1 00:00:01,400 --> 00:00:04,600 We're learning about nothing new this morning stuff that we heard 2 00:00:04,600 --> 00:00:07,000 before in the past. But I hope to bring it in a way 3 00:00:07,400 --> 00:00:10,000 that we may be sheds. A little different light than we 4 00:00:10,000 --> 00:00:14,300 have seen before and I hope that we can all learn something from 5 00:00:14,300 --> 00:00:15,500 it. We're going to take our text 6 00:00:15,500 --> 00:00:20,100 from 2nd Corinthians, chapter 5, verse 11. 7 00:00:20,100 --> 00:00:23,000 And our study will go all the way through chapter 6 and verse 8 00:00:23,000 --> 00:00:25,700 3. And we are title of our lesson 9 00:00:25,700 --> 00:00:32,000 is just simply God, So we'll begin reading our text in second 10 00:00:32,000 --> 00:00:34,400 Corinthians. Begin 5. 11 00:00:34,400 --> 00:00:38,500 Beginning in verse 11, knowing therefore the terror of the 12 00:00:38,500 --> 00:00:42,700 lord, we persuade men but we are well known to God. 13 00:00:42,800 --> 00:00:46,400 And I also trust are well known in your constance's. 14 00:00:46,900 --> 00:00:51,100 For we do not commend ourselves again to you but give you 15 00:00:51,100 --> 00:00:54,500 opportunity to boast on our behalf that you may have an 16 00:00:54,500 --> 00:00:59,000 answer for those who boast in appearance and not in heart for 17 00:00:59,100 --> 00:01:02,200 If we are beside ourselves, it is for God. 18 00:01:02,300 --> 00:01:06,200 Or if we are of sound mind, it is for you for the love of 19 00:01:06,200 --> 00:01:10,200 Christ, compels us because we judge thus that if one died for 20 00:01:10,200 --> 00:01:14,800 all then, all died. And he died for all that those 21 00:01:14,800 --> 00:01:17,300 who live should live no longer for themselves. 22 00:01:17,300 --> 00:01:22,200 But for him who died for them and rose again therefore from 23 00:01:22,200 --> 00:01:25,900 now on WE regard no one according to the flesh even 24 00:01:25,900 --> 00:01:29,300 though we have known Christ according to the flesh yet now 25 00:01:29,300 --> 00:01:30,900 we know him. Thus no longer. 26 00:01:31,400 --> 00:01:34,700 Therefore if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation old 27 00:01:34,700 --> 00:01:38,100 things have passed away, behold? All things have become new. 28 00:01:38,600 --> 00:01:42,200 Now, all things are of God who has reconciled us to himself. 29 00:01:42,300 --> 00:01:45,400 Self through Jesus Christ and has given us the ministry of 30 00:01:45,400 --> 00:01:48,900 reconciliation that is that God was in Christ. 31 00:01:48,900 --> 00:01:52,900 Reconciling the world to himself not imputing their trespasses to 32 00:01:52,900 --> 00:01:56,700 them and has committed to us the world of reckons word of 33 00:01:56,700 --> 00:02:00,800 reconciliation. Now then we are ambassadors for 34 00:02:00,800 --> 00:02:03,800 Christ as though. God were pleading through us. 35 00:02:03,800 --> 00:02:08,199 We implore you on Christ's behalf be reconciled to God for. 36 00:02:08,199 --> 00:02:12,700 He made him who knew no sin to be sin for us that we We might 37 00:02:12,700 --> 00:02:16,200 become his righteousness of God in him, become the righteousness 38 00:02:16,200 --> 00:02:19,700 of God in him. We then, as workers together 39 00:02:19,700 --> 00:02:23,100 with him, also plead with, you not to receive the grace of God, 40 00:02:23,100 --> 00:02:27,300 in vain for, he says, in an acceptable time, I have heard 41 00:02:27,300 --> 00:02:30,600 you and in the day of salvation, I have helped you behold. 42 00:02:30,600 --> 00:02:34,100 Now is the accepted time behold. Now is the day of salvation. 43 00:02:34,500 --> 00:02:38,200 We give no offense in anything that our ministry may not be 44 00:02:38,200 --> 00:02:45,600 blamed. so, as members of The church here had plans Road, and 45 00:02:45,600 --> 00:02:52,000 Bleak Bakersfield May the fear of God Captivate Us in verse 11, 46 00:02:53,100 --> 00:02:59,100 he says Since then, we know what is to fear the lord, we try to 47 00:02:59,100 --> 00:03:04,700 persuade others. Paul says, I do. 48 00:03:04,900 --> 00:03:08,300 We do we all do what we do, because of the fear of God, 49 00:03:08,700 --> 00:03:12,800 there's a hunter over 300 times in different times, in the 50 00:03:12,800 --> 00:03:17,200 scripture, where the fear of God is talked about 300 times. 51 00:03:17,200 --> 00:03:20,700 Like in Psalms 1 11 and verse 10, says, the fear of the Lord 52 00:03:20,700 --> 00:03:24,900 is the beginning of wisdom. And so, when we go to the 53 00:03:24,900 --> 00:03:28,000 commentaries of this passage here, in second Corinthians 54 00:03:28,200 --> 00:03:32,300 dealing verse 11, we immediately read that this is talking about 55 00:03:32,400 --> 00:03:39,700 about reverence and respect of God and I have no doubt in my 56 00:03:39,700 --> 00:03:41,700 mind that that's partly what it means. 57 00:03:41,700 --> 00:03:44,800 But I don't want us to think that when we read just about 58 00:03:44,800 --> 00:03:50,600 reverence and respect, we miss to have the fear of God to fear 59 00:03:50,600 --> 00:03:54,500 Him. You, when I read that, that's 60 00:03:54,500 --> 00:03:58,000 what I see. And when in you know, we read 61 00:03:58,000 --> 00:04:00,700 about people who came into contact with God, you know, in 62 00:04:00,700 --> 00:04:06,000 the Old Testament, we read about, you know, Isaiah got a 63 00:04:06,000 --> 00:04:08,800 glimpse of the glory of God and his immediate rack reaction. 64 00:04:08,800 --> 00:04:10,400 Was I am dead. I am dead. 65 00:04:11,500 --> 00:04:14,200 Can't even lift his face before God. 66 00:04:14,400 --> 00:04:17,399 And some people say, well that's just the Old Testament, you 67 00:04:17,399 --> 00:04:18,600 know, things were different back then. 68 00:04:18,600 --> 00:04:21,800 Well, that's not the case. You know, if we go to Revelation 69 00:04:21,800 --> 00:04:25,100 John, John, who was the Beloved disciple in the one whom Jesus 70 00:04:25,100 --> 00:04:27,700 loved John. Got a glimpse of Jesus in heaven 71 00:04:28,000 --> 00:04:32,300 and he says as soon as I saw him, I fell over as though I was 72 00:04:32,300 --> 00:04:36,000 dead. And then he goes on to write 73 00:04:36,000 --> 00:04:39,300 about of course, thousands and thousands of angels who are 74 00:04:39,300 --> 00:04:43,200 bowing down to the throne of God and awe and Dreadful fear to 75 00:04:43,200 --> 00:04:48,400 God. And I'm convinced that if we got 76 00:04:48,400 --> 00:04:51,400 a glimpse of God here today we would not be standing. 77 00:04:52,400 --> 00:04:55,000 We would be in fear and in awe of God. 78 00:04:55,300 --> 00:04:57,800 And if we knew the gravity of the one who we've gathered here, 79 00:04:57,800 --> 00:05:01,900 this morning to Worship in this room and he came, we would not 80 00:05:01,900 --> 00:05:06,400 be standing, we'd be on our faces and that causes me to look 81 00:05:06,400 --> 00:05:09,400 at my life and see such a lack of fear. 82 00:05:09,400 --> 00:05:12,700 Sometimes that I have that we have from God. 83 00:05:13,200 --> 00:05:16,800 You know, do we realize who were worshipping Even in prayer, do 84 00:05:16,808 --> 00:05:24,900 we realize who are praying too. I know when I pray my mind tends 85 00:05:24,900 --> 00:05:28,100 to wander sometimes. You know. 86 00:05:29,600 --> 00:05:32,500 I think about what people are thinking of me when I pray. 87 00:05:32,900 --> 00:05:34,700 What are they thinking about my prayer? 