1 00:00:09,500 --> 00:00:15,000 Fusions chapter 2. And you were dead in the 2 00:00:15,008 --> 00:00:19,200 trespasses and sins in which you once walked. 3 00:00:20,300 --> 00:00:22,300 Following the course of this world. 4 00:00:23,200 --> 00:00:25,300 Following the prince of the power of the air. 5 00:00:25,900 --> 00:00:29,800 The spirit that is now at work in the sons of Disobedience, 6 00:00:30,400 --> 00:00:33,500 among whom we all once lived in the passions of our flesh, 7 00:00:33,900 --> 00:00:38,700 carrying out the desires of the body and the mind and we're by 8 00:00:38,700 --> 00:00:44,100 Nature children of Wrath like the rest of mankind, but God 9 00:00:44,900 --> 00:00:48,400 being rich in Mercy because of the great love with which he 10 00:00:48,400 --> 00:00:50,900 loved us. Even when we were dead in our 11 00:00:50,908 --> 00:00:55,700 trespasses made us. Us Alive together with Christ by 12 00:00:55,700 --> 00:01:00,300 Grace, you have been saved and raised us up with him and seated 13 00:01:00,300 --> 00:01:03,400 us with him in the Heavenly places in Christ Jesus. 14 00:01:04,500 --> 00:01:07,300 So that in the coming ages, he might show the immeasurable 15 00:01:07,300 --> 00:01:10,100 Riches of his grace and kindness toward us in Christ. 16 00:01:10,100 --> 00:01:14,700 Jesus, for by Grace, you have been saved through faith and 17 00:01:14,700 --> 00:01:18,800 this is not of your own doing. It is the gift of God, not a 18 00:01:18,808 --> 00:01:22,500 result of works so that no one may boast for we are his 19 00:01:22,500 --> 00:01:25,500 workmanship created in Christ Jesus. 20 00:01:25,500 --> 00:01:28,900 For good works which God prepared beforehand that we 21 00:01:28,900 --> 00:01:31,800 should walk in them. Amen. 22 00:01:32,700 --> 00:01:36,000 Father. Again, we ask that this text 23 00:01:36,000 --> 00:01:39,500 would come alive in our lives. The revelation of the Gospel 24 00:01:40,400 --> 00:01:42,700 would revive the saved, and it would save the Lost. 25 00:01:43,800 --> 00:01:45,200 We pray that you would have your way. 26 00:01:45,700 --> 00:01:48,600 Bring us, Lord bring us to our knees. 27 00:01:49,300 --> 00:01:51,600 In light of the truth. That we will hear this morning. 28 00:01:53,300 --> 00:01:57,500 May there be no emphasis on eloquence or in sight. 29 00:01:58,500 --> 00:02:00,800 But Lord on the Simplicity of the Gospel delivered in the 30 00:02:00,800 --> 00:02:05,500 power of the Holy Spirit, may you be praised and glorified 31 00:02:05,500 --> 00:02:08,900 this morning in Jesus name. We pray, amen. 32 00:02:08,900 --> 00:02:22,200 You may be seated. There are two types of people in 33 00:02:22,200 --> 00:02:25,600 this world. There are two types of people in 34 00:02:25,608 --> 00:02:30,300 this world and only two. Those who are abiding in the 35 00:02:30,300 --> 00:02:35,100 light. And those who are blind in the 36 00:02:35,100 --> 00:02:38,400 dark. Those who walk on the Narrow 37 00:02:38,400 --> 00:02:41,700 Path. And those who stumble on the 38 00:02:41,700 --> 00:02:45,600 broad. Those who are delivered from 39 00:02:45,600 --> 00:02:50,400 sin. And those who are bound to sin. 40 00:02:52,300 --> 00:02:57,000 Those who are children of God. And those who are children of 41 00:02:57,000 --> 00:03:00,700 Wrath. Those who are under the 42 00:03:00,700 --> 00:03:05,300 influence of the Holy Spirit. And those who are under the 43 00:03:05,300 --> 00:03:10,000 influence of the spirit of this world, the differentiating 44 00:03:10,000 --> 00:03:13,100 factor between the ones who are in the realm of Victory. 45 00:03:13,400 --> 00:03:16,900 Versus those who are in the realm of defeat, is that the 46 00:03:16,900 --> 00:03:21,700 Victorious ones have tapped into a power that is transferred 47 00:03:21,700 --> 00:03:24,600 them. From one to another. 48 00:03:26,600 --> 00:03:30,000 And that power is not something that is self. 49 00:03:30,000 --> 00:03:35,800 Worked, that power is not purchased by one's own Merit. 50 00:03:37,300 --> 00:03:41,700 That power is something that is freely given and is received by 51 00:03:41,700 --> 00:03:44,500 those who would humble themselves to accept it by 52 00:03:44,500 --> 00:03:47,600 faith. What is that power? 53 00:03:49,400 --> 00:03:52,900 The Bible is not shy to share what that power is. 54 00:03:54,900 --> 00:04:02,000 Romans 1:16 tells us for I am not ashamed of the gospel for it 55 00:04:02,000 --> 00:04:07,300 is the power of God. For salvation to everyone who 56 00:04:07,300 --> 00:04:15,800 believes the power is the gospel and that gospel produces a 57 00:04:15,800 --> 00:04:20,700 reality salvation. What is salvation? 58 00:04:21,700 --> 00:04:27,200 Salvation means Deliverance it means preservation. 59 00:04:27,200 --> 00:04:34,000 It means safety Paul. Testifies that there is only one 60 00:04:34,000 --> 00:04:37,300 means and there's only one solution and there is only one 61 00:04:37,300 --> 00:04:41,400 possibility for salvation and it is through the good news of 62 00:04:41,400 --> 00:04:46,900 Jesus Christ. And when you ask somebody what 63 00:04:46,900 --> 00:04:49,500 God has done in their life through the gospel, the number 64 00:04:49,500 --> 00:04:53,300 one answer you probably will hear his well, he saved me. 65 00:04:54,700 --> 00:04:58,300 Save you, from what? And it is. 66 00:04:59,900 --> 00:05:03,200 Probably the number one answer and it is he saved me from hell. 67 00:05:04,600 --> 00:05:07,900 Which is true. But you, and I need to 68 00:05:07,900 --> 00:05:10,900 understand this morning that the power of the Gospel is greater 69 00:05:11,600 --> 00:05:14,700 greater than just being saved from hell, though. 70 00:05:14,700 --> 00:05:16,700 That truth is wonderful in itself. 71 00:05:17,800 --> 00:05:22,800 Paul in this chapter reminds the Ephesians of just how powerful 72 00:05:22,800 --> 00:05:26,900 the Gospel of Jesus Christ. Is he's about to explain in 73 00:05:26,900 --> 00:05:29,700 detail that faith in this gospel. 74 00:05:29,700 --> 00:05:32,400 Not only change them in the life to come, but change them in the 75 00:05:32,400 --> 00:05:37,000 life here. Now, And in chapter 1, we spent 76 00:05:37,000 --> 00:05:40,600 time talking about the benefits and the blessings that come when 77 00:05:40,600 --> 00:05:45,900 we are united in Christ of the things that we are destined to 78 00:05:45,900 --> 00:05:49,400 in the things that we are to experience in their fullness. 79 00:05:50,500 --> 00:05:54,900 But here he is not speaking about the things that we are to 80 00:05:54,900 --> 00:06:00,500 experience in the future. He's about to explain and remind 81 00:06:00,500 --> 00:06:04,500 that there are experiences that you and I have in the immediate 82 00:06:04,500 --> 00:06:08,900 sense that the gospel is not just something for the future. 83 00:06:09,000 --> 00:06:17,200 The gospel is something for you. And I today, In this text shed 84 00:06:17,200 --> 00:06:19,900 so much light. Hear me on what it means to be a 85 00:06:19,900 --> 00:06:21,700 Christian. That is very important for two 86 00:06:21,700 --> 00:06:27,700 reasons, number one, because people many people masses of the 87 00:06:27,700 --> 00:06:29,900 false idea of what it means to be a Christian. 88 00:06:32,100 --> 00:06:35,000 And amongst many of the wrong ideas, one of them is this. 89 00:06:36,300 --> 00:06:40,200 Is that I can identify myself as a Christian solely on the idea 90 00:06:40,200 --> 00:06:45,300 that I understand the theory of what Jesus Christ has done as a 91 00:06:45,308 --> 00:06:48,000 historical figure at one point in history. 92 00:06:49,400 --> 00:06:52,500 An intellectual assent, something that just reaches the 93 00:06:52,500 --> 00:06:57,400 mind, the intellect and James criticized that kind of Faith, 94 00:06:57,400 --> 00:07:01,600 very sharply and chapter 219 in his epistle and he says, you 95 00:07:01,600 --> 00:07:07,400 believe God is one, you do well, even the demons believe and 96 00:07:07,400 --> 00:07:12,000 shudder. And so many people have a 97 00:07:12,000 --> 00:07:16,800 misconception when they identify themselves as a Christian, not 98 00:07:16,800 --> 00:07:19,800 realizing that your faith is not something that you just generate 99 00:07:19,800 --> 00:07:21,400 intellectually. It's something that you put your 100 00:07:21,400 --> 00:07:25,000 faith and trust in and that changes your life. 101 00:07:26,800 --> 00:07:29,200 But not only is this text important because it sheds, 102 00:07:29,200 --> 00:07:31,600 light on wrong ideas of what it means to be a Christian. 103 00:07:32,000 --> 00:07:35,200 It sheds, light on people who have a not wrong idea. 104 00:07:35,200 --> 00:07:41,100 But limited idea what I mean by that is there are those who 105 00:07:41,100 --> 00:07:44,100 understand the gospel but in a limited sense. 