1 00:00:17,960 --> 00:00:21,840 Well, this morning, turn over to Romans chapter 5, verses 6 to 9. 2 00:00:21,840 --> 00:00:23,640 We're going to have communion a little bit later. 3 00:00:23,880 --> 00:00:27,000 So I'm going to be really intentional in US moving forward 4 00:00:27,000 --> 00:00:31,200 in Scripture today because again, we desire to hear what 5 00:00:31,200 --> 00:00:34,120 the Lord is saying. The Bible is God's will for our 6 00:00:34,120 --> 00:00:36,960 life. His Word is His will. 7 00:00:37,240 --> 00:00:41,120 And so This is why we use a lot of Scripture when we minister, 8 00:00:41,280 --> 00:00:43,760 because we really just want you to hear from heaven. 9 00:00:44,840 --> 00:00:48,200 You know, I'm not here to give you my opinion, my ideas. 10 00:00:48,400 --> 00:00:52,080 We're here to look at scripture and allow the scripture to 11 00:00:52,080 --> 00:00:56,760 interpret itself. Because again, I have written 12 00:00:56,760 --> 00:00:59,240 some books. And if you were to grab one of 13 00:00:59,240 --> 00:01:03,600 our books out of Guest Relation and began to read it, if you had 14 00:01:03,600 --> 00:01:07,560 a question of something in one of the chapters, the good news 15 00:01:07,560 --> 00:01:11,240 is you could come to me, the author, and say, what did you 16 00:01:11,240 --> 00:01:15,160 mean by this, right? And then I can say, well, this 17 00:01:15,160 --> 00:01:18,440 is what I meant. Or a testimony that may be 18 00:01:18,440 --> 00:01:21,040 within one of the pages. I can say, oh, yeah, let me give 19 00:01:21,040 --> 00:01:23,400 you a little bit more about that testimony that I didn't put in 20 00:01:23,400 --> 00:01:27,280 the paper, right, because I'm the author of the book. 21 00:01:27,280 --> 00:01:29,440 We understand God is the author of his book. 22 00:01:30,080 --> 00:01:33,240 Hallelujah. The Holy Ghost moved upon people 23 00:01:33,400 --> 00:01:35,920 to write these things and the Holy Spirit was there the whole 24 00:01:35,920 --> 00:01:38,080 time. And so again, if you want to 25 00:01:38,080 --> 00:01:41,560 know something about God, you need to get in scripture rightly 26 00:01:41,560 --> 00:01:45,360 divided here in the Spirit of God, who will then examine that 27 00:01:45,360 --> 00:01:48,480 scripture and communicate to you exactly what the Father is 28 00:01:48,480 --> 00:01:50,280 saying. Because the Holy Spirit that 29 00:01:50,280 --> 00:01:53,120 interprets Scripture for us, they are not naturally 30 00:01:53,120 --> 00:01:54,800 appraised. The Bible says it's spiritually 31 00:01:54,800 --> 00:01:57,520 discerned. The Holy Spirit will only say 32 00:01:57,520 --> 00:02:02,280 what the Word has said or Jesus. He is the Word, and Jesus is 33 00:02:02,280 --> 00:02:03,960 only saying what the Father says. 34 00:02:03,960 --> 00:02:06,680 Hallelujah. And so we can understand the 35 00:02:06,680 --> 00:02:12,040 heart of God from scripture. So Romans chapter 5 verses 6 36 00:02:12,040 --> 00:02:15,120 through 9 says yes. For while we were still helpless 37 00:02:15,720 --> 00:02:21,680 at the right time, Christ died for the ungodly, for one will 38 00:02:21,680 --> 00:02:24,920 hardly die for a righteous man, though perhaps for a good man 39 00:02:24,920 --> 00:02:28,960 someone would dare to even die. But God demonstrated His own 40 00:02:28,960 --> 00:02:33,560 love towards us in that while we were yet sinners, Christ died 41 00:02:33,600 --> 00:02:37,640 for us much more than having been. 42 00:02:37,920 --> 00:02:42,360 Now, having now been justified by his blood, we shall be saved 43 00:02:42,360 --> 00:02:44,800 from the wrath of God through Him. 44 00:02:45,160 --> 00:02:49,920 You understand, I served in the Army for nine years, the Florida 45 00:02:49,920 --> 00:02:53,520 National Guard, specifically through the branch of the US 46 00:02:53,520 --> 00:02:57,120 Army. And, you know, I came across a 47 00:02:57,120 --> 00:03:02,000 lot of people in in the uniform, and not everyone in uniform as a 48 00:03:02,040 --> 00:03:07,080 person, we're great people. You know, not everyone that 49 00:03:07,080 --> 00:03:09,920 wears the uniform are great people. 50 00:03:10,400 --> 00:03:15,560 Some are morally challenged, some are downright mean. 51 00:03:17,240 --> 00:03:21,680 However, when you're in combat, you're not looking at a person, 52 00:03:23,160 --> 00:03:28,440 you're looking at a unit. And when you are engaged in 53 00:03:29,000 --> 00:03:34,040 fire, you protect the unit. You do not say, well, this 54 00:03:34,040 --> 00:03:40,320 person, not that great anyway. They deserve let me step out of 55 00:03:40,320 --> 00:03:44,920 the line of fire. Are you hearing me? 56 00:03:45,800 --> 00:03:48,720 No. You run as a unit and you 57 00:03:48,720 --> 00:03:52,440 protect the unit. And in this case, when it comes 58 00:03:52,440 --> 00:03:56,320 to military exercise, there's quite a few who have laid down 59 00:03:56,320 --> 00:04:00,920 their lives for someone else, even if they knew personally, 60 00:04:00,920 --> 00:04:02,640 even if personally they didn't get along. 61 00:04:02,640 --> 00:04:04,720 I mean, if you think everybody gets along in the branches of 62 00:04:04,720 --> 00:04:08,120 service and they sing kumbaya songs all the time, I mean, 63 00:04:08,120 --> 00:04:10,560 you're sorely mistaken. I mean, some of the greatest 64 00:04:10,560 --> 00:04:14,440 conflicts can be within a unit. However, when you're in battle, 65 00:04:14,440 --> 00:04:18,200 you realize even though we may disagree, there's an enemy 66 00:04:18,200 --> 00:04:23,200 bigger than us. Come on, come on, that I will 67 00:04:23,200 --> 00:04:29,680 help defend you. And so we see here that it's 68 00:04:29,680 --> 00:04:33,720 very few and far between that someone would be willing to say 69 00:04:34,000 --> 00:04:38,680 I'll die for you in the heat of a battle. 70 00:04:38,760 --> 00:04:42,080 You understand, you may do things instinctively trained, 71 00:04:42,360 --> 00:04:46,920 but yet in this case it's a conscious choice. 72 00:04:49,960 --> 00:04:54,360 I don't have to in the context if I just judge your life 73 00:04:54,360 --> 00:04:58,120 according to mine because Christ was righteous and we were 74 00:04:58,120 --> 00:05:01,960 unrighteous, but Christ because of the love of his Father and 75 00:05:01,960 --> 00:05:04,880 the word of his father said I'll step in the line of fire. 76 00:05:05,440 --> 00:05:09,280 I'll take it for you. And I love this verse because it 77 00:05:09,280 --> 00:05:12,040 says that he demonstrated this towards us. 78 00:05:12,920 --> 00:05:16,440 He demonstrated this towards us because of the love that His 79 00:05:16,440 --> 00:05:20,080 Father had towards us. So while we were helpless at the 80 00:05:20,080 --> 00:05:23,440 right time, Christ died for the ungodly. 81 00:05:23,600 --> 00:05:25,800 But the good news is He did not stay dead. 82 00:05:27,280 --> 00:05:29,400 Hallelujah, I said He did not stay dead. 83 00:05:30,680 --> 00:05:35,160 Now in Matthew chapter 26 verse 28, Jesus said this before his 84 00:05:35,160 --> 00:05:38,960 crucifixion, before He dies on the cross, before He gives up 85 00:05:38,960 --> 00:05:41,040 His spirit, before He says it is finished. 86 00:05:41,840 --> 00:05:44,560 He makes these words to his disciples. 