WEBVTT 00:00:00.000 --> 00:00:03.419 Faith is more than a feeling or a theory. It's 00:00:03.419 --> 00:00:06.059 a decision that moves your feet, opens your hands, 00:00:06.219 --> 00:00:09.019 and activates God's promises. In our brand new 00:00:09.019 --> 00:00:11.820 book, Faith Act, Jeffrey and I take you on a 00:00:11.820 --> 00:00:13.839 powerful journey through some of Scripture's 00:00:13.839 --> 00:00:16.800 most transforming moments, where ordinary people 00:00:16.800 --> 00:00:20.699 dared to obey and saw heaven move on their behalf. 00:00:21.039 --> 00:00:24.140 Order your copy of Faith Act today on Amazon. 00:00:26.109 --> 00:00:28.649 Today we're starting a brand new series. Some 00:00:28.649 --> 00:00:33.090 of you saw the post online, but the title of 00:00:33.090 --> 00:00:39.850 the series is, I Have the Receipt. I Have the 00:00:39.850 --> 00:00:46.509 Receipt. Right. Well, if you got a receipt, that 00:00:46.509 --> 00:00:48.810 means that you've paid for it, or it has been 00:00:48.810 --> 00:00:53.570 paid for. So, does anybody have a, does anyone 00:00:53.570 --> 00:00:56.520 have a BJ's membership? or a Costco membership. 00:00:57.759 --> 00:01:00.340 If you've never been to BJ's or Costco, you might 00:01:00.340 --> 00:01:03.619 not know what I'm about to say. You might not 00:01:03.619 --> 00:01:06.040 have experienced this, but when you go to those 00:01:06.040 --> 00:01:09.620 wholesale clubs, and especially if you do self 00:01:09.620 --> 00:01:11.719 -checkout, but even if you go through the register 00:01:11.719 --> 00:01:14.900 and everything, you have to hold on to your receipt. 00:01:16.019 --> 00:01:17.819 Look at the person beside you and say, hold on 00:01:17.819 --> 00:01:20.920 to your receipt. The reason why you have to hold 00:01:20.920 --> 00:01:23.620 on to the receipt is because after you finish, 00:01:24.299 --> 00:01:27.579 checking out and you go to the door to leave 00:01:27.579 --> 00:01:32.120 the store there's someone standing there and 00:01:32.120 --> 00:01:35.920 they want your receipt and they take your receipt 00:01:35.920 --> 00:01:39.939 i don't know about everywhere i mean you know 00:01:39.939 --> 00:01:42.099 at costco they don't always but down here at 00:01:42.099 --> 00:01:44.420 this bj's in davenport they're going to look 00:01:44.420 --> 00:01:48.219 at every single item in your shopping cart they're 00:01:48.219 --> 00:01:53.359 going to count them and like this was from Friday, 00:01:53.359 --> 00:01:56.819 we bought 10 items. So the guy at the door had 00:01:56.819 --> 00:01:59.519 to see all 10 items, and he looked to make sure 00:01:59.519 --> 00:02:02.260 it was the correct receipt, and then he signed 00:02:02.260 --> 00:02:05.260 off on it. He put a little scribble on there. 00:02:05.659 --> 00:02:09.479 That can't be his name. Maybe an initial or something. 00:02:10.580 --> 00:02:12.939 But here's the deal. You can't get out of the 00:02:12.939 --> 00:02:16.300 store with a buggy with items in it unless you 00:02:16.300 --> 00:02:20.340 have your receipt. I mean, you can leave, but 00:02:20.340 --> 00:02:23.979 the buggy can't leave. Right? Because they're 00:02:23.979 --> 00:02:26.020 going to check and make sure that you paid for 00:02:26.020 --> 00:02:30.960 it. But when you have the receipt, that means 00:02:30.960 --> 00:02:34.800 it's yours. Even if you get questioned, it's 00:02:34.800 --> 00:02:36.780 yours. Has anyone ever walked out of a store 00:02:36.780 --> 00:02:40.680 and had a little alarm went off? Because the 00:02:40.680 --> 00:02:42.919 cashier forgot to take off the little thing to 00:02:42.919 --> 00:02:45.479 make the alarm go off. And you better have your 00:02:45.479 --> 00:02:48.439 receipt if you want to leave with that item. 00:02:48.979 --> 00:02:53.330 Right? You better have it. to make sure that 00:02:53.330 --> 00:02:55.990 it's been purchased, to make sure that it's been 00:02:55.990 --> 00:03:00.150 paid for. Everybody say, I have the receipt. 00:03:01.150 --> 00:03:06.889 I have the receipt. Now this series will help 00:03:06.889 --> 00:03:11.669 each one of us. It'll help us to be more established. 00:03:11.669 --> 00:03:16.110 Hopefully we are established to a degree, but 00:03:16.110 --> 00:03:18.969 I believe this series will help us become more 00:03:18.969 --> 00:03:22.419 established. And one of the most central truths 00:03:22.419 --> 00:03:29.680 of the Christian faith. And that's this. What 00:03:29.680 --> 00:03:33.180 was accomplished through the blood of Jesus? 00:03:34.879 --> 00:03:39.639 What is provided through the blood of Jesus? 00:03:41.740 --> 00:03:47.400 So, what did Jesus purchase? Not with a credit 00:03:47.400 --> 00:03:49.580 card, but with his blood. What did he purchase 00:03:49.580 --> 00:03:55.340 to accomplish something for you and for me, to 00:03:55.340 --> 00:03:57.939 provide something for you and for me? What did 00:03:57.939 --> 00:04:02.939 he purchase with his blood? Here's the deal. 00:04:03.819 --> 00:04:07.080 I walked out of BJ's and I have the receipt. 00:04:08.300 --> 00:04:12.180 Well, Jesus walked out of the empty tomb and 00:04:12.180 --> 00:04:17.110 he had the receipt. But he didn't hang on to 00:04:17.110 --> 00:04:18.930 the receipt because he's not going to need it 00:04:18.930 --> 00:04:23.889 where he was going. He gave it to us. So we have 00:04:23.889 --> 00:04:30.550 the receipt. God's Word contains what we could 00:04:30.550 --> 00:04:35.250 call a detailed receipt of what Jesus purchased 00:04:35.250 --> 00:04:44.350 with his blood. Now, the blood of Jesus. is not 00:04:44.350 --> 00:04:46.730 just an illustration. You know, sometimes in 00:04:46.730 --> 00:04:51.629 church we've got illustrations. Like our stained 00:04:51.629 --> 00:04:54.449 glass window last week was an illustration, the 00:04:54.449 --> 00:04:57.490 light coming through it was an illustration of 00:04:57.490 --> 00:05:01.649 the glory of God. Right? But the blood is not 00:05:01.649 --> 00:05:05.189 just an illustration. It's not just symbolic 00:05:05.189 --> 00:05:10.910 religious verbiage. The blood is a covenant reality. 