Romans 8_31： The Security of Our Salvation with Dale Partridge
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What a blessing it is to continue in this wonderful book of Romans. In those three verses, we saw the ultimate expression of God's benevolent providence laid out upon his people. God causes all things to work together for good for those who have been called according to his purpose. We saw that all things, including even our redemption, is predestined. We also saw that God calls, that God justifies, and that God glorifies those whom he has predested. God does not put his love upon everyone, despite the myth of our generation's bumper stickers that says, "We are all God's children." No, no, we are not. According to scripture, there are sons of wrath. There are broods of vipers. And so for some reason, God has shown his benevolent Providence upon you and chosen to save you.
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What a blessing it is to continue in this wonderful book of Romans. I actually just
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heard from somebody on social media as they saw that I was teaching through Romans,
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especially through 28, 29, and 30, which are probably the most incredible verses in the
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entire book. It is literally verse 30 is the center verse of 433 verses, and it is the most
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pinnacle verse, and she told me that her pastor was preaching through Romans 8 and skipped those
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verses. I thought, wow, what a tragedy that is, the blessing that was missed there.
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Over the past five weeks, we have inched our way through Romans 8, 28 through 30. In those three
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verses, we saw the ultimate expression of God's benevolent providence laid out upon his people.
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And we saw that God causes, I want you to catch that. If you haven't been here for the last few
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weeks, God causes all things to work together for good for those who have been called according to
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his purpose. We saw that all things includes even our redemption. Of course it does, right? Of course
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it does. He caused us all things. Well, that would include our faith and our repentance and
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all elements of our redemption. In other words, our salvation wasn't left to chance or to
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the choices of our fallen wills. I did three weeks debunking the American mystery and
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idol of free will. And so we talked about that, that our redemption was predestined,
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predetermined, the end was predetermined by God to ensure that we attained eternal life.
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We also saw that God calls and that God justifies and that God glorifies those whom he has predestined.
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Theologians called that process the golden chain of salvation.
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And it's called that because it demonstrates a series of interlinking steps that are, you know,
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each one is dependent on the preceding link. And it forms this unbreakable bond or this
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unbreakable chain of God's sovereign work in our salvation. That's what that passage
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is saying. And as a Christian, these truths should lead you to a place of knowing that
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your salvation doesn't rest in your ability to obey or that your ability to sustain your faith.
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We know. What is your justification resting upon? It's resting upon the perfect obedience of Christ,
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not on your obedience. We obey out of love. We obey out of a desire to please God. We do not
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obey to keep ourselves justified. No, we rest in the perfect obedience of Christ.
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Now, these truths also allow you to follow Christ and serve God from a motive of gratitude.
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Because it's Christ who secures your salvation. Because it's Christ, the obedience of his perfect
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life and his righteousness that becomes yours through faith, you can now obey from a place
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of gratitude. You're not obeying because of fear that you might lose your salvation.
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You're not obeying because of performance or even duty. You're obeying because you want to please
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God. You're obeying because the motive is driven from thankfulness for what Christ has done for you.
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But most of all, these truths should humble you because it demonstrates that for some reason,
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despite the myth of our generation of bumper stickers that says,
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There are sons of Satan, according to scripture.
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There are broods of vipers, according to Jesus.
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and so for some reason God has shown his benevolent providence upon you and chosen to save you
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you guys know because I say it all the time I hate these t-shirts that say
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I chose Jesus at baptisms right I would much rather it say God saved me
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The emphasis goes on the work that God did, not the emphasis of the work that man did.
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The only reason God chose you is because God changed your heart, resurrected your soul, and gave you the ability to choose restored ability.
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It's truths like these that help us understand why Paul at the end of his writings would often end up in some sort of acclamation of praise.
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If you've read anything from Paul, you'll know that he'll end up with saying things like,
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and for from him and through him and to him are all things to him be the glory forever and ever. Amen.
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Today, my hope is that we find ourselves sharing in those same acclamations of praise
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and we see the cost required for our own salvation.
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now we just read Romans 8 28 through 34 I want you guys to have that open because I'm going to
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be calling you guys to look at your scriptures often today this is important at some point
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you don't need to keep trusting what the pastor says is true at some point you need to actually
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look in your Bibles and make sure that what I'm saying aligns with what God said verse 31
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it says what then shall we say to these things if God is for us who can be against us
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well again we're smart Bible interpreters here we know that when we see the word these or that
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or those or this we want to know what's the antecedent to that demonstrative pronoun
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what then shall we say to these things well to what things well clearly to the things that were
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just said in the previous verses, that God causes all things to work together for them
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who love him and are called according to his purpose, that he predestines, that he calls,
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that he justifies, that he glorifies. What should we say to these things? Paul asks rhetorically.
