August 5, 2024 • 38 mins
What if you knew that you were as righteous and holy as Jesus, and that complete wholeness was our starting point in Christ not the finish line? Today we look at the scandalous truth of the gospel that tells us faith in Jesus and repentance makes us a mirror image of His righteousness. These things are not just semantics or theological concepts, they are keys to living a kingdom life and showing the world how holy our God is.
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Speaker 1 (00:01):
It's been really good .
And this is women's Bible study.
Yes, so I can't come.
No, okay, I'm sad for you.
I'm going to talk about you ifyou come.
But we can grab ice cream.
But we can grab ice cream,that's right.
Me and the kids go get icecream every Wednesday.
We love women's Bible study,yeah, but if you are a dude who
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wants to go to a Bible studyFriday mornings, 630, here in
the building we're doing that.
So just want to remind youabout that.
It's a great time we're doingstill doing a chronological
study through the walk of thelife of Jesus.
So, friday mornings, 630, men'sBible study.
Women's Wednesday nights Okay,all right.
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One last thing, and then we'regoing to jump into the message.
I have these booklets.
We're going to be talking aboutone of the messages today
righteous, holy and whole.
I have them in the house.
Have you read it?
Yeah, I have them in the house.
Have you read it?
Yeah, I have them in the house.
I would highly encourage you tograb these If you have not read
these.
We're going to be talking aboutrighteousness, holiness and
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being whole today, but I fleshedit out a whole lot more in
these little booklet forms andthey're just great to have and
read and mark up and write andpass off to others.
So grab one If you don't haveone.
They're $5 each.
The money doesn't go to me, itgoes straight to the church.
You can put the money in thelittle wooden boxes.
You can scan the QR code.
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If you don't have $5, don'tworry about it.
Take a booklet anyway.
I'd rather you take the bookletthan the $5 be an issue.
There's other ones as well Onecalled the Abba revealed in
Christ, and then another one onGod's design for his church.
You can grab all those, as wellas the Jesus People Manifesto,
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but the one that I really wantto point you to today is
righteous, holy and whole.
So, with that in mind andwithout further ado, let's talk
about righteousness, let's talkabout holiness, let's talk about
being whole.
I believe this is a messagethat I'll end up speaking at
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least once a year.
It is absolutely foundationalto being kingdom people knowing
who we are in Christ, the mannamed EW Kenyon.
He says this the moment a manknows that he is the
righteousness of God and heknows what that means, the devil
is sufficiently defeated,getting ready to make a big
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statement.
Some of you may have heard metalk about this before and
you've already reconciled thisstatement, but some of you are
hearing this for the first time,so I can't wait to see the look
on your faces.
If you believe that Jesus is whohe says he is and the kindness
and the love of God has broughtyou to repentance for your sin,
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then you are as righteous asJesus.
You are as holy as Jesus.
How you react to what I justsaid is an indicator of how
whole you are.
Now I'm going to explain what Imean by that, and we're going
to connect righteousness andholiness to us being whole in
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just a minute.
But for now, I want you to takeinventory of what you felt when
I said you're as righteous asJesus.
You're as holy as Jesus.
What did that do inside of you,jesus?
You're as holy as Jesus.
What did that do inside of you?
My main text for today is 2ndCorinthians, 5, 21.
Paul says this he made him, whoknew no sin, to be sin for us,
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so that we would become.
This word become is genemi, theGreek word genemi.
It means to be begotten or tobe born so that we would become
the righteousness of God inChrist.
So I have three points that Iwant to make today.
Number one it's illegal for youto think something about
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yourself that Jesus doesn'tthink about you.
Point number two beingrighteous and holy is not what
religion has told you.
And number three knowing we arerighteous heals our brokenness
and makes us whole, ourbrokenness and makes us whole.
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So, point number one it'sillegal for you to think
something about yourself thatJesus doesn't think about you.
If God says that his son becamesin so that you could become
the righteousness of God, then,friend, you are righteous and
God's not impressed with falsehumility and I'm just a sinner
saved by grace nonsense.
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Jesus took on sin so that youcould take on righteousness, and
not just any old righteousness.
By taking on your sin, jesusmade you holy and righteous.
And if God says that you areholy, as he does in 1 Peter 2.9,
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hebrews 10.10, hebrews 12.10,colossians 1.22, colossians 3.12
and Ephesians 4.24, then it isillegal in the kingdom of God
for you to think otherwise.
Paul tells the church inColossians Colossians 3.12, he
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says this that they are chosenby God, holy and beloved.
The church cannot believe inand preach the finished work of
Christ and simultaneouslybelieve that they are still
unclean.
The church has allowed thespirit of religion to speak old
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covenant realities to a newcovenant people.
What do I mean by that?
Well, we hear Isaiah say woe isme, for I am unclean, and we
take on his perspective forourselves.
Or we hear Isaiah say we areall unclean and our
righteousness is like filthyrags, and because it's between
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the covers of the Bible, weassume that Isaiah is speaking
for us.
Friends, we must understand thefull counsel of God.
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Isaiah, under an inferiorcovenant, knew nothing of the
regenerative, redemptive,restorative blood of Emmanuel.
God, who he saw high and liftedup, would wrap himself in flesh
, descend into the depth ofhumanity's sin and become
unclean for us.
Isaiah didn't understand thatthe covenant that Isaiah was
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under was a shadow of the thingsto come, that's Hebrews 10, one
Of the things to come, that'sHebrews 10.1.
So for anyone on this side ofthe cross To take on the
perspective of a man under theold covenant Is like a slave who
has received his freedom Yetcontinues to live as if he were
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in bondage.
For freedom Christ has set usfree.
Untold multitudes are raised ina religious system that enforces
old covenant language as aweapon to control them.
The language of the newcovenant is not.
Woe is me, for I am unclean.
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The language of the newcovenant of the Jesus people is
don't you know that you're thetemple of God, that the Holy
Spirit dwells inside of you?
That's first Corinthians three,16.
Jesus didn't just rinse us off alittle bit the way that we
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rinse off a dish before we putit in the dishwasher, where the
real washing takes place.
He didn't just rinse us off,man.
We've been born again.
He made us brand new.
