WEBVTT 00:01:22.799 --> 00:01:24.239 Welcome to church this morning. 00:01:24.400 --> 00:01:26.239 We want to welcome you to KCC. 00:01:27.040 --> 00:01:29.439 We invite you to stand up this morning with us. 00:01:29.680 --> 00:01:31.280 We're so excited to have you. 00:01:31.920 --> 00:01:42.000 I mean, what's a better way to start off a week than come to church on a Sunday and just gather together and see each other's eyes, uh uh eye to eye and face to face and see how each other are doing. 00:01:42.159 --> 00:01:45.040 Pastor Brody's gonna be sharing a message this morning. 00:01:45.120 --> 00:01:49.519 We're gonna continue on our our uh our sermon series called Too Good to Be True. 00:01:49.760 --> 00:01:50.879 We're so excited for that. 00:01:51.120 --> 00:01:57.040 Just before we start, if you have kids, we want to encourage you to uh bring them downstairs. 00:01:57.200 --> 00:01:58.959 We have a great check-in system downstairs. 00:01:59.120 --> 00:02:03.439 You can follow the bright red shirts or the bright little signs that we have for that. 00:02:03.599 --> 00:02:08.159 Um we're gonna sing together in a moment, but before that, I just want to pray and we're gonna get right into it. 00:02:08.240 --> 00:02:10.159 So let's just pray together as we start. 00:02:10.319 --> 00:02:12.719 Father God, I just thank you so much for your word. 00:02:13.039 --> 00:02:14.719 We thank you so much for this time together. 00:02:14.800 --> 00:02:16.000 We thank you so much for this building. 00:02:16.159 --> 00:02:17.680 We thank you so much for this church. 00:02:18.000 --> 00:02:28.240 God, we just thank you for your presence, being here with us together, God, that we just want to gather here, and we just want to draw closer and grow deeper in love and relationship with you. 00:02:28.319 --> 00:02:30.960 Father, we just love you in Jesus' name. 00:02:31.199 --> 00:02:31.840 Amen. 00:02:44.240 --> 00:02:46.479 Remember this. 00:02:48.080 --> 00:02:59.039 He took my sin and he beared it no longer I who lives. 00:02:59.919 --> 00:03:10.960 Now Jesus lives in me for I was dead in sin, but I woke up to see the light. 00:03:18.879 --> 00:03:50.159 No, I won't boast, but in the cross that save my soul, all else is lost, the grim of fear has no hold on me, so where death where is your sea? 00:03:50.479 --> 00:03:55.599 No longer I who lives now. 00:03:55.919 --> 00:04:06.479 Jesus lives in me for I was dead, but I woke up to see the light. 00:04:20.319 --> 00:05:13.920 All of this all of this for your glory, all of this for your glory, all for your love, all of this for your glory, all of this for your glory, all of this love, all of this for your glory, all of this for your glory, all of the goodness. 00:05:15.519 --> 00:05:28.560 Now Jesus lives in me for our service, but I woke up to see the last two three four. 00:06:51.600 --> 00:07:30.399 Until your freedom are trained on God, and no everyone shall be stronger, we over your glory freeze outside all since you carry your great read now. 00:07:31.920 --> 00:07:35.040 Your kingdom forever will sing. 00:07:41.920 --> 00:08:07.040 Come on, we sing, our God Almighty Warrior, you're a kiss to the fire, in victory you ray, we triumph in your name, Jesus the great commander, you conquer death forever in victory you ray, we triumph in your name. 00:08:09.600 --> 00:08:10.240 Come on. 00:08:15.839 --> 00:08:17.600 Come on, sing it out, your glory. 00:08:22.879 --> 00:08:32.320 Awesome secret your great now, your kingdom forever will stand. 00:08:33.679 --> 00:08:44.000 Oh, we won't be shaken, we will not fear I got a mighty warrior. 00:08:44.320 --> 00:09:04.080 You're a kids to be fire in victory, we triumph in your name, Jesus the great commander, you come together forever in victory, we triumph in your day. 00:09:10.159 --> 00:09:43.759 And we declare your name is power, it's talking what your name is I stand lower, I strongly above you there's no other above you're still, and we declare your name is power, it's continued, no name is idea. 00:09:44.480 --> 00:09:48.399 You scared the load, our strong deep. 00:09:50.399 --> 00:10:01.039 Above you, there's no other above you singing out above, above you, there's no other, above you, there's no other. 00:10:02.000 --> 00:10:04.559 I got a mighty warrior. 00:10:04.879 --> 00:10:07.360 You're a kid's to me, fire. 00:10:08.000 --> 00:10:19.360 In victory, you ray, we triumph in your day, Jesus the great commander, you conquer death forever. 00:10:19.759 --> 00:10:25.039 In victory, you ray, we triumph in your name. 00:10:25.519 --> 00:10:48.240 Ah, God Almighty war you, you're a kiss to be fired, in victory, we triumph in your name, Jesus the great commander, you conquer death forever, in victory, we try up in your name. 00:12:10.879 --> 00:12:20.639 So here I stand here I stand, high and surrender and me. 00:12:25.440 --> 00:16:50.720 Oh my heart now and forever my soul Christ, here I stand, high and surrender I mean, you now Oh my heart now and forever my soul Christ here I stand, oh here I stand high and surrender I need you now Oh my heart now and forever my soul Christ Sing out here I stand this morning here I stand high and surrender I need you now we need you my heart now and forever my soul Christ now once I was broken you love my hood sin has no hold on me graceful tea now you know you can forgive me now hold on me grace old ground You Grace old D now You Grace old dream now You Grace old three now You Grace will three now healed and forgiven Look where my chains are now Death has no hold on me as you grace host Let's sing that again healed and forgiven Healed and forgiven Look where my chains are now Death has a key of King singing again Praise the Father, praise the Son, praise the spirit three and one God of glory not chastity, praise forever to the king of king in the darkness. 