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Podcast: Acts 29 Vancouver
Episode: Christ Life
Publishing Date: 2022-06-15T06:00:44-07:00
Podcast URL: https://acts29.ca
Episode URL: https://acts29.ca/christ-life/

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Check, check, check, check, some more.

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Check, check, check, check.

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Okay, cool.

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Okay, guys, so this course is called Christ's Life.

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It's being recorded too, right?

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Okay, so one of the things that happened

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in Genesis chapter three is that man lost a kingdom

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because man's original assignment was a kingdom assignment.

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Man's original assignment was a kingdom assignment.

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He was told in Genesis 1.26 that,

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listen, I want you to have dominion.

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The idea of dominion is an idea that comes from kingdom.

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Let them have dominion over all the earth.

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Kingdom assignment required subduing the enemy

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from the kingdom.

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It required establishing a culture.

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It required establishing values.

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It required establishing the nature of heaven on earth.

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And it's all summed up in one statement

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that God makes when he says,

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let us make man in our image and likeness.

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And in saying let's make man in our image and likeness,

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and in saying let's make man in our image and likeness,

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let's make man in our image and likeness.

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And in trusting that man would perpetuate

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that image and likeness,

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God was saying let's establish values, culture,

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nature of heaven on earth.

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And let it be done through the subduing of the enemy.

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And let that kingdom, which is from everlasting

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to everlasting, be established here on earth.

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This was man's original mandate.

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And how was this going to happen?

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It was going to happen through the image and likeness of God

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being multiplied through the earth,

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through fantasy,

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through the earth, through families.

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Through families.

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Adam, Eve, one family.

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Adam, Eve's children, next family.

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It was supposed to be perpetuated that way.

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So in Genesis, what is being said is,

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hey, multiply and replenish the earth after my kind.

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And what was after my kind?

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As in after God's kind, after his image, after his nature.

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And then that's in Genesis 1.

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By the time we get to Genesis 3, 23,

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we find that man has lost a kingdom.

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Man has lost a kingdom.

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After man sinned,

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God sent him forth from the Garden of Eden

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to till the ground from which he was taken.

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And so ever since the fall,

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man has been in constant search

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for the restoration of a kingdom.

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Can the kingdom be restored?

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To him, because he lost it.

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Now you might think,

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no, I don't think like that.

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I don't think that a kingdom needs to be restored.

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No, but you were born,

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man was created to fulfill a kingdom assignment.

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And since then, he either tries to imitate

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or create kingdoms.

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Nimrod was the first one who tried it.

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And we usually do it through trying to grab power,

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trying to grab government, trying to grab religion,

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or we try through self-effort.

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There's this constant need for man to now come together

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and try to restore what was lost.

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And because the kingdom was lost,

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the king had to come down.

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Because the kingdom was lost,

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the king had to come down.

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Because the kingdom was lost,

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the king had to come down.

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Why?

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Because he had established a kingdom that was lost.

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And the only way the kingdom can be restored

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is by the king coming down.

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And the kingdom was lost to a rival kingdom.

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The kingdom was lost to a rival kingdom

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that was run by one who pretends to be a father,

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but who is not a father.

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Jesus said this about Satan.

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He is a father who is a liar, a murderer, and a thief.

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And so a kingdom was lost to a rival kingdom.

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To the prince of the power of the air.

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That's what the ruler of that kingdom is called.

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And the king had to come down

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so that the kingdom could be restored.

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And that's a story that then continues

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in the rest of history.

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What man had lost, the king comes to restore.

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Any questions?

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You've got to understand this, A.

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If you don't understand this,

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it's hard to put in perspective everything else.

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So this is why you see Jesus talking about the kingdom

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again and again and again.

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This is why you have that verse in John 3, verse 5 and 6,

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where he says, truly, truly, I say to you,

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unless one is born again, he cannot enter the kingdom of God.

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It is a restoration by the king coming and saying,

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listen, I've come to restore the kingdom,

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but to enter the kingdom, you need to be born again.

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Why? Because you died to this kingdom.

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You died to this kingdom.

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I have come to give back your life to you.

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You have to be born again to enter this kingdom.

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God's idea has always been this.

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I established a kingdom in the beginning,

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in the end, there will be a kingdom again.

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In Revelation, it says,

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and the kingdoms of the earth shall become the kingdom of our God and king.

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But the only way to enter into the kingdom that is now restored

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is through being born again.

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And if you're not born again,

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you stay in the kingdoms of the world.

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So he says in John 3, 5 and 6,

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truly, truly, I say to you,

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unless one is born again, he cannot see the kingdom of God.

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Nicodemus said to him,

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how can a man be born again when he is old?

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Can he enter a second time into his mother's womb and be born?

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Jesus answered, truly, truly, I say to you,

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unless one is born of water and spirit,

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he cannot enter the kingdom of God.

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And so the idea of Christ the King coming to the earth

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was to restore the kingdom that was lost in Genesis chapter 3.

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And if we leave these two bookends,

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then the story gets lost.

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The story becomes whatever we make it.

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Any story without a beginning and an end

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is a story that kind of gets lost.

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You can, you'll end up doing Fast and Furious 10

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or Jurassic Park 4.

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It becomes meaningless.

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Or Maple Leafs first round playoff 11.

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Yesterday I said,

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while I was teaching on one of the orbit thingies,

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I said, my new base level for things,

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the basest I can go is eating a Beyond Burger.

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And so Mark and Rhonda's kids wrote saying,

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no, Jacob, imagine watching the Maple Leafs

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eating a Beyond Burger and petting a cat.

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Nothing could be lower than that.

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And I agreed.

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Yeah.

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Eating a Beyond Burger, watching the leaves and petting a cat.

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Hell could be less punishing.

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Yeah.

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So,

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so that we got to have these bookends, eh?

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That it's a kingdom that was established,

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a kingdom that was lost, a kingdom that is restored,

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and a kingdom that will be forever.

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Any questions on that?

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Okay.

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No questions.

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In which case,

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for the purpose of our study, we need to establish,

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this is you.

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Hey, Vivian.

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This is you.

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Hey, May.

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This is you, May.

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So,

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so this is,

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all righty, someone just got excommunicated from May's house church.

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Yeah.

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Yeah.

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So,

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so this,

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for us to go further with this idea of being born again,

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the idea of Christ's life,

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we have to look at ourselves as body,

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soul,

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spirit.

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Every human being is born with a body,

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is born with a soul,

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and born with a spirit.

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The body is

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in Greek,

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it's called soma, which is our tent, or our earth suit.

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This is what the body is.

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The soul is the realm of our emotions and of our thoughts.

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So, when we talk about soul going into the future,

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because these terms are interchangeable in the Bible,

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so I want to establish what we mean by it.

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The soul is the realm of emotions and thoughts.

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So the body is

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the tent we live in.

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The soul

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is

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our emotions,

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feelings,

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thoughts,

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and the spirit

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is the real you,

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the essence of you.

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And it has your will,

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and it has your personality.

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Yeah.

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Sometimes in the Bible,

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the soul and the spirit are connected,

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in the Bible,

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the soul and the spirit are combined together

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and referred to as heart,

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and these terms are interchangeable.

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But for our sake,

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the body is the tent,

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the soul is emotions and thoughts,

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and the spirit is the real essence of you,

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or your will and personality.

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So, that's how we look at it for now,

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and that's how we'll continue to talk about it.

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So, your body changes.

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Mia will not be the same,

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her body will change.

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Your soul, your thoughts and emotions change,

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because what you were thinking yesterday

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and how you were feeling yesterday

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is not what you're thinking today and feeling today.

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But the spirit, the essence of who you are,

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is your will and personality is the same,

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and every human being is born with a body, soul and spirit,

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every human being.

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This is why reincarnation falls flat on its face.

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Reincarnation,

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therefore, can only deal with body and soul.

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You cannot deal with spirit.

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The spirit is the essence of your free will,

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your moral choice, your personality.

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Dogs don't have a spirit.

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Dogs don't get up in the morning and say,

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hmm, I will not chase after that dog today,

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or hmm, I will not poo on that lawn today.

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Dogs don't make these moral decisions.

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So, for me to be born as a dog is absurd.

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Reincarnation is an absurd idea.

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And most Eastern religions will promote reincarnation,

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but a human being with a body, soul and spirit

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cannot be born without a spirit in the next life.

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I wish Richard Gere would figure that one out.

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I don't know why I picked on him.

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So, some say the soul has two divisions,

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the spirit being the spiritual part,

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the soul being the natural part,

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but we'll just stick to 1 Thessalonians 5.23.

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If you look at 1 Thessalonians 5.23,

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1 Thessalonians 5.23,

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here's what it says.

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Now may the God of peace make you holy in every way,

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and may your whole spirit and soul and body be kept blameless

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until our Lord Jesus Christ has come again.

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The Bible talks about the man being a three-part being.

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And so we'll just go with how the Bible says it.

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In Hebrews 4.12,

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it seems to indicate that the spirit and the soul are entwined.

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So if you go to Hebrews 4.12,

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it talks about how the word can cut

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right in between the spirit and the soul.

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So if you go to Hebrews 4.12,

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Hebrews 4.12,

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Hebrews 4.12,

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For the word of God is alive and powerful.

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It is sharper than the sharpest to it sword,

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cutting between soul and spirit,

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between joint and marrow.

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It exposes our innermost thoughts and desires.

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But at the end of the day,

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every human being is made up of a body,

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made up of feelings and thoughts,

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and made up of spirit.

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So Adam was born the same way.

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Adam had a body.

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But here's the thing about Adam's body.

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Adam's body could have lived on forever.

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That's the crazy thing about the creation of man.

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Man was never supposed to die.

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Death is an alien enemy idea.

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It was never God's idea.

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And this is why the restoration of the kingdom is so beautiful

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because in the restoration of the kingdom,

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death ends.

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There is no more death.

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So Adam was born with a body,

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but it was a body that would live forever.

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Adam had a soul.

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But the cool thing about Adam's thinking and feeling was this.

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Adam did not know fear.

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Adam did not know guilt.

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Adam did not know shame.

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Adam did not know sadness.

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Can you imagine a day without fear, guilt, shame and sadness?

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Can you imagine six hours without fear, guilt, shame and sadness?

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Never experiencing it.

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That's what...

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Guys, when I say this,

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long for the day when everything will be restored.

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One of the things that this should do

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is make us look towards what salvation means to us.

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We will one day get into a place where there is no more death.

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Heidi just lost her dad.

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There will be no more death.

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There will be no more death.

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There will be no more tears, no more diseases.

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It's something you look forward to.

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This thing, this hope that is in Christ

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should make us shout for joy even during the course of Christ's life.

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Or a grunted hallelujah would be fine too.

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Yeah?

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Yeah, there.

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Now we got it started.

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And so his soul knew no shame,

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there was no thinking of fear, nothing.

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And then his spirit, his spirit was God-breathed.

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God breathed into him and it says he became a living soul.

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Again, the word is interchangeable.

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His spirit was God-breathed.

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It was innocent.

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It was without deception.

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It was without guile.

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He had an amazing personality.

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He had free will.

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His spirit did not know what evil was.

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He did not have an idea of evil.

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Can you imagine not knowing what evil is?

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I think I've told you this.

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It shows you the innocence of Adam.

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I'm watching National Geographic

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and there's this little Bambi that has just been born.

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And Bambi is running around and three leopard cubs come and surround Bambi.

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And Bambi does not know that it's supposed to run when leopard cubs come.

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So these three leopard cubs are standing around Bambi and Bambi ain't moving

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because Bambi does not know fear,

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because Bambi does not know that a deer is supposed to run.

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And the leopard cubs have never hunted before.

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So they don't know what to do because Bambi ain't running.

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And it's fascinating because leopards know how to attack if you flee,

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but Bambi is not fleeing.

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And so it's this peaceful stalemate.

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And I switched the thing off.

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I didn't want to see how it ended.

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So I still haven't recorded.

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I still haven't seen it.

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It's been 80 years now.

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So in Adam's spirit was Adam's will and personality.

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It was unique, specific.

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It was different from Eve's and from every man since.

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So when God created man, he gave man a free will to choose.

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And this is critically when we talk about free will.

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God will not violate free will.

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God will not violate free will.

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If God does not violate free will, you have no right to violate free will.

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That's why stuff like hypnosis, that's why stuff like mindfulness,

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that's why stuff like where one can manipulate someone else's will or way of thinking is so ungodly.

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Demonic.

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It opens you up to the demonic, but it is completely ungodly because God does not violate free will.

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He is so committed to free will that he would rather have you reject him and go to hell.

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Than choose him by forcing your will.

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I sometimes think there's one thing more precious to God than salvation and that is free will.

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He could get everyone saved in a second.

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He just has to touch one little nerve in my head and I'd start saying Jesus, Jesus, Jesus.

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But he won't.

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Why? Because it's inviolable.

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Free will is inviolable.

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Nobody should violate free will.

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As pastors, as parents, as leaders, when we begin to violate free will,

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we are taking on something that even God won't take on.

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Any therapy that takes away free will is a therapy that is ungodly.

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So Adam had the freedom to obey or disobey.

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God will not violate the will of man even if it means separation from God.

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And Adam had the freedom, so Adam always had the freedom to obey or disobey.

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He had the freedom to obey or disobey.

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But the strange thing is Adam had no concept of evil.

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No concept of evil.

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He did not know what evil was.

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He was innocent.

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Therefore, God puts a tree in the garden.

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Because if there is no choice, there is no freedom.

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If there is no choice, there is no freedom.

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If there is no choice, there is no freedom.

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If there is no choice, there is no freedom.

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If there is no freedom, there is no room to exert free will.

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People ask this question and famous people have written books on why couldn't God just remove choices?

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If there is no choice, there is no freedom.

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If there is no freedom, there is no exertion of free will.

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There was a tree in the garden that...

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His Bible was only one verse thick.

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Do not eat from this tree. That's it.

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There was no other scripture.

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His Bible was so thin, you couldn't even carry it.

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Do not eat from this tree.

