Embracing New Life: Transformation in Christ

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"We have people who are in this stage of life, they're getting ready to get married, and maybe you're newlywed, and you're here, or you've been married for a couple years, and you're starting to have kids. Praise God for that. We're excited to have you here, but when you met your spouse, you started to date one another. There came a time where you got married. That means you left your father and mother's house, and now you're joining together and become one. Genesis says that. It says in the beginning, God made man and woman, but it was not good for man to be alone, so a man leaves his mother and father to cling to his wife to become one flesh, and in our society, most people still, the woman takes the husband's last name, and they have a new family. She's got a new name, and she doesn't forget about her family, but she leaves that family." [00:01:59] (46 seconds) (Download raw clip | Download cropped clip)


"Jesus told the parable of a good Samaritan, and he tells this parable about this Jewish guy walking down the street and he gets beat up by a gang of robbers and they toss him into the ditch. A priest comes by and he crosses on the other side. A Levite, he also works in the temple, comes by and he goes on the other side, and they don't pay attention to their fellow countrymen. But a Samaritan. A Samaritan comes, ethnically different from the Jews, hated by the Jews. Samaritans didn't think too much of the Jews either. But the Samaritan comes and helps him. He considered him a neighbor in order to help him. That's who our neighbor is. Those who are in their time of need were to love God, yes, and love others." [00:14:33] (39 seconds) (Download raw clip | Download cropped clip)


"God honoring relationships forgive, but they also forget. They also forget. Now, I don't mean forget about the harm that's done. You might never forget that harm that's been done against you, that grievous thing that you've experienced. It might be with you. It might be with you for the rest of your life. And when you do remember it, you might have to forgive again. And it can be there for your lifetime. I don't mean forget that it ever happened. I mean like the New York way, like forget about it. You know, that was a terrible accent, but forget about it. Pretend like it was New York. Forget about the small stuff. Let it roll off your back." [00:18:10] (34 seconds) (Download raw clip | Download cropped clip)


"Neither, and then he gives a list of a whole bunch of different sinners who are not going to get there. He says the unrighteous will not be in the kingdom. The kingdom of God is coming. It's here in some ways already, because God has saved us, Jesus has died for us, he's risen, but he's coming again. We're in the church age, but there's coming another age. The eternal age, where his kingdom will be fully here." [00:23:25] (24 seconds) (Download raw clip | Download cropped clip)


"And such were some of you, but you were washed, you were sanctified, you were justified in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ. He's trying to encourage them. He's not trying to discourage them and just tell them to clean up their life. He's saying you've already been washed. You've already been cleaned. So why are you staying on that team when you're on this team?" [00:24:25] (15 seconds) (Download raw clip | Download cropped clip)


"Persevering as you remember your identity. In that last verse, look with me in your Bible if you got it. And such were some of you, but you were washed, you were sanctified, you were justified. What makes you different is that you have this new life in you. And here's three things. Jot these down. God cleansed us as believers. God cleansed us. He calls it, he says, washed you." [00:27:43] (30 seconds) (Download raw clip | Download cropped clip)


"God did this work in you. You did this work in you. You did this work in you. You did this work in you. You trusted. You believed. But God has done it. He's working in you. He's cleansed you from all unrighteousness. This forgiveness that Christ gives us on the cross, the cross is so powerful in this, get this, is that he forgives you of your sins that you've ever committed, and all the sins you're going to commit at the cross. He's done it. He's the one that cleanses us. God cleanses us. And then God claimed us. God claimed us. You were washed. You were sanctified." [00:28:49] (32 seconds) (Download raw clip | Download cropped clip)


"She began to read the Bible. She says, I continued to read the Bible all the while fighting the idea that it was inspired, but the Bible got to be bigger inside me than I. It overflowed into my world. I fought against it with all my might. Then one Sunday morning, I rose from my bed, from the bed of my lesbian lover, and an hour later sat in the pew at Syracuse Reformed Presbyterian Church." [00:32:37] (25 seconds) (Download raw clip | Download cropped clip)


"When we come to Christ, we leave our old life behind. We leave the world system behind. But it's always there. It's always there. But we remember that we surrendered our life to Christ because he gave of his life for mine." [00:34:18] (16 seconds) (Download raw clip | Download cropped clip)