April 23, 2025 • 60 mins
The Cross set us free to live the life of God lost through Adam but regained in the Lord, who paid our debt and set us free. The resurrected life is the abundant life promised by the Lord.
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We love you, Father, we love you Holy Spirit. We
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everything to us. Some of us grew up without fathers.
Some of us had fathers who just wanted that close
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to or No human father can never measure up to you,
and that's why we cry out Abbah Papa Daddy. We
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He allowed us to boldly enter that throne room, approach
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your throne and grace and mercy. Thank you for that.
Thank you for the love that sent your only begotten
son to pay our debts, to pay our I owe you,
so that we could come home and spend eternity with you.
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How awesome that'll be. Thank you, Lord, what you did
on the cross. Thank you for the blood. Thank you
for the pain you endured, the shame, what you allowed
to do to you for us. Thank you for your
Holy Spirit. Thank you for sending it back to walk
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with us, to teach us, to guide us, to help
us to learn, to understand, to be better each and
every day. Transformed from glory to glory. We pray right
now to clear our minds. We want to hear what
you have to say. We're going to open our hearts.
We want to receive it, and we want to be
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changed by it. Let our spirits be touched, be renewed,
be transformed. We pray protection over everything. We have no distractions.
We pray divine health and healing in each and every
one of us. We pray your angelic covering your Psalm
ninety one, covering to be upon us. Thank you for
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our families, thank you for our loved ones. Thank you
for salvation, Holy Spirit. Have your way, Do whatever it
is you want to do, however you want to do it.
This is your time, and we just give you all
the honor, all the glory, and all the praise. If
you agree with me, and you shue his name, say
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a man.
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Okay, open those Bibles, however you follow along. Let's get ready,
Luke nine twenty three. The Lord says, if anyone desires
to come after me, let him deny himself and take
up his cross daily and follow me. If anyone wishes
to follow me as a disciple, he or she must
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deny themselves, set aside selfish interest, and take up their
cross daily, expressing a willingness to endure whatever may come
follow after me. The Lord says, believing in me, conforming
to my example in living, and if need be suffering
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or perhaps dying because of faith in me. A. W. T.
Tink says, taking up my cross means a voluntary life
surrender to God. You voluntarily surrender to God. That means
it's his ways, not your ways. It's his will not
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your will. It's his desires not yours. Galatians two twenty
Paul says, I have been crucified with Messiah. It is
no longer I who live, but Messiah lives in me.
And the life which I now live in the flesh,
I live by faith in the Son of God who
loved me and gave himself for me. That's what this
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lesson's going to be based on. That's what we're going
to be talking about, following up the lesson last week
at the Cross. If you haven't listened to that, you
probably should because it'll tie into this. But your old self,
your old nature, has been crucified with Messiah. It's no
longer you who live, but Messiah lives in you. He
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lives in me. So we live in this earthly body,
trusting in the son of God, who loves us, loved us,
did what he did for us and gave himself for
us at the Cross. In him we live, we move,
we breathe. In him, we share his crucifixion. When we
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do that, we give up our life, we give up
our rights, we give up our will to live for him.
Because He lives in us through the Holy Spirit. He
died for me. I will live for him in the
life that I now live in this body. I will
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live by faith, I will adhere to, I will rely on,
and I will completely trust in the Son of God
who loved me and gave himself for me. That's got
to be a daily reminder. That's got to be something
we constantly hold on to or we will lose our way.
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That is our compass. The Cross is our mark. The
Nelson Study Bible says Paul and every believer were crucified
with Messiah in order to die to sin, the law
and this present evil age. And while believers live on physically,
Messiah also lives within them spiritually. Messiah's resurrection power through
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the Spirit is worked out through the believer who chooses
to live by faith in the Son of God. That
was a tough concept for the Messianic Jews that were
fellowshiping with the Gentiles in these various places that Paul
was establishing the churches. The Jews of Paul's day argued
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that living a life free from the law would lead
to lawlessness. We have to live by the law. Oh,
we can't live at all. And that's why Paul was
constantly battling with that concept, because if you believe in
the Cross, if you believe in the substitutionary actions of
the Lord for us on the cross, if you believe
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in what the Cross represented and did, living under the
law is a rejection of all of that. You're not
accepting it. You're not believing that it was enough. Therefore
you have to do something Colossians two, starting verse eleven.
In him, you were also circumcised with the circumcision made
without hands, by putting off the body of sins of
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the flesh, by the circumcision of Messiah buried with him
in baptism, in which you were also raised with him
through faith in the working of God who raised him
from the dead. And you, being dead in your trespasses
and the uncircumcision of your flesh, he has made alive
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together with him, having forgiven all your trespasses, having wiped
out the handwriting of Rea requirements that was against us,
which was contrary to us, and he has taken it
out of the way and knelt it to the cross.
A spiritual circumcision has taken place, a cutting away of
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the things of the flesh. The New Living Translation Study
Bible says, the cutting away of your sinful nature literally
means the cutting away of the body of the flesh.
Just as Jewish boys have the flesh of their foreskin
cut off to mark their initiation into the people of God,
so believers have a metaphorical flesh translated our sinful nature
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cut off when they come to Messiah. He died and
he rose again. All over the world people celebrated that.
I celebrated every day. I think about it every day.
I never forget it. I don't need a yearly calendar
to remind me. He died and he rose again, and
we've been baptized with that. Baptism is a burial by
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immersion symbolically, so that we can experience a new life
when we are raised with him. That's what baptism is.
It's a declaration I am dead now He lives in me.
Romans Chapter six, studying verse three. Or do you not
know that as many of us were baptized into Messiah
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Isshua were baptized into his death. Therefore we were buried
with him through baptism into death, just as Messiah was
raised from the dead by the glory of the Father.
Even so we also should walk in newness of life.
That's the resurrected life. That's what we're talking about verse five.
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For if we've been united together in the likeness of
his death, certainly we also shall be in the likeness
of his rest erection. Knowing this that our old man
or old woman was crucified with him, that the body
of sin might be done away with, that we should
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no longer be slaves of sin. We should no longer
be slaves of sin. He wiped out the spiritual iou
that Adam signed for all of us by nailing it
to the cross. That debt was impossible to pay, and
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it stood against us as a lean against our soul.
But the law required obedience, and what it required we
were unable to give, and therefore a debt could never
ever be forgiven by the law. Which is why I
don't understand how my Jewish brothers and sisters of this day,
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who have no longer a blood sacrifice since the temple
was destroyed in seventy a d think that their sins
are forgiven. The law requires a sacrifice, a blood sacrifice. Now,
we who have accepted the blood sacrifice of the Lamb
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of Yrshee on the cross have had that debt paid.
Anyone who doesn't has not because you're unable to do it.
The prophet Isaiah and Isaiah twenty nine thirteen says so.
And the Lord said, forasmuch as this, people draw near
to me with their mouth and honor me with their lips,
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but remove their hearts and minds far from me. Their
fear and reverence for me are a commandment of men
that is learned by repetition, without any thought as to
the meaning, rules and regulations, dues and don'ts. They just
won't cut it. Heats yet to do something drastic. If
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he was ever going to be reconnected with his children,
he was going to have to do something drastic, and
that was the cross. And you, Suad did it Colossians
two fifteen. Having disarmed principalities and powers, he made a
public spectacle of them, triumphing over them in it in
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the cross. So you should disarmed the principalities and the
powers that were ranged that raged against us, and made
a bold display and a public example of them. And
he did it in the Cross. He disarmed them, He
stripped them of their powers and weapons of sin and
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rebellion against God. The Nelson Study Bible says principalities and
powers allude to Satan and the fallen angels. Paul is
describing Messiah's victory on the Cross over the powers that
opposed him and that were against God's faithful people. To
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describe this victory, Paul uses the spectacle of a military
triumph when prisoners of war were stripped and paraded before
the populace behind the conquering general. Satan and his forces
thought the Cross would be their victory in Messiah's defeat.
In reality, at the Cross, the Lord vanquished his foes,
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took away their weapons, and made a public spectacle of them.
It was a bad idea for him to do what
he did. But Satan's not real bright, He's consumed with hate,
and he made a fatal, fatal mistake on Calvary that day.
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The image Village vividly captures the glorious victory that God
through the cross of Messiah one over the hostile spiritual powers.
