1 00:00:00,120 --> 00:00:03,280 To be continued. To teach and preach on the 2 00:00:03,280 --> 00:00:05,520 series that we. Are in entitled the Gospel. 3 00:00:05,920 --> 00:00:08,600 And this is the third week. We've got one more week next 4 00:00:08,600 --> 00:00:11,400 week. And I personally have just 5 00:00:11,400 --> 00:00:15,320 really loved preparing these talks and just reacquainting 6 00:00:15,320 --> 00:00:17,800 myself with the good news of Jesus Christ. 7 00:00:18,400 --> 00:00:23,360 And I think as I as I unpacked at the start of this series, I 8 00:00:23,360 --> 00:00:25,600 think you know, even if you've been a Christian for many, many, 9 00:00:25,600 --> 00:00:28,520 many years. Having a reminder of of. 10 00:00:29,450 --> 00:00:33,090 Of the good news is a very healthy thing because it can get 11 00:00:33,090 --> 00:00:34,690 a bit complex. Some will say so. 12 00:00:34,690 --> 00:00:36,730 What exactly happened on the cross? 13 00:00:36,730 --> 00:00:38,050 Well, Jesus. Died for us sins. 14 00:00:38,610 --> 00:00:40,890 Why did he die on us? You know, in our place? 15 00:00:41,210 --> 00:00:43,890 What did he save us from? What is he saving us to? 16 00:00:43,890 --> 00:00:47,170 Because we're not just saved from something, We're saved to 17 00:00:47,170 --> 00:00:49,570 something. I think that's the. 18 00:00:49,570 --> 00:00:53,130 Point with we saved. From a broken relationship with 19 00:00:53,130 --> 00:00:55,130 God the Father. And we saved. 20 00:00:55,130 --> 00:00:57,690 To a restored relationship with God the Father. 21 00:00:58,340 --> 00:01:02,940 You know we saved from eternal. Punishment in Hell and we. 22 00:01:02,940 --> 00:01:06,420 Saved to eternity with God in heaven, I mean. 23 00:01:06,780 --> 00:01:09,820 This is, this is the essence and the sense of it and and as I 24 00:01:09,820 --> 00:01:10,820 said. At the start. 25 00:01:10,820 --> 00:01:12,940 As in order for us to understand the gospel which? 26 00:01:13,180 --> 00:01:15,500 Means good news. We have to understand what the 27 00:01:15,500 --> 00:01:19,420 bad news is, because the presence of good news denotes 28 00:01:19,420 --> 00:01:22,060 that there is the presence of bad news. 29 00:01:22,060 --> 00:01:23,420 Otherwise, we don't need good news. 30 00:01:23,420 --> 00:01:25,300 If all good news was good news, there would be no good news. 31 00:01:26,450 --> 00:01:28,210 And so we looked at what is the bad news. 32 00:01:28,690 --> 00:01:31,090 First week and we got through that one. 33 00:01:31,090 --> 00:01:33,610 Well done. And then last week, was it last 34 00:01:33,610 --> 00:01:34,410 week? Yes, we looked at the. 35 00:01:34,410 --> 00:01:36,930 Good news, and we unpacked the atoning work of. 36 00:01:36,970 --> 00:01:39,650 Jesus on the cross. You know the word atonement 37 00:01:39,850 --> 00:01:42,930 incorporates a number of things that were. 38 00:01:42,930 --> 00:01:46,050 Achieved on the cross of Jesus and we looked at the benefits 39 00:01:46,290 --> 00:01:48,530 and the good news that that is for us. 40 00:01:49,410 --> 00:01:51,850 And this? Week What I'd like to do is as 41 00:01:51,850 --> 00:01:53,610 we continue to look at the good news is. 42 00:01:53,980 --> 00:01:56,620 How we live. Out the good news how we walk 43 00:01:56,620 --> 00:01:59,340 the good news because. You know, the good news isn't. 44 00:01:59,340 --> 00:02:02,380 Just a one time event that gives us a ticket to heaven. 45 00:02:03,460 --> 00:02:06,340 The good news is a good news in the way in which we. 46 00:02:06,340 --> 00:02:09,940 Live our lives now and I think this is one of those things 47 00:02:09,940 --> 00:02:11,260 that. Often we get a bit confused 48 00:02:11,260 --> 00:02:14,980 about which is we think that the gospel is just how we get saved, 49 00:02:15,980 --> 00:02:18,620 and while that is true, the gospel is more than that. 50 00:02:19,140 --> 00:02:21,380 The Gospel, the Good. News is how we then live our 51 00:02:21,380 --> 00:02:23,680 lives. And that's what I would like. 52 00:02:23,680 --> 00:02:26,840 Us to understand. This morning and. 53 00:02:27,040 --> 00:02:29,720 Before I do that, let me just pray briefly for us. 54 00:02:30,480 --> 00:02:33,640 Though we'd want to say thank you for your word, which is 55 00:02:33,640 --> 00:02:37,240 truth, your word that brings life and brings freedom. 56 00:02:37,840 --> 00:02:40,600 And I pray, Holy Spirit, that you would prepare our hearts for 57 00:02:40,600 --> 00:02:43,040 this word. Lord, the reality is you've 58 00:02:43,040 --> 00:02:45,960 already been preparing our hearts and many during the week. 59 00:02:46,040 --> 00:02:48,960 No doubt as well. Lord, in our hearts, I pray Holy 60 00:02:48,960 --> 00:02:51,200 Spirit, you would protect our minds from the enemy who would 61 00:02:51,200 --> 00:02:54,030 come to bring. Distraction. 62 00:02:54,550 --> 00:02:57,910 And I pray, Holy Spirit, that you would just take my feeble 63 00:02:57,910 --> 00:03:01,310 offering and would you would it bear good fruit for you? 64 00:03:01,310 --> 00:03:04,510 Knowing that your word says that your word will not return void 65 00:03:04,510 --> 00:03:07,670 to you, but it would accomplish all that you are set forth for 66 00:03:07,670 --> 00:03:10,350 it to achieve. And we pray for fruit to come 67 00:03:10,350 --> 00:03:11,950 from this morning and pray in your presence. 68 00:03:12,110 --> 00:03:13,590 Precious name. Amen. 69 00:03:15,630 --> 00:03:18,070 OK guys, as a way of recap and this is going to be important 70 00:03:18,550 --> 00:03:22,710 and you'll see why in a moment. Let's look at the summary of the 71 00:03:22,710 --> 00:03:25,310 three. Aspects. 72 00:03:25,310 --> 00:03:26,830 Of the cross it will be on the screen. 73 00:03:27,910 --> 00:03:31,670 The three things that happened. On the cross of Calvary you see. 74 00:03:32,070 --> 00:03:35,270 #1 The shedding of Christ's blood meant. 75 00:03:35,270 --> 00:03:37,270 That we are forgiven of our sins because. 76 00:03:37,790 --> 00:03:43,830 The shedding of blood is. Required to to to to to pay for 77 00:03:44,070 --> 00:03:46,990 the sins of us. Do you understand this? 78 00:03:47,470 --> 00:03:50,510 And so when Christ. Shed his blood, it was. 79 00:03:51,140 --> 00:03:53,100 His blood that covered over our. Sins. 80 00:03:53,100 --> 00:03:57,740 And so we are forgiven. And I gave the analogy of a 81 00:03:57,740 --> 00:04:00,340 factory. Imagine if you are a factory. 