1 00:00:04,600 --> 00:00:06,700 Good morning. It's good to see you guys. 2 00:00:06,700 --> 00:00:08,600 Hope that you. There we go. 3 00:00:09,000 --> 00:00:12,100 It's good to see y'all. I'm glad to be here. 4 00:00:12,500 --> 00:00:16,500 If you have your Bible with you or on that device, you carry in 5 00:00:16,500 --> 00:00:20,900 your pocket turned to Titus Chapter 3, open our Bible to 6 00:00:20,900 --> 00:00:27,600 Titus Chapter 3. We are, we're nearing the end. 7 00:00:28,400 --> 00:00:30,700 Sorry! Got a frog in my throat, I guess 8 00:00:31,800 --> 00:00:34,300 we're nearing the end of our series. 9 00:00:34,400 --> 00:00:39,200 He's through Titus we got one more week next week there and 10 00:00:39,600 --> 00:00:46,500 and so but this week I have titled Amazing Grace and it is 11 00:00:46,900 --> 00:00:50,700 amazing grace I don't know that there's a more gospel saturated. 12 00:00:51,500 --> 00:00:57,900 Passage of for relatively short verses than what we see here in 13 00:00:58,100 --> 00:01:01,500 Titus 3 4 through 7. And so, I'm going to read that 14 00:01:01,500 --> 00:01:04,200 to us. And then, then I'll pray and 15 00:01:04,200 --> 00:01:09,900 we'll dive into today's sermon Titus 3 start in verse 4. 16 00:01:11,000 --> 00:01:14,700 But when the goodness, and loving kindness of God, our 17 00:01:14,700 --> 00:01:21,000 savior appeared He saved us not because of Works done by us in 18 00:01:21,000 --> 00:01:27,000 righteousness, but according to his own Mercy by the washing of 19 00:01:27,000 --> 00:01:31,900 regeneration and renewal of the Holy Spirit whom he poured out 20 00:01:31,900 --> 00:01:36,100 on us richly through. Jesus Christ, Our Savior. 21 00:01:36,800 --> 00:01:41,600 So that being justified by his grace we might become heirs 22 00:01:42,100 --> 00:01:45,300 according to the hope of eternal life. 23 00:01:46,100 --> 00:01:51,000 This is the Lord's word. As we look at these verses 24 00:01:51,000 --> 00:01:58,200 today, it's my hope that we will walk away with hearts filled 25 00:01:58,200 --> 00:02:02,200 with thankfulness as we examine these verses, our hearts will 26 00:02:02,400 --> 00:02:06,100 swell with gratitude to the Lord and the work that he has done 27 00:02:06,100 --> 00:02:11,300 that he has saved us. And so the thing that I want you 28 00:02:11,308 --> 00:02:13,000 to see if you're taking notes, you can write this little 29 00:02:13,000 --> 00:02:16,300 statement down because I think it's what is woven throughout 30 00:02:16,300 --> 00:02:21,100 Titus 3 4 through 7 and it's this God Saves you. 31 00:02:22,600 --> 00:02:27,900 God Saves You by his Amazing Grace. 32 00:02:29,200 --> 00:02:35,100 God Saves You by his Amazing Grace as you finish that, let me 33 00:02:35,600 --> 00:02:37,800 we pray for us. Heavenly Father, we praise you 34 00:02:37,800 --> 00:02:40,000 for today. Thank you, Lord, for the time 35 00:02:40,000 --> 00:02:46,000 that we've had to sing songs of gratitude to you songs that are 36 00:02:46,700 --> 00:02:50,900 proclaiming Lord the grace, which we've received From you 37 00:02:50,900 --> 00:02:57,500 father through Christ, Jesus. Applied in Us, by your spirit. 38 00:02:59,400 --> 00:03:01,600 What I think that's what Paul is writing about here. 39 00:03:01,600 --> 00:03:04,000 I think it's evidence that he is. 40 00:03:05,800 --> 00:03:08,800 Boeing all the ins and outs the beginning. 41 00:03:08,800 --> 00:03:12,400 And the end of Salvation, he's, he's giving it all to you. 42 00:03:12,400 --> 00:03:16,500 He's describing every piece of that work to you and to you 43 00:03:16,900 --> 00:03:19,900 alone. It's a father, at least part of 44 00:03:19,908 --> 00:03:23,200 the message is that we not read such a passage like this today 45 00:03:23,500 --> 00:03:28,100 and walk away beating our own chest saying look how great I am 46 00:03:28,200 --> 00:03:30,000 that. I have taken hold of Christ by 47 00:03:30,000 --> 00:03:36,500 my wonderful faith. Lord help us to be humbled by 48 00:03:36,500 --> 00:03:39,600 this word, help us to be captivated. 49 00:03:41,000 --> 00:03:44,900 Father by these truths about salvation what you've worked 50 00:03:44,900 --> 00:03:49,400 into us. Help us Lord to be renewed by 51 00:03:49,400 --> 00:03:53,900 them to be rejuvenated to be refreshed by these words. 52 00:03:55,000 --> 00:04:00,600 Or might they bear witness and our spirit that we to belong to 53 00:04:00,600 --> 00:04:05,500 Christ. And Lord may they bear fruit in 54 00:04:05,500 --> 00:04:12,400 our lives, fruits of godliness fruit of the spirit that we look 55 00:04:12,400 --> 00:04:15,800 like men and women and boys and girls who have taken? 56 00:04:15,800 --> 00:04:19,800 Hold of, Jesus Christ, because of your marvelous Grace. 57 00:04:21,300 --> 00:04:22,100 Lord. We love you. 58 00:04:22,400 --> 00:04:26,500 We thank you for this word. We ask that you illuminate it 59 00:04:26,500 --> 00:04:29,100 for us by your spirit. Help us to see it by your spirit 60 00:04:29,100 --> 00:04:30,900 today. It's in Christ's name. 61 00:04:31,300 --> 00:04:34,000 I pray. Amen, amen. 62 00:04:34,600 --> 00:04:37,700 So it's hard to believe Patricia made mention of it, a moment 63 00:04:37,700 --> 00:04:40,000 ago, but it's hard to believe. Steve talked about it. 64 00:04:40,000 --> 00:04:42,800 It's hard to believe still that it's Thanksgiving week, right? 65 00:04:42,800 --> 00:04:44,500 I mean, everybody's kind of talking about it. 66 00:04:44,500 --> 00:04:48,800 We're gearing up for it making plans kids, most of you I assume 67 00:04:48,800 --> 00:04:51,400 or out of school. Now, college students, hold on a 68 00:04:51,407 --> 00:04:55,000 couple more days, all right? And so, some of you will get 69 00:04:55,000 --> 00:04:56,900 off. For some of you will travel but 70 00:04:56,900 --> 00:05:02,200 Thanksgiving is here and as is the case with most holidays, 71 00:05:02,200 --> 00:05:06,100 they're meant for one thing, they're meant to cause a 72 00:05:06,100 --> 00:05:08,300 celebration. They're meant to do something in 73 00:05:08,300 --> 00:05:11,800 our hearts and what ends up happening is the hustle and 74 00:05:11,808 --> 00:05:14,100 bustle of the day itself or the event itself. 75 00:05:14,100 --> 00:05:17,400 The holiday itself, the things around the holiday end up kind 76 00:05:17,400 --> 00:05:20,200 of distracting us from what those things are meant for. 77 00:05:20,207 --> 00:05:22,500 We'll talk a little bit about that as we get into the 78 00:05:22,500 --> 00:05:25,100 Christmas season and our Advent series coming up in a couple. 79 00:05:25,200 --> 00:05:27,700 Of weeks. But thanksgivings the same way, 80 00:05:27,700 --> 00:05:30,400 Thanksgiving is a holiday that's meant to cause us to reflect 81 00:05:30,400 --> 00:05:35,600 with thankfulness on all that God has done in our lives. 82 00:05:36,200 --> 00:05:37,500 It's meant to help us recall those. 83 00:05:37,500 --> 00:05:41,000 Good gifts as Patricia mentioned, a moment ago, just to 84 00:05:41,000 --> 00:05:45,600 remember His blessings, whether they be family or friends or 85 00:05:45,608 --> 00:05:51,700 provision or insert, whatever in this blank here, right? 86 00:05:52,600 --> 00:05:55,800 There's so many things to be thankful for. 87 00:05:59,200 --> 00:06:03,700 If you woke up tomorrow and you logged into your banking account 88 00:06:04,000 --> 00:06:07,800 and you saw that someone had paid off all of your debts and 89 00:06:07,800 --> 00:06:10,300 not only did they pay off all of your debt which, you know, for 90 00:06:10,400 --> 00:06:13,200 it's going to vary from person to person how much exactly that 91 00:06:13,200 --> 00:06:15,200 is what they paid off all of your debt. 92 00:06:15,200 --> 00:06:18,300 And not only did they do that, they deposited 10 million 93 00:06:18,300 --> 00:06:23,500 dollars into your accounts. If you woke up and saw that you 94 00:06:23,500 --> 00:06:26,200 would pinch yourself, right? Like surely this is a dream. 95 00:06:27,200 --> 00:06:31,800 You might faint out of just being overwhelmed. 96 00:06:32,700 --> 00:06:39,700 You might Shout. but no matter what you did the act of of 97 00:06:39,700 --> 00:06:43,300 whatever you're doing the fainting, the shouting, the 98 00:06:43,300 --> 00:06:49,300 pinching, all of that, Is a result of being overwhelmed with 99 00:06:49,800 --> 00:06:53,800 all or with Thanksgiving with joy with gratitude. 100 00:06:55,100 --> 00:06:59,800 If ever, there was something to be thankful for and it is God's 101 00:06:59,800 --> 00:07:08,000 Amazing Grace. God by his grace, cancels your 102 00:07:08,000 --> 00:07:12,200 record of sin and he gives you eternal life. 103 00:07:14,100 --> 00:07:18,500 The hymnist, John Newton knew this Grace, really well. 104 00:07:19,500 --> 00:07:24,200 He pinned in a song, a him that you guys may know titled amazing 105 00:07:24,200 --> 00:07:28,800 grace, these words. Amazing Grace. 106 00:07:29,000 --> 00:07:33,300 How sweet the sound that saved a Wretch? 107 00:07:33,300 --> 00:07:39,400 Like Me, I once was lost but now I'm found was blind. 108 00:07:39,400 --> 00:07:49,400 But now I see You see Paul is reminding Titus and these cretan 109 00:07:49,400 --> 00:07:53,800 Believers, he's Crete and churches of God's Amazing. 