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 Okay, so the topic of my message this morning is justification and its effects.

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 And in Brian's style, my subtopic or my alternate name is, or the great exchange.

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 So we believe the gospel.

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 We know as Christians that we're saved by grace through faith in the person and work of Jesus.

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 Okay, that's awesome.

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 This is the foundation of the Christian life.

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 This is the number one truth that a Christian has that the church is to hold fast to.

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 Paul makes very clear in 1 Corinthians 15, there is a message that is of first importance.

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 And it's this one.

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 And we're going to have the facts straight in our brains, but sin makes things muddy.

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 The world makes things muddy.

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 Things like what you guys are going through right now.

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 It clouds the simplicity and the glory of this truth.

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 This is why Paul says we've got to remind each other of these things.

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 So that's my goal this morning is to talk about justification and to remind us collectively to believe this truth that we hold fast to.

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 So I'm not going to go through every single topic on justification in the Bible.

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 There's not, it's not possible to do that.

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 This is the whole tenor of scripture undergirds this truth.

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 The topics that are most pronounced to me this morning, I'm going to move through these.

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 I'm going to try to live edit some of these scriptures here because I got too much here.

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 But in case I get up in the weeds, the topics are God's covenant with the elect.

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 Christ's relationship with the Father, which is good.

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 It seems self-evident, but it's important for us.

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 It's important for our relationship with the Father that we understand how good Jesus' relationship with the Father is.

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 That has direct bearing on our experience of our relationship with the Father.

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 The great exchange, justification, what God did for us on the cross through Jesus.

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 The fact that this is a gift that we receive through faith.

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 And what the effects are in our life.

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 What the benefits are for us in justification.

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 How, what kinds of things that we deal with on a day-to-day basis that this directly applies to.

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 I want to talk about some of those.

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 So, alright, starting off.

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 I'm going to go through some Old Testament passages and a few from the New Testament in this section.

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 First of all, we're going to think about God's covenant with the elect.

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 And we think of election, we think of individual believers that God chooses for salvation, which is true.

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 But there's another usage of the word elect, and it has to do with his son.

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 Okay, we're going to think about that a little bit.

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 We use the word elect.

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 Chosen is a synonym for elect.

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 God chose Christ for a particular work and for a particular purpose.

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 So, we're going to talk about some of those verses.

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 Isaiah 42, verses 1 through 7.

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 And I'm sharing this in the NIV because it makes it a little easier to understand.

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 This has to do with election.

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 But it's the election of the son.

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 Okay.

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 Verse 1.

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 Speaking of Christ.

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 Here is my servant whom I uphold.

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 My chosen one in whom I delight.

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 By the way, I need to police this a little bit better, but I'm pretty sure this is the first use of the word elect in the Bible.

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 If you just do a simple word search in the Strong's, at least.

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 At least in the Strong's Concordance KJV, this is the first time this word pops up.

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 Isaiah 42, verse 1.

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 And it's referring to Christ.

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 It says,

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 I'm going to skip down to verse 6 here.

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 I, the Lord, have called you, this is Jesus, in righteousness.

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 I will take hold of your hand.

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 I will keep you and I will make you to be a covenant for the people and a light for the Gentiles.

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 To open the eyes that are blind, to free captives from prison, and to release from the dungeon those who sit in darkness.

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 I don't know if any of you guys remember, but there's a time when Jesus, in the New Testament, in the Synoptic Gospels,

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 I think it's in Matthew, it might be another one.

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 I don't have a cross-reference here.

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 Matthew 4?

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 Luke 4.

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 Luke 4.

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 Thank you.

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 Jesus opens the scroll and he reads this.

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 And he sits down and he says,

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 Today, this has been fulfilled.

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 Jesus fulfilled this.

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 This is about him.

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 This is about his calling and election.

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 And for a particular purpose.

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 What's that purpose?

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 That God will make him, Jesus himself, be a covenant for the people.

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 All right.

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 So we're going to put a pin in that one.

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 We'll move on and read a few more prophecies from the Old Testament.

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 Psalm 89.

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 This is a huge one.

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 I'm not going to read all this.

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 This is a good one to go sit and pray about, meditate on.

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 It is Psalm 89.

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 And think about all the promises that are for Christ, according to him, and the promises that are for us through him.

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 So I'm going to jump around a little bit in this one.

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 Psalm 89.

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 Starts off singing.

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 I'm going to sing of the steadfast love of the Lord.

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 And then jumping down to verse 3.

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 He says,

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 You have said, I have made a covenant with my chosen one.

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 I have sworn to David, my servant.

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 I will establish your offspring forever and build your throne for all generations.

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 So we see this promise made to David.

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 But we know from this passage and a bunch of other passages that these promises, they're made to David and his offspring, but they're fulfilled in Christ.

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 So skipping down to verse 19, we're going to talk about some of these promises that are to Christ.

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 And I want you to especially think about all the verses that say him.

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 Okay.

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 Of old you spoke in vision to your godly one and said, I have granted help to one who is mighty.

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 I have exalted one chosen from the people.

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 I have found David, my servant.

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 With my holy oil, I have anointed him so that my hand shall be established with him.

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 And again, this is speaking to David, but we know having the benefit of the New Testament and all the prophecies that were made to David, they were filled by Jesus.

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 This is talking about Jesus.

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 Okay.

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 So that my hand shall be established with him.

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 My arm shall also strengthen him.

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 The enemy shall not outwit him.

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 The wicked shall not humble him.

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 I will crush his foes before him and strike down those who hate him.

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 My faithfulness and my steadfast love shall be with him.

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 And in my name shall his horn be exalted.

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 I will set his hand on the sea and his right hand on the rivers.

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 He shall cry to me.

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 You are my father, my God and the rock of my salvation.

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 And I will make him the firstborn.

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 Sound familiar?

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 Hebrews.

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 Hebrews.

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 Hebrews.

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 Hebrews.

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 Hebrews.

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 Hebrews.

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 Hebrews.

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 Hebrews.

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 Talking about Jesus, the firstborn from the dead.

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 That he would be made the firstborn among many brethren.

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 This is speaking of Jesus.

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 Hebrews.

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 I will make him the firstborn.

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 The highest to the kings of the earth.

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 King of kings.

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 Lord of lords.

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 My steadfast love I will keep for him forever.

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 And my covenant will stand firm for him.

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 So we see there's a covenant God's made with Jesus that is immutable.

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 It's locked in.

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 It's unchanging.

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 This is important.

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 You think about, okay, this is what God did with Jesus.

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 How does this affect me?

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 It has everything to do with me.

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 We'll get to that later on.

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 But the thing we need to understand is between God and Christ, there is a covenant that is immutable.

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 It's going to be established forever.

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 It will not change.

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 And this is the basis of our hope.

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 Getting ahead of myself a little bit.

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 All right.

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 We've got a little interlude.

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 Starts talking about not only him, but his offspring.

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 Okay.

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 Verse 29.

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 I will establish his offspring.

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 Who are his offspring?

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 Us.

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 Yes.

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 The firstborn among many brethren.

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 His offspring is us.

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 I will establish his offspring forever.

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 And his throne is the days of the heavens.

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 If his children forsake my law and do not walk according to my rules.

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 He's pretty relevant for us.

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 Anyone here ever broken God's rules after coming to Jesus?

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 Yes.

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 If they violate my statutes and do not keep my commandments, then I will punish their transgression with the rod and their iniquity with stripes.

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 You're going to get a discipline.

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 Okay.

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 My boys know about this.

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 It's the Holy Spirit spanking.

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 It's the discipline that the father gives his children.

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 Does that mean that he'll cut us off?

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 Well, let's get to that.

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 Verse 33.

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 But I will not remove from him my steadfast love or be false to my faithfulness.

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 Why?

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 I will not violate my covenant or alter the word that went forth from my lips.

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 For all that I have sworn by my holiness, I will not lie to David.

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 His offspring shall endure forever.

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 His throne as long as the sun before me.

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 Like the moon, it shall be established forever.

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 A faithful witness in the skies.

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 Because of his covenant, he made with Christ, the offspring of David.

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 But he's not going to change.

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 This is life for us.

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 These are the kind of things we can talk back to the accuser about.

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 When we fall into sin, we've got a sin we've been dealing with for a long time.

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 You know?

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 These are the promises we can lay hold of and say, hey, God promised to Christ that this covenant is immutable.

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 It's going to last forever.

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 And he will discipline me for my sin.

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 But since his relationship and covenant with Christ is unchanging, mine is too.

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 And we're going to talk more about this later on, but I can't help talking about it now.

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 In the New Testament, 1 Corinthians 1, verses 19 through 20.

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 You see a similar promise.

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 For the Son of God, Jesus Christ, whom we proclaimed among you,

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 Silvanus and Timothy and I, these were the apostles.

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 They're speaking to Gentile believers that came and preached the gospel to them.

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 It was not yes and no, but in him it is always yes.

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 For all the promises of God find their yes in him.

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 That is Christ.

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 Another version says,

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 As many as are the promises of God, they find their yes and amen in him, which is Jesus.

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 That is why it's through him that we utter our amen to God for his glory.

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 What's the point of all these things?

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 Before we understand God's choosing of us, we need to understand God's choosing of him.

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 As long as we think of God just choosing us out of a hat in some arbitrary way,

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 and we don't understand this covenant he's made with Jesus,

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 there's insecurity.

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 God's covenant with Christ is the foundation of our hope and our faith.

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 His capital E election of his elect, Jesus, is the basis for our election in him.

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 So we need to understand this.

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 We need to understand these promises.

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 They might seem like a level of abstraction away from our regular experience as a Christian,

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 but it has tremendous bearing on our experience as a Christian.

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 This is the foundation of our confidence is in the personal work of Jesus.

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 So we need to understand what this covenant is that God made with Christ.

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 And then we can start seeing that God, right here, like it says,

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 all the promises of God find their yes and amen in Jesus.

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 And we see the promises that God has made to Jesus.

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 And we see that God has put us in Christ.

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 We can make the connection.

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 We can connect the dots.

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 There's things that God has promised Jesus that the outworking,

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 a Christian should have full expectation of an outworking through the work of the Holy Spirit

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 in our life, in our experience, because he's promised it to Jesus.

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 Okay.

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 Therefore, it's ours.

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 So we need to spend time on that.

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 We need to get anchored in that.

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 We need to do the work of becoming sure of all the promises of God that he's made to Christ,

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 because every promise of God has its yes and amen in Jesus.

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 Christ is the elect of God, the one with whom God, the Father, has made an unshakable covenant with.

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 He's the chosen instrument of God's, the one whom he has chosen to accomplish his work.

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 Hebrews 10, 7.

