WEBVTT 00:00:00.000 --> 00:00:00.760 You may be seated. 00:00:01.280 --> 00:00:04.419 Kiddos, you're in with us this morning, 00:00:04.560 --> 00:00:05.600 and I just want to let you know, 00:00:06.060 --> 00:00:07.240 children, in with us, 00:00:07.419 --> 00:00:10.040 this first opening story 00:00:10.040 --> 00:00:12.700 is a made-up pretend story. 00:00:18.039 --> 00:00:22.300 Would you open up your Bibles to Colossians 3? 00:00:22.800 --> 00:00:24.820 I'm going to be preaching on 5 through 11, 00:00:25.199 --> 00:00:27.320 but I'm going to read 1 through 11. 00:00:28.219 --> 00:00:29.800 It's on page 1169. 00:00:30.000 --> 00:00:32.420 And 1170 of your pew Bibles. 00:00:34.500 --> 00:00:35.740 Colossians 3, 1. 00:00:37.140 --> 00:00:39.939 If then you have been raised with Christ, 00:00:40.740 --> 00:00:41.980 seek the things that are above, 00:00:42.079 --> 00:00:44.179 where Christ is seated at the right hand of God. 00:00:44.980 --> 00:00:47.379 Set your minds on things that are above, 00:00:47.480 --> 00:00:49.620 not on things that are on earth. 00:00:49.980 --> 00:00:50.879 For you have died, 00:00:50.939 --> 00:00:53.280 and your life is hidden with Christ in God. 00:00:54.400 --> 00:00:57.480 When Christ, who is your life, appears, 00:00:57.479 --> 00:01:00.099 then you also will appear with him in glory. 00:01:00.599 --> 00:01:04.159 Put to death, therefore, what is earthly in you, 00:01:04.899 --> 00:01:07.159 sexual immorality, impurity, passion, 00:01:07.359 --> 00:01:09.159 evil desire, and covetousness, 00:01:09.399 --> 00:01:10.959 which is idolatry. 00:01:10.959 --> 00:01:14.719 On account of these, the wrath of God is coming. 00:01:14.719 --> 00:01:19.480 In these, you too once walked when you were living in them. 00:01:19.480 --> 00:01:22.740 But now you must put them all away. 00:01:22.859 --> 00:01:26.480 Anger, wrath, malice, slander, and obscene talk from your mouth. 00:01:27.020 --> 00:01:28.120 Do not lie to one another, 00:01:28.219 --> 00:01:31.060 seeing that you have put off the old self with its practices, 00:01:31.520 --> 00:01:33.320 and have put on the new self, 00:01:33.780 --> 00:01:35.840 which is being renewed in the knowledge 00:01:35.840 --> 00:01:37.680 after the image of its creator. 00:01:37.680 --> 00:01:41.540 Here, there is not Greek and Jew, 00:01:42.580 --> 00:01:44.380 circumcised and uncircumcised, 00:01:44.880 --> 00:01:46.980 barbarian, Scythian, slave, free, 00:01:47.660 --> 00:01:52.460 but Christ is all and in all. 00:01:52.720 --> 00:01:55.420 May God bless the reading, hearing of his word. 00:01:58.240 --> 00:01:59.440 This is pretend. 00:02:02.180 --> 00:02:05.440 Imagine a young man in desperate need of a new suit. 00:02:05.439 --> 00:02:08.419 New to him. 00:02:10.479 --> 00:02:14.500 Broke and unwilling to ask for help, 00:02:15.680 --> 00:02:16.560 he gets an idea. 00:02:19.159 --> 00:02:23.039 That night, he sneaks into Green Ridge Cemetery, 00:02:23.280 --> 00:02:24.020 just south of here, 00:02:24.719 --> 00:02:27.620 and he digs up the corpse of a man 00:02:27.620 --> 00:02:28.860 who's been dead for eight years, 00:02:29.780 --> 00:02:34.719 who just happens to be a 42 regular, 00:02:35.439 --> 00:02:39.539 36-inch waist, 30-inch inseam. 00:02:41.840 --> 00:02:45.599 The living man removes the grave clothes 00:02:45.599 --> 00:02:46.840 off the dead man, 00:02:47.419 --> 00:02:51.280 puts the dead man back into the coffin, 00:02:52.479 --> 00:02:53.139 buries him, 00:02:53.579 --> 00:02:57.900 and then puts on the dead man's grave clothes. 00:02:57.900 --> 00:03:01.200 Stains of death. 00:03:01.800 --> 00:03:02.920 Smell of death. 00:03:04.020 --> 00:03:06.300 The crusty texture of death. 00:03:08.460 --> 00:03:13.420 That grave suit certainly is disintegrating. 00:03:13.500 --> 00:03:14.180 Well, the next day, 00:03:14.280 --> 00:03:17.920 that young man is walking along the harbor side 00:03:17.919 --> 00:03:22.519 in these grave clothes. 00:03:23.679 --> 00:03:24.819 And walking towards him 00:03:24.819 --> 00:03:27.099 is this bright-eyed older woman 00:03:27.099 --> 00:03:30.819 who sees this young man in these grave clothes, 00:03:30.919 --> 00:03:32.679 and so she approaches him and asks, 00:03:32.859 --> 00:03:33.539 young man, 00:03:33.979 --> 00:03:37.619 why would someone alive 00:03:37.619 --> 00:03:40.659 be wearing the grave clothes 00:03:40.659 --> 00:03:42.219 of someone dead? 00:03:44.219 --> 00:03:45.419 She goes on to say, 00:03:45.500 --> 00:03:46.099 come with me. 00:03:48.240 --> 00:03:52.519 Let's dispose of those old grave clothes. 00:03:53.259 --> 00:03:55.079 They don't belong on you. 00:03:56.300 --> 00:03:58.259 I'll get you a new lively suit 00:03:58.259 --> 00:04:00.419 that you were born to wear. 00:04:00.419 --> 00:04:03.159 What are you, a 42 regular? 00:04:06.000 --> 00:04:06.759 Christian, 00:04:07.539 --> 00:04:11.279 why would someone made alive 00:04:11.279 --> 00:04:14.359 continue wearing the clothes 00:04:14.359 --> 00:04:15.579 of someone dead? 00:04:18.000 --> 00:04:22.879 Christian, you've been made alive in Christ. 00:04:24.219 --> 00:04:28.360 So put off the old clothes of the grave. 00:04:28.360 --> 00:04:34.319 And make new room for the new. 00:04:35.480 --> 00:04:36.500 Those made new, 00:04:36.680 --> 00:04:38.500 put off the sin of old. 00:04:38.840 --> 00:04:40.480 Three points from this passage. 00:04:41.060 --> 00:04:42.060 Christian, you've been made new. 00:04:43.480 --> 00:04:44.319 Second point, 00:04:45.180 --> 00:04:45.900 put away the old. 00:04:46.879 --> 00:04:47.500 Third point, 00:04:48.360 --> 00:04:49.360 make room for the new. 00:04:50.540 --> 00:04:52.660 Why would someone made alive in Christ 00:04:52.660 --> 00:04:54.160 continue wearing the clothes 00:04:54.160 --> 00:04:56.180 of those dead, 00:04:56.180 --> 00:04:58.560 separated from Christ? 00:05:00.199 --> 00:05:01.500 It's not who you are anymore. 00:05:03.280 --> 00:05:04.540 Let's look at this first point, 00:05:05.100 --> 00:05:05.920 your new self. 00:05:07.100 --> 00:05:07.680 Two weeks ago, 00:05:07.740 --> 00:05:09.600 I preached on chapter three, 00:05:09.660 --> 00:05:10.199 one through four. 00:05:11.060 --> 00:05:12.240 And I made the case, 00:05:12.379 --> 00:05:14.340 we need to have our thinking rewired. 00:05:14.339 --> 00:05:19.359 Your identity now is in Christ. 00:05:19.479 --> 00:05:20.319 Remember 220, 00:05:20.699 --> 00:05:22.739 you've died with Christ. 00:05:22.879 --> 00:05:23.619 Remember 3.1, 00:05:23.679 --> 00:05:24.859 you've been raised with Christ. 00:05:25.219 --> 00:05:27.319 We are now united with Christ 00:05:27.319 --> 00:05:28.719 in his death and resurrection. 00:05:30.120 --> 00:05:31.699 We're not who we used to be. 00:05:31.879 --> 00:05:33.259 We have a new identity. 00:05:33.559 --> 00:05:35.739 And we have a new aim in Christ. 00:05:35.859 --> 00:05:37.359 We set our minds on the things above 00:05:37.359 --> 00:05:38.239 where Christ is. 00:05:38.559 --> 00:05:39.120 He's our aim. 00:05:39.920 --> 00:05:40.740 He's our priority. 00:05:43.040 --> 00:05:44.540 And we're on a new time frame. 00:05:45.319 --> 00:05:47.680 We live in between Christ's first coming 00:05:47.680 --> 00:05:48.680 and his second coming. 00:05:48.780 --> 00:05:50.500 We live in the midst of the already and not yet. 00:05:50.840 --> 00:05:52.139 Church, what time are we on? 00:05:52.980 --> 00:05:53.740 Christ time. 00:05:55.399 --> 00:05:57.800 And all of this informs 00:05:57.800 --> 00:06:01.139 a Christ central way of thinking and living. 00:06:01.860 --> 00:06:02.819 It's who we are now. 00:06:04.560 --> 00:06:06.139 Well, in verses five and 11, 00:06:06.139 --> 00:06:09.000 Paul continues to develop this new way 00:06:09.000 --> 00:06:10.899 of thinking about ourselves 00:06:10.899 --> 00:06:14.019 and about our relationship to sin. 00:06:15.399 --> 00:06:16.699 In verses seven and eight, 00:06:16.839 --> 00:06:19.199 he develops this thinking about ourselves 00:06:19.199 --> 00:06:20.939 in terms of before and after. 