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This is righteousness. It's a gift. And Jesus has given it to you. He has given to you his

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righteousness. He has imparted and imputed his righteousness to you. When God the Father

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looks at you, He sees the righteousness of Jesus on you. When you talk to God the Father,

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He hears you as though it's Jesus talking to Him. So who's more righteous? You or Jesus?

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The same!

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Listen to today's teaching, remember that you are deeply loved by God, that you are surrounded

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

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We're beginning a new series today, Clash of the Covenants, and we're going to slow marinate,

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slow cook. I did not know that moving to Long Island meant that I was obligated. Every man I

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talk to, it seems that I'm under obligation to get a very expensive grill or a slow cooker,

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a smoker. I guess that's, and I'm thinking it's that time, mid-40s, suburb and dad,

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you can go one of two ways, no it's true, you can really become a World War II history buff

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or you can really get into smoking. Smoking your meats. So you'll see, that's what happens.

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And I've learned enough about World War II from my granddad, so I'm going the slow cooking

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variety, and we're going to slow cook over the course of eight weeks, new covenant,

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Christianity and new covenant realities, because after all we do live under the new covenant,

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so we should learn the principles of the new covenant, shouldn't we? How will we really go

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on to experience the fullness of what Jesus has for us and experience true Christianity if we

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don't understand the covenant that we're operating under? And we're going to be going through

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Galatians because Paul was addressing a problem, and the problem was the Galatian church mixing

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covenants. They were mixing the old covenant with the new, interestingly enough,

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that wasn't just the first century phenomenon to this day, because the new covenant is so radical,

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in fact Paul says it's hard to understand, he even calls it a mystery, and it's just so mind-blowing

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and it's so counterintuitive to everything from how we were raised by our parents, how we were

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raised by society, the whole system we grew up in, it's counterintuitive to that, so it doesn't

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really click unless we get enough word in us and then the Holy Spirit can work with that word,

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and then he apocalyptic, he pulls back the curtain and he reveals the truth of grace,

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and the truth of living under grace. So people are still mixing, and the word of the Lord is

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stop mixing, stop taking a little bit of the old covenant, a little bit of the new putting it

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together and coming up with your own covenant, which is how I believe the vast majority of the church

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lives, but we're going to live under the fullness of the new, amen. So we're going to begin Galatians,

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and there's no better way to begin Galatians than by turning to the book of Luke. Amen. Let's go to

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the book of Luke, chapter 9, verse 51. Now it came to pass when the time had come for him to be

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received up, that he steadfastly set his face to go to Jerusalem, this is speaking of Jesus,

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and they sent messengers before his face and as they went they entered a village of the Samaritans

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to prepare for him, but they did not receive him because his face was set for the journey to Jerusalem,

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so note that Jesus was rejected. He was rejected even before the cross. Sometimes the

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gospels read like a highlight reel from miracle to miracle to miracle, but if you just look a little

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bit deeper you'll see that salt and pepper throughout the highlight reel is a lot of rejection.

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So don't feel bad if ever you're rejected. He said the servant is not above his master, they hated

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me, they'll hate you. So he gets rejected by the Samaritans because he was on his way to Jerusalem,

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and when his disciples James and John saw this they said, Lord do you want us to command fire

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to come down from heaven and consume them just as Elijah did? LOL right? Wow. What an extreme thought

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to have, but these were old covenant people. All they knew was the old covenant, and by the way this

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is how God dealt with sin under the old covenant. When you were judged it wasn't a slap on the wrist,

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it was the ground splitting open and swallowing you up, it was fire from heaven, it was pestilence,

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it was a plague, there was one verdict guilty and the punishment was death. The wages of sin is death,

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that's the old covenant, and they're just thinking and talking in line with what they bred and

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with what they've experienced living under the old covenant. Here's what Jesus says, but he turned

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and rebuked them and said, you do not know what manner of spirit you are of. You don't know that

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I'm bringing in a new spirit, I'm bringing in a new covenant, I'm bringing in a new dispensation,

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a different set of principles that this whole world, the entirety of the world, will be under,

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you're of a different spirit, you're of an old covenant spirit. You know where else you'll see

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Jesus saying something similar with the woman at the well who happened to be a Samaritan?

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They were upset with him with Jesus here because he was going to Jerusalem and they didn't want

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to go to Jerusalem. The woman at the well says, which mountain should we worship at? Did you say

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worship at this mountain? She was talking about Sinai, right at Jerusalem. But we worship at this

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mountain. So which one is it? See she's thinking all physical, all natural. We wish we worship,

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which mountain? And it goes, listen dear, the day is coming, you'll neither worship at this mountain

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or that mountain, but the true worshipers will worship me in spirit and in truth. What's he saying?

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Under the new covenant empowered by the Holy Spirit, in spirit and in truth.

