1 00:00:04,900 --> 00:00:07,000 My name is Kyle a service lead Pastor here. 2 00:00:07,000 --> 00:00:08,800 Want to say thanks for being here today. 3 00:00:08,900 --> 00:00:11,700 If you have your Bible with you you can open the John. 4 00:00:12,200 --> 00:00:16,900 The Gospel of John chapter 3. John 3 is where we'll be this 5 00:00:16,900 --> 00:00:21,300 morning and our word. Or in God's word, in our Bibles, 6 00:00:23,100 --> 00:00:26,600 we are in the middle of a series called the law and the gospel 7 00:00:26,600 --> 00:00:30,400 and which we are exploring the relationship between the law 8 00:00:30,400 --> 00:00:33,400 versus The Gospel, which we've received in Christ Jesus. 9 00:00:33,400 --> 00:00:37,900 And the central theme of The Met of the messages has been, you 10 00:00:37,900 --> 00:00:40,400 must be born again. All right, so we're not good 11 00:00:40,400 --> 00:00:44,200 enough to measure up to the righteousness of Christ, apart 12 00:00:44,200 --> 00:00:49,000 from a work of God in us, rot in Us, by the Holy Spirit. 13 00:00:49,200 --> 00:00:52,500 That which comes to us through the Cross of Christ. 14 00:00:52,500 --> 00:00:55,300 Jesus, amen. So, Christ perfectly fulfills. 15 00:00:55,300 --> 00:00:58,400 The law in his death and his resurrection. 16 00:00:58,700 --> 00:01:00,500 He has torn the veil of the temple. 17 00:01:00,500 --> 00:01:03,100 So, to speak. So that we now can be ushered 18 00:01:03,100 --> 00:01:07,100 into the presence of God by the spirit of God, and that happens 19 00:01:07,300 --> 00:01:09,700 through New Birth. And so that's the relationship 20 00:01:09,700 --> 00:01:12,800 between the law and the gospel. The law does not save you. 21 00:01:12,800 --> 00:01:16,100 The gospel saves you, but as someone who's been saved by the 22 00:01:16,100 --> 00:01:19,000 Gospel of Jesus Christ, there must be holiness. 23 00:01:19,200 --> 00:01:23,700 Present in your life, there must be in you evidence that the 24 00:01:23,700 --> 00:01:27,100 spirit of God has made you knew. And so, that's what we've been 25 00:01:27,100 --> 00:01:29,600 talking about. Is how to be born again. 26 00:01:29,600 --> 00:01:33,100 What does this look like, we've been interacting with the text 27 00:01:33,100 --> 00:01:36,600 in John 3, which is an interaction between Jesus and 28 00:01:36,600 --> 00:01:39,600 Nicodemus. Nicodemus was a Pharisee, he was 29 00:01:39,600 --> 00:01:43,300 really a Pharisee of Pharisees. He was a member of the 30 00:01:43,300 --> 00:01:46,500 Sanhedrin, which was the ruling body of the Jews. 31 00:01:46,700 --> 00:01:51,000 Spiritually ruling body of the Jews, he He was a teacher of the 32 00:01:51,000 --> 00:01:55,800 law, Jesus, even references or calls him rather in John 3. 10, 33 00:01:56,200 --> 00:02:00,000 the teacher of Israel, he says, are you not the teacher of 34 00:02:00,000 --> 00:02:01,200 Israel? And you do not know these 35 00:02:01,200 --> 00:02:04,100 things. So, Nicodemus knows the word of 36 00:02:04,100 --> 00:02:07,900 God, and yet, he needed to be born again. 37 00:02:07,900 --> 00:02:12,900 Nicodemus was as religious as a man could be and yet he needed 38 00:02:12,900 --> 00:02:15,000 to be born again. And so, the message for all of 39 00:02:15,000 --> 00:02:20,800 us is you must be born again. The see the kingdom of God. 40 00:02:20,800 --> 00:02:24,900 You must be born again to enter the kingdom of God. 41 00:02:24,900 --> 00:02:27,100 Amen. When I ask you to do something, 42 00:02:27,100 --> 00:02:29,700 would you stand your feet as we read God's word this morning. 43 00:02:29,700 --> 00:02:35,200 If you're unable to that's fine. John chapter 3 verses 1 through 44 00:02:35,200 --> 00:02:38,000 6, we're going to focus specifically on verse 6, but I 45 00:02:38,008 --> 00:02:41,100 want to read one through five to help us, see the context of 46 00:02:41,100 --> 00:02:43,500 what's going on here. Now, there was a man of the 47 00:02:43,500 --> 00:02:47,100 Pharisees named Nicodemus, a ruler of the Jews. 48 00:02:47,600 --> 00:02:50,100 This man came to Jesus by night. Night and said to him. 49 00:02:50,200 --> 00:02:52,600 Rabbi, we know that you are a teacher. 50 00:02:52,600 --> 00:02:56,700 Come from, God, for no one. Can do these signs that you do. 51 00:02:56,900 --> 00:03:00,300 Unless God is with him and Jesus answered him. 52 00:03:00,500 --> 00:03:04,700 Truly truly, I say to you, unless one is born again, he 53 00:03:04,700 --> 00:03:09,000 cannot see the kingdom of God. Nicodemus said to him. 54 00:03:09,100 --> 00:03:12,100 How can a man be born when he is old? 55 00:03:12,500 --> 00:03:16,700 Can he enter a second time into his mother's womb and be born 56 00:03:17,300 --> 00:03:21,700 and Jesus answered truly, truly, I say to you, unless one is born 57 00:03:21,700 --> 00:03:26,300 of water and the spirit, he cannot enter the kingdom of God. 58 00:03:27,300 --> 00:03:30,300 Verse 6, Jesus continues. He says that which is born of 59 00:03:30,300 --> 00:03:35,000 the flesh is flesh and that, which is born of the spirit is 60 00:03:35,000 --> 00:03:36,500 spirit. Amen. 61 00:03:37,300 --> 00:03:42,700 And you may be seated. Well, I hope for us to see today 62 00:03:42,700 --> 00:03:45,300 is this and if you're taking notes, you can write this down. 63 00:03:45,900 --> 00:03:47,500 I want us to understand this Truth. 64 00:03:47,500 --> 00:03:53,500 The Fountainhead for True, spiritual life is the birth of 65 00:03:53,500 --> 00:03:56,300 the holy spirit's The Fountainhead for True. 66 00:03:56,300 --> 00:03:59,700 Spiritual life is the birth of the holy spirit. 67 00:03:59,700 --> 00:04:01,400 Let me pray for us before we go any further. 68 00:04:01,400 --> 00:04:03,500 Heavenly Father, we thank you for your word. 69 00:04:03,800 --> 00:04:06,100 We thank you. That is living and active and 70 00:04:06,100 --> 00:04:08,200 sharper than any double-edged sword. 71 00:04:08,600 --> 00:04:12,800 It's about a pierce down to the depths of who we are and it 72 00:04:12,808 --> 00:04:16,200 discerns in US, truth and falsity. 73 00:04:16,399 --> 00:04:20,800 And father, we ask that you would help us to see Christ 74 00:04:20,800 --> 00:04:25,200 today by your spirit, open our hearts, and our minds, and our 75 00:04:25,200 --> 00:04:29,400 eyes, and our ears to hear. And to see, and to understand 76 00:04:29,500 --> 00:04:37,000 and to love your son, Jesus. Lord move our will to want to do 77 00:04:37,000 --> 00:04:41,000 your work in this world, in Christ's name, we pray. 78 00:04:41,100 --> 00:04:42,700 Amen. Amen. 79 00:04:43,600 --> 00:04:47,600 One of the foundational truths of nature was of all things that 80 00:04:47,600 --> 00:04:51,800 exist. Is this that like produces like 81 00:04:52,600 --> 00:04:56,600 this, this truth is woven into the design of all that God has 82 00:04:56,900 --> 00:04:59,900 created. For example, you cannot grow an 83 00:04:59,900 --> 00:05:02,800 apple tree with the seeds of a tomato plants, right? 