Sine Qua Non - Part 2

Our dear heavenly father. We thank you for this glorious morning, amazing, the creation that you have made. We have sixty nine degrees in the morning, in 100°, in the afternoon. So we get a little rest with every day and we get a little pump in energy in the afternoon. We're just so thankful for your grace provision that in every way that we could possibly imagine and many, many more that we cannot, imagine that you have expressed your policy, your desire to interact with man through Grace that is nothing we can do to earn to Garner your attention. Lord