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You just realized that in and of yourself, you're forever guilty.

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So who's going to deliver you from this body of death?

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And now you finally get your eyes off of you, get your eyes off of man,

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and you say, I thank God through Jesus Christ, my Lord.

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He became a curse so I could be blessed.

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He was turned into sin so I could be made into the very righteousness of God.

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Welcome to the CityLight Church podcast. Thanks for joining us today

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as we look into God's Word and discover the hope and truth that He has for us.

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If you want to connect with CityLight Church, feel free to visit us at CityLightNYC.com,

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that CityLightNYC.com.

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Pastor Boyan Jansik and his team believe that the power of the Holy Spirit

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is already working in our hearts and minds.

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As you listen to today's teaching, remember that you are deeply loved by God,

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that you are surrounded by His grace, and that He has a real hope and a future for you.

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Praise God.

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Before I begin and continue with our series in Galatians,

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I just want to share this scripture that came to me as I took the pulpit

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on Friday night during our revival nights.

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I was taking the pulpit, I had a message prepared, and you know,

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the Holy Spirit will bring all things to your remembrance.

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And so every scripture you ingest, it goes into your spirit,

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and that's something that the Holy Spirit can withdraw.

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It's a well of scripture that's inside of you, and it stands to reason

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that if nothing has gotten in you in the moment you need it,

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the Holy Spirit has nothing to draw out.

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But if you have a belly full of the Word of God when you need it,

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the Lord will make it withdrawal and bring that scripture to your memory.

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And I wasn't thinking at that moment about the situation in the Middle East

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with Israel and Palestine, but this is the scripture that came out,

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and I just want to present it to you, amen.

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And then we'll get in continuous series in Galatians.

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It is from Joshua, chapter 5, starting in verse 13,

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Moses had just died.

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Joshua was anointed as really the new leader of Israel,

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and his purpose was to take him across the Jordan

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and bring him into the promised land, God's holy land, Israel.

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And he has the vision.

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Really, I shouldn't say vision.

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He saw the commander of the Lord's armies in bodily form,

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and it was Jesus.

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It was a pre-incarnation appearance of Jesus in the Old Testament

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as the commander of the Lord's army.

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And it came to pass when Joshua was by Jericho that he lifted his eyes

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and looked and behold a man stood opposite him

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with his sword drawn in his hand.

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And Joshua went to him and said to him,

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are you for us or for our adversaries?

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This is the Lord himself.

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And that's the question.

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That's the question really everybody wants to know, right?

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Who side are you on?

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There's a lot of people during this conflict

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they don't even know what they should think

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because they haven't been told yet.

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A lot of times when there's something controversial,

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you maybe don't admit it to yourself,

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but really the thought is,

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which way is the majority leaning because I don't want to be unpopular?

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So tell me my opinion and tell me what I should think,

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and then I'll put a little flag in my bio

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and show everybody I'm down with the current thing.

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Are you for us or for our adversaries?

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And here is the Lord.

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The Lord's response.

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So he said no, but as commander of the army of the Lord,

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I have now come.

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What a response.

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Now obviously this is Yahweh God.

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And he could have said, well, Joshua really,

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I'm on your side,

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and I'm going to take you across the river,

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the Jordan River,

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and I'm going to help you establish the nation of Israel

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in the Promised Land,

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but he really says,

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I'm not on your side,

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and I'm not on their side.

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I'm on my side.

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who side are you on, team A or team B?

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I'm on the Lord's side.

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I want his purposes to be wrought forth.

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And that's what we're praying.

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We're praying for safety for people.

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We're praying for the punishment of evil doers,

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protection of people,

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and also that the Lord's will would be done.

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And let me just also say this.

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You know, the God of Israel,

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the person who generally encultured when we refer to God,

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we're talking about Elohim.

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Yahweh,

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El Ion, the God of Israel,

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the God of the Bible.

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Do you realize that nobody knew this God

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so just a couple of thousand years ago?

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and that holy scriptures that taught on him,

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but it was really Jesus who made him globally famous.

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so that the whole world has now heard of the one true God.

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Yahweh was so obscure,

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and his scriptures were so obscure,

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all those scriptures pointed to this little patch of land

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no bigger than Rhode Island called Israel.

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called Jerusalem.

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And thousands of years ago said end time events

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will culminate here.

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That was thousands of years ago.

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People have a hard time predicting what's going to happen

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two years from now.

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To me, just lend credibility to the Bible

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being a supernatural book

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that even thousands of years ago

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had said in this little town city

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in this little country,

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that's where it's going to go down.

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we should pay attention,

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we should be prayerful,

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and also we should be ready

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because 2024 is going to be lit.

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We're coming upon another election year.

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And whenever Jesus talks about the end times,

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you'll notice over and over again,

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he says the same thing.

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Take heed that no one deceive you.

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Take heed that no one deceive you.

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Hey, by the way, make sure that you don't fall into deception

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over and over again.

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Do you know why?

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there's going to be rampant deception.

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And the problem with deception

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is that it's so dang deceiving.

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It's like bad breath.

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You're the last one to know you got it.

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the Scripture says in those days,

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God will send them strong delusion

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that they should not believe the truth,

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but shall believe in the lie.

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and you don't have to be a prophet

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to predict this now,

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and going into 2024

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is there's going to be misinformation,

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disinformation, deception everywhere,

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manias and panics are going to try to be a fan

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and I want you to keep your wits about you.

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I want you to stay solid in Jesus.

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Don't fall victim to the current thing.

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If you ever want to gauge,

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our ultimate gauge is the Lord.

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But if you ever want to just double check,

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just see what Hollywood is doing,

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see what the world is doing,

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and do the opposite.

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And that's always a good gauge.

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See what they are trying to get you to think

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and go, hmm,

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just probably a good indicator.

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Listen, if you haven't realized this after 2020,

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I don't know what more I can do for you.

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If you haven't realized

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that there is a system

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that is against you,

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that is trying to brainwash you,

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that is trying to make you like cattle,

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and just go with the herd.

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You need a winnowakening.

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Amen.

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This response is going to make me drop Galatians

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and go hard after this.

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I didn't lose a third of my church just to get...

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Are you kidding me?

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Get ready.

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Amen.

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Amen.

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And I can't think of any gift better,

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any impartation as your pastor

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with the responsibility before the Lord.

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What can I impart to the people to get them ready

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for 2024?

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And the craziness that's going to ensue

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than an understanding of the new covenant.

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And that's why we're in the middle of Galatians right now.

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Because the new covenant is the system

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that we're under.

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The new covenant governs how we relate to the Lord.

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And the enemy is always trying to move you

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from the new covenant and get you to go with mixture,

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mixing the old and the new.

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Because if you mix even a little bit,

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according to the scriptures,

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you frustrate the grace of God

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and you nullify the new covenant.

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So even if you mix a little bit,

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you're no longer under a new covenant,

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you're back in the old.

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Jesus shed His precious blood

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to bring you from out of the old and into the new.

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And that's why we're in Galatians

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because there was this group known as the Judaizers.

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it's nice that you're believer in Christ,

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but now you have to do something extra.

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You have to do do.

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That voice is a do-do voice.

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Do not listen to the voice covered in do-do.

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The voice is Jesus plus other stuff

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that you contribute to help us save your out.

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That equals your salvation.

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But the gospel is Jesus plus nothing equals everything.

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And there is no mixing allowed.

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So let me just recap a smidgen

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because we're in the middle of chapter three right now,

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but for those who are guests.

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And it's just always good to recap.

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I find that when I'm completely tired of saying the same thing over and over again,

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that's just when the people are getting it.

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The old covenant, let's define old in you.

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The old covenant is a system.

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It's a dispensation.

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It's a system of order.

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God has not changed.

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God is forever the same.

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But the covenant that we live under has.

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And the way God relates to man has.

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you endeavored to get approved unto God based on your self-effort,

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based on your own law keeping,

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based on your own religiosity,

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based on your religious ability to cross every tea and that every eye.

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Does that sound like fun to you?

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Not only is it not fun, but it's unsuccessful.

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It's impossible.

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Because part of the curse of the law is that if you fall in just one point,

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your guilty of breaking the whole of the law,

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which puts us all under a curse.

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it's not you endeavoring to change God's mind about you,

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to win God's favor, to win His approval through your own works,

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your own behavior, your own being a nice person.

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Your own being a good citizen,

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going to church, and helping out,

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and giving to the poor,

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that does nothing to contribute to your salvation.

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you are already fully approved unto God,

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not based on your behavior, your performance,

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but based on what Jesus has already accomplished for you

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in the finished work of the cross.

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What side of the cross you want to live under?

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That's the theme of Galatians, no mixture allowed.

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but now you have to get circumcised.

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You have to keep the love Moses.

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it's tempting to think of this strange people group

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from 2,000 years ago.

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What does that have to do with the price of X and me

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in New York City in 2023?

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Well, Judaizers today come in all forms.

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your friends, and especially the sound

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of your own inner monologue.

