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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Welcome to Kwave's Pastor Spotlight featuring the Bible teaching of
our local Southern California pastors. Today we are pleased to
bring you a message from Daniel Hendrickson. Daniel is the
senior pastor of Calvary Chapel Palace Verdes celebrating a 4
year anniversary. Daniel Hendrickson has been lead pastor since the
church's start in the Palos Verdes Peninsula. He previously served.
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Calvary Chapel Santa Barbara for over a decade. In his
message for today, Pastor Daniel will be continuing in his
series and Paul's letter to the Colossians. What does it
mean for those who believe in Jesus to be in Christ?
We invite you to discover the spiritual reality of what
it means to be in Christ. Here now is Pastor
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Daniel Hendrickson with today's scripture message.
Speaker 2 (00:51):
We're gonna be in the book of Colossians, so why
don't you just open your Bibles right up to chapter
2 and look at now verses 1112. He goes on.
To say in him, again using those words repeatedly throughout,
in him also you were circumcised with a circumcision made
without hands, by putting off the body of the flesh,
by the circumcision of Christ, having been buried with him
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in baptism in which you were also raised with him
through faith in the powerful working of God who raised
him from the dead.
So these keywords in him, I, I, I mean, if
you write in your Bible, circle in Him, how many
times he's saying that in the section? Because by ourselves,
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we cannot be what we are in Christ.
Like by ourselves, we are not redeemed, but in him
we are.
By ourselves, we are not the children of God. We're
enemies of God.
But in him, Jesus Christ, he is our brother and
God is our Father. Spirit of God tells us that
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it's so. By ourselves, we're not righteous, we're not holy,
but in Him, we are.
In him reminds us that we are never by ourselves.
Christ is in us, and we are in Him.
There's union with him.
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Now Paul says that in him, in Jesus, we were circumcised.
Now this really kind of takes a left turn here,
doesn't it?
No.
I mean, I get the whole part of Jesus redeeming us,
Jesus choosing us, Jesus making us righteous, Jesus making us holy,
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but why is he talking about the cutting off of
the male foreskin of a genital?
Again, it's like, where are we going here?
Well, you have to remember who Paul was speaking to,
speaking to a largely Jewish audience and
We remember that for the Jews circumcision was a significant
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mark of identity when God called Abraham and made a
covenant with him, the sign of that covenant was that
Abraham was to circumcise all of his male children, and
that would be the mark that they would show that
they were a people that were set apart to God.
But what Paul is doing here is he's taking that
picture of physical circumcision, which the Jewish audience would have
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been well aware of, and he's applying it to their
lives spiritually. Paul would deal in the letter to the
Galatians about how in the early church there was a
threat that was saying, to be saved, you have Jesus
plus circumcision.
How many, how many people would have been kept away
from the church on that one?
Right?
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It's not Jesus plus circumcision.
It's Jesus in the spiritual circumcision, the cutting away of
the flesh that comes by the circumcision of Christ. Paul
takes that outward physical sign that was in the old covenant,
and he brings it into the spiritual reality that there's
this new spiritual circumcision that takes place in the heart
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of a believer where the body of the flesh is
cut off and put off.
Now, this new identity mark that is shown within the
New Testament and the new covenant was shown in a
different way than circumcision. I'm so thankful that I'm done
now talking about circumcision, and I can now.
Go on to talk about this next thing, a much
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better sign of the new covenant, and that is baptism.
Let's talk about baptism for a minute.
Now, I don't want anyone confused at this point, because again,
we're throwing out a lot of biblical ideas. The identity
of the Jews of the Old Testament, the Old Covenant
was primarily marked by physical circumcision.
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The identity of Christians, whether Jew or Gentile in the
New Testament, the New Covenant, was primarily marked by spiritual
circumcision as demonstrated through baptism.
And so, speaking about baptism.
Baptism is simply this, it is.
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To be submerged into a body of water that physically
represents a spiritual reality. The word baptism baptismo simply means
to dip.
You're being dipped in water.