106 00:07:44,100 --> 00:07:48,500 Now, when you hear salvation, a majority of people run to this 107 00:07:48,500 --> 00:07:55,500 idea that the gospel saves me from certain dangers and 108 00:07:56,800 --> 00:08:01,300 Destinations. The gospel delivers me from 109 00:08:01,300 --> 00:08:04,500 these dangers, the gospel Rescues Me From a Certain 110 00:08:04,500 --> 00:08:07,300 destination and that is partly true. 111 00:08:08,700 --> 00:08:11,100 Because the full understanding of the Gospel is not that he 112 00:08:11,100 --> 00:08:12,800 just saves you. From something. 113 00:08:13,400 --> 00:08:16,600 When we understand the gospel, in its fullness, we also have to 114 00:08:16,608 --> 00:08:19,800 understand that it positions us for something. 115 00:08:20,200 --> 00:08:23,800 It positions us for a certain blessing for a certain 116 00:08:23,800 --> 00:08:27,200 inheritance for a certain destination, so it's not just 117 00:08:27,200 --> 00:08:29,000 yes I'm delivered. No, it's yes. 118 00:08:29,000 --> 00:08:34,200 I'm destined through the gospel. So not just from but I am saved 119 00:08:34,200 --> 00:08:38,299 for And that's what he's about to share in these verses. 120 00:08:38,299 --> 00:08:42,600 These precious gems. he's about to tell us the beauty of the 121 00:08:42,600 --> 00:08:46,300 gospel and if we were to bring it even in a visual sense, the 122 00:08:46,300 --> 00:08:52,100 gospel itself and its effect is like the cross, how The gospel 123 00:08:52,300 --> 00:08:55,300 has a vertical effect. Any horizontal effect? 124 00:08:56,600 --> 00:09:00,300 When somebody is saved by the gospel, it changes their stance 125 00:09:00,700 --> 00:09:04,900 in the Heavenly Realms but it also changes their walk here on 126 00:09:04,900 --> 00:09:08,300 Earth. And so I have a vertical shift 127 00:09:08,600 --> 00:09:12,100 and a horizontal shift the cross itself as a picture of what 128 00:09:12,100 --> 00:09:15,000 happens to a man, when he puts his faith in the finished work 129 00:09:15,000 --> 00:09:20,000 of Jesus Christ. And Paul goes on to share a 130 00:09:20,000 --> 00:09:23,500 wealth of information. And today. 131 00:09:25,400 --> 00:09:29,100 He presents a seven powerful consequences of the Gospel. 132 00:09:30,100 --> 00:09:33,000 Seven, powerful consequences of the Gospel. 133 00:09:34,300 --> 00:09:36,100 And let me tell you on a personal level, when I was 134 00:09:36,300 --> 00:09:40,300 dissecting these consequences, there is no way we can cover all 135 00:09:40,300 --> 00:09:45,000 seven in one setting. It's just too deep is just too 136 00:09:45,000 --> 00:09:48,600 profound. It's too impactful to just glaze 137 00:09:48,600 --> 00:09:50,400 over. So by God's grace, we will try 138 00:09:50,400 --> 00:09:53,700 to get what we need to get into. But let us take our time to 139 00:09:53,700 --> 00:09:57,100 study these things. That Paul describes what happens 140 00:09:57,100 --> 00:10:00,800 to a man, when he puts his faith and trust in Jesus Christ. 141 00:10:01,900 --> 00:10:06,500 He goes on to share and 2:1 and you were dead. 142 00:10:07,600 --> 00:10:12,500 You were dead and the trespasses and sins in which you. 143 00:10:12,500 --> 00:10:17,400 Once walked the number one, consequence of the gospel and 144 00:10:17,400 --> 00:10:20,500 somebody's life. The result that comes about a 145 00:10:20,508 --> 00:10:24,000 man or a woman that says I need. Jesus Christ and his saving 146 00:10:24,000 --> 00:10:28,000 faith. In my life is this that you are 147 00:10:28,000 --> 00:10:32,300 delivered from the influence of the world consequence. 148 00:10:32,300 --> 00:10:36,800 Number one, you are delivered from the influence of the world. 149 00:10:36,800 --> 00:10:41,900 Notice Paul's tense here he's saying you were dead in the 150 00:10:41,900 --> 00:10:46,600 trespasses and Sins. Not you are you were, he's 151 00:10:46,600 --> 00:10:49,600 speaking. Of what happened and who they 152 00:10:49,600 --> 00:10:52,100 were prior to their faith in Christ? 153 00:10:52,900 --> 00:10:58,100 And he says this very powerful statement you were dead Not, you 154 00:10:58,100 --> 00:11:01,800 were bad, not that you are morally shifted and your 155 00:11:01,800 --> 00:11:04,400 understanding of Ethics know you were dead. 156 00:11:06,300 --> 00:11:09,600 Dead in what sense, not dead in the sense that you had in 157 00:11:09,600 --> 00:11:13,400 activity, in that you were lifeless dead in a specific way. 158 00:11:13,400 --> 00:11:17,800 You were dead towards any relation to God, concerning his 159 00:11:17,800 --> 00:11:23,000 word concerning, his commands concerning his holy spirit, you 160 00:11:23,000 --> 00:11:29,300 were dead to any association and fellowship with God and to any 161 00:11:29,300 --> 00:11:33,000 sense of obedience to his commands, lifeless. 162 00:11:35,100 --> 00:11:38,100 Like a dead person. There is no response when it 163 00:11:38,100 --> 00:11:41,700 comes to God in your life. There is no eagerness. 164 00:11:41,700 --> 00:11:46,400 There is no reflex when you think of a dead person. 165 00:11:47,500 --> 00:11:53,400 What do you think of? Nothing separated from life. 166 00:11:54,400 --> 00:11:57,200 In the physical death, pay attention, when a man dies 167 00:11:57,200 --> 00:12:00,800 physically, his spirit is separated from his body. 168 00:12:01,000 --> 00:12:03,200 That's what happens. If you've ever been to a funeral 169 00:12:03,200 --> 00:12:06,800 and it was an open casket, you can testify that when you see 170 00:12:06,800 --> 00:12:08,700 that body, it's like an empty shell. 171 00:12:11,000 --> 00:12:14,400 There's no life in it because the person, the soul, the spirit 172 00:12:14,400 --> 00:12:17,300 is not there anymore. It left its Earth suit. 173 00:12:19,300 --> 00:12:21,100 But listen, that's the physical death. 174 00:12:22,100 --> 00:12:25,900 When a man dies, spiritually, or when a man is dead spiritually. 175 00:12:26,700 --> 00:12:29,100 His spirit is separated from God. 176 00:12:29,900 --> 00:12:33,200 So, in the physical, your spirit is separated from your body. 177 00:12:33,600 --> 00:12:35,500 When you're spiritual, man, is dead. 178 00:12:36,100 --> 00:12:40,200 You are separated from God. That's what it means to be 179 00:12:40,200 --> 00:12:46,000 spiritually dead. And Paul says, boldly, you were 180 00:12:46,400 --> 00:12:49,300 dead, but they were alive in another sense. 181 00:12:50,200 --> 00:12:52,300 They were alive in another sense. 182 00:12:52,800 --> 00:12:56,100 They were alive because they were controlled and influence by 183 00:12:56,100 --> 00:12:59,200 another source. There was something else that 184 00:12:59,200 --> 00:13:05,600 was keeping them somewhat alive because he says you walked You 185 00:13:05,600 --> 00:13:08,200 were walking in the course of this world. 186 00:13:08,200 --> 00:13:10,500 So you know what that means? You know who you are before 187 00:13:10,500 --> 00:13:12,300 Christ. You're a Dead Man Walking. 188 00:13:15,700 --> 00:13:19,900 A zombie so to speak. sure you're walking in this life 189 00:13:19,900 --> 00:13:21,900 show, you're making decisions in his life show, you're doing your 190 00:13:21,900 --> 00:13:28,200 day-to-day but really you are lifeless and you are controlled 191 00:13:28,200 --> 00:13:32,000 and influence and compelled by something else and he says it's 192 00:13:32,000 --> 00:13:35,100 the world. You were walking in the same 193 00:13:35,100 --> 00:13:39,800 direction as the world. And what is the world strive 194 00:13:39,800 --> 00:13:42,000 for? Let's just sum it up in this, 195 00:13:42,300 --> 00:13:45,300 this world. This Antichrist system. 196 00:13:45,300 --> 00:13:49,900 This philosophy is a life that is free from the pursuit of 197 00:13:49,900 --> 00:13:52,700 Joyful, obedience, and intimate, knowledge of the Lord Jesus 198 00:13:52,700 --> 00:13:53,900 Christ. That's what this world is all 199 00:13:53,900 --> 00:13:57,900 about. It's free from it joyful 200 00:13:57,900 --> 00:14:01,500 obedience to Christ, and it desire to pursue an intimate 201 00:14:01,500 --> 00:14:05,300 knowledge of him. The anthem of this world is this 202 00:14:05,300 --> 00:14:07,000 eat drink and be merry for tomorrow. 203 00:14:07,000 --> 00:14:09,500 We die. That is the anthem of this 204 00:14:09,500 --> 00:14:12,300 generation and every generation before and every generation 205 00:14:12,300 --> 00:14:14,000 after it. Lets the Lord comes back. 206 00:14:16,500 --> 00:14:19,000 It's a lifestyle that they choose to live and this is what 207 00:14:19,000 --> 00:14:21,700 the lifestyle is all about. It's your day-to-day activity 208 00:14:21,700 --> 00:14:23,600 free from Jesus being any part of it. 209 00:14:25,300 --> 00:14:28,900 It's your planning of the future with no inspiration to glorify. 