WEBVTT 00:00:00.910 --> 00:00:06.650 When the gates of the Spirit are swung open wide, 00:00:06.950 --> 00:00:12.410 when we come to the end of the trail of self, 00:00:12.750 --> 00:00:19.750 and we invite Him in, who is not only our Savior, 00:00:19.769 --> 00:00:25.149 but our Lord and Christ, and we turn over the 00:00:25.149 --> 00:00:27.370 government of our lives and the conduct of our 00:00:27.370 --> 00:00:33.909 understanding to Him, then a new life in spiritual 00:00:33.909 --> 00:00:42.689 freedom begins. A glorious life. It's the beginning 00:00:42.689 --> 00:00:49.789 of freedom for the first time. And for the first 00:00:49.789 --> 00:00:55.109 time, the concept of what real Christianity is 00:00:55.109 --> 00:01:03.439 bursts. over the horizon of our souls. I would 00:01:03.439 --> 00:01:07.439 ask every self -righteous person to stand with 00:01:07.439 --> 00:01:11.519 me by the grave which once held the body of Hume, 00:01:11.739 --> 00:01:18.439 who is my light and my salvation. For every miracle 00:01:18.439 --> 00:01:25.599 of every age is included in what happened there. 00:01:26.829 --> 00:01:31.150 We stand in the presence of a conquest over every 00:01:31.150 --> 00:01:34.989 dominion that affects human life. Every force 00:01:34.989 --> 00:01:38.370 in heaven and earth, forces natural and physical, 00:01:38.590 --> 00:01:44.049 material and mental, temporal and eternal, were 00:01:44.049 --> 00:01:47.670 all under the dominion of the power that brought 00:01:47.670 --> 00:01:51.829 again the Lord Jesus Christ from the dead. From 00:01:51.829 --> 00:01:58.340 that moment, a new order of life, had been inaugurated. 00:01:59.340 --> 00:02:05.400 Jesus Christ was the first begotten out of the 00:02:05.400 --> 00:02:12.180 dead. For having died into sin once, he dieth 00:02:12.180 --> 00:02:18.840 no more. Even his resurrection body was totally 00:02:18.840 --> 00:02:21.479 different from the body of his humiliation and 00:02:21.479 --> 00:02:25.699 his shame. He had entered a sphere which was... 00:02:25.879 --> 00:02:32.099 superior to the material limitations of the flesh. 00:02:33.300 --> 00:02:38.539 A new order of life was instituted, the like 00:02:38.539 --> 00:02:42.199 of which had never been known either in heaven 00:02:42.199 --> 00:02:49.300 or in earth. But let me remind you that it was 00:02:49.300 --> 00:02:57.699 to be shared by all who should be planted in 00:02:57.699 --> 00:03:03.219 the likeness of his glorious resurrection. Whenever 00:03:03.219 --> 00:03:04.780 we speak of the miracle of the resurrection, 00:03:05.159 --> 00:03:10.319 we forget it was a miracle that included you 00:03:10.319 --> 00:03:16.560 and included me. We forget that. A new order 00:03:16.560 --> 00:03:21.560 of life was instituted. Heaven and earth had 00:03:21.560 --> 00:03:29.219 never before. known the existence of this new 00:03:29.219 --> 00:03:36.159 life. Again, let me remind you of something that's 00:03:36.159 --> 00:03:42.740 vitally important to each of us. His resurrection 00:03:42.740 --> 00:03:51.659 was to be shared by all of us who should be planted 00:03:51.659 --> 00:03:56.139 in the likeness of His. glorious resurrection. 