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The summer months is memorizing a verse of scripture one for each week tying together with the theme

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Those of you who were here last week received one of these green cards

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Undoubtedly that is well worn already this week as you've labored over the first verse

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And if you need another one, there are some extras out there. You can wear them out. Maybe in one week worrying about this

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Others of you didn't even get a card last week

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We want to encourage you to pick one up at the information desk and make use of it

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Today's memory verse deals with our union with Jesus Christ Romans 6 for therefore we were buried with him

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by baptism into death

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Just as Christ was raised from the dead by the glory of the Father even so we also should walk in

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newness of life

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So easy that is

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Let's all try it together

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our purpose in printing these up

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Using the New King James version so that we could all memorize from the same version and quote them together

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at least occasionally

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This is the longest verse of the month and perhaps the most challenging therefore to our our feeble minds

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And so let's attempt to say this together. I recognize by the way difficulty

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That is some of us memorize out of other versions

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You say why did you go to the New King James? Well because

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That's the closest to the King James

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And those of us who are older have memorized out of the King James all of our lives and we're used to that kind of language

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And so it helps us now you young ones don't have any trouble memorizing

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But those of us who are older need something a little more familiar, so that's why we're using the New King James version

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Say it together with me

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Therefore we were buried with him by baptism

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into death

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That just as Christ was raised from the dead by the glory of the father

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Even so we also should walk in newness of life

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Romans 6 4

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Right very good. Thank you some of you made your mouth move that looked good

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Nothing was coming out, but there was nice assimilation

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Next week, it's a little easier Colossians 4 2 as we talk about prayer

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But this morning before we come to the Lord's table we want to have time for a brief

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meditation at least on our theme of union

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Enjoying your new relationship, and I'd like you to turn with me to 2nd Corinthians chapter 5

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verses 14 through 17

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For the love of Christ controls us

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Having concluded this

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That one died for all

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Therefore all died

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You see there is the union the one who died for all is of course the Lord Jesus

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And therefore all died how because we died with him that's the point and romans 6 4

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There's a good reference for that

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And it says he died for all

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The day who lives should no longer live for themselves

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But for him who died and rose again on their behalf

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Therefore from now on we recognize no man according to the flesh

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Even though we have known Christ according to the flesh yet now we know him thus no longer

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Therefore if any man is in Christ

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He is a new creature

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The old things passed away

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Behold new things have come

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A pastor friend of mine was rather new at his church

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One sunny morning he was running a little bit late to the first service

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And as he came off the expressway

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Near where his church is located

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He decided he didn't have time to stop at that sign that's red with the sign

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He didn't ride on through it intending to drive another block and pull into the church lot

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The problem is there was a law officer there observing his actions

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And even though it was Sunday morning the Lord's Day

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He felt that he needed to apply the law

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And so he pulled into the parking lot after my pastor friend and stopped him with his lights flashing

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And so he pulled into the parking lot after my pastor friend and stopped him with his lights flashing

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Now you have to get the picture in mind

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People are driving into church

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And here is their new pastor

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Pulled into the parking lot with a policeman behind him and the lights flashing

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He said may I see your license, please? He pulled out the license and gave it to the gentleman

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He went back to his car and was writing up the ticket, but he also punched in

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The information from the license to the computer

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He got out of the car and came up and asked my friend to get out of the car

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And he put his hands up on the car

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Now remember church members are driving in during this whole time

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He frisked him put handcuffs on him and put him in the back of the police car

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He said what in the world happened?

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Well my friend almost 20 years ago

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Had joined the SDS

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That some of you may remember was a subversive organization

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I belong to young Americans for freedom

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That was never put in the computer for some reason

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But the SDS was a

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A counter

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Political organization

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And therefore the SDS was a

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A counter against the law

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And therefore those who belong to it were put into the law officer's computers

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And still almost 20 years later because of his association

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With the SDS back in college

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When he is pulled over for any kind of a minor violation he's put into cuffs

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Until they can get the whole thing straightened out

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What an embarrassing thing to happen to him

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None of us is without identification

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Not only is that true on a personal level but it's true on a spiritual level

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In the eyes of God we have identity

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Personally and corporately

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Every one of us has identified God knows us individually with our unique characteristics

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He's built into us as our creator

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But we're also identified by him with a group

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By our natural birth we are identified with our forefather Adam

