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I'm not under the old system where I have to be afraid that you're going to abandon me

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and because of my sin you're going to now withdraw your presence, no Lord.

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Even if I fall, I don't have to fall, but should I fall?

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You run to me to pick me up, you don't abandon me.

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The sin is no longer a problem because the sin has been taken out of the way and thoroughly

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punished in the cross of Jesus Christ.

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Hallelujah!

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Welcome to the CityLight Church Podcast.

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Thanks for joining us today as we look into God's Word and discover the hope and truth that

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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 is already

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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, that you

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

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Galatians is the clash of the covenants and that's the title of this series.

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In Galatians, what you see is a group of people, much like inefficians, much like infilippians.

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These were in Galatia and much like the other groups that got saved, they came to a saving

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faith in Jesus, and they understood that their salvation was not dependent on them.

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They understood that Jesus did all the work.

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In other words, Jesus plus nothing equals everything, amen?

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Salvation is a gift and you cannot add or contribute to it.

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Yet here in Galatia, and what Paul is addressing in Galatians, is these Judaizers who have

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come in, and now they put the people under bondage, these Christians, these new Christians,

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and said, it's great that you believe in Jesus, but you also have to keep the law of Moses.

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You must be circumcised, and there was more things in addition to that.

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You must keep the Sabbath, and what they are in essence saying is Jesus plus your own

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law keeping, Jesus plus your own behavior equals everything.

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That's not the gospel.

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That's not the new covenant, and typically the Christian response might be, what's the

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big deal?

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What's the problem?

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As long as they believe in Jesus and you want to mix a little bit, maybe it even makes

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you a better person if you mix it up a little bit, and Paul says no.

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In fact, he vehemently says no.

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You see him at his most Pauline, you see him totally lose it.

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He's very emotional.

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He says you are fallen from grace.

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You're nullifying the grace of God.

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You cannot mix the covenants.

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Pick one.

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Under the old covenant, under the old system of law, you never had right standing with God.

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You never had the new birth.

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You never had the Holy Spirit living inside of you.

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What you had was a system where you endeavored, you tried, you strived to be approved

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to God based on your own behavior and your own law keeping, and you failed every time.

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Because the Bible says over and over again, if you break the law in one place, your guilty

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of breaking it in all places, your guilty of breaking the entirety of the law.

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So on the test of the system of the law, a 99 won't cut it, and a minus won't cut it.

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You have to score perfect grade and no human can do that.

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Only Jesus has done that.

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And a plus on the test even got the extra credit, right?

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And then took his name and said, whoever puts their faith in me, I'll put your name on

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the test and you can turn that in.

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Woo!

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Now that's why the gospel is called Good News.

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The new covenant is a different system entirely.

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God hasn't changed.

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God is the same.

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But the way in which he deals with man has fundamentally changed.

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What changed it?

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The same thing that changed their calendar.

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The same thing that changed their nations, the cross of Jesus.

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The cross of Jesus changed everything.

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So on the one side, you have the old covenant system of law where you endeavor to be improved

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unto God.

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You tried, you tried, but never were.

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Under the new covenant, you already are past tense, totally forgiven, totally approved,

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totally accepted, welcomed into the family of God.

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All your sins past, present, and future done away with, not based on your effort, not

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based on anything you do.

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But solely based on what Jesus has already past tense, done, done, done.

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Amen.

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Which system would you rather live under?

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I'm going to interpret the silence because you understand it's a rhetorical question,

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Amen.

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Amen.

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And do you have any reason to mix the two?

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No, especially not when there's a clear warning that if you mix them even a little, you

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actually are completely going back to under the old.

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So we want to live on this side of the cross, not the BC side, not the before Christ side,

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but the Anodomini, the year of our Lord side, the one where we realize that there is a cross,

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there is the forgiveness of sins, it's already a past tense fact.

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This change is everything.

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So I want to just say, and echo what Paul has been saying in this class of the Covenants,

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the old covenant system is done, the old covenant system of the law is done, it's finished.

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Now here's what some people misunderstand when the Bible says it, or when I repeat it,

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if they hear is, we don't have to read the Old Testament anymore.

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Never said that.

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The Old Testament is the Word of God.

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The Old Testament is just as much.

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The Word of God is the New Testament is the Word of God.

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We just need to read the old in light of the New.

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Amen.

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I'll give you an example of how to do that in just a little bit.

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Here's what some other people miss here when I say we're no longer under the law.

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If they hear is, that pastor is telling people to be totally immoral.

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They're not under the law, they're not under any commandment, they're not, and that's

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not at all what I'm saying, that's not what the Scripture is saying.

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What the Scripture is saying, which I'm reiterating, is that you are not and cannot ever be justified

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before God by your law keeping.

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You're justified before God by trusting in Jesus and how He perfectly kept the law in

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your place.

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Amen.

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Sister, what about holiness?

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What part does holiness play?

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Should we be different?

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Christians?

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Absolutely.

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Should we continue to sin that grace may abound?

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God forbid.

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But now holiness is worked from the Lord, from the inside out.

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God wants heart transformation, not behavior modification.

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Passion comes from the outside, wants to change your external, but a new covenant relationship

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with the Lord changes you and produces fruit from the inside out.

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And by the way, when you're under grace, you're actually holier and the standard is set

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higher.

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All you have to do is read the sermons on the Mount where Jesus says you've heard it said

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and He points to the law, and then what He actually reveals is what He and the Father

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and the Holy Spirit had in their heart when they gave the law.

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It's actually much more holy, amen?

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But you can only fulfill it when you're filled with the Holy Spirit and you yield to

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Him.

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So I'll give you an example.

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My wife, every week, she does the Scripture memorization verse with the kids on the way to

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school, which I love that she does that.

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She told me that she memorized one Bible verse a week as a child, and I'm convinced that's

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what's kept her all these years.

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You cannot have the Word inside of you without it working in you.

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The Bible says, the Word works, Scripture memorization is so powerful.

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The Word inside of you, you know, the Psalmist said, that in Word have I hid in my heart

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that I may not sin against the Word works.

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Paul said that, the Word works, the Greek there, and Edgar, it energizes, is it actually,

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you memorize the Scripture and you think you're done with it?

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It's not done with you.

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It's in there for years working.

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It's alive.

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God is one with His Word, to have His Word in you, having God in you, and that's kept

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her all these years.

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So she does this Scripture verse, memorization, one verse a week, and this week's verse

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was, and this falls great with my example from Psalm 5110.

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Talking about, and we're going to finish Galatians 4, we're in the middle of it, I promise

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you.

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David here in Psalm 5110 is talking about coming back to the Lord, and he had committed

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an awful sin.

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He had just fallen with Bathsheba in adultery.

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He killed her husband, Uriah.

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He lied about it, and he didn't even confess it all, because he felt convicted himself.

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It was only when the prophet came Nathaniel and busted him and exposed him in front of

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everybody that now he's repentant, right?

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And this is a beautiful verse, and we should memorize it.

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There's even a song.

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How many of you know the song?

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This is based on this verse.

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As a teenager, I cried many times, created me a clean, hard-o-god, and renew a right spirit

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or a steadfast spirit within me, and then it gets real.

