WEBVTT 00:00:02.299 --> 00:00:07.559 Before time had a name, there was a garden, a 00:00:07.559 --> 00:00:12.419 place where heaven and earth walked as one. This 00:00:12.419 --> 00:00:17.780 is the Echoes of Eden, where we rediscover ancient 00:00:17.780 --> 00:00:28.050 roots and awaken to our eternal purpose. Hey 00:00:28.050 --> 00:00:31.370 guys, we are back week three of the revelation 00:00:31.370 --> 00:00:36.450 of Christ in all and I am excited to jump into 00:00:36.450 --> 00:00:39.009 another week Listen this week. We're going to 00:00:39.009 --> 00:00:43.229 talk about one man affected all How much more 00:00:43.229 --> 00:00:46.409 did Christ? So by now you're starting to feel 00:00:46.409 --> 00:00:48.850 I hope you're starting to feel the weight of 00:00:48.850 --> 00:00:54.070 some of this Because I believe it's heavy in 00:00:54.070 --> 00:00:58.219 glory glory just simply means it's Goodness if 00:00:58.219 --> 00:01:01.159 you go back and read when I believe it's Abraham 00:01:01.159 --> 00:01:03.960 who asked to see the glory of the Lord It says 00:01:03.960 --> 00:01:08.159 that his goodness passed by him You see the truth 00:01:08.159 --> 00:01:14.079 is Revelation has weight revelation carries weight 00:01:14.079 --> 00:01:18.480 truth carries gravity and today we're going to 00:01:18.480 --> 00:01:22.459 sit with one of I Believe could be one of the 00:01:22.459 --> 00:01:27.439 most important questions to ask but it's a beautiful 00:01:27.439 --> 00:01:31.700 question and it's the question is this who had 00:01:31.700 --> 00:01:37.540 the greater reach it could be a very dangerous 00:01:37.540 --> 00:01:41.519 question to ask especially dealing with the religious 00:01:41.519 --> 00:01:47.060 mindset who had the greatest reach adam or christ 00:01:47.060 --> 00:01:51.040 i probably talked about some of this last week 00:01:51.040 --> 00:01:53.819 but this is what we're going to try to simply 00:01:53.819 --> 00:01:56.799 focus on this week is who had the greatest reach 00:01:56.799 --> 00:02:01.200 Adam or Christ because how you answer that question 00:02:01.200 --> 00:02:06.219 will shape your entire theology. So this is kind 00:02:06.219 --> 00:02:08.919 of the story that we were given if we go back 00:02:08.919 --> 00:02:13.840 and think about most what we were taught. Most 00:02:13.840 --> 00:02:16.139 Christian frameworks whether intentionally or 00:02:16.139 --> 00:02:20.539 not tell a story like this that Adam's fall affected 00:02:20.539 --> 00:02:25.009 everyone But yet Christ's work affected only 00:02:25.009 --> 00:02:29.750 those who respond correctly It's funny People 00:02:29.750 --> 00:02:33.469 that that do not believe in Universalism and 00:02:33.469 --> 00:02:37.009 I don't know that I'm necessarily there As far 00:02:37.009 --> 00:02:42.810 as that definition goes People that don't believe 00:02:42.810 --> 00:02:47.310 in that though do believe that we were all included 00:02:47.310 --> 00:02:50.710 in Adam But yet somehow we're not all included 00:02:50.710 --> 00:02:55.060 in Christ that to be an Adam you don't have to 00:02:55.060 --> 00:02:57.139 say a special prayer or do this that and the 00:02:57.139 --> 00:02:59.520 other you're just already included in the fall 00:02:59.520 --> 00:03:02.740 of Adam but to be included in the work of Christ 00:03:02.740 --> 00:03:04.840 you have to believe right you have to pray right 00:03:04.840 --> 00:03:07.259 you got to say the special prayer you got to 00:03:07.259 --> 00:03:09.419 jump through all these different hoops to get 00:03:09.419 --> 00:03:14.379 there and that my friend is where I have an issue 00:03:14.379 --> 00:03:20.500 and I'm very jealous to help deconstruct that 00:03:20.840 --> 00:03:24.099 Because the truth is you're already included 00:03:24.099 --> 00:03:28.400 in the finished work of Christ you've already 00:03:28.400 --> 00:03:32.099 been accepted into this and people like throw 00:03:32.099 --> 00:03:35.460 throw around the word repent, but my concern 00:03:35.460 --> 00:03:39.159 is We do not understand what the word repent 00:03:39.159 --> 00:03:43.000 means And I'll give you my perfect example. This 00:03:43.000 --> 00:03:46.620 is what I understood by growing up in the church 00:03:46.620 --> 00:03:51.550 world what repent is and it's to be sorry for 00:03:51.550 --> 00:03:56.409 what you've done to one of the definitions that 00:03:56.409 --> 00:03:59.409 could be used is to turn and go in a different 00:03:59.409 --> 00:04:03.610 direction and all that sounds good but what direction 00:04:03.610 --> 00:04:07.050 are you going in first of all it's definitely 00:04:07.050 --> 00:04:14.280 not to be sorry for what you did This is part 00:04:14.280 --> 00:04:17.600 of another thing that I will go into later is 00:04:17.600 --> 00:04:21.120 taking different words and helping to pull out 00:04:21.120 --> 00:04:25.500 their actual meaning so I can It's just something 00:04:25.500 --> 00:04:27.939 I feel jealous about it something I feel passionate 00:04:27.939 --> 00:04:31.759 about helping teach the body of Christ What some 00:04:31.759 --> 00:04:34.579 of these words meant in the original language 00:04:34.579 --> 00:04:38.439 in the original? context Because when you start 00:04:38.439 --> 00:04:41.160 going down that rabbit hole and playing with 00:04:41.160 --> 00:04:45.610 that ball of yarn It's fun. Let me just say it's 00:04:45.610 --> 00:04:50.389 really fun. Okay But I don't think we have a 00:04:50.389 --> 00:04:53.509 correct understanding of what repentance actually 00:04:53.509 --> 00:04:57.930 is for me repentance It's the word metanoia and 00:04:57.930 --> 00:05:00.970 to me if I had to explain it means to come back 00:05:00.970 --> 00:05:04.910 to your original design come back to your original 00:05:04.910 --> 00:05:09.310 blueprint if you will and it's funny because 00:05:09.310 --> 00:05:12.279 scripture tells us that it's the kindness or 00:05:12.279 --> 00:05:16.540 the goodness of God that causes men to repent. 