WEBVTT 1 00:00:00.000 --> 00:00:04.400 How many of you are righteous and have rights standing with God? 2 00:00:04.400 --> 00:00:05.760 Let me see your hand. 3 00:00:05.760 --> 00:00:07.500 You have it right now. 4 00:00:07.500 --> 00:00:12.600 You are saved right now because faith says, I have it now. 5 00:00:12.600 --> 00:00:15.540 Hope says, hope is great, but hope is in the future. 6 00:00:15.540 --> 00:00:16.940 Hope is for tomorrow. 7 00:00:16.940 --> 00:00:19.280 But now faith says, I have it now. 8 00:00:19.280 --> 00:00:21.340 So you say, I believe in Jesus. 9 00:00:21.340 --> 00:00:24.180 I believe that He died on the cross for my salvation. 10 00:00:24.180 --> 00:00:25.280 You're saved now. 11 00:00:26.280 --> 00:00:28.660 Welcome to the City Light Church podcast. 12 00:00:28.660 --> 00:00:34.180 Thanks for joining us today as we look into God's Word and discover the hope and truth that 13 00:00:34.180 --> 00:00:35.780 He has for us. 14 00:00:35.780 --> 00:00:41.500 If you want to connect with City Light Church, feel free to visit us at citylightnyc.com, 15 00:00:41.500 --> 00:00:44.860 that's citylightnyc.com. 16 00:00:44.860 --> 00:00:50.100 Pastor Boyan Jansik and his team believe that the power of the Holy Spirit is already 17 00:00:50.100 --> 00:00:52.700 working in our hearts and minds. 18 00:00:52.700 --> 00:00:57.620 As you listen to today's teaching, remember that you are deeply loved by God. 19 00:00:57.620 --> 00:01:05.460 You are surrounded by His grace and that He has a real hope and a future for you. 20 00:01:05.460 --> 00:01:10.300 We're in the middle of a series, on Galatians. 21 00:01:10.300 --> 00:01:19.260 We don't often do a series here, but when we do, it's usually on Galatians. 22 00:01:19.260 --> 00:01:24.100 And here we are right now in the middle, we're in chapter 5. 23 00:01:24.100 --> 00:01:27.420 So let me do a brief recap for the benefit of everyone, including the first time 24 00:01:27.500 --> 00:01:34.300 guest and those of you who have been here for every single service of this series, we call 25 00:01:34.300 --> 00:01:37.340 it the clash of the covenants. 26 00:01:37.340 --> 00:01:45.820 The clash between the old covenant system of God's law and the new covenant system of 27 00:01:45.820 --> 00:01:47.980 God's grace. 28 00:01:47.980 --> 00:01:53.740 And you'll see throughout the New Testament, you'll see clashes of it, but nowhere like 29 00:01:53.820 --> 00:01:57.900 in the book of Galatians where that's the primary thing over and over and over again that's 30 00:01:57.900 --> 00:02:00.380 addressed. 31 00:02:00.380 --> 00:02:05.300 And there's such benefits to really understanding the new covenant of God's grace and actually 32 00:02:05.300 --> 00:02:10.940 living there as opposed to what we too often find which is a mixing of the two different 33 00:02:10.940 --> 00:02:11.940 systems. 34 00:02:11.940 --> 00:02:16.380 And Paul says that if you mix, you actually get nothing. 35 00:02:16.380 --> 00:02:22.780 You have now nullified and frustrated the grace of God and if there's mixture in your life, 36 00:02:22.780 --> 00:02:26.740 you're actually not mixing, but you're living under the old covenant system of the law. 37 00:02:26.740 --> 00:02:28.460 You might say, what's so bad about that? 38 00:02:28.460 --> 00:02:31.660 Well, I'll define the old covenant system of God's law for you. 39 00:02:31.660 --> 00:02:32.660 It is a system. 40 00:02:32.660 --> 00:02:37.860 I use that word system because that's one of the definitions for dispensation, a system 41 00:02:37.860 --> 00:02:38.860 of order. 42 00:02:38.860 --> 00:02:40.980 It's a way in which we would relate to God. 43 00:02:40.980 --> 00:02:46.100 And it was based on our ability to keep God's law. 44 00:02:46.100 --> 00:02:49.860 Hint, we didn't have any. 45 00:02:49.860 --> 00:02:56.300 We constantly under the system of law kept falling and coming up short. 46 00:02:56.300 --> 00:03:01.740 And so under the old covenant system of law, you endeavored and attempted to be approved 47 00:03:01.740 --> 00:03:05.900 onto God based on your own law keeping, based on your own holiness, based on your own 48 00:03:05.900 --> 00:03:07.580 strength and effort. 49 00:03:07.580 --> 00:03:11.780 It really was a system designed to show us up. 50 00:03:11.780 --> 00:03:13.660 That was the pretty definition. 51 00:03:13.660 --> 00:03:16.940 Use a more vernacular definition just kind of off the cup. 52 00:03:16.940 --> 00:03:24.460 It's a system meant to show you up and cure you of your pride where you would keep falling 53 00:03:24.460 --> 00:03:26.980 and realize that you're not all that. 54 00:03:26.980 --> 00:03:27.980 That's it. 55 00:03:27.980 --> 00:03:30.620 It's a system where you realize you're not all that. 56 00:03:30.620 --> 00:03:32.260 You're stripped of your pride. 57 00:03:32.260 --> 00:03:37.220 You realize that there is a holy standard that's imposed upon you, but you are not giving 58 00:03:37.220 --> 00:03:42.220 any ability to meet and rise up to that holy standard. 59 00:03:42.220 --> 00:03:45.100 And so it forces you to look to a savior. 60 00:03:45.100 --> 00:03:50.180 It forces you to look to God who can now do for you on this side of the cross. 61 00:03:50.180 --> 00:03:56.780 He can do for you what you can never do for yourself. 62 00:03:56.780 --> 00:04:02.180 Under the new covenant system, you're already past tense. 63 00:04:02.180 --> 00:04:09.340 There's a rest in ED past tense, completed, finished. 64 00:04:09.340 --> 00:04:16.300 Under the new covenant system, you already past tense are totally approved unto God. 65 00:04:16.300 --> 00:04:17.780 You're accepted. 66 00:04:17.780 --> 00:04:18.940 You're forgiven. 67 00:04:18.940 --> 00:04:23.140 Not based on what you've done or anything that you could ever do, but based on what 68 00:04:23.140 --> 00:04:26.860 he has done for you already, amen. 69 00:04:26.860 --> 00:04:36.340 And so we just finished Galatians chapter four where Paul, he talked about Abraham and 70 00:04:36.340 --> 00:04:40.460 Abraham's wife Sarah and how they were given a promise that they were going to have Isaac 71 00:04:40.460 --> 00:04:44.700 and Paul himself says Isaac is a representative of the new covenant. 72 00:04:44.700 --> 00:04:49.540 In fact, Isaac's name means laughter because when you fully are living in a new covenant, 73 00:04:49.540 --> 00:04:50.540 you'll have joy. 74 00:04:50.540 --> 00:04:51.540 Amen. 75 00:04:51.540 --> 00:04:53.500 You'll have a lot of laughter. 76 00:04:53.500 --> 00:05:02.220 This is what the world even notices that whenever there is religion, there's no joy. 77 00:05:02.220 --> 00:05:06.340 And the old covenant system of the law is religious. 78 00:05:06.340 --> 00:05:08.740 Religion, the very word, means back to bondage. 79 00:05:08.740 --> 00:05:09.740 What's the bondage? 80 00:05:09.740 --> 00:05:12.140 The bondage is that you have to work. 81 00:05:12.140 --> 00:05:13.380 You have to push. 82 00:05:13.380 --> 00:05:14.620 You have to try. 83 00:05:14.620 --> 00:05:17.420 You have to, the burden is on you. 84 00:05:17.420 --> 00:05:19.940 You have to cross every tea and that every eye. 85 00:05:19.940 --> 00:05:24.020 It's exhausting. 86 00:05:24.020 --> 00:05:28.340 But Isaac means laughter because under the new covenant, you realize just like the song 87 00:05:28.340 --> 00:05:33.620 we sang, he did all the work for you and passed that victory on to you. 88 00:05:33.620 --> 00:05:38.020 That brings a ha ha ha ha ha ha ha. 89 00:05:38.020 --> 00:05:43.140 That's why I believe the Holy Spirit touches some people to laugh in service. 90 00:05:43.140 --> 00:05:46.900 By the way, the Holy Spirit wants to touch all people and fill them with joy. 91 00:05:46.900 --> 00:05:48.700 Some people yield and laugh. 92 00:05:48.700 --> 00:05:49.700 Amen. 93 00:05:49.700 --> 00:05:57.580 Because letting you know that you covenant, it's a completed work. 94 00:05:57.580 --> 00:06:05.820 He contrasts Sarah who had Isaac, and that's the new covenant with Haggar, who had Ishmael 95 00:06:05.820 --> 00:06:10.060 that was a product of the flesh, a product of self effort. 96 00:06:10.060 --> 00:06:14.100 And he says, that's symbolic of the old covenant system of the law. 97 00:06:14.100 --> 00:06:16.700 And then he says, you cannot have them live in the tent. 98 00:06:16.700 --> 00:06:18.420 What was the word back then? 99 00:06:18.420 --> 00:06:22.740 The word was drive out, cast out Haggar and Ishmael. 100 00:06:22.740 --> 00:06:25.980 They cannot live together in the same room, in the same house. 101 00:06:25.980 --> 00:06:27.940 They can't be together in the same tent. 102 00:06:27.940 --> 00:06:29.260 What's Paul saying? 103 00:06:29.260 --> 00:06:32.820 He's saying, you cannot have the old covenant system and the new covenant system in the 104 00:06:32.820 --> 00:06:34.180 same tent. 105 00:06:34.180 --> 00:06:36.300 You cannot have any mixture. 106 00:06:36.300 --> 00:06:38.740 Pick one. 107 00:06:38.740 --> 00:06:41.340 And go all in then. 108 00:06:41.340 --> 00:06:46.140 If you want to be approved unto God based on your own self effort, based on your holiness, 109 00:06:46.140 --> 00:06:49.980 then go all in. 110 00:06:49.980 --> 00:06:55.020 The only catch is, under the system of law, if you're guilty of breaking it on only one 111 00:06:55.020 --> 00:06:58.060 area, you're guilty of breaking the entire thing. 112 00:06:58.060 --> 00:07:05.140 So you have to be perfect forever on this side of heaven, without one slip up, who's 113 00:07:05.140 --> 00:07:06.940 ready to take that challenge on? 114 00:07:06.940 --> 00:07:11.380 Oh, well, welcome to the new covenant then. 115 00:07:11.380 --> 00:07:15.060 Under the new covenant, he's already kept the law and its perfection for you and transfer 116 00:07:15.060 --> 00:07:17.900 that victory over to you, amen. 117 00:07:17.900 --> 00:07:22.420 So let's continue on in Galatians chapter 5. 