00:03:57.800 --> 00:04:02.780 We speak of it as his resurrection. It was not 00:04:02.780 --> 00:04:05.539 only his resurrection. It was not only limited 00:04:05.539 --> 00:04:10.719 to him, the son of the living God. That resurrection 00:04:10.719 --> 00:04:18.500 included you. It included me. That risen Jesus 00:04:18.500 --> 00:04:23.879 is the very heart of the gospel. The resurrection 00:04:23.879 --> 00:04:29.699 is the crux of the whole situation. But remember 00:04:29.699 --> 00:04:33.720 that the resurrection was something more than 00:04:33.720 --> 00:04:38.600 a physical fact. Let the angels sing their hallelujahs 00:04:38.600 --> 00:04:41.379 and let the redeemed of earth join in the anthems 00:04:41.379 --> 00:04:44.720 of praise to his glory. For that resurrection 00:04:44.720 --> 00:04:50.800 means my spiritual identification with him who 00:04:50.800 --> 00:04:59.519 died and rose again for me. For if he died and 00:04:59.519 --> 00:05:04.160 rose again for me, it must remain that I was 00:05:04.160 --> 00:05:10.300 with him in what he did. It means that you were 00:05:10.300 --> 00:05:17.139 included too. That you were there. Let that truth 00:05:17.139 --> 00:05:20.800 burn itself into your soul. Never forget it. 00:05:21.319 --> 00:05:26.879 For when once you behold it, you will stop your 00:05:26.879 --> 00:05:33.560 struggling. Oh, if I could get questions to just 00:05:33.560 --> 00:05:41.769 stop their struggling. It isn't a struggle. You 00:05:41.769 --> 00:05:45.750 can't attain these things through struggling 00:05:45.750 --> 00:05:52.310 or your own self -effort. He's the one who did 00:05:52.310 --> 00:06:00.250 it. When once you behold what I'm trying to say 00:06:00.250 --> 00:06:03.470 to you, if once the Holy Spirit gives you this 00:06:03.470 --> 00:06:07.509 glorious revelation, you'll stop your struggling, 00:06:07.709 --> 00:06:13.930 your agonizing. you wish to attain has already 00:06:13.930 --> 00:06:19.790 been attained. The thing for which you are grasping 00:06:19.790 --> 00:06:25.910 is now in your possession. The thing for which 00:06:25.910 --> 00:06:31.350 you hope you can possess, it's not beyond your 00:06:31.350 --> 00:06:40.879 reach or your possession. It is finished. That's 00:06:40.879 --> 00:06:47.000 what Jesus tried to get us to understand when 00:06:47.000 --> 00:06:51.279 he cried those words after dismissing his own 00:06:51.279 --> 00:06:57.379 spirit on the cross. It is finished. Your struggling 00:06:57.379 --> 00:07:05.720 is finished. My struggling is finished. The whole 00:07:05.720 --> 00:07:10.720 thing has been bought and paid for. The work 00:07:10.720 --> 00:07:17.379 was made perfect and complete. You cannot add 00:07:17.379 --> 00:07:22.779 to perfection. When a thing is perfect, it's 00:07:22.779 --> 00:07:27.860 perfect. It is incorrect to say that something 00:07:27.860 --> 00:07:33.160 is more perfect or that you can add to perfection. 00:07:33.379 --> 00:07:40.209 You cannot. The work that Jesus did was perfect. 00:07:40.290 --> 00:07:46.290 The work was made perfect and complete. For you 00:07:46.290 --> 00:07:51.290 cannot add to perfection. No matter were you 00:07:51.290 --> 00:07:53.910 to live a thousand lives and every day of every 00:07:53.910 --> 00:07:55.629 life were filled with the struggle to attain, 00:07:55.889 --> 00:08:00.129 it would be impossible for you to do so. It is 00:08:00.129 --> 00:08:04.329 when we learn to reckon is when you find out 00:08:04.329 --> 00:08:08.110 how to count yourselves. that the light from 00:08:08.110 --> 00:08:10.629 the heels of God will stream through your being 00:08:10.629 --> 00:08:14.009 and banish every doubt and take away every fear. 00:08:15.209 --> 00:08:22.970 Know ye not that when he died, we died? When 00:08:22.970 --> 00:08:26.910 he was buried, we were buried. When he rose again, 00:08:27.110 --> 00:08:32.250 we rose with him. When he ascended, we ascended. 