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 This afternoon, I have the privilege of giving the eulogy at a funeral.

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 And this man that has died, he has lived a compelling, compelling life for Christ.

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 He's the father of a sister from our church.

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 Many of us don't know who this man is.

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 But I have found myself asking, what am I all about?

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 And I found myself wanting to ask us as a church, Christ the King Church, what are we all about?

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 You may answer that question, well, I'm all about the Packers, or I'm about the Bears, or I'm about my family, my kids, my grandkids.

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 I'm all about my health.

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 I'm all about my city.

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 I'm all about my career.

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 But Christ the King Church, really, what are we all about?

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 Are we about this old historic building?

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 Are we about helping people in need?

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 Is that all we're about?

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 Are we all about having close, meaningful relationships with one another?

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 What are we all about?

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 We're all about the gospel.

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 And that is the whole point of the entire book of Galatians.

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 If I were to summarize the book of Galatians in a sentence, it would be this.

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 The gospel of Jesus Christ alone frees us from slavery to sin in order to live together for God.

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 That's what Paul's getting at.

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 That's what God is getting at.

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 The gospel alone frees us from slavery to sin in order for us to live for God.

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 And so I know on the title of this sermon, I have Galatians, a retro view, five walkaways.

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 It's just going to be four walkaways.

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 So four walkaways from our four plus months of simmering in the book of Galatians.

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 Let me name you these four walkaways.

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 First, our first walkaway is our one true gospel.

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 We've got to be clear on the gospel.

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 It is God's power unto salvation.

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 Our second walkaway is being aware of our old gospel enemy, legalism.

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 Our third walkaway is our new gospel identity, believing what God says about you, not what the world says about you.

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 And our fourth walkaway from Galatians is our new gospel community.

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 In Christ Jesus, we have a new social value system.

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 The summary of Galatians, again, is this.

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 The gospel alone frees us from slavery to sin in order to live for God.

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 And so here's the deal.

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 We as a church moving forward, we must keep in step with the gospel of Jesus Christ.

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 In other words, we must be all about the gospel.

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 So let's focus in on this first walkaway.

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 We want to avoid the mistake of which James 1.22 warns us not to forget what we've seen in this book, but to apply it.

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 So our first walkaway moving forward is being clear on the one true gospel.

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 If you looked at the beginning and the end of the book of Galatians, you're going to notice something.

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 In verse 4 of Galatians chapter 1, Paul is talking about the Lord Jesus Christ.

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 And he says, who gave himself for our sins to deliver us from the present evil age.

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 That little phrase, who gave himself for our sins, that's a way of summarizing the gospel.

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 The good news of what God has done through Jesus Christ.

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 And you notice what the gospel does.

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 For those who believe, it delivers us from this present evil age,

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 which is just another way of talking about the world.

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 Now, if you flip to the back of Galatians, Galatians chapter 6,

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 in verses 11 through 16, particular verses 14 through 15,

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 we read Paul saying this,

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 But far be it for me to boast except in the cross of our Lord Jesus Christ,

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 by which the world has been crucified to me and I to the world.

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 Now, I find it very interesting that Paul begins and ends this letter to the Galatians

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 by talking about the gospel, Christ crucified,

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 and that it delivers us from this present evil age, the world.

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 This book, from beginning to end, is all about Christ crucified,

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 the power of God, and what that does for us,

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 what God has done for us.

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 At the heart of the gospel is Christ's substitutionary death for sinners on the cross.

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 He gave himself up for our sins.

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 Christ crucified on our behalf.

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 And all the way through, from beginning to end,

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 everything in the middle of this book of Galatians,

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 is all about the gospel.

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 Now, Billy started the service earlier on.

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 He read a passage from 1 Corinthians 1,

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 in which Paul talked about the gospel as God's power in wisdom.

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 Paul in Romans 1.16 describes the gospel as God's power unto salvation.

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 And we start picking up on that all the way through Galatians.

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 So let me just give you a quick tour de force.

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 In 1.6 and 7, there is only one true gospel that actually saves people from sin.

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 1.11, we learn that it's not man's gospel,

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 but this good news of Christ crucified,

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 this is God's good news to fallen humanity.

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 This is a message from God.

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 And 2.5, the truth of this one true gospel,

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 it must be protected and preserved.

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 And 2.7, this gospel is entrusted to be proclaimed to the nations,

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 uncircumcised and circumcised.

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 2.14, our conduct is either in step with this gospel,

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 or it's out of step with this gospel.

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 And 2.15 through 21,

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 this gospel justifies all who would believe.

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 This week, I was listening to WNBI,

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 and I heard Colin Smith,

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 he is a Scottish preacher serving at the Orchard Church in Arlington Heights.

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 I can't give you a Scottish accent.

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 I wish I could,

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 but here's what he said.

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 We don't obey in order to come to Christ.

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 We come to Christ in order to obey.

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 The gospel declares that a sinner is made right with God

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 based on the finished work of Jesus Christ on the cross.

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 Not our works.

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 And so when we read 2.20,

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 that the gospel announces that sinners have been co-crucified with Christ

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 and co-risen with Christ,

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 we've been united with Christ.

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 At the heart of that is Christ's death and resurrection.

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 It's all about the gospel.

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 And 3.8,

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 The gospel was preached beforehand to Abraham,

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 quote,

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 In you shall all the nations be blessed.

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 This gospel is a big gospel.

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 God's plan for the fullness of time realized in Jesus.

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 And 3.15 through 18,

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 we learn that God's blessing to all nations promised to Abraham

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 would come through one of Abraham's offspring,

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 quote,

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 Who is Christ?

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 Gospel.

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 Christ crucified is God's good news of blessing to all nations.

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 3.13,

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 Christ redeemed us from the curse of the law.

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 Redemption is another way of talking about what the cross does.

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 In 3.26,

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 we learn that in Christ Jesus,

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 you are all sons of God by faith.

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 Adoption is another way of talking about what the cross of Christ has done.

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 4.4-7,

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 again,

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 talks about redemption

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 and combines it with adoption.

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 We're justified.

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 We're redeemed.

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 We're adopted.

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 All because of the cross of Jesus Christ.

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 We can cry out,

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 Abba, Father,

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 by the Spirit in us

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 because of the cross of Jesus Christ.

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 4.28,

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 adoption.

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 5.1,

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 for freedom Christ has set us free.

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 That's redemption language.

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 5.13-24,

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 because of the gospel,

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 we no longer walk by the flesh,

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 we walk by the Spirit

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 so that we can fulfill the law of God.

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 Gospel.

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 6.2,

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 we bear one another's burdens

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 and so fulfill the law of Christ.

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 The gospel sings to our hearts

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 as we serve one another.

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 It's because of the gospel.

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 It's the new creation rule by which we walk.

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 Galatians,

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 from beginning to end,

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 is all about the gospel of Jesus Christ.

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 It just doesn't start and end with the gospel.

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 It is packed full of gospel.

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 It's all about the one true gospel of Jesus Christ.

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 And let me just let you know,

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 it's only that gospel that can save sinners.

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 You can't add works to the gospel,

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 nor can you remove the cross of Christ from the gospel.

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 If you add to it or remove from it,

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 you don't have a gospel anymore.

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 There's only one true gospel,

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 and you can sum it up with just two words,

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 Christ crucified.

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 So our first walk away

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 is this huge emphasis

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 on the gospel of Jesus Christ,

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 and it just doesn't get us into the kingdom.

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 It helps us live out

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 being citizens of the kingdom.

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 So now we turn to the second walk away.

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 Wouldn't it be great

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 if we as a church,

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 back to the first walk away,

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 wouldn't it be great

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 if moving forward

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 for weeks and months

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 and years,

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 Lord willing,

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 ahead,

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 we are gospel-centered

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 like Galatians is?

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 Now to the second walk away,

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 the old gospel enemy.

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 Throughout this letter,

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 Paul repeatedly warns

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 of a false gospel,

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 a distorted gospel.

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 And so let me just tell you up front,

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 a distorted gospel

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 is a dud of a gospel.

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 It can't do anything.

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 Here's a nice thought.

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 Just imagine a hot August summer day

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 in Kenosha.

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 You're walking down 73rd Street.

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 It's the street I live on.

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 You're sweating up a storm

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 because it's like 90-something degrees out

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 with Wisconsin humidity.

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 I'm on my front porch.

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 I see you walking by.

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 You're a sweat hog.

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 I've got compassion on you.

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 And I say to you,

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 hey, would you like a cold glass of water?

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 And you're like,

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 absolutely.

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 I'm so sweaty and hot.

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 I'm so weary.

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 I say, well, come up onto my stoop.

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 And I run into the house.

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 30 seconds later,

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 I am back

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 and I hand you

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 a tall,

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 cold glass of water

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 packed full of ice

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 brimming with water.

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 And it even has that kind of

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 perspiration on the outside of the glass

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 because it's so humid.

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 You know what I'm talking about?

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 Your mouth is so parched.

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 And as you bring that glass up to your lips,

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 I happen to mention to you,

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 oh, by the way,

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 I just put a drip of my dog's blood

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 in that glass of water.

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 What would you do?

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 Would you knock that baby back?

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 You'd be like,

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 you'd throw the glass against my house.

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 You'd be like,

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 what are you thinking?

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 I'm not drinking that polluted water.

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 It's not good for me.

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 Legalism pollutes the one true gospel

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 into something else.

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 A corrupted gospel is a contrary gospel.

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 A distorted gospel is a dud of a gospel.

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 It's blood water.

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 You don't want it.

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 There's no power in it.

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 Legalism.

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 Legalism corrupts the one true gospel

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 of Jesus Christ into something else.

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 A legalistic approach to religion

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 has no power to justify you.

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 It has no power to redeem you.

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 There's nothing in it that brings you about

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 the adoption,

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 the spirit dwelling,

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 a new creation,

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 making you a citizen of the Jerusalem from above.

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 It's got no power to do that.

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 In fact, it only just condemns you.

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 The legalism of the first century in Galatia was this.

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 Jews were insisting that Gentiles,

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 in order to become Christians,

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 had to first become Jews.

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 Jews.

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 That means men had to be circumcised.

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 That was what's going on with a little powwow

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 we read about in chapter 2, 1 through 10.

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 There was also this insistence

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 that in order to be a true Christian,

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 you needed to observe Jewish dietary restrictions.

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 You had to eat kosher.

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 That's the big deal of what we see going on in 2.12.

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 And then there was this kind of insistence

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 that you need to observe Jewish holy days.

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 Make sure Yom Kippur is on your calendar

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 and you observe it.

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 We see that reference in 4.10 through 11.

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 But what you need to understand,

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 that's not the gospel.

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 You're not justified by works.

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 The good news of Jesus Christ

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 is not what we must do.

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 You're not justified by your works.

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 You're not redeemed through circumcision.

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 You're not adopted by eating kosher.

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 And you're not indwelt by the Spirit

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 by observing Jewish holy days.

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 When we try to sneak our own works

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 into our standing with God,

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 we are actually trying to broker

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 our own salvation.

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 That's not good news, brothers and sisters.

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 That's our old gospel enemy.

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 That's legalism.

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 If the pure, true gospel

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 is a cup of cold glass water

00:16:26.180 --> 00:16:28.400
 to the soul on a hot summer day

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 in this present evil age,

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 legalism is the drip of dog blood

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 that changes its very essence.

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 The essence of legalism

00:16:38.759 --> 00:16:41.019
 is a salvation dependent

00:16:41.019 --> 00:16:43.460
 upon the obedience of man.

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 It's a man-centered salvation

00:16:46.440 --> 00:16:48.040
 and it doesn't save.

00:16:48.900 --> 00:16:50.540
 The essence of the gospel

00:16:50.540 --> 00:16:52.380
 is that salvation

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 depends solely on the finished

00:16:54.140 --> 00:16:56.820
 substitutionary work of Jesus Christ,

00:16:56.960 --> 00:16:57.800
 Christ crucified.

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 It's a God-centered salvation.

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 It's by grace alone.

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 And today,

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 there's all sorts of legalisms,

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 both major scale and minor scale.

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 The health and wealth gospel,

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 the prosperity gospel,

00:17:15.680 --> 00:17:17.879
 is actually a kind of legalism.

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 It's saying that if you want

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 to experience the riches

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 and the health today

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 that Jesus died for,

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 then you just need to believe more.

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 It puts salvation on you.

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 It's no salvation.

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 There's a kind of Pentecostalism

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 that says in order for you to be saved,

00:17:44.039 --> 00:17:45.419
 you must speak in tongues.

00:17:48.399 --> 00:17:49.599
 In order for you to be saved,

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 you must speak in tongues?

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 In order for you to be saved,

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 you must believe in the finished work

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 of Jesus Christ.

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 There's no salvation in provings

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 by speaking in tongues.

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 It's no salvation.

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 There's some Christians out there

00:18:06.359 --> 00:18:08.399
 that says in order to be saved,

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 you must be baptized.

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 Baptism doesn't save you.

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 Being united to Christ

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 in His death and resurrection

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 saves you.

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 That's what baptism symbolizes.

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 There is a little phrase

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 that you need to be aware of.

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 Maybe it's in your own thinking

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 or when you hear a bubble up

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 from somebody else,

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 it goes something like this.

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 Real Christians don't

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 fill in the blank.

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 Real Christians don't

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 watch R-rated movies.

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 Real Christians don't

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 let their kids play video games.

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 Real Christians don't

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 drink alcohol.

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 Real Christians don't

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 smoke or chew

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 or go out with girls who do.

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 watching an R-rated movie

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 is not going to save you

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 or unsave you.

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 Your kids playing video games

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 is not going to save them

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 or unsave them.

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 Drinking alcohol

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 is not going to save you

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 or unsave you.