But by being dipped in water, you're showing this sign,
this symbol, this outward reality of what has happened in you,
that you have died with Jesus, and therefore you have
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also been raised with Jesus. So let me explain this
for a moment. A person who has believed and received
Jesus Christ as their God and Savior, Jesus commanded that
you should be baptized, to be baptized in the name
of the Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit, so
you find some water.
Whether it's a hot tub or a swimming pool or
the Pacific Ocean, or a horse trough at Calvert Chapel
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Palace Verdes.
and you get some water, and you get into the water,
someone prays for you, and in the name of the Father,
the Son and the Holy Spirit, you are lowered down
into the water.
Showing, symbolizing that you have died with Jesus in the
same way that Jesus died for your sin sins and
he was buried in the grave, so you have died
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to your sins and your sins have been buried with
him through baptism.
And then being raised up out of the water, you
are showing outwardly this spiritual reality that you've also been
raised with Jesus Christ. Just as Jesus died and didn't
stay in the grave, didn't say that he rose from
the dead, you're coming up out of the water showing
that you have been raised in newness of life with
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Jesus Christ.
And this is baptism.
And we've got one coming up in July if you
wanna sign up, we're gonna be baptizing down at Torrance Beach.
It's gonna be an awesome time.
If you've never been baptized after having received Jesus, what
are you waiting for?
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You are to be baptized.
As you've believed in Jesus. Now, I do wanna say this,
in the same way that circumcision outwardly never saved anyone.
The same is true that baptism never saves anyone.
You know, with baptism saves people. I like what Pastor
Rob says, we would, you know, earlier this morning we had, uh,
the roads blocked off for this 5K race, and if,
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if it would have been that baptism saves you, we
put roadblocks on the street and we pull people out
of their cars and dump them in the in the
water and then send them on their way.
But baptism doesn't save anyone.
There's that teaching though, there's that belief, it's called baptismal regeneration,
and it's not biblical.
Same thing is true, you don't baptize babies and then
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automatically they're saved.
No, baptism is an outward sign of the inward reality
of the person who has said yes to Jesus by
grace through faith, not of any works lest they should boast.
And so for the rest of our time, we're gonna
talk a little bit more about the blessings and the
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benefits of identifying in this new life that is found
in Jesus Christ. Verse 13 says, in you, who were
dead in your trespasses and the uncircumcision of your flesh,
God made alive together with him, having been forgiven.
Us all our trespasses.
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So Paul, uh Paul speaks here about being dead and
then being made alive, and this is the core of
the gospel, right?
This emphasis of the new life that comes.
After you've turned from that old life. But we have
to recall that old life and here the old life
is spoken about of what it was like before knowing Jesus.
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It says you were dead.
In your trespasses and the uncircumcision of your flesh.
It's our it's our trespasses, our sins, our offenses to
God that made us dead. But it was the forgiveness
of our trespasses that God has made us alive. Now
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I'm sure you know what it means to trespass.
Probably because you've seen a sign that told you not
to trespass, and you have the thought, what's beyond that point?
And maybe went to check it out or something like that.
I remember in high school, my high school, uh, had
all the grass was like dying and they wanted to
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revive the, the grassy areas on the school campus. And
so what they did is they, they staked it out
and they put caution tape all around the school and
marked off like do not walk on the grass. Well,
prior to putting all these signs up like don't walk
on the grass, no one walked on the grass.
But as soon as they put all this caution tape
and signs, don't walk on the grass. Guess where everyone
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was walking on the grass.
Right? Because we're sinners, and, and, and the law arouses
sin within us, and we transgress the law, we trespass
and this is what Paul is saying is that all
of those sins, all of those trespasses that you've committed
against God, those have been forgiven by what Jesus did
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for you on the cross.
Speaker 1 (10:08):
You're listening to Kwave's Pastor Spotlight featuring Daniel Hendrickson, senior
pastor of Calvary Chapel Palos Verdes. For information about Pastor
Daniel's church, visit Calvary Palace Verdes.com. And now let's continue
with today's study in Colossians chapter one.
Speaker 2 (10:25):
Goes further in verse 14 to say more of what
took place when Jesus died on the cross. It says,
by canceling the record of debt that stood against us
with its legal demands, he set aside, nailing it to
the cross.
