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Andrew Farley - Resurrection (Part 1)

April 19, 2025 | S25:E17

Andrew Farley - Resurrection (Part 1)
Pastor Andrew Farley brings Biblical clarity and illuminates God’s grace.
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The Grace Message with Dr. Andrew Farley | Andrew Farley - Resurrection (Part 1) | April 19, 2025
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  • Dr. andrew farley: you're not saved by the cross.
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  • That's right.
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  • It's gotta be more than the cross.
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  • You're saved by the resurrection life of jesus christ in you.
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  • Let's talk about it today on "the grace message."
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  • ♪♪♪
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  • Dr. farley: i mean, today's message is about the power
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  • Of the resurrection, but in order to get to sunday,
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  • You kinda gotta visit friday.
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  • You gotta understand the cross in order to graduate to
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  • The resurrection.
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  • A whole lot of people are asking cross questions and they can't
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  • Really get to the life.
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  • They're still trying to figure out the death and so they can't
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  • Celebrate the life.
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  • And so we got to get the cross questions answered.
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  • And so first, we see this beautiful passage that we
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  • Hold dear.
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  • Hebrews chapter 10, verse 14, "by one offering he has
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  • Perfected for all time those who are sanctified."
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  • Now this is a celebration of the cross.
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  • One time, one sacrifice, one offering.
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  • It worked perfectly for all time, forever.
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  • And bam, you are a forgiven person forever.
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  • So then the friday question is settled.
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  • The cross question gets answered 'cause basically we're saying,
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  • Did the cross work?
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  • Did jesus really do it?
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  • And the answer is a resounding yes.
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  • It's off the charts.
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  • Jesus didn't flub it up.
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  • He forgave you perfectly.
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  • He saw it all coming, he's not shocked by your failure,
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  • He didn't miss one, he didn't leave one out.
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  • And the crazy part that takes christians for a ride sometimes
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  • Is that even your future sins are forgiven.
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  • Your next sin is already forgiven.
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  • That's what hebrews 10:14 is saying.
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  • Your next sin, god already saw that thousands of years ago.
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  • I'll ask it this way, how many of your sins were in the future
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  • When christ died?
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  • All of them.
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  • All of them were in the future when christ died.
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  • And so he looked down the timeline of your sins past,
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  • Present, and future, and he says, "i'm taking them all away
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  • Once for all.
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  • I keep no record of your wrongs.
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  • I've removed them as far as the east is from the west."
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  • Wow!
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  • Now that's the gospel, right?
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  • So we got something to celebrate on friday.
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  • The cross actually worked and it's gonna help us graduate to
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  • Sunday, but first, let's make sure we got this.
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  • Here's a short quote from the new book, "gospel zero."
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  • His blood was enough, enough to forgive every sin past, present,
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  • And future.
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  • Sure, there are thousands of great reasons to say no to sin,
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  • But getting more forgiveness isn't one of them.
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  • There's lots of reasons to say no to sin.
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  • What?
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  • New heart, new nature, new spirit, new desires, christ in
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  • You, you in christ, vine and branches, the power of
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  • The resurrection.
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  • Oh my goodness, there's lots of reasons to say no to sin, but
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  • This idea that forgiveness is a dangling carrot that if you just
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  • Say no to sin and if you just stop, then god will forgive you.
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  • Do you know that god forgave you before you stopped?
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  • God forgave your next sin before you even realized this stinks.
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  • I don't want this.
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  • God forgave you in advance.
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  • God forgave you ahead of time.
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  • And if you haven't seen that yet, that's why the gospel is so
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  • Scary to people.
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  • Are you telling me god's grace is that big?
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  • I mean we run around with unconditional love,
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  • Agape, agape.
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  • We flash a little bit of our greek knowledge.
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  • We throw out a word here, agape agape, unconditional love.
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  • Then five minutes later we put a condition on his love
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  • And forgiveness.
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  • Oh, he'll forgive you if.
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  • Oh, he'll forgive you if you stop, really?
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  • So, you're forgiven of all your sins as long as you don't sin?
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  • Wait, what?
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  • You're forgiven of all your sins if you stop?
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  • Well, when jesus comes back, you won't have stopped everything,
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  • Trust me, we're all growing, we're all learning, got that
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  • Hint of bitterness over there, that little bit of
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  • Resentment there.
