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Quite a number of questions that came into the question box and some of them are questions that could take some a lot of time to answer, but if we take a lot of time to answer the questions, we're not going to get through all of them.
So I have five of them here with me today. There's still more back in the other building. So we we try to get the answer.
We'll we'll probably just scratch the surface, but we'll try to keep on moving through the questions. This question we have is in the last few chapters of Ezekiel, a temple is described and sacrifices are described.
I have heard that this takes place in the Millennium.
Why does Israel need to make offerings for sin after the Lord has died and rose again? Example versus in Ezekiel 4318 to 27. So I think I'll just read through some of those verses. Ezekiel 43.
Now read from verse 18 to verse 27.
And he said unto me, Son of Man, thus saith the Lord God. These are the ordinances of the altar in the day when thou, when they shall make it to offer burnt offerings thereon and to sprinkle blood thereon. Now remember, this is supposed to be during the time of the Millennium. The Lord Jesus has already died, He's already shed his blood, and here they're they're doing.
They're going to be doing sacrifices again during the Millennium and and I believe that's this time that's spoken of here in Ezekiel and thou shalt verse 19 and thou shalt give to the priests and Levites.
That be of the seed of Zadok which approached unto me to minister unto me, saith the Lord God. A young bullet for a sin offering, and thou shalt take of the blood thereof, and put it upon the four horns of it.
And on the four corners of the settle, and upon the border roundabout, thus shalt thou cleanse and purge it. Thou shalt take the Bullock also of the sin offering, and shall burn it in the appointed place of the house without the sanctuary. And on the second day thou shalt offer a kid of the goats without blemish for a sin offering, And they shall cleanse the altar as they didn't, as they did cleanse it with the bullet.
When thou hast made an end of cleansing it, thou shalt offer a young Bullock without blemish.
And a ram out of the flock without blemish, and thou shalt offer them before the Lord. And the priest shall cast salt upon them, and they shall offer them up for a burnt offering unto the Lord. Seven days shalt thou prepare every day a goat for a sin offering. And they shall also prepare a young bullet. And a ram of the out of the flock without blemish. Seven days shall they purge the altar and purify it, and they shall consecrate themselves. And when these days.
Expired it shall be that upon the 8th day. And so forward the priests shall make your burnt offerings upon the altar and your peace offerings, and I will accept you, saith the Lord God.
And so in the back in the Old Testament, in Exodus chapter 12, we see that there was a the Angel of the Lord went through the the.
The eat the land of Egypt and the first born was killed. But the Israelites had a lamb, the Passover lamb. They celebrated the Passover and they had to kill the lamb and take the blood and put it on the side post in the top of the the door.
And that was a picture of Christ coming into this world to die for them to for us to shed his blood, to take away our sins. And to God, that was a picture of Christ coming and dying on the cross. The people, they didn't understand that, but God understood it. And he asked the people to do that for a memorial and.
But that was looking forward to the cross. Now if we look in in First Corinthians chapter 5.
We find that Christ is our Passover.
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And now, as we remember the Lord, as we did on Lord's Day, we're looking back to the cross, back to the time when the Lord Jesus died for our sins, the one sacrifice for sins. The Lord Jesus forever sat down at the right hand of God. And so the question is.
If the Lord Jesus already died and paid the price for our sins, why are these sacrifices going on into the Millennium?
I think they did have with it is that now that we've come to Christianity, we know that the sacrifices have ended and we have the that which answered to them. So why would there be any going back to that in the future?
And.
It's impossible to understand this issue outside of God's dispensational ways and dealings with man.
And Christianity, we do have the complete passing away of those things, and in Judaism as well, actually, when it comes to the idea of an animal being actually a sacrifice for sin that could answer to God, that ended in the death of the Lord Jesus Christ.
With God, it always was. So like Tim said, he always knew that those things could only be as Abraham on the mount. You know God is going to provide himself a lamb. And so here this ram, that's just a little picture of something that's going to happen.
Hebrews chapter 10 I think states the difficulty pretty well.
And verse eight he says if Albany said sacrifice and offering and burn offering and offerings for sin, that would have not neither had pleasure there in.
And then you find out in verse 12 what Tim just called this man after he had offered one sacrifice for sins forever sat down the right hand was. So why is it that there's any going back to that? Well, I think we have to understand that when it comes to actual sins and putting away sins, God could never have pleasure.
