1 00:00:01,230 --> 00:00:04,881 Welcome to relentless truth with John Warren, the 2 00:00:04,881 --> 00:00:08,215 podcast that extracts truth from a wide range 3 00:00:08,215 --> 00:00:08,904 of topics 4 00:00:09,422 --> 00:00:12,208 revealing who God is, who we are and 5 00:00:12,208 --> 00:00:15,312 how we relate to each other. Now, here's 6 00:00:15,471 --> 00:00:19,232 John with this week's powerful and practical insights. 7 00:00:24,098 --> 00:00:26,570 Welcome to relentless truth. I'm John Warren. It 8 00:00:26,570 --> 00:00:28,015 is good to be with you again. 9 00:00:28,887 --> 00:00:31,663 Please like share review and subscribe to relentless 10 00:00:31,663 --> 00:00:33,408 truth. You can find us wherever you get 11 00:00:33,408 --> 00:00:33,964 your podcast. 12 00:00:34,995 --> 00:00:37,083 Good As you know, if you're a regular 13 00:00:37,083 --> 00:00:38,679 listener, you can also go to our website, 14 00:00:38,918 --> 00:00:42,348 john warren media dot com. 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I 30 00:01:14,990 --> 00:01:15,730 am happy 31 00:01:16,270 --> 00:01:18,349 to do so. We've had several the, 32 00:01:18,922 --> 00:01:19,422 wonderful 33 00:01:20,114 --> 00:01:22,257 series, beautiful series on God's word. 34 00:01:22,893 --> 00:01:25,910 We've also thrown in some really interesting guests. 35 00:01:26,878 --> 00:01:27,355 And 36 00:01:28,151 --> 00:01:30,775 we'll we'll continue to do that as as 37 00:01:30,775 --> 00:01:33,081 well. And and we've had some topical episodes 38 00:01:33,081 --> 00:01:34,751 where we've just talked about the economy or 39 00:01:34,751 --> 00:01:36,421 our government or a current event. 40 00:01:37,232 --> 00:01:39,781 And I'm sure this election season will afford 41 00:01:39,781 --> 00:01:42,012 us the opportunity to do that again. Well, 42 00:01:42,251 --> 00:01:43,628 today, we're we're in, 43 00:01:44,402 --> 00:01:45,677 and we have arrived. 44 00:01:46,489 --> 00:01:47,685 At the very beautiful, 45 00:01:48,802 --> 00:01:49,860 chapter 2 46 00:01:50,716 --> 00:01:51,753 of this epi. 47 00:01:52,551 --> 00:01:55,842 And, you know, Paul is is walking through 48 00:01:56,473 --> 00:01:58,801 the doctrine of our completeness 49 00:01:59,334 --> 00:02:01,662 in Christ, that is really the theme 50 00:02:02,513 --> 00:02:04,341 of this letter to the Church at. 51 00:02:05,946 --> 00:02:08,017 Paul is just a few years from his 52 00:02:08,017 --> 00:02:11,680 death. He obviously, wouldn't know that. And he 53 00:02:11,680 --> 00:02:13,352 is in prison at Rome. 54 00:02:14,164 --> 00:02:14,643 And 55 00:02:15,202 --> 00:02:17,697 he he wrote some beautiful letters 56 00:02:18,475 --> 00:02:21,029 during that season of his life during that 57 00:02:21,029 --> 00:02:21,529 approximately 58 00:02:21,987 --> 00:02:22,705 a 2 year, 59 00:02:23,357 --> 00:02:24,731 period where he was under 60 00:02:25,183 --> 00:02:26,057 house arrest. 61 00:02:26,851 --> 00:02:30,106 Well, we've arrived at chapter 2, and I'm 62 00:02:30,106 --> 00:02:31,876 just gonna jump right in 63 00:02:32,424 --> 00:02:35,774 It's interesting. I I like to pe like 64 00:02:35,774 --> 00:02:36,274 to 65 00:02:36,651 --> 00:02:36,970 review, 66 00:02:37,927 --> 00:02:38,427 but 67 00:02:38,805 --> 00:02:40,639 it's hard to do here, and I'm not 68 00:02:40,639 --> 00:02:42,176 sure it makes sense. You can 69 00:02:42,568 --> 00:02:44,002 the, you know, the listener can always go 70 00:02:44,002 --> 00:02:46,631 back and listen to the last episode for 71 00:02:46,631 --> 00:02:47,507 the review. So, 72 00:02:48,383 --> 00:02:49,021 Paul has been, 73 00:02:49,594 --> 00:02:51,752 talking about proclaiming Christ. 74 00:02:52,391 --> 00:02:54,549 He said in in verse 28 warning, 75 00:02:55,747 --> 00:02:57,586 everyone and teaching everyone with all wisdom and 76 00:02:57,586 --> 00:03:00,226 that we may present everyone mature in Christ 77 00:03:00,226 --> 00:03:01,178 for this I toil, 78 00:03:01,972 --> 00:03:05,782 struggling with all his energy that he powerfully, 79 00:03:06,352 --> 00:03:09,390 works in me. That is we we labor 80 00:03:09,445 --> 00:03:10,341 by Christ's 81 00:03:11,110 --> 00:03:12,220 in enable, 82 00:03:13,410 --> 00:03:16,049 and that isn't that beautiful. He he calls 83 00:03:16,049 --> 00:03:17,402 us to do it and then enables us 84 00:03:17,402 --> 00:03:19,312 to do it. He... There are all kinds 85 00:03:19,312 --> 00:03:20,745 of ways to say this. This this finds 86 00:03:20,745 --> 00:03:23,385 its way onto to plaques and refrigerator magnets, 87 00:03:23,544 --> 00:03:26,248 you know, god god equip us for what 88 00:03:26,248 --> 00:03:27,440 he calls us to. 89 00:03:28,077 --> 00:03:29,747 There are all kinds of iterations of that 90 00:03:29,747 --> 00:03:31,277 that you've heard over the years, And it's 91 00:03:31,277 --> 00:03:33,033 just true, and it's a it's not a 92 00:03:33,033 --> 00:03:35,827 slogan. It's a beautiful truth. God does equip 93 00:03:35,827 --> 00:03:36,886 us beautifully 94 00:03:37,584 --> 00:03:39,441 to do what he would 95 00:03:39,752 --> 00:03:40,944 have us to do. 96 00:03:41,738 --> 00:03:43,803 And then Paul starts, I I read those 97 00:03:43,803 --> 00:03:46,527 2 verses because Paul starts with 4 or 98 00:03:46,583 --> 00:03:47,083 because 99 00:03:47,948 --> 00:03:49,693 I want you to know how great a 100 00:03:49,693 --> 00:03:51,835 struggle I have for you. And for those 101 00:03:51,835 --> 00:03:52,572 at La, 102 00:03:53,580 --> 00:03:55,111 and for all 103 00:03:56,133 --> 00:03:57,663 who have not seen me 104 00:03:58,113 --> 00:03:58,826 face to face. 105 00:03:59,539 --> 00:04:02,813 This this letter has quite a different tone 106 00:04:03,439 --> 00:04:06,980 than the Philip letter, the church at Philip 107 00:04:07,199 --> 00:04:07,699 letter 108 00:04:08,000 --> 00:04:09,840 that we studied just before this 1. 109 00:04:10,639 --> 00:04:11,120 He doesn't... 110 00:04:12,410 --> 00:04:12,910 Necessarily 111 00:04:13,364 --> 00:04:13,841 know them, 112 00:04:15,193 --> 00:04:18,213 in and in colossus. He knows hip for 113 00:04:18,213 --> 00:04:20,598 us, and he... He's been visited apparently by 114 00:04:20,598 --> 00:04:22,205 some people from that church. 115 00:04:23,001 --> 00:04:25,230 But but he he doesn't know them, and 116 00:04:25,230 --> 00:04:27,164 many of them have not have clearly 117 00:04:27,619 --> 00:04:29,632 not seen him face to face 118 00:04:30,102 --> 00:04:32,645 So he's been talking about how Christ works 119 00:04:32,645 --> 00:04:33,439 within him. 120 00:04:34,313 --> 00:04:36,641 That... That's why we said the theme is 121 00:04:36,698 --> 00:04:38,128 completeness in Christ. 122 00:04:38,859 --> 00:04:41,409 It's a study of christ, A study about 123 00:04:41,489 --> 00:04:44,437 Jesus Christ, our lord. This this letter is. 124 00:04:44,836 --> 00:04:46,292 And so he says because 125 00:04:46,842 --> 00:04:49,466 least transitioning in chapter 2 because I want 126 00:04:49,466 --> 00:04:52,272 you to know how great a struggle I 127 00:04:52,328 --> 00:04:54,578 have for you. Notice 128 00:04:54,888 --> 00:04:57,119 present tense that how great a struggle has 129 00:04:57,119 --> 00:04:59,270 the idea of, how how great is is 130 00:04:59,270 --> 00:05:01,522 is magnitude, the Greek word there 131 00:05:01,898 --> 00:05:04,804 as as the idea of significant matt magnitude, 132 00:05:05,420 --> 00:05:08,212 and that word struggle is agony or or 133 00:05:08,212 --> 00:05:10,445 striving. It's it's well translated in the English 134 00:05:10,445 --> 00:05:13,077 standard version. How great a struggle I have 135 00:05:13,077 --> 00:05:13,817 for you 136 00:05:14,129 --> 00:05:15,979 and for those at L 137 00:05:16,830 --> 00:05:19,474 and for all who have not seen me 138 00:05:20,166 --> 00:05:20,666 face 139 00:05:21,199 --> 00:05:21,755 to face. 140 00:05:22,805 --> 00:05:25,285 So he's he's letting him know. I'm I'm 141 00:05:25,285 --> 00:05:27,285 with you. This is a tender moment in 142 00:05:27,285 --> 00:05:27,764 the letter. 143 00:05:28,404 --> 00:05:29,444 III 144 00:05:29,444 --> 00:05:30,964 struggle for you, and then he says in 145 00:05:30,964 --> 00:05:31,764 in verse 2. 146 00:05:32,579 --> 00:05:33,797 That their hearts 147 00:05:34,495 --> 00:05:35,234 may be 148 00:05:35,772 --> 00:05:36,272 encouraged 149 00:05:37,209 --> 00:05:38,805 that they that they might be encouraged, 150 00:05:39,524 --> 00:05:41,301 being being knit together 151 00:05:41,613 --> 00:05:43,916 in love that word knit together, those words 152 00:05:43,916 --> 00:05:45,187 have the idea of uniting. 