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Speaker 1 (00:02):
When you were saved. God didn't make over something that
was old. He replaced what was there with something new.
And you have become a child of the King, a
new creation in Christ, Jesus, crucified with Him, buried with him,
risen to Him to walk in newness of life because
you've been enabled to do so by the resurrection power
(00:23):
of Jesus Christ. You know what that means. It means
that you don't face anything that God will not see
you through.
Speaker 2 (00:34):
What does it take for you to really worship God?
Welcome to today's edition of In Touch, the teaching ministry
of doctor Charles Stanley. Our lesson continues looking at the
Biblical view of worship by directing our attention off of
our preferences and on to what is ours in Christ Jesus.
Here's part two of the Motivation of worship.
Speaker 1 (01:00):
Now, I want to share with you a simple truth.
It may not be simple when you first hear it,
and if you've listened to me over the years, you've
heard me talk about it before, but it's the most
liberating truth that I have ever discovered in my life.
Change my whole life, change my perspective about life. God,
Jesus the Holy Spirit, the Church and everything. And I
(01:21):
realized I began to understand what worship was all about
when I began to understand what God had done for
me in the way He has related me to Him
once I was saved by His grace. So I want
you to turn, if you will, to Colostians chapter three,
and in the third chapter of Glossians is a simple passage.
(01:41):
I want us to read the first four verses of
this passage together. And Paul begins by saying, if or
since then you have been raised up with Christ, keep
seeking the things above where Christ is seated at the
right hand of God. Set your mind on the things above,
not on the things that are on earth. For you
have died and your life is hidden with Christ in God.
(02:05):
When Christ to his life is revealed, then you also
will be revealed with Him in glory. I want to
talk about our position in the Lord Jesus Christ. When
I began to understand that something happened in my life,
it took me a long time to get around to
being willing to share it because I wanted to be
sure that this really works in my life. On Monday morning, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday,
(02:31):
Saturday as well as Sunday, and I can tell you,
my friend, it works. Here's what he says in this passage.
First of all, he says, in our position with him,
not only have we been translated from the kingdom of
darkness into light? Not only have we been saved and
have we been forgiven? Not only have we been redeemed
by His blood. But the Bible says that you and
(02:53):
I have been crucified with Christ. He says, we have
been crucified with Christ. And I hear a lot of
people quoting the verse and Galatians two twenty. I have
been crucified with Christ. Nevertheless, I live yet not I,
but Christ lives in me. And the life which I
now live, I live by the faith of the Son
(03:13):
of God, who loved me and gave himself for me.
That is, when Jesus died, we died. What in the
world does he mean when Jesus died, you and I died.
Isn't some feeling that we have? But something happened to us.
So let me explain it to you simply, and just
follow me through this. That is, when God the Father
(03:35):
saw Jesus death, he likewise saw the death of every
single believer. Because you see, it wasn't enough that Jesus
Christ die for my sins. It wasn't enough that you
and I be forgiven of our sins and redeemed from
our sins. But God needed to deal with sin within us,
because once you and I have been saved by the
(03:56):
grace of God, we still have to live in this world.
We still have to go to work and go to school,
and we still face the difficulties and the hardships and
the trials. So it wasn't enough. When God reached out
of this great love at the cross, Jesus Christ not
only dealt with my si n s. He dealt with
sn within me in order to enable me and to
(04:20):
enable you and I both to live victoriously and triumphantly,
not continuously defeated by sin. So that when Jesus Christ died,
you and I were identified on that cross with him,
now two thousand years ago before you and I were born,
So in the mind of God, that's when he saw it.
(04:40):
In reality, it took place in your life and mind.
The moment you and I received the Lord Jesus Christ,
our crucifixion with Christ became a reality in us and
Paul says in Romans chapter six that something happened to
a part of us. And you recall them that sixth
chapter when Paul, dealing with this whole problem of sin,
says that something happened or what he calls our old man.
(05:04):
Listen to what he says. For he says, if we
have become united with Him in the likeness of his death,
crucified with him, certainly we shall be also in the
likeness of his resurrection. Knowing this, not hoping this, not
feeling this, but knowing this, that our old self was
crucified past Hench completed action, Our old self was crucified
(05:27):
with him, that our body of sin might be done away,
that we should no longer be the slaves to sin.
