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Dialogue: 0,0:00:00.78,0:00:06.14,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Ephesians 1:1,
Dialogue: 0,0:00:06.14,0:00:17.70,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Paul addresses the church at Ephesus with these words:
Dialogue: 0,0:00:17.70,0:00:22.32,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"Paul, an apostle of Christ Jesus by the will of God.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:22.32,0:00:24.23,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,To the saints who are in Ephesus,
Dialogue: 0,0:00:24.23,0:00:27.21,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and are faithful in Christ Jesus,
Dialogue: 0,0:00:27.21,0:00:29.36,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,grace to you and peace from God our Father
Dialogue: 0,0:00:29.36,0:00:33.32,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and the Lord Jesus Christ."
Dialogue: 0,0:00:33.32,0:00:41.20,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Now, I've heard preachers say...
Dialogue: 0,0:00:41.20,0:00:45.13,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and I'm sure this is very common for anybody
Dialogue: 0,0:00:45.13,0:00:51.14,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,who preaches through an entire book of the Bible.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:51.14,0:00:53.46,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I remember hearing John Piper say it,
Dialogue: 0,0:00:53.46,0:00:56.25,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that when he got to the end of preaching through a book,
Dialogue: 0,0:00:56.26,0:00:59.41,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,he began to recognize more fully
Dialogue: 0,0:00:59.41,0:01:00.88,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,what was being talked about
Dialogue: 0,0:01:00.88,0:01:03.80,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,at the beginning of the book.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:03.80,0:01:06.50,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And that's true.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:06.50,0:01:09.88,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I've found the same thing.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:09.88,0:01:12.29,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I remember preaching through Romans.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:12.29,0:01:14.100,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I get to the end of Romans and I recognize realities
Dialogue: 0,0:01:14.100,0:01:17.86,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,at the beginning of Romans that I didn't really grasp,
Dialogue: 0,0:01:17.86,0:01:20.20,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,because I didn't really have a good feel
Dialogue: 0,0:01:20.20,0:01:22.65,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,for the whole book of Romans.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:22.65,0:01:26.50,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And so, what I've sought to do in preaching through whole books,
Dialogue: 0,0:01:26.50,0:01:29.64,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,is read the entire book through
Dialogue: 0,0:01:29.64,0:01:33.56,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,over and over and over... again.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:33.56,0:01:35.63,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,When I would preach through Hebrews,
Dialogue: 0,0:01:35.63,0:01:37.91,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I got it down to where I could read the book through
Dialogue: 0,0:01:37.91,0:01:41.63,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,in 35 minutes, and I tried every week
Dialogue: 0,0:01:41.63,0:01:43.90,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to be going through the book beginning to end,
Dialogue: 0,0:01:43.90,0:01:45.76,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,because I wanted the whole book fresh.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:45.76,0:01:47.62,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I wanted a feel for the whole thing.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:47.62,0:01:49.58,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Not only am I seeking to read Ephesians
Dialogue: 0,0:01:49.58,0:01:51.54,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,through from end to end,
Dialogue: 0,0:01:51.54,0:01:55.48,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I've worked on memorizing it in the past,
Dialogue: 0,0:01:55.48,0:01:57.88,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and I'm trying to memorize the whole thing again.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:57.88,0:02:02.10,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I've got the first three chapters down.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:02.10,0:02:05.96,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I'll be working on chapters 4, 5, and 6 in the days ahead.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:05.96,0:02:08.58,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But what's happening is this:
Dialogue: 0,0:02:08.58,0:02:10.67,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,something is becoming clear,
Dialogue: 0,0:02:10.67,0:02:12.54,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that even here in the beginning,
Dialogue: 0,0:02:12.54,0:02:15.34,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,in this introduction, when Paul says,
Dialogue: 0,0:02:15.34,0:02:17.91,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"to the saints who are in Ephesus,
Dialogue: 0,0:02:17.91,0:02:19.96,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and are faithful in Christ Jesus."
Dialogue: 0,0:02:19.96,0:02:23.89,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,He brings forth three realities.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:23.89,0:02:30.96,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Saints, faithful, in Christ Jesus.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:30.96,0:02:32.26,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And it's interesting to me,
Dialogue: 0,0:02:32.26,0:02:38.44,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,especially in just thinking through the first chapter as a whole,
Dialogue: 0,0:02:38.44,0:02:43.68,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that these are three very prominent realities
Dialogue: 0,0:02:43.68,0:02:47.34,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that come out in this first chapter.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:47.34,0:02:49.16,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And what I'm recognizing here is
Dialogue: 0,0:02:49.16,0:02:52.74,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,these three realities about the Christian
Dialogue: 0,0:02:52.74,0:02:57.70,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,are very much, in concise form,
Dialogue: 0,0:02:57.70,0:03:00.47,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that which he is going to go on and deal with
Dialogue: 0,0:03:00.47,0:03:06.42,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,in much more detail in these verses ahead.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:06.42,0:03:09.14,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,These are three realities that we don't want to pass over.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:09.14,0:03:13.31,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Because they're not just realities about the Christian life
Dialogue: 0,0:03:13.31,0:03:16.59,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that Paul randomly pulled out of the air.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:16.59,0:03:19.94,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,What he's doing here is he's setting the direction,
Dialogue: 0,0:03:19.94,0:03:24.21,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,he's setting the course for where he wants to take us.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:24.21,0:03:26.87,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,When Paul when to write, he didn't just start writing
Dialogue: 0,0:03:26.87,0:03:28.38,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,not knowing where he wanted to go.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:28.38,0:03:30.53,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,He knew the things that he wanted to say.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:30.53,0:03:33.18,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And even in the introduction here,
Dialogue: 0,0:03:33.18,0:03:35.63,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,he's drawing out realities that pertain to
Dialogue: 0,0:03:35.63,0:03:39.67,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the very things that he wants to deal with.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:39.67,0:03:42.20,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And we looked last week at this reality,
Dialogue: 0,0:03:42.20,0:03:46.14,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"To the saints who are in Ephesus and are faithful in Christ Jesus."
Dialogue: 0,0:03:46.14,0:03:49.09,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We looked at "saints." We really focused in on that.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:49.09,0:03:50.94,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Saints. What's the idea?
Dialogue: 0,0:03:50.94,0:03:56.82,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Just very quickly, in review.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:56.82,0:03:58.91,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Where does saint come from?
Dialogue: 0,0:03:58.91,0:04:01.21,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Well, as we looked at, the term is actually
Dialogue: 0,0:04:01.21,0:04:05.47,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,very closely related to "holy" and to "sanctified."
Dialogue: 0,0:04:05.47,0:04:07.08,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Do you know where it comes from?
Dialogue: 0,0:04:07.08,0:04:15.68,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Saint comes from the idea of sanctified.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:15.68,0:04:19.92,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,In fact, William Tyndale,
Dialogue: 0,0:04:19.92,0:04:24.34,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,he translated his translation about 500 years ago.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:24.34,0:04:36.64,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Here's the William Tyndale translation:
Dialogue: 0,0:04:36.64,0:04:43.90,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"Paul, an apostle of Jesu Christ,
Dialogue: 0,0:04:43.90,0:04:47.75,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,by the will of God, to the saynctes."
Dialogue: 0,0:04:47.75,0:04:52.17,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Now I'm not exactly sure how he would have said that,
Dialogue: 0,0:04:52.17,0:04:57.79,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,but it's s-a-y-n-c-t-e-s.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:57.79,0:05:00.36,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Saynctes.
Dialogue: 0,0:05:00.36,0:05:03.03,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It comes from the word sanctification,
Dialogue: 0,0:05:03.03,0:05:05.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,you see the obvious connection there.
Dialogue: 0,0:05:05.00,0:05:09.03,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But 500 years ago, they didn't call each other "saints."
Dialogue: 0,0:05:09.03,0:05:11.84,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,In fact, I looked up a page of the William Tyndale,
Dialogue: 0,0:05:11.84,0:05:18.08,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and the first page of the Gospel of John,
Dialogue: 0,0:05:18.08,0:05:23.19,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and it says "the Gospel of Sayncte John."
Dialogue: 0,0:05:23.19,0:05:24.64,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And it's got a "c" in there.
Dialogue: 0,0:05:24.64,0:05:26.88,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Well, at some point they dropped the "c" out.
Dialogue: 0,0:05:26.88,0:05:29.36,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But that's the idea.
Dialogue: 0,0:05:29.36,0:05:30.94,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,That's where "saint" comes from.
Dialogue: 0,0:05:30.94,0:05:32.87,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,What does that mean?
Dialogue: 0,0:05:32.87,0:05:39.26,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,That means not first and foremost a holy people
Dialogue: 0,0:05:39.26,0:05:41.26,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,in the sense of morally pure.
Dialogue: 0,0:05:41.26,0:05:44.51,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,In the first sense it means a people set apart
Dialogue: 0,0:05:44.51,0:05:47.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and reserved for God.
Dialogue: 0,0:05:47.00,0:05:51.14,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And listen, one of the things we want to recognize
Dialogue: 0,0:05:51.14,0:05:52.85,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,is we're not talking about any kind of special
Dialogue: 0,0:05:52.85,0:05:55.35,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,higher order of Christians who tower
Dialogue: 0,0:05:55.35,0:05:57.26,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,above all the normal Christians.
Dialogue: 0,0:05:57.26,0:06:00.60,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We're talking about anybody who is a Christian,
Dialogue: 0,0:06:00.60,0:06:05.12,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,is a saint. They're a sayncte.
Dialogue: 0,0:06:05.12,0:06:07.87,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But I want you to know something,
Dialogue: 0,0:06:07.87,0:06:11.40,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,back 2000 years ago,
Dialogue: 0,0:06:11.40,0:06:15.40,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,typically when Paul went into pagan cities,
Dialogue: 0,0:06:15.40,0:06:16.96,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,you know what he would find?
Dialogue: 0,0:06:16.96,0:06:19.25,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,He would find a population of Jews.
Dialogue: 0,0:06:19.25,0:06:21.20,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You've got pagans over here - the gentiles,
Dialogue: 0,0:06:21.20,0:06:22.77,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and you've got the Jews.\N
Dialogue: 0,0:06:22.77,0:06:25.10,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Typically, he'd go to the Jews first
Dialogue: 0,0:06:25.10,0:06:28.58,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and he'd go into those synagogues.
Dialogue: 0,0:06:28.58,0:06:30.38,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But I can tell you this,
Dialogue: 0,0:06:30.38,0:06:33.73,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the very idea to those of a Jewish upbringing,
Dialogue: 0,0:06:33.73,0:06:37.50,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that that term "saint" would be applied
Dialogue: 0,0:06:37.50,0:06:40.29,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to a pagan gentile,
Dialogue: 0,0:06:40.29,0:06:44.16,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,they considered it a rape
Dialogue: 0,0:06:44.16,0:06:46.44,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,of the sanctified language of Scripture.
Dialogue: 0,0:06:46.44,0:06:47.88,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Because you know what?
Dialogue: 0,0:06:47.88,0:06:50.100,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The Septuagint, the Greek Old Testament,
Dialogue: 0,0:06:50.100,0:06:54.53,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,they knew that term "saint" was applied
Dialogue: 0,0:06:54.53,0:06:58.12,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to Old Testament Israel.
Dialogue: 0,0:06:58.12,0:07:00.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It was applied to God's people of the
Dialogue: 0,0:07:00.99,0:07:04.01,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Jewish lineage in the Old Testament.
Dialogue: 0,0:07:04.01,0:07:07.35,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And they considered that a rape of sacred language,
Dialogue: 0,0:07:07.35,0:07:10.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that such terminology would be ripped out
Dialogue: 0,0:07:10.99,0:07:14.51,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and applied to these pagan gentiles.
Dialogue: 0,0:07:14.51,0:07:16.37,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,They hated it!
Dialogue: 0,0:07:16.37,0:07:18.32,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And yet that is the term that God
Dialogue: 0,0:07:18.32,0:07:20.69,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,has chosen to give to us.
Dialogue: 0,0:07:20.69,0:07:23.57,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Saint.
Dialogue: 0,0:07:23.57,0:07:26.36,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But, there's something else here.
Dialogue: 0,0:07:26.36,0:07:31.44,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Christians are in the second place: faithful.
Dialogue: 0,0:07:31.44,0:07:36.21,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Many of you remember, maybe four or five months ago
Dialogue: 0,0:07:36.21,0:07:39.27,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I preached from that very word on
Dialogue: 0,0:07:39.27,0:07:42.70,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the faithfulness of Christians.
Dialogue: 0,0:07:42.70,0:07:45.19,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And you know what? That whole message stands.
Dialogue: 0,0:07:45.19,0:07:47.09,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Don't believe that anything I say today
Dialogue: 0,0:07:47.09,0:07:49.36,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,undoes that message.
Dialogue: 0,0:07:49.36,0:07:52.22,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Because obviously, there is a faithfulness
Dialogue: 0,0:07:52.22,0:07:54.17,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,about Christians and it can be proved
Dialogue: 0,0:07:54.17,0:07:56.72,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,from many different texts.
Dialogue: 0,0:07:56.72,0:07:59.20,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I'm just not so convinced anymore that this is the text
Dialogue: 0,0:07:59.20,0:08:02.22,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that I would have wanted to prove it from.
Dialogue: 0,0:08:02.22,0:08:04.58,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And I'll show you in a second what I mean.
Dialogue: 0,0:08:04.58,0:08:09.48,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The term faithful in the original is the term "pistos."
Dialogue: 0,0:08:09.48,0:08:12.57,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,P-i-s-t-o-s.
Dialogue: 0,0:08:12.57,0:08:18.01,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And it carries two very distinct meanings. Two.
Dialogue: 0,0:08:18.01,0:08:21.47,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The first meaning is, here we are in Ephesians,
Dialogue: 0,0:08:21.47,0:08:23.91,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,go over to chapter 6, I'll show it to you.
Dialogue: 0,0:08:23.91,0:08:32.43,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Chapter 6:21, Paul says,
Dialogue: 0,0:08:32.43,0:08:35.22,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"So that you may know how I am and what I am doing,
Dialogue: 0,0:08:35.22,0:08:40.51,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Tychicus, the beloved brother and faithful minister."
Dialogue: 0,0:08:40.51,0:08:44.82,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,See, there's the exact same word: faithful minister.
Dialogue: 0,0:08:44.82,0:08:46.42,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Basically, what does it mean?
Dialogue: 0,0:08:46.42,0:08:49.16,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You know, you talk about a faithful dog.
Dialogue: 0,0:08:49.16,0:08:51.96,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,What are you talking about?
Dialogue: 0,0:08:51.96,0:08:53.65,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,What do you mean?
Dialogue: 0,0:08:53.65,0:08:59.79,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Loyal. Yes. Trustworthy. Reliable.
Dialogue: 0,0:08:59.79,0:09:08.51,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Loyalty. That is one definite meaning to the word "faithful."
Dialogue: 0,0:09:08.51,0:09:11.46,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But there is a second meaning.