118 00:07:22.420 --> 00:07:30.180 He spent all this time describing and illustrating and declaring this great liberty that we have 119 00:07:30.180 --> 00:07:35.260 as a result of grace, as a result of the completed work of Jesus under the new covenant and 120 00:07:35.260 --> 00:07:41.500 his admonition is for us to stand firmly, stand fast, therefore, in the liberty by which 121 00:07:41.580 --> 00:07:43.660 Christ has made us free. 122 00:07:43.660 --> 00:07:48.500 And do not be entangled again with a yoke of bondage. 123 00:07:48.500 --> 00:07:50.140 What's the yoke of bondage? 124 00:07:50.140 --> 00:07:53.860 It's living under the old system of the law. 125 00:07:53.860 --> 00:07:58.540 And another place in Corinthians, he called that system the ministry of death. 126 00:07:58.540 --> 00:08:01.700 It keeps producing death in you. 127 00:08:01.700 --> 00:08:07.100 If you're looking at yourself and trusting in yourself and taking on the responsibility 128 00:08:07.100 --> 00:08:12.020 of trying to please God, it's going to bring death. 129 00:08:12.020 --> 00:08:13.020 So what's the solution? 130 00:08:13.020 --> 00:08:15.460 Shouldn't I be trying to please God? 131 00:08:15.460 --> 00:08:19.100 You should realize that when you put your faith in Jesus, you already are totally pleasing 132 00:08:19.100 --> 00:08:20.100 to Him. 133 00:08:20.100 --> 00:08:22.100 So even with all my stuff? 134 00:08:22.100 --> 00:08:23.100 Yes. 135 00:08:23.100 --> 00:08:27.540 Yes, he sees you through the lens of the blood of Jesus. 136 00:08:27.540 --> 00:08:29.460 He sees you in Christ. 137 00:08:29.460 --> 00:08:32.540 There's nothing you could do to cause him to love you anymore. 138 00:08:32.540 --> 00:08:35.740 There's nothing you could do to add to the already finished work. 139 00:08:35.740 --> 00:08:39.580 There's nothing you could do to manipulate him into making you more righteous. 140 00:08:39.580 --> 00:08:40.580 It's done. 141 00:08:40.580 --> 00:08:48.020 And now out of that, now flows fruit, not works, but fruit, fruit. 142 00:08:48.020 --> 00:08:51.900 And you look more like Jesus and you act more like Jesus. 143 00:08:51.900 --> 00:08:53.220 But the motivation is different. 144 00:08:53.220 --> 00:08:56.340 It's not because you're trying to get God to approve of you more. 145 00:08:56.340 --> 00:08:58.620 It's because you're resting that you already are approved. 146 00:08:58.620 --> 00:09:00.340 Do you see the difference? 147 00:09:00.340 --> 00:09:01.340 It's a huge difference. 148 00:09:01.340 --> 00:09:03.260 It'll make a huge difference in your peace. 149 00:09:03.980 --> 00:09:08.460 It'll make a huge difference in the way you receive answers to prayer. 150 00:09:08.460 --> 00:09:15.820 Verse two, indeed, I Paul said to you that if you become circumcised, Christ will profit 151 00:09:15.820 --> 00:09:17.660 you nothing. 152 00:09:17.660 --> 00:09:23.020 Now here he was dealing with these Judaizers who came in and they told the believing Christians, 153 00:09:23.020 --> 00:09:27.340 it's nice that you believe in Jesus, but you also have to do something. 154 00:09:27.340 --> 00:09:31.580 This sounds like church to me. 155 00:09:31.580 --> 00:09:32.980 It's nice that you receive Jesus. 156 00:09:32.980 --> 00:09:38.300 I feel like in church, we do this bait and switch tactic. 157 00:09:38.300 --> 00:09:42.140 We tell people salvation is free. 158 00:09:42.140 --> 00:09:43.740 You're forgiving us is free. 159 00:09:43.740 --> 00:09:46.260 And we get them in the door, we get them in the seat, and then we do the bait. 160 00:09:46.260 --> 00:09:47.820 We got them in with the bait and we do the switch. 161 00:09:47.820 --> 00:09:54.500 Okay, but now in order to stay saved, and then we make them work, and we make them work. 162 00:09:54.500 --> 00:10:01.180 And we put all this law on them to extract more stuff from them, more work, more money, 163 00:10:01.180 --> 00:10:06.420 more whatever, and it produces death in them, and they've been gilted and manipulated, 164 00:10:06.420 --> 00:10:07.860 and their motive is now all off. 165 00:10:07.860 --> 00:10:11.460 They're trying to add to the finished work of the cross. 166 00:10:11.460 --> 00:10:12.460 They're working. 167 00:10:12.460 --> 00:10:17.620 They think that if I do X, Y, Z, then God is obligated to do ABC for me, and it's this 168 00:10:17.620 --> 00:10:22.020 weird transactional relationship, it's wrong. 169 00:10:22.020 --> 00:10:23.460 It's off. 170 00:10:23.460 --> 00:10:24.980 It produces death. 171 00:10:24.980 --> 00:10:25.980 Amen. 172 00:10:25.980 --> 00:10:31.740 Go back, just keep it there, thank you. 173 00:10:31.740 --> 00:10:37.460 Because a lot of people get hung up with, if you become circumcised, Christ will profit. 174 00:10:37.460 --> 00:10:39.940 You're nothing because that was the problem that they were dealing with. 175 00:10:39.940 --> 00:10:42.260 They were saying you have to also be circumcised. 176 00:10:42.260 --> 00:10:44.700 Now that's not the problem today. 177 00:10:44.700 --> 00:10:47.860 We don't have any group coming in, thankfully. 178 00:10:47.860 --> 00:10:52.060 And telling all the men in the church. 179 00:10:52.060 --> 00:11:02.140 But we do have other teachings, other preachers, also the sound of our own head that will always 180 00:11:02.140 --> 00:11:04.540 side with the system of the law. 181 00:11:04.540 --> 00:11:09.660 The way we've been brought up, our fallen nature, our unredeemed mind will always side with 182 00:11:09.660 --> 00:11:15.420 the system of the law so that we will think we have to add to the completed work. 183 00:11:15.420 --> 00:11:19.780 When the whole declaration of the new covenant, the declaration that he reiterates over and 184 00:11:19.780 --> 00:11:27.460 over again in Galatians is, Jesus plus nothing equals everything. 185 00:11:27.460 --> 00:11:36.300 Not Jesus plus the stuff that you do, hallelujah. 186 00:11:36.300 --> 00:11:37.300 Let's keep reading. 187 00:11:37.300 --> 00:11:44.500 Verse three, and I testify again to every man who becomes circumcised, who adds to the 188 00:11:44.500 --> 00:11:49.180 finished work of the cross, that he is a debtor to keep the whole law. 189 00:11:49.180 --> 00:11:51.340 We've got to do the whole thing now. 190 00:11:51.340 --> 00:11:55.260 And if you're living that way, he says, you have become in the next verse, you've become 191 00:11:55.260 --> 00:11:57.340 estranged from Christ. 192 00:11:57.340 --> 00:12:00.380 The Bible says, when you're saved, you're married to Jesus. 193 00:12:00.380 --> 00:12:05.420 But if you turn your eyes onto yourself and your own strength, your own self effort, 194 00:12:05.420 --> 00:12:10.060 and you think that you fit into that equation of salvation, he's thinking you had the equation. 195 00:12:10.060 --> 00:12:11.780 All you have to do is receive. 196 00:12:11.780 --> 00:12:13.620 That's great news. 197 00:12:13.620 --> 00:12:15.340 You want to get all involved? 198 00:12:15.340 --> 00:12:18.580 Now you're divorced from Christ. 199 00:12:18.580 --> 00:12:24.900 You who attempt to be justified by law, you have fallen from grace. 200 00:12:24.900 --> 00:12:26.500 Look at that phrase, fallen from grace. 201 00:12:26.500 --> 00:12:29.700 Have you ever seen that phrase, fallen from grace before? 202 00:12:29.700 --> 00:12:37.660 Whenever a pastor falls, the next day the headlines are, so and so, falls from grace. 203 00:12:37.660 --> 00:12:40.500 But why don't we let the Bible define the Bible? 204 00:12:40.500 --> 00:12:44.540 And that's not how the Bible uses that statement. 205 00:12:44.540 --> 00:12:49.860 Even from grace, never in the Bible means that you fell into sin. 206 00:12:49.860 --> 00:12:50.860 Look how Paul uses it. 207 00:12:50.860 --> 00:12:53.700 It means that you're mixing the covenants. 208 00:12:53.700 --> 00:12:55.500 It means that you're not living under grace. 209 00:12:55.500 --> 00:12:58.060 That's what it means to fall from grace. 210 00:12:58.060 --> 00:13:02.700 When we were in Guatemala, we try to go back every year. 211 00:13:02.700 --> 00:13:03.900 We're going again in February. 212 00:13:03.900 --> 00:13:09.500 We've partnered with the Guatemala Mission since 2009. 213 00:13:09.500 --> 00:13:16.340 And I would notice some folks lying in the street totally drunk out of their mind and 214 00:13:16.340 --> 00:13:21.780 asked the missionary about them and he said, oh yeah, the church gave up on them. 215 00:13:21.780 --> 00:13:24.580 And they told them that they've fallen from grace. 216 00:13:24.580 --> 00:13:29.020 And maybe you've heard that statement fallen from grace with regard to somebody who fell 217 00:13:29.020 --> 00:13:30.420 into sin. 218 00:13:30.420 --> 00:13:34.580 And I asked about the stories and the stories when something like they went back to alcohol, 219 00:13:34.580 --> 00:13:36.540 the church said, oh no, you've fallen from grace. 220 00:13:36.540 --> 00:13:38.500 And then guess where they ended up? 221 00:13:38.500 --> 00:13:42.420 They ended up drinking more alcohol and they ended up sleeping in the gutter for 16 hours 222 00:13:42.420 --> 00:13:43.420 a day. 223 00:13:43.420 --> 00:13:47.140 And now the church has turned their back and I'm saying, oh, you've fallen from grace. 224 00:13:47.140 --> 00:13:49.700 If you sin, you don't have to sin. 225 00:13:49.700 --> 00:13:51.380 But should you fall? 226 00:13:51.380 --> 00:13:54.660 The Bible never says you fell from grace. 227 00:13:54.660 --> 00:13:58.940 In fact, if you're a Christian and you fall, you fall into the arms of a loving savior. 