That is, what you and I were before we were saved,
was crucified with the Lord Jesus Christ. That is, God
dealt with what we were. And the Bible says that
you and I have become new creations in the Lord
(05:48):
Jesus Christ. We are new creatures in him, We are
new persons in Him, and that you and I have
become the partak Us of His divine nature. And the
Bible says in Colaean and chapter three, verse four, when Christ,
who is our life, shall appear. So when Jesus died,
God included every single believer in that crucifixion. And when
(06:10):
you receive the Lord Jesus Christ as your savior, not
only does something happen to your sins, something happened to
the old you inside of you, and the Bible says
you were crucified. You became a partaker of a divine nature.
We have a new nature in us, and all of
us who are believers are saints who do commit sins
(06:32):
at times. But we are not what we used to be.
We can't ever be what we used to be, or
we are something that we were not, and we are
something we will never be again. Because the Bible says
that you and I have been made new in Christ Jesus.
Now we understand this part when we talk about having
been born again. That is something so transpired in your
(06:52):
life and my life that God saw fit to call
it a new birth, with the implication of which is
a new life and a new beginning. Paul says that
another way when he says, what you were died, what
you are now is your spirit has been made alive,
and Christ has become our life. Every single believer in
(07:13):
dwelt by the very person of Jesus Christ, so that
the Christian life itself today is an expression of the
life of Jesus Christ, who is alive within us through
the presence and power of his Holy Spirit. He says,
we've been crucified with him, once and for all, with
the Lord Jesus Christ. Then he says, not only have
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we been crucified with him, but we have been buried
with him. They said, hell in the world, can you
be buried with someone who was buried two thousand years ago? Well,
he says that again here in Romans chapter six, the
same thing. Do you not know that all of us
who've been baptized into Christ Jesus, have been baptized into
his death, buried with him. Back over in Colossians again
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in this third chapter, he says, if then you have
been raised up with him, raised up from what raised
up from death? When he says that you and I
have been buried with him, that's Paul's way of saying
that when you and I died to the old life,
that is when you and I were saved. My friends,
something happened I hear people say, well, I received Jesus
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Christ as my savior. I accepted Christ. And their idea
is they simply added Jesus to what they were. That
is something changed. What happened is they just added him.
I want to tell you. The Bible says that you
and I were born again. We became new creations in
Jesus Christ. When you and I were saved with the
grace of God, we didn't just add something to what
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we were. We became somebody knew by the grace of
Almighty God. He says, when he was buried, we were.
We were buried in what we were, buried in him.
That's why Jesus in the fifteenth chapter of John, trying
to explain to those disciples and helping them to understand
this new relationship, he says, I'm abiding in you, and
you're abiding in me. As the branch abides in the vine,
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he says, the step that runs in the vine runs
in the branch and produces the fruit. He says, the
believer is living in Christ dead listen, having died to
our old life, buried with him, and having been placed
eternally in a relationship with him which can never be broken,
because it is God, the Father, who placed us in
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that relationship the moment we responded by faith to him.
We have a relationship with him that is absolutely eternal.
We have a relationship with Him that is not the
result of adding on to what we were, but rather
an absolute transformation. And listen, you and I are eternalists
secure in Him. That does not give us license to
(09:49):
sin against God. That does not give us license to
be disobedient to God, but rather a motivation for holy
living and righteous living. Crucified with him. What we were
is dead. And he said, now we are new persons
in Christ. Jesus. He has placed us into a relationship
to him that he is eternal, he says, crucified with him,
(10:10):
buried with him. And then he says, since then you
have been raised up with him. What does he mean
by that that when you receive the Lord Jesus Christ
as your personal saving, you became a new person in Christ. Listen,
the friends of yours who know that you have been saved,
they have a legitimate right to expect something different out
of you. They have a legitimate right to expect your actions,
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your behavior to be different, because now Christ has become
your life. You've become a follower of Jesus Christ. You
have identified yourself with him, with his body, with the Church.
He says that we are risen to walk in newness
of life. That is the expectation, that is the enablement.