Then and now cautions two, starting verse twenty. If then
you have died with Messiah to material ways of looking
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at things, and have escaped from the world's crude and
elemental notions and teachings of externalism, why do you live
as if you still belong to the world. Why do
you submit to rules and regulations such as do not
handle this, do not taste that, don't even touch them,
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referring to the things, all of which perish with being used.
To do this is to follow human precepts and doctrines.
Such practices have indeed the outward appearance that popular popularly
passes for wisdom in promoting a self imposed rigor of
devotion and delight, in self humiliation and severe discipline of
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the body, But they are of no value in checking
the indulgence of the flesh, the lower nature. Instead, they
do not utter God, but they serve only to indulge
the flesh. If you have accepted His death on the
cross for your sins and receive its freedom, then why
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do you seek freedom from evil and sin by your behavior?
Major denominations are telling you, oh, you must do this
and you must do that. Oh you have to do this. No, No,
grace doesn't cover it. You still have to stop. I
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don't have to do anything. I get to. I choose
to because of grace you shoe. His death on the
cross marked his victory over all of the spiritual powers
of darkness. So when we participate in that death, when
we participate in what took place on the cross, we've
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been set free from the evil spiritual powers of this world.
Fleshly does and don't become, couldn't and won't. I choose
not to do those things. I don't want to do
those things. The Nelson Study Bible also says no human
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work can be added to the merit of Messiah's death.
His work on the cross is the only acceptable work
in God's eyes. The legalistic commands of others are self
imposed religion and are of no value for salvation. In
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making the mistake of baiting with some people on social
media not too long ago, those of a special belief structure, Oh,
grace isn't enough. Grace isn't enough. You're not free with grace.
You must do this. You must have the sacraments. You
must have this person, you must have that person. And
no matter what I said, they couldn't see it. And
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I realized they're blinded, their scales over their eyes because
living the resurrected life of relationship is what the Lord
is talking about, what Paul is teaching. It's not about religion,
it's not about dos and don'ts aw Tosa says. The
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cross of popular evangelicalism, Evangelicalism, yeah, that's a word, is
not the cross of the New Testament. It is rather
a new, bright ornament upon the bosom of self assured
and carnal Christianity, whose hands are indeed the hands of Abel,
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but whose voice is the voice of Cain. The old
cross slum and the new Cross entertains them. The old
cross condemned, the new cross amuses. The old cross destroyed
confidence in the flesh. The new cross encourages it. The
old cross brought tears and blood. The new cross brings laughter.
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The flesh smiling and confident, preaches and sings about the cross.
Before the cross, it bows and towards the cross it
points with carefully stage histrionics. But upon that cross it
will not die. And the reproach of that cross is
stubbornly refuses to bear at the cross, at the cross
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where I first saw the light and all the burdens
of my sins were washed away. I have to embrace
that cross. I have to hold onto the old worged cross.
I've got to live this life to talking about otherwise.
What I have is this new worthless, powerless, secular humanistic
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Christianity that is being promoted. And I don't want that.
Colossian stew verse six, starting verse six. As you therefore
have received Messiah, you're sure of the Lord's so walk
in Him, rooted and built up in Him, established in
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the faith as you have been taught, abounding in it
with thanksgiving. Beware lest anyone cheats you through philosophy and
empty deceit according to the tradition of men, according to
the basic principles of the world, not according to Messiah.
For in him dwells all the fullness of the Godhead bodily.
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And you are complete in Him, who is the head
of all principality power. If I'm complete in Him, why
am I trying to be complete in all these other
rules and regulations and rituals. Neil here jenu flect there
hold these, Hold that wave, this wave, that that's ritual.
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That's religion that's making you think you have something to
do with it. You don't. All you have to do
is except what he did. Paul argues to stand fast
in your freedom in the face of all the false
teachings and religions that offer ritual and outward appearance as
a way to freedom, that anyone should teach you through
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philosophy and empty deceit according to the traditions of men,
that philosophy philosophia is the love and pursuit of wisdom
of as a way to spiritual knowledge. He's talking about
everything from the metaphysics of Plato to the religious teachings
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of cults. Oh Rich, we don't have any cults in
the church today. Absolutely we do. A cult is a
religion or a religious sect generally considered to be extremists
or false, with its followers often living in an unconventional
manner under the guidance of an authoritarian charismatic leader. A
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cult is a system or community of religious worship and ritual.
Churches become cults. Denominations become cults when freedom leaves and
the spirit is no longer in control and it's ruled
by men and women in what they say that they
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don't do. So many of these places have leaders with
a do as I say, don't do as I do attitude.
I'd rather follow the man who did what he said
and do what he did. Glatians Chapter four, study verse three,
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Paul says, the church in Glaciers. So we Jewish Christians.
Also when we were children, when we were miners, were
kept like slaves under the rules of the Hebrew ritual
and subject to the elementary teachings of a system of
etern external observations and regulations, a system of external observations
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and regulations. But when the proper time had fully come,
God sent his son, born of a woman, born subject
to the regulations of the law, to purchase the freedom
of to ransom, to redeem to atone for those who
are subject to the law, that we might be adopted
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did and have sonship conferred upon us, and be recognized
as God's sons and our daughters as his children. And
because you really are His children, God has sent the
Holy Spirit of his Son into our hearts, crying Abbah, Father.
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Therefore you're no longer a slave, You're no longer a
bond servant, but a son or a daughter, a child,
and if a child of God, then it follows that
you are an heir of God through Messiah. Why would
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you want anything else. We are complete in Him in
his work on the Cross, resurrected as a new man,
a replacement for the one that Adam created, filled with
the spirit of God, replacing our old tainted spirit. Messiah,
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full of human born of a woman subject to the law,
overcame the law by paying the price for all. In
Matthew chapter three, verse thirteen, Yeshua comes to Galilee to
John at the Jordan to be baptized by him. And
John tried to prevent him, saying, I need to be
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baptized by you, and you're coming to me. But Yasho
answered and said to it permitted to be so now,
for thus it is fitting for us to fulfill all righteousness.
And then he John allowed him. And when he had
been baptized, Yeshua came up immediately from the water, and behold,
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the heavens were open to him, and he saw the
Spirit of God descending like a dove and alighting upon him.
And suddenly a voice came from heaven, saying, this is
my beloved son in whom I am well pleased. The
Father had not felt that since he made Adam. That's
why later on you're sure it says in Matthew five seventeen.
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Do not think I came to destroy the law or
the prophets. I did not come to destroy, but to
fulfill the law had to be fulfilled. Prophecy had to
be fulfilled. Messiah fulfilled the law so that now God's children,
us you and me have freedom and now no longer
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bound as slaves to it. But that's what Satan wants.
He wants us to be slaves to him through false religion,
to rituals. By fulfilling the law and bearing its curse,
Messiah ransomed dust from its claims because he became the
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curse for us. There's so much freedom in that. If
you understand so much freedom, That's why this topic. Paul
hits it a lot throughout all of his writings. Romans three,
verse twenty. For no person will be justified, made righteous, acquitted,
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and judged acceptable in his sight by observing the works
prescribed by the law. For the real function of the
law is to make men recognize and be conscious of sin,
not mere perception, but an acquaintance with sin, which works
towards repentance, faith and holy character. But now the righteousness
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of God has been revealed independently and altogether apart from
the law. Actually, it is attested by the law and
the prophets, namely the righteousness of God God, which comes
by believing with personal trust and confident reliance on Jesus
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the Messiah. And it is meant for all who believe,
for there is no distinction. Since all have sinned and
are falling short of the honor and the glory which
God bestows and receives. All are justified, All are made
upright in right standing with God freely and gratuitous, gratuitously
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by His grace, his unmerited favor and mercy through the
redemption which is provided in Messiah Yeshua, whom God put
forward before the eyes of all as a mercy seat
and a propitiation, which is a payment by His blood,
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the cleansing and life giving sacrifice of atonement and reconciliation
to be received through faith. This was to show God's
righteousness in his divine forbearance. He had passed over and
ignored form of sins without punishment, passover, the final passover
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oh yes, we remember what took place in the wilderness,
but the true meaning of passover no longer exists. That's
why Paul can tell Colossians the Church in Colossian Church
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in Chapter one thirty verse ten, that you may walk
worthy of the Lord, fully pleasing him, being fruitful in
every good work, and increasing in the knowledge of God,
strengthened with all might according to His glorious power, for
all patience and long suffering with joy giving thanks to
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the Father who has qualified us to be partakers of
the inheritance of the saints and the Light. He has
delivered us from the power of darkness and conveyed us
into the kingdom of the Son of His Love, in
whom we have redemption through his blood, the forgiveness of sense,
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walking a life worthy of what He did for us.