00:16:50.960 --> 00:16:58.879 We were waiting without hope, without light, till from heaven you came running. 00:16:59.200 --> 00:18:12.160 There was mercy in your eyes to fulfill the law and prophets to a virgin came the word from a throne of endless glory to a cradle in the earth, praise the style, praise the spirit three and one God of Glory, Praise forever to the King of King To reveal the kingdom coming and to reconcile the lost, to redeem the whole creation, you did not despise the cross, for even in your suffering, you saw to the other side, knowing this was our salvation, Jesus. 00:18:12.400 --> 00:19:16.880 For our sake, you die, praise the Father, praise the Son, praise the Spirit, three in one God of Glory God just forever to the key of king And the morning that heroes all of heaven held its breath till that stone was moved for good, for the lamb had conquered death, and the dead rose from their tombs, and the angel stood in awe for the souls of all who'd come to the Father are restored. 00:19:17.519 --> 00:19:23.440 And the church of Christ was born, and the spirit led the flame. 00:19:23.599 --> 00:19:42.240 Now this gospel truth bubble shall not kneel, shall not fade by his blood and in his name, in his dream of fire free for the love of Jesus Christ who has resurrected me. 00:20:40.480 --> 00:20:52.640 Praise forever to the king of peace, praise forever to the king of kings. 00:21:01.759 --> 00:21:03.440 Come on, amen. 00:21:03.680 --> 00:21:07.440 Will you just take a moment to just lift up the name of Jesus? 00:21:07.599 --> 00:21:18.400 All morning we've been singing about this great Savior we have, and I don't want to miss an opportunity to just say from our own soul, God, you're great, and we'll praise you. 00:21:18.559 --> 00:21:20.960 You brought us out of darkness into light. 00:21:21.119 --> 00:21:22.000 You freed us. 00:21:22.160 --> 00:21:23.839 Look where my chains are. 00:21:24.000 --> 00:21:28.720 You've gotten rid of my chains, you've set me free, you've birthed me. 00:21:28.960 --> 00:21:35.599 You know, David said in the Psalms, return to your rescue, my soul, for the Lord has been good to you. 00:21:35.839 --> 00:21:43.279 And sometimes I think we can come into church and there's so much going on in our soul, and we don't really know how to lift up the name of the Lord. 00:21:43.519 --> 00:21:47.839 But David knew there's the power of saying, My soul, this is what we're gonna believe. 00:21:48.000 --> 00:21:49.599 My soul, this is what we're gonna do. 00:21:49.839 --> 00:21:51.680 My soul, we're gonna praise you. 00:21:51.759 --> 00:21:52.000 Why? 00:21:52.160 --> 00:21:58.160 Because you've been good to me, because you're my savior, because you freed me, because you set me on a rock. 00:21:58.400 --> 00:21:59.759 So no matter what happened before. 00:22:00.160 --> 00:22:02.799 I got here, no matter what's gonna happen when I leave here. 00:22:02.880 --> 00:22:10.000 Right now, we have a moment to say, Oh my soul, return to your rest, because the Lord has been good to you. 00:22:10.160 --> 00:22:31.599 So even as the band is playing, I just want you to take a moment to start to lift up the name of the Lord for everything we've been singing about, because he brought you out of darkness into light, because he freed you, because he got rid of every chain in your life and you walking as a son, because he redeemed you, because he've done everything in this song. 00:22:31.839 --> 00:22:36.000 But there's something that happens is when you start to lift up that name. 00:23:03.839 --> 00:23:09.599 God, I thank you that those who were in the darkness are now in the light, that God hopeless now have hope. 00:23:09.839 --> 00:23:14.559 God, that people that walked in feeling bound are free in the name of Jesus. 00:23:14.880 --> 00:23:16.640 God, we thank you that you have come. 00:23:16.720 --> 00:23:18.559 We thank you that you set us free. 00:23:18.799 --> 00:23:21.359 God, we thank you that you came even to die for us. 00:23:21.440 --> 00:23:26.480 Father, we thank you that in you our souls have rest because you're everything we need. 00:23:26.640 --> 00:23:28.160 So we praise you this morning. 00:23:28.240 --> 00:23:29.359 We lift you high. 00:23:29.599 --> 00:23:32.559 God, we place you above every other thing going on in our lives. 00:23:32.640 --> 00:23:43.440 And so we magnify you, we glorify you, and we thank you for everything you have done and everything you're going to continue to do in our lives and the lives of this church. 00:23:43.599 --> 00:23:47.759 In Jesus' name, everybody said, Amen. 00:23:48.400 --> 00:23:49.839 Give yourselves a hand. 00:23:53.119 --> 00:23:54.960 We want to welcome you to church. 00:23:55.039 --> 00:23:58.319 If you're new, we're so glad you've joined us today. 00:23:58.480 --> 00:24:04.799 We're gonna take a seat, but while you do that, say hi to three people around you, give them a high five, a handshake. 00:24:50.160 --> 00:25:04.079 And our worship can go in in a into a place of of just surrender and where we just we only use what we can we can give to him in terms of our words and our expression. 00:25:04.240 --> 00:25:07.200 But the Bible says our soul cries out to God. 00:25:07.359 --> 00:25:10.400 How many of you, your soul was worshiping today? 00:25:10.559 --> 00:25:15.359 Your soul was crying out to God and saying, thank you, God, for that message. 