87 00:05:45,000 --> 00:05:49,560 Save one. He says, for this is my blood of 88 00:05:49,560 --> 00:05:53,640 the covenant which is poured out for many for forgiveness of 89 00:05:53,640 --> 00:05:56,280 sins. Now there are 11 disciples in 90 00:05:56,280 --> 00:05:57,720 the room during this particular time. 91 00:05:57,720 --> 00:06:00,760 One has gone away to betray Him, and He knows He will betray Him. 92 00:06:01,120 --> 00:06:04,960 He betrays him that same night, but the rest he says, now this 93 00:06:04,960 --> 00:06:08,760 is my covenant. This blood is My covenant, which 94 00:06:08,760 --> 00:06:14,840 was represented by the cup that he wand that he passed around to 95 00:06:14,840 --> 00:06:18,360 his disciples, but it was a representation of his literal 96 00:06:18,360 --> 00:06:21,880 blood. Now we may say, why in the world 97 00:06:21,880 --> 00:06:23,520 does blood have to be in in play? 98 00:06:23,520 --> 00:06:25,200 Well, we're going to talk about it here in a second. 99 00:06:25,480 --> 00:06:28,200 First, John 22 says, yes, I'm going to keep reading Scripture 100 00:06:28,200 --> 00:06:33,120 to build our foundation, says and he the same Jesus himself is 101 00:06:33,120 --> 00:06:39,000 the propitiation, the atoning sacrifice for who sins, for who 102 00:06:39,000 --> 00:06:41,240 sins. Now notice it's not just for 103 00:06:41,240 --> 00:06:45,200 sin, but it's for sins and it's our, which is plural. 104 00:06:45,200 --> 00:06:49,480 And we say our, it's everybody. So that's a lot of sin going on 105 00:06:50,480 --> 00:06:53,160 and not for ours alone, which is ours. 106 00:06:53,320 --> 00:06:56,600 The writer John is talking about the nation of Israel. 107 00:06:56,600 --> 00:06:59,680 He goes beyond that. He says not only for the sins of 108 00:06:59,680 --> 00:07:03,960 Israel, but also the sins of the whole world. 109 00:07:04,480 --> 00:07:09,480 It doesn't matter what nation you were born in your sin. 110 00:07:09,880 --> 00:07:14,920 He is the atoning sacrifice. I said he's the atoning 111 00:07:14,920 --> 00:07:17,160 sacrifice. Hallelujah. 112 00:07:17,760 --> 00:07:22,400 And it's the covenant of blood that causes the forgiveness of 113 00:07:22,400 --> 00:07:26,360 sins to be enacted. Say Amen. 114 00:07:27,160 --> 00:07:30,080 Now Colossians chapter one verse 14 again another scripture 115 00:07:30,080 --> 00:07:32,560 before I kind of start tying this together. 116 00:07:32,760 --> 00:07:36,160 It says in whom we have redemption through his blood Say 117 00:07:36,160 --> 00:07:39,920 redemption. Come on, say redemption in whom 118 00:07:39,920 --> 00:07:43,360 we have redemption through his blood, which means the 119 00:07:43,360 --> 00:07:50,080 forgiveness of our sins. So the blood redeems us and when 120 00:07:50,080 --> 00:07:56,080 it redeems us it it it gives the forgiveness of sins. 121 00:07:56,480 --> 00:08:02,360 Now the word redeem by definition simply means this by 122 00:08:02,360 --> 00:08:08,000 payment of ransom, redeem one by paying the price. 123 00:08:10,320 --> 00:08:13,200 Hallelujah. Thank you Jesus. 124 00:08:14,640 --> 00:08:18,840 So we need to understand this, that in these verses we have 125 00:08:18,840 --> 00:08:28,040 heard thus far, when we read this from a purely maybe 126 00:08:28,040 --> 00:08:35,840 religious church perspective, in this context, we hear Jesus died 127 00:08:36,159 --> 00:08:41,600 for the sins of man and made the payment with his blood that all 128 00:08:41,600 --> 00:08:43,640 would call on his name would be saved. 129 00:08:43,840 --> 00:08:48,840 And that is an accurate truth. However, the brushstroke of that 130 00:08:48,840 --> 00:08:53,240 picture does not actually capture the fullness of what has 131 00:08:53,240 --> 00:08:58,240 acquired, what has taken place. And the reason I say that is 132 00:08:58,240 --> 00:09:01,920 because there's another scripture, especially I believe 133 00:09:01,920 --> 00:09:07,080 it's in Hebrews, talks about neglecting so great a salvation. 134 00:09:08,520 --> 00:09:13,480 We are in what's called a new and better covenant with God and 135 00:09:13,480 --> 00:09:16,040 that we are, but with great price. 136 00:09:17,000 --> 00:09:20,040 I said with great price, with great price. 137 00:09:20,480 --> 00:09:24,000 And a lot of times, you know, when we talk about the free gift 138 00:09:24,000 --> 00:09:28,960 given to us, a lot of times we lose the perspective that it may 139 00:09:28,960 --> 00:09:32,960 be free to us, but it cost a lot. 140 00:09:35,040 --> 00:09:39,000 Are you hearing me? In fact, I would even go go this 141 00:09:39,000 --> 00:09:44,760 far and say there's probably everyone in this room that 142 00:09:44,760 --> 00:09:49,240 someone could bring a gift to you that is in such. 143 00:09:52,920 --> 00:09:59,520 How do I want to say this? It's value is so immense that 144 00:09:59,520 --> 00:10:05,600 you would in your thinking say, I don't, I don't deserve that. 145 00:10:07,000 --> 00:10:10,120 I can't accept that it's, it's too much. 146 00:10:11,520 --> 00:10:17,400 Now you understand, in the realm of, you know, natural humility, 147 00:10:18,240 --> 00:10:20,800 a lot of times we like to say, oh, well, you know what? 148 00:10:20,960 --> 00:10:23,080 That's I won't accept that. That's too much. 149 00:10:23,080 --> 00:10:25,720 You don't have to do that. And those sometimes are really 150 00:10:25,720 --> 00:10:27,160 small gifts. But when we're talking 151 00:10:27,160 --> 00:10:34,520 extravagant, extravagant gifts, OK, so let's give some examples 152 00:10:34,520 --> 00:10:37,600 of that. All right, Let's say that the 153 00:10:37,640 --> 00:10:43,640 owner of three or four hotels in Saint Augustine came to you and 154 00:10:43,640 --> 00:10:49,440 says I'm giving you all of these hotels and the income associated 155 00:10:49,440 --> 00:10:53,360 with it is a free gift. Now for some of you, like, man, 156 00:10:53,360 --> 00:10:54,560 I don't even know what to do with that. 157 00:10:55,200 --> 00:10:56,600 I mean, I don't even, how would I manage that? 158 00:10:56,600 --> 00:10:58,040 How can I? And you're like, that's just too 159 00:10:58,040 --> 00:11:00,400 much. That's too much. 160 00:11:01,000 --> 00:11:04,480 Now we would take stuff, you know, like a car ride or how, 161 00:11:04,480 --> 00:11:06,680 but how about multiple companies? 162 00:11:09,280 --> 00:11:12,080 I mean, where you're it's being unloaded now in our minds. 163 00:11:12,080 --> 00:11:13,920 A lot of times you think, oh, I'll take anything. 164 00:11:14,160 --> 00:11:17,960 But you know, when you start seeing that someone has created 165 00:11:17,960 --> 00:11:21,320 something, worked for it and then it's just freely given. 166 00:11:21,320 --> 00:11:26,280 Even even all of us would say, wow, that is worth so much. 167 00:11:26,480 --> 00:11:33,160 How could I even handle that? It's quiet in this Presbyterian 168 00:11:33,160 --> 00:11:34,280 Church. I didn't realize we were 169 00:11:34,280 --> 00:11:37,840 Presbyterian today. This is funny. 170 00:11:38,960 --> 00:11:40,880 Hallelujah. I got any anchor faith church 171 00:11:40,880 --> 00:11:43,040 people in here? I'm OK. 172 00:11:43,560 --> 00:11:45,160 Oh, OK. I'm glad you're awake now. 173 00:11:45,280 --> 00:11:47,440 Thank you. Hallelujah. 174 00:11:48,920 --> 00:11:55,760 So you know, there are gifts that are just so like, wow, 175 00:11:56,160 --> 00:11:59,560 you're it touches. You're like, how could you give 176 00:11:59,560 --> 00:12:05,920 me something of this value? I didn't even earn this yet. 177 00:12:05,920 --> 00:12:10,760 When it comes to salvation, we almost act like it costs nothing 178 00:12:12,120 --> 00:12:18,120 because that word free gets put on and because we weren't there. 179 00:12:18,720 --> 00:12:20,960 We read about it, but we weren't there. 