1 00:00:16,600 --> 00:00:18,560 All right, if you have your Bibles, turn over to Ephesians 2 00:00:18,560 --> 00:00:21,600 chapter 1. Ephesians chapter 1. 3 00:00:21,640 --> 00:00:24,000 I had someone say, wow, pastor, oh, you look so young with a 4 00:00:24,000 --> 00:00:25,760 hat. I said, I guess I should wear it 5 00:00:25,760 --> 00:00:28,720 more often. It's amazing how many people 6 00:00:28,720 --> 00:00:31,920 sometimes do not recognize me when I'm wearing my hat. 7 00:00:32,240 --> 00:00:34,760 So and I wear many hats. They're just invisible. 8 00:00:36,240 --> 00:00:39,040 Anyway, turn over to Ephesians chapter 1. 9 00:00:39,400 --> 00:00:42,480 We're going to talk about reserve tonight and I want to 10 00:00:42,480 --> 00:00:45,120 start this thought process. I don't know how long we'll go 11 00:00:45,120 --> 00:00:48,480 with it. The Lord really was speaking to 12 00:00:48,480 --> 00:00:51,640 me and says, listen, I they need to know there's a reigning 13 00:00:51,640 --> 00:00:57,640 society again. How many believe the Lord's 14 00:00:57,640 --> 00:01:00,680 coming back? How many believe the Lord could 15 00:01:00,680 --> 00:01:03,200 come back in your lifetime? Yeah. 16 00:01:03,200 --> 00:01:06,120 I mean, it's, it's hot. I mean, you should believe for 17 00:01:06,120 --> 00:01:08,560 that, right? You should believe 'cause 18 00:01:08,560 --> 00:01:11,120 somebody's going to be the catching away generation. 19 00:01:11,680 --> 00:01:13,640 Might as well be us with all this going on. 20 00:01:13,640 --> 00:01:16,640 Might as well be us. But you understand the catching 21 00:01:16,640 --> 00:01:22,960 away society is a society or a group of people who reign in 22 00:01:22,960 --> 00:01:26,040 Christ. And again, Christ is not just 23 00:01:26,040 --> 00:01:30,440 some phrase. Again, this is a term that that 24 00:01:30,720 --> 00:01:34,960 churches use all the time. And again, sometimes if we don't 25 00:01:34,960 --> 00:01:39,520 take time to actually define what that means, then it becomes 26 00:01:39,520 --> 00:01:43,480 a clicheish type statement. I know Pastor Roddy and I were 27 00:01:43,480 --> 00:01:45,200 having a conversation. He says, you know. 28 00:01:45,440 --> 00:01:48,080 I'm around people all the time and I'm just have this 29 00:01:48,080 --> 00:01:49,880 impression. They really don't know what 30 00:01:49,880 --> 00:01:52,880 they're saying when they say I'm in Christ because they don't 31 00:01:52,880 --> 00:01:55,800 know what it means to be in Christ or what Christ actually 32 00:01:55,800 --> 00:01:59,440 is, which is the anointing, the anointed one in his anointing, 33 00:01:59,440 --> 00:02:02,040 which is in relationship to his kingship. 34 00:02:03,400 --> 00:02:05,400 And so when we say we're in Christ, we're really saying 35 00:02:05,400 --> 00:02:08,600 we're in the royal family, right? 36 00:02:08,800 --> 00:02:12,760 We're in his anointing that is a bestowed on him because he's 37 00:02:12,760 --> 00:02:16,840 king, because again in in the Bible and Luke, he said the 38 00:02:16,840 --> 00:02:21,400 spirit of the Lord is upon me for he has anointed me right, 39 00:02:21,400 --> 00:02:23,760 and that was his kingship. That's why when the father said 40 00:02:23,760 --> 00:02:27,320 this is my beloved son. In essence, he's communicating 41 00:02:27,320 --> 00:02:30,240 to the world. The King is here. 42 00:02:31,160 --> 00:02:35,600 That's why Jesus's message was repent, for the Kingdom of 43 00:02:35,600 --> 00:02:39,240 heaven is at hand. The King of the Kingdom is in 44 00:02:39,240 --> 00:02:41,720 your midst. Come on, how do you believe 45 00:02:41,720 --> 00:02:43,400 that? Amen. 46 00:02:43,800 --> 00:02:48,640 Hallelujah, I want some espresso hallelujahs tonight, OK, Amen. 47 00:02:48,640 --> 00:02:51,520 I'm I might have to roam a little bit anyway, so the Lord 48 00:02:51,520 --> 00:02:55,800 spoke to me and says, I want you to break down churches from the 49 00:02:55,800 --> 00:03:02,320 Bible because these letters that Paul wrote to the churches was 50 00:03:02,320 --> 00:03:04,520 to. Communicate what a reigning 51 00:03:04,520 --> 00:03:11,720 society looks like because again, you and I do not get to 52 00:03:11,720 --> 00:03:19,520 pick what it looks like. The Lord reveals what his 53 00:03:19,720 --> 00:03:25,280 society or believers or sons or citizens look like. 54 00:03:25,520 --> 00:03:30,600 I do not base anything on someone's experience or just 55 00:03:30,600 --> 00:03:33,040 their words. I always go back to the Word 56 00:03:34,120 --> 00:03:37,880 because that is the standard that is God speaking to us. 57 00:03:38,880 --> 00:03:42,880 So when Paul wrote to the churches, by all rights he's 58 00:03:42,880 --> 00:03:46,280 communicating, hey, this is the lifestyle of the Kingdom. 59 00:03:47,040 --> 00:03:50,040 This is how you're living now. And so we're going to jump right 60 00:03:50,040 --> 00:03:53,880 into Ephesians and I'll probably jump into some other of the 61 00:03:53,880 --> 00:03:57,160 churches as we kind of go on. But I want to take the book of 62 00:03:57,160 --> 00:03:59,080 Ephesus. And though I will not go line 63 00:03:59,080 --> 00:04:03,360 upon line, precept upon precept because I'm not A5 fold minister 64 00:04:03,360 --> 00:04:07,080 teacher, all right, but I am going to go through the first 65 00:04:07,080 --> 00:04:10,400 couple of chapters and bring out some truths concerning it. 66 00:04:10,600 --> 00:04:15,480 Because there is things for this reigning society that are 67 00:04:15,480 --> 00:04:22,240 reserved for us, right? Because the reigning society by 68 00:04:22,240 --> 00:04:24,800 all rights is the reigning church. 69 00:04:26,360 --> 00:04:27,120 Are you? Hearing me. 70 00:04:28,120 --> 00:04:32,880 Now you can be born again and live defeated, but that's never 71 00:04:32,880 --> 00:04:36,160 God's intent and the only reason why a born again believer would 72 00:04:36,160 --> 00:04:39,920 live defeat is because they do not renew their mind to the word 73 00:04:40,080 --> 00:04:44,200 they want to keep. Their thinking, which is 74 00:04:44,200 --> 00:04:47,880 abnormal actually behavior in the Kingdom of God. 75 00:04:48,280 --> 00:04:51,360 All right, so in Ephesians chapter 1, we'll start here in 76 00:04:51,360 --> 00:04:54,000 verse one through 7. I'm reading out the legacy 77 00:04:54,000 --> 00:04:57,160 standard Bible, which is just another translation of the new 78 00:04:57,160 --> 00:04:59,920 American standard. They're they're just trying to 79 00:04:59,920 --> 00:05:04,360 be even more accurate to the original context of Scripture. 80 00:05:04,480 --> 00:05:08,320 But Paul greets the church. He says Paul, an apostle. 81 00:05:08,840 --> 00:05:11,800 Of Christ Jesus. Now I'm going to just stop right 82 00:05:11,800 --> 00:05:16,200 there. Paul had no problem telling the 83 00:05:16,200 --> 00:05:23,640 church the gift. He is in the body and he's not 84 00:05:23,640 --> 00:05:26,520 bragging. He's letting them know this is 85 00:05:26,520 --> 00:05:31,200 my gift to you. That's what he did. 86 00:05:31,480 --> 00:05:35,960 So again, if you find yourself struggling with people's gifts 87 00:05:36,120 --> 00:05:39,280 in the fivefold ministry, well, then you would have a hard time 88 00:05:39,280 --> 00:05:44,240 reading anything Paul writes, 'cause Paul's letting them know. 89 00:05:44,240 --> 00:05:49,840 Paul, an apostle of who? Christ Jesus. 90 00:05:49,920 --> 00:05:54,640 He puts Christ's title, his kingship, in front of his name. 91 00:05:55,560 --> 00:05:59,000 Then he goes on, he says, Paul, an apostle of Christ Jesus, what 92 00:05:59,000 --> 00:06:05,080 by the will of God to the Saints who are at Ephesus and who are 93 00:06:05,080 --> 00:06:09,120 faithful in Christ Jesus. So Paul has communicated we're a 94 00:06:09,120 --> 00:06:14,560 church, I am in the five fold ministry as an apostle and you 95 00:06:14,560 --> 00:06:20,320 are Saints within that body. I just my wife heard a minister 96 00:06:20,320 --> 00:06:23,520 recently make this statement and she says what do you think? 97 00:06:23,520 --> 00:06:30,920 About that I said, man, that is really good, she said to her and 98 00:06:31,320 --> 00:06:36,520 but I know the Kingdom she. Said you could liken the five 99 00:06:36,520 --> 00:06:45,280 fold ministry to the executive branch of government because 100 00:06:45,280 --> 00:06:50,760 they are specifically identified offices by the head of the 101 00:06:50,760 --> 00:06:53,640 church or the one who sits on the throne. 