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So before we begin with Galatians, I'm just going to ask Pastor James to come up

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and show you what I believe is one of the most important pages in the entire Bible,

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something that I really want you to read over and over again and really let this sink down deep

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into your spirit. These pages are hidden in the Bible. Many of you have never taken a good long

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look and ponder the significance of them. Right at the end of Malachi, excuse me for the Italian

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Americans, Malachi. Sandwiched in between the last page of Malachi and the first page of Matthew,

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this is a blank page. You ever wonder what's happening here? There is a change. We're moving from

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old covenant to new covenant and you cannot mix the two together. Pick one, pick one and live in

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that one. Now, before you make your choice, let me explain the difference between the covenants

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under the old covenant which I said earlier was a dispensation. Don't get lost in a fancy theological

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term. A dispensation simply means a system of order. Picture big umbrella over all of humanity

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and this is how underneath that umbrella, under that particular dispensation, these are the

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principles. This is how God will relate to man. Under the old covenant umbrella, under the old

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covenant system of order, under the old covenant dispensation, man endeavored to get approval from God,

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man endeavored to be declared righteous based on their own self effort, their own self discipline,

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their own law keeping their own good behavior. Notice I said man endeavored to be made righteous.

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Man was never made righteous. Impossible. Couldn't be made righteous through his own self effort.

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Why? Because when you break the law in just one part, you're guilty of breaking the entirety of

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the law. There is no A minus on the test. You either get an A or an F and if you just mess up

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once, what a terrible burden. You mess up once, you're guilty of breaking the entirety of the law,

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your sinner. Under the new covenant, that's another dispensation, another umbrella. Under the new

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covenant, your declared righteous, which means you have right standing with God, not based on your

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self effort, not based on your good behavior, not based on you trying to cross every T and not

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every I, but it's all based not on what you do, but on what Jesus has already done for you. Hallelujah.

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Amen. And under the new covenant, Jesus kept the entirety of the law fully and perfectly.

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He got an A plus on the test. And when you say Jesus, I receive you to be my Lord and my Savior,

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He takes your name, crosses his out, he races it on the A plus paper, puts your name in and says,

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go ahead, hand this into your parents. Hand, show this to your Father. He'll be real proud.

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He did all the work kept the law perfectly and then passed the benefit over to you if you'll

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receive it by faith and only look to him. And when you only look to him, you cannot add anything to

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his already finished work. It's Jesus plus nothing equals everything. Religion then comes in and says,

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well, Jesus plus, I mean, we got to get some stuff out of you. So Jesus plus regular church

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attendance, Jesus plus getting baptized, Jesus plus tithing. No, all those things are good things,

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but they don't help as far as your salvation is concerned. Your salvation is free. And when

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you really understand the significance of your salvation, nobody has to wag a finger at you telling

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you what you need to do. You from the inside out are empowered. It's not just that you want to live

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pleasing to the Lord, but now you're empowered to live pleasing to the Lord. See the law, it places

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a demand on people. Touch not, taste not, you cannot, but you never get the power to fulfill the

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obligation of the law. So you're always frustrated, which is why people want to stay away from church.

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I don't blame them. They think it's an epicenter of frustration. I'm just going to be told a bunch of

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things that I can't do. I can't fulfill. And frankly, I don't want to. So peace out. I'm out of there.

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When real new covenant Christianity is the exact opposite. So let's just begin Galatians by noting

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there is a difference between the covenants. Why? Because the cross of Jesus changed everything.

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Jesus changed everything. John the Baptist said, behold the Lamb of God who takes away the sin of

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the world. That whole sin problem that was in the world. Jesus on the cross took it away.

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And it's because of his blood that we could live under a covenant, under a dispensation,

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not of the law, but of grace. Amen. Let's begin in Galatians 1. Martin Luther used the

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call Galatians by the name of his wife because he said, I'm married to it. I wouldn't, I mean it's

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cool move on Martin Luther, but I know other human or epistle or entity shall be called it by

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thy name. But you're showing how much it meant to him. It's been called the declaration of

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independence of Christian liberty. So let's begin in Galatians 1 and we're going to go verse by verse

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smashing the idols of legalism, the idols of pride

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and receiving the free gift of righteousness. Paul and Apostle not for men or through man,

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but through Jesus Christ and God the Father who raised him from the dead and all the brethren who

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are with me to the churches of Galatia. Grace, he outlines with that one word the theme of the

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entire epistle is going to be grace, grace to you and peace from God the Father and our Lord

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Jesus Christ who gave himself for our sins that he might deliver us from this present evil age.

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Note that you're delivered from the power of darkness, not the presence of darkness.

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You're delivered out of the power of this evil age, but you're still living in an evil age.

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Psalm 23, he prepares a table before you in the presence of your enemies. You're going to be

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feasting, but not too far is the enemies of God looking on. By the way, when the Psalms 23 says,

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when Psalms 23 says, he prepares a table before you in the presence of my enemies. This is

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where it's good to know the difference between the old and your covenant. Under the old, David is

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writing it, he's literally talking about other military people who were after his life.

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I mean, it could mean that and it can still mean that, but everything under the old covenant was

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physical, under the new covenant in spiritual. So when you read Psalm 23, don't think about your

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coworker who you think is your enemy and you're praying, oh God, cause me to eat lavishly

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and they'll just watch. No, for us, under the new covenant, it's something about the enemies of

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God, demonic spirits. And yes, they can operate through people, but we're not trying to stick it to

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somebody or going to war with people. We're eating lavishly, but the demonic spirits are still

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looking on because it's not fully their time yet. Shadrach, Misha, I can abend to go. God didn't

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deliver them from the furnace. He delivered them from the fire in the furnace. You're delivered from

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the power of your enemies, but not from the presence of your enemies. Incidentally, this is why it's

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so important for us to go through this series and really understand the difference of the covenants.