153 00:05:45,664 --> 00:05:48,228 It's it's actually AAA medical metaphor, 154 00:05:49,079 --> 00:05:50,452 being knit together 155 00:05:51,238 --> 00:05:51,793 in love. 156 00:05:53,063 --> 00:05:55,048 Is isn't that beautiful that their hearts may 157 00:05:55,048 --> 00:05:55,786 be encouraged 158 00:05:56,238 --> 00:05:59,033 being knit together in love, You know, talked 159 00:05:59,033 --> 00:06:02,146 back in Philippians about this unity. Remember our 160 00:06:02,146 --> 00:06:05,498 2 ladies, Y and Cent. And just just 161 00:06:05,498 --> 00:06:08,245 the general issue of all of dis unity 162 00:06:08,382 --> 00:06:11,007 that that surface there. And if you've if 163 00:06:11,007 --> 00:06:12,383 you've been part of any 164 00:06:12,917 --> 00:06:15,883 particularly Christian organization, but any organization, you know 165 00:06:16,194 --> 00:06:18,495 that there's always going to be some dis 166 00:06:18,495 --> 00:06:20,321 unity. I I used to think, 167 00:06:21,035 --> 00:06:22,622 and I might have even prayed for this 168 00:06:22,622 --> 00:06:23,519 at 1 time 169 00:06:23,828 --> 00:06:26,056 that that that I I wanted to live 170 00:06:26,056 --> 00:06:26,715 a life 171 00:06:27,090 --> 00:06:28,999 just full of unity with no dis unity. 172 00:06:29,158 --> 00:06:31,961 And my logic was Well, you know, Christian 173 00:06:31,961 --> 00:06:35,313 people should all get along. And and what 174 00:06:35,472 --> 00:06:38,026 I've learned is that that Unity is among, 175 00:06:38,759 --> 00:06:40,910 the challenges that we all face. We don't 176 00:06:40,910 --> 00:06:42,743 talk about it a lot. We don't we 177 00:06:42,743 --> 00:06:45,213 don't like to be complaining and gru to 178 00:06:45,213 --> 00:06:47,284 use Paul's words in back in philippians. 179 00:06:47,922 --> 00:06:48,422 But 180 00:06:48,733 --> 00:06:50,800 but we... And and we just don't talk 181 00:06:50,800 --> 00:06:52,572 about it a lot, but we all face 182 00:06:53,106 --> 00:06:55,730 this this notion of of dis unity and 183 00:06:55,809 --> 00:06:56,048 Paul, 184 00:06:56,778 --> 00:06:58,445 is talking to the church You know, they've 185 00:06:58,445 --> 00:07:01,302 they've had some no and other false teaching, 186 00:07:02,175 --> 00:07:03,683 that that really domains the... 187 00:07:04,333 --> 00:07:05,388 The ministry 188 00:07:05,998 --> 00:07:07,345 of of Jesus Christ, 189 00:07:08,138 --> 00:07:10,913 and and the person of Christ. His deity, 190 00:07:11,151 --> 00:07:11,468 even, 191 00:07:12,039 --> 00:07:13,395 And, you know, they taught that all the 192 00:07:13,395 --> 00:07:15,091 knowledge rests in them 193 00:07:15,628 --> 00:07:18,021 interestingly. You've you've seen cults like this and 194 00:07:18,021 --> 00:07:20,493 cult kind of organizations like this. If you're 195 00:07:20,493 --> 00:07:21,132 not 1 of us, 196 00:07:22,104 --> 00:07:23,540 you don't have any knowledge. You know, you 197 00:07:23,540 --> 00:07:25,615 don't you don't have the ability to reason. 198 00:07:25,855 --> 00:07:27,850 That's why you don't get it because you're 199 00:07:27,850 --> 00:07:29,206 not you're not 1 of us. 200 00:07:30,178 --> 00:07:33,279 But but Paul is teaching that that this 201 00:07:33,279 --> 00:07:35,131 church should be knit together 202 00:07:35,585 --> 00:07:37,811 in love in a gap. 203 00:07:38,860 --> 00:07:39,599 To reach 204 00:07:40,133 --> 00:07:42,781 all the riches of full assurance 205 00:07:43,315 --> 00:07:44,372 of understanding 206 00:07:44,906 --> 00:07:46,042 and the knowledge 207 00:07:47,149 --> 00:07:48,188 of God's mystery, 208 00:07:48,828 --> 00:07:49,707 which is Christ, 209 00:07:50,426 --> 00:07:52,104 in whom are hitting all the treasures of 210 00:07:52,104 --> 00:07:53,383 wisdom and knowledge. Now, 211 00:07:54,262 --> 00:07:56,680 this is fascinating to me because 212 00:07:57,074 --> 00:07:59,711 He is just body slamming the no. 213 00:08:00,750 --> 00:08:02,668 Because they believe all knowledge knowledge was in 214 00:08:02,668 --> 00:08:05,065 them, and he says so being let's go 215 00:08:05,065 --> 00:08:08,360 back. Being knit together in love in verse 216 00:08:08,360 --> 00:08:11,319 2, that that medical metaphor that uniting in 217 00:08:11,319 --> 00:08:11,560 love, 218 00:08:12,199 --> 00:08:14,920 being knit together in love. That's what we 219 00:08:14,920 --> 00:08:15,375 should 220 00:08:15,732 --> 00:08:18,119 strive for. And then he says, to reach 221 00:08:18,119 --> 00:08:20,664 so the purpose of of of this is 222 00:08:20,664 --> 00:08:22,198 to reach all the riches 223 00:08:22,748 --> 00:08:25,561 a full assurance of understanding 224 00:08:26,417 --> 00:08:27,476 and the knowledge 225 00:08:28,092 --> 00:08:29,390 of god's mystery, 226 00:08:30,326 --> 00:08:31,203 which is Christ. 227 00:08:32,574 --> 00:08:34,727 How to listen to this. That that word 228 00:08:34,727 --> 00:08:36,024 knowledge is Gen. 229 00:08:37,039 --> 00:08:39,113 That that that is that this full understanding 230 00:08:39,113 --> 00:08:40,309 of room, we talked about the word to 231 00:08:40,309 --> 00:08:42,876 know and scripture. And and there... There's 1 232 00:08:42,876 --> 00:08:45,428 word in in the ia is the... Is 233 00:08:45,428 --> 00:08:47,842 the hebrew word often translated to know 234 00:08:48,299 --> 00:08:50,076 the the Y expression 235 00:08:50,453 --> 00:08:51,591 Yada yada is 236 00:08:51,904 --> 00:08:52,143 is 237 00:08:52,781 --> 00:08:55,413 made famous by Jerry Seinfeld and others over 238 00:08:55,413 --> 00:08:57,327 the years is really yeah I know. I 239 00:08:57,327 --> 00:08:59,880 know. It it... That's literally what it says. 240 00:09:00,597 --> 00:09:01,156 What it means. 241 00:09:02,446 --> 00:09:04,198 But in the new testament, in the Greek, 242 00:09:04,436 --> 00:09:06,905 there's a word we translate idaho to English, 243 00:09:07,383 --> 00:09:09,055 which is, you know, I know I know 244 00:09:09,055 --> 00:09:11,144 that flower is red. I I know my 245 00:09:11,144 --> 00:09:11,383 address, 246 00:09:12,822 --> 00:09:15,619 barely some days. But but, you know, I 247 00:09:15,619 --> 00:09:17,377 know things. And and then and then there's 248 00:09:17,537 --> 00:09:19,935 Gen or No, GN0S sis. 249 00:09:21,470 --> 00:09:23,889 And that that is to to to to 250 00:09:23,949 --> 00:09:26,589 understand well, you know, to to to really 251 00:09:26,589 --> 00:09:26,750 know. 252 00:09:27,564 --> 00:09:29,480 And then a stronger form of the word 253 00:09:29,480 --> 00:09:30,299 is epi, 254 00:09:30,837 --> 00:09:32,194 that prefix epi, 255 00:09:33,311 --> 00:09:35,546 emphasizes the word makes the word more powerful, 256 00:09:35,706 --> 00:09:38,841 which is to deeply understand. Well, this word 257 00:09:39,055 --> 00:09:40,586 or Gen or Epic 258 00:09:41,434 --> 00:09:42,965 that it it is 259 00:09:43,416 --> 00:09:45,899 the, it's sep 2 agent, the the Greek 260 00:09:45,899 --> 00:09:46,936 version of the, of the, 261 00:09:48,133 --> 00:09:50,765 Hebrew old testament. So the Greek 262 00:09:51,243 --> 00:09:51,802 version of that, 263 00:09:52,599 --> 00:09:54,056 yeah, uses this word 264 00:09:54,689 --> 00:09:56,686 Gen to describe the 265 00:09:57,325 --> 00:09:58,923 intimacy of the union between a man and 266 00:09:58,923 --> 00:09:59,163 woman. 267 00:09:59,882 --> 00:10:01,340 And and so this is 268 00:10:01,654 --> 00:10:04,469 this is relational this word. This is 269 00:10:05,087 --> 00:10:07,721 this is not just superficial knowledge. This is 270 00:10:07,721 --> 00:10:10,515 deep understanding relational understanding. Remember, Paul, 271 00:10:11,330 --> 00:10:13,809 talked in in in Romans 6 about our 272 00:10:13,809 --> 00:10:16,289 being in Christ incorporated with him. He uses 273 00:10:16,289 --> 00:10:17,090 the word baptism. 274 00:10:17,730 --> 00:10:19,982 He is being in us and our being 275 00:10:19,982 --> 00:10:22,060 in him being found in him. 276 00:10:22,699 --> 00:10:25,336 And so he says the knowledge of God's 277 00:10:25,336 --> 00:10:25,836 mystery 278 00:10:26,469 --> 00:10:29,905 which is Christ. You say, Paul knew the, 279 00:10:29,985 --> 00:10:31,684 and he knew there was a certain mystery 280 00:10:31,743 --> 00:10:32,243 here 281 00:10:32,702 --> 00:10:34,620 around Christ, and then he explains it in 282 00:10:34,620 --> 00:10:36,894 verse 3, in whom are hidden 283 00:10:37,274 --> 00:10:38,254 all the treasures 284 00:10:38,795 --> 00:10:41,835 of wisdom and knowledge. Now, if you're... Yeah, 285 00:10:42,075 --> 00:10:43,675 I'm just saying if you're if you're agnostic. 286 00:10:44,089 --> 00:10:46,667 And you're reading this. You're ticked now, because 287 00:10:46,886 --> 00:10:48,404 Paul has just stumped you in the head. 288 00:10:49,203 --> 00:10:51,440 In whom are hidden all the treasures of 289 00:10:51,440 --> 00:10:53,933 wisdom and knowledge, and Christ is the 1 290 00:10:53,933 --> 00:10:55,930 and who are hidden all the treasures of 291 00:10:55,930 --> 00:10:59,446 wisdom and knowledge. III just love this about 292 00:10:59,526 --> 00:11:00,645 Paul. Paul is loving. 293 00:11:01,139 --> 00:11:04,249 He's gracious in his communication, but you never 294 00:11:04,249 --> 00:11:06,004 see Paul, you know, and we talked about 295 00:11:06,004 --> 00:11:08,716 this last time. You never see Paul back 296 00:11:08,716 --> 00:11:11,359 down. He says the next thing. He doesn't 297 00:11:11,359 --> 00:11:13,420 leave it unsettled, you know, I'm I'm I'm 298 00:11:13,420 --> 00:11:15,086 not gonna mention that because it'll offend people. 