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 Dating a girl

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 who chews tobacco

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 Now if you're united

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 to Christ

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 if you've been born

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 of the Spirit

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 it informs

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 the movies you watch.

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 It informs

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 how you

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 the video games

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 you play.

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 It informs

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 what foods

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 you take in.

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 Romans 14

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 out of love

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 you don't want to

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 cause anybody

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 to stumble

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 by drinking alcohol.

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 It's not worth it.

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 It doesn't save you.

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 The finished work

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 of Christ

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 saves you.

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 Real Christians

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 homeschool their children.

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 Real Christians

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 eat only

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 what's in the Bible.

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 Ezekiel bread.

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 Jesus declared

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 all foods clean.

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 Eat whatever you want.

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 That's the real

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 biblical sense.

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 Amen.

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 Real Christians

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 give 10%.

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 Real Christians

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 invest in gold.

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 Real Christians

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 pay in cash only.

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 Real Christians

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 never go into debt.

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 Your salvation

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 isn't dependent

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 on any of that.

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 Your salvation

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 informs these things.

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 How you

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 educate your children.

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 What kind of foods

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 you eat.

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 Your giving.

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 Your investments.

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 How you manage

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 your money.

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 Whether you go

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 into debt or not.

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 But certainly

00:20:45.839 --> 00:20:47.420
 only the cross

00:20:47.420 --> 00:20:48.079
 of Christ

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 saves you.

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 Remember that

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 Colin Smith quote?

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 We do not obey

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 in order to come

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 to Christ.

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 We come to Christ

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 in order to obey.

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 Legalism says

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 we obey

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 in order

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 to come to Christ.

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 Here's how

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 this shows up.

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 one of you

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 sins.

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 And you're

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 a total mess

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 about it.

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 How could I

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 do that again?

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 And instead

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 of running

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 to the finished

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 work of Jesus

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 Christ

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 and finding

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 a cup of

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 cold water

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 for your soul

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 you start

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 doing things

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 like this.

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 I'm just going

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 to read my Bible

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 more.

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 I'm going to pray

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 more.

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 I'm going to

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 give more.

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 I'm going to

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 go to church

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 more.

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 I'm going

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 to atone

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 for my sin

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 by these

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 works.

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 And Jesus'

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 blood has

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 covered it

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 all.

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 Brothers and

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 sisters

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 your works

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 cannot save

00:21:49.159 --> 00:21:49.659
 you nor do

00:21:49.659 --> 00:21:50.000
 they keep

00:21:50.000 --> 00:21:50.539
 you saved.

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 It's only

00:21:52.259 --> 00:21:52.819
 the finished

00:21:52.819 --> 00:21:53.559
 work of

00:21:53.559 --> 00:21:54.460
 Jesus Christ.

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 Here's what

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 you need to

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 understand as

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 we move

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 forward together.

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 We learn

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 from Galatians

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 chapter 5

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 that we

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 have our

00:22:03.539 --> 00:22:03.960
 bodies

00:22:03.960 --> 00:22:04.460
 if you're

00:22:04.460 --> 00:22:04.759
 a Christian

00:22:04.759 --> 00:22:05.279
 our civil

00:22:05.279 --> 00:22:05.660
 war.

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 You have

00:22:06.720 --> 00:22:07.240
 the flesh

00:22:07.240 --> 00:22:08.240
 that internal

00:22:08.240 --> 00:22:09.299
 power in

00:22:09.299 --> 00:22:09.839
 you towards

00:22:09.839 --> 00:22:10.680
 self-centeredness

00:22:10.680 --> 00:22:11.400
 and then there's

00:22:11.400 --> 00:22:11.900
 the spirit

00:22:11.900 --> 00:22:12.500
 at work in

00:22:12.500 --> 00:22:13.039
 you who

00:22:13.039 --> 00:22:13.420
 wants you

00:22:13.420 --> 00:22:13.779
 to live

00:22:13.779 --> 00:22:14.259
 for God

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 and they're

00:22:14.640 --> 00:22:15.339
 in conflict

00:22:15.339 --> 00:22:16.240
 with one

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 another.

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 Here's what

00:22:17.180 --> 00:22:17.539
 you need to

00:22:17.539 --> 00:22:17.940
 know about

00:22:17.940 --> 00:22:18.519
 your flesh.

00:22:18.980 --> 00:22:19.900
 Your flesh

00:22:19.900 --> 00:22:21.420
 loves legalism.

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 Give me

00:22:23.240 --> 00:22:24.059
 rules.

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 Because your

00:22:28.279 --> 00:22:29.059
 flesh loves

00:22:29.059 --> 00:22:29.519
 to be

00:22:29.519 --> 00:22:30.960
 self-righteous.

00:22:30.980 --> 00:22:31.539
 justified.

00:22:34.460 --> 00:22:35.380
 A corrupt

00:22:35.380 --> 00:22:35.900
 gospel

00:22:35.900 --> 00:22:37.759
 is a

00:22:37.759 --> 00:22:38.160
 contrary

00:22:38.160 --> 00:22:38.740
 gospel.

00:22:39.500 --> 00:22:40.059
 A distorted

00:22:40.059 --> 00:22:40.579
 gospel

00:22:40.579 --> 00:22:41.420
 is a

00:22:41.420 --> 00:22:41.720
 dud of

00:22:41.720 --> 00:22:42.240
 a gospel.

00:22:42.759 --> 00:22:43.559
 Man-centered

00:22:43.559 --> 00:22:44.319
 legalism

00:22:44.319 --> 00:22:45.200
 cannot save

00:22:45.200 --> 00:22:45.720
 nor keep

00:22:45.720 --> 00:22:46.299
 you safe.

00:22:46.599 --> 00:22:47.000
 It just

00:22:47.000 --> 00:22:47.420
 further

00:22:47.420 --> 00:22:48.019
 condemns

00:22:48.019 --> 00:22:48.680
 and confuses.

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 Do you

00:22:48.960 --> 00:22:49.519
 remember this?

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 Run,

00:22:50.400 --> 00:22:50.579
 John,

00:22:50.660 --> 00:22:50.839
 run,

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 the law

00:22:51.200 --> 00:22:51.680
 demands,

00:22:51.779 --> 00:22:52.180
 but gives

00:22:52.180 --> 00:22:52.539
 us neither

00:22:52.539 --> 00:22:52.980
 feet nor

00:22:52.980 --> 00:22:53.339
 hands.

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 A far

00:22:54.460 --> 00:22:55.299
 better

00:22:55.299 --> 00:22:56.079
 news the

00:22:56.079 --> 00:22:56.500
 gospel

00:22:56.500 --> 00:22:57.279
 brings.

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 It bids

00:22:58.099 --> 00:22:59.299
 us fly

00:22:59.299 --> 00:23:00.500
 and gives

00:23:00.500 --> 00:23:00.899
 us

00:23:00.899 --> 00:23:02.019
 Holy Spirit

00:23:02.019 --> 00:23:02.680
 wings.

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 As long

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 as we're

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 in this

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 side of

00:23:08.259 --> 00:23:08.680
 glory,

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 we will

00:23:09.839 --> 00:23:10.379
 need to

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 be aware

00:23:11.220 --> 00:23:12.019
 of in

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 fighting by

00:23:12.740 --> 00:23:13.859
 faith the

00:23:13.859 --> 00:23:14.639
 corrupting

00:23:14.639 --> 00:23:15.879
 influence of

00:23:15.879 --> 00:23:16.579
 legalism,

00:23:16.720 --> 00:23:17.240
 the flesh,

00:23:17.500 --> 00:23:17.700
 and the

00:23:17.700 --> 00:23:17.980
 world.

00:23:17.980 --> 00:23:20.220
 we have

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 an old

00:23:21.120 --> 00:23:21.660
 gospel

00:23:21.660 --> 00:23:22.200
 enemy

00:23:22.200 --> 00:23:23.120
 seeking to

00:23:23.120 --> 00:23:23.559
 corrupt

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 us.

00:23:26.299 --> 00:23:26.839
 Let's

00:23:26.839 --> 00:23:27.039
 move

00:23:27.039 --> 00:23:27.519
 forward

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 sobered

00:23:28.819 --> 00:23:29.299
 by that.

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 But here's

00:23:31.400 --> 00:23:31.860
 where I want

00:23:31.860 --> 00:23:32.099
 to bring

00:23:32.099 --> 00:23:32.480
 you now.

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 Here's how

00:23:33.700 --> 00:23:34.519
 we fight

00:23:34.519 --> 00:23:35.420
 that

00:23:35.420 --> 00:23:36.339
 legalistic

00:23:36.339 --> 00:23:37.380
 pull on

00:23:37.380 --> 00:23:38.059
 our flesh.

00:23:38.839 --> 00:23:39.440
 It's with

00:23:39.440 --> 00:23:39.779
 the third

00:23:39.779 --> 00:23:40.360
 walk away.

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 And it's

00:23:41.700 --> 00:23:42.019
 the one

00:23:42.019 --> 00:23:42.299
 I've been

00:23:42.299 --> 00:23:42.839
 looking forward

00:23:42.839 --> 00:23:43.360
 to most

00:23:43.360 --> 00:23:43.799
 to preaching

00:23:43.799 --> 00:23:44.319
 this morning.

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 It's our

00:23:46.319 --> 00:23:47.039
 new gospel

00:23:47.039 --> 00:23:47.660
 identity.

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 Let's

00:23:51.180 --> 00:23:51.880
 just pretend

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 we all

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 go out

00:23:54.079 --> 00:23:54.460
 to your

00:23:54.460 --> 00:23:55.620
 car and

00:23:55.620 --> 00:23:56.079
 we open

00:23:56.079 --> 00:23:56.400
 up the

00:23:56.400 --> 00:23:56.599
 hood.

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 And as

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 we're

00:23:58.279 --> 00:23:59.480
 looking at

00:23:59.480 --> 00:24:00.140
 the

00:24:00.140 --> 00:24:01.319
 battery,

00:24:02.019 --> 00:24:03.420
 we can

00:24:03.420 --> 00:24:04.200
 help that

00:24:04.200 --> 00:24:04.500
 on the

00:24:04.500 --> 00:24:04.839
 battery

00:24:04.839 --> 00:24:05.599
 terminals,

00:24:05.779 --> 00:24:05.920
 you know

00:24:05.920 --> 00:24:06.279
 those little

00:24:06.279 --> 00:24:06.680
 metal

00:24:06.680 --> 00:24:07.259
 stumps

00:24:07.259 --> 00:24:07.700
 that are

00:24:07.700 --> 00:24:08.059
 sticking

00:24:08.059 --> 00:24:08.339
 out.

00:24:08.420 --> 00:24:08.620
 It looks

00:24:08.620 --> 00:24:08.819
 like

00:24:08.819 --> 00:24:09.559
 Frankenstein

00:24:09.559 --> 00:24:10.460
 stumps

00:24:10.460 --> 00:24:10.980
 but sticking

00:24:10.980 --> 00:24:11.279
 out.

00:24:13.000 --> 00:24:13.319
 Well,

00:24:13.360 --> 00:24:14.160
 those battery

00:24:14.160 --> 00:24:14.579
 terminals,

00:24:14.819 --> 00:24:15.440
 they're just,

00:24:15.860 --> 00:24:16.299
 we're looking

00:24:16.299 --> 00:24:16.779
 in your

00:24:16.779 --> 00:24:18.879
 battery together

00:24:18.879 --> 00:24:19.319
 and they're

00:24:19.319 --> 00:24:20.519
 just white

00:24:20.519 --> 00:24:21.599
 with corrosion.

00:24:23.799 --> 00:24:24.680
 You're kind

00:24:24.680 --> 00:24:25.079
 of just

00:24:25.079 --> 00:24:25.859
 grossed out

00:24:25.859 --> 00:24:26.420
 by it.

00:24:27.619 --> 00:24:28.160
 Like,

00:24:28.359 --> 00:24:29.039
 do I

00:24:29.039 --> 00:24:29.420
 actually

00:24:29.420 --> 00:24:30.099
 touch that?

00:24:32.220 --> 00:24:32.619
 Well,

00:24:32.660 --> 00:24:33.000
 here's what

00:24:33.000 --> 00:24:33.619
 that corrosion

00:24:33.619 --> 00:24:34.079
 does.

00:24:34.460 --> 00:24:35.160
 That corrosion

00:24:35.160 --> 00:24:36.119
 can actually

00:24:36.119 --> 00:24:37.160
 build up

00:24:37.160 --> 00:24:37.899
 and it can

00:24:37.899 --> 00:24:39.000
 block that

00:24:39.000 --> 00:24:40.279
 vital connection

00:24:40.279 --> 00:24:41.440
 between the

00:24:41.440 --> 00:24:42.480
 positive terminal

00:24:42.480 --> 00:24:43.799
 and the wire

00:24:43.799 --> 00:24:44.859
 that goes to

00:24:44.859 --> 00:24:45.759
 starting your

00:24:45.759 --> 00:24:46.099
 car.

00:24:47.099 --> 00:24:47.599
 And when

00:24:47.599 --> 00:24:48.439
 that corrosion

00:24:48.439 --> 00:24:49.379
 blocks that

00:24:49.379 --> 00:24:50.279
 vital contact,

00:24:50.719 --> 00:24:51.139
 you're not

00:24:51.139 --> 00:24:51.519
 going to be

00:24:51.519 --> 00:24:51.839
 able to

00:24:51.839 --> 00:24:52.279
 start your

00:24:52.279 --> 00:24:52.619
 car.

