WEBVTT 00:00:00.800 --> 00:00:04.160 What is going on, my beloved brothers and sisters in Christ? 00:00:04.240 --> 00:00:06.080 This is Evangelist Toby Doubt it. 00:00:06.639 --> 00:00:08.080 We are back again. 00:00:08.400 --> 00:00:14.560 We were in the book of Philippians, and we're almost done with chapter 1. 00:00:14.800 --> 00:00:20.800 But I've taken a detour and I've gone to chapter 8 in the book of Romans. 00:00:21.839 --> 00:00:23.359 Very deep chapter. 00:00:23.679 --> 00:00:26.480 And eventually we'll get back to the book of Philippians. 00:00:26.719 --> 00:00:34.240 But I wanted to get into Romans chapter 8 because there's some very deep things that are being said here. 00:00:34.560 --> 00:00:36.960 The apostle Paul is posing the question. 00:00:37.200 --> 00:00:55.759 If you are, in fact, you have received the same Holy Spirit that Jesus Christ received upon the Holy Spirit descending upon him during his baptism, then you should be walking righteously as Jesus did while he was on this earth and living a righteous life. 00:00:56.000 --> 00:01:02.960 If you are doing those things, then you are considered sons of God or daughters of God. 00:01:03.920 --> 00:01:12.640 Now, there are people who say that they are Christ believers, but their walk, their fruit is far from it. 00:01:13.120 --> 00:01:15.280 They're not bearing righteous fruit. 00:01:15.519 --> 00:01:17.840 They're still living any way they want to. 00:01:18.000 --> 00:01:30.640 And the Apostle Paul warns us heavily against such people, not even to have anything to do with them, because of how dangerous they can become and how they can corrupt the church. 00:01:30.879 --> 00:01:35.599 Bad company breeds bad morals. 00:01:36.079 --> 00:01:44.239 And so we have to be careful about those we are hanging around who say they are believers in the Lord. 00:01:44.480 --> 00:01:45.200 Alright? 00:01:45.439 --> 00:01:50.640 Now, as we've been reading all of you know chapter 8, we stopped at verse 13. 00:01:50.879 --> 00:01:56.000 We're going to pick back up in verse 14 and see how far we can go. 00:01:56.239 --> 00:01:57.599 Maybe we can't complete it. 00:01:57.760 --> 00:02:06.879 We probably will, we probably not, because there's a lot of meat that we need to be taking note of and really studying in here. 00:02:07.200 --> 00:02:12.240 Today we're going to find out where the concept of adoption came from. 00:02:12.960 --> 00:02:22.080 Because God started it in one place and now He has brought it into this situation when it comes to the body of Christ. 00:02:22.319 --> 00:02:24.960 Okay, so now let's get in verse 14. 00:02:26.479 --> 00:02:29.120 And I am reading from an amplified Bible. 00:02:29.280 --> 00:02:34.879 Uh whatever Bible you have, if that's the Bible you feel the most comfortable with, then go along with it. 00:02:35.039 --> 00:02:40.319 Uh, if you would like to use an amplified version, such as I have. 00:02:40.560 --> 00:02:44.400 You don't have one physically on hand, you can go to Bible Gateway. 00:02:44.479 --> 00:02:47.759 They have a free version there, or AMP versus the AMPC. 00:02:47.919 --> 00:02:54.639 Use the AMP version because that is the version that I am currently reading and studying from on a daily basis. 00:02:55.039 --> 00:03:00.000 So without further ado, let's go ahead and jump into verse 14 in Romans chapter 8. 00:03:00.240 --> 00:03:06.639 And it says, For all who are allowing themselves to be led by the Spirit of God are sons of God. 00:03:06.800 --> 00:03:08.800 Now, what does that entail? 00:03:09.039 --> 00:03:15.199 Living and walking a righteous life, not waiting to get to heaven. 00:03:15.759 --> 00:03:21.520 This has to be on display and evident right now in the world. 00:03:22.000 --> 00:03:22.319 Okay? 00:03:23.039 --> 00:03:29.280 Because this is our evidence that we have the Holy Spirit, not speaking in tongues. 00:03:30.319 --> 00:03:32.479 I just want to make that known. 