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And that was the only prohibition.

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Everything else was freedom.

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And so Adam's choice was not a choice.

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Adam did not have to choose between good and evil.

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We are the ones who are faced with a choice because of Adam's sin.

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You and I are aware of good and you and I are aware of evil.

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And evil is seductive.

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Evil deceives. Evil lures you.

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Evil is bait.

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James talks about it.

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But Adam did not even have to choose between good and evil.

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He only had to choose between obedience and disobedience.

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He had it easy compared to us.

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By the time a child is two, the child knows the difference between evil and good.

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Adam was free of the seduction of evil.

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He had a choice between obedience and disobedience.

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And what Adam squandered in disobedience is what God then sends Jesus Christ to restore.

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And the strange thing is God knew it all along even when he created Adam.

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Because it says in Revelation 13 verse 8 that Jesus Christ, the Lamb of God, was slain before the foundations of the earth.

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Any questions?

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Any questions?

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Crazy, eh? He didn't even have to choose between good and evil.

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He just had to choose between obedience and disobedience and he chose disobedience.

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Any questions?

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Okay.

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When Adam sinned,

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when Adam sinned,

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when Adam sinned, let's see what begins to happen to him.

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When Adam sinned, this body he had immediately begins to decay.

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The moment he sins, this body begins to decay.

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And ever since, any human being that is born, the moment they're born, their body begins to get old.

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Their body begins to decay.

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When Adam sinned, his body began to decay.

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When Adam sinned, his body began to decay.

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When Adam sinned, for the first time, he had thoughts and feelings that it must have been such a shock to the system.

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We don't know how long it was between him being born, him being placed on earth, formed, not born, him being formed, and him sinning.

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We don't know the time span.

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It was in three days.

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It was in seven days.

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It probably was more.

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I don't know. I'm not even guessing.

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But during that time, he had never known what it is to feel fear.

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And then suddenly he sins.

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It must have been such a strange thing for Adam to even taste fear.

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He never tasted it before.

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Taste shame.

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Because the guy is hiding.

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He finds out he's naked and he hides.

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What made him do that?

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Never had a problem before that.

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Starts accusing or blaming his wife.

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These are new feelings for Adam. He's never had them.

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It must have been so terrible that day, man.

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Here is a man who used to walk and look forward to hearing the sound of God in the garden.

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And we don't even know what that sound was because it wasn't like Jesus was...

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God was coming with big stomping feet and rustling the leaves and stuff like that.

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Don't even know if they had fall season then.

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But all we know is he had this ability to hear the sound of God in the garden.

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And from that to go into these kind of feelings that are so alien to him,

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he must have known that something had broken.

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And worse, he cannot now respond like he used to in wholesomeness to the sound of God.

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He hears the sound of God and guess what he is doing?

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He's running for cover.

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And it's been perpetually...

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What do you think man is still doing? Running from God.

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Running from God.

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God is such a fearful concept.

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Hate Satan, man. Hate what he did to your ancestor.

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And if you hate him, you will run to the father who is not a liar, who is not a murderer, who is not a thief.

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You will run to him.

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What we don't hate, we tolerate. Remember that statement, eh?

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So his body begins to decay, his soul is corrupted, he is exposed to fear, shame and his spirit becomes degenerate.

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His spirit no longer has the ability to connect to God as it used to.

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Unable to connect to God.

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Unable to hear and connect to him as he used to.

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And since then, every person that is born is born different.

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Every person that is born is born that way.

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Since then we are born with the spirit.

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Every person is born with the spirit that is degenerate.

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Born with the spirit that is degenerate.

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Unable to communicate to God.

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And the thing is, the heredity of sin...

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The heredity of sin is literally written into...

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It's a figurative way of saying this. Our DNA.

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Tell me something, how is it that a two year old knows how to fight?

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How is it that a two year old gets jealous?

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How is it that a two year old gets angry?

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How is it that a two year old can be stubborn?

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Did you teach the two year old that?

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Which parent sits down and teaches the child how to be stubborn, how to be jealous, how to be angry?

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How does a two year old or what a one and a half year old or a one year old learn that?

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There's something inside of that that is so degenerate that it becomes natural for a one year old and a two year old to begin to behave that way.

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It's this representative principle where through one man, mankind is committed to a life of death and shame and fear and degeneracy.

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Wherefore, life we are born as slaves.

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And the great thing about the representative principle is that if through one man this happened to mankind,

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then through another man called Christ, salvation comes too.

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That's a cool thing. Through another man, Jesus Christ, the son of God, who came down to the earth as Jesus of Nazareth,

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through another man, everything becomes okay.

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That's a great thing. The representative principle is so brilliant.

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Through one man sin comes, through another man everything is restored.

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The next thing I want to talk about, and this is so critical to our understanding, is that there's a difference between sin doing and sin being.

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And most believers don't know this. At least I didn't know it as a pastor for years and I did go to Bible school for a little while.

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Sin doing versus sin being. There's a difference between sin doing and sin being.

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And Jesus did not die for our sin actions.

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We think that Jesus died for our sinful actions.

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No, that's not the full truth.

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The blood of bulls and goats, the blood of bulls and goats was enough to take care of sin actions.

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Jesus died not just for my sin actions. He came to die for my sinful being.

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So one of the ways I always try to illustrate this is let's assume Mark has a problem.

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Mark's problem is he drinks water and it doesn't matter how much water he drinks, he's thirsty again.

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So Mark goes to a doctor and says, Doctor, there's something wrong with me.

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The doctor puts him on an x-ray machine and that's when they realize that Mark has a huge piece of sponge in his stomach.

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So every time Mark drinks water, the sponge absorbs the water.

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And so the doctor comes out with that doctor look on his face and Mark says, Doctor, there's something wrong with me, right?

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And the doctor says, there's nothing wrong with you, but there's something wrong in you.

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And so he cuts Mark open, pulls out the sponge and sews him up and Mark is as good as new.

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He just drinks, how many liters of water are you supposed to drink a day?

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He just drinks two liters of water from then on because the sponge is gone, right?

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And so as silly as that example is, that's exactly what Jesus Christ came to do.

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He did not come to take care of your sin actions.

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Every religion, every religion on earth has a remedy for sin actions.

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If you're a Muslim, you go to Mecca and God may forgive your sins.

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If you're a Hindu, you take a bath in the Ganges and all your sins are washed away.

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If you're a Buddhist, you can meditate and try to attain a higher life to the point where you get nirvana or salvation,

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where you escape the cycle of sin and life and death.

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If you are a Jew, you go to the Wailing Wall, you go through prayers and you hope that Yahweh will forgive your sins while you wait for the Messiah to come.

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It doesn't matter which religion you take.

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Every religion has a solution or a remedy for sin actions.

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Not a single religion on the face of the earth has a remedy for the sin being that every human being is born with.

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There is no religion that takes care of it.

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Therefore Christ came.

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Knowing that the blood of bulls and goats is not enough to deal with a sin being,

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He comes to take away the sin being and replace it so that sin is not natural for those that are born again.

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If Christianity is just about removing sin actions, then Christianity is just like any other religion.

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Because every religion does that.

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It's fascinating how long it took me to come to a place where I realized that Jesus didn't die for my sins.

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Those are Sunday school answers that we speak of.

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Jesus didn't die for my sins, He died for my sin being.

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Any questions before we go on?

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So before we go down that road, let's look at who Christ is.

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Do you want to put up one of those slides or is it hard to do that?

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It's Christ is God Part 4.

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It'll be easier.

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Don't put all the slides up.

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Yeah, sorry.

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Sorry.

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Sorry.

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Before you go on, Satan alive, bringing you, sent a few down the squeeze.

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Who sinned first, Adam or Eve? Did Satan approach Adam directly?

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Yeah, so the questions are who sinned first, Adam or Eve? Did Satan approach Adam directly?

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So how it works guys is who was the command given to?

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The command was given to Adam, you shall not eat of the tree.

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Therefore, Adam is responsible.

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It doesn't matter that the serpent approached Eve.

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The one to whom it was said, do not eat from this tree, was Adam.

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When he was given the fruit, you see the same thing being played out slightly differently in Acts 5.

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Where Ananias has come, he has lied and he is now dead.

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Sapphira comes and she's still given an opportunity and she chooses not to take the opportunity.

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When it comes to the things of God, there's always an arrangement.

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And when in that arrangement, the one to whom the charge or responsibility has been given,

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of him it will be demanded to keep it more than the ones that are under him.

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This is why righteousness exalts a nation.

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This is why a king, when he does well, the entire country prospers.

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This is why when a shepherd is struck, the sheep scatter.

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This is why, like it or not, because the husband is first among equals,

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when a husband takes his place, then he becomes someone who then prevents other things from entering.

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Or let's say you're a single mum, then as a single mum, you now begin to take a stance

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and it begins to bless your family or it begins to affect your family.

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So Adam was given the charge and Adam was the one who could have completely changed the course of history

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if when Eve offered him the fruit, he said no.

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So...

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Can you put up the slide?

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Part 4, Christ is God.

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Alrighty.

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Okay, I'd send it to your email.

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We are having trouble with the media department today.

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It's an evening thing, that's why.

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They're much sharper in the morning.

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Yeah.

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So before we go on to how Christ died for us and what he did, yeah.

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We have to look at who Christ is.

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Christ is on one hand fully God.

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You can look at these scriptures. Isaiah 9, 6.

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He is called Mighty God.

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Micah 5, 2.

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His origin is from everlasting to everlasting.

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John 8, 58.

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Jesus said, I am.

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John 10, 30.

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I and my father are one.

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Why are we doing this? Because there are many...

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There was a movement called Arianism.

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Arianism and variations of Arianism still exist

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where people believe that Jesus Christ is the only begotten Son of God

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but that he's created and he's not creator.

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Hadi and I remember a person who came to Acts 29

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who was a believer, was baptized, was born again.

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And then for whatever reason things were not going well with the person.

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So one day we decided to break bread with him.

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And when we broke bread with him, we asked him, tell us who Christ is.

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And he said Jesus Christ is the only begotten Son.

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That he is Savior, he is Lord, he is Messiah, and he is created.

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It is important to establish Christ as creator.

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And so, keep going. It's part four.

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I and my father are one.

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Philippians 2, 9. Sorry, Revelation 1, 5-8.

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Yeah, Revelation 1, 5-8. He's the Alpha and the Omega.

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As in, he's the beginning and the end and everything in between.

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Philippians 2, 9 and Colossians 2, 9.

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He is in his very essence and nature, God.

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Hebrews 1, 8-12. He is God the Son.

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He is the second part of the Godhead.

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Titus 2, 13. He is God our Savior.

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And Arianism, which is still prevalent today,

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keeps saying that Christ was unique, he's pre-existent,

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but he's created and Savior.

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But not of the same essence, not of the same nature,

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not of the same substance as the Father.

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And that is a lie.

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Many modern positive thinking gurus say the same thing.

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They take from Christ's teaching,

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but they refuse to acknowledge him as creator.

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And here's what the Bible says in 1 John.

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Anybody who refuses to acknowledge that Jesus Christ is the Son of God,

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who came down to the earth in flesh, belongs or is being influenced

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by the Antichrist spirit.

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That's what it says in 1 John.

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They are denying that he is God.

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Once they deny Christ's deity, he is just like any ordinary person.

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He's like Buddha, or he's like Muhammad, or he's like anybody else.

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Human.

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Or a prophet.

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Guys, I'll put these slides up, the next three slides up,

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because reading it will help more.

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Can you put the next one up?

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Yeah.

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Christ is not God in man,

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because we simplify it and we say stuff like Christ is God in man.

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Christ is not God in man.

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He's a member of the Godhead,

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as in he is God who possessed a fully operating human nature.

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The word used is the hypostatic union of Christ.

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That's what it's called.

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And what it means is there were two natures that existed at the same time in Jesus of Nazareth,

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and they were not contradictory, and they were unique,

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and they functioned fine without any clash.

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It is a miracle, but it is something we have to wrap our heads around,

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and when you try to wrap your heads around it, you'll find that your head doesn't wrap around it.

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So you just have to believe it.

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So Jesus Christ is fully God and fully man in one person.

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Jesus Christ is fully God and fully man in one person.

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Remaining what he was, he became what he was not.

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I love that line.

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I love that line.

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Remaining what he was, he became what he was not.

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Christ was not God minus some elements of his deity,

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but God plus all that he had made his own by taking manhood to himself.

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For if he were to give up any of his divine attributes, he would cease being God.

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1 John 4, 2.

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Anyone who denies that Jesus Christ is truly man are of the spirit of the Antichrist.

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So he was fully God, he was fully man.

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He was not God minus some elements.

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He was God plus all that he had made his own by taking on manhood.

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It's very hard to comprehend this or to understand this,

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so the best we can do is comprehend it saying,

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this is a miracle that he was fully God and fully man.

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He was not a God man.

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He was fully God and fully man.

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A God man is one.

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It's a different.

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India has many God men.

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I'm not one of them.

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He was fully God and he was fully man.

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Okay, thanks.

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And both these existed together.

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Go to the next slide and read the last line.

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Let's start at the last line.

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The last sentence.

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His divine and human nature remain distinct,

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and yet Christ is nonetheless one person.

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And the things which are true of one nature are true of the person.

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I'll read that again.

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His divine and human nature remain distinct,

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and yet Christ is nonetheless one person.

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And that things which are true of one nature are true of the person.

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Now we can read the rest.

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Jesus' human nature did not become all-knowing through its union with God the Son,

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and neither did his divine nature become ignorant of anything.

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So you have him standing before people and they ask him,

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how can you say that you were before Abraham?

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And he says, I am.

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That is when he's standing and making a declaration as deity.

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And then they ask him, when will the end of the world come?

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And he says, neither I know, nor do the angels know.

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Only my father knows.

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And that is when he's speaking as Jesus of Nazareth.

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On his mother's side, he was 33.

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On his father's side, he was the Ancient of Days and the one who is ageless.

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Was Jesus hungry? Many times.

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Was Jesus sleepy? Many times.