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I want to pose that question to you think about it for a moment in light of those other passages
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of scripture what should you say to those things what should you say to those things
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I hope that you say something to somebody about those things
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well certainly you should say that they're beautiful and weighty things that are deserving
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our praise. They are anchors to your soul, knowing that your salvation does not rest
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upon your hands and your ability, but they rest upon God. First Peter chapter one, verses
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three through five, one of my favorite verses in the Bible. It says, blessed be the God
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and father of our Lord Jesus Christ. According to his great mercy, catch this, he has caused
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us to be born again to a living hope through the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead
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to an inheritance that is imperishable undefiled unfading kept for you in heaven
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who by God's power are being guarded through faith for a salvation ready to be revealed in
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the last time aren't you so glad that it doesn't say who are being kept by your power
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what a blessing that we are being kept by God's power through faith
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that it's not dependent upon us sustaining that faith no he who began a good work in you will
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finish it we can rest in the fact that though my faith might feel that it will fail
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another way to look at this question would be to ask what should we not say to these things
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well we talked about what should we say to these things what should we not
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say to these things well we should not say that God's people can lose their salvation
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that is a clear teaching of this passage of scripture we should not say that if God causes
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all things to work together for those who love him
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We should not allow the conclusion to arrive in our heads
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some of those whom he predestined and some of those who he called and justified to perish.
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It would break the logical and grammatical conclusion of the entire passage.
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It would imply that rather than working all things together for their good,
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as the scripture says, that God allows some things to work together for his people's eternal destruction.
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Our response to this passage must be guided by what contradicts the logical and grammatical conclusion presented within it.
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Well, we're not allowed to arrive at conclusions that contradict the very truth within them.
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in other words whatever we say to these things cannot violate or disagree with what has already
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been conveyed clearly now i don't understand well i'll say this i i get it when we cannot
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grasp the intricacies of soteriology which is the study of salvation i understand the mysteries
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and the ignorance required or involved in hearing these incredibly difficult passages
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I understand that it's difficult to grasp that we have an electing God
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that has chosen to save some and left others to justice.
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But the thing that I care about as a pastor, what I care about is that we cultivate a congregation
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of men and women and children who are willing to bow their ignorance and bow their emotions
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down to King Jesus when the scriptures don't make sense to their emotions.
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Our emotions do not inform our biblical interpretation.
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The authority for our interpretation is not our emotions.
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The theological, the grammatical, the historical, the cultural context of the passage is what informs our biblical interpretation.
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In the second half of this verse, if you guys look down, it says Paul, or Paul, I would say,
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gives us really his answer to that question that he just asked. He says, what should we say to this?
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Paul responds, if God is for us, who can be against us? That's what we should say to this.
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If you just read 28 through 30, you know what you should say to this? If God is for us,
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If God causes all things to work together, who can be against you?
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In other words, if God is sovereign and he secures our salvation,
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then who can afflict us with any real eternal detriment?
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I mean, even sickness and persecution and calamity are under the power of a sovereign God.
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I said this a few weeks ago, when I was 18, I remember watching the tsunamis.
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And I remember thinking about the passage where the disciples said,
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even the winds and seas obey Him. And you think about the reality of God's sovereignty over
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calamity, over tragedy. We saw in the account of Job a couple of weeks ago that Satan could
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only bring tragedy and affliction upon Job to the extent that God allowed him to do so.
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And what can happen, I mean, think about this question.
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What can happen to you that was not first permitted by the hand of God?
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Jesus says in Luke 12 25 and which of you by being anxious can add a single hour to his span
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of life think about this we worry and we cannot add a single hour to the span of our lives your
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lifespan according to this passage of scripture is divinely planned down to the hour that's the
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extent of the sovereignty and the providence in your life. And the arbiter and the captain of
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that plan promised to cause all things to work together for your eternal good. And this would
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include your miscarriage. This would include your cancer diagnosis. This would include
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your boss that threatens to fire you for not putting pronouns in your email signature.
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This would include all of those things because we have a sovereign God.
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Ultimately, because God causes all things to work together for good, no thing can overcome
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you. That's the clear teaching of this passage. Yes, people may insult you. Yes, people may
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deliver tragic news to you. Yes, people might kill your body. But none of that changes the
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eternal outcome of your soul. None of that. We have an almighty God that is orchestrating every
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possible element of your life for our edification and for your or for his glory.