180 00:12:21,840 --> 00:12:24,520 You know, we talked about it, but do we actually have the 181 00:12:24,520 --> 00:12:26,920 imagery? This is why I really appreciate, 182 00:12:27,040 --> 00:12:30,960 you know, that the that recent movie of the crucifixion of 183 00:12:31,120 --> 00:12:36,440 Jesus, although that's Mel Gibson's depiction, still does 184 00:12:36,440 --> 00:12:39,800 not give you the right picture of what Jesus looked like 185 00:12:40,480 --> 00:12:43,160 because the Bible says he became sin. 186 00:12:43,640 --> 00:12:49,200 He became so deformed looking, not just from the beating and 187 00:12:49,200 --> 00:12:54,600 the scourging, but from taking on sin, that the Bible says you 188 00:12:54,600 --> 00:13:00,920 could not tell he was a man. He was deformed looking when He 189 00:13:00,920 --> 00:13:06,600 took on our trespasses and sin. Now, we don't get that mental 190 00:13:06,600 --> 00:13:11,560 picture typically when we're dealing with being redeemed 191 00:13:13,080 --> 00:13:15,840 because redeemed by all rights is a payment. 192 00:13:16,400 --> 00:13:19,680 And most of us again, do not talk about cost. 193 00:13:19,800 --> 00:13:24,680 We just receive free when the reality is there is a payment 194 00:13:25,720 --> 00:13:27,200 and you understand there is a debt. 195 00:13:27,200 --> 00:13:30,640 When we say forgiveness of sin, again, we tend to keep it in 196 00:13:30,640 --> 00:13:35,720 kind of a churchy's mentality when let me break it down into a 197 00:13:35,840 --> 00:13:45,640 Bible context, and that is you have a literal debt that is more 198 00:13:47,080 --> 00:13:53,160 binding than a financial debt. If you're paying for a car right 199 00:13:53,160 --> 00:13:56,320 now or have a house, or you go into student loan debts or 200 00:13:56,320 --> 00:13:58,040 whatever, you know you have a debt. 201 00:13:58,040 --> 00:14:01,520 You owe somebody something and you're having to pay it off. 202 00:14:01,720 --> 00:14:06,120 Well, there's a term used when it is paid off or someone pays 203 00:14:06,120 --> 00:14:08,720 for it, it says you've been forgiven of your debt. 204 00:14:08,920 --> 00:14:12,720 Now the bank itself may say you've been forgiven of your 205 00:14:12,720 --> 00:14:17,560 debt. We use this term, yet we don't 206 00:14:17,560 --> 00:14:20,960 see that when it comes to salvation. 207 00:14:21,120 --> 00:14:25,080 No, there was a debt. And what happened is, is in 208 00:14:25,080 --> 00:14:28,360 Genesis chapter 1, God had a plan for man. 209 00:14:28,600 --> 00:14:31,680 He said let us make man in our image according to our likeness, 210 00:14:31,680 --> 00:14:35,120 and let them rule over the fish of the sea, over the birds of 211 00:14:35,120 --> 00:14:37,360 the sky, over all the cattle, over every creepy thing that 212 00:14:37,360 --> 00:14:39,200 creeps on the earth and over all the earth. 213 00:14:39,360 --> 00:14:44,280 So God spoke that man would be in this position, a position of 214 00:14:44,280 --> 00:14:48,240 rulership, dominion, in essence being the king of the earth as 215 00:14:48,240 --> 00:14:52,240 he's the King of heaven. We are the in essence the God of 216 00:14:52,240 --> 00:14:54,960 the earth, while he's God of heaven. 217 00:14:55,040 --> 00:14:57,360 Now when I say God, I'm not talking God himself. 218 00:14:57,480 --> 00:15:01,680 I'm just saying little G, he's big G, he's big K, we're little 219 00:15:01,680 --> 00:15:04,600 K, he's big Lord, we're little Lord, right? 220 00:15:04,680 --> 00:15:07,000 He's the King of kings. He's the Lord of Lords. 221 00:15:07,080 --> 00:15:09,680 Who are those kings? We are those kings. 222 00:15:09,800 --> 00:15:12,840 And so God in his original design, when he created the 223 00:15:12,880 --> 00:15:17,080 earth that had no sin in it, no rebellion, no disobedience, God 224 00:15:17,080 --> 00:15:20,240 would walk and be with man. He ruled in His realm. 225 00:15:20,320 --> 00:15:23,720 We ruled in our realm under His authority. 226 00:15:23,840 --> 00:15:27,240 And there was peace, there was joy, there was abundance of 227 00:15:27,240 --> 00:15:29,200 provision. There was no lack. 228 00:15:29,240 --> 00:15:32,280 There was no sickness, no disease, no depression. 229 00:15:32,360 --> 00:15:37,480 There was no crime, there was no marital issue. 230 00:15:37,480 --> 00:15:42,640 There was nothing. It was amazing and God said let 231 00:15:42,640 --> 00:15:46,720 man be this. However, man has to choose to 232 00:15:46,720 --> 00:15:52,240 stay what God has said. And when God placed man in the 233 00:15:52,240 --> 00:15:54,880 garden and he said to the man, he said you can eat from any 234 00:15:54,880 --> 00:15:56,800 tree of the garment of the tree of the knowledge of good and 235 00:15:56,800 --> 00:15:58,280 evil. You shout out to eat for the day 236 00:15:58,280 --> 00:16:01,600 you eat, you will surely die. And if Adam had never eaten that 237 00:16:01,600 --> 00:16:05,560 fruit, where would he be today? Right here on planet earth. 238 00:16:05,840 --> 00:16:09,560 Now that shifts perspective because many of us, we've been 239 00:16:09,560 --> 00:16:13,680 taught, except Jesus as our Lord, so that when we die we can 240 00:16:13,680 --> 00:16:16,560 go to heaven. And sure enough, if you accept 241 00:16:16,560 --> 00:16:19,840 Jesus as your Lord for the forgiveness of sin, and if you 242 00:16:19,840 --> 00:16:23,760 do happen to die, you leave your skin suit, you will be present 243 00:16:23,760 --> 00:16:26,520 with the Lord, and the Lord is presently in heaven. 244 00:16:27,640 --> 00:16:32,160 But that's not his final place. Because if you'll read the back 245 00:16:32,160 --> 00:16:35,440 of the book, we know Jesus is coming back and he's not just 246 00:16:35,440 --> 00:16:37,080 coming back to catch the church away. 247 00:16:37,160 --> 00:16:40,720 He's coming back to live on the planet a lot longer than he did 248 00:16:40,720 --> 00:16:43,440 the first time. Because the first time he came 249 00:16:43,440 --> 00:16:47,040 as a man on a planet, he was only here about 3334 years. 250 00:16:47,480 --> 00:16:49,920 After that, he was called up to heaven. 251 00:16:50,000 --> 00:16:53,760 The next time he shows up, he'll show up and reign on this earth 252 00:16:53,880 --> 00:16:58,080 for 1000 years with man still in sin. 253 00:16:58,200 --> 00:17:03,200 But there'll come a day that that will end, and then we'll 254 00:17:03,200 --> 00:17:06,880 have a new heaven and a new earth, and he'll reign from this 255 00:17:06,880 --> 00:17:09,480 place forever. Hallelujah. 256 00:17:10,079 --> 00:17:12,680 Say Amen. And he says so. 257 00:17:12,680 --> 00:17:17,119 Adam, I want you to love me because of who I am, not because 258 00:17:17,119 --> 00:17:21,359 you're made to love me. You're not a robot. 259 00:17:22,720 --> 00:17:26,560 You're not forced to do what I say, but just whatever I say is 260 00:17:26,560 --> 00:17:29,280 life. If you do what I don't say, it's 261 00:17:29,280 --> 00:17:31,080 death. Pretty simple. 262 00:17:31,600 --> 00:17:34,680 That's why Joshua said I set before you life. 263 00:17:34,720 --> 00:17:39,720 And this is not right or wrong. This is not even good or evil. 264 00:17:40,680 --> 00:17:44,640 This is life and death. Hallelujah. 265 00:17:44,840 --> 00:17:49,920 And God is life. He is life and This is why you 266 00:17:49,920 --> 00:17:53,000 want to serve him. You want to obey him because he 267 00:17:53,000 --> 00:17:58,520 is life. He's the way, the truth and and 268 00:17:58,520 --> 00:18:02,200 the life. If to disobey is to choose death 269 00:18:02,760 --> 00:18:06,160 and it is your choice, and This is why people say, well, if God 270 00:18:06,160 --> 00:18:09,280 is such a loving God, then how could he ever cast someone into 271 00:18:09,280 --> 00:18:11,680 the lake of fire, which is the second death? 