This is the picture that God has.
For us where there's sort of this record of your life,
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your your entire life is all recorded by God. He
is all knowing, he knows everything the past, the present,
the future and everything that you've done that is good,
everything that you've done that is bad, God knows it.
Everything that you are proud of and everything that you regret,
God knows it. God knows your entire life, and he
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knows the things that you regret that you need to
be forgiven of. He even knows the things that you're
proud of that you think you can build your life on,
and even that you need to be forgiven of because
our life can only be built in Christ.
And so we've had these sins, these trespasses that have
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been contrary to our true identity of Jesus and what
he's done is he's taking them out of the way.
He's wiped out the record of wrong that was set
up against us.
Your rap sheet is, is wiped out.
Having nailed it to the cross, the idea here is
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that it's been erased, the guilty record is now cleared,
but going even further that that record of sins was
nailed to the cross where Jesus died in a tone
for your sins paid in full.
I was thinking about this, um, my mom's in town,
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she's sitting right over here, and last night we had
this super great conversation talking about our family history and uh.
If you've got family history that it's anything like mine,
there are many trespasses, many sins, many regrets, some things
that you're proud of, but lots of things that you
look back and wish maybe that didn't happen, right?
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But that is our life. We are sinners.
Dead in our trespasses.
Enemies of God with our offenses towards him. He's perfect
and holy we are not. No one's got a perfect family,
do we?
And we were talking about all these things, um, and, uh,
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just different things of relationship in the past and things that, yeah,
no one's really proud to, to speak of, but, but
I remember we were going into details about stuff and um.
One time I almost burned my house down.
And uh I told my mom about this when I
was like in my mid-twenties at like Christmas Eve we
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were just going in again and, and she's like, tell
me more about that time you almost burned our house down.
So I'm recounting all the details and you know what
I did one day is I took this softball, like, um, yeah,
like a softball for a game, and I unraveled it
and I began to unravel and the way they're built
is like string and cotton all packed together and I
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got down to like this little ball at the end
and I had all this stuff just piled up from
like an unraveled softball and I was like that looks
fun to burn.
And so I went inside and I, I grabbed the
lighter and I go and I'm in the backyard and
I'm lighting this thing on fire and it just like
just lit up really fast. And so I'm stamping it
out and everything and then my shoe, like the rubber
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on my shoe started burning.
And it smelled really bad and I was like trying
to like cover up all the evidence and so what
I did is between the shed and this house, I kinda,
I kinda kicked it all in between there and there's
just a bunch of dry leaves in there and everything
and um yeah, I just, I wasn't good at sinning,
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you know, some people are better at sinning, they're better
at hiding it and everything, so I just kind of
stuffed it in there and I threw the lighter in
and yeah.
So throw the lighter in and I go in and
I kick off my shoes and stuff them in the
closet and they stink like burnt rubber and everything. I'm
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just going to the living room like.
Not doing anything.
And then the phone rings and it's our neighbor and
they say, Hey, are you barbecuing?
And like, no, we're not, we're not barbecuing and my
mom goes around the backyard and the backyard's like going
up in a blaze.
And so call 911 and the fire department comes and
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they bring hose through our garage and they come and
they put this whole fire out and everything and then
they're looking and they kind of trying to figure out
how did this fire start? Well, I know how that
fire started.
And and I'm sitting there and I remember watching like
the fire captain looking at what was the remains of
the burnt lighter. He's like, yeah, I found like this
spatula thing in there. I was like, sir, that is
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not a spatula. That is the lighter that I started
the fire with. But I didn't tell him, right? I
hid that and I hid it until my mid-twenties and
then I told my mom.
Yeah.
And now I've told all of you, right?
And and there's these things that we recount and these
silly things that we do in our lives where, you know,
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we trespass and we transgress and we sin and you know,
that's a funny story, but we all have stories that
we could go into that we would be embarrassed to tell.
Things that we would not want people to know about,
but guess what? God knows it.
God knows everything you've done, the good, the bad, the ugly,
and you know what he did when he died on
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the cross.
