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It's that God refused to leave man in the perilous situation and circumstances he was in. Much like our airmen, we were we're we find ourselves behind enemy lines. We find ourselves, if we're not careful, we will be a prisoner of war, enslaved by choices that we've made. And yet, God looked and he saves individuals. And God looked and thought about you and thought about me and thought about every human being and thought they're worthy of my best effort. I will do whatever I have to do. I will pay whatever price I have to pay to extract people from the kingdom of Satan, to extract them from the prison of sin. [00:08:19] (51 seconds)  #GodsRescue

Okay? There is a natural condition to humanity and it is not that we are bad, it's that you are dead. And once you are made alive in Christ, why would you wanna continue to live with rigor mortis? Why would you wanna continue to stay in the cemetery? The angels asked the women. You never find a living among the dead. His complete nature has changed and so has yours. This is what you were saved from. Death is what you were saved from, both spiritual and eternal. We've already talked about spiritual. Listen, eternal death doesn't mean you're dead forever. It means you live forever in the realm of death. [00:20:48] (46 seconds)  #MadeAliveInChrist

And if you don't ever figure out a way to separate those two, you're never going to fully own your new identity in Christ. You're never gonna know you're a new creature in Christ Jesus. The old is gone, the new has come. You're gonna continue to blame who you once were on what you continue to do, but you're no longer who you were. You're now a new creation in Christ Jesus. Your nature has been radically resurrections changed powerfully. Just like Christ was raised to a new life, so was your spirit. And if you don't get this down in your soul, you're gonna walk around like you're a victim, like you're a pawn to the powers of this world and you're no longer a pawn, you're a player. [00:19:31] (40 seconds)  #NewIdentityInChrist

There's nurses right now at med center doing the very same thing for somebody who came in sick and is facing death, and they've been watching that patient for the last twelve hours. There's EMTs and paramedics that'll be roll you'll hear them because the hospital, can see it from right here through those doors. They'll go rolling down the street, doing everything they can to extract a person from perilous situations because there's something inherent in the value of humanity that leads us to just do whatever we have to do to help. That is the totality of the bible. That is its overarching story, is rescue. It's rescue. [00:07:31] (48 seconds)  #RescueStory

And disobedience is what produces death, spiritual death. Okay? We're gonna look at another concept here in a second, but everything you could fit in the category of being disobedient produces death. It isn't just these massive egregious sins, it's anything that's disobedient. All of us also lived among them the ways of the devil and the world and the kingdom of the air, among them at one time gratifying the cravings of our flesh and following its desires and thoughts like the rest, we were by nature deserving wrath. This is a perilous condition to be in. This is not the passage you generally use to encourage anybody. [00:14:42] (43 seconds)  #DisobedienceProducesDeath

And we're all out here like, oh, the devil made me do it. Anybody remember Flip Wilson? I said that in the first service and some people were like, Flip Wilson? Who's Flip Wilson? I'm like, golly, get some culture. Okay? I'm sending you to them to open their eyes and turn this is the book of Acts speaking of Paul. I'm sending you to them to open their eyes and turn them from darkness to light and from the power of Satan to God. You are not a pawn. Quit living like one. Resist the devil and he will flee. Fight the devil's schemes. We're never told to fight the devil. We're told to fight his schemes. Do you know how he operates? He destroys all things in its infancy. That's what he does. That's it. Pretty much it. [00:25:06] (63 seconds)  #FightHisSchemes

People could do whatever they wanna do and get off this planet scot free. I don't think so. Because if that was the truth, then all out our anarchy would rule and reign. Inherently, you know that's not the truth. You know people need to pay for what they did. And if they're not gonna pay eternally for what they did, then why are you putting them in prison? Why should they have to pay now for what they did if they're not gonna ultimately pay for what they did? What's the point? Where'd you get that punishment philosophy in the first place? [00:22:55] (30 seconds)  #JusticeMatters

Like, this really, in my opinion, I was I wrote this Friday, most of it, studied all day Thursday, whatever. Doesn't matter. But I'm shouting hallelujah in my sunroom. Y'all sitting there like, I'm a librarian trying to teach you how to read a book. Why are you so bored? You're like, I I don't want information. I just wanna be emotionally moved by your sermon. That's not gonna happen. Okay? You gotta know this if you're gonna live it. Alright? And last but not least, praise God Almighty, you have been saved from Satan. He might be the ruler of the kingdom of the air, but you're not a citizen of that kingdom anymore. He don't rule you. [00:24:11] (45 seconds)  #SavedFromSatan

And I pray God there's no one in this room or at any of our campuses online watching that would think he wasn't worthy of that kind of effort. Of course, was. We don't leave anybody behind. And they went and got him, and they brought him home. And in that, we see that there's something within every one of us, I believe, that recognizes and realizes the inherent value of even one life. That rescue is worth it. That doing whatever you've gotta do to extract someone from a perilous situation, it's worth doing. And it we we hear and we see and we're told the epic story, certainly. [00:06:40] (48 seconds)  #NoOneLeftBehind

But there's no denying that there is a nature to humanity that deserves the worst that God can give, wrath. And that's what you need to be saved from, is the inconceivable, undescribable, unimaginable wrath of God. And I can't even get my head around. First Corinthians two nine says, no eye has seen, no ear has certain, no mind can know what God has in store for those who love him. When you think about heaven, it's like you can't even imagine what heaven will be like. I guarantee you, there's not one of us in this room that can really imagine what that might be like. Okay? So this is what we're saved from. Okay? We have to understand [00:16:20] (46 seconds)  #SavedFromWrath