00:06:21.699 --> 00:06:22.399 Look at verse seven. 00:06:26.639 --> 00:06:30.060 In these, you too once walked 00:06:30.060 --> 00:06:32.180 when you were living in them. 00:06:32.180 --> 00:06:35.519 The things that he's talking about, 00:06:35.920 --> 00:06:38.959 the them that you were living in, 00:06:39.079 --> 00:06:40.420 points back to verse five, 00:06:40.740 --> 00:06:42.199 a list of sexual sin. 00:06:42.240 --> 00:06:43.579 I'll come back to that in a little bit. 00:06:43.879 --> 00:06:44.319 But he's saying, 00:06:44.480 --> 00:06:46.460 that was your old grave clothes. 00:06:48.160 --> 00:06:49.420 That was before. 00:06:50.439 --> 00:06:51.780 Did you see the word once? 00:06:52.699 --> 00:06:53.819 See the word when? 00:06:54.060 --> 00:06:55.199 Those are time markers 00:06:55.199 --> 00:06:58.620 pointing back before you were converted to Christ. 00:06:58.620 --> 00:07:02.540 Before, Jesus graciously changed you. 00:07:04.060 --> 00:07:05.240 And then in verse eight, of course, 00:07:05.319 --> 00:07:06.220 is the but now. 00:07:07.439 --> 00:07:08.680 You once were that 00:07:08.680 --> 00:07:10.000 when you were living in them. 00:07:10.120 --> 00:07:11.620 You're walking in a manner 00:07:11.620 --> 00:07:13.379 worthy of yourself and sin, 00:07:13.480 --> 00:07:14.160 not Christ. 00:07:14.720 --> 00:07:16.579 Before, but now, 00:07:17.780 --> 00:07:18.980 we put those things all away. 00:07:21.160 --> 00:07:22.280 Because we've been made new. 00:07:24.259 --> 00:07:25.800 So there's this development 00:07:25.800 --> 00:07:27.199 of how we think about ourselves 00:07:27.199 --> 00:07:28.699 in terms of the before and after. 00:07:28.879 --> 00:07:29.939 So it's just very helpful. 00:07:30.060 --> 00:07:30.980 There's the before mic 00:07:30.980 --> 00:07:31.980 when I was living for sin. 00:07:32.020 --> 00:07:33.220 And there's the after mic 00:07:33.220 --> 00:07:35.400 where Christ is the controlling center 00:07:35.400 --> 00:07:36.740 of my life more and more. 00:07:38.720 --> 00:07:40.139 But there's also another 00:07:40.139 --> 00:07:41.980 kind of line of development. 00:07:42.180 --> 00:07:43.240 In verses nine and ten, 00:07:43.340 --> 00:07:44.939 it's along the lines of old and new. 00:07:47.939 --> 00:07:48.680 Verse nine, 00:07:48.800 --> 00:07:50.840 do not lie to one another. 00:07:51.319 --> 00:07:51.639 Why? 00:07:51.639 --> 00:07:51.719 Why? 00:07:52.099 --> 00:07:54.240 Seeing that you have put off 00:07:54.240 --> 00:07:57.779 the old self with its practices 00:07:57.779 --> 00:08:01.379 and have put on the new self, 00:08:01.500 --> 00:08:02.680 which is being renewed in knowledge 00:08:02.680 --> 00:08:04.060 after the image of its creator. 00:08:05.060 --> 00:08:06.599 So not just before and after, 00:08:06.800 --> 00:08:07.680 it's old and new. 00:08:09.539 --> 00:08:11.419 We're talking about the nature 00:08:11.419 --> 00:08:12.939 of who you were 00:08:12.939 --> 00:08:15.199 before and after your conversion, 00:08:15.860 --> 00:08:17.819 the spiritual quality 00:08:17.819 --> 00:08:18.919 of who you were 00:08:18.920 --> 00:08:21.319 and who you are. 00:08:22.379 --> 00:08:23.620 So when Paul talks about, 00:08:23.900 --> 00:08:24.600 in verse nine, 00:08:25.500 --> 00:08:26.360 the old self, 00:08:27.759 --> 00:08:28.980 that's the way the apostle Paul 00:08:28.980 --> 00:08:29.580 is talking about 00:08:29.580 --> 00:08:30.259 who you were 00:08:30.259 --> 00:08:32.019 before you were converted to Christ. 00:08:34.720 --> 00:08:36.120 And just to spell that out 00:08:36.120 --> 00:08:36.560 a little bit, 00:08:37.879 --> 00:08:39.420 that's when you were separated 00:08:39.420 --> 00:08:41.159 from God 00:08:41.159 --> 00:08:42.440 because of your sin. 00:08:44.019 --> 00:08:45.420 That's when you were 00:08:45.420 --> 00:08:46.500 spiritually dead. 00:08:46.500 --> 00:08:48.440 that's when you were 00:08:48.440 --> 00:08:50.419 under God's wrath 00:08:50.419 --> 00:08:53.259 justly because of the sin 00:08:53.259 --> 00:08:54.259 that you were committing 00:08:54.259 --> 00:08:54.980 against him. 00:08:56.519 --> 00:08:59.000 You were walking in them. 00:08:59.740 --> 00:09:01.659 You were living in them 00:09:01.659 --> 00:09:04.100 because that qualitatively 00:09:04.100 --> 00:09:05.139 is who you were. 00:09:06.759 --> 00:09:08.620 You were spiritually dead 00:09:08.620 --> 00:09:10.059 in those grave clothes. 00:09:10.200 --> 00:09:11.019 Well, those just came 00:09:11.019 --> 00:09:11.820 naturally to you. 00:09:11.820 --> 00:09:15.480 Another way to think about it 00:09:15.480 --> 00:09:16.280 is in terms of 00:09:16.280 --> 00:09:17.020 chapter one, 00:09:17.080 --> 00:09:17.640 verse 13. 00:09:18.860 --> 00:09:19.700 We read this. 00:09:20.600 --> 00:09:21.440 He has delivered us 00:09:21.440 --> 00:09:22.520 from the domain of darkness 00:09:22.520 --> 00:09:23.540 and transferred us 00:09:23.540 --> 00:09:24.080 to the kingdom 00:09:24.080 --> 00:09:24.980 of the beloved son. 00:09:25.360 --> 00:09:26.560 The before you, 00:09:26.740 --> 00:09:28.140 the old self you, 00:09:28.480 --> 00:09:29.200 was you 00:09:29.200 --> 00:09:30.280 when you were living 00:09:30.280 --> 00:09:31.600 in the domain of darkness. 00:09:34.700 --> 00:09:35.760 That's who you were. 00:09:35.759 --> 00:09:39.639 Christ was not 00:09:39.639 --> 00:09:40.399 the controlling, 00:09:41.700 --> 00:09:42.439 life-giving, 00:09:43.139 --> 00:09:44.019 treasure center 00:09:44.019 --> 00:09:45.220 of your life. 00:09:46.120 --> 00:09:46.840 You were. 00:09:48.139 --> 00:09:48.879 Sin was. 00:09:50.340 --> 00:09:51.240 And what Paul says 00:09:51.240 --> 00:09:51.899 in verse nine 00:09:51.899 --> 00:09:52.340 is that 00:09:52.340 --> 00:09:54.220 that's been put off. 00:09:55.200 --> 00:09:55.819 It's no longer 00:09:55.819 --> 00:09:56.399 who you are. 00:09:57.819 --> 00:09:59.039 If you've put your faith 00:09:59.039 --> 00:09:59.939 in Jesus Christ, 00:10:00.360 --> 00:10:01.819 that old self 00:10:01.819 --> 00:10:02.759 is before 00:10:02.759 --> 00:10:03.319 before. 00:10:03.320 --> 00:10:06.720 You were once 00:10:06.720 --> 00:10:07.840 clothed 00:10:07.840 --> 00:10:09.160 in the old self 00:10:09.160 --> 00:10:10.200 with its 00:10:10.200 --> 00:10:11.680 evil practices, 00:10:12.379 --> 00:10:12.940 but that's not 00:10:12.940 --> 00:10:13.940 who you are anymore. 00:10:15.000 --> 00:10:16.160 That old self 00:10:16.160 --> 00:10:18.120 died 00:10:18.120 --> 00:10:19.120 with Christ. 00:10:20.900 --> 00:10:22.000 The new self, 00:10:22.240 --> 00:10:22.840 verse 10, 00:10:23.080 --> 00:10:23.940 is Paul's way 00:10:23.940 --> 00:10:24.500 of describing 00:10:24.500 --> 00:10:25.680 who you are now 00:10:25.680 --> 00:10:26.940 having been raised 00:10:26.940 --> 00:10:27.640 with Christ 00:10:27.640 --> 00:10:28.660 to newness of life. 00:10:32.080 --> 00:10:32.640 Elsewhere, 00:10:32.639 --> 00:10:33.980 in 2 Corinthians 5, 00:10:34.259 --> 00:10:34.840 the apostle Paul 00:10:34.840 --> 00:10:35.819 talks about it like this. 00:10:36.279 --> 00:10:37.139 You're a new creation. 00:10:38.539 --> 00:10:39.580 The old 00:10:39.580 --> 00:10:40.519 has gone. 00:10:41.439 --> 00:10:42.379 The new 00:10:42.379 --> 00:10:43.759 has come. 00:10:45.460 --> 00:10:46.600 You're a new creation 00:10:46.600 --> 00:10:47.439 in Christ. 00:10:47.539 --> 00:10:48.159 You've been united 00:10:48.159 --> 00:10:49.360 with Christ 00:10:49.360 --> 00:10:50.259 to his death 00:10:50.259 --> 00:10:50.919 and resurrection 00:10:50.919 --> 00:10:52.360 and you've been 00:10:52.360 --> 00:10:53.080 made new. 00:10:55.600 --> 00:10:56.539 Dead to sin, 00:10:56.799 --> 00:10:57.580 alive to God. 00:10:58.019 --> 00:10:58.720 He has forgiven 00:10:58.720 --> 00:10:59.819 all of your sins, 00:10:59.960 --> 00:11:00.439 all of them. 00:11:00.440 --> 00:11:01.700 That's why God's wrath 00:11:01.700 --> 00:11:02.360 is no longer 00:11:02.360 --> 00:11:03.200 over your head. 00:11:03.640 --> 00:11:04.180 There is therefore 00:11:04.180 --> 00:11:05.420 now no condemnation 00:11:05.420 --> 00:11:06.120 for those who are 00:11:06.120 --> 00:11:06.760 in Christ Jesus. 