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This should give you some degree of confidence in persecution or some degree in affliction
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or some degree of confidence in peace and adversity.
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First Timothy or second Timothy 4, 16 through 17, Paul says,
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At my first offense, no one came to stand by me, but all of the people deserted me.
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And then check out in verse 17, but the Lord stood by me and strengthened me.
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Have you been in a situation where nobody was for you and you needed the Lord to stand by you?
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Years ago, I made a public statement on the Christian Post.
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I don't know if you guys have read the Christian Post before, but I made a public statement about how pastors who struggle with mental illness or suicidal thoughts or anxiety should step down from the pastorate and seek biblical counseling until they are ready for the ministry.
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It came off the heels of a friend of mine who was a pastor that was regularly and openly discussing his own issues with suicidal thoughts and depression, and he had just killed himself.
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He talked to me three days before it happened, and so I gave this statement.
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I think pastors, according to 1 Timothy 3, need to be sober-minded.
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It's one of the qualifications, and I don't believe if you're struggling with suicidal thoughts
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or regular bouts of extreme depression or anxiety that is debilitating,
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you should step down and go seek counseling and come back in when your body and soul is ready.
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And I'll tell you what, all of the soft, evangelical, therapy-loving, progressive Christians and liberal media outlets came after me really hard.
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But what about Spurgeon, who would have so much depression?
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I got thrown under the bus at a national level by thousands and thousands of people disagreeing with me.
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I remember hanging on to this verse I remember hanging on to the reality my
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conscience was convicted by the Word of God I stood by exactly what I said I had
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the widow of my friend hating me calling me out publicly but it was these
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moments that I realized that God is for me even in the midst of the storm when
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When everybody else had deserted me, I did feel the Lord standing by me.
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Now your situation might not be national like mine.
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But the reality is, is that you know that you have an advocate, a God who does not abandon
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John 4, 4 says, little children, you are from God and have overcame them. For he who is in you is
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greater than he who is in the world. Now in the next verse, as we get into verse 32, Paul shows
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us the extent by which God is for us, the extent, the degree by which he is for us, his devotion
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for us. Verse 32, read it with me. He who did not spare his son, but gave him up for us all,
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how will he not also with him graciously give us all things?
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I know it's easy to read passages of scripture like that and just kind of pass over them,
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not really thinking about the depth and magnitude of what was just being said.
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but do you want to know, just for a second, follow me here. Do you want to know the level
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of commitment that God has for you? Do you want to grasp the measure of love that he has placed
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upon you? Here's how you do it. Go sacrifice your son or daughter for criminals.
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that would give you a bit of an idea elect your child to pay the punishment for drug dealers and
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rapists and murderers you want to understand how much God loves you that's the extent
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of the experience that you would need to have to understand a portion of the magnitude of God's love
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it's a measure of love and commitment that cannot be comprehended by fallen man
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Romans 5 6 through 10 backs up exactly what I just said it says for while we were still
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weak at the right time Christ died for the ungodly Christ died for the ungodly
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for one will scarcely die for a righteous person though perhaps for a good person one would dare
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even to die. But, verse 8, but God shows his love for us in that while we were still sinners,
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Christ died for us. We like to sanitize that word sinners.
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When Christ died, he died for the most wicked people.
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verse 10 says for if we were enemies when we were reconciled to God by his death of his son
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much more now we are reconciled shall we be saved by his life if you want to understand
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the dimension the gravity of the love of God you have to understand
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the extent for which God sent Christ to die for the wicked.
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The point Paul is trying to communicate here is that
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if God is willing to sacrifice his perfect son
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if God is willing to sacrifice his son for you,
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Which is a very practical and pastoral thought.
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when shame or circumstances are at work in your life,
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when you've just done something that's so heinous
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or when you have just taken a fall that's so hard and so embarrassing
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or when your life is so out of step with what Christ calls us to
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and you feel so far outside of the love of God,
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you feel like you have somehow again been separated
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how will he not graciously give you all things?
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It makes me want to skip verses 33 and 34 and just turn to 35.
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Verse 35, who shall separate us from the love of Christ?
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Shall tribulation or distress or persecution or famine or nakedness
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No, in all things, we are more than conquerors through him who loved us.
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For I am sure that neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor rulers,
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nor things present, nor things to come, nor powers, nor height, nor depth,
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nor anything else in all creation will be able to separate us
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If God is willing to do the most extreme thing,
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that ensures the reliability of your everlasting union.
