1 00:00:03,320 --> 00:00:05,960 Welcome to the Liberty Baptist Sermon Archives. 2 00:00:06,200 --> 00:00:09,040 The message you're about to hear was preached at Liberty Baptist 3 00:00:09,040 --> 00:00:13,040 Church in Easton, MA. You can find out more about us 4 00:00:13,040 --> 00:00:17,120 or contact us at mylibertybaptist.org or just 5 00:00:17,120 --> 00:00:19,760 look us up on Facebook. And now we hope that this 6 00:00:19,760 --> 00:00:22,040 message from God's Word will be a blessing to you. 7 00:00:24,520 --> 00:00:27,240 When you turn your Bibles please to 1st Corinthians chapter #6, 8 00:00:27,240 --> 00:00:29,640 we're back in First Corinthians chapter #6. 9 00:00:30,040 --> 00:00:32,360 You know, this time of year you hear people say something like 10 00:00:32,360 --> 00:00:34,440 this, don't you put Christ back in Christmas? 11 00:00:34,480 --> 00:00:36,280 You, you hear that, don't you? Sometimes. 12 00:00:36,280 --> 00:00:38,200 And it is true because it doesn't seem like there's a 13 00:00:38,200 --> 00:00:39,960 whole lot of Christ that deals with Christmas. 14 00:00:40,200 --> 00:00:42,800 The world celebrates Christmas, the world talks about Christmas, 15 00:00:42,800 --> 00:00:44,440 but they don't want to talk about Christ. 16 00:00:44,440 --> 00:00:47,120 In fact, that's a lot of times why they like Xmas, I think 17 00:00:47,120 --> 00:00:50,120 because they just like to X out Jesus and they think it's that 18 00:00:50,120 --> 00:00:52,680 simple to just put an X there to get rid of Jesus. 19 00:00:52,680 --> 00:00:54,960 Well, let me just put it this way, that you can't get rid of 20 00:00:54,960 --> 00:00:56,240 Jesus that quickly. Amen. 21 00:00:56,440 --> 00:00:58,240 He always has been and He always will be. 22 00:00:58,240 --> 00:00:59,960 You can't just replace him with a letter. 23 00:01:00,040 --> 00:01:01,320 I think that's what's going to happen. 24 00:01:01,640 --> 00:01:03,320 But I will. Say that the whole idea of, you 25 00:01:03,320 --> 00:01:04,920 know, putting Christ back in Christmas. 26 00:01:05,280 --> 00:01:08,480 I've heard this other phrase instead, and I think it really 27 00:01:08,480 --> 00:01:11,240 reflects well with what I think we're going to look at here 28 00:01:11,240 --> 00:01:12,840 tonight in First Corinthians chapter 6. 29 00:01:13,000 --> 00:01:16,360 And it's not put Christ back in Christmas, but rather put Christ 30 00:01:16,360 --> 00:01:19,080 back in Christians. How about that? 31 00:01:20,040 --> 00:01:22,120 Not just putting Christ back in Christmas, but why don't we put 32 00:01:22,120 --> 00:01:24,360 Christ back in Christians? In fact, it was just alluded to 33 00:01:24,360 --> 00:01:26,480 just a few moments ago by our sister. 34 00:01:26,480 --> 00:01:29,080 The fact that someone might say that they're a Christian, that 35 00:01:29,080 --> 00:01:31,280 doesn't mean that they know Jesus Christ, that they have a 36 00:01:31,280 --> 00:01:33,320 testimony. And maybe they do call 37 00:01:33,320 --> 00:01:35,520 themselves a Christian, and maybe they are saved, but that 38 00:01:35,520 --> 00:01:38,120 doesn't mean that they. Live like Christ. 39 00:01:38,120 --> 00:01:41,560 Well, tonight we have the Apostle Paul once again as he's 40 00:01:41,560 --> 00:01:44,440 making his appeal to these people, these very worldly 41 00:01:44,440 --> 00:01:47,440 people in the church at Corinth. Remember last week we saw that 42 00:01:47,440 --> 00:01:50,440 they were suing one another. You add that to the list of all 43 00:01:50,440 --> 00:01:52,920 the problems that they had. Now they're taking each other to 44 00:01:52,920 --> 00:01:55,240 civil court. They can't handle problems like 45 00:01:55,240 --> 00:01:58,800 Christians between each other. And so in this text, just a few 46 00:01:58,800 --> 00:02:01,280 short verses that we're going to read tonight, Paul is going to 47 00:02:01,280 --> 00:02:04,160 make an appeal to these people. He's going to talk to them and 48 00:02:04,160 --> 00:02:07,520 he's going to tell them the fact that they need to be able to 49 00:02:07,520 --> 00:02:10,960 have a change within their life, that because they're saved, 50 00:02:11,080 --> 00:02:12,440 there ought to be something different about them. 51 00:02:12,800 --> 00:02:15,720 And tonight, I hope by the time we're done with this text, I 52 00:02:15,720 --> 00:02:19,320 want you to see this, that the ultimate result from salvation 53 00:02:19,560 --> 00:02:22,600 isn't just reform, it ought to be revolution. 54 00:02:23,440 --> 00:02:25,960 And we'll say that one more time, that the result of 55 00:02:25,960 --> 00:02:30,440 salvation in a person's life isn't just simply reform, but 56 00:02:30,440 --> 00:02:32,000 that it's revolution. Meaning this. 57 00:02:32,240 --> 00:02:34,920 You're an old creature, they got turned into a new creature. 58 00:02:35,920 --> 00:02:38,640 You're not just a little bit better because you have Jesus. 59 00:02:38,880 --> 00:02:41,320 It is revolutionary in your life. 60 00:02:41,360 --> 00:02:45,160 Everything changes or everything ought to change over time as we 61 00:02:45,160 --> 00:02:48,320 become more like Christ. So First Corinthians chapter 6 62 00:02:48,320 --> 00:02:50,160 verse #9 that's where we're going to start. 63 00:02:50,160 --> 00:02:52,680 It says this. Know ye not that the unrighteous 64 00:02:52,680 --> 00:02:54,680 shall not inherit the Kingdom of God. 65 00:02:54,920 --> 00:02:58,000 Be not deceived either fornicators, nor idolaters, nor 66 00:02:58,000 --> 00:03:01,560 adulterers, nor effeminate, nor abusers of themselves with 67 00:03:01,560 --> 00:03:05,120 mankind, nor thieves, nor covetous, nor drunkards, nor 68 00:03:05,120 --> 00:03:08,360 revilers, nor extortioners, shall inherit the Kingdom of 69 00:03:08,360 --> 00:03:10,840 God. And such were some of you. 70 00:03:11,080 --> 00:03:13,640 But ye are washed, and ye are sanctified. 71 00:03:13,640 --> 00:03:18,040 Ye are justified in the name of the Lord Jesus and by the Spirit 72 00:03:18,440 --> 00:03:20,200 of of our God. Now you don't have to know a 73 00:03:20,200 --> 00:03:23,360 whole lot about the English language and verse tenses to 74 00:03:23,360 --> 00:03:26,960 know this when it says in verse #11 and such were some of you 75 00:03:26,960 --> 00:03:31,000 that word were as in the past tense meaning this that long 76 00:03:31,000 --> 00:03:34,680 list that rogues gallery of 10 different words that we see are 77 00:03:34,680 --> 00:03:37,680 10 different phrases, 10 different sins that we found 78 00:03:37,680 --> 00:03:41,720 right before it says this such were in the past some of you, 79 00:03:41,840 --> 00:03:45,240 but ye are what is that? That is the present that is now, 80 00:03:45,400 --> 00:03:48,080 but ye are washed, ye are sanctified. 81 00:03:48,240 --> 00:03:50,160 Ye are. We are justified in the name of 82 00:03:50,160 --> 00:03:52,800 the Lord Jesus and by the Spirit of our God. 83 00:03:52,800 --> 00:03:57,240 There ought to be a difference in the way that we live once we 84 00:03:57,280 --> 00:04:01,080 get saved. We are often reminded about our 85 00:04:01,080 --> 00:04:05,280 values, both big and small, by who we're associated with. 86 00:04:05,280 --> 00:04:07,800 Now I'm going somewhere with this, so just hold on for just a 87 00:04:07,800 --> 00:04:09,680 moment. But we're often reminded about 88 00:04:09,680 --> 00:04:13,240 our values, both big and small, by who we associate with. 89 00:04:13,520 --> 00:04:17,120 Who we associate with kind of shapes who we are, for instance. 90 00:04:17,560 --> 00:04:19,240 So look at our family. We're Rivera's. 91 00:04:19,399 --> 00:04:22,240 We do things the Rivera way. I'm not even saying it's the 92 00:04:22,240 --> 00:04:24,880 right thing or the wrong thing. It's just the way things are 93 00:04:24,880 --> 00:04:26,880 done. It was so interesting to me. 94 00:04:27,080 --> 00:04:29,560 It was so wonderful to me a few weeks ago when we went to see 95 00:04:29,800 --> 00:04:32,080 Bethany and Carter. They're in Oklahoma City and 96 00:04:32,080 --> 00:04:35,400 they cook Thanksgiving for us. When I say they, it was mostly 97 00:04:35,400 --> 00:04:38,040 Bethany, but Carter, he had a little bit of a contribution 98 00:04:38,040 --> 00:04:41,040 there too. But what I loved about it was it 99 00:04:41,040 --> 00:04:44,200 was a Rivero Thanksgiving. Why? 100 00:04:44,520 --> 00:04:47,760 I mean, she made the Turkey the way we make the Turkey. 101 00:04:47,760 --> 00:04:50,360 We've actually called us before. It said how do we make the 102 00:04:50,360 --> 00:04:52,200 Turkey? Remind me again where the recipe 103 00:04:52,200 --> 00:04:53,120 is? Where can I find it? 104 00:04:53,120 --> 00:04:55,480 You know, there was a day where you'd have a recipe book or, you 105 00:04:55,480 --> 00:04:57,760 know, now you just got to like find the TikTok or whatever it 106 00:04:57,760 --> 00:04:59,280 is to be able to find where the recipe is. 107 00:04:59,280 --> 00:05:00,720 At least that's the way it seems like now. 108 00:05:00,920 --> 00:05:02,680 But you know, where's the recipe? 