1 00:00:00,160 --> 00:00:04,400 Shall we shout Hallelujah, a stronger one? 2 00:00:05,920 --> 00:00:07,280 Amen. That's good. 3 00:00:08,039 --> 00:00:11,720 So we come to the last part of chapter 2 of Galatians. 4 00:00:13,160 --> 00:00:18,800 The last week I did talk about was 16, but I haven't done a 5 00:00:19,200 --> 00:00:23,160 full justice, so I thought I should do rerun was 16 and then 6 00:00:23,160 --> 00:00:29,960 go into the rest of the chapter. So what do we say in verse 16, 7 00:00:30,200 --> 00:00:34,400 Verse 16? It says know that a man is not 8 00:00:34,400 --> 00:00:38,360 justified by observing the law, but by faith in Jesus Christ. 9 00:00:38,480 --> 00:00:42,720 So we too have put our faith in Christ Christ Jesus, that we may 10 00:00:42,720 --> 00:00:46,120 be justified by faith in Christ and not by observing the law, 11 00:00:46,440 --> 00:00:50,720 because by observing the law. No one will be justified. 12 00:00:51,680 --> 00:00:54,800 What is interesting here is the word justified is used for the 13 00:00:54,800 --> 00:01:00,120 first time in this epistle to Galatians. 14 00:01:01,040 --> 00:01:06,080 And if Paul wrote the first epistle is the Galatians is the 15 00:01:06,080 --> 00:01:10,160 first epistle Paul wrote. He is introducing a powerful 16 00:01:10,160 --> 00:01:15,600 concept of justification by faith to the Galatians, which he 17 00:01:15,960 --> 00:01:20,160 not only explains to the Galatians, but he further, I 18 00:01:20,160 --> 00:01:24,320 mean further expands it when he wrote the epistle to the Romans, 19 00:01:24,880 --> 00:01:27,880 the justification by faith. It just takes a couple of 20 00:01:27,880 --> 00:01:32,880 chapters, I think in Romans chapter 3, chapter 4, and then 21 00:01:32,880 --> 00:01:36,600 goes on to the benefits of justification in chapter 5 and 22 00:01:36,600 --> 00:01:41,720 then explains the union with Christ, our identity with Christ 23 00:01:41,720 --> 00:01:45,000 in chapter 6-7 and eight. So it's just amazing book. 24 00:01:45,280 --> 00:01:49,920 And I tell you, everybody should have in your mind an outline of 25 00:01:49,920 --> 00:01:54,200 what is Romans teaching, the teaching in the book of Romans. 26 00:01:54,200 --> 00:01:58,400 It should be in your mind and important verses, important 27 00:01:58,400 --> 00:02:01,960 concepts, how he's progressing. It should be imprinted on your 28 00:02:01,960 --> 00:02:06,400 mind because that is something. Is going to be a strong 29 00:02:06,480 --> 00:02:10,759 foundation. Shall we shout Hallelujah, a 30 00:02:10,759 --> 00:02:13,880 stronger one. Hallelujah, Amen. 31 00:02:13,880 --> 00:02:17,480 That's good. So we come to the last part of 32 00:02:17,480 --> 00:02:23,120 Chapter 2 of Galatians. The last week I did talk about 33 00:02:23,320 --> 00:02:27,400 verse 16, but I haven't done a full justice. 34 00:02:27,600 --> 00:02:31,000 So I thought I should do rerun verse 16 and then go into the 35 00:02:31,000 --> 00:02:37,240 rest of the chapter. So what do we say in verse 16? 36 00:02:37,480 --> 00:02:41,680 Verse 16? It says know that a man is not 37 00:02:41,680 --> 00:02:45,640 justified by observing the law, but by faith in Jesus Christ. 38 00:02:45,760 --> 00:02:49,960 So we too have put our faith in Christ Christ Jesus, that we may 39 00:02:49,960 --> 00:02:53,280 be justified by faith in Christ and not by observing the law, 40 00:02:53,680 --> 00:02:58,000 because by observing the law no one will be justified. 41 00:02:58,920 --> 00:03:01,320 What is interesting here is the word justified. 42 00:03:01,320 --> 00:03:08,960 Is used for the first time in this epism to Galatians, and if 43 00:03:09,000 --> 00:03:13,560 Paul wrote the first epistle, is the Galatians is the first 44 00:03:13,560 --> 00:03:17,400 epistle Paul wrote. He is introducing a powerful 45 00:03:17,400 --> 00:03:22,840 concept of justification by faith to the Galatians, which he 46 00:03:23,200 --> 00:03:27,040 not only explains to the Galatians, but he further, I 47 00:03:27,400 --> 00:03:31,560 mean further expands it when he wrote the Epistle to the Romans, 48 00:03:32,120 --> 00:03:35,120 the justification by faith. It just takes a couple of 49 00:03:35,120 --> 00:03:40,120 chapters, I think in Romans chapter 3, chapter 4, and then 50 00:03:40,120 --> 00:03:43,880 goes on to the benefits of justification in chapter 5 and 51 00:03:43,880 --> 00:03:49,000 then explains the union with Christ, our identity with Christ 52 00:03:49,000 --> 00:03:52,280 in chapter 6-7 and eight. So it's just amazing book. 53 00:03:52,520 --> 00:03:57,200 And I tell you, everybody should have in your mind an outline of 54 00:03:57,200 --> 00:04:01,480 what is Romans teaching, the teaching in the book of Romans. 55 00:04:01,480 --> 00:04:05,680 It should be in your mind and important verses important 56 00:04:05,680 --> 00:04:09,240 concepts, how he's progressing. It should be imprinted on your 57 00:04:09,240 --> 00:04:13,680 mind because that is something is going to be a strong 58 00:04:13,760 --> 00:04:18,640 foundation in your life. Why should we put so much 59 00:04:18,640 --> 00:04:21,320 effort? Because it is a a must 60 00:04:21,320 --> 00:04:23,640 foundation. You cannot have an option. 61 00:04:23,920 --> 00:04:27,840 Oh, I'm it's OK if I understand you Romans, I don't understand. 62 00:04:27,840 --> 00:04:29,320 It doesn't matter. No, it's not like that. 63 00:04:29,440 --> 00:04:33,640 You have to understand. You must understand and if you 64 00:04:33,640 --> 00:04:37,760 want to be a powerful Christian, that foundation is what is going 65 00:04:37,760 --> 00:04:42,280 to open your eyes and give you identity, security and power. 66 00:04:43,960 --> 00:04:46,680 So put an effort to understand Book of Romans. 67 00:04:47,080 --> 00:04:51,720 So now justification. We all hear the word 68 00:04:51,720 --> 00:04:55,920 justification, but there's also another word, sanctification, 69 00:04:56,680 --> 00:05:01,280 how they are related or how the concepts go together that we 70 00:05:01,280 --> 00:05:04,400 need to understand. So first of all, justification 71 00:05:04,400 --> 00:05:11,280 is just, it's just a language of the court, the legal language. 72 00:05:11,600 --> 00:05:14,920 So you had to imagine God the Father sitting on the throne of 73 00:05:14,920 --> 00:05:20,520 judgment and you got, let's say God the Father is here behind 74 00:05:20,520 --> 00:05:23,160 the pulpit and you are, I am the Sinner. 75 00:05:23,160 --> 00:05:27,080 Now I am presented here, I am standing in the court of God and 76 00:05:27,080 --> 00:05:30,440 they will be on the other side. Satan standing there and 77 00:05:30,440 --> 00:05:33,240 accusing Ramana is a great Sinner. 78 00:05:34,040 --> 00:05:37,800 OK, He has done this, this, this, this, He goes on list 79 00:05:37,800 --> 00:05:41,160 after list. You don't know God. 80 00:05:41,360 --> 00:05:46,960 He is really horrible Sinner and he gives you all the data, all 81 00:05:46,960 --> 00:05:50,840 the information to God the Father and you will be expecting 82 00:05:50,840 --> 00:05:52,400 what is God going to do with this? 83 00:05:52,400 --> 00:05:56,920 All information and then we have Jesus Christ of sin as in my 84 00:05:56,920 --> 00:06:00,920 advocate on my behalf and he will talk to God the Father and 85 00:06:00,920 --> 00:06:06,640 say what the devil is saying 100% right, He is even 200% 86 00:06:06,640 --> 00:06:09,680 right. But I have taken the punishment 87 00:06:09,680 --> 00:06:12,080 on the cross. I have suffered for him. 88 00:06:12,320 --> 00:06:15,640 My nails were the nails have been put in my hand in my feet 89 00:06:15,880 --> 00:06:17,360 and the crown of thoughts on my head. 90 00:06:17,520 --> 00:06:23,680 I was coached for him, and I was whipped for Him, and I took it. 91 00:06:23,680 --> 00:06:26,000 I had taken the punishment for his sin. 92 00:06:27,680 --> 00:06:30,720 And God the Father will look at me now. 93 00:06:30,720 --> 00:06:35,120 Between me and God is Christ, and when He looks at me through 94 00:06:35,120 --> 00:06:38,240 Christ, He sees me as if I had never sinned. 95 00:06:40,000 --> 00:06:43,120 Hallelujah. That concept is called 96 00:06:43,200 --> 00:06:47,200 justification by faith. No, What is justification? 97 00:06:47,200 --> 00:06:54,280 Justification is something God declares one as righteous for 98 00:06:54,280 --> 00:06:58,200 the sake of what crashes accomplished by our faith in 99 00:06:58,200 --> 00:07:00,720 Him. There is no other way. 100 00:07:02,880 --> 00:07:06,840 There is no other way is only by faith but His faith. 101 00:07:07,640 --> 00:07:12,000 Faith is the instrument, but not work is not work. 102 00:07:12,480 --> 00:07:14,120 You are not working by believing. 