88 00:05:38,600 --> 00:05:42,500 And I'm not even thinking the fact that we're praying to God 89 00:05:43,900 --> 00:05:46,200 and we're about to listen to God's passages. 90 00:05:46,200 --> 00:05:49,700 Here, listen to the word of God, speak to us here through what 91 00:05:49,700 --> 00:05:51,600 we're going to study. And and we just need to 92 00:05:51,600 --> 00:05:54,300 understand that and I hope we not of course, gather here this 93 00:05:54,300 --> 00:05:59,400 morning just to hear myself, preach or hear some good Harmony 94 00:05:59,400 --> 00:06:02,700 and her songs. And if we are here for that and 95 00:06:02,700 --> 00:06:05,300 we've missed the whole point, the entire point. 96 00:06:06,800 --> 00:06:10,600 We've gathered here to meet with God and sometimes Sunday after 97 00:06:10,600 --> 00:06:14,600 Sunday, it feels like sometimes there's such a casual casual 98 00:06:14,600 --> 00:06:19,200 approach to our worship to what I've done and what we do. 99 00:06:19,700 --> 00:06:24,200 And that cannot be so It makes no sense. 100 00:06:24,700 --> 00:06:28,700 Of course, this is casual Christianity in our culture 101 00:06:28,700 --> 00:06:35,200 right now, very casual So I want us before we go any further. 102 00:06:35,200 --> 00:06:37,500 I want us to think about what we've gathered here who we've 103 00:06:37,500 --> 00:06:39,600 gathered here to meet with into worship. 104 00:06:41,300 --> 00:06:44,300 And before we go any further, I've asked for Brethren to come 105 00:06:44,300 --> 00:06:49,200 forward and and give us four passages that I've either told 106 00:06:49,200 --> 00:06:52,700 them to read or that they suggested to me to read which 107 00:06:52,700 --> 00:06:56,900 explains the fear of God, that shows the reverence and respect 108 00:06:56,900 --> 00:07:00,500 that we got to have God and once they come up here, I will get 109 00:07:00,500 --> 00:07:06,300 back up and finish up my lesson. So we'll have all start with a 110 00:07:06,400 --> 00:07:10,100 with a first passage and then the brother know which ones are 111 00:07:10,108 --> 00:07:11,600 coming up. For that. 112 00:07:11,700 --> 00:07:16,600 So, Psalms 97 verses 1 through 6. 113 00:07:18,800 --> 00:07:22,200 The Lord Reigns let the Earth Rejoice. 114 00:07:22,900 --> 00:07:27,100 Let the multitude of the aisles be glad clouds and darkness 115 00:07:27,100 --> 00:07:29,400 around him. Righteousness and Justice are 116 00:07:29,400 --> 00:07:33,200 the foundation of his throne of fire goes before him and burns 117 00:07:33,200 --> 00:07:36,500 up his enemies. Round about his Lightnings like 118 00:07:36,500 --> 00:07:39,800 the world the Earth sees and trembles the mountains. 119 00:07:39,800 --> 00:07:43,600 Melt like Wax at the presence of the Lord at the presence of the 120 00:07:43,600 --> 00:07:46,700 Lord, the whole Earth. The heavens declare his 121 00:07:46,700 --> 00:07:49,500 righteousness. And all the people see his 122 00:07:49,500 --> 00:08:00,200 glory. I'm reading from Isaiah, the 123 00:08:00,200 --> 00:08:04,200 fortieth chapter 1 verses 21 through 26. 124 00:08:08,600 --> 00:08:11,000 Prophet Isaiah says, have you not known? 125 00:08:11,600 --> 00:08:15,000 Have you not heard? Has it not been told you from 126 00:08:15,000 --> 00:08:17,900 the beginning? Have you not understood from the 127 00:08:17,900 --> 00:08:22,100 foundations of the earth? It is he who sits above the 128 00:08:22,100 --> 00:08:25,900 circle of the earth and it said to habitants are like 129 00:08:25,900 --> 00:08:30,300 grasshoppers who stretches out the heavens like a curtain and 130 00:08:30,300 --> 00:08:34,299 spreads them out like a tent to dwell in he brings the princes 131 00:08:34,299 --> 00:08:37,600 to nothing. He makes the judges of the earth 132 00:08:37,600 --> 00:08:41,100 useless. I scarcely shall they be planted 133 00:08:41,299 --> 00:08:44,100 scarcely? Shall they be sewn scarcely. 134 00:08:44,100 --> 00:08:47,000 Shall there? Stop take root in the earth when 135 00:08:47,000 --> 00:08:51,300 he will also blow on them and they will wither and the 136 00:08:51,300 --> 00:08:55,600 Whirlwind will take them away like stubble to whom then will 137 00:08:55,600 --> 00:09:02,400 you liken me or to whom shall I? Be equal says the Holy One lift 138 00:09:02,400 --> 00:09:06,500 up your eyes on high and see who has created these things who 139 00:09:06,500 --> 00:09:10,900 brings out their host by number. He calls them all by name by the 140 00:09:10,900 --> 00:09:14,600 greatness of his might and the strength of his power. 141 00:09:15,000 --> 00:09:26,400 No one is missing. I'll be reading from Isaiah 142 00:09:26,400 --> 00:09:30,800 chapter 6 and we will read verses 1 through 5 Isaiah 143 00:09:30,800 --> 00:09:36,900 chapter, 6, verses 1 through 5. In the year that King Uzziah 144 00:09:36,900 --> 00:09:42,000 died, I saw the Lord sitting on a throne high and lifted up and 145 00:09:42,000 --> 00:09:44,000 the train of his robe. Filled the temple. 146 00:09:45,100 --> 00:09:50,300 Above it stood seraphim. Each one was with six wings to 147 00:09:50,300 --> 00:09:53,700 the covered, his face with two that covered his feet. 148 00:09:54,100 --> 00:09:58,100 And with two he flew and one cried to another and said, holy 149 00:09:58,100 --> 00:10:02,000 holy holy is the Lord of hosts. The whole earth is full of his 150 00:10:02,000 --> 00:10:06,300 glory and the post of the door were shaken by the voice of him, 151 00:10:06,300 --> 00:10:09,800 who cried out and the house was filled with smoke. 152 00:10:10,400 --> 00:10:14,700 So I said, woe is me for. I am undone because I'm a man of 153 00:10:14,700 --> 00:10:17,100 unclean. Unclean lips and I dwell in the 154 00:10:17,100 --> 00:10:21,600 midst of people of unclean, lips for my eyes, have seen the king, 155 00:10:21,600 --> 00:10:39,000 the Lord of hosts. I'll be reading, I'll be reading 156 00:10:39,000 --> 00:10:43,400 from Psalms 51. Chapter 16 to 23. 157 00:10:45,900 --> 00:10:48,600 But to the wicked, God says what right? 158 00:10:48,600 --> 00:10:54,400 Have you declare my statute or take my common in your mouth 159 00:10:54,900 --> 00:10:58,500 seeing you hate instructions and cause my words behind you. 160 00:10:59,600 --> 00:11:01,600 When you saw her thieve, you consent. 161 00:11:01,600 --> 00:11:06,300 And with him and have been partaking out daltrey's, you 162 00:11:06,300 --> 00:11:11,300 give your mouth to evil, and your tongue for frames descent. 163 00:11:12,000 --> 00:11:14,300 You sit and speak against your brother. 