109 00:05:03,000 --> 00:05:04,640 The stuffing was the way that we make it. 110 00:05:04,640 --> 00:05:06,440 The potatoes were the way we make it, the. 111 00:05:07,000 --> 00:05:09,320 The scurley that we always have to have on the table, He said, 112 00:05:09,320 --> 00:05:13,080 what on earth is scurley pastor? Well, it's a Scottish dish of 113 00:05:13,400 --> 00:05:15,600 oatmeal that's basically kind of fried. 114 00:05:15,800 --> 00:05:17,680 And listen, you fry anything. It tastes good, you know what 115 00:05:17,680 --> 00:05:20,480 I'm saying? But you beat it into a pulp and 116 00:05:20,480 --> 00:05:22,280 then you fry it and it tastes really good. 117 00:05:22,440 --> 00:05:25,400 I never heard of it before until I married my wife, but I'll tell 118 00:05:25,400 --> 00:05:27,320 you this, she's got a lot of amazing features. 119 00:05:27,320 --> 00:05:29,320 That scurley is probably one of our most amazing features. 120 00:05:29,320 --> 00:05:32,520 It's delicious. It is incredible, let me tell 121 00:05:32,520 --> 00:05:33,400 you. You know what? 122 00:05:33,480 --> 00:05:36,360 We do it because we're Rivero's. That's what we do. 123 00:05:36,360 --> 00:05:39,520 You know what I'm saying? In our nation, we're Americans. 124 00:05:39,520 --> 00:05:42,840 And so we do things a certain way because you know, America, 125 00:05:42,840 --> 00:05:46,040 you know, you know, that's my eagle impression, all right. 126 00:05:46,520 --> 00:05:49,400 But there's certain things that we do that listen, they don't do 127 00:05:49,400 --> 00:05:50,480 in Europe. And you know what? 128 00:05:50,600 --> 00:05:53,040 We're glad they don't do it because we're America and we do 129 00:05:53,040 --> 00:05:55,680 it our way. We have a Constitution, but we 130 00:05:55,680 --> 00:05:57,600 have a Declaration of Independence. 131 00:05:57,600 --> 00:05:59,840 There are things, and I know I'm kind of joking around a little 132 00:05:59,840 --> 00:06:02,440 bit, but we are very unique as a nation. 133 00:06:02,440 --> 00:06:05,720 Now, of course, we've fallen far away from certain things because 134 00:06:05,720 --> 00:06:08,880 of worldliness and falling away from our Christian heritage and 135 00:06:08,880 --> 00:06:10,320 roots. But at the same time, we 136 00:06:10,320 --> 00:06:14,080 understand that as a country that there is this, this shared 137 00:06:14,080 --> 00:06:18,360 value that we have together. Now, listen, as that's true of a 138 00:06:18,360 --> 00:06:20,160 family and that's true for a country. 139 00:06:20,280 --> 00:06:25,280 As believers, our values should be governed by who we associate 140 00:06:25,280 --> 00:06:27,840 with. And who is that Jesus Christ? 141 00:06:28,360 --> 00:06:31,960 The fact that we associate with Him means that we ought to be 142 00:06:31,960 --> 00:06:34,600 more like Him. Just like a Rivero family, 143 00:06:34,600 --> 00:06:37,760 Thanksgiving looks the same as the ones that are associated 144 00:06:37,760 --> 00:06:39,880 with. Just as a country we associate 145 00:06:39,880 --> 00:06:41,280 with one another. There ought to be some things 146 00:06:41,280 --> 00:06:43,640 that are different about us than other nations. 147 00:06:43,640 --> 00:06:45,800 Listen. Even more importantly than any 148 00:06:45,800 --> 00:06:48,680 of those things, listen. As we associate with Jesus 149 00:06:48,680 --> 00:06:50,880 Christ, we ought to be more like Him. 150 00:06:51,040 --> 00:06:53,800 Listen. You cannot take your beliefs and 151 00:06:53,800 --> 00:06:55,400 separate them from your practice. 152 00:06:55,480 --> 00:07:01,000 We'll run that by one more time. You cannot take your beliefs and 153 00:07:01,000 --> 00:07:02,520 separate them from your practices. 154 00:07:02,520 --> 00:07:05,320 Meaning this. You can't say I believe this, 155 00:07:05,440 --> 00:07:08,360 but then I am going to live opposite of what I believe. 156 00:07:08,520 --> 00:07:11,480 Listen, if we associate with Jesus Christ, the more we 157 00:07:11,480 --> 00:07:14,480 associate with him, the more we should be acting like him. 158 00:07:14,640 --> 00:07:16,480 The more we should be talking like him. 159 00:07:16,600 --> 00:07:20,000 The more we should be thinking like him, the more the things of 160 00:07:20,000 --> 00:07:23,160 our life ought to reflect the fact that we've been around 161 00:07:23,240 --> 00:07:24,800 Jesus. But here's a problem. 162 00:07:24,880 --> 00:07:28,240 The people in Corinth, they're acting like the world because 163 00:07:28,240 --> 00:07:30,120 you know what? They associate more with the 164 00:07:30,120 --> 00:07:33,400 world than they do with Jesus. And he tells them this is a 165 00:07:33,400 --> 00:07:37,160 problem, this isn't good. And so he says there's three 166 00:07:37,160 --> 00:07:39,800 different things that he wants them to understand in these 3 167 00:07:39,800 --> 00:07:41,480 short verses. And the first thing he wants 168 00:07:41,480 --> 00:07:44,680 them to understand is this. He wants them to see what they 169 00:07:44,680 --> 00:07:48,880 were, what you were. The very first phrase in verse 170 00:07:48,880 --> 00:07:50,920 #9 is a difficult one to swallow. 171 00:07:51,240 --> 00:07:55,600 Know ye not that the unrighteous shall not inherit the Kingdom of 172 00:07:55,600 --> 00:07:58,080 God? No, you, not the unrighteous 173 00:07:58,080 --> 00:07:59,400 should not inherit the Kingdom of God. 174 00:07:59,400 --> 00:08:02,240 We know this. Why Romans 310 says this? 175 00:08:02,480 --> 00:08:05,040 There is none righteous. No, not one. 176 00:08:05,040 --> 00:08:06,680 We talked about this on Sunday, didn't we? 177 00:08:07,040 --> 00:08:10,760 Our very best, the very best you got and the very best I have is 178 00:08:10,760 --> 00:08:14,880 what filthy rags That there's nothing within us that is able 179 00:08:14,880 --> 00:08:18,880 to save ourselves, That even our best of works can be tainted 180 00:08:19,080 --> 00:08:22,240 before we got saved. We listen. 181 00:08:22,240 --> 00:08:26,000 We're those unrighteous people where where it says in verse #9 182 00:08:26,000 --> 00:08:28,640 know ye not that the unrighteous shall not inherit the Kingdom of 183 00:08:28,640 --> 00:08:30,560 God? Listen, you could replace that 184 00:08:30,560 --> 00:08:33,840 word unrighteous and the unrighteous that that phrase 185 00:08:33,840 --> 00:08:37,200 there could put it this way. Know ye not that Adam Rivero 186 00:08:37,200 --> 00:08:38,919 shall not inherit the Kingdom of God? 187 00:08:39,600 --> 00:08:42,799 Know ye not that your name there shall not inherit the Kingdom of 188 00:08:42,799 --> 00:08:44,280 God? You say, well, why could I do 189 00:08:44,280 --> 00:08:45,680 that? Well, because you were 190 00:08:45,680 --> 00:08:47,640 unrighteous and I was unrighteous. 191 00:08:47,640 --> 00:08:50,160 There was nothing righteous within us. 192 00:08:50,160 --> 00:08:53,360 In fact, Paul hammers this home in case they have some problem 193 00:08:53,360 --> 00:08:55,520 with this. But as I just mentioned, naming 194 00:08:55,520 --> 00:09:00,480 10 different sins right there between verse #9 and verse #10. 195 00:09:00,480 --> 00:09:03,320 Now, by the way, what I love about Paul here is he had no 196 00:09:03,320 --> 00:09:06,560 problem naming sin. You know, sometimes people say 197 00:09:06,560 --> 00:09:09,520 about pastors, well, you, you ought to just talk generically. 198 00:09:09,520 --> 00:09:11,600 You, you shouldn't really name sin. 199 00:09:11,840 --> 00:09:15,440 Well, you don't really see that a lot in the Bible because the 200 00:09:15,440 --> 00:09:17,280 prophets had no problem naming sin. 201 00:09:17,800 --> 00:09:19,920 The apostles had no problem naming sin. 202 00:09:20,200 --> 00:09:23,000 You find it in 66 books where sin is named. 203 00:09:23,120 --> 00:09:26,320 And here Paul doesn't say, well, you know, you all ought not to 204 00:09:26,320 --> 00:09:29,200 do some naughty things. You know what he says? 205 00:09:29,360 --> 00:09:32,960 I'm going to give you 10 sins that really characterize what 206 00:09:32,960 --> 00:09:35,280 you people in Corinth used to be like. 207 00:09:35,280 --> 00:09:37,240 And the first he says this he says. 208 00:09:37,400 --> 00:09:40,720 You were fornicators. Now that word fornication that 209 00:09:40,800 --> 00:09:44,480 we find there is the same as we found it in chapter #5 It comes 210 00:09:44,480 --> 00:09:47,680 from that Greek word porneia that we talked about before. 211 00:09:47,800 --> 00:09:50,600 And this talks about any type of sexual immorality. 212 00:09:50,600 --> 00:09:53,960 Listen, they were crazed. With it in Corinth, because of 213 00:09:53,960 --> 00:09:57,640 the temple of Aphrodite that was there, that was all their 214 00:09:57,640 --> 00:10:01,040 culture was about, trying to make sure that they felt good in 215 00:10:01,040 --> 00:10:03,120 their flesh and they were constantly looking. 