103 00:07:14,280 --> 00:07:18,880 It is just faith. It is not considered as a work 104 00:07:18,880 --> 00:07:21,160 at all. So you're not going to believing 105 00:07:21,160 --> 00:07:22,880 is not work. So you're not going to justify 106 00:07:22,880 --> 00:07:26,000 it because you're working your faith because you're believing 107 00:07:26,360 --> 00:07:28,720 and by that faith you are going to be justified. 108 00:07:29,080 --> 00:07:31,680 And this is the teaching of the Reformation. 109 00:07:32,000 --> 00:07:35,680 Martin Luther found out when he was reading Romans chapter 1, 110 00:07:35,920 --> 00:07:40,320 the just shall live by faith. He, he discovered something new 111 00:07:40,480 --> 00:07:44,840 and then he, he saw that this is what the Catholicism was not 112 00:07:44,840 --> 00:07:47,640 teaching at that time. They were selling indulgences. 113 00:07:47,640 --> 00:07:50,200 They were doing this and that lot of stuff to make money. 114 00:07:50,680 --> 00:07:53,240 And that money is still there. They are still the most powerful 115 00:07:53,240 --> 00:07:58,000 rich organization. And he said, no, no man is not 116 00:07:58,000 --> 00:08:00,840 saved by any of these things. It is only by faith. 117 00:08:01,560 --> 00:08:05,440 And because of that we, because of his teaching, people start 118 00:08:05,440 --> 00:08:08,480 following him and the Catholicism, the, the Catholic 119 00:08:08,480 --> 00:08:11,120 Church was very angry with Martin Luther. 120 00:08:11,120 --> 00:08:14,360 They expelled him and all his followers and they were 121 00:08:14,360 --> 00:08:16,400 persecuted. They had run for their life. 122 00:08:16,680 --> 00:08:19,200 But because of that, because they protested against the 123 00:08:19,200 --> 00:08:23,240 Catholicism, Catholic Catholicism, they were called 124 00:08:23,240 --> 00:08:27,120 Protestants. We are Protestants, you said 125 00:08:27,120 --> 00:08:32,200 your neighbor. We are Protestants, we protest 126 00:08:32,240 --> 00:08:36,200 against that. So it's very interesting. 127 00:08:36,200 --> 00:08:40,799 But I tell you that has given us the gospel through Martin 128 00:08:40,799 --> 00:08:42,880 Luther's rebelling against the Catholicism. 129 00:08:42,880 --> 00:08:46,960 We got the true gospel. Otherwise we would have been 130 00:08:47,000 --> 00:08:49,600 perish. We will perish, all perish, all 131 00:08:49,600 --> 00:08:52,880 the world will perish because the gospel was locked up. 132 00:08:53,720 --> 00:09:00,720 It wasn't set free at all. So judicial, it is a judicial 133 00:09:00,720 --> 00:09:05,320 act of God declaring the Sinner righteous on the basis of Christ 134 00:09:05,320 --> 00:09:07,640 finished work. What is the basis? 135 00:09:08,000 --> 00:09:12,480 Jesus lived a fully perfect sinless life for you and me. 136 00:09:12,880 --> 00:09:17,720 He was not just living as an individual, but on the on behalf 137 00:09:17,720 --> 00:09:20,640 of the whole Adamic race, all the sinners. 138 00:09:20,760 --> 00:09:24,600 He lived a perfect life fulfilling the law to please God 139 00:09:25,320 --> 00:09:28,320 because He fulfilled the law on your behalf and my behalf. 140 00:09:28,520 --> 00:09:34,040 God the Father can say I impute my righteousness for the sake of 141 00:09:34,040 --> 00:09:37,600 my Son Jesus, and He puts that unrighteousness upon you into 142 00:09:37,600 --> 00:09:39,720 your account. That is what justification is 143 00:09:39,720 --> 00:09:45,240 all about, scientification. So do you become holy overnight? 144 00:09:45,240 --> 00:09:47,760 No, you are justified. But holiness is something 145 00:09:47,760 --> 00:09:51,200 practical where you cooperate in justification. 146 00:09:51,280 --> 00:09:53,800 You only believe you don't work it. 147 00:09:54,080 --> 00:09:57,240 It's not by works, doing good, going to church, tithing, 148 00:09:57,240 --> 00:09:59,880 prayer, none of these things are going to justify you. 149 00:10:00,000 --> 00:10:04,720 It is just by the naked faith in the Son of God who died for you, 150 00:10:04,800 --> 00:10:09,240 you are justified. And then you have sanctification 151 00:10:09,240 --> 00:10:13,640 where you practically do what the law demands. 152 00:10:13,880 --> 00:10:18,560 But what is the difference? You have the Jewish law that 2 153 00:10:18,880 --> 00:10:22,000 mainly 2 parts 1 is the 10 commandments and then the 154 00:10:22,000 --> 00:10:26,480 ceremonial law sacrifices for circumcision. 155 00:10:26,880 --> 00:10:30,680 And you know, there are so many other kinds of ceremonial laws. 156 00:10:31,760 --> 00:10:35,440 Those ceremonial laws were a shadow of the reality that's 157 00:10:35,440 --> 00:10:38,200 going to come in Christ Jesus. So Jesus fulfilled the 158 00:10:38,200 --> 00:10:42,320 ceremonial law and put an end to it so that we can be set free. 159 00:10:44,560 --> 00:10:48,560 Now I think it's actually I'll give you one verse that is more 160 00:10:48,680 --> 00:10:53,760 very powerful verses. Where is it? 161 00:10:54,520 --> 00:10:57,200 One new man. He was creating one new man. 162 00:10:58,000 --> 00:11:03,120 Galatians 219. No, Ephesians 215 by abolishing 163 00:11:03,120 --> 00:11:05,800 in His flesh the law of commandments and decrees. 164 00:11:05,960 --> 00:11:11,080 He did this to create in himself one new man out of the two, thus 165 00:11:11,080 --> 00:11:13,760 making peace. What is what is Paul trying to 166 00:11:13,760 --> 00:11:15,840 say here? What he was trying to say here 167 00:11:15,840 --> 00:11:20,120 is that Jewish people also will have to come through Christ to 168 00:11:20,120 --> 00:11:22,600 be saved. So he is completely cancelled 169 00:11:22,600 --> 00:11:26,520 the law by fulfilling the law so that anybody who needs to be 170 00:11:26,520 --> 00:11:29,920 saved, even if he's a Jew, oh, I have the law, he's not going to 171 00:11:29,920 --> 00:11:33,040 save him. They have to come to Jesus by 172 00:11:33,040 --> 00:11:36,240 faith. So now you have the Gentile who 173 00:11:36,240 --> 00:11:40,880 doesn't know the law, you're the Jew who has the law, but both 174 00:11:40,880 --> 00:11:46,040 have to come through who, Jesus and through Jesus he's creating 175 00:11:46,040 --> 00:11:51,960 a Newman. He's creating a 1 Newman through 176 00:11:51,960 --> 00:11:55,440 faith in Jesus Christ. So this is something awesome. 177 00:11:56,000 --> 00:11:57,360 I was thinking about it yesterday. 178 00:11:57,360 --> 00:12:01,120 I was, I said, my God, this is something no man can ever think. 179 00:12:01,120 --> 00:12:05,080 Even devil cannot figure out what was God planning to do by 180 00:12:05,080 --> 00:12:07,760 sending his son into the world? If he figured out he would not 181 00:12:07,760 --> 00:12:12,200 have crucified him, I'm telling you, if he knew that he's going 182 00:12:12,200 --> 00:12:15,560 to lose the battle, he would not have crucified him at all. 183 00:12:16,080 --> 00:12:19,480 So that is the mystery. That's what Paul says. 184 00:12:19,480 --> 00:12:23,160 That mystery has been given to him to bring it into the world 185 00:12:23,440 --> 00:12:25,800 to teach it. So the justification by faith is 186 00:12:25,800 --> 00:12:32,600 one of those powerful teachings. And secondly, we see, so 187 00:12:32,960 --> 00:12:36,680 sanctification is a transforming work of God within the believer, 188 00:12:36,960 --> 00:12:39,160 producing actual holiness of life. 189 00:12:39,160 --> 00:12:42,280 This is a work of the Holy Spirit because you are now 190 00:12:42,920 --> 00:12:45,640 justified. Holy Spirit comes to dwell in 191 00:12:45,640 --> 00:12:50,720 you as you yield more and more of your life, your desires, your 192 00:12:51,600 --> 00:12:54,080 whatever you want to do with your eyes, your hands, your 193 00:12:54,080 --> 00:12:56,200 heart. As you yield to the Holy Spirit, 194 00:12:56,480 --> 00:13:00,240 He creates in you actual practical holiness and you 195 00:13:00,240 --> 00:13:03,120 become holy. And there are no degrees in 196 00:13:03,120 --> 00:13:06,560 justification you. You can be a Christian for 50 197 00:13:06,560 --> 00:13:08,120 years. You can be just born again 198 00:13:08,120 --> 00:13:10,680 today. Both will be justified the same. 199 00:13:11,000 --> 00:13:15,040 There are no degrees or he is being a Christian for 50 years 200 00:13:15,040 --> 00:13:17,880 is more justified. No, they are equally justified 201 00:13:18,040 --> 00:13:20,840 but sanctification. If he has been a Christian, 202 00:13:20,840 --> 00:13:24,320 obedient, following God, pleasing God, he will be more 203 00:13:24,360 --> 00:13:26,400 holy than the one who just born again. 204 00:13:26,400 --> 00:13:29,960 There are degrees in it. It is up to you to cooperate 205 00:13:29,960 --> 00:13:33,080 with God, to grow in holiness with justification. 206 00:13:33,880 --> 00:13:37,400 You only believe and it is just given to your account. 