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 All right, we're going to move on here.

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 The next section is Christ's relationship with the Father is good.

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 No doubt.

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 Of course, Jesus' relationship with the Father is good.

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 He's Jesus, right?

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 Yeah, it's true.

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 We need to understand how good it is.

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 There's a lot of scripture describing the particulars of how good this relationship is.

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 And it's important for us to know this,

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 because the Bible says we've got the same relationship with the Father that Jesus has.

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 We don't think about it like that very often, though.

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 That's not the natural bent of our mind and our understanding.

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 I'm just going to read a few of these.

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 Matthew 3, verses 16 through 17.

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 When Jesus was baptized, immediately he went up from the water,

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 and behold, the heavens were opened to him.

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 And he saw the Spirit of God descending like a dove and coming to rest on him.

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 And behold, a voice from heaven said,

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 This is my beloved Son, with whom I am well pleased.

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 Jesus is well-pleasing to the Father.

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 He's his beloved Son, and he's perfectly happy with Jesus.

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 He's well-pleased.

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 It was a good thing to note as an aside.

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 We don't know what all happened with Jesus between the time he's 12 years old and now.

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 He's beginning to be about 30 years old, the Bible says, when he starts his ministry.

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 So there's a big gap in there.

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 We don't know what he's doing.

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 There's a very real chance he wasn't doing anything in a public ministry kind of way.

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 When we think of the works of a Christian, being on a mission to people, making disciples, baptizing people, fighting the devil, all that kind of stuff,

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 he's just being a carpenter.

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 He was growing in grace.

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 He was knowing God.

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 He was being obedient to his parents.

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 He said he was subject to his parents.

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 He's taking care of his family.

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 What's God say?

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 This is my beloved Son, in whom I'm well pleased.

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 He was pleased with him because he's his Son.

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 I think that's the way he's doing.

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 I love that God had Jesus wait until he was 30 years old before he started doing anything.

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 It's just a deliverance from putting confidence in what we do for God.

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 God doesn't care about what you do for him.

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 He cares about what he does through you.

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 Okay?

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 And it's just a challenge with us.

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 If we're getting our identity and our confidence from how good our ministry performance is going,

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 we need to set that aside.

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 He's like, God didn't, he at least chose not to record anything Jesus did until he's about 30 years old.

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 Other than sitting in the temple for a little bit and answering some questions and going back home and being subject to his parents.

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 So, being a Christian in Christ, you get this.

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 All right.

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 A few other ones.

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 John 8, 28 through 29.

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 I'm going to skip down a little bit on this.

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 He said,

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 He who has sent me is with me.

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 This is Jesus speaking of the Father.

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 He's not left me alone, for I always do the things that are pleasing to him.

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 Jesus is always pleasing to the Father because he does the things that are pleasing to him.

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 John 3, 35.

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 The Father loves the Son and has given all things to his hands.

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 John 5, 20.

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 The Father loves the Son and shows him all that he himself is doing.

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 John 10, 30.

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 I and the Father are one.

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 I'm just going to burn through a lot of these.

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 So, I'm happy to share my notes afterwards.

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 I'm probably going to have to skip some of these because there's just so many in the New Testament

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 describing how good the relationship with Jesus is and all the particular areas that manifest itself.

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 I love this one personally.

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 John 11, 41 through 42.

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 Jesus is praying for Lazarus and he plays out loud.

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 He says,

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 Father, I thank you that you've heard me.

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 I knew that you always hear me.

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 But I said this on account of the people standing around that they may believe that you sent me.

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 Jesus knew that the Father always heard all of his prayers.

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 And this is awesome because you think of Jesus as being someone who always gets all his prayers answered.

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 I don't necessarily think that for myself.

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 Even though I pray things in accordance with God's will and I know what the Bible has said.

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 But when I think of Jesus praying for something, I'm just like,

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 Okay, 100% take rate on that prayer.

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 100% chance God's going to answer him.

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 But for me, I might be like, I don't know, maybe.

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 Look at his confidence.

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 You always hear me.

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 You know everything.

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 You always hear me.

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 This is wonderful.

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 We're going to think about this a little bit later.

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 But this has tremendous bearing on how we pray for the Father.

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 And then in John 17, we have some passages that articulate the relationship Jesus has with the Father.

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 He says,

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 Now, Father, glorify.

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 I should put this in the King James.

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 Glorify thou me with thine own self, with the glory which I had with you before the world was.

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 He prays that the Lord would glorify him and that this glory that he had with the Father before the world began,

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 that he would do that again.

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 We see this in the resurrection of Jesus and the ascension of glory.

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 But then he prays something else later on.

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 He says, he prays this for the disciples.

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 And then he prays it for us.

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 He said,

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 I do not ask for these only, but also for those who will believe in me through their word.

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 Who's that?

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 It's us.

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 That they may all be one, just as you, Father, are in me and I in you, that they may be in us.

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 Skipping down a little bit.

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 The glory that you've given me, I have given them that they may be one, even as we are one.

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 I in them and you in me, that they may become perfectly one, so that the world may know that you sit me and love them, even as you love me.

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 This is a glorious truth here.

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 For those who believe in Jesus, we enter into a relationship, the same kind of relationship that Jesus has with the Father.

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 It's the same kind.

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 It's the same actual relationship because he puts us in Christ.

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 And the relationship that Jesus has with the Father, we now enjoy.

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 That's the basis of our unity.

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 That's how we can be one with each other because we all are in Christ through faith and enjoy this perfect fellowship with the Father.

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 And by proxy, perfect fellowship with each other.

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 Which is why this is the cure for division and strife and heresies, divisions, literally divisions.

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 This is the basis for our unity.

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 So anyway, there's a lot of other ones.

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 There's just doing a study on how Jesus relates to the Father throughout the New Testament and honestly in the Old Testament because all of these messianic prophecies.

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 And it's so encouraging, especially in light of the fact that God has put us into Christ and now we have the same one.

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 It's that relationship.

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 It's not a version of that relationship or like, you know, a Jesus-Father relationship light.

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 No, it's the same one.

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 It's just, it's really encouraging.

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 So definitely encourage a deep dive on that.

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 It's very edifying for our walk, for our daddy issues, our latent daddy issues that we have with the Father.

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 We all have them because we had imperfect fathers.

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 But the wonderful truth is, is that Jesus in his relationship with the Father, there aren't any daddy issues.

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 It's a perfect one.

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 And that's the Father that we have now through Jesus.

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 We get to share in his relationship with the perfect Father.

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 So what's the point of this?

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 Like I said, Jesus has an excellent relationship with the Father.

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 No daddy issues.

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 Perfect, unbroken fellowship except for the moment on the cross where he became sin for us.

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 And the Father had to turn away from him.

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 So anyway, we're going to circle back to this a little bit later, but this is the point.

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 Jesus has a good relationship with the Father.

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 Next point, justification.

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 Or I like the aspect of justification I'm going to hone in on today is the great exchange.

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 Another word for this is penal substitutionary atonement, which captures an aspect of this, the punishment that we deserve, that God poured out on Christ.

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 It encompasses more than that.

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 But that's the aspect of justification I'm going to focus on today is that Christ exchanged places with us on the cross.

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 So I'm going to unpack a few passages on that point.

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 First one is 2 Corinthians 5 verses 14 through 21.

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 Starting in verse 14,

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 For there we have it.

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 This is a glorious truth.

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 This is true in the heavenly places in Christ Jesus.

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 This is just a fact.

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 If we are in Christ, we are a new creation.

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 Now, Amber and Julie and I were talking about this last night, so this is a little bit of an aside, but I think this is an important distinction.

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 The Bible speaks of sanctification in at least two ways.

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 Okay?

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 One way is in the progressive sense.

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 This is the sanctifying work of the Holy Spirit.

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 That's our experience of growing in Christlikeness on earth.

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 That's progressive.

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 The moment you believe in Jesus, you don't all of a sudden become, boom, sinlessly perfect like Jesus.

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 We all know that, right?

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 Unless there's anyone sinlessly perfect in this room.

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 Are you sinlessly perfect?

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 No.

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 Just teasing me.

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 Yeah, no one else.

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 That's the point.

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 No one else.

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 But there's another sense in which the Bible speaks of sanctification.

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 And that is in a finished, complete, past tense way.

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 This is much of the way sanctification is treated in Hebrews chapter 10.

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 When he speaks of, by one offering he perfected for all time those who are sanctified.

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 It's finished.

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 It's just like, okay, how's that possible?

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 Like if sanctification is me becoming more, like being saved from sin, how is it a finished work?

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 I'm not finished.

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 I'm obviously not finished, right?

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 It has to do with what's true in the heavenly places in Christ.

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 There is a finished Seth.

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 Hidden in Christ.

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 Seated in the heavenly places with him right now.

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 Who's got no sin.

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 Okay.

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 That's true of every believer.

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 That's how we ought to think of this promise.

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 Verse 17.

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 Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he's a new creation.

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 The old passed away.

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 Behold, new has come.

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 So, like, think, instead of thinking of yourself, think of Jesus.

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 Is there any lack in Jesus Christ right now?

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 No.

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 Okay.

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 Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he's a new creation.

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 See, that's the key.

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 There's no lack in Jesus.

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 So, therefore, because we're in him, there's no lack in us in the heavenly places.

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 The progressive work of sanctification is the work of the spirit, taking what's true in heaven and making it true on earth as it is in him.

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 Through faith.

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 This is the outworking of this great salvation.

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 We've got to get this stuff straight, though, because otherwise, the tendency of a Christian is to be a legalist when you think about sanctification.

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 Yeah, yeah, yeah.

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 Justification.

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 God making me right for giving all my sins.

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 You know.

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 Of course, he had to do that.

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 But sanctification is kind of on me.

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 You know.

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 That's the tendency.

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 And, of course, we have a responsibility to respond to God in obedience.

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 The obedience that comes from faith.

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 But the basis of our sanctification, the basis of our being able to walk out this progressive sanctification by faith and not by works, is because it's on the basis of a finished work.

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 Jesus is complete.

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 Therefore, we are complete in him.

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 All right.

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 So, take, I don't know, blasphemy, drunkenness, you know, lying.

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 All of these things.

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 I can look at that sin being present in my life still.

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 I still got a flesh.

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 I got sin in my flesh.

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 And I can say, you know what?

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 That guy's dead.

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 He's crucified.

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 He's nailed to the cross.

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 I'm no longer a drunkard.

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 I'm actually sober-minded in Christ.

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 Lord, help me by faith put on the new man.

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 Put off the old man.

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 Put on the new man by faith and really walk in that identity I have now that it's mine in Jesus.

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 Okay?

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 I can put on the new man by faith.