If anyone is in Christ, he is anew creation.
Old things have passed away.
Behold, all things have becomenew.
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Second Corinthians, 5, 17.
Now, this is extremelyimportant Key words in that
verse is in Christ.
If anyone is in Christ, he's anew creation.
Not only are we in Christ, but,as Paul says in Galatians 2,20,
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christ is in us.
I've been crucified with Christ.
It's no longer I who live, butChrist who lives in me.
So we are in Christ.
Christ is in us.
Religion will settle for youbeing around Christ, but the
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minute you begin to get therevelation that you are one with
God and by way of that union,you are now righteous and holy,
the spirit of religion knowsit's lost its power to control
you.
Paul talks about the gospel as amystery, and there was
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something hidden in this gospelthat was hidden from previous
generations.
The mystery hidden for ages wasnot that a Savior would come
and save us.
All of the Old Testamentprophets knew that a Savior was
going to come and bringsalvation.
The mystery of the new covenantis that the Savior wouldn't
just come, but he would come tolive inside of his people, to
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take up residence and dwell, notjust with man, but inside of
man.
If you are in Christ, then youare the temple not made with
human hands.
Consider that for a minute.
Consider that for a minute.
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Paul makes an absolutelyastounding claim in 1
Corinthians 3.16.
Do you not know that you arethe temple of God and the Holy
Spirit dwells in you?
Now think about that.
Under the old covenant, thetemple was the place where God's
presence rested among hispeople.
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The Holy of Holies was a placewhere God dwelled.
It was totally off limits,except for once a year when one
consecrated priest could enterinto that place.
It was such a dangerous thingwhen the priest would go into
the Holy of Holies.
Who knows what they would do tothe priest?
They'd tie a rope around hiswaist in case he fell over dead
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in the presence of God, so atleast I could pull them out.
And now, according to firstCorinthians 3, 16, the same
presence that could only beentered into once a year by a
consecrated priest is now ournew covenant inheritance.
Friend, if you are in Christ,you are not unclean.
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You are the righteousness ofGod and the dwelling place of
the living, burning, allconsuming, fiery presence of the
uncreated, beautiful,all-powerful Holy Spirit of God.
You are the righteousness ofGod and the dwelling place of
the Holy Spirit in the earth.
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It is illegal for you to thinksomething about yourself that
Jesus doesn't think about.
You think something aboutyourself that Jesus doesn't
think about you.
Point number two beingrighteous and holy is not what
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religion has told you it is.
Most of us have been taught thatholy means to be without sin
and righteous means to bewithout sin and righteous means
to be in right standing with God.
So what are we saying when wesay that God is holy and that
God is righteous?
Are we saying that God iswithout sin and that God is in
right standing with himself?
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It's nonsense.
The Bible says that God can'tbe tempted with evil.
So saying that God is holydoesn't compliment him, if what
we mean is he resisted somethingthat he wasn't even tempted to
do.
I want to talk about this wordholy first, and then we'll talk
about righteous.
Holy doesn't mean to be withoutsin.
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Holy means to be distinct,separate, altogether different
than anything else.
So when God says to us, be holyas I am holy, he's not saying
never sin as I have never sinned.
He's saying choose to be asdistinct as I am.
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When Colossians 3.12 says thatwe are chosen by God, holy and
beloved, it means that in Christwe are now of a unique and
distinct kind, just as he istotally distinct.
That's what it means to be holy, totally distinct.
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That's what it means to be holy.
To live holy means that werefuse anything that would
contaminate our distinction.
Bear with me here.
This is what it means to liveholy, choosing to resist
anything that would dilute orcontaminate my distinction as
the temple of God.
See, most of us have itbackwards.
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We think that the way we livedetermines who we are.
That's putting the cart beforethe horse and the kingdom.
Who we are in Christ enables usto live like someone who
resisted every temptation knownto man, when we know that we're
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holy in Christ, then we willbear the fruit of holiness in
our lives.
So I don't not sin, so I don'tgo to hell.
I don't sin because I don'twant to do anything that causes
me to no longer be distinct.
Does that make sense?
I don't not sin because I'mafraid of going to hell.
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I don't sin because I don'twant to dilute my distinction as
a blood-washed son of God.
I don't sin because I don'tdare contradict the identity
that God speaks over me.
I want to talk about sin and thebeliever for just a minute.
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Great Yay, let's talk about sin.
Think of it this way For theholy, beloved, chosen child of
God, to sin is tantamount to awhale washing itself up on the
beach.
Can it happen?
Yes, but how do we react whenwe see a whale wash up on the
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beach?
People are stunned.
News crews come to tell thestory.
The entire community is talkingabout it.
It's shocking because it'scompletely contrary to the
whale's internal nature.
It's suicidal.
That's what sin is like for theborn again believer, who God
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now says is holy.
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The Greek word for sin ishamartia.
Hamartia means to be distorted,to be broken in your identity.
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Sin means to be out ofalignment with the original
design that God has intended foryou.
How many have been taught thatsin is bad moral behavior Doing
things that are contrary toGod's law?
That's partially correct, butthat's step two.
Bad moral behavior is actuallythe fruit of the root issue,
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which is you and I living out ofsync with how God designed us.
The bad moral behavior isactually supposed to serve as an
announcement that you're out ofstep with how the father has
designed you, which should thenbring you back into alignment
with who the father says you are.
So the beach whale has sinnedin that it's acted out of
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harmony with how God designed itto live.
We sin by first not knowing whowe are and then by acting out of
that distorted identity.
Then sin lies to us and triesto re-identify us as sinners.
Look at you, look what you did.
You're a sinner, really,because what I do doesn't make
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me saved.
I'm saved because of what Jesusdid.
I'm a son because of what Jesusdid For anyone who is in Christ
, and I cannot stress thatenough in Christ.
For anyone who is in Christ tobelieve for a second that their
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identity now is a sinner makesabout as much sense as telling
the beach whale that, because ofwhat you've done, you're now a
school bus.
It's illogical.
It's completely contrary towhat God says about you.
If you are in Christ, sin doesnot re-identify you as a sinner,
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any more than lying on thebeach re-identifies the whale as
a sunbather.
It's still a whale.
It's just out of alignment.