00:05:12.860 --> 00:05:17.360 Jesus' blood is full of spiritual power and what 00:05:17.360 --> 00:05:21.800 he accomplished for us. Now, this is probably 00:05:21.800 --> 00:05:25.959 the verse I've known the longest about the blood 00:05:25.959 --> 00:05:29.980 of Jesus. Maybe it is for you too. But as an 00:05:29.980 --> 00:05:34.060 evangelist on the road for 20 years, I quoted 00:05:34.060 --> 00:05:38.399 this almost every time I preached. Without the 00:05:38.399 --> 00:05:44.250 shedding of blood, There is no forgiveness. So 00:05:44.250 --> 00:05:48.910 the blood is not just an illustration. And some 00:05:48.910 --> 00:05:51.509 people are like, are we really going to talk 00:05:51.509 --> 00:05:52.930 about blood? Yeah, we're going to talk about 00:05:52.930 --> 00:05:56.970 blood for eight weeks. So listen, because it's 00:05:56.970 --> 00:06:03.089 more than forgiveness. But without the shedding 00:06:03.089 --> 00:06:05.730 of Jesus' blood on the cross, you and I would 00:06:05.730 --> 00:06:12.689 be hopelessly and helplessly lost. He died for 00:06:12.689 --> 00:06:17.889 us. He died in our place on the cross. He shed 00:06:17.889 --> 00:06:21.670 his blood for us. And the Bible says he took 00:06:21.670 --> 00:06:27.069 that blood. He took that blood into the holy 00:06:27.069 --> 00:06:29.370 of holies, not the earthly one, but the heavenly 00:06:29.370 --> 00:06:34.209 one. And put it on the mercy seat in heaven. 00:06:37.110 --> 00:06:39.949 That ought to make you smile at least. Because 00:06:39.949 --> 00:06:45.240 he did it for you. Did it for you. Without him 00:06:45.240 --> 00:06:48.079 shedding his blood, there's no possible way that 00:06:48.079 --> 00:06:53.500 we could be forgiven. But salvation is more than 00:06:53.500 --> 00:06:58.879 forgiveness. Sometimes people think that salvation 00:06:58.879 --> 00:07:03.660 is it. Forgiveness is it. If it was, that'd be 00:07:03.660 --> 00:07:11.269 good, right? That'd be good. But... Just like 00:07:11.269 --> 00:07:13.350 in the last series, when Jeffrey and I started 00:07:13.350 --> 00:07:16.850 studying to prepare this series, I mean, we're 00:07:16.850 --> 00:07:20.310 just finding verses all over the place that we've 00:07:20.310 --> 00:07:22.370 probably read before, but they never really stood 00:07:22.370 --> 00:07:25.529 out before. Just like we saw verses that contained 00:07:25.529 --> 00:07:27.709 glory, and we would just read through that like 00:07:27.709 --> 00:07:30.410 it was a filler word, like the word glory was 00:07:30.410 --> 00:07:38.600 just a filler word. But it's not. It's not. So 00:07:38.600 --> 00:07:42.259 salvation is more than forgiveness. Today we're 00:07:42.259 --> 00:07:46.100 going to talk about the blood of Jesus being 00:07:46.100 --> 00:07:51.060 a purchase. Not just purchasing our forgiveness, 00:07:51.220 --> 00:07:58.399 but purchasing us. Hello? The cross was not merely 00:07:58.399 --> 00:08:01.540 suffering. It was a transaction. There's a transaction 00:08:01.540 --> 00:08:05.660 that took place. The blood was and is the price 00:08:05.660 --> 00:08:10.329 of redemption. Ownership changed hands because 00:08:10.329 --> 00:08:17.350 of the blood. The blood of Jesus is the purchase 00:08:17.350 --> 00:08:20.569 price that redeemed believers out of darkness. 00:08:21.509 --> 00:08:24.930 See, before Christ, we were children of darkness. 00:08:28.470 --> 00:08:31.889 So the blood of Jesus redeemed us, purchased 00:08:31.889 --> 00:08:38.259 us out of darkness. What else did it do? It transformed 00:08:38.259 --> 00:08:44.799 us into the kingdom of God. And it established 00:08:44.799 --> 00:08:55.080 our identity as God's very own possession. It's 00:08:55.080 --> 00:09:00.559 more than forgiveness. It's a purchase. 1 Corinthians 00:09:00.559 --> 00:09:07.220 6, 19 and 20 says this, Don't you realize? This 00:09:07.220 --> 00:09:09.519 is for those who are in Christ. Don't you realize 00:09:09.519 --> 00:09:13.779 that your body is the temple of the Holy Spirit? 00:09:13.899 --> 00:09:16.460 We use this verse in our series about the glory 00:09:16.460 --> 00:09:19.659 because, you know, the glory of God moved out 00:09:19.659 --> 00:09:24.620 of the Holy of Holies and moved into us. We display 00:09:24.620 --> 00:09:28.840 the glory of God. The glory of God is displayed 00:09:28.840 --> 00:09:34.440 among His people because He no longer is in a 00:09:34.440 --> 00:09:40.539 temple. Made by men's hands. You are the temple. 00:09:40.980 --> 00:09:43.340 Don't you realize that your body is a temple 00:09:43.340 --> 00:09:48.080 of the Holy Spirit who lives in you and was given 00:09:48.080 --> 00:09:53.960 to you by God. Now listen, you do not belong 00:09:53.960 --> 00:09:59.779 to yourself. Why don't you belong to yourself 00:09:59.779 --> 00:10:01.919 anymore? When you come to Christ, you don't belong 00:10:01.919 --> 00:10:10.080 to yourself. I mean, how long after I came to 00:10:10.080 --> 00:10:12.980 Christ was it until I realized that I didn't 00:10:12.980 --> 00:10:16.639 belong to myself anymore? Can anybody witness 00:10:16.639 --> 00:10:20.320 to that? I mean, you come to Christ and it's 00:10:20.320 --> 00:10:26.519 like, I still think I belong to myself. You might 00:10:26.519 --> 00:10:28.600 be sitting in this room today and you might be 00:10:28.600 --> 00:10:30.480 living your life like you belong to yourself. 