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 Does it involve denying myself?

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 Yeah, because I got a flesh.

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 That guy got nailed to the cross, and I got to tell that guy no.

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 And it hurts.

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 But I can do it according to faith, not according to works.

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 Because God has given it to me as a free gift.

00:27:12.240 --> 00:27:12.360
 Okay?

00:27:12.580 --> 00:27:14.920
 So, a little bit of an aside, but it's important.

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 All this is from God, verse 18, who through Christ reconciled us to himself and gave us the ministry of reconciliation.

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 I love this word.

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 We think of reconciliation as a lot of different usages, different synonyms for this word.

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 Probably the easiest one is just being made right.

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 You got a bad relationship with somebody.

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 Reconciliation means you made it right.

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 All right?

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 You ask forgiveness.

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 You got back into fellowship.

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 It's reconciliation.

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 And there's a sense in which this is exactly what this is talking about.

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 But there's another sense.

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 The word is...

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 The Greek word used here for reconciliation is katalage.

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 Katalage.

00:27:57.039 --> 00:27:57.839
 I don't know.

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 Does anyone else have a better pronunciation for that?

00:28:00.220 --> 00:28:00.599
 Katalage?

00:28:01.079 --> 00:28:01.319
 Anyway.

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 So, that's probably a bad pronunciation.

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 But it means exchange.

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 Trade.

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 Exchange.

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 That is the sense that penal substitutionary atonement, the reconciliation of Christ on the cross,

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 that's the sense in which I think we can understand that doctrine.

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 So, we'll unpack it a little bit.

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 This passage finishes it out and makes that point.

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 Verse 19.

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 That is, in Christ, God was reconciling the world to himself,

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 not counting their trespasses against them,

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 and entrusting to us the message of reconciliation or exchange.

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 Therefore, we are ambassadors for Christ, God making his appeal through us.

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 We implore you on behalf of Christ, be reconciled to God.

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 Verse 21.

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 For our sake, he made him to be sin who knew no sin,

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 so that in him we might become the righteousness of God.

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 Do you see the exchange?

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 God made Jesus the righteous one to be sin for us.

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 He made me the sinner to be the righteousness of God.

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 He took our sin and he put it on Jesus.

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 He took his righteousness, he put it on us.

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 He traded places with us on the cross.

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 That's why Penal Substitutionary told me this is the foundation of the gospel.

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 This is that core of the glory of the good news is Jesus Christ traded places with me.

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 He endured the wrath of God.

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 That was my just reward on the cross.

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 All my sins deserve a punishment.

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 God would be wrong.

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 He'd be unrighteous if he didn't punish me for my sins.

00:29:52.379 --> 00:29:52.539
 Okay?

00:29:54.220 --> 00:29:55.200
 We understand that.

00:29:55.519 --> 00:29:56.279
 You know, siblings.

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 You got a sibling who does something horrible when mom and dad aren't looking,

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 and then mom and dad just be like, oh, it's fine.

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 It's fine.

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 That'd be wrong.

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 They need to get in trouble for that.

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 You know that as a kid.

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 You're so offended if one of your brothers and sisters gets away with something, you know?

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 That sense of justice, you know?

00:30:14.200 --> 00:30:16.540
 Well, that's actually because God is putting his law in our heart.

00:30:16.600 --> 00:30:17.259
 We know what's wrong.

00:30:18.600 --> 00:30:22.160
 It would be sin for God to not punish sin.

00:30:22.160 --> 00:30:25.320
 So, he did.

00:30:26.420 --> 00:30:29.940
 But he did it on Christ because he loves us.

00:30:31.040 --> 00:30:31.180
 Okay?

00:30:31.400 --> 00:30:38.140
 You see the justice of God and the mercy of God come together with what God did through Christ for us on the cross.

00:30:38.840 --> 00:30:40.680
 He traded places with us.

00:30:41.620 --> 00:30:41.700
 Okay?

00:30:44.840 --> 00:30:47.940
 Galatians 2.20 is one of my favorite verses in the whole Bible.

00:30:47.940 --> 00:30:53.000
 This is Paul's articulation of the truth that he knew was true for him.

00:30:54.400 --> 00:30:56.600
 I have been crucified with Christ.

00:30:57.320 --> 00:31:01.660
 It is no longer I who live, but Christ who lives in me.

00:31:02.660 --> 00:31:06.180
 In the life I now live in the flesh, I live by faith in the Son of God,

00:31:06.700 --> 00:31:09.160
 who loved me and gave himself for me.

00:31:10.180 --> 00:31:11.259
 Paul's hope was in Jesus.

00:31:12.080 --> 00:31:12.880
 Paul had died.

00:31:13.000 --> 00:31:13.900
 He knew he was a dead man.

00:31:14.559 --> 00:31:16.960
 His whole life, dead.

00:31:17.940 --> 00:31:22.380
 The whole thing, beginning and start to finish, good stuff, bad stuff, the whole thing, crucified.

00:31:23.440 --> 00:31:24.660
 Dead on the cross.

00:31:25.620 --> 00:31:31.039
 And then when God raised Jesus from the dead, Paul had a new life that was hidden in the Son.

00:31:32.100 --> 00:31:38.019
 Now you could say, Christ, it's no longer I who live, but Jesus lives in me and I in him.

00:31:38.080 --> 00:31:38.580
 He's my life.

00:31:38.660 --> 00:31:43.200
 My life is wrapped up in the Son of God, seated in the heavenly places in Christ Jesus.

00:31:44.160 --> 00:31:47.080
 Colossians 3, 3-4 says the same truth.

00:31:47.460 --> 00:31:50.860
 For you have died and your life is hidden with Christ in God.

00:31:50.859 --> 00:31:55.399
 When Christ, who is your life, appears, then you also will appear with him in glory.

00:31:55.859 --> 00:31:57.459
 That's why we look forward to Jesus coming back.

00:31:58.099 --> 00:31:59.079
 You know, this is one of the many reasons.

00:31:59.119 --> 00:32:01.379
 There's many reasons I look forward to Jesus coming back, but this is one of them.

00:32:01.639 --> 00:32:02.439
 He's our life.

00:32:04.339 --> 00:32:08.599
 And we look forward to him coming back because our life is tied up and hidden in him.

00:32:08.599 --> 00:32:19.219
 And we long to put off this flesh that fights so hard against this truth in our love.

00:32:19.980 --> 00:32:21.219
 We just want to be at rest.

00:32:21.299 --> 00:32:23.179
 We want to experience the fullness of this.

00:32:23.679 --> 00:32:25.779
 Well, it's because there's a real thing that's happening.

00:32:26.019 --> 00:32:27.719
 You know, our life's hidden with him.

00:32:27.759 --> 00:32:29.179
 So now we have a longing to see him.

00:32:30.639 --> 00:32:37.480
 This is why it's so dangerous, by the way, to get into a contentment with not looking forward to Jesus coming back.

00:32:37.480 --> 00:32:41.880
 But there's a lot of deception.

00:32:42.420 --> 00:32:44.579
 I mean, it would be bad enough if it was just our own heart.

00:32:44.640 --> 00:32:45.740
 Our own heart gets wayward.

00:32:46.160 --> 00:32:47.279
 And we love this world.

00:32:47.460 --> 00:32:50.140
 It's just our heart naturally just loves this world and things of it.

00:32:51.039 --> 00:32:52.819
 You know, it would be bad enough if it was only that.

00:32:52.819 --> 00:33:00.019
 Well, there's also false teaching out there that distracts us from the imminent, present hope of the return of Jesus.

00:33:01.579 --> 00:33:02.299
 That's healthy.

00:33:02.579 --> 00:33:04.360
 A healthy Christian looks forward to Jesus coming back.

00:33:04.700 --> 00:33:06.519
 That's just what it means.

00:33:06.519 --> 00:33:09.879
 It's just like a bride looking forward to her husband coming back.

00:33:10.339 --> 00:33:11.200
 We have that hope.

00:33:11.259 --> 00:33:12.420
 It's the most basic Christian hope.

00:33:13.259 --> 00:33:13.619
 I love it.

00:33:13.859 --> 00:33:15.839
 Ruby recently professed faith in Jesus.

00:33:16.000 --> 00:33:23.480
 And one of the things that she brings up a lot, which is really encouraging to us, is that she's excited for Jesus to come back because then our body of sin goes away.

00:33:24.259 --> 00:33:24.480
 You know.

00:33:25.359 --> 00:33:25.759
 Amen.

00:33:26.900 --> 00:33:28.059
 That's the hope of a Christian.

00:33:29.519 --> 00:33:30.019
 All right.

00:33:30.059 --> 00:33:31.240
 I'm taking too much time on that.

00:33:31.240 --> 00:33:32.859
 Last verse in this section.

00:33:33.460 --> 00:33:35.920
 First Corinthians 1 verses 30 and 31.

00:33:35.920 --> 00:33:55.279
 It's a trap to look for these things apart from Jesus.

00:33:55.279 --> 00:33:56.720
 It's easy.

00:33:57.720 --> 00:33:58.720
 My own righteousness.

00:33:59.500 --> 00:34:00.680
 Level up my own wisdom.

00:34:01.039 --> 00:34:06.839
 I mean, you can spend a lot of what you might think of as being faithful time in the word and in prayer.

00:34:07.399 --> 00:34:09.840
 And all you're doing is trying to build up your own righteousness.

00:34:10.579 --> 00:34:11.920
 Trying to build up your own wisdom.

00:34:12.679 --> 00:34:12.880
 You know.

00:34:14.019 --> 00:34:16.779
 He made Christ to be our wisdom.

00:34:17.300 --> 00:34:17.940
 I don't got any.

00:34:18.719 --> 00:34:19.980
 He made Jesus to be that.

00:34:20.019 --> 00:34:20.699
 I lack wisdom.

00:34:21.279 --> 00:34:21.900
 There's an answer.

00:34:22.360 --> 00:34:24.579
 God has made him to be my wisdom.

00:34:25.320 --> 00:34:26.380
 I lack righteousness.

00:34:27.280 --> 00:34:27.559
 Okay.

00:34:27.680 --> 00:34:32.400
 I'm not made righteous by confessing my sin a whole bunch and making sure that I get every little last sin confessed.

00:34:32.780 --> 00:34:33.019
 No.

00:34:34.380 --> 00:34:36.960
 I mean, the fact of the matter is you're so sinful it would be impossible.

00:34:37.079 --> 00:34:42.280
 You spend to, you know, to infinity trying to confess your way out of that and you'd never get to the bottom.

00:34:42.660 --> 00:34:42.980
 All right.

00:34:44.420 --> 00:34:46.380
 God made Jesus to be our righteousness.

