WEBVTT 1 00:00:00.000 --> 00:00:10.000 Welcome to the City Light Church podcast. Thanks for joining us today, as we look into God's word and discover the hope and truth that he has for us. 2 00:00:10.000 --> 00:00:19.000 If you want to connect with City Light Church, feel free to visit us at citylightnyc.com, that's citylightnyc.com. 3 00:00:19.000 --> 00:00:27.000 Pastor Boyan Jansik and his team believe that the power of the Holy Spirit is already working in our hearts and minds. 4 00:00:27.000 --> 00:00:37.000 As you listen to today's teaching, remember that you are deeply loved by God, that you are surrounded by his grace, and that he has a real hope and a future for you. 5 00:00:38.000 --> 00:00:43.000 Well, are you ready for the word of God this morning? 6 00:00:43.000 --> 00:00:58.000 We are on a journey of grace here, where in Romans chapter 8, and I really sense from the Lord once we completed Ephesians to take the whole church on a multi-month journey of grace. 7 00:00:58.000 --> 00:01:06.000 Why is understanding grace so important? Because grace is the system under which we now operate. 8 00:01:06.000 --> 00:01:14.000 Grace is the covenant, the system under which God operates. So we really should be good at understanding it, shouldn't we? 9 00:01:14.000 --> 00:01:23.000 If this is a system under which God operates, under the system that we are saved under, we should be thoroughly and intimately acquainted with the ends and outs of this system. 10 00:01:24.000 --> 00:01:37.000 Unfortunately, way too many Christians are not, because we still prize the old covenant as God's word, and it is. Every single jot and tidal is the word of God. 11 00:01:37.000 --> 00:01:53.000 We often confuse the two systems and mix them together and intertwine them. When really we are intended to read the Old Testament and prize it as the word of God, but we are to see it through the lens of now living under a new covenant. 12 00:01:54.000 --> 00:02:08.000 What the Bible calls a superior, a better covenant, and so mixtures not allowed, and after this we are going to get into Galatians where you see what was happening in the Galatians church was, they were mixing the two covenants together. 13 00:02:08.000 --> 00:02:17.000 Really have to laugh when you get a revelation of Galatians and you see what's really happening there. It's not something that only happened two thousand years ago. 14 00:02:17.000 --> 00:02:23.000 It's something that is always all the time happening in the church's worldwide today. 15 00:02:23.000 --> 00:02:32.000 That people take a little bit of the old covenant, a little bit of the new, mix it together, and really come up with a third covenant that's always changing. 16 00:02:32.000 --> 00:02:45.000 And that's a recipe for frustration. It's a recipe for disaster. The only time you see the Apostle Paul really kind of get animated and lose it. 17 00:02:45.000 --> 00:02:51.000 It doesn't lose it like in our carnal set, but you just see him like, whoa, Paul. 18 00:02:51.000 --> 00:02:57.000 Again, excited there was when he's rebuking the Galatians for mixing the two covenants. 19 00:02:57.000 --> 00:03:05.000 The Corinthians that was a really carnal, urban church, really needed a head renewing, had lots of problems. 20 00:03:05.000 --> 00:03:14.000 You see him still very fatherly, and Mr. Roger Z, very paternal. Yeah, he executes some harsh decisions there, but he's so sweet. 21 00:03:14.000 --> 00:03:24.000 But in Galatians, he's like, whoa, who has bewitched you? Who has hypnotized you? Has memorized you? 22 00:03:24.000 --> 00:03:30.000 And he has a really special one liner for the Judaizers that were encouraging him to mix the two covenants. 23 00:03:30.000 --> 00:03:34.000 I won't get into that right now. I'm going to leave that as a cliffhanger. 24 00:03:34.000 --> 00:03:44.000 But you got to come in for our Galatians series and why would Paul behave? Why? Because he understood that if you mix the two covenants, you really get the benefit of neither. 25 00:03:44.000 --> 00:03:56.000 You can't mix them. You can't have 90% of one 10% of the other. You have to really be 100% under the current covenant, the new covenant. 26 00:03:56.000 --> 00:04:03.000 That was bought and purchased and then ratified with the very precious blood of Jesus Christ. 27 00:04:03.000 --> 00:04:17.000 And the benefits of the new covenants are superior to those of the old. And so we're studying grace now because it is the new covenant of his grace. 28 00:04:17.000 --> 00:04:25.000 And the Apostle Paul is the one who received revelation of that new covenant. He's known as the Apostle of grace. 29 00:04:25.000 --> 00:04:42.000 And he says when he received this revelation, it was so mind-blowing. And so unlike anything the world had ever seen, he immediately went back up to Jerusalem and consulted with all the other Apostles to make sure that he was seeing and hearing correctly. 30 00:04:42.000 --> 00:05:01.000 Because grace doesn't make any sense to the natural mind. It really is mystical, bizarre, otherworldly and no other philosophy or faith or global religion, however small or however large, touches on grace. 31 00:05:02.000 --> 00:05:12.000 Every other philosophy, every other religion is based on some type of system of the law. You do something then God will respond with something. 32 00:05:12.000 --> 00:05:24.000 You do then he does. And you have to try and be disciplined and work really hard. I.e. be religious and then God will reward you. That makes sense to us as humans. 33 00:05:24.000 --> 00:05:40.000 But it's not the new covenant way. Amen. And it is unique, strange, mind-blowing and overwhelming. 34 00:05:40.000 --> 00:05:57.000 And so a common thing when people first begin to hear that we're under a covenant of grace, a common thought is, are you telling me that I can just sin as much as I want and it doesn't make a difference to God? That is a common knee-jerk reaction. 35 00:05:57.000 --> 00:06:08.000 You don't just hear that today. Paul himself heard it. And that's why he began Romans chapter 6 by addressing that right off the bat. 36 00:06:08.000 --> 00:06:20.000 We're going to do a quick recap of Romans 6 and 7 and then get into a little bit of 8. But I just find this recap. It's so important. 37 00:06:20.000 --> 00:06:39.000 So let's just look at Romans 6 verses 1 and verses 2. He says, what shall we say then? Shall we continue in sin that grace may abound? Should we just continue living according to our own lives and maybe sin even more? 38 00:06:39.000 --> 00:06:57.000 The previous chapter, he said, we're sin abounds. Grace does much more abounds. Grace super abounds. So somebody with an unrenued mind can think, yeah, I want more grace. So if I sin more, will more grace come? The truth is yes. 39 00:06:57.000 --> 00:07:12.000 But that's not how you're supposed to live. In our hearts, if we're Christians, we all don't want sin in our lives. Why? Because we're a hoidy-toidy? No. Because we understand that sin brings death. 40 00:07:13.000 --> 00:07:25.000 And we understand that even the Bible says sin may be pleasurable for a season, but then the consequences come. And they always come. They come with interest. 41 00:07:26.000 --> 00:07:48.000 So I want to be free from sin. But I can't do it in and of myself. And you're not supposed to either. You're not supposed to be free from sin by trying really hard looking to yourself or being really disciplined and having lots of willpower. That is religion. And that is the same as every other religion and faith tradition out there. 42 00:07:48.000 --> 00:08:17.000 What shall we say then? Shall we continue in sin that grace may abound? He says, God forbid. Certainly not. How shall we who died to sin live any longer in it? And this is where for the first time he introduces this concept, this truth, that we died, our sin nature, that part of us that we inherited from Adam and Eve, that part of us that is in rebellion against God. 43 00:08:18.000 --> 00:08:39.000 That it was actually crucified with Jesus. When, 2000 years ago, before we were even ever born in the mind of God, our sin nature was nailed to the cross there with him. And the power of sin was broken as a result. Amen. 44 00:08:40.000 --> 00:08:48.000 So how do you receive freedom from sin? We already know we're forgiven from sin, but I'm talking about how do we end that vicious sin? 45 00:08:48.000 --> 00:09:05.000 Oh, I'm so sorry, Lord. Cycle. That constant. It's by believing this and having faith in this. I know it sounds so, right? I felt it. You're like, I just believe that. 46 00:09:06.000 --> 00:09:21.000 Yeah. You were justified by faith and you'll be sanctified or made holy by faith. What if you say, what if you don't know what I'm really struggling with? 47 00:09:22.000 --> 00:09:37.000 The prescription is still the same. I can't tell you more. The prescription is still the same. It always goes back to the cross and you believing, believing stubbornly and clinging to the truth violently. 48 00:09:38.000 --> 00:09:49.000 No matter what your head is wanting to do, your unregenerate mind that hasn't been renewed with the word of God, no matter what you find, your body wanting to do. 49 00:09:49.000 --> 00:09:56.000 You're still saying out loud, Lord, I'm struggling now, but this is what I believe because I believe it because it's your truth. 