84 00:05:02,800 --> 00:05:06,500 You plant a tomato. Plants and you will get a tomato 85 00:05:06,500 --> 00:05:08,300 plant if you know what you're doing, right? 86 00:05:09,700 --> 00:05:12,800 Right. And when you plant an apple 87 00:05:12,800 --> 00:05:15,200 tree, we throw those seeds into the ground. 88 00:05:15,200 --> 00:05:19,900 You don't expect to have a towering redwood tree, right? 89 00:05:19,900 --> 00:05:23,500 You planted an apple tree and so you expect to get an apple tree 90 00:05:23,600 --> 00:05:27,800 like produces like your dog will not give birth to a cat. 91 00:05:28,400 --> 00:05:32,300 Humans will not produce a giraffe, right? 92 00:05:32,400 --> 00:05:37,400 Like produces like the same thing is true in the spiritual 93 00:05:37,400 --> 00:05:40,200 world. As we have seen in previous 94 00:05:40,200 --> 00:05:44,900 weeks when the Holy Spirit regenerates the human heart, he 95 00:05:44,900 --> 00:05:49,600 produces a holy life in the soul like produces light. 96 00:05:49,600 --> 00:05:54,500 The spirit produces Spirits, nothing else, can produce 97 00:05:54,500 --> 00:05:59,400 spiritual life, except the Living God, because nothing else 98 00:05:59,400 --> 00:06:03,700 is spiritual like God. Nothing else is able to cause 99 00:06:03,900 --> 00:06:06,500 spiritual birth as God is able to cause it. 100 00:06:06,500 --> 00:06:08,600 And so that is why I say that The Fountainhead. 101 00:06:08,700 --> 00:06:11,600 Ed for True, spiritual life. The thing that's going to happen 102 00:06:11,600 --> 00:06:13,900 in your life that's going to Spring forth. 103 00:06:14,100 --> 00:06:16,900 The Fruit of the Spirit In You. The Fountainhead for True. 104 00:06:16,900 --> 00:06:20,000 Spiritual life is the new birth of the holy spirit. 105 00:06:20,600 --> 00:06:22,300 It's the new birth of the Holy Spirit. 106 00:06:22,400 --> 00:06:26,100 And so when the word of God has planted like a seed in the human 107 00:06:26,100 --> 00:06:29,600 soul, this is sorry. So through this series, we've 108 00:06:29,600 --> 00:06:31,900 been referencing Lawson's book. This is a quote from Stephen 109 00:06:31,900 --> 00:06:37,700 Lawson. Start it over when the word of 110 00:06:37,700 --> 00:06:40,300 God has planted like a seed in the human soul. 111 00:06:40,600 --> 00:06:43,500 The Holy Spirit acts, by The Sovereign, will of the father 112 00:06:43,700 --> 00:06:46,200 and creates new life in the spiritually dead. 113 00:06:46,400 --> 00:06:51,000 This new life is spiritual life because it is created by the 114 00:06:51,000 --> 00:06:55,400 Holy Spirit. Again, like produces, like this 115 00:06:55,400 --> 00:07:00,300 is what Jesus is making clear to Nicodemus in John. 3:6 Nicodemus 116 00:07:00,300 --> 00:07:04,900 is asking how can this be? How can a man enter into his? 117 00:07:05,000 --> 00:07:06,700 Mother's womb, right? It can't happen. 118 00:07:06,900 --> 00:07:10,500 So how can a man be reborn? And Jesus is saying, look, that 119 00:07:10,500 --> 00:07:13,000 which is born of the flesh is flesh. 120 00:07:13,000 --> 00:07:15,700 And that, which is born of the spirit is spirit. 121 00:07:16,200 --> 00:07:20,100 So, the flesh, Jesus is saying, can only become more flesh. 122 00:07:20,400 --> 00:07:23,900 It can only create more flesh when you were of the Flesh and 123 00:07:23,900 --> 00:07:27,800 you are not yet, Spirit born. You can only produce works of 124 00:07:27,800 --> 00:07:30,000 the flesh. You cannot produce works of the 125 00:07:30,000 --> 00:07:32,900 spirit, you are bound to the flesh. 126 00:07:33,100 --> 00:07:34,800 Amen. And so on. 127 00:07:35,000 --> 00:07:39,900 And is born from a woman, right? Flesh, produces flesh. 128 00:07:40,000 --> 00:07:42,700 And so when a man is born of a woman, we saw this a few weeks 129 00:07:42,700 --> 00:07:45,500 ago, we looked at Genesis chapter, I believe it was for 130 00:07:45,500 --> 00:07:49,700 it, might be five. Actually, what we see there is 131 00:07:49,700 --> 00:07:53,700 that, as Adam as Seth was born to Adam, it says that he was 132 00:07:53,700 --> 00:07:57,000 born in the image and likeness of Adam meaning, not that he 133 00:07:57,000 --> 00:08:01,100 wasn't in the image and likeness of God, just that he now had 134 00:08:01,300 --> 00:08:04,800 that since stained soul that sins. 135 00:08:04,900 --> 00:08:09,000 Stained nature. He was corrupted by his birth. 136 00:08:09,100 --> 00:08:12,000 He was born in the image and likeness of his father. 137 00:08:12,000 --> 00:08:14,900 Adam. And so to have we've been born 138 00:08:15,400 --> 00:08:19,900 in the image and likeness of our father, Adam And this is one of 139 00:08:19,907 --> 00:08:23,000 the truths that we must know, the spirit produces. 140 00:08:23,000 --> 00:08:27,000 However, the spirit produces only that, which is spiritual 141 00:08:27,000 --> 00:08:30,800 because he belongs to the spiritual realm, he belongs to 142 00:08:30,800 --> 00:08:34,700 God. He is God, Jesus is not only 143 00:08:34,700 --> 00:08:37,900 making a claim that is foundational to Creation. 144 00:08:37,900 --> 00:08:41,500 He's making a claim that is foundational to understanding 145 00:08:41,500 --> 00:08:45,800 how a person must be reborn. How this takes place, he is 146 00:08:45,808 --> 00:08:49,900 telling Nicodemus about his spiritual, Ins that which is 147 00:08:49,900 --> 00:08:52,600 born of Flesh. Nicodemus is flesh. 148 00:08:53,700 --> 00:08:56,400 He's exposing him. He's showing where his 149 00:08:56,400 --> 00:09:00,900 limitations rest Nicodemus is thinking, if I'm, if anyone is 150 00:09:00,900 --> 00:09:05,200 close to God, it must be me. And Jesus is saying that, which 151 00:09:05,200 --> 00:09:07,900 is born of the flesh is flesh. He's already told him. 152 00:09:07,900 --> 00:09:09,300 You cannot see the kingdom of God. 153 00:09:09,300 --> 00:09:11,500 Unless you're born again. You cannot enter the kingdom of 154 00:09:11,500 --> 00:09:16,800 God unless you are born again. Jesus is talking about the human 155 00:09:16,800 --> 00:09:20,900 nature, not simply Being Human. He's talking now about the 156 00:09:20,900 --> 00:09:25,300 nature of a human being The whole nature of man is here 157 00:09:25,300 --> 00:09:29,400 condemned in a single word from Jesus Christ, that which is born 158 00:09:29,400 --> 00:09:33,400 of the flesh, is flesh in your flesh. 159 00:09:33,400 --> 00:09:38,000 You can never make yourself spiritual on your own. 160 00:09:39,100 --> 00:09:44,600 You are corrupted by your flesh. Your reason your ability to 161 00:09:44,600 --> 00:09:48,600 reason your ability to understand is corrupted by your 162 00:09:48,600 --> 00:09:51,000 flesh. All of the affections of your 163 00:09:51,000 --> 00:09:57,300 heart are wicked and In a word. You are carnal and nature. 164 00:09:57,900 --> 00:10:02,200 Not spiritual you are corrupted because of your father, Abraham. 