110 00:07:54,300 --> 00:08:00,100 Grace, if you'll recall verse 3 from chapter 3 last week, which 111 00:08:00,100 --> 00:08:04,300 Jasper opened up for us? Looked at, in verse 3, he writes 112 00:08:04,300 --> 00:08:06,100 this. He says for we ourselves were 113 00:08:06,100 --> 00:08:11,100 once foolish. So he's instructing Titus on how 114 00:08:11,100 --> 00:08:15,500 he is to instruct the Believers on, how they are to live in a 115 00:08:15,500 --> 00:08:20,400 world, full of foolish Disobedience, people. 116 00:08:21,100 --> 00:08:25,600 People are slaves to various passions and pleasures and he 117 00:08:25,600 --> 00:08:30,900 says to be a different kind of person to live a different kind 118 00:08:31,100 --> 00:08:34,700 of way. And in verses four through 119 00:08:34,700 --> 00:08:39,000 seven, what he's giving you is the foundation is giving you the 120 00:08:39,000 --> 00:08:42,400 why he's giving you the, how he's providing all of the 121 00:08:42,400 --> 00:08:46,000 answers for how you live, a different kind of way. 122 00:08:47,100 --> 00:08:51,500 He says, in verse 3 again for we ourselves were once foolish, 123 00:08:52,000 --> 00:08:56,100 you're disobedient, LED astray slaves, to various passions and 124 00:08:56,100 --> 00:09:01,600 Pleasures passing our days and Malice and envy hated by others. 125 00:09:01,600 --> 00:09:06,200 And hey, Hating one another. What? 126 00:09:06,200 --> 00:09:08,700 Sounds a lot like the world that we know today, it sounds a lot 127 00:09:08,700 --> 00:09:12,000 like those who are outside of the church today and some ways. 128 00:09:12,000 --> 00:09:14,500 It sounds a lot like those who are inside the church today. 129 00:09:16,700 --> 00:09:18,200 What's the point where the point is? 130 00:09:18,200 --> 00:09:23,800 Is that flesh rules? Ungodliness rules 131 00:09:23,800 --> 00:09:30,100 unrighteousness rules. You are a sinner by Nature. 132 00:09:30,900 --> 00:09:37,500 Born a sinner, continuing in sin, unless something outside of 133 00:09:37,500 --> 00:09:42,500 you saves, you. And that's what Paul is laying 134 00:09:42,500 --> 00:09:45,700 out here is, don't look at them and scoff. 135 00:09:45,700 --> 00:09:49,700 Don't look at them and beat your chest, don't look at them and 136 00:09:49,700 --> 00:09:54,900 say there's no hope. He's saying for we ourselves 137 00:09:54,900 --> 00:10:00,900 were once just like them. And so you look with humility, 138 00:10:01,500 --> 00:10:05,300 you look with reverence to God, you look with hope in God, you 139 00:10:05,300 --> 00:10:09,600 look on the world and have hope because of God could save you. 140 00:10:10,800 --> 00:10:13,600 God can certainly save them also. 141 00:10:14,600 --> 00:10:19,100 And so there's a hope here in Paul's writing, he's telling the 142 00:10:19,100 --> 00:10:21,600 truth. But in truth, there is there's 143 00:10:21,600 --> 00:10:25,200 positivity in truth. There's an excitement about What 144 00:10:25,200 --> 00:10:28,900 the Lord Has Done in their lives and what he could do in the 145 00:10:28,900 --> 00:10:32,400 lives of others. But for our purpose today, with 146 00:10:32,400 --> 00:10:36,100 the verses were looking at, I want to focus mostly on what God 147 00:10:36,100 --> 00:10:40,400 has done in your life or if God has not yet done this work in 148 00:10:40,408 --> 00:10:42,900 your life. What is available to you if you 149 00:10:42,900 --> 00:10:46,000 will humble yourself before? And call on his name. 150 00:10:46,800 --> 00:10:49,700 That's the work that lays here before us today. 151 00:10:50,300 --> 00:10:53,900 And so he says we once were this way but when the goodness and 152 00:10:53,900 --> 00:10:57,300 loving, kindness of God, our savior appeared, he saved us. 153 00:10:57,600 --> 00:11:01,400 Not because of Works done by us in righteousness, but according 154 00:11:01,400 --> 00:11:07,200 to his own Mercy by the washing of regeneration, the renewal of 155 00:11:07,200 --> 00:11:11,200 the Holy Spirit. Whom he poured out on us richly 156 00:11:11,200 --> 00:11:14,600 through. Jesus Christ Our Savior. 157 00:11:15,400 --> 00:11:19,300 So that being justified by his grace we might become heirs 158 00:11:19,300 --> 00:11:22,900 according to the hope of eternal life. 159 00:11:23,700 --> 00:11:26,100 Paul is writing to these Believers and he's saying you 160 00:11:26,100 --> 00:11:29,700 were once that way, but now you are this way. 161 00:11:30,800 --> 00:11:34,800 You were once dead in your trespasses and sins but now you 162 00:11:34,800 --> 00:11:36,900 are alive in Christ. Jesus. 163 00:11:37,200 --> 00:11:44,100 You were once a slave to sin. But now you are a slave to God. 164 00:11:45,500 --> 00:11:51,000 Why how? Because God has saved you by his 165 00:11:51,000 --> 00:11:54,700 Amazing Grace? But I want to examine the 166 00:11:54,700 --> 00:11:57,200 passage of bit further. I think the passage reveals to 167 00:11:57,200 --> 00:12:00,700 us three things. One is the foundation of 168 00:12:00,700 --> 00:12:01,700 Amazing. Grace. 169 00:12:03,100 --> 00:12:06,200 The second is the work of Amazing. 170 00:12:06,200 --> 00:12:10,300 Grace. And third it reveals the result 171 00:12:10,800 --> 00:12:14,600 of Amazing Grace, the foundation, the work, the result 172 00:12:14,800 --> 00:12:16,900 of Amazing Grace. I'll try to repeat those kinds 173 00:12:16,900 --> 00:12:18,900 of things as typically they would be up here. 174 00:12:18,900 --> 00:12:22,000 And well, you know where we stand on that right now? 175 00:12:23,700 --> 00:12:27,300 First, the foundation of Amazing Grace. 176 00:12:28,900 --> 00:12:32,300 Titus. 3435 but when the goodness and loving, kindness of 177 00:12:32,300 --> 00:12:37,200 God, our savior appeared, he saved us. 178 00:12:37,700 --> 00:12:40,400 Not because of Works done by us in righteousness, but according 179 00:12:40,600 --> 00:12:46,200 to his own Mercy. Paul lays on thickly. the 180 00:12:46,200 --> 00:12:50,500 foundation of Amazing Grace Paul makes it utterly clear what the 181 00:12:50,500 --> 00:12:58,400 foundation of Grace is It's the character of God. 182 00:12:59,700 --> 00:13:06,300 God is the foundation of Grace. It's a work of God. 183 00:13:06,300 --> 00:13:10,900 He talks to us about the character of God and he starts 184 00:13:10,900 --> 00:13:15,400 with the goodness and the loving kindness of God. 185 00:13:15,400 --> 00:13:18,300 But when the goodness and loving kindness of God our savior 186 00:13:18,600 --> 00:13:24,100 appeared So when you look on the appearance of, man, what do you 187 00:13:24,100 --> 00:13:26,100 see? You see someone who is envious 188 00:13:26,600 --> 00:13:33,600 hateful, Disobedience foolish. To summarize it in one word. 189 00:13:33,700 --> 00:13:38,400 You see sin? Man is sinful. 190 00:13:40,100 --> 00:13:44,000 And if you look on man and you think somehow man has to save 191 00:13:44,000 --> 00:13:47,000 himself, somehow man, has to rise out of that and become a 192 00:13:47,008 --> 00:13:53,800 new creation. Well, then hope looks kind of 193 00:13:53,800 --> 00:13:57,900 bleak. How in the world can a man who 194 00:13:57,900 --> 00:14:01,000 is dead and his trespasses and sins make himself alive 195 00:14:01,800 --> 00:14:07,800 spiritually? He cannot But the man is not 196 00:14:07,800 --> 00:14:14,600 need of spiritual resuscitation. He's not barely breathing in 197 00:14:14,600 --> 00:14:16,400 need of help of breathing better. 198 00:14:16,400 --> 00:14:20,000 He's not breathing, he's dead. He's in need of New Life. 199 00:14:20,300 --> 00:14:27,600 He's in need of Resurrection. Not resuscitation so, what we 200 00:14:27,600 --> 00:14:32,600 see is that, if we look on man, the The path to Salvation is 201 00:14:32,900 --> 00:14:36,000 Bleak there's no there's no hope there. 202 00:14:38,100 --> 00:14:41,300 And so Paul lays out hope was never in the man to begin with 203 00:14:41,300 --> 00:14:44,200 the goodness and loving. Kindness of God however has 204 00:14:44,400 --> 00:14:48,200 appeared us. Harkins us back to chapter 2, 205 00:14:48,600 --> 00:14:52,500 where what we saw was that Christ has appeared and that 206 00:14:52,500 --> 00:14:55,900 Christ will appear again. So, Paul is now remembering once 207 00:14:55,900 --> 00:14:59,800 again in this word appeared saying, Christ has appeared, he 208 00:14:59,800 --> 00:15:04,200 makes that clear and verse 6 and we poured out on us richly 209 00:15:04,200 --> 00:15:06,900 through. Jesus Christ, Our Savior, the 210 00:15:06,900 --> 00:15:10,000 appearance of Christ, Ice is the appearance of Grace. 211 00:15:10,900 --> 00:15:13,700 That's why John writes in John chapter 1. 212 00:15:15,000 --> 00:15:18,700 That Jesus Christ is full of grace and truth and him, we've 213 00:15:18,700 --> 00:15:23,300 received Grace upon Grace, Grace, that abounds Grace, that 214 00:15:23,300 --> 00:15:27,300 never ends. And so in Christ, in this 215 00:15:27,300 --> 00:15:33,000 appearing, it's as if a light has popped on in a dark room. 216 00:15:35,100 --> 00:15:42,300 Light has Shone in the darkness and so God himself enters into 217 00:15:42,300 --> 00:15:47,100 the darkness because of his own goodness and loving kindness. 218 00:15:48,000 --> 00:15:52,600 God himself has stepped onto the stage of history in Christ Jesus 219 00:15:52,600 --> 00:15:56,000 because of his own goodness and loving kindness. 