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  • We got stuff that we're still working through, but when jesus
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  • Comes back, guess what?
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  • It is finished.
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  • And in fact it's finished right now.
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  • And that's the whole point that we got nail down friday in order
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  • To understand sunday.
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  • You gotta understand the finality of the cross in order
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  • To enjoy the reality of the resurrection.
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  • Here it is in colossians chapter 2: "when you were dead in your
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  • Transgressions and the uncircumcision of your flesh,"
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  • What did god do?
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  • He did two things.
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  • "he made us alive together with him, having forgiven us," what?
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  • "all our sins, all our transgressions."
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  • Now, i want you to notice two things.
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  • If you're into grammar, you're into language, you fancy
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  • Yourself as a linguist.
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  • Notice two things, right?
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  • Two awesome things.
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  • Number one, it's in past tense.
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  • Having forgiven us all our sins.
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  • Number 2, it is all our sins.
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  • Even the word all, the very presence of the word all,
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  • Solidifies this.
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  • It's done in the past and it's every single sin.
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  • Wow!
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  • So, now i guess we gotta answer as long as we're figuring out
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  • Friday for a moment, we gotta ask a question about
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  • Repentance, right?
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  • Because we could say, "yay, jesus did it all.
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  • Yes, thank you for the cross," and yet we mess up, we blow it,
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  • We're learning, we're growing so what do i, i mean, the question
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  • We get all the time on the radio program, for example,
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  • The podcast, we get this question.
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  • If i'm already forgiven, past, present, and future, then what
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  • Should i do when i sin?
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  • Now, here's a crazy idea.
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  • Stop.
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  • It's not rocket science.
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  • That's a pretty crazy idea though, right?
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  • I mean if you're already forgiven what's left?
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  • You stop, you turn from it, we call that repentance, turning
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  • Away from it.
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  • So let's talk about repentance 'cause i think repentance has
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  • Been confused for a lot of people.
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  • It's been very confusing issue.
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  • Some people have interpreted repentance as asking
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  • For something.
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  • Repentance is not asking for anything.
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  • When i turn away from sin, i say, "whoa, that's not me.
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  • That's not who i am.
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  • That's not what i'm about.
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  • No, thank you."
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  • And i pull a 180.
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  • That's not asking for forgiveness, asking
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  • For cleansing.
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  • That's not going to the confession booth.
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  • That's not pulling a 1 john 1:9 trying to get a little more.
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  • No, repentance is simply saying, "no, thank you."
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  • I'm turning away from.
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  • I'm gonna believe this instead.
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  • I'm gonna believe that i'm a good tree that bears good fruit
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  • And that's not what i'm about.
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  • That's what true repentance is.
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  • Healthy repentance.
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  • I'm talking about for a believer.
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  • Unbeliever, yeah, we turn from unbelief we say, "jesus,
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  • I want you.
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  • I believe."
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  • That's salvation.
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  • But after that, all these little micro decisions that you and i
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  • Are making, we're not begging and pleading for god to do
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  • Something new, come down with a squeegee, no.
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  • We're saying, "i'm not made for sin."
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  • So, let's look at repentance.
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  • Again, a word from "gospel zero," the new book,
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  • It says this.
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  • "repentance is a mind shift, not a plea for more forgiveness."
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  • 'cause let's be real, you can't get more forgiven.
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  • Jesus isn't climbing back onto the cross just because you had
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  • A rough tuesday, right?
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  • It's finished.
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  • If you were gonna be forgiven more, he'd have to get back up
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  • On that cross and shed another ounce of blood on tuesday 'cause
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  • It was rough, and another ounce of blood on wednesday, and then
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  • Again on thursday.
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  • And to be candid with you, that's why there is a whole
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  • Movement out there that teaches that jesus is still dying at the
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  • Lord's supper.
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  • You know what i'm talking about.
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  • There's a whole belief system that jesus is still dying and
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  • That the bread and the wine become the body of christ and
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  • The blood of christ so that jesus can still be dying so that
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  • You can still be being forgiven progressively.
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  • Like paying off your car or your mortgage.
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  • It's not happening 'cause jesus said it's finished.
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  • And when you take and eat and drink, we do it in remembrance.
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  • Not to cause something.
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  • He ain't up there dying and you're not down here
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  • Being forgiven.