165 00:10:02,400 --> 00:10:05,700 This is who you are before Christ. 166 00:10:07,300 --> 00:10:10,100 Now, that's not to say that there's not some evidence of 167 00:10:10,100 --> 00:10:13,800 goodness in the person who is still corrupted by his sin 168 00:10:13,800 --> 00:10:17,700 nature, but there is no evidence of righteousness. 169 00:10:17,800 --> 00:10:20,200 There's no evidence of true godliness. 170 00:10:20,200 --> 00:10:23,700 There's no evidence of a spiritual rebirth just As we 171 00:10:23,700 --> 00:10:26,900 might look at an unbeliever and say well, he's a good person. 172 00:10:28,100 --> 00:10:31,400 This is not mean that he is a saved person. 173 00:10:31,400 --> 00:10:35,500 It's not mean that he is a new creation in Christ, naturally. 174 00:10:35,700 --> 00:10:38,000 A man does possess some knowledge of God. 175 00:10:38,000 --> 00:10:40,600 This is the way that God has wired him, why? 176 00:10:41,100 --> 00:10:44,900 So that he will have an affection for God, he is created 177 00:10:44,900 --> 00:10:47,000 to worship God. And though, our worship is 178 00:10:47,000 --> 00:10:50,500 corrupted by our sin, our worship is corrupted by our evil 179 00:10:50,500 --> 00:10:55,200 desires or worship is fixated on other things, besides God, other 180 00:10:55,200 --> 00:10:57,700 people, besides God. We are no. 181 00:10:57,800 --> 00:11:00,300 No less created to worship. Amen. 182 00:11:00,900 --> 00:11:03,400 It's just our affections of our harder wrong. 183 00:11:03,800 --> 00:11:06,600 The longings of our heart are evil. 184 00:11:07,200 --> 00:11:09,500 And so, we look upon a man and we say, well, he's got some 185 00:11:09,500 --> 00:11:12,000 natural knowledge of God. He's got some understanding. 186 00:11:12,000 --> 00:11:14,300 This is true. God says, as much in Romans 187 00:11:14,300 --> 00:11:23,100 chapter 1 There is in a man, some distinction of Good and 188 00:11:23,100 --> 00:11:26,400 Evil and Grave and on his conscience, right? 189 00:11:26,400 --> 00:11:30,000 He knows them the nature of Good and Evil. 190 00:11:30,800 --> 00:11:34,600 An unbeliever can look upon a horrific Act of. 191 00:11:34,600 --> 00:11:38,100 Let's say, murder and say, that's wrong. 192 00:11:38,900 --> 00:11:41,000 Well, by what standard is it wrong? 193 00:11:41,000 --> 00:11:43,600 Well, it's wrong by the standard of God. 194 00:11:44,200 --> 00:11:48,400 God has declared murder evil and so when a person Sin looks Upon 195 00:11:48,400 --> 00:11:50,400 A murder, whether they're a Believer or not and says that's 196 00:11:50,400 --> 00:11:52,600 evil. That's wrong, they're declaring 197 00:11:52,600 --> 00:11:54,800 that. God is true, even though they 198 00:11:54,800 --> 00:11:58,000 don't know it. They have an understanding of 199 00:11:58,000 --> 00:12:01,900 God even though they have no saving knowledge of him. 200 00:12:01,900 --> 00:12:03,100 Yet. This is what again, 201 00:12:03,100 --> 00:12:06,800 Ecclesiastes, 3 verse 11 is saying that God has put into the 202 00:12:06,800 --> 00:12:09,800 heart of every man. A sense of Eternity. 203 00:12:10,100 --> 00:12:14,800 Yet, in such a way that he cannot find out who God is on 204 00:12:14,800 --> 00:12:18,700 his own. God must reveal himself to us 205 00:12:18,700 --> 00:12:22,100 but naturally there's an understanding of Good and Evil 206 00:12:22,400 --> 00:12:25,500 naturally in a man his faculties his ability. 207 00:12:26,200 --> 00:12:28,300 To move and to work and to think. 208 00:12:28,300 --> 00:12:31,300 And to reason all of these things are sufficient for 209 00:12:31,300 --> 00:12:35,600 maintaining life, unbelievers can be good, maintainers of 210 00:12:35,600 --> 00:12:39,500 Life, they can be good workers and their jobs, they can be a 211 00:12:39,500 --> 00:12:43,600 good husband and a good wife as much as we might call it good, 212 00:12:43,600 --> 00:12:45,900 right. We're not saying righteous just 213 00:12:45,900 --> 00:12:49,800 as soon as evidences of God's grace in their life. 214 00:12:51,000 --> 00:12:56,800 However, mankind is completely polluted by his human nature. 215 00:12:57,500 --> 00:13:00,300 This doesn't mean that every person is as depraved as he 216 00:13:00,300 --> 00:13:03,600 could be right, we would look at some people, you know, the 217 00:13:03,600 --> 00:13:06,800 low-hanging fruits of History like Hitler. 218 00:13:08,400 --> 00:13:11,000 And we would look at people like that and we would say well that 219 00:13:11,000 --> 00:13:13,100 man was as corrupt as he could be. 220 00:13:13,200 --> 00:13:16,800 Well, it might be true. That God had actually removed 221 00:13:16,800 --> 00:13:20,700 his hand from Hitler and let him run headlong into his depraved 222 00:13:20,700 --> 00:13:24,100 nature without any restriction whereas for others, God may 223 00:13:24,100 --> 00:13:30,100 still be restricting them. But it doesn't mean that they're 224 00:13:30,100 --> 00:13:38,400 not polluted by their nature. Still polluted. it means that 225 00:13:38,400 --> 00:13:42,100 every aspect of the Human Nature has been corrupted by the deadly 226 00:13:42,100 --> 00:13:48,400 poison of sin because flesh gives birth to flesh like 227 00:13:48,400 --> 00:13:54,600 produces like Likewise Jesus says that, which is born of the 228 00:13:54,600 --> 00:13:57,900 spirit is Spirit there in verse 6. 229 00:13:59,100 --> 00:14:02,500 Jesus saying that the holy spirit gives life to the human 230 00:14:02,500 --> 00:14:06,800 heart, that which is born of the spirit, capitalists were talking 231 00:14:06,800 --> 00:14:09,400 about the spirit of God is Spirit. 232 00:14:09,400 --> 00:14:13,500 We might say, is spiritual is able to be spiritual has now 233 00:14:13,500 --> 00:14:19,300 been created by the spirit, born of the spirit to follow the 234 00:14:19,300 --> 00:14:20,700 spirit. Amen. 235 00:14:21,100 --> 00:14:24,500 This new nature from God, operates in the kingdom of God. 236 00:14:24,500 --> 00:14:27,800 Not in the Kingdom of the world like produces like. 237 00:14:27,800 --> 00:14:32,100 And so the spirit has Produced the spirits in a person during 238 00:14:32,100 --> 00:14:34,600 the New Birth. So if you're going to have 239 00:14:34,600 --> 00:14:38,600 eternal life, if you're going to experience eternal life, you're 240 00:14:38,600 --> 00:14:40,100 going to know eternal life today. 241 00:14:40,100 --> 00:14:42,900 The hope of it. And then one day experience it. 242 00:14:42,900 --> 00:14:46,200 After you've breathed your last breath, that will happen because 243 00:14:46,200 --> 00:14:51,000 the holy spirit is the only one who created that in you because 244 00:14:51,000 --> 00:14:53,500 the Holy Spirit gave you new life. 245 00:14:54,100 --> 00:14:57,900 No human being can create a spiritual life for himself or 246 00:14:57,900 --> 00:15:00,200 herself. It's not possible. 247 00:15:00,700 --> 00:15:03,700 The new birth belongs to God Alone. 