00:25:15.599 --> 00:25:20.720 Thank you for the the cross, thank you for the that our our chains are gone. 00:25:20.880 --> 00:25:22.880 We're no longer slaves to sin. 00:25:23.039 --> 00:25:23.680 Amen. 00:25:24.240 --> 00:25:24.880 Awesome. 00:25:25.039 --> 00:25:26.799 Well, good morning, KCC. 00:25:27.200 --> 00:25:32.960 Uh it's uh great to have uh the family together, everyone here in one place. 00:25:33.359 --> 00:25:45.599 Uh, if this is uh your first time to KCC or you're just new or finding your way here, we just want to say you're welcome here and you're welcome to join us on the journey of our faith. 00:25:45.759 --> 00:25:52.880 We believe everyone has this uh clear and defined journey that we we are called to move forward in. 00:25:52.960 --> 00:25:57.200 And the first step is really coming to know God for yourself. 00:25:57.359 --> 00:26:12.880 And and we try and create an environment at church and in this place uh here for your kids as well for yourself, where you are you are uh aware of what God is doing, and you come to know God for yourself. 00:26:13.359 --> 00:26:20.720 He doesn't become the God of your parents or your grandparents or your spouse, he becomes your personal God. 00:26:21.039 --> 00:26:25.519 Your relationship is with God, your relationship is with him on a personal level. 00:26:25.759 --> 00:26:29.680 And we believe that when that happens, you begin to find freedom. 00:26:29.839 --> 00:26:32.400 How many of you found freedom because of Christ? 00:26:32.640 --> 00:26:33.279 That's right. 00:26:33.440 --> 00:26:47.920 And you from that freedom, from that place of freedom, we uh we begin to leave our yesterdays behind and we move on to the future and the purposes that God has called us into so that we can actually go ahead and make a difference in the world. 00:26:48.079 --> 00:26:58.160 Uh, this series that we're on today is uh, and for this month of January, is a part of our know God portion of our year plan. 00:26:58.319 --> 00:27:02.319 Well, we believe we should take some time every year just to dive deep. 00:27:02.640 --> 00:27:14.799 Dive deep in trying to achieve this greater understanding of who God is and what he's done for us, and and by doing so our faith gets richer. 00:27:15.039 --> 00:27:18.799 I think about it in terms of like a children with their parents. 00:27:19.039 --> 00:27:29.119 Um at first, a child just you know gets up and eats food and gets in the vehicle and goes to school and does gets clothed, and all those things happen. 00:27:29.279 --> 00:27:35.440 And and after a while, it's like it's almost like it's uh it's expected. 00:27:35.759 --> 00:27:48.240 But when you come to a place where you realize you get older and you become more mature, and you you become aware of your parents and the activities that you realize they're working and they're paying bills, right? 00:27:48.319 --> 00:27:50.720 How many got bills to pay every month? 00:27:50.799 --> 00:27:57.359 Their bills keep coming, and you get them paid for, and there's activity happening on all different angles. 00:27:57.519 --> 00:28:07.279 The more you realize that, the more you begin to appreciate what your parents have done for you, your parents have done, and the work that they do. 00:28:07.519 --> 00:28:13.680 And so we are we're pressing in to know God in a richer and deeper way. 00:28:13.759 --> 00:28:35.440 And we launched this uh a new semester for our connection groups, and we want to provide uh a know God group, just a group where you could dive deep into actually uh learning more about who you are in Him and what His call for you and your life and your future is. 00:28:35.599 --> 00:28:39.599 And so we've launched a group called the Renaissance Group. 00:28:39.839 --> 00:28:45.200 Renaissance Group, and it's gonna be led by Norm Sawyer, who isn't here at this moment right now. 00:28:45.440 --> 00:28:48.000 He's not sitting there, but uh his wife is there. 00:28:48.079 --> 00:28:49.839 Why don't you wave your hand, Celeste? 00:28:49.920 --> 00:28:52.000 Yay, Celeste, how many of you love Celeste? 00:28:52.319 --> 00:28:52.960 That's right. 00:28:54.240 --> 00:29:08.799 Celeste is there, and Norm is gonna be leading a 10-week uh intensive and intentional class on actually for those who want to know God on a deeper level and who they are in Christ. 00:29:09.119 --> 00:29:13.920 And we believe that this will help you grow in your faith and grow closer to Him. 00:29:14.079 --> 00:29:26.079 If anyone uh has had the opportunity to be in one of uh Norm's, or as we like to refer to him here, uh Sir Norm's classes, uh it's a rich experience. 00:29:26.400 --> 00:29:38.319 Norm brings a real maturity in terms of his relationship with God and uh helping lead others into uh knowledge of who God is and God's plan for them. 00:29:38.559 --> 00:29:43.839 Um, Norm is we call it Renaissance on purpose and it's intentional. 00:29:44.000 --> 00:30:05.039 We believe God is going to be using artists, and we believe God is raising up bloggers and writers and poets and songwriters and philosophers and thinkers, and uh Norm is saying, welcome them into this class, welcome them into this group. 00:30:05.279 --> 00:30:08.240 Come come with your gift, come with your talent. 00:30:08.480 --> 00:30:18.559 And uh I believe that we're gonna touch the soul of a generation, and if there was ever a time to be able to do that, the time is now. 00:30:19.039 --> 00:30:27.359 And with the with the internet and with the opportunity to just express on a wide level um what God has done. 00:30:27.519 --> 00:30:35.279 So if you're interested after service, we have uh check in at the Connection Center just to find out more information. 