716 00:45:34,200 --> 00:45:38,000 It's the method that the prophets spoke of, that he would 717 00:45:38,000 --> 00:45:42,640 die as a substitutionary, atoning sacrifice for sinners, 718 00:45:42,800 --> 00:45:46,640 that he would take upon himself the punishment for their sin, 719 00:45:46,760 --> 00:45:49,840 that he would allow them to go free and credit their account 720 00:45:49,840 --> 00:45:53,840 with his righteousness, healing them of their spiritual sickness 721 00:45:53,920 --> 00:45:56,080 and of their sin for all eternity. 722 00:45:56,720 --> 00:45:59,320 So the good news of God is revealed here. 723 00:46:00,040 --> 00:46:06,000 It's God's promise of salvation. Jesus says I'm here and I'm. 724 00:46:06,000 --> 00:46:07,680 Proclaiming the good news of God. 725 00:46:08,680 --> 00:46:12,120 That it's time salvation has come. 726 00:46:12,120 --> 00:46:14,440 Unto you. Is that not what he said to 727 00:46:14,440 --> 00:46:16,280 Zacchaeus? Salvation's come to your house 728 00:46:16,280 --> 00:46:17,920 today. And who is that salvation? 729 00:46:18,000 --> 00:46:21,240 It is pride. So the good news of the Gospel. 730 00:46:21,240 --> 00:46:24,120 Reveals God's promised salvation are you thankful for that this 731 00:46:24,120 --> 00:46:30,000 morning that everything that Jesus preached and. 732 00:46:30,000 --> 00:46:33,320 Everything that the prophets. Proclaimed point to the fact 733 00:46:33,320 --> 00:46:35,760 that he is God's promised salvation. 734 00:46:36,240 --> 00:46:43,240 Thirdly and lastly, we see this looking at verse 15 in the last 735 00:46:43,240 --> 00:46:48,400 part in a very simple and concise statement that I don't 736 00:46:48,400 --> 00:46:51,400 want you to miss and I don't want you to miss this. 737 00:46:51,400 --> 00:46:55,240 Because this is the one that is. Being erased the most in our 738 00:46:55,240 --> 00:47:01,320 culture, he has shown us and revealed it to us here in Mark 739 00:47:01,320 --> 00:47:05,520 chapter 1. God's provided Savior. 740 00:47:06,200 --> 00:47:08,440 God's promised salvation. All. 741 00:47:08,440 --> 00:47:11,320 In Christ. Now Christ is going to give to 742 00:47:11,320 --> 00:47:14,800 us some very important information and you don't want 743 00:47:14,800 --> 00:47:16,400 to miss for any reason. At all he's. 744 00:47:17,720 --> 00:47:19,800 Going to give you some very. Important information in. 745 00:47:19,800 --> 00:47:23,280 Fact. Your eternity hangs upon you 746 00:47:23,280 --> 00:47:28,920 receiving this information. That is God's path. 747 00:47:29,840 --> 00:47:34,120 To be saved, many people can intellectually grasp. 748 00:47:34,880 --> 00:47:36,800 That Jesus is the provided Savior. 749 00:47:37,840 --> 00:47:40,200 That he is the promise of salvation. 750 00:47:40,200 --> 00:47:45,280 Fulfilled. And many times we stop here and 751 00:47:45,280 --> 00:47:49,640 we don't. Walk down the path to be saved 752 00:47:49,880 --> 00:47:50,960 the. Path that Jesus. 753 00:47:50,960 --> 00:47:53,440 Clearly lays out. Can we all agree this is still 754 00:47:53,560 --> 00:47:56,400 Jesus talking? He's still laying these things 755 00:47:56,400 --> 00:47:58,080 out. Watch what he says. 756 00:48:01,200 --> 00:48:05,360 Repent and believe the good news. 757 00:48:06,360 --> 00:48:08,640 Repent and believe the gospel unlike. 758 00:48:08,640 --> 00:48:13,120 So many so-called gospel messages in our day that leave 759 00:48:13,120 --> 00:48:19,960 repentance out. Or change what faith really is. 760 00:48:21,520 --> 00:48:23,640 The true message. Of the gospel does something. 761 00:48:23,640 --> 00:48:26,240 Interesting, doesn't it? It puts repentance and faith 762 00:48:26,400 --> 00:48:31,440 together, inseparable opposite sides of the same coin. 763 00:48:32,760 --> 00:48:35,080 Jesus in preaching the. Good news says repent. 