WEBVTT 00:00:00.000 --> 00:00:05.200 We're going to be continuing our teaching, preaching through the book of Colossians. 00:00:05.940 --> 00:00:11.279 Seth taught last week on Colossians 2, 1 through 6. 00:00:11.779 --> 00:00:14.259 I'm going to pick up where he left off, 6 through 15. 00:00:15.120 --> 00:00:20.140 So if you guys want to open your Bibles up to Colossians chapter 2, if you've got them. 00:00:24.039 --> 00:00:26.440 And we'll look at the text here. 00:00:26.440 --> 00:00:38.700 But before I read through 6 through 15, I kind of wanted to give a little bit of a review, kind of backdrop. 00:00:42.079 --> 00:00:49.579 So Paul in Colossians is writing this letter likely to believers that he's never even met before. 00:00:52.620 --> 00:00:54.840 Epaphras is likely the one who planted the church. 00:00:54.840 --> 00:00:55.859 He preached the gospel. 00:00:56.979 --> 00:01:01.259 And then a group of people formed into what would be the church at Colossae. 00:01:01.899 --> 00:01:10.120 And then Paul writes two letters, one to the Colossians here, which is the letter to the Colossians. 00:01:10.219 --> 00:01:13.280 And then one to Philemon, which is going to the church at Colossae. 00:01:14.239 --> 00:01:21.039 And you can really feel as you read him that his heart is for these people. 00:01:21.040 --> 00:01:25.360 And I think that's a crazy thing because he likely has never even seen them. 00:01:25.359 --> 00:01:37.700 He says in verse 1 that he has a struggle and he wants to see them, to come to them face to face, that their hearts might be encouraged. 00:01:37.700 --> 00:01:49.760 So from the get-go, he's affectionately aimed towards them, that their hearts may be built up and encouraged. 00:01:49.760 --> 00:01:52.219 He says that they might be knit together in love. 00:01:52.219 --> 00:02:02.480 And I was reading that and thinking like, man, I don't know if I've ever felt that way or been directed with an affection like that towards someone I've never met. 00:02:02.480 --> 00:02:12.680 And he's trusting Epaphras, who planted and preached, you know, and cultivated this group of people that they're being built up. 00:02:12.740 --> 00:02:14.259 He's hearing about them and their faith. 00:02:14.620 --> 00:02:18.080 And his heart's starting to get in it with them. 00:02:18.080 --> 00:02:25.760 So he's writing this letter from that place, which is a good backdrop to what we're about to read in 6 through 15. 00:02:28.120 --> 00:02:36.600 And in Philemon, which is also a letter that will go to the church at Colossae. 00:02:36.700 --> 00:02:39.960 It's to Philemon, but Philemon is at the church at Colossae. 00:02:39.960 --> 00:02:47.900 He says that he's sending Onesimus, and with him he's sending his very heart. 00:02:48.719 --> 00:02:54.439 So again, he's not really, he hasn't seen these people face to face, but he's sending Onesimus. 00:02:55.000 --> 00:02:57.219 And with Onesimus, he's sending his very heart. 00:02:57.420 --> 00:03:00.300 You know, that's a very apostolic kind of thing to say. 00:03:00.560 --> 00:03:01.760 He's poured into Onesimus. 00:03:01.840 --> 00:03:03.819 He said that he's become his father. 00:03:04.439 --> 00:03:07.080 He was once useless, but now he's useful to you. 00:03:07.080 --> 00:03:11.400 So you can hear Paul's earnestness to this church. 00:03:12.500 --> 00:03:15.860 He's encouraged by what he hears about them. 00:03:16.380 --> 00:03:18.920 And he writes this from that place. 00:03:19.140 --> 00:03:20.420 That's the backdrop. 00:03:20.720 --> 00:03:24.720 So Paul is zealous for them. 00:03:25.920 --> 00:03:27.420 Let's get this square here. 00:03:27.419 --> 00:03:37.279 So before we go into the text, I'm going to pray. 00:03:37.279 --> 00:03:45.539 And I was praying specifically for this time last night and this morning that you guys would be refreshed. 00:03:46.159 --> 00:03:47.619 That you would be built up. 00:03:48.259 --> 00:03:50.979 That something would happen and be stirred up in you guys. 00:03:50.979 --> 00:03:58.699 Like in Philemon, he says that Philemon was used to refresh the saints. 00:03:59.579 --> 00:04:04.439 And so I pray and was praying that this morning something like that would happen today. 00:04:04.699 --> 00:04:07.959 So I'm going to pray and then we'll go into the text. 00:04:08.060 --> 00:04:08.659 I'll read it. 00:04:09.280 --> 00:04:14.560 And then hopefully my aim is to walk through it, explain certain things. 00:04:14.560 --> 00:04:20.500 And at the very end, I've got some points, but we can do that together as we go. 00:04:20.680 --> 00:04:27.180 So, Lord, I pray that you would fill me with your spirit to speak right now. 00:04:27.819 --> 00:04:33.060 Pray, Lord, that you would refresh us in your presence today. 00:04:34.340 --> 00:04:41.240 Pray, Lord, that this text, Lord, as we walk through it, you would shine, Lord, your gospel. 00:04:41.240 --> 00:04:45.500 Pray, Lord, and equip us, Lord, for what we need to do, how we need to walk. 00:04:47.300 --> 00:04:48.360 In Jesus' name. 00:04:49.860 --> 00:04:50.100 Amen. 00:04:52.340 --> 00:04:52.819 Okay. 00:04:53.900 --> 00:04:58.540 So Colossians 2, verses 6 and starting. 00:05:01.540 --> 00:05:02.240 It says, 00:05:02.240 --> 00:05:32.220 It says, 00:05:32.240 --> 00:06:02.240 00:06:02.240 --> 00:06:32.240 00:06:32.240 --> 00:06:36.900 I love this passage. 00:06:37.220 --> 00:06:46.680 When Seth assigned it to me, it was kind of hilarious because that was like hours before he sent the text. 00:06:46.819 --> 00:06:51.079 I was in this passage loving it. 00:06:51.879 --> 00:06:54.280 So I was like, oh, this works out pretty good. 00:06:54.279 --> 00:06:57.099 But there's so much here. 00:06:57.099 --> 00:07:05.419 There's so much gospel kind of fundamentals in here that we're going to hear about. 00:07:05.420 --> 00:07:15.520 But me in particular, especially last night as I was preparing, I was really getting affected and drawn back to the basic principles of the gospel, 00:07:15.900 --> 00:07:21.660 which Paul, I think, is trying to encourage the church at Colossae with to keep. 00:07:21.660 --> 00:07:24.020 Keep this at the forefront of your minds. 00:07:24.120 --> 00:07:27.140 Keep this as something that you're standing on. 00:07:27.139 --> 00:07:34.360 So before we start working through the text, I'd like to point out something. 00:07:34.459 --> 00:07:41.199 In most of your Bibles, if you have an ESV, they put a title, a headline that says, 00:07:41.259 --> 00:07:42.459 Alive in Christ. 00:07:42.459 --> 00:07:47.979 If you have different translations, you probably won't see it or maybe it's a different title or something. 00:07:48.279 --> 00:08:02.919 But I particularly love this title because it describes what a Christian actually is at its core. 00:08:02.920 --> 00:08:06.759 Someone who is alive, someone who is living. 00:08:07.620 --> 00:08:16.780 And there is, you know, you go through, you know, your Christian walk and you hear that all the time. 00:08:17.259 --> 00:08:27.819 But how many of us have, you know, gone to meetings and gatherings and been around other Christians and felt maybe dead, 00:08:27.819 --> 00:08:35.960 you know, or a sense of dullness, gone into different churches and had this lingering feeling. 00:08:36.100 --> 00:08:39.460 And the truth is that a Christian is someone who is alive. 00:08:40.240 --> 00:08:49.799 That is somebody who is alive with the life force, not of their own, but is living with someone else's life force. 