00:03:33.439 --> 00:03:40.400 We are in the Holy Spirit, we are walking and living a righteous life on display for all to see. 00:03:41.039 --> 00:03:44.560 And those who are led by the Holy Spirit, they are sons of God. 00:03:44.800 --> 00:03:49.759 We who walk obedient in the Lord, not say we are in the Lord, but not walking obedient. 00:03:50.000 --> 00:04:00.240 Verse 15, for you have not received, look at this, a spirit of slavery, leading again to fear of God's judgment. 00:04:00.479 --> 00:04:06.719 But you have received the spirit of adoption as sons, the spirit producing sonship. 00:04:07.039 --> 00:04:14.639 So the Holy Spirit produces the sonship by which we joyfully cry, Abba Father. 00:04:14.879 --> 00:04:22.079 Now, we don't fear God's judgment or his wrath because now we have been brought into salvation. 00:04:23.199 --> 00:04:23.519 Okay. 00:04:24.399 --> 00:04:35.120 If you take out one of my last videos, I spoke about there is a difference between the day of our Lord Jesus Christ when the apostle Paul mentions this versus the day of the Lord. 00:04:35.680 --> 00:04:42.000 We're not no longer part of the day of the Lord, which is his wrath to come. 00:04:42.319 --> 00:04:50.639 This is what this means when we are led by the Holy Spirit, we are true sons of God, which exempts us from the coming wrath. 00:04:50.879 --> 00:04:58.319 We once were a part of that wrath when we were walking in disobedience, but we're no longer part of that, a part of that wrath anymore. 00:04:58.399 --> 00:05:02.319 So we don't have to fear God's judgment on the world. 00:05:02.560 --> 00:05:13.600 Okay, and because now we have the Holy Spirit, the Holy Spirit has adopted us into the heavenly family, the body of Christ. 00:05:13.759 --> 00:05:27.040 It is the Holy Spirit through faith, not water baptism, as 1 Corinthians chapter 12 tells us, the Holy Spirit is the one who now takes us when we get saved and baptizes us into the body. 00:05:27.279 --> 00:05:28.800 Not by water baptism. 00:05:28.879 --> 00:05:30.160 I have to keep stressing this. 00:05:30.319 --> 00:05:31.279 This is by faith. 00:05:31.360 --> 00:05:36.560 You have to receive this type of baptism by faith because you don't feel this type of thing happening. 00:05:37.279 --> 00:05:42.319 But because we stand on the scriptures, we believe that it is done and it is so. 00:05:42.480 --> 00:05:50.319 Now, let's look at the where the concept of adoption came from. 00:05:50.480 --> 00:05:52.560 I want to go to the book of Genesis. 00:05:52.800 --> 00:05:55.439 I want to go to Genesis chapter 48. 00:05:56.079 --> 00:05:59.759 And yes, we are going to read all 20 verses. 00:06:02.000 --> 00:06:04.399 We're going to read all 20 verses. 00:06:05.759 --> 00:06:11.600 Because this is where the concept of adoption came from. 00:06:12.879 --> 00:06:17.199 Alright, let's start at verse 1, chapter 48. 00:06:17.920 --> 00:06:18.959 Alright, now. 00:06:20.399 --> 00:06:25.759 Says here, now sometime after these things happened, Joseph was told, Your father is sick. 00:06:25.920 --> 00:06:32.879 Now, at this time, Joseph has reached the place that God had already designed for his life to be since he was 17 years old. 00:06:33.040 --> 00:06:39.199 When he was telling his brothers that he was going to be someone very prominent in the world, and they got jealous. 00:06:39.360 --> 00:06:41.680 Eventually, they sold him off into slavery. 00:06:41.759 --> 00:06:43.439 They wanted to originally kill him. 00:06:43.600 --> 00:06:48.160 But Reuben kept uh persuading them not to do that. 00:06:48.399 --> 00:06:56.879 And let's think about this thing for a minute because he was trying to get him back home to Israel, whose name was formerly named Jacob. 00:06:57.439 --> 00:06:57.759 Okay. 00:06:59.279 --> 00:07:06.720 And they finally get to see their brother again, but in the prominent role that he said he was going to be in. 00:07:08.160 --> 00:07:08.480 Okay. 00:07:08.959 --> 00:07:11.680 Joseph at this time has forgiven his brothers. 00:07:11.920 --> 00:07:16.000 He's back reunited with his dad, who thought he was dead all these years. 00:07:16.560 --> 00:07:16.879 Okay. 00:07:17.839 --> 00:07:20.560 And this is a joyous time. 00:07:20.959 --> 00:07:21.839 Alright. 