272 00:18:11,800 --> 00:18:13,960 Well, that's the prison system of the Kingdom. 273 00:18:14,080 --> 00:18:16,560 And God will give you what you want. 274 00:18:16,840 --> 00:18:21,440 If you do not want him, then you can choose death. 275 00:18:24,360 --> 00:18:27,680 And God doesn't put you there, you put yourself there. 276 00:18:29,560 --> 00:18:32,400 Amen. But when Adam ate the fruit, the 277 00:18:32,400 --> 00:18:39,920 Bible says sin, disobedience entered the world, and the tally 278 00:18:40,280 --> 00:18:46,840 began. There's a book in heaven, and 279 00:18:46,840 --> 00:18:52,640 that book records every unlawful, rebellious, treasonous 280 00:18:52,720 --> 00:18:59,240 act to the Kingdom, of which death is its payment. 281 00:19:01,080 --> 00:19:06,200 Death is its payment for the wages of sin is death, the wages 282 00:19:06,200 --> 00:19:09,720 of sin is. It always pays. 283 00:19:12,760 --> 00:19:18,160 It must be satisfied. So God is the greatest 284 00:19:18,160 --> 00:19:22,360 accountant. He will rectify the ledgers. 285 00:19:23,920 --> 00:19:28,000 So he begins to write and there's a book with your name in 286 00:19:28,000 --> 00:19:32,280 it that he is writing down your responses to his Kingdom. 287 00:19:33,320 --> 00:19:36,560 And he's meticulous. He misses nothing. 288 00:19:37,240 --> 00:19:42,560 He doesn't even miss intentions. What do I mean by intentions? 289 00:19:43,200 --> 00:19:45,320 Jesus said it this way. He said, you've heard the 290 00:19:45,320 --> 00:19:47,360 ancient say thou shalt not commit adultery. 291 00:19:47,360 --> 00:19:49,680 But I say unto you, if you even lust after a woman in your 292 00:19:49,680 --> 00:19:54,200 heart, you've committed the sin. You haven't even physically 293 00:19:54,200 --> 00:19:56,480 committed. Say, well, what? 294 00:19:56,760 --> 00:19:59,640 How's that possible? Well, it's no different than you 295 00:20:00,160 --> 00:20:04,640 driving in a 45 mile an hour. But yet on the inside you're 296 00:20:04,640 --> 00:20:09,760 saying, I want to go 60. And if I could get around this 297 00:20:09,760 --> 00:20:12,880 car right now, given the opportunity, I would not be 298 00:20:12,880 --> 00:20:15,360 doing 45. I would be doing 60. 299 00:20:15,360 --> 00:20:20,200 But as it is, I'm doing 45 because I cannot get around this 300 00:20:20,200 --> 00:20:22,840 vehicle. And then all of a sudden. 301 00:20:23,840 --> 00:20:29,280 A vehicle pulls behind you and turns on some lights and you're 302 00:20:29,280 --> 00:20:35,200 like, what's this about? Like me this past week I got on 303 00:20:35,200 --> 00:20:37,840 to 312 and all of a sudden the lights came on. 304 00:20:37,840 --> 00:20:41,480 I'm like, what's this about? Because I know I'm not running 305 00:20:41,480 --> 00:20:45,440 fast, but I look like it. I get it. 306 00:20:45,440 --> 00:20:48,240 So I pulled over. Come to find out I had not 307 00:20:48,240 --> 00:20:52,760 renewed my tag. It's been a busy summer. 308 00:20:54,640 --> 00:20:56,360 I was shocked and they knew I was shocked. 309 00:20:56,360 --> 00:20:58,160 Oh, you look shocked. I'm very shocked. 310 00:20:58,160 --> 00:21:02,000 I have quite a few tags and did not realize this one was not 311 00:21:02,000 --> 00:21:03,000 well. You know what I said? 312 00:21:03,000 --> 00:21:05,680 I'll take care of that. They say, OK, Favor of God in my 313 00:21:05,680 --> 00:21:10,960 life, mercy of God in my life allowed me to go take care of 314 00:21:10,960 --> 00:21:13,760 what needed to be taken care of. And it was taken care of that 315 00:21:13,760 --> 00:21:16,760 day. But it wasn't for speeding that 316 00:21:16,760 --> 00:21:18,680 I was stopped. Are you hearing me? 317 00:21:18,920 --> 00:21:22,440 But you're going 45 behind somebody, going 45 wanting to go 318 00:21:22,440 --> 00:21:24,840 60, cannot get around it. And you said that if I can pass, 319 00:21:24,840 --> 00:21:26,040 I'd be going a lot faster than this. 320 00:21:26,160 --> 00:21:29,160 Then the police officer behind you turns on the lights and you 321 00:21:29,160 --> 00:21:30,480 pull over. You say, is there a problem, 322 00:21:30,480 --> 00:21:32,440 officer? He says, yes, I'm going to have 323 00:21:32,440 --> 00:21:36,080 to write you a ticket for going 60 and a 45. 324 00:21:36,640 --> 00:21:39,080 But, officer, I was not going 60 and a 45. 325 00:21:39,080 --> 00:21:42,200 I was going 45. Yeah, but you thought about it. 326 00:21:44,800 --> 00:21:48,680 You had intention, but because the opportunity didn't allow it, 327 00:21:48,680 --> 00:21:51,680 you didn't get to act on it. But it was in you to do. 328 00:21:53,760 --> 00:21:55,880 Or if we got a ticket for every time we thought about it. 329 00:21:59,200 --> 00:22:02,320 Now, I like to say it at this point, if death paid out 330 00:22:02,320 --> 00:22:07,800 immediately, sin would show up a lot less. 331 00:22:08,560 --> 00:22:10,920 Oh, so and so just died. Oh, gosh. 332 00:22:13,120 --> 00:22:15,800 OK, Lord, you'd be walking every Am I right? 333 00:22:15,920 --> 00:22:17,160 Am I right? Am I right? 334 00:22:17,240 --> 00:22:19,040 Because I don't want, I don't want to just drop dead. 335 00:22:19,040 --> 00:22:21,640 I just don't want to drop dead. Aren't you glad God's merciful 336 00:22:21,720 --> 00:22:23,320 because he don't want you to drop dead either? 337 00:22:23,640 --> 00:22:24,880 That's the whole point. God doesn't. 338 00:22:25,040 --> 00:22:27,440 God doesn't even want you to exist in death. 339 00:22:29,200 --> 00:22:32,520 Say Amen. So this redemption's a big deal 340 00:22:32,520 --> 00:22:37,080 because there's this line that's got sin coming from the first 341 00:22:37,080 --> 00:22:40,640 sin that Adam creates to today and beyond. 342 00:22:40,760 --> 00:22:43,640 And that line is, is has to be paid. 343 00:22:43,760 --> 00:22:48,440 It airs, airs a redeemable quality of that line. 344 00:22:48,480 --> 00:22:52,000 And that redemption of everyone who's on that line, who has put 345 00:22:52,200 --> 00:22:56,200 payment on that line. Jesus says, I'll pay your debt 346 00:22:56,200 --> 00:22:59,080 off. I'll forgive you your debt, but 347 00:22:59,080 --> 00:23:04,040 in order for me to do that, I have to use my blood because 348 00:23:04,040 --> 00:23:07,120 again, forgiveness is not getting away with. 349 00:23:07,120 --> 00:23:12,760 You need to understand when you ask Jesus to forgive you, you 350 00:23:12,760 --> 00:23:14,960 have not gotten away with anything. 351 00:23:15,840 --> 00:23:20,640 Jesus paid it. He bore it. 352 00:23:27,850 --> 00:23:30,370 Romans 323 to 26 for all have sinned. 353 00:23:30,370 --> 00:23:34,920 How many all and fall short of the glory of God being justified 354 00:23:35,200 --> 00:23:38,960 as a gift by his grace through the redemption which is in 355 00:23:38,960 --> 00:23:41,520 Christ. So payment only can come through 356 00:23:41,520 --> 00:23:44,000 Jesus Christ. There's no other way to pay to 357 00:23:44,000 --> 00:23:44,840 get you in. That's right, thank God, 358 00:23:44,840 --> 00:23:50,800 Hallelujah, whom God displayed publicly as a propituation in 359 00:23:50,800 --> 00:23:53,320 his blood through faith, which is to demonstrate his 360 00:23:53,320 --> 00:23:56,480 righteousness because in the forbearance of God he passed 361 00:23:56,480 --> 00:24:00,560 over the sins previously committed for the demonstration. 