00:24:57.079 --> 00:24:57.799
 Legalism is

00:24:57.799 --> 00:24:58.240
 like the

00:24:58.240 --> 00:24:59.159
 corrosion on

00:24:59.159 --> 00:24:59.899
 the contact

00:24:59.899 --> 00:25:00.679
 point between

00:25:00.679 --> 00:25:01.419
 the gospel

00:25:01.419 --> 00:25:03.359
 and a

00:25:03.359 --> 00:25:04.339
 Christian's

00:25:04.339 --> 00:25:05.219
 understanding

00:25:05.219 --> 00:25:06.439
 of themselves.

00:25:06.440 --> 00:25:09.580
 it can

00:25:09.580 --> 00:25:11.279
 short God's

00:25:11.279 --> 00:25:13.220
 glorious work

00:25:13.220 --> 00:25:13.920
 in which

00:25:13.920 --> 00:25:14.559
 he's done

00:25:14.559 --> 00:25:14.920
 in you

00:25:14.920 --> 00:25:15.279
 and you

00:25:15.279 --> 00:25:15.880
 begin to

00:25:15.880 --> 00:25:16.220
 think of

00:25:16.220 --> 00:25:16.680
 yourself

00:25:16.680 --> 00:25:17.380
 in the

00:25:17.380 --> 00:25:18.160
 old way.

00:25:20.160 --> 00:25:21.059
 Do you know

00:25:21.059 --> 00:25:21.820
 how to clean

00:25:21.820 --> 00:25:22.660
 a corroded

00:25:22.660 --> 00:25:23.620
 battery terminal?

00:25:25.080 --> 00:25:25.900
 You pour

00:25:25.900 --> 00:25:26.539
 Coca-Cola

00:25:26.539 --> 00:25:26.960
 on it,

00:25:27.019 --> 00:25:27.240
 baby.

00:25:29.920 --> 00:25:30.799
 Coca-Cola

00:25:30.799 --> 00:25:31.320
 has this

00:25:31.320 --> 00:25:32.400
 mild acidity

00:25:32.400 --> 00:25:32.860
 to it

00:25:32.859 --> 00:25:33.679
 and it

00:25:33.679 --> 00:25:34.500
 cleans out

00:25:34.500 --> 00:25:35.459
 that corrosion

00:25:35.459 --> 00:25:36.399
 like

00:25:36.399 --> 00:25:38.399
 zippity zap.

00:25:39.859 --> 00:25:41.000
 The book

00:25:41.000 --> 00:25:41.679
 of Galatians

00:25:41.679 --> 00:25:42.539
 teaches us

00:25:42.539 --> 00:25:43.519
 that the

00:25:43.519 --> 00:25:44.039
 gospel

00:25:44.039 --> 00:25:46.519
 is the

00:25:46.519 --> 00:25:47.059
 acidic

00:25:47.059 --> 00:25:47.919
 solution

00:25:47.919 --> 00:25:49.059
 to clean

00:25:49.059 --> 00:25:50.359
 up legalistic

00:25:50.359 --> 00:25:51.219
 corrosion

00:25:51.219 --> 00:25:52.259
 in your

00:25:52.259 --> 00:25:52.639
 heart.

00:25:54.000 --> 00:25:55.079
 And we

00:25:55.079 --> 00:25:55.639
 do that

00:25:55.639 --> 00:25:56.579
 by looking

00:25:56.579 --> 00:25:56.919
 at our

00:25:56.919 --> 00:25:57.899
 new identity

00:25:57.899 --> 00:25:58.879
 in Christ.

00:26:00.479 --> 00:26:01.899
 The gospel,

00:26:01.900 --> 00:26:03.519
 the gospel

00:26:03.519 --> 00:26:04.720
 helps

00:26:04.720 --> 00:26:06.060
 clean up

00:26:06.060 --> 00:26:06.680
 any kind

00:26:06.680 --> 00:26:07.320
 of corrosion

00:26:07.320 --> 00:26:08.240
 so that

00:26:08.240 --> 00:26:08.840
 gospel

00:26:08.840 --> 00:26:09.540
 contact

00:26:09.540 --> 00:26:11.060
 is true

00:26:11.060 --> 00:26:11.860
 and vital

00:26:11.860 --> 00:26:12.440
 in you.

00:26:14.240 --> 00:26:15.100
 So let me

00:26:15.100 --> 00:26:15.620
 tell you

00:26:15.620 --> 00:26:17.120
 three

00:26:17.120 --> 00:26:19.900
 beautifully

00:26:19.900 --> 00:26:21.740
 gospel

00:26:21.740 --> 00:26:22.180
 truths

00:26:22.180 --> 00:26:22.680
 about your

00:26:22.680 --> 00:26:23.259
 new identity.

00:26:25.000 --> 00:26:25.700
 Christian,

00:26:25.880 --> 00:26:26.140
 you are

00:26:26.140 --> 00:26:26.720
 justified.

00:26:28.200 --> 00:26:29.180
 You are

00:26:29.180 --> 00:26:29.640
 justified

00:26:29.640 --> 00:26:30.420
 now

00:26:30.420 --> 00:26:31.600
 and

00:26:31.599 --> 00:26:32.079
 forever.

00:26:33.659 --> 00:26:33.919
 In

00:26:33.919 --> 00:26:34.679
 Galatians

00:26:34.679 --> 00:26:35.339
 2.16

00:26:35.339 --> 00:26:37.119
 Paul talks

00:26:37.119 --> 00:26:37.939
 about being

00:26:37.939 --> 00:26:39.039
 justified

00:26:39.039 --> 00:26:39.980
 and here's

00:26:39.980 --> 00:26:40.339
 what that

00:26:40.339 --> 00:26:40.619
 is.

00:26:41.079 --> 00:26:41.659
 When you're

00:26:41.659 --> 00:26:42.099
 justified,

00:26:42.219 --> 00:26:42.539
 the moment

00:26:42.539 --> 00:26:43.319
 you believe

00:26:43.319 --> 00:26:44.419
 in Jesus,

00:26:44.899 --> 00:26:45.379
 it's like

00:26:45.379 --> 00:26:45.899
 all of a

00:26:45.899 --> 00:26:46.179
 sudden you're

00:26:46.179 --> 00:26:46.359
 in a

00:26:46.359 --> 00:26:46.719
 court of

00:26:46.719 --> 00:26:47.000
 law

00:26:47.000 --> 00:26:48.899
 and God

00:26:48.899 --> 00:26:49.439
 the Father

00:26:49.439 --> 00:26:50.379
 passes a

00:26:50.379 --> 00:26:51.099
 verdict over

00:26:51.099 --> 00:26:51.939
 you and

00:26:51.939 --> 00:26:52.639
 he says

00:26:52.639 --> 00:26:53.339
 of you,

00:26:53.879 --> 00:26:54.619
 this one

00:26:54.619 --> 00:26:55.639
 is righteous

00:26:55.639 --> 00:26:56.339
 in my

00:26:56.339 --> 00:26:56.799
 sight

00:26:56.799 --> 00:26:58.339
 based on

00:26:58.339 --> 00:26:58.699
 the finished

00:26:58.699 --> 00:26:59.099
 work of

00:26:59.099 --> 00:26:59.379
 Christ.

00:26:59.380 --> 00:27:01.000
 here's

00:27:01.000 --> 00:27:01.260
 what that

00:27:01.260 --> 00:27:01.560
 means.

00:27:01.960 --> 00:27:02.380
 At that

00:27:02.380 --> 00:27:02.820
 moment you

00:27:02.820 --> 00:27:03.580
 believe all

00:27:03.580 --> 00:27:03.940
 of your

00:27:03.940 --> 00:27:04.460
 sin,

00:27:05.180 --> 00:27:05.520
 past,

00:27:05.700 --> 00:27:05.980
 present,

00:27:05.980 --> 00:27:06.500
 future,

00:27:06.960 --> 00:27:07.760
 was put

00:27:07.760 --> 00:27:08.460
 on Christ.

00:27:08.540 --> 00:27:08.900
 This is how

00:27:08.900 --> 00:27:09.360
 God thinks

00:27:09.360 --> 00:27:09.760
 about it.

00:27:10.040 --> 00:27:10.640
 It was put

00:27:10.640 --> 00:27:11.320
 on Christ

00:27:11.320 --> 00:27:11.880
 on the

00:27:11.880 --> 00:27:12.560
 cross and

00:27:12.560 --> 00:27:13.040
 all of

00:27:13.040 --> 00:27:13.340
 God's

00:27:13.340 --> 00:27:13.680
 wrath,

00:27:14.480 --> 00:27:15.180
 rightly

00:27:15.180 --> 00:27:16.600
 hovering over

00:27:16.600 --> 00:27:17.260
 that sin,

00:27:17.520 --> 00:27:18.420
 was poured

00:27:18.420 --> 00:27:19.400
 out fully

00:27:19.400 --> 00:27:19.960
 on that

00:27:19.960 --> 00:27:20.860
 sin so

00:27:20.860 --> 00:27:21.360
 that there's

00:27:21.360 --> 00:27:21.880
 no more

00:27:21.880 --> 00:27:22.400
 wrath of

00:27:22.400 --> 00:27:23.060
 God for

00:27:23.060 --> 00:27:23.600
 that sin.

00:27:23.599 --> 00:27:25.879
 it's all

00:27:25.879 --> 00:27:26.319
 poured out

00:27:26.319 --> 00:27:27.000
 on Christ

00:27:27.000 --> 00:27:28.679
 which means

00:27:28.679 --> 00:27:29.159
 this,

00:27:29.359 --> 00:27:29.779
 the moment

00:27:29.779 --> 00:27:30.459
 you believe

00:27:30.459 --> 00:27:31.299
 you are

00:27:31.299 --> 00:27:32.000
 fully forgiven

00:27:32.000 --> 00:27:32.399
 of all

00:27:32.399 --> 00:27:32.919
 your sin

00:27:32.919 --> 00:27:33.659
 past,

00:27:33.919 --> 00:27:34.179
 present,

00:27:34.279 --> 00:27:34.779
 and future.

00:27:35.119 --> 00:27:35.459
 Isn't that

00:27:35.459 --> 00:27:35.899
 good news?

00:27:37.019 --> 00:27:37.759
 It's a

00:27:37.759 --> 00:27:38.819
 legal declaration.

00:27:39.679 --> 00:27:40.759
 It's done

00:27:40.759 --> 00:27:41.399
 in God's

00:27:41.399 --> 00:27:41.740
 court of

00:27:41.740 --> 00:27:41.980
 law.

00:27:42.339 --> 00:27:42.699
 But that's

00:27:42.699 --> 00:27:43.099
 just half

00:27:43.099 --> 00:27:43.339
 of it.

00:27:45.179 --> 00:27:45.980
 What God

00:27:45.980 --> 00:27:47.019
 does in

00:27:47.019 --> 00:27:47.879
 that act,

00:27:48.119 --> 00:27:48.859
 he also

00:27:48.859 --> 00:27:49.859
 declares

00:27:49.859 --> 00:27:50.779
 you righteous

00:27:50.779 --> 00:27:51.539
 in his

00:27:51.539 --> 00:27:51.980
 sight.

00:27:51.980 --> 00:27:54.360
 all of

00:27:54.360 --> 00:27:55.759
 Christ's

00:27:55.759 --> 00:27:56.400
 obedience

00:27:56.400 --> 00:27:56.980
 in the

00:27:56.980 --> 00:27:57.819
 33 years

00:27:57.819 --> 00:27:58.539
 he lived,

00:27:58.920 --> 00:27:59.319
 all of

00:27:59.319 --> 00:28:00.079
 his right

00:28:00.079 --> 00:28:00.599
 feelings,

00:28:00.819 --> 00:28:01.680
 right thinking,

00:28:02.160 --> 00:28:02.880
 right believing

00:28:02.880 --> 00:28:03.519
 and stepping

00:28:03.519 --> 00:28:03.960
 out,

00:28:04.120 --> 00:28:04.740
 all of

00:28:04.740 --> 00:28:05.740
 his obedience

00:28:05.740 --> 00:28:06.400
 which pleased

00:28:06.400 --> 00:28:07.140
 his father,

00:28:07.759 --> 00:28:08.339
 God,

00:28:08.460 --> 00:28:08.900
 in the moment

00:28:08.900 --> 00:28:09.480
 you believe,

00:28:09.860 --> 00:28:10.940
 transfers all

00:28:10.940 --> 00:28:11.720
 that righteousness

00:28:11.720 --> 00:28:13.200
 into your

00:28:13.200 --> 00:28:13.740
 account.

00:28:15.019 --> 00:28:15.759
 So in

00:28:15.759 --> 00:28:16.220
 that one

00:28:16.220 --> 00:28:16.940
 act by which

00:28:16.940 --> 00:28:17.880
 God justifies

00:28:17.880 --> 00:28:18.099
 you,

00:28:18.200 --> 00:28:18.700
 you're fully

00:28:18.700 --> 00:28:19.460
 forgiven and

00:28:19.460 --> 00:28:20.579
 fully accepted

00:28:20.579 --> 00:28:21.759
 based upon

00:28:21.759 --> 00:28:22.279
 the finished

00:28:22.279 --> 00:28:23.119
 work and

00:28:23.119 --> 00:28:23.779
 Christ's

00:28:23.779 --> 00:28:24.240
 righteousness

00:28:24.240 --> 00:28:25.240
 imputed to

00:28:25.240 --> 00:28:25.400
 you.

00:28:25.460 --> 00:28:25.759
 Isn't that

00:28:25.759 --> 00:28:26.279
 good news?

00:28:27.420 --> 00:28:28.240
 That's who

00:28:28.240 --> 00:28:28.980
 you are

00:28:28.980 --> 00:28:31.000
 forever.

00:28:33.319 --> 00:28:34.200
 That doesn't

00:28:34.200 --> 00:28:36.000
 change because

00:28:36.000 --> 00:28:36.839
 it's based on

00:28:36.839 --> 00:28:37.339
 the finished

00:28:37.339 --> 00:28:38.019
 work of

00:28:38.019 --> 00:28:38.920
 Jesus Christ.

