WEBVTT 00:00:07.360 --> 00:00:10.880 Hey, I'm Steve Holt, the senior pastor of the Road at Chapel Hills. 00:00:10.960 --> 00:00:12.320 This is the Road Podcast. 00:00:12.480 --> 00:00:13.759 Thanks for joining us. 00:00:14.000 --> 00:00:16.960 My heart is to empower you to change the world. 00:00:17.120 --> 00:00:19.280 I hope this message impacts you. 00:00:19.440 --> 00:00:21.839 Here now is our guest speaker. 00:00:25.359 --> 00:00:26.640 Okay, so here's the deal. 00:00:26.800 --> 00:00:32.880 We're not gonna be in this text very long, but really what it is, this is I want to start us in the dashboard. 00:00:32.960 --> 00:00:41.920 Kind of we're looking at our our um our lights, our emergency lights, um, kind of where we're at on things, and just here's a dashboard kind of checkup, and I want to start us in Matthew 13. 00:00:42.000 --> 00:00:43.920 You know this, it's the parable of the sower. 00:00:44.320 --> 00:00:49.679 And what kind of soil do we have as we prepare for what God has for us today? 00:00:49.840 --> 00:00:55.359 And so I'm gonna open there, but then we're gonna be spending the bulk of our time in another chapter, and I'll build into that in just a minute. 00:00:55.520 --> 00:00:58.719 Uh, parable of the sower, chapter 13, Matthew 1 through 9. 00:00:58.880 --> 00:01:02.560 On the same day, Jesus went out of the house and sat by the sea. 00:01:02.799 --> 00:01:11.120 The great multitudes were gathered together to him, so that he got into a boat and sat, and the whole multitude stood on the shore. 00:01:11.280 --> 00:01:23.120 Then he spoke many things to them in parables, saying, Behold, a sower went out to sow, and as he sowed some seed fell by the wayside, and the birds came and devoured them. 00:01:23.280 --> 00:01:31.120 Some of the seed fell on stony places where they did not have much earth, and they immediately sprang up because they had no depth of earth. 00:01:31.359 --> 00:01:36.640 But when the sun was up, they were scorched, and because they had no root, they withered away. 00:01:36.879 --> 00:01:40.959 And some fell among the thorn, and the thorns sprang up and choked it. 00:01:41.280 --> 00:01:48.159 But others fell on good ground and yielded a crop, some hundredfold, some sixty, some thirty. 00:01:48.560 --> 00:01:50.959 He who has ears to hear, let him hear. 00:01:51.120 --> 00:01:59.760 And so the challenge today, church, uh men and women, is just that we're taking a quick assessment about where our soil is in our hearts, and is it ready to receive, is it tilled? 00:01:59.920 --> 00:02:03.920 Are we in unity with the Father, with the Spirit, for what God has for us today? 00:02:04.079 --> 00:02:07.040 I think He has a powerful word, and I'm excited to get into this. 00:02:07.200 --> 00:02:10.960 Um, but just a quick dashboard as we as we start to move in. 00:02:11.120 --> 00:02:14.960 If you're on the app, we're gonna be moving through my notes that are on there. 00:02:15.039 --> 00:02:19.680 We're gonna be going into a version that I use uh for this message will be New Living Translation. 00:02:19.759 --> 00:02:21.840 So if you're following along and you can switch over, great. 00:02:22.000 --> 00:02:26.319 Otherwise, patience if you're in other versions, but I'm gonna be teaching from the NLT today. 00:02:26.560 --> 00:02:35.039 And the conversation really, this is almost a two-part or a second follow-up, or a second part to what I spoke on a couple weeks ago, kind of that recalibrate. 00:02:35.120 --> 00:02:51.840 But there's a different lens and a different filter that I kind of want to look at here and dive into a good chunk of scripture as we think about halftime and going into the locker room and kind of what would be God's locker room speech for our lives as we go into the locker room. 00:02:52.000 --> 00:02:57.919 And halftime uh is is identified as the short period of time in between two parts of a sporting event. 00:02:58.159 --> 00:03:04.240 In this case, I'm gonna add to Webster's definition a life situation, struggle, competition, or fight. 00:03:04.400 --> 00:03:07.759 Um, and then you are to prepare for the second half of the event. 00:03:07.919 --> 00:03:09.680 And so you get a short pause here. 00:03:09.840 --> 00:03:13.280 You know, we go in, uh play soccer, you go in for the orange slice. 00:03:13.439 --> 00:03:17.599 Well, I think today uh it's gonna be more of a steak dinner, is what we're gonna get our teeth around. 00:03:17.759 --> 00:03:19.759 So there's a lot to digest, and I'm excited about that. 00:03:19.840 --> 00:03:37.599 But here's the question: You think through God's scripture, you come into halftime, you go into the locker room, and through your mind right now, you're probably playing like reels and highlights of like what are some of the great Hollywood moments of locker room species, or even like real time, you talk to players and their coaches, and what are they saying? 00:03:37.680 --> 00:03:38.639 Where are they getting motivated? 00:03:38.719 --> 00:03:40.080 What are they taking out in the second half? 00:03:40.159 --> 00:03:41.919 What are they doing in the first half, etc.? 00:03:42.240 --> 00:03:48.319 And so, what would God's halftime speech look like for us in the locker room about where we're at right now? 00:03:48.400 --> 00:03:54.719 And some of us are on this timeline where we might find ourselves actually right in the middle of everything. 