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This is Getting to Know Your Bible, a program dedicated
to the proclaiming of the good News of Jesus Christ.
Here's Billy Lambert.
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Hello, I'm Billy Lambert.
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I am the regular speaker on Getting to Know Your Bible,
and I want to welcome you today.
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This may be the.
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Very first time that you have seen this telecast. I
want you to know that the thing that we emphasize
on getting to Know your Bible is a word of God.
The Bible is the greatest book that has ever been written.
Many years ago, there were those that wrote books that
thought they would replace the Bible. That's what Thomas Paine
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thought when he wrote The Age of Reason. But the
Bible continues to live after century. Jesus said, heaven and
earth shall pass away, but my Word shall not pass away.
So on getting to Know your Bible, we're teaching from
the timeless Word of God. The Bible is God's book,
the greatest book that has ever been written. And today
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we're going to be opening up the pages of the
Word of God and delivering a message to you from
God's book. Today we're going to be seeing a one
of our classics that is a production of one of
our telecasts from time in the past, and we want
you to stay tuned. We're going to be offering a
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free Bible Correspondence course today and we will see information
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And so we want to pause at this time.
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To help you in your study of the Bible. We
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It is a joy to be with you today on
getting to Know your Bible.
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We do appreciate those of you who have tuned.
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In today to watch our telecasts. Now, today we're going
to talk about one word that's found in the Bible.
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This word is so important to each and.
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Every one of us because our future, our eternal future,
depends upon our having a good understanding of this word.
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Now, that word is redemption. Redemption.
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Stay tuned as we discuss it today in Job chapter nineteen,
verse twenty five.
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We have these words.
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I know that my Redeemer lives, and he shall stand
at the last on the earth. There's a song that
I've been singing and hearing songs since i was just
a lad, and the song is based on this passage
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of scripture.
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I know.
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That my Redeemer lives, and that's something that we can know.
I want to read a second passage now, and that's
from Ephesians, chapter one and verse number seven, in whom
we have redemption through his blood, the forgiveness of sin.
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According to the riches of his grace.
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There are so many songs that often sung in worship
about redemption. One is I redeemed, How I love to
proclaim it. Another just simply says, I'm redeemed. I'm redeemed
by the blood of the Lamb. What do we mean
when we use words like that? What does the word
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redemption really mean? Well, the word redemption means to buy
back something. It means to rescue someone or something, and
it suggests that it's a rescue from being in slavery
or being in bondage. The word redemption also suggests deliverance,
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delivering one from a bad situation. Now, when there is
a redemption done. When someone has been redeemed, it is
because someone has paid a price. We talk about people
being freed from slavery, but there was a price for
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the freedom from slavery.
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I read a story about.
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A man once who was watching slaves being auctioned off
from the auction block, and I can't think of a
more ungodly thing for people to do with human life,
can you?
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That is so so wrong in so many different ways,
in so many different levels.
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But as the man was standing there watching these slaves
be auctioned off, there was one of them that touched
his heart, and the man began to bid on that slave,
and he won the bid.
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The slave was now his.
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He paid the price, and he walked over to that
slave and he wrote out something on a piece of
paper and he handed it to that slave, and he said,
I bought you, and you belonged me, but I'm setting
you free. You no longer are a slave. You've been
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set free. You've been redeemed. So the slave said, well,
since you have bought me and set me free, I'll
serve you for the rest of my life.
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You see, for a person to.
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Be redeemed, there has to be a price paid or
ransom paid. That was a ransom paid for our redemption.
In First Timody, chapter two and in verse four, Paul
said God would have all men to be saved.
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God would have all men to be saved.
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That just simply means that God wants all people to
be saved, regardless of who.
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They are or where they are. He would like for
our enemies to be saved.
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Absolutely, he would like for those people that would like
to kill us to be saved.
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I think about it. If they were saved.
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They wouldn't want to kill us anymore with thee So, God,
who is a good God, and a gracious God, and
a loving God, and a merciful God, a kind God, wants.
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All people saved. He wants our enemy saved.
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But in order to be saved, he goes on to say,
and come to a knowledge of the truth. For people
to be saved and to be set free, they must
learn truth. It was Jesus who said, you shall know
the truth, and the truth shall set you free. And
so when we learn the truth, we are set free
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from the bondage that enslaves us. And then Paul goes
on in verse Timothy chapter two and in verse six,
he said, and he says, there is one man who
is the mediator between God and man. Well, there is
only one person that stands between God and man. That's
not the Lord's mother, it's not some of the Lord's brothers,
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it's not some preacher upon this earth today or some
feature of times past. Who is that person that stands
between God and man? And he says, it's the man Christ, Jesus.
Jesus is the one who stands between God and man. Well,
now on what basis does he stand between God and man?
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And he goes on to say that he gave himself
a ransom for all to be testified in due time.