82 00:04:00,620 --> 00:04:02,900 And you were? Born into a state or your 83 00:04:02,980 --> 00:04:05,380 factory was created into a state whereby you. 84 00:04:05,380 --> 00:04:08,900 Kept manufacturing. Broken products that caused 85 00:04:08,900 --> 00:04:11,500 issues for people and you kept polluting the atmosphere. 86 00:04:13,020 --> 00:04:15,020 So being. Forgiven is akin to God saying 87 00:04:15,020 --> 00:04:16,420 right. I'm going to. 88 00:04:16,459 --> 00:04:19,860 I'm going to cover and. Pay for all the costs of all the 89 00:04:19,860 --> 00:04:22,380 bad products that are out there that have caused damage. 90 00:04:22,620 --> 00:04:25,580 And I will. Clean up and pay for and cover 91 00:04:25,580 --> 00:04:27,780 over the impact of the environment. 92 00:04:27,780 --> 00:04:30,860 That's forgiven, so. As far as the east is from the 93 00:04:30,860 --> 00:04:32,180 West. Our sins have been forgiven. 94 00:04:32,420 --> 00:04:35,860 But #2 in this divine exchange when? 95 00:04:36,580 --> 00:04:39,340 Our sins were given to Christ. His righteousness is. 96 00:04:39,850 --> 00:04:42,690 And that word is imputed to us. Now that's an important word, 97 00:04:42,690 --> 00:04:45,450 Imputed. I'd rather not use technical 98 00:04:45,450 --> 00:04:47,770 language, but it is an important word because it doesn't. 99 00:04:47,770 --> 00:04:51,850 Mean we become righteous. It means that Jesus's. 100 00:04:51,850 --> 00:04:55,010 Righteousness is credited to us. It's a legal term. 101 00:04:55,010 --> 00:04:57,210 It means that when. God looks at us. 102 00:04:57,370 --> 00:05:01,330 He sees us. As righteous because of Christ. 103 00:05:01,970 --> 00:05:06,170 And that, therefore, is the amazing divine exchange that 104 00:05:06,170 --> 00:05:08,550 occurs. And the third part. 105 00:05:08,550 --> 00:05:10,990 Of it is that our nature is changed. 106 00:05:10,990 --> 00:05:12,310 In other words, we are. Born again. 107 00:05:12,430 --> 00:05:14,390 That's why we call born again believers. 108 00:05:14,670 --> 00:05:17,550 You see, we are dead when we are born dead in the Spirit. 109 00:05:19,430 --> 00:05:21,990 And so and that was the the. Impact and we looked. 110 00:05:21,990 --> 00:05:24,110 At it in the first week of Adam and Eve we are born into. 111 00:05:24,110 --> 00:05:25,590 What we call. Original sin. 112 00:05:25,590 --> 00:05:29,350 We're born into that, that separation of God and so. 113 00:05:29,350 --> 00:05:32,430 We need to be created. Anew by the Spirit of God. 114 00:05:32,630 --> 00:05:34,790 That's why Jesus. Said You need to be born of the 115 00:05:34,790 --> 00:05:36,260 Spirit. OK. 116 00:05:36,500 --> 00:05:39,460 And that therefore? Going back to that picture. 117 00:05:39,460 --> 00:05:42,060 Analogy of the factory. Is when God says right, this 118 00:05:42,060 --> 00:05:46,820 factory is under new ownership, puts a sold sign on it purchased 119 00:05:46,820 --> 00:05:48,980 by the blood of Jesus. I just came up with that one. 120 00:05:48,980 --> 00:05:51,820 That's good. Sometimes I have to encourage 121 00:05:51,820 --> 00:05:54,340 myself. Thank you very. 122 00:05:54,820 --> 00:05:58,820 Much so, the factory is now under new management and the 123 00:05:58,820 --> 00:06:01,580 Holy Spirit. Goes in and starts retooling the 124 00:06:01,580 --> 00:06:05,500 factory. And starts gutting it out that. 125 00:06:05,950 --> 00:06:09,990 Is when we are sanctified. OK, so when we talk about the 126 00:06:09,990 --> 00:06:12,910 atonement, which is Jesus making right? 127 00:06:12,910 --> 00:06:17,470 There are three aspects, forgiven, justified, sanctified, 128 00:06:17,870 --> 00:06:21,070 and they are three different terms, and they all have their 129 00:06:21,070 --> 00:06:24,110 important part in the atoning work of the cross. 130 00:06:24,550 --> 00:06:28,950 OK, now what I want to look at today, as I said, is living the 131 00:06:28,950 --> 00:06:32,150 good news and I want to look at sanctification. 132 00:06:32,550 --> 00:06:35,230 Because this is the thing we need to understand and I and I 133 00:06:35,230 --> 00:06:36,710 found this from. Somewhere and it's a good. 134 00:06:37,030 --> 00:06:38,590 That's a good job of summarizing the. 135 00:06:38,590 --> 00:06:41,670 Difference between justification and sanctification because we 136 00:06:41,670 --> 00:06:45,470 often get confused. Justification happens outside of 137 00:06:45,470 --> 00:06:47,830 us. In other words, we are declared 138 00:06:47,830 --> 00:06:52,310 righteous. Sanctification happens inside. 139 00:06:52,630 --> 00:06:54,710 Of us. Where we are made. 140 00:06:54,710 --> 00:06:58,180 Righteous, OK? So we are declared righteous. 141 00:06:58,180 --> 00:06:59,980 That's justification outside of us. 142 00:07:00,260 --> 00:07:02,060 And. Then is the process of 143 00:07:02,060 --> 00:07:05,900 sanctification where we are made righteous. 144 00:07:06,020 --> 00:07:14,210 Get that? And so here is the thing, while 145 00:07:14,210 --> 00:07:17,490 we are righteous in our position, right? 146 00:07:18,050 --> 00:07:20,210 God looks at us and says we are righteous. 147 00:07:20,730 --> 00:07:23,490 Practically, we're not perfectly righteous. 148 00:07:24,810 --> 00:07:26,970 That kind of makes sense. You only had to have a look at 149 00:07:26,970 --> 00:07:28,730 my week to know that that's the case for me. 150 00:07:30,390 --> 00:07:32,110 That's why Paul said in Roman Seven. 151 00:07:32,110 --> 00:07:35,790 I do not understand. What I do but what I want to do? 152 00:07:35,790 --> 00:07:38,510 I do not do. But what I hate to do, I do. 153 00:07:39,310 --> 00:07:42,070 It won't feel like that sometimes, yeah. 154 00:07:42,790 --> 00:07:44,110 I don't get this. This is the. 155 00:07:44,190 --> 00:07:45,670 This is. The this is the thing of it. 156 00:07:46,030 --> 00:07:50,710 Our flesh hasn't changed the flesh, the enemy and the. 157 00:07:50,710 --> 00:07:52,990 World. Those are the the trifecta of 158 00:07:53,070 --> 00:07:55,550 evil in the world. Those are the things we battle. 159 00:07:55,550 --> 00:07:59,540 Against OK. And you see, therefore, when we 160 00:07:59,540 --> 00:08:02,580 are sanctified, sanctification is A. 161 00:08:02,620 --> 00:08:05,940 Process that starts. When the force the sold. 162 00:08:05,940 --> 00:08:10,460 Sign goes up and while. Positionally, we are justified 163 00:08:10,660 --> 00:08:12,700 and God looks at us as righteous. 164 00:08:13,220 --> 00:08:16,620 It is then a process of sanctification that makes. 165 00:08:16,620 --> 00:08:18,140 Sense. I hope I'm being. 