1 00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:03,680 and hope and pray that we can give to such a great cause. 2 00:00:04,720 --> 00:00:06,520 As I said in the very beginning of our series, 3 00:00:06,520 --> 00:00:08,720 I'm using a book by Jim Osterhaus, 4 00:00:08,720 --> 00:00:11,520 where he just kind of put a refreshed look 5 00:00:11,520 --> 00:00:14,760 and writing or so, and if you want a copy of the book, 6 00:00:14,760 --> 00:00:17,480 let me know, I bought about two dozen, 7 00:00:17,480 --> 00:00:18,520 because some people have been asking. 8 00:00:18,520 --> 00:00:22,600 It's a short read, but he's looking at the doctrine of grace 9 00:00:22,600 --> 00:00:25,400 that in the reform circles we know is the canons of Dorp, 10 00:00:25,400 --> 00:00:28,200 but he, which uses the acronym TULIP, 11 00:00:28,200 --> 00:00:30,840 he uses the word faith. 12 00:00:30,840 --> 00:00:34,320 Two weeks ago, Fallen Humanity, last week adopted by God. 13 00:00:34,320 --> 00:00:36,640 This week is the intentional atonement. 14 00:00:36,640 --> 00:00:40,360 So I'm gonna start by reading from his book, page 24. 15 00:00:40,360 --> 00:00:43,640 Jesus died as God's appointed sacrifice for sin 16 00:00:43,640 --> 00:00:46,440 nearly 2,000 years ago. 17 00:00:46,440 --> 00:00:48,520 What does that mean for us today? 18 00:00:48,520 --> 00:00:51,660 He accomplished the atonement on the cross. 19 00:00:51,660 --> 00:00:55,000 Atonement means to make satisfaction 20 00:00:55,000 --> 00:00:58,600 or reparation for our wrong, or to make a payment. 21 00:00:58,600 --> 00:01:01,600 Some people divide this word, 22 00:01:01,600 --> 00:01:06,280 some people divide the word, this, as atonement, 23 00:01:06,280 --> 00:01:11,000 intending to say that we become at one with God once again. 24 00:01:11,000 --> 00:01:12,360 That's not quite right. 25 00:01:12,360 --> 00:01:16,020 As it describes, reconciliation with God, not atonement. 26 00:01:16,020 --> 00:01:19,560 Reconciliation with God must follow the act of atonement 27 00:01:19,560 --> 00:01:21,160 or payment for our sins, 28 00:01:21,160 --> 00:01:24,600 and that is exactly what Jesus did on the cross. 29 00:01:24,600 --> 00:01:28,080 We hear these words in John six. 30 00:01:28,080 --> 00:01:30,920 All that the Father gives me will come to me, 31 00:01:30,920 --> 00:01:34,000 and whoever comes to me I will never cast out. 32 00:01:34,000 --> 00:01:36,960 For I have come down from heaven not to do my own will, 33 00:01:36,960 --> 00:01:38,960 but the will of him who set me. 34 00:01:38,960 --> 00:01:40,880 And this is the will of him who set me, 35 00:01:40,880 --> 00:01:44,440 that I should lose nothing of all that he has given me, 36 00:01:44,440 --> 00:01:47,040 but raise it up on the last day. 37 00:01:47,040 --> 00:01:48,480 For this is the will of my Father, 38 00:01:48,480 --> 00:01:52,320 that everyone who looks on the Son and believes in him 39 00:01:52,320 --> 00:01:55,400 shall have eternal life, and I will raise him up 40 00:01:55,400 --> 00:01:57,200 on the last day. 41 00:01:57,200 --> 00:02:00,640 It's important that we balance this issue of atonement, 42 00:02:00,640 --> 00:02:02,480 because like I said in the beginning of service, 43 00:02:02,480 --> 00:02:04,720 people have debated this, right? 44 00:02:04,720 --> 00:02:08,120 The reform circles and what I would say is, 45 00:02:08,120 --> 00:02:11,400 in more of your, I never want to say conservative or liberal 46 00:02:11,400 --> 00:02:12,680 because that's not the right thing, 47 00:02:12,680 --> 00:02:16,480 but if you really dive into the depth of that theology, 48 00:02:16,480 --> 00:02:20,240 of the intentional atonement, is this idea of the elect. 