That record of your life was wiped clean.
And he nailed it to the cross, and as I
was talking to my mom last night and just thinking
about all those things of our past, I just sat
there with that verse.
In my mind, it's all been paid for.
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Just as Christ has forgiven me so I can forgive.
Not only did Jesus do that when he died on
the cross, but he did one final thing that we
read about in our text, verse 15. It says he
disarmed the rulers and authorities and put them to open
shame by triumphing over them in him.
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So God knows that we have adversaries.
Every day
You do battle with the world and the flesh and
the devil.
There are spiritual enemies that work that are at work
against us, and if you're not a Christian, uh, I
don't think you're aware of that fact. If you are,
you need to be aware of the fact that you
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have an enemy of your soul. Satan hates you. He
wants to steal, kill and destroy you.
But when Jesus came to save you, he also disarmed
the enemy.
The enemy terrified of us. The demons tremble at the
name of God.
And those who have authority in him, and we have
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authority in Christ because the weapons that they carried have
been disarmed from them and the imagery that Paul uses
here is that when Jesus died on the cross, he
disarmed those spiritual enemies and what would happen in those
days like in Rome when.
Uh, they would defeat a conquering army. They'd go and they, the,
the defeated army would be paraded through the streets. This
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triumphal procession would come through the streets, and the, the,
the general of the victorious army would take the general
of the defeated army and put the, put them down
on the ground and would put his head, his foot
upon his head.
And this goes back to a prophecy, one of the
first prophecies in the scriptures about what Jesus would come
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to do. Genesis, uh, chapter, chapter 3, when, uh, Adam sinned,
he was, um,
He was spoken of his curse and so was Eve,
but what he said to Eve was from the seed
of the woman.
Would come this redemption.
And that the, the heel of the seed would be bruised,
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but the head of the serpent would be crushed.
And that's exactly what happens when Jesus died on the cross.
It's as if that devil, the serpent, the liar, that adversary.
Had his face down on the ground and Jesus crushed
his head.
Yeah, that happens.
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And any weapon.
That our adversaries have against us is only what we
give to them.
That if we are not in him,
Hidden in Christ in God, standing firm in our position
in Jesus Christ. We're gonna give the enemy weapons of fear.
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Weapons of bitterness, weapons of unforgiveness, but if we know
who we are in Christ and we stand in the
victory that we have in Jesus, there is nothing that
our enemies can do to us. We are more than
conquerors in Christ Jesus.
Remember Christians, we're not fighting for victory, we're fighting from victory.
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The battle has been won. Jesus is Lord. Amen.
Speaker 1 (19:59):
And with that, Pastor Daniel Hendrickson of Calvary Chapel Palos
Verdes brings our study to a close. We invite you
to join us here at the same time tomorrow for
another Bible study with Pastor Daniel. As we mentioned, Daniel
Hendrickson is the senior pastor of Calvary Chapel Palos Verdes.
This month they are celebrating 4 years as a church
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plant on the Palos Verdes.
This fellowship of believers in Christ is seeking to know
Jesus and to be known by Him. When you attend
the Sunday morning worship services or various weekly ministries, you'll
experience God's love for you at Calvary Chapel Palaces. They
teach through the Bible so that you can know who
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God is and who he has made you to be.
You're invited to connect online.
Through sermons and devotions on their website at Calvary Palace Verdes.com.
You are also invited to join them for worship services
this Sunday at 9 a.m. and 11 a.m. starting on
September 29th, you can join them at any one of
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three Sunday morning services at 8:30 a.m., 10:00 a.m., and
11:30 a.m. For more information about Calvary Chapel.
Palos Verdes, visit Calvary Palos Verdes.com. We invite you to
join us right here at the same time tomorrow here
on Kwave for Pastor Spotlight. We'll study the word together
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with Pastor Daniel Hendrickson of Calvary Chapel Palace Verdes. We
hope you'll join us. This is a production of Kwave Radio,
sharing life, delivering truth, giving hope.