164 00:11:15,000 --> 00:11:20,300 You slander your own mother son. These things you have done and I 165 00:11:20,300 --> 00:11:25,800 kept silent you thought I was that I was altogether like you 166 00:11:27,100 --> 00:11:31,500 but I will rebuke you and send them in order before your eyes. 167 00:11:32,800 --> 00:11:36,000 Now, consider this you who forgot God. 168 00:11:36,500 --> 00:11:42,900 Lest I tear you a pieces and there'd be none to deliver. 169 00:11:44,000 --> 00:11:45,800 Hi ever. Offered Praises. 170 00:11:45,800 --> 00:11:51,800 Glorify me and then and to him who ordered his conduct again. 171 00:11:51,800 --> 00:11:55,500 Alright, I will show the salvation of God. 172 00:12:10,000 --> 00:12:12,800 I'll be reading from Revelations, the fourth chapter, 173 00:12:13,400 --> 00:12:17,900 I'm reading from the King, James version, relishes for, and I'll 174 00:12:17,900 --> 00:12:20,200 begin reading there in verse number 4. 175 00:12:22,100 --> 00:12:25,500 And around about The Throne were four and 20 seats. 176 00:12:26,200 --> 00:12:30,800 And upon the seats, I saw four and 20 Elders sitting clothed in 177 00:12:30,800 --> 00:12:35,900 white raiment and they had on their heads, crowns of gold and 178 00:12:35,900 --> 00:12:39,300 out of the throw proceedings Lightnings and thunderings and 179 00:12:39,300 --> 00:12:42,200 voices. And there were seven lamps of 180 00:12:42,200 --> 00:12:45,600 fire burning Before the Throne which are the seven spirits of 181 00:12:45,600 --> 00:12:51,000 God. and Before the Throne, there was a sea of glass like 182 00:12:51,000 --> 00:12:55,300 unto Crystal and in the midst of the throne and around about The 183 00:12:55,300 --> 00:13:02,000 Throne were four beasts full of eyes before and behind And the 184 00:13:02,000 --> 00:13:06,600 first Beast was like a lion and the second beast, like a calf, 185 00:13:07,300 --> 00:13:12,100 the third Beast had a face as a man, and the fourth Beast was 186 00:13:12,100 --> 00:13:16,600 like a flying eagle. and the four beasts had each of them, 187 00:13:16,600 --> 00:13:21,700 six wings about him and they were full of eyes within and 188 00:13:21,700 --> 00:13:27,400 they rest not day and night saying, holy holy, holy Lord God 189 00:13:27,400 --> 00:13:32,900 Almighty, which was and is and is to come 190 00:13:51,700 --> 00:13:56,600 just think for a moment about the way your life changes, when 191 00:13:56,600 --> 00:14:01,500 you realize this is the god That we worship. 192 00:14:02,900 --> 00:14:06,700 When were captivated by the fear of God, we look back up to 193 00:14:06,708 --> 00:14:11,000 Second Corinthians 5 and verse 6, because down in verse 11, he 194 00:14:11,000 --> 00:14:13,300 says, therefore knowing the fear of the Lord. 195 00:14:14,000 --> 00:14:17,000 So we know that he's building upon something, that's why he, 196 00:14:17,100 --> 00:14:20,100 that's what he just said because it says therefore in light of 197 00:14:20,100 --> 00:14:23,000 this. So what's he building on 198 00:14:23,700 --> 00:14:26,400 inverse? Listen to verse 6, he says 199 00:14:26,400 --> 00:14:28,900 there. So we are always confident 200 00:14:28,900 --> 00:14:31,700 knowing that, while we are at home in the body, we are absent. 201 00:14:31,800 --> 00:14:36,900 From the Lord. For we for we walk by faith, not 202 00:14:36,900 --> 00:14:38,300 by sight. We are confident. 203 00:14:38,300 --> 00:14:40,300 Yes. Well, please rather to be absent 204 00:14:40,300 --> 00:14:43,300 from the body and to be present with the Lord therefore we make 205 00:14:43,300 --> 00:14:47,000 it our aim, whether present or absent to be well pleasing in 206 00:14:47,000 --> 00:14:51,000 him. So whether we are at home or 207 00:14:51,000 --> 00:14:54,600 away, we are to please him. And then we listen to verse 10 208 00:14:54,600 --> 00:14:58,200 here says for, we must all appear before the Judgment seat 209 00:14:58,200 --> 00:15:00,600 of Christ. That each one may receive the 210 00:15:00,600 --> 00:15:03,800 things done in the body according to what has been done 211 00:15:03,800 --> 00:15:08,600 whether good or bad. So here's where I don't 212 00:15:08,600 --> 00:15:11,900 necessarily necessarily think that it's just reverence of 213 00:15:11,900 --> 00:15:15,600 respect for Paul here. This is fear in his own life, he 214 00:15:15,600 --> 00:15:19,200 knows that one day, he's going to be standing before Jesus to 215 00:15:19,200 --> 00:15:24,200 be Arched and he knows what I want to remind all of us here 216 00:15:24,200 --> 00:15:26,800 this morning, every single person in this room that we are 217 00:15:26,800 --> 00:15:30,400 going to be standing before Christ one day and he will be 218 00:15:30,400 --> 00:15:35,500 judging us. So salt Paul says, as a result, 219 00:15:35,500 --> 00:15:38,700 my aim in my in my life is to please him. 220 00:15:38,700 --> 00:15:42,400 That's my only aim, that's his only goal is to please him. 221 00:15:42,400 --> 00:15:46,700 And I think about, you know, my life and even in my, you know, 222 00:15:46,700 --> 00:15:54,000 my teaching and singing and in this congregation My aim is not 223 00:15:54,100 --> 00:16:00,500 to please you. My aim is not to please anybody 224 00:16:00,500 --> 00:16:05,700 else. Like in a in a sense but not in 225 00:16:05,700 --> 00:16:09,500 an arrogant way, I could care less about what you think about 226 00:16:09,500 --> 00:16:13,300 me. Because in the end you're not 227 00:16:13,300 --> 00:16:17,800 going to judge me. Jesus will be our judge. 228 00:16:18,500 --> 00:16:21,500 We are going to stand before him and I'm going to be held 229 00:16:21,500 --> 00:16:26,600 accountable for whether I did or did not do what Jesus instructed 230 00:16:26,600 --> 00:16:30,100 us to do. So instructed me to do, my aim 231 00:16:30,100 --> 00:16:33,400 is to please him. Our aim is to please him. 232 00:16:33,600 --> 00:16:37,500 So this is where I realized the beauty of the fear of God. 233 00:16:37,500 --> 00:16:41,200 It's what Proverbs 19 23 says, the fear of the Lord leads to 234 00:16:41,200 --> 00:16:45,400 life and he who has it will abide in satisfaction. 235 00:16:47,000 --> 00:16:49,400 So whoever has the fear of the Lord can be satisfied. 236 00:16:49,400 --> 00:16:53,500 Why can't it be satisfied? Because we're free from fearing 237 00:16:53,700 --> 00:16:57,200 anything else in this world? If we have the fear of God, 238 00:16:57,200 --> 00:17:01,100 we've got nothing else to fear. We don't have to be afraid of 239 00:17:01,100 --> 00:17:02,900 anything else. We don't have to be afraid of 240 00:17:02,900 --> 00:17:04,800 death itself. We don't have to fear death. 241 00:17:05,300 --> 00:17:07,400 We don't have to fear, man. We don't have to fear anything 242 00:17:07,400 --> 00:17:10,400 else When We Fear, God, and it changes us, it changes you. 243 00:17:10,400 --> 00:17:12,700 We live with courage. In this world, we're not afraid 244 00:17:12,700 --> 00:17:15,300 to speak the gospel to those around us. 245 00:17:15,700 --> 00:17:18,000 Those that we work with. We're not afraid of being 246 00:17:18,000 --> 00:17:20,300 awkward around them, because of that, we're not afraid of 247 00:17:20,300 --> 00:17:23,500 rejection. What we're afraid of is standing 248 00:17:23,500 --> 00:17:28,500 before Christ Hyundai and being accountable for what we did in 249 00:17:28,500 --> 00:17:31,900 our lives for him. Man is not our judge. 