00:30:35.440 --> 00:30:37.200 It starts this week. 00:30:37.519 --> 00:30:39.119 So, too good to be true. 00:30:39.200 --> 00:30:43.279 How many of you were still reeling on last week's message? 00:30:44.079 --> 00:30:45.839 Wow, 300. 00:30:46.000 --> 00:30:51.680 We had uh close to 500 views on Facebook. 00:30:51.920 --> 00:31:01.759 Um, people uh watching as Pastor Dave shared on the power of sin and the greater power of salvation through Christ. 00:31:02.319 --> 00:31:04.720 And what a breath of fresh air. 00:31:04.880 --> 00:31:18.160 It just I I just walked through the week realizing this week how much, not only what we've been saved from, but how grateful I am that we have a savior, one who saved us. 00:31:18.400 --> 00:31:25.440 Today I'd like to share with you on the fact that we have, and we've sung about it today, a redeemer. 00:31:25.599 --> 00:31:30.079 Would you tell your neighbor we're gonna hear about God is our redeemer? 00:31:30.319 --> 00:31:32.319 Just say that word, redeemer. 00:31:32.559 --> 00:31:33.440 That's right. 00:31:34.240 --> 00:31:39.119 This is a divine benefit of our faith. 00:31:39.920 --> 00:31:44.240 It's the fact that God is our redeemer. 00:31:44.960 --> 00:32:00.559 And he is now, whenever you start a job, whenever you go to uh find a place of employment, oftentimes you look at the facilities, you look at the management, and then people look at their job responsibilities and then they look at their benefits. 00:32:01.759 --> 00:32:09.039 And the scripture is very clear in Psalm 103, it says, don't forget the benefits that we have because of Christ. 00:32:09.279 --> 00:32:16.400 And one of those benefits is that he redeems our life, he redeems us from the pit. 00:32:16.799 --> 00:32:21.680 He is our redeemer, our redeemer. 00:32:22.000 --> 00:32:32.559 Moses also realized this, and many of you have probably heard the story of Moses or know about how the Hebrew people were enslaved in Egypt. 00:32:32.960 --> 00:32:37.680 And God spoke to Moses and He says, I'm gonna do a few things for you. 00:32:38.240 --> 00:32:41.119 He called, and these are the I wills of Scripture. 00:32:41.200 --> 00:32:45.599 He says, I will bring you out from under the yoke of the Egyptians. 00:32:45.759 --> 00:32:47.440 In other words, I'm gonna save you. 00:32:47.599 --> 00:32:49.519 I'm gonna save this group of people. 00:32:49.680 --> 00:32:53.519 I'm gonna pull them out of the place where they're enslaved. 00:32:53.599 --> 00:32:54.720 I'm gonna save them. 00:32:54.960 --> 00:32:59.519 Secondly, I'll free them from being slaves. 00:32:59.599 --> 00:33:00.960 And then we call that freedom. 00:33:01.039 --> 00:33:06.720 This is a place where not only are we saved, but we are free. 00:33:06.960 --> 00:33:15.200 And this is where 80% of the church lives, in a place where we realize our salvation and we realize our freedom. 00:33:15.279 --> 00:33:21.440 But the next point here is that God said, I will redeem you. 00:33:23.440 --> 00:33:28.240 With an outstretched arm, with mighty acts of judgment, I will redeem you. 00:33:28.319 --> 00:33:40.480 And really, what this refers to is the redemptive quality of God that He will repurpose you, He will give you back that purpose that you were called to. 00:33:41.359 --> 00:33:56.240 Now, for many uh in my circle that I've just kind of I've vetted this message with, I said, how many of people actually really understand what the word redeem means? 00:33:57.039 --> 00:34:01.839 It's one of our benefits, it's listed in the benefit package of our faith. 00:34:02.480 --> 00:34:15.119 The fact that we have a redeemer, the fact that he promises to redeem us, but what does that practically look like in terms of its execution? 00:34:15.440 --> 00:34:18.159 Where do I look for my redeemer? 00:34:18.320 --> 00:34:20.480 I know where I can look for my healer. 00:34:20.639 --> 00:34:24.960 I've got a sickness and I call on the healer and he brings healing. 00:34:25.119 --> 00:34:30.880 I know where salvation comes from, but where does redemption come from? 00:34:31.119 --> 00:34:34.480 Where is this redemption, redemptive quality? 00:34:34.639 --> 00:34:44.639 So in the Old Testament, written in Hebrew, the word red redeem really means it refers to an attribute of a person. 00:34:44.960 --> 00:34:47.920 I they it says the word is ga all. 00:34:48.559 --> 00:34:52.400 It's like a Texan, Gaul, y'all, y'all, gall. 00:34:52.960 --> 00:35:02.239 It's like Gaul, which means redeemer, and it actually means uh a person who brings redemption like a kinsman redeemer. 00:35:02.400 --> 00:35:17.679 And one of the greatest stories we read about this is in the book of Ruth, where Ruth lost her husband, and in and in the process lost her land, and she goes to a different country where she has kinsmen, family there. 00:35:17.760 --> 00:35:30.239 She's from those tribes, and she she finds that there's a man there named Boaz, and Boaz becomes her redeemer, her kinsman redeemer. 00:35:30.320 --> 00:35:40.000 And what he does is he not only buys back the land that she had lost, but he decides to marry her and bring her into the family. 00:35:40.480 --> 00:36:01.840 And the Old Testament in the scripture, this illustration was really to illustrate the fact that God would one day send Jesus to come and buy back what was once the what we had lost, buy it back, and then bring us back into our into his family. 00:36:02.639 --> 00:36:03.679 Redemption. 