764 00:48:35,160 --> 00:48:40,240 And believe this is God's path to be saved. 765 00:48:41,080 --> 00:48:43,760 This is God's path to be saved. Not according to Kirk. 766 00:48:44,440 --> 00:48:46,160 Not according to the elders of this church. 767 00:48:46,160 --> 00:48:48,040 Not according. To any staff member who's here, 768 00:48:48,680 --> 00:48:51,040 not according to your reach Group leader, according to your 769 00:48:51,040 --> 00:48:53,600 D group leader, according to anyone in your men's Bible study 770 00:48:53,600 --> 00:48:56,640 class. This is the gospel as revealed 771 00:48:56,640 --> 00:49:00,040 by Jesus Christ himself. He says repent and believe the 772 00:49:00,040 --> 00:49:02,920 good news. This is the path to be saved. 773 00:49:03,000 --> 00:49:07,040 You will not be saved just knowing that Jesus was the 774 00:49:07,040 --> 00:49:09,840 promised Savior. You will not be saved just 775 00:49:09,840 --> 00:49:12,560 knowing that He is the one who fulfilled the promises of the 776 00:49:12,560 --> 00:49:14,640 Old Testament concerning salvation. 777 00:49:14,840 --> 00:49:19,840 It is truly repenting and believing by faith the gospel 778 00:49:19,880 --> 00:49:27,160 that He proclaimed who He is, what He accomplished, the good 779 00:49:27,160 --> 00:49:30,520 news. Let's look at this repentance 780 00:49:30,520 --> 00:49:34,440 that we see here because it's so often confusing and and and our 781 00:49:34,440 --> 00:49:43,360 liberal society repentance repentance is produced by faith 782 00:49:45,360 --> 00:49:47,600 if there. Is true saving faith in a? 783 00:49:47,640 --> 00:49:53,760 Person's life it will always include. 784 00:49:54,640 --> 00:50:01,920 True and continual repentance because repentance is produced 785 00:50:01,920 --> 00:50:09,160 by a God wrought faith. God wrought faith, producing God 786 00:50:09,160 --> 00:50:15,160 wrought repentance. We have to understand this. 787 00:50:15,160 --> 00:50:17,760 We have. To get this right, Acts Chapter 788 00:50:17,760 --> 00:50:22,880 11, verse 19 gives us some clarity here. 789 00:50:23,440 --> 00:50:25,600 So now those who had been scattered by the persecution 790 00:50:25,600 --> 00:50:27,920 that broke out when Stephen was killed traveled as far as 791 00:50:27,920 --> 00:50:31,840 Phoenicia, Cyprus, Antioch, spreading the message of only 792 00:50:31,840 --> 00:50:34,680 among Jews. Some of them, however, men from 793 00:50:34,680 --> 00:50:37,240 Cyprus and Cyrene went to Antioch and began to speak to 794 00:50:37,240 --> 00:50:39,880 the Greeks, telling them the good news. 795 00:50:39,880 --> 00:50:42,040 That's the gospel about the Lord Jesus. 796 00:50:42,080 --> 00:50:46,360 That is the person in the work of Jesus Christ the Lord's hand 797 00:50:46,360 --> 00:50:49,600 was with. Them and a great number of 798 00:50:49,600 --> 00:50:56,880 people watch believed. And turned to the Lord. 799 00:50:57,400 --> 00:50:59,680 They believed and. Turned to the Lord because it's 800 00:50:59,680 --> 00:51:03,520 impossible for you to truly believe and not turn in 801 00:51:03,520 --> 00:51:10,000 repentance unto the Lord, trusting by faith in Christ and 802 00:51:10,000 --> 00:51:15,560 who He really is. That means turning from your 803 00:51:15,560 --> 00:51:20,440 unbelief. Repentance begins with faith and 804 00:51:20,440 --> 00:51:22,400 faith. Turns you from your unbelief. 805 00:51:22,400 --> 00:51:25,320 It is a God wrought thing. He opens your eyes that you see 806 00:51:25,320 --> 00:51:29,280 the truth that Jesus is as we saw before, the provided Savior 807 00:51:29,400 --> 00:51:31,920 and the promised salvation that God has made through his 808 00:51:31,920 --> 00:51:34,160 prophets. Now what he's going to do is 809 00:51:34,160 --> 00:51:36,880 he's going to make an exchange that is going to change your 810 00:51:36,880 --> 00:51:40,040 life forever. He is going. 