Beyond the Walls with Jeremy Thomas
Jeremy approaches Bible teaching with a passion for getting the basic doctrines explained so that the individual can understand them and then apply them to circumstances in their life. These basic and important lessons are nestled in a framework of history and progression of revelation from the Bible so the whole of Scripture can be applied to your physical and spiritual life.
Beyond the Walls with Jeremy Thomas
NT Framework - Entering Supernatural
We all want the supernatural, why else are super hero movies so popular. We want to be like the hero; one day we will be even better though, and the reality is we can start living toward that end now.
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Jeremy Thomas is the pastor at Spokane Bible Church in Spokane, Washington and a professor at Chafer Theological Seminary. He has been teaching the Bible for over 20 years, always seeking to present its truths in a clear and understandable manner.
Welcome to Beyond the Walls with Jeremy Thomas and our series on the New Testament framework. Today, a smaller, bite-sized piece from the larger lesson. We hope you enjoy it.
SPEAKER_01:Now, this life that he's talking about, the resurrection life of Christ through you, is a supernatural. It's supernatural. We can't produce it any more than we can produce our resurrection, can we? But it is what is produced through us as we live by faith. So Colossians chapter 2, verse 12. It sounds a lot like Romans 6, doesn't it? Verse 12. Having been buried with him in baptism, same as Romans 6, in which you were also raised up with him through faith in the working of God, the one who raised him from the dead. See, you've been spiritually raised up with Christ through faith the moment you had faith, the moment you believed, right? Verse 13, when you were dead in your transgressions in the uncircumcision of your flesh, he made you what? He made you alive together with Christ, having forgiven us all our transgressions, canceled out the decree of decrees of debt against us, which was hostile to us, and he's taken it all out of the way. He nailed it to the cross and he disarmed the rulers and the authorities. It's the angelic powers, right? He made a public display and so forth and so on. But the point is that you have a new way of living open to you. And it is a supernatural way of living. It's not anything that we can produce naturally, it's a supernatural thing. So if all you're ever seeing in your life is just natural results, you have a good idea where that's coming from, don't you? It's coming from you. I mean, why do we need prayer in our spiritual life? I mean, Paul prays throughout the letters that he writes. That's one of the reasons I start, you know, picking up the phone and saying, hey, I'm praying for you, people. Or I'm praying this for you. Why did I start doing that? Well, because Paul's telling people he's praying for them all the time. Doesn't that encourage you? Somebody's actually thinking about you. I can't text you if I don't have your phone. But I could email you, you know, but um, but I have people that I regularly tell that I'm praying for. Because Paul tells people that. And the other reason we're praying is prayer is by by its nature showing dependence on God. Because all sick, there's six Greek words for prayer. Sick. Roshi, Deo, Deomai, others, I teo, some others. If you look every one of these words up in a lexicon, in a Greek lexicon, it's so interesting. Every single one of them has one thing at the center of it. It'll always be that you request. The fundamental part of prayer is that we're asking God for it. If you're asking, that means you can't supply it. You're asking Him to supply it. It's a dependence. Prayer is all about dependence. And what why why if I could produce it, why would I need to pray about it? The whole point is I want to see something supernatural. I want to see something beyond what I can produce in this world. One of the reasons this year dedicated the theme is to prayer, right? At the Ocan Bible Church. Prayer. Why? Because we want to see supernatural results in our lives, in our church body. We don't just want to see natural, do you? That's probably what's going on in a lot of churches. What do they do? They market for, you know, what do you want? What do you want to see? What do you want us to do on stage? What kind of show do you want us to put on? Da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da. What kind of programs do you want us to have? It's not about any of that. It's really what we really all want to see is God do something great in our lives and on our church body's life. But if we're going to see that, we've got to come to Him by prayer. Because He's the only one we're we're admitting, you're the only one that can produce something supernatural in my life. You're the only one that can produce something supernatural in our local church's life. And this is really the only things that we're