00:08:49.799 --> 00:08:59.319 And so I really felt the resonance of this title, Alive in Christ, fleshed out through this text. 00:08:59.679 --> 00:09:00.539 I think it's appropriate. 00:09:01.399 --> 00:09:07.199 And Seth actually spoke last week about how a Christian is someone who has Jesus living in them. 00:09:08.279 --> 00:09:11.879 And that is felt as we read this. 00:09:11.879 --> 00:09:18.899 So I made a note of this. 00:09:18.899 --> 00:09:24.500 I stumbled across an article a day or two ago on LinkedIn. 00:09:24.799 --> 00:09:30.860 I never go on LinkedIn because I'm not really a professional or have no need to be on LinkedIn. 00:09:30.860 --> 00:09:34.620 But I read this guy's article, which caught my eye. 00:09:34.679 --> 00:09:39.259 It said, titled, Are you living or being lived? 00:09:40.459 --> 00:09:44.199 And I decided to read a little bit of what he meant by that. 00:09:44.200 --> 00:09:48.379 But what he was saying is essentially like, do you have your own goals? 00:09:48.480 --> 00:09:49.500 Are you self-motivated? 00:09:49.580 --> 00:09:50.640 Are you self-disciplined? 00:09:50.879 --> 00:09:56.800 Or are you just trying to accomplish your company's goals and work for somebody else? 00:09:57.060 --> 00:09:59.480 Because if you are, my friend, you're being lived. 00:10:00.480 --> 00:10:01.780 You know, kind of a negative. 00:10:02.600 --> 00:10:04.180 Like, you need to get your own goals. 00:10:04.179 --> 00:10:15.500 Although there's some truth to that, I couldn't help but feel like in the inverse, as a Christian, we are a people who are being lived. 00:10:16.339 --> 00:10:23.219 Because our goals are now subordinated when we come to Christ. 00:10:23.220 --> 00:10:26.460 They're subjected to the king's goals. 00:10:27.240 --> 00:10:30.139 And we're being lived actually through God. 00:10:30.720 --> 00:10:34.680 And our life, we don't live anymore, Paul says, but we live by faith. 00:10:35.420 --> 00:10:41.600 And so I felt like maybe I should write an article called Living by Being Lived in response. 00:10:41.700 --> 00:10:43.080 But then I was like, that's whatever. 00:10:43.080 --> 00:10:53.600 So, alive in Christ, living in Christ, being lived, seeing that, is what the aim is. 00:10:54.460 --> 00:11:05.700 And as we walk through this, I think noticing Paul's aliveness to this church, even though he hasn't even seen them, can be felt. 00:11:06.460 --> 00:11:09.240 So, we want to start in verse 6. 00:11:09.240 --> 00:11:15.480 We'll start to work through how Paul speaks to them. 00:11:16.200 --> 00:11:16.500 It says, 00:11:16.500 --> 00:11:29.279 Therefore, as you received Christ Jesus the Lord, so walk in him, rooted and built up in him, and established in the faith, just as you were taught, abounding in thanksgiving. 00:11:29.879 --> 00:11:31.379 So, two things right away. 00:11:32.399 --> 00:11:37.360 Just as they received Christ Jesus the Lord, he tells them to walk in him. 00:11:37.360 --> 00:11:38.120 Okay? 00:11:38.279 --> 00:11:40.440 Don't walk by yourself, walk in Christ. 00:11:40.899 --> 00:11:43.240 And then he says how to do that. 00:11:43.659 --> 00:11:46.960 And he's got a couple distinctives. 00:11:47.899 --> 00:11:51.419 One, you need to walk rooted and built up. 00:11:52.100 --> 00:11:52.320 Okay? 00:11:52.960 --> 00:11:59.220 And this language is the language of like a tree being rooted. 00:12:00.259 --> 00:12:05.019 And think about being built up, the language of a house or a structure, right? 00:12:05.019 --> 00:12:05.100 Okay? 00:12:07.379 --> 00:12:13.039 And if you think about being rooted, immediately what I went to is being secure. 00:12:13.519 --> 00:12:17.120 It's a secure foundation underneath you. 00:12:17.659 --> 00:12:23.419 And so, he says you've got to have some roots that can support the upper weight of the tree, the trunk going up. 00:12:23.419 --> 00:12:23.679 Okay? 00:12:23.759 --> 00:12:29.500 So, he wants them, just as they receive Christ, to walk in a way that's like that. 00:12:29.860 --> 00:12:32.839 That's like rooted and being built up. 00:12:32.919 --> 00:12:40.899 Having pieces that fit together correctly, not disjointed and kind of supported halfly, you know. 00:12:41.399 --> 00:12:44.699 But rooted and built up and established in the faith. 00:12:44.700 --> 00:12:52.360 Like, you know, established in the faith, I immediately just think not tossed. 00:12:53.300 --> 00:12:53.520 You know? 00:12:54.259 --> 00:12:57.759 Not shifting. 00:12:58.520 --> 00:13:01.379 Like, we had a really bad storm a couple weeks ago. 00:13:01.440 --> 00:13:02.360 We had a lot of rain recently. 00:13:02.480 --> 00:13:05.460 But we had a storm where a ton of trees came down. 00:13:06.420 --> 00:13:10.759 And most of them were diseased and hollowed out. 00:13:10.940 --> 00:13:13.300 And it was pretty easy to tell why they came down. 00:13:15.259 --> 00:13:19.580 But during the storm, you would look outside and you see all these trees bending and bowing. 00:13:19.639 --> 00:13:21.820 And then they would just, you know, stay up there. 00:13:22.379 --> 00:13:24.160 And it's like, well, these guys are solid. 00:13:24.840 --> 00:13:28.840 Something about this tree is different than the tree that just crashed through my neighbor's roof. 00:13:29.180 --> 00:13:29.400 You know? 00:13:29.399 --> 00:13:33.299 And because the roots go down deep. 00:13:33.379 --> 00:13:39.899 I heard somewhere that the roots of a tree are as deep as like how high the tree is. 00:13:40.639 --> 00:13:42.000 Which I thought, man, that's crazy. 00:13:45.059 --> 00:13:51.519 Not only that, but it says something about the necessity for what is underneath us. 00:13:52.720 --> 00:13:56.199 And it's got to be something that's secure. 00:13:56.200 --> 00:14:00.000 It's got to be something that's established. 00:14:01.340 --> 00:14:06.780 And so as we are doing this church plant, we're at the beginning stages. 00:14:07.940 --> 00:14:10.879 Sometimes it can feel like we're just a little sprout out of the ground. 00:14:11.440 --> 00:14:13.840 You know, not really fully established by any means yet. 00:14:14.780 --> 00:14:20.700 And a lot of times we need something like a little stake to hold us up, you know, by us. 00:14:20.700 --> 00:14:27.860 And I think that this truth or these truths that Paul is laying out are those things that we're going to hold fast to. 00:14:28.259 --> 00:14:30.700 That's going to be the thing that makes it solid. 00:14:30.920 --> 00:14:39.740 So he wants them to be rooted and built up and established in the faith, just as you were taught, abounding in thanksgiving. 00:14:39.740 --> 00:14:54.639 So he kind of ends it and tags it with this phrase, abounding in thanksgiving, which is important for us to know because it's easy to grow weary in giving thanks. 00:14:55.419 --> 00:15:02.100 And it's even more easy to grumble when there's many things to grumble about. 00:15:02.100 --> 00:15:07.940 You know, sometimes it feels like there's nothing to be thankful for, which is just really just a lie, you know. 00:15:08.580 --> 00:15:20.100 And when we're tempted, we can remember Paul speaking to the Colossians, not just telling them to be thankful, but to abound in it. 00:15:20.100 --> 00:15:37.120 You know, not grumbling when we get frustrated about, you know, how someone's bad at facilitating family or group things or, you know, grumbling about whatever in our life is just inconvenient, you know. 00:15:37.220 --> 00:15:46.779 But constantly abounding, Godward, you know, not looking at our circumstances or other people by the flesh, but being thankful. 