Jesus paid it all all to him. I owe you see,
Jesus paid the ransom. I want us to think about
one passage of scripture for just a few minutes. That's Ephesians,
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chapter one and verse seven, and the Lord willing we'll
maybe cover parts of this passage in another telecast. That's
Ephesians one seven, who starts out like this, in whom
in whom we have redemption? The two little words in
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whom are its equivalent is found some eighty three times
in Paul's letters twenty seven of those times.
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It is found in the Book of Ephesians.
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Such expressions as in Christ, in him in whom you
see that suggests a relationship or a state.
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That we have in Christ.
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The entire letter to the Ephesians hinges on that expression
in Jesus Christ. And this is tantamount to being in
his spiritual body. When a person is in Jesus Christ,
then that person is in the body of Christ. Listen
to Paul in Ephesians chapter one, starting maybe around verse
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number nineteen. According to the working of his mighty power
which he wrought in Christ, when he raised him from
the dead and set him in his own right hand
in heavenly places, far above all principality and power, and
might and dominion every name that is named, not only
this world and the life which is to come, and
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have put all things under his feet, gave him to
be the head over all things, to the Church, which
is his body, the fullness of Him that filleth all
in all friends. That tells me that when I am
in the Lord Jesus Christ, the one who died from
our sins, the one who was raised from the dead
by the power of God, the one was exalted the
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right hand of God and sits there at this time.
And the one who reigns as the head over the
body called the Church, and he is the head of
that church. And to be in Jesus the Head, is
to be in the body of the Lord Jesus Christ.
So sometimes when we use that expression in Christ, it's
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not necessarily talking about a relationship or a state we're in,
but it's talking about doing things that are harm reizing
with Christ's will. For instance, in Ephesians chapter six and
verse one, children obey your parents in the Lord.
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Well, would that simply mean.
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That if child's parents are not Christians, they don't have
to obey them.
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That's not what he's talking about.
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He's saying that children should obey their parents, and they
ought to live their lives in harmony with God's will.
And it is God's will that children be obedient to
their parents. Now, I know that's not they're popular today,
but that's just what the scripture says.
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That's what God would have it to say.
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I can remember when I was a child that my
mother instilled the fear of God in me, and I
love it lover for it today. And she used to
tell me, billy, when you do not obey me, he
just like you're not obeying the Lord. Well, children are
to obey their parents in the Lord if he's in
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six in verse one, and so that simply means to be.
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In harmony with God's will.
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There's a statement over in First Grintons, chapter seven and
verse thirty nine that Christian widows should.
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Or can marry, but they're to marry in the Lord.
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And I take that that they're to marry in harmony
with the will of God, and they are not to
marry someone that they do not have a right to marry.
And so that it simply means there that in Christ
suggests in harmony with God's will. And so, but we're
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talking about a relationship, we're talking about a state. And
in the final analysis of things, the only thing that's
going to matter in your life, in my life is
did I die in Christ? Did I die in that
relationship with Jesus Christ?
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In Jesus Christ.
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Oh, think about a person who is not in him,
who is outside of him?
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Well, what a pitiful state that person is.
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In the Ephesians chapter two, starting a verse twelve, Poul
said that at that time he's talking about before these
Ephesian brethren became Christians. He's talking about in time past,
when they walked according to the course of the world,
according to the Prince of the power of the air,
the spirit that works in the children of disobedience Ofphesians
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two one to three.
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He said, at that time you were without Christ. You
were without Christ.
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You were aliens from the commonwealth of Israel, strangers from
the covenants promise. You were without God, and you were
without hoping the world.
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But now listen to verse thirteen.
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But now in Christ, or what a difference it makes
to be in Christ.
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Think about where they were out of Christ.
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They were without God, without hope, without Christ, they were
estranged from God.
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But now in Christ.
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Jesus, you who sometimes were far off made nigh, are
made near by the.
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Blood of Christ.
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For he is our peace, who have made both one,
and has broken down the middle of wall of petition
between us, having abolished in his flesh the enmity, even
the law of commandments containing ordinances, for to make of
himself of twain, that is of two, one new man,
so making peace, that he might reconcile both under.
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God in one body.
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And that one body is the church reconcile to God
in the body of Christ.
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And so where are when we come down to the
end of life.
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Let me read a passage to you from the Book
of Revelation, this chapter fourteen, verse thirteen.
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Blessed or blessed are the dead which die in the Lord.
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Now, all people who die are not the happy dead,
are they? I cannot imagine a person who's lived a
life of recklessness and a life of sin is going
to be a happy person when they die. But I'll
tell you who will be that happy person? Who will
be that blessed person forever and ever? Is that individual
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who dies in Christ. Paul begins Ephesians one, verse seven
by saying, in whom in Christ we have redemption. And
so those who die in Jesus Christ are going to
be among those who are the happy dead.
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But what does that really mean? In Christ?