00:34:46.380 --> 00:34:49.079
 So we look to him and say, no, he's my righteousness.

00:34:49.079 --> 00:34:51.880
 Our sanctification and redemption.

00:34:52.400 --> 00:34:53.039
 The whole thing.

00:34:53.139 --> 00:34:53.360
 Why?

00:34:53.860 --> 00:34:55.779
 So that the one who boasts, let him boast in the Lord.

00:34:55.840 --> 00:34:56.779
 So God gets all the glory.

00:35:01.579 --> 00:35:01.940
 Okay.

00:35:01.940 --> 00:35:02.940
 Sorry.

00:35:04.059 --> 00:35:05.179
 Actually, I do want to read one more.

00:35:05.280 --> 00:35:06.280
 This is from the Old Testament.

00:35:06.420 --> 00:35:08.440
 Isaiah 61 verses 1 through 3.

00:35:08.679 --> 00:35:09.760
 Actually, I'm just going to read verse 3.

00:35:10.559 --> 00:35:16.059
 Jesus actually quoted this one as well when he, anyway, in his ministry he quoted this.

00:35:16.059 --> 00:35:18.639
 But this is his ministry.

00:35:18.639 --> 00:35:34.559
 To appoint to them that mourn in Zion to give them beauty for ashes, the oil of joy for mourning, the garment of praise for the spirit of heaviness, that they might be called trees of righteousness, the planting of the Lord, that he might be glorified.

00:35:34.559 --> 00:35:37.039
 So you see it there again, this exchange.

00:35:37.599 --> 00:35:41.559
 He's taking our ashes and he's giving us beauty.

00:35:42.480 --> 00:35:43.860
 He's taking our mourning.

00:35:44.420 --> 00:35:45.519
 He's giving us joy.

00:35:45.719 --> 00:35:49.259
 See, he's trading all throughout the Old Testament, all throughout the new.

00:35:49.980 --> 00:35:54.940
 The work of Christ on the cross is a gigantic trade that he's made with us.

00:35:55.500 --> 00:35:56.259
 And it's just glorious.

00:35:56.260 --> 00:35:56.700
 Okay.

00:36:00.600 --> 00:36:04.000
 And I want to emphasize specifically our sin.

00:36:04.420 --> 00:36:04.640
 Okay.

00:36:04.700 --> 00:36:05.840
 We're thinking about justification.

00:36:06.540 --> 00:36:07.460
 It's our sin.

00:36:07.860 --> 00:36:10.040
 He took our sin and he imputed it to Christ.

00:36:10.360 --> 00:36:11.320
 He took his righteousness.

00:36:11.780 --> 00:36:12.860
 He imputed it to us.

00:36:13.180 --> 00:36:16.000
 This is the basis of our Christian hope and rejoicing.

00:36:18.040 --> 00:36:20.920
 Just a few comments on how this gift is to be received.

00:36:21.040 --> 00:36:22.960
 So the Bible speaks of this as being a finished work.

00:36:22.960 --> 00:36:26.780
 So when we think of when did God do this work?

00:36:26.840 --> 00:36:28.559
 He did it 2,000 years ago in Christ.

00:36:29.079 --> 00:36:30.300
 Crucified and raised him from the dead.

00:36:30.360 --> 00:36:31.059
 It's a finished work.

00:36:31.559 --> 00:36:32.860
 How does it benefit us?

00:36:33.139 --> 00:36:34.360
 We receive it through faith.

00:36:34.900 --> 00:36:36.740
 So just a few verses on that.

00:36:39.460 --> 00:36:40.300
 Wait, where did I go?

00:36:42.960 --> 00:36:43.659
 There it is.

00:36:44.159 --> 00:36:46.179
 Romans 3, verses 21 through 26.

00:36:48.460 --> 00:36:51.559
 Now the righteousness of God has been manifested apart from the law,

00:36:51.559 --> 00:36:53.599
 although the law and prophets bear witness to it,

00:36:53.960 --> 00:36:56.920
 the righteousness of God through faith in Jesus Christ for all who believe,

00:36:57.179 --> 00:36:58.079
 for there's no distinction.

00:36:58.880 --> 00:37:01.579
 For all have sinned and fallen short of the glory of God

00:37:01.579 --> 00:37:04.420
 and are justified by his grace as a gift

00:37:04.420 --> 00:37:07.380
 through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus,

00:37:07.960 --> 00:37:10.759
 whom God put forth as propitiation by his blood

00:37:10.759 --> 00:37:12.940
 to be received by faith.

00:37:14.000 --> 00:37:15.259
 It's a finished work.

00:37:15.719 --> 00:37:17.860
 And we receive it as a free gift by faith.

00:37:18.460 --> 00:37:19.279
 You got to trust him though.

00:37:19.280 --> 00:37:22.060
 You know, this is not just some automatic thing

00:37:22.060 --> 00:37:24.680
 that we can kind of psychoanalyze ourselves into.

00:37:25.140 --> 00:37:26.080
 We got to come to God and say,

00:37:26.140 --> 00:37:26.740
 Lord, I want it.

00:37:27.720 --> 00:37:29.420
 I believe, help my unbelief.

00:37:30.820 --> 00:37:32.580
 I'm a child who's in need of you.

00:37:32.940 --> 00:37:33.960
 I need to be saved, Lord.

00:37:35.100 --> 00:37:37.180
 And you know, this is true for the first time we get saved.

00:37:37.240 --> 00:37:37.640
 You know what?

00:37:37.940 --> 00:37:39.920
 There's lots of times we get into a bind after that.

00:37:39.980 --> 00:37:41.140
 We need to remember this truth.

00:37:41.580 --> 00:37:43.220
 And we remember this, it's a free gift.

00:37:43.900 --> 00:37:45.420
 We come to the Lord like children and say,

00:37:45.420 --> 00:37:47.480
 Lord, please help me to receive this.

00:37:51.380 --> 00:37:52.659
 There's so much more in that.

00:37:53.480 --> 00:37:56.280
 A Christian should make it their ambition

00:37:56.280 --> 00:37:59.099
 to know this truth in the New Testament.

00:37:59.820 --> 00:38:03.460
 You should be an expert in what Romans 3, 4, and 5 say about this.

00:38:03.960 --> 00:38:06.400
 We should understand what Hebrews says about this.

00:38:07.260 --> 00:38:10.360
 Like this, the Galatians, Ephesians, Philippians, Colossians,

00:38:10.360 --> 00:38:12.840
 like they're like, this is real.

00:38:12.900 --> 00:38:16.280
 They shouldn't take this as like, you know, do better, try harder.

00:38:16.400 --> 00:38:17.500
 Oh, you don't read your Bible enough.

00:38:18.000 --> 00:38:21.720
 There's a reason God exhorts us to be diligent,

00:38:22.380 --> 00:38:23.740
 faithful workers in his word.

00:38:25.220 --> 00:38:27.200
 Jesus says, you'll know the truth and the truth will set you free.

00:38:27.300 --> 00:38:29.099
 We need to be experts in this.

00:38:29.539 --> 00:38:31.660
 We think about, you know, we're, this is a church plant.

00:38:31.740 --> 00:38:33.180
 We're starting the foundation of a church here.

00:38:33.640 --> 00:38:37.260
 Every single member in this church needs to be rock solid on this stuff.

00:38:37.260 --> 00:38:41.080
 There's no other message by which men are saved by.

00:38:42.160 --> 00:38:46.560
 This is the antidote for all kinds of false doctrines and heresies and error

00:38:46.560 --> 00:38:49.860
 that creep into our own lives and creep into our brothers and sisters' lives

00:38:49.860 --> 00:38:50.680
 because of sin.

00:38:51.640 --> 00:38:55.360
 There's no excuse for not being totally convinced of these things.

00:38:56.060 --> 00:38:56.940
 We have a Bible.

00:38:57.480 --> 00:38:58.980
 We need to come to God by faith.

00:38:59.180 --> 00:39:00.220
 We need to hear good preaching.

00:39:00.440 --> 00:39:00.660
 Amen.

00:39:01.140 --> 00:39:04.280
 Let it spur us on to not just hearing good preaching.

00:39:04.880 --> 00:39:06.400
 Let us become experts in these things.

00:39:06.400 --> 00:39:09.660
 Let us get into God's word and understand just the glorious,

00:39:10.160 --> 00:39:12.300
 precious promises he has for us in Christ and his truth.

00:39:13.240 --> 00:39:15.300
 I love this one in Romans 4, 4 through 8.

00:39:16.099 --> 00:39:21.119
 This is what I say back to the devil when he accuses me before God and before myself,

00:39:21.180 --> 00:39:22.340
 which he does all the time, by the way.

00:39:23.800 --> 00:39:27.220
 Now, to the one who works, his wages are not counted as a gift,

00:39:27.619 --> 00:39:29.320
 but as his due, as his payment.

00:39:29.320 --> 00:39:34.680
 But to the one who does not work, but believes in him who justifies the ungodly,

00:39:35.080 --> 00:39:37.080
 his faith is counted as righteousness.

00:39:38.380 --> 00:39:41.640
 So when the devil accuses you of sin and say,

00:39:41.760 --> 00:39:43.640
 you need to do more good works to pay for that sin.

00:39:44.620 --> 00:39:45.300
 You know what I say?

00:39:46.320 --> 00:39:46.700
 No.

00:39:47.240 --> 00:39:51.240
 To the one who doesn't work, but believes in him who justifies the ungodly,

00:39:51.900 --> 00:39:54.160
 his faith is counted as righteousness.

00:39:54.960 --> 00:39:55.840
 Not going to work.

00:39:55.840 --> 00:39:57.820
 I'm going to rest in the finished work of Jesus.

00:39:59.280 --> 00:40:01.180
 So he's done the work.

00:40:01.280 --> 00:40:03.519
 We receive it in its finished, complete state.

00:40:06.079 --> 00:40:08.980
 So those attributes we talked about,

00:40:09.720 --> 00:40:11.539
 you know, the covenant God made with Jesus,

00:40:11.820 --> 00:40:13.440
 his choosing of him as the elect,

00:40:13.840 --> 00:40:16.579
 the wonderful, excellent relationship he has with the Father.

00:40:17.000 --> 00:40:19.320
 That's the implication of this exchange.

00:40:19.700 --> 00:40:22.000
 When it says God has made him to be,

00:40:22.600 --> 00:40:24.780
 you know, my paraphrase is everything that we're not,

00:40:24.780 --> 00:40:27.180
 when God made Jesus to be those things for us,

00:40:27.500 --> 00:40:30.900
 wisdom, righteousness, sanctification, justification, redemption, everything.