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Anything that would take you away from Jesus plus nothing

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equals everything is the voice of a Judaizer.

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It's the voice of mixture.

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I would guess that even in a strong,

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new covenant gospel grace-based church like Cityline,

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about 85 to 90% of us still live with mixture.

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How do I know this?

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Because every single day I have to resist mixture.

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Every single day I have to resist mixture.

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The moment I feel like God is distant,

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I'm no longer under the new covenant, I'm mixing.

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I feel like my performance has something to do

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with where the God is quote-unquote closer than that.

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that's a red flag saying that I've allowed mixture in.

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The moment there's a religious pride,

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or I feel like the moment you feel pressure,

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oh, you're mixing.

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Under the new covenant, there's no pressure.

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There's no pressure to perform.

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You say, but the way you're preaching,

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you're going to have a lazy church of people

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who just don't do anything.

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And just, can you believe that you can actually do

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all of the right things but for the right reasons?

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And a lot of religion is people doing all of the right things

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for all of the wrong reasons.

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See, they're doing all of the right things

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in order to win God's favor and His approval to win salvation.

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We, and I will put city light up against any other group,

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as far as our giving, our volunteers,

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we do not have a lazy body here.

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Where people who are immediately,

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we have a mission's team to Guadamo, immediately, full.

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We need volunteers, boom, they come.

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We have a giving campaign, boom, goal is met.

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oh, well, Jesus has done it all on the cross.

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Cool, I'll just sit back and relax

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and I'll keep high till He comes.

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No, but you do those things not to earn His favor,

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but you do those things because you already know

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you have His favor and you already are approved.

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And nothing you could ever do could cause them

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to take one drop of His love from you.

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So now you have the right motive.

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You're not doing it to win His favor.

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You're doing it as a thank you.

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When you realize the depth of the forgiveness

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and the love of God, the natural responses,

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Lord, I've been the knee.

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I'm no longer my own.

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I belong to you.

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My life is yours.

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What do you want me to do now?

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Amen.

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Do you see the compare and contrast between that and dead religion?

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Yeah.

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Amen.

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Hallelujah.

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So we're going to explore the new covenant

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and what it means to live under grace.

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And again, I can't think of a better impartation

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for the months to come because out of this comes your strength.

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Out of this comes your relationship with the Lord.

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This is where boldness comes from.

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By the way, fear, that's another red flag.

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There's another red flag that you're mixing covenants.

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Under the new covenant, you don't have to be afraid.

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You've been given boldness.

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Remember, you cry.

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I'm a father.

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Not boohoo cry.

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But it means cry like, ah, with a boldness.

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In Proverbs, it says, the righteous are as bold as a lion.

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You don't know your righteous that you have total right standing

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with God until you see the blood of Jesus.

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Those who are mixing and they never quite know where they stand

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with God.

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See, if you're mixing, you'll always think you're only as good

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as your last day's performance.

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You don't have boldness.

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You go to pray and you hear that voice.

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Mmm.

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God's angry with you.

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It's not the Lord in masquerades as his voice.

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But you hear who?

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Don't you just feel that he's distant?

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I don't care how I feel.

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He might feel distant because I went to bed at 3 a.m.

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And now I'm groggy trying to pray in the morning.

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Maybe I had a whole pizza pie the night before.

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And now I'm like, oh, he feels so distant from the Lord.

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No.

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There is biochemistry involved here.

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The word says he'll never be dead.

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How much closer can you get than you and him and him and you?

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Amen.

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That's the reality of the word.

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Hallelujah.

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All right.

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Let's go to Galatians 3.

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We'll start in verse 13.

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Just a two verse recap of where we left off last time.

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Oh, hallelujah.

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Christ has redeemed us from the curse of the law.

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Hallelujah.

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That means you are blessed.

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And you should say that every single day.

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As you leave the house, lift your hands and say, Lord, I am blessed.

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The Bible says I have been blessed with every spiritual blessing in Christ Jesus.

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And consequently, I cannot be cursed.

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Also make a decision, please.

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You're either blessed or you're cursed.

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Choose one.

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There's a whole Christian book in teaching business and ministry that wants to tell you, yeah, you're blessed.

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But also, you're kind of cursed and you have to do, do, do, cover yourself with do, do all these things to come up under a curse.

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Go to inner healing for 40 hours.

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Renounce your great, great grandfather's sin.

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You know what he did.

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You know, and you've got to renounce that.

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And again, works.

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No.

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You're either blessed or you're cursed.

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I know what I am.

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I'm blessed.

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Because the scripture says I'm blessed.

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Why?

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Because Jesus got Himself.

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Became a curse.

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So that I, the curse, could be blessed.

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It's known as the great exchange.

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Hallelujah.

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That's your reality.

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That's the truth.

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Having become a curse for us for it is written, cursed is everyone who hangs on a tree.

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That the blessing of Abraham, what's the blessing of Abraham?

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Justification by faith.

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Justification means you're pronounced not guilty.

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And you receive this not guilty verdict.

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By the way, that verdict is only brought once.

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It doesn't daily wake up and let's see if you're not guilty today or not.

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Which way is the gavel going to swing?

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I don't know.

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You've been pronounced not guilty.

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You're now not guilty.

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Amen.

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Who, what if I slip and fall?

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Come back up.

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But it's not that now you're guilty and you have to get unguilty again.

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Oh, Jesus.

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This is why people leave church.

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Who would want to stay up as a Christian where they have to get resaid 50 times a month?

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Someone's here saying it's torture.

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It is torture.

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When I first became a Christian, I saw there was a pocket.

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It's not everyone.

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There's a pocket of believers who live this way.

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And I thought, I wonder what keeps them around.

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Like I wouldn't.

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What a terrible way to relate to God where every time you mess up, you have to get born again again.

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Every time an altar calls given, you're moustilly raising your hand.

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I don't know where I stand.

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You should know.

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John said, these things I write to you that you may know that you have eternal life.

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You know why I know I have a microphone in my hand?

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Because I have a microphone in my hand.

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I know that I have eternal life.

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I know.

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I know because I didn't do anything.

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It doesn't depend on my behavior.

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I know because he died and took my place.

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So I know.

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No one can take that away from you or for me.

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Oh, you know what?

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We're entering apocalyptic times.

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In the truest sense of the word, apocalyptic means the peeling back of the curtain.

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People think apocalyptic means fire from heaven, destruction of all.

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Apocalyptic is the Greek revelation, the peeling back.

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And we're truly entering into apocalyptic times.

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We're listening to me now.

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The curtain is going to be peeled back.

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And people are going to see.

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A lot of stuff will get exposed.

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People are going to see clearly.

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Hallelujah.

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And I believe there's going to be multiplied hundreds of millions who are going to see Jesus.

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As he really is.

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Not as religion has presented him.

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Amen.

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Those of you who are used to high church forgive me for those antics.

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Sorry.

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I sometimes get.

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I'm Pentecostal and I'm Balkan, which is a curious combination.

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But seriously though, you know, the Bible says like, there's these scriptures you read.

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We're going to get to Galatians.

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But there's these scriptures you read like in that hour Jesus rejoiced.

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And you go, you know, you read it with like an accent.

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In that hour, Jesus rejoiced.

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And you kind of sterilize it when you're like, what does that look like?

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Well, that word rejoiced is aligrio, which means to dance, twirl, and leap about and clap one's hands.

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So in the movies, Jesus rejoiced.

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He's like, meanwhile, Jesus knew how to get down.

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Amen.

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And that's how I scripturally justify standing on the front row chairs.

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Let's go to Galatians.

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Oh Lord.

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Oh.

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Verse 15.

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Brethren, I speak in the manner of men.

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So he's changing his tone a little bit.

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By the way, his tone has been very, very harsh.

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The harshest you'll ever see it.

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Very corrective.

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Papa Paul was rebuking people.

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Note that he'd never got this upset with the other churches.

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But when it comes to mixture, Paul, that lost his mind.

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He will not tolerate one drop of mixture.

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And neither should you.

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Do not tolerate any judyizing voice in your life.

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And the number one judyizing voice in your life, frankly, is our own inner monologue.

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Do not tolerate it.

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Do not mix the covenants.

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Throw yourself into Jesus' arms under the gospel of grace.

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So finally, he changed his tone a little bit.

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He's been nothing but rebuking him.

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He calls him family now, brethren.

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Earthly example.

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I speak in the manner of men.

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Though it is only a man's covenant, he's saying in the example of an earthly covenant,

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if it is confirmed, no one annuls or adds to it.

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Now, to Abraham and his seed where the promise is made,

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Paul here is appealing to these judyizers who took great pride that they had a genetic link to Abraham.

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That they were physically children of Abraham.

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And he's saying, all right, you so obsessed with Abraham?

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Note this, that the covenant between God and Abraham was 430 years before the law.

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And the covenant between God and Abraham was not one that was works based.

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It was faith-based, forecasting the gospel of grace.

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Now, to Abraham and his seed where the promise is made,

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he does not say unto seeds as of many but as of one and to your seed who is Christ.