(10:53):
When you and I have been crucified with Christ, buried
with Him, and risen with him, what is it that
we were risen with with newness of life? Resurrection? Life?
Is there not what Paul talked about when he said,
above everything else, he said, I want to know Christ
in the power of his resurrection. I do want to
know what it means to live daily in the resurrection
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power of Jesus Christ. We tolerate sin in our life,
we explain away our weaknesses, when the truth is the
resurrection power of Jesus Christ is alive, is available inside
of us, enabling us every single moment of our life
to do and to accept and to receive and to
overcome every challenge Satan throws in our path. Every single
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thing you face, you have the power of God to
see you through it. But if in your mind he's
still up yonder somewhere and you do not recognize that
He's an indwelling friend, living withinside of you. Listen, Paul says,
when Christ, who is our life, He's our very life
on the inside, in the presence and the power of
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the Holy Spirit enabling us. He says, this is your physician,
crucified with him, buried with him, risen with him. But
then I came to this passion of scription. I thought, Lord,
how in the world could this possibly be true? And
he says this in Ephesions chapter two about our relationship
with him. He says, and raised up with him in
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verse six, and seated with him in the heavenly places
in Christ Jesus. That speaks of our relationship. It speaks
of the security that you and I have in Him.
It speaks of God's desire in your life and my
life and for our lives that you and I would
always since the presence of God seated the brother's right
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hand as the place of authority, he said, well, I
don't have any authority. Yes you do. The spirit of
God within you enabled you to call upon Almighty God
has opened the door to the Throne Room of God,
that you and I can come before Him washed in
the blood of Jesus Christ. We have rights in the
Throne room because Christ is our mediator. And when we
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understand what our position is before him, not of pride
and egotism, but of grace, the blood of Jesus Christ,
the forgiveness, the redemption, the reconciliation, the sanctification, all that
God has done for us, we have access at the
throne room of God for anything and everything that we need.
Because the truth is in Christ Jesus, we are sufficient.
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He says. When you have Christ, you have everything He's
met us. Sufficient in Him. Why not sufficient with than
our own strength, but sufficient within Christ. That is, you
and I have been made sufficient by our position with Him,
that no matter what we face, we will be adequate
because of His presence. Seated with Him in the heavenly places.
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What a beautiful way to describe the intimate relationship you
and I have with him. We're a whole different person,
heading in a different direction, seated the Father's right hand.
But listen to this next phrase. I love this, He says.
Set your mind on the things above, not on things
that on earth. For you have died and your life
is what Your life is hidden with Christ and God.
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How am I hidden when I'm down here? What does
he mean when he says, you and I hidden with him?
Does that not again speak of that intimacy God, You
and I have an intimacy with each other that is indescribable.
Crucified with him, buried with him, risen with him, seated
with him, hidden with him? Does that not speak first
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of all of security. All of these verses. If you'll
notice crucified with him, buried with him, risen with him,
seated with him, hidden with him, what does it say
but a relationship of intimacy. And my friend, you don't
want to live your Christian life just being satisfied, being
saved and going to church and singing songs and praying prayers.
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You ought to be building an intimacy with Jesus. And
once you begin to build that intimacy with him is
amazing how your interest in other things begin to subside.
You don't need some things you thought you need. You
don't want some things you used to want. You're careful
about your relationships. Why because there is an awesome sense
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of the presence of God and an overwhelming sense of
insufficiency in him. Security listen hidden with him speaks of security,
but it speaks of something else. Hidden with him speaks
of secrecy. Do you realize that you and I have
something the world doesn't understand. What we have the world
asn't understand is this we have a resource that is
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a total mystery to them. And that resource is the
indwelling presence of God to nourish your life When you
get discouraged? Who is that nourishes you from within? When
you want to just give up and quit and tell
God just forget it, And yet God against the work
in your inner life. When you become fearful, God is
the one who grants you courage. And if you think
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about all the needs you have, you don't have to
pump out the solution. What is happening? Because Christ is
your life. He's overflowing within you, that supernatural resurrection power
of Christ in which you and I to live That
life is overflowing within us. If we will believe and
receive and accept and live out of the inner resource,
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you'll begin the sense of satisfaction in your heart you've
never known. Hidden with him speaks of a secret strength.