00:40:31.900 --> 00:40:33.300
 The implication is,

00:40:34.060 --> 00:40:39.360
 I enjoy all of the promises of God that he's made with his son, Jesus.

00:40:39.820 --> 00:40:41.940
 I get the same relationship with Jesus that,

00:40:42.640 --> 00:40:44.880
 the same relationship with the Father that Jesus has.

00:40:45.920 --> 00:40:48.880
 You know, when I'm discouraged about God answering my prayers,

00:40:49.480 --> 00:40:50.300
 I always think to myself,

00:40:50.300 --> 00:40:53.660
 well, does God answer Jesus's prayers?

00:40:55.100 --> 00:40:55.640
 Of course.

00:40:56.640 --> 00:40:57.340
 Well, guess what?

00:40:57.780 --> 00:40:59.980
 He answers mine too, because I'm in Jesus.

00:41:00.200 --> 00:41:02.420
 That's why we pray, by the way, we pray in Jesus' name.

00:41:03.440 --> 00:41:04.400
 We don't pray in our own name.

00:41:04.620 --> 00:41:06.300
 We pray in Jesus' name.

00:41:06.539 --> 00:41:08.740
 That's the basis of knowing that we have what we ask for.

00:41:09.720 --> 00:41:10.060
 Okay?

00:41:10.600 --> 00:41:14.740
 And it's like that in every other relationship situation that we have in our life,

00:41:14.739 --> 00:41:17.119
 where there's insecurity about our sonship and our adoption,

00:41:17.839 --> 00:41:18.899
 just think about Jesus.

00:41:20.019 --> 00:41:22.899
 What does Jesus's relationship with the Father look like?

00:41:23.500 --> 00:41:26.039
 Do I have any problem believing that that's true for him?

00:41:27.099 --> 00:41:27.319
 No.

00:41:27.959 --> 00:41:29.000
 Well, if the answer is no,

00:41:29.500 --> 00:41:30.399
 guess what?

00:41:30.719 --> 00:41:31.299
 It's for me too.

00:41:31.300 --> 00:41:39.660
 This is why the capital E election of Jesus is so foundational to our understanding of our own choosing.

00:41:39.780 --> 00:41:40.740
 He chose us in him.

00:41:41.300 --> 00:41:42.519
 So when we're discouraged,

00:41:42.720 --> 00:41:45.360
 we can look away from ourself and look to Jesus.

00:41:47.100 --> 00:41:47.440
 So,

00:41:48.160 --> 00:41:49.700
 what are some practicals?

00:41:49.700 --> 00:41:51.240
 I'm going to try to burn through this list pretty quick.

00:41:51.340 --> 00:41:52.519
 I'm a little over time here.

00:41:55.460 --> 00:41:58.120
 What effects does this have on our life in a practical way?

00:41:59.600 --> 00:42:00.340
 There are myriads.

00:42:00.340 --> 00:42:00.620
 So,

00:42:01.300 --> 00:42:02.559
 this is not a comprehensive list.

00:42:02.640 --> 00:42:03.960
 These are just some of the things I thought of.

00:42:03.980 --> 00:42:05.019
 I was praying about our church.

00:42:05.840 --> 00:42:07.280
 These are things that I'm impacted by.

00:42:07.360 --> 00:42:08.340
 These are things I struggle with.

00:42:09.539 --> 00:42:11.220
 These are things I know some of you struggle with,

00:42:11.360 --> 00:42:11.559
 you know,

00:42:11.600 --> 00:42:12.220
 because I know you.

00:42:12.280 --> 00:42:12.920
 I've talked to you.

00:42:13.500 --> 00:42:14.079
 Prayed for you.

00:42:14.519 --> 00:42:15.280
 We talk about things.

00:42:15.340 --> 00:42:17.920
 We're at the point now in our life where we're starting to share things with each other,

00:42:18.019 --> 00:42:18.539
 which is awesome.

00:42:19.120 --> 00:42:19.480
 The Bible says,

00:42:19.660 --> 00:42:20.400
 bear one another's burdens.

00:42:21.079 --> 00:42:22.300
 So fulfill the law of Christ.

00:42:24.660 --> 00:42:25.820
 And that takes time.

00:42:25.920 --> 00:42:26.280
 That's okay.

00:42:27.660 --> 00:42:29.480
 But these are the things that were coming to mind

00:42:29.480 --> 00:42:30.519
 as I was praying through this.

00:42:32.039 --> 00:42:32.740
 Number one,

00:42:33.159 --> 00:42:35.760
 what's an effect of this justification,

00:42:36.099 --> 00:42:37.039
 of this exchange?

00:42:38.099 --> 00:42:41.360
 Peace in exchange for turmoil and anxiety.

00:42:42.500 --> 00:42:43.559
 Romans 5.1 says,

00:42:43.559 --> 00:42:44.159
 by faith,

00:42:44.559 --> 00:42:45.259
 we have access.

00:42:46.019 --> 00:42:46.380
 No,

00:42:46.519 --> 00:42:47.199
 Romans 5.1 says,

00:42:47.619 --> 00:42:49.099
 we have peace with God,

00:42:49.759 --> 00:42:50.739
 in the Lord Jesus Christ.

00:42:51.159 --> 00:42:51.699
 By faith,

00:42:51.779 --> 00:42:53.980
 we have access into this grace wherein we stand.

00:42:54.779 --> 00:42:55.299
 We have peace.

00:42:56.340 --> 00:42:56.659
 You know,

00:42:56.699 --> 00:42:59.920
 the foundational root of all our anxiety is because we have,

00:43:00.400 --> 00:43:00.679
 we don't,

00:43:00.779 --> 00:43:03.340
 we're not confident about our relationship with the Father.

00:43:04.519 --> 00:43:04.699
 Okay.

00:43:05.119 --> 00:43:05.900
 You have peace with God.

00:43:05.960 --> 00:43:06.699
 You get peace everywhere.

00:43:07.559 --> 00:43:08.039
 All right.

00:43:08.500 --> 00:43:09.539
 So think about that.

00:43:09.900 --> 00:43:10.719
 You're all wound up.

00:43:10.819 --> 00:43:11.919
 You're all wound around the spokes.

00:43:11.980 --> 00:43:12.799
 You're full of anxiety.

00:43:13.599 --> 00:43:14.159
 Wait a minute.

00:43:15.980 --> 00:43:19.019
 Am I enjoying the peace that I have with the Father?

00:43:19.199 --> 00:43:20.019
 Am I clear on that?

00:43:23.579 --> 00:43:25.779
 There's prophecies about this all throughout the Old Testament.

00:43:26.219 --> 00:43:27.599
 Isaiah 57.20 says,

00:43:28.000 --> 00:43:29.359
 there's no peace for the wicked.

00:43:30.099 --> 00:43:31.000
 There's no peace.

00:43:31.759 --> 00:43:32.799
 They're like the troubled sea.

00:43:32.899 --> 00:43:34.779
 They're always just churning up muck and mire

00:43:34.779 --> 00:43:36.419
 and bringing up all kinds of,

00:43:36.480 --> 00:43:38.000
 all the problems they have with other people

00:43:38.000 --> 00:43:39.519
 and all the things that are wrong.

00:43:39.619 --> 00:43:39.820
 And well,

00:43:39.880 --> 00:43:41.099
 that this was just right.

00:43:41.159 --> 00:43:43.420
 Then my life would be less anxiety.

00:43:43.639 --> 00:43:44.820
 I'd be less anxiety in my life.

00:43:44.880 --> 00:43:47.420
 If all these people just fixed all their problems

00:43:47.420 --> 00:43:48.519
 that they're causing me.

00:43:49.119 --> 00:43:49.340
 No,

00:43:50.199 --> 00:43:51.099
 you're not in peace with God,

00:43:51.159 --> 00:43:51.320
 man.

00:43:52.659 --> 00:43:53.519
 You have peace with God.

00:43:53.780 --> 00:43:55.260
 Like you think Jesus wasn't,

00:43:55.260 --> 00:43:56.260
 uh,

00:43:56.579 --> 00:44:00.099
 frustrated by the problems of all the sin of all the people around him.

00:44:00.760 --> 00:44:01.480
 For sure.

00:44:02.099 --> 00:44:03.739
 You think it affected his peace with God?

00:44:03.940 --> 00:44:04.219
 No.

00:44:05.300 --> 00:44:05.639
 All right.

00:44:05.639 --> 00:44:08.659
 Anxiety is a byproduct of not being at peace with God.

00:44:09.059 --> 00:44:11.639
 This exchange fixes that.

00:44:11.739 --> 00:44:12.359
 It addresses that.

00:44:12.440 --> 00:44:13.239
 It speaks right to it.

00:44:14.719 --> 00:44:15.960
 We get a clean conscience.

00:44:16.119 --> 00:44:16.519
 Number two,

00:44:16.859 --> 00:44:21.079
 a clean conscience in exchange for a guilty defiled conscience.

00:44:23.719 --> 00:44:24.519
 Constant guilt,

00:44:24.659 --> 00:44:25.759
 seeing the bad in everything.

00:44:26.079 --> 00:44:26.420
 Again,

00:44:26.519 --> 00:44:28.279
 this is a sign of a conscience that's dirty.

00:44:29.139 --> 00:44:31.480
 All you can see is the bad stuff going on in people's lives

00:44:31.480 --> 00:44:32.259
 and in your own life.

00:44:32.940 --> 00:44:34.199
 You might have a dirty conscience.

00:44:34.199 --> 00:44:39.519
 You might have a conscience that's not experiencing the cleansing blood of Jesus

00:44:39.519 --> 00:44:42.239
 that cleanses our conscience from dead works.

00:44:42.639 --> 00:44:43.539
 Like here's another example.

00:44:43.779 --> 00:44:46.379
 If you're always thinking about all the stuff that you're not doing a good job in,

00:44:47.039 --> 00:44:48.799
 you probably don't have a cleansed conscience.

00:44:49.879 --> 00:44:52.719
 The Bible says in Hebrews 9,

00:44:52.799 --> 00:44:53.179
 14,

00:44:53.679 --> 00:44:58.079
 that the blood of Jesus cleanses our conscience from dead works to serve the living God.

00:44:58.339 --> 00:44:59.619
 It delivers us into rest.

00:44:59.619 --> 00:45:02.659
 Third one,

00:45:03.579 --> 00:45:04.019
 openness,

00:45:04.639 --> 00:45:05.239
 vulnerability,

00:45:06.019 --> 00:45:07.039
 in exchange for hiding.

00:45:09.480 --> 00:45:10.400
 First John 1,

00:45:10.480 --> 00:45:11.480
 7 speaks of this.