216 00:10:03,680 --> 00:10:07,120 For that next experience, they were constantly looking for that 217 00:10:07,120 --> 00:10:09,040 next activity. That's who they were. 218 00:10:09,040 --> 00:10:11,760 They gave their bodies to it. But then it says they were 219 00:10:11,760 --> 00:10:15,160 idolaters and that that goes in line with what we just saw with 220 00:10:15,160 --> 00:10:16,520 Fornication. Why? 221 00:10:16,920 --> 00:10:19,800 Because they were again, they were these people that had 222 00:10:19,800 --> 00:10:22,840 gotten saved in Corinth. These people that were part of 223 00:10:22,840 --> 00:10:25,800 the church in Corinth had been given of themselves to the 224 00:10:25,800 --> 00:10:29,320 temple of Aphrodite. They were idolaters in every. 225 00:10:29,320 --> 00:10:32,560 Given way now again, let me just remind you, I'll take a brief 226 00:10:32,560 --> 00:10:35,520 time out here for a second that you may not have an idol in your 227 00:10:35,520 --> 00:10:37,120 home. You may not have a statue in 228 00:10:37,120 --> 00:10:39,760 your home. You may not bow down to any of 229 00:10:39,760 --> 00:10:43,520 those types of things but I will remind you that you and I can be 230 00:10:43,520 --> 00:10:47,320 idolaters just as much as those people in Corinth have why? 231 00:10:47,480 --> 00:10:51,320 Because an idol is anything that you have to check with before 232 00:10:51,320 --> 00:10:56,120 doing God's will in your life. I'll say that again too, an idol 233 00:10:56,120 --> 00:10:59,120 is anything you have to check with in your life before you do 234 00:10:59,120 --> 00:11:01,240 God's will in your life. Meaning this. 235 00:11:01,240 --> 00:11:04,880 Well, I know what God wants me to do, but is it going to be OK? 236 00:11:04,880 --> 00:11:07,000 Listen, you can turn anything into an idol. 237 00:11:07,000 --> 00:11:09,680 In fact, we were talking on Sunday, Brother Dave and I would 238 00:11:09,680 --> 00:11:14,040 see Dave C All right, Dave C and I were talking on Sunday about 239 00:11:14,040 --> 00:11:15,960 the Mona Lisa. I'd mentioned the Mona Lisa in 240 00:11:15,960 --> 00:11:19,480 the Sunday morning message and how it's behind glass and they 241 00:11:19,480 --> 00:11:21,560 keep you about 100 feet back to be able to see it. 242 00:11:21,560 --> 00:11:23,480 All of that's true. Maybe not 100 feet, but there's 243 00:11:23,480 --> 00:11:26,240 a pretty big barrier between you and the Mona Lisa. 244 00:11:26,760 --> 00:11:29,720 And he asked me the question, he says, could you even consider 245 00:11:29,720 --> 00:11:32,560 that idolatry? The fact that people would take 246 00:11:32,560 --> 00:11:34,720 that and, and, and almost to worship it? 247 00:11:34,720 --> 00:11:37,160 And I would say this and we had this conversation. 248 00:11:37,160 --> 00:11:40,120 I wouldn't say the painting in and of itself was an idol, but I 249 00:11:40,120 --> 00:11:41,920 would say a lot of people made it into an idol. 250 00:11:42,960 --> 00:11:46,280 I think a lot of people would make anything into an idol. 251 00:11:46,560 --> 00:11:50,200 People turn sports into an idol. People turn their families into 252 00:11:50,200 --> 00:11:53,480 idols. People can take entertainment 253 00:11:53,480 --> 00:11:56,800 and turn it into idols. Listen, anything can be turned 254 00:11:56,800 --> 00:11:59,600 into an idol when it has an elevation above God. 255 00:11:59,760 --> 00:12:01,560 And he says this before you were saved. 256 00:12:01,560 --> 00:12:04,800 Listen, before you knew Jesus Christ, you were idolaters, you 257 00:12:04,800 --> 00:12:08,040 were adulterers. He says it's just, excuse me, 258 00:12:08,040 --> 00:12:11,640 more specific than fornication. It's those who were unfaithful 259 00:12:11,640 --> 00:12:14,800 to their spouses and it says effeminate is next. 260 00:12:15,000 --> 00:12:17,680 Now listen God's unique creation, those. 261 00:12:17,680 --> 00:12:21,920 Created in his image were created listen Genesis 127 male 262 00:12:21,920 --> 00:12:24,520 and female. That, that seems like a very 263 00:12:24,520 --> 00:12:26,400 controversial statement nowadays. 264 00:12:26,560 --> 00:12:29,040 And it's really not a very controversial statement at all. 265 00:12:29,040 --> 00:12:32,040 In fact, it's well, biblical. It wouldn't have been that long 266 00:12:32,040 --> 00:12:34,960 ago that I feel like you say, well, there is men and it's 267 00:12:34,960 --> 00:12:38,840 women and that's it. And men and men, men are men and 268 00:12:38,840 --> 00:12:40,040 women are women. And that wouldn't be 269 00:12:40,040 --> 00:12:43,240 controversial. But believe it or not, that's a 270 00:12:43,240 --> 00:12:45,920 question today. It's not a question to God. 271 00:12:46,520 --> 00:12:51,120 And interestingly enough, about 2000 years before God's already 272 00:12:51,120 --> 00:12:53,960 covered this, God's already talked about this when he uses 273 00:12:53,960 --> 00:12:58,880 that term effeminate there God has roles for men and God has 274 00:12:58,880 --> 00:13:00,680 roles for women. This isn't my message tonight, 275 00:13:00,800 --> 00:13:03,320 but it is named here and I'm not going to skip over it here this 276 00:13:03,320 --> 00:13:05,360 evening. But it's very clear that God 277 00:13:05,360 --> 00:13:07,360 desires for. Men to be men. 278 00:13:08,080 --> 00:13:10,480 And God desires for women to be women. 279 00:13:10,880 --> 00:13:14,080 That's why it says in Deuteronomy 22 verse #5 the 280 00:13:14,080 --> 00:13:16,680 woman shall not wear that which pertaineth unto a man, neither 281 00:13:16,680 --> 00:13:19,960 shall a man put on a woman's garment, for all that do so are 282 00:13:19,960 --> 00:13:22,680 an abomination to unto the Lord thy God. 283 00:13:22,920 --> 00:13:26,240 Listen, this is God's creation. This is God's design. 284 00:13:26,520 --> 00:13:30,000 And it's not up to man to be able to change that which God 285 00:13:30,000 --> 00:13:32,200 has done. No, that's not hate speech to be 286 00:13:32,200 --> 00:13:34,680 able to say that. Not in any way, shape, or form. 287 00:13:35,160 --> 00:13:38,720 It's just simply acknowledging that which God has done and it's 288 00:13:38,720 --> 00:13:41,480 mentioned here as one of those things that they were during 289 00:13:41,480 --> 00:13:44,880 that time effeminate. It also says nor abusers of 290 00:13:44,880 --> 00:13:48,040 themselves with mankind. We would put it this way today. 291 00:13:48,120 --> 00:13:53,480 Homosexuality and homosexuality would have run rampant during 292 00:13:53,480 --> 00:13:56,640 that time in Corinth. In fact, William Barclay, the 293 00:13:56,680 --> 00:13:59,840 commentator and historian, wrote, this sin had swept like a 294 00:13:59,840 --> 00:14:03,280 cancer through Greek life and from Greece invaded Rome. 295 00:14:03,480 --> 00:14:06,400 We can scarcely realize how riddled the ancient world was 296 00:14:06,400 --> 00:14:09,080 with it. Even so great a man of Socrates 297 00:14:09,080 --> 00:14:11,400 practice it. Plato's dialogue, called the 298 00:14:11,400 --> 00:14:14,080 Symposium is always said to be one of the greatest works on 299 00:14:14,080 --> 00:14:17,120 love in the world, but it's subject is not natural, but 300 00:14:17,400 --> 00:14:19,720 rather unnatural. Love 14. 301 00:14:19,720 --> 00:14:22,040 Out of the. The 1st 15 Roman emperors 302 00:14:22,080 --> 00:14:26,640 practice this unnatural vice. And so yes, here Paul is saying 303 00:14:26,640 --> 00:14:29,280 to those people, yes, that's who you were. 304 00:14:29,400 --> 00:14:31,920 By the way, can I just stop here for just a moment as a reminder 305 00:14:31,920 --> 00:14:34,560 when maybe some of you might think that someone who is in the 306 00:14:34,760 --> 00:14:39,120 quote LGBT movement will never trust Jesus Christ their savior. 307 00:14:39,280 --> 00:14:42,360 There's effeminate and there's abuser themselves as mankind and 308 00:14:42,480 --> 00:14:44,600 just skipping ahead. What does it say and such? 309 00:14:44,600 --> 00:14:49,160 What were some of you? Do not give up on those who are 310 00:14:49,160 --> 00:14:51,840 part of that movement. Do not give up with those who 311 00:14:51,840 --> 00:14:53,960 believe that they are part of that movement. 312 00:14:53,960 --> 00:14:56,400 Why? Because there are many, a lot 313 00:14:56,400 --> 00:14:59,520 more than you would realize who will come to know Jesus Christ 314 00:14:59,520 --> 00:15:01,960 your Savior as long as you continue to love them with the 315 00:15:01,960 --> 00:15:04,120 gospel and give them the light of the gospel. 316 00:15:04,120 --> 00:15:06,480 And here's proof positive of it right there is that there were 317 00:15:06,480 --> 00:15:09,040 those who are effeminate. There were those of abusers of 318 00:15:09,040 --> 00:15:12,280 themselves, of mankind who got saved and became part of the 319 00:15:12,280 --> 00:15:14,760 church at Corinth. That'll give us hope today. 