49 00:02:20,240 --> 00:02:22,600 Now we talked about that the last two weeks, 50 00:02:22,600 --> 00:02:25,440 actually talked about it in whose sermon is it anyway, 51 00:02:25,440 --> 00:02:27,520 right, that God is the one doing the choosing, 52 00:02:27,520 --> 00:02:29,200 God is the one doing the elect, 53 00:02:29,200 --> 00:02:31,160 and there are, unfortunately, 54 00:02:31,160 --> 00:02:34,120 people that are going to go to hell. 55 00:02:34,120 --> 00:02:35,840 That we do not believe here at the church 56 00:02:35,840 --> 00:02:38,520 that everybody will be saved, though that's the hope. 57 00:02:38,520 --> 00:02:40,760 We take God's word very seriously, 58 00:02:40,760 --> 00:02:43,800 where it says that some will call on God 59 00:02:43,800 --> 00:02:46,680 and he will say, I never knew you. 60 00:02:46,680 --> 00:02:48,640 Now whether or not they were part of the elect, 61 00:02:48,640 --> 00:02:50,280 I would think they weren't if they didn't, 62 00:02:50,280 --> 00:02:52,960 if they're not gonna be in eternity with God. 63 00:02:52,960 --> 00:02:57,400 This idea of atonement, this idea of God, of Christ dying, 64 00:02:57,400 --> 00:03:00,760 we need to kind of clarify where we go with that. 65 00:03:00,760 --> 00:03:02,320 How do we believe it? 66 00:03:02,320 --> 00:03:05,400 What do we have to kind of balance in this conversation? 67 00:03:05,400 --> 00:03:08,080 Because like we've said about a month ago 68 00:03:08,080 --> 00:03:09,240 in whose sermon is it anyway, 69 00:03:09,240 --> 00:03:10,800 some people look at Christ's atonement 70 00:03:10,800 --> 00:03:13,200 meaning you and I don't have to do anything. 71 00:03:13,200 --> 00:03:15,760 That there's really no reason for mission work, 72 00:03:15,760 --> 00:03:17,720 there's no reason for outreach 73 00:03:17,720 --> 00:03:20,200 because God has already determined on the cross 74 00:03:20,200 --> 00:03:21,880 who is saved and who is not. 75 00:03:21,880 --> 00:03:23,800 There's tension in that doctrine, 76 00:03:23,800 --> 00:03:26,120 there's tension in that theology. 77 00:03:26,120 --> 00:03:30,080 But the thing that I wanna help us understand today 78 00:03:30,080 --> 00:03:34,860 is that there's a relationship between God's sovereignty 79 00:03:34,860 --> 00:03:38,640 and human responsibility when it comes to the atonement. 80 00:03:38,640 --> 00:03:41,920 Real quick, when I say human responsibility, 81 00:03:41,920 --> 00:03:46,040 I am not at all ever saying that we had a role 82 00:03:46,040 --> 00:03:47,800 in Jesus dying on the cross. 83 00:03:47,800 --> 00:03:50,140 The only thing that you bring to your salvation 84 00:03:50,140 --> 00:03:52,280 that I bring to mine is our sin. 85 00:03:53,600 --> 00:03:55,280 And so understand that if you or I 86 00:03:55,280 --> 00:03:56,620 were to have died on the cross, 87 00:03:56,620 --> 00:03:58,680 it would not have meant anything. 88 00:03:58,680 --> 00:04:01,600 And yet there is a human responsibility 89 00:04:01,600 --> 00:04:05,560 because of the atonement in all of our lives. 90 00:04:05,560 --> 00:04:08,760 That if you are claiming Jesus is Lord, 91 00:04:08,760 --> 00:04:10,560 Hope Schleicher today, 92 00:04:10,560 --> 00:04:12,760 even though she did that a couple weeks ago, 93 00:04:12,760 --> 00:04:15,080 but this means something for her. 94 00:04:15,080 --> 00:04:16,680 It means something for me. 95 00:04:16,680 --> 00:04:18,460 It means something for everybody 96 00:04:18,460 --> 00:04:21,240 that claims Jesus as Lord and Savior, 97 00:04:21,240 --> 00:04:24,080 that we have responsibility. 98 00:04:25,120 --> 00:04:26,560 A lot of us think that that, 99 00:04:26,560 --> 00:04:28,600 oh, you're gonna teeter on works righteousness. 100 00:04:28,600 --> 00:04:31,180 No, I'm not because we don't work in righteousness 101 00:04:31,180 --> 00:04:33,360 because our righteousness means nothing. 102 00:04:33,360 --> 00:04:36,440 Okay, so let's throw that slant out 103 00:04:36,440 --> 00:04:38,540 because what we have to understand 104 00:04:38,540 --> 00:04:40,960 is the first argument that we get 105 00:04:40,960 --> 00:04:44,080 is the world versus the world. 106 00:04:44,080 --> 00:04:46,400 Okay, that is, there is a, 107 00:04:46,400 --> 00:04:49,680 the word world gets convoluted. 108 00:04:49,680 --> 00:04:52,000 You can put that, Hannah, you can put that, 109 00:04:52,000 --> 00:04:55,280 the world versus the world up for John 3.16 110 00:04:55,280 --> 00:04:58,320 and we get all of these critiques. 111 00:04:59,440 --> 00:05:03,800 And again, a lot of theologians love to major and minors. 