00:10:32.480 --> 00:10:35.289 Not during church time, but... Monday through 00:10:35.289 --> 00:10:38.809 Friday or Saturday or whatever. We can still 00:10:38.809 --> 00:10:43.590 live our lives like we belong to ourselves. Y 00:10:43.590 --> 00:10:48.490 'all quit smiling when I said that. But we do 00:10:48.490 --> 00:10:53.629 not belong to ourselves. Why? Because God bought 00:10:53.629 --> 00:11:02.940 us with a very high price. God bought you with 00:11:02.940 --> 00:11:07.039 a high price. So you must honor God with your 00:11:07.039 --> 00:11:13.059 body, with your life. You honor God. That's just, 00:11:13.159 --> 00:11:19.940 that's the response, right? If I'm his, shouldn't 00:11:19.940 --> 00:11:25.139 I honor him with my life? If I acknowledge that 00:11:25.139 --> 00:11:37.610 I'm his? I should be honoring him. Look at the 00:11:37.610 --> 00:11:38.809 person beside you and say, we're just getting 00:11:38.809 --> 00:11:45.070 started. See, this passage is not based on emotional 00:11:45.070 --> 00:11:48.730 spirituality. It's based on a covenant fact. 00:11:48.990 --> 00:11:55.029 The believer belongs to God by purchase. So my 00:11:55.029 --> 00:12:00.220 receipt says, I've been bought. I've got that 00:12:00.220 --> 00:12:09.159 receipt. I've been bought. I belong to God. The 00:12:09.159 --> 00:12:12.539 cross was a purchase. Everybody say that with 00:12:12.539 --> 00:12:20.580 me. The cross was a purchase. 1 Peter 1 .18 says 00:12:20.580 --> 00:12:28.340 this. For you know that God paid a ransom. Get 00:12:28.340 --> 00:12:33.340 this. Let this sink in. You know, we should know 00:12:33.340 --> 00:12:38.860 that God paid a ransom to save us from the empty 00:12:38.860 --> 00:12:48.440 life we inherited from our ancestors. Has that 00:12:48.440 --> 00:12:53.840 verse ever spoke to you like that before? You 00:12:53.840 --> 00:12:57.039 know that God paid a ransom. And he paid a ransom 00:12:57.039 --> 00:12:59.879 to save you from the empty life you inherited 00:12:59.879 --> 00:13:03.159 from your ancestors. Because we were all born 00:13:03.159 --> 00:13:10.620 in sin. We were all born children of this dark 00:13:10.620 --> 00:13:17.779 world. Right? And when God bought you, it was 00:13:17.779 --> 00:13:21.419 not that he just said, oh, I'll just speak and 00:13:21.419 --> 00:13:26.019 create some gold and some silver. Since he spoke 00:13:26.019 --> 00:13:31.379 it all into existence anyway. He didn't say, 00:13:31.419 --> 00:13:32.960 well, I'll just make some more gold and silver 00:13:32.960 --> 00:13:35.879 and that'll be the price that I'll pay for all 00:13:35.879 --> 00:13:41.480 these people. Your redemption could not be paid 00:13:41.480 --> 00:13:49.860 for with silver or gold. It was not paid with 00:13:49.860 --> 00:13:57.970 mere gold, just mere gold. Or silver. Because 00:13:57.970 --> 00:14:01.009 they all lose their value. They've been gaining 00:14:01.009 --> 00:14:02.590 here recently, but if you would have bought earlier 00:14:02.590 --> 00:14:05.990 this week, you would have lost your shirt. Because 00:14:05.990 --> 00:14:12.529 it plummeted back down, right? What were you 00:14:12.529 --> 00:14:16.909 purchased with? It was the precious blood of 00:14:16.909 --> 00:14:29.639 Christ. The sinless, spotless Lamb of God. That's 00:14:29.639 --> 00:14:34.419 what you were bought with. Not just any old blood. 00:14:35.960 --> 00:14:41.779 Sinless, spotless blood. The blood of God himself. 00:14:42.980 --> 00:14:50.759 The blood of Christ shed for you. Paid a ransom. 00:14:51.460 --> 00:14:55.860 There's a Greek word, lutroo. I'll just say it 00:14:55.860 --> 00:14:57.340 like that. You can say it however you want to. 00:14:58.509 --> 00:15:02.750 Here's what it means to redeem, to ransom, or 00:15:02.750 --> 00:15:09.909 to liberate, to set free. To redeem, to ransom, 00:15:10.009 --> 00:15:15.909 to liberate. You can't carry this illustration 00:15:15.909 --> 00:15:19.970 to the extreme, but one way you can look at it 00:15:19.970 --> 00:15:23.149 is if you had an item and you needed some money 00:15:23.149 --> 00:15:26.090 and you went to the pawn shop. Has anybody ever 00:15:26.090 --> 00:15:30.210 been to a pawn shop before? You've been to the 00:15:30.210 --> 00:15:34.710 pawn shop to say, okay, you want to sell it or 00:15:34.710 --> 00:15:38.250 you want to pawn it? I hope to get it back, so 00:15:38.250 --> 00:15:42.870 just give me $100 and then I'll come get my $140 00:15:42.870 --> 00:15:47.669 and buy it back next week or whatever. But they 00:15:47.669 --> 00:15:54.110 give you a redemption ticket. They hold on to 00:15:54.110 --> 00:15:57.090 it until you come back and the agreement. of 00:15:57.090 --> 00:15:59.950 the redemption. Like I said, the illustration 00:15:59.950 --> 00:16:03.169 definitely doesn't carry all the way through, 00:16:03.269 --> 00:16:08.830 right? But it's a purchase. But it's not just 00:16:08.830 --> 00:16:11.649 a purchase of something that should not belong 00:16:11.649 --> 00:16:15.409 to you. It's a purchase to bring it back, to 00:16:15.409 --> 00:16:18.149 liberate it, and to bring it back to yourself. 00:16:18.470 --> 00:16:26.940 God created us. Hello? God created us. And in 00:16:26.940 --> 00:16:29.539 the Garden of Eden, we handed over authority 00:16:29.539 --> 00:16:33.940 to the enemy. God had given us authority in this 00:16:33.940 --> 00:16:36.960 world. We handed it over to the enemy. It's not 00:16:36.960 --> 00:16:40.299 like God pawned us off. We pawned ourselves off. 00:16:44.659 --> 00:16:49.779 And redemption is God saying, I made you. You're 00:16:49.779 --> 00:16:53.480 mine. I know now you're a child of darkness. 00:16:54.500 --> 00:16:59.220 under the control of the enemy, but I'm going 00:16:59.220 --> 00:17:01.320 to die on the cross and purchase you back with 00:17:01.320 --> 00:17:11.220 my blood. Here's where it helps. Redeemed to 00:17:11.220 --> 00:17:18.259 release, to set free, by paying the full ransom, 00:17:18.460 --> 00:17:24.519 to release on receipt, Everybody say, I've got 00:17:24.519 --> 00:17:28.539 that receipt. To release on receipt of ransom. 00:17:28.859 --> 00:17:33.920 To restore something back into the possession 00:17:33.920 --> 00:17:42.220 of its rightful owner. Rescuing from the power 00:17:42.220 --> 00:17:47.099 and possession of an alien possessor. I really 00:17:47.099 --> 00:17:53.460 like that one. Rescuing from the power. and the 00:17:53.460 --> 00:17:57.539 possession of somebody who shouldn't be your 00:17:57.539 --> 00:18:03.220 owner anyway. So redeemed carries the meaning 00:18:03.220 --> 00:18:06.299 of being purchased or bought back with a payment. 