811 00:51:40,040 --> 00:51:46,000 To birth in you true. Saving faith, not human 812 00:51:46,160 --> 00:51:50,720 intellectual knowledge, not historical facts. 813 00:51:51,600 --> 00:51:53,480 We can gather those things. With our mind. 814 00:51:54,520 --> 00:51:57,080 But our spirit prior to Christ can gather nothing. 815 00:51:57,080 --> 00:52:00,840 Why you were dead in your sins and in your transgressions you 816 00:52:00,840 --> 00:52:07,560 can't do because you are dead. But what you can't do, God does. 817 00:52:08,240 --> 00:52:12,760 He turns you from your unbelief and turns you to faith in Jesus. 818 00:52:13,160 --> 00:52:17,360 Christ Acts 319 it says repent then and turn to God so that 819 00:52:17,360 --> 00:52:19,760 your sins may be wiped out. What is he doing? 820 00:52:19,800 --> 00:52:22,360 He is making a transition in your life. 821 00:52:22,360 --> 00:52:25,080 He is turning you. That is repentance. 822 00:52:25,080 --> 00:52:28,560 Repentance begins from turning from our unbelief and turning to 823 00:52:28,560 --> 00:52:32,640 faith in Christ, trusting that He is who He says that He is. 824 00:52:33,520 --> 00:52:36,880 John 316 You all know it, For God so loved the world that he 825 00:52:36,880 --> 00:52:39,680 gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in Him shall 826 00:52:39,680 --> 00:52:42,400 not perish, but have eternal life. 827 00:52:43,240 --> 00:52:44,760 He goes on and he says, for God did not. 828 00:52:44,760 --> 00:52:46,480 Send his son into. The world to condemn the world, 829 00:52:46,480 --> 00:52:47,600 but to save the world through him. 830 00:52:47,600 --> 00:52:51,720 We saw that a moment ago, but 18 Whoever believes in him is not 831 00:52:51,720 --> 00:52:54,760 condemned, but whoever does not believe stands condemned. 832 00:52:54,760 --> 00:52:55,320 Already. Why? 833 00:52:55,320 --> 00:52:57,600 He's a violator, he's a transgressor, he's a Sinner. 834 00:52:57,600 --> 00:53:00,880 He's a law breaker because they have not. 835 00:53:00,880 --> 00:53:02,440 Believed in the name of God's one and. 836 00:53:02,440 --> 00:53:08,400 Only son. So what must transpire on the 837 00:53:08,400 --> 00:53:14,280 path to be saved is a person must turn from their unbelief 838 00:53:16,200 --> 00:53:22,440 and by God-given faith turn to Jesus Christ as Lord and Savior. 839 00:53:22,880 --> 00:53:26,080 John chapter one verse 12 says yet to all who received him, to 840 00:53:26,080 --> 00:53:29,360 those who believed in his name, he gave the right to become 841 00:53:29,600 --> 00:53:32,880 children of God. This is talking about God 842 00:53:32,920 --> 00:53:35,640 wrought faith. You turning from your sin, you 843 00:53:35,640 --> 00:53:38,120 turning from your. Unbelief and you turning to the 844 00:53:38,120 --> 00:53:42,480 Lord Jesus Christ, trusting in Christ and who he is and his 845 00:53:42,480 --> 00:53:46,480 finished work on the cross, trusting in God's word by. 846 00:53:46,480 --> 00:53:49,320 Faith, John. Chapter 5, verse 24, it says 847 00:53:49,320 --> 00:53:52,400 very truly, I tell you, whoever hears my word and believes him 848 00:53:52,400 --> 00:53:55,560 who sent me has eternal life and will not be judged, but it's 849 00:53:55,560 --> 00:53:57,640 crossed, crossed over from death to life. 850 00:53:57,640 --> 00:54:00,440 What is Jesus telling us here? If you believe his word and what 851 00:54:00,440 --> 00:54:04,640 he said, and what is his word, the gospel, He believes this. 852 00:54:06,520 --> 00:54:08,800 He says you. Have eternal life and. 853 00:54:08,800 --> 00:54:11,440 Won't be judged. Not that you don't deserve 854 00:54:11,440 --> 00:54:12,680 judgment. Because the law says you. 855 00:54:12,680 --> 00:54:15,080 Do, but he's going to give you mercy. 