That's the resurrected life. He did that so that he
could adopt us Romans eight fifteen through seventeen. For you
did not receive the spirit a bondage again to fear,
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but you received what the spirit of adoption, by whom
we cry out Abbah, Father, the Spirit himself bears witness
with our spirit that we are children of God. And
if children, then heirs, heirs of God, joint heirs of Messiah.
If indeed we suffer with him, that we may also
be glorified together. See the end dwelling of the Holy
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Spirit joins us with him in the spirit of adoption.
That's what this has been all about. And someday all
of creation will have that again, because He cares about
that too. Romans Ate twenty one through twenty two. The
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amplified that nature, creation itself will be set free from
its bondage to decay and corruption and gain an entrance
into the glorious freedom of God's children. We know that
the whole creation of irrational creatures has been moaning together
in the pains of labor until now. Jeremiah the Prophet
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talked about it in Chapter twelve, verse four. How long
must the land mourn, and the grass and the herbs,
whole country wither through the wickedness of those who dwell
in it. The beast and the birds are consumed and
are swept away by the drought. This fallen world is
our fault. It's man's fault, and the creation, the animals,
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all of God's creation suffers because of it, and it
grieves me every time I see it, it breaks my
heart and I apologize to the Lord. I'm not even
I don't even know what he thinks about it, but
just I say, Lord, I'm so sorry. We have not
done right by your creation. Our sins have done this.
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If you have the heart of the Father, if you
have the heart of the Lord, it should bother you.
And when I see people that are cold and callous
about the suffering of life, whether it's babies in the womb,
out of the womb, whether it's the elderly, whether it's animals,
I wondered, do they even know him? Or have they
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flipped a switch and turned off part of their compassionate
nature that He created us with. But all this I've
talked about for the last thirty minutes or so, it's
tied to the resurrection. That's what Paul has done. He
has tied all of this to the resurrection Colossians three
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one through four. If then you've been raised with Messiah
to a new life, thus sharing his resurrection from the dead,
aim at and seek the rich eternal treasures that are
above where Messiah is seated at the right hand of God.
Set your minds on and keep them stead on what
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is above, the higher things, not on the things on
this earth. For as far as the world is concerned,
you have died, and your new real life is hidden
with Messiah in God. And one Messiah, who is our
life appears, then you also will appear with him in
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the splendor of his glory. If you were raised with Messiah,
if you were born again from above, that's what that means.
You've been raised with him. It's no longer the life
you live in the flesh, but the life you live
in the spirit, the resurrected life that matters. Nelson's study
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Bible says, set your mind on things above. The reason
he pointed that out because the false teachers were instructing
the Colossians to concentrate on temporal observances. In contrast, Paul
instructs them to concentrate on the eternal realities of heaven.
The Greek Greek verb for set emphasizes an aye going decision.
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You don't just do it once, you continue to do it.
Christians must continually discipline themselves to focus on eternal realities
and set on the temporal realities of this earth. A
Christian's life is no longer dictated by this world, but
it is hidden with Messiah. The Greek word for hidden
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indicates that God has accomplished this in the past, so
that it is a present reality. When I get too
caught up in the things of this world, when I
get too caught up in what's going on in the
news or politics, or the media, or any of those things,
I suddenly feel a check in my spirit. I need
to set my mind on things above, these temporal things
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that are fading away that I have no control over,
or stealing my thoughts away from him, stealing my thoughts
away from what he would want me to do and
how he would want me to think. It makes our
heart heavy. It weighs us down. It steals the light
and the compassion that's in us. I know I told
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you this, but I remember once early on in my walk,
I'm very close brother, and the Lord that I had
chastised me. He said, you know, brother, you got to
be careful because right now you're so heavenly minded, you know,
earthly good. And I literally threw my Bible at him.
I said, find a scripture in there that says that.
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I mean. I had him right in the chest with
the Bible. I said, you find me a scripture that
verifies what you just said, and I'll consider it. He couldn't.
What he was giving me was human wisdom. Oh brother,
don't be so caught up in the things of the
Spirit and God and Jesus and all of a sudden
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stuff that you forget all these earthly things. Well no, no,
those earthly things are going to be there. I get that.
But I'm not going to set my mind to my
heart on that. I'm going to send it, set it
upon him, and he's going to help me with those things.
He's going to help me to walk that walk, to
talk that talk. Colossians two started verse eleven. In him. Also,
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you were circumcised with a circumcision not made with him. Yes,
I read this perform and I'm reading it again. I
want you to get it. But in spiritual circumcision performed
by Messiah himself, by stripping off the body of the flesh,
the whole corrupt carnal nature with all its passions and lust.
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Thus you were circumcised when you were buried with him
in your baptism, in which you were also raised with
Him to a new life through your faith in the
working of God, as displayed when he raised him up
from the dead, and you who were dead and trespassed us,
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and in the uncircumcision of your flesh, your sensuality, your
sinful carnal nature, God brought life together with Messiah, having
freely forgiven us all our transgressions, having canceled and blotted
out and wiped away the handwriting of the note that bond,
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with what its legal decrees and demands, which was in
force and stood against us, was hostile to us. This note,
with its regulations, decrees and demands, he set aside and
cleared completely out of our way by nailing it to
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his cross. And when he did that, God disarmed the
principalities and powers that were ranged again him and made
a bold display and public example of them in triumphing
over them in him and in it the cross. Why
was that? How did he disarm them? He took away
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their ability to punish you, to manipulate you, to control
you through your sinful nature. He took away their ability
to hold that blood debt against you. Oh, Satan knows
the law, fallen angels. They know the law, they know
the rules. They don't abide by it, but they know it,
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and they will subject you to it. They'll wrap you
up in it, they'll trick you with it. You sure,
it became the fulfillment of all the law and became
the true mediator between God and man. Nobody else, no
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other man, no other woman. He is the mediator between
God and man. Therefore, I don't have to go to
anybody else. I can go right to him, and through him,
we are freed from the Mosaic law, the observances, and
have been redeemed through the work of Messiah on the
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cross one Peter too twenty four and twenty five, who
himself bore our sins in his body on the tree.
And that's what the cross, that we, having died to sin,
might live for righteousness, by whose stripes you were healed.
For you were like sheep going astray, but have now
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returned to the shepherd and overseer of your souls. Amen,
I don't need anybody else. I don't need a woman marry,
though special and used as a virgin to bear the Lord.
I don't need to go to her. I don't need
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to go to another man. I don't need to go
to anybody. I can go right to Yeshu. Or to
get to the father, See, I was buried with him
in my baptism, the baptism of the Spirit, which took
place when I went down in the water of Lake
Monroe and Tallahassee and came up changed. I came up different.
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And though I had been baptized in the Holy Spirit
during the deliverance I went through, it took about a
week for it to manifest itself. But it was there
that baptism represented the death of an old life and
the birth into a new one, in the new life
in which the laws curse no longer had any force.
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That's what this is about One Corinthians twelve thirteen. For
by one spirit, we were all baptized into one body,
whether Jews or Greeks, whether slaves, are free, and have
all been made to drink into one spirit. He makes
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this point again in Galatians three, verses twenty seven through
twenty nine. For as many of you as were baptized
into Messiah, into a spiritual union and communion with Messiah
the anointed One, and have put on clothed yourselves with Messiah,
there is now no distinction, neither Jew nor Greek. There's
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neither slave nor free. There is neither male and female,
for all are one in Messiah Yeshia. And if you
belong to Messiah, if you are in Him who is
Abraham Seed, then you are Abraham's offspring and spiritual air
according to the promise. Now this has been quoted and
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so horribly misinterpreted. This does not obliterate the distinction between
male and female or jew in gener It affirms the
impartial nature of the love of God and salvation. The
divinely assigned responsibility of race, of gender, or position is
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a mandate to be accepted as an opportunity in service
and to glorify God. It doesn't get wiped away. What
that means is there's no distinction for his love. There's
no distinction for his salvation. This does not even contradict
the equality and unity we experience in Messiah, which transcends
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all racial, ethnic, social, national, and sexual distinction. Because we
have been resurrected as what as Abraham's offspring. Hmm, I
guess that means we've been grafted into that find right
and Yashua being the ideal descendant of Abraham of the promise,
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and we are his children and the seat of Abraham's
an heir to that promise, a promise given to the
Jews first. He came first to the Jews and then
to the Gentiles. All are one in one vine with
the Yashua later on a Galatians four six. And because
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you are sons, God has sent forth the spirit of
his Son into our hearts, crying out, Abba, Father, Aba,
Papa Daddy. That's what the Holy spirit in our heart
allows us to say. And you cannot say that and
mean it without the Holy spirit inside of you. Aba,
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the intimate Aramaic word for father, which is what drove
the Pharisees and Sadducees and the religious people crazy when
he taught the regular people to say Abba, Father, who
art heaven? How dare you? They can't call him daddy? Really,
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they just did. It's intimacy, it's relationship with God as
his children, just like Adam had. That's what this has
been about, to get us all back to that intimacy.
