WEBVTT 00:00:01.360 --> 00:00:04.719 Welcome to this week's message from the Church at Chelsea Westover. 00:00:04.879 --> 00:00:10.800 Our core values are vibrant worship, intimate fellowship, fulfilling service, and clear biblical truth. 00:00:10.960 --> 00:00:13.279 We pray that this message changes your life. 00:00:13.519 --> 00:00:17.760 Let's tune in to today's message and see what God has in store for you. 00:00:18.960 --> 00:00:21.440 John, chapter 19. 00:00:58.479 --> 00:01:00.320 And he bowed his head. 00:01:01.039 --> 00:01:02.719 And he gave up the ghost. 00:01:04.000 --> 00:01:08.959 The sun, which had been shrouded in darkness for three hours. 00:01:10.480 --> 00:01:13.120 From nine to from twelve to three. 00:01:13.680 --> 00:01:17.040 It was about a six-hour scene here in John chapter 19. 00:01:17.200 --> 00:01:29.920 From about nine in the morning to three in the afternoon, we have the last seven words that Jesus spoke, seen in these horrible six hours. 00:01:31.120 --> 00:01:40.799 But when the darkness for three hours, then we see the sun breaks through and shines again as if to announce the dawn of a new day. 00:01:42.000 --> 00:01:49.200 Abraham, with all the Old Testament saints, rejoiced to see this day, and they were glad. 00:01:49.920 --> 00:01:52.400 Tells us in John 8, 56. 00:01:52.640 --> 00:02:05.680 And those who have lived since the cross look back to it, and the most significant, the most important day and words ever spoken throughout the ages was, It is finished. 00:02:06.879 --> 00:02:08.400 It is finished. 00:02:09.280 --> 00:02:11.439 From the lips he cried out. 00:02:11.599 --> 00:02:16.400 Matthew tells us he cried with a loud voice in Matthew 27, 46. 00:02:16.560 --> 00:02:21.520 And he records it right here in verse 30 when he says, It is finished. 00:02:22.400 --> 00:02:26.560 Or more literally, all is finished. 00:02:26.800 --> 00:02:28.240 The task has been done. 00:02:28.400 --> 00:02:30.879 The word there is telaleo. 00:02:31.360 --> 00:02:35.439 It means to accomplish, it means to finish, it means to fulfill. 00:02:36.319 --> 00:02:38.560 It means it is done. 00:02:40.240 --> 00:02:48.159 So today, I want us to look at this one word and the impact that it has on each and every one of us. 00:02:48.400 --> 00:02:50.319 We'll be looking at four things today. 00:02:50.479 --> 00:02:53.680 We'll be looking at the word of completion, and let's begin there. 00:02:53.919 --> 00:02:58.800 Then we'll look at the word of conquest, the word of consecration, and then the word of comfort. 00:02:58.960 --> 00:02:59.439 Wow. 00:02:59.680 --> 00:03:04.960 All encompassed in this most powerful one phrase, but the one word. 00:03:09.120 --> 00:03:10.639 All is done. 00:03:11.439 --> 00:03:12.800 There are four thoughts. 00:03:12.960 --> 00:03:14.879 Number one, let's look at it. 00:03:15.599 --> 00:03:17.360 The word of completion. 00:03:17.520 --> 00:03:25.039 Notice when he says, it is finished in verse 30, with the relief as well as the release. 00:03:25.520 --> 00:03:27.520 The Savior cried, It is finished. 00:03:27.680 --> 00:03:34.319 For him, this word of completion meant two important, powerful things that relate to us. 00:03:34.479 --> 00:03:40.240 Number one, when he said it is finished, it meant that the word of God was totally fulfilled. 00:03:41.199 --> 00:03:43.840 The word of God was totally fulfilled. 00:03:44.000 --> 00:03:46.639 I look at verse 28 in John 19. 00:03:46.719 --> 00:04:01.520 And after this, listen to what Jesus said, knowing that all things, notice what he says in John 10, 28, all things, knowing that all things were now accomplished that the scriptures might be fulfilled. 00:04:01.759 --> 00:04:02.400 Wow. 00:04:03.199 --> 00:04:04.159 It is finished. 00:04:04.319 --> 00:04:17.519 All that the scripture has said concerning him in relation to his birth, his life, his death, whether it was a promise, whether it was poetry, whether it was a picture, or whether it was prophecy, all had been fulfilled. 00:04:18.959 --> 00:04:24.079 Over 300 prophecies in the Old Testament had been fulfilled. 