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Paul wrote about that in Second Corinthians seventeen. This is
one of the some eighty plus passages of scripture where
he uses this expression. And in this passage he says,
there is therefore now no condemnation to them which are
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in Christ Jesus. No, Rather, that's Romans eight in verse
one there is therefore now no condemnation to them which
are in Christ Jesus.
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Now.
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Second Corinthians five seventeen says, if any man be in.
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Christ, be in Christ, he is a new creature.
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In Romans eighten one, he says, if a man is
in Christ, he is not a condemned man. Now think
about that a moment. If a man is in Christ,
what about us? What is there different about us if
we are in Christ Jesus. Well, if a person is
in Jesus Christ, they have the opportunity, they have the privilege,
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they have the access to every spiritual blessing that the
Lord affords. I'm thinking about a passage in John ten,
verse nine, where Jesus that I am the door, but
by me, if any man enter in, go into the door,
be in Christ, he shall be saved, and shall go
in and out and shall find pasture. I think that
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suggests the blessings that we have we bring Jesus Christ.
Do we have any blessings in Christ? Absolutely? Listen to
the apostle Paul in Ephesians one, verse three, Blessed be
the God and Father of our Lord, Jesus Christ, who.
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Has blessed us.
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Someone says I want God to bless me. We talk
about God bless America. Well, God's God's good blessed America.
But we need to be thinking about the way that
God blesses us as an individual, and God gives us
all spiritual blessings and heavenly places in Christ. Blessed be
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the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who
has blessed us. He has blessed us with all spiritual blessings. Now,
God blesses all people with blessings, material blessings like freedom
and like the sun, the rain, like the air that
we breathe, like the freedom that we enjoy. He blesses
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us in so many ways materially, and that's for all people.
But there are certain blessings that there's certain things that
God does in blessing us that are confined to those
that are in Christ, in whom we have redemption, and
that's where it's found. And that just tells me, by
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using just a little bit of common sense, a little
bit of logic, that if I'm not in Christ, I
do not have access to those spiritual blessings. So all
spiritual blessings are found in the Lord Jesus Christ. Let
me just mention one of those blessings. You don't have
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to name a dozen or more to get the point.
I don't think let me mention one of them. This
is a spiritual blessing in Christ. Listen to Paul in
Second Timothy, the second chapter.
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And verse number ten.
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I endure all things for the elect's sake, that they
may obtain the salvation.
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Oh that's what we want, isn't it.
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We want salvation, We want deliverance, we want to be free,
we want to be saved. Who has given us salvation
in Christ Jesus. Now I suppose we could talk to
the apostle Paul right now now, Paul, I know that's
what you wrote. And you said that all spiritual blessings
are in Christ in Ephesians. Then in Second Timothy chapter two,
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you said salvation is in Christ.
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What do you really mean by that, Paul?
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He just simply means that if you want to be
in Jesus Christ, if you want to be saved, you
must make sure that you are in Jesus Christ. In
Jesus Christ, we have those blessings, the blessing of salvation.
And if a man is in Jesus Christ, he has
been raised with Jesus Christ, risen with Christ. If you
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please listen to Paul in Colossians two twelve, buried with
him in baptism, where and also you are risen with
Him through the faith of the operation of God. Buried
with Christ in baptism. That tells me baptism is a barl,
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not sprinkling, is not pooring.
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It's a burial in water.
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He said, You're bared with Christ in baptism, and then
you're raised again out of that watery tomb to walk
new life. Maybe that's the reason. In Colossians three and one,
Paul said, if you then be risen with Christ, seek
those things which are above.
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Paul.
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Paul said, you've been risen with you'r risen with you.
You raised from the waters of baptism, from that watery grave,
and as Paul put it in Romans six three and four,
buried with him in baptism, where and also we're risen
with Him from the from the walk in the.
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Newness of life.
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You see, we're buried with him. It puts us into
the Lord Jesus Christ. Have you ever been baptized in Christ?
You said, rother Lambada. I'm not sure that's what the
Bible teaches. Well, let me call your attention to another
couple of passages Scripture.
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For first of all, Englatians g.
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Twenty six, for your all, the children of God by
faith in Christ Jesus. You're children of God by faith.
But where are we children of God by faith? And
here's another of those expressions that Paul uses that's equivalent
to in whom that we're talking about. In Ephesians one,
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he said, we're children of God by faith in Christ Jesus.
Now just tells me that I'm not a child of God.
If I'm out of Christ Jesus. Well, then that causes
me to ask, then, how, then, Paul, does a person
get into Christ Jesus, where we have that salvation that
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you read about.
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Where were those new creatures and where we're no longer condemned.
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Well, in verse twenty seven of Galatians three, he said,
for as many of you as been baptized into Christ,
did put on Christ? You see, you don't put Christ
on until you're baptized into Christ, and then you rise
from the watery grave Romans sixty three and three to
four to walk in the newness of life. You can't
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walk in that newness until you've been buried and raised
in the waters of baptism. And then if you're in
Jesus Christ, you have a victory. You live a victorious.