207 00:13:37,880 --> 00:13:41,480 He reconsider into your account. So grounded entirely in Christ's 208 00:13:41,480 --> 00:13:45,040 righteousness, the justification impure to the believer through 209 00:13:45,040 --> 00:13:49,120 faith and ground in the invaling Holy Spirit who renews the 210 00:13:49,120 --> 00:13:53,640 believers character as you yield to him, He renews you and makes 211 00:13:53,640 --> 00:13:57,160 you holy and holier and holier day after day. 212 00:13:59,120 --> 00:14:00,920 And justification is by faith alone. 213 00:14:01,400 --> 00:14:06,040 But and sanctification is a process where you actively 214 00:14:06,040 --> 00:14:09,320 cooperate with the Holy Spirit who dwells in you by obedience, 215 00:14:09,520 --> 00:14:13,200 disciplines of prayer, studying the word, witnessing so many 216 00:14:13,200 --> 00:14:17,440 different things as you keep doing, you grow in holiness and 217 00:14:18,080 --> 00:14:21,760 justification is instantaneous. It just happens in one second. 218 00:14:21,760 --> 00:14:25,160 The moment you say Jesus, I am a Sinner, I believe you died for 219 00:14:25,160 --> 00:14:27,440 me, come into my heart, forgive me, done. 220 00:14:28,040 --> 00:14:31,080 You are justified. All your past is gone in one 221 00:14:31,080 --> 00:14:35,600 second. But holiness is progressive. 222 00:14:35,960 --> 00:14:39,040 You have to keep obeying God, praising God, worshipping God. 223 00:14:39,040 --> 00:14:42,520 You know all these things you have to keep on doing and 224 00:14:42,800 --> 00:14:47,080 justification changes your status, your Sinner 1 moment 225 00:14:47,120 --> 00:14:49,720 when you believe in Jesus, next moment you are declared a St. 226 00:14:51,760 --> 00:14:54,520 It's just instantly, instantly your position is changed. 227 00:14:55,080 --> 00:14:57,040 But holiness is progressive again. 228 00:14:57,360 --> 00:14:59,440 It is you have to keep walking with God. 229 00:15:00,120 --> 00:15:02,160 It is developing a new character. 230 00:15:02,480 --> 00:15:05,960 It is increasing in holiness, Christlikeness, victory over 231 00:15:05,960 --> 00:15:09,360 sin. These things are a lifelong 232 00:15:09,760 --> 00:15:13,880 process. No one can say have arrived any 233 00:15:13,880 --> 00:15:16,880 day. I am nearly, I am following 234 00:15:16,880 --> 00:15:20,280 Christ for 48 years now. I cannot say I arrived. 235 00:15:20,320 --> 00:15:23,800 Still, every day as I look at my life, I say, oh, I need to 236 00:15:23,800 --> 00:15:26,040 stretch myself. I need to grow more, I need to 237 00:15:26,040 --> 00:15:28,240 obey more. I need to yield more, I have to 238 00:15:28,240 --> 00:15:30,960 fight more. This is part of the 239 00:15:30,960 --> 00:15:37,080 sanctification. So when you are justified, the 240 00:15:37,080 --> 00:15:39,760 believer is freed from condemnation of the law. 241 00:15:40,480 --> 00:15:44,120 The law is ready to condemn everybody, but when you believe 242 00:15:44,120 --> 00:15:48,360 in Jesus that condemnation goes in Romans chapter 5 says 243 00:15:48,360 --> 00:15:53,160 therefore, if anybody we are justified by faith, there is no 244 00:15:53,160 --> 00:15:56,080 condemnation. Even chapter 8 also it starts 245 00:15:56,360 --> 00:15:58,720 the worst one is started. If you have been justified by 246 00:15:58,720 --> 00:16:03,520 faith, there is no condemnation and that is how it is. 247 00:16:03,920 --> 00:16:07,800 And whereas in the in the sanctification enables the 248 00:16:07,800 --> 00:16:10,760 believer to fulfill the moral law through the Spirit. 249 00:16:11,240 --> 00:16:15,360 Now what we could not do by our own strength, fulfilling the 250 00:16:15,360 --> 00:16:19,560 moral lot, the 10 commandments, by the inventing Holy Spirit 251 00:16:19,560 --> 00:16:22,680 enables you to fulfill it. He enables you to do it. 252 00:16:23,640 --> 00:16:26,800 You had no power before. Now we have power to do it. 253 00:16:27,200 --> 00:16:32,480 That is great good news. And then you have assurance that 254 00:16:32,480 --> 00:16:35,760 your sins are forgiven, that you are going to go and see your 255 00:16:35,760 --> 00:16:37,920 Maker one day when you are justified. 256 00:16:38,640 --> 00:16:42,400 But sanctification also provides you not only assurance, but it 257 00:16:42,400 --> 00:16:46,440 gives you a subject to assurance and evidence of spiritual 258 00:16:46,440 --> 00:16:48,640 growth. How do you know you are growing 259 00:16:48,640 --> 00:16:51,880 in God? Only by knowing how you are 260 00:16:51,880 --> 00:16:55,440 growing in character. Your character is becoming more 261 00:16:55,440 --> 00:17:00,160 and more and more like Christ. You know you are growing. 262 00:17:01,440 --> 00:17:05,760 You look at a plant in your garden or any tree and if you 263 00:17:05,760 --> 00:17:11,319 think it is dead and you know it is dead, but if it is alive, you 264 00:17:11,319 --> 00:17:14,520 know the leaves will be greener, it will flower, there will be 265 00:17:14,520 --> 00:17:17,040 fruit will come if it is a fruiting tree and you know it 266 00:17:17,040 --> 00:17:20,000 has got life. Same way when people look at 267 00:17:20,000 --> 00:17:26,920 you, if they don't see the fruit, we are dead, we are dead. 268 00:17:29,400 --> 00:17:34,520 So justification comes first, then sanctification flows from 269 00:17:34,520 --> 00:17:39,200 it, and they cannot be confused. You cannot confuse justification 270 00:17:39,200 --> 00:17:42,360 and sanctification. You cannot replace each other. 271 00:17:42,880 --> 00:17:46,480 They must never be separated and they go together. 272 00:17:46,640 --> 00:17:52,080 Those who are justified will be sanctified as they yield to God 273 00:17:52,160 --> 00:17:54,520 more and more. Am I communicating here? 274 00:17:56,400 --> 00:17:59,800 So this is the great Thea. I mean the doctrine of 275 00:17:59,800 --> 00:18:02,680 justification by faith, which Paul introduces in chapter 2, 276 00:18:02,680 --> 00:18:06,000 verse 16. Know that a man is not justified 277 00:18:06,000 --> 00:18:09,400 by observing the law. It's not by doing the law, but 278 00:18:09,400 --> 00:18:12,680 by faith in Jesus Christ. We too have put our faith in 279 00:18:12,680 --> 00:18:15,120 Christ. They had the law, but it's not 280 00:18:15,120 --> 00:18:17,280 going to save them. So they also are putting faith 281 00:18:17,280 --> 00:18:19,080 in Jesus. That's what he's saying. 282 00:18:19,160 --> 00:18:22,920 We too have put our faith in Jesus, that we may be justified 283 00:18:22,920 --> 00:18:27,040 by faith in Christ and not by observing the law, because by 284 00:18:27,040 --> 00:18:30,200 observing the law no one will be justified. 285 00:18:30,760 --> 00:18:34,160 You cannot 100% follow the law, James writes. 286 00:18:35,280 --> 00:18:42,480 If somebody is not committing adultery but commits murder is 287 00:18:42,480 --> 00:18:44,600 all the same. You fail in one, you fail in the 288 00:18:44,600 --> 00:18:49,800 hole. There is no 85% marks, 90% 289 00:18:49,800 --> 00:18:52,600 marks, 99% pass. There is no nothing like that 290 00:18:52,600 --> 00:18:56,560 when it comes to law. One thing you commit sin, you 291 00:18:56,560 --> 00:19:00,400 are sin, you are a Sinner. There are no degrees there. 292 00:19:00,680 --> 00:19:03,640 Everybody is the same. So no one can 100% fulfill the 293 00:19:03,640 --> 00:19:06,280 law. Only one man born of the woman, 294 00:19:06,280 --> 00:19:09,160 virgin woman, which we are going to say the season is we are 295 00:19:09,160 --> 00:19:11,800 celebrating the season of Christ coming into the world. 296 00:19:11,960 --> 00:19:16,400 He alone lived without sin, fulfilling the law 100% and that 297 00:19:16,400 --> 00:19:19,600 he did for you and me. That's why we had to celebrate 298 00:19:19,600 --> 00:19:22,680 Christmas. You tell somebody why you want 299 00:19:22,680 --> 00:19:26,000 to be happy during Christmas because he's setting you free 300 00:19:26,000 --> 00:19:29,520 from obeying the law to get righteousness, to be counted as 301 00:19:29,520 --> 00:19:31,880 righteous. So this is good news. 302 00:19:32,560 --> 00:19:36,560 This is good news because all the world is trying to do 303 00:19:36,560 --> 00:19:40,880 something, to get something. And here are here we are 304 00:19:40,880 --> 00:19:44,200 Christians saying you have to do nothing just to believe in 305 00:19:44,200 --> 00:19:49,800 Jesus. That is just amazing to me. 306 00:19:49,800 --> 00:19:55,200 At least verse 17 if while we seek to be justified in Christ, 307 00:19:55,200 --> 00:19:57,920 it becomes evident that we ourselves are sinners. 308 00:19:58,280 --> 00:20:01,520 Does that mean that Christ promotes sin? 309 00:20:02,960 --> 00:20:07,840 Verse 17 can you find an NLT and put it on the screen please? 310 00:20:08,400 --> 00:20:11,480 New Living translation if possible because that was just 311 00:20:12,240 --> 00:20:16,280 of all the translations when I looked at verse 17 was making 312 00:20:16,280 --> 00:20:19,280 sense when you read in new living translation. 