00:15:46.779 --> 00:15:50.220 Paul says to abound in it. 00:15:54.860 --> 00:16:10.100 With that, in verse 8, kind of leads them into a little bit of a warning or telling them to guard against something. 00:16:10.100 --> 00:16:24.460 He says, see to it that no one takes you captive by philosophy and empty deceit, according to human tradition, according to the elemental spirits of the world, and not according to Christ. 00:16:25.620 --> 00:16:33.440 So although Paul is speaking to believers, he's, or believers that are standing firm in their faith, he's still giving them a sober warning. 00:16:33.440 --> 00:16:48.380 He says, watch out for the things that will sneak in, like this strange philosophy or a type of empty deceit, something that might be appealing, but its end is just emptiness. 00:16:48.960 --> 00:16:53.620 It's not going to, it won't help you, won't aid you. 00:16:53.620 --> 00:17:12.299 And I think the thing about, you know, this particular church and this group of people, I don't think like, okay, we're like really susceptible by these things or to like philosophy, you know, attacks or human tradition maybe. 00:17:12.299 --> 00:17:20.779 But the thing about how one can be led astray is you're led. 00:17:21.680 --> 00:17:25.960 You don't all of a sudden fall away or fall astray. 00:17:26.559 --> 00:17:28.259 You're slowly led. 00:17:28.680 --> 00:17:29.619 Things can lead us. 00:17:29.899 --> 00:17:37.720 So Paul is warning, don't be led by different things like philosophies, humanistic ideas. 00:17:37.720 --> 00:17:48.519 And we see how non-humanistic it gets way down in verse 13 through 15 when he kind of goes through the gospel in detail. 00:17:49.500 --> 00:17:51.360 But he wants them to guard against it. 00:17:52.339 --> 00:17:59.620 And, you know, the thing about Satan is he's really crafty. 00:18:00.380 --> 00:18:05.240 You know, in Genesis, he says that the serpent was more crafty than any beast of the field. 00:18:05.240 --> 00:18:11.240 And I think in Timothy it says that he disguises himself as an angel of light. 00:18:11.660 --> 00:18:19.859 So there's going to be things that look one way, that appear beautiful, but they're full of darkness, you know. 00:18:20.299 --> 00:18:25.359 And in a church, we have to be on guard against those things. 00:18:25.359 --> 00:18:38.159 Because there are many churches who are following different things, different philosophies in conjunction with the gospel. 00:18:38.579 --> 00:18:43.859 But actually, it's distorting the gospel, and it isn't that at all. 00:18:44.619 --> 00:18:45.699 It's being twisted. 00:18:46.199 --> 00:18:48.579 And so Paul's warning against that. 00:18:49.119 --> 00:18:50.979 He's saying don't be led astray by it. 00:18:50.980 --> 00:19:05.319 You know, it seems like sometimes that when you talk about the philosophies, the empty deceit, the human tradition, it exposes them right away. 00:19:05.420 --> 00:19:06.140 It brings them right out. 00:19:06.259 --> 00:19:07.180 And you're just like, oh, yeah, that's wrong. 00:19:07.500 --> 00:19:13.940 You know, like if I got up here and I was just like, you guys, adultery, that's not really that bad. 00:19:13.940 --> 00:19:20.500 You know, or like divorce is a viable option if any problems come up in the marriage. 00:19:20.700 --> 00:19:24.279 Like you guys would be like, I need to talk to Sam. 00:19:24.620 --> 00:19:25.960 He's off his rocker, right? 00:19:26.680 --> 00:19:28.140 It's like right in your face. 00:19:28.320 --> 00:19:29.279 That's wrong, right? 00:19:30.000 --> 00:19:35.120 But if you put a little music to it, you know, make it sound beautiful, we'll listen to it. 00:19:35.820 --> 00:19:36.960 You know, don't we do that? 00:19:37.240 --> 00:19:42.460 We turn the radio on, and all of a sudden you listen to the lyrics, and you're like, I think this is Satan's music. 00:19:42.460 --> 00:19:46.000 You know, like trying to speak to me, you know. 00:19:50.259 --> 00:19:55.480 He's crafty, and he wants to sneak in anywhere he can, and we have to be on guard against it. 00:19:57.440 --> 00:19:58.980 So Paul warns against that. 00:19:59.559 --> 00:20:05.940 In Proverbs 4, 23, it says, keep your heart with all vigilance, for from it flow the springs of life. 00:20:06.920 --> 00:20:10.059 Jesus himself says to watch out that no one deceives you. 00:20:12.460 --> 00:20:21.220 In Mark 13, 5, so we've got to guard against the things and not grow lax, you know. 00:20:21.900 --> 00:20:27.420 I think it's another proverb that says a little folding of the hands to rest, and poverty comes upon you, you know. 00:20:28.000 --> 00:20:34.900 A little relaxation, and all of a sudden, you know, after a while, you're in a place that you never thought you would be. 00:20:34.900 --> 00:20:50.240 Going down to verse 9, 9 through 10, it says, for in him, that's in Christ, the whole fullness of deity dwells bodily. 00:20:50.240 --> 00:20:54.799 I read that, and I'm like, what an incredible statement. 00:20:55.799 --> 00:21:00.400 Like, the entire fullness of God dwells bodily. 00:21:00.400 --> 00:21:07.120 You know, that's, I mean, it'd be one thing to see that, you know, if you were one of his disciples. 00:21:09.220 --> 00:21:19.500 And maybe some of us, at some points, have a little bit of longing, like, man, I wish I could see the, you know, the fullness of deity dwelling in Jesus. 00:21:20.900 --> 00:21:23.519 Well, there's a little bit of an encouragement here after that. 00:21:23.519 --> 00:21:29.320 It says, I lost my place. 00:21:29.700 --> 00:21:30.240 Where are we at? 00:21:30.400 --> 00:21:37.720 It says, and you have been filled in him. 00:21:38.720 --> 00:21:43.800 So it says, for in him the fullness of deity dwells bodily. 00:21:44.019 --> 00:21:48.000 And then it says, and you have been filled in him. 00:21:49.040 --> 00:21:54.960 So the guy, so the guy, so he's been filled with the whole fullness of deity bodily. 00:21:55.440 --> 00:21:59.440 And then we also have been filled in him who is full. 00:21:59.440 --> 00:22:02.059 It's like a trifecta of fullness. 00:22:05.000 --> 00:22:08.299 What does it actually mean to believe that? 00:22:08.700 --> 00:22:15.220 You know, what does it actually mean to believe that the same spirit who raised Christ from the dead dwells in us? 00:22:15.220 --> 00:22:18.200 You know, that's what Paul is portraying. 00:22:18.200 --> 00:22:22.579 He's saying, all of God dwelt in Jesus, and you have been filled in him. 00:22:22.579 --> 00:22:27.579 You know, that for sure encouraged me when I read it. 00:22:27.579 --> 00:22:32.419 Because I'd mosey on through my day thinking, like, I'm just a normal Joe Schmo. 00:22:33.139 --> 00:22:37.439 You know, but not only in that respect. 00:22:38.019 --> 00:22:41.480 God's fullness, his spirit has been given to me. 00:22:42.179 --> 00:22:47.480 You know, the one who has been full completely from the Father has filled me. 00:22:47.480 --> 00:22:49.539 That's powerful. 00:22:51.620 --> 00:22:58.160 And so oftentimes we can forget the inheritance we've been given. 00:22:58.980 --> 00:23:05.599 The immeasurable riches of his grace, the Bible says, that has been granted to us in Christ Jesus. 