00:03:54.960 --> 00:03:58.159 Uh numerically, we're just kind of right in the halftime of our lives. 00:03:58.319 --> 00:04:11.680 Others of us are in a halftime in a specific event or a season or something hard or difficult, but we're in the middle of a process, and so in our lives, we're either going into or out of the locker room kind of consistently. 00:04:11.840 --> 00:04:20.639 And so wherever you're at in that process today, you guys kind of take your self-assessment and figure out what God has for you in this and what you're supposed to take from it. 00:04:20.879 --> 00:04:33.519 But we ask our students, um, I've even talked to some staff around this question, is that is if you had to choose one book of the Bible, you're going to the island, you're going to get stranded there, and you can only take one book with you, what's the book you're going to take? 00:04:33.759 --> 00:04:34.720 And it varies. 00:04:34.879 --> 00:04:41.680 You know, Psalms, Proverbs, you know, I want like the wisdom of Solomon, how to crack the coconut, how do I live off the land. 00:04:42.160 --> 00:04:48.000 None of the coconuts in there, and I will say that none of your students, rest assured, this is like good for you guys, good job, Mom and Dad. 00:04:48.079 --> 00:04:52.399 None of your students have ever chose the Song of Solomon as their book of the Bible that they would go to the island with. 00:04:52.639 --> 00:04:54.000 They're still waiting for that one. 00:04:54.160 --> 00:05:02.639 But if you had to take one book, and for me, this is like hands above, like, I'm gonna kind of feed, I'm gonna kind of stay here, uh, it's Romans. 00:05:02.800 --> 00:05:14.079 And and I love, I love Romans, I love where Paul's heart is in this process, and we see so much of his personality and his own struggle and the rescue that he gets in some of this. 00:05:14.560 --> 00:05:16.720 Now, the question goes deeper. 00:05:16.959 --> 00:05:20.879 If I could take one chapter out of Romans, what would you take, right? 00:05:20.959 --> 00:05:21.839 And so that was the question. 00:05:21.920 --> 00:05:22.480 It goes deeper. 00:05:22.560 --> 00:05:24.639 So you get one book and you get one chapter. 00:05:24.800 --> 00:05:28.079 You're on the island, your book catches fire, you can only say one chapter. 00:05:28.319 --> 00:05:29.920 Alright, that's that's that's where we're at. 00:05:30.079 --> 00:05:34.720 Romans 8, for me, heads above everything else. 00:05:34.959 --> 00:05:44.079 Everything else in that book, Romans 8 is like it's fire from book end, from starting in the opening verse to the end. 00:05:44.319 --> 00:05:48.720 He opens with a flamethrower and delivers the goods on the last chapter with like Napalm. 00:05:48.800 --> 00:05:49.839 And you're just like, what? 00:05:50.000 --> 00:05:57.199 So, like, you can't read this and not come out of the locker room, like jacked out of your mind, like you're pumped, you're ready for the work that God has for you. 00:05:57.279 --> 00:06:01.279 So we're gonna dive in, we're gonna go through the whole chapter, we're gonna take it verse by verse. 00:06:01.519 --> 00:06:04.079 Now, just real quick uh background. 00:06:04.319 --> 00:06:10.560 Right before this, to understand the context, we see Paul in a very human state in Romans 7. 00:06:10.879 --> 00:06:11.759 He's wrestling. 00:06:11.920 --> 00:06:14.240 He's wrestling with himself, beating himself up. 00:06:14.399 --> 00:06:16.399 Why do I do the things that I hate that I don't want to do? 00:06:16.480 --> 00:06:17.199 Why am I sinning? 00:06:17.279 --> 00:06:28.959 I don't want to do these things, and he's back and forth, and it's like, man, this guy, like, you want to give him like six sessions to like a like a solid Christian counselor just to help him get unstuck from this place in Romans 7. 00:06:29.199 --> 00:06:41.600 Uh, but then it's like, I don't know if he just puts it to bed, wakes up with a revelation, and then like out of the gates, we're jumping right in to um Romans 1, or sorry, Romans 8, verses 1. 00:06:41.839 --> 00:06:49.439 Now, this, in my opinion, is the first chunk of this, so it's gonna break down into three sections as we move through the chapter. 00:06:49.680 --> 00:06:54.879 You're gonna have the life in the spirit, what I consider the fundamentals of the game. 00:06:55.040 --> 00:06:56.639 We're gonna get back to the fundamentals. 00:06:56.720 --> 00:06:57.439 How are you playing? 00:06:57.600 --> 00:06:58.560 Did you get away from your game? 00:06:58.639 --> 00:07:01.519 We need to kind of think through what our fundamentals are. 00:07:02.000 --> 00:07:07.199 The second, the middle section is kind of the future glory, the prize that we get. 00:07:07.360 --> 00:07:08.160 What are we fighting for? 00:07:08.240 --> 00:07:09.040 What are we playing for? 00:07:09.199 --> 00:07:10.319 What's the purpose? 00:07:10.560 --> 00:07:19.839 And then, really, the last section out of the gates, the third part of the chapter, is our war cry, it's our anthem, it's our declaration, and it's what we're headed back into the second half with. 00:07:19.920 --> 00:07:20.959 And so we'll get to that. 00:07:21.199 --> 00:07:24.800 So, first half, uh coming out, we're kind of thinking through some things. 00:07:25.040 --> 00:07:29.120 Paul is headed into the locker room, thinking about like seven. 