That is, we have a resource the world is not known.
It likewise speaks of satisfaction. The Bible says, when you
have Jesus, you have everything. You know, a lot of
folks don't believe that. I'll tell you why they don't
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believe it, because if they did, they wouldn't be in
such debt. That's one reason they wouldn't be clamoring, trying, working, slaving,
sacrificing holy things to get ahead in the world. To
believe that Jesus Christ was sufficient for you. Listen, hidden
away with him, there is my security, hidden away with him.
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There is the source of my secret strength, hidden away
with him. There is my reason for separation. And hidden
away with him is my reason for satisfaction. Then he
says one last thing I want you to notice in
this chapter. He says, for you have died, and your
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life is hidden with Christ in God. And when Christ,
who is our life, is revealed, and when he appears,
we're going to upear with him. Think about this. You
won't know how much God loves you. He loves you
so much that he wasn't willing for you to simply
have your sins to be forgiven, but He was willing
to put you on the cross with the Lord Jesus
Christ and take care of your old self, give you
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his divine nature, making you a partaker. Of it, burying
you in a beautiful relationship with him that is eternal,
raising you up in supernatural resurrection power, seating you at
the right hand with him, hiding you away with him.
And then he says, the top it all. When he
comes back. Guess who's coming with him, he says. And
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when Christ, who is our life, shall appear, we shall
appear with him in glory. My friend. The truth is,
while our citizenship is in this nation, our better and
higher citizenship is in glory. And while we live and
work down here, home is being prepared up yonder. And
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while we face the difficulties and the hardships, and the
trials and the burdens of life, someone on the inside
of us is that continuing, ever flowing, adequate, satisfying resource
to meet every single need we have. Now, let me
ask you a question. Let's think about it. Let's forgre
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everything else for just a moment, and think about this.
God reached down and saved you. You didn't have anything
to do with it, not a thing. He forgave you have,
every sin you've ever committed, past, present, and future, all
knailed on the cross two thousand years ago. He sanctified
you that as he set you apart for his own,
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He reconciled you, brought you to himself in a beautiful
intimate relationship. The truth is he bought you with his
own precious blood, the blood of his son Jesus. And
the Bible says He's already glorified you in his mind, glorified,
already crucified you, buried you, having sealed you as one
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of his own, forever raised you up, seated you with him,
hid you with him, And one of these days Jesus
will be willing to bring you and me back with
him in all of his glory and all of his majesty.
Do you realize what God must think about you, that
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he's willing to do all of that? And remember that
you and I didn't do one thing to deserve it,
not want. That's grace, that's unconditional love. That is the
ever flowing love of God toward his children. If you
and I will think about what He's done for us
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and think about how great he is, something will happen
to our prayer life. Something will happen. You see, you'll
no longer be satified just being saved, no longer satisfied
just serving God. You know, what you'll begin to want.
You'll begin to want to build an intimacy when you
fall in love with Jesus, you fall out of love
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with this world, and something happens in your heart that
Jesus becomes enough.
Speaker 2 (21:00):
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You're listening to in Touch in Christ you have everything.
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today's moment with Charles Stanley.
Speaker 1 (22:45):
When you and I begin to live our life out
of the inner resource of the indwelling presence of Jesus,
we will look at everything in life differently. Things that
wearry us will warry us no more. Things that bother
us will bother us no more. Why because we begin
to live out of the resource that is ours and
that resource is Christ living on the inside. When you
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listen to many Christians talk, you think you wonder where
is Jesus in their life. I'll tell you where he
is in many believers' minds. Jesus in their mind is
seated at the Father's right hand out yonder, in space,
in heaven somewhere, and when they get in trouble, they
hope somehow they can pray and God might possibly hear them.
(23:28):
What in this strange relationship, when Jesus talked about abiding
in me and my abiding in Him? When Paul's keyword
in his whole theology is a simple phrase, in Christ.
In Christ. In Christ, he saw everything in that relationship.
All that you have is the result of that abiding
relationship that you and I have in Him.
Speaker 2 (23:50):
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Please let us know tomorrow on in Touch? Does emotion
matter when you worship God? Join us again Thursday to
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faithful prayers and gifts.