102 00:06:54,200 --> 00:06:57,560 And they have been given a responsibility and an anointing 103 00:06:57,560 --> 00:07:08,680 to function that Saints do not because are all apostles, are 104 00:07:08,680 --> 00:07:12,920 all prophets, are all evangelists, are all teachers 105 00:07:13,320 --> 00:07:16,440 are all which one did I leave out pastors? 106 00:07:17,120 --> 00:07:21,080 Obviously not. Most people try to leave those 107 00:07:21,080 --> 00:07:26,160 pastors out anyway. With that being said, they're 108 00:07:26,480 --> 00:07:29,240 they're that doesn't make them better than Saints. 109 00:07:29,240 --> 00:07:32,120 It just means they have an assignment. 110 00:07:33,320 --> 00:07:36,520 That's what that means. So Paul starts out, this is 111 00:07:36,520 --> 00:07:38,360 letter to the church. He said, now listen, I'm an 112 00:07:38,360 --> 00:07:41,840 apostle of Christ Jesus, not because man made this, not 113 00:07:41,840 --> 00:07:44,680 because I like that the you know this saying and I want you to 114 00:07:44,680 --> 00:07:52,360 identify no, God did this and he did this to you because you are 115 00:07:52,360 --> 00:07:54,640 the one that God gave me oversight. 116 00:07:55,960 --> 00:07:58,440 And you know what's great about these Saints is that they are 117 00:07:58,440 --> 00:08:02,240 faithful to Christ. Verse 2, it goes on to say grace 118 00:08:02,240 --> 00:08:05,040 to you and peace from God our Father and the Lord Jesus 119 00:08:05,040 --> 00:08:07,080 Christ. So again, he's identifying 120 00:08:07,080 --> 00:08:09,880 within the whole church. Guess what, we have grace. 121 00:08:10,280 --> 00:08:13,440 And if you're functioning in the grace that God has in your life, 122 00:08:13,440 --> 00:08:16,600 you're going to have peace. You'll have peace even to miss a 123 00:08:16,600 --> 00:08:17,680 conflict. Why? 124 00:08:17,800 --> 00:08:20,120 Because you will rely on the grace. 125 00:08:20,120 --> 00:08:23,400 That's why God told Paul in a conflict one time, he said, 126 00:08:23,400 --> 00:08:25,360 listen, son, my grace is. Sufficient for you? 127 00:08:26,000 --> 00:08:28,600 So you understand the grace in your life is sufficient for you 128 00:08:28,600 --> 00:08:31,600 that you can walk in perpetual peace no matter what's going on. 129 00:08:31,880 --> 00:08:35,000 And Pauls reminding the Church of this, that the grace they 130 00:08:35,000 --> 00:08:39,039 have and the peace they have not comes from their personal study 131 00:08:39,080 --> 00:08:43,880 or their own efforts, but it comes from God him self. 132 00:08:43,880 --> 00:08:46,360 And that good news? So then we get into verse three. 133 00:08:46,360 --> 00:08:50,360 He said blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ 134 00:08:50,360 --> 00:08:55,360 who has blessed us with every spiritual blessing in heavenly 135 00:08:55,360 --> 00:09:01,480 places where in Christ, in Christ. 136 00:09:02,200 --> 00:09:06,720 So all the spiritual blessings are located in the home country 137 00:09:06,720 --> 00:09:12,520 in Christ and we're blessed people. 138 00:09:12,920 --> 00:09:14,760 Now whether you feel it or not is irrelevant. 139 00:09:16,000 --> 00:09:21,960 You have an inheritance and in Christ you can access it in the 140 00:09:21,960 --> 00:09:29,720 King or functioning within the boundaries. 141 00:09:29,720 --> 00:09:33,560 We could say the word of the king. 142 00:09:33,560 --> 00:09:35,720 Let's put it that way. That'd be the best way to say 143 00:09:35,720 --> 00:09:37,960 it. When we function in the Kingdom 144 00:09:37,960 --> 00:09:41,480 based upon the word of the King, then all of the spiritual 145 00:09:41,480 --> 00:09:45,880 blessings that are are for us are made accessible to us. 146 00:09:46,440 --> 00:09:49,920 And again, it's not our personal effort that did it away from 147 00:09:49,920 --> 00:09:53,120 God. It's us in Him and acting on His 148 00:09:53,120 --> 00:09:56,960 word that is releasing those faith is causing it to come to 149 00:09:56,960 --> 00:09:58,960 pass. Verse 4. 150 00:10:00,280 --> 00:10:06,160 Just as He chose us in Him before the foundation of the 151 00:10:06,160 --> 00:10:10,560 world, that we would be holy and blameless before Him in love. 152 00:10:10,560 --> 00:10:12,920 I'm going to break this verse down here in a little bit by 153 00:10:13,120 --> 00:10:18,080 predestinating us to adoption as sons through Jesus Christ to 154 00:10:18,080 --> 00:10:20,920 Himself, according to the good pleasure of His will verse. 6 As 155 00:10:20,920 --> 00:10:23,800 to the praise. Of the glory of his grace which 156 00:10:23,800 --> 00:10:27,960 he graciously bestowed on us in the beloved verse 7. 157 00:10:28,160 --> 00:10:30,480 And then we'll come back and talk a little bit in him. 158 00:10:30,480 --> 00:10:33,240 We have redemption through his blood and forgiveness of our 159 00:10:33,240 --> 00:10:36,920 transgression, according. To the riches of his grace. 160 00:10:37,320 --> 00:10:40,640 So when we jump back into verse 4, you understand every 161 00:10:40,640 --> 00:10:44,240 spiritual blessing that is in the heavenly realm in Christ 162 00:10:44,240 --> 00:10:51,720 Jesus God, just as God the Father chose us in Jesus before 163 00:10:51,720 --> 00:10:59,360 the what foundations of the world, He chose who us. 164 00:11:00,240 --> 00:11:05,000 Now I want to explain this a little bit because we need to 165 00:11:05,000 --> 00:11:09,640 understand God's perspective of what He's saying to Paul here 166 00:11:11,240 --> 00:11:15,960 because Him choosing us is not based upon who we are today. 167 00:11:18,640 --> 00:11:26,160 What does it mean when He said He chose us in Him before the 168 00:11:26,160 --> 00:11:30,960 foundations of the world? In essence, how did God see man 169 00:11:32,120 --> 00:11:38,720 in the beginning? This is what He's saying. 170 00:11:38,920 --> 00:11:40,880 Many times we hear this man, He chose me. 171 00:11:40,880 --> 00:11:42,440 He knew what I was going to be like. 172 00:11:42,440 --> 00:11:44,320 He knew the mess I will be in. He knew. 173 00:11:44,320 --> 00:11:47,400 And yes, He did know that, but He's not looking you in that 174 00:11:47,400 --> 00:11:50,400 way. He's looking at you in an 175 00:11:50,400 --> 00:11:57,000 original intent. So when he says just as he chose 176 00:11:57,000 --> 00:12:00,680 us, what was he? He chose us, what we call humans 177 00:12:00,680 --> 00:12:05,800 or mankind. He chose us. 178 00:12:05,800 --> 00:12:09,400 How in him? Well, what did how did Jesus 179 00:12:09,400 --> 00:12:14,760 function on the planet? Jesus function as a former 180 00:12:14,760 --> 00:12:21,960 individual. OK, Jesus is considered the last 181 00:12:24,000 --> 00:12:27,080 Adam. Are you hearing me? 182 00:12:28,080 --> 00:12:31,480 Every miracle Jesus performed was in the dominion. 183 00:12:32,320 --> 00:12:40,520 Adam lost. Adam was given the same mandate 184 00:12:41,560 --> 00:12:44,160 that Jesus has. In this context. 185 00:12:45,240 --> 00:12:49,720 Just obey. All this is yours. 186 00:12:51,320 --> 00:12:54,240 Just obey. We have a relationship through 187 00:12:54,240 --> 00:12:57,280 our your obedience. You're in my nature. 188 00:12:57,800 --> 00:12:59,680 Come on, let's look at it. You I know you know where it's 189 00:12:59,680 --> 00:13:03,440 at, but let's read it again in Genesis 126 to 27 says then God 190 00:13:03,440 --> 00:13:06,440 said, let us make man in our image according to our likeness 191 00:13:06,600 --> 00:13:09,720 so that they may have dominion over the fish of the sea, over 192 00:13:09,720 --> 00:13:12,480 the birds of the sky, over the cattle, over all the earth and 193 00:13:12,480 --> 00:13:14,400 every every creeping thing that creeps on the earth. 194 00:13:14,400 --> 00:13:17,240 Yes, Lord, I'll say that. And he created man in his own 195 00:13:17,240 --> 00:13:20,480 image, in the image of God. He created him male and female. 196 00:13:20,480 --> 00:13:22,200 He created them. The Lord just said to me, he 197 00:13:22,200 --> 00:13:24,440 said, you know how many people do not believe that verse? 198 00:13:24,560 --> 00:13:26,680 And the reason they don't believe that verse is because 199 00:13:26,680 --> 00:13:30,000 they do not take dominion over all these things in their life 200 00:13:30,200 --> 00:13:32,760 as a new believer. And it doesn't matter how many 201 00:13:32,760 --> 00:13:36,000 times I read it, if you let anything have dominion over you, 202 00:13:36,000 --> 00:13:41,720 you do not get Genesis 126. If you let your emotions have 203 00:13:41,720 --> 00:13:44,720 dominion over you, if you let your feelings have emotion 204 00:13:44,960 --> 00:13:48,160 dominion over you, let plants have dominion over you, you let 205 00:13:48,520 --> 00:13:52,160 you know things. Rule you things on the outside. 