Dialogue: 0,0:09:11.46,0:09:16.86,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And it comes from really the old meaning of faithful.
Dialogue: 0,0:09:16.86,0:09:21.39,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Faith-full, or full of faith.
Dialogue: 0,0:09:21.39,0:09:25.19,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Let me show it to you used this other way.
Dialogue: 0,0:09:25.19,0:09:30.12,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Look over at John 20 with me.
Dialogue: 0,0:09:30.12,0:09:34.73,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Basically, it refers in the second usage
Dialogue: 0,0:09:34.73,0:09:38.33,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to someone who is a believer.
Dialogue: 0,0:09:38.33,0:09:42.15,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Someone who exercises faith, or is full of faith,
Dialogue: 0,0:09:42.15,0:09:44.52,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,faithful in that way.
Dialogue: 0,0:09:44.52,0:09:48.100,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Faith-full. And you see it.
Dialogue: 0,0:09:48.100,0:09:52.14,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Paul uses it both ways.
Dialogue: 0,0:09:52.14,0:09:54.37,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And the only way you can really tell how
Dialogue: 0,0:09:54.37,0:09:58.28,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,he is using it is by the context.
Dialogue: 0,0:09:58.28,0:09:59.97,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But, I'll show it to you here.
Dialogue: 0,0:09:59.97,0:10:03.80,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,This isn't Paul's usage of it, it's our Lord's usage of it.
Dialogue: 0,0:10:03.80,0:10:08.45,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,John 20:26
Dialogue: 0,0:10:08.45,0:10:15.27,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"Eight days later, His disciples were inside again."
Dialogue: 0,0:10:15.27,0:10:19.06,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You remember, He showed up.
Dialogue: 0,0:10:19.06,0:10:21.15,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,He appeared to His disicples the day that He
Dialogue: 0,0:10:21.15,0:10:24.41,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,had arose from the dead.
Dialogue: 0,0:10:24.41,0:10:26.24,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Thomas wasn't there.
Dialogue: 0,0:10:26.24,0:10:27.82,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Thomas said that he wasn't going to believe
Dialogue: 0,0:10:27.82,0:10:30.63,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,unless he was able to actually see the Lord himself
Dialogue: 0,0:10:30.63,0:10:33.27,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and put his fingers in the wounds.
Dialogue: 0,0:10:33.27,0:10:35.90,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"Eight days later, His disciples were inside again.
Dialogue: 0,0:10:35.90,0:10:38.37,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And Thomas was with them.
Dialogue: 0,0:10:38.37,0:10:40.09,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Although the doors were locked, Jesus came
Dialogue: 0,0:10:40.09,0:10:41.67,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and stood among them, and said,
Dialogue: 0,0:10:41.67,0:10:45.84,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,'Peace be with you,' and then He said to Thomas,
Dialogue: 0,0:10:45.84,0:10:49.67,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,'put your fingers here and see My hands,
Dialogue: 0,0:10:49.67,0:10:54.98,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,put out your hand, place it in My side.'"
Dialogue: 0,0:10:54.98,0:10:56.31,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Now notice this:
Dialogue: 0,0:10:56.31,0:11:02.10,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Do not apistos (the "a" negates)
Dialogue: 0,0:11:02.10,0:11:05.68,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Don't disbelieve, but believe.
Dialogue: 0,0:11:05.68,0:11:07.45,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,See here's our term again.
Dialogue: 0,0:11:07.45,0:11:10.26,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,This is the same term that is translated "faithful"
Dialogue: 0,0:11:10.26,0:11:12.22,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,in Ephesians 1:1.
Dialogue: 0,0:11:12.22,0:11:15.06,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Believe.
Dialogue: 0,0:11:15.06,0:11:17.09,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Be a believer.
Dialogue: 0,0:11:17.09,0:11:20.22,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Jesus isn't telling Thomas to be reliable
Dialogue: 0,0:11:20.22,0:11:23.05,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and trustworthy and loyal.
Dialogue: 0,0:11:23.05,0:11:28.36,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,He's telling him, you need to believe, Thomas.
Dialogue: 0,0:11:28.36,0:11:31.30,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Exercise faith. Quit with the unbelief.
Dialogue: 0,0:11:31.30,0:11:35.56,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Look, there's not the slightest debate among scholars
Dialogue: 0,0:11:35.56,0:11:38.39,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that there's two entirely separate meanings
Dialogue: 0,0:11:38.39,0:11:41.52,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to this word. Everybody agrees.
Dialogue: 0,0:11:41.52,0:11:44.12,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It's very plain. It's very obvious in Scripture,
Dialogue: 0,0:11:44.12,0:11:47.19,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that it's got two meanings.
Dialogue: 0,0:11:47.19,0:11:51.32,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Faithful as in reliable, loyal, trustworthy,
Dialogue: 0,0:11:51.32,0:11:55.09,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and it also means a believer.
Dialogue: 0,0:11:55.09,0:11:58.18,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It means somebody who has faith,
Dialogue: 0,0:11:58.18,0:12:00.90,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,they're full of faith, they exercise faith.
Dialogue: 0,0:12:00.90,0:12:04.08,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I tell you that because if we're going to
Dialogue: 0,0:12:04.08,0:12:07.60,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,properly interpret Scripture, we need to understand this.
Dialogue: 0,0:12:07.60,0:12:09.70,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And then when we look at Ephesians 1:1,
Dialogue: 0,0:12:09.70,0:12:10.90,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and we're looking at,
Dialogue: 0,0:12:10.90,0:12:14.40,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,here's Paul and he's addressing these Christians,
Dialogue: 0,0:12:14.40,0:12:16.60,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and this is God-inspired language.
Dialogue: 0,0:12:16.60,0:12:18.30,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,What's he saying about them?
Dialogue: 0,0:12:18.30,0:12:22.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,What is it that we ought to see is real of Christians?
Dialogue: 0,0:12:22.00,0:12:23.08,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We looked at it before.
Dialogue: 0,0:12:23.08,0:12:24.46,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Christians are saints.
Dialogue: 0,0:12:24.46,0:12:26.30,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But Christians are also faithful.
Dialogue: 0,0:12:26.30,0:12:27.62,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Does that mean loyal?
Dialogue: 0,0:12:27.62,0:12:30.92,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Yes, it does, and we could definitely prove that.
Dialogue: 0,0:12:30.92,0:12:34.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And we could look at that reality in various places.
Dialogue: 0,0:12:34.99,0:12:39.50,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But listen, again, I want to quote Tyndale.
Dialogue: 0,0:12:39.50,0:12:43.77,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Listen to how Tyndale translates this.
Dialogue: 0,0:12:43.77,0:12:46.74,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I like to look at Tyndale often,
Dialogue: 0,0:12:46.74,0:12:50.34,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,because all of our English translations
Dialogue: 0,0:12:50.34,0:12:55.09,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,owe so much to his work.
Dialogue: 0,0:12:55.09,0:12:57.60,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And because he was the first one who
Dialogue: 0,0:12:57.60,0:13:04.07,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,translated the Scriptures from the Greek into the English.
Dialogue: 0,0:13:04.07,0:13:07.60,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Now they'd been translated from the Latin into the English.
Dialogue: 0,0:13:07.60,0:13:10.56,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Anybody know who did that?
Dialogue: 0,0:13:10.56,0:13:12.61,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Wycliffe, yes.
Dialogue: 0,0:13:12.61,0:13:16.31,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But Tyndale did it from the Greek into the English.
Dialogue: 0,0:13:16.31,0:13:18.69,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Now listen to how he translated,
Dialogue: 0,0:13:18.69,0:13:22.49,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"Paul, an apostle of Jesus Christ by the will of God,
Dialogue: 0,0:13:22.49,0:13:25.68,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to the saynctes which are at Ephesus
Dialogue: 0,0:13:25.68,0:13:29.86,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and to them which believe on Jesus Christ."
Dialogue: 0,0:13:29.86,0:13:33.64,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,See, he took that term to mean "believer,"
Dialogue: 0,0:13:33.64,0:13:37.04,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,not "loyal."
Dialogue: 0,0:13:37.04,0:13:44.08,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I looked at seventeen commentaries.
Dialogue: 0,0:13:44.08,0:13:48.65,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Sixteen of the seventeen commentators
Dialogue: 0,0:13:48.65,0:13:53.61,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,were quite convinced this should be translated
Dialogue: 0,0:13:53.61,0:13:57.39,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"believer." That it means "believer."
Dialogue: 0,0:13:57.39,0:13:59.52,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Listen to Alexander McLaren,
Dialogue: 0,0:13:59.52,0:14:01.55,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,my wife just discovered this guy.
Dialogue: 0,0:14:01.55,0:14:04.22,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Scottish Baptist, actually a contemporary
Dialogue: 0,0:14:04.22,0:14:07.62,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,of Charles Spurgeon.
Dialogue: 0,0:14:07.62,0:14:09.74,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Listen to how he says it,
Dialogue: 0,0:14:09.74,0:14:13.48,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"Faithful here, of course, does not mean,
Dialogue: 0,0:14:13.48,0:14:15.39,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,as it usually does in our ordinary language
Dialogue: 0,0:14:15.39,0:14:18.72,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,true, trusty, reliable, keeping our word,
Dialogue: 0,0:14:18.72,0:14:21.80,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,but it means simply believing, having faith."
Dialogue: 0,0:14:21.80,0:14:24.89,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Lloyd-Jones says, "faithful is a somewhat
Dialogue: 0,0:14:24.89,0:14:27.46,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,unfortunate translation because we tend to give
Dialogue: 0,0:14:27.46,0:14:30.62,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,not a primary meaning to this term,
Dialogue: 0,0:14:30.62,0:14:32.70,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,but once more a secondary meaning."
Dialogue: 0,0:14:32.70,0:14:34.58,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And he means we tend to give it the meaning
Dialogue: 0,0:14:34.58,0:14:36.41,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,of reliable and trustworthy.
Dialogue: 0,0:14:36.41,0:14:38.04,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,He says essentially this word "faithful"
Dialogue: 0,0:14:38.04,0:14:40.54,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,means exercising faith.
Dialogue: 0,0:14:40.54,0:14:44.13,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Now you see, McLaren says of course it means that!
Dialogue: 0,0:14:44.13,0:14:49.45,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And so many of the commentators said it like that,
Dialogue: 0,0:14:49.45,0:14:51.31,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,well, of course, it's clear.
Dialogue: 0,0:14:51.31,0:14:53.16,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And I'm looking, but they never say
Dialogue: 0,0:14:53.16,0:14:57.48,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,why it's so clear.
Dialogue: 0,0:14:57.48,0:15:01.08,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And, brethren, I'll tell you - you know what I think
Dialogue: 0,0:15:01.08,0:15:04.60,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,actually makes it kind of clear?
Dialogue: 0,0:15:04.60,0:15:11.43,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Is the first chapter of Ephesians itself.
Dialogue: 0,0:15:11.43,0:15:13.37,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You say, how so?
Dialogue: 0,0:15:13.37,0:15:18.54,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Just notice. Look with me at Ephesians 1.
Dialogue: 0,0:15:18.54,0:15:25.59,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,First, when we're told about all the spiritual blessings
Dialogue: 0,0:15:25.59,0:15:31.80,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that are ours, notice the first one that's gone to:
Dialogue: 0,0:15:31.80,0:15:37.07,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Saints. Notice it in verse 4.
Dialogue: 0,0:15:37.07,0:15:39.23,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You say the word saint's not there.
Dialogue: 0,0:15:39.23,0:15:43.35,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,No, but listen, if we remember what "saint" is,
Dialogue: 0,0:15:43.35,0:15:47.10,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,it's a people set apart as holy to God, notice this:
Dialogue: 0,0:15:47.10,0:15:52.83,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"God chose us in Christ before the foundation of the world,
Dialogue: 0,0:15:52.83,0:15:55.95,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that we should be holy and blameless before Him in love."
Dialogue: 0,0:15:55.95,0:15:57.60,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You know what's very interesting?
Dialogue: 0,0:15:57.60,0:15:59.26,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,He doesn't run right to faith,
Dialogue: 0,0:15:59.26,0:16:01.30,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,he doesn't run right to believing.
Dialogue: 0,0:16:01.30,0:16:04.93,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,He runs first to the fact that God chose us to be saints.
Dialogue: 0,0:16:04.93,0:16:07.50,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,God chose us to be holy.
Dialogue: 0,0:16:07.50,0:16:10.05,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Does he get to talking about faith? Yes.
Dialogue: 0,0:16:10.05,0:16:13.84,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And when he does, it's not reliability.
Dialogue: 0,0:16:13.84,0:16:15.63,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It's us believing.
Dialogue: 0,0:16:15.63,0:16:17.85,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You say, where's that happen?
Dialogue: 0,0:16:17.85,0:16:22.37,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Well, go to verse 12.
Dialogue: 0,0:16:22.37,0:16:26.62,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"We who were the first to hope in Christ,
Dialogue: 0,0:16:26.62,0:16:29.33,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,might be to the praise of His glory."
Dialogue: 0,0:16:29.33,0:16:32.15,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And then in verse 13, "in Him you also,
Dialogue: 0,0:16:32.15,0:16:35.70,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,when you heard the word of truth, the Gospel of your salvation,
Dialogue: 0,0:16:35.70,0:16:39.34,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and believed in Him,
Dialogue: 0,0:16:39.34,0:16:41.66,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,were sealed with the promised Holy Spirit
Dialogue: 0,0:16:41.66,0:16:43.43,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Who is the guarantee of our inheritance.
Dialogue: 0,0:16:43.43,0:16:46.15,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Notice 15, "for this reason, because I have heard
Dialogue: 0,0:16:46.15,0:16:49.17,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,of your faith in the Lord Jesus Christ."
Dialogue: 0,0:16:49.17,0:16:53.62,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,What's very interesting is this:
Dialogue: 0,0:16:53.62,0:16:56.87,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the idea of being chosen by God to be a saint,
Dialogue: 0,0:16:56.87,0:17:01.42,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,or to be holy unto God, the idea of us believing,
Dialogue: 0,0:17:01.42,0:17:05.95,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and all the time just swimming in the language
Dialogue: 0,0:17:05.95,0:17:10.77,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,of being in Christ, in Him, in the Beloved.
Dialogue: 0,0:17:10.77,0:17:15.30,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,That permeates this first chapter.
Dialogue: 0,0:17:15.30,0:17:21.65,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Nothing is said about reliability when it comes to "faithful."
Dialogue: 0,0:17:21.65,0:17:23.97,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Not reliability, not trustworthy.
Dialogue: 0,0:17:23.97,0:17:27.42,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It's the fact that we as Christians are believers.
Dialogue: 0,0:17:27.42,0:17:30.88,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Now look, I'm belaboring this for a reason.
Dialogue: 0,0:17:30.88,0:17:32.44,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Because as I said last week,
Dialogue: 0,0:17:32.44,0:17:34.53,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,if there's anything that's important in our day,
Dialogue: 0,0:17:34.53,0:17:38.44,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,it is that we understand who Christians are.