248 00:15:03,700 --> 00:15:07,000 He causes it by the work of his Spirit within you. 249 00:15:07,600 --> 00:15:10,500 Again, Lawson is hopeful here. He says, if you were born again, 250 00:15:10,700 --> 00:15:15,700 this is what God did within you within your hearts regeneration 251 00:15:15,700 --> 00:15:19,700 dramatically transformed. You at the deepest level, this 252 00:15:19,700 --> 00:15:24,000 change was from the inside out. You were immediately transferred 253 00:15:24,000 --> 00:15:27,500 from spiritual death to spiritual life, you suddenly 254 00:15:27,500 --> 00:15:29,800 passed from Darkness. He's too light. 255 00:15:30,100 --> 00:15:33,200 This change was so dramatic. He goes on to say that you 256 00:15:33,200 --> 00:15:38,700 became a new creation. This God, given birth altered, 257 00:15:38,700 --> 00:15:42,600 the fundamental nature of your mind and your affections and 258 00:15:42,600 --> 00:15:49,000 your will amen. So we might ask, how 259 00:15:49,000 --> 00:15:53,300 comprehensive is the new birth to what lengths does? 260 00:15:53,300 --> 00:15:58,500 The new birth go in someone's life around here we talk about 261 00:15:58,500 --> 00:16:02,600 things like growing up into the image and likeness of Christ. 262 00:16:02,900 --> 00:16:07,400 As we behold Christ, we are becoming more and more like him 263 00:16:07,400 --> 00:16:11,100 until the day where we see him in full and we are in an instant 264 00:16:11,100 --> 00:16:14,800 transformed into the perfect image of Christ. 265 00:16:16,500 --> 00:16:21,000 Around here, we talk about how that takes time and it takes a 266 00:16:21,100 --> 00:16:26,100 renewed commitment to the Lord daily efforts on your end to 267 00:16:26,100 --> 00:16:31,100 become more like Christ. It may even happen faster in 268 00:16:31,100 --> 00:16:36,000 your life at times and slower at other times you might feel like 269 00:16:36,000 --> 00:16:40,200 you're in the desert for a while and then all of a sudden you 270 00:16:40,200 --> 00:16:44,700 know the new mercies of God as a flowing river in your life. 271 00:16:46,900 --> 00:16:52,000 The truth is that the Christian Life is a series of ups and 272 00:16:52,000 --> 00:16:55,000 downs. It's a daily walk with the Lord. 273 00:16:55,000 --> 00:16:59,600 That is both suffering and joy. You experience, pain and 274 00:16:59,600 --> 00:17:01,200 affliction in the Christian Life. 275 00:17:01,200 --> 00:17:05,700 You experience deep hurts for, which you may never know. 276 00:17:07,900 --> 00:17:14,200 Peace on fully until you see Christ in heaven and you 277 00:17:14,200 --> 00:17:19,400 experience great Joys which the world could not comprehend in 278 00:17:19,400 --> 00:17:23,400 Christ, and that's what happens. Is, you commit yourself daily to 279 00:17:23,400 --> 00:17:26,400 the Lord. It's a waxing and waning at 280 00:17:26,400 --> 00:17:28,800 times. It's a ability to notice your 281 00:17:28,800 --> 00:17:31,200 sin and to confess it and to put it off. 282 00:17:31,300 --> 00:17:34,600 And then it's the inability at times to see any of that and to 283 00:17:34,600 --> 00:17:37,800 be hard-headed. And then to realize, Oh my 284 00:17:37,800 --> 00:17:40,000 goodness. I've made some mistakes. 285 00:17:41,200 --> 00:17:45,700 I need the grace of God to save my soul, I need the grace of God 286 00:17:45,800 --> 00:17:49,800 to heal me whole right now. Amen. 287 00:17:50,700 --> 00:17:53,700 If you've walked with the Lord for more than 10 minutes you 288 00:17:53,700 --> 00:17:59,700 know that what I'm saying is true So, how comprehensive 289 00:17:59,700 --> 00:18:02,800 though is the new birth? If we're saying that we're 290 00:18:02,800 --> 00:18:07,100 growing, and we're being grown, if we're saying we're saved yet, 291 00:18:07,100 --> 00:18:09,400 we're being saved. If we sang that we are 292 00:18:09,500 --> 00:18:13,400 Sanctified yet, were being Sanctified, how comprehensive is 293 00:18:13,408 --> 00:18:16,400 the new birth? What is taking place in the new 294 00:18:16,400 --> 00:18:21,100 birth? Well, there's a helpful again, 295 00:18:21,100 --> 00:18:26,300 quote here in the book. A healthy baby. 296 00:18:26,300 --> 00:18:28,000 It's an illustration, really a healthy. 297 00:18:28,000 --> 00:18:32,800 Baby is born into this world with all of its body parts. 298 00:18:33,200 --> 00:18:35,900 All right, there's two arms, there's two legs. 299 00:18:36,000 --> 00:18:39,100 There's two eyes. Go on and on and on right. 300 00:18:39,100 --> 00:18:43,400 That's what a healthy baby would look like these different body 301 00:18:43,400 --> 00:18:47,600 parts do not come in stages, over a period of time, right? 302 00:18:47,600 --> 00:18:51,100 A healthy baby is not born with legs and then later developing 303 00:18:51,100 --> 00:18:55,700 arms and hands and feet. We're not celebrating the growth 304 00:18:55,700 --> 00:18:58,200 of new legs at 15 months old, right? 305 00:19:00,000 --> 00:19:04,200 Typically we have already celebrated crawling and walking 306 00:19:04,200 --> 00:19:08,800 by then every healthy baby, arrives, with all the needed 307 00:19:08,900 --> 00:19:11,600 body parts. And the same is true in the New 308 00:19:11,600 --> 00:19:15,300 Birth by the spirit of God. God immediately works in the 309 00:19:15,300 --> 00:19:17,900 whole of your nature and the and all that. 310 00:19:17,900 --> 00:19:22,800 You are, he renews your minds. He reorients your affections, he 311 00:19:22,800 --> 00:19:27,500 redirects your will, and it's not that our minds are changed, 312 00:19:27,500 --> 00:19:31,100 but not our emotions and our will It's not that your emotions 313 00:19:31,100 --> 00:19:33,900 are changed and then your mind and your will will follow at 314 00:19:33,900 --> 00:19:36,800 some point in the future. It's that you have a new mind, a 315 00:19:36,808 --> 00:19:42,700 new will a new heart. And God has transformed. 316 00:19:42,800 --> 00:19:49,900 Every aspect of you into a new creation at the same time and so 317 00:19:49,900 --> 00:19:54,000 you were like a baby with all of its healthy body parts, yet all 318 00:19:54,000 --> 00:19:57,100 of the same need to mature and grow up in Christ. 319 00:19:57,100 --> 00:19:59,700 Amen. To learn how to crawl to learn 320 00:19:59,700 --> 00:20:03,300 how to walk and talk to learn how to verbalize your heart, and 321 00:20:03,300 --> 00:20:06,400 your feelings. You are a new creation, but you 322 00:20:06,400 --> 00:20:10,600 need growth, you need to mature, and so we're not. 323 00:20:10,700 --> 00:20:12,800 Waiting on hands and feet and eyeballs. 324 00:20:12,800 --> 00:20:14,300 And a new mind, a new affections. 325 00:20:14,300 --> 00:20:18,100 We have those things but now it's time to cultivate maturity 326 00:20:18,100 --> 00:20:19,800 and this is what the spirit of God has done in you. 327 00:20:19,800 --> 00:20:23,400 He's made you a brand new spiritual baby. 328 00:20:23,900 --> 00:20:28,200 You're an infant in Christ. And he's also going to grow you 329 00:20:28,200 --> 00:20:30,100 up. He's going to mature you. 330 00:20:31,100 --> 00:20:33,400 It's a long walk in the same Direction. 