00:04:25.279 --> 00:04:31.839 Twenty-five prophetic prophecies were fulfilled in those six hours on that day. 00:04:33.040 --> 00:04:37.360 What truth, what impact, what completion. 00:04:38.560 --> 00:04:48.079 And after his resurrection, Jesus himself, the master, had to rebuke his disciples for not appreciating this fact. 00:04:48.240 --> 00:04:55.519 He said to them, listen to what he said to them in Luke 24, verse 44, and then verse 46. 00:04:55.600 --> 00:04:56.560 Listen to what he says. 00:05:27.439 --> 00:05:28.079 Wow. 00:05:28.480 --> 00:05:31.680 Jesus himself said, I have to go to the cross. 00:05:31.839 --> 00:05:33.439 I have to be crucified. 00:05:33.680 --> 00:05:34.160 Why? 00:05:34.399 --> 00:05:34.879 Why? 00:05:35.120 --> 00:05:38.560 First of all, notice right here again, the law of Moses. 00:05:38.879 --> 00:05:39.759 I love this. 00:05:40.000 --> 00:05:43.519 The law of God demanded him to go to the cross. 00:05:44.079 --> 00:05:47.199 Listen to what he says in Leviticus chapter 17, verse 11. 00:05:47.360 --> 00:06:00.240 It is the life of the flesh is in the blood which I have given to you upon the, hey, upon the altar for the atonement of your soul. 00:06:02.319 --> 00:06:06.319 We see that he had to go to the cross. 00:06:06.639 --> 00:06:08.560 The law demanded it. 00:06:08.879 --> 00:06:14.240 And then, secondly, not only did the law demand it, we see, and how beautiful it is. 00:06:14.560 --> 00:06:19.600 The Psalms, the book of Psalms, especially Psalms 22, depicted it. 00:06:19.759 --> 00:06:24.319 It described the crucifixion hundreds of years before it took place. 00:06:24.480 --> 00:06:31.040 In fact, he starts out in Psalms 22, verse 1, My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me? 00:06:31.199 --> 00:06:43.439 And then when we go down to verse 14, in Psalms 22 says, I'm my my life was poured out as, hey, my whole life was poured out as water, and all bones were out of joint. 00:06:44.720 --> 00:06:50.879 And then in verse 16 in Psalms 22, they pierced my hands and my feet with the nails. 00:06:51.839 --> 00:07:00.160 So not only did the law demand him to go to the cross, the book of Psalms, Psalms 22, depicted it, described it. 00:07:01.439 --> 00:07:06.959 And then the prophets, whoo! They declared it. 00:07:07.360 --> 00:07:08.879 The prophets declared it. 00:07:09.040 --> 00:07:12.160 Hell in Isaiah 53, verse 12. 00:07:12.480 --> 00:07:18.319 Oh, and he poured out his soul again, and he was numbered with the transgressions. 00:07:18.480 --> 00:07:25.920 Oh, he was numbered with the transgressions, so that he might take their sins upon himself and the sins of the whole world. 00:07:26.160 --> 00:07:29.759 He was wounded for our transgressions, he was bruised for our iniquities. 00:07:29.920 --> 00:07:34.399 The chastisement of our peace was upon him, and with his stripes we are healed. 00:07:35.759 --> 00:07:43.920 So the law demanded it, the Psalms described it, and the prophets declared it. 00:07:45.519 --> 00:07:51.120 So we see the completion, the full, hey, the completion of the fulfilled word of God. 00:07:51.360 --> 00:08:00.800 If that doesn't get you excited about believing that the word, I am so sick and tired of the critics and the politically correct saying that the word of God is nothing more than a book. 00:08:00.959 --> 00:08:05.519 My friends, it's yeah, I mean, it's nothing more than, and I just knocked the flower off. 00:08:05.600 --> 00:08:06.240 I'm sorry. 00:08:06.399 --> 00:08:07.920 You knew I was gonna do that, didn't it? 00:08:08.240 --> 00:08:10.079 I'm I'll get excited, I can't help it. 00:08:10.160 --> 00:08:11.199 Thank you, Sylvester. 00:08:11.360 --> 00:08:13.279 It's okay, it's okay. 00:08:14.639 --> 00:08:17.279 Hey, folks, when I get going, I'm going. 