In those sacrifices, you never did and you never will. There was only one thing that could ever answer him.
And that was the death of the Lord Jesus Christ. And yet, insofar as those sacrifices in the Old Testament spoke of the Lord Jesus Christ, God did take pleasure in them. This verse isn't saying that God didn't have any pleasure at all. No sacrifices saying when it came to sin He didn't, but when it spoke of Christ, he did.
And so if you go back to Leviticus chapter one, just as an example, there's many places.
And.
Verse 17 just is just quite a few verses like you say, verse 13 and so forth. But verse 17, the end of the verse speaking about the burnt offering, it is a burnt sacrifice and offering made by fire of a sweet savour unto the Lord. That was always a sweet savour to the Lord.
And in the coming day, it will be again.
And so I think it's important to make that distinction, first of all. And then second of all, we need to see that these animal sacrifices belong to the law, God's covenant with his people. It belonged to earth, it belonged to that earthly.
System of things that God gave to his people and.
I thought it was imperfect.
So as we're talking the other day and and Dorothy, we just came to the verses in Hebrews Chapter 7 about with the change of priesthood, there is a change in law. The Lord Jesus now taking his priesthood of the order of Melchizedek. There's a change in law entirely. And for us in Christianity, it's away from the law to grace and we have an entirely new order of things and we have the Lord's Supper for one thing, instead of.
The Passover and and so forth, but yet in a coming day, they're going to be under something different from what we are and they're going to be under a form of the law again. And I think it's that's something we have to understand and recognize. Let's just one final.
Verse or couple verses Jeremiah 31.
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And verse 31.
Behold, the days come, saith the Lord, that I will make a new covenant with the House of Israel, with the House of Judah.
Not according to the covenant that I made with their fathers in the day that I took them by the hand to bring them out of the land of Egypt, which my covenant they break, although I wasn't husband unto them, saith the Lord. But this shall be the covenant that I will make with the House of Israel.
After those days, saith the Lord, I will put my law in their inward parts, and I will write it in their hearts, and I will be their God, and they shall be my people, and they shall teach no more every man his neighbor, and every man his brother, saying, Know the Lord, For they shall all know me from the least of them unto the greatest of them, saith the Lord, And I will forgive their iniquity, and I will remember their sin no more.
Now this is not talking about us. Many people think it is.
But this is the coming day, as it says very plainly here. The Lord is going to make a new covenant with his people and says.
In verse 31, again, the House of Israel, the House of Judah is not the church, and they're going to live under covenant relationship again with him under law, and these sacrifices are going to be reinstituted now as a memorial.
Even then, just like in the past, there's nothing with these sacrifices that can or will take away sin. But they will remind man and they will remind God of that perfect sacrifice for sin, and there will be pleasuring them in that way. It'll be a sweet savor to God.
OK. The next question.
It starts out, summer is over, harvest is passed and we are not saved, and gives Romans 10 verse 9, which is that if thou shalt confess with thy mouth the Lord Jesus, and shall believe in thine heart that God hath raised him from the dead, thou shalt be saved. So it brings in believing there as as the way of salvation.
And the question is this, is there two parts to being saved?
And it says confession, repentance.
Repent and be baptized.
And then it then it goes on to another part of the question. But there's, there's often been a question, how do you get saved? Is it just by believing or is it just by repenting? Or is it both by believing and repenting? Or is there more to being saved than than that? Who's their confession? Do we have to confess our sins to be saved?
And it goes on to say, could a child be saved by asking the Lord into his heart?
With what seems like a childlike faith, but later there seems to be no repentance for sin. And so we for an example, there's a young man, he told me he was saved when he was young. And he tells me once I'm saved, I can never be saved. I can never be lost, right?
And so I explained to him.
When a person is saved, they.
They.
Can never lose their salvation. I gave them scriptures to show him that. And then he came back to me and says thank you. That gives me comfort. But the reason he wanted to have comfort was because he was going on in an immoral lifestyle, a wicked lifestyle, and he wanted me to give him assurance of his salvation. Well, I can't give him assurance of his salvation and I'm sorry I gave him comfort.
In in his life of sin. But the question is.
When a person gets saved or thinks they're saved and then they backslide, or maybe they're not even saved at all at all, is repentance a necessary part of salvation?
Yes.
Second Timothy chapter 2 it says nevertheless the fountain verse 19 nevertheless the foundation of God stand assure having a seal on the Lord no offend that are his hand. Let everyone name in the name of Christ department of iniquity.