00:36:04.320 --> 00:36:15.280 We read about this this predicament in man's in man's state of humanity where we are dead in our trespasses and our sins. 00:36:15.360 --> 00:36:19.920 Uh Ephesians says, you were dead in your trespasses and your sins. 00:36:20.159 --> 00:36:22.559 You were in need of redemption. 00:36:23.840 --> 00:36:27.440 We're not just lost, we're dead without Christ. 00:36:28.559 --> 00:36:34.159 We're not just distant from God, we're dead if we don't have God. 00:36:34.719 --> 00:36:38.559 This is what we learned yesterday or last week on the power of sin. 00:36:38.960 --> 00:36:52.159 Sin doesn't come to uh hurt your feelings, sin comes to kill you, to separate you, to put you uh in a different place apart from God. 00:36:52.400 --> 00:36:58.000 But God comes, he saved us by bringing us into the family of God. 00:36:58.320 --> 00:36:59.679 There's the salvation. 00:36:59.920 --> 00:37:05.599 So, what I'd like to do is go through what this word redeem actually means. 00:37:05.760 --> 00:37:11.440 As it's got many derivatives in our English language, redeem, redeemer, redeeming. 00:37:11.920 --> 00:37:15.039 But the Greek word actually has different word pictures. 00:37:15.119 --> 00:37:28.639 And if anyone likes picture books, like me, you're gonna like this because this what it does is it actually elaborates on the word and and qualifies this word in a richer way. 00:37:28.880 --> 00:37:34.639 So the first word that we read about being the redeemer is the word agarazo. 00:37:35.920 --> 00:37:40.960 It's a Greek word and it means the marketplace for slaves. 00:37:41.840 --> 00:37:43.199 Agarazo. 00:37:43.760 --> 00:38:06.159 And we read about this word, agorazo, when we read the word redeem in Revelation, and the Bible says this, and they sang in a new song in chapter 5, verse 9, saying, You are worthy to take the scroll and open its seals, because you were slain, and with your blood you have redeemed us. 00:38:08.239 --> 00:38:11.920 Every person from every tribe and language and people and nation. 00:38:12.159 --> 00:38:18.239 Now, this word redeem means he came to the marketplace of slaves. 00:38:19.679 --> 00:38:27.199 God left heaven and entered into a marketplace where there were slaves for slaves. 00:38:28.559 --> 00:38:38.719 And sometimes it's difficult to think this way, and we've become a little bit more because of time, we've distanced ourselves from this idea of the slave market. 00:38:39.119 --> 00:38:53.199 But the slave market was a real place, and it was a vivid place, it was a graphic place, it was a place where people were sold and traded and auctioned like animals. 00:38:53.840 --> 00:39:16.159 In fact, people would place the slave on them on a on an auction block, and people would walk by and they would have like details about who the individual was, and then they would get them to open their mouth and they check their health, and then they curse them, and and and they were even encouraged to whip them and beat them to test their temperament. 00:39:16.800 --> 00:39:23.920 At times they would make them disrobed to be able to check them to see if there were any flaws or imperfections. 00:39:24.159 --> 00:39:26.400 It was a terrible, terrible place. 00:39:27.760 --> 00:39:35.119 And so why would Jesus, why would the scripture say that Jesus would leave and come and redeem? 00:39:35.280 --> 00:39:39.360 He would leave to enter the marketplace for slaves. 00:39:41.360 --> 00:39:44.400 Why would that be one of the words that he would use? 00:39:45.840 --> 00:39:55.679 And I believe it's because Jesus left heaven, he entered this marketplace of slaves because he became a slave in order to redeem us. 00:39:55.920 --> 00:40:08.719 We read this in Philippians chapter 2, where it says he left heaven and he took on the humble position of a slave and became and was born as a human being. 00:40:10.159 --> 00:40:14.079 He actually entered into the marketplace of slaves. 00:40:15.039 --> 00:40:35.840 If you need to look farther, you you begin to see it in his life where he himself was beaten, he himself was abused, he himself was cursed, he himself his reputation, he was tested and tried, even to the place where he himself was disrobed and put on a block for all to see. 00:40:36.960 --> 00:40:42.880 He entered into this marketplace of sin, this marketplace of for slaves. 00:40:43.760 --> 00:40:58.480 And if you can catch in your spirit today what Jesus did for us, then why he came to humanity, in order to reach us, he had to enter into that same marketplace because that's where you and I were living. 00:40:59.599 --> 00:41:08.880 In order to reach us, he couldn't go to a king's court, he had to go to a place where man was, and man was lost. 00:41:09.920 --> 00:41:14.639 Man was enslaved, man was on the auction block. 00:41:14.800 --> 00:41:18.960 Don't think it's about someone else down the road where this is being discussed. 00:41:19.119 --> 00:41:21.280 It's about you or you or not me. 00:41:21.440 --> 00:41:22.960 It was all of us. 00:41:23.360 --> 00:41:26.880 We were all under the wage and the penalty of sin. 00:41:27.599 --> 00:41:29.440 We were all enslaved. 00:41:29.599 --> 00:41:32.400 Like these songs this morning were perfect. 00:41:32.639 --> 00:41:38.239 They talked about the the fact of the our the fact that we were enslaved. 00:41:38.559 --> 00:41:41.440 The next word is exagorazo. 00:41:41.519 --> 00:41:44.960 It's almost the same word except it's got a different prefix. 00:41:45.519 --> 00:41:53.679 What you'd see in the word exit, it means to be out of, or uh it means to to come out of. 00:41:54.719 --> 00:42:01.360 And so this word ex agarazo means to come out of the marketplace for slaves. 