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Welcome to Moore in the Word, a podcast of Moore Theological College in Sydney, Australia, that seeks

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to glorify God through biblically sound, thought-provoking, and challenging talks and interviews.

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In this episode, from a chapel service held on Monday 25 February 2025, Paul Grimmond, lecturer in the Ministry and

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Mission Department, speaks on 2 Corinthians 5 and the way what Christ has done shapes the way we view the world.

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He reminds us that because Christ died for all, therefore all have died, and therefore we no longer live for ourselves but for him.

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We hope you find the episode helpful.

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Father in heaven, show us Christ.

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Please as we see him show us ourselves and our neighbours.

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And Lord, remind us of your goodness and grace that you might grow our trust in you.

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We pray it in Jesus name, Amen.

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Well brothers and sisters, I wonder how your gospel glasses are going.

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When you sit and look out at the world, I wonder what it is that you perceive to be around you.

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Look at yourself for a moment.

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What is this bag of skin and bones in which you dwell?

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What's it like?

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What's it for?

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When you dream, what do you dream about?

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When you think of Christ, how do you think of Him?

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How often do you ponder what it might mean to please Jesus?

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And when you think about love, whose love do you think about?

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Are you so aware of the love of Christ that it controls you?

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When you walk past people on King Street, how do you see them?

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As you glance beside you at your neighbor, do you see the little green shoots of the new creation poking out?

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Do you see the wonder of God's righteousness in your life and in the lives of your brothers and sisters in church?

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How are your gospel glasses?

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Now, of course, I ask all of those questions because they're actually questions that are raised by the images of the truth of

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God revealed in Jesus in his passage, which has about a thousand things to say, and we've got about 20 minutes to look at it.

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Um, you could read this passage and ponder it for the next year of your life and still be finding new riches to enjoy.

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But my prayer this morning is that God might lift our eyes again and remind us to see the world through glasses that

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are shaped by the death and resurrection of Jesus so that we might actually see ourselves and others as God sees them.

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But before we get there, I want to remind you again of the context.

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Do you remember chapel on Friday?

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God spoke to us through Archie, didn't he?

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And he reminded us that the key to not losing heart is to see the world in certain ways in light of the gospel.

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And actually that's a theme that's kind of ongoing at this point.

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What does it mean not to lose heart?

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The problem in 2 Corinthians is that these themes of confidence and courage and not losing heart and who's commending whom and whatever

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wrap over and above and around themselves and through and again and again so it's hard to remember where you're up to and how it all works.

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You see at one level you walk through 2 Corinthians and there's a set of topics and you know what to do with them.

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There's stuff about jars of clay and the new creation and there's stuff about giving and there's stuff about super apostles.

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But actually, there's another kind of layer, it's like a rug that's woven from these strands that's all about Paul's

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relationship with this church of people that he loves and he's preached the gospel to and he's desperate with them.

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So I just want to show you very quickly a picture of some key verses in Corinthians and I want to show you a few themes.

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Don't worry, you don't need to be able to read it.

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Here are all of the references to boasting in the letter of 2 Corinthians.

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There are actually an awful lot of them.

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It starts at the beginning and it runs all the way to the end.

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Who's boasting about whom?

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What does Paul boast about?

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What do the super apostles boast about?

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Who are the Corinthians supposed to boast about?

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And then, alongside this question of boasting, here are all the references to confidence, or to courage, or to boldness.

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Intertwined with this question of what you boast about is where is your confidence?

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Do you have courage?

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And particularly, is Paul someone of the kind of courage and confidence that would reflect someone who is preaching a glorious gospel?

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And then there's a third set of references and you'll see those in pink.

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These are all the questions of who is commending.

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Is Paul being commended?

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Are the Corinthians being commended of the super apostles, commending themselves and who gets to commend whom, when, and where.

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So over and over boasting, courage, boldness, confidence, not losing heart, who is being commended and you see little,

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little moments of these show themselves in the passage today in verse six and eight, Paul says, I am of good courage.

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I'm always of good courage.