When you sin, you're still ason.
You're still a daughter.
You're just out of alignment.
You're still a daughter.
You're just out of alignment.
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Let that sin be an announcementthat something is wrong.
Step back under the shadow ofhis wing.
Repentance of getting ahead ofmyself.
This is important, as if theother stuff isn't.
This part is important.
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This doesn't mean that wedisregard sin or tolerate sin or
treat sin lightly.
Like Paul says in Romans 6, 1,.
Shall we go on sinning so thatgrace may abound?
God forbid.
We have died to sin.
How can we live any longer init?
The result of continuing in sinis death.
Make no mistake about it.
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If that beach whale doesn't getback into its natural habitat,
it will die.
This is where repentance comesin.
Repentance is first changingthe way that you think at such a
core level that it then changesthe direction that you're
moving in such a core level thatit then changes the direction
that you're moving in.
So somebody remind that whalethat it's a whale.
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Get it back into its naturalenvironment.
In the same way, somebodyremind that born again child of
God that they are washed in theblood of the lamb.
Get that saint back into itsnatural habitat.
In him we live and move andhave our being.
So to reduce holiness to simplybeing the absence of sin is to
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miss the beauty of holinessaltogether.
When God says that we're holy,he's saying that we are distinct
, just as he is distinct, andbecause we are distinct, we
don't do anything that dilutesthe uniqueness of who he says.
We are, you're holy, now livelike it.
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So let's talk aboutrighteousness.
How is everyone?
Okay?
Let's talk about righteousnessfor a minute.
What does righteousness mean?
Righteousness is the conditionof one who is as he ought to be.
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So think about it this way Ifsin is being out of alignment,
righteousness is being inalignment.
You're in alignment with howgod designed you.
You're righteous, everything isin order, everything is is as
it should be.
When god says that you are nowrighteous, it means that you are
now restored back to theGenesis 1 26 design that he had
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for you from the beginning.
Let us make man in our image,according to our likeness.
Righteousness restores us backto his likeness.
So being the righteousness ofGod means that God looks at you
and says, wow, you remind me somuch of me.
Let us make man in our imageand our likeness.
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Contrary to what most of usthink, you can't grow in
righteousness.
Righteous is either somethingyou are or you're not, and if
you're in Christ, then,according to 1 Corinthians 1.30
and 2 Corinthians 5.21, therighteousness of God has been
transferred to you.
We can grow in ourunderstanding of what it means
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to be righteous and we should,but you can't become more of
something that God says youalready are.
Righteousness is an imputation,it's a transfer, it's not a
process.
Righteousness is transferred tous on the basis of what Anyone
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Faith, on the basis of faith.
Romans four, three Abrahambelieved and it was credited to
him, transferred to him asrighteousness faith, abraham
believing that faith.
It was the gate that opened upthe transfer of righteousness
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from God to Abraham.
I'll give you an example.
If a billionaire comes up to youright now, he's walking up
right now and he says I'm goingto give you a million dollars.
Just give me your bank account.
What are you expecting to seein your bank account tomorrow
when you fire up your computer?
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A million dollars, like genuinebillionaire, not some scammer.
Genuine billionaire.
You're expecting to see amillion dollars in your bank
account tomorrow.
But what if you found that thebillionaire had transferred $100
to you?
You'd be like hold on, man,what's going on?
The billionaire gave you hisphone number, so you call him up
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.
You're like hey, mr Billionaire, I appreciate the hundred bucks
, but I'm sorry.
I was under the understandingyou were going to give me a
million dollars.
And the billionaire says oh, Iam, I'm going to give you a
hundred dollars every day forthe rest of your life and then
you're going to have a milliondollars.
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That's how most of us think thatrighteousness works.
We think that we receive theseed of righteousness that then
grows into the oak ofrighteousness as we successfully
navigate our way throughsanctification for the rest of
our days.
That may be an accurate pictureof growing in maturity, which
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is very important, but that'snot how righteousness works.
It was faith that putrighteousness into Abraham's
account in one transaction, notin a succession of days where
Abraham did more good stuff thanbad stuff.
Listen to the rest of what Paulsays about Abraham in Romans 4.
This is verse 22 through 25.
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Abraham believed and it wascredited to him as righteousness
.
Now, this was not written forAbraham's sake alone.
That righteousness was imputedto him, but also for us.
Righteousness shall be imputedto us who believe in him who
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raised Jesus from the dead.
Come on, man, this is a greatverse.
Do you believe in him whoraised Jesus from the dead?
Then you're righteous.
His righteousness has beentransferred to you.
Think of it this way when youbelieved in Jesus, did you
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receive a little bit ofsalvation?
Of course not, just like youdidn't receive a little bit of
sonship from your parents whenyou were born.
When I was born, I was born ason.
I was a son instantly.
It was my identity.
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A little bit of I was a soninstantly.
It was my identity.
Now I'm spending my daysgrowing in understanding of what
it means to be a son, butthat's a result of growing in
understanding, not growing insonship.
As a son who honors my father,I've learned over the years who
my father is, what he likes,what he dislikes, what's the
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culture of the family that he'sestablished.
But that doesn't make me moreof a son now than on the day
that I was born.
It just means that I'veunderstand the culture that my
father established in his familyand I've learned how to act in
alignment with my identity as ason.
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Come on, man, this is goodstuff.
It is Amen.
1 Peter 2.24 says this BecauseChrist bore our sins in his own
body, we have died to sin andnow we live for righteousness.
We died to the distorted liethat we inherited from Adam and
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we now live to the originaldesign image bearer.
Now, why is it so importantthat we understand these things?
Why is it so important that weunderstand these things?
Is this just like sometheological word, ninja stuff
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going on?
No, this has very realapplication to your wholeness.
Point number three knowing weare righteous heals our
brokenness and makes us whole.
So I want to go back to thebeginning statement that I made.
I want to flesh out thatstatement.
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How you reacted to me sayingyou are the righteousness.
You are as righteous as Jesus,you are as holy as Jesus.
How you reacted to thatstatement is an indicator of how
whole you are.
Listen to what Paul says inRomans 4, verse 6.