00:05:17.060 --> 00:05:20.980 It's the goodness of God that causes men to come 00:05:20.980 --> 00:05:25.240 back into their original design. Where did your 00:05:25.240 --> 00:05:29.220 original design come from? It came from Christ. 00:05:30.219 --> 00:05:33.579 Think about this let this thing let this stuff 00:05:33.579 --> 00:05:35.939 start getting into your spirit and then just 00:05:35.939 --> 00:05:38.819 begin to wrestle with it Get you a notebook have 00:05:38.819 --> 00:05:41.220 conversations with the Holy Spirit about it and 00:05:41.220 --> 00:05:43.439 allow Holy Spirit to reveal the truth to you 00:05:43.439 --> 00:05:45.459 She's really good at revealing truth. That's 00:05:45.459 --> 00:05:50.139 what part of her nature is Revealing truth to 00:05:50.139 --> 00:05:53.819 us as sons and daughters So don't just take my 00:05:53.819 --> 00:05:56.379 word for it. And listen, I may have said this 00:05:56.379 --> 00:06:00.089 before I don't really remember my I am so past 00:06:00.089 --> 00:06:03.290 the conversation of who's right and who's wrong. 00:06:03.449 --> 00:06:07.029 I think the more important aspect is you showing 00:06:07.029 --> 00:06:10.129 up for the walk and going on the journey with 00:06:10.129 --> 00:06:14.310 Holy Spirit yourself. I'm to the point of being 00:06:14.310 --> 00:06:17.509 tired of people trying to ask other believers, 00:06:17.990 --> 00:06:20.769 is this wrong? Is this right? Listen, this is 00:06:20.769 --> 00:06:23.410 where I'm at and this is how much trust I have 00:06:23.410 --> 00:06:27.259 in the Holy Spirit. If it is wrong, the Holy 00:06:27.259 --> 00:06:30.839 Spirit will reveal that to you and convince you 00:06:30.839 --> 00:06:34.060 of who you actually are. If it is wrong, the 00:06:34.060 --> 00:06:37.540 Holy Spirit, by you walking with the Trinity, 00:06:38.079 --> 00:06:40.500 walking and yielding to the Lordship of the Holy 00:06:40.500 --> 00:06:43.879 Spirit in your own life, if it's wrong, Holy 00:06:43.879 --> 00:06:47.639 Spirit will do the transformative work in your 00:06:47.639 --> 00:06:53.259 own life. It's that simple. I simply trust the 00:06:53.259 --> 00:06:56.040 finished work of the cross and I trust the Holy 00:06:56.040 --> 00:06:59.079 Spirit to do that, which only Holy Spirit can 00:06:59.079 --> 00:07:01.839 do. And the only way the Holy Spirit can do the 00:07:01.839 --> 00:07:04.660 things that needs to be done is by you and I 00:07:04.660 --> 00:07:07.639 showing up for the walk and allowing the Trinity 00:07:07.639 --> 00:07:11.079 to speak to our hearts, unveil who we are, only 00:07:11.079 --> 00:07:13.600 revealed in the Christ. It's really this simple. 00:07:14.220 --> 00:07:17.819 And the only way for us to begin to take hold 00:07:17.819 --> 00:07:22.220 of this is to understand which atom were we affected 00:07:22.220 --> 00:07:26.610 by? Which atom are we a part of? Let me see, 00:07:26.709 --> 00:07:29.350 how can I say that? Which atom are we part of? 00:07:29.509 --> 00:07:32.529 Are we a part of the first atom or the last atom? 00:07:32.829 --> 00:07:35.670 Was the last atom successful enough to cancel 00:07:35.670 --> 00:07:39.170 out everything the first atom messed up? And 00:07:39.170 --> 00:07:41.410 I would conclude the answer to that question 00:07:41.410 --> 00:07:48.529 is 100 % wholeheartedly yes. The last atom was 00:07:48.529 --> 00:07:52.589 effective enough to disarm everything the first 00:07:52.589 --> 00:07:57.639 atom messed up. This is why it's important to 00:07:57.639 --> 00:08:01.860 understand that when Jesus was crucified So were 00:08:01.860 --> 00:08:07.879 you that Adam nature was co -crucified with Christ 00:08:07.879 --> 00:08:11.939 meaning what that Adam the effects of the first 00:08:11.939 --> 00:08:17.199 Adam died on that cross You are no longer subject 00:08:17.199 --> 00:08:22.459 to the fall mentality of the first Adam You have 00:08:22.459 --> 00:08:26.620 been given a divine nature from your Father, 00:08:26.860 --> 00:08:30.399 from the Trinity. Again, let's go back through 00:08:30.399 --> 00:08:32.039 this. I mentioned this last week, but I think 00:08:32.039 --> 00:08:35.419 it's important to go back and reiterate. You 00:08:35.419 --> 00:08:38.940 were co -crucified, you were co -buried, you 00:08:38.940 --> 00:08:42.220 were co -resurrected, you co -ascended, and now 00:08:42.220 --> 00:08:45.100 you are co -glorified and co -seated with Christ 00:08:45.100 --> 00:08:48.840 in heavenly places. Yes, your physical body may 00:08:48.840 --> 00:08:51.899 be right here. But I am trying to tell you that 00:08:51.899 --> 00:08:54.820 you're actually in two places at one time. Because 00:08:54.820 --> 00:08:57.299 while you're sitting here listening to this video, 00:08:57.580 --> 00:09:00.779 you are also seated in the heavenly realm at 00:09:00.779 --> 00:09:05.980 the right hand of the Father in Christ. Again, 00:09:06.000 --> 00:09:08.779 let me go back and say this too. Stop trying 00:09:08.779 --> 00:09:13.820 to die daily. You were co -crucified with Christ. 