228 00:13:58.940 --> 00:14:00.900 He still loves you. 229 00:14:00.900 --> 00:14:03.140 You're still forgiven. 230 00:14:03.220 --> 00:14:10.820 When you hear the lie that you fall from grace, it only forces you into sin even further. 231 00:14:10.820 --> 00:14:14.180 Fallen from grace means that you've turned your back on grace. 232 00:14:14.180 --> 00:14:18.420 Fallen from grace means that you're mixing covenants. 233 00:14:18.420 --> 00:14:24.420 Fallen from grace means you're trusting in yourself. 234 00:14:24.420 --> 00:14:28.220 I'm so glad God is stable unlike us. 235 00:14:28.220 --> 00:14:31.580 God is strong unlike us. 236 00:14:31.580 --> 00:14:39.580 I'm so glad he's not moody like us up and down emotional like us. 237 00:14:39.580 --> 00:14:40.580 We talk about these things. 238 00:14:40.580 --> 00:14:44.380 I know they might not be unrelatable, but a good thing, you know, circumcision isn't 239 00:14:44.380 --> 00:14:46.060 relatable right now. 240 00:14:46.060 --> 00:14:51.980 No group is going to come in from the outside protesting us because some men may not be. 241 00:14:51.980 --> 00:14:56.420 But all of us, I do this inventory of my life on the daily. 242 00:14:56.420 --> 00:15:02.700 What am I doing where I think I'm scoring points with the big guy? 243 00:15:02.700 --> 00:15:10.140 What am I doing where I feel that I can maybe get God to look at me more favorably? 244 00:15:10.140 --> 00:15:13.100 That's mixing the covenants. 245 00:15:13.100 --> 00:15:14.660 We do this kind of stuff all the time. 246 00:15:14.660 --> 00:15:15.660 I shared in the first service. 247 00:15:15.660 --> 00:15:16.980 I'll share it here. 248 00:15:16.980 --> 00:15:19.860 We were on vacation this summer. 249 00:15:19.860 --> 00:15:25.220 Went to Montenegro, then went to Bosnia, we were in Sarajevo, and I just said very frankly, 250 00:15:25.220 --> 00:15:30.020 and now I'm on vacation, my prayer life is very different. 251 00:15:30.020 --> 00:15:33.380 It's not exactly like I'm waking up in the morning and pressing in for several hours, 252 00:15:33.380 --> 00:15:34.380 you know? 253 00:15:34.380 --> 00:15:36.020 I'm chilling. 254 00:15:36.020 --> 00:15:40.700 My prayer life is holding my wife's hand and going, oh, hallelujah, oh, you know, Lord, 255 00:15:40.700 --> 00:15:41.700 this is so beautiful. 256 00:15:41.700 --> 00:15:42.700 Praise the Lord. 257 00:15:42.700 --> 00:15:43.700 Get a cappuccino. 258 00:15:43.700 --> 00:15:45.180 Jesus, I love you. 259 00:15:45.180 --> 00:15:55.100 And we're just enjoying, you know, and we're doing that for days and one night, we're 260 00:15:55.100 --> 00:15:56.100 going to bed. 261 00:15:56.100 --> 00:15:57.100 It's midnight. 262 00:15:57.100 --> 00:16:02.060 In the Sarajevo hotel room, and my phone rings, and I see that, it's my neighbor. 263 00:16:02.060 --> 00:16:03.340 My stomach just dropped. 264 00:16:03.340 --> 00:16:05.340 It's my neighbor from New York. 265 00:16:05.340 --> 00:16:09.460 I pick up the phone, I hear, hey, man, big flood, lots of rain. 266 00:16:09.460 --> 00:16:10.900 Your place is totally flooded. 267 00:16:10.900 --> 00:16:11.900 So is mine. 268 00:16:11.900 --> 00:16:14.620 I'm across the Atlantic Ocean. 269 00:16:14.620 --> 00:16:19.980 And the first thing that I hear is, because you're not praying like you should be. 270 00:16:19.980 --> 00:16:23.540 Oh, now you're going to come to God and ask Him to help. 271 00:16:23.540 --> 00:16:25.700 Now you're going to come and ask for a miracle. 272 00:16:25.700 --> 00:16:26.980 I heard that. 273 00:16:26.980 --> 00:16:27.980 This is me. 274 00:16:27.980 --> 00:16:31.460 I'm the preacher of grace. 275 00:16:31.460 --> 00:16:33.460 But I heard that voice. 276 00:16:33.460 --> 00:16:35.300 I heard that satanic. 277 00:16:35.300 --> 00:16:39.620 Do you think you're going to now just go into prayer mode, and you're going to just 278 00:16:39.620 --> 00:16:43.140 activate God's, no, see, there's people who think like if they were to get a call 279 00:16:43.140 --> 00:16:45.980 like that, they think, well, I can't now come to God. 280 00:16:45.980 --> 00:16:47.420 I'm not in the right place with Him. 281 00:16:47.420 --> 00:16:49.500 You're in the right place with Him. 282 00:16:49.500 --> 00:16:51.900 So they think I need to, I need to pay in some way. 283 00:16:51.900 --> 00:16:54.340 So they go, okay, maybe I'll fast. 284 00:16:54.340 --> 00:16:58.860 Maybe I'll first warm up with a three hour little prayer session just to show God that 285 00:16:58.860 --> 00:17:01.260 I mean business and that I'm serious. 286 00:17:01.260 --> 00:17:05.300 And that really I just got distracted with Europe, but really his heart is mine and mine 287 00:17:05.300 --> 00:17:06.300 is His. 288 00:17:06.300 --> 00:17:07.300 And I'll show Him. 289 00:17:07.300 --> 00:17:09.780 I still the same homie and they'll work and they'll work. 290 00:17:09.780 --> 00:17:12.660 And then at the end, they'll go, also, God, my place flooded. 291 00:17:12.660 --> 00:17:14.900 And maybe you can come and help me out with that. 292 00:17:14.900 --> 00:17:19.060 Haven't I showed you how, that's mixing. 293 00:17:19.060 --> 00:17:23.460 You let some judyizing something come into your life. 294 00:17:23.460 --> 00:17:24.940 I'm there at midnight. 295 00:17:24.940 --> 00:17:27.380 I'm not feeling particularly spiritual. 296 00:17:27.380 --> 00:17:30.620 I'd buckle up all over me. 297 00:17:30.620 --> 00:17:32.460 We're on VK. 298 00:17:32.460 --> 00:17:34.780 And I'll tell her, I'm hanging out. 299 00:17:34.780 --> 00:17:39.780 And I'll tell her, and I went, no, Jesus, you are good. 300 00:17:39.780 --> 00:17:42.220 Jesus, you are solid. 301 00:17:42.220 --> 00:17:48.380 You are stable and you're not relating to me based on my works. 302 00:17:48.380 --> 00:17:58.060 You are relating to me based on the finished, completed, done work of the cross. 303 00:17:58.060 --> 00:18:00.020 Do you believe that? 304 00:18:00.020 --> 00:18:03.980 And I had to just do a reshift, Lord. 305 00:18:03.980 --> 00:18:10.300 I am as qualified right now to receive answers to prayer as I would be if I was in the middle 306 00:18:10.300 --> 00:18:14.020 of a mission strip and a simultaneous 40 day fast. 307 00:18:14.020 --> 00:18:15.020 Amen. 308 00:18:15.020 --> 00:18:16.020 Amen. 309 00:18:16.020 --> 00:18:19.180 If you think differently, it's only because of emotions. 310 00:18:19.180 --> 00:18:23.340 It's only because of the feelings and the thoughts swirling about in your own head. 311 00:18:23.340 --> 00:18:26.580 And emotions go up and down. 312 00:18:26.580 --> 00:18:29.860 You might wake up on a Wednesday and I don't feel like God is with me. 313 00:18:29.860 --> 00:18:33.700 Because it's ugly and raining outside. 314 00:18:33.700 --> 00:18:36.460 And somehow you think God, no. 315 00:18:36.460 --> 00:18:40.260 His word doesn't change, amen. 316 00:18:40.260 --> 00:18:44.380 And if you're looking to Jesus, you've not fallen from grace. 317 00:18:44.380 --> 00:18:48.020 You don't fall from grace by slipping on a sinful banana peel. 318 00:18:48.020 --> 00:18:54.340 You fall from grace when you make the decision to depart from grace and to allow mixture. 319 00:18:54.340 --> 00:18:55.340 I keep using that word. 320 00:18:55.340 --> 00:18:56.940 It's not because I made it up. 321 00:18:56.940 --> 00:19:05.100 That's the cry of Galatians, no mixture, no mixture allowed. 322 00:19:05.100 --> 00:19:06.100 Get them out of the same tent. 323 00:19:06.100 --> 00:19:08.460 They can't even live under the same roof. 324 00:19:08.460 --> 00:19:10.940 Verse 5. 325 00:19:10.940 --> 00:19:15.820 Are we through the spirit eagerly wait for the hope of righteousness by faith? 326 00:19:15.820 --> 00:19:19.780 Remember, how many of you are righteous right now? 327 00:19:19.780 --> 00:19:22.940 And every hand will make me run around this place. 328 00:19:22.940 --> 00:19:26.820 How many of you are righteous and have rights standing with God? 329 00:19:26.820 --> 00:19:28.140 Let me see your hand. 330 00:19:28.140 --> 00:19:29.780 You have it right now. 331 00:19:29.780 --> 00:19:34.780 You are saved right now because faith says, I have it now. 332 00:19:34.780 --> 00:19:37.700 Hope says, hope is great, but hope is in the future. 333 00:19:37.700 --> 00:19:38.980 Hope is for tomorrow. 334 00:19:39.020 --> 00:19:41.220 Now faith says, I have it now. 335 00:19:41.220 --> 00:19:43.260 So you say, I believe in Jesus. 336 00:19:43.260 --> 00:19:46.140 I believe that He died on the cross for my salvation. 337 00:19:46.140 --> 00:19:47.340 You're saved now. 338 00:19:47.340 --> 00:19:51.620 At the same time, it's in the future. 339 00:19:51.620 --> 00:19:56.700 This is why Paul can say over and over again that the devil has been defeated, past tense. 340 00:19:56.700 --> 00:20:03.300 But then in Romans, he says, and the God of peace will crush Satan shortly underneath your feet. 341 00:20:03.300 --> 00:20:05.260 Kind of putting it in the future. 342 00:20:05.260 --> 00:20:07.980 It's a contradiction in the Bible, which one is it? 343 00:20:07.980 --> 00:20:10.140 The answer is yes. 344 00:20:10.140 --> 00:20:11.820 It's both. 345 00:20:11.820 --> 00:20:16.100 He has already delivered past tense you from the power of darkness. 346 00:20:16.100 --> 00:20:21.340 But on that final day, when Satan will be cast into the lake of fire, that'll find its 347 00:20:21.340 --> 00:20:23.980 apex, that'll find its complete fulfillment. 348 00:20:23.980 --> 00:20:25.980 Amen. 349 00:20:25.980 --> 00:20:28.180 Just like with our salvation, we're saved now. 350 00:20:28.180 --> 00:20:30.140 We have righteousness now. 351 00:20:30.140 --> 00:20:34.060 But on that day, we'll see the culmination of our salvation. 