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Another example is, and there's many, many scriptures like this in the Old Testament.

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Here's one, the Lord God is a sun and shield. The Lord will give grace and glory. No good thing will

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he withhold from those who walk uprightly. Phenomenal verse, right? I have a problem with it though.

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If I don't understand grace, I'm going to see that the fulfillment of that verse is conditional

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on me walking uprightly. So I really need a breakthrough. I need the Lord and I find this beautiful

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verse so generous. The Lord will give grace and glory. By the way, when it says glory in that verse,

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what do you think of? Somebody there shouted money.

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He had the hoodie on and everything. And then like a Jedi movie, he removes the hoodie.

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That was me. He shouted money. Can you believe that we have such carnal Christians at City Life

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Church. So, why is it always about money? He's right. Just like he was about the type of wood

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it in Noah's Ark and corrected me and called it. The word glory, we often mean like the

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glories of God. And what do you think of like golden streams and dust and it can mean the

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anointing. But the first juice of the word glory was heavy laden. Abraham had so much stuff

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that he put the kabode, the heaviness of his treasures on the beast of burden. And many times

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that word glory actually means material provision and sustenance. The Lord will give grace and glory.

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No good thing will he withhold from those who walk uprightly. And now I read that and I immediately

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realize, oh, that's based on my behavior. I have to be, well, what does that mean walk uprightly?

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Right? How are you really going to have confidence and claim that verse as your own when there's

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that little part in the end? Those who walk uprightly? Well, how uprightly? I mean, if I compare myself

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to Hitler, I walk uprightly. If I compare myself to those carnal Christians, I know I walk uprightly.

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But if I compare myself to Jesus, I'm not walking uprightly. So does that mean I miss it? Can I

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still claim it? Well, I've been pretty good this week. But I didn't read the Bible like I think

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I should. How much is enough anyway? Did I pray enough? Did I witness enough? And all these

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insecurities come in and you're robbed of the promise, right? That's how it was under the old covenant.

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If you read that and you don't understand the power of the blood of Jesus and you go,

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well, that's me. I walk uprightly because I'm all that. You just missed it. All those verses

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cause you to look out of yourself and look to a savior. So under the new covenant, you have been

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made upright. You have been declared righteous. You have right standing with God. So whenever you

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read throughout the Old Testament, these conditional promises, there's so many promises to the righteous,

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to the one who walks uprightly. That's not for us to say, oh, well, this week I can't claim that.

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It's been a bad week and I really exploded on that person on the LIE and I gesticulated to them

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and sign language if you know what I mean. And so I really... I didn't do that. I'm just giving

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examples here. Just like three people going, this isn't confession therapy time for me. I'm just

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giving examples. But you read that and you say, God, I don't walk uprightly. In and of myself,

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I lack. But because of you, Jesus, you have made me righteous. You have forever cemented me in the

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upright before God position. All my sins, all your sins past, present and future have been taken out

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of the way. Now guess what you have? Confidence. And that's a major theme of grace, boldness.

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That's why the Bible says the righteous are as bold as a lie in. Now if you're looking at yourself,

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you're not going to be too bold unless you're really given over to pride. And there are some people,

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they're so blinded, all they can see is the good things in themselves and the bad in everyone else.

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And they think that in and of themselves, they're righteous. They're not. Jesus showed up,

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he'd exposed that in a second. But no, we're to not look at ourselves, we look to Jesus. And that's

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how the promise is fulfilled. Hallelujah. According to the will of our God and Father, verse five,

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to whom be glory forever and ever, amen. Verse six. He says,

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I marvel that you were turning away so soon from him.

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What was happening in this Galatian church? Because right now this is Paul and he's not happy.

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He's upset. You know what's missing? In the first five verses, we're already in verse six.

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We're missing charismatic, socially correct Paul, who comes in and when he writes a letter,

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all the other letters, he first praises them. He tells them how good they're doing. You can feel his

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affection for them. He doesn't, he skips all that and he's upset. He's upset. He's going, you're

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turning, not from a doctrine, not from a teaching, you're turning away from him. So what was happening

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to the Galatians? Well, this group called the Judaizers had snuck in. Imagine it's the first

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century. The apostle Paul is turning the whole world upside down with the gospel. And this

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Aryan Galatia got saved. And then Paul goes on another missionary journey. While Paul is gone,

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Judaizers snuck in. And you know what their message was? It's good that you believe in Jesus.

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As the Messiah, as the Son of God, we do too. But in order for you to be saved,

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you have to keep the entirety of the living of the law. In fact, the men have to be circumcised

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because they were all not Jewish people who became Christian, the men. So they're putting them

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back under the law. What are they doing? They're mixing the covenants.

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And Paul says, you're not just turning away from a teaching. You're turning away from Jesus.

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The moment you mix covenants, you're turning away from Jesus. Why? Because Jesus is grace.

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Grace is not a doctrine. It's not a teaching. It's the very person of Jesus.