00:07:22.160 --> 00:07:27.519 But Jacob, who is now Israel, is in the last parts of his life. 00:07:27.759 --> 00:07:44.000 And before he leaves, he's going to shower his twelve sons with blessings and, of course, unfortunately, cursings for some, specifically Reuben, because something evil that Reuben did, that Jacob had not forgotten. 00:07:44.480 --> 00:07:55.199 And even though he will be part of the his family will be part of the 12 tribes, there is some things that consequences that had to be dealt with. 00:07:55.439 --> 00:07:59.920 These blessings and cursings held a lot of weight when the fathers gave them. 00:08:00.160 --> 00:08:01.360 Believe me. 00:08:02.240 --> 00:08:03.680 And God honored them. 00:08:03.839 --> 00:08:04.160 Okay. 00:08:04.639 --> 00:08:15.600 So we're finna see this right here, and we're going to learn where adoption came from, why the apostle Paul uses adoption in Romans chapter 8. 00:08:15.680 --> 00:08:16.240 So let's go. 00:08:16.319 --> 00:08:20.959 Now sometime after these things happened, Joseph was told, Your father is sick. 00:08:21.120 --> 00:08:22.639 So he took his two sons. 00:08:22.800 --> 00:08:29.199 I want y'all to hold this, Manasseh and Ephraim, with him to go to Goshim. 00:08:29.519 --> 00:08:35.840 Verse 2, and when Jacob Israel was told, Look now, your son Joseph has come to you. 00:08:36.080 --> 00:08:40.000 Israel strengthened himself and sat up on the bed. 00:08:40.799 --> 00:09:01.039 Then Jacob said to Joseph, God Almighty appeared to me at Luz, Bethel, in the land of Canaan, and blessed me, and said to me, Behold, I will make you fruitful and numerous, and I will make you a great company of people, and will give this land to your descendants after you as an everlasting possession. 00:09:01.200 --> 00:09:22.559 Now this is, of course, years ago, as Jose as Jacob was running from his brother Esau, his mother Rachel, not Rachel, but his mother Rebecca told him to go to her family, Uncle Laman, who he ended up working for for over 20 years and was deceived worse than he ever deceived anyone. 00:09:22.960 --> 00:09:26.559 He met his match as far as deception went. 00:09:26.879 --> 00:09:27.200 Okay. 00:09:27.840 --> 00:09:42.320 But before he got to that point, he had an encounter with God where he saw heaven basically open, and there was a ladder, and angels were going up and down from heaven to earth. 00:09:42.639 --> 00:09:48.240 And now you hear Jesus mention this, you will see the Son of Man. 00:09:48.799 --> 00:09:49.120 Okay. 00:09:50.080 --> 00:09:54.480 Going down this bridge basically that connects heaven and earth together. 00:09:54.879 --> 00:09:56.399 And Jesus mentioned this. 00:09:56.559 --> 00:10:03.600 But now this is Jacob talking about this moment in his encounter with the Lord at the place he called Bethel. 00:10:04.080 --> 00:10:04.399 Okay. 00:10:05.200 --> 00:10:09.279 And he's telling now Joseph about this encounter. 00:10:10.000 --> 00:10:21.440 And uh verse 4 and said to me, Behold, I will make you fruitful and numerous, and I will make you a great company of people, and will give this land to your descendants after you as an everlasting possession. 00:10:21.600 --> 00:10:25.840 Now, this is similar to the things he told Abraham and Isaac. 00:10:26.240 --> 00:10:26.559 Okay. 00:10:27.279 --> 00:10:29.600 Alright now, watch this. 00:10:29.919 --> 00:10:39.840 Your two sons, Ephraim and Manasseh, who were born to you in the land of Egypt, before I came to you in Egypt, are mine. 00:10:40.480 --> 00:10:41.200 Look at this. 00:10:41.440 --> 00:10:43.919 Ephraim and Manasseh shall be mine. 00:10:44.080 --> 00:10:53.279 That is, watch this, adopted as my heirs and sons as surely as Reuben and Simon are my sons. 00:10:53.519 --> 00:10:59.200 Now, something significant you have to understand about this adoption. 00:11:00.639 --> 00:11:16.399 Similarly to the adoption of the Spirit, the Apostle Paul was chosen to go to the Gentiles, whom the Bible was said, whom the Bible says was far off from God, but now has been made nigh by the blood of Jesus. 