When you were saved. God didn't make over something that
was old. He replaced what was there with something new.
And you have become a child of the King, a
new creation in Christ, Jesus, crucified with Him, buried with him,
risen to Him to walk in newness of life because
you've been enabled to do so by the resurrection power
(00:23):
of Jesus Christ. You know what that means. It means
that you don't face anything that God will not see
you through.
Speaker 2 (00:34):
What does it take for you to really worship God?
Welcome to today's edition of In Touch, the teaching ministry
of doctor Charles Stanley. Our lesson continues looking at the
Biblical view of worship by directing our attention off of
our preferences and on to what is ours in Christ Jesus.
Here's part two of the Motivation of worship.
Speaker 1 (01:00):
Now, I want to share with you a simple truth.
It may not be simple when you first hear it,
and if you've listened to me over the years, you've
heard me talk about it before, but it's the most
liberating truth that I have ever discovered in my life.
Change my whole life, change my perspective about life. God,
Jesus the Holy Spirit, the Church and everything. And I
(01:21):
realized I began to understand what worship was all about
when I began to understand what God had done for
me in the way He has related me to Him
once I was saved by His grace. So I want
you to turn, if you will, to Colostians chapter three,
and in the third chapter of Glossians is a simple passage.
(01:41):
I want us to read the first four verses of
this passage together. And Paul begins by saying, if or
since then you have been raised up with Christ, keep
seeking the things above where Christ is seated at the
right hand of God. Set your mind on the things above,
not on the things that are on earth. For you
have died and your life is hidden with Christ in God.
(02:05):
When Christ to his life is revealed, then you also
will be revealed with Him in glory. I want to
talk about our position in the Lord Jesus Christ. When
I began to understand that something happened in my life,
it took me a long time to get around to
being willing to share it because I wanted to be
sure that this really works in my life. On Monday morning, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday,
(02:31):
Saturday as well as Sunday, and I can tell you,
my friend, it works. Here's what he says in this passage.
First of all, he says, in our position with him,
not only have we been translated from the kingdom of
darkness into light? Not only have we been saved and
have we been forgiven? Not only have we been redeemed
by His blood. But the Bible says that you and
(02:53):
I have been crucified with Christ. He says, we have
been crucified with Christ. And I hear a lot of
people quoting the verse and Galatians two twenty. I have
been crucified with Christ. Nevertheless, I live yet not I,
but Christ lives in me. And the life which I
now live, I live by the faith of the Son
(03:13):
of God, who loved me and gave himself for me.
That is, when Jesus died, we died. What in the
world does he mean when Jesus died, you and I died.
Isn't some feeling that we have? But something happened to us.
So let me explain it to you simply, and just
follow me through this. That is, when God the Father
(03:35):
saw Jesus death, he likewise saw the death of every
single believer. Because you see, it wasn't enough that Jesus
Christ die for my sins. It wasn't enough that you
and I be forgiven of our sins and redeemed from
our sins. But God needed to deal with sin within us,
because once you and I have been saved by the
(03:56):
grace of God, we still have to live in this world.
We still have to go to work and go to school,
and we still face the difficulties and the hardships and
the trials. So it wasn't enough. When God reached out
of this great love at the cross, Jesus Christ not
only dealt with my si n s. He dealt with
sn within me in order to enable me and to
(04:20):
enable you and I both to live victoriously and triumphantly,
not continuously defeated by sin. So that when Jesus Christ died,
you and I were identified on that cross with him,
now two thousand years ago before you and I were born,
So in the mind of God, that's when he saw it.
(04:40):
In reality, it took place in your life and mind.
The moment you and I received the Lord Jesus Christ,
our crucifixion with Christ became a reality in us and
Paul says in Romans chapter six that something happened to
a part of us. And you recall them that sixth
chapter when Paul, dealing with this whole problem of sin,
says that something happened or what he calls our old man.
(05:04):
Listen to what he says. For he says, if we
have become united with Him in the likeness of his death,
crucified with him, certainly we shall be also in the
likeness of his resurrection. Knowing this, not hoping this, not
feeling this, but knowing this, that our old self was
crucified past Hench completed action, Our old self was crucified
(05:27):
with him, that our body of sin might be done away,
that we should no longer be the slaves to sin.