00:23:05.599 --> 00:23:16.599 And remembering that God looked upon us with mercy and didn't just spare us, but he filled us also. 00:23:17.539 --> 00:23:18.859 We've been filled in him. 00:23:18.859 --> 00:23:22.079 Verse 11. 00:23:26.399 --> 00:23:27.139 It says, 00:23:27.139 --> 00:23:35.500 In him also you were circumcised with a circumcision made without hands, 00:23:35.879 --> 00:23:41.599 by putting off the body of the flesh, by the circumcision of Christ, 00:23:42.479 --> 00:23:47.079 having been buried with him in baptism, in which you were also raised with him 00:23:47.079 --> 00:23:53.699 through faith in the powerful working of God, who raised him from the dead. 00:23:57.539 --> 00:24:04.339 So Paul is saying that in him you were circumcised with a circumcision not made with hands, 00:24:04.980 --> 00:24:11.199 by putting off the body, essentially saying that actually it's true that you have actual power 00:24:11.199 --> 00:24:12.519 to say no to the flesh now. 00:24:12.519 --> 00:24:17.759 To cut off the flesh, whereas before you didn't, you were a slave to it. 00:24:17.960 --> 00:24:18.799 No power at all. 00:24:19.519 --> 00:24:26.639 Even if you tried to, you could only use more flesh to try and crucify the flesh, which would never work. 00:24:27.480 --> 00:24:28.200 So Paul says, 00:24:28.759 --> 00:24:34.879 In him you have been given power to cut off the flesh by the circumcision of Christ. 00:24:34.880 --> 00:24:38.660 And in what way do you get this power? 00:24:38.760 --> 00:24:39.020 It says, 00:24:39.260 --> 00:24:43.080 Having been buried with him, going down underneath the ground with him, 00:24:43.780 --> 00:24:48.040 and rising up through death, rising up to life, 00:24:48.340 --> 00:24:50.780 you now have power to say no to sin. 00:24:52.680 --> 00:24:55.880 In Philippians 3 it says, or Paul says, 00:24:55.880 --> 00:25:04.480 We are the circumcision who worship by the Spirit of God and put no confidence in the flesh. 00:25:05.400 --> 00:25:08.120 He says we Christians are the circumcision. 00:25:08.240 --> 00:25:09.740 It means we actually have the power. 00:25:10.880 --> 00:25:14.520 All you people who look like you do, don't. 00:25:15.280 --> 00:25:19.060 Because you haven't come to Christ. 00:25:19.540 --> 00:25:21.100 You haven't been buried with him, 00:25:21.100 --> 00:25:24.420 and have been also raised to receive power to say no to sin. 00:25:24.420 --> 00:25:31.000 He says that we are the circumcision who worship by the Spirit of God 00:25:31.000 --> 00:25:33.100 and put no confidence in the flesh. 00:25:34.200 --> 00:25:35.360 No confidence. 00:25:36.420 --> 00:25:38.220 This word confidence, 00:25:39.080 --> 00:25:43.480 I was thinking about this in relationship to faith. 00:25:45.500 --> 00:25:48.380 I watched a debate earlier this week, 00:25:48.380 --> 00:25:55.620 and this atheist was pretty heated against these Christian guys talking. 00:25:55.960 --> 00:25:59.400 And the Christian guys were asking him, 00:25:59.420 --> 00:26:00.880 Do you have confidence in your view? 00:26:01.640 --> 00:26:02.700 Like, this is your view. 00:26:03.400 --> 00:26:06.220 God, no God, you know, only materialism. 00:26:06.980 --> 00:26:08.760 And he's like, well, yeah, of course. 00:26:08.840 --> 00:26:10.420 He's like, well, then you have faith. 00:26:10.420 --> 00:26:12.940 And he's like, that's not what faith is. 00:26:13.820 --> 00:26:17.160 You know, faith is something else, like you Christians believe. 00:26:17.779 --> 00:26:19.000 At the very end of the debate, 00:26:19.700 --> 00:26:24.039 the Christian was giving his closing statement, 00:26:24.480 --> 00:26:27.300 and he defined confidence, 00:26:27.840 --> 00:26:31.420 which has its root in Latin that actually confide, 00:26:32.000 --> 00:26:34.539 meaning with faith. 00:26:34.539 --> 00:26:38.079 So when we talk about faith, 00:26:38.619 --> 00:26:42.519 it's helpful to think in terms of confidence. 00:26:43.879 --> 00:26:46.920 You know, Hebrews 11 says that faith is the assurance, 00:26:47.440 --> 00:26:48.759 synonym to confidence. 00:26:50.500 --> 00:26:54.839 So in Philippians 3, Paul says that we worship by the Spirit of God 00:26:54.839 --> 00:26:56.819 and put no confidence in the flesh. 00:26:57.039 --> 00:26:58.119 No faith in the flesh. 00:26:59.220 --> 00:27:01.339 You know, we put faith in the flesh, we'll die. 00:27:01.339 --> 00:27:06.379 And so when we have confidence in God, 00:27:06.980 --> 00:27:10.519 through the gospel, we have power to say no to sin. 00:27:12.699 --> 00:27:14.899 Titus 2, 11 through 12 says, 00:27:15.019 --> 00:27:18.859 for the grace of God has appeared that offers salvation to all people, 00:27:19.119 --> 00:27:23.199 and it teaches us to say no to ungodliness and worldly passions. 00:27:24.299 --> 00:27:28.419 So this is the grace of God appears and gives us confidence to say no, 00:27:29.279 --> 00:27:30.879 but no confidence in the flesh. 00:27:31.339 --> 00:27:43.379 And Paul drives that home here in the last verses of the text, 00:27:44.220 --> 00:27:48.199 when he kind of goes in, starting in verse 13, 00:27:49.000 --> 00:27:55.159 explaining how a Christian went from death to life. 00:27:55.160 --> 00:28:03.460 And it's really kind of the precipice or the peak of what it means to truly be a Christian. 00:28:03.620 --> 00:28:05.680 It's really what we're standing on. 00:28:05.980 --> 00:28:09.660 Here at the end of his couple verses here, 00:28:09.759 --> 00:28:13.940 he divulges into the roots underneath us, 00:28:13.940 --> 00:28:15.880 how I talked about earlier, a tree being built up. 00:28:15.880 --> 00:28:21.700 You know, as Christchurch grows and Lord willing, we see more people saved. 00:28:22.240 --> 00:28:28.260 We want to save them into not just a kind of tree above ground, 00:28:28.260 --> 00:28:33.520 but also show them what the roots are beneath the tree 00:28:33.520 --> 00:28:36.520 and how to be built up into a house. 00:28:36.519 --> 00:28:42.420 And if we ourselves are not aware of those roots, 00:28:42.900 --> 00:28:45.759 trusting in those roots, leaning on those things, 00:28:45.759 --> 00:28:49.839 then we shouldn't believe that anyone would be caught up into that either. 00:28:49.839 --> 00:28:57.539 We need to be fit together as being built up. 00:28:57.659 --> 00:29:03.059 You know, I think about being built up and I work in many different houses, 00:29:03.319 --> 00:29:04.740 a lot of new construction houses, 00:29:05.240 --> 00:29:10.779 and there's all the structure exposed and you're just looking around, 00:29:10.980 --> 00:29:13.959 seeing like, okay, if that wasn't there, you know, that's a problem. 00:29:13.960 --> 00:29:18.579 You know, everything fits into its place and works together. 00:29:19.279 --> 00:29:22.759 So for us to be built up, we have to fit together rightly 00:29:22.759 --> 00:29:26.380 and also fellowship on the same truth. 00:29:26.640 --> 00:29:28.140 Look at the same roots. 00:29:28.940 --> 00:29:37.420 And so Paul in this last line gets the fundamentals of that. 00:29:39.980 --> 00:29:43.100 This is the line between whether you have a dead church 00:29:43.099 --> 00:29:44.699 or a living church. 00:29:46.939 --> 00:29:48.559 Whenever Aidy and I travel, 00:29:50.179 --> 00:29:53.399 especially long distances, 00:29:53.659 --> 00:29:57.000 we see a bunch of different churches off the side of the highway 00:29:57.000 --> 00:29:59.500 with a bunch of different names, different kinds of buildings. 