And it cannot happen in the old flesh. It can
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only happen in the new, resurrected body. It can only
receive that spirit into a different body. So when we
become clothed with Messiah, when we literally put on the
Lord is our new identity. In covering, he covers up
what we were to make us what we are now,
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which is redeemed and resurrected with him. Are you seeing it?
Are you getting it? Are you finding your way out
of the dues and don'ts and couldn'ts and won'ts. Are
you looking at the rituals and the rules and the
regulations and all the things that you've been told you
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had to do, and understanding now why it frustrated you,
Why it never felt good, You'd never felt free. You
always knew deep inside there had to be something more
than this, because it wasn't working. I mean I knew
that when I was twelve, and then fourteen, and then
throughout most of my adult life. It wasn't until later
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that I figured out where I could find it at
the cross, when I became redeemed and resurrected with him.
See that's why that date October ninth, nineteen eighty eight,
somewhere around eleven forty five am, it's so important to me.
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It's the date I became redeemed, and when I stood
up from that altar, it was a new creation. You
should have made of old declaration in John ten ten.
The thief does not come except to steal and to
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kill and to destroy. I have come that they may
have life, and they may have it more abundantly, abundantly.
It's a sense of beyond in quantity or superior in quality,
and by implications, it's excessive. It's a life of excess. Oh,
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not material excess. That's what Satan wants you to have,
one of spiritual excess, of peace and love and joy,
the fruit of the spirit, not the fruit of the flesh.
That's what this has been about. It's about life, the
resurrected life. And he wasn't talking about being alive. We
are already alive. But this is a life in the
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Greek Zoe, an absolute fullness, both essential and ethical, which
only belongs to God, but has imparted to us. He said,
I came so that you might have the life of God.
That's the far more accurate and in agreement with the
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rest of what the Lord taught regarding union with God.
You're sure Jesus is the life of God. And when
we receive him, we receive his life in us. And
when he became resurrected, when he became the resurrected man,
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when he became the new Man, a new creature. That's
what we embraced, that's what we became. And the Greek
word for a abundantly is parisan p e r ass
o n. It literally means to have it more abundantly,
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exceedingly superior, supremely, superior, extraordinary, uncommon, remarkable. Is not the
life you want. It's the life I want. And that's
why I'm so discouraged by this world looking to tear
you down, looking to strip it from you, looking to
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keep you from having it, and the enemy interfering with everything.
And that's why I have to set my mind on
things above. I gotta look up, I gotta pray, I
gotta praise, I gotta dance, I gotta do whatever it
takes to get that weight off of me and to
choose to have it abundantly. The expansion of my life
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away from Adam and to your sure a different, superior life,
the life that the fat world does not have, and
the life that you sure offers us is the life
of God himself in control of our words and our deeds.
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And this life of God is vastly superior to the
cursed life that all men inherited from Adam. This new
life is radically different, as radically different as a man
who has lived underground his entire life suddenly coming pump
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above ground to see the sun, the sky, the planets,
and the animals, and the wind and the stars, and going, oh,
my God, this is life. He came so that we
have life abundantly, a superior life of God. Johnny twelve.
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You Shore had said, I am the light of the world.
He follows me shall not walk in darkness, but have
the light of life. Hmm. Interesting phrase. The light of
life divinely ordained and empowered Genesis two seven. In the
Lord formed a man of the dust of the ground
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and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life, and
man became a living being. So when mancame a life,
and then all the divinely created living things, this breath
was infused or inspired with the essence of our abba Father.
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He breathed himself into Adam, which unfortunately Adam lost when
he fell in the garden, which is what we got
back in Yeshiah through the Holy Spirit. The Cross was
meant to restore us to that life, the resurrected life,
a more abundant, a superior life, the life of God
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instead of the life of Hacatan, Satan, the fallen, the
spirit of God instead of the spirit of Satan, and
the fallen love instead of lost humility instead of pride,
the fruit of the spirit instead of the fruit of
the flesh. Born again, drawn out of darkness to walk
in the light, to have the light of life restored
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to the life of God, the life that Adam and
Eve lost in the garden when God told them that
they would surely die, and they did spiritually, they began
to die on that day, and they began to live
the life of Satan, of pain, of sorrow, of hunger,
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of loss, of darkness, because darkness is death. Light is life.
Every week during shabbaht we recite or I recite John
one and John one verses four and five. It says
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in him was life, and the life was the light
of men. And the light shined in the darkness, and
the darkness did not comprehend it, which means the light
shines and the darkness, and the darkness never overpowered it,
never put it out, never absorbed it, appropriated it, but
it's completely unreceptive to it. So at the creation Life
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was the beginning of all original creation Genesis one three.
So when believers received the light of life, we become
part of the new creation resurrected with him. It's so simple,
and that's why the enemy doesn't want us to get it.
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Oswald Chambers says, all of Heaven is interested in the
Cross of Christ. Hell is afraid of it. And while
mannerally wants to ignore its meaning, Heaven is interested in
the cross. Hell is afraid of it. Men ignore it
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an indifference, tewod Corinthians. Force was starting Verse one. Therefore,
since we you and I me, all of us have
this ministry, as we have received mercy, we do not
lose heart. But we have renounced the hidden things of shame,
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not walking and craftiness, nor handling the word of God deceitfully,
but by manifestation of the truth, commending ourself to every
man's conscience in the sight of God. But even if
our gospel is veiled, its veiled to those who are perishing,
whose mind the God of this age has blinded, who
do not believe. Lest the light of the Gospel of
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the glory of Messiah, who is the image of God,
should shine on them. But we do not preach ourselves.
But Messiah is shoe of the Lord, and ourselves your
bond servants. For your shoe is sake. For it is
God who commanded light to shine out of the darkness,
who has shown in our hearts, to give the light
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of the knowledge of the glory of God and the
face of Jesus the Messiah. That's all that really matters.
All this other stuff is fluff and nonsense. It means nothing.
We're called to live a resurrected life as examples to
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a world that is dying dead. The resurrecting life cannot
be overpowered or stolen by the enemy. The enemy cannot
undo the Cross, cannot undo the empty tomb or the
upper room. The enemy can only trick us into ignoring
the victory and the authority of the Cross, of the
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empty tomb, of the upper room, and willingly, wilfully go
back into bondage. And to all of that, I say, now,
thank you for playing pick up your parting lips on
the way out. I'm not going to do that. I'm
going to live the resurrected life because the Lord is
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alive forevermore, and so are we. Father. Thank you, Thank
you for the Cross. Thank you for resurrecting us. Thank
you for taking away the curse. Thank you for removing
what Adam did. Thank you, Lord for giving us our
life and God back, our relationship with the Father back.
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Let us walk, let us shine, Let us be filled
with your spirit. Right now now, Let us do all
of these things at a time when the world is
caught up in so many of the wrong things, the
dos and the don'ts, and the coodn'ts and the won'ts,
And get them back to you at the cross, to
find their way to the empty tomb, resurrected alive, and
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then into the upper room filled with the Holy Spirit,
to take that out into the world and destroy the
work of the enemy and set the captives free. Help us, Lord,
help us, Holy Spirit, have your way with us. Touch
my brothers, my sisters, Touch me, help us to live
the resurrected life. And I pray all these things in
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your shoe his name. Amen. May the Lord bless you
and keep you. May the Lord make his face to
shine upon you and be gracious to you. May the Lord,
I don't I you shoe a hummush, You are Jesus
the Messiah, lift up his countenance upon you and give
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We love you, Father, we love you Holy Spirit. We
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everything to us. Some of us grew up without fathers.
