Title: Why Jesus Christ Died Meta: Grace to you and peace from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ, who gave himself for our sins to deliver us from the present evil age, according to the will of our God and Father, to whom be the glory forever and ever. Amen. - Galatians 1:3-5 Tags: Jesus,Christ,died,gospel,savior,john,Galatians,believe,salvation,christian,church,good,news 1 00:00:13,180 --> 00:00:15,000 Could we pray again? 2 00:00:25,070 --> 00:00:31,589 Lord, I've brought a bottle of water up here. 3 00:00:31,590 --> 00:00:35,240 I pray Lord, that I... 4 00:00:38,050 --> 00:00:44,130 might be able to bring something of a refreshing, 5 00:00:44,760 --> 00:00:47,320 a refreshment to your people. 6 00:00:53,800 --> 00:00:59,710 We are thankful for the glorious gospel of the blessed God. 7 00:01:03,820 --> 00:01:06,160 We are thankful... 8 00:01:07,640 --> 00:01:13,480 that You've not destined us, so many as have truly believed, 9 00:01:14,130 --> 00:01:16,990 that You've not destined us for wrath 10 00:01:17,800 --> 00:01:19,690 but for salvation. 11 00:01:21,720 --> 00:01:24,500 We are thankful tonight... 12 00:01:27,430 --> 00:01:34,730 for the blessed hope of the glorious appearing of our great God and Savior Jesus Christ. 13 00:01:38,510 --> 00:01:43,250 A lot of songs have been sung today, but none of them are like the songs, 14 00:01:44,110 --> 00:01:47,630 none of them are like the songs that You've given us to sing. 15 00:01:53,040 --> 00:01:57,560 There's been a lot of talk in the world today, 16 00:01:58,880 --> 00:02:02,550 but none of it is like what You've given us to talk about. 17 00:02:10,020 --> 00:02:17,780 There's been a lot of attention to kings and noble men, 18 00:02:20,890 --> 00:02:24,320 but none of them compare... 19 00:02:26,590 --> 00:02:28,770 with You, Lord Jesus. 20 00:02:38,420 --> 00:02:41,710 There's been a lot of things done today, 21 00:02:42,520 --> 00:02:45,269 many works have been done, 22 00:02:45,270 --> 00:02:51,279 people have done their job today, 23 00:02:51,280 --> 00:02:56,290 but none of it compares, Lord, with the work that You did on Calvary 24 00:03:00,150 --> 00:03:02,410 when You put away our sin, 25 00:03:03,330 --> 00:03:06,070 of the sacrifice of Yourself. 26 00:03:14,400 --> 00:03:20,920 We bless You, Lord, tonight and we wonder, Lord, today 27 00:03:21,710 --> 00:03:25,289 how many idols You've toppled 28 00:03:25,290 --> 00:03:27,180 in the hearts of men? 29 00:03:27,740 --> 00:03:31,980 How many of them brought into the Kingdom of God today, 30 00:03:32,770 --> 00:03:39,390 how many have been rescued from the devil's domain this day? 31 00:03:39,680 --> 00:03:42,660 And we pray Lord, that... 32 00:03:44,350 --> 00:03:49,190 You'd bless us tonight right here as we're gathered in the name of Jesus. 33 00:03:50,630 --> 00:03:59,100 We ask You, Lord, for Your nearness, which is our good; 34 00:04:00,360 --> 00:04:03,080 Your presence, which is our peace. 35 00:04:03,900 --> 00:04:07,490 We ask You, Lord, for help and healing, 36 00:04:09,280 --> 00:04:10,539 for the inner man, 37 00:04:10,540 --> 00:04:12,059 for the outer man. 38 00:04:12,060 --> 00:04:14,439 We know You will, one day. 39 00:04:14,440 --> 00:04:16,919 In the days of Your flesh, 40 00:04:16,920 --> 00:04:19,229 You went about doing good, 41 00:04:19,230 --> 00:04:22,420 healing those who were oppressed by the devil. 42 00:04:23,140 --> 00:04:25,719 And we pray, Lord, You'd do it again 43 00:04:25,720 --> 00:04:27,540 and again and again. 44 00:04:28,690 --> 00:04:32,460 And even here, in and through our lives, 45 00:04:33,040 --> 00:04:37,130 help us and nerve our faint endeavor. 46 00:04:37,970 --> 00:04:42,190 And we pray tonight, Your Kingdom come and Your will be done. 47 00:04:43,990 --> 00:04:46,700 Unite our hearts to fear Your name. 48 00:04:47,490 --> 00:04:49,160 Do not be far. 49 00:04:49,610 --> 00:04:52,910 We ask Lord, that You'd show us more of Your glory 50 00:04:53,660 --> 00:04:57,880 and that You'd show us more about Jesus. 51 00:04:58,600 --> 00:04:59,799 And help us, 52 00:04:59,800 --> 00:05:01,139 equip us, 53 00:05:01,140 --> 00:05:06,120 arm us to better work for You, to better walk with You, 54 00:05:07,100 --> 00:05:09,830 the better enjoy You. 55 00:05:10,890 --> 00:05:12,180 Amen.(P) 56 00:05:27,560 --> 00:05:34,560 I spoke Thursday night, something of the last words of Peter. 57 00:05:35,480 --> 00:05:44,409 And then last night, the last words of Joshua, 58 00:05:44,410 --> 00:05:47,510 "You are to cling to the Lord."(Joshua) 59 00:05:48,420 --> 00:05:53,469 And so I'm not going to be speaking on last things. 60 00:05:53,470 --> 00:05:55,790 That's the last of the last things. 61 00:05:57,790 --> 00:06:01,740 But rather, on the first things. 62 00:06:02,330 --> 00:06:05,810 Things that Paul says are of the first importance, 63 00:06:07,040 --> 00:06:08,509 that is, 64 00:06:08,510 --> 00:06:10,080 the gospel. 65 00:06:11,350 --> 00:06:17,680 And taking it from Galatians chapter one. 66 00:06:28,470 --> 00:06:35,220 Let's read the first five verses.(P) 67 00:06:37,080 --> 00:06:50,409 Paul, an apostle, not sent from men nor the agency of man, but through Jesus Christ and God the Father, 68 00:06:50,410 --> 00:06:53,399 who raised Him from the dead, 69 00:06:53,400 --> 00:06:56,870 and all the brethren who are with me, 70 00:07:00,120 --> 00:07:02,420 To the churches of Galatia: 71 00:07:03,180 --> 00:07:10,480 Grace to you and peace from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ, 72 00:07:10,860 --> 00:07:13,030 who gave Himself 73 00:07:19,240 --> 00:07:23,140 for our sins 74 00:07:24,180 --> 00:07:31,419 so that He might rescue us, or deliver us 75 00:07:31,420 --> 00:07:37,810 from this present evil age, or world, 76 00:07:39,570 --> 00:07:44,089 according to the will of our God and Father, 77 00:07:44,090 --> 00:07:48,229 to whom be the glory forevermore. 78 00:07:48,230 --> 00:07:49,650 Amen.