320 00:15:15,360 --> 00:15:17,640 But it wasn't just that. Or also thieves as well. 321 00:15:17,760 --> 00:15:19,960 The Greek word for that is kleptos, where we get 322 00:15:20,080 --> 00:15:22,680 kleptomaniac today. They were thieves. 323 00:15:22,680 --> 00:15:25,720 They were covetous. This is someone who is grasping, 324 00:15:25,720 --> 00:15:29,200 someone who wants more, someone who is eager for more, 325 00:15:29,360 --> 00:15:32,600 especially for that which belongs to someone else. 326 00:15:32,840 --> 00:15:35,600 They were drunkards that they were full of wine. 327 00:15:35,600 --> 00:15:37,360 Could I just give you a suggestion tonight? 328 00:15:37,360 --> 00:15:39,640 The best way to not become a drunkard is this. 329 00:15:40,040 --> 00:15:43,280 Don't drink. It's easy enough to be able to 330 00:15:43,280 --> 00:15:45,920 not become a drunkard. You just don't need to drink. 331 00:15:46,400 --> 00:15:49,040 It's amazing to me that the world is catching up to where 332 00:15:49,040 --> 00:15:52,000 the Bible is with that today. There's such a dry movement 333 00:15:52,000 --> 00:15:54,640 that's actually become rather popular today. 334 00:15:54,640 --> 00:15:57,280 To be able to understand, you know, people will say, do you? 335 00:15:57,280 --> 00:15:59,480 Realize how bad alcohol can be for you. 336 00:15:59,480 --> 00:16:05,080 And I want to say no really. Tell me more, because it seems 337 00:16:05,080 --> 00:16:07,640 like we've been preaching that and teaching that for a long 338 00:16:07,640 --> 00:16:10,000 time. Because the Bible says wine is a 339 00:16:10,000 --> 00:16:13,040 mocker, strong drink is raging, and whosoever is deceived 340 00:16:13,040 --> 00:16:16,680 thereby is not wise. It's just easier and it's 341 00:16:16,680 --> 00:16:21,080 simpler and it's godlier to stay away from the stuff it says. 342 00:16:21,080 --> 00:16:23,800 Some of them were drunkards before, some of them were 343 00:16:23,800 --> 00:16:26,520 revilers. Those were those who were quick 344 00:16:26,520 --> 00:16:29,720 to destroy with their tongues, extortioners. 345 00:16:29,920 --> 00:16:33,400 These are those who grasped they were violently greedy. 346 00:16:33,680 --> 00:16:35,680 They were robbers, they were swindlers. 347 00:16:35,840 --> 00:16:40,040 They used force or violence in the way that they stole ten 348 00:16:40,040 --> 00:16:42,360 different things that are named right there. 349 00:16:42,360 --> 00:16:45,280 Listen, these are pretty serious things. 350 00:16:45,880 --> 00:16:48,000 And that's who made-up the Church of Corinth. 351 00:16:49,440 --> 00:16:50,960 Now let's dwell on this for just a moment. 352 00:16:51,040 --> 00:16:54,440 First of all, praise the Lord that the gospel can touch 353 00:16:54,440 --> 00:16:57,040 anyone's life and change anyone's life. 354 00:16:57,520 --> 00:16:59,960 Thank the Lord for that. That there were those who were 355 00:16:59,960 --> 00:17:03,520 drunkards who got saved and their lives were changed. 356 00:17:03,760 --> 00:17:06,440 There were those who were effeminate, who got saved, their 357 00:17:06,440 --> 00:17:07,760 lives changed. There were those who were 358 00:17:07,760 --> 00:17:10,560 adulterers who got saved and their lives changed. 359 00:17:10,680 --> 00:17:14,200 And on and on and on it. Goes you say, Pastor, is this a 360 00:17:14,200 --> 00:17:15,839 complete list? Listen, do you think there's 361 00:17:15,839 --> 00:17:20,119 just 10 sins in the world? This is a very incomplete list. 362 00:17:20,119 --> 00:17:22,160 I'm not saying that the word of God is incomplete. 363 00:17:22,160 --> 00:17:25,040 I'm saying that Paul doesn't need to name check every sin 364 00:17:25,040 --> 00:17:26,960 that ever took place on the face of the earth. 365 00:17:27,200 --> 00:17:30,680 But I will say this, your sin may be named there in chapter, 366 00:17:31,240 --> 00:17:35,240 chapter 6, verse #9 and 10. By the way, I want to say sin. 367 00:17:35,240 --> 00:17:37,360 You understand you had more than one sin, Amen. 368 00:17:37,520 --> 00:17:39,160 But you understand what I'm saying. 369 00:17:39,280 --> 00:17:42,240 But your sin or sins of choice might be named there. 370 00:17:42,400 --> 00:17:44,640 They may not be named there. But I will say this. 371 00:17:44,840 --> 00:17:48,600 You were just as sinful as those people at Corinth were before 372 00:17:48,600 --> 00:17:51,880 you got saved. You needed Jesus Christ just as 373 00:17:51,880 --> 00:17:54,480 much as they did at Corinth before they got saved. 374 00:17:54,880 --> 00:17:58,000 This is who you were. This isn't just who Corinth was. 375 00:17:58,160 --> 00:17:59,920 This is who you were. This is who? 376 00:17:59,920 --> 00:18:02,200 Adam Rivera was before he got saved. 377 00:18:02,360 --> 00:18:05,000 You know, I may not have been the things that were named there 378 00:18:05,120 --> 00:18:09,160 in totality, but I do know this. I do know I had a problem with 379 00:18:09,160 --> 00:18:10,960 my mouth. I do know I had a problem with 380 00:18:10,960 --> 00:18:13,160 my attitude. I do know I had a problem with 381 00:18:13,160 --> 00:18:15,440 lust. I do know I had a problem with 382 00:18:15,440 --> 00:18:17,800 authority. I do know that if God hadn't 383 00:18:17,800 --> 00:18:20,960 saved me and changed my life, I wouldn't be here tonight. 384 00:18:20,960 --> 00:18:23,240 I wouldn't be talking to you. I might be talking to you 385 00:18:23,240 --> 00:18:24,960 through bars in the county lockup. 386 00:18:25,840 --> 00:18:29,000 You say, well, that's a little bit of an exaggeration. 387 00:18:29,000 --> 00:18:32,360 Listen, when you don't have Jesus Christ as your Savior, 388 00:18:32,480 --> 00:18:36,160 there is no barrier to that which you could slide down into. 389 00:18:36,160 --> 00:18:39,560 That's right. And so, no, I'm not saying that 390 00:18:39,560 --> 00:18:41,800 I was gunning for that. I'm not trying to talk like a 391 00:18:41,800 --> 00:18:43,640 tough guy this evening. I'm just saying this. 392 00:18:43,920 --> 00:18:47,480 I wasn't really too interested in doing right and I don't know 393 00:18:47,480 --> 00:18:49,800 if that had compounded. Over the years where I would 394 00:18:49,800 --> 00:18:52,160 have ended up because I really wasn't against anything. 395 00:18:52,520 --> 00:18:56,160 I was really just for having a good time, whatever that was 396 00:18:56,160 --> 00:18:59,520 defined by me. And then I found Jesus Christ 397 00:18:59,520 --> 00:19:01,160 and all of a sudden everything is different. 398 00:19:01,320 --> 00:19:04,920 And so what's Paul saying this? He says such were some of you 399 00:19:04,920 --> 00:19:08,000 meaning this were it's in the past. 400 00:19:08,760 --> 00:19:10,440 The good old days weren't as good as you. 401 00:19:10,440 --> 00:19:12,440 Think. Don't go back. 402 00:19:12,440 --> 00:19:14,760 To those good old. Days don't go back living that 403 00:19:14,760 --> 00:19:16,880 way because those people had been changed. 404 00:19:17,000 --> 00:19:19,800 But here's the problem. There had been some reforms, but 405 00:19:20,080 --> 00:19:23,400 they weren't revolutionized in the sense that some of them were 406 00:19:23,560 --> 00:19:27,000 going back to that behavior. You say going back to that 407 00:19:27,000 --> 00:19:32,880 behavior chapter #5 he mentions the fornication, the adultery, 408 00:19:32,880 --> 00:19:35,120 that the loose living of which they had it. 409 00:19:35,120 --> 00:19:36,440 We're going to continue through there. 410 00:19:36,680 --> 00:19:40,600 And some of them had dropped old sins, but it picked up new sins. 411 00:19:41,840 --> 00:19:43,280 Well, I'm not going to deal with that anymore. 412 00:19:43,280 --> 00:19:45,520 But I found this over here because of someone that I was 413 00:19:45,520 --> 00:19:48,080 with in the church. No, this is not what we're 414 00:19:48,080 --> 00:19:50,960 supposed to be doing, swapping sins like their baseball cards 415 00:19:50,960 --> 00:19:53,760 with one another. No, no, what are we supposed to 416 00:19:53,760 --> 00:19:56,160 be doing? We're supposed to be radically 417 00:19:56,160 --> 00:20:00,400 revolutionized by the gospel. That's what Jesus Christ wants 418 00:20:00,400 --> 00:20:02,360 to do with your life. The day you got saved. 419 00:20:02,360 --> 00:20:06,360 Listen, your past was changed. Your, your, your eternity was 420 00:20:06,360 --> 00:20:07,680 changed. Your future was changed. 421 00:20:07,760 --> 00:20:10,720 But he also wants to change you in the here and now as well, so 422 00:20:10,720 --> 00:20:13,040 that you can live in the light of the gospel. 423 00:20:13,120 --> 00:20:15,840 So you can live. Free from the power of sin in 424 00:20:15,840 --> 00:20:19,600 your life on a daily basis. Now let's be clear. 