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That's the point where I would start to cry, cast me not away from your presence, O Lord.

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Did he ever do that under the new covenant?

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Cast you away?

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He says, take not your Holy Spirit from me.

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Do you know anybody in the new covenant that had a Holy Spirit taken from them?

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That's an old covenant problem, because the Holy Spirit would come upon only certain people

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for a certain event, namely the king, the prophet, and the high priest, and then the Holy

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Spirit would retreat.

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Today, you have the Holy Spirit.

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He's not going anywhere.

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Trust me.

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I've tried.

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I've tried running from God.

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He is faithful.

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He's a friend that's six closer than a brother.

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Amen.

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So when you read something beautiful from the Psalms like, create in me a clean, hard-o-god,

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and renew a steadfast spirit within me, you have to do it with a new covenant lens.

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I love the Old Testament and reading the Old Testament, but read it in light of what

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Jesus has done.

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So when you read that, you realize this is David still looking forward to the cross.

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Still knowing Messiah would one day come, but under his system, he's scared.

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You don't have to be scared anymore.

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And he's crying out to God, oh, God!

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Create in me a clean heart.

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Raise your hand if you've received Jesus as your Lord and Savior right now.

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God has given you a clean heart, hasn't he?

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That's your human spirit, the real you on the inside.

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If you fall, if you sin, that does not enter your spirit.

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You don't have to get born again again.

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So you read this first and you can read it like, God, I thank you.

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You have already created in me a clean heart.

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You've already given me a steadfast and right spirit.

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And then you read the next passage where he cries, I take that, you're a Holy Spirit

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from me.

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You can then pray the Psalms and say, Lord, I'm so glad that I live on this side of

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the cross where you will never take your Holy Spirit from me.

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I'm not under the old system where I have to be afraid that you're going to abandon

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me.

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And because of my sin, you're going to now withdraw your presence, no Lord, even if

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I fall, I don't have to fall.

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But shit, I fall.

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You run to me to pick me up, you don't abandon me.

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This sin is no longer a problem because this sin has been taken out of the way and thoroughly

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punished in the cross of Jesus Christ.

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Hallelujah.

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Let me reverse read with a new covenant, Lance, if you're ever reading the Bible and you

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find yourself not elated, not filled with joy, you're probably mixing covenants.

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Here's the classic one.

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And I notice it's always angry, mean, religious people that love verses like this, that one

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verse from Jeremiah where it says, the heart is desperately wicked, deceitful above all

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Do you know that verse?

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Of course you look.

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And then I'll ask, everybody suggests, and I'll ask, do you know the verse that says

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the old covenant is no longer in place with which one is that again?

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But the one that says you have a wicked and evil heart, everybody knows it.

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It's the first thing you're taught.

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That is true before you were saved.

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That is true under the old covenant, they didn't have the new birth, they didn't have

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a new heart, a new spirit put in them.

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They were still waiting on the fulfillment of the promise that he would take out the heart

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of stone and put in a heart of flesh.

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So they did have a heart.

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And so did I before I came to Jesus.

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That was desperately wicked and deceitful above all things.

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But now those of us who've received Jesus have been given a new heart, a submitted, a

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heart now that's submitted to the Lord, a heart that says, all I want is what you want

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for me, Lord.

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Now I don't identify with that verse anymore.

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The only way I identify with it is this used to be me, but it's no longer me.

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Do you see what I'm saying here?

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Hallelujah.

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There's other verses whenever in the Old Testament you see a conditional promise.

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Ask yourself, have I met this condition?

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A lot of blessings in the Old Testament are conditional.

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For example, it says, the Lord God is the Son and a shield.

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The Lord will give grace and glory.

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No good thing will he withhold from the one who walks uprightly.

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Who here can read that and then go, whoo, that's me, all by myself.

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I walk uprightly.

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I cross every T and that every I, therefore I qualify that God is not going to withhold

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any good thing for me because I walk uprightly.

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You should read that verse at first and cry and go, I am missing out.

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God said he won't withhold anything.

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If I walk uprightly, if you think you do walk uprightly and then of yourself, whoo,

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you need some law to lead you to grace because you can't enjoy the beauty of grace until

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you first experience the terror of the law.

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Today when I read that verse that he won withhold any good thing from the one who walks uprightly,

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I don't read that and go, you know what, Lord, I gave my life for the ministry, whoo,

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mastering 21 plus years, I qualify and then I list off all the sins I stopped doing as

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a favor to him.

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Surely, Lord, you know I quit X, Y, Z, didn't want to, but you know you kind of owe me now.

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No, I look at that verse and I say, I am qualified.

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I have been made perpetually upright in Jesus alone, I don't qualify for any conditional

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promise, but in Christ, all of your promises are yesterday, man.

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Hallelujah.

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In Christ, I'm upright.

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In Christ, I'm righteous.

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In Christ, do you know when the Father looks at you, if you've made Jesus to your Lord

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and Savior, do you know how He sees you, perfect, spotless, sinless, He cannot find one

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eye out of sin in you?

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This will raise your confidence.

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This will eliminate the judiizing voices in your life.

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The voices that want you to mix the covenants together.

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What are the warning signs that your covenant mixing?

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In the theme, the theme, we call this service, this series, the clash of the covenants,

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but the theme here is no mixing of the covenants.

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What was the question I just asked?

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How do you know if you thank you?

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How do you know if you're mixing the covenants?

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There's tell-tale signs.

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It wasn't hard to tell in the first century because they wanted to circumcise all the

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men.

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That's pretty overt.

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Today, it's more subtle.

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Any voice, any teaching, usually the judiizing covenant mixing temptation, comes from your

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own self, your own mind, yet unrenewed mind.

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The tell-tale signs, the warning flags are, of course, if you're experiencing shame, guilt,

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condemnation.

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If you find yourself striving, if you find yourself trying to earn God's love, if you

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feel like you have to perform in a certain way for him to accept you, that's mixing the

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covenants.

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Anything that seeks to belittle you and take you away from your rightful place as an

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heir of God, seated in heavenly places, that's your positional place, seated in heavenly

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places in Christ.

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As a son of God, that's a covenant mixing voice that you should not listen to, and you

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know when I say son of God, just using that scripture language, it's all inclusive.

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Like brethren, his brothers and sisters, son of God, son of daughter of God, child of

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God, that's who you are.

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Paul just made that case in Galatians.

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You're a child of God with the same rights and privileges as the natural born heir.

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You take that.

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You look at the scriptures.

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You know you're on the right track when you almost feel like you're bordering on heresy.

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Yeah, because what that's saying is that when the father looks at you, he sees you the

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same way he sees Jesus.

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That's what Jesus did for you.

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This is why the gospel is good news.

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He elevates you.

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He took you out of the mud of sin.

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And now he made you equal with him, that's why in Hebrews 1 it calls Jesus your brother.

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Of course we still worship Jesus.

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Of course we still submit to him, but positionally speaking to God the Father, he sees you in Christ

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and doesn't see the difference.

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If you really got that, you'll be a magnet for answered prayer.

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You'll be a magnet for favor, a magnet for blessings.

