Jesus Christ was Dispatched to Save the World

Jesus Christ said that he is "the way, the truth, and the life. No man comes unto the Father but by me."

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You would uh turn with me to John chapter three. If you have a Bible, or you can just listen. We're gonna be going over some common ground in Christianity, but it is the ground God wants all of us to be thinking about because Jesus Christ's work is what unites this group called the body of Christ. God's perspective is God's perspective, man's perspective is man's perspective. They are vastly different until man learns what God's perspective is and complies with it. Did you know that? When God's perspective is that he had a son die and be raised from the dead so that mankind could enter into a new kind of life. How did little baby Oak right there enter into life? He was born. You know how you enter into this new life? You're born again. Exactly. It's really that simple. So as little Oak begins to learn of what this physical life around him is, so we spiritually, with our new birth, learn what this spiritual life is all about. What does God's kingdom look like? He tells us in his word so that we can be enlightened through these words of knowledge as he has given them. So God's perspective is God's perspective, and man's perspective is man's until man acclimatizes to what God says. One of the messages that is very, very clear in the New Testament writings is that God is love. It's woven through the pages of the New Testament. Why? Do you know God didn't have this written so that he could know what his word says? Did you know that? He had it written so that who would know what it means? We would. And then it says he's given us his spirit that we would be enlightened. So one of these verses is that God has not given us the spirit of the world, but the spirit which is from him, that we might know, that we might know the things that are freely given to us of him. See, he's given us his spirit so that these brain cells floating between your ears could have the lights turned on. That you could understand what God wants you to understand. So here we are. You believe on Jesus Christ and you come into a new kind of life by birth called the new birth. That beginning starts an adventure for everyone who believes on Jesus Christ. Do you know this is why God had his son live and die and be raised from the dead, just so you could have this life? Look at John 3. We'll start here. This message, what God's done for us through Jesus Christ, is the purest love message that could ever exist. It's the greatest of all messages because most of our fantastic books and movies, you know, someone out there might die to rescue a good man, like a president, right, or a hero. But God had his son die to rescue the bad guys, you and me that didn't know him, that didn't walk with him, that really didn't give a care about him. You're gonna see this from the scriptures if we get time to go through it. But God had these words written so that you would know that he loves you, that his intent purpose is you, all of God's people. In light of this, there's only two categories of people from God's point of view, the main two categories. You've got those that believe on Jesus Christ and those that don't. God's aim is that everybody would, but there's two categories: those that believe on Jesus Christ and those that don't. Those that believe on Jesus Christ, by birth, we enter a whole new realm with all new realities that re-identify who we are. Okay, let's start with John 3, a very common verse. When I understand this is the most common verse written or uh spoken about in all of Christianity. It's repeated all over the place, all over the world. So here it is, John 3, 16. For God so loved the world that he gave his only begotten son, that whosoever believes in him should not perish, but have everlasting life. So why did God have his son die? That people might have everlasting life. The only life that you have apart from Jesus Christ is a temporal one. It has an end. But through Jesus Christ is eternal life, it's life that lasts forever. And it when we first come to the words of God, they they seem so out there. How could a person live forever? Every day we hear about or sometimes even experience people dying. What do you mean they have eternal life? God says when someone believes on Jesus Christ, they have eternal life. They have the kind of life that lasts forever. So now they become eternal. They're moved from a temporal category to an eternal category, all because they believed on Jesus Christ. God so loved the world that he did this. It doesn't say anything about God trying to get things the way he wants them to go for his own benefit. There's nothing like that in this section of scripture. He had his son die, gave up his prized possession, his only begotten son, his only son at the time. He gave him up to acquire you and me and people like us from all over the face of the earth. So when people believe on Jesus Christ, they now have eternal life. And why is this even available? Because it says, God so loved the world that he gave his only begotten son. If you look at the next two verses, they're very insightful in light of this. The next word in verse 17 should be the word for, if you're looking at any kind of decent translation from the Greek. But the word for, FOR, is a transition further explaining what was just said. So remembering that God had his son die, right? That we could have eternal life. Reading verse 17, for God did not send the Son into the world to judge the world, but that the world might be saved through him. Well, in my earlier days of Christianity, I might have been taught this correctly, but I was thinking incorrectly because I thought that God was a judge, you know, waiting for me to make a mistake so he can babe roof me over the center field fence. But it wasn't true. I was thinking incorrectly. I was thinking as a mere man, not accepting the thoughts of God. But to accept the thoughts of God, see, God had his son die to save mankind, not to judge mankind. That's not his aim. He wants everyone to believe on Jesus Christ. Why? Look at the next verse. It further explains. 