112 00:05:03,800 --> 00:05:04,880 It's one reason why I don't know 113 00:05:04,880 --> 00:05:06,320 if I'll ever be known as one, 114 00:05:06,320 --> 00:05:08,280 and I'm not that smart, so it helps, 115 00:05:08,280 --> 00:05:11,640 is the fact that what does the world mean? 116 00:05:11,640 --> 00:05:15,480 For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only son 117 00:05:15,480 --> 00:05:17,840 that whoever believes in him should not perish 118 00:05:17,840 --> 00:05:19,480 but have eternal life. 119 00:05:19,480 --> 00:05:21,000 We all know that verse, right? 120 00:05:21,000 --> 00:05:24,520 You've seen it at NASCAR races, you've seen it at WWE, 121 00:05:24,520 --> 00:05:26,600 you see it all over the place, right? 122 00:05:26,600 --> 00:05:29,460 I never got the WWE thing, not going there, 123 00:05:29,460 --> 00:05:32,120 but it's the most famous verse in all the Bible, 124 00:05:32,120 --> 00:05:34,280 for the most part, that we see. 125 00:05:34,280 --> 00:05:36,800 But then 17 is just as important 126 00:05:36,800 --> 00:05:39,060 for God to not send his son into the world 127 00:05:39,060 --> 00:05:40,560 to condemn the world, 128 00:05:40,560 --> 00:05:43,920 but in order that the world might be saved through him. 129 00:05:43,920 --> 00:05:46,720 So the word world here means something. 130 00:05:46,720 --> 00:05:48,280 What does it mean? 131 00:05:49,160 --> 00:05:51,440 Traditionally seen as an indication 132 00:05:51,440 --> 00:05:56,440 of a universally extended divine love and Christ sacrifice, 133 00:05:57,160 --> 00:05:59,340 the intentional atonement perspective 134 00:05:59,340 --> 00:06:02,440 offers a different interpretation. 135 00:06:02,440 --> 00:06:05,160 The world in this passage can be understood 136 00:06:05,160 --> 00:06:08,480 not as every individual without exception, 137 00:06:08,480 --> 00:06:12,480 but as a representation of the diversity of God's love 138 00:06:12,480 --> 00:06:16,200 across various peoples and nations. 139 00:06:16,200 --> 00:06:19,400 This view suggests that while the offer of salvation 140 00:06:19,400 --> 00:06:22,580 through Christ is extended universally, 141 00:06:22,580 --> 00:06:25,800 the atonement, the work on the cross, 142 00:06:25,800 --> 00:06:30,720 is actually specifically effective for the elect. 143 00:06:30,720 --> 00:06:32,600 A third of you are like, 144 00:06:32,600 --> 00:06:34,200 what in the world are you talking about? 145 00:06:34,200 --> 00:06:35,740 I get it. 146 00:06:35,740 --> 00:06:38,600 Not having grown up in reform circles, 147 00:06:38,600 --> 00:06:41,800 I did not, I wasn't taught this. 148 00:06:41,800 --> 00:06:44,720 I was taught that the world means everybody. 149 00:06:44,720 --> 00:06:49,480 And I had a great reform theologian and friend 150 00:06:49,480 --> 00:06:52,860 walk me through this early on in my seminary education, 151 00:06:52,860 --> 00:06:55,280 that for a human being, 152 00:06:55,280 --> 00:06:58,760 having the understanding in praxis 153 00:06:58,760 --> 00:07:01,640 of how to love the world, 154 00:07:01,640 --> 00:07:04,040 you can look at the world. 155 00:07:04,040 --> 00:07:06,600 And the reason why you can look at it this way 156 00:07:06,600 --> 00:07:09,560 is because you and I don't get to determine 157 00:07:09,560 --> 00:07:11,280 who's saved and who's not. 158 00:07:11,280 --> 00:07:12,840 Because if you want that job, 159 00:07:12,840 --> 00:07:14,440 then you get to be the judge, 160 00:07:14,440 --> 00:07:15,920 you get to be the jury, 161 00:07:15,920 --> 00:07:17,440 you get to be the defendant, 162 00:07:17,440 --> 00:07:19,320 and you get to be the prosecutor. 163 00:07:19,320 --> 00:07:21,000 Who wants that? 164 00:07:22,720 --> 00:07:23,720 Exactly. 165 00:07:25,320 --> 00:07:28,920 So we are okay in believing 166 00:07:28,920 --> 00:07:30,720 in the way we should live our life 167 00:07:30,720 --> 00:07:34,020 that for God so loved the world, 168 00:07:34,020 --> 00:07:38,640 but understand that though he does, 169 00:07:38,640 --> 00:07:42,960 not all the world is going to be up there. 170 00:07:43,960 --> 00:07:48,960 Not all the world is going to claim Jesus is Lord. 171 00:07:49,080 --> 00:07:50,720 I could sit down with all of you 172 00:07:50,720 --> 00:07:53,680 and you could probably tell me about at least one person 173 00:07:53,680 --> 00:07:57,880 in your either primary or secondary sphere of influence 174 00:07:57,880 --> 00:07:59,280 that don't. 175 00:08:01,080 --> 00:08:03,680 Does that mean God doesn't love that person? 