Some of us had fathers who just wanted that close
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to or No human father can never measure up to you,
and that's why we cry out Abbah Papa Daddy. We
want to be reconciled to you. And Yashua did that.
He allowed us to boldly enter that throne room, approach
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your throne and grace and mercy. Thank you for that.
Thank you for the love that sent your only begotten
son to pay our debts, to pay our I owe you,
so that we could come home and spend eternity with you.
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How awesome that'll be. Thank you, Lord, what you did
on the cross. Thank you for the blood. Thank you
for the pain you endured, the shame, what you allowed
to do to you for us. Thank you for your
Holy Spirit. Thank you for sending it back to walk
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with us, to teach us, to guide us, to help
us to learn, to understand, to be better each and
every day. Transformed from glory to glory. We pray right
now to clear our minds. We want to hear what
you have to say. We're going to open our hearts.
We want to receive it, and we want to be
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changed by it. Let our spirits be touched, be renewed,
be transformed. We pray protection over everything. We have no distractions.
We pray divine health and healing in each and every
one of us. We pray your angelic covering your Psalm
ninety one, covering to be upon us. Thank you for
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our families, thank you for our loved ones. Thank you
for salvation, Holy Spirit. Have your way, Do whatever it
is you want to do, however you want to do it.
This is your time, and we just give you all
the honor, all the glory, and all the praise. If
you agree with me, and you shue his name, say
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Okay, open those Bibles, however you follow along. Let's get ready,
Luke nine twenty three. The Lord says, if anyone desires
to come after me, let him deny himself and take
up his cross daily and follow me. If anyone wishes
to follow me as a disciple, he or she must
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deny themselves, set aside selfish interest, and take up their
cross daily, expressing a willingness to endure whatever may come
follow after me. The Lord says, believing in me, conforming
to my example in living, and if need be suffering
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or perhaps dying because of faith in me. A. W. T.
Tink says, taking up my cross means a voluntary life
surrender to God. You voluntarily surrender to God. That means
it's his ways, not your ways. It's his will not
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your will. It's his desires not yours. Galatians two twenty
Paul says, I have been crucified with Messiah. It is
no longer I who live, but Messiah lives in me.
And the life which I now live in the flesh,
I live by faith in the Son of God who
loved me and gave himself for me. That's what this
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lesson's going to be based on. That's what we're going
to be talking about, following up the lesson last week
at the Cross. If you haven't listened to that, you
probably should because it'll tie into this. But your old self,
your old nature, has been crucified with Messiah. It's no
longer you who live, but Messiah lives in you. He
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lives in me. So we live in this earthly body,
trusting in the son of God, who loves us, loved us,
did what he did for us and gave himself for
us at the Cross. In him we live, we move,
we breathe. In him, we share his crucifixion. When we
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do that, we give up our life, we give up
our rights, we give up our will to live for him.
Because He lives in us through the Holy Spirit. He
died for me. I will live for him in the
life that I now live in this body. I will
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live by faith, I will adhere to, I will rely on,
and I will completely trust in the Son of God
who loved me and gave himself for me. That's got
to be a daily reminder. That's got to be something
we constantly hold on to or we will lose our way.
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That is our compass. The Cross is our mark. The
Nelson Study Bible says Paul and every believer were crucified
with Messiah in order to die to sin, the law
and this present evil age. And while believers live on physically,
Messiah also lives within them spiritually. Messiah's resurrection power through
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the Spirit is worked out through the believer who chooses
to live by faith in the Son of God. That
was a tough concept for the Messianic Jews that were
fellowshiping with the Gentiles in these various places that Paul
was establishing the churches. The Jews of Paul's day argued
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that living a life free from the law would lead
to lawlessness. We have to live by the law. Oh,
we can't live at all. And that's why Paul was
constantly battling with that concept, because if you believe in
the Cross, if you believe in the substitutionary actions of
the Lord for us on the cross, if you believe
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in what the Cross represented and did, living under the
law is a rejection of all of that. You're not
accepting it. You're not believing that it was enough. Therefore
you have to do something Colossians two, starting verse eleven.
In him, you were also circumcised with the circumcision made
without hands, by putting off the body of sins of
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the flesh, by the circumcision of Messiah buried with him
in baptism, in which you were also raised with him
through faith in the working of God who raised him
from the dead. And you, being dead in your trespasses
and the uncircumcision of your flesh, he has made alive
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together with him, having forgiven all your trespasses, having wiped
out the handwriting of Rea requirements that was against us,
which was contrary to us, and he has taken it
out of the way and knelt it to the cross.
A spiritual circumcision has taken place, a cutting away of
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the things of the flesh. The New Living Translation Study
Bible says, the cutting away of your sinful nature literally
means the cutting away of the body of the flesh.
Just as Jewish boys have the flesh of their foreskin
cut off to mark their initiation into the people of God,
so believers have a metaphorical flesh translated our sinful nature
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cut off when they come to Messiah. He died and
he rose again. All over the world people celebrated that.
I celebrated every day. I think about it every day.
I never forget it. I don't need a yearly calendar
to remind me. He died and he rose again, and
we've been baptized with that. Baptism is a burial by
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immersion symbolically, so that we can experience a new life
when we are raised with him. That's what baptism is.
It's a declaration I am dead now He lives in me.
Romans Chapter six, studying verse three. Or do you not
know that as many of us were baptized into Messiah
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Isshua were baptized into his death. Therefore we were buried
with him through baptism into death, just as Messiah was
raised from the dead by the glory of the Father.
Even so we also should walk in newness of life.
That's the resurrected life. That's what we're talking about verse five.
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For if we've been united together in the likeness of
his death, certainly we also shall be in the likeness
of his rest erection. Knowing this that our old man
or old woman was crucified with him, that the body
of sin might be done away with, that we should
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no longer be slaves of sin. We should no longer
be slaves of sin. He wiped out the spiritual iou
that Adam signed for all of us by nailing it
to the cross. That debt was impossible to pay, and
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it stood against us as a lean against our soul.
But the law required obedience, and what it required we
were unable to give, and therefore a debt could never
ever be forgiven by the law. Which is why I
don't understand how my Jewish brothers and sisters of this day,
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who have no longer a blood sacrifice since the temple
was destroyed in seventy a d think that their sins
are forgiven. The law requires a sacrifice, a blood sacrifice. Now,
we who have accepted the blood sacrifice of the Lamb
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of Yrshee on the cross have had that debt paid.
Anyone who doesn't has not because you're unable to do it.
The prophet Isaiah and Isaiah twenty nine thirteen says so.
And the Lord said, forasmuch as this, people draw near
to me with their mouth and honor me with their lips,
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but remove their hearts and minds far from me. Their
fear and reverence for me are a commandment of men
that is learned by repetition, without any thought as to
the meaning, rules and regulations, dues and don'ts. They just
won't cut it. Heats yet to do something drastic. If
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he was ever going to be reconnected with his children,
he was going to have to do something drastic, and
that was the cross. And you, Suad did it Colossians
two fifteen. Having disarmed principalities and powers, he made a
public spectacle of them, triumphing over them in it in
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the cross. So you should disarmed the principalities and the
powers that were ranged that raged against us, and made
a bold display and a public example of them. And
he did it in the Cross. He disarmed them, He
stripped them of their powers and weapons of sin and
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rebellion against God. The Nelson Study Bible says principalities and
powers allude to Satan and the fallen angels. Paul is
describing Messiah's victory on the Cross over the powers that
opposed him and that were against God's faithful people. To
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describe this victory, Paul uses the spectacle of a military
triumph when prisoners of war were stripped and paraded before
the populace behind the conquering general. Satan and his forces
thought the Cross would be their victory in Messiah's defeat.
In reality, at the Cross, the Lord vanquished his foes,
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took away their weapons, and made a public spectacle of them.
It was a bad idea for him to do what
he did. But Satan's not real bright, He's consumed with hate,
and he made a fatal, fatal mistake on Calvary that day.
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The image Village vividly captures the glorious victory that God
through the cross of Messiah one over the hostile spiritual powers.
Then and now cautions two, starting verse twenty. If then
you have died with Messiah to material ways of looking
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at things, and have escaped from the world's crude and
elemental notions and teachings of externalism, why do you live
as if you still belong to the world. Why do
you submit to rules and regulations such as do not
handle this, do not taste that, don't even touch them,
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referring to the things, all of which perish with being used.