00:11:08.040 --> 00:11:09.300 We no longer walk 00:11:09.300 --> 00:11:10.580 according to the 00:11:10.580 --> 00:11:12.000 practices of the 00:11:12.000 --> 00:11:12.700 old self, 00:11:12.860 --> 00:11:14.260 but we walk now 00:11:14.260 --> 00:11:15.000 in a manner 00:11:15.000 --> 00:11:16.860 worthy of the Lord. 00:11:19.260 --> 00:11:20.180 He's our aim. 00:11:20.180 --> 00:11:20.200 He's our aim. 00:11:20.200 --> 00:11:26.180 He has delivered us 00:11:26.180 --> 00:11:26.640 from the domain 00:11:26.640 --> 00:11:27.259 of darkness, 00:11:27.660 --> 00:11:28.580 old self before, 00:11:29.580 --> 00:11:31.259 and transferred us 00:11:31.259 --> 00:11:32.020 into the kingdom 00:11:32.020 --> 00:11:33.120 of the beloved son, 00:11:33.780 --> 00:11:34.320 the kingdom 00:11:34.320 --> 00:11:35.540 of the new selves, 00:11:36.280 --> 00:11:37.000 the community 00:11:37.000 --> 00:11:37.780 of the new, 00:11:38.780 --> 00:11:39.879 and we live 00:11:39.879 --> 00:11:40.500 for him now. 00:11:40.500 --> 00:11:43.460 So, 00:11:43.659 --> 00:11:45.919 here we have 00:11:45.919 --> 00:11:47.940 your new self 00:11:47.940 --> 00:11:50.820 united to Christ. 00:11:50.960 --> 00:11:51.639 There's a before, 00:11:51.860 --> 00:11:53.139 there is a old, 00:11:53.240 --> 00:11:54.340 old self, 00:11:54.460 --> 00:11:55.139 old man 00:11:55.139 --> 00:11:56.559 that's no longer 00:11:56.559 --> 00:11:58.840 died with Christ 00:11:58.840 --> 00:12:00.320 and now you're new, 00:12:00.500 --> 00:12:01.080 brother, sister, 00:12:01.159 --> 00:12:01.620 in Christ. 00:12:02.159 --> 00:12:03.000 You're new. 00:12:04.360 --> 00:12:05.200 Christ has made you new. 00:12:05.279 --> 00:12:06.240 By virtue of being, 00:12:06.240 --> 00:12:07.320 you being united to him, 00:12:07.379 --> 00:12:07.919 you're new. 00:12:08.299 --> 00:12:09.240 Christ has made you new. 00:12:09.899 --> 00:12:10.680 Does anybody remember 00:12:10.680 --> 00:12:11.519 that great show 00:12:11.519 --> 00:12:12.240 way back? 00:12:13.600 --> 00:12:14.519 Extreme Makeover 00:12:14.519 --> 00:12:15.299 House Edition. 00:12:17.639 --> 00:12:18.720 Ty Pennington 00:12:18.720 --> 00:12:19.379 and his crew. 00:12:19.899 --> 00:12:20.000 Well, 00:12:20.100 --> 00:12:20.840 here's what would happen. 00:12:20.919 --> 00:12:22.480 There would be this family 00:12:22.480 --> 00:12:23.100 and they're living 00:12:23.100 --> 00:12:23.700 in this old, 00:12:23.779 --> 00:12:25.360 dilapidated house 00:12:25.360 --> 00:12:27.440 and they would be sent 00:12:27.440 --> 00:12:28.399 to like Disney World 00:12:28.399 --> 00:12:29.060 for a week 00:12:29.060 --> 00:12:30.000 and Ty and his crew 00:12:30.000 --> 00:12:30.539 would come in 00:12:30.539 --> 00:12:31.680 and they'd rebuild the house. 00:12:32.019 --> 00:12:32.840 They'd bring the family 00:12:32.840 --> 00:12:33.460 back in 00:12:33.460 --> 00:12:33.940 and they'd put them 00:12:33.940 --> 00:12:34.820 behind this bus 00:12:34.820 --> 00:12:35.680 and that bus, 00:12:35.740 --> 00:12:36.039 they would say, 00:12:36.139 --> 00:12:36.740 move that bus 00:12:36.740 --> 00:12:37.879 and that bus would move back 00:12:37.879 --> 00:12:38.600 and then that family 00:12:38.600 --> 00:12:39.039 would see 00:12:39.039 --> 00:12:41.459 a new updated house. 00:12:42.539 --> 00:12:42.879 Do you remember 00:12:42.879 --> 00:12:43.339 what they do? 00:12:44.219 --> 00:12:44.539 Faint. 00:12:46.059 --> 00:12:46.799 No way. 00:12:48.319 --> 00:12:48.819 Joyous. 00:12:49.819 --> 00:12:50.959 The old is gone. 00:12:51.099 --> 00:12:51.899 The new has come. 00:12:52.480 --> 00:12:53.279 The new has come. 00:12:53.279 --> 00:12:53.599 Christian, 00:12:54.480 --> 00:12:57.980 you're an extreme makeover. 00:12:59.599 --> 00:13:00.579 Christ edition. 00:13:01.620 --> 00:13:02.860 That's who you are. 00:13:03.459 --> 00:13:04.439 The old is gone. 00:13:05.159 --> 00:13:06.679 The new has come. 00:13:07.079 --> 00:13:08.159 So I got a question for you. 00:13:09.079 --> 00:13:09.899 I'm going to ask you 00:13:09.899 --> 00:13:10.519 a question. 00:13:10.719 --> 00:13:11.279 If you're a Christian 00:13:11.279 --> 00:13:11.579 in the room, 00:13:11.620 --> 00:13:12.620 I want you to answer it. 00:13:13.739 --> 00:13:14.339 I'm going to say, 00:13:14.419 --> 00:13:15.000 who are you? 00:13:15.959 --> 00:13:17.179 And you're going to tell me, 00:13:17.599 --> 00:13:19.279 I've been made new. 00:13:20.439 --> 00:13:21.219 Who are you? 00:13:22.059 --> 00:13:23.019 I've been made new. 00:13:23.599 --> 00:13:24.299 Here we go. 00:13:25.599 --> 00:13:26.439 It's who you are now. 00:13:27.179 --> 00:13:28.139 It's your new self. 00:13:28.139 --> 00:13:31.399 Now we move on to the next point. 00:13:32.939 --> 00:13:35.279 Now that you've been made new, 00:13:35.379 --> 00:13:36.360 we've been made new, 00:13:36.600 --> 00:13:38.840 we must put away the sins of old 00:13:38.840 --> 00:13:42.059 because it's not who you are anymore. 00:13:42.059 --> 00:13:45.719 Why would someone living 00:13:45.719 --> 00:13:49.500 be wearing the grave clothes 00:13:49.500 --> 00:13:52.799 of someone who is dead? 00:13:56.199 --> 00:13:57.179 In our passage, 00:13:57.299 --> 00:13:58.359 in verses five and eight, 00:13:58.459 --> 00:14:00.139 there are two sets of grave clothes 00:14:00.139 --> 00:14:01.959 of the old man 00:14:01.959 --> 00:14:04.519 when you live in the domain of darkness 00:14:04.519 --> 00:14:07.659 that we cannot wear anymore 00:14:07.659 --> 00:14:08.939 because it's not who we are. 00:14:09.520 --> 00:14:10.980 We need to put them away. 00:14:11.120 --> 00:14:12.320 We need to put them to death. 00:14:12.900 --> 00:14:15.800 And the two wardrobes 00:14:15.800 --> 00:14:19.220 are sexual sin 00:14:19.220 --> 00:14:21.720 and sinful speech. 00:14:22.520 --> 00:14:23.760 Let's take one at a time. 00:14:24.620 --> 00:14:25.820 In verse five, 00:14:26.300 --> 00:14:28.040 Paul lists out this wardrobe 00:14:28.040 --> 00:14:29.220 of grave clothes 00:14:29.220 --> 00:14:30.700 of sexual sin. 00:14:30.780 --> 00:14:32.040 He lists five of them. 00:14:34.000 --> 00:14:35.080 Sexual immorality, 00:14:35.240 --> 00:14:36.680 where we get the word porneia. 00:14:38.940 --> 00:14:41.120 Impurity, passion, evil desires, 00:14:41.360 --> 00:14:42.200 and covetousness. 00:14:42.920 --> 00:14:44.140 Now I know what you're thinking. 00:14:44.480 --> 00:14:44.960 Covetousness? 00:14:45.180 --> 00:14:45.660 Why is that? 00:14:46.260 --> 00:14:47.680 What's that doing in a sin list 00:14:47.680 --> 00:14:48.740 of sexual sin? 00:14:51.580 --> 00:14:54.280 In Exodus chapter 20, verse 17, 00:14:54.540 --> 00:14:54.900 it's the list, 00:14:54.980 --> 00:14:56.700 20 is the listing of the 10 commandments. 00:14:56.800 --> 00:14:57.260 Remember those? 00:14:57.300 --> 00:14:57.780 The big 10? 00:14:58.680 --> 00:14:59.560 The 10th 00:14:59.560 --> 00:15:02.420 is a command against coveting. 00:15:02.419 --> 00:15:05.979 And God says, 00:15:06.360 --> 00:15:07.039 you shall not covet. 00:15:07.879 --> 00:15:09.279 You shall not covet 00:15:09.279 --> 00:15:10.579 your neighbor's house. 00:15:11.899 --> 00:15:13.379 You shall not covet 00:15:13.379 --> 00:15:14.639 your neighbor's wife. 00:15:15.959 --> 00:15:16.459 Do you know what I'm saying? 00:15:17.579 --> 00:15:18.879 If covetousness 00:15:18.879 --> 00:15:19.879 is a kind of greed, 00:15:20.919 --> 00:15:22.139 he's talking about 00:15:22.139 --> 00:15:23.219 sexual greed. 