00:08:18.079 --> 00:08:26.560 But hey, what we see, I am so sick and tired of our critics and the political correct saying that the word of God is nothing more than just a book. 00:08:26.720 --> 00:08:31.199 Oh, ladies and gentlemen, it's more than a book, it's God's book. 00:08:31.839 --> 00:08:32.799 And God wrote it. 00:08:32.960 --> 00:08:34.240 Can I get an amen? 00:08:34.879 --> 00:08:36.320 God wrote it. 00:08:36.639 --> 00:08:43.360 All scriptures given by the inspiration of God, profitable doctrine for proof, for correction, for instruction in righteousness. 00:08:43.600 --> 00:08:48.480 Oh, ladies and gentlemen, this book tells you how to get right, stay right, hey, and live right. 00:08:50.080 --> 00:08:50.720 Amen. 00:08:50.960 --> 00:08:54.080 It's God's book, it's without error. 00:08:55.120 --> 00:08:56.080 And we see it. 00:08:56.240 --> 00:08:58.799 25 prophecies fulfilled on that day. 00:08:58.960 --> 00:09:07.279 But not only do we see the completion of the fulfilled word of God, but notice the second thing, we see the finished work of God. 00:09:07.440 --> 00:09:09.519 Woohoo! The finished work of God. 00:09:09.679 --> 00:09:11.279 Jesus, look at verse 28. 00:09:11.519 --> 00:09:14.879 Jesus, knowing that all things were now accomplished. 00:09:15.840 --> 00:09:22.720 During his ministry, he had spoken more than once about finishing the work which the Father had given him to do. 00:09:23.039 --> 00:09:26.159 I love what he said at the well of Sikar. 00:09:26.240 --> 00:09:37.039 When he said in John 4.34, he said, My food, my meat, is to do the will of him that sent me to finish his work. 00:09:37.840 --> 00:09:40.080 And then I think of the occasion. 00:09:40.559 --> 00:09:44.639 Later he declared, look at John 5.36, this is powerful. 00:09:44.879 --> 00:10:01.039 When he made this profound statement, he says, I have a greater witness than John's, for the works which the Father has given me to finish, the very works that I do, bear witness of me that the Father has sent me. 00:10:01.840 --> 00:10:02.399 Wow. 00:10:02.559 --> 00:10:12.240 And then in his priestly prayer, as he's praying to God the Father for his disciples in John chapter 17, look at what he says in verse 4. 00:10:12.480 --> 00:10:15.200 I have glorified you on the earth. 00:10:15.440 --> 00:10:19.120 I have finished the work which you have given me to do. 00:10:19.360 --> 00:10:23.919 Ladies and gentlemen, when he cried out to Telesti, it is finished. 00:10:24.159 --> 00:10:26.720 All of God's work was complete. 00:10:27.200 --> 00:10:33.919 His word was fulfilled, and the finished work of God through Christ His Son was complete. 00:10:34.159 --> 00:10:40.879 What a day! What an awesome remembrance during this time of Easter. 00:10:41.679 --> 00:10:44.720 Now the greatest task of all the ages had been completed. 00:10:44.799 --> 00:10:50.960 The redemption of a lost world, lost man, had been fully accomplished. 00:10:51.279 --> 00:10:52.720 Fully accomplished. 00:10:52.879 --> 00:10:55.759 Look at Hebrews 10, 11 and 12. 00:10:56.080 --> 00:11:02.000 All the types, the shadows of the old covenant had been fulfilled in him. 00:11:02.320 --> 00:11:03.360 Look at what he says. 00:11:03.679 --> 00:11:11.440 And every priest standeth daily ministering and offering, oftentimes the same sacrifices, which can never take away sins. 00:11:11.600 --> 00:11:16.000 In other words, the Old Testament, Old Covenant, they would offer up sacrifices. 00:11:16.080 --> 00:11:23.919 And it really was a typology of what was going to come in the New Testament, the one and final sacrifice which we see in verse 12. 00:11:24.080 --> 00:11:26.320 Those sacrifices could not save man. 00:11:26.399 --> 00:11:43.840 But then he said, But this man, whoo, say that with say that with me, but this man, but this man, but this man Jesus, after he had offered one sacrifice for sins forever, sat down on the right hand of God the Father, and it was finished. 00:11:44.960 --> 00:11:45.759 It was over. 00:11:46.960 --> 00:11:47.919 It was over. 00:11:48.320 --> 00:11:49.759 He had completed it. 00:11:50.480 --> 00:11:51.440 He had done his work. 00:11:51.600 --> 00:11:52.559 That's what we need to do. 00:11:52.639 --> 00:12:05.840 When we do our work, ladies and gentlemen, when we do our work here on earth, when we complete the task that Christ has given us as followers of Christ, it is time for us to go and to be with Jesus and sit down at the supper. 