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The Bible says that the law was given. It came by Moses, but grace and truth came by Jesus Christ.

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And under the old covenant dispensation, you had to work to be approved unto God,

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under the new covenant dispensation or the new covenant of His grace. Jesus did all the work

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and transferred the benefit over to you. I marvel that you are turning away so soon from Him

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who called you in the grace of Christ to a different gospel. Hey, let me just say this.

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Before you think, wow, this sounds like a first century problem. And why is this so important to

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pastor? Because I don't really see the likelihood of a group of Judaizers coming in to city lights

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signing up for our life groups and slowly, because it says they crept in unawares slowly trying

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to bring mixture. No, we don't have Judaizers as a group of people today, but you have bad teachers,

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bad preachers. You have your own voice. You have Hassatan Satan, the accuser of the brethren.

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And what he's doing in your life over time is trying to get you to mix the covenants,

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because the moment you mix the covenants, you turn away from him who called you in the grace of

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Christ. And the power of the new covenant is robbed from you even if you mix a little bit.

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The name of this series is Clash of the Covenants. I could add another title. No,

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mixture. I'm on 100 percent pure new covenant grace. I don't need it sprinkled with a bit of the

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law. Amen. And one of the biggest culprits of sprinkling a little bit of the law onto grace are

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pastors, because they don't trust the Holy Spirit and people. They don't trust the word of God.

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They don't trust the very strength of the new covenant to actually keep people doing what they're

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supposed to be doing. So they say things like, if you don't come every Sunday,

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you might be cursed. You might get punished. All these manipulative tactics. If you sin,

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God will punish you. If you don't have God will punish you.

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As though you were living under the old covenant, but the cross of Jesus changed everything.

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If God has already thoroughly punished your sin in the person of Jesus on the cross

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and how much more punishment is left for you. This is wild, isn't it?

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Now, when you start preaching grace as it's meant to be preached, obviously some thoughts are

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going to come up and say, and they're going to go something like this. That means I can just do

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whatever I want. Listen, if you're serving God and abstaining for sin from sin because you're trying

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to avoid the threat of retribution or punishment, you're doing Christianity wrong. By the way,

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that can't last forever. You'll hold on tight for a little bit, maybe a few weeks, maybe a few

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months, maybe you'll even make it for years. I know some people that made it for years. There's

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no fun to be around them. They're off. They're off. Because then you're either full of pride

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or you're upset because you're seeing other people get blessed, but they're not as religious and

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bound up as you and then the big brother syndrome comes up and you're upset and you try to get them

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to do what you're doing to score points with God. You went to an R-rated movie I have,

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since 1982. And all these legalistic things. Listen, listen, Martin Lloyd Jones, phenomenal,

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phenomenal man of God, teacher of the word was at Westminster Chapel in the 50s. Great revelation

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came through him. He said this, you're not preaching grace correctly until people accuse you of

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antinomianism, which is a total disregard for God's moral law. I'm not preaching disregard

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for God's moral law, but some people should accuse me of it. You know why? They accused

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Paul of that. And whenever you preach grace people who don't understand the heart of the new covenant

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will accuse you of doing just that. The heart of the new covenant is so much better than the old.

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Under the old you didn't send or you didn't send to avoid punishment. Under the new it's because

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of your love of God, not because you're trying to avoid punishment and love will carry you through

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your entire life and you're empowered by the Holy Spirit. The law is like a giant sign that says

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keep off the grass. But the new covenant gives you a love for the sidewalk. Hallelujah.

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And if you're stuck in some sin pattern right now, I'll tell you what your solution isn't,

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trying much harder. I'll tell you what your solution definitely isn't. Me, wagon,

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mind, dicks, finger, and saying, you gotta be a little holy. You gotta do right. Be better.

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This is why so many pastors, first they start with the lie.

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Most pastors, I shouldn't say most, but a lot. Too many are angry, they're bitter,

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they don't start off that way, but the moment they approach their fifties, they just have like

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the old man with the get off my lawn syndrome. Because they put everybody else under the law,

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they're under the law, they're being crushed by the law.

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Wagon their fingers? No. I'm not going to change your behavior by just messing with you and telling

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you because I could be saying, stop sinning. What are you doing? You're wrecking your life and you're

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going, I know. Well, stop it. And your response is, I can't. How? But when I say look to Jesus,

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dive into the cross, dive into his substitutionary death, meditate on the blood,

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how the blood has removed your sin, meditate on new creation realities.

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Most people think when they're born again, that's like the Lord taking an old pig,

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putting it in a dress and slapping some makeup on it. Oh, isn't she pretty?

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That's religion. Religion does that. Takes an old pig, lipstick, fake lashes, puts a nice dress

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and goes, no, it's still an anchor. God completely put a brand new spirit in you,

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a species of being that never existed before. You're sinless, recreated in the image of Jesus.

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And as you meditate on this and this can be a process, this can take time.