00:45:11.839 --> 00:45:13.440
 If we walk in the light as he is in the light,

00:45:13.519 --> 00:45:15.039
 we have fellowship with one another,

00:45:15.339 --> 00:45:15.679
 openness,

00:45:16.539 --> 00:45:18.440
 and the blood of Jesus cleanses us from all sin.

00:45:18.440 --> 00:45:21.179
 John 3,

00:45:21.240 --> 00:45:23.119
 20 talks about those who hide.

00:45:23.760 --> 00:45:25.000
 They hide their sin.

00:45:25.340 --> 00:45:26.519
 They're embarrassed about it.

00:45:27.019 --> 00:45:27.980
 They cover it up.

00:45:28.240 --> 00:45:28.940
 They do it in darkness.

00:45:29.139 --> 00:45:30.500
 They don't want the light to shine on that.

00:45:31.380 --> 00:45:32.200
 You know what that says?

00:45:32.360 --> 00:45:33.599
 You're justified by your works.

00:45:34.360 --> 00:45:36.119
 The only reason you don't want anyone to find out about it

00:45:36.119 --> 00:45:37.800
 is because you don't want them to think less of you.

00:45:37.800 --> 00:45:40.220
 And there's an implication.

00:45:40.420 --> 00:45:41.440
 If they don't think less of me,

00:45:41.480 --> 00:45:42.220
 then what's God thinking?

00:45:42.539 --> 00:45:42.760
 You know,

00:45:43.560 --> 00:45:45.340
 try to just kind of sort it out on the side,

00:45:45.940 --> 00:45:47.019
 get taken care of real quick.

00:45:47.080 --> 00:45:48.340
 So people don't find out about it.

00:45:50.440 --> 00:45:50.800
 Hey,

00:45:51.320 --> 00:45:55.220
 if we walk in the light as he is in the light,

00:45:55.620 --> 00:46:00.180
 we have fellowship with one another and the blood of Jesus cleanses us from all sin.

00:46:01.140 --> 00:46:02.640
 So we get this natural,

00:46:03.240 --> 00:46:03.480
 you know,

00:46:03.539 --> 00:46:04.640
 openness is not natural.

00:46:04.980 --> 00:46:06.720
 We want to hide everything because we're children of Adam.

00:46:06.719 --> 00:46:09.719
 What's the first thing Abinid did after they eat the fruit?

00:46:10.839 --> 00:46:11.219
 Hide.

00:46:11.899 --> 00:46:12.259
 Okay.

00:46:12.500 --> 00:46:13.399
 So we get it honest.

00:46:14.179 --> 00:46:15.279
 The gospel is a cure for it.

00:46:15.879 --> 00:46:16.179
 All right.

00:46:18.279 --> 00:46:19.059
 There's another one.

00:46:19.219 --> 00:46:21.299
 Rest in exchange for toil.

00:46:23.239 --> 00:46:25.199
 God's commands are unbearable.

00:46:26.039 --> 00:46:26.319
 All right.

00:46:27.000 --> 00:46:28.379
 It's supposed to be that way.

00:46:29.579 --> 00:46:33.119
 It's supposed to be more than you can possibly handle.

00:46:33.659 --> 00:46:34.959
 Have you ever attempted to be like,

00:46:35.019 --> 00:46:35.819
 it's just too much.

00:46:35.820 --> 00:46:36.720
 Like you're,

00:46:36.820 --> 00:46:37.600
 you're asking too much,

00:46:37.660 --> 00:46:37.820
 God,

00:46:37.900 --> 00:46:38.160
 come on,

00:46:38.200 --> 00:46:38.720
 cut me a break.

00:46:39.320 --> 00:46:40.500
 Start justifying yourself,

00:46:40.740 --> 00:46:41.580
 trying to like,

00:46:41.960 --> 00:46:42.280
 you know,

00:46:42.780 --> 00:46:43.600
 say thus far,

00:46:43.700 --> 00:46:44.120
 no further,

00:46:44.200 --> 00:46:44.360
 Lord,

00:46:44.420 --> 00:46:45.460
 you already asked enough of me.

00:46:45.660 --> 00:46:47.760
 It's unreasonable for you to ask more of me.

00:46:47.940 --> 00:46:48.800
 That's just unreasonable.

00:46:49.519 --> 00:46:50.080
 Guess what?

00:46:50.800 --> 00:46:53.420
 For us in our natural state,

00:46:53.680 --> 00:46:54.640
 it is unreasonable.

00:46:54.960 --> 00:46:55.740
 It's impossible.

00:46:55.739 --> 00:47:01.459
 The only solution is Jesus doing it for us.

00:47:01.459 --> 00:47:02.019
 He says,

00:47:02.259 --> 00:47:03.399
 take my yoke upon you.

00:47:04.439 --> 00:47:06.519
 There's only one man who's ever done it.

00:47:06.579 --> 00:47:06.939
 It's Jesus.

00:47:07.539 --> 00:47:09.839
 He fulfilled every commandment.

00:47:10.739 --> 00:47:12.299
 He's asking us.

00:47:12.579 --> 00:47:13.679
 It's our inheritance.

00:47:13.679 --> 00:47:14.199
 Actually,

00:47:14.199 --> 00:47:19.239
 he's commanding us to enter into his rest.

00:47:19.859 --> 00:47:21.219
 Speaks of this in Hebrews.

00:47:21.659 --> 00:47:26.279
 There's a lot of wonderful mysteries in Hebrews talking about those who believe enter into rest,

00:47:26.399 --> 00:47:26.899
 real rest.

00:47:27.899 --> 00:47:30.319
 This is a mystery of a hardworking Christian who can say,

00:47:30.439 --> 00:47:30.819
 like Paul,

00:47:31.219 --> 00:47:32.480
 I worked harder in all of them,

00:47:32.699 --> 00:47:33.459
 yet not I.

00:47:34.739 --> 00:47:36.079
 But the grace of God,

00:47:36.759 --> 00:47:37.819
 Christ in me,

00:47:38.119 --> 00:47:38.879
 worked harder.

00:47:39.739 --> 00:47:40.639
 It's a real thing.

00:47:40.639 --> 00:47:44.480
 It's not just like some kind of extra spiritual mumbo jumbo we throw around.

00:47:44.819 --> 00:47:51.619
 It's an actual present experience of saying yes to all the commands of God,

00:47:51.980 --> 00:47:54.940
 but not on the basis of our own righteousness or our own strength.

00:47:55.639 --> 00:47:57.159
 It is unreasonable for me,

00:47:57.259 --> 00:47:57.440
 Lord,

00:47:57.879 --> 00:48:00.579
 but you've given me Christ and his spirit.

00:48:01.019 --> 00:48:06.679
 The spirit of Christ gives life to our mortal body and gives us grace to do it.

00:48:07.619 --> 00:48:08.219
 But guess what?

00:48:08.219 --> 00:48:09.619
 If you try to fake it till you make it,

00:48:09.939 --> 00:48:12.359
 you are going to be the most hypocritical,

00:48:12.819 --> 00:48:19.199
 anxiety filled hypocrite who is constantly debating with God and constantly debating on,

00:48:19.339 --> 00:48:19.619
 well,

00:48:19.639 --> 00:48:20.819
 is that verse really for me?

00:48:21.239 --> 00:48:22.959
 Is that God really asking me to do that?

00:48:23.119 --> 00:48:25.099
 I don't know if it's really what he's requiring me to do that.

00:48:25.699 --> 00:48:25.899
 No,

00:48:25.939 --> 00:48:26.699
 you're just a liar.

00:48:27.179 --> 00:48:31.379
 And you're trying to manipulate the commandments of God and bring it down to something you think is manageable.

00:48:31.959 --> 00:48:33.559
 It's supposed to be unmanageable.

00:48:34.159 --> 00:48:35.500
 So you look for a savior.

00:48:35.500 --> 00:48:35.940
 Anyway,

00:48:38.179 --> 00:48:40.900
 next one,

00:48:41.460 --> 00:48:44.000
 security in exchange for insecurity.

00:48:45.920 --> 00:48:46.699
 Jesus says,

00:48:46.880 --> 00:48:48.940
 this is my beloved son in whom I'm well pleased.

00:48:50.079 --> 00:48:50.719
 Or no,

00:48:50.800 --> 00:48:51.760
 the father said this to Jesus.

00:48:52.340 --> 00:48:53.519
 The father said to Jesus,

00:48:53.719 --> 00:48:58.179
 this is my beloved son in whom I am well pleased.

00:48:59.699 --> 00:49:00.599
 Remember when Jesus prayed?

00:49:00.599 --> 00:49:04.920
 I'm glad that those who believe in me would have that same relationship.

00:49:05.920 --> 00:49:06.659
 We get to.

00:49:07.599 --> 00:49:08.339
 We haven't.

00:49:08.719 --> 00:49:08.980
 You know,

00:49:09.039 --> 00:49:09.440
 Jesus,

00:49:09.599 --> 00:49:11.679
 the father is pleased with you.

00:49:12.039 --> 00:49:15.579
 He's well pleased with you because of Jesus.

00:49:16.059 --> 00:49:17.440
 Because he's pleased with Jesus.

00:49:17.579 --> 00:49:18.519
 He's pleased with us too.

00:49:20.039 --> 00:49:20.639
 And it's particularly,

00:49:20.799 --> 00:49:21.460
 he calls us by name.

00:49:21.519 --> 00:49:23.719
 This is not just sort of like wiping us out and saying,

00:49:24.279 --> 00:49:24.539
 you know,

00:49:24.859 --> 00:49:26.079
 there is no real Christians.

00:49:26.239 --> 00:49:26.899
 It's all just Jesus.

00:49:27.039 --> 00:49:27.179
 No,

00:49:27.599 --> 00:49:28.959
 it's sons through the sun.

00:49:29.239 --> 00:49:30.319
 He's called us by name.

00:49:30.379 --> 00:49:31.000
 And he says,

00:49:31.739 --> 00:49:32.000
 Amber,

00:49:32.219 --> 00:49:35.939
 my beloved daughter in whom I'm well pleased.

00:49:37.599 --> 00:49:40.219
 And I can receive that because I know he's pleased with Jesus.

00:49:40.939 --> 00:49:41.099
 You know,

00:49:41.459 --> 00:49:44.739
 this delivers us from insecurity.

00:49:45.519 --> 00:49:45.699
 You know,

00:49:46.079 --> 00:49:47.619
 not knowing what I'm supposed to do.

00:49:47.719 --> 00:49:48.619
 Am I doing it right?

00:49:49.059 --> 00:49:51.400
 I don't know if I really want to go out on a limb and obey God and that thing.

00:49:51.440 --> 00:49:52.380
 Because what if I screw it up?