(P) 79 00:07:56,090 --> 00:08:04,200 Paul opens this letter to the Galatians with this 80 00:08:06,060 --> 00:08:08,680 glorious gospel statement. 81 00:08:09,670 --> 00:08:13,760 Now why do you think he opened the letter like that? 82 00:08:15,940 --> 00:08:20,760 Surely it was because of... 83 00:08:24,930 --> 00:08:27,690 the leaven that had been slipped in. 84 00:08:28,670 --> 00:08:34,850 Paul says he's telling them that some of them have come in among you and they have brought in a different gospel, 85 00:08:35,600 --> 00:08:38,480 which is not really a different gospel, 86 00:08:38,990 --> 00:08:41,750 but rather a distorted gospel. 87 00:08:43,830 --> 00:08:49,820 And so he wants to open the letter to them with a statement of the true gospel. 88 00:08:50,300 --> 00:08:56,740 Like Psalm 1 says, the best way to expose a crooked stick is to put a straight one right down beside it.(P) 89 00:08:58,720 --> 00:09:03,890 And so, I'd like to speak on verse four and five. 90 00:09:04,750 --> 00:09:07,740 These three words could be the title: 91 00:09:08,290 --> 00:09:11,410 Why Christ Died.(P) 92 00:09:17,650 --> 00:09:22,360 There's four reasons stated here.(P) 93 00:09:25,170 --> 00:09:28,030 Number 1: Christ died, 94 00:09:28,690 --> 00:09:33,650 first phrase, He gave Himself for our sins.(P) 95 00:09:35,030 --> 00:09:37,520 The second reason that He died, 96 00:09:38,280 --> 00:09:44,130 is so that He might rescue us from this present evil age.(P) 97 00:09:45,230 --> 00:09:49,239 The third reason that Christ died 98 00:09:49,240 --> 00:09:52,640 is to fulfill the will of the God the Father.(P) 99 00:09:54,350 --> 00:09:57,289 And the fourth reason that He died, 100 00:09:57,290 --> 00:09:59,930 is to bring glory to the Father.(P) 101 00:10:01,620 --> 00:10:05,469 And so we'll be looking at it, 102 00:10:05,470 --> 00:10:07,180 those four points, 103 00:10:07,730 --> 00:10:11,350 phrase by phrase and almost word by word.(P) 104 00:10:13,390 --> 00:10:21,559 The first reason that Christ died is that He died for our sins, 105 00:10:21,560 --> 00:10:24,590 He gave Himself for our sins. 106 00:10:25,270 --> 00:10:30,330 That is, to pay off our sin debt, to pay off that penalty. 107 00:10:31,310 --> 00:10:34,109 It says that He gave Himself. 108 00:10:34,110 --> 00:10:36,870 I'm underlining the word "gave". 109 00:10:38,380 --> 00:10:40,979 Have you ever noticed all of that? 110 00:10:40,980 --> 00:10:42,530 Surely you have. 111 00:10:43,500 --> 00:10:47,759 In Mark or Matthew chapter twenty, it says, 112 00:10:47,760 --> 00:10:52,050 "the Son of Man did not come to be served, 113 00:10:52,200 --> 00:10:58,440 but to serve and give His life as a ransom, give His life a ransom for many." (Matthew )(P) 114 00:10:59,110 --> 00:11:01,399 In Luke twenty-two it says, 115 00:11:01,400 --> 00:11:06,200 "This is my body, which is given for you." (Luke 22:19)(P) 116 00:11:07,070 --> 00:11:10,439 And in Galatians chapter two it says, 117 00:11:10,440 --> 00:11:15,010 "He loved me and gave himself for me." (Galatians 2:20)(P) 118 00:11:15,530 --> 00:11:17,749 In Ephesians chapter five it says, 119 00:11:17,750 --> 00:11:22,220 "He loved the church and gave Himself for her." (Ephesians 5:25)(P) 120 00:11:22,790 --> 00:11:24,839 In 1 Timothy two it says 121 00:11:24,840 --> 00:11:33,539 that there is one God and one mediator between God and men, the man Christ Jesus, who gave Himself 122 00:11:33,540 --> 00:11:35,870 a ransom for us all. (1 Timothy 2:5-6)(P) 123 00:11:40,270 --> 00:11:43,840 You have to conclude, don't you, 124 00:11:45,460 --> 00:11:48,920 that the Lord Jesus was not a selfish person. 125 00:11:53,330 --> 00:11:55,790 He is the glorious Giver.(P) 126 00:12:00,610 --> 00:12:04,399 Secondly, the Word "Himself" 127 00:12:04,400 --> 00:12:06,240 - He gave Himself.(P) 128 00:12:08,690 --> 00:12:10,399 One time Johnny, 129 00:12:10,400 --> 00:12:18,970 we were on campus preaching and talking about God sending His own Son And the objector says, 130 00:12:19,860 --> 00:12:24,290 "Well, that makes God the Father a murderer. He murdered His own Son." 131 00:12:25,750 --> 00:12:30,500 And we said, "Well, the Son did it by agreement 132 00:12:31,010 --> 00:12:34,169 and furthermore, the Son gave Himself, 133 00:12:34,170 --> 00:12:37,910 and furthermore, the Father and the Son are one, in essence." 134 00:12:39,530 --> 00:12:44,850 The Lord gave Himself. He did not give lambs, though He owned it all. 135 00:12:45,710 --> 00:12:48,600 Did not give gold, He owned it all. 136 00:12:49,460 --> 00:12:51,040 Did not give animals, 137 00:12:51,370 --> 00:13:03,800 not all the beasts on Jewish alters slain could give the guilty conscience peace or wash away it's stain. 138 00:13:04,200 --> 00:13:05,810 He gave Himself. 139 00:13:06,210 --> 00:13:07,939 Animals wouldn't do- 140 00:13:07,940 --> 00:13:09,389 they're not infinite 141 00:13:09,390 --> 00:13:11,080 and they're not man. 142 00:13:12,060 --> 00:13:15,000 And then, so, God sent His Lamb, 143 00:13:15,350 --> 00:13:16,939 who was man and God- 144 00:13:16,940 --> 00:13:20,619 man to identify and God to pacify, 145 00:13:20,620 --> 00:13:26,900 to satisfy all of God's righteous requirements.(P) 146 00:13:27,480 --> 00:13:29,870 So He gave Himself.(P) 147 00:13:30,290 --> 00:13:32,230 And then at the next word... 148 00:13:33,830 --> 00:13:39,160 I'm just taking it as simple as I can, so I hope you can enjoy it. 149 00:13:41,270 --> 00:13:44,210 And at the next word is the word "for". 150 00:13:45,990 --> 00:13:48,530 A pretty simple word, isn't it? 151 00:13:49,090 --> 00:13:54,060 But some have said its' the most powerful word in the language.(P) 152 00:13:55,050 --> 00:13:58,749 "He gave Himself for our sins." 153 00:13:58,750 --> 00:14:02,619 A pretty simple word; we use it all the time. 154 00:14:02,620 --> 00:14:04,689 You know, "What will you give me for this car?" 155 00:14:04,690 --> 00:14:08,910 "For this car, I'll give you five thousand dollars." 