00:18:07.420 --> 00:18:10.299 So Christianity, unlike all the other religions 00:18:10.299 --> 00:18:12.559 of the world, is not just kind of a religious 00:18:12.559 --> 00:18:20.880 self -improvement with good teachings. I mean, 00:18:20.940 --> 00:18:23.720 come on, let's be honest. All religions have 00:18:23.720 --> 00:18:26.539 some good teachings trying to help people morally, 00:18:26.680 --> 00:18:32.839 right? All of them do, to some extent. But that's 00:18:32.839 --> 00:18:36.940 not what Christianity is. Christianity is not 00:18:36.940 --> 00:18:40.259 self -improvement, even though there's been a 00:18:40.259 --> 00:18:43.079 change in my life, hopefully a change in your 00:18:43.079 --> 00:18:45.019 life, but that's not the foundation of what it's 00:18:45.019 --> 00:18:47.759 all about. It's about deliverance through a price. 00:18:47.799 --> 00:18:53.779 It's about redemption. I'm about to preach myself 00:18:53.779 --> 00:18:57.740 happy. We're not purchased with silver or gold, 00:18:57.880 --> 00:19:02.960 but with the precious blood of Christ. We weren't 00:19:02.960 --> 00:19:13.039 just helped. We were purchased. Let that sink 00:19:13.039 --> 00:19:19.839 in. We're not just helped. We're purchased. So 00:19:19.839 --> 00:19:25.309 we belong to somebody. And they had a receipt 00:19:25.309 --> 00:19:30.430 and gave it to us. The blood is heaven's proof 00:19:30.430 --> 00:19:36.730 and the basis of our standing, the basis of a 00:19:36.730 --> 00:19:40.349 believer's standing in Christ. Faith rests on 00:19:40.349 --> 00:19:45.250 the covenant act of Christ, not on our personal 00:19:45.250 --> 00:19:54.160 performance. And listen, that's the way it began. 00:19:55.920 --> 00:20:01.660 And that's the way it continues. Jesus didn't 00:20:01.660 --> 00:20:03.839 buy you with his blood so that you would be back 00:20:03.839 --> 00:20:10.200 under the bondage of a rule system. That if you 00:20:10.200 --> 00:20:12.799 broke the rules or didn't do everything exactly 00:20:12.799 --> 00:20:16.059 right, then you're good for nothing anymore. 00:20:16.559 --> 00:20:24.160 That's not the way it works. Our faith is in 00:20:24.160 --> 00:20:29.420 the blood of Christ. That covenant act. We entered 00:20:29.420 --> 00:20:36.200 into a covenant with Christ. It's not based on 00:20:36.200 --> 00:20:41.420 our personal performance. Even though most religious 00:20:41.420 --> 00:20:48.019 experience tries to turn you back into self -righteousness. 00:20:52.109 --> 00:20:57.730 In order to be in right standing with God. Hebrews 00:20:57.730 --> 00:21:03.650 9, 12 says this, with his own blood, not the 00:21:03.650 --> 00:21:05.650 blood of goats or calves, because that's Old 00:21:05.650 --> 00:21:09.509 Testament. That's Old Covenant. They would sacrifice 00:21:09.509 --> 00:21:13.910 goats and calves and doves and different things 00:21:13.910 --> 00:21:19.609 to try to, you know, cover. Everybody say cover. 00:21:20.289 --> 00:21:28.200 To cover. the sin. So it's not with the blood 00:21:28.200 --> 00:21:31.339 of goats and calves because they were just temporary 00:21:31.339 --> 00:21:33.740 and they were just symbolic of what was coming. 00:21:36.220 --> 00:21:39.700 With his own blood, Jesus entered the most holy 00:21:39.700 --> 00:21:45.059 place one time. Everybody say one time. Once 00:21:45.059 --> 00:21:53.099 and for all. Once for all time. And secured our 00:21:53.099 --> 00:22:00.359 redemption forever. One time. Secured our redemption 00:22:00.359 --> 00:22:07.180 forever. So it's an eternal redemption. It's 00:22:07.180 --> 00:22:10.660 a complete redemption. It's not a partial payment. 00:22:11.460 --> 00:22:15.720 It's not an ongoing debt that Jesus has to keep 00:22:15.720 --> 00:22:18.079 going back to the cross and dying more and more 00:22:18.079 --> 00:22:20.599 and more and more. No, it's one and done. It's 00:22:20.599 --> 00:22:23.019 not an ongoing debt. It's not an unfinished work. 00:22:23.859 --> 00:22:28.559 He even said on the cross, it is finished. It 00:22:28.559 --> 00:22:34.039 is finished. So as followers of Christ, we shouldn't 00:22:34.039 --> 00:22:37.920 live under an uncertainty, a religious uncertainty. 00:22:38.700 --> 00:22:42.680 We need to live under this covenant certainty, 00:22:43.140 --> 00:22:48.400 not an uncertainty anymore. Redemption means 00:22:49.259 --> 00:22:55.619 that all old claims are broken. Let that sink 00:22:55.619 --> 00:23:05.079 in. All old claims are broken. There used to 00:23:05.079 --> 00:23:07.000 be some claims, some spiritual claims against 00:23:07.000 --> 00:23:15.740 us. Now they're all broken. Purchase implies 00:23:15.740 --> 00:23:18.200 that there was a prior bondage before Christ. 00:23:19.660 --> 00:23:23.519 And there was a bondage before Christ. We should 00:23:23.519 --> 00:23:25.980 be able to see it. We should be able to agree 00:23:25.980 --> 00:23:29.500 with it. Right? Before Christ, we were under 00:23:29.500 --> 00:23:34.900 sin. We were in sin before we could become in 00:23:34.900 --> 00:23:39.579 Christ. We were under sin. We were under darkness. 00:23:39.900 --> 00:23:48.039 We were under condemnation before Christ. And 00:23:48.039 --> 00:23:52.009 the sad thing is, Some of us have remained under 00:23:52.009 --> 00:23:58.250 condemnation after we're in Christ. Who spent 00:23:58.250 --> 00:24:01.369 some time under condemnation after you were in 00:24:01.369 --> 00:24:03.990 Christ? You spent some time still under condemnation. 00:24:04.730 --> 00:24:09.569 Still under sin. Still fooling around and dealing 00:24:09.569 --> 00:24:15.890 with darkness. Anybody but me. But we didn't 00:24:15.890 --> 00:24:23.099 have to be. Didn't have to be. We didn't have 00:24:23.099 --> 00:24:36.019 to be. Colossians 1 .13. For Jesus. No, I'm sorry. 