250 00:17:31,900 --> 00:17:34,200 Christ is our judge and we should fear Him. 251 00:17:36,200 --> 00:17:40,100 Then we think about how that compels us the way we live with 252 00:17:40,100 --> 00:17:42,900 others. Then he says in verse 11 knowing 253 00:17:42,900 --> 00:17:46,600 therefore the terror of the lord, we persuade men but we are 254 00:17:46,600 --> 00:17:49,400 well known to God. And I also trust are well known 255 00:17:49,400 --> 00:17:52,800 in your consciousness. And he's talking about the work 256 00:17:52,800 --> 00:17:55,900 of the ministry is sharing the gospel with those around him, 257 00:17:56,200 --> 00:17:58,700 with other people, he's trying to persuade them to come to 258 00:17:58,700 --> 00:18:00,100 Christ. He does this because of the fear 259 00:18:00,100 --> 00:18:03,200 of the Lord because there's not, he knows it's not just him 260 00:18:03,200 --> 00:18:05,300 that's going to be standing for Christ. 261 00:18:05,300 --> 00:18:08,100 One day, it's going to be everybody standing before Christ 262 00:18:08,100 --> 00:18:10,600 will day. So Paul is trying to spread the 263 00:18:10,600 --> 00:18:14,800 gospel and do the work that he has been instructed to do. 264 00:18:15,400 --> 00:18:18,500 So we think about our friends or coworkers or family members who 265 00:18:18,500 --> 00:18:21,000 don't know. Christ one day, they're going to 266 00:18:21,000 --> 00:18:23,800 be Standing before Christ, as well as judge, it could be 267 00:18:23,800 --> 00:18:26,300 tonight. None of us, not one of our 268 00:18:26,300 --> 00:18:30,800 family members are guaranteed tomorrow or the next hour for 269 00:18:30,800 --> 00:18:32,500 the next week. We're not guaranteed that. 270 00:18:32,500 --> 00:18:36,700 So the fear of God leads us to persuade them today. 271 00:18:36,700 --> 00:18:40,800 And here we realize knowing the fear of God is a few huge effect 272 00:18:40,800 --> 00:18:49,800 on our day-to-day living. So, if we approach church or 273 00:18:49,800 --> 00:18:54,600 Christianity as a casual ho-hum, then, you know, we're not 274 00:18:54,600 --> 00:18:58,200 compelled the next day to go to our co-worker, or to our 275 00:18:58,200 --> 00:19:02,100 friends, or those who were acquainted with and, and, and, 276 00:19:02,100 --> 00:19:03,900 and say, you need to hear about Christ. 277 00:19:03,900 --> 00:19:07,300 I want to persuade you to trust in Christ, why? 278 00:19:07,300 --> 00:19:10,400 So they can participate in the routine that we go through. 279 00:19:12,900 --> 00:19:16,800 No. When were gripped by the fear of 280 00:19:16,800 --> 00:19:18,700 God. And we see a co-worker tomorrow 281 00:19:18,700 --> 00:19:23,400 morning or a friend, or we talked to them, concern for 282 00:19:23,400 --> 00:19:28,200 their soul concerned, for the Judgment Day or compelled to 283 00:19:28,200 --> 00:19:31,300 persuade them, it even came up in a conversation. 284 00:19:31,300 --> 00:19:36,400 The other day that there are roughly 2 billion people in this 285 00:19:36,400 --> 00:19:42,500 world right now who have little to no access or know who Jesus 286 00:19:42,500 --> 00:19:44,400 is. They've never heard his name or 287 00:19:44,400 --> 00:19:46,200 don't have access. Stu the gospel. 288 00:19:48,600 --> 00:19:51,400 All those people are going to be accountable as well. 289 00:19:53,200 --> 00:19:55,000 There are going to be accountable whether or not 290 00:19:55,000 --> 00:19:57,600 they've obeyed, Jesus for salvation, having not heard the 291 00:19:57,600 --> 00:20:01,700 gospel, they will have no opportunity to trust in Christ 292 00:20:01,700 --> 00:20:04,200 and Obey him. They're going to stand before 293 00:20:04,200 --> 00:20:07,700 him and be sentenced to either eternity of parkour with him. 294 00:20:09,200 --> 00:20:11,800 So people who fear God and know that judgment is coming, we 295 00:20:11,800 --> 00:20:15,700 don't sit back and use all of our resources, making church a 296 00:20:15,708 --> 00:20:22,200 little more comfortable for us or for ourselves and so, Hope 297 00:20:22,200 --> 00:20:24,500 that encourages us. So some might be thinking well, 298 00:20:24,600 --> 00:20:27,100 the fear of God was it all just fear and doom and gloom. 299 00:20:27,100 --> 00:20:28,600 Why just fear doesn't God loved us. 300 00:20:28,900 --> 00:20:32,900 Of course he does. Look at this may the fear of God 301 00:20:32,900 --> 00:20:36,400 control us. So, Paul after talking about the 302 00:20:36,400 --> 00:20:39,100 fear of the Lord starts, commending himself in his 303 00:20:39,100 --> 00:20:41,600 ministry, he's he's describing his ministry. 304 00:20:47,600 --> 00:20:52,600 He says in verse 13 before, if we are beside ourselves, it is 305 00:20:52,600 --> 00:20:55,300 of god. Or if we are of sound mind, it 306 00:20:55,300 --> 00:20:59,100 is for you. And then he says, in verse 14, 307 00:20:59,100 --> 00:21:02,800 which is a great phrase for the love of Christ, compels us the 308 00:21:02,800 --> 00:21:05,100 love of Christ. Compels us were compelled were 309 00:21:05,100 --> 00:21:08,500 controlled by the love of God. One translation, I came across 310 00:21:08,500 --> 00:21:12,800 said the love of Christ leaves me, no other option. 311 00:21:15,900 --> 00:21:18,000 Like leaves us? No other option. 312 00:21:18,300 --> 00:21:21,700 Christ's love for us. There's nothing else that we can 313 00:21:21,700 --> 00:21:25,200 be doing. And it's in a sense, were 314 00:21:25,200 --> 00:21:30,200 controlled by his love. because we judge this, that if one died 315 00:21:30,200 --> 00:21:36,400 for all, then, all died and he died for all, That those who 316 00:21:36,400 --> 00:21:43,900 live should no longer live for themselves. but for him who died 317 00:21:43,900 --> 00:21:48,400 for them and rose again, So we need to contemplate the 318 00:21:48,408 --> 00:21:52,800 immensity of God's love for all. So he died for all verse 15 says 319 00:21:52,800 --> 00:21:55,900 now, some people take this text immediately and going to 320 00:21:56,500 --> 00:22:00,400 universalism and say well that means everybody is going to be 321 00:22:00,400 --> 00:22:03,400 saved in the end because Christ died for all, and that's not 322 00:22:03,400 --> 00:22:07,100 what this passage is saying. At all, the passage is clearly 323 00:22:07,100 --> 00:22:09,400 talking about those who have died with Christ who have 324 00:22:09,400 --> 00:22:12,600 trusted him and obey the gospel call, which is what we're going 325 00:22:12,600 --> 00:22:15,400 to talk about the second when it comes to reconciliation. 326 00:22:16,300 --> 00:22:19,300 But we but we know of course, in John 3:16 God. 327 00:22:19,300 --> 00:22:21,400 So loved the world that he gave his only son. 328 00:22:21,500 --> 00:22:24,800 God loves the whole sinful world and he loves everybody. 