00:28:39.779 --> 00:28:40.460
 Justification

00:28:40.460 --> 00:28:41.740
 is the

00:28:41.740 --> 00:28:42.640
 gospel

00:28:42.640 --> 00:28:43.700
 solution

00:28:43.700 --> 00:28:44.879
 to the

00:28:44.879 --> 00:28:45.460
 corrosion

00:28:45.460 --> 00:28:46.480
 of legalism.

00:28:46.480 --> 00:28:48.720
 when you

00:28:48.720 --> 00:28:50.279
 want to

00:28:50.279 --> 00:28:51.180
 kind of

00:28:51.180 --> 00:28:51.900
 atone for

00:28:51.900 --> 00:28:52.319
 your own

00:28:52.319 --> 00:28:52.960
 sin by

00:28:52.960 --> 00:28:53.559
 your works,

00:28:54.140 --> 00:28:54.920
 you're

00:28:54.920 --> 00:28:55.360
 justified.

00:28:56.839 --> 00:28:57.319
 It's

00:28:57.319 --> 00:28:57.599
 done.

00:28:58.620 --> 00:28:59.039
 That's the

00:28:59.039 --> 00:28:59.740
 first beautiful

00:28:59.740 --> 00:29:00.900
 truth of

00:29:00.900 --> 00:29:01.180
 who you

00:29:01.180 --> 00:29:01.339
 are.

00:29:01.420 --> 00:29:01.880
 The second

00:29:01.880 --> 00:29:02.440
 is this.

00:29:02.940 --> 00:29:03.319
 Christian,

00:29:03.440 --> 00:29:03.740
 you are

00:29:03.740 --> 00:29:04.420
 redeemed

00:29:04.420 --> 00:29:05.039
 now.

00:29:06.779 --> 00:29:07.259
 Redemption,

00:29:07.480 --> 00:29:08.039
 we see it in

00:29:08.039 --> 00:29:08.900
 3.13 and

00:29:08.900 --> 00:29:09.559
 4.4 and

00:29:09.559 --> 00:29:11.440
 5.5.1 for

00:29:11.440 --> 00:29:11.720
 freedom,

00:29:11.799 --> 00:29:12.120
 Christ has

00:29:12.120 --> 00:29:12.440
 set you

00:29:12.440 --> 00:29:12.700
 free.

00:29:12.700 --> 00:29:13.940
 This redemption

00:29:13.940 --> 00:29:14.600
 language is

00:29:14.600 --> 00:29:15.740
 actually pictured

00:29:15.740 --> 00:29:16.660
 in the slave

00:29:16.660 --> 00:29:18.840
 market of

00:29:18.840 --> 00:29:19.640
 slaves being

00:29:19.640 --> 00:29:20.259
 purchased and

00:29:20.259 --> 00:29:20.799
 set free.

00:29:22.779 --> 00:29:23.120
 And what

00:29:23.120 --> 00:29:24.160
 Galatians is

00:29:24.160 --> 00:29:24.779
 clear to say

00:29:24.779 --> 00:29:25.299
 over and over

00:29:25.299 --> 00:29:26.180
 again is that

00:29:26.180 --> 00:29:26.600
 if you put

00:29:26.600 --> 00:29:27.140
 your faith in

00:29:27.140 --> 00:29:27.980
 Jesus, you

00:29:27.980 --> 00:29:28.819
 who were once

00:29:28.819 --> 00:29:30.240
 enslaved to

00:29:30.240 --> 00:29:31.420
 sin have been

00:29:31.420 --> 00:29:32.240
 set free.

00:29:33.380 --> 00:29:34.059
 You're no

00:29:34.059 --> 00:29:35.100
 longer under

00:29:35.100 --> 00:29:36.279
 slavery to

00:29:36.279 --> 00:29:36.840
 sin, the

00:29:36.840 --> 00:29:37.519
 flesh, the

00:29:37.519 --> 00:29:38.039
 law, the

00:29:38.039 --> 00:29:38.539
 world.

00:29:40.340 --> 00:29:40.660
 Do you know

00:29:40.660 --> 00:29:41.200
 how Christ

00:29:41.200 --> 00:29:41.880
 redeemed you?

00:29:42.700 --> 00:29:43.400
 Do you know

00:29:43.400 --> 00:29:43.799
 how Christ

00:29:43.799 --> 00:29:44.319
 sets you

00:29:44.319 --> 00:29:44.620
 free?

00:29:47.100 --> 00:29:48.340
 Christ sets

00:29:48.340 --> 00:29:49.779
 us free by

00:29:49.779 --> 00:29:50.720
 paying a

00:29:50.720 --> 00:29:51.680
 ransom price.

00:29:52.600 --> 00:29:53.000
 And that

00:29:53.000 --> 00:29:54.140
 ransom price

00:29:54.140 --> 00:29:55.220
 he paid for

00:29:55.220 --> 00:29:56.519
 our freedom was

00:29:56.519 --> 00:29:57.340
 the blood he

00:29:57.340 --> 00:29:58.360
 shed on the

00:29:58.360 --> 00:29:58.880
 cross.

00:29:59.740 --> 00:30:00.319
 It's been

00:30:00.319 --> 00:30:01.220
 poured out

00:30:01.220 --> 00:30:01.940
 on full.

00:30:02.380 --> 00:30:02.779
 You've been

00:30:02.779 --> 00:30:03.779
 fully purchased

00:30:03.779 --> 00:30:04.559
 from slavery

00:30:04.559 --> 00:30:05.259
 to sin.

00:30:05.600 --> 00:30:06.180
 You are no

00:30:06.180 --> 00:30:06.779
 longer a

00:30:06.779 --> 00:30:07.460
 slave to sin

00:30:07.460 --> 00:30:07.779
 anymore,

00:30:07.920 --> 00:30:08.220
 Christian.

00:30:09.019 --> 00:30:10.140
 In fact, it

00:30:10.140 --> 00:30:11.080
 was for freedom

00:30:11.080 --> 00:30:11.940
 that Christ has

00:30:11.940 --> 00:30:12.680
 set you free.

00:30:12.700 --> 00:30:13.380
 5.1.

00:30:16.660 --> 00:30:17.259
 You've been

00:30:17.259 --> 00:30:17.740
 redeemed,

00:30:19.160 --> 00:30:19.660
 freed from

00:30:19.660 --> 00:30:20.960
 slavery to

00:30:20.960 --> 00:30:21.740
 sin to live

00:30:21.740 --> 00:30:22.340
 for God,

00:30:22.980 --> 00:30:24.039
 now and

00:30:24.039 --> 00:30:24.380
 forever.

00:30:25.259 --> 00:30:26.420
 So, when

00:30:26.420 --> 00:30:27.039
 you like me

00:30:27.039 --> 00:30:27.460
 are having

00:30:27.460 --> 00:30:29.080
 thoughts, and

00:30:29.080 --> 00:30:30.200
 you're being

00:30:30.200 --> 00:30:30.980
 tempted in

00:30:30.980 --> 00:30:31.660
 your flesh to

00:30:31.660 --> 00:30:32.299
 do something,

00:30:33.200 --> 00:30:33.539
 you know what

00:30:33.539 --> 00:30:33.980
 you say?

00:30:36.160 --> 00:30:36.980
 I've been set

00:30:36.980 --> 00:30:37.380
 free.

00:30:38.840 --> 00:30:39.799
 The gospel

00:30:39.799 --> 00:30:40.559
 has set me

00:30:40.559 --> 00:30:41.100
 free from

00:30:41.099 --> 00:30:41.559
 this.

00:30:42.779 --> 00:30:43.919
 Christ died

00:30:43.919 --> 00:30:44.500
 so this

00:30:44.500 --> 00:30:44.899
 would not

00:30:44.899 --> 00:30:45.359
 rule me

00:30:45.359 --> 00:30:45.779
 anymore.

00:30:47.379 --> 00:30:48.339
 I'm arguing

00:30:48.339 --> 00:30:48.939
 from what

00:30:48.939 --> 00:30:49.559
 Christ has

00:30:49.559 --> 00:30:50.039
 done and

00:30:50.039 --> 00:30:50.579
 what's true

00:30:50.579 --> 00:30:51.240
 for me.

00:30:52.319 --> 00:30:52.980
 It's time

00:30:52.980 --> 00:30:53.399
 for you to

00:30:53.399 --> 00:30:53.879
 start making

00:30:53.879 --> 00:30:54.299
 the same

00:30:54.299 --> 00:30:54.659
 argument.

00:30:56.579 --> 00:30:57.099
 This

00:30:57.099 --> 00:30:57.699
 redemption,

00:30:58.039 --> 00:30:58.799
 this gospel

00:30:58.799 --> 00:30:59.799
 redemption is

00:30:59.799 --> 00:31:01.439
 God's gospel

00:31:01.439 --> 00:31:02.319
 solution to

00:31:02.319 --> 00:31:03.480
 the corrosion

00:31:03.480 --> 00:31:04.279
 that comes in

00:31:04.279 --> 00:31:04.639
 with our

00:31:04.639 --> 00:31:05.159
 flesh.

00:31:05.160 --> 00:31:05.240
 church.

00:31:08.580 --> 00:31:09.620
 The last

00:31:09.620 --> 00:31:10.519
 beautiful gospel

00:31:10.519 --> 00:31:11.200
 truth of your

00:31:11.200 --> 00:31:11.840
 identity is

00:31:11.840 --> 00:31:12.220
 this.

00:31:13.900 --> 00:31:14.580
 Christian,

00:31:14.779 --> 00:31:16.540
 you're adopted.

00:31:17.720 --> 00:31:18.240
 You're a part

00:31:18.240 --> 00:31:18.960
 of God's new

00:31:18.960 --> 00:31:20.240
 family now and

00:31:20.240 --> 00:31:20.640
 forever.

00:31:21.880 --> 00:31:22.440
 In Galatians

00:31:22.440 --> 00:31:24.519
 4, 4-7,

00:31:24.680 --> 00:31:25.420
 there is this

00:31:25.420 --> 00:31:26.440
 combination of

00:31:26.440 --> 00:31:27.060
 talking about

00:31:27.060 --> 00:31:28.600
 we have been

00:31:28.600 --> 00:31:29.700
 redeemed from

00:31:29.700 --> 00:31:30.440
 slavery,

00:31:30.980 --> 00:31:32.500
 from the world,

00:31:32.500 --> 00:31:33.700
 in order to

00:31:33.700 --> 00:31:34.559
 be placed

00:31:34.559 --> 00:31:36.279
 into the

00:31:36.279 --> 00:31:36.920
 family of

00:31:36.920 --> 00:31:37.279
 God.

00:31:38.940 --> 00:31:39.980
 You were a

00:31:39.980 --> 00:31:40.559
 slave,

00:31:40.920 --> 00:31:41.900
 now you are a

00:31:41.900 --> 00:31:42.539
 son or daughter

00:31:42.539 --> 00:31:43.960
 and it's all by

00:31:43.960 --> 00:31:44.660
 the finished work

00:31:44.660 --> 00:31:45.599
 of Jesus Christ.

00:31:46.619 --> 00:31:47.180
 We are

00:31:47.180 --> 00:31:48.140
 redeemed from

00:31:48.140 --> 00:31:49.960
 and adopted

00:31:49.960 --> 00:31:51.660
 to God's

00:31:51.660 --> 00:31:52.039
 family.

00:31:52.619 --> 00:31:53.140
 And what that

00:31:53.140 --> 00:31:54.200
 means is the

00:31:54.200 --> 00:31:54.660
 moment you

00:31:54.660 --> 00:31:55.640
 believe you are

00:31:55.640 --> 00:31:56.519
 given all the

00:31:56.519 --> 00:31:57.000
 rights and

00:31:57.000 --> 00:31:58.460
 privileges of a

00:31:58.460 --> 00:31:59.740
 legitimate son

00:31:59.740 --> 00:32:01.339
 and daughter of

00:32:01.339 --> 00:32:02.619
 the God of

00:32:02.619 --> 00:32:03.240
 the universe.

00:32:06.659 --> 00:32:07.659
 So when

00:32:07.659 --> 00:32:08.339
 through Jesus

00:32:08.339 --> 00:32:09.559
 Christ, God

00:32:09.559 --> 00:32:10.119
 becomes your

00:32:10.119 --> 00:32:10.899
 heavenly father,

00:32:11.059 --> 00:32:11.599
 there's this

00:32:11.599 --> 00:32:13.000
 all sorts of

00:32:13.000 --> 00:32:14.279
 promises that

00:32:14.279 --> 00:32:14.959
 you are brought

00:32:14.959 --> 00:32:16.259
 into as a

00:32:16.259 --> 00:32:16.839
 member of his

00:32:16.839 --> 00:32:17.279
 family.

00:32:17.779 --> 00:32:18.500
 Promises like

00:32:18.500 --> 00:32:18.859
 this.

00:32:19.159 --> 00:32:19.819
 God says, I'm

00:32:19.819 --> 00:32:20.220
 never going to

00:32:20.220 --> 00:32:20.639
 leave you.

00:32:21.779 --> 00:32:22.559
 Many of you in

00:32:22.559 --> 00:32:23.119
 this room have

00:32:23.119 --> 00:32:23.899
 had fathers who

00:32:23.899 --> 00:32:24.919
 left you.

00:32:26.559 --> 00:32:26.980
 God, your

00:32:26.980 --> 00:32:27.779
 father will never

00:32:27.779 --> 00:32:29.319
 leave you, never

00:32:29.319 --> 00:32:29.959
 forsake you.

00:32:30.039 --> 00:32:30.799
 He's in it.

00:32:31.339 --> 00:32:34.159
 promises like

00:32:34.159 --> 00:32:34.439
 this.