299 00:11:15,403 --> 00:11:16,751 You know, I'm gonna hint at it, but 300 00:11:16,830 --> 00:11:18,178 I'm I'm not going... No. He says, 301 00:11:19,229 --> 00:11:21,886 any and he corrects them with the right 302 00:11:22,106 --> 00:11:23,225 information, which is Christ, 303 00:11:23,704 --> 00:11:24,923 in whom are hidden 304 00:11:25,302 --> 00:11:27,300 all the treasures of wisdom and knowledge. 305 00:11:28,033 --> 00:11:30,897 As we mature in the faith as you 306 00:11:30,897 --> 00:11:32,170 mature in the faith, and I tell this 307 00:11:32,170 --> 00:11:35,842 to my my students, my my 17, 18 308 00:11:35,842 --> 00:11:38,224 year old students, I... Had 16 year to 309 00:11:38,224 --> 00:11:39,018 18 year old students. 310 00:11:39,970 --> 00:11:42,749 I I make this clear that as as 311 00:11:42,749 --> 00:11:43,463 you mature, 312 00:11:44,114 --> 00:11:45,652 you're you're going to realize 313 00:11:46,748 --> 00:11:48,924 that Christ is everything. 314 00:11:49,621 --> 00:11:51,696 The gospel of Jesus Christ, 315 00:11:52,429 --> 00:11:53,248 is everything. 316 00:11:53,705 --> 00:11:55,960 Scripture tells us to preach it to ourselves 317 00:11:56,177 --> 00:12:00,245 to remind us of ourselves of the gospel 318 00:12:00,245 --> 00:12:00,984 to live 319 00:12:01,442 --> 00:12:01,942 life 320 00:12:02,334 --> 00:12:04,248 in the context of the gospel. 321 00:12:04,727 --> 00:12:06,641 Well, what what does that mean? That means 322 00:12:06,641 --> 00:12:09,911 that I'm a sinner who's been saved by 323 00:12:09,911 --> 00:12:11,267 grace by Jesus Christ. 324 00:12:12,239 --> 00:12:14,464 He he came to earth was born of 325 00:12:14,464 --> 00:12:15,020 a virgin, 326 00:12:15,497 --> 00:12:17,722 lived a sin endless life. All these details 327 00:12:17,722 --> 00:12:18,199 are important, 328 00:12:18,914 --> 00:12:20,742 was tempted just like we are, 329 00:12:21,472 --> 00:12:23,775 was executed on a cruel roman crossed the 330 00:12:23,775 --> 00:12:26,316 harshest form of death, the kind of death 331 00:12:26,316 --> 00:12:29,413 that a Roman citizen was prohibited from suffering. 332 00:12:30,619 --> 00:12:32,298 It's an humiliating death. 333 00:12:33,257 --> 00:12:35,654 He conquered sin and death. He took on 334 00:12:35,654 --> 00:12:38,132 sin for us, conquering sin and death was 335 00:12:38,132 --> 00:12:39,251 raised on the third day. 336 00:12:40,781 --> 00:12:43,158 Paying the price for our sin. 337 00:12:45,456 --> 00:12:47,303 And then he spent 338 00:12:47,850 --> 00:12:49,690 a number of days on Earth. 339 00:12:50,330 --> 00:12:52,970 We believe 40 days on earth and ascended 340 00:12:52,970 --> 00:12:54,670 sits at the right hand of father making 341 00:12:54,889 --> 00:12:59,155 session. For us and that salvation is is 342 00:12:59,612 --> 00:13:00,112 accessed 343 00:13:00,649 --> 00:13:01,128 by faith. 344 00:13:02,484 --> 00:13:04,158 By simple faith by putting our trust in 345 00:13:04,158 --> 00:13:05,927 our confidence in Christ. 346 00:13:06,643 --> 00:13:08,098 Christ is everything. 347 00:13:08,792 --> 00:13:10,224 When Paul says in whom are hidden all 348 00:13:10,224 --> 00:13:12,611 the treasure wisdom and knowledge, he means it. 349 00:13:13,504 --> 00:13:15,821 He's slamming diagnostics, but this is a truth 350 00:13:15,821 --> 00:13:18,138 for us, and that word knowledge is in 351 00:13:18,138 --> 00:13:18,957 fact Gen 352 00:13:19,735 --> 00:13:19,975 there. 353 00:13:20,710 --> 00:13:23,049 So he's talking about this 354 00:13:23,350 --> 00:13:25,669 this knowledge, this intimate knowledge, 355 00:13:26,309 --> 00:13:27,910 relational knowledge, not just... 356 00:13:28,883 --> 00:13:30,318 Some sort of intellectual ascent. 357 00:13:31,115 --> 00:13:33,825 Isn't that amazing? And then he says, I 358 00:13:33,825 --> 00:13:35,601 say this. So so 359 00:13:36,297 --> 00:13:36,456 again, 360 00:13:37,109 --> 00:13:39,581 the beauty of of Paul's teaching. You you 361 00:13:39,581 --> 00:13:41,735 you lays it out there for you. I 362 00:13:41,735 --> 00:13:43,410 say this in order that no 1 may 363 00:13:43,410 --> 00:13:44,468 d dilute you 364 00:13:44,846 --> 00:13:46,521 with plausible arguments. 365 00:13:47,014 --> 00:13:48,071 Now isn't that 366 00:13:48,764 --> 00:13:52,263 interesting. Attorneys out there, you I happen to 367 00:13:52,263 --> 00:13:52,763 know 368 00:13:53,218 --> 00:13:56,174 that what the word plausible means. In a 369 00:13:56,174 --> 00:13:58,260 legal sense. And the only reason I do 370 00:13:58,870 --> 00:14:01,011 is I was sitting at a conference table... 371 00:14:01,249 --> 00:14:02,859 Conference table selling a bank 372 00:14:03,564 --> 00:14:05,642 of all things 1 day, talking to board 373 00:14:05,642 --> 00:14:05,961 members, 374 00:14:06,680 --> 00:14:09,317 and the investment banker used the word plausible. 375 00:14:09,477 --> 00:14:11,155 He said, well, it's plausible. We're were talking 376 00:14:11,155 --> 00:14:12,684 about, you know, what if we what if 377 00:14:12,684 --> 00:14:14,357 we don't sell it now, What might happen 378 00:14:14,357 --> 00:14:16,509 in the future. And and this was back 379 00:14:16,509 --> 00:14:19,217 during a really volatile period in the economy 380 00:14:19,217 --> 00:14:19,855 2012, 381 00:14:20,094 --> 00:14:20,412 I believe. 382 00:14:21,304 --> 00:14:22,101 And and 383 00:14:22,899 --> 00:14:24,732 and and so the the attorney said, well 384 00:14:24,732 --> 00:14:26,189 plausible is actually a weak 385 00:14:26,646 --> 00:14:28,321 standard. It just means it could happen. It 386 00:14:28,321 --> 00:14:29,676 doesn't mean it's likely to happen. 387 00:14:30,726 --> 00:14:32,237 And so so let's look at these words. 388 00:14:32,475 --> 00:14:33,748 I say this in order that no 1 389 00:14:33,748 --> 00:14:34,781 may del dilute you. 390 00:14:35,418 --> 00:14:37,883 That that that word d dilute literally means 391 00:14:37,883 --> 00:14:39,712 to reason or speak beside. 392 00:14:40,444 --> 00:14:42,221 It it it has the idea of faulty 393 00:14:42,280 --> 00:14:42,679 logic. 394 00:14:43,557 --> 00:14:44,456 So so 395 00:14:44,994 --> 00:14:47,149 he he's saying, I'm I'm writing for your 396 00:14:47,149 --> 00:14:48,187 own good church at. 397 00:14:49,319 --> 00:14:51,876 That no 1 may may fool you with 398 00:14:51,876 --> 00:14:52,775 faulty logic 399 00:14:53,314 --> 00:14:54,533 with plausible 400 00:14:55,071 --> 00:14:57,953 arguments. That is that word plausible is literally 401 00:14:57,953 --> 00:15:00,576 a persuasive argument, a type, a type of 402 00:15:00,576 --> 00:15:02,881 speech they're designed to entice others. 403 00:15:04,088 --> 00:15:04,960 I don't know about you. 404 00:15:06,070 --> 00:15:07,601 But when I listen to 405 00:15:07,973 --> 00:15:08,291 say, 406 00:15:08,846 --> 00:15:10,828 oh, I don't know. Joel Ol or somebody, 407 00:15:12,113 --> 00:15:13,327 I just really 408 00:15:15,051 --> 00:15:16,560 enjoy that. III... 409 00:15:16,719 --> 00:15:17,037 You know, 410 00:15:17,751 --> 00:15:20,611 I I know he's a a false teacher 411 00:15:20,611 --> 00:15:21,008 largely. 412 00:15:22,056 --> 00:15:23,727 And and there there's some other people out 413 00:15:23,727 --> 00:15:25,876 there who names I just can't think of 414 00:15:25,876 --> 00:15:28,263 right now who who who just... 415 00:15:29,154 --> 00:15:31,646 Every word is beautiful and 416 00:15:32,103 --> 00:15:34,175 and some of what they say is is 417 00:15:34,175 --> 00:15:36,588 is true and they're just so encouraging. 418 00:15:37,218 --> 00:15:39,469 I I know older people who who must 419 00:15:39,526 --> 00:15:40,481 listen to him, 420 00:15:41,118 --> 00:15:41,913 Joel, Hosting. 421 00:15:42,391 --> 00:15:43,903 And and there some others that are out 422 00:15:43,903 --> 00:15:45,812 there that are they're just smooth. 423 00:15:46,623 --> 00:15:49,566 They they dilute people. They use faulty logic. 424 00:15:50,043 --> 00:15:52,191 Their teaching is is damning, 425 00:15:52,907 --> 00:15:53,360 but 426 00:15:53,718 --> 00:15:55,791 It's a kind of persuasive a type of 427 00:15:55,791 --> 00:15:58,820 speech designed to entice. They make it flower 428 00:15:58,820 --> 00:15:59,458 and beautiful. 429 00:15:59,936 --> 00:16:01,451 It's not edgy and harsh. 430 00:16:02,104 --> 00:16:04,816 It... It's designed to entice. It's it's it's 431 00:16:04,816 --> 00:16:05,556 kinda cool, 432 00:16:06,492 --> 00:16:08,486 on the surface in in human terms. 433 00:16:09,299 --> 00:16:11,933 It's it's ana. It's it's to be it's 434 00:16:11,933 --> 00:16:12,593 to be 435 00:16:13,051 --> 00:16:13,450 tram. 436 00:16:13,929 --> 00:16:15,925 It's it's it's not worth our time. It's 437 00:16:15,925 --> 00:16:17,463 it's dangerous. It's it's. 438 00:16:18,892 --> 00:16:21,438 But but these arguments are enticing. 439 00:16:22,949 --> 00:16:25,972 Don't ever. Please, dear brother and sister in 440 00:16:26,131 --> 00:16:26,449 Christ. 441 00:16:27,499 --> 00:16:28,876 Even think for a moment 442 00:16:29,492 --> 00:16:32,283 that we're above falling for false teaching. 443 00:16:33,479 --> 00:16:35,951 It is the wisdom and knowledge of Christ. 