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You won't have some spiritual inferiority complex.

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You won't ever run from God when you mess up, you run to him.

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And Christianity actually becomes, wait for it, pleasurable.

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Who would have thought this is what Paul meant when he said it was for freedom that Christ

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has set you free.

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That church should be the happiest place on the planet.

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People who understand they've been redeemed, they got all the credit and didn't under the

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work.

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Hallelujah.

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Let's go to Hebrews chapter 8 verse 7, no better way to finish Galatians 4 than by starting

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in Hebrews.

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Amen.

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We're going to finish Galatians 4.

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I just want you to see some things in the scriptures for yourselves, because I've said

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over and over again the old covenant system of the law is finished, dead, and I don't

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want you to take my word for it.

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We're reading in Galatians over and over again how Paul says the same thing, but I don't

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want you to even take one epistle or one New Testament letter as evidence.

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I want you to see that this is throughout the scriptures.

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By the way, the Hebrews letter was written to, wait for it, Hebrews.

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Jewish Christians, and they were under heavy persecution.

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They were socially ostracized.

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They were economically ostracized.

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They weren't, people were told not to trade with them or barter with them.

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And out of all the Christians that experienced the most persecution, it was Jewish Christians.

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They weren't Christian enough for the Christians.

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They weren't Jewish enough for the Jews.

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And they were really being tempted to go back to living under the old covenant.

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Much like Galatians, Hebrews has two main themes.

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One of them is don't quit, don't quit.

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The second one is you can't go back to the old covenant because it's over.

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It's done.

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Let's read.

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For if that first covenant had been faultless, then no place would have been sought for

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a second.

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That's not right there.

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There's a clue in the old covenant.

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When the old covenant prophesies that a new covenant is going to come, that tells you

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that the old isn't perfect.

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Right?

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I mean, if I'm trying to give you a product and say a totally different version is coming

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out next year, you're going to say, what's wrong with this one?

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There's a built-in problem in the old covenant where if the first covenant had been faultless

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or perfect, there would be no place for a second.

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Verse 8.

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Because finding fault with them, that's the problem of the old covenant, the old system

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of the law.

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That could still find fault with you.

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The old system of the law puts, how easily everyone's distracted, all of a sudden, someone

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coming down the aisle, most fast, anything they've ever seen.

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Right here.

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This is, that was going to change your life, look at me.

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I will not be ignored.

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I want you to get this little change in life.

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The problem with the old system is that God still could find fault with you because

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you break the covenant, the old system of the law places a demand on you for holiness,

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for right living, but doesn't fill you with the power to meet or fulfill that demand.

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So God could still find fault.

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Because finding fault with the people with them, he says, behold, this is now, he's

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according from Jeremiah 31, it's not amazing, a prophecy in the old testament that a new

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testament was coming, a new system of order, behold, the days are coming, says the Lord,

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when I will make a new covenant with the house of Israel and with the house of Judah, a

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new covenant, not according to the covenant that I made with their fathers.

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So he's reiterating, this is completely different.

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It's not even according, it has no similarity to the old covenant, not according to the

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fathers.

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In the day when I took them by the hands to lead them out of the lands of Egypt, because

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they did not continue in my covenant, and that's the problem with the old.

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It really is a perfect covenant, but it's just not perfect for man, because we cannot

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meet our end of the obligation.

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This is why the new covenant is superior.

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You see, the old covenant was God on one side, he's not going to break it, he's perfect,

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and you on the other side having to behave perfectly in order for the covenant to be

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intact.

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Guess what part failed?

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That's the problem with it.

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Under the new covenant, the covenant is between God the Father and Jesus Christ in you, the

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hope of glory.

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So you have God the Father and Jesus as you're set through holding the covenant perfectly

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together on your end.

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What a deal, because if it was up to me, I'd mess it up yesterday.

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It would last five seconds with me.

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But Jesus now is holding it in your place, what a glorious Savior.

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The pressure is off.

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Now I can rest.

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Now I can actually have something called Sabbath, except it's not once a week on Saturday where

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I can play with my light switches.

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It's actually me, every single day, every hour of the day, ceasing for my own striving,

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ceasing for my own laboring, just like Jesus did.

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And he sat down, which is a place of rest.

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I can now sit down and say, Lord, I don't have to work for you to earn salvation, to earn

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favor, to earn approval, to earn right standing, I can rest, I'm already made.

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This is what the book of Hebrews says.

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Made perfect.

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It says, you have been made complete, made perfect in him.

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Then what do you do from there?

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Just chill out and just occupy till he comes.

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That verse actually is a very active verse, but people think it means, all right, now you

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just kind of just wait until the trumpet blast.

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No, now that you have been made perfect, now you're going to outwork everyone.

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Not because you have to, because you want to.

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Not because someone from the outside is making you, but you're filled with the Holy Spirit

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and you're grateful.

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And now you're like, Lord, you've taken my sins completely forgiven and forgotten, made

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me and you're so blessed me, you've even called me a friend.

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I'm adopted into the family of God, now I want to live for you.

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And now it's coming empowered by the Holy Spirit from the inside out, not from religion.

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Let's keep reading verse 10.

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For this is the covenant that I will, shout I will.

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See the old covenant, all the pressures on you.

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When the Ten Commandments were given, who was the emphasis on?

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You, you shall not kill, you shall not bear false witness, you shall not commit adultery,

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thou shalt, thou shalt, thou shalt, and you're under other end going, I don't want to

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but sometimes I do.

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Now God says, all right, I'm going to do for you what you can never do for yourself.

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So he comes in with his eye will.

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When that pressure is on us for you too, we crumble, we cannot.

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He says, I will.

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I will make with the house of Israel after those days this covenant, this new covenant says

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the Lord, I will put my laws in their mind and write them on their hearts.

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Do you see it's not external anymore?

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The law came on two tablets, external, and you weren't given the Holy Spirit inside

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of you to help you meet that obligation, but now he says, a new covenant is coming where

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I'm actually going to put inside of you a desire to do right.

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I'm going to put inside of you a desire to live for me.

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I will put my laws in their mind and write them on their hearts and then the place where

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intimacy is opened up.

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I will be their God and they shall be my people.

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Verse 11, none of them shall teach his neighbor and none his brothers saying, no the Lord.

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For all shall know me from the least of them to the greatest of them.

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For I will be merciful to their unrighteousness and their sins and their lawless deeds.

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I will remember no more.

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Isn't this beautiful from Jeremiah 31, a prophetic word that the new covenant is coming and

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what it would be like?

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Verse 13.

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In that he says, a new covenant, he has made the first obsolete.

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I'll never forget.

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This is by the way I've been hammering this truth for years.

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Back in 2009, I preached this even earlier and two people made an appointment with me.

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They were very upset and they weren't even Jewish, but they ministered to Jewish people and

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they were very upset that I was saying you're no longer under the system of the law.

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They said, show it to me in the Bible, I literally just preached this.

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So I opened and they met with me the next Wednesday.

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So I opened up the same verse that I just preached that they were sitting under, which

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just over the years I've learned.

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You can be talking to someone and they hear something totally different.