00:49:53.880 --> 00:49:56.400
 This is my beloved son and who I'm well pleased.

00:49:57.519 --> 00:49:58.219
 Jesus says,

00:49:58.440 --> 00:49:59.299
 he's never left me.

00:49:59.819 --> 00:50:01.739
 The father's never left me because what?

00:50:01.739 --> 00:50:07.139
 I always do the things that are pleasing to him.

00:50:07.920 --> 00:50:08.519
 Always.

00:50:10.139 --> 00:50:11.900
 So another wonderful doctrine.

00:50:12.039 --> 00:50:13.219
 This is the foundation of our faith.

00:50:13.900 --> 00:50:15.880
 The active righteousness of Jesus.

00:50:15.880 --> 00:50:20.539
 His actual keeping of every single command of God on our behalf.

00:50:21.740 --> 00:50:22.599
 And it's ours.

00:50:23.579 --> 00:50:23.720
 Okay.

00:50:26.780 --> 00:50:27.340
 Here's another one.

00:50:27.360 --> 00:50:29.039
 This is relevant for a new church plant.

00:50:30.720 --> 00:50:36.960
 Knowing Christ in exchange for ministry ambition and being right.

00:50:38.260 --> 00:50:39.160
 This is awesome.

00:50:39.860 --> 00:50:40.680
 Start a new church.

00:50:41.180 --> 00:50:43.360
 Start having ideas about how's God going to use me.

00:50:43.360 --> 00:50:46.860
 And you have an imagination about how that's going to go.

00:50:47.160 --> 00:50:48.700
 And then some sin crops up in your life.

00:50:49.039 --> 00:50:49.700
 What's the temptation?

00:50:51.760 --> 00:50:52.400
 Push it down.

00:50:53.480 --> 00:50:53.720
 All right.

00:50:55.200 --> 00:50:56.559
 We all experience this.

00:50:57.940 --> 00:51:00.620
 I love Paul's own testimony.

00:51:00.800 --> 00:51:01.720
 In Philippians chapter three,

00:51:01.780 --> 00:51:03.660
 this is one of my favorite passages in the whole Bible.

00:51:04.140 --> 00:51:04.980
 You get a raw,

00:51:05.539 --> 00:51:07.740
 just straight shooting testimony from Paul.

00:51:08.700 --> 00:51:09.420
 And he said,

00:51:09.480 --> 00:51:09.900
 you know what?

00:51:09.900 --> 00:51:13.320
 I had all kinds of ministry ambitions and I was better than everybody.

00:51:14.260 --> 00:51:15.940
 I was more zealous for God.

00:51:16.200 --> 00:51:18.320
 I kept the law more faithfully.

00:51:18.820 --> 00:51:19.680
 This is someone,

00:51:19.820 --> 00:51:19.920
 you know,

00:51:19.960 --> 00:51:22.260
 you kind of like fast forward 2000 years and you just,

00:51:22.539 --> 00:51:25.160
 you would look at someone like this who calls himself a Christian and be like,

00:51:25.220 --> 00:51:25.340
 man,

00:51:25.360 --> 00:51:28.079
 they are just gifted on fire.

00:51:28.400 --> 00:51:29.820
 I'm going to be like that Christian.

00:51:30.200 --> 00:51:30.599
 Maybe,

00:51:31.599 --> 00:51:33.000
 maybe not.

00:51:33.720 --> 00:51:34.740
 You know what Paul says?

00:51:34.739 --> 00:51:40.279
 Everything that was gained to me regarding this ambition that he had,

00:51:41.039 --> 00:51:44.719
 he counted as loss for the sake of knowing Christ.

00:51:45.759 --> 00:51:46.359
 He says,

00:51:46.439 --> 00:51:46.679
 in fact,

00:51:46.739 --> 00:51:48.019
 I count everything as rubbish.

00:51:48.119 --> 00:51:49.579
 And the word he uses is poop.

00:51:50.479 --> 00:51:50.859
 All right.

00:51:51.439 --> 00:51:51.819
 Poop.

00:51:52.879 --> 00:51:54.959
 All the good things I had going for me,

00:51:55.079 --> 00:51:56.179
 all my ministry ambitions,

00:51:56.339 --> 00:51:57.799
 all the things I was leveling up in,

00:51:57.979 --> 00:51:59.059
 all my Bible knowledge,

00:51:59.139 --> 00:52:01.579
 all my zealousness for God and preaching this message.

00:52:01.579 --> 00:52:02.179
 garbage,

00:52:02.179 --> 00:52:03.400
 garbage,

00:52:03.699 --> 00:52:07.279
 garbage for the sake of knowing Jesus.

00:52:08.000 --> 00:52:09.579
 He says that he makes that his holy ambition.

00:52:10.799 --> 00:52:11.219
 Do you,

00:52:12.000 --> 00:52:12.940
 sorry,

00:52:13.019 --> 00:52:13.420
 it's my children.

00:52:16.599 --> 00:52:17.639
 Praise the Lord for kids.

00:52:19.199 --> 00:52:20.340
 Is that your ambition?

00:52:21.539 --> 00:52:27.980
 Do you have no other ambition than to know him and be found in him?

00:52:27.980 --> 00:52:31.659
 That I might know him in the power of his resurrection,

00:52:32.219 --> 00:52:34.860
 being conformed to his death.

00:52:35.159 --> 00:52:38.059
 If by any means I might attain to resurrection.

00:52:39.240 --> 00:52:40.159
 And he goes on to say,

00:52:40.219 --> 00:52:40.320
 Hey,

00:52:40.360 --> 00:52:41.240
 if any of you are mature,

00:52:42.280 --> 00:52:43.780
 you ought to think like this.

00:52:43.880 --> 00:52:44.599
 If you're not,

00:52:44.960 --> 00:52:45.420
 it's all right.

00:52:45.559 --> 00:52:46.559
 God's going to reveal this to you.

00:52:47.059 --> 00:52:47.820
 One thing you do.

00:52:48.159 --> 00:52:48.800
 One thing I do.

00:52:48.880 --> 00:52:49.699
 I forget what's behind.

00:52:49.780 --> 00:52:53.519
 I press on to what's ahead for the upward call of God to lay hold of that,

00:52:53.579 --> 00:52:54.599
 which he laid hold of me for.

00:52:54.820 --> 00:52:55.559
 This is it.

00:52:55.559 --> 00:52:58.599
 If you got an ambition that's bigger than this,

00:52:58.699 --> 00:53:00.019
 more nuanced than this,

00:53:00.259 --> 00:53:02.619
 got a little bit more ministry particulars in it than this.

00:53:03.279 --> 00:53:04.099
 Those are all good things.

00:53:04.159 --> 00:53:05.000
 I want to challenge you.

00:53:06.179 --> 00:53:08.759
 Is it all garbage for the sake of knowing Christ?

00:53:09.980 --> 00:53:11.139
 It's a good test for our hearts.

00:53:12.639 --> 00:53:15.400
 Tell you what this ambition produces more openness,

00:53:15.719 --> 00:53:16.320
 more freedom.

00:53:16.719 --> 00:53:17.599
 You're free to be an idiot.

00:53:18.079 --> 00:53:18.940
 You're free to suck.

00:53:19.519 --> 00:53:20.920
 You're free to not be an awesome Christian.

00:53:21.239 --> 00:53:23.679
 You're free to be one of those not awesome Christians.

00:53:24.480 --> 00:53:24.880
 Guess what?

00:53:24.880 --> 00:53:27.200
 Those are the only kind that are encouraging to other Christians.

00:53:29.180 --> 00:53:29.760
 It's awesome.

00:53:29.880 --> 00:53:30.160
 It's free.

00:53:30.780 --> 00:53:31.800
 You're free to be a loser.

00:53:32.340 --> 00:53:32.460
 You know,

00:53:32.559 --> 00:53:33.960
 Paul just didn't even think about it.

00:53:34.180 --> 00:53:34.280
 You know,

00:53:34.280 --> 00:53:34.880
 there's another passage.

00:53:35.000 --> 00:53:35.360
 He says,

00:53:35.519 --> 00:53:36.640
 I don't even judge myself.

00:53:38.559 --> 00:53:39.740
 Whether I'm right or wrong,

00:53:39.780 --> 00:53:40.599
 like in my own eyes,

00:53:40.680 --> 00:53:41.740
 it actually is immaterial.

00:53:41.840 --> 00:53:42.380
 It doesn't even matter.

00:53:42.460 --> 00:53:43.360
 It's God who judges me.

00:53:43.460 --> 00:53:44.480
 He actually knows.

00:53:45.519 --> 00:53:46.340
 I'm living for him.

00:53:47.300 --> 00:53:48.300
 We should be the same way.

00:53:48.700 --> 00:53:50.660
 This is going to free us from a lot of hypocrisy.

00:53:50.920 --> 00:53:52.579
 That's really easy to get into,

00:53:52.579 --> 00:53:54.519
 especially at the beginning of church plant.

00:53:54.639 --> 00:53:55.099
 And we're all,

00:53:55.400 --> 00:53:55.519
 yeah,

00:53:55.539 --> 00:53:57.279
 we're trying to build relationship with each other,

00:53:57.360 --> 00:53:58.420
 trying to be on mission stuff,

00:53:58.659 --> 00:54:01.039
 but there's something in our flesh that wants to show off to everyone else,

00:54:01.079 --> 00:54:02.019
 how good of a Christian we are.

00:54:02.440 --> 00:54:03.099
 You're not.

00:54:08.039 --> 00:54:12.000
 Similar unity in exchange for division.

00:54:12.000 --> 00:54:13.039
 Okay.

00:54:13.340 --> 00:54:14.619
 This is a glorious truth.

00:54:15.139 --> 00:54:18.980
 The foundation of our unity is in Ephesians 2 verses 13 through 22.

00:54:19.639 --> 00:54:22.619
 He uses the Jews and the Gentiles to make this illustration.

00:54:23.300 --> 00:54:24.639
 He took the two groups.

00:54:25.280 --> 00:54:29.800
 You couldn't have two groups that were more disunified and different.

00:54:30.280 --> 00:54:30.679
 Okay.

00:54:31.280 --> 00:54:32.739
 Then the Jews and the Gentiles,

00:54:33.000 --> 00:54:35.360
 he took the two groups and he made them one.

00:54:35.360 --> 00:54:39.500
 By destroying the law.

00:54:39.880 --> 00:54:42.480
 That's the list of commandments that stood as a barrier between the two of them.

00:54:42.539 --> 00:54:43.059
 He took it out of the way,

00:54:43.140 --> 00:54:43.740
 nailed it to the cross,

00:54:43.820 --> 00:54:44.500
 took those two groups,

00:54:45.000 --> 00:54:45.320
 made them one,

00:54:45.380 --> 00:54:46.180
 made one new man.