206 00:13:52,160 --> 00:13:56,000 Stress as if all kinds of things that are out there, If they are 207 00:13:56,000 --> 00:13:59,880 ruling you, you do not yet have the revelation. 208 00:14:04,480 --> 00:14:07,920 And as many times as we read this, we'll say Hallelujah, and 209 00:14:07,920 --> 00:14:10,080 then all of a sudden something will come and we'll let it 210 00:14:10,720 --> 00:14:14,560 dominate us. We'll let it rule us. 211 00:14:14,560 --> 00:14:16,440 And how do we know real 'cause we follow it. 212 00:14:19,160 --> 00:14:22,280 You follow it. So here God in the book of 213 00:14:22,280 --> 00:14:26,280 beginning says, let us make man in our image and his likeness, 214 00:14:26,280 --> 00:14:32,840 which tells us even before this event, before the foundations of 215 00:14:32,840 --> 00:14:40,320 the world. OK, thank you, Jesus. 216 00:14:40,320 --> 00:14:43,280 This is what I love about, I have to admit. 217 00:14:43,280 --> 00:14:48,160 This is what I love about having a Bible app that has all the, 218 00:14:48,440 --> 00:14:51,200 you know, concordances in it because you can just go straight 219 00:14:51,200 --> 00:14:55,160 there, OK? Before the foundations of the 220 00:14:55,160 --> 00:15:00,880 world, OK. God chose us in Him. 221 00:15:01,800 --> 00:15:07,560 This word world is the same world used in John 316 for God 222 00:15:07,560 --> 00:15:09,480 so loved the world. It's the word cosmos. 223 00:15:10,000 --> 00:15:16,560 OK, we we it's not planet as much as it is systems. 224 00:15:19,040 --> 00:15:24,320 So before the 1st systems of the man, which man had dominion over 225 00:15:24,320 --> 00:15:31,040 the systems of the world before they get into play, God has 226 00:15:31,040 --> 00:15:35,040 already chose him, chose us in Christ. 227 00:15:35,280 --> 00:15:39,160 So before man has the ability to start functioning in his 228 00:15:39,160 --> 00:15:45,000 dominion, the Lord has already chosen him in Christ, which 229 00:15:45,000 --> 00:15:48,920 tells us this, and I'm going to read from a particular scholar. 230 00:15:49,400 --> 00:15:53,600 He said it this way. He says the eternity of the plan 231 00:15:53,800 --> 00:15:57,360 suggests another thought in verse 4. 232 00:15:58,320 --> 00:16:06,040 It is this salvation is an original thought and resolution 233 00:16:07,000 --> 00:16:13,480 it and resolution it is no novel expedient struck out of the in 234 00:16:13,480 --> 00:16:17,800 the fruit. Futility of divine ingenuity. 235 00:16:17,800 --> 00:16:21,880 But God's first purpose in regard to man had failed through 236 00:16:21,880 --> 00:16:24,480 man's apostasy, meaning it is no. 237 00:16:24,560 --> 00:16:29,440 Afterthought, but the embodiment of a design which, foreseeing 238 00:16:29,440 --> 00:16:32,880 our ruin, had made preparation of it. 239 00:16:33,800 --> 00:16:37,320 Meaning, even though, and we say this all, where would Adam be if 240 00:16:37,320 --> 00:16:40,280 he had never eaten the fruit? However, because God is all 241 00:16:40,280 --> 00:16:44,040 knowing, He already knows. Even though I've made man and I 242 00:16:44,080 --> 00:16:48,480 in my image and according to my likeness, and if he will just in 243 00:16:48,720 --> 00:16:56,040 a sinless state, no sin, His body is glorified. 244 00:16:56,240 --> 00:17:01,120 His mind has never been polluted by one wrong thought, never 245 00:17:01,120 --> 00:17:03,960 acted on it, never had any of those things. 246 00:17:04,079 --> 00:17:07,200 His spirit man is directly connected to God. 247 00:17:07,400 --> 00:17:10,520 God can come from his realm of heaven into the earth. 248 00:17:10,640 --> 00:17:13,640 There is no issue for them to commune. 249 00:17:13,800 --> 00:17:17,680 He does not run from him, He does not hide from him. 250 00:17:17,760 --> 00:17:25,960 He is in a perfect state, yet God knew and he was prepared 251 00:17:25,960 --> 00:17:29,320 before he communicated, which tells us this. 252 00:17:29,720 --> 00:17:34,480 When God said this is my design for man, he already had the plan 253 00:17:34,480 --> 00:17:37,160 of salvation. Now why? 254 00:17:37,840 --> 00:17:42,600 Because God is obligated to fulfill his own word. 255 00:17:45,560 --> 00:17:50,160 He's he's obligated So God doesn't just say things and then 256 00:17:50,160 --> 00:17:54,600 like, oh, he ate the fruit. Now what am I going to do? 257 00:17:55,320 --> 00:18:03,120 Listen, before God even speaks, he's already calculated 258 00:18:03,120 --> 00:18:08,000 everything that he will have to do to fulfill everything he 259 00:18:08,000 --> 00:18:13,200 says, especially when it came to man. 260 00:18:13,520 --> 00:18:20,040 Because at this point, as far as beings are concerned, and when I 261 00:18:20,040 --> 00:18:27,920 say beings, I'm talking spirit beings, man's redeemable, the 262 00:18:27,920 --> 00:18:32,520 angelic host that fell are not. Don't pray for Lucifer. 263 00:18:32,520 --> 00:18:35,760 He'll never get saved. He can't and he has no desire 264 00:18:36,240 --> 00:18:37,880 and none of the ones that fell with him. 265 00:18:38,800 --> 00:18:40,720 So all the demonic spirits don't try. 266 00:18:40,720 --> 00:18:43,080 Don't have compassion for them. There is no such thing as 267 00:18:43,080 --> 00:18:45,800 compassion for them. And if you felt like I want to 268 00:18:45,800 --> 00:18:47,280 have compassion, I'll understand why God. 269 00:18:47,280 --> 00:18:50,480 Then you're trying to make yourself a God, and you're 270 00:18:50,480 --> 00:18:55,280 already off because you're not righteous, holy, just like God 271 00:18:55,400 --> 00:19:00,200 who always fulfills his word. So when God says I'm going to 272 00:19:00,200 --> 00:19:04,720 speak man, he already knows it will cost me my son. 273 00:19:06,960 --> 00:19:10,720 So the minute I say let us make man in our images according to 274 00:19:10,720 --> 00:19:14,720 our likeness, and let them have dominion, I know that my first 275 00:19:14,720 --> 00:19:22,640 son Adam is going to disobey my word, which in Acts I must keep 276 00:19:22,640 --> 00:19:27,320 that word. If you eat the fruit, you die, 277 00:19:27,720 --> 00:19:32,280 because the wages of sin is so it has to be fulfilled. 278 00:19:32,720 --> 00:19:36,440 And the Lord says, however, I want man to have dominion. 279 00:19:38,320 --> 00:19:43,600 So I'll put my son in a suit as a man, because my first son will 280 00:19:43,600 --> 00:19:47,040 lose the dominion as a man. I'll come in the earth with my 281 00:19:47,040 --> 00:19:50,840 son as a man. He'll get the dominion back and 282 00:19:50,840 --> 00:19:58,520 pay the price for everything my word requires to satisfy death. 283 00:19:59,120 --> 00:20:04,600 That way man can come off of eternal death and use the road 284 00:20:04,600 --> 00:20:07,520 of mercy. To connect him back to the 285 00:20:07,520 --> 00:20:11,280 original thought of man and that is to have dominion. 286 00:20:12,360 --> 00:20:16,680 Hallelujah, come on, Hallelujah that God. 287 00:20:16,840 --> 00:20:22,720 God is so thought out that he already took into account every 288 00:20:22,720 --> 00:20:26,960 sin that ever would be committed and the price required, which is 289 00:20:27,040 --> 00:20:32,440 eternal separation. And he says I'll pay every price 290 00:20:33,040 --> 00:20:40,280 with my son. So before the foundations of the 291 00:20:40,280 --> 00:20:46,760 world, before this system starts rolling, God says man's pathway 292 00:20:46,760 --> 00:20:51,280 will be back through Christ. And he chose us. 293 00:20:51,280 --> 00:20:54,080 Who did he choose? He chose humans. 294 00:20:54,600 --> 00:21:01,640 You are a human, so you qualify. Now we like to make it personal. 295 00:21:01,640 --> 00:21:04,040 He chose me and He did choose you personally. 296 00:21:04,160 --> 00:21:06,240 That's true. I understand that because He 297 00:21:06,240 --> 00:21:10,600 chooses all of us. However, not all of us choose. 