50 00:09:56.000 --> 00:10:09.000 My sin nature was killed. I died in that way and dead people don't sin. And if you're really serious about being set free, you'll say it and you'll keep saying it. 51 00:10:09.000 --> 00:10:19.000 But there is this element that some Christians just really need to get sick and tired of being sick and tired. So in the beginning, you're not saying it because you're thinking, maybe I'll get away with this for a while. 52 00:10:20.000 --> 00:10:34.000 Hey, take it from me. You won't. It won't be God punishing you. No, no, no, he loves you. God disciplines us very lovingly and gently, but it won't be him. 53 00:10:34.000 --> 00:10:41.000 You say, well, then what are the consequences? The sin is the consequence. The result of the sin. 54 00:10:41.000 --> 00:10:56.000 Hey, man. Let's go to that next verse in Romans 6. And that's verse 6, knowing this, that our old man, that's our sin nature, that part of us in rebellion against God. 55 00:10:56.000 --> 00:11:08.000 It was crucified with him, that the body of sin might be done away with, that we should no longer be slaves of sin. 56 00:11:08.000 --> 00:11:20.000 And we talked several weeks ago how you will be a slave. You will either be a slave to God. That's a really good slave. Or you'll be a slave of sin and of the devil. 57 00:11:20.000 --> 00:11:29.000 So choose which direction you want to go in and choose wisely. But the Bible says that sin has been dealt with already 2,000 years ago. 58 00:11:29.000 --> 00:11:36.000 And this is just when our minds are renewed with this, then we know how to position and posture ourselves in prayer. 59 00:11:37.000 --> 00:11:44.000 You're not somebody who's a failure and a sinner and is gross and disgusting and you're crawling back to God. 60 00:11:44.000 --> 00:11:52.000 Oh, forgive me one more time. I keep failing you. 61 00:11:52.000 --> 00:12:05.000 No, your posture is, I'm a work in progress, yes. But I believe that my sin nature was nailed there with Jesus. 62 00:12:05.000 --> 00:12:14.000 I believe that that part of me that's in rebellion to you that wants to sin has been killed. 63 00:12:14.000 --> 00:12:24.000 And I believe by the power of your Holy Spirit, you're working it out in me. There is an outworking of your grace and I'm changing. 64 00:12:25.000 --> 00:12:33.000 What's the name of the game here anyway? It's to know Jesus and be conformed into his image, aka holiness. 65 00:12:33.000 --> 00:12:47.000 But that's not going to come once again through us trying really hard. And that's why most people don't want to come into church or be Christians because they think it's a group of us getting together and trying really hard to better ourselves. 66 00:12:47.000 --> 00:12:57.000 Seriously, I wouldn't join a group like that. That sounds. Let's get together and discuss morality and then really, really try to get better. 67 00:12:57.000 --> 00:13:08.000 That's like some twisted and perverted self-help group coming together and then just crying that we just can't do it. 68 00:13:09.000 --> 00:13:17.000 You're some of your looking and you're like, did you just describe the church I grew up in? I know. That's why you left that place. 69 00:13:17.000 --> 00:13:31.000 Went through a period of backsliding for 10, 15 years until the Lord brought you here. Now be set free, Christian. And come out of living under the law to living under grace. Amen. 70 00:13:31.000 --> 00:13:40.000 Now let me just be clear because we have new people and people forget so easily what it means to not live under the law because we're not living under the law. 71 00:13:40.000 --> 00:13:47.000 You can tell yourself all you want that we're still under the law. I'll show you 20 verses that explain your debt to the law. 72 00:13:47.000 --> 00:13:58.000 You're not to live under that old system. The problem is when I or the scripture say your debt to the law, some people have a need your reaction and what they hear is, 73 00:13:58.000 --> 00:14:06.000 I'm dead to any kind of rules. I'm dead to any kind of regulations. I'm dead to, I could just, it's anarchy. 74 00:14:06.000 --> 00:14:15.000 And that's not what the scripture saying. The scripture saying your debt to the system of the old covenant law. What was that system like? 75 00:14:15.000 --> 00:14:28.000 It was a system that told you to do good and do right, but never filled you with the power from within to fulfill the righteous requirement of that system of law. 76 00:14:28.000 --> 00:14:43.000 So you keep falling flat on your face and you keep working and sweating and trying hard to be approved unto God based on your own behavior and you keep falling and failing. 77 00:14:43.000 --> 00:14:59.000 That's not a good system. You say, why did we even have that system? Well, a couple of reasons. One, actually if you look at what was happening on Mount Sinai, when the 10 commandments were given, it would appear that God gave them a choice. 78 00:14:59.000 --> 00:15:14.000 Do you want to have grace or do you want to have the law? And you know what they did? All the Hebrews together in one voice, they said, give us the law. We're well able to keep every commandment you've given us. We can do it. 79 00:15:14.000 --> 00:15:28.000 Didn't work out so well, did it? Another reason is then God gave the law because it's like an MRI or an X-ray machine. It'll show you up. It'll detect where the sin is and it'll cause you to realize you're not all that. 80 00:15:28.000 --> 00:15:45.000 And that you need a savior. This is the offense of the gospel. Over and over again, we hear the offense of the cross, the offense of the gospel. And people will say, well, it's Jesus. Look, he's all bleeding. And we can't look so offensive. No, that's not the offense of the gospel. 81 00:15:45.000 --> 00:16:02.000 The offense of the gospel is that it's a giant message that says, hey, hot stuff. You're not all that. You're not all that. You're guilty of sin and you're powerless to do anything about it. 82 00:16:02.000 --> 00:16:18.000 You're powerless to be forgiven and you're powerless to change. So you need a savior. And that is offensive to people. That is a stumbling block. It is offense that they trip over. 83 00:16:18.000 --> 00:16:41.000 Because in secret, we all want to be our own God. We all want to do it ourselves. And then we all want to take the credit for it. The offense of the gospel is you don't get any credit. That's why we sing, hallelujah. We don't get to pat ourselves on the back. He did it all. Well, I got saved. I'm the one who accepted what he did. 84 00:16:41.000 --> 00:16:57.000 If you didn't get through your thick head, by the way, when I talk a little roughly like that, I'm actually talking to myself. I'm not pointing my finger at you. I can just easily replace it with if you didn't get through my thick head. 85 00:16:57.000 --> 00:17:15.000 And soften my rock hard heart. I never would have believed. I can't even take credit for receiving him as my Lord and savior. He touched my heart to believe. He opened my eyes that I should see. He's the one who I didn't walk out of darkness looking for God. He plucked me out. Amen. 86 00:17:15.000 --> 00:17:44.000 He delivered me. Verse 11 of Romans 6. Yeah, taking even more time than the first service. This is a recap. Likewise, you also. Once again, anyone who's a Christian inwardly, and this is what the Apostle Paul said, you delight after the law. God's standard of righteousness. According to the inner man. In your spirit, you want holiness. 87 00:17:44.000 --> 00:18:00.000 And in your spirit, you hate sin. But then Paul says, if you don't understand grace, if you're still trying to do it under the system of the law, you'll want to do what's right, but you'll fail every time. 88 00:18:01.000 --> 00:18:12.000 So what's the solution once again? Could it really be this simple? This is why I believe the Apostle Paul said don't be removed from this simplicity that is in Christ. 89 00:18:13.000 --> 00:18:20.000 And then those authors that are selling books like hot cakes, 50 ways to eliminate sin in your life, then they won't be able to sell those books. 90 00:18:21.000 --> 00:18:28.000 Because the answer is you also reckon yourselves. That's an accounting term that means put it down that it's so. 91 00:18:28.000 --> 00:18:39.000 So you put it down that it's so. You settle once and for all in your heart. You reckon yourself. Dead indeed to sin, but alive to God and Christ Jesus our Lord. 92 00:18:40.000 --> 00:18:58.000 So as the Lord is working out his will and his ways, remember, in Galatians, excuse me may not be Galatians, but it says that he makes us or causes us to will and do after his own good pleasure. 93 00:18:59.000 --> 00:19:08.000 It's from the inside out, but that begins when you put it down that it's so that your old nature, your sin nature has been crucified with him. 94 00:19:08.000 --> 00:19:14.000 You were crucified together with him, co-crucified, co-buried and co-resurected. Amen. 95 00:19:15.000 --> 00:19:16.000 Verse 14. 96 00:19:19.000 --> 00:19:25.000 Whoever was just randomly clapping in the back, that was a good time to clap. Verse 14. 97 00:19:26.000 --> 00:19:32.000 You got to appreciate that one person was like, I don't care what anybody else is doing. This is clap worthy. 