176 00:08:03,680 --> 00:08:05,280 No, of course he does. 177 00:08:06,720 --> 00:08:08,220 But if there is no recognition, 178 00:08:08,220 --> 00:08:09,400 if there is no submission, 179 00:08:09,400 --> 00:08:11,620 if there is no regeneration of the heart, 180 00:08:11,620 --> 00:08:15,160 then they are not a part of the elect. 181 00:08:15,160 --> 00:08:16,640 How can they? 182 00:08:16,640 --> 00:08:18,440 How can they say I'm on the team, 183 00:08:18,440 --> 00:08:20,620 but they've never played the game? 184 00:08:20,620 --> 00:08:21,680 It doesn't work. 185 00:08:21,680 --> 00:08:25,080 That's the human responsibility side. 186 00:08:25,080 --> 00:08:28,960 And again, that doesn't mean we earn our spot on the team, 187 00:08:28,960 --> 00:08:30,480 but understanding that if you're here 188 00:08:30,480 --> 00:08:33,080 and you recognize Jesus is Lord, 189 00:08:33,080 --> 00:08:35,400 you are a part of that. 190 00:08:35,400 --> 00:08:37,880 But what a lot of reformed churches do, 191 00:08:37,880 --> 00:08:41,840 and this is a shot at all of those churches that do it, 192 00:08:41,840 --> 00:08:44,640 is when they start to use it as a positional place. 193 00:08:45,800 --> 00:08:48,320 When all of a sudden I am the elect, 194 00:08:48,320 --> 00:08:50,360 so I'm gonna stand real tall 195 00:08:50,360 --> 00:08:52,720 because the higher I get, the lower you are 196 00:08:52,720 --> 00:08:54,160 if you're not a part of it. 197 00:08:54,160 --> 00:08:57,360 I do not see that at all in the scriptures. 198 00:08:57,360 --> 00:09:00,360 And churches that take that kind of slant, 199 00:09:00,360 --> 00:09:03,400 I do not believe, are putting the right application 200 00:09:03,400 --> 00:09:06,000 on this theology. 201 00:09:06,000 --> 00:09:09,160 That if God is gonna be so intentional in your life 202 00:09:09,160 --> 00:09:11,340 to love you enough to die for you, 203 00:09:11,340 --> 00:09:13,320 then you need to be, and I need to be, 204 00:09:13,320 --> 00:09:17,980 intentional enough to love people like Christ died for them. 205 00:09:20,440 --> 00:09:22,600 Because who are we to say Christ died for me, 206 00:09:22,600 --> 00:09:24,360 na na na na na? 207 00:09:24,360 --> 00:09:26,760 It's terrible, please don't ever do that. 208 00:09:26,760 --> 00:09:31,760 Because that intentionality came with a price. 209 00:09:32,780 --> 00:09:35,700 First John, we hear that he is the propitiation 210 00:09:35,700 --> 00:09:38,340 for our sins and not for ours only, 211 00:09:38,340 --> 00:09:41,220 but for the sins of the whole world. 212 00:09:41,220 --> 00:09:44,820 This is First John, this is John talking to Jews, 213 00:09:44,820 --> 00:09:48,200 reminding them that it's okay for us 214 00:09:48,200 --> 00:09:53,100 to have the world mentality when it comes to our outreach, 215 00:09:53,100 --> 00:09:55,460 when it comes to our evangelism. 216 00:09:55,460 --> 00:09:58,620 Because no evangelist ever starts with going up 217 00:09:58,620 --> 00:10:01,500 to somebody and say, Lisa, you a part of the elect? 218 00:10:01,500 --> 00:10:02,900 She might not have any idea, 219 00:10:02,900 --> 00:10:05,420 and if she doesn't give a good answer, forget you. 220 00:10:05,420 --> 00:10:08,500 No, that's terrible evangelism. 221 00:10:08,500 --> 00:10:13,500 Or if we're gonna try to pre-determine the Holy Spirit 222 00:10:13,660 --> 00:10:15,580 when we're meeting with somebody, 223 00:10:15,580 --> 00:10:17,340 and if I go to the Boersmas in the back 224 00:10:17,340 --> 00:10:19,340 and I have determined in my mind, 225 00:10:19,340 --> 00:10:21,340 yeah, no, I don't think they're a part of the elect, 226 00:10:21,340 --> 00:10:24,120 so I'm not gonna preach Christ to them. 227 00:10:24,120 --> 00:10:25,800 What am I doing? 228 00:10:25,800 --> 00:10:27,540 Who am I to determine that? 229 00:10:28,580 --> 00:10:31,840 I didn't send my son to die for them, 230 00:10:31,840 --> 00:10:33,540 so who am I to determine that? 231 00:10:33,540 --> 00:10:36,980 In our mentality, in the way we walk it out, 232 00:10:36,980 --> 00:10:41,300 having the world mentality is very okay. 233 00:10:41,300 --> 00:10:44,220 Because for some of us, your world is northwest Indiana. 