298 00:21:15,000 --> 00:21:17,440 So again, when you make it personal, He. 299 00:21:17,440 --> 00:21:20,400 May know because he's all knowing that you are going to 300 00:21:20,400 --> 00:21:27,040 accept him, but there are those who do not and he made provision 301 00:21:27,040 --> 00:21:31,760 for them. And he paid the price for all 302 00:21:31,760 --> 00:21:33,400 their wrongdoings. Doesn't matter what they've 303 00:21:33,400 --> 00:21:38,960 done, He's paid the price. All they have to do by faith is 304 00:21:38,960 --> 00:21:40,640 accept Jesus Christ as their Lord. 305 00:21:42,000 --> 00:21:46,240 Hallelujah. So we know when Adam eats the 306 00:21:46,240 --> 00:21:48,600 fruit. Genesis 315 says this. 307 00:21:48,680 --> 00:21:51,520 And I'll put enmity between you and the woman, in between your 308 00:21:51,520 --> 00:21:54,000 seed and her seed. She shall bruise you on the 309 00:21:54,000 --> 00:21:55,880 head, and you shall bruise him on the hill. 310 00:21:56,040 --> 00:21:58,480 So it says before the foundations of the world in 311 00:21:58,480 --> 00:22:02,120 Ephesians 1/4, that He chose us in him. 312 00:22:02,120 --> 00:22:04,520 Before the foundation of that we would be holy. 313 00:22:07,520 --> 00:22:09,360 Come on. Put verse 4 back up there real 314 00:22:09,360 --> 00:22:14,240 quick if you would. Ephesians 1/4 He chose us in Him 315 00:22:14,240 --> 00:22:15,680 before the foundation of the world. 316 00:22:16,520 --> 00:22:21,720 Now what condition does he want to find us in, since He chose us 317 00:22:21,720 --> 00:22:27,160 in Christ? This is what a reigning society 318 00:22:27,200 --> 00:22:30,080 or the reigning church looks like, that we would be what? 319 00:22:30,960 --> 00:22:34,240 We'd be holy. Now why would we be holy? 320 00:22:34,320 --> 00:22:39,280 Because He is holy? Because again, before you came, 321 00:22:40,080 --> 00:22:44,040 before the systems function for Adam fell, he already had the 322 00:22:44,040 --> 00:22:48,960 plan of redemption through Jesus and that the add the actions, 323 00:22:49,040 --> 00:22:53,800 behavior, lifestyle, and nature that the first Adam had and 324 00:22:53,800 --> 00:23:01,520 lost, Jesus restored for us so that we could be back in that 325 00:23:01,520 --> 00:23:04,640 original nature. Now we're waiting on the 326 00:23:04,640 --> 00:23:12,840 glorified body, but it's coming. And the Spirit that we couldn't 327 00:23:12,840 --> 00:23:16,040 have changed, Christ changed for us and put it in US. 328 00:23:16,320 --> 00:23:19,880 And in the process we renew our mind because in Him we're going 329 00:23:19,880 --> 00:23:23,240 to be holy. We're going to be blameless 330 00:23:23,600 --> 00:23:26,320 before him in love. Because what does love do? 331 00:23:26,400 --> 00:23:29,680 Love keeps the word I said. Love keeps the word. 332 00:23:29,680 --> 00:23:36,600 Jesus said if you love me, you keep my word right? 333 00:23:38,560 --> 00:23:42,120 Well, you know I love you, but you don't do anything I say OK, 334 00:23:42,120 --> 00:23:45,360 let's go on then verse 5. He said he predestined us to the 335 00:23:45,360 --> 00:23:48,480 adoption of sons. Now notice look what this says. 336 00:23:48,480 --> 00:23:51,600 Look how this works. It says by predestined us. 337 00:23:51,600 --> 00:23:55,720 And this is not predestination in the context that he that he 338 00:23:55,840 --> 00:23:58,800 is picking certain ones and others he's not picking no, we 339 00:23:58,800 --> 00:24:06,040 all have free will. The predestination is let us 340 00:24:06,040 --> 00:24:09,880 make man in our image according to our likeness and let them 341 00:24:09,880 --> 00:24:14,720 have dominion and everyone that has ever been born has the right 342 00:24:14,720 --> 00:24:21,320 to that place and he's predestined us to do that. 343 00:24:21,960 --> 00:24:27,680 However, if you choose not to, then you won't live it but his 344 00:24:27,680 --> 00:24:32,480 destiny. So predestination or predestiny 345 00:24:32,760 --> 00:24:36,360 is what God's idea or his destiny for you? 346 00:24:36,360 --> 00:24:38,920 The question and he's already picked it for you before you 347 00:24:38,920 --> 00:24:41,640 even know it. But if you don't accept it, then 348 00:24:41,640 --> 00:24:47,480 you can do your own destiny. So he predestined us to the 349 00:24:47,480 --> 00:24:52,080 adoption of a son through Christ Jesus to himself according to 350 00:24:52,080 --> 00:24:57,800 the good pleasure of whose will again, and we're going to see 351 00:24:57,800 --> 00:25:05,120 here throughout this particular, you know, church example is that 352 00:25:05,280 --> 00:25:08,200 the things that are happening are for his glory 353 00:25:22,520 --> 00:25:30,480 for his glory because it's about him. 354 00:25:33,520 --> 00:25:36,040 Why did God go after you? Well, because he loves me so 355 00:25:36,040 --> 00:25:39,640 much. God went after you because he 356 00:25:40,000 --> 00:25:46,680 predestined you would be in a state and that is loving you 357 00:25:46,680 --> 00:25:49,600 because it's keeping his own word towards you. 358 00:25:50,840 --> 00:25:56,280 But what he's doing is he is making a pathway so that you can 359 00:25:56,280 --> 00:26:00,360 know him. But we, if we don't watch out, 360 00:26:00,360 --> 00:26:08,000 we're making the gospel where it's about US and we talk and 361 00:26:08,000 --> 00:26:09,960 sell this man God, he'll come after you. 362 00:26:10,080 --> 00:26:11,800 He loves you. It's all about you. 363 00:26:11,920 --> 00:26:14,880 He'll, he'll, he'll do this. He'll come here. 364 00:26:14,920 --> 00:26:16,760 He'll leave the 99. It's about you. 365 00:26:16,880 --> 00:26:19,040 It's coming after you. It's about, you know, it's about 366 00:26:19,040 --> 00:26:21,720 I'm doing my work so you can come to me. 367 00:26:24,440 --> 00:26:26,760 It's about you being there to come back to me because it's 368 00:26:26,760 --> 00:26:33,480 about me. Your your new birth experience 369 00:26:33,480 --> 00:26:40,280 glorifies God because it shows that what you couldn't do, He 370 00:26:40,280 --> 00:26:49,200 did. You're not the object. 371 00:26:49,560 --> 00:26:55,640 He's the object and He is making the pathway so that you can 372 00:26:55,640 --> 00:27:03,120 discover Him. It's about him. 373 00:27:04,760 --> 00:27:09,320 And then when I'm like, wow, look what you did so I could get 374 00:27:09,320 --> 00:27:18,040 to know you because I'm nothing compared to you. 375 00:27:18,040 --> 00:27:22,080 You are the center of it, all right, Right, right. 376 00:27:23,120 --> 00:27:27,400 So again, he did all this according to the good pleasure 377 00:27:27,400 --> 00:27:34,520 of his will, not my will. I mean, he's doing this to 378 00:27:34,520 --> 00:27:41,040 fulfill His will so that he's glorified, so that he's honored, 379 00:27:41,200 --> 00:27:49,400 so that he's lifted up. He goes on to say the good 380 00:27:49,400 --> 00:27:52,640 pleasure of His will to the praise of the glory of whose 381 00:27:52,640 --> 00:28:00,160 grace It's His grace which He graciously bestowed on us in the 382 00:28:00,160 --> 00:28:01,600 Beloved. In Him we have redemption, 383 00:28:01,600 --> 00:28:07,600 through whose blood, his blood and the forgiveness of our 384 00:28:07,600 --> 00:28:11,200 transgression according to the riches of whose grace His The 385 00:28:11,200 --> 00:28:16,160 object here of, of salvation is not us, it's Him. 386 00:28:18,920 --> 00:28:23,480 Because again, if none of us of our own free will except the 387 00:28:23,480 --> 00:28:26,560 death, burial and resurrection of Jesus and the forgiveness of 388 00:28:26,560 --> 00:28:30,120 the blood of Christ, God is still going to do it. 389 00:28:30,440 --> 00:28:37,040 To fulfill his word, because God is not a man that he should lie, 390 00:28:38,920 --> 00:28:43,400 He should lie. And when Adam ate the fruit, God 391 00:28:44,280 --> 00:28:49,600 enacted amendments to be able to help us. 392 00:28:50,200 --> 00:28:55,160 Find him to have a relationship with him. 393 00:28:56,600 --> 00:29:01,640 He made provisions so that we could come off this place of 394 00:29:01,640 --> 00:29:09,080 death that has to be satisfied and he. 395 00:29:09,080 --> 00:29:13,000 Gave us the way, man, he's awesome. 396 00:29:16,440 --> 00:29:24,200 So this enmity that took place between man and God, because 397 00:29:24,360 --> 00:29:26,920 Satan now has the dominion Adam lost. 398 00:29:26,920 --> 00:29:32,800 And he says I'll have put enmity between you and him, although my 399 00:29:32,800 --> 00:29:35,760 relationship with man is cut off, but I'm going to bring a 400 00:29:35,760 --> 00:29:39,160 seed. And that says he's going to tear 401 00:29:39,160 --> 00:29:43,600 down that which stops them from being with me because he's going 402 00:29:43,640 --> 00:29:47,800 to crush your head. In essence, he's going to take 403 00:29:47,800 --> 00:29:50,640 the dominion back. So turn over real quick the 404 00:29:50,640 --> 00:29:56,360 Ephesians Ephesians chapter 2 again talking to the church 405 00:29:56,360 --> 00:29:58,280 starting in verse 13. We'll read the 19. 