00:12:06.240 --> 00:12:09.600 What a day that will be when my Jesus I shall see. 00:12:10.240 --> 00:12:13.279 When he takes me by the hand and leads me into the promised land. 00:12:13.679 --> 00:12:16.799 What a day, glorious day that will be. 00:12:17.039 --> 00:12:20.799 So we see it the finished work of God. 00:12:21.440 --> 00:12:23.120 Now notice the second thing. 00:12:23.440 --> 00:12:24.240 The cross. 00:12:24.399 --> 00:12:25.120 It is finished. 00:12:25.279 --> 00:12:27.360 The word finished represents. 00:12:27.600 --> 00:12:31.279 Not only the word of completion, but secondly the word of conquest. 00:12:32.480 --> 00:12:33.840 The word of conquest. 00:12:34.080 --> 00:12:36.000 The great theologian J. 00:12:36.159 --> 00:12:45.519 Oswald Sanders said the previous two words prior to speaking, it is finished, which was my God, my God. 00:12:45.759 --> 00:12:47.200 Why has I forsaken me? 00:12:47.279 --> 00:12:50.559 We would look at that word in a few weeks. 00:12:50.879 --> 00:12:53.279 And then the other word was I thirst. 00:12:54.399 --> 00:12:56.879 We'll look at that in a few weeks. 00:12:57.120 --> 00:12:57.759 That word. 00:13:15.840 --> 00:13:21.279 Oh, the word of uh desertion. 00:13:21.919 --> 00:13:24.399 James to the cry of jubilation. 00:13:24.639 --> 00:13:29.200 The word was no cry of a victim, but the shout of a victor. 00:13:30.320 --> 00:13:33.360 It was not a cry of a victim, but a shout of a victor. 00:13:33.759 --> 00:13:37.600 Thanks be unto God who gives us victory through our Son, Jesus Christ. 00:13:37.759 --> 00:13:39.360 1 Corinthians 15, 57. 00:13:39.440 --> 00:13:40.399 Amen, church. 00:13:40.879 --> 00:13:44.480 So we see this powerful, powerful conquest. 00:13:44.639 --> 00:13:46.879 And notice what it was the conquest of. 00:13:47.039 --> 00:13:50.639 Number one, it was triumph over the world. 00:13:52.240 --> 00:13:57.440 Anticipating this, that is the world's struggle on all of us. 00:13:57.679 --> 00:14:01.759 The moment on Calvary's cross, notice what Jesus said in John 16, 33. 00:14:01.840 --> 00:14:07.039 This will make a Pentecostal even shout, even though they don't have any problem shouting. 00:14:08.399 --> 00:14:11.039 These things have I spoken unto you. 00:14:11.360 --> 00:14:17.519 Now notice the prophecy, the word, the fulfilled word, that in me ye might have peace. 00:14:17.840 --> 00:14:18.720 Let me say something. 00:14:18.879 --> 00:14:28.799 The only way you will ever have peace is hey, being saved and walking in the likeness of Jesus Christ, being filled with the Spirit, walking in the Spirit of the living God. 00:14:28.960 --> 00:14:31.519 You will have peace even in the midst of the storm. 00:14:32.399 --> 00:14:33.279 Guaranteed. 00:14:34.000 --> 00:14:34.879 Guaranteed. 00:14:35.200 --> 00:14:38.159 So we see, he says, that in me you might have peace in the world. 00:14:38.320 --> 00:14:38.720 Uh-oh. 00:14:39.440 --> 00:14:40.799 You're going to have tribulation. 00:14:40.960 --> 00:14:43.519 So when bad things happen, don't get surprised. 00:14:44.399 --> 00:14:46.480 Don't get surprised, folks. 00:14:46.879 --> 00:14:48.080 Tribulation's coming. 00:14:48.159 --> 00:14:48.879 Can I say something? 00:14:49.039 --> 00:14:53.360 Once you get saved and start living for Jesus, Satan does not like you. 00:14:54.960 --> 00:14:55.519 Hello. 00:14:56.000 --> 00:15:02.879 Hey, if you're not, if you're just going along having it easy and supposedly you're a Christian, something's wrong. 00:15:03.759 --> 00:15:09.039 Let me tell you, hey, listen, why would Satan want to attack you if you're not doing anything for God? 00:15:10.080 --> 00:15:11.200 Just a thought. 00:15:13.039 --> 00:15:13.600 Hello? 