18, he who believes in him, in the Son, Jesus Christ, is not judged. Do you see that? So how do you get into this category of not being judged? To accept this, you believe on him. That's all it says. It doesn't say you have to run 15 marathons. It doesn't say you have to go to church so many times. It doesn't say you have to have the correct translation of the Bible if there is such a thing, right? God says, believing on his son, you are not judged. The rest of the verse says, He who does not believe has been judged already because he has not believed in the name of the only begotten Son of God. Now, someone years ago as a teacher shared with me, if you read the opposite of what you read in scripture, it can help you understand it. Or if you read it in different ways other than what it's saying, and it'll highlight what it is saying. For an example, second part of verse 18 says, He who does not believe has been judged already because he has not gone to church enough? No, because he hasn't prayed enough. No, what does it say? Why is someone judged? Because they don't believe in the name of the only begotten Son of God. That is God's qualifier. Do you see this? This is a huge point to understand. God didn't have his son die to judge the world. But I thought that for years until someone straightened my head. I don't know even how it happened to remember it, but it got straightened out. Where I started accepting the perspective of God. Remember, that's why God gave his word so that we can have his perspective. So he says he loves the world. When the world was doing nothing for him, he loved the world and sacrificed his son to rescue us from judgment. And how do we get rescued? By believing on his son. And you enter a whole new category. See, and this is what is explaining what was said in the first part of the chapter, chapter three, where a man by the name of Nicodemus comes to Jesus undercover at night because he was a Pharisee, one of the religious leaders, and they had agreed that Jesus was someone they wanted to get rid of, someone they weren't agreeing with. So he came undercover at night. And he goes to the master because he knew Jesus had answers that he didn't have. So let's start in verse 1. Now there was a man of the Pharisees named Nicodemus, a ruler of the Jews. So he was a Pharisee, and he was a ruler of the Jews. This man came to Jesus by night and said to him, Rabbi, we know that you have come from God as a teacher, for no one can do these signs, which is the word miracles also, that you do unless God is with him. So Nicodemus is acknowledging that Jesus was sent from God, had to be to do the miracles that he did. Yeah, Calvary? That's a really good question because he could have been like the rest of the Pharisees. But uh the question is, was Nicodemus humble? So Nicodemus clearly, by this record, Calvary was humble, and we know that because he came to Jesus as his teacher, as a master. So he says, No, we know that no one can do these miracles unless God has sent him. So Nicodemus is saying, Since God sent you, I know you're going to have answers for me that I don't have, and I want to know what these answers are. So Nicodemus was absolutely humble. That's a great question, Calvary. And then Jesus answers Nicodemus and introduces them to a new kind of life. Verse 3, Jesus answered and said to him, Truly, truly I say to you, unless one is born again, which again means from above, it includes again, because Nicodemus was born the first time, right? He's talking to Jesus, he was born. Right? He Jesus is speaking to him about a birth from above, not of the earth, but from above. And so it's accurately translated, born again. So no, unless one is born again, he cannot see the kingdom of God. The word see means to be able to see it. And it's uh it's understood that you when you see something, you have understanding of it when you see it. Right? So Nicodemus is being introduced to a new kind of life. That if you're born again, you can see it. So Jesus, in other words, is saying, if you're not born again, you're not born above, you cannot see this life. There's a great record in the Old Testament about the prophet Elijah that had a servant Gehazah, and they were in this city, and this enemy, uh, the army of Israel, they found out where the prophet was, and they wanted to get rid of the prophet. So they circled the city at night. And the servant of Elijah, the prophet, went up on the wall, and you can just picture it's like in the morning, he's like sleepy out. He gets up on the wall and he looks out. Whoa, there's an army surrounding the city, and he knew they were after his master. And if they're after his master, they're after him. He runs, my master, my master, come and see. So Elijah goes up on the wall with them and he sees the army, and then he says, Lord, open his eyes. And it says, Gehaza's eyes were open, and he saw chariots of fire, God's army surrounding their army. And you could feel his heart going from to, oh, this is okay now. We are all right. What happened? How did he go from all this anxiety and fear to everything being okay? His eyes were open to the kingdom of God to a small degree. When someone's born again, they can see the kingdom of God. God can take your heart from full of fear, full of anxiety, full of trepidation, full of all these things that are contrary to him, and deliver you layer after layer, all because you see the kingdom of God. How can you see the kingdom of God? You must be born again. Nicodemus, as a man, says, This, how can this be? How can a man climb into his mother's womb and be born again? He wasn't understanding. This is verse 4. Nicodemus said to him, said to Jesus, How can a man be born when he is old? Can he enter a second time into his mother's womb and be born? Jesus answered, he responded, Truly, truly, I say to you, by the way, when the scriptures say truly, truly, some translations say, verily, verily, Jesus is going to be making an astounding point. Whenever you read that, really, really pay attention. You should always pay attention to