234 00:10:44,220 --> 00:10:46,620 For some of it, your world is Chicagoland area, 235 00:10:46,620 --> 00:10:50,260 some of you it's the Midwest, some of you it's whatever, 236 00:10:50,260 --> 00:10:51,560 could be the whole world. 237 00:10:51,560 --> 00:10:55,440 But understand that there's an intentionality 238 00:10:55,440 --> 00:10:59,440 to why Jesus died. 239 00:10:59,440 --> 00:11:02,160 Romans 9, for he said to Moses, 240 00:11:02,160 --> 00:11:05,160 I will have mercy on whom I have mercy. 241 00:11:05,160 --> 00:11:08,600 I will have compassion on whom I have compassion. 242 00:11:10,800 --> 00:11:13,320 I've been a pastor almost 17 years. 243 00:11:13,320 --> 00:11:14,760 I don't want that job. 244 00:11:16,560 --> 00:11:18,920 I'm called to have mercy and compassion, 245 00:11:18,920 --> 00:11:22,240 just as you're called to have mercy and compassion. 246 00:11:22,240 --> 00:11:24,480 I understand that some people may weigh mine 247 00:11:24,480 --> 00:11:27,560 more than others, I get that comes with the call. 248 00:11:27,560 --> 00:11:29,320 But you're called to have mercy and compassion, 249 00:11:29,320 --> 00:11:30,940 I'm called to have mercy and compassion, 250 00:11:30,940 --> 00:11:32,920 but that's not the mercy and compassion 251 00:11:32,920 --> 00:11:34,780 that people need in their life. 252 00:11:35,680 --> 00:11:38,320 No one has ever said, I'm going to heaven 253 00:11:38,320 --> 00:11:41,700 because Jim Holland owner showed compassion on me. 254 00:11:44,080 --> 00:11:47,780 No one said that I know that I'm going to heaven 255 00:11:47,780 --> 00:11:50,180 because Jim showed me mercy. 256 00:11:52,240 --> 00:11:56,040 But if you take me out and put the right person in, 257 00:11:57,300 --> 00:12:00,020 I have been shown the mercy of Christ 258 00:12:00,020 --> 00:12:02,920 and I recognize him as Lord and Savior. 259 00:12:02,920 --> 00:12:04,800 See how one name changes it? 260 00:12:05,760 --> 00:12:08,640 That is the intentionality of this atonement, 261 00:12:08,640 --> 00:12:09,920 the work on the cross, 262 00:12:09,920 --> 00:12:12,400 because none of us want to be the balance 263 00:12:12,400 --> 00:12:14,980 of judge and jury. 264 00:12:14,980 --> 00:12:17,640 We hear in John, I am the good shepherd, 265 00:12:17,640 --> 00:12:20,640 I know my own and my own know me, 266 00:12:20,640 --> 00:12:23,280 just as the father knows me and I know the father, 267 00:12:23,280 --> 00:12:25,560 I lay my life down for the sheep. 268 00:12:27,520 --> 00:12:29,800 Now I don't want this to sting, 269 00:12:29,800 --> 00:12:32,840 but there's probably a select group I would do that with. 270 00:12:34,700 --> 00:12:36,840 Mainly sitting right over here, 271 00:12:36,840 --> 00:12:39,280 whether or not they spilled water all over Nikki. 272 00:12:40,820 --> 00:12:44,080 That if I knew something was going to happen to them, 273 00:12:44,080 --> 00:12:49,080 I would take their place, would you? 274 00:12:49,720 --> 00:12:52,960 And don't do it for my family, do it for your own. 275 00:12:54,160 --> 00:12:56,720 I said this years ago into, 276 00:12:56,720 --> 00:13:01,080 if there's ever a weak record, greatest hits, if you will, 277 00:13:01,080 --> 00:13:04,180 this one has come back to me now for almost six years. 278 00:13:04,180 --> 00:13:05,500 When I asked the question, 279 00:13:05,500 --> 00:13:09,360 if you knew your best friend was going to get hit by a bus 280 00:13:09,360 --> 00:13:13,480 at 1204 today at the corner of Ridge and Calumet, 281 00:13:13,480 --> 00:13:15,400 and they would be killed instantly, 282 00:13:15,400 --> 00:13:17,840 would you take their place? 283 00:13:17,840 --> 00:13:19,920 I have people to this day that say, 284 00:13:19,920 --> 00:13:21,900 that still keeps me up at night. 285 00:13:24,080 --> 00:13:26,820 And the main reason is because they say I don't know. 286 00:13:26,820 --> 00:13:28,460 Or some of you have gotten so frustrated 287 00:13:28,460 --> 00:13:32,040 by the question and me that you just say no and run away. 288 00:13:32,040 --> 00:13:33,040 That's fine. 289 00:13:35,580 --> 00:13:38,480 But we all have a good shepherd that did that. 290 00:13:39,520 --> 00:13:41,680 He saw the train or the bus, 291 00:13:41,680 --> 00:13:44,320 did I say bus or train for Calumet and Ridge? 