522
00:25:14.000 --> 00:25:23.000
So the point is clear, God is referring to one specific descendant of Abraham, the Messiah, Jesus the Christ,

523
00:25:23.000 --> 00:25:28.000
not all his descendants in general.

524
00:25:28.000 --> 00:25:34.000
Verse 17, and this I say that the law, which was 430 years later,

525
00:25:34.000 --> 00:25:39.000
cannot annul the covenant that was confirmed before by God and Christ,

526
00:25:39.000 --> 00:25:43.000
that it should make the promise of no effect.

527
00:25:43.000 --> 00:25:47.000
For if the inheritance is of the law, it is no longer of promise,

528
00:25:47.000 --> 00:25:55.000
but God gave it to Abraham, God gave it, God gave it to Abraham by promise.

529
00:25:55.000 --> 00:26:00.000
Paul is just highlighting that Abrahamic covenant.

530
00:26:00.000 --> 00:26:04.000
I know for some of you, you're brand new, and I had you in the beginning,

531
00:26:04.000 --> 00:26:07.000
now you're about to get lost because I got into someone who lived 3000 years ago

532
00:26:07.000 --> 00:26:09.000
and you're like, what is that got to do with me today?

533
00:26:09.000 --> 00:26:11.000
But this is important.

534
00:26:11.000 --> 00:26:18.000
The Abrahamic covenant, Abraham was the first Jew, the first person to,

535
00:26:18.000 --> 00:26:25.000
after Noah to form a covenant with God and that covenant was not based on Abraham's work.

536
00:26:25.000 --> 00:26:31.000
The Bible says that Abraham believed God and it was put on his account that he's righteous.

537
00:26:31.000 --> 00:26:39.000
And that was forecasting the gospel of grace where you believe God and it's accounted to you as a righteousness.

538
00:26:39.000 --> 00:26:41.000
You know, God has a permanent record.

539
00:26:41.000 --> 00:26:45.000
Remember back in school, they would always tell you, don't do that, it'll go on your permanent record.

540
00:26:45.000 --> 00:26:48.000
And then you became an adult and they realized they were lying the whole time.

541
00:26:48.000 --> 00:26:49.000
There is no permanent record.

542
00:26:49.000 --> 00:26:50.000
I'll never forget.

543
00:26:50.000 --> 00:26:55.000
It was around high school where I went, you know, I didn't cut school all those years.

544
00:26:55.000 --> 00:26:58.000
Because I was afraid it would go on my permanent and you were like around 16,

545
00:26:58.000 --> 00:27:02.000
you realized there's no permanent record.

546
00:27:02.000 --> 00:27:06.000
They did that to me in the 80s, like they had a huge database and there was no,

547
00:27:06.000 --> 00:27:08.000
but God has a permanent record.

548
00:27:08.000 --> 00:27:11.000
And on your permanent record, it was accounted to you.

549
00:27:11.000 --> 00:27:13.000
There's these accounting terms.

550
00:27:13.000 --> 00:27:15.000
It's put it down that it's so.

551
00:27:15.000 --> 00:27:17.000
Righteousness, you're right standing with God.

552
00:27:17.000 --> 00:27:21.000
When you put your faith in Jesus, God said put it on their permanent record.

553
00:27:21.000 --> 00:27:22.000
It is so.

554
00:27:22.000 --> 00:27:23.000
They are righteous.

555
00:27:23.000 --> 00:27:26.000
They have right standing before me.

556
00:27:26.000 --> 00:27:30.000
I want to just take a break here from Galatians 3.

557
00:27:30.000 --> 00:27:34.000
Because Galatians 3 gets exceedingly technical.

558
00:27:34.000 --> 00:27:36.000
The latter part of Galatians 3.

559
00:27:36.000 --> 00:27:40.000
He's trying to win these people over and he's Paul was a brilliant man.

560
00:27:40.000 --> 00:27:45.000
And the philosopher in his own right, yet anointed by God and full of the Holy Spirit.

561
00:27:45.000 --> 00:27:48.000
And so he's very clever and he gets into some technical things.

562
00:27:48.000 --> 00:27:56.000
I just want to show you Romans 7 as a reminder to why it is so essential that we pick a side.

563
00:27:56.000 --> 00:27:58.000
Older new.

564
00:27:58.000 --> 00:28:01.000
What side of the covenant are you going to live on?

565
00:28:01.000 --> 00:28:03.000
Why is mixture so dangerous?

566
00:28:03.000 --> 00:28:16.000
This entire passage is Paul talking about what life was like for him as a Christian before he figured out grace.

567
00:28:16.000 --> 00:28:18.000
This is the Apostle Paul.

568
00:28:18.000 --> 00:28:19.000
He saved.

569
00:28:19.000 --> 00:28:21.000
Some people say this was before he was saved.

570
00:28:21.000 --> 00:28:24.000
No, because he says that which I hate, I do.

571
00:28:24.000 --> 00:28:28.000
No sinner hates their sin.

572
00:28:28.000 --> 00:28:30.000
Sinners just hate the consequences of their sin.

573
00:28:30.000 --> 00:28:33.000
But when I was a sinner, I loved my sin.

574
00:28:33.000 --> 00:28:37.000
Only when you get born again do you then hate sin.

575
00:28:37.000 --> 00:28:40.000
Paul says that which I do I hate.

576
00:28:40.000 --> 00:28:45.000
Paul is really here indicative of a majority of Christians.

577
00:28:45.000 --> 00:28:50.000
Unfortunately a majority that haven't really come to a full revelation of grace.

578
00:28:50.000 --> 00:28:52.000
So they're mixing the covenants, they're stuck in between two.

579
00:28:52.000 --> 00:28:54.000
How do you know when you're mixing?

580
00:28:54.000 --> 00:28:56.000
You keep looking at yourself.

581
00:28:56.000 --> 00:28:59.000
You keep relying on yourself.

582
00:28:59.000 --> 00:29:03.000
Paul uses the personal pronoun over 40 times in Romans chapter 7.

583
00:29:03.000 --> 00:29:11.000
And this defines unfortunately the vast majority of Christians and this defines modern day Judaizers those who are mixing the covenants.

584
00:29:11.000 --> 00:29:13.000
This one verse, look at it.

585
00:29:13.000 --> 00:29:17.000
For the good that I want to do, I don't do.

586
00:29:17.000 --> 00:29:19.000
But the evil, I don't want to do.

587
00:29:19.000 --> 00:29:22.000
That's what I end up doing.

588
00:29:22.000 --> 00:29:28.000
Some people, I'll read this and I'll go, yeah, that's my life.

589
00:29:28.000 --> 00:29:31.000
That's frustration right there.

590
00:29:31.000 --> 00:29:34.000
That shouldn't be your life.

591
00:29:34.000 --> 00:29:38.000
Paul here, anointed by the Holy Spirit, says this shouldn't be your life.

592
00:29:38.000 --> 00:29:40.000
He says that was his life.

593
00:29:40.000 --> 00:29:46.000
When he was still looking at himself and mixing the dispensations, mixing the covenants.

594
00:29:46.000 --> 00:29:48.000
Does this sound healthy to you?

595
00:29:48.000 --> 00:29:50.000
No, no, this, this, yeah.

596
00:29:50.000 --> 00:29:52.000
You're a walking civil war.

597
00:29:52.000 --> 00:29:54.000
You're like a spiritual schizophrenic.

598
00:29:54.000 --> 00:29:57.000
You don't even know it's like I want to go left but end up going right.

599
00:29:57.000 --> 00:29:59.000
Then I want to go right but end up going left.

600
00:29:59.000 --> 00:30:01.000
I want to do good but I do bad.

601
00:30:01.000 --> 00:30:03.000
I don't want to do bad.

602
00:30:03.000 --> 00:30:08.000
Who am I? Why am I here?

603
00:30:08.000 --> 00:30:10.000
Let's keep reading.

604
00:30:10.000 --> 00:30:17.000
Now if I do what I desire not to do, it isn't a longer eye who do it but sin that dwells in me.

605
00:30:17.000 --> 00:30:23.000
I find then a law that evil is present with me, the one who wills to do good.

606
00:30:23.000 --> 00:30:27.000
For I delight in the law, a court, a law of God according to the inward man.

607
00:30:27.000 --> 00:30:33.000
But I see another law in my members, members, my body parts warring against the law of my mind

608
00:30:33.000 --> 00:30:39.000
and bringing me into captivity the law of sin which is in my members.

609
00:30:39.000 --> 00:30:43.000
And Paul then finally comes to the end of himself.

610
00:30:43.000 --> 00:30:48.000
Number 40 times he uses the personal pronoun I.

611
00:30:48.000 --> 00:30:50.000
Now finally he collapses.

612
00:30:50.000 --> 00:30:57.000
This is the point of the law to bring us to a place of collapse where we try, try, try and can never do.

613
00:30:57.000 --> 00:31:02.000
And then we finally, according to Jesus' own words, we fall on the rock.