210 00:14:28,900 --> 00:14:32,900 God. It is your emotions, thoughts 211 00:14:32,900 --> 00:14:35,200 and activities directed towards anything else. 212 00:14:35,200 --> 00:14:39,500 But Jesus, and your sense of purpose has found and grounded 213 00:14:39,500 --> 00:14:44,400 and anchored in entertainment. And pleasure. 214 00:14:45,500 --> 00:14:50,200 And money. And the praise of, man. 215 00:14:55,300 --> 00:14:58,100 This is what the world lives for. 216 00:15:01,100 --> 00:15:06,600 And Paul emphatic, Lee declares you once walk that way. 217 00:15:07,900 --> 00:15:14,500 Pay attention you once walked that way, you know, for Roman 218 00:15:14,500 --> 00:15:17,300 citizen walked into church this morning from Jesus day. 219 00:15:17,300 --> 00:15:20,100 He would be absolutely shocked. You know why, why do you think 220 00:15:20,100 --> 00:15:25,100 he would be shocked? He would be totally stunned by 221 00:15:25,100 --> 00:15:27,900 the fact that we have crosses hanging around in our buildings 222 00:15:29,000 --> 00:15:30,600 He would be shocked to see this pulpit. 223 00:15:32,700 --> 00:15:36,100 And the main reason why Roman citizen or anybody in Jesus, day 224 00:15:36,100 --> 00:15:39,300 would be totally stunned. By such a thing is because of 225 00:15:39,300 --> 00:15:47,400 the absolute horror that across turned a man into Some of us in 226 00:15:47,400 --> 00:15:49,900 here, remember the time. But we went away for just a 227 00:15:49,900 --> 00:15:52,500 couple days and we got to experience something that I 228 00:15:52,500 --> 00:15:55,100 never had the experience before. Maybe you've experienced it and 229 00:15:55,100 --> 00:15:58,100 it was a live animal being slaughtered before we ate it. 230 00:16:01,400 --> 00:16:05,200 And I thought, the idea seemed normal because how else do you 231 00:16:05,200 --> 00:16:06,800 get your food? But I never thought I would 232 00:16:06,800 --> 00:16:11,600 witness it. and when that lamb was purchased, and it was 233 00:16:11,600 --> 00:16:18,600 brought in front of us, And we looked at it knowing that it was 234 00:16:18,600 --> 00:16:20,600 going to die, knowing that it was going to die. 235 00:16:23,000 --> 00:16:27,300 It was pretty disturbing. To see that its neck was slit in 236 00:16:27,300 --> 00:16:30,800 the blood coming out of it and then to see it tied by its legs 237 00:16:30,800 --> 00:16:36,000 and dragged over into a tree and thrown over that rope from a 238 00:16:36,000 --> 00:16:38,700 branch and pull down and seeing that sheep hanging there. 239 00:16:40,700 --> 00:16:43,100 And seeing it obviously skilled and person with experiencing 240 00:16:43,100 --> 00:16:46,000 skinning that lamb and then cutting it into pieces and 241 00:16:46,000 --> 00:16:51,600 laying the guts come out of it. It was a pretty gut-wrenching 242 00:16:51,600 --> 00:16:56,100 site. But I want you to think about a 243 00:16:56,100 --> 00:17:01,100 man that was crucified. We have romanticized the cross 244 00:17:01,300 --> 00:17:03,400 but there is nothing. If we actually had a picture of 245 00:17:03,400 --> 00:17:05,700 the Cross. If we actually had a painting of 246 00:17:05,700 --> 00:17:07,700 what it looked like to be crucified, nobody would be 247 00:17:07,700 --> 00:17:09,300 hanging in their walls, that's for sure. 248 00:17:11,800 --> 00:17:14,800 Think about a man that was scourged and beaten and 249 00:17:14,800 --> 00:17:17,900 slaughtered. And when he was nailed upon that 250 00:17:17,900 --> 00:17:24,000 tree, the open wounds the blood, the the change of color and 251 00:17:24,000 --> 00:17:27,599 their skin because of the trauma, the open wounds 252 00:17:27,700 --> 00:17:29,300 depending on how badly they were scores. 253 00:17:29,300 --> 00:17:33,200 Maybe even the entrails were showing And people would Mock 254 00:17:33,200 --> 00:17:36,300 and look and would do anything to that person. 255 00:17:39,200 --> 00:17:41,900 You think about Jesus and Isaiah 52:14? 256 00:17:41,900 --> 00:17:45,900 It says that he was so marred that he was beyond human 257 00:17:45,900 --> 00:17:49,000 semblance. He was so disfigured that you 258 00:17:49,000 --> 00:17:52,500 couldn't even tell he was a man. Now, think about that. 259 00:17:53,200 --> 00:17:55,100 How badly do you have to be beaten? 260 00:17:55,300 --> 00:17:58,100 How badly do you need to be tortured for people to look at 261 00:17:58,100 --> 00:18:01,400 you and not be able to recognize that you are a human being? 262 00:18:03,400 --> 00:18:09,000 It was hideous. It was a sight of Horror. 263 00:18:11,400 --> 00:18:13,800 It was nothing that you would be attracted to. 264 00:18:15,700 --> 00:18:17,900 And you would have to be the most hardened man to be able to 265 00:18:17,900 --> 00:18:22,100 go to a site of a crucifixion and stay there with a stable 266 00:18:22,100 --> 00:18:26,400 stomach. But you know what? 267 00:18:26,400 --> 00:18:29,200 Paul said, he said, one of the most profound statements and 268 00:18:29,200 --> 00:18:35,400 Galatians 6. He says but for me, far be it 269 00:18:35,400 --> 00:18:38,000 for me to boast in anything, except in the cross of our Lord, 270 00:18:38,000 --> 00:18:42,800 Jesus Christ by which pay attention by which the world has 271 00:18:42,800 --> 00:18:48,200 been crucified to me, and I to the world, in other words, 272 00:18:49,200 --> 00:18:52,200 Because I had a revelation of the cross of Jesus Christ, you 273 00:18:52,208 --> 00:18:55,000 know how I see the world. I see it like I saw or 274 00:18:55,000 --> 00:19:00,800 eyewitness a crucifixion. The same way that a man was 275 00:19:00,800 --> 00:19:04,500 totally deformed and hideously displayed on a cross. 276 00:19:05,700 --> 00:19:10,500 Is the same way that Paul saw the world and its course, it's 277 00:19:10,500 --> 00:19:14,500 totally unattractive to me. It's absolutely hideous. 278 00:19:15,000 --> 00:19:18,000 There is no sense of attraction in me towards the world because 279 00:19:18,000 --> 00:19:20,600 it's like something being crucified on a cross. 280 00:19:22,600 --> 00:19:28,500 Wow. But not only that, if you had a 281 00:19:28,500 --> 00:19:30,900 friend, or you got a family member that was crucified on a 282 00:19:30,908 --> 00:19:33,400 cross. You knew one thing, for sure, 283 00:19:33,400 --> 00:19:36,800 they were never getting off of that cross in the sense that 284 00:19:36,800 --> 00:19:42,300 they were never coming off a live gone forever and Paul says 285 00:19:42,300 --> 00:19:47,100 the world is crucified to me, it's gone. 286 00:19:47,600 --> 00:19:49,100 I have no relationship with anymore. 287 00:19:49,400 --> 00:19:52,700 I have no hope that I will ever come into contact with the 288 00:19:52,700 --> 00:19:54,800 world. Again, that is how I see the 289 00:19:54,800 --> 00:19:55,600 world, you know what's fascinating. 290 00:19:55,800 --> 00:19:57,800 The Paul says, that's how the world sees me. 291 00:19:58,800 --> 00:20:04,200 I'm crucified to the world. Total dissociation. 292 00:20:04,600 --> 00:20:08,100 No sense of attractiveness. No sense of Beauty in it. 293 00:20:08,200 --> 00:20:12,200 No sense of being compelled, you know, there's so many profession 294 00:20:12,200 --> 00:20:15,000 Christians today. So many professing Christians 295 00:20:15,000 --> 00:20:18,100 today, that are not crucified to the world or the world is not 296 00:20:18,100 --> 00:20:20,300 even crucified to them. The world's not crucified the 297 00:20:20,300 --> 00:20:21,600 most people today, you know what it is? 298 00:20:21,600 --> 00:20:27,400 It's compelling to them. Can you really testify this 299 00:20:27,400 --> 00:20:29,800 morning that the world is crucified to you? 300 00:20:32,000 --> 00:20:34,400 Can you really say? I look at the world, the same 301 00:20:34,400 --> 00:20:37,100 way a man, and Jesus, they would look upon a crucifixion. 302 00:20:37,100 --> 00:20:38,900 Can you really honestly say that? 303 00:20:38,900 --> 00:20:41,100 Because that's the reality when you get a revelation of Jesus 304 00:20:41,100 --> 00:20:46,300 Christ, Paul says, by the cross, I see the world as crucified in 305 00:20:46,300 --> 00:20:49,500 other words because I received the revelation of the glory of 306 00:20:49,500 --> 00:20:52,700 Christ because I received understanding of his great love 307 00:20:52,700 --> 00:20:56,800 for me that God himself, sent his son to reconcile me back to 308 00:20:56,800 --> 00:21:00,400 him and living relationship. The world is absolutely hideous 309 00:21:00,400 --> 00:21:03,700 and comparison. Now I dare you and challenge you 310 00:21:03,708 --> 00:21:06,400 to ask a modern Christian, if they really see it that way and 311 00:21:06,400 --> 00:21:12,500 see what response you get. The Paul said it. 312 00:21:13,900 --> 00:21:15,900 Paul said, when you get a revelation of the Cross, when 313 00:21:15,900 --> 00:21:18,300 you truly put your faith and trust when you really come into 314 00:21:18,300 --> 00:21:21,300 Union with Christ, you see the course of this world 315 00:21:21,300 --> 00:21:24,500 differently. You see that this world is just 316 00:21:24,500 --> 00:21:28,800 a strip. Surrounded by flashy lights and 317 00:21:28,800 --> 00:21:32,200 distractions to keep you long enough. 