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When you come up out of the world or through life, you've opened some windows and doors to the

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enemy. Some sins will put their hook in you. How does that hook get removed? Some sins, it's

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quick. Other sins take time. But the solution is always the same. It's the person of Jesus

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and what he did for you at the cross and it's you living under the new covenant. That means you're

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not trusting in yourself. You're trusting in him. You'll notice under the, to fulfill the law,

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there's a lot of those hyphenated sins, self effort, self discipline, self, self,

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self dash, self dash. The problem is that it's always on us and we have a part in a role to play.

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The problem is also is that we don't know how to play it. We always fall on our face and come

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up short under the new covenant. Jesus has taken the weak link out of the way. You know what the

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weak link was? Us. And now he's in our place forever holding the new covenant together on our

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behalf. Woo! This is why the gospel is called Good News. And can you believe it? They were

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turning away from that. Yes, I can believe it. People turn away from it every day. Today, we're sick.

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No, really, the way we were raised, the way society taught us, we have this sickness called pride.

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Grace is so offensive because it misses your pride up because you don't get to say, I hope to save

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you around. You don't get to boast and brag about any contribution to your salvation. You were

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desperate, you were shipwrecked, you were marooned on an island, you had no food, you had no covering,

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you were naked. And Jesus came and rescued you. You had nothing to do with it. And so it's offensive

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because it strips you of your pride. And it just causes you to fall to your knees and go,

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thank you. Thank you. You're my savior. You saved me off that island. Hallelujah. So he's saying I'm

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marvel that you are turning away so soon from him who called you in the grace of Christ to a

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different gospel, which is not another. He's using this language specifically, that word for another.

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In the Greek, it means another of the same kind. Like if I said I was in my kitchen and I was

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eating a honey crisp apple and I liked it so much, I went and got another, another what? Another

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apple of the same kind, another honey crisp. Paul is saying this gospel of mixture, it's not even

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another. It's a different gospel. It's completely different. It's a clone and it's a perversion,

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which is not another, but there are some who trouble you and want to pervert the gospel of Christ.

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So he calls mixing the covenants of perversion. What's a perversion? We usually think of it with a

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sexual connotation like that pervert. The word pervert, it means to distort. That's the original

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meaning. Like a funhouse mirror that's distorted. You ever go? You're looking at the funhouse mirror

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and your head is four feet wide and your legs are two inches thick and you're like that kind of

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I guess I can see me in it, but the image is all distorted. Any teaching that mixes the covenants

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is a funhouse mirror gospel. It's a distorted gospel, it's a perverted gospel.

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It's funny to see the mood shift because on the one side I declare the goodness of Jesus

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and freedom from the law and then on the other side I'm using, I'm just quoting Paul and every time

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I quote Paul because he's using strong words perverted and you just say, and that's what I want

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you to know that. That the apostle Paul, you can hear the emotion, the pathos, the pleading and his

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voice and this is the most upset you'll ever see him in entire New Testament. That's how much

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by the Holy Spirit he hates mixture. He even corrected a problem in the Corinthian church

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of a stepson sleeping with his father's new wife which strangely always brought me comfort

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in a weird way reading that as a pastor in New York City because we experience all sort of crazy

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things and it's nice to be reminded that Paul dealt with crazy Jerry Springer stuff back in the

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first century in the Middle East. It was always crazy. So Paul made it through I'm going to be all

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right amen. He planted churches and churches thrive we're going to be all right even though

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yeah the Montel show was right there in the background happening. Does anybody even know what I'm

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talking about? I'm looking at the age in here and I'm like you know what I'm doing, you know what I'm

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talking about. Hallelujah. Let's go to verse 8. My point was I got off on 90s daytime TV

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but my point is that you see the apostle Paul most upset even when he corrected that fella in

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Corinthians you don't see him this upset. He gets excommunicated and then the next letter of Paul

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is like come on in you've repented come in but he is viciously defending the integrity of the

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gospel when he says no mixture and that's why the mood here is all over the place because Paul

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is upset but he's not upset at what most people think he would get upset at. He's upset that there's

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a distortion of the gospel which he knows if they live under a distorted gospel the people will

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be robbed. Listen if ever you're feeling condemned you're living under a distorted gospel. If you're

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feeling guilty you're living under a distorted gospel. Don't think this is a Galatians problem this

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is a now problem. If ever you feel like you can't at any time run to Father God and be in His embrace

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and be in His presence and He's not counting your sin against you and there's nothing but love

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from Him towards you you're living under a perverted distorted mixture gospel. If ever you stay away

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from praying because you think God is upset with you perverted gospel. If ever you don't have spiritual

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boldness and confidence perverted gospel which spiritual boldness that's something that's lacking

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in the church why is it lacking because they have the opposite they have a spiritual inferiority

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complex who always feel like they can't get too close to God when in reality they're seated in

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heavenly places in Christ people even when they pray these Mickey Mouse prayers not even from their

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chest from their throat stop it put some base in your voice put some know who you are in

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Jesus why are you talking to the Father God like He's this giant and here's please I just want to

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come in real quick please don't crush me don't hurt me I just want to ask I need a little money

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to make it to the end of the way I believe if you be so merciful no come boldly to the throne of

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praise amen you're forgiven you're made new and that's why the enemy loves getting mixture in there

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because it robs you of that essential boldness bold Christians they plan churches they expand the

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kingdom they win souls they receive the promises of God and by the way you can ask my wife

