Christ Must Come First - Tim Conway
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0:01 - 0:06Christ may dwell in your hearts,
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0:06 - 0:11then you are being rooted
and grounded in love. -
0:11 - 0:14This is critical.
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0:14 - 0:17The love does not come first.
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0:17 - 0:20Christ comes first.
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0:20 - 0:23I say this for this reason:
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0:23 - 0:26We can want the experience of love.
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0:26 - 0:28We want to feel loved.
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0:28 - 0:31We want to feel warmth.
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0:31 - 0:32But if you start there,
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0:32 - 0:35that's the wrong place to start.
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0:35 - 0:36We may want a sense
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0:36 - 0:39that somebody outside of us loves us.
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0:39 - 0:42We may want a sense that God loves us.
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0:42 - 0:44But if you start by
looking for that experience, -
0:44 - 0:46you'll never find it.
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0:46 - 0:47Nor do you want to seek
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0:47 - 0:50to try to love God first.
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0:50 - 0:53Some people, you come
along with the Gospel, -
0:53 - 0:55and it's like, "Well, I'm
trying to clean up my life." -
0:55 - 0:57"I'm trying to make myself
presentable to God." -
0:57 - 0:59I'm trying to do this
or I'm trying to do that. -
0:59 - 1:02No! That cannot come first.
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1:02 - 1:04We must not seek the blessings
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1:04 - 1:06that Christ can give to us
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1:06 - 1:11apart from seeking Him and His salvation.
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1:11 - 1:13Look, even if it's salvation
that you want, -
1:13 - 1:16you don't start by seeking
salvation apart from Christ. -
1:16 - 1:18You'll never end up there.
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1:18 - 1:20That's what people are
doing in religion all the time. -
1:20 - 1:22Why do people get religious?
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1:22 - 1:23Because they want to try to escape
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1:23 - 1:25what their conscience is telling them
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1:25 - 1:26is coming when they die.
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1:26 - 1:29But you don't want to try to
go down any road like that -
1:29 - 1:31except you first start with Christ.
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1:31 - 1:33Don't seek the blessings Christ can give
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1:33 - 1:35apart from Him.
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1:35 - 1:37We must not initially - anything -
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1:37 - 1:39seek the ability to love others;
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1:39 - 1:41we shouldn't seek holiness first;
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1:41 - 1:42good fruit first;
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1:42 - 1:44some deeper experience first.
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1:44 - 1:47Don't seek revival first.
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1:47 - 1:49We need Christ to come.
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1:49 - 1:51We need Him. It's Him.
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1:51 - 1:54See, when He comes,
He brings all that He is. -
1:54 - 1:55He brings all that He imparts.
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1:55 - 1:57He brings all His love.
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1:57 - 1:59But you've got to have Him.
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1:59 - 2:01If you try to get all of the other stuff -
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2:01 - 2:03anything else - without Him,
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2:03 - 2:04you totally missed it.
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2:04 - 2:07All experiences of His love for you
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2:07 - 2:10will come at once, once you have Him.
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2:10 - 2:12The experiences.
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2:12 - 2:13The realities of it.
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2:13 - 2:16Yes, I recognize the experience itself,
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2:16 - 2:19it ebbs and it flows.
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2:19 - 2:21All ability to love Him,
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2:21 - 2:23to love others, to grow spiritually -
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2:23 - 2:26they flow from Him.
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2:26 - 2:29He said, "without Me, you can do nothing."
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2:29 - 2:31It's Him. Him.
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2:31 - 2:33The roots have to go down.
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2:33 - 2:35He needs to come in.
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2:35 - 2:38The roots go down into His love.
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2:38 - 2:40But see, that love,
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2:40 - 2:42it's a package with Him.
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2:42 - 2:47You can't go after the
one without the other. -
2:47 - 2:51"Whoever abides in Me, and I in him..."
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2:51 - 2:53See, I have to be there.
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2:53 - 2:55I have to be in Him.
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2:55 - 2:58That's the one that's
going to bear much fruit. -
2:58 - 3:02"For without Me, you can do nothing."
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3:02 - 3:04That's what He says.
This is no small matter. -
3:04 - 3:06Listen, I'll tell you this,
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3:06 - 3:08if you look at the very heart and soul
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3:08 - 3:10of everything that the Apostle Paul
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3:10 - 3:13is writing to the churches,
it always comes back to this. -
3:13 - 3:15He is seeking to make Christ
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3:15 - 3:18preeminent in the life of these churches.
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3:18 - 3:19All the time.
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3:19 - 3:22He's answering that reality.
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3:22 - 3:23This is no small matter
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3:23 - 3:27because literally every single problem
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3:27 - 3:28in believers and unbelievers
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3:28 - 3:30can be traced back to this:
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3:30 - 3:33looking for and seeking
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3:33 - 3:36something other than Christ.
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3:36 - 3:39Now look, this is
obvious with unbelievers. -
3:39 - 3:42They're unbelievers precisely
because they don't believe -
3:42 - 3:44that Christ is everything.
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3:44 - 3:45All in all.
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3:45 - 3:48That He's their only hope.
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3:48 - 3:49And if they do seek Him,
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3:49 - 3:51it's not really that they're seeking Him,
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3:51 - 3:54they're seeking money or happiness
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3:54 - 3:58or something that they
perceive that He can give. -
3:58 - 4:02But listen, believers
can go just as wrong. -
4:02 - 4:07Just as wrong if they seek holiness first,
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4:07 - 4:11or if they seek some
kind of morality first, -
4:11 - 4:17or some kind of perceived arriving
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4:17 - 4:20at the keeping of the law
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4:20 - 4:22or the commandments.
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4:22 - 4:24They seek to love first.
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4:24 - 4:26Or they seek any experience
of the Christian life first -
4:26 - 4:28except this experience: the experience
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4:28 - 4:30of Christ coming into their hearts.
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4:30 - 4:32And then He comes.
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4:32 - 4:34And when He comes in -
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4:34 - 4:37see, this is the connection
Paul's making - -
4:37 - 4:40when He comes in,
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4:40 - 4:43if you have Him settle down,
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4:43 - 4:45He comes in bringing
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4:45 - 4:49this aroma of love into your soul.
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4:49 - 4:53And it's Christ residing
and abiding, settling down. -
4:53 - 4:54It's Him.
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4:54 - 4:57And when we have Him, He's present.
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4:57 - 4:59He's powerfully present dwelling there.
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4:59 - 5:01Then things happen.
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5:01 - 5:03This clip was taken from the full sermon:
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5:03 - 5:06Rooted & Grounded in the Love of Christ.
- Title:
- Christ Must Come First - Tim Conway
- Description:
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When Christ comes to us, He brings all that He is and all of His blessings. But we can't seek those blessings apart from seeking Christ Himself. We can't seek to live the Christian life and obey the word of Christ without having Christ Himself. So many of our problems are traced back to seeking something other than Christ.
→ Original Video: https://illbehonest.com/christ-must-come-first
→ Complete Sermon (in English): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bxIdIsO_56o
- Video Language:
- English
- Duration:
- 05:11
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