Dialogue: 0,0:17:38.44,0:17:42.63,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We live in a country where our president says
Dialogue: 0,0:17:42.63,0:17:45.41,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,he's a Christian.
Dialogue: 0,0:17:45.41,0:17:49.47,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,He brags on Allah and the Koran
Dialogue: 0,0:17:49.47,0:17:52.37,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and yet he's a Christian.
Dialogue: 0,0:17:52.37,0:17:55.71,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We live in a country where multitudes
Dialogue: 0,0:17:55.71,0:17:57.75,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,profess to be Christians,
Dialogue: 0,0:17:57.75,0:17:59.02,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and you know what?
Dialogue: 0,0:17:59.02,0:18:00.33,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Those of us that go door to door,
Dialogue: 0,0:18:00.33,0:18:01.65,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,you know what we are finding out?
Dialogue: 0,0:18:01.65,0:18:05.45,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We are finding out that people do not know the Gospel.
Dialogue: 0,0:18:05.45,0:18:08.48,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Just recently, Glenn, Krystal and I,
Dialogue: 0,0:18:08.48,0:18:10.32,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,we were in somebody's apartment,
Dialogue: 0,0:18:10.32,0:18:13.13,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and I asked, after we told them the Gospel,
Dialogue: 0,0:18:13.13,0:18:17.72,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,have you ever heard anything like this before?
Dialogue: 0,0:18:17.72,0:18:19.96,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And one of them shook their head.
Dialogue: 0,0:18:19.96,0:18:21.51,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,No, never heard anything like this.
Dialogue: 0,0:18:21.51,0:18:24.95,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I was downtown with Kevin Williams,
Dialogue: 0,0:18:24.95,0:18:26.36,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and I remember we talked to somebody
Dialogue: 0,0:18:26.36,0:18:28.33,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,down there by the Alamo, and the same thing,
Dialogue: 0,0:18:28.33,0:18:30.41,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,after we got done with the Gospel,
Dialogue: 0,0:18:30.41,0:18:33.07,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I asked them have you ever heard anything like this before?
Dialogue: 0,0:18:33.07,0:18:35.09,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Nope, never heard anything like this before.
Dialogue: 0,0:18:35.09,0:18:37.11,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We've got people running around all over the place
Dialogue: 0,0:18:37.11,0:18:39.62,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,claiming to be Christians, and yet it is amazing,
Dialogue: 0,0:18:39.62,0:18:41.10,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,there is an ignorance.
Dialogue: 0,0:18:41.10,0:18:43.93,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We heard in the first hour about the former ignorance?
Dialogue: 0,0:18:43.93,0:18:45.78,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Brethren, sometimes we have this idea
Dialogue: 0,0:18:45.78,0:18:47.69,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,because we were formerly ignorant,
Dialogue: 0,0:18:47.69,0:18:49.18,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,we've come into the truth,
Dialogue: 0,0:18:49.18,0:18:51.61,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,we've got this idea that people should know.
Dialogue: 0,0:18:51.61,0:18:53.27,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But you know what? We're hearing about -
Dialogue: 0,0:18:53.27,0:18:55.98,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,John Sytsma can come back from Nepal
Dialogue: 0,0:18:55.98,0:18:58.15,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and say that he's hearing about whole villages
Dialogue: 0,0:18:58.15,0:19:00.35,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,where they don't know the name of Christ,
Dialogue: 0,0:19:00.35,0:19:01.60,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,but I'll tell you this, we live in a day
Dialogue: 0,0:19:01.60,0:19:03.44,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,when people do not know the Gospel,
Dialogue: 0,0:19:03.44,0:19:06.47,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and they do not know what true Christianity looks like.
Dialogue: 0,0:19:06.47,0:19:07.77,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We've got people deceived.
Dialogue: 0,0:19:07.77,0:19:10.30,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And it's not just their former ignorance,
Dialogue: 0,0:19:10.30,0:19:11.88,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,it's their present ignorance.
Dialogue: 0,0:19:11.88,0:19:13.61,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And we need to blow that away.
Dialogue: 0,0:19:13.61,0:19:15.50,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,What is true Christianity?
Dialogue: 0,0:19:15.50,0:19:18.31,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Well, on the first place, on the first footing,
Dialogue: 0,0:19:18.31,0:19:21.77,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,on the first foundation, Christians are saints.
Dialogue: 0,0:19:21.77,0:19:24.20,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,They are a people set aside by God.
Dialogue: 0,0:19:24.20,0:19:26.96,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And in the second place, they are believers.
Dialogue: 0,0:19:26.96,0:19:29.20,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,They believe something...
Dialogue: 0,0:19:29.20,0:19:30.100,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,different from what the rest of the world believes.
Dialogue: 0,0:19:30.100,0:19:34.08,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Listen, the whole world believes something.
Dialogue: 0,0:19:34.08,0:19:37.05,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But what Scripture talks about is the former ignorance.
Dialogue: 0,0:19:37.05,0:19:39.55,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,In other words, what we formerly believed
Dialogue: 0,0:19:39.55,0:19:41.16,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,isn't what we believe now.
Dialogue: 0,0:19:41.16,0:19:43.74,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Formerly, we did believe a whole bunch of things,
Dialogue: 0,0:19:43.74,0:19:47.10,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,but it's called deception, and it's called ignorance.
Dialogue: 0,0:19:47.10,0:19:49.29,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Why? Because what we believed was a lie.
Dialogue: 0,0:19:49.29,0:19:52.21,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And there was a whole lot that we didn't believe,
Dialogue: 0,0:19:52.21,0:19:55.32,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that we needed to believe, that we were ignorant of.
Dialogue: 0,0:19:55.32,0:19:58.03,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Brethren, this is where our evangelism comes in,
Dialogue: 0,0:19:58.03,0:20:01.42,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,just as well as our own self-examination.
Dialogue: 0,0:20:01.42,0:20:02.86,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Are we the real deal?
Dialogue: 0,0:20:02.86,0:20:04.51,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Are we saying the real thing?
Dialogue: 0,0:20:04.51,0:20:07.65,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Are we proclaiming what true Christianity is to the world?
Dialogue: 0,0:20:07.65,0:20:10.75,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We need to blow the ignorance away.
Dialogue: 0,0:20:10.75,0:20:12.55,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Why? Because ignorance kills.
Dialogue: 0,0:20:12.55,0:20:14.29,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You know what? Ignorance is not harmless.
Dialogue: 0,0:20:14.29,0:20:15.83,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Ignorance is not bliss.
Dialogue: 0,0:20:15.83,0:20:18.82,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Ignorance is deadly. Ignorance takes people to hell.
Dialogue: 0,0:20:18.82,0:20:21.38,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The former ignorance we heard about from Peter
Dialogue: 0,0:20:21.38,0:20:22.92,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,in the first hour,
Dialogue: 0,0:20:22.92,0:20:24.09,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,is an ignorance you die in.
Dialogue: 0,0:20:24.09,0:20:27.09,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You will die in your sins.
Dialogue: 0,0:20:27.09,0:20:29.12,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,True Christians are saints.
Dialogue: 0,0:20:29.12,0:20:32.26,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And if there is Christianity, and it's all over the place,
Dialogue: 0,0:20:32.26,0:20:34.74,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that's being proclaimed that is not holy,
Dialogue: 0,0:20:34.74,0:20:37.84,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,there is a form of godliness but it denies the power.
Dialogue: 0,0:20:37.84,0:20:42.31,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Brethren, it is a deadly religion.
Dialogue: 0,0:20:42.31,0:20:45.37,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,All that says it's Christianity is not Christianity.
Dialogue: 0,0:20:45.37,0:20:47.08,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And you know what you would have found
Dialogue: 0,0:20:47.08,0:20:50.32,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,if you would have viewed these saints
Dialogue: 0,0:20:50.32,0:20:51.95,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,who are at Ephesus?
Dialogue: 0,0:20:51.95,0:20:54.40,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You would have found they believed things that
Dialogue: 0,0:20:54.40,0:20:56.89,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,they didn't believe formerly.
Dialogue: 0,0:20:56.89,0:20:58.84,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Oh, you've got people running all around Ephesus,
Dialogue: 0,0:20:58.84,0:20:59.96,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and what did they believe?
Dialogue: 0,0:20:59.96,0:21:03.17,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,They believed in Artemis, Diana.
Dialogue: 0,0:21:03.17,0:21:05.48,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The temple was there.
Dialogue: 0,0:21:05.48,0:21:08.18,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,They believed in the stone, the sacred stone,
Dialogue: 0,0:21:08.18,0:21:11.98,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that was thrown down from heaven by Jupiter.
Dialogue: 0,0:21:11.98,0:21:14.32,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,They believed in those things.
Dialogue: 0,0:21:14.32,0:21:16.50,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But I'll tell you what, Christians believe something
Dialogue: 0,0:21:16.50,0:21:18.24,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the rest of the world doesn't believe.
Dialogue: 0,0:21:18.24,0:21:21.04,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And if you would have asked these Christians,
Dialogue: 0,0:21:21.04,0:21:24.100,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,they were a group of people and they believed something.
Dialogue: 0,0:21:24.100,0:21:26.70,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,What did they believe?
Dialogue: 0,0:21:26.70,0:21:28.40,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,They didn't believe it was a sacred stone
Dialogue: 0,0:21:28.40,0:21:29.69,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that got thrown down from heaven,
Dialogue: 0,0:21:29.69,0:21:32.60,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,they believed that the Son of God came down from heaven.
Dialogue: 0,0:21:32.60,0:21:35.02,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And not from Jupiter, but God Almighty,
Dialogue: 0,0:21:35.02,0:21:37.98,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the living God sent His Son into this world.
Dialogue: 0,0:21:37.98,0:21:39.38,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Brethren, I'll tell you this,
Dialogue: 0,0:21:39.38,0:21:43.23,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,they believed in the Incarnation.
Dialogue: 0,0:21:43.23,0:21:46.59,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,They believed that God came from the halls of heaven,
Dialogue: 0,0:21:46.59,0:21:47.77,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and He came here.
Dialogue: 0,0:21:47.77,0:21:48.96,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,They believed that.
Dialogue: 0,0:21:48.96,0:21:50.93,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,They believed that Jesus of Nazareth
Dialogue: 0,0:21:50.93,0:21:52.65,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,was not just like you and me.
Dialogue: 0,0:21:52.65,0:21:54.66,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,He was not just like every other human being
Dialogue: 0,0:21:54.66,0:21:55.88,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,on the face of this earth.
Dialogue: 0,0:21:55.88,0:21:57.69,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,They believed that was Immanuel.
Dialogue: 0,0:21:57.69,0:21:59.26,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,That was God with us.
Dialogue: 0,0:21:59.26,0:22:01.30,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,This was the Son of God, the Word of God.
Dialogue: 0,0:22:01.30,0:22:03.66,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And He's come down.
Dialogue: 0,0:22:03.66,0:22:05.89,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And as I heard Piper say last night,
Dialogue: 0,0:22:05.89,0:22:08.58,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I'm drifting off to sleep, my wife had a message on,
Dialogue: 0,0:22:08.58,0:22:11.04,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,He took upon Himself humanity.
Dialogue: 0,0:22:11.04,0:22:13.07,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,He took upon Himself a body.
Dialogue: 0,0:22:13.07,0:22:14.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,He had to have a forehead, why?
Dialogue: 0,0:22:14.99,0:22:17.54,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,To have something for the thorns to pierce.
Dialogue: 0,0:22:17.54,0:22:19.57,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And He had to have a broad back, why?
Dialogue: 0,0:22:19.57,0:22:21.43,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,For the sake of the scourge.
Dialogue: 0,0:22:21.43,0:22:23.88,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And He had to have a brain and a spinal cord
Dialogue: 0,0:22:23.88,0:22:25.50,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,with all the nerves, why?
Dialogue: 0,0:22:25.50,0:22:28.22,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So that He could feel the fullness of the pain
Dialogue: 0,0:22:28.22,0:22:31.89,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,with no vinegar, with no sour wine, with no gall.
Dialogue: 0,0:22:31.89,0:22:33.09,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,He endured it.
Dialogue: 0,0:22:33.09,0:22:35.34,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,He felt it.
Dialogue: 0,0:22:35.34,0:22:37.49,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,He would not numb Himself.
Dialogue: 0,0:22:37.49,0:22:39.78,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,He went to that cross, and He was determined
Dialogue: 0,0:22:39.78,0:22:43.38,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to bear our punishment and bear our guilt,
Dialogue: 0,0:22:43.38,0:22:45.54,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and He took it there in a body.
Dialogue: 0,0:22:45.54,0:22:47.56,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,He became like us, so that He could become
Dialogue: 0,0:22:47.56,0:22:50.30,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,a mediator between God and man.
Dialogue: 0,0:22:50.30,0:22:53.69,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Somebody who could satisfy God as a man,
Dialogue: 0,0:22:53.69,0:22:56.26,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,being righteous as a man,
Dialogue: 0,0:22:56.26,0:22:59.26,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,dying the death of a man in our place.
Dialogue: 0,0:22:59.26,0:23:02.04,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,See, they believed that. They believed that.
Dialogue: 0,0:23:02.04,0:23:03.81,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The rest of them, they didn't believe it.
Dialogue: 0,0:23:03.81,0:23:06.37,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,They believed Artemis, and you know, god of fertility,
Dialogue: 0,0:23:06.37,0:23:08.06,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and we've got to appease and placate.
Dialogue: 0,0:23:08.06,0:23:10.84,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And these people recognized, no, none of that!
Dialogue: 0,0:23:10.84,0:23:13.19,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We cannot placate with our offerings,
Dialogue: 0,0:23:13.19,0:23:15.11,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and with our produce,
Dialogue: 0,0:23:15.11,0:23:17.51,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and with anything that we do in our lives.
Dialogue: 0,0:23:17.51,0:23:20.66,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,They recognized, One came into this world
Dialogue: 0,0:23:20.66,0:23:22.79,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to save sinners, and it's not Artemis,
Dialogue: 0,0:23:22.79,0:23:24.29,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and it's not Jupiter.
Dialogue: 0,0:23:24.29,0:23:26.10,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It is the Son of God Himself.
Dialogue: 0,0:23:26.10,0:23:28.75,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Rejected by those pagans, rejected by the Jews
Dialogue: 0,0:23:28.75,0:23:30.25,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that were there. They believed that.
Dialogue: 0,0:23:30.25,0:23:31.79,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And I'll tell you what else they believed:
Dialogue: 0,0:23:31.79,0:23:34.37,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,They believed that He died, but He didn't stay dead.
Dialogue: 0,0:23:34.37,0:23:37.14,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,He came out of the grave. They believed that.
Dialogue: 0,0:23:37.14,0:23:40.43,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The resurrection? Yeah, you better believe, they believed that.
Dialogue: 0,0:23:40.43,0:23:44.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,After many infallible proofs, 40 days, \N
Dialogue: 0,0:23:44.00,0:23:46.85,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,He showed Himself to above 500 people.
Dialogue: 0,0:23:46.85,0:23:49.44,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,They knew it. Those Christians knew it!