00:11:17.679 --> 00:11:21.759 Joseph married a woman that was not a Hebrew woman. 00:11:21.919 --> 00:11:22.799 She was not a Jew. 00:11:22.879 --> 00:11:26.960 She was an Egyptian, given to him a daughter of Pharaoh. 00:11:28.240 --> 00:11:30.559 I need y'all to understand this now. 00:11:31.519 --> 00:11:43.360 So originally, his children would not have been a part of the original plan of those twelve sons who formed the 12 tribes. 00:11:44.879 --> 00:11:56.000 But what Jacob did under the divine inspiration of the Holy Spirit is now he has adopted these two sons who weren't full-blooded Jews. 00:11:56.399 --> 00:11:58.559 I need y'all to understand this concept. 00:11:59.440 --> 00:12:03.519 Because this is exactly what God has done now to Gentiles. 00:12:04.639 --> 00:12:09.200 And he gave us this first example of adoption right here. 00:12:11.120 --> 00:12:16.320 Through Jacob, known now as Israel, and what he did with Joseph's sons. 00:12:16.480 --> 00:12:35.919 Now, technically, Joseph is not in the twelve tribes because he was replaced as representing a double portion blessing because of the man he became through Manasseh and Ephraim, his sons, who were placed in the 12. 00:12:37.120 --> 00:12:37.440 Okay? 00:12:37.919 --> 00:12:39.200 They were adopted in. 00:12:39.279 --> 00:12:40.480 Now, but watch this. 00:12:40.720 --> 00:12:43.759 So this is where the adoption came from. 00:12:44.159 --> 00:12:44.799 Alright. 00:12:45.279 --> 00:12:47.519 So that is adopted. 00:12:47.679 --> 00:12:53.840 Look at this, as my heirs and sons, as surely as Reuben and Simon are my sons. 00:12:54.399 --> 00:12:55.279 See that? 00:12:55.519 --> 00:13:00.799 But other sons who were born to you, watch this, after them shall be your own. 00:13:00.960 --> 00:13:02.799 They won't be involved in this. 00:13:03.919 --> 00:13:09.200 They shall be called by the names of their two brothers in their inheritance. 00:13:09.840 --> 00:13:22.720 Now as for me, when I came from Padden in Mesopotoma, Rachel died beside me in the land of Canaan on the journey when there was still some distance to go to Ephraim. 00:13:22.799 --> 00:13:27.120 And I buried her there on the way to Ephraim, that is Bethlehem. 00:13:27.279 --> 00:13:34.240 When Israel, who was almost blind, saw Joseph's sons, and he said, Watch this, who are these? 00:13:34.480 --> 00:13:40.639 Joseph said to his father, They are my sons, whom God has given me here in Egypt. 00:13:40.799 --> 00:13:44.799 So he said, Please bring them to me so that I may bless them. 00:13:45.120 --> 00:13:51.600 Now Israel's eyes were so dim from age that he could not see clearly. 00:13:51.919 --> 00:13:56.080 Then Joseph brought them close to him, and he kissed and embraced them. 00:13:56.399 --> 00:13:56.960 Watch this. 00:13:57.200 --> 00:14:04.799 Israel said to Joseph, I never expected to see your face, but see, God has shown me your children as well. 00:14:04.960 --> 00:14:09.200 So Jacob thought Joseph was dead according to his sons. 00:14:09.440 --> 00:14:13.840 But this is a joyous moment because his son is still alive. 00:14:14.399 --> 00:14:30.480 And now he lived long enough, although his eyes were dim, like his dad was at one point, Isaac's, he was still blessed to be able to be in the presence of his grandsons and his son, Joseph. 00:14:30.720 --> 00:14:31.200 Right? 00:14:31.519 --> 00:14:38.080 Now, Israel said to Joseph, I never expected to see your face, but see, God has shown me your children as well. 00:14:38.320 --> 00:14:38.960 Verse 12. 00:14:39.120 --> 00:14:45.360 Then Joseph took the boys from his father's embrace, and he bowed before him with his face to the ground. 00:14:45.600 --> 00:14:56.639 Verse 13, then Joseph took them both, Ephraim with his right hand toward Israel's left, and Manasseh with his left hand toward Israel's right, and brought them close to him. 00:14:56.720 --> 00:14:58.240 But watch what Israel does. 00:14:58.559 --> 00:15:15.440 But Israel reached out his right hand and laid it on the head of Ephraim, who was the younger, and his left hand on Manasseh's head, crossing his hands intentionally, even though Manasseh was the firstborn. 