292 00:13:44,320 --> 00:13:45,760 Well, soon it can be both. 293 00:13:45,760 --> 00:13:49,160 And understand that he did. 294 00:13:51,600 --> 00:13:55,260 I have three boys that I want them to know my voice. 295 00:13:55,260 --> 00:13:57,620 And yes, there are times they will send Carrie a message 296 00:13:57,620 --> 00:14:00,280 and saying, Dad's voice is scary, I get that. 297 00:14:01,480 --> 00:14:02,760 I've never gotten that from Carrie though, 298 00:14:02,760 --> 00:14:04,400 and that's totally fine. 299 00:14:04,400 --> 00:14:05,840 But understand, they know my voice, 300 00:14:05,840 --> 00:14:07,420 I wanna know their voice. 301 00:14:08,720 --> 00:14:11,640 That when Dad gets loud, right, when Dad gets intense, 302 00:14:11,640 --> 00:14:13,080 what does that usually mean? 303 00:14:14,240 --> 00:14:16,040 That I'm mad, thank you, Joe. 304 00:14:16,040 --> 00:14:17,560 Yeah, could be. 305 00:14:17,560 --> 00:14:21,400 When Dad's quiet and meek, what does that mean? 306 00:14:23,000 --> 00:14:24,480 I'm calm, okay? 307 00:14:24,480 --> 00:14:25,840 I was gonna say that never happens. 308 00:14:25,840 --> 00:14:29,400 But okay, so there's a recognition, 309 00:14:29,400 --> 00:14:33,320 there's only a recognition because I intentionally 310 00:14:33,320 --> 00:14:35,840 love my wife and my boys. 311 00:14:35,840 --> 00:14:40,840 The shepherd is intentional with his sheep. 312 00:14:40,920 --> 00:14:44,960 And if you know the shepherd, you are his sheep, 313 00:14:44,960 --> 00:14:47,280 and you need to understand our role. 314 00:14:47,280 --> 00:14:50,240 The sheep will never be greater than the shepherd, 315 00:14:50,240 --> 00:14:53,120 and the shepherd lays down his life for the sheep. 316 00:14:53,120 --> 00:14:56,500 When the wolves come, the shepherd takes action. 317 00:14:59,640 --> 00:15:01,300 The judge and the jury. 318 00:15:01,300 --> 00:15:05,700 The cross is the symbol of the understanding 319 00:15:07,280 --> 00:15:09,160 that there's an intentional ownership 320 00:15:09,160 --> 00:15:11,420 of your life and my life. 321 00:15:13,180 --> 00:15:17,700 And that means something, because there's a purpose to it. 322 00:15:17,700 --> 00:15:20,220 There's an intentional purpose to God's sovereignty 323 00:15:20,220 --> 00:15:22,540 and the election of the sheep. 324 00:15:22,540 --> 00:15:25,040 Second Peter says, the Lord is not slow 325 00:15:25,040 --> 00:15:28,260 to fulfill his promises, as some count slowness, 326 00:15:28,260 --> 00:15:30,420 but is patient towards you, 327 00:15:30,420 --> 00:15:32,500 not wishing that any should perish, 328 00:15:32,500 --> 00:15:35,440 but that all should reach repentance. 329 00:15:36,420 --> 00:15:38,100 There's hope in that. 330 00:15:39,620 --> 00:15:40,780 Remember 10 minutes ago when I said, 331 00:15:40,780 --> 00:15:43,020 I bet you could think of one person in your primary 332 00:15:43,020 --> 00:15:45,460 or secondary sphere of influence that doesn't know Jesus, 333 00:15:45,460 --> 00:15:48,300 as Lord and Savior? 334 00:15:48,300 --> 00:15:50,140 Let me ask, have you written him off? 335 00:15:51,660 --> 00:15:54,140 If you have, you're a terrible evangelist, 336 00:15:54,140 --> 00:15:56,440 and you're not doing the Christian life right. 337 00:15:56,440 --> 00:16:01,360 But we are patient, as he is patient with us, 338 00:16:01,360 --> 00:16:03,960 because here's the thing, we get it. 339 00:16:04,800 --> 00:16:07,520 You're here, you acknowledge, you get it, 340 00:16:07,520 --> 00:16:12,200 you recognize Jesus as Lord, but you still sin. 341 00:16:12,200 --> 00:16:13,760 I still sin. 342 00:16:13,760 --> 00:16:16,900 We still look and go, thank you Jesus, props to you, 343 00:16:16,900 --> 00:16:20,060 I got salvation, but I'm still gonna do this. 344 00:16:21,120 --> 00:16:22,920 I'm still gonna have idols. 345 00:16:22,920 --> 00:16:25,720 I'm still gonna murder people in my mind. 346 00:16:25,720 --> 00:16:27,560 Sorry I said it that way, that's super intense, 347 00:16:27,560 --> 00:16:29,240 I apologize. 348 00:16:29,240 --> 00:16:30,320 It wouldn't make a whole bunch of sense, 349 00:16:30,320 --> 00:16:33,040 I'm like, murder in my mind, sorry. 350 00:16:33,040 --> 00:16:36,520 And so understand that we recognize 351 00:16:36,520 --> 00:16:41,520 the intentionality shown to us is a process. 