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Even King David speaks to usregarding the blessing, the
total happiness, the completewholeness that comes inside of a
person when God's powerfuldeclaration of righteousness is
heard over their life.
Even King David speaks to usregarding the complete wholeness
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that comes in alive inside of aperson when God's powerful
declaration of righteousness isheard over their life.
The moment that you believed inhim, who raised Jesus from the
dead, god released a declarationover your life.
This one is now righteous.
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That declaration ofrighteousness is intended to
lead you from your old, brokenlife of sin and separation from
God into your new life ofcomplete wholeness, in God's
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design, does not come when youdie and go to heaven in a
glorified body.
Complete wholeness doesn't comeas a result of discipline and
self-effort.
We don't fast and pray our wayinto complete wholeness.
Do we fast and pray?
Yes, but not to become wholewholeness.
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Do we fast and pray?
Yes, but not to become whole.
Complete wholeness doesn't comeas a result of binding and
loosing and figuring out whatlevel of masonry is sticking on
you because of generationalcurses in your family tree.
God intends for completewholeness to come to you when
you hear God tell you who youare to you, when you hear God
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tell you who you are.
I'm not trying to minimize theprocess of growing in sonship in
terms of maturing,understanding who we are.
I'm not minimizing trauma thatwe experienced separated from
Jesus.
I'm not minimizing family junkthat we've gone through.
That still affects us.
But God's design is when youbelieve that Jesus is who he
says he is, you become righteous.
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And when you hear thatdeclaration that intends to make
you whole, wholeness isintended to be the starting
point, not the finish line.
That's the big point rightthere.
Wholeness is intended to be thestarting point, not the finish
line.
That's the big point, rightthere.
Wholeness is intended to be ourstarting line, not the finish
point.
I'm almost finished.
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If you're broken today, hearGod's powerful declaration over
those who are in Christ.
Jesus became a curse for you sothat you could come alive.
And the first thing that heintends for you to hear is you
remind me of me, righteous, holy, distinct.
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If you're broken today, thenknow that he is near to the
broken, but he's not just nearto leave you broken.
He comes near to make you whole.
This is massively important,not just for your own life and
your own relationship with God,but because the answer for a
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broken world is not just a Godwho is righteous and holy, but a
people who are now righteousand holy and walk in wholeness
because of what Jesus has done.
God in this practicalapplication, man.
This is so important.
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God intends to show the worldthat he is so holy that he takes
dirty, broken, lost,law-breaking, dead sinners who
were once enemies of God, andmakes them holy too.
That's how holy God is.
He intends for the world toknow that he is so holy that
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anything that comes in contactwith him becomes holy too.
That's how holy he is.
We understand that about theground underneath the burning
bush.
We have no problem with thedirt underneath Moses' feet
being holy, but God wants theworld to see what he does with
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dirty people, not just patchesof dirt.
God has determined that theworld will see him that way,
when the people who are calledby his name actually know who
they are Righteous, holy,actually know who they are
Righteous, holy not perfect, butabsolutely distinct and in line
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with how he designed them to be.
I want to close with a story.
I heard this story from a mannamed Damon Thompson.
He was preaching at aconference on identity.
After the message this girlcomes up to him and tells him
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the story of how her dad wasreally mean to her.
I mean really mean.
Called her ugly names, told hershe was ugly, she wasn't pretty
at all, that her eyes look likecat poop, dirty, ugly, nasty,
brown eyes.
Look at you.
This is her dad talking to her.
So she says at night I would goand I'd say God, please change
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the color of my eyes, give meblue eyes.
I don't want to have these uglyeyes that my dad doesn't like.
God, give me blue eyes.
So the girl she tells DamonThompson.
She says look at my eyes.
And it was dark in thesanctuary.
So he gets a little bit closerand he sees she has the most
beautiful blue eyes.
He says oh my goodness, godchanged your eye color.
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He gave you blue eyes.
He says oh my goodness, godchanged your eye color, he gave
you blue eyes.
She says no, they were alwaysblue.
I just believed what my dad wassaying.
I believed what my dad wastelling me.
I believed the lie.
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Many of us have believed whatreligion has taught us Dirty,
unclean, you might be saved, butlook at you, you're still a
mess.
God wants us to come face toface with the reality of what he
says, of who he says.
We are Holy Image bearers of aholy God, and when we do, we'll
stop believing the lie and wewill walk in wholeness and we'll
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show the world what a holy Godcan do with broken things.
Amen.
I know we normally have sometime for interaction, but I feel
like today, let's just, can wejust sit for a minute.
It's a weighty, a weightymessage.
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Let's just sit for a minute andthen, if we want to talk, let's
, let's.
Let's converse about themessage over the meal.
How's that?
Okay, if anyone has questionsfor me, let's talk over the meal
, but I want to give us a chanceto just respond, respond to
these things.
So we'll take a few minutes andthen I'll just close in prayer.
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Lord, all that we have is, bygrace, everything that you've
given us.
God, it's because of your grace, lord.
If salvation was all that youever gave to us, it'd be more
than we deserved.
But, lord, you say that we arenow righteous and we are now
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holy.
Lord, you call us sons, youcall us daughters.
You come and you live inside ofus.
Lord, these things arescandalous.
Holy Spirit, I ask that youwould help us understand who we
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are, that we would walk worthyof our calling.
That we would walk worthy ofJesus' sacrifice, that we
wouldn't dilute or diminish whatJesus did on the cross.
God, we would be walkingembodiments of your power, of
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your authority, of your divinity, of your godness, of your
godness, of what you do withsurrendered, yielded vessels.
God, I pray that our liveswould be examples to others
around us that either don't knowJesus or have a wrong
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understanding of what his bloodactually accomplishes.
Holy Spirit, baptize us in thesethings.
Thank you, god.
Thank you for the scandal ofthe gospel, thank you for the
gospel of the kingdom.
Thank you, jesus.
Lord, we love you.
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Holy Spirit, the promise isthat you will guide us into all
truth.
Guide us into truth that wewould understand, that we would
know that we would be a peoplewho understand who God is and
who we are.
Thank you, Holy Spirit.
So, lord, be with us as wefellowship.
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Thank you for this meal, orthank you for everyone who
contributed to the meal.