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Life in Christ. Listen to Paul in First Corinthians fifteen
fifty seven.
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Thanks be to God who gives us the victory through
the Lord Jesus Christ. Our victory is through Christ. Our
victory is in Jesus Christ. Well, let me ask you
over what do we have victory? Our victory in Jesus
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Christ is a victory over sin itself. You know, a
person who's living a life of sin is in bondage
to it. But Jesus is the one who delivers us
from that bondage.
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John eight thirty six.
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If the Son makes you free, then you're free. Indeed,
in Jesus Christ, we are free from the bondage of fear.
I rather suspect that some people watching this telecast right
now are just so afraid of the future. We see
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world events and it paralyzes us with fear sometimes. But
you see, God's not given us the spirit of fear
Second Timothy one, verse seven. And we have been delivered
from those things that would paralyze our spirits and paralyze
our thinking, and paralyze our lives, and keep us from
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living the life of abundance John ten in verse ten.
And it's in Jesus Christ that we have been made
free from the guilt of sin. Maybe you feel guilty
about something in your life. You say, Brother Lamb, there's
something I did years ago, back, long time ago, and
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I just can't let it go.
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Well, the way that you let things go.
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Is you let go and let God take care of it.
You let God forgive it. If you've never been as
a penitent believer in Jesus Christ, a confessing penitent believer
in Christ, if you've never been baptized to Christ, that
your sins be cleansed, that your sins be washed away
in that precious blood, well then I didn't encourage.
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You to do that.
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Today, I'd encourage you to take care of it immediately,
because God will wipe the slate clean, and God will
free you not only from the guilt of sin, but
from the bondage of that sin. David, I think, had
a hard time with the guilt he sinned by committing
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adultery and ultimately led led him to be complicit in
the murder of the woman's husband. And David wrote the
fifty first Psalm against the backdrop of that sin, and
he said, have mercy upon me, o God, according to
my loving kindness, according to the multitude of that tender mercies,
blot out my transgression, washed me thoroughly from my neckaries,
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cleanse me from my sin. And then he said, I
acknowledge my transgression.
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My sin. Listen to it is ever before me. Let
me tell you.
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If your sin is ever before you and you can't
forget about it, and it bugged you, it dogged you,
the guilt of that sin will allow that guilt to
bring you to the foot of the cross. That's what
the people on the day of Pentecosts did. They were
felt guilty when they learned that crucified the son of God,
and they said, what shall we do? And it brought
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them to the foot of the cross. And they gave
their lives to Christ by repenting of their sins, by
being baptized for the remission of their sins. And the
Lord added them to the church. That very day is
such as should be save Acts two forty seven, in
whom in Christ we have redemption. If you're not there.
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Let me encourage you to take care of it immediately.
I want to thank you for watching today, and I
want to invite you to visit the Church of Christ
in your community and also pick us a telephone right
now and call for the free Bible Correspondence course. Do
it right now without hesitation, and until we meet again.
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May the Lord bless you and may the Lord keep
you is my prayer to help you.
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In your study of the Bible. We want to send
you this Bible Correspondence course. This course is non denominational,
it's based on the Bible, it's conducted by mail, and
it's free. To receive this course, write to Getting to
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three six five eight zero or call toll free one
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eight seven seven seven one one five two one four
This is Getting to Know Your Bible, a program dedicated
to the proclaiming of the good News of Jesus Christ.
Here's Billy Lambert.
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Hello, I'm Billy Lambert.
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I am the regular speaker on Getting to Know Your Bible,
and I want to welcome you today.
Speaker 2 (00:33):
This may be the.
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Very first time that you have seen this telecast. I
want you to know that the thing that we emphasize
on getting to Know your Bible is a word of God.
The Bible is the greatest book that has ever been written.
Many years ago, there were those that wrote books that
thought they would replace the Bible. That's what Thomas Paine
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thought when he wrote The Age of Reason. But the
Bible continues to live after century. Jesus said, heaven and
earth shall pass away, but my Word shall not pass away.
So on getting to Know your Bible, we're teaching from
the timeless Word of God. The Bible is God's book,
the greatest book that has ever been written. And today
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we're going to be opening up the pages of the
Word of God and delivering a message to you from
God's book. Today we're going to be seeing a one
of our classics that is a production of one of
our telecasts from time in the past, and we want
you to stay tuned. We're going to be offering a
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free Bible Correspondence course today and we will see information
on the screen as to how you can receive that course.
And so we want to pause at this time.
Speaker 1 (01:50):
To help you in your study of the Bible. We
want to send you this Bible Correspondence course. This course
is non denominational, it's based on the Bible, it's conducted
by mail, and it's free to receive this course. Right
to Getting to Know your Bible po Box three one four, Summerdale,
Alabama three six five eight zero or call toll free
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one eight seven seven seven one one five two one four.
