1 00:00:05,400 --> 00:00:06,100 Morning, church. 2 00:00:06,100 --> 00:00:07,700 How are we doing? 3 00:00:07,700 --> 00:00:08,500 Morning, morning. 4 00:00:08,500 --> 00:00:10,700 Happy Super Bowl Sunday. 5 00:00:10,700 --> 00:00:12,633 Who we ruined for? We room for the three. Pete. 6 00:00:12,633 --> 00:00:14,400 Yay! Anyone out there? 7 00:00:14,400 --> 00:00:17,400 No. How about for the Eagles? 8 00:00:17,533 --> 00:00:18,266 Yeah, a little bit. 9 00:00:18,266 --> 00:00:18,833 How about just. 10 00:00:18,833 --> 00:00:19,600 We don't care who's winning. 11 00:00:19,600 --> 00:00:22,600 We don't want our team next year. Right? 12 00:00:22,900 --> 00:00:24,400 Although I will say a couple of our high schoolers 13 00:00:24,400 --> 00:00:26,766 who are on the platform this morning. 14 00:00:26,766 --> 00:00:28,566 Syd on drums, which she's awesome. 15 00:00:28,566 --> 00:00:28,933 Come get up for. 16 00:00:28,933 --> 00:00:33,366 Said and Asher over here on bass like their die hard Chiefs fan. 17 00:00:33,366 --> 00:00:35,666 So for their sake, I hope they get the three peat. 18 00:00:35,666 --> 00:00:36,966 But it was interesting. 19 00:00:36,966 --> 00:00:39,966 I was reading about the three peat and and if you've heard the name Pat Riley, 20 00:00:40,200 --> 00:00:42,800 he's an NBA guy. Legendary kind of figure. 21 00:00:42,800 --> 00:00:43,800 Looks like the Godfather. 22 00:00:43,800 --> 00:00:46,166 He, he he coined three. 23 00:00:46,166 --> 00:00:47,033 He trademarked that. 24 00:00:47,033 --> 00:00:48,833 And so he's definitely rooting for the three peat 25 00:00:48,833 --> 00:00:52,133 because if that happens he is getting a huge payday from the NFL. 26 00:00:52,866 --> 00:00:56,566 But this morning we're going to continue in our series in the book of Romans. 27 00:00:56,733 --> 00:01:01,000 So if you have your Bibles, turn to Romans six while your smartphone's Romans six, 28 00:01:01,800 --> 00:01:04,500 pastor calls did an amazing job, 29 00:01:04,500 --> 00:01:07,600 going through chapters one through five and and unpacking that. 30 00:01:07,600 --> 00:01:10,200 There's so much in the book of Romans, so much. 31 00:01:10,200 --> 00:01:11,466 And we won't get through all of chapter 32 00:01:11,466 --> 00:01:13,600 six today, even we're going to hit on most of it. 33 00:01:13,600 --> 00:01:17,100 But I encourage you to go back and read it, this week sometime. 34 00:01:18,300 --> 00:01:19,766 And I did this last time I was up here. 35 00:01:19,766 --> 00:01:21,533 And so I'm going to do it, I think every single time I'm up here, 36 00:01:21,533 --> 00:01:24,000 if you have Pastor Kohl's number, send him a text. 37 00:01:24,000 --> 00:01:24,633 Right now. 38 00:01:24,633 --> 00:01:27,000 I'm just going to continue that that that tradition. 39 00:01:27,000 --> 00:01:28,000 Just tell him you're thinking about him. 40 00:01:28,000 --> 00:01:29,700 You're praying for him. He's with family. 41 00:01:29,700 --> 00:01:32,233 He's visiting grandkids. 42 00:01:32,233 --> 00:01:32,733 Cinematheque. 43 00:01:32,733 --> 00:01:34,000 Tell me you're thinking about him. 44 00:01:34,000 --> 00:01:35,800 You're praying for him. 45 00:01:35,800 --> 00:01:38,400 I know that he he loves getting away and spending time with family, 46 00:01:38,400 --> 00:01:39,600 but he loves being here. 47 00:01:39,600 --> 00:01:42,433 Like, he has a real gift to to unpack God's word 48 00:01:42,433 --> 00:01:44,400 and to share it with, with the church every Sunday. 49 00:01:44,400 --> 00:01:48,233 So, I'm definitely humbled to be up here in his space. 50 00:01:50,100 --> 00:01:53,266 My Bible titles, chapter six and know what your Bible titles it mine says 51 00:01:53,266 --> 00:01:57,933 Dead to Sin and Alive in Christ, dead to sin and Alive in Christ. 52 00:01:57,933 --> 00:01:58,200 And those. 53 00:01:58,200 --> 00:02:01,200 That's pretty bold statement, right? 54 00:02:01,200 --> 00:02:04,800 That we can believe fully and with confidence that we are dead to sin 55 00:02:06,300 --> 00:02:07,333 and alive in Christ. 56 00:02:07,333 --> 00:02:09,466 And so this morning, 57 00:02:09,466 --> 00:02:12,533 I want to I want to present to us a four step process as I was reading 58 00:02:12,533 --> 00:02:15,866 through the text and processing it, and, and just kind of 59 00:02:17,000 --> 00:02:20,000 praying about how to, how to, how to walk through it this morning, 60 00:02:20,466 --> 00:02:23,433 a four step process so we can start living a new life. 61 00:02:23,433 --> 00:02:24,500 So I want to put on the screen. 62 00:02:24,500 --> 00:02:25,633 We will 63 00:02:25,633 --> 00:02:28,800 we'll go through each step individually, of course, but I want to put them up there 64 00:02:28,800 --> 00:02:30,300 so you can start thinking about them. 65 00:02:30,300 --> 00:02:32,766 And the first step is to know 66 00:02:32,766 --> 00:02:35,900 how you and I, as followers of Jesus, we have to know what God's Word says. 67 00:02:36,566 --> 00:02:38,500 I'm not sure we can follow Jesus and in his ways. 68 00:02:38,500 --> 00:02:42,033 If we don't open up the Bible and know what the text says. 69 00:02:43,000 --> 00:02:44,400 So that's step one, right? 70 00:02:44,400 --> 00:02:45,033 Very practical. 71 00:02:45,033 --> 00:02:46,700 And then step two is to reckon, 72 00:02:46,700 --> 00:02:49,700 reckon yourself, which is a word we don't use, but it's just to decide. 73 00:02:50,100 --> 00:02:51,533 It's one thing to know what the Bible says. 74 00:02:51,533 --> 00:02:54,533 It's another thing to decide to follow in what it says. 75 00:02:54,966 --> 00:02:56,233 That's like that belief part, right? 76 00:02:56,233 --> 00:02:58,300 That head knowledge versus heart knowledge that this is 77 00:02:58,300 --> 00:03:01,433 this is for me, I believe it, I believe it to be true. 78 00:03:01,433 --> 00:03:03,100 I reckon it to be true. 79 00:03:03,100 --> 00:03:05,166 I've decided it is truth. 80 00:03:05,166 --> 00:03:06,900 And then that third step almost feels natural. 81 00:03:06,900 --> 00:03:08,433 We have to resist, right? 82 00:03:08,433 --> 00:03:11,600 We have this desire to live for self and to play God and to be on the throne. 83 00:03:11,600 --> 00:03:14,700 And so we have to we have to push back that urge of, of, of, 84 00:03:15,000 --> 00:03:19,033 of being God and playing, you know, Savior and realize that, 85 00:03:19,500 --> 00:03:22,133 you know, we have to we have to push back against it, against the culture 86 00:03:22,133 --> 00:03:25,766 and against the things that distract us and that influence us in a negative way. 87 00:03:26,433 --> 00:03:28,466 And then fourth step is to replace, right. 88 00:03:28,466 --> 00:03:30,066 What are we going to allow in? 89 00:03:30,066 --> 00:03:31,633 What are we going to allow to to speak to us? 90 00:03:31,633 --> 00:03:32,633 What are we going to submit to? 91 00:03:32,633 --> 00:03:35,900 What are we going to allow to be an authority in our lives? 92 00:03:36,066 --> 00:03:39,966 And so know, reckon, resist and replace is what we're going to unpack this morning. 93 00:03:40,333 --> 00:03:43,300 And as I was thinking, as I, as we, as we jump in dead to sin and alive 94 00:03:43,300 --> 00:03:46,300 in Christ, I was thinking this week about this statement 95 00:03:46,866 --> 00:03:49,600 that that the Christian life is a battle 96 00:03:50,600 --> 00:03:51,100 and I thought you. 97 00:03:51,100 --> 00:03:54,866 But it feels like a battle to me, and it's one that we cannot give up on, 98 00:03:55,366 --> 00:03:59,233 especially as a spouse, as a parent, as an and an uncle, whoever. 99 00:03:59,266 --> 00:04:00,366 You know that anyone that serves 100 00:04:00,366 --> 00:04:04,266 this next generation, it is so vital that we realize that it is a battle 101 00:04:04,600 --> 00:04:08,833 if we're doing the things that that God asks of us, if we if we are sacrificing 102 00:04:08,833 --> 00:04:10,733 and we are tithing, and we are giving our time 103 00:04:10,733 --> 00:04:12,000 and our talents and our resources, 104 00:04:12,000 --> 00:04:14,933 if we are submitting to God and being in Scripture, 105 00:04:14,933 --> 00:04:17,933 if we are in prayer, if we're letting our kids go out 106 00:04:17,933 --> 00:04:21,066 and just trusting God with their lives like it is a battle 107 00:04:22,066 --> 00:04:23,700 and it's one that we can't give up on. 108 00:04:23,700 --> 00:04:24,866 We can't cut corners. 109 00:04:24,866 --> 00:04:27,533 We can't, you know, shave a little off this year. 110 00:04:27,533 --> 00:04:29,566 We have to be so intentional 111 00:04:29,566 --> 00:04:32,766 with the with the life that that Jesus has given us, the Holy Spirit, the life 112 00:04:32,766 --> 00:04:33,600 that he has redeemed 113 00:04:34,600 --> 00:04:35,566 and I found 114 00:04:35,566 --> 00:04:38,566 I stumbled on this quote this week from from Charles Spurgeon. 115 00:04:38,600 --> 00:04:39,433 I'm just going to paraphrase. 116 00:04:39,433 --> 00:04:41,233 I'm not going to read the quote, but it says this. 117 00:04:41,233 --> 00:04:44,133 It says when someone is born again 118 00:04:44,133 --> 00:04:46,800 through faith in Christ, 119 00:04:46,800 --> 00:04:51,366 their life immediately day one, it enters into a spiritual battle against sin. 120 00:04:51,600 --> 00:04:54,900 And the world is not like, get your bearings right, find a church, 121 00:04:54,900 --> 00:04:57,600 find you know, understand Scripture a little bit like a certain saint. 122 00:04:57,600 --> 00:04:59,100 Day one. 123 00:04:59,100 --> 00:05:02,033 There's this immediate battle that you're thrust into because 124 00:05:02,033 --> 00:05:04,800 now you're not dead anymore. You're made alive. 