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when I am bold but in order to be bold I never ever think of my accomplishments I don't psych

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myself up on Sunday morning and say all right bow you got this you got I mean you have done the Lord

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I think of me in my history and I just like it's under the blood

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I have nothing I don't psych myself up in order to be bold I think I've only one thing Jesus

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on the cross and what that affords me that's it and out of that comes a roaring lion

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if I look at myself for more than one second you see me hiding crying underneath the chairs

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if I look at me too long it's all through him but even if we verse 8

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but even if we are an angel from heaven preach any other gospel to you then we have preached you

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let him be anathema occurs so once again listen to how seriously Paul is dealing with this problem

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you know mixture people who preach mixture he says let him be cut off get them out of the church

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they are gospel pervertors I love you I wish we can have some Pauline voices rise up today to speak

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to ministers who make me mix the gospel in this way I'm called to teach you not to correct other

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ministers but I love a true apostle to rise up anyway as we have said before so now I

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say again if anyone preaches any other gospel so he's reiterating it twice let them be accursed

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if anyone preaches any other gospel to you then what you have received let him be accursed for

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do I now persuade men or God or do I seek to please men he's saying who am I who's my target here

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my target is God he's saying I preach for an audience of one I write these epistles empowered by

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the Holy Spirit for an audience of one everything we do we shouldn't do with the idea of what will

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people think but what will God think we're trying it when I preach it's not what how do the people feel

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I mean I wonder afterwards but is God when I'm the right home God that I say everything you want

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it said is this message pleasing to you preaching for an audience of one for if I still please

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men I would not be a bond servant of Christ he's saying if I was not preaching for God if I was

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preaching to please you well then I wouldn't be in chains they wouldn't have arrested me I'd be one

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of the ear ticklers ear tickling ministries international but he said no I preach the truth and

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that sometimes comes with consequences let's let's look at some compare and contrasts shall we

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between the old and new covenant let's look at those slides please under the Old Testament God

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he demands righteousness under the new testament God imparts righteousness through the completed work

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of Jesus so old covenant God shows you the standard righteousness but you have no power to fulfill

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that standard this is so beautiful under the new covenant and this is the gift that Jesus offers

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everyone if you believe in him believe in your heart and confess in your mouth that he died for

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you on the cross and he was raised from the grave you are given righteousness you have

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something known as imparted righteousness and imputed righteousness imparted righteousness means

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that Jesus takes his righteousness and gives it to you imputed righteousness means that in the heavenly

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ledger it's written down as so you know what the Bible also says numerous times that you have

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non imputation of sin so there is a heavenly ledger even in revelation it talks about the book

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and your name is written in there and next to it if you believe in Jesus you're trusting in him

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for his righteousness your name is there and it says righteous yeah you know what it doesn't say

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sinner and it doesn't have any record of your sins in fact grace is so radical

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Paul said this is the day you're living in now if you mess up if you sin God doesn't even put it

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on your record you know the way some people picture God he's the schizophrenic up in heaven

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with a raceable ink and a lot of white out and all throughout the day he's writing okay the righteous

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now oh they messed up now they're not righteous now they're not righteous they're righteous not

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righteous that's why most Christians are walking civil war I'm right I'm righteous I'm not I'm

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holy I'm not I'm saved but I had a bad week so let me get resaved and this is why there's a problem

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in churches of the same person raising their hand at every altar call for two years you don't have

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to be born again again if you fall you don't fall a sinner you fall a saint you're still made

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righteous and then now you get up a saint looking at Jesus and he will empower you to cut the

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nonsense out to stop sin hallelujah let's look at the next one did I read the New Testament part

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or did I go off right after let's just go back just because I'm legalistic this way I want to

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make sure and the New Testament God in parts I did read it in parts righteousness through the

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completed work of Jesus oh I know what I wanted to say when I read that I knew I was missing

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something I ask wherever I travel if I'm ministering I miss I ask this question who is more righteous

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you or Jesus this is such an important question you won't fully understand grace you won't fully

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be living under the new covenant until you can immediately answer I almost want to call some of

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you out who's more righteous you or Jesus Jesus wrong who's more righteous you or Jesus

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I love to see you squirm I didn't mean to pick on you but I love to see people squirm I have to

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see it I'm sorry I wasn't trying to pick on you and I know you're new so I don't understand I

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understand your work and all that but you're just representative of so many I see it all the time

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Jesus because it seems so heretical to say anything else right God feel that lean into it

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that feeling of being heretical the leader sends you straight to hell or it's really going to

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bring a closer to Jesus because you're saying bye to past lies if this is righteousness it's a gift

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and Jesus has given it to you he has given to you his righteousness he has imparted and imputed

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his righteousness to you when God the Father looks at you he sees the righteousness of Jesus

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on you when you talk to God the Father he hears you as though it's Jesus talking to him so who's

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more righteous you or Jesus the same the same you could feel it those of you with a prophetic

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angle can you hear the gears turning in the air does not compute does not

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pastor I'm uncomfortable with you saying it I don't even know how I could say it I want you

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dancing around the house singing it it's what the enemy doesn't want you to believe

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this holiness is linked to that receiving answers to prayer is linked to that