856 00:54:16,120 --> 00:54:17,400 You've crossed over from death to. 857 00:54:17,400 --> 00:54:18,240 Life. But what does that? 858 00:54:18,240 --> 00:54:21,560 Say about the other guy, the one who met remains in his. 859 00:54:21,560 --> 00:54:22,880 Unbelief and does not. Turn. 860 00:54:23,320 --> 00:54:27,000 He has not crossed over from death to life, and he will be 861 00:54:27,480 --> 00:54:31,160 judged eternally. And so we see first when we talk 862 00:54:31,160 --> 00:54:34,040 about repentance and repentance produced by faith, there will be 863 00:54:34,040 --> 00:54:38,000 a turning from our unbelief, but there will also be a turning 864 00:54:38,000 --> 00:54:43,080 from unrighteousness turning. From unrighteousness. 865 00:54:43,720 --> 00:54:47,520 John Owens says evangelical repentance is not merely a legal 866 00:54:47,520 --> 00:54:51,760 sorrow for sin, but a gospel sorrow flowing from faith in 867 00:54:51,760 --> 00:54:56,600 Christ and love to God. When God shows you the. 868 00:54:56,600 --> 00:54:59,040 Extent of. His love in Christ because it 869 00:54:59,040 --> 00:55:01,120 Didn't John say this? Correct me if I'm wrong. 870 00:55:01,120 --> 00:55:05,200 I love because he first loved me when he reveals to you. 871 00:55:05,200 --> 00:55:07,920 The extent of his love. Doesn't it move you away from 872 00:55:07,920 --> 00:55:10,560 unrighteousness and move you towards righteousness? 873 00:55:11,160 --> 00:55:15,160 Oh, and you really see that? And he would adopt you into his 874 00:55:15,160 --> 00:55:17,320 family. John says, what kind of love is 875 00:55:17,320 --> 00:55:19,440 this? That that God is lavished on us, 876 00:55:19,440 --> 00:55:21,640 that we should be called the sons of God? 877 00:55:21,800 --> 00:55:23,080 Why? Because John knew this. 878 00:55:23,080 --> 00:55:26,600 He's deserving of God's wrath. He's deserving of God's 879 00:55:26,600 --> 00:55:29,840 judgement. But God instead gives him mercy 880 00:55:29,840 --> 00:55:35,560 in Christ Jesus, turning him from his unbelief. 881 00:55:37,240 --> 00:55:41,480 Christ. Turning him from his sin to 882 00:55:41,480 --> 00:55:45,040 righteousness. There will be a turning from 883 00:55:45,040 --> 00:55:47,520 both. That's what repentance is. 884 00:55:48,200 --> 00:55:51,480 Luke chapter 13, verse 3. The Lord preached this message. 885 00:55:51,480 --> 00:55:55,680 I tell you the tell you the truth, that no one, unless you 886 00:55:55,680 --> 00:56:01,280 repent, you too will all perish if you don't repent. 887 00:56:01,760 --> 00:56:04,960 There'll be no exception. We must repent. 888 00:56:05,160 --> 00:56:07,840 We must repent of our unbelief, and we must repent of our sin, 889 00:56:07,840 --> 00:56:13,680 turning to Christ, leaving our works of the flesh. 890 00:56:13,680 --> 00:56:16,880 Leaving our sin. How about this leaving our? 891 00:56:16,880 --> 00:56:20,120 Works of self righteousness. Where we trust in trying to get 892 00:56:20,120 --> 00:56:22,640 to God by living out the 10 commandments. 893 00:56:22,640 --> 00:56:27,360 You won't get there from here. You fell miserably. 894 00:56:28,520 --> 00:56:30,760 All it does is heap more. Sin upon you it's. 895 00:56:30,760 --> 00:56:34,720 Not until you turn to the cross. Until you turn to the cross. 896 00:56:34,720 --> 00:56:36,800 That the burden of sin and. The weight of sin is lifted. 