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Why does he have to protest so much?

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Or verse 12.

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We are not commending ourselves to you again, because there's this question of

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who's commending who and, and what is their credentials for the thing that they do.

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So in chapter five, verse 12, we are not trying to commend ourselves to you again, but are giving you an opportunity to take pride in us.

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So that you can answer those who take pride in what is seen rather than is what is in the heart.

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There are a group of people who are looking at the externals rather than what goes on inside.

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And Paul is saying, I am talking to you about my confidence.

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So that you might be able to answer people who are looking in the wrong way at what actually matters because you see the world in

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the right way and all of this occurs of course because all of these questions relate to your experience of Paul and his ministry.

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Verse 13, isn't he a little mad, out of his mind, slightly beside himself?

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In verse 16 there are people who are regarding him according to the flesh.

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And not according to faithful spiritual categories.

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Over in chapter 10 and verse 2, we'll learn that people are asking, is Paul walking according to the flesh?

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Because chapter 10 and verse 10, some say, his letters are weighty and forceful,

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but in person, he is unimpressive, and his speaking amounts to nothing.

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Now I just want you to ponder for a moment.

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That someone in your congregation is having a conversation with someone else in your congregation and says

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about you, well, he can write in a way that's weighty and forceful, but in person, he's pretty ordinary.

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And actually he's speaking amounts to nothing.

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I just want you to feel a sting of that for just a minute.

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has brought the gospel to these people.

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He's loved them with all of his heart, soul, mind, and strength.

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He longs for them to continue in the Lord Jesus.

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And there's all these people whispering, he's pretty rubbish, isn't he?

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And what do you think of the Jesus that he preaches?

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What would it take to have confidence?

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Not brash, ridiculous, I'm in control of the world confidence, but faithful,

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true, obedient, gracious confidence in the face of relationships like this.

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Well, I think Paul shows us three things in this text that are crucial for maintaining your confidence.

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He says, see the end clearly, understand the now and not yet.

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He says, see Christ's work clearly and keep reminding yourself of it.

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And so see others clearly and continue to do the work of the Lord.

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Three things.

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See the now and not yet see Christ's work and see the need of others.

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The now and not yet.

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Have you ever longed to be somewhere other than where you are right now?

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And I hope not during the middle of this talk, but you know, another moments in your life.

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Um, when I was a student, uh, I used to have math tutorials on the 14th floor of the Matthews building at the University of New South Wales.

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If you've never been in that building, it's right on top end of the campus and it's the tallest building on the top end of the campus.

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And the lovely thing about the math tutorial rooms is that they have windows down the southwest side of the building.

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So you can sit and you can watch the board and you can wonder about the kind of intricacies

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of differential calculus or the way that matrices allow you to do one way encryption.

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Or, you can look out the windows and watch the planes taking off at Kingsford Smith Airport.

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And I will tell you that lots of my math tutorials were not spent thinking about the wonders of differential calculus,

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but a whole lot more watching those little planes taxi to the end of the runway and then the pilot kind of lets rip

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and the plane rockets down the thing and takes off into the freedom of the skies and you wonder where they're going.

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Because it's got to be better than what you're doing right now.

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There are moments when actually you're, you're not about here, but where you would like to be.

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Sometimes it happens when you're camping for a while as well.

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I don't know what your experience of camping is.

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I love camping.

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I love it dearly.

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But there are moments When you don't want to be here anymore.

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I remember one particular afternoon on which we had a storm, a break and another storm during which the lightning hit a tent on the opposite

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side of the campsite, uh, the rain was so heavy that our tent actually collapsed under the weight of the rain and snapped a couple of the poles.

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And it was the same afternoon that a friend of mine had been taken to hospital with a funnel web spider bite.

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Yes, my UK, they really are here.

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It's okay, Aussies are tough, he was totally fine.

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Camping's fun sometimes, but there are other moments.

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When everything's filthy, and you're dog tired, and you just desperately want a warm shower, and you want a bed that doesn't deflate in the night.

