From Death to Life: Understanding Biblical Salvation

Why are you sitting? Because you have enough information. You know what chairs do? You accepted the fact, unless I wanna stand the whole time, I'm gonna have to sit. And you know what? I'm gonna change my thinking. I think it's better for me to sit than it is to stand the whole time. Good God. Don't complicate this. Then what do you do? Sit. Can you show confidence confidence assurance in in the death, burial, and resurrection of Jesus Christ? Sit down. Sit down. Take a load off. [01:20:32] (37 seconds)  #RestInFaith

That it's not like you were made in Santa's workshop. It's that you are beautifully crafted. That your life is a narrative. It's a poem. It has meter. It has rhyme. It has meaning. It starts somewhere and it's going somewhere and it's and when we're dead in our trespasses, it's just a story that has yet to be told. And then when we accept Christ as our Lord and Savior, it's a story that gets to be known. It's your story. [01:11:58] (35 seconds)  #YourStoryInChrist

And the entire story of scripture is a rescue story. It's about a God who saw us in this plight that we were in enemy territory, that we, in some ways, we we were downed by our own poor choices, not by the enemy's fire. And we're in a situation that we could not get ourselves out of, and I'll show you why in a moment. And God decided that you were worthy of his best efforts. That he doesn't regret that he spent every drop of his son's blood to extricate you from an extraordinarily perilous situation. [00:41:15] (43 seconds)  #GodsRescueStory

See, here's the thing. I am not Satan's pawn any I'm nobody's pawn anymore. I ain't your pawn. I ain't the power of darkness. I'm nobody's pawn. I ain't a pawn. I'm a player. I get to be a player in this cosmic drama now. I'm not on some board and I'm the front line and I be sent into enemy territory so I can be picked on. I'm not your pawn. Nobody's pawn. I live under the power of God Almighty. I'm a child of the king. I'm a citizen of the kingdom. Ain't nobody's pawn. [00:56:35] (33 seconds)  #ChildOfTheKing

I really don't have to say much more to be quite honest with you except that you have to understand what kind of death we're speaking about. Your perilous condition is not that you were bad and didn't know how to behave, it's that you're dead and you can't produce life. There's no way you can resurrect yourself from the dead the way Jesus did. You're spiritually dead. Okay? God told Adam and Eve in the garden, if you sin, you will die. [00:44:07] (25 seconds)  #CantResurrectYourself

If any man be in Christ, he's a new creation. The old is gone, the new has come. You need to have a new nature. Okay? And if you're in Christ, you are you're no longer plagued by the nature of sin, you're capable of sinning. It's a very different story. We'll look at that in sanctification week. The second thing, obviously, we repeat this over and over, spiritual but and eternal. Okay? Spiritual death is the reality that you're walking around just as body and soul until you experience the resurrection from the dead, which you do experience at the moment of salvation. [00:51:31] (40 seconds)  #NewCreationInChrist

All for one life. Because the nation you live in has a credo that runs deep, and that there has never been a service person that has represented this nation who does not swear to this credo. You leave no man behind. You don't leave anybody behind. And you do whatever you gotta do as a nation. This does not in any way shape or form to be an extravagant expenditure of our nation's resources in my book. You go get them. You do what you gotta do because Nemo Resideo, the Latin for leave no one behind. [00:38:58] (47 seconds)  #LeaveNoOneBehind

And in the name of Jesus Christ, I mean this, I have absolutely no idea why somebody would choose that. The epitome of selfishness, arrogance, and self will, that you would raise your angry fist in the face of a gracious God and say, I'd rather go to hell than spend eternity with you. Like, I'm I don't fathom that. And you're like, well, I don't believe there's a a hell. Let me ask you a question. Do you believe in justice? [00:54:26] (27 seconds)  #ChooseChristNotHell

He doesn't have any authority to dictate my choices, period. I have the authority. The Bible is so easy too. You know what the Bible tells us? Resist the devil and he'll flee. Amen. That's right. Just resist. How do you resist? No. Right. It's not hard. Right. And we're around there kicking ourselves, and I can't believe I did it again. I can't believe it. You know why you're doing it? You didn't say no. Nancy Reagan was right. Just say no. [00:57:11] (31 seconds)  #ResistAndHeWillFlee

And when you see God's glory and you realize that I will be a father to you, and I know that doesn't always conjure up the greatest thoughts in our minds. Because some of us, me included, didn't necessarily have a great earthly father reflecting the nature of our heavenly father and what you have to do. Just like at times when lost people look at Christians and say they don't want anything to do with Christianity, The most important thing if you're lost and you don't know Christ, I'm gonna encourage you to do is look beyond Christians to Christ. [01:14:57] (38 seconds)  #LookBeyondChristiansToChrist

He didn't do that. He did it to save you from that situation, but to unleash you to experience life, an abundant mind blowing, you gotta be kidding me life. And the more you know about salvation, the greater the chances that you can experience the fullness of it. A broader knowledge of salvation, and that's this whole series, but today for sure, can produce a greater breadth of its experience. The more you know biblically about what I was saved from, how I was saved from it, and what I was saved for, I guarantee you, you're gonna walk out of this door today with information you never had before. [00:42:50] (40 seconds)  #ForensicTruthsOfSalvation

You're like, I never followed Satan. Yeah, you did. Yes, you did. Because you followed the ways of the world. If you follow the ways of the world, you follow the ruler of the world. And if your worldview is non biblical, then it's satanic. Okay? As there are only two options. Right? Dead or? It's either God's way or the devil's way. Okay? There's just two rulers, if you will, they're not equal. They don't co rule. They don't co reign, but they do co exist. [00:46:19] (29 seconds)  #ChooseEternityWisely

Because he chose you before the foundations of the world. Ephesians chapter one says, and then he has set everything in motion in order to draw your attention unto himself. He chose you and then he's been calling you that he might save you and change you into the likeness of Christ. And so this isn't accidental. This was eternally determined by God because he handpicked you and said, no. [00:15:50] (23 seconds)  #ChristWithoutSinNature