313 00:20:22,880 --> 00:20:25,480 But if in seeking to be justified in Christ. 314 00:20:25,480 --> 00:20:31,640 Oh, this is not NLT. We don't have NLT OK searching 315 00:20:31,640 --> 00:20:43,880 in OK as it comes up what he is trying to say here. 316 00:20:49,700 --> 00:20:52,980 I struggled to understand this was quite a lot I whole week or 317 00:20:52,980 --> 00:20:54,860 more than a week I have been thinking about. 318 00:20:55,140 --> 00:20:58,020 In fact, I did not preach on this last week because I wanted 319 00:20:58,020 --> 00:21:03,660 more time to study. So this is if you are going to 320 00:21:04,400 --> 00:21:08,320 is coming up, Yeah. If you are going to be justified 321 00:21:08,360 --> 00:21:10,080 by law, it's not going to happen. 322 00:21:10,640 --> 00:21:14,760 It's not going to happen. So you are being declared A 323 00:21:14,760 --> 00:21:19,560 Sinner by the law. So when you come to Christ and 324 00:21:19,560 --> 00:21:22,840 Christ is saying I forgive you, I have paid the price for you, I 325 00:21:22,840 --> 00:21:26,400 have taken the punishment, He is saying I forgive you. 326 00:21:26,720 --> 00:21:30,600 Is he promoting sin? No. 327 00:21:31,680 --> 00:21:34,440 Yep, it's up there. But suppose we seek to be made 328 00:21:34,440 --> 00:21:37,160 right with God through faith in Christ, and then we are found 329 00:21:37,160 --> 00:21:39,240 guilty because we have abandoned the law. 330 00:21:39,360 --> 00:21:41,400 Would that mean Christ has LED us into sin? 331 00:21:41,400 --> 00:21:44,040 Absolutely not. Now this is a different context. 332 00:21:44,200 --> 00:21:46,520 This is like, imagine Peter. Like this is where the whole 333 00:21:46,520 --> 00:21:48,880 context is. We have looked at it the week 334 00:21:48,880 --> 00:21:55,160 before, the week before where Paul confronted Peter because 335 00:21:55,640 --> 00:21:57,440 Peter used to eat with the Gentiles. 336 00:21:57,600 --> 00:22:01,520 It was a normal practice, but he moved away from it when certain 337 00:22:01,520 --> 00:22:04,600 Jews came from Jerusalem and looking. 338 00:22:04,600 --> 00:22:07,360 He stopped eating with the Gentiles and he started eating 339 00:22:07,360 --> 00:22:10,520 separately. Seeing Peter, Barnabas also was 340 00:22:10,520 --> 00:22:12,600 led into joining the joining Peter. 341 00:22:13,160 --> 00:22:16,480 What they were trying to do is that they are trying to say you 342 00:22:16,480 --> 00:22:21,240 have to obey the law. Gentiles don't have the law, so 343 00:22:21,240 --> 00:22:22,520 we cannot have fellowship with them. 344 00:22:22,920 --> 00:22:25,760 Now what they are trying to say, you have to be circumcised, you 345 00:22:25,760 --> 00:22:32,080 have to become like one of us. When you do that, what you are 346 00:22:32,080 --> 00:22:35,760 doing is you are actually. Is it coming up again? 347 00:22:35,800 --> 00:22:38,160 Yeah. So when, when, when we are found 348 00:22:38,160 --> 00:22:41,360 guilty because we have abandoned the law, would that mean Christ 349 00:22:41,360 --> 00:22:44,280 has LED us into sin? No, it is not that. 350 00:22:44,520 --> 00:22:48,360 By doing the law we are actually cancelling our own faith. 351 00:22:49,360 --> 00:22:53,120 You cannot have works and faith together, but at the same time, 352 00:22:53,120 --> 00:22:57,680 when you read the book of James, you are justified by works, he 353 00:22:57,680 --> 00:23:00,360 says. And Martin Luther had a big 354 00:23:00,360 --> 00:23:03,120 problem with the book of book of James. 355 00:23:03,320 --> 00:23:07,440 He didn't want to have it in the Bible at all because he was so 356 00:23:07,440 --> 00:23:09,120 strong on justification by faith. 357 00:23:09,360 --> 00:23:11,320 He didn't have anything to do with the works. 358 00:23:11,520 --> 00:23:14,160 But how do you know you are justified unless you show it by 359 00:23:14,160 --> 00:23:17,480 your character? That's the reason why we need to 360 00:23:17,480 --> 00:23:18,960 have, we need to have the book of James. 361 00:23:19,160 --> 00:23:21,280 And without Book of James, we will be lost. 362 00:23:22,160 --> 00:23:27,240 We will become sin, sinful Christians, we will be enjoying 363 00:23:27,240 --> 00:23:30,600 sin and at the same time saying, no, we are saved. 364 00:23:30,600 --> 00:23:32,320 It is going to be a contradiction. 365 00:23:32,320 --> 00:23:34,840 So we need Book of James. Without it, gospel is 366 00:23:34,840 --> 00:23:39,920 incomplete. Next, let's go into verse 18. 367 00:23:40,320 --> 00:23:43,920 If I rebuild what I destroyed, I prove that I am a lawbreaker. 368 00:23:44,600 --> 00:23:48,600 What is he trying to say here? If you again go back to the law 369 00:23:49,040 --> 00:23:51,720 again, force Gentiles should be circumcised. 370 00:23:52,000 --> 00:23:58,080 Now again you observe here, if I rebuild what I destroyed, he is 371 00:23:58,080 --> 00:24:03,240 using himself as an example. He is putting his name I Paul. 372 00:24:03,240 --> 00:24:05,640 You know what is he trying to do? 373 00:24:05,880 --> 00:24:09,680 He is trying to put an argument, a general, general argument, 374 00:24:09,920 --> 00:24:12,920 saying he talks about himself, but he is talking about 375 00:24:12,920 --> 00:24:14,960 everybody. He's not just talking about 376 00:24:14,960 --> 00:24:18,840 himself. Talking about everybody who is a 377 00:24:19,040 --> 00:24:23,040 Jew, has become a believer, have become a Christian. 378 00:24:23,240 --> 00:24:26,680 And if they go back to doing the law, then you are going to be in 379 00:24:26,680 --> 00:24:30,440 this position. If I rebuild what I destroyed, 380 00:24:30,720 --> 00:24:33,520 when you believe in Jesus, you are destroying the law. 381 00:24:33,520 --> 00:24:36,240 Basically you are deserting it. You are just walking away from 382 00:24:36,240 --> 00:24:41,080 it and believing in Jesus. When you go back to law again, 383 00:24:41,280 --> 00:24:43,160 you are rebuilding what you have broken down. 384 00:24:43,440 --> 00:24:48,040 You are a lawbreaker. You are a lawbreaker. 385 00:24:48,640 --> 00:24:51,880 That's the reason why verse 18 is important for through the 386 00:24:51,880 --> 00:24:55,280 law, Verse 19 for through the law. 387 00:24:55,480 --> 00:24:58,240 I died to the law so that I might live for God. 388 00:24:58,880 --> 00:25:00,440 Now what is he trying to say here? 389 00:25:01,440 --> 00:25:04,320 I'm telling you this, so much of wealth of information in the 390 00:25:04,320 --> 00:25:07,400 Scriptures, you need to sit down and study even after you listen 391 00:25:07,400 --> 00:25:12,160 to me sit and study because you have to get to grips with the 392 00:25:12,160 --> 00:25:16,160 Scripture, which will become a strong foundation and that will 393 00:25:16,160 --> 00:25:20,680 become a very big motive for you to live in holiness. 394 00:25:21,400 --> 00:25:22,920 We have to understand the Scripture. 395 00:25:23,280 --> 00:25:27,120 So verse 19, through the law, I die to the law. 396 00:25:27,720 --> 00:25:31,920 Basically what he is trying to say is that now when I try to do 397 00:25:31,920 --> 00:25:35,680 the law, I cannot do it. I cannot fulfill it. 398 00:25:36,120 --> 00:25:39,000 And you need to understand it. You will have to read Romans 399 00:25:39,000 --> 00:25:44,680 Chapter 7 where he talks about it with inwardly I rejoice in 400 00:25:44,680 --> 00:25:47,520 the law because law is good and law is holy. 401 00:25:47,680 --> 00:25:50,760 But I cannot do what I approve with my mind. 402 00:25:50,920 --> 00:25:52,920 I only end up doing what is wrong. 403 00:25:53,720 --> 00:25:56,840 And he he says who can deliver me from this death? 404 00:25:57,400 --> 00:26:01,440 Descendants of death it is. I'm telling you, everyone of us 405 00:26:01,440 --> 00:26:05,240 should be able to have the struggle with sin and have this 406 00:26:05,240 --> 00:26:08,480 concept of, oh, I cannot do it in my strength. 407 00:26:09,040 --> 00:26:12,280 Only then you realize and really become a good believer. 408 00:26:13,880 --> 00:26:18,760 I was a believer for many years, but I had a besetting sin. 409 00:26:19,160 --> 00:26:22,520 And when I commit sin, I feel guilty and I don't want to read 410 00:26:22,520 --> 00:26:24,800 the Bible. I don't want to pray and I don't 411 00:26:24,800 --> 00:26:27,880 want to do anything. And it takes me to come out of 412 00:26:27,880 --> 00:26:31,200 the guilt, takes me one week and then I'm recovering. 413 00:26:31,240 --> 00:26:34,600 And now I'm reading the Bible. I confess it, ask God to forgive 414 00:26:34,600 --> 00:26:37,680 me, wash me in his blood. And I begin to read the Word, 415 00:26:37,680 --> 00:26:40,320 begin to pray, and I'm going with my Christian business. 