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I just don't know about you, but it's pretty easy.
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or they want to know if they're actually saved.
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that people who are lost aren't concerned if they're saved.
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that they're walking outside of the will of God.
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It's a great indication if you're concerned for those things.
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But people need to hear this message that their salvation isn't resting upon you to sustain the strength of your faith.
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Verse 33 says, who shall bring a charge against God's elect?
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But when we consider the previous verses, who shall bring a charge?
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It is Christ who died and furthermore, also he risen, who is even at the right hand of
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You start to see the absurdity that anything can separate you.
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opens here again in verse 33 with this rhetorical question. Who shall bring a charge against God's
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elect? The obvious answer is nobody. Nobody can bring a charge against God's elect. Not you,
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not some blue-haired liberal, not a civil jury or judge, not even Satan himself.
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If you trust in Christ, if your sins have been laid upon him,
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if his righteousness has been given to you by faith,
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Paul told us in Romans 8.1, there is therefore now no condemnation for those who are in Christ
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Jesus. He has to tell us that because it's pretty easy off the heels of the end of chapter seven.
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He's saying, I struggle with sin. I fight these thoughts. I fight temptation. I fight,
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I fight these actions. I still fall and stumble. It's easy to believe that
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a conviction of sin means you're condemned. When in reality, conviction of sin is actually
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the evidence that you're not condemned. It's the evidence that you're saved.
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In verse 34, Paul asks another question, who is he who condemns?
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I don't know about you, but there's really two dimensions
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And I'll tell you what, I think the internal voice
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can sometimes be louder than the external voice.
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What an absurd thought in light of the scriptures
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to think that you might be condemned after sinning.
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If nobody can bring charges against God's people
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Eternal security, the perseverance of the saints.
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because number one, your justification was not earned
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by works of righteousness, but by the perfect work of Christ.
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And number two, it is God who justifies and not man.
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In fact, we're going to see in the upcoming verses
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that there's nothing that you or anybody else can do
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he says all that the father gives me will come to me
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just ponder that for a second all that the father gives to me will come to me there is so much there
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it's not everybody in the whole world there is a group of people that the father has chosen
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to give to christ and all of them will come to christ he says and whoever comes to me
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i will never cast out so we can see right there if they come to christ you are never going to be
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rejected. Verse 38, for I have come down from heaven not to do my own will, but the will of
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him who sent me. And this is the will of him who sent me. Pay attention, that I should lose nothing
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of all that he has given me, but I will raise it up on the last day.
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the will of God the father for the son is that Christ would not lose even one
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do you understand the beautiful parable of the lost sheep that he leaves the 99 and go grabs
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the one Christ doesn't lose any of his people Charles Spurgeon commented on this verse saying
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if one dear child of God had ever been lost Christ's mission would have been a failure
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because he said that he would not lose one of them, end quote.
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If you flip over a couple pages to John 10, verses 27 through 30,
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Jesus says, my sheep hear my voice, and I know them, and they follow me.
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Again, I said this last week, I believe, is if Christ gives you eternal life,
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can that promise of eternal life be dependent upon you?
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No, you can't promise somebody something that's dependent upon them.
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It's dependent upon you if you're the one making the promise.
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He can make that promise because it's not dependent upon us.
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I give them eternal life and they will never perish.
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if you ever have any possible concern or worry that you could ever lose your salvation
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and they will never perish and no one will snatch them out of my hand
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my father who has given them to me is greater than all and no one is able to snatch them out
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of the Father's hand, I and the Father are one. I don't know about you, but the moment I came to
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the understanding that my salvation rested in the hands of God and not in my own hands
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was an incredible day. It allows you to finally rest in Christ. It allows you to obey from
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gratitude and from love instead of worry and performance and duty. What I want you to see
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is that when one of God's people comes to faith in Christ, what you're really witnessing
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is God's sovereign work to save forever those who are his. When someone comes to faith,
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you cannot ever be unborn out of the family of God.
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Again, according to Romans 8.30, the person that God knew before the foundation of the world,
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he predestined. And those whom he predestined, he called. And those who he called, he justified.
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And those who he justified, he glorified. This is an infallible process of redemption. If you're
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saved, if Jesus called you, if God justified you, you are as secure as God is real.
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Paul continues on and tells us why we can actually be secure.
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What's the substance and the foundation and the ground of that security?
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It's not just that God says something, that would be enough.
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But if you look to verse 34, the second half of it, it says,
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It is Christ who died, and furthermore, He also risen,
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who is even at the right hand of God, who also makes intercession for us.