156 00:14:09,630 --> 00:14:12,780 And so we use that word all the time.(P) 157 00:14:13,320 --> 00:14:16,570 It indicates an exchange, 158 00:14:16,860 --> 00:14:18,290 a substitution. 159 00:14:18,990 --> 00:14:22,590 You know, I get the car, he gets the five thousand dollars. 160 00:14:23,330 --> 00:14:27,560 And so this little word "for", it's teaching 161 00:14:29,160 --> 00:14:31,050 that the Lord died for us, 162 00:14:31,480 --> 00:14:33,089 He died in our place; 163 00:14:33,090 --> 00:14:36,990 it's teaching substitutionary atonement.(P) 164 00:14:39,110 --> 00:14:41,879 He died for us, and Peter says, 165 00:14:41,880 --> 00:14:44,569 "the just for the unjust, 166 00:14:44,570 --> 00:14:46,750 that he might bring us to God". (1 Peter 3:18)(P) 167 00:14:47,320 --> 00:14:49,029 In another place it says, 168 00:14:49,030 --> 00:14:53,270 "He who knew no sin, was made to be sin for us; 169 00:14:53,920 --> 00:14:57,320 that we might be made the righteousness of God in him." (2Corinthians 5:21)(P) 170 00:14:59,220 --> 00:15:00,800 The next word- 171 00:15:02,070 --> 00:15:06,280 "He gave Himself for our sins". 172 00:15:12,410 --> 00:15:14,150 For our sins. 173 00:15:15,710 --> 00:15:24,019 Sometimes the atonement is specified in very personal terms, 174 00:15:24,020 --> 00:15:27,720 very narrow personal terms, like Galatians 2:20, 175 00:15:28,170 --> 00:15:33,710 "He loved me (me) and gave Himself for me."(P) 176 00:15:34,360 --> 00:15:38,300 Sometimes it's specified in very broad terms. 177 00:15:40,220 --> 00:15:44,490 "The Lamb of God who takes away the sin of the world."(John 1:29) 178 00:15:45,860 --> 00:15:51,499 "God was in Christ reconciling the world to Himself, 179 00:15:51,500 --> 00:15:53,179 (the world), 180 00:15:53,180 --> 00:15:56,490 not imputing their trespasses against them." (2 Corinthians )(P) 181 00:15:56,980 --> 00:16:00,259 John 4:42 the Samaritan says, 182 00:16:00,260 --> 00:16:03,859 "Now we know, you are the Savior of the world". 183 00:16:03,860 --> 00:16:05,120 The world! 184 00:16:06,980 --> 00:16:10,330 We know it's not universal salvation, 185 00:16:12,380 --> 00:16:16,310 as we know not everybody is going to heaven, some are going to hell. 186 00:16:17,580 --> 00:16:24,610 And so world, it must mean not all without exception, but all without distinction. 187 00:16:25,470 --> 00:16:29,599 He redeemed a people for God with His blood, 188 00:16:29,600 --> 00:16:31,139 out of every tribe, 189 00:16:31,140 --> 00:16:31,709 tongue, 190 00:16:31,710 --> 00:16:33,190 people and nation.(P) 191 00:16:34,040 --> 00:16:37,270 But here is says our sins, 192 00:16:41,770 --> 00:16:43,290 talking about who? 193 00:16:43,970 --> 00:16:46,370 Talking about the church, right? 194 00:16:48,880 --> 00:16:51,330 In Ephesians five it says, 195 00:16:51,610 --> 00:16:56,440 "He loved the church and gave himself for her." (Ephesians )(P) 196 00:16:58,710 --> 00:17:00,800 It says in Acts twenty, 197 00:17:01,230 --> 00:17:06,450 "To shepherd the church of God, which he purchased with His own blood." (Acts 20:28)(P) 198 00:17:08,190 --> 00:17:11,360 He gave Himself for our sins. 199 00:17:14,020 --> 00:17:18,409 You're not going to get the comfort out of the atonement that you could or should if you don't 200 00:17:18,410 --> 00:17:22,370 believe that Jesus died personally for you personally!(P) 201 00:17:28,500 --> 00:17:31,129 The next word- sins, 202 00:17:31,130 --> 00:17:35,990 "He gave Himself for our sins." 203 00:17:38,040 --> 00:17:42,420 The problem is not economy, 204 00:17:43,070 --> 00:17:45,419 it's not education, is it? 205 00:17:45,420 --> 00:17:47,500 It's not environment, 206 00:17:49,470 --> 00:17:50,529 it's not hurts, 207 00:17:50,530 --> 00:17:51,509 not mistakes, 208 00:17:51,510 --> 00:17:53,020 not my upbringing. 209 00:17:55,530 --> 00:17:58,450 If you're going to get in on this, 210 00:17:59,050 --> 00:18:05,030 you've got to realize that you're a sinner because Jesus just died for sins. 211 00:18:07,220 --> 00:18:09,819 All that other is just symptoms. 212 00:18:09,820 --> 00:18:13,299 The supreme problem of the human race is sin, 213 00:18:13,300 --> 00:18:17,030 and the supreme problem of my heart is sin. 214 00:18:17,800 --> 00:18:21,629 So quit shifting the blame and say, 215 00:18:21,630 --> 00:18:25,030 "God be merciful to me, the sinner!"(P) 216 00:18:29,350 --> 00:18:31,680 And, you notice, it's plural. 217 00:18:32,630 --> 00:18:36,120 I mean, it's not just part of them, 218 00:18:37,060 --> 00:18:39,960 it's all of them- the small and the great, 219 00:18:42,120 --> 00:18:44,980 past and the present and the future. 220 00:18:47,360 --> 00:18:49,300 Jesus paid it all! 221 00:18:54,080 --> 00:18:55,579 Paid in full; 222 00:18:55,580 --> 00:18:57,040 my bad record 223 00:18:57,490 --> 00:19:02,970 taken care of because of what Jesus did for me on Calvary.(P) 224 00:19:09,180 --> 00:19:11,499 When I truly, 225 00:19:11,500 --> 00:19:12,609 sincerely, 226 00:19:12,610 --> 00:19:13,549 really, 227 00:19:13,550 --> 00:19:14,559 genuinely, 228 00:19:14,560 --> 00:19:18,700 genuinely believe on Jesus and what He did on the cross, 229 00:19:20,490 --> 00:19:24,800 a major legal transaction occurs, right? 230 00:19:25,510 --> 00:19:29,090 My guilt is put on His books 231 00:19:29,840 --> 00:19:33,220 and His righteousness is put on my books, 232 00:19:33,680 --> 00:19:40,389 and then I have a righteousness equal with the Lord Jesus Christ Himself. 233 00:19:40,390 --> 00:19:43,589 Bold I approach the eternal throne, 234 00:19:43,590 --> 00:19:44,900 best in this!(P) 235 00:19:55,270 --> 00:19:58,950 "The Lord gave Himself for our sins." 236 00:20:00,270 --> 00:20:01,970 And I'm in free, 237 00:20:04,110 --> 00:20:07,590 absolutely, fully free forever! 238 00:20:08,160 --> 00:20:09,769 That's the gospel; 239 00:20:09,770 --> 00:20:11,340 or that's part of it.