444 00:16:36,524 --> 00:16:38,842 In whom all treasures are hidden back in 445 00:16:38,842 --> 00:16:39,321 verse 3, 446 00:16:40,040 --> 00:16:41,499 and we are to walk 447 00:16:42,598 --> 00:16:44,516 by faith in him. 448 00:16:45,649 --> 00:16:47,649 And and that's a mouthful. That that means 449 00:16:47,649 --> 00:16:49,330 a lot of things that we'll talk about 450 00:16:49,330 --> 00:16:50,450 as we go forward here. 451 00:16:51,330 --> 00:16:54,608 So so there's... There's just beauty in this 452 00:16:54,687 --> 00:16:55,798 This this is a warning. 453 00:16:56,750 --> 00:16:58,043 It's a it's a warning 454 00:16:58,416 --> 00:16:59,368 against the no. 455 00:16:59,938 --> 00:17:01,527 It's a real punch in the mouth to 456 00:17:01,527 --> 00:17:04,228 to the no, but it's an encouragement to 457 00:17:04,228 --> 00:17:06,531 the church. You know, you can imagine. I 458 00:17:06,690 --> 00:17:08,676 I mean, I can barely imagine paul's in 459 00:17:08,676 --> 00:17:11,551 prison under house rest, and shack to a 460 00:17:11,630 --> 00:17:13,855 Roman guard. And and, you know, they don't 461 00:17:13,855 --> 00:17:16,023 have... They can't text their friends to see 462 00:17:16,158 --> 00:17:17,214 how things are going 463 00:17:17,985 --> 00:17:20,784 the in other parts of the world, like 464 00:17:20,784 --> 00:17:21,579 we can do now, 465 00:17:22,772 --> 00:17:25,397 but they had to write and have letters 466 00:17:25,397 --> 00:17:28,280 delivered and and read, you know, replicated by 467 00:17:28,280 --> 00:17:31,151 hand and red out loud. And so communication 468 00:17:31,151 --> 00:17:33,943 took time, travel was on foot or by 469 00:17:33,943 --> 00:17:36,017 boat, and and it was slow. 470 00:17:36,908 --> 00:17:40,000 And and and so Paul, you you can 471 00:17:40,000 --> 00:17:42,934 just imagine how he feels as he's trying 472 00:17:42,934 --> 00:17:44,362 to protect this dear your church. 473 00:17:45,172 --> 00:17:47,323 What, as as you get seasoned in the 474 00:17:47,323 --> 00:17:49,473 faith, and and that that... That's a that's 475 00:17:49,473 --> 00:17:51,225 a nice way to say old, 476 00:17:52,260 --> 00:17:53,057 as you age, 477 00:17:53,789 --> 00:17:57,166 you become wiser, and you naturally want to 478 00:17:57,305 --> 00:17:58,503 protect other people. 479 00:17:59,382 --> 00:18:01,300 And and 1 1 of the things I 480 00:18:01,300 --> 00:18:02,993 say to students often, and I said it 481 00:18:02,993 --> 00:18:04,591 at a graduation that where I got to 482 00:18:04,591 --> 00:18:06,429 speak a couple years ago, 483 00:18:07,228 --> 00:18:10,205 you know, parents need to understand that 484 00:18:10,518 --> 00:18:12,825 But by the time, a a student is 485 00:18:12,825 --> 00:18:14,893 graduating from high school. They already have all 486 00:18:14,893 --> 00:18:16,404 the advice that we're going to give them. 487 00:18:16,881 --> 00:18:19,442 But what we actually do is we... We 488 00:18:19,442 --> 00:18:21,589 imagine that, you know, if they're going off 489 00:18:21,589 --> 00:18:22,067 to college, 490 00:18:22,862 --> 00:18:24,771 what that's gonna be like, and we wanna 491 00:18:24,771 --> 00:18:27,016 be sure. We feel like maybe we failed 492 00:18:27,016 --> 00:18:29,805 them, not that they've failed us necessarily, but 493 00:18:29,805 --> 00:18:31,080 that we might have failed them and so 494 00:18:31,080 --> 00:18:32,595 we we think, oh, my goodness. I gotta 495 00:18:32,595 --> 00:18:33,471 pack all this knowledge. 496 00:18:34,364 --> 00:18:36,122 Into them, and get... We... So we give 497 00:18:36,122 --> 00:18:37,559 them our opinion again and again, and again, 498 00:18:37,799 --> 00:18:39,557 if you ask them, they already know our 499 00:18:39,557 --> 00:18:40,435 opinion on and everything. 500 00:18:41,169 --> 00:18:42,444 And what they need to know is that 501 00:18:42,444 --> 00:18:42,922 they're loved. 502 00:18:43,559 --> 00:18:45,311 But there's this, you know, if you if 503 00:18:45,311 --> 00:18:46,984 you want to just put on Paul's hat 504 00:18:46,984 --> 00:18:48,361 for a moment and imagine 505 00:18:48,896 --> 00:18:49,852 what this was like. 506 00:18:50,664 --> 00:18:51,142 You can, 507 00:18:52,179 --> 00:18:54,331 just think about a child going off to 508 00:18:54,331 --> 00:18:55,687 college. And by the way, parents, if you're 509 00:18:55,687 --> 00:18:58,716 not there yet and haven't experience that brace 510 00:18:58,716 --> 00:19:00,486 yourself, that is 1 of the hardest things 511 00:19:00,486 --> 00:19:02,342 you will do and parenting 512 00:19:02,799 --> 00:19:04,495 for an adult teenager 513 00:19:05,032 --> 00:19:07,686 or a person in their early twenties is 514 00:19:07,903 --> 00:19:09,020 really difficult. 515 00:19:10,072 --> 00:19:12,944 To do. But in any case, that's probably 516 00:19:12,944 --> 00:19:14,540 the best example that I can think of. 517 00:19:14,779 --> 00:19:18,066 And and Paul is Paul is warning them 518 00:19:18,066 --> 00:19:19,662 that no 1 made to dilute them with 519 00:19:19,662 --> 00:19:22,695 plausible arguments. He's he's hearing things from reliable 520 00:19:22,695 --> 00:19:23,014 sources, 521 00:19:23,971 --> 00:19:24,450 probably. 522 00:19:25,104 --> 00:19:28,300 That that these people are are struggling. There's 523 00:19:28,300 --> 00:19:30,137 false teaching in the church and he's and 524 00:19:30,137 --> 00:19:31,895 he's trying to shore them up in the 525 00:19:31,895 --> 00:19:34,869 faith and he says in verse 5, for 526 00:19:34,869 --> 00:19:36,789 though, I am absent in the body. 527 00:19:37,669 --> 00:19:39,750 Yet I am with you in spirit. 528 00:19:40,644 --> 00:19:41,144 Re 529 00:19:41,601 --> 00:19:44,313 to see your good order, that good order 530 00:19:44,313 --> 00:19:45,371 is actually discipline 531 00:19:45,828 --> 00:19:48,221 re to see your discipline, your good order, 532 00:19:48,779 --> 00:19:50,157 and the firm ness 533 00:19:50,630 --> 00:19:51,509 of your faith. 534 00:19:52,150 --> 00:19:55,130 Your your corporate strength and stability 535 00:19:55,750 --> 00:19:58,009 is the idea there. The firm 536 00:19:58,470 --> 00:19:59,450 of your faith 537 00:19:59,923 --> 00:20:00,559 in Christ. 538 00:20:01,831 --> 00:20:02,331 So 539 00:20:02,785 --> 00:20:03,285 he 540 00:20:03,659 --> 00:20:05,010 I'm absent in the bottom. I'm not there 541 00:20:05,010 --> 00:20:07,156 with you. I haven't I haven't even met 542 00:20:07,156 --> 00:20:09,318 some of you yet. Most of you Yet, 543 00:20:09,478 --> 00:20:10,834 I am with you in spirit, 544 00:20:11,552 --> 00:20:14,424 re to see your good order and the 545 00:20:14,424 --> 00:20:17,072 firm of your faith in Christ. If you've 546 00:20:17,072 --> 00:20:19,965 worked with missionaries supported people, you don't know 547 00:20:21,219 --> 00:20:24,410 communicated with other churches and works across the 548 00:20:24,410 --> 00:20:26,140 country or across the globe even 549 00:20:26,576 --> 00:20:29,278 you know what this means. You can we 550 00:20:29,278 --> 00:20:31,662 can rejoice in Christ. If we agree on 551 00:20:31,662 --> 00:20:32,854 the essentials of the faith. 552 00:20:33,664 --> 00:20:34,561 And we can 553 00:20:34,936 --> 00:20:35,992 rejoice with others 554 00:20:36,447 --> 00:20:38,434 just like Paul says here yet. I'm with 555 00:20:38,434 --> 00:20:39,729 you in Spirit re. 556 00:20:40,661 --> 00:20:42,489 Practicing what he taught in philippians, 557 00:20:43,696 --> 00:20:46,872 experiencing joy to see your good order, your 558 00:20:46,872 --> 00:20:49,015 discipline and the firm of your faith in 559 00:20:49,174 --> 00:20:51,818 Christ. He's he's he's basically corrected 560 00:20:52,604 --> 00:20:53,323 And then he's saying, 561 00:20:54,041 --> 00:20:54,999 though I'm not there, 562 00:20:56,116 --> 00:20:58,133 I'm with you in Spirit, and I know 563 00:20:58,192 --> 00:20:59,091 that you're disciplined 564 00:20:59,788 --> 00:21:00,746 and that you have the... 565 00:21:01,479 --> 00:21:04,210 The strength together, the corporate strength 566 00:21:04,667 --> 00:21:05,645 and stability 567 00:21:06,580 --> 00:21:08,811 of your faith in Christ, the faith that 568 00:21:08,811 --> 00:21:09,210 you need, 569 00:21:09,784 --> 00:21:11,939 He encourages by being so positive. 570 00:21:12,418 --> 00:21:14,334 And and he and he doesn't lie. He 571 00:21:14,334 --> 00:21:16,489 knows this about them that they're a strong 572 00:21:16,489 --> 00:21:18,006 church. Then he goes on, 573 00:21:19,058 --> 00:21:21,152 He pivot. Therefore, so 574 00:21:21,528 --> 00:21:22,564 again, because of this, 575 00:21:23,520 --> 00:21:25,671 as you received Christ, Jesus, the Lord, 576 00:21:26,548 --> 00:21:28,221 so walk in him. 577 00:21:28,793 --> 00:21:28,952 Well, 578 00:21:29,825 --> 00:21:32,047 how how did they receive Christ Jesus the 579 00:21:32,127 --> 00:21:33,238 Lord by faith. 580 00:21:34,111 --> 00:21:34,270 Right? 581 00:21:34,984 --> 00:21:36,889 This is this is 1 of the hardest? 