00:07:29.199 --> 00:07:29.839 It's on him. 00:07:29.920 --> 00:07:32.399 He doesn't want to live this way, he's like, there's got to be a better way. 00:07:32.480 --> 00:07:33.839 And what am I gonna cling to? 00:07:34.000 --> 00:07:36.879 What are the truths that God's gonna bring through me? 00:07:37.360 --> 00:07:39.199 I think about Coach John Wooden. 00:07:39.439 --> 00:07:40.399 You guys know of him. 00:07:40.480 --> 00:07:43.839 If you don't, uh he was the UCLA coach for basketball. 00:07:43.920 --> 00:07:49.279 He is considered the greatest basketball, he's considered the greatest coach, period, of all time. 00:07:49.439 --> 00:07:53.120 Like it doesn't matter what sport, he's considered the greatest coach of all time. 00:07:53.279 --> 00:08:00.639 In a 12-year period, he won 10 national titles, and within that segment, he won seven straight consecutive titles. 00:08:01.120 --> 00:08:05.839 What's interesting about him is this fact of how he would begin each season. 00:08:06.000 --> 00:08:08.480 He would go back to the fundamentals, he would go back to the basics. 00:08:08.639 --> 00:08:13.759 He's recruiting nationally the best players from around the country to his school. 00:08:13.920 --> 00:08:14.959 And what does he do? 00:08:15.120 --> 00:08:19.519 These kids know how to play ball, they're there for a purpose, they're there to win, they know the game, or so they think. 00:08:19.680 --> 00:08:26.000 And he sits them down, and he doesn't care if it's their freshman year or if they're returning from the national championship team the year before. 00:08:26.160 --> 00:08:30.560 He sits them all down and he says, We're gonna start with how to tie your shoes. 00:08:31.519 --> 00:08:32.159 What? 00:08:32.960 --> 00:08:34.159 You know where I was playing, right? 00:08:34.240 --> 00:08:37.919 I want to stay title for my high school game, and all I can imagine the conversations these guys had. 00:08:38.080 --> 00:08:39.440 He's like, no, no, wait, stop. 00:08:39.600 --> 00:08:50.480 We're gonna start with the basics because if you guys don't know how to lace up your feet, your shoes, your most important equipment, you're gonna get blisters, you're not gonna perform well, and you're not gonna be the best that you can be for this team. 00:08:50.639 --> 00:08:53.360 And so we're gonna start with how to lace your shoes. 00:08:53.440 --> 00:08:56.399 And he would go through that process with them, and everybody did it. 00:08:56.559 --> 00:08:58.559 And they repeated it, and they repeated it. 00:08:58.720 --> 00:09:01.519 But he built his game design on the fundamentals. 00:09:01.759 --> 00:09:04.320 So, here we are, right out of the gates. 00:09:04.480 --> 00:09:05.840 What are we gonna say? 00:09:06.080 --> 00:09:12.639 And uh on the notes, if you guys are in the notes in the app, uh this isn't highlighted yet, but when we post the notes, you'll have these. 00:09:12.720 --> 00:09:21.600 But I'm gonna go through, and the way that I've taken this, and I'll cue you guys, have your pen and your uh, if you guys are following in your hard text or on your phone, you're gonna be able to do this. 00:09:21.759 --> 00:09:26.559 But I'm gonna say where I've highlighted versus underlined, and we're gonna go through the whole chapter with that way. 00:09:26.639 --> 00:09:30.480 So I'll cue you with kind of how I've kind of chewed this uh chapter up. 00:09:30.720 --> 00:09:33.519 Highlight verse one, right out of the gates. 00:09:33.840 --> 00:09:36.159 Fire, hand grenade, here we go. 00:09:36.320 --> 00:09:40.320 So there is no condemnation for those who belong to Christ Jesus. 00:09:40.639 --> 00:09:41.840 Okay, pause right there. 00:09:41.919 --> 00:09:45.440 We need to grapple with this, we need to chew on it, we need to just absorb it to say, wait a minute. 00:09:45.600 --> 00:09:54.879 Regardless of the voices in my head, regardless of what they think about me, regardless of what I think about me, my own self-condemnation, Jesus says, first of all, stop it right now. 00:09:55.039 --> 00:09:55.519 That's it. 00:09:55.600 --> 00:09:58.399 We're gonna do a quick hard reset on the hard drive. 00:09:58.559 --> 00:10:02.399 There is no condemnation if you are living in Christ Jesus. 00:10:02.559 --> 00:10:05.759 If you belong to me, you don't get to live under condemnation. 00:10:06.080 --> 00:10:07.840 Verse 2, and I highlighted that one. 00:10:07.919 --> 00:10:16.559 Verse 2 is not, and because you belong to him, the power of the life-giving spirit has freed you from both the power of sin that leads to death. 00:10:16.799 --> 00:10:18.559 Okay, there's a lot here. 00:10:18.720 --> 00:10:22.960 Uh, and because you belong to him, first of all, now you're getting who you belong to. 00:10:23.120 --> 00:10:27.919 When you're gonna play the game, you've got to know whose you are, what team you're on, and who's your you know who you belong to. 00:10:28.000 --> 00:10:29.279 So he's just saying it right now. 00:10:29.519 --> 00:10:36.240 You belong to me, and the life-giving spirit has freed you from the power of sin that leads to death. 00:10:36.480 --> 00:10:38.159 Okay, freed me completely. 00:10:38.240 --> 00:10:39.679 That means I'm no longer a slave. 00:10:39.840 --> 00:10:46.320 That means that even though I've been to the cross and I feel like I'm still gonna struggle, I'm still gonna think about things, and the enemy's gonna come at me, and I'm gonna partner with him. 00:10:46.480 --> 00:10:51.840 I've been completely set free, I've been completely freed from the power of that sin over my life. 00:10:52.000 --> 00:10:53.440 I don't have to walk in that anymore. 