00:24:36.079 --> 00:24:42.579 For God. He, God, has rescued us. We could say 00:24:42.579 --> 00:24:45.759 the Father in this sense. For the Father has 00:24:45.759 --> 00:24:49.740 rescued us from the kingdom of darkness. Look 00:24:49.740 --> 00:24:51.140 at the person beside you and tell them, I've 00:24:51.140 --> 00:24:57.920 been rescued. I've been rescued. He has rescued 00:24:57.920 --> 00:25:00.900 us from the kingdom of darkness and transferred 00:25:00.900 --> 00:25:05.539 us into the kingdom of his dear son, into the 00:25:05.539 --> 00:25:12.359 kingdom of Jesus. Because Jesus is the one who 00:25:12.359 --> 00:25:21.910 purchased our freedom and forgave our sins. You've 00:25:21.910 --> 00:25:25.150 got to know this. The kingdom of darkness has 00:25:25.150 --> 00:25:33.710 no authority or power over you. So if you live 00:25:33.710 --> 00:25:37.650 under that mentality, it's time to break that 00:25:37.650 --> 00:25:49.029 off. It's time to break it off. I'm going to 00:25:49.029 --> 00:25:54.150 tell Jeffrey's story. I don't know, you might 00:25:54.150 --> 00:25:55.589 need to tell it because I might not remember 00:25:55.589 --> 00:26:00.930 it all, but you were at work. And was it a blanket 00:26:00.930 --> 00:26:09.190 or something? What was it? Yeah. It was a blanket. 00:26:10.329 --> 00:26:12.950 And somebody had like been fired or something 00:26:12.950 --> 00:26:18.609 or something went down. So they left this blanket 00:26:18.609 --> 00:26:27.710 and said that they put a curse on it. And the 00:26:27.710 --> 00:26:32.710 leadership, the proprietor, I mean, like the 00:26:32.710 --> 00:26:35.690 head leadership in his department, they're just 00:26:35.690 --> 00:26:47.910 like freaked out. Yeah. There you go. Wait a 00:26:47.910 --> 00:26:50.910 minute. You need to say this. People online can't 00:26:50.910 --> 00:26:54.279 hear you. So. Every time someone tried to take 00:26:54.279 --> 00:26:56.940 it home because the proprietor left, went to 00:26:56.940 --> 00:27:00.019 a different line of business. But when the proprietor 00:27:00.019 --> 00:27:02.619 left, she left it. And then, you know, several 00:27:02.619 --> 00:27:04.339 other leaders were like, well, I'll take it home. 00:27:04.400 --> 00:27:06.720 I'll put it on my bed. It looks nice. But every 00:27:06.720 --> 00:27:08.900 single time someone tried to, like, take it, 00:27:08.980 --> 00:27:11.319 they'd get a speeding ticket. One got into an 00:27:11.319 --> 00:27:15.119 accident. One, like, got sick the week that they 00:27:15.119 --> 00:27:17.259 brought it home. And they were just certain that, 00:27:17.319 --> 00:27:20.880 like, it was this object. Yeah. Do you want to 00:27:20.880 --> 00:27:26.519 continue? I can tell it. Okay. You can tell it. 00:27:26.519 --> 00:27:28.319 I don't care. But you need to stand up here if 00:27:28.319 --> 00:27:30.140 you're going to tell it so people online can 00:27:30.140 --> 00:27:37.240 see it. Anyway, so Jeffrey, being the assistant 00:27:37.240 --> 00:27:44.200 pastor, the first question was, were they asking 00:27:44.200 --> 00:27:49.859 for holy water? They asked if you were a priest. 00:27:52.460 --> 00:27:56.380 If you did exorcisms on items, if you're a priest 00:27:56.380 --> 00:28:04.119 and you do exorcism, you come up here and tell 00:28:04.119 --> 00:28:11.559 it. Come up here and tell it. I'm trying. I'm 00:28:11.559 --> 00:28:14.420 not trying to drag it out. So, yeah, so they 00:28:14.420 --> 00:28:16.480 asked me, they were like, do you do exorcisms 00:28:16.480 --> 00:28:18.990 at your church or your, you know, do you? perform 00:28:18.990 --> 00:28:21.390 them or just your dad or, you know, they had 00:28:21.390 --> 00:28:24.250 it all like built this whole case in their head. 00:28:24.529 --> 00:28:28.450 And so I, if you need it, we'll do it. And I 00:28:28.450 --> 00:28:31.390 just said. I just said, well, what is happening? 00:28:31.589 --> 00:28:33.329 Because at this point, I didn't know what they 00:28:33.329 --> 00:28:35.529 were even talking about. Like, literally, I was 00:28:35.529 --> 00:28:38.829 just working, you know, my normal job, and then 00:28:38.829 --> 00:28:42.109 they bring you down to the leader's office, right? 00:28:42.230 --> 00:28:44.470 You don't know, like, what's happening? Am I 00:28:44.470 --> 00:28:47.230 in trouble? And then they're just like, the first 00:28:47.230 --> 00:28:49.450 question is, and there's five leaders around 00:28:49.450 --> 00:28:52.470 me, they're going, do you do exorcisms? Okay, 00:28:52.569 --> 00:28:56.319 so we just... That's the context of the situation 00:28:56.319 --> 00:28:59.799 that I find myself in. And I said, no. And they 00:28:59.799 --> 00:29:03.259 were like, well, aren't you like a pope or a 00:29:03.259 --> 00:29:06.440 preacher or like a priest or something? And I 00:29:06.440 --> 00:29:09.039 said, I'm the assistant chaplain or, you know, 00:29:09.039 --> 00:29:11.980 the assistant pastor of the church. And they 00:29:11.980 --> 00:29:13.819 were like, oh, so you don't do that. So we'll 00:29:13.819 --> 00:29:15.480 have to get someone else. And I was like, well, 00:29:15.519 --> 00:29:18.500 tell me what are you trying to do? And then the 00:29:18.500 --> 00:29:22.740 lady said, well. Do you know where to get holy 00:29:22.740 --> 00:29:25.640 water? Because I watched this movie, and if I 00:29:25.640 --> 00:29:28.140 have some holy water, I feel like we can dip 00:29:28.140 --> 00:29:31.279 this item into the holy water. I can't tell my 00:29:31.279 --> 00:29:34.420 joke. Shoot. I can't tell what I actually said 00:29:34.420 --> 00:29:36.559 in that moment, because it would be... But if 00:29:36.559 --> 00:29:39.680 you know how to make holy water... Anyways, we'll 00:29:39.680 --> 00:29:42.200 just keep moving on. Somebody knew, maybe JT, 00:29:42.259 --> 00:29:44.220 maybe Robert knows how to make holy water. You 00:29:44.220 --> 00:29:46.400 can just fill in that blank. But I told them 00:29:46.400 --> 00:29:49.220 how to make holy water and we all laughed. And 00:29:49.220 --> 00:29:52.200 then I said, well, hand me the item. And they 00:29:52.200 --> 00:29:54.960 were like, giving me almost like third degree. 