352 00:20:34.060 --> 00:20:35.060 Hallelujah. 353 00:20:35.060 --> 00:20:39.580 So that's why He says through the Spirit, we eagerly wait for the hope of righteousness 354 00:20:39.580 --> 00:20:41.500 by faith. 355 00:20:41.500 --> 00:20:44.620 It's both now and in the future. 356 00:20:44.620 --> 00:20:52.620 For in Christ Jesus, verse six, for in Christ Jesus neither circumcision nor uncircumcision 357 00:20:52.620 --> 00:20:54.500 avails anything. 358 00:20:54.500 --> 00:21:04.060 But faith working through love, faith working through love. 359 00:21:04.060 --> 00:21:06.940 When you've ever received from the Lord, you know how you got it? 360 00:21:06.940 --> 00:21:08.340 By faith. 361 00:21:08.340 --> 00:21:09.340 Salvation. 362 00:21:09.340 --> 00:21:11.020 You receive by faith. 363 00:21:11.020 --> 00:21:13.180 Answers to prayer by faith. 364 00:21:13.180 --> 00:21:17.420 Jesus was the ultimate faith preacher, preached a lot on faith everywhere He went. 365 00:21:17.420 --> 00:21:24.420 It's like He had a faithometer and He would detect people's faith. 366 00:21:24.420 --> 00:21:25.420 He had a faithometer. 367 00:21:25.420 --> 00:21:26.420 It was in His own spirit. 368 00:21:26.420 --> 00:21:28.420 Oh, you of little faith. 369 00:21:28.420 --> 00:21:31.100 Oh, you great is your faith. 370 00:21:31.100 --> 00:21:37.260 And some people, you don't want to hear Him say this, He said, where is your faith? 371 00:21:37.260 --> 00:21:38.260 Not little, not great. 372 00:21:38.260 --> 00:21:39.260 Not you. 373 00:21:39.260 --> 00:21:40.260 I don't even. 374 00:21:40.260 --> 00:21:43.540 Is this thing on? 375 00:21:43.540 --> 00:21:49.300 And He would say, according to your faith, be it unto you in proportion to your. 376 00:21:49.300 --> 00:21:54.780 So that means I want to have robust, strong faith because I will receive from heaven in 377 00:21:54.780 --> 00:21:57.060 proportion to my faith. 378 00:21:57.060 --> 00:22:01.700 How do I get an active, robust faith? 379 00:22:01.700 --> 00:22:09.380 One thing that I'm allergic to is a lot of praying with nose, I've got to see results. 380 00:22:09.380 --> 00:22:14.780 Prayer is not a time, especially group prayer where we just kind of all become social together 381 00:22:14.780 --> 00:22:19.220 and let's have a little time with God and maybe perchance, maybe one out of 10 of the 382 00:22:19.220 --> 00:22:20.860 things we ask for will get answered. 383 00:22:20.860 --> 00:22:23.860 No, every one of those things should be answered. 384 00:22:23.860 --> 00:22:25.620 So how do we get robust faith? 385 00:22:25.620 --> 00:22:26.620 How does it work? 386 00:22:26.660 --> 00:22:28.180 I'm so glad you asked. 387 00:22:28.180 --> 00:22:35.020 I'm so glad the Apostle Paul answered, faith works by love. 388 00:22:35.020 --> 00:22:40.460 Now, everything that we get, we see it through that filter, through that lens of the system 389 00:22:40.460 --> 00:22:41.460 of law. 390 00:22:41.460 --> 00:22:46.380 So typically you'll read something like this and you'll immediately put a works burden 391 00:22:46.380 --> 00:22:47.380 on yourself. 392 00:22:47.380 --> 00:22:49.100 You'll say, oh, I know what the Bible is saying. 393 00:22:49.100 --> 00:22:54.060 It's saying that if I'm more loving to people, then my faith will work. 394 00:22:54.060 --> 00:22:59.380 And maybe you've heard it even preached that way, is your faith now, are you tired? 395 00:22:59.380 --> 00:23:00.780 Not getting answered to prayer? 396 00:23:00.780 --> 00:23:02.980 Is your faith not working? 397 00:23:02.980 --> 00:23:04.980 Try being nicer to people. 398 00:23:04.980 --> 00:23:05.980 Love them. 399 00:23:05.980 --> 00:23:10.420 Now 1-800, nice to people. 400 00:23:10.420 --> 00:23:16.180 That's not what the scripture is talking about. 401 00:23:16.180 --> 00:23:17.500 Faith works by love. 402 00:23:17.500 --> 00:23:22.860 Your faith will work when you are receiving the love of God, love of God. 403 00:23:22.860 --> 00:23:27.340 By the way, the byproduct of receiving the love of God besides robust faith is then you'll 404 00:23:27.340 --> 00:23:29.060 have his love to give away. 405 00:23:29.060 --> 00:23:33.700 And as a byproduct, you'll be kinder, you'll be gentler, you'll be more loving to all 406 00:23:33.700 --> 00:23:35.300 the people that are in your life. 407 00:23:35.300 --> 00:23:41.060 But here, the emphasis is on you, receiving mega doses of the love of God. 408 00:23:41.060 --> 00:23:45.980 When you're really drinking of the love of God, your faith will be strong. 409 00:23:45.980 --> 00:23:53.220 So chug, chug, chug, become a daily zipper. 410 00:23:53.220 --> 00:23:57.060 Wake up in the morning, take a big chug of the love of God. 411 00:23:57.060 --> 00:24:00.620 Right before breakfast, take a big chug of the love of God. 412 00:24:00.620 --> 00:24:04.540 All throughout the day, chug, receive his love. 413 00:24:04.540 --> 00:24:05.540 How do you do that? 414 00:24:05.540 --> 00:24:06.540 I don't know. 415 00:24:06.540 --> 00:24:07.540 What works for you? 416 00:24:07.540 --> 00:24:09.660 I know what works for me. 417 00:24:09.660 --> 00:24:12.900 You got to figure out, this is the part where we get into relationship. 418 00:24:12.900 --> 00:24:16.900 You got to figure out how to dance with Jesus. 419 00:24:16.900 --> 00:24:19.540 You got to figure out what works for you. 420 00:24:19.540 --> 00:24:23.100 And here's the thing, so many people get stuck early on in the Christianity because they 421 00:24:23.100 --> 00:24:25.380 don't know how to explore that. 422 00:24:25.380 --> 00:24:26.620 How do I relate to him? 423 00:24:26.620 --> 00:24:31.900 And they keep him at arm's length and they keep it all like clinical and distant and 424 00:24:31.900 --> 00:24:33.900 artificial. 425 00:24:33.900 --> 00:24:36.900 Get loose with him a little bit. 426 00:24:36.900 --> 00:24:42.860 And so for me, one day, it might be reading the Psalms and I'm like, oh, I'll see 427 00:24:42.860 --> 00:24:44.660 his love for me in the Psalms. 428 00:24:44.660 --> 00:24:49.060 The next day, I might just wake up and pray tongues in the shower the whole time. 429 00:24:49.060 --> 00:24:53.900 The next day, it could be that I'm just silent before him. 430 00:24:53.900 --> 00:24:59.260 The next day or season, not literally a day, I'm erratic, but not that erratic. 431 00:24:59.260 --> 00:25:06.780 There were seasons where I would just talk for hours a day and there were seasons where 432 00:25:06.780 --> 00:25:07.780 I couldn't even say anything. 433 00:25:07.780 --> 00:25:09.540 I didn't feel like I should. 434 00:25:09.540 --> 00:25:10.540 I'd just be quiet. 435 00:25:11.540 --> 00:25:13.500 I just think about his goodness. 436 00:25:13.500 --> 00:25:15.300 Think about what he did for me on the cross. 437 00:25:15.300 --> 00:25:18.780 Either way, get to a place and you have freedom. 438 00:25:18.780 --> 00:25:20.580 You've been forgiven. 439 00:25:20.580 --> 00:25:26.580 Get to a place where you're like a sponge and you know how to pull on the love of God. 440 00:25:26.580 --> 00:25:30.300 All throughout the day, the enemy does not want you encountering the love of God on 441 00:25:30.300 --> 00:25:31.980 the daily. 442 00:25:31.980 --> 00:25:35.020 And NYC is not here to help. 443 00:25:35.020 --> 00:25:40.860 I am convinced now, safe to say, there are parts of the country that are more conducive 444 00:25:40.860 --> 00:25:43.100 to receiving God's love. 445 00:25:43.100 --> 00:25:48.620 NYC is not high on the list. 446 00:25:48.620 --> 00:25:54.340 Just I feel like you need to have the gladiator arm or sharpen your elbows and we all have 447 00:25:54.340 --> 00:25:55.740 our defenses on. 448 00:25:55.740 --> 00:25:56.740 Take a chill. 449 00:25:56.740 --> 00:25:57.740 Just chill. 450 00:25:57.740 --> 00:26:00.900 God's going to keep you safe. 451 00:26:00.900 --> 00:26:02.220 You have to receive His love. 452 00:26:02.220 --> 00:26:03.220 This isn't a choice. 453 00:26:03.220 --> 00:26:06.900 If you don't, you're going to dry up and your faith will be, they'll always be like 454 00:26:06.900 --> 00:26:07.900 a short circuit. 455 00:26:07.900 --> 00:26:10.380 It won't be working. 456 00:26:10.380 --> 00:26:14.100 So hallelujah. 457 00:26:14.100 --> 00:26:19.060 Woman tend to receive the love of God quicker, easier. 458 00:26:19.060 --> 00:26:20.940 Men we've been messed up. 459 00:26:20.940 --> 00:26:25.940 We've heard wrong things and we've hardened up and men figure it out. 460 00:26:25.940 --> 00:26:26.940 Talk to Him. 461 00:26:26.940 --> 00:26:27.940 Yell at Him. 462 00:26:27.940 --> 00:26:28.940 He's not offended. 463 00:26:29.180 --> 00:26:30.180 Read the Psalms. 464 00:26:30.180 --> 00:26:33.020 Half of them are people shouting at God. 465 00:26:33.020 --> 00:26:35.020 True. 466 00:26:35.020 --> 00:26:38.460 He's not scared of you. 467 00:26:38.460 --> 00:26:41.860 He will show Himself loving and strong on your behalf. 468 00:26:41.860 --> 00:26:44.860 Amen. 469 00:26:44.860 --> 00:26:45.860 Next verse. 470 00:26:45.860 --> 00:26:51.100 So faith works through love, receive His love, your faith will work. 471 00:26:51.100 --> 00:26:54.860 Whenever I feel like my faith isn't working, that's the first place I go. 472 00:26:54.860 --> 00:26:56.900 Am I really receiving the love of God? 473 00:26:56.900 --> 00:27:01.060 And then I'll always notice, and all the dark periods of my life, they have the same thing 474 00:27:01.060 --> 00:27:03.220 in common. 475 00:27:03.220 --> 00:27:09.740 The same thing that's in common as I took my eyes off of His love for me. 476 00:27:09.740 --> 00:27:11.420 And I made it about something else. 477 00:27:11.420 --> 00:27:13.580 It could be so many other things. 