352 00:16:42,640 --> 00:16:46,520 I love that today we had hope stand here 353 00:16:46,520 --> 00:16:50,560 and profess that faith and get baptized. 354 00:16:52,000 --> 00:16:54,640 But hope, does that mean you're gonna live a perfect life? 355 00:16:54,640 --> 00:16:56,960 Does that mean you're still gonna fall? 356 00:16:56,960 --> 00:16:58,680 Right, and you're gonna sin and you're gonna get 357 00:16:58,680 --> 00:17:00,640 disciplined and all of those kind of things? 358 00:17:00,640 --> 00:17:01,520 Exactly. 359 00:17:02,560 --> 00:17:05,240 But there's an intentional love that she 360 00:17:05,240 --> 00:17:07,840 and the Holy Spirit has been working on 361 00:17:07,840 --> 00:17:11,520 for the past couple weeks and months, maybe even years. 362 00:17:12,840 --> 00:17:15,000 And my hope and my prayers you all have had. 363 00:17:15,000 --> 00:17:18,460 And if not, that maybe you'll have starting today. 364 00:17:18,460 --> 00:17:20,840 But he's patient towards us. 365 00:17:20,840 --> 00:17:22,320 And why is he patient? 366 00:17:22,320 --> 00:17:25,880 Because he knows your end game and he knows our end game. 367 00:17:25,880 --> 00:17:29,400 He knows my end game, he knows Munster Church's end game. 368 00:17:29,400 --> 00:17:32,640 That without the intentional atonement, we sin. 369 00:17:32,640 --> 00:17:34,320 And what are the wages of sin? 370 00:17:34,320 --> 00:17:37,920 The wages of sin is death. 371 00:17:41,320 --> 00:17:43,720 So therefore what do we do about it? 372 00:17:43,720 --> 00:17:45,760 If the wages of sin is death, 373 00:17:46,960 --> 00:17:48,360 then we need to do something. 374 00:17:48,360 --> 00:17:50,520 It's called the gospel. 375 00:17:50,520 --> 00:17:52,400 It's not only the gospel at work in our life, 376 00:17:52,400 --> 00:17:54,400 it's the gospel called to our life 377 00:17:54,400 --> 00:17:56,440 and then the call of the gospel. 378 00:17:56,440 --> 00:18:00,440 Revelations 22 says the spirit and the bride 379 00:18:01,560 --> 00:18:05,560 say come and let the one who hears say come 380 00:18:05,560 --> 00:18:07,840 and let the one who is thirsty come. 381 00:18:07,840 --> 00:18:10,840 Let the one who desires to take the water of life 382 00:18:10,840 --> 00:18:12,560 without price. 383 00:18:13,840 --> 00:18:16,760 The intentional atonement does something 384 00:18:16,760 --> 00:18:18,480 different. 385 00:18:18,480 --> 00:18:21,440 The intentional atonement for your life and my life 386 00:18:21,440 --> 00:18:24,560 is a process of the Lord calling us, 387 00:18:24,560 --> 00:18:27,400 revealing to us salvation and saying 388 00:18:27,400 --> 00:18:30,280 now go reveal it to other people. 389 00:18:31,720 --> 00:18:34,560 Now that doesn't mean we drive by judge. 390 00:18:34,560 --> 00:18:36,440 Hey, you're a sinner. 391 00:18:36,440 --> 00:18:38,200 Right, we don't ring our bell. 392 00:18:38,200 --> 00:18:40,440 The end is nigh unless you repent. 393 00:18:41,320 --> 00:18:43,160 We laugh but people do that. 394 00:18:43,160 --> 00:18:45,080 I think it's terrible evangelism. 395 00:18:45,080 --> 00:18:47,680 Right, it's also, I remember growing up, 396 00:18:47,680 --> 00:18:49,280 I'm not gonna say the name or the church 397 00:18:49,280 --> 00:18:52,120 because it still exists, that I was brought to 398 00:18:52,120 --> 00:18:55,360 where it was kind of a scare tactic to salvation 399 00:18:55,360 --> 00:18:56,800 that instead of a haunted house, 400 00:18:56,800 --> 00:18:59,280 it was called a hell house and you went through 401 00:18:59,280 --> 00:19:02,360 and they depicted their understanding of what hell was. 402 00:19:02,360 --> 00:19:04,720 I didn't sleep for two months 403 00:19:05,920 --> 00:19:07,760 because they thought that was the best way 404 00:19:07,760 --> 00:19:10,000 to be intentional with people is to scare 405 00:19:10,000 --> 00:19:11,800 the living whatever out of them 406 00:19:11,800 --> 00:19:13,840 and then all of a sudden you go to the cemetery 407 00:19:13,840 --> 00:19:16,240 and then all of a sudden you go to this calm room 408 00:19:16,240 --> 00:19:19,640 where I think it was Enya playing on the speakers 409 00:19:19,640 --> 00:19:22,120 and they're like if you don't want that, 410 00:19:22,120 --> 00:19:24,040 come and believe in Jesus. 