125 00:05:04,800 --> 00:05:06,266 And when you're alive, you have choice. 126 00:05:06,266 --> 00:05:08,733 And when you have choice and you have the Holy Spirit, it's this decision. 127 00:05:08,733 --> 00:05:10,466 Are we going to live for God? Are we going to live for self? 128 00:05:10,466 --> 00:05:11,333 And that's the tension 129 00:05:11,333 --> 00:05:14,366 I think Romans is presenting is who are we going to live for? 130 00:05:14,866 --> 00:05:15,966 And that Spurgeon is talking about? 131 00:05:15,966 --> 00:05:18,300 I don't mean it happened day one 132 00:05:20,100 --> 00:05:22,300 and you were with us in the fall. 133 00:05:22,300 --> 00:05:23,966 Pastor Carl took us through judges. 134 00:05:23,966 --> 00:05:26,966 It was a great series, great study, a lot to pull from it. 135 00:05:28,033 --> 00:05:30,766 And he shared this with the church, and I was thinking about it a lot 136 00:05:30,766 --> 00:05:32,166 the last couple weeks 137 00:05:32,166 --> 00:05:35,133 that that you and I can be tired in it and we should be tired. 138 00:05:35,133 --> 00:05:37,200 And if if we're living for others and we're sacrificing 139 00:05:37,200 --> 00:05:40,266 and we're we're doing what we're supposed to do, we should be tired. 140 00:05:40,266 --> 00:05:42,166 But we can't be tired of it. 141 00:05:42,166 --> 00:05:43,733 That's the charge. As a Christian. 142 00:05:43,733 --> 00:05:46,433 Don't get tired of it. Don't get lazy in your faith. Right? 143 00:05:46,433 --> 00:05:48,333 I was talking to our our high school students. 144 00:05:48,333 --> 00:05:49,333 We're going through the book of Hebrews. 145 00:05:49,333 --> 00:05:51,466 When we talk about our faith is like a spectrum where 146 00:05:51,466 --> 00:05:55,100 maybe we hear it's very legalistic and we kind of add things to the cross 147 00:05:55,133 --> 00:05:57,000 over here. It's very lazy. Our faith. 148 00:05:57,000 --> 00:05:58,233 We don't want to be either extremes. 149 00:05:58,233 --> 00:06:01,500 We want to be right in the middle where Jesus is our fixed reference point. 150 00:06:02,233 --> 00:06:04,733 And as we live this Christian life, we don't. 151 00:06:05,933 --> 00:06:07,200 God doesn't mind us being tired. 152 00:06:07,200 --> 00:06:10,200 And it we should be, but we can't be tired of it. 153 00:06:10,233 --> 00:06:12,200 Because when we're tired of it, things get sideways. 154 00:06:12,200 --> 00:06:14,933 Sin creeps and temptation creeps. And bless you. 155 00:06:14,933 --> 00:06:17,800 When we get tired of it, we stop fighting. 156 00:06:17,800 --> 00:06:20,066 We stop doing the things we're supposed to do. 157 00:06:20,066 --> 00:06:20,633 We stop. 158 00:06:20,633 --> 00:06:23,733 We stop inviting God into our lives and asking for his strength and his wisdom 159 00:06:23,733 --> 00:06:27,933 and his discernment and his his, his, his what he has for us. 160 00:06:28,933 --> 00:06:30,133 Right? 161 00:06:30,133 --> 00:06:32,766 And so, as cheesy as it is, we have to be vigilant. 162 00:06:32,766 --> 00:06:34,833 We have to be fighters, right? 163 00:06:34,833 --> 00:06:36,600 Otherwise, 164 00:06:36,600 --> 00:06:39,600 life can get a little bit weird on us. 165 00:06:40,233 --> 00:06:41,433 As I was processing 166 00:06:41,433 --> 00:06:44,433 the text, the Bible, I think the Gospels this shares that 167 00:06:44,633 --> 00:06:49,500 although our spirits regenerated or made new, our flesh is not right. 168 00:06:49,733 --> 00:06:52,500 And that means we have a warring, means we have conflict. 169 00:06:52,500 --> 00:06:54,400 We have tension within us 170 00:06:54,400 --> 00:06:59,200 because we certainly want to serve a God who loves us, who came down and took on 171 00:06:59,200 --> 00:07:02,866 flesh and lived a life and then died and paid the penalty that we couldn't pay. 172 00:07:02,866 --> 00:07:04,333 We want to we want to serve and we want to love him. 173 00:07:04,333 --> 00:07:06,300 We want to live for him. 174 00:07:06,300 --> 00:07:08,866 But then if we're being honest, we also want to live for self 175 00:07:08,866 --> 00:07:11,600 and other things that I want and I want to pursue and I want to be in control. 176 00:07:11,600 --> 00:07:12,633 I want to have the authority. 177 00:07:12,633 --> 00:07:15,166 I want to me, me, me, me, me. 178 00:07:15,166 --> 00:07:17,100 I think as we get married and we have kids and we, 179 00:07:17,100 --> 00:07:20,400 we are getting further removed from that, you know, hope hopefully. But 180 00:07:21,666 --> 00:07:22,500 but we have this conflict 181 00:07:22,500 --> 00:07:25,266 and I think we have to acknowledge the conflict that exists within us. 182 00:07:25,266 --> 00:07:26,933 We don't ignore it and we don't say it doesn't exist. 183 00:07:26,933 --> 00:07:28,000 It does exist. 184 00:07:28,000 --> 00:07:31,000 Bless you. Yep. 185 00:07:31,800 --> 00:07:34,800 So as we jump into five, or chapter six this morning, I, 186 00:07:35,100 --> 00:07:38,100 I want to remind us, Pastor Krall shared with us that 187 00:07:38,100 --> 00:07:41,266 that the first five chapters has shown us that all nations are guilty. 188 00:07:41,833 --> 00:07:45,000 There's not anyone that doesn't that that hasn't fallen short of the glory of God, 189 00:07:45,033 --> 00:07:47,966 which is the beauty of, of of of the cross. 190 00:07:47,966 --> 00:07:48,233 Right. 191 00:07:48,233 --> 00:07:50,366 And it's the beauty of we don't look sideways and say, 192 00:07:50,366 --> 00:07:51,600 you know, look at you and look at you, 193 00:07:51,600 --> 00:07:53,100 and your sin is greater and your sin is less, right. 194 00:07:53,100 --> 00:07:54,266 And we're supposed to focus on the plank 195 00:07:54,266 --> 00:07:56,433 in our own eye, not the speck in someone else's eye. 196 00:07:56,433 --> 00:07:58,466 But chapter five has showed us that all are guilty. 197 00:07:59,400 --> 00:08:01,666 All nations, all peoples were guilty as charged. 198 00:08:01,666 --> 00:08:02,900 Humanity is guilty. 199 00:08:02,900 --> 00:08:06,866 But the good news is that Jesus took the penalty for our crime. 200 00:08:08,200 --> 00:08:10,400 He took it away. He made us righteous. 201 00:08:10,400 --> 00:08:13,500 That's an amazing thing that that Jesus became what we are 202 00:08:13,500 --> 00:08:17,300 so that we could become what he is blameless in the sight of God, 203 00:08:18,100 --> 00:08:21,100 righteous because of the cross, we are made new. 204 00:08:21,700 --> 00:08:22,733 It's an amazing reality. 205 00:08:22,733 --> 00:08:24,633 And so before we jump in, 206 00:08:24,633 --> 00:08:28,233 I just want to put this on the screen for you to think about chapters 1 to 5. 207 00:08:28,600 --> 00:08:31,466 They they talk about being dead insane. 208 00:08:31,466 --> 00:08:32,100 We're dead in our sin. 209 00:08:32,100 --> 00:08:33,566 And what can you do when you're dead in sin? 210 00:08:33,566 --> 00:08:36,000 Not you can't do anything right. 211 00:08:36,000 --> 00:08:37,166 But then it's sneaky. 212 00:08:37,166 --> 00:08:39,000 You just sub one word in and one word out. 213 00:08:39,000 --> 00:08:41,266 Chapter six seven, eight. It shifts. 214 00:08:41,266 --> 00:08:42,333 Paul shifts his language. 215 00:08:42,333 --> 00:08:45,333 He says, now we're dead to sin. 216 00:08:45,333 --> 00:08:46,200 It's a big difference. 217 00:08:46,200 --> 00:08:48,966 And this feels like it's our response. How do we respond, then, to the sin 218 00:08:48,966 --> 00:08:51,966 that is still in our lives and in this world? 219 00:08:52,066 --> 00:08:53,366 And so we're no longer dead 220 00:08:53,366 --> 00:08:56,366 in Saint Paul's going to argue in chapter six, we're dead to sin. 221 00:08:56,833 --> 00:08:57,066 Right. 222 00:08:57,066 --> 00:08:58,500 And so it's that's very proactive. 223 00:08:58,500 --> 00:09:00,300 Now, what are we going to do with our life? 224 00:09:00,300 --> 00:09:02,800 What are you going to do with the life that God has blessed us with and given us? 225 00:09:03,966 --> 00:09:06,000 So I want to start with that four step process, and we'll start with 226 00:09:06,000 --> 00:09:09,333 the first word is to know for the note takers, I'm talking about no. 227 00:09:10,233 --> 00:09:13,200 And before we jump into six we got to I got to remind you, 228 00:09:13,200 --> 00:09:15,300 David just referenced it during communion. 229 00:09:15,300 --> 00:09:19,600 Chapter five ends in this way it says, but where sin increased, 230 00:09:20,000 --> 00:09:22,766 grace increased all the more. 231 00:09:22,766 --> 00:09:25,966 It's important to note, certainly worse than increased grace has to increase 232 00:09:26,166 --> 00:09:28,666 because the cross is complete, it has to increase. 233 00:09:28,666 --> 00:09:31,166 We can't outspend the cross right. 234 00:09:31,166 --> 00:09:33,533 And so Paul, with that in mind, is going to jump in to six 235 00:09:33,533 --> 00:09:34,433 and acknowledge that right away. 236 00:09:34,433 --> 00:09:36,100 So I want to read the first couple scriptures. 237 00:09:36,100 --> 00:09:37,900 It says this 238 00:09:37,900 --> 00:09:40,900 in six verse one it says what shall we say then? 239 00:09:41,133 --> 00:09:44,100 Shall we go on sending so that grace may increase? 240 00:09:44,100 --> 00:09:44,500 Verse two. 241 00:09:44,500 --> 00:09:48,333 He says, by no means we are those who have died to sin. 242 00:09:48,600 --> 00:09:50,300 How can we live in it any longer? 243 00:09:51,266 --> 00:09:53,233 Verse three says, or don't you know that all of us 244 00:09:53,233 --> 00:09:56,233 who were baptized into Christ Jesus, we were baptized into his death? 