897 00:56:36,800 --> 00:56:39,000 That's why Jesus said, Come unto me, all you who are weary and 898 00:56:39,000 --> 00:56:40,120 heavy laden, and I'll give you rest. 899 00:56:40,120 --> 00:56:42,000 What is he talking about? Those who are weary and heavy 900 00:56:42,000 --> 00:56:46,000 laden waited by the law. He says turn to me, come to me. 901 00:56:46,120 --> 00:56:48,920 Repent of your unbelief, repent of your sin, turn to me, and 902 00:56:48,920 --> 00:56:52,280 when you do, I will take the weight of your sin off of you. 903 00:56:53,480 --> 00:56:55,000 That's the burden that they were carrying the. 904 00:56:55,000 --> 00:56:57,400 Burden of the law. That no matter how hard I tried, 905 00:56:57,520 --> 00:57:01,680 the bad news was right there in my face, showing me that I am 906 00:57:01,880 --> 00:57:03,720 imperfect and that I am wretched. 907 00:57:05,440 --> 00:57:07,880 God in his. Goodness and His kindness to us 908 00:57:10,120 --> 00:57:13,200 in Christ He brings us to a place of repentance that is 909 00:57:13,200 --> 00:57:18,000 produced by faith that He has wrought and given unto us, 910 00:57:18,720 --> 00:57:21,000 causing us to. Repent of our unbelief and. 911 00:57:21,000 --> 00:57:24,880 To repent of our wickedness so as we look at. 912 00:57:24,880 --> 00:57:26,720 God's path to be saved, he says. Repent. 913 00:57:26,720 --> 00:57:29,440 And believe the good news. We see repentance produced by 914 00:57:29,440 --> 00:57:32,000 faith, but we also see faith proven by repentance. 915 00:57:35,360 --> 00:57:38,880 Repentance is proof. That you truly have. 916 00:57:39,200 --> 00:57:41,800 Faith. I know there are many people 917 00:57:41,800 --> 00:57:42,840 who. Will tell you all sorts. 918 00:57:42,840 --> 00:57:45,520 Of untruths about that Jesus put the two together. 919 00:57:47,040 --> 00:57:51,760 Repent and believe. It's 1 transaction. 920 00:57:52,600 --> 00:57:54,000 It's a transaction. That you're incapable. 921 00:57:54,000 --> 00:57:56,880 Of doing that, he will. Do in and through you. 922 00:57:59,200 --> 00:58:01,360 But faith will be proven by repentance. 923 00:58:02,600 --> 00:58:04,600 Repentance always, as I said. Accompanies. 924 00:58:05,000 --> 00:58:09,360 Saving Faith Acts 2021 says I have declared to both Jews and 925 00:58:09,360 --> 00:58:12,720 Greeks that they must must underline that word must they 926 00:58:12,720 --> 00:58:18,200 must turn to God in repentance and have faith in our Lord 927 00:58:18,280 --> 00:58:21,120 Jesus. How can you separate the 2? 928 00:58:21,840 --> 00:58:24,880 But yeah, we live in a society, in a church culture that we 929 00:58:24,880 --> 00:58:26,640 don't talk about repentance at all. 930 00:58:27,520 --> 00:58:31,160 Again, we go to the ABC's of the gospel, which is no gospel at 931 00:58:31,160 --> 00:58:32,680 all. Why there is no R? 932 00:58:35,120 --> 00:58:38,760 The R is to repent. And to believe. 933 00:58:38,960 --> 00:58:41,760 And you say, well. I I can't repent on my own. 934 00:58:41,760 --> 00:58:44,280 And you're exactly right, you won't repent on your own. 935 00:58:44,280 --> 00:58:48,160 But when God does a work in you that only He can do, 936 00:58:48,320 --> 00:58:51,960 establishing in you true faith, true belief in Christ, you will 937 00:58:51,960 --> 00:58:53,720 repent. You will turn from the things of 938 00:58:53,720 --> 00:58:55,760 this world and see them for what they are. 939 00:58:55,840 --> 00:58:58,600 They are worthless and they are wicked and you will turn to 940 00:58:58,600 --> 00:59:00,240 Christ and you will never look back. 941 00:59:00,320 --> 00:59:03,200 How do I know this? Jesus himself said no man is fit 942 00:59:03,200 --> 00:59:05,680 for the Kingdom of God, who takes the power in his and looks 943 00:59:05,680 --> 00:59:08,520 backward. You've taken his vow. 944 00:59:09,040 --> 00:59:10,240 You've repented of your own. Life. 945 00:59:10,240 --> 00:59:11,960 You're repented of your unbelief, you've repented of 946 00:59:11,960 --> 00:59:13,640 your sin. You've turned to Christ. 