Welcome to Kwave's Pastor Spotlight featuring the Bible teaching of
our local Southern California pastors. Today we are pleased to
bring you a message from Daniel Hendrickson. Daniel is the
senior pastor of Calvary Chapel Palace Verdes celebrating a 4
year anniversary. Daniel Hendrickson has been lead pastor since the
church's start in the Palos Verdes Peninsula. He previously served.
(00:25):
Calvary Chapel Santa Barbara for over a decade. In his
message for today, Pastor Daniel will be continuing in his
series and Paul's letter to the Colossians. What does it
mean for those who believe in Jesus to be in Christ?
We invite you to discover the spiritual reality of what
it means to be in Christ. Here now is Pastor
(00:47):
Daniel Hendrickson with today's scripture message.
Speaker 2 (00:51):
We're gonna be in the book of Colossians, so why
don't you just open your Bibles right up to chapter
2 and look at now verses 1112. He goes on.
To say in him, again using those words repeatedly throughout,
in him also you were circumcised with a circumcision made
without hands, by putting off the body of the flesh,
by the circumcision of Christ, having been buried with him
(01:14):
in baptism in which you were also raised with him
through faith in the powerful working of God who raised
him from the dead.
So these keywords in him, I, I, I mean, if
you write in your Bible, circle in Him, how many
times he's saying that in the section? Because by ourselves,
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we cannot be what we are in Christ.
Like by ourselves, we are not redeemed, but in him
we are.
By ourselves, we are not the children of God. We're
enemies of God.
But in him, Jesus Christ, he is our brother and
God is our Father. Spirit of God tells us that
(01:58):
it's so. By ourselves, we're not righteous, we're not holy,
but in Him, we are.
In him reminds us that we are never by ourselves.
Christ is in us, and we are in Him.
There's union with him.
(02:18):
Now Paul says that in him, in Jesus, we were circumcised.
Now this really kind of takes a left turn here,
doesn't it?
No.
I mean, I get the whole part of Jesus redeeming us,
Jesus choosing us, Jesus making us righteous, Jesus making us holy,
(02:40):
but why is he talking about the cutting off of
the male foreskin of a genital?
Again, it's like, where are we going here?
Well, you have to remember who Paul was speaking to,
speaking to a largely Jewish audience and
We remember that for the Jews circumcision was a significant
(03:01):
mark of identity when God called Abraham and made a
covenant with him, the sign of that covenant was that
Abraham was to circumcise all of his male children, and
that would be the mark that they would show that
they were a people that were set apart to God.
But what Paul is doing here is he's taking that
picture of physical circumcision, which the Jewish audience would have
(03:23):
been well aware of, and he's applying it to their
lives spiritually. Paul would deal in the letter to the
Galatians about how in the early church there was a
threat that was saying, to be saved, you have Jesus
plus circumcision.
How many, how many people would have been kept away
from the church on that one?
Right?
(03:43):
It's not Jesus plus circumcision.
It's Jesus in the spiritual circumcision, the cutting away of
the flesh that comes by the circumcision of Christ. Paul
takes that outward physical sign that was in the old covenant,
and he brings it into the spiritual reality that there's
this new spiritual circumcision that takes place in the heart
(04:05):
of a believer where the body of the flesh is
cut off and put off.
Now, this new identity mark that is shown within the
New Testament and the new covenant was shown in a
different way than circumcision. I'm so thankful that I'm done
now talking about circumcision, and I can now.
Go on to talk about this next thing, a much
(04:28):
better sign of the new covenant, and that is baptism.
Let's talk about baptism for a minute.
Now, I don't want anyone confused at this point, because again,
we're throwing out a lot of biblical ideas. The identity
of the Jews of the Old Testament, the Old Covenant
was primarily marked by physical circumcision.
(04:48):
The identity of Christians, whether Jew or Gentile in the
New Testament, the New Covenant, was primarily marked by spiritual
circumcision as demonstrated through baptism.
And so, speaking about baptism.
Baptism is simply this, it is.
(05:08):
To be submerged into a body of water that physically
represents a spiritual reality. The word baptism baptismo simply means
to dip.
You're being dipped in water.