614
00:31:02.000 --> 00:31:04.000
Oh, it's a glorious breaking.

615
00:31:04.000 --> 00:31:08.000
When you fall on the rock and you realize I'm not all that.

616
00:31:08.000 --> 00:31:10.000
I can't do it alone.

617
00:31:10.000 --> 00:31:13.000
I need a savior. I need a deliverer.

618
00:31:13.000 --> 00:31:21.000
Jesus said either fall on the rock and be broken or the rock will then fall on you and grind you to a powder.

619
00:31:21.000 --> 00:31:25.000
I love when the Lord gives me these clear options. I'll take what's behind door number one, please.

620
00:31:25.000 --> 00:31:27.000
Thank you very much.

621
00:31:27.000 --> 00:31:30.000
Oh, wretched man that I am.

622
00:31:30.000 --> 00:31:35.000
He's describing too many people's Christianity and what a wretched life.

623
00:31:35.000 --> 00:31:39.000
Who will deliver me from this body of death?

624
00:31:39.000 --> 00:31:43.000
He's calling back to how ancient kings would torture their enemies.

625
00:31:43.000 --> 00:31:48.000
They would put him in prison and literally take a corpse and tie it to their back.

626
00:31:48.000 --> 00:31:55.000
And they would have to walk around with a decomposing body on their back for months.

627
00:31:55.000 --> 00:31:57.000
He's saying this is what my life is like.

628
00:31:57.000 --> 00:32:00.000
Who's going to deliver me from this body of death?

629
00:32:00.000 --> 00:32:03.000
So finally he takes his eyes off of who?

630
00:32:03.000 --> 00:32:04.000
himself.

631
00:32:04.000 --> 00:32:06.000
Because I can't do it alone.

632
00:32:06.000 --> 00:32:08.000
Where is the answer?

633
00:32:08.000 --> 00:32:12.000
And he finally stops mixing the covenants and the next verse.

634
00:32:12.000 --> 00:32:14.000
I say stops mixing the covenants.

635
00:32:14.000 --> 00:32:21.000
He stops mixing the covenants because he's no longer relying on himself at all.

636
00:32:21.000 --> 00:32:24.000
See, Jesus said apart from me, you can do nothing.

637
00:32:24.000 --> 00:32:30.000
But we read that and think Jesus meant apart from me there's a lot of things you can't do.

638
00:32:30.000 --> 00:32:32.000
But some things you still can.

639
00:32:32.000 --> 00:32:34.000
No, apart from me you can do nothing.

640
00:32:34.000 --> 00:32:36.000
Nothing of eternal value.

641
00:32:36.000 --> 00:32:37.000
Nothing spiritual.

642
00:32:37.000 --> 00:32:39.000
Nothing that really matters or counts.

643
00:32:39.000 --> 00:32:40.000
It all comes from me.

644
00:32:40.000 --> 00:32:41.000
I'm the root.

645
00:32:41.000 --> 00:32:43.000
You're the branches.

646
00:32:43.000 --> 00:32:50.000
Who's going to deliver me from this schizophrenic Christianity?

647
00:32:50.000 --> 00:33:02.000
This body of death and he falls and collapses and finally looks up and out and sees a savior, a deliverer, Jesus.

648
00:33:02.000 --> 00:33:04.000
Who's going to deliver me?

649
00:33:04.000 --> 00:33:09.000
I thank God through Jesus Christ our Lord, hallelujah.

650
00:33:09.000 --> 00:33:15.000
And now that he's collapsed, now that he's no longer trusting in himself, the victory comes.

651
00:33:15.000 --> 00:33:19.000
And he's no longer under the old or mixing the old and the new.

652
00:33:19.000 --> 00:33:25.000
Now he's a born again, believer living under grace, looking to Jesus.

653
00:33:25.000 --> 00:33:30.000
And Jesus is doing the transforming work inside of him, hallelujah.

654
00:33:30.000 --> 00:33:32.000
So why did I show you that?

655
00:33:32.000 --> 00:33:39.000
Because if you found yourself in those scriptures, if that at all relates to you, pause the lemma, then you need to hear this message.

656
00:33:39.000 --> 00:33:41.000
And you need to become an expert.

657
00:33:41.000 --> 00:33:43.000
Yes, expert.

658
00:33:43.000 --> 00:33:46.000
You're not going to get grace by hearing it a couple hours a week.

659
00:33:46.000 --> 00:33:48.000
I promise you.

660
00:33:48.000 --> 00:33:50.000
You're not going to get it.

661
00:33:50.000 --> 00:33:51.000
It's going to elude you.

662
00:33:51.000 --> 00:33:57.000
Like most believers, they kind of sort of get it, but then they never fully dive deep.

663
00:33:57.000 --> 00:34:00.000
You got to go spelunking.

664
00:34:00.000 --> 00:34:02.000
Underwater cave diving.

665
00:34:02.000 --> 00:34:05.000
Read Galatians every day while we're in this series.

666
00:34:05.000 --> 00:34:08.000
Ask the Lord for Revelation.

667
00:34:08.000 --> 00:34:10.000
Study the cross.

668
00:34:10.000 --> 00:34:12.000
Study your identity in Christ.

669
00:34:12.000 --> 00:34:19.000
One of the most powerful things you can do is go through the entire New Testament and every time you see in Him or in Christ, highlight it.

670
00:34:19.000 --> 00:34:24.000
There's over 250 times where you see the phrase in Him or in Christ.

671
00:34:24.000 --> 00:34:26.000
And it'll show you your identity.

672
00:34:26.000 --> 00:34:32.000
It'll show you everything that you have and everything that you are as a result of Jesus.

673
00:34:32.000 --> 00:34:35.000
And that'll begin to reprogram your mind.

674
00:34:35.000 --> 00:34:38.000
Transform your mind.

675
00:34:38.000 --> 00:34:41.000
And you'll see yourself in light of the cross.

676
00:34:41.000 --> 00:34:43.000
Amen.

677
00:34:43.000 --> 00:34:46.000
Let's go back to Galatians.

678
00:34:46.000 --> 00:34:50.000
Hallelujah.

679
00:34:50.000 --> 00:34:54.000
What purpose then does the law serve?

680
00:34:54.000 --> 00:35:00.000
It was added because of transgressions until the siege should come to whom the promise was made.

681
00:35:00.000 --> 00:35:06.000
And it was appointed through angels by the hand of a mediator.

682
00:35:06.000 --> 00:35:09.000
So the purpose of the law.

683
00:35:09.000 --> 00:35:11.000
Can you just go back?

684
00:35:11.000 --> 00:35:12.000
Thank you.

685
00:35:12.000 --> 00:35:16.000
The moral code provided people, number one, the purpose of the law.

686
00:35:16.000 --> 00:35:18.000
It provided a moral code, right?

687
00:35:18.000 --> 00:35:24.000
It showed people how to live and how they should behave and showed God's holy and righteous standard.

688
00:35:24.000 --> 00:35:27.000
That was the purpose of the law.

689
00:35:27.000 --> 00:35:29.000
And two, it also exposed us.

690
00:35:29.000 --> 00:35:35.000
The law is like a giant magnifying glass that shows us our need for a savior.

691
00:35:35.000 --> 00:35:39.000
It shows us where we need help.

692
00:35:39.000 --> 00:35:46.000
Right?

693
00:35:46.000 --> 00:35:52.000
I'll touch on that in just a little bit some more.

694
00:35:52.000 --> 00:35:55.000
It was added because of transgressions until the siege should come.

695
00:35:55.000 --> 00:35:57.000
Who's the seed?

696
00:35:57.000 --> 00:35:59.000
Jesus.

697
00:35:59.000 --> 00:36:02.000
Till the Messiah should come to whom the promise was made.

698
00:36:02.000 --> 00:36:08.000
So God appears to Abraham and forms a covenant with him.

699
00:36:08.000 --> 00:36:12.000
But here Paul is saying the covenant wasn't even with Abraham.

700
00:36:12.000 --> 00:36:16.000
It was with the seed that was within Abraham.

701
00:36:16.000 --> 00:36:21.000
And he's saying the reason why the Abraham covenant is even superior to the law

702
00:36:21.000 --> 00:36:27.000
is because when the law was given, it came by angelic messengers.

703
00:36:27.000 --> 00:36:30.000
And man was a part of the covenant.

704
00:36:30.000 --> 00:36:33.000
And whenever man's a part of any covenant, guess who messes up?

705
00:36:33.000 --> 00:36:37.000
Man, he always breaks his side of the bargain.

706
00:36:37.000 --> 00:36:43.000
And that's what Paul said and discrete Jewish tradition believed.

707
00:36:43.000 --> 00:36:47.000
We just know it's more than tradition because Paul said it under the anointing of the Holy Spirit

708
00:36:47.000 --> 00:36:50.000
that although God touched Mount Sinai and his glory was revealed,

709
00:36:50.000 --> 00:36:56.000
it was actually angels that delivered the law and Moses received it.

