A Due Process | Crossland Community Church

You you can't go from nothing to something without the power of the spoken word. You go from single to married through the power of your vow. You go from sinner to saint through the power, the power of that confession, Jesus Christ is Lord. You will be saved. That's it. And as soon as you're saved, you have finished the juridical process of heaven. You are fully justified and have been eternally and always declared a certain status called righteous. That's the process. Okay? [00:21:05] (33 seconds)  #PowerOfConfession

So say you have a thousand dollars, you write a check to Greg Farrell, f a r r e l l, for a $100, you write a 100, then you do the math. Not the new math, 100,000 minus a 100 is 900. Okay? What you just did was transfer your $100 to me. Okay? And you recorded it. What happened at this minute is God wrote a check and deposited it into Abraham's account, and the that check was righteousness. Okay? [00:13:15] (41 seconds)  #RighteousnessCredited

He can't wink at sin because He's just, He's holy, He's righteous. He not gonna wink at it, you're not gonna forget it, you're not gonna look over it. But he's also the one who justifies. See, he's the one that has willingly provided a process for you whereby at the end of the process, you can be declared righteous. Because of his justice, he can't just let it go and he won't let it go. But because of his goodness, he decided to figure out a way to provide a way for you and I to be justified. [00:25:34] (38 seconds)  #MercyMeetsJustice

The catalyst is faith, not performance. It's the willingness to step outside yourself, look at the glorious unimaginable promise of heaven and ask yourself, can you believe the only way there is Jesus? Yes. That's it. Just like Abraham came out of his tent. Oh, I believe that. And he still has two and a half billion family members on the earth today. Four thousand years after that promise. Can you imagine the billions and billions and billions and billions and billions of people that have been saved because of Abraham's faith? [00:18:36] (44 seconds)  #FaithNotPerformance

God says, so shall your offspring be. Abraham believed God. That's it. 90 years old. Romans later in Romans, read it. It says, Abraham whose body was as good as dead did not waver in his belief. He wavered in his behavior because the very next chapter is when he tries to give his wife away and then he sleeps with Hagar. That's a win. And we're still talking about him 2,000 later is the example of how someone is declared righteous. Okay? [00:11:09] (34 seconds)  #AbrahamicFaithExample

He declared him that. He's declared right. He didn't declare I'm not guilty. He'd already tried to give his wife away. He didn't declare him innocent. Didn't declare him pardoned. Didn't say he's acquitted. Didn't say any of those things. He said, you're righteous. It's a completely different reality than not guilty. See, no lost per and maybe this is your problem. [00:14:07] (23 seconds)  #DeclaredRighteousNotInnocent

God in his mercy, if you're not saved, God in his mercy, you're on death row. He just hasn't enacted the punishment. See, he withheld he's not waiting till the end to withhold judgment. And if you're saved, you should shout hallelujah. Hallelujah. Because you already know the judgment's been rendered. Boy, it would be terrible if it said, wait till the end till he renders judgment. I'd be like, oh, he doesn't render it at the end of today. [00:24:31] (33 seconds)  #JudgmentRenderedNow

If it's an awful diagnosis, keep doing what he told you to do until he does what only he can do. He's either gonna heal your call your home, is the ultimate healing. It it teaches us to persevere, persevere, person, because that perseverance produces something, character. And as we see the fullness of who Christ is through his suffering, you begin to become the fullness of who God created you to be through yours. It's never pointless. I'm not saying it's painless, but it's not pointless. You begin to develop that type of character like Christ who could look from a cross and say, father, forgive them because they don't know what they're doing. [00:32:46] (42 seconds)  #SufferingBuildsCharacter

That kind of character, fortitude that has knows compassion and grace and mercy, who's willing to love as they have been loved. And that kind of character produces something, hope. Because hope these two things are evidence of the declaration of your righteousness before God. And that hope never puts you to shame. Like, you're never gonna come to the end of your days and be ashamed of what you believed. I can guarantee you that's never gonna happen. [00:33:37] (37 seconds)  #HopeThatDoesntShame

And I love what Paul says. He doesn't say, what does your denomination say? He doesn't say, what did your parents tell you? He doesn't say, what's tradition? What do the Catholic people think? What do the Baptist people think? What a Church of Christ think? It doesn't matter what anybody thinks. There's only one thing that matters. What's the Bible say? What does scripture say? [00:09:15] (21 seconds)  #ScriptureOverTradition

But if you tell them your entire status, your entire standing can change, that the declaration of heaven can be righteous at the end of the justification process? Because here's the deal, the moment anybody sins, there is a grand jury that forms in heaven. It's the Father, Son, and the Spirit. And they bring back a true bill because there's probable cause that you're guilty. [00:14:56] (24 seconds)  #HeavenlyGrandJury

Okay? It's the grand jury that must indict you. That way, the government doesn't have power to just put you through the ringer, cost you money to defend yourself and all that. Because in a grand jury, only the prosecution presents evidence and information. Then there's 19 to 26 of your fellow citizens who have to agree that there is probable, not possible because anything's possible, probable cause. If so, they agree they think there is, they return what's called a true bill. You've been indicted. [00:03:54] (35 seconds)  #GrandJuryAnalogy

Maybe even walking around since you were saved, convinced that you're not guilty, but you know what? You know you're guilty, you don't feel not guilty. Why don't you feel not guilty? Because you're not not guilty, you're guilty of sin. Tell a lost person, you won't won't feel guilty. They're like, I still feel guilty. There's a reason why you feel guilty because you are guilty. You're never gonna convince a human heart that God they're not interested. [00:14:30] (25 seconds)  #GuiltReflectsGuilt

Okay? Not You don't see Abraham slinging snot in tears because most of the evidence in the Bible of salvation experiences are non emotional. They are transactional. Okay? It was credited to him. Okay? This is called, just so you know, you need to know, juridical or forensic language. Okay? It's legal language. And what it meant to be credited is let me ask this question. How many of you still use a check register when you write a check? [00:11:54] (33 seconds)  #TransactionalSalvation

Conviction is unquestioned trust in what you've just heard, that you will fully rely on your eternity based upon what Jesus Christ has already worked out for you. You don't work for it. Okay? And if you're there, then you confess with your mouth. Because the problem with a sinner is not that he's bad and needs to be good, but that he is dead and needs to be made alive. You are absolutely not it's like God did in Genesis chapter one. In the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth, and the earth was formed with some void, and darkness is over the surface of the deep, and the spirit of God was hovering, and then God said, [00:20:24] (40 seconds)  #ConvictionAndConfession