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Did Jesus get weary and exhausted? Many times.

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Is God ever hungry? Nope.

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Is God sleepy? Psalm 121 says no.

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Does God get exhausted? No.

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Did Jesus die on the cross? Yes.

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Did God die when Jesus died? No.

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It's impossible to understand this.

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Rocket science is easier.

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Any questions?

00:42:34.440 --> 00:42:41.440
So if the enemy is two, when he says that he's an angel himself,

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so does the form of the devil, how does that tie in?

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Yeah. So go back to the slide before this.

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Yeah.

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So remaining what he was, he became what he was not.

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Christ was not God minus some elements of his deity,

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but God plus all that he had made his own by taking manhood to himself.

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So in his nature, Jesus Christ, I don't even like saying was the son of God.

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But he was the son of God.

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So he was the son of God.

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So in his nature, Jesus Christ, I don't even like saying was the son of God.

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But I'll say Jesus Christ was the son of God when he walked on the earth.

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But he loved calling himself the son of man

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because he decided that he will be as limited in his operation on earth

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as any other human being at the mercy of the Holy Spirit.

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Think of that for a second, and we'll talk about that some more.

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So Jesus Christ was decided that I am sinless, I am savior, I am the son of God,

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yet I will walk the earth with the same limitations as anybody sitting in this room

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at the mercy and the control of the Holy Spirit to the extent that I yield to the Holy Spirit.

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So he took on our limitations.

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The Holy Spirit contained by the universe decides to finite himself into a body.

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And he wasn't a strapping, handsome looking guy.

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That's what the movies and the books have made him.

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He was so average that people would not give him a second look.

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The Bible says that.

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That he wasn't even worth giving a...

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Nobody looked at him twice.

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He was a man who was devoid of anything that would be attractive,

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that would draw men to him except his words and his life.

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I get second looks.

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What? I don't? Of course I do.

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The point is this, that he was really average, guys.

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He was really average.

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That's the cool thing about Jesus, eh?

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I see this hair flowing, nicely trimmed beard.

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No, I wasn't tall and like nothing like that.

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If he had muscles it was because he worked hard in his carpenter shop.

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Not because he was working out.

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Very ordinary person.

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I love the fact that...

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And it's so natural for God to do that, eh?

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He makes someone average so that he can share the human experience.

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This is why his brothers and sisters thought he was crazy.

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His mother thought he was crazy.

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They didn't think he was special.

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So, Chava, to answer your question,

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here is someone who deliberately finites himself.

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I can't see your eyes.

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Here is someone who deliberately...

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I can only see the top of your head.

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Here is someone who deliberately finites himself.

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He is fully sinless son of God.

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And yet takes on, by emptying himself of all those other attributes,

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takes on the nature of a human being.

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And then whenever the father requires he makes statements like,

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I am.

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He could not even raise himself from the dead.

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Just imagine that.

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He is God.

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And this is what I mean by he empties himself.

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He empties himself to the point that he decides,

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the Godhead decides that you will not rise from the dead on your own

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even though you are the life giver.

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John 1 starts with, I came to give life.

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In me is light and life.

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And the one who gives life and makes the very hands that hammer the nail work,

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decides that I am not going to be the one who raises myself from the dead.

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So the spirit of the living God has to come and raise him from the dead.

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He has to do everything that will happen to us.

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And he has to finite himself and limit himself to who I am.

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Fascinating.

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God is such a logician, mathematician.

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He is so logical when it comes to certain things of course.

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Yeah.

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One of the reasons Christ was born to a virgin is so that he would not carry in him the lineage of sin

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passed on through Adam's bloodline.

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He was born of a virgin so that he would not carry the lineage of sin passed down through Adam's bloodline.

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And since Jesus was, since Jesus as God was born,

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when he took on flesh, he was sinless.

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In that, his deity is intact.

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Any questions?

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So if I were to call Vivek up,

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what is the advantage that Jesus had over Vivek?

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It's a problem.

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What is the advantage that Jesus had over Vivek?

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It's a problem.

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What is the advantage that Jesus had over Vivek or Xavier?

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What do you want to be known as?

00:48:38.520 --> 00:48:41.040
I'm always confused.

00:48:41.040 --> 00:48:46.360
I can call you, what did you call him?

00:48:46.360 --> 00:48:49.160
Babe yeah.

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Babe is easy.

00:48:50.280 --> 00:48:51.280
Really?

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Okay.

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Babe, so this is going worldwide.

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Okay, let me get back.

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So would you like me to address you as Xavier or Vivek?

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Let's go with Vivek because Xavier sounds very close to Xavier and it can get confusing.

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So let's go with Vivek.

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Okay.

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So what advantage did Jesus have over Vivek?

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Any answers?

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Well, if it is, that he should be born without sin.

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Yeah.

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See, one of the big differences between Jesus and Vivek would be that Jesus could have lived

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on forever.

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There was no sin in him.

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He was sinless.

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Sin causes death.

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There was no sin in Jesus.

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He could have lived on forever.

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At one point he makes statements like, nobody can take my life away from me.

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Jesus could have lived on forever.

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There was nothing degenerate about him.

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Jesus had the same standing as Adam.

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When Adam came to the earth, that's why Jesus is called the last Adam.

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When Adam came to the earth, he was meant to live on forever.

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You can sit here because I'll call you up again, babe.

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So, he had the same human standing as Adam.

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When Jesus, it is so brilliant what God is doing.

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He's saying, hey, I want to restore the kingdom so here's what I'm going to do.

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I'm going to restart Genesis.

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I sent Adam, he messed up.

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I'm sending you another Adam called the last Adam and he's going to restart things.

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That Adam was sinless.

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Hey, behold, here is an Adam that is sinless.

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That Adam had no corruption.

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This Adam has no corruption.

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That Adam's spirit was without guile.

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This Adam's spirit is without guile.

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He could live on forever if he wanted to.

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So, what God is doing is a restart.

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He tried that.

00:50:50.160 --> 00:50:51.160
He tried that.

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He tried that with Noah.

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The guy got drunk within days.

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He threatened to do that with Moses.

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He said, Moses, let's start all over again.

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Let's get rid of all these people.

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Like Adam and you, come.

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Like Adam and Vivek, Jesus faced the same temptations.

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Only with Jesus, the temptations were much greater because Satan knew.

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The satanic realm knew who Jesus was.

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Remember what the demons in Gadarin said when Jesus approached.

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Holy one of God, why have you come to torment us before our time?

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The satanic realm knew.

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They didn't know how this is going to work out, but they knew who he was.

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They recognized him faster than the Pharisees and Israel.

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And so, like Adam and like Vivek, Jesus faced the same temptations and Jesus had the capacity

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to choose to obey or disobey his father.

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Sorry, you'll have to sit again.

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So, here's a question and I've asked this before and most of you know the answer,

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but just for the sake of the recording, why did Jesus rise from the dead?

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Why did Jesus rise from the dead?

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And the Sunday school answer is because he was the son of God.

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The Sunday school answer is because he loved the father.

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The only reason Jesus rose from the dead was because he was sinless.

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If Jesus had committed one sin, he would have stayed dead because the wages of sin is death.

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The currency that you get paid in if you sin is death.

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Therefore, Jesus had to come, live here on earth, live like you and I, not commit a sin,

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not because he was Teflon, not because he had some magical miraculous ability,

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but because he had to live that way if he was to rise again.

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The Holy Spirit could only raise him up if he was sinless.

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So, Jesus had to live a life without sin because you sin once,

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it's as good as sinning a hundred times.

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Christ rose from the death because he was sinless because he cannot pay someone who hasn't sinned the wages of sin.

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The wages of sin is death.

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Christ can't be paid those wages.

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Now, he is a prime candidate for a resurrection.

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Lazarus was raised from the dead and he died again.

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Christ has been raised from the dead to live on forever.

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Because Lazarus would have to pay a price for his sins.

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So would Enoch and so would Elijah.

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We don't know how it's going to work out, but they'll all die.

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Our bodies pay the wages of sin, which is death that we inherited from Adam.

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But that's why we get new bodies.

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And so Jesus comes to the earth and he takes on the form of Adam.

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He lives sinlessly.

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He breaks the cycle of sin.

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I mean, just as Adam brought in the cycle of sin, Jesus breaks the cycle of sin once and for all.

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So Christ is 100% God.

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Christ is 100% God.

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This is why the name Jesus Christ is so brilliant.

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Jesus was born in the year of the lion.

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It was a name that was given to a lot of people.

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There was a bar of Jesus in the Bible.

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Many say that one of the names of Barabbas was Jesus Barabbas.

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And so Pilate says, which Jesus do you want? Jesus Barabbas or Jesus of Nazareth?

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So Jesus was a common name.

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In fact, every mother wanted to name their child Jesus because the whole idea of the name Joshua or Yeshua was God saves and one day a Messiah will come.

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So it was the most common name.

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After Jacob, it was the second most common name in Israel.

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I have heard some scholars say, but it has to be verified.

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So most mothers would name their child Jesus.

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So you've got Jesus of Nazareth and then you've got Christ.

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Christ means Messiah.

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And so as Christ, he is 100% God.

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And as Jesus, he's 100% human.

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And so he takes on our human experiences, lives a limited existence in a body of flesh.

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And here's the cool thing.

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Jesus had to learn obedience.

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Hebrews chapter five, verse eight, Hebrews chapter five says that Jesus had to learn obedience.

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Luke chapter one, verse 50 something says, Jesus grew in wisdom and stature and favor with God and man, meaning he had to grow into it.

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I'm going to make him very ordinary by the next things I'm going to say.

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He used to poo.

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He used to, when he was a kid, mess things up.

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He didn't know that fire was hot.

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He didn't get up one day and start walking.

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He stumbled.

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He had to be taught, you don't do that son, you do this.

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Don't touch that.

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When the rabbi was teaching and he began to climb up the steps like Phoebe, they would say, no, no, no, don't go near the rabbi.

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No such luck here.

00:56:46.160 --> 00:56:54.160
But the point is that this was a child like every other child.

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It's not sacrilegious to say these things about him.

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He would get cuts and bruises.

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If you thought he walked without a cut or a bruise, come on man.

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That's like a bubble boy.

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I feel bad when I talk about him like this because we have a picture of him that is so behind a glass frame that becomes very unreal.

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And yet when he was bullied, he had to find out very early in life that when you're bullied, you don't fight back.

00:57:36.160 --> 00:57:47.160
When he was beaten up or called a name because people knew that he was born before his parents married, he had to learn how not to be angry.

00:57:47.160 --> 00:57:55.160
When they took away his favorite ball that he had made out of wood and sawdust, he had to learn how to give it away.

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I'm beginning to create my own version of Chosen, so I'll quit before that.

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So did he, when things changed for him when he was baptized and the Holy Spirit was sent off, did that give him the ability to do things that he couldn't?

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Go ahead.

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Did things change for him when he had the Holy Spirit descend on him or did things change before?

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He was conceived by the Spirit of God hovering over him.

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By the time he was 12, he was so highly aware that he makes a statement saying, why did you go looking for me?

00:58:44.160 --> 00:58:47.160
You should have known that I'd be in my father's house.

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In making that one statement, he's immediately saying to Mary and Joseph that I understand that you're my parents, but you are really not my father.

00:58:54.160 --> 00:58:58.160
So he had this high awareness when he was a child of who he was.

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And so what happens at baptism when he comes out of the water is more Psalm 2, where it's the installation of the coronation of a king.

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Today I have begotten you. This is my begotten son in whom I'm well pleased.

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So his ministry begins then, but it is not like he had less of or was devoid of the Spirit at that time.

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Right from when he was born, he was conceived by the Spirit of God hovering over Mary, just as the Spirit of God hovered over the earth when it was a chaotic mass.

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So what happens at baptism is actually Psalm 2.

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I have installed my king in Zion.

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Fully human, fully God.

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There is this idea of a child when the child is growing, has to learn things.

00:59:59.160 --> 01:00:02.160
He has to grow in wisdom, stature and favor with God.

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Because if he knows that fire is hot right from when he was one month old, there's something strange about this kid.

01:00:09.160 --> 01:00:13.160
Not responding to bullying. He had some kind of idea that his mom would...

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These are now hazarding guesses, eh?

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I am. But I'm saying to you that till the age of reason, it is one thing for a child to make mistakes.

01:00:22.160 --> 01:00:27.160
But after the age of reason and it changes from child to child to child, then it becomes a decision.

01:00:27.160 --> 01:00:30.160
And when it came to decision making, Jesus did not sin.

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Before we go on to...

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Maybe we can go there already.

01:00:45.160 --> 01:00:47.160
Yeah, we can skip that.

01:00:47.160 --> 01:00:51.160
I was going to talk about where did Jesus go when he died, but we can do that another time.

01:00:51.160 --> 01:00:55.160
So when you accept Christ...

01:00:55.160 --> 01:01:00.160
So Jesus was born with a body. Jesus was born with a soul. Jesus was born with the Spirit. We know that.

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So now let's talk about what happens when we accept Christ.

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When I accept Christ's death on the cross for me...

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Remember that when we talk about being born again, when you accept Jesus Christ's death on the cross,

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the one thing that dies is your sin being.

01:01:17.160 --> 01:01:22.160
The person your mom gave birth to, the Spirit that you were born with,

01:01:22.160 --> 01:01:27.160
that degenerate Spirit is what dies when you are born again.

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When you give your life to Christ, Galatians 2.20 goes into effect.

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And it says...

01:01:34.160 --> 01:01:38.160
I have been crucified with Christ.

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So he's getting born again today.

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So when he gets born again, this is what happens.

01:01:48.160 --> 01:01:52.160
I have been crucified with Christ.

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Just relax a little because you'll be there for a while.

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Yeah.

01:01:59.160 --> 01:02:02.160
I have been crucified with Christ.

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I no longer live.

01:02:06.160 --> 01:02:09.160
But Christ lives in me.

01:02:09.160 --> 01:02:11.160
What has been crucified with Christ?