245 00:09:57,466 --> 00:09:59,233 Verse four says, we were therefore buried with him 246 00:09:59,233 --> 00:10:01,300 through baptism into death, in order that just as Christ 247 00:10:01,300 --> 00:10:02,066 was raised from the dead 248 00:10:02,066 --> 00:10:05,833 through the glory of the father, we too may have a new life. 249 00:10:06,266 --> 00:10:09,100 So, Paul, why is he talking? Any objections? 250 00:10:09,100 --> 00:10:09,633 He's easy. 251 00:10:09,633 --> 00:10:11,800 He's right away saying, 252 00:10:11,800 --> 00:10:14,733 now we're just because grace increases and grace abounds doesn't mean we. 253 00:10:14,733 --> 00:10:17,733 We want to lean in and live a selfish lifestyle. 254 00:10:18,033 --> 00:10:21,066 Augustine said, love the Lord your God and do as you please. 255 00:10:21,066 --> 00:10:21,400 Right? 256 00:10:21,400 --> 00:10:23,800 And Paul's saying no when he's fighting every objection 257 00:10:23,800 --> 00:10:25,933 here, he's saying, no, that's not how we're supposed to live our lives. 258 00:10:27,133 --> 00:10:27,666 All right? 259 00:10:27,666 --> 00:10:27,900 We're not. 260 00:10:27,900 --> 00:10:29,500 We're forced to push back to any desire 261 00:10:29,500 --> 00:10:33,166 to live for self and to please self, to think that sin right 262 00:10:33,366 --> 00:10:37,100 should, should, should rule in our lives and then we should give in to it. 263 00:10:37,700 --> 00:10:40,866 Now it's important to know, does unlimited forgiveness for standing exist? 264 00:10:40,866 --> 00:10:43,466 Of course it does. It does. 265 00:10:43,466 --> 00:10:46,466 But it doesn't mean we continue to live in that space any longer. 266 00:10:46,500 --> 00:10:49,300 But I liken it to like the jail cell has been open 267 00:10:49,300 --> 00:10:51,400 and we're just choosing to live in that cell. 268 00:10:51,400 --> 00:10:53,400 Like, why are the doors wide open? 269 00:10:53,400 --> 00:10:54,433 We might walk out for a little bit 270 00:10:54,433 --> 00:10:57,200 and then we find ourselves right back in that cell. But the door is open. 271 00:10:57,200 --> 00:10:58,500 We're dead to sin. 272 00:10:58,500 --> 00:11:01,866 It means we should look and live and act a different way. 273 00:11:03,100 --> 00:11:05,933 But unlimited forgiveness for sin does still exist. 274 00:11:05,933 --> 00:11:08,866 Grace does abound. 275 00:11:08,866 --> 00:11:12,133 But I think why Paul makes this argument, why we're not supposed to live 276 00:11:12,133 --> 00:11:15,800 in our old, broken ways, is because of the cost of our sin. 277 00:11:16,033 --> 00:11:18,300 We couldn't pay that cost. 278 00:11:18,300 --> 00:11:19,166 So Jesus came down. 279 00:11:19,166 --> 00:11:21,566 He paid that penalty for our trespasses. 280 00:11:21,566 --> 00:11:22,200 I mean, I and I 281 00:11:22,200 --> 00:11:26,666 just think of my own shame, my own guilt, my own struggles, my own disgust at times 282 00:11:26,966 --> 00:11:30,600 that Jesus bore that for me on the cross times all of us 283 00:11:30,600 --> 00:11:33,766 and the 8 billion people that live and has ever lived and will ever live. 284 00:11:34,500 --> 00:11:36,700 I mean, I just think mine can be suffocating enough. 285 00:11:36,700 --> 00:11:37,666 The things that I struggle with 286 00:11:37,666 --> 00:11:40,666 and things I try to push back on and and try not to indulge in. 287 00:11:41,233 --> 00:11:44,400 And yet it's billions and billions and billions of people more that 288 00:11:44,400 --> 00:11:48,366 Jesus experienced that hurt on the cross, that guilt, that shame, that disgust. 289 00:11:48,366 --> 00:11:51,633 And so, in my view, I'm just like, I can't keep living there 290 00:11:52,733 --> 00:11:55,233 because in some ways it's like, am I even valuing the cross? 291 00:11:55,233 --> 00:11:58,233 Then am I even valuing the 292 00:11:58,433 --> 00:12:01,533 the gift that is grace and salvation and eternity with God? 293 00:12:01,566 --> 00:12:03,133 It's like I have to start living right? 294 00:12:03,133 --> 00:12:06,900 Your will be done on earth as it is in heaven, right here, right now, in my life 295 00:12:06,900 --> 00:12:09,900 as it is in heaven, and flip sides life as it is in heaven. 296 00:12:10,700 --> 00:12:12,300 So we have to push back. We have to fight. 297 00:12:12,300 --> 00:12:13,733 And I think what Paul's is 298 00:12:13,733 --> 00:12:16,766 getting out here is this, that you and I are supposed to walk in newness of life. 299 00:12:17,200 --> 00:12:17,633 That's what 300 00:12:17,633 --> 00:12:22,233 that's what verse three talks about, says, or don't you know that all of all of us 301 00:12:22,233 --> 00:12:25,233 who were baptized into Christ Jesus, we were baptized into his death. 302 00:12:25,466 --> 00:12:28,200 It was actually really important to reflect on. 303 00:12:28,200 --> 00:12:28,700 Right? 304 00:12:28,700 --> 00:12:30,000 And we have to be pretty convinced of this. 305 00:12:30,000 --> 00:12:31,733 We have no theology. 306 00:12:31,733 --> 00:12:33,300 We have to know what this is saying, because so often 307 00:12:33,300 --> 00:12:36,700 I think we say, no, I'm going to add Jesus to my marriage, which is good. 308 00:12:37,100 --> 00:12:38,533 I'm going to add Jesus to my finances. 309 00:12:38,533 --> 00:12:41,166 I'm going to add Jesus to my parenting, which are all good things, 310 00:12:41,166 --> 00:12:43,100 but we don't add Jesus to us. 311 00:12:43,100 --> 00:12:44,833 It says we're fully immersed in him. 312 00:12:44,833 --> 00:12:46,600 I mean, you know, think of baptism, right? 313 00:12:46,600 --> 00:12:49,400 Oh, we do baptism here in Carl's pool, right? 314 00:12:49,400 --> 00:12:50,366 Full immersion. 315 00:12:50,366 --> 00:12:52,733 Jesus was fully immersed when he was baptized. 316 00:12:52,733 --> 00:12:56,900 And so we have to not fallen to the trap of, oh, I'm going to add Jesus to me now. 317 00:12:56,900 --> 00:12:58,666 We're fully immersed in him. 318 00:12:58,666 --> 00:13:02,433 That means in all aspects of life, we should have Jesus as our 319 00:13:02,433 --> 00:13:06,433 as our reference point, as our as our, you know, glasses that we look through, 320 00:13:06,433 --> 00:13:09,466 like whether I'm at work or at home or ballgame or 321 00:13:09,466 --> 00:13:13,500 with my family or my friends or church or whatever, that Jesus is 322 00:13:14,700 --> 00:13:16,933 on my mind always because I'm fully immersed. 323 00:13:16,933 --> 00:13:20,766 You are fully immersed in him, and it's easy to live contrary to that. 324 00:13:21,300 --> 00:13:22,966 And that's why I think Paul's hitting at this. 325 00:13:22,966 --> 00:13:25,066 Don't forget, you're dead to sin. 326 00:13:25,066 --> 00:13:27,833 You're dead to sin, not dead in sin. 327 00:13:27,833 --> 00:13:30,833 And so we need to be mindful that when we're immersed in Christ's death 328 00:13:31,266 --> 00:13:33,733 right through his, this baptism into his death. 329 00:13:33,733 --> 00:13:35,766 And so Paul's again, he's just hitting the point. 330 00:13:35,766 --> 00:13:38,766 How can we live in sin any longer? 331 00:13:38,800 --> 00:13:41,400 He's saying, you know, God, you know the miracles, you know the teachings. 332 00:13:41,400 --> 00:13:42,833 You know how he lived his life. 333 00:13:42,833 --> 00:13:44,933 And in light of that, and you know the cost of the cross, 334 00:13:44,933 --> 00:13:47,933 how can we live there any longer? 335 00:13:48,800 --> 00:13:50,166 And I want to say it one more time. 336 00:13:50,166 --> 00:13:51,866 Again, we don't look left and right, front and back. 337 00:13:51,866 --> 00:13:55,766 We we look we search our own hearts when it comes to the sin issues that we have. 338 00:13:56,833 --> 00:13:59,033 The plank in my eye is the same size, the plank in your eye. 339 00:13:59,033 --> 00:14:02,100 But your eyes will look like a speck to me because I'm not focused on yours. 340 00:14:02,100 --> 00:14:03,400 I'm focused on my own. 341 00:14:03,400 --> 00:14:05,766 I'm focused on me, doing better. Me, me, me. 342 00:14:05,766 --> 00:14:08,700 Growing in my faith and living that out through my marriage 343 00:14:08,700 --> 00:14:11,100 and my parenting in my, you know, youth pastoring. 344 00:14:11,100 --> 00:14:14,100 And so we're called to walk in newness of life. 345 00:14:16,200 --> 00:14:17,133 I'm going to continue. 346 00:14:17,133 --> 00:14:19,633 We're gonna jump into verse five. 347 00:14:19,633 --> 00:14:22,500 It says, for if we have been united with him in a death like this, 348 00:14:22,500 --> 00:14:25,500 we will certainly also be united with him in a resurrection like this. 349 00:14:25,800 --> 00:14:28,633 For we know that our old self was crucified with him, 350 00:14:28,633 --> 00:14:31,633 so that the body ruled by sin, it might be done away with. 351 00:14:31,833 --> 00:14:35,166 We should no longer be slaves to sin, because anyone who has died 352 00:14:35,166 --> 00:14:36,600 has been set free from sin. 353 00:14:37,600 --> 00:14:38,400 Now, if 354 00:14:38,400 --> 00:14:41,400 we died with Christ, we believe that we will also live with him. 355 00:14:41,666 --> 00:14:44,966 For we know that since Christ was raised from the dead, he cannot die again. 356 00:14:45,333 --> 00:14:47,300 Death no longer has mastery over him. 357 00:14:47,300 --> 00:14:49,633 The death he died, he died to sin once for all. 358 00:14:49,633 --> 00:14:50,433 And this is important. 