00:29:59.859 --> 00:30:02.139 And I always wondered to myself, I'm like, 00:30:02.199 --> 00:30:05.500 is this a dead church or a living church? 00:30:06.059 --> 00:30:07.719 You know, nobody didn't know, 00:30:07.859 --> 00:30:10.539 but there's a lot of them out there. 00:30:10.539 --> 00:30:15.920 And the ones that are alive are the ones that have their lampstands burning. 00:30:17.000 --> 00:30:19.500 You know, they're continually being filled with this truth 00:30:19.500 --> 00:30:22.960 that Paul is speaking to the church at Colossae about 00:30:22.960 --> 00:30:27.240 that has heard Epaphras pouring into them. 00:30:27.960 --> 00:30:32.059 And it needs to be the same confidence that we have at Christchurch 00:30:32.059 --> 00:30:34.500 that will make us alive in the world. 00:30:34.500 --> 00:30:40.839 And so I'm going to read this, 00:30:41.099 --> 00:30:43.880 but before I do, 00:30:45.579 --> 00:30:48.420 I want to give a quick note. 00:30:48.799 --> 00:30:52.420 A lot of times when we read passages of Scripture, 00:30:52.619 --> 00:30:55.940 especially like big truth gospel passages, 00:30:55.940 --> 00:30:58.360 it can be easy to just gloss them over 00:30:58.360 --> 00:31:02.680 and treat them as kind of every other verse and vowel. 00:31:02.759 --> 00:31:03.660 It's like, oh yeah, I've heard that. 00:31:03.720 --> 00:31:04.120 Yeah, it's good. 00:31:04.200 --> 00:31:05.200 It's like, oh yeah, gospel. 00:31:05.320 --> 00:31:05.820 Yeah, got it. 00:31:06.380 --> 00:31:07.480 Move along, you know. 00:31:08.600 --> 00:31:10.860 But if you guys can, 00:31:10.960 --> 00:31:13.100 I want you to focus as I read this, 00:31:13.320 --> 00:31:14.440 maybe in a different way, 00:31:14.440 --> 00:31:21.519 and receive the words that Paul is speaking to the church at Colossae 00:31:21.519 --> 00:31:25.759 as a past tense sealed promise over your life. 00:31:26.920 --> 00:31:30.680 Meaning something that's more of like a declaration, 00:31:31.160 --> 00:31:34.700 like this is true over your life and believe it. 00:31:35.620 --> 00:31:38.220 Because a lot of times we just read the Bible 00:31:38.220 --> 00:31:40.200 in a way that, 00:31:40.200 --> 00:31:43.539 you know, is for the next guy, 00:31:43.640 --> 00:31:46.100 or maybe that will apply to us at some point, 00:31:46.500 --> 00:31:50.240 rather than looking to God to be filled then, 00:31:50.500 --> 00:31:51.180 when we read it. 00:31:52.100 --> 00:31:52.500 And so, 00:31:53.819 --> 00:31:57.200 read it as something that's been sealed. 00:31:57.620 --> 00:32:00.259 Ephesians 4 verse 30 says, 00:32:00.259 --> 00:32:01.480 Do not grieve the Holy Spirit 00:32:01.480 --> 00:32:03.680 by whom you were sealed 00:32:03.680 --> 00:32:05.480 for the day of redemption. 00:32:06.519 --> 00:32:07.700 You know, that's a heavy thing. 00:32:08.500 --> 00:32:09.700 You know, you've been sealed up. 00:32:09.700 --> 00:32:11.420 You've been snatched up from hell. 00:32:12.299 --> 00:32:15.559 And God has sealed you for a specific day 00:32:15.559 --> 00:32:16.660 that is already fixed. 00:32:17.460 --> 00:32:17.660 So, 00:32:18.460 --> 00:32:23.539 this is a declaration of the solidity of that seal, 00:32:24.120 --> 00:32:26.420 the solidity of the roots underneath us, 00:32:26.880 --> 00:32:28.920 of the truth that we're reading through. 00:32:31.440 --> 00:32:33.200 And as I read this, 00:32:33.860 --> 00:32:34.700 believe that. 00:32:34.700 --> 00:32:36.440 So, 00:32:36.640 --> 00:32:37.059 in verse, 00:32:37.920 --> 00:32:39.140 starting in 13, 00:32:40.259 --> 00:32:41.140 it says, 00:32:41.299 --> 00:32:42.960 And you who were dead 00:32:42.960 --> 00:32:45.620 in your trespasses 00:32:45.620 --> 00:32:48.720 and the uncircumcision of your flesh, 00:32:49.240 --> 00:32:52.240 God made alive together with him, 00:32:53.240 --> 00:32:55.519 having forgiven us 00:32:55.519 --> 00:32:57.080 all our trespasses, 00:32:57.079 --> 00:33:01.179 by canceling the record of debt 00:33:01.179 --> 00:33:02.439 that stood against us 00:33:02.439 --> 00:33:04.419 with its legal demands. 00:33:06.000 --> 00:33:07.460 This he set aside, 00:33:08.159 --> 00:33:09.379 nailing it to the cross. 00:33:10.960 --> 00:33:12.619 He disarmed the rulers 00:33:12.619 --> 00:33:14.119 and the authorities 00:33:14.119 --> 00:33:16.500 and put them to open shame 00:33:16.500 --> 00:33:18.960 by triumphing over them 00:33:18.960 --> 00:33:19.699 in him. 00:33:19.700 --> 00:33:23.180 So, 00:33:23.259 --> 00:33:24.319 this is just like hardcore, 00:33:25.319 --> 00:33:26.059 this is how 00:33:26.059 --> 00:33:27.840 God safely brought you 00:33:27.840 --> 00:33:28.740 out of death 00:33:28.740 --> 00:33:29.519 and into life. 00:33:30.180 --> 00:33:31.519 You were dead at one point. 00:33:32.420 --> 00:33:33.960 That's a pretty controversial thing 00:33:33.960 --> 00:33:34.720 to say nowadays, 00:33:35.080 --> 00:33:35.279 although 00:33:35.279 --> 00:33:36.759 I think in former days 00:33:36.759 --> 00:33:37.539 it probably wasn't. 00:33:38.700 --> 00:33:39.960 Many people don't want to hear 00:33:39.960 --> 00:33:41.539 that they were dead 00:33:41.539 --> 00:33:42.420 or are dead, 00:33:43.180 --> 00:33:43.460 you know, 00:33:43.519 --> 00:33:44.279 having no hope 00:33:44.279 --> 00:33:45.019 and without God. 00:33:45.580 --> 00:33:45.799 You know, 00:33:45.819 --> 00:33:46.700 that's what Ephesians says. 00:33:46.700 --> 00:33:47.900 It says that 00:33:47.900 --> 00:33:48.680 at one time 00:33:48.680 --> 00:33:49.740 you were dead. 00:33:50.519 --> 00:33:51.420 Didn't have any hope. 00:33:52.700 --> 00:33:52.940 You know? 00:33:53.220 --> 00:33:54.279 And then God did something. 00:33:55.600 --> 00:33:57.080 God made you alive. 00:33:57.580 --> 00:33:58.100 All of a sudden 00:33:58.100 --> 00:33:59.059 you were just brought to life 00:33:59.059 --> 00:33:59.299 and you're like, 00:33:59.340 --> 00:34:00.180 where the heck am I? 00:34:00.819 --> 00:34:02.080 All because of someone else. 00:34:03.080 --> 00:34:03.420 And so, 00:34:04.180 --> 00:34:06.120 when he says we're dead, 00:34:07.120 --> 00:34:08.800 it directly confronts, 00:34:08.860 --> 00:34:09.900 remember those philosophies 00:34:09.900 --> 00:34:11.220 that Paul was born against? 00:34:11.360 --> 00:34:13.639 It directly confronts humanism, 00:34:14.300 --> 00:34:14.559 you know, 00:34:14.579 --> 00:34:16.260 which has an optimistic view on man 00:34:16.260 --> 00:34:17.020 and says that 00:34:17.020 --> 00:34:18.540 man is just, 00:34:18.540 --> 00:34:20.080 you know, 00:34:20.100 --> 00:34:21.360 kind of sick in his sins. 00:34:22.880 --> 00:34:23.420 He's really, 00:34:23.540 --> 00:34:23.940 deep down, 00:34:24.000 --> 00:34:24.440 he's good. 00:34:26.320 --> 00:34:27.280 And all he needs 00:34:27.280 --> 00:34:27.880 is just a little bit 00:34:27.880 --> 00:34:28.720 of help from God, 00:34:29.160 --> 00:34:29.860 a little bit of medicine 00:34:29.860 --> 00:34:30.640 for the illness. 00:34:31.660 --> 00:34:31.780 And, 00:34:31.860 --> 00:34:33.740 you know, 00:34:33.860 --> 00:34:35.260 Scripture directly confronts 00:34:35.260 --> 00:34:36.340 these philosophies 00:34:36.340 --> 00:34:37.940 and says that man 00:34:37.940 --> 00:34:38.900 is not sick 00:34:38.900 --> 00:34:39.860 in his sins. 00:34:40.360 --> 00:34:41.900 Man is spiritually dead 00:34:41.900 --> 00:34:43.400 in his sins. 00:34:43.400 --> 00:34:46.220 And if it is not for God 00:34:46.220 --> 00:34:47.539 to raise the dead man 00:34:47.539 --> 00:34:48.119 to life, 00:34:48.200 --> 00:34:49.420 then he would be dead 00:34:49.420 --> 00:34:50.160 forever. 