But by being dipped in water, you're showing this sign,
this symbol, this outward reality of what has happened in you,
that you have died with Jesus, and therefore you have
(05:30):
also been raised with Jesus. So let me explain this
for a moment. A person who has believed and received
Jesus Christ as their God and Savior, Jesus commanded that
you should be baptized, to be baptized in the name
of the Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit, so
you find some water.
Whether it's a hot tub or a swimming pool or
the Pacific Ocean, or a horse trough at Calvert Chapel
(05:53):
Palace Verdes.
and you get some water, and you get into the water,
someone prays for you, and in the name of the Father,
the Son and the Holy Spirit, you are lowered down
into the water.
Showing, symbolizing that you have died with Jesus in the
same way that Jesus died for your sin sins and
he was buried in the grave, so you have died
(06:13):
to your sins and your sins have been buried with
him through baptism.
And then being raised up out of the water, you
are showing outwardly this spiritual reality that you've also been
raised with Jesus Christ. Just as Jesus died and didn't
stay in the grave, didn't say that he rose from
the dead, you're coming up out of the water showing
that you have been raised in newness of life with
(06:34):
Jesus Christ.
And this is baptism.
And we've got one coming up in July if you
wanna sign up, we're gonna be baptizing down at Torrance Beach.
It's gonna be an awesome time.
If you've never been baptized after having received Jesus, what
are you waiting for?
(06:55):
You are to be baptized.
As you've believed in Jesus. Now, I do wanna say this,
in the same way that circumcision outwardly never saved anyone.
The same is true that baptism never saves anyone.
You know, with baptism saves people. I like what Pastor
Rob says, we would, you know, earlier this morning we had, uh,
the roads blocked off for this 5K race, and if,
(07:17):
if it would have been that baptism saves you, we
put roadblocks on the street and we pull people out
of their cars and dump them in the in the
water and then send them on their way.
But baptism doesn't save anyone.
There's that teaching though, there's that belief, it's called baptismal regeneration,
and it's not biblical.
Same thing is true, you don't baptize babies and then
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automatically they're saved.
No, baptism is an outward sign of the inward reality
of the person who has said yes to Jesus by
grace through faith, not of any works lest they should boast.
And so for the rest of our time, we're gonna
talk a little bit more about the blessings and the
(08:00):
benefits of identifying in this new life that is found
in Jesus Christ. Verse 13 says, in you, who were
dead in your trespasses and the uncircumcision of your flesh,
God made alive together with him, having been forgiven.
Us all our trespasses.
(08:20):
So Paul, uh Paul speaks here about being dead and
then being made alive, and this is the core of
the gospel, right?
This emphasis of the new life that comes.
After you've turned from that old life. But we have
to recall that old life and here the old life
is spoken about of what it was like before knowing Jesus.
(08:41):
It says you were dead.
In your trespasses and the uncircumcision of your flesh.
It's our it's our trespasses, our sins, our offenses to
God that made us dead. But it was the forgiveness
of our trespasses that God has made us alive. Now
(09:02):
I'm sure you know what it means to trespass.
Probably because you've seen a sign that told you not
to trespass, and you have the thought, what's beyond that point?
And maybe went to check it out or something like that.
I remember in high school, my high school, uh, had
all the grass was like dying and they wanted to
(09:23):
revive the, the grassy areas on the school campus. And
so what they did is they, they staked it out
and they put caution tape all around the school and
marked off like do not walk on the grass. Well,
prior to putting all these signs up like don't walk
on the grass, no one walked on the grass.
But as soon as they put all this caution tape
and signs, don't walk on the grass. Guess where everyone
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was walking on the grass.
Right? Because we're sinners, and, and, and the law arouses
sin within us, and we transgress the law, we trespass
and this is what Paul is saying is that all
of those sins, all of those trespasses that you've committed
against God, those have been forgiven by what Jesus did
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for you on the cross.
Speaker 1 (10:08):
You're listening to Kwave's Pastor Spotlight featuring Daniel Hendrickson, senior
pastor of Calvary Chapel Palos Verdes. For information about Pastor
Daniel's church, visit Calvary Palace Verdes.com. And now let's continue
with today's study in Colossians chapter one.