00:08:33.039 --> 00:08:36.980 and we're dwelling today with him in heavenly 00:08:36.980 --> 00:08:42.879 places. When he returns, we also shall be manifested 00:08:42.879 --> 00:08:48.679 with him in glory. This marvelous identification 00:08:48.679 --> 00:08:54.539 with Jesus induces the believer with a dynamic 00:08:54.539 --> 00:09:00.820 and a power which makes the atomic bomb seem 00:09:00.820 --> 00:09:08.690 very small. in comparison. We are identified 00:09:08.690 --> 00:09:16.750 with Him. Identified with Him when He died on 00:09:16.750 --> 00:09:21.789 the cross. Identified with Him in that moment 00:09:21.789 --> 00:09:25.929 of resurrection. Identified with Him when He 00:09:25.929 --> 00:09:31.070 ascended and went back to glory. identified with 00:09:31.070 --> 00:09:35.190 him when he comes back to rule and reign upon 00:09:35.190 --> 00:09:40.750 the earth. All power is given unto him anyway, 00:09:40.889 --> 00:09:44.769 not only in earth but in heaven above. When they 00:09:44.769 --> 00:09:51.210 nailed Jesus to the cross, the penalty of your 00:09:51.210 --> 00:09:59.980 guilt was paid right there and then. All on earth 00:09:59.980 --> 00:10:03.740 that a sinner has to do is to reach out and accept 00:10:03.740 --> 00:10:09.659 for himself, personally, that which was bought 00:10:09.659 --> 00:10:14.460 and paid for by Jesus on the cross. No man can 00:10:14.460 --> 00:10:19.500 redeem himself. I don't care how righteous you 00:10:19.500 --> 00:10:25.840 may feel you are or how good a life you may be 00:10:25.840 --> 00:10:32.529 living. No man can redeem himself. It's not your 00:10:32.529 --> 00:10:40.129 goodness. Sin was atoned for when they nailed 00:10:40.129 --> 00:10:45.590 Jesus to the cross. The penalty of your guilt 00:10:45.590 --> 00:10:50.669 was paid for right then and there. It was completed, 00:10:50.830 --> 00:10:59.440 perfected, consummated, finished. and you cannot 00:10:59.440 --> 00:11:08.919 add to that could my tears forever flow could 00:11:08.919 --> 00:11:18.639 my zeal no resp know these for sin cannot atone 00:11:18.639 --> 00:11:28.720 thou must save and thou alone In my hand, no 00:11:28.720 --> 00:11:37.659 price I bring, simply to thy cross I cling. When 00:11:37.659 --> 00:11:41.059 they placed him in the grave, you were placed 00:11:41.059 --> 00:11:47.080 there. When he came out in triumph from the tomb, 00:11:47.419 --> 00:11:57.460 you came out also. You died when he died. In 00:11:57.460 --> 00:12:03.519 the moment the last atom was made a quickening 00:12:03.519 --> 00:12:10.679 spirit, then every redeemed sinner rose with 00:12:10.679 --> 00:12:18.379 him. That's the reason he could cry. Because 00:12:18.379 --> 00:12:32.460 he lives, I too shall live. He was my resurrection. 00:12:34.740 --> 00:12:42.039 I am identified with him when he arose from the 00:12:42.039 --> 00:12:46.620 dead. And this identification of man with his 00:12:46.620 --> 00:12:51.019 Lord is only realized, however, when it is personally 00:12:51.019 --> 00:12:57.360 appropriated. It's a personal thing. You personally 00:12:57.360 --> 00:13:02.990 must... Appropriate that identification and accept 00:13:02.990 --> 00:13:06.389 your inheritance in Christ Jesus. I cannot do 00:13:06.389 --> 00:13:09.649 it for you. Another cannot do it for you. It's 00:13:09.649 --> 00:13:12.370 a personal thing. It's a personal transaction. 