220 00:15:56,700 --> 00:16:00,400 It's not that man had gotten himself to some place where now, 221 00:16:00,400 --> 00:16:02,900 it was advantageous for Christ to step onto the scene. 222 00:16:03,900 --> 00:16:06,800 It's that God. Been working from the beginning 223 00:16:06,800 --> 00:16:10,300 of time to this moment where Christ would appear. 224 00:16:11,300 --> 00:16:15,800 Christ comes because God the father and sins. 225 00:16:16,400 --> 00:16:20,900 God the son. And so in Christ, Light has 226 00:16:21,400 --> 00:16:26,700 dawned God entered into the darkness and our Salvation 227 00:16:26,700 --> 00:16:32,300 flows, from his goodness and his loving kindness and so Paulding 228 00:16:32,300 --> 00:16:34,300 clarifies. What the foundation for amazing, 229 00:16:34,300 --> 00:16:39,000 Gray's is what the foundation for Amazing Grace is by saying 230 00:16:39,400 --> 00:16:44,400 what the foundation is not one, it is because of the goodness, 231 00:16:44,400 --> 00:16:48,100 and loving, kindness of the Lord, to it is not because of 232 00:16:48,400 --> 00:16:51,000 Works done by us in righteousness. 233 00:16:52,400 --> 00:16:56,600 And so one way to clarify what you're talking about at times is 234 00:16:56,600 --> 00:17:01,100 to say what you're talking about is not is to give the is not 235 00:17:01,100 --> 00:17:03,800 characteristics of what you mean it is. 236 00:17:04,000 --> 00:17:07,300 This it is not this and that's what Paul's doing here it is the 237 00:17:07,300 --> 00:17:10,900 goodness and loving kindness of God it is not by your works. 238 00:17:12,900 --> 00:17:15,200 Why is it important to talk about that? 239 00:17:15,200 --> 00:17:18,900 It's not by your works here. Well, if you remember back to 240 00:17:18,900 --> 00:17:21,300 Chapter 1, what were the religious leaders guilty of 241 00:17:21,300 --> 00:17:24,599 doing that were guilty of preaching? 242 00:17:26,300 --> 00:17:30,400 A Works based righteousness that you must follow the Old 243 00:17:30,400 --> 00:17:33,900 Testament laws. If you are to be save, truly 244 00:17:33,900 --> 00:17:35,400 saved. True Believers. 245 00:17:38,400 --> 00:17:43,500 And so Paul here is saying not at all, the religious leaders 246 00:17:43,500 --> 00:17:46,600 were guilty of upsetting entire homes. 247 00:17:48,300 --> 00:17:50,400 By teaching, this works based salvation. 248 00:17:52,700 --> 00:17:55,800 And so Paul further denies their claims, he further rebukes their 249 00:17:55,800 --> 00:17:59,400 message by saying salvation is not founded on your own 250 00:17:59,600 --> 00:18:04,200 righteous works. It's founded on the goodness and 251 00:18:04,200 --> 00:18:10,500 the loving kindness of God which appeared according to his own 252 00:18:10,900 --> 00:18:15,600 Mercy. Paul says There's a lot of 253 00:18:15,608 --> 00:18:18,600 teaching about Good Works throughout Titus, right? 254 00:18:18,800 --> 00:18:21,100 We've been instructed over again especially in the last four 255 00:18:21,100 --> 00:18:26,200 weeks about the works of a Christian. 256 00:18:26,700 --> 00:18:30,000 The good works of those who say, they love the Lord, what 257 00:18:30,000 --> 00:18:36,000 godliness looks like. And so there is a lot of this, 258 00:18:36,500 --> 00:18:40,300 but one thing we have not said, because Paul did not say it. 259 00:18:42,400 --> 00:18:47,800 Is that works are the basis for your salvation. 260 00:18:47,900 --> 00:18:49,700 They're the foundation for your salvation. 261 00:18:49,700 --> 00:18:52,800 We have not said that because Paul has not said that, that is 262 00:18:52,800 --> 00:18:57,100 what the false teachers are saying, what Paul says is that 263 00:18:57,100 --> 00:19:02,400 good works come from a heart that has been transformed by the 264 00:19:02,400 --> 00:19:05,600 goodness and loving kindness of God, that good works are to be 265 00:19:05,600 --> 00:19:08,900 present. There is to be sanctification, 266 00:19:08,900 --> 00:19:13,700 there is to be fruit. Of life in a believer that if 267 00:19:13,700 --> 00:19:16,800 the spirit of God has set someone free, they are free 268 00:19:16,800 --> 00:19:20,200 indeed and so you will notice it in their works. 269 00:19:22,200 --> 00:19:25,600 But all of that, the root of all of that is in there. 270 00:19:26,200 --> 00:19:30,600 Knowing god is in God, having revealed himself to them. 271 00:19:31,000 --> 00:19:33,600 Galatians 2:16. Paul writes there, he says yet 272 00:19:33,600 --> 00:19:36,900 we know that a person is not justified by works of the law 273 00:19:37,100 --> 00:19:39,200 but through faith, in Jesus Christ. 274 00:19:41,900 --> 00:19:44,100 So we also have believed in Christ Jesus. 275 00:19:44,100 --> 00:19:47,500 In order to be justified by faith in Christ and not by works 276 00:19:47,500 --> 00:19:50,800 of the law because by works of the law, no one will be 277 00:19:50,800 --> 00:19:55,000 justified. Paul saying there is no new life 278 00:19:55,300 --> 00:20:00,100 in good works. There's no way to be justified 279 00:20:00,100 --> 00:20:04,000 declared righteous by God because of the works that you do 280 00:20:04,000 --> 00:20:07,700 that is not how we are Justified. 281 00:20:08,600 --> 00:20:11,500 He says you are justified by faith. 282 00:20:13,700 --> 00:20:17,900 And then you justified by faith in Jesus Christ. 283 00:20:18,600 --> 00:20:20,000 Romans 3:20. Paul. 284 00:20:20,000 --> 00:20:22,100 Lays it on here, again, for by works of the law. 285 00:20:22,100 --> 00:20:25,600 No human being will be justified in God's eyes. 286 00:20:27,300 --> 00:20:30,400 Since through the law comes knowledge of sin. 287 00:20:31,600 --> 00:20:34,900 So what does the law good for the law is good for helping. 288 00:20:34,900 --> 00:20:40,500 You know what is sinful? Paul, even uses the example of 289 00:20:40,500 --> 00:20:44,500 coveting and that before he read, Thou shalt not covet, he 290 00:20:44,500 --> 00:20:47,000 did not know he was guilty of coveting. 291 00:20:47,400 --> 00:20:50,400 There's no less guilty of coveting, but this law made him 292 00:20:50,400 --> 00:20:53,400 aware of his sinfulness. The law makes you aware of your 293 00:20:53,400 --> 00:20:56,300 sinful soul and somebody says, Thou shalt not steal, Thou shalt 294 00:20:56,300 --> 00:20:59,700 not murder. Any of those things, right? 295 00:21:01,900 --> 00:21:06,600 Had you not known previously. Now, you know, and if you are 296 00:21:06,600 --> 00:21:11,000 guilty of those, what you understand is I need something 297 00:21:11,000 --> 00:21:16,500 to justify me because I'm guilty of transgressing the laws of 298 00:21:16,500 --> 00:21:19,800 God. And so I need some, I need 299 00:21:20,400 --> 00:21:24,000 something to happen. To be declared, not guilty 300 00:21:24,000 --> 00:21:28,400 because right now I'm guilty as charged Romans 5:8, but God 301 00:21:28,400 --> 00:21:31,300 shows his love for us in that while we were still sinners 302 00:21:31,600 --> 00:21:37,500 Christ died for us. And so now, we see how it is 303 00:21:37,500 --> 00:21:41,600 that God is going to be called both just and justifier. 304 00:21:43,000 --> 00:21:46,100 Is Romans 3:20 lays out for us that God is because of Christ 305 00:21:46,100 --> 00:21:51,900 Jesus, both just and justify his not overlooking sin, he's laying 306 00:21:51,900 --> 00:21:56,100 sin on someone. Namely the Son of God who was 307 00:21:56,200 --> 00:22:01,600 perfect and so therefore he can justify whomever he wants to 308 00:22:01,700 --> 00:22:05,800 whomever will call on Christ by faith can be justified. 309 00:22:08,100 --> 00:22:11,600 And so, even even that proclamation of Faith, Alan read 310 00:22:11,600 --> 00:22:13,100 this. This verse earlier, even though 311 00:22:13,200 --> 00:22:18,900 the proclamation of faith that we that we pronounce is a gift 312 00:22:19,000 --> 00:22:21,400 from God, by which you are saved. 313 00:22:23,600 --> 00:22:25,200 Ephesians 2, 8 9. Again, I'll read it for by 314 00:22:25,200 --> 00:22:27,000 Grace. You have been saved through 315 00:22:27,000 --> 00:22:29,900 faith, and this is not your own doing. 316 00:22:29,900 --> 00:22:34,000 It is the gift of God, not a result of works, so that no one 317 00:22:34,100 --> 00:22:36,800 may boast. Even your ability to call on the 318 00:22:36,808 --> 00:22:43,200 Lord, as a gift of God, as Paul writes there in Ephesians 2. so 319 00:22:43,200 --> 00:22:47,800 Paul writes in Titus 3 coming back to our passage that he 320 00:22:47,800 --> 00:22:54,400 saved us according to his own Mercy, The mercy by definition 321 00:22:54,400 --> 00:22:57,600 is not earned. It's not something that you 322 00:22:57,600 --> 00:23:02,400 Merit. Mercy is Mercy is pity. 323 00:23:05,000 --> 00:23:09,100 Mercy is looking at something that is hopeless and then acting 324 00:23:09,100 --> 00:23:13,800 on their behalf because there is no way, there's no way they 325 00:23:13,800 --> 00:23:16,200 could do anything of their own to come out of that thing. 326 00:23:16,500 --> 00:23:19,600 This is Mercy is what we call acts of Mercy. 