00:42:02.639 --> 00:42:13.920 So he comes from the in this, we can read this word here in the book of Galatians where it says, Christ has redeemed us from the curse of the law. 00:42:14.559 --> 00:42:22.880 He actually came into the marketplace of slaves to take us out of the marketplace of slaves. 00:42:23.199 --> 00:42:31.679 He came to redeem us from slavery, and he came to take away the curse that was placed on us. 00:42:31.920 --> 00:42:35.920 So not only did he become a slave, but he took us out of the slave market. 00:42:36.079 --> 00:42:38.079 How many of you are grateful today? 00:42:38.480 --> 00:42:42.159 He took us out of the slave off the slave market. 00:42:43.039 --> 00:42:54.000 And we read about this because in many portions of scripture, when you read about the redemption of God, he's pulling us from a place where we were lost. 00:42:54.239 --> 00:42:55.920 We need to remember sin. 00:42:56.079 --> 00:42:59.280 And I'm so grateful this message from last week. 00:42:59.360 --> 00:43:02.320 And if you haven't heard it, you need to listen to it. 00:43:02.960 --> 00:43:04.880 We were sold to sin. 00:43:06.559 --> 00:43:11.440 Our position was that we were in the slave market. 00:43:11.920 --> 00:43:17.199 We weren't there to buy, we were there to be bought, to be owned. 00:43:17.519 --> 00:43:21.119 We had a master in that slave market. 00:43:22.800 --> 00:43:26.400 And Satan, our enemy, he ran the market. 00:43:28.000 --> 00:43:30.239 He put us on the auction block. 00:43:30.559 --> 00:43:32.800 And we were sold to sin. 00:43:33.599 --> 00:43:38.719 And some of you may realize that there was a time in your life where you were caught in bondage. 00:43:39.039 --> 00:43:52.239 You may have been young, uh, you may be young in your life, and you may have been exposed to pornography, and and it opened up a gateway to you, and now you're, you know, you're dealing with the issues of lust and and issues. 00:43:52.400 --> 00:43:59.519 Or maybe you from a young age were exposed to anger, and you were you were in bondage to uh to anger. 00:44:00.079 --> 00:44:07.599 Or resentment or an offense or or some kind of pain that you were were experiencing. 00:44:08.320 --> 00:44:13.519 And what we've all been in a position we were we were sold to sin. 00:44:15.039 --> 00:44:17.039 And we needed a redeemer. 00:44:18.320 --> 00:44:19.679 We were sold to sin. 00:44:19.760 --> 00:44:27.360 And it was if it wasn't for the power of God, and if it wasn't for the power of Jesus Christ, we would continue to be lost. 00:44:27.679 --> 00:44:32.079 Romans 6 says this in verse 17. 00:44:32.639 --> 00:44:33.840 Thanks be to God. 00:44:34.000 --> 00:44:34.719 Would you say that? 00:44:34.880 --> 00:44:36.239 Thanks be to God. 00:44:37.199 --> 00:44:41.760 Hey, thanks be to God, though you used to be slaves to sin. 00:44:44.079 --> 00:44:51.840 You have come to obey, you've been set free from sin and have become slaves to righteousness. 00:44:53.280 --> 00:44:59.920 You move from slavery to a place where there was death to a place where there was life. 00:45:01.360 --> 00:45:04.239 Romans says we were all slaves to sin. 00:45:04.880 --> 00:45:09.440 We were slaves to this, we were in bondage to this pressure. 00:45:09.679 --> 00:45:15.679 We were in bondage in this area of our life where we couldn't overpower it on our own. 00:45:16.159 --> 00:45:19.119 But we call out to God and He helped us. 00:45:19.360 --> 00:45:21.360 All of us know what that's like. 00:45:33.840 --> 00:45:37.920 It's a very small book in the Bible, but it's powerful. 00:45:38.400 --> 00:45:51.679 And Hosea is a prophet, and the Lord speaks to him one day, and he says, Go um go and to this marketplace, and I want you to buy one of the prostitutes. 00:45:51.920 --> 00:45:53.920 And I want her name was Gomer. 00:45:54.960 --> 00:45:55.679 I have to laugh. 00:45:55.760 --> 00:45:58.239 Every time I hear Gomer, I think I just laugh about it. 00:45:58.320 --> 00:45:58.960 I'm sorry. 00:45:59.119 --> 00:46:06.800 But I but go buy Gomer, bring her home, and make her your wife. 00:46:07.519 --> 00:46:12.639 And Hosea, like, how many of you would love that to be your like the call of God on your life? 00:46:12.800 --> 00:46:22.079 Was uh go and and buy this prostitute, buy this wild woman who just like she had no cares. 00:46:22.159 --> 00:46:29.440 And he says, go and find her and buy her and bring her into your home and make her your wife. 00:46:30.079 --> 00:46:36.079 And together he made a home for her and he gave her the freedom that she could she could live in the home. 00:46:36.159 --> 00:46:44.639 They had children together, and after they had children, she leaves again to go back to being with other people, being with other men. 00:46:44.800 --> 00:46:50.480 And in turn, in that process, she sells herself back into slavery. 00:46:50.719 --> 00:46:53.840 She goes and finds herself back on the auction block. 00:46:54.159 --> 00:46:58.880 Men go up and they buy her again and they they take advantage of her. 00:46:58.960 --> 00:47:09.760 And then when they get tired of her, they put her back on the auction block, and the cycle just return, just goes over and over, and she's dead to the to her sin. 00:47:11.519 --> 00:47:17.920 And the Lord speaks to Hosea and he says this to her, and this is one of the most powerful verses in this book. 00:47:18.079 --> 00:47:25.280 He says, The Lord spoke to him, he says, Go show your love for your wife again. 00:47:28.719 --> 00:47:42.480 Though she is loved by another man, though she's in bed with other men, though she's still prostituting, and she's an adulteress, love her as the Lord continues to love Israel. 