406 00:29:58,280 --> 00:29:59,800 Let's just read it and then we'll come back and give some 407 00:29:59,800 --> 00:30:02,720 comments. He said, But now in Christ you 408 00:30:02,720 --> 00:30:08,160 were formerly far off. Have been brought near by what 409 00:30:09,000 --> 00:30:14,120 the blood of Christ. For He Himself is our peace, who 410 00:30:14,120 --> 00:30:18,120 made both groups one, and broke down the dividing wall of the 411 00:30:18,120 --> 00:30:25,440 partition by abolishing in His flesh the enmity, the law of 412 00:30:25,440 --> 00:30:30,560 commandments contained in ordinances, so that in Him He 413 00:30:30,560 --> 00:30:35,080 might create the two into one new man, making peace, and might 414 00:30:35,080 --> 00:30:39,240 reconcile them both in one body to God through the cross, having 415 00:30:39,240 --> 00:30:42,320 in Himself put to death the enmity. 416 00:30:42,880 --> 00:30:47,240 And He came and preached the good news to of peace to you who 417 00:30:47,240 --> 00:30:49,520 were far off, and peace of those who were near. 418 00:30:49,760 --> 00:30:55,240 For through Him we have our access in one spirit to the 419 00:30:55,240 --> 00:30:57,720 Father. So then you are no longer 420 00:30:57,720 --> 00:31:02,400 strangers and sojourners, but you are fellow citizens with the 421 00:31:02,400 --> 00:31:07,440 Saints who are God's household. Now I'm going to read a 422 00:31:07,440 --> 00:31:14,400 particular illustration that allows us to understand God's 423 00:31:14,400 --> 00:31:19,720 use of the law, God's use of the law. 424 00:31:20,200 --> 00:31:28,120 Because when we read the law, understanding Genesis 3 from 425 00:31:28,120 --> 00:31:32,440 only the fall of man perspective, then you understand 426 00:31:32,440 --> 00:31:37,600 we say a lot about the law. In fact, in studying this one 427 00:31:37,600 --> 00:31:42,760 commentary said it this way, Jesus fulfilled the law. 428 00:31:43,320 --> 00:31:47,280 And what's abolished in one sense or removed is the 429 00:31:47,280 --> 00:31:53,000 ceremonial laws. Now, why did they say that? 430 00:31:53,200 --> 00:31:57,880 Because Roman tells us that whether you're under the law or 431 00:31:57,880 --> 00:32:03,440 not, there's already a consciousness of doing right and 432 00:32:03,440 --> 00:32:09,840 wrong. Romans clearly states that that 433 00:32:09,840 --> 00:32:16,840 more morality is there. What made the Jews despised is 434 00:32:16,840 --> 00:32:23,760 because the ceremonial laws is was the blood covering the 435 00:32:23,760 --> 00:32:29,000 transgression so that they can maintain holiness and be 436 00:32:29,000 --> 00:32:31,960 blessed. And no other type of religion or 437 00:32:31,960 --> 00:32:35,160 God participate had the same effect. 438 00:32:35,440 --> 00:32:37,760 Now that doesn't mean blood wasn't being used, I'm not 439 00:32:37,760 --> 00:32:42,160 saying but it had no power because their gods are not real. 440 00:32:43,800 --> 00:32:48,680 So there's a ceremonial of the lamb, the goats, the different 441 00:32:48,680 --> 00:32:50,800 things that Jesus fulfilled, all that. 442 00:32:51,400 --> 00:32:53,240 That's why we don't have to do sacrifices. 443 00:32:53,240 --> 00:32:55,280 Jesus is the sacrifice once and for all. 444 00:32:55,480 --> 00:33:02,880 However, the law of morality has not ended in the new and better 445 00:33:02,880 --> 00:33:08,240 coveted Thou shalt not still still applies. 446 00:33:10,720 --> 00:33:14,200 It still applies. Thou shalt not commit murder 447 00:33:14,320 --> 00:33:17,760 still applies. Thou shalt not commit adultery 448 00:33:17,760 --> 00:33:20,160 still applies. Do not cover your neck. 449 00:33:20,160 --> 00:33:23,000 That's still a plot. Those moral laws are there. 450 00:33:23,120 --> 00:33:28,680 Here's the difference. In your flesh you could not 451 00:33:29,160 --> 00:33:35,920 acquire righteousness. In essence, you tried to do the 452 00:33:35,920 --> 00:33:42,360 law by a letter, meaning in the flesh, but the law had to be 453 00:33:42,360 --> 00:33:49,480 fulfilled or is fulfilled by the Spirit and Jesus by the Spirit 454 00:33:49,960 --> 00:33:56,400 fulfills so that you can now live a moral life because you 455 00:33:56,400 --> 00:34:02,760 are a new creature in Christ, but the intent of the law. 456 00:34:02,920 --> 00:34:05,440 Is summed up very well in this illustration. 457 00:34:06,480 --> 00:34:11,199 It says the wife of a drunkard once found her husband in a 458 00:34:11,199 --> 00:34:17,120 filthy condition, with torn clothes, matted hair, bruised 459 00:34:17,120 --> 00:34:21,760 face, asleep in the kitchen. Having come home from a drunken 460 00:34:22,360 --> 00:34:26,000 revel. She sent for a photographer. 461 00:34:26,199 --> 00:34:28,679 So obviously this is an old illustration that they didn't 462 00:34:28,679 --> 00:34:31,760 have their own camera. She sent for a photographer. 463 00:34:32,080 --> 00:34:34,480 And had a portrait of him taken in. 464 00:34:34,480 --> 00:34:39,920 All his wretched appearance, and placed it on the mantle beside 465 00:34:39,920 --> 00:34:44,840 another portrait taken at the time of his marriage, which 466 00:34:44,840 --> 00:34:50,480 showed him handsome well. Dressed as he had been in other 467 00:34:50,480 --> 00:34:54,400 days. When he became sober, he saw the 468 00:34:54,400 --> 00:34:59,760 two pictures and awakened to a consciousness of his condition, 469 00:35:00,560 --> 00:35:05,000 which from which he arose to a better life. 470 00:35:05,800 --> 00:35:11,160 Now the office of the law is not to save man, but to show them 471 00:35:11,160 --> 00:35:15,280 their true state as compared with the divine standard. 472 00:35:16,000 --> 00:35:22,680 It's like a glass in which one soothe what manner of man he is. 473 00:35:22,760 --> 00:35:28,160 In essence, the law came so that man realized the condition he is 474 00:35:28,160 --> 00:35:40,280 in is not Genesis 126. The law came to reveal to us we 475 00:35:40,280 --> 00:35:46,000 are a wretched thing. How in the world can God have a 476 00:35:46,000 --> 00:35:49,040 requirement of morality and righteousness? 477 00:35:49,440 --> 00:35:54,760 When I'm confronted, I see what I was in a previous. 478 00:35:54,760 --> 00:35:56,440 Time. Oh, you all know what here. 479 00:35:57,080 --> 00:36:00,480 Man in a previous time, in the beginning when God made the 480 00:36:00,480 --> 00:36:04,240 heavens and the earth, he was without spot or wrinkle, holy, 481 00:36:04,320 --> 00:36:13,200 blameless, righteous, full of faith, no issues of sin. 482 00:36:13,760 --> 00:36:17,640 That was his original state. But then he falls. 483 00:36:17,640 --> 00:36:20,480 And in his falling, man does what seems right. 484 00:36:20,480 --> 00:36:24,600 Yet he's having issues in his moral mind, in his mind because 485 00:36:24,600 --> 00:36:26,880 of the temptations, and he begins to move. 486 00:36:26,880 --> 00:36:30,880 He does what seems right to him, but what seems right only leads 487 00:36:30,880 --> 00:36:36,360 to what? So much so that God regrets that 488 00:36:36,360 --> 00:36:46,960 He made man because left to themselves in this state, so he 489 00:36:46,960 --> 00:36:52,640 destroys the planet starts with another family in covenant 490 00:36:53,040 --> 00:36:59,240 through a promise which is just re conversing Genesis 3 or 491 00:36:59,640 --> 00:37:05,160 Ephesians chapter 1. I chose you before the 492 00:37:05,160 --> 00:37:09,120 foundations of the world in him. This is what you look like. 493 00:37:09,120 --> 00:37:16,920 So when the law came, the law says this is what this was a 494 00:37:16,920 --> 00:37:19,240 standard. And when you look at yourself, 495 00:37:19,240 --> 00:37:27,360 you're like, I don't meet that as Paul said, the things I tried 496 00:37:27,360 --> 00:37:31,520 to do, right, I did. And he said, who is this 497 00:37:31,520 --> 00:37:34,800 wretched man that will save my life? 498 00:37:35,520 --> 00:37:38,680 But thanks be to God. Come on, thanks be to God. 499 00:37:38,800 --> 00:37:44,320 Come on, thanks be to God that in Christ Jesus we've been made 500 00:37:44,320 --> 00:37:47,360 to triumph. In essence, the minute you make 501 00:37:47,360 --> 00:37:51,040 Christ your Lord, then you get set back. 502 00:37:51,040 --> 00:37:57,520 In the original state, the law was not to condemn you, it was 503 00:37:57,520 --> 00:38:03,880 to show you your state that you would aspire to be different and 504 00:38:03,880 --> 00:38:07,080 say I want to be this. I want to be what I originally 505 00:38:07,080 --> 00:38:09,840 was. And in it ourselves we can't. 506 00:38:09,840 --> 00:38:13,000 But in Christ we are. Hallelujah. 