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You can be saying two plus two is four, but if they have other biases, if they're looking

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at you through a wonky lens, they're going to mishear you and get something totally different.

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So I just re-read the same thing.

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People think I wrote this because they say it so much.

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I didn't write it.

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I'm just quoting what the writer of Hebrew said in that he says, a new covenant, he has

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made the first obsolete.

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Now what is becoming obsolete, the system of the law, the system of trying to get God's

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approval based on your self effort, finished, done, even Psalm 51, someone said, what's

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the big deal?

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I took my kids aside and we had a fun time for 10 minutes reading Psalm 51, creating me

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a clean heart with a new covenant lens.

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Why is that so important?

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Because you see David, does he appear strong and confident to you?

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No.

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00:28:57.140 --> 00:28:58.140
He's begging.

469
00:28:58.140 --> 00:28:59.140
He's afraid.

470
00:28:59.140 --> 00:29:01.300
Oh God, creating me a clean heart.

471
00:29:01.300 --> 00:29:05.180
This is the most Christian cast me down from your presence.

472
00:29:05.180 --> 00:29:07.940
Don't take your Holy Spirit from me.

473
00:29:07.940 --> 00:29:10.380
What is me with Hissep?

474
00:29:10.380 --> 00:29:13.340
What is that?

475
00:29:13.340 --> 00:29:15.900
How do you read that and not think of the new covenant?

476
00:29:15.900 --> 00:29:16.900
Clens me with Hissep.

477
00:29:16.900 --> 00:29:18.380
What is Hissep?

478
00:29:18.380 --> 00:29:22.820
I know what Hissep is because I went to the Russian baths right near Seventh Street

479
00:29:22.820 --> 00:29:24.220
where a church was.

480
00:29:24.220 --> 00:29:27.380
Nicole, you go to those Russian baths?

481
00:29:27.380 --> 00:29:31.620
I had a back thing years ago, someone said go to the Russian baths.

482
00:29:31.620 --> 00:29:32.620
I had no idea.

483
00:29:32.620 --> 00:29:36.820
I thought I was going to get a relaxing massage.

484
00:29:36.820 --> 00:29:40.340
It's right in St. Mark's where our church for 18 years was.

485
00:29:40.340 --> 00:29:45.380
And inside, it's like 50 burly Eastern European men just walking around.

486
00:29:45.380 --> 00:29:47.180
I can say that because I'm Eastern European.

487
00:29:47.180 --> 00:29:48.180
You don't want to?

488
00:29:48.180 --> 00:29:49.180
Just walking.

489
00:29:49.180 --> 00:29:54.700
And then there's this pool with 50 people.

490
00:29:54.700 --> 00:29:59.300
And they got these green branches and there's workers and they're bashing each other over

491
00:29:59.300 --> 00:30:00.300
the back.

492
00:30:00.300 --> 00:30:01.940
And then one guy goes, you next.

493
00:30:01.940 --> 00:30:03.540
I'm like, what?

494
00:30:03.540 --> 00:30:06.860
And they're bashing each other with these branches and the backs are all red.

495
00:30:06.860 --> 00:30:07.860
I go, what is that?

496
00:30:07.860 --> 00:30:12.860
And he goes, is Hissep?

497
00:30:12.860 --> 00:30:14.980
I was like, I'm going to go straight to the massage.

498
00:30:14.980 --> 00:30:19.820
Thank you very much.

499
00:30:19.820 --> 00:30:22.900
Hissep is a plant from the mint family.

500
00:30:22.900 --> 00:30:27.980
They used it to clean things, to wash clothes, and also the priests used it to ceremonially

501
00:30:27.980 --> 00:30:29.620
cleanse things.

502
00:30:29.620 --> 00:30:32.060
So David and the old Testament are going to cleanse me with Hissep.

503
00:30:32.300 --> 00:30:34.340
You should not pray that today.

504
00:30:34.340 --> 00:30:38.340
You should know that that Hissep is a symbol pointing to Jesus and His blood, the ultimate

505
00:30:38.340 --> 00:30:39.660
cleansing.

506
00:30:39.660 --> 00:30:41.900
And then you think, oh, I'm on this side of the cross.

507
00:30:41.900 --> 00:30:42.900
Oh, I lost my way.

508
00:30:42.900 --> 00:30:44.500
I'm on the right side of the cross.

509
00:30:44.500 --> 00:30:46.180
I don't have to beg God.

510
00:30:46.180 --> 00:30:47.340
Oh, cleanse me.

511
00:30:47.340 --> 00:30:50.340
I am cleansed already.

512
00:30:50.340 --> 00:30:51.340
Hallelujah.

513
00:30:51.340 --> 00:30:52.340
Amen.

514
00:30:52.340 --> 00:30:57.020
Yes, I still, if I sin, I go to the Lord, I say, Lord, forgive me.

515
00:30:57.020 --> 00:31:01.300
But really, I know He has already forgiven me 2,000 years ago.

516
00:31:01.340 --> 00:31:02.740
I'm not trying to get forgiveness.

517
00:31:02.740 --> 00:31:04.500
I've already been forgiven.

518
00:31:04.500 --> 00:31:08.460
So does that make you sin more or less, less?

519
00:31:08.460 --> 00:31:11.340
When you really get grace, you sin less.

520
00:31:11.340 --> 00:31:18.900
You won't ever be sinless, but you're going to sin less, because you get His grace.

521
00:31:18.900 --> 00:31:23.420
Oh, hallelujah, my mic is on, right?

522
00:31:23.420 --> 00:31:24.660
All right.

523
00:31:24.660 --> 00:31:28.060
In that He says, a new covenant, He has made the first obsolete.

524
00:31:28.060 --> 00:31:33.460
Now what is becoming obsolete and growing old is ready to vanish away.

525
00:31:33.460 --> 00:31:37.420
I got in a wonderful argument with a close pastor friend.

526
00:31:37.420 --> 00:31:40.780
I've fully converted him now to the new covenant.

527
00:31:40.780 --> 00:31:44.660
Wonderful man, but he was just stuck, like many people stuck in the old.

528
00:31:44.660 --> 00:31:45.660
Why?

529
00:31:45.660 --> 00:31:52.540
Because the old appeals to us, because we're sick and messed up, but the old makes sense.

530
00:31:52.540 --> 00:31:55.420
Adam and Eve, they gravitated to the system of the Lord.

531
00:31:55.420 --> 00:31:57.780
They ate of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil.

532
00:31:57.780 --> 00:32:00.980
That is the system of the law, is the knowledge of good and evil.

533
00:32:00.980 --> 00:32:05.060
When God just wanted them to eat from Jesus, the tree of life, forever.

534
00:32:05.060 --> 00:32:08.140
We always, if left alone, will gravitate to the law.

535
00:32:08.140 --> 00:32:11.940
If you didn't go to church for six months and didn't hear any word, trust me.

536
00:32:11.940 --> 00:32:15.940
I would find you in the most bound legalistic place.

537
00:32:15.940 --> 00:32:20.620
If we sat down and talked, you'd end up weeping and saying, God is so distant and He's

538
00:32:20.620 --> 00:32:25.380
cursing me and He's punishing me and you, because we forget so quickly.