(P) 240 00:20:16,030 --> 00:20:18,510 If I'm that way accepted, 241 00:20:19,460 --> 00:20:20,289 so freely, 242 00:20:20,290 --> 00:20:21,350 so simply, 243 00:20:21,720 --> 00:20:23,520 if I'm accepted, 244 00:20:24,460 --> 00:20:28,040 if I've got the trophy before I run the race, 245 00:20:29,790 --> 00:20:34,460 does that mean that I can go on sinning and live anyway, 246 00:20:36,330 --> 00:20:37,330 anyhow? 247 00:20:38,360 --> 00:20:39,600 No.(P) 248 00:20:40,130 --> 00:20:43,570 That brings us to the second phrase, the second heading. 249 00:20:44,250 --> 00:20:44,919 It says, 250 00:20:44,920 --> 00:20:46,530 "So that, 251 00:20:50,170 --> 00:20:58,050 he might rescue us (or deliver us) from this present evil age (or world)."(P) 252 00:21:00,720 --> 00:21:02,259 "So that", 253 00:21:02,260 --> 00:21:05,930 look at those two words, "So that". 254 00:21:16,350 --> 00:21:19,820 You see, where redemption has been accomplished, 255 00:21:20,480 --> 00:21:23,160 redemption is then applied. 256 00:21:27,250 --> 00:21:32,910 When the Lord accomplished redemption on Calvary for the elect, 257 00:21:33,880 --> 00:21:36,719 then, in the fullness of time, 258 00:21:36,720 --> 00:21:42,289 the Holy Spirit of God is sent into the heart of that lost sheep 259 00:21:42,290 --> 00:21:44,409 and he's born again 260 00:21:44,410 --> 00:21:47,630 and rescued out of this present evil world.(P) 261 00:21:49,470 --> 00:21:57,010 If I got to stealing watermelons and got caught finally and couldn't pay 262 00:21:57,260 --> 00:21:59,370 and they threw me in jail 263 00:22:00,420 --> 00:22:04,110 and somebody came along and, out of great goodwill, 264 00:22:04,730 --> 00:22:07,730 talked to the judge and paid it all, 265 00:22:08,700 --> 00:22:12,440 justice would demand that the jail door be opened, right? 266 00:22:13,590 --> 00:22:20,350 My family might say, "Hey, it's not right for you to leave the door shut. It's already been taken care of."(P) 267 00:22:21,310 --> 00:22:22,749 And so it says, 268 00:22:22,750 --> 00:22:27,260 "so that, He might deliver us from this present evil world."(P) 269 00:22:33,130 --> 00:22:37,430 Let's look at the word deliver or rescue. 270 00:22:38,100 --> 00:22:42,790 You know, what I'm trying to tell you is that there's power in the blood. 271 00:22:44,560 --> 00:22:48,220 You know, the Lord did not just go to the salvage yard 272 00:22:49,120 --> 00:22:51,770 and buy that old wrecked car. 273 00:22:52,430 --> 00:22:59,720 He bought it and takes it home and fixes it up better than it ever was in its original condition.(P) 274 00:23:01,070 --> 00:23:05,409 And so it says, over and over, verses like Titus chapter two, 275 00:23:05,410 --> 00:23:12,549 "He gave himself for us to redeem us from every lawless deed 276 00:23:12,550 --> 00:23:15,660 and to purify a people for himself, 277 00:23:15,850 --> 00:23:17,780 zealous of good works." (Titus )(P) 278 00:23:18,680 --> 00:23:20,580 Romans chapter eight, it says, 279 00:23:20,970 --> 00:23:25,389 "He who spared not his own son, but delivered him up for us all, 280 00:23:25,390 --> 00:23:30,649 how shall he not with him, then, really give us all things, 281 00:23:30,650 --> 00:23:33,800 all things pertaining to life and godliness?" (Romans 8:32)(P) 282 00:23:34,430 --> 00:23:38,089 It says, "His name shall be called Jesus for he shall save his people," 283 00:23:38,090 --> 00:23:42,720 yes in their sin, but also, "from their sins". (Matthew )(P) 284 00:23:45,880 --> 00:23:48,880 So it says here, deliver or rescue. 285 00:23:50,100 --> 00:23:52,240 I like that. 286 00:23:53,070 --> 00:23:56,490 I mean, other religions, 287 00:23:56,740 --> 00:23:58,409 they've got their prophets 288 00:23:58,410 --> 00:23:59,749 and they've got their leaders 289 00:23:59,750 --> 00:24:01,490 and they've got their teachers. 290 00:24:02,560 --> 00:24:05,260 But our Lord Jesus is more than that, 291 00:24:05,470 --> 00:24:06,629 He's a deliverer, 292 00:24:06,630 --> 00:24:07,980 He's our rescuer. 293 00:24:11,820 --> 00:24:20,070 A firefighter, when he goes out on a call and there's somebody still in there, he doesn't holler in commands to them, 294 00:24:20,410 --> 00:24:22,880 "Come on out of there, save yourself." 295 00:24:23,470 --> 00:24:25,820 He goes in and drags them out. 296 00:24:26,380 --> 00:24:29,660 And so it says here, "to deliver us", 297 00:24:29,950 --> 00:24:31,100 to rescue us, 298 00:24:32,840 --> 00:24:34,600 to redeem us.(P) 299 00:24:35,830 --> 00:24:40,530 Thus we are no more, when we are born again then. No more slaves of sin, 300 00:24:41,090 --> 00:24:45,119 no more slaves of society's standards and smiles, 301 00:24:45,120 --> 00:24:47,519 no more slaves of Satan. 302 00:24:47,520 --> 00:24:51,530 But rather, salves to God and slaves to righteousness. 303 00:24:53,190 --> 00:24:56,580 And so, He delivers us from the present evil world.(P) 304 00:24:56,680 --> 00:25:02,890 Now, in the first phrase- we've been delivered from the penalty of sin. 305 00:25:03,230 --> 00:25:07,890 In the second phrase- we've been delivered from the power of our sins 306 00:25:08,230 --> 00:25:14,640 and eventually even from the presence of our sins, that is, in heaven. 307 00:25:15,240 --> 00:25:18,820 Right now, the work has been begun, right? 308 00:25:19,390 --> 00:25:23,180 And we're just strangers and pilgrims and sojourners. 309 00:25:23,690 --> 00:25:26,049 Our citizenship is in heaven. 310 00:25:26,050 --> 00:25:30,639 And then the Lord comes back and restores all things. And in the regeneration, 311 00:25:30,640 --> 00:25:33,540 I mean the big regeneration, 312 00:25:34,330 --> 00:25:40,840 then we'll be with Him and we'll be like Him entirely, free from the presence of sin.(P) 313 00:25:42,370 --> 00:25:45,240 So, number one: why did Christ die? 314 00:25:45,890 --> 00:25:48,249 He gave Himself for our sins. 315 00:25:48,250 --> 00:25:53,960 Secondly, to deliver us from this present evil world.