478 00:27:13.580 --> 00:27:19.140 So often it works mentality of performing for Him, trying to win His approval. 479 00:27:19.140 --> 00:27:22.540 You fall in from grace. 480 00:27:22.540 --> 00:27:28.500 You ran well, who hindered, that's a military, a strategic military term where they would 481 00:27:28.500 --> 00:27:33.420 come in and break up the roads going in and out of a city to lay siege of the city. 482 00:27:33.420 --> 00:27:34.580 He's saying, who did that to you? 483 00:27:34.580 --> 00:27:41.380 You were on a road called grace and you allowed someone to destroy it and to prevent you, 484 00:27:41.380 --> 00:27:43.620 to hinder you. 485 00:27:43.620 --> 00:27:46.740 Who hindered you from obeying the truth? 486 00:27:46.740 --> 00:27:49.380 The covenant mixers, the Judaizers. 487 00:27:49.380 --> 00:27:56.940 It's usually not an outside group today, it's the voice of our own mind. 488 00:27:56.940 --> 00:28:07.540 Verse 8, this persuasion, this persuasion to mix the two systems, to mix the two covenants, 489 00:28:07.540 --> 00:28:13.420 to rely on yourself, to try to serve God in your own strength, to add to the finished 490 00:28:13.420 --> 00:28:14.940 work of the cross. 491 00:28:14.940 --> 00:28:18.180 This persuasion does not come from Him who calls you. 492 00:28:18.180 --> 00:28:23.940 A little leaven, leavens the whole lump. 493 00:28:23.940 --> 00:28:27.540 Mom, do you remember all that bread you made when I was a kid? 494 00:28:27.540 --> 00:28:33.060 My mom was baking fresh bread before it was cool to bake fresh bread. 495 00:28:33.060 --> 00:28:37.180 Before the hipsters were baking bread, and a little apartment in Forest Hills, Queens, 496 00:28:37.180 --> 00:28:41.260 my mom was breaking fresh bread, and I come up to the kitchen counter and I'd look and 497 00:28:41.260 --> 00:28:45.300 she'd take a little yeast, a little leaven, and it'll leaven the whole lump, the whole 498 00:28:45.300 --> 00:28:46.900 loaf of bread. 499 00:28:46.980 --> 00:28:54.060 And I used with the Apostle Paul is saying, a little law is too much, it'll mess up the 500 00:28:54.060 --> 00:29:02.260 whole loaf of bread, but preachers love because they secretly don't trust you. 501 00:29:02.260 --> 00:29:06.180 You know, I don't want you to get too uppity in your freedom, I'll lose control. 502 00:29:06.180 --> 00:29:11.780 So I got to mix this great gospel of grace and freedom. 503 00:29:11.780 --> 00:29:16.580 I got to remember, Emerald, bam, kick it up a notch, throw a little dash. 504 00:29:16.580 --> 00:29:22.020 You know, I got to stop doing my like 90s and early 2000s, you know, as you get older, 505 00:29:22.020 --> 00:29:29.180 your jokes don't progress, and so it loses 20 years goes by like this, and all the 30s 506 00:29:29.180 --> 00:29:34.420 I was like, it's funny. 507 00:29:34.420 --> 00:29:42.420 Preachers are notorious for salt and peppering. 508 00:29:42.420 --> 00:29:49.900 Your teachings and churches with the system of law, really because we don't trust you. 509 00:29:49.900 --> 00:29:55.740 We can get a lot more work and a lot more money out of you if we mix them law with it. 510 00:29:55.740 --> 00:30:03.500 I'm saying the stuff I'm not supposed to say, you should be loving this. 511 00:30:03.500 --> 00:30:09.380 It's not right, it's wrong, it leads to death, it leads to being estranged and divorced 512 00:30:09.380 --> 00:30:14.420 from Christ, it leads to death and frustration inside of you. 513 00:30:14.420 --> 00:30:19.180 Preachers, let me try to rephrase that, maybe I lost you with 11 analogy. 514 00:30:19.180 --> 00:30:20.180 Try another way. 515 00:30:20.180 --> 00:30:30.780 It's going to come out the same way, with me. 516 00:30:30.780 --> 00:30:35.700 We feel that you're not to be trusted with really the freedom of grace and the liberty 517 00:30:35.700 --> 00:30:43.260 of grace, so we try to temper God's amazing grace with some good old fashioned law. 518 00:30:43.260 --> 00:30:47.540 You have to, you have to, you have to. 519 00:30:47.540 --> 00:30:52.180 And that's what the old system of law is, thou shalt, thou shalt, thou shalt. 520 00:30:52.180 --> 00:30:56.620 We read just the other week that the new covenant isn't about you, it's not about me. 521 00:30:56.620 --> 00:31:00.100 The finger isn't wagging at you saying, thou shalt not, thou shalt not. 522 00:31:00.100 --> 00:31:05.860 He when he establishes the new covenant says, I will form a new covenant with you. 523 00:31:05.860 --> 00:31:08.900 I will take out the hardest stone. 524 00:31:08.900 --> 00:31:12.420 I will put in a heart of flesh. 525 00:31:12.420 --> 00:31:16.180 I want his, I will, not my you must. 526 00:31:16.180 --> 00:31:18.620 I fail, he doesn't fail. 527 00:31:18.620 --> 00:31:24.900 So what this is saying is, stay away from the 11. 528 00:31:24.900 --> 00:31:29.900 You smell that system of law, get away. 529 00:31:29.900 --> 00:31:32.700 Because a little will live in the whole lump. 530 00:31:32.700 --> 00:31:36.860 And hopefully we try to present everything that way. 531 00:31:36.860 --> 00:31:40.820 For example, Pastor James, he made an invitation for people to come and help with Christmas 532 00:31:40.820 --> 00:31:41.820 decorating. 533 00:31:41.820 --> 00:31:46.860 We want to see this whole place up, you know, like Radio City, back in the day. 534 00:31:46.860 --> 00:31:49.100 And we really need some people to come and help. 535 00:31:49.100 --> 00:31:52.860 Pastor Moe is going to have the high cocoa going and decorate this whole place up. 536 00:31:52.860 --> 00:31:54.260 Do you notice how he presented that? 537 00:31:54.300 --> 00:31:58.060 Let me not have even heard him because he just said, if you can, come. 538 00:31:58.060 --> 00:32:00.220 He didn't say, how many of you love Jesus? 539 00:32:00.220 --> 00:32:06.500 Give me a J, J, give me an E, get everybody hyped up, everybody love Jesus. 540 00:32:06.500 --> 00:32:10.700 All right, now if you really love Jesus, you're going to come and show it and help decorate 541 00:32:10.700 --> 00:32:11.700 it. 542 00:32:11.700 --> 00:32:14.740 Everybody, pastor sign up, sheet up and down. 543 00:32:14.740 --> 00:32:20.940 This stuff happens all the time to manipulate you, to guilt you, to extract something out 544 00:32:20.940 --> 00:32:21.940 of you. 545 00:32:22.780 --> 00:32:27.420 We're going to trust, here's a novel idea, we're going to trust the Holy Spirit inside 546 00:32:27.420 --> 00:32:28.420 of you. 547 00:32:28.420 --> 00:32:32.780 Ah, do you know our church is death-free? 548 00:32:32.780 --> 00:32:34.980 Hallelujah, that's rare for churches. 549 00:32:34.980 --> 00:32:37.580 And it's not because we're whipping people telling them that if they don't tie, they're 550 00:32:37.580 --> 00:32:39.580 going to be cursed. 551 00:32:39.580 --> 00:32:41.580 Hallelujah. 552 00:32:41.580 --> 00:32:45.700 It's not like our church is death-free and we're in barely, but we have staff. 553 00:32:45.700 --> 00:32:51.180 And we have numerous international missions projects that we give generously to. 554 00:32:51.900 --> 00:32:57.140 Thankfully, in nearly 22 years, not once have I had to stand here and say, it's been a 555 00:32:57.140 --> 00:32:59.500 bad year for Sidi Lai. 556 00:32:59.500 --> 00:33:07.220 We may not be around unless, unless you reach into your pocket and dig real deep. 557 00:33:07.220 --> 00:33:08.220 What are we doing? 558 00:33:08.220 --> 00:33:13.140 We're trusting the Holy Spirit under the new covenant to speak to His people. 559 00:33:13.140 --> 00:33:16.940 That means my primary job then is to make sure that you are full of the Word and full of 560 00:33:16.940 --> 00:33:18.940 the Spirit so we can get the job done. 561 00:33:18.940 --> 00:33:20.940 Amen. 562 00:33:20.940 --> 00:33:24.380 Hallelujah, verse 10. 563 00:33:24.380 --> 00:33:26.780 Is this helping you? 564 00:33:26.780 --> 00:33:30.660 There's a lot of things I can teach and of course I have and I will, but I don't know 565 00:33:30.660 --> 00:33:37.860 anything better to get you on the road to victory, to get you, here's a novel idea also, 566 00:33:37.860 --> 00:33:44.660 to get you enjoying your salvation than a proper understanding of the finished work of the 567 00:33:44.660 --> 00:33:46.620 cross and the new covenant of His grace. 568 00:33:46.620 --> 00:33:49.380 I can't think of anything better. 569 00:33:49.380 --> 00:33:54.340 And I didn't get it till I was a few years old in the Lord and I was simultaneously joyous 570 00:33:54.340 --> 00:33:57.780 and very upset that they didn't tell me sooner. 571 00:33:57.780 --> 00:34:00.020 Why didn't they tell me sooner? 572 00:34:00.020 --> 00:34:01.260 Turns out they weren't hiding it from me. 573 00:34:01.260 --> 00:34:02.980 They themselves didn't know. 574 00:34:02.980 --> 00:34:07.620 They were victims of victims. 575 00:34:07.620 --> 00:34:10.260 I have confidence in you, in the Lord. 576 00:34:10.260 --> 00:34:11.540 You see how that throws that in? 577 00:34:11.540 --> 00:34:16.020 It's like I have confidence in you, well really in the Lord, in you. 578 00:34:16.020 --> 00:34:17.840 And if you have confidence in me, adjust that. 579 00:34:17.840 --> 00:34:20.100 Have confidence in the Jesus in me. 580 00:34:20.100 --> 00:34:22.060 Have confidence in the Jesus in you. 581 00:34:22.060 --> 00:34:28.260 Have confidence in you in the Lord that you will have no other mind, but He who troubles 582 00:34:28.260 --> 00:34:33.540 you shall bear His judgment, whoever He is. 583 00:34:33.540 --> 00:34:38.460 Now the Bible says there is therefore now a little bit of condemnation to those who 584 00:34:38.460 --> 00:34:40.100 are in Christ. 585 00:34:40.100 --> 00:34:44.740 No condemnation, condemnation means judgment. 