359 00:14:50,433 --> 00:14:53,100 But the life he lives, he lives to God. 360 00:14:53,100 --> 00:14:56,100 It's one thing to believe that we're forgiven and experience that. 361 00:14:56,233 --> 00:14:58,566 It's another thing to live our life 362 00:14:58,566 --> 00:15:01,566 to God, to dedicate that life to God. 363 00:15:01,933 --> 00:15:03,866 Christ as he lives this life, he lives to God. 364 00:15:03,866 --> 00:15:07,466 We are called to live to God, to seek holiness because he is holy. 365 00:15:09,766 --> 00:15:09,933 Right. 366 00:15:09,933 --> 00:15:13,900 Verses 5 to 10 I think they share with us that Christ died and rose again, 367 00:15:15,633 --> 00:15:18,633 that Scripture assures that when he died, we died. 368 00:15:18,900 --> 00:15:20,766 And when he rose, we rose. 369 00:15:20,766 --> 00:15:23,700 And so there's something really magical, something really important, 370 00:15:23,700 --> 00:15:26,000 something really mysterious about the cross. 371 00:15:26,000 --> 00:15:29,000 Because the cross, what happened 2000 years ago. 372 00:15:29,300 --> 00:15:32,866 But in 2005, I experienced the cross when I accepted Jesus as Lord and Savior. 373 00:15:32,866 --> 00:15:33,500 And you experienced 374 00:15:33,500 --> 00:15:35,233 and whatever you're you experienced that you became a believer. 375 00:15:35,233 --> 00:15:38,066 So in that way, the cross will be alive forever. 376 00:15:38,066 --> 00:15:41,466 Because once we become a believer, once, once the Holy Spirit regenerates 377 00:15:41,466 --> 00:15:44,833 us, we experience that death and that resurrection is really this magical thing, 378 00:15:45,666 --> 00:15:48,200 that God is a gift that he allows us to say. 379 00:15:48,200 --> 00:15:50,533 That's a reality for me in 2005 and beyond, 380 00:15:50,533 --> 00:15:52,733 and for all of you and whatever year you came to faith, 381 00:15:53,900 --> 00:15:55,466 it's quite wild. 382 00:15:55,466 --> 00:15:57,533 But if we do believe that we died with him when he rose again, 383 00:15:57,533 --> 00:15:58,100 and we do believe 384 00:15:58,100 --> 00:16:01,633 that the sins of our lives and the lives of those around us are forgiven, 385 00:16:01,900 --> 00:16:04,533 and that means the power of our sin. Nature also died. 386 00:16:04,533 --> 00:16:06,433 The power of our sin nature is dead. 387 00:16:06,433 --> 00:16:07,566 The power is gone. We don't need again. 388 00:16:07,566 --> 00:16:09,900 Go back in and out of that jail cell. It is gone. 389 00:16:09,900 --> 00:16:12,900 It is done. We are dead. 390 00:16:13,033 --> 00:16:14,600 It's interesting 391 00:16:14,600 --> 00:16:17,733 if you think about right this older self, this older Michael before 392 00:16:17,733 --> 00:16:20,733 I was a believer and then you have to we have to view him as dead. 393 00:16:21,166 --> 00:16:22,566 I am a new person in Christ. 394 00:16:22,566 --> 00:16:24,533 So that old version of me is gone, is dead. 395 00:16:25,900 --> 00:16:27,666 Our our junior highers are in Genesis. 396 00:16:27,666 --> 00:16:29,333 We're going through the book of Genesis and Revelation. 397 00:16:29,333 --> 00:16:32,333 We're kind of like bookending scripture. 398 00:16:33,133 --> 00:16:34,500 And we're going through 399 00:16:34,500 --> 00:16:37,500 how God is using Abraham, Isaac and Jacob to bring about the Messiah. 400 00:16:38,266 --> 00:16:42,366 And and we just got through Esau and Jacob twins. 401 00:16:42,366 --> 00:16:44,400 But they're so different in every single way. 402 00:16:44,400 --> 00:16:45,400 He's always hairy. 403 00:16:45,400 --> 00:16:47,366 He's a man of the country. 404 00:16:47,366 --> 00:16:49,100 He connects better with his father. 405 00:16:49,100 --> 00:16:51,266 Jacob is smooth skinned. 406 00:16:51,266 --> 00:16:55,066 It says, he stays among the tents and he connects with his mother. 407 00:16:55,400 --> 00:16:56,466 And there's some family dynamics. 408 00:16:56,466 --> 00:16:58,766 There's some hurt and brokenness. But. 409 00:16:58,766 --> 00:17:00,900 But what we see talked about here in Romans 410 00:17:00,900 --> 00:17:03,900 six was actually first talked about in Genesis with our story. 411 00:17:04,833 --> 00:17:06,000 God told Rebecca, their mother. 412 00:17:06,000 --> 00:17:09,433 He said that the older Esau will serve the younger, 413 00:17:09,933 --> 00:17:12,733 just like my old self, my sinful self, my broken self, my dead 414 00:17:12,733 --> 00:17:14,933 self is going to serve my new, younger self. 415 00:17:14,933 --> 00:17:17,066 That is spirit led and spirit driven. 416 00:17:17,066 --> 00:17:17,866 And so we see this. 417 00:17:17,866 --> 00:17:20,566 That's how we have to be in Scripture because we see this connection, 418 00:17:20,566 --> 00:17:23,966 the old version of me as Esau, he's going to serve the younger version of me, 419 00:17:23,966 --> 00:17:25,066 which is Jacob, right? 420 00:17:25,066 --> 00:17:27,000 The oldest there, the new has come. 421 00:17:27,000 --> 00:17:30,333 And so we're called in that way to, to, to to reckon myself dead. 422 00:17:30,333 --> 00:17:31,933 And we'll talk about reckoning in a minute. 423 00:17:31,933 --> 00:17:34,633 But we have to get this done with the Norse theology. 424 00:17:34,633 --> 00:17:36,300 We have to know that scripture and all the connections 425 00:17:36,300 --> 00:17:39,900 and all that end in the out, because God talked about this very idea 426 00:17:39,900 --> 00:17:43,800 back in Genesis, whatever, 20 something 26 but if we don't know 427 00:17:43,800 --> 00:17:44,666 this, we're going to miss it. 428 00:17:46,100 --> 00:17:46,466 And so our 429 00:17:46,466 --> 00:17:49,700 old self should serve our younger self, the broken flesh, and serve the spirit. 430 00:17:50,333 --> 00:17:53,266 It's a really cool concept, really cool idea. 431 00:17:53,266 --> 00:17:55,400 And I think the one way to sum that up is just to say this, that 432 00:17:55,400 --> 00:17:57,200 that sin is rendered powerless. 433 00:17:57,200 --> 00:18:00,333 The sin you have in your life that still exists, it's still there, right? 434 00:18:00,366 --> 00:18:02,333 Just because we're saved doesn't mean we still don't have sin. 435 00:18:02,333 --> 00:18:05,333 Pop up here and there, but it's rendered powerless. 436 00:18:06,300 --> 00:18:09,066 I think, as I process in, I think the reality is 437 00:18:09,066 --> 00:18:12,066 that we should spend less as we as we mature in our faith, 438 00:18:12,433 --> 00:18:16,033 and so we should sin less, but it should also hit us more, should hit us harder. 439 00:18:16,133 --> 00:18:19,500 It hit us heavier because we we know how much we've been blessed. 440 00:18:19,500 --> 00:18:20,733 We know how much God has done for us. 441 00:18:20,733 --> 00:18:22,833 And so, although we have less than, it should almost be like 442 00:18:22,833 --> 00:18:25,833 we're more convicted and we're more hurt and we're more broken over our sin, 443 00:18:26,633 --> 00:18:29,233 less means more in some weird spiritual way, 444 00:18:29,233 --> 00:18:31,900 because we don't want to walk in that way any longer. 445 00:18:33,400 --> 00:18:34,466 But sin is better, powerless. 446 00:18:34,466 --> 00:18:34,933 Verse five. 447 00:18:34,933 --> 00:18:39,200 It shared that the body of sin should be done away with, done away with. 448 00:18:39,200 --> 00:18:40,666 Think of it like it's void. 449 00:18:40,666 --> 00:18:41,800 It's completely void. 450 00:18:41,800 --> 00:18:42,666 It's abolished. 451 00:18:42,666 --> 00:18:43,533 It's out of business. 452 00:18:43,533 --> 00:18:45,733 That old version of me, it's gone. Why? 453 00:18:45,733 --> 00:18:48,300 Because we were baptized into Christ. Death. 454 00:18:48,300 --> 00:18:49,700 That old nature is voided. 455 00:18:49,700 --> 00:18:52,066 It is gone. 456 00:18:52,066 --> 00:18:54,700 But like I just said, the reality is that our old self 457 00:18:54,700 --> 00:18:59,066 still lingers around, still fighting for its life, still wanting to find life. 458 00:18:59,066 --> 00:19:02,100 Wanting to find out that hold on us, wanting it, wanting 459 00:19:02,100 --> 00:19:05,100 to kind of jump back into the picture. 460 00:19:06,000 --> 00:19:07,200 And so I think very practically, 461 00:19:07,200 --> 00:19:10,200 we just have to say, all right, God, I need you more than I need me. 462 00:19:10,433 --> 00:19:11,400 I need to get off the throne. 463 00:19:11,400 --> 00:19:13,500 I can't keep playing God. I can't keep going for self. 464 00:19:14,433 --> 00:19:15,466 And verse 11 speaks of that. 465 00:19:15,466 --> 00:19:17,100 It says in the same way, count yourselves 466 00:19:17,100 --> 00:19:21,166 dead to sin, but alive to God in Christ Jesus. 467 00:19:21,166 --> 00:19:21,966 So the first step, 468 00:19:21,966 --> 00:19:26,200 I think, to, to, to living this new life is to know what Scripture says, to know 469 00:19:26,200 --> 00:19:29,200 the connection to the Old Testament, the new, to know what Jesus said, 470 00:19:29,366 --> 00:19:32,266 to know that our God has ultimate victory. 471 00:19:32,266 --> 00:19:35,266 Although the Christian life is a battle, a daily battle for you and for me, 472 00:19:35,666 --> 00:19:36,600 we know the victor. 473 00:19:36,600 --> 00:19:37,600 Our God is the victor. 474 00:19:37,600 --> 00:19:40,166 And so we have to believe this stuff. We have to. 475 00:19:40,166 --> 00:19:41,600 We have to rather we have to know it. 476 00:19:41,600 --> 00:19:44,600 And that's going to lead hopefully to this, this deep conviction 477 00:19:44,600 --> 00:19:45,300 and this belief. 478 00:19:45,300 --> 00:19:48,300 And so that's what step two is, I think this morning is to reckon yourself 479 00:19:49,066 --> 00:19:52,066 never use that word in my life before preparing this teaching. 