(P) 316 00:25:54,920 --> 00:25:57,080 It says this present world, 317 00:25:57,570 --> 00:26:00,160 in contrast to the future world, 318 00:26:00,770 --> 00:26:03,480 in which righteousness dwells. 319 00:26:04,310 --> 00:26:06,780 And it's called an evil world. 320 00:26:07,110 --> 00:26:10,200 Now do I need to convince anybody about that? 321 00:26:10,620 --> 00:26:12,680 This present evil world. 322 00:26:13,000 --> 00:26:17,469 You go back to the beginning, right after Adam and Eve sinned, 323 00:26:17,470 --> 00:26:19,360 we find them lying. 324 00:26:19,970 --> 00:26:25,650 And then you go to the next chapter and you find the first two brothers, one of them killed the other. 325 00:26:25,920 --> 00:26:33,130 And then you go three more chapters and we have the Genesis flood. 326 00:26:33,900 --> 00:26:39,229 Every thought of the intent of man's heart was only evil continually, 327 00:26:39,230 --> 00:26:41,210 from his youth right on up. 328 00:26:41,800 --> 00:26:45,849 And then you go a few more chapters and God had to destroy Babel. 329 00:26:45,850 --> 00:26:50,709 You go a few more chapters and you find Sodom had to be burned down. 330 00:26:50,710 --> 00:26:56,189 And a few more chapters and the iniquity of the Amorites.(P) 331 00:26:56,190 --> 00:26:59,319 All of this, right back just from the beginning 332 00:26:59,320 --> 00:27:01,110 of the history of the world. 333 00:27:01,740 --> 00:27:03,960 And so man has gone on. 334 00:27:04,850 --> 00:27:10,399 He's gone on loving darkness rather than light, 335 00:27:10,400 --> 00:27:12,209 loving self rather than God, 336 00:27:12,210 --> 00:27:14,520 drinking iniquity like water. 337 00:27:16,560 --> 00:27:23,770 And it doesn't... see, it's not that far from us; look at the twentieth century. 338 00:27:24,940 --> 00:27:28,860 Hitler slaughtered some twenty million; 339 00:27:29,190 --> 00:27:32,059 and then Stalin, some forty million; 340 00:27:32,060 --> 00:27:35,100 and then Mao, upward to seventy million.(P) 341 00:27:37,920 --> 00:27:41,340 And lest we think, "Why, those beasts!" 342 00:27:42,000 --> 00:27:43,589 look at ourselves. 343 00:27:43,590 --> 00:27:48,770 The nation hadn't been in existence but four score and seven years, when we had our own civil war 344 00:27:49,220 --> 00:27:51,310 and killed a half a million. 345 00:27:51,830 --> 00:27:54,299 And not only that, what about abortion? 346 00:27:54,300 --> 00:27:58,789 In the last forty years we've killed over forty million of our own babies.(P) 347 00:27:58,790 --> 00:28:02,629 This present evil world-characterized by death, 348 00:28:02,630 --> 00:28:03,179 disease, 349 00:28:03,180 --> 00:28:04,089 deficiency, 350 00:28:04,090 --> 00:28:05,080 cruelty. 351 00:28:08,970 --> 00:28:10,920 Is that your worldview? 352 00:28:12,580 --> 00:28:15,539 Or do you think the world's a pretty nice place, 353 00:28:15,540 --> 00:28:16,710 "It's alright," 354 00:28:18,050 --> 00:28:19,720 "I'm comfortable"?(P) 355 00:28:22,240 --> 00:28:26,070 This ought to be your worldview- "This present evil world". 356 00:28:26,670 --> 00:28:31,360 We are looking for a new heavens and a new earth, if you've been born again. 357 00:28:34,260 --> 00:28:37,690 The world is on a head on collision course with God. 358 00:28:40,100 --> 00:28:45,470 But for us, we have been rescued from this present evil world.(P) 359 00:28:47,990 --> 00:28:50,760 A third reason that Christ died, 360 00:28:51,140 --> 00:28:53,020 the third phrase here 361 00:28:53,510 --> 00:28:58,880 is- He died to fulfill the will of God our Father. 362 00:29:01,370 --> 00:29:04,280 That's the struggle of the universe, isn't it? 363 00:29:06,490 --> 00:29:09,260 I mean, it's one big power struggle- 364 00:29:11,170 --> 00:29:12,779 parents and children, 365 00:29:12,780 --> 00:29:14,350 husband and wife, 366 00:29:15,770 --> 00:29:19,490 king and subject. It's one big power struggle.(P) 367 00:29:20,100 --> 00:29:23,890 But for the Christian, that struggle is settled. 368 00:29:25,590 --> 00:29:28,220 Like Saul on the road to Damascus, 369 00:29:28,640 --> 00:29:32,549 the first thing he said was, "Lord, who are you and what do you want me to do?" 370 00:29:32,550 --> 00:29:33,880 I give up! 371 00:29:34,230 --> 00:29:36,720 "Not my will, but yours be done." 372 00:29:37,630 --> 00:29:39,690 That's why the Lord came. 373 00:29:40,750 --> 00:29:47,350 In a way, the Lord did not come to teach or preach or heal or even, ultimately, to die for our sins. 374 00:29:48,100 --> 00:29:50,629 But you take it way on back further, 375 00:29:50,630 --> 00:29:54,850 and the Lord Jesus came to carry out the will of God, 376 00:29:55,390 --> 00:29:57,640 which was redemption. 377 00:29:59,640 --> 00:30:03,799 When He came, He says, "Lo, I come to do your will, oh God." (Hebrews 10:7) 378 00:30:03,800 --> 00:30:05,360 And He did it.(P) 379 00:30:09,010 --> 00:30:11,500 So the gospel, it's not our idea. 380 00:30:13,590 --> 00:30:18,809 "Oh, the love that drew salvation's plan! Oh, the grace that brought it down to man! 381 00:30:18,810 --> 00:30:22,160 Lined out before the foundation of the world, 382 00:30:23,140 --> 00:30:26,280 carried out in time by the Son of God."(P) 383 00:30:27,390 --> 00:30:29,659 A fourth reason that Christ died, 384 00:30:29,660 --> 00:30:31,290 is this last phrase- 385 00:30:32,260 --> 00:30:34,710 to the glory of God the Father. 386 00:30:35,090 --> 00:30:37,040 The Lord came, 387 00:30:37,280 --> 00:30:40,350 the Lord came for God's glory.(P) 388 00:30:41,300 --> 00:30:44,570 There is a purpose in the universe, isn't there brethren? 389 00:30:45,300 --> 00:30:47,250 Not just for our good, 390 00:30:48,450 --> 00:30:49,939 but for His glory, 391 00:30:49,940 --> 00:30:51,480 for God's glory.(P) 392 00:30:53,890 --> 00:30:57,590 Think of how the death of Christ glorified the Father, 393 00:30:58,880 --> 00:31:01,940 how it glorified the mercy of God. 394 00:31:03,980 --> 00:31:06,479 Mercy at Calvary was great, 395 00:31:06,480 --> 00:31:08,409 and grace was free. 396 00:31:08,410 --> 00:31:13,030 How could it be that I, a child of hell, would in His image shine? 