Lord, bless our time together,bless our conversation and our
fellowship.
Lord, thank you that we areyours and we belong to you.
In Jesus' name, we pray, amen.
It's been really good .
And this is women's Bible study.
Yes, so I can't come.
No, okay, I'm sad for you.
I'm going to talk about you ifyou come.
But we can grab ice cream.
But we can grab ice cream,that's right.
Me and the kids go get icecream every Wednesday.
We love women's Bible study,yeah, but if you are a dude who
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wants to go to a Bible studyFriday mornings, 630, here in
the building we're doing that.
So just want to remind youabout that.
It's a great time we're doingstill doing a chronological
study through the walk of thelife of Jesus.
So, friday mornings, 630, men'sBible study.
Women's Wednesday nights Okay,all right.
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One last thing, and then we'regoing to jump into the message.
I have these booklets.
We're going to be talking aboutone of the messages today
righteous, holy and whole.
I have them in the house.
Have you read it?
Yeah, I have them in the house.
Have you read it?
Yeah, I have them in the house.
I would highly encourage you tograb these If you have not read
these.
We're going to be talking aboutrighteousness, holiness and
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being whole today, but I fleshedit out a whole lot more in
these little booklet forms andthey're just great to have and
read and mark up and write andpass off to others.
So grab one If you don't haveone.
They're $5 each.
The money doesn't go to me, itgoes straight to the church.
You can put the money in thelittle wooden boxes.
You can scan the QR code.
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If you don't have $5, don'tworry about it.
Take a booklet anyway.
I'd rather you take the bookletthan the $5 be an issue.
There's other ones as well Onecalled the Abba revealed in
Christ, and then another one onGod's design for his church.
You can grab all those, as wellas the Jesus People Manifesto,
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but the one that I really wantto point you to today is
righteous, holy and whole.
So, with that in mind andwithout further ado, let's talk
about righteousness, let's talkabout holiness, let's talk about
being whole.
I believe this is a messagethat I'll end up speaking at
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least once a year.
It is absolutely foundationalto being kingdom people knowing
who we are in Christ, the mannamed EW Kenyon.
He says this the moment a manknows that he is the
righteousness of God and heknows what that means, the devil
is sufficiently defeated,getting ready to make a big
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statement.
Some of you may have heard metalk about this before and
you've already reconciled thisstatement, but some of you are
hearing this for the first time,so I can't wait to see the look
on your faces.
If you believe that Jesus is whohe says he is and the kindness
and the love of God has broughtyou to repentance for your sin,
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then you are as righteous asJesus.
You are as holy as Jesus.
How you react to what I justsaid is an indicator of how
whole you are.
Now I'm going to explain what Imean by that, and we're going
to connect righteousness andholiness to us being whole in
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just a minute.
But for now, I want you to takeinventory of what you felt when
I said you're as righteous asJesus.
You're as holy as Jesus.
What did that do inside of you,jesus?
You're as holy as Jesus.
What did that do inside of you?
My main text for today is 2ndCorinthians, 5, 21.
Paul says this he made him, whoknew no sin, to be sin for us,
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so that we would become.
This word become is genemi, theGreek word genemi.
It means to be begotten or tobe born so that we would become
the righteousness of God inChrist.
So I have three points that Iwant to make today.
Number one it's illegal for youto think something about
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yourself that Jesus doesn'tthink about you.
Point number two beingrighteous and holy is not what
religion has told you.
And number three knowing we arerighteous heals our brokenness
and makes us whole, ourbrokenness and makes us whole.
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So, point number one it'sillegal for you to think
something about yourself thatJesus doesn't think about you.
If God says that his son becamesin so that you could become
the righteousness of God, then,friend, you are righteous and
God's not impressed with falsehumility and I'm just a sinner
saved by grace nonsense.
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Jesus took on sin so that youcould take on righteousness, and
not just any old righteousness.
By taking on your sin, jesusmade you holy and righteous.
And if God says that you areholy, as he does in 1 Peter 2.9,
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hebrews 10.10, hebrews 12.10,colossians 1.22, colossians 3.12
and Ephesians 4.24, then it isillegal in the kingdom of God
for you to think otherwise.
Paul tells the church inColossians Colossians 3.12, he
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says this that they are chosenby God, holy and beloved.
The church cannot believe inand preach the finished work of
Christ and simultaneouslybelieve that they are still
unclean.
The church has allowed thespirit of religion to speak old
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covenant realities to a newcovenant people.
What do I mean by that?
Well, we hear Isaiah say woe isme, for I am unclean, and we
take on his perspective forourselves.
Or we hear Isaiah say we areall unclean and our
righteousness is like filthyrags, and because it's between
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the covers of the Bible, weassume that Isaiah is speaking
for us.
Friends, we must understand thefull counsel of God.
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Isaiah, under an inferiorcovenant, knew nothing of the
regenerative, redemptive,restorative blood of Emmanuel.
God, who he saw high and liftedup, would wrap himself in flesh
, descend into the depth ofhumanity's sin and become
unclean for us.
Isaiah didn't understand thatthe covenant that Isaiah was
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under was a shadow of the thingsto come, that's Hebrews 10, one
Of the things to come, that'sHebrews 10.1.
So for anyone on this side ofthe cross To take on the
perspective of a man under theold covenant Is like a slave who
has received his freedom Yetcontinues to live as if he were
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in bondage.
For freedom Christ has set usfree.
Untold multitudes are raised ina religious system that enforces
old covenant language as aweapon to control them.
The language of the newcovenant is not.
Woe is me, for I am unclean.
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The language of the newcovenant of the Jesus people is
don't you know that you're thetemple of God, that the Holy
Spirit dwells inside of you?
That's first Corinthians three,16.
Jesus didn't just rinse us off alittle bit the way that we
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rinse off a dish before we putit in the dishwasher, where the
real washing takes place.
He didn't just rinse us off,man.
We've been born again.
He made us brand new.
If anyone is in Christ, he is anew creation.
Old things have passed away.
Behold, all things have becomenew.
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Second Corinthians, 5, 17.
Now, this is extremelyimportant Key words in that
verse is in Christ.
If anyone is in Christ, he's anew creation.