00:09:14.000 --> 00:09:17.019 As Paul says, it is no longer I who live, but 00:09:17.019 --> 00:09:20.129 it is Christ who lives within me. what is my 00:09:20.129 --> 00:09:23.070 goal now as a son but to walk with the trinity 00:09:23.070 --> 00:09:26.289 enjoy this love dance with the trinity and release 00:09:26.289 --> 00:09:29.309 the kingdom of heaven everywhere that i go why 00:09:29.309 --> 00:09:33.250 because the kingdom of heaven is within me christ 00:09:33.250 --> 00:09:36.529 is within me the hope of glory christ is within 00:09:36.529 --> 00:09:40.129 you the hope of glory so what happens is when 00:09:40.129 --> 00:09:43.490 you begin to encounter other human beings you 00:09:43.490 --> 00:09:46.029 no longer know them after the flesh but after 00:09:46.029 --> 00:09:48.710 the spirit meaning what that every individual 00:09:48.590 --> 00:09:51.970 that I see, I no longer identify them based off 00:09:51.970 --> 00:09:53.950 the issues that they're currently struggling 00:09:53.950 --> 00:09:57.190 with. That is not who their identity is. Their 00:09:57.190 --> 00:10:01.009 identity is son and daughter of Yahweh. And it 00:10:01.009 --> 00:10:04.590 is my job as a son or daughter, as an ambassador 00:10:04.590 --> 00:10:07.710 of the kingdom of heaven, to let his light shine 00:10:07.710 --> 00:10:11.389 out of my life and do what? Light up their darkness 00:10:11.389 --> 00:10:13.990 and unveil the truth of who they are, which is 00:10:13.990 --> 00:10:20.340 Christ in them, the hope of glory. My God, let 00:10:20.340 --> 00:10:22.720 me slow down and back up just a little bit before 00:10:22.720 --> 00:10:25.460 I get way too excited here. But I hope you're 00:10:25.460 --> 00:10:28.039 hearing the gospel. This is the gospel, it's 00:10:28.039 --> 00:10:30.220 the good news. Listen, my friend, let me just 00:10:30.220 --> 00:10:32.120 say it very plainly, and this is what I believe. 00:10:32.399 --> 00:10:35.320 If I can take your gospel and make it better 00:10:35.320 --> 00:10:38.220 than you, my friend, do not have the gospel. 00:10:38.480 --> 00:10:41.379 Because here is the truth, the gospel, the good 00:10:41.379 --> 00:10:44.299 news is offensive to the religious mindset. When 00:10:44.299 --> 00:10:47.009 he's... better than what we actually believe 00:10:47.009 --> 00:10:49.889 him to be and I'm telling you it's offensive 00:10:49.889 --> 00:10:53.470 because I have been offended by the gospel when 00:10:53.470 --> 00:10:56.370 he should not be this good to me when he should 00:10:56.370 --> 00:11:00.389 not be this good to someone else it becomes offensive 00:11:00.389 --> 00:11:03.730 do we not understand that when he was interacting 00:11:03.730 --> 00:11:07.870 on earth that he was offending the Pharisees 00:11:07.870 --> 00:11:15.490 with his goodness help me Holy Ghost Let me calm 00:11:15.490 --> 00:11:24.889 down whoo, okay, so which which This this is 00:11:24.889 --> 00:11:27.090 okay if we believe that Adams fall affected everyone 00:11:27.090 --> 00:11:29.350 I'm trying to backtrack through my notes here 00:11:29.350 --> 00:11:33.190 Just track with me if Adams fall affected everyone 00:11:33.190 --> 00:11:36.029 yet Christ work affects only those who respond 00:11:36.029 --> 00:11:39.029 correctly then what we are actually communicating 00:11:39.730 --> 00:11:43.409 is that Adam was more effective than Jesus. Now 00:11:43.409 --> 00:11:46.690 we would never say that out loud, but when we 00:11:46.690 --> 00:11:51.090 believe that Adam's fall and Adam's decisions 00:11:51.090 --> 00:11:53.470 had a far greater impact than the Christ did, 00:11:53.490 --> 00:11:55.789 that we're all included in Adam but not all included 00:11:55.789 --> 00:11:59.909 in Christ, now we've created this issue. But 00:11:59.909 --> 00:12:03.850 many of our systems depend on this to work. So 00:12:03.850 --> 00:12:05.649 today we're gonna let Paul speak for himself. 00:12:06.159 --> 00:12:09.299 And I'm going to read out of Romans chapter 5, 00:12:09.419 --> 00:12:12.259 this is verse 18 and 19. Out of the passion translation, 00:12:12.379 --> 00:12:16.879 it says this, in other words, just as condemnation 00:12:16.879 --> 00:12:20.879 came upon all people through one transgression, 00:12:21.559 --> 00:12:24.720 so through one righteous act of Jesus' sacrifice, 00:12:24.919 --> 00:12:27.879 the perfect righteousness that makes us right 00:12:27.879 --> 00:12:31.240 with God and leads us to victorious life is now 00:12:31.240 --> 00:12:35.289 available to all. One man's disobedience opened 00:12:35.289 --> 00:12:37.789 the door for all humanity to become sinners. 00:12:38.429 --> 00:12:41.549 So also one man's obedience opened the door for 00:12:41.549 --> 00:12:44.830 many to be made perfectly right with God and 00:12:44.830 --> 00:12:48.789 acceptable to him. Now I want to read Romans 00:12:48.789 --> 00:12:52.269 5 18 out of the King James Version. It says this 00:12:52.269 --> 00:12:54.909 the original text says the offense of one judgment 00:12:54.909 --> 00:12:58.370 came upon all men so by the righteousness of 00:12:58.370 --> 00:13:01.549 one the free gift came upon all. So I want you 00:13:01.549 --> 00:13:04.250 to catch how this reads I'm gonna break down 00:13:04.250 --> 00:13:07.509 The I'm gonna break down of the Greek words. 