00:15:24.799 --> 00:15:26.879 Wanting someone sexually 00:15:26.879 --> 00:15:28.799 that you are not allowed to have. 00:15:28.799 --> 00:15:30.740 That's the covetousness 00:15:30.740 --> 00:15:31.699 he's talking about here, 00:15:31.859 --> 00:15:32.419 the apostle Paul. 00:15:33.919 --> 00:15:34.959 It actually 00:15:34.959 --> 00:15:36.759 sums up the whole list. 00:15:38.079 --> 00:15:39.240 It's a sexual greed 00:15:39.240 --> 00:15:40.500 that's forbidden by God. 00:15:45.339 --> 00:15:46.819 Now here's what you need to know 00:15:46.819 --> 00:15:48.839 about these sexual sins. 00:15:48.840 --> 00:15:52.720 They're all distortions 00:15:52.720 --> 00:15:54.340 of God's good gift 00:15:54.340 --> 00:15:54.980 and design 00:15:54.980 --> 00:15:56.500 of sexuality. 00:15:57.940 --> 00:15:59.000 We can't make 00:15:59.000 --> 00:16:01.220 the categorical mistake 00:16:01.220 --> 00:16:02.759 of thinking that sex is bad, 00:16:02.940 --> 00:16:03.680 sex is wrong. 00:16:04.399 --> 00:16:05.820 It's God's good gift to us. 00:16:06.200 --> 00:16:07.600 So just to be very clear, 00:16:09.060 --> 00:16:10.320 the gold standard 00:16:10.320 --> 00:16:12.060 in which God gives us 00:16:12.060 --> 00:16:13.280 for us to enjoy 00:16:13.280 --> 00:16:14.800 our sexuality 00:16:14.800 --> 00:16:16.420 is in marriage. 00:16:16.419 --> 00:16:19.719 And so in Genesis chapter 2 00:16:19.719 --> 00:16:21.259 verses 24 and 25, 00:16:21.659 --> 00:16:23.839 God gives Eve to Adam 00:16:23.839 --> 00:16:24.719 and they were both naked 00:16:24.719 --> 00:16:25.399 and not ashamed. 00:16:25.519 --> 00:16:26.639 They became one flesh 00:16:26.639 --> 00:16:27.919 and what that's a picture of 00:16:27.919 --> 00:16:29.699 is the only place 00:16:29.699 --> 00:16:31.039 that God has given 00:16:31.039 --> 00:16:32.120 for our good 00:16:32.120 --> 00:16:33.099 that we can enjoy 00:16:33.099 --> 00:16:33.839 this good gift. 00:16:39.179 --> 00:16:40.319 You know what that means? 00:16:42.059 --> 00:16:43.179 Anything outside, 00:16:43.360 --> 00:16:44.740 any sexual experience 00:16:44.740 --> 00:16:46.019 pursuit outside 00:16:46.019 --> 00:16:48.620 of these biblical gold standard 00:16:48.620 --> 00:16:50.639 of one chromosomal man 00:16:50.639 --> 00:16:52.060 and one chromosomal woman 00:16:52.060 --> 00:16:53.799 exclusively committed 00:16:53.799 --> 00:16:54.379 to each other 00:16:54.379 --> 00:16:55.519 before life, 00:16:55.600 --> 00:16:56.159 before God, 00:16:56.220 --> 00:16:57.279 anything out of that 00:16:57.279 --> 00:16:59.480 is a distortion 00:16:59.480 --> 00:17:00.299 of God's good gift. 00:17:00.399 --> 00:17:00.740 It's sin. 00:17:00.860 --> 00:17:01.320 It's wrong. 00:17:02.620 --> 00:17:04.160 Based upon what God says. 00:17:06.480 --> 00:17:07.819 It's even idolatrous. 00:17:09.039 --> 00:17:09.779 Do you know why 00:17:09.779 --> 00:17:10.460 it's idolatrous? 00:17:11.819 --> 00:17:12.819 Here's what happens. 00:17:12.819 --> 00:17:17.399 People reject God 00:17:17.399 --> 00:17:20.259 and yet they're still worshipers. 00:17:21.759 --> 00:17:22.700 And so you know what they'll worship 00:17:22.700 --> 00:17:23.500 in place of God? 00:17:24.039 --> 00:17:25.519 Something that makes them happy. 00:17:28.200 --> 00:17:28.939 Sexual pleasure 00:17:28.939 --> 00:17:29.859 falls into that. 00:17:31.700 --> 00:17:32.879 And so what happens is, 00:17:32.939 --> 00:17:33.700 this is Romans 1, 00:17:33.799 --> 00:17:34.779 people reject God 00:17:34.779 --> 00:17:36.759 and they will replace him 00:17:36.759 --> 00:17:39.259 with distorted sexual practices. 00:17:39.259 --> 00:17:42.339 It's idolatrous 00:17:42.339 --> 00:17:43.839 and therefore provokes 00:17:43.839 --> 00:17:45.319 God's wrath. 00:17:48.879 --> 00:17:50.779 So let me just be crystal clear. 00:17:51.980 --> 00:17:53.079 Marital infidelity 00:17:53.079 --> 00:17:54.539 when one spouse 00:17:54.539 --> 00:17:55.160 of a marriage 00:17:55.160 --> 00:17:58.079 is pursuing sexual relationships 00:17:58.079 --> 00:17:59.359 outside of that marriage. 00:17:59.480 --> 00:18:00.059 That's sin. 00:18:00.180 --> 00:18:00.879 That's wrong. 00:18:02.039 --> 00:18:03.400 That's grave clothes. 00:18:03.779 --> 00:18:05.079 That's old man living. 00:18:05.079 --> 00:18:05.160 That's old man living. 00:18:05.160 --> 00:18:05.180 That's old man living. 00:18:09.259 --> 00:18:13.339 Unmarried sexual enjoyment. 00:18:13.559 --> 00:18:15.539 Even when it's committed partners 00:18:15.539 --> 00:18:17.000 but you're not married 00:18:17.000 --> 00:18:18.779 or it's friends with benefits. 00:18:19.299 --> 00:18:23.519 These things are outside of God's good design. 00:18:25.019 --> 00:18:25.720 They're wrong. 00:18:27.059 --> 00:18:28.960 Pornography in all of its forms, 00:18:29.160 --> 00:18:29.700 it's wrong. 00:18:29.799 --> 00:18:32.019 It's outside of God's good design. 00:18:33.059 --> 00:18:34.099 Self-sex, 00:18:34.339 --> 00:18:35.640 homosexuality sex, 00:18:35.640 --> 00:18:38.560 it's all outside of God's good design. 00:18:39.860 --> 00:18:41.040 Now the world will say, 00:18:41.400 --> 00:18:42.300 the earth will say, 00:18:43.340 --> 00:18:44.620 these earthly desires, 00:18:44.820 --> 00:18:45.700 those who practice them 00:18:45.700 --> 00:18:46.660 will say something like this. 00:18:46.759 --> 00:18:46.860 Well, 00:18:47.220 --> 00:18:47.420 well, 00:18:47.500 --> 00:18:48.340 they're in vogue. 00:18:49.800 --> 00:18:50.640 They're fashionable. 00:18:51.759 --> 00:18:52.460 It's okay. 00:18:53.740 --> 00:18:55.820 But God's word is crystal clear. 00:18:57.820 --> 00:18:58.680 This is sin. 00:18:59.540 --> 00:19:00.380 This is wrong. 00:19:00.440 --> 00:19:01.280 It's not his design. 00:19:02.139 --> 00:19:04.839 It's not to experience his goodness 00:19:04.839 --> 00:19:05.859 along his terms. 00:19:07.319 --> 00:19:08.539 So what must we do? 00:19:10.000 --> 00:19:11.259 What happens if you're in the room 00:19:11.259 --> 00:19:12.879 and you're having an extramarital affair right now? 00:19:13.279 --> 00:19:14.519 What happens if you're in the room 00:19:14.519 --> 00:19:15.420 and you're looking at pornography? 00:19:16.160 --> 00:19:17.299 What happens if you're in the room 00:19:17.299 --> 00:19:18.299 and you're having a relationship, 00:19:18.420 --> 00:19:19.980 you're not married but with another person 00:19:19.980 --> 00:19:21.639 and it's sexual in nature, 00:19:22.119 --> 00:19:22.799 what do you do? 00:19:24.399 --> 00:19:26.720 The first three words of verse five. 00:19:29.779 --> 00:19:30.639 Put it to death. 00:19:31.279 --> 00:19:38.019 And what that means is this. 00:19:38.220 --> 00:19:39.619 At the basic sense, 00:19:40.319 --> 00:19:43.440 it's considering these sexual practices 00:19:43.440 --> 00:19:45.119 that are not God's design 00:19:45.119 --> 00:19:48.599 as having been put to death 00:19:48.599 --> 00:19:51.539 with Christ at the cross. 00:19:53.160 --> 00:19:54.420 That's old self. 00:19:54.519 --> 00:19:55.599 It's not who you are anymore. 00:19:56.460 --> 00:19:57.319 It's not me. 00:19:57.319 --> 00:19:57.359 It's not me. 00:19:57.359 --> 00:20:02.740 You know those medical dramas 00:20:02.740 --> 00:20:04.359 where a critically injured patient 00:20:04.359 --> 00:20:05.619 gets rolled into an ER? 00:20:07.259 --> 00:20:08.899 The doctor rolls up, 00:20:10.579 --> 00:20:11.259 assesses, 00:20:11.919 --> 00:20:13.179 starts doing CPR, 00:20:13.379 --> 00:20:14.939 takes out those pad things, 00:20:15.159 --> 00:20:16.319 doesn't work. 00:20:17.740 --> 00:20:18.719 CPR more. 00:20:18.720 --> 00:20:21.220 And despite all this, 00:20:21.559 --> 00:20:22.680 the doctor has done 00:20:22.680 --> 00:20:24.819 in order to resuscitate this person, 00:20:25.960 --> 00:20:27.420 the person dies. 00:20:28.620 --> 00:20:29.920 Do you know what the doctor does at that point? 00:20:30.880 --> 00:20:31.600 You've seen it. 00:20:32.559 --> 00:20:33.420 They say something like, 00:20:33.960 --> 00:20:34.799 I'm calling it. 00:20:36.180 --> 00:20:37.079 Time of death, 00:20:37.200 --> 00:20:38.759 6.43 a.m. 00:20:38.759 --> 00:20:41.200 with a little look. 00:20:44.160 --> 00:20:45.000 Brothers and sisters, 00:20:45.099 --> 00:20:46.500 here's how we put things to death. 