Title: You're Either All In for Christ or You're Not In
Meta: The true Christian has a change for heart by which they have a hungering and thirsting for righteousness.
Tags: lordship,salvation,faith,repentance,luke 14,forsake,all

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I just say this to you:

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If there has not been a time in your life where there was a transformation,

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where you went from being the old, to the new;

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walking in oldness of life, into newness of life;

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I am not saying you know the exact hour

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or the day or the week or the month.

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But if you can't look at some point in your life where you fell in love with Jesus Christ,

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where there was a genuine faith that produced obedience from the heart,

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not where you were being just whipped by the Law

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that said, "Don't do what you love to do,"

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but where there was a change of heart.

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Where there was, for the first time, a hungering and thirsting after righteousness.

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If you don't have that, you gotta have that.

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You gotta have it.

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Because whatever faith you have is dead.

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That is what Scripture tells us.

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This isn't my saying, this isn't my doing, this isn't my doctrine.

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This is the Bible's.

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This is why you cannot continue in sin if you've genuinely been converted. (P)

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If you've been justified, you've also been regenerated.

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That means you've been brought to spiritual life.

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And those who are spiritually alive are true Jews,

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and they are circumcised in heart.

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They've had that old foreskin cut away.

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That old flesh has been crucified.

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And it's real.

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(We are going to look at this more next week,)

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but the old self, the flesh, is crucified with Christ.

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That means there is death. There is putting to death.

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And we'll see that more when we get into [chapters] 7 and 8.

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Brethren, this is what Paul is saying here why we can't continue. (P)

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Now listen, I just want to say this in the end.

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This is so important.

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Many, many, many people want to believe in Jesus in order to be forgiven and justified,

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so that they will escape hell;

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who really don't want to be set free from the dominion of sin.

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Let me tell you this: There are people all over the place who do this.

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They call to Jesus, and He doesn't save them.

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They say, "I want to be saved, but He's not saving me."

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But if you inquire, what you find out is,

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they want to be saved from hell but not really from sin.

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Listen: Jesus never says you need to conquer the power of sin.

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Repentance isn't cleaning up sin in your own life.

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That is not what it is.

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Repentance is coming to Jesus to do all those radical things you saw there;

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knowing this, if you come to Him, He will break the power of all sin in your life.

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He will make you obedient, He will marry you,

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He will make you fruitful,

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He will kill sin all over.

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There is not one you can hold on to.

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That is what repentance is. (P)

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Repentance is, "Lord, wash me, clean me of all of it.

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Save me from all of it."

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The problem is we got too many people that have one or two idols in their life.

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They don't want hell, and so they come, and they say, "Lord, save me."

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But they've got this thing back here that they really don't want to be saved from.

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They really don't want the power of it broken.

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They really don't want to become obedient against it.

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Which is what obedience is, right?

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Sin is disobedience.

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Obedient from the heart means Jesus is going to make you not want that thing.

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Isn't that what being saved and having the dominion is?

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All sin, it's coming to Jesus and saying, "I am a slave to it.

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Free me. Lord, free me."

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That's it.

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That slave who really loved the taskmaster and said he wanted to be free,

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but he really liked some of the slavery?

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Jesus came to set us free.

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And if He sets you free, you are free indeed. (P)

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Don't come to Jesus, saying, "I want You to set me free,"

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when you really want to stay in bondage to some sin.

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Which is what it is when you've got something you don't want to let go of.

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When you've got a sin in your life you don't want to let go of,

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what you'really saying is, "I want to continue in bondage to it."

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"I got that girlfriend, that yeah we are kinda living in a certain relationship with,

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and I really don't want to give that up."

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"I've got my money,"

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You see, that's exactly how it was, remember the rich young ruler?

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He had that thing.

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"You go sell all that you have."

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But the thing was, he didn't really want to be saved from the power of his riches.

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He didn't want to.

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Jesus would have saved him from it,

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Jesus would have broke the power of it,

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Jesus would have set him free, but he didn't want to be set free. (P)

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It wasn't just that he didn't want to give it up,

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he didn't want to be set free from his love of it.

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He loved it; and he wanted to keep that love.

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If you've got some love of some sin, but look, whatever sins you've committed,

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if you really, genuinely... (I know this first hand.)

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I saw the gospel,

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and I probably had, in the beginning when I heard it, I probably had ten things -

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I didn't want to go to hell, and I realized I was -

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I probably had ten things I didn't want to give up.

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As I really began to look at God's Word

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and I saw, "What will it profit a man if he loses his own soul?"

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I said, "Yeah, boy, if Jesus says you've gotta forsake everything to be My disciple,

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which He does say by the way in Luke 14:33,

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'Unless you forsake all that you have, you can't be My disciple.'"

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And I am thinking, "What does it profit a man if he gains the whole world and he loses his soul?"

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Yeah, right, if I hang on to all these; and every time I'd read that, it's like,

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"Okay, maybe I'll let my motorcycle go. But I still got these..."

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"Yeah, I'll let ACDC go, but I'm going to keep Van Halen back right now." (P)

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I mean, you can laugh.

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But listen: That rich young ruler is not laughing.

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And that would be the death of many in this room.

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You got something you don't want to let go of.

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I didn't let go of it the first time.

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In fact, when it came to my music, it took me three times of going back to it.

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And the Lord kept coming at me:

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"It's total surrender, and I will save you in a moment."

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And brethren, that night where I got to the place where I gave up,

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"Lord, help me."

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And when I said that, I wanted it.

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I wanted help with everything.

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He saved me that moment. There was no pause.

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And I know that that is the way with Him.

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If you come on His terms,

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ready to abandon all of it and let Him heal you from it, you're His.

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I mean, if you've got faith to believe He can save you

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and has the power to save you from all of it,

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and you want to be healed that way, He is just the Physician for you.

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If you've got a disease, but you only want to be part-way healed,

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He is not in that business.

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All or nothing.

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Total heal or none.