539
00:32:25.380 --> 00:32:30.780
Peter talked about that, he said, you forgot, you forgot, you forgot, you were cleansed

540
00:32:30.780 --> 00:32:33.540
from all your former sin.

541
00:32:33.540 --> 00:32:38.380
So we're arguing and he's saying, see, the old covenant is not fully obsolete, it's ready

542
00:32:38.380 --> 00:32:39.540
to vanish away.

543
00:32:39.540 --> 00:32:44.500
So there's just a little bit left.

544
00:32:44.500 --> 00:32:47.300
People will say anything to mix the covenants.

545
00:32:47.300 --> 00:32:49.060
This is a true story.

546
00:32:49.060 --> 00:32:50.060
I'm not preaching now.

547
00:32:50.060 --> 00:32:51.060
I'm telling you the truth.

548
00:32:51.060 --> 00:32:52.060
Right.

549
00:32:52.060 --> 00:32:53.060
It's a joke.

550
00:32:53.060 --> 00:32:56.780
You're not going to see if you're awake.

551
00:32:56.780 --> 00:33:00.780
The only reason he said is ready to vanish away because obviously the final nail in the

552
00:33:00.780 --> 00:33:04.700
old covenant system of the law was Jesus Christ's resurrection.

553
00:33:04.700 --> 00:33:09.700
But the final final nail was the destruction of the temple in 70 AD and that was still

554
00:33:09.700 --> 00:33:12.860
just a handful of years away from when he wrote this.

555
00:33:12.860 --> 00:33:17.820
Because when the temple was destroyed, the whole sacrificial system that the law is based

556
00:33:17.820 --> 00:33:18.820
on was done away with.

557
00:33:18.820 --> 00:33:21.900
You don't need, God allowed the Romans to destroy the temple.

558
00:33:21.900 --> 00:33:27.260
You don't need goats and bulls and heifers to cover sin once a year.

559
00:33:27.260 --> 00:33:32.420
When you yourself came down in the person of Jesus in the form of man, to give your life

560
00:33:32.420 --> 00:33:36.260
a ransom, one sin for all, take all of humanity, sins away.

561
00:33:36.260 --> 00:33:40.540
You don't need a system where bulls and heifers are sacrificed annually.

562
00:33:40.540 --> 00:33:46.580
So the temple was destroyed and that was really a shafar blast to the whole world saying,

563
00:33:46.580 --> 00:33:48.580
the law is done.

564
00:33:48.580 --> 00:33:50.540
Finito, stop it.

565
00:33:51.180 --> 00:33:56.540
No matter how much you want to go back to the ABCs of the universe, don't do it.

566
00:33:56.540 --> 00:34:00.660
We have a much better covenant in place now.

567
00:34:00.660 --> 00:34:02.900
I feel like we should just say this.

568
00:34:02.900 --> 00:34:04.260
He has made the first obsolete.

569
00:34:04.260 --> 00:34:05.500
Can we just say that out loud?

570
00:34:05.500 --> 00:34:08.900
I feel like demons are going to leave some of us when he said out loud.

571
00:34:08.900 --> 00:34:12.740
They're going to cry out with a loud voice.

572
00:34:12.740 --> 00:34:18.020
No one wants to say it because a joke like that said, come on, he has made the first obsolete.

573
00:34:19.020 --> 00:34:22.900
So stop trying to live under it.

574
00:34:22.900 --> 00:34:23.900
Oh hallelujah.

575
00:34:23.900 --> 00:34:24.900
Let's look at Ezekiel.

576
00:34:24.900 --> 00:34:32.100
I want to show you another prophetic verse of this great new covenant that we live in.

577
00:34:32.100 --> 00:34:33.100
Hallelujah.

578
00:34:33.100 --> 00:34:38.180
I'm preaching myself so happy.

579
00:34:38.180 --> 00:34:45.180
If you will, go on a journey and realize like I do every day, I don't quite fully get

580
00:34:45.180 --> 00:34:46.180
it.

581
00:34:46.180 --> 00:34:48.620
I need to reform my mind to get the beauty of the new covenant.

582
00:34:48.620 --> 00:34:49.620
Why don't I fully get it?

583
00:34:49.620 --> 00:34:52.420
Because Paul said this is hard to understand.

584
00:34:52.420 --> 00:34:54.260
He called it a mystery.

585
00:34:54.260 --> 00:34:56.620
This isn't something you get overnight.

586
00:34:56.620 --> 00:35:04.660
It is completely contrary to everything we've been taught.

587
00:35:04.660 --> 00:35:05.660
Text time.

588
00:35:05.660 --> 00:35:12.820
It's like unraveling one of those Russian dolls, you know?

589
00:35:13.820 --> 00:35:21.940
When you go on a journey, you focus on Jesus, you go on a journey of discovering all

590
00:35:21.940 --> 00:35:29.300
that you have as a result of being in Christ, in Him, over 250 verses in the New Testament

591
00:35:29.300 --> 00:35:36.740
that used to phrase in Christ, in Him, by Him, in whom your mind will be renewed.

592
00:35:36.740 --> 00:35:42.240
And then you'll realize who He has made you to be, how He has elevated you, how He has

593
00:35:42.240 --> 00:35:48.400
lifted you up, and now you become a magnet for all of the things that Jesus died in order

594
00:35:48.400 --> 00:35:51.560
for you to have hint, they're all good.

595
00:35:51.560 --> 00:35:55.320
They bring victory, victory in every area of your life.

596
00:35:55.320 --> 00:35:57.640
And that's what I'm after here this morning.

597
00:35:57.640 --> 00:36:01.000
Because I know we're getting theological, I'm going in a lot of details, but what I'm

598
00:36:01.000 --> 00:36:06.920
after this morning is you living in victory 24-7, and you cannot live in victory if you're

599
00:36:06.920 --> 00:36:10.160
mixing covenants impossible.

600
00:36:10.160 --> 00:36:14.920
I want you standing firm in the new, looking to Jesus, the author and the finisher of your

601
00:36:14.920 --> 00:36:17.920
faith, and now you're in the path to victory.

602
00:36:17.920 --> 00:36:22.840
And yes, sometimes bad times come, but I've noticed even when bad times come, trying times

603
00:36:22.840 --> 00:36:26.360
come, even when you suffer, you can suffer good.

604
00:36:26.360 --> 00:36:28.360
You can suffer in victory.

605
00:36:28.360 --> 00:36:32.040
And it honestly makes that season that the devil would love to make a multi-year season.

606
00:36:32.040 --> 00:36:33.840
It makes it weeks or months.

607
00:36:33.840 --> 00:36:35.360
It's just passing by.

608
00:36:35.360 --> 00:36:37.640
You're like, pass on by.

609
00:36:37.640 --> 00:36:39.640
Next.

610
00:36:39.640 --> 00:36:44.480
There's a great, from Ezekiel, not to be outdone by Jeremiah.

611
00:36:44.480 --> 00:36:48.920
Here comes Ezekiel with his own prophecy of the new covenant.

612
00:36:48.920 --> 00:36:49.920
Count the eye-wills.