331 00:20:33,400 --> 00:20:35,800 That's What faithful discipleship looks like. 332 00:20:36,300 --> 00:20:39,300 It's following God. Daily walking in the same 333 00:20:39,300 --> 00:20:43,000 direction over a long period of time until you attain the 334 00:20:43,008 --> 00:20:47,400 maturity of Christ. And you'll experience highs and 335 00:20:47,400 --> 00:20:48,900 lows. As I mentioned a moment ago, 336 00:20:50,300 --> 00:20:54,600 once you are corrupted and now you are uncorrupted, once you 337 00:20:54,600 --> 00:20:57,800 walked a crooked path but now you desire to walk the straight 338 00:20:57,800 --> 00:21:02,500 path once your desires were polluted but now they are holy 339 00:21:02,500 --> 00:21:06,700 once you were contaminated by your sin but now you are pure by 340 00:21:06,700 --> 00:21:10,200 the blood of Christ. I do not mean that there is no 341 00:21:10,200 --> 00:21:13,600 work left for you to do. Whether I mean that you have all 342 00:21:13,600 --> 00:21:17,900 the necessary body parts to live a spiritual life to grow into 343 00:21:17,900 --> 00:21:20,900 mature in Christ. Because the New Birth, you have 344 00:21:20,900 --> 00:21:24,900 received by the grace of God has come to you through his divine 345 00:21:24,900 --> 00:21:28,000 power in the holy spirit. Amen. 346 00:21:31,200 --> 00:21:35,400 And so the spiritual birth is the reverse of the curse in 347 00:21:35,400 --> 00:21:38,600 Genesis chapter 3. In Genesis chapter 3, we read 348 00:21:38,600 --> 00:21:43,600 that man has fallen because of his desire to be God. 349 00:21:44,900 --> 00:21:47,700 Adam and Eve disobeyed God. And so now we were born as I 350 00:21:47,700 --> 00:21:51,900 mentioned earlier, in flesh, with fleshly desires, a 351 00:21:51,908 --> 00:21:55,900 corrupted nature. And the spiritual birth in is 352 00:21:55,900 --> 00:21:59,700 the reverse of this curse of depravity that we have on us. 353 00:22:00,800 --> 00:22:03,700 The spiritual birth is The Fountainhead of true spiritual 354 00:22:03,700 --> 00:22:07,400 life. Sin ruined you, but the spirit 355 00:22:07,400 --> 00:22:11,500 of God is renewing, every part of your inner being and the new 356 00:22:11,500 --> 00:22:13,500 birth. You have a new king. 357 00:22:13,700 --> 00:22:16,800 Once you were the Lord of your heart, the Lord of your mind, 358 00:22:16,800 --> 00:22:19,900 the Lord of your soul. But now you serve the one true 359 00:22:20,000 --> 00:22:24,600 Living God, He reigns over your entire life. 360 00:22:26,200 --> 00:22:29,800 This is the greatest change that you could ever experience in 361 00:22:29,808 --> 00:22:35,400 your entire life. Nicodemus should have known 362 00:22:35,400 --> 00:22:40,600 something about these truths. It's a teacher as the teacher of 363 00:22:40,600 --> 00:22:45,100 Israel as a man of God's word is a man of the Old Testament. 364 00:22:46,200 --> 00:22:49,300 He would have been aware of such text as we've looked at already 365 00:22:49,300 --> 00:22:56,800 Ezekiel 36 and earlier weeks, God had established the truth of 366 00:22:56,800 --> 00:22:58,600 the new birth in the Old Testament. 367 00:22:58,700 --> 00:23:01,600 What God is doing in Christ. What he's revealing through 368 00:23:01,600 --> 00:23:04,700 Christ in John chapter 3 is just a fulfillment of things. 369 00:23:04,700 --> 00:23:09,700 He had said he was going to do. It's the long-awaited Messiah is 370 00:23:09,700 --> 00:23:13,400 the long-awaited Redemption. It's the true freedom from sin 371 00:23:13,400 --> 00:23:17,800 and death and Ezekiel. 11 verse 19, God says, through Ezekiel, 372 00:23:17,800 --> 00:23:21,200 there, he said, I will give them one heart and a new spirit, I 373 00:23:21,200 --> 00:23:24,200 will put within them. I will remove the Heart of Stone 374 00:23:24,200 --> 00:23:28,100 from their flesh and give them a heart of Flesh and that's the 375 00:23:28,100 --> 00:23:31,700 promise for all who come to God through faith is that he will 376 00:23:31,700 --> 00:23:34,900 remove Your Heart of Stone and give you a heart of Flesh. 377 00:23:34,900 --> 00:23:37,600 When you come to God through faith in Christ Jesus. 378 00:23:37,700 --> 00:23:41,700 If you receive a brand new life, you are made a brand new 379 00:23:41,700 --> 00:23:46,900 creation, all of your sins are put on Christ Jesus alone and 380 00:23:46,900 --> 00:23:49,600 you are saved forever more. Amen. 381 00:23:53,100 --> 00:23:55,800 God in fatica lie here. Lawson says, I've got 382 00:23:55,800 --> 00:23:59,200 emphatically speaks of the fully integrated thorough. 383 00:23:59,200 --> 00:24:03,400 Nature of the new birth. Only God working by his Spirit. 384 00:24:03,500 --> 00:24:05,900 Can execute this extraordinary claim. 385 00:24:06,300 --> 00:24:09,500 New religion cannot manufacture a new heart. 386 00:24:09,700 --> 00:24:12,700 No church can conceive this new life. 387 00:24:12,700 --> 00:24:17,000 No, Pastor or evangelist can cause this in someone. 388 00:24:17,000 --> 00:24:21,400 No Christian parent can transfer this to his or her child. 389 00:24:21,600 --> 00:24:25,600 God Alone can Give this new heart, the Creator alone can 390 00:24:25,600 --> 00:24:31,200 create new life in the soul. And so by saying I will remove 391 00:24:31,200 --> 00:24:35,200 the Heart of Stone from their flesh and Ezekiel God is giving 392 00:24:35,200 --> 00:24:39,200 us some insight into what Christ means by that which is born of 393 00:24:39,200 --> 00:24:42,800 the spirit is Spirit. Lawson goes on to say that a 394 00:24:42,800 --> 00:24:47,000 Heart of Stone is hardened toward God cold and without love 395 00:24:47,000 --> 00:24:50,600 for him, a Heart of Stone refuses to submit to God's will 396 00:24:50,900 --> 00:24:54,500 a Stony heart is stubborn. It is self willed, it is 397 00:24:54,500 --> 00:24:58,500 indifferent towards the spiritual things of God, it is 398 00:24:58,700 --> 00:25:04,200 life. lifeless, the entire life is opposed to God when you have 399 00:25:04,200 --> 00:25:10,800 a hard heart when you have a Heart of Stone, Austin goes on 400 00:25:10,800 --> 00:25:13,700 to say though this heart may want the blessings that God 401 00:25:13,700 --> 00:25:16,900 provides it does not want God himself. 402 00:25:18,100 --> 00:25:21,200 Those with such a heart only want to use God for their own 403 00:25:21,200 --> 00:25:24,300 selfish ends. For worldly things that he can 404 00:25:24,300 --> 00:25:26,600 give them. This is like a toxic 405 00:25:26,600 --> 00:25:30,200 relationship, where a man. Only uses a woman for what she 406 00:25:30,200 --> 00:25:35,700 can give him physically. Such is selfish, lust, not 407 00:25:35,700 --> 00:25:40,400 sacrificial, love, and even so the old heart merely desires to 408 00:25:40,400 --> 00:25:45,400 manipulate and use God not to love and serve him. 409 00:25:47,000 --> 00:25:50,500 And so we hear these things, we read these things. 