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  • You have been forgiven.
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  • And so we see repentance is saying the real thing, the
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  • Genuine repentance is saying, "lord, that's not me.
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  • I mean i'm above that junk.
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  • Sin is beneath me.
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  • I'm dead to sin.
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  • I'm alive to you.
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  • You made me new from the inside out and i'm ready to live
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  • Like it."
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  • And god says, "amen to that.
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  • I've been waiting on you.
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  • I'm happy to be in the midst of all this good decision."
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  • And it's not about some new care package being lowered from
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  • Heaven with a little portion, a little bit of forgiveness and
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  • Cleansing for you little by little by, no, it is finished.
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  • So, you can be forgiven and miserable or you can be forgiven
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  • And fulfilled.
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  • That's your choice.
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  • But either way you're forgiven.
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  • Repentance is just getting back to common sense, godly wisdom
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  • About who you are, amen.
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  • So what are we saying?
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  • And that's friday, but the message is more than the cross.
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  • We're celebrating the resurrection.
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  • The message is way more than friday.
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  • So let's talk about sunday.
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  • He has risen from the dead.
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  • What does that even mean?
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  • Well, first it means resurrection righteousness.
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  • And i love talking about this. here's romans 4.
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  • He was delivered over because of our
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  • Transgressions and part two, he was raised because of
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  • Our justification.
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  • So, it's like a gospel coin.
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  • Two sides of the coin.
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  • The same coin, but two different sides.
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  • The first side, jesus was delivered to death.
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  • Why?
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  • 'cause of your sins so you'd be forgiven.
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  • And we covered that.
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  • That's friday.
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  • That's the friday side of the coin.
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  • Let's flip it, flip that coin, look on the other side, and the
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  • Second half of romans 4:25 is screaming at us and here's what
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  • It says, jesus was raised from the dead to righteify you.
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  • He was raised to righteify.
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  • That's what justify means.
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  • To be made righteous.
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  • So we got a biblical word justify, what does that
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  • Even mean?
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  • Sometimes we struggle, we wrestle with it, but it's to be
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  • Made right, to be made righteous.
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  • To righteify something.
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  • So you have resurrection righteousness.
  • 00:11:52.407 --> 00:11:57.646
  • Now that's why, you know, we kind of chuckle when people talk
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  • About righteousness like it's god pretending.
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  • Some people talk about righteousness like it's
  • 00:12:05.621 --> 00:12:07.489
  • God pretending.
  • 00:12:07.489 --> 00:12:08.857
  • "oh don't worry, he sees jesus instead of you."
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  • Oh thanks.
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  • That's a comfort.
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  • So he won't even look at me 'cause he's seeing
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  • Jesus instead?
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  • What's it like to relate to somebody that hey, how's it
  • 00:12:19.635 --> 00:12:21.570
  • Going today?
  • 00:12:21.570 --> 00:12:23.005
  • They just turn to look at another person who is not you in
  • 00:12:23.005 --> 00:12:27.176
  • Order to relate to you.
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  • We pass this off as the gospel.
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  • That's not the gospel.
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  • He's looking right at you and he likes what he sees.
  • 00:12:32.548 --> 00:12:36.385
  • So here's 1 peter 1.
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  • This is what peter says, we're born again
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  • Through the resurrection.
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  • "blessed be the god and father of our lord jesus christ, who
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  • According to his great mercy has caused us to be born again."
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  • How did we get born again?
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  • "to a living hope through the resurrection of jesus
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  • From the dead."
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  • Now i promise you, you go interview 100 christians, 100
  • 00:13:00.542 --> 00:13:04.680
  • Born again believers say, you know, "what caused you to
  • 00:13:04.680 --> 00:13:07.549
  • Get saved?"
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  • They might be wearing little necklace.
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  • What's on that necklace?
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  • The cross.
  • 00:13:12.187 --> 00:13:13.522
  • And then they say, "oh, what saved me?
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  • Oh, the blood.
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  • I'm saved by the blood."
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  • You know, that's not quite right.
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  • You know, that's maybe half the message as we've seen, that's
  • 00:13:20.495 --> 00:13:23.165
  • The message of friday.
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  • That's a good message, friday, awesome, thank you jesus.
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  • But we're not saved merely by the cross of christ.
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  • We're not saved merely by the blood.
