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I'm not under the old system where I have to be afraid that you're going to abandon me and because of my sin, you're going to now withdraw your presence.
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No Lord, even if I fall, I don't have to fall, but should I fall, you run to me to pick me up.
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You don't abandon me.
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The sin is no longer a problem, because the sin has been taken out of the way and thoroughly punished in the cross of Jesus Christ.
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Hallelujah.
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Welcome to the City Light Church podcast.
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Thanks for joining us today as we look into God's Word and discover the hope and truth that he has for us.
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If you want to connect with City Light Church, feel free to visit us at CityLightNYCcom.
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That's CityLightNYCcom.
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Pastor Boyan Jansik and his team believe that the power of the Holy Spirit is already working in our hearts and minds.
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As you listen to today's teaching, remember that you are deeply loved by God, that you are surrounded by His grace and that he has a real hope and a future for you.
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Galatians is the clash of the covenants and that's the title of this series.
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In Galatians, what you see is a group of people, much like in Ephesians, much like in Philippians.
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These were in Galatia and much like the other groups that got saved, they came to a saving faith in Jesus and they understood that their salvation was not dependent on them.
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They understood that Jesus did all the work.
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In other words, jesus plus nothing equals everything.
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Amen.
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Salvation is a gift and you cannot add or contribute to it.
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Yet here in Galatia and what Paul is addressing in Galatians is these Judaizers who have come in, and now they put the people under bondage, these Christians, these new Christians, and said it's great that you believe in Jesus, but you also have to keep the law of Moses, you must be circumcised, and there was more things in addition to that you must keep the Sabbath.
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What they're in essence saying is Jesus plus your own law-keeping, jesus plus your own behavior equals everything.
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That's not the gospel, that's not the new covenant.
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Typically, the Christian response might be well, what's the big deal?
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What's the problem?
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As long as they believe in Jesus and you want to mix a little bit, maybe it even makes you a better person if you mix it up a little bit, paul says no.
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In fact he humanly says no.
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You see him at his most, pauline.
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You see him totally lose it.
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It becomes very emotional.
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He says you are fallen from grace, you're nullifying the grace of God.
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You cannot mix the covenants.
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Pick one.
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Under the old covenant, under the old system of law, you never had right standing with God.
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You never had the new birth.
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You never had the Holy Spirit living inside of you.
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What you had was a system where you endeavored, you tried, you strived to be approved unto God based on your own behavior and your own law keeping.
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And you failed every time.
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Because the Bible says over and over again if you break the law in one place, you're guilty of breaking it.
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In all places, you're guilty of breaking the entirety of the law.
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So on the test of the system of the law, a 99 won't cut it and a minus won't cut it.
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You have to score a perfect grade and no human can do that.
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Only Jesus has done that, got an A plus on the test and got the extra credit right and then took his name and said whoever puts their faith in me, I'll put your name on the test and you can turn that in Now.
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That's why the gospel is called Good News.
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The new covenant is a different system entirely.
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God hasn't changed.
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God is the same, but the way in which he deals with man has fundamentally changed.
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What changed it?
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The same thing that changed our calendar, the same thing that changed our nations the cross of Jesus.
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The cross of Jesus changed everything.
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So on the one side you have the old covenant system of law where you endeavor to be improved unto God.
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You strived, you tried, but never were.
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Under the new covenant you already are past tense, totally forgiven, totally approved, totally accepted, welcomed into the family of God, all your sins past, present and future done away with, not based on your effort, not based on anything you do, but solely based on what Jesus has already past tense, done, done, done, amen.
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Which system would you rather live under?
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I'm going to interpret the silence because you understand it's a rhetorical question, right, amen?
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And do you have any reason to mix the two?
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No, especially not when there's a clear warning that if you mix them, even a little, you actually are completely going back to under the old.
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So we want to live on this side of the cross, not the BC side, not the before Christ side, but the Anno Domini, the year of our Lord side, the one where we realize that there is a cross, there is the forgiveness of sins.
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It's already a past tense fact.
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This changes everything.
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So I want to just say and echo what Paul has been saying in this clash of the covenants the old covenant system is done.
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The old covenant system of the law is done.
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It's finished.
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Now here's what some people misunderstand.
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When the Bible says it, or when I repeat it, what they hear is we don't have to read the Old Testament anymore.
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Never said that the Old Testament is the Word of God.
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The Old Testament is just as much the Word of God is.
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The New Testament is the Word of God.
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We just need to read the Old in light of the new Amen.
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I'll give you an example of how to do that in just a little bit.
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Here's what some other people miss here.
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When I say we're no longer under the law, what they hear is that pastor is telling people to be totally immoral.
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They're not under the law.
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They're not under any commandment.
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They're not, and that's not at all what I'm saying.