318 00:21:32,200 --> 00:21:35,100 Not realizing that this strip is headed off a cliff. 319 00:21:35,500 --> 00:21:38,100 It's a highway filled with pain regret. 320 00:21:39,300 --> 00:21:46,100 And shallow pleasures. It's a desert path. filled with 321 00:21:46,100 --> 00:21:50,900 thirsty people being deceived by faulty mirages of fantasies that 322 00:21:50,900 --> 00:21:54,100 will satisfy but leave you thirstier and thirstier than 323 00:21:54,100 --> 00:22:00,400 before, It's ultimately a one more Run, Road freeway to Hell 324 00:22:01,800 --> 00:22:06,800 heavily occupied. By the masses from different 325 00:22:06,800 --> 00:22:12,200 nations tribes and tongues. That are Marching on their way 326 00:22:12,200 --> 00:22:16,700 into an eternal separation from God from his presence. 327 00:22:18,200 --> 00:22:22,400 When you get saved when this gospel becomes a part of you, 328 00:22:22,800 --> 00:22:25,900 you look at the course of this world and you don't walk in it 329 00:22:25,900 --> 00:22:28,700 anymore. You walk in the total opposite 330 00:22:28,700 --> 00:22:32,600 direction. The number one consequence, when 331 00:22:32,600 --> 00:22:34,700 you put your faith and trust in Jesus Christ, that you were 332 00:22:34,700 --> 00:22:37,400 delivered from the course and the influence of this world. 333 00:22:39,000 --> 00:22:43,200 You don't walk in it anymore. And this truth of once being 334 00:22:43,200 --> 00:22:45,900 dead and walking in the direction of this world is 335 00:22:45,900 --> 00:22:48,700 painted so beautifully with the famous story of The Prodigal 336 00:22:48,700 --> 00:22:52,500 Son. You know, what the father said? 337 00:22:52,500 --> 00:22:57,500 When The Prodigal Son came home? He burst forth with joy. 338 00:22:58,400 --> 00:23:04,500 Why he said the statement he said in Luke 15 for this is my 339 00:23:04,500 --> 00:23:09,100 son who was dead. And is alive again. 340 00:23:09,100 --> 00:23:13,200 He was lost and is found and they began to celebrate. 341 00:23:13,800 --> 00:23:14,800 But, wait a minute, how is he dead? 342 00:23:14,800 --> 00:23:17,800 He wasn't dead. In fact, you know how it 343 00:23:17,808 --> 00:23:22,500 describes the sun. It says that he came to his 344 00:23:22,500 --> 00:23:26,100 father and asked him for everything concerning his 345 00:23:26,100 --> 00:23:29,200 inheritance. Give me what I deserve 346 00:23:29,200 --> 00:23:31,700 concerning my inheritance and it says he traveled to a far 347 00:23:31,700 --> 00:23:35,200 country. And he lived recklessly. 348 00:23:36,000 --> 00:23:37,600 Now does that sound like a dead person to you? 349 00:23:42,800 --> 00:23:47,100 Well travel spending on my own Pleasures. 350 00:23:47,400 --> 00:23:51,500 That's the generation that we're living in acquire more so that I 351 00:23:51,500 --> 00:23:54,600 can experience more so that I can live more and you know what? 352 00:23:54,600 --> 00:23:59,800 The Bible describes you dead. Oh you think you're living but 353 00:23:59,800 --> 00:24:04,200 you're actually a Dead Man Walking You think you have life 354 00:24:04,700 --> 00:24:08,500 but there is only life when like The Prodigal Son you run back 355 00:24:08,500 --> 00:24:11,500 into the arms of the father behold. 356 00:24:11,700 --> 00:24:17,100 He was dead but now he's alive, you will never experience life. 357 00:24:17,300 --> 00:24:23,100 True life, Abundant Life, Pure Life satisfaction Until you 358 00:24:23,100 --> 00:24:26,500 realize that your spirit Man is dead and that no matter what you 359 00:24:26,500 --> 00:24:28,900 do in this life like The Prodigal Son in reality, you're 360 00:24:28,900 --> 00:24:31,700 eating pigs food in comparison to what you can have in Christ. 361 00:24:35,000 --> 00:24:36,700 So, don't envy the world. You shouldn't. 362 00:24:36,700 --> 00:24:38,300 Why? Because what you're looking at 363 00:24:38,300 --> 00:24:44,400 is Dead Men Walking In Christ, bids us to come to have life. 364 00:24:45,400 --> 00:24:47,800 Because he delivers you from the influence of this world, he 365 00:24:47,800 --> 00:24:49,300 delivers you from the course of this world. 366 00:24:49,300 --> 00:24:53,500 When you have a revelation of the cross, But not only did you 367 00:24:53,500 --> 00:24:56,000 save you from that the second consequences that he sets you 368 00:24:56,000 --> 00:24:57,500 free from the authority of Satan. 369 00:24:58,700 --> 00:25:01,700 He sets, you free from the authority of Satan because he 370 00:25:01,700 --> 00:25:07,100 says, here you are following the course of this world, following 371 00:25:07,100 --> 00:25:10,300 the prince of the power of the air, the spirit, that is now at 372 00:25:10,300 --> 00:25:15,000 work in the sons of Disobedience, what a staggering 373 00:25:15,000 --> 00:25:17,400 truth. This is what he's saying here, 374 00:25:17,900 --> 00:25:21,000 that those who follow the course of this world are in reality, 375 00:25:21,000 --> 00:25:27,200 following the devil, That those who are walking in this course. 376 00:25:28,400 --> 00:25:31,800 Whether they realize it or not, this world is being energized by 377 00:25:31,800 --> 00:25:38,000 Satan and his powers. That Satan and his demons and 378 00:25:38,000 --> 00:25:41,400 his kingdom are orchestrating. These rebellious hearts into 379 00:25:41,400 --> 00:25:45,600 greater Rebellion against God. And he says, when you're 380 00:25:45,600 --> 00:25:49,000 following this course, there's somebody leading this marching 381 00:25:49,000 --> 00:25:53,600 band and it's the Devil Himself. And he says you were following 382 00:25:53,600 --> 00:25:55,100 the power of the prince of the air. 383 00:25:56,700 --> 00:26:00,000 And because you were this reality is not part of you, he 384 00:26:00,000 --> 00:26:02,100 is now at work in the sons of Disobedience. 385 00:26:02,100 --> 00:26:04,500 Now we had a whole sermon on this, we're not going to spend 386 00:26:04,500 --> 00:26:06,000 too much time on it, but think about it. 387 00:26:06,300 --> 00:26:07,900 He is right now at work. What does he do? 388 00:26:07,900 --> 00:26:14,000 He torments he deceives, he lies he afflicts, he blinds, he 389 00:26:14,000 --> 00:26:17,200 misguides, he offers false truth. 390 00:26:17,500 --> 00:26:20,900 He is generating more and more for people to stay on this 391 00:26:20,900 --> 00:26:29,100 course concerning the world. We should produce a holy anger 392 00:26:29,100 --> 00:26:33,700 in US. They should produce a holy anger 393 00:26:33,700 --> 00:26:39,600 in US. because before you and I received in light of this verse, 394 00:26:40,800 --> 00:26:42,300 You weren't really living for yourself. 395 00:26:42,300 --> 00:26:44,000 You were actually fulfilling his agenda. 396 00:26:47,100 --> 00:26:50,600 Say, no, no. There's, there's no way that I 397 00:26:50,600 --> 00:26:52,400 would live for the devil. Are you kidding me? 398 00:26:52,400 --> 00:26:53,800 I was just doing my own thing. No. 399 00:26:53,800 --> 00:26:55,200 You're just in the bottom of the pyramid. 400 00:26:55,200 --> 00:26:58,700 Scheme friend. You think that you're living for 401 00:26:58,700 --> 00:27:01,900 yourself but in fact, you're just generating something for 402 00:27:01,900 --> 00:27:04,600 the person at the top of that pyramid in his name is Satan 403 00:27:04,600 --> 00:27:06,900 Lucifer, the deceiver of the world. 404 00:27:07,900 --> 00:27:11,100 Hear me. What is he saying here? 405 00:27:12,300 --> 00:27:14,100 What does he say to the Pharisees? 406 00:27:14,700 --> 00:27:21,900 He says, in John 8:44, you are of your father who the devil. 407 00:27:23,600 --> 00:27:26,800 You are you are of your father, did he identifies the Pharisees? 408 00:27:26,800 --> 00:27:28,300 The most religious people in that day. 409 00:27:28,700 --> 00:27:33,800 You know your father is Satan. Jesus was a kind preacher, 410 00:27:33,800 --> 00:27:36,600 wasn't he? First John 3:8. 411 00:27:36,600 --> 00:27:40,100 Whoever makes a practice of sinning is of the devil. 