613
00:36:49.920 --> 00:36:54.040
No, because remember, the old covenant, all the pressures on you, you will, you will,

614
00:36:54.040 --> 00:36:55.120
you will.

615
00:36:55.120 --> 00:37:00.440
There's over five eye-wills here, because God says, you should have, but you didn't,

616
00:37:00.440 --> 00:37:04.240
and I knew it, but you insisted on it, so I let you have your way, and you failed every

617
00:37:04.240 --> 00:37:05.240
time.

618
00:37:05.320 --> 00:37:08.480
Can I please help you, because you are making a mess?

619
00:37:08.480 --> 00:37:10.480
Now I will.

620
00:37:10.480 --> 00:37:14.920
I will sprinkle clean water on you, and you shall be clean.

621
00:37:14.920 --> 00:37:19.080
I will cleanse you from all your filthiness and from all your idols.

622
00:37:19.080 --> 00:37:23.640
I will give you a new heart.

623
00:37:23.640 --> 00:37:28.200
This is what Jesus, when he looked at Nicodemus and said, you must be born again.

624
00:37:28.200 --> 00:37:34.520
He was talking about this, a new heart, and I will put a new spirit within you.

625
00:37:34.520 --> 00:37:41.320
I will take out the heart of stone, out of your flesh, and give you a heart of flesh.

626
00:37:41.320 --> 00:37:43.960
And I will put my spirit within you.

627
00:37:43.960 --> 00:37:48.760
Do you know what it was like for people on you, the old covenant of the law to hear this?

628
00:37:48.760 --> 00:37:51.000
That God Himself would come and indwell them?

629
00:37:51.000 --> 00:37:52.400
No, no.

630
00:37:52.400 --> 00:37:56.720
We've heard of that happening occasionally to the king, the prophet, the high priest,

631
00:37:56.720 --> 00:37:57.720
a little old me.

632
00:37:57.720 --> 00:38:00.640
Yeah, all of us.

633
00:38:00.640 --> 00:38:03.840
And whoever the Lord our God shall call.

634
00:38:03.880 --> 00:38:08.680
I will put my spirit within you and cause you.

635
00:38:08.680 --> 00:38:11.520
This is why holiness is yielding to the Holy Spirit.

636
00:38:11.520 --> 00:38:18.040
It's not trying really hard to stop sinning, yield to the Holy One inside of you.

637
00:38:18.040 --> 00:38:22.280
Because already inside of you, He's causing you.

638
00:38:22.280 --> 00:38:27.960
He's making you to think His thoughts and to walk in His will,

639
00:38:27.960 --> 00:38:29.920
and according to His good pleasure.

640
00:38:29.960 --> 00:38:34.000
I will put my spirit within you and cause you to walk in my statutes.

641
00:38:34.000 --> 00:38:41.000
By the way, if you want to really live this out, there's things that you can do to help.

642
00:38:41.000 --> 00:38:42.960
You don't do these things to get close to God.

643
00:38:42.960 --> 00:38:46.880
You realize you don't get any closer than you and Him and Him and you.

644
00:38:46.880 --> 00:38:48.640
You're already close with God.

645
00:38:48.640 --> 00:38:50.200
But you can do some things that will help this.

646
00:38:50.200 --> 00:38:55.000
For example, I found praying helps this.

647
00:38:55.000 --> 00:38:57.920
I found scripture reading helps this.

648
00:38:57.920 --> 00:39:00.120
I found coming to church helps this.

649
00:39:00.120 --> 00:39:04.320
Having Christian friends and talking about the Lord and the Word helps all this.

650
00:39:04.320 --> 00:39:07.480
Amen.

651
00:39:07.480 --> 00:39:10.240
Worship, that really helps all.

652
00:39:10.240 --> 00:39:13.160
It doesn't help, you're not adding to the finished work of the cross,

653
00:39:13.160 --> 00:39:16.760
but it keeps you in a place where you're receiving.

654
00:39:16.760 --> 00:39:17.760
Amen.

655
00:39:17.760 --> 00:39:20.320
Can we go back to that verse, please?

656
00:39:20.320 --> 00:39:24.360
I will put my spirit within you and cause you to walk in my statutes

657
00:39:24.360 --> 00:39:26.720
and you will keep my judgments and do them.

658
00:39:26.720 --> 00:39:30.320
Notice it's now internal, not external.

659
00:39:30.320 --> 00:39:33.320
Hallelujah.

660
00:39:33.320 --> 00:39:42.640
Let's finish up Galatians 4, shall we?

661
00:39:42.640 --> 00:39:46.680
Paul goes into a Bible lesson here.

662
00:39:46.680 --> 00:39:49.880
Everybody all right?

663
00:39:49.880 --> 00:39:53.120
Amen.

664
00:39:53.120 --> 00:39:55.600
We're covenant you're going to live under.

665
00:39:55.600 --> 00:39:57.760
You become really good.

666
00:39:57.760 --> 00:39:59.560
Become an expert on the new.

667
00:39:59.560 --> 00:40:00.880
Study out the new.

668
00:40:00.880 --> 00:40:06.720
Go to a church that will do a eight week series on the new.

669
00:40:06.720 --> 00:40:08.600
Make sure nobody doops you.

670
00:40:08.600 --> 00:40:12.520
Make sure nobody hypnotizes you like Paul said to the Galatians who was bewitched you,

671
00:40:12.520 --> 00:40:15.600
was hypnotized you.

672
00:40:15.600 --> 00:40:18.760
Make sure you're not living under shame, guilt and condemnation and that you're enjoying

673
00:40:18.840 --> 00:40:23.720
your relationship with the Lord.

674
00:40:23.720 --> 00:40:27.360
It's easy to enjoy your relationship with the Lord when you realize he's smiling down

675
00:40:27.360 --> 00:40:29.000
at you, not gritting his teeth at you.

676
00:40:29.000 --> 00:40:31.000
I'm going to hide his teeth.

677
00:40:31.000 --> 00:40:33.000
No.

678
00:40:33.000 --> 00:40:34.000
Yeah.

679
00:40:34.000 --> 00:40:38.400
He's a much better father than most of us have had.

680
00:40:38.400 --> 00:40:45.760
Very gentle, very loving, long suffering because what I will tell the people, I'll say

681
00:40:45.760 --> 00:40:48.480
holiness, the Lord will work out holiness in you.

682
00:40:48.480 --> 00:40:52.120
And then I see some people that happens quickly and then I see some people.

683
00:40:52.120 --> 00:40:53.120
It happens slowly.

684
00:40:53.120 --> 00:40:59.000
There's areas in my life, certain things were overnight, major changes overnight.

685
00:40:59.000 --> 00:41:04.040
The Lord just, but other things, it was like, whoa, these sins, Lord, seem to be persisting.

686
00:41:04.040 --> 00:41:06.840
Bad habits, bad behaviors.

687
00:41:06.840 --> 00:41:08.440
I would notice he's very long, sir.

688
00:41:08.440 --> 00:41:11.760
It's not that he's winking at sin, God is still against sin.

689
00:41:11.760 --> 00:41:15.680
But he loves you while you're the work in progress.