This is what proves to us that we are safe. Is a Christian refuses to depart from iniquity, then we have to doubt ourselves.
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If we look at Hebrews chapter 6.
It says in verse four word is impossible for those who are once enlightened and tasted as heavily.
Takers of the Holy Ghost have tasted the good word of God and the power from the world that comes all right to renew them again unto repentance, seeing they crucified themselves the Son of God impression and to an open chain. This speaks to us of the sphere of Christianity where there are blessings and benefits.
It's very possible that there's somebody in this room here today who's going on as a Christian, who's enjoying this camp, who's enjoying Christian privileges and Christian fellowship. Yet there's no reality in your soul and you're teetering on the brink of giving it up and falling away. And when you do that, the word of God tells us it's impossible for a new year again.
So when you have a soul who has confessed Christianity?
And they go off into an immoral lifestyle.
And they refused to judge it. We have to question their salvation and we have to be worried that this is a statement they would fall into of being an apostate, one who professed to be a Christian and then gave it up. The Gospel of Mark, chapter one.
Verse 15.
The time is fulfilled. These are the words of the Lord Jesus. After that, John was put in prison. The time is fulfilled.
And the Kingdom of God is at hand.
Repent ye and believe the Gospel.
Then in Acts chapter 20.
False testimony before Jews and Greeks verse 21 was this.
Acts 20 and 21 Repentance toward God and faith toward our Lord Jesus Christ. I've heard it said that repentance is no savior.
But there's no salvation without it. The first words of the Lord when he arrived in his public ministry were repent and believe the gospel. And as to childlike faith, I enjoyed the expression because naman when he dipped into the Jordan 7 times, his flesh came again as the little child, and except to become his little children, he's yelling no wise enter into the Kingdom of God.
So it's a beautiful example of that.
But repentance means to rethink and means to think. Repent means to rethink. If we think that we can have a light acceptance of Christ and go on in our sins, we need to repent. We need to rethink that course because that is not true salvation. And so that repentance is to take God's thoughts concerning what we are by nature and practice.
And to acknowledge that we need a savior.
And one who is willing and ready to accept it, and to save to the uttermost them that call unto God, them that come unto God by him, He became the author of eternal salvation to all them that obey Him when he saves. It's eternal, there's no question about that.
The question mark is not in our hearts if we have really, truly repented and received a Savior.
Separately together, don't they? And fate is as it hasn't have in John chapter three. He that hath perceived this testimony has said to his seal that God is true. And So what God says is right. And the first thing God tells us about ourselves is what we are.
What we are is completely lost.
I'm done and dead in trespasses and sin, and so there's no believing in God without that part of what God has said.
We can't accept all that he did in the sacrifice of sin without the reason for why there had to be a sacrifice of sin. And so these two things go absolutely inseparably together. And it's no use in saying, I believe, if there's not been any acknowledgement whatsoever.
Of the reason why I had to believe Now that being said, true faith always.
Will recognize that and the gospel can be preached from the standpoint of trusting in Christ alone.
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When there's that recognition and those ones come to the Lord, you have that in Acts chapter 16. They didn't go at all into the repentance with the Philippine jailer, but they simply said believe on the Lord Jesus Christ.
And thou shalt be saved. God had already started a work there. This man knew that he needed help, and the message went out that way. You go through the Gospel of John, which is specifically given by the Spirit of God. These things are written that you might believe in that believing you might have liked through His name. It's the gospel of the gospel. And you won't find the word repentance in there once.
And yet it's.
Implied in different ways. Faith everywhere, but the repentance is always going along with it. If you go to the book of Romans, it's the teaching of the gospel. You'll find repentance there. Once in chapter 2, it's the goodness of God that leads you to repentance.
After that, you don't see it again. All the teaching of the gospel, but it's everywhere, implies it goes along with B. And so I think it's important we recognize that those things go together. But it's fate that saves us. Brother Mark, we're safe.
There are steps to salvation, but they're really inseparable because they're all a work of the Spirit of God in US, aren't they? If you go to Ephesians chapter one, it might show that.
There's a verse that says He that hath begun a good work in you will complete it. And Hebrews chapter one and verse 11, the last part of the verse, we find that it is him that worketh all things.
After the council of his will.