582 00:21:37,698 --> 00:21:40,875 Bits of teaching, I believe in in all 583 00:21:40,875 --> 00:21:43,496 of scripture. Hardest in the sense that it 584 00:21:43,496 --> 00:21:47,174 gets abused and misunderstood and we gravitate toward 585 00:21:47,174 --> 00:21:47,994 legal ism 586 00:21:48,535 --> 00:21:49,275 and and 587 00:21:49,974 --> 00:21:51,174 and and you say, what in the world 588 00:21:51,174 --> 00:21:51,894 are those things. 589 00:21:52,695 --> 00:21:54,055 We'll talk about that in a minute. But 590 00:21:54,055 --> 00:21:54,795 he but 591 00:21:55,190 --> 00:21:57,049 that we we are so tempted 592 00:21:58,549 --> 00:22:00,169 to become self sufficient 593 00:22:00,630 --> 00:22:02,490 every day, post 594 00:22:02,869 --> 00:22:03,369 salvation 595 00:22:03,765 --> 00:22:05,684 post trusting in Christ. Therefore. 596 00:22:06,244 --> 00:22:08,404 As you receive Christ Jesus the Lord, 597 00:22:09,365 --> 00:22:10,345 so walk 598 00:22:10,965 --> 00:22:11,605 in him. 599 00:22:12,658 --> 00:22:14,088 I I have people who asked me, and 600 00:22:14,168 --> 00:22:16,893 I've heard people ask other people in in 601 00:22:17,108 --> 00:22:19,174 sort of audience question sessions. 602 00:22:19,984 --> 00:22:21,573 What does it mean to walk by faith? 603 00:22:21,811 --> 00:22:23,559 Does it mean to follow Christ? 604 00:22:24,195 --> 00:22:25,704 Well, Paul gives it to us right here? 605 00:22:25,943 --> 00:22:28,247 Therefore, as you received Christ jesus the Lord? 606 00:22:28,819 --> 00:22:30,497 How did you receive him by faith. 607 00:22:31,216 --> 00:22:33,932 So walk in him. Walk by faith. This 608 00:22:33,932 --> 00:22:35,450 is this is present tense. 609 00:22:36,024 --> 00:22:39,627 It it indicates perpetual activity, daily, constantly. 610 00:22:40,480 --> 00:22:41,298 So walk 611 00:22:42,071 --> 00:22:42,947 in in him. 612 00:22:43,599 --> 00:22:46,316 That now there there are kinda 6 features 613 00:22:46,316 --> 00:22:47,834 of of the walk that he gives us 614 00:22:47,834 --> 00:22:49,911 here. And let let's look at him. So 615 00:22:49,911 --> 00:22:51,837 so so first 1 is by faith as 616 00:22:51,837 --> 00:22:54,221 you receive Christ jesus the lord. So so 617 00:22:54,221 --> 00:22:55,970 the this wall happens by faith. 618 00:22:57,083 --> 00:22:59,800 Not by sight. First not by grinding not 619 00:22:59,800 --> 00:23:02,184 by waking up every day and trying harder 620 00:23:02,184 --> 00:23:04,172 with a checklist. Although if you need a 621 00:23:04,172 --> 00:23:06,556 checklist, that's fine. I do from time to 622 00:23:06,556 --> 00:23:06,715 time. 623 00:23:07,843 --> 00:23:10,229 So walk in him. So second feature of 624 00:23:10,229 --> 00:23:11,820 the walk is it's a walk, not a 625 00:23:11,820 --> 00:23:11,979 run. 626 00:23:12,775 --> 00:23:15,099 It it it... I mean, it it a 627 00:23:15,099 --> 00:23:17,419 metaphor expression, but it's... But it's... It it 628 00:23:17,419 --> 00:23:17,899 there's a walk. 629 00:23:18,779 --> 00:23:21,419 It indicates it present tense indicates doing it 630 00:23:21,419 --> 00:23:23,039 perpetually or daily constantly. 631 00:23:23,819 --> 00:23:26,232 It's So walk in him at him being 632 00:23:26,312 --> 00:23:26,632 Christ. 633 00:23:27,750 --> 00:23:28,150 Rooted. 634 00:23:29,029 --> 00:23:29,588 Number 3, 635 00:23:30,228 --> 00:23:30,547 grounded, 636 00:23:31,267 --> 00:23:32,305 beyond grounded, rooted. 637 00:23:33,279 --> 00:23:34,898 And built up 638 00:23:35,916 --> 00:23:36,396 in him, 639 00:23:37,275 --> 00:23:37,775 and 640 00:23:38,473 --> 00:23:40,871 this... That's 4 built up in him. Rooted 641 00:23:40,871 --> 00:23:41,270 his 3, 642 00:23:42,003 --> 00:23:44,493 and then 5 is and established, 643 00:23:45,904 --> 00:23:49,349 you know, Paul constantly talks about how suffering 644 00:23:49,406 --> 00:23:50,224 makes us 645 00:23:50,679 --> 00:23:50,998 steadfast. 646 00:23:51,808 --> 00:23:53,796 Makes us grounded rooted established. 647 00:23:54,273 --> 00:23:56,681 He uses this language throughout all of his 648 00:23:57,055 --> 00:23:57,294 epi. 649 00:23:58,327 --> 00:23:58,827 Established 650 00:23:59,519 --> 00:24:00,417 in the faith 651 00:24:01,364 --> 00:24:03,198 I was talking about in the faith, the 652 00:24:03,198 --> 00:24:05,112 faith, the truth of Jesus Christ. 653 00:24:05,830 --> 00:24:07,367 Just as you were taught 654 00:24:08,462 --> 00:24:08,962 abounding 655 00:24:09,579 --> 00:24:10,616 in number 6, 656 00:24:11,508 --> 00:24:12,008 thanksgiving. 657 00:24:13,101 --> 00:24:14,774 So this walk is by faith, 658 00:24:16,048 --> 00:24:17,164 walking in him, 659 00:24:18,454 --> 00:24:18,853 rooted, 660 00:24:19,891 --> 00:24:20,450 built up, 661 00:24:21,887 --> 00:24:23,106 established in the faith 662 00:24:24,202 --> 00:24:25,101 and abounding 663 00:24:25,879 --> 00:24:26,698 in Thanksgiving. 664 00:24:28,767 --> 00:24:30,544 1 of the things, 1 of the barometer 665 00:24:31,000 --> 00:24:32,516 indicators that I can use in my own 666 00:24:32,516 --> 00:24:33,016 life 667 00:24:34,031 --> 00:24:35,728 is is whether I'm 668 00:24:36,743 --> 00:24:37,243 being 669 00:24:38,513 --> 00:24:38,912 thankful. 670 00:24:39,630 --> 00:24:41,065 Have a thankful heart or not. 671 00:24:41,943 --> 00:24:44,335 If I'm living in the flesh or or 672 00:24:44,335 --> 00:24:46,569 or or just ticked off because Usually, I 673 00:24:46,569 --> 00:24:47,946 have a good underlying 674 00:24:48,416 --> 00:24:50,162 reason or theme or at least I think 675 00:24:50,241 --> 00:24:52,304 I do. And and I'm just gru and 676 00:24:52,622 --> 00:24:54,447 And that that person this and this that, 677 00:24:54,606 --> 00:24:56,614 in that situation is not good. And 678 00:24:57,239 --> 00:24:58,190 I am not thankful. 679 00:24:59,380 --> 00:25:00,514 But if I'm walking 680 00:25:01,282 --> 00:25:03,423 in him as Paul describes here, 681 00:25:04,549 --> 00:25:05,346 I am grateful, 682 00:25:06,064 --> 00:25:07,100 which makes me gentle, 683 00:25:08,216 --> 00:25:09,970 which makes me established, 684 00:25:11,086 --> 00:25:12,442 rooted, built up. 685 00:25:13,333 --> 00:25:14,762 And walking in him. 686 00:25:16,429 --> 00:25:16,929 So 687 00:25:17,303 --> 00:25:19,526 I think Thanksgiving is an important part of 688 00:25:19,526 --> 00:25:21,431 this. Paul talked about that in Philippians if 689 00:25:21,431 --> 00:25:22,249 you remember 690 00:25:22,797 --> 00:25:24,468 I think those 2 ladies would have stopped 691 00:25:24,468 --> 00:25:26,559 fighting if they turned and looked at Christ 692 00:25:26,855 --> 00:25:29,003 and their own salvation and were thankful. 693 00:25:30,053 --> 00:25:32,519 I think a wonderful way. Paul Paul goes 694 00:25:32,519 --> 00:25:34,348 through conflict resolution in that book, and there's 695 00:25:34,348 --> 00:25:35,325 an episode 696 00:25:35,939 --> 00:25:38,818 titled something like that conflict resolution. You should 697 00:25:38,818 --> 00:25:39,935 go back and listen if you missed it. 698 00:25:40,094 --> 00:25:43,226 But but III just think Paul's a master 699 00:25:43,285 --> 00:25:45,997 at at conflict resolution. He knows biblical truth. 700 00:25:46,236 --> 00:25:48,365 He knows god's truth, and he knows that 701 00:25:48,643 --> 00:25:50,556 a, thankful heart is not going to be 702 00:25:50,556 --> 00:25:51,591 in in conflict. 703 00:25:52,069 --> 00:25:54,619 And then let's go on. The new new 704 00:25:54,938 --> 00:25:55,416 paragraph. 705 00:25:55,908 --> 00:25:57,260 See to it that no 1 verse 8, 706 00:25:57,420 --> 00:25:58,851 see to it that no 1 takes you 707 00:25:58,851 --> 00:25:59,908 captive by 708 00:26:00,362 --> 00:26:02,294 philosophy, by or through 709 00:26:02,669 --> 00:26:03,169 philosophy. 710 00:26:04,594 --> 00:26:06,592 And empty d see. So he's gonna rattle 711 00:26:06,592 --> 00:26:08,051 off a few things that are 712 00:26:08,749 --> 00:26:10,507 that that are ways that we're taking captive. 713 00:26:10,667 --> 00:26:12,126 I think there are 5 of them here 714 00:26:12,185 --> 00:26:12,665 approximately. 715 00:26:13,158 --> 00:26:14,586 See to it that no 1 takes you 716 00:26:14,586 --> 00:26:15,720 captive by 717 00:26:16,410 --> 00:26:16,910 philosophy 718 00:26:17,679 --> 00:26:18,892 and empty 719 00:26:19,344 --> 00:26:19,844 d. 720 00:26:21,423 --> 00:26:23,658 So he's... Again, he's he's talking about the 721 00:26:23,658 --> 00:26:25,834 no and the aesthetics and others 722 00:26:26,292 --> 00:26:28,846 who who are trying to take you captive. 723 00:26:29,005 --> 00:26:32,381 He's He's back to visiting that same topic 724 00:26:32,755 --> 00:26:34,741 that he visited in chip and verse 4 725 00:26:34,741 --> 00:26:36,091 when he of chapter 2 when he says 726 00:26:36,170 --> 00:26:37,123 I say this in order it to know 727 00:26:37,123 --> 00:26:39,048 when may. To dilute you with possible arguments. 728 00:26:39,208 --> 00:26:41,199 So it goes back to that topic. See 729 00:26:41,199 --> 00:26:43,212 to it that no 1 takes you captive 730 00:26:43,828 --> 00:26:46,319 by philosophy and empty defeat. It's it's interesting 731 00:26:47,266 --> 00:26:48,798 we we become captive 732 00:26:49,330 --> 00:26:51,155 too bad philosophy. If you buy in into 733 00:26:51,155 --> 00:26:53,695 bad ideas. Now, you've probably tried to talk 734 00:26:53,695 --> 00:26:55,362 to people who reject Christianity. 