00:47:43.360 --> 00:47:49.440 Show Israel how much God loves them. 00:47:50.079 --> 00:48:00.960 That even though they walk away, even though they keep going their own way, you're gonna go and keep redeeming them, taking them off the auction block. 00:48:01.440 --> 00:48:02.880 And that's what they he did. 00:48:03.280 --> 00:48:13.920 The Bible says he sold property, he brought in money, he brought in produce, he brought in all these pieces, and he said, Gomer, you're mine. 00:48:14.719 --> 00:48:26.480 And he brought her back into her home, his home, and he made her and he brought her back into a position where she was part of this family to be loved in his home. 00:48:26.800 --> 00:48:38.239 The fact that God would do that as an example to us and for us, that it doesn't matter how far you go, God still wants to take you off the slave block. 00:48:38.639 --> 00:48:39.280 Amen. 00:48:40.000 --> 00:48:41.760 Thanks be to God. 00:48:42.000 --> 00:48:42.880 Thank you, God. 00:48:43.039 --> 00:48:45.039 That's why words aren't enough. 00:48:45.599 --> 00:48:51.119 Thank you, God, for loving us so much that you came and rescued us. 00:48:51.920 --> 00:48:54.559 The next word is called lutrosis. 00:48:55.519 --> 00:49:03.039 Lutrosis means the full payment of a slave, the full ransom. 00:49:03.920 --> 00:49:22.800 And we read this word in Hebrews 9 12 where it says, He did not enter by means of the blood of goats and calves, but he entered the most holy place once for all by his own blood, thus obtaining eternal redemption. 00:49:23.199 --> 00:49:39.440 God purchased us, eternally redeemed us, eternally redeemed us with a price that wasn't calves and goats and money and cash and whatever it may be, a currency of the day. 00:49:47.679 --> 00:49:50.480 That is why we honor the blood of Jesus. 00:49:50.639 --> 00:49:59.920 That's why I say it's the precious blood of Jesus that saves me from my sin, that's rescued me from slavery. 00:50:00.159 --> 00:50:01.440 It's a seller. 00:50:01.840 --> 00:50:07.440 I think about this when I shop with the kids, they've never been to a flea market. 00:50:07.519 --> 00:50:17.840 How many of you have ever, you know, you walk through a flea market and you see something you like and you kind of play dumb that you don't want it just so that the price can stay low, you know? 00:50:17.920 --> 00:50:20.239 But my kids don't know these rules. 00:50:20.480 --> 00:50:23.599 They walk in, they're like, We found it, Dad. 00:50:23.920 --> 00:50:28.719 And the guy behind the counter just knows right there, he's like, I got you. 00:50:29.119 --> 00:50:31.199 And you're like, well, it's$10. 00:50:31.679 --> 00:50:33.280 Uh would you take eight? 00:50:33.360 --> 00:50:34.559 And he goes, Nope. 00:50:35.360 --> 00:50:36.719 I'll take 11. 00:50:38.079 --> 00:50:40.400 And you know you're beat right there. 00:50:40.639 --> 00:50:47.199 And so you walk into that environment, you're like trying to get the best deal, but it's just not gonna happen. 00:50:47.440 --> 00:50:58.800 Uh, this situation when I look at the this word lutrosis, and I I I I try and realize what was paid for us. 00:51:00.559 --> 00:51:06.719 To realize that we were created in God's own image, and then we fell into sin. 00:51:08.639 --> 00:51:14.000 And the Bible says he had to find something worth purchasing him back us back. 00:51:14.480 --> 00:51:16.000 And I see this scenario. 00:51:16.159 --> 00:51:37.199 It's like God is looking at humanity, he's looking at his kids, he's looking at his boys and his girls, and he looks at us on the slave block and he goes to the owner of the market and he says, I know they're enslaved, I know they're caught up in sin, I know they deserve where they're at, but I want to buy her. 00:51:37.679 --> 00:51:40.719 I want to buy her, I want to buy him. 00:51:42.079 --> 00:51:45.679 And the slave owner says, I'll tell you what, we'll make a deal. 00:51:45.920 --> 00:51:50.079 I know how important and how valuable they are to you. 00:51:51.280 --> 00:51:56.480 I'll I'll I'll I'll give you them, but it's gonna cost you something. 00:51:57.360 --> 00:52:02.239 It's gonna cost you your own son, your own precious son. 00:52:02.320 --> 00:52:04.320 And I'm not just gonna take it as a trade. 00:52:04.400 --> 00:52:22.880 I'm gonna abuse, I'm gonna use, I'm gonna ridicule, I'm gonna beat, I'm gonna torture, I'm gonna disrobe, I'm gonna expose, I'm gonna crucify, I'm gonna hang him on a tree like he was a criminal. 00:52:24.159 --> 00:52:27.280 And when that happens, that's gonna be the trade. 00:52:28.159 --> 00:52:29.920 You still want those kids? 00:52:30.480 --> 00:52:33.679 Are you still willing to pay for those children? 00:52:34.960 --> 00:52:36.719 What are they worth to you? 00:52:37.679 --> 00:52:56.880 And the fact is, today in the church, that God said yes, and that you were paid, you were redeemed, fully ransomed, fully paid for, bought back with the precious blood of Jesus. 00:52:57.599 --> 00:53:10.719 And every day I recall and every day I'm reminded of this fact that God loved me so much that he sent his own son to die for me, that I might live. 00:53:12.239 --> 00:53:24.639 The last word today to help capitalize and finalize this word on redemption is appleutrosis. 00:53:25.280 --> 00:53:33.360 And the word apple is another prefix that means to return, to return to its original state. 00:53:33.760 --> 00:53:47.119 So what he actually did is he not only leutrosis, he not only paid for you and paid you for you fully, but he returned you back to your original state. 