397 00:31:13,560 --> 00:31:19,129 That I've been snatched out of the fire when I've spent my years in vanity and pride? 398 00:31:19,130 --> 00:31:21,319 And here I am, I've got a little light, 399 00:31:21,320 --> 00:31:22,990 I've got a hope of heaven? 400 00:31:23,430 --> 00:31:26,319 What mercy has been bestowed upon us, 401 00:31:26,320 --> 00:31:28,510 what has been lavished upon us! 402 00:31:29,010 --> 00:31:32,610 This is the mercy of God because of the death of Christ.(P) 403 00:31:33,240 --> 00:31:35,189 The mercy, the goodness of God! 404 00:31:35,190 --> 00:31:39,960 Here's Rick and Chad Wiseman back there, father and son. 405 00:31:44,080 --> 00:31:49,960 For seventeen years they were separated because of raw sin- drink, drugs and on and on. 406 00:31:50,820 --> 00:31:55,660 And God came to Rick one year ago and saved him. 407 00:31:55,990 --> 00:31:59,440 And then four months later saved Chad. 408 00:31:59,640 --> 00:32:04,519 And there they are sitting together, partners in the Kingdom. 409 00:32:04,520 --> 00:32:06,660 They love one another's company. 410 00:32:10,300 --> 00:32:14,910 And on and on through all eternity the story could go.(P) 411 00:32:16,390 --> 00:32:24,300 Oh, the death of Christ, how it glorifies the grace of God! 412 00:32:25,420 --> 00:32:30,359 Free unmerited favor- free, free, free unmerited favor, 413 00:32:30,360 --> 00:32:31,580 grace!(P) 414 00:32:32,520 --> 00:32:37,790 The other day I... when we had a big snow storm up there and so I... 415 00:32:38,270 --> 00:32:42,129 got the tractor out with the blade on the back and plowed our driveway out 416 00:32:42,130 --> 00:32:45,030 and then went down to plow the neighbors out. 417 00:32:45,910 --> 00:32:51,360 And I caught something there in his yard and it just sheared the blade right off. 418 00:32:52,510 --> 00:32:54,030 Not minor damage. 419 00:32:54,610 --> 00:32:57,289 And there I was, 420 00:32:57,290 --> 00:32:59,209 half dead anyhow, 421 00:32:59,210 --> 00:33:01,160 and what am I going to do? 422 00:33:02,800 --> 00:33:07,300 You know, you try to help somebody and how do you like that for rotten bananas?(P) 423 00:33:11,010 --> 00:33:16,629 And so I thought of brother Chris and called him, 424 00:33:16,630 --> 00:33:20,360 I mean he said over and over, "Brother, is there anything is I can do to help you?" 425 00:33:22,490 --> 00:33:23,689 Okay. 426 00:33:23,690 --> 00:33:28,890 I called him and he happened to be in town, and he said, "I'll be right out there". 427 00:33:31,430 --> 00:33:35,640 He wouldn't let me touch it, you know, "You just get in the pickup and back up when I say." 428 00:33:36,020 --> 00:33:40,530 And so we got that thing lifted up, he did, in the back of his truck 429 00:33:41,380 --> 00:33:45,180 and we looked at it and realized, yea, this is some major repair.(P) 430 00:33:45,410 --> 00:33:51,910 And so we got the piece that was still on the tractor and got that all in the back of his truck and he says, 431 00:33:52,250 --> 00:33:54,170 "If anybody can fix it, 432 00:33:54,490 --> 00:33:57,060 Carl, Carl the welder can." 433 00:33:57,840 --> 00:34:02,910 And he got Carl in the truck on the phone and Carl said, "Yea, I'll come up". 434 00:34:03,300 --> 00:34:07,240 And there it was, bitterly cold, deep snow, 435 00:34:07,540 --> 00:34:12,449 and they got that thing fixed ten o' clock that night. 436 00:34:12,450 --> 00:34:16,750 The next day it was delivered in my drive, in my yard, fixed.(P) 437 00:34:17,760 --> 00:34:19,179 "What do I owe Carl?"(P) 438 00:34:19,180 --> 00:34:20,890 "Nothing, it's taken care of."(P) 439 00:34:21,090 --> 00:34:21,949 "Free?"(P) 440 00:34:21,950 --> 00:34:22,890 "Yea, 441 00:34:23,120 --> 00:34:24,440 don't even try!"(P) 442 00:34:25,040 --> 00:34:30,380 And I tell you, that thing was just as sweet as could be. 443 00:34:31,440 --> 00:34:39,829 And that's just a little picture of God's marvelous, free, matchless, infinite grace! 444 00:34:39,830 --> 00:34:43,750 I mean, isn't this matter of restoration so beautiful? 445 00:34:44,210 --> 00:34:45,039 Of restoring, 446 00:34:45,040 --> 00:34:45,749 of healing, 447 00:34:45,750 --> 00:34:47,159 of salvaging, 448 00:34:47,160 --> 00:34:48,180 saving, 449 00:34:48,810 --> 00:34:51,810 making it better than even it was before!(P) 450 00:34:52,700 --> 00:34:59,140 I mean, it just... I remember one time, we were digging a ditch to put in some water lines and here, 451 00:34:59,590 --> 00:35:04,170 I lost one of my gloves, one of my new leather gloves. What good does one glove do me? 452 00:35:05,970 --> 00:35:10,550 And one of the kids found it in the trench before it got covered up with the dirt. 453 00:35:10,920 --> 00:35:13,770 And I remember thinking just how nice that was.(P) 454 00:35:15,910 --> 00:35:20,429 I remember one time growing up, I was, 455 00:35:20,430 --> 00:35:26,910 I was operating the tractor with the blade filling the tile ditches and I was coming home for lunch. 456 00:35:27,690 --> 00:35:33,570 And I, you know, had it in road gear, going down a field road. 457 00:35:34,210 --> 00:35:42,120 And I thought, here's some bumps here and some mud puddles that need to be filled in and so- 458 00:35:43,160 --> 00:35:46,070 I mean, talk about stupidity- 459 00:35:46,400 --> 00:35:49,550 I lowered that blade down in road gear, 460 00:35:50,250 --> 00:35:52,760 to fill that dirt hole. 461 00:35:52,990 --> 00:35:54,660 And, of course, it caught. 462 00:35:55,190 --> 00:36:00,470 And I ended up on the hood and the loader was broken, bad. 463 00:36:00,680 --> 00:36:05,080 And I took it home and I confessed to my father. 464 00:36:05,430 --> 00:36:08,350 He did not say a word, he just shook his head. 465 00:36:10,920 --> 00:36:16,590 And with some time and some welding rod he got it fixed better than it was before.