412 00:27:42,000 --> 00:27:45,700 Plain, and simple. That when you live outside of 413 00:27:45,700 --> 00:27:48,200 the will of God, whether you want to acknowledge it or not, 414 00:27:48,200 --> 00:27:51,000 whether you want to bury that truth, in your conscious does 415 00:27:51,000 --> 00:27:53,700 not matter. In reality, you are fulfilling 416 00:27:53,900 --> 00:27:57,100 Satan's nature and his agenda in this world and what is his 417 00:27:57,100 --> 00:28:00,900 agenda for you? Not to give glory to God and for 418 00:28:00,900 --> 00:28:04,200 you to do what Adam and Eve did in the garden to be convinced 419 00:28:04,200 --> 00:28:06,000 that you are the god of your own life? 420 00:28:07,100 --> 00:28:10,000 Just control your own life, make your own decisions, make your 421 00:28:10,000 --> 00:28:12,200 own plans, spend the resources in your time. 422 00:28:12,200 --> 00:28:13,800 How you want to? And once again that should 423 00:28:13,800 --> 00:28:16,200 produce a holy anger in you and me because before we were saved, 424 00:28:16,200 --> 00:28:18,400 we were actually fueling his agenda. 425 00:28:21,100 --> 00:28:23,400 Before person is saved. The gifts that God has given 426 00:28:23,400 --> 00:28:24,800 them. They were using it for their own 427 00:28:24,800 --> 00:28:27,000 Glory, but in reality, they're using it for Satan's Glory, 428 00:28:28,000 --> 00:28:32,100 robbing it from God's glory, The resources that we receive and we 429 00:28:32,108 --> 00:28:35,000 were spending on ourselves instead of praying and to how 430 00:28:35,000 --> 00:28:37,600 God would use them. It was really just fueling 431 00:28:37,600 --> 00:28:41,100 Satan's agenda and on and on it goes. 432 00:28:41,600 --> 00:28:46,100 And I wonder How many of us should be stirred by this truth? 433 00:28:46,900 --> 00:28:50,300 Because if we've given those young years of Our Lives to him 434 00:28:50,500 --> 00:28:53,900 in an indirect sense, how much more should we give to God with 435 00:28:53,900 --> 00:28:55,900 the Revelation that he is, Lord of all. 436 00:28:56,900 --> 00:28:58,700 It's amazing. You meet so many safe people. 437 00:28:58,700 --> 00:29:00,400 When they get saved, they don't get as radical. 438 00:29:00,400 --> 00:29:01,600 They were so radical in the world. 439 00:29:01,600 --> 00:29:03,300 They stayed up all night for the world. 440 00:29:06,500 --> 00:29:09,000 They work, tirelessly for themselves and then when it 441 00:29:09,000 --> 00:29:10,800 comes to the kingdom of God, they're lazy and they're just 442 00:29:10,800 --> 00:29:11,700 not know. It's okay. 443 00:29:11,700 --> 00:29:13,000 Just going to stroll along. Why? 444 00:29:13,000 --> 00:29:15,200 You were Radical for Satan, be radical for God. 445 00:29:17,300 --> 00:29:21,700 They should stir us to know that he does work in the sons of 446 00:29:21,700 --> 00:29:25,800 Disobedience and that at one point, he was in some indirect 447 00:29:25,800 --> 00:29:28,900 way without us knowing because we're blind and we were blinded 448 00:29:28,900 --> 00:29:34,900 rather used us. By robbing us from giving glory 449 00:29:34,900 --> 00:29:38,600 to God. But now we have a new purpose 450 00:29:39,300 --> 00:29:41,100 while he works in the sons of Disobedience. 451 00:29:41,100 --> 00:29:44,600 You know what your 9 to 5 is everyday to destroy the works of 452 00:29:44,600 --> 00:29:47,700 Satan. Now, he uses you, he fills you 453 00:29:47,700 --> 00:29:49,700 with his Spirit, he says, now go out into the world because 454 00:29:49,700 --> 00:29:51,900 that's why Jesus came into the world, to destroy the works of 455 00:29:51,900 --> 00:29:57,500 the devil, and I, you go With that full minded understanding. 456 00:29:59,000 --> 00:30:01,100 That I'm not going to waste my life. 457 00:30:03,100 --> 00:30:07,800 Living for Christ. Safe from the influence of this 458 00:30:07,800 --> 00:30:10,500 world delivered from the authority of Satan, but this is 459 00:30:10,500 --> 00:30:12,200 probably one of the most glorious truths of the 460 00:30:12,200 --> 00:30:17,800 consequences of the gospel. And number three, Saved from the 461 00:30:17,800 --> 00:30:22,700 power of the flesh. Saved from the power of the 462 00:30:22,700 --> 00:30:24,300 flesh. He says it here. 463 00:30:26,200 --> 00:30:29,900 Verse 3, among whom we all once lived in the passions of our 464 00:30:29,900 --> 00:30:34,300 flesh, carrying out the desires of the body, and the mind, and 465 00:30:34,300 --> 00:30:38,400 we're by Nature children of Wrath, like the rest of mankind, 466 00:30:39,000 --> 00:30:44,000 like the rest of mankind. He says you were living you once 467 00:30:44,000 --> 00:30:46,400 lived in the passions of the Flesh. 468 00:30:47,200 --> 00:30:51,500 In other words, Not only before Christ. 469 00:30:52,700 --> 00:30:54,200 Were you walking in the course of this world? 470 00:30:54,200 --> 00:30:56,300 Not only were you a puppet for Satan. 471 00:30:58,700 --> 00:31:02,500 You are also a prisoner helplessly overcomed by this 472 00:31:02,500 --> 00:31:06,500 body. Whatever the flesh demands, the 473 00:31:06,500 --> 00:31:10,400 flesh cannot resist. When there are urges, when there 474 00:31:10,400 --> 00:31:14,700 are Temptations we are easily. So given over to it and these 475 00:31:14,700 --> 00:31:17,900 desires of the carnal body overwhelm us and the 476 00:31:17,900 --> 00:31:25,400 imaginations of our thoughts plague us So words, such as I 477 00:31:25,400 --> 00:31:31,100 can't help it. Or is just a part of who I am is 478 00:31:31,100 --> 00:31:34,100 the common language of those who have not been delivered from the 479 00:31:34,100 --> 00:31:37,400 flesh. That's the common language. 480 00:31:37,900 --> 00:31:41,100 That's not the vocabulary of those as we've learned last week 481 00:31:41,200 --> 00:31:43,600 who have the immeasurable greatness of power that God has 482 00:31:43,600 --> 00:31:47,800 given us in Christ. But for those who are bound by 483 00:31:47,800 --> 00:31:51,900 the flesh, I can't help it. I gotta do it. 484 00:31:52,800 --> 00:31:57,200 I can't stop this craving. And reminds me of a character in 485 00:31:57,200 --> 00:32:00,900 The Bible, that's a tragic figure in 2nd Samuel 13, verse 486 00:32:00,900 --> 00:32:03,000 2. And and then who was one of the 487 00:32:03,000 --> 00:32:08,900 sons of David was so tormented But he made himself ill because 488 00:32:08,900 --> 00:32:11,400 of his sister Tamar for. She was a virgin and it seemed 489 00:32:11,400 --> 00:32:13,900 impossible for em to do anything to her. 490 00:32:15,000 --> 00:32:19,900 He was tormented by the desires of the flesh, it was beyond 491 00:32:19,900 --> 00:32:24,800 Temptation, it was up session. He came to a place in which he 492 00:32:24,800 --> 00:32:29,000 was now, so consumed in body and mind that he needed to do, 493 00:32:29,000 --> 00:32:31,900 whatever he needed to do, in order to fulfill that desire of 494 00:32:31,900 --> 00:32:34,800 the Flesh and guess what? When he had the wrong friend in 495 00:32:34,800 --> 00:32:37,500 his life, that fueled the idea he went for it. 496 00:32:38,800 --> 00:32:41,000 And it's a picture of the man outside of Christ. 497 00:32:42,600 --> 00:32:46,300 Whatever impulse, whatever. Urge, whatever thought there is 498 00:32:46,300 --> 00:32:51,400 no ability to fight it, you were so easily given to it and you 499 00:32:51,400 --> 00:32:55,100 live in that pattern of defeat day after day and week, after 500 00:32:55,100 --> 00:32:57,500 week and month after month and year after year for your entire 501 00:32:57,500 --> 00:33:01,000 life. But it's not isolated to sexual 502 00:33:01,000 --> 00:33:06,500 sin. These passions can overwhelm us 503 00:33:06,500 --> 00:33:10,600 through anger. You can't control your temper. 504 00:33:13,000 --> 00:33:14,900 Just takes the right button to push. 505 00:33:14,900 --> 00:33:18,100 And there goes the wrath of Almighty you. 506 00:33:19,500 --> 00:33:24,300 Unleashed on a person. These passions can come down to 507 00:33:24,300 --> 00:33:26,600 the Love of Money that drives you to make every decision. 508 00:33:26,600 --> 00:33:30,500 You're so cheap. You willing to Rob anybody for 509 00:33:30,500 --> 00:33:37,600 yourself. You're so driven, you willing to 510 00:33:37,600 --> 00:33:40,000 step on any relationship to get to that place where you can just 511 00:33:40,000 --> 00:33:43,700 have a little bit more. These passions can be 512 00:33:43,700 --> 00:33:47,400 experienced in selfishness where you are, so irritated. 513 00:33:47,700 --> 00:33:51,100 When the center of attention is not you, or you are extra 514 00:33:51,100 --> 00:33:53,100 irritated when it's given to somebody else. 515 00:33:55,500 --> 00:33:59,500 These passions of the flesh can be experienced, unfortunately, 516 00:33:59,500 --> 00:34:02,900 through drugs and alcohol. These substances that are really 517 00:34:02,900 --> 00:34:06,100 just symptoms of a deeper issue in which you are bound to 518 00:34:06,100 --> 00:34:10,199 something. God has given us the ability to 519 00:34:10,207 --> 00:34:12,699 overcome it by your overcome by his substance. 