That we should be the praise of His glory, who are the first fruits in Christ. And then we have some steps here, in whom He also trusted. After there's a step that you heard the word of life, the word of truth, the gospel of your salvation. In whom also there's another. After He believed, he were sealed with the Holy Spirit of promise, which is the earnest of our inheritance.
There are steps to salvation, but they all couple together and they are all the work of the Spirit of God within us. Just like the Lord Jesus told Nicodemus he must be born again. Last night we heard that that was the activity in the Spirit of God to bring a soul to Christ.
And that in itself is not repentance. But when that happens, the light of the glory of God shining in the soul of the Sinner shows the sin, and it brings repentance. And then they fall on their faces at the foot of the cross and accept the Lord Jesus as their Savior. And these wonderful things are sold all together.
Maybe you're here today and you confess the Lord as a child.
And that's part of the question here. Is it possible for a person to have a a confession sort of like a child, seemingly real confession with childlike faith and and it not really be true?
And and I speak also to the Sunday school teachers because and, and parents, sometimes we tell our children, oh, just ask the Lord Jesus into your heart and you'll be saved.
And you ask your child, how do you get saved? Oh, you ask Jesus into your heart. And if they in fact do that and say, Lord Jesus come into my heart. And then they're putting their faith in that prayer. That prayer doesn't save you. It's faith that saves you. Sometimes that prayer is a result of the faith that the person has.
And that's just their way of expressing expressing that to God.
But would you ask the Lord Jesus to come into a heart that's wicked and full of sin? The Lord can't do that. First he has to clean the heart. How does he do that? Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ, and thou shalt be saved. And then there's the question of repentance. Luke chapter 3, verse 13 says unless you repent, you're going to perish.
And it goes inseparably, as has been said with faith, believe on the Lord Jesus Christ.
John 318 says if you don't believe, you're condemned already.
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Doesn't matter what sort of a prayer you pray, if there's not faith, you're condemned already. John 336 If you don't believe the wrath of God abides on you, you're already under the wrath and judgment and sentence of death and judgment in hell.
When we go to conferences.
I'm sorry, young people, if I divulge what happens.
But sometimes the young people go out and they drink. They go out to the bar and they drink at a conference. And I know some people have who have gone out and had sexual impropriety at a conference. And here is supposed to be a time when there's spiritual uplifting. And, and we talked last night about being on a spiritual high when we come to places like this. And these are professing Christians and they're going out and getting drunk.
Or doing drugs.
Or smoking pot.
At a Christian.
Event.
Is that repentance? Is that coming from a heart that loves the Lord? Is that coming from a person who is saved? Is that coming from a person who is repented? The Bible says by your fruits he will be known, and perhaps you are saved, but your life does not show it. I have a brother.
He was raised in the assembly. He was gathered to the Lord's name.
He came to the meeting. He even preached the gospel.
And then he turned to a life of homosexuality.
He has two children with his, I don't know what you call him, his partner.
And I asked him, do you tell your children about the Lord Jesus? He said no. Do you read the Bible to them? No.
And this is a man who professed to be saved, he told me. I'm already saved. I can't lose my salvation.
There's no repentance. Perhaps trusting in a prayer as a child, being attracted to the love of the Lord Jesus as a child. We all love to be loved. Every person loves to be loved, and when Jesus loves us, it attracts us.
But it takes more than appreciation for love.
It takes repentance. There needs to be a realization that there's sin in the heart and we cannot be saved by.
A love relationship. We can only be saved by repentance and and believing on the Lord Jesus Christ.
I told, I said to my brother, why haven't you told your children about the Lord Jesus? He says, oh, they have to decide for themselves, I can't bring that before them. I said, well, how can they choose if they've never heard it?
You can get pretty far away from God.
If you refuse.
To repent. I'm afraid, Mike, I'm gonna, I am afraid that one day I'm gonna be sitting beside the Lord Jesus at the great white Throne and my brother is gonna be standing there.
And I'm going to hear the Lord Jesus say depart from me. I don't know who you are. You go to hell and he's going to be there forever.
If if someone is living a lifestyle of wickedness and smoking pot and doing drugs.
And you profess to be a believer, we can only take you by your fruit. And So what is our responsibility to you who claim to be a Christian?
My responsibility is to give you the gospel and tell you you need to be saved.
Because I don't know the heart. God knows the heart.
Let me tell you, you need to be safe. Don't, don't, don't mess with God because you're going to lose.
The next question is about sanctification.
