Assurance Policy | Crossland Community Church

What God does is he enters into the situation, he buys a completely condemned life, and he doesn't renovate it. He's not in the renovation business, he's in the resurrection business. For if any man be in Christ, he's a new creation, the old is gone. He just sweeps it off the foundation and he begins a construction process called sanctification. And the spirit of God is in you. You and I have to understand, God knew exactly what he was doing when he bought you. [00:13:59] (27 seconds)  #ResurrectionNotRenovation

And he has put a massive down payment over our lives to give us assurance of an eternal everlasting experience with him. Period. Your life is not going to burn to the ground because therefore there is now no condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus. For the law of the spirit who gives life has set us free from the law of sin and death. For what the law was powerless to do, God did by sending his son in the likeness of human flesh. [00:29:12] (30 seconds)  #EternalAssurance

And if you're in Christ and Christ is in you, there is no way you're gonna be condemned. Now, you can face consequences surely, because God can't be mocked, you will reap what you sow. But condemnation and consequences are two completely different things. So we have been set free from the law of sin and death. Okay? We live under the law of the spirit who gives life. The law of sin and death is basically a person who has watched, if you will, their life burned to the ground. [00:23:00] (35 seconds)  #FreedomFromCondemnation

It isn't like God said, okay, a prerequisite for me to buy your life is for you to promise me you're not gonna try and burn it down. Well, you don't even make that promise. But the fact that God says, no matter what might happen in your life, it's never going to burn down. Who would take matches and willfully burn their life down? Nobody. It's idiotic thinking. It's the weakest argument that's out there because they deny the reality of the Holy Spirit in a redeemed life. [00:32:27] (31 seconds)  #LawFulfilledInChrist

Okay? And the only way to rectify the possibility of that outcome is number one, you could be perfect. That ain't happening, and if you're not perfect, you gotta pay and you can't do that. When Christ came, that's why his sinlessness is so important. He fulfilled one phase of the law by being perfect. Check that box. He did it. But then he also fulfilled the law by offering the perfect payment. Check that box. So the law was never abolished, it was just fulfilled. [00:26:18] (33 seconds)  #RenewAndSurrender

Don't make him any promises. Just tell him, you know what, I may need the holy fire department by the time this day is done. I don't know what else I'm gonna do. I'm gonna do the best I can, not to burn my life down or anybody else's life down. But can't promise you today I'm not gonna burn something down. So father, here we go. Great. Give yourself totally completely to God. Don't conform to the pattern of this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind. [00:36:12] (26 seconds)  #SpiritGetsMoreOfYou

And the most important thing we can do is offer ourselves back to the one who paid the price to buy us when our life was a wretched mess, and every life in in comparison to the glory and holiness of God is a wretched mess, and the one who has agreed and already paid the price for the for construction, and protection, and assurance all the way through eternity. So bring yourself back to him. [00:35:35] (32 seconds)  #GodsDeepInvestment

To think that we might take who we are and what God's making us in to be and offering it back to him seems to be the wisest thing we could do because he's the general contractor. Don't kick him off the job. He's already taken the job on at cost plus. He knows. He knows like, oh my god, it might cost me a little bit more time and energy to build Greg's life than anybody else's life, but I'm in it. Why would you kick him off the job? [00:34:15] (32 seconds)  #ChooseWhereYouLiveWisely

So part number one of this reality, okay, is that God has a deep investment in your life, and he proved it by sending the spirit into you. God is not gonna let the whole thing burn to the ground, he's in you. He's in a partnership with you now. He's deeply invested in your life. And when he bought us, our house was a complete wreck. He bought us, if you will, at a fire sale. [00:13:18] (29 seconds)  #SavedNotLicenseToSin

Okay? Because if you're in an environment where you gotta move now, moving inland, right, doesn't, you know, protect you from all harm because you get to the center, you have tornadoes and you have all kinds of other bad weather situations. So each of us have to have decisions we've got to make about who we are, where we live when God found us, where we were when God bought us, make some seriously good decisions about and possibly God's like, no, I'm gonna rebuild your life right there in the midst of wildfire zone. [00:14:56] (29 seconds)  #GodRepairsTheDamage

While the moment of being saved is obviously the most epic, if you will, catalyst, It unleashes a life that should be lived differently now that you're saved. There's so much to salvation. Now, it's never less than being saved, but the Bible talks about the reality that there's so much that happens before you enter into heaven and the next life, if you will, that happens right here, right now. And we've been looking at the the phenomenal reality, if you will, of the totality of what it means to be saved. [00:00:23] (35 seconds)  #BelieversAssurance

The saved can live differently. No. I'm gonna say must live differently. Okay? And I gotta end this message by presenting to you why there's a necessity for an assurance policy, and why it is critical that you understand that fire assurance is a reality. [00:38:11] (29 seconds)  #AssuranceDoesntPromoteRecklessness

We're like, okay. So the big question then that Paul knew had to be answered is, so what is the role of sin in a redeemed life? What happens? Do we lose our salvation or are we set free to go live licentiously? What is the, like, how do we figure that out? And that's what we're gonna look at today. And the answer to that is actually a term that's called security or the the assurance of the believer. [00:04:46] (29 seconds)  #BoughtWhileBroken

Listen, you weren't on Zillow. You were not on God didn't find you on Zillow. He found you in the obituaries. We were dead in our trespasses when Christ Jesus died for the ungodly. Our life had already burned up. So when God came in, he bought a condemned structure. Okay? But God demonstrates his own love for us in this that while we were still sinners, Christ died for us. Okay? And what's happening here is God's beginning to pay the price to buy you in the condition you are in, [00:15:49] (38 seconds)  #TestAndApproveGodsWill

and you'll see in a moment that he also put down a massive amount of money to assure you for the rest of your life, all the way to eternity, that he's already paid the price to buy you, but also to keep you. [00:16:26] (15 seconds)  #ParticipateInHisWill

You're like, why would God let you do that? Because he knows. He knows no matter what choice you make, it is not going to alter the decisions he's already made. It's freedom. I could test and approve, test and approve, test and approve. I just gotta stop thinking the way the world thinks, that I'm free to burn my life down. Woo hoo. Like, who lives lives like like that? That? Right. Right. Right. But here's the deal. [00:37:38] (33 seconds)