520 00:34:14,699 --> 00:34:16,400 That's a pathetic state to be in. 521 00:34:18,100 --> 00:34:20,100 But it's the reality of the power of the flesh. 522 00:34:21,400 --> 00:34:26,400 It's a sad place to be in. But Paul makes a bold statement. 523 00:34:27,300 --> 00:34:32,500 We all once lived. In the passions of the flesh 524 00:34:32,500 --> 00:34:37,300 that you are living you once lived in that reality, something 525 00:34:37,300 --> 00:34:41,400 happened. Something happened to us in 526 00:34:41,400 --> 00:34:44,100 Christ concerning that, but how can it be? 527 00:34:46,100 --> 00:34:47,600 How can it be? I mean, it's our nature. 528 00:34:47,600 --> 00:34:51,600 We were born with this adamic nature, Adam and Eve from the 529 00:34:51,600 --> 00:34:54,100 garden. Took something that was outside 530 00:34:54,100 --> 00:34:56,800 of them, which was the forbidden fruit and ate it. 531 00:34:56,800 --> 00:34:59,300 And that very thing that was outside of the now, became a 532 00:34:59,300 --> 00:35:01,700 part of them. And so, the desire is now for 533 00:35:01,700 --> 00:35:03,900 the rest of the human race are within us. 534 00:35:04,400 --> 00:35:07,600 We are enticed by the things that are in us and we have a 535 00:35:07,600 --> 00:35:11,100 craving for forbidden fruit, that's just who we are. 536 00:35:11,200 --> 00:35:14,200 That's just our DNA. So how can it be that God 537 00:35:14,200 --> 00:35:15,800 delivers us? It's like asking a dog. 538 00:35:15,900 --> 00:35:17,900 Talk to act like a bird. Go fly. 539 00:35:19,800 --> 00:35:23,500 Sing. It's contrary to its nature. 540 00:35:23,500 --> 00:35:26,000 And so is it with us when it comes to being free from the 541 00:35:26,000 --> 00:35:28,300 power of sin? Unless of course, God gives us a 542 00:35:28,308 --> 00:35:34,100 new nature. That's the transaction that 543 00:35:34,100 --> 00:35:38,200 happens in the gospel and he prophesied that in Jeremiah 31. 544 00:35:38,900 --> 00:35:40,200 He says, you know what, I'm gonna do to you. 545 00:35:40,400 --> 00:35:42,200 I'm going to make an Everlasting Covenant with you. 546 00:35:42,500 --> 00:35:46,600 I'm gonna put my law within you and I'm going to write it on 547 00:35:46,600 --> 00:35:49,100 your heart. What does that mean? 548 00:35:49,100 --> 00:35:52,100 Just picture it. He reaches into that nature of 549 00:35:52,100 --> 00:35:56,100 yours that heart. That is graffitied with 550 00:35:56,100 --> 00:35:57,900 Rebellion against God all over it. 551 00:35:57,900 --> 00:36:00,700 That is so hard and like picking up our Stone from the side of 552 00:36:00,707 --> 00:36:03,200 the street. He takes that heart, he puts in 553 00:36:03,200 --> 00:36:05,200 a heart of flesh, but before he puts the heart of Flesh Union 554 00:36:05,200 --> 00:36:07,500 before he makes that transaction when he does, he takes your 555 00:36:07,500 --> 00:36:12,000 heart. And he takes the law of God. 556 00:36:14,200 --> 00:36:17,100 And he writes it. On your heart. 557 00:36:18,800 --> 00:36:25,400 Every command everything that is given to us every standard. 558 00:36:25,700 --> 00:36:29,600 He puts it on your heart and then he puts it in you. 559 00:36:30,500 --> 00:36:35,600 And when he puts it in, you, You know, throb to obey God. 560 00:36:37,900 --> 00:36:41,800 You now Delight in what you read, it's no longer a 561 00:36:41,800 --> 00:36:45,000 Taskmaster. It's something that you pursue. 562 00:36:45,000 --> 00:36:46,700 It's something that you want to do. 563 00:36:46,700 --> 00:36:50,100 Because that is the supernatural transaction of the Gospel. 564 00:36:50,400 --> 00:36:56,300 He gives you a new nature. And through that nature, you 565 00:36:56,300 --> 00:37:00,300 have victory over sin. Because of that heart 566 00:37:00,300 --> 00:37:03,600 transplant. You are delivered. 567 00:37:05,100 --> 00:37:08,200 There's this story of somebody that I know very well. 568 00:37:11,200 --> 00:37:16,500 And they were away with friends. On vacation to a well-known 569 00:37:16,500 --> 00:37:23,400 Beach. and part of this beach and it's experience was that If 570 00:37:23,400 --> 00:37:27,100 you swam further away enough, you can actually swim with the 571 00:37:27,100 --> 00:37:33,200 sea turtles. But legally because this beach 572 00:37:33,200 --> 00:37:37,600 was so precious with animals and not just animals with coral 573 00:37:37,600 --> 00:37:40,900 reef. There is this wall of rocks with 574 00:37:40,900 --> 00:37:44,600 different colors in the water. It was literally a wall and so 575 00:37:44,600 --> 00:37:46,800 you couldn't swim over. It, lets you touch it and make 576 00:37:46,800 --> 00:37:48,700 those things stumble off of their place. 577 00:37:48,900 --> 00:37:51,100 So what you have to do in that beach is that you have to go 578 00:37:51,100 --> 00:37:55,400 through this little Gap. This little separation between 579 00:37:55,400 --> 00:37:58,400 the wall, and you would come off the shore and you would swim to 580 00:37:58,400 --> 00:37:59,900 that Gap and go behind the coral reef. 581 00:37:59,900 --> 00:38:01,800 So you can go and see all those beautiful fish. 582 00:38:02,900 --> 00:38:05,700 And so, this young man, decides to go, he was convinced, it was 583 00:38:05,700 --> 00:38:09,600 a long day, but he was convinced by a friend to do so. 584 00:38:09,600 --> 00:38:11,400 So he gets into the water and begins to swim. 585 00:38:12,600 --> 00:38:16,400 And as he swims towards that little Gap and finds himself on 586 00:38:16,400 --> 00:38:19,300 the other side, he quickly realized that he was more 587 00:38:19,300 --> 00:38:23,600 exhausted than he thought. And so in the midst of the ice, 588 00:38:23,600 --> 00:38:25,600 as I think I'm just going to turn back, it's not worth going 589 00:38:25,600 --> 00:38:28,400 out there because I'm so tired. My body so exhausted, I don't 590 00:38:28,400 --> 00:38:30,000 know if I'm gonna be able to swim with the fish. 591 00:38:30,600 --> 00:38:33,200 So I'm just going to go back to the shore and as he turned 592 00:38:33,200 --> 00:38:36,300 around he quickly realized something. 593 00:38:37,700 --> 00:38:41,200 He was trapped. He was trapped. 594 00:38:42,100 --> 00:38:44,200 The waves were so powerful that day. 595 00:38:45,900 --> 00:38:50,400 That is he tried to swim back. The waves kept pulling him away. 596 00:38:52,200 --> 00:38:54,300 And his strategy was I'm so far from The Gap. 597 00:38:54,300 --> 00:38:56,000 I'm just going to try to swim over the coral reefs. 598 00:38:56,000 --> 00:38:58,600 I know it's illegal but I'm going to try to do it because I 599 00:38:58,607 --> 00:39:00,900 just need to get back. I'm so tired. 600 00:39:02,500 --> 00:39:05,800 And as he positioned his body towards the shore, knowing that 601 00:39:05,800 --> 00:39:09,000 he had to overcome that wall of beautiful precious rocks. 602 00:39:09,800 --> 00:39:12,100 He thought to himself. I'm just going to go with the 603 00:39:12,100 --> 00:39:17,100 waves and the waves will push me over and so he tried the wave 604 00:39:17,100 --> 00:39:21,200 takes him and as he goes instead of going over, it is smash him 605 00:39:21,200 --> 00:39:24,500 into the rocks and in the wave pulls him back. 606 00:39:25,700 --> 00:39:28,000 And then he tells himself, I'm just going to wait for the next 607 00:39:28,000 --> 00:39:30,800 week and the way brings him again, and smash them into the 608 00:39:30,800 --> 00:39:32,500 Rocks. Now, he's starting to scrape. 609 00:39:34,600 --> 00:39:36,900 And so he begins to think well this isn't working the way I 610 00:39:36,900 --> 00:39:40,200 thought these waves I think are are pulling me deeper and I do 611 00:39:40,200 --> 00:39:44,600 understand why I need to get over this but the waves kept 612 00:39:44,600 --> 00:39:47,300 doing it beating him and beating him and beat him in all the deal 613 00:39:47,300 --> 00:39:49,700 was kept in more exhausted, more tired. 614 00:39:51,400 --> 00:39:56,100 He was trapped, he was overcome and so a second strategy came to 615 00:39:56,100 --> 00:39:56,500 mind. Okay. 616 00:39:56,500 --> 00:39:59,900 I think at this point water starting to come into my nose 617 00:39:59,900 --> 00:40:02,300 water, start to come into my mouth and choking on salt water. 618 00:40:02,500 --> 00:40:06,700 I need to call out for help. I need to ask somebody from the 619 00:40:06,700 --> 00:40:09,900 shore to come and rescue me but you know what was blocking that 620 00:40:10,400 --> 00:40:13,100 it wasn't waves or rocks. It was Pride. 