416 00:26:40,440 --> 00:26:42,880 And again I sin. It again takes me one week or 417 00:26:42,880 --> 00:26:45,680 two weeks again to recover. Have you had this struggle 418 00:26:45,680 --> 00:26:51,800 anytime? Yes, even if you said keep 419 00:26:51,800 --> 00:26:54,800 silent, it is not going to help. Why? 420 00:26:55,080 --> 00:26:57,000 It is the experience of everybody. 421 00:26:58,840 --> 00:27:01,680 No one can say no. I don't have the struggle there 422 00:27:01,680 --> 00:27:03,680 was. There were times I would cry out 423 00:27:03,680 --> 00:27:06,120 to God. Jesus you came and died on the 424 00:27:06,120 --> 00:27:08,400 cross to set me free from this sin. 425 00:27:08,560 --> 00:27:12,640 Why am I not being set free? Why am I not being set free? 426 00:27:12,840 --> 00:27:16,440 Why am I not being set free? Until you have the struggle with 427 00:27:16,440 --> 00:27:22,000 the sin and overcome it by faith in the name of Jesus, you do not 428 00:27:22,000 --> 00:27:24,720 experience the full power of the gospel. 429 00:27:26,040 --> 00:27:29,440 You are saved only when you understand with your mind the 430 00:27:29,440 --> 00:27:33,280 power of the cross what Jesus did for you on the cross. 431 00:27:33,560 --> 00:27:36,120 And if you are not struggling with sin and you are happy with 432 00:27:36,120 --> 00:27:41,480 the sin, you are not saved. It is very simple, simple test 433 00:27:41,800 --> 00:27:45,680 Are you saved or not saved? If you are comfortable with sin 434 00:27:46,320 --> 00:27:50,200 and you are not feeling guilty, you don't confess to Jesus again 435 00:27:50,400 --> 00:27:53,560 and ask him to forgive you and wash you in his blood, then you 436 00:27:53,560 --> 00:27:59,160 are just not saved at all. If you are saved, you cannot 437 00:27:59,160 --> 00:28:01,240 keep on sinning and be happy about it. 438 00:28:03,200 --> 00:28:08,160 But that is why scientification is process where you put to 439 00:28:08,160 --> 00:28:13,600 death the deeds of the flesh and overcome and walk in the power 440 00:28:13,600 --> 00:28:16,840 of the Holy Spirit. And you will say, I yield myself 441 00:28:16,840 --> 00:28:20,760 to the Holy Spirit, take all my emotions, take all my will, take 442 00:28:20,760 --> 00:28:24,400 over my mind, take over my heart, Help me to do what you 443 00:28:24,400 --> 00:28:27,000 want me to do. Help me not to compromise sin. 444 00:28:27,240 --> 00:28:30,040 And then the Holy Spirit will touch you and refresh you and 445 00:28:30,040 --> 00:28:35,320 give you power so that that sin does not dominate anymore. 446 00:28:38,000 --> 00:28:41,920 Actually, I want to tell you a story to begin with, I got 447 00:28:42,080 --> 00:28:46,120 carried away by I was 16. There is a man called Daniel. 448 00:28:46,520 --> 00:28:48,200 He is supposed to be a real story. 449 00:28:49,920 --> 00:28:52,520 And this man was a Christian, but he had a problem. 450 00:28:52,920 --> 00:28:56,840 The problem is he used to drink and he used to drink to such an 451 00:28:56,840 --> 00:29:00,760 extent where life becomes little bit impossible to carry on 452 00:29:00,760 --> 00:29:03,720 normally. So this this guy would you know 453 00:29:04,560 --> 00:29:08,880 every time he had a binge drinking and when he recovers 454 00:29:08,880 --> 00:29:12,560 from it he will make certain new rules for himself. 455 00:29:12,840 --> 00:29:18,680 Rules like I will never drink again rule number one. 456 00:29:19,200 --> 00:29:23,800 Rule #2 I will read 10 chapters of the Bible every day as a 457 00:29:23,800 --> 00:29:28,680 punishment. Rule #3 I will fast twice a 458 00:29:28,680 --> 00:29:33,040 week, 2 * 2 days in a week I'm going to fast. 459 00:29:33,040 --> 00:29:35,280 This is why because he doesn't want to drink again. 460 00:29:36,280 --> 00:29:39,720 Rule #4 I will pray. I will pray an hour every 461 00:29:39,720 --> 00:29:46,320 morning, and only he will find himself drinking again and he's 462 00:29:46,320 --> 00:29:50,080 hitting the bottom. And as a Christian guy, he 463 00:29:50,080 --> 00:29:54,280 looked at the life of Daniel one day and told Daniel, what did he 464 00:29:54,280 --> 00:29:58,640 say to him? Is Daniel, you're trying to save 465 00:29:58,640 --> 00:30:02,800 yourself with rules. You're trying to save yourself 466 00:30:02,800 --> 00:30:05,920 with rules. Christ didn't die to give you 467 00:30:05,920 --> 00:30:09,360 more rules. He did not die to give you more 468 00:30:09,360 --> 00:30:13,400 rules. He died so you can be dead along 469 00:30:13,400 --> 00:30:16,520 with Him. That drinking, that struggle 470 00:30:16,520 --> 00:30:19,120 we've seen that domination of the self. 471 00:30:19,120 --> 00:30:23,680 The whole fleshly life has ended already. 472 00:30:24,120 --> 00:30:25,760 You're thinking that you have to fight it. 473 00:30:25,760 --> 00:30:28,840 No, you cannot fight it. You have to accept that you are 474 00:30:28,840 --> 00:30:32,440 dead in Christ. And when you are, when you 475 00:30:32,440 --> 00:30:34,720 accept that you are dead in Christ, you are buried with, you 476 00:30:34,720 --> 00:30:36,840 are raised up with him, you are seated with him in the heavenly 477 00:30:36,840 --> 00:30:39,800 realms. That is the time that power to 478 00:30:39,800 --> 00:30:42,880 say no to the next demon of the flesh comes. 479 00:30:46,840 --> 00:30:50,440 So Daniel, what did you do that night? 480 00:30:50,800 --> 00:30:54,200 He went and said, Jesus, I can't make myself righteous. 481 00:30:54,480 --> 00:30:58,200 I can't stop drinking by my own power, by my own effort. 482 00:30:58,720 --> 00:31:02,320 And Jesus, I can't make myself righteous. 483 00:31:02,440 --> 00:31:06,840 I need your life in me. I want you to live in me. 484 00:31:07,000 --> 00:31:09,560 Jesus, can you live your life in me? 485 00:31:09,640 --> 00:31:13,680 I want you to walk into me, come into my heart, live your life in 486 00:31:13,680 --> 00:31:16,960 me, so that I will not want to do anything on my own. 487 00:31:17,040 --> 00:31:23,440 I want you to live in me. And that day the Holy Spirit set 488 00:31:23,440 --> 00:31:26,440 him free. Something shifted then he 489 00:31:26,440 --> 00:31:30,000 started going to a group, confessing that I am a drunkard, 490 00:31:30,120 --> 00:31:32,600 but I want to be set free. People gather around him, they 491 00:31:32,600 --> 00:31:35,720 gave support, and in a very short time he became a 492 00:31:35,720 --> 00:31:41,960 victorious Christian. The beginning of victory starts 493 00:31:41,960 --> 00:31:46,560 calling sin sin. You call it by any other name. 494 00:31:47,040 --> 00:31:50,280 You are not going to win any other name. 495 00:31:50,480 --> 00:31:53,080 You are going to put it under the rug, under the carpet. 496 00:31:53,600 --> 00:31:56,520 It will resurface it again. You'll come up again. 497 00:31:57,160 --> 00:32:01,840 You have to call sin a sin. Only then your first step to 498 00:32:01,840 --> 00:32:09,590 victory begins. There was a guy who was 499 00:32:09,590 --> 00:32:14,470 sentenced to death and the king was standing there to oversee 500 00:32:14,470 --> 00:32:18,630 the execution. So out of mercy, the king says 501 00:32:18,630 --> 00:32:23,830 to the guy, hey, before you're executed, do you have a do you 502 00:32:23,830 --> 00:32:27,510 have any wish? He said, I want a glass of water 503 00:32:27,510 --> 00:32:30,280 to drink. So he was given a glass of water 504 00:32:31,000 --> 00:32:35,920 and he picked up in his hand and he was overcome with fear and he 505 00:32:35,920 --> 00:32:40,720 started shaking and he wanted to drink but he cannot bring the 506 00:32:40,720 --> 00:32:43,440 glass to his mouth. It was just shaking and shaking 507 00:32:43,440 --> 00:32:46,080 and shaking. And the king said to that guy, 508 00:32:47,760 --> 00:32:52,040 be cheerful. You will not be executed until 509 00:32:52,040 --> 00:32:56,840 you drink that glass of water. You will not die until you 510 00:32:56,840 --> 00:33:00,320 finish the glass of water. So what did the guy do? 511 00:33:00,520 --> 00:33:04,240 He took the king on his word and dropped the glass. 512 00:33:04,560 --> 00:33:07,120 It hit the ground and broke into pieces. 513 00:33:09,240 --> 00:33:09,880 What is it? What? 514 00:33:09,880 --> 00:33:12,120 What am I saying to you? Was he executed? 515 00:33:13,880 --> 00:33:17,960 No, he escaped the execution because he took the king at his 516 00:33:17,960 --> 00:33:20,240 word and dropped the glass and broke it. 517 00:33:21,120 --> 00:33:24,120 Now how can you drink that water unless you get another glass and 518 00:33:24,120 --> 00:33:25,720 another water? No, that's not. 519 00:33:25,720 --> 00:33:29,400 He cannot be executed on that reason on the ground. 