what God says. But when it's truly, truly, really, really pay attention. Okay? Watch. Verse 5, Jesus answered, Truly, truly, I say to you, unless one is born of water and the Spirit, he cannot enter into the kingdom of God. Now I know some have taught for this record. It's talking about being water baptized, but if you think about what the question is, Nicodemus is asking, can man enter into his mother's womb and be born? What happens to that water sack inside the womb that starts much of the birth process? It breaks. Born of water and then born of the spirit. There's other places that speak of water baptism, but that's not what this is talking about. And you got to keep it in tight with the record, okay? How do we know that for sure? Look at the next verse. He further explains the two kinds of birth. Watch. Verse 6, he says, that which is born of the flesh is flesh, the water birth, and that which is born of the spirit is spirit, the spirit birth. Now, little oak, he's been born into the flesh. He starts to learn things of the flesh. He has eyes to see, he has ears to hear, he has a mouth to speak, he has senses on his skin. He's got all these ways of learning that God has designed with the first birth. With the new birth, from what's written, you have one way of learning. God reveals it. Other ways it put, he inspires it. Like it says the prophets of old, it says, God, uh, the word of God was breathed into existence. Right? In other places, it says men were inspired to write. So all these ways are saying that it comes by God making it known to the person with the spirit. Look, we're in John. We don't need to come back here, but we we will in thought. But look at John 14. This verse just says it's this point so clearly. See, God gives man his spirit because the mind of man is used to thinking like the mind of man. Right? We're taught from the cradle, not the thoughts of God, but the thoughts of man. How we feel, what we see, you know, what we know by our senses. Well, when someone gets born again, now a whole new realm of learning, a whole new way of learning comes into existence where the heavenly father teaches you directly by way of his spirit. See you can see this in one verse here in John 14, verse uh 26. But the comforter, which is the Holy Spirit, which the Father will send in my name, he will teach you all things, and bring all things to your remembrance, whatsoever I have said to you. So whether the person is being taught newly, new information, you taught, right, or you've already had the information and you get it, it comes to your remembrance, that all happens in the mind. See, in the mind, God wants us to know his word so that we can think according to his word, so this powerful message could be manifested through a being that's sitting in your chair. You, the creator, working in you and through you, for what purpose? That he would teach you all things and bring things to your remembrance that you already know. How is it that you're talking to somebody and something of the word comes up and a verse or a phrase from the scriptures pops into your mind that you might not have thought about for years, and there it was, sharp as if you thought about it two minutes before. How did that happen? Because God brought to your remembrance what you already knew. If you learn something new from God's word, how do you think you're learning that? His Spirit teaches us you have the creator abiding within you for the purpose of Him being manifested through you. This is this is phenomenal. And if the church ever gets a mental grip around this, it's going to be a new day. Some of the things that'll happen is there'll be no more sin consciousness wherever this lives. Because Jesus died for how many sins of the world? How many times is that repeated? He died for all the sins of the world. That's past, present, and future. All of them. They're all resolved by the one event. That's God's perspective. Man's perspective is well, yeah, uh, he died for all the sins, but unless I get my life straightened out, God never adds that. Man adds that. But God says he died for all, therefore all died in him. Another place it says, he died for all the sins of the world. In John 1.29, it says, Behold, the Lamb of God, speaking of Jesus, who takes away the sin of the world, did he do the job? Is the question. Scripturally, it's hands down, yes. It's not even arguable in any way. But how about in your mind, when you've done something wrong, what how do you think? Do you think that, wow, thank God he had his son die for that one too, or I'd really be in a mess of trouble? Or do you think, wow, I better get my life straightened out in this area? Plan B is all you, baby. Plan A is all Jesus Christ. It's usually one or the other. See, God has given his word to wake us up to his perspective. He so loved the world that he gave his only begotten son to deliver mankind from any and all judgment against us. As a result, some believe. Those that believe, they enter what's called eternal life. How? By what's called the new birth. Now they can begin to see. The kingdom of God and God's ways. And through the new birth, we enter into that realm. Now, in this new placement, it's all a new arrangement. We have to learn how to see with our spiritual eyes. See how to understand through the Spirit of God. How do you view yourself when you make a mistake? As one who's made a mistake or as one whom Jesus Christ died for? How do you view that brother in Christ, that spouse, that child, that parent when the other one makes a mistake? Do you view them as ones who made that mistake or as ones whom Jesus Christ died for? Because if you can accept God's perspective that Jesus Christ died for every sin of the world, what do you think is going to be the result of all judgment? It's gone. It was paid for by the cross, and the body of Christ gets this reprieve, this getaway from the bondages of sin, the condemnation, the guilt, see, the frustrations, the defeats. Jesus Christ died to deliver mankind from sin and its consequences in every way. Well, something that helped me understand this was when I'm looking at the scriptures, I