Speaker 3 (02:17):
It is a joy to be with you today on
getting to Know your Bible.
Speaker 2 (02:21):
We do appreciate those of you who have tuned.
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In today to watch our telecasts. Now, today we're going
to talk about one word that's found in the Bible.
Speaker 2 (02:31):
This word is so important to each and.
Speaker 3 (02:34):
Every one of us because our future, our eternal future,
depends upon our having a good understanding of this word.
Speaker 2 (02:43):
Now, that word is redemption. Redemption.
Speaker 3 (02:48):
Stay tuned as we discuss it today in Job chapter nineteen,
verse twenty five.
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We have these words.
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I know that my Redeemer lives, and he shall stand
at the last on the earth. There's a song that
I've been singing and hearing songs since i was just
a lad, and the song is based on this passage
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of scripture.
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I know.
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That my Redeemer lives, and that's something that we can know.
I want to read a second passage now, and that's
from Ephesians, chapter one and verse number seven, in whom
we have redemption through his blood, the forgiveness of sin.
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According to the riches of his grace.
Speaker 3 (03:53):
There are so many songs that often sung in worship
about redemption. One is I redeemed, How I love to
proclaim it. Another just simply says, I'm redeemed. I'm redeemed
by the blood of the Lamb. What do we mean
when we use words like that? What does the word
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redemption really mean? Well, the word redemption means to buy
back something. It means to rescue someone or something, and
it suggests that it's a rescue from being in slavery
or being in bondage. The word redemption also suggests deliverance,
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delivering one from a bad situation. Now, when there is
a redemption done. When someone has been redeemed, it is
because someone has paid a price. We talk about people
being freed from slavery, but there was a price for
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the freedom from slavery.
Speaker 2 (05:02):
I read a story about.
Speaker 3 (05:03):
A man once who was watching slaves being auctioned off
from the auction block, and I can't think of a
more ungodly thing for people to do with human life,
can you?
Speaker 2 (05:14):
That is so so wrong in so many different ways,
in so many different levels.
Speaker 3 (05:20):
But as the man was standing there watching these slaves
be auctioned off, there was one of them that touched
his heart, and the man began to bid on that slave,
and he won the bid.
Speaker 2 (05:34):
The slave was now his.
Speaker 3 (05:36):
He paid the price, and he walked over to that
slave and he wrote out something on a piece of
paper and he handed it to that slave, and he said,
I bought you, and you belonged me, but I'm setting
you free. You no longer are a slave. You've been
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set free. You've been redeemed. So the slave said, well,
since you have bought me and set me free, I'll
serve you for the rest of my life.
Speaker 2 (06:09):
You see, for a person to.
Speaker 3 (06:10):
Be redeemed, there has to be a price paid or
ransom paid. That was a ransom paid for our redemption.
In First Timody, chapter two and in verse four, Paul
said God would have all men to be saved.
Speaker 2 (06:27):
God would have all men to be saved.
Speaker 3 (06:29):
That just simply means that God wants all people to
be saved, regardless of who.
Speaker 2 (06:32):
They are or where they are. He would like for
our enemies to be saved.
Speaker 3 (06:38):
Absolutely, he would like for those people that would like
to kill us to be saved.
Speaker 2 (06:44):
I think about it. If they were saved.
Speaker 3 (06:47):
They wouldn't want to kill us anymore with thee So, God,
who is a good God, and a gracious God, and
a loving God, and a merciful God, a kind God, wants.
Speaker 2 (06:57):
All people saved. He wants our enemy saved.
Speaker 3 (07:01):
But in order to be saved, he goes on to say,
and come to a knowledge of the truth. For people
to be saved and to be set free, they must
learn truth. It was Jesus who said, you shall know
the truth, and the truth shall set you free. And
so when we learn the truth, we are set free
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from the bondage that enslaves us. And then Paul goes
on in verse Timothy chapter two and in verse six,
he said, and he says, there is one man who
is the mediator between God and man. Well, there is
only one person that stands between God and man. That's
not the Lord's mother, it's not some of the Lord's brothers,
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it's not some preacher upon this earth today or some
feature of times past. Who is that person that stands
between God and man? And he says, it's the man Christ, Jesus.
Jesus is the one who stands between God and man. Well,
now on what basis does he stand between God and man?
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And he goes on to say that he gave himself
a ransom for all to be testified in due time.
Jesus paid it all all to him. I owe you see,
Jesus paid the ransom. I want us to think about
one passage of scripture for just a few minutes. That's Ephesians,
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chapter one and verse seven, and the Lord willing we'll
maybe cover parts of this passage in another telecast. That's
Ephesians one seven, who starts out like this, in whom
in whom we have redemption? The two little words in
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whom are its equivalent is found some eighty three times
in Paul's letters twenty seven of those times.