00:13:15.149 --> 00:13:20.789 You must personally appropriate it. Oh, the Holy 00:13:20.789 --> 00:13:26.110 Spirit would somehow illuminate our understanding 00:13:26.110 --> 00:13:29.299 so that we would stop. playing with the toys 00:13:29.299 --> 00:13:32.720 in our little theological interpretations and 00:13:32.720 --> 00:13:36.100 entered to this abundant life. Sometimes I get 00:13:36.100 --> 00:13:38.919 the feeling that we're just playing at this thing. 00:13:39.759 --> 00:13:47.299 Just playing with it. A synthetic life. Just 00:13:47.299 --> 00:13:51.659 toying with something that is so majestic that 00:13:51.659 --> 00:13:54.980 can only be understood in the spirit because 00:13:54.980 --> 00:13:59.559 it's something that's spiritual. If only the 00:13:59.559 --> 00:14:02.220 Holy Spirit would somehow open our understanding. 00:14:06.899 --> 00:14:10.600 Out of the grave of Jesus springs our eternal 00:14:10.600 --> 00:14:14.340 life. The self -same power that brought again 00:14:14.340 --> 00:14:16.740 the Lord Jesus Christ from the dead quickens 00:14:16.740 --> 00:14:20.399 the spirit of the receptive believer into everlasting 00:14:20.399 --> 00:14:23.879 and eternal life. Listen to his words as recorded 00:14:23.879 --> 00:14:29.570 in the fifth chapter of John. Verily. verily 00:14:29.570 --> 00:14:37.690 i say unto you he that heareth my word and believeth 00:14:37.690 --> 00:14:44.230 him that sent me hath eternal life and cometh 00:14:44.230 --> 00:14:48.830 not into judgment but hath passed out of death 00:14:48.830 --> 00:14:56.659 into life in other words he has already passed 00:14:56.659 --> 00:15:05.899 from death across to life now. He does not have 00:15:05.899 --> 00:15:11.399 to wait until death comes to the physical. He 00:15:11.399 --> 00:15:14.539 does not have to wait until the heart stops beating. 00:15:16.340 --> 00:15:24.179 He has already passed from death across to life. 00:15:26.000 --> 00:15:30.059 Should we not realize that the miracle of conversion 00:15:30.059 --> 00:15:35.940 includes in the one act the salvation and the 00:15:35.940 --> 00:15:40.379 redemption of the whole man? Sometimes I think 00:15:40.379 --> 00:15:43.000 that we fail to see everything that's included 00:15:43.000 --> 00:15:45.919 in that moment of salvation, of conversion. We 00:15:45.919 --> 00:15:49.539 speak of it so lightly. We say, have you been 00:15:49.539 --> 00:15:55.769 born again? But, beloved, we must realize the 00:15:55.769 --> 00:16:02.590 miracle of conversion for it includes the redemption 00:16:02.590 --> 00:16:08.429 of the whole man if because of our blindness 00:16:08.429 --> 00:16:15.809 and our unbelief we cannot comprehend this we 00:16:15.809 --> 00:16:18.570 cannot blame our lord who never returned to his 00:16:18.570 --> 00:16:20.789 father unto the glory from which he came and 00:16:20.789 --> 00:16:26.019 which he laid aside until his work was consummated 00:16:26.019 --> 00:16:31.039 and made perfectly complete he never went back 00:16:31.039 --> 00:16:36.899 to glory he never left this earth until he was 00:16:36.899 --> 00:16:43.120 sure the whole thing had been completed there 00:16:43.120 --> 00:16:47.159 can be no doubt in your mind in my mind whether 00:16:47.159 --> 00:16:53.909 or not the whole plan had been consummated and 00:16:53.909 --> 00:16:58.470 made perfectly