Dialogue: 0,0:23:49.44,0:23:51.58,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The testimony went all over through the churches.
Dialogue: 0,0:23:51.58,0:23:54.72,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,In this day, probably some of those people were still alive.
Dialogue: 0,0:23:54.72,0:23:56.59,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Maybe some of them had even migrated
Dialogue: 0,0:23:56.59,0:23:57.71,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,over to Ephesus.
Dialogue: 0,0:23:57.71,0:23:59.62,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,People who had seen Him resurrected.
Dialogue: 0,0:23:59.62,0:24:02.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Can you imagine seeing somebody
Dialogue: 0,0:24:02.00,0:24:04.61,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,who saw Christ resurrected?
Dialogue: 0,0:24:04.61,0:24:07.13,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I mean, I don't know what you would do,
Dialogue: 0,0:24:07.13,0:24:09.27,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,but I would swarm the guy!
Dialogue: 0,0:24:09.27,0:24:10.96,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I would grab him and pull him aside,
Dialogue: 0,0:24:10.96,0:24:14.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"you tell me everything!"
Dialogue: 0,0:24:14.00,0:24:17.16,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Tell me! Tell me! Tell me!
Dialogue: 0,0:24:17.16,0:24:18.71,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Why? Don't you want to know more?
Dialogue: 0,0:24:18.71,0:24:20.08,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Don't you always want to know more?
Dialogue: 0,0:24:20.08,0:24:21.89,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,More than even what the Bible tells you?
Dialogue: 0,0:24:21.89,0:24:23.48,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Isn't that the longing of your heart?
Dialogue: 0,0:24:23.48,0:24:25.31,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,That's not a bad desire.
Dialogue: 0,0:24:25.31,0:24:29.44,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Here are these people, and you know they stood out.
Dialogue: 0,0:24:29.44,0:24:30.85,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Why? Because they had holy lives
Dialogue: 0,0:24:30.85,0:24:31.89,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and because they believed something like
Dialogue: 0,0:24:31.89,0:24:33.65,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the rest of the people did not believe.
Dialogue: 0,0:24:33.65,0:24:37.04,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And they were telling the people what they believed.
Dialogue: 0,0:24:37.04,0:24:39.02,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Paul says when he went to Ephesus,
Dialogue: 0,0:24:39.02,0:24:40.70,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,he fought with beasts at Ephesus.
Dialogue: 0,0:24:40.70,0:24:42.19,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,There were people there.
Dialogue: 0,0:24:42.19,0:24:46.97,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,That's the same place where Demetrius the coppersmith was at.
Dialogue: 0,0:24:46.97,0:24:48.82,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,They were taking their trade away.
Dialogue: 0,0:24:48.82,0:24:52.38,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,These people are saying that these gods
Dialogue: 0,0:24:52.38,0:24:54.22,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that we're making with our hands,
Dialogue: 0,0:24:54.22,0:24:55.79,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,they're all a deception.
Dialogue: 0,0:24:55.79,0:24:58.88,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,This is having an impact on my ability
Dialogue: 0,0:24:58.88,0:25:01.37,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to put bread on the supper table for my family.
Dialogue: 0,0:25:01.37,0:25:03.86,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So, you better believe they recognized it.
Dialogue: 0,0:25:03.86,0:25:04.96,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You better believe they knew it.
Dialogue: 0,0:25:04.96,0:25:08.02,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Paul, he was over there at that hall of Tyrannus
Dialogue: 0,0:25:08.02,0:25:10.27,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,for what? a number of years,
Dialogue: 0,0:25:10.27,0:25:15.32,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,preaching and teaching, and the Word was going everywhere.
Dialogue: 0,0:25:15.32,0:25:18.34,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,They believed.
Dialogue: 0,0:25:18.34,0:25:21.32,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,They were believers.
Dialogue: 0,0:25:21.32,0:25:23.42,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But that's not all.
Dialogue: 0,0:25:23.42,0:25:26.24,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Saints believe certain things.
Dialogue: 0,0:25:26.24,0:25:29.91,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But brethren, I want you to notice this:
Dialogue: 0,0:25:29.91,0:25:33.32,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,notice the order of these terms.
Dialogue: 0,0:25:33.32,0:25:35.63,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And again, I don't think this is random.
Dialogue: 0,0:25:35.63,0:25:40.36,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Because it's not random in the first chapter of Ephesians.
Dialogue: 0,0:25:40.36,0:25:44.49,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Nor is it random in other places in our Bibles.
Dialogue: 0,0:25:44.49,0:25:48.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Saints, first.
Dialogue: 0,0:25:48.99,0:25:53.24,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Believers, second.
Dialogue: 0,0:25:53.24,0:25:55.64,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And I think we need to look at this,
Dialogue: 0,0:25:55.64,0:25:58.05,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,because I think most of us have this idea
Dialogue: 0,0:25:58.05,0:25:59.17,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,about Christianity:
Dialogue: 0,0:25:59.17,0:26:04.68,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,justification and then sanctification.
Dialogue: 0,0:26:04.68,0:26:06.70,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We're justified by faith,
Dialogue: 0,0:26:06.70,0:26:10.96,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,so we would have the idea of believing and being justified;
Dialogue: 0,0:26:10.96,0:26:14.45,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and then sanctification, and that's the idea of
Dialogue: 0,0:26:14.45,0:26:17.39,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,progressively becoming more and more holy
Dialogue: 0,0:26:17.39,0:26:20.33,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and more and more Christlike.
Dialogue: 0,0:26:20.33,0:26:22.74,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And yet isn't it interesting, saint is first,
Dialogue: 0,0:26:22.74,0:26:24.27,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,believer second?
Dialogue: 0,0:26:24.27,0:26:25.53,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And you say well, maybe that's random,
Dialogue: 0,0:26:25.53,0:26:27.83,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,or maybe just standard protocol demands,
Dialogue: 0,0:26:27.83,0:26:29.95,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,if you're going to address somebody,
Dialogue: 0,0:26:29.95,0:26:34.38,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,maybe it just came off the tongue easier to say saint first.
Dialogue: 0,0:26:34.38,0:26:35.93,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I don't believe that.
Dialogue: 0,0:26:35.93,0:26:38.70,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I believe there is doctrinal significance to the order here,
Dialogue: 0,0:26:38.70,0:26:41.62,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and I'll show you why.
Dialogue: 0,0:26:41.62,0:26:50.16,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Turn over to 2 Thessalonians 2:13.
Dialogue: 0,0:26:50.16,0:26:52.69,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,This is not a random reality,
Dialogue: 0,0:26:52.69,0:26:55.30,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,when we begin to study very closely.
Dialogue: 0,0:26:55.30,0:26:59.21,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We will see that the idea of sanctification
Dialogue: 0,0:26:59.21,0:27:05.67,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,is more than once, often, put before
Dialogue: 0,0:27:05.67,0:27:10.84,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,our faith and obedience to Christ.
Dialogue: 0,0:27:10.84,0:27:15.29,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,2 Thessalonians 2:13, "We ought always to give thanks
Dialogue: 0,0:27:15.29,0:27:19.48,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to God for you, brothers, beloved by the Lord."
Dialogue: 0,0:27:19.48,0:27:21.21,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Now notice this:
Dialogue: 0,0:27:21.21,0:27:28.22,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"Because God chose you as the firstfruits to be saved."
Dialogue: 0,0:27:28.22,0:27:29.64,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Now this is very interesting because this
Dialogue: 0,0:27:29.64,0:27:33.41,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,is similar language to Ephesians 1:3-4
Dialogue: 0,0:27:33.41,0:27:35.17,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,where you've got this idea
Dialogue: 0,0:27:35.17,0:27:43.42,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that God chose them to be holy and blameless.
Dialogue: 0,0:27:43.42,0:27:49.87,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,They were chosen in Christ.
Dialogue: 0,0:27:49.87,0:27:53.89,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And notice this, "God chose you as the firstfruits
Dialogue: 0,0:27:53.89,0:27:59.62,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to be saved through sanctification by the Spirit
Dialogue: 0,0:27:59.62,0:28:02.40,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and belief in the truth."
Dialogue: 0,0:28:02.40,0:28:06.26,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But again, it's interesting that sanctification
Dialogue: 0,0:28:06.26,0:28:11.66,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,is first, faith; belief is second.
Dialogue: 0,0:28:11.66,0:28:15.06,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Ok, go back to Ephesians again.
Dialogue: 0,0:28:15.06,0:28:25.01,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I want to draw this reality again out of Ephesians 1 for you.
Dialogue: 0,0:28:25.01,0:28:28.36,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,In Ephesians 1, notice verse 4,
Dialogue: 0,0:28:28.36,0:28:35.96,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"He chose us in Christ before the foundation of the world
Dialogue: 0,0:28:35.96,0:28:40.22,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that we should be holy and blameless before Him."
Dialogue: 0,0:28:40.22,0:28:42.42,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Again, you get that idea,
Dialogue: 0,0:28:42.42,0:28:44.42,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and then faith, like I showed you before,
Dialogue: 0,0:28:44.42,0:28:49.40,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the hope in Christ is found in verse 12.
Dialogue: 0,0:28:49.40,0:28:55.77,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The believing in Christ is found in 13.
Dialogue: 0,0:28:55.77,0:29:00.22,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Our faith in the Lord Jesus Christ is found in 15.
Dialogue: 0,0:29:00.22,0:29:05.36,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And so it's interesting that in his initial salutation,
Dialogue: 0,0:29:05.36,0:29:13.97,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,saint first, believer second. Full of faith. Faith-full. Second.
Dialogue: 0,0:29:13.97,0:29:17.42,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,That's what we find in 2 Thessalonians.
Dialogue: 0,0:29:17.42,0:29:21.14,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,That's what we find as he opens up these realities
Dialogue: 0,0:29:21.14,0:29:22.98,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,in Ephesians 1.
Dialogue: 0,0:29:22.98,0:29:26.19,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Listen, what you have to recognize is this:
Dialogue: 0,0:29:26.19,0:29:28.96,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,What he is going to begin talking to us about
Dialogue: 0,0:29:28.96,0:29:33.93,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,is all the spiritual blessings that have been heaped upon us
Dialogue: 0,0:29:33.93,0:29:36.50,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,being in Christ, and as he goes through
Dialogue: 0,0:29:36.50,0:29:39.47,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and he begins to elaborate on what those blessings are,
Dialogue: 0,0:29:39.47,0:29:41.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the very first thing that he goes to is the fact
Dialogue: 0,0:29:41.99,0:29:43.28,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that God chose you.
Dialogue: 0,0:29:43.28,0:29:46.77,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And He didn't choose you just to be saved,
Dialogue: 0,0:29:46.77,0:29:49.31,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,He chose you to be holy.
Dialogue: 0,0:29:49.31,0:29:51.87,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,He chose you to be a people for Himself.
Dialogue: 0,0:29:51.87,0:29:54.87,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,He didn't just choose you to miss out on hell.
Dialogue: 0,0:29:54.87,0:30:00.55,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,He chose you to be holy and blameless before Him.
Dialogue: 0,0:30:00.55,0:30:05.65,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And then it's verses later before you get to the fact that
Dialogue: 0,0:30:05.65,0:30:09.64,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,there's faith involved in this.
Dialogue: 0,0:30:09.64,0:30:12.59,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You get to chapter 2 before you find out
Dialogue: 0,0:30:12.59,0:30:19.55,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that we're saved by grace through faith.
Dialogue: 0,0:30:19.55,0:30:21.60,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It's a gift of God.
Dialogue: 0,0:30:21.60,0:30:24.28,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But he starts on the note of sanctification,
Dialogue: 0,0:30:24.28,0:30:26.46,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,if you don't see it, that's what the idea of holy,
Dialogue: 0,0:30:26.46,0:30:28.42,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,being chosen to holiness,
Dialogue: 0,0:30:28.42,0:30:31.97,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,being chosen to sanctity, to sanctification,
Dialogue: 0,0:30:31.97,0:30:34.57,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,being chosen as sanctified ones,
Dialogue: 0,0:30:34.57,0:30:36.41,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,being chosen as saints.
Dialogue: 0,0:30:36.41,0:30:37.59,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,That's the idea.
Dialogue: 0,0:30:37.59,0:30:38.86,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It's the same thing, even though you
Dialogue: 0,0:30:38.86,0:30:40.74,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,don't see the word saint there.
Dialogue: 0,0:30:40.74,0:30:42.47,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It's the same idea.
Dialogue: 0,0:30:42.47,0:30:43.84,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,There's a sequence.
Dialogue: 0,0:30:43.84,0:30:47.60,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Now why do I emphasize this?
Dialogue: 0,0:30:47.60,0:30:52.27,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I emphasize this for this fact.
Dialogue: 0,0:30:52.27,0:31:00.65,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,That you cannot be a believer unless you're a saint.
Dialogue: 0,0:31:00.65,0:31:02.36,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And that's critical.
Dialogue: 0,0:31:02.36,0:31:05.56,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,That's critical to what Christians are.
Dialogue: 0,0:31:05.56,0:31:10.02,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Are you a person who's been set aside for God?
Dialogue: 0,0:31:10.02,0:31:14.21,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Holy, blameless? Is that the reality about your life?
Dialogue: 0,0:31:14.21,0:31:16.56,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Is there obvious evidence?
Dialogue: 0,0:31:16.56,0:31:18.80,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Listen, we need to recognize,
Dialogue: 0,0:31:18.80,0:31:21.75,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,we become new creations in Christ Jesus,
Dialogue: 0,0:31:21.75,0:31:24.09,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,old things pass away, all things become new.
Dialogue: 0,0:31:24.09,0:31:25.96,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,There is such a thing as being born again.
Dialogue: 0,0:31:25.96,0:31:28.40,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,True Christianity is supernatural.
Dialogue: 0,0:31:28.40,0:31:32.76,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,There is a non-supernatural form of Christianity
Dialogue: 0,0:31:32.76,0:31:35.08,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that's pumped in this world.
Dialogue: 0,0:31:35.08,0:31:37.90,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"Oh, I believe. I believe in God."
Dialogue: 0,0:31:37.90,0:31:41.12,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"I believe this."
Dialogue: 0,0:31:41.12,0:31:45.67,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Craig's been helping James out with some of the emails,
Dialogue: 0,0:31:45.67,0:31:46.92,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and Criag's been telling me about,
Dialogue: 0,0:31:46.92,0:31:48.81,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and I come across this too,
Dialogue: 0,0:31:48.81,0:31:54.41,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,it's amazing how often we see emails
Dialogue: 0,0:31:54.41,0:31:58.40,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,where people start the email, "Oh, I know I'm saved..."
Dialogue: 0,0:31:58.40,0:32:02.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"Oh, I know I'm born again..."
Dialogue: 0,0:32:02.00,0:32:05.02,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"but, I live in sin, I'm a slave to sin,
Dialogue: 0,0:32:05.02,0:32:08.74,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,would you please explain to me how this can be?"
Dialogue: 0,0:32:08.74,0:32:15.32,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,That doesn't require a long answer.