00:13:08.129 --> 00:13:11.330 So By the righteousness of one the free gift 00:13:11.330 --> 00:13:15.269 came upon all men unto justification of life 00:13:15.269 --> 00:13:18.970 Now I'm gonna break down the Greek word for each 00:13:18.970 --> 00:13:23.250 of that's that statement. So we have by So dia 00:13:23.250 --> 00:13:25.669 is the Greek word and I'm probably mispronouncing 00:13:25.669 --> 00:13:27.970 these so you want to know how to pronounce them 00:13:27.970 --> 00:13:31.679 you go Google it so dia meaning it's through 00:13:31.679 --> 00:13:35.879 across or because of then we have by the righteousness 00:13:35.879 --> 00:13:41.379 which means god's righteous decree or act by 00:13:41.379 --> 00:13:43.960 the righteousness of one one meaning one the 00:13:43.960 --> 00:13:46.299 free gift came there's no word for that upon 00:13:46.299 --> 00:13:49.600 is the word is it's directional always now catch 00:13:49.600 --> 00:13:54.549 this always pointing into Toward or unto it often 00:13:54.549 --> 00:13:57.730 marks the decisive movement movement into a new 00:13:57.730 --> 00:14:01.669 reality or a new identity by the righteousness 00:14:01.669 --> 00:14:05.070 of one gift Of one the free gift came upon all 00:14:05.070 --> 00:14:07.970 means all men. It means human being or mankind 00:14:07.970 --> 00:14:12.799 Unto is the word is again justification It's 00:14:12.799 --> 00:14:16.659 the act of God declaring a person free from guilt 00:14:16.659 --> 00:14:19.860 and acceptable to him, making them righteous 00:14:19.860 --> 00:14:23.299 in his eyes. Now catch this because this is who 00:14:23.299 --> 00:14:29.360 we are. As the people of God, as humanity. This 00:14:29.360 --> 00:14:34.019 is who humanity because Jesus Christ died as 00:14:34.019 --> 00:14:37.379 humanity. He did not just die for you and I, 00:14:37.720 --> 00:14:41.399 he died as you and I. And if Adam's this fall 00:14:41.399 --> 00:14:44.879 affected all of humanity, then certainly what 00:14:44.879 --> 00:14:48.919 Christ did affected all of humanity. Jesus was 00:14:48.919 --> 00:14:53.919 big enough to be 100 % God and 100 % human, embracing 00:14:53.919 --> 00:14:58.679 the entirety of humanity in this moment. So it's 00:14:58.679 --> 00:15:01.320 the act of God declaring a person free from guilt 00:15:01.320 --> 00:15:04.139 and acceptable to him making them righteous in 00:15:04.139 --> 00:15:07.720 his eyes It's God's judicial act of declaring 00:15:07.720 --> 00:15:11.519 sinners righteousness Excuse me declaring sinners 00:15:11.519 --> 00:15:16.470 righteous on the basis catch this on the basis 00:15:16.470 --> 00:15:20.250 of christ death and christ resurrection resulting 00:15:20.250 --> 00:15:24.110 in life so my friend guess what your contribution 00:15:24.110 --> 00:15:28.330 was it was absolutely nothing you contributed 00:15:28.330 --> 00:15:33.049 nothing to this moment it was jesus who took 00:15:33.049 --> 00:15:38.850 on everything now let that sit for just a moment 00:15:38.850 --> 00:15:44.139 it's all because of Christ. You do not work your 00:15:44.139 --> 00:15:47.120 way to get into Christ. You do not say a magic 00:15:47.120 --> 00:15:50.000 prayer to get Christ into you. No, I am here 00:15:50.000 --> 00:15:54.200 to declare that Christ is inside of every single 00:15:54.200 --> 00:15:58.860 person you meet. How do I know this? Because 00:15:58.860 --> 00:16:02.500 I know what it is to be the abuser and the abused. 00:16:02.779 --> 00:16:05.200 I know what it is to be the victim and the one 00:16:05.200 --> 00:16:07.879 who causes the pain. I know what it is to hurt 00:16:07.879 --> 00:16:11.740 people and be hurt by people. What's fascinating 00:16:11.740 --> 00:16:14.480 to me when I've had the Holy Spirit have conversations 00:16:14.480 --> 00:16:18.899 with me is simply this, that Christ was in me 00:16:18.899 --> 00:16:24.669 on both ends. Though the world may be blinded 00:16:24.669 --> 00:16:28.470 by this revelation, it is up to you and I as 00:16:28.470 --> 00:16:31.090 sons and daughters to let our light so shine. 00:16:31.490 --> 00:16:34.029 If Jesus is the light of the world, then my friend, 00:16:34.210 --> 00:16:36.889 guess what? As He is, so are you. So if He's 00:16:36.889 --> 00:16:38.889 the light of the world, then so are you. And 00:16:38.889 --> 00:16:40.830 the world around you is waiting for the light 00:16:40.830 --> 00:16:47.620 within you. Let me move on. It's the vindication 00:16:47.620 --> 00:16:51.080 of believers through Christ. His acquittal of 00:16:51.080 --> 00:16:53.940 the guilty, the gift of life that flows from 00:16:53.940 --> 00:16:57.759 God's righteous verdict is the act of process 00:16:57.759 --> 00:17:01.639 of justifying and justification. And the last 00:17:01.639 --> 00:17:03.519 part of this, so by the righteousness of one, 00:17:03.620 --> 00:17:06.160 the free gift came upon all men unto justification. 00:17:06.579 --> 00:17:10.180 The last part is of life and this word life is 00:17:10.180 --> 00:17:14.059 the word zoe. What is zoe? It is the God kind 00:17:14.059 --> 00:17:17.240 of life. It is eternal. It is abundant. It is 00:17:17.240 --> 00:17:20.440 spirit empowered life revealed in Jesus. And 00:17:20.440 --> 00:17:23.970 guess what? Shared with you and I. It is distinct 00:17:23.970 --> 00:17:26.609 from bios which means mere earthly existence 00:17:26.609 --> 00:17:29.970 this speaks of the quality of divine life that 00:17:29.970 --> 00:17:34.829 begins now and continues forever So I could read 00:17:34.829 --> 00:17:39.890 it as this so by because of and through the righteousnesses 00:17:39.890 --> 00:17:43.630 of one Christ. He moved all mankind into a new 00:17:43.630 --> 00:17:46.990 reality and a new identity, declaring us free 00:17:46.990 --> 00:17:49.789 from guilt and acceptable to Him and giving us 00:17:49.789 --> 00:17:53.190 the God kind of life that begins now and continues 00:17:53.190 --> 00:17:56.170 forever, eternal, abundant, Spirit -empowered 00:17:56.170 --> 00:17:59.710 life that Jesus revealed and He has shared with 00:17:59.710 --> 00:18:02.029 us all. Why am I breaking this down? Because 00:18:02.029 --> 00:18:07.589 it speaks to your identity right now. Now Romans 00:18:07.589 --> 00:18:10.430 5 19 the King James is this way many be made 00:18:10.430 --> 00:18:14.390 righteous The term be made is the Greek