That is, what you and I were before we were saved,
was crucified with the Lord Jesus Christ. That is, God
dealt with what we were. And the Bible says that
you and I have become new creations in the Lord
(05:48):
Jesus Christ. We are new creatures in him, We are
new persons in Him, and that you and I have
become the partak Us of His divine nature. And the
Bible says in Colaean and chapter three, verse four, when Christ,
who is our life, shall appear. So when Jesus died,
God included every single believer in that crucifixion. And when
(06:10):
you receive the Lord Jesus Christ as your savior, not
only does something happen to your sins, something happened to
the old you inside of you, and the Bible says
you were crucified. You became a partaker of a divine nature.
We have a new nature in us, and all of
us who are believers are saints who do commit sins
(06:32):
at times. But we are not what we used to be.
We can't ever be what we used to be, or
we are something that we were not, and we are
something we will never be again. Because the Bible says
that you and I have been made new in Christ Jesus.
Now we understand this part when we talk about having
been born again. That is something so transpired in your
(06:52):
life and my life that God saw fit to call
it a new birth, with the implication of which is
a new life and a new beginning. Paul says that
another way when he says, what you were died, what
you are now is your spirit has been made alive,
and Christ has become our life. Every single believer in
(07:13):
dwelt by the very person of Jesus Christ, so that
the Christian life itself today is an expression of the
life of Jesus Christ, who is alive within us through
the presence and power of his Holy Spirit. He says,
we've been crucified with him, once and for all, with
the Lord Jesus Christ. Then he says, not only have
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we been crucified with him, but we have been buried
with him. They said, hell in the world, can you
be buried with someone who was buried two thousand years ago? Well,
he says that again here in Romans chapter six, the
same thing. Do you not know that all of us
who've been baptized into Christ Jesus, have been baptized into
his death, buried with him. Back over in Colossians again
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in this third chapter, he says, if then you have
been raised up with him, raised up from what raised
up from death? When he says that you and I
have been buried with him, that's Paul's way of saying
that when you and I died to the old life,
that is when you and I were saved. My friends,
something happened I hear people say, well, I received Jesus
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Christ as my savior. I accepted Christ. And their idea
is they simply added Jesus to what they were. That
is something changed. What happened is they just added him.
I want to tell you. The Bible says that you
and I were born again. We became new creations in
Jesus Christ. When you and I were saved with the
grace of God, we didn't just add something to what
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we were. We became somebody knew by the grace of
Almighty God. He says, when he was buried, we were.
We were buried in what we were, buried in him.
That's why Jesus in the fifteenth chapter of John, trying
to explain to those disciples and helping them to understand
this new relationship, he says, I'm abiding in you, and
you're abiding in me. As the branch abides in the vine,
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he says, the step that runs in the vine runs
in the branch and produces the fruit. He says, the
believer is living in Christ dead listen, having died to
our old life, buried with him, and having been placed
eternally in a relationship with him which can never be broken,
because it is God, the Father, who placed us in
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that relationship the moment we responded by faith to him.
We have a relationship with him that is absolutely eternal.
We have a relationship with Him that is not the
result of adding on to what we were, but rather
an absolute transformation. And listen, you and I are eternalists
secure in Him. That does not give us license to
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sin against God. That does not give us license to
be disobedient to God, but rather a motivation for holy
living and righteous living. Crucified with him. What we were
is dead. And he said, now we are new persons
in Christ. Jesus. He has placed us into a relationship
to him that he is eternal, he says, crucified with him,
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buried with him. And then he says, since then you
have been raised up with him. What does he mean
by that that when you receive the Lord Jesus Christ
as your personal saving, you became a new person in Christ. Listen,
the friends of yours who know that you have been saved,
they have a legitimate right to expect something different out
of you. They have a legitimate right to expect your actions,
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your behavior to be different, because now Christ has become
your life. You've become a follower of Jesus Christ. You
have identified yourself with him, with his body, with the Church.
He says that we are risen to walk in newness
of life. That is the expectation, that is the enablement.