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  • With just the blood, guess what you got?
  • 00:13:35.577 --> 00:13:39.581
  • You got a forgiven sinner.
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  • You got a forgiven dead person.
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  • We gotta have the resurrection because it's what makes us alive
  • 00:13:46.588 --> 00:13:50.692
  • And here it even says, "if you got born again it's because he
  • 00:13:50.692 --> 00:13:55.831
  • Took a syringe and he took his resurrection life and he infused
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  • You with his resurrection life."
  • 00:14:01.370 --> 00:14:03.672
  • Romans 5 says, "we're saved by his life."
  • 00:14:03.672 --> 00:14:08.277
  • So resurrection life, the ongoing life of jesus means
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  • We're always saved.
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  • Hebrews chapter 7: "therefore he is able to save," how much?
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  • Forever, that's right.
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  • "he's able to save forever those who draw near to god
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  • Through him."
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  • And look at the why.
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  • Is it because of the blood?
  • 00:14:30.432 --> 00:14:32.968
  • It's more than the blood.
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  • "since he always lives to make intercession for them."
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  • It's about how long he lives.
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  • So i want you to say it with me.
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  • I'll be saved as long as jesus lives.
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  • You ready?
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  • "i'll be saved as long as jesus lives."
  • 00:14:48.517 --> 00:14:53.255
  • And he lives forever.
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  • So, i'll be saved forever.
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  • Wow.
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  • So resurrection means new life for us.
  • 00:14:59.194 --> 00:15:01.997
  • As we think about a few of the remaining impacts of jesus risen
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  • From the dead, here we are in romans chapter 6, "as christ was
  • 00:15:07.903 --> 00:15:12.474
  • Raised from the dead through the glory of the father, so we too
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  • Might walk in newness of life."
  • 00:15:17.546 --> 00:15:20.315
  • So, have you noticed though that it seems like we have
  • 00:15:20.315 --> 00:15:24.720
  • An infatuation with offing ourselves.
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  • We christians have an infatuation with
  • 00:15:28.090 --> 00:15:30.926
  • Killing ourselves.
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  • Now not physically.
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  • I'm not talking about some form of suicide.
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  • I'm talking about this die to self theology we are infatuated
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  • With what we think is humble, where i god watch me, i'm gonna
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  • Get rid of me.
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  • And then jesus comes along and says, "wait a minute, look,
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  • I already got rid of the old you, you're the new you,
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  • So here's an idea.
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  • What if you just be you?
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  • What if you just count yourself alive to god, stop trying to
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  • Kill what i've made new, that's what he's saying.
  • 00:16:03.025 --> 00:16:08.096
  • So if you think about this message that we proclaim
  • 00:16:08.096 --> 00:16:11.366
  • Regularly at the grace church, you think about this message,
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  • All we're saying is he did it perfectly.
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  • Now you can believe he didn't.
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  • And that's your prerogative and you will join millions.
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  • Trust me, you will join millions that believe he didn't do
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  • It perfectly.
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  • The atheist says, he didn't do it at all.
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  • The religious zealot says, he did it, but not as good as
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  • You think.
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  • And then the person who's living in celebration of the finished
  • 00:16:37.159 --> 00:16:41.129
  • Work of christ is saying he did it.
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  • It's finished.
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  • He did it perfectly.
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  • You can't be 52% forgiven.
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  • You can't be 52% a new creation.
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  • You can't be 52% free from the law.
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  • Either he fulfilled it or he didn't.
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  • And so did he do it perfectly?
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  • Multiple choice.
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  • He didn't do it at all.
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  • He did it, but not as good as you think, or he did it to the
  • 00:17:03.385 --> 00:17:07.589
  • Max all the way.
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  • Everything jesus does, he fulfills it perfectly.
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  • That's the message.
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  • That's the choice.
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  • So then, in light of a, b, or c, if you have chosen option c.
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  • How close is your jesus?
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  • You know, in gavin's yearbook, our son gavin, he's graduating
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  • Very soon he's got a yearbook page coming up.
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  • In the school they ask us to put a verse in there.
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  • What verse do you wanna put in there?
  • 00:17:37.919 --> 00:17:39.488
  • Of course, you know, his dad being a pastor, i'm thinking,
  • 00:17:39.488 --> 00:17:42.157
  • Gosh, you know, i wanna think about this.