word 00:18:14.390 --> 00:18:18.069 Cthistami it means to sit down to place to a 00:18:18.069 --> 00:18:20.769 point and to establish It could be defined as 00:18:20.769 --> 00:18:24.029 to set someone in a position or role to make 00:18:24.029 --> 00:18:27.940 or render someone into a certain state It's about 00:18:27.940 --> 00:18:31.000 placing something or someone into a fixed role 00:18:31.000 --> 00:18:35.099 office or condition whether by appointment Establishment 00:18:35.099 --> 00:18:38.440 or catch it transformation. So to be made righteous 00:18:38.440 --> 00:18:41.619 means that he has set you and I in a position 00:18:41.619 --> 00:18:44.799 He has rendered us into a certain state. He has 00:18:44.799 --> 00:18:47.720 appointed us. He has established us He has transformed 00:18:47.720 --> 00:18:52.549 us and is transforming us He has done. Catch 00:18:52.549 --> 00:18:56.089 the language. He has done. This goes back to 00:18:56.089 --> 00:18:59.849 this is where we must learn to live from instead 00:18:59.849 --> 00:19:03.069 of trying to live towards. Listen, I read this 00:19:03.069 --> 00:19:04.630 the other day. I want you to think about this. 00:19:04.869 --> 00:19:08.910 If Adam's fall affected all, how much more does 00:19:08.910 --> 00:19:13.750 Christ's resurrection embrace all? Now think 00:19:13.750 --> 00:19:18.430 about that. I need to slow down. Let me find 00:19:18.430 --> 00:19:22.599 where I'm at in my notes. This is man. I'm telling 00:19:22.599 --> 00:19:26.000 you if you ever grab hold of this This is so 00:19:26.000 --> 00:19:28.900 powerful when you begin to begin to understand 00:19:28.900 --> 00:19:33.039 what Christ has already accomplished For you 00:19:33.039 --> 00:19:39.160 as you in you I'm telling you Paul doesn't hedge 00:19:39.160 --> 00:19:41.559 in this he does not qualify. He does not insert 00:19:41.559 --> 00:19:44.779 conditions. He mirrors the scope intentionally 00:19:44.779 --> 00:19:51.609 as so also one all. One all. If we narrow Christ's 00:19:51.609 --> 00:19:54.529 reach then we also must narrow Adam's and no 00:19:54.529 --> 00:19:57.789 one have I ever heard do that. But every time 00:19:57.789 --> 00:20:00.029 that you try to explain to people that Christ 00:20:00.029 --> 00:20:02.950 is in all they want to narrow down what Christ 00:20:02.950 --> 00:20:06.150 did but yet somehow we believe that we're all 00:20:06.150 --> 00:20:08.910 included in Adam and Adam screwed us all up. 00:20:09.049 --> 00:20:11.970 know my friend if Adam screwed us all up then 00:20:11.970 --> 00:20:14.650 Christ go back to what I said I believe last 00:20:14.650 --> 00:20:16.690 week when I talked about he's the lamb slain 00:20:16.690 --> 00:20:19.630 before the foundation of the universe if he's 00:20:19.630 --> 00:20:22.029 the lamb slain before the foundations that mean 00:20:22.029 --> 00:20:24.950 he was slain before Adam fell you and I were 00:20:24.950 --> 00:20:27.650 found in Christ long before we were lost in Adam 00:20:27.650 --> 00:20:30.789 God never lost his grip on humanity he came in 00:20:30.789 --> 00:20:33.269 this moment to redeem and restore you for good 00:20:33.269 --> 00:20:36.509 for permanent reasons to show you what it's like 00:20:36.509 --> 00:20:40.210 to walk in the spirit to walk in union with the 00:20:40.210 --> 00:20:46.210 Trinity as a man. He embraced all of humanity. 00:20:48.650 --> 00:20:51.269 Every single person that you come in contact 00:20:51.269 --> 00:20:55.089 with has Christ on the inside of them and they 00:20:55.089 --> 00:21:02.410 need you to awaken that Christ. So let me slow 00:21:02.410 --> 00:21:06.359 down just a minute. I want to go through some 00:21:06.359 --> 00:21:10.799 more of this language just a little bit. So, 00:21:10.880 --> 00:21:14.559 condemnation here. If you go back to verse 18, 00:21:14.660 --> 00:21:16.579 it says, in other words, just as condemnation 00:21:16.579 --> 00:21:19.579 came upon all people, it's the word catachryma. 00:21:20.420 --> 00:21:22.660 This is not about essence and it's not about 00:21:22.660 --> 00:21:26.420 identity. It's a verdict, not a nature. Adam 00:21:26.420 --> 00:21:32.019 did not change humanity's being. He introduced 00:21:32.019 --> 00:21:35.900 a verdict of accusation You think about what 00:21:35.900 --> 00:21:38.579 the enemy is called. He's called the accuser 00:21:38.579 --> 00:21:41.700 of the Brethren Listen my friend if someone comes 00:21:41.700 --> 00:21:44.200 at you and accuses you of things that you did 00:21:44.200 --> 00:21:48.759 that is the voice of the enemy Speaking to you 00:21:48.759 --> 00:21:54.539 Think about it So Adam is not changing Humanity's 00:21:54.539 --> 00:21:58.220 being he's introducing a verdict of accusation 00:21:58.759 --> 00:22:01.380 But if you go to the word justification that 00:22:01.380 --> 00:22:04.400 I mentioned a while ago, it's the word diciosis 00:22:04.400 --> 00:22:08.099 This is not a legal fiction. It's not pretending 00:22:08.099 --> 00:22:11.460 something isn't true. It means this a restoration 00:22:11.460 --> 00:22:15.809 to right standing It's setting things back into 00:22:15.809 --> 00:22:19.109 proper alignment. It's re -establishing what 00:22:19.109 --> 00:22:22.349 was always intended. So Paul was not saying here 00:22:22.349 --> 00:22:25.569 that God decided to see people differently. No, 00:22:25.630 --> 00:22:29.009 he is saying that God restored humanity to its 00:22:29.009 --> 00:22:34.450 original truth. And then he adds the end of that. 00:22:34.569 --> 00:22:37.009 something very crucial justification of life 00:22:37.009 --> 00:22:39.849 we've already talked about what that word means 00:22:39.849 --> 