329 00:22:24,800 --> 00:22:29,200 Second Peter 3:9 says the Lord is not slack concerning his 330 00:22:29,200 --> 00:22:33,200 promise as some count slackness but is long-suffering toward us 331 00:22:33,500 --> 00:22:36,400 not willing that any should perish but that all should come 332 00:22:36,400 --> 00:22:40,000 to repentance. He desires all people. 333 00:22:40,400 --> 00:22:44,400 Everyone all to come to repentance. 334 00:22:45,100 --> 00:22:50,300 We think about the worst people on the planet, where's 335 00:22:50,300 --> 00:22:53,800 terrorists? You know, we just heard this 336 00:22:53,800 --> 00:22:56,900 last week of guy who went to his workplace in San Jose and 337 00:22:57,000 --> 00:22:59,600 decided to take a few of his co-workers lives and then his 338 00:22:59,600 --> 00:23:06,200 own God desires him. Desired him at one point for 339 00:23:06,200 --> 00:23:11,000 repentance. We think about people who, in 340 00:23:11,000 --> 00:23:14,900 the most vile people in the world, God died or Jesus died 341 00:23:14,900 --> 00:23:22,900 for them as well. He created that person in his 342 00:23:22,900 --> 00:23:24,900 own image. We just need to contemplate the 343 00:23:24,900 --> 00:23:27,200 immensity of that and his love for us. 344 00:23:28,000 --> 00:23:31,100 So when we think about everybody around us, our friends, our 345 00:23:31,100 --> 00:23:33,800 co-workers, our acquaintances God, died for them as well. 346 00:23:33,800 --> 00:23:37,100 And this is what I love about Paul when he says Christ died 347 00:23:37,100 --> 00:23:40,800 for all because Christ death is sufficient, Parole in Galatians, 348 00:23:40,800 --> 00:23:44,800 2:20 says, I have been crucified with Christ is no longer I who 349 00:23:44,800 --> 00:23:48,000 live but Christ lives in me and the life, which I now live in 350 00:23:48,008 --> 00:23:51,500 the flesh, I live by faith. And the Son of God who loved me 351 00:23:51,500 --> 00:23:57,900 and gave himself for me. Jesus died for us, Jesus Loves 352 00:23:57,900 --> 00:23:59,700 Me. Jesus loves you. 353 00:24:01,000 --> 00:24:04,000 And so we just think about this for a minute, all these passage 354 00:24:04,000 --> 00:24:08,400 that we read the god around whom thousands upon thousands of 355 00:24:08,400 --> 00:24:14,900 Angels at this moment right now are bowing down never-ceasing 356 00:24:15,000 --> 00:24:20,600 day and night Singing. Holy holy, holy is the Lord God 357 00:24:20,600 --> 00:24:22,700 Almighty. This is the god. 358 00:24:22,700 --> 00:24:25,600 Who calls the Stars by name? The God, who can, who is the 359 00:24:25,600 --> 00:24:28,200 consuming fire? This is the god who spoke all 360 00:24:28,200 --> 00:24:30,900 creation and came into being. He spoke a word and we got 361 00:24:30,900 --> 00:24:33,400 light, he spoke a word and we receive Darkness. 362 00:24:33,400 --> 00:24:36,400 He spoke a word in the ocean. We had oceans and mountains. 363 00:24:36,400 --> 00:24:38,200 He spoke a word and you got animals. 364 00:24:39,400 --> 00:24:42,800 This is the god right now who is sustaining seven billion people 365 00:24:42,800 --> 00:24:47,400 in this world at this time and on top of that number he 366 00:24:47,400 --> 00:24:51,000 sustaining all the animals and plants and weather and the 367 00:24:51,000 --> 00:24:55,100 insects everything. He's allowing you to take that 368 00:24:55,100 --> 00:24:59,000 breath that you just took God sustains. 369 00:24:59,200 --> 00:25:10,300 All and this God loves you, and I And when we think about that, 370 00:25:10,300 --> 00:25:15,800 and we understand God. It'll take and should take 371 00:25:15,800 --> 00:25:21,200 control of Our Lives. It will leave us with no choice 372 00:25:21,200 --> 00:25:22,400 and that's what's so interesting. 373 00:25:22,400 --> 00:25:26,100 It goes against all, the self esteem in the self, take care of 374 00:25:26,100 --> 00:25:27,900 yourself culture that we live in it. 375 00:25:27,900 --> 00:25:30,500 And this time, you know, we think love means that we need to 376 00:25:30,500 --> 00:25:32,000 think about ourselves more often. 377 00:25:32,000 --> 00:25:36,000 And that's that completely opposite of what God tells us to 378 00:25:36,000 --> 00:25:41,100 do the love of God for Paul, cause Paul for him to think less 379 00:25:41,100 --> 00:25:44,300 about himself and to think more about living for Christ in 380 00:25:44,300 --> 00:25:46,600 others. And so may the love of God 381 00:25:46,600 --> 00:25:52,600 control us. The gospel of God reconciles us. 382 00:25:53,500 --> 00:25:56,500 We're going to go come back in verses 16 and 17 and second but 383 00:25:56,500 --> 00:25:59,600 in verses 18 through 21, he starts talking about the 384 00:25:59,608 --> 00:26:03,300 reconciliation and he uses that word five different times in 385 00:26:03,300 --> 00:26:07,300 verses 18. 19 and 20 be reconciled reconciling 386 00:26:07,300 --> 00:26:13,000 reconciliation reconciled. And the whole picture here is 387 00:26:13,000 --> 00:26:16,500 not just reconciliation to God. But reconciliation to others. 388 00:26:16,500 --> 00:26:19,100 Remember, the context that were talking about here in 389 00:26:19,100 --> 00:26:21,400 Corinthians Paul? It was experiencing conflict 390 00:26:21,400 --> 00:26:24,400 between the members at Corinth here and he was trying to write 391 00:26:24,400 --> 00:26:27,100 about reconciliation with others and with them. 392 00:26:27,100 --> 00:26:30,600 And but he knows that reconciliation with them is only 393 00:26:30,600 --> 00:26:36,700 based on reconciliation with God first And understanding the 394 00:26:36,700 --> 00:26:41,200 gospel and that's what brings us together here in this building, 395 00:26:42,000 --> 00:26:44,800 right? This is what makes the church. 396 00:26:44,800 --> 00:26:48,200 The church. The gospel of reconciliation is 397 00:26:48,200 --> 00:26:52,100 God reconciles himself to us. He reconciles us to each other 398 00:26:52,600 --> 00:26:55,200 and it brings us together. What unites Us in this room is 399 00:26:55,200 --> 00:27:01,100 not gender. Or ethnicity or socioeconomic 400 00:27:01,100 --> 00:27:03,900 status of this kind, or a background of that kind or 401 00:27:04,800 --> 00:27:08,100 political positions or that kind of political position. 402 00:27:08,400 --> 00:27:12,100 No, we're brought here together solely by the fact that we have 403 00:27:12,100 --> 00:27:15,300 been reconciled to God through Christ. 404 00:27:15,900 --> 00:27:21,700 That's why we are here together. In our sin, we were separated 405 00:27:21,700 --> 00:27:25,000 from God as his enemies. So members here in this 406 00:27:25,000 --> 00:27:28,700 congregation in our sin we were once separated from God as his 407 00:27:28,700 --> 00:27:30,400 enemies that was all of our problem. 