586 00:34:44.740 --> 00:34:49.300 This was totally judged, totally condemned. 587 00:34:49.300 --> 00:34:55.420 The wrath of God that you and I deserved, that wrath was exhausted on Jesus. 588 00:34:55.420 --> 00:35:06.300 So is there any more condemnation and judgment left for the person who was in Christ? 589 00:35:06.300 --> 00:35:08.060 No. 590 00:35:08.060 --> 00:35:12.940 There is no more judgment, no more condemnation. 591 00:35:12.940 --> 00:35:17.500 God cannot condemn you when He has already condemned your sin in Jesus. 592 00:35:17.500 --> 00:35:18.500 Amen. 593 00:35:18.500 --> 00:35:24.620 The whole story of the children of Israel fleeing Egypt and the past over lamb. 594 00:35:24.620 --> 00:35:30.060 They were told to slay the first born lamb and apply the blood to the doorposts. 595 00:35:30.060 --> 00:35:33.500 And when the death angel came, he would pass over the house with the blood. 596 00:35:33.500 --> 00:35:34.500 Why? 597 00:35:34.500 --> 00:35:38.460 Because death cannot come where death has already been. 598 00:35:38.460 --> 00:35:41.980 Children cannot come to you where you have already been judged. 599 00:35:41.980 --> 00:35:45.700 You have already been judged, but in the person of Jesus, you want to know what that judgment 600 00:35:45.700 --> 00:35:47.220 looks like house of year. 601 00:35:47.220 --> 00:35:52.300 Look at the Son of God, whipped, beaten, brutalized, pierced. 602 00:35:52.300 --> 00:35:53.780 That was the judgment that we deserved. 603 00:35:53.780 --> 00:35:56.580 And He was separated from God the Father on the cross. 604 00:35:56.580 --> 00:36:02.300 That's really where the pain was, where He cried out, Eloi, Eloi, Lama, Sabaktini, my God, 605 00:36:02.300 --> 00:36:06.020 my God, why have you forsaken me so that you would never be judged and God would never 606 00:36:06.020 --> 00:36:09.980 turn us back on you and you would never be forsaken. 607 00:36:09.980 --> 00:36:15.100 But yet here, Paul says to those who trouble you, there is a judgment. 608 00:36:15.100 --> 00:36:16.100 Uh-huh. 609 00:36:16.100 --> 00:36:17.340 This is important. 610 00:36:17.340 --> 00:36:18.340 What's happening here? 611 00:36:18.340 --> 00:36:22.740 Well, for the person who is in Christ, there is no condemnation. 612 00:36:22.740 --> 00:36:27.220 But for those who are now mixing the covenants, the Bible says several things. 613 00:36:27.220 --> 00:36:30.540 They're estranged or divorced from Jesus. 614 00:36:30.540 --> 00:36:33.220 They have nullified the grace of God. 615 00:36:33.220 --> 00:36:35.900 Being a longer qualify for no judgment. 616 00:36:35.900 --> 00:36:44.580 For anyone who mixes the covenant, their fair game for the law and the law demands justice. 617 00:36:44.580 --> 00:36:48.620 So He says to those covenant mixers who are bothering you, they're going to be judged 618 00:36:48.620 --> 00:36:55.540 because they're not hidden away in Christ. 619 00:36:55.540 --> 00:36:58.980 I think the proper response right now is just inwardly to go, thank you, Lord, I'm hidden 620 00:36:58.980 --> 00:37:00.220 in Christ. 621 00:37:00.220 --> 00:37:02.780 I receive your grace. 622 00:37:03.740 --> 00:37:11.180 By your grace, I will continually live under the new covenant with no mixture. 623 00:37:11.180 --> 00:37:12.180 Hallelujah. 624 00:37:12.180 --> 00:37:15.540 It's just, it's so much hilarious because this is the only time where I feel like I have 625 00:37:15.540 --> 00:37:24.740 to fight and wrestle with people to see them happier, more free, enjoying salvation. 626 00:37:24.740 --> 00:37:26.460 And there are some folk who would get upset at this. 627 00:37:26.460 --> 00:37:33.180 No, don't take the pain out of my Christianity. 628 00:37:33.180 --> 00:37:36.420 Don't it's supposed to be hard. 629 00:37:36.420 --> 00:37:40.700 All my life I've been on that treadmill, don't tell me I didn't have to be. 630 00:37:40.700 --> 00:37:44.940 All that was for nothing. 631 00:37:44.940 --> 00:37:47.420 Verse 11. 632 00:37:47.420 --> 00:37:53.460 And I brethren, if I still preach circumcision, why do I still suffer persecution? 633 00:37:53.460 --> 00:37:59.060 Some of them were saying, Paul, we heard you got Timothy circumcised, so you are preaching 634 00:37:59.060 --> 00:38:00.060 circumcision. 635 00:38:00.060 --> 00:38:01.060 And that's true. 636 00:38:01.060 --> 00:38:05.700 Paul took a young pastor Timothy and they were preaching to a bunch of Jewish people and 637 00:38:05.700 --> 00:38:11.100 Timothy had to get circumcised because the Jews wouldn't receive him if he didn't. 638 00:38:11.100 --> 00:38:14.180 So I imagine a conversation when something like Timothy, you sure you want to go on this 639 00:38:14.180 --> 00:38:15.660 mission strip with me? 640 00:38:15.660 --> 00:38:17.420 Yes, Paul, I really do. 641 00:38:17.420 --> 00:38:21.740 How far are you prepared to go to fulfill the call of God on your life? 642 00:38:21.740 --> 00:38:24.620 Because those folks over there, they're not going to hear words you say unless you get 643 00:38:24.620 --> 00:38:25.620 circumcised. 644 00:38:25.620 --> 00:38:29.140 Timothy said, you know, I'm prepared to go all the way. 645 00:38:29.140 --> 00:38:34.540 So he got circumcised, but he didn't get circumcised to be approved unto God. 646 00:38:34.540 --> 00:38:38.140 He didn't do something extra to get forgiven by God. 647 00:38:38.140 --> 00:38:43.540 He just did this because it was a cultural thing and he was taught as Paul to be all things 648 00:38:43.540 --> 00:38:45.860 to all men. 649 00:38:45.860 --> 00:38:47.580 You see the difference? 650 00:38:47.580 --> 00:38:50.300 It's always a question of motive. 651 00:38:50.300 --> 00:38:53.340 Like we're going to go on a 21 day fast come the new year. 652 00:38:53.340 --> 00:38:57.380 I haven't even gotten Christmas fat yet and I'm looking forward to it. 653 00:38:57.380 --> 00:39:01.380 I can't wait for the 21 days of fasting. 654 00:39:01.380 --> 00:39:04.060 We'll all be praying together every single night via Zoom meeting. 655 00:39:04.060 --> 00:39:06.060 It's lovely time. 656 00:39:06.060 --> 00:39:11.180 But with fasting, for example, so many Christians treat it like it's a hunger strike. 657 00:39:11.180 --> 00:39:16.620 And if they suffer enough through fasting, they're going to twist God's arm into releasing 658 00:39:16.620 --> 00:39:21.220 a blessing that normally he's just more keeping back from them. 659 00:39:21.220 --> 00:39:22.220 Fasting doesn't change God. 660 00:39:22.220 --> 00:39:24.100 It changes you. 661 00:39:24.100 --> 00:39:26.100 It aligns you. 662 00:39:26.100 --> 00:39:30.380 Hey, man, you see the difference in motivation. 663 00:39:30.380 --> 00:39:36.540 Now we're fasting out of a love motive. 664 00:39:36.540 --> 00:39:40.460 We're fasting not to change his mind. 665 00:39:40.460 --> 00:39:44.980 We realize his mind is always good towards us. 666 00:39:44.980 --> 00:39:49.100 We're fasting because it causes us to focus on him. 667 00:39:49.100 --> 00:39:55.300 It causes us, our spirit to come alive. 668 00:39:55.300 --> 00:39:59.820 Why do I still, why do they still want to kill me? 669 00:39:59.820 --> 00:40:01.260 I actually preached circumcision. 670 00:40:01.260 --> 00:40:02.260 He didn't. 671 00:40:02.260 --> 00:40:04.780 Then the offense of the cross has ceased. 672 00:40:04.780 --> 00:40:12.940 And then verse 12, the other week I joked and said, I love a little plaque for my desk 673 00:40:12.940 --> 00:40:17.820 of one of Paul's quotes in an early chapter where he says, have I become your enemy? 674 00:40:17.820 --> 00:40:23.060 Now that I tell you the truth, and I said it a kind of as a joke, and just this Friday 675 00:40:23.060 --> 00:40:27.700 night, a precious couple from our church came and blessed me with that plaque. 676 00:40:27.700 --> 00:40:28.700 And I love it. 677 00:40:28.700 --> 00:40:30.820 And it's right now in my office on the desk. 678 00:40:30.820 --> 00:40:35.340 But I thought after that, I thought, oh, I should have asked for this in the plaque. 679 00:40:35.340 --> 00:40:39.340 This is the better verse. 680 00:40:39.340 --> 00:40:43.940 This has maybe we'll just get a giant plaque when we get our own building. 681 00:40:43.940 --> 00:40:47.900 We'll hang that in the men's restroom. 682 00:40:47.900 --> 00:40:50.540 If you don't know what I'm talking about, put on your seatbelt. 683 00:40:50.540 --> 00:40:52.380 Here's what Paul is saying. 684 00:40:52.380 --> 00:40:55.420 Because his problem is covenant mixers, right? 685 00:40:55.420 --> 00:40:58.100 Covenant mixers rob you of your liberty in Christ. 686 00:40:58.100 --> 00:41:00.780 They rob you of your freedom. 687 00:41:00.780 --> 00:41:03.140 They don't get you to receive the love of God. 688 00:41:03.140 --> 00:41:05.460 They add to the finished work of the cross. 689 00:41:05.460 --> 00:41:06.580 And here's what Paul is saying. 690 00:41:06.580 --> 00:41:07.580 I could wish. 691 00:41:07.580 --> 00:41:08.580 That's him being nice. 692 00:41:08.580 --> 00:41:13.380 He didn't say I wish, but he's saying they drive me so crazy. 693 00:41:13.380 --> 00:41:14.780 And they're so evil. 694 00:41:14.780 --> 00:41:20.540 I could wish that those who trouble you, who want you circumcised, would even cut themselves 695 00:41:20.540 --> 00:41:21.780 off. 696 00:41:21.780 --> 00:41:26.180 Yes, he's talking about that. 697 00:41:26.180 --> 00:41:28.740 Do you get what Paul is talking about, mom? 698 00:41:28.740 --> 00:41:29.740 Sounds crazy, right? 699 00:41:29.740 --> 00:41:36.940 Paul, the Holy Apostle Paul, under the anointing of the Holy Spirit, said that. 700 00:41:36.940 --> 00:41:38.500 Just to take away from that. 701 00:41:38.500 --> 00:41:39.500 That this is serious. 