710
00:36:56.000 --> 00:37:05.000
But 430 years before when God came to Abraham, the covenant was between God and himself,

711
00:37:05.000 --> 00:37:12.000
God and Christ Jesus who was in seed form in Abraham.

712
00:37:12.000 --> 00:37:16.000
Hallelujah.

713
00:37:17.000 --> 00:37:20.000
Till the seed should come to whom the promise was made,

714
00:37:20.000 --> 00:37:25.000
and it was appointed through angels by the hands of a mediator,

715
00:37:25.000 --> 00:37:27.000
that's the law.

716
00:37:27.000 --> 00:37:30.000
But under the new covenant, who's our mediator?

717
00:37:30.000 --> 00:37:35.000
Jesus, which is great news, that means the covenant can never be broken.

718
00:37:35.000 --> 00:37:40.000
Some of you are under a crushing weight of how long can you keep this up?

719
00:37:40.000 --> 00:37:43.000
You don't want to go to hell, but how long?

720
00:37:43.000 --> 00:37:48.000
And who knows what the future holds, right?

721
00:37:48.000 --> 00:37:57.000
Thank God you don't have to have that pressure because Jesus is on your side holding the covenant together forever.

722
00:37:57.000 --> 00:37:59.000
It's unbreakable.

723
00:37:59.000 --> 00:38:01.000
You have that assurance.

724
00:38:01.000 --> 00:38:08.000
You have that imagine if something as precious as salvation was up to you to maintain.

725
00:38:08.000 --> 00:38:11.000
Who could deal with that pressure?

726
00:38:11.000 --> 00:38:17.000
Oh, Hallelujah.

727
00:38:17.000 --> 00:38:21.000
The wheels in your head have been turning.

728
00:38:21.000 --> 00:38:25.000
I could hear the gears grinding.

729
00:38:25.000 --> 00:38:27.000
Verse 20.

730
00:38:27.000 --> 00:38:32.000
Now a mediator does not mediate for one only, but God is one.

731
00:38:32.000 --> 00:38:38.000
He's just comparing that Abraham and covenant and that exchange with how grace is given.

732
00:38:38.000 --> 00:38:42.000
God is making a promise to himself, so he can't be broken.

733
00:38:42.000 --> 00:38:46.000
God is keeping a covenant with himself, so he can't be broken.

734
00:38:46.000 --> 00:38:54.000
The general thought of verse 20 seems to be that the promise must be considered superior to the law because the law is too cited.

735
00:38:54.000 --> 00:38:58.000
The law was mediated, and this means that man was a party to it.

736
00:38:58.000 --> 00:39:01.000
The promise, on the other hand, is unilateral.

737
00:39:01.000 --> 00:39:07.000
Man is not a party to it, and that's always good news for man because man always messes it up.

738
00:39:07.000 --> 00:39:09.000
Verse 21.

739
00:39:09.000 --> 00:39:13.000
Is the law then against the promises of God?

740
00:39:13.000 --> 00:39:17.000
Certainly not, so the law is not evil.

741
00:39:17.000 --> 00:39:19.000
We're not here saying the law is evil.

742
00:39:19.000 --> 00:39:21.000
That system of the law, it's good.

743
00:39:21.000 --> 00:39:25.000
In fact, Paul says the law is good if it's used lawfully.

744
00:39:25.000 --> 00:39:27.000
What does that mean?

745
00:39:27.000 --> 00:39:32.000
It's used for proper intentions, which is to be a tutor that leads us to Christ.

746
00:39:32.000 --> 00:39:35.000
The law isn't bad, but it is just bad for man.

747
00:39:35.000 --> 00:39:36.000
Why is it bad?

748
00:39:36.000 --> 00:39:44.000
Because it puts a giant magnifying glass to you, exposes all your sin, tells you how you ought to live, but doesn't ever empower you to live that way.

749
00:39:44.000 --> 00:39:46.000
So it leaves you stuck.

750
00:39:46.000 --> 00:39:52.000
It says, keep off the grass, and you're like, I can't.

751
00:39:52.000 --> 00:39:56.000
But under grace, all of a sudden you have a newfound love for the sidewalk.

752
00:39:56.000 --> 00:39:58.000
Hey, man.

753
00:39:58.000 --> 00:40:01.000
You're like, oh, I just...

754
00:40:01.000 --> 00:40:06.000
I'll touch grass in my own backyard.

755
00:40:06.000 --> 00:40:08.000
I'm speaking like a long Islander now.

756
00:40:08.000 --> 00:40:10.000
Jesus.

757
00:40:10.000 --> 00:40:14.000
It's just a year ago, someone would sit in your own backyard, but I used to burbin.

758
00:40:14.000 --> 00:40:22.000
That's what you're going to tell me about life.

759
00:40:22.000 --> 00:40:30.000
For if there had been a law given, which could have given life truly righteousness would have been by the law,

760
00:40:30.000 --> 00:40:35.000
right standing with God if it could have come by the law, it would have come by the law, but it didn't.

761
00:40:35.000 --> 00:40:37.000
So why are you still trying to live under the law?

762
00:40:37.000 --> 00:40:39.000
But the scripture has confined.

763
00:40:39.000 --> 00:40:43.000
Notice those wording that we are imprisoned.

764
00:40:43.000 --> 00:40:48.000
The scripture just reveals that we are already imprisoned under sin.

765
00:40:48.000 --> 00:40:54.000
That the promise by faith in Jesus Christ might be given to those who believe.

766
00:40:54.000 --> 00:40:57.000
Verse 23.

767
00:40:57.000 --> 00:41:00.000
But before faith came.

768
00:41:00.000 --> 00:41:07.000
So Paul is just saying, hey, now that faith has come, we're under a different covenant.

769
00:41:07.000 --> 00:41:11.000
The covenant of grace is activated by faith.

770
00:41:11.000 --> 00:41:14.000
Oh, my screen just went out.

771
00:41:14.000 --> 00:41:17.000
But before faith came, thank you.

772
00:41:17.000 --> 00:41:19.000
Experience the resurrection here.

773
00:41:19.000 --> 00:41:26.000
But before faith came, we were kept under guard by the law, kept for the faith which would afterward be revealed.

774
00:41:26.000 --> 00:41:28.000
So what was the purpose of the law?

775
00:41:28.000 --> 00:41:30.000
We were kept under guard by it.

776
00:41:30.000 --> 00:41:32.000
Next verse, this is so key.

777
00:41:32.000 --> 00:41:39.000
Therefore the law was our tutor to bring us to Christ that then we might be justified.

778
00:41:39.000 --> 00:41:40.000
What does justified mean?

779
00:41:40.000 --> 00:41:43.000
Someone shouted at me?

780
00:41:43.000 --> 00:41:47.000
Holy cow.

781
00:41:47.000 --> 00:41:54.000
If anybody ever tells me they've heard enough Galatians.

782
00:41:54.000 --> 00:41:57.000
Not guilty.

783
00:41:57.000 --> 00:41:58.000
Not guilty.

784
00:41:58.000 --> 00:42:01.000
Take out your iPhones, your notes section, pop that in.

785
00:42:01.000 --> 00:42:03.000
We're using the word all the time.

786
00:42:03.000 --> 00:42:04.000
You need to know what it means.

787
00:42:04.000 --> 00:42:06.000
It means not guilty.

788
00:42:06.000 --> 00:42:09.000
What does righteousness mean?

789
00:42:09.000 --> 00:42:11.000
Right standing with God.

790
00:42:11.000 --> 00:42:14.000
Justified means you're not guilty.

791
00:42:14.000 --> 00:42:16.000
This is all good stuff.

792
00:42:16.000 --> 00:42:19.000
I would want to memorize this stuff.

793
00:42:19.000 --> 00:42:22.000
The law was our tutor to bring us to Christ.

794
00:42:22.000 --> 00:42:24.000
How is the law our tutor?

795
00:42:24.000 --> 00:42:29.000
Well, when you see God's holy standard and you realize that you can't fulfill it,

796
00:42:29.000 --> 00:42:34.000
it teaches you to not rely on yourself, but to look to a savior.

797
00:42:34.000 --> 00:42:41.000
This is something that we could learn from, that we could learn how to win people to the Lord and how to evangelize better.

798
00:42:41.000 --> 00:42:45.000
We think saying Jesus loves you is evangelism.

799
00:42:45.000 --> 00:42:49.000
Before I became a Christian, when someone said Jesus loves them, it meant nothing to me.

800
00:42:49.000 --> 00:42:52.000
I would just think of a cheesy bumper sticker.

801
00:42:52.000 --> 00:42:59.000
I saw on a car that was barely held together by bumper stickers.

802
00:42:59.000 --> 00:43:03.000
People would say something like, you know, I'm praying for you.

803
00:43:03.000 --> 00:43:07.000
How am I going to get saved from that?

804
00:43:07.000 --> 00:43:10.000
Well, you know God's for you, not against you.

805
00:43:10.000 --> 00:43:11.000
That's nice.