425 00:20:20,800 --> 00:20:23,280 That just because someone is dealing with those things that 426 00:20:23,280 --> 00:20:26,600 are in verses 9 and 10 after they get saved, doesn't mean 427 00:20:27,040 --> 00:20:29,960 they're not saved. Want to be careful about this 428 00:20:29,960 --> 00:20:36,120 tonight because let's be honest, there are people in Corinth that 429 00:20:36,120 --> 00:20:39,760 were in this list doing it wrong and they were obviously still 430 00:20:39,760 --> 00:20:41,000 saved. You say, how do you know that? 431 00:20:41,000 --> 00:20:43,960 Well, in verse #8 it uses the word brethren. 432 00:20:45,280 --> 00:20:46,800 There were people who are being defrauded. 433 00:20:46,840 --> 00:20:51,320 They were brethren. But I will say this, that when 434 00:20:51,320 --> 00:20:53,440 you were saved, that doesn't mean that you'll never sin 435 00:20:53,440 --> 00:20:56,840 again. Hello, First, John 18 deals with 436 00:20:56,840 --> 00:20:59,040 this. If we say that we have no sin, 437 00:20:59,920 --> 00:21:01,560 it what? Rather, if we say that we have 438 00:21:01,560 --> 00:21:04,440 no sin, we deceive ourselves and the truth is not in us. 439 00:21:04,440 --> 00:21:06,040 There it is. I was trying to start to go into 440 00:21:06,040 --> 00:21:09,400 the next verse, but I will say this. 441 00:21:09,560 --> 00:21:12,840 When you were saved, truly save your life ought not to be 442 00:21:12,840 --> 00:21:16,840 defined by any of these anymore. It ought not to be defined by 443 00:21:16,840 --> 00:21:20,240 these anymore. And if you are in those parts, 444 00:21:20,400 --> 00:21:24,120 in those things in your life anymore, listen, the Holy Spirit 445 00:21:24,120 --> 00:21:26,840 ought to be really rattling your cage while you're in there. 446 00:21:27,320 --> 00:21:30,880 We had a gentleman who came here a few years ago and he was very 447 00:21:31,280 --> 00:21:34,120 good at discerning who was saved and who wasn't. 448 00:21:35,520 --> 00:21:38,080 There's a little bit of sarcasm there because you, you know, we, 449 00:21:38,080 --> 00:21:41,960 we can't know that. But he would just look at 450 00:21:41,960 --> 00:21:45,720 something that was going on in their life and find it wanting. 451 00:21:46,680 --> 00:21:47,920 And decide that they weren't safe. 452 00:21:47,920 --> 00:21:52,280 Now obviously this type of personality usually does not 453 00:21:52,280 --> 00:21:55,080 check out their own life to see how they were. 454 00:21:55,480 --> 00:21:58,400 And how they are because you know the whole, you know the 455 00:21:58,480 --> 00:22:01,080 take the, you know the, the beam out of your own eye before you 456 00:22:01,080 --> 00:22:03,880 take the Moat out of the other. There was none of that. 457 00:22:05,080 --> 00:22:07,880 But I had to make mention to this gentleman multiple times. 458 00:22:07,880 --> 00:22:11,200 I would say to him, listen, part of being changed doesn't always 459 00:22:11,200 --> 00:22:14,000 mean you're changed on the outside, because things on the 460 00:22:14,000 --> 00:22:15,640 outside should be different, but they're not. 461 00:22:16,000 --> 00:22:18,920 But one of the changes that does happen is on the inside that you 462 00:22:18,920 --> 00:22:21,360 used to be able to do those things before you got saved and 463 00:22:21,360 --> 00:22:23,160 you had fun. And now that you're saved, the 464 00:22:23,160 --> 00:22:25,160 Holy Spirit really won't let you have fun the way that you did 465 00:22:25,160 --> 00:22:26,920 before. That's a change. 466 00:22:26,920 --> 00:22:29,880 Now listen, outwardly people can't see that, but on the 467 00:22:29,880 --> 00:22:33,160 inside, that's a real thing. Listen, if you are still engaged 468 00:22:33,160 --> 00:22:35,920 in these things and you are saved, the Holy Spirit ought to 469 00:22:35,920 --> 00:22:38,600 be making your life pretty miserable while you're in it. 470 00:22:39,960 --> 00:22:42,200 And I will say this, if the Holy Spirit isn't making your life 471 00:22:42,200 --> 00:22:45,640 miserable while you're in sin, you go to Hebrews chapter 12 and 472 00:22:45,640 --> 00:22:47,400 you check yourself whether you're part of the family or 473 00:22:47,400 --> 00:22:48,600 not. No, I'm not trying to get you to 474 00:22:48,600 --> 00:22:51,080 deny your salvation here tonight, not even close to that. 475 00:22:51,080 --> 00:22:54,160 But what I am saying is this, if there is no, and I've said this 476 00:22:54,160 --> 00:23:01,400 before, if there is no a reality of sin being, realizing that, 477 00:23:01,400 --> 00:23:04,240 that you are a Sinner even engaged in it and there's no 478 00:23:04,240 --> 00:23:06,000 conviction of that, that's a problem. 479 00:23:06,520 --> 00:23:09,680 That's a big problem. Those who claim the name of 480 00:23:09,680 --> 00:23:14,320 Christ, give their life to these sinful pursuits with no remorse 481 00:23:14,600 --> 00:23:18,640 and no chastening of God, have a very questionable profession. 482 00:23:19,600 --> 00:23:21,960 So what do we see? This is This is who? 483 00:23:22,040 --> 00:23:24,240 They were, and this is who we were. 484 00:23:24,640 --> 00:23:27,080 Whether your name is in there or not, whether your sin rather is 485 00:23:27,080 --> 00:23:28,640 in there or not, this is who you were. 486 00:23:28,840 --> 00:23:31,840 But #2 I want to see this. This is what you are. 487 00:23:32,800 --> 00:23:36,000 Praise be to God that He didn't just bring some simple reforms 488 00:23:36,000 --> 00:23:37,760 in your life. He ushered. 489 00:23:38,400 --> 00:23:42,640 A revolution into your life. John 844 says this year of your 490 00:23:42,640 --> 00:23:45,880 father the devil and the lust of your father, ye will do. 491 00:23:45,880 --> 00:23:48,240 Listen, you were of your father the devil. 492 00:23:48,640 --> 00:23:51,200 But once you got saved, listen, you got a different father, you 493 00:23:51,640 --> 00:23:53,520 got a different heavenly Father. Listen, that's not a simple 494 00:23:53,520 --> 00:23:55,680 reform. That's revolutionary. 495 00:23:55,680 --> 00:23:57,640 You understand that tonight that's not just, well, I'm a 496 00:23:57,640 --> 00:23:59,040 little bit better than I used to be. 497 00:23:59,040 --> 00:24:02,800 You know, everything changed. You put off the old man and you 498 00:24:02,800 --> 00:24:05,840 put on the Lord Jesus Christ. You became a new creature. 499 00:24:06,280 --> 00:24:07,960 Everything in your life has changed. 500 00:24:07,960 --> 00:24:10,480 It's like night has turned into day. 501 00:24:10,480 --> 00:24:13,920 It's like the the sun has come out, never to retreat again. 502 00:24:13,920 --> 00:24:16,200 No. This is who you are, you know, 503 00:24:16,200 --> 00:24:19,840 in a revolution. The old way is swept out by a 504 00:24:19,840 --> 00:24:22,080 new way. That's what happens. 505 00:24:22,560 --> 00:24:26,560 We had an American Revolution around this parts. 1776. 506 00:24:27,120 --> 00:24:31,640 And you know what? There were cannons and muskets 507 00:24:32,720 --> 00:24:36,760 and most importantly ideas pushed out a monarchy. 508 00:24:37,600 --> 00:24:42,040 And this country has been different for now almost 250 509 00:24:42,040 --> 00:24:45,400 years. Well, what does that mean? 510 00:24:45,400 --> 00:24:49,600 Well, when you got saved, the old things were supposed to get 511 00:24:49,600 --> 00:24:54,120 pushed out and the new they're supposed to come in and that 512 00:24:54,120 --> 00:24:57,520 we're not supposed to be saved and then just go back to the old 513 00:24:57,520 --> 00:24:59,520 stuff. But now we have Jesus. 514 00:25:00,280 --> 00:25:02,960 That's not God's intention for us at all. 515 00:25:03,760 --> 00:25:06,440 Well, I have the old things, but I have heaven now. 516 00:25:06,560 --> 00:25:08,440 That's not what God intended for you. 517 00:25:08,440 --> 00:25:11,000 And that's kind of how the way the people of Corinth were 518 00:25:11,000 --> 00:25:13,000 living. He said such were some of you, 519 00:25:13,000 --> 00:25:15,120 but he wanted to remind them this is who you are. 520 00:25:15,560 --> 00:25:21,200 And just like a revolution has items, if you will, the means to 521 00:25:21,400 --> 00:25:26,120 make revolution happen, whether it was an idea or whether it was 522 00:25:26,120 --> 00:25:30,920 weaponry or whatever it was. Listen, our revolution, our. 523 00:25:31,080 --> 00:25:34,920 Salvation Listen has these means as well in our life, and Paul 524 00:25:34,920 --> 00:25:37,520 names three of them. The first thing he says is ye 525 00:25:37,520 --> 00:25:40,520 are washed, Letter A, you are washed. 526 00:25:40,520 --> 00:25:43,280 And now may I remind you here tonight, especially for those of 527 00:25:43,280 --> 00:25:46,160 us that come from a Catholic or a Lutheran or some sort of 528 00:25:46,160 --> 00:25:49,600 Protestant background, when it's talking about being washed, it's 529 00:25:49,600 --> 00:25:52,160 not talking about being washed by the baptism. 530 00:25:53,440 --> 00:25:56,480 It's not talking about going through and having a priest put 531 00:25:56,480 --> 00:25:58,600 the sign of the cross on your head with water. 