Speaker 2 (10:25):
Goes further in verse 14 to say more of what
took place when Jesus died on the cross. It says,
by canceling the record of debt that stood against us
with its legal demands, he set aside, nailing it to
the cross.
This is the picture that God has.
For us where there's sort of this record of your life,
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your your entire life is all recorded by God. He
is all knowing, he knows everything the past, the present,
the future and everything that you've done that is good,
everything that you've done that is bad, God knows it.
Everything that you are proud of and everything that you regret,
God knows it. God knows your entire life, and he
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knows the things that you regret that you need to
be forgiven of. He even knows the things that you're
proud of that you think you can build your life on,
and even that you need to be forgiven of because
our life can only be built in Christ.
And so we've had these sins, these trespasses that have
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been contrary to our true identity of Jesus and what
he's done is he's taking them out of the way.
He's wiped out the record of wrong that was set
up against us.
Your rap sheet is, is wiped out.
Having nailed it to the cross, the idea here is
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that it's been erased, the guilty record is now cleared,
but going even further that that record of sins was
nailed to the cross where Jesus died in a tone
for your sins paid in full.
I was thinking about this, um, my mom's in town,
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she's sitting right over here, and last night we had
this super great conversation talking about our family history and uh.
If you've got family history that it's anything like mine,
there are many trespasses, many sins, many regrets, some things
that you're proud of, but lots of things that you
look back and wish maybe that didn't happen, right?
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But that is our life. We are sinners.
Dead in our trespasses.
Enemies of God with our offenses towards him. He's perfect
and holy we are not. No one's got a perfect family,
do we?
And we were talking about all these things, um, and, uh,
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just different things of relationship in the past and things that, yeah,
no one's really proud to, to speak of, but, but
I remember we were going into details about stuff and um.
One time I almost burned my house down.
And uh I told my mom about this when I
was like in my mid-twenties at like Christmas Eve we
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were just going in again and, and she's like, tell
me more about that time you almost burned our house down.
So I'm recounting all the details and you know what
I did one day is I took this softball, like, um, yeah,
like a softball for a game, and I unraveled it
and I began to unravel and the way they're built
is like string and cotton all packed together and I
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got down to like this little ball at the end
and I had all this stuff just piled up from
like an unraveled softball and I was like that looks
fun to burn.
And so I went inside and I, I grabbed the
lighter and I go and I'm in the backyard and
I'm lighting this thing on fire and it just like
just lit up really fast. And so I'm stamping it
out and everything and then my shoe, like the rubber
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on my shoe started burning.
And it smelled really bad and I was like trying
to like cover up all the evidence and so what
I did is between the shed and this house, I kinda,
I kinda kicked it all in between there and there's
just a bunch of dry leaves in there and everything
and um yeah, I just, I wasn't good at sinning,
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you know, some people are better at sinning, they're better
at hiding it and everything, so I just kind of
stuffed it in there and I threw the lighter in
and yeah.
So throw the lighter in and I go in and
I kick off my shoes and stuff them in the
closet and they stink like burnt rubber and everything. I'm
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just going to the living room like.
Not doing anything.
And then the phone rings and it's our neighbor and
they say, Hey, are you barbecuing?
And like, no, we're not, we're not barbecuing and my
mom goes around the backyard and the backyard's like going
up in a blaze.
And so call 911 and the fire department comes and
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they bring hose through our garage and they come and
they put this whole fire out and everything and then
they're looking and they kind of trying to figure out
how did this fire start? Well, I know how that
fire started.
And and I'm sitting there and I remember watching like
the fire captain looking at what was the remains of
the burnt lighter. He's like, yeah, I found like this
spatula thing in there. I was like, sir, that is
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not a spatula. That is the lighter that I started
the fire with. But I didn't tell him, right? I
hid that and I hid it until my mid-twenties and
then I told my mom.
Yeah.
And now I've told all of you, right?
And and there's these things that we recount and these
silly things that we do in our lives where, you know,
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we trespass and we transgress and we sin and you know,
that's a funny story, but we all have stories that
we could go into that we would be embarrassed to tell.