806
00:43:11.000 --> 00:43:12.000
Those are pretty words.

807
00:43:12.000 --> 00:43:14.000
I can get that at the inspiration.

808
00:43:14.000 --> 00:43:16.000
I lie on a target.

809
00:43:16.000 --> 00:43:19.000
Encouraging words.

810
00:43:19.000 --> 00:43:26.000
But for the first time when I was 16, someone used the law as a tutor to bring me to Christ.

811
00:43:26.000 --> 00:43:29.000
At 16, I didn't know anything from anything.

812
00:43:29.000 --> 00:43:33.000
But someone first described to me who God is.

813
00:43:33.000 --> 00:43:34.000
Who is God?

814
00:43:34.000 --> 00:43:35.000
I didn't know.

815
00:43:35.000 --> 00:43:38.000
And today we love and I've always said if God is love, right?

816
00:43:38.000 --> 00:43:39.000
We love that.

817
00:43:40.000 --> 00:43:41.000
And that's true.

818
00:43:41.000 --> 00:43:44.000
You know, many times that's quoted in the Scriptures once.

819
00:43:44.000 --> 00:43:49.000
It doesn't make it not true, but let's just put some scriptural balance here.

820
00:43:49.000 --> 00:43:52.000
But hundreds of times, do you know how God has described?

821
00:43:52.000 --> 00:43:54.000
God is holy.

822
00:43:54.000 --> 00:43:56.000
God is who is God.

823
00:43:56.000 --> 00:43:57.000
What is God?

824
00:43:57.000 --> 00:44:01.000
God is a person and He's holy.

825
00:44:01.000 --> 00:44:03.000
That means He's separate.

826
00:44:03.000 --> 00:44:04.000
He is different.

827
00:44:04.000 --> 00:44:06.000
He's unique.

828
00:44:06.000 --> 00:44:08.000
He's holy.

829
00:44:08.000 --> 00:44:11.000
And you're not.

830
00:44:11.000 --> 00:44:15.000
You look at the law, you look at just the ten commandments and you realize you've broken

831
00:44:15.000 --> 00:44:19.000
all of them in one form or another.

832
00:44:19.000 --> 00:44:23.000
And in that way, it's your tutor to bring you to Christ.

833
00:44:23.000 --> 00:44:29.000
I have this interesting exchange with my son that seems to happen every few months.

834
00:44:29.000 --> 00:44:32.000
Every few months.

835
00:44:32.000 --> 00:44:36.000
He'll say, well, what sins will keep me out of heaven?

836
00:44:36.000 --> 00:44:39.000
What sin?

837
00:44:39.000 --> 00:44:45.000
I'll say just one sin will keep you out of heaven because God is holy.

838
00:44:45.000 --> 00:44:48.000
And heaven is a holy place.

839
00:44:48.000 --> 00:44:53.000
He can only allow someone who's completely holy into that holy place.

840
00:44:53.000 --> 00:44:55.000
And it's amazing.

841
00:44:55.000 --> 00:44:57.000
He lives in my house.

842
00:44:57.000 --> 00:45:00.000
Trust me, I don't preach only on Sundays.

843
00:45:00.000 --> 00:45:03.000
The prayer at dinner time is a sermon.

844
00:45:03.000 --> 00:45:05.000
The mornings are a sermon.

845
00:45:05.000 --> 00:45:06.000
I'm sermonizing.

846
00:45:06.000 --> 00:45:08.000
I just make it fun.

847
00:45:08.000 --> 00:45:13.000
But the word is going, and yet even still in that house, he'll ask me this question every few months.

848
00:45:13.000 --> 00:45:17.000
Even though he's gotten the answer just a few months ago, there's that look of horror that crosses his face.

849
00:45:17.000 --> 00:45:21.000
When I say, one sin is enough to keep you out of heaven.

850
00:45:21.000 --> 00:45:27.000
But I love to see that because that's the look of horror that should come across all of us.

851
00:45:27.000 --> 00:45:31.000
And to anyone who's saved, you have that look of horror.

852
00:45:31.000 --> 00:45:34.000
When you realize God is holy, I am not.

853
00:45:34.000 --> 00:45:37.000
One sin is enough to keep me out of heaven.

854
00:45:37.000 --> 00:45:44.000
And even if somehow, which never happened, you were still born into this world, with natural sin.

855
00:45:44.000 --> 00:45:47.000
You're saying, you're praying, or I came here to get encouraged.

856
00:45:47.000 --> 00:45:49.000
And now I'm very, very depressed.

857
00:45:49.000 --> 00:45:51.000
You're painting a very, very bleak picture.

858
00:45:51.000 --> 00:45:52.000
What's the point of anything?

859
00:45:52.000 --> 00:45:54.000
I'm so glad you fell.

860
00:45:54.000 --> 00:45:56.000
And you came to this conclusion.

861
00:45:56.000 --> 00:45:58.000
And now you're at the end of yourself.

862
00:45:58.000 --> 00:46:00.000
Who then can enter into heaven?

863
00:46:00.000 --> 00:46:03.000
Oh, you just realized you need a savior.

864
00:46:03.000 --> 00:46:06.000
You just realized that you can't do it yourself.

865
00:46:06.000 --> 00:46:10.000
You just realized that in and of yourself, you're forever guilty.

866
00:46:10.000 --> 00:46:15.000
So who's going to deliver you from this body of death?

867
00:46:15.000 --> 00:46:18.000
And now you finally get your eyes off of you.

868
00:46:18.000 --> 00:46:20.000
Get your eyes off of man.

869
00:46:20.000 --> 00:46:24.000
And you say, I thank God through Jesus Christ, my Lord.

870
00:46:24.000 --> 00:46:27.000
He became a curse so I could be blessed.

871
00:46:27.000 --> 00:46:32.000
He was turned into sin so I could be made into the very righteousness of God.

872
00:46:32.000 --> 00:46:34.000
He took my place.

873
00:46:34.000 --> 00:46:36.000
He was my substitute.

874
00:46:36.000 --> 00:46:38.000
That is the great exchange.

875
00:46:38.000 --> 00:46:46.000
The totally clean became the totally dirty on the cross so that we, the totally dirty, could be made totally clean.

876
00:46:46.000 --> 00:46:48.000
He got rejected on the cross.

877
00:46:48.000 --> 00:46:50.000
So now you're forever accepted.

878
00:46:50.000 --> 00:46:52.000
He became a curse.

879
00:46:52.000 --> 00:46:54.000
So now you're forever blessed.

880
00:46:54.000 --> 00:46:57.000
Hallelujah.

881
00:46:57.000 --> 00:47:00.000
Hallelujah.

882
00:47:00.000 --> 00:47:05.000
And that's how the Lord is the tutor to the brings us to Christ.

883
00:47:05.000 --> 00:47:08.000
It brings you to the end of yourself.

884
00:47:08.000 --> 00:47:10.000
Amen.

885
00:47:10.000 --> 00:47:12.000
Verse 25.

886
00:47:12.000 --> 00:47:14.000
Worship team, come on up.

887
00:47:14.000 --> 00:47:18.000
But after faith has come, after the new covenant, after grace,

888
00:47:18.000 --> 00:47:20.000
we are no longer under a tutor.

889
00:47:20.000 --> 00:47:21.000
Now you don't need that.

890
00:47:21.000 --> 00:47:24.000
Now, I don't know how I...

891
00:47:24.000 --> 00:47:25.000
I can't demonstrate on you guys.

892
00:47:25.000 --> 00:47:27.000
I love you too much.

893
00:47:27.000 --> 00:47:31.000
But living under the laws is just a constant smackdown.

894
00:47:31.000 --> 00:47:33.000
It's a constant, you're not doing it right.

895
00:47:33.000 --> 00:47:35.000
You're not enough.

896
00:47:35.000 --> 00:47:36.000
You're not enough.

897
00:47:36.000 --> 00:47:38.000
You're not good enough.

898
00:47:38.000 --> 00:47:40.000
You colored outside the light.

899
00:47:40.000 --> 00:47:42.000
What?

900
00:47:42.000 --> 00:47:44.000
Right now it should have been two.

901
00:47:44.000 --> 00:47:46.000
You only witnessed the five people could have been seven.

902
00:47:46.000 --> 00:47:48.000
But it's never enough.

903
00:47:48.000 --> 00:47:50.000
It's a constant...

904
00:47:50.000 --> 00:47:54.000
And too many Christians think that's what church should be like.

905
00:47:54.000 --> 00:47:56.000
Because they're trying to help us save you out

906
00:47:56.000 --> 00:47:58.000
and contribute to their own salvation.

907
00:47:58.000 --> 00:48:00.000
So they figure, you know, a couple of hours a week,

908
00:48:00.000 --> 00:48:04.000
I'll go into church and get my regular ritualistic flagging.

909
00:48:04.000 --> 00:48:07.000
Because Jesus suffered, but he didn't finish the job.

910
00:48:07.000 --> 00:48:09.000
I got to suffer too and get...