01:02:11.160 --> 01:02:14.160
When I receive Christ, what dies?

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It is not my body that dies.

01:02:16.160 --> 01:02:19.160
It's not my thinking and feeling that changes.

01:02:19.160 --> 01:02:22.160
The moment you get born again, it's not that suddenly your thoughts become all clear.

01:02:22.160 --> 01:02:24.160
We are still struggling with it.

01:02:24.160 --> 01:02:27.160
And your feelings don't all disappear. They're still very alive.

01:02:27.160 --> 01:02:30.160
What dies is such an essential part that needs to die.

01:02:30.160 --> 01:02:33.160
And that is the sin being.

01:02:33.160 --> 01:02:38.160
The Spirit that Vivek's mom gave birth to, that he was born with, dies.

01:02:38.160 --> 01:02:41.160
It no longer lives.

01:02:42.160 --> 01:02:44.160
It's dead.

01:02:44.160 --> 01:02:48.160
If you want to find Vivek's spirit, the degenerate spirit,

01:02:48.160 --> 01:02:52.160
you'll have to go to Jerusalem and you'll have to start digging around Calvary.

01:02:52.160 --> 01:02:56.160
Good luck finding it because there are thousands there.

01:02:58.160 --> 01:03:01.160
Something died and is buried.

01:03:01.160 --> 01:03:03.160
His degenerate spirit is what dies.

01:03:03.160 --> 01:03:06.160
I have been crucified with Christ.

01:03:06.160 --> 01:03:09.160
You can put your arms down but stay there.

01:03:09.160 --> 01:03:11.160
I have been crucified with Christ.

01:03:11.160 --> 01:03:14.160
I no longer live.

01:03:14.160 --> 01:03:17.160
I no longer live.

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So here's another scenario.

01:03:20.160 --> 01:03:23.160
Come, Vivek.

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Now he's my slave.

01:03:26.160 --> 01:03:31.160
So every morning, and I'm not a good master,

01:03:31.160 --> 01:03:36.160
every morning this slave has to come and bring me tea.

01:03:36.160 --> 01:03:39.160
He has to massage my head and feet.

01:03:39.160 --> 01:03:42.160
He has to make sure that he gives me a shave without nicking me.

01:03:42.160 --> 01:03:45.160
He has to get my clothes all ready ironed.

01:03:45.160 --> 01:03:48.160
Oh, I wish someone would do that for me.

01:03:48.160 --> 01:03:51.160
And so he's my slave.

01:03:51.160 --> 01:03:54.160
And he has to do it at a particular time, bring me breakfast.

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And one day, it's six o'clock and my tea hasn't arrived.

01:03:58.160 --> 01:04:00.160
It's seven o'clock and my breakfast is not ready.

01:04:00.160 --> 01:04:02.160
It's eight o'clock and I haven't had a massage.

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I am so enraged that I go grab a whip off the wall and I start whipping him

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because I go to where he lives and I find him on the ground sleeping.

01:04:13.160 --> 01:04:17.160
It enrages me that my slave is not serving me.

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So I take the whip and I start whipping him and he still doesn't get up.

01:04:21.160 --> 01:04:23.160
So I start kicking him and he still doesn't get up.

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So I grab his throat.

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And when I grab his throat, I suddenly realize there is no pulse.

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And I don't know what to feel because for the first time in my life,

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I realize that there is nothing I can do to the slave anymore because last night he died.

01:04:44.160 --> 01:04:48.160
That my mastery over him is broken because last night he died.

01:04:48.160 --> 01:04:50.160
It doesn't matter how much I whip him.

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It doesn't matter how much I threaten him.

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It doesn't matter what reward I give him.

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It doesn't matter what seduction I throw his way.

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It doesn't matter what I do to him.

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This slave has escaped my mastery because last night he died.

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It's actually in the Bible.

01:05:07.160 --> 01:05:09.160
It talks about this.

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That you are no longer slaves to sin because you have died.

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And if you are dead, how can the sin have the power that it used to have over you?

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Your mastery of sin is broken because you actually died.

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And till we as Christians actually believe that to be born again is impossible without something dying,

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we will never be able to get born again.

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You cannot get born again till something dies.

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And that thing that has to die is your degenerate spirit that was crucified with Christ on the cross.

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I no longer live.

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Born again is not a prayer, man.

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Born again is something dying.

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You can sit.

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I've told you the story before, but there was a pastor whose wife we were burying at Valley View Cemetery.

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And as she's being buried, the other pastor next to me nudges me and says, look down.

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And I look down and there's a grave.

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And it says, here lies Jacob John.

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It just freaked me out.

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I thought God is sending me a message saying, okay, you're going to topple over in the next two minutes.

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Here lies Jacob John.

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And for a few seconds, I thought my number has come.

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And because there are thousands and thousands of graves at Valley View,

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how do you end up standing over a grave with your name?

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And what a strange name, Jacob John.

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Not too many people have that, at least not in Canada.

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And so immediately God reminds me of something that Oswald Chambers wrote.

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And here's what he wrote.

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He wrote, have you been to your funeral yet?

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Because if you haven't been to your funeral, you're not born again.

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Have you been to your funeral yet?

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Has something died?

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One of the things I dislike about this whole born again experience is no longer can you lay claim to that sentence,

01:07:09.160 --> 01:07:13.160
the devil made me do it, or the sin was too powerful.

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That advantage I've lost.

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Can never use that excuse.

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Father, the sin was too powerful.

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No, son, you're dead to it.

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You can go under it, but it doesn't have mastery over you.

01:07:27.160 --> 01:07:29.160
The devil made me do it.

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No, son, you died. He was the master. You've escaped.

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You can go and serve him, but you cannot say that he has mastery over you or sin has mastery over you.

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That is a lie.

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It is not true.

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Yeah, because I would go first to Galatians 2.20 where it says, I have been crucified with Christ.

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I no longer live.

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So when it says I no longer live and I have been crucified with Christ, it means something died.

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So it can't be my body because my body is still there.

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Can't be my soul because my thinking and feeling is still active.

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Jesus came to put to death the sin being or the sin engine because he can take care of sin actions.

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But if I can't remove the engine, if I can't remove the sponge, I'll keep drinking water and I'll always be thirsty.

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So what was put to death on the cross was my sin being or my degenerate spirit.

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It's my degenerate spirit that causes me when I'm two years old to learn how to fight, be jealous, be selfish.

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How? How does even a child know it?

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How does a child become naturally sinful?

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Cute little baby.

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It's already pulling its twin's hair at six months.

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Can you put up the slide, first slide in part five?

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Not how far you sit, you'll be called up again.

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When I accept Christ's death on the cross for me, my sin being, this to answer Karuna's question,

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my sin being the degenerate spirit dies, the sin and slave spirit I was born with was cruelly put to death on the cross with Christ.

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That's the idea of substitutionary death.

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I will die for you.

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By I will die for you, we've reduced it to he died for your sins.

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No, I will die for you as in I will die for you so that you can live like you were supposed to when I first made you.

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Sins every religion can take care of, man.

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My slavery to sin ends because once a slave dies, the master can no longer exert control over a slave.

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Galatians 2.20, this is why Paul says that I've been crucified with Christ, I no longer live.

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The old Jacob is actually dead.

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The old Jacob does not exist.

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The old Jacob does not exist.

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Guess what?

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Jacob has a body, Jacob has a soul, Jacob has a spirit.

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The old Jacob does not exist.

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So let's give it a decent burial.

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A decent burial, Miguel.

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So we give it a decent burial.

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God, that old Jacob doesn't exist.

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You want to find that old Jacob, you'll have to start going to Calvary.

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We'll also skip talking about the law because what time is it?

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Why don't we have a clock up there?

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Yeah, no.

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Death is so final when it comes to being born again.

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It is like, pachack.

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And it is not, ah, degenerate spirit, let's spit and polish and make it shiny again.

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No, it is not regeneration of something that is degenerate.

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It is death.

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It is final.

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Because there are people who say, who belong to a school of thought that says,

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and our spirits were regenerated.

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No, it is a degenerate spirit that is put to death.

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It has no place.

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So we won't talk about the law, but it's quite interesting how God gave the law so that,

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hi guys, God gave the law so that sin, you would become aware of the sin.

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Like if you go driving in Germany, you can drive at any speed and it is not a problem.

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Why?

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Because on certain roads there are no speed limits.

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But you try doing that in Vancouver and there is a problem.

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And therefore there is a penalty, the law brought in penalty.

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But we won't talk about that today.

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Okay.

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So we got a problem now though.

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My degenerate spirit has been given a burial by Pastor Miguel.

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That's what pastors do.

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In Chad's church there is a pastor called Hatch, Match and Dispatch Pastor.

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That's his name. His title is Hatch, Match and Dispatch.

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So he takes care of new babies.

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So that's the hatch part.

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Match is he takes care of weddings and then Dispatch is he takes care of funerals.

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So he's called Hatch, Match and Dispatch Pastor.

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He has the same suit for all three.

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So just as God breathed into Adam and he became a living being,

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when you accept Christ, one of the cool things that happens is God gives you a brand new spirit.

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God gives you a brand new spirit.

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So your degenerate spirit is dead but God now gives you a brand new spirit

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and in giving you a brand new spirit, guess what God is doing?

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Hey, remember one thing with God, there is never a plan B.

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With God there is never a plan B.

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Even with your own life, he will have to do a variation of plan A but there's never a plan B.

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When a clay pot gets marred, he doesn't throw away the clay pot and start with a brand new lump of clay.

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He takes the pot, re-kneads it and makes something out of the same clay.

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There is no plan B. There is only plan A with God.

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He has shown that right from the beginning.

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So what happens is your degenerate spirit is buried and so now God gives you a brand new spirit.

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2 Corinthians 5.17, I am a brand new creation.

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He gives you a brand new spirit.

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So let me tell you what this spirit is like.

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Guys, Mia and Phoebe can play but the rest of you will play with my toys.

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Okay, so a brand new spirit.

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Let me tell you what this brand new spirit that you received when you got born again is.

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It's like Adam's.

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It is innocent.

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It is without guile, without deceit.

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It does not know deceit.

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It's innocent.

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It is without guile.

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It is without guile.

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You are being restored to how Adam was in the Garden of Eden.

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That's what happens.

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Any questions?

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Any questions?

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Yeah.

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Yeah, yeah, yeah.

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Yeah.

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Yeah.

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Yeah.

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Yeah, we are coming to that.

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Yeah, yeah, yeah.

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That's why I'm skipping some portions because that part is important.

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Yeah, so you get a brand new spirit.

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Now you've been restored to who Adam was.

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But didn't Adam fail?

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Adam had a new spirit.

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He was innocent.

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He was guileless.

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He was without fear.

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He was not timid.

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He was not a coward.

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He was someone who had a sound mind.

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He was loving.

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He had power.

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Adam still sinned.

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And so here's the rest of the story.

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This is the best part of being born again, man.

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So God gives you a brand new spirit.

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And then he says, hey, I've brought you back to Genesis, chapter one.

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I've given you a brand new spirit.

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I've restored you to who Adam was.

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But let me do you one better.

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I don't want you to be like Adam was.

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I want you to be like I am.

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So here's what he does.

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He takes his Holy Spirit and fills you with his Holy Spirit.

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Now you're born again.

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We have an advantage that even Adam didn't have.

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You were restored to who Adam was.

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Now you're guileless, innocent, but you can sin again.

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God says, I'll do it stage by stage.

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Genesis one has happened, but now let me take you a step further.

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Let me fill you with my Holy Spirit so that you now have only my Spirit living within you.

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This is what being born again is.

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All of the Holy Spirit.

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Not a little bit.

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All of the Holy Spirit.

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Within you.

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Saturated.

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Can someone get a plastic glass or something like that or just a cup and a tissue?

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And does someone have tea or coffee here?

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Anyone has tea or coffee?

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What? You came without tea or coffee?

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Anyone has juice?

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You got tea? Great.

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You brought the tea for this performance.

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Vivek is breathing a sigh of relief.

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Finally I'm not a prop.

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So the Holy Spirit is not just in us here.

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Our spirit is.

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We're given a new spirit.

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So we were given, when we get born again, our degenerate spirit has been given a burial.

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We have a brand new spirit.

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Now we've been restored to where Adam is at.

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But Adam fell.

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So God says, let me do you one better.

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I want to make you like me.

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I want to make you perfect.

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So he fills us with the Holy Spirit.

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When he says fill, what he means is the same thing that happens when tea is poured into water.

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You cannot separate it again.

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Is there evidence for this? Yes.

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1 Corinthians 6.

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His spirit and my spirit have become one.

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His spirit and my spirit have become one.

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You cannot separate Jacob's spirit from the Holy Spirit.

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You cannot separate it.

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You cannot.

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His spirit and my spirit have become one.

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There is no difference anymore.

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Thanks so much, man.

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Does someone have some water?

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Oh, you got water too?

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Hey, you came ready for this.

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My spirit and his spirit.

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My spirit and his spirit have become one.

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Try separating this.

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It is brilliant, man, what God has done.

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My spirit and his spirit have become one.

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There is no separation.

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The more I realize this, the more I tease this, the more I realize what a unique species we are.

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Species.

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It doesn't exist on earth before.

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My spirit and the spirit of God have become one.

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This is how the Father and the Son come and sup with me.

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Because the Holy Spirit is the spirit of the Father and the Holy Spirit is the spirit of Christ.

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And his spirit comes and dwells in me.

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And now the book of Revelation comes true.

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I come knock on the door.

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If you let me in, the Father and the Son will both come and sup with you.

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Why? Because his spirit and my spirit have become one.

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It is not possible to separate this and give it back to Jillian.

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This is why being born again is so critical, so important.

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Everything else is religion.

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I think it's still drinkable.

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Ephesians 1.13.

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The moment we are born again, he gives us the Holy Spirit as a deposit.

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Not as a deposit as in just a little.

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As a deposit as in you're stamped.

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That's what it meant.

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What is meant by being filled with the spirit?

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Being filled with the spirit is being completely saturated with the spirit.

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There's no difference.