410 00:25:50,500 --> 00:25:52,900 We see what Christ is saying here, and we must understand 411 00:25:52,900 --> 00:25:57,100 that we're in need of spiritual surgery. 412 00:25:57,100 --> 00:26:01,800 And it's a surgery that only the only the god of Heaven and 413 00:26:01,800 --> 00:26:07,000 Earth, the Creator can accomplish each of us must 414 00:26:07,000 --> 00:26:10,400 recognize our need for the new birth, no matter what your 415 00:26:10,400 --> 00:26:13,300 history is, no matter how, church-going you've been, no 416 00:26:13,300 --> 00:26:16,000 matter how perfect your attendance has been, no matter 417 00:26:16,000 --> 00:26:19,800 how great It, you are memorizing scriptures, you learned as a 418 00:26:19,800 --> 00:26:23,700 child. You are in need of a new heart. 419 00:26:25,900 --> 00:26:28,800 It is impossible to love God with a Heart of Stone. 420 00:26:30,300 --> 00:26:32,900 But in the New Birth, God takes Your Heart of Stone. 421 00:26:33,000 --> 00:26:36,600 He gives you a heart of Flesh. And with that heart of Flesh, 422 00:26:36,600 --> 00:26:42,500 you were now able to love God. Your heart beats for him, your 423 00:26:42,500 --> 00:26:47,600 affections long for him. And this is the only way to love 424 00:26:47,600 --> 00:26:49,800 God. Because The Fountainhead for 425 00:26:49,800 --> 00:26:53,300 True spiritual life is the birth of the Holy Spirit, the new 426 00:26:53,300 --> 00:26:59,500 birth of the Holy Spirit. Ezekiel helps us Define. 427 00:26:59,500 --> 00:27:02,800 What happens when we receive a new heart from God In The 428 00:27:02,800 --> 00:27:07,500 Rebirth of the spirit? While some points out for, I 429 00:27:07,508 --> 00:27:11,000 think it's four things here. We receive a heart of Flesh. 430 00:27:11,400 --> 00:27:15,800 First, Ezekiel tells us that you receive a heart of Flesh in the 431 00:27:15,800 --> 00:27:18,100 New Birth. He says I will give them a heart 432 00:27:18,100 --> 00:27:21,100 of Flesh. Your old heart was dead towards 433 00:27:21,100 --> 00:27:24,600 God, but your new heart is alive toward him. 434 00:27:25,100 --> 00:27:29,300 Your heart beats for him, The Fountainhead Springs forth into 435 00:27:29,300 --> 00:27:32,400 your entire life. You were glad to respond to the 436 00:27:32,400 --> 00:27:35,800 promises and the commands of God's word. 437 00:27:36,100 --> 00:27:39,100 Newhart loves God and puts his kingdom. 438 00:27:39,300 --> 00:27:42,300 First. You are a new creation because 439 00:27:42,300 --> 00:27:47,000 you have received a new spiritual heart from the spirit 440 00:27:47,000 --> 00:27:49,600 of God. The second thing we see about a 441 00:27:49,600 --> 00:27:53,300 new heart is that we receive an undivided heart. 442 00:27:55,000 --> 00:27:57,000 Every True Believer receives a new heart. 443 00:27:57,000 --> 00:27:59,700 That is one heart as Ezekiel says. 444 00:28:00,300 --> 00:28:03,800 This means that your heart of flesh is an undivided heart. 445 00:28:03,800 --> 00:28:07,300 It's not a heart of Flesh and a Heart of Stone simultaneously. 446 00:28:07,400 --> 00:28:10,100 It's a heart of Flesh that is putting to death, the Heart of 447 00:28:10,100 --> 00:28:14,500 Stone, you are not interested in another Master, whether it's 448 00:28:14,500 --> 00:28:19,300 someone or something, you serve, Your Allegiance is to the one 449 00:28:19,300 --> 00:28:23,000 true Living God. And you've pledged it to him 450 00:28:23,000 --> 00:28:26,700 alone. To the Hebrews as they receive 451 00:28:26,700 --> 00:28:32,000 this word from Ezekiel. The heart represents the center 452 00:28:32,300 --> 00:28:36,000 of all that a man. Is it represents his entire 453 00:28:36,100 --> 00:28:38,100 inner most being? So when they read, we're going 454 00:28:38,100 --> 00:28:40,700 to get a new heart. We're getting a new life. 455 00:28:40,700 --> 00:28:43,900 We're getting new insides. We're being transformed 456 00:28:43,900 --> 00:28:47,000 completely. There's nothing left of the old 457 00:28:47,000 --> 00:28:49,800 man. Everything is new. 458 00:28:50,100 --> 00:28:55,800 And so when you are regenerated by God, all things become new 459 00:28:56,700 --> 00:29:02,500 You receive a new mind in which you can now know God before you 460 00:29:02,500 --> 00:29:05,700 knew some things about, God, whether you knew it or not. 461 00:29:06,600 --> 00:29:10,300 But now you can know God with everything that you are. 462 00:29:11,300 --> 00:29:15,100 When you receive a new heart, this undivided heart has new 463 00:29:15,100 --> 00:29:20,300 affections to love God with your desire is for him. 464 00:29:20,300 --> 00:29:24,300 You have new Ambitions and new hungers, and new thirst. 465 00:29:24,300 --> 00:29:28,500 The Divine gift of the new birth makes every single thing inside 466 00:29:28,500 --> 00:29:31,500 of you brand-new. Amen. 467 00:29:33,000 --> 00:29:37,600 We receive a United heart. Third thing, we see, is that we 468 00:29:37,600 --> 00:29:41,000 receive a United heart. I will put a new spirit. 469 00:29:41,100 --> 00:29:46,700 Within them in Ezekiel 11:19 regeneration gives you a new 470 00:29:46,700 --> 00:29:50,600 spirit and that, which is born of the spirit, is Spirit, this 471 00:29:50,600 --> 00:29:53,300 new spirit directs your mind directs, your thoughts and 472 00:29:53,300 --> 00:29:55,700 perspectives. You receive new attitudes and 473 00:29:55,700 --> 00:29:58,700 priorities, and inclinations, and desires within your soul, 474 00:29:58,700 --> 00:30:02,500 much of that we've covered. And as a new creation in Christ, 475 00:30:02,600 --> 00:30:06,500 you are now United to Christ. Amen. 476 00:30:06,500 --> 00:30:10,700 Your heart is united with him and you're not only United with 477 00:30:10,700 --> 00:30:13,800 Christ. And in this horizontal or sorry 478 00:30:13,900 --> 00:30:16,000 in the sense of up and down, right? 479 00:30:16,000 --> 00:30:19,800 But you're a United with Christ sideways, your United with 480 00:30:19,800 --> 00:30:22,500 Believers brothers and sisters in the Lord and now you can 481 00:30:22,500 --> 00:30:26,400 follow Christ together. So you are united to Christ and 482 00:30:26,400 --> 00:30:30,800 to the body of Christ, amen. You're not alone ever. 483 00:30:32,000 --> 00:30:34,700 Ever are you alone in this world? 484 00:30:35,200 --> 00:30:37,900 You will face all of those hardships, all of those ups and 485 00:30:37,900 --> 00:30:39,100 downs. I mentioned earlier. 486 00:30:40,500 --> 00:30:43,400 You face all of that with the one true Living God by your 487 00:30:43,400 --> 00:30:47,000 side. Leading you making known to you 488 00:30:47,000 --> 00:30:50,300 the path of Life. David says, in psalm 16, at his 489 00:30:50,300 --> 00:30:52,500 right hand are Pleasures forevermore. 