362 00:24:00,880 --> 00:24:04,560 I say of his righteousness at the present time so that he 363 00:24:04,560 --> 00:24:08,480 would be just and the justifier of the one who has faith in 364 00:24:08,640 --> 00:24:11,960 Jesus. In essence, the Lord is D is 365 00:24:11,960 --> 00:24:15,960 having to Passover, meaning having to look beyond the sin 366 00:24:15,960 --> 00:24:20,280 that was in the old covenant and through the slaying of bulls and 367 00:24:20,280 --> 00:24:23,920 goats and and lambs. He would only cover, but it 368 00:24:23,920 --> 00:24:26,240 would not pay or suffice the price. 369 00:24:26,440 --> 00:24:30,240 And he would look into into the future, knowing the day will 370 00:24:30,240 --> 00:24:32,840 come that all that is going on here. 371 00:24:32,960 --> 00:24:37,120 And as much as we're trying to atone and and and and and show 372 00:24:37,200 --> 00:24:42,520 my mercy and show my favor and show my blessings, I I this is 373 00:24:42,520 --> 00:24:45,640 going to have to be paid for. In essence, God was placing a 374 00:24:45,640 --> 00:24:54,080 debt on himself until Christ ice cake and then he paid the debt 375 00:24:54,080 --> 00:24:59,720 off and any debts in the future He left in the account of blood, 376 00:24:59,880 --> 00:25:02,160 the blood flowing on the mercy seat. 377 00:25:02,200 --> 00:25:05,600 So then when it became 2000 years later after the death, 378 00:25:05,600 --> 00:25:09,560 burial and resurrection, that we could boldly come before God and 379 00:25:09,560 --> 00:25:13,040 receive that same blood to pay for our wrongdoing. 380 00:25:16,680 --> 00:25:18,320 Now you can say, well I'm not doing wrong. 381 00:25:18,320 --> 00:25:22,280 There's a way that seems right to a man, but in the end lies 382 00:25:22,280 --> 00:25:26,160 death. This all comes down to a very 383 00:25:26,160 --> 00:25:31,000 simple principle and that is who actually has the right to say 384 00:25:31,960 --> 00:25:36,360 and that right is final. Everyone in this room could give 385 00:25:36,360 --> 00:25:39,760 their own thought process of something, but who actually 386 00:25:39,760 --> 00:25:42,400 holds the power to make sure that comes to pass? 387 00:25:47,080 --> 00:25:50,320 The Lord can. That's why I trust His word. 388 00:25:51,880 --> 00:25:54,400 Because, you know, Raphael may have great intentions for me, 389 00:25:54,400 --> 00:25:57,080 want to do great things for me, want to be a great blessing to 390 00:25:57,080 --> 00:26:01,440 me, maybe even die for me. But the reality is His words do 391 00:26:01,440 --> 00:26:06,400 not have the same authority or that Jesus has. 392 00:26:06,720 --> 00:26:09,360 Now, that doesn't mean he can't function in Jesus's authority. 393 00:26:09,440 --> 00:26:11,720 That's a different thing. But if he was functioning 394 00:26:11,720 --> 00:26:14,560 independently and say, hey, follow me, do what I do. 395 00:26:14,720 --> 00:26:16,280 You'll have the life that I'll have. 396 00:26:16,360 --> 00:26:18,040 You'll have wealth, riches, fame. 397 00:26:18,080 --> 00:26:19,680 You'll have all these particular things. 398 00:26:19,760 --> 00:26:22,480 And I could follow it to the T and have what he gives me. 399 00:26:22,520 --> 00:26:24,520 But then after my life, what do I have? 400 00:26:26,320 --> 00:26:28,480 For the Bible says what good is the man to gain the whole world, 401 00:26:28,480 --> 00:26:31,320 forfeit his soul? Yeah, there are many that have 402 00:26:31,320 --> 00:26:33,960 it all, only discovering that they still have nothing. 403 00:26:35,120 --> 00:26:37,640 Why? Because the debt still to your 404 00:26:37,640 --> 00:26:38,880 account. You know how many people 405 00:26:38,880 --> 00:26:42,320 function and depression and and anxiety and worry because of the 406 00:26:42,320 --> 00:26:46,760 weight of the debt they carry naturally with finance? 407 00:26:48,080 --> 00:26:53,440 Well, until the debt of sin is satisfied in your life, it's 408 00:26:53,440 --> 00:26:55,880 always there. And no matter what you do to 409 00:26:55,880 --> 00:26:59,640 mask it, to cover it, to try to do something you know to, to 410 00:26:59,640 --> 00:27:02,360 give you some pleasure so that you don't feel the guilt and the 411 00:27:02,360 --> 00:27:06,200 shame and the condemnation that comes with living a life of a 412 00:27:06,200 --> 00:27:09,840 Sinner. Things on your own, things 413 00:27:09,840 --> 00:27:13,200 contrary to God, you'll never get that off until the blood of 414 00:27:13,200 --> 00:27:18,240 Jesus is applied and man, when it's applied, it's amazing. 415 00:27:18,360 --> 00:27:21,960 Look what it says in Ephesians chapter 2 verse 1213. 416 00:27:21,960 --> 00:27:24,640 It says remember that you were at that time separated from 417 00:27:24,640 --> 00:27:27,400 Christ, excluded from the Commonwealth of Israel and 418 00:27:27,400 --> 00:27:30,880 strangers through the covenants of promise, having no hope and 419 00:27:30,880 --> 00:27:34,920 without God in the world, but now in Christ Jesus you were 420 00:27:34,920 --> 00:27:40,480 formerly were afar off have been brought near by the blood of 421 00:27:40,480 --> 00:27:42,160 Christ. That word separate means making 422 00:27:42,160 --> 00:27:44,400 no use of or having no association. 423 00:27:44,600 --> 00:27:47,520 How many remember the time you had no association with Jesus 424 00:27:49,360 --> 00:27:53,560 And yet no matter what you did and I could go through a gamut 425 00:27:53,560 --> 00:27:59,120 of people here, some that you know were broke in bondage, 426 00:27:59,240 --> 00:28:05,120 prostitution, drugs, all kinds of stuff and found and found no 427 00:28:05,120 --> 00:28:09,680 hope yet I can get on an opposite and that they had the 428 00:28:09,960 --> 00:28:16,760 the fame, fortune, prestige. They had the titles and yet 429 00:28:16,840 --> 00:28:22,880 broke had nothing still lonely and still looking for some other 430 00:28:22,880 --> 00:28:26,400 meaning for life. And if you're somewhere in the 431 00:28:26,400 --> 00:28:31,440 middle, same thing. But God being rich in his mercy 432 00:28:31,560 --> 00:28:36,080 while I was still a Sinner, died for me, said I will pay your 433 00:28:36,080 --> 00:28:43,760 debt, I'll pay it. Thank you, Lord, everything 434 00:28:43,760 --> 00:28:47,680 you've done, I'll take on so that you can take me on. 435 00:28:48,480 --> 00:28:52,240 Hallelujah, so that we can have an association with him. 436 00:28:52,360 --> 00:28:55,920 First Peter chapter 118 and 19 the amplifier says you must 437 00:28:55,920 --> 00:28:59,560 know, recognize that you were redeemed ransom from the useless 438 00:28:59,560 --> 00:29:02,240 fruitless way of living, inherited by the traditions of 439 00:29:02,240 --> 00:29:05,840 your forefathers, not with a corruptible things such as 440 00:29:05,840 --> 00:29:08,600 silver and gold, but you were purchased with the precious 441 00:29:08,600 --> 00:29:12,960 blood of Christ, the Messiah, like that of a sacrificial lamb, 442 00:29:12,960 --> 00:29:17,200 without spot or blemish. The value that it was required 443 00:29:17,280 --> 00:29:20,560 for our debt to be paid. You could not accumulate enough 444 00:29:20,560 --> 00:29:25,800 wealth in the earth to go up before the Lord after your death 445 00:29:25,960 --> 00:29:29,160 and say here's all the silver and gold of the earth. 446 00:29:29,320 --> 00:29:33,120 It buys my way in. Now you may pay your citizenship 447 00:29:33,120 --> 00:29:37,080 to a nation down here, but you will not pay your citizenship to 448 00:29:37,080 --> 00:29:41,200 the Kingdom of heaven up there. There's only one payment 449 00:29:41,200 --> 00:29:44,720 accepted. It is the blood of Jesus. 