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The difference though is this.

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This is me.

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This is me.

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To the extent that I yield to the spirit, to that extent I take on the nature of Christ.

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This is, let's say Sheldon.

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He's yielded more to the spirit, so more of him comes looking stained with Christ.

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This is Jesus.

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Fully yielded to the spirit, fully therefore looking like his father, able to represent his father.

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That is the difference between Christians.

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Why is it that some Christians who are much younger than me look more like Jesus?

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Why? Because they're more fully yielded to the spirit in that area.

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Why is it that I don't look like that?

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Simply because in that area I am not yielded to the spirit.

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Jesus was fully yielded to the spirit, therefore he looked completely like his father here on earth.

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To the extent that you yield to the spirit, to that extent you take on the nature of Christ.

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But it is not the lack of the spirit, it is only the lack of yielding.

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Hi sweetheart.

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It is only the lack of yielding.

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Any questions?

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Hey, Chris's mom, Gisela, you've met her.

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Does she speak in tongues?

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But I assure you, there are times I look at her and I think to myself,

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how is she so godly in certain areas?

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We think speaking in tongues is what is the fullness of the Holy Spirit.

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Speaking in tongues is a gift of the Holy Spirit, it's a great gift to have.

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But please don't mistake the gift for the actual nature of Christ.

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Because I know many people who speak in tongues and live like the devil.

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Any questions?

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It is sometimes, when I say, Father, fill with the Holy Spirit, I am saying,

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more yieldedness, so please take over.

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It's like, if I come to your house, you can keep me in the living room,

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or you can take me further into other rooms that you have,

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so that the perfume that I wear spreads throughout the room.

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I don't wear perfume, but I don't often.

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But the point is that the idea is that the more I open my home to him, the more he fills.

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And remember, because he is a person, you can't have a little bit of the Holy Spirit.

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I can't come to your house and put one foot in and say, I'm in, but I'm out.

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No, either I'm in your house or I'm out of your house. I can't be both.

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But the degree to which you yield your house to me depends entirely on you,

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because I will not violate your will.

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So, let's talk about the Holy Spirit.

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Can we put up the slides on part 6?

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I know you know about the Holy Spirit, so I'm going to just read through this

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and not wait on it for too long.

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Part 6. The Holy Spirit is also called the Spirit of Christ.

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He is a person, one with the Father and the Son.

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God, Holy Spirit embodies God life and is one with the will, the thoughts, the emotions,

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and the person of the Father and Son.

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What Christ has accomplished, the Holy Spirit applies in our lives.

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Next.

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I'm just going to read through this because we've talked about the Holy Spirit a lot.

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The Holy Spirit is a person, not a quantity, and therefore you cannot have a little of him

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when you are saved and a lot of him later.

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That idea has to be destroyed.

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Many Pentecostals believe that you receive a bit of the Holy Spirit first,

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and then at some point you receive more of him.

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It depends on your yieldedness.

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He is fully present to the extent that you yield.

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His intent is not to make you speak in tongues.

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The Holy Spirit's intent is very plain.

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Can I make you more like Jesus?

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So like the whole idea that when you are baptized in the Holy Spirit...

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It goes against the grain of Ephesians 1.13 where it says that you receive the Holy Spirit when you are born again.

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As you yield, you get filled.

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It's an ongoing process.

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Just as Jesus had the full measure of the Holy Spirit in him, so do you.

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Crazy. I have the same measure of the Holy Spirit as Jesus.

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However, Jesus was fully yielded to the Holy Spirit, and therefore he was fully controlled by the Holy Spirit.

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To the extent that I'm yielded to the Holy Spirit will be the extent to which I'm controlled or filled with the Holy Spirit,

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my life displaying the character of God.

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Next slide.

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Because the Holy Spirit lives in me, I have all the gifts of the Holy Spirit.

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These gifts are manifested as the Spirit wills.

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The presence of the Holy Spirit in believers was evidenced by tongues that identified the new people being formed by God.

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And it was a reversal of Babel, but we won't talk about it right now.

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I just want you to be aware of why the Holy Spirit was sent to us so that we look more like Jesus.

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What is Jesus saying? Hey, I restored you to who Adam was, but that ain't enough because Adam sinned.

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I'm going to make you perfect forever. And I have now made you perfect.

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Your spirit and the Holy Spirit have become one. You've got God living in you.

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God's spirit and your spirit have become one. You cannot be more perfect.

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You cannot be more blameless. You cannot be more holy. You cannot.

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Paul never says, I need you to be holy.

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Paul says, listen, you are holy so start behaving that way.

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Your parents never said, become human. They said, now that you're human, behave like a human.

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Seems like I was right. We've all heard it, eh?

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Can you go to, keep going down the Holy Spirit slides? Next one.

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Next one. Yeah, I love this. My spirit, my new spirit, my new spirit is saturated by the person of the Holy Spirit the moment I'm saved.

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This is why you can, I can grieve the Holy Spirit. This is why I can grieve the Holy Spirit.

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He and I have become one. Anything I do, he's affected.

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My new spirit is saturated with the person of the Holy Spirit the moment I'm saved.

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It is the spirit of Christ who brings me to me the life of Christ. Galatians 2.20.

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I have been crucified with Christ. I no longer live. And then it goes on to say, but Christ lives in me.

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How does Christ live in me? Christ lives in me by his spirit.

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Whenever you're shaken, you should rattle.

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Because Christ lives in you.

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If they use the jaws of death on you and open you up, like they open a car up, guess who they should find inside?

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Jesus. Oh, jaws of life, sorry, not jaws of death.

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Jaws of life on you. They should find Christ inside.

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Cut your jugular, you'll bleed to death. But guess what? The life inside you is that of Christ.

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Physical life? Small potatoes.

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God, Holy Spirit dwells in me making the life of Christ mine.

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Since my spirit is saturated, you must get used to the word saturated and vitally united with the very life of the risen Christ.

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I have in a sense no other life but the life of Christ in me.

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This is so important guys. You break me and my body will die.

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But the life I have is the life of God.

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This is why we are unique species.

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This is what God desires for every human being.

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Adam did not have what I have.

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Moses does not have what I have.

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David did not have what I have.

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Why? Because they never had God dwelling in them.

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I got God dwelling in me.

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It's crazy man.

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I got God dwelling in me.

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This is why you and I can, if you want to, relate to the Father as Christ related.

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This is why the same limitations that Christ operated with are the limitations that you and I operate with and we can do what Christ can do.

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This is why you and I have the free will to yield to him just as Christ yielded to the Holy Spirit.

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I got to move on because we got to get out of here before 9.30.

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I no longer live but Christ lives in me.

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My new spirit is not just innocent but it is perfect and it cannot be defiled again.

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That's the great thing.

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I am not going to be defiled again.

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I cannot be made imperfect.

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I cannot be made unholy.

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I cannot be made blameful.

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I'm blameless.

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I'm perfect.

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I'm holy.

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I cannot be defiled.

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Why?

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Because the Holy Spirit lives in me and his spirit and I have become one.

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The reason I will go to heaven is because I am the Holy Spirit.

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Only that which is perfect enters into perfection.

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I am perfect.

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Therefore, I have no other place to go to but a place of perfection, which is the presence of God in heaven.

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I am perfect.

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I am perfect.

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I am perfect.

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I am perfect.

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I am perfect.

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I am perfect.

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I am perfect.

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I am perfect.

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I am perfect.

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I am perfect.

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I am perfect.

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I am perfect.

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I am perfect.

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I am perfect.

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I am perfect.

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I am perfect.

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I am perfect.

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I am perfect.

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I am perfect.

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I am perfect.

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Let's do a prayer.

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We shall talk about that.

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Here's something else that happens when you have the Spirit of Christ living in you.

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Go to the next slide.

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Jesus upped the ante of the law by making it a matter of the heart and not just outside of observance.

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Let's skip that.

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It gets too complicated.

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I have to explain the law.

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Skip it.

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Go to the next one.

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I love this.

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This is one of my favorite phrases.

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God likes you.

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Your father now sees you as forever perfect.

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As perfect as his son Jesus Christ.

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Your father now sees you as forever perfect.

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As perfect as your son Jesus Christ.

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He treats you like he treats his son.

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He treats you like he treats his son.

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He treats you like he treats his son.

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He treats you like he treats his son.

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He placed you in his son, so that he could treat you like he treats his son.

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Please listen to me.

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Please listen to me.

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Don't miss out on these sentences.

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He placed you in Christ so that he could treat you like he treats his son.

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He placed you in Jesus Christ, so that he could treat you like he treats his son.

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When I occasionally remember that, I get a swagger man.

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It's like, I don't know what a swagger looks like, but somewhere inside I get a swagger.

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Would you like to show us a swagger? No? Okay.

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I can call you Xavier. No? Okay.

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Babe, show us a swagger. Okay.

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Your father now sees you as forever perfect, as perfect as his son Jesus Christ.

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He loves you as much as he loves Jesus Christ.

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I love the next line because it's completely mine and I'm not boasting.

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You are the target of his reckless love.

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You're the focus of his laughter-filled favor and his father-like delight.

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You are the target of his reckless love, the focus of his laughter-filled favor and father-like delight.

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All the penalty, all the punishment, all the anger against sin was poured out on his son at the cross.

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God not only loves you, he actually likes you.

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God likes me.

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He likes me a lot.

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He's said so so many times.

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Any questions?

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Okay, let's talk about some dilemmas.

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Let's go to Dilemma 1.

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2 Corinthians 7.1.

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It says that the spirit can be defiled. Why does it say that?

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The basis for 2 Corinthians 7.1 is found in 2 Corinthians 6,

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which outlines the consequences of being yoked with the demonic through idolatry.

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The life of a spirit birthed Christian is incompatible with the lifestyle of an unbeliever.

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They're mutually exclusive. One cannot be both.

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If one, and Paul talks to the Corinthians about this, he says,

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if you go for your idol feasts, don't you know that you are partaking with demons?

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It is incompatible. A person who is a believer cannot do that.

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So to answer Karen's question, what when...

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What is your question, Karen?

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Yeah, what when someone stops following the Lord?

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There's two questions that we need to ask when someone stops following the Lord, and that is...

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Or maybe one main question.

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Was he...

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Was he the Lord's to begin with?

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Because I used to be of the school that salvation can be lost.

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I no longer believe that. I believe that salvation cannot be lost.

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Therefore, what do you do with people who turn their backs, and there are scriptures that talks about it,

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and blaspheme, and deny Christ?

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I go back to this. Were they saved to begin with?

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And if you say they are, then I don't have an answer.

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Because I presently believe that salvation cannot be lost.

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I used to argue that salvation could be lost.

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And I can't understand how, when this happens, how salvation can be lost.

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I can't understand when this happens, how salvation can be lost.

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So is my understanding reason enough to convince you? No.

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So feel free to explore that further, but I don't have an answer.

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Yeah. But you know where I stand.

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Thank God I'm not one of those professors who gives you 20 opinions and doesn't tell you where he stands.

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I experienced that in certain places.

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Your turn is coming. He's looking like, when are you going to call me up?

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Shortly, shortly.

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Here's another dilemma, guys, that Christians struggle with.

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For centuries, next one.

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For centuries, Christians have been taught that the body is evil.

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And this has resulted in misconceptions about sex and piety, suffering and penance.

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The body is an instrument I can use for acts of righteousness.

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Please sit here, Vivek.

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Oh, sit here. Yeah.

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So the body... How did you get caught in this?

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The body is an instrument that can be used for righteousness.

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As in, I can... This body is neutral. It'll do whatever I tell it to.

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It's like a vehicle that I live in.

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So the body can be used as an instrument of righteousness, or it can be used as an instrument for evil.

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I can make this body do whatever it wants.

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I can either embrace him, or I can hit him.

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Mia didn't hear that, did she?

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So the body is an instrument I can use for acts of righteousness or wickedness.

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It is not evil. It is not evil.

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The body and the soul are realms that can be affected or influenced by the devil.

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But my new spirit... My new spirit is the realm of the Holy Spirit.

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Satan cannot touch the spirit of a Christian.

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A Christian can never be possessed.

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A Christian can be oppressed. Your body and soul can be affected.

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Your thinking and emotions can be affected. But guess what?

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Guess who lives here?

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When was the last time you heard darkness chase light out?

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It's not even humanly physically possible.

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You think it's possible in the invisible? Impossible.

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You cannot chase out the light.

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Light has always chased out the darkness.

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This is the advantage we have as believers.

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Cannot be touched.

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And because he lives in us, everything else will have to bow.

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Because he is so possessive of my soul and my body.

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Jesus did not die for my spirit alone.

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He died to redeem body, soul and spirit.

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If he didn't care for the body, he would not have risen in a body.

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Christ rose in a body.

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Lazarus' brothers recognized Lazarus.

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Our bodies will be recognized.

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And they will say, Oh, Pavan, it's you in heaven.

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Many of you who have lost babies when you miscarried, you will recognize them.

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You will recognize them.

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There is a Roman 7 dilemma, which I used to preach.

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For centuries, Christians have been taught that Roman 7 is a statement on the condition of a Christian who is struggling to do right, but is drawn away by the wrong.

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Paul says, Oh, what a wretched man I am.

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I want to do right, but I end up doing wrong.

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And so I used to preach that.

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I used to preach that in every Christian, there's a good dog and a bad dog.

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And depending on the person, they will be taught that there is a good dog and a bad dog.

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And depending on which dog you feed, that dog is more powerful and they keep.

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It is so contrary to the nature of God.

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The same God who said, You can't serve God and mam and won't put two different nature dogs in you.

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So when we look at Roman 7, but Paul is lamenting his condition that every time I want to do right, I end up doing wrong.

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Christian life is then portrayed as a tug of war between two antagonistic forces that live within man, each trying to establish supremacy.

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However, when we read the context of chapters 6 and 8, it is obvious that Paul is talking about his life under the old Jewish law.

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The Spirit is mentioned only once.