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he died to give you his righteousness see I think the problem also is people think there's

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degrees of righteousness they confuse righteousness with holiness there's degrees of holiness

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but righteousness is right standing with God it's really a binary outcome you either is or you

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wing there is no in between ground that's why the Bible calls you a saint you're a saint now now

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after you die in the city light church press putary meets and votes and decides to procure

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sainthood on your life you're saint now you're sin free now you've been made perfect now

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this is I know I'm camping around this at length but this is so important

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no matter how many times I ask you you can just see people they're so afraid be afraid of mixing

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the covenants be afraid of that don't be afraid of declaring that you have the same righteousness

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of Christ it's not you saying I'm all that it's you still saying it's all of him in and of myself

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all my righteousness is as a filthy rag but because of him I smell even to the Father like

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Jesus I have a fragrance my voice is is is a delight to the Father just like Jesus is is this is

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Bible truth all right next verse under the Old Testament God will visit your sin to the

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third and fourth generation under the New Testament God will by no means remember your sin

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anymore you have non-imputation of sin next slide please under the Old Testament you're under

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a curse if you do not obey God's commandments perfectly which by the way is why oftentimes when

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you read the Old Testament it can get a little bit how do I say depressing still the word of God

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it's just as much the word of God as the New Testament is but it's a different covenant look

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God hasn't changed God is the same but the way he deals with man has changed and under the old

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covenant if you mess up some kind of curse has to come you see David doing just fine at the end

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of his life all those victories he was forgiven of sins all is fine now and then at end of his life he

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has a bright idea to number the people to number the armies you shouldn't have done that because

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he was relying more on than his natural strength than the divine strength that comes from Yahweh God

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so he numbers the people it's an act of pride and a curse comes upon the land too many Christians

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think they're living like that today under the New Testament you enjoy God's favor and blessing

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because Jesus has been a made a curse for you on the cross you are blessed you cannot be cursed

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hallelujah another way that preachers love to mix the covenants in order to manipulate the people

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and get the desired responses in the area of tithing many you have heard over and over again

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for Malachi Malachi 3 Malachi 3 if you if you don't tithe you are cursed with a curse so everybody

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you come you bring the whole tithe what there's a whole hold what does that even mean the whole tithe

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because 10% is 10% if it's half a tithe it's 5% but anyway bring the whole tithe

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otherwise you're cursed I've never preached that here's the truth under the new covenant if you don't

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tithe you're not cursed why because you're forever blessed in Jesus God is not schizophrenic up and

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have any racing oh they were blessed not the cursed and the blessed not the cursed you're blessed

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your finances may not be blessed and you're showing immaturity and you're showing lack of faith

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and unbelief because still tithing is a benefit when I tithe it's my way of increasing but it's

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not that you're going to be cursed you're not paying protection money to the godfather he's your

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father god and he loves you and if you're tithing in order to avoid a curse you are the most miserable

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of Christians what a terrible terrible setup that gets old real quick like okay here's here's my

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protection money god don't send Vinnie and Angelo the two kneecapping angels from heaven to bust

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me up and teach me allow won't do it again oh lord I'll pay my money with a vick

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and do you know at city light our giving as a church is about two to three up to up to three times

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we give up to three times more than our church number our church attendance the number of people

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we have a church in other words we're very prosperous church we're deaf free we support missions

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all over the world we're moving forward we have staff why because we have a bunch of new covenant

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Christians who love the Lord and they tithe because they know it's the right thing not because

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they're trying to avoid a curse people say it's tithing still for today yes it's for today

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it's the base layer it's how you start if they have to give a tenth under the old covenant

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which was no fun at all how much should we give under the new the tithe is the beginning

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and you say what is he saying does he's saying I should give 30% no here's the beauty of what I'm

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saying you chicken with God and find out above the 10 and even the 10 is illegalistic it's just

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what the idea is why should we do less than what they did under the old I've been set free I've

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been given the righteousness of Jesus I have so much more I should give more hallelujah hallelujah

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I remember once the pastor said he said if they come in for counseling first question ask them

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if they're tithing if they say no then I tell them I can't help you because you're

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ready under a curse if you're not tithing I can't help you under a curse come back when you're

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tithing and the curse has lifted I thought I thought that's a good idea to keep the calendar clean

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that will really that just kidding I'm just kidding

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you know what's really funny listen grace is so messed up it is the exact opposite Christianity is

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a weird bizarre faith it really really is that's why Paul called grace a mystery a mystery doesn't

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mean something that can ever be known a mystery in Bible language means it's a it's a sacred truth

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hidden not from you but for you it just requires you asking the Lord for revelation it's the same

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reason why Jesus spoke in parables they asked him why speak in parables he said because I don't

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want you to know what I'm saying easily you got to show hunger you got to show desire and I'm not

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casting pearls before slime but if you're hungry for the truth I'm going to reveal is to you are you

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cool see with me so far Christianity weird bizarre different than what we think my point here is

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when it comes to tithing the more I declare that you're not under a curse when you tithe and I

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said people free are giving always goes up and most pastors they're afraid to say it because they're

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afraid they think giving will go down no keep them under the law keep them afraid of the curse but I