166 00:08:18,140 --> 00:08:19,780 Clear. Good. 167 00:08:19,780 --> 00:08:21,460 Thank you. And you know, we often talk 168 00:08:21,460 --> 00:08:23,940 about the importance of Kingdom. Theology here at the Vineyard, 169 00:08:23,940 --> 00:08:27,410 it's one of our values. It's the here and not yet of 170 00:08:27,410 --> 00:08:29,850 the. Kingdom So when Jesus came on 171 00:08:29,850 --> 00:08:31,250 the cross. Well, Jesus came. 172 00:08:31,250 --> 00:08:34,130 He declared the Kingdom of. God is at hand, He. 173 00:08:34,570 --> 00:08:37,450 Inaugurated the. Coming of the Kingdom of God, 174 00:08:37,809 --> 00:08:41,690 His rule and his reign. And it is breaking in now and 175 00:08:41,690 --> 00:08:44,490 that's why we see. Healings break in sometimes, not 176 00:08:44,490 --> 00:08:49,370 always, and we often look at the here and not yet. 177 00:08:49,370 --> 00:08:51,930 And the not yet is when Jesus will come again. 178 00:08:52,490 --> 00:08:56,560 And he will consummate. The Kingdom, OK, It's like the 179 00:08:56,560 --> 00:08:58,200 difference. Between D-Day and V day. 180 00:08:58,440 --> 00:09:02,520 D-Day is when it was inaugurated in World War Two and we knew. 181 00:09:02,520 --> 00:09:03,720 Where it was going to. I mean, I wasn't there. 182 00:09:03,720 --> 00:09:05,720 I don't say we knew where it was, but you could. 183 00:09:06,760 --> 00:09:08,600 D-Day. There was no going back. 184 00:09:08,600 --> 00:09:09,960 It was only headed in One Direction. 185 00:09:09,960 --> 00:09:11,240 V day was. Going to come. 186 00:09:11,320 --> 00:09:14,880 We are in the here and not yet of the D-Day and the V day, and 187 00:09:14,880 --> 00:09:17,600 Jesus will come again in the victory. 188 00:09:19,960 --> 00:09:21,240 And he will consummate his Kingdom. 189 00:09:21,240 --> 00:09:23,960 So we often look at the here and not yet as it relates to. 190 00:09:23,960 --> 00:09:27,240 Miracles and power, don't we? But here's what I want to. 191 00:09:27,240 --> 00:09:30,160 Tell you there is a here and not yet of your sanctification. 192 00:09:31,560 --> 00:09:33,120 There is a here and not yet of your. 193 00:09:33,120 --> 00:09:37,000 Adoptions of sons and daughters, and we looked at that last week. 194 00:09:40,160 --> 00:09:42,040 Let me look. I'd like us to look. 195 00:09:42,040 --> 00:09:45,540 And turn to John 3. Two to three and this is what 196 00:09:45,540 --> 00:09:48,460 I'm going to anchor this teaching on for understanding. 197 00:09:48,460 --> 00:09:50,940 What it means to? Live out the gospel because. 198 00:09:51,300 --> 00:09:55,380 Sanctification is the key component of that, and let's 199 00:09:55,380 --> 00:09:57,460 look at John 3/2. Three, it's going to be up on 200 00:09:57,460 --> 00:09:58,700 the screen. Here in the room and. 201 00:09:58,700 --> 00:10:02,620 Online, it's going to be on your screen, it says, Beloved. 202 00:10:02,620 --> 00:10:08,980 Now we are children of God, and it has not yet been revealed 203 00:10:08,980 --> 00:10:14,300 what we shall be. But we know that when he is 204 00:10:14,300 --> 00:10:20,380 revealed, we shall be like him, for we shall see him as he is, 205 00:10:21,540 --> 00:10:26,820 and everyone who has this hope in him purifies himself. 206 00:10:27,500 --> 00:10:32,780 Just as he is pure now. Can we have the next slide up 207 00:10:32,780 --> 00:10:37,780 please because this sums up the. Here, and not yet. 208 00:10:39,690 --> 00:10:43,050 Of the gospel as it relates to the process of the Holy Spirit 209 00:10:43,050 --> 00:10:45,770 in us. OK, let's look at this. 210 00:10:46,410 --> 00:10:48,650 Beloved, now we are children of God. 211 00:10:48,730 --> 00:10:50,930 That's. Positional sanctification, in 212 00:10:50,930 --> 00:10:53,370 other words. We have been adopted into the 213 00:10:53,370 --> 00:10:56,770 family because of the work of. Jesus on the cross. 214 00:10:56,770 --> 00:11:00,290 We've been declared justified. And we have a new nature. 215 00:11:00,290 --> 00:11:03,770 We're born again. And so we can say we are a child 216 00:11:03,770 --> 00:11:06,970 of God, and that's the whole. Gospel message, is it not? 217 00:11:08,060 --> 00:11:10,380 That you can have a restored relationship with a. 218 00:11:10,380 --> 00:11:13,220 Father that loves you. And then you have an 219 00:11:13,220 --> 00:11:14,340 inheritance. Coming to you. 220 00:11:15,420 --> 00:11:18,020 And it has not yet been revealed what we. 221 00:11:18,020 --> 00:11:23,380 Shall be here and not yet, but we know that when he is 222 00:11:23,380 --> 00:11:27,500 revealed. We shall be like him, that is. 223 00:11:27,580 --> 00:11:29,460 The not yet bit. That's the perfect 224 00:11:29,460 --> 00:11:30,980 sanctification. We call that. 225 00:11:32,020 --> 00:11:34,140 That's when we get to have resurrected. 226 00:11:34,140 --> 00:11:37,940 Bodies and we are with Christ. OK, that's the not yet. 227 00:11:37,940 --> 00:11:42,340 Part that's coming. For we shall see him as he is, 228 00:11:42,340 --> 00:11:44,700 and everyone who has this hope in him. 229 00:11:45,620 --> 00:11:48,620 If you have your hope in Christ, listen how you live out the 230 00:11:48,620 --> 00:11:51,260 gospel they. Purify themselves. 231 00:11:51,260 --> 00:11:56,180 And that is what we call progressive sanctification, just 232 00:11:56,180 --> 00:11:57,580 as he is pure. Do you see that? 233 00:11:59,050 --> 00:12:03,690 You see there is a positional sanctification that the you are 234 00:12:03,690 --> 00:12:08,650 declared righteous, you are justified, and you are a new 235 00:12:08,650 --> 00:12:13,610 creation in Christ Jesus. And the not yet is going to come 236 00:12:13,610 --> 00:12:15,410 when you will be perfectly sanctified. 237 00:12:15,410 --> 00:12:16,410 Why? Because we. 238 00:12:16,410 --> 00:12:18,010 Will not be in this fallen world. 239 00:12:18,010 --> 00:12:21,450 We will not have this flesh, OK? But. 240 00:12:21,450 --> 00:12:24,410 We are in the middle bit the hero. 241 00:12:24,410 --> 00:12:26,410 Not yet. We are in the church age, the 242 00:12:26,410 --> 00:12:30,140 dispensation of grace. And this is the bit. 243 00:12:31,180 --> 00:12:35,580 That we are working out our sanctification, OK? 244 00:12:36,260 --> 00:12:38,460 And that therefore, I think, is a rather. 245 00:12:38,460 --> 00:12:42,460 Good summary of what it means to live out the gospel. 246 00:12:42,580 --> 00:12:45,820 Live out the good news, live. Out the work of Jesus. 247 00:12:46,020 --> 00:12:50,540 On the cross, this is our part. Jesus did the first part. 248 00:12:50,940 --> 00:12:54,300 He'll do the second part. They'll also do this middle 249 00:12:54,300 --> 00:12:58,340 part, but with us, OK, And that is therefore what we're going 250 00:12:58,340 --> 00:12:58,740 to. Look at. 251 00:13:04,020 --> 00:13:06,380 So how does? This process of sanctification 252 00:13:06,380 --> 00:13:09,660 work, I hear you ask. It's a good question. 