And it says it's being sanctified, giving 100% of our body to the Lord, like being saved is giving 100% of our soul to the Lord.
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This question is about sanctification giving up. Is is being sanctified giving 100% of our body to the Lord? And is that like being saved as giving a 100% of our soul to the Lord?
Taking a question. Taking a question.
Whoever asked it is trying to make a distinction that I don't personally stay in scripture.
Probably good to just discuss what sanctification is, but first of all, maybe more to the question. First Thessalonians chapter 5.
And verse 23.
And the very God of peace sanctify you wholly. And I pray God, your whole spirit and soul and body be preserved blameless unto the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ. I believe that first goes together.
And sanctification has to do with our spirit, our soul and our body. But before we speak any more about that, we think we need to understand that Scripture speaks about sanctification and different ways.
And before you talk about that, you should even talk about the sanctification is because that's the word we don't use in English.
Sanctification is being set apart.
And.
We also use it in the terms of being holy.
But when we think of being set apart, we take something and we set it apart from something. But Scriptures talks about being set apart from something to something, and it's really from.
The world and it's to God.
And so.
I think it's helpful to see it in this regard. A brother presented in terms of two young people who have to do with other young people and.
They mingle in the group and they have got a lot of relationships and what's to do with each other. But there comes a time when this young man and this young woman have an attraction to one another and the relationship changes between them and as a consequence it changes with everyone else. Now they're set apart and we can think of that being set apart on the two sides.
They're still with other people, but they're not the same way.
As they had been before, the pregnancy relationship with all the others has changed.
But if that's all it was, it would be kind of dry, wouldn't it? No, they're set apart to each other. There's an affection there, there's a relationship attraction, and that's where the joy is. And so it is in Christian sanctification. We often think about it being in terms of being set apart from the world, but it's set apart to God, and we have been taken away from all that we were in and now put into a special relationship.
Uniquely to Him. And so that really gives the idea of what it is. And because God is holy, when we're set apart to Him, then there's that which corresponds to what He is. And so we are holy or we are to be holy. Now that brings in the second part of it. There's at least four ways Scripture presents this, and two of them are really important to get a hold of.
The two have to do with our standing before God and our state.
Our standing is what God has done with respect to us, and that's always perfect in Scripture. It's absolute, and we have nothing to do with it. And so Scripture talks about sanctification as that which is absolute and the work of God, what he has done for us. And maybe the easiest way to see that is.
In there's quite a few verses, but Hebrews chapter 10 is a very clear verse that we all know.
Hebrews, chapter 10.
And verse 14 says for by one offering he had perfected forever.
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Them that are sanctified or the sanctified ones?
That's God's work. The moment you trusted in Jesus Christ, God took you from where you were and set you apart forever and perfectly to Himself. And that was by the offering in the work of the Lord Jesus Christ.
Many other verses and scriptures speak of that. You find that the Corinthians for all the wrong things that they were still going on their assembly with. In chapter six he says such were some of you.
But you are watched. You are sanctified.
God had done that and so that was perfect and it did not depend on what they did day by day.
Now we get to 2nd Thessalonians or First Thessalonians. Chapter 5 is 1St and it talks about something else because it's not talking about something that's complete and perfect. It's talking a prayer here that the apostle Paul had for the.
Thessalonians that this work could go on and be completed in them until the day of unto the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ. And so there's a part of that work that the Spirit of God is doing inside of each one of us day by day. Some call it progressive sanctification because it goes on.
Maybe practical sanctification that has to do with our standing, what we are in our responsibility in this world.
And so here the prayer is to God to go on and do that in them. Now just two more verses. So that's something else explain about this. But and 1St, let's go to first Peter and see the responsibility side of it.
Verse 15 First Peter one. Verse 15 But as he which hath called you is holy.
So be ye holy in all manner of conversation, because it is written. Be holy, for I am holy. So because Goddess sanctified us.
He wants us to live by Sanctified 1.
And we have a responsibility to go and live our lives more like Him because He is holy. We're to imitate, emulate, count. Now that's our responsibility. Now one other verse that comes to mind, John chapter 17, the Lord prays there about the way that we could be sanctified.
And.
We find no surprise there that it's going to be the word of thought. John 17.
And verse 17 Sanctify them by thy truth. Thy word is truth.
And so this is what the Lord prayed for us to be practically set aside to God by, and that was the word of God.
