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We continue where we left off by us week in a section of scripture that I stated last week was probably one of the most important text in all the New Testament.

It is most definitely 1 of the most important statements in this letter.

And it is a section of scripture that I said You should have marked down somewhere.

This section that we are reading has so many implications that if we you're just skimming through this section, we miss the implications.

We have the tendency, has fallen human beings, to be superficial when it comes to the things of God.

You may not think that to be true but it is true.

When we read the statement that if you confess with your mouth Jesus as Lord we think that it is just a simple statement.

We never slow down and think about all the implications of the word Lord itself.

This is essentially how Jesus trained his disciples.

When we open up this living revelation of God, the word of God, we see that Jesus instructs us to look at all the implications.

That there is more to these words than we like to think.

The surface as much deeper.

We see this on the sermon on the mount.

Jesus tells the listeners you have heard it from old, but I say unto you.

And what Jesus had to say was that the law meant so much more than we can possibly imagine.

That the very word of God means so much more than we can possibly imagine.

Folks, this is true today.

Theologians have a phrase about God and that is God is inexhaustible.

Meaning when you search out to seek God and when you search out to study God you will never finish.

There is so much to God that you will never finish studying about God.

Because he is inexhaustible you will never be able to exhaust out all resources about God.

God is infinite you will never reach the end of God.

This is why the greatest theologians who have ever lived are men who devoted their entire lives to the study of God and even at the very end felt like they were just beginning.

God is inexhaustible, God is infinite therefore his word is so much more than what we make of it.

But unfortunately, this is no longer the concern for the Christian.

The Christian is not concerned with seeking out God with all of their mind heart soul and strength.

I mean honestly ask yourselves, have I sought out God with all of my mind heart soul and strength?

All of it.

Yes I have used my brain to it's fullest capacity to loving God?

I have spent every waking moment seeking God out with my mind getting the know him more challenging myself in my brain.

Have you really done that?

Have I really given God all of my soul am I using all of my strength to seek out the living God.

I think you all are thinking no.

Because if you're thinking yes right now I would love to put you to the test.

And if I ever get to a point where I say yes I would love for one of you to put me to the test.

The problem is, loving God with all of your mind your heart your soul and your strength is not even attempted.

Christians do not attempt To love God this way.

We have become like the rich ruler who asked Jesus what must I do to be saved and Jesus told him to honor his parents and he goes yeah I've done that already.

Jesus knowing the heart of all Men Stated that specific commandment for a reason to that specific person.

Knowing what that person was guilty of.

and that person was completely delusional that he went yeah I've done that already what else.

Jesus said go and sell all your possessions.

And the man went away hanging his head low.

The man did not honor the Lord of all creation therefore he could not possibly honor his father and mother.

We have adopted the same attitude.

Love God with all of your heart with all your mind with all your soul with all your strength.

Yeah I've done that already what else.

It is dominating current Christian trend.

It is no longer relevant for the Christian to love God with all of his mind.

To seek God out by any means necessary which would mean loving God with all of your heart.

None of this is essential to the Christian what is essential to the Christian is his or her's own personal experience.

we have replaced truth with experience.

So that when people come up to us and say what about this scientific explanation or what about this philosophical standpoint.

We have no foundation that we are standing on and we say that's irrelevant because I know what I have experienced.

Well that's all fine and dandy but your experience is not the authority.

It's not.

Furthermore, your life, and the things you Have gone through are not about you.

You're experience will save nobody.

It doesn't mean that it can't be helpful and it doesn't mean that it doesn't have its role or place in life.

But when it comes to saving faith, folks, it's not about you or what you have gone through.

It is about Jesus Christ and what he had gone through for you.

And the implications in this section of scripture mean so much more than just a quick utterance, when we see the phrase That if you confess with your mouth Jesus as Lord, that is not an invitation to a quick checklist were you get to say yeah I've done that already.

And that statement in itself means so much more than we can possibly imagine, which is true of just about everything we read from the word of God.

Which is true about everything we can possibly know about God.

And once we have come so far in understanding and knowing God, we realize there's no end to it, we realize we must go further.

Last week we talked about justification by faith being the battle cry.

And it is a battle cry that must return.

But if we're so wrapped up in our own personal experience I'm not sure how it will.

If christians cannot take what we are seeing in these 2 verses seriously I'm not sure it will.

On Tuesday another school shooting happened.

It was A K through 12 charter school.

And many people have heard of the brave young men who risked their own lives to save their fellow classmates one of whom did die protecting other students.

A mother is going through Mother's Day without her son.

And I seen pictures of adults leading little children out of the school into safety.

I am assuming after the shooters were apprehended.

And the look of fear in there crying eyes was terribly sad.

And the situation has become another soapbox for politicians.

As these things usually do.

And you have people on the left demanding stricter gun laws.

And you have people on the right demanding better mental health care.

And this situation has brought up mental health more than other situations.

The issue with it all, is we are trying to confront sin and the problem of evil with legislation.

We are trying to confront sin and the problem of evil with policy.

Satan wins at that game every time.

every time.

Using a corrupted system that is ran by people who are corrupted by sin to Create policy That will never confront the issue.

You go ahead and ask sin if it cares about your political opinion, you go ahead and ask sin if it cares about your political policy.

While you are at it why don't you ask satan if he cares about any of that.

Write this down

You wanna know why this must be our battle cry.

Because we really are fighting A-war.

We really are in a fight and sin can manifest itself in very harmful and dangerous ways.

Our best defense and form of attack is the gospel message.

Taking the truth of saving faith to sinful ears.

So let's dive in To our text and begin to look at all the implications of what Paul is trying to communicate.

As already stated we covered the lordship controversy last week.

This is the position that when you are saved you are safe because you received Jesus as savior but you do not have to receive Jesus as Lord in order to be saved.

This is a very popular view that has dominated Christianity in America for a long time.

You say pastor I've never heard a preacher say anything like that.

No you have not because those kind of preachers wouldn't say it like that .