Speaker 2 (09:06):
It is found in the Book of Ephesians.
Speaker 3 (09:09):
Such expressions as in Christ, in him in whom you
see that suggests a relationship or a state.
Speaker 2 (09:22):
That we have in Christ.
Speaker 3 (09:24):
The entire letter to the Ephesians hinges on that expression
in Jesus Christ. And this is tantamount to being in
his spiritual body. When a person is in Jesus Christ,
then that person is in the body of Christ. Listen
to Paul in Ephesians chapter one, starting maybe around verse
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number nineteen. According to the working of his mighty power
which he wrought in Christ, when he raised him from
the dead and set him in his own right hand
in heavenly places, far above all principality and power, and
might and dominion every name that is named, not only
this world and the life which is to come, and
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have put all things under his feet, gave him to
be the head over all things, to the Church, which
is his body, the fullness of Him that filleth all
in all friends. That tells me that when I am
in the Lord Jesus Christ, the one who died from
our sins, the one who was raised from the dead
by the power of God, the one was exalted the
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right hand of God and sits there at this time.
And the one who reigns as the head over the
body called the Church, and he is the head of
that church. And to be in Jesus the Head, is
to be in the body of the Lord Jesus Christ.
So sometimes when we use that expression in Christ, it's
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not necessarily talking about a relationship or a state we're in,
but it's talking about doing things that are harm reizing
with Christ's will. For instance, in Ephesians chapter six and
verse one, children obey your parents in the Lord.
Speaker 2 (11:11):
Well, would that simply mean.
Speaker 3 (11:12):
That if child's parents are not Christians, they don't have
to obey them.
Speaker 2 (11:16):
That's not what he's talking about.
Speaker 3 (11:18):
He's saying that children should obey their parents, and they
ought to live their lives in harmony with God's will.
And it is God's will that children be obedient to
their parents. Now, I know that's not they're popular today,
but that's just what the scripture says.
Speaker 2 (11:36):
That's what God would have it to say.
Speaker 3 (11:38):
I can remember when I was a child that my
mother instilled the fear of God in me, and I
love it lover for it today. And she used to
tell me, billy, when you do not obey me, he
just like you're not obeying the Lord. Well, children are
to obey their parents in the Lord if he's in
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six in verse one, and so that simply means to be.
Speaker 2 (12:06):
In harmony with God's will.
Speaker 3 (12:08):
There's a statement over in First Grintons, chapter seven and
verse thirty nine that Christian widows should.
Speaker 2 (12:14):
Or can marry, but they're to marry in the Lord.
Speaker 3 (12:17):
And I take that that they're to marry in harmony
with the will of God, and they are not to
marry someone that they do not have a right to marry.
And so that it simply means there that in Christ
suggests in harmony with God's will. And so, but we're
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talking about a relationship, we're talking about a state. And
in the final analysis of things, the only thing that's
going to matter in your life, in my life is
did I die in Christ? Did I die in that
relationship with Jesus Christ?
Speaker 2 (12:58):
In Jesus Christ.
Speaker 3 (13:01):
Oh, think about a person who is not in him,
who is outside of him?
Speaker 2 (13:06):
Well, what a pitiful state that person is.
Speaker 3 (13:08):
In the Ephesians chapter two, starting a verse twelve, Poul
said that at that time he's talking about before these
Ephesian brethren became Christians. He's talking about in time past,
when they walked according to the course of the world,
according to the Prince of the power of the air,
the spirit that works in the children of disobedience Ofphesians
(13:31):
two one to three.
Speaker 2 (13:33):
He said, at that time you were without Christ. You
were without Christ.
Speaker 3 (13:42):
You were aliens from the commonwealth of Israel, strangers from
the covenants promise. You were without God, and you were
without hoping the world.
Speaker 2 (13:51):
But now listen to verse thirteen.
Speaker 3 (13:54):
But now in Christ, or what a difference it makes
to be in Christ.
Speaker 2 (14:00):
Think about where they were out of Christ.
Speaker 3 (14:02):
They were without God, without hope, without Christ, they were
estranged from God.
Speaker 2 (14:10):
But now in Christ.
Speaker 3 (14:12):
Jesus, you who sometimes were far off made nigh, are
made near by the.
Speaker 2 (14:21):
Blood of Christ.
Speaker 3 (14:24):
For he is our peace, who have made both one,
and has broken down the middle of wall of petition
between us, having abolished in his flesh the enmity, even
the law of commandments containing ordinances, for to make of
himself of twain, that is of two, one new man,
so making peace, that he might reconcile both under.
Speaker 2 (14:48):
God in one body.
Speaker 3 (14:50):
And that one body is the church reconcile to God
in the body of Christ.
Speaker 2 (14:57):
And so where are when we come down to the
end of life.