interested in. Supernatural things. What we call the fruit of the spirit. That's a super those are supernatural things. Uh can I love my enemy? Love is the first and key to all the fruit of the spirit, right? Fruit of the spirit is love. How do we love our enemy? I don't love my enemy. I hate my enemy. I want to kill my enemy. I want to talk bad about my enemy. I don't like them. That guy at work, he's a jerk. That's great. But you we're supposed to love them. How how can we love people that are jerks to us? Only by the power of God are we able to do that. Supernatural uh production. So, but that comes by living this exchange life. Okay, this is a new way of living, and it's there to produce humanly impossible results, and that's that's what we're after. So, but this is available to us now. Um Philippians 3. I think this is such an important point and not stressed enough, so taking a little time to look at it. Here's Paul, Philippians 3, 8 through 11. These verses I wrestle with a lot um this chapter because this is the Apostle Paul saying these things. But look at what he says in verse 8. More than that, he says, I count all things to be lost in view of the surpassing value of knowing Christ Jesus my Lord. You're gonna say, I thought you already knew him. I mean, you're a believer, right? Well, yet we know he's a believer. He must not be talking about knowing him in that sense. He must be talking about something more. And he is. He's talking about knowing experientially the power of the resurrected Christ in his life. Well, let's go on. Knowing Christ Jesus my Lord. He says that there's nothing that's more valuable than this. The one he says, for whom I have suffered the loss of all things, his whole family, right? His whole resume as a Pharisee, and so forth. He lost all that. He says, I count them but rubbish, Scubalon. We won't talk about what that is, but if you look up Scubilon, it's interesting. So that I may gain Christ. You say, What? I thought you already had Christ. Aren't you a believer? Well, yeah, he's a believer, but there's something still lacking, even as a believer, in Paul's life. And he's explained to us what it is. He says, and may be found in him, not having a righteousness of my own derived from the law, but that which is through faith in Christ, the righteousness which comes from God on the basis of faith, something which he's hoping to be discovered in this condition, and of course he will. But that I may know him, there it is again, know him and the what? The power of his resurrection. What do you what does he mean? He wants to see it operative in his own life. He wants to see the same power that God the Father used to raise the Son from the dead in the tomb of Joseph of Arimathea manifested in his own life. He wants to experience that. Because everything else is just natural production. But he realizes that if this same power is toward us that the Father exercised in the resurrection of Christ, then we will see something of that same magnitude in our own personal life. That I may know him and the power of his resurrection, the fellowship of his sufferings. I mean, Paul wants to suffer as Christ suffered. Being conformed to his death, not that he had a death wish, but he was willing to go that far, right? In order that I may attain to the, and here's a a unique word used the resurrection used nowhere else in the Bible. But something that he wants to attain to, the out-resurrection, ex anestat, the out-resurrection from the dead, which is a lot of discussion about what this is that he wants to attain to. But I personally think because of the later context here, like in verse 14, pressing on toward the goal for the prize of the upward call. What's that? The upward call. Well, when are you going to be called upward? At the rapture. And that's what he's that's what he's looking forward to, this attaining to the resurrection. He wants to live to the rapture. And he just wants to be ripped off this earth and transformed into his resurrection body. That's what he's trying to attain to. Is that is that a supernatural event? Your body being putting on immortality in a moment in a twinkling of an eye? Sure. And he's wanting to live up until that point and to you know, attain to it in that sense. So he's he wants to live fully, this exchange life, the resurrection life, and experience it more and more in his own personal life and attain to the rapture.
SPEAKER_00:Thank you for joining us on Beyond the Walls with Jeremy Thomas. If you would like to see the visuals that went along with today's sermon, you can find those on Rumble and on YouTube, Under Spoke and Bible Church. That is where Jeremy is the pastor and teacher. We hope you found today's lesson productive and useful in growing closer to God and walking more obediently with Him. If you found this podcast to be useful and helpful, then please consider rating us in your favorite podcast app. And until next time, we hope you have a blessed and wonderful day.