490 00:30:52,700 --> 00:30:56,000 That's how you walk through life and you get to do it side by 491 00:30:56,000 --> 00:30:59,500 side, with one another encouraging one another 492 00:31:00,500 --> 00:31:05,700 Depending on one another. Because this is how God has 493 00:31:05,900 --> 00:31:15,400 wired your new hearts. Next, we see that we receive a 494 00:31:15,400 --> 00:31:18,900 spirit and dwelled heart and the new birth God places his holy 495 00:31:18,900 --> 00:31:22,600 spirit, into your soul. God himself comes to abide with 496 00:31:22,600 --> 00:31:27,600 you, and when you are Spirit or born of his Spirit, you are with 497 00:31:27,700 --> 00:31:33,400 God because God is in you. That's what Christ says, in the 498 00:31:33,400 --> 00:31:36,300 latter part of John, I think it's 14. 499 00:31:36,700 --> 00:31:40,500 May be 16, but Jesus is talking about what the holy spirit will 500 00:31:40,500 --> 00:31:44,200 do this comforter, who will come, and he says that he will 501 00:31:44,200 --> 00:31:48,300 dwell in you and that the father and the son will dwell in you. 502 00:31:49,000 --> 00:31:53,900 They dwell in you because of the Holy Spirit, you are now the 503 00:31:53,900 --> 00:31:57,400 Temple of the Living. God your body is the Temple of 504 00:31:57,400 --> 00:32:01,900 the Living. God Lawson says, because of his 505 00:32:01,900 --> 00:32:05,500 indwelling presence, our new lives in Christ or lived in the 506 00:32:05,500 --> 00:32:09,500 all sufficient power of God, the same Spirit, who convicts us 507 00:32:09,700 --> 00:32:13,900 also calls us and that he is the one conforming us into the image 508 00:32:14,000 --> 00:32:16,900 of Christ. The spirit causes us to desire 509 00:32:16,900 --> 00:32:20,700 and pursue personal Holiness. On a daily basis. 510 00:32:21,200 --> 00:32:24,100 We are not merely made alive, but then left to live the 511 00:32:24,100 --> 00:32:26,700 Christian Life on our own to the contrary. 512 00:32:26,900 --> 00:32:30,100 God gives us his Spirit to supernaturally. 513 00:32:30,300 --> 00:32:35,400 Enable us to function in this new life with him without his 514 00:32:35,400 --> 00:32:39,100 regenerating Grace. We would be unable to live as 515 00:32:39,100 --> 00:32:47,700 God intends us to live. Finally, we see that we receive 516 00:32:47,700 --> 00:32:52,400 an obedience heart. In your new life. 517 00:32:52,800 --> 00:32:59,100 You owe you love to obey God. This is why Jesus says if you 518 00:32:59,100 --> 00:33:03,500 love me obey my Commandments Your Love, show your love is 519 00:33:03,500 --> 00:33:09,300 shown in your obedience. And so we love to obey God by 520 00:33:09,300 --> 00:33:13,100 following his will. This is part of what the spirit 521 00:33:13,100 --> 00:33:14,800 does. In US, it creates a life that is 522 00:33:14,800 --> 00:33:19,000 now oriented toward God. It happens instantly, and it 523 00:33:19,000 --> 00:33:22,800 happens over time, instantly, you have new desires to obey, 524 00:33:22,800 --> 00:33:26,100 God, and over time. Those desires are sharpened and 525 00:33:26,100 --> 00:33:28,300 honed. As you encounter more of God's 526 00:33:28,300 --> 00:33:32,500 truth in his word, the spirit redeemed, your old life of 527 00:33:32,500 --> 00:33:35,400 Disobedience, he creates a new, a new desire for faithful 528 00:33:35,400 --> 00:33:38,200 obedience. You once hey, Added God's law. 529 00:33:38,200 --> 00:33:42,400 But now you find the life and following the law, you desire to 530 00:33:42,400 --> 00:33:45,300 keep it. The that only happens because 531 00:33:45,300 --> 00:33:48,600 you've received a new heart from the spirit of God. 532 00:33:50,500 --> 00:33:52,600 Again Lawson's, helpful here. He says, as soon as the spirit 533 00:33:52,600 --> 00:33:55,600 creates new life in you, a new walk with God, begins in the 534 00:33:55,608 --> 00:33:59,200 pursuit of Holiness. Wherever there is regeneration, 535 00:33:59,400 --> 00:34:02,300 there will be growth and sanctification. 536 00:34:03,100 --> 00:34:05,900 There is no such thing as a Believer who has been born 537 00:34:06,100 --> 00:34:10,900 again, who is not also growing. In sanctification of the spirit 538 00:34:10,900 --> 00:34:13,800 of the Lord is there is freedom, amen. 539 00:34:14,699 --> 00:34:19,800 If you're curious about that read Romans 1 One through eight, 540 00:34:19,800 --> 00:34:23,199 but especially hone in on six, seven and eight. 541 00:34:24,199 --> 00:34:26,900 There is no such thing as being able to walk in the flesh and 542 00:34:26,900 --> 00:34:29,800 walk in the spirit. When you were free by the spirit 543 00:34:29,800 --> 00:34:33,199 of God, you are free from sin. Amen. 544 00:34:33,500 --> 00:34:35,600 It doesn't mean that you're not putting to death old habits. 545 00:34:35,600 --> 00:34:40,000 I'm not saying that I'm saying. There will be growth. 546 00:34:40,000 --> 00:34:43,500 There will be transformation, it'll be noticeable. 547 00:34:44,699 --> 00:34:48,300 It'll be noticeable. And so, a new heart will always 548 00:34:48,300 --> 00:34:52,199 produce a lifestyle of obedience to God Lawson finishes. 549 00:34:52,199 --> 00:34:55,300 Their, it's important to remember that the work of the 550 00:34:55,300 --> 00:35:00,100 new birth is God's work. It's his work alone. 551 00:35:00,600 --> 00:35:06,600 While you were still a sinner, God say Hugh, You deserve death, 552 00:35:06,800 --> 00:35:10,500 but God gives you life while you were running away from God, he 553 00:35:10,500 --> 00:35:14,600 is drawing you near to himself. In fact, I love to hear these 554 00:35:14,600 --> 00:35:17,800 stories of people who thoughts all that time. 555 00:35:17,800 --> 00:35:22,400 I was running and running and running from God, only to find 556 00:35:22,400 --> 00:35:25,300 out that all of those steps. They were taking away from God 557 00:35:25,300 --> 00:35:30,200 were leading them to God. In the end, God is able to save 558 00:35:30,200 --> 00:35:33,800 to the uttermost all of those who draw near to him. 559 00:35:34,300 --> 00:35:37,000 Through Christ. Amen. 560 00:35:43,100 --> 00:35:47,400 By the power of His Hand, you receive salvation from your sins 561 00:35:48,200 --> 00:35:57,300 and a new life in Christ Jesus. And so I must ask today. 562 00:35:57,700 --> 00:36:00,900 Have you received a heart transplant? 563 00:36:03,200 --> 00:36:06,100 Have you been given a new heart from God? 564 00:36:08,900 --> 00:36:11,600 Have you felt new longings for God? 565 00:36:13,800 --> 00:36:18,600 have you felt new desires for Holiness within you desire to 566 00:36:18,600 --> 00:36:25,000 put away the old man, the old whoever you are and to take on 567 00:36:25,000 --> 00:36:31,300 the new man, Do you see this new obedience to the word of God 568 00:36:31,300 --> 00:36:35,000 that we've talked about today? Maybe you don't know it fully 569 00:36:35,000 --> 00:36:38,700 again, this is happening in stages, we were talking about 570 00:36:38,700 --> 00:36:40,300 this in biblical manhood on Thursday night. 