327 00:23:20,200 --> 00:23:23,800 One commentator says here about Mercy, his Mercy shows, pity to 328 00:23:23,800 --> 00:23:26,500 save because of its own compassion and love. 329 00:23:26,800 --> 00:23:30,500 So what does mercy driven by its driven by its own compassion and 330 00:23:30,500 --> 00:23:35,100 love if you show Mercy towards someone and Own life. 331 00:23:35,500 --> 00:23:40,300 It's because you have compassion and love for that person inside 332 00:23:40,300 --> 00:23:41,900 of you. And it drives the fact that 333 00:23:41,900 --> 00:23:45,800 you're going to show Mercy. The same is true of God that 334 00:23:45,800 --> 00:23:48,100 having shown Mercy toward Sinners. 335 00:23:48,100 --> 00:23:50,400 It is because of God's Own goodness. 336 00:23:50,400 --> 00:23:52,100 It's because of his own loving. Kindness. 337 00:23:52,100 --> 00:23:56,100 It's because of his own deep-seated compassion, for 338 00:23:56,200 --> 00:24:01,000 Humanity. Mercy is the response of a good 339 00:24:01,000 --> 00:24:04,600 and loving God, toward the Affliction of man in his sin. 340 00:24:04,700 --> 00:24:09,900 The commentator goes on to say And so God Saves You by his 341 00:24:09,900 --> 00:24:12,400 loving. Kindness God Saves You by his 342 00:24:12,400 --> 00:24:15,800 goodness. God Saves You by Amazing. 343 00:24:16,000 --> 00:24:22,200 Grace Which are founded in his own goodness is on loving. 344 00:24:22,200 --> 00:24:28,800 Kindness is on Mercy. And so Paul emphasizes that this 345 00:24:28,800 --> 00:24:32,200 is the foundation of our Salvation, he does. 346 00:24:32,200 --> 00:24:37,900 So so that the cretan churches Cretan, Believers may be sure of 347 00:24:37,900 --> 00:24:41,400 their salvation that they may understand that as these false 348 00:24:41,400 --> 00:24:44,700 teachers are bearing it on the say no no you've got to perform 349 00:24:44,700 --> 00:24:48,200 all these Works. You've got to add circumcision 350 00:24:48,200 --> 00:24:51,500 and purification processes like you've got to, you've got to 351 00:24:52,200 --> 00:24:57,000 live out the Old Testament laws of God, if you were to truly be 352 00:24:57,300 --> 00:25:03,900 saved, Can you imagine what? Paul's up against here? 353 00:25:03,900 --> 00:25:11,400 Because what we read here, Was not yet established by anything 354 00:25:11,400 --> 00:25:15,100 other than the spirit of God which was moving through these 355 00:25:15,100 --> 00:25:17,400 Riders. Moving through these Apostles, 356 00:25:18,000 --> 00:25:20,800 moving in their teachings, affirming them sure. 357 00:25:21,900 --> 00:25:24,400 But it would be real easy for these false teachers to get up 358 00:25:24,400 --> 00:25:28,600 and say what he says is by his own understanding. 359 00:25:29,600 --> 00:25:33,700 But what we have right here as they hold out, their Septuagint 360 00:25:33,700 --> 00:25:37,000 saw, right? They're Hebrew New Testaments. 361 00:25:37,000 --> 00:25:41,100 There are Old Testament, sorry, the laying these out, right? 362 00:25:41,700 --> 00:25:44,000 And they're saying, what we have here is the very word of God, 363 00:25:44,000 --> 00:25:47,200 he's established these things, this is how you're supposed to 364 00:25:47,200 --> 00:25:50,600 live. And Paul say, no, no, no. 365 00:25:52,000 --> 00:25:55,600 God Saves You by his own goodness and loving kindness, 366 00:25:55,600 --> 00:25:58,600 according to his own mercy. And the way that he saves in the 367 00:25:58,600 --> 00:26:01,600 New Testament is the same way he was saving the Old Testament, 368 00:26:02,100 --> 00:26:07,100 their faith as Hebrews 11 reveals was not in their own 369 00:26:07,100 --> 00:26:09,900 Works, their faith was in Christ Jesus. 370 00:26:10,500 --> 00:26:14,600 The one who was to come and so it's always been faith in Christ 371 00:26:14,600 --> 00:26:19,800 that saves Always, it's never buy your own mind. 372 00:26:20,900 --> 00:26:24,200 It's never by your own ability to follow the commands of God. 373 00:26:25,400 --> 00:26:30,300 God Saves you. By his own kindness by his own, 374 00:26:30,300 --> 00:26:34,300 Mercy by his own goodness. These are the foundation for 375 00:26:34,300 --> 00:26:39,400 your salvation. And so works are to be present, 376 00:26:39,400 --> 00:26:42,000 but they are to be the fruit of salvation. 377 00:26:44,300 --> 00:26:50,000 Not the roots, the root is God. And so we may say with over 378 00:26:50,700 --> 00:26:57,100 hearts that are overwhelmed with Thanksgiving, he saved me, God 379 00:26:57,100 --> 00:27:01,600 has saved us. Having seen the foundation of 380 00:27:01,600 --> 00:27:04,500 Amazing Grace. Paul now shows us the work of 381 00:27:04,500 --> 00:27:05,800 Amazing Grace. What is it? 382 00:27:05,800 --> 00:27:09,400 That's taking place in that moment of Grace. 383 00:27:09,400 --> 00:27:13,400 What's happening inside of you, what's happening outside of you? 384 00:27:13,400 --> 00:27:15,600 What's going? What's going on? 385 00:27:17,500 --> 00:27:22,300 Titus 3:5 through 6. We read this, he saved us by the 386 00:27:22,300 --> 00:27:26,200 washing of regeneration and the renewal of the Holy Spirit whom 387 00:27:26,200 --> 00:27:28,800 he poured out on us richly through. 388 00:27:29,000 --> 00:27:35,700 Jesus Christ, Our Savior, You see salvation is entirely the 389 00:27:35,700 --> 00:27:44,200 work of our Triune God. The Trinity just flows right in 390 00:27:45,400 --> 00:27:47,100 just flows throughout this passage mean. 391 00:27:47,100 --> 00:27:52,800 Paul is is laying it out there. That salvation is initiated by 392 00:27:52,800 --> 00:27:55,700 the father. It's accomplished for us by the 393 00:27:55,700 --> 00:27:59,900 sun and it is applied in Us by the Holy Spirit. 394 00:28:02,500 --> 00:28:04,300 Salvation is initiated by the father. 395 00:28:04,300 --> 00:28:08,700 It's accomplished for us by the sun and it is applied in Us by 396 00:28:09,300 --> 00:28:13,200 the Holy Spirit. And so we see here that Grace is 397 00:28:13,200 --> 00:28:16,600 applied through the work of the holy spirit in, at least two 398 00:28:16,600 --> 00:28:20,300 ways. The first is the washing of 399 00:28:20,300 --> 00:28:25,800 regeneration of the Holy Spirit. Now, this is the moment when old 400 00:28:25,800 --> 00:28:30,900 things pass away regeneration is like that it's quick. 401 00:28:33,500 --> 00:28:35,500 There's no delay to Regeneration. 402 00:28:40,900 --> 00:28:45,200 Old things, pass away All Things become new at regeneration. 403 00:28:45,200 --> 00:28:49,900 You become a new creation. Second Corinthians 5:17 says, 404 00:28:52,000 --> 00:28:54,200 What we see is that as one commentator put it that 405 00:28:54,200 --> 00:28:57,700 regeneration is the New Birth by which spiritually dead centers 406 00:28:57,800 --> 00:29:01,200 are brought to life in order to believe. 407 00:29:03,400 --> 00:29:06,300 You're brought to life that you might believe. 408 00:29:07,900 --> 00:29:13,000 Jesus explains this explicitly. So so clearly with Nicodemus in 409 00:29:13,000 --> 00:29:18,100 John chapter 3 Nicodemus was a Pharisee of Pharisees meaning. 410 00:29:18,100 --> 00:29:21,000 He was he was the religious Elite. 411 00:29:22,900 --> 00:29:26,500 He was called the teacher of Israel, and he comes to Jesus 412 00:29:26,500 --> 00:29:30,500 and calls him rabbi. He recognized something in 413 00:29:30,500 --> 00:29:33,900 Christ because he said that no one who has not sent from God, 414 00:29:33,900 --> 00:29:37,700 can do the work that you're doing and so he comes by night, 415 00:29:38,400 --> 00:29:42,200 so that nobody sees him and he inquires of Christ. 416 00:29:42,800 --> 00:29:45,200 Who are you? What is going on? 417 00:29:48,300 --> 00:29:54,100 And he says to Jesus. He asked, Jesus, you know, about 418 00:29:54,100 --> 00:29:58,500 the kingdom of God and Jesus says to him, unless one is born 419 00:29:58,500 --> 00:30:01,600 again, he cannot see the kingdom of God. 420 00:30:03,800 --> 00:30:07,100 Nicodemus is dumbfounded. He doesn't understand. 421 00:30:09,600 --> 00:30:13,700 And so he asked Jesus, how can I enter into my mother's womb a 422 00:30:13,700 --> 00:30:17,700 second time? How could I be born again? 423 00:30:19,700 --> 00:30:24,100 And so, Jesus goes on to explain what you must be born of water 424 00:30:24,200 --> 00:30:27,800 and spirit. In other words, you must be 425 00:30:28,000 --> 00:30:34,700 washed. with the Regeneration and renewed by The spirit of 426 00:30:34,700 --> 00:30:44,300 God. if you are to be born again, Nicodemus is like how and 427 00:30:44,300 --> 00:30:47,400 Jesus says, well, this is done by the spirit of God. 428 00:30:48,300 --> 00:30:51,300 He tells Nicodemus that the spirit is like the wind that no 429 00:30:51,300 --> 00:30:55,700 one knows where or where it comes from, or where it's going. 430 00:30:56,800 --> 00:31:00,900 When the wind comes. That it does its own thing. 