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The one who said, You cannot serve God and mam and would not put opposing forces within us,

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which is why Romans 8.1 opens with such a crescendo statement where he says, Therefore now, who will save me from this wretched condition?

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And then it opens saying, Therefore now, there is no condemnation for those that are in Christ, for the Spirit of life in Christ has set me free.

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I've never gotten so excited about Christ's life.

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Any questions?

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Karuna's question being repeated and rephrased in different words.

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We will answer it shortly.

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Yeah, sorry.

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I'm just saying I just remember Karuna's question.

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I was thinking what was the question and you rephrased it.

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So thank you Tony.

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I'll answer it in a second.

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One more dilemma before we answer Karuna and Tony's question.

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And that is the dilemma of the flesh.

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Whenever we read the word flesh, we think our flesh is evil.

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Flesh is not evil.

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The word flesh that Paul refers to comes from a word sarx, S-A-R-X.

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And he's referring to a value system or a code of conduct or desires or perspectives and a lifestyle that exists outside of Christ.

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So I existed before I accepted Christ into my life.

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That's what he means when he says do not indulge the flesh.

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He's not saying this is evil.

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There's nothing evil in this.

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This is not evil.

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Please don't think that sitting on a bed of nails is going to make you feel any better.

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It's just going to hurt like crazy.

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So this is not evil.

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When Paul talks about flesh in the Bible, he's talking about a code of conduct, a desire, perspectives and lifestyle that existed before we accepted Christ in our lives.

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It's a different way of living that he's talking about.

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The way of the flesh versus the way of the spirit.

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He's not talking about this.

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This is soma.

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Now let's answer Karuna's question and Tony's question.

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Yeah, you can bring it.

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He's buried.

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Okay, so this is Jesus.

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This is still Vivek.

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Okay, so does Vivek have a body?

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Did Jesus have a body?

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Does Vivek have thinking and feeling?

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Did Jesus have thinking and feeling?

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Does Vivek have a spirit?

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Did Jesus have a spirit?

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Yeah, remember on the cross it says, into your hands I submit my spirit.

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And he was fully human so he had to be made up of body, soul and spirit too.

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Did Jesus have a pure, clean spirit?

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Does Vivek have a pure, clean spirit?

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He does.

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I'm talking about now.

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You're born again, right?

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Okay.

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So does he have a clean, pure spirit?

01:47:08.640 --> 01:47:10.640
He does.

01:47:10.640 --> 01:47:12.640
Because he's born again.

01:47:12.640 --> 01:47:18.640
If you said no or were confused, it is because, remember, we were given a brand new spirit.

01:47:18.640 --> 01:47:21.640
So he's got a clean, new spirit.

01:47:21.640 --> 01:47:24.640
Was Jesus full of the Holy Spirit?

01:47:24.640 --> 01:47:26.640
Is Vivek full of the Holy Spirit?

01:47:26.640 --> 01:47:28.640
Yeah.

01:47:28.640 --> 01:47:29.640
Shake.

01:47:29.640 --> 01:47:31.640
Just do like this.

01:47:31.640 --> 01:47:32.640
See?

01:47:32.640 --> 01:47:38.640
So, so, you should come with me on trips when we do this.

01:47:38.640 --> 01:47:39.640
Yeah?

01:47:39.640 --> 01:47:42.640
It'll be like an Abbott Costello kind of show.

01:47:42.640 --> 01:47:43.640
Can we take turns?

01:47:43.640 --> 01:47:45.640
No.

01:47:45.640 --> 01:47:47.640
So you're doing it so much better.

01:47:47.640 --> 01:47:48.640
Yeah, yeah.

01:47:48.640 --> 01:47:53.640
So, Jesus is full of the Holy Spirit?

01:47:53.640 --> 01:47:56.640
Vivek is full of the Holy Spirit?

01:47:56.640 --> 01:47:57.640
You don't need to shake it.

01:47:57.640 --> 01:47:58.640
Yeah.

01:47:58.640 --> 01:48:00.640
So Jesus, Vivek is full of the Holy Spirit.

01:48:00.640 --> 01:48:02.640
So tell me something.

01:48:02.640 --> 01:48:07.640
Why is it that Vivek still sins and Jesus, you still sin occasionally, right?

01:48:07.640 --> 01:48:08.640
Yeah.

01:48:08.640 --> 01:48:10.640
So why is it?

01:48:10.640 --> 01:48:12.640
I can't say.

01:48:12.640 --> 01:48:13.640
Your wife is here.

01:48:13.640 --> 01:48:14.640
How can you say?

01:48:14.640 --> 01:48:15.640
Yeah.

01:48:15.640 --> 01:48:17.640
So, so here's my question.

01:48:17.640 --> 01:48:21.640
How come Vivek sins and Jesus didn't?

01:48:21.640 --> 01:48:25.640
I know some of you know the answer, but again, it's a question for the recording.

01:48:25.640 --> 01:48:26.640
How come Vivek sins?

01:48:26.640 --> 01:48:29.640
How come Jesus didn't sin?

01:48:29.640 --> 01:48:32.640
They have the same advantages right now.

01:48:32.640 --> 01:48:36.640
The only difference between Vivek and Jesus is that Vivek will die one day.

01:48:36.640 --> 01:48:39.640
Jesus could have lived on forever.

01:48:39.640 --> 01:48:41.640
That's the only difference.

01:48:41.640 --> 01:48:44.640
Why is it that Vivek still sins and Jesus does not?

01:48:44.640 --> 01:48:46.640
Jesus did not.

01:48:46.640 --> 01:48:48.640
He yielded completely to the Spirit.

01:48:48.640 --> 01:48:49.640
He yielded completely to the Spirit.

01:48:49.640 --> 01:48:59.640
Why did he yield completely to the Spirit?

01:48:59.640 --> 01:49:05.640
So, so guys, the reason Jesus did not sin and the reason Vivek sins is very simple.

01:49:05.640 --> 01:49:07.640
Jesus loved his father.

01:49:07.640 --> 01:49:09.640
Vivek still in certain areas.

01:49:09.640 --> 01:49:13.640
He's not at that place where he loves his father so much that he does not sin.

01:49:13.640 --> 01:49:18.640
Why do some husbands stay absolutely committed to their wives?

01:49:18.640 --> 01:49:20.640
It doesn't matter where they go.

01:49:20.640 --> 01:49:23.640
You can take them to Toronto or Bangkok.

01:49:23.640 --> 01:49:25.640
It doesn't matter.

01:49:25.640 --> 01:49:29.640
Both places, it doesn't matter whether they are with a whole group of people,

01:49:29.640 --> 01:49:35.640
whether the rest of the group is wild, they will have a fidelity towards their wives.

01:49:35.640 --> 01:49:39.640
That will not have them move one inch to the left or one inch to the right.

01:49:39.640 --> 01:49:40.640
Why are some husbands like that?

01:49:40.640 --> 01:49:43.640
And why are some husbands not like that?

01:49:43.640 --> 01:49:44.640
Very simple.

01:49:44.640 --> 01:49:47.640
Some love their wives, some don't.

01:49:47.640 --> 01:49:48.640
Because they are far away.

01:49:48.640 --> 01:49:49.640
Their wives don't know what is happening.

01:49:49.640 --> 01:49:52.640
You can't even say they are afraid of their wives.

01:49:52.640 --> 01:49:56.640
Their wives are not around, but they act in ways that are so faithful

01:49:56.640 --> 01:50:01.640
that you suddenly realize that here is a man who loves his wife so much

01:50:01.640 --> 01:50:07.640
that he cannot bear the thought of doing anything that would violate his covenant with her.

01:50:07.640 --> 01:50:10.640
And then there are other husbands who go to night clubs, who party,

01:50:10.640 --> 01:50:13.640
who sleep with others on business trips.

01:50:13.640 --> 01:50:14.640
Why?

01:50:14.640 --> 01:50:17.640
Because they are not committed to their spouses.

01:50:17.640 --> 01:50:20.640
Same principle really.

01:50:20.640 --> 01:50:24.640
Christ, Jesus, with all the limitations that he has,

01:50:24.640 --> 01:50:27.640
they are the same except that he could live forever and he can't.

01:50:27.640 --> 01:50:29.640
The reason he did not sin was very simple.

01:50:29.640 --> 01:50:34.640
He loved his father so much that he could not bear the thought of sinning.

01:50:34.640 --> 01:50:36.640
He is a work in progress.

01:50:36.640 --> 01:50:38.640
He hasn't gotten there yet.

01:50:39.640 --> 01:50:47.640
And at the end of the day, sin only goes away when you love the Father more.

01:50:47.640 --> 01:50:49.640
You can have prayer, sin won't go away.

01:50:49.640 --> 01:50:51.640
It will come back when you stop praying.

01:50:51.640 --> 01:50:53.640
You can fast, sin won't go away.

01:50:53.640 --> 01:50:57.640
You will just sin with a few pounds missing.

01:50:57.640 --> 01:51:06.640
You can try every trick in the book, but sin does not stop until you like something else more.

01:51:06.640 --> 01:51:08.640
I have an example from Sheldon and Jane's life.

01:51:08.640 --> 01:51:10.640
You can go and sit.

01:51:10.640 --> 01:51:13.640
I'll give you an example from Sheldon and Jane's life.

01:51:13.640 --> 01:51:24.640
When Sheldon first met Jane, he had no idea that Jane was into movies where you cry a lot.

01:51:24.640 --> 01:51:31.640
So the first time they met, they sat together and Jane said, let's watch a movie.

01:51:31.640 --> 01:51:35.640
And they started watching the movie and Jane starts crying and Sheldon doesn't know what to do.

01:51:35.640 --> 01:51:42.640
So he just hands her a tissue and she cries and then the movie is over.

01:51:42.640 --> 01:51:45.640
Two weeks later, it's Friday again, it's movie night.

01:51:45.640 --> 01:51:48.640
But by now, Sheldon likes Jane a little more.

01:51:48.640 --> 01:51:53.640
So this time around, Sheldon actually gives her the money to get a cry movie.

01:51:53.640 --> 01:51:58.640
And so Jane gets the movie, she cries, Sheldon now gives her more tissues than normal,

01:51:58.640 --> 01:52:01.640
holds her for a little while and then that's over.

01:52:01.640 --> 01:52:11.640
Five weeks from now, Sheldon actually walks in with her and gives her a list of ten most cry movies in the world

01:52:11.640 --> 01:52:14.640
because he's beginning to really like Jane.

01:52:14.640 --> 01:52:19.640
She begins to cry, he sits with her, gets her a tissue box and all that.

01:52:19.640 --> 01:52:22.640
Five months down the line, strange thing happens, it's Friday night, movie night,

01:52:22.640 --> 01:52:27.640
Sheldon actually goes picks a movie where there's a lot of crying.

01:52:27.640 --> 01:52:36.640
He puts tear-shaped petals on the ground to make it as crying as possible.

01:52:36.640 --> 01:52:41.640
He buys saltless popcorn because he knows there'll be enough tears.

01:52:41.640 --> 01:52:45.640
And then they sit and watch this movie together.

01:52:45.640 --> 01:52:51.640
What do you know, at some point during the movie, Jane is not crying but Sheldon is weeping.

01:52:51.640 --> 01:53:00.640
And so the reason Sheldon changed his taste, distaste, likes, dislikes

01:53:00.640 --> 01:53:07.640
is simply because he likes someone so much that he's willing to change his interests, his likes, his dislikes.

01:53:07.640 --> 01:53:11.640
At the end of the day, all sin goes away when I like somebody else more.

01:53:11.640 --> 01:53:15.640
Delight in the Lord and he'll give you the desire of your hearts. Why?

01:53:15.640 --> 01:53:19.640
Simply because as you delight in him, his likes become yours, his thoughts become yours,

01:53:19.640 --> 01:53:24.640
his dislikes become yours, his dislikes become yours, his interests become yours, his disinterest become yours.

01:53:24.640 --> 01:53:29.640
Everything begins to align and the moment it aligns, God begins to give you whatever you want

01:53:29.640 --> 01:53:34.640
because you are beginning to think like him, like like him, dislike like him, interest like him, disinterest like him.

01:53:34.640 --> 01:53:37.640
At the end of the day, that is the easiest way to live.

01:53:37.640 --> 01:53:40.640
My only thing every morning and your only thing every morning should be,

01:53:40.640 --> 01:53:45.640
Father, can I today begin this day by falling in love with you?

01:53:45.640 --> 01:53:48.640
If I can get that right, everything else sorts itself out.

01:53:48.640 --> 01:53:53.640
Because the only reason Jesus did not sin was because he liked the Father more than anything else.

01:53:53.640 --> 01:53:58.640
The only reason I don't sin in many many different areas that I used to sin

01:53:58.640 --> 01:54:02.640
is because I cannot bear the thought of grieving the one who lives in me.

01:54:02.640 --> 01:54:08.640
It is not possible for me to go down a certain path anymore because I know that if I do that, nothing will happen.

01:54:08.640 --> 01:54:11.640
I'm perfect, I'm blameless, I'm holy, I'm going to heaven.

01:54:11.640 --> 01:54:18.640
But I miss out on the one thing that I have, which is the relationship with the living God who lives inside me.

01:54:18.640 --> 01:54:21.640
The more I like him, the less I'll sin.

01:54:24.640 --> 01:54:26.640
It happens to our tastes.

01:54:27.640 --> 01:54:31.640
We start eating Indian food and then you end up eating Chinese food. Why?

01:54:31.640 --> 01:54:35.640
Because you just happen to like it more than you liked Indian food.

01:54:36.640 --> 01:54:41.640
Sin never goes away till you like something else more than the sin itself.

01:54:41.640 --> 01:54:44.640
Sin never goes away till you like something else more than the sin itself.

01:54:44.640 --> 01:54:48.640
Sin never goes away till you like something else more than the sin itself.

01:54:50.640 --> 01:54:56.640
Steve McWay, a guy who writes on grace, tells a story of how he used to go out and play with his friends continuously.

01:54:56.640 --> 01:54:59.640
Basketball was the favorite thing he would do.

