00:05:12.960In Him you also, when you heard the word of truth, the gospel of your salvation, and believed, were sealed with the promise of the Holy Spirit.
00:05:26.360So if you're wondering when the Spirit comes to indwell a person, if you're wondering if Christ is really in you,
00:05:39.720The way that you determine that is not by looking at your spiritual experiences.
00:05:43.540It's not by looking at your spiritual activity.
00:05:45.980It's by looking if you believe and trust in Christ.
00:05:52.700Because nobody can believe and trust in Christ that does not have the Holy Spirit.
00:06:01.340Jesus says in Matthew 7, 21 through 23,
00:06:04.240Not everyone who says to me, Lord, Lord, will enter the kingdom of heaven.
00:06:07.340On that day, many will say to me, Lord, did we not prophesy in your name? Did we not cast out
00:06:15.580demons in your name and do mighty works in your name? And then I will declare to them, I never
00:06:20.960knew you. Depart from me, you workers of lawlessness. Spiritual activity does not determine0.59
00:06:27.440spiritual security. It doesn't. I drove past churches on the way here knowing that those
00:06:34.900pastors are not regenerate. There are churches who are filled with spiritual
00:06:41.980activity but do not know the gospel. They're moralists, religious, churchianity
00:06:49.960but have not repented and truly trusted on the righteousness of Christ for
00:06:55.300salvation. The only way to determine if you have the spirit is to ask yourself,
00:07:03.220do I know that I'm a sinner? Do I know that on judgment day when I stand before God
00:07:09.400that I have not a righteousness of my own but I need an alien righteousness given to me?
00:07:15.320Do I know that I am a sinner and need to be forgiven and those sins need to be covered?
00:07:22.640Do I believe those things? If you do, that is the confirmation that you have the indwelling
00:07:29.840of the Holy Spirit. But here in verse 10, Paul makes a passing parenthetical statement.
00:07:36.880Just a passing statement. You just kind of want to keep reading.
00:07:43.900He says, spiritual life does not free a person from physical death. If you look in verse 10,
00:07:49.940it says, but if Christ is in you, although the body is dead because of sin,
00:07:55.220the spirit is life because of righteousness. It's just easy to just kind of keep reading.
00:08:01.720You're like, oh yeah, the body's dead because of sin. And then you realize his entire argument
00:08:07.400is revolving around this parenthetical statement. As we know, Paul opened up this chapter with the
00:08:14.000words, therefore there is no condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus. And I believe
00:08:22.480that Paul includes this parenthetical, this caveat in this sentence regarding the death of the body
00:08:28.980because he's anticipating an honest and I would say obvious question. If there's no condemnation
00:08:36.420for those that are in Christ Jesus, if that's a true statement, if Christ was our substitute,0.87
00:08:42.860dying the death that we deserve in our place, then why do Christians still have to physically die0.90
00:08:48.580like the rest of unredeemed humanity?1.00
00:23:18.940And many of those who sleep in the dust of the earth shall awake, some to everlasting life and some to shame and everlasting contempt.
00:23:29.460Acts 24, 15 says, I have hope in God, which they themselves also accept, that there will be a resurrection of the dead, both of the just and the unjust.
00:23:43.800For an hour is coming in which all who are in the tombs will hear his voice and will come forth.
00:23:51.000Those who did the good deeds to the resurrection of life,
00:23:54.820those who committed the evil deeds to the resurrection of judgment.
00:24:02.420Matthew 25, 32 through 34 and verse 46, it speaks of his judgment.
00:24:07.960It says, before him will be gathered all the nations, and he will separate people one from another as a shepherd separates the sheep from the goats.
00:24:21.480And he will place the sheep on his right, but on the goats he will place them on his left.
00:24:28.420Then the king will say to those on his right,
00:24:32.260Come, you who are blessed by my father,
00:24:35.880inherit the kingdom prepared for you from the foundation of the world.