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say hey you're blessed and God loves you and if you don't have no you're not going to hell and

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no he still forgives you and you have a relationship with him and now you're like whoa he's really

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nice isn't he he's really good and finally you're seeing the love of God and the beauty of

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Jesus and you're entering into a real new covenant relationship with him you're going to be tithing

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in no time not because somebody's making you but because it's a natural out of your spirit man

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natural hallelujah all right just next slide please everybody having a good time hallelujah

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one of the immediate fruits we're going to see in this church during this series is your

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prayer life will get better and your receiving life will get better so that you're not just a

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bunch of people asking God for stuff and never receiving but you actually know you have a hotline

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to heaven when you're under grace there's a confidence there's a faith and you'll be a better

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receiver when you see who you really are who his blood has made you to be under the old testament

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to children of Israel were blessed only if they obeyed God's commandments perfectly both inwardly

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and outwardly under the New Testament believers do not have to depend on their own self effort

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because Jesus fulfilled every single one of the requirements of the law on your behalf remember the

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whole a plus on the test that next slide under the Old Testament relying on self effort produces

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behavior modification without heart transformation God isn't after behavior modification that's religion

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he's after a heart transformation true holiness is from the inside out and grace is an empowerment

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for holiness new testament as you behold the beauty of Jesus and his finished work on the cross

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it brings about an inner transformation which produces good works that are motivated and here's

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the key motivated by God's love do you know how many people's entire Christianity is motivated by

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fear of punishment sad I was on that on that path thank God he rescued me

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pastor you mean to tell me that Christianity will be unlocked that

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I'll experience a much greater blessing when I just love Jesus and let him love me more and look

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at the cross what about all the books you know the 10 doors to the 12 paths to the 14 highways to

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the all the stuff I have to do do do there's some things there's some things you can do or not do

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but you cannot stop gazing at Jesus and looking at him never forget the cross never forget his

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blood these are things the enemy wants you to forget because that's where the power is Paul said

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the gospel is the power of God Jesus as their substitute on the cross that's the power of God

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when you can declare I am the same righteousness as Jesus you'll know you're on the right track

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do it boldly forever now right because it's on the internet for the whole world to see forever

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you're never going to forget this point you're welcome I'm only playing whether she's such a good

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support you two are awesome and we are on the next slide worship team come on up I just feel like

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that's that's going to be that there's a lot already here we stopped in the middle of Galatians 1

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I finished it in the first service don't feel like you're missing out on anything there's really

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not much to say about the second half of the first chapter of Galatians I can sum it up if you

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want shall I sum it up for you so we don't oh here's the summation he basically just says I got the

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gospel by revelation no man taught it to me I got the God the gospel this the new covenant of grace

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I got it by revelation and it's so bizarre and so different than anything I'd ever seen before

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definitely different than the old covenant I kept it under wraps for a while then I met with the

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official apostles the original 12 well 11 Judas was busy and some others some other first

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century movers and shakers I want to say that you know global world pastors types real

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movers and shakers and he says I told him no this is important he says I told him what I got from

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God I told him the gospel I told him about grace and I checked in with them like this is so radical

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is this true and then I found that it is true they all agreed on the same thing that's exactly

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what God had given them it's known as confirmation anything less you start a cult with some weird

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wild idea old testament blood sacrifices of animals covered the sins of the children of Israel

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for only one year and the process had to be repeated every year and every year there was a reminder

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of your sin under the new testament the blood of Jesus has removed your sins past president future

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completely and perfectly once and for all hallelujah church do not mix the covenants how will you

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know if you're mixing the covenants you will know there will be red flags there will be alerts

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and alarms that come up once again if you're feeling distant from God you're mixing you're never

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distant from him you're right there he's right there listen remember when the sky turned dark

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and black during the crucifixion and Jesus cried out ilo ilo ilama sabakteni my god my god why have

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you forsaken me that was the first and last and only time in the history of all time that God the

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father separated himself from Jesus because Jesus was made sin and in a sense God the father turned

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his back on Jesus and Jesus cried out why have you forsaken me as he was made into sin

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as our substitute so that today you would never ever think oh I'm distant or God why have you

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forsaken me because Jesus was forsaken on the cross as your substitute you will never be forsaken

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the father turned his back on Jesus on the cross as your substitute so his face can always shine

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with love and approval towards you so even if I'm messing up especially when you're messing up

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should I continue messing up that this grace may abound no knucklehead God forbid draw on that grace

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I mean you can dance that dance for a while it's not gonna end well why will God punish me no

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God's not gonna punish you well why what's the warning the sin will punish you the sin is the

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punishment you're getting away with it now laughing your head off but the wages of sin is death

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God's not gonna here's nothing to do with you engaging in sin stinks of death it produces death

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so I don't want to dance with that devil hey man so what's the solution grace Jesus the person of Jesus

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everybody lift your hands shout this Lord Jesus thank you for the cross thank you for your

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blood thank you for the new covenant of grace because of you Jesus I have been justified I'm declared

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righteous I am accepted and I'm yours forever in Jesus name amen hallelujah hallelujah

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well join us next Sunday as we jump into Galatians chapter 2

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this is the city light church podcast if you've missed any part of today's message or if you

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