00:10:53.600 --> 00:11:02.639 Underline verse 3 the law of Moses was unable to save us because of what the weak because of the weakness of our sinful nature. 00:11:02.879 --> 00:11:05.200 So God did what the law could not do. 00:11:05.440 --> 00:11:09.840 He sent his own son in a body like the bodies we sinners have. 00:11:10.480 --> 00:11:14.240 He's gonna show up like us to do the work that we couldn't do. 00:11:14.879 --> 00:11:24.240 Highlight, and in that body, God declared an end to sin's control over us by giving his son as a sacrifice for our sins. 00:11:25.440 --> 00:11:28.799 He's declaring an end to sin's control of us. 00:11:28.960 --> 00:11:32.639 There's a partnership that we make, that we still go back and negotiate. 00:11:32.720 --> 00:11:33.679 There's contracts. 00:11:33.840 --> 00:11:36.080 He's saying, no, it's scorched, it's done. 00:11:36.159 --> 00:11:38.159 I'm declaring there's an end to this. 00:11:38.399 --> 00:11:41.600 And we're gonna build on this thought through the course of the text. 00:11:41.840 --> 00:11:42.799 Verse 4. 00:11:43.039 --> 00:11:53.840 He did this so that the just requirement of the law would be fully satisfied for us, highlight who no longer follow our sinful nature, but instead follow the Spirit. 00:11:54.080 --> 00:11:56.080 We have a decision to make here. 00:11:56.399 --> 00:12:00.559 We can take the full exchange and we can still kind of stay there. 00:12:00.639 --> 00:12:05.200 But what he's really talking about, what the exchange is, is we're getting a new wineskin. 00:12:05.600 --> 00:12:25.759 There's a new wine skin that's offered to us at Calvary that sometimes, right, when we stay in, we stay in our old wineskin, but God wants to put new wine in, and instead, when that happens, and we know from the verses, we know from the scripture, that when you put new wine in, that still has to grow and mature, gets power, it's going to expand, and it needs new skin to grow with it. 00:12:25.840 --> 00:12:27.919 When you put it in the old stuff, it bursts. 00:12:28.080 --> 00:12:42.399 There's a visual in my mind, like at some point, when we continue to travel down in the words that he's talking about, in the language that he's using, that leads unto death, it's where we keep our old wine skin and we try to put his new wine in us, and eventually we're gonna burst. 00:12:42.639 --> 00:12:53.360 Because the old person, the old man, the old skin isn't meant to hold the new wine that God wants to bring out in and through us for the world that needs his glory and his kingdom. 00:12:53.600 --> 00:12:59.360 And so, are we willing to receive this new wineskin before we go back in to the second half? 00:12:59.519 --> 00:13:02.960 And let me just say, new wineskin right now, and I'm so proud of your students. 00:13:03.120 --> 00:13:14.240 You guys, we at tribe have been feeling just like a fraction of what God's been wanting to do through our country, through our world, through our nation, but they have been going hard this whole year after God, running after it. 00:13:14.320 --> 00:13:17.919 There's been a new wineskin, and there's been a new wine poured out over your youth group. 00:13:18.080 --> 00:13:22.639 Healings, uh, physical healings, where we've actually seen physical manifestation. 00:13:22.799 --> 00:13:28.480 New skin has regrown where kids have been cutting themselves, and there's been no evidence left of those harmful marks. 00:13:28.639 --> 00:13:30.960 They have been healed from depression, they've been healed from cancer. 00:13:31.120 --> 00:13:32.879 The list goes on and on. 00:13:32.960 --> 00:13:36.399 And if that doesn't get you excited about what God's doing, I don't know what is. 00:13:36.559 --> 00:13:42.399 Because there's new wine that he wants to pour out, and we are we are so excited and humbled to partner with him in this. 00:13:42.639 --> 00:13:46.399 But it's it's available, and he's making it he's making an offering. 00:13:46.480 --> 00:13:51.200 He's saying, you don't have to live in the old wineskin, you've got to take on the new mantle, and this is how we're gonna do it. 00:13:51.279 --> 00:13:52.960 We're gonna get our heads right first. 00:13:53.440 --> 00:13:57.840 So, calling us to live extreme, we're gonna look different from the culture. 00:13:58.000 --> 00:14:02.879 You're gonna have your new wineskin, and from you, I'm gonna develop a deeper faith, a deeper hope. 00:14:02.960 --> 00:14:15.039 There's gonna be healings coming on your land, and we're gonna experience the power of the Holy Spirit pouring out on a new wine in our country and in our communities and our schools and our homes and our families healing that God wants to do in us. 00:14:15.200 --> 00:14:17.039 And so we're obedient here. 00:14:17.440 --> 00:14:22.320 Five, those who are dominated by the sinful nature think about sinful things. 00:14:22.559 --> 00:14:24.159 Okay, that's pretty straightforward. 00:14:24.320 --> 00:14:26.000 We've already seen Paul wrestle with this. 00:14:26.159 --> 00:14:29.360 He's restating kind of where he was in chapter 7. 00:14:29.600 --> 00:14:32.240 But this is where he puts the comma and adds the but. 00:14:32.480 --> 00:14:37.519 But those who are controlled by the Holy Spirit think about things that please the Spirit. 00:14:37.679 --> 00:14:41.440 There's a mind shift, taking thoughts obedient, making them obedient to Christ. 