480 00:19:52,666 --> 00:19:54,700 I don't reckon, I've used that. 481 00:19:54,700 --> 00:19:56,200 But you have to reckon yourself, 482 00:19:56,200 --> 00:19:58,733 you have to decide that you're dead to sin. 483 00:19:58,733 --> 00:19:59,500 Yeah. Stupid joke. 484 00:19:59,500 --> 00:20:01,733 If you decide that you're dead to sin, you have to reckon it fully. 485 00:20:01,733 --> 00:20:04,766 I am dead to sin and I'm alive to Christ. 486 00:20:04,766 --> 00:20:06,733 And you have to own it. 487 00:20:06,733 --> 00:20:07,800 If the first step is knowing, 488 00:20:07,800 --> 00:20:10,800 the second self is believing fully, all in wholeheartedly. 489 00:20:11,166 --> 00:20:12,700 This is true. 490 00:20:12,700 --> 00:20:13,466 As I wanted it. 491 00:20:13,466 --> 00:20:14,933 I was thinking I wanted to give us a definition 492 00:20:14,933 --> 00:20:16,833 for reckon just because it's not a word we use. 493 00:20:16,833 --> 00:20:18,600 And so reckon is this. 494 00:20:18,600 --> 00:20:23,700 It's a firm conviction reached by rational thought on the basis of the gospel. 495 00:20:23,700 --> 00:20:25,933 So the gospel is the is the is the foundation. 496 00:20:25,933 --> 00:20:27,333 But I love the first couple words. 497 00:20:27,333 --> 00:20:29,100 It's a firm conviction. 498 00:20:29,100 --> 00:20:32,433 To reckon that we're dead to sin is to be all in fully believe it. 499 00:20:32,700 --> 00:20:34,200 1,000% convinced. 500 00:20:34,200 --> 00:20:36,366 It's not like I'm kind of lukewarm. Or maybe it's true. 501 00:20:36,366 --> 00:20:38,366 Maybe it's not. No, it's we're fully there. 502 00:20:38,366 --> 00:20:41,300 It's a it's a firm conviction by by rational 503 00:20:41,300 --> 00:20:42,600 thought on the basis of the gospel. 504 00:20:42,600 --> 00:20:46,333 So reckon it's to count yourself to count this deed already completely done. 505 00:20:46,833 --> 00:20:48,166 This deed is done. 506 00:20:48,166 --> 00:20:50,200 I am dead to sin. 507 00:20:50,200 --> 00:20:51,366 Say it over and over if you need to. 508 00:20:51,366 --> 00:20:53,066 I am dead to it. 509 00:20:53,066 --> 00:20:54,900 And I think how I've. 510 00:20:54,900 --> 00:20:57,900 I've come to unpack this is we have to believe that. 511 00:20:57,900 --> 00:21:02,033 That this new life is totally disconnected from our past life, right? 512 00:21:02,033 --> 00:21:05,033 This, that when you were placed in Christ, 513 00:21:05,333 --> 00:21:07,300 you were completely disconnected from your past. Right? 514 00:21:07,300 --> 00:21:08,133 That Grand Canyon 515 00:21:08,133 --> 00:21:11,666 seems like we are completely disconnected in this world and how we live. 516 00:21:12,266 --> 00:21:14,400 It's hard to get rid of our past and the mistakes and the hurt 517 00:21:14,400 --> 00:21:16,800 because we see the same people or we experience the same things. 518 00:21:16,800 --> 00:21:18,833 But but the hurt in Christ, the hurt towards 519 00:21:18,833 --> 00:21:22,766 God that existed, it is fully erased because of the cross. 520 00:21:22,766 --> 00:21:24,100 It's gone. 521 00:21:24,100 --> 00:21:27,100 And we don't have to live in that hurt space any longer. 522 00:21:27,666 --> 00:21:30,400 All the stuff, the crap that maybe is coming to mind that you like. 523 00:21:30,400 --> 00:21:31,833 I still maybe struggle with this. 524 00:21:33,200 --> 00:21:35,466 Give it to God and you are dead to it 525 00:21:35,466 --> 00:21:38,466 fully and forever dead to it. 526 00:21:39,000 --> 00:21:41,533 Now Galatians 220 is a great scripture that speaks this truth. 527 00:21:41,533 --> 00:21:44,666 It says, I have been crucified with Christ and I no longer live. 528 00:21:44,666 --> 00:21:47,533 I don't live, but Christ lives in me. 529 00:21:47,533 --> 00:21:49,933 The life I now live in the body I live by faith in the Son of God, 530 00:21:49,933 --> 00:21:52,933 who loved me and gave himself for me, gave himself for you. 531 00:21:53,766 --> 00:21:56,766 I think you can see this played out really in a really cool way 532 00:21:57,666 --> 00:21:59,633 through Isaiah the prophet Isaiah. 533 00:21:59,633 --> 00:22:02,033 If we go, if we jump in the Old Testament, I'm not going to read per se, 534 00:22:02,033 --> 00:22:04,633 but I want to give you kind of a picture of what happens. Isaiah. 535 00:22:04,633 --> 00:22:05,900 He sees a vision of the Lord. 536 00:22:06,900 --> 00:22:09,800 He sees the cry of the servant, and he sees that God is holy 537 00:22:09,800 --> 00:22:10,800 in light of who he is. 538 00:22:10,800 --> 00:22:13,800 You see, God is so holy. 539 00:22:13,800 --> 00:22:17,566 And when Isaiah got this revelation, he saw God's beauty and his majesty. 540 00:22:17,566 --> 00:22:20,566 But it's important to know how did he respond? 541 00:22:21,000 --> 00:22:24,000 Isaiah says, woe is me, 542 00:22:25,033 --> 00:22:27,000 woe is me, for I am lost. 543 00:22:27,000 --> 00:22:30,000 A man of unclean lips. 544 00:22:30,166 --> 00:22:32,900 Isaiah responds to God's holiness 545 00:22:32,900 --> 00:22:35,966 for seeing himself for what he really is sinful, wretched, 546 00:22:36,366 --> 00:22:39,366 right, dirty. 547 00:22:39,533 --> 00:22:42,900 And Isaiah cursed his own self right in light of just who he is. 548 00:22:42,900 --> 00:22:47,633 And that juxtaposition of like, God is there and I am so far away from that. 549 00:22:47,633 --> 00:22:50,500 I can never get there. 550 00:22:50,500 --> 00:22:52,800 He was broken over his sinful nature and the things of his heart. 551 00:22:55,033 --> 00:22:56,833 And this morning, 552 00:22:56,833 --> 00:22:59,766 I think in the same way, we have to be broken of the things of our heart. 553 00:22:59,766 --> 00:23:02,500 We do our hardest. 554 00:23:02,500 --> 00:23:04,833 It's not always oriented towards God. 555 00:23:04,833 --> 00:23:07,833 Even though we have this now heart of flesh, it's still not always, 556 00:23:08,100 --> 00:23:11,100 you know, focus in the right direction as we broken over our sin. 557 00:23:11,800 --> 00:23:15,166 Not in a way that leads to guilt and shame, but in a way that leads to us 558 00:23:15,166 --> 00:23:18,166 pursuing Christ more and in in 559 00:23:18,433 --> 00:23:21,433 like an act of thanksgiving. 560 00:23:22,633 --> 00:23:25,633 We have to we have to believe, 561 00:23:26,200 --> 00:23:29,800 that that nastiness that Isaiah describes is real. 562 00:23:29,800 --> 00:23:33,000 And we have to reckon that we're going to live for Christ. 563 00:23:35,500 --> 00:23:38,066 Verse 14 or sorry, verse 12 speaks to this. 564 00:23:38,066 --> 00:23:41,066 He says therefore, which means with everything we've talked about in mind, 565 00:23:41,600 --> 00:23:43,533 do not let sin reign in your mortal body 566 00:23:44,566 --> 00:23:47,566 so that you obey its evil desires. 567 00:23:48,300 --> 00:23:51,233 First step is to know Scripture, to know God's Word. 568 00:23:51,233 --> 00:23:53,700 Second is to reckon and believe. 569 00:23:53,700 --> 00:23:56,700 It is fully and wholly true, 570 00:23:57,600 --> 00:24:00,000 not to live in guilt and shame, 571 00:24:00,000 --> 00:24:01,866 not to live looking left and right, 572 00:24:01,866 --> 00:24:04,866 but to say, God, help me with the plant in my eye. 573 00:24:05,066 --> 00:24:07,900 Help me to look more like you. 574 00:24:07,900 --> 00:24:10,266 And so our third step this morning 575 00:24:10,266 --> 00:24:12,000 is to resist. 576 00:24:12,000 --> 00:24:13,966 It's to resist. 577 00:24:13,966 --> 00:24:15,966 And so maybe this scripture comes to mind. 578 00:24:15,966 --> 00:24:16,400 Maybe not. 579 00:24:16,400 --> 00:24:19,000 But James four seven says, resist the devil and he will flee from you. 580 00:24:19,000 --> 00:24:20,933 Resist the devil, he will flee from you. 581 00:24:20,933 --> 00:24:24,300 So as a as a believer, if we're just going progression right, we know Scripture. 582 00:24:24,300 --> 00:24:27,066 We got to know it. We got to believe fully. We got to be all in. 583 00:24:27,066 --> 00:24:27,700 Then we got to resist. 584 00:24:27,700 --> 00:24:30,133 We got to act. We got to do something. Now. 585 00:24:30,133 --> 00:24:33,233 But Isaiah or James rather four seven actually starts, 586 00:24:34,000 --> 00:24:35,300 you know, different than what I just read. 587 00:24:35,300 --> 00:24:37,033 It doesn't start with resist the devil. He will flee from you. 588 00:24:37,033 --> 00:24:39,333 It starts submit yourselves into God. 589 00:24:40,466 --> 00:24:42,233 Submit yourselves, then to God. 590 00:24:42,233 --> 00:24:45,066 Resist the devil and he will flee from you. 591 00:24:45,066 --> 00:24:48,066 The order of operation is important 592 00:24:48,633 --> 00:24:49,466 because I believe that thing. 593 00:24:49,466 --> 00:24:51,866 If we do not submit, 594 00:24:51,866 --> 00:24:54,533 the ability to resist is not possible. 595 00:24:54,533 --> 00:24:56,366 And I know as Americans we love our freedom. 596 00:24:56,366 --> 00:24:58,100 If we do not like this submit, 597 00:24:58,100 --> 00:25:01,966 we do not like even the word submission feels kind of nasty at times. 598 00:25:01,966 --> 00:25:05,666 I think we attach negative things to it, but we're we're talking about submitting 599 00:25:05,666 --> 00:25:09,433 to a God who was holy and just and righteous and good and sacrificial. 600 00:25:09,933 --> 00:25:12,766 Christ suffered on our behalf 601 00:25:12,766 --> 00:25:15,266 because he never gave in to temptation and sin. 602 00:25:15,266 --> 00:25:18,800 And so submitting to Christ is best case scenario, because his yoke is light, 603 00:25:18,800 --> 00:25:21,166 his burden does not exist. So where's ultimate freedom in Christ? 