00:32:34.659 --> 00:32:35.720
 He's not going

00:32:35.720 --> 00:32:36.799
 to ruthlessly

00:32:36.799 --> 00:32:37.859
 punish you.

00:32:38.919 --> 00:32:39.459
 He's not going

00:32:39.459 --> 00:32:40.039
 to lose his

00:32:40.039 --> 00:32:41.000
 temper on you

00:32:41.000 --> 00:32:42.720
 and punish you

00:32:42.720 --> 00:32:43.459
 out of anger.

00:32:44.679 --> 00:32:45.439
 God doesn't do

00:32:45.439 --> 00:32:45.659
 that.

00:32:45.720 --> 00:32:46.099
 Our heavenly

00:32:46.099 --> 00:32:46.980
 father doesn't do

00:32:46.980 --> 00:32:47.659
 that to us as

00:32:47.659 --> 00:32:48.039
 children.

00:32:49.339 --> 00:32:50.019
 He does

00:32:50.019 --> 00:32:50.899
 discipline us in

00:32:50.899 --> 00:32:51.399
 love for our

00:32:51.399 --> 00:32:52.139
 good so that we

00:32:52.139 --> 00:32:52.839
 can share in his

00:32:52.839 --> 00:32:54.839
 holiness because he

00:32:54.839 --> 00:32:55.399
 loves us.

00:32:57.319 --> 00:32:58.639
 He promises us

00:32:58.639 --> 00:32:59.519
 to love us

00:32:59.519 --> 00:33:00.539
 always.

00:33:01.779 --> 00:33:02.980
 He promises us

00:33:02.980 --> 00:33:04.019
 to work all

00:33:04.019 --> 00:33:05.099
 things out for

00:33:05.099 --> 00:33:05.859
 our good no

00:33:05.859 --> 00:33:06.799
 matter what our

00:33:06.799 --> 00:33:08.059
 circumstances are.

00:33:08.660 --> 00:33:09.259
 God, our

00:33:09.259 --> 00:33:10.039
 heavenly father,

00:33:10.160 --> 00:33:11.039
 because he loves

00:33:11.039 --> 00:33:12.079
 us and he's

00:33:12.079 --> 00:33:12.920
 sovereign over all

00:33:12.920 --> 00:33:13.839
 things and he's

00:33:13.839 --> 00:33:14.440
 powerful.

00:33:14.839 --> 00:33:15.819
 He's working it all

00:33:15.819 --> 00:33:16.900
 out for our good

00:33:16.900 --> 00:33:17.879
 and that good is

00:33:17.879 --> 00:33:18.839
 becoming like his

00:33:18.839 --> 00:33:19.400
 son, Jesus.

00:33:21.980 --> 00:33:23.039
 You belong to

00:33:23.039 --> 00:33:23.879
 God, sons and

00:33:23.879 --> 00:33:24.400
 daughters through

00:33:24.400 --> 00:33:24.740
 Christ.

00:33:24.859 --> 00:33:25.500
 And because your

00:33:25.500 --> 00:33:26.359
 sonship rests in

00:33:26.359 --> 00:33:26.980
 Christ's finished

00:33:26.980 --> 00:33:28.039
 work, your

00:33:28.039 --> 00:33:29.259
 sonship is forever

00:33:29.259 --> 00:33:29.700
 settled.

00:33:30.039 --> 00:33:31.259
 Can I just make

00:33:31.259 --> 00:33:31.839
 this statement?

00:33:32.019 --> 00:33:32.460
 You've got to

00:33:32.460 --> 00:33:33.059
 hear it.

00:33:34.420 --> 00:33:35.160
 Brothers and

00:33:35.160 --> 00:33:36.160
 sisters, you

00:33:36.160 --> 00:33:37.900
 will never, never

00:33:37.900 --> 00:33:38.839
 be disowned by

00:33:38.839 --> 00:33:39.279
 your heavenly

00:33:39.279 --> 00:33:39.740
 father.

00:33:40.579 --> 00:33:41.000
 Never.

00:33:41.700 --> 00:33:42.579
 Because your

00:33:42.579 --> 00:33:43.539
 sonship or your

00:33:43.539 --> 00:33:44.680
 daughtership has

00:33:44.680 --> 00:33:46.440
 been sealed by the

00:33:46.440 --> 00:33:47.180
 blood of Jesus.

00:33:48.279 --> 00:33:48.819
 He's the

00:33:48.819 --> 00:33:49.900
 guarantor of it.

00:33:49.900 --> 00:33:50.019
 But,

00:33:50.019 --> 00:33:50.180
 you know,

00:33:50.180 --> 00:33:55.180
 pour that gospel

00:33:55.180 --> 00:33:56.960
 solution on

00:33:56.960 --> 00:33:58.559
 your heart when

00:33:58.559 --> 00:33:59.579
 things get tough

00:33:59.579 --> 00:34:00.220
 and you start to

00:34:00.220 --> 00:34:01.000
 be afraid and

00:34:01.000 --> 00:34:01.360
 you're like,

00:34:01.420 --> 00:34:02.259
 is God for me?

00:34:02.860 --> 00:34:03.920
 Yes, he is.

00:34:07.240 --> 00:34:08.119
 Do you remember

00:34:08.119 --> 00:34:08.679
 Al Franken?

00:34:11.360 --> 00:34:12.559
 He was a former

00:34:12.559 --> 00:34:13.780
 Minnesota senator,

00:34:14.639 --> 00:34:16.699
 fell from respect,

00:34:17.240 --> 00:34:18.340
 but before that he

00:34:18.340 --> 00:34:19.340
 was a cast member

00:34:19.340 --> 00:34:20.440
 on Saturday Night

00:34:20.440 --> 00:34:20.840
 Live.

00:34:22.420 --> 00:34:23.720
 And when he was

00:34:23.720 --> 00:34:24.579
 on Saturday Night

00:34:24.579 --> 00:34:25.699
 Live, he did a

00:34:25.699 --> 00:34:27.500
 skit in which he

00:34:27.500 --> 00:34:28.539
 was the character

00:34:28.539 --> 00:34:30.719
 Stuart Smalley.

00:34:31.759 --> 00:34:33.179
 And Stuart Smalley

00:34:33.179 --> 00:34:34.559
 was incredibly

00:34:34.559 --> 00:34:35.319
 insecure.

00:34:36.899 --> 00:34:37.859
 And this skit

00:34:37.859 --> 00:34:39.179
 about Stuart Smalley

00:34:39.179 --> 00:34:40.419
 always had Stuart

00:34:40.419 --> 00:34:41.960
 facing a mirror,

00:34:42.379 --> 00:34:43.460
 talking to himself,

00:34:43.739 --> 00:34:45.359
 and speaking daily

00:34:45.359 --> 00:34:46.619
 affirmations to

00:34:46.619 --> 00:34:47.039
 himself.

00:34:47.039 --> 00:34:50.480
 I am an attractive

00:34:50.480 --> 00:34:51.079
 person.

00:34:54.259 --> 00:34:55.460
 I refuse to beat

00:34:55.460 --> 00:34:56.340
 myself up today.

00:34:58.440 --> 00:34:59.679
 I'm entitled to my

00:34:59.679 --> 00:35:00.519
 share of happiness.

00:35:02.519 --> 00:35:04.159
 I am fun to be with.

00:35:06.259 --> 00:35:07.960
 It was a tongue-in-cheek

00:35:07.960 --> 00:35:10.039
 jab at the self-talk

00:35:10.039 --> 00:35:10.820
 of the self-help

00:35:10.820 --> 00:35:11.719
 movement of the day

00:35:11.719 --> 00:35:12.820
 and put its finger

00:35:12.820 --> 00:35:13.759
 on everybody who's

00:35:13.759 --> 00:35:14.400
 struggling with their

00:35:14.400 --> 00:35:14.800
 identity.

00:35:14.800 --> 00:35:17.860
 So let me ask you

00:35:17.860 --> 00:35:18.240
 a question.

00:35:19.860 --> 00:35:20.740
 What's the difference

00:35:20.740 --> 00:35:21.420
 between you and

00:35:21.420 --> 00:35:22.080
 Stuart Smalley?

00:35:25.720 --> 00:35:26.800
 The difference is

00:35:26.800 --> 00:35:27.180
 this.

00:35:28.600 --> 00:35:29.580
 The difference is

00:35:29.580 --> 00:35:31.640
 who is telling you

00:35:31.640 --> 00:35:32.800
 who you are

00:35:32.800 --> 00:35:34.260
 in the basis

00:35:34.260 --> 00:35:34.960
 of that.

00:35:36.680 --> 00:35:37.039
 In the

00:35:37.039 --> 00:35:38.360
 Saturday Night Live

00:35:38.360 --> 00:35:39.060
 skit, Stuart

00:35:39.060 --> 00:35:40.120
 Smalley spoke

00:35:40.120 --> 00:35:41.539
 on his own

00:35:41.539 --> 00:35:42.080
 authority

00:35:42.079 --> 00:35:43.500
 and based

00:35:43.500 --> 00:35:44.579
 his identity

00:35:44.579 --> 00:35:45.860
 on a distorted

00:35:45.860 --> 00:35:46.779
 view of himself.

00:35:48.920 --> 00:35:49.739
 In the book

00:35:49.739 --> 00:35:50.500
 of Galatians,

00:35:51.519 --> 00:35:52.940
 God is speaking

00:35:52.940 --> 00:35:53.559
 to you,

00:35:53.639 --> 00:35:54.159
 brothers and

00:35:54.159 --> 00:35:54.500
 sisters,

00:35:55.099 --> 00:35:56.639
 in all of

00:35:56.639 --> 00:35:57.279
 his authority.

00:35:58.719 --> 00:35:59.400
 And if you are

00:35:59.400 --> 00:36:00.199
 in Christ,

00:36:00.639 --> 00:36:01.420
 he is saying

00:36:01.420 --> 00:36:02.199
 on the basis

00:36:02.199 --> 00:36:03.840
 of the finished

00:36:03.840 --> 00:36:04.679
 work of my

00:36:04.679 --> 00:36:05.340
 son Jesus,

00:36:05.619 --> 00:36:06.719
 you are justified,

00:36:07.299 --> 00:36:08.239
 you are redeemed,

00:36:08.599 --> 00:36:09.920
 you are adopted.

00:36:09.920 --> 00:36:11.619
 it's all

00:36:11.619 --> 00:36:12.280
 true.

00:36:13.340 --> 00:36:14.139
 Proverbs 30

00:36:14.139 --> 00:36:15.099
 verse 5 says

00:36:15.099 --> 00:36:16.740
 all of God's

00:36:16.740 --> 00:36:17.860
 words prove

00:36:17.860 --> 00:36:18.320
 true.

00:36:19.420 --> 00:36:20.099
 And he is a

00:36:20.099 --> 00:36:21.119
 refuge to all

00:36:21.119 --> 00:36:22.079
 who trust in him.

00:36:25.880 --> 00:36:26.960
 When we

00:36:26.960 --> 00:36:27.920
 remind ourselves

00:36:27.920 --> 00:36:28.860
 that we're justified

00:36:28.860 --> 00:36:29.720
 and redeemed

00:36:29.720 --> 00:36:30.320
 and adopted,

00:36:30.659 --> 00:36:31.300
 it is not

00:36:31.300 --> 00:36:32.300
 some Stuart

00:36:32.300 --> 00:36:32.920
 Smalley

00:36:32.920 --> 00:36:34.900
 self-help

00:36:34.900 --> 00:36:35.700
 talk.

00:36:35.699 --> 00:36:37.980
 when we

00:36:37.980 --> 00:36:39.039
 remind ourselves

00:36:39.039 --> 00:36:39.939
 of being

00:36:39.939 --> 00:36:40.500
 justified

00:36:40.500 --> 00:36:41.159
 and redeemed

00:36:41.159 --> 00:36:41.719
 and adopted

00:36:41.719 --> 00:36:42.519
 in Christ,

00:36:42.899 --> 00:36:43.579
 it is

00:36:43.579 --> 00:36:44.839
 gospel talk.

00:36:45.539 --> 00:36:46.139
 It is

00:36:46.139 --> 00:36:46.839
 renewing our

00:36:46.839 --> 00:36:47.619
 minds on the

00:36:47.619 --> 00:36:48.379
 truth of what

00:36:48.379 --> 00:36:49.199
 Christ has done

00:36:49.199 --> 00:36:49.899
 for us.

00:36:51.279 --> 00:36:52.039
 So when your

00:36:52.039 --> 00:36:53.139
 thoughts of

00:36:53.139 --> 00:36:54.299
 past sins

00:36:54.299 --> 00:36:55.199
 condemn you,

00:36:56.559 --> 00:36:57.139
 you say to

00:36:57.139 --> 00:36:57.480
 yourself,

00:36:57.619 --> 00:36:58.299
 by God's grace,

00:36:58.399 --> 00:36:59.239
 I've been justified

00:36:59.239 --> 00:37:00.059
 by the blood of

00:37:00.059 --> 00:37:00.279
 Jesus.

00:37:01.619 --> 00:37:02.819
 When your flesh

00:37:02.819 --> 00:37:03.719
 tempts you,

00:37:04.219 --> 00:37:04.779
 you remind

00:37:04.780 --> 00:37:05.240
 yourself,

00:37:05.400 --> 00:37:05.980
 the cross

00:37:05.980 --> 00:37:06.820
 has redeemed

00:37:06.820 --> 00:37:07.780
 me from this.