00:15:14.559 --> 00:15:20.399 But when you start carrying the cross, if any man come after me, let him deny himself, take up his cross daily and follow me. 00:15:20.559 --> 00:15:25.600 When you start, hey, carrying the cross, you put a big bullseye on your back. 00:15:26.639 --> 00:15:28.320 And he's coming after you. 00:15:28.720 --> 00:15:31.360 But greater is he that is in me than he that is in the world. 00:15:31.519 --> 00:15:32.080 Hallelujah. 00:15:32.559 --> 00:15:32.960 Amen. 00:15:34.000 --> 00:15:39.360 So we see right here, we see that we have triumph over the world. 00:15:39.600 --> 00:15:41.200 Oh, I love what he said. 00:15:41.519 --> 00:15:43.519 The apostle John defines the world. 00:15:43.679 --> 00:15:45.519 Now you got to understand what the world is. 00:15:46.879 --> 00:15:49.759 It's 1 John 2.16, listen to what he says. 00:15:50.000 --> 00:15:51.840 The lust of the flesh. 00:15:52.480 --> 00:15:53.039 Uh-oh. 00:15:53.519 --> 00:16:01.360 For all that is of the world, the lust of the flesh, the lust of the eyes, and the pride of life is not of the Father, but is of the world. 00:16:02.000 --> 00:16:06.480 Now, the word lust there is a pretty powerful word for all of us. 00:16:06.639 --> 00:16:11.759 It literally means the cravings of sinful man. 00:16:12.159 --> 00:16:16.159 It's the things that we in our sinful nature crave. 00:16:17.120 --> 00:16:18.159 We crave it. 00:16:18.399 --> 00:16:20.559 Ah, we can't hardly do without it. 00:16:20.720 --> 00:16:23.919 That's what the lust of the flesh is. 00:16:24.480 --> 00:16:26.480 It's so powerful that we understand that. 00:16:26.559 --> 00:16:27.519 The lust of the flesh. 00:16:27.679 --> 00:16:29.919 Now, notice what else, though, too. 00:16:30.240 --> 00:16:32.559 What does the word flesh mean? 00:16:32.879 --> 00:16:35.759 We got the lust, the cravings for that flesh. 00:16:35.840 --> 00:16:37.440 So, what is the flesh? 00:16:38.080 --> 00:16:45.919 Flesh is a selfish outlook that, hey, pursues its own ends. 00:16:47.440 --> 00:16:49.519 Woo! Let me repeat that. 00:16:49.759 --> 00:16:58.240 It is a selfish outlook that pursues its own ends, independent of God and the fellowship of man. 00:16:58.399 --> 00:17:00.159 In other words, it's all about you. 00:17:00.480 --> 00:17:01.200 Jesus. 00:17:02.240 --> 00:17:02.879 Selfish. 00:17:03.519 --> 00:17:05.519 We don't know anybody like that, do we? 00:17:08.240 --> 00:17:11.039 Every one of us guilty in some parts. 00:17:11.200 --> 00:17:12.480 Can I get an o me? 00:17:13.759 --> 00:17:14.319 Amen. 00:17:14.640 --> 00:17:15.279 We are. 00:17:16.160 --> 00:17:17.759 That's what the flesh is. 00:17:17.920 --> 00:17:23.680 The flesh is, I'm gonna do what I want, when I want, how I want, and I don't care what you thought. 00:17:24.559 --> 00:17:25.039 Hello? 00:17:26.160 --> 00:17:27.680 That's the flesh. 00:17:28.240 --> 00:17:31.200 That's why we have to crucify it every day. 00:17:31.519 --> 00:17:34.000 It's not what I want, but it's what God wants. 00:17:34.400 --> 00:17:38.319 I'm sure you got up this morning, maybe you did this morning, because it's Easter. 00:17:38.400 --> 00:17:40.480 And you say Easter's when everybody goes to church. 00:17:40.559 --> 00:17:44.400 And I'm glad they at least come once a year, maybe twice on Christmas. 00:17:45.039 --> 00:17:48.480 Because it does give me a chance to share in a loving way the truth. 00:17:48.720 --> 00:17:51.279 And you should know the truth, and the truth shall set you free. 00:17:51.599 --> 00:17:52.000 Preacher. 00:17:52.960 --> 00:17:53.599 Amen. 00:17:54.720 --> 00:17:57.839 Somebody said the other day, preacher, you're gonna get a shot at them. 00:17:57.920 --> 00:17:59.599 I said, No, I'm gonna love them. 00:18:00.079 --> 00:18:01.279 I'm not shooting at you. 00:18:01.359 --> 00:18:02.559 I'm exalting Christ. 00:18:02.720 --> 00:18:03.519 Christ loves you. 00:18:03.680 --> 00:18:04.319 He died for you. 00:18:04.480 --> 00:18:05.119 He wants you. 00:18:05.279 --> 00:18:06.000 Do you know what? 00:18:06.160 --> 00:18:14.640 He wants you to have such a happy, exciting, unbelievable life, and you're gonna see it for a finished day that, hey, you think you're living now, you haven't seen. 00:18:15.599 --> 00:18:19.680 You hadn't seen anything till you get radically sell out to Jesus Christ. 