911
00:48:10.000 --> 00:48:12.000
And, you know, I'll just...

912
00:48:12.000 --> 00:48:14.000
Along with Jesus' sacrifice,

913
00:48:14.000 --> 00:48:17.000
earn my way into God's good graces, but...

914
00:48:17.000 --> 00:48:21.000
You know, I've seen clips, footage of Catholics in the Philippines,

915
00:48:21.000 --> 00:48:24.000
hundreds of them, literally flagging themselves.

916
00:48:24.000 --> 00:48:26.000
Whoo!

917
00:48:28.000 --> 00:48:32.000
Because they feel they need to suffer what Jesus didn't do it.

918
00:48:32.000 --> 00:48:33.000
Enough.

919
00:48:33.000 --> 00:48:35.000
Jesus didn't complete it.

920
00:48:35.000 --> 00:48:38.000
What do you got to offer?

921
00:48:39.000 --> 00:48:41.000
He was perfect.

922
00:48:41.000 --> 00:48:43.000
He suffered in your place.

923
00:48:43.000 --> 00:48:45.000
And he said, it's finished.

924
00:48:45.000 --> 00:48:47.000
It's 99% finished.

925
00:48:47.000 --> 00:48:51.000
I need you to finish the job.

926
00:48:51.000 --> 00:48:53.000
And says when it was all done, he rests.

927
00:48:53.000 --> 00:48:55.000
He sat down.

928
00:48:55.000 --> 00:48:57.000
And so that should be your past.

929
00:48:57.000 --> 00:48:59.000
Sitting down is a posture of rest.

930
00:48:59.000 --> 00:49:01.000
He sat down.

931
00:49:01.000 --> 00:49:03.000
That's the whole thing with the Sabbath today.

932
00:49:03.000 --> 00:49:04.000
I knew whenever I asked you,

933
00:49:04.000 --> 00:49:05.000
do you keep the Sabbath?

934
00:49:05.000 --> 00:49:06.000
Absolutely.

935
00:49:06.000 --> 00:49:08.000
Every day is Sabbath day.

936
00:49:08.000 --> 00:49:12.000
Every day is a day where I no longer work

937
00:49:12.000 --> 00:49:14.000
to earn God's approval,

938
00:49:14.000 --> 00:49:17.000
but I rest in the finished work of the cross.

939
00:49:17.000 --> 00:49:19.000
So, as a new covenant believer,

940
00:49:19.000 --> 00:49:21.000
welcome to Forever Sabbath.

941
00:49:21.000 --> 00:49:22.000
Isn't that awesome?

942
00:49:22.000 --> 00:49:24.000
Every day Saturday, Hallelujah.

943
00:49:24.000 --> 00:49:27.000
When it comes to your relationship with the Lord.

944
00:49:30.000 --> 00:49:32.000
Verse 26,

945
00:49:33.000 --> 00:49:36.000
For you are all sons of God,

946
00:49:36.000 --> 00:49:38.000
through faith in Christ Jesus,

947
00:49:38.000 --> 00:49:40.000
this could be a sermon in itself

948
00:49:40.000 --> 00:49:43.000
that you are a son of God.

949
00:49:43.000 --> 00:49:46.000
That's a very intimate term.

950
00:49:46.000 --> 00:49:49.000
That's a term that's really used five times in the Bible.

951
00:49:49.000 --> 00:49:52.000
Always referring to not a birthed being

952
00:49:52.000 --> 00:49:54.000
but a created being.

953
00:49:54.000 --> 00:49:56.000
Angels are called sons of God,

954
00:49:56.000 --> 00:49:58.000
because they weren't birthed.

955
00:49:58.000 --> 00:50:00.000
They were created.

956
00:50:00.000 --> 00:50:02.000
Angels are called the son of God.

957
00:50:02.000 --> 00:50:04.000
Adam and Eve didn't have a belly button.

958
00:50:04.000 --> 00:50:06.000
They were created.

959
00:50:06.000 --> 00:50:08.000
And now you're called the son of God,

960
00:50:08.000 --> 00:50:10.000
even though you have a belly button.

961
00:50:10.000 --> 00:50:11.000
And you were birthed.

962
00:50:11.000 --> 00:50:12.000
How come?

963
00:50:12.000 --> 00:50:13.000
Because although you were naturally born,

964
00:50:13.000 --> 00:50:15.000
you were born again from above.

965
00:50:15.000 --> 00:50:17.000
And in 2 Corinthians 5, 17,

966
00:50:17.000 --> 00:50:19.000
it says, you're now a new creation,

967
00:50:19.000 --> 00:50:22.000
a new species of being that never existed before.

968
00:50:22.000 --> 00:50:24.000
You are a son of God.

969
00:50:24.000 --> 00:50:27.000
Hallelujah.

970
00:50:27.000 --> 00:50:29.000
Verse 27,

971
00:50:29.000 --> 00:50:32.000
I'm going to get some ladies who get excited about that as well.

972
00:50:32.000 --> 00:50:35.000
So I don't have to say son and daughter every time.

973
00:50:35.000 --> 00:50:37.000
I'm not trying to just limit, you know,

974
00:50:37.000 --> 00:50:40.000
to how many times I can be

975
00:50:40.000 --> 00:50:43.000
bare and balanced every time.

976
00:50:43.000 --> 00:50:49.000
For as many of you as we're baptized into Christ,

977
00:50:49.000 --> 00:50:52.000
have put on Christ now.

978
00:50:52.000 --> 00:50:54.000
Notice he doesn't say this is so important.

979
00:50:54.000 --> 00:50:55.000
We're about to finish.

980
00:50:55.000 --> 00:50:56.000
Get this in your spirit.

981
00:50:56.000 --> 00:51:00.000
Listen, for as many of you as we're baptized into Christ,

982
00:51:00.000 --> 00:51:02.000
he doesn't say baptized in water.

983
00:51:02.000 --> 00:51:05.000
This is baptized in Christ.

984
00:51:05.000 --> 00:51:08.000
Baptism in water is just an outward display

985
00:51:08.000 --> 00:51:10.000
of being baptized in Christ.

986
00:51:10.000 --> 00:51:12.000
Now I want to ask you a question.

987
00:51:12.000 --> 00:51:19.000
The word baptized means immersed from the Greek baptismal.

988
00:51:19.000 --> 00:51:24.000
It always sounds so like theatrical in the Greek baptismal.

989
00:51:24.000 --> 00:51:26.000
It means immersed.

990
00:51:26.000 --> 00:51:32.000
When were you immersed in Christ?

991
00:51:32.000 --> 00:51:36.000
You said something at salvation,

992
00:51:36.000 --> 00:51:39.000
which in a sense is true.

993
00:51:39.000 --> 00:51:43.000
The reality is, is you were immersed and baptized into Christ

994
00:51:43.000 --> 00:51:47.000
two thousand years ago.

995
00:51:47.000 --> 00:51:51.000
And at salvation, you appropriated that.

996
00:51:51.000 --> 00:51:53.000
At your salvation, you received that.

997
00:51:53.000 --> 00:51:58.000
But that event, what was so special about that event two thousand years ago,

998
00:51:58.000 --> 00:52:03.000
is that all of humanity in potential format

999
00:52:03.000 --> 00:52:06.000
was immersed into Christ.

1000
00:52:06.000 --> 00:52:11.000
The Bible says in Romans 6 that you were united in his death

1001
00:52:11.000 --> 00:52:14.000
and you were united in his resurrection.

1002
00:52:14.000 --> 00:52:17.000
You were co-crucified with Jesus

1003
00:52:17.000 --> 00:52:19.000
and co-resurected with Jesus.

1004
00:52:19.000 --> 00:52:21.000
Think of Jesus on the cross

1005
00:52:21.000 --> 00:52:24.000
and now just transpose your picture over his.

1006
00:52:24.000 --> 00:52:26.000
That's what happened in the mind of God.

1007
00:52:26.000 --> 00:52:29.000
All of you, your sin, your nonsense,

1008
00:52:29.000 --> 00:52:31.000
you're falling short,

1009
00:52:31.000 --> 00:52:33.000
your sin nature,

1010
00:52:33.000 --> 00:52:36.000
that was crucified in Christ.

1011
00:52:36.000 --> 00:52:38.000
And then he was resurrected

1012
00:52:38.000 --> 00:52:40.000
and you left that old dead body behind

1013
00:52:40.000 --> 00:52:43.000
and you were raised again.

1014
00:52:43.000 --> 00:52:45.000
So what's water baptism?

1015
00:52:45.000 --> 00:52:48.000
Water baptism is you identifying with that.

1016
00:52:48.000 --> 00:52:51.000
Water baptism is an outward show,

1017
00:52:51.000 --> 00:52:53.000
a public display, if you will,

1018
00:52:53.000 --> 00:52:56.000
of what has already happened two thousand years ago.

1019
00:52:56.000 --> 00:52:58.000
But isn't that so beautiful

1020
00:52:58.000 --> 00:53:01.000
that you were united with him?