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Paul says, you see this thing that you're dwelling in, this body that you're living in,

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this skin and bone that you pinch and it wrinkles and takes a while to get back to normal.

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It's a tent.

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It's what it is.

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It's a tent.

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And it's not.

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Your home chapter 5 in verse 4 while we are in this tent We groan and are burdened because we do not wish to be

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unclothed But to be clothed instead with our heavenly dwelling so that what is mortal may be swallowed up by life

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What's the right posture for dwelling in a tent?

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Well, it's groaning You live in a tent, but God's Got an eternal body that he's prepared for

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you in the Lord Jesus Christ, that will be infinitely better than this body in which you dwell.

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And don't you love that image that life eats death for breakfast.

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There is gonna come a day when you'll stand face.

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to face with the risen Lord Jesus and it will be the moment when life pervades all of the death filled realities of a fallen creation and

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your body will be transformed to be like his glorious body and you will stand in a new dwelling that's actually fit to inherit eternity.

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And so every minute in this body is a minute away from home and where you belong is not ultimately here.

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How often do you remember that you're not home?

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True glory, real comfort, final rest.

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They're not here.

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You're a disciple living in a passing creation.

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Do you stop and remind yourself that you dwell in a body that's fading away?

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There is something much better to come.

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The busyness and the brightness and the colors and the movement of the internet, of the

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person next door, of the show that you watch on television, of the thing that you eat.

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Keeps whispering to you that this is all you got.

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Paul says you want true confidence.

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Realize where you're actually dwelling and know where your home is.

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Your life goal is not to suck everything out of these nasty brutish and terribly short days.

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Your goal is to be faithful to the Lord Jesus.

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And to see him on that last and glorious day and to inherit all of eternity.

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But of course as you remember the now and not yet and the reality of your heavenly home, there is

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one other truth about what happens between here and there that is worth remembering verses 9 and 10.

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So we make it our goal to please him whether we are at home in the body or away from it for we must all appear.

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Before the judgment seat of Christ, so that each of us may receive what is due for the things done while in the body, whether good or bad.

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Our salvation is not at stake, brothers and sisters.

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God, in his kindness, will shield us from eternal judgment.

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But there is a lot of biblical evidence.

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That how you have lived your life and what you have lived for will be revealed for what it is on the day when you meet Jesus face to face.

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What you have invested in, where your time has been spent, what you have engaged in, what you've

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done, what you've spoken with your lips, the hours that you've spent mulling away in your life.

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will actually be revealed for what they are when you appear face to face before Jesus.

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Do you not want to be pleasing to your master when you see him on the day of judgment?

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So think about what that means.

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When you go to class today, what will it look like to please Jesus?

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When you go to lunch and you think about who you're going to sit with and

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about what you're going to talk about, what will it look like to please Jesus?

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On the way home this afternoon, as you sit beside someone on the bus, or you walk down the street.

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What's it going to look like to please Jesus because you're not home yet?

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Paul sees the now and not yet clearly.

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Secondly, he sees Christ's work very clearly.

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Verse 11.

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Because we are convinced that one died for all and therefore all died, and he died for all that.

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Those who live should no longer live for themselves, but for him who died for them and was raised again.

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I wonder when people ask you about why you've come to college, what your answer is.

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I wonder where you go.

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I wonder what bubbles out of you when people ask you why you came to study here.

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Well, I've got a suggestion for you next time someone asks you that question, why did you come to college?

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Because Christ.

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Died for all and therefore I died and I died so that I might live for something

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far more Important than my short term comfort or a reasonable retirement plan.

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Are you here because someone told you you should come?

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Because your secular job wasn't going great But you get a kick out of teaching people Because you get nice

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feelings when people say nice things that you about you at church because people at church are generally nice

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There are lots of lurking motives, aren't there?

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Lots of things that spike us and poke us and move us about and give us reasons to do things.

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But I'll give you a God honoring biblical reason to be here.

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When Christ died, you died, and you died so that you might no longer live for yourself, but for Him who died and was raised for you.