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That's not what the scripture is saying.
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What the scripture is saying, which I'm reiterating, is that you are not and cannot ever be justified before God by your law keeping.
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You're justified before God by trusting in Jesus and how he perfectly kept the law in your place.
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Amen, sister.
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What about holiness?
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What part does holiness play?
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Should we be different as Christians?
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Absolutely.
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Should we continue to sin?
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That grace may abound.
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God forbid.
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But now, holiness is worked from the Lord, from the inside out.
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God wants heart transformation, not behavior modification.
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Religion comes from the outside, wants to change your external, but a new covenant relationship with the Lord changes you and produces fruit from the inside out.
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And, by the way, when you're under grace, you're actually holier and the standard is set higher.
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All you have to do is read the Sermon on the Mount where Jesus says you've heard it said, and he points to the law, and then what he actually reveals is what he and the Father and the Holy Spirit had in their heart when they gave the law.
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It's actually much more holy Amen.
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But you can only fulfill it when you're filled with the Holy Spirit and you yield to Him.
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So I'll give you an example my wife.
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Every week she does the scripture memorization verse with the kids on the way to school, which I love that she does that.
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She told me that she memorized one Bible verse a week as a child and I'm convinced that's what's kept her all these years.
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You cannot have the word inside of you without it working in you.
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The Bible says the word works.
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Scripture memorization is so powerful, the word inside of you, you know.
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The Psalmist said thine word have I hid in my heart that I may not sin against thee.
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The word works.
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Paul said that the word works.
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The Greek there energio.
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It energizes it.
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Actually, you memorize the scripture and you think you're done with it.
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It's not done with you, it's in there for years, working.
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It's alive.
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God is one with His word.
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To have His word in you is having God in you and that's kept her all these years.
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So she does this scripture verse memorization, one verse a week.
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And this week's verse was and this falls great with my example from Psalm 5110, talking about and we're going to finish Galatians four.
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We're in the middle of it, I promise you.
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But David here in Psalm 5110 is talking about coming back to the Lord and he had committed an awful sin.
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He had just fallen with Bathsheba in adultery.
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He killed her husband Uriah.
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He had lied about it and he didn't even confess at all, like because he felt convicted himself.
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It was only when the prophet came, nathaniel, and busted him and exposed him in front of everybody that now he's repentant right.
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And this is a beautiful verse and we should memorize it.
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There's even a song.
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How many of you know the song this is based on?
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That was based on this verse.
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As a teenager, I cried many times created me a clean, hard-o God, and renew a right spirit or a steadfast spirit within me.
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And then it gets real.
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That's when, that's the point where I would start to cry cast me not away from your presence, o Lord.
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Would he ever do that under the new covenant?
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Cast you away, he says.
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Take not your Holy Spirit from me.
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Do you know anybody in the new covenant that had a Holy Spirit taken from them?
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That's an old covenant problem, because the Holy Spirit would come upon only certain people for a certain event, namely the king, the prophet and the high priest, and then the Holy Spirit would retreat.
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Today you have the Holy Spirit.
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He's not going anywhere, trust me.
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I've tried in crazy moments, tried running from God.
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He is faithful.
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He's a friend that sticks closer than a brother, amen.
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So when you read something beautiful from the Psalms, like created me a clean, hard-o God, and renew a steadfast spirit within me, you have to do it with a new covenant lens.
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I love the Old Testament and reading the Old Testament, but read it in light of what Jesus has done.
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So when you read that, you realize this is David still looking forward to the cross, still knowing Messiah would one day come, but under his system he's scared.
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You don't have to be scared anymore.
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And he's crying out to God O God, create in me a clean heart.
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Raise your hand.
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If you've received Jesus as your Lord and Savior right now, god has given you a clean heart, hasn't he?
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A heart?
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That's your human spirit, the real you on the inside.
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If you fall, if you sin, that does not enter your spirit.
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You don't have to get born again again.
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So you read this first and you can read it like God, I thank you.
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You have already created in me a clean heart.
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You've already given me a steadfast and right spirit.
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And then you read the next passage where he cries I take that, your Holy Spirit, from me.
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You can then pray the Psalms and say Lord, I'm so glad that I live on this side of the cross, where you will never take your Holy Spirit from me.
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I'm not under the old system where I have to be afraid that you're going to abandon me and because of my sin, you're going to now withdraw your presence.
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No, lord, even if I fall, I don't have to fall, but should I fall, you run to me to pick me up.
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You don't abandon me.
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The sin is no longer a problem, because the sin has been taken out of the way and thoroughly punished in the cross of Jesus Christ.
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Hallelujah, hallelujah.
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Every verse read with a new covenant lens.
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If you're ever reading the Bible and you find yourself not elated, not filled with joy, you're probably mixing covenants.