690
00:41:15.680 --> 00:41:22.800
He does and you actually get your power to change, not from yourself, not from self-discipline,

691
00:41:22.800 --> 00:41:24.280
from trying really hard.

692
00:41:24.280 --> 00:41:27.760
No, it comes from receiving his love for you.

693
00:41:27.760 --> 00:41:35.880
There's some sins that broke off me only when I fell 30 times, 30 times, 30 times.

694
00:41:35.880 --> 00:41:38.560
And I realized he still loved me.

695
00:41:38.560 --> 00:41:40.840
And he still chased me.

696
00:41:40.840 --> 00:41:47.360
It was the enemy, it was my own voice of self-condemnation, saying, oh, he's so tired of you.

697
00:41:47.360 --> 00:41:49.720
But no, I'm tired of me.

698
00:41:49.720 --> 00:41:51.120
The devil's tired of me.

699
00:41:51.120 --> 00:41:52.840
My friends may be tired of me.

700
00:41:52.840 --> 00:41:54.920
But he's not tired of me.

701
00:41:54.920 --> 00:42:01.320
And if you don't quit and keep looking to him, keep holding his hand and walking with him,

702
00:42:01.320 --> 00:42:04.920
he'll work his will out in you.

703
00:42:04.920 --> 00:42:06.320
Amen.

704
00:42:06.320 --> 00:42:08.240
And guess what?

705
00:42:08.240 --> 00:42:10.480
You can actually enjoy that journey.

706
00:42:10.480 --> 00:42:14.840
Doesn't have to be a grievous burden, some journey of frustration.

707
00:42:14.840 --> 00:42:17.200
Church has made it that way somehow.

708
00:42:17.200 --> 00:42:19.160
But that's not how it should be.

709
00:42:19.160 --> 00:42:20.320
Amen.

710
00:42:20.320 --> 00:42:24.560
All right.

711
00:42:24.560 --> 00:42:25.560
Hallelujah.

712
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I feel like we need to have a little sealah.

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Paul goes here into a little biblesson of Abraham.

714
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Abraham and Sarah.

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And the promise that was given to Abraham, that he was going to be the father of many nations.

716
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Abraham and Sarah received this promise when they were well advanced in years.

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And so they did what most of us would do.

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We sit here comfy and we judge them and go, how could they?

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When we've all done the same thing, which is when we don't like God's timing and we get impatient,

720
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we make it happen in our own strength.

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So here's what happened.

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God promises to Abraham and Sarah.

723
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You're going to have children.

724
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You're going to be the father of many nations.

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And then they're like, this is so awesome.

726
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But then years go by and there's no kids.

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And so wondering what's up with that?

728
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So they make it happen in the flesh.

729
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What is in the flesh mean in their own strength?

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And they have the bright idea that Abraham should sleep with the slave that was a part of

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their family, the bondswoman, the servant girl.

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Her name was Haggar.

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And he had a child, Ishmael.

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He was a child of the flesh, a child of him making the promise of God come to pass, which

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really isn't the promise of God.

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Just know that you cannot do something and then ask God to come and bless it.

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You got to go to where the blessing already is and do what he already said would be blessed.

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Because whatever you do, I mean you could do that, but then you got to maintain it.

739
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You got to sustain it.

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You got to now be absolutely exhausted by propping it up all the time.

741
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But when it's the promise of God, then there's freedom.

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There's no sweat.

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There's joy.

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Tell me you who desire to be under the law, do you not hear the law?

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This is what I feel like telling some of you.

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Some of you who love mixing the covenants and you're upset with me that I'm saying the

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old is done.

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Tell me you who love to live under the law.

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Do you not hear the law?

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God hear what's said in the Old Testament.

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For it is written that Abraham had two sons, the one by a bond woman, the other by a free

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woman, the free woman, his wife, Sarah, the bond woman, Haggar.

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But he who was of the bond woman was born according to the flesh and he of the free woman

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through promise, which things are symbolic.

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I'm so glad Paul said this so that when I tell you that these things are symbolic, you

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don't think that it's just me that's making them symbolic.

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I wonder what book pastor has been reading and now he's drawing these inferences and

758
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no, Paul says this is symbolic.

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He says, Isaac is a symbol of the new covenant.

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Isaac was the child of promise, the promise of the spirit.

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He's the new covenant that thing that you did, ischmail in your own strength, trying to

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make my promise come to pass.

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That's symbolic of the old covenant.

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He's doing a little compare and contrast here.

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By the way, do you know what Isaac means, anybody?

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Isaac means laughter because when it's under the new covenant, there's no sweat, there's

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no laboring.

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Have you ever seen someone laughing and striving at the same time?

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No.

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No covenant is about striving, schmitzing, pushing, trying but never achieving.

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Under the new covenant, there's a freedom.

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The new covenant, which Isaac is a symbol of, means laughter and then people ask, how come

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when I go to city light, there's people laughing?

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That's why, some of them, it's actually a prophetic, it's, I've been forgiven of all my

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sin, me to sit in heavenly places in Christ, I'm a child of God, under the new covenant,

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and I can't even help him out with it, he gave it all to me for free.

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That is a high, amen.

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For these are the two covenants, the one from Mount Sinai, which gives birth to bondage.

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He calls the old Testament system bondage.

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By the way, can I, I'm going to take my time, because there's no time limit on this

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service, I'm going to tell you something.

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For people who love, who think that like church should be tougher.

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If I thought that you would have a better life if I was tougher, I could be the meanest

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toughest person, trust me.

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When the law was given, 3,000 people died.

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God said when the law was given, even if an animal touches this mountain, let it be put

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to death.

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The fear, the threat was.

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And do you know how long it took him to sin after they got the law?

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Hours.

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In other words, the threat of punishment didn't prevent them from immediately sinning.

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It never does.

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That's why I'm not the waggy index finger preacher, telling you to get your act together.

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Because if that could help you, I would do it, but it doesn't help you.

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Didn't help me.

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That day, 3,000 people died when the law was given at Mount Sinai.

797
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And the new covenant was implemented at Jerusalem, Mount Zion, 3,000 people were born again

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that same day.

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And there's no threat looming over you.

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He's saying, I have done.

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I have forgiven you.

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And now from the inside out, you have a change.

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Hallelujah.

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The one from Mount Sinai, which gives birth to bondage, which is hagar.

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That's the old covenant, bondage.

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That's verse.

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For this hagar is Mount Sinai in Arabia and corresponds to Jerusalem, which now is and

808
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is in bondage with her children.

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But the Jerusalem above is free.

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Did you know there's a Jerusalem above?

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There's a temple that's above.

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These things were built.

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The Bible actually says as a copy of the things that are in heaven.

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And you have a home place.

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And it's not the country you were born in.

816
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The real you, you're from the Jerusalem that's from above.

817
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The Bible says your citizenship is in heaven.

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You have a home.

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The new Jerusalem that above that is free, which is the mother of us all.

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Verse 27, for it is written, rejoice, O Baron, you who do not bear, break forth and shout,

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you who are not in labor, for the desolate has many more children than she who has a husband.

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Now we, brethren, worship team, come on up.

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Now we, brethren, as Isaac was, where the children of promise, that means you're under

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the new covenant, only live under the new covenant, and you're a child of promise.