253 00:13:09,660 --> 00:13:14,540 I'm glad you asked it. It's a partnership between the 254 00:13:14,580 --> 00:13:19,300 indwelling. Spirit of God in us and our own 255 00:13:19,300 --> 00:13:27,690 decisions and choice we make OK. You see, when you're saved and 256 00:13:27,690 --> 00:13:32,490 you are declared righteous and you are a new creation in Christ 257 00:13:32,490 --> 00:13:35,810 Jesus, you don't say. I'm done. 258 00:13:35,810 --> 00:13:37,050 Great. I've got my ticket to heaven. 259 00:13:37,050 --> 00:13:40,610 Let's go. Party the gospel doesn't stop 260 00:13:40,690 --> 00:13:47,130 there when you, when you become a Christian, when you are Christ 261 00:13:47,130 --> 00:13:49,490 like and I think that's. True, His righteousness is 262 00:13:49,490 --> 00:13:52,640 imputed to us. We are then called to walk like 263 00:13:52,640 --> 00:13:57,720 Christ. That is the work that we do and 264 00:13:58,280 --> 00:14:02,360 and so we have to take personal discipleship seriously. 265 00:14:03,080 --> 00:14:05,560 You know, when we're disciples, we don't just learn. 266 00:14:05,560 --> 00:14:09,160 From Jesus, a disciple didn't just learn. 267 00:14:09,440 --> 00:14:10,520 From the. Teacher. 268 00:14:10,880 --> 00:14:13,800 They wanted to become like the teacher. 269 00:14:14,880 --> 00:14:16,280 And that's why we. The word. 270 00:14:16,280 --> 00:14:18,840 Discipleship is so important because it doesn't just. 271 00:14:18,840 --> 00:14:20,280 Convey. I'm going to learn. 272 00:14:20,280 --> 00:14:23,920 About the stuff, it's I'm going to become like Jesus. 273 00:14:24,480 --> 00:14:26,520 And that is. The process of progressive 274 00:14:26,520 --> 00:14:31,320 sanctification. That we become like Jesus. 275 00:14:32,480 --> 00:14:37,960 That is the power of the gospel. That we become like Jesus now. 276 00:14:39,640 --> 00:14:42,160 And you know, discipleship, I can tell you friends, is a. 277 00:14:42,160 --> 00:14:50,410 Lifestyle commitment. We have to make a choice, and I 278 00:14:50,410 --> 00:14:53,650 was reminded of Matthew 7. But small is the gate and narrow 279 00:14:53,650 --> 00:14:55,850 the road that leads. To life, and only if you find 280 00:14:55,850 --> 00:14:59,970 it, you know. Small is the gate that's that 281 00:14:59,970 --> 00:15:02,450 that. A moment that you say yes to 282 00:15:02,450 --> 00:15:06,410 Jesus. But then narrow. 283 00:15:06,410 --> 00:15:10,650 Is the road that we therefore are called to walk on OK? 284 00:15:12,470 --> 00:15:14,350 Has anyone here read Pilgrim's? Progress. 285 00:15:15,230 --> 00:15:17,510 I mean, it's a classic. Yeah, some of you have. 286 00:15:17,510 --> 00:15:20,110 It's an allegory of the Christian walk. 287 00:15:20,630 --> 00:15:22,390 And actually the full title is the. 288 00:15:22,390 --> 00:15:25,870 Pilgrim's Progress from this world to that which is to come. 289 00:15:26,550 --> 00:15:30,950 It was written in the 17th century by a Puritan pastor 290 00:15:31,390 --> 00:15:34,550 named John Bunyan. In fact, he was a pastor around 291 00:15:34,550 --> 00:15:40,190 the corner in Bedford and they had an act. 292 00:15:41,390 --> 00:15:44,070 There is a name for it for which I've forgotten That said that 293 00:15:44,350 --> 00:15:45,950 unless. You are part of the Church. 294 00:15:45,950 --> 00:15:48,590 Of England you couldn't preach. And so because. 295 00:15:48,590 --> 00:15:50,710 Of that they locked. Him up and put him in prison. 296 00:15:51,430 --> 00:15:53,710 And it was. During his time in prison. 297 00:15:53,910 --> 00:15:55,230 That he wrote. What is? 298 00:15:55,390 --> 00:15:56,390 Still in. Print. 299 00:15:56,910 --> 00:15:59,670 Can you believe It? After Hundreds of Years? 300 00:15:59,950 --> 00:16:02,830 Pilgrim's Progress. And I would like to commend that 301 00:16:02,830 --> 00:16:04,670 book to you that you. You I've got a a. 302 00:16:05,710 --> 00:16:08,070 Version that they've updated some of the archaic. 303 00:16:08,070 --> 00:16:10,590 Language. And they've also the formatting 304 00:16:10,790 --> 00:16:13,070 because I don't think they like paragraphs in the old days. 305 00:16:14,590 --> 00:16:17,030 And they liked sentences. That were as long as pages so. 306 00:16:17,950 --> 00:16:19,470 The pill, It's not very. Expensive. 307 00:16:19,470 --> 00:16:22,550 It is just a phenomenal book. There was a. 308 00:16:22,550 --> 00:16:26,590 Time at which it was the the, the, the best selling Christian. 309 00:16:26,830 --> 00:16:28,310 Literature outside of the Bible, of course. 310 00:16:28,310 --> 00:16:29,830 The Bible is the best selling book in the world. 311 00:16:30,590 --> 00:16:32,510 And so in Pilgrim's. Progress. 312 00:16:32,710 --> 00:16:36,510 It's about a chap. Who finds this gate? 313 00:16:37,770 --> 00:16:39,930 And because he realizes all of a sudden that. 314 00:16:40,130 --> 00:16:42,450 He has this massive. Burden that he. 315 00:16:42,450 --> 00:16:46,810 Cannot get off himself and he is weighing him down and he's like, 316 00:16:46,810 --> 00:16:49,250 how, who can I find that's going to take this? 317 00:16:49,250 --> 00:16:50,410 Burden off me? What? 318 00:16:50,410 --> 00:16:52,730 Is that the burden of sin that the Holy Spirit? 319 00:16:52,730 --> 00:16:54,890 Worked in him, and there was a realization. 320 00:16:54,890 --> 00:16:57,210 Of his state. And that's what happens when we 321 00:16:57,210 --> 00:16:59,610 become Christian. There is a realization. 322 00:16:59,890 --> 00:17:01,530 Of the. Broken relationship that we have 323 00:17:01,530 --> 00:17:02,730 with the Father and we. Feel that? 324 00:17:02,730 --> 00:17:06,480 Burden of sin and so. He goes on a journey and his 325 00:17:06,480 --> 00:17:10,920 name becomes Christian. And you read in the story from 326 00:17:10,920 --> 00:17:13,200 the moment of the gate through to the celestial. 327 00:17:13,200 --> 00:17:16,440 City to heaven. And the the the path of. 328 00:17:16,440 --> 00:17:19,119 Discipleship. And he goes into the the the bog 329 00:17:19,119 --> 00:17:21,400 of despond. It's called despondency, and it. 330 00:17:21,640 --> 00:17:24,760 Unpacks what that looks. Like and it's phenomenal book. 331 00:17:25,240 --> 00:17:28,280 But there is a quote in that book that I would like to read 332 00:17:28,280 --> 00:17:31,120 that he says. Because I think this rather. 333 00:17:31,120 --> 00:17:39,980 Sums up discipleship for us. This hill though high I covet. 