947 00:59:15,360 --> 00:59:17,480 It proves. That your faith is really. 948 00:59:17,480 --> 00:59:22,200 Authentic, but we live in a. Country where so many people. 949 00:59:22,200 --> 00:59:26,120 Claim to have faith-based on just simply a profession that 950 00:59:26,120 --> 00:59:33,440 comes out of their mouth. You forget the rest. 951 00:59:35,840 --> 00:59:37,880 You forget that if Jesus really is. 952 00:59:38,160 --> 00:59:41,120 Lord, because if you confess with. 953 00:59:41,120 --> 00:59:42,520 Your mouth, the Lord Jesus and believe in your. 954 00:59:42,520 --> 00:59:44,560 Heart God raised him from the dead. 955 00:59:44,560 --> 00:59:49,200 You will be saved if Jesus really is Lord to you, he'll do 956 00:59:49,200 --> 00:59:52,240 what he says. That's why Jesus was on this 957 00:59:52,240 --> 01:00:00,000 earth and he the conversation with people a lot like. 958 01:00:00,080 --> 01:00:01,960 Those people in our. Society. 959 01:00:02,040 --> 01:00:04,960 He confronted them. He said this. 960 01:00:05,080 --> 01:00:06,720 Startling statement I want you to. 961 01:00:06,720 --> 01:00:09,080 Hear it? He looked him in the eyes, and 962 01:00:09,080 --> 01:00:10,440 he asked him. Why do you? 963 01:00:10,440 --> 01:00:14,440 Call me Lord, Lord, and do not do what I say. 964 01:00:15,480 --> 01:00:17,640 You know what Jesus was saying. Your profession is. 965 01:00:17,640 --> 01:00:20,840 Hollow. Your profession is not real. 966 01:00:21,440 --> 01:00:25,360 You're counting on something that I have not done to save 967 01:00:25,360 --> 01:00:28,480 you. Because true God wrought faith 968 01:00:28,480 --> 01:00:33,240 will be proven by repentance. And you know the early. 969 01:00:33,240 --> 01:00:35,000 Church would have nothing to. Do. 970 01:00:37,080 --> 01:00:39,040 With any. Form of Christianity that 971 01:00:39,040 --> 01:00:40,880 didn't. Include repentance. 972 01:00:41,560 --> 01:00:46,240 Why? Mark chapter one, verse 15, 973 01:00:46,320 --> 01:00:48,120 Jesus preached. The message of the gospel. 974 01:00:48,120 --> 01:00:52,600 And he says repent and believe the good news. 975 01:00:53,440 --> 01:00:55,120 Well, I just want to believe. I don't know if I want to 976 01:00:55,120 --> 01:00:58,760 repent. Then you won't be saved. 977 01:01:00,800 --> 01:01:03,280 Did you hear that? Unless you repent. 978 01:01:03,280 --> 01:01:06,640 You will likewise perish. You won't be saved. 979 01:01:06,920 --> 01:01:11,240 Or you can intellectually grasp the historical facts about Jesus 980 01:01:13,440 --> 01:01:19,280 and miss the right relationship. With God comes only through real 981 01:01:19,280 --> 01:01:22,080 faith that is marked by real repentance. 982 01:01:22,920 --> 01:01:27,040 Repentance not only accompanies. Saving faith. 983 01:01:28,440 --> 01:01:32,120 Please know this dear Christian repentance affirms saving faith. 984 01:01:32,920 --> 01:01:37,440 Jesus and Matthew 7 verse 21 confidently said, not everyone 985 01:01:37,440 --> 01:01:40,520 who says to me Lord, Lord will enter the Kingdom of heaven. 986 01:01:41,680 --> 01:01:44,480 All I wish the American church would preach that at a funeral. 987 01:01:50,410 --> 01:01:52,690 Not everyone who says to me, Lord, Lord will enter. 988 01:01:52,690 --> 01:01:58,290 The Kingdom of Heaven. Not everyone who grasp who I am 989 01:01:58,290 --> 01:01:59,610 will. Enter the Kingdom of Heaven. 990 01:02:02,440 --> 01:02:04,400 But only the one who does the will of my father. 991 01:02:04,400 --> 01:02:05,040 Who? Is in heaven. 992 01:02:06,480 --> 01:02:09,040 What is he saying there? Is he saying that we're to go 993 01:02:09,040 --> 01:02:11,480 back to the law and try to live now the 10 commandments, the 994 01:02:11,480 --> 01:02:13,120 will of the father? No, that's not what he's saying. 