431 00:31:02,700 --> 00:31:06,000 This is according to the spirit of God. 432 00:31:08,600 --> 00:31:11,600 Jesus was undoing everything that Nicodemus had spent his 433 00:31:11,600 --> 00:31:15,000 whole life building. It's been his whole life 434 00:31:15,000 --> 00:31:18,200 committing himself to the teaching of God to becoming a 435 00:31:19,000 --> 00:31:23,200 religious zealot. What he thought God would find a 436 00:31:23,200 --> 00:31:28,000 provable, what he thought, God would find good and right and 437 00:31:28,000 --> 00:31:32,800 Jesus undoes it in a moment saying you need to be born 438 00:31:32,800 --> 00:31:37,800 again. Basically telling me everything 439 00:31:37,800 --> 00:31:41,500 you've lived for to this point in your life, counts for 440 00:31:42,000 --> 00:31:43,500 nothing. Why? 441 00:31:43,700 --> 00:31:46,300 Because it's not by works of righteousness, which you have 442 00:31:46,300 --> 00:31:53,500 done. But by the grace of God. and so, 443 00:31:57,700 --> 00:32:01,400 what Paul is laying out what Jesus laid out to Nicodemus is 444 00:32:01,400 --> 00:32:05,900 that regeneration always precedes and causes saving 445 00:32:05,900 --> 00:32:09,600 faith. Since centers have no interest 446 00:32:09,600 --> 00:32:11,300 in the kingdom of God, unless they are born again. 447 00:32:11,300 --> 00:32:13,200 That's what he's explaining to Nicodemus. 448 00:32:13,200 --> 00:32:15,800 You cannot see this unless you were born again. 449 00:32:17,600 --> 00:32:20,300 Nicodemus in as the teacher of Israel would have been familiar 450 00:32:20,300 --> 00:32:23,200 with God's teaching on spiritual rebirth. 451 00:32:23,500 --> 00:32:27,000 This is not a new, this is not just a new testament thing, 452 00:32:27,000 --> 00:32:28,600 everything that's happening in the New Testament, as a 453 00:32:28,600 --> 00:32:31,700 fulfillment of Old Testament. Prophecies concerning the new 454 00:32:31,700 --> 00:32:35,300 birth. This is not new, it's old, it's 455 00:32:35,300 --> 00:32:41,200 been taught for centuries. And we see it in God's promise 456 00:32:41,200 --> 00:32:44,000 to Ezekiel and Ezekiel chapter 36 verse 25. 457 00:32:44,000 --> 00:32:48,700 Through 26, God says there through the prophet, I will 458 00:32:48,700 --> 00:32:54,200 sprinkle clean water on you and you shall be clean from all your 459 00:32:54,200 --> 00:32:57,000 uncleanness. And from all your Idols, I will 460 00:32:57,000 --> 00:33:01,500 cleanse you. I will give you a new heart and 461 00:33:01,500 --> 00:33:05,100 a new spirit. I will put within you and I will 462 00:33:05,100 --> 00:33:08,800 remove the Heart of Stone from your flesh and give you a heart 463 00:33:08,800 --> 00:33:12,200 of Flesh. It's incredible. 464 00:33:13,500 --> 00:33:16,000 What what Christ is saying to Nicodemus? 465 00:33:16,000 --> 00:33:22,200 What Paul is saying to Titus and these create and churches Again, 466 00:33:22,200 --> 00:33:25,100 they're being told by false prophets that you must wash 467 00:33:25,100 --> 00:33:29,000 yourselves the right way. You must clean yourself up. 468 00:33:29,000 --> 00:33:32,500 You must live the right way. Follow all the Old Testament 469 00:33:32,500 --> 00:33:35,600 laws. I'll just the moral laws, but 470 00:33:35,600 --> 00:33:40,300 the laws for purification also. And so, this is what Paul is 471 00:33:40,300 --> 00:33:46,000 laying out here. Is that, no, you are washed. but 472 00:33:46,000 --> 00:33:50,300 the spirit of God in regeneration, It's the same 473 00:33:50,300 --> 00:33:54,900 thing that Christ tells Peter and John chapter 13. when Jesus 474 00:33:55,100 --> 00:33:58,200 kneels down and he grabs that Basin of water and that's how 475 00:33:59,700 --> 00:34:02,100 And he begins to wash the disciples feet, and he comes to 476 00:34:02,100 --> 00:34:04,900 Peter and Peter says no, no, no, no, no, no. 477 00:34:04,900 --> 00:34:09,900 You will not wash my feet. And Jesus says, unless I wash 478 00:34:10,199 --> 00:34:14,600 you, you have no share with me. And Peter says, oh well then not 479 00:34:14,600 --> 00:34:17,100 my feet also but my head and my body too. 480 00:34:18,900 --> 00:34:22,199 Wash wash all of me and what does Jesus say? 481 00:34:22,199 --> 00:34:25,699 He says you are already made clean by my word. 482 00:34:27,800 --> 00:34:29,900 It's just your feet that need to be washed. 483 00:34:32,199 --> 00:34:36,199 Amazing. And so some have taken washing 484 00:34:36,199 --> 00:34:40,600 of regeneration to mean baptism, just immediately jumping into 485 00:34:40,600 --> 00:34:42,800 baptism and I think that's a fallacy. 486 00:34:44,199 --> 00:34:46,800 I read a lot of commentators this week who did exactly that 487 00:34:47,900 --> 00:34:50,800 Respectfully disagree. Also, read a lot of commentators 488 00:34:50,800 --> 00:34:55,400 who say what I say, too. But there's disagreement on 489 00:34:55,400 --> 00:34:56,699 this. You can't jump straight into 490 00:34:56,699 --> 00:34:58,500 baptism when you're talking about the washing of 491 00:34:58,500 --> 00:35:00,900 regeneration because baptism does not save you. 492 00:35:01,500 --> 00:35:05,600 Baptism is not regeneration. What is baptism? 493 00:35:05,700 --> 00:35:09,700 It's the outward work of an inward work. 494 00:35:09,700 --> 00:35:11,800 The n-word work is not up to you. 495 00:35:12,200 --> 00:35:16,100 The n-word work is up to God. And so, as you've been saved 496 00:35:16,100 --> 00:35:19,400 then you hop into that tub. You hop into that baptistry and 497 00:35:19,400 --> 00:35:24,000 you tell the world that I have been washed clean with Christ. 498 00:35:24,000 --> 00:35:27,700 I have been buried with him and now I'm raised to New Life. 499 00:35:28,200 --> 00:35:33,100 This is what baptism means. Baptismal and so on is not 500 00:35:33,100 --> 00:35:38,900 salvific. I think it's further evidence 501 00:35:38,900 --> 00:35:42,600 from Paul says here, that God has poured out his Spirit on 502 00:35:42,600 --> 00:35:45,400 you. He uses the word washing. 503 00:35:45,400 --> 00:35:48,700 He uses the word pouring. He's clearly using analogous 504 00:35:48,700 --> 00:35:50,900 language here to lay out for you. 505 00:35:50,900 --> 00:35:54,800 What is taking place like God is pouring something on you? 506 00:35:54,800 --> 00:35:59,100 That is outside of you. God's work. 507 00:36:00,700 --> 00:36:03,100 The interesting thing about God, pouring out his Spirit on use, 508 00:36:03,100 --> 00:36:07,500 this is a fulfillment of Joel. 2:28 were God, says there 509 00:36:07,500 --> 00:36:09,400 through the prophet, it shall come to pass afterward that I 510 00:36:09,408 --> 00:36:12,300 will pour out my spirit on All Flesh. 511 00:36:15,200 --> 00:36:18,700 Peter and his sermon at Pentecost in Acts chapter 2, 512 00:36:19,200 --> 00:36:22,600 uses, Joel 2 chapter. 2 is a proof text for what has just 513 00:36:22,600 --> 00:36:26,100 taken place. And here's what we know about 514 00:36:26,700 --> 00:36:30,300 this passage is that again, one commentator, summed it up this 515 00:36:30,300 --> 00:36:31,500 way. So, I'll just read this one. 516 00:36:31,700 --> 00:36:35,600 What Pentecost meant to the church as a whole regeneration 517 00:36:35,600 --> 00:36:39,500 means to the individual believer, the beginning of a new 518 00:36:39,500 --> 00:36:43,500 life and the spirit of God characterized by faith and 519 00:36:43,500 --> 00:36:47,400 godliness, Cher. As those who have been 520 00:36:47,400 --> 00:36:51,900 regenerated in that moment of Pentecost, the spirit of God 521 00:36:51,900 --> 00:36:57,200 being poured into our lives. By the love of God, by the grace 522 00:36:57,200 --> 00:37:03,100 of God. And so you have been regenerated 523 00:37:03,200 --> 00:37:05,000 by the Holy Spirit. The second act, we see is the 524 00:37:05,000 --> 00:37:09,200 renewal of the Holy Spirit regeneration is a new life. 525 00:37:09,200 --> 00:37:13,700 Renewal is the effectual work of the spirit in this new life. 526 00:37:14,300 --> 00:37:17,300 So you have been given a new life and in that moment you are 527 00:37:17,300 --> 00:37:25,100 immediately transformed into a new creation justified by God by 528 00:37:25,100 --> 00:37:31,600 his free Grace. Made new, and the spirit of God 529 00:37:31,600 --> 00:37:35,400 now is renewing. You the spirit of God is washing 530 00:37:35,400 --> 00:37:38,400 your feet, so to speak. You have been made clean by the 531 00:37:38,400 --> 00:37:41,400 word of God, but now your feet need to be washed. 532 00:37:42,800 --> 00:37:46,100 He's helping you put to death the old man, take on the new 533 00:37:46,100 --> 00:37:47,700 man. He's hoping you put away the old 534 00:37:47,700 --> 00:37:49,100 things and take on the new things. 535 00:37:49,100 --> 00:37:55,100 He's hoping you put off sin, put to death sin and live, according 536 00:37:55,100 --> 00:38:00,600 to the word of God, the commands of God, the life that God has 537 00:38:00,900 --> 00:38:05,600 for you, but you will not be renewed apart from regeneration. 