334 00:17:40,380 --> 00:17:45,060 To ascend the. Difficulty will not me offend, 335 00:17:45,820 --> 00:17:49,340 for I perceive the way to life lies here. 336 00:17:50,300 --> 00:17:55,140 Come, pluck up, heart. Let's neither faint nor fear 337 00:17:55,940 --> 00:18:00,060 better, though difficult. The right way to go? 338 00:18:01,140 --> 00:18:08,900 Then wrong though easy. Where the end is whoa, what 339 00:18:08,900 --> 00:18:12,340 beautiful prose. I mean, I ain't no poet. 340 00:18:13,940 --> 00:18:19,020 But this appeals to my inner poet, aspirational. 341 00:18:19,020 --> 00:18:21,780 Poet. But I think this. 342 00:18:21,860 --> 00:18:23,900 Sums up what discipleship is, It's a. 343 00:18:23,900 --> 00:18:26,020 Decision to say this. Isn't going to be easy. 344 00:18:26,740 --> 00:18:29,860 But if I want to take the. Easy Ride Wide Rd. 345 00:18:29,860 --> 00:18:32,860 It's not going to lead to life. And I think. 346 00:18:33,560 --> 00:18:36,840 As I then unpack discipleship, I want to look at and I'm only 347 00:18:36,840 --> 00:18:38,440 going to. I'm not going to drill down into 348 00:18:38,440 --> 00:18:44,800 all of these seven points. I've still got two hours. 349 00:18:44,800 --> 00:18:48,160 So you're fine. Yes, please. 350 00:18:48,160 --> 00:18:51,240 Someone said no, bless you, don't encourage me. 351 00:18:52,200 --> 00:18:53,880 I've got 7 things about. Discipleship. 352 00:18:55,520 --> 00:18:58,860 Seven things of how we. Walk. 353 00:18:58,900 --> 00:19:00,860 And live the gospel in other words. 354 00:19:01,060 --> 00:19:06,340 How we walk in progressive sanctification because I am 355 00:19:06,340 --> 00:19:10,420 completely convinced. Of this, that God is more 356 00:19:10,420 --> 00:19:14,260 concerned about your sanctification than He is about 357 00:19:14,260 --> 00:19:19,460 your comfort. And I am increasingly convinced. 358 00:19:19,460 --> 00:19:22,260 Of that by my own experience, and by the word of God. 359 00:19:22,940 --> 00:19:25,580 And we could put that the other way around, of course, by the 360 00:19:25,580 --> 00:19:28,180 word of God. And my own personal experience 361 00:19:28,180 --> 00:19:30,140 he is more and I'm sorry if that offends. 362 00:19:30,140 --> 00:19:32,820 You If you're looking for a gospel of comfort, you've. 363 00:19:32,820 --> 00:19:37,940 Come to the wrong place. If you're looking for a gospel 364 00:19:37,940 --> 00:19:40,820 of ease and peace. Well, yes, Peace. 365 00:19:40,820 --> 00:19:42,620 Is there Ease. Not always. 366 00:19:44,620 --> 00:19:45,620 This is not the. Gospel. 367 00:19:45,620 --> 00:19:50,940 The gospel is actually about conform to the light is about 368 00:19:51,260 --> 00:19:54,060 the hearer not yet of being saved. 369 00:19:54,530 --> 00:19:58,370 And justified and sanctified. And then walking out that 370 00:19:58,370 --> 00:20:01,650 sanctification until we're made blameless. 371 00:20:02,010 --> 00:20:04,130 Does that make sense? That's actually the gospel. 372 00:20:04,890 --> 00:20:07,410 Now, in that journey, you're going to receive the. 373 00:20:07,410 --> 00:20:09,370 Blessings of God you're never going to. 374 00:20:09,370 --> 00:20:13,450 Receive his peace and his joy. And his love and you. 375 00:20:13,450 --> 00:20:16,650 Will get to do amazing exploits that you could never dream of 376 00:20:16,810 --> 00:20:19,850 because God says you know. Through poor and an Ephesians. 377 00:20:19,850 --> 00:20:23,090 3/8 He would do immeasurably, more than you could ever hope or 378 00:20:23,090 --> 00:20:25,800 imagine. That's the kind of God that is 379 00:20:25,960 --> 00:20:31,040 saying cheering you on. But it's not always going to be 380 00:20:31,040 --> 00:20:34,040 an easy path. So here's seven things number 381 00:20:34,040 --> 00:20:36,160 one in our discipleship. It starts here. 382 00:20:36,280 --> 00:20:39,760 Take sins seriously and choose to turn away. 383 00:20:39,760 --> 00:20:42,800 From it we have. I I talked about this two weeks 384 00:20:42,800 --> 00:20:46,040 ago and I gave you the picture. It's like having a pet snake. 385 00:20:46,160 --> 00:20:47,600 We know it's not good. For us but. 386 00:20:48,320 --> 00:20:50,200 You know, you know that if you get it out and you hold it in a 387 00:20:50,200 --> 00:20:51,840 particular. Way it It shouldn't bite you. 388 00:20:51,840 --> 00:20:53,160 And then you put it away now and again. 389 00:20:53,830 --> 00:20:55,750 And sometimes our personal sin. Can be a bit. 390 00:20:55,750 --> 00:20:57,550 Like that, we know it's. A snake. 391 00:20:57,550 --> 00:20:58,870 We know it's going to bite us, but. 392 00:20:59,110 --> 00:21:01,470 If we just take out. Briefly, maybe for 10 minutes. 393 00:21:01,470 --> 00:21:03,230 If I just look at that for 10 minutes, I'll be fine. 394 00:21:03,630 --> 00:21:05,030 And and I've got enough. Things in place. 395 00:21:05,030 --> 00:21:07,630 I know that I'll be fine for a few days afterwards. 396 00:21:07,910 --> 00:21:10,110 I'm looking at, that's obviously how my life. 397 00:21:10,110 --> 00:21:13,590 Works, but you know but but I think it's a helpful picture 398 00:21:13,910 --> 00:21:16,670 that we can treat sin like a pet. 399 00:21:18,910 --> 00:21:22,730 We need to take it seriously. I mean, God took it so seriously 400 00:21:22,730 --> 00:21:24,450 that he had to send his son to die on the. 401 00:21:24,450 --> 00:21:27,810 Cross. I mean, I have the conviction of 402 00:21:27,810 --> 00:21:29,850 the Holy Spirit often when I. Sin. 403 00:21:29,850 --> 00:21:33,690 I'm like, Oh my word, Jesus died on the cross and I'm enjoying. 404 00:21:33,690 --> 00:21:41,130 This so take sin seriously and you know it, says an Ephesians 405 00:21:41,130 --> 00:21:45,070 424 put on the new self. Created after the lightness. 406 00:21:45,070 --> 00:21:47,070 Of God in true righteousness and holiness. 407 00:21:47,310 --> 00:21:48,630 What does that mean? That's progressive 408 00:21:48,630 --> 00:21:51,670 sanctification put on. The true self. 409 00:21:51,670 --> 00:21:53,790 There you go, You see, Isn't it lovely? 410 00:21:53,950 --> 00:21:58,910 How the Bible harmonizes itself and and and just confirms itself 411 00:21:59,190 --> 00:22:02,910 with Scripture so. We are called to put on the 412 00:22:02,910 --> 00:22:06,430 righteousness that has been imputed to us. 413 00:22:07,010 --> 00:22:10,930 Yeah, we we are then supposed to walk out that sanctification by 414 00:22:10,930 --> 00:22:13,450 making a decision. To put on righteousness. 