532 00:25:59,040 --> 00:26:02,600 It's not talking about like I had a pastor who sprinkled water 533 00:26:02,600 --> 00:26:05,160 on top of your head three times for the Father and the Son and 534 00:26:05,160 --> 00:26:06,680 the Holy. Ghost when I was about a year 535 00:26:06,680 --> 00:26:08,800 old. It's not talking about those 536 00:26:08,800 --> 00:26:12,280 things. Listen, water cannot cleanse you 537 00:26:12,400 --> 00:26:15,040 from sin, no matter how quote UN quote holy it is. 538 00:26:16,480 --> 00:26:19,880 But I will say this Titus 3 verses 3 through 5 says for we 539 00:26:19,880 --> 00:26:24,320 ourselves also were sometimes listen to this, were sometimes 540 00:26:24,320 --> 00:26:27,680 foolish, disobedient, deceived, serving diverse lusts and 541 00:26:27,680 --> 00:26:30,840 pleasures, living in malice, envy, hateful, hating one 542 00:26:30,840 --> 00:26:33,000 another. But after that the kindness and 543 00:26:33,000 --> 00:26:35,160 love of God, our Savior towards man appeared. 544 00:26:35,320 --> 00:26:38,680 Listen not by works of righteousness which we have 545 00:26:38,680 --> 00:26:40,480 done, but according to His mercy. 546 00:26:40,480 --> 00:26:44,440 He saved us by the washing of regeneration and the renewing of 547 00:26:44,440 --> 00:26:47,160 the Holy Ghost. So we are washed, we're washed 548 00:26:47,160 --> 00:26:49,160 by regeneration. But what does that mean? 549 00:26:49,160 --> 00:26:53,360 Let's drill down a little more. Ephesians 213 and 14 But now in 550 00:26:53,360 --> 00:26:57,800 Christ Jesus, He who sometimes were far off, are made nigh by 551 00:26:58,320 --> 00:27:01,440 the blood of Jesus Christ. For he is our peace, who have 552 00:27:01,440 --> 00:27:04,840 made both one and broken down the middle wall partition 553 00:27:04,840 --> 00:27:07,720 between us. No, you weren't washed by water, 554 00:27:07,720 --> 00:27:11,160 you were washed by the cleansing blood of Jesus Christ. 555 00:27:11,160 --> 00:27:15,040 That's what we were washed by. Revelation 1/5 And from Jesus 556 00:27:15,040 --> 00:27:18,000 Christ, who is the faithful witness, and the first begotten 557 00:27:18,000 --> 00:27:21,040 of the dead, and the Prince of the kings of the earth, unto him 558 00:27:21,040 --> 00:27:25,960 that loved us, and washed us from our sins in his own blood. 559 00:27:26,320 --> 00:27:28,640 Hebrews 914. How much more shall the blood of 560 00:27:28,640 --> 00:27:32,400 Christ, who, though the eternal Spirit offered himself without 561 00:27:32,400 --> 00:27:35,520 spot to God, purge your conscience from dead works to 562 00:27:35,520 --> 00:27:37,720 serve the living God? We are washed. 563 00:27:37,720 --> 00:27:40,360 What's one of those means of this revolution, if you will, 564 00:27:40,360 --> 00:27:42,520 this great change that took place in our life? 565 00:27:42,680 --> 00:27:47,160 It is the blood of Jesus Christ, but it's also in verse #11 it's 566 00:27:47,160 --> 00:27:48,880 this. We are sanctified. 567 00:27:49,240 --> 00:27:53,720 We're sanctified. Sanctification is a word that's 568 00:27:53,720 --> 00:27:55,280 used. Much in the Old Testament. 569 00:27:56,200 --> 00:27:59,040 But it has great application to the New Testament as well. 570 00:27:59,760 --> 00:28:02,120 What do we see that was sanctified in the Old Testament 571 00:28:02,120 --> 00:28:03,920 is often the vessels of the temple, wasn't it? 572 00:28:04,640 --> 00:28:07,640 I've talked about this before here at liberty, that when 573 00:28:07,640 --> 00:28:11,200 someone was to sanctify, or rather the the temple vessels 574 00:28:11,200 --> 00:28:15,440 were sanctified, you didn't just take those and use them for some 575 00:28:15,440 --> 00:28:19,160 other use. They did not take those dishes. 576 00:28:19,160 --> 00:28:24,760 They did not take those forks and, and different types of 577 00:28:24,760 --> 00:28:27,640 knives and things that had been dedicated, that had been 578 00:28:27,640 --> 00:28:29,480 sanctified. And they didn't use them for 579 00:28:29,480 --> 00:28:33,160 personal use. They didn't take the table of 580 00:28:33,160 --> 00:28:35,880 Showbread and say, you know what, we could use this for a 581 00:28:35,880 --> 00:28:38,680 desk in one of our offices. You say that that's a little bit 582 00:28:38,680 --> 00:28:40,800 extreme, is it? No, but what I'm saying is this 583 00:28:41,040 --> 00:28:42,760 is that they had been sanctified. 584 00:28:42,760 --> 00:28:46,200 They had been set. Apart for a very particular use 585 00:28:46,440 --> 00:28:49,520 and you could not go around and just do whatever you wanted with 586 00:28:49,520 --> 00:28:51,040 them. That's why there were certain 587 00:28:51,040 --> 00:28:52,960 kings, especially the divided Kingdom. 588 00:28:52,960 --> 00:28:56,440 Obviously when Judah had good kings and bad kings that 589 00:28:56,440 --> 00:28:58,560 sometimes they'd go into the temple and they'd say this. 590 00:28:58,560 --> 00:28:59,040 Hey, you know what? Why? 591 00:28:59,040 --> 00:29:02,200 Don't we do some renovations? And they were never blessed for 592 00:29:02,200 --> 00:29:03,560 doing that. It was always the opposite. 593 00:29:03,560 --> 00:29:05,480 Why? Because they were messing with 594 00:29:05,480 --> 00:29:08,000 those things that God had sanctified. 595 00:29:08,520 --> 00:29:10,920 And every time after there was a good king that would come 596 00:29:10,920 --> 00:29:13,440 through, like Hezekiah for instance, and would do what? 597 00:29:13,520 --> 00:29:16,120 They would cleanse the temple, they would sanctify the temple. 598 00:29:16,120 --> 00:29:18,880 They say this temple is for the Lord, and it's for the Lord 599 00:29:18,880 --> 00:29:20,760 alone. This is what it's for. 600 00:29:21,000 --> 00:29:25,160 Sanctification means something is selected, it's set apart and 601 00:29:25,160 --> 00:29:27,800 it's spotless. That's what sanctification is. 602 00:29:28,000 --> 00:29:32,080 It's literal meaning is holiness or a separation. 603 00:29:32,200 --> 00:29:36,200 John 17 verses 16 and 17. Jesus said they are not of the 604 00:29:36,200 --> 00:29:38,040 world, even as I am not of the world. 605 00:29:38,520 --> 00:29:41,720 Sanctify them through thy truth. Thy word is truth. 606 00:29:41,920 --> 00:29:44,240 We're sanctified. How are we sanctified? 607 00:29:44,240 --> 00:29:46,800 One of the ways we are is through the Word of God. 608 00:29:46,960 --> 00:29:48,920 The more we read the Word of God, the more we hear the 609 00:29:48,920 --> 00:29:51,000 preaching of the Word of God. It ought to be. 610 00:29:51,000 --> 00:29:54,240 The closer we get to God, the more sanctified we are, the more 611 00:29:54,320 --> 00:29:56,000 set apart we are. No, no, I didn't say 612 00:29:56,000 --> 00:29:57,760 sanctimonious. That's something completely 613 00:29:57,760 --> 00:29:59,560 different. I'm talking about that we are 614 00:29:59,560 --> 00:30:03,800 set apart for the masters use, not set apart for our own use, 615 00:30:03,800 --> 00:30:07,720 not set apart for our own flesh, for own lust, for own desires. 616 00:30:07,920 --> 00:30:10,840 God, everything I have belongs to you. 617 00:30:10,960 --> 00:30:14,680 However you use wish to use me, I am willing to be used. 618 00:30:14,880 --> 00:30:17,720 We can only know sanctification by knowing the truth. 619 00:30:18,360 --> 00:30:21,880 For how can we be spotless when we're spotted by the error? 620 00:30:22,480 --> 00:30:24,760 So we need to know the truth of the Word of God. 621 00:30:24,760 --> 00:30:27,320 When we're spotted by error, then we can't be sanctified the 622 00:30:27,320 --> 00:30:30,520 way that God desires us to be. So it says that we are washed, 623 00:30:30,520 --> 00:30:33,960 that we are sanctified, but then also that we're justified. 624 00:30:33,960 --> 00:30:37,080 Let her see there in verse #11 we are justified. 625 00:30:37,440 --> 00:30:40,800 God carried out this action of justification when we believed 626 00:30:41,160 --> 00:30:43,880 we were declared righteous, placed into a new right, 627 00:30:43,880 --> 00:30:48,200 standing before God, in which now and forever we are clothed 628 00:30:48,200 --> 00:30:53,000 in the righteousness of Christ. To be justified means it's just 629 00:30:53,000 --> 00:30:56,480 as if I never sinned. That's amazing to me to think 630 00:30:56,480 --> 00:30:57,960 about that, but it's a legal term. 631 00:30:58,120 --> 00:31:02,760 It's been pronounced for us by the righteous judge, Romans 325 632 00:31:02,760 --> 00:31:06,400 and 26, whom God has sent forth to be His propitiation through 633 00:31:06,400 --> 00:31:08,200 faith. Listen in His blood. 634 00:31:08,200 --> 00:31:12,040 There it is again to declare His righteousness for the remissions 635 00:31:12,040 --> 00:31:14,800 of sins that are passed through the forbearance of God, to 636 00:31:14,800 --> 00:31:18,840 declare, I say at this time, His righteousness, that He might be 637 00:31:18,840 --> 00:31:22,960 just and the justifier of Him which believeth in Jesus. 