00:37:08.180 --> 00:37:08.640
 When your

00:37:08.640 --> 00:37:09.380
 circumstances

00:37:09.380 --> 00:37:10.280
 stand against

00:37:10.280 --> 00:37:10.640
 you,

00:37:10.700 --> 00:37:11.100
 when you start

00:37:11.100 --> 00:37:12.440
 questioning God's

00:37:12.440 --> 00:37:13.360
 intention for you,

00:37:13.420 --> 00:37:13.900
 you remind

00:37:13.900 --> 00:37:14.820
 yourself that

00:37:14.820 --> 00:37:15.380
 he is now

00:37:15.380 --> 00:37:15.920
 your heavenly

00:37:15.920 --> 00:37:17.060
 father and

00:37:17.060 --> 00:37:17.700
 you're adopted,

00:37:18.019 --> 00:37:18.740
 you're his adopted

00:37:18.740 --> 00:37:19.800
 son or daughter.

00:37:23.940 --> 00:37:24.760
 Do you know

00:37:24.760 --> 00:37:25.160
 what God

00:37:25.160 --> 00:37:26.680
 intends to

00:37:26.680 --> 00:37:28.300
 happen when

00:37:28.300 --> 00:37:28.760
 you renew

00:37:28.760 --> 00:37:29.480
 your mind

00:37:29.480 --> 00:37:30.300
 on this

00:37:30.300 --> 00:37:30.700
 truth?

00:37:31.940 --> 00:37:32.820
 When you

00:37:32.820 --> 00:37:34.180
 remind yourself

00:37:34.179 --> 00:37:35.279
 of these new

00:37:35.279 --> 00:37:36.539
 categories of

00:37:36.539 --> 00:37:37.599
 self-understanding

00:37:37.599 --> 00:37:38.239
 and identity

00:37:38.239 --> 00:37:39.679
 that I am

00:37:39.679 --> 00:37:40.619
 justified and

00:37:40.619 --> 00:37:41.559
 redeemed and

00:37:41.559 --> 00:37:42.059
 adopted,

00:37:42.539 --> 00:37:43.099
 here's what

00:37:43.099 --> 00:37:43.539
 happens.

00:37:43.899 --> 00:37:44.799
 These truths

00:37:44.799 --> 00:37:45.779
 are designed

00:37:45.779 --> 00:37:46.639
 to become

00:37:46.639 --> 00:37:48.059
 the primary

00:37:48.059 --> 00:37:49.879
 defining reality

00:37:49.879 --> 00:37:51.319
 of your life.

00:37:54.319 --> 00:37:55.619
 Who you are

00:37:55.619 --> 00:37:56.339
 in Christ

00:37:56.339 --> 00:37:58.379
 becomes more

00:37:58.379 --> 00:38:00.079
 important than

00:38:00.079 --> 00:38:01.099
 your gender.

00:38:01.099 --> 00:38:03.400
 who you are

00:38:03.400 --> 00:38:03.940
 in Christ

00:38:03.940 --> 00:38:04.659
 becomes more

00:38:04.659 --> 00:38:05.360
 important than

00:38:05.360 --> 00:38:06.079
 your age.

00:38:06.420 --> 00:38:06.920
 Who you are

00:38:06.920 --> 00:38:08.039
 in Christ

00:38:08.039 --> 00:38:08.739
 becomes more

00:38:08.739 --> 00:38:09.799
 important than

00:38:09.799 --> 00:38:10.739
 your income,

00:38:10.880 --> 00:38:11.460
 your social

00:38:11.460 --> 00:38:11.960
 status.

00:38:12.460 --> 00:38:13.380
 It's more

00:38:13.380 --> 00:38:14.420
 important than

00:38:14.420 --> 00:38:15.420
 your ethnicity.

00:38:16.799 --> 00:38:17.440
 Your new

00:38:17.440 --> 00:38:18.380
 gospel identity

00:38:18.380 --> 00:38:19.839
 is so important,

00:38:20.219 --> 00:38:21.259
 it informs

00:38:21.259 --> 00:38:22.000
 your gender,

00:38:22.380 --> 00:38:23.319
 it informs

00:38:23.319 --> 00:38:24.019
 your age,

00:38:24.259 --> 00:38:24.759
 income,

00:38:25.299 --> 00:38:26.059
 social standing,

00:38:26.259 --> 00:38:26.719
 ethnicity.

00:38:26.719 --> 00:38:28.519
 in August

00:38:28.519 --> 00:38:29.599
 of 2017,

00:38:30.759 --> 00:38:31.179
 I'm guessing

00:38:31.179 --> 00:38:31.759
 you remembered

00:38:31.759 --> 00:38:32.839
 the full

00:38:32.839 --> 00:38:34.179
 solar eclipse

00:38:34.179 --> 00:38:35.079
 of the sun,

00:38:35.219 --> 00:38:35.559
 do you remember

00:38:35.559 --> 00:38:35.879
 that?

00:38:37.859 --> 00:38:38.500
 It's when the

00:38:38.500 --> 00:38:39.559
 moon's orbit

00:38:39.559 --> 00:38:40.019
 brought it

00:38:40.019 --> 00:38:40.939
 between the

00:38:40.939 --> 00:38:41.699
 earth and the

00:38:41.699 --> 00:38:42.439
 sun and it

00:38:42.439 --> 00:38:43.000
 blocked the

00:38:43.000 --> 00:38:43.759
 brightness of

00:38:43.759 --> 00:38:44.279
 the sun

00:38:44.279 --> 00:38:45.279
 from sight.

00:38:45.659 --> 00:38:46.279
 It was a new

00:38:46.279 --> 00:38:47.219
 governing reality

00:38:47.219 --> 00:38:47.739
 for a little

00:38:47.739 --> 00:38:48.119
 while.

00:38:50.119 --> 00:38:50.879
 The solar

00:38:50.879 --> 00:38:51.919
 eclipse is

00:38:51.919 --> 00:38:52.399
 temporary,

00:38:52.959 --> 00:38:53.399
 but the

00:38:53.399 --> 00:38:55.059
 gospel eclipse

00:38:55.059 --> 00:38:56.320
 is permanent.

00:38:57.500 --> 00:38:58.480
 When Christ

00:38:58.480 --> 00:38:59.420
 comes into

00:38:59.420 --> 00:39:00.380
 our life,

00:39:01.340 --> 00:39:01.920
 our new

00:39:01.920 --> 00:39:02.820
 position in

00:39:02.820 --> 00:39:04.179
 him eclipses

00:39:04.179 --> 00:39:05.119
 all that

00:39:05.119 --> 00:39:05.460
 had been

00:39:05.460 --> 00:39:06.079
 primarily

00:39:06.079 --> 00:39:07.099
 defining us

00:39:07.099 --> 00:39:08.000
 before.

00:39:12.059 --> 00:39:12.619
 Hey,

00:39:12.719 --> 00:39:14.539
 it may be

00:39:14.539 --> 00:39:15.019
 true that

00:39:15.019 --> 00:39:15.360
 you're a

00:39:15.360 --> 00:39:15.739
 male or

00:39:15.739 --> 00:39:16.239
 female.

00:39:17.460 --> 00:39:17.860
 It might be

00:39:17.860 --> 00:39:18.199
 true that

00:39:18.199 --> 00:39:18.639
 you're black

00:39:18.639 --> 00:39:18.940
 or you're

00:39:18.940 --> 00:39:19.279
 white,

00:39:19.659 --> 00:39:20.019
 that you're

00:39:20.019 --> 00:39:20.360
 rich or

00:39:20.360 --> 00:39:20.840
 you're poor

00:39:20.840 --> 00:39:21.239
 or somewhere

00:39:21.239 --> 00:39:21.900
 in between,

00:39:22.900 --> 00:39:23.599
 but those

00:39:23.599 --> 00:39:24.219
 things don't

00:39:24.219 --> 00:39:24.900
 shine nearly

00:39:24.900 --> 00:39:25.480
 as brightly

00:39:25.480 --> 00:39:27.420
 anymore because

00:39:27.420 --> 00:39:27.820
 they've been

00:39:27.820 --> 00:39:28.579
 eclipsed by

00:39:28.579 --> 00:39:29.200
 the gospel.

00:39:31.200 --> 00:39:31.539
 And the

00:39:31.539 --> 00:39:32.380
 gospel doesn't

00:39:32.380 --> 00:39:32.980
 make things

00:39:32.980 --> 00:39:33.440
 dark.

00:39:33.579 --> 00:39:34.340
 The gospel

00:39:34.340 --> 00:39:35.539
 outshines

00:39:35.539 --> 00:39:36.760
 everything else.

00:39:39.440 --> 00:39:40.539
 Our new

00:39:40.539 --> 00:39:41.960
 gospel identity.

00:39:42.139 --> 00:39:42.599
 Brothers and

00:39:42.599 --> 00:39:42.920
 sisters,

00:39:43.740 --> 00:39:44.440
 can we move

00:39:44.440 --> 00:39:46.139
 forward together

00:39:46.139 --> 00:39:47.260
 reminding

00:39:47.260 --> 00:39:48.300
 ourselves of

00:39:48.300 --> 00:39:48.860
 who we are

00:39:48.860 --> 00:39:49.380
 in Christ?

00:39:50.740 --> 00:39:51.680
 We love

00:39:51.680 --> 00:39:52.119
 each other

00:39:52.119 --> 00:39:53.260
 well when

00:39:53.260 --> 00:39:53.680
 we say,

00:39:53.740 --> 00:39:54.500
 remember who

00:39:54.500 --> 00:39:54.960
 you are,

00:39:55.060 --> 00:39:55.300
 brother.

00:39:55.940 --> 00:39:56.640
 Remember who

00:39:56.640 --> 00:39:57.080
 you are,

00:39:57.200 --> 00:39:57.480
 sister.

00:40:00.620 --> 00:40:01.300
 I'm feeling

00:40:01.300 --> 00:40:01.760
 the limits

00:40:01.760 --> 00:40:02.260
 of time.

00:40:02.360 --> 00:40:02.700
 I want to

00:40:02.700 --> 00:40:03.280
 be attentive

00:40:03.280 --> 00:40:03.760
 to your

00:40:03.760 --> 00:40:04.700
 attention span,

00:40:04.840 --> 00:40:05.160
 but I've

00:40:05.160 --> 00:40:05.680
 got one

00:40:05.680 --> 00:40:06.300
 more walk

00:40:06.300 --> 00:40:06.660
 away I

00:40:06.660 --> 00:40:06.980
 want to

00:40:06.980 --> 00:40:07.380
 emphasize.

00:40:08.460 --> 00:40:09.140
 It's really

00:40:09.140 --> 00:40:09.600
 important.

00:40:13.440 --> 00:40:15.000
 We've been

00:40:15.000 --> 00:40:16.120
 given a new

00:40:16.120 --> 00:40:17.440
 gospel identity

00:40:17.440 --> 00:40:18.260
 in Christ,

00:40:18.260 --> 00:40:19.760
 Christ, and

00:40:19.760 --> 00:40:20.660
 that translates

00:40:20.660 --> 00:40:22.160
 into a new

00:40:22.160 --> 00:40:23.660
 gospel community

00:40:23.660 --> 00:40:24.600
 in Christ.

00:40:25.640 --> 00:40:26.580
 We learned

00:40:26.580 --> 00:40:28.280
 from Galatians

00:40:28.280 --> 00:40:29.180
 1 and 6

00:40:29.180 --> 00:40:30.320
 that the

00:40:30.320 --> 00:40:31.180
 cross delivers

00:40:31.180 --> 00:40:31.800
 us from this

00:40:31.800 --> 00:40:32.420
 present evil

00:40:32.420 --> 00:40:32.720
 age.

00:40:32.820 --> 00:40:33.260
 It delivers

00:40:33.260 --> 00:40:34.440
 us, crucifies

00:40:34.440 --> 00:40:34.980
 us to the

00:40:34.980 --> 00:40:35.340
 world.

00:40:36.160 --> 00:40:36.540
 Now the

00:40:36.540 --> 00:40:37.220
 world is

00:40:37.220 --> 00:40:37.960
 comprised of

00:40:37.960 --> 00:40:38.640
 all the

00:40:38.640 --> 00:40:39.440
 non-Christians

00:40:39.440 --> 00:40:40.120
 who are living

00:40:40.120 --> 00:40:40.740
 according to

00:40:40.740 --> 00:40:41.280
 their flesh

00:40:41.280 --> 00:40:41.800
 for things

00:40:41.800 --> 00:40:42.300
 other than

00:40:42.300 --> 00:40:43.280
 God, and

00:40:43.280 --> 00:40:43.960
 the world

00:40:43.960 --> 00:40:44.960
 creates its

00:40:44.960 --> 00:40:45.559
 own

00:40:45.559 --> 00:40:47.400
 atmosphere.

00:40:48.119 --> 00:40:48.860
 It creates

00:40:48.860 --> 00:40:49.280
 its own

00:40:49.280 --> 00:40:50.179
 culture.

00:40:50.720 --> 00:40:51.360
 It creates

00:40:51.360 --> 00:40:51.740
 its own

00:40:51.740 --> 00:40:52.639
 currents.

00:40:53.240 --> 00:40:54.340
 If you are

00:40:54.340 --> 00:40:55.059
 in Christ,

00:40:55.240 --> 00:40:55.639
 you've been

00:40:55.639 --> 00:40:57.179
 delivered from

00:40:57.179 --> 00:40:58.380
 this present

00:40:58.380 --> 00:40:59.320
 evil age.

00:40:59.559 --> 00:40:59.920
 You've been

00:40:59.920 --> 00:41:01.139
 delivered from

00:41:01.139 --> 00:41:02.139
 the world.

00:41:04.039 --> 00:41:04.860
 So what that

00:41:04.860 --> 00:41:05.360
 means is,

00:41:05.679 --> 00:41:06.139
 though we are

00:41:06.139 --> 00:41:06.940
 in the world,

00:41:07.119 --> 00:41:07.659
 we are no

00:41:07.659 --> 00:41:08.579
 longer of the

00:41:08.579 --> 00:41:08.860
 world.