00:53:47.599 --> 00:53:55.440 He brought you back to a place where you were, you would have been as if you were in the Garden of Eden. 00:53:56.400 --> 00:54:01.840 He made you and created you to be a part of his family. 00:54:02.000 --> 00:54:07.679 And what he did when he redeemed you is he brought you back into his home. 00:54:07.920 --> 00:54:10.480 Ephesians 1:7 says this. 00:54:10.719 --> 00:54:19.679 In him we have redemption through his blood, the forgiveness of sins in accordance with the riches of God's grace. 00:54:20.079 --> 00:54:37.760 When we think about God's redemption, the fact that he redeemed us, I can't help but realize notice and realize the amount of grace, undeserved favor that I received. 00:54:38.480 --> 00:54:39.840 Did I deserve it? 00:54:41.440 --> 00:54:42.800 Did I earn it? 00:54:43.760 --> 00:54:44.079 No. 00:54:44.880 --> 00:54:46.159 But did he give it to me? 00:54:46.320 --> 00:54:47.440 And did he choose me? 00:54:47.519 --> 00:54:50.320 And did he love me enough to die for me? 00:54:50.800 --> 00:54:51.440 Yes. 00:54:52.400 --> 00:54:57.599 One of my grandfather's most favorite verses is become mine too. 00:54:57.920 --> 00:55:01.840 Galatians chapter 4, verse 7 says this. 00:55:09.519 --> 00:55:11.199 But God's child. 00:55:12.159 --> 00:55:13.199 You are a son. 00:55:13.760 --> 00:55:18.159 And since you are his son, you are his heir. 00:55:19.679 --> 00:55:22.800 The full story of redemption is here. 00:55:23.519 --> 00:55:25.840 That you are no longer a slave. 00:55:26.960 --> 00:55:34.480 And I want you to see these four words all put together in a story in your in your thought right now. 00:55:35.519 --> 00:55:36.960 God came down. 00:55:37.760 --> 00:55:41.440 The place where he came to meet you was in the marketplace of sin. 00:55:42.480 --> 00:55:44.719 A marketplace for slaves. 00:55:44.960 --> 00:55:50.960 And he came into that marketplace with the intent purpose to bring you out. 00:55:52.960 --> 00:55:58.719 And he did that by paying for you and paying for the full ransom for your sin. 00:55:59.280 --> 00:56:08.159 And not only paying the full ransom so that he could make you a slave, but he paid the full ransom so that you could be free. 00:56:08.800 --> 00:56:14.800 He brought you out to restore you, not to slavery, but to sonship. 00:56:15.119 --> 00:56:20.960 So you're now a son, you're now a daughter, you're now part of the family of God. 00:56:21.440 --> 00:56:28.639 So that's why we say, My Redeemer lives, and he's still redeeming today. 00:56:28.800 --> 00:56:31.199 Would you give the Lord a hand this morning? 00:56:31.519 --> 00:56:32.159 Amen. 00:56:34.320 --> 00:56:34.960 Amen. 00:56:37.440 --> 00:56:44.320 We often take time, and it's our habit here at the church, just to take a moment and just to bow your head and close your eyes. 00:56:44.480 --> 00:56:46.079 Would you do that with me? 00:56:47.199 --> 00:56:51.360 We do this because this isn't just a lecture. 00:56:51.519 --> 00:57:06.480 This isn't just a uh just a speech or a teaching that would, you know, just intend to raise intellectual insight as to who God is. 00:57:07.199 --> 00:57:12.559 But we take a moment here to realize that God is speaking to us all. 00:57:12.880 --> 00:57:20.320 And that God has spoken to you today, and he's saying to you today, I am your Redeemer. 00:57:21.679 --> 00:57:23.679 I am your Redeemer. 00:57:24.639 --> 00:57:36.719 I have come to call you out of slavery, to purchase you with my precious blood, and to make you and restore you back to sonship, to become your father. 00:57:37.760 --> 00:57:49.440 And the Bible says that all creation groans, all creation cries out, and is calling out for the sons of God to rise up and to call out, Abba Father. 00:57:49.840 --> 00:58:04.000 Thank you for rescuing me, thank you for saving me, thank you for setting me free, thank you for shaking off the chains of slavery and releasing me into new life. 00:58:04.800 --> 00:58:16.639 I just see today this picture of the calves, the stall, the door of the stall being broke open and the calves jumping out into the green pastures. 00:58:16.800 --> 00:58:17.840 We're free. 00:58:18.079 --> 00:58:21.119 We're free indeed because of Christ. 00:58:22.159 --> 00:58:25.599 We thank you that you are our redeemer today. 00:58:26.320 --> 00:58:28.159 We love you today. 00:58:28.719 --> 00:58:38.320 And we say, precious is the blood of Jesus, precious is the act of Jesus, precious is the cross. 00:58:38.880 --> 00:58:40.320 We love you today. 00:58:40.639 --> 00:58:46.639 We thank you for your grace, your love, your redemption. 00:58:47.519 --> 00:59:03.360 If you're here today and you've never known Jesus is your redeemer, and you're struggling in your own weight of sin, and you're enslaved, and you sense, I want to be off that block. 00:59:03.519 --> 00:59:06.960 I want to be free to be in the home of the house of God. 00:59:07.440 --> 00:59:10.480 I'm saying today, today's your day. 00:59:11.360 --> 00:59:13.440 Today is your day. 00:59:14.000 --> 00:59:29.119 And it's as simple as making a decision to accept the free gift of grace, free gift of salvation today, to say, thank you for the benefits. 00:59:29.920 --> 00:59:33.840 You pull me out of the miry clay, you pull me out of the pit. 00:59:34.559 --> 00:59:36.320 You will redeem. 00:59:37.280 --> 00:59:42.239 With your power of your outstretched hand, you'll set me free. 00:59:42.559 --> 00:59:45.599 If that's you today, I want to pray a prayer with you. 00:59:45.840 --> 00:59:49.760 I'm going to invite the whole congregation to pray it today together. 00:59:50.000 --> 00:59:51.760 Would you say this, Jesus? 00:59:52.000 --> 00:59:52.960 I need you. 00:59:54.719 --> 00:59:58.079