538 00:38:06,900 --> 00:38:12,600 It's impossible. I want to be clear on this 539 00:38:12,600 --> 00:38:16,900 point, there is a once for all renewal of the believer in the 540 00:38:16,900 --> 00:38:22,700 gift of saving faith. this comes to us by regeneration of the 541 00:38:22,700 --> 00:38:31,700 spirit, but that same Spirit now resides in you Spirit of God 542 00:38:31,900 --> 00:38:35,300 dwells in you. The Same Spirit which weighs 543 00:38:35,600 --> 00:38:37,600 raised Christ from the dead, which Paul talks about in 544 00:38:37,607 --> 00:38:42,500 Ephesians now. Dwells in your, in your hearts 545 00:38:43,400 --> 00:38:49,000 and your life, And so, what that, which raised Christ from 546 00:38:49,000 --> 00:38:52,600 the dead, is the same spirit. It's that, which is Raising you 547 00:38:52,600 --> 00:38:55,500 from the dead. It's that's what's helping you 548 00:38:55,500 --> 00:38:59,200 put off. Spiritual deadness, take on 549 00:38:59,200 --> 00:39:03,700 spiritual life. And so your spiritual life 550 00:39:03,700 --> 00:39:07,800 continues to increase. You continue to grow. 551 00:39:07,900 --> 00:39:13,300 You continue to conform, to God, to be like him, by the work of 552 00:39:13,308 --> 00:39:17,200 the spirit in you. Philippians 1:6 Paul writes to 553 00:39:17,200 --> 00:39:20,000 the Philippians Church there. And he says, this is I am sure. 554 00:39:20,400 --> 00:39:26,000 I am sure of this that he who began a good work in, you will 555 00:39:26,000 --> 00:39:29,200 bring it to completion at the day of Jesus Christ. 556 00:39:29,200 --> 00:39:32,600 And so this is what we know about sanctification it is on 557 00:39:33,000 --> 00:39:37,000 going. You are declared just at 558 00:39:37,000 --> 00:39:42,000 regeneration you are made new at regeneration but you are being 559 00:39:42,000 --> 00:39:45,200 made knew you were being made into the image of Christ from 560 00:39:45,400 --> 00:39:50,400 Duration to your final breath. And so there will always be send 561 00:39:50,400 --> 00:39:53,600 to put off there will always be righteousness to take on there. 562 00:39:53,600 --> 00:39:57,100 Always be on ungodliness to unclothed and they're always be 563 00:39:57,100 --> 00:40:01,300 godliness to put on there will be Holiness meant to be had from 564 00:40:01,300 --> 00:40:04,400 the moment of regeneration to the moment that you breathed 565 00:40:04,400 --> 00:40:07,900 your last and you enter into Glory with Christ Jesus. 566 00:40:08,400 --> 00:40:16,700 That does not end. Are you feeling thankful yet? 567 00:40:22,000 --> 00:40:25,000 Christ. Has saved you. 568 00:40:26,500 --> 00:40:31,700 By the grace of God. He's made you knew by the grace 569 00:40:31,700 --> 00:40:36,300 of God, but he has not left. You like regeneration is is the 570 00:40:36,300 --> 00:40:40,600 work of God Alone. But God has not left. 571 00:40:40,600 --> 00:40:43,500 You after regeneration and said, good luck, buddy. 572 00:40:43,800 --> 00:40:45,700 Figure it out. I'll see you in heaven. 573 00:40:46,700 --> 00:40:50,600 The spirit of God, which raise you from the dead is alive in 574 00:40:50,600 --> 00:40:55,800 you. And he he is your source of 575 00:40:55,800 --> 00:40:58,600 strength. He is your source of growth. 576 00:40:59,900 --> 00:41:03,400 He is what makes it possible to live a holy life? 577 00:41:04,400 --> 00:41:07,600 You must depend on the Lord. Now, in the same way that you 578 00:41:07,600 --> 00:41:10,400 depended on the Lord, for your salvation and you will depend on 579 00:41:10,400 --> 00:41:12,800 the Lord, one day, when you're preparing to enter into 580 00:41:12,800 --> 00:41:17,600 eternity, if you're fortunate enough to know that days, coming 581 00:41:18,300 --> 00:41:24,000 that moments there, You'll be dependent on God and so we 582 00:41:24,000 --> 00:41:26,800 should depend on God in the middle for what we're depending 583 00:41:26,800 --> 00:41:28,900 on him. At the beginning of the end for 584 00:41:29,900 --> 00:41:32,200 he'll grow us into the image of Christ Jesus. 585 00:41:34,800 --> 00:41:41,100 The Bible knows nothing. Nothing of regeneration without 586 00:41:41,200 --> 00:41:44,300 sanctification. The Bible knows, nothing of 587 00:41:44,300 --> 00:41:46,700 someone who says, I believe in Jesus. 588 00:41:47,700 --> 00:41:50,800 And yet, there is zero fruit in their life. 589 00:41:51,700 --> 00:41:57,600 That person is not is not a saved believer in Jesus Christ 590 00:41:58,400 --> 00:42:03,500 and a dead tree and old tree a bad tree, cannot Not produce. 591 00:42:03,500 --> 00:42:06,800 Good fruits. And a good tree one that has 592 00:42:06,800 --> 00:42:11,800 right Roots, regenerated, by the spirit of God will not produce 593 00:42:12,000 --> 00:42:18,000 bad fruit. Christ, says, and so if you have 594 00:42:18,000 --> 00:42:22,000 for your entire life, From moment of childhood, if you have 595 00:42:22,000 --> 00:42:30,900 said, I believe in Jesus Christ. But there is no desire to know, 596 00:42:30,900 --> 00:42:34,000 God or his word. There's no desire to sing to the 597 00:42:34,000 --> 00:42:35,500 Lord. There's no desire to put away 598 00:42:35,500 --> 00:42:37,600 sin. There's no desire to overcome. 599 00:42:38,200 --> 00:42:41,600 There's no desire at all for the Lord or the things of the Lord. 600 00:42:43,200 --> 00:42:46,000 Then you need to seriously question whether or not what you 601 00:42:46,000 --> 00:42:50,200 believe is saving or not, because it's possible. 602 00:42:51,100 --> 00:42:54,000 It's possible that you've come to a cultural understanding. 603 00:42:54,000 --> 00:42:59,200 That Christ was a good man who lived and he died and he saved a 604 00:42:59,207 --> 00:43:01,100 bunch of people for others from their sins. 605 00:43:02,300 --> 00:43:07,200 And so therefore you believe in Jesus, but you have never placed 606 00:43:07,200 --> 00:43:10,500 your faith in Christ to save you from your sins. 607 00:43:10,700 --> 00:43:14,300 You've never committed your life to following him Faithfully. 608 00:43:16,300 --> 00:43:18,200 And so you have a conflation of terms. 609 00:43:18,200 --> 00:43:22,600 Yes, I believe in Jesus but no, I'm not following Jesus, the 610 00:43:22,600 --> 00:43:25,300 Bible knows nothing of that sort of Christian. 611 00:43:28,000 --> 00:43:33,100 Nothing. Now, the world knows a lot about 612 00:43:33,100 --> 00:43:40,400 those kinds of Christians. Same Spirit, which gives New 613 00:43:40,400 --> 00:43:43,500 Life To Us effects that new life in Us. 614 00:43:43,500 --> 00:43:47,900 By that same Grace, one part of God's great work in Salvation is 615 00:43:47,900 --> 00:43:52,800 the n-word work of regeneration. It's the n-word work of renewal 616 00:43:52,800 --> 00:43:54,700 and it's applied in Us by the Holy Spirit. 617 00:43:54,800 --> 00:43:58,700 But the work that precedes, that is the work of redemption, 618 00:43:58,700 --> 00:44:01,800 through the cross of Jesus Christ, taught us 36 whom he 619 00:44:01,800 --> 00:44:04,400 poured out on us. He poured out on us who the Holy 620 00:44:04,400 --> 00:44:11,000 Spirit richly through Jesus Christ, Our Savior, I love that 621 00:44:11,000 --> 00:44:13,300 in the beginning of this, he calls God, our savior and he's 622 00:44:13,300 --> 00:44:17,200 saying Jesus Christ, Our Savior. It's just a full trinitarian 623 00:44:17,200 --> 00:44:23,600 view of the deity of the spirit, the deity of Christ and of 624 00:44:23,600 --> 00:44:25,800 course, the deity of the Father which no one. 625 00:44:27,400 --> 00:44:31,700 Doesn't recognize. He poured out on us richly 626 00:44:31,700 --> 00:44:37,900 through Jesus Christ. The Father, the Son, the spirit, 627 00:44:37,900 --> 00:44:39,900 they're all involved in your salvation. 628 00:44:40,600 --> 00:44:47,500 And so when we say God saved us, we mean God, the Father, Son, 629 00:44:47,500 --> 00:44:52,200 and Holy Spirit saved us. Our Triune God has saved us. 630 00:44:57,300 --> 00:44:59,300 One commentator said this. He said with the three persons 631 00:44:59,300 --> 00:45:03,000 of the Eternal Trinity coordinating, in the salvation 632 00:45:03,000 --> 00:45:06,000 of Believers. The Christian May rest. 633 00:45:06,000 --> 00:45:10,000 His heart securely in God's Saving Grace, while exercising, 634 00:45:10,000 --> 00:45:12,900 his will, and a zealous Pursuit Of The Godly life for which Paul 635 00:45:12,900 --> 00:45:20,900 is laboring in this letter. so we, we Are zealous for good 636 00:45:20,900 --> 00:45:25,000 works. Which is what we saw in chapter 637 00:45:25,000 --> 00:45:30,500 2 verse 14. He gave himself for us to redeem 638 00:45:30,500 --> 00:45:33,200 us from all lawlessness to purify for himself, a people for 639 00:45:33,200 --> 00:45:36,600 his own possession who are zealous for good works. 640 00:45:37,600 --> 00:45:40,400 We are to be men and women boys and girls who were zealous for 641 00:45:40,400 --> 00:45:44,700 good works because we have been transformed by God. 642 00:45:45,600 --> 00:45:51,900 We've been redeemed by God. And as your zealous for good 643 00:45:51,900 --> 00:45:56,400 works, you are resting in the goodness and loving kindness, 644 00:45:56,600 --> 00:46:01,700 the mercy of God you know that your zealousness for good works 645 00:46:01,800 --> 00:46:07,800 is not what's going to save you. You're not zealous out of fear. 646 00:46:09,500 --> 00:46:13,800 Your zealous out of reverence. For the Lord, I want my life to 647 00:46:13,800 --> 00:46:18,200 be a living sacrifice for he who has saved me. 648 00:46:18,800 --> 00:46:21,200 Amen. I'm going to dedicate. 649 00:46:21,200 --> 00:46:26,800 We going to commit all of me to serving God because he has 650 00:46:26,800 --> 00:46:29,700 redeemed me. He has made me new, he has given 651 00:46:29,700 --> 00:46:33,100 me new desires. He has planted in me but the 652 00:46:33,100 --> 00:46:36,400 desire to live for him to be zealous for good works. 653 00:46:37,500 --> 00:46:41,300 It's not me, it's not because I'm amazing some because I'm 654 00:46:41,300 --> 00:46:43,200 awesome. I'm terrible. 