(P) 466 00:36:17,120 --> 00:36:23,580 And it's just wonderful that God fixes lives. 467 00:36:24,070 --> 00:36:25,990 Think how the death of Christ 468 00:36:26,340 --> 00:36:29,210 magnifies the love of God. 469 00:36:32,090 --> 00:36:34,010 It's greater far, 470 00:36:36,070 --> 00:36:38,780 higher than a star, 471 00:36:39,850 --> 00:36:43,240 so high that it reaches was up to the mercy seat. 472 00:36:44,720 --> 00:36:50,310 So deep was the death of Jesus, that it went deeper than the stain has gone. 473 00:36:52,440 --> 00:36:57,399 So wide that it reaches out to every tongue and tribe and people and nation. 474 00:36:57,400 --> 00:37:00,790 And so long that it goes out to all eternity.(P) 475 00:37:01,130 --> 00:37:03,490 As a matter of fact, this phrase here, 476 00:37:04,120 --> 00:37:05,359 "forevermore", 477 00:37:05,360 --> 00:37:07,289 they poorly translated it. 478 00:37:07,290 --> 00:37:09,530 It means ages of the ages. 479 00:37:11,790 --> 00:37:15,840 Think how the death of Christ magnifies the justice of God. 480 00:37:17,020 --> 00:37:19,259 Jesus paid it all. 481 00:37:19,260 --> 00:37:24,089 It wasn't like the Muslims, I mean, where they believe their god just forgives. 482 00:37:24,090 --> 00:37:27,400 But our sin that is actually paid for.(P) 483 00:37:28,880 --> 00:37:30,809 Think of the wisdom of God. 484 00:37:30,810 --> 00:37:32,359 That God, 485 00:37:32,360 --> 00:37:39,380 this just God, found a way to justify the unjust and still be just about it! 486 00:37:40,480 --> 00:37:42,440 That's the wisdom of God.(P) 487 00:37:43,220 --> 00:37:47,350 And think of how the death of Christ magnifies the power of God. 488 00:37:48,630 --> 00:37:51,730 Here's Adam, the perfect man, 489 00:37:52,150 --> 00:37:54,250 who fell in paradise. 490 00:37:54,590 --> 00:37:59,489 And yet here we are, formally slaves of sin, formally children of the devil, 491 00:37:59,490 --> 00:38:03,969 his servants, on his side and now we're serving God on His side 492 00:38:03,970 --> 00:38:06,180 and even being used by God.(P) 493 00:38:07,190 --> 00:38:09,040 And we're going to stand- 494 00:38:10,160 --> 00:38:12,810 Adam fell, we stand.(P) 495 00:38:16,170 --> 00:38:17,850 In conclusion- 496 00:38:21,680 --> 00:38:24,190 this ought to be for our admiration. 497 00:38:25,700 --> 00:38:28,209 Oh the love that drew salvation's plan! 498 00:38:28,210 --> 00:38:29,239 The song writer says, 499 00:38:29,240 --> 00:38:34,700 "Hail Sovereign Love that first began the scheme to rescue fallen man! 500 00:38:35,240 --> 00:38:40,580 Hail, matchless, free, eternal Grace that found my soul a hiding place!"(P) 501 00:38:41,700 --> 00:38:46,710 It ought to be, I say, for our admiration, it ought to be for our exaltation.(P) 502 00:38:48,530 --> 00:38:50,149 Paul quotes David and he says, 503 00:38:50,150 --> 00:38:54,570 "Oh, how blessed is the man whose sins are covered, 504 00:38:55,630 --> 00:38:58,960 whose iniquities are forgiven. 505 00:38:59,320 --> 00:39:04,850 How blessed is the man to whom the Lord imputes righteousness, without works." (Romans 4:7-8) 506 00:39:05,460 --> 00:39:09,330 How blessed is the man? I do not know how to describe it! 507 00:39:09,630 --> 00:39:11,770 A thousand tongues could not! 508 00:39:13,690 --> 00:39:20,140 It ought to be this theme- why Christ died- it ought to be for our proclamation.(P) 509 00:39:21,180 --> 00:39:25,350 You know, in the last twenty years, there's been a big emphasis 510 00:39:25,870 --> 00:39:32,990 on the ten commandments are the thing we... that's the tool, that's the message we ought to use in evangelism. 511 00:39:37,940 --> 00:39:39,440 But what do you see? 512 00:39:40,850 --> 00:39:44,980 You see the Lord used it once, at least, maybe twice, 513 00:39:45,740 --> 00:39:47,520 like Mark was bringing out. 514 00:39:49,200 --> 00:39:51,939 But what do you see that the Lord used? 515 00:39:51,940 --> 00:39:55,819 What was His message? It was things like, "You must be born again." (John 3:3,7) 516 00:39:55,820 --> 00:39:59,270 It was things like, "Except you become like little children..."(Matthew 18:3) 517 00:39:59,860 --> 00:40:04,659 It was things like, "If you don't give up everything and follow Me, you can't be My disciple".(Luke 14:33) 518 00:40:04,660 --> 00:40:10,060 It was things like, "If anyone will come after me, he must deny himself, 519 00:40:10,610 --> 00:40:13,220 pick up his cross daily and follow Me." (Luke 9:23)(P) 520 00:40:14,250 --> 00:40:15,989 Well Paul, what did you preach? 521 00:40:15,990 --> 00:40:19,170 Well he says right down here in verse sixteen, 522 00:40:20,080 --> 00:40:25,400 "He set me apart, He called me and revealed His Son in me, so that I might preach Him." (Galatians 1:15-16)(P) 523 00:40:27,770 --> 00:40:30,369 Paul, that's what you preached to the Galatians. 524 00:40:30,370 --> 00:40:36,070 Well, what about, what did you preach to the Philippians? 525 00:40:36,490 --> 00:40:38,379 "I preached that, 526 00:40:38,380 --> 00:40:41,810 'Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ and you'll be saved'."(P) 527 00:40:42,870 --> 00:40:45,869 Well, what did you preach to the Athenians? 528 00:40:45,870 --> 00:40:49,739 "I preached that God has fixed a day in which He'll judge the world in righteousness 529 00:40:49,740 --> 00:40:54,069 through the man that He's appointed, Jesus Christ, having furnished proof to all men 530 00:40:54,070 --> 00:40:56,080 that He raised Him from the dead." (Acts 17:31)(P) 531 00:40:57,850 --> 00:40:59,859 What did you preach to the Corinthians? 532 00:40:59,860 --> 00:41:04,500 "I determined to know nothing among you except Jesus Christ and Him crucified." (1 Corinthians 2:2) 533 00:41:05,270 --> 00:41:07,560 What did you preach to the Ephesians? 534 00:41:07,860 --> 00:41:10,250 "The unsearchable riches of Christ." (Ephesians )(P) 535 00:41:11,520 --> 00:41:15,060 Paul, how would you sum up your message? 