00:20:48.259 --> 00:20:50.720 You've got sexual sin in your life. 00:20:52.259 --> 00:20:53.480 You've got to call it. 00:20:55.799 --> 00:20:56.539 You're dead. 00:20:56.539 --> 00:21:00.379 When you were converted, 00:21:00.599 --> 00:21:02.420 you were united to Christ's death 00:21:02.420 --> 00:21:03.180 and resurrection. 00:21:03.680 --> 00:21:04.639 And Christ's death, 00:21:04.799 --> 00:21:05.440 scholars say, 00:21:05.539 --> 00:21:07.740 took place on April 3rd, 00:21:07.960 --> 00:21:09.139 33 A.D. 00:21:09.259 --> 00:21:10.460 at 3 p.m. 00:21:11.500 --> 00:21:12.680 You call it. 00:21:14.480 --> 00:21:15.799 That died. 00:21:18.079 --> 00:21:19.119 April 3rd, 00:21:20.319 --> 00:21:21.259 33 A.D. 00:21:22.220 --> 00:21:22.899 3 p.m. 00:21:24.899 --> 00:21:26.079 It's not me anymore. 00:21:27.200 --> 00:21:29.000 It died with Christ 00:21:29.000 --> 00:21:30.759 on the cross. 00:21:33.259 --> 00:21:35.019 We don't wear 00:21:35.019 --> 00:21:36.579 these grave clothes 00:21:36.579 --> 00:21:38.180 of sexual sin anymore 00:21:38.180 --> 00:21:41.220 because it's not who we are anymore. 00:21:42.099 --> 00:21:43.500 It's idolatrous. 00:21:45.619 --> 00:21:47.399 And it's not loving your neighbor. 00:21:49.779 --> 00:21:51.899 If I asked for a show of hands, 00:21:52.220 --> 00:21:53.220 every hand would go up. 00:21:53.220 --> 00:21:57.140 Who has experienced, 00:21:57.180 --> 00:21:58.160 don't raise your hands. 00:22:01.059 --> 00:22:02.740 I'll raise mine for us all. 00:22:04.319 --> 00:22:05.500 Who in this room 00:22:05.500 --> 00:22:07.380 has experienced 00:22:07.380 --> 00:22:10.140 the disintegration of relationships, 00:22:10.460 --> 00:22:11.920 the destruction of relationships 00:22:11.920 --> 00:22:14.299 as a result of sexual sin? 00:22:14.299 --> 00:22:17.399 everybody's hand goes up. 00:22:18.919 --> 00:22:20.579 Whether it's something you've done 00:22:20.579 --> 00:22:22.299 or something someone else has done 00:22:22.299 --> 00:22:23.259 that has affected you, 00:22:23.319 --> 00:22:25.819 we've all experienced the fallout. 00:22:25.819 --> 00:22:30.159 it's not loving your neighbor. 00:22:31.960 --> 00:22:32.980 That sin 00:22:32.980 --> 00:22:36.480 died with your old self 00:22:36.480 --> 00:22:38.619 on the cross 00:22:38.619 --> 00:22:40.399 with Jesus Christ. 00:22:40.400 --> 00:22:42.980 it's not who you are. 00:22:43.900 --> 00:22:45.360 It might be common to man. 00:22:46.580 --> 00:22:47.620 It might be fashionable 00:22:47.620 --> 00:22:48.900 in this world at this time. 00:22:51.280 --> 00:22:53.120 It's idolatrous in God's sight. 00:22:53.119 --> 00:22:56.139 And you stand on that. 00:22:57.899 --> 00:22:59.539 The second set of clothes, 00:23:00.799 --> 00:23:01.659 grave clothes, 00:23:01.899 --> 00:23:03.319 is raised in verse 8. 00:23:04.339 --> 00:23:05.079 We're to put away 00:23:05.079 --> 00:23:06.679 all anger, 00:23:06.959 --> 00:23:07.279 wrath, 00:23:07.500 --> 00:23:07.879 malice, 00:23:08.119 --> 00:23:08.500 slander, 00:23:08.699 --> 00:23:09.539 and obscene talk. 00:23:09.619 --> 00:23:10.619 Do you know what they all have in common? 00:23:12.039 --> 00:23:13.279 Where they're coming from. 00:23:14.279 --> 00:23:14.719 From 00:23:14.719 --> 00:23:16.019 your 00:23:16.019 --> 00:23:17.279 mouth. 00:23:17.279 --> 00:23:20.220 anger 00:23:20.220 --> 00:23:22.259 from your mouth. 00:23:23.879 --> 00:23:24.379 Wrath 00:23:24.379 --> 00:23:25.299 from your mouth. 00:23:25.500 --> 00:23:25.839 Malice 00:23:25.839 --> 00:23:26.639 from your mouth. 00:23:26.940 --> 00:23:27.720 Slander, 00:23:28.079 --> 00:23:28.960 which we get the word 00:23:28.960 --> 00:23:30.299 blasphemy 00:23:30.299 --> 00:23:30.819 from. 00:23:31.279 --> 00:23:32.079 It's attributing, 00:23:33.899 --> 00:23:34.779 it's saying 00:23:34.779 --> 00:23:35.319 something 00:23:35.319 --> 00:23:36.420 is true of someone 00:23:36.420 --> 00:23:37.279 when it's not. 00:23:40.119 --> 00:23:41.059 And obscene talk, 00:23:41.200 --> 00:23:41.899 filthy talk. 00:23:45.660 --> 00:23:46.740 From your mouth. 00:23:46.740 --> 00:23:47.460 Before. 00:23:47.620 --> 00:23:48.920 This is like 00:23:48.920 --> 00:23:50.299 your sexuality. 00:23:50.779 --> 00:23:52.000 Before you were converted 00:23:52.000 --> 00:23:53.920 and you were the controlling center 00:23:53.920 --> 00:23:54.599 of your life, 00:23:55.480 --> 00:23:57.420 then your controlling center 00:23:57.420 --> 00:23:58.839 governed your sexuality. 00:24:00.839 --> 00:24:01.559 And it's the same 00:24:01.559 --> 00:24:02.099 with your speech. 00:24:02.240 --> 00:24:03.099 Before you were converted 00:24:03.099 --> 00:24:03.759 to Christ, 00:24:04.180 --> 00:24:05.420 before he made you new, 00:24:06.059 --> 00:24:07.400 because you were the controlling center, 00:24:07.500 --> 00:24:08.400 your sin was 00:24:08.400 --> 00:24:10.019 it governed your speech. 00:24:11.140 --> 00:24:12.240 You spoke 00:24:12.240 --> 00:24:13.079 out of it. 00:24:16.740 --> 00:24:17.839 In Luke 6, 00:24:18.099 --> 00:24:19.539 Jesus is teaching 00:24:19.539 --> 00:24:20.740 and helping his disciples 00:24:20.740 --> 00:24:22.319 kind of see false teachers. 00:24:22.799 --> 00:24:24.039 And what he says 00:24:24.039 --> 00:24:25.099 is helpful for us all, 00:24:25.160 --> 00:24:26.059 not just for false teachers, 00:24:26.180 --> 00:24:27.240 but to see stuff in ourselves. 00:24:28.200 --> 00:24:29.339 And he talks about how 00:24:29.339 --> 00:24:30.019 a tree is known 00:24:30.019 --> 00:24:30.799 by its fruit, 00:24:31.240 --> 00:24:32.960 that the evil treasure 00:24:32.960 --> 00:24:34.380 that someone stores up, 00:24:34.599 --> 00:24:36.799 it bears evil fruit, 00:24:36.960 --> 00:24:37.799 evil speech. 00:24:39.079 --> 00:24:40.079 The good treasure 00:24:40.079 --> 00:24:41.019 someone stores up 00:24:41.019 --> 00:24:41.480 in their heart, 00:24:41.480 --> 00:24:41.680 well, 00:24:41.960 --> 00:24:43.259 it bears the fruit of, 00:24:43.720 --> 00:24:44.519 good fruit. 00:24:44.799 --> 00:24:45.460 And then Jesus says, 00:24:45.700 --> 00:24:46.299 out of the abundance 00:24:46.299 --> 00:24:47.099 of the heart, 00:24:47.220 --> 00:24:48.019 the mouth speaks. 00:24:50.120 --> 00:24:51.140 Do you know why 00:24:51.140 --> 00:24:53.700 we speak sinfully? 00:24:55.480 --> 00:24:56.400 In anger 00:24:56.400 --> 00:24:58.120 and in wrath 00:24:58.120 --> 00:24:59.059 and in malice, 00:24:59.420 --> 00:25:00.339 slander people 00:25:00.339 --> 00:25:01.620 obscenely? 00:25:02.660 --> 00:25:03.519 It's because 00:25:03.519 --> 00:25:05.839 sin is still in our hearts. 00:25:07.059 --> 00:25:08.160 We've been made new, 00:25:08.279 --> 00:25:08.819 yet there's this 00:25:08.819 --> 00:25:10.039 still sinful nature 00:25:10.039 --> 00:25:11.480 that's got to be put to death 00:25:11.480 --> 00:25:12.139 and put down. 00:25:14.420 --> 00:25:16.299 And sometimes we go back 00:25:16.299 --> 00:25:17.139 to the old way 00:25:17.139 --> 00:25:17.879 of our speaking 00:25:17.879 --> 00:25:18.720 in which we are 00:25:18.720 --> 00:25:21.099 speaking out of self-protection. 00:25:21.500 --> 00:25:22.379 We are speaking 00:25:22.379 --> 00:25:23.559 to attack someone. 00:25:23.940 --> 00:25:24.539 We are speaking, 00:25:24.740 --> 00:25:25.240 well, you know what? 00:25:25.319 --> 00:25:26.059 Here's another tactic. 00:25:26.420 --> 00:25:27.279 You don't speak, 00:25:27.480 --> 00:25:29.319 you give the silent treatment, 00:25:29.559 --> 00:25:30.420 but it's actually 00:25:30.420 --> 00:25:32.079 a verbal attack of a sort. 00:25:35.000 --> 00:25:36.319 These are old ways 00:25:36.319 --> 00:25:36.899 of speaking. 