know when Jesus Christ comes back, everything's gonna be good. I'm gonna have a body fashion like unto his glorious body. I'm gonna fully know, even as we are fully known, like it says in Corinthians 12, right? Everything's gonna be good, really good. What is Jesus Christ going to need to do to bring that into reality? Is he going to have to die for sin again? No, he did that. In the end of Hebrews 9, it says, no, when he came the first time, he came to die for sin. But when he returns, it's just to bring the manifestation of our deliverance from sin into its full view. We have the same thing today. He doesn't have to do anything else. He's already died for the sins of the world. He's died to deliver people from the sins of the world. Look, Paul said it this way. Look at 1 Corinthians 4. Maybe this will help. 1 Corinthians 4. God has entered us into this new realm. And then now, through his spirit and his word, he's trying to wake up the church as to what we've entered into. And if we can wake up to it, if we accept God's perspective, we shall see layer and layer, layer after layer of deliverance in our lives. And I'll tell you something else that's going to happen. As this takes place, all like witnessing programs, you won't need them. The church is going to glow with the evidence of Christ so much, people are going to be begging to come to church. They're going to be begging to know. What do you know that I don't know? What do you have that I don't have? This literally happened to me, uh, however many years ago now, 40 some odd years. Um I met these people and they were glowing with something. I knew they had something. Uh, you know, and in my old days it would have been something either, you know, eat, shoot, or, you know, something, smoke, I don't know. But this was totally new. This was a new existence, and I didn't have a clue as to what it was. So I kind of wanted to know, but I was afraid at the same time because these people were a little weird. They didn't talk the same way I talked, they didn't act the same way I acted. They were actually helping people, and I'm like, they want something out of these people. What are they, what are they trying to get out of them? I realized as I pursued this, they weren't trying to get anything out of them. They were trying to bring them the life they were experiencing. So as I hung around, first at a distance, but as I hung around, I started seeing these people are real. They're glowing because they have something inside that I didn't have. And the craving for that grew. And within a short period of time, I started asking. And this is what's going to happen in throughout the world. The Christian, the body of Christ, the Christian church, we are going to learn of and manifest Christ so abundantly and richly that people are going to be begging to know and have what we have. It's already happening in little pieces, but we're going to see this on a large scale. See, 1 Corinthians 4, Paul, as an apostle of Jesus Christ, he was making known this message. So he was thinking and preaching this message everywhere he went. So he was thinking about it a lot. He got to this point. Watch this. Verse 4 of 1 Corinthians 4. Paul says, For I am conscious of nothing against myself. I don't know that yet. I know of a lot of a lack of consciousness of things I've done wrong, but I don't know to know nothing against myself. See, God wants the church to know nothing against ourselves. That we actually think in terms of, well, Christ died for that. Yeah, I did that 20 times over, but Christ died for those. All 20. Christ died to deliver us into a whole new realm with all new realities. And this is what these New Testament letters make known. What is this life that we've been birthed into? Remember, there's only two categories of people, those that haven't believed and those that have. Those that have, we're on an adventure to learn what is this realm we've been birthed into so that we can walk as victorious Christians. So we can walk as people who've been born again to walk just like Christ walked. See, through the new birth, we've entered this new realm, and God is conditioning us individually and collectively as to what we've actually entered into. So through the new birth, He's given us eyes to see and a heart to know. Fantastic. So I don't know a better way to close this out than to just say just learn to accept God's perspective. Let it dwell in your heart until you think that way. And when that happens, it will be a you that is not conscious of anything against yourself. You know, Jesus in John 8, verse 32 said, You shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free. It will liberate you from sin, including the consciousness of it. And it'll make you highly conscious of Christ dying for every sin of the whole world. Your judgment of self wanes, it fades, your judgment of others fades. Because God's perspective, he had his son die to deliver mankind from judgment. And we get to experience it before Christ returns, to whatever degree you know we accept the truth. So you shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free or liberate you. So praise God for the power of the truth. Father, your word is so, so abundantly wealthy that we get to see and understand the richness of your kingdom is phenomenal because we knew nothing of it and had nothing of it. And you've led our hearts to believe in you and your message about your son dying for the sins of the world. And out of that, Father, you've given us everything. We went from nothing to everything. And Father, we're asking, next to begging for your help for that we can understand this new realm, this kingdom of yours that we've entered into by the new birth. Father, and I'm praying this for all of your people across the face of the earth. Father, you've joined us all up to hip, called us the body of Christ, so we're united in Christ. And you tell us these great fantastic truths so that we can accept your perspective and just walk accordingly accordingly, where we get to see the potential power of your word become manifested. Thanks, Father. And I pray this through Christ's name. Amen.