415 00:22:15,730 --> 00:22:18,410 Hebrews 12/1 Therefore, since we are surrounded by such. 416 00:22:18,410 --> 00:22:20,290 A great cloud of witnesses. I'm sure you've heard this 417 00:22:20,290 --> 00:22:23,930 before. Let us also lay aside, lay aside 418 00:22:23,930 --> 00:22:27,970 every weight and sin which clings so closely. 419 00:22:28,130 --> 00:22:30,810 So therefore we have a job to do, I mean. 420 00:22:31,010 --> 00:22:34,380 The writer to the Hebrews. Says quite clearly we have to 421 00:22:34,380 --> 00:22:35,660 lay. Aside every way. 422 00:22:35,660 --> 00:22:38,180 We need to make a. Decision to. 423 00:22:38,180 --> 00:22:43,060 Walk in righteousness and let us run with. 424 00:22:43,060 --> 00:22:45,340 Endurance. The race that is set for us, 425 00:22:45,500 --> 00:22:48,220 endurance denotes that it's going to be tough, does it not? 426 00:22:49,500 --> 00:22:52,740 It is. Tough, and this, I think, is 427 00:22:52,740 --> 00:22:53,940 important. Because of the place of. 428 00:22:53,940 --> 00:22:59,380 Repentance, You know we Repentance isn't forgiveness. 429 00:23:00,280 --> 00:23:03,000 Right. Repentance is making a decision, 430 00:23:03,160 --> 00:23:04,560 Netamoya. I think is the Greek. 431 00:23:04,560 --> 00:23:09,080 Term to turn away from that which is wrong and turn towards 432 00:23:09,080 --> 00:23:11,320 Christ. That is repentance making that 433 00:23:11,320 --> 00:23:13,720 decision to turn. Towards Christ. 434 00:23:14,040 --> 00:23:18,600 And so our life should be marked by a repentant lifestyle. 435 00:23:20,080 --> 00:23:22,320 In other words, not that we're on our knees saying I'm a 436 00:23:22,320 --> 00:23:23,600 terrible. Person all the time? 437 00:23:23,600 --> 00:23:25,880 No. We've been saved, sealed for the 438 00:23:25,880 --> 00:23:29,400 day of redemption and our blood and God has forgiven us. 439 00:23:29,840 --> 00:23:33,440 But in the outworking of our sanctification, we need to walk 440 00:23:33,440 --> 00:23:36,280 in repentance. Yeah, we need to make that 441 00:23:36,280 --> 00:23:38,920 decision to say I turn. Away from that and I move. 442 00:23:38,920 --> 00:23:43,880 To that, OK #2 read and study the word. 443 00:23:43,880 --> 00:23:46,280 Of God. That's part of our discipleship. 444 00:23:46,560 --> 00:23:49,680 It is so important that we are in His. 445 00:23:49,680 --> 00:23:50,840 Word. You know his word. 446 00:23:50,840 --> 00:23:54,520 Is life there is a. How do I put it? 447 00:23:54,680 --> 00:23:58,560 There is a supernatural power. That comes when we. 448 00:23:58,560 --> 00:24:00,000 Soak in the word of God and we read. 449 00:24:00,000 --> 00:24:01,760 It my mom used. To give my brother and I this 450 00:24:01,760 --> 00:24:04,280 illustration whenever we say. What's the point of reading the 451 00:24:04,280 --> 00:24:05,240 Bible? I never remember. 452 00:24:05,240 --> 00:24:07,640 It, she says. Darling darlings, it was two of 453 00:24:07,640 --> 00:24:11,320 us. Imagine you had a sieve and the 454 00:24:11,320 --> 00:24:16,560 sieve was really dirty, and I told you to take that sieve and 455 00:24:16,560 --> 00:24:18,680 go to the bottom of the garden where the tap is and fill. 456 00:24:18,680 --> 00:24:20,440 It up with water, what would you say? 457 00:24:20,680 --> 00:24:24,320 Oh, well, Mom, come on. What's the point of that? 458 00:24:24,320 --> 00:24:25,880 I'll come back and there'll be no water in it. 459 00:24:26,520 --> 00:24:30,080 Give me a bucket or something. What if I asked you to two 460 00:24:30,080 --> 00:24:31,280 times? Well, that's pointless, isn't 461 00:24:31,280 --> 00:24:32,520 it? Three times, etcetera. 462 00:24:33,400 --> 00:24:37,840 What would happen to that sieve? And then it dawned on us, Wait a 463 00:24:37,840 --> 00:24:39,200 minute. The sieve would be clean. 464 00:24:41,040 --> 00:24:44,360 See, that is the power of the word of God. 465 00:24:44,640 --> 00:24:46,400 You might not think you're retaining it. 466 00:24:46,400 --> 00:24:48,840 And by the way, remembering Scripture is a. 467 00:24:48,840 --> 00:24:51,800 Brilliant thing and I I used to do that at Sunday school. 468 00:24:53,640 --> 00:24:55,400 Because it means that you you can always be quite in the 469 00:24:55,400 --> 00:24:56,680 scriptures whatever you're doing, but. 470 00:24:57,400 --> 00:24:59,360 I don't want you to, you know, even if you can't remember. 471 00:24:59,360 --> 00:25:02,200 Everything. The act of listening. 472 00:25:02,200 --> 00:25:05,240 If you have an audio. Book, audio, Bible or reading? 473 00:25:05,640 --> 00:25:08,720 Is cleansing you. Do you see that? 474 00:25:10,480 --> 00:25:12,560 There is. I mean, that's not a history. 475 00:25:12,560 --> 00:25:14,240 Book. Of course it has. 476 00:25:14,240 --> 00:25:17,080 History in it. That's a living word. 477 00:25:17,080 --> 00:25:21,320 I mean, it says that the word is Jesus in the beginning was the. 478 00:25:21,320 --> 00:25:26,650 Word, the Word was with God. The Word became flesh. 479 00:25:26,770 --> 00:25:30,930 Jesus. Jesus is the only way. 480 00:25:32,250 --> 00:25:35,330 He is the. The door. 481 00:25:36,570 --> 00:25:38,170 You can't get around him. You can't get over him. 482 00:25:38,410 --> 00:25:39,170 What's that? Bear hunt? 483 00:25:40,450 --> 00:25:42,850 Some of your parents, like I know the bear hunt, can't get 484 00:25:42,850 --> 00:25:44,890 under it, can't get over it, have to go through it. 485 00:25:47,850 --> 00:25:52,880 That brings back memories. So Jesus is the door, which 486 00:25:52,880 --> 00:25:56,520 means that if we want to lift, live out the gospel, we do so 487 00:25:56,520 --> 00:26:02,680 through Jesus and so we need his living, breathing word in us. 488 00:26:03,280 --> 00:26:06,680 That is the importance of disciple #3 pray without 489 00:26:06,680 --> 00:26:11,000 ceasing. You know Paul says this and we 490 00:26:11,000 --> 00:26:13,000 can often read that and go. I can't do that. 491 00:26:13,000 --> 00:26:14,560 I'm so busy. Have you seen my diary? 492 00:26:14,560 --> 00:26:17,720 Paul It praying. Without ceasing, you know, we we 493 00:26:17,720 --> 00:26:20,320 think about prayer normally in the context of. 494 00:26:21,320 --> 00:26:25,480 And there's a place for this on our own, praying for a. 495 00:26:25,480 --> 00:26:27,880 Set amount of time. Maybe we're interceding or maybe 496 00:26:27,880 --> 00:26:30,240 it's devotional prayer and then we go and do our stuff. 497 00:26:30,240 --> 00:26:32,440 I mean, that's a. Form of prayer, but essentially. 498 00:26:32,440 --> 00:26:36,400 Prayer is communion with God. It's it's having a conversation, 499 00:26:36,400 --> 00:26:40,720 it's reaching out to him and you can cultivate this lifestyle. 