408 00:27:30,500 --> 00:27:34,200 We were all enemies of God. James 4:4 says adulterers and 409 00:27:34,200 --> 00:27:36,800 adulteresses. Do you not know that friendship 410 00:27:36,800 --> 00:27:38,700 with the world is enmity with God? 411 00:27:39,200 --> 00:27:41,700 Whoever therefore wants to be a friend of the world makes 412 00:27:41,700 --> 00:27:46,200 himself an enemy of God. Because we have all sinned 413 00:27:46,200 --> 00:27:48,000 against God. Every single one of us in this 414 00:27:48,000 --> 00:27:52,000 room has rebelled against God and this, this holy God, that we 415 00:27:52,000 --> 00:27:55,100 that we worship and every single one of us has said at some point 416 00:27:55,300 --> 00:27:57,900 you are not Lord of my life. I'm going to go ahead and do 417 00:27:57,900 --> 00:28:02,400 things my way, we've all done. We've all said it in every one 418 00:28:02,400 --> 00:28:05,200 of us has turned aside from his way to our way. 419 00:28:05,200 --> 00:28:09,900 This is The God Who Speaks in the ocean waves, obey the God, 420 00:28:09,900 --> 00:28:12,800 who speaks in the clouds, go out and come in according to his 421 00:28:12,800 --> 00:28:14,900 word. And this is the god who speaks 422 00:28:14,900 --> 00:28:17,700 and everything in all creation responds in obedience to him 423 00:28:17,700 --> 00:28:22,700 until we get back to man, you and I and this God speaks, we 424 00:28:22,700 --> 00:28:28,600 have the audacity to say no. We had the audacity to reject 425 00:28:28,600 --> 00:28:30,400 God. What he has told us to do. 426 00:28:32,000 --> 00:28:37,300 And in our sin as a result. We have been set free from God 427 00:28:37,300 --> 00:28:39,200 as his enemies. So what is this God done. 428 00:28:41,100 --> 00:28:45,400 Through our substitute. We have been reconciled to God. 429 00:28:46,800 --> 00:28:50,300 In verse 15. When it said that one is died 430 00:28:50,300 --> 00:28:54,400 for all that preposition for means, or in the place of. 431 00:28:54,800 --> 00:28:59,000 But for him who died for them in our place, he was died. 432 00:28:59,000 --> 00:29:00,900 He died in raised talking about Jesus. 433 00:29:00,900 --> 00:29:08,000 The same thing down in verse 21. For our sake, are in our place. 434 00:29:08,000 --> 00:29:12,600 Got 44, he made him who knew no sin to be come sin. 435 00:29:14,600 --> 00:29:17,600 This is where through our substitute. 436 00:29:17,900 --> 00:29:21,300 We see from the very beginning of the Bible, all the way 437 00:29:21,300 --> 00:29:24,500 through the Bible because of are rebelling against God, we 438 00:29:24,500 --> 00:29:29,300 deserve to be separated. From him forever because of our 439 00:29:29,300 --> 00:29:33,700 sin, the payment for sin is death, Eternal Death, and All of 440 00:29:33,700 --> 00:29:37,000 Us in this room deserve it because of our sin against God, 441 00:29:37,000 --> 00:29:41,200 we deserve Eternal Eternal debt. This is the reality of Bible 442 00:29:41,200 --> 00:29:44,000 teaches it, from cover, to cover, sin, leads to death. 443 00:29:44,000 --> 00:29:49,000 So what has God done? He has sent his son to come to 444 00:29:49,000 --> 00:29:54,000 us and in verse 21, it says Christ had no sin in Christ had 445 00:29:54,000 --> 00:30:00,800 no sin, nothing perfection. Jesus lived the life that none 446 00:30:00,800 --> 00:30:05,700 of us could live. Jesus lived a perfect sinless 447 00:30:05,700 --> 00:30:11,200 life but then died. So well if the punishment for 448 00:30:11,200 --> 00:30:15,900 the payment for sin is death and Christ died, why did he die? 449 00:30:15,900 --> 00:30:18,700 If he had no sin? How is that possible? 450 00:30:19,100 --> 00:30:21,500 Well, he is the substitute for sinners. 451 00:30:22,600 --> 00:30:26,800 He's dying in our place. Because of our sins. 452 00:30:26,800 --> 00:30:31,500 He's taking the payment of sin do to you and to me upon himself 453 00:30:31,600 --> 00:30:33,900 so that we can be reconciled to God. 454 00:30:34,200 --> 00:30:35,600 But that's not the end though, it. 455 00:30:36,100 --> 00:30:38,500 And that's the beauty of reconciliation is that it just 456 00:30:38,500 --> 00:30:41,300 takes us one step further one Rider. 457 00:30:41,300 --> 00:30:46,400 Summed it up best, he said, justification is a Judicial term 458 00:30:46,400 --> 00:30:48,900 that used that's used in the court. 459 00:30:49,700 --> 00:30:52,800 A judge, May acquit and accused person without ever entering 460 00:30:52,800 --> 00:30:55,600 into a personal relationship with him or her. 461 00:30:56,000 --> 00:31:00,000 He announces the verdict, not guilty, the accused hardly 462 00:31:00,000 --> 00:31:03,100 expect to be invited over for dinner by the judge and probably 463 00:31:03,100 --> 00:31:05,100 hopes. He will never see that judge 464 00:31:05,100 --> 00:31:07,400 again in the judges, same for him. 465 00:31:08,000 --> 00:31:12,200 But here the judge enters into a personal relationship with the 466 00:31:12,200 --> 00:31:16,500 accused, which is necessary because the judge is the one who 467 00:31:16,500 --> 00:31:20,100 has been sent against as the focus of the a personal 468 00:31:20,100 --> 00:31:24,200 hostility. God does not simply make a 469 00:31:24,200 --> 00:31:27,200 bookkeeping alteration by dropping charges against Isis. 470 00:31:28,400 --> 00:31:34,400 Instead God gives himself to us. How is this possible Verse 18? 471 00:31:36,300 --> 00:31:40,900 All things are of God. So get this. 472 00:31:40,900 --> 00:31:43,100 The God is the author of reconciliation. 473 00:31:43,100 --> 00:31:46,200 God does all this William Temple said. 474 00:31:46,200 --> 00:31:50,200 The only thing that I contribute to my Redemption is the sin from 475 00:31:50,200 --> 00:31:54,600 which I need to be redeemed. That's the only thing we bring 476 00:31:54,600 --> 00:31:58,900 to the table is the problem and that's the beauty of 477 00:31:58,900 --> 00:32:01,400 reconciliation. Every time we are reconciled, 478 00:32:01,400 --> 00:32:03,400 the word reconciled is used here as a verb. 479 00:32:03,400 --> 00:32:06,300 It's a passive verb. Like we are reconciled to God, 480 00:32:06,300 --> 00:32:10,200 which begs the question, who's the subject who's reconciling is 481 00:32:11,900 --> 00:32:16,500 It's God reconciling us to God. God is the author of 482 00:32:16,500 --> 00:32:19,600 reconciliation. So, stay with me here for a 483 00:32:19,600 --> 00:32:21,600 second. It can take just a couple 484 00:32:21,600 --> 00:32:23,500 minutes kind of show this to you. 485 00:32:25,200 --> 00:32:28,700 He's The Giver of the Gospel. We don't reconcile ourselves 486 00:32:28,700 --> 00:32:32,300 where we reconciled by God, and only God can do this in us. 487 00:32:32,300 --> 00:32:34,200 Then he's the gift of the Gospel. 488 00:32:34,600 --> 00:32:36,200 So what's the gift of the Gospel? 489 00:32:36,500 --> 00:32:42,000 That God offers offers offers in reconciliation, he offers 490 00:32:42,000 --> 00:32:46,900 himself. God reconciles us to himself, 491 00:32:47,000 --> 00:32:51,700 God gives himself in verse 21. His righteousness in the gospel 492 00:32:51,700 --> 00:32:55,700 and God gives us himself which is why we completely turn aside 493 00:32:55,700 --> 00:32:59,800 from the Contemporary teaching of persuasion in the church that 494 00:32:59,800 --> 00:33:02,200 says he'll come to Christ for Prosperity. 