604 00:25:23,233 --> 00:25:26,433 And so I think as I as I process this week, if I want to 605 00:25:26,433 --> 00:25:27,633 resist, I have to submit. 606 00:25:27,633 --> 00:25:29,500 And if I have to submit, I have to seek God. 607 00:25:29,500 --> 00:25:33,900 And if I'm seeking God, then then that's what we call sanctification, right? 608 00:25:33,966 --> 00:25:35,166 Big church, fancy word. 609 00:25:35,166 --> 00:25:39,000 But but it just means to separate, to be set apart, 610 00:25:40,133 --> 00:25:44,300 set apart from sin, and ultimately progressively becoming more like Jesus. 611 00:25:44,433 --> 00:25:45,700 That sanctification 612 00:25:45,700 --> 00:25:48,700 that you and I over our lifetime are going to look more like Jesus, 613 00:25:48,800 --> 00:25:51,866 you know, in ten years and in 20 years and in 30 years than we do today, 614 00:25:52,366 --> 00:25:55,100 hopefully, you know, over the next, you know, couple years, 615 00:25:55,100 --> 00:25:56,166 maybe the next month or two. 616 00:25:56,166 --> 00:25:59,033 But but the goal is to look more like Jesus 617 00:25:59,033 --> 00:26:00,600 every day, which means he has to be on our hearts, 618 00:26:00,600 --> 00:26:01,400 and you have to be on our minds, 619 00:26:01,400 --> 00:26:04,566 and you have to be someone we seek and something we someone we interact with. 620 00:26:07,333 --> 00:26:10,733 The result of submitting to seeking and seeking, I think, leads to sanctification. 621 00:26:10,733 --> 00:26:13,066 And sanctification leads us to this scripture. 622 00:26:13,066 --> 00:26:15,600 It's it's second Corinthians 318. 623 00:26:15,600 --> 00:26:18,866 It says, and we know and we all who with unveiled faces 624 00:26:18,866 --> 00:26:21,866 we should contemplate the Lord's glory. 625 00:26:22,033 --> 00:26:25,033 Why? Because in that way we're going to be transformed into his image, 626 00:26:25,400 --> 00:26:27,766 and we're going to experience the ever increasing glory 627 00:26:27,766 --> 00:26:29,966 which comes from the Lord, who is the spirit I. 628 00:26:29,966 --> 00:26:30,966 But as I look at it 629 00:26:30,966 --> 00:26:34,966 right, we're supposed to contemplate the Lord's glory, seek his face, 630 00:26:35,600 --> 00:26:38,666 and then it talks of this ever increasing glory like the more we seek him. 631 00:26:38,866 --> 00:26:41,866 I mean, there should just be more revealing and more understanding and more, 632 00:26:42,000 --> 00:26:46,200 more, more grace and more more of a freedom that we get to experience in Christ 633 00:26:47,266 --> 00:26:48,600 growing in the Christian life. 634 00:26:48,600 --> 00:26:51,633 Is it saying no to self and yes to Christ? 635 00:26:51,633 --> 00:26:54,300 It's saying yes to repentance, yes to Scripture, yes to prayer. 636 00:26:54,300 --> 00:26:55,966 Yes to accountability. 637 00:26:55,966 --> 00:26:58,600 Looking left and right and saying, hold me accountable. 638 00:26:58,600 --> 00:27:01,600 I need you to hold me accountable. 639 00:27:01,933 --> 00:27:04,933 As long as today is called today, Hebrews says we should encourage each other, 640 00:27:05,400 --> 00:27:06,266 especially as believers, 641 00:27:06,266 --> 00:27:08,933 because we're working so hard and trying to please God and 642 00:27:08,933 --> 00:27:10,766 and trying to do his work and further his kingdom. 643 00:27:10,766 --> 00:27:12,300 But it's difficult. 644 00:27:12,300 --> 00:27:14,533 So we need to encourage each other. 645 00:27:14,533 --> 00:27:15,933 But we're called to sanctify ourselves. 646 00:27:15,933 --> 00:27:18,900 We're called to seek God and submit to him. 647 00:27:18,900 --> 00:27:20,500 You know, I like, sometimes I'm going to the gym. 648 00:27:20,500 --> 00:27:23,500 I want to lift heavy weights. 649 00:27:23,666 --> 00:27:25,500 You know, I want to be mindful of what I'm listening to. 650 00:27:25,500 --> 00:27:26,100 And so 651 00:27:27,033 --> 00:27:29,233 I have I call it aggressive worship. 652 00:27:29,233 --> 00:27:30,900 Music, aggressive worship. 653 00:27:30,900 --> 00:27:34,733 So it's it's like screamo singing music, but it's the Christians that that lead it. 654 00:27:34,733 --> 00:27:35,566 And I wanted to share. 655 00:27:35,566 --> 00:27:37,666 I wanted to share one of their, lyric with you. 656 00:27:37,666 --> 00:27:40,600 It says this, it says you're born again. 657 00:27:40,600 --> 00:27:42,000 You're a new life. 658 00:27:42,000 --> 00:27:43,300 You are a new creation. 659 00:27:43,300 --> 00:27:46,233 But there is to be progress. 660 00:27:46,233 --> 00:27:47,100 There's to be growing. 661 00:27:47,100 --> 00:27:49,566 There's to be growing into the likeness of Christ. 662 00:27:49,566 --> 00:27:53,500 We have to begin to conquer the flesh little by little, day by day. 663 00:27:53,500 --> 00:27:57,833 As you live, there is to be a progress in in conquering the flesh. 664 00:27:57,833 --> 00:28:00,400 This new life, this new man, this new person that you are 665 00:28:00,400 --> 00:28:02,533 has to begin to grow. 666 00:28:02,533 --> 00:28:04,833 When we're placed in Christ, we're separated from our past of 667 00:28:04,833 --> 00:28:06,800 has to begin to grow. 668 00:28:06,800 --> 00:28:07,833 I love that right. 669 00:28:07,833 --> 00:28:08,900 You don't hear much of that either. 670 00:28:08,900 --> 00:28:11,100 Google it because he's just screaming the whole time. 671 00:28:11,100 --> 00:28:12,000 But it's there. 672 00:28:12,000 --> 00:28:14,000 It's there, the promise. It's there. 673 00:28:14,000 --> 00:28:15,833 If you want the playlist, I'll send it to you. 674 00:28:16,800 --> 00:28:17,800 It's really good, I promise. 675 00:28:17,800 --> 00:28:19,766 It's awesome. 676 00:28:19,766 --> 00:28:21,000 I initially convicted me this week. 677 00:28:21,000 --> 00:28:24,366 I want I want this for myself, but I want this more for my family. 678 00:28:25,466 --> 00:28:27,400 And so I wanted to talk to the parents or grandparents 679 00:28:27,400 --> 00:28:30,400 or aunts and uncles, whoever 680 00:28:30,433 --> 00:28:32,833 has kids in their life that they get to influence. 681 00:28:32,833 --> 00:28:33,033 Right? 682 00:28:33,033 --> 00:28:35,566 Because you know this, we can't take everything into heaven with us. 683 00:28:35,566 --> 00:28:37,733 We can't take the cars, the house, the fancy toys, the nothing. 684 00:28:37,733 --> 00:28:40,433 We can't. It's that's not how it works. 685 00:28:40,433 --> 00:28:42,600 But we can stand before God, arms wide open and say, 686 00:28:42,600 --> 00:28:45,066 look what I did with the lives you blessed me with. 687 00:28:45,066 --> 00:28:48,500 Look, I do with seal, Jude, Levi, Logan. 688 00:28:48,500 --> 00:28:51,433 I do with the lives you bless me with. 689 00:28:51,433 --> 00:28:54,900 And in that way we have to sanctify ourselves. 690 00:28:55,200 --> 00:28:58,900 We have to seek God, because if we don't, we will not do those things well. 691 00:29:01,100 --> 00:29:02,100 You know what's true? 692 00:29:02,100 --> 00:29:04,600 I think there's what one generation sees as optional. 693 00:29:04,600 --> 00:29:07,066 The next might see is unnecessary, 694 00:29:07,066 --> 00:29:10,366 and we don't want our kids to see seeking God and sanctifying ourselves 695 00:29:10,366 --> 00:29:13,133 and knowing Scripture and being in prayer and being in community 696 00:29:13,133 --> 00:29:17,100 and encouraging each other as optional kids, not it's not optional, 697 00:29:17,733 --> 00:29:20,733 something that we have to have this deep conviction in 698 00:29:21,333 --> 00:29:24,333 deep like, love for 699 00:29:25,500 --> 00:29:26,966 because life is busy and it is loud. 700 00:29:26,966 --> 00:29:29,966 And sometimes you can look up and like I have off my Bible in a week, 701 00:29:30,233 --> 00:29:33,233 we have to take this seriously and spend time in here in this thing, 702 00:29:34,200 --> 00:29:36,533 and I love I was one pastor, I was, I was listening. 703 00:29:36,533 --> 00:29:39,300 There are a couple I follow online on social media and and 704 00:29:39,300 --> 00:29:41,466 and he was talking about sanctification and he any, any 705 00:29:41,466 --> 00:29:44,466 he shared threads and I want to share with you this morning. 706 00:29:44,633 --> 00:29:46,566 Oh, skip that one. My bed. 707 00:29:46,566 --> 00:29:47,200 Oh wait. Where am I at? 708 00:29:48,600 --> 00:29:48,933 There it is. 709 00:29:48,933 --> 00:29:51,866 Sorry. I'm all over the place. 710 00:29:51,866 --> 00:29:54,733 So the 3D god declares, 711 00:29:54,733 --> 00:29:57,733 Satan denies and we have to decide. 712 00:29:57,733 --> 00:30:00,733 I think back to the garden. 713 00:30:00,933 --> 00:30:02,766 God declared, 714 00:30:02,766 --> 00:30:03,700 how many of you are safe? 715 00:30:03,700 --> 00:30:05,833 You're taking care of your good like you're provided for. 716 00:30:05,833 --> 00:30:07,933 I want to walk in the coolness of day with you. Trust me, trust me. 717 00:30:07,933 --> 00:30:09,000 I'm your God. I'm. 718 00:30:09,000 --> 00:30:11,233 I'm your creator. I want to, I want to do life with you. 719 00:30:11,233 --> 00:30:12,933 But that one tree where they're just a tree. 720 00:30:12,933 --> 00:30:14,133 I'm not going to believe that one alone. 721 00:30:14,133 --> 00:30:16,966 You don't need that. It's not. There's no benefit to you. 722 00:30:16,966 --> 00:30:18,766 I'm your God, and I'm going to. I'm going to take care of you. 723 00:30:18,766 --> 00:30:20,166 Trust me. 724 00:30:20,166 --> 00:30:24,033 God declared these things, and then Satan denies as we know, right? 