Speaker 3 (15:02):
Let me read a passage to you from the Book
of Revelation, this chapter fourteen, verse thirteen.
Speaker 2 (15:07):
Blessed or blessed are the dead which die in the Lord.
Speaker 3 (15:15):
Now, all people who die are not the happy dead,
are they? I cannot imagine a person who's lived a
life of recklessness and a life of sin is going
to be a happy person when they die. But I'll
tell you who will be that happy person? Who will
be that blessed person forever and ever? Is that individual
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who dies in Christ. Paul begins Ephesians one, verse seven
by saying, in whom in Christ we have redemption. And
so those who die in Jesus Christ are going to
be among those who are the happy dead.
Speaker 2 (16:00):
But what does that really mean? In Christ?
Speaker 3 (16:06):
Paul wrote about that in Second Corinthians seventeen. This is
one of the some eighty plus passages of scripture where
he uses this expression. And in this passage he says,
there is therefore now no condemnation to them which are
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in Christ Jesus. No, Rather, that's Romans eight in verse
one there is therefore now no condemnation to them which
are in Christ Jesus.
Speaker 2 (16:40):
Now.
Speaker 3 (16:40):
Second Corinthians five seventeen says, if any man be in.
Speaker 2 (16:45):
Christ, be in Christ, he is a new creature.
Speaker 3 (16:50):
In Romans eighten one, he says, if a man is
in Christ, he is not a condemned man. Now think
about that a moment. If a man is in Christ,
what about us? What is there different about us if
we are in Christ Jesus. Well, if a person is
in Jesus Christ, they have the opportunity, they have the privilege,
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they have the access to every spiritual blessing that the
Lord affords. I'm thinking about a passage in John ten,
verse nine, where Jesus that I am the door, but
by me, if any man enter in, go into the door,
be in Christ, he shall be saved, and shall go
in and out and shall find pasture. I think that
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suggests the blessings that we have we bring Jesus Christ.
Do we have any blessings in Christ? Absolutely? Listen to
the apostle Paul in Ephesians one, verse three, Blessed be
the God and Father of our Lord, Jesus Christ, who.
Speaker 2 (17:55):
Has blessed us.
Speaker 3 (17:57):
Someone says I want God to bless me. We talk
about God bless America. Well, God's God's good blessed America.
But we need to be thinking about the way that
God blesses us as an individual, and God gives us
all spiritual blessings and heavenly places in Christ. Blessed be
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the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who
has blessed us. He has blessed us with all spiritual blessings. Now,
God blesses all people with blessings, material blessings like freedom
and like the sun, the rain, like the air that
we breathe, like the freedom that we enjoy. He blesses
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us in so many ways materially, and that's for all people.
But there are certain blessings that there's certain things that
God does in blessing us that are confined to those
that are in Christ, in whom we have redemption, and
that's where it's found. And that just tells me, by
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using just a little bit of common sense, a little
bit of logic, that if I'm not in Christ, I
do not have access to those spiritual blessings. So all
spiritual blessings are found in the Lord Jesus Christ. Let
me just mention one of those blessings. You don't have
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to name a dozen or more to get the point.
I don't think let me mention one of them. This
is a spiritual blessing in Christ. Listen to Paul in
Second Timothy, the second chapter.
Speaker 2 (19:33):
And verse number ten.
Speaker 3 (19:36):
I endure all things for the elect's sake, that they
may obtain the salvation.
Speaker 2 (19:44):
Oh that's what we want, isn't it.
Speaker 3 (19:47):
We want salvation, We want deliverance, we want to be free,
we want to be saved. Who has given us salvation
in Christ Jesus. Now I suppose we could talk to
the apostle Paul right now now, Paul, I know that's
what you wrote. And you said that all spiritual blessings
are in Christ in Ephesians. Then in Second Timothy chapter two,
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you said salvation is in Christ.
Speaker 2 (20:11):
What do you really mean by that, Paul?
Speaker 3 (20:13):
He just simply means that if you want to be
in Jesus Christ, if you want to be saved, you
must make sure that you are in Jesus Christ. In
Jesus Christ, we have those blessings, the blessing of salvation.
And if a man is in Jesus Christ, he has
been raised with Jesus Christ, risen with Christ. If you
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please listen to Paul in Colossians two twelve, buried with
him in baptism, where and also you are risen with
Him through the faith of the operation of God. Buried
with Christ in baptism. That tells me baptism is a barl,
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not sprinkling, is not pooring.
Speaker 2 (20:58):
It's a burial in water.
Speaker 3 (21:01):
He said, You're bared with Christ in baptism, and then
you're raised again out of that watery tomb to walk
new life. Maybe that's the reason. In Colossians three and one,
Paul said, if you then be risen with Christ, seek
those things which are above.
Speaker 2 (21:21):
Paul.
Speaker 3 (21:22):
Paul said, you've been risen with you'r risen with you.