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  • I wanna study the whole new testament.
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  • I wanna, make sure i give him the best verse possible.
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  • I wanna, you know, so i pull up the bible gateway and i'm just
  • 00:17:48.763 --> 00:17:52.000
  • Thinking about every verse i've ever heard in the new testament.
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  • I just wanna make it count.
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  • This is my moment.
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  • I give him a couple sentences.
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  • You know, after about three minutes of that i'm like bam,
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  • Here it is.
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  • Anyone who joins himself to the lord is one spirit with him.
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  • That's what i want my kid to know for all of his life.
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  • That when he joined himself to the lord, he's clean, he's
  • 00:18:15.924 --> 00:18:20.295
  • Close, he's one spirit with the lord, and it's permanent.
  • 00:18:20.295 --> 00:18:25.167
  • So wherever he goes, he's in union with christ.
  • 00:18:25.167 --> 00:18:29.638
  • And guess what?
  • 00:18:29.638 --> 00:18:31.206
  • That's true of you too.
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  • That's true of you too.
  • 00:18:33.909 --> 00:18:36.945
  • And so when we realize how good this gospel is, whoa, it doesn't
  • 00:18:36.945 --> 00:18:44.386
  • Make us wanna sin more.
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  • Can you imagine the logic of that?
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  • I'm clean, i'm close, he loves me, he's with me, he's equipped
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  • Me, he's here for me, he's the god of the universe, he's all
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  • Powerful, and he's my counselor.
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  • Now i wanna go sin.
  • 00:18:58.066 --> 00:19:00.769
  • What are people saying?
  • 00:19:00.769 --> 00:19:03.271
  • They don't have a clue.
  • 00:19:03.271 --> 00:19:06.141
  • And so jesus did it perfectly.
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  • United in death and resurrection, romans 6:5, "if we
  • 00:19:08.577 --> 00:19:13.281
  • Become united with him," there's that word again, "united with
  • 00:19:13.281 --> 00:19:16.851
  • Him in the form," or likeness, "of his death, we will also be
  • 00:19:16.851 --> 00:19:20.655
  • In the likeness," or form, "of his resurrection."
  • 00:19:20.655 --> 00:19:23.592
  • Now i know you see that word will be and you think, "oh
  • 00:19:23.592 --> 00:19:26.094
  • My gosh!
  • 00:19:26.094 --> 00:19:27.462
  • Maybe it's just heaven he's talking about."
  • 00:19:27.462 --> 00:19:28.797
  • No, this is like a greek logic. if a then b.
  • 00:19:28.797 --> 00:19:30.498
  • If we've been joined in his death, guess what?
  • 00:19:30.498 --> 00:19:35.036
  • He didn't leave us in the tomb.
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  • You got other verses throughout the new testament to say we've
  • 00:19:38.907 --> 00:19:41.509
  • Been raised to newness of life.
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  • We've been united with him.
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  • We're with him in his resurrection.
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  • This is like a logic.
  • 00:19:46.181 --> 00:19:47.549
  • If a then then b. and that's what he's saying.
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  • He didn't leave you in the grave, you're united with him.
  • 00:19:51.853 --> 00:19:58.193
  • Let's be honest.
  • 00:19:58.193 --> 00:20:00.729
  • If you've got to die to self daily then christ's work wasn't
  • 00:20:00.729 --> 00:20:06.368
  • Finished, but here's the truth, it is finished.
  • 00:20:06.368 --> 00:20:09.738
  • You're a perfect new creation in jesus.
  • 00:20:09.738 --> 00:20:12.707
  • There's no need to kill what's already been raised to life.
  • 00:20:12.707 --> 00:20:18.380
  • Why are you trying to get rid of you?
  • 00:20:18.380 --> 00:20:21.549
  • Why are you trying to get rid of the new self?
  • 00:20:21.549 --> 00:20:25.654
  • Now folks, this plays into self-worth, self image.
  • 00:20:25.654 --> 00:20:31.059
  • 'cause see, we've done a wonderful job in christianity of
  • 00:20:31.059 --> 00:20:34.562
  • Making self into a bad word.
  • 00:20:34.562 --> 00:20:36.865
  • Have you noticed that?