00:14:41.679 --> 00:14:49.440 Number six, so letting high uh underline, so letting your sinful nature control your mind leads to death. 00:14:50.960 --> 00:14:57.600 Highlight, second half, but letting the spirit control your mind leads to life and peace. 00:14:57.840 --> 00:14:59.279 So we now see the transaction. 00:14:59.360 --> 00:15:02.879 There's an equation here, there's something that we're getting in this process. 00:15:03.120 --> 00:15:10.639 We get, when we when we let the mind, our mind be controlled by the spirit, it's leading us to life and leading us to peace. 00:15:10.799 --> 00:15:18.559 When we give our mind over to the sinful side of life, the things where our flesh wants to go, we get anxiety, we get fear, we get depression. 00:15:18.799 --> 00:15:31.919 All of those things that we start to also now try to understand and self-medicate, understand through the world's eyes, and we're going in the wrong direction from what the Spirit has for us, where he's promising peace and life. 00:15:32.159 --> 00:15:33.200 That's exciting. 00:15:34.480 --> 00:15:35.039 Seven. 00:15:35.360 --> 00:15:38.240 For the sinful nature is always hostile to God. 00:15:38.399 --> 00:15:41.519 It never did obey God's laws, and it never will. 00:15:42.320 --> 00:15:43.519 It's light and dark here. 00:15:43.600 --> 00:15:46.080 He's just saying, hey, here's what it is, it's light and dark. 00:15:46.320 --> 00:15:48.720 This is never going to participate with God's kingdom. 00:15:48.879 --> 00:15:51.200 It was never designed for that, and it never will. 00:15:51.519 --> 00:15:57.519 There's something that you can step in fully and completely today and live completely apart from the way that you have been living. 00:15:58.399 --> 00:15:58.960 Step into that. 00:15:59.039 --> 00:16:06.480 And for eight, underline, that's why those who are still under the control of their sinful nature can never please God. 00:16:07.600 --> 00:16:09.120 We're never able to do that. 00:16:09.360 --> 00:16:11.440 It was never part of his design for us. 00:16:11.919 --> 00:16:16.000 We we confiscated or we we we got the earth confiscated from us. 00:16:16.159 --> 00:16:18.879 It's our choice to go back now and eat the apple. 00:16:19.039 --> 00:16:21.679 We don't have to live under that, under that yoke. 00:16:22.240 --> 00:16:27.039 So, number nine, highlight you are not controlled by your sinful nature. 00:16:27.279 --> 00:16:30.159 But you are not controlled by your sinful nature. 00:16:31.360 --> 00:16:32.639 We let that sink in. 00:16:33.679 --> 00:16:38.159 We don't probably pause long enough in that space because we feel like we're controlled by it. 00:16:38.320 --> 00:16:45.840 Well, I can do, I'm gonna do really good over here and with this and with that, but you know, with the areas, I just don't think I'm ever gonna get free from that. 00:16:45.919 --> 00:16:47.120 It's always gonna control me. 00:16:47.600 --> 00:16:51.200 What he's saying is that's completely garbage right now because this is where he heads into it. 00:16:51.679 --> 00:16:57.360 Those who are controlled, but those who are controlled by the Holy Spirit, think about things that please the Spirit. 00:16:58.080 --> 00:17:03.519 So letting your uh highlight that, highlight the second half of five, and then underline six. 00:17:03.840 --> 00:17:07.440 So letting your sinful nature control your mind leads to death. 00:17:08.079 --> 00:17:09.359 You have life and you have death. 00:17:09.440 --> 00:17:10.640 He's just setting it right out there. 00:17:10.720 --> 00:17:13.279 This is very clear thinking, this is the reset. 00:17:13.759 --> 00:17:16.559 But letting the spirit control your mind leads to life and peace. 00:17:17.279 --> 00:17:17.920 I apologize. 00:17:18.319 --> 00:17:20.480 I got behind in my notes, so we're further down. 00:17:21.039 --> 00:17:22.160 Please forgive me. 00:17:22.480 --> 00:17:23.200 I apologize. 00:17:23.279 --> 00:17:24.480 Thank you for your grace on that. 00:17:25.119 --> 00:17:26.640 So where I was in nine. 00:17:26.799 --> 00:17:31.680 You're not controlled by your sinful nature, you are controlled by the spirit if you have the spirit of God living in you. 00:17:32.160 --> 00:17:37.519 And remember that those who do not have the spirit of Christ living in them do not belong to him at all. 00:17:37.759 --> 00:17:47.759 So now he's just saying, okay, if you don't have the spirit of God in you, you don't have access to all the things that we're going to be talking about and what is available to you and where to live from. 00:17:48.000 --> 00:17:50.319 Number 10, Christ lives within you. 00:17:50.480 --> 00:17:56.799 So even though your body will die because of sin, the Spirit gives you life because you have been made right with God. 00:17:57.519 --> 00:18:02.880 Highlight 11, the Spirit of God who raised Jesus from the dead lives in you. 00:18:03.039 --> 00:18:10.799 And just as God raised Jesus Christ from the dead, he will give life to your immortal bodies by this same spirit living within you. 00:18:11.680 --> 00:18:12.720 So now we have access. 00:18:12.960 --> 00:18:14.079 We have access to life. 00:18:14.400 --> 00:18:15.839 We are raised to Christ. 00:18:16.079 --> 00:18:17.599 We are raised to life with Christ. 00:18:18.079 --> 00:18:19.359 Galatians 2.20. 00:18:19.440 --> 00:18:21.680 Uh right, I have been crucified with Christ. 