702 00:41:39.500 --> 00:41:41.260 Okay, some of you still don't get it. 703 00:41:41.260 --> 00:41:46.500 He's saying that those people who like to just take a little off the top of your circumcision, 704 00:41:46.500 --> 00:41:50.700 they should go all the way, chop, chop, chop, and emasculate themselves. 705 00:41:50.700 --> 00:41:54.620 Can you believe that, bro? 706 00:41:54.620 --> 00:41:56.420 That's what he's saying. 707 00:41:56.420 --> 00:41:57.420 I know. 708 00:41:57.420 --> 00:42:00.420 Pearl clutching right here in the third row. 709 00:42:00.420 --> 00:42:12.220 Do you know who the Bible was written by? 710 00:42:12.220 --> 00:42:16.420 You think it was written by a bunch of poets and cloistered seminarians, scholars? 711 00:42:16.420 --> 00:42:20.820 Well, these were barbarians. 712 00:42:20.820 --> 00:42:24.540 Actually Paul was the most academic of all of them. 713 00:42:24.540 --> 00:42:27.500 Some of you men need to read that book, the barbarian way. 714 00:42:27.500 --> 00:42:33.220 And realize that the gospel was spread and Christianity was formed really by poet warriors. 715 00:42:33.220 --> 00:42:37.260 And by men who weren't afraid to get their hands dirty and be men. 716 00:42:37.260 --> 00:42:40.620 And all that's trying to get squashed now and it's labeled as toxic masculinity, yet 717 00:42:40.620 --> 00:42:45.420 men would be the first to run into a fire, first one to rescue a baby, first one to just 718 00:42:45.420 --> 00:42:49.820 break, to get killed in wars, to advance the gospel, to have their own lives taken. 719 00:42:49.820 --> 00:42:52.500 Don't shout me down because I'm preaching the truth. 720 00:42:52.500 --> 00:42:53.500 Amen. 721 00:42:53.900 --> 00:42:57.500 And sometimes under that a little bit of this comes out. 722 00:42:57.500 --> 00:43:00.500 Amen. 723 00:43:00.500 --> 00:43:06.020 Don't tune me out. 724 00:43:06.020 --> 00:43:07.740 But he didn't really mean he said I could wish. 725 00:43:07.740 --> 00:43:11.140 He tempered it. 726 00:43:11.140 --> 00:43:12.860 Verse 13. 727 00:43:12.860 --> 00:43:16.700 Everybody after serve is going to Google, did Paul really mean that? 728 00:43:16.700 --> 00:43:19.020 Yeah, he did. 729 00:43:19.020 --> 00:43:21.700 There's a lot of things theologians disagree about. 730 00:43:21.700 --> 00:43:28.340 85% of them agree that that's what he was talking about. 731 00:43:28.340 --> 00:43:30.300 The others wear ladies dresses. 732 00:43:30.300 --> 00:43:37.020 Anyway, verse 5, chapter 5, verse 13. 733 00:43:37.020 --> 00:43:43.820 For you, brethren, have been called to liberty. 734 00:43:43.820 --> 00:43:49.180 Only do not use liberty as an opportunity for the flesh. 735 00:43:49.180 --> 00:43:53.780 Go through love, serve one another. 736 00:43:53.780 --> 00:43:59.700 He's saying because grace, grace can be abused. 737 00:43:59.700 --> 00:44:03.340 It doesn't mean it should be. 738 00:44:03.340 --> 00:44:08.940 But only when you really love someone, only when you really give them your heart, only 739 00:44:08.940 --> 00:44:12.620 when you really make yourself vulnerable, you now have lost power, huh? 740 00:44:12.620 --> 00:44:18.660 That other person cannot really hurt you, but that's really what true love is. 741 00:44:18.660 --> 00:44:22.500 And he's giving you himself and puts you under a system of grace. 742 00:44:22.500 --> 00:44:24.300 You can't abuse it. 743 00:44:24.300 --> 00:44:25.300 Should you? 744 00:44:25.300 --> 00:44:27.140 He says, no, God forbid. 745 00:44:27.140 --> 00:44:33.020 I'm allowed that grace now to have a working in you, to where you allow it to change you 746 00:44:33.020 --> 00:44:36.140 and you become more like Jesus. 747 00:44:36.140 --> 00:44:37.460 Hallelujah. 748 00:44:37.460 --> 00:44:38.940 Verse 14. 749 00:44:38.940 --> 00:44:45.540 Hey, on that note of grace changing you and making you more like Jesus, I've shared 750 00:44:45.540 --> 00:44:50.860 before, I've offended my wife with that Paul thing and she's gone. 751 00:44:50.860 --> 00:44:54.220 I'll make it up to you, babe. 752 00:44:54.220 --> 00:44:59.820 Tonight we're going to read the song, a Solomon by the fireplace. 753 00:44:59.820 --> 00:45:01.140 I didn't mean that in that way. 754 00:45:01.140 --> 00:45:05.460 I literally meant, I didn't, come back. 755 00:45:05.460 --> 00:45:08.580 I didn't, Pastor James, you're terrible. 756 00:45:08.580 --> 00:45:12.180 I didn't mean it like that. 757 00:45:12.180 --> 00:45:13.180 I will share it. 758 00:45:13.180 --> 00:45:14.180 Listen. 759 00:45:14.180 --> 00:45:15.180 Come back to me. 760 00:45:15.260 --> 00:45:16.980 Come back to me. 761 00:45:16.980 --> 00:45:19.980 Come back to me. 762 00:45:19.980 --> 00:45:23.980 With transformation. 763 00:45:23.980 --> 00:45:28.380 I've had the Lord when I first got saved some sins, just like fell off of me without any 764 00:45:28.380 --> 00:45:29.380 effort. 765 00:45:29.380 --> 00:45:31.700 Others persisted. 766 00:45:31.700 --> 00:45:34.820 And then they were like deep hooks inside of me. 767 00:45:34.820 --> 00:45:38.140 And obviously I still, obviously I still haven't arrived. 768 00:45:38.140 --> 00:45:40.140 But I'm better. 769 00:45:40.140 --> 00:45:44.620 I'm better with regard to holiness, better than when I'm where I once was. 770 00:45:44.620 --> 00:45:48.780 The Lord is shaping me and molding me and changing me and you too. 771 00:45:48.780 --> 00:45:53.860 But here's what I've noticed, no, especially the heavy sins, I mean by heavy, I mean heavy 772 00:45:53.860 --> 00:45:55.340 for me, they persisted. 773 00:45:55.340 --> 00:45:57.260 It's like I can't shake them off. 774 00:45:57.260 --> 00:45:59.900 And then the Lord would deliver me. 775 00:45:59.900 --> 00:46:01.540 And the hook would shh. 776 00:46:01.540 --> 00:46:05.500 There's sins I thought I'd never be free of them, they're gone. 777 00:46:05.500 --> 00:46:12.300 None of those ever came, those deliverances, they never came when I was trying to change. 778 00:46:12.300 --> 00:46:13.300 Never. 779 00:46:13.580 --> 00:46:17.500 They never came when I said, you know what, I really need to clean my act up. 780 00:46:17.500 --> 00:46:21.380 Let me take a step back, quote unquote, work on myself. 781 00:46:21.380 --> 00:46:27.540 And really, they always came when I put my eyes on Jesus, I fell in love with Him. 782 00:46:27.540 --> 00:46:29.060 I was receiving His love. 783 00:46:29.060 --> 00:46:31.660 I got caught up in the things of Jesus. 784 00:46:31.660 --> 00:46:36.740 And then like weeks later it would hit me, wait, that sin that was planking me, it's 785 00:46:36.740 --> 00:46:37.740 gone. 786 00:46:37.740 --> 00:46:38.740 It's gone. 787 00:46:38.740 --> 00:46:39.740 When did he do that? 788 00:46:39.740 --> 00:46:40.740 It's gone. 789 00:46:40.740 --> 00:46:41.740 He did that. 790 00:46:41.980 --> 00:46:43.780 But I wasn't trying. 791 00:46:43.780 --> 00:46:46.620 I was just receiving Jesus. 792 00:46:46.620 --> 00:46:47.940 That's how it'll happen. 793 00:46:47.940 --> 00:46:50.100 That's how it does happen. 794 00:46:50.100 --> 00:46:54.660 That's why pastors' primary job is to get you to receive more of God's love and enjoy 795 00:46:54.660 --> 00:46:55.860 Jesus. 796 00:46:55.860 --> 00:46:59.820 And that's where the transformation comes. 797 00:46:59.820 --> 00:47:03.380 For all the laws fulfilled in one word, even in this you shall love your neighbor as 798 00:47:03.380 --> 00:47:05.780 yourself, verse 15. 799 00:47:05.780 --> 00:47:11.700 But if you bite and devour one another, beware less to be consumed by one another. 800 00:47:12.700 --> 00:47:18.300 I say then, and here he gives the entire key to the new covenant. 801 00:47:18.300 --> 00:47:20.860 It's called walking in the Spirit. 802 00:47:20.860 --> 00:47:26.020 I say then, walk in the Spirit. 803 00:47:26.020 --> 00:47:29.780 Just say that with me, please, walk in the Spirit. 804 00:47:29.780 --> 00:47:36.420 When you walk in the Spirit, you won't fulfill the desires of the flesh. 805 00:47:36.420 --> 00:47:38.420 So how do you walk in the Spirit? 806 00:47:38.420 --> 00:47:42.260 What does it mean to walk in the Spirit? 807 00:47:42.260 --> 00:47:49.140 What does walk in the Spirit mean? 808 00:47:49.140 --> 00:47:54.820 I was told walking in the Spirit means read your Bible every day, worship every day, come 809 00:47:54.820 --> 00:47:57.180 to church that's walking in the Spirit. 810 00:47:57.180 --> 00:47:59.140 That is not walking in the Spirit. 811 00:47:59.140 --> 00:48:01.660 That is the fruit of walking in the Spirit. 812 00:48:01.660 --> 00:48:08.020 But we're infamous for always analyzing the fruit never getting to the root. 813 00:48:08.020 --> 00:48:11.020 Walking in the Spirit means living under grace. 814 00:48:11.020 --> 00:48:13.220 It means following the Holy Spirit. 815 00:48:13.220 --> 00:48:15.060 By the way, do you know what the Holy Spirit's job is? 816 00:48:15.060 --> 00:48:18.660 What is primary job is? 817 00:48:18.660 --> 00:48:22.300 Jesus said it in John 14, when he first talked about the Holy Spirit, he said, the Holy 818 00:48:22.300 --> 00:48:25.900 Spirit will come and he will testify of me. 819 00:48:25.900 --> 00:48:29.740 So the Holy Spirit's primary job, before being a helper, a comforter, the padaclato, 820 00:48:29.740 --> 00:48:32.940 all that stuff, he always points the way to Jesus. 821 00:48:32.940 --> 00:48:36.180 When the Holy Spirit comes, he says, look at Jesus. 822 00:48:36.180 --> 00:48:37.260 This is what Jesus has done. 823 00:48:37.340 --> 00:48:40.340 This is what Jesus brings. 824 00:48:40.340 --> 00:48:43.060 To walk in the Spirit is to look at Jesus. 825 00:48:43.060 --> 00:48:49.980 Take your eyes off of yourself, look at Jesus, cling to Jesus, basically live under grace. 