00:25:38.180 --> 00:25:39.019 And these sins 00:25:39.019 --> 00:25:39.839 are common to man. 00:25:41.039 --> 00:25:42.799 Now, if you are regularly 00:25:42.799 --> 00:25:44.460 wearing these grave clothes, 00:25:44.720 --> 00:25:45.319 or better yet, 00:25:45.819 --> 00:25:47.339 you are speaking 00:25:47.339 --> 00:25:48.420 grave talk, 00:25:49.420 --> 00:25:52.159 I want to help you 00:25:52.159 --> 00:25:52.920 become convinced 00:25:52.920 --> 00:25:53.579 of the sinfulness 00:25:53.579 --> 00:25:54.319 of those things. 00:25:54.720 --> 00:25:56.359 Read James chapter 3 00:25:56.359 --> 00:25:57.759 verses 7 through 12. 00:26:00.259 --> 00:26:01.000 Take a look at 00:26:01.000 --> 00:26:02.379 Ephesians chapter 4 00:26:02.379 --> 00:26:03.819 verses 29, 30. 00:26:03.920 --> 00:26:04.220 In fact, 00:26:04.379 --> 00:26:05.519 let's go there right now. 00:26:06.579 --> 00:26:07.879 Ephesians chapter 4, 00:26:08.580 --> 00:26:09.720 29 through 30, 00:26:10.040 --> 00:26:10.920 we taught our kids 00:26:10.920 --> 00:26:11.760 verse 29. 00:26:12.800 --> 00:26:13.600 They were grown up, 00:26:13.680 --> 00:26:14.960 we would drop that dime 00:26:14.960 --> 00:26:16.300 like twice a week, 00:26:16.420 --> 00:26:17.300 three times a week. 00:26:19.220 --> 00:26:20.120 In verse 29 00:26:20.120 --> 00:26:21.220 of Ephesians 4 00:26:21.220 --> 00:26:21.720 says this, 00:26:21.820 --> 00:26:23.360 let no corrupting talk 00:26:23.360 --> 00:26:24.440 come out of your mouths, 00:26:24.560 --> 00:26:25.420 but only such 00:26:25.420 --> 00:26:26.740 as is good for building up, 00:26:27.060 --> 00:26:28.640 as fits the occasion, 00:26:29.260 --> 00:26:30.640 that it may give grace 00:26:30.640 --> 00:26:31.760 to those who hear. 00:26:31.759 --> 00:26:34.420 That's how we speak now 00:26:34.420 --> 00:26:35.160 with Christ, 00:26:35.599 --> 00:26:37.000 our treasured center, 00:26:37.200 --> 00:26:37.619 functioning. 00:26:38.900 --> 00:26:40.680 We're not to speak 00:26:40.680 --> 00:26:41.559 grave talk. 00:26:42.119 --> 00:26:43.200 It tears people down. 00:26:44.259 --> 00:26:45.180 It's disintegrating 00:26:45.180 --> 00:26:45.819 of relationship. 00:26:46.099 --> 00:26:46.859 But it's verse 30 00:26:46.859 --> 00:26:47.759 that I want you to see 00:26:47.759 --> 00:26:48.299 in the connection 00:26:48.299 --> 00:26:49.039 that's being made. 00:26:50.519 --> 00:26:51.160 Verse 30, 00:26:51.779 --> 00:26:52.819 seemingly out of nowhere, 00:26:52.980 --> 00:26:53.379 he says, 00:26:54.220 --> 00:26:54.779 and do not grieve 00:26:54.779 --> 00:26:55.740 the Holy Spirit of God 00:26:55.740 --> 00:26:56.619 by which you've been sealed 00:26:56.619 --> 00:26:57.839 for the day of redemption. 00:26:57.839 --> 00:26:59.079 Your speech, 00:27:00.279 --> 00:27:01.319 your trash talk, 00:27:01.699 --> 00:27:03.159 it grieves the Holy Spirit. 00:27:04.079 --> 00:27:04.720 Do you know why? 00:27:06.079 --> 00:27:07.099 Do you know what the Holy Spirit 00:27:07.099 --> 00:27:08.019 is seeking to do 00:27:08.019 --> 00:27:08.779 in our church? 00:27:09.919 --> 00:27:10.859 The Holy Spirit 00:27:10.859 --> 00:27:11.980 is seeking for us 00:27:11.980 --> 00:27:12.959 to speak the truth 00:27:12.959 --> 00:27:14.019 in love to one another, 00:27:14.319 --> 00:27:15.819 to build up our church, 00:27:15.959 --> 00:27:17.199 to unite our church. 00:27:17.619 --> 00:27:18.839 And when we speak 00:27:18.839 --> 00:27:20.240 grave talk, 00:27:20.379 --> 00:27:21.119 trash talk, 00:27:21.539 --> 00:27:23.299 it goes against 00:27:23.299 --> 00:27:24.299 the very work 00:27:24.299 --> 00:27:25.220 that the Holy Spirit 00:27:25.220 --> 00:27:26.139 is seeking to do 00:27:26.139 --> 00:27:26.740 in our midst. 00:27:27.839 --> 00:27:29.199 it grieves 00:27:29.199 --> 00:27:29.980 the Holy Spirit. 00:27:36.879 --> 00:27:37.839 So what do we do? 00:27:38.059 --> 00:27:41.179 We put this kind of talk away, 00:27:41.679 --> 00:27:42.179 Paul says, 00:27:42.359 --> 00:27:42.819 in verse 8. 00:27:43.699 --> 00:27:44.480 Put it away. 00:27:45.399 --> 00:27:45.959 It's another way 00:27:45.959 --> 00:27:46.439 of talking about 00:27:46.439 --> 00:27:47.199 putting it to death. 00:27:48.179 --> 00:27:48.839 April 3rd, 00:27:49.579 --> 00:27:50.240 80.33, 00:27:50.720 --> 00:27:51.619 3 p.m., 00:27:51.619 --> 00:27:51.879 dead. 00:27:53.019 --> 00:27:53.980 That stuff 00:27:53.980 --> 00:27:55.079 doesn't come out 00:27:55.079 --> 00:27:56.079 of this mouth anymore 00:27:56.079 --> 00:27:57.000 because it's dead. 00:27:57.000 --> 00:27:59.140 this is a mouth 00:27:59.140 --> 00:27:59.680 made new. 00:28:00.779 --> 00:28:01.900 This is a new self. 00:28:02.019 --> 00:28:02.920 I'm not going there. 00:28:09.200 --> 00:28:10.359 We put this 00:28:10.359 --> 00:28:12.279 trash talk 00:28:12.279 --> 00:28:13.859 in the trash can 00:28:13.859 --> 00:28:14.980 because it's not 00:28:14.980 --> 00:28:16.779 who we are anymore. 00:28:17.779 --> 00:28:19.220 It grieves God 00:28:19.220 --> 00:28:22.000 and it's unloving 00:28:22.000 --> 00:28:22.579 to others. 00:28:27.440 --> 00:28:29.200 For every couple 00:28:29.200 --> 00:28:29.920 I get to marry, 00:28:30.100 --> 00:28:31.000 I walk them through 00:28:31.000 --> 00:28:33.799 a premarital counseling 00:28:33.799 --> 00:28:34.319 sequence 00:28:34.319 --> 00:28:35.259 and one of the articles 00:28:35.259 --> 00:28:36.120 I have them read 00:28:36.120 --> 00:28:37.180 is by Paul David Tripp. 00:28:37.240 --> 00:28:37.640 It's called 00:28:37.640 --> 00:28:39.019 Speaking Redemptively. 00:28:40.200 --> 00:28:40.980 It's a thick, 00:28:41.180 --> 00:28:41.680 dense article, 00:28:41.900 --> 00:28:43.019 but it is so good. 00:28:43.480 --> 00:28:44.140 Kelly has put 00:28:44.140 --> 00:28:45.380 20 of those articles 00:28:45.380 --> 00:28:47.080 at the connect desk 00:28:47.080 --> 00:28:48.000 in that vestibule 00:28:48.000 --> 00:28:48.660 to my right. 00:28:48.940 --> 00:28:49.460 Pick one up. 00:28:49.540 --> 00:28:50.220 It'll help you 00:28:50.220 --> 00:28:51.000 think about 00:28:51.000 --> 00:28:52.160 your speech more. 00:28:54.480 --> 00:28:55.660 Why would someone 00:28:55.660 --> 00:28:56.340 living 00:28:56.340 --> 00:28:58.660 be wearing 00:28:58.660 --> 00:29:00.520 the grave clothes 00:29:00.520 --> 00:29:01.880 of someone 00:29:01.880 --> 00:29:02.920 who's died? 00:29:02.920 --> 00:29:07.039 we put these 00:29:07.039 --> 00:29:07.600 things to death 00:29:07.600 --> 00:29:08.140 and we put them 00:29:08.140 --> 00:29:08.480 away 00:29:08.480 --> 00:29:10.740 is another way 00:29:10.740 --> 00:29:11.240 of talking about 00:29:11.240 --> 00:29:12.460 repenting of your sin. 00:29:14.279 --> 00:29:15.740 Turning from your sin. 00:29:16.640 --> 00:29:17.800 Turning to Christ 00:29:17.800 --> 00:29:18.800 decisively. 00:29:20.539 --> 00:29:21.180 And when we do, 00:29:21.400 --> 00:29:23.200 we make space 00:29:23.200 --> 00:29:24.100 for something new. 00:29:26.539 --> 00:29:27.900 We put off the old 00:29:27.900 --> 00:29:30.259 and now point three, 00:29:30.259 --> 00:29:32.440 we make room 00:29:32.440 --> 00:29:33.059 for the new. 00:29:36.500 --> 00:29:37.319 What we have 00:29:37.319 --> 00:29:38.519 in verse 11, 00:29:39.660 --> 00:29:40.279 let me read it. 00:29:41.000 --> 00:29:41.980 Here there is not 00:29:41.980 --> 00:29:42.839 Greek and Jew, 00:29:42.980 --> 00:29:44.619 circumcised and uncircumcised, 00:29:44.779 --> 00:29:45.359 barbarian, 00:29:45.480 --> 00:29:45.859 Scythian, 00:29:46.019 --> 00:29:46.379 slave, 00:29:46.539 --> 00:29:46.839 free, 00:29:47.339 --> 00:29:48.599 but Christ is all 00:29:48.599 --> 00:29:49.500 in all. 00:29:49.640 --> 00:29:49.879 Do you know 00:29:49.879 --> 00:29:50.480 what we have here? 00:29:53.119 --> 00:29:54.339 We have a radical 00:29:54.339 --> 00:29:55.559 new way 00:29:55.559 --> 00:29:56.339 of relating 00:29:56.339 --> 00:29:57.039 with one another. 