655 00:46:44,400 --> 00:46:49,000 By all accounts, I was Unworthy of Salvation and that's exactly 656 00:46:49,100 --> 00:46:51,600 what it takes to be worthy of Salvation. 657 00:46:52,300 --> 00:46:56,000 All that we bring to God and our Salvation is, our need of a 658 00:46:56,000 --> 00:46:59,500 savior. We bring our sin to him and he 659 00:46:59,500 --> 00:47:05,000 saves us. God Saves You by his Amazing. 660 00:47:05,300 --> 00:47:08,700 Grace. That's the work of Amazing 661 00:47:08,700 --> 00:47:10,300 Grace. Now we come to the result of 662 00:47:10,300 --> 00:47:14,100 Amazing Grace which is my last in shortest point. 663 00:47:16,700 --> 00:47:20,900 How does 37 so that being justified by his grace we might 664 00:47:20,900 --> 00:47:25,400 become heirs according to the hope of eternal life here. 665 00:47:25,400 --> 00:47:29,700 We see the results of Amazing Grace in two forms one, you are 666 00:47:29,700 --> 00:47:36,000 justified by grace. To you were made an air of 667 00:47:36,000 --> 00:47:42,600 eternal life by amazing grace. These are the results of Amazing 668 00:47:43,000 --> 00:47:44,800 Grace. Let's talk about what it means 669 00:47:44,800 --> 00:47:49,000 to be justified to be justified. You were accepted into the 670 00:47:49,000 --> 00:47:52,800 presence of God by his declaring you righteous. 671 00:47:54,000 --> 00:47:56,900 Because of the work of Jesus Christ. 672 00:47:59,400 --> 00:48:02,900 That's what makes you justify. Second Corinthians. 5:21 for our 673 00:48:02,900 --> 00:48:04,600 sake. He made him. 674 00:48:04,600 --> 00:48:07,900 He met Jesus. Let me start by inserting the 675 00:48:07,900 --> 00:48:12,500 names of what Who Paul's writing about here so that's it's clear 676 00:48:14,300 --> 00:48:17,600 for our sake. God the Father made him Jesus, 677 00:48:17,600 --> 00:48:21,000 the son to be sin who knew no sin. 678 00:48:22,400 --> 00:48:28,900 So that in Christ we you and I might become the righteousness 679 00:48:29,200 --> 00:48:33,900 of God. In a word, this is called 680 00:48:33,900 --> 00:48:39,300 imputation. God has imputed to you the 681 00:48:39,300 --> 00:48:42,800 righteousness of Christ. He's credited to your account, 682 00:48:42,800 --> 00:48:47,100 the righteousness of Christ and Christ credited to his own 683 00:48:47,100 --> 00:48:51,400 account. Your damnation, your sin took it 684 00:48:51,400 --> 00:48:55,600 on himself that you might be free from the guilt of sin and 685 00:48:55,600 --> 00:49:03,300 death and alive to Christ Jesus. You've been made new Jesus Paid 686 00:49:03,300 --> 00:49:06,300 the penalty that your sins deserved when he died on the 687 00:49:06,300 --> 00:49:11,400 cross in your place. And so he then imputes to you, 688 00:49:11,400 --> 00:49:14,300 his perfect righteousness. He credits to your account. 689 00:49:14,300 --> 00:49:17,500 He gives to you freely by his grace, his perfect 690 00:49:17,500 --> 00:49:20,900 righteousness. So that you may be declared 691 00:49:20,900 --> 00:49:25,400 righteous in God's courtroom. You may be justified, declared 692 00:49:25,500 --> 00:49:35,700 not guilty. Many celebrated, a not guilty 693 00:49:35,700 --> 00:49:39,100 verdict this week. Which is good and right? 694 00:49:40,500 --> 00:49:44,400 I'll go on the record as saying. I think Justice one that day. 695 00:49:44,600 --> 00:49:50,500 Praise God. But but the Jubilee that comes 696 00:49:50,500 --> 00:49:55,200 from that declaration ought to pale in comparison to the 697 00:49:55,200 --> 00:49:57,000 Jubilee that's alive in your heart. 698 00:49:57,000 --> 00:50:00,600 When you read that Christ, imputed to himself your 699 00:50:00,600 --> 00:50:05,800 unrighteousness and then imputed to you his righteousness, all by 700 00:50:05,800 --> 00:50:10,900 grace. We ought to celebrate that we 701 00:50:10,900 --> 00:50:12,900 ought to give. Thanks for that there ought to 702 00:50:12,900 --> 00:50:16,800 be like Smiles on our faces as we walk around during the day 703 00:50:17,000 --> 00:50:20,600 because of that truth alone. I don't care what else is going 704 00:50:20,600 --> 00:50:23,700 on in your life. We smile and we Rejoice because 705 00:50:23,700 --> 00:50:30,400 of this work. God has Justified Us by his 706 00:50:30,400 --> 00:50:36,900 grace. Romans 46 describes Christians 707 00:50:36,900 --> 00:50:41,800 as those to whom God counts righteousness, apart from works. 708 00:50:45,000 --> 00:50:50,300 Pre Christ, your works are counted to you as 709 00:50:50,300 --> 00:50:54,300 unrighteousness. Because you have bad works, you 710 00:50:54,300 --> 00:50:59,900 have unrighteous Works post Christ, your works are no longer 711 00:50:59,900 --> 00:51:03,300 counted but what is counted as the righteousness of Christ to 712 00:51:03,300 --> 00:51:10,600 your account? And now we get to do good works, 713 00:51:10,600 --> 00:51:12,700 we get to be zealous for. Good works. 714 00:51:14,400 --> 00:51:17,500 Galatians 3:13 Christ redeemed us from the curse of the law by 715 00:51:17,500 --> 00:51:20,500 becoming a curse for us for it is written. 716 00:51:20,600 --> 00:51:25,800 Cursed is everyone who is hanged on a tree He redeemed us from 717 00:51:25,800 --> 00:51:28,700 the curse by becoming a curse for us. 718 00:51:29,800 --> 00:51:35,100 Christ became a curse for you. You are an heir of eternal life. 719 00:51:37,800 --> 00:51:40,200 The doctrine of justification is not like simply. 720 00:51:41,600 --> 00:51:47,200 Like it's not like putting a deposit to this account stamp on 721 00:51:47,200 --> 00:51:49,400 the back of a check and putting it in the bank. 722 00:51:52,600 --> 00:51:57,000 Justification. By Paul's understanding, here is 723 00:51:57,000 --> 00:52:01,600 the beginning of eternal life. It's the foundation for eternal 724 00:52:01,600 --> 00:52:06,200 life. You are not only a counted. 725 00:52:07,200 --> 00:52:13,700 As a son or a daughter of God. If you believe in Jesus for the 726 00:52:13,707 --> 00:52:16,600 Forgiveness of your sins and you're serving him, you're not 727 00:52:16,600 --> 00:52:18,600 only counted as a son or daughter of God. 728 00:52:18,600 --> 00:52:22,800 You are now go Heirs of eternal life in heaven with Christ 729 00:52:22,800 --> 00:52:27,400 Jesus. The son of God, you're adopted 730 00:52:27,400 --> 00:52:33,500 into his family, you're a brother or sister of Christ and 731 00:52:33,500 --> 00:52:37,100 nothing will unseat you from that position. 732 00:52:37,200 --> 00:52:42,200 If you have truly believed in Christ, Jesus, Nothing will take 733 00:52:42,200 --> 00:52:47,000 this away from you. Because nothing in you made it 734 00:52:47,000 --> 00:52:53,600 happen in God is Not bipolar. God is not mentally unstable. 735 00:52:53,600 --> 00:52:55,700 God does not change with the Wind. 736 00:52:58,000 --> 00:53:00,200 God is sure in his salvation, this year. 737 00:53:01,900 --> 00:53:05,600 God is steady. He's an unchanging, he's the 738 00:53:05,600 --> 00:53:07,600 same yesterday today and forever. 739 00:53:08,300 --> 00:53:11,200 And so whom he declares righteousness is righteous 740 00:53:11,200 --> 00:53:15,700 indeed. Your name is written in the 741 00:53:15,700 --> 00:53:17,900 Lamb's Book of Life for eternity. 742 00:53:19,000 --> 00:53:22,800 You'll be a part of the tribe and the Nations and the peoples 743 00:53:22,800 --> 00:53:27,300 from all over the world, all over history rejoicing and the 744 00:53:27,300 --> 00:53:33,800 Son of God on that last day. Jesus says in John chapter 10 745 00:53:33,800 --> 00:53:37,600 that all whom the father gives to me, no one can take out of my 746 00:53:37,600 --> 00:53:40,900 hand. Because I am. 747 00:53:40,900 --> 00:53:43,100 The father are one. No one can snatch them out of 748 00:53:43,100 --> 00:53:50,100 the father's hand, Jesus says So, whatever happens. 749 00:53:51,400 --> 00:53:54,000 Let me read this first. You first, Romans 8:16, 17, 750 00:53:54,000 --> 00:53:57,400 Spirit himself Bears. Witness with our spirit that we 751 00:53:57,400 --> 00:54:00,100 are children of God. Again, this is what I mean by 752 00:54:00,100 --> 00:54:01,000 there. Will be fruit. 753 00:54:01,100 --> 00:54:04,000 Evident in a Believers life. The spirit of God Bears witness 754 00:54:04,000 --> 00:54:06,100 with our spirit that we are children of God. 755 00:54:06,100 --> 00:54:09,800 And if children, then we are heirs Heirs of God and fellow 756 00:54:09,800 --> 00:54:14,000 heirs with Christ provided we suffer with him in order that we 757 00:54:14,000 --> 00:54:19,000 may also be glorified with him. So what Paul is writing in 758 00:54:19,000 --> 00:54:22,000 Romans 8 is that whatever happens in your life you can be 759 00:54:22,000 --> 00:54:26,300 sure of one thing that if you are in Christ you have the hope 760 00:54:26,300 --> 00:54:30,900 of eternal life you have the hope of Heaven, everything works 761 00:54:30,900 --> 00:54:35,700 out for your good and for God's glory everything is sure you 762 00:54:35,700 --> 00:54:37,800 can. Therefore endure with patience 763 00:54:38,000 --> 00:54:39,600 the trials that you were going through. 