To do this is to follow human precepts and doctrines.
Such practices have indeed the outward appearance that popular popularly
passes for wisdom in promoting a self imposed rigor of
devotion and delight, in self humiliation and severe discipline of
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the body, But they are of no value in checking
the indulgence of the flesh, the lower nature. Instead, they
do not utter God, but they serve only to indulge
the flesh. If you have accepted His death on the
cross for your sins and receive its freedom, then why
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do you seek freedom from evil and sin by your behavior?
Major denominations are telling you, oh, you must do this
and you must do that. Oh you have to do this. No, No,
grace doesn't cover it. You still have to stop. I
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don't have to do anything. I get to. I choose
to because of grace you shoe. His death on the
cross marked his victory over all of the spiritual powers
of darkness. So when we participate in that death, when
we participate in what took place on the cross, we've
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been set free from the evil spiritual powers of this world.
Fleshly does and don't become, couldn't and won't. I choose
not to do those things. I don't want to do
those things. The Nelson Study Bible also says no human
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work can be added to the merit of Messiah's death.
His work on the cross is the only acceptable work
in God's eyes. The legalistic commands of others are self
imposed religion and are of no value for salvation. In
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making the mistake of baiting with some people on social
media not too long ago, those of a special belief structure, Oh,
grace isn't enough. Grace isn't enough. You're not free with grace.
You must do this. You must have the sacraments. You
must have this person, you must have that person. And
no matter what I said, they couldn't see it. And
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I realized they're blinded, their scales over their eyes because
living the resurrected life of relationship is what the Lord
is talking about, what Paul is teaching. It's not about religion,
it's not about dos and don'ts aw Tosa says. The
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cross of popular evangelicalism, Evangelicalism, yeah, that's a word, is
not the cross of the New Testament. It is rather
a new, bright ornament upon the bosom of self assured
and carnal Christianity, whose hands are indeed the hands of Abel,
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but whose voice is the voice of Cain. The old
cross slum and the new Cross entertains them. The old
cross condemned, the new cross amuses. The old cross destroyed
confidence in the flesh. The new cross encourages it. The
old cross brought tears and blood. The new cross brings laughter.
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The flesh smiling and confident, preaches and sings about the cross.
Before the cross, it bows and towards the cross it
points with carefully stage histrionics. But upon that cross it
will not die. And the reproach of that cross is
stubbornly refuses to bear at the cross, at the cross
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where I first saw the light and all the burdens
of my sins were washed away. I have to embrace
that cross. I have to hold onto the old worged cross.
I've got to live this life to talking about otherwise.
What I have is this new worthless, powerless, secular humanistic
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Christianity that is being promoted. And I don't want that.
Colossian stew verse six, starting verse six. As you therefore
have received Messiah, you're sure of the Lord's so walk
in Him, rooted and built up in Him, established in
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the faith as you have been taught, abounding in it
with thanksgiving. Beware lest anyone cheats you through philosophy and
empty deceit according to the tradition of men, according to
the basic principles of the world, not according to Messiah.
For in him dwells all the fullness of the Godhead bodily.
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And you are complete in Him, who is the head
of all principality power. If I'm complete in Him, why
am I trying to be complete in all these other
rules and regulations and rituals. Neil here jenu flect there
hold these, Hold that wave, this wave, that that's ritual.
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That's religion that's making you think you have something to
do with it. You don't. All you have to do
is except what he did. Paul argues to stand fast
in your freedom in the face of all the false
teachings and religions that offer ritual and outward appearance as
a way to freedom, that anyone should teach you through
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philosophy and empty deceit according to the traditions of men,
that philosophy philosophia is the love and pursuit of wisdom
of as a way to spiritual knowledge. He's talking about
everything from the metaphysics of Plato to the religious teachings
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of cults. Oh Rich, we don't have any cults in
the church today. Absolutely we do. A cult is a
religion or a religious sect generally considered to be extremists
or false, with its followers often living in an unconventional
manner under the guidance of an authoritarian charismatic leader. A
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cult is a system or community of religious worship and ritual.
Churches become cults. Denominations become cults when freedom leaves and
the spirit is no longer in control and it's ruled
by men and women in what they say that they
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don't do. So many of these places have leaders with
a do as I say, don't do as I do attitude.
I'd rather follow the man who did what he said
and do what he did. Glatians Chapter four, study verse three,
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Paul says, the church in Glaciers. So we Jewish Christians.
Also when we were children, when we were miners, were
kept like slaves under the rules of the Hebrew ritual
and subject to the elementary teachings of a system of
etern external observations and regulations, a system of external observations
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and regulations. But when the proper time had fully come,
God sent his son, born of a woman, born subject
to the regulations of the law, to purchase the freedom
of to ransom, to redeem to atone for those who
are subject to the law, that we might be adopted
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did and have sonship conferred upon us, and be recognized
as God's sons and our daughters as his children. And
because you really are His children, God has sent the
Holy Spirit of his Son into our hearts, crying Abbah, Father.
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Therefore you're no longer a slave, You're no longer a
bond servant, but a son or a daughter, a child,
and if a child of God, then it follows that
you are an heir of God through Messiah. Why would
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you want anything else. We are complete in Him in
his work on the Cross, resurrected as a new man,
a replacement for the one that Adam created, filled with
the spirit of God, replacing our old tainted spirit. Messiah,
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full of human born of a woman subject to the law,
overcame the law by paying the price for all. In
Matthew chapter three, verse thirteen, Yeshua comes to Galilee to
John at the Jordan to be baptized by him. And
John tried to prevent him, saying, I need to be
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baptized by you, and you're coming to me. But Yasho
answered and said to it permitted to be so now,
for thus it is fitting for us to fulfill all righteousness.
And then he John allowed him. And when he had
been baptized, Yeshua came up immediately from the water, and behold,
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the heavens were open to him, and he saw the
Spirit of God descending like a dove and alighting upon him.
And suddenly a voice came from heaven, saying, this is
my beloved son in whom I am well pleased. The
Father had not felt that since he made Adam. That's
why later on you're sure it says in Matthew five seventeen.
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Do not think I came to destroy the law or
the prophets. I did not come to destroy, but to
fulfill the law had to be fulfilled. Prophecy had to
be fulfilled. Messiah fulfilled the law so that now God's children,
us you and me have freedom and now no longer
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bound as slaves to it. But that's what Satan wants.
He wants us to be slaves to him through false religion,
to rituals. By fulfilling the law and bearing its curse,
Messiah ransomed dust from its claims because he became the
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curse for us. There's so much freedom in that. If
you understand so much freedom, That's why this topic. Paul
hits it a lot throughout all of his writings. Romans three,
verse twenty. For no person will be justified, made righteous, acquitted,
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and judged acceptable in his sight by observing the works
prescribed by the law. For the real function of the
law is to make men recognize and be conscious of sin,
not mere perception, but an acquaintance with sin, which works
towards repentance, faith and holy character. But now the righteousness
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of God has been revealed independently and altogether apart from
the law. Actually, it is attested by the law and
the prophets, namely the righteousness of God God, which comes
by believing with personal trust and confident reliance on Jesus
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the Messiah. And it is meant for all who believe,
for there is no distinction. Since all have sinned and
are falling short of the honor and the glory which
God bestows and receives. All are justified, All are made
upright in right standing with God freely and gratuitous, gratuitously
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by His grace, his unmerited favor and mercy through the
redemption which is provided in Messiah Yeshua, whom God put
forward before the eyes of all as a mercy seat
and a propitiation, which is a payment by His blood,
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the cleansing and life giving sacrifice of atonement and reconciliation
to be received through faith. This was to show God's
righteousness in his divine forbearance. He had passed over and
ignored form of sins without punishment, passover, the final passover
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oh yes, we remember what took place in the wilderness,
but the true meaning of passover no longer exists. That's
why Paul can tell Colossians the Church in Colossian Church
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in Chapter one thirty verse ten, that you may walk
worthy of the Lord, fully pleasing him, being fruitful in
every good work, and increasing in the knowledge of God,
strengthened with all might according to His glorious power, for
all patience and long suffering with joy giving thanks to
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the Father who has qualified us to be partakers of
the inheritance of the saints and the Light. He has
delivered us from the power of darkness and conveyed us
into the kingdom of the Son of His Love, in
whom we have redemption through his blood, the forgiveness of sense,
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walking a life worthy of what He did for us.