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When you and I have been crucified with Christ, buried
with Him, and risen with him, what is it that
we were risen with with newness of life? Resurrection? Life?
Is there not what Paul talked about when he said,
above everything else, he said, I want to know Christ
in the power of his resurrection. I do want to
know what it means to live daily in the resurrection
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power of Jesus Christ. We tolerate sin in our life,
we explain away our weaknesses, when the truth is the
resurrection power of Jesus Christ is alive, is available inside
of us, enabling us every single moment of our life
to do and to accept and to receive and to
overcome every challenge Satan throws in our path. Every single
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thing you face, you have the power of God to
see you through it. But if in your mind he's
still up yonder somewhere and you do not recognize that
He's an indwelling friend, living withinside of you. Listen, Paul says,
when Christ, who is our life, He's our very life
on the inside, in the presence and the power of
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the Holy Spirit enabling us. He says, this is your physician,
crucified with him, buried with him, risen with him. But
then I came to this passion of scription. I thought, Lord,
how in the world could this possibly be true? And
he says this in Ephesions chapter two about our relationship
with him. He says, and raised up with him in
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verse six, and seated with him in the heavenly places
in Christ Jesus. That speaks of our relationship. It speaks
of the security that you and I have in Him.
It speaks of God's desire in your life and my
life and for our lives that you and I would
always since the presence of God seated the brother's right
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hand as the place of authority, he said, well, I
don't have any authority. Yes you do. The spirit of
God within you enabled you to call upon Almighty God
has opened the door to the Throne Room of God,
that you and I can come before Him washed in
the blood of Jesus Christ. We have rights in the
Throne room because Christ is our mediator. And when we
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understand what our position is before him, not of pride
and egotism, but of grace, the blood of Jesus Christ,
the forgiveness, the redemption, the reconciliation, the sanctification, all that
God has done for us, we have access at the
throne room of God for anything and everything that we need.
Because the truth is in Christ Jesus, we are sufficient.
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He says. When you have Christ, you have everything He's
met us. Sufficient in Him. Why not sufficient with than
our own strength, but sufficient within Christ. That is, you
and I have been made sufficient by our position with Him,
that no matter what we face, we will be adequate
because of His presence. Seated with Him in the heavenly places.
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What a beautiful way to describe the intimate relationship you
and I have with him. We're a whole different person,
heading in a different direction, seated the Father's right hand.
But listen to this next phrase. I love this, He says.
Set your mind on the things above, not on things
that on earth. For you have died and your life
is what Your life is hidden with Christ and God.
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How am I hidden when I'm down here? What does
he mean when he says, you and I hidden with him?
Does that not again speak of that intimacy God, You
and I have an intimacy with each other that is indescribable.
Crucified with him, buried with him, risen with him, seated
with him, hidden with him? Does that not speak first
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of all of security. All of these verses. If you'll
notice crucified with him, buried with him, risen with him,
seated with him, hidden with him, what does it say
but a relationship of intimacy. And my friend, you don't
want to live your Christian life just being satisfied, being
saved and going to church and singing songs and praying prayers.
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You ought to be building an intimacy with Jesus. And
once you begin to build that intimacy with him is
amazing how your interest in other things begin to subside.
You don't need some things you thought you need. You
don't want some things you used to want. You're careful
about your relationships. Why because there is an awesome sense
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of the presence of God and an overwhelming sense of
insufficiency in him. Security listen hidden with him speaks of security,
but it speaks of something else. Hidden with him speaks
of secrecy. Do you realize that you and I have
something the world doesn't understand. What we have the world
asn't understand is this we have a resource that is
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a total mystery to them. And that resource is the
indwelling presence of God to nourish your life When you
get discouraged? Who is that nourishes you from within? When
you want to just give up and quit and tell
God just forget it, And yet God against the work
in your inner life. When you become fearful, God is
the one who grants you courage. And if you think
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about all the needs you have, you don't have to
pump out the solution. What is happening? Because Christ is
your life. He's overflowing within you, that supernatural resurrection power
of Christ in which you and I to live That
life is overflowing within us. If we will believe and
receive and accept and live out of the inner resource,
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you'll begin the sense of satisfaction in your heart you've
never known. Hidden with him speaks of a secret strength.