638 00:31:23,120 --> 00:31:27,600 So what do these verses say? Jesus Christ was just, and as He 639 00:31:27,600 --> 00:31:30,680 was just, then He can make us the justifier. 640 00:31:30,800 --> 00:31:34,080 If Jesus Christ was not just, we couldn't be justified. 641 00:31:35,160 --> 00:31:38,360 Let me give you an example. If you were to go to court and 642 00:31:38,360 --> 00:31:41,560 there was a crooked judge who was there and the crooked judge 643 00:31:41,560 --> 00:31:45,520 had declared you to be guilty, well, if it came to be found out 644 00:31:45,520 --> 00:31:48,080 that that judge was crooked, well, they would declare A 645 00:31:48,080 --> 00:31:50,320 mistrial. They would say that anything 646 00:31:50,320 --> 00:31:53,080 that he had said basically would be null and void. 647 00:31:53,080 --> 00:31:55,680 Why? Because that judge wasn't just. 648 00:31:56,280 --> 00:31:58,000 Now I know that's the way it should be. 649 00:31:58,000 --> 00:31:59,720 Whether that's the way it actually happens, I don't know 650 00:31:59,720 --> 00:32:02,160 if that's the case, but that's the way it should be in our 651 00:32:02,160 --> 00:32:05,360 legal system. And so Jesus Christ, the just 652 00:32:05,360 --> 00:32:09,440 one, the sinless one, only He would be able to say that we are 653 00:32:09,440 --> 00:32:12,480 just because He is the just judge. 654 00:32:12,480 --> 00:32:16,480 He is not an unjust judge. He is just in how He executes 655 00:32:16,480 --> 00:32:20,760 justice and He is just in how He lived His life on the 33 years 656 00:32:20,880 --> 00:32:23,080 that He was here for His earthly ministry. 657 00:32:23,200 --> 00:32:26,080 So we are justified because He is just. 658 00:32:26,360 --> 00:32:29,200 So what are we? We're washed, we're sanctified, 659 00:32:29,280 --> 00:32:33,320 we are justified. This is who we are in Christ. 660 00:32:33,560 --> 00:32:37,600 And it's important that they they all lead up to this 661 00:32:37,600 --> 00:32:40,560 salvation. These are the elements of 662 00:32:40,560 --> 00:32:42,560 salvation. Now, we could use a lot of other 663 00:32:42,560 --> 00:32:45,320 elements for salvation as well, but these are the three which 664 00:32:45,320 --> 00:32:48,480 Paul invokes, and we look at them kind of like looking at a 665 00:32:48,480 --> 00:32:50,200 diamond. It's 1 diamond. 666 00:32:50,800 --> 00:32:54,600 And as you turn a diamond, as I used to sell them, you turn them 667 00:32:54,800 --> 00:32:58,360 and you see the light from different facets, but still 1 668 00:32:58,360 --> 00:33:00,440 diamond. And as we look at salvation, 669 00:33:00,440 --> 00:33:04,360 it's one salvation, but one facet is being justified, 1 670 00:33:04,360 --> 00:33:07,480 facet is being sanctified, 1 facet is being washed in the 671 00:33:07,480 --> 00:33:09,520 blood of Christ. But it all leads up to this, 672 00:33:09,680 --> 00:33:13,960 that you and I are saved. This is who we were, but this is 673 00:33:13,960 --> 00:33:16,000 who we are. We're washed. 674 00:33:16,200 --> 00:33:17,720 We're sanctified, we're justified. 675 00:33:18,000 --> 00:33:21,240 How could you not be different because of what he's done in 676 00:33:21,240 --> 00:33:23,840 your life? So we look at these things and 677 00:33:24,080 --> 00:33:27,760 but I also wanted to see this number three, whose you are. 678 00:33:28,240 --> 00:33:32,440 So what you were, what you are, but whose you are? 679 00:33:32,800 --> 00:33:36,400 Is the last, and that's at the end of verse #11 but you're 680 00:33:36,400 --> 00:33:41,240 justified in what The name of the Lord Jesus and by the Spirit 681 00:33:41,240 --> 00:33:44,320 of our God. The end of verse 11 brings us to 682 00:33:44,320 --> 00:33:47,360 remembrance of whose we are in the name of the Lord Jesus and 683 00:33:47,360 --> 00:33:49,960 by the Spirit of our God. If you're willing to accept 684 00:33:49,960 --> 00:33:53,200 these gifts, to be washed, to be sanctified, to be justified, if 685 00:33:53,200 --> 00:33:55,800 you're willing to accept these gifts from Him, then you must 686 00:33:55,800 --> 00:33:59,280 also accept the reality that you belong to Him. 687 00:33:59,680 --> 00:34:02,960 Look at verse #20 we'll look at this more later, but it says for 688 00:34:02,960 --> 00:34:05,520 year, bought with a price. Therefore what? 689 00:34:06,000 --> 00:34:09,800 Glorify God in your body and your spirit, which are mine. 690 00:34:10,920 --> 00:34:11,800 Hold on. I got one of these new 691 00:34:11,800 --> 00:34:16,480 translations to make sure you're paying attention. 692 00:34:17,440 --> 00:34:20,480 Your body, your spirit, which are gods. 693 00:34:21,080 --> 00:34:24,719 You were bought with a price, Ronald Reagan famously said 694 00:34:24,719 --> 00:34:28,000 about the Panama Canal. He said we bought it, we paid 695 00:34:28,000 --> 00:34:31,040 for it, we built it, and we intend to keep it. 696 00:34:31,800 --> 00:34:34,639 Now that didn't end up happening that way, but that was his 697 00:34:34,639 --> 00:34:36,960 desire. But there was a thought process 698 00:34:36,960 --> 00:34:40,560 that he had which this a very fundamental principle of life, 699 00:34:40,840 --> 00:34:43,960 that he encapsulated one sentence, someone who bought 700 00:34:43,960 --> 00:34:45,639 something, someone who purchased something. 701 00:34:45,639 --> 00:34:49,360 Well, it belongs to them. That's pretty basic, isn't it? 702 00:34:50,520 --> 00:34:54,960 And think about this, Jesus Christ bought us, so how'd he 703 00:34:54,960 --> 00:34:57,960 buy me? You were washed, you were 704 00:34:57,960 --> 00:35:02,520 sanctified, You were justified. And because of that, listen, you 705 00:35:02,560 --> 00:35:07,920 belong to him. It's a fundamental change in the 706 00:35:07,920 --> 00:35:10,880 way that you live. It ought to be a fundamental 707 00:35:10,880 --> 00:35:16,200 way, a fundamental change in the way you handle sin in your life. 708 00:35:16,840 --> 00:35:21,960 By looking at this, This is who I was, this is who I am, and 709 00:35:21,960 --> 00:35:24,560 this is who I belong to. And because I belong to Him, I 710 00:35:24,560 --> 00:35:27,960 should be looking at sin differently than I did before. 711 00:35:28,800 --> 00:35:33,440 I'll give you an example, someone who and you say, well, 712 00:35:33,440 --> 00:35:35,200 this is kind of like a mental game. 713 00:35:35,200 --> 00:35:37,640 These are mental tricks to know. It's a lot more than that. 714 00:35:38,400 --> 00:35:42,440 If someone is trying to quit smoking, if that person, someone 715 00:35:42,640 --> 00:35:46,000 offered you a cigarette and you'd say, oh, you know, I'm 716 00:35:46,000 --> 00:35:48,560 trying to quit, you could do that. 717 00:35:49,360 --> 00:35:54,000 Or if someone hands you a cigarette, you say this, oh, I 718 00:35:54,000 --> 00:35:56,560 don't smoke. Say what's the difference 719 00:35:56,560 --> 00:36:00,400 between the two? Well, the second one says this, 720 00:36:00,760 --> 00:36:02,960 this is who I am. I'm not a smoker. 721 00:36:03,360 --> 00:36:05,640 The first one says, well, I'm trying my best, right? 722 00:36:05,960 --> 00:36:08,800 Hopefully, you know, hopefully I can make it and I'll hold on to 723 00:36:08,800 --> 00:36:12,160 see if I can make it. And listen, you say, is this the 724 00:36:12,480 --> 00:36:14,880 pastor, is the power of positive thinking that you're talking 725 00:36:14,880 --> 00:36:16,520 about? No, no, not at all. 726 00:36:17,240 --> 00:36:19,280 What I'm talking about is exactly what the Scripture is 727 00:36:19,280 --> 00:36:23,040 talking about here, understanding our identity in 728 00:36:23,040 --> 00:36:26,960 Christ. When we deal with sin, we should 729 00:36:27,000 --> 00:36:29,480 associate ourselves with our new identity. 730 00:36:29,920 --> 00:36:32,400 Listen, what, what Hey, do you want to do this? 731 00:36:32,440 --> 00:36:36,640 Well, I'm a child of God. Not just, oh, I, I try not to do 732 00:36:36,640 --> 00:36:39,200 that anymore. I don't know how I feel about 733 00:36:39,200 --> 00:36:40,800 that. Oh, I, I go to church now. 734 00:36:41,640 --> 00:36:43,040 Those aren't the best way to answer. 735 00:36:43,960 --> 00:36:46,320 The best way to answer even in your own heart, your own life, 736 00:36:46,320 --> 00:36:48,040 is this. Listen, I don't do that because 737 00:36:48,040 --> 00:36:50,360 I'm a child of God. That's my identity. 738 00:36:50,360 --> 00:36:54,760 Now listen, that thing that I'm tempted to do, Jesus got nailed 739 00:36:54,760 --> 00:36:57,640 the cross for that. I don't need to do that. 740 00:36:58,160 --> 00:37:00,320 It's a radically different way of thinking. 741 00:37:00,800 --> 00:37:03,160 And so that's why Paul invokes not just that they were washed, 742 00:37:03,160 --> 00:37:04,840 they were sanctified, they were justified. 