01:54:59.640 --> 01:55:02.640
And then one day, he didn't turn up for basketball.

01:55:02.640 --> 01:55:05.640
And his friend thought that he must be sick.

01:55:05.640 --> 01:55:07.640
Two days he doesn't turn up for basketball.

01:55:07.640 --> 01:55:09.640
His friend thinks he must be really sick.

01:55:09.640 --> 01:55:11.640
Three days he doesn't turn up for basketball.

01:55:11.640 --> 01:55:13.640
His friend thinks he's dead.

01:55:13.640 --> 01:55:15.640
So they go to his house.

01:55:15.640 --> 01:55:17.640
They go to his house and there's a swing outside the house.

01:55:17.640 --> 01:55:20.640
And Steve McWay is sitting on the swing with a girl.

01:55:23.640 --> 01:55:26.640
And they said, we thought you were dead. You hadn't turned up for basketball for three days.

01:55:26.640 --> 01:55:28.640
You've never done that in your life.

01:55:28.640 --> 01:55:31.640
And he says, no, I found something more interesting than basketball.

01:55:32.640 --> 01:55:34.640
Steve McWay was a guy that would have died for basketball.

01:55:34.640 --> 01:55:37.640
He loved basketball so much he could never give up a day.

01:55:37.640 --> 01:55:42.640
And then in a second, he gave it up because he found something else better than basketball.

01:55:42.640 --> 01:55:45.640
Till you find something else better than sin, you cannot give it up.

01:55:47.640 --> 01:55:50.640
In our case, that better something is someone.

01:55:50.640 --> 01:55:52.640
And that someone can be experienced.

01:55:52.640 --> 01:55:54.640
And that someone is always waiting.

01:55:55.640 --> 01:55:57.640
Someone is always waiting.

01:55:57.640 --> 01:56:01.640
So here's the thing that happens to answer Karuna and Tune's question.

01:56:01.640 --> 01:56:02.640
Our body is neutral.

01:56:02.640 --> 01:56:06.640
It'll do whatever it tells you to because it's an instrument of righteousness or an instrument of evil.

01:56:08.640 --> 01:56:10.640
Then here is our thinking and feeling.

01:56:12.640 --> 01:56:13.640
And here is the spirit.

01:56:14.640 --> 01:56:17.640
The body is neutral, so we don't have a problem with that.

01:56:17.640 --> 01:56:19.640
The spirit is perfect. We don't have a problem with that.

01:56:19.640 --> 01:56:22.640
The only place we have a problem is our thinking and feeling.

01:56:22.640 --> 01:56:25.640
And that has to continuously be retrained.

01:56:25.640 --> 01:56:27.640
How do you retrain the thinking and feeling?

01:56:27.640 --> 01:56:28.640
Very simple.

01:56:29.640 --> 01:56:38.640
We renew our mind with the reading of the word and we retrain ourselves by practicing the word.

01:56:39.640 --> 01:56:41.640
We renew our mind by the reading of the word.

01:56:41.640 --> 01:56:43.640
We retrain ourselves by the practice of the word.

01:56:45.640 --> 01:56:47.640
We renew our mind by the reading of the word.

01:56:47.640 --> 01:56:49.640
It changes the way I think.

01:56:49.640 --> 01:56:50.640
I used to think sickness could kill.

01:56:50.640 --> 01:56:52.640
Now I think sickness can be healed.

01:56:53.640 --> 01:56:59.640
I used to think if someone hits me, say something really nasty and run because you can't hit them back.

01:57:00.640 --> 01:57:06.640
Now I think if someone hits me, don't offer the other cheek but at least say something kind before you leave.

01:57:06.640 --> 01:57:07.640
I'm getting there.

01:57:07.640 --> 01:57:09.640
My thinking is being renewed.

01:57:13.640 --> 01:57:14.640
My thinking is being renewed.

01:57:14.640 --> 01:57:16.640
My feelings and my thinking is being renewed.

01:57:16.640 --> 01:57:17.640
My thinking is being renewed.

01:57:17.640 --> 01:57:23.640
My feelings and my thinking are renewed by the reading of the word and they are retrained by the practice of the word.

01:57:23.640 --> 01:57:25.640
By the practice of the word.

01:57:25.640 --> 01:57:26.640
It is only a matter of time.

01:57:27.640 --> 01:57:30.640
And therefore, the question is who is in charge?

01:57:32.640 --> 01:57:38.640
Either we live our lives like this, where the feelings and thoughts are in charge, or we live our lives like this.

01:57:40.640 --> 01:57:42.640
So, let's take examples.

01:57:42.640 --> 01:57:49.640
Flipping mindlessly through TV, see something that is either soft-porn or something that is sexually deviant.

01:57:49.640 --> 01:57:50.640
I've got a choice now.

01:57:51.640 --> 01:57:58.640
I've grown up in a world where everything is geared towards arousing sexual appetite.

01:57:59.640 --> 01:58:01.640
What have I been doing with my thinking and my feeling?

01:58:02.640 --> 01:58:09.640
Have I been training it so that it is renewed to the point where purity is something that is blazingly,

01:58:09.640 --> 01:58:16.640
purity is something that is blazingly attractive and impurity is something that has become obnoxious.

01:58:17.640 --> 01:58:18.640
How have I been training my mind?

01:58:19.640 --> 01:58:22.640
How I train my mind is how I will react in a situation.

01:58:23.640 --> 01:58:24.640
My spirit is perfect.

01:58:25.640 --> 01:58:28.640
My spirit man will say, hey Jacob, but your mind has changed so much.

01:58:28.640 --> 01:58:29.640
You've been practicing purity.

01:58:30.640 --> 01:58:31.640
Stop flipping channels.

01:58:32.640 --> 01:58:33.640
Walk away.

01:58:34.640 --> 01:58:40.640
Or, my soul which does whatever it wants, now says, watch a little longer.

01:58:42.640 --> 01:58:47.640
Till sin becomes the bait that I swallow, it becomes sin and then it becomes death.

01:58:47.640 --> 01:58:50.640
Temptation becomes the bait that I swallow, it becomes sin and then it becomes death.

01:58:50.640 --> 01:58:51.640
Who's in charge?

01:58:52.640 --> 01:58:54.640
My soul or my spirit?

01:58:54.640 --> 01:59:01.640
I remember a guy coming up to me and after I finished speaking on Easter Sunday,

01:59:01.640 --> 01:59:06.640
and he came up to me and said, you are such a lousy speaker.

01:59:06.640 --> 01:59:09.640
I wish you would preach something from the word.

01:59:09.640 --> 01:59:11.640
All you do is shout and make some noise.

01:59:11.640 --> 01:59:13.640
I hate what you preach today.

01:59:13.640 --> 01:59:17.640
And he spent about two minutes telling me what a lousy preacher I was.

01:59:18.640 --> 01:59:20.640
And I was leaving that church in two weeks.

01:59:21.640 --> 01:59:22.640
And this guy has done this before.

01:59:22.640 --> 01:59:24.640
And he's telling me what a lousy preacher and I'm thinking to myself,

01:59:24.640 --> 01:59:26.640
I've got two weeks in this church, I've got nothing to lose.

01:59:26.640 --> 01:59:31.640
I'm going to rip you to shreds today because I've taken enough of this for nine years.

01:59:31.640 --> 01:59:37.640
And I hear the Holy Spirit saying, do you want to be you or do you want to be like Jesus?

01:59:39.640 --> 01:59:44.640
I had this, it's such a stark moment in my life because I'd never heard it so clearly left.

01:59:44.640 --> 01:59:51.640
Do you want to be you where you want to take revenge for all the years that he has just tormented you

01:59:51.640 --> 01:59:56.640
and dissed you with his words or do you want to be like Jesus?

02:00:05.640 --> 02:00:10.640
And I had this choice and I grab his face in my hands and I say,

02:00:10.640 --> 02:00:17.640
I called him by his name and I said, thank you for helping me see things that might be wrong in the way I'm doing stuff.

02:00:18.640 --> 02:00:21.640
I'll go home and examine what you said and I bless you.

02:00:21.640 --> 02:00:24.640
May the Lord keep you. May the Lord be gracious to you.

02:00:24.640 --> 02:00:28.640
And he suddenly shook my hands and said, go bless somebody else.

02:00:28.640 --> 02:00:29.640
And he walked off.

02:00:30.640 --> 02:00:33.640
And then at 3.30 in the afternoon, he calls me and he's weeping.

02:00:33.640 --> 02:00:37.640
And he's weeping because he said, I have done you so much harm.

02:00:38.640 --> 02:00:40.640
For years on end, I've only done you harm.

02:00:41.640 --> 02:00:43.640
I just want to tell you how sorry I am.

02:00:44.640 --> 02:00:48.640
What happened is not the focus. The focus was I had an opportunity.

02:00:48.640 --> 02:00:55.640
There was another time when a lady would every Sunday after service make fun of me.

02:00:55.640 --> 02:01:00.640
Every Sunday, she'd make sure that she would say something that would cause others to laugh.

02:01:00.640 --> 02:01:02.640
And she did it over and over again.

02:01:02.640 --> 02:01:07.640
And then she made a mistake. It was so embarrassing that I thought, here's my moment.

02:01:07.640 --> 02:01:12.640
And instead of taking advantage again, the Holy Spirit said, who do you want to be like?

02:01:12.640 --> 02:01:15.640
And I remember treating her so kindly and hiding her shame.

02:01:16.640 --> 02:01:18.640
And I was driving back and here's what the Lord said.

02:01:18.640 --> 02:01:22.640
He said, Jacob, thank you for being kind to my daughter.

02:01:23.640 --> 02:01:25.640
Thank you for being kind to my daughter.

02:01:26.640 --> 02:01:31.640
We have this choice. We have this choice every day.

02:01:31.640 --> 02:01:32.640
Who do you want to be?

02:01:32.640 --> 02:01:33.640
Who do you want to be?

02:01:39.640 --> 02:01:40.640
Your soul rules.

02:01:41.640 --> 02:01:45.640
There's a likelihood that you will do something that is not godly.

02:01:45.640 --> 02:01:46.640
Your spirit rules.

02:01:47.640 --> 02:01:49.640
There's a likelihood that you will behave like Christ.

02:01:49.640 --> 02:01:50.640
Here's the other thing.

02:01:50.640 --> 02:01:54.640
As your soul is retrained, it will become more and more like Jesus.

02:01:54.640 --> 02:01:56.640
Where you will begin to think and feel like Jesus.

02:01:57.640 --> 02:01:58.640
Then it doesn't matter.

02:01:59.640 --> 02:02:01.640
Because now everything is in sync.

02:02:01.640 --> 02:02:04.640
Your body behaves exactly as you tell it to.

02:02:04.640 --> 02:02:06.640
Your soul thinks like Jesus.

02:02:06.640 --> 02:02:08.640
Your soul feels like Jesus.

02:02:08.640 --> 02:02:10.640
Your spirit is in control.

02:02:10.640 --> 02:02:11.640
You're in a brilliant place.

02:02:12.640 --> 02:02:18.640
But the soul is renewed simply by reading the Word and the practice of the Word.

02:02:18.640 --> 02:02:21.640
And as you do, Christ in you becomes more and more real.

02:02:23.640 --> 02:02:25.640
The more you fall in love with the Father,

02:02:25.640 --> 02:02:29.640
the more your spirit is strengthened, the more your soul comes into alignment.

02:02:30.640 --> 02:02:32.640
The more you're in love with your Father,

02:02:32.640 --> 02:02:36.640
the more you're in love with your spouse, what happens?

02:02:36.640 --> 02:02:37.640
Your feelings change.

02:02:37.640 --> 02:02:38.640
Your thoughts change.

02:02:40.640 --> 02:02:41.640
You begin to think like her.

02:02:42.640 --> 02:02:43.640
You begin to feel like her.

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You begin to feel like her.

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Okay, let's just go to the last part, retraining.

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And we'll just finish with that.

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We'll do the rest another day.

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My soul, the realm of thoughts and emotions and reasoning, has to be reeducated

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so that I begin to think and perceive things the way God does,

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affecting my actions, words, responses.

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The training manual is the Word of God.

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The instructor is the Holy Spirit.

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The mind is the student.

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Do not be conformed to the ways of the world,

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but be transformed in your thinking by the renewing of your mind

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through the reading of the Word.

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My spirit man takes the wheel, the soul takes the back seat.

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A spiritual Christian is one who is led by the Spirit.

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A carnal Christian is one who is led by the soul.

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My body is neutral in response to whoever is leading.

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One of the things that really helps me handle sin, handle temptation,

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is to realize that it's such a cool recognition that I am in Christ.

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That for this sin to get to me is going to be very hard unless I step out of Christ.

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Just think of that for a second.

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I am in Christ.

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Let's assume this drum set is Christ.

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I am in Christ.

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For him to get to me is not possible.

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The only way he can get to me is if I decide to come out of Christ and meet him.

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But for him to get in here is impossible.

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And always remember, the Father has placed me in Christ so he can treat me like his son,

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so that everything his son deserves is what I get.

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Everything I deserve has been put on his son.

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Everything his son deserves has been put on me.

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If I am in Christ, it becomes very hard for temptation, deception, sin to get me.

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It's not possible. He cannot come in.

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I've got to leave this enclosure.

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And to leave this enclosure when you are in love with God becomes very difficult.

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When you're cold in your relationship with God, to leave this enclosure is easy

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because this seems like an attractive option.

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But when I am in love with my Father and in here to settle for that...

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Sorry.

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To settle for that seems like such a poor...

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It'll be like settling for the leaves or something.

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I am in Christ. It is hard to get to me.

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I mean, there's a reason why he's called an impenetrable fortress.

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My rock, my refuge, my strong fortress.

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It wasn't a place I'm supposed to run to when I'm afraid.

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It is a place I'm supposed to live in.

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We always think rock, refuge, fortress.

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When I'm in trouble, I'll run there.

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No man, live there.

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Then you're not in trouble.

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The trouble is in trouble.

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Next one.

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We assume that Christian life... Ah, I love this.