536 00:41:16,070 --> 00:41:20,850 He says, "Repentance toward God and faith in the Lord Jesus Christ." (Acts 20:21)(P) 537 00:41:21,290 --> 00:41:23,809 Well, Paul, what did you preach at Caesarea? 538 00:41:23,810 --> 00:41:27,279 "I told Felix, I told him about righteousness, 539 00:41:27,280 --> 00:41:31,260 self-control and the judgment to come and faith in Jesus Christ." (Acts 24) 540 00:41:33,640 --> 00:41:36,110 What is the summary of our great commission? 541 00:41:36,430 --> 00:41:42,380 Repentance and remission of sins in His name among all nations.(P) 542 00:41:45,760 --> 00:41:48,489 I say, it ought to be for our admiration, 543 00:41:48,490 --> 00:41:50,019 our exaltation. 544 00:41:50,020 --> 00:41:52,200 It ought to be for our proclamation. 545 00:41:53,590 --> 00:41:56,440 And it ought to be an exhortation 546 00:41:57,100 --> 00:41:59,269 or an admonition to us, 547 00:41:59,270 --> 00:42:02,339 to not be conformed to this present evil world. 548 00:42:02,340 --> 00:42:05,149 I mean, we've been delivered from it, right? 549 00:42:05,150 --> 00:42:07,450 Rescued from it, that's what it says here. 550 00:42:07,910 --> 00:42:10,190 And so don't be conformed to it.(P) 551 00:42:10,980 --> 00:42:15,049 It ought to be an admonition to keep yourself, 552 00:42:15,050 --> 00:42:20,899 James says, pure and undefiled religion is this, to keep himself unspotted 553 00:42:20,900 --> 00:42:22,360 by the world; 554 00:42:24,030 --> 00:42:25,499 unspotted, 555 00:42:25,500 --> 00:42:27,660 untouched. (James 1:27) Don't touch it! 556 00:42:34,130 --> 00:42:38,479 Stage rule- don't go off track like these Galatians did. 557 00:42:38,480 --> 00:42:46,249 The songwriter says, "Just a few more rolling sunsets, most will land me safe on heaven's coast." 558 00:42:46,250 --> 00:42:49,680 So press on in the gospel. 559 00:42:50,540 --> 00:42:52,930 This ought to be for our expectation. 560 00:42:53,420 --> 00:42:56,419 I mean, we look for a new heavens and a new earth. 561 00:42:56,420 --> 00:42:58,380 This world is not our home. 562 00:42:59,500 --> 00:43:01,330 It doesn't satisfy! 563 00:43:01,650 --> 00:43:05,229 We're just, I say, strangers, pilgrims, sojourners. 564 00:43:05,230 --> 00:43:07,730 We've cast our anchor in another realm. 565 00:43:09,650 --> 00:43:12,510 It ought to be for our examination. 566 00:43:13,540 --> 00:43:17,310 I mean, am I rescued, am I delivered or not? 567 00:43:21,620 --> 00:43:23,169 If I look like the world 568 00:43:23,170 --> 00:43:24,813 and walk like the world 569 00:43:24,814 --> 00:43:25,924 and I'm friends with the world, 570 00:43:26,316 --> 00:43:27,105 smell like the world 571 00:43:27,106 --> 00:43:30,803 and talk like the world, I must be still part of the world 572 00:43:30,804 --> 00:43:35,804 and not yet rescued from this present evil world. 573 00:43:38,271 --> 00:43:40,234 And also, 574 00:43:40,235 --> 00:43:44,069 this should be for our invitation- 575 00:43:44,718 --> 00:43:51,699 an invitation to come and believe on the Lord Jesus Christ who died for our sins.(P) 576 00:43:53,180 --> 00:43:57,658 Can you put up with another blade illustration? 577 00:44:00,827 --> 00:44:02,759 The next neighbor I went to, 578 00:44:03,558 --> 00:44:09,712 I got to the head of his driveway and I thought, "You know, I better call that fellow 579 00:44:09,713 --> 00:44:12,632 before I just go up there and plow his lane out." 580 00:44:13,086 --> 00:44:18,210 I got him on the cell phone and I said, "I'm down here at the head of your lane with a tractor and a blade. 581 00:44:18,211 --> 00:44:22,145 I'll just go up and back and plow your snow out, 582 00:44:22,606 --> 00:44:24,130 unless you tell me no." 583 00:44:24,586 --> 00:44:28,637 And he said, "Oh, I believe we're alright just where we're at." 584 00:44:30,136 --> 00:44:33,439 And that was it. I went back home.(P) 585 00:44:34,698 --> 00:44:38,454 And you have to feel, you know, a little bit of insult. 586 00:44:38,455 --> 00:44:43,426 I mean, there I was, willing and able to help him and he says no!(P) 587 00:44:43,806 --> 00:44:48,334 And if we feel that way towards things here on earth, 588 00:44:48,335 --> 00:44:51,379 what do you think that the heavenly Father feels? 589 00:44:51,379 --> 00:44:53,377 What do you think that God feels? 590 00:44:53,378 --> 00:44:58,222 Everything He's done, everything, everything is ready, the door is open 591 00:45:00,285 --> 00:45:06,352 to provide for your supreme problem and deal with your sin and take you to a place called heaven 592 00:45:06,353 --> 00:45:09,695 and give you eternal life right here and now. 593 00:45:09,696 --> 00:45:11,690 And you're going to say "No"? 594 00:45:12,563 --> 00:45:16,133 You're going to say, "I'm doing alright, I'm pretty well where I want to be"? 595 00:45:17,618 --> 00:45:19,347 May it never be!(P) 596 00:45:19,578 --> 00:45:20,651 Come on, 597 00:45:21,321 --> 00:45:22,423 repent. 598 00:45:22,424 --> 00:45:27,210 Leave your sin behind. All sin, all known sin, leave it all behind. 599 00:45:27,211 --> 00:45:31,326 Let goods and kindred go! There's more to life also! 600 00:45:32,607 --> 00:45:34,843 And believe on the Lord Jesus Christ.(P) 601 00:45:34,844 --> 00:45:39,212 "Lord, I believe that I am a sinner 602 00:45:39,733 --> 00:45:42,706 and I deserve to go to hell. 603 00:45:43,040 --> 00:45:45,879 I have no reason that you should take me to heaven, 604 00:45:47,236 --> 00:45:50,972 but I believe that you died for sinners just like me. 605 00:45:51,481 --> 00:45:54,456 I believe you died to pay my sin debt. 606 00:45:54,456 --> 00:45:56,930 I do believe, I will believe, 607 00:45:56,931 --> 00:45:59,276 that Jesus died for me."(P) 608 00:45:59,276 --> 00:46:00,950 Plus nothing. 609 00:46:00,950 --> 00:46:03,639 That was a Galatian error. 610 00:46:03,640 --> 00:46:05,414 It was Jesus, plus. 611 00:46:05,965 --> 00:46:07,267 And the gospel is 612 00:46:07,267 --> 00:46:08,525 Jesus only.