735 00:26:55,934 --> 00:26:57,770 And they bought into a couple of tenants 736 00:26:57,770 --> 00:26:58,509 of nonsense 737 00:26:59,207 --> 00:27:00,026 that that 738 00:27:00,564 --> 00:27:02,580 philosophical nonsense. It makes it impossible 739 00:27:03,198 --> 00:27:04,315 for them to see the truth. 740 00:27:04,967 --> 00:27:06,896 And I think that's the kind of captivity 741 00:27:07,429 --> 00:27:10,129 that Paul is is talking about. You might 742 00:27:10,129 --> 00:27:11,956 relate to this in terms of being captive 743 00:27:11,956 --> 00:27:12,774 to sin 744 00:27:13,563 --> 00:27:15,716 young people can relate to this because they 745 00:27:15,716 --> 00:27:17,710 they live in sin, they form 746 00:27:18,268 --> 00:27:21,060 lies around their life for with let's say, 747 00:27:21,220 --> 00:27:22,416 for example, with their parents, 748 00:27:23,069 --> 00:27:25,063 and and or they live 2 lives, 1 749 00:27:25,063 --> 00:27:26,419 with their Christian friends and 1 with non 750 00:27:26,578 --> 00:27:29,051 Christian friends, and they become captive to that 751 00:27:29,051 --> 00:27:31,444 so that they're they're serving it. They're they're 752 00:27:31,444 --> 00:27:33,930 a slave to it. That's what happens with 753 00:27:34,009 --> 00:27:35,284 Sin. It owns us. And well the same 754 00:27:35,284 --> 00:27:36,717 thing happens with simple, 755 00:27:37,434 --> 00:27:38,549 Aaron philosophy. 756 00:27:39,027 --> 00:27:41,416 We should constantly anchor ourselves. 757 00:27:41,988 --> 00:27:45,242 In truth. Paul says, an empty d. So 758 00:27:45,242 --> 00:27:46,194 he's talking about lies. 759 00:27:46,988 --> 00:27:48,679 So so he's talking about heresy 760 00:27:49,464 --> 00:27:52,245 And then he says, so first, it's... We're 761 00:27:52,245 --> 00:27:53,914 taken captive by bad philosophy. 762 00:27:54,391 --> 00:27:56,219 And empty d is second. 763 00:27:56,934 --> 00:27:57,967 According to human, 764 00:27:58,936 --> 00:28:02,121 tradition. Third, there are lots of human traditions 765 00:28:02,121 --> 00:28:03,019 that are sinful 766 00:28:03,634 --> 00:28:07,235 and and and and secular tradition, know, Paul's 767 00:28:07,235 --> 00:28:09,795 already identifying secularism here just so, you know, 768 00:28:10,355 --> 00:28:12,434 I know we didn't name it that until 769 00:28:12,434 --> 00:28:15,154 a few decades ago, but but that's exactly 770 00:28:15,154 --> 00:28:15,634 what it is. 771 00:28:16,767 --> 00:28:17,483 Human tradition, 772 00:28:18,278 --> 00:28:20,687 according to the number 4 elemental 773 00:28:21,062 --> 00:28:21,562 spirits 774 00:28:22,415 --> 00:28:24,815 of the world, Those are those are principles. 775 00:28:25,054 --> 00:28:27,121 It's it's that things in a in a 776 00:28:27,121 --> 00:28:27,757 in a series, 777 00:28:29,189 --> 00:28:29,689 legal 778 00:28:30,938 --> 00:28:31,176 observations. 779 00:28:32,228 --> 00:28:33,904 Observe... Or or ob absorb as even. 780 00:28:35,102 --> 00:28:36,619 The elemental spirits, 781 00:28:37,417 --> 00:28:37,736 the 782 00:28:38,455 --> 00:28:40,690 there's so many... It's not really that word 783 00:28:40,690 --> 00:28:42,623 spirits is kinda of poorly translated. Talking about 784 00:28:42,623 --> 00:28:43,102 principles, 785 00:28:44,141 --> 00:28:46,219 elemental principles of the world. 786 00:28:46,858 --> 00:28:48,696 There there are some just some some assumptions. 787 00:28:48,856 --> 00:28:51,185 It you it pause Paul's here talking about 788 00:28:51,185 --> 00:28:51,685 worldview. 789 00:28:52,779 --> 00:28:55,330 You know, he's talking about not being taken 790 00:28:55,330 --> 00:28:57,823 captive by the the elemental principles 791 00:28:58,200 --> 00:28:59,974 or or things in a series that 792 00:29:00,855 --> 00:29:02,774 that might appear to have some logic, but 793 00:29:02,774 --> 00:29:03,274 are 794 00:29:04,454 --> 00:29:04,954 ob 795 00:29:05,414 --> 00:29:06,554 of of the world 796 00:29:07,015 --> 00:29:08,705 or We should be so careful. 797 00:29:09,423 --> 00:29:11,816 We should not embrace legal as we should 798 00:29:11,816 --> 00:29:13,889 be afraid of it. It is counter to 799 00:29:13,889 --> 00:29:16,123 the gospel of Jesus Christ. It sounds good. 800 00:29:16,282 --> 00:29:18,555 It feels good. We like to have legal 801 00:29:18,615 --> 00:29:20,615 neighbors because they're really good and keep their 802 00:29:20,615 --> 00:29:22,615 lawns nice and their and their fence is 803 00:29:22,615 --> 00:29:24,454 tidy and and they're they're very courteous. 804 00:29:25,188 --> 00:29:28,369 But but but they... They... Their philosophy is 805 00:29:28,369 --> 00:29:28,766 damning, 806 00:29:29,482 --> 00:29:30,436 and Paul knows that. 807 00:29:31,469 --> 00:29:33,219 And then he goes on and not according 808 00:29:33,219 --> 00:29:33,775 to Christ, 809 00:29:34,904 --> 00:29:36,980 All of this is not according to Christ 810 00:29:37,219 --> 00:29:40,652 Christ is everything. He is all. He is 811 00:29:40,652 --> 00:29:42,887 in all. And then he says for in 812 00:29:42,887 --> 00:29:43,287 him, 813 00:29:44,498 --> 00:29:46,746 the whole fullness of deity 814 00:29:47,755 --> 00:29:48,629 dwell bodily. 815 00:29:50,297 --> 00:29:51,671 There... There's a long 816 00:29:52,045 --> 00:29:53,157 conversation we could have about this. 817 00:29:54,525 --> 00:29:55,184 He is 818 00:29:55,644 --> 00:29:56,144 completely 819 00:29:56,684 --> 00:29:58,285 God, the whole fullness. 820 00:29:59,085 --> 00:30:00,365 Paul would have been okay just saying the 821 00:30:00,365 --> 00:30:02,605 fullness. Right? But the whole fullness. 822 00:30:03,659 --> 00:30:04,456 The full fullness, 823 00:30:05,573 --> 00:30:06,450 the whole wholeness, 824 00:30:07,886 --> 00:30:08,604 all all of it. 825 00:30:10,359 --> 00:30:12,853 The full the whole fullness of Deity 826 00:30:13,724 --> 00:30:14,224 dwell 827 00:30:15,000 --> 00:30:15,877 blah bodily. 828 00:30:16,675 --> 00:30:19,466 Now Jesus Christ had been in heaven. 829 00:30:20,583 --> 00:30:22,816 Now for about 30 years as Paul's writing 830 00:30:22,816 --> 00:30:23,056 this. 831 00:30:23,709 --> 00:30:25,467 Give or take a few years. 832 00:30:27,145 --> 00:30:30,262 And so Jesus, we know, and from this 833 00:30:30,262 --> 00:30:31,860 section and other teaching in scripture, 834 00:30:32,833 --> 00:30:33,333 is 835 00:30:34,264 --> 00:30:36,275 has the body that was resurrected 836 00:30:37,365 --> 00:30:38,318 and maintains it. 837 00:30:39,431 --> 00:30:41,283 Is in that state in heaven 838 00:30:42,309 --> 00:30:44,404 the whole fullness of Deity dwell 839 00:30:45,100 --> 00:30:46,376 bodily present tense. 840 00:30:48,768 --> 00:30:51,081 And you have been filled in him, 841 00:30:51,734 --> 00:30:52,789 who is the head 842 00:30:53,243 --> 00:30:54,299 of all rule 843 00:30:55,784 --> 00:30:56,658 and authority. 844 00:30:57,373 --> 00:30:59,835 Now there there was the tendency by the 845 00:30:59,835 --> 00:31:00,970 no too 846 00:31:01,438 --> 00:31:04,215 to worship and these these things they called 847 00:31:04,215 --> 00:31:04,453 angelic, 848 00:31:05,167 --> 00:31:05,643 intermediaries. 849 00:31:06,516 --> 00:31:09,134 And and so he's paul setting everything straight 850 00:31:09,134 --> 00:31:11,135 here for in him, the whole fullness of 851 00:31:11,215 --> 00:31:12,249 Deity dwell bodily. 852 00:31:12,805 --> 00:31:15,111 We we we we don't need the angels 853 00:31:15,111 --> 00:31:18,212 aren't little gods aren't part of god. Mormons 854 00:31:18,212 --> 00:31:18,848 have it wrong. 855 00:31:19,737 --> 00:31:21,272 Lot lots of lots of 856 00:31:21,647 --> 00:31:23,078 other groups have it wrong. 857 00:31:24,033 --> 00:31:26,101 We're we're not becoming little miniature gods. 858 00:31:26,753 --> 00:31:29,960 In Christ, the whole fullness of Deity dwell 859 00:31:30,256 --> 00:31:30,733 bodily. 860 00:31:31,450 --> 00:31:32,746 And you have been filled 861 00:31:33,281 --> 00:31:33,838 in him. 862 00:31:34,970 --> 00:31:35,470 Beautiful 863 00:31:36,089 --> 00:31:38,089 ephesians talks about this in chapter 1 being 864 00:31:38,089 --> 00:31:38,730 in him. 865 00:31:39,289 --> 00:31:42,429 It's very consistent with Gen that knowledge and 866 00:31:42,490 --> 00:31:43,049 intimate knowledge, 867 00:31:43,624 --> 00:31:44,502 being in him, 868 00:31:45,381 --> 00:31:46,440 who is the head 869 00:31:46,818 --> 00:31:48,036 of all rule 870 00:31:48,734 --> 00:31:51,368 and authority. Jesus Christ is the head of 871 00:31:51,368 --> 00:31:53,045 all rule and authority. 