500 00:26:41,400 --> 00:26:43,520 I mean, I'll be honest. With you I I I. 501 00:26:43,640 --> 00:26:44,840 And it's by. The way we'll look at this in a 502 00:26:44,840 --> 00:26:47,080 moment, it's by the work of the spirit in us that enables us to 503 00:26:47,080 --> 00:26:47,720 do this. But. 504 00:26:48,700 --> 00:26:52,060 I try and cultivate a lifestyle that I'm always communion with 505 00:26:52,060 --> 00:26:56,820 the father. Like if I'm washing up or I'm 506 00:26:56,820 --> 00:27:00,380 unloading the dishwasher, don't normally do those at two times 507 00:27:00,380 --> 00:27:02,420 because if I've got the dishwasher so I don't need to 508 00:27:02,420 --> 00:27:05,100 wash up and if I'm, you know what I mean. 509 00:27:05,100 --> 00:27:07,700 If I'm hoovering or if I'm going to do a job, I'm like I'm 510 00:27:07,700 --> 00:27:11,420 communion with the Father. I'm just my my spirit is 511 00:27:11,420 --> 00:27:15,180 inclined to want him. That is how progressive 512 00:27:15,180 --> 00:27:17,260 sanctification works, because it's in his. 513 00:27:17,260 --> 00:27:19,930 Presence. That we are cleansed. 514 00:27:20,210 --> 00:27:21,970 And that we are. Conformed to lightness of Jesus. 515 00:27:22,330 --> 00:27:23,650 And you know, with prayer I mean. 516 00:27:23,650 --> 00:27:25,450 Edward did a fantastic. Talk Edward who? 517 00:27:25,450 --> 00:27:28,650 Heads up our Kids, youth and young adults ministry, he he 518 00:27:28,650 --> 00:27:32,210 spoke about 3 weeks ago on prayerful solitude. 519 00:27:32,210 --> 00:27:33,010 What a. Fantastic. 520 00:27:33,010 --> 00:27:34,890 Talk you can. Catch up on that on YouTube or 521 00:27:35,130 --> 00:27:38,610 on our app and talked about the place of how we can pray through 522 00:27:38,610 --> 00:27:41,010 the scriptures. There are many tools out there, 523 00:27:41,010 --> 00:27:44,850 Lecto Davino's an approach by which you by which you can take 524 00:27:44,850 --> 00:27:46,210 the scripture and pray through that. 525 00:27:46,450 --> 00:27:48,130 And there are wonderful tools out that. 526 00:27:48,130 --> 00:27:49,970 They can use. In fact, on our website, if you 527 00:27:49,970 --> 00:27:53,530 go to I think it, I'm trying to think where it is. 528 00:27:54,050 --> 00:27:56,170 There's a resources page, you can search for it. 529 00:27:56,170 --> 00:28:00,290 There are some of these resources there for you. #4 530 00:28:00,530 --> 00:28:03,450 Worship, worship. Now listen. 531 00:28:03,450 --> 00:28:06,010 Worship is not just sung worship. 532 00:28:06,090 --> 00:28:10,930 Sung worship is an expression. Of our worship to him, our 533 00:28:10,930 --> 00:28:13,290 worship is actually a choice to fully. 534 00:28:13,290 --> 00:28:17,210 Surrender our lives to him. It's about us getting. 535 00:28:17,210 --> 00:28:20,650 Climbing up on the altar and saying I die to self and 536 00:28:20,650 --> 00:28:22,850 everything I have is yours. And I choose to be. 537 00:28:22,850 --> 00:28:25,890 Obedient to you no matter what, and I surrender my. 538 00:28:25,890 --> 00:28:28,130 Will. To you that is worship. 539 00:28:29,330 --> 00:28:34,290 OK, worship is not just sung. Sung worship is an expression 540 00:28:34,530 --> 00:28:36,890 of. Our lives and our heart, 541 00:28:36,890 --> 00:28:40,760 position and attitude. And here's an interesting thing. 542 00:28:40,760 --> 00:28:42,600 You know the. Scriptures say that God is. 543 00:28:42,600 --> 00:28:45,880 Spirit and therefore we worship in spirit and in truth. 544 00:28:46,480 --> 00:28:49,200 That's why we need to be. Born again by the Spirit. 545 00:28:50,080 --> 00:28:52,160 Because when you're dead before you were born again. 546 00:28:52,160 --> 00:28:59,640 You cannot worship God. You can only worship God when 547 00:28:59,640 --> 00:29:01,760 you're adopted into the family and you're born again by the 548 00:29:01,760 --> 00:29:02,720 Spirit. Of God. 549 00:29:03,480 --> 00:29:05,960 Then you can worship God and our worship. 550 00:29:06,440 --> 00:29:10,480 Is about us climbing up onto the altar and saying I'm yours. 551 00:29:12,400 --> 00:29:14,200 That's why Jesus said take up your own cross. 552 00:29:15,760 --> 00:29:18,320 That's discipleship. What else 5. 553 00:29:18,320 --> 00:29:21,120 Meet together, have fellowship. You know, says in the Hebrews, 554 00:29:21,120 --> 00:29:23,680 do not give up meeting. Together even more so as. 555 00:29:23,680 --> 00:29:25,840 You see the day approaching, and let me tell you, brothers and 556 00:29:25,840 --> 00:29:28,320 sisters in Christ, the day is approaching fast. 557 00:29:29,400 --> 00:29:31,440 Listen, this church age won't always be. 558 00:29:31,440 --> 00:29:34,280 Here because the. Tribulation is coming around the 559 00:29:34,280 --> 00:29:38,570 corner like a freight train. We don't often pass. 560 00:29:38,570 --> 00:29:40,530 This talk about this kind of stuff, but I have preached on 561 00:29:40,530 --> 00:29:43,330 it. The seven-year tribulation as 562 00:29:43,330 --> 00:29:47,250 written in Revelation is an actual time period and if you 563 00:29:47,250 --> 00:29:49,090 look at what's happening in the. World at the moment. 564 00:29:49,330 --> 00:29:54,890 With the with the move towards central currency, CBDC's and you 565 00:29:54,890 --> 00:29:58,050 look at what's happening with the cause from World Economic 566 00:29:58,050 --> 00:29:59,170 Forum and others for a one World. 567 00:29:59,170 --> 00:30:00,810 Government and you look at all this kind of stuff do? 568 00:30:01,050 --> 00:30:02,330 You think? Oh yeah, I can see it play out 569 00:30:02,330 --> 00:30:04,220 quite easily. You know the. 570 00:30:04,220 --> 00:30:08,980 Seven-year tribulation requires there to be an Israel and a 571 00:30:08,980 --> 00:30:11,460 Jerusalem. And a temple on the Temple Mount 572 00:30:11,460 --> 00:30:15,540 in order to have the Third Temple before 1940. 8 The 573 00:30:15,540 --> 00:30:17,580 tribulation could never have happened because there was no 574 00:30:17,580 --> 00:30:20,780 Israel. You look at all this stuff, let. 575 00:30:21,020 --> 00:30:22,860 Me tell you, brothers and sisters, maybe I'll preach on 576 00:30:22,860 --> 00:30:25,300 this another time. But you read. 577 00:30:25,300 --> 00:30:26,420 Revelation. You think? 578 00:30:26,420 --> 00:30:29,500 Wow, actually, it's not so bonkers after all, even though 579 00:30:29,500 --> 00:30:33,060 it sounds. It it's happening. 