507 00:38:13,960 --> 00:38:18,200 And so Paul was writing to the church saying, listen guys, it 508 00:38:18,200 --> 00:38:24,480 when when you came into the Kingdom of God by the blood 509 00:38:24,480 --> 00:38:29,400 through the forgiveness of sin, you now have reserved. 510 00:38:29,400 --> 00:38:33,680 Seating. Go back to Ephesians one, he's 511 00:38:33,680 --> 00:38:38,040 telling them, listen man, we've been chosen through God's grace 512 00:38:38,040 --> 00:38:40,560 and what he's done. He has set us in a place and 513 00:38:40,560 --> 00:38:43,200 then he concludes that chapter by saying that the God of our 514 00:38:43,200 --> 00:38:47,360 Lord Jesus Christ, verse 17, the Father of glory, he may give to 515 00:38:47,360 --> 00:38:50,560 you the spirit of wisdom and revelation in the full knowledge 516 00:38:50,560 --> 00:38:55,800 of him so that you so that you, the eyes of your heart might be 517 00:38:55,800 --> 00:38:57,720 enlightened. You will know what is the hope 518 00:38:57,720 --> 00:39:03,560 of His calling, what are the riches of the of the glory of 519 00:39:03,720 --> 00:39:07,400 His inheritance in the Saints? What is the surpassing greatness 520 00:39:07,400 --> 00:39:11,240 of His power towards us who believe according to the working 521 00:39:11,800 --> 00:39:16,120 of of of the might of His strength, which He worked in 522 00:39:16,120 --> 00:39:20,080 Christ by raising him from the dead and seated, seating Him at 523 00:39:20,080 --> 00:39:26,200 His right hand in heavenly places far above all rule and 524 00:39:26,200 --> 00:39:30,440 authority and power and dominion and every name that is named, 525 00:39:30,440 --> 00:39:32,320 not only in this age, but also in the age to come. 526 00:39:32,320 --> 00:39:35,480 What is he saying? Hey, now that you're born again, 527 00:39:35,480 --> 00:39:40,680 God give you wisdom so you can see yourself back in the garden. 528 00:39:42,000 --> 00:39:44,520 You've been he, He was raised up. 529 00:39:45,080 --> 00:39:48,360 If you look, Jesus has been given the name above every name. 530 00:39:48,400 --> 00:39:52,240 He's above every principality and powers the condition of man 531 00:39:52,240 --> 00:39:55,000 in the state he was in. Christ has paid the price and 532 00:39:55,000 --> 00:39:58,000 has given you a pathway. I fulfill my word. 533 00:39:58,120 --> 00:40:01,720 I have honored it. You can come and be back in my 534 00:40:01,720 --> 00:40:06,200 original intent because I always originally thought I'll save you 535 00:40:06,320 --> 00:40:10,480 before I say something because I'm going to get you there if 536 00:40:10,480 --> 00:40:13,520 you want it. And if you get there, you're 537 00:40:13,520 --> 00:40:17,640 going to be Jesus has raised up all this, then it says verse 22, 538 00:40:17,760 --> 00:40:20,480 but he put all things in subjection under his feet and 539 00:40:20,480 --> 00:40:22,840 gave him his head over all things. 540 00:40:22,840 --> 00:40:29,920 Where to the church, which is his body, the fullness of him 541 00:40:29,920 --> 00:40:33,240 who fills on all and again, Ephesians are the Bibles written 542 00:40:33,240 --> 00:40:36,160 in chapters and verse. But really we should just keep 543 00:40:36,160 --> 00:40:37,920 reading. Paul is saying, listen, I'm 544 00:40:37,920 --> 00:40:41,480 praying that you get this revelation that because Christ 545 00:40:41,480 --> 00:40:45,760 has paid the price, because Christ came from a place of 546 00:40:45,760 --> 00:40:50,640 dominion, stayed in a place of dominion in the flesh, conquered 547 00:40:50,640 --> 00:40:54,240 death, hell on the grave, and destroyed the works of the 548 00:40:54,240 --> 00:40:59,440 devil. The works of the devil is 549 00:40:59,440 --> 00:41:02,760 disobedience to the crown, the king, and the word of God. 550 00:41:03,280 --> 00:41:06,240 He's destroyed those works. They do not have to be a part of 551 00:41:06,240 --> 00:41:11,560 your life. You have dominion whether you 552 00:41:11,560 --> 00:41:12,960 feel it or not. It's yours. 553 00:41:12,960 --> 00:41:16,440 You just have to access it by faith, through the grace of God, 554 00:41:17,200 --> 00:41:21,720 by the grace of God that's in your life because Christ made 555 00:41:21,720 --> 00:41:26,360 you this way. And so you can pull on that so 556 00:41:26,360 --> 00:41:33,480 that you reign in life, you reign in life. 557 00:41:34,720 --> 00:41:40,880 Come on, you reign in life because He did it with His 558 00:41:40,880 --> 00:41:47,160 power, with His might, with His strength, with His insight, with 559 00:41:47,160 --> 00:41:51,280 His obligation to fulfill his word concerning you. 560 00:41:53,680 --> 00:41:57,480 But again, he says all these things, that Christ is far above 561 00:41:57,480 --> 00:42:00,760 all principalities and powers and dominions in this age, but 562 00:42:00,760 --> 00:42:04,040 also in the one to come. And then he says, oh, by the 563 00:42:04,040 --> 00:42:09,360 way, he's extended that to his body. 564 00:42:11,640 --> 00:42:15,720 Come on, He's the head, you're the household of God. 565 00:42:15,880 --> 00:42:18,840 He's extended it. So then Paul keeps going because 566 00:42:18,840 --> 00:42:20,760 again we get chapter and verse, but Paul keeps going. 567 00:42:20,760 --> 00:42:22,120 So you go to the next chapter, verse 1. 568 00:42:22,280 --> 00:42:27,600 He says now you were dead in your in your transgression and 569 00:42:27,600 --> 00:42:32,400 sin, which you here it is. You formerly walked according to 570 00:42:32,400 --> 00:42:35,080 the course of this world, according to the ruler of the 571 00:42:35,080 --> 00:42:39,360 power of the air, the spirit that is now working in the sons 572 00:42:39,520 --> 00:42:42,520 of Come on. You don't want to be equated 573 00:42:42,520 --> 00:42:49,920 with the sons of disobedience. You do not want to be associated 574 00:42:51,840 --> 00:42:56,560 as a son of disobedience. And a son of disobedience is 575 00:42:56,560 --> 00:43:01,080 simply someone who will wants to do their own will despite 576 00:43:01,080 --> 00:43:08,360 knowing God's will. So again, he said Jesus has got 577 00:43:08,360 --> 00:43:10,680 all this power, all this authority has been raised up. 578 00:43:10,680 --> 00:43:13,200 I'm praying that you get this knowledge of all that actually 579 00:43:13,200 --> 00:43:16,400 is extended actually towards us because what is actually he has 580 00:43:16,400 --> 00:43:19,120 obtained and it goes towards the church. 581 00:43:19,120 --> 00:43:20,920 So I want to remind you, you were dead. 582 00:43:20,920 --> 00:43:25,920 You used to in your former say former, former. 583 00:43:26,520 --> 00:43:31,400 Come on, say former, not today. Don't resurrect a former. 584 00:43:31,400 --> 00:43:36,200 Come on, Because here's the thing, you cannot resurrect an 585 00:43:36,200 --> 00:43:39,520 old life. You die back in that life. 586 00:43:40,680 --> 00:43:46,120 Dead things are dead. If you're resurrected, it's in 587 00:43:46,120 --> 00:43:47,440 life. If you want to go back to 588 00:43:47,440 --> 00:43:53,600 former, you're choosing to die. You're willfully going back to 589 00:43:53,600 --> 00:43:56,600 death. So you formally walked. 590 00:43:56,600 --> 00:44:01,200 He's like, listen, I want to remind you did these things and 591 00:44:01,200 --> 00:44:03,360 it was according to the course of the power of the air of the 592 00:44:03,360 --> 00:44:06,000 spirits that are now working in the sunset, which tells me this, 593 00:44:06,600 --> 00:44:09,240 your disobedience because you're being influenced. 594 00:44:09,240 --> 00:44:09,800 Right, right. Come on. 595 00:44:14,880 --> 00:44:19,720 This is the craziest thing. We do have a free will, but our 596 00:44:19,720 --> 00:44:24,640 free will is not without constant influence. 597 00:44:32,680 --> 00:44:37,840 No decision you're making is independent thought. 598 00:44:40,880 --> 00:44:49,320 Either your flesh is talking and the flesh is not alive. 599 00:44:51,920 --> 00:44:59,200 Are either one of these spirits are talking and they're pretty 600 00:44:59,200 --> 00:45:07,400 good seducers, or the Lord's talking. 601 00:45:09,360 --> 00:45:13,240 And if you're alive to Christ, you should be able to discern 602 00:45:17,000 --> 00:45:22,920 your flesh's voice, the wrong spirit's voice, or the word of 603 00:45:22,920 --> 00:45:25,600 God. And God did the the voice of the 604 00:45:25,600 --> 00:45:27,440 Spirit of God and God did a extra. 