And it's not going to happen practically in our lives unless we take the Word of God up day by day and seek to read it. But that's just a brief outline.
How I understand sanctification, and it's really a total thing, spirit, soul and body, the part that depends on us, that part that we have responsibility, and the practical part of being set apart to God in our lives is to be in the whole of our being, not just part of us. But what God did when he sanctified us, His perfect work, was also the whole of our being, and that was done forever perfectly by the work of Christ and the cross.
I think this question is like the first question about salvation, where there are different parts to it, but yet it's almost the same thing. And as brother Tim has been telling us.
It's it's, it's a whole thing. And those are the.
Keywords in that verse that he read in in First Thessalonians 5.
Is whole, but the display of it would be in our body of all of it. And so we get in the chapter previously for Thessalonians 4 and verse 3. For this is the will of God.
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Even your sanctification, and this is the showing of it in our body.
That you should abstain from fornication, that everyone of you should know how to possess his vessel in sanctification and honor. And then in First Corinthians 6, that Brother Tim mentioned, he mentioned this, but, and I thought, I think it's very good. He spoke of it quickly, but I would like to reemphasize it so that we could see.
It definitely has to do with our state and our standing.
And what he spoke of in verse 11 would be our standing. It is always in that way. But the rest of the chapter has to do with our state. The rest of the chapter is a practical living out in our body what the Lord Jesus has done for us, spirit, soul and body. It's showing it out in our in in our body what has been done for the whole spirit.
And body.
Yeah.
First Peter chapter 3 in verse 15.
But sanctify the Lord God in your hearts.
3 and 15 First Peter 3.
15 But sanctify the Lord God in your hearts, and be ready always to give an answer to every man that asketh you a reason of the hope that is in you, with meekness and fear, having a good conscience.
And then in Romans 6, I know the first read yesterday, the baptism.
Verse 12 Letting us sin therefore reign in your mortal bodies, Romans 612 That you should obey it in the lust thereof. Neither yield to your members as instruments of unrighteousness unto sin, but yield yourselves unto God as those that are alive from the dead, and your members as instruments of righteousness unto God.
I just wanted to point out that sanctification is hard work. It begins inside the heart and then works its way out to remember the body, realizing that we are dead. We've died with Christ, and now we reckon ourselves also to be dead indeed unto sin and the working of it and the members. But the heart has to be engaged.
Otherwise it becomes legality.
Separation, like the Pharisees separated themselves.
Why is practical sanctification so difficult?
Why is practical sanctification so difficult? Practical sanctification is our our day-to-day life, our living. How do we live a life that is is holy like it was mentioned, be holy As for I am holy. So how do we do that on a day-to-day basis? Why is it difficult? Why do we have.
Troubles and struggles.
With the with the flesh. One reason is because we have the flesh.
If we live by the Spirit, we will not live by the flesh. But how do we live by the Spirit?
It is a resurrection of the Lord Jesus that gives us the power to walk in the Spirit, isn't it? In Romans chapter 6 and verse four it says therefore we are buried with him by baptism into death. That like as Christ was raised up from the dead.
By the glory of the Father, just think of that power.
The Father raising the Lord Jesus Christ from the dead. That power is at our disposal every moment of the day. Even so, we also should walk in units of life and the struggle is there with the don't appreciate that power that is given to us at our disposal every moment of the day.
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You might also have something to do with.
Whether we really condemn the world that we're in or whether we actually kind of like it here.
I.
Read a couple of verses I'm sorry when we remember the Lord and his death and since we take sides of him against the world, right and so we're dead with him so when we say we're dead with him, then that means that there's nothing in the world that we really like that we really are attracted to but.
That's why I can't say that that's true of myself. On the other hand, I mean it's.
The repentance and faith.
It's not one time.
Deal. It's not a one time funk activity. It's it might be moment by moment, it might be daily, might be.
And when the Lord Jesus says.
He loveth his wife.
Shall lose it. He hated his life in this world. Shall keep it. I think there's something there too that's part of.
That occasion, the work simplification and it might even be a lifelong event, a lifelong activity to to learn to die to self and be fully engaged and loved in love with the Lord. I believe it's true.
Yeah. Just in connection with that, I mean, we, we had a whole meeting, much of which.
Spoke of connection to the world and to love, not the world and the things of the world and.
We're just thinking of Romans 12 and verse one and two.