00:18:21.759 --> 00:18:24.480 It is no longer I who live, but him who lives within me. 00:18:25.200 --> 00:18:28.640 This is what Paul's talking about, and he's fully, he's fully realizing it. 00:18:29.039 --> 00:18:33.359 And and this is um some lyrics from the song that I really love. 00:18:33.519 --> 00:18:37.519 It's um right, by your spirit I will rise. 00:18:37.759 --> 00:18:42.720 From the ashes of defeat, the resurrected king is resurrecting me. 00:18:42.960 --> 00:18:46.799 In your name I come alive to declare your victory. 00:18:46.960 --> 00:18:49.440 In Jesus' name, I'm coming alive. 00:18:49.680 --> 00:18:52.480 In Jesus' name, I'm declaring his victory. 00:18:52.720 --> 00:19:04.880 I don't have to struggle here, I'm coming out of it completely, and I'm gonna declare Jesus' name, and I'm gonna declare his victory because he's already gone there, he's already done what he had to do, and I have victory in that, and he's resurrecting me out of the ashes. 00:19:05.839 --> 00:19:13.680 We participate with his death at Calvary, so we will also celebrate and live in his victory over death with the resurrection and life that he's bringing us. 00:19:14.640 --> 00:19:16.240 Verse 12, underlined. 00:19:16.559 --> 00:19:22.079 Therefore, dear brothers and sisters, you have no obligation to do your sinful nature urges you to do. 00:19:22.799 --> 00:19:23.839 Okay, pause there. 00:19:25.680 --> 00:19:33.200 We have to grab this, we have to really sink hold because there is this thing where we feel like we are pulled back or there's not this freedom. 00:19:33.359 --> 00:19:35.039 And he's saying, No. 00:19:36.640 --> 00:19:37.359 13. 00:19:37.519 --> 00:19:39.839 For if you live by its dictates, you will die. 00:19:39.920 --> 00:19:46.000 But if through the power of the Spirit you put to death the deeds of your sinful nature, you will live. 00:19:46.960 --> 00:19:47.599 You will live. 00:19:47.680 --> 00:19:49.920 You have to put to death the sinful nature. 00:19:50.079 --> 00:19:52.880 Now we look at the timeline of everything God has created. 00:19:52.960 --> 00:19:55.920 There's only been one thing that's been raised from the dead, and that's Jesus Christ. 00:19:56.079 --> 00:20:00.559 So when we bury and put to death our sinful nature, it is dead. 00:20:00.799 --> 00:20:01.279 It's dead. 00:20:01.359 --> 00:20:04.160 We put it at the cross and it's covered and it's gone. 00:20:04.319 --> 00:20:08.720 We don't have to participate, we shouldn't have to struggle in that uh, you know, temptation. 00:20:08.799 --> 00:20:14.000 Yeah, we're gonna be tempted, but then we have the Spirit coming over us who's going to lead us. 00:20:14.160 --> 00:20:15.759 And this is what he says in 14. 00:20:16.559 --> 00:20:19.920 For all who are led by the Spirit of God are children of God. 00:20:21.279 --> 00:20:23.680 You're gonna put to death your sinful nature. 00:20:23.920 --> 00:20:26.319 Highlight the second half of 13 and all of 14. 00:20:27.680 --> 00:20:31.200 For all who are led by the Spirit of God are children of God. 00:20:31.759 --> 00:20:32.880 There's this inheritance. 00:20:33.279 --> 00:20:34.799 Now he's just identified you. 00:20:34.960 --> 00:20:39.440 Now you know whose name is on your jersey, you know who you're leaving the locker room with, who's on your side. 00:20:39.599 --> 00:20:44.960 You don't even have to think about the victory that you're trying to secure in your own flesh because that victory has already been won. 00:20:45.279 --> 00:20:46.319 It's already happened. 00:20:46.720 --> 00:20:48.240 And so we're gonna walk in that. 00:20:48.960 --> 00:20:50.160 15 underlined. 00:20:50.319 --> 00:20:54.240 So you have not received a spirit that makes you fearful slaves. 00:20:54.640 --> 00:20:58.880 Instead, you receive God's spirit when he adopted you as his own children. 00:21:00.000 --> 00:21:02.000 Now we call him Abba Father. 00:21:03.359 --> 00:21:07.920 We don't have to live under the fear of the slavery of the old life. 00:21:08.480 --> 00:21:10.000 But that's where we try to get position. 00:21:10.079 --> 00:21:12.880 That's where the enemy tries to maneuver, get us around, get us out. 00:21:13.119 --> 00:21:16.960 He had to maneuver Adam and Eve out of the garden. 00:21:17.440 --> 00:21:24.799 He had to get them to do something that was a dictate and a decree that they shouldn't do, because he knew he couldn't harm them in that state. 00:21:25.440 --> 00:21:30.559 We have to sin, I have to get them to sin so then I can crush them, I can kill them, I can destroy them. 00:21:30.720 --> 00:21:37.440 And if I can just move them out of that space, out of God's protection, out of his covering, then I can achieve my goal. 00:21:37.599 --> 00:21:39.200 And that's his end game for all of us. 00:21:39.279 --> 00:21:52.000 So how is he trying to maneuver in your life and your heart to pull you out of God's covering, out of God's protection, out of God's promise, out of the cross of Calvary, out of the blood that he's already spilled, out of the victory he's already won, and the empty grave that he left? 00:21:53.119 --> 00:21:57.599 But Paul is reminding us that we have been adopted in now. 00:21:59.039 --> 00:21:59.759 I have good parents. 00:22:00.960 --> 00:22:04.000 You know, we had a life, you know, just like all of us too. 00:22:04.079 --> 00:22:07.920 They weren't perfect, they made mistakes, and they're, you know, we we all have that story. 