520 00:33:30,040 --> 00:33:33,560 So we need to have that kind of a common sense to take God at 521 00:33:33,560 --> 00:33:35,720 his word. You have to believe his word 522 00:33:35,800 --> 00:33:38,800 when you come to Christ. You had to say my struggle with 523 00:33:38,800 --> 00:33:43,000 sin is over because when he died, I died with him when he 524 00:33:43,000 --> 00:33:45,840 was buried and buried with him when he rose again, I have I 525 00:33:45,840 --> 00:33:48,040 have been raised with him because he's seated with the 526 00:33:48,040 --> 00:33:51,400 right now, the Father. I am sitting in him right now. 527 00:33:51,600 --> 00:33:55,160 And when you have to do this again and again and again, tell 528 00:33:55,160 --> 00:33:59,800 yourself, because that's the the only way you learn and walk in 529 00:33:59,800 --> 00:34:03,320 victory is by repetition. You have to confess it with your 530 00:34:03,320 --> 00:34:07,120 mouth. You have to know who, who you 531 00:34:07,120 --> 00:34:08,560 are. Your new identity. 532 00:34:08,639 --> 00:34:10,800 You are not a Sinner anymore in Christ. 533 00:34:10,800 --> 00:34:12,800 You are the child of God. You're a daughter of God. 534 00:34:12,840 --> 00:34:15,120 You're a son of God. You have to say to yourself, 535 00:34:15,239 --> 00:34:18,360 hey, you cannot do the sin anymore because you're a son of 536 00:34:18,360 --> 00:34:19,600 God. You're a daughter of God. 537 00:34:22,760 --> 00:34:26,360 There is a place for confession. There are many confessions that 538 00:34:26,360 --> 00:34:30,360 are available in on the net if you want to find them. 539 00:34:30,600 --> 00:34:34,440 New creation realities and so many things and you have to do 540 00:34:34,440 --> 00:34:36,920 it over and over and again. Every day. 541 00:34:36,920 --> 00:34:38,880 Confess it. 30 minutes you confess it. 542 00:34:39,080 --> 00:34:42,320 There was a guy who went to a seminar conducted by Neil 543 00:34:42,320 --> 00:34:46,480 Anderson and in that he, he gives them a sheet of paper 544 00:34:46,679 --> 00:34:49,280 containing lots of confessions to make. 545 00:34:49,639 --> 00:34:53,880 And one guy he travelled by car five hours he drove to the 546 00:34:53,880 --> 00:34:55,719 conference. When he was going back, he 547 00:34:55,719 --> 00:35:00,360 decided I will meditate and make this confessions as I drive back 548 00:35:00,560 --> 00:35:04,440 for five hours he kept on confessing I'm a new creation 549 00:35:04,680 --> 00:35:06,360 and all things would have passed away. 550 00:35:06,480 --> 00:35:09,400 Everything has become new, all those kinds of one after the 551 00:35:09,400 --> 00:35:10,920 other. He started confessing I have 552 00:35:10,920 --> 00:35:13,400 been justified by faith, therefore I'm not coming 553 00:35:13,400 --> 00:35:15,240 anymore. No condemnation for me anymore. 554 00:35:15,600 --> 00:35:18,760 And afterwards when Neil Anderson came to know about 555 00:35:18,760 --> 00:35:22,720 this, he asked him what was the experience like confessing for 556 00:35:22,720 --> 00:35:29,720 five hours. He just said unimaginable life 557 00:35:29,720 --> 00:35:33,960 transforming. Why are Christians weak today? 558 00:35:34,120 --> 00:35:36,160 Because they failed to confess the word. 559 00:35:36,720 --> 00:35:39,600 You have to confess what the Bible says you are. 560 00:35:40,600 --> 00:35:43,520 You are simply by confession. What you are saying is you are 561 00:35:43,520 --> 00:35:49,480 agreeing with Bible who you are and when you keep doing it, you 562 00:35:49,480 --> 00:35:55,320 become like what the Bible says you should be agreed. 563 00:35:56,600 --> 00:36:01,640 Can we shout Hallelujah? Let's find a source of 564 00:36:01,640 --> 00:36:06,040 confessions and if you want one send me a text or send me an 565 00:36:06,040 --> 00:36:08,640 e-mail. I will send you 4 or 5 pages of 566 00:36:08,640 --> 00:36:11,000 confessions. It will take you 30-40 minutes. 567 00:36:11,000 --> 00:36:13,360 We are walking up and now reading it every day will take 568 00:36:13,360 --> 00:36:17,440 at least 30 minutes, but you will not be the same. 569 00:36:19,160 --> 00:36:21,760 You will not be the same. You have to not only say it, 570 00:36:21,840 --> 00:36:27,680 believe it and you will be transformed and that the process 571 00:36:27,680 --> 00:36:31,880 of sanctification kicks in, in higher gear into your life, but 572 00:36:31,880 --> 00:36:35,880 the confession part. So now let's come to five more 573 00:36:35,880 --> 00:36:39,880 minutes. Sometimes I get carried away. 574 00:36:39,880 --> 00:36:45,160 You know so much of the study of the Word, it just inspires me to 575 00:36:45,160 --> 00:36:47,720 no end. So verse 20, let's come to verse 576 00:36:47,720 --> 00:36:49,720 20. I have been crucified with 577 00:36:49,720 --> 00:36:53,960 Christ and I no longer live, but Christ lives in me, the life I 578 00:36:53,960 --> 00:36:56,800 live in the body. I live by faith in the Son of 579 00:36:56,800 --> 00:36:59,120 God who loved me and gave himself for me. 580 00:36:59,840 --> 00:37:03,600 This is the most quoted scripture of Paul. 581 00:37:03,840 --> 00:37:08,200 Galatians 220 is no longer either live but scratches who 582 00:37:08,200 --> 00:37:11,240 lives in me and reigns in me. What a beautiful verse it is. 583 00:37:11,320 --> 00:37:13,880 There are few things that I want you to take away this morning 584 00:37:14,000 --> 00:37:19,000 from that one single verse. First thing is I have been 585 00:37:19,000 --> 00:37:21,800 crucified with Christ. Everybody say I have been 586 00:37:21,800 --> 00:37:26,320 crucified with Christ. So who is living then? 587 00:37:29,000 --> 00:37:31,320 If you have been crucified with Christ, who is living now? 588 00:37:33,280 --> 00:37:36,640 He has to live in US. So first thing is that we had to 589 00:37:36,640 --> 00:37:38,520 realize that we have been crucified with Christ. 590 00:37:38,880 --> 00:37:44,480 Now this is easily said than done because I have gone through 591 00:37:44,480 --> 00:37:47,120 this struggle myself so many times. 592 00:37:47,120 --> 00:37:51,440 When I fall in sin, I said, oh I have died with Christ. 593 00:37:51,600 --> 00:37:53,800 My life has been already placed in him. 594 00:37:53,800 --> 00:37:55,960 I have died. But why am I committing sin? 595 00:37:56,000 --> 00:37:58,160 Because I am. I am trying to live on my own. 596 00:37:59,640 --> 00:38:02,760 When you try to live on your own, you will be defeated. 597 00:38:04,440 --> 00:38:08,520 It is very simple. You have to hide in Christ. 598 00:38:09,440 --> 00:38:12,320 As Paul writes to Colossians, your life is hid with Christ, 599 00:38:12,400 --> 00:38:16,640 with with Christ in God. Your life is hid with Christ and 600 00:38:16,640 --> 00:38:21,480 Christ in God. And because of that truth, you 601 00:38:21,480 --> 00:38:25,160 have to hide in Christ. And when the temptation comes, 602 00:38:25,480 --> 00:38:29,600 you tell Jesus, you answer the temptation, you answer the 603 00:38:29,600 --> 00:38:32,640 temptation. And after half an hour or one 604 00:38:32,640 --> 00:38:34,440 hour or one day, the temptation will be gone. 605 00:38:34,440 --> 00:38:37,600 It will not have any dominion on you anymore because you are not 606 00:38:37,600 --> 00:38:40,600 trying to live in your strength. You're telling Jesus to face it. 607 00:38:42,960 --> 00:38:47,520 Cool. So my old self is dead. 608 00:38:47,880 --> 00:38:50,800 When Christ died for me, I died with him. 609 00:38:51,440 --> 00:38:53,360 When he died for me, I died with him. 610 00:38:53,920 --> 00:38:59,640 You may ask me, Oh, I was born only 30 or 40 years ago, how am 611 00:38:59,640 --> 00:39:02,720 I placed in Christ? This is the mystery of the 612 00:39:02,720 --> 00:39:05,160 world. Life of Christ is not. 613 00:39:05,160 --> 00:39:08,440 He did not live for himself. He lived on behalf of the fallen 614 00:39:08,440 --> 00:39:13,400 race, the life of Christ. He lived on behalf of everyone 615 00:39:13,400 --> 00:39:16,200 in every country, continent, language, color. 616 00:39:16,480 --> 00:39:20,640 He lived for everybody. And when he defeated Satan, he 617 00:39:20,640 --> 00:39:23,120 defeated Satan on behalf of you and me. 618 00:39:23,360 --> 00:39:27,120 And that is the mystery when that's the reason why you accept 619 00:39:27,120 --> 00:39:30,920 clash by faith. You are accepting He died for 620 00:39:30,920 --> 00:39:34,200 you on the cross. Then your sins are not only 621 00:39:34,200 --> 00:39:38,280 remitted, you receive the Holy Spirit who becomes your source 622 00:39:38,280 --> 00:39:42,600 of power. That is why we have to 1st 623 00:39:42,600 --> 00:39:44,720 realize that we have been crucified with Christ. 624 00:39:44,920 --> 00:39:47,360 Then I no longer live, but Christ lives in me. 625 00:39:48,040 --> 00:39:50,800 So this is an exchange you are making with Christ. 