995 01:02:14,160 --> 01:02:16,440 He wouldn't say that. In fact, he came to set us. 996 01:02:16,440 --> 01:02:19,560 Free from that and he set us free from that so that we could 997 01:02:19,560 --> 01:02:23,520 now in Him live obedient lives that bring God glory. 998 01:02:23,680 --> 01:02:28,160 And how does that happen? True repentance, we. 999 01:02:28,160 --> 01:02:29,920 Begin to hate everything in our life. 1000 01:02:31,200 --> 01:02:33,240 That is in opposition to the. Commands of God and we. 1001 01:02:33,240 --> 01:02:36,480 Hate it so much that we crucify our own flesh so that we can 1002 01:02:36,480 --> 01:02:38,120 live for Christ and bring Him glory. 1003 01:02:39,720 --> 01:02:40,880 That's what a true believer does. 1004 01:02:42,920 --> 01:02:44,800 Their faith will be proven by their repentance. 1005 01:02:46,640 --> 01:02:50,280 Acts 2620. This first to. 1006 01:02:50,280 --> 01:02:52,080 Those in Damascus into those in Jerusalem. 1007 01:02:52,080 --> 01:02:54,360 And all Judea, and then to the Gentiles I preach that they 1008 01:02:54,360 --> 01:02:58,280 should repent and turn to God and demonstrate their repentance 1009 01:02:58,280 --> 01:03:04,600 by their deeds, not demonstrate their repentance by their. 1010 01:03:04,600 --> 01:03:08,000 Simple profession, their intellectual. 1011 01:03:08,000 --> 01:03:13,720 Acknowledgement of Christ. Now you know how someone how you 1012 01:03:13,720 --> 01:03:15,320 know someone's profession is real. 1013 01:03:18,240 --> 01:03:20,840 Their profession will be accompanied by obedience. 1014 01:03:20,840 --> 01:03:23,280 And that obedience only comes through repentance. 1015 01:03:23,280 --> 01:03:26,560 James said it very clearly when he said faith without works is 1016 01:03:26,560 --> 01:03:31,440 dead. Not true faith at all and I'm so 1017 01:03:31,440 --> 01:03:33,080 saddened. That the American church has. 1018 01:03:33,080 --> 01:03:35,800 Bought into this gospel, which is no gospel at all. 1019 01:03:35,800 --> 01:03:38,000 It's not good news. More bad news. 1020 01:03:42,280 --> 01:03:44,040 It doesn't include true repentance. 1021 01:03:44,040 --> 01:03:49,920 True. Faith, that is, God wrought, God 1022 01:03:49,920 --> 01:03:52,080 ordained, God empowered, faith repentance. 1023 01:03:56,080 --> 01:03:58,160 So see the good news of the Gospel reveals to. 1024 01:03:58,160 --> 01:04:02,920 Us thirdly, God's path to be saved let me make this ever so 1025 01:04:02,920 --> 01:04:04,040 clear to. All of you before we. 1026 01:04:04,040 --> 01:04:07,040 Dismiss you may have intellectually. 1027 01:04:07,040 --> 01:04:09,640 Grasped Jesus. You may have heard the 1028 01:04:09,640 --> 01:04:13,720 historical story of his life for your entire childhood, even into 1029 01:04:13,720 --> 01:04:16,840 adulthood. You may open your Bible and you 1030 01:04:16,840 --> 01:04:21,480 may acknowledge in your mind the factual information. 1031 01:04:21,480 --> 01:04:27,360 That surrounds. Jesus Christ still not be on the 1032 01:04:27,360 --> 01:04:35,600 path that leads to salvation. That path is marked by 1033 01:04:35,600 --> 01:04:39,000 repentance and true belief, true faith. 1034 01:04:40,200 --> 01:04:42,560 So the good news of the gospel. Reveals this path. 1035 01:04:42,560 --> 01:04:45,600 And He has revealed this path unto you today through this 1036 01:04:45,600 --> 01:04:49,880 message. So that those under the sound of 1037 01:04:49,880 --> 01:04:52,760 my voice. Would be cut to heart. 1038 01:04:54,920 --> 01:04:57,160 That they would truly repent their unbelief. 