00:54:46.539 --> 00:54:48.019
 That's the basis of our Christian fellowship.

00:54:48.160 --> 00:54:54.039
 This is why a church is a outpost of the kingdom of God on earth.

00:54:54.240 --> 00:54:57.160
 It illustrates our new family that we're in.

00:54:57.460 --> 00:54:58.640
 That's the basis of our unity.

00:54:58.940 --> 00:54:59.440
 I love that.

00:54:59.620 --> 00:54:59.960
 I don't know.

00:55:00.140 --> 00:55:01.079
 I don't know who said this,

00:55:01.180 --> 00:55:03.579
 but I think it's attributed to Robert Lee.

00:55:03.579 --> 00:55:11.460
 I think there's a story about him taking communion with a slave and they're kneeling down and people are offended by it.

00:55:11.500 --> 00:55:11.880
 And he said,

00:55:11.960 --> 00:55:13.440
 the ground is level at the foot of the cross.

00:55:14.340 --> 00:55:14.900
 It's level.

00:55:15.940 --> 00:55:17.420
 It's the basis of our unity.

00:55:18.799 --> 00:55:19.179
 Anyway,

00:55:19.319 --> 00:55:20.340
 I don't know if he actually said that,

00:55:20.380 --> 00:55:21.019
 but I heard that.

00:55:22.039 --> 00:55:22.779
 You can't hear me.

00:55:24.699 --> 00:55:26.159
 The story was Robert E.

00:55:26.219 --> 00:55:28.739
 Lee took communion with a black guy,

00:55:28.880 --> 00:55:31.279
 a slave at that time during the time of the civil war.

00:55:31.280 --> 00:55:34.440
 And that was offensive to some people in that church.

00:55:34.940 --> 00:55:38.060
 And his response was the ground is level at the foot of the cross.

00:55:39.140 --> 00:55:41.240
 So that's the basis of our unity,

00:55:41.380 --> 00:55:41.920
 brothers and sisters.

00:55:42.160 --> 00:55:43.980
 The ground's level at the foot of the cross.

00:55:45.680 --> 00:55:47.500
 And that's a wonderful thing.

00:55:49.019 --> 00:55:50.019
 A couple more.

00:55:50.800 --> 00:55:55.019
 Second to last one is perfect love in exchange for fear.

00:55:55.019 --> 00:55:58.139
 First John 4,

00:55:58.179 --> 00:55:59.340
 19 through 20 says,

00:56:00.460 --> 00:56:03.880
 perfect love casts out fear because fear has to do with being punished.

00:56:05.400 --> 00:56:06.019
 You know,

00:56:06.119 --> 00:56:08.820
 that the reason you fear is because you're worried about getting punished.

00:56:09.199 --> 00:56:10.199
 It's just the truth.

00:56:11.019 --> 00:56:11.739
 You fear death.

00:56:12.380 --> 00:56:15.300
 You fear stand before God and being punished for the evil things you've done.

00:56:16.440 --> 00:56:16.840
 You might,

00:56:16.940 --> 00:56:18.139
 that might not make it up here,

00:56:18.259 --> 00:56:19.519
 but it's down here symbol.

00:56:20.099 --> 00:56:21.019
 You're struggling with fear.

00:56:21.079 --> 00:56:21.820
 You're worried about that.

00:56:22.300 --> 00:56:22.780
 Guess what?

00:56:23.199 --> 00:56:24.920
 Perfect love casts out fear.

00:56:24.920 --> 00:56:26.460
 And you know what he says in this thing?

00:56:26.519 --> 00:56:30.300
 I love it so much because as he is,

00:56:30.539 --> 00:56:32.360
 we are in this world.

00:56:33.400 --> 00:56:35.480
 As Jesus is right now,

00:56:35.579 --> 00:56:35.860
 perfect,

00:56:36.039 --> 00:56:36.320
 complete,

00:56:36.460 --> 00:56:37.159
 wanting nothing.

00:56:38.019 --> 00:56:39.500
 So are we in this world.

00:56:42.240 --> 00:56:45.559
 And Josh's AI cleanup is going to have a doozy on this one.

00:56:48.500 --> 00:56:49.360
 Last one.

00:56:50.500 --> 00:56:53.139
 Sonship in exchange for being enemy of God.

00:56:53.839 --> 00:56:56.799
 This is all out throughout Galatians is so precious.

00:56:57.460 --> 00:57:00.839
 One of the primary benefits of justification is sonship.

00:57:00.920 --> 00:57:03.639
 We enter into a father son relationship with Jesus.

00:57:03.819 --> 00:57:04.940
 We've talked a lot about this,

00:57:05.359 --> 00:57:06.019
 but it's precious.

00:57:06.759 --> 00:57:08.199
 It delivers us from fear.

00:57:10.119 --> 00:57:10.759
 All right.

00:57:11.219 --> 00:57:13.259
 I want to quote a couple of quotes at the end here.

00:57:13.319 --> 00:57:14.139
 Just finish things up.

00:57:14.679 --> 00:57:16.699
 Martin Luther said this about this doctrine.

00:57:16.699 --> 00:57:17.199
 This is the truth.

00:57:17.199 --> 00:57:18.359
 This is the truth.

00:57:18.359 --> 00:57:23.879
 Let us become expert in the art of transferring our sins,

00:57:24.079 --> 00:57:24.659
 our death,

00:57:24.719 --> 00:57:27.599
 and every evil from ourselves to Christ.

00:57:28.419 --> 00:57:33.439
 And Christ's righteousness and blessing from Christ to ourselves.

00:57:33.440 --> 00:57:36.360
 This is the exchange.

00:57:37.320 --> 00:57:39.340
 God already traded places with us on the cross.

00:57:40.159 --> 00:57:42.599
 Faith makes that real in reality.

00:57:42.720 --> 00:57:43.000
 It says,

00:57:43.119 --> 00:57:43.200
 no,

00:57:43.240 --> 00:57:44.119
 I believe that's true.

00:57:45.099 --> 00:57:46.760
 My sins are Jesus's sins.

00:57:47.340 --> 00:57:49.019
 His righteousness is my righteousness.

00:57:49.500 --> 00:57:53.380
 This is the doctrine of justification that blew open Martin Luther's world

00:57:53.380 --> 00:57:54.960
 and started the Protestant Reformation.

00:57:55.559 --> 00:57:56.960
 And it's the foundation of the church.

00:57:57.360 --> 00:57:57.500
 Okay.

00:57:57.820 --> 00:57:58.720
 This is the golden,

00:57:58.920 --> 00:58:01.179
 this is the crown jewel of our,

00:58:01.280 --> 00:58:03.019
 of our doctrine.

00:58:04.019 --> 00:58:04.240
 You know,

00:58:04.820 --> 00:58:05.139
 and it's a,

00:58:05.139 --> 00:58:07.260
 it's crazy thing is this is often the first one to go.

00:58:07.659 --> 00:58:09.300
 That's why we have to hold fast to it.

00:58:10.820 --> 00:58:12.099
 The Heidelberg Catechism.

00:58:12.199 --> 00:58:13.019
 We've been going through this.

00:58:13.400 --> 00:58:14.539
 That's the last thing I'm going to read.

00:58:14.619 --> 00:58:15.720
 This is a very precious one.

00:58:16.340 --> 00:58:19.059
 Question and answer number 60 from the Heidelberg Catechism.

00:58:19.179 --> 00:58:23.360
 This is one of the oldest catechisms that happened during the Protestant Reformation.

00:58:24.740 --> 00:58:25.980
 The question is,

00:58:25.980 --> 00:58:28.440
 how are you righteous before God?

00:58:29.940 --> 00:58:33.960
 The answer is only by true faith in Jesus Christ.

00:58:34.719 --> 00:58:39.480
 Even though my conscience accuses me of having grievously sinned against all God's commandments,

00:58:40.159 --> 00:58:42.159
 of never having kept any of them,

00:58:42.840 --> 00:58:44.420
 and still being inclined to evil,

00:58:45.760 --> 00:58:46.260
 nevertheless,

00:58:47.139 --> 00:58:48.659
 without any merit of my own,

00:58:49.139 --> 00:58:50.380
 out of sheer grace,

00:58:50.900 --> 00:58:54.380
 God grants and credits to me the perfect satisfaction,

00:58:54.380 --> 00:58:55.000
 righteousness,

00:58:55.220 --> 00:58:56.880
 and holiness of Christ.

00:58:57.400 --> 00:58:59.220
 As if I had never sinned,

00:58:59.519 --> 00:59:00.460
 nor been a sinner,

00:59:00.900 --> 00:59:04.500
 and as if I had been as perfectly obedient as Christ was obedient for me.

00:59:04.500 --> 00:59:08.420
 All I need to do is accept this gift with a believing heart.

00:59:08.480 --> 00:59:09.320
 oatmeal,

00:59:09.680 --> 00:59:10.480
 the advantages of me,

00:59:10.480 --> 00:59:13.119
 that I could not only express myself.

00:59:13.159 --> 00:59:14.059
 Amen.

00:59:14.079 --> 00:59:15.200
 I love you.

00:59:15.240 --> 00:59:15.440
 Alice,

00:59:15.460 --> 00:59:17.480
 I am not sure if I would ever think of him as a Jew,

00:59:17.680 --> 00:59:18.460
 butdecine,

00:59:18.980 --> 00:59:19.880
 others would haveanimous none do not come here.

00:59:19.940 --> 00:59:20.740
 They have a Froise,

00:59:20.820 --> 00:59:21.860
 so it couldas will be forgiven.

00:59:21.900 --> 00:59:22.920
 I am not sure if my husband came from the Internet,

00:59:23.180 --> 00:59:23.820
 but it's one of the best.

00:59:23.880 --> 00:59:24.539
 I love you.

00:59:24.599 --> 00:59:25.260
 I lovepped for JP значит.

00:59:25.340 --> 00:59:26.340
 The purpose of God

00:59:26.420 --> 00:59:26.740
 because I love him as a Brave else.

00:59:26.940 --> 00:59:27.039
 Because I am a sinner.

00:59:27.119 --> 00:59:28.300
 And again,

00:59:28.380 --> 00:59:28.659
 I'm not a sinner.

00:59:28.700 --> 00:59:29.300
 But I love him.

00:59:29.700 --> 00:59:29.880
operative.

00:59:30.280 --> 00:59:31.900
 I miss to have one way been more successful today,

00:59:31.960 --> 00:59:32.220
 because I hang Brist for the truth about him since he was seeing

00:59:32.260 --> 00:59:33.880
 died where magngow.