872 00:31:53,696 --> 00:31:57,292 There are no angelic intermediaries or other intermediaries 873 00:31:57,427 --> 00:31:59,673 areas, and we should be careful 874 00:32:00,284 --> 00:32:01,895 with astrology with 875 00:32:02,364 --> 00:32:04,357 with with fortune telling with. 876 00:32:05,234 --> 00:32:07,785 I I see Christians dabble in some of 877 00:32:07,785 --> 00:32:08,843 these things, and 878 00:32:09,221 --> 00:32:11,861 it it makes me cringe it gives me 879 00:32:11,861 --> 00:32:12,361 pause 880 00:32:12,970 --> 00:32:14,817 because Christ is the head 881 00:32:15,347 --> 00:32:17,724 of all rule and authority. And then verse 882 00:32:17,724 --> 00:32:17,882 11, 883 00:32:18,533 --> 00:32:20,926 in him, also, you were ci sized with 884 00:32:20,926 --> 00:32:22,463 a ci decision made 885 00:32:23,080 --> 00:32:25,712 without hands. Very consistent with language Paul uses 886 00:32:25,712 --> 00:32:27,546 in the... His epi to the church at 887 00:32:27,706 --> 00:32:27,865 Rome. 888 00:32:28,597 --> 00:32:30,505 He's he's talking about salvation. 889 00:32:31,857 --> 00:32:33,311 A ci decision made 890 00:32:34,084 --> 00:32:36,151 without hand. So he's he's going to appeal 891 00:32:36,151 --> 00:32:37,583 to Jewish readers here. 892 00:32:38,234 --> 00:32:39,694 By putting off the body 893 00:32:41,275 --> 00:32:42,174 of the flesh 894 00:32:42,714 --> 00:32:43,694 by the ci 895 00:32:44,875 --> 00:32:45,595 of Christ. 896 00:32:47,287 --> 00:32:50,388 J taught that physical ci decision was essential 897 00:32:50,388 --> 00:32:51,580 for salvation Didn't they. 898 00:32:52,375 --> 00:32:55,094 Paul had been aggressively pursued by them. You 899 00:32:55,094 --> 00:32:57,109 could make an argument that they pushed him 900 00:32:57,406 --> 00:32:58,762 to go to some of the places he 901 00:32:58,762 --> 00:33:00,517 went and and and actually, 902 00:33:01,554 --> 00:33:02,054 they 903 00:33:02,750 --> 00:33:04,345 stirred up enough trouble they have them arrested. 904 00:33:06,278 --> 00:33:08,216 And and yet he's he's still fighting 905 00:33:09,154 --> 00:33:11,391 by the ci of Christ having been buried 906 00:33:11,391 --> 00:33:12,451 with him in baptism, 907 00:33:13,004 --> 00:33:16,196 that is spiritual baptism incorporated with him in 908 00:33:16,196 --> 00:33:17,174 which you were 909 00:33:17,951 --> 00:33:20,127 also raised with him through faith 910 00:33:20,598 --> 00:33:22,604 in the powerful working of God 911 00:33:22,975 --> 00:33:25,431 who raised him from the dead. 912 00:33:26,778 --> 00:33:27,278 So 913 00:33:28,861 --> 00:33:31,195 We we've been ci sized, spiritually 914 00:33:32,849 --> 00:33:33,407 by Christ, 915 00:33:34,204 --> 00:33:36,539 having been buried with him in baptism, 916 00:33:37,569 --> 00:33:38,707 in which you also 917 00:33:39,482 --> 00:33:42,273 were raised with him through faith and the 918 00:33:42,273 --> 00:33:45,223 powerful working of God who raised him from 919 00:33:45,223 --> 00:33:45,962 the dead 920 00:33:46,914 --> 00:33:49,474 resurrection is important. We could talk a long 921 00:33:49,474 --> 00:33:50,694 time about the 922 00:33:51,234 --> 00:33:51,394 resurrection. 923 00:33:52,835 --> 00:33:55,407 It is the conquering the proof. Of the 924 00:33:55,407 --> 00:33:56,464 conquering of 925 00:33:57,080 --> 00:33:59,571 sin and death. And Jesus was seen 926 00:34:00,186 --> 00:34:01,483 by so many 927 00:34:01,939 --> 00:34:02,916 after his 928 00:34:03,531 --> 00:34:03,984 resurrection 929 00:34:04,342 --> 00:34:08,001 the resurrection indicates victory over over death. 930 00:34:08,717 --> 00:34:10,229 No no other person did that. 931 00:34:11,595 --> 00:34:12,731 Was was resurrected, 932 00:34:13,660 --> 00:34:14,716 and any who 933 00:34:15,169 --> 00:34:16,916 experienced something similar to that where they were 934 00:34:16,916 --> 00:34:18,187 dead for a short period of time and 935 00:34:18,187 --> 00:34:18,981 healed by Jesus, 936 00:34:19,714 --> 00:34:21,154 restored to life by Jesus, 937 00:34:22,114 --> 00:34:23,635 eventually died a second time, didn't they? 938 00:34:25,394 --> 00:34:25,875 Not him. 939 00:34:26,609 --> 00:34:28,047 He lifts today and inter seats for us 940 00:34:28,047 --> 00:34:29,725 at the right end of the father. And 941 00:34:29,725 --> 00:34:31,244 verse 13 and you who were dead in 942 00:34:31,244 --> 00:34:31,963 your tres passes. 943 00:34:32,602 --> 00:34:33,422 That is your, 944 00:34:34,040 --> 00:34:34,200 your... 945 00:34:34,934 --> 00:34:38,043 Your your your your acts of sin, your 946 00:34:38,043 --> 00:34:40,674 deliberate acts of sin, dead in your tres 947 00:34:40,674 --> 00:34:41,891 passes and the un. 948 00:34:43,639 --> 00:34:44,356 Of your flesh. 949 00:34:45,233 --> 00:34:47,385 God made alive with him. 950 00:34:48,740 --> 00:34:50,835 Having forgiven us all 951 00:34:51,211 --> 00:34:51,711 our 952 00:34:52,023 --> 00:34:52,658 tres passes. 953 00:34:53,213 --> 00:34:55,063 That is apart from human 954 00:34:55,436 --> 00:34:55,754 merit. 955 00:34:56,706 --> 00:34:59,032 He has God made a alive together 956 00:34:59,406 --> 00:35:00,041 with Christ. 957 00:35:01,088 --> 00:35:02,118 When we are in him. 958 00:35:03,465 --> 00:35:04,813 Ephesians 2 5 through 6. 959 00:35:06,398 --> 00:35:09,434 God made a lot God made a life 960 00:35:09,434 --> 00:35:11,454 together with him having forgiven us 961 00:35:12,074 --> 00:35:12,574 all 962 00:35:13,195 --> 00:35:14,234 our tres passes. 963 00:35:15,355 --> 00:35:15,994 Listen to this. 964 00:35:16,648 --> 00:35:18,979 By canceling the record of debt 965 00:35:19,594 --> 00:35:22,459 that stood against us with its legal demands. 966 00:35:23,573 --> 00:35:25,904 God's righteousness was maintained 967 00:35:26,694 --> 00:35:29,811 throughout the entire gospel of Jesus Christ through 968 00:35:29,811 --> 00:35:33,087 his sin life his death, his resurrection and 969 00:35:33,087 --> 00:35:33,587 his 970 00:35:34,126 --> 00:35:36,372 ultimate ascension. And setting at the right hand 971 00:35:36,372 --> 00:35:37,666 of the father. God's righteousness 972 00:35:38,516 --> 00:35:40,580 was not compromised. If you struggle with that 973 00:35:40,580 --> 00:35:41,215 go read 974 00:35:41,850 --> 00:35:42,747 Romans 3 975 00:35:43,374 --> 00:35:45,363 I think it's around verse 20 and following. 976 00:35:46,238 --> 00:35:48,705 Just read it. God did not compromise his 977 00:35:48,705 --> 00:35:49,205 righteousness 978 00:35:49,978 --> 00:35:51,808 and in forgiving sin. 979 00:35:52,778 --> 00:35:53,994 By faith in Christ 980 00:35:54,688 --> 00:35:55,585 through his death 981 00:35:55,960 --> 00:35:57,097 and resurrection 982 00:35:57,869 --> 00:35:58,585 and ascension, 983 00:35:59,793 --> 00:36:01,780 by canceling the record of debt that stood 984 00:36:01,780 --> 00:36:03,530 against us with its legal demands. What were 985 00:36:03,530 --> 00:36:04,324 those legal demands? 986 00:36:05,278 --> 00:36:08,140 Well, the the legal demands were were were 987 00:36:08,140 --> 00:36:08,776 were were debt. 988 00:36:09,427 --> 00:36:09,666 Death. 989 00:36:10,779 --> 00:36:12,846 The the record of debt are our sin, 990 00:36:13,721 --> 00:36:15,708 that see... We understand that it was it 991 00:36:15,708 --> 00:36:16,265 was a debt, 992 00:36:17,060 --> 00:36:18,332 he's using accounting language. 993 00:36:18,983 --> 00:36:20,969 It was a debt, that that then we 994 00:36:20,969 --> 00:36:24,148 can understand that our our... That that was 995 00:36:24,148 --> 00:36:26,769 purged that debt from our account taken on 996 00:36:26,769 --> 00:36:27,246 by Christ. 997 00:36:28,619 --> 00:36:29,739 On the on the cross. 998 00:36:31,340 --> 00:36:32,880 And and then righteousness 999 00:36:33,900 --> 00:36:37,353 was was credited to our account because of 1000 00:36:37,353 --> 00:36:37,512 him. 1001 00:36:39,028 --> 00:36:41,101 It it's it's really an accounting term. By 1002 00:36:41,101 --> 00:36:42,856 canceling the record of death that's stood against 1003 00:36:42,856 --> 00:36:45,807 us with its legal demands. Its legal demands 1004 00:36:45,807 --> 00:36:46,206 were death. 1005 00:36:47,416 --> 00:36:49,327 This this reminds me of Romans 8 1. 1006 00:36:49,486 --> 00:36:52,193 There's therefore now no condemnation to those are 1007 00:36:52,193 --> 00:36:54,501 in christ. Jesus. That's condemnation of reference to 1008 00:36:54,501 --> 00:36:56,819 the to the pen phase, the punishment phase 1009 00:36:56,819 --> 00:36:57,454 of the trial. 1010 00:36:58,248 --> 00:37:01,344 The the yes. Yes, we had debt built 1011 00:37:01,344 --> 00:37:02,400 up by sin 1012 00:37:02,867 --> 00:37:04,610 that... And its legal demand was death, 1013 00:37:06,037 --> 00:37:09,128 but he... This, he set aside, Paul says 1014 00:37:09,128 --> 00:37:09,286 here, 1015 00:37:10,492 --> 00:37:11,789 nailing it to 1016 00:37:12,165 --> 00:37:13,360 the cross. Our debt, 1017 00:37:14,475 --> 00:37:17,581 sinful debt, debt because of our sin was 1018 00:37:17,581 --> 00:37:18,081 nailed 1019 00:37:18,458 --> 00:37:18,958 to 1020 00:37:19,507 --> 00:37:19,984 the cross. 1021 00:37:22,286 --> 00:37:24,270 He took on our debt. It was nailed 1022 00:37:24,270 --> 00:37:25,484 to the cross in the person 1023 00:37:25,937 --> 00:37:27,365 of Jesus Christ the sun, 1024 00:37:28,334 --> 00:37:28,813 of God. 1025 00:37:30,170 --> 00:37:30,888 God in flesh. 1026 00:37:32,085 --> 00:37:34,341 Then verse 15, he disarmed the rulers 1027 00:37:35,198 --> 00:37:37,605 that the disarmed is to to put off 1028 00:37:37,605 --> 00:37:38,661 or away from 1029 00:37:39,036 --> 00:37:41,183 the rulers and and authorities. 