complete. You know, so many are 00:16:58.470 --> 00:17:00.230 willing to talk about the likeness of his death, 00:17:00.389 --> 00:17:06.410 but comparatively few enter into identification 00:17:06.410 --> 00:17:11.690 with Jesus in the glory and the power of his 00:17:11.690 --> 00:17:14.269 resurrection. Oh, read it there in the sixth 00:17:14.269 --> 00:17:18.390 chapter of Romans. For if we have become united 00:17:18.390 --> 00:17:24.440 with him by the likeness of his death, we shall 00:17:24.440 --> 00:17:28.839 be also by the likeness of his resurrection. 00:17:30.200 --> 00:17:36.640 Our hearts throb when we realize that the Christ 00:17:36.640 --> 00:17:41.019 who rose from the dead was the same Christ who 00:17:41.019 --> 00:17:48.960 was buried and yet how different was he. He was 00:17:48.960 --> 00:17:51.140 now released from those confining limitations 00:17:51.140 --> 00:17:54.390 of natural law. One moment we find him along 00:17:54.390 --> 00:17:59.309 the road going to Emmaus, walking beneath the 00:17:59.309 --> 00:18:03.710 light of the Passover moon. But the next moment, 00:18:03.750 --> 00:18:08.349 he's in Jerusalem, appearing suddenly in the 00:18:08.349 --> 00:18:12.349 midst of the disciples who were congregated there 00:18:12.349 --> 00:18:18.190 behind the locked doors. He appeared before them. 00:18:18.210 --> 00:18:21.420 They'd listened to his voice. One of them, at 00:18:21.420 --> 00:18:24.160 any rate, reached out his hand and touched the 00:18:24.160 --> 00:18:26.480 place that the cool nails had entered. Then, 00:18:26.539 --> 00:18:34.460 in an instant, he was gone. Time or space seemed 00:18:34.460 --> 00:18:40.339 nothing to him after. He had risen from the dead. 00:18:41.779 --> 00:18:49.680 There was no limitations. No conditions. of the 00:18:49.680 --> 00:18:55.819 mortal life. What a glorious picture. The person 00:18:55.819 --> 00:18:57.480 who lives in the power of the resurrection of 00:18:57.480 --> 00:19:01.640 Jesus is also raised to a plane of life which 00:19:01.640 --> 00:19:05.380 is outside the boundaries of natural law and 00:19:05.380 --> 00:19:08.329 outside the boundaries of the natural man. He 00:19:08.329 --> 00:19:12.890 begins to live under a divine law. He becomes 00:19:12.890 --> 00:19:16.230 possessed with a divine nature. He begins to 00:19:16.230 --> 00:19:18.690 manifest the beauties of a divine character. 00:19:19.250 --> 00:19:23.930 The standards by which his life are governed 00:19:23.930 --> 00:19:30.470 are all divine. Our trouble is that we hang on 00:19:30.470 --> 00:19:35.869 and hang on and continue to hang on to the flesh. 00:19:38.759 --> 00:19:45.079 Oh, but beloved, while we do so, we're closing 00:19:45.079 --> 00:19:49.720 the door because of our unbelief on those glorious 00:19:49.720 --> 00:19:55.619 spiritual possibilities that are ours and can 00:19:55.619 --> 00:20:02.559 be ours through Christ Jesus. That's why Jesus 00:20:02.559 --> 00:20:06.329 said, take no thought for the morrow. Don't worry 00:20:06.329 --> 00:20:09.089 about your food. Don't become overly anxious 00:20:09.089 --> 00:20:14.289 about your clothing. Your father fully recognizes 00:20:14.289 --> 00:20:22.289 the need of your bodies in this respect. You 00:20:22.289 --> 00:20:27.069 ought not to be living on a plane so low that 00:20:27.069 --> 00:20:35.900 you are being affected by material things. Don't 00:20:35.900 --> 00:20:40.799 be robbed of your spiritual inheritance.