1039 01:04:57,160 --> 01:05:00,080 And repent of their sin and trust in. 1040 01:05:00,200 --> 01:05:05,120 Jesus Christ and Jesus Christ. Alone to save them from the 1041 01:05:05,120 --> 01:05:09,000 penalty, the power and one day the presence of sin. 1042 01:05:10,000 --> 01:05:13,320 So to the believer who knows that they are in. 1043 01:05:13,320 --> 01:05:16,080 Christ this. Morning, I say this. 1044 01:05:16,080 --> 01:05:20,000 Rejoice in the good news that you have heard. 1045 01:05:20,000 --> 01:05:23,320 Again, rejoice in it. Thank God that He has done this 1046 01:05:23,320 --> 01:05:23,840 work. Of. 1047 01:05:23,840 --> 01:05:26,840 Grace in you that He has shown you mercy through the Lord Jesus 1048 01:05:26,840 --> 01:05:30,200 Christ. He's quickened your dead soul to 1049 01:05:30,200 --> 01:05:34,400 believe and trust in Him. Rejoice from the top of your 1050 01:05:34,400 --> 01:05:42,680 lungs to the unbeliever. I want to remind you that there 1051 01:05:42,680 --> 01:05:48,840 is bad news for the unbeliever. The bad news, as we saw last 1052 01:05:48,840 --> 01:05:51,320 week, is revealed in. God's law that we cannot please 1053 01:05:51,320 --> 01:05:58,720 him in and of ourselves we are incapable we are sinners, we are 1054 01:05:58,720 --> 01:06:00,880 in need of the. Good news that Christ. 1055 01:06:00,880 --> 01:06:03,880 Brought to this earth that we saw there in mark chapter 1 1056 01:06:03,880 --> 01:06:07,960 today my prayer for. You is that God would be 1057 01:06:07,960 --> 01:06:11,720 merciful. To you today, and that He would 1058 01:06:11,720 --> 01:06:17,240 allow you to repent, to believe on the Lord. 1059 01:06:17,240 --> 01:06:20,040 Jesus Christ today. Before it is everlastingly too 1060 01:06:20,040 --> 01:06:24,240 late for you, turn to him. Cry out to him in. 1061 01:06:24,240 --> 01:06:29,840 Desperation and be saved from the penalty of sin and the wrath 1062 01:06:29,840 --> 01:06:33,840 of God that will come upon all the unbelieving and the 1063 01:06:33,840 --> 01:06:35,320 unrighteous. Let's pray together. 1064 01:06:35,760 --> 01:06:38,120 Father, in the name of Jesus, we come to you now thanking you for 1065 01:06:38,120 --> 01:06:40,880 your word. Lord, we know this that your 1066 01:06:40,880 --> 01:06:45,680 word is going to accomplish everything that you have set it 1067 01:06:45,680 --> 01:06:51,000 out to accomplish today. God, I pray that if there be 1 1068 01:06:51,000 --> 01:06:56,040 here today in need of mercy. That you would give them mercy, 1069 01:06:57,040 --> 01:06:58,400 That. You would open their eyes to see 1070 01:06:58,400 --> 01:07:01,040 the truth that you would quicken their dead soul to believe the 1071 01:07:01,040 --> 01:07:04,600 truth that they see that they would. 1072 01:07:04,600 --> 01:07:06,080 Repent under your power and your. 1073 01:07:06,080 --> 01:07:10,560 Strength they would with the faith that you've given to them 1074 01:07:10,560 --> 01:07:14,280 as a gift of your grace. Believe and trust in Christ and 1075 01:07:14,280 --> 01:07:18,880 be saved today and I pray for the believer here who knows 1076 01:07:18,880 --> 01:07:21,720 Christ he's not where they need to be in life. 1077 01:07:21,720 --> 01:07:24,280 I pray that they would use this as a time of confession and 1078 01:07:24,280 --> 01:07:31,400 repentance, that your Spirit kindly and gently move them back 1079 01:07:31,400 --> 01:07:32,920 to a. Place of obedience in their. 1080 01:07:32,920 --> 01:07:35,480 Life as they confess their sin knowing that you're faithful and 1081 01:07:35,480 --> 01:07:37,960 just forgive their sin and to cleanse them from all 1082 01:07:37,960 --> 01:07:42,480 unrighteousness. Most importantly, so do we pray 1083 01:07:42,480 --> 01:07:45,240 that you receive all the glory for everything that has been 1084 01:07:45,240 --> 01:07:48,120 done here today. We pray these things in Christ. 1085 01:07:49,080 --> 01:07:51,760 Amen. 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