626 00:39:51,080 --> 00:39:53,800 Even though you are not on the earth, when Christ died for you, 627 00:39:54,080 --> 00:39:57,200 You are born. Now after 2000 years, you are 628 00:39:57,200 --> 00:40:00,240 accepting that He died, lived for you, died for you and you 629 00:40:00,240 --> 00:40:04,800 are telling him, OK, you stepped into my life and you died in my 630 00:40:04,800 --> 00:40:07,800 place. Now I want to step into you and 631 00:40:07,800 --> 00:40:10,920 live my life for you. How does it sound? 632 00:40:13,480 --> 00:40:16,000 He stepped into your life and died for you. 633 00:40:16,720 --> 00:40:18,880 Now you step into His life and live for Him. 634 00:40:20,080 --> 00:40:23,400 Exchange, the great exchange, that's what the theorists call 635 00:40:23,400 --> 00:40:25,800 it, the great exchange. You're exchanging your sinful 636 00:40:25,800 --> 00:40:33,920 life for the holy life of Jesus. But Christ lives in me, the life 637 00:40:33,920 --> 00:40:36,920 I live in the body. I live by faith in the Son of 638 00:40:36,920 --> 00:40:39,720 God. Now this is a very important 639 00:40:40,000 --> 00:40:44,160 part of the Scripture is how do you live this life? 640 00:40:44,480 --> 00:40:47,480 You have to live the life. I live in body. 641 00:40:47,600 --> 00:40:49,840 I live by faith. In the son of. 642 00:40:49,840 --> 00:40:56,200 God, it is not an event. It is not an event. 643 00:40:56,360 --> 00:41:01,120 It's a process. It's not that you do it 10 years 644 00:41:01,120 --> 00:41:04,080 ago. God, Jesus, I know you died for 645 00:41:04,080 --> 00:41:05,600 me. I exchanged my life for your 646 00:41:05,600 --> 00:41:10,680 life. What happens afterwards is not 647 00:41:10,680 --> 00:41:12,440 an event. If it is an event, you have been 648 00:41:12,440 --> 00:41:14,520 declared righteous and you remain righteous. 649 00:41:14,520 --> 00:41:16,200 You become holy, you remain holy. 650 00:41:16,440 --> 00:41:19,000 It doesn't happen like that. You are still struggling with 651 00:41:19,120 --> 00:41:21,280 sin. You have struggled the last 10 652 00:41:21,280 --> 00:41:22,240 years. You are going to struggle with 653 00:41:22,240 --> 00:41:25,600 the next few more years until we come to that point where we 654 00:41:25,600 --> 00:41:29,920 allow Jesus to take over and we allow Him to live. 655 00:41:30,520 --> 00:41:32,360 I am telling you this is something I am. 656 00:41:32,360 --> 00:41:34,360 What I am telling you is from my heart. 657 00:41:34,760 --> 00:41:38,920 I have gone through the struggle for when God gives me a victory 658 00:41:38,920 --> 00:41:42,920 in certain sin, I will live in victory for a short time, maybe 659 00:41:42,920 --> 00:41:45,880 six months or three months or six months. 660 00:41:46,360 --> 00:41:49,320 And sometimes I wonder, huh, have I lost my ability to commit 661 00:41:49,320 --> 00:41:51,960 sin? And then I deliberately commit 662 00:41:51,960 --> 00:41:55,320 sin and then that I become a slave to the sin again. 663 00:41:56,680 --> 00:42:01,000 Three or four times the Lord gave me V3 or four times I have 664 00:42:01,640 --> 00:42:04,800 I experimented with sin and I allowed myself to be ruled by 665 00:42:04,800 --> 00:42:07,920 Satan again. So what is the problem here is 666 00:42:07,920 --> 00:42:12,000 every Christian when he comes to Christ with integrity, with the 667 00:42:12,000 --> 00:42:16,720 desire to be holy like He wants us to be, and you yield to him, 668 00:42:16,760 --> 00:42:20,240 He gives you victory. You will look at certain things 669 00:42:20,360 --> 00:42:23,440 which was a source of temptation or no more a source of 670 00:42:23,440 --> 00:42:26,280 temptation because you asked Jesus to help you. 671 00:42:26,440 --> 00:42:29,440 And the Holy Spirit agrees with you and He gives you power over 672 00:42:29,440 --> 00:42:31,480 the same situation which you have been defeated. 673 00:42:33,040 --> 00:42:35,960 But you, you, you lose that thing one day. 674 00:42:37,120 --> 00:42:38,840 Why am I not being tempted anymore? 675 00:42:39,680 --> 00:42:43,080 And I want to try. I haven't lost the power to sin. 676 00:42:43,600 --> 00:42:46,680 And you commit sin. Bang, you become a slave again. 677 00:42:47,280 --> 00:42:49,040 You cry out for two or three years again. 678 00:42:49,160 --> 00:42:51,800 God, I wanted victory again. I want the victory again. 679 00:42:51,920 --> 00:42:54,760 And in His mercy the Holy Spirit comes and gives you the power 680 00:42:54,760 --> 00:42:57,640 again and sets you free. Only you are free for a month or 681 00:42:57,640 --> 00:42:59,840 six. And then you again commit sin 682 00:42:59,960 --> 00:43:02,440 because you think you have lost ability to commit sin. 683 00:43:04,080 --> 00:43:07,880 Am I making sense? This we had to overcome. 684 00:43:09,680 --> 00:43:13,600 We had to overcome. We had to count ourselves dead 685 00:43:13,600 --> 00:43:16,640 in Christ, buried with Christ, raised up with Christ. 686 00:43:16,800 --> 00:43:19,720 And I tell you, it has to be an experience. 687 00:43:19,960 --> 00:43:23,200 It's not theory. It's not perception that you 688 00:43:23,200 --> 00:43:24,760 have to understand with your mind. 689 00:43:24,840 --> 00:43:26,440 It's not an intellectual exercise. 690 00:43:26,560 --> 00:43:30,560 It is something you have to understand with your spirit, in 691 00:43:30,560 --> 00:43:33,320 your spirit you have to understand that you're one with 692 00:43:33,320 --> 00:43:38,000 Christ, the union with Christ. You have to say it several times 693 00:43:38,000 --> 00:43:40,320 in a day. Morning, thank you God for 694 00:43:40,360 --> 00:43:43,200 making me one with Christ. Afternoon, Lord, I thank you. 695 00:43:43,200 --> 00:43:45,520 I'm one with Christ. Thank you Lord Jesus. 696 00:43:45,600 --> 00:43:47,760 I'm one with Christ. I'm in union with Christ. 697 00:43:47,840 --> 00:43:51,040 His life is he's living in me. He's no longer I that live. 698 00:43:51,120 --> 00:43:53,120 It's Christ who lives in me and reigns in me. 699 00:43:53,280 --> 00:43:57,160 Give him the control, make him King and don't do anything on 700 00:43:57,160 --> 00:43:59,880 your own until you say hear from him. 701 00:44:00,280 --> 00:44:04,800 You will be living in victory that besetting sin. 702 00:44:04,920 --> 00:44:07,600 You will walk under your feet and it will not tempt you 703 00:44:07,600 --> 00:44:08,800 anymore. Why? 704 00:44:09,000 --> 00:44:12,720 Because you allowing Christ to Christ to reign in you as King. 705 00:44:12,880 --> 00:44:17,280 You are allowing the Holy Spirit to one simple thing I need if I 706 00:44:17,280 --> 00:44:19,280 take extra time. Also, it is very important for 707 00:44:19,280 --> 00:44:23,800 you, for me to speak to you is confessing the bread of Christ 708 00:44:23,920 --> 00:44:26,920 will set you free for the besetting sin. 709 00:44:28,720 --> 00:44:31,120 Confessing the bread of Christ. Lord, cover me with your blood, 710 00:44:31,280 --> 00:44:34,240 cover me with your blood. And as you plead the bread of 711 00:44:34,240 --> 00:44:39,000 Christ, that that temptation will pass by you, you will not 712 00:44:39,000 --> 00:44:42,880 fall in that area. Confessing the blood. 713 00:44:42,880 --> 00:44:47,000 This power, this power in confessing the blood, this 714 00:44:47,000 --> 00:44:51,480 discovered after 3035 years of being a Christian, There is 715 00:44:51,480 --> 00:44:54,920 power in confessing the blood. I learned after many many years, 716 00:44:54,920 --> 00:44:58,520 3 decades or more. And after I received that 717 00:44:58,520 --> 00:45:04,960 understanding, my falling has been reduced greatly. 718 00:45:06,120 --> 00:45:09,520 I would say greatly why I'm still in the flesh. 719 00:45:09,720 --> 00:45:13,600 I can fall in one area or the another, but it is not for long. 720 00:45:14,080 --> 00:45:16,960 I will rise up and say God forgive me, wash me your blood 721 00:45:17,320 --> 00:45:18,720 and start walking with him again. 722 00:45:19,480 --> 00:45:23,640 And praying in tanks is the key. When you pray in tongues, you 723 00:45:23,640 --> 00:45:27,000 are allowing the Holy Spirit to fill you, charge you. 724 00:45:27,440 --> 00:45:29,840 And he is not for nothing that God gives you a gift. 725 00:45:30,000 --> 00:45:34,160 He gives that gift to everybody. No one can say that's not for 726 00:45:34,160 --> 00:45:36,320 me. You say I want it. 727 00:45:37,360 --> 00:45:39,880 The Holy Spirit says I'm ready, Are you ready? 728 00:45:40,560 --> 00:45:43,040 I want to come into you. I want to give you the gift. 729 00:45:43,280 --> 00:45:45,880 As you pray in tongues, you're filled with the Holy Spirit and 730 00:45:45,880 --> 00:45:49,160 you will trample down snakes and all of our enemy because you 731 00:45:49,160 --> 00:45:50,520 have the power of the Holy Ghost. 732 00:45:50,920 --> 00:45:57,120 This is just a a mechanism, a tool or a means of grace that 733 00:45:57,120 --> 00:45:59,920 God has given us that we may walk in holiness. 