743 00:37:05,080 --> 00:37:07,080 They also reminds them who they belong to. 744 00:37:07,240 --> 00:37:09,680 That was through the Lord Jesus Christ in the Spirit of God. 745 00:37:09,680 --> 00:37:13,160 He said, understand this, you belong to him, so your life 746 00:37:13,240 --> 00:37:15,640 ought to be different. What am I saying? 747 00:37:15,920 --> 00:37:19,320 It's not just reform, it's revolution. 748 00:37:19,320 --> 00:37:23,640 It's a complete different way of living and that's who we are to 749 00:37:23,640 --> 00:37:27,120 be as believers. Listen, your old life was a 750 00:37:27,120 --> 00:37:30,040 mess. And listen, you got saved when 751 00:37:30,040 --> 00:37:31,840 you were young. Praise the Lord, maybe it wasn't 752 00:37:31,840 --> 00:37:33,920 a mess. God saved you from a mess. 753 00:37:35,000 --> 00:37:37,120 And listen, we still make plenty of messes once we get saved. 754 00:37:37,120 --> 00:37:41,200 I'm not saying that we don't, but we go into those eyes wide 755 00:37:41,200 --> 00:37:43,280 open, don't we? Because the Holy Spirit's 756 00:37:43,280 --> 00:37:46,200 telling us not to do it and we just go right through anyway. 757 00:37:47,160 --> 00:37:49,240 And that's why we need talks like this where we're reminded, 758 00:37:49,240 --> 00:37:52,240 hey, remember who you are, Remember who you came from, 759 00:37:52,560 --> 00:37:55,680 remember who you belong to. It ought to change the way you 760 00:37:55,680 --> 00:38:00,360 think. I have a really bad habit of 761 00:38:00,360 --> 00:38:05,320 overflowing baptistries. I've overflowed 2 in my life. 762 00:38:07,120 --> 00:38:10,040 The first one was in Holden, MO. I worked with a man named Steve 763 00:38:10,040 --> 00:38:11,920 Smith. And I won't give you all the 764 00:38:11,920 --> 00:38:14,640 details, but all I know is he told me to fill the baptistry. 765 00:38:14,880 --> 00:38:18,480 I thought it was pretty close to the top and I want to make sure 766 00:38:18,480 --> 00:38:20,600 that the water was off. So I took the hose that was in 767 00:38:20,600 --> 00:38:23,480 there and I pulled the hose up. The water was off. 768 00:38:23,600 --> 00:38:25,960 I turned it back down. Well, I didn't realize I didn't 769 00:38:25,960 --> 00:38:27,760 turn the water off. And when I pulled the hose up, I 770 00:38:27,760 --> 00:38:31,040 just kinked the hose. So when I put it back down, I 771 00:38:31,040 --> 00:38:32,440 went back to the Parsonage for lunch. 772 00:38:32,440 --> 00:38:37,200 About an hour later, I heard the sound of water and I followed 773 00:38:37,200 --> 00:38:40,320 the sound of the water into the basement where water was going 774 00:38:40,320 --> 00:38:45,120 through the light fixtures and I walked into the water. 775 00:38:45,640 --> 00:38:49,320 Rubber sole shoes. Thank the Lord and realize this 776 00:38:49,320 --> 00:38:51,160 is a mess. I had to carry all that water. 777 00:38:51,160 --> 00:38:53,920 I had to wet back and carry it all the way up the stairs from 778 00:38:53,920 --> 00:38:56,720 the basement out the door. That was a day of work right 779 00:38:56,720 --> 00:38:59,320 there. Then at Westgate Baptist Church, 780 00:38:59,320 --> 00:39:04,800 a building that seat about 1600 people, the pastor, not knowing 781 00:39:04,800 --> 00:39:07,520 my previous history, said I need you to fill the baptistry. 782 00:39:08,360 --> 00:39:14,440 I left it on all night. There was no overflow valve and 783 00:39:14,440 --> 00:39:19,080 it covered multiple, I believe four different classrooms and a 784 00:39:19,080 --> 00:39:20,200 hallway. There was water. 785 00:39:20,200 --> 00:39:22,960 I looked out that morning and it was like a sea of glass. 786 00:39:23,560 --> 00:39:26,680 There was so much water. It was everywhere. 787 00:39:27,000 --> 00:39:30,720 Now you know why we have a horse through here at Liberty Baptist 788 00:39:30,720 --> 00:39:32,520 Church? Because that's all I can handle. 789 00:39:32,520 --> 00:39:34,120 All right, I can't do any more than that. 790 00:39:34,560 --> 00:39:35,880 But you know what's amazing to me? 791 00:39:36,400 --> 00:39:41,600 The destructive power of water. Water is one of the most 792 00:39:41,600 --> 00:39:44,080 powerful elements you will find on this earth. 793 00:39:44,640 --> 00:39:47,560 How do you stop it? You really just kind of contain 794 00:39:47,560 --> 00:39:51,720 it the best you can, don't you? But think about the power of 795 00:39:51,720 --> 00:39:58,400 water, water rising up, people throwing out sandbags, trying in 796 00:39:58,400 --> 00:40:02,120 vain to stop it from flooding. Think about here in New England, 797 00:40:02,120 --> 00:40:06,360 the textile mills of the seventeen 1800s, water harnessed 798 00:40:06,520 --> 00:40:10,440 powered mills before there was even electricity like we used 799 00:40:10,440 --> 00:40:12,480 today. Incredible. 800 00:40:13,320 --> 00:40:16,040 The Niagara. Ever seen the Niagara the power? 801 00:40:16,440 --> 00:40:18,360 Of the Niagara, absolutely incredible. 802 00:40:19,600 --> 00:40:22,360 I seem to believe in Genesis chapter 6 and beyond, there was 803 00:40:22,360 --> 00:40:26,240 a great flood that changed the topography of the whole world. 804 00:40:27,320 --> 00:40:29,120 You say where's that Grand Canyon come from? 805 00:40:29,920 --> 00:40:32,560 I'd say about 40 days. Did the work right there. 806 00:40:34,080 --> 00:40:36,080 The power of water is incredible. 807 00:40:37,240 --> 00:40:40,280 OK, pastor, I'm following you, but this has nothing to do with 808 00:40:40,280 --> 00:40:42,240 the rest of your sermon. So probably we should pack it up 809 00:40:42,240 --> 00:40:43,440 now because this doesn't make any sense. 810 00:40:44,640 --> 00:40:48,960 Jesus standing up in the midst of a feast, said the following 811 00:40:48,960 --> 00:40:53,080 in John 7 verses 37 to 39. In the last day, that great day 812 00:40:53,080 --> 00:40:56,240 of the feast, Jesus stood and cried, saying, If any man 813 00:40:56,240 --> 00:40:58,360 thirst, let him come unto me and drink. 814 00:40:58,840 --> 00:41:02,320 He that believeth on me, as the Scripture hath said, out of his 815 00:41:02,320 --> 00:41:05,280 belly shall flow rivers of living water. 816 00:41:05,680 --> 00:41:08,800 But this he spake of the Spirit, which they that believe on him 817 00:41:08,800 --> 00:41:11,040 should receive. For the Holy Ghost was not yet 818 00:41:11,040 --> 00:41:14,720 given, because that Jesus was not yet glorified. 819 00:41:15,200 --> 00:41:19,560 Jesus said this when? You come to taste of that water, 820 00:41:20,680 --> 00:41:26,800 that the water will flow out of you with such power that it will 821 00:41:26,800 --> 00:41:30,680 be noticeable. The Spirit within you, That's 822 00:41:30,680 --> 00:41:34,160 what it said, that those this talking of the Spirit, that it 823 00:41:34,160 --> 00:41:38,920 will be fundamentally a change agent in your life. 824 00:41:39,880 --> 00:41:42,400 And we act like the Holy Spirit doesn't have enough power to 825 00:41:42,400 --> 00:41:47,240 light up a light bulb. And He has enough power to not 826 00:41:47,240 --> 00:41:51,800 just save us from the penalty of sin, from all eternity and the 827 00:41:51,800 --> 00:41:55,440 presence of sin for all eternity, but from the power of 828 00:41:55,440 --> 00:41:59,640 the sin of sin right now, such were some of you. 829 00:41:59,960 --> 00:42:02,640 Listen, don't go back to that. Who are you? 830 00:42:02,920 --> 00:42:06,280 You're washed, you're sanctified, you're justified. 831 00:42:06,320 --> 00:42:09,080 Whose are you? You belong to Jesus Christ. 832 00:42:09,080 --> 00:42:10,480 Well, why should I say no to sin? 833 00:42:10,480 --> 00:42:11,840 Because you belong to Jesus Christ. 834 00:42:13,520 --> 00:42:15,640 Well, why shouldn't I give into this temptation? 835 00:42:15,640 --> 00:42:18,360 Nobody will know. Well, you belong to Jesus Christ 836 00:42:18,360 --> 00:42:21,320 and you'll know. But why shouldn't I do that? 837 00:42:21,320 --> 00:42:23,000 Because it's not your choice to make. 838 00:42:23,560 --> 00:42:26,520 You don't even belong to yourself, nor do I belong to 839 00:42:26,520 --> 00:42:29,360 myself. We belong to Jesus. 840 00:42:29,600 --> 00:42:35,360 Allow that great life changing power to change your life and to 841 00:42:35,360 --> 00:42:39,960 keep you changed. To live in the light of the King 842 00:42:39,960 --> 00:42:43,720 of Kings and the Lord of Lords. Thank you for listening to the 843 00:42:43,720 --> 00:42:46,360 sermon from the pulpit of Liberty Baptist Church. 844 00:42:46,800 --> 00:42:49,960 If this message was a blessing to you, or if there's any way we 845 00:42:49,960 --> 00:42:53,120 can serve you, please let us know by contacting us at 846 00:42:53,240 --> 00:42:58,000 info@mylibertybaptist.org. Or you can visit us this Sunday 847 00:42:58,160 --> 00:43:01,880 at 800 Washington St. in Easton, MA. 848 00:43:02,160 --> 00:43:04,960 May the Lord bless you as you grow in His Word.