You raised from the waters of baptism, from that watery grave,
and as Paul put it in Romans six three and four,
buried with him in baptism, where and also we're risen
with Him from the from the walk in the.
Speaker 2 (21:40):
Newness of life.
Speaker 3 (21:43):
You see, we're buried with him. It puts us into
the Lord Jesus Christ. Have you ever been baptized in Christ?
You said, rother Lambada. I'm not sure that's what the
Bible teaches. Well, let me call your attention to another
couple of passages Scripture.
Speaker 2 (21:58):
For first of all, Englatians g.
Speaker 3 (22:00):
Twenty six, for your all, the children of God by
faith in Christ Jesus. You're children of God by faith.
But where are we children of God by faith? And
here's another of those expressions that Paul uses that's equivalent
to in whom that we're talking about. In Ephesians one,
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he said, we're children of God by faith in Christ Jesus.
Now just tells me that I'm not a child of God.
If I'm out of Christ Jesus. Well, then that causes
me to ask, then, how, then, Paul, does a person
get into Christ Jesus, where we have that salvation that
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you read about.
Speaker 2 (22:43):
Where were those new creatures and where we're no longer condemned.
Speaker 3 (22:47):
Well, in verse twenty seven of Galatians three, he said,
for as many of you as been baptized into Christ,
did put on Christ? You see, you don't put Christ
on until you're baptized into Christ, and then you rise
from the watery grave Romans sixty three and three to
four to walk in the newness of life. You can't
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walk in that newness until you've been buried and raised
in the waters of baptism. And then if you're in
Jesus Christ, you have a victory. You live a victorious.
Speaker 2 (23:22):
Life in Christ. Listen to Paul in First Corinthians fifteen
fifty seven.
Speaker 3 (23:31):
Thanks be to God who gives us the victory through
the Lord Jesus Christ. Our victory is through Christ. Our
victory is in Jesus Christ. Well, let me ask you
over what do we have victory? Our victory in Jesus
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Christ is a victory over sin itself. You know, a
person who's living a life of sin is in bondage
to it. But Jesus is the one who delivers us
from that bondage.
Speaker 2 (24:08):
John eight thirty six.
Speaker 3 (24:09):
If the Son makes you free, then you're free. Indeed,
in Jesus Christ, we are free from the bondage of fear.
I rather suspect that some people watching this telecast right
now are just so afraid of the future. We see
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world events and it paralyzes us with fear sometimes. But
you see, God's not given us the spirit of fear
Second Timothy one, verse seven. And we have been delivered
from those things that would paralyze our spirits and paralyze
our thinking, and paralyze our lives, and keep us from
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living the life of abundance John ten in verse ten.
And it's in Jesus Christ that we have been made
free from the guilt of sin. Maybe you feel guilty
about something in your life. You say, Brother Lamb, there's
something I did years ago, back, long time ago, and
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I just can't let it go.
Speaker 2 (25:20):
Well, the way that you let things go.
Speaker 3 (25:22):
Is you let go and let God take care of it.
You let God forgive it. If you've never been as
a penitent believer in Jesus Christ, a confessing penitent believer
in Christ, if you've never been baptized to Christ, that
your sins be cleansed, that your sins be washed away
in that precious blood, well then I didn't encourage.
Speaker 2 (25:44):
You to do that.
Speaker 3 (25:45):
Today, I'd encourage you to take care of it immediately,
because God will wipe the slate clean, and God will
free you not only from the guilt of sin, but
from the bondage of that sin. David, I think, had
a hard time with the guilt he sinned by committing
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adultery and ultimately led led him to be complicit in
the murder of the woman's husband. And David wrote the
fifty first Psalm against the backdrop of that sin, and
he said, have mercy upon me, o God, according to
my loving kindness, according to the multitude of that tender mercies,
blot out my transgression, washed me thoroughly from my neckaries,
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cleanse me from my sin. And then he said, I
acknowledge my transgression.
Speaker 2 (26:34):
My sin. Listen to it is ever before me. Let
me tell you.
Speaker 3 (26:39):
If your sin is ever before you and you can't
forget about it, and it bugged you, it dogged you,
the guilt of that sin will allow that guilt to
bring you to the foot of the cross. That's what
the people on the day of Pentecosts did. They were
felt guilty when they learned that crucified the son of God,
and they said, what shall we do? And it brought
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them to the foot of the cross. And they gave
their lives to Christ by repenting of their sins, by
being baptized for the remission of their sins. And the
Lord added them to the church. That very day is
such as should be save Acts two forty seven, in
whom in Christ we have redemption. If you're not there.
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Let me encourage you to take care of it immediately.
I want to thank you for watching today, and I
want to invite you to visit the Church of Christ
in your community and also pick us a telephone right
now and call for the free Bible Correspondence course. Do
it right now without hesitation, and until we meet again.
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May the Lord bless you and may the Lord keep
you is my prayer to help you.
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