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Everything about you before you came to Christ is dead, pushing up the daisies, kaput, finished, gone.

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The scripture's new life by the work of God's spirit is sprouting in you, and God is making new desires to grow in the place of the old.

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And he's giving you new longings and he's reminding you of who you are and where you belong in Christ.

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Now you look at the bag of bones and you give a little pinch and you try to look after it.

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But can I just tell you, no amount of gyming is going to save it.

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No amount of running, no amount of exercise, no amount of eating correctly is gonna keep it from the grave.

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Because the signs of the new creation are not yet present in your body, they will appear at the end when Christ comes.

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The signs of the new creation that are at work right now is what's happening in your heart and your mind and your motivations

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and as you seek to put into practice the truths that God has made real because of the death and resurrection of Jesus.

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Do you see in yourself?

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Do you see in your brothers and sisters?

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If you are in Christ, the old has gone and the new has come.

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You are a new creation.

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Now it defies belief sometimes, right?

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You look and you wonder, and yet here is the promise of all of the truth of God.

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God's spirit, the Holy spirit, the spirit of life, the spirit that breathed life

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into Adam and Eve is now the spirit at work in you and you have spiritual life.

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And you have new life, and all of your old life has been forgotten because of verse 21.

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God made him who had no sin to be sin for us, so that in him we might become the righteousness of God.

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Do you know there's only one person in the entire history of the world who has had no sin?

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Think about all of the billions of people who have lived.

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There is one person.

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Who has ever been without sin, never lived for him, just for himself, never disregarded God in the moment,

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never let his anger get out of control, never justified his lust, never pretended that white lies are okay

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because they're not black lies, hasn't harbored jealousy or greed in his heart, hasn't looked on in envy.

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There is one man in all of the history of the world who does not deserve to face the anger and wrath of a just and holy God.

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And do you know what happened to him?

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The father sent the son to go to the cross to stand in the place of people who are like that,

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so that in him We might become the righteousness of God.

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If that does not astound you, or knock you over, or just leave you in awe of the graciousness of

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your Father, and the wondrous love of the Lord Jesus Christ, then nothing will touch your heart.

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You are completely, finally, totally, and utterly forgiven of every sin that you have ever committed against your Heavenly Father.

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Because God made He who knew no sin to be sin for us.

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That in him we might be the righteousness of God.

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But 1st 16, So from now on, you can't regard anyone from a worldly point of view.

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Though maybe you regarded Christ this way, you can do so no longer.

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I once thought of Jesus as a fairy story.

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I grew up in a home where the gospel wasn't preached and the Bible wasn't known.

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And I thought Christ was make believe.

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But some very precious people explained to me that Jesus was real, and that his death and resurrection meant something.

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And once you have seen and understood that, you can think about nobody in the same way again.

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Those people who walk past you on King Street, or whom you sit beside on the bus on the way home, or

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your friends and your family who don't know Christ, stand outside of Christ, but as precious creatures

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who belong to God, and who are in desperate need of the death and resurrection of Jesus, right?

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You can't look as people as things to be manipulated or things that get in your

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way, but actually you are supposed to love because you have been loved so deeply.

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Why are you at college?

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Because one died for all.

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And therefore all have died no longer to live for themselves, but for him who died and was raised for them.

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Brothers and sisters, What will it mean for you to see the world through God's glasses, talk to each other about it at

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morning tea and at lunch and actually for the rest of the week and the rest of your time at college and the rest of your life?

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Let's pray.

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Our Father in heaven, we long for the day when life will swallow up mortality

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and we long for hearts that might remember that day each day and so cling less closely to the things of the world.

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And Lord, we long to be at home with Jesus.

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To be pleasing to him on that day.

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So, Lord, remind us that we have died.

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Remind us that we no longer live for what we used to live for.

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Teach us to see the people that you love and long for them to know Christ and teach us to live

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and speak the truth of our righteous, holy gracious Lord, who gave himself for us, our men.

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Thank you for listening to Moore in The Word, a podcast of Moore Theological College.

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