00:29:55.099 --> 00:29:58.119 Like, well, if you touch this item, if you handle 00:29:58.119 --> 00:30:00.279 it, like bad things are going to happen to you. 00:30:00.359 --> 00:30:02.319 And I just clearly looked at them. I said, look, 00:30:02.420 --> 00:30:05.259 nothing is going to happen. Hand me the item. 00:30:05.359 --> 00:30:10.680 I'll dispose of it. So sure enough, like I take 00:30:10.680 --> 00:30:13.319 it and I walked it over to the compactor and 00:30:13.319 --> 00:30:15.819 I threw it away. And I said, the item has been 00:30:15.819 --> 00:30:17.980 taken care of. I called him up. I said, the item's 00:30:17.980 --> 00:30:20.019 been taken care of. And ever since that point, 00:30:20.059 --> 00:30:22.700 it was fine. But the leaders were like genuinely 00:30:22.700 --> 00:30:24.980 concerned. Like they asked like three or four 00:30:24.980 --> 00:30:27.400 times going like, did anything happen? And I 00:30:27.400 --> 00:30:29.779 said, nope, I don't believe, you know, I'm covered 00:30:29.779 --> 00:30:31.799 by the blood. I knew it. I was like, I'm covered 00:30:31.799 --> 00:30:33.440 by the blood. I don't have to deal with that. 00:30:33.740 --> 00:30:43.309 So, yeah. So. Here's the deal. We've been rescued 00:30:43.309 --> 00:30:46.089 from the kingdom of darkness. None of that mess 00:30:46.089 --> 00:30:48.609 has any power over us. When we're in Christ, 00:30:48.849 --> 00:30:51.690 if you know who you are in Christ, none of that 00:30:51.690 --> 00:30:55.670 mess has any power over you. That's the point 00:30:55.670 --> 00:30:59.569 of this story. It might have some power over 00:30:59.569 --> 00:31:01.690 somebody who's not in Christ, but it's not going 00:31:01.690 --> 00:31:05.329 to have any power over you. Because you've been 00:31:05.329 --> 00:31:08.049 rescued. You've been redeemed from the kingdom 00:31:08.049 --> 00:31:11.099 of darkness. There is no fear when any of that 00:31:11.099 --> 00:31:14.700 stuff happens. You've been rescued and redeemed 00:31:14.700 --> 00:31:19.000 from the kingdom of darkness and translated into 00:31:19.000 --> 00:31:22.960 the kingdom of God. How are we redeemed from 00:31:22.960 --> 00:31:25.920 the kingdom of darkness? Because we've been purchased. 00:31:25.980 --> 00:31:28.900 Our freedom has been purchased by the blood of 00:31:28.900 --> 00:31:33.880 Jesus, and we have been forgiven. The blood not 00:31:33.880 --> 00:31:37.720 only forgave sins, it executed a transfer of 00:31:37.720 --> 00:31:41.460 ownership. Listen, the enemy's claim is now illegal. 00:31:42.519 --> 00:31:46.180 Any previous claim is illegal after redemption. 00:31:47.019 --> 00:31:50.759 Fear may still attack or try to attack you, but 00:31:50.759 --> 00:31:53.819 listen, it has no authority to control you anymore. 00:31:54.519 --> 00:31:57.079 If you're in Christ by the blood of Jesus, fear 00:31:57.079 --> 00:32:00.700 has no authority to control you. Sin may tempt 00:32:00.700 --> 00:32:04.640 you, and it will continue to tempt you. But listen, 00:32:04.779 --> 00:32:08.859 sin no longer... has power to rule over you. 00:32:08.900 --> 00:32:12.240 It is not your master anymore. And why is that? 00:32:12.640 --> 00:32:22.740 Because we have a receipt. Your past may stick 00:32:22.740 --> 00:32:24.759 up its head and try to accuse you some more. 00:32:25.599 --> 00:32:30.279 But listen, because of the blood, it can no longer 00:32:30.279 --> 00:32:35.490 define you unless you let it. See, if you continue 00:32:35.490 --> 00:32:40.789 to let fear control you, it will. If you let 00:32:40.789 --> 00:32:46.390 temptation master over you, it will. If you let 00:32:46.390 --> 00:32:50.450 your past define you, it will continue. But because 00:32:50.450 --> 00:32:56.069 of the redemption, it doesn't have to anymore. 00:32:57.730 --> 00:33:01.829 It doesn't have to anymore. We can be free. Remember, 00:33:01.910 --> 00:33:12.150 there's freedom in redemption. Here, faith enforces 00:33:12.150 --> 00:33:17.170 what the blood has already secured. It's going 00:33:17.170 --> 00:33:20.269 to take your faith to enforce it in your life. 00:33:24.230 --> 00:33:32.460 If you don't know it and believe it, act on it 00:33:32.460 --> 00:33:36.759 in those situations, when it tries to rear up 00:33:36.759 --> 00:33:41.740 in your life, it's not going to be evident in 00:33:41.740 --> 00:33:46.559 your life. It takes faith to enforce it. That's 00:33:46.559 --> 00:33:49.240 why we need to know what the blood has purchased 00:33:49.240 --> 00:33:52.019 for us, what the blood has made available for 00:33:52.019 --> 00:33:57.160 us. We need to know it so that we can act in 00:33:57.160 --> 00:34:00.579 faith. See, when we're redeemed, we shouldn't 00:34:00.579 --> 00:34:05.180 be negotiating with darkness. There is no negotiating 00:34:05.180 --> 00:34:09.179 anymore. We're not negotiating bondage. We're 00:34:09.179 --> 00:34:14.380 resisting with covenant identity who we are in 00:34:14.380 --> 00:34:16.699 Christ and what Christ has given us and made 00:34:16.699 --> 00:34:20.739 available to us. The blood is not only a mechanism 00:34:20.739 --> 00:34:23.239 of forgiveness. Without the shedding of blood, 00:34:23.320 --> 00:34:26.659 there's no forgiveness. It is a revelation of 00:34:26.659 --> 00:34:36.960 value. The price paid, don't miss this, the price 00:34:36.960 --> 00:34:41.619 paid communicates something. It communicates 00:34:41.619 --> 00:34:46.840 the worth that God has placed on what he's purchased. 