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We assume that Christian life is a struggle between choosing good and evil.

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Not anymore.

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We assume that Christian life is a struggle between choosing good and evil.

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Not anymore.

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As we begin to act out of the principle of loving God,

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an ability we now possess, given that our spirits are new.

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Remember, your spirit is new.

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Given that the power of sin is broken.

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Remember, that slave has escaped my mastery because he's blooming dead.

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There's nothing I can do to him.

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Because of my ability to love the Father.

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The more I love the Father, the less attractive sin is.

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Now listen to this.

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I love these three options.

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My struggles become a choice.

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My struggles become a choice.

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They're not struggles anymore.

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It becomes a choice.

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As I begin to like God more, my choices become preferences.

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As I begin to like God more, my preferences become my default.

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Hey, you can follow me into a mall, you can follow me on a trip,

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you can follow me in the streets of New York.

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You won't find my head on a swivel looking at every girl that goes by.

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Why?

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Because it used to be a struggle.

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Then it became a choice.

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Then the choice became a preference and the preference became my default.

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It is a default now.

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When something becomes a default, you have to try hard to go back to a struggle.

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You have to work at it.

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I'm just giving you one area that is so common to men.

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It doesn't happen because you pray more.

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It doesn't happen because you fast more.

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It happens because you like somebody so much that this becomes such a bad exchange.

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Any questions before I go on to the next one?

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I'm just giving you one area.

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I'll give you a hundred other areas where you are doing really well

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and I'm struggling because I haven't made that step.

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Look at the advantages I have.

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My spirit is new.

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It's no longer degenerate.

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It's no longer prone to sin.

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The power of sin is broken.

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That slave is dead.

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I can't do anything about it.

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Sorry, I am dead.

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Sin cannot have me at will anymore.

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My ability to love the Father as Jesus did is mine.

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The more I fall in love with Him, the more the world looks so unattractive.

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I love the days when I'm not struggling with sin.

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Where it's not even a struggle.

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Next one.

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Sorry, had a question?

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Yep, go ahead.

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I don't know how I missed that.

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How do you get to love God more?

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The correct answer and the most excellent answer is by going and finding out every day how much He likes you.

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Where does that come from?

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What's the scripture for it?

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I first loved God.

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I first loved you, Jacob.

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Come in every day.

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It doesn't matter.

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You might live a hundred years and that's a heck of a lot of days, but come every day and find out how much I like you.

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Every day for the next 36,500 days, I'll show you how much I like you.

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You think I'll really love you?

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I'll show you how much I like you.

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You think I'll run out of 36,500 ways to show you how much I like you?

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I've got so many.

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I'll show you.

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And when He does, your heart begins to go boopity boopity boom.

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I know I'm making it sound silly, but it is not silly.

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It is the only solution to loving God.

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He must first love you and you must first see it.

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If you don't see it, it is going to be so difficult because how much...

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How do you love Him back?

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How can you love Him back?

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How much will you pray?

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Three hours?

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Just when you've prayed three hours, Jillian will go pray four hours.

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Now what do you do?

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How much will you sing?

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How much will you give?

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How much will you work?

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There's no limit.

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One of the biggest problems with Christianity is this.

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We are continuously trying to love God without recognizing how much He loves me.

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And it is going to be such hard work that God will say,

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will you please stop because I want to show you how much I love you.

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I have no problem repeating these examples again and again.

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I just am bothered that you've heard it so many times, but I really don't care.

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So here it goes again.

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When a child is born, let me pick on Phoebe again.

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When Phoebe was born, did Phoebe turn to Sheldon and say,

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Papa, no, she didn't.

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Sheldon would come pick her up.

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He'd make strange noises, put her back down.

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The next day he'd come again, pick her up.

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And then just thrill at who she is and put her down.

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Four days, five days, six days, and the sixth day, Phoebe grabs his little finger.

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And it's the most magical moment in Sheldon's life.

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Who loved whom first?

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The father loved the child first and then the child responds.

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It has always been like that.

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It will always remain like that.

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The father who knew Jesus so well would time and time go and make loud announcements.

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This is my son in whom I'm well pleased.

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This is my begotten son. Listen to him.

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The father used to do it for Jesus.

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Every day he does it for you and me if we want it.

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And once I get that, everything is so easy.

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So easy.

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There might be other ways to love him, but this is the most excellent way.

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If you don't have this, everything else is so much less.

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Churches are constantly trying to tell people how to love God more.

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And God is saying, let me show you how much I like you.

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When I sin, first thing I do is I sin deliberately.

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I don't feel like I want to say sorry because I did it knowingly.

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Before I come and say sorry, can you once again show me how much you like me?

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Even though I just grieved you and did you harm and violated a covenant that I have with you, can you show me how much you like me?

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And he does.

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And I go a sobbing mess and say to him, I'm so sorry.

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I'll never do it again.

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And he knows I might do it again.

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But I am so sorry that he cannot turn me away.

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These are keys, man, that if not too many Christians have these keys, take it, use it, spread it, make copies.

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It's a master key that you can make copies of.

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And give it away.

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People need to learn that this is the only way that you can love God.

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It is liberating the day I found out.

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I wrote it on my kitchen wall because that is one wall that is always clean.

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And that he first loved me.

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Jacob, never try loving him back again until you first recognize how much he loves you.

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Never try it.

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And I have never tried it after.

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That's why our services are the way they are.

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They are so effortless.

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It's just finding out what he wants to do.

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Then love it back to him.

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Everything I do must come from this place and reason of loving God.

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Obedience that does not come from my love and willingness will not last.

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Fear, the promise of rewards as reasons for obedience, pale in comparison.

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So how do I love God?

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It's right up there.

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I could have been quiet and just shown you the slide.

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1 John 4 19, by letting him love me first, by asking him to help me recognize and savor his unconditional, voluntary, jealous, covenantal love.

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His unconditional, voluntary, jealous, covenantal love.

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He reveals it through people, situations, the word, the prophetic, the profound and simple God conversations between Father and Son.

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I remember once really messing up.

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I'm feeling really bad that I messed up.

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I'm saying, you've got to help me.

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I want to come back to you, but I just feel so distant after what I've done.

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And God said, I want you to go look at the New Yorker, the cover of the New Yorker from March something in this particular year.

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I said, really, is this God or is this like a wild goose chase?

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And I go and look at this New Yorker cover.

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And it's a cover of a man sweeping Grand Central Station and making it clean and rays of sunshine breaking in through the glass and bringing the place a light.

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I'm thinking to myself, how do you do all this?

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How do you convey to me that you just want to cleanse my life and let light come pouring back in?

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How do you know that the cover of the New Yorker magazine on March 17, certain such a date, I have it on my phone.

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How do you know?

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How do you know?

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How do you know that I'll understand it immediately?

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How do you do these things?

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Why do you love like this?

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Why do you overwhelm me every time?

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Why are you so irresistible that I come to you and say, I'll do anything for you?

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You've heard the Bhutan story where I'm telling God I'm not happy with him.

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He stops the Jeep in the middle of the Himalayas at 9,000 feet opposite a rock which has three words on it.

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I love you.

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What do you do?

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Guys, I'm telling you things that is common to the human, not common to the human experience,

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common to the experience of the children of God.

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You must take advantage of it.

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You must become like this.

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This cannot be something shared on Christ's life.

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We should have our own stories of this.

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We should have our own stories of this.

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When you teach Christ's life, you must have your Bhutan story.

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You must have your New Yorker story.

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And there should be plenty because there's plenty of times we need his love to begin to live the week.

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Either because of our own sin or because of the circumstances around us.

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We have to experience this because it's the only way to love him.

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Is there another slide on retraining?

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Okay.

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I think we'll end because that's basically 9.23.

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That's basically it.

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Any questions, guys?

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The rest of it we can do another time.

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The stuff we didn't do was the law, how it applies, the Holy Spirit and the gifts,

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where Jesus went after he died, who is in hell right now or whether there's anyone in hell.

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Those are the things we haven't done.

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And then the last part is what happens to us in terms of what happens to our soul when we enter heaven.

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It's in the work of progress.

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But the moment we enter heaven, we've got a brand new spirit.

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Look at what happens.

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Total makeover.

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So imagine that we die in the next one minute.

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What a thing to imagine, sitting in church.

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So imagine that we die in the next one minute.

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Here's what's going to happen.

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Instantly, your spirit is in the presence of God.

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Instantly, the soul that is being transformed gets fully renewed.

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And then because there is no time, we think it's waiting, but because there is no time, there's no waiting.

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But a day will come when you'll get brand new bodies.

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And these bodies will be of the same nature as Jesus' body when he rose from the dead.

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Where stuff like buildings won't stop you from entering.

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Where traveling won't be a problem, like you won't need Air Canada.

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Where it'll be flesh and bones.

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Where you will eat.

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Where you will eat.

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Fish will definitely be on the diet.

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Praise the Lord, there's non-veg.

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But we'll talk about that another time.

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And then the last part was what happens in terms of us being two realms beings.

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Where we talk about the significance of Christ's ascension and what that ascension did to us.

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That we'll do another time.

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But this is what Christ's life is based on.

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Everything we build is built on this foundation.

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If we don't have this, we don't have what it takes to learn everything we are learning.

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Significant takeaways.

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Oh yeah, this last bit I need to add.

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I've got four minutes.

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Four minutes.

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So, this is what happens during baptism.

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Why should, why do we get baptized?

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To begin with, baptism is an external, external declaration of an internal condition.

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Why does a husband wear a ring?

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You are doing so well.

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Why does a husband wear a ring?

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A husband wears a ring because he wants to let the world know that he is taken, that he belongs to somebody.

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If a husband takes his ring off, does that mean that his marriage has ended?

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No.

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He doesn't have a ring.

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But his marriage is intact with Vedisha.

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So, it's an external symbol of an internal condition.

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It is not critical to being saved, but it is an act of obedience.

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In India and places like that where Christianity is not the so-called religion,

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every religion is okay with you accommodating Christ in your pantheon of gods,

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till you decide to get baptized.

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You take any Punjabi family in Vancouver, you take any Hindu family in India,

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you take any Muslim family in the Middle East or anywhere,

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the moment you say, I'm going to get baptized, that is when the trouble starts.

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Because baptism is an absolute public act saying, I am now spoken for, I belong to somebody else.

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And yet baptism is not what saves you.

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Just like his ring being absent is not what says anything about his marriage.

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So that's one part of it.

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Second, it is a public declaration.

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I had a man come up to me once and he was older than me.

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He said, Jacob, I'm going to get baptized.

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He was from a Lutheran church, kind of a church, and he wanted to get baptized.

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I said, sure, I'll baptize you.

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And so he said, only my wife will come for the baptism.

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I don't want anyone else to know.

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And so I said, his name was John.

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I said, John, I'm really thrilled that you want to get baptized and declare publicly that you are going to get baptized.

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I'm really thrilled that you want to get baptized and declare publicly that you are born again.

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But you have to declare it publicly.

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And if it is only your wife before whom you want to get baptized, then I won't be baptizing you.

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Because it's a public declaration.

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That's the second thing.

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Third, Jesus said it is the way to obey him.

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And the strange thing that happens is every time you step into the waters of baptism, heaven opens.

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Heaven opens.

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Every time a person steps into the water, Jesus was the first.

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He stepped into the water of baptism, and heaven opened.

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Heaven's always open to that act of obedience.

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I don't know why, but it is critical in the eyes of God.

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So I was baptized as a child.

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So why not stick with that?

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Because it's not that when my parents baptized me and they raised my right hand and said,

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on behalf of this boy, we say he will receive Christ.

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And then they raised my left hand and they say,

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on behalf of this boy, we resist Satan.

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It was not that that act was meaningless to my dad and mom.

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They really wanted me to grow up in the ways of God.

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But that was a dedication.

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It was not a baptism.

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Because baptism is an external declaration of an internal condition.

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My parents were describing an external desire, but I was not a part of it.

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Therefore, baptism has to be something that I personally engage in.

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And then the last part is...

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Remember we threw this at Miguel?

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So, baptism is simply this being buried,

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this rising up,

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and being filled with the Holy Spirit.

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That's the act of baptism.

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Baptism is, as you go into the water, you're saying,

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I no longer live.

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But the life that I now live,

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I live by faith in the Son of the Living God.

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That's what the act of baptism is.

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Going into the water, I'm going into death.

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I stay underwater, I'm buried.

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I come out of the water, I come up to a new life with Christ living in me.

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Therefore, if there is anyone here or around the globe who isn't baptized,

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now is your opportunity to consider being baptized.

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Not because you want to be a Baptist,

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or you want to join a church or be a member,

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just because how can you resist after having gotten this understanding?

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And yet it doesn't save you.

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Yeah? Let me pray.

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Jesus,

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all I sense you saying

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is an appeal.

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I sense you saying to all of us here and to all that are listening,

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can you please take what you've learned

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and share it with others?

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Can you tell them what I did?

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Can you tell them what I get to do in your life when you're born again?

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Can you tell them how I love and how

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you can love me? Can you tell them how this works?

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My people perish for the lack of knowledge.

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My people are taken captive for the lack of knowledge.

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Can you be my hands? Can you, each of you, buy one of these dolls?

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Can you begin to find opportunities to tell people about how this really works?

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Keep adding to it. There are still things that are missing.

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There are still things that need to be changed, need to be developed.

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Can you take this and spread it around?

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That's one thing, Father.

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And the other thing you're saying is,

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will you once and forever reckon your old person dead?

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Can you not go visiting this idea that sin can have you?

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Can you reckon yourself dead?

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Can you attend your funeral?

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Tonight, before going to bed, can you say,

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I've attended my funeral?

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And the last part is,

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can you once and for all believe that all of my spirit, all of me lives in you?

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All of me lives in you.

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I'll hold nothing back from you.

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I'll hold nothing back from you.

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I gave you my most personal thing.

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First I gave you my son, and then I gave you my spirit.

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There's nothing, I have nothing that I'm holding back from you.

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Jacob, I hold nothing back from you.

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I've given you my back.