00:41:09.860 --> 00:41:11.039
 We are of

00:41:11.039 --> 00:41:12.740
 Jesus in

00:41:12.740 --> 00:41:13.300
 the world.

00:41:14.960 --> 00:41:16.900
 now, here's

00:41:16.900 --> 00:41:17.320
 what you need

00:41:17.320 --> 00:41:17.920
 to understand,

00:41:18.039 --> 00:41:18.480
 brothers and

00:41:18.480 --> 00:41:18.760
 sisters.

00:41:19.559 --> 00:41:20.179
 The moment

00:41:20.179 --> 00:41:21.460
 you personally

00:41:21.460 --> 00:41:22.220
 believed in

00:41:22.220 --> 00:41:23.340
 Christ, you

00:41:23.340 --> 00:41:24.159
 were transferred

00:41:24.159 --> 00:41:25.099
 from the

00:41:25.099 --> 00:41:25.480
 kingdom of

00:41:25.480 --> 00:41:26.340
 darkness into

00:41:26.340 --> 00:41:26.760
 the kingdom

00:41:26.760 --> 00:41:27.119
 of his

00:41:27.119 --> 00:41:27.800
 beloved son.

00:41:28.699 --> 00:41:29.380
 You were

00:41:29.380 --> 00:41:30.619
 transferred from

00:41:30.619 --> 00:41:31.920
 one community

00:41:31.920 --> 00:41:32.659
 who were living

00:41:32.659 --> 00:41:33.880
 apart from God,

00:41:33.980 --> 00:41:34.519
 running from

00:41:34.519 --> 00:41:35.300
 him, and you

00:41:35.300 --> 00:41:35.900
 were transferred

00:41:35.900 --> 00:41:36.840
 into a new

00:41:36.840 --> 00:41:38.039
 community who

00:41:38.039 --> 00:41:38.579
 had been born

00:41:38.579 --> 00:41:39.420
 again, who

00:41:39.420 --> 00:41:39.800
 had new

00:41:39.800 --> 00:41:40.800
 identities, seeking

00:41:40.800 --> 00:41:41.619
 to live for

00:41:41.619 --> 00:41:42.199
 God by the

00:41:42.199 --> 00:41:42.679
 power of the

00:41:42.679 --> 00:41:43.260
 Holy Spirit.

00:41:43.260 --> 00:41:45.500
 God is

00:41:45.500 --> 00:41:46.140
 gathering for

00:41:46.140 --> 00:41:47.860
 himself by

00:41:47.860 --> 00:41:48.620
 the gospel of

00:41:48.620 --> 00:41:49.560
 Jesus Christ, a

00:41:49.560 --> 00:41:50.880
 people from all

00:41:50.880 --> 00:41:51.520
 over the world,

00:41:51.620 --> 00:41:52.560
 from every tribe,

00:41:52.720 --> 00:41:53.400
 tongue, and

00:41:53.400 --> 00:41:53.720
 nation.

00:41:54.200 --> 00:41:55.180
 In fact, we can

00:41:55.180 --> 00:41:56.420
 say this, you,

00:41:56.680 --> 00:41:57.300
 brother, sister,

00:41:57.520 --> 00:41:58.220
 have more in

00:41:58.220 --> 00:41:59.120
 common with a

00:41:59.120 --> 00:41:59.840
 tribesman in

00:41:59.840 --> 00:42:01.540
 Africa who is a

00:42:01.540 --> 00:42:02.280
 believer in Jesus

00:42:02.280 --> 00:42:03.500
 Christ than people

00:42:03.500 --> 00:42:04.280
 from your own

00:42:04.280 --> 00:42:05.140
 family who don't

00:42:05.140 --> 00:42:06.040
 know Jesus yet.

00:42:06.580 --> 00:42:07.120
 Because what

00:42:07.120 --> 00:42:08.840
 unites you more

00:42:08.840 --> 00:42:09.620
 is far more

00:42:09.620 --> 00:42:10.220
 important than

00:42:10.220 --> 00:42:11.180
 anything else that

00:42:11.180 --> 00:42:11.900
 might differentiate

00:42:11.900 --> 00:42:12.920
 us from each

00:42:12.920 --> 00:42:13.200
 other.

00:42:14.579 --> 00:42:15.139
 So throughout

00:42:15.139 --> 00:42:17.240
 Galatians, we

00:42:17.240 --> 00:42:18.059
 pick up on this

00:42:18.059 --> 00:42:19.139
 theme that Christ's

00:42:19.139 --> 00:42:20.360
 death has begun a

00:42:20.360 --> 00:42:21.740
 whole new era in

00:42:21.740 --> 00:42:22.760
 salvation history.

00:42:23.420 --> 00:42:24.780
 We pick it up in a

00:42:24.780 --> 00:42:25.800
 passage like Galatians

00:42:25.800 --> 00:42:26.579
 1 through 5 that

00:42:26.579 --> 00:42:27.639
 now has all this

00:42:27.639 --> 00:42:28.860
 kind of spirit talk

00:42:28.860 --> 00:42:29.480
 about it.

00:42:30.599 --> 00:42:31.599
 Salvation history is

00:42:31.599 --> 00:42:32.320
 a way of understanding

00:42:32.320 --> 00:42:33.380
 how God relates to

00:42:33.380 --> 00:42:34.840
 humankind in the big

00:42:34.840 --> 00:42:35.260
 picture.

00:42:35.500 --> 00:42:36.900
 Creation, fall,

00:42:37.139 --> 00:42:37.700
 redemption,

00:42:38.320 --> 00:42:39.039
 consummation.

00:42:39.940 --> 00:42:41.039
 And Christ's coming

00:42:41.039 --> 00:42:42.460
 inaugurated a new

00:42:42.460 --> 00:42:43.300
 way in which God

00:42:43.300 --> 00:42:44.719
 related to mankind

00:42:44.719 --> 00:42:46.019
 through Christ.

00:42:47.599 --> 00:42:49.219
 That new era was

00:42:49.219 --> 00:42:50.820
 prophesied in passages

00:42:50.820 --> 00:42:51.960
 like Jeremiah 31,

00:42:52.159 --> 00:42:53.019
 Ezekiel 36,

00:42:53.199 --> 00:42:53.739
 Joel 2,

00:42:54.000 --> 00:42:54.800
 when God would

00:42:54.800 --> 00:42:55.559
 establish a new

00:42:55.559 --> 00:42:56.380
 covenant with a new

00:42:56.380 --> 00:42:57.659
 people in whom he

00:42:57.659 --> 00:42:58.360
 would cause his

00:42:58.360 --> 00:42:59.380
 spirit to dwell in

00:42:59.380 --> 00:43:00.259
 in order that they

00:43:00.259 --> 00:43:00.980
 would obey him.

00:43:01.059 --> 00:43:01.779
 That should ring a

00:43:01.779 --> 00:43:02.039
 bell.

00:43:03.320 --> 00:43:04.400
 Galatians 5,

00:43:05.320 --> 00:43:07.039
 we live out our

00:43:07.039 --> 00:43:08.259
 freedom as God's

00:43:08.259 --> 00:43:09.259
 new people in the

00:43:09.260 --> 00:43:10.040
 power of the Holy

00:43:10.040 --> 00:43:10.640
 Spirit that we

00:43:10.640 --> 00:43:11.580
 would obey him.

00:43:16.940 --> 00:43:17.660
 Brothers and

00:43:17.660 --> 00:43:18.800
 sisters, we are

00:43:18.800 --> 00:43:19.800
 delivered from the

00:43:19.800 --> 00:43:21.600
 world to be part of a

00:43:21.600 --> 00:43:23.040
 new covenant community.

00:43:24.260 --> 00:43:25.460
 A new gospel

00:43:25.460 --> 00:43:26.040
 community.

00:43:28.120 --> 00:43:30.140
 God didn't save you.

00:43:30.580 --> 00:43:31.980
 He didn't justify you

00:43:31.980 --> 00:43:33.400
 and redeem you and

00:43:33.400 --> 00:43:34.840
 adopt you and dwell you

00:43:34.840 --> 00:43:36.640
 by his spirit, make you

00:43:36.640 --> 00:43:37.400
 a citizen of the

00:43:37.400 --> 00:43:38.180
 Jerusalem above.

00:43:38.179 --> 00:43:39.759
 He didn't make you a

00:43:39.759 --> 00:43:41.199
 new creation of a new

00:43:41.199 --> 00:43:42.259
 creation so that you

00:43:42.259 --> 00:43:43.699
 would be an island unto

00:43:43.699 --> 00:43:44.359
 yourself.

00:43:45.879 --> 00:43:48.119
 He saved you to be part

00:43:48.119 --> 00:43:49.000
 of a new people.

00:43:53.460 --> 00:43:54.940
 The new gospel community

00:43:54.940 --> 00:43:56.739
 Paul describes throughout

00:43:56.739 --> 00:43:59.019
 Galatians is described

00:43:59.019 --> 00:44:00.960
 as 329, Abraham's

00:44:00.960 --> 00:44:01.339
 offspring.

00:44:02.199 --> 00:44:05.319
 426-31, citizens of the

00:44:05.319 --> 00:44:05.940
 Jerusalem above.

00:44:06.179 --> 00:44:06.980
 Not children of the

00:44:06.980 --> 00:44:08.000
 slave but children of the

00:44:08.000 --> 00:44:08.420
 free woman.

00:44:08.559 --> 00:44:10.159
 514, these are the

00:44:10.159 --> 00:44:11.000
 people called to

00:44:11.000 --> 00:44:11.920
 fulfill the law by

00:44:11.920 --> 00:44:12.740
 walking according to

00:44:12.740 --> 00:44:13.000
 the Spirit.

00:44:13.159 --> 00:44:15.840
 616, when he blesses

00:44:15.840 --> 00:44:16.980
 all who walk according

00:44:16.980 --> 00:44:17.940
 to the new creation

00:44:17.940 --> 00:44:19.340
 rule, he says these

00:44:19.340 --> 00:44:20.519
 people are the new

00:44:20.519 --> 00:44:21.599
 Israel of God.

00:44:22.659 --> 00:44:23.519
 God's new people.

00:44:24.280 --> 00:44:25.320
 A new covenant

00:44:25.320 --> 00:44:25.940
 community.

00:44:26.340 --> 00:44:27.519
 A gospel community.

00:44:28.079 --> 00:44:28.900
 The church.

00:44:30.420 --> 00:44:31.380
 Those delivered from

00:44:31.380 --> 00:44:32.400
 the world and placed

00:44:32.400 --> 00:44:34.420
 into God's household.

00:44:34.420 --> 00:44:34.519
 God's new people.

00:44:36.680 --> 00:44:37.740
 Got to hang in here

00:44:37.740 --> 00:44:38.059
 with me.

00:44:39.780 --> 00:44:41.260
 This new people is

00:44:41.260 --> 00:44:43.559
 comprised of all and

00:44:43.559 --> 00:44:45.539
 any who have believed

00:44:45.539 --> 00:44:47.099
 in Christ alone for

00:44:47.099 --> 00:44:47.820
 their salvation.

00:44:48.980 --> 00:44:51.320
 We are all one new

00:44:51.320 --> 00:44:53.420
 people of God in Christ

00:44:53.420 --> 00:44:55.380
 indwelt by his Spirit.

00:44:55.519 --> 00:44:57.119
 And so let me now get to

00:44:57.119 --> 00:44:58.099
 some implications of

00:44:58.099 --> 00:44:58.300
 that.

00:44:58.300 --> 00:45:02.640
 The gospel gives each

00:45:02.640 --> 00:45:03.460
 of us a whole new

00:45:03.460 --> 00:45:03.840
 identity.

00:45:04.060 --> 00:45:04.700
 Do I have an amen?

00:45:06.460 --> 00:45:08.640
 The gospel gives us a

00:45:08.640 --> 00:45:09.620
 whole new corporate

00:45:09.620 --> 00:45:10.519
 identity.

00:45:12.720 --> 00:45:14.000
 We are a new people.

00:45:15.100 --> 00:45:16.180
 The gospel of Jesus

00:45:16.180 --> 00:45:18.039
 Christ is what unites

00:45:18.039 --> 00:45:18.539
 us.

00:45:19.280 --> 00:45:20.800
 And it's more important

00:45:20.800 --> 00:45:22.340
 than gender, ethnicity,

00:45:22.620 --> 00:45:23.539
 income, education,

00:45:23.720 --> 00:45:24.580
 culture, employment,

00:45:24.760 --> 00:45:25.960
 neighborhood, even your

00:45:25.960 --> 00:45:26.800
 political party.

00:45:26.800 --> 00:45:31.160
 All the things that

00:45:31.160 --> 00:45:32.220
 once divided us

00:45:32.220 --> 00:45:33.900
 when we are of the

00:45:33.900 --> 00:45:36.680
 world, they no longer

00:45:36.680 --> 00:45:38.580
 can divide us.

00:45:38.800 --> 00:45:40.120
 They must no longer

00:45:40.120 --> 00:45:40.960
 divide us.

00:45:41.280 --> 00:45:42.920
 Because what unites us

00:45:42.920 --> 00:45:45.400
 in Christ is far more

00:45:45.400 --> 00:45:46.080
 important.

00:45:46.620 --> 00:45:48.700
 It eclipses everything.

00:45:50.840 --> 00:45:52.260
 In the first century,

00:45:52.620 --> 00:45:53.440
 there are these dividing

00:45:53.440 --> 00:45:54.480
 lines between Jew and

00:45:54.480 --> 00:45:55.780
 Gentile, slave and free,

00:45:55.780 --> 00:45:56.700
 male and female.