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nobody why because the price has been paid this is the logic of this verse and you see that
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believing that christ died for the elect while claiming that the elect can lose their salvation
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it's not just a theological contradiction or a heresy it's actually an offense against the
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gospel in matthew 121 the angel gabriel says to mary you shall name him jesus for he will save
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his people from their sins okay the death resurrection and ascension of
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christ did not just produce the opportunity for people to be saved
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this is huge in america by the way the death resurrection and ascension of
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christ did not just produce the opportunity for
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particular group of people we call them the elect or the church
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God didn't just make a way that anybody could possibly choose.
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No, God came with a specific purpose for a specific people to save with a specific plan.
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If you look again, verse 34b, I want you to see that it's talking about three things,
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If it is Christ who died, death, and furthermore is also risen, resurrection, who is at the right
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hand of God, who also makes intercession for us, ascension. Those three elements are so vital and
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I'm going to do a quick summary over them and then I'm going to close. Number one, this is just gospel
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fundamentals. This is part of our mission at this church. As I said earlier, we are about gospel
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fluency. If you don't understand these fundamentals, then you don't understand the gospel.
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Number one, his death satisfied the blood penalty for his people,
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Leviticus talks about that God gave us blood for the atonement of souls,
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Did you know that when Jesus' blood spilt, his life spilt,
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Well, it's the separation of the soul from God.
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What is eternal spiritual death that Corbin read?
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It's the eternal separation of your soul from God.
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That's the kind of death that it's talking about.
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When someone sins, someone needs to die that death.
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So your sins are either going to be laid upon you as the sinner,
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or your sins are either going to be laid upon Christ, the Savior.
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But there is going to be no sin that goes unpunished.
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It'll be laid either upon you, the unrepentant human being,
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But there is no world where even one sin goes unpunished.
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God's perfect, just world. And so on that cross, Christ acted as a substitute and
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paid the death penalty for all who would believe. Does that make sense? The cost
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of the law is death. Christ acts as your substitute by which your sins are
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imputed to that cross, fulfilling the requirement of death for you. That's the
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fundamentals of the death of Christ. That's Good Friday. Number two, his
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resurrection confirmed by two things here. That he was worthy as a substitute
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and that he conquered the requirement of death for his people. I'm gonna explain
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this. In America, we focus very much on the death of Christ. And I say that
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because we focus so much on Christ died for you.
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That's so many, one, no apostle ever says that, by the way.
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No one ever walks up in an evangelistic reality
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It's a much clearer way to communicate the gospel.
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Christ died for you in the sense that you needed
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but Christ also lived the perfect obedient life
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so the resurrection validates the efficacy the effectual reality of his death and let me explain
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in order for Christ to act as your substitute and die for your sins he cannot have sin of his own
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what would happen if Christ had sin of his own well he'd have to die for his own sin
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but the fact is is that Christ had no sin and so he could act as your substitute
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and what we see in the resurrection is God's validation of Christ's sinlessness so that
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when he died he died the death that we deserved but because Christ had no sin
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he had to be resurrected. In fact, Christ couldn't stay dead because the wages of sin
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is death. But if Christ had no sin of his own, he can't stay dead. That would be injustice.
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That would be injustice. So the resurrection is the validation and the vindication that Christ
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was sinless, that he was accepted by the Father as a substitute on the behalf of your sin,
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I can't die for your sins. I have my own sins to die for. No, Christ died for my sins because he
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had no sin of his own. First John 3 5 says, you know that he appeared in order to take away sins
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and in him there is no sin. Number three, his ascension affirms his eternal reign as king of
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kings and lord of lords, confirming his authority to secure the salvation of his people.
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this is the evidence that Christ fulfilled the mission to save.
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he fulfilled God's will of coming to save his people
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He does all those things through the ascension and sitting at the right hand of the Father.
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And so these are all the grounds of your eternal security.
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And if I could walk away with one thing that I want to make sure you don't do,
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He demonstrated that in the death of his own son.
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And because his son died for you, rose for you, ascended for you,
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Nobody can take away the eternal bliss that you already have.
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You are, in every possible sense, eternally secure.
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We thank you, Lord, that you have orchestrated such an incredible redemption.
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Lord, we pray that you would just give us a portion to meditate upon.
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that the heart would see what the mind can understand.
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Father, we pray for a deep comprehension in this congregation.
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Lord, that we would be a people that are so changed
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that we would be motivated to get out into this world
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and change others with the gospel of Jesus Christ.