00:18:20.960 --> 00:18:21.279 Amen. 00:18:21.680 --> 00:18:23.599 He'll turn your life so upside down. 00:18:23.759 --> 00:18:25.359 You'll do things you never thought you could do. 00:18:25.440 --> 00:18:27.599 You'll go places where you never thought you'd go. 00:18:29.839 --> 00:18:31.519 Live like you never thought you could live. 00:18:32.000 --> 00:18:33.359 Oh, absolutely. 00:18:34.319 --> 00:18:34.960 Amen. 00:18:35.599 --> 00:18:37.519 Triumph over the world. 00:18:37.680 --> 00:18:39.119 Listen to what he said. 00:18:39.359 --> 00:18:40.559 And then, are you ready? 00:18:40.720 --> 00:18:41.759 The lust of the eyes. 00:18:41.920 --> 00:18:43.119 What does that mean? 00:18:43.759 --> 00:18:46.000 Sexual lust and greed. 00:18:46.720 --> 00:18:49.680 Desire for things that you see. 00:18:50.400 --> 00:18:51.440 Have you ever been? 00:18:51.920 --> 00:18:53.839 Have you ever you know what? 00:18:58.000 --> 00:19:00.160 Trying to think how I can say this. 00:19:03.200 --> 00:19:08.000 Have you ever had those moments where you go shopping? 00:19:09.039 --> 00:19:11.759 Now I know you say, Pastor Danny, go shopping. 00:19:11.839 --> 00:19:14.000 Well, what I shop for is not ordinary. 00:19:14.079 --> 00:19:15.920 I like old cars. 00:19:16.720 --> 00:19:18.640 But have you ever been shopping, ladies? 00:19:18.720 --> 00:19:24.400 I I and on the spur of the moment, you go in there, you're gonna go window shopping. 00:19:24.640 --> 00:19:26.960 Now, you know what the definition of window shopping is? 00:19:27.119 --> 00:19:28.160 You don't buy anything. 00:19:29.519 --> 00:19:31.519 Only two of you said yeah. 00:19:31.839 --> 00:19:32.720 Thank you. 00:19:35.119 --> 00:19:36.240 Window shopping. 00:19:36.319 --> 00:19:39.440 When my wife says we're going window shopping, I'm in trouble. 00:19:40.640 --> 00:19:42.160 Don't go there, Danny. 00:19:42.480 --> 00:19:55.279 But have you ever been there and all of a sudden you really didn't want anything, but all of a sudden you saw something, and it didn't whether you needed it or that, you know, it would be it was just pure IT lust. 00:19:55.440 --> 00:19:56.319 You wanted it. 00:19:56.640 --> 00:19:57.440 Yes, sir. 00:19:59.920 --> 00:20:01.200 That was good. 00:20:01.599 --> 00:20:02.640 Yes, sir. 00:20:02.880 --> 00:20:06.720 I just, and then you say, Well, I'm gonna get it. 00:20:08.240 --> 00:20:09.279 And you know what you do? 00:20:09.359 --> 00:20:12.960 You pull out, you don't really have the money, but you pull out that plastic. 00:20:14.000 --> 00:20:15.119 I got news for you. 00:20:15.359 --> 00:20:16.640 This will help your shopping. 00:20:16.799 --> 00:20:18.640 Leave the card at home. 00:20:19.839 --> 00:20:24.720 Because if you're like me, my bill, my billfold doesn't have cash. 00:20:25.920 --> 00:20:31.039 But no, it's that craving, and all of a sudden you just uh I buy it. 00:20:31.839 --> 00:20:33.680 We've been there, we've all been there. 00:20:33.839 --> 00:20:37.519 And then you get home, and on the way home, you say, My wife's gonna kill me. 00:20:38.640 --> 00:20:41.920 Oh, she's gonna Greg, she's gonna get bought a motorcycle one time. 00:20:42.079 --> 00:20:45.440 I never enjoyed it because I knew she was gonna kill me when I got home. 00:20:49.359 --> 00:20:51.200 She only killed me once. 00:20:52.880 --> 00:20:55.519 But it's the lust, that's it, it's that thing I want it. 00:20:55.680 --> 00:20:56.400 I gotta have it. 00:20:56.480 --> 00:21:00.000 Here's what it watch this: the friendship of the world, this is powerful. 00:21:00.079 --> 00:21:01.359 Listen to what this means. 00:21:01.519 --> 00:21:09.039 To adopt the world's set of values and to want what the world wants instead of what God wants. 00:21:09.359 --> 00:21:13.680 That is what he said, and notice what he said about that in James 4, 4. 00:21:13.759 --> 00:21:15.599 Your adulterers and adulteresses. 00:21:15.680 --> 00:21:20.400 Know ye not that the friendship of this world, watch, is uh enity. 