  • 00:20:36.865 --> 00:20:38.199
  • If i stand in church in almost any church in america, maybe the
  • 00:20:38.199 --> 00:20:41.403
  • World, and i stand at the center of the stage and i say, "self."
  • 00:20:41.403 --> 00:20:47.575
  • Guess what people think of that word?
  • 00:20:47.575 --> 00:20:49.978
  • Yeah, oh, he's getting ready to hammer us.
  • 00:20:49.978 --> 00:20:54.182
  • Self, the greatest problem in the christian life is your
  • 00:20:54.182 --> 00:20:58.987
  • Self, really?
  • 00:20:58.987 --> 00:21:01.122
  • Huh, so i thought i was born again.
  • 00:21:01.122 --> 00:21:04.225
  • Well, yeah, we'll work it out later.
  • 00:21:04.225 --> 00:21:08.029
  • I thought i was the new self.
  • 00:21:08.029 --> 00:21:09.497
  • Well, yeah, there's that.
  • 00:21:09.497 --> 00:21:10.865
  • That's a different sermon.
  • 00:21:10.865 --> 00:21:12.500
  • So you're gonna make the two sermons work together?
  • 00:21:12.500 --> 00:21:15.136
  • Well, i'll figure it out.
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  • I'll let you know.
  • 00:21:16.471 --> 00:21:18.073
  • Your old self died you're the new self.
  • 00:21:18.073 --> 00:21:20.141
  • Self's not a dirty word.
  • 00:21:20.141 --> 00:21:21.576
  • Self's not a bad word for the christian.
  • 00:21:21.576 --> 00:21:23.745
  • Self image, get your self image from being the new self.
  • 00:21:23.745 --> 00:21:28.149
  • Get your self worth from being in christ as the new self.
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  • Don't reject you.
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  • You want the answer to rejection?
  • 00:21:34.422 --> 00:21:36.891
  • Here it is.
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  • God accepts you, accept yourself.
  • 00:21:38.226 --> 00:21:43.198
  • And so a final word, we'll just touch on this briefly.
  • 00:21:43.198 --> 00:21:46.935
  • 'cause i think this is where the confusion enters for a lot of
  • 00:21:46.935 --> 00:21:51.239
  • People about their self.
  • 00:21:51.239 --> 00:21:52.607
  • We're gonna talk about sanctification.
  • 00:21:52.607 --> 00:21:54.709
  • Sanctification has been abused.
  • 00:21:54.709 --> 00:21:57.312
  • That word has been abused.
  • 00:21:57.312 --> 00:21:58.847
  • We've attached the word progressive to it and we've told
  • 00:21:58.847 --> 00:22:01.916
  • People, hey look, you know what?
  • 00:22:01.916 --> 00:22:06.121
  • I'll tell you what.
  • 00:22:06.121 --> 00:22:07.455
  • We got a great message on justification, okay?
  • 00:22:07.455 --> 00:22:10.358
  • And i'm with you on that grace thing 'cause we've been
  • 00:22:10.358 --> 00:22:13.228
  • Justified by grace.
  • 00:22:13.228 --> 00:22:14.596
  • That's a great message.
  • 00:22:14.596 --> 00:22:16.364
  • But now could we, could we just tone that down for a minute and
  • 00:22:16.364 --> 00:22:18.967
  • Talk about sanctification 'cause sanctification is not complete
  • 00:22:18.967 --> 00:22:23.605
  • And therefore you're still getting right with god and it's
  • 00:22:23.605 --> 00:22:26.574
  • A progressive sanctification they say.
  • 00:22:26.574 --> 00:22:29.744
  • So they put the word progressive in there and basically you start
  • 00:22:29.744 --> 00:22:34.048
  • Watering down the gospel 'cause we take this beautiful identity
  • 00:22:34.048 --> 00:22:38.219
  • Message, we toss it in the justification bin, we toss it in
  • 00:22:38.219 --> 00:22:42.991
  • The bucket over there called justification, and then we pull
  • 00:22:42.991 --> 00:22:46.494
  • Out a hammer and we say now you gotta get sanctified, right?
  • 00:22:46.494 --> 00:22:53.868
  • And all that celebration just went in the bucket.
  • 00:22:53.868 --> 00:22:58.773
  • Is that the truth that we've got this contrast that we gotta
  • 00:22:58.773 --> 00:23:03.411
  • Wrestle with the rest of our days?