That's the resurrected life. He did that so that he
could adopt us Romans eight fifteen through seventeen. For you
did not receive the spirit a bondage again to fear,
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but you received what the spirit of adoption, by whom
we cry out Abbah, Father, the Spirit himself bears witness
with our spirit that we are children of God. And
if children, then heirs, heirs of God, joint heirs of Messiah.
If indeed we suffer with him, that we may also
be glorified together. See the end dwelling of the Holy
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Spirit joins us with him in the spirit of adoption.
That's what this has been all about. And someday all
of creation will have that again, because He cares about
that too. Romans Ate twenty one through twenty two. The
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amplified that nature, creation itself will be set free from
its bondage to decay and corruption and gain an entrance
into the glorious freedom of God's children. We know that
the whole creation of irrational creatures has been moaning together
in the pains of labor until now. Jeremiah the Prophet
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talked about it in Chapter twelve, verse four. How long
must the land mourn, and the grass and the herbs,
whole country wither through the wickedness of those who dwell
in it. The beast and the birds are consumed and
are swept away by the drought. This fallen world is
our fault. It's man's fault, and the creation, the animals,
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all of God's creation suffers because of it, and it
grieves me every time I see it, it breaks my
heart and I apologize to the Lord. I'm not even
I don't even know what he thinks about it, but
just I say, Lord, I'm so sorry. We have not
done right by your creation. Our sins have done this.
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If you have the heart of the Father, if you
have the heart of the Lord, it should bother you.
And when I see people that are cold and callous
about the suffering of life, whether it's babies in the womb,
out of the womb, whether it's the elderly, whether it's animals,
I wondered, do they even know him? Or have they
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flipped a switch and turned off part of their compassionate
nature that He created us with. But all this I've
talked about for the last thirty minutes or so, it's
tied to the resurrection. That's what Paul has done. He
has tied all of this to the resurrection Colossians three
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one through four. If then you've been raised with Messiah
to a new life, thus sharing his resurrection from the dead,
aim at and seek the rich eternal treasures that are
above where Messiah is seated at the right hand of God.
Set your minds on and keep them stead on what
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is above, the higher things, not on the things on
this earth. For as far as the world is concerned,
you have died, and your new real life is hidden
with Messiah in God. And one Messiah, who is our
life appears, then you also will appear with him in
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the splendor of his glory. If you were raised with Messiah,
if you were born again from above, that's what that means.
You've been raised with him. It's no longer the life
you live in the flesh, but the life you live
in the spirit, the resurrected life that matters. Nelson's study
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Bible says, set your mind on things above. The reason
he pointed that out because the false teachers were instructing
the Colossians to concentrate on temporal observances. In contrast, Paul
instructs them to concentrate on the eternal realities of heaven.
The Greek Greek verb for set emphasizes an aye going decision.
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You don't just do it once, you continue to do it.
Christians must continually discipline themselves to focus on eternal realities
and set on the temporal realities of this earth. A
Christian's life is no longer dictated by this world, but
it is hidden with Messiah. The Greek word for hidden
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indicates that God has accomplished this in the past, so
that it is a present reality. When I get too
caught up in the things of this world, when I
get too caught up in what's going on in the
news or politics, or the media, or any of those things,
I suddenly feel a check in my spirit. I need
to set my mind on things above, these temporal things
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that are fading away that I have no control over,
or stealing my thoughts away from him, stealing my thoughts
away from what he would want me to do and
how he would want me to think. It makes our
heart heavy. It weighs us down. It steals the light
and the compassion that's in us. I know I told
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you this, but I remember once early on in my walk,
I'm very close brother, and the Lord that I had
chastised me. He said, you know, brother, you got to
be careful because right now you're so heavenly minded, you know,
earthly good. And I literally threw my Bible at him.
I said, find a scripture in there that says that.
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I mean. I had him right in the chest with
the Bible. I said, you find me a scripture that
verifies what you just said, and I'll consider it. He couldn't.
What he was giving me was human wisdom. Oh brother,
don't be so caught up in the things of the
Spirit and God and Jesus and all of a sudden
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stuff that you forget all these earthly things. Well no, no,
those earthly things are going to be there. I get that.
But I'm not going to set my mind to my
heart on that. I'm going to send it, set it
upon him, and he's going to help me with those things.
He's going to help me to walk that walk, to
talk that talk. Colossians two started verse eleven. In him. Also,
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you were circumcised with a circumcision not made with him. Yes,
I read this perform and I'm reading it again. I
want you to get it. But in spiritual circumcision performed
by Messiah himself, by stripping off the body of the flesh,
the whole corrupt carnal nature with all its passions and lust.
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Thus you were circumcised when you were buried with him
in your baptism, in which you were also raised with
Him to a new life through your faith in the
working of God, as displayed when he raised him up
from the dead, and you who were dead and trespassed us,
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and in the uncircumcision of your flesh, your sensuality, your
sinful carnal nature, God brought life together with Messiah, having
freely forgiven us all our transgressions, having canceled and blotted
out and wiped away the handwriting of the note that bond,
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with what its legal decrees and demands, which was in
force and stood against us, was hostile to us. This note,
with its regulations, decrees and demands, he set aside and
cleared completely out of our way by nailing it to
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his cross. And when he did that, God disarmed the
principalities and powers that were ranged again him and made
a bold display and public example of them in triumphing
over them in him and in it the cross. Why
was that? How did he disarm them? He took away
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their ability to punish you, to manipulate you, to control
you through your sinful nature. He took away their ability
to hold that blood debt against you. Oh, Satan knows
the law, fallen angels. They know the law, they know
the rules. They don't abide by it, but they know it,
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and they will subject you to it. They'll wrap you
up in it, they'll trick you with it. You sure,
it became the fulfillment of all the law and became
the true mediator between God and man. Nobody else, no
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other man, no other woman. He is the mediator between
God and man. Therefore, I don't have to go to
anybody else. I can go right to him, and through him,
we are freed from the Mosaic law, the observances, and
have been redeemed through the work of Messiah on the
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cross one Peter too twenty four and twenty five, who
himself bore our sins in his body on the tree.
And that's what the cross, that we, having died to sin,
might live for righteousness, by whose stripes you were healed.
For you were like sheep going astray, but have now
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returned to the shepherd and overseer of your souls. Amen,
I don't need anybody else. I don't need a woman marry,
though special and used as a virgin to bear the Lord.
I don't need to go to her. I don't need
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to go to another man. I don't need to go
to anybody. I can go right to Yeshu. Or to
get to the father, See, I was buried with him
in my baptism, the baptism of the Spirit, which took
place when I went down in the water of Lake
Monroe and Tallahassee and came up changed. I came up different.
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And though I had been baptized in the Holy Spirit
during the deliverance I went through, it took about a
week for it to manifest itself. But it was there
that baptism represented the death of an old life and
the birth into a new one, in the new life
in which the laws curse no longer had any force.
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That's what this is about One Corinthians twelve thirteen. For
by one spirit, we were all baptized into one body,
whether Jews or Greeks, whether slaves, are free, and have
all been made to drink into one spirit. He makes
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this point again in Galatians three, verses twenty seven through
twenty nine. For as many of you as were baptized
into Messiah, into a spiritual union and communion with Messiah
the anointed One, and have put on clothed yourselves with Messiah,
there is now no distinction, neither Jew nor Greek. There's
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neither slave nor free. There is neither male and female,
for all are one in Messiah Yeshia. And if you
belong to Messiah, if you are in Him who is
Abraham Seed, then you are Abraham's offspring and spiritual air
according to the promise. Now this has been quoted and
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so horribly misinterpreted. This does not obliterate the distinction between
male and female or jew in gener It affirms the
impartial nature of the love of God and salvation. The
divinely assigned responsibility of race, of gender, or position is
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a mandate to be accepted as an opportunity in service
and to glorify God. It doesn't get wiped away. What
that means is there's no distinction for his love. There's
no distinction for his salvation. This does not even contradict
the equality and unity we experience in Messiah, which transcends
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all racial, ethnic, social, national, and sexual distinction. Because we
have been resurrected as what as Abraham's offspring. Hmm, I
guess that means we've been grafted into that find right
and Yashua being the ideal descendant of Abraham of the promise,
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and we are his children and the seat of Abraham's
an heir to that promise, a promise given to the
Jews first. He came first to the Jews and then
to the Gentiles. All are one in one vine with
the Yashua later on a Galatians four six. And because
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you are sons, God has sent forth the spirit of
his Son into our hearts, crying out, Abba, Father, Aba,
Papa Daddy. That's what the Holy spirit in our heart
allows us to say. And you cannot say that and
mean it without the Holy spirit inside of you. Aba,
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the intimate Aramaic word for father, which is what drove
the Pharisees and Sadducees and the religious people crazy when
he taught the regular people to say Abba, Father, who
art heaven? How dare you? They can't call him daddy? Really,
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they just did. It's intimacy, it's relationship with God as
his children, just like Adam had. That's what this has
been about, to get us all back to that intimacy.