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Here's the classic one and I noticed it's always angry, mean, religious people that love verses like this that one verse from Jeremiah where it says the heart is desperately wicked, deceitful above all things.
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Do you know that verse?
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Of course you look, and then I'll ask everybody to suggest yes and I'll ask do you know the verse that says the old covenant is no longer in place?
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Well, which one is that?
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Again?
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But the one that says you have a wicked and evil heart.
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Everybody knows it.
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It's the first thing you're taught.
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That is true before you were saved.
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That is true under the old covenant.
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They didn't have the new birth.
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They didn't have a new heart, a new spirit put in them.
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They were still waiting on the fulfillment of the promise that he would take out the heart of stone and put in a heart of flesh.
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So they did have a heart, and so did I.
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Before I came to Jesus, that was desperately wicked and deceitful above all things.
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But now those of us who've received Jesus have been given a new heart, a heart now that's submitted to the Lord, a heart that says all I want is what you want from me, lord.
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Now I don't identify with that verse anymore.
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The only way I identify with it is this used to be me, but it's no longer me.
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Do you see what I'm saying here?
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Hallelujah.
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There's other verses.
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Whenever in the Old Testament you see a conditional promise, ask yourself have I met this condition?
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A lot of blessings in the Old Testament are conditional.
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For example, it says the Lord God is a son and a shield.
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The Lord will give grace and glory.
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No good thing will he withhold from the one who walks up brightly.
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Who here can read that?
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And then go.
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Whoa, that's me all by myself.
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I walk up brightly, I cross every T and dot every I.
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Therefore I qualify that God is not going to withhold any good thing from me because I walk up brightly.
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You should read that verse at first and cry and go.
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I am missing out.
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God said he won't withhold anything if I walk up brightly.
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If you think you do walk up brightly and of yourself, you need some law to lead you to grace, because you can't enjoy the beauty of grace until you first experience the terror of the law.
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Today, when I read that verse that he won't withhold any good thing from the one who walks up brightly, I don't read that and go.
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You know what, lord?
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I gave my life for the ministry, pastoring 21 plus years.
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I qualify.
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And then I list off all the sins I stopped doing as a favor to him.
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Surely, lord, you know I quit XYZ, didn't want to, but you kind of owe me now.
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No, I look at that verse and I say I am qualified.
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I have been made perpetually upright in Jesus Alone.
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I don't qualify for any conditional promise, but in Christ all of your promises are yes and amen, hallelujah In Christ.
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I'm upright In Christ, I'm righteous In Christ.
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Do you know when the Father looks at you?
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If you've made Jesus your Lord and Savior, do you know how he sees you?
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Perfect, spotless, sinless.
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He cannot find one iota of sin in you.
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This will raise your confidence.
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This will eliminate the Judaizing voices in your life, the voices that want you to mix the covenants together.
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And what are the warning signs that you're covenant mixing?
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The theme we call this service, this series, the clash of the covenants.
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But the theme here is no mixing of the covenants.
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What was the question I just asked?
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How do you know if you're thanking you?
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How do you know if you're mixing the covenants?
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There's telltale signs.
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It wasn't hard to tell in the first century because they wanted to circumcise all the men.
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That's pretty overt.
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Today it's more subtle.
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Any voice, any teaching usually the Judaizing covenant mixing temptation comes from your own self, your own mind, your yet unrenewed mind.
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The telltale signs, the warning flags, are, of course, if you're experiencing shame, guilt, condemnation, if you find yourself striving, if you find yourself trying to earn God's love, if you feel like you have to perform in a certain way for Him to accept you.
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That's mixing the covenants, anything that seeks to belittle you and take you away from your rightful place as an heir of God seated in heavenly places.
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That's your positional place.
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Seated in heavenly places, in Christ, as a son of God.
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That's a covenant mixing voice that you should not listen to.
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And you know when I say son of God, just using that scripture language, it's all inclusive.
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Like brethren means brothers and sisters.
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Son of God, son of daughter of God, child of God that's who you are.
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Paul just made that case in Galatians.
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You're a child of God with the same rights and privileges as the natural born heir.
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You take that.
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You look at the scriptures, you'll know you're on the right track.
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When you almost feel like you're bordering on heresy, yeah, because what that's saying is that when the Father looks at you, he sees you the same way he sees Jesus.
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That's what Jesus did for you.
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This is why the gospel is good news.
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He elevated you, he took you out of the mud of sin and now he made you equal with Him.
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That's why, in Hebrews 1, it calls Jesus your brother.
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Of course we still worship Jesus.
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Of course we still submit to Him, but, positionally speaking, to God, the Father.
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He sees you in Christ and doesn't see the difference.
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If you really got that, you would be a magnet for answered prayer.
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You'd be a magnet for favor, a magnet for blessings.