00:29:58.339 --> 00:29:59.460 Let me help you see it. 00:30:00.259 --> 00:30:01.660 There are four pairings 00:30:01.660 --> 00:30:04.180 of old man relating 00:30:04.180 --> 00:30:06.400 where you would relate 00:30:06.400 --> 00:30:07.359 to other people 00:30:07.359 --> 00:30:09.259 according to a worldly way, 00:30:09.359 --> 00:30:10.180 an earthly way. 00:30:11.839 --> 00:30:12.420 Here are the pairs. 00:30:15.039 --> 00:30:16.259 Here there is not 00:30:16.259 --> 00:30:17.079 Greek and Jew. 00:30:18.379 --> 00:30:20.900 It's measuring somebody up 00:30:20.900 --> 00:30:22.900 based upon their culture, 00:30:23.059 --> 00:30:23.839 their background, 00:30:24.220 --> 00:30:25.099 their religious kind 00:30:25.099 --> 00:30:25.799 of practices. 00:30:25.799 --> 00:30:28.539 He goes on to say, 00:30:29.579 --> 00:30:29.779 here, 00:30:30.299 --> 00:30:30.960 there is not 00:30:30.960 --> 00:30:31.399 Greek 00:30:31.399 --> 00:30:32.599 or Jew, 00:30:34.899 --> 00:30:35.799 circumcised and uncircumcision. 00:30:37.019 --> 00:30:37.980 It's, again, 00:30:38.119 --> 00:30:38.779 a difference 00:30:38.779 --> 00:30:40.220 between cultures 00:30:40.220 --> 00:30:42.819 and physical 00:30:42.819 --> 00:30:43.839 distinctions. 00:30:45.519 --> 00:30:46.759 Don't measure people up 00:30:46.759 --> 00:30:47.240 like that. 00:30:48.500 --> 00:30:49.619 That's an old way 00:30:49.619 --> 00:30:50.379 of doing things. 00:30:50.380 --> 00:30:52.680 The next one 00:30:52.680 --> 00:30:54.660 is barbarian, 00:30:54.840 --> 00:30:55.280 Scythian. 00:30:55.460 --> 00:30:55.760 You're like, 00:30:55.860 --> 00:30:56.020 whoa, 00:30:56.320 --> 00:30:56.820 barbarian, 00:30:56.920 --> 00:30:57.260 Scythian. 00:30:57.600 --> 00:30:59.480 These are two types 00:30:59.480 --> 00:31:00.760 of Gentiles. 00:31:02.040 --> 00:31:02.820 And barbarians 00:31:02.820 --> 00:31:05.120 were Gentiles 00:31:05.120 --> 00:31:05.860 who didn't speak 00:31:05.860 --> 00:31:06.380 Greek. 00:31:07.980 --> 00:31:08.960 And the Scythians, 00:31:09.340 --> 00:31:09.440 well, 00:31:09.500 --> 00:31:10.020 they were like, 00:31:10.800 --> 00:31:12.780 the bottom of the barrel 00:31:12.780 --> 00:31:13.840 when it comes to Gentiles. 00:31:14.000 --> 00:31:14.700 Has anybody heard 00:31:14.700 --> 00:31:16.320 the expression 00:31:16.320 --> 00:31:17.100 of white trash? 00:31:17.099 --> 00:31:19.219 Scythians 00:31:19.219 --> 00:31:20.500 were the white trash 00:31:20.500 --> 00:31:21.279 of Gentiles 00:31:21.279 --> 00:31:22.299 in the first century. 00:31:23.079 --> 00:31:23.759 That's how they were 00:31:23.759 --> 00:31:24.379 looked on. 00:31:26.279 --> 00:31:26.980 So you have this, 00:31:27.039 --> 00:31:27.799 within Gentiles, 00:31:27.879 --> 00:31:28.399 you have this 00:31:28.399 --> 00:31:29.480 measuring up 00:31:29.480 --> 00:31:30.299 category. 00:31:31.379 --> 00:31:31.619 Oh, 00:31:31.799 --> 00:31:32.579 you're white trash. 00:31:33.500 --> 00:31:34.659 I'm a barbarian. 00:31:36.099 --> 00:31:36.719 And then, 00:31:36.799 --> 00:31:37.079 of course, 00:31:37.159 --> 00:31:38.240 there is slave and free 00:31:38.240 --> 00:31:40.519 who's got the power. 00:31:42.519 --> 00:31:43.779 These are old 00:31:43.779 --> 00:31:44.839 ways 00:31:44.839 --> 00:31:45.639 of relating, 00:31:45.640 --> 00:31:47.940 of measuring up. 00:31:49.360 --> 00:31:50.780 And when Paul says, 00:31:51.900 --> 00:31:52.220 here, 00:31:53.660 --> 00:31:54.420 he's saying, 00:31:54.500 --> 00:31:55.060 among you, 00:31:55.680 --> 00:31:55.980 church. 00:31:57.820 --> 00:31:58.259 Here, 00:31:58.400 --> 00:31:58.800 there is 00:31:58.800 --> 00:31:59.680 none of that. 00:32:01.360 --> 00:32:02.060 Among you, 00:32:02.200 --> 00:32:02.820 none of that. 00:32:03.460 --> 00:32:03.980 None of that 00:32:03.980 --> 00:32:04.500 old, 00:32:04.860 --> 00:32:05.780 Christ-less 00:32:05.780 --> 00:32:06.380 way 00:32:06.380 --> 00:32:08.040 of relating 00:32:08.040 --> 00:32:09.360 to one another. 00:32:11.140 --> 00:32:12.160 Every one of those 00:32:12.160 --> 00:32:12.600 pairings 00:32:12.600 --> 00:32:14.280 had hostility 00:32:14.280 --> 00:32:14.820 within it. 00:32:15.640 --> 00:32:20.640 today, 00:32:20.780 --> 00:32:21.060 we 00:32:21.060 --> 00:32:24.240 measure people up 00:32:24.240 --> 00:32:25.300 in a variety of ways 00:32:25.300 --> 00:32:27.240 by physical beauty, 00:32:28.100 --> 00:32:30.320 by physical health, 00:32:31.160 --> 00:32:32.320 by the appearance 00:32:32.320 --> 00:32:33.440 of physical wealth, 00:32:33.560 --> 00:32:34.640 of having it all together. 00:32:35.080 --> 00:32:36.200 We measure people up 00:32:36.200 --> 00:32:36.620 politically. 00:32:36.860 --> 00:32:37.740 We measure people up 00:32:37.740 --> 00:32:38.480 educationally. 00:32:38.600 --> 00:32:40.220 We measure people up 00:32:40.220 --> 00:32:41.020 racially. 00:32:41.360 --> 00:32:42.620 We measure people up 00:32:42.620 --> 00:32:43.759 according to their gender, 00:32:43.759 --> 00:32:44.779 according to their 00:32:44.779 --> 00:32:46.279 moral adherence. 00:32:46.480 --> 00:32:48.339 We do this. 00:32:50.099 --> 00:32:51.259 We default 00:32:51.259 --> 00:32:53.379 into a measuring up 00:32:53.379 --> 00:32:53.879 of one another. 00:32:54.000 --> 00:32:54.579 And when it comes 00:32:54.579 --> 00:32:55.519 into the church, 00:32:56.319 --> 00:32:59.559 it's an old way. 00:33:00.819 --> 00:33:02.019 These are grave clothes, 00:33:02.539 --> 00:33:03.180 brothers and sisters. 00:33:03.180 --> 00:33:03.299 believers. 00:33:05.460 --> 00:33:06.240 In fact, 00:33:06.360 --> 00:33:06.759 Paul 00:33:06.759 --> 00:33:09.660 introduces a whole 00:33:09.660 --> 00:33:10.519 new category 00:33:10.519 --> 00:33:11.840 for our church 00:33:11.840 --> 00:33:13.259 in how to relate 00:33:13.259 --> 00:33:13.900 with one another. 00:33:15.060 --> 00:33:16.460 It's those last words. 00:33:17.900 --> 00:33:18.500 But Christ 00:33:18.500 --> 00:33:19.140 is all 00:33:19.140 --> 00:33:20.259 and in all. 00:33:21.100 --> 00:33:21.960 You could say it like this. 00:33:22.220 --> 00:33:22.539 Here, 00:33:23.640 --> 00:33:24.700 Christ is all 00:33:24.700 --> 00:33:25.660 and in all. 00:33:27.000 --> 00:33:27.600 Christ is our 00:33:27.600 --> 00:33:27.960 everything. 00:33:28.840 --> 00:33:29.759 Christ defines us. 00:33:29.860 --> 00:33:30.759 Christ unites us. 00:33:31.480 --> 00:33:32.259 We don't do 00:33:32.259 --> 00:33:33.140 the old stuff anymore. 00:33:33.519 --> 00:33:34.819 We live here now. 00:33:35.879 --> 00:33:36.500 That's how we relate 00:33:36.500 --> 00:33:37.019 with one another. 00:33:37.079 --> 00:33:37.660 We put out 00:33:37.660 --> 00:33:38.960 those old clothes. 00:33:41.079 --> 00:33:41.480 Christ 00:33:41.480 --> 00:33:43.759 is all. 00:33:45.640 --> 00:33:46.420 He is our everything. 00:33:47.500 --> 00:33:48.319 He is our life. 00:33:50.599 --> 00:33:51.599 He made us new. 00:33:53.240 --> 00:33:53.920 Because we've been 00:33:53.920 --> 00:33:54.539 united to him 00:33:54.539 --> 00:33:54.920 in his death 00:33:54.920 --> 00:33:55.480 and resurrection, 00:33:55.660 --> 00:33:56.640 we've been made new. 00:33:56.640 --> 00:34:00.080 So if I were to point 00:34:00.080 --> 00:34:00.700 to different Christians 00:34:00.700 --> 00:34:01.160 in the room, 00:34:01.300 --> 00:34:02.080 I'd be like, 00:34:02.860 --> 00:34:03.300 he's new. 00:34:03.740 --> 00:34:04.380 He's in Christ. 00:34:04.700 --> 00:34:05.360 She's in Christ. 00:34:05.900 --> 00:34:06.560 Born again. 00:34:07.300 --> 00:34:07.740 Regenerated. 00:34:08.059 --> 00:34:08.780 Yep, yep, yep. 00:34:11.059 --> 00:34:12.039 He's changed us. 00:34:12.140 --> 00:34:12.920 And so what that means 00:34:12.920 --> 00:34:15.180 is he defines us. 00:34:16.720 --> 00:34:18.240 Our union with Christ 00:34:18.240 --> 00:34:20.079 is more important 00:34:20.079 --> 00:34:21.500 than what defines us 00:34:21.500 --> 00:34:22.300 politically. 00:34:22.300 --> 00:34:25.260 Our union with Christ 00:34:25.260 --> 00:34:26.160 is more important 00:34:26.160 --> 00:34:27.460 than what defines us, 00:34:27.920 --> 00:34:28.519 how we come down 00:34:28.519 --> 00:34:29.500 on social issues 00:34:29.500 --> 00:34:30.240 or race 00:34:30.240 --> 00:34:31.060 or gender. 