411 00:19:25,120 --> 00:19:27,520 Well of course, I don't want that. 412 00:19:27,520 --> 00:19:29,120 I think they killed a guy. 413 00:19:29,120 --> 00:19:31,800 I don't really want that to happen to me 414 00:19:31,800 --> 00:19:33,080 so I'll believe. 415 00:19:35,720 --> 00:19:37,840 Then I go to the elders. 416 00:19:37,840 --> 00:19:39,640 Why do you wanna believe in Jesus Christ? 417 00:19:39,640 --> 00:19:44,640 Because I don't wanna die like that guy did in that room. 418 00:19:44,680 --> 00:19:45,520 What? 419 00:19:46,640 --> 00:19:49,600 And I had a conversation with my parents. 420 00:19:49,600 --> 00:19:50,440 No, they didn't. 421 00:19:50,440 --> 00:19:52,880 But understand that that's a terrible way 422 00:19:52,880 --> 00:19:54,880 of being intentional with God's love. 423 00:19:54,880 --> 00:19:57,640 Now that doesn't mean there's not truth and law. 424 00:19:57,640 --> 00:19:59,480 There is definitely truth and law. 425 00:19:59,480 --> 00:20:01,040 There are wrongs. 426 00:20:01,040 --> 00:20:02,200 There are sins. 427 00:20:02,200 --> 00:20:03,520 There are commandments. 428 00:20:03,520 --> 00:20:07,520 There are things that we should not do as believers. 429 00:20:07,520 --> 00:20:12,520 But as I land this plane from a very full day, 430 00:20:12,560 --> 00:20:15,520 there's still something that needs to happen 431 00:20:15,520 --> 00:20:17,320 and the call of the gospel, 432 00:20:17,320 --> 00:20:21,200 we actually find it in one of our confessions. 433 00:20:21,200 --> 00:20:25,320 To me, and I said this to a group of URC seminarians 434 00:20:25,320 --> 00:20:27,040 at Mid-America this past week, 435 00:20:27,040 --> 00:20:28,600 I actually got to work out the whole 436 00:20:28,600 --> 00:20:30,600 I've decided to follow Jesus joke Friday 437 00:20:30,600 --> 00:20:32,200 and they actually laughed which is great 438 00:20:32,200 --> 00:20:33,600 but they won't invite me back. 439 00:20:33,600 --> 00:20:35,760 Won't invite me back. 440 00:20:35,760 --> 00:20:39,880 Is the fact that the Belgian Confession to me 441 00:20:39,880 --> 00:20:42,280 is one of the missional documents that we have 442 00:20:42,280 --> 00:20:44,800 to help us understand a certain thing. 443 00:20:45,760 --> 00:20:47,800 Because the last article talks about 444 00:20:47,800 --> 00:20:50,120 until the elect is complete, 445 00:20:50,120 --> 00:20:52,360 Article 37, the last judgment. 446 00:20:53,200 --> 00:20:57,480 Finally we believe, according to God's word, 447 00:20:57,480 --> 00:21:01,320 that when the time appointed by the Lord is come, 448 00:21:01,320 --> 00:21:04,760 which is unknown to all creatures, 449 00:21:04,760 --> 00:21:09,760 and the number of the elect is complete, 450 00:21:09,800 --> 00:21:14,200 our Lord Jesus Christ will come from heaven. 451 00:21:20,440 --> 00:21:21,280 It's right there. 452 00:21:23,280 --> 00:21:26,040 When that time appointed by the Lord is come, 453 00:21:26,040 --> 00:21:28,400 which is unknown to all creatures, 454 00:21:28,400 --> 00:21:31,520 and the number of the elect is complete. 455 00:21:35,200 --> 00:21:37,680 Friends, we're off the hook in one sense. 456 00:21:37,680 --> 00:21:40,040 We don't need to determine the number. 457 00:21:41,240 --> 00:21:43,520 We just need to point to Jesus. 458 00:21:44,760 --> 00:21:46,720 We just need to talk about His love 459 00:21:46,720 --> 00:21:48,720 intentional to the world. 460 00:21:50,720 --> 00:21:53,120 You don't need to figure it out. 461 00:21:53,120 --> 00:21:55,680 You don't need to dissect Christ's atoning work 462 00:21:55,680 --> 00:21:57,280 on the cross. 463 00:21:57,280 --> 00:21:59,600 It can be this simple. 464 00:21:59,600 --> 00:22:00,800 He died for you. 465 00:22:01,680 --> 00:22:03,440 He loves you. 466 00:22:03,440 --> 00:22:05,640 He wants you to love Him. 467 00:22:05,640 --> 00:22:07,880 He wants you to love others. 468 00:22:07,880 --> 00:22:11,360 Until the elect is complete. 469 00:22:13,200 --> 00:22:17,040 The death was for, He's the one that did it, 470 00:22:17,040 --> 00:22:20,720 intentionally, He rose intentionally. 471 00:22:20,720 --> 00:22:21,920 There goes my time. 472 00:22:21,920 --> 00:22:26,280 But understand, there's still work.