Dialogue: 0,0:32:15.32,0:32:17.11,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It can't be.
Dialogue: 0,0:32:17.11,0:32:18.96,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I mean, you're basically describing something
Dialogue: 0,0:32:18.96,0:32:22.59,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that the Bible says does not exist.
Dialogue: 0,0:32:22.59,0:32:25.77,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Unholy believers.
Dialogue: 0,0:32:25.77,0:32:28.60,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And what Scripture is saying is
Dialogue: 0,0:32:28.60,0:32:31.61,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,listen, this is supernatural.
Dialogue: 0,0:32:31.61,0:32:35.06,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,God chooses. God is active.
Dialogue: 0,0:32:35.06,0:32:38.25,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,God sets people aside.
Dialogue: 0,0:32:38.25,0:32:41.62,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And that's first, before we even look at being a believer.
Dialogue: 0,0:32:41.62,0:32:43.34,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Yes, believers believe.
Dialogue: 0,0:32:43.34,0:32:46.34,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Believers believe what Christians believe.
Dialogue: 0,0:32:46.34,0:32:48.76,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,They believe the Scriptures; they believe the Gospel.
Dialogue: 0,0:32:48.76,0:32:51.36,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,They believe the realities about Jesus Christ.
Dialogue: 0,0:32:51.36,0:32:53.93,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But first and foremost, they are people set aside.
Dialogue: 0,0:32:53.93,0:32:55.50,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And I would just say this,
Dialogue: 0,0:32:55.50,0:32:57.90,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,has that happened to you?
Dialogue: 0,0:32:57.90,0:32:59.53,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I mean, is there evidence in your life
Dialogue: 0,0:32:59.53,0:33:02.45,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that you are a holy vessel put aside by God?
Dialogue: 0,0:33:02.45,0:33:04.47,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Has something like that really happened in your life?
Dialogue: 0,0:33:04.47,0:33:06.79,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I don't mean, did you just decide one day?
Dialogue: 0,0:33:06.79,0:33:08.67,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Oh, I think I'm going to become a believer,
Dialogue: 0,0:33:08.67,0:33:10.30,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and I think I'm going to do this,
Dialogue: 0,0:33:10.30,0:33:12.89,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and I'm going to start going to church,
Dialogue: 0,0:33:12.89,0:33:15.45,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and I'm going to try to get my life right.
Dialogue: 0,0:33:15.45,0:33:18.84,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You see, that's not the picture that we get in Scripture.
Dialogue: 0,0:33:18.84,0:33:21.34,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,What we get in Scripture is the picture that God
Dialogue: 0,0:33:21.34,0:33:28.62,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,chooses to set a people aside, and that's first.
Dialogue: 0,0:33:28.62,0:33:33.10,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And then, believer.
Dialogue: 0,0:33:33.10,0:33:36.77,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,He's not talking about then how reliable we become.
Dialogue: 0,0:33:36.77,0:33:40.10,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,He's not saying, saint, then you become reliable, though that's true.
Dialogue: 0,0:33:40.10,0:33:44.63,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The idea is you're a saint first, and then you're a believer.
Dialogue: 0,0:33:44.63,0:33:49.24,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And that's the direction he goes in in this first chapter.
Dialogue: 0,0:33:49.24,0:33:54.04,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Brethren, here's the question.
Dialogue: 0,0:33:54.04,0:33:56.71,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Why is it that we so often think of believing first,
Dialogue: 0,0:33:56.71,0:33:59.35,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and then we go through a process of sanctification.
Dialogue: 0,0:33:59.35,0:34:01.23,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Well, I know why that is.
Dialogue: 0,0:34:01.23,0:34:03.39,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Because most of the time when we think about
Dialogue: 0,0:34:03.39,0:34:06.47,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,sanctification, we're thinking about the progressive reality.
Dialogue: 0,0:34:06.47,0:34:09.38,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Moving to more and more Christlikeness.
Dialogue: 0,0:34:09.38,0:34:12.45,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But the truth is the idea of being a saint,
Dialogue: 0,0:34:12.45,0:34:15.90,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and the idea of sanctification and the idea of holiness
Dialogue: 0,0:34:15.90,0:34:21.07,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,is very often in Scripture set forth as a positional reality,
Dialogue: 0,0:34:21.07,0:34:24.09,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,not a progressive reality.
Dialogue: 0,0:34:24.09,0:34:27.84,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It's God placing us aside for Himself.
Dialogue: 0,0:34:27.84,0:34:30.18,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And it's real.
Dialogue: 0,0:34:30.18,0:34:33.80,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,This isn't artificial, this really happens.
Dialogue: 0,0:34:33.80,0:34:37.35,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It's not make believe.
Dialogue: 0,0:34:37.35,0:34:40.38,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Do you know something about that in your life?
Dialogue: 0,0:34:40.38,0:34:45.22,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Where God has set you aside?
Dialogue: 0,0:34:45.22,0:34:46.63,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,How does it happen?
Dialogue: 0,0:34:46.63,0:34:57.74,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Well, it happens in the mind; it happens in what you believe;
Dialogue: 0,0:34:57.74,0:35:01.57,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,it happens in the desires that you have;
Dialogue: 0,0:35:01.57,0:35:05.03,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,it happens in the love that you have;
Dialogue: 0,0:35:05.03,0:35:06.53,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,it happens there, brethren.
Dialogue: 0,0:35:06.53,0:35:09.34,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We heard in the first hour about these passions
Dialogue: 0,0:35:09.34,0:35:11.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,of our former ignorance.
Dialogue: 0,0:35:11.00,0:35:12.81,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,That's where it happens.
Dialogue: 0,0:35:12.81,0:35:14.42,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We have new desires.
Dialogue: 0,0:35:14.42,0:35:16.85,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We hunger and thirst for righteousness.
Dialogue: 0,0:35:16.85,0:35:18.93,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The old is passed away - in what sense?
Dialogue: 0,0:35:18.93,0:35:21.22,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,That we see things, we recognize things,
Dialogue: 0,0:35:21.22,0:35:22.55,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,we believe things.
Dialogue: 0,0:35:22.55,0:35:24.64,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It's like the light's been turned on.
Dialogue: 0,0:35:24.64,0:35:26.26,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We see the glory of Christ.
Dialogue: 0,0:35:26.26,0:35:28.90,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We have a love for Him, and we see Him in ways
Dialogue: 0,0:35:28.90,0:35:30.48,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,we did not see before.
Dialogue: 0,0:35:30.48,0:35:33.18,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And we want to live our life for Him now.
Dialogue: 0,0:35:33.18,0:35:36.09,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,That is the indication of being set aside.
Dialogue: 0,0:35:36.09,0:35:39.22,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We recognize, we're not like the world anymore.
Dialogue: 0,0:35:39.22,0:35:40.60,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,This isn't, oh, I'm like the world,
Dialogue: 0,0:35:40.60,0:35:43.06,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,but I just plaster religion on it.
Dialogue: 0,0:35:43.06,0:35:47.57,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Something happens - it happens different with different people.
Dialogue: 0,0:35:47.57,0:35:50.35,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,For some people, it is dramatic,
Dialogue: 0,0:35:50.35,0:35:55.91,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the moment, the day can be identifed.
Dialogue: 0,0:35:55.91,0:35:57.54,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,With other people, it's more gradual.
Dialogue: 0,0:35:57.54,0:35:59.88,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But whichever way it happens, the truth is
Dialogue: 0,0:35:59.88,0:36:01.71,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,you are a new creation in Christ.
Dialogue: 0,0:36:01.71,0:36:03.60,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You are one of these people who has been
Dialogue: 0,0:36:03.60,0:36:05.94,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,put aside by God.
Dialogue: 0,0:36:05.94,0:36:08.74,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And then, the faith follows that.
Dialogue: 0,0:36:08.74,0:36:12.92,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,No man is a believer who is not first a saint.
Dialogue: 0,0:36:12.92,0:36:15.35,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,One of these people that clearly have been
Dialogue: 0,0:36:15.35,0:36:17.07,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,set aside for God.
Dialogue: 0,0:36:17.07,0:36:21.42,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Clearly have been chosen by Him.
Dialogue: 0,0:36:21.42,0:36:24.62,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,A people chosen to be holy unto Himself.
Dialogue: 0,0:36:24.62,0:36:31.40,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And then according to the gift of God, we believe.
Dialogue: 0,0:36:31.40,0:36:35.43,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We become believers.
Dialogue: 0,0:36:35.43,0:36:38.83,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And then there's a third reality here.
Dialogue: 0,0:36:38.83,0:36:43.09,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And it's "in Christ Jesus."
Dialogue: 0,0:36:43.09,0:36:48.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Now, I don't look at this like necessarily
Dialogue: 0,0:36:48.00,0:36:54.43,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,three different separate identifications or
Dialogue: 0,0:36:54.43,0:36:56.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,characteristics of the Christian.
Dialogue: 0,0:36:56.99,0:37:00.42,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Although I want to look at them that way.
Dialogue: 0,0:37:00.42,0:37:07.21,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But it's more like you have two qualities that
Dialogue: 0,0:37:07.21,0:37:10.38,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,are being modified by the third.
Dialogue: 0,0:37:10.38,0:37:13.59,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,In other words, when Paul addresses these people,
Dialogue: 0,0:37:13.59,0:37:17.50,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,he's not saying that their faith is in Jesus Christ.
Dialogue: 0,0:37:17.50,0:37:20.88,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,He is saying they are in Jesus Christ.
Dialogue: 0,0:37:20.88,0:37:28.11,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,He is saying that as saints, they are saints in Christ.
Dialogue: 0,0:37:28.11,0:37:34.79,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,As believers, they are believers in Christ.
Dialogue: 0,0:37:34.79,0:37:38.12,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I'm not even sure as a young believer,
Dialogue: 0,0:37:38.12,0:37:40.54,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,as I started reading Scripture
Dialogue: 0,0:37:40.54,0:37:42.81,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that I probably didn't even recognize...
Dialogue: 0,0:37:42.81,0:37:45.32,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,When you are a young Christian,
Dialogue: 0,0:37:45.32,0:37:47.22,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,you are looking for the bigger thoughts
Dialogue: 0,0:37:47.22,0:37:49.02,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and the bigger ideas.
Dialogue: 0,0:37:49.02,0:37:53.43,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And there's a lot of language in Scripture
Dialogue: 0,0:37:53.43,0:37:57.29,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that you can pass over when you're a young believer.
Dialogue: 0,0:37:57.29,0:37:59.88,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It's just, there's words there, but you're not really...
Dialogue: 0,0:37:59.88,0:38:03.10,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"In Christ, in Christ," you know, ok, whatever,
Dialogue: 0,0:38:03.10,0:38:07.06,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,you read past those because they're everywhere.
Dialogue: 0,0:38:07.06,0:38:08.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It's almost like religious langauge,
Dialogue: 0,0:38:08.99,0:38:14.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,it kind of gets plugged in there.
Dialogue: 0,0:38:14.99,0:38:27.06,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I want you to get a feel for how prominent this idea
Dialogue: 0,0:38:27.06,0:38:30.79,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,of being in Christ actually is.
Dialogue: 0,0:38:30.79,0:38:35.61,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Look with me at chapter 1, verse 3,
Dialogue: 0,0:38:35.61,0:38:38.32,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ,
Dialogue: 0,0:38:38.32,0:38:41.52,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Who has blessed us..." notice this:
Dialogue: 0,0:38:41.52,0:38:43.62,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"In Christ." I'm sure as a young believer,
Dialogue: 0,0:38:43.62,0:38:47.53,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I would have read right over that.
Dialogue: 0,0:38:47.53,0:38:51.84,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,In Christ.
Dialogue: 0,0:38:51.84,0:39:01.13,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Notice, verse 4, "even as He chose us in Him."
Dialogue: 0,0:39:01.13,0:39:04.50,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Notice verse 5, "He predestinated us for adoption
Dialogue: 0,0:39:04.50,0:39:10.96,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,as sons through Jesus Christ."
Dialogue: 0,0:39:10.96,0:39:18.81,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Notice 6, "He has blessed us in the Beloved."
Dialogue: 0,0:39:18.81,0:39:25.79,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,7, "in Him, we have redemption through His blood."
Dialogue: 0,0:39:25.79,0:39:32.95,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I don't know that this "in Christ" terminology
Dialogue: 0,0:39:32.95,0:39:37.67,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,is found anywhere else in the Bible
Dialogue: 0,0:39:37.67,0:39:48.22,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,in such repetition as it is found here
Dialogue: 0,0:39:48.22,0:39:50.58,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,in this first chapter of Ephesians.
Dialogue: 0,0:39:50.58,0:39:53.96,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We keep reading...
Dialogue: 0,0:39:53.96,0:40:00.68,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,9, "according to His purpose which He set forth in Christ."
Dialogue: 0,0:40:00.68,0:40:03.11,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Notice 10, "as a plan for the fullness of time
Dialogue: 0,0:40:03.11,0:40:06.63,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to unite all things in Him."
Dialogue: 0,0:40:06.63,0:40:14.09,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,11, "in Him, we have obtained an inheritance."
Dialogue: 0,0:40:14.09,0:40:18.66,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,12, "first to hope in Christ."
Dialogue: 0,0:40:18.66,0:40:23.72,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,13, "in Him, you also when you heard the word of truth
Dialogue: 0,0:40:23.72,0:40:27.05,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the gospel of your salvation and believed in Him."
Dialogue: 0,0:40:27.05,0:40:31.51,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You see, the idea here is, we see that
Dialogue: 0,0:40:31.51,0:40:37.60,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,us being chosen as a people holy and us having faith,
Dialogue: 0,0:40:37.60,0:40:40.87,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,being believers, we see that there's kind of an order
Dialogue: 0,0:40:40.87,0:40:44.42,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,in Scripture where us being sanctified, being saints,
Dialogue: 0,0:40:44.42,0:40:48.05,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,is set forth before being a believer.
Dialogue: 0,0:40:48.05,0:40:51.94,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And yet both of them are swimming in the reality
Dialogue: 0,0:40:51.94,0:40:55.64,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,of being in Christ.
Dialogue: 0,0:40:55.64,0:41:00.45,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,That is the chief characteristic.
Dialogue: 0,0:41:00.45,0:41:03.41,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It's kind of like the holiness of God
Dialogue: 0,0:41:03.41,0:41:07.50,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,when you go to describing God's attributes.
Dialogue: 0,0:41:07.50,0:41:13.30,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Holiness cannot be separated from any of God's attributes.
Dialogue: 0,0:41:13.30,0:41:17.95,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,If He's merciful, it is a holy mercifulness.
Dialogue: 0,0:41:17.95,0:41:21.74,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,If God is angry, it is a holy anger.
Dialogue: 0,0:41:21.74,0:41:24.27,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You see, it describes everything about God.
Dialogue: 0,0:41:24.27,0:41:29.24,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And that is what we find with this characteristic.
Dialogue: 0,0:41:29.24,0:41:34.45,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,To be in Christ covers everything.