450 00:29:45,200 --> 00:29:50,720 So we could say this, the cross was God's financial transaction 451 00:29:54,120 --> 00:30:02,200 to redeem you for His Kingdom. The new Living Translation says 452 00:30:02,200 --> 00:30:04,360 it this way. For you know that God paid a 453 00:30:04,360 --> 00:30:07,920 ransom to save you from the empty life you inherited from 454 00:30:07,920 --> 00:30:10,440 your ancestors. And the ransom he paid was not 455 00:30:10,440 --> 00:30:13,120 mere gold or silver. It was the precious blood of 456 00:30:13,200 --> 00:30:15,520 Jesus, the sinless, spotless Lamb of God. 457 00:30:16,160 --> 00:30:18,480 Hallelujah. Now let me read this Romans 458 00:30:18,480 --> 00:30:20,960 chapter 8 real quick verses one and two. 459 00:30:20,960 --> 00:30:24,160 It says therefore there is now no condemnation for those who 460 00:30:24,160 --> 00:30:26,080 are in Christ Jesus. Man that make you want to run 461 00:30:26,080 --> 00:30:29,800 and shout right there for the law of the Spirit of life in 462 00:30:29,800 --> 00:30:35,720 Christ Jesus has set you free from the law of sin and death. 463 00:30:37,800 --> 00:30:41,880 Amen. Man, if, if, if we had time 464 00:30:41,880 --> 00:30:45,800 today really, that I could just come down here and sit down and 465 00:30:45,800 --> 00:30:47,920 say, let me tell you how my life was. 466 00:30:48,960 --> 00:30:52,600 And then I bring the next person up and the next person up and 467 00:30:52,600 --> 00:30:58,840 the next person up. And we would all see that we 468 00:30:58,840 --> 00:31:01,440 were all born in it and we all participated. 469 00:31:03,800 --> 00:31:06,560 And then we could share our stories of how we tried to 470 00:31:07,000 --> 00:31:14,920 please him in our own efforts, and we could talk about it. 471 00:31:15,880 --> 00:31:18,960 You know, and it's amazing in the world today, you know, you 472 00:31:18,960 --> 00:31:24,080 can go to seminars, conferences of people that are successful in 473 00:31:24,080 --> 00:31:27,560 business or nonprofits or whatever the case may be. 474 00:31:28,040 --> 00:31:30,240 And, you know, we'll learn and listen and we'll take 475 00:31:30,240 --> 00:31:33,240 testimonies of how they grew their business, how they grew 476 00:31:33,240 --> 00:31:36,880 their wealth, how they, you know, they, you know, save their 477 00:31:36,880 --> 00:31:38,520 marriage or whatever the case may be. 478 00:31:38,520 --> 00:31:41,120 A lot of things that's going on in the world to try to better 479 00:31:41,120 --> 00:31:44,640 humanity. And we'll run with that. 480 00:31:44,920 --> 00:31:50,120 The world runs with that. Yet what they're looking for is 481 00:31:50,120 --> 00:31:56,920 the Kingdom. It's the Kingdom of God in Jesus 482 00:31:56,920 --> 00:31:59,280 Christ the King that we're all we're looking for and we all 483 00:31:59,280 --> 00:32:01,960 found. And when we found him, it says 484 00:32:01,960 --> 00:32:04,960 we had no condemnation, which means every guilt and shame that 485 00:32:04,960 --> 00:32:08,720 I had that I did and brought upon myself, he took. 486 00:32:10,000 --> 00:32:14,400 How amazing is that? What kind of creator God would 487 00:32:14,400 --> 00:32:21,880 do that, that I would knowingly tell him and act in a way that 488 00:32:21,880 --> 00:32:27,960 is contrary to the way of life. And yet he was still saying, 489 00:32:30,920 --> 00:32:34,040 I'll take it. Well, let me tell you why he'll 490 00:32:34,040 --> 00:32:37,640 do this, because he said something about you before you 491 00:32:37,640 --> 00:32:42,360 even became. This is what's amazing, that God 492 00:32:42,640 --> 00:32:47,880 will always do His word. And he had an idea of us, both 493 00:32:47,880 --> 00:32:51,720 male and female. He had an idea that man would be 494 00:32:51,720 --> 00:32:57,680 like him in His image, a carbon copy of His nature, His way of 495 00:32:57,680 --> 00:33:01,440 doing things, and that we would rule and reign. 496 00:33:01,640 --> 00:33:07,120 And he communicated our assignment, why we exist in the 497 00:33:07,120 --> 00:33:10,040 1st place, why we were created in the 1st place. 498 00:33:10,200 --> 00:33:15,080 And even at the moment of man failing in that assignment, God 499 00:33:15,080 --> 00:33:19,440 said, I will make a pathway so they can be back in that place. 500 00:33:21,600 --> 00:33:24,680 I had one minute a person to say this when we were in Putnam 501 00:33:24,680 --> 00:33:27,960 County Corrections and I mentioned this in a service, but 502 00:33:27,960 --> 00:33:31,040 I really think it's important to mention it now again. 503 00:33:31,720 --> 00:33:35,400 And he said this, he said, well, if God knew that Adam was going 504 00:33:35,400 --> 00:33:38,440 to eat the fruit, why did he put the tree there in the 1st place? 505 00:33:39,400 --> 00:33:40,840 And that's a really good question. 506 00:33:42,080 --> 00:33:46,600 In fact, a lot of people ask that cause the assumption is, is 507 00:33:46,600 --> 00:33:49,440 if it was never there, he would never fail. 508 00:33:50,960 --> 00:33:54,560 In essence, what that person was saying, I kind of wish God would 509 00:33:54,560 --> 00:33:58,240 have not made me a robot or made me with a free will. 510 00:34:01,600 --> 00:34:09,960 But in real love comes through choice and God is love. 511 00:34:11,280 --> 00:34:13,480 We say this all the time. God lets you do whatever you 512 00:34:13,480 --> 00:34:16,239 want to do, but He will hold you accountable to whatever you do. 513 00:34:18,719 --> 00:34:24,040 Yeah. And he asked me that question 514 00:34:24,960 --> 00:34:27,080 and we went home that night, came back to prison the next day 515 00:34:27,080 --> 00:34:28,560 because we were doing extended meeting. 516 00:34:29,120 --> 00:34:33,040 And I remember on the way back the Lord said, son, did I not 517 00:34:33,040 --> 00:34:37,320 say in my word that the Lamb was slain before the foundations of 518 00:34:37,320 --> 00:34:42,600 the world? He said, you think it's 519 00:34:42,679 --> 00:34:45,920 something that I kept the tree of the knowledge of good and 520 00:34:45,920 --> 00:34:48,440 evil in and knew he was going to eat. 521 00:34:49,880 --> 00:34:55,760 I knew what I would do because he was going to eat before I 522 00:34:55,760 --> 00:35:00,120 even put the tree there. So in essence God said to 523 00:35:00,120 --> 00:35:08,320 himself before any tree was created, when he fails, I'll pay 524 00:35:08,320 --> 00:35:12,520 the price. And he created us anyway, and he 525 00:35:12,520 --> 00:35:19,800 saw what price that would be, and he did it anyway. 526 00:35:21,200 --> 00:35:25,880 So his actions not so much predicated on you as much as he 527 00:35:25,880 --> 00:35:28,240 had already calculated his actions. 528 00:35:28,240 --> 00:35:28,480 Yes. Yeah. 529 00:35:29,200 --> 00:35:29,560 Right. Yeah. 530 00:35:30,200 --> 00:35:30,720 Yeah. That's good. 531 00:35:30,720 --> 00:35:34,520 Thanks you, Lord. He had already calculated his 532 00:35:34,520 --> 00:35:38,560 actions because what excuse do we have when we say, well, but 533 00:35:38,560 --> 00:35:41,520 now we're in a world that's sin and we sin and it's all around 534 00:35:41,520 --> 00:35:44,760 us and how he's like, yeah. But before any of this, I knew I 535 00:35:44,760 --> 00:35:47,920 would die for you, for that. And all you have to do is accept 536 00:35:47,920 --> 00:35:51,280 me and I'll wash you clean. It'll be as if you never did it. 537 00:35:51,320 --> 00:35:53,880 I'll put you back in the same position that the first Adam 538 00:35:53,880 --> 00:35:55,320 was. I'll give you your dominion. 