00:34:51.860 --> 00:34:53.019 And we need to realize that. 00:34:53.079 --> 00:34:53.680 We need to realize that 00:34:53.680 --> 00:34:54.840 we were once that. 00:34:55.519 --> 00:34:56.480 We were once dead 00:34:56.480 --> 00:34:57.220 in our sins. 00:34:57.760 --> 00:34:58.619 And had it not been 00:34:58.619 --> 00:35:00.200 for God's resurrection power, 00:35:00.740 --> 00:35:01.760 that we would be 00:35:01.760 --> 00:35:02.559 still dead. 00:35:02.559 --> 00:35:08.880 So we were dead 00:35:08.880 --> 00:35:09.960 in our trespasses. 00:35:11.679 --> 00:35:12.840 We broke the law. 00:35:12.960 --> 00:35:13.400 We were dead 00:35:13.400 --> 00:35:14.460 in the uncircumcision 00:35:14.460 --> 00:35:15.179 of our flesh, 00:35:15.199 --> 00:35:16.519 meaning we had no power 00:35:16.519 --> 00:35:17.299 to keep the law. 00:35:18.039 --> 00:35:18.940 We had no power 00:35:18.940 --> 00:35:19.779 to say no to sin. 00:35:19.940 --> 00:35:20.299 Excuse me. 00:35:21.259 --> 00:35:23.460 We only could sin more. 00:35:23.559 --> 00:35:24.000 We can only 00:35:24.000 --> 00:35:26.639 take more flesh 00:35:26.639 --> 00:35:27.500 and patch it on 00:35:27.500 --> 00:35:29.019 to kind of save ourselves 00:35:29.019 --> 00:35:29.920 and it will never do. 00:35:29.920 --> 00:35:32.440 And so it says, 00:35:33.460 --> 00:35:34.099 while we were dead 00:35:34.099 --> 00:35:34.400 in that, 00:35:34.539 --> 00:35:35.599 God made us alive 00:35:35.599 --> 00:35:36.619 together with him. 00:35:36.960 --> 00:35:38.180 By what means? 00:35:38.680 --> 00:35:39.960 The means of having 00:35:39.960 --> 00:35:40.800 forgiven us 00:35:40.800 --> 00:35:41.720 those things. 00:35:42.780 --> 00:35:44.539 So God demanded 00:35:44.539 --> 00:35:46.920 righteous atonement 00:35:46.920 --> 00:35:47.740 for our sins. 00:35:49.039 --> 00:35:50.780 And instead, 00:35:51.119 --> 00:35:51.800 in substitute, 00:35:52.320 --> 00:35:53.340 he forgives us 00:35:53.340 --> 00:35:54.059 our sins, 00:35:54.740 --> 00:35:56.240 wipes the slate clean, 00:35:56.239 --> 00:36:00.899 and cancels 00:36:00.899 --> 00:36:02.159 the record of debt 00:36:02.159 --> 00:36:03.319 that stood against us 00:36:03.319 --> 00:36:04.979 with its legal demands. 00:36:05.619 --> 00:36:06.539 That's one of the most 00:36:06.539 --> 00:36:07.139 awesome parts 00:36:07.139 --> 00:36:07.619 of this passage. 00:36:07.759 --> 00:36:08.599 I love how 00:36:08.599 --> 00:36:11.139 he speaks 00:36:11.139 --> 00:36:13.779 in legal terms. 00:36:13.779 --> 00:36:14.379 He calls it 00:36:14.379 --> 00:36:15.219 legal demands. 00:36:17.279 --> 00:36:17.839 You know, 00:36:17.919 --> 00:36:19.019 we had a debt. 00:36:20.099 --> 00:36:20.879 I'm sure many 00:36:20.879 --> 00:36:21.579 of you guys 00:36:21.579 --> 00:36:22.319 have had debt 00:36:22.319 --> 00:36:23.779 before of some kind. 00:36:23.780 --> 00:36:25.620 And the worst 00:36:25.620 --> 00:36:26.100 is when 00:36:26.100 --> 00:36:27.620 you forget about it 00:36:27.620 --> 00:36:28.720 and all of a sudden 00:36:28.720 --> 00:36:29.600 you remember it. 00:36:30.019 --> 00:36:30.400 And you're just like, 00:36:30.440 --> 00:36:30.660 oh, 00:36:31.740 --> 00:36:32.480 that debt. 00:36:33.240 --> 00:36:33.540 You know, 00:36:33.580 --> 00:36:34.480 it's the record 00:36:34.480 --> 00:36:35.240 that haunts you. 00:36:35.480 --> 00:36:36.360 Record of debt. 00:36:36.880 --> 00:36:37.160 You know, 00:36:37.280 --> 00:36:37.840 Paul says, 00:36:37.940 --> 00:36:38.960 the record of the debt 00:36:38.960 --> 00:36:40.240 that stood against us. 00:36:40.560 --> 00:36:41.519 We remember it 00:36:41.519 --> 00:36:42.340 and it's just like 00:36:42.340 --> 00:36:43.180 haunting us. 00:36:44.180 --> 00:36:44.519 And so, 00:36:45.180 --> 00:36:46.840 it has legal demands 00:36:46.840 --> 00:36:49.060 that go to a courtroom 00:36:49.059 --> 00:36:51.739 and stand before a judge. 00:36:52.799 --> 00:36:55.639 And in Christ Jesus, 00:36:56.019 --> 00:36:57.519 God met these demands 00:36:57.519 --> 00:36:59.679 by living a perfect life. 00:37:00.179 --> 00:37:00.519 The demands 00:37:00.519 --> 00:37:01.719 we fell incredibly short 00:37:01.719 --> 00:37:02.139 to meet, 00:37:02.960 --> 00:37:04.559 God himself 00:37:04.559 --> 00:37:05.239 met them 00:37:05.239 --> 00:37:06.219 and then paid 00:37:06.219 --> 00:37:06.799 the penalty 00:37:06.799 --> 00:37:08.239 for us 00:37:08.239 --> 00:37:08.920 breaking 00:37:08.920 --> 00:37:10.559 the demands 00:37:10.559 --> 00:37:12.519 that he asked of us 00:37:12.519 --> 00:37:14.380 and satisfy them 00:37:14.380 --> 00:37:15.159 on the cross. 00:37:15.159 --> 00:37:17.539 And in what way 00:37:17.539 --> 00:37:18.099 did he 00:37:18.099 --> 00:37:19.719 meet these demands? 00:37:19.819 --> 00:37:20.139 It says, 00:37:20.219 --> 00:37:21.179 this he set aside 00:37:21.179 --> 00:37:21.960 nailing it 00:37:21.960 --> 00:37:22.759 to the cross. 00:37:23.799 --> 00:37:24.319 So, 00:37:24.379 --> 00:37:25.079 it was satisfied 00:37:25.079 --> 00:37:26.059 with nailing. 00:37:26.719 --> 00:37:27.460 It was satisfied 00:37:27.460 --> 00:37:29.679 with his own body 00:37:29.679 --> 00:37:30.519 being 00:37:30.519 --> 00:37:32.799 torn apart 00:37:32.799 --> 00:37:33.719 and during 00:37:33.719 --> 00:37:34.480 the agonies 00:37:34.480 --> 00:37:34.899 of hell 00:37:34.899 --> 00:37:35.639 for us, 00:37:36.079 --> 00:37:36.599 the cross 00:37:36.599 --> 00:37:37.699 we should have been up on, 00:37:37.859 --> 00:37:38.859 Jesus was up on 00:37:38.859 --> 00:37:40.639 for our sins. 00:37:41.639 --> 00:37:42.399 Our sins 00:37:42.399 --> 00:37:42.839 were nailed 00:37:42.839 --> 00:37:43.500 to him 00:37:43.500 --> 00:37:45.460 it says 00:37:45.460 --> 00:37:45.820 that this 00:37:45.820 --> 00:37:46.840 he set aside. 00:37:48.340 --> 00:37:48.500 You know, 00:37:48.559 --> 00:37:49.579 setting aside, 00:37:50.719 --> 00:37:51.320 I always think 00:37:51.320 --> 00:37:51.539 of 00:37:51.539 --> 00:37:53.780 David 00:37:53.780 --> 00:37:54.780 and Bathsheba 00:37:54.780 --> 00:37:55.400 and after that 00:37:55.400 --> 00:37:56.219 whole fiasco 00:37:56.219 --> 00:37:57.300 Nathan comes to him 00:37:57.300 --> 00:37:57.760 and says 00:37:57.760 --> 00:37:59.960 you know, 00:38:00.059 --> 00:38:00.400 that there are 00:38:00.400 --> 00:38:00.960 consequences 00:38:00.960 --> 00:38:01.980 basically for your sin, 00:38:02.079 --> 00:38:02.320 David. 00:38:03.739 --> 00:38:04.539 But then Nathan 00:38:04.539 --> 00:38:05.739 says a peculiar thing, 00:38:05.820 --> 00:38:06.099 he says, 00:38:06.179 --> 00:38:06.559 but the Lord 00:38:06.559 --> 00:38:07.519 has put your sin away. 00:38:09.380 --> 00:38:09.619 And 00:38:09.619 --> 00:38:11.739 if I was David 00:38:11.739 --> 00:38:12.139 I'd be like, 00:38:12.179 --> 00:38:12.260 wait, 00:38:12.320 --> 00:38:12.500 what? 00:38:12.500 --> 00:38:14.380 my sin's been put away? 00:38:14.980 --> 00:38:15.500 You know, 00:38:15.960 --> 00:38:16.719 you kind of hear that 00:38:16.719 --> 00:38:17.260 when Paul says 00:38:17.260 --> 00:38:18.659 this he set aside. 