Not only are we in Christ, but,as Paul says in Galatians 2,20,
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christ is in us.
I've been crucified with Christ.
It's no longer I who live, butChrist who lives in me.
So we are in Christ.
Christ is in us.
Religion will settle for youbeing around Christ, but the
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minute you begin to get therevelation that you are one with
God and by way of that union,you are now righteous and holy,
the spirit of religion knowsit's lost its power to control
you.
Paul talks about the gospel as amystery, and there was
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something hidden in this gospelthat was hidden from previous
generations.
The mystery hidden for ages wasnot that a Savior would come
and save us.
All of the Old Testamentprophets knew that a Savior was
going to come and bringsalvation.
The mystery of the new covenantis that the Savior wouldn't
just come, but he would come tolive inside of his people, to
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take up residence and dwell, notjust with man, but inside of
man.
If you are in Christ, then youare the temple not made with
human hands.
Consider that for a minute.
Consider that for a minute.
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Paul makes an absolutelyastounding claim in 1
Corinthians 3.16.
Do you not know that you arethe temple of God and the Holy
Spirit dwells in you?
Now think about that.
Under the old covenant, thetemple was the place where God's
presence rested among hispeople.
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The Holy of Holies was a placewhere God dwelled.
It was totally off limits,except for once a year when one
consecrated priest could enterinto that place.
It was such a dangerous thingwhen the priest would go into
the Holy of Holies.
Who knows what they would do tothe priest?
They'd tie a rope around hiswaist in case he fell over dead
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in the presence of God, so atleast I could pull them out.
And now, according to firstCorinthians 3, 16, the same
presence that could only beentered into once a year by a
consecrated priest is now ournew covenant inheritance.
Friend, if you are in Christ,you are not unclean.
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You are the righteousness ofGod and the dwelling place of
the living, burning, allconsuming, fiery presence of the
uncreated, beautiful,all-powerful Holy Spirit of God.
You are the righteousness ofGod and the dwelling place of
the Holy Spirit in the earth.
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It is illegal for you to thinksomething about yourself that
Jesus doesn't think about.
You think something aboutyourself that Jesus doesn't
think about you.
Point number two beingrighteous and holy is not what
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religion has told you it is.
Most of us have been taught thatholy means to be without sin
and righteous means to bewithout sin and righteous means
to be in right standing with God.
So what are we saying when wesay that God is holy and that
God is righteous?
Are we saying that God iswithout sin and that God is in
right standing with himself?
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It's nonsense.
The Bible says that God can'tbe tempted with evil.
So saying that God is holydoesn't compliment him, if what
we mean is he resisted somethingthat he wasn't even tempted to
do.
I want to talk about this wordholy first, and then we'll talk
about righteous.
Holy doesn't mean to be withoutsin.
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Holy means to be distinct,separate, altogether different
than anything else.
So when God says to us, be holyas I am holy, he's not saying
never sin as I have never sinned.
He's saying choose to be asdistinct as I am.
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When Colossians 3.12 says thatwe are chosen by God, holy and
beloved, it means that in Christwe are now of a unique and
distinct kind, just as he istotally distinct.
That's what it means to be holy, totally distinct.
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That's what it means to be holy.
To live holy means that werefuse anything that would
contaminate our distinction.
Bear with me here.
This is what it means to liveholy, choosing to resist
anything that would dilute orcontaminate my distinction as
the temple of God.
See, most of us have itbackwards.
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We think that the way we livedetermines who we are.
That's putting the cart beforethe horse and the kingdom.
Who we are in Christ enables usto live like someone who
resisted every temptation knownto man, when we know that we're
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holy in Christ, then we willbear the fruit of holiness in
our lives.
So I don't not sin, so I don'tgo to hell.
I don't sin because I don'twant to do anything that causes
me to no longer be distinct.
Does that make sense?
I don't not sin because I'mafraid of going to hell.
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I don't sin because I don'twant to dilute my distinction as
a blood-washed son of God.
I don't sin because I don'tdare contradict the identity
that God speaks over me.
I want to talk about sin and thebeliever for just a minute.
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Great Yay, let's talk about sin.
Think of it this way For theholy, beloved, chosen child of
God, to sin is tantamount to awhale washing itself up on the
beach.
Can it happen?
Yes, but how do we react whenwe see a whale wash up on the
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beach?
People are stunned.
News crews come to tell thestory.
The entire community is talkingabout it.
It's shocking because it'scompletely contrary to the
whale's internal nature.
It's suicidal.
That's what sin is like for theborn again believer, who God
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now says is holy.
No-transcript.
The Greek word for sin ishamartia.
Hamartia means to be distorted,to be broken in your identity.
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Sin means to be out ofalignment with the original
design that God has intended foryou.
How many have been taught thatsin is bad moral behavior Doing
things that are contrary toGod's law?
That's partially correct, butthat's step two.
Bad moral behavior is actuallythe fruit of the root issue,
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which is you and I living out ofsync with how God designed us.
The bad moral behavior isactually supposed to serve as an
announcement that you're out ofstep with how the father has
designed you, which should thenbring you back into alignment
with who the father says you are.
So the beach whale has sinnedin that it's acted out of
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harmony with how God designed itto live.
We sin by first not knowing whowe are and then by acting out of
that distorted identity.
Then sin lies to us and triesto re-identify us as sinners.
Look at you, look what you did.
You're a sinner, really,because what I do doesn't make
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me saved.
I'm saved because of what Jesusdid.
I'm a son because of what Jesusdid For anyone who is in Christ
, and I cannot stress thatenough in Christ.
For anyone who is in Christ tobelieve for a second that their
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identity now is a sinner makesabout as much sense as telling
the beach whale that, because ofwhat you've done, you're now a
school bus.
It's illogical.
It's completely contrary towhat God says about you.
If you are in Christ, sin doesnot re-identify you as a sinner,
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any more than lying on thebeach re-identifies the whale as
a sunbather.
It's still a whale.
It's just out of alignment.
When you sin, you're still ason.
You're still a daughter.
You're just out of alignment.
You're still a daughter.
You're just out of alignment.
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Let that sin be an announcementthat something is wrong.
Step back under the shadow ofhis wing.