539 00:35:55,360 --> 00:35:57,120 I'll give you life and life more abundantly. 540 00:35:57,160 --> 00:35:58,760 I'll free you from the law of sin and death. 541 00:35:58,880 --> 00:36:01,520 You're really without excuse. You don't actually have to live 542 00:36:01,520 --> 00:36:03,360 that way. You don't have to be that way. 543 00:36:03,520 --> 00:36:06,480 I have made the pathway for you to have life and life more 544 00:36:06,480 --> 00:36:10,080 abundantly, free from guilt, free from shame, free from 545 00:36:10,080 --> 00:36:13,520 worry, free from depression, free from it all when it comes, 546 00:36:13,600 --> 00:36:16,560 you can get rid of it because he's giving you dominion back. 547 00:36:18,520 --> 00:36:21,200 I mean, what are we going to say before creator God? 548 00:36:21,280 --> 00:36:24,960 What excuse can we say when? He said, But I paid the price 549 00:36:24,960 --> 00:36:32,720 for it all. I mean, think what student 550 00:36:32,720 --> 00:36:36,080 athlete in our Division One colleges today that if the 551 00:36:36,080 --> 00:36:39,800 university comes and says I'm going to give you a full ride 552 00:36:39,800 --> 00:36:42,400 scholarship, well, what does that mean? 553 00:36:42,440 --> 00:36:47,640 Somebody's paying for it. We're going to pay it all. 554 00:36:47,680 --> 00:36:50,720 Pay for your books, pay for your classes, pay for your tutors, 555 00:36:50,880 --> 00:36:54,800 pay for your transportation, pay for your uniforms, pray for your 556 00:36:54,800 --> 00:36:58,480 practices, your food, do it all would say no. 557 00:36:58,480 --> 00:37:04,040 I much, much rather work two or three jobs, do it all myself. 558 00:37:05,880 --> 00:37:08,960 They don't do that. I mean, what person in business, 559 00:37:09,040 --> 00:37:11,280 if the company comes, you say, hey, we want to send you on an 560 00:37:11,280 --> 00:37:13,280 assignment to another place, We're going to pay for your 561 00:37:13,280 --> 00:37:16,760 hotel, pay for your food, pay for no, I'll do it out of my own 562 00:37:16,760 --> 00:37:20,480 pocket. No one does this. 563 00:37:20,960 --> 00:37:23,320 And if someone does, people be like, you're crazy. 564 00:37:23,920 --> 00:37:27,080 And again, you could do it, but that doesn't make you more holy. 565 00:37:32,080 --> 00:37:34,120 That really just communicates your pride. 566 00:37:34,720 --> 00:37:37,600 And the pride is, I'll do it, I'll do it, I'll do it. 567 00:37:37,600 --> 00:37:39,160 In essence, you made yourself a God. 568 00:37:39,280 --> 00:37:41,520 God said, But I did it because I am God. 569 00:37:41,680 --> 00:37:44,000 I'm the one who paid the pride. I'm the one who's done it. 570 00:37:44,120 --> 00:37:46,640 I'm the one who sets you free. I'm the one who can liberate, 571 00:37:46,640 --> 00:37:48,040 and he's really the only one who can. 572 00:37:51,120 --> 00:37:55,440 Hallelujah. I said Hallelujah, so we're free 573 00:37:55,440 --> 00:37:58,440 from condemnation. Galatians 1335 says it this way. 574 00:37:58,440 --> 00:38:01,760 Grace to you and peace from God our Father, the Lord Jesus 575 00:38:01,760 --> 00:38:05,640 Christ, who gave Himself for our sins so that we might, he might 576 00:38:05,640 --> 00:38:08,880 rescue us from the present evil age according to the will of God 577 00:38:09,080 --> 00:38:11,520 and Father, to whom be the glory forever and ever. 578 00:38:11,520 --> 00:38:15,080 What's so awesome about me being born again today is that He has 579 00:38:15,080 --> 00:38:17,520 already delivered me from the junk going on in the world 580 00:38:17,520 --> 00:38:24,920 today, that the stuff going on has no bearing to me that he's 581 00:38:24,920 --> 00:38:28,720 redeemed me from it. I like what Andrew Murray said. 582 00:38:28,720 --> 00:38:34,640 He said sin has not the slightest claim on us, nor the 583 00:38:34,640 --> 00:38:40,320 slightest power over us, except as our ignorance or unbelief or 584 00:38:40,320 --> 00:38:43,320 half heartedness allows it to have dominion. 585 00:38:44,360 --> 00:38:48,480 Our new covenant birthright is to stand in the freedom with 586 00:38:48,480 --> 00:38:53,280 which Christ has made us free. Until the soul sees and desires 587 00:38:53,280 --> 00:38:56,640 and accepts and claims the redemption and liberty which 588 00:38:56,640 --> 00:39:00,360 has, which has the blood of the Son of God for its purchase 589 00:39:00,360 --> 00:39:04,960 price and its measure and its security, it can never, it never 590 00:39:04,960 --> 00:39:07,120 can, fully live the new covenant life. 591 00:39:08,200 --> 00:39:14,600 Sin has no claim to me because here's the thing, I was lost and 592 00:39:14,600 --> 00:39:18,240 dead in my trespasses and said meaning I thought my way, what I 593 00:39:18,240 --> 00:39:21,640 was doing, how I was doing, how I was doing about it was fine. 594 00:39:21,760 --> 00:39:23,640 And God, you just gonna have to get along with it. 595 00:39:23,720 --> 00:39:25,480 But the problem is on the inside. 596 00:39:25,520 --> 00:39:27,960 I had other problems. I had other issues. 597 00:39:28,080 --> 00:39:30,680 I had guilt, shame. I had other things weighing me 598 00:39:30,680 --> 00:39:32,480 down. I mean a happy one day, 599 00:39:32,640 --> 00:39:35,440 depressed the next day, Situationally I was having 600 00:39:35,480 --> 00:39:41,680 problems. But God, he made me alive. 601 00:39:42,080 --> 00:39:45,880 When I received Christ and my Lord, that spirit that was dead, 602 00:39:45,880 --> 00:39:49,560 could not hear him, could not run to him, did not want to run 603 00:39:49,560 --> 00:39:52,120 to him, was evicted out of my skin. 604 00:39:52,120 --> 00:39:54,120 Soon I became a new creature in Christ. 605 00:39:54,320 --> 00:39:59,120 Then God's Holy Spirit came and moved on the inside of me. 606 00:40:00,920 --> 00:40:02,680 And bears witness with my spirit. 607 00:40:02,680 --> 00:40:05,640 I'm a child of God. And now sin, which is simply 608 00:40:05,640 --> 00:40:10,560 disobeying God, no longer is resident inside my spirit, but 609 00:40:10,560 --> 00:40:14,120 wants to obey and hear God and obtain life. 610 00:40:14,280 --> 00:40:17,400 And now that I have God in me, he renews my mind. 611 00:40:17,400 --> 00:40:22,520 I have a new educator on the inside of me, showing me the 612 00:40:22,520 --> 00:40:25,640 word of God so that I can walk in the fullness of this 613 00:40:25,640 --> 00:40:28,600 dominion. Which means now sin does not own 614 00:40:28,600 --> 00:40:31,800 me. A contrary existence of thinking 615 00:40:31,800 --> 00:40:35,480 and acting in behavior does not own me anymore. 616 00:40:35,480 --> 00:40:40,160 I've been bought with the blood. I've been bought with the blood, 617 00:40:41,400 --> 00:40:44,680 so my thinking has rose to another level, My living has 618 00:40:44,680 --> 00:40:48,160 rose to another level, it's moved to the level of my Father. 619 00:40:48,240 --> 00:40:51,480 And my Father is the creator of heaven and earth. 620 00:40:51,600 --> 00:40:57,040 He is King, I am royalty, I am in His household, and I serve 621 00:40:57,040 --> 00:41:02,960 His purposes. Wow, how amazing is that? 622 00:41:03,400 --> 00:41:07,200 He rescued me from the domain of darkness and transfer me to the 623 00:41:07,200 --> 00:41:11,360 Kingdom of His beloved Son. Isn't that amazing that he did 624 00:41:11,360 --> 00:41:14,800 this? He's given us power, Colossians 625 00:41:14,800 --> 00:41:18,080 113 and 20 said, in whom we have redemption, the forgiveness of 626 00:41:18,080 --> 00:41:20,400 sin. He is the image of the invisible 627 00:41:20,400 --> 00:41:21,960 God, the first born of all creation. 