00:22:43.970 zoe it's not justification for life it's justification 00:22:43.970 --> 00:22:47.509 of life justification that produces life this 00:22:47.509 --> 00:22:55.970 is ontological not merely judicial so all of 00:22:55.970 --> 00:23:00.890 this is helping to pertain to identity language 00:23:00.890 --> 00:23:03.789 and not courtroom language. We have got to get 00:23:03.789 --> 00:23:07.890 the mindset of God in a Western courtroom. When 00:23:07.890 --> 00:23:10.490 you hear things such as he's judge, he is not 00:23:10.490 --> 00:23:14.029 Judge Judy sitting behind a bench. They didn't 00:23:14.029 --> 00:23:16.430 have courtrooms like that. If you want to know 00:23:16.430 --> 00:23:19.210 what a judge looks like, go get your Bible and 00:23:19.210 --> 00:23:25.279 go read the book of, I don't know, judges. So 00:23:25.279 --> 00:23:27.880 Paul was not arguing a legal case here. He's 00:23:27.880 --> 00:23:32.400 unveiling an identity. If this were purely legal, 00:23:34.400 --> 00:23:38.579 belief would activate it. Unbelief would deactivate 00:23:38.579 --> 00:23:44.160 it. But Paul roots this in Christ's act and not 00:23:44.160 --> 00:23:48.910 human response. Adam's action impacted humanity 00:23:48.910 --> 00:23:51.910 without humanity's consent. Now think about this. 00:23:52.329 --> 00:23:56.750 So why do we suddenly require consent for Christ's 00:23:56.750 --> 00:24:00.549 act to be effective? You didn't get a vote on 00:24:00.549 --> 00:24:04.769 whether or not you were included in Adam. Now 00:24:04.769 --> 00:24:10.349 again, let me help someone understand this. Everybody 00:24:10.349 --> 00:24:17.180 does not believe this shit yet. And I would argue, 00:24:17.180 --> 00:24:21.920 I would argue that maybe the world does not believe 00:24:21.920 --> 00:24:24.480 this yet because the church does not yet believe 00:24:24.480 --> 00:24:26.500 this. We have sons and daughters who don't even 00:24:26.500 --> 00:24:28.460 believe they're sons and daughters. We still 00:24:28.460 --> 00:24:30.559 have a mindset I'm a sinner saved by grace and 00:24:30.559 --> 00:24:32.240 that's so far from the truth that's not even 00:24:32.240 --> 00:24:38.480 funny. But Adam's actions impacted humanity without 00:24:38.480 --> 00:24:41.299 our consent. So why do we require our consent 00:24:41.299 --> 00:24:47.880 for Christ's act to be effective in us? No? Or 00:24:47.880 --> 00:24:50.779 is it simply the truth that it takes you and 00:24:50.779 --> 00:24:56.380 I to help unveil that for others around us? Paul 00:24:56.380 --> 00:25:00.579 repeatedly says things like much more. Grace 00:25:00.579 --> 00:25:04.920 does not barely overcome sin. But I know we for 00:25:04.920 --> 00:25:08.619 some reason we found the word grace to be offensive 00:25:08.619 --> 00:25:12.519 it is offensive But we find it when you can't 00:25:12.519 --> 00:25:14.220 have too much grace. We need to balance that 00:25:14.220 --> 00:25:16.960 grace. No, we don't there isn't listen Christ 00:25:16.960 --> 00:25:20.720 broke the scale. There is no balancing any longer 00:25:20.720 --> 00:25:26.500 He destroyed the scale grace a hundred percent 00:25:26.500 --> 00:25:31.220 overwhelms Sin, I believe it's John chapter 1 00:25:31.599 --> 00:25:35.180 Want to turn there because I think that speaks 00:25:35.180 --> 00:25:39.380 to what I'm hearing right now as far as grace 00:25:39.380 --> 00:25:45.859 goes Yeah, it's John chapter 1 verse Let's let's 00:25:45.859 --> 00:25:49.200 back up to verse 14 I'm gonna read this it says 00:25:49.200 --> 00:25:51.960 and so the living expression became a man and 00:25:51.960 --> 00:25:56.089 lived among us We gazed upon his glory, the glory 00:25:56.089 --> 00:25:58.789 of the one and only who came from the Father 00:25:58.789 --> 00:26:02.630 overflowing with tender mercy and truth. John 00:26:02.630 --> 00:26:04.769 announced the truth about him when he taught 00:26:04.769 --> 00:26:08.170 the people, he's the one, he's the one I've been 00:26:08.170 --> 00:26:10.470 telling you would come after me even though he 00:26:10.470 --> 00:26:13.849 ranks far above me because he existed before 00:26:13.849 --> 00:26:17.130 I was even born. And from the overflow of his 00:26:17.130 --> 00:26:24.099 fullness we received grace heaped upon more Grace. 00:26:24.799 --> 00:26:28.079 Moses gave us the law, but Jesus the anointed 00:26:28.079 --> 00:26:32.680 one unveils truth wrapped in tender mercy. Grace 00:26:32.680 --> 00:26:37.299 heaped upon more grace. You cannot have, I think 00:26:37.299 --> 00:26:39.220 there's somewhere in the scripture it talks about 00:26:39.220 --> 00:26:43.630 super abundant. It's hyper grace. I don't know 00:26:43.630 --> 00:26:47.390 how you can overemphasize grace. It's like overemphasizing 00:26:47.390 --> 00:26:51.450 love. How do you do that? You cannot overemphasize 00:26:51.450 --> 00:26:55.950 grace in love and mercy. So grace is not barely 00:26:55.950 --> 00:27:01.730 overcoming sin. Grace overwhelms sin. If grace 00:27:01.730 --> 00:27:05.609 only reaches as far as belief, then the grace 00:27:05.609 --> 00:27:08.789 is smaller than the sin. But scripture presents 00:27:08.789 --> 00:27:14.039 grace as stronger deeper and is more expansive 00:27:14.039 --> 00:27:17.880 grace doesn't struggle uphill against sin no 00:27:17.880 --> 00:27:23.779 grace swallows sin whole let that settle within 00:27:23.779 --> 00:27:33.240 you grace swallowed sin whole he's the lamb John 00:27:33.240 --> 00:27:38.549 says it this way behold the lamb that takes away 00:27:38.549 --> 00:27:41.230 the sin of the world. It's in John chapter one, 00:27:41.289 --> 00:27:45.049 verse 29. Look, there he is, God's lamb. He