00:38:19.500 --> 00:38:19.760 You know, 00:38:20.179 --> 00:38:20.699 and in Hebrews 00:38:20.699 --> 00:38:21.099 it says 00:38:21.099 --> 00:38:21.980 at the end of the age 00:38:21.980 --> 00:38:23.079 one day 00:38:23.079 --> 00:38:24.420 he will put away sin 00:38:24.420 --> 00:38:26.380 for good. 00:38:27.320 --> 00:38:28.519 And so he did this 00:38:28.519 --> 00:38:29.280 by nailing it 00:38:29.280 --> 00:38:30.019 to the cross 00:38:30.019 --> 00:38:33.000 and also tricking 00:38:33.000 --> 00:38:33.440 the rulers 00:38:33.440 --> 00:38:34.300 and the authorities. 00:38:36.239 --> 00:38:37.159 He triumphed 00:38:37.159 --> 00:38:37.820 over them 00:38:37.820 --> 00:38:41.360 in him. 00:38:42.580 --> 00:38:43.200 It's kind of 00:38:43.200 --> 00:38:43.960 an interesting phrase 00:38:43.960 --> 00:38:44.620 that I haven't 00:38:44.620 --> 00:38:45.480 really thought about much. 00:38:45.580 --> 00:38:45.860 It says 00:38:45.860 --> 00:38:46.700 by triumphing 00:38:46.700 --> 00:38:47.300 over them 00:38:47.300 --> 00:38:48.000 in him. 00:38:50.700 --> 00:38:51.300 I would, 00:38:51.400 --> 00:38:52.200 if I were going to say 00:38:52.200 --> 00:38:53.080 I think I would just say 00:38:53.080 --> 00:38:53.920 by triumphing 00:38:53.920 --> 00:38:55.640 you know, 00:38:55.760 --> 00:38:56.100 himself. 00:38:56.900 --> 00:38:57.340 But 00:38:57.340 --> 00:38:59.400 we know that there's 00:38:59.400 --> 00:39:00.320 there's multiple people 00:39:00.320 --> 00:39:00.880 at work here. 00:39:00.960 --> 00:39:01.559 There's God 00:39:01.559 --> 00:39:02.120 the Father 00:39:02.120 --> 00:39:02.720 working 00:39:02.720 --> 00:39:04.559 through Jesus. 00:39:04.559 --> 00:39:06.460 So God 00:39:06.460 --> 00:39:08.340 shows his love 00:39:08.340 --> 00:39:08.940 for the world 00:39:08.940 --> 00:39:10.219 by sending his son 00:39:10.219 --> 00:39:11.920 to triumph. 00:39:12.699 --> 00:39:12.840 You know, 00:39:12.920 --> 00:39:13.460 God the Father 00:39:13.460 --> 00:39:14.079 works that 00:39:14.079 --> 00:39:14.759 through the son 00:39:14.759 --> 00:39:15.159 and the son 00:39:15.159 --> 00:39:16.019 accomplishes it. 00:39:17.000 --> 00:39:17.759 Seeing kind of 00:39:17.759 --> 00:39:18.239 the effectiveness 00:39:18.239 --> 00:39:20.299 of the Trinity there. 00:39:22.039 --> 00:39:22.739 And so 00:39:22.739 --> 00:39:23.940 we were dead, 00:39:24.019 --> 00:39:24.679 we had a debt, 00:39:25.279 --> 00:39:25.900 it was met 00:39:25.900 --> 00:39:26.559 and satisfied 00:39:26.559 --> 00:39:27.659 with Jesus being 00:39:27.659 --> 00:39:29.960 nailed to the cross. 00:39:30.500 --> 00:39:31.159 Romans 8.3 00:39:31.159 --> 00:39:32.320 says that 00:39:32.320 --> 00:39:35.640 he condemns 00:39:35.640 --> 00:39:36.980 sin in the flesh. 00:39:37.580 --> 00:39:38.800 If you break it down 00:39:38.800 --> 00:39:39.320 that's 00:39:39.320 --> 00:39:41.620 your sin 00:39:41.620 --> 00:39:42.900 in his flesh 00:39:42.900 --> 00:39:43.760 being condemned 00:39:43.760 --> 00:39:45.280 which is 00:39:45.280 --> 00:39:47.660 you know, 00:39:47.700 --> 00:39:48.120 oftentimes 00:39:48.120 --> 00:39:49.640 what we can miss 00:39:49.640 --> 00:39:50.940 which is 00:39:50.940 --> 00:39:51.700 a fundamental 00:39:51.700 --> 00:39:52.460 gospel truth 00:39:52.460 --> 00:39:53.120 that our sin 00:39:53.120 --> 00:39:53.880 has been taken away. 00:39:54.760 --> 00:39:55.420 The sting of death 00:39:55.420 --> 00:39:56.059 is removed 00:39:56.059 --> 00:39:57.200 and that one day 00:39:57.200 --> 00:39:57.840 we will stand 00:39:57.840 --> 00:39:58.640 before God 00:39:58.640 --> 00:40:00.480 blameless 00:40:00.480 --> 00:40:01.380 the Bible says. 00:40:02.320 --> 00:40:04.940 2 Corinthians 5.21 00:40:04.940 --> 00:40:05.620 says that 00:40:05.620 --> 00:40:06.280 for our sake 00:40:06.280 --> 00:40:06.980 he made him 00:40:06.980 --> 00:40:08.620 to be sin 00:40:08.620 --> 00:40:09.640 who knew no sin 00:40:09.640 --> 00:40:10.920 so that in him 00:40:10.920 --> 00:40:11.559 we might become 00:40:11.559 --> 00:40:12.059 the righteousness 00:40:12.059 --> 00:40:12.740 of God. 00:40:15.780 --> 00:40:17.140 1 Peter 2.24 00:40:17.140 --> 00:40:17.820 says that 00:40:17.820 --> 00:40:19.059 he himself 00:40:19.059 --> 00:40:19.760 bore our sins 00:40:19.760 --> 00:40:20.640 in his body 00:40:20.640 --> 00:40:21.360 on the tree 00:40:21.360 --> 00:40:22.059 that we might 00:40:22.059 --> 00:40:23.260 die to sin 00:40:23.260 --> 00:40:24.860 and live to righteousness. 00:40:26.620 --> 00:40:27.580 So the Lord 00:40:27.580 --> 00:40:28.600 triumphed 00:40:28.600 --> 00:40:29.500 over these authorities 00:40:29.500 --> 00:40:30.880 and 00:40:30.880 --> 00:40:32.880 substituted 00:40:32.880 --> 00:40:33.579 himself 00:40:33.579 --> 00:40:35.199 in our place 00:40:35.199 --> 00:40:36.699 to raise us 00:40:36.699 --> 00:40:37.119 to life. 00:40:39.380 --> 00:40:39.860 So 00:40:39.860 --> 00:40:45.320 when we think 00:40:45.320 --> 00:40:45.639 about 00:40:45.639 --> 00:40:46.800 the gospel 00:40:46.800 --> 00:40:47.260 when we think 00:40:47.260 --> 00:40:47.679 about 00:40:47.679 --> 00:40:49.059 relating to 00:40:49.059 --> 00:40:49.619 one another 00:40:49.619 --> 00:40:51.219 maybe sometimes 00:40:51.219 --> 00:40:51.619 the things 00:40:51.619 --> 00:40:52.019 that we don't 00:40:52.019 --> 00:40:52.840 have a ton 00:40:52.840 --> 00:40:53.280 in common 00:40:53.280 --> 00:40:53.659 about 00:40:53.659 --> 00:40:56.139 it's good 00:40:56.139 --> 00:40:57.059 to constantly 00:40:57.059 --> 00:40:58.719 be reflecting 00:40:58.719 --> 00:40:59.420 on what's 00:40:59.420 --> 00:41:00.299 underneath us 00:41:00.299 --> 00:41:01.559 you know 00:41:01.559 --> 00:41:02.000 that really 00:41:02.000 --> 00:41:02.440 binds us 00:41:02.440 --> 00:41:02.819 together 00:41:02.819 --> 00:41:04.099 that really 00:41:04.099 --> 00:41:04.779 gives nutrient 00:41:04.779 --> 00:41:05.319 to the 00:41:05.319 --> 00:41:06.539 trunk of this 00:41:06.539 --> 00:41:06.899 tree 00:41:06.899 --> 00:41:07.420 that's above 00:41:07.420 --> 00:41:07.799 us 00:41:07.799 --> 00:41:08.440 you know 00:41:08.440 --> 00:41:09.460 and 00:41:09.460 --> 00:41:11.099 it's the gospel 00:41:11.099 --> 00:41:11.920 it's that God 00:41:11.920 --> 00:41:12.719 did something 00:41:12.719 --> 00:41:14.399 that still 00:41:14.399 --> 00:41:15.279 stands today 00:41:15.279 --> 00:41:16.139 and seals 00:41:16.139 --> 00:41:16.500 us 00:41:16.500 --> 00:41:18.579 and so 00:41:18.579 --> 00:41:19.659 um 00:41:19.659 --> 00:41:20.739 it's 00:41:23.659 --> 00:41:24.940 in the third 00:41:24.940 --> 00:41:25.460 chapter of 00:41:25.460 --> 00:41:26.099 Colossians 00:41:26.099 --> 00:41:27.440 if we haven't 00:41:27.440 --> 00:41:27.980 got to yet 00:41:27.980 --> 00:41:29.039 uh 00:41:29.039 --> 00:41:31.000 Paul says 00:41:31.000 --> 00:41:31.420 that we're 00:41:31.420 --> 00:41:32.039 hiding in 00:41:32.039 --> 00:41:32.299 Christ 00:41:32.299 --> 00:41:32.659 we've been 00:41:32.659 --> 00:41:33.039 hidden 00:41:33.039 --> 00:41:33.539 we've been 00:41:33.539 --> 00:41:34.099 caught away 00:41:34.099 --> 00:41:34.539 from 00:41:34.539 --> 00:41:35.519 uh 00:41:35.519 --> 00:41:37.119 the uh 00:41:37.119 --> 00:41:38.059 threat of 00:41:38.059 --> 00:41:38.539 this world 00:41:38.539 --> 00:41:38.879 and from 00:41:38.879 --> 00:41:39.219 hell 00:41:39.219 --> 00:41:40.339 we're snatched 00:41:40.339 --> 00:41:40.779 up and we're 00:41:40.779 --> 00:41:41.259 hidden in 00:41:41.259 --> 00:41:41.619 Christ 00:41:41.619 --> 00:41:42.379 which is 00:41:42.379 --> 00:41:42.879 which is a 00:41:42.879 --> 00:41:43.359 safe place 00:41:43.359 --> 00:41:43.639 for us 00:41:43.639 --> 