00:15:15.519 --> 00:15:16.399 Look at this, y'all. 00:15:16.480 --> 00:15:31.600 Then Jacob Israel blessed Joseph and said, The God before whom my fathers, Abraham and Isaac, walked in faithful obedience, the God who has been my shepherd, leading and caring for me all my life to this day. 00:15:31.919 --> 00:15:37.840 The angel that is the Lord Himself who has redeemed me continually from all evil. 00:15:38.080 --> 00:15:47.600 Bless the boys, and may my name live on in them, may they be worthy of him having their names linked with mine. 00:15:47.759 --> 00:15:53.279 And we know they were, because now they've been adopted into the twelve tribes. 00:15:53.519 --> 00:15:53.840 Okay? 00:15:54.159 --> 00:16:08.159 And may my name live on in them, may they be worthy of having their names linked with mine, and the names of my fathers, Abraham and Isaac, and may they grow into a great nation, multitude in the midst of the earth. 00:16:08.399 --> 00:16:22.720 When Joseph saw that his father laid his right hand on Ephraim head, he displeased him because he was not the firstborn, and he grasped his father's hand to move it from Ephraim's head to Manasseh. 00:16:23.600 --> 00:16:25.120 Manasseh's head. 00:16:25.519 --> 00:16:32.399 Verse 18, Joseph said to his father, Not so, my father, for this is the firstborn. 00:16:32.720 --> 00:16:35.600 Place your right hand on Manasseh's head. 00:16:35.840 --> 00:16:37.840 But watch what Jacob says. 00:16:38.559 --> 00:16:42.240 But his father refused and said, I know my son, I know. 00:16:42.480 --> 00:16:52.639 Manasseh also will become a people, and he will be great, but his younger brother shall be greater than he, and his descendants shall become a multitude of nations. 00:16:52.960 --> 00:17:07.039 Then Jacob blessed them that day, saying, By you, Israel will pronounce a blessing, saying, My God, may God make you like Ephraim and Manasseh. 00:17:07.599 --> 00:17:10.559 And he put Ephraim before Manasseh. 00:17:10.799 --> 00:17:13.680 Now, what was the purpose of me reading all of that? 00:17:14.160 --> 00:17:16.000 Well, I'm about to show you here. 00:17:16.559 --> 00:17:34.079 Because there are spiritual blessings now that we have been given because of the same way Manasseh and Ephraim, who weren't originally a part of the 12-tribe plan, were adopted in and became heirs to the promise. 00:17:34.240 --> 00:17:35.680 What was the promise then? 00:17:35.920 --> 00:17:36.799 Promised land. 00:17:39.039 --> 00:17:44.400 The promise to us now is eternal life through the Holy Spirit. 00:17:46.319 --> 00:17:47.279 You see that? 00:17:47.839 --> 00:17:53.680 So now let's get back to this language that was used in Genesis chapter 48, verses 1 through 20. 00:17:53.759 --> 00:18:02.640 And the blessings now that what they were adopted into or grandfathered into, they weren't originally part of the plan. 00:18:03.920 --> 00:18:04.720 Alright? 00:18:05.039 --> 00:18:07.200 Now, so let's go. 00:18:07.920 --> 00:18:08.799 Verse 16. 00:18:08.880 --> 00:18:09.359 Look at this. 00:18:09.440 --> 00:18:18.559 The Spirit Himself testifies and confirms together with our Spirit, our Spirit Man, assuring us that we believers are children of God. 00:18:18.720 --> 00:18:20.319 Well, how are we children of God? 00:18:20.559 --> 00:18:28.480 When we walk and live an obedient life, showing evidence of the salvation and eternal life of Jesus Christ. 00:18:28.799 --> 00:18:29.119 Okay? 00:18:30.240 --> 00:18:37.279 So, verse 17, and if, here we go again with that prepositional phrase, we are his children. 00:18:37.759 --> 00:18:41.599 We're walking obedient, living righteously, such as Jesus did. 00:18:42.240 --> 00:18:46.559 Then we, watch this, are his heirs also. 00:18:47.440 --> 00:18:48.400 You see that? 00:18:51.839 --> 00:18:52.960 Heirs of what? 00:18:53.599 --> 00:18:55.599 God and fellow heirs with who? 00:18:56.000 --> 00:19:02.000 Christ, sharing his spiritual blessings and inheritance. 00:19:02.640 --> 00:19:07.759 Bodies of immortality and living life eternally. 