764 00:54:40,300 --> 00:54:45,100 You can endure with patience whatever lays before you Paul 765 00:54:45,100 --> 00:54:47,200 adds in the very next verse Romans 8:18. 766 00:54:47,200 --> 00:54:50,100 He says, for I consider that the sufferings of this present time 767 00:54:50,200 --> 00:54:55,100 are not worth comparing with the glory, that is to be revealed to 768 00:54:55,100 --> 00:54:59,500 us. That's why I spoke just a couple 769 00:54:59,500 --> 00:55:02,400 weeks ago about having an eternal mindset. 770 00:55:04,000 --> 00:55:08,400 Having the hope of Heaven before your eyes, daily is the fuel for 771 00:55:08,400 --> 00:55:12,800 your Christian life. It's what drives you when you're 772 00:55:12,800 --> 00:55:15,000 in The Valleys. It's what drives you when you're 773 00:55:15,000 --> 00:55:20,200 on the mountain peaks, it is the force by which you walk in 774 00:55:20,200 --> 00:55:28,000 zealousness for good works and in total utter abandon Forgot. 775 00:55:29,200 --> 00:55:33,300 That I want nothing in this world but Christ and Christ 776 00:55:33,300 --> 00:55:38,300 Alone. Paul is saying that hope and 777 00:55:38,308 --> 00:55:44,200 eternal life is not vague. It's not unsure it stands on the 778 00:55:44,200 --> 00:55:51,400 Promises of God who cannot lie. Paul said in chapter 1, It's not 779 00:55:51,400 --> 00:55:53,400 vague. It stands on the Promises of 780 00:55:53,400 --> 00:55:56,000 God. It is based in scripture and it 781 00:55:56,000 --> 00:56:01,400 is provided by God. God Saves You by his Amazing 782 00:56:01,400 --> 00:56:06,800 Grace. Professing Believers. 783 00:56:06,800 --> 00:56:08,600 Will you give me your attention for a moment? 784 00:56:09,400 --> 00:56:12,100 You say, I believe in Jesus Christ. 785 00:56:12,100 --> 00:56:13,600 I want you to listen to me for a second. 786 00:56:18,800 --> 00:56:24,100 Every one of us. Can say with Paul and all the 787 00:56:24,100 --> 00:56:28,200 saints who have gone before us, God saved me. 788 00:56:30,500 --> 00:56:36,300 That's where our Hope rest. Our confidence for salvation, 789 00:56:37,100 --> 00:56:40,100 our confidence for growing in godliness, or confidence, for 790 00:56:40,100 --> 00:56:46,900 eternal life, rest on God Alone. It's not rest on you. 791 00:56:48,700 --> 00:56:53,600 Not rest on your works. It rest on the work of God. 792 00:56:56,700 --> 00:57:02,500 I want to ask some questions. Do you sense the comprehensive? 793 00:57:02,500 --> 00:57:05,600 This comprehensive change in your life. 794 00:57:08,100 --> 00:57:10,600 Do you sense that God has transformed? 795 00:57:10,600 --> 00:57:15,800 You do you feel these longings for God? 796 00:57:16,500 --> 00:57:19,800 These new desires for Holiness within you. 797 00:57:22,300 --> 00:57:27,200 Do you witness? Within yourself a new obedience 798 00:57:27,200 --> 00:57:35,400 to the word of God. Is there fruit of belief in your 799 00:57:35,400 --> 00:57:40,600 life. What lays in your wake? 800 00:57:41,800 --> 00:57:50,300 is it fruitfulness or unfruitful - Is it life or is it 801 00:57:50,300 --> 00:57:58,400 destruction? if you do not, Since these 802 00:57:58,400 --> 00:58:00,900 things, see these things in your life. 803 00:58:01,400 --> 00:58:05,300 I beg you to humble yourself before God today. 804 00:58:08,700 --> 00:58:15,400 To ask him for this new heart. And I want you to know that this 805 00:58:15,400 --> 00:58:18,300 is a prayer that he Delights to answer. 806 00:58:23,500 --> 00:58:25,800 It excites him to Grant new life. 807 00:58:28,700 --> 00:58:32,500 And unbelievers. People who say I have never 808 00:58:32,500 --> 00:58:36,200 professed faith in Christ. I'm not walking with him. 809 00:58:43,200 --> 00:58:48,500 If you haven't experienced this change in your heart, Then you 810 00:58:48,500 --> 00:58:53,400 too must humble yourself and ask God to Grant you a new heart, 811 00:58:54,400 --> 00:58:58,600 ask him. That you might be born again. 812 00:59:00,100 --> 00:59:04,700 Only God is able to save you. You will not stand before the 813 00:59:04,700 --> 00:59:09,800 Lord on the day of judgement. the Lord looks at you and says, 814 00:59:12,300 --> 00:59:17,200 By what standard? Shall you enter Heaven today? 815 00:59:19,200 --> 00:59:24,200 you will not stand there and say, I was a good father. 816 00:59:27,600 --> 00:59:31,000 I was a good husband. I worked hard. 817 00:59:32,400 --> 00:59:35,700 You remember that time I gave? I got that bonus and I gave some 818 00:59:35,700 --> 00:59:37,500 of that to somebody who is in need. 819 00:59:40,300 --> 00:59:42,700 I did all these works in your name. 820 00:59:44,000 --> 00:59:51,900 I went to church. I prayed some I encourage people 821 00:59:51,900 --> 00:59:57,800 to seek you. Do you hear the problem with 822 00:59:57,800 --> 01:00:00,700 trying to enter Heaven with those statements? 823 01:00:01,800 --> 01:00:06,400 Where is that person's faith? It's on himself, isn't it? 824 01:00:07,000 --> 01:00:09,200 I did this. I did that. 825 01:00:12,900 --> 01:00:16,700 You will not enter Heaven by your own works as good and as 826 01:00:16,700 --> 01:00:20,000 right as they, maybe he will not enter Heaven by your good works. 827 01:00:23,300 --> 01:00:25,700 The one who enters Heaven is the one who says. 828 01:00:28,200 --> 01:00:33,500 You saved me. My faith is in Christ Jesus 829 01:00:33,500 --> 01:00:41,000 because you saved me, God. Let's not conflate those two 830 01:00:41,000 --> 01:00:43,700 things, by the way, that we live each day. 831 01:00:45,300 --> 01:00:48,600 And so if you're an unbeliever and you cannot say that God has 832 01:00:48,700 --> 01:00:56,500 saved me, but I'm a good person. And you will not enter Heaven. 833 01:01:01,800 --> 01:01:04,400 What God does when you turn to him as he takes Your Heart of 834 01:01:04,400 --> 01:01:06,300 Stone, and he gives you a heart of Flesh. 835 01:01:07,700 --> 01:01:11,300 He puts life where there is no life, he makes you a new 836 01:01:11,300 --> 01:01:15,800 creation in Christ Jesus. And so then you are never the 837 01:01:15,800 --> 01:01:19,100 same. Again, there is a discernible 838 01:01:19,100 --> 01:01:22,800 difference. Between the one who has. 839 01:01:24,200 --> 01:01:29,000 Place their faith in Christ. And the one who has not. 840 01:01:30,500 --> 01:01:33,400 And it's daylight and nighttime difference. 841 01:01:35,700 --> 01:01:40,100 I beg of you unbeliever turned to God today that you might be 842 01:01:40,600 --> 01:01:43,600 saved. Let me pray for you as a 843 01:01:43,600 --> 01:01:45,500 worship. Team comes Heavenly Father. 844 01:01:45,500 --> 01:01:48,000 We thank you for your word today. 845 01:01:50,100 --> 01:01:53,100 We thank you, Lord, for the truths that we see here. 846 01:01:55,100 --> 01:01:58,200 We ask father that you help us to lay hold of them by faith 847 01:01:59,000 --> 01:02:00,900 that you do the work of regeneration. 848 01:02:02,700 --> 01:02:07,200 You do the work of renewal father by your spirits and our 849 01:02:07,200 --> 01:02:12,200 lives today. Help us to be men and women and 850 01:02:12,200 --> 01:02:16,500 boys and girls whose confidence is in Christ alone for our 851 01:02:16,500 --> 01:02:22,100 salvation. Lord. 852 01:02:22,100 --> 01:02:25,400 And from there, from that new life make us zealous for. 853 01:02:25,400 --> 01:02:29,300 Good works at me. We might walk with you in such a 854 01:02:29,308 --> 01:02:33,400 way that we bear witness about the truths, which we believe. 855 01:02:35,300 --> 01:02:39,100 But God save us from confidence in our own flesh. 856 01:02:41,300 --> 01:02:46,800 Deliver Us from it. Help us to be confident in God 857 01:02:47,100 --> 01:02:53,800 alone for our Salvation to say as Paul says he saved us. 858 01:02:57,800 --> 01:03:01,500 Father, thorough professing Believers in here, who have said 859 01:03:01,500 --> 01:03:05,400 for a long time that I believe that Jesus Christ is Lord. 860 01:03:07,400 --> 01:03:12,200 But there's no fruit whatsoever ever in their life. 861 01:03:15,100 --> 01:03:19,600 God, would you humble them now? Would you draw them to you? 862 01:03:20,700 --> 01:03:24,100 Would you grant them salvation In Christ Alone? 863 01:03:24,100 --> 01:03:26,200 Would you regenerate them by your spirits? 864 01:03:27,700 --> 01:03:31,200 Would you start the process of renewal and them today that they 865 01:03:31,200 --> 01:03:37,800 might know you? Humbled, and father. 866 01:03:41,200 --> 01:03:44,300 His father for those in here who are just outright saying I've 867 01:03:44,300 --> 01:03:48,300 never placed my faith in Christ. Would you save them fine? 868 01:03:49,000 --> 01:03:51,100 Grant them New Life in Christ. Jesus. 869 01:03:51,400 --> 01:03:55,400 Help them to be humbled, also to turn to you and to find 870 01:03:55,400 --> 01:03:58,700 Salvation and none other than Jesus Christ. 871 01:04:00,200 --> 01:04:02,300 Lord, we praise you for your word, we praise you, for the 872 01:04:02,300 --> 01:04:04,500 work, you've done that only, you can do that. 873 01:04:04,500 --> 01:04:10,700 We can take no credit for we love you today and we we give 874 01:04:10,700 --> 01:04:15,700 you, thanks, father for the Salvation which we've received 875 01:04:18,700 --> 01:04:21,500 In Christ's name, we pray. Amen. 876 01:04:18,700 --> 01:04:21,500 In Christ's name, we pray. Amen.