98 00:19:32.000 --> 00:19:34.000 Verse 14. 99 00:19:37.000 --> 00:19:43.000 For sin shall not have dominion over you, for you are not under law, but under grace. 100 00:19:43.000 --> 00:19:51.000 There was something twisted and ugly happening. And it's always been the plan of the devil. He's been doing this for 2000 years. 101 00:19:51.000 --> 00:20:03.000 When you talk about grace, people who are committed to the Lord, who don't understand grace, which is a lot of people, they're committed, they're Christian, they're born again, but they don't really understand grace. 102 00:20:04.000 --> 00:20:12.000 So they think when you are a quote unquote grace preacher, secretly what you're really communicating is lukewarmness and compromise. 103 00:20:13.000 --> 00:20:18.000 Really, I'm a grace, which I don't even like that term, grace preacher. What does that mean? 104 00:20:19.000 --> 00:20:26.000 I'm not a grace preacher. I'm a proclaimer of the gospel. The gospel is grace. Amen. 105 00:20:27.000 --> 00:20:38.000 That's why the Bible says that the gospel is the power of God. Hallelujah. And this is not a grace message. This is the gospel and you cannot separate grace from gospel. 106 00:20:39.000 --> 00:20:57.000 But because there are preachers who twist grace and misuse it, there are. And they're lukewarm churches and compromise churches and they're flirting with the world, some aren't flirting, some are outright just on their tenth date with the world and ready to propose. 107 00:20:58.000 --> 00:21:18.000 And they'll kind of for all of their compromise and all of their lukewarmness, they slap the sticker of grace on it to give grace a bad name. But if you look at that verse, Paul said you're free from sin because you're not under the old covenant system of law. 108 00:21:19.000 --> 00:21:32.000 You're not under a system where the pressure is on you. That'll make you sin more. You're not under a system where you feel you have to score points with the big guy because that system will actually bring more sin out of you. 109 00:21:33.000 --> 00:21:48.000 Somebody all of a sudden your whole church life is certain makes sense. You're no longer under a system where you yourself are trying to win God's approval and acceptance based on your behavior. All that's going to do is cause you to finally fall down and say, I give up. 110 00:21:49.000 --> 00:22:04.000 Go crazy in the world. And I've seen it happen all the time. That's what being under the system of law produces. But sin shall not have dominion over you for you are not under law, but under grace. 111 00:22:05.000 --> 00:22:21.000 So being under grace means that you're set free from the power of sin. You can also say this way, grace is an empowerment against sin. And we also misuse the word grace often when we really should be using the word mercy. 112 00:22:22.000 --> 00:22:33.000 Like let's say we have a meeting and you come 10 minutes late and I go, I don't worry about it. I had grace for you. I really had mercy, but I didn't have grace. 113 00:22:33.000 --> 00:22:45.000 If I had grace for you, I would have sent you an Uber code and got you an Uber to the meeting. I would have given you an empowerment. Is this making sense to anyone? 114 00:22:45.000 --> 00:23:02.000 That's another story over there, but I'm just explaining that we are a church of the gospel. We are new covenant church. You are, but put whatever label on it. If you know Jesus, you are a people of grace. 115 00:23:02.000 --> 00:23:11.000 And so we have to become good at understanding what is this covenant that we're supposed to function under and the more you get it. 116 00:23:11.000 --> 00:23:28.000 All of a sudden it will be like chains snapping off you and your prayers will be answered. So what weren't the answer before because the Bible says faith works by love. And if you don't get God's love via grace, your faith won't work. 117 00:23:28.000 --> 00:23:39.000 You'll have all these questions about your worth, about your identity, about your position before God, and you'll have all these questions about the character and nature of God. 118 00:23:39.000 --> 00:23:48.000 One moment you'll be saying hallelujah, the next moment you'll be going to sleep thinking, I think I hate God and I think he hates me. There's people who live this way. 119 00:23:48.000 --> 00:24:02.000 There is a better way. Amen. He didn't save you that you should be tortured on this side of heaven. He saved you that you would experience all of heaven that you can, according to your faith, be it unto you. 120 00:24:02.000 --> 00:24:13.000 Inak, he experienced so much heaven on this side of heaven that he didn't even die. He just walked with God and God is like, look, you're spending so much time with me. 121 00:24:13.000 --> 00:24:22.000 More than you are down there, you're with me. You might as well just come right on up. And the Bible says he never died. He was just the first one to be raptured. 122 00:24:23.000 --> 00:24:36.000 Hallelujah. That's a good goal. Hashtag life goals. I want to walk with God so tightly that when I get to heaven, I'm not surprised. Some people will get to heaven and have a nervous breakdown. 123 00:24:36.000 --> 00:24:53.000 It's so happy and joyful and the prosperity and the peace. Look at God. All I see is love, I'm melting from love. He's so loving. I didn't know. He was like this. You should have done known. 124 00:24:53.000 --> 00:25:05.000 If you spent more time with him and got ahold of grace, you wouldn't be shocked when you show up. Hallelujah. 125 00:25:06.000 --> 00:25:26.000 Let's recap Roman seven now. Oh God is good. Hallelujah. This is why, by the way, Jesus said, he said, John the Baptist of all the old covenant of the law, prophets, John the Baptist is greatest. 126 00:25:27.000 --> 00:25:42.000 Because he's the one who heralded the way and prepared the way for the Messiah. But then he said the least in the kingdom of heaven, those that are under the new covenant of grace, the least under grace is greater than the greatest under law. 127 00:25:42.000 --> 00:26:04.000 This is why. So every day, just thank God you were born AD. You have more of the Holy Spirit than David ever had. They didn't have the Holy Spirit 24 seven living inside of them. They had temporary empowerment, coverings of the Holy Spirit to do a certain assignment. 128 00:26:04.000 --> 00:26:14.000 And then he'd be messing up and cry, oh God, don't take your Holy Spirit from me. Don't you pray that prayer ever under the new covenant. 129 00:26:14.000 --> 00:26:27.000 There's a lot of stuff that we say as though that reveals that we have mixture in our heart. Did you notice those of you've been coming to church for 20 years? Have you noticed that I never ever refer to this place as the house of God? 130 00:26:28.000 --> 00:26:40.000 You say that's because we only rent, right? If you own your own building, then it would be no. This is not the house of God. Under the old covenant, it was a physical building. 131 00:26:41.000 --> 00:27:00.000 New Testament churches all the time. Don't disrespect God's house. Under the new covenant, you are the house of God. You're the temple of God. You're a mobile, glory temple. Hallelujah. 132 00:27:01.000 --> 00:27:13.000 All right, Romans 7 and verse 4, recapping Romans 7, take, go through five verses from Romans 7. 133 00:27:13.000 --> 00:27:20.000 Therefore, my brethren, you also have become dead to the law. What? 134 00:27:21.000 --> 00:27:34.000 Romans 6, he establishes our sin nature was killed. So just so you know, when you look at that man in the mirror, promising that you're going to make a change. 135 00:27:39.000 --> 00:27:46.000 And you look at that man in the mirror. 136 00:27:46.000 --> 00:27:54.000 And you feel disgusted and you know how you failed and how you fall and you remember that that part of you was killed off 2,000 years ago. 137 00:27:54.000 --> 00:28:04.000 You remember that. Some of you, you got a zombie version of you that you yourself have raised up and that's your identity. 138 00:28:04.000 --> 00:28:09.000 You need to see yourself as the resurrected Christ because that's where you are right now. 139 00:28:09.000 --> 00:28:16.000 But now he establishes not only are you dead to sin, you're also dead to the law. 140 00:28:16.000 --> 00:28:24.000 Let's make peace with it. Shall we have a moment of silence together for our dearly departed system that we're no longer under. 141 00:28:25.000 --> 00:28:29.000 You're no longer under the old covenant of law. What does that mean practically? 142 00:28:29.000 --> 00:28:40.000 You're no longer under a system where you are trying to win God's acceptance and approval and be justified and be forgiven of your sins based on your behavior. 143 00:28:43.000 --> 00:28:45.000 He has done it all. 144 00:28:46.000 --> 00:29:06.000 So Paul establishes you've become dead to the law through the body of Christ that you may be married, that you may be united, that you may be joined to another, to Jesus, to him who was raised from the dead, that we should bear fruit to God. 145 00:29:06.000 --> 00:29:22.000 Verse 5, for when we were in the flesh, the sinful passions which were aroused by the law were at work in our members to bear fruit to death. 