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Intro
Modern Tech and Medicine… Resurrection / re-animation still unachievable
X Ray Machines
Dialises
Cat Scan
Transplants
In 1908, Charles Guthrie tried to transplant the head of a donor dog onto the neck of a recipient dog without success (4).
In 1950, Vladimir Demikhov developed several surgical techniques concerning transplantation for vital organs and limbs in dogs (5).
In the 1970s, Robert White performed the first cephalic exchange transplantation in the monkey by transplanting the head of a rhesus monkey on the body of another headless one.
The monkey survived for 8 days with restoration of basic sensations such as smell, taste, hearing, and motor function in the face of the transplanted head (6, 2).
Recently, Hirabayashi et al, Sygawara et al, and Niu et al made head transplantation in rats in order to evaluate the brain function after ischemia (7-9).
Additionally, Ren et al described a surgical approach for head transplantation in a mouse model (10).
Finally, Canavero S et al described a model for head transplantation in human beings (11, 1).
In 2017, Ren et al performed successfully a cephalosomatic anastomosis using a human cadaver (12).
The papers mentioned above constitute reports, experiments, surgical techniques or even patents setting the historical, theoretical and practical background in the attempt to approach the first human head transplantation.
Having described our spiritual possessions in Christ, Paul turns to a complementary truth: our spiritual position in Christ.
PRAYER
Dearest Lord Jesus…
Message
Apart from Christ, We Were Spiritually Dead
The Old Condition: Dead to God (1-3)
Well, Sick, or Dead? = Status
Walking Corpses = Practice
Objects of Wrath = Nature
A Radical Remedy Required (5)
With Christ, We Are Spiritually Alive
The New Position: Alive in Christ (4-7)
Who is This God? (4a)
How Has Paul Described Him…?
- Sovergine
- Holy
- Full of Wrath - Sin
What Has God Done? = Means (5-6)
Jhn 11.43 “43 When he had said these things, he cried out with a loud voice, “Lazarus, come out.””
Paul made up words to describe this…
- “made alive with”
- “raise up with”
- “sit down with”
Why Did God Do It? = Love (4b)
Love
Mercy
Grace
Kindness
What Must I Do?
A Difficult Doctrine = “Unity With Christ”
This doctrine is so important that one commentator rightly called it “the heart of Paul’s religion.”
John Murray wrote, “Union with Christ is the central truth of the whole doctrine of salvation.”2
Arthur W. Pink is even more emphatic: “The subject of spiritual union is the most important, the most profound, and yet the most blessed of any that is set forth in sacred Scripture.”
But he also rightly notes that “sad to say, there is hardly any which is now more generally neglected.
The very expression ‘spiritual union’ is unknown in most professing Christian circles, and even where it is employed it is given such a protracted meaning as to take in only a fragment of this precious truth.”
Two Types of Union = “with Him” “in Christ”
- Federal / Covenantal = technical position before God in Christ...
- Vital / Experiential = actual effects of this relationship in our lives…
All Things New
- MADE ALIVE = Our disposition is different… new direction
- RAISED UP = Our desires are different… new orientation toward spiritual things
- SEATED WITH = Our position is different… intimacy and privilege
“The difference between the sinner and the Christian, the unbeliever and the believer, is not that the believer, the Christian, has certain faculties which the other man lacks.
No, what happens is that this new disposition given to the Christian directs his faculties in an entirely different way.
He is not given a new brain; he is not given a new intelligence, or anything else.
He has always had these; they are his servants, his instruments, his ‘members,’ as Paul calls them in the sixth chapter of Romans; what is new is a new bent, a new disposition.
He has turned in a different direction; there is a new power working in him and guiding his faculties.
This is the thing that makes a man a Christian.”
Are You In Christ?
- First, have you been made alive with Christ?
Has God put his new principle of life within you?
Do you sense a new spiritual disposition in what you do?
Are you born again?
- Second, have you been raised with Christ so that your orientation is now heavenly, rather than being only earthbound?
- Finally, have you been seated with God in Christ in the heavenly realms?
That is, have you made your true, blessed, and intimate home with God? Do you talk to him there?
Does he talk to you?
In Christ, We Are God’s Workmanship
Why Paul Is Compelled to Proclaim His Grace
All Of Grace (8a1)
Illustration of the girl with the broken pitcher of milk
What Is Faith?
(8a2)
Faith is not subjective feelings...
Faith is not Credulity… accepting as true apart from evidence… want it to be true
Faith is not optimism...
- Knowledge
- Heart Response
- Commitment
How God Does NOT Save Us (8b)
Good Works
All we can do (but also must do) is take the pitcher God puts in our hand—and thank him because it is a lot better than anything we ever had before.
Nothing in my hands I bring,
Simply to thy cross I cling;
Naked, come to thee for dress,
Helpless, look to thee for grace;
Foul, I to the Fountain fly;
Wash me, Savior, or I die.
Rock of Ages, cleft for me,
Let me hide myself in thee.
How God Does NOT Save Us (8b)
Good Works (9a)
Catholic theology says: “Faith plus works equal justification.”
Protestants reply: “Faith equals justification plus works.”
Failure of Good Works (10)
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