Dialogue: 0,0:41:34.45,0:41:37.52,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,If we're adopted, it's in Christ. If we're chosen to holiness,
Dialogue: 0,0:41:37.52,0:41:39.86,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,it's in Christ. If we're believers, it's in Christ.
Dialogue: 0,0:41:39.86,0:41:41.52,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,If there's a plan, it's in Christ.
Dialogue: 0,0:41:41.52,0:41:45.07,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,If there's any good for us, it's all in Christ.
Dialogue: 0,0:41:45.07,0:41:48.62,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We could keep going on here, but here's what I want us to do:
Dialogue: 0,0:41:48.62,0:41:54.44,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I want us to think about what this means.
Dialogue: 0,0:41:54.44,0:41:58.37,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Because you can hear the terminology.
Dialogue: 0,0:41:58.37,0:42:01.63,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,See, if I talked about being in a sleeping bag,
Dialogue: 0,0:42:01.63,0:42:04.46,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,or in this room,
Dialogue: 0,0:42:04.46,0:42:07.82,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,or in this pulpit,
Dialogue: 0,0:42:07.82,0:42:15.64,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,you have a very physical, positional idea.
Dialogue: 0,0:42:15.64,0:42:18.91,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You form a picture in your mind.
Dialogue: 0,0:42:18.91,0:42:21.90,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We're talking about a spiritual reality here.
Dialogue: 0,0:42:21.90,0:42:26.71,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,What does it mean to be in Christ Jesus.
Dialogue: 0,0:42:26.71,0:42:31.48,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Because this is life and death.
Dialogue: 0,0:42:31.48,0:42:35.06,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,In Christ Jesus.
Dialogue: 0,0:42:35.06,0:42:37.34,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,To the saints who are in Ephesus
Dialogue: 0,0:42:37.34,0:42:45.77,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and are faithful in Christ Jesus.
Dialogue: 0,0:42:45.77,0:42:49.61,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Here's the first thing I want you to feel about this.
Dialogue: 0,0:42:49.61,0:42:52.71,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It is a positional reality.
Dialogue: 0,0:42:52.71,0:42:55.72,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"In" is a preposition.
Dialogue: 0,0:42:55.72,0:42:58.26,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And in the Greek, that's basically what you have.
Dialogue: 0,0:42:58.26,0:43:01.82,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You have the word "in."
Dialogue: 0,0:43:01.82,0:43:06.51,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,More akin to "en," but it's a preposition.
Dialogue: 0,0:43:06.51,0:43:11.08,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And what do prepositions do?
Dialogue: 0,0:43:11.08,0:43:13.76,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Can anybody shoot off some of the prepositions?
Dialogue: 0,0:43:13.76,0:43:16.92,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,In, out, above, on, etc.
Dialogue: 0,0:43:16.92,0:43:22.65,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,What do prepositions do?
Dialogue: 0,0:43:22.65,0:43:27.01,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,They basically identify the relationship of
Dialogue: 0,0:43:27.01,0:43:29.80,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,one person or object to another.
Dialogue: 0,0:43:29.80,0:43:32.78,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,That's basically what they do.
Dialogue: 0,0:43:32.78,0:43:36.08,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,If I am in Christ, what that is doing is
Dialogue: 0,0:43:36.08,0:43:40.60,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,describing my relationship to Him.
Dialogue: 0,0:43:40.60,0:43:43.67,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Physically, where are these people?
Dialogue: 0,0:43:43.67,0:43:48.71,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,To the saints who are in Ephesus.
Dialogue: 0,0:43:48.71,0:43:51.60,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Physically, they're in Ephesus.
Dialogue: 0,0:43:51.60,0:43:55.33,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Spiritually, they're in Christ.
Dialogue: 0,0:43:55.33,0:43:56.87,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,One thing we have to recognize about
Dialogue: 0,0:43:56.87,0:44:00.51,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,physical realities, is in many ways,
Dialogue: 0,0:44:00.51,0:44:02.53,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I'm in a lot of different places.
Dialogue: 0,0:44:02.53,0:44:04.29,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I'm in this shirt, I'm in this pulpit,
Dialogue: 0,0:44:04.29,0:44:09.83,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I'm in this room, I'm in this city.
Dialogue: 0,0:44:09.83,0:44:11.97,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I'm in this state.
Dialogue: 0,0:44:11.97,0:44:15.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And I could be in many different cities.
Dialogue: 0,0:44:15.99,0:44:22.26,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But you know spiritually, there's only two cities.
Dialogue: 0,0:44:22.26,0:44:24.83,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And you're in one or the other.
Dialogue: 0,0:44:24.83,0:44:30.32,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,There's the city of destruction or there's the city of God.
Dialogue: 0,0:44:30.32,0:44:33.71,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You're in Christ or you're in Adam.
Dialogue: 0,0:44:33.71,0:44:39.25,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Lots of choices in the physical realm of where we are.
Dialogue: 0,0:44:39.25,0:44:41.18,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But there's only one of two places,
Dialogue: 0,0:44:41.18,0:44:42.90,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and that's true of everybody here.
Dialogue: 0,0:44:42.90,0:44:45.38,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You're either in Christ or you're out of Christ.
Dialogue: 0,0:44:45.38,0:44:47.11,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I'm not saying whether you're religious,
Dialogue: 0,0:44:47.11,0:44:48.38,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,or whether you're at church today,
Dialogue: 0,0:44:48.38,0:44:50.90,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,or whether you hold a Bible in your hand.
Dialogue: 0,0:44:50.90,0:44:52.28,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I'm not talking about whether you grew up
Dialogue: 0,0:44:52.28,0:44:55.26,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,in a Christian family.
Dialogue: 0,0:44:55.26,0:44:57.56,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I'm not talking about whether other people called you
Dialogue: 0,0:44:57.56,0:45:00.16,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Christians or called you brother and sister.
Dialogue: 0,0:45:00.16,0:45:01.79,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I'm talking this is a reality here.
Dialogue: 0,0:45:01.79,0:45:03.71,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You are in Christ or you are out of Christ.
Dialogue: 0,0:45:03.71,0:45:06.75,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And though we may not recognize the reality of it,
Dialogue: 0,0:45:06.75,0:45:09.23,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,though we may not be able to see it with our physical eyes,
Dialogue: 0,0:45:09.23,0:45:13.28,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,it's true, and it's just as true as the fact that we're in this room.
Dialogue: 0,0:45:13.28,0:45:15.45,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And it is a greater reality,
Dialogue: 0,0:45:15.45,0:45:19.47,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,because it has to do with your everlasting state.
Dialogue: 0,0:45:19.47,0:45:23.70,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It is a positional reality.
Dialogue: 0,0:45:23.70,0:45:25.42,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,That's the first thing.
Dialogue: 0,0:45:25.42,0:45:31.38,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The second thing is that the idea of being in something,
Dialogue: 0,0:45:31.38,0:45:34.94,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,think about this, we talked about baptism yesterday.
Dialogue: 0,0:45:34.94,0:45:39.27,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And the fact that Biblical baptism is by immersion,
Dialogue: 0,0:45:39.27,0:45:42.46,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,not sprinkling.
Dialogue: 0,0:45:42.46,0:45:46.50,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,If I'm immersed, I'm in the water.
Dialogue: 0,0:45:46.50,0:45:51.56,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You see to be inside something means it surrounds me.
Dialogue: 0,0:45:51.56,0:45:54.60,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Oh, this is a sweet picture.
Dialogue: 0,0:45:54.60,0:45:59.73,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,If I'm in Christ, I'm surrounded by Christ.
Dialogue: 0,0:45:59.73,0:46:01.67,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,If I'm in water, I'm surrounded by that water.
Dialogue: 0,0:46:01.67,0:46:03.96,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,If I'm in a sleeping bag, I'm surrounded by that sleeping bag.
Dialogue: 0,0:46:03.96,0:46:05.95,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,If I'm in this pulpit, I'm surrounded by this.
Dialogue: 0,0:46:05.95,0:46:10.16,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,If a child is in it's father's arms, it means
Dialogue: 0,0:46:10.16,0:46:12.90,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,they are surrounded by those arms.
Dialogue: 0,0:46:12.90,0:46:19.38,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,To be in Christ means I'm surrounded by Christ.
Dialogue: 0,0:46:19.38,0:46:22.11,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,That's a good thought.
Dialogue: 0,0:46:22.11,0:46:27.47,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,He embraces the believer, in His own life,
Dialogue: 0,0:46:27.47,0:46:30.31,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,in the embrace of His everlasting arms.
Dialogue: 0,0:46:30.31,0:46:33.80,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The saint - that's who we find are in Christ.
Dialogue: 0,0:46:33.80,0:46:35.95,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Saints.
Dialogue: 0,0:46:35.95,0:46:37.91,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Believers.
Dialogue: 0,0:46:37.91,0:46:41.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,In Christ.
Dialogue: 0,0:46:41.99,0:46:43.38,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,They all go together.
Dialogue: 0,0:46:43.38,0:46:46.11,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It's not possible that one of these characteristics fits you
Dialogue: 0,0:46:46.11,0:46:50.85,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and the others don't. They all go together. All or none.
Dialogue: 0,0:46:50.85,0:46:53.62,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,How about a third?
Dialogue: 0,0:46:53.62,0:46:56.19,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,This is a spiritual union.
Dialogue: 0,0:46:56.19,0:46:59.27,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Now I know I said it before, but I want you to see this
Dialogue: 0,0:46:59.27,0:47:00.83,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,in greater reality.
Dialogue: 0,0:47:00.83,0:47:06.01,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Turn to 1 Corinthians 6.
Dialogue: 0,0:47:06.01,0:47:11.74,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,This is a truth you don't want to forget.
Dialogue: 0,0:47:11.74,0:47:13.45,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,If this truth has never grabbed you before,
Dialogue: 0,0:47:13.45,0:47:16.64,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I hope it might grab you right now.
Dialogue: 0,0:47:16.64,0:47:24.24,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,1 Corinthians 6:15
Dialogue: 0,0:47:24.24,0:47:28.71,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Paul is seeking to use argumentation
Dialogue: 0,0:47:28.71,0:47:33.16,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,meant to convince these Corinthians
Dialogue: 0,0:47:33.16,0:47:37.56,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that having sex with prostitutes is not a good thing.
Dialogue: 0,0:47:37.56,0:47:42.79,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You might think, wow, that's amazing
Dialogue: 0,0:47:42.79,0:47:44.37,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that he would even have to try to convince
Dialogue: 0,0:47:44.37,0:47:49.06,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Christians that that's not a good thing.
Dialogue: 0,0:47:49.06,0:47:50.81,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But let's be glad that he did have to,
Dialogue: 0,0:47:50.81,0:47:53.27,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,because in doing so he shares with us
Dialogue: 0,0:47:53.27,0:47:58.42,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,some precious truths about what it means to be in Christ.
Dialogue: 0,0:47:58.42,0:48:02.60,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"Do you not know that your bodies are members of Christ?"
Dialogue: 0,0:48:02.60,0:48:06.20,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Your bodies are members of Christ.
Dialogue: 0,0:48:06.20,0:48:08.79,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,That's one thing.
Dialogue: 0,0:48:08.79,0:48:12.84,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,To be in Christ means you're in His body.
Dialogue: 0,0:48:12.84,0:48:16.33,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You're part of the body. You're connected to Him.
Dialogue: 0,0:48:16.33,0:48:19.04,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,He is the head. You are the body.
Dialogue: 0,0:48:19.04,0:48:23.61,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You're a member of His. You are part of His body.
Dialogue: 0,0:48:23.61,0:48:26.01,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"Shall I then take the members of Christ
Dialogue: 0,0:48:26.01,0:48:31.35,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and make them members of a prostitute?"
Dialogue: 0,0:48:31.35,0:48:37.15,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You see there is a real-ness, a true-ness,
Dialogue: 0,0:48:37.15,0:48:43.54,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,about the fact that a Christian is a member of Christ.
Dialogue: 0,0:48:43.54,0:48:49.14,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It's so real it ought to impact what we do with ourselves.
Dialogue: 0,0:48:49.14,0:48:52.88,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Because we are holy vessels.
Dialogue: 0,0:48:52.88,0:48:54.89,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You didn't just go and use holy vessels
Dialogue: 0,0:48:54.89,0:48:57.48,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,in the Old Testament for any use.
Dialogue: 0,0:48:57.48,0:48:59.24,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,God would kill you.
Dialogue: 0,0:48:59.24,0:49:02.38,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You would be cut off from your people.
Dialogue: 0,0:49:02.38,0:49:05.53,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We are holy vessels.
Dialogue: 0,0:49:05.53,0:49:08.38,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,There are certain things that are appropriate to do with a holy vessel
Dialogue: 0,0:49:08.38,0:49:11.49,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and certain things that are not appropriate.
Dialogue: 0,0:49:11.49,0:49:15.92,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But notice, "do you not know that he who is joined
Dialogue: 0,0:49:15.92,0:49:18.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to a prosititute becomes one body with her?
Dialogue: 0,0:49:18.00,0:49:20.94,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,For as it is written, 'the two will become one flesh.'"
Dialogue: 0,0:49:20.94,0:49:25.64,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And notice this, "but he who is joined to the Lord,
Dialogue: 0,0:49:25.64,0:49:29.42,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,becomes one spirit with Him."
Dialogue: 0,0:49:29.42,0:49:34.38,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,If you are a Christian, if you are in Christ,
Dialogue: 0,0:49:34.38,0:49:37.46,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,if you're joined to the Lord,
Dialogue: 0,0:49:37.46,0:49:43.21,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,you are one spirit with Him.
Dialogue: 0,0:49:43.21,0:49:45.83,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Just think here.
Dialogue: 0,0:49:45.83,0:49:47.56,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Let's think of a man and a woman,
Dialogue: 0,0:49:47.56,0:49:51.08,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,because marriage is a picture of the union
Dialogue: 0,0:49:51.08,0:49:53.28,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that we have with Christ.
Dialogue: 0,0:49:53.28,0:49:55.73,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But just think, imagine with me,
Dialogue: 0,0:49:55.73,0:50:01.17,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,imagine a man and a woman who are married.
Dialogue: 0,0:50:01.17,0:50:04.50,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,That achieve the highest degree,
Dialogue: 0,0:50:04.50,0:50:10.36,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,they experience the greatest extents,
Dialogue: 0,0:50:10.36,0:50:14.51,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the farthest reaches of the Biblical ideal
Dialogue: 0,0:50:14.51,0:50:17.41,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,of the married life.
Dialogue: 0,0:50:17.41,0:50:20.16,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The two become one.
Dialogue: 0,0:50:20.16,0:50:21.82,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Their love for one another,
Dialogue: 0,0:50:21.82,0:50:24.82,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,their esteem for one another,
Dialogue: 0,0:50:24.82,0:50:27.01,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,their intimacy with one another,
Dialogue: 0,0:50:27.01,0:50:29.42,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,their communication with one another,
Dialogue: 0,0:50:29.42,0:50:32.98,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,reach the highest of the Biblical ideal
Dialogue: 0,0:50:32.98,0:50:36.12,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,of what marriage should look like.