00:45:56.800 --> 00:45:58.180
 You read about this at the

00:45:58.180 --> 00:45:59.460
 end of Galatians chapter

00:45:59.460 --> 00:45:59.860
 three.

00:46:02.580 --> 00:46:03.900
 If you are part of the

00:46:03.900 --> 00:46:04.760
 majority culture,

00:46:06.060 --> 00:46:07.720
 if you are living in a

00:46:07.720 --> 00:46:09.260
 higher social status,

00:46:10.260 --> 00:46:11.660
 here's what this means

00:46:11.660 --> 00:46:12.039
 for you.

00:46:12.260 --> 00:46:13.220
 If you're white middle

00:46:13.220 --> 00:46:13.780
 class,

00:46:14.840 --> 00:46:17.840
 it means that your

00:46:17.840 --> 00:46:19.380
 white middle classness

00:46:19.380 --> 00:46:22.280
 is not to govern your

00:46:22.280 --> 00:46:23.560
 interactions with other

00:46:23.560 --> 00:46:25.300
 people anymore as the

00:46:25.300 --> 00:46:27.100
 primary thing by which you

00:46:27.100 --> 00:46:28.220
 understand yourself.

00:46:28.220 --> 00:46:31.220
 The primary thing by which

00:46:31.220 --> 00:46:32.400
 you understand yourself

00:46:32.400 --> 00:46:34.560
 is the cross of Jesus

00:46:34.560 --> 00:46:35.180
 Christ.

00:46:36.760 --> 00:46:38.820
 If you are part of a

00:46:38.820 --> 00:46:39.960
 minority culture,

00:46:40.960 --> 00:46:43.280
 lower social status.

00:46:44.440 --> 00:46:46.120
 Your social status is not

00:46:46.120 --> 00:46:47.720
 nearly as important as you

00:46:47.720 --> 00:46:49.140
 being united in Christ.

00:46:49.139 --> 00:46:49.219
 Christ.

00:46:50.420 --> 00:46:51.859
 So here's what the gospel

00:46:51.859 --> 00:46:52.379
 does.

00:46:54.079 --> 00:46:55.839
 It humbles those in a

00:46:55.839 --> 00:46:57.879
 high worldly position and

00:46:57.879 --> 00:46:59.699
 elevates those in a low

00:46:59.699 --> 00:47:01.500
 worldly position and puts

00:47:01.500 --> 00:47:04.179
 us all on the same equal

00:47:04.179 --> 00:47:06.579
 footing under the cross.

00:47:08.579 --> 00:47:10.940
 So we don't ignore our

00:47:10.940 --> 00:47:13.159
 culture, ethnic, gender

00:47:13.159 --> 00:47:13.839
 differences.

00:47:14.379 --> 00:47:16.400
 It's just the cross eclipses

00:47:16.400 --> 00:47:17.000
 everything.

00:47:17.000 --> 00:47:21.099
 We are all justified.

00:47:22.880 --> 00:47:24.820
 We are all redeemed.

00:47:25.880 --> 00:47:28.219
 We are all adopted,

00:47:28.559 --> 00:47:29.619
 spirit and dwelt, new

00:47:29.619 --> 00:47:31.260
 creation, citizens of a new

00:47:31.260 --> 00:47:31.739
 Jerusalem.

00:47:32.699 --> 00:47:34.179
 And it's all because of what

00:47:34.179 --> 00:47:35.900
 Christ has done for us.

00:47:36.360 --> 00:47:38.179
 We are a new gospel

00:47:38.179 --> 00:47:38.739
 community.

00:47:40.820 --> 00:47:42.380
 And we've been given a whole

00:47:42.380 --> 00:47:43.900
 new social value system.

00:47:43.900 --> 00:47:49.519
 Our identity now informs how

00:47:49.519 --> 00:47:50.980
 we relate to one another in

00:47:50.980 --> 00:47:51.539
 the gospel.

00:47:53.079 --> 00:47:55.420
 We live out the gospel by

00:47:55.420 --> 00:47:56.780
 keeping in step with the

00:47:56.780 --> 00:47:58.599
 truth of the gospel by the

00:47:58.599 --> 00:48:00.280
 power of the Holy Spirit.

00:48:01.660 --> 00:48:03.300
 We've been called out from

00:48:03.300 --> 00:48:03.720
 the world.

00:48:04.059 --> 00:48:05.740
 We've called into the family

00:48:05.740 --> 00:48:06.320
 of God.

00:48:06.680 --> 00:48:08.960
 We are new creations who live

00:48:08.960 --> 00:48:10.000
 by a new rule.

00:48:10.240 --> 00:48:11.800
 Love your neighbor and it's

00:48:11.800 --> 00:48:13.200
 completely countercultural.

00:48:15.519 --> 00:48:18.380
 So we must be loving one

00:48:18.380 --> 00:48:19.620
 another regardless of our

00:48:19.620 --> 00:48:20.960
 similarities and differences

00:48:20.960 --> 00:48:21.600
 socially.

00:48:22.320 --> 00:48:24.420
 Our tendency as human beings

00:48:24.420 --> 00:48:26.780
 is to, of the flesh,

00:48:27.039 --> 00:48:28.760
 gravitate to those who are like

00:48:28.760 --> 00:48:29.680
 us in the flesh.

00:48:29.840 --> 00:48:31.280
 They're the people we're most

00:48:31.280 --> 00:48:32.560
 familiar and comfortable with.

00:48:33.680 --> 00:48:35.960
 But the gospel changes all of

00:48:35.960 --> 00:48:36.539
 that stuff.

00:48:36.539 --> 00:48:39.619
 Instead of allowing our flesh

00:48:39.619 --> 00:48:41.599
 to gravitationally pull us in

00:48:41.599 --> 00:48:42.880
 the flesh to those like us

00:48:42.880 --> 00:48:45.440
 socially, the Spirit compels us

00:48:45.440 --> 00:48:47.199
 to move towards other people

00:48:47.199 --> 00:48:49.519
 unlike us, but we are united

00:48:49.519 --> 00:48:50.519
 with in Christ.

00:48:52.300 --> 00:48:54.420
 It's a gospel social system.

00:48:55.940 --> 00:48:57.019
 Value system.

00:48:58.880 --> 00:49:00.800
 What is striking to me about

00:49:00.800 --> 00:49:03.300
 Galatians 5, 13 through 6, 10

00:49:03.300 --> 00:49:05.119
 is that the conflict between the

00:49:05.119 --> 00:49:07.239
 flesh and the Spirit gets

00:49:07.239 --> 00:49:09.719
 played out in the context

00:49:09.719 --> 00:49:11.359
 of relationships.

00:49:14.039 --> 00:49:16.119
 We must be constantly, as we

00:49:16.119 --> 00:49:17.460
 move forward as a church,

00:49:17.799 --> 00:49:19.219
 given the uniqueness of where

00:49:19.219 --> 00:49:21.179
 we're at, we love where we're at.

00:49:21.960 --> 00:49:23.940
 We love the people who our God

00:49:23.940 --> 00:49:24.739
 is bringing.

00:49:25.739 --> 00:49:27.779
 We must be constantly working

00:49:27.779 --> 00:49:29.179
 to maintain the unity of the

00:49:29.179 --> 00:49:30.519
 Spirit and the bond of peace

00:49:30.519 --> 00:49:33.359
 because we are all one in Christ.

00:49:35.119 --> 00:49:37.739
 We are a gospel community in

00:49:37.739 --> 00:49:40.539
 motion, walking by the Spirit.

00:49:43.139 --> 00:49:44.400
 Here's what's going to result

00:49:44.400 --> 00:49:45.579
 from that we're trusting God

00:49:45.579 --> 00:49:45.839
 for.

00:49:46.719 --> 00:49:48.579
 We're going to experience deeper,

00:49:48.880 --> 00:49:51.059
 richer gospel relationships with

00:49:51.059 --> 00:49:53.039
 people who we're united to in

00:49:53.039 --> 00:49:55.039
 Christ, but we are different from

00:49:55.039 --> 00:49:55.779
 culturally.

00:49:56.219 --> 00:49:58.059
 That is richness.

00:49:58.059 --> 00:50:03.900
 It's got to get played out in

00:50:03.900 --> 00:50:04.420
 specifics.

00:50:04.659 --> 00:50:06.340
 There's going to be greater peace.

00:50:06.699 --> 00:50:07.659
 We're not going to be biting and

00:50:07.659 --> 00:50:09.000
 devouring one another because of

00:50:09.000 --> 00:50:09.500
 our differences.

00:50:10.480 --> 00:50:11.940
 We're going to be restoring one

00:50:11.940 --> 00:50:13.159
 other, caught in trespasses,

00:50:13.219 --> 00:50:14.679
 regardless of you, rich or poor.

00:50:15.960 --> 00:50:17.559
 Bearing one another's burdens.

00:50:19.500 --> 00:50:20.860
 It's going to culminate in a

00:50:20.860 --> 00:50:22.980
 corporate boasting in the cross

00:50:22.980 --> 00:50:25.239
 because only God does things like

00:50:25.239 --> 00:50:25.679
 that.

00:50:26.959 --> 00:50:29.159
 When it unites a people who are

00:50:29.159 --> 00:50:30.239
 different from each other

00:50:30.239 --> 00:50:33.000
 culturally and unites them in such

00:50:33.000 --> 00:50:34.239
 a way that the gospel eclipses

00:50:34.979 --> 00:50:35.659
 everything.

00:50:35.939 --> 00:50:38.859
 It becomes our governing reality as a

00:50:38.859 --> 00:50:39.279
 people.

00:50:43.019 --> 00:50:46.000
 We are God's new people, brothers and

00:50:46.000 --> 00:50:46.339
 sisters.

00:50:47.239 --> 00:50:51.559
 A new gospel community that has been

00:50:51.559 --> 00:50:53.420
 brokered by the blood of Jesus.

00:50:55.519 --> 00:50:57.059
 Galatians is all about the gospel.

00:50:58.219 --> 00:51:00.219
 The gospel of Jesus Christ alone

00:51:00.219 --> 00:51:02.799
 frees us from slavery to sin so that

00:51:02.799 --> 00:51:07.299
 we together can live by the spirit for

00:51:07.299 --> 00:51:07.599
 God.

00:51:09.099 --> 00:51:11.679
 Paul begins this letter by issuing a

00:51:11.679 --> 00:51:13.840
 curse on all those who distorted the

00:51:13.840 --> 00:51:15.440
 gospel and made it a dud.

00:51:15.440 --> 00:51:20.559
 And he closes with blessing all those

00:51:20.559 --> 00:51:23.860
 in 616 who have embraced the new

00:51:23.860 --> 00:51:26.559
 gospel rule and have been united in

00:51:26.559 --> 00:51:27.800
 Christ Jesus.

00:51:28.559 --> 00:51:29.380
 Look at that.

00:51:29.700 --> 00:51:30.780
 Look at that blessing.

00:51:30.960 --> 00:51:33.539
 As for all who walk by this rule,

00:51:34.400 --> 00:51:36.720
 all of what God has done for us in

00:51:36.720 --> 00:51:40.179
 Christ Jesus, peace and mercy be upon

00:51:40.179 --> 00:51:43.740
 them and upon the Israel of God.

00:51:43.739 --> 00:51:46.439
 So Christ the King Church, as we move

00:51:46.439 --> 00:51:49.299
 forward from the book of Galatians, may

00:51:49.299 --> 00:51:52.459
 we never forget our one true gospel.

00:51:52.979 --> 00:51:55.939
 It alone saves our old gospel thread.

00:51:56.119 --> 00:51:56.959
 It will corrupt.

00:51:57.099 --> 00:51:58.919
 We've got to fight with the gospel.

00:51:59.439 --> 00:52:01.119
 Our new gospel identity, you've been

00:52:01.119 --> 00:52:02.599
 justified, redeemed, adopted.

00:52:02.679 --> 00:52:05.719
 That's who you are in our new gospel

00:52:05.719 --> 00:52:06.239
 community.

00:52:07.239 --> 00:52:09.159
 The gospel has given us a whole new

00:52:09.159 --> 00:52:11.399
 social value system.

00:52:13.739 --> 00:52:16.779
 If someone asked you, hey, what's

00:52:16.779 --> 00:52:18.059
 Christ the King Church all about?

00:52:19.699 --> 00:52:20.679
 Two words.

00:52:22.259 --> 00:52:23.159
 Christ crucified.

00:52:24.559 --> 00:52:26.099
 It's changed everything.

00:52:27.439 --> 00:52:28.139
 Will you pray with me?

00:52:29.719 --> 00:52:33.979
 God in heaven, I know this is a lot of

00:52:33.979 --> 00:52:35.059
 information to share.

00:52:35.059 --> 00:52:39.940
 God, would you cause the gospel truths to

00:52:39.940 --> 00:52:41.759
 find their marks in the hearts of our

00:52:41.759 --> 00:52:42.619
 brothers and sisters?

00:52:44.440 --> 00:52:47.179
 God, would you continue to do a work in

00:52:47.179 --> 00:52:50.500
 us that causes us to boast in the cross

00:52:50.500 --> 00:52:50.840
 alone?

00:52:51.840 --> 00:52:54.599
 God, would you add to our numbers of

00:52:54.599 --> 00:52:58.000
 people from various backgrounds so that

00:52:58.000 --> 00:53:01.599
 together with one voice we can cry out,

00:53:01.599 --> 00:53:02.599
 God, would you?

00:53:02.599 --> 00:53:03.039
 God, would you?

00:53:03.039 --> 00:53:04.839
 Oh, praise be the Lord.

00:53:05.900 --> 00:53:09.539
 He has died on our behalf and our lives

00:53:09.539 --> 00:53:10.119
 are His.

00:53:11.279 --> 00:53:12.819
 In the name of Jesus we pray.

00:53:13.619 --> 00:53:13.940
 Amen.