146 00:29:22.000 --> 00:29:24.000 Verse 15, 147 00:29:25.000 --> 00:29:36.000 Now Paul begins to describe what it's like to be a Christian and try to serve God under the law, under the old system and that under grace. 148 00:29:36.000 --> 00:29:39.000 And it sounds like zero fun at all. 149 00:29:40.000 --> 00:29:47.000 And it's just that it sounds like my Christianity the first couple of years until I got a hold of grace. 150 00:29:47.000 --> 00:29:51.000 And it sounds like a lot of people who go to church. 151 00:29:51.000 --> 00:30:02.000 This is what 50 years, 60 years of their life has been like. Many leave. They can't handle it. The only reason those stay is they love the Lord. 152 00:30:02.000 --> 00:30:08.000 They really do. And they fear hell too much. And some of them are just gluttonous for punishment. 153 00:30:08.000 --> 00:30:20.000 So they just like whipping themselves and feeling like, oh, yo, yo, this is what church is like, I guess, until we get to the sweet buying buy. 154 00:30:20.000 --> 00:30:31.000 Doesn't this sound like torture? Look for what I'm doing. I don't understand. It's like I'm a walking contradiction, a total civil war. I have no peace. 155 00:30:31.000 --> 00:30:46.000 I'm a spiritual skidzo. For what I want to do, that I end up not doing, that I do not, that I don't practice. And what I hate, that's what I do. 156 00:30:46.000 --> 00:31:00.000 That is not the abundant life in Christ. That is not what Christianity is. This is what religious torture is. 157 00:31:00.000 --> 00:31:08.000 Again, what is this? It is a safe person. How do we know he's a safe person because he says, what I hate, I do. 158 00:31:08.000 --> 00:31:16.000 A safe person doesn't hate sin. They hate the effects and the ramifications and the consequences of sin. 159 00:31:16.000 --> 00:31:22.000 But they don't hate sin. Only a born again believer hates sin. But he's saying the thing that I hate, I still end up doing it. 160 00:31:22.000 --> 00:31:27.000 Why? Because you're trying to serve God in your own strength. 161 00:31:27.000 --> 00:31:38.000 You have to be a living under the law. Thank you for coming to therapy hour with Pastor Boyan Jansik. 162 00:31:38.000 --> 00:31:47.000 It's been my absolute pleasure to explain the last 10 to 20 years of your life to you. 163 00:31:47.000 --> 00:31:54.000 You keep falling and you keep failing because you, you, you. You keep trying to do it. 164 00:31:54.000 --> 00:31:59.000 So what do we got to get good at? We got to get good at reckoning ourselves dead. 165 00:31:59.000 --> 00:32:07.000 And yielding and surrendering to him, bending the knee and accepting his lordship in every area of our life. 166 00:32:07.000 --> 00:32:12.000 And he will cause us to will and to do after his good pleasure. 167 00:32:12.000 --> 00:32:25.000 Again, not from the outside in, but from the inside out. Religion, all it's concerned is the cosmetics, the outside. 168 00:32:25.000 --> 00:32:31.000 But he's from the inside out. Hallelujah. 169 00:32:31.000 --> 00:32:41.000 The Romans 24 through 25, after having used the word I, 40 times. 170 00:32:41.000 --> 00:32:47.000 And that's how you know you're living under the law or trying to do it in your own strength. 171 00:32:47.000 --> 00:32:53.000 You become a spiritual narcissist. You're always looking inwardly and it's all about you. 172 00:32:53.000 --> 00:32:59.000 And Paul here 40 times and describing this person kept saying he's describing himself and he's saying I, I, I, I. 173 00:32:59.000 --> 00:33:05.000 And finally, he's like, I keep failing. I keep falling. Oh, wretched man that I am. 174 00:33:05.000 --> 00:33:13.000 Who will deliver me from this messed up version of Christianity that God never intended? 175 00:33:13.000 --> 00:33:20.000 And he gives the answer. I thank God. Finally, looking up and out. 176 00:33:20.000 --> 00:33:29.000 Not examining himself, but looking at the answer, looking unto Jesus, the author and the finisher of our faith. 177 00:33:29.000 --> 00:33:35.000 I thank God through Jesus Christ our lord. He's the answer. 178 00:33:35.000 --> 00:33:41.000 And what he did at his death, burial and resurrection, that's the source of the power. 179 00:33:41.000 --> 00:33:45.000 Hallelujah. Hallelujah. 180 00:33:45.000 --> 00:33:49.000 So what's happening here this morning and the journey that we're going on? 181 00:33:49.000 --> 00:33:53.000 Because look, you've been programmed one way your whole entire life. 182 00:33:53.000 --> 00:33:57.000 One sermon on this is not going to deprogramming you. 183 00:33:57.000 --> 00:34:01.000 Excuse me, deprogram you. 184 00:34:01.000 --> 00:34:06.000 I got to go surplunking. That's underwater cave diving. 185 00:34:06.000 --> 00:34:11.000 I got to go in there with a pickaxe and a shovel, some dynamite. 186 00:34:11.000 --> 00:34:17.000 Get into all the nooks and crannies of your law-based system of believing and thinking. 187 00:34:17.000 --> 00:34:21.000 Set up the TNT charges. 188 00:34:21.000 --> 00:34:25.000 Blow it as mithereens. And that takes some time. 189 00:34:25.000 --> 00:34:30.000 Hallelujah. 190 00:34:30.000 --> 00:34:41.000 So that then with the mind, I myself serve the law of God, but with the flesh, the law of sin. 191 00:34:41.000 --> 00:34:48.000 And now, after a good, what, 30 minute recap, let's begin Romans chapter 8. 192 00:34:48.000 --> 00:34:52.000 If you've just arrived late, you come right on time. 193 00:34:52.000 --> 00:34:59.000 We're doing Romans 8. Let's begin at verse 1. 194 00:34:59.000 --> 00:35:01.000 I feel like I just lost some people. 195 00:35:01.000 --> 00:35:04.000 People that were here the first service of having fun. 196 00:35:04.000 --> 00:35:08.000 There's some people right now like faster. I got an appointment at 2 p.m. 197 00:35:08.000 --> 00:35:13.000 And you're now beginning Romans 8. 198 00:35:13.000 --> 00:35:16.000 I didn't get past Romans 8 verse 1 in the last service. 199 00:35:16.000 --> 00:35:22.000 So just... 200 00:35:22.000 --> 00:35:28.000 Whenever you see a therefore in the Bible, what question should you ask? 201 00:35:28.000 --> 00:35:31.000 Say it loud. 202 00:35:31.000 --> 00:35:33.000 What is it therefore? 203 00:35:33.000 --> 00:35:42.000 So he's saying therefore, because of Pastor Boyan's recap of Romans 6 and 7. 204 00:35:42.000 --> 00:35:48.000 No, he's saying because of what I wrote to you about you, your sin nature being crucified with Jesus. 205 00:35:48.000 --> 00:35:52.000 You not being under the law anymore. You're dead to the law. 206 00:35:52.000 --> 00:35:57.000 Because of what I wrote to you about this new covenant system of his grace, 207 00:35:57.000 --> 00:36:07.000 there is therefore now zero no condemnation to those who are in Christ Jesus. 208 00:36:07.000 --> 00:36:10.000 Here's the sad reality. 209 00:36:10.000 --> 00:36:17.000 So many Christians read that as there is therefore now less condemnation to those who are in Christ Jesus. 210 00:36:17.000 --> 00:36:22.000 It's not all taken out of the way. That wouldn't be right. I don't deserve that. 211 00:36:22.000 --> 00:36:29.000 Because I just feel some Christians, I just feel he's looking at me funny. 212 00:36:29.000 --> 00:36:38.000 I just feel you're a slave to your feelings. 213 00:36:38.000 --> 00:36:43.000 You don't want to know how I felt when I woke up this morning. 214 00:36:43.000 --> 00:36:48.000 I woke up in a room that looks like one of those, 215 00:36:48.000 --> 00:36:52.000 when you watch Old World War II footage and the Berlin bombing, 216 00:36:52.000 --> 00:36:57.000 and it's just, I shouldn't look at rocks and gravel that is out. 217 00:36:57.000 --> 00:37:00.000 No, I don't thank you. I'm not saying this for sympathy. 218 00:37:00.000 --> 00:37:04.000 I'm just saying, I'm explaining to you, I woke up and my little girl is sick. 219 00:37:04.000 --> 00:37:07.000 And so my wife couldn't be there. I got very few hours. 220 00:37:07.000 --> 00:37:13.000 And I woke up, honestly, I woke up and I was like, I mean, that was not what felt. 221 00:37:13.000 --> 00:37:15.000 I felt awful. 222 00:37:15.000 --> 00:37:17.000 Zero energy in my body. 223 00:37:17.000 --> 00:37:20.000 And that was the wave that greeted me on a Sunday morning. 224 00:37:20.000 --> 00:37:22.000 I'm not saying it for sympathy though, just so you understand. 225 00:37:22.000 --> 00:37:28.000 I'm trying to relate to you because I know you don't feel like you're on your A game all the time. 226 00:37:28.000 --> 00:37:32.000 That's how I felt. So what did I do about the first thought was, 227 00:37:32.000 --> 00:37:36.000 wow, and I'm preaching, I'm not relying on yourself, 228 00:37:36.000 --> 00:37:41.000 and the power of the Holy Spirit, and walking according to the Spirit. 229 00:37:41.000 --> 00:37:45.000 This is a good time to actually practice what I preach. Amen. 230 00:37:45.000 --> 00:37:50.000 So feeling like junk, I began to say the truth, 231 00:37:50.000 --> 00:37:55.000 knowing that my feelings will soon become subject to the truth. 232 00:37:55.000 --> 00:37:56.000 Amen. 233 00:37:56.000 --> 00:38:00.000 So to those of you who don't feel like God loves you, 234 00:38:00.000 --> 00:38:05.000 and you don't feel His grace, and you don't, you speak the truth anyhow. 235 00:38:05.000 --> 00:38:10.000 Why? Because your feelings are lying to you. They're lying. 236 00:38:10.000 --> 00:38:12.000 They're not accurate. 