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  • I'm justified.
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  • I'm righteous, but i'm not sanctified.
  • 00:23:06.514 --> 00:23:08.349
  • Well, look at this.
  • 00:23:08.349 --> 00:23:09.784
  • Here's 1 corinthians 6:11.
  • 00:23:09.784 --> 00:23:12.754
  • "that's what some of you were; but you were washed, you were
  • 00:23:12.754 --> 00:23:16.491
  • Sanctified," past tense, "you were justified in the name of
  • 00:23:16.491 --> 00:23:21.296
  • The lord jesus christ and in the spirit of our god."
  • 00:23:21.296 --> 00:23:24.866
  • So the same moment you got washed is the same moment you
  • 00:23:24.866 --> 00:23:28.636
  • Got justified and it's the same moment you got sanctified.
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  • You know what sanctify means?
  • 00:23:32.040 --> 00:23:34.008
  • Sanctify, set apart, right?
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  • Set apart.
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  • Set apart for a purpose.
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  • Right now i'm wearing shoes and they're on my feet, thank
  • 00:23:41.316 --> 00:23:44.552
  • The lord.
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  • They're not hanging from my ears.
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  • If i hung them from my ears, they wouldn't be used for the
  • 00:23:47.355 --> 00:23:51.192
  • Purpose for which they were designed.
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  • I've got them on my feet where they belong.
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  • They're set apart for that purpose.
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  • You're set apart for the purpose of being in christ and
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  • Displaying christ.
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  • You've been set apart.
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  • Now you don't always act that way, but you've been set apart
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  • And that's what sanctify means.
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  • So here's a little bit from gospel zero as we come to
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  • A close.
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  • Sanctification is about being set apart for god.
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  • It's a one time deal sealed with a divine kiss by jesus himself.
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  • We're talking full access to the holy club, no cover charge
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  • Because jesus already picked up the tab.
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  • And so hebrews 10:10 captures it.
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  • "by this covenant," by this will, by this testament, "we
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  • Have been sanctified through the offering of the body of jesus
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  • Christ once for all."
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  • Confusing the sanctification of your person with the setting
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  • Apart of your performance.
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  • That's the problem.
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  • Don't confuse your person with your performance because that's
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  • Like mixing up a shakespearean tragedy with a saturday
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  • Morning cartoon.
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  • I mean, what are we talking about?
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  • You've been set apart as a person.
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  • Now, your attitudes and actions, those are in process.
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  • But god's not coming back saying, "well, i'm sorry you're
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  • Only 84% sanctified.
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  • I can't take you now.
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  • You need purgatory.
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  • You need one more car washer too.
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  • You're 61% sanctified.
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  • You're not ready for."
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  • No, when he breaks open the sky, his thought is, "i know
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  • What i've done, crucified, buried, raised to bring you
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  • Through that.
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  • Crucified, buried, raised.
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  • You're set apart from me, you're holy, you're righteous, you're
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  • Blameless, and i'm coming back for you and you are a person of
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  • My possession, period."
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  • Isn't that awesome?
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  • That's the gospel.
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  • We'll finish with this final thought.
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  • Sure our attitudes and actions are getting polished over time,
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  • But if god ripped open the sky to return it for us right now,
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  • Not one of us would be declared 62% sanctified.
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  • It's all or nothing.
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  • Dr. farley: the greatest day in human history, when jesus rose
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  • From the dead.
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  • We hang crosses around our necks, we celebrate the cross,
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  • But what about his resurrection?
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  • Why is it such a big deal?
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  • Did you know that it's actually the resurrection that saves us?
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  • That's why i get so excited this time of year because it's the
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  • Greatest excuse in the world to celebrate the most important
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  • Truth that you're a child of the resurrection.
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  • That you're born again to a living hope through
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  • The resurrection.
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  • That baptism saves you, peter says.
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  • But not water baptism.
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  • Being immersed in the resurrection.
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  • That's what gives us a good conscience.
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  • How?
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  • Through our righteousness, the free gift of
  • 00:27:06.154 --> 00:27:09.590
  • Resurrection righteousness.
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  • So, with that said, happy resurrection to you my friends.
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  • We love you, we're grateful for you, thank you for your
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  • Love and support for us.
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  • We can't do what we do without friends like you.
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  • Happy resurrection to you.
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