That is, we have a resource the world is not known.
It likewise speaks of satisfaction. The Bible says, when you
have Jesus, you have everything. You know, a lot of
folks don't believe that. I'll tell you why they don't
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believe it, because if they did, they wouldn't be in
such debt. That's one reason they wouldn't be clamoring, trying, working, slaving,
sacrificing holy things to get ahead in the world. To
believe that Jesus Christ was sufficient for you. Listen, hidden
away with him, there is my security, hidden away with him.
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There is the source of my secret strength, hidden away
with him. There is my reason for separation. And hidden
away with him is my reason for satisfaction. Then he
says one last thing I want you to notice in
this chapter. He says, for you have died, and your
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life is hidden with Christ in God. And when Christ,
who is our life, is revealed, and when he appears,
we're going to upear with him. Think about this. You
won't know how much God loves you. He loves you
so much that he wasn't willing for you to simply
have your sins to be forgiven, but He was willing
to put you on the cross with the Lord Jesus
Christ and take care of your old self, give you
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his divine nature, making you a partaker. Of it, burying
you in a beautiful relationship with him that is eternal,
raising you up in supernatural resurrection power, seating you at
the right hand with him, hiding you away with him.
And then he says, the top it all. When he
comes back. Guess who's coming with him, he says. And
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when Christ, who is our life, shall appear, we shall
appear with him in glory. My friend. The truth is,
while our citizenship is in this nation, our better and
higher citizenship is in glory. And while we live and
work down here, home is being prepared up yonder. And
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while we face the difficulties and the hardships, and the
trials and the burdens of life, someone on the inside
of us is that continuing, ever flowing, adequate, satisfying resource
to meet every single need we have. Now, let me
ask you a question. Let's think about it. Let's forgre
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everything else for just a moment, and think about this.
God reached down and saved you. You didn't have anything
to do with it, not a thing. He forgave you have,
every sin you've ever committed, past, present, and future, all
knailed on the cross two thousand years ago. He sanctified
you that as he set you apart for his own,
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He reconciled you, brought you to himself in a beautiful
intimate relationship. The truth is he bought you with his
own precious blood, the blood of his son Jesus. And
the Bible says He's already glorified you in his mind, glorified,
already crucified you, buried you, having sealed you as one
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of his own, forever raised you up, seated you with him,
hid you with him, And one of these days Jesus
will be willing to bring you and me back with
him in all of his glory and all of his majesty.
Do you realize what God must think about you, that
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he's willing to do all of that? And remember that
you and I didn't do one thing to deserve it,
not want. That's grace, that's unconditional love. That is the
ever flowing love of God toward his children. If you
and I will think about what He's done for us
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and think about how great he is, something will happen
to our prayer life. Something will happen. You see, you'll
no longer be satified just being saved, no longer satisfied
just serving God. You know, what you'll begin to want.
You'll begin to want to build an intimacy when you
fall in love with Jesus, you fall out of love
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with this world, and something happens in your heart that
Jesus becomes enough.
Speaker 2 (21:00):
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proper motivation for worship lies in understanding who Jesus is
and what He's done for you. If you want to
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Consider that in today's moment with Charles Stanley.
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You're listening to in Touch in Christ you have everything.
Here's practical application of that truth from doctor Stanley in
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Speaker 1 (22:45):
When you and I begin to live our life out
of the inner resource of the indwelling presence of Jesus,
we will look at everything in life differently. Things that
wearry us will warry us no more. Things that bother
us will bother us no more. Why because we begin
to live out of the resource that is ours and
that resource is Christ living on the inside. When you
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listen to many Christians talk, you think you wonder where
is Jesus in their life. I'll tell you where he
is in many believers' minds. Jesus in their mind is
seated at the Father's right hand out yonder, in space,
in heaven somewhere, and when they get in trouble, they
hope somehow they can pray and God might possibly hear them.
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What in this strange relationship, when Jesus talked about abiding
in me and my abiding in Him? When Paul's keyword
in his whole theology is a simple phrase, in Christ.
In Christ. In Christ, he saw everything in that relationship.
All that you have is the result of that abiding
relationship that you and I have in Him.
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