495 00:33:02,200 --> 00:33:05,000 Come to Christ for health, come to Christ for wealth come to 496 00:33:05,000 --> 00:33:08,600 Christ you know for the best life and come to Christ to get 497 00:33:08,600 --> 00:33:11,100 this or that. That's not why we come to 498 00:33:11,100 --> 00:33:15,300 Christ. We come to Christ to get God. 499 00:33:16,700 --> 00:33:19,200 And he's the one we want and he's the one we need. 500 00:33:19,200 --> 00:33:20,700 We take all the things of this world. 501 00:33:20,700 --> 00:33:23,100 We don't, we don't need all the things in this world. 502 00:33:23,100 --> 00:33:26,100 All we need is God. He is the one we need. 503 00:33:26,700 --> 00:33:31,500 He's the one were created to know and to enjoy and to worship 504 00:33:31,500 --> 00:33:35,600 and to glorify forever and ever. And we want and need this God, 505 00:33:35,600 --> 00:33:37,300 and he is the gift of the Gospel. 506 00:33:37,900 --> 00:33:40,400 In the end, he is the goal of the Gospel, the one who gives 507 00:33:40,400 --> 00:33:43,400 all this grace and he gets the glory. 508 00:33:43,800 --> 00:33:48,600 He gets all God glorifies himself in reconciling Sinners 509 00:33:48,600 --> 00:33:51,200 to can self. So how does he do this? 510 00:33:52,600 --> 00:33:55,400 Christ is the agent of reconciliation. 511 00:33:56,200 --> 00:34:00,300 It is only possible through Christ Verse 18. 512 00:34:02,600 --> 00:34:06,200 Says who through Christ reconciled us to himself and 513 00:34:06,200 --> 00:34:09,600 verse 19 in Christ. God was reconciling the world to 514 00:34:09,600 --> 00:34:15,400 himself verse 21 for our sake. He made him sin to be sin. 515 00:34:15,500 --> 00:34:17,699 He made him to be sin who knew no sin. 516 00:34:17,699 --> 00:34:20,199 That's Christ. So that in him Christ, we might 517 00:34:20,199 --> 00:34:23,800 become the righteousness of God. So, what does this mean? 518 00:34:24,400 --> 00:34:26,300 In our sin? We were separated from God. 519 00:34:26,300 --> 00:34:29,900 We went over that. And we were God's enemies and 520 00:34:29,900 --> 00:34:35,400 Jesus came as our substitute. And he suffered our separation 521 00:34:35,400 --> 00:34:38,800 meaning that he took our place as the enemies of God. 522 00:34:40,199 --> 00:34:44,699 This is why on the crucifixion cross, Jesus looked up into the 523 00:34:44,699 --> 00:34:48,500 skies and cried out, my God, my God, why have you forsaken me 524 00:34:48,900 --> 00:34:53,100 and mysterious picture of the sun becoming sin, and taking 525 00:34:53,100 --> 00:34:58,000 that payment sin upon himself? And we think about You know, we 526 00:34:58,000 --> 00:35:01,200 think about the sins that we've committed in our life. 527 00:35:01,400 --> 00:35:06,400 We think about Everything that we've done, that is just been 528 00:35:06,400 --> 00:35:09,300 despicable. We can't think of all of them of 529 00:35:09,300 --> 00:35:15,200 course but the ones that come to your mind You know, we think 530 00:35:15,200 --> 00:35:20,100 about that stuff. And we think about those that 531 00:35:20,600 --> 00:35:24,800 we've done wrong against. we think about the cinnamon, you 532 00:35:24,800 --> 00:35:29,300 know, if we display this, our sins upon this screen here, We 533 00:35:29,300 --> 00:35:31,500 would shudder to think that anybody, who know that we've 534 00:35:31,500 --> 00:35:34,200 done, some of the things that we've done, we would run out of 535 00:35:34,200 --> 00:35:35,900 here and embarrassment and shame. 536 00:35:38,300 --> 00:35:43,600 And then we realize those sins. Have been put on Jesus. 537 00:35:46,200 --> 00:35:50,000 There's payment for those. There's payment for those sins 538 00:35:50,000 --> 00:35:56,200 and he stepped in between you and that payment and took it. 539 00:35:58,800 --> 00:36:03,500 You suffered our separation and in doing so he secured our 540 00:36:03,500 --> 00:36:08,400 salvation. So that he takes our sin, this, 541 00:36:08,700 --> 00:36:11,100 this glorious exchange that we can read about. 542 00:36:11,100 --> 00:36:14,700 He takes our sin and we get his righteousness. 543 00:36:16,700 --> 00:36:20,400 So that right now when we stand before God, and he looks at you 544 00:36:20,400 --> 00:36:25,000 and I he doesn't see that sin. He sees the righteousness of his 545 00:36:25,000 --> 00:36:28,300 son. And that is the Glorious truth 546 00:36:28,300 --> 00:36:30,800 that we can read about. He secures our Salvation. 547 00:36:30,800 --> 00:36:32,900 We are the acceptors of reconciliation. 548 00:36:33,200 --> 00:36:36,400 What do we bring to the table? We simply bring the problem. 549 00:36:37,800 --> 00:36:41,300 God, does it all? We would need to be reconciled 550 00:36:41,300 --> 00:36:43,400 to God and having been reconciled to God. 551 00:36:44,300 --> 00:36:47,800 And when you are reconciler, if you have been reconciled, what 552 00:36:47,800 --> 00:36:52,300 happens is that we have a new entire identity. 553 00:36:53,500 --> 00:36:56,400 And that's the beauty backing up into verse 17. 554 00:36:56,400 --> 00:37:00,600 It says, therefore if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation 555 00:37:00,600 --> 00:37:02,600 old things have passed away, behold? 556 00:37:02,600 --> 00:37:07,700 All things have become new. New Creation, new heart, a new 557 00:37:07,700 --> 00:37:12,000 spirit, new ones, new desires, New Life new identity. 558 00:37:13,300 --> 00:37:15,900 We're now reconciled to the one who's created us to have life 559 00:37:15,900 --> 00:37:21,000 and enjoy life now and forever. Transformed, he's transformed us 560 00:37:21,000 --> 00:37:24,700 inside and out. An entirely new identity. 561 00:37:24,700 --> 00:37:27,400 That's why Paul said in Galatians. 2:20 he says I have 562 00:37:27,400 --> 00:37:32,000 been crucified with Christ. It is no longer I who live but 563 00:37:32,000 --> 00:37:34,800 Christ lives in me and the life which I now live in the fresh 564 00:37:34,800 --> 00:37:39,100 flesh, I live by faith in the Son of God who loved me and gave 565 00:37:39,100 --> 00:37:43,100 himself for me. It all comes together. 566 00:37:43,800 --> 00:37:47,400 This is our identity, you are in Christ crisis in you. 567 00:37:47,400 --> 00:37:51,700 And that's what defines you. And I we are not ultimately a 568 00:37:51,700 --> 00:37:57,700 husband or a wife, a mom or a dad single or married widowed or 569 00:37:57,700 --> 00:38:02,100 divorced we're not defined. By how we look by what we wear, 570 00:38:02,100 --> 00:38:05,300 by, what you do, for a living, how much you make, where you 571 00:38:05,300 --> 00:38:09,400 live, who you cheer for, who you root for your identity is not 572 00:38:09,400 --> 00:38:12,200 found in your gender, your ethnicity or your socioeconomic 573 00:38:12,200 --> 00:38:14,500 status. You're not defined by your past 574 00:38:14,500 --> 00:38:18,000 as an addict, or an alcoholic or a victim of abuse in one way or 575 00:38:18,000 --> 00:38:21,100 another, you're not. What counselors would say that 576 00:38:21,100 --> 00:38:24,700 you are defined by your genetic makeup or your past history. 