I beseech you, therefore, brethren, by the mercies of God, that you present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable unto God, which is your reasonable service, and be not conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind, that you may prove what is good and acceptable and perfect will of God.
And, and just in connection with what our brother was saying about.
Attachments to the world while.
You know, it speaks here of renewing your mind.
All that the world has for us, all that they they listen to on a daily basis and speak of and and and watch and TV's and movies and it all.
Promotes quite the opposite of a practical sanctification.
It makes things like fornication, adultery.
Alcoholism, drug use all seen the norm and seemed to be the the fun way to go and and the best way to live.
This certainly goes against the mind of God and that we need to be be in the Word of God.
To know the mind of God, what he wants from us, and to walk in the Spirit and.
You know, for me personally, I can't listen to the music of the world or taking the entertainment of the world without it having a negative effect on me spiritually. If you can, if you can do that, I know a lot of believers think they can separate that.
You're, you're, you're better than I am. Then I, I, I, that's not something and and I see it as a harmful thing. And I just find that to be very clear in this world, in this verse, these two verses.
You know, if they go hand in hand, not being conformed to the world and renewing our mind.
And we know who the the Prince of the Power of the Air is and and he would like to.
Derail us with with ungodly thoughts or even possible.
In the reverse in Ephesians 4, I'd like to read.
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A lot of those things that have been mentioned that the, the, the Satan has so many things in this world that he uses to attract us and to and he knows our flesh is, is weak and, and he knows what can attract us. And like brother Dave was saying, maybe we, maybe we like the world too much and we don't. And as Jeff was saying.
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That things become so commonplace when we look at when we go to school, especially in school, the public schools, and then you look in the televisions and the movies and all these things we become desensitized to, to moral evil and spiritual evil and we we get taken up with.
With some of these things, but look in Ephesians chapter 4 verse 26.
It tells us to be angry.
But I thought anger was a sin. Anger is a work of the flesh, and here God is telling us to be angry. But what are we supposed to be angry at? It's not anger at people.
And others it says no, it says be angry and sin not. We need to be angry at the sin. That's what this verse is talking about, being angry at sin. And don't let the sun go down upon your anger against sin.
Some people say it's OK to be angry with your wife as long as you get things settled before you go to bed before the sun goes down. That's not what this verse is talking about. It's a joke. People make a joke of the word of God. No this says be angry and sin not let not the sun go down of upon your wrath is talking about the context is sin allowing sin in our life. Don't allow sin in your life. The minute you you become desensitized to sin you.
Hating it. And when you stop hating sin, then it's easy to fall into it. And so God tells us to be angry at sin and don't sin.
Going over to someone.
There's a.
A lot of young people in here, I know that.
You've been faced with this because I have been continue to be faced with this.
That there's a constant effort.
To call you back.
Into the world to ruin.
The plan that the Lord has for your life.
To mess up, if you will, that setting apart that the Lord has called you to. So what do you do?
OK, what happens when that I think everyone of Mr. Baranas with ourselves have to raise their hand with guilt and say guilty?
I messed it up.
So what do you do?
Read the first few verses of someone blessed. Is the man their woman or young person?
That walketh not in the council of the ungodly, nor stand in the way of sinners, nor sitteth in the seat of a scornful, but his delight is in the law of the Lord, and in his law doth he meditate day and night. He shall be like a tree planted by the rivers of water.
Water in it that bringeth forth is brewed in a season. Its leaf shall not wither, or whatsoever he doeth shall prepare well. This ties into what was brought out in the Gospel of John about being in the Word.
Says in Psalm 119, wherewithal shall a young man or woman cleanse his way? And what's the answer? Washing along with soap.
Forgetting about it so by taking heed there to work so.
It's easy. There's a progression here. You say, well, I'm not going to sit down with these people, but we're going to walk along together. But you know what happens? Because I'm guilty of this.
You're walking along and you're maintaining a little separation, and then they're like, hey, sit down.
OK, so there's this progression, walking and standing and then sitting right down, it says in James, know ye not?
That friendship with the world is enmity with God.
That's that hurts.
It's very Chuck if we were in the military today and.
We decided to be double agents and.
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And.
Turned over all of our military seats. So many of you know American history. Think about Benedict Arnold, OK?
He had he changed. He switched his allegiance. What happened? He was a traitor. What's the penalty?
It's treason. Death.
So I mean, thankfully the Lord is gracious, but young people think about what it says, friendship with the world.