237 00:38:12.000 --> 00:38:19.000 Your feelings are coming from an unrenewed mind and past experiences. 238 00:38:19.000 --> 00:38:22.000 That God had nothing to do with. 239 00:38:22.000 --> 00:38:26.000 You trip and fall all by yourself and Satan says, God. 240 00:38:27.000 --> 00:38:30.000 And look, oh, God did that. No, you tripped and fell. 241 00:38:30.000 --> 00:38:33.000 And for whatever reason you associated that with God, 242 00:38:33.000 --> 00:38:36.000 He was just an heaven going, I'm here when you need me. 243 00:38:36.000 --> 00:38:38.000 Just look upon me, call on me. 244 00:38:38.000 --> 00:38:41.000 I even have angels that will bury you up in their hands, 245 00:38:41.000 --> 00:38:44.000 let your dash your foot against the stone. Just please look at me once in a while, 246 00:38:44.000 --> 00:38:49.000 and set your mind on me to activate them. Amen. 247 00:38:49.000 --> 00:38:54.000 So there is therefore now no condemnation. 248 00:38:54.000 --> 00:38:57.000 Why is there no condemnation? 249 00:38:57.000 --> 00:39:02.000 Because your sin, all of your sin, all of my sin, 250 00:39:02.000 --> 00:39:06.000 was already past tense condemned. 251 00:39:06.000 --> 00:39:12.000 It was condemned in the body of Jesus. 252 00:39:12.000 --> 00:39:17.000 And once that sin was already condemned and judged, 253 00:39:17.000 --> 00:39:21.000 there is no more condemnation left for you. 254 00:39:21.000 --> 00:39:23.000 Hallelujah. 255 00:39:23.000 --> 00:39:27.000 Amen. 256 00:39:27.000 --> 00:39:31.000 Do we got that gimbal? 257 00:39:31.000 --> 00:39:35.000 Do you have it? Just come up real close with the gimbal. 258 00:39:35.000 --> 00:39:37.000 Is that it? Is it active? 259 00:39:37.000 --> 00:39:40.000 Just for the sake of the folks at home, really? 260 00:39:40.000 --> 00:39:43.000 So if I do this, they get a close-up of that? 261 00:39:43.000 --> 00:39:47.000 Is it on? Talk to me. 262 00:39:47.000 --> 00:39:51.000 All right. See this tattoo? 263 00:39:51.000 --> 00:39:54.000 It was in a restaurant yesterday, and the bartender, 264 00:39:54.000 --> 00:39:57.000 I'm waiting there, and he goes, he's looking at me, he goes, 265 00:39:57.000 --> 00:40:00.000 is that a martini glass? 266 00:40:00.000 --> 00:40:02.000 You see, everybody looks at, thank you. 267 00:40:02.000 --> 00:40:04.000 Everybody looks at, it's because it's upside down chalice. 268 00:40:04.000 --> 00:40:08.000 Everybody looks at life through their own lens, don't they? 269 00:40:08.000 --> 00:40:10.000 He's a bartender, is that a martini glass? 270 00:40:10.000 --> 00:40:14.000 First time I ever heard that. 271 00:40:14.000 --> 00:40:16.000 What I often hear is that a communion cup. 272 00:40:16.000 --> 00:40:19.000 That's good. I just wanted him to see what I permanently put on my body 273 00:40:19.000 --> 00:40:21.000 forever and ever. 274 00:40:21.000 --> 00:40:23.000 It's an upside down chalice. 275 00:40:23.000 --> 00:40:25.000 We're talking about no condemnation. 276 00:40:25.000 --> 00:40:28.000 It's an upside down chalice. 277 00:40:28.000 --> 00:40:34.000 Cups, chalices throughout the Bible represent God's wrath. 278 00:40:34.000 --> 00:40:38.000 A full cup, wine, dregs being poured out. 279 00:40:38.000 --> 00:40:39.000 That's the wrath of God. 280 00:40:39.000 --> 00:40:43.000 Joseph, the most Christ-like figure in the Old Testament, 281 00:40:43.000 --> 00:40:47.000 the one who pointed the most towards Jesus, 282 00:40:47.000 --> 00:40:51.000 when his brothers who had betrayed him, starting to sound familiar, 283 00:40:51.000 --> 00:40:55.000 come to him, he puts an upside down chalice, 284 00:40:55.000 --> 00:40:58.000 silver, by the way, silver is the medal of redemption. 285 00:40:58.000 --> 00:41:01.000 In Benjamin's book bag, Napsack, it says. 286 00:41:01.000 --> 00:41:05.000 What is that being saying, I'm not angry with you? 287 00:41:05.000 --> 00:41:07.000 It's not full of it. 288 00:41:07.000 --> 00:41:09.000 It's prophetically speaking of what Jesus did. 289 00:41:09.000 --> 00:41:13.000 The cup of God's wrath was thoroughly and completely poured out. 290 00:41:13.000 --> 00:41:14.000 And it's empty. 291 00:41:14.000 --> 00:41:17.000 There is none left for you anymore. 292 00:41:17.000 --> 00:41:20.000 That's why I put that on my arm. 293 00:41:20.000 --> 00:41:21.000 Amen. 294 00:41:21.000 --> 00:41:25.000 All of the condemnation has been poured out on Jesus, 295 00:41:25.000 --> 00:41:27.000 so zero is left for you. 296 00:41:27.000 --> 00:41:30.000 That's something to celebrate. 297 00:41:30.000 --> 00:41:32.000 And when you get that in your spirit, 298 00:41:32.000 --> 00:41:34.000 you're going to fall in love with him. 299 00:41:34.000 --> 00:41:37.000 You're going to receive from him. 300 00:41:37.000 --> 00:41:40.000 Your prayers will come alive. 301 00:41:41.000 --> 00:41:43.000 Your faith will soar. 302 00:41:43.000 --> 00:41:46.000 You will begin to live in the land of abundance. 303 00:41:46.000 --> 00:41:48.000 You can't until you get this. 304 00:41:48.000 --> 00:41:53.000 Because faith, the Bible says, in Galatians faith works by love. 305 00:41:53.000 --> 00:41:56.000 People always think, oh, that means I need to be nicer to people in order for my... 306 00:41:56.000 --> 00:41:58.000 No, that's part of it. 307 00:41:58.000 --> 00:42:00.000 That's again, everyone looks at the fruit, 308 00:42:00.000 --> 00:42:03.000 but leaves the root untouched. 309 00:42:03.000 --> 00:42:07.000 It's not about being nice to people, loving to people. 310 00:42:07.000 --> 00:42:09.000 It's about receiving God's love for yourself. 311 00:42:09.000 --> 00:42:12.000 Then you'll be loving to people by default, 312 00:42:12.000 --> 00:42:14.000 and then your faith will come alive. 313 00:42:14.000 --> 00:42:16.000 Faith works by love. 314 00:42:16.000 --> 00:42:20.000 Why am I laboring in the spirit 315 00:42:20.000 --> 00:42:22.000 to intertwine this message of grace 316 00:42:22.000 --> 00:42:25.000 and the very DNA fibers of our church? 317 00:42:25.000 --> 00:42:29.000 Because when you get it, you're going to get God's love. 318 00:42:29.000 --> 00:42:32.000 When you get God's love, your faith will soar 319 00:42:32.000 --> 00:42:34.000 and you'll be getting answers to prayers 320 00:42:34.000 --> 00:42:37.000 and victory won't be something that's always in the distance. 321 00:42:37.000 --> 00:42:39.000 You'll realize you have it now. 322 00:42:39.000 --> 00:42:42.000 Hallelujah. 323 00:42:42.000 --> 00:42:47.000 There is therefore now no condemnation 324 00:42:47.000 --> 00:42:50.000 to those who are in Christ Jesus. 325 00:42:50.000 --> 00:42:52.000 So you're in Him, aren't you? 326 00:42:52.000 --> 00:42:55.000 Is Jesus condemned? No, He was. 327 00:42:55.000 --> 00:42:59.000 On the cross, but then He was resurrected. 328 00:42:59.000 --> 00:43:02.000 And He's sitting in glory, resting 329 00:43:02.000 --> 00:43:05.000 from the labor of the cross. 330 00:43:05.000 --> 00:43:08.000 And you're in Him. 331 00:43:08.000 --> 00:43:11.000 Who do not walk according to the flesh? 332 00:43:11.000 --> 00:43:15.000 Now this is where people who just don't get grace 333 00:43:15.000 --> 00:43:18.000 because people will fight you. 334 00:43:18.000 --> 00:43:21.000 They'll fight you for it. 335 00:43:21.000 --> 00:43:25.000 And it's really funny how that works. 336 00:43:25.000 --> 00:43:27.000 Again, usually it's because of pride. 337 00:43:27.000 --> 00:43:33.000 People that have been wrong about something for years 338 00:43:33.000 --> 00:43:35.000 can't bring it to themselves to realize, 339 00:43:35.000 --> 00:43:37.000 oh wow, I really was deceived 340 00:43:37.000 --> 00:43:42.000 and I was wrong for years about this. 341 00:43:42.000 --> 00:43:45.000 Praise God. 342 00:43:45.000 --> 00:43:53.000 We had a real life experiment with COVID, didn't we? 343 00:43:53.000 --> 00:43:58.000 Didn't we? Amen. 344 00:43:58.000 --> 00:44:00.000 People walking around triple masking 345 00:44:00.000 --> 00:44:03.000 with gloves up to their elbows. 346 00:44:03.000 --> 00:44:05.000 Do you remember how in the first few people 347 00:44:05.000 --> 00:44:09.000 were hugging each other through nylon? 348 00:44:09.000 --> 00:44:11.000 And then never then afterwards again, 349 00:44:11.000 --> 00:44:12.000 you know what? 350 00:44:12.000 --> 00:44:14.000 This is all after three years of that. 351 00:44:14.000 --> 00:44:16.000 At least you should be going, 352 00:44:16.000 --> 00:44:19.000 you know, I'm a little suspicious of that whole thing. 353 00:44:19.000 --> 00:44:22.000 That's it. 354 00:44:22.000 --> 00:44:24.000 I'm a little bit suspicious 355 00:44:24.000 --> 00:44:26.000 about how that data was presented 356 00:44:26.000 --> 00:44:29.000 and what they made me go through. 357 00:44:29.000 --> 00:44:32.000 That's fair. 358 00:44:32.000 --> 00:44:37.000 Can you turn my mic volume up please? 359 00:44:37.000 --> 00:44:40.000 They'll do all these mental gymnastics 360 00:44:40.000 --> 00:44:42.000 just so they didn't have to go, 361 00:44:42.000 --> 00:44:44.000 I was wrong. 362 00:44:44.000 --> 00:44:46.000 I wasn't, hey, I didn't get. 363 00:44:46.000 --> 00:44:48.000 There were other ministers close to me 364 00:44:48.000 --> 00:44:50.000 that saw right through it from the beginning. 365 00:44:50.000 --> 00:44:55.000 But it took me several months. 