Repentance of getting ahead ofmyself.
This is important, as if theother stuff isn't.
This part is important.
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This doesn't mean that wedisregard sin or tolerate sin or
treat sin lightly.
Like Paul says in Romans 6, 1,.
Shall we go on sinning so thatgrace may abound?
God forbid.
We have died to sin.
How can we live any longer init?
The result of continuing in sinis death.
Make no mistake about it.
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If that beach whale doesn't getback into its natural habitat,
it will die.
This is where repentance comesin.
Repentance is first changingthe way that you think at such a
core level that it then changesthe direction that you're
moving in such a core level thatit then changes the direction
that you're moving in.
So somebody remind that whalethat it's a whale.
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Get it back into its naturalenvironment.
In the same way, somebodyremind that born again child of
God that they are washed in theblood of the lamb.
Get that saint back into itsnatural habitat.
In him we live and move andhave our being.
So to reduce holiness to simplybeing the absence of sin is to
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miss the beauty of holinessaltogether.
When God says that we're holy,he's saying that we are distinct
, just as he is distinct, andbecause we are distinct, we
don't do anything that dilutesthe uniqueness of who he says.
We are, you're holy, now livelike it.
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So let's talk aboutrighteousness.
How is everyone?
Okay?
Let's talk about righteousnessfor a minute.
What does righteousness mean?
Righteousness is the conditionof one who is as he ought to be.
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So think about it this way Ifsin is being out of alignment,
righteousness is being inalignment.
You're in alignment with howgod designed you.
You're righteous, everything isin order, everything is is as
it should be.
When god says that you are nowrighteous, it means that you are
now restored back to theGenesis 1 26 design that he had
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for you from the beginning.
Let us make man in our image,according to our likeness.
Righteousness restores us backto his likeness.
So being the righteousness ofGod means that God looks at you
and says, wow, you remind me somuch of me.
Let us make man in our imageand our likeness.
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Contrary to what most of usthink, you can't grow in
righteousness.
Righteous is either somethingyou are or you're not, and if
you're in Christ, then,according to 1 Corinthians 1.30
and 2 Corinthians 5.21, therighteousness of God has been
transferred to you.
We can grow in ourunderstanding of what it means
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to be righteous and we should,but you can't become more of
something that God says youalready are.
Righteousness is an imputation,it's a transfer, it's not a
process.
Righteousness is transferred tous on the basis of what Anyone
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Faith, on the basis of faith.
Romans four, three Abrahambelieved and it was credited to
him, transferred to him asrighteousness faith, abraham
believing that faith.
It was the gate that opened upthe transfer of righteousness
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from God to Abraham.
I'll give you an example.
If a billionaire comes up to youright now, he's walking up
right now and he says I'm goingto give you a million dollars.
Just give me your bank account.
What are you expecting to seein your bank account tomorrow
when you fire up your computer?
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A million dollars, like genuinebillionaire, not some scammer.
Genuine billionaire.
You're expecting to see amillion dollars in your bank
account tomorrow.
But what if you found that thebillionaire had transferred $100
to you?
You'd be like hold on, man,what's going on?
The billionaire gave you hisphone number, so you call him up
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.
You're like hey, mr Billionaire, I appreciate the hundred bucks
, but I'm sorry.
I was under the understandingyou were going to give me a
million dollars.
And the billionaire says oh, Iam, I'm going to give you a
hundred dollars every day forthe rest of your life and then
you're going to have a milliondollars.
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That's how most of us think thatrighteousness works.
We think that we receive theseed of righteousness that then
grows into the oak ofrighteousness as we successfully
navigate our way throughsanctification for the rest of
our days.
That may be an accurate pictureof growing in maturity, which
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is very important, but that'snot how righteousness works.
It was faith that putrighteousness into Abraham's
account in one transaction, notin a succession of days where
Abraham did more good stuff thanbad stuff.
Listen to the rest of what Paulsays about Abraham in Romans 4.
This is verse 22 through 25.
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Abraham believed and it wascredited to him as righteousness
.
Now, this was not written forAbraham's sake alone.
That righteousness was imputedto him, but also for us.
Righteousness shall be imputedto us who believe in him who
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raised Jesus from the dead.
Come on, man, this is a greatverse.
Do you believe in him whoraised Jesus from the dead?
Then you're righteous.
His righteousness has beentransferred to you.
Think of it this way when youbelieved in Jesus, did you
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receive a little bit ofsalvation?
Of course not, just like youdidn't receive a little bit of
sonship from your parents whenyou were born.
When I was born, I was born ason.
I was a son instantly.
It was my identity.
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A little bit of I was a soninstantly.
It was my identity.
Now I'm spending my daysgrowing in understanding of what
it means to be a son, butthat's a result of growing in
understanding, not growing insonship.
As a son who honors my father,I've learned over the years who
my father is, what he likes,what he dislikes, what's the
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culture of the family that he'sestablished.
But that doesn't make me moreof a son now than on the day
that I was born.
It just means that I'veunderstand the culture that my
father established in his familyand I've learned how to act in
alignment with my identity as ason.
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Come on, man, this is goodstuff.
It is Amen.
1 Peter 2.24 says this BecauseChrist bore our sins in his own
body, we have died to sin andnow we live for righteousness.
We died to the distorted liethat we inherited from Adam and
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we now live to the originaldesign image bearer.
Now, why is it so importantthat we understand these things?
Why is it so important that weunderstand these things?
Is this just like sometheological word, ninja stuff
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going on?
No, this has very realapplication to your wholeness.
Point number three knowing weare righteous heals our
brokenness and makes us whole.
So I want to go back to thebeginning statement that I made.
I want to flesh out thatstatement.
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How you reacted to me sayingyou are the righteousness.
You are as righteous as Jesus,you are as holy as Jesus.
How you reacted to thatstatement is an indicator of how
whole you are.
Listen to what Paul says inRomans 4, verse 6.
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Even King David speaks to usregarding the blessing, the
total happiness, the completewholeness that comes inside of a
person when God's powerfuldeclaration of righteousness is
heard over their life.
Even King David speaks to usregarding the complete wholeness
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that comes in alive inside of aperson when God's powerful
declaration of righteousness isheard over their life.