Things that we would not want people to know about,
but guess what? God knows it.
God knows everything you've done, the good, the bad, the ugly,
and you know what he did when he died on
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the cross.
That record of your life was wiped clean.
And he nailed it to the cross, and as I
was talking to my mom last night and just thinking
about all those things of our past, I just sat
there with that verse.
In my mind, it's all been paid for.
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Just as Christ has forgiven me so I can forgive.
Not only did Jesus do that when he died on
the cross, but he did one final thing that we
read about in our text, verse 15. It says he
disarmed the rulers and authorities and put them to open
shame by triumphing over them in him.
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So God knows that we have adversaries.
Every day
You do battle with the world and the flesh and
the devil.
There are spiritual enemies that work that are at work
against us, and if you're not a Christian, uh, I
don't think you're aware of that fact. If you are,
you need to be aware of the fact that you
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have an enemy of your soul. Satan hates you. He
wants to steal, kill and destroy you.
But when Jesus came to save you, he also disarmed
the enemy.
The enemy terrified of us. The demons tremble at the
name of God.
And those who have authority in him, and we have
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authority in Christ because the weapons that they carried have
been disarmed from them and the imagery that Paul uses
here is that when Jesus died on the cross, he
disarmed those spiritual enemies and what would happen in those
days like in Rome when.
Uh, they would defeat a conquering army. They'd go and they, the,
the defeated army would be paraded through the streets. This
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triumphal procession would come through the streets, and the, the,
the general of the victorious army would take the general
of the defeated army and put the, put them down
on the ground and would put his head, his foot
upon his head.
And this goes back to a prophecy, one of the
first prophecies in the scriptures about what Jesus would come
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to do. Genesis, uh, chapter, chapter 3, when, uh, Adam sinned,
he was, um,
He was spoken of his curse and so was Eve,
but what he said to Eve was from the seed
of the woman.
Would come this redemption.
And that the, the heel of the seed would be bruised,
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but the head of the serpent would be crushed.
And that's exactly what happens when Jesus died on the cross.
It's as if that devil, the serpent, the liar, that adversary.
Had his face down on the ground and Jesus crushed
his head.
Yeah, that happens.
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And any weapon.
That our adversaries have against us is only what we
give to them.
That if we are not in him,
Hidden in Christ in God, standing firm in our position
in Jesus Christ. We're gonna give the enemy weapons of fear.
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Weapons of bitterness, weapons of unforgiveness, but if we know
who we are in Christ and we stand in the
victory that we have in Jesus, there is nothing that
our enemies can do to us. We are more than
conquerors in Christ Jesus.
Remember Christians, we're not fighting for victory, we're fighting from victory.
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The battle has been won. Jesus is Lord. Amen.
Speaker 1 (19:59):
And with that, Pastor Daniel Hendrickson of Calvary Chapel Palos
Verdes brings our study to a close. We invite you
to join us here at the same time tomorrow for
another Bible study with Pastor Daniel. As we mentioned, Daniel
Hendrickson is the senior pastor of Calvary Chapel Palos Verdes.
This month they are celebrating 4 years as a church
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plant on the Palos Verdes.
This fellowship of believers in Christ is seeking to know
Jesus and to be known by Him. When you attend
the Sunday morning worship services or various weekly ministries, you'll
experience God's love for you at Calvary Chapel Palaces. They
teach through the Bible so that you can know who
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God is and who he has made you to be.
You're invited to connect online.
Through sermons and devotions on their website at Calvary Palace Verdes.com.
You are also invited to join them for worship services
this Sunday at 9 a.m. and 11 a.m. starting on
September 29th, you can join them at any one of
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three Sunday morning services at 8:30 a.m., 10:00 a.m., and
11:30 a.m. For more information about Calvary Chapel.
Palos Verdes, visit Calvary Palos Verdes.com. We invite you to
join us right here at the same time tomorrow here
on Kwave for Pastor Spotlight. We'll study the word together
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with Pastor Daniel Hendrickson of Calvary Chapel Palace Verdes. We
hope you'll join us. This is a production of Kwave Radio,
sharing life, delivering truth, giving hope.
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