This enemies with God.
You love the Savior, I know that many of you do.
And this is a challenge. There's the Wilds of the devil are constantly being thrown at you.
How you gonna stand that?
His delight shall be in the law of the Lord, and in His law that they meditate day and night be in the Word.
Be with other Christians. Don't walk in the way of sinners or stand there with them or sit down. They're going to corrupt you. It's like saying if my clean fork is in The Dirty dish pan, I'll be able to just maintain cleanness. You won't.
So don't spoil or compromise your sanctification the the enemy.
May not be able to get your soul back if you belong to Christ, but you can ruin all of the effectiveness of your life.
By winning in this.
Bell. So I want to encourage you.
To be in the word, that's the wherewithal shall a young man cleanse his way. And we're all guilty.
There's the remedy for the believer.
We we had just real quick the positive side of just to say one second. This is all very helpful, but let's not forget, just like with the relationship with a boy and a girl, the greater thing is that they're separated to each other. Let's have the word cleans our way, but let's fall in love with Christ through it.
We had a lot of questions for today. We did three. I'm going to squeeze in #5 and we'll skip #4 and we'll do 4:00 tomorrow.
And #5 it kind of goes along with what we've had here with the sanctification and, and separation from the world and sanctification set apart away from the world and to Christ. And it says what makes us saw worldly aside from the lyrics. But we know you can go from the words, whether it's you can compare the words to the word of God to know if the lyrics are.
Are godly or not?
But then the question is, could a classical or certain beats or drum patterns be considered worldly? Some of them could. Could all of them?
I don't know.
But if it excites the flesh.
It's worldly.
Music can control us by the beats, the beats they they become one with our soul and they can control us. I know some people don't like us to use the word that music controls us, but it does. The apostle or not the apostle, but.
Kingston he had David Common and soothe him when he was angry and upset and so he could change his his mood with music. A lot of stores or not some stores play music outside their their store.
To be to be music and beats and rhythm that most people don't like, so people won't loiter there around their store and.
Yes, music can be worldly, and I'm not going to tell you which one is which one isn't. If you got a conscience about it, maybe you shouldn't do it.
I sorry we didn't have a lot of time for this question, but.
I think it goes along right along with the lesson we've had here on sanctification and set apart for the world. If someone else has a one or two-minute comment, feel free, but your time is up.
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If if somebody could get ahold of the tips from Lassen, I don't know, maybe it's five or so years ago. Doug Buchanan did a really good series on music. It's well worth listening to.
Just remember that rhythm is made-up of time, and we as those who belong to the Lord Jesus Christ are going to be in eternity where there is no time. So there's nothing that will substitute the fellowship with the Lord Jesus. No rhythm, no beat or anything like that will produce happy fellowship in the soul like communion with the Lord Jesus.
I could say too on a case by case.
Basis so we can get the answer to this question from the Lord Himself, and just two verses real quick come to mind for that.
The Colossians, chapter 3.
And verse 16 says, Let the word of Christ dwell in you richly and all wisdom.
Teaching and admonishing one another, Psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, singing with grace in your heart to the Lord.
OK, what does that mean?
Well.
We can ask him.
Verse 17 Whatsoever you do in Word or deed, do all in the name of the Lord Jesus, giving thanks to God the Father by Him. He has the answer. If our heart and our motive and whatever we do is for Him, then He'll make that funny clear enough case by case to her.
Take 318.
318.
Oh well my God, still keep my soul here by yourself.
With only her interests changing.
I need to be sweet and.
Shall we?
All I say is.
Great, our loving God and Father, we thank Thee for this morning. We thank Thee too for Thy precious word. And we know in Thy word Thou is all things that pertain unto life and godliness. And yet we know there are many questions.
And we know that we can find the answers in Thy precious word. We thank Thee for this. And we would just pray that times like this, that we would see in Thy word that Thou has a plan for each one of us. We would just pray. We think of the young people are truly at a crossroad in their life. We would just pray that they might choose.
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The path we think of how Moses chose to suffer.
With the people of God and rather to enjoy the pleasures of sin for a season we would just pray for each one in here we would pray too for the day that's before us for safety and our fellowship we might be able to speak a word in season to our.
Our brother and sister, the Lord, we would just pray, for this might not be a stumbling block to anyone. We ask all thank Thee once again for Thy love and care for each one of us and Thy name we pray. Amen.