621 00:40:14,800 --> 00:40:16,700 She was thinking to myself, I are gonna cry. 622 00:40:16,700 --> 00:40:18,700 All my friends are going to make fun of me for the rest of this 623 00:40:18,700 --> 00:40:20,800 trip. If I'm gonna cry out, I'm going 624 00:40:20,800 --> 00:40:23,700 to be that guy in the trip, that almost drowned and the parents 625 00:40:23,700 --> 00:40:26,000 are going to find out and my parents are going to find out. 626 00:40:26,000 --> 00:40:27,400 So, you know, I think I'd rather die. 627 00:40:30,500 --> 00:40:33,800 So with this tension of being overcome by the waves and being 628 00:40:33,800 --> 00:40:36,700 smashed with this desire of being delivered. 629 00:40:37,100 --> 00:40:41,400 But also with this pride of not wanting to call out for help, he 630 00:40:41,400 --> 00:40:44,200 stayed in that place. What seemed to be like an 631 00:40:44,200 --> 00:40:46,800 eternity, what a picture of sin in somebody's life. 632 00:40:50,300 --> 00:40:52,500 Somebody that thought they can go out and do something think 633 00:40:52,500 --> 00:40:53,300 that it was going to please them. 634 00:40:53,300 --> 00:40:57,700 But in reality, a traps them and when they realize that it traps 635 00:40:57,700 --> 00:40:59,600 and they think that they can get over in their own power, and 636 00:40:59,600 --> 00:41:02,000 their own strength, when they only realize that it's 637 00:41:02,000 --> 00:41:05,600 overcoming, the more and more, and taking them down deeper and 638 00:41:05,600 --> 00:41:10,900 deeper, And instead of this person crying out for help, they 639 00:41:10,900 --> 00:41:12,700 think that they can do it in their own strength. 640 00:41:13,200 --> 00:41:17,000 Listen, you will never be able to overcome the sins of your 641 00:41:17,000 --> 00:41:19,300 flesh unless Jesus Christ delivers. 642 00:41:19,300 --> 00:41:25,300 You you might be thinking, what ever happened to that boy that 643 00:41:25,300 --> 00:41:28,400 teenager Well, you're looking at him. 644 00:41:31,900 --> 00:41:37,700 Side note in that moment. A prayer. 645 00:41:37,700 --> 00:41:40,100 My heart went out to God. This is before I was saved, 646 00:41:40,600 --> 00:41:42,500 said, God, I don't want to die in this water. 647 00:41:43,900 --> 00:41:49,300 And there is just a blur. We're finally a wave pushed me 648 00:41:49,300 --> 00:41:53,300 over those rocks. And within a few short moments, 649 00:41:53,300 --> 00:41:55,800 I realized my feet is touching the sand. 650 00:41:57,200 --> 00:41:59,400 And I drag my body on that beach, and I felt like, I 651 00:41:59,400 --> 00:42:02,800 weighed a thousand pounds. And I got into that beach. 652 00:42:02,800 --> 00:42:07,400 And I fell asleep like a baby. What a beautiful picture of 653 00:42:07,400 --> 00:42:12,700 Deliverance that when God does save you, he gives you rest. 654 00:42:13,800 --> 00:42:16,900 Rest. He saves you from the power. 655 00:42:18,600 --> 00:42:21,200 The flesh. But only when you realize that 656 00:42:21,200 --> 00:42:22,800 you can't do it on your own strength. 657 00:42:24,000 --> 00:42:27,400 Only when you realize that he is the one that can take you out of 658 00:42:27,400 --> 00:42:30,200 that pit and set you on Solid Ground. 659 00:42:32,500 --> 00:42:36,400 Are you drowning? Are you overcome? 660 00:42:37,400 --> 00:42:41,200 You'll stay drowning and you will die in your sin unless you 661 00:42:41,207 --> 00:42:47,500 call out to God for mercy. Do these truths don't end. 662 00:42:50,300 --> 00:42:53,800 If God could save Reckless, teenager from waves, how much 663 00:42:53,800 --> 00:42:57,100 more can he save you from the overwhelming powers of sin that 664 00:42:57,100 --> 00:43:03,800 crash over you day in Day Out? The fourth consequence of the 665 00:43:03,800 --> 00:43:09,100 Gospel in somebody's life. The first three are glorious 666 00:43:09,100 --> 00:43:12,400 within themselves safe from the influence of this world 667 00:43:12,400 --> 00:43:15,300 delivered from the authority of Satan saved from the power of 668 00:43:15,300 --> 00:43:18,800 the flesh. But the consequence of the 669 00:43:18,800 --> 00:43:24,500 Gospel centers in these verses with this truth that when you 670 00:43:24,500 --> 00:43:28,500 truly understand it, you truly experience the expression of 671 00:43:28,500 --> 00:43:32,100 God's love in your life. He says what? 672 00:43:32,500 --> 00:43:38,500 Look at verse 4. But God Being rich in Mercy 673 00:43:38,800 --> 00:43:40,800 because of the great love with which he loved us. 674 00:43:41,200 --> 00:43:44,600 Even when we were dead in our trespasses made us alive 675 00:43:44,600 --> 00:43:48,600 together, with Christ by Grace, you have been saved. 676 00:43:51,600 --> 00:43:54,600 Now we know that we are Made Alive together with Christ. 677 00:43:54,600 --> 00:43:57,800 We just talked about the past few minutes that is the result 678 00:43:57,800 --> 00:44:01,100 of the Gospel but we can't just focus on the result of the 679 00:44:01,100 --> 00:44:02,800 Gospel. We have to understand the motive 680 00:44:02,800 --> 00:44:06,000 behind the gospel. We have to know why he sets us 681 00:44:06,000 --> 00:44:07,700 free. We have to know why he brings 682 00:44:07,700 --> 00:44:12,100 life to us, and it says here, clearly because of the great 683 00:44:12,100 --> 00:44:21,300 love with which he loved us. and every single time I read 684 00:44:21,300 --> 00:44:25,400 something like that, I'm paralyzed in my thoughts. 685 00:44:27,300 --> 00:44:30,200 Because it never tells us the reason why he loves us, you'll 686 00:44:30,200 --> 00:44:35,100 never find that in the Bible. Not once it says he loved us 687 00:44:35,100 --> 00:44:38,700 with a great love. But the reason for his love 688 00:44:39,200 --> 00:44:42,200 Shirley was not because we were walking in his ways because we 689 00:44:42,200 --> 00:44:44,000 were doing the opposite. We were walking in the course of 690 00:44:44,000 --> 00:44:47,400 this world. Shirley was not because we were 691 00:44:47,400 --> 00:44:51,900 advancing his kingdom, because we were, in fact, fueling and 692 00:44:51,900 --> 00:44:54,700 advancing, a kingdom opposite to his. 693 00:44:55,300 --> 00:44:57,600 He did not love us because we first love his commands. 694 00:44:57,600 --> 00:45:01,100 In fact, the opposite is true. We delighted and breaking them. 695 00:45:02,000 --> 00:45:04,800 So how can a holy righteous God in heaven? 696 00:45:05,100 --> 00:45:08,500 Look down on this Cesspool called Earth with a bunch of 697 00:45:08,500 --> 00:45:12,400 humans that rebel against him in thought and indeed and sense a 698 00:45:12,400 --> 00:45:20,800 great love towards them. There's only one answer is 699 00:45:20,800 --> 00:45:24,900 because he is love. That is the only answer that the 700 00:45:24,900 --> 00:45:30,500 Bible gives us. The sun, radiates heat it. 701 00:45:30,500 --> 00:45:33,200 Radiates life, it gives us light. 702 00:45:34,800 --> 00:45:37,100 And we don't question it because it's the expression of its 703 00:45:37,100 --> 00:45:39,400 nature. That's what the sun does in the 704 00:45:39,400 --> 00:45:43,300 same way. God dispenses love without 705 00:45:43,300 --> 00:45:46,300 measure because it's just the expression of who he is. 706 00:45:47,900 --> 00:45:51,800 He is love, that's what he does. That's who he is. 707 00:45:52,200 --> 00:45:53,800 And nothing can ever change that. 708 00:45:55,900 --> 00:45:58,400 And the expression of his love is so crucial, because it's not 709 00:45:58,400 --> 00:46:00,500 some sloppy sentimental romantic love. 710 00:46:01,300 --> 00:46:04,000 It's a love that has action. It's a love that has blood 711 00:46:04,000 --> 00:46:07,800 behind it. It says for God. 712 00:46:07,800 --> 00:46:14,900 So loved the world that he gave that he gave the expression of 713 00:46:14,900 --> 00:46:20,300 his love, was he gives And he gave what The Treasure of 714 00:46:20,300 --> 00:46:26,400 Heaven. He gave the beloved Son. now we 715 00:46:26,400 --> 00:46:29,500 all say yes and we nod our heads, but you will not 716 00:46:29,500 --> 00:46:35,400 experience that truth, if it only reaches your mind, You will 717 00:46:35,400 --> 00:46:39,700 not experience that kind of a love, if you just hear it, like 718 00:46:39,700 --> 00:46:41,300 you just heard it and you let it reach here. 719 00:46:41,600 --> 00:46:43,900 The only way you will be able to really experience it as a 720 00:46:43,908 --> 00:46:46,400 consequence of the gospels, when you let it reach your heart. 