826 00:48:49.980 --> 00:48:53.460 To walk according to the flesh means you're walking in your own strength. 827 00:48:53.460 --> 00:48:57.260 That's being under the old covenant system of the law. 828 00:48:57.260 --> 00:49:02.700 So walking in the Spirit is walking in the new covenant, walk under grace. 829 00:49:02.700 --> 00:49:09.540 When you're walking in the Spirit, then you won't fulfill the desires of the flesh. 830 00:49:09.540 --> 00:49:14.380 The power of sin is broken under grace. 831 00:49:14.380 --> 00:49:20.540 When you're under the system of the law, the power of sin is heated up and amplified. 832 00:49:20.540 --> 00:49:26.380 That's why Paul said, not me, Paul said, the strength of sin is in the law. 833 00:49:26.380 --> 00:49:32.140 You show me a church that's heavy on the system of the law and I will show you an army 834 00:49:32.140 --> 00:49:34.940 of closet sinners, an army. 835 00:49:34.940 --> 00:49:38.780 They're not that way on Sunday, come on, how are you doing? 836 00:49:38.780 --> 00:49:39.780 Welcome. 837 00:49:39.780 --> 00:49:44.620 And you won't see many relationships, many because they'll keep private because they don't 838 00:49:44.620 --> 00:49:47.740 want anybody to know what they're secretly up to. 839 00:49:47.740 --> 00:49:53.260 But can you believe there can be a new covenant church that doesn't downplay sin, that doesn't 840 00:49:53.260 --> 00:50:00.460 compromise, I'm calling sin sin yet at the same time, we recognize that we're all works 841 00:50:00.460 --> 00:50:06.260 of God in progress and we give you space to grow and develop and nobody's going to condemn 842 00:50:06.260 --> 00:50:10.500 you, nobody's going to be mean to you, nobody's going to be harsh with you, but we understand 843 00:50:10.500 --> 00:50:16.580 that we're all at different places ultimately going to the same destination, J-E-S-U-S. 844 00:50:16.580 --> 00:50:18.580 Wow. 845 00:50:18.580 --> 00:50:26.060 Sounds exceedingly new covenant churchy to me, hallelujah. 846 00:50:26.060 --> 00:50:32.060 I say then walk in the spirit and you shall not fulfill the lust of the flesh, verse 17, 847 00:50:32.060 --> 00:50:38.180 for the flesh lusts against the spirit and the spirit against the flesh and these are contrary 848 00:50:38.180 --> 00:50:44.180 to one another, so that you do not do the things that you wish, verse 18. 849 00:50:44.180 --> 00:50:52.300 But if you are led by the spirit, you are not under the law, so to walk in the spirit means 850 00:50:52.300 --> 00:51:05.940 you're not walking under the law, you're walking under grace, hallelujah. 851 00:51:05.940 --> 00:51:13.860 Verse 19, now the works of the flesh are evident which are adultery, sex outside of the 852 00:51:13.860 --> 00:51:25.060 marriage covenant, fornication, sex before marriage, uncleanness, ludeness, idolatry, 853 00:51:25.060 --> 00:51:31.820 sorcery, sorcery and revelation is translated from the Greek pharmakia which is drug use 854 00:51:31.820 --> 00:51:38.460 or we get pharmacy from, but here sorcery is actually witchcraft and do you know what all 855 00:51:38.460 --> 00:51:42.900 these flavors of the flesh, all these works of the flesh have in common, nobody has to 856 00:51:42.900 --> 00:51:48.420 teach them to you, they're in your flesh, thankfully your flesh has been crucified with 857 00:51:48.420 --> 00:51:53.220 Christ if you will receive that an appropriated daily by faith. 858 00:51:53.220 --> 00:51:57.820 But what this means is that you can take any group of people from any continent, any place, 859 00:51:57.820 --> 00:52:03.300 you put them on a remote island and all of this stuff will come out of them, it's a murder, 860 00:52:03.300 --> 00:52:08.380 I would never murder, yes that's, yes you would, just the environment wasn't right, but 861 00:52:08.380 --> 00:52:13.340 it's there, that also means you can take a group of people, you put them on that island, 862 00:52:13.340 --> 00:52:18.420 come back a hundred years and they're all practicing witchcraft. 863 00:52:18.420 --> 00:52:22.900 Remember mom, when you first got saved, remember the reading the Turkish cups that you 864 00:52:22.900 --> 00:52:26.980 put upside down, these are things no one had to teach my mom, this is stuff that was 865 00:52:26.980 --> 00:52:33.580 just in our Balkan culture, did you, do they do that in my, they did, all the time right, 866 00:52:33.580 --> 00:52:38.020 the Turkish cup of coffee is very muddy at the bottom, they flip it upside down and then 867 00:52:38.100 --> 00:52:41.380 they would divine their future by looking at it, it looked like hieroglyphic images in 868 00:52:41.380 --> 00:52:46.260 there, and it seems innocent, right, and playful, but you're really entering a realm that 869 00:52:46.260 --> 00:52:49.980 God has an ordained for you to enter and you can open the door and give way to spirits 870 00:52:49.980 --> 00:53:00.980 and it is witchcraft, my mom's not a witch, you can see she, I got my humor from her though, 871 00:53:01.980 --> 00:53:10.980 what's my point, it's in the flesh, jealousies, outbursts of wrath, selfish ambitions, 872 00:53:10.980 --> 00:53:20.540 dissensions, heresies, envy, murders, drunkenness, revelries and the like of which I tell 873 00:53:20.540 --> 00:53:27.780 you beforehand, just as I also told you in time pass that those who practice such things 874 00:53:27.860 --> 00:53:35.140 will not inherit the kingdom of God. He says the exact same thing, I believe in three, 875 00:53:35.140 --> 00:53:42.420 possibly four different places where he'll do this, he'll list these flavors of the flesh 876 00:53:42.420 --> 00:53:48.620 and he'll list these sins, and whenever I read the list, the mood in that atmosphere 877 00:53:48.620 --> 00:53:53.580 just goes, shh, down, and never, you know, because you found yourself somewhere here, 878 00:53:53.580 --> 00:53:59.100 if you didn't, you're not being totally honest, there's something that's off, so you go, 879 00:53:59.100 --> 00:54:03.220 and I try not to look at any, I notice I'm looking at the floor as I read down the list, 880 00:54:03.220 --> 00:54:13.020 no eye contact. Each time what he's saying is, what the supposition is, is that if you're 881 00:54:13.020 --> 00:54:19.140 practicing, notice he says practicing, you're practicing, it's part of your life, it's habitual, 882 00:54:19.140 --> 00:54:26.100 you don't even care, you're not even convicted, if that's you, then you're not saved. 883 00:54:26.100 --> 00:54:30.620 If you're living like this, you're not saved, you may come to church, you may do churchy 884 00:54:30.620 --> 00:54:39.700 things, but you need to really get saved, only when you get saved you actually hate sin. 885 00:54:39.700 --> 00:54:44.900 Do you still sometimes have trouble with sin? Yeah, what's the solution, what's the antidote? 886 00:54:44.900 --> 00:54:49.020 More of God's love, more of His grace, more of His goodness? 887 00:54:49.020 --> 00:54:55.260 How long does it take? I don't know. He surprises me every time. Some things I thought 888 00:54:55.260 --> 00:54:59.460 would be plaguing in my whole life, he got rid of. Some other things that seem easy on 889 00:54:59.460 --> 00:55:09.060 paper, it's like that thing's still there. So so good, so so patient, so so merciful, 890 00:55:09.060 --> 00:55:16.980 so loving. Verse 22, but the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, worship team, 891 00:55:16.980 --> 00:55:23.580 come on up, long suffering, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, self-control, 892 00:55:23.580 --> 00:55:30.140 again such there is no law. And those who are Christ have crucified the flesh with 893 00:55:30.140 --> 00:55:37.540 its passions and desires. If we live in the Spirit, let us also walk in the Spirit, 894 00:55:37.540 --> 00:55:46.540 let us not become conceited, provoking one another, envying one another, hallelujah. 895 00:55:46.540 --> 00:55:56.020 I want you to just sing this next song, okay? I want to pray for you. I hope that you 896 00:55:56.020 --> 00:56:01.980 will receive this invitation to walk down the path of grace and not mix and to allow 897 00:56:01.980 --> 00:56:07.940 him to trust them enough to do a transformative work in you, to be Christ like is a pleasure, 898 00:56:07.940 --> 00:56:16.500 to be Christ like is a joy. And the wages of sin is still death, but the way to overcome 899 00:56:16.500 --> 00:56:21.260 sin is not by trying real hard, not by going to where you get flagged every Sunday by 900 00:56:21.260 --> 00:56:25.860 a preacher is going to wave his index finger in your face. It's going to come from that 901 00:56:25.940 --> 00:56:35.100 relationship with him. Father, teach us to enjoy salvation, teach us to enjoy Jesus, teach 902 00:56:35.100 --> 00:56:43.220 us to be recipients of all that you purchased for us with your own blood. We love you, but 903 00:56:43.220 --> 00:56:48.900 even more importantly, we receive your love for us. Amen. 904 00:56:48.900 --> 00:56:53.700 This is the City Light Church podcast. If you've missed any part of today's message or 905 00:56:53.700 --> 00:56:58.300 if you would like to find out more about Pastor Boyan Jansik in City Light Church, visit 906 00:56:58.300 --> 00:57:06.460 us at citylightnyc.com. That's citylightnyc.com. Feel free to visit us online or in person 907 00:57:06.460 --> 00:57:12.620 anytime. We would love to connect with you. We pray that you have been encouraged today, 908 00:57:12.620 --> 00:57:18.500 that you have been reminded how much God loves you, and that you are surrounded by grace. 909 00:57:18.500 --> 00:57:22.900 Thank you for listening. Make sure that you subscribe to City Light Church podcast wherever 910 00:57:22.900 --> 00:57:25.420 you find your favorite podcasts worldwide.