00:19:08.319 --> 00:19:08.640 Okay? 00:19:10.160 --> 00:19:16.000 So, if indeed we share in his suffering, so that we may also share in his glory. 00:19:16.160 --> 00:19:21.519 Now Jesus said, as they persecuted me, they will persecute you too for living the right life. 00:19:22.000 --> 00:19:23.759 They're not gonna like it. 00:19:25.440 --> 00:19:27.519 They will come against you for it. 00:19:27.839 --> 00:19:37.599 But if you hold firm till the end, you will stay in these spiritual blessings and the inheritance of eternal life. 00:19:37.759 --> 00:19:40.079 Alright, now, verse 18. 00:19:40.319 --> 00:19:49.599 And it's because it is, these sufferings don't allow them to cause you to minimize the huge blessings to come. 00:19:50.000 --> 00:20:04.240 Verse 18, for I consider from the standpoint of faith that the suffering of this of the present life are not worthy to be compared with the glory that is about to be revealed to us and in us. 00:20:06.000 --> 00:20:13.359 With all that the apostle Paul went through, almost giving up in despair. 00:20:22.079 --> 00:20:22.400 Okay. 00:20:23.200 --> 00:20:25.680 Now, verse 19. 00:20:26.559 --> 00:20:34.480 For even the whole, look at this, here's the state that the whole creation was in and still currently is in tonight. 00:20:34.799 --> 00:20:38.880 Whole creation, all nature waits eagerly for who? 00:20:39.279 --> 00:20:43.279 The children of God to be revealed. 00:20:44.000 --> 00:20:46.960 Now, I want to stop right there. 00:20:47.119 --> 00:20:53.039 I want to go over to Colossians chapter 3, chapter 3, verses 1 through 4. 00:20:53.359 --> 00:20:59.440 Because like I told you before, all the creation is waiting on God's children to be revealed. 00:20:59.519 --> 00:21:00.880 Now, when are those children? 00:21:01.039 --> 00:21:02.640 When are we going to be revealed? 00:21:02.880 --> 00:21:07.680 When Jesus comes back at his second coming. 00:21:10.480 --> 00:21:17.920 When Jesus comes back at his second coming and his feet touch the ground on that very mountain that he ascended from. 00:21:19.839 --> 00:21:23.440 That's what all the creation is awaiting on. 00:21:23.680 --> 00:21:30.640 Because that is going to signify that death, the grave, and sin have all been swallowed up. 00:21:30.799 --> 00:21:37.039 Everything that has crippled the earth will be swallowed up in victory. 00:21:37.920 --> 00:21:38.240 Okay? 00:21:38.720 --> 00:21:44.240 Now, like I said, let's get over here to Colossians chapter three. 00:21:44.559 --> 00:21:47.839 Verses I believe one through four is where I want to go. 00:21:49.759 --> 00:21:53.200 Talking about this appearing with Jesus Christ. 00:21:58.799 --> 00:22:02.000 Now Let's get on over here. 00:22:02.559 --> 00:22:09.359 And once again, he uses the word therefore because it is a continuation from something he said in the previous chapter. 00:22:09.680 --> 00:22:10.640 Alright. 00:22:11.039 --> 00:22:19.599 Therefore, if you have been, watch this, raised with Christ to a new life, sharing in his resurrection from the dead. 00:22:19.680 --> 00:22:22.640 Now, who helps us to become that? 00:22:22.880 --> 00:22:23.920 The Holy Spirit. 00:22:24.079 --> 00:22:26.160 And this is why you have to have the Holy Spirit. 00:22:26.400 --> 00:22:34.400 Because he is our down payment to immortality and eternal life. 00:22:34.720 --> 00:22:48.880 So if we have been raised in the new life by the Holy Spirit, sharing in his resurrection from the dead, keep seeking the things that are above where Christ is, seated at the right hand of God. 00:22:49.039 --> 00:22:49.599 Watch this. 00:22:49.759 --> 00:22:50.319 Verse 2. 00:22:50.480 --> 00:22:53.839 Set your mind and keep focused habitually. 00:22:54.000 --> 00:22:56.000 This is an everyday process. 00:22:57.759 --> 00:23:00.000 It's not going to happen all in one night. 00:23:00.240 --> 00:23:02.960 And this is why we have to continue to stay in God's word. 00:23:03.440 --> 00:23:04.880 Continue in prayer. 00:23:05.200 --> 00:23:10.799 Continue to apply his word to receive full transformation. 