721 00:46:46,800 --> 00:46:49,000 And the question is, well, how do I bring it from here to here? 722 00:46:51,500 --> 00:46:53,900 How do I, how do I take it from? Just yes, I understand that. 723 00:46:53,900 --> 00:46:56,400 Jesus Christ died on the cross for our sins to this. 724 00:46:56,900 --> 00:47:00,600 I would suggest this one truth, the way, you will really feel 725 00:47:00,600 --> 00:47:04,500 and know that love in your life is when you understand that, he 726 00:47:04,508 --> 00:47:10,000 died for you personally. See you in a fusions, he's 727 00:47:10,000 --> 00:47:13,500 speaking generally right? He's saying he died for us. 728 00:47:13,500 --> 00:47:17,000 He loved us, he delivered us. But that's not the only 729 00:47:17,000 --> 00:47:18,900 vocabulary and Revelation that Paul. 730 00:47:18,900 --> 00:47:22,400 The Apostle had. When he goes to the Galatians, 731 00:47:22,600 --> 00:47:25,600 he says, in Galatians 2:20, we all know it for, I am crucified 732 00:47:25,600 --> 00:47:27,200 with Christ. Nevertheless, I live yet not I 733 00:47:27,200 --> 00:47:29,100 but Christ lives in me and the life that I now live in the 734 00:47:29,100 --> 00:47:30,700 flesh by faith in the son of God. 735 00:47:31,900 --> 00:47:35,400 He loved me and gave himself for me. 736 00:47:37,900 --> 00:47:43,200 So in Ephesians, he says us, but Paul walked around with this 737 00:47:43,200 --> 00:47:44,800 understanding. Yeah, but it's also me. 738 00:47:46,900 --> 00:47:51,200 And he gave himself for me, it's a personalized understanding of 739 00:47:51,200 --> 00:47:56,500 Jesus sacrifice in your life, your name your life. 740 00:47:57,000 --> 00:48:00,800 That is who he died for. And until you really ask the 741 00:48:00,800 --> 00:48:03,700 spirit of wisdom and Revelation to make that known to you, it 742 00:48:03,700 --> 00:48:07,000 will always stay here. But when you can confidently, 743 00:48:07,000 --> 00:48:12,100 say that Jesus died for me, fill in your name, fill in your 744 00:48:12,100 --> 00:48:16,500 address, then you will be able to know that love in your heart. 745 00:48:18,400 --> 00:48:21,100 God wants us to know, people are scared to say this kind of stuff 746 00:48:21,100 --> 00:48:23,700 nowadays, because they say it's so centered around, man, and 747 00:48:23,700 --> 00:48:25,500 Jesus Christ. Died for God's glory. 748 00:48:25,500 --> 00:48:27,300 Listen. I know he did, but it's clear he 749 00:48:27,300 --> 00:48:29,600 died for you. He loves you. 750 00:48:31,400 --> 00:48:34,200 With a great love and he wants you to know that not on a 751 00:48:34,200 --> 00:48:35,800 corporate level. Not on a worldly. 752 00:48:35,800 --> 00:48:37,800 Understand that he died for the whole know for you. 753 00:48:37,800 --> 00:48:41,900 You personally that he had you in mind when he died. 754 00:48:42,900 --> 00:48:45,000 Did he had you in mind before you even born before the 755 00:48:45,000 --> 00:48:47,700 foundations of the world? I'm going to die so that I can 756 00:48:47,700 --> 00:48:50,800 reconcile you and you, and you and you back to the father. 757 00:48:53,200 --> 00:48:55,600 And we got to take it from this to this. 758 00:48:56,300 --> 00:48:58,500 How can you go another day with discouragement when you have 759 00:48:58,500 --> 00:49:02,600 that kind of Revelation? How can you walk around defeated 760 00:49:02,600 --> 00:49:05,200 when, you know that God Almighty loves. 761 00:49:05,200 --> 00:49:09,300 You personally took those nails and took those scourging and 762 00:49:09,300 --> 00:49:12,300 took all of that beating because he had you in mind, stop 763 00:49:12,300 --> 00:49:13,600 thinking just the world for a second. 764 00:49:13,600 --> 00:49:24,500 Think about you, you It's kind of a humorous, illustration to 765 00:49:24,500 --> 00:49:28,200 point this out, but it kind of elaborates it. 766 00:49:30,000 --> 00:49:33,100 Ben has a funny story, concerning my mom. 767 00:49:35,100 --> 00:49:37,900 That one day when he was younger as well, he was laying in bed 768 00:49:37,900 --> 00:49:40,100 and my mom kind of had a routine where she would come to our 769 00:49:40,100 --> 00:49:42,200 rooms and just kind of talk to us before bed. 770 00:49:43,100 --> 00:49:45,700 My mother came up to Benjamin and began to just speak to him 771 00:49:45,700 --> 00:49:48,500 and talk to him. And One night. 772 00:49:48,500 --> 00:49:54,500 She said, correct me if I'm wrong. you know, Ben I don't 773 00:49:54,500 --> 00:49:56,000 want you to tell this to your other siblings. 774 00:49:57,000 --> 00:49:59,300 But I want you to know that there's something special about 775 00:49:59,300 --> 00:50:02,800 you. There's something special about 776 00:50:02,800 --> 00:50:06,300 you. And Ben as he explains a story, 777 00:50:06,300 --> 00:50:10,500 as animated, as he has said that, he was so warmth with that 778 00:50:10,500 --> 00:50:14,300 truth. That he went to bed so smoothly. 779 00:50:14,300 --> 00:50:20,200 And so Peacefully. And as my mom is showering him 780 00:50:20,200 --> 00:50:22,800 with this, love my sister. In the other room was saying, 781 00:50:22,800 --> 00:50:25,500 mom mom, and now she needs comfort. 782 00:50:26,200 --> 00:50:29,100 And so she walks over into another room and she failed to 783 00:50:29,100 --> 00:50:30,700 realize that the rooms are connected. 784 00:50:33,100 --> 00:50:35,800 And so, as my mom has there been has with his eyes closed, just 785 00:50:37,000 --> 00:50:40,000 basking in the Revelation that he is the most special one among 786 00:50:40,000 --> 00:50:45,500 the siblings. And offer suddenly here's my 787 00:50:45,500 --> 00:50:49,000 mom, threw those thin walls. Saying you know pulling. 788 00:50:49,000 --> 00:50:50,800 I don't want you to tell this to your siblings. 789 00:50:52,300 --> 00:50:56,100 But there's something special about you and Ben's eyes open up 790 00:50:56,100 --> 00:51:00,800 in that moment. It's humorous. 791 00:51:01,900 --> 00:51:04,800 It's funny. But there's some truth to that 792 00:51:04,800 --> 00:51:07,200 because I think I know what her intention was. 793 00:51:09,100 --> 00:51:13,000 I believe that as a parent, she wanted us as children her 794 00:51:13,000 --> 00:51:15,100 children to know that though. We are. 795 00:51:15,100 --> 00:51:17,800 Yes, her children and she loves us because we are her Offspring. 796 00:51:18,500 --> 00:51:21,600 She also wanted us to know that she loves us personally. 797 00:51:22,800 --> 00:51:26,000 As individuals. That each of us had a special 798 00:51:26,000 --> 00:51:29,600 place in her heart that each of us was something to her. 799 00:51:30,100 --> 00:51:31,700 Not that one was greater than the other, I'm sorry. 800 00:51:31,700 --> 00:51:38,900 Ben but that each of us had a slot in her heart. 801 00:51:41,200 --> 00:51:44,700 That each of us had a place of meditation in her life. 802 00:51:45,900 --> 00:51:48,500 And I believe God wants us to do the same thing with the gospel 803 00:51:49,300 --> 00:51:50,700 is that? Yes, he loves all of us. 804 00:51:50,700 --> 00:51:56,300 He died for the world but you personally, As one of his 805 00:51:56,300 --> 00:51:59,100 children, there's a special place in his heart for you. 806 00:51:59,200 --> 00:52:04,200 You got to know that because when you pray, your voice is 807 00:52:04,200 --> 00:52:06,600 unique, your problems are unique. 808 00:52:06,600 --> 00:52:11,100 Your calling is unique. We got to walk with that 809 00:52:11,100 --> 00:52:15,800 Revelation. Paul said he loved me and gave 810 00:52:15,800 --> 00:52:18,500 himself for me. You got to know that confidently 811 00:52:18,500 --> 00:52:22,800 as well. We talked about four 812 00:52:22,800 --> 00:52:27,200 consequences delivered from the power of the flesh saved from 813 00:52:27,200 --> 00:52:33,900 the authority of Satan. rescued from the course of this world. 814 00:52:34,900 --> 00:52:38,000 And we are recipients of the expression of the climactic, 815 00:52:38,000 --> 00:52:42,600 love of God, the cross. You need to know that. 816 00:52:44,300 --> 00:52:48,000 Paul in this verse makes a turning point because in these 817 00:52:48,000 --> 00:52:50,300 verses what we just described, he talks about who we were 818 00:52:50,300 --> 00:52:52,200 before Christ and what he's delivered us from. 819 00:52:52,900 --> 00:52:55,600 And next week, we're going to discuss about how he not just 820 00:52:55,600 --> 00:52:58,200 saved us from, but he also saved us for. 821 00:52:59,100 --> 00:52:46,000 Let's pray. Paul in this verse makes a 822 00:52:46,000 --> 00:52:49,300 turning point because in these verses what we just described, 823 00:52:49,300 --> 00:52:51,400 he talks about who we were before Christ and what he's 824 00:52:51,400 --> 00:52:53,700 delivered us from. And next week, we're going to 825 00:52:53,700 --> 00:52:57,600 discuss about how he not just saved us from, but he also saved 826 00:52:57,600 --> 00:52:59,700 us for. Let's pray.