725 00:30:24,066 --> 00:30:28,133 He's like, I, can you believe God is trying to be in controlling here? 726 00:30:28,166 --> 00:30:30,166 Why would he? Why would he keep something from you? 727 00:30:31,133 --> 00:30:32,700 You know, I just want you to be like him, right? 728 00:30:32,700 --> 00:30:35,700 He just denies he tweaks it. Twist. 729 00:30:35,700 --> 00:30:37,233 And then Adam and Eve had to decide. 730 00:30:37,233 --> 00:30:39,333 And we know how that went. Right. 731 00:30:39,333 --> 00:30:42,333 And so I guess the same thing applies to us, right? 732 00:30:42,333 --> 00:30:44,933 God is declaring these things to us. 733 00:30:44,933 --> 00:30:46,000 And Satan might deny. 734 00:30:46,000 --> 00:30:47,566 He might twist, he might turn. 735 00:30:47,566 --> 00:30:49,500 He might say, Michael, you can't really serve, right. 736 00:30:49,500 --> 00:30:52,900 You I mean, you know what you thought and done and things 737 00:30:52,900 --> 00:30:55,900 that are of your own heart and the brokenness that exists. 738 00:30:56,333 --> 00:30:58,166 And then I have to decide, am I going to believe those lies, 739 00:30:58,166 --> 00:30:59,200 although they once were true? 740 00:30:59,200 --> 00:31:02,866 Am I going to believe those lies and say, well, God can't use me because I have 741 00:31:03,266 --> 00:31:05,133 made mistakes in my life? No. 742 00:31:06,200 --> 00:31:08,833 So we have to decide, are we actually dead to sin? 743 00:31:08,833 --> 00:31:09,933 Are you dead to sin? 744 00:31:09,933 --> 00:31:11,766 Scripture is declaring that God is declaring it. 745 00:31:11,766 --> 00:31:14,200 You are dead to sin and you're alive in Christ. 746 00:31:14,200 --> 00:31:17,200 Don't believe anything short of that. 747 00:31:17,700 --> 00:31:19,033 And so I think a good way. 748 00:31:19,033 --> 00:31:19,800 It's sobering. 749 00:31:19,800 --> 00:31:21,533 It's it's humbling 750 00:31:21,533 --> 00:31:25,266 to to say, am I dead to sin or am I dead in sin is to look at your lifestyle. 751 00:31:25,933 --> 00:31:27,766 What does it show? 752 00:31:27,766 --> 00:31:30,766 Is God's Word trustworthy to you? 753 00:31:30,933 --> 00:31:33,933 Is is community valuable right? 754 00:31:34,033 --> 00:31:36,866 Am I the king? Is Christ the King? Who's leading this, this? 755 00:31:36,866 --> 00:31:37,300 This thing? 756 00:31:37,300 --> 00:31:40,300 Who's leading this show? You know. 757 00:31:40,533 --> 00:31:41,400 Look at that lifestyle. 758 00:31:41,400 --> 00:31:44,400 Look at what you pursue and the things you are and who you're becoming. 759 00:31:45,033 --> 00:31:45,700 Are you dead to sin? 760 00:31:45,700 --> 00:31:47,400 Are you still dead inside? 761 00:31:47,400 --> 00:31:49,366 My hope is my prayer is that you are dead to it. 762 00:31:51,200 --> 00:31:53,366 So in Corinthians is the scripture that I come back to all the time. 763 00:31:53,366 --> 00:31:56,366 It's something I, I use when I was baptized at 21. 764 00:31:56,666 --> 00:31:58,066 It says, therefore, if anyone is in Christ, 765 00:31:58,066 --> 00:32:00,966 a new creation has come, the old is gone, the new is here. It's amazing reality. 766 00:32:00,966 --> 00:32:02,133 It's amazing truth. 767 00:32:02,133 --> 00:32:04,166 That means I'm not defined by my old self. 768 00:32:04,166 --> 00:32:06,966 That means I'm not defined by my own mistakes or my sin. 769 00:32:06,966 --> 00:32:08,200 I'm not the same dude anymore. 770 00:32:08,200 --> 00:32:10,000 I'm a new creation. 771 00:32:10,000 --> 00:32:13,000 And if I'm a new creation and you're a new creation, let's start living that way 772 00:32:13,033 --> 00:32:14,633 with authority I. 773 00:32:14,633 --> 00:32:16,900 We're defined by the cross, and that's been our hope 774 00:32:16,900 --> 00:32:19,900 and our faith and our trust in Jesus for the forgiveness of our sins. 775 00:32:20,933 --> 00:32:23,933 And so much so that Paul in verse 13 here, 776 00:32:24,300 --> 00:32:25,866 he's going to he's going to make it super personal. 777 00:32:25,866 --> 00:32:30,366 He says, do not offer any part of yourself as an instrument of wickedness, 778 00:32:31,000 --> 00:32:34,700 but rather offer yourself to God as those who have been brought from death to life 779 00:32:35,266 --> 00:32:38,866 and offer every part of yourself to him as an instrument of righteousness. 780 00:32:39,800 --> 00:32:43,466 So when we talk about us being baptized into Christ, death, that's like full body. 781 00:32:43,633 --> 00:32:47,400 But now we're talking about every member of our body, every member, 782 00:32:48,200 --> 00:32:52,200 like hands, eyes, toes, knees, you know, whatever. 783 00:32:52,200 --> 00:32:56,400 Like he's asking, what are you doing with all these different members of your body? 784 00:32:56,400 --> 00:32:58,200 How how are you pursuing me? How are you? 785 00:32:58,200 --> 00:32:59,266 How are you living for me? 786 00:32:59,266 --> 00:33:00,966 How are you using your hands and your eyes 787 00:33:00,966 --> 00:33:03,000 and your ears for my righteousness and for my glory? 788 00:33:04,166 --> 00:33:06,000 Right is very personal. 789 00:33:06,000 --> 00:33:07,200 It's very specific. 790 00:33:07,200 --> 00:33:10,800 Our God wants us to be so intentional with our faith that we answer that question. 791 00:33:10,800 --> 00:33:13,166 And we can say, here's how I use my hands for your glory. 792 00:33:13,166 --> 00:33:14,366 Here's how I use my eyes for your glory. 793 00:33:14,366 --> 00:33:16,566 I'm your ears for your glory. Here's how I do these things. 794 00:33:16,566 --> 00:33:20,233 To not just go through life and not process how I'm being intentional. 795 00:33:20,300 --> 00:33:23,300 Living for God. 796 00:33:24,100 --> 00:33:26,533 It's important to process this now. 797 00:33:26,533 --> 00:33:29,533 Our fourth point this morning is to replace, 798 00:33:29,966 --> 00:33:32,266 and I'm not going to read the last all the last scriptures here, 799 00:33:32,266 --> 00:33:35,266 but I want to jump into 16 in a couple others real quick. 800 00:33:35,533 --> 00:33:39,566 It says in verse 16, don't you know that when you offer yourselves 801 00:33:39,566 --> 00:33:43,500 to someone as obedient slaves, you are slaves of the one you obey? 802 00:33:44,700 --> 00:33:46,800 Whether you are slaves to sin, which leads to death, 803 00:33:46,800 --> 00:33:49,833 or to obedience, which leads to righteousness. 804 00:33:50,900 --> 00:33:53,900 I think verse 16 is asking the question, 805 00:33:54,966 --> 00:33:57,533 like which nature are you feeding? 806 00:33:57,533 --> 00:33:58,466 Which nature? 807 00:33:58,466 --> 00:34:01,166 Like who are you living for? 808 00:34:01,166 --> 00:34:03,633 Are you feeding the slave the sin that leads to death, 809 00:34:03,633 --> 00:34:06,633 or of obedience that leads to righteousness? 810 00:34:06,666 --> 00:34:08,700 Because what we feed is going to grow, 811 00:34:08,700 --> 00:34:10,466 it's going to grow in our life is going to manifest itself. 812 00:34:10,466 --> 00:34:12,866 It's going to be known, and it's going to be visible. 813 00:34:12,866 --> 00:34:15,866 So what do you allow in in what do you like to influence you? 814 00:34:15,866 --> 00:34:17,633 What are you consuming? 815 00:34:17,633 --> 00:34:20,066 What's what's what's 816 00:34:20,066 --> 00:34:23,066 what's that look like for you this morning? 817 00:34:24,000 --> 00:34:26,700 It's important to know what nature in my feeding. 818 00:34:26,700 --> 00:34:27,800 And we jump into verse 21. 819 00:34:27,800 --> 00:34:30,900 It says, what benefit did you reap at 820 00:34:30,900 --> 00:34:33,900 the time from the things you are now ashamed of? 821 00:34:34,166 --> 00:34:36,966 So I think he's referring to, like from your former life before you 822 00:34:36,966 --> 00:34:41,233 and before you knew Jesus, that you were ashamed of what benefit was there, right? 823 00:34:41,233 --> 00:34:43,233 What benefit did you reap at the time for the things you are 824 00:34:43,233 --> 00:34:45,133 now ashamed of, the things that result in death? 825 00:34:45,133 --> 00:34:47,833 And so I think as I process this scripture, it's 826 00:34:47,833 --> 00:34:50,033 it's really challenging us to say, 827 00:34:50,033 --> 00:34:53,633 don't look back at your life before knowing Jesus with nostalgia. 828 00:34:53,633 --> 00:34:56,100 Like, don't look back. It led to death. There was nothing. 829 00:34:56,100 --> 00:34:57,900 I mean, sure, you might have good memories or good moments 830 00:34:57,900 --> 00:35:00,200 and God redeemed some things and guided you. 831 00:35:00,200 --> 00:35:01,700 I'm not saying they're not valuable, 832 00:35:01,700 --> 00:35:04,666 but don't look back at that old life and think, I wish I had 833 00:35:04,666 --> 00:35:07,666 what once I did before Christ because it was leading to death. 834 00:35:07,833 --> 00:35:09,400 There's no value. 835 00:35:09,400 --> 00:35:11,100 Paul saying, he's saying, look forward. 836 00:35:11,100 --> 00:35:13,666 Have your fixed reference point on Jesus going forward. 837 00:35:13,666 --> 00:35:15,766 Don't focus on where you were, who you've been, 838 00:35:15,766 --> 00:35:17,933 but where you're going and where God wants to send you 839 00:35:19,066 --> 00:35:21,300 what's coming next and include you. 840 00:35:21,300 --> 00:35:24,166 Don't look back. There's no benefit to that. 841 00:35:24,166 --> 00:35:27,166 And then verse 23, this is just salvation in a sentence writes grace. 