And it cannot happen in the old flesh. It can
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only happen in the new, resurrected body. It can only
receive that spirit into a different body. So when we
become clothed with Messiah, when we literally put on the
Lord is our new identity. In covering, he covers up
what we were to make us what we are now,
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which is redeemed and resurrected with him. Are you seeing it?
Are you getting it? Are you finding your way out
of the dues and don'ts and couldn'ts and won'ts. Are
you looking at the rituals and the rules and the
regulations and all the things that you've been told you
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had to do, and understanding now why it frustrated you,
Why it never felt good, You'd never felt free. You
always knew deep inside there had to be something more
than this, because it wasn't working. I mean I knew
that when I was twelve, and then fourteen, and then
throughout most of my adult life. It wasn't until later
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that I figured out where I could find it at
the cross, when I became redeemed and resurrected with him.
See that's why that date October ninth, nineteen eighty eight,
somewhere around eleven forty five am, it's so important to me.
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It's the date I became redeemed, and when I stood
up from that altar, it was a new creation. You
should have made of old declaration in John ten ten.
The thief does not come except to steal and to
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kill and to destroy. I have come that they may
have life, and they may have it more abundantly, abundantly.
It's a sense of beyond in quantity or superior in quality,
and by implications, it's excessive. It's a life of excess. Oh,
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not material excess. That's what Satan wants you to have,
one of spiritual excess, of peace and love and joy,
the fruit of the spirit, not the fruit of the flesh.
That's what this has been about. It's about life, the
resurrected life. And he wasn't talking about being alive. We
are already alive. But this is a life in the
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Greek Zoe, an absolute fullness, both essential and ethical, which
only belongs to God, but has imparted to us. He said,
I came so that you might have the life of God.
That's the far more accurate and in agreement with the
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rest of what the Lord taught regarding union with God.
You're sure Jesus is the life of God. And when
we receive him, we receive his life in us. And
when he became resurrected, when he became the resurrected man,
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when he became the new Man, a new creature. That's
what we embraced, that's what we became. And the Greek
word for a abundantly is parisan p e r ass
o n. It literally means to have it more abundantly,
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exceedingly superior, supremely, superior, extraordinary, uncommon, remarkable. Is not the
life you want. It's the life I want. And that's
why I'm so discouraged by this world looking to tear
you down, looking to strip it from you, looking to
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keep you from having it, and the enemy interfering with everything.
And that's why I have to set my mind on
things above. I gotta look up, I gotta pray, I
gotta praise, I gotta dance, I gotta do whatever it
takes to get that weight off of me and to
choose to have it abundantly. The expansion of my life
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away from Adam and to your sure a different, superior life,
the life that the fat world does not have, and
the life that you sure offers us is the life
of God himself in control of our words and our deeds.
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And this life of God is vastly superior to the
cursed life that all men inherited from Adam. This new
life is radically different, as radically different as a man
who has lived underground his entire life suddenly coming pump
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above ground to see the sun, the sky, the planets,
and the animals, and the wind and the stars, and going, oh,
my God, this is life. He came so that we
have life abundantly, a superior life of God. Johnny twelve.
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You Shore had said, I am the light of the world.
He follows me shall not walk in darkness, but have
the light of life. Hmm. Interesting phrase. The light of
life divinely ordained and empowered Genesis two seven. In the
Lord formed a man of the dust of the ground
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and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life, and
man became a living being. So when mancame a life,
and then all the divinely created living things, this breath
was infused or inspired with the essence of our abba Father.
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He breathed himself into Adam, which unfortunately Adam lost when
he fell in the garden, which is what we got
back in Yeshiah through the Holy Spirit. The Cross was
meant to restore us to that life, the resurrected life,
a more abundant, a superior life, the life of God
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instead of the life of Hacatan, Satan, the fallen, the
spirit of God instead of the spirit of Satan, and
the fallen love instead of lost humility instead of pride,
the fruit of the spirit instead of the fruit of
the flesh. Born again, drawn out of darkness to walk
in the light, to have the light of life restored
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to the life of God, the life that Adam and
Eve lost in the garden when God told them that
they would surely die, and they did spiritually, they began
to die on that day, and they began to live
the life of Satan, of pain, of sorrow, of hunger,
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of loss, of darkness, because darkness is death. Light is life.
Every week during shabbaht we recite or I recite John
one and John one verses four and five. It says
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in him was life, and the life was the light
of men. And the light shined in the darkness, and
the darkness did not comprehend it, which means the light
shines and the darkness, and the darkness never overpowered it,
never put it out, never absorbed it, appropriated it, but
it's completely unreceptive to it. So at the creation Life
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was the beginning of all original creation Genesis one three.
So when believers received the light of life, we become
part of the new creation resurrected with him. It's so simple,
and that's why the enemy doesn't want us to get it.
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Oswald Chambers says, all of Heaven is interested in the
Cross of Christ. Hell is afraid of it. And while
mannerally wants to ignore its meaning, Heaven is interested in
the cross. Hell is afraid of it. Men ignore it
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an indifference, tewod Corinthians. Force was starting Verse one. Therefore,
since we you and I me, all of us have
this ministry, as we have received mercy, we do not
lose heart. But we have renounced the hidden things of shame,
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not walking and craftiness, nor handling the word of God deceitfully,
but by manifestation of the truth, commending ourself to every
man's conscience in the sight of God. But even if
our gospel is veiled, its veiled to those who are perishing,
whose mind the God of this age has blinded, who
do not believe. Lest the light of the Gospel of
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the glory of Messiah, who is the image of God,
should shine on them. But we do not preach ourselves.
But Messiah is shoe of the Lord, and ourselves your
bond servants. For your shoe is sake. For it is
God who commanded light to shine out of the darkness,
who has shown in our hearts, to give the light
(57:27):
of the knowledge of the glory of God and the
face of Jesus the Messiah. That's all that really matters.
All this other stuff is fluff and nonsense. It means nothing.
We're called to live a resurrected life as examples to
(57:48):
a world that is dying dead. The resurrecting life cannot
be overpowered or stolen by the enemy. The enemy cannot
undo the Cross, cannot undo the empty tomb or the
upper room. The enemy can only trick us into ignoring
the victory and the authority of the Cross, of the
(58:11):
empty tomb, of the upper room, and willingly, wilfully go
back into bondage. And to all of that, I say, now,
thank you for playing pick up your parting lips on
the way out. I'm not going to do that. I'm
going to live the resurrected life because the Lord is
(58:32):
alive forevermore, and so are we. Father. Thank you, Thank
you for the Cross. Thank you for resurrecting us. Thank
you for taking away the curse. Thank you for removing
what Adam did. Thank you, Lord for giving us our
life and God back, our relationship with the Father back.
(58:56):
Let us walk, let us shine, Let us be filled
with your spirit. Right now now, Let us do all
of these things at a time when the world is
caught up in so many of the wrong things, the
dos and the don'ts, and the coodn'ts and the won'ts,
And get them back to you at the cross, to
find their way to the empty tomb, resurrected alive, and
(59:19):
then into the upper room filled with the Holy Spirit,
to take that out into the world and destroy the
work of the enemy and set the captives free. Help us, Lord,
help us, Holy Spirit, have your way with us. Touch
my brothers, my sisters, Touch me, help us to live
the resurrected life. And I pray all these things in
(59:44):
your shoe his name. Amen. May the Lord bless you
and keep you. May the Lord make his face to
shine upon you and be gracious to you. May the Lord,
I don't I you shoe a hummush, You are Jesus
the Messiah, lift up his countenance upon you and give
(01:00:05):
you peace. Give you Chalon. I'm Richard Grunn. This has
been the Porch on Firefall Talk Radio.
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