takes 00:27:45.049 --> 00:27:50.349 away the sin of the entire world. Jesus removes, 00:27:50.670 --> 00:27:54.390 he takes away, he lifts off the distorted identity, 00:27:54.470 --> 00:28:01.680 which is sin of the entire cosmos. That's. That's 00:28:01.680 --> 00:28:04.619 what Jesus does. That's what, excuse me, that's 00:28:04.619 --> 00:28:08.680 what Jesus has done. He has removed the distorted 00:28:08.680 --> 00:28:12.619 identity. And what is happening right now? We 00:28:12.619 --> 00:28:15.019 still believe a lie that we're just a sinner 00:28:15.019 --> 00:28:17.900 saved by grace and said no, there's Christ in 00:28:17.900 --> 00:28:22.740 me, the hope of glory. As Jesus now is, so are 00:28:22.740 --> 00:28:28.720 we. Romans 8, I believe it is. All of creation 00:28:28.720 --> 00:28:31.059 groaning and trembling for the what? The manifestation 00:28:31.059 --> 00:28:35.380 of the sons and daughters of Yahweh. Creation 00:28:35.380 --> 00:28:39.019 is waiting and longing for you to understand 00:28:39.019 --> 00:28:42.319 and come back to the realization of who you are 00:28:42.319 --> 00:28:45.559 inside of Christ and that you have the voice 00:28:45.559 --> 00:28:48.720 of the creator inside of you. That you do not 00:28:48.720 --> 00:28:51.440 have a sin nature, but my friend, you do have 00:28:51.440 --> 00:29:02.960 a divine nature. Salvation as awakening. If Adam's 00:29:02.960 --> 00:29:07.019 fall was unconscious participation and Christ's 00:29:07.019 --> 00:29:10.299 victory was conscience obedience, then salvation 00:29:10.299 --> 00:29:12.960 is not about reattachment, it's about awakening. 00:29:14.660 --> 00:29:18.480 You don't awaken to something that isn't already 00:29:18.480 --> 00:29:23.039 true. Truth is truth regardless of your participation 00:29:23.039 --> 00:29:25.759 or not. Truth is truth regardless of you choose 00:29:25.759 --> 00:29:27.940 to believe it or not. If you want to continue 00:29:27.940 --> 00:29:30.299 to believe and walk in a distorted identity, 00:29:30.460 --> 00:29:32.740 my friend, go for it. But I'm here to tell you 00:29:32.740 --> 00:29:36.019 the truth of who you are revealed in Christ because 00:29:36.019 --> 00:29:40.019 Christ died not just for you but as you. He took 00:29:40.019 --> 00:29:43.720 on all of humanity's death and you are now co 00:29:43.720 --> 00:29:47.019 -glorified and co -seated with Christ in heavenly 00:29:47.019 --> 00:29:50.859 places. You are holy. You are right. you are 00:29:50.859 --> 00:29:54.279 whole, you are forgiven, you are loved, you are 00:29:54.279 --> 00:29:57.259 perfect, you are everything the Father says about 00:29:57.259 --> 00:30:00.900 you. You are loved in the same way that the Father 00:30:00.900 --> 00:30:05.369 loves the Son. Right now, before you do anything 00:30:05.369 --> 00:30:07.650 else, I don't care how screwed up your life is, 00:30:07.849 --> 00:30:09.609 I don't care what you did before you started 00:30:09.609 --> 00:30:12.329 watching this video, I don't give a flying hoot, 00:30:12.490 --> 00:30:14.990 living holy whatever you want to call it, I don't 00:30:14.990 --> 00:30:17.650 care what you've done in life, I'm here to tell 00:30:17.650 --> 00:30:25.210 you the truth of who you are in Christ. You don't 00:30:25.210 --> 00:30:27.529 awaken to something that isn't already true, 00:30:27.670 --> 00:30:32.049 you awaken to reality. The gospel does not create 00:30:32.049 --> 00:30:35.089 union the gospel does one thing and that's it 00:30:35.089 --> 00:30:38.289 reveals a union It shows you and reveals to you 00:30:38.289 --> 00:30:41.670 what has always been true And that is that you 00:30:41.670 --> 00:30:45.750 are in Christ in Christ is in you it says in 00:30:45.750 --> 00:30:49.009 that day in that day You should know that I am 00:30:49.009 --> 00:30:51.349 in my father. My father is in me and I am in 00:30:51.349 --> 00:30:53.829 you. I Probably meant I probably messed that 00:30:53.829 --> 00:30:56.349 up in that day. You will know that I am in my 00:30:56.349 --> 00:31:00.319 father You are in me and I am in you In that 00:31:00.319 --> 00:31:03.019 day, that is not a future event, that is the 00:31:03.019 --> 00:31:05.500 day that you begin to wake up and realize in 00:31:05.500 --> 00:31:08.000 the spiritual realm that Jesus is in the Father, 00:31:08.319 --> 00:31:10.759 you are in Jesus and the Holy Spirit, Jesus is 00:31:10.759 --> 00:31:19.000 in you. In that day, my prayer for you is that 00:31:19.000 --> 00:31:22.460 today would be that day. That you would begin 00:31:22.460 --> 00:31:25.660 to understand that Jesus is in the Father, you 00:31:25.660 --> 00:31:30.779 are in him, and he is in you. This is all big 00:31:30.779 --> 00:31:34.799 just one big life party between you father son 00:31:34.799 --> 00:31:38.059 and Holy Spirit you've been Invited and you can 00:31:38.059 --> 00:31:43.460 participate in the dance of the Trinity My god 00:31:43.460 --> 00:31:49.819 do we get this But this is where This is where 00:31:49.819 --> 00:31:51.980 the pushback happens. This is where fear begins 00:31:51.980 --> 00:31:55.660 to show up if Christ already embraced all Then 00:31:55.660 --> 00:31:59.059 why should I live holy? What is holy? like no 00:31:59.059 --> 00:32:04.500 other. Why do we repent? Why do we believe? Because 00:32:04.500 --> 00:32:07.819 here's the truth, blindness still destroys lives. 