605 00:45:27,440 --> 00:45:30,920 He said, not only will I speak to you by the Spirit, but I'll 606 00:45:30,920 --> 00:45:33,160 leave my word so you'll know it's actually me. 607 00:45:36,800 --> 00:45:39,000 Hallelujah. So listen, I don't care what 608 00:45:39,000 --> 00:45:41,160 you're doing. It's not an independent thought. 609 00:45:43,560 --> 00:45:47,280 You're listening to something. And here's the thing, what you 610 00:45:47,280 --> 00:45:55,640 give attention to, you act on. And Paul's reminded them you 611 00:45:55,640 --> 00:46:00,600 formally listened. Come on, say I don't listen to 612 00:46:00,600 --> 00:46:02,680 that no more. Come on, say I don't listen to 613 00:46:02,680 --> 00:46:05,400 that no more. I don't listen to that no more. 614 00:46:07,240 --> 00:46:09,440 Amen. I don't listen to that no more. 615 00:46:12,000 --> 00:46:17,560 Jesus himself had two voices talked to him when he asked the 616 00:46:17,560 --> 00:46:19,080 question Who do people say that I am? 617 00:46:20,280 --> 00:46:21,600 And then it tells him that he's going to die. 618 00:46:21,600 --> 00:46:26,320 Peter comes up according to his his emotions. 619 00:46:26,440 --> 00:46:33,520 His flesh speaks 1st and then Satan enforces the message. 620 00:46:37,760 --> 00:46:41,080 He says you're not going to die and the Lord addressed get thee 621 00:46:41,080 --> 00:46:45,720 behind me, Satan. That was not an independent 622 00:46:45,720 --> 00:46:49,840 thought for Peter. He heard it. 623 00:46:56,560 --> 00:47:04,720 Hallelujah, so he said this, among whom we all verse 3 also 624 00:47:04,720 --> 00:47:11,240 formally conducted ourselves in the lust of the flesh, doing the 625 00:47:11,240 --> 00:47:16,200 desires of the flesh and of the. So not are we trying to satisfy, 626 00:47:16,200 --> 00:47:19,000 making our body feel good with stuff that's just killing us, 627 00:47:20,760 --> 00:47:23,440 but we're trying to satisfy our mind with stuff that's just 628 00:47:23,440 --> 00:47:26,720 killing us. And we were by nature this is 629 00:47:26,720 --> 00:47:30,520 talking to our spirit children of the wrath, even as the rest 630 00:47:31,240 --> 00:47:33,040 all but we all love verse 4 right? 631 00:47:33,480 --> 00:47:40,040 But God come on. But God being rich in what you 632 00:47:40,040 --> 00:47:43,920 know how he's rich in mercy. You know what what the wealth of 633 00:47:43,920 --> 00:47:47,960 his mercy is. It's his blood because when he's 634 00:47:47,960 --> 00:47:53,400 paid all the price for all sin, he can be merciful to say you 635 00:47:53,400 --> 00:47:56,120 can come off. I know you did that, but I've 636 00:47:56,120 --> 00:47:57,720 really already paid that You come off. 637 00:47:58,440 --> 00:48:00,120 OK, I realize you've done that, but that's OK. 638 00:48:00,120 --> 00:48:01,800 I've already paid that. You can come off. 639 00:48:02,680 --> 00:48:05,560 Well, now can I do that? Look, it won't matter what 640 00:48:05,560 --> 00:48:07,560 you've done. I've paid for it. 641 00:48:10,160 --> 00:48:12,720 So I'm merciful. It's no, It's because you're not 642 00:48:12,720 --> 00:48:16,760 getting away with it. It's not like it's unnoticed. 643 00:48:17,200 --> 00:48:20,440 No, I've actually already paid for all that. 644 00:48:20,960 --> 00:48:24,240 So go ahead and commit another crime and my blood's got that. 645 00:48:24,320 --> 00:48:26,520 Go ahead and sin again, my blood's got that. 646 00:48:26,600 --> 00:48:28,640 Go ahead and rebel again. My blood's got. 647 00:48:28,640 --> 00:48:32,000 I've already paid for it. So This is why I'm merciful, 648 00:48:32,040 --> 00:48:33,880 because you're not getting away with it. 649 00:48:36,680 --> 00:48:39,520 I'm paying every price of your disobedience. 650 00:48:40,320 --> 00:48:45,720 I'm footing the bill here. This is what Jesus is doing. 651 00:48:45,720 --> 00:48:52,920 He's footing the bill and he's rich in mercy 'cause his blood 652 00:48:53,160 --> 00:48:57,480 paid it all. But if you don't accept his 653 00:48:57,480 --> 00:49:04,280 mercy payment, if you don't come to the mercy seat, then you'll 654 00:49:04,280 --> 00:49:08,280 have to pay your own account. It won't go to your. 655 00:49:08,280 --> 00:49:10,120 Account. He's like everything, every debt 656 00:49:10,120 --> 00:49:13,880 you're accumulating right now, I have it in savings. 657 00:49:14,000 --> 00:49:15,640 It's in the mercy seat. I can. 658 00:49:16,040 --> 00:49:18,840 All we got to do is make a withdrawal and pay it all. 659 00:49:22,920 --> 00:49:25,480 So God being rich in mercy because of his what? 660 00:49:26,000 --> 00:49:29,440 Because of his great love with which He loved us, What is that 661 00:49:29,440 --> 00:49:31,640 love? Let us make man in our IMS 662 00:49:31,640 --> 00:49:34,920 according to our likeness and let him have dominion man. 663 00:49:35,000 --> 00:49:38,880 That's what I've said about man, and that's what I will keep as 664 00:49:38,880 --> 00:49:45,120 the ability for man to be, even though God could say you don't 665 00:49:45,120 --> 00:49:50,760 deserve it and he's right. But God says I, I fulfill my 666 00:49:50,760 --> 00:49:55,320 word not because of deserving. I keep my word. 667 00:49:57,680 --> 00:50:02,240 I keep it because this is about my integrity. 668 00:50:02,840 --> 00:50:07,720 This is about my holiness. This is about my justice. 669 00:50:07,920 --> 00:50:11,800 This is about my glory. This is about my supremacy. 670 00:50:11,920 --> 00:50:16,360 This is about my sovereignty. This is about my righteousness. 671 00:50:18,800 --> 00:50:22,920 Because I am the only righteous holy there is. 672 00:50:23,720 --> 00:50:26,760 And even though you don't deserve it, I'm not emotionally 673 00:50:26,760 --> 00:50:29,880 attached to move towards you one way or the other. 674 00:50:29,920 --> 00:50:32,840 I'm moved only by what my word says. 675 00:50:32,960 --> 00:50:35,160 And my word says man's going to have dominion. 676 00:50:35,240 --> 00:50:38,840 And even though none of you deserve a pathway back, I make a 677 00:50:38,840 --> 00:50:43,920 pathway for my sake, for my name, for my glory, for my 678 00:50:43,920 --> 00:50:53,440 honor, for my majesty. And you have the privilege to 679 00:50:53,440 --> 00:50:58,680 know me. Hallelujah, I said. 680 00:50:58,680 --> 00:51:01,960 He's God. He's God. 681 00:51:03,480 --> 00:51:06,280 And he's rich, he had great love towards us. 682 00:51:06,640 --> 00:51:11,160 I will keep my word. I will do it verse 5 when even 683 00:51:11,160 --> 00:51:14,400 when we were dead in our transgression made us alive 684 00:51:14,400 --> 00:51:17,120 together with Christ. By grace you have been saved. 685 00:51:17,680 --> 00:51:21,480 Here it is verse 6 and raised us up with him because verse 686 00:51:21,760 --> 00:51:25,120 chapter one said his seat is far above. 687 00:51:26,840 --> 00:51:29,760 All principalities and powers and dominions, not only in this 688 00:51:29,760 --> 00:51:32,720 age, but the age to come. But no, it's now he raised us 689 00:51:32,720 --> 00:51:34,960 up. Reserve seating. 690 00:51:35,320 --> 00:51:37,360 He's got a reserve section for us. 691 00:51:37,440 --> 00:51:39,960 Not everybody can be here. It's been reserved. 692 00:51:40,320 --> 00:51:43,480 Oh, excuse me, Sir. Yeah, I have reserved seating. 693 00:51:43,480 --> 00:51:45,360 Oh, how's that? I'm in Christ. 694 00:51:45,680 --> 00:51:47,720 Oh, I know where your seat is. Come on up here. 695 00:51:47,840 --> 00:51:50,760 You're seated right here by the right hand of the Father. 696 00:51:50,800 --> 00:51:53,480 You're in Christ seat. He's seated at the right hand. 697 00:51:53,480 --> 00:51:57,120 You're in his seat. OK, come on down here right now. 698 00:51:57,120 --> 00:52:00,120 Come on up front here. You're in the reserve section 699 00:52:01,360 --> 00:52:03,000 now. You're not in a reserve section. 