00:23:11.359 --> 00:23:22.640 So we to set our minds habitually on the things, verse 2, above the heavenly things, not on things that are on the earth which have only temporal value. 00:23:22.880 --> 00:23:27.920 We have to learn how to detach ourselves from worldly desires. 00:23:28.559 --> 00:23:32.160 Because it hurts us from keeping our mind on heaven. 00:23:32.319 --> 00:23:40.319 Now, unfortunately, you don't get that preached because we're preaching things to help us survive on the earth right now. 00:23:40.559 --> 00:23:42.720 Nobody wants to wait to heaven. 00:23:42.960 --> 00:23:44.240 They need to survive right now. 00:23:44.480 --> 00:23:46.400 God, I'm going through it right now. 00:23:46.960 --> 00:23:49.680 I need something right now, Lord, to hold me over. 00:23:49.920 --> 00:23:55.279 But the truth of the matter is, heaven is our home and it is our hope tonight. 00:23:55.839 --> 00:23:59.359 And we got to get back to preaching and teaching heaven. 00:24:01.359 --> 00:24:08.720 So that people can soak that in, believe it, walk in it, and not be so still attached to this world. 00:24:09.039 --> 00:24:13.119 Because things are not going to go all your way all the time. 00:24:13.920 --> 00:24:16.240 You may never end up having money. 00:24:16.480 --> 00:24:19.200 And I know that hurts some people to say that. 00:24:20.799 --> 00:24:23.039 Everyone is not going to be rich. 00:24:25.279 --> 00:24:26.240 Okay, now. 00:24:26.640 --> 00:24:33.519 So it says, don't keep your mind stayed upon things that are temporal value, that have temporal value. 00:24:33.839 --> 00:24:37.680 For you, watch this, died to this world. 00:24:38.079 --> 00:24:45.200 When you died in Christ after he went to that cross, he spiritually nailed you to the cross with him. 00:24:47.119 --> 00:24:49.759 And when he arose from the dead, guess what? 00:24:49.920 --> 00:24:51.440 You arose from the dead with him. 00:24:51.599 --> 00:24:52.880 So now you are died. 00:24:56.079 --> 00:25:03.200 Detached from the temporal valued things of this world and a part of the heavenly family of eternity. 00:25:03.519 --> 00:25:04.160 Alright. 00:25:04.400 --> 00:25:07.599 So, for you died to this world and your new life. 00:25:07.839 --> 00:25:12.640 Life is, watch this, hidden with Christ in God. 00:25:12.960 --> 00:25:15.920 Now, when will that life be revealed? 00:25:16.319 --> 00:25:20.960 Such as we see creation waiting on the revealing of God's children. 00:25:21.119 --> 00:25:22.000 Watch this. 00:25:22.960 --> 00:25:24.079 Verse 4. 00:25:24.640 --> 00:25:29.599 When Christ, who is our life, appears, look at this, y'all. 00:25:29.920 --> 00:25:35.680 Then you also will appear with him in glory. 00:25:35.839 --> 00:25:43.920 When he comes back here, the children of God, true children of God. 00:25:44.960 --> 00:25:46.799 We will appear with him. 00:25:47.440 --> 00:25:52.000 And all creation will now see what they have been waiting on. 00:25:52.640 --> 00:25:54.079 It's not just people. 00:25:56.240 --> 00:26:00.480 Animals, trees, stones, it don't matter. 00:26:02.640 --> 00:26:12.400 Because they are awaiting to get signal, death, sin, and the grave are swallowed whole in victory. 00:26:12.559 --> 00:26:13.519 No more death. 00:26:13.680 --> 00:26:14.240 Alright? 00:26:14.480 --> 00:26:17.440 Now, so let's get back to Romans chapter 8. 00:26:17.599 --> 00:26:28.480 The apostle Paul says, For we can't consider any sufferings that we go through to be worth more than what we have waiting to be to be revealed in us in glory. 00:26:29.519 --> 00:26:40.000 For even the whole creation, all nations, nature waits eagerly for the children of God to be revealed, which we saw now in Colossians chapter 3, verses 1 through 4. 00:26:40.240 --> 00:26:47.759 Verse 20, for the creation, watch this, was subjected to frustration and fertility, not willingly. 00:26:48.160 --> 00:26:54.240 Now, he's talking about what he explained in heavier detail in Romans chapter 5, verse 12. 00:26:54.559 --> 00:26:56.400 What Adam did to us. 00:26:56.640 --> 00:26:58.480 He cursed us with sin and death. 00:26:58.640 --> 00:26:59.759 That's why we die today. 