366 00:44:56.000 --> 00:44:57.000 Why? 367 00:44:57.000 --> 00:44:58.000 Because I'm slow? 368 00:44:58.000 --> 00:44:59.000 No. 369 00:44:59.000 --> 00:45:01.000 Because actually we only need to hear a lie 370 00:45:01.000 --> 00:45:04.000 repeated six or seven times before we believe it. 371 00:45:04.000 --> 00:45:06.000 And I was there right along with you watching the news 372 00:45:06.000 --> 00:45:09.000 and the death counterometer going. 373 00:45:09.000 --> 00:45:12.000 And you have every voice telling you, 374 00:45:12.000 --> 00:45:14.000 and if you're new or whatever and you say, 375 00:45:14.000 --> 00:45:15.000 is this guy a COVID denier? 376 00:45:15.000 --> 00:45:16.000 No. 377 00:45:16.000 --> 00:45:18.000 I'm just a denier that it was a pandemic 378 00:45:18.000 --> 00:45:21.000 because a pandemic is deaths of like 30% of a popular. 379 00:45:21.000 --> 00:45:24.000 The bubonic plague, that's a pandemic. 380 00:45:24.000 --> 00:45:27.000 30% of the population wiped out. 381 00:45:27.000 --> 00:45:29.000 COVID, those are rookie numbers. 382 00:45:29.000 --> 00:45:35.000 1%, less than 1%. 383 00:45:35.000 --> 00:45:36.000 Why are you so quiet? 384 00:45:36.000 --> 00:45:39.000 Are you afraid that they're listening? 385 00:45:39.000 --> 00:45:40.000 Some of you are like, 386 00:45:40.000 --> 00:45:42.000 I'll say amen when I shut my phone off 387 00:45:42.000 --> 00:45:47.000 and I turn Alexa off at home. 388 00:45:47.000 --> 00:45:48.000 Listen, some of you, 389 00:45:48.000 --> 00:45:50.000 you're not going to make it when round two comes around 390 00:45:50.000 --> 00:45:51.000 if this is your attitude. 391 00:45:51.000 --> 00:45:52.000 I'm telling you. 392 00:45:52.000 --> 00:45:55.000 What this exposed, I'm getting off this, 393 00:45:55.000 --> 00:45:58.000 and no, no, I'm getting off grace 394 00:45:58.000 --> 00:45:59.000 just because I'm seeing, 395 00:45:59.000 --> 00:46:02.000 when round two comes along, 396 00:46:02.000 --> 00:46:04.000 you're still going to be afraid 397 00:46:04.000 --> 00:46:06.000 of what will my neighbors think, 398 00:46:06.000 --> 00:46:07.000 what will other people at work think, 399 00:46:07.000 --> 00:46:09.000 what will my boss think? 400 00:46:09.000 --> 00:46:10.000 Who cares? 401 00:46:10.000 --> 00:46:15.000 I saw good-hearted Christian people 402 00:46:15.000 --> 00:46:16.000 miss their, 403 00:46:16.000 --> 00:46:19.000 they're still messed up psychologically 404 00:46:19.000 --> 00:46:21.000 because they were so concerned 405 00:46:21.000 --> 00:46:23.000 about what will people think? 406 00:46:23.000 --> 00:46:25.000 They just had to call me a grandma killer twice 407 00:46:25.000 --> 00:46:28.000 and I was going to show everybody I was doing my part 408 00:46:28.000 --> 00:46:31.000 and trusting the science TM. 409 00:46:31.000 --> 00:46:36.000 I'm a responsible citizen. 410 00:46:36.000 --> 00:46:38.000 I'm going to love my neighbor 411 00:46:38.000 --> 00:46:40.000 and get quintuple vaxed and boosted 412 00:46:40.000 --> 00:46:43.000 to show my love for my neighbor. 413 00:46:45.000 --> 00:46:48.000 Now I feel that coming up. 414 00:46:48.000 --> 00:46:49.000 Here I am. 415 00:46:49.000 --> 00:46:51.000 But he said, why are you feeling... 416 00:46:51.000 --> 00:46:52.000 Why? 417 00:46:52.000 --> 00:46:54.000 Because I don't want to see you go down 418 00:46:54.000 --> 00:46:56.000 like a lemming when round two will come 419 00:46:56.000 --> 00:46:58.000 in one form or another. 420 00:46:58.000 --> 00:47:00.000 Are you going to go down? 421 00:47:00.000 --> 00:47:02.000 That cliff like a lemming? 422 00:47:02.000 --> 00:47:06.000 And just being a slave to whatever they pipe in, 423 00:47:06.000 --> 00:47:07.000 not just through the television, 424 00:47:07.000 --> 00:47:08.000 but through that telephone 425 00:47:08.000 --> 00:47:11.000 that knows you better than you know you. 426 00:47:11.000 --> 00:47:13.000 Those algorithms have been studying you. 427 00:47:13.000 --> 00:47:15.000 They know what your shoe size is, 428 00:47:15.000 --> 00:47:16.000 they know what you like, 429 00:47:16.000 --> 00:47:17.000 what you don't like, 430 00:47:17.000 --> 00:47:20.000 where you live, what time you get up. 431 00:47:20.000 --> 00:47:22.000 Do you know that one of the ways 432 00:47:22.000 --> 00:47:24.000 they're wanting to measure credit worthiness? 433 00:47:24.000 --> 00:47:25.000 Listen to this. 434 00:47:25.000 --> 00:47:26.000 It's by whether you charge... 435 00:47:26.000 --> 00:47:28.000 Because they have access to this data. 436 00:47:28.000 --> 00:47:30.000 Whether you charge your phone at night. 437 00:47:30.000 --> 00:47:32.000 If you charge your phone all through the night, 438 00:47:32.000 --> 00:47:34.000 you're perceived to be a more responsible individual 439 00:47:34.000 --> 00:47:36.000 and your credit worthiness goes up. 440 00:47:36.000 --> 00:47:38.000 And if you just go to sleep, 441 00:47:38.000 --> 00:47:39.000 phone fell on your head 442 00:47:39.000 --> 00:47:41.000 because you were scrolling at 2 a.m. 443 00:47:41.000 --> 00:47:43.000 and you woke up and you're charging 444 00:47:43.000 --> 00:47:44.000 it all throughout the day, 445 00:47:44.000 --> 00:47:46.000 then you're in a year's time. 446 00:47:46.000 --> 00:47:48.000 It knows you. 447 00:47:48.000 --> 00:47:52.000 Tell the social media people 448 00:47:52.000 --> 00:47:55.000 to put that clip on Instagram. 449 00:47:55.000 --> 00:47:58.000 They haven't put any of the controversial stuff. 450 00:47:58.000 --> 00:48:01.000 Put that on so they know what we're about. 451 00:48:07.000 --> 00:48:10.000 We're about loving the truth and hating the lie. 452 00:48:10.000 --> 00:48:12.000 Amen. 453 00:48:13.000 --> 00:48:16.000 Bible says in Proverbs, 454 00:48:16.000 --> 00:48:19.000 buy the truth and sell it not. 455 00:48:19.000 --> 00:48:22.000 Be a lover of truth. 456 00:48:22.000 --> 00:48:24.000 And please don't take a hand, 457 00:48:24.000 --> 00:48:26.000 understand, whenever there is truth, 458 00:48:26.000 --> 00:48:29.000 people will take it to an extreme 459 00:48:29.000 --> 00:48:31.000 and that'll be mixed with lies. 460 00:48:31.000 --> 00:48:33.000 And so you don't know what the truth or what the lie... 461 00:48:33.000 --> 00:48:34.000 All I'm saying is, 462 00:48:34.000 --> 00:48:36.000 can you be a little more discerning 463 00:48:36.000 --> 00:48:38.000 and a little more suspicious in a good way? 464 00:48:39.000 --> 00:48:44.000 And can you please just put to death the fear of man. 465 00:48:45.000 --> 00:48:48.000 Refuse now ever to do anything ever again 466 00:48:48.000 --> 00:48:50.000 because everybody else is doing it. 467 00:48:54.000 --> 00:48:56.000 I saw a picture of a bunch of Nazis, 468 00:48:56.000 --> 00:48:57.000 thousands of them, 469 00:48:57.000 --> 00:48:58.000 each one doing the sig hill, 470 00:48:58.000 --> 00:49:00.000 and it was one guy like this. 471 00:49:00.000 --> 00:49:02.000 Like not believing. 472 00:49:02.000 --> 00:49:04.000 That's the guy I want to be. 473 00:49:04.000 --> 00:49:05.000 Be that guy. 474 00:49:05.000 --> 00:49:06.000 Be the guy saying, 475 00:49:06.000 --> 00:49:08.000 what the heck is going on? 476 00:49:08.000 --> 00:49:09.000 No, I'm not... 477 00:49:09.000 --> 00:49:11.000 I'm not partaking of the lunacy. 478 00:49:11.000 --> 00:49:12.000 Amen. 479 00:49:16.000 --> 00:49:18.000 Romans A1. 480 00:49:21.000 --> 00:49:25.000 Who do not walk according to the flesh 481 00:49:25.000 --> 00:49:27.000 but according to the spirit? 482 00:49:27.000 --> 00:49:28.000 So once again, 483 00:49:28.000 --> 00:49:31.000 this is how I went on this deluxe rabbit trail. 484 00:49:31.000 --> 00:49:34.000 Because people who love 485 00:49:34.000 --> 00:49:36.000 their legalism 486 00:49:36.000 --> 00:49:38.000 and they want to trust in themselves 487 00:49:38.000 --> 00:49:40.000 because they can't just come to terms 488 00:49:40.000 --> 00:49:41.000 that maybe they've been wrong for years 489 00:49:41.000 --> 00:49:43.000 about how Christianity is to be done. 490 00:49:43.000 --> 00:49:44.000 They'll say, 491 00:49:44.000 --> 00:49:45.000 see, 492 00:49:45.000 --> 00:49:46.000 what the Bible means, 493 00:49:46.000 --> 00:49:48.000 there's no condemnation for those 494 00:49:48.000 --> 00:49:49.000 who aren't sinning. 495 00:49:49.000 --> 00:49:52.000 They're not walking according to the flesh, right? 496 00:49:52.000 --> 00:49:53.000 Well, 497 00:49:53.000 --> 00:49:55.000 if you're not sinning, 498 00:49:55.000 --> 00:49:57.000 you don't need a message of no condemnation. 499 00:49:57.000 --> 00:49:58.000 That's like, 500 00:49:58.000 --> 00:49:59.000 duh. 501 00:49:59.000 --> 00:50:00.000 You're telling me, 502 00:50:00.000 --> 00:50:02.000 if I'm forever skinny, 503 00:50:02.000 --> 00:50:03.000 I won't get fat. 504 00:50:03.000 --> 00:50:04.000 I won't get fat. 505 00:50:04.000 --> 00:50:06.000 Wow, mind blowing. 506 00:50:06.000 --> 00:50:08.000 Wow, if I don't sin, 507 00:50:08.000 --> 00:50:09.000 then there's no condemnation. 508 00:50:09.000 --> 00:50:10.000 No. 509 00:50:10.000 --> 00:50:12.000 To walk according to the flesh 510 00:50:12.000 --> 00:50:14.000 doesn't mean you're not sinning. 511 00:50:14.000 --> 00:50:16.000 To walk, excuse me, 512 00:50:16.000 --> 00:50:17.000 to walk according to the flesh 513 00:50:17.000 --> 00:50:18.000 doesn't mean you're sinning. 