825
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What does that mean?

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That you're a child of the promise.

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You've been promised salvation.

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Are you saved right now?

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Yes.

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You're saved right now if you've received Jesus as your Lord and Savior.

831
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You are saved right now and all your sins are forgiven you, but you have not yet experienced

832
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the full culmination of your salvation.

833
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What you have right now, according to the Scriptures, is a down payment.

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It actually, Paul uses that word, down payment, earnest of deposit.

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You have a down payment of heaven.

836
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What is the down payment?

837
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The Holy Spirit.

838
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When you said Jesus, I believe in you, the Holy Spirit came inside of you and gave you

839
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that assurance of salvation and you got the down payment.

840
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But on that day, this is why the whole thing is by faith, because even though you know

841
00:50:02.520 --> 00:50:07.920
you're saved right now and you should believe I have it now, you're still anticipating

842
00:50:07.920 --> 00:50:13.400
that day, you will receive the fullness of the promise and you will be saved.

843
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Not just in your spirit, but with a glorified body as well and a completely renewed soul.

844
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Hallelujah.

845
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This verse, but as he who was born according to the flesh, who's that Ishmael, representative

846
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of the old covenant system, but as he who was born according to the flesh, then persecuted

847
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because Ishmael mocked Isaac, do you know Ishmael still mocked Isaac?

848
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In many ways, we can get into the whole thing Ishmael, that's where the Arabia and the Arabs

849
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come from.

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You can say Isaac is Jewish and Ishmael is still mocking Isaac, but just want you to know

851
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that's not the point Paul is making here.

852
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Paul is saying Ishmael is representative of the old covenant system and Isaac is representative

853
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of the new covenant system and people who love the old covenant and want to mix the

854
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covenants and want to relate to Jesus today still while mixing the covenants, they mock

855
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those who are exclusively under the new, who are receivers of grace.

856
00:51:12.720 --> 00:51:13.720
Why?

857
00:51:13.720 --> 00:51:15.400
Why did they mock them and bother them?

858
00:51:15.480 --> 00:51:18.520
Why do Judaizers come in and try to get them in bondage?

859
00:51:18.520 --> 00:51:19.520
Why?

860
00:51:19.520 --> 00:51:22.200
Because misery loves company, that's why.

861
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And also because you offend them when you stand in grace, you take a religious person

862
00:51:31.680 --> 00:51:37.200
who takes pride in their religiosity, who thinks that they impress God with their strict

863
00:51:37.200 --> 00:51:41.200
law keeping, even though God came to them and showed them all the places they were missing,

864
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they would be horrified.

865
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But they don't see that.

866
00:51:43.200 --> 00:51:47.240
They only see their wonderful law keeping, their church attendance, their giving, whatever

867
00:51:47.240 --> 00:51:51.840
it is that they're doing to cross every tea and die every eye.

868
00:51:51.840 --> 00:51:57.200
And then they run into you and you're like just merely walking one out and they're like,

869
00:51:57.200 --> 00:52:02.480
hey, and you're like, wow, I'm just the son of God, I'm totally forgiven.

870
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And I believe that everything Jesus died is mine right now and I'm blessed and I'm highly

871
00:52:07.840 --> 00:52:10.240
favored and they're like, based on what?

872
00:52:10.800 --> 00:52:14.840
Well, not based on anything I do, but based on what Jesus has already done for me and

873
00:52:14.840 --> 00:52:17.000
they will nash at you with their teeth.

874
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Who do you think you are?

875
00:52:18.880 --> 00:52:22.800
Because now you're offending them because what you're actually saying is all of the times

876
00:52:22.800 --> 00:52:26.400
that you thought you were getting credit and scoring points with the big guy upstairs?

877
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Didn't mean anything.

878
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Everything you're ever going to get, I'm telling you right now.

879
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Part of me is I want to spare you some of the pain I went through.

880
00:52:38.880 --> 00:52:42.920
There's some things in life I wanted so bad.

881
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And they didn't come until I had kicked and clawed so much my fingers were bloody and then

882
00:52:48.480 --> 00:52:51.800
I finally collapsed and I gave up to the point of sometimes I could, Lord, I don't even

883
00:52:51.800 --> 00:52:52.800
want it anymore.

884
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And then all of a sudden the next week, boom, I had that lesson over and over again.

885
00:52:57.840 --> 00:53:05.760
He taught it to me so I can teach it to you, surrender, die, quit striving, quit pushing.

886
00:53:05.760 --> 00:53:10.080
My pastor used to say all the time, the moment you quit struggling to get the thing you

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want, you'll have it.

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But as he who was born according to the flesh then persecuted him who was born according

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00:53:20.360 --> 00:53:29.560
to the spirit, even so it is now, fair as the echo, legalistic, covenant-mixing Judaizers

890
00:53:29.560 --> 00:53:33.960
will always hate Christians who live under grace.

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Nevertheless, what does the scripture say?

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Cast out the bond woman that's haggar, a symbol of the system of law.

893
00:53:42.440 --> 00:53:44.400
They were all living in the same tent.

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Awkward, right?

895
00:53:45.400 --> 00:53:48.520
That's reality TV right there.

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00:53:48.520 --> 00:53:51.160
Got Sarah and haggar all in the same tent.

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And God then says, hey, that bond woman, she's got to go.

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By the way, God and his infinite mercy, he still took care of haggar, the bond woman and

899
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ishmael and they became a nation.

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For the son of the bond woman shall not be air with the son of the free woman.

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What is God saying here?

902
00:54:08.960 --> 00:54:14.040
He's saying two covenants cannot exist under the same roof.

903
00:54:14.040 --> 00:54:16.800
Two covenants cannot exist in the same tent.

904
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You cannot have the old covenant haggar and Sarah, the new covenant and ishmael and

905
00:54:21.920 --> 00:54:26.160
Isaac, you cannot have them in the same house.

906
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And that's the allegory and God, that all played out for our example.

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And now Paul is bringing it to life and saying, this is what God was telling you.

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Cast out the bond.

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00:54:35.960 --> 00:54:40.840
Cast out any relating to God based on the old system of the law that's in your life, cast

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00:54:40.840 --> 00:54:41.840
it out.

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00:54:41.840 --> 00:54:42.840
They can't be in the same tent.

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00:54:42.840 --> 00:54:47.160
Am I clear?

913
00:54:47.160 --> 00:54:51.240
Cast out the bond woman and her son for the son of the bond woman shall not be air with

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00:54:51.240 --> 00:54:52.560
the son of the free woman.

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Verse 31.

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So then brethren, shout this out, everybody, we are not children of the bond woman but

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of the free.

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I am under the new covenant of his grace.

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I am now blessed, highly favored, completely forgiven, a child of God.

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Good things come to me.

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Heaven is mine.

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Now the kingdom of God is within me.

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It flows through me everywhere I go.

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I bring blessing, the light of Jesus, hope, I am blessed in Jesus' name, amen.

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Give the Lord a big shout.

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This is the City Light Church podcast.

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We pray that you have been encouraged today, that you have been reminded how much God

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loves you, and that you are surrounded by grace.

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