Dialogue: 0,0:50:36.12,0:50:40.83,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Their wishes, their desires, blend together.
Dialogue: 0,0:50:40.83,0:50:44.79,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Their lives blend together.
Dialogue: 0,0:50:44.79,0:50:50.08,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,What affects each of them affects the other.
Dialogue: 0,0:50:50.08,0:50:55.68,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Their lives are swallowed up in one another.
Dialogue: 0,0:50:55.68,0:50:58.60,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You see, as you begin to think about that,
Dialogue: 0,0:50:58.60,0:50:59.76,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,where your thoughts become -
Dialogue: 0,0:50:59.76,0:51:02.18,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,you almost know what the other person is thinking,
Dialogue: 0,0:51:02.18,0:51:03.91,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,you know them so well.
Dialogue: 0,0:51:03.91,0:51:08.75,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Think about the highest reaches...
Dialogue: 0,0:51:08.75,0:51:13.56,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,intimacy gets deeper and deeper and deeper.
Dialogue: 0,0:51:13.56,0:51:16.18,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The intimate association - what does it do?
Dialogue: 0,0:51:16.18,0:51:19.50,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It tends to create conformity.
Dialogue: 0,0:51:19.50,0:51:21.38,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You actually become like one another
Dialogue: 0,0:51:21.38,0:51:25.62,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the more you get close to the other.
Dialogue: 0,0:51:25.62,0:51:29.69,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So the true Christian in their conformity to Christ,
Dialogue: 0,0:51:29.69,0:51:32.45,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,in their unity to Christ, in their intimacy with Christ,
Dialogue: 0,0:51:32.45,0:51:36.41,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,in their association with Christ, in their purposes,
Dialogue: 0,0:51:36.41,0:51:38.05,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,in their desires, in their thinking.
Dialogue: 0,0:51:38.05,0:51:39.36,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Have you ever read in Scripture,
Dialogue: 0,0:51:39.36,0:51:41.14,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,we have the mind of Christ?
Dialogue: 0,0:51:41.14,0:51:42.68,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Do you ever just stand back and say
Dialogue: 0,0:51:42.68,0:51:45.13,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that's not just because we have Scripture.
Dialogue: 0,0:51:45.13,0:51:48.68,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It's because what is in Scripture, that Christ has given to us,
Dialogue: 0,0:51:48.68,0:51:50.98,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,our minds have been opened to it.
Dialogue: 0,0:51:50.98,0:51:53.98,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And we grasp it, and we have a heart like His.
Dialogue: 0,0:51:53.98,0:51:56.23,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And our desires are made like His.
Dialogue: 0,0:51:56.23,0:51:58.19,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And our loves are made like His.
Dialogue: 0,0:51:58.19,0:51:59.93,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And our passions are like His.
Dialogue: 0,0:51:59.93,0:52:02.07,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Our conformity from one degree of glory
Dialogue: 0,0:52:02.07,0:52:04.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to another - we become like Him.
Dialogue: 0,0:52:04.00,0:52:05.92,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Which means what we are, who we are,
Dialogue: 0,0:52:05.92,0:52:09.30,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,how we think - the mind, what goes on in our minds.
Dialogue: 0,0:52:09.30,0:52:11.83,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It's becoming more and more like Him.
Dialogue: 0,0:52:11.83,0:52:16.06,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,There's a spiritual in-ness.
Dialogue: 0,0:52:16.06,0:52:20.35,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Listen, J.C. Philpot, one of these old -
Dialogue: 0,0:52:20.35,0:52:22.23,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,some of you have probably not heard of him,
Dialogue: 0,0:52:22.23,0:52:24.31,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,but an old strict Baptist or Particular Baptist.
Dialogue: 0,0:52:24.31,0:52:25.62,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Listen to what he says,
Dialogue: 0,0:52:25.62,0:52:32.90,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"the Spirit of Christ in Christ's glorious Person,
Dialogue: 0,0:52:32.90,0:52:37.35,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and the Spirit of Christ in a believing heart,
Dialogue: 0,0:52:37.35,0:52:38.56,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,meet together."
Dialogue: 0,0:52:38.56,0:52:41.65,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,This is what it is to be in Christ.
Dialogue: 0,0:52:41.65,0:52:43.77,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And he says, "meeting together..."
Dialogue: 0,0:52:43.77,0:52:45.25,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And you know what he pictures?
Dialogue: 0,0:52:45.25,0:52:48.43,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And we've all seen this.
Dialogue: 0,0:52:48.43,0:52:52.94,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,He's imagining rain that falls on a window.
Dialogue: 0,0:52:52.94,0:52:55.51,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And you've been there, in a car, or looking out a window.
Dialogue: 0,0:52:55.51,0:52:57.39,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And the rain is coming.
Dialogue: 0,0:52:57.39,0:53:01.09,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And you're seeing the drops as they start dripping down the window.
Dialogue: 0,0:53:01.09,0:53:02.100,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And have you ever seen two drops
Dialogue: 0,0:53:02.100,0:53:08.51,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and they're coming down, and they come together.
Dialogue: 0,0:53:08.51,0:53:11.32,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Or you see one coming down, and there's another drop
Dialogue: 0,0:53:11.32,0:53:12.94,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,on the window that's not moving,
Dialogue: 0,0:53:12.94,0:53:14.49,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and you watch it, and you know when it hits it,
Dialogue: 0,0:53:14.49,0:53:17.54,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,it's just going to take off.
Dialogue: 0,0:53:17.54,0:53:23.56,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Philpot sees us being in Christ like those "two drops
Dialogue: 0,0:53:23.56,0:53:26.71,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,of rain running down a pane of glass,
Dialogue: 0,0:53:26.71,0:53:33.27,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,kiss into each other, and are no longer two, but one.
Dialogue: 0,0:53:33.27,0:53:37.35,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Now if you've been ever blessed with a manifestation of Christ,
Dialogue: 0,0:53:37.35,0:53:40.93,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,your spirit has melted into His.
Dialogue: 0,0:53:40.93,0:53:43.71,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And you have felt the sweet union and communion
Dialogue: 0,0:53:43.71,0:53:47.41,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,with Him that you saw as with His eyes,
Dialogue: 0,0:53:47.41,0:53:49.62,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,heard as with His ears, felt as with His heart,
Dialogue: 0,0:53:49.62,0:53:53.97,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and spoke as with His tongue."
Dialogue: 0,0:53:53.97,0:53:56.85,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We're one spirit with Him.
Dialogue: 0,0:53:56.85,0:54:02.92,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And again, this is not imaginary. This is real.
Dialogue: 0,0:54:02.92,0:54:05.45,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You see, sometimes we get so taken up with this
Dialogue: 0,0:54:05.45,0:54:09.55,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,wretched man syndrome, that we forget,
Dialogue: 0,0:54:09.55,0:54:10.93,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,we do have the mind of Christ,
Dialogue: 0,0:54:10.93,0:54:14.25,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,which means, we really do love the same things,
Dialogue: 0,0:54:14.25,0:54:15.66,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and we desire the same things,
Dialogue: 0,0:54:15.66,0:54:18.23,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and we really are becoming like Him.
Dialogue: 0,0:54:18.26,0:54:21.51,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And we're melding together with Him,
Dialogue: 0,0:54:21.51,0:54:23.16,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and Who He is.
Dialogue: 0,0:54:23.16,0:54:25.59,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,In Christ.
Dialogue: 0,0:54:25.59,0:54:29.40,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Here's a fourth reality.
Dialogue: 0,0:54:29.40,0:54:34.95,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It is a union like that which the Father has with the Son
Dialogue: 0,0:54:34.95,0:54:37.69,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and the Son has with the Father.
Dialogue: 0,0:54:37.69,0:54:42.37,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,John 17:21, listen to this, you don't have to turn there.
Dialogue: 0,0:54:42.37,0:54:45.04,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Listen to these words:
Dialogue: 0,0:54:45.04,0:54:49.34,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"Just as..." this is our Lord speaking.
Dialogue: 0,0:54:49.34,0:54:51.50,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Intercessory prayer in John 17.
Dialogue: 0,0:54:51.50,0:54:57.53,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"Just as..." Lock onto those two words.\N
Dialogue: 0,0:54:57.53,0:55:05.82,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"Just as You Father are in Me," just like that.
Dialogue: 0,0:55:05.82,0:55:11.26,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"and I in You." Just as Father, You are in Me, the Son,
Dialogue: 0,0:55:11.26,0:55:13.42,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and I am in You, the Father...
Dialogue: 0,0:55:13.42,0:55:18.14,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"that they" - that's us, Christians, the saints, believers,
Dialogue: 0,0:55:18.14,0:55:22.73,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"also may be in us."
Dialogue: 0,0:55:22.73,0:55:28.56,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Just as You are in Me and I am in You,
Dialogue: 0,0:55:28.56,0:55:32.74,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,may they be in us.
Dialogue: 0,0:55:32.74,0:55:38.80,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Just... a lot of people start imagining,
Dialogue: 0,0:55:38.80,0:55:43.08,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the Father is God, and the Son is God,
Dialogue: 0,0:55:43.08,0:55:45.03,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and it just becomes incomprehensible.
Dialogue: 0,0:55:45.03,0:55:47.96,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I don't think that's where you want to go.
Dialogue: 0,0:55:47.96,0:55:50.23,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I think what you want to picture
Dialogue: 0,0:55:50.23,0:55:54.52,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,is the Father's relationship to the Son,
Dialogue: 0,0:55:54.52,0:55:59.85,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,as the Mediator, as our representative, as our Head.
Dialogue: 0,0:55:59.85,0:56:03.36,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And we are in His body.
Dialogue: 0,0:56:03.36,0:56:07.45,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And being in His body, brethren, you know what Scripture says?
Dialogue: 0,0:56:07.45,0:56:12.06,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,In Christ, you are seated in the heavely places.
Dialogue: 0,0:56:12.06,0:56:20.14,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,In Christ, we are part and parcel with Christ.
Dialogue: 0,0:56:20.14,0:56:24.24,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,In Christ. There becomes realities that are true
Dialogue: 0,0:56:24.24,0:56:27.08,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,between the Father and the Son
Dialogue: 0,0:56:27.08,0:56:29.94,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that you and I have full access to.
Dialogue: 0,0:56:29.94,0:56:32.78,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The same things.
Dialogue: 0,0:56:32.78,0:56:35.30,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Brethren, the thing is to be in Christ -
Dialogue: 0,0:56:35.30,0:56:37.10,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,we don't think about this enough,
Dialogue: 0,0:56:37.10,0:56:39.34,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,we don't go here enough.
Dialogue: 0,0:56:39.34,0:56:46.02,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Brethren I'll just tell you, repeatedly studying the Scriptures,
Dialogue: 0,0:56:46.02,0:56:51.74,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,you get blown away to recognize, to be a Christian,
Dialogue: 0,0:56:51.74,0:56:56.03,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,brethren, what it is to be a Christian is so
Dialogue: 0,0:56:56.03,0:56:59.20,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,out-of-this-world, it is so phenomenal,
Dialogue: 0,0:56:59.20,0:57:03.67,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,it is so much a privilege, it is such a treasure,
Dialogue: 0,0:57:03.67,0:57:07.23,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,it is so valuable.
Dialogue: 0,0:57:07.23,0:57:11.06,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Brethren, if we could just grasp it.
Dialogue: 0,0:57:11.06,0:57:14.19,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,If you were to find out as a Christian,
Dialogue: 0,0:57:14.19,0:57:17.48,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,oh, there's no hell, but there's annihilation,
Dialogue: 0,0:57:17.48,0:57:20.25,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,or there's no hell, but you don't get what's promised in Scripture,
Dialogue: 0,0:57:20.25,0:57:22.18,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,you get what the Jehovah's Witnesses promise,
Dialogue: 0,0:57:22.18,0:57:26.09,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and you can have this world for the rest of your life
Dialogue: 0,0:57:26.09,0:57:28.19,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and just stay here and basically live like this.
Dialogue: 0,0:57:28.19,0:57:29.75,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Or you can be like the Mormons where you can
Dialogue: 0,0:57:29.75,0:57:31.10,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,get your own planet somewhere.
Dialogue: 0,0:57:31.10,0:57:35.80,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Brethren, if you know what true Christianity is,
Dialogue: 0,0:57:35.80,0:57:38.20,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and any of those things, you ended up finding out
Dialogue: 0,0:57:38.20,0:57:40.40,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,were reality, there would be reasons to just weep
Dialogue: 0,0:57:40.40,0:57:43.36,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,buckets of tears even if you were going to escape hell.
Dialogue: 0,0:57:43.36,0:57:47.06,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Because this thing is so great...
Dialogue: 0,0:57:47.06,0:57:52.28,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Paul could just say eternal weight of glory.
Dialogue: 0,0:57:52.28,0:57:59.73,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Because these things surpass words.
Dialogue: 0,0:57:59.73,0:58:04.09,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Just as...
Dialogue: 0,0:58:04.09,0:58:06.26,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Something about the same essential nature
Dialogue: 0,0:58:06.26,0:58:08.82,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,of the relationship Father has with Son,
Dialogue: 0,0:58:08.82,0:58:11.64,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that's true of us being in Christ.
Dialogue: 0,0:58:11.64,0:58:18.36,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Another thing: this in Christ, it's a union of life.
Dialogue: 0,0:58:18.36,0:58:19.64,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Just listen to these:
Dialogue: 0,0:58:19.64,0:58:24.27,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"in Him was life."
Dialogue: 0,0:58:24.27,0:58:26.63,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You see, you're either in Him or you're out of Him.
Dialogue: 0,0:58:26.63,0:58:28.87,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And to be in Him - remember what He said about,
Dialogue: 0,0:58:28.87,0:58:33.34,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,He is the vine, we are the branches.
Dialogue: 0,0:58:33.34,0:58:37.46,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You've got to be connected to Him if you would have life.
Dialogue: 0,0:58:37.46,0:58:42.34,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"Abide in Me and I in you."
Dialogue: 0,0:58:42.34,0:58:46.26,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,He says, "I am the vine, you are the branches."
Dialogue: 0,0:58:46.26,0:58:50.95,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We're told this: "in Christ shall all be made alive."
Dialogue: 0,0:58:50.95,0:58:53.18,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We're told this: "I've been crucified with Christ,
Dialogue: 0,0:58:53.18,0:58:56.94,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,it is no longer I who live, but Christ Who lives in me."
Dialogue: 0,0:58:56.94,0:58:59.08,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Our life is tied up in Him.
Dialogue: 0,0:58:59.08,0:59:00.46,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Our life is His.
Dialogue: 0,0:59:00.46,0:59:02.17,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,His life is ours.
Dialogue: 0,0:59:02.17,0:59:04.68,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Here in Ephesians 2:4-5,
Dialogue: 0,0:59:04.68,0:59:07.46,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,we recognize that we are raised together with Him,
Dialogue: 0,0:59:07.46,0:59:10.79,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,we are raised to life with Christ, in Christ,
Dialogue: 0,0:59:10.79,0:59:13.03,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,we are raised together.