1030 00:37:42,057 --> 00:37:45,715 Again, ephesians 02:14 and 15 are good references 1031 00:37:45,715 --> 00:37:45,954 there. 1032 00:37:47,164 --> 00:37:49,960 Ephesians 02:14 and 15 and put them to 1033 00:37:49,960 --> 00:37:50,860 open shame 1034 00:37:51,558 --> 00:37:53,235 by triumph over them. 1035 00:37:54,287 --> 00:37:56,293 In him. He put them 1036 00:37:56,744 --> 00:37:59,859 to shame, Christ canceled the debt of humankind 1037 00:38:00,548 --> 00:38:01,182 to the law, 1038 00:38:01,754 --> 00:38:02,973 His death covered 1039 00:38:03,432 --> 00:38:05,110 all tres passes past, 1040 00:38:05,829 --> 00:38:06,329 present 1041 00:38:07,108 --> 00:38:08,067 and and future. 1042 00:38:10,797 --> 00:38:13,591 That is just a beautiful picture. There's so 1043 00:38:13,591 --> 00:38:15,747 much because we get so confused about the 1044 00:38:15,747 --> 00:38:17,285 law and Christ 1045 00:38:17,663 --> 00:38:18,860 relationship to the law we'll talk. 1046 00:38:19,752 --> 00:38:22,139 More about that next time. But the beauty 1047 00:38:22,139 --> 00:38:22,798 of this 1048 00:38:23,332 --> 00:38:25,798 is that Christ canceled the dead of humankind 1049 00:38:25,798 --> 00:38:26,276 to the law, 1050 00:38:27,089 --> 00:38:29,507 is his death covered all tres passes 1051 00:38:30,126 --> 00:38:30,445 past, 1052 00:38:31,085 --> 00:38:32,283 present and future. 1053 00:38:33,402 --> 00:38:35,295 I struggle to read this without 1054 00:38:36,129 --> 00:38:36,844 just sobbing. 1055 00:38:38,115 --> 00:38:39,864 When I read by canceling the record of 1056 00:38:39,864 --> 00:38:41,692 death that stood against us with its legal 1057 00:38:41,692 --> 00:38:43,758 demands. This, he set aside, 1058 00:38:44,647 --> 00:38:46,237 nailing it to the cross. 1059 00:38:47,192 --> 00:38:49,577 What love for us our Lord has. 1060 00:38:50,769 --> 00:38:53,393 Nailing my sin all of my sin to 1061 00:38:53,393 --> 00:38:54,442 the cross, past, 1062 00:38:55,318 --> 00:38:56,672 present and future. 1063 00:38:58,902 --> 00:39:00,416 He put away from or disarmed, 1064 00:39:01,053 --> 00:39:02,668 the rulers and 1065 00:39:03,297 --> 00:39:05,229 authorities and put them to open shame 1066 00:39:05,843 --> 00:39:06,661 by triumph 1067 00:39:07,036 --> 00:39:07,934 over them 1068 00:39:08,627 --> 00:39:09,104 in him. 1069 00:39:11,830 --> 00:39:15,442 What what beautiful words these are in paul's 1070 00:39:15,501 --> 00:39:17,496 epi to the C church. 1071 00:39:18,309 --> 00:39:20,621 I hope this study is as much a 1072 00:39:20,621 --> 00:39:21,121 blessing 1073 00:39:21,657 --> 00:39:23,251 to you as it is to me. 1074 00:39:24,208 --> 00:39:25,164 Next week, we're gonna... 1075 00:39:26,613 --> 00:39:29,237 Gonna look at another hard subject to, all 1076 00:39:29,237 --> 00:39:30,055 all of this, 1077 00:39:30,509 --> 00:39:33,871 this completeness in Christ is is is beautiful, 1078 00:39:34,485 --> 00:39:37,690 but but but seems to be challenging for 1079 00:39:37,690 --> 00:39:38,969 us when we live it out. 1080 00:39:39,849 --> 00:39:42,109 And and we'll we'll talk about 1081 00:39:42,650 --> 00:39:44,569 we'll talk about the rest as we'll start 1082 00:39:44,569 --> 00:39:45,309 in verse 1083 00:39:45,943 --> 00:39:48,734 16 of a chapter 2 next week and 1084 00:39:48,734 --> 00:39:50,648 we'll work our way through the the end 1085 00:39:50,648 --> 00:39:52,483 of the chapter. We're gonna... We're gonna talk 1086 00:39:52,483 --> 00:39:54,099 about legal again in as 1087 00:39:54,716 --> 00:39:54,876 again, 1088 00:39:56,087 --> 00:39:58,242 it's it's very important and if you're if 1089 00:39:58,242 --> 00:40:01,195 you're just starting on this journey, this Christ 1090 00:40:01,195 --> 00:40:03,031 following journey. You've just put your trust in 1091 00:40:03,031 --> 00:40:05,268 him. I I want to encourage you to 1092 00:40:05,268 --> 00:40:07,012 read these words and understand them. 1093 00:40:07,805 --> 00:40:09,628 Get yourself an English standard version of the 1094 00:40:09,628 --> 00:40:10,499 bible or similar. 1095 00:40:11,229 --> 00:40:13,947 And, new King James is fine. There some 1096 00:40:13,947 --> 00:40:15,225 others that are that are okay. 1097 00:40:16,104 --> 00:40:19,780 N iv, even is alright. New American standard 1098 00:40:19,780 --> 00:40:21,715 version is fine. Some of the more modern 1099 00:40:21,715 --> 00:40:23,394 ones lose some of the rich content. 1100 00:40:23,875 --> 00:40:25,315 Some of the modern para phrases, 1101 00:40:25,875 --> 00:40:27,954 like the message bible and others I'd I'd 1102 00:40:27,954 --> 00:40:29,555 kinda stay away from for this study, 1103 00:40:30,129 --> 00:40:32,541 But if you you can study this scripture 1104 00:40:32,677 --> 00:40:35,146 and and by filling in just a few 1105 00:40:35,146 --> 00:40:35,465 gaps, 1106 00:40:36,023 --> 00:40:38,412 Yeah, you you you can you can get 1107 00:40:38,412 --> 00:40:38,651 this. 1108 00:40:39,222 --> 00:40:40,492 And you'll see that, 1109 00:40:41,207 --> 00:40:43,215 the beauty of Christ's love 1110 00:40:43,905 --> 00:40:47,398 for us even in the way that we 1111 00:40:47,398 --> 00:40:49,508 live the Christian life 1112 00:40:49,967 --> 00:40:52,523 that when we look at the gospel of 1113 00:40:52,683 --> 00:40:54,681 Jesus Christ, the good news of Jesus Christ, 1114 00:40:54,840 --> 00:40:57,324 it is it is good for us for 1115 00:40:57,324 --> 00:40:58,438 living day to day. 1116 00:40:59,632 --> 00:41:02,122 Salvation is not just a transaction. It has 1117 00:41:02,497 --> 00:41:04,487 it has multiple facets. This, 1118 00:41:05,139 --> 00:41:07,856 san justification are walking by faith, or following 1119 00:41:08,016 --> 00:41:11,452 Christ making disciples, being a disciple of his 1120 00:41:11,452 --> 00:41:12,810 and making disciples, 1121 00:41:13,384 --> 00:41:15,315 is just so incredibly 1122 00:41:15,690 --> 00:41:16,724 important in scripture. 1123 00:41:17,679 --> 00:41:20,168 Paul spends a lot of time writing here 1124 00:41:20,557 --> 00:41:23,360 about how to do that. Who Christ is 1125 00:41:23,574 --> 00:41:26,933 what he accomplished when he says, this he 1126 00:41:27,068 --> 00:41:28,203 set aside 1127 00:41:28,594 --> 00:41:31,308 nailing it to the cross. I've talked before 1128 00:41:31,308 --> 00:41:33,224 about the fact that I don't. I I, 1129 00:41:33,304 --> 00:41:34,661 you know, I like it. I guess that 1130 00:41:34,661 --> 00:41:36,099 him that old him, he could have called 1131 00:41:36,099 --> 00:41:36,977 10000 angels. 1132 00:41:37,695 --> 00:41:41,366 But Christ gave himself. He emptied himself and 1133 00:41:41,366 --> 00:41:43,113 gave himself. We talked about that back in 1134 00:41:43,272 --> 00:41:45,575 Philippians. He gave himself. He didn't wanna call 1135 00:41:45,575 --> 00:41:47,182 me. He First of all if he had 1136 00:41:47,182 --> 00:41:48,639 wanted to. He didn't need to 1137 00:41:49,495 --> 00:41:51,510 because of his deity because of his sovereignty 1138 00:41:51,648 --> 00:41:53,483 because of his his his power. 1139 00:41:54,280 --> 00:41:55,876 He he he didn't need any angels. 1140 00:41:57,483 --> 00:41:59,313 But but could he have called thousands of 1141 00:41:59,313 --> 00:42:02,017 them or or or multitudes of the course 1142 00:42:02,017 --> 00:42:02,415 he could have. 1143 00:42:03,543 --> 00:42:06,399 But the but gave himself. He he... This 1144 00:42:06,399 --> 00:42:08,938 he set aside nailing and nailing our sin 1145 00:42:08,938 --> 00:42:11,398 to the cross. He took on sin, 1146 00:42:12,286 --> 00:42:14,905 himself. If you go read Romans 03:20 1147 00:42:14,905 --> 00:42:17,310 and following, you'll see that he was our 1148 00:42:17,683 --> 00:42:19,667 appropriation. On the day of atonement, the arc 1149 00:42:19,667 --> 00:42:22,230 of the covenant would have the blood of 1150 00:42:22,230 --> 00:42:24,224 the spot less spot less lamb, 1151 00:42:25,021 --> 00:42:28,292 sprinkled on it. He was our lamb who 1152 00:42:28,292 --> 00:42:31,175 was slain our spot less perfect lamb who 1153 00:42:31,175 --> 00:42:32,918 was slain on our behalf, and that's what 1154 00:42:33,077 --> 00:42:35,534 Paul is talking about here. This, he set 1155 00:42:35,534 --> 00:42:36,034 aside 1156 00:42:36,405 --> 00:42:37,753 nailing it to the cross. 1157 00:42:38,324 --> 00:42:41,035 Well, thank you for listening to this beautiful 1158 00:42:41,035 --> 00:42:42,630 truth from C. 1159 00:42:43,108 --> 00:42:44,703 I hope it's helpful next week, as I 1160 00:42:44,703 --> 00:42:46,697 said, we'll start in verse 16 of chapter 1161 00:42:46,697 --> 00:42:49,659 2. Well, God willing will finish chapter 2, 1162 00:42:49,819 --> 00:42:51,492 and we can move a little quicker through 1163 00:42:51,492 --> 00:42:52,527 the rest of the book. It'll take us 1164 00:42:52,527 --> 00:42:54,359 just a few more weeks. I look forward 1165 00:42:54,359 --> 00:42:56,032 to being with you then. Please like share 1166 00:42:56,032 --> 00:42:58,277 review and subs subscribe to relentless truth. 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