00:34:49.199 --> 00:34:53.199 The price paid communicates the worth God placed 00:34:53.199 --> 00:35:03.099 on redemption. Write down anything else. I'd 00:35:03.099 --> 00:35:06.920 say write down this next one. The value of any 00:35:06.920 --> 00:35:11.659 item is determined by the price that somebody's 00:35:11.659 --> 00:35:18.500 willing to pay. I don't care if you put it on 00:35:18.500 --> 00:35:21.199 Facebook Marketplace and put $10 million on it. 00:35:21.440 --> 00:35:25.059 If no one is willing to pay $10 million, it's 00:35:25.059 --> 00:35:30.019 not worth $10 million. The owner... does not 00:35:30.019 --> 00:35:34.619 get to place the value on something. The purchaser 00:35:34.619 --> 00:35:41.280 is the one who places the value. We were in Arkansas. 00:35:42.820 --> 00:35:46.280 Went to this guy's house to go eat after church. 00:35:47.579 --> 00:35:51.320 And we went to his house. He said, Dean, I got 00:35:51.320 --> 00:35:54.559 to show you something. And he took me into his 00:35:54.559 --> 00:36:00.329 office in his house. And he had a... clear plastic 00:36:00.329 --> 00:36:07.869 cube with a red stuffed animal. Anybody remember 00:36:07.869 --> 00:36:15.989 Beanie Babies? It was a red pig. Had it in a 00:36:15.989 --> 00:36:21.349 glass case. Had to show it to me. I went to his 00:36:21.349 --> 00:36:24.610 house, he had to show it to me. And then he told 00:36:24.610 --> 00:36:30.030 me something that I still haven't got over. In 00:36:30.030 --> 00:36:32.349 20 years, probably since I was at the man's house. 00:36:33.090 --> 00:36:38.309 More than that now. He said, I just bought that. 00:36:39.489 --> 00:36:50.829 And I got it for $300. What did the Beanie Babies 00:36:50.829 --> 00:36:57.170 cost? What did they cost? $4 .99? $5? $6? He 00:36:57.170 --> 00:37:00.949 was proud that he had paid $300 for a Beanie 00:37:00.949 --> 00:37:12.829 Baby. I'm talking a grown man. I didn't tell 00:37:12.829 --> 00:37:16.150 him what I was thinking because I still wanted 00:37:16.150 --> 00:37:22.849 to eat after we left his office. Listen, that 00:37:22.849 --> 00:37:26.679 $5 or $6 Beanie Baby. It was worth $300 because 00:37:26.679 --> 00:37:29.320 that's what the man paid for it. I would never 00:37:29.320 --> 00:37:33.860 pay that for it. But that beanie baby was worth 00:37:33.860 --> 00:37:40.199 $300. Listen to me. What are you worth to God? 00:37:47.079 --> 00:37:48.880 I mean, I can look at myself in the mirror and 00:37:48.880 --> 00:37:54.969 I can say, I ain't worth much most days. I think 00:37:54.969 --> 00:37:57.610 the science teacher back when I was in high school 00:37:57.610 --> 00:37:59.530 has probably gone up with inflation now, but 00:37:59.530 --> 00:38:03.489 I think I used to be worth, if you just took 00:38:03.489 --> 00:38:08.449 all the stuff that I'm made of, mostly carbon 00:38:08.449 --> 00:38:11.449 and hydrogen and oxygen, and bottled it up to 00:38:11.449 --> 00:38:15.010 sell it, I think it was like $8 and something 00:38:15.010 --> 00:38:18.329 is about what I was worth. At that time, that's 00:38:18.329 --> 00:38:22.670 back in the 80s. I might be worth $25 now. Who 00:38:22.670 --> 00:38:29.139 knows? Thirty bucks. Science teacher told me 00:38:29.139 --> 00:38:35.280 I was worth eight bucks. Well, my science teacher 00:38:35.280 --> 00:38:46.679 didn't purchase me. What are you worth to God? 00:38:49.699 --> 00:38:53.579 Listen. This is hard to wrap your brain around. 00:38:54.760 --> 00:39:04.719 You are worth Jesus. You're worth Jesus. That's 00:39:04.719 --> 00:39:08.280 what God thinks of you. And we look in the mirror 00:39:08.280 --> 00:39:12.000 and we beat ourselves up so often. Right? Has 00:39:12.000 --> 00:39:14.239 anybody ever beat yourself up before? In your 00:39:14.239 --> 00:39:16.699 own mind, in your own thoughts. You just beat 00:39:16.699 --> 00:39:19.090 yourself up and beat yourself down. But we've 00:39:19.090 --> 00:39:20.570 got to realize something. We've been bought. 00:39:20.650 --> 00:39:22.210 We're not our own anymore. We've been bought, 00:39:22.250 --> 00:39:31.010 and that price was Jesus. And if God didn't think 00:39:31.010 --> 00:39:33.849 you were worth it, he wouldn't have bought you. 00:39:37.170 --> 00:39:47.750 Hallelujah. Our identity. needs to be anchored 00:39:47.750 --> 00:39:52.230 in redemption, not anchored in experience. Listen, 00:39:52.389 --> 00:39:57.809 not anchored in our experience in this broken, 00:39:57.849 --> 00:40:01.230 fallen world, but our identity needs to be anchored 00:40:01.230 --> 00:40:05.909 in redemption because our worth is not measured 00:40:05.909 --> 00:40:09.269 by our past anymore. Our worth is not measured 00:40:09.269 --> 00:40:11.949 by our feelings, which are fickle. Our worth 00:40:11.949 --> 00:40:15.269 is not measured by any present struggle that 00:40:15.269 --> 00:40:18.219 we're facing. Our worth is measured by the blood 00:40:18.219 --> 00:40:29.920 of Jesus. And listen, to live beneath that, to 00:40:29.920 --> 00:40:33.480 live beneath redemption is to live beneath the 00:40:33.480 --> 00:40:38.059 price that was paid for you and for me. For us 00:40:38.059 --> 00:40:42.760 to live our lives beneath that reality and that 00:40:42.760 --> 00:40:48.719 identity. Look at the person beside you and say, 00:40:48.780 --> 00:40:51.900 we need to step up then. We need to step up. 00:40:53.400 --> 00:40:57.159 So how are we going to apply this truth? How 00:40:57.159 --> 00:40:59.099 are we going to apply it? Here's a couple of 00:40:59.099 --> 00:41:06.099 things to think about. Faith agrees with what 00:41:06.099 --> 00:41:14.380 the blood has done. Not only believes, it speaks 00:41:14.380 --> 00:41:17.989 in a line. with what the blood has done over 00:41:17.989 --> 00:41:23.929 your life, what the blood has purchased. Some 00:41:23.929 --> 00:41:27.090 of us are going to stay in bondage till our mouths 00:41:27.090 --> 00:41:35.889 are liberated to say what God said. So faith 00:41:35.889 --> 00:41:38.090 agrees with what the blood has done. It speaks 00:41:38.090 --> 00:41:50.070 accordingly, then it acts accordingly. So hold 00:41:50.070 --> 00:41:53.530 your head up. Look at the person beside you and 00:41:53.530 --> 00:41:55.269 tell them, hold your head up. Hold your head 00:41:55.269 --> 00:42:04.210 up. Because of who you are in Christ. Not because 00:42:04.210 --> 00:42:05.889 of who you are, but because of who you are in 00:42:05.889 --> 00:42:12.510 Christ. The Bible talks about boasting in what 00:42:12.510 --> 00:42:19.320 Christ has done. We've got to get the wine out 00:42:19.320 --> 00:42:24.199 of our voice. We can't even say the right words 00:42:24.199 --> 00:42:32.719 and still have a wine in our voice. Hello? If 00:42:32.719 --> 00:42:34.820 you've got a wine in your voice, you haven't 00:42:34.820 --> 00:42:38.599 grasped the reality of what the blood has purchased 00:42:38.599 --> 00:42:42.300 for you. If you've still got a wine in your voice. 