734 00:46:01,360 --> 00:46:05,840 If somebody says I am not walking in holiness, I have been 735 00:46:05,840 --> 00:46:08,240 a believer, I would say. Have you received the Holy 736 00:46:08,240 --> 00:46:09,960 Ghost? Yeah, Holy Spirit is already in 737 00:46:09,960 --> 00:46:11,080 me. Do you speak in tongues? 738 00:46:11,960 --> 00:46:15,040 No. Then you are depriving yourself 739 00:46:15,040 --> 00:46:19,320 of one of the best tools God has provided to walk in holiness. 740 00:46:20,760 --> 00:46:24,040 This is out of experience. I'm telling you, I was not 741 00:46:24,040 --> 00:46:27,160 praying in tanks for many decades, but now I see the 742 00:46:27,160 --> 00:46:28,960 difference when I pray in tanks, what happens? 743 00:46:28,960 --> 00:46:31,880 I know when you pray in tanks, you are filled. 744 00:46:31,880 --> 00:46:34,040 You are charging yourself with the power of the Holy Ghost. 745 00:46:35,080 --> 00:46:38,080 And that's how it is going to change everything for you and 746 00:46:38,080 --> 00:46:40,680 me. And let's come back to the 747 00:46:40,680 --> 00:46:42,960 scripture here again. Who loved me and gave Himself 748 00:46:42,960 --> 00:46:45,360 for me so. He. 749 00:46:45,360 --> 00:46:49,480 Loved and he gave himself for me and I am yielding to him and I 750 00:46:49,480 --> 00:46:52,480 am allowing him to live in me. I am in union with Christ. 751 00:46:52,560 --> 00:46:55,200 There is a word union. You know this is this is very 752 00:46:55,200 --> 00:46:57,000 difficult concept for us to understand. 753 00:46:57,360 --> 00:47:01,960 When you when you read book of Ephesians and look into any 754 00:47:01,960 --> 00:47:05,480 commentary on it. There is a simple small 755 00:47:05,640 --> 00:47:10,760 preposition in English called in, IN, in, in Greek it is 756 00:47:10,960 --> 00:47:14,600 north, epsilon N, noon, noon, whatever. 757 00:47:14,600 --> 00:47:18,280 It is north. And that simply is not just in. 758 00:47:18,280 --> 00:47:22,880 It is not like this is your putting into another box. 759 00:47:23,480 --> 00:47:26,400 It's not like that. It is union. 760 00:47:27,760 --> 00:47:32,200 You and Christ become one and that's called a union union. 761 00:47:32,400 --> 00:47:36,880 And when you are in union with Christ, the dominion of sin, 762 00:47:37,040 --> 00:47:38,560 dominion of Satan will be broken. 763 00:47:40,440 --> 00:47:44,480 Say I am in union with Christ, I am one with Christ. 764 00:47:45,640 --> 00:47:48,200 His life is filling me and flowing through me. 765 00:47:50,520 --> 00:47:56,520 I will not be defeated, defeated by sin because His Spirit is 766 00:47:56,520 --> 00:48:00,440 living in me. I cover myself with the bread of 767 00:48:00,440 --> 00:48:07,640 Christ and He, the blood of Christ, sanctifies me, makes me 768 00:48:07,640 --> 00:48:10,920 clean. What am I trying to do? 769 00:48:11,000 --> 00:48:13,400 I am trying to help you to make some confessions. 770 00:48:14,080 --> 00:48:17,080 Now you go home, do some research or come to me. 771 00:48:17,080 --> 00:48:19,760 I'll give you a list of things to confess as you do it. 772 00:48:19,760 --> 00:48:22,280 After one month, tell me if your Christian life is the same. 773 00:48:23,960 --> 00:48:27,160 It will not be the same. It will not be the same. 774 00:48:28,280 --> 00:48:30,840 I give you a guarantee. Why? 775 00:48:31,000 --> 00:48:34,600 I have experienced it myself. I have experienced myself. 776 00:48:34,800 --> 00:48:40,480 You will have 360° rotation in your life and you will walk in 777 00:48:40,480 --> 00:48:42,560 victory. That is what Paul is saying 778 00:48:42,560 --> 00:48:44,880 here. The law will not set you free, 779 00:48:45,080 --> 00:48:47,000 but faith in Christ will set you free. 780 00:48:47,640 --> 00:48:51,880 The law will only make you prove 100,000 times that you are a 781 00:48:51,880 --> 00:48:53,160 Sinner. You are a Sinner, You are a 782 00:48:53,160 --> 00:48:56,760 Sinner because you fail. But when you come to Christ, He 783 00:48:56,760 --> 00:48:59,200 gives you grace and makes you a winner. 784 00:49:00,520 --> 00:49:03,920 And this has to be experienced which is open to everyone who 785 00:49:03,920 --> 00:49:07,600 believes in Jesus. Walking in victory is your 786 00:49:07,600 --> 00:49:11,760 inheritance, growing in holiness is your inheritance because God 787 00:49:11,760 --> 00:49:14,000 commanded be holy, for I am holy. 788 00:49:14,120 --> 00:49:17,240 That is the standard. We accept nothing less than 789 00:49:17,240 --> 00:49:18,680 that. And when you come to that 790 00:49:18,680 --> 00:49:21,920 position, the Holy Spirit says I am ready to help you. 791 00:49:23,480 --> 00:49:25,560 I am very pleased that you accept my standard. 792 00:49:26,520 --> 00:49:30,920 I want to help you. So after that you come to verse 793 00:49:30,920 --> 00:49:32,320 21. I will finish quickly. 794 00:49:34,080 --> 00:49:42,880 Verse 21 What does it say? I do not set aside the grace of 795 00:49:42,880 --> 00:49:45,960 God, but if righteousness could be gained through the law, 796 00:49:46,160 --> 00:49:50,120 Christ died for nothing. What is he trying to say? 797 00:49:50,120 --> 00:49:51,720 He's covering so many things here. 798 00:49:52,240 --> 00:49:55,280 Peter was preaching the gospel by faith. 799 00:49:55,920 --> 00:49:58,720 He went to Cornelius House, he preached the gospel. 800 00:49:58,800 --> 00:50:01,560 Jeddahs became Christians, and he started preaching everywhere 801 00:50:01,560 --> 00:50:04,160 the same gospel. And now he comes to Antioch and 802 00:50:04,160 --> 00:50:07,840 he is now siding with the Jewish people, draws away from them, 803 00:50:07,920 --> 00:50:10,280 stops eating with them, stop saying fellowship with them. 804 00:50:10,400 --> 00:50:12,240 He's saying you should be circumcised. 805 00:50:12,400 --> 00:50:15,120 What is he trying to do is resurrecting what is dead? 806 00:50:15,480 --> 00:50:18,680 The law has been crucified on the cross. 807 00:50:18,840 --> 00:50:22,000 Jesus crucified the law so that you can be set free from the 808 00:50:22,000 --> 00:50:24,520 law, so you can become a new creation, so you can have the 809 00:50:24,520 --> 00:50:27,480 Holy Spirit living in you, that you can become completely new 810 00:50:27,520 --> 00:50:30,280 and powerful Christian. That is his will for you. 811 00:50:30,480 --> 00:50:33,560 And you come back to making rules like Daniel did about 812 00:50:33,560 --> 00:50:36,160 quitting his drinking. You are going to be defeated 813 00:50:36,160 --> 00:50:40,920 again. Does it make sense? 814 00:50:42,520 --> 00:50:47,480 Shall we pray? Father, we thank you for your 815 00:50:47,480 --> 00:50:50,120 word. There is power in your word, 816 00:50:50,760 --> 00:50:54,640 there is life in your word. Ah, we praise you, we praise 817 00:50:54,640 --> 00:50:59,800 you, we praise you, my Lord, which is inexhaustible wealth in 818 00:50:59,800 --> 00:51:02,000 the cross, in understanding the cross. 819 00:51:02,200 --> 00:51:06,880 No one has completely exhausted the power of the cross. 820 00:51:07,720 --> 00:51:10,720 But Lord, we can experience the power of the cross in a real 821 00:51:10,800 --> 00:51:14,320 time in our life. So I pray right now help your 822 00:51:14,320 --> 00:51:19,080 children to make the transaction and to surrender their old self, 823 00:51:19,240 --> 00:51:23,400 surrender their old life, surrender the flesh and take you 824 00:51:23,880 --> 00:51:25,840 and believe that they are one with you. 825 00:51:26,080 --> 00:51:29,400 And when they are one with you, your life will begin to flow. 826 00:51:29,760 --> 00:51:32,680 And when they are separated from you, the flesh will overtake and 827 00:51:32,680 --> 00:51:35,360 dominate. So in the name of Jesus, I pray 828 00:51:35,360 --> 00:51:38,680 now for your children that everyone will know and 829 00:51:38,680 --> 00:51:42,680 understand and walk in victory from today in a new way by the 830 00:51:42,680 --> 00:51:46,800 power of the Holy Spirit. I commend the children to your 831 00:51:46,800 --> 00:51:49,080 grace. Holy Spirit, take over. 832 00:51:49,520 --> 00:51:51,760 Help them to know that they are new creation. 833 00:51:51,880 --> 00:51:54,520 Help them to confess it. Help them to walk in victory. 834 00:51:54,600 --> 00:51:56,240 Help them to fill the Holy Spirit. 835 00:51:56,440 --> 00:51:59,440 And I pray the gifts of the Holy Spirit will be manifest in them 836 00:51:59,720 --> 00:52:03,240 through them bringing the Kingdom of God into the world 837 00:52:03,240 --> 00:52:07,040 around them to the glory of your name, Jesus, mighty name. 838 00:52:07,040 --> 00:52:11,560 We ask and everybody says Amen, Amen. 839 00:52:14,760 --> 00:52:18,000 Thanks for joining us at Omega. If you need prayer for healing 840 00:52:18,000 --> 00:52:20,920 or breakthrough, or simply to find out more, please head to 841 00:52:20,920 --> 00:52:23,280 our website or Facebook page in the links below.