00:32:08.960 --> 00:32:12.420 Truth does not remove responsibility, truth redefines 00:32:12.420 --> 00:32:15.880 it. You know as a son or daughter now you have 00:32:15.880 --> 00:32:21.259 responsibility. We don't live wholly to become 00:32:21.259 --> 00:32:24.819 sons, no we live wholly because we are sons. 00:32:26.250 --> 00:32:30.130 Behavior does not create identity. Identity shapes 00:32:30.130 --> 00:32:38.589 behavior. And behavior follows identity. When 00:32:38.589 --> 00:32:41.589 you begin to realize who you are as a son or 00:32:41.589 --> 00:32:45.140 daughter of God, When you begin to allow that 00:32:45.140 --> 00:32:47.759 to become your identity, when you begin to realize 00:32:47.759 --> 00:32:49.940 that you are forgiven, that you are loved, that 00:32:49.940 --> 00:32:52.819 you are completely whole right now, not trying 00:32:52.819 --> 00:32:55.319 to become whole, that you are whole right now, 00:32:55.660 --> 00:32:58.319 that everything you need is already within you, 00:32:58.519 --> 00:33:01.180 declares Ephesians chapter one. When you begin 00:33:01.180 --> 00:33:03.839 to believe this, your behavior will follow that 00:33:03.839 --> 00:33:09.069 identity. If we begin to preach a gospel where 00:33:09.069 --> 00:33:12.210 Adam universally damaged and Christ partially 00:33:12.210 --> 00:33:15.329 restored, then Adam is the dominant force of 00:33:15.329 --> 00:33:18.349 human history. And that has been a truth long 00:33:18.349 --> 00:33:21.410 enough. Let me rephrase that. That has been a 00:33:21.410 --> 00:33:25.490 lie long enough masked as truth. Scripture calls 00:33:25.490 --> 00:33:28.849 Jesus the last Adam, the greater Adam, and the 00:33:28.849 --> 00:33:32.269 image humanity was always meant to bear. Christ 00:33:32.269 --> 00:33:35.470 is the answer. I don't know why people can think 00:33:35.470 --> 00:33:38.289 that I put little emphasis on Christ when Christ 00:33:38.289 --> 00:33:45.059 is the only way all of this is possible. Adam 00:33:45.059 --> 00:33:48.480 did one thing, he introduced death, but Christ 00:33:48.480 --> 00:33:51.759 on the cross abolished it. Listen, even when 00:33:51.759 --> 00:33:54.119 you die in this earth, I'm here to tell you that 00:33:54.119 --> 00:33:58.099 you go from life to life, not life to death to 00:33:58.099 --> 00:34:02.700 life. Death has no hold on you, my friend. You 00:34:02.700 --> 00:34:06.220 go from life to life. You go from this life to 00:34:06.220 --> 00:34:08.920 joining the cloud of witnesses just on the other 00:34:08.920 --> 00:34:13.090 side. Christ abolished death. He didn't postpone 00:34:13.090 --> 00:34:17.090 it. He didn't manage it. No, he completely abolished 00:34:17.090 --> 00:34:19.909 it. And here's the tension that we must hold 00:34:19.909 --> 00:34:23.289 is Christ's work is complete. I said it last 00:34:23.289 --> 00:34:25.230 week, I believe. I'll say it again this week. 00:34:25.650 --> 00:34:28.849 I simply wholeheartedly believe that when Jesus 00:34:28.849 --> 00:34:31.010 stretched his hands on that cross and declared 00:34:31.010 --> 00:34:34.030 it is finished, that he actually meant exactly 00:34:34.030 --> 00:34:36.610 what he said, that he left nothing undone, no 00:34:36.610 --> 00:34:41.150 stone unturned. He did not. leave anything untouched 00:34:41.150 --> 00:34:44.670 and unfinished. No, He finished every single 00:34:44.670 --> 00:34:48.110 thing that He came here to finish. Now we have 00:34:48.110 --> 00:34:51.090 to awaken to the truth and the realization of 00:34:51.090 --> 00:34:54.769 who we are as sons and daughters because of that 00:34:54.769 --> 00:34:57.670 finished work, because of the cross of Christ. 00:34:58.030 --> 00:35:01.489 We are now dead to sin. I'm not trying to die 00:35:01.489 --> 00:35:08.869 to my sin, I am dead to my sin. Christ's work 00:35:08.869 --> 00:35:12.570 is complete, but humanity's awareness is not. 00:35:13.789 --> 00:35:16.090 It's not a failure of the cross. It's not a failure 00:35:16.090 --> 00:35:18.750 of the Christ. No, that's the mission now of 00:35:18.750 --> 00:35:22.989 sons and daughters to take this gospel and awaken 00:35:22.989 --> 00:35:25.710 sons and daughters around the world, in the world 00:35:25.710 --> 00:35:33.670 that you are living in. Let me close with this. 00:35:38.169 --> 00:35:43.670 Adam does not get to define who you are any longer. 00:35:44.730 --> 00:35:47.570 Christ is the only one who has the authority 00:35:47.570 --> 00:35:50.889 to define you unless you give that authority 00:35:50.889 --> 00:35:55.230 to another. Sin does not determine your future. 00:35:55.550 --> 00:35:59.869 Why? Because sin has been effectively dealt with 00:35:59.869 --> 00:36:04.889 by Jesus. So sin does not determine your future. 00:36:05.289 --> 00:36:10.340 Grace does. You are not waiting here any longer 00:36:10.340 --> 00:36:13.320 to be included in anything You are awakening 00:36:13.320 --> 00:36:18.300 to what has always been true because of Christ 00:36:18.300 --> 00:36:25.139 So we talked about this this week this sets us 00:36:25.139 --> 00:36:29.780 up part Perfectly for next week when we begin 00:36:29.780 --> 00:36:32.920 to address the question if Christ's victory is 00:36:32.920 --> 00:36:35.380 this complete? What about darkness Satan and 00:36:35.380 --> 00:36:39.059 evil? That's something we will look at next week 00:36:39.059 --> 00:36:42.400 my friend. I hope this message is helping you. 00:36:42.400 --> 00:36:46.400 I hope this is transforming your life Understand 00:36:46.400 --> 00:36:48.860 who you are go spend some time with the Holy 00:36:48.860 --> 00:36:52.920 Spirit allow Holy Spirit to unveil you Allow 00:36:52.920 --> 00:36:56.800 Holy Spirit to unveil truth to you stare in the 00:36:56.800 --> 00:37:00.139 face of Yeshua Stare into the eyes of Yeshua 00:37:00.139 --> 00:37:04.760 until you begin to see who you actually are My 00:37:04.760 --> 00:37:07.300 friends, be blessed until next week.