00:22:08.079 --> 00:22:22.319 But with God of creation, the God of perfection, what he offers, what we get in the transaction, to have his name on the jersey, to step fully into all of his glory and kingdom, we can't really comprehend and we don't spend enough time thinking about this. 00:22:22.559 --> 00:22:39.440 Sometimes we get up and we're like kind of off to the races and we're thinking about, you know, uh, what I need to do today, what's my checklist, what is uh what's on my what's on my first meetings, what does all that look like, versus stepping in and going back to verse one and saying, wait, there's no condemnation here for me in Christ Jesus. 00:22:39.599 --> 00:22:48.559 And I've been redeemed and I've been atoned for, and I'm gonna step into today with the full knowledge of the power that I have available to me as a son or daughter of him. 00:22:48.799 --> 00:22:54.880 And I can call him Abba Father when we know that the translation of that, right, is daddy in today's language. 00:22:55.440 --> 00:23:04.079 Like there's this intimacy here that we get access, and he's reminding us call on me, call on me. 00:23:04.240 --> 00:23:06.000 Now we call him Abba Father. 00:23:06.160 --> 00:23:08.160 Highlight verse 16. 00:23:08.400 --> 00:23:13.359 For his spirit joins with our spirit to affirm that we are God's children. 00:23:14.079 --> 00:23:15.839 We are grafting in. 00:23:16.079 --> 00:23:29.119 He's giving us his spirit because we're gonna need his spirit to take thoughts captive, to overcome the sin, to overcome the contracts and the negotiations we made with the devil to step into the complete covering and freedom that he's offering here. 00:23:29.279 --> 00:23:31.680 So he's going to graft his spirit in with us. 00:23:31.839 --> 00:23:33.440 And now we're his children. 00:23:33.680 --> 00:23:38.160 For his spirit is joined with ours to affirm that we are God's children. 00:23:38.240 --> 00:23:41.119 And since we are his children, we are his heirs. 00:23:41.359 --> 00:23:45.359 In fact, together with Christ, we are heirs of God's glory. 00:23:45.680 --> 00:23:50.319 But if we are to share his glory, we must also share in his suffering. 00:23:51.200 --> 00:23:56.960 So he's grafting into us, he's bringing us along, and we have this, we have this beautiful gift. 00:23:57.119 --> 00:24:01.119 Now, this is where it gets a little bit like he leaves us kind of there, and he's like, well, wait a minute. 00:24:01.279 --> 00:24:04.400 We must also share with his suffering, and it kind of like the needle leaves the record for us. 00:24:04.559 --> 00:24:05.680 Like, I didn't sign up for that. 00:24:05.759 --> 00:24:10.240 I signed up for the good, you know, but I want the fun and this other the adventure, and that's all great. 00:24:10.400 --> 00:24:14.160 But then what about the suffering thing that you just said on the back end of that? 00:24:14.240 --> 00:24:16.000 I don't know what that means for me. 00:24:16.160 --> 00:24:17.440 But this is where he goes with it. 00:24:17.519 --> 00:24:22.559 And it's 18, where this is where we enter the middle part of this, and it's the future glory. 00:24:22.720 --> 00:24:26.240 And I have the prize plus his victory equals our reward. 00:24:26.319 --> 00:24:27.680 And this is what is promised. 00:24:27.759 --> 00:24:28.640 This is where we go. 00:24:28.799 --> 00:24:35.200 Yet what we suffer underline now is nothing compared to the glory he will reveal to us later. 00:24:35.440 --> 00:24:39.200 There's a glory that's coming that we get so focused in our immediate situation. 00:24:39.359 --> 00:24:42.640 I lost a job, I'm not sure I'm gonna pay the bills, I got really bad news. 00:24:42.799 --> 00:24:44.079 Family life is rough. 00:24:44.240 --> 00:24:47.759 Uh, we've got relationship issues, and everything is right here in front of us. 00:24:47.920 --> 00:24:48.960 Uh, mass mandate. 00:24:49.039 --> 00:24:49.759 Do I vaccinate? 00:24:49.839 --> 00:24:52.000 What am I supposed to do with the information that's coming at me? 00:24:52.079 --> 00:24:53.759 I'm just getting inundated with it. 00:24:53.920 --> 00:24:56.799 And God's like, stop, time out. 00:24:56.960 --> 00:24:58.400 Let's come back into the locker room. 00:24:58.480 --> 00:25:00.640 Let's bring your head up and let's look at something. 00:25:00.799 --> 00:25:03.680 There's glory coming at the end of this life for you. 00:25:03.839 --> 00:25:05.039 There's glory coming. 00:25:05.200 --> 00:25:06.640 And you need to step into that. 00:25:06.799 --> 00:25:10.480 You need to understand, you need to refocus for the second half. 00:25:11.200 --> 00:25:18.160 For all creation is eagerly waiting for that future day when God will reveal who his children really are. 00:25:18.720 --> 00:25:20.160 Underline 20. 00:25:20.400 --> 00:25:24.480 Against its will, all creation was subjected to God's curse. 00:25:24.799 --> 00:25:28.400 See, we think about just humanity being broken. 00:25:28.480 --> 00:25:35.119 We don't sometimes give pause to think about that the world that we live in really isn't their original design, at least I haven't, consistently. 00:25:35.279 --> 00:25:40.880 The hurricanes, the tornadoes, the volcanoes, the droughts, the fires, all of it. 00:25:41.039 --> 00:25:42.000 It's broken. 00:25:42.240 --> 00:25:45.440 This is not the blueberry he intended for us, right? 00:25:45.680 --> 00:25:47.519 It's hurting and it's groaning. 