580 00:30:33,780 --> 00:30:36,260 It's happening, Read the news. I mean the fact. 581 00:30:36,260 --> 00:30:38,140 That there is a nation called Israel and I'm not going to get 582 00:30:38,140 --> 00:30:41,900 into whether Israel is acting right or wrong on on how they 583 00:30:41,900 --> 00:30:43,380 deal with some of the Middle East issues. 584 00:30:43,380 --> 00:30:45,980 I'm not making a comment on that what I'm saying. 585 00:30:45,980 --> 00:30:49,500 Is is the nation of. Israel was prophesied in Isaiah. 586 00:30:49,500 --> 00:30:52,180 66. That said, in one day the nation 587 00:30:52,180 --> 00:30:54,900 of Israel will come back in one day, and they will come from the 588 00:30:54,900 --> 00:30:59,580 four corners of the globe. In 1948, in one day, Israel. 589 00:30:59,580 --> 00:31:03,340 Came back after 2000 years. There has never, ever been. 590 00:31:03,770 --> 00:31:06,010 In the whole history of mankind, any. 591 00:31:06,010 --> 00:31:08,250 People group that has survived longer than two or three 592 00:31:08,250 --> 00:31:11,090 generations outside of of having their own place. 593 00:31:11,090 --> 00:31:16,450 Do you know that? You know the Bible is the word 594 00:31:16,450 --> 00:31:19,490 of God because it is the only quote holy book that has 595 00:31:19,490 --> 00:31:21,050 prophecy. That's actually been fulfilled. 596 00:31:21,050 --> 00:31:29,690 Did you know that? I'm really taking a tangent, but 597 00:31:29,690 --> 00:31:34,670 I think this is important. The hour is short. 598 00:31:34,670 --> 00:31:37,350 And that's why it started by when we looked at Reach to say, 599 00:31:37,350 --> 00:31:40,550 listen, we've got to save souls because this dispensation of 600 00:31:40,550 --> 00:31:46,790 grace is not going to last, you know God is, Jesus is coming 601 00:31:46,790 --> 00:31:48,190 again and. We've got to get as. 602 00:31:48,190 --> 00:31:51,070 Many people until the lifeboat of Jesus as we can because this 603 00:31:51,070 --> 00:31:53,790 ship is sinking. Wow, right? 604 00:31:53,790 --> 00:31:55,950 Okay, then let's move on. Meet together. 605 00:31:55,950 --> 00:31:56,750 Fellowship. Why? 606 00:31:56,830 --> 00:31:58,510 That was it. Love one another. 607 00:31:58,790 --> 00:32:01,850 We need to love one another. We if we want to be like. 608 00:32:01,930 --> 00:32:05,850 Jesus and become like Jesus. We need to love one another and 609 00:32:05,850 --> 00:32:10,090 serve one another in in sacrifice for one another. 610 00:32:10,450 --> 00:32:12,490 Jesus says if. If you will love one another, 611 00:32:12,490 --> 00:32:14,250 the world will. Know that I you are. 612 00:32:14,250 --> 00:32:16,930 Mine who are. You loving right now. 613 00:32:17,050 --> 00:32:19,570 Who are you serving? Right now, in your family, in 614 00:32:19,570 --> 00:32:22,130 your community. Who are you being Jesus's hands 615 00:32:22,130 --> 00:32:27,610 and feet to right now #7 make disciples. 616 00:32:28,010 --> 00:32:31,670 That's part of our discipleship. Is to make disciples ourselves. 617 00:32:31,830 --> 00:32:33,510 Who's followed? Who are you helping out? 618 00:32:34,070 --> 00:32:36,830 Who are you there to support? Who are you there to speak life 619 00:32:36,830 --> 00:32:38,910 into? Who are you there going to share 620 00:32:38,910 --> 00:32:41,830 the gospel of next week? We're going to look at how we 621 00:32:41,830 --> 00:32:46,670 share the gospel and we're going to look at how the gifts of the 622 00:32:46,670 --> 00:32:51,270 Spirit in us enables us to bring in the Kingdom of God where we 623 00:32:51,270 --> 00:32:53,310 are at and that's going to be really exciting next week. 624 00:32:54,030 --> 00:32:56,110 I've I've seriously run out of time so I'm going to invite the 625 00:32:56,110 --> 00:32:58,710 band up and and as I try and bring some of these threads 626 00:32:58,710 --> 00:33:01,650 together. Because what I'm trying to 627 00:33:01,650 --> 00:33:05,250 unpack here for you is #1A Theological understanding of 628 00:33:05,250 --> 00:33:08,290 what Jesus has done on the cross, but the implication for 629 00:33:08,290 --> 00:33:09,290 what it means. Today. 630 00:33:09,690 --> 00:33:12,730 That what happened on the cross 2000 years ago is linked with 631 00:33:13,250 --> 00:33:16,370 our everyday walk. But the good news of the cross? 632 00:33:16,530 --> 00:33:19,330 Is the good news that we need to walk in today, which is to 633 00:33:19,330 --> 00:33:22,850 become like Jesus? To walk in that sanctification. 634 00:33:23,130 --> 00:33:25,010 For the here and not yet of the Kingdom. 635 00:33:25,290 --> 00:33:28,020 I hope you've all got that. And how we do that? 636 00:33:28,020 --> 00:33:29,500 I've given you just seven there could be. 637 00:33:29,580 --> 00:33:33,780 There are more than. 7/7. Aspects of discipleship on how? 638 00:33:33,780 --> 00:33:37,020 You walk out your your, your sanctification take sins. 639 00:33:37,020 --> 00:33:38,380 Seriously. And choose to turn. 640 00:33:38,380 --> 00:33:43,220 Away for it #2 Read and study the living word of God #3 pray 641 00:33:43,300 --> 00:33:46,900 without ceasing #4. Worship which is about 642 00:33:46,900 --> 00:33:50,780 surrendering our full. Selves #5 meet together in 643 00:33:50,780 --> 00:33:56,540 fellowship, number six love one another and #7 make disciples. 644 00:33:57,080 --> 00:33:59,560 There are 7. Ways in which we are called to 645 00:33:59,560 --> 00:34:03,560 walk out our progressive sanctification. 646 00:34:04,160 --> 00:34:06,520 But I want to end with this. I want to say two things. 647 00:34:06,520 --> 00:34:09,639 Number one is. We can't do on our own strength, 648 00:34:11,120 --> 00:34:13,600 you see. It's by the indwelling Spirit. 649 00:34:13,600 --> 00:34:16,800 Of God in us that empowers us to do all that. 650 00:34:18,300 --> 00:34:20,340 You know Galatians 5/22/20. Three says. 651 00:34:20,340 --> 00:34:23,980 But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience. 652 00:34:23,980 --> 00:34:26,659 Kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, and 653 00:34:26,659 --> 00:35:40,190 self-control You have kept my feet. 654 00:35:40,230 --> 00:35:46,070 From slipping. Listen to this so now I can walk 655 00:35:46,070 --> 00:35:49,150 in your presence. So now I can. 656 00:35:49,150 --> 00:35:53,590 Walk in your presence, oh God, in your life, giving light. 657 00:35:55,110 --> 00:35:57,950 You see he? Saved us from death and we are a 658 00:35:57,950 --> 00:36:02,190 new creation so that. We can walk in his. 659 00:36:02,190 --> 00:36:03,950 Presence. As we walk out our 660 00:36:03,950 --> 00:36:06,840 sanctification, let us stand. As I pray.