700 00:52:03,000 --> 00:52:08,280 If you disobedient, if you're trying to live a formal life, 701 00:52:08,520 --> 00:52:11,440 you're losing access to your reserve seat. 702 00:52:12,400 --> 00:52:14,640 God wants you to stay in the reserve seat. 703 00:52:15,200 --> 00:52:17,840 Don't think. Listen, because you've come out, 704 00:52:17,840 --> 00:52:21,280 you get reserve seating. You've been raised up with him 705 00:52:21,360 --> 00:52:26,680 and seated with him in heavenly places in, in Christ, not in 706 00:52:26,680 --> 00:52:30,080 your work, not in your effort, but in the finished work of 707 00:52:30,240 --> 00:52:34,760 Jesus, that then he speaks to you of which your spirit is made 708 00:52:34,760 --> 00:52:37,920 alive, so that you want to obey God, because the new Spirit 709 00:52:37,920 --> 00:52:43,200 that's in Christ obeys, obeys the Father Jesus, obeyed the 710 00:52:43,200 --> 00:52:45,920 Father Jesus. Said I don't do anything, I'm 711 00:52:45,920 --> 00:52:47,480 all in will. But whatever the Father says, I 712 00:52:47,480 --> 00:52:48,120 do. And guess what? 713 00:52:48,120 --> 00:52:54,000 You have that spirit. You have that spirit, you have 714 00:52:54,000 --> 00:52:56,800 the connection, you're alive, you can hear. 715 00:52:57,120 --> 00:52:59,360 Then you have the third person of the Godhead. 716 00:52:59,360 --> 00:53:02,720 The Holy Spirit lives in you. Then he's endued you with power. 717 00:53:02,760 --> 00:53:07,240 These are heavenly blessings that are yours in Christ because 718 00:53:07,240 --> 00:53:11,080 you're a child of the king. Verse seven goes on to say this. 719 00:53:11,200 --> 00:53:15,040 He says so that in the ages to come he might show the 720 00:53:15,040 --> 00:53:18,920 surpassing riches of His grace and kindness towards us in 721 00:53:18,920 --> 00:53:21,160 Christ Jesus. For by grace you have been saved 722 00:53:21,160 --> 00:53:22,840 through faith. It is not of yourself. 723 00:53:22,920 --> 00:53:26,000 It is a gift of God, not of works, so that you may boast, 724 00:53:26,000 --> 00:53:29,040 meaning you can't say I'll do this and you have to accept it. 725 00:53:29,160 --> 00:53:33,000 You can't do that for we not of works that no one can boast. 726 00:53:33,000 --> 00:53:35,440 You can't do it on your own. You have to accept what Jesus 727 00:53:35,440 --> 00:53:41,560 did. Verse 10 For we are his created 728 00:53:42,960 --> 00:53:56,320 for not born again. For heaven you're not born 729 00:53:56,320 --> 00:54:00,320 again. For heaven you're not born 730 00:54:00,320 --> 00:54:02,080 again. So you'll know where you'll go 731 00:54:02,080 --> 00:54:08,320 when you die, which is heaven. That's not why no, you are here. 732 00:54:08,400 --> 00:54:12,080 Who's who's? This ain't about you, this about 733 00:54:12,080 --> 00:54:16,800 him. It's not about you, it's about 734 00:54:16,800 --> 00:54:21,200 him. Because if you want to be what 735 00:54:21,200 --> 00:54:24,400 he is or what he has, then you got to do it his way. 736 00:54:26,280 --> 00:54:34,240 And listen, he's not compromising. 0 Compromise. 737 00:54:35,160 --> 00:54:37,160 This is why you want to compromise. 738 00:54:37,160 --> 00:54:38,400 Let me tell you what Rd. you're on. 739 00:54:38,400 --> 00:54:43,480 It's pretty wide. You want to negotiate with God 740 00:54:43,480 --> 00:54:45,840 now, Lord, you know I want to be right with you. 741 00:54:45,840 --> 00:54:49,560 But there's some things down here I kind of like my. 742 00:54:49,560 --> 00:54:53,760 Former do you understand? I mean, I've come to church, but 743 00:54:55,040 --> 00:54:59,640 but he said no, no, no, no, no, no, no. 744 00:55:01,080 --> 00:55:03,400 I made you away. I did that. 745 00:55:05,120 --> 00:55:07,720 You're different. You're my workmanship. 746 00:55:07,880 --> 00:55:10,000 And if you're my workmanship, then you've been created in 747 00:55:10,000 --> 00:55:13,640 Christ for. Good works which got prepared 748 00:55:13,640 --> 00:55:20,160 beforehand so that they would. So you're walking is according 749 00:55:20,160 --> 00:55:32,590 to his design. When he's Lord, you've died. 750 00:55:32,590 --> 00:55:36,990 Yeah, that's right. You've died to your own 751 00:55:36,990 --> 00:55:40,870 pleasures, your former manner of life, your way of doing things. 752 00:55:42,640 --> 00:55:48,360 Now you say, well, man, I don't even get a say so no, in one 753 00:55:48,360 --> 00:55:50,560 sense you don't, and you don't want your own say so. 754 00:55:51,800 --> 00:55:55,560 But you can't have a say so within the context of what's 755 00:55:55,560 --> 00:55:59,480 holy and righteous. Listen, God would have no 756 00:55:59,480 --> 00:56:02,240 problem to assemble a bunch of human beings and say, listen, we 757 00:56:02,240 --> 00:56:03,760 want to do this. What do you think? 758 00:56:03,920 --> 00:56:05,720 And this is his will. And you're like, well, we could 759 00:56:05,720 --> 00:56:07,480 do this, which is according to your will. 760 00:56:07,640 --> 00:56:09,600 Well, you know, but we could do it this way, Lord, according to 761 00:56:09,600 --> 00:56:11,120 your will. We could do it this way, Lord, 762 00:56:11,120 --> 00:56:12,760 according to your will. Cause nothing we're saying 763 00:56:12,760 --> 00:56:14,640 violates your will. And he can say, well, we can do 764 00:56:14,640 --> 00:56:17,120 that. And he allows you to have a buy 765 00:56:17,120 --> 00:56:19,400 in. Are you hearing me? 766 00:56:20,240 --> 00:56:23,760 I mean, you can wear clothes as long as the buy in is in the 767 00:56:23,760 --> 00:56:24,760 term modest. Oh. 768 00:56:25,880 --> 00:56:27,160 Y'all don't want to hear? That's fine. 769 00:56:28,040 --> 00:56:29,120 Do you understand what I'm saying? 770 00:56:29,680 --> 00:56:33,320 I mean there are things that are going on that you can agree with 771 00:56:33,320 --> 00:56:35,600 and you still are a part of the pracles. 772 00:56:35,600 --> 00:56:39,520 God made you too creative. But you can't say I'm not doing 773 00:56:39,520 --> 00:56:45,480 what you want because that the a reigning society does not. 774 00:56:45,480 --> 00:56:49,440 Have that attitude. We only have what's in Christ. 775 00:56:49,440 --> 00:56:51,760 Whatever the Father says I'm going to do, I love to do it 776 00:56:51,760 --> 00:56:54,920 because I love him and he's life. 777 00:56:55,600 --> 00:57:00,280 And if I if I don't, then I'm willfully saying I want death. 778 00:57:04,800 --> 00:57:10,200 So he reminds them, listen, all the principalities and powers 779 00:57:10,720 --> 00:57:14,000 are under the feet of Jesus of which he's given to the church. 780 00:57:14,000 --> 00:57:22,480 And I want to remind you, you lived away, but by grace through 781 00:57:22,480 --> 00:57:25,360 faith, you're now a child of God. 782 00:57:25,560 --> 00:57:33,560 You've received the gift of life for in Christ, for you to be a 783 00:57:33,560 --> 00:57:38,080 good work of His that He can glorify you, can show glory to 784 00:57:38,080 --> 00:57:41,880 Him through your life's behavior in the world. 785 00:57:46,960 --> 00:57:51,720 Can I get an AM? That's the key and this is just 786 00:57:51,920 --> 00:57:54,600 first couple of chapters of him talking to the church at 787 00:57:54,600 --> 00:57:58,160 Ephesus. We're we're a different society 788 00:57:58,160 --> 00:58:02,920 now, different breed of people. We function differently now and 789 00:58:04,680 --> 00:58:10,760 when we function that way, it glorifies God and it will cause 790 00:58:10,760 --> 00:58:16,200 man to say I look like a drunken stupor and I used to look like 791 00:58:16,200 --> 00:58:18,640 that. Oh, you don't want to, do you 792 00:58:18,640 --> 00:58:22,200 understand? You're not showing the law 793 00:58:22,200 --> 00:58:29,760 anymore. You are the new law because it's 794 00:58:29,760 --> 00:58:31,720 written in your heart. You're under the law of the 795 00:58:31,720 --> 00:58:34,600 spirit of life in Christ Jesus. When you walk in a room, people 796 00:58:34,600 --> 00:58:39,560 should say that's what I could look like, so that's what I look 797 00:58:39,560 --> 00:58:41,040 like. That's what you look like. 798 00:58:41,640 --> 00:58:45,400 That's what you look like. Look at me. 799 00:58:45,760 --> 00:58:47,960 I mean, you have peace. I don't. 800 00:58:48,440 --> 00:58:50,400 You have sanity. I don't. 801 00:58:50,480 --> 00:58:52,000 You're calm. I'm not. 802 00:58:52,240 --> 00:58:55,000 You have Lovejoy peace kind of self. 803 00:58:55,040 --> 00:58:58,880 I don't have any. You mean that's me. 804 00:58:59,000 --> 00:59:02,200 Oh, that's you in Christ, man. This is you in Christ. 805 00:59:03,320 --> 00:59:08,880 This is you in Christ that when you live it, you testify to 806 00:59:08,880 --> 00:59:10,200 everyone. You come around. 807 00:59:10,240 --> 00:59:13,320 They're like, is that what I could be like? 808 00:59:13,760 --> 00:59:21,040 This is what you can be like, how Jesus, Jesus, Jesus, Jesus, 809 00:59:21,640 --> 00:59:27,240 Jesus. So is your portrait of life the 810 00:59:27,240 --> 00:59:31,640 original? Or when you go to work, do you 811 00:59:31,640 --> 00:59:35,120 have the same portrait as everyone else?