514 00:50:18.000 --> 00:50:20.000 To walk according to the flesh 515 00:50:20.000 --> 00:50:23.000 means you're living under the law. 516 00:50:23.000 --> 00:50:26.000 You're trying to serve God in your strength 517 00:50:26.000 --> 00:50:27.000 and then consequently, 518 00:50:27.000 --> 00:50:28.000 yes, 519 00:50:28.000 --> 00:50:29.000 you will be sinning 520 00:50:29.000 --> 00:50:31.000 because you're trying to do it 521 00:50:31.000 --> 00:50:33.000 in your own strength. 522 00:50:33.000 --> 00:50:37.000 That's what walking in the flesh means. 523 00:50:37.000 --> 00:50:40.000 Then what is walking in the spirit mean? 524 00:50:40.000 --> 00:50:44.000 Walking in the spirit means you're walking under grace. 525 00:50:44.000 --> 00:50:49.000 Walking in the spirit means you're walking 526 00:50:49.000 --> 00:50:51.000 under the new covenant. 527 00:50:51.000 --> 00:50:54.000 And new covenant and new creation realities 528 00:50:54.000 --> 00:50:56.000 are alive and new. 529 00:50:56.000 --> 00:50:57.000 I don't know about you, 530 00:50:57.000 --> 00:51:00.000 but I was told walking in the spirit means 531 00:51:00.000 --> 00:51:02.000 praying every day, 532 00:51:02.000 --> 00:51:04.000 reading the Word every day, 533 00:51:04.000 --> 00:51:06.000 witnessing every day. 534 00:51:06.000 --> 00:51:08.000 Those are all wonderful fruit. 535 00:51:08.000 --> 00:51:10.000 But that's not walking in the spirit. 536 00:51:10.000 --> 00:51:14.000 That's a fruit and a result of walking in the spirit. 537 00:51:14.000 --> 00:51:16.000 Can I show this to you? 538 00:51:16.000 --> 00:51:18.000 Just real quick in Galatians. 539 00:51:18.000 --> 00:51:21.000 Galatians chapter 5. 540 00:51:21.000 --> 00:51:23.000 Verse 16 says, 541 00:51:23.000 --> 00:51:25.000 I say then, 542 00:51:25.000 --> 00:51:27.000 walk in the spirit. 543 00:51:27.000 --> 00:51:30.000 This is after a five chapter battle. 544 00:51:30.000 --> 00:51:32.000 Paul is saying this. 545 00:51:32.000 --> 00:51:36.000 A five chapter battle of trying to get these Galatians to wake up 546 00:51:36.000 --> 00:51:39.000 and stop mixing the two covenants together. 547 00:51:39.000 --> 00:51:42.000 And he says, walk in the spirit 548 00:51:42.000 --> 00:51:45.000 and then you shall not fulfill the lust of the flesh. 549 00:51:45.000 --> 00:51:48.000 Walking in the spirit doesn't mean don't sin 550 00:51:48.000 --> 00:51:50.000 because then that verse wouldn't make sense. 551 00:51:51.000 --> 00:51:54.000 Don't sin and you won't be sinning. 552 00:51:54.000 --> 00:51:56.000 Are you all seeing this? 553 00:51:56.000 --> 00:51:58.000 I'm explaining this all right. 554 00:51:58.000 --> 00:51:59.000 All right. 555 00:51:59.000 --> 00:52:01.000 Walking in the spirit. 556 00:52:01.000 --> 00:52:04.000 I'll give you an example of walking in the spirit. 557 00:52:04.000 --> 00:52:06.000 If you wake up and going, 558 00:52:06.000 --> 00:52:09.000 woo, another day, Lord hallelujah, thank you. 559 00:52:09.000 --> 00:52:14.000 Lord Jesus, thank you that my sin nature has been killed off 560 00:52:14.000 --> 00:52:16.000 and it's dead and crucified. 561 00:52:16.000 --> 00:52:19.000 Thank you, Lord, that I'm dead to that old system of the law. 562 00:52:19.000 --> 00:52:21.000 I mean, while there's all this crowd going on in your life, right? 563 00:52:21.000 --> 00:52:23.000 But you still, you said that, Lord, thank you. 564 00:52:23.000 --> 00:52:25.000 That I'm filled with the Holy Spirit. 565 00:52:25.000 --> 00:52:26.000 You fill me with your life. 566 00:52:26.000 --> 00:52:27.000 Thank you, Lord. 567 00:52:27.000 --> 00:52:28.000 You've gone ahead before me. 568 00:52:28.000 --> 00:52:29.000 Lord, you're connecting the dots. 569 00:52:29.000 --> 00:52:30.000 You're opening doors. 570 00:52:30.000 --> 00:52:32.000 I'm going to be at the right place at the right time. 571 00:52:32.000 --> 00:52:34.000 And, Lord, I have these other issues in my life. 572 00:52:34.000 --> 00:52:35.000 But I thank you that I cannot. 573 00:52:35.000 --> 00:52:36.000 I just admit right away. 574 00:52:36.000 --> 00:52:38.000 I cannot overcome these things on my own. 575 00:52:38.000 --> 00:52:40.000 But you can, Lord, and you're inside of me. 576 00:52:40.000 --> 00:52:43.000 And on top of that, Lord, I have been made righteous. 577 00:52:43.000 --> 00:52:44.000 I have rights standing. 578 00:52:44.000 --> 00:52:46.000 Lord, we're best friends. 579 00:52:46.000 --> 00:52:48.000 Thank you for that, Lord. 580 00:52:48.000 --> 00:52:49.000 Thank you. 581 00:52:49.000 --> 00:52:50.000 We have this relationship. 582 00:52:50.000 --> 00:52:51.000 Thank you. 583 00:52:51.000 --> 00:52:52.000 You're my father. 584 00:52:52.000 --> 00:52:53.000 And I'm your child. 585 00:52:53.000 --> 00:52:54.000 And I'm highly favored. 586 00:52:54.000 --> 00:52:55.000 And I'm blessed. 587 00:52:55.000 --> 00:52:56.000 And I'm anointed. 588 00:52:56.000 --> 00:52:57.000 And Lord, good things. 589 00:52:57.000 --> 00:52:59.000 They're beating down my joy. 590 00:52:59.000 --> 00:53:01.000 They come from all over the place, Lord. 591 00:53:01.000 --> 00:53:03.000 Now you're walking in the spirit. 592 00:53:03.000 --> 00:53:04.000 Guess what happened? 593 00:53:04.000 --> 00:53:06.000 Your eyes are not on you. 594 00:53:06.000 --> 00:53:07.000 They're on him. 595 00:53:07.000 --> 00:53:08.000 Hallelujah. 596 00:53:08.000 --> 00:53:11.000 All right, I'll close with this. 597 00:53:11.000 --> 00:53:13.000 Worship team, come on up. 598 00:53:13.000 --> 00:53:14.000 Usher's and usher its. 599 00:53:14.000 --> 00:53:16.000 Get the communion elements ready. 600 00:53:16.000 --> 00:53:19.000 This is, I believe, one of the grit my opinion. 601 00:53:19.000 --> 00:53:22.000 One of the greatest Old Testament passages ever. 602 00:53:22.000 --> 00:53:23.000 Why? 603 00:53:23.000 --> 00:53:26.000 Or is it so great because it points to the new? 604 00:53:26.000 --> 00:53:29.000 It's an Ezekiel 36 and verse 26. 605 00:53:29.000 --> 00:53:33.000 This is what walking in the spirit is. 606 00:53:33.000 --> 00:53:37.000 It's a prophecy about the new covenant. 607 00:53:37.000 --> 00:53:39.000 It's a prophecy about you. 608 00:53:39.000 --> 00:53:43.000 And the system that you're going to serve God under. 609 00:53:43.000 --> 00:53:46.000 I will give you a new heart. 610 00:53:46.000 --> 00:53:49.000 And put a new spirit within you. 611 00:53:49.000 --> 00:53:52.000 They didn't have that back then, but you do. 612 00:53:52.000 --> 00:53:56.000 I will take out the heart of stone. 613 00:53:56.000 --> 00:54:00.000 I will take the heart of stone, excuse me, out of your flesh 614 00:54:00.000 --> 00:54:03.000 and give you a heart of flesh. 615 00:54:03.000 --> 00:54:08.000 I will put my spirit within you. 616 00:54:08.000 --> 00:54:12.000 I will put my spirit within you. 617 00:54:12.000 --> 00:54:14.000 And cause you. 618 00:54:14.000 --> 00:54:16.000 Do you see that? 619 00:54:16.000 --> 00:54:20.000 I will cause you. 620 00:54:20.000 --> 00:54:25.000 I will cause you to walk in my statutes. 621 00:54:25.000 --> 00:54:29.000 And you will keep my judgments and do them. 622 00:54:29.000 --> 00:54:33.000 Please leave that verse up there. 623 00:54:33.000 --> 00:54:36.000 This is what walking in the spirit is. 624 00:54:36.000 --> 00:54:39.000 This is what walking in Christianity. 625 00:54:39.000 --> 00:54:42.000 Yielding to the greater one that's in you. 626 00:54:42.000 --> 00:54:45.000 As you're receiving your community elements, 627 00:54:45.000 --> 00:54:48.000 just listen to this story. 628 00:54:48.000 --> 00:54:53.000 It's an example I have of this walking in the spirit 629 00:54:53.000 --> 00:54:57.000 and how the new covenant life is to be lived. 630 00:54:57.000 --> 00:55:00.000 First year Bible school. 631 00:55:00.000 --> 00:55:05.000 I had this wonky, red, sanfered, and sun pickup truck. 632 00:55:05.000 --> 00:55:12.000 And the tailgate was open because it was full. 633 00:55:12.000 --> 00:55:14.000 Everybody over 40 joined me in singing, 634 00:55:14.000 --> 00:55:17.000 and the other kids are like, 635 00:55:17.000 --> 00:55:22.000 YouTube it. 636 00:55:22.000 --> 00:55:26.000 At a tailgate, I was backing up, 637 00:55:26.000 --> 00:55:29.000 but it was a tight squeeze in between two cars 638 00:55:29.000 --> 00:55:32.000 and I had a friend from Bible school. 639 00:55:32.000 --> 00:55:34.000 He was in his early 20s like me. 640 00:55:34.000 --> 00:55:36.000 He had glasses. 641 00:55:36.000 --> 00:55:38.000 They were like half an inch thick. 642 00:55:38.000 --> 00:55:40.000 You couldn't tell whether his eyes were on the inside 643 00:55:40.000 --> 00:55:42.000 or the outside. 644 00:55:42.000 --> 00:55:46.000 You could never tell which way he was looking at you. 645 00:55:46.000 --> 00:55:49.000 I'm just saying that because that's not the guy 646 00:55:49.000 --> 00:55:52.000 that you want signalling you on how you're going to back up. 647 00:55:52.000 --> 00:55:55.000 But that was my guy. 648 00:55:55.000 --> 00:55:57.000 And so I'm backing up and I'm going to do a half. 649 00:55:57.000 --> 00:56:00.000 And he's gone. 650 00:56:00.000 --> 00:56:01.000 Like I got yard. 651 00:56:01.000 --> 00:56:03.000 And I'm like, I don't have as much room as he's gesticulating 652 00:56:03.000 --> 00:56:06.000 that I have. 653 00:56:06.000 --> 00:56:09.000 And all of a sudden, you can't sneak up with the, 654 00:56:09.000 --> 00:56:12.000 you got to slowly and then start. 