00:41:44.019 to be 00:41:44.019 --> 00:41:45.299 so that 00:41:45.299 --> 00:41:46.099 the uh 00:41:46.099 --> 00:41:48.000 the sting 00:41:48.000 --> 00:41:48.559 of death 00:41:48.559 --> 00:41:49.239 the haunting 00:41:49.239 --> 00:41:49.799 of death 00:41:49.799 --> 00:41:50.279 the haunting 00:41:50.279 --> 00:41:50.699 of hell 00:41:50.699 --> 00:41:51.659 won't affect 00:41:51.659 --> 00:41:52.279 us as we 00:41:52.280 --> 00:41:52.760 walk through 00:41:52.760 --> 00:41:53.700 this life 00:41:53.700 --> 00:41:54.200 and look 00:41:54.200 --> 00:41:54.880 forward to 00:41:54.880 --> 00:41:55.160 the very 00:41:55.160 --> 00:41:55.460 end 00:41:55.460 --> 00:41:56.080 in eternity 00:41:56.080 --> 00:41:57.460 a lot of 00:41:57.460 --> 00:41:57.780 times 00:41:57.780 --> 00:41:59.860 one way 00:41:59.860 --> 00:42:00.380 to solve 00:42:00.380 --> 00:42:00.840 the issue 00:42:00.840 --> 00:42:01.400 of kind 00:42:01.400 --> 00:42:01.660 of just 00:42:01.660 --> 00:42:02.820 a drudgery 00:42:02.820 --> 00:42:03.140 in our 00:42:03.140 --> 00:42:03.860 Christian life 00:42:03.860 --> 00:42:04.720 is by 00:42:04.720 --> 00:42:05.380 looking to 00:42:05.380 --> 00:42:06.040 the rewards 00:42:06.040 --> 00:42:07.120 at the end 00:42:07.120 --> 00:42:08.920 looking at 00:42:08.920 --> 00:42:09.519 the very 00:42:09.519 --> 00:42:10.500 uh 00:42:10.500 --> 00:42:12.019 face of 00:42:12.019 --> 00:42:12.240 God 00:42:12.240 --> 00:42:12.620 one day 00:42:12.620 --> 00:42:12.920 which we 00:42:12.920 --> 00:42:13.300 will see 00:42:13.300 --> 00:42:14.120 you know 00:42:14.120 --> 00:42:14.440 with our 00:42:14.440 --> 00:42:14.780 eyes 00:42:14.780 --> 00:42:15.420 of faith 00:42:15.420 --> 00:42:16.800 and uh 00:42:16.800 --> 00:42:17.080 believing 00:42:17.080 --> 00:42:17.420 that one 00:42:17.420 --> 00:42:17.760 day we'll 00:42:17.760 --> 00:42:18.019 we'll 00:42:18.019 --> 00:42:18.700 meet him 00:42:18.700 --> 00:42:20.300 um 00:42:20.300 --> 00:42:22.220 I was 00:42:22.220 --> 00:42:22.700 reminded of 00:42:22.700 --> 00:42:23.120 that when 00:42:23.120 --> 00:42:23.500 I when 00:42:23.500 --> 00:42:23.820 I heard 00:42:23.820 --> 00:42:24.720 uh 00:42:24.720 --> 00:42:25.140 Dietrich 00:42:25.140 --> 00:42:25.820 Bonhoeffer's 00:42:25.820 --> 00:42:26.700 last words 00:42:26.700 --> 00:42:27.740 when he 00:42:27.740 --> 00:42:28.340 was caught 00:42:28.340 --> 00:42:29.620 and uh 00:42:29.620 --> 00:42:29.860 he was 00:42:29.860 --> 00:42:30.280 actually in 00:42:30.280 --> 00:42:30.960 prison for 00:42:30.960 --> 00:42:32.420 a handful 00:42:32.420 --> 00:42:33.019 of time 00:42:33.019 --> 00:42:33.920 uh 00:42:33.920 --> 00:42:34.700 by the 00:42:34.700 --> 00:42:35.019 Nazi 00:42:35.019 --> 00:42:35.620 Gestapo 00:42:35.620 --> 00:42:36.519 and then 00:42:36.519 --> 00:42:36.800 eventually 00:42:36.800 --> 00:42:37.160 he was 00:42:37.160 --> 00:42:37.480 hung 00:42:37.480 --> 00:42:38.160 to death 00:42:38.160 --> 00:42:39.080 but his 00:42:39.080 --> 00:42:39.820 last words 00:42:39.820 --> 00:42:41.240 right before 00:42:41.240 --> 00:42:43.019 his Nazi 00:42:43.019 --> 00:42:44.120 executioner 00:42:44.120 --> 00:42:45.480 delivered him 00:42:45.480 --> 00:42:45.840 over 00:42:45.840 --> 00:42:47.100 uh 00:42:47.099 --> 00:42:48.699 in 00:42:48.699 --> 00:42:49.339 Flossenburg 00:42:49.339 --> 00:42:49.719 Germany 00:42:49.719 --> 00:42:50.159 was 00:42:50.159 --> 00:42:51.139 this is 00:42:51.139 --> 00:42:51.659 the end 00:42:51.659 --> 00:42:52.579 he says 00:42:52.579 --> 00:42:53.920 for me 00:42:53.920 --> 00:42:54.400 the beginning 00:42:54.400 --> 00:42:55.019 of life 00:42:55.019 --> 00:42:57.199 you know 00:42:57.199 --> 00:42:57.900 man that would 00:42:57.900 --> 00:42:58.279 be so cool 00:42:58.279 --> 00:42:58.839 to say that 00:42:58.839 --> 00:42:59.699 to uh 00:42:59.699 --> 00:43:00.579 you know 00:43:00.579 --> 00:43:01.599 your executioner 00:43:01.599 --> 00:43:02.259 you know 00:43:02.259 --> 00:43:02.679 for you 00:43:02.679 --> 00:43:03.099 this might 00:43:03.099 --> 00:43:03.579 seem like 00:43:03.579 --> 00:43:03.960 the end 00:43:03.960 --> 00:43:04.420 of me 00:43:04.420 --> 00:43:05.599 but for me 00:43:05.599 --> 00:43:05.960 it's just 00:43:05.960 --> 00:43:06.380 the beginning 00:43:06.380 --> 00:43:07.599 you know 00:43:07.599 --> 00:43:08.299 that's a 00:43:08.299 --> 00:43:08.679 that's a 00:43:08.679 --> 00:43:09.039 picture of 00:43:09.039 --> 00:43:09.460 eternity 00:43:09.460 --> 00:43:10.619 you know 00:43:10.619 --> 00:43:11.099 that's somebody 00:43:11.099 --> 00:43:11.559 who 00:43:11.559 --> 00:43:12.179 who's 00:43:12.179 --> 00:43:13.000 looking past 00:43:13.000 --> 00:43:13.659 this life 00:43:13.659 --> 00:43:15.079 and uh 00:43:15.079 --> 00:43:15.639 getting their 00:43:15.639 --> 00:43:16.039 eyes set 00:43:16.039 --> 00:43:16.579 on eternity 00:43:16.579 --> 00:43:19.019 so um 00:43:19.019 --> 00:43:20.219 do we have 00:43:20.219 --> 00:43:20.719 confidence 00:43:20.719 --> 00:43:22.199 in these 00:43:22.199 --> 00:43:22.980 gospel truths 00:43:22.980 --> 00:43:23.739 you know 00:43:23.739 --> 00:43:24.139 do we have 00:43:24.139 --> 00:43:24.799 confidence 00:43:24.799 --> 00:43:25.400 in what God 00:43:25.400 --> 00:43:25.699 has done 00:43:25.699 --> 00:43:26.119 for us 00:43:26.119 --> 00:43:26.679 in Christ 00:43:26.679 --> 00:43:27.599 you know 00:43:27.599 --> 00:43:28.159 to support 00:43:28.159 --> 00:43:28.460 us 00:43:28.460 --> 00:43:29.039 are we trusting 00:43:29.039 --> 00:43:29.539 in that 00:43:29.539 --> 00:43:30.860 is our 00:43:30.860 --> 00:43:31.340 faith in 00:43:31.340 --> 00:43:31.599 that 00:43:31.599 --> 00:43:33.139 and um 00:43:33.139 --> 00:43:34.019 that's what 00:43:34.019 --> 00:43:34.460 Paul's 00:43:34.460 --> 00:43:35.259 speaking to 00:43:35.259 --> 00:43:35.799 the church 00:43:35.799 --> 00:43:36.000 at 00:43:36.000 --> 00:43:36.460 Belasi 00:43:36.460 --> 00:43:36.819 about 00:43:36.819 --> 00:43:37.900 encouraging 00:43:37.900 --> 00:43:38.599 Epaphras 00:43:38.599 --> 00:43:39.799 he's speaking 00:43:39.799 --> 00:43:40.440 to Philemon 00:43:40.440 --> 00:43:41.360 and saying 00:43:41.360 --> 00:43:42.319 um 00:43:42.319 --> 00:43:43.259 you know 00:43:43.259 --> 00:43:44.019 hold fast 00:43:44.019 --> 00:43:44.380 to these 00:43:44.380 --> 00:43:45.340 these fundamental 00:43:45.340 --> 00:43:45.819 things 00:43:45.820 --> 00:43:47.920 and so 00:43:47.920 --> 00:43:48.960 um 00:43:48.960 --> 00:43:50.840 to wrap 00:43:50.840 --> 00:43:51.140 it up 00:43:51.140 --> 00:43:51.400 just 00:43:51.400 --> 00:43:52.400 a couple 00:43:52.400 --> 00:43:53.000 points 00:43:53.000 --> 00:43:53.240 of 00:43:53.240 --> 00:43:54.360 exhortation 00:43:54.360 --> 00:43:54.600 that I 00:43:54.600 --> 00:43:54.980 was thinking 00:43:54.980 --> 00:43:55.340 about 00:43:55.340 --> 00:43:56.539 for Christ 00:43:56.539 --> 00:43:56.960 church 00:43:56.960 --> 00:43:58.260 um 00:43:58.260 --> 00:44:00.820 to not 00:44:00.820 --> 00:44:01.360 grow weary 00:44:01.360 --> 00:44:01.800 in doing 00:44:01.800 --> 00:44:02.200 good 00:44:02.200 --> 00:44:03.640 to keep 00:44:03.640 --> 00:44:04.019 our heads 00:44:04.019 --> 00:44:04.300 up 00:44:04.300 --> 00:44:05.400 and just 00:44:05.400 --> 00:44:05.880 hold fast 00:44:05.880 --> 00:44:06.440 to the truth 00:44:06.440 --> 00:44:07.640 you know 00:44:07.640 --> 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