571 00:36:40,300 --> 00:36:46,600 How you can it is possible to go headlong into sin and not 572 00:36:46,600 --> 00:36:49,800 realize it at times because you're just, you're ignorant of 573 00:36:49,800 --> 00:36:52,700 what God's word says. And so until someone talks to 574 00:36:52,700 --> 00:36:54,700 you about it. So someone says Hey Brother. 575 00:36:56,700 --> 00:37:01,700 This is not the correct way to live as a Christian here, is 576 00:37:01,700 --> 00:37:04,300 what God says about this here is how you can have freedom. 577 00:37:04,500 --> 00:37:07,000 Here is, how you can depend on the Lord to overcome these 578 00:37:07,000 --> 00:37:09,700 things. And then we get to see how a man 579 00:37:09,700 --> 00:37:12,700 responds, right? If a man responds Faithfully by 580 00:37:12,700 --> 00:37:15,800 putting to death, his sin working towards Holiness, and we 581 00:37:15,800 --> 00:37:18,000 can say, the spirit of God is in that man. 582 00:37:18,400 --> 00:37:21,800 But if a man puts up his hand and he hardens his heart, and he 583 00:37:21,800 --> 00:37:25,300 runs as far away from sound Council as he can, we have right 584 00:37:25,300 --> 00:37:28,000 to question whether or not the spirit of God is actually alive 585 00:37:28,000 --> 00:37:33,000 in him. We need to belong to God. 586 00:37:33,000 --> 00:37:38,700 We need to have a desire for obedience. and so, if this new 587 00:37:38,700 --> 00:37:44,200 life is not happened in you, Ask God to cause you to be born 588 00:37:44,200 --> 00:37:48,100 again, ask God to Grant You a New Life. 589 00:37:48,600 --> 00:37:53,400 You bring God your sin and you humbly ask for New Life In 590 00:37:53,400 --> 00:37:58,700 Christ and he brings you eternal life by his mercy and Grace. 591 00:38:00,300 --> 00:38:03,200 There's no greater change, you could ever experience. 592 00:38:03,200 --> 00:38:08,000 When God takes your old Heart of Stone, and he gives to you a 593 00:38:08,000 --> 00:38:12,700 heart of Flesh, you will be made completely new. 594 00:38:13,900 --> 00:38:15,600 You will never be the same again. 595 00:38:16,900 --> 00:38:22,700 Ask him for a new heart because this is a prayer that he loves 596 00:38:22,700 --> 00:38:27,700 to answer. If God has changed your hearts, 597 00:38:28,100 --> 00:38:31,700 if you sit here today and you say, Kyle, I I know these 598 00:38:31,700 --> 00:38:36,200 affections, I know these new desires, I want to obey the 599 00:38:36,200 --> 00:38:38,300 Lord. I want to follow him then. 600 00:38:38,300 --> 00:38:43,900 Praise God Rejoice. That you have been saved by the 601 00:38:43,900 --> 00:38:48,500 hand of God that he's granted. You new life and his spirits and 602 00:38:48,500 --> 00:38:52,500 continue to walk with him. Daily continue to put away the 603 00:38:52,500 --> 00:38:57,600 old man into walk in holiness. Can you to read his word each 604 00:38:57,600 --> 00:39:01,400 day? Pray to him, depend on him. 605 00:39:02,500 --> 00:39:04,700 Be involved in your church, get to know other. 606 00:39:04,700 --> 00:39:08,200 Believers, especially those who were more mature in the Lord 607 00:39:08,200 --> 00:39:12,900 than you are learn from them, ask them questions, ask them 608 00:39:12,900 --> 00:39:16,400 about their marriage, their parenting, ask them about their 609 00:39:16,400 --> 00:39:20,200 faith, through difficult trials, ask them, what was your most 610 00:39:20,200 --> 00:39:22,800 difficult moment of your life and how did the Lord see you 611 00:39:22,800 --> 00:39:24,500 through it? Ask them their greatest 612 00:39:24,500 --> 00:39:29,700 victories. And listen, learn from one 613 00:39:29,700 --> 00:39:33,500 another. You've been given a family in 614 00:39:33,500 --> 00:39:37,500 God, the Christian life is not meant to be individualistic. 615 00:39:38,200 --> 00:39:41,000 It's meant to be lived out in community with others. 616 00:39:43,300 --> 00:39:47,000 And so you can ask and groups you can ask in one-on-ones. 617 00:39:48,100 --> 00:39:50,200 There's not, I've called many of you up. 618 00:39:50,200 --> 00:39:52,700 There's not many in here who won't go to coffee. 619 00:39:52,700 --> 00:39:56,200 If you call them, they won't go to lunch if you ask them. 620 00:39:58,500 --> 00:40:02,000 Everybody wants to talk about the Lord asked them. 621 00:40:03,000 --> 00:40:05,700 The Fountainhead for True. Spiritual life is the birth of 622 00:40:05,707 --> 00:40:08,600 the holy spirit. So the new birth of the Holy 623 00:40:08,600 --> 00:40:13,300 Spirit. And so the God who saves you is 624 00:40:13,300 --> 00:40:18,100 the same God who keeps you? It's the same God who matures 625 00:40:18,100 --> 00:40:22,900 you throughout this life. And into eternity with him. 626 00:40:23,400 --> 00:40:26,700 Amen, let's pray, Heavenly Father. 627 00:40:26,700 --> 00:40:29,300 We love you. We thank you Lord for your word. 628 00:40:30,000 --> 00:40:33,800 Thank you, God, for your kindness toward us in Christ and 629 00:40:33,800 --> 00:40:36,800 that by the power of the Holy Spirit, you are creating new 630 00:40:36,800 --> 00:40:44,900 life in US. and God we ask now, if there for anyone in here who 631 00:40:44,900 --> 00:40:49,600 doesn't know you, Who has not surrendered themselves to you, 632 00:40:49,600 --> 00:40:52,000 who does not receive new life, father? 633 00:40:52,100 --> 00:40:55,500 Help them to see it. Help them to see their need 634 00:40:55,500 --> 00:41:01,400 today, draw them to you Lord. By your spirit, I pray that you 635 00:41:01,400 --> 00:41:09,100 caused them to ask for New Life. What helped them to receive new 636 00:41:09,100 --> 00:41:13,200 life in Christ? And father for my brothers and 637 00:41:13,200 --> 00:41:15,300 sisters in here. Those who have been born again. 638 00:41:16,800 --> 00:41:19,700 Would you grant to us the ability to follow you? 639 00:41:20,600 --> 00:41:23,700 Paul calls it living a life worthy of the Gospel that we've 640 00:41:23,700 --> 00:41:26,800 received help us Lord, to live a life. 641 00:41:26,900 --> 00:41:30,800 Worthy of the Gospel. We received help us to put off 642 00:41:30,800 --> 00:41:33,200 the old man to put on the new man. 643 00:41:35,200 --> 00:41:39,300 Help us to buy the spirit alive in us to Bear the Fruit of the 644 00:41:39,300 --> 00:41:44,300 Spirit. God convict us of sin. 645 00:41:45,400 --> 00:41:49,400 Grant us repentance. Grants us a soft heart. 646 00:41:50,400 --> 00:41:53,900 Help us to receive your correction and your reproof and 647 00:41:53,900 --> 00:41:56,500 our lives. Whether it's from a Believer or 648 00:41:56,500 --> 00:41:58,900 from your words, straight from your mouth. 649 00:42:01,100 --> 00:42:03,600 Help us to respond to you and faithfulness. 650 00:42:05,300 --> 00:42:08,200 We love you. God, we praise you for the new 651 00:42:08,200 --> 00:42:17,500 life that we've received. In Christ's name. 652 00:42:17,500 --> 00:42:19,400 I pray. Amen.