1021
00:53:01.000 --> 00:53:04.000
That Greek word for united.

1022
00:53:04.000 --> 00:53:07.000
It's similar to if I were to draw a line

1023
00:53:07.000 --> 00:53:09.000
and then draw another line, not next to it,

1024
00:53:09.000 --> 00:53:11.000
not above it, not beneath it,

1025
00:53:11.000 --> 00:53:14.000
but right over it so you cannot even tell the difference in the lines.

1026
00:53:15.000 --> 00:53:18.000
So when God the Father looks at Jesus on the cross,

1027
00:53:18.000 --> 00:53:20.000
He sees you,

1028
00:53:20.000 --> 00:53:23.000
the old you, dead.

1029
00:53:23.000 --> 00:53:26.000
Hallelujah.

1030
00:53:26.000 --> 00:53:28.000
By the way, we're having baptisms,

1031
00:53:28.000 --> 00:53:31.000
November the 4th.

1032
00:53:31.000 --> 00:53:34.000
Why would anyone wait to get baptized?

1033
00:53:34.000 --> 00:53:36.000
You're going to go work on yourself,

1034
00:53:36.000 --> 00:53:38.000
try to be a better person,

1035
00:53:38.000 --> 00:53:42.000
really, really get serious?

1036
00:53:42.000 --> 00:53:44.000
There's a Judaism church, right?

1037
00:53:44.000 --> 00:53:47.000
That way you can bring that doctrine over to them.

1038
00:53:47.000 --> 00:53:50.000
There isn't really, I'm not thinking of any church in particular.

1039
00:53:50.000 --> 00:53:53.000
But I'm just saying, I'm just exposing the mindset.

1040
00:53:53.000 --> 00:53:56.000
You're now mixing covenants and you're trying to what?

1041
00:53:56.000 --> 00:53:58.000
Be like Rocky and get ready for the big day

1042
00:53:58.000 --> 00:54:01.000
and get yourself in shape, work on yourself.

1043
00:54:01.000 --> 00:54:04.000
In your own eyes,

1044
00:54:04.000 --> 00:54:06.000
measure up and be ready for baptism.

1045
00:54:06.000 --> 00:54:09.000
No, if you believe in Jesus, get water baptized.

1046
00:54:09.000 --> 00:54:11.000
And there is power attached to that,

1047
00:54:11.000 --> 00:54:13.000
to that act of baptism.

1048
00:54:13.000 --> 00:54:15.000
For as many of you as were baptized,

1049
00:54:15.000 --> 00:54:17.000
immersed into Christ,

1050
00:54:17.000 --> 00:54:21.000
you've now put on Christ.

1051
00:54:21.000 --> 00:54:25.000
There is neither Jew nor Greek.

1052
00:54:25.000 --> 00:54:27.000
There is neither slave nor free.

1053
00:54:27.000 --> 00:54:30.000
There is neither male nor female.

1054
00:54:30.000 --> 00:54:34.000
For you are all one in Christ Jesus.

1055
00:54:34.000 --> 00:54:36.000
Real quick, this is important,

1056
00:54:36.000 --> 00:54:39.000
because Paul is saying,

1057
00:54:39.000 --> 00:54:42.000
with regard to your standing before God,

1058
00:54:42.000 --> 00:54:45.000
every wall of partition has been brought down.

1059
00:54:45.000 --> 00:54:47.000
There is no more dividing line.

1060
00:54:47.000 --> 00:54:50.000
So a man doesn't have any advantage

1061
00:54:50.000 --> 00:54:53.000
with regard to salvation from a woman.

1062
00:54:53.000 --> 00:54:56.000
A Jew has no advantage with regard to salvation

1063
00:54:56.000 --> 00:54:58.000
compared to a Gentile.

1064
00:54:58.000 --> 00:55:00.000
A free person, no advantage.

1065
00:55:00.000 --> 00:55:02.000
God has leveled the playing field

1066
00:55:02.000 --> 00:55:05.000
and you can get salvation by faith.

1067
00:55:05.000 --> 00:55:08.000
No matter who you are.

1068
00:55:08.000 --> 00:55:10.000
And that's all it's talking about.

1069
00:55:10.000 --> 00:55:12.000
This doesn't mean now,

1070
00:55:12.000 --> 00:55:14.000
as modern culture would lead you to believe

1071
00:55:14.000 --> 00:55:16.000
that all the lines have been blurred,

1072
00:55:16.000 --> 00:55:17.000
and it doesn't matter,

1073
00:55:17.000 --> 00:55:19.000
boy, girl, male, female, whatever.

1074
00:55:19.000 --> 00:55:24.000
No, it's somewhat with regard to salvation.

1075
00:55:24.000 --> 00:55:28.000
But men and women, we're different.

1076
00:55:28.000 --> 00:55:31.000
This shouldn't be stuff that's controversial to say.

1077
00:55:31.000 --> 00:55:33.000
We're different.

1078
00:55:33.000 --> 00:55:36.000
We have equal value before God.

1079
00:55:36.000 --> 00:55:39.000
God loves us equally, but we're different.

1080
00:55:39.000 --> 00:55:41.000
And we have different roles.

1081
00:55:41.000 --> 00:55:43.000
Don't anybody tell me we're all the same

1082
00:55:43.000 --> 00:55:44.000
in society shapes us.

1083
00:55:44.000 --> 00:55:46.000
I have two kids, a boy and a girl.

1084
00:55:46.000 --> 00:55:49.000
I've seen my girl when she could barely walk,

1085
00:55:49.000 --> 00:55:51.000
holding babies and caressing them.

1086
00:55:51.000 --> 00:55:53.000
She could barely walk. She just wanted a mother.

1087
00:55:53.000 --> 00:55:56.000
Victor, could we walk right over every baby?

1088
00:55:56.000 --> 00:55:58.000
Couldn't care less about any doubt.

1089
00:55:58.000 --> 00:56:01.000
She could barely walk.

1090
00:56:02.000 --> 00:56:04.000
She was helping Emily in the kitchen

1091
00:56:04.000 --> 00:56:06.000
and loving and nurturing and sweet.

1092
00:56:06.000 --> 00:56:08.000
Well, Victor was taking two inches bashing

1093
00:56:08.000 --> 00:56:10.000
and against the wall.

1094
00:56:10.000 --> 00:56:12.000
We're different.

1095
00:56:12.000 --> 00:56:13.000
It's like a little caveman.

1096
00:56:13.000 --> 00:56:15.000
I'm like, this is not nurture.

1097
00:56:15.000 --> 00:56:18.000
This is nature.

1098
00:56:18.000 --> 00:56:21.000
And I have a dear friend who totally went off

1099
00:56:21.000 --> 00:56:26.000
the deep end and went nuts.

1100
00:56:26.000 --> 00:56:30.000
And by nuts, I mean, walk.

1101
00:56:30.000 --> 00:56:33.000
Who now believes God isn't male, God isn't female,

1102
00:56:33.000 --> 00:56:35.000
who believes that sex is just a spectrum.

1103
00:56:35.000 --> 00:56:37.000
And you can be a boy one week and a girl the next.

1104
00:56:37.000 --> 00:56:39.000
It's kind of how you feel.

1105
00:56:39.000 --> 00:56:41.000
And then he used this scripture to justify it.

1106
00:56:41.000 --> 00:56:43.000
There's neither male nor female.

1107
00:56:43.000 --> 00:56:45.000
And this is what Peter talked about when he said

1108
00:56:45.000 --> 00:56:48.000
there are those and they've given way to wickedness

1109
00:56:48.000 --> 00:56:54.000
and now they twist the scriptures to their own harm.

1110
00:56:54.000 --> 00:56:57.000
Let's keep reading.

1111
00:56:58.000 --> 00:57:02.000
And if you are Christ, then you are Abraham's seed

1112
00:57:02.000 --> 00:57:05.000
and heirs according to the promise.

1113
00:57:05.000 --> 00:57:10.000
Stand to your feet, city light church.

1114
00:57:10.000 --> 00:57:14.000
Oh, hallelujah.

1115
00:57:14.000 --> 00:57:15.000
Lift up your hands with you.

1116
00:57:15.000 --> 00:57:19.000
I want you to say this from your belly.

1117
00:57:19.000 --> 00:57:25.000
In the name of Jesus, I am a new creation.

1118
00:57:25.000 --> 00:57:28.000
I am saved.

1119
00:57:28.000 --> 00:57:31.000
My sins are forgiven.

1120
00:57:31.000 --> 00:57:37.000
I am totally approved and completely accepted.

1121
00:57:37.000 --> 00:57:42.000
I am a son of God.

1122
00:57:42.000 --> 00:57:44.000
I am blessed.

1123
00:57:44.000 --> 00:57:47.000
I am heaven bound.

1124
00:57:47.000 --> 00:57:54.000
I am worthy because the blood of Jesus makes me worthy.

1125
00:57:54.000 --> 00:57:57.000
Amen.

1126
00:58:24.000 --> 00:58:27.000
Amen.