Dialogue: 0,0:59:13.03,0:59:15.25,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Or you have this in Colossians,
Dialogue: 0,0:59:15.25,0:59:17.09,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,what a truth!
Dialogue: 0,0:59:17.09,0:59:18.33,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We find this in 1 John,
Dialogue: 0,0:59:18.33,0:59:22.43,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,whoever has the Son has life.
Dialogue: 0,0:59:22.43,0:59:24.84,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But in Colossians, what a glorious statement
Dialogue: 0,0:59:24.84,0:59:29.89,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Chapter 3:4, "when Christ Who is your life appears..."
Dialogue: 0,0:59:29.89,0:59:34.03,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to be in Christ is to be connected with life.
Dialogue: 0,0:59:34.03,0:59:39.17,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Or this: it's a union of representation.
Dialogue: 0,0:59:39.17,0:59:43.61,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"As in Adam all die, so also in Christ shall all be made alive."
Dialogue: 0,0:59:43.61,0:59:45.52,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We know this. This is the great truth that is taught
Dialogue: 0,0:59:45.52,0:59:47.48,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,in Romans 5.
Dialogue: 0,0:59:47.48,0:59:51.79,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,To be in Christ means Christ is my federal head.
Dialogue: 0,0:59:51.79,0:59:53.09,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,He's my representative.
Dialogue: 0,0:59:53.09,0:59:55.04,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,To be in Him means that all that happens to Him,
Dialogue: 0,0:59:55.04,0:59:58.13,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,happens to me. All that is His is mine.
Dialogue: 0,0:59:58.13,0:59:59.64,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Did He come and earn a righteousness?
Dialogue: 0,0:59:59.64,1:00:01.20,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,That righteousness is mine.
Dialogue: 0,1:00:01.20,1:00:03.23,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I'm made the righteousness of God, remember?
Dialogue: 0,1:00:03.23,1:00:05.66,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Remember those two little words that are attached
Dialogue: 0,1:00:05.66,1:00:08.85,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,there in the last verse of 2 Cor 5,
Dialogue: 0,1:00:08.85,1:00:10.95,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,what is it? In Him.
Dialogue: 0,1:00:10.95,1:00:13.32,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,In Him I become the righteousness of God.
Dialogue: 0,1:00:13.32,1:00:15.54,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,He Who knew no sin, became sin.
Dialogue: 0,1:00:15.54,1:00:18.27,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But it's in Him. Not outside of Him.
Dialogue: 0,1:00:18.27,1:00:21.74,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It's in Him. In. Him.
Dialogue: 0,1:00:21.74,1:00:23.15,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And in Him I'm represented.
Dialogue: 0,1:00:23.15,1:00:25.72,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Notice what Scripture says,
Dialogue: 0,1:00:25.72,1:00:28.47,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,if I'm in Him, did He die? Yes, I died.
Dialogue: 0,1:00:28.47,1:00:31.10,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Was He buried? Yes. Then I'm buried.
Dialogue: 0,1:00:31.10,1:00:35.28,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Was He crucified? Then I'm crucified with Christ.
Dialogue: 0,1:00:35.28,1:00:37.61,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Did He rise from the dead? Then I rose from the dead.
Dialogue: 0,1:00:37.61,1:00:38.83,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Does He have a righteousness?
Dialogue: 0,1:00:38.83,1:00:41.19,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Then that righteousness is mine.
Dialogue: 0,1:00:41.19,1:00:44.08,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Brethren, is He seated at the right hand of the Father?
Dialogue: 0,1:00:44.08,1:00:46.68,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Yes. Then so am I.
Dialogue: 0,1:00:46.68,1:00:50.13,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Brethren, He's got His eye on you.
Dialogue: 0,1:00:50.13,1:00:51.92,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You are betrothed to Him.
Dialogue: 0,1:00:51.92,1:00:53.56,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,He knows who His own are.
Dialogue: 0,1:00:53.56,1:00:54.73,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And He's watching them.
Dialogue: 0,1:00:54.73,1:00:57.83,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And He is jealously protective.
Dialogue: 0,1:00:57.83,1:00:59.33,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And He means to bring you there,
Dialogue: 0,1:00:59.33,1:01:01.79,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,holy and blameless before Him.
Dialogue: 0,1:01:01.79,1:01:03.100,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,He means to gather you.
Dialogue: 0,1:01:03.100,1:01:05.36,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You are in Him. You are His.
Dialogue: 0,1:01:05.36,1:01:07.19,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You are connected to Him.
Dialogue: 0,1:01:07.19,1:01:08.68,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Your life is in Him.
Dialogue: 0,1:01:08.68,1:01:11.57,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,There is a union of representation.
Dialogue: 0,1:01:11.57,1:01:13.24,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,As a head to the rest of the body,
Dialogue: 0,1:01:13.24,1:01:14.32,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that shows up here,
Dialogue: 0,1:01:14.32,1:01:16.28,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,speaking the truth in love, we are to grow up
Dialogue: 0,1:01:16.28,1:01:20.10,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,in every way into Him Who is the Head, into Christ.
Dialogue: 0,1:01:20.10,1:01:23.64,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,What this tells me is it's a dynamic union.
Dialogue: 0,1:01:23.64,1:01:27.06,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,In other words, I'm growing into Him more and more.
Dialogue: 0,1:01:27.06,1:01:30.77,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,This is speaking the truth in love,
Dialogue: 0,1:01:30.77,1:01:32.50,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,we are to grow up in every way.
Dialogue: 0,1:01:32.50,1:01:38.86,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We are to grow out of self, into Him, into love.
Dialogue: 0,1:01:38.86,1:01:43.51,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Out of self-indulgence and self-exaltation
Dialogue: 0,1:01:43.51,1:01:46.48,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and self - growing into that which is only
Dialogue: 0,1:01:46.48,1:01:47.81,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to be found in Him.
Dialogue: 0,1:01:47.81,1:01:49.60,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It's like that fertile soil;
Dialogue: 0,1:01:49.60,1:01:51.12,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I'm thinking of places in my own lawn
Dialogue: 0,1:01:51.12,1:01:53.16,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,where I dumped really rich soil,
Dialogue: 0,1:01:53.16,1:01:56.86,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and you know the smart plants send roots over there.
Dialogue: 0,1:01:56.86,1:02:00.37,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,That's what we're doing, we're sending roots deeper,
Dialogue: 0,1:02:00.37,1:02:03.22,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and deeper and deeper into Christ,
Dialogue: 0,1:02:03.22,1:02:05.74,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,drawing the nutrients up out of Him.
Dialogue: 0,1:02:05.74,1:02:12.52,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Brethren, this union. I can't see it.
Dialogue: 0,1:02:12.52,1:02:14.79,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But, oh, you can sense it.
Dialogue: 0,1:02:14.79,1:02:17.11,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I can't see it, but I'll tell you this:
Dialogue: 0,1:02:17.11,1:02:22.11,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,God makes it happen, God knows it happened,
Dialogue: 0,1:02:22.11,1:02:25.10,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,God keeps it permanently from ever coming apart.
Dialogue: 0,1:02:25.10,1:02:26.69,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,One of the things we find in Scripture,
Dialogue: 0,1:02:26.69,1:02:28.81,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,these people that believe you can lose your salvation
Dialogue: 0,1:02:28.81,1:02:31.34,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,don't understand what it means to be in Christ.
Dialogue: 0,1:02:31.34,1:02:33.87,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Because Scripture says that if you're in Christ
Dialogue: 0,1:02:33.87,1:02:37.68,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,it is in indissoluble union.
Dialogue: 0,1:02:37.68,1:02:40.98,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Paul says this, "I'm sure that neither death nor life,
Dialogue: 0,1:02:40.98,1:02:42.77,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,nor angels nor rulers, nor things present
Dialogue: 0,1:02:42.77,1:02:44.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,nor things to come, nor powers, nor height nor depth,
Dialogue: 0,1:02:44.99,1:02:47.33,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,nor anything else in all creation will be able to
Dialogue: 0,1:02:47.33,1:02:53.94,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,separate us from the love of God in Christ Jesus our Lord."
Dialogue: 0,1:02:53.94,1:02:57.10,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I'm going to wrap up by saying this:
Dialogue: 0,1:02:57.10,1:03:04.11,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,One of the reasons that we have pity parties,
Dialogue: 0,1:03:04.11,1:03:06.50,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,one of the reasons that we fall into the depression that we do,
Dialogue: 0,1:03:06.50,1:03:08.07,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,or the despair that we do,
Dialogue: 0,1:03:08.07,1:03:12.47,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,when you start really grasping truths like this,
Dialogue: 0,1:03:12.47,1:03:16.30,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,what it should tell us is we need to repent of our complaining,
Dialogue: 0,1:03:16.30,1:03:20.19,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,our lethargy, our depression, our lack of joy,
Dialogue: 0,1:03:20.19,1:03:22.48,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,our envying what the world has out there.
Dialogue: 0,1:03:22.48,1:03:25.42,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,They don't have anything on us.
Dialogue: 0,1:03:25.42,1:03:29.80,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We're in Christ. In Christ.
Dialogue: 0,1:03:29.80,1:03:33.28,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,These folks, they were saints, they were full of faith,
Dialogue: 0,1:03:33.28,1:03:35.15,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,they were in Christ, and all the while
Dialogue: 0,1:03:35.15,1:03:37.52,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,they lived in Ephesus.
Dialogue: 0,1:03:37.52,1:03:39.60,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The pagans knew these folks were there.
Dialogue: 0,1:03:39.60,1:03:41.42,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I'll tell you when this characterizes your life
Dialogue: 0,1:03:41.42,1:03:44.31,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and you live in the reality of these truths,
Dialogue: 0,1:03:44.31,1:03:46.05,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the world out there recognizes,
Dialogue: 0,1:03:46.05,1:03:49.28,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,there's something different about these people.
Dialogue: 0,1:03:49.28,1:03:51.18,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Brethren, we're saints of God.
Dialogue: 0,1:03:51.18,1:03:55.88,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We believe that Jesus Christ shed His blood for us.
Dialogue: 0,1:03:55.88,1:03:58.92,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We believe, brethren. We're in Christ.
Dialogue: 0,1:03:58.92,1:04:01.01,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,God has put us in a position where
Dialogue: 0,1:04:01.01,1:04:03.70,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,we are so intimately connected with Christ,
Dialogue: 0,1:04:03.70,1:04:04.90,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and it's never going to go away.
Dialogue: 0,1:04:04.90,1:04:07.58,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,God is never going to let us out.
Dialogue: 0,1:04:07.58,1:04:09.80,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You're connected to Christ. He never lets you go.
Dialogue: 0,1:04:09.80,1:04:11.92,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,He takes care of you. He protects you.
Dialogue: 0,1:04:11.92,1:04:15.47,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,He surrounds you. Surrounded by Christ.
Dialogue: 0,1:04:15.47,1:04:18.29,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Brethren, if these things are true of us,
Dialogue: 0,1:04:18.29,1:04:21.54,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the world's going to sit up and take notice.
Dialogue: 0,1:04:21.54,1:04:24.46,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,They may be like the beasts at Ephesus,
Dialogue: 0,1:04:24.46,1:04:25.63,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,they may persecute us,
Dialogue: 0,1:04:25.63,1:04:27.79,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,they may stone us, they may seek to kill us,
Dialogue: 0,1:04:27.79,1:04:30.04,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,they may hate it, they may want to stay
Dialogue: 0,1:04:30.04,1:04:31.94,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,as far away from here as possible,
Dialogue: 0,1:04:31.94,1:04:34.42,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,but they will sit up and take notice.
Dialogue: 0,1:04:34.42,1:04:37.48,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But brethren, I wanted to focus on these things
Dialogue: 0,1:04:37.48,1:04:38.62,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,just as we get going.
Dialogue: 0,1:04:38.62,1:04:40.79,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I know this is only introductory,
Dialogue: 0,1:04:40.79,1:04:42.17,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,but this is key.
Dialogue: 0,1:04:42.17,1:04:43.71,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Paul doesn't randomly use these.
Dialogue: 0,1:04:43.71,1:04:46.22,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Paul is going to develop these three concepts
Dialogue: 0,1:04:46.22,1:04:48.38,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,throughout chapter 1:
Dialogue: 0,1:04:48.38,1:04:54.21,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,saints, believers, in Christ.
Dialogue: 0,1:04:54.21,1:04:56.89,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We're going to see this a lot.
Dialogue: 0,1:04:56.89,1:05:04.60,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But oh, what truths come out of this first chapter.
Dialogue: 0,1:05:04.60,1:05:09.83,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It's going to be exciting.
Dialogue: 0,1:05:09.83,1:05:17.74,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Father, we marvel at the realities
Dialogue: 0,1:05:17.74,1:05:21.95,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,of what's true, what's really true,
Dialogue: 0,1:05:21.95,1:05:25.04,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,about those who are Your people.
Dialogue: 0,1:05:25.04,1:05:29.03,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I marvel.
Dialogue: 0,1:05:29.03,1:05:30.71,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Lord, help us to see, help us to know,
Dialogue: 0,1:05:30.71,1:05:31.95,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,help us to remember.
Dialogue: 0,1:05:31.95,1:05:34.79,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Bring us in remembrance of all these things.
Dialogue: 0,1:05:34.79,1:05:37.04,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,In the midst of this crooked and perverse generation.
Dialogue: 0,1:05:37.04,1:05:39.04,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,In the midst of which You've put us.
Dialogue: 0,1:05:39.04,1:05:40.86,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Just like Ephesus of old.
Dialogue: 0,1:05:40.86,1:05:42.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Those people were able to be saints
Dialogue: 0,1:05:42.99,1:05:45.78,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and believers and in Christ in Ephesus.
Dialogue: 0,1:05:45.78,1:05:48.83,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,In the very capital of the Artemis worship
Dialogue: 0,1:05:48.83,1:05:51.81,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and the temple and the sacred stone that came down
Dialogue: 0,1:05:51.81,1:05:53.26,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,from the sky.
Dialogue: 0,1:05:53.26,1:05:55.03,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And Lord, in the midst of all the magic books
Dialogue: 0,1:05:55.03,1:05:56.71,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and the demonic and the darkness
Dialogue: 0,1:05:56.71,1:05:59.60,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and the enemies of the cross,
Dialogue: 0,1:05:59.60,1:06:02.08,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and they were able to be saints,
Dialogue: 0,1:06:02.08,1:06:05.95,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,believers, in Christ, and so should we
Dialogue: 0,1:06:05.95,1:06:07.09,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,by the grace of God,
Dialogue: 0,1:06:07.09,1:06:09.37,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and I pray that it would be said of these,
Dialogue: 0,1:06:09.37,1:06:14.35,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Lord, that we may have the same testimony,
Dialogue: 0,1:06:14.35,1:06:15.34,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,as true believers,
Dialogue: 0,1:06:15.34,1:06:17.12,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I ask in Christ's name, Amen.