628 00:41:22,120 --> 00:41:25,560 He, for by Him all things were created both in heaven and on 629 00:41:25,560 --> 00:41:28,080 earth, visible and invisible, where the Thrones are domains or 630 00:41:28,080 --> 00:41:30,360 rulers are authority. All things have been created 631 00:41:30,360 --> 00:41:32,400 through him and for him. Do you understand? 632 00:41:32,400 --> 00:41:35,600 Every nation of the world will bow down to our King Jesus, and 633 00:41:35,920 --> 00:41:39,160 this is a global takeover. It's amazing. 634 00:41:40,360 --> 00:41:44,600 Nobody who's empowering any nation will stay in power. 635 00:41:46,520 --> 00:41:50,640 Our nation will rule and reign for all eternity, because our 636 00:41:50,640 --> 00:41:53,440 nation is life. He is before all things, and in 637 00:41:53,440 --> 00:41:55,960 Him all things hold together. He is the head of the body of 638 00:41:55,960 --> 00:41:57,960 the Church, and He is the beginning, the first born from 639 00:41:57,960 --> 00:42:00,960 the dead, so that in Him will come to have first place in 640 00:42:00,960 --> 00:42:03,840 everything. For it is the Father's good 641 00:42:03,840 --> 00:42:08,400 pleasure for all the fullness to dwell in Him and through Him to 642 00:42:08,400 --> 00:42:11,400 reconcile all things to Himself, having made peace through the 643 00:42:11,400 --> 00:42:14,200 blood of His cross. Through Him I say, whether 644 00:42:14,200 --> 00:42:16,400 things on earth or in heaven, aren't you glad you've been 645 00:42:16,400 --> 00:42:18,720 redeemed? Let me close with this passage 646 00:42:18,720 --> 00:42:21,400 of Scripture. Revelations 1/5 and 6:00 And 647 00:42:21,400 --> 00:42:26,840 from Jesus Christ, the faithful witness, the first born of the 648 00:42:26,840 --> 00:42:31,040 dead, the ruler of the kings of the earth, who are those kings 649 00:42:32,080 --> 00:42:40,080 to him who loves us and released us from our sins by His blood. 650 00:42:45,920 --> 00:42:49,720 The blood has released every debt against me. 651 00:42:54,000 --> 00:42:55,760 The blood has made me a new person. 652 00:42:58,560 --> 00:43:02,520 The blood has given me access to the throne room. 653 00:43:05,040 --> 00:43:08,680 And there's no other way, you understand. 654 00:43:09,720 --> 00:43:11,680 And we can't have these conversations. 655 00:43:12,280 --> 00:43:16,680 I would I have no problem because it does in one sense, 656 00:43:16,680 --> 00:43:17,920 when you say this is the only way. 657 00:43:17,920 --> 00:43:21,680 Well, what about everybody else? Again, it all comes down their 658 00:43:21,680 --> 00:43:24,240 thoughts compared to what we're saying. 659 00:43:25,040 --> 00:43:28,760 But who is saying these things? Because God is saying something. 660 00:43:32,640 --> 00:43:38,520 What I love about Jesus is Jesus did not want you confused and to 661 00:43:38,520 --> 00:43:42,960 get you out of confusion, He had to make some very deliberate 662 00:43:42,960 --> 00:43:47,760 statements, statements that in our climate culture, most people 663 00:43:47,760 --> 00:43:51,000 don't want to make any more. They want to stay in the realm 664 00:43:51,000 --> 00:43:53,960 of politically correct. But again, this is about the 665 00:43:53,960 --> 00:43:59,960 Bible, not about politics. Jesus made this statement that 666 00:43:59,960 --> 00:44:02,720 is reverbiates through all eternity. 667 00:44:04,120 --> 00:44:11,520 He said, why is the gate that leads to death and destruction? 668 00:44:12,200 --> 00:44:13,680 I mean, there's many ways to get in there. 669 00:44:14,720 --> 00:44:21,080 Many paths is wide and he says many are entering, He said, but 670 00:44:21,080 --> 00:44:32,880 narrow is the way that leads to life and few few, you know, I 671 00:44:32,880 --> 00:44:34,720 could demonstrate right here with our own carpet. 672 00:44:35,400 --> 00:44:37,720 You know, our carpet is has this one particular pattern. 673 00:44:37,720 --> 00:44:41,760 But down here in the in the front, I have this one line. 674 00:44:45,480 --> 00:44:50,320 Now if I want to go to that wall and staying on this carpet, I 675 00:44:50,320 --> 00:44:54,920 have many paths to take. I can go all the way up here, go 676 00:44:54,920 --> 00:44:58,160 across the back, come all the way down and touch the wall and 677 00:44:58,160 --> 00:45:02,560 I'm still on this carpet. I could go over to this side. 678 00:45:03,640 --> 00:45:06,640 I mean, I could go all the way. I mean, there are there, there 679 00:45:06,640 --> 00:45:10,320 is no telling how many options that I have to touch each one of 680 00:45:10,320 --> 00:45:12,240 these to be able to get to that wall. 681 00:45:12,920 --> 00:45:21,710 But if I would need to use the black line, there's only one way 682 00:45:24,750 --> 00:45:28,470 and it's pretty narrow. I feel like I'm on a balance 683 00:45:28,470 --> 00:45:30,790 beam and I'm not. Why is that happening right now? 684 00:45:31,110 --> 00:45:33,270 You know, why is that so difficult? 685 00:45:34,040 --> 00:45:36,720 You know, I should just be at a walk this normal, but I why is 686 00:45:36,720 --> 00:45:41,560 this happening? And this is Jesus. 687 00:45:41,960 --> 00:45:44,920 He says, you know, on the world, you're going to have all kinds 688 00:45:44,920 --> 00:45:47,920 of stuff out there buying for your attention to try to get you 689 00:45:47,920 --> 00:45:50,000 to me. But I'm going to show you one 690 00:45:50,000 --> 00:45:54,800 straight way. That way you don't miss it. 691 00:45:55,560 --> 00:46:03,720 You just have to reject it because anyone that dies is not 692 00:46:03,720 --> 00:46:10,440 missing it. They're rejecting it because 693 00:46:10,440 --> 00:46:11,640 there it is. They see it. 694 00:46:11,640 --> 00:46:13,800 He makes it clear. And how do I know He makes it 695 00:46:13,800 --> 00:46:17,320 clear because God desires that none would perish, but that all 696 00:46:17,320 --> 00:46:20,200 would come to repentance. That tells me that God is 697 00:46:20,200 --> 00:46:22,880 opening up the hearts and minds of every person. 698 00:46:24,880 --> 00:46:27,840 Hallelujah to clearly see that Jesus is the way. 699 00:46:28,520 --> 00:46:30,480 And all of a sudden you're walking through the sanctuary 700 00:46:30,480 --> 00:46:32,720 and all of a sudden it's like, well, there's that black line. 701 00:46:32,720 --> 00:46:34,160 I see it and you know what's there. 702 00:46:34,160 --> 00:46:35,800 The question is, are you willing to get on it? 703 00:46:37,640 --> 00:46:39,960 And if you want to go to the wall the other way, but here's 704 00:46:39,960 --> 00:46:42,320 the problem. You get to the wall. 705 00:46:42,320 --> 00:46:44,280 You may get to a wall, but you get to a wall. 706 00:46:45,160 --> 00:46:49,840 When I get there, there's actually a door and it gives me 707 00:46:49,840 --> 00:46:54,560 access. Access. 708 00:46:58,640 --> 00:47:00,560 There's only one way to be right with the Father. 709 00:47:01,880 --> 00:47:04,600 It's the blood that he shed. And He really wants you in the 710 00:47:04,600 --> 00:47:07,600 Kingdom not to take you to heaven alone. 711 00:47:08,600 --> 00:47:18,080 It's not the big bonus. It's being born of God. 712 00:47:18,080 --> 00:47:22,200 Now see, salvation is not about where you go when you die. 713 00:47:22,840 --> 00:47:24,560 Every religion asks that question. 714 00:47:26,040 --> 00:47:32,080 Salvation through Christ Jesus is about destiny today and 715 00:47:32,080 --> 00:47:34,360 becoming a child of God now.