Transformative Power of Learning Christ

"he's not suggesting that they haven't but it's just his way of calling them to verify the fact and to do so by going on to act in keeping with the word that they've heard and we're taught in him heard actually our version there says heard about him but there's no preposition in Greek there's know about it actually just reads and you have heard him as the gospels had come to them they had heard Christ's voice the apostles had preached and they had heard the voice of Christ" [00:01:00]

"you have come to Jesus you have found the truth in Jesus the one the historical Jesus the one who was born of the Virgin Mary who suffered under pontious pilot who was dead and was buried who was raised from the dead who will return in power and great Glory that's who you've come to trust in he who said I am the way and the truth and the life and no one comes to the father except through me" [00:02:30]

"why do we go to to all the world why are they going to Bolivia why are we supporting people in in the in the lostness of Asia if this is not the case you see nobody will be interested in seeing the gospel going out to the world unless you have learned Christ you have heard him you have been taught in him then you find yourself saying everybody needs to hear this everybody needs to know this" [00:02:56]

"Paul's great thing is constantly making clear to people that as a Believer we are no longer in Adam in Adam right Adam is the the founder of the race Adam is the beginning of it all Adam is the one who was made in the image of God Adam is the one who sinned and brought all in Adam down into the destructive dimension of his sin that's why we exist in the realm of futility and darkness and so on" [00:06:08]

"however says Paul when a man or a woman hears the gospel and comes to trust in Christ then the ties that bind us to Adam in our old man are then broken and we are adopted into a whole new family so we are then he says no longer in Adam but now we are in Christ and all that is in Christ is now Ours by Dent of our Union with him United with Adam we live in the realm of sin and rebellion and hardness and alienation and so on United with Christ we are brought into the realm of righteousness and Holiness and truth" [00:06:41]

"the key to grappling with this is understanding our identity in Christ and then I wrote a final word down which is the word destiny which is the guaranteed Assurance of the end of the line for those who have been removed from the realm of futility have a new identity in Jesus and have a destiny that is involved with righteousness and Holiness and so on so that we would be really clear that in coming to the Lord Jesus Christ a radical change has taken place a radical change has taking place the old has gone and the new has come" [00:08:17]

"these verbs here are not in the imperative but that is not the way you learn Christ past tense assuming you've heard about him and were taught in him past tense as the truth is in Jesus to put off your old self which belongs to your former to be renewed in the spirit of your minds and to put on the new self so we've got a put off we've got a renewed Spirit of the mind and we've got to put on" [00:09:10]

"when I came and preach the gospel to you and you understood the gospel when I explained to you that you're a dead man in Adam and that there is life in the Lord Jesus Christ when you trusted in Jesus you put off your old man and you put on the new man you were removed from one one realm and placed in another realm your part was repentance God's part was regeneration he made you alive when you were dead in your trespasses and sins" [00:11:36]

"the symbol of baptism is as helpful as any isn't it remember when Paul writing out to the Galatians he says as many of as of of you who were baptized into Christ have put on Christ you've put on Christ the picture there is a clear picture people would come down into the baptismal Waters in their regular clothes they would disrobe themselves they would go into the to just down to their Skies they would go into the water they would be baptized they would come out and they would be given a brand spanking new fresh white rope and they would walk out and the people would say look at that look at that why did he do that well because he's put off the old man and he wants people to know" [00:12:31]

"the environment in which we live says hey what do you care about marriage don't let anybody do that marriage stuff what do you care about purity what do you care about a little dishonesty come on enjoy the good stuff don't get wrapped up in that oh no why I put it off I put it on what's your mind gone wrong well I'm being renewed in my mind I'm being renewed in my mind you see that's where the Bible comes in loved ones" [00:14:29]

"the Bible says if there's no evidence of change then there's no reason to believe in conversion God does not justify Those whom he doesn't sanctify he makes us alive with Christ in order that as we walk through this world we might be seen to be different" [00:17:12]

"the futility of life outside of Christ the identity that is represented in Christ and the ultimate destiny of all who are placed into Christ into a realm of righteousness and Holiness I don't know everybody here today I don't know where you are in relationship to these things but I do know this that a lot of people are tied up they're tied up outside of Christ by failing to understand the breadth the Wonder the simplicity of Christ's invitation and it is an invitation to come to him to come to him" [00:20:17]