00:26:59.839 --> 00:27:02.720 That's why we walk in sin with these sin natures today. 00:27:03.759 --> 00:27:05.839 But thank God for hope. 00:27:06.240 --> 00:27:11.359 Not willingly, because of some intentional fault on his part. 00:27:11.759 --> 00:27:14.160 It wasn't our fault this happened. 00:27:14.559 --> 00:27:16.640 Adam is to blame for all of this. 00:27:16.960 --> 00:27:20.640 But by the will of him who subjected it in hope. 00:27:20.880 --> 00:27:35.359 See that that the creation itself will also be freed from its bondage to decay and gain entrance, look at this, into the glorious freedom of the children of God. 00:27:36.000 --> 00:27:42.079 All the creation will share in the inheritance, not the wicked. 00:27:42.319 --> 00:27:46.000 The wicked will be banished from this benefit. 00:27:48.400 --> 00:28:03.119 But all other creation will be receiving the benefits of immortality, no more death, no more sorrow for a time, or any of that. 00:28:03.680 --> 00:28:04.640 Alright. 00:28:05.680 --> 00:28:07.839 Uh verse 22. 00:28:08.319 --> 00:28:15.680 For we know that the whole creation has been, look at this, moaning together as in the pains of childbirth until now. 00:28:16.079 --> 00:28:23.519 Verse 23, and not only this, but we too, who have the first fruits of the Spirit. 00:28:24.480 --> 00:28:31.359 Now he's back to the children of God again, a joyful indication of the blessing to come, the hope that we have. 00:28:31.599 --> 00:28:47.200 Even we groan inwardly as we wait eagerly for the sign of look at this, our adoption as sons, for this to physically take place in our lives, such as we are standing on faith, reading it and studying it right now. 00:28:47.759 --> 00:28:52.720 The redemption and look at this transformation of our body at the resurrection. 00:28:52.880 --> 00:28:56.319 Now, the hope is that many of us don't have to taste there. 00:28:58.799 --> 00:29:22.720 That just like 1 Thessalonians chapter 4, 13, 18 says, although we will not proceed those who have died in the Lord first, who will be raised first to join Christ in the clouds, almost simultaneously, though, those who are still alive in the Lord will be caught up together with those that have died in the Lord with Christ. 00:29:24.160 --> 00:29:44.720 But if death does happen while we are watching for the Lord's return, not the second coming, okay, I have to stress this because too many people trying to confuse the second coming with the event in 1 Thessalonians 4 13 through 18, trying to make it all one event, and it's not. 00:29:45.279 --> 00:29:49.519 The body of Christ is receiving something totally different. 00:29:50.480 --> 00:29:51.440 Alright. 00:29:52.000 --> 00:29:58.799 Now, so we are hoping we're ready to receive the transformation of our bodies. 00:29:59.119 --> 00:30:07.200 For in this hope we were saved by faith, but hope, the object of what is seen, is not hope. 00:30:10.000 --> 00:30:13.359 We don't hope for what we see with our physical eyes. 00:30:13.440 --> 00:30:14.640 We're hoping for the unseen. 00:30:14.880 --> 00:30:17.039 That's why we walk by faith and not by sight. 00:30:17.279 --> 00:30:22.160 For who hopes for what he already seen? 00:30:22.799 --> 00:30:33.599 But if we hope for what we do not see, we wait eagerly for it with patience and composure because we stand on God's word. 00:30:33.839 --> 00:30:44.079 Now I am going to stop right there because it is going to be some heavy meat when we get to these next verses starting in 26. 00:30:45.359 --> 00:30:49.039 These verses have led to so much confusion. 00:30:49.759 --> 00:30:55.599 But we are going to get down to the bottom of what these scriptures are actually saying when we get to it. 00:30:55.680 --> 00:30:57.279 And that's why I want to stop right here. 00:30:57.519 --> 00:31:00.000 But other than that, I'm Evangelist Toba Doubtless. 00:31:00.079 --> 00:31:00.640 God bless y'all. 00:31:00.720 --> 00:31:04.640 I can't wait to get back to the next part of this in Romans chapter 8. 00:31:04.960 --> 00:31:06.079 Peace and blessings. 00:31:06.240 --> 00:31:06.960 I'm out.