00:21:20.640 --> 00:21:21.599 You know what that means? 00:21:21.759 --> 00:21:23.680 It's it's hostility. 00:21:23.920 --> 00:21:25.599 Oh, that's a powerful word. 00:21:25.680 --> 00:21:30.960 It's hostility, it's hatred, hey, against God. 00:21:31.440 --> 00:21:33.119 That's pretty powerful, folks. 00:21:33.759 --> 00:21:36.400 That's why when you ask me, am I politically correct? 00:21:36.720 --> 00:21:38.000 Absolutely. 00:21:39.279 --> 00:21:43.920 I don't want to be anything like the world because it's hostility against God. 00:21:44.880 --> 00:21:48.640 For the wisdom of this world is foolishness with God. 00:21:49.839 --> 00:21:51.119 Corinthians says. 00:21:52.000 --> 00:21:56.400 So, but not only is it triumphant over the world, are you ready for this? 00:21:56.720 --> 00:21:59.759 Look, it's triumphant triumphant over the flesh. 00:22:00.559 --> 00:22:01.839 Oh, this is good. 00:22:02.240 --> 00:22:04.160 The flesh makes us do it. 00:22:05.599 --> 00:22:10.319 It's that sinful craving, the lust and the flesh. 00:22:10.559 --> 00:22:11.920 In other words, I want it. 00:22:12.079 --> 00:22:12.640 I want it. 00:22:12.720 --> 00:22:13.839 It's what I want. 00:22:14.079 --> 00:22:18.240 But listen to what Paul said in Romans about the flesh. 00:22:18.640 --> 00:22:22.319 That's why baptism in a little while is going to be so beautiful. 00:22:23.279 --> 00:22:36.079 Because baptism says in Romans 6, 4, therefore we are buried with him by baptism in the death, that like as Christ was raised up from the dead by the glory of the Father, even so we also should walk in newness of life. 00:22:36.160 --> 00:22:40.000 What that means is that once you get saved, you're going under the water. 00:22:40.160 --> 00:22:54.559 When you go down under the water, it's a symbol that you've buried that old way of living and you've been raised to walk a new life like Jesus Christ, which means you have victory over Satan and the flesh. 00:22:55.279 --> 00:22:57.519 Wow, watch what he says. 00:22:57.839 --> 00:23:03.279 For what the law could not do, in that it was weak through the flesh. 00:23:03.599 --> 00:23:12.400 God sending his son in the likeness of sinful flesh and for sin, condemned sin in the flesh. 00:23:12.640 --> 00:23:15.519 And then go to Romans 6, 6 through 8 and notice what he says. 00:23:15.680 --> 00:23:21.359 Knowing this, that Greek word there knowing means absolutely sure, absolutely confident. 00:23:21.519 --> 00:23:22.559 That's what it means. 00:23:22.720 --> 00:23:26.720 This, that our own man is crucified with him. 00:23:27.119 --> 00:23:35.839 That the body of sin, say it with me, church, that the body of sin might be destroyed, that henceforth we should not serve sin. 00:23:36.559 --> 00:23:41.519 Verse 7, and here comes for he that is dead, is free from sin. 00:23:41.680 --> 00:23:42.559 Verse 8. 00:23:42.799 --> 00:23:47.279 Now, if we be dead with Christ, we believe that we shall also live with him. 00:23:47.599 --> 00:23:56.160 Ladies and gentlemen, we have the power living in us as Christians to overcome sin in our life, to defeat that lust in that flesh. 00:23:56.880 --> 00:24:02.640 To say no to the world and yes to the word. 00:24:03.680 --> 00:24:04.799 Is that not good? 00:24:05.680 --> 00:24:07.839 But the word's got to be in you to do that. 00:24:08.400 --> 00:24:18.799 You know when he says, I'm crucified with Christ, that means the word of God's in you so powerfully that when that lust of the flesh comes up, the word of God takes it and bam! nails it to the cross. 00:24:20.640 --> 00:24:24.400 No! No! But I want it. 00:24:24.640 --> 00:24:26.319 No, but I need it. 00:24:26.559 --> 00:24:26.880 No. 00:24:28.559 --> 00:24:29.440 But no. 00:24:31.599 --> 00:24:33.599 Then he lets you get it out of your mouth. 00:24:33.839 --> 00:24:37.519 No! Amen? 00:24:38.799 --> 00:24:41.599 And then after it's over, you say, Thank you, Jesus. 00:24:43.279 --> 00:24:46.400 Oh, what unbelievable truth. 00:24:46.559 --> 00:24:48.799 Listen to another great theologian, Dr. 00:24:48.960 --> 00:24:50.880 Joseph McLary. 