577 00:38:24,700 --> 00:38:28,900 You are not what your boss is. My till you were defined by or 578 00:38:28,900 --> 00:38:30,900 your present performance? It's on the job. 579 00:38:30,900 --> 00:38:33,300 You are not what your parents and teachers might tell you that 580 00:38:33,300 --> 00:38:35,700 you are based on your potential or in the future. 581 00:38:35,700 --> 00:38:39,700 No, you are in Christ. Christ is in you. 582 00:38:39,900 --> 00:38:45,200 He is your identity. He is who we need to model 583 00:38:45,200 --> 00:38:49,200 after. Don't let this world steal that 584 00:38:49,200 --> 00:38:53,900 away from you Christ is in you now and forever that is our 585 00:38:53,900 --> 00:38:56,600 identity forever. We have a new identity which 586 00:38:56,600 --> 00:38:58,700 leads to an entirely different perspective. 587 00:39:00,000 --> 00:39:03,300 Verse 16 of our passions. Therefore from now on WE regard 588 00:39:03,300 --> 00:39:06,200 no one according to the flesh even though we have known Christ 589 00:39:06,200 --> 00:39:09,100 according to the flesh yet, now we know him. 590 00:39:09,500 --> 00:39:13,200 Thus no longer. This is what Paul is trying to 591 00:39:13,200 --> 00:39:15,300 say. We don't we don't view the world 592 00:39:15,300 --> 00:39:16,900 from a worldly perspective anymore. 593 00:39:17,000 --> 00:39:20,900 Or it goes back to what we said earlier about, not boasting on 594 00:39:20,900 --> 00:39:23,200 outward appearance. But it's what's in our heart. 595 00:39:23,600 --> 00:39:28,300 It's who we are in our heart that matters to God and we have 596 00:39:28,300 --> 00:39:32,100 a different perspective on people around us as well. 597 00:39:32,300 --> 00:39:34,800 And when we look at people, you know, we don't see them in 598 00:39:34,800 --> 00:39:38,300 mainly terms of, you know, their status in Life or their 599 00:39:38,300 --> 00:39:40,700 ethnicity or this or that or whatever it may be. 600 00:39:41,500 --> 00:39:44,600 We look at people whether they're either in Christ or not 601 00:39:44,600 --> 00:39:47,900 in Christ. That's what we should be going. 602 00:39:47,900 --> 00:39:50,000 After is their salvation in the end. 603 00:39:53,000 --> 00:39:55,100 We love and care for those around us. 604 00:39:55,100 --> 00:39:57,700 We serve each other here in the church, we lay down our lives 605 00:39:57,700 --> 00:40:00,100 and sacrifice for each other. Here in this. 606 00:40:00,100 --> 00:40:02,400 Congregation for those in the church, that's what Paul is 607 00:40:02,408 --> 00:40:04,900 saying. Here, are you saying church here 608 00:40:04,900 --> 00:40:09,400 at Corinth be reconciled to God and then be reconciled to each 609 00:40:09,400 --> 00:40:13,000 other. And then are entirely different 610 00:40:13,000 --> 00:40:14,900 perspective on the world comes in. 611 00:40:14,900 --> 00:40:18,800 We look at our neighbors and our co-workers, and we have the 612 00:40:18,800 --> 00:40:21,900 courage to go to them and ask them if they're in Christ or 613 00:40:21,900 --> 00:40:27,300 not. We are now at that point 614 00:40:27,300 --> 00:40:32,200 privileged to work with God. Second Corinthians 6 and one. 615 00:40:32,200 --> 00:40:35,100 Right after all this, in chapter 5. 616 00:40:35,100 --> 00:40:39,200 Paul says we, then that's workers together with him. 617 00:40:39,300 --> 00:40:43,400 Which is God also plead with you not to receive the grace of God, 618 00:40:43,400 --> 00:40:46,600 in vain for. He says, in an acceptable time I 619 00:40:46,600 --> 00:40:50,000 have heard you and in the day of salvation, I have helped behold 620 00:40:50,200 --> 00:40:54,100 now is the accepted time behold. Now is the day of salvation. 621 00:40:56,600 --> 00:41:00,200 This is quite the phrase working together with God. 622 00:41:01,300 --> 00:41:05,200 How has God chosen to make this message of reconciliation? 623 00:41:05,500 --> 00:41:08,300 No. We think about it, you know, God 624 00:41:08,300 --> 00:41:11,500 could do anything he wanted to do right now, to let the whole 625 00:41:11,500 --> 00:41:14,100 world know about his Plan of Salvation. 626 00:41:14,800 --> 00:41:18,900 He could he could write it in this in the sky to us this 627 00:41:18,900 --> 00:41:22,100 morning, we could look up and we could see our name or he could 628 00:41:22,100 --> 00:41:25,000 put it in the Stars, his Plan of Salvation or he didn't think it 629 00:41:25,000 --> 00:41:28,900 and put it in our minds and we wouldn't need the scriptures 630 00:41:28,900 --> 00:41:32,400 anymore. God could do that but he has 631 00:41:32,400 --> 00:41:40,500 chosen not to why has he chosen to do it that way? 632 00:41:40,800 --> 00:41:45,200 Because he's just chosen to work with you and I working together 633 00:41:45,400 --> 00:41:50,500 with God. It's an awesome thing to see. to 634 00:41:50,500 --> 00:41:55,200 speak for God and teaching up here and I hope we're not 635 00:41:55,200 --> 00:42:03,100 gathered here every week just to hear one man or you know, Go 636 00:42:03,100 --> 00:42:06,500 through the motions and then rest of the week, we're not, you 637 00:42:06,500 --> 00:42:10,900 know, worshipping God in other ways, we've got the privilege to 638 00:42:10,900 --> 00:42:16,200 work with God every day of our life every hour that were awake 639 00:42:16,400 --> 00:42:18,900 to spread and work with God. It's a privilege. 640 00:42:22,200 --> 00:42:25,700 Paul is saying. Here. 641 00:42:25,700 --> 00:42:32,500 Also, in verse 3, which I love verse 3, He says, we put no 642 00:42:32,500 --> 00:42:36,500 obstacle in anyone's way, so that no fault. 643 00:42:36,500 --> 00:42:39,500 May be found in our ministry. That's English Standard Version. 644 00:42:40,600 --> 00:42:43,600 Pulsing I've done everything. I can to keep from being an 645 00:42:43,600 --> 00:42:45,900 obstacle for some from somebody following the gospel. 646 00:42:47,100 --> 00:42:49,000 He's in all he can. And can we say that? 647 00:42:49,200 --> 00:42:52,200 Can we say the same thing? Can we say that somebody has not 648 00:42:52,200 --> 00:42:54,500 obeyed the gospel of Christ? Only? 649 00:42:54,500 --> 00:42:57,200 Because the rejecting Christ, not because we've got the way 650 00:42:57,900 --> 00:42:59,200 because we do a good job of messing. 651 00:42:59,200 --> 00:43:01,900 Things up all the time, we do a really good job with that. 652 00:43:03,800 --> 00:43:07,300 So let the gospel. Do its work. 653 00:43:07,500 --> 00:43:12,000 Work alongside with God? So we all met stand before the 654 00:43:12,000 --> 00:43:14,400 Judgment seat of Christ, one day, and being good faith with 655 00:43:14,400 --> 00:43:18,700 him. That's the lesson. 656 00:43:20,000 --> 00:43:22,700 We went through three points with the fear of God, Captivate, 657 00:43:22,700 --> 00:43:26,300 Us me the fear of God control us and the gospel of God 658 00:43:26,300 --> 00:43:30,600 reconciles. 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