00:25:47.599 --> 00:25:52.480 It wants to be restored back to its original glory as well, and we see that later in the text. 00:25:52.720 --> 00:26:04.799 But with eager hope, and he's talking about his creation here, with eager hope, the creation highlight looks forward to the day when it will join God's children in glorious freedom from death and decay. 00:26:04.960 --> 00:26:06.799 Right now, our earth is dying as well. 00:26:07.039 --> 00:26:10.000 It's dying with us and it's participating with us. 00:26:10.319 --> 00:26:20.720 We think about vacations and days at the beach where we get to go, and it's like it's the weather's perfect, it's like they're like whatever that temperature is for you, and the sea's rolling in, the tide, and it's it's like it's like perfect. 00:26:20.960 --> 00:26:24.640 Like, this is paradise, this is awesome, and you get it for like three or four days. 00:26:24.799 --> 00:26:27.200 You work through the year to get that, you know, get out to the beach. 00:26:27.279 --> 00:26:30.640 But really, what God said is that was supposed to be for eternity. 00:26:30.720 --> 00:26:31.759 That was the original design. 00:26:31.920 --> 00:26:33.359 That's what I want to take you back to. 00:26:33.519 --> 00:26:36.480 The earth is yearning and longing to come back to that. 00:26:36.559 --> 00:26:41.200 And some of the most beautiful places on earth that we go on vacation at can also be the most deadly. 00:26:41.680 --> 00:26:46.559 When the tornadoes and the hurricanes and the tsunamis roll in, they can be the most deadly, and our world is broken. 00:26:46.640 --> 00:26:49.759 But it wants freedom from death and decay. 00:26:50.000 --> 00:26:50.720 22. 00:26:50.960 --> 00:26:57.039 For we know that all creation has been groaning as in the pains of childbirth right up to the present time. 00:26:57.279 --> 00:27:09.200 Underline 23, and we believers also groan, even though we have the Holy Spirit within us as a foretaste of future glory, we long for our bodies to be released from sin and suffering. 00:27:09.519 --> 00:27:20.240 We too wait and with eager hope for the day when God will give us our full rights as his adopted children, including the new bodies he has promised us. 00:27:20.960 --> 00:27:28.000 In my former life, um was a banker and worked in the trust department, and so I'd sit down and deliver the bad news of the trust document, right? 00:27:28.079 --> 00:27:30.799 I mean, very rarely did I have like one beneficiary in front of me. 00:27:30.960 --> 00:27:33.759 You get it all, and it's all yours, right? 00:27:33.920 --> 00:27:40.799 They're like, um, no, you get this, your cousin's gonna get that, your brother and sister's gonna share the uh, you know, the Ferrari collection or whatever that was, right? 00:27:40.880 --> 00:27:42.640 And they're like, that's you know, I love that. 00:27:42.720 --> 00:27:46.960 I watched that card, it's like, I'm sorry, I didn't write it, I just have to distribute the information. 00:27:47.200 --> 00:27:57.279 But what he's saying here is that we, because we're adopted sons and daughters, we get full rights, including the bodies that we deal with. 00:27:57.440 --> 00:28:06.400 And so you heard me talk about like kind of that turning the odometer after 40, and the factory warranty kind of starts to get into places where you're looking at replacement parts, right? 00:28:06.559 --> 00:28:12.559 In our bodies, and you're like thinking, uh, it's painful, it hurts, my neck, my back, etc., my knees, hips, joints, whatever. 00:28:12.799 --> 00:28:20.400 But then, you know, uh, our vehicles can actually be kind of a uh an assimilation to what we're experiencing in our own bodies. 00:28:20.559 --> 00:28:28.400 And so what we put in them, we're changing the oil, we're putting in premium, you know, we're gonna do our best that we can with these things, but ultimately they're gonna break down and fail us. 00:28:28.559 --> 00:28:33.680 What he's saying here is that there's coming the day where we're gonna get the full glory that God has promised us. 00:28:33.839 --> 00:28:35.440 We get restored back to that. 00:28:35.680 --> 00:28:36.559 We're given this hope. 00:28:36.799 --> 00:28:37.759 Highlight 24. 00:28:37.920 --> 00:28:41.519 We were given this hope when we were raised and when we were saved. 00:28:42.319 --> 00:28:43.440 We get this hope. 00:28:44.400 --> 00:28:48.240 If we already have something, we don't need to hope for it. 00:28:48.880 --> 00:28:49.599 25. 00:28:49.759 --> 00:28:55.519 But if we look forward to something we don't yet have, we must wait patiently. 00:28:55.839 --> 00:28:56.880 He doesn't stop there. 00:28:57.119 --> 00:28:58.880 He says, and confidently. 00:28:59.039 --> 00:29:02.400 We need to step into confidence of what is happening. 00:29:02.720 --> 00:29:08.319 We have the confidence that we are gonna get fully restored, we are gonna get fully redeemed, we are going to see creation made new. 00:29:08.480 --> 00:29:09.440 This is the long game. 00:29:09.519 --> 00:29:11.279 This is what we're looking at out of the locker room. 00:29:11.359 --> 00:29:14.720 This is where we go face the second half, is that we don't stay broken. 00:29:14.880 --> 00:29:16.720 We don't stay in this broken place. 00:29:17.599 --> 00:29:24.640 We can be confident because of what Christ did at Calvary and what he did on the cross, that we have access to that there. 00:29:24.799 --> 00:29:25.839 He's already redeemed it. 00:29:25.920 --> 00:29:28.480