00:34:32.480 --> 00:34:34.940 What elevates us, 00:34:35.080 --> 00:34:36.480 what defines us 00:34:36.480 --> 00:34:37.660 are none of these 00:34:37.660 --> 00:34:38.360 old ways 00:34:38.360 --> 00:34:40.920 but Christ. 00:34:40.920 --> 00:34:44.539 in the book of Ephesians, 00:34:45.659 --> 00:34:46.380 the apostle Paul 00:34:46.380 --> 00:34:47.220 talks about 00:34:47.220 --> 00:34:48.680 those in Christ 00:34:48.680 --> 00:34:50.059 as a whole new 00:34:50.059 --> 00:34:50.940 people group. 00:34:51.820 --> 00:34:52.579 Neither Jew, 00:34:52.820 --> 00:34:53.720 neither Gentile, 00:34:54.079 --> 00:34:54.740 a whole new 00:34:54.740 --> 00:34:55.500 people group. 00:34:56.780 --> 00:34:57.700 The blood bod 00:34:57.700 --> 00:34:58.260 of God. 00:35:03.380 --> 00:35:04.559 In chapter 1, 00:35:04.599 --> 00:35:05.320 verse 18, 00:35:07.159 --> 00:35:07.820 the apostle Paul 00:35:07.820 --> 00:35:08.559 is talking about 00:35:08.559 --> 00:35:10.559 how awesome 00:35:10.559 --> 00:35:11.400 Jesus is. 00:35:14.099 --> 00:35:14.940 1.17, 00:35:15.119 --> 00:35:15.860 and he is before 00:35:15.860 --> 00:35:16.400 all things 00:35:16.400 --> 00:35:17.239 and in him 00:35:17.239 --> 00:35:17.759 all things 00:35:17.759 --> 00:35:18.779 hold together. 00:35:20.380 --> 00:35:21.219 Verse 18, 00:35:21.320 --> 00:35:21.920 and he is the head 00:35:21.920 --> 00:35:22.320 of the body, 00:35:22.380 --> 00:35:22.820 the church, 00:35:23.219 --> 00:35:23.820 he's the beginning, 00:35:23.920 --> 00:35:24.299 the firstborn 00:35:24.299 --> 00:35:24.820 from the dead 00:35:24.820 --> 00:35:25.980 that in everything 00:35:25.980 --> 00:35:27.400 he might be preeminent. 00:35:28.420 --> 00:35:29.860 In our relationships 00:35:29.860 --> 00:35:32.000 he's preeminent. 00:35:32.960 --> 00:35:34.139 He defines us. 00:35:35.279 --> 00:35:35.799 And then there's 00:35:35.799 --> 00:35:37.000 Christ in all. 00:35:37.440 --> 00:35:38.099 He's in every one 00:35:38.099 --> 00:35:38.480 of us. 00:35:38.559 --> 00:35:41.299 He defines us. 00:35:42.400 --> 00:35:43.480 He's in each of us. 00:35:44.440 --> 00:35:44.900 And therefore, 00:35:45.039 --> 00:35:46.099 he unites us. 00:35:46.779 --> 00:35:47.059 Do you know, 00:35:47.599 --> 00:35:48.099 I've used this 00:35:48.099 --> 00:35:48.860 illustration before, 00:35:49.019 --> 00:35:49.880 so bear with me. 00:35:50.699 --> 00:35:51.179 Pretend with me 00:35:51.179 --> 00:35:51.779 there are two 00:35:51.779 --> 00:35:53.639 baby grand pianos 00:35:53.639 --> 00:35:55.480 on the stage. 00:35:56.380 --> 00:35:57.219 They're both in tune. 00:35:58.219 --> 00:35:59.059 If you hit center 00:35:59.059 --> 00:35:59.699 C in one, 00:36:00.460 --> 00:36:01.199 you will hear 00:36:01.199 --> 00:36:02.380 center C 00:36:02.380 --> 00:36:03.559 resonate in the other. 00:36:04.779 --> 00:36:05.980 Our center C 00:36:05.980 --> 00:36:07.440 is Christ central. 00:36:07.440 --> 00:36:10.119 And so when we 00:36:10.119 --> 00:36:12.280 hit Christ central 00:36:12.280 --> 00:36:14.039 as the preeminent, 00:36:14.219 --> 00:36:14.719 uniting, 00:36:14.880 --> 00:36:15.340 defining 00:36:15.340 --> 00:36:17.079 person of our lives, 00:36:17.260 --> 00:36:18.280 it resonates 00:36:18.280 --> 00:36:19.240 with us all. 00:36:22.340 --> 00:36:23.440 Christ is all. 00:36:23.559 --> 00:36:24.219 He defines us. 00:36:24.320 --> 00:36:25.059 Christ is all. 00:36:25.139 --> 00:36:25.960 He unites us. 00:36:25.960 --> 00:36:28.619 The thing is, 00:36:28.920 --> 00:36:29.960 sexual sin, 00:36:30.539 --> 00:36:31.559 sinful speech, 00:36:32.099 --> 00:36:33.659 this old way 00:36:33.659 --> 00:36:34.360 of measuring 00:36:34.360 --> 00:36:35.199 one another up, 00:36:35.440 --> 00:36:35.960 they detract 00:36:36.679 --> 00:36:38.039 from our unity 00:36:38.039 --> 00:36:39.280 as a church. 00:36:40.400 --> 00:36:41.119 That's why we've got 00:36:41.119 --> 00:36:41.659 to put them away. 00:36:43.340 --> 00:36:44.079 That's why we've got 00:36:44.079 --> 00:36:44.740 to put them to death. 00:36:44.739 --> 00:36:48.319 At the beginning 00:36:48.319 --> 00:36:48.939 of the sermon, 00:36:49.319 --> 00:36:49.659 do you remember 00:36:49.659 --> 00:36:50.439 what the old lady 00:36:50.439 --> 00:36:51.819 asked the young man 00:36:51.819 --> 00:36:53.000 wearing grave clothes? 00:36:57.199 --> 00:36:58.839 Why would someone alive 00:36:58.839 --> 00:37:01.879 be wearing the clothes 00:37:01.879 --> 00:37:02.759 of someone dead? 00:37:04.179 --> 00:37:04.599 Christian, 00:37:05.959 --> 00:37:06.699 why would 00:37:06.699 --> 00:37:09.819 someone made new 00:37:09.819 --> 00:37:10.579 in Christ 00:37:10.579 --> 00:37:12.959 continue to wear 00:37:12.960 --> 00:37:14.720 the old grave clothes 00:37:14.720 --> 00:37:16.920 of the old man? 00:37:19.360 --> 00:37:20.400 You've been made new. 00:37:21.720 --> 00:37:22.900 We put those 00:37:22.900 --> 00:37:24.199 old grave clothes 00:37:24.199 --> 00:37:25.139 to death. 00:37:25.420 --> 00:37:26.300 We put them away. 00:37:27.619 --> 00:37:28.800 They're not who you are. 00:37:28.980 --> 00:37:29.760 They grieve God. 00:37:29.860 --> 00:37:30.480 They're unloving. 00:37:31.199 --> 00:37:31.940 And when we do, 00:37:32.720 --> 00:37:34.019 we make room 00:37:34.019 --> 00:37:34.539 for the new. 00:37:35.539 --> 00:37:36.780 New ways of relating 00:37:36.780 --> 00:37:40.980 and those made new 00:37:40.980 --> 00:37:42.360 in Christ 00:37:42.360 --> 00:37:44.079 they come 00:37:44.079 --> 00:37:45.720 and they experience 00:37:45.720 --> 00:37:47.240 a new way 00:37:47.240 --> 00:37:47.700 of relating. 00:37:49.099 --> 00:37:50.019 That's who we are. 00:37:51.360 --> 00:37:52.280 This is Christ-centered 00:37:52.280 --> 00:37:52.599 living. 00:37:53.780 --> 00:37:54.660 And next week 00:37:54.660 --> 00:37:55.440 we're going to see 00:37:55.440 --> 00:37:55.820 how, 00:37:56.680 --> 00:37:58.300 what we must put on 00:37:58.300 --> 00:37:59.740 in order to live 00:37:59.740 --> 00:38:00.480 out 00:38:00.480 --> 00:38:02.960 being Christ's 00:38:02.960 --> 00:38:03.380 community 00:38:03.380 --> 00:38:04.860 with him 00:38:04.860 --> 00:38:05.340 at the center. 00:38:06.280 --> 00:38:07.160 Let's pray together. 00:38:09.079 --> 00:38:09.820 Lord Jesus, 00:38:09.980 --> 00:38:10.780 thank you so much 00:38:10.780 --> 00:38:12.140 for who you are, 00:38:12.220 --> 00:38:13.040 for what you've done, 00:38:13.600 --> 00:38:14.260 what you're doing, 00:38:14.340 --> 00:38:14.960 what you will do. 00:38:15.040 --> 00:38:15.740 We're so grateful 00:38:15.740 --> 00:38:17.120 that you have 00:38:17.120 --> 00:38:19.780 taken center stage 00:38:19.780 --> 00:38:21.300 in our lives 00:38:21.300 --> 00:38:21.940 individually 00:38:21.940 --> 00:38:22.920 and as a church. 00:38:23.620 --> 00:38:23.780 God, 00:38:23.840 --> 00:38:25.320 would you grow us 00:38:25.320 --> 00:38:26.460 in both 00:38:26.460 --> 00:38:27.840 our personal holiness 00:38:27.840 --> 00:38:29.420 and in our 00:38:29.420 --> 00:38:30.880 corporate holiness 00:38:30.880 --> 00:38:32.480 that you would become 00:38:32.480 --> 00:38:33.300 more and more 00:38:33.300 --> 00:38:34.660 the controlling center, 00:38:34.820 --> 00:38:36.060 the controlling treasure 00:38:36.059 --> 00:38:37.500 of our lives 00:38:37.500 --> 00:38:37.880 together, 00:38:38.059 --> 00:38:38.860 defining us, 00:38:39.400 --> 00:38:40.159 uniting us. 00:38:41.759 --> 00:38:42.000 God, 00:38:42.039 --> 00:38:42.639 we pray that you 00:38:42.639 --> 00:38:43.840 would deliver us 00:38:43.840 --> 00:38:45.599 from grave clothes 00:38:45.599 --> 00:38:47.119 so that we can walk 00:38:47.119 --> 00:38:47.880 in newness of life 00:38:47.880 --> 00:38:48.239 together. 00:38:48.920 --> 00:38:49.699 In Jesus' name 00:38:49.699 --> 00:38:50.079 we pray. 00:38:50.079 --> 00:38:51.299 Amen.