655 00:56:12.000 --> 00:56:14.000 But he just, he went from, come on. 656 00:56:14.000 --> 00:56:19.000 And I hit the brake and I realized I hit the car. 657 00:56:19.000 --> 00:56:21.000 And I'm thinking, 658 00:56:21.000 --> 00:56:23.000 get out of my car and I see you. 659 00:56:23.000 --> 00:56:24.000 I'm miracle. 660 00:56:24.000 --> 00:56:26.000 I didn't wreck the back end of the car. 661 00:56:26.000 --> 00:56:28.000 It was so bizarre. 662 00:56:28.000 --> 00:56:31.000 I had a tailgate that was open to hit the tail light. 663 00:56:31.000 --> 00:56:33.000 Didn't even smash or break the tail light. 664 00:56:33.000 --> 00:56:36.000 But left like a pea-sized hole in the tail light. 665 00:56:36.000 --> 00:56:38.000 And my first thought was, 666 00:56:38.000 --> 00:56:41.000 just leave. 667 00:56:41.000 --> 00:56:45.000 I don't want to get stuck with a bill for 150 bucks. 668 00:56:45.000 --> 00:56:48.000 I hadn't gotten a revelation of sewing and reaping and seed time 669 00:56:48.000 --> 00:56:51.000 and harvest and God's prosperity at 150 bucks. 670 00:56:51.000 --> 00:56:54.000 On top of my budget, 23 year old Bible school student 671 00:56:54.000 --> 00:56:56.000 that would erect me for a month. 672 00:56:56.000 --> 00:56:58.000 Perfect. What's the harm? 673 00:56:58.000 --> 00:57:00.000 But I just even thought that I just felt, 674 00:57:00.000 --> 00:57:02.000 ah, that's not the right thing to do. 675 00:57:02.000 --> 00:57:06.000 So what I did was I got out a note and I wrote my name, 676 00:57:06.000 --> 00:57:09.000 what had happened, my contact information, 677 00:57:09.000 --> 00:57:12.000 my phone number and left it on the windshield. 678 00:57:12.000 --> 00:57:15.000 I want you to note. 679 00:57:15.000 --> 00:57:17.000 They never called, by the way. 680 00:57:17.000 --> 00:57:20.000 God's goodness. 681 00:57:20.000 --> 00:57:22.000 But I want you to note, 682 00:57:22.000 --> 00:57:24.000 when you look at the Old Testament, 683 00:57:24.000 --> 00:57:26.000 there are different laws and Leviticus. 684 00:57:26.000 --> 00:57:28.000 There is not one that says, 685 00:57:28.000 --> 00:57:32.000 when thou art backing up thy truck 686 00:57:32.000 --> 00:57:36.000 and thou smashes into thy neighbor's tail light, 687 00:57:36.000 --> 00:57:40.000 make it thou sure that thy leave a note 688 00:57:40.000 --> 00:57:43.000 with thy contact information. 689 00:57:43.000 --> 00:57:45.000 It's not there. 690 00:57:45.000 --> 00:57:47.000 What was I doing? 691 00:57:47.000 --> 00:57:49.000 It's what you've done, too. 692 00:57:49.000 --> 00:57:53.000 You were living out of your new created, 693 00:57:53.000 --> 00:57:57.000 born again, spirit, the new heart that he has given you. 694 00:57:57.000 --> 00:58:02.000 And he was causing you to walk in his statutes, 695 00:58:02.000 --> 00:58:05.000 to anyone who would say the grace message 696 00:58:05.000 --> 00:58:07.000 is an assault on holiness. 697 00:58:07.000 --> 00:58:09.000 They don't know what they're talking about. 698 00:58:09.000 --> 00:58:12.000 The exact opposite is true. 699 00:58:12.000 --> 00:58:15.000 Because it actually causes you to come up 700 00:58:15.000 --> 00:58:17.000 to an even greater way of hold. 701 00:58:17.000 --> 00:58:19.000 There's strict law here instead of say, 702 00:58:19.000 --> 00:58:21.000 hey, look, pornography is okay, 703 00:58:21.000 --> 00:58:24.000 but as long as I don't cheat on my wife, 704 00:58:24.000 --> 00:58:26.000 there are people who look to the long sea 705 00:58:26.000 --> 00:58:28.000 because the law never says anything about that. 706 00:58:28.000 --> 00:58:31.000 And God said, hey, Jesus, through Jesus, 707 00:58:31.000 --> 00:58:35.000 there's even a higher standard. 708 00:58:35.000 --> 00:58:37.000 You don't have to have that stuff in your head. 709 00:58:37.000 --> 00:58:39.000 You don't have to put it before your eyes. 710 00:58:39.000 --> 00:58:42.000 And you can be set free from that. 711 00:58:42.000 --> 00:58:45.000 Hallelujah. 712 00:58:45.000 --> 00:58:47.000 So grace, and by the way, 713 00:58:47.000 --> 00:58:50.000 I feel like after dropping that bomb, 714 00:58:50.000 --> 00:58:53.000 people just need to hear you were loved. 715 00:58:53.000 --> 00:58:55.000 You were loved. 716 00:58:55.000 --> 00:58:58.000 And grace is an empowered. 717 00:58:58.000 --> 00:59:01.000 Grace is an empowered against sin, 718 00:59:01.000 --> 00:59:03.000 and he's not put off by you 719 00:59:03.000 --> 00:59:05.000 while he's working it out in you. 720 00:59:05.000 --> 00:59:07.000 Can you get that? 721 00:59:07.000 --> 00:59:09.000 He's not disgusted with you. 722 00:59:09.000 --> 00:59:10.000 And like, he's helping out, 723 00:59:10.000 --> 00:59:12.000 but man, he can't even stand the sight of you. 724 00:59:12.000 --> 00:59:15.000 He's there, loving you. 725 00:59:15.000 --> 00:59:16.000 And you're like, don't look at me. 726 00:59:16.000 --> 00:59:17.000 I'm so ugly. 727 00:59:17.000 --> 00:59:18.000 No, he's there. 728 00:59:18.000 --> 00:59:19.000 He's fixing. 729 00:59:19.000 --> 00:59:20.000 And do you just keep looking at him? 730 00:59:20.000 --> 00:59:22.000 And he loves you more than you love you. 731 00:59:22.000 --> 00:59:23.000 Is that possible? 732 00:59:23.000 --> 00:59:25.000 Yes. 733 00:59:25.000 --> 00:59:28.000 Hallelujah. 734 00:59:28.000 --> 00:59:31.000 Well, I think we should definitely drink and eat to that. 735 00:59:31.000 --> 00:59:34.000 Amen. 736 00:59:34.000 --> 00:59:37.000 I want you to examine your life. 737 00:59:37.000 --> 00:59:39.000 Where are you lacking? 738 00:59:39.000 --> 00:59:44.000 Where are you deficient? 739 00:59:44.000 --> 00:59:49.000 Where are you missing? 740 00:59:49.000 --> 00:59:52.000 This is the solution. 741 00:59:52.000 --> 00:59:54.000 It's Jesus. 742 00:59:54.000 --> 00:59:56.000 And when we partake of communion, 743 00:59:56.000 --> 00:59:57.000 according to the Word of God, 744 00:59:57.000 --> 00:59:59.000 we are partaking of Him. 745 00:59:59.000 --> 01:00:02.000 This morning, I woke up with some deficiencies. 746 01:00:02.000 --> 01:00:06.000 I looked around at my bedroom basement. 747 01:00:06.000 --> 01:00:09.000 It's normally so beautiful and put together. 748 01:00:09.000 --> 01:00:13.000 It's messed up. 749 01:00:13.000 --> 01:00:14.000 It's trusting. 750 01:00:14.000 --> 01:00:16.000 The purpose they can't solve it. 751 01:00:16.000 --> 01:00:18.000 They keep sending different people over. 752 01:00:18.000 --> 01:00:19.000 Each one has a different theory. 753 01:00:19.000 --> 01:00:21.000 Meanwhile, I still have the found. 754 01:00:21.000 --> 01:00:27.000 Coming up, I trusted when I partake. 755 01:00:27.000 --> 01:00:30.000 I appropriate the promises of God by faith. 756 01:00:30.000 --> 01:00:31.000 He's got a solution. 757 01:00:31.000 --> 01:00:33.000 He's going to work it out. 758 01:00:33.000 --> 01:00:34.000 Hallelujah. 759 01:00:34.000 --> 01:00:37.000 What are you lacking in your finances, 760 01:00:37.000 --> 01:00:42.000 in your mind, socially, 761 01:00:42.000 --> 01:00:44.000 in your career, in your business? 762 01:00:44.000 --> 01:00:45.000 Are you missing anything? 763 01:00:45.000 --> 01:00:48.000 You know who the answer is, Jesus. 764 01:00:48.000 --> 01:00:52.000 And you're not eating away for drinking some grape juice. 765 01:00:52.000 --> 01:00:55.000 You are partaking of the risen Lord. 766 01:00:55.000 --> 01:00:58.000 And believe that His power comes upon you when you do. 767 01:00:58.000 --> 01:00:59.000 Can you do that by faith? 768 01:00:59.000 --> 01:01:03.000 Lord, we trust you that you are working on our behalf. 769 01:01:03.000 --> 01:01:05.000 And we invite your power. 770 01:01:05.000 --> 01:01:09.000 Lord, we don't receive communion in an unworthy manner. 771 01:01:09.000 --> 01:01:12.000 An unworthy manner would be if we just ate and drank 772 01:01:12.000 --> 01:01:14.000 and didn't think anything was going to happen. 773 01:01:14.000 --> 01:01:17.000 But we believe that your power is released. 774 01:01:17.000 --> 01:01:19.000 In Jesus' name, so partake. 775 01:01:19.000 --> 01:01:26.000 Eat of His body and drink of His blood. 776 01:01:26.000 --> 01:01:29.000 This is the City Light Church podcast. 777 01:01:29.000 --> 01:01:31.000 If you've missed any part of today's message, 778 01:01:31.000 --> 01:01:34.000 or if you would like to find out more about Pastor Boyan Jansik 779 01:01:34.000 --> 01:01:38.000 in City Light Church, visit us at citylightnyc.com. 780 01:01:38.000 --> 01:01:41.000 That's citylightnyc.com. 781 01:01:41.000 --> 01:01:45.000 Feel free to visit us online or in person anytime. 782 01:01:45.000 --> 01:01:47.000 We would love to connect with you. 783 01:01:47.000 --> 01:01:50.000 We pray that you have been encouraged today. 784 01:01:50.000 --> 01:01:53.000 That you have been reminded how much God loves you. 785 01:01:53.000 --> 01:01:56.000 And that you are surrounded by grace. 786 01:01:56.000 --> 01:01:57.000 Thank you for listening. 787 01:01:57.000 --> 01:02:00.000 Make sure that you subscribe to City Light Church Podcast 788 01:02:00.000 --> 01:02:04.000 wherever you find your favorite podcasts worldwide.