842 00:35:27,633 --> 00:35:30,366 Verse 23 says, for the wages of sin is death, 843 00:35:30,366 --> 00:35:35,000 but the gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord. 844 00:35:36,033 --> 00:35:36,666 Remember, we can't. 845 00:35:36,666 --> 00:35:38,400 We couldn't pay that penalty for our trespasses. 846 00:35:38,400 --> 00:35:39,433 We couldn't pay the cost. 847 00:35:39,433 --> 00:35:41,633 It's great. It's too great. 848 00:35:41,633 --> 00:35:43,600 But our God did pay it. That's the reality. 849 00:35:43,600 --> 00:35:44,800 He did pay it. 850 00:35:44,800 --> 00:35:46,766 And we get eternal life with him. 851 00:35:46,766 --> 00:35:48,600 And we should live as such here on earth. 852 00:35:48,600 --> 00:35:49,533 We should live in a way 853 00:35:49,533 --> 00:35:51,366 where we have that full confidence in that full assurance 854 00:35:51,366 --> 00:35:53,400 that the Holy Spirit I have in me a new in you. 855 00:35:53,400 --> 00:35:55,333 It is a deposit guaranteeing our inheritance. 856 00:35:55,333 --> 00:35:58,500 But it's a it's a deposit that he's saying I want to use right now. 857 00:35:58,500 --> 00:35:59,866 I want to cash in right here, right now. 858 00:35:59,866 --> 00:36:03,166 I want to use you in the space or in the ranchos or wherever you live. 859 00:36:03,166 --> 00:36:04,966 I want to use you now. 860 00:36:04,966 --> 00:36:05,500 Right. 861 00:36:05,500 --> 00:36:07,466 It's not just for you look into eternity. It's. 862 00:36:07,466 --> 00:36:09,966 No, it's like, what are you doing for me here and now? 863 00:36:09,966 --> 00:36:10,800 2025. 864 00:36:13,166 --> 00:36:13,900 We're going to have options. 865 00:36:13,900 --> 00:36:15,500 We're going to live for self, for God. 866 00:36:15,500 --> 00:36:17,666 We dead to sin. Are we dead in sin? 867 00:36:17,666 --> 00:36:19,533 I want to end with a couple things. 868 00:36:19,533 --> 00:36:21,500 Pastor Carl brought this up last week. 869 00:36:21,500 --> 00:36:22,600 Which federal had. 870 00:36:22,600 --> 00:36:25,133 Are you going to live under? Right. 871 00:36:25,133 --> 00:36:28,133 He talked about Adam, which leads to death or Jesus, which leads to life, 872 00:36:28,266 --> 00:36:32,200 and it leads to, peace with God and access to God's grace and even suffering. 873 00:36:32,600 --> 00:36:34,533 Right? Even even glory in our suffering. Right? 874 00:36:34,533 --> 00:36:36,933 These are the things that Christ offers us. 875 00:36:36,933 --> 00:36:38,766 And I would ask the same thing this morning, like, 876 00:36:38,766 --> 00:36:41,366 not maybe as a federal headbutt, but but what's 877 00:36:41,366 --> 00:36:44,166 what are you going to believe the the declaration, 878 00:36:44,166 --> 00:36:47,333 the truth that you're dead to sin or the lie that you're dead in sin? 879 00:36:48,100 --> 00:36:49,166 What are you going to believe this morning? 880 00:36:51,333 --> 00:36:53,833 I hope it's that you're dead to sin. 881 00:36:53,833 --> 00:36:56,100 You're not dead, and then you're not stuck anymore. 882 00:36:56,100 --> 00:36:58,500 God has redeemed you fully and forever. 883 00:36:58,500 --> 00:37:01,500 And we have the freedom to live in that truth. 884 00:37:03,600 --> 00:37:05,066 So as we wrap up, I just want to put back up 885 00:37:05,066 --> 00:37:08,500 our four steps right to know, to reckon, to resist and to replace. 886 00:37:09,266 --> 00:37:12,133 Maybe ask the question, where are you right now on this list? 887 00:37:12,133 --> 00:37:14,500 Where are you? Where do you find yourself? 888 00:37:14,500 --> 00:37:17,200 Are you still in the no stage where you're like, I need to know what God's Word is. 889 00:37:17,200 --> 00:37:20,400 I need to unpack it and process in and walk and people to walk 890 00:37:20,400 --> 00:37:23,400 alongside me to, to go through it. 891 00:37:23,633 --> 00:37:24,433 Or have you gotten through that? 892 00:37:24,433 --> 00:37:26,466 And you know it. You feel like you know it. 893 00:37:26,466 --> 00:37:29,800 And now you're like, I need to, you know, I need to have deep conviction, right? 894 00:37:29,800 --> 00:37:31,466 I need to believe that it's true. 895 00:37:31,466 --> 00:37:33,766 Not just know what it says, but like, I need this. 896 00:37:33,766 --> 00:37:34,800 I need to apply this to my life. 897 00:37:36,333 --> 00:37:38,700 Or yet there was this stage where you'll be like, how? 898 00:37:38,700 --> 00:37:41,733 And actively trying to be proactive and seek God and and resist. 899 00:37:42,233 --> 00:37:43,766 Or you just replace and you're building up. 900 00:37:43,766 --> 00:37:47,400 You're having good spiritual habit, habits and disciplines to to protect yourself 901 00:37:49,033 --> 00:37:50,466 with one 902 00:37:50,466 --> 00:37:53,233 maybe most resonates with you and which one feels most foreign. 903 00:37:53,233 --> 00:37:54,600 I think that's also an important question to ask. 904 00:37:54,600 --> 00:37:56,633 Because. Because why is it foreign? 905 00:37:56,633 --> 00:37:57,700 Why does it feel far off? 906 00:37:57,700 --> 00:38:01,800 Why does it feel like it's something that you you don't quite understand or me? 907 00:38:02,066 --> 00:38:05,066 It's a good questions to ask. 908 00:38:05,900 --> 00:38:08,166 You know, Pascale, we were talking about this. 909 00:38:08,166 --> 00:38:11,333 This, you know, this chapter that the last couple weeks and 910 00:38:12,266 --> 00:38:15,566 and he was saying, I think the Christian life is often, often, 911 00:38:17,466 --> 00:38:19,133 it's like, you know, we're all swimming in a pool. 912 00:38:19,133 --> 00:38:20,333 We're all hanging out or, 913 00:38:20,333 --> 00:38:22,833 you know, swimming and and sometimes we have, you know, 914 00:38:22,833 --> 00:38:25,400 some of us are on the sideline just kicking our feet in the water. 915 00:38:25,400 --> 00:38:26,333 And we're saying we're swimming. 916 00:38:26,333 --> 00:38:28,733 We're not we're just we're still on the sideline. 917 00:38:28,733 --> 00:38:29,933 And our God is fully inviting us 918 00:38:29,933 --> 00:38:32,400 into this relationship with him and saying, let me lead. 919 00:38:32,400 --> 00:38:34,766 Let me guide, let me help you. 920 00:38:34,766 --> 00:38:37,800 Let me, let me influence your thoughts and your mind and your desires. 921 00:38:37,800 --> 00:38:40,533 Let me do that for you. 922 00:38:40,533 --> 00:38:41,700 You need to know and you need to reckon. 923 00:38:41,700 --> 00:38:43,266 You need to resist and you need to replace. 924 00:38:43,266 --> 00:38:45,600 That's how we live out. 925 00:38:45,600 --> 00:38:48,600 Jettison in life, in Christ. 926 00:38:48,733 --> 00:38:50,700 Pastor Carl always asks, you know, he said, reread 927 00:38:50,700 --> 00:38:52,400 six with this framework now, but read seven. 928 00:38:52,400 --> 00:38:53,866 He'll be with us again next Sunday. 929 00:38:53,866 --> 00:38:56,066 Read seven, but I want in with this. 930 00:38:56,066 --> 00:38:59,866 Our series is greater than right, greater than whatever, greater than your sin 931 00:38:59,866 --> 00:39:01,500 or whatever you're talking with. And I would say this morning, 932 00:39:02,466 --> 00:39:05,033 grace is greater than your stubborn sin. 933 00:39:05,033 --> 00:39:07,433 Grace is greater than your stubbornness in the thing that holds 934 00:39:07,433 --> 00:39:09,200 you back, the thing that is just like that, 935 00:39:09,200 --> 00:39:12,233 that lie in your head, the thing that just caused you to stumble. 936 00:39:12,233 --> 00:39:13,900 Grace is greater than that. 937 00:39:13,900 --> 00:39:16,900 Your stubborn, annoying, irritating sin. 938 00:39:17,333 --> 00:39:21,433 Don't live a lie that you are dead and then you are dead to sin. 939 00:39:22,566 --> 00:39:24,366 I hope that has been encouraging to this morning. 940 00:39:24,366 --> 00:39:26,500 I'm going to pray for us 941 00:39:26,500 --> 00:39:29,500 and we're going to sing one more song with the band. 942 00:39:30,800 --> 00:39:31,966 Father, we thank you for this morning. 943 00:39:31,966 --> 00:39:34,566 We thank you for everyone here. We thank you for your word. 944 00:39:34,566 --> 00:39:37,100 We thank you that you pursue us and that you seek us 945 00:39:37,100 --> 00:39:40,000 and that you have declared things over us, these these truths, Lord. 946 00:39:40,000 --> 00:39:41,566 But I pray that we would have a heart to open up 947 00:39:41,566 --> 00:39:42,833 your words, that we know these truths. 948 00:39:44,233 --> 00:39:44,566 Father, 949 00:39:44,566 --> 00:39:47,700 give us eyes and ears and toes and hands 950 00:39:47,700 --> 00:39:51,000 and and help us to be so intentional with members of our body 951 00:39:51,666 --> 00:39:55,333 that we can say, this is how I glorify you, this is how I glorify you. 952 00:39:55,533 --> 00:39:56,600 This is how I serve you. 953 00:39:56,600 --> 00:39:59,600 This is how I how I further your kingdom. 954 00:40:00,100 --> 00:40:04,700 We are grateful for Paul and how you spoke through him, 955 00:40:05,500 --> 00:40:08,233 and we pray that we would have a deep conviction this week. 956 00:40:08,233 --> 00:40:11,533 So to know that we are dead to sin and alive in you, Jesus, 957 00:40:12,766 --> 00:40:13,966 please be with us this week. 958 00:40:13,966 --> 00:40:14,766 Bring us back next week. 959 00:40:14,766 --> 00:40:18,166 So we continue to further understand your word and continue 960 00:40:18,166 --> 00:40:21,166 to further grow in our 961 00:40:21,733 --> 00:40:23,900 our role here in this community. 962 00:40:23,900 --> 00:40:25,100 Please convict our hearts this morning. 963 00:40:25,100 --> 00:40:26,666 Lord in love for you. 964 00:40:26,666 --> 00:40:28,366 Visiting in Jesus. Amen.