The moment that you believed inhim, who raised Jesus from the
dead, god released a declarationover your life.
This one is now righteous.
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That declaration ofrighteousness is intended to
lead you from your old, brokenlife of sin and separation from
God into your new life ofcomplete wholeness, in God's
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design, does not come when youdie and go to heaven in a
glorified body.
Complete wholeness doesn't comeas a result of discipline and
self-effort.
We don't fast and pray our wayinto complete wholeness.
Do we fast and pray?
Yes, but not to become wholewholeness.
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Do we fast and pray?
Yes, but not to become whole.
Complete wholeness doesn't comeas a result of binding and
loosing and figuring out whatlevel of masonry is sticking on
you because of generationalcurses in your family tree.
God intends for completewholeness to come to you when
you hear God tell you who youare to you, when you hear God
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tell you who you are.
I'm not trying to minimize theprocess of growing in sonship in
terms of maturing,understanding who we are.
I'm not minimizing trauma thatwe experienced separated from
Jesus.
I'm not minimizing family junkthat we've gone through.
That still affects us.
But God's design is when youbelieve that Jesus is who he
says he is, you become righteous.
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And when you hear thatdeclaration that intends to make
you whole, wholeness isintended to be the starting
point, not the finish line.
That's the big point rightthere.
Wholeness is intended to be thestarting point, not the finish
line.
That's the big point, rightthere.
Wholeness is intended to be ourstarting line, not the finish
point.
I'm almost finished.
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If you're broken today, hearGod's powerful declaration over
those who are in Christ.
Jesus became a curse for you sothat you could come alive.
And the first thing that heintends for you to hear is you
remind me of me, righteous, holy, distinct.
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If you're broken today, thenknow that he is near to the
broken, but he's not just nearto leave you broken.
He comes near to make you whole.
This is massively important,not just for your own life and
your own relationship with God,but because the answer for a
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broken world is not just a Godwho is righteous and holy, but a
people who are now righteousand holy and walk in wholeness
because of what Jesus has done.
God in this practicalapplication, man.
This is so important.
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God intends to show the worldthat he is so holy that he takes
dirty, broken, lost,law-breaking, dead sinners who
were once enemies of God, andmakes them holy too.
That's how holy God is.
He intends for the world toknow that he is so holy that
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anything that comes in contactwith him becomes holy too.
That's how holy he is.
We understand that about theground underneath the burning
bush.
We have no problem with thedirt underneath Moses' feet
being holy, but God wants theworld to see what he does with
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dirty people, not just patchesof dirt.
God has determined that theworld will see him that way,
when the people who are calledby his name actually know who
they are Righteous, holy,actually know who they are
Righteous, holy not perfect, butabsolutely distinct and in line
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with how he designed them to be.
I want to close with a story.
I heard this story from a mannamed Damon Thompson.
He was preaching at aconference on identity.
After the message this girlcomes up to him and tells him
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the story of how her dad wasreally mean to her.
I mean really mean.
Called her ugly names, told hershe was ugly, she wasn't pretty
at all, that her eyes look likecat poop, dirty, ugly, nasty,
brown eyes.
Look at you.
This is her dad talking to her.
So she says at night I would goand I'd say God, please change
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the color of my eyes, give meblue eyes.
I don't want to have these uglyeyes that my dad doesn't like.
God, give me blue eyes.
So the girl she tells DamonThompson.
She says look at my eyes.
And it was dark in thesanctuary.
So he gets a little bit closerand he sees she has the most
beautiful blue eyes.
He says oh my goodness, godchanged your eye color.
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He gave you blue eyes.
He says oh my goodness, godchanged your eye color, he gave
you blue eyes.
She says no, they were alwaysblue.
I just believed what my dad wassaying.
I believed what my dad wastelling me.
I believed the lie.
(34:25):
Many of us have believed whatreligion has taught us Dirty,
unclean, you might be saved, butlook at you, you're still a
mess.
God wants us to come face toface with the reality of what he
says, of who he says.
We are Holy Image bearers of aholy God, and when we do, we'll
stop believing the lie and wewill walk in wholeness and we'll
(34:49):
show the world what a holy Godcan do with broken things.
Amen.
I know we normally have sometime for interaction, but I feel
like today, let's just, can wejust sit for a minute.
It's a weighty, a weightymessage.
(35:11):
Let's just sit for a minute andthen, if we want to talk, let's
, let's.
Let's converse about themessage over the meal.
How's that?
Okay, if anyone has questionsfor me, let's talk over the meal
, but I want to give us a chanceto just respond, respond to
these things.
So we'll take a few minutes andthen I'll just close in prayer.
(35:46):
Lord, all that we have is, bygrace, everything that you've
given us.
God, it's because of your grace, lord.
If salvation was all that youever gave to us, it'd be more
than we deserved.
But, lord, you say that we arenow righteous and we are now
(36:09):
holy.
Lord, you call us sons, youcall us daughters.
You come and you live inside ofus.
Lord, these things arescandalous.
Holy Spirit, I ask that youwould help us understand who we
(36:33):
are, that we would walk worthyof our calling.
That we would walk worthy ofJesus' sacrifice, that we
wouldn't dilute or diminish whatJesus did on the cross.
God, we would be walkingembodiments of your power, of
(37:00):
your authority, of your divinity, of your godness, of your
godness, of what you do withsurrendered, yielded vessels.
God, I pray that our liveswould be examples to others
around us that either don't knowJesus or have a wrong
(37:21):
understanding of what his bloodactually accomplishes.
Holy Spirit, baptize us in thesethings.
Thank you, god.
Thank you for the scandal ofthe gospel, thank you for the
gospel of the kingdom.
Thank you, jesus.
Lord, we love you.
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Holy Spirit, the promise isthat you will guide us into all
truth.
Guide us into truth that wewould understand, that we would
know that we would be a peoplewho understand who God is and
who we are.
Thank you, Holy Spirit.
So, lord, be with us as wefellowship.
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Thank you for this meal, orthank you for everyone who
contributed to the meal.
Lord, bless our time together,bless our conversation and our
fellowship.
Lord, thank you that we areyours and we belong to you.
In Jesus' name, we pray, amen.
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