00:24:51.200 --> 00:24:54.480 Call the McLaren notes, their awesome commentary set. 00:24:54.720 --> 00:24:56.880 Here's what he said about the flesh. 00:24:57.200 --> 00:25:03.119 The flesh is the devil's beachhead and the world's camping ground. 00:25:04.240 --> 00:25:05.279 Is that not good? 00:25:05.519 --> 00:25:06.720 Let me repeat that. 00:25:06.960 --> 00:25:14.799 The flesh is the devil's beachhead and the world's camping ground in the heart of every believer. 00:25:15.119 --> 00:25:18.480 Thank God when Jesus Christ, it is finished. 00:25:18.799 --> 00:25:23.599 He overcame the flesh for every sinner who truly believes. 00:25:23.920 --> 00:25:25.759 Galatians 2, 20. 00:25:26.480 --> 00:25:27.680 I'm not don't do this. 00:25:27.759 --> 00:25:28.400 I'm hot. 00:25:28.960 --> 00:25:31.599 I am crucified with Christ. 00:25:32.480 --> 00:25:35.119 Nevertheless, I live, yet not I. 00:25:35.279 --> 00:25:39.599 Woo! But Christ liveth in me in the life which I now live by the flesh. 00:25:39.759 --> 00:25:45.359 I live by the faith of the Son of God who loved me and gave himself for me. 00:25:45.519 --> 00:25:53.119 Ladies and gentlemen, through the power of Christ, we can crucify the flesh and the lust of the flesh. 00:25:54.079 --> 00:25:56.720 Triumph over the world, triumph over the flesh. 00:25:56.880 --> 00:25:57.759 There's a third one. 00:25:58.000 --> 00:26:00.240 You're gonna really get excited about this. 00:26:00.559 --> 00:26:02.480 Triumph over the devil. 00:26:02.880 --> 00:26:05.519 Look at what he says in John 12, 31. 00:26:06.400 --> 00:26:10.960 As the shadow of the cross fell across his path, listen to what Jesus declared. 00:26:11.279 --> 00:26:14.160 Now is the judgment of this world. 00:26:14.319 --> 00:26:18.720 Now shall the prince of this world be cast out. 00:26:19.039 --> 00:26:30.720 Oh, ladies and gentlemen, never did the devil fight any harder, but never did, hey, was he more convincingly defeated than on the day of Calvary. 00:26:32.079 --> 00:26:35.279 Satan did everything he could to keep him from going to the cross. 00:26:35.519 --> 00:26:38.160 He tried to keep him from going to the cross. 00:26:38.559 --> 00:26:40.960 In the hey, in the garden. 00:26:41.759 --> 00:26:45.119 He tried to keep him from going to the cross in the trials. 00:26:45.279 --> 00:26:47.200 He tried to keep him from the cross. 00:26:47.440 --> 00:26:52.880 Hey, when they nailed him to the cross, but once they nailed him to the cross, he said, It is finished. 00:26:52.960 --> 00:26:53.759 We got him. 00:26:57.920 --> 00:27:01.599 He didn't remember Sunday morning. 00:27:05.599 --> 00:27:06.640 Thank you, Lord. 00:27:09.039 --> 00:27:12.480 Behold, I'm he that liveth and was dead, and behold, I'm alive forevermore. 00:27:12.559 --> 00:27:15.359 And behold, I hold the keys of death. 00:27:15.920 --> 00:27:18.319 Jesus said in Revelation 1.18. 00:27:19.839 --> 00:27:20.480 Wow. 00:27:21.920 --> 00:27:22.480 Wow. 00:27:22.799 --> 00:27:25.279 Listen to what he said in Colossians 2.15. 00:27:25.920 --> 00:27:27.759 Having disarmed principalities. 00:27:28.240 --> 00:27:29.039 I love that word. 00:27:29.279 --> 00:27:36.319 Ladies and gentlemen, through the power of the Holy Spirit of God, we have the power to disarm anything Satan brings toward us. 00:27:37.279 --> 00:27:38.240 That's power. 00:27:38.480 --> 00:27:39.119 That's power. 00:27:39.359 --> 00:27:41.359 Luke 4.32, his word is with power. 00:27:41.519 --> 00:27:42.400 Listen to what he said. 00:27:42.559 --> 00:27:49.920 We read, having disarmed principalities and power, he made public spectacle of them, triumphing over them. 00:27:50.160 --> 00:27:56.160 And again, we read in Hebrews 2.14 through his death, he destroyed him who hath the power of death. 00:27:56.319 --> 00:27:57.359 That is the devil. 00:27:57.519 --> 00:28:03.119 Up out of the grave, he arose with a great triumph sound. 00:28:04.319 --> 00:28:06.480 We have triumph over the world. 00:28:07.039 --> 00:28:09.359 We have triumph over the flesh. 00:28:09.680 --> 00:28:11.599