00:42:47.280 --> 00:42:51.880 We've got to speak our covenant identity. We 00:42:51.880 --> 00:42:53.880 like to speak our struggle most of the time. 00:42:57.059 --> 00:43:00.300 We like to speak our struggle. We like to speak 00:43:00.300 --> 00:43:02.960 our problems. We like to speak our uncertainty. 00:43:06.699 --> 00:43:11.199 We've got to speak covenant identity in agreement 00:43:11.199 --> 00:43:17.769 with what the blood has purchased for us. You've 00:43:17.769 --> 00:43:20.849 got to replace language of uncertainty with language 00:43:20.849 --> 00:43:25.369 of redemption. Instead of, I'm trying to get 00:43:25.369 --> 00:43:28.530 free, because a lot of people spend a lot of 00:43:28.530 --> 00:43:35.010 time trying to get free, struggling, because 00:43:35.010 --> 00:43:38.130 you think you've got to obtain your freedom, 00:43:38.230 --> 00:43:40.630 and you don't realize that Jesus has already 00:43:40.630 --> 00:43:45.469 obtained your freedom. As long as you're trying 00:43:45.469 --> 00:43:49.150 to fight for it, you'll never get it. So instead 00:43:49.150 --> 00:43:52.309 of saying, I'm trying to get free, say, I have 00:43:52.309 --> 00:43:57.369 been redeemed and I belong to God. Because if 00:43:57.369 --> 00:44:00.550 we're in Christ, we have. We've got to confront 00:44:00.550 --> 00:44:04.769 temptation with our identity. We talked about 00:44:04.769 --> 00:44:07.809 this in our life group going through Romans. 00:44:07.929 --> 00:44:10.829 I mean, this is just full of this kind of language, 00:44:10.909 --> 00:44:14.900 right? We've got to confront that temptation. 00:44:15.260 --> 00:44:17.039 We've got to use our words. We've got to use 00:44:17.039 --> 00:44:19.659 our mouth. We've got to use our understanding 00:44:19.659 --> 00:44:22.719 and us being established in what the blood has 00:44:22.719 --> 00:44:25.500 done for us. And we need to say, look, sin, you 00:44:25.500 --> 00:44:28.179 are not my master anymore. You used to be my 00:44:28.179 --> 00:44:31.820 master, but you're not anymore because I'm not 00:44:31.820 --> 00:44:34.239 my own because I've been bought with the blood 00:44:34.239 --> 00:44:37.500 of Jesus. So get on out of here. Leave me alone. 00:44:37.619 --> 00:44:39.559 I'm not going to listen to your nonsense anymore. 00:44:41.099 --> 00:44:45.199 You're not my master. Listen, that's not my nature 00:44:45.199 --> 00:44:48.679 anymore. I'm in Christ. Old things have passed 00:44:48.679 --> 00:44:51.519 away. All things have become new. So that's not 00:44:51.519 --> 00:44:57.340 my nature anymore. I've been bought. I belong 00:44:57.340 --> 00:45:09.639 to God. Our response to Jesus purchasing us. 00:45:12.780 --> 00:45:15.420 should not be guilt -driven behavior anymore. 00:45:20.980 --> 00:45:24.219 How many of you are like, I'm feeling that because 00:45:24.219 --> 00:45:29.599 I had a lot of guilt -driven behavior in my relationship 00:45:29.599 --> 00:45:35.519 with God because the religion that I was dealing 00:45:35.519 --> 00:45:37.500 with was a little messed up, didn't understand. 00:45:39.219 --> 00:45:45.530 Hello? So our response is not we're so guilty 00:45:45.530 --> 00:45:49.150 that now we're going to try to act better because 00:45:49.150 --> 00:45:51.690 we just feel guilty all the time if we don't. 00:45:55.030 --> 00:45:57.349 If we understand that we've been purchased and 00:45:57.349 --> 00:46:02.349 we belong to God, our response is gratitude -driven 00:46:02.349 --> 00:46:08.969 consecration. Listen, integrity becomes worship. 00:46:12.780 --> 00:46:14.719 Because we're bringing glory to God with our 00:46:14.719 --> 00:46:18.679 life, right? Integrity becomes worship to God. 00:46:18.840 --> 00:46:22.000 Purity becomes worship to God. Obedience becomes 00:46:22.000 --> 00:46:36.000 worship. Generosity becomes worship. I want to 00:46:36.000 --> 00:46:41.909 say this together. Everybody get... Like we're 00:46:41.909 --> 00:46:43.429 in third grade and we're going to read off the 00:46:43.429 --> 00:46:49.570 board. But don't just say it like you're reading 00:46:49.570 --> 00:46:53.289 in the third grade. Let the truth of what you're 00:46:53.289 --> 00:46:56.809 saying sink in as we say it together. Right? 00:46:57.670 --> 00:47:02.429 Here we go. One, two, three. I am redeemed by 00:47:02.429 --> 00:47:06.530 the blood of Jesus. I am bought with a price. 00:47:07.190 --> 00:47:13.119 I belong to God. Spirit. soul, and body. The 00:47:13.119 --> 00:47:17.980 enemy has no claim on me. I will glorify God 00:47:17.980 --> 00:47:22.840 with my life. Who wants to say it again? Let's 00:47:22.840 --> 00:47:26.239 say it again. One, two, three. I am redeemed 00:47:26.239 --> 00:47:30.619 by the blood of Jesus. I am bought with a price. 00:47:31.059 --> 00:47:36.260 I belong to God, spirit, soul, and body. The 00:47:36.260 --> 00:47:40.960 enemy has no claim over me. I will glorify God 00:47:40.960 --> 00:47:49.039 with my life. Hallelujah. Hallelujah. The blood 00:47:49.039 --> 00:47:56.199 not only saved you, the blood needs to be what 00:47:56.199 --> 00:48:05.480 defines you. Defines you. Everybody say, I have 00:48:05.480 --> 00:48:09.110 a receipt. This online worship experience was 00:48:09.110 --> 00:48:11.530 brought to you by the friends and partners of 00:48:11.530 --> 00:48:12.230 Elation Church.