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By our supernatural birth we gain a new identification

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With the Lord Jesus Christ

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We today are either in union with Adam

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And in sin

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Or we are in union with Jesus Christ

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And with righteousness

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There is no alternative to one of those two unions

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We need to understand what union means

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Union does not mean unity

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We're not in unity with Jesus Christ merely

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I might illustrate that by what we saw a couple of weeks ago over in the church office backyard

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As we looked out the window we saw two geese

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And following behind the geese were 20 goslings

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All of them right in a row going after mom and dad

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Reminds me of a great far side cartoon

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You may not enjoy far side you have to have a rather perverse sense of humor to enjoy it

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But I recall seeing one where there was a duck going this way

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And right behind mom a duck was little duck one and little duck two

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And right behind little duck two still moving in that same direction was one of the famous snakes

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That the gentleman draws in his cartoons

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And the snake was looking out at you with a big grin on his face

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And the snake looked like this

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Went back one hump, two humps, three humps

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And he was about to get two more humps

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Well that is unity, bringing things together

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Bringing things together

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But union is different

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Union shares vital life

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The best illustration of union is perhaps the vine and the branches

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That Jesus talks about in John chapter 15

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Union means that we share the same life

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And that is exactly what it means when we are in union with Adam

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We share the same life of Adam, a life of sin, condemnation and death

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But when we are saved by faith in Jesus Christ we have a new union

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It is a union with Jesus Christ and we share his life, eternal life

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And his righteousness and heaven

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By bringing us into union with his son, God has given to us a new relationship with himself

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And it is a relationship that he wants us to enjoy

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And I believe that we will enjoy it if we learn to live in the light of two freedoms

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Which this union involves

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It is in the first place a union from and in the second place a union for

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Excuse me, a freedom for

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Freedom from what?

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Freedom from living for oneself

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It says in 2 Corinthians 5, 14

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He died for all that they who live should no longer live for themselves

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You and I will learn to enjoy our union with Jesus Christ

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And we will experience the joy of it when we learn to live in the light of these two freedoms

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The first one being the freedom from living for ourselves

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Living for oneself is intrinsic and fundamental to the nature of the sinner

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It is the final test, it is the bottom line of what is important to one who is in union with Adam and with sin

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Our culture is perhaps the most overt, bold, and unashamed of this ethic of living for self

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Than any that have gone before us

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In previous generations, living for oneself was certainly there

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But it was politely disguised

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It was not admitted to, it was called other things

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It was always the hidden agenda in every deal or every decision or every motive

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But it was politely covered over and called something else

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But we today have become so blatant and open about living for oneself

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That we have come to say that living for oneself is the highest good

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Duty to self is the ethical revolution of the 1980s

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We demand our freedoms

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The freedom is demanded to live the way one wants to live

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To pursue one's personal interests, yes, to live for oneself

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That's why we want to be free, to live for ourselves

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I always say that's part of our heritage

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Liberty is, but I remind you that liberty in the early United States culture was for the common good

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Not necessarily for the personal good

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Today we have changed liberty for the common good, for the social good

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To be liberty for personal rights and for self fulfillment

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The fact is that this liberty, this freedom to live for oneself

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Is the cruelest kind of slavery of all in the end

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For living for oneself does not liberate, it does not ennoble the soul

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It does not even make one truly happy

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Self-centeredness is like a drawstring on a bag of misery and disappointment

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The harder one pulls on it, the more constricted the bag becomes

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And the more impossible to escape from it

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What is said a different way, self-centeredness is a poison

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That is sweet to the tongue, but deadly to the soul

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I ask you, have you ever met a self-centered person who is truly happy?

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I dare say you have not, for self-centeredness does not bring joy to life, but misery in the end

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To be in union with Jesus Christ is to be one with the most selfless person who has ever lived

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Indeed, he laid down his life, he died for all, he gave himself up

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To be in union with him means that I am now free to live other than with self-interest

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As my primary motive for what I do

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I want to repeat that

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To be in union with Jesus Christ means that now I am free to live other than with self-interest

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As my primary motive in what I do

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Let me balance this by saying that it's not wrong to include self-interest in making decisions

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Not to live for oneself does not mean that you must deny who you are by God's creation or his regeneration

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Not to live for oneself does not mean that you must deny your feelings

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Not to live for oneself does not mean that you must deny your God-given desires to have, to enjoy, and to be significant

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Those are God-given

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The problem is when we begin to make self-interest our primary motive

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Then our God-given desire to have becomes covetousness

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And our God-given desire to enjoy becomes lust

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And our God-given desire to be significant becomes pride

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It is not wrong to include self-interest in making decisions

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We may in fact act with self-interest until that conflicts with the interests of others and especially of God

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As a child of God, you and I are in union with Jesus Christ

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We are set free from slavery of living only for ourselves

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We can live otherwise

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If you and I want to enjoy our new relationship with God through Jesus Christ

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We must learn to exercise this first freedom

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Freedom from living only for self-interest

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A second freedom is a freedom for

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A freedom for living for Christ

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One united with Christ is freed from the tyranny of self-centeredness

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The love of Jesus Christ which converted now compels that believer to live with a certain self-abandon

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He says, he died for all that they who live should no longer live for themselves but for him

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Who died and rose again on their behalf

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You and I have a second freedom which if we enter into will enable us to enjoy our new relationship with God

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It is the freedom we have to live for Jesus Christ

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There are three statements about this that I want to make briefly

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One is that this freedom is granted to every child of God without exception

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Every child of God is free to live for Christ

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Secondly, this freedom is used only by deliberate choice to forsake self-interest

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For the good of others and for the glory of God

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I want to repeat that when you and I deliberately choose to forsake self-interest

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For the good of another, for the glory of God

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We are using that liberty, that freedom God has given us

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To be free from self-interest

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Thirdly, this freedom when used as a pattern for life will bring the genuine joy of God to you

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If today there is little Christian joy in your life, one question you need to ask yourself

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Am I employing these freedoms that God has given me by my union with Christ?

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Or am I still submitting myself to self-interest and self-centeredness?

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And refusing to forsake self-interest for the good of others and the glory of God

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You see we are tempted every day to live in accordance with our old slavery and our old union

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Every day it comes to us

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Scores of opportunities are presented and they are tempting by which we may exercise self-interest

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We are tempted every day to live according to that slavery and the old union with Adam

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Every day we must deliberately choose to live in accordance with our new union

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And the new freedoms that we have been given

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With each of the messages through the summer we are going to try to develop with it a certain project

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Some of those can be accomplished immediately right here in this auditorium

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Some of them will take some thought and effort during the week

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The project this morning is of the first variety

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As you partake of communion today

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I want to exhort you to recognize that you are remembering one, the Lord Jesus

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Who deliberately chose not to live for himself but for others

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And to remember as you partake of that bread and the cup

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That actually you are in union, a living union with this selfless one

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So as you bite into that bread, as you drink that cup, remember this reminds me

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This represents my selfless Lord

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With whom I am in a living union

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And I am remembering in doing this the culmination of his selflessness

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And his choice to go to the cross for me

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And as you remember that I then would like you to say to him

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The one to whom you are eternally united, Jesus

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In partaking of these elements, I deliberately choose to live like you did

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Not for my own self-interests

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But for the interests of others and for your glory in my life

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I think it's only when we partake of it with that kind of commitment that the Lord's table is meaningful

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When we will make that kind of commitment

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Then we will enjoy the relationship that God has secured for us through the sacrifice of the Savior

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Would you bow in prayer with me please?

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It may be that quite honestly and transparently your life recently has been lived basically on the bottom line for self

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The decisions that you have made, the plans that you've laid have all focused on what's good for you

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And you have deliberately excluded others and there may be others that are hurting because of that

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It may be a spouse or children, it may be your parents or friends of yours

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Or someone at work, perhaps a neighbor

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Every day we must deliberately choose not to live for ourselves but for Him

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If this last week has been lived otherwise, now is a good time to confess that to the Lord

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Would you do it?

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Would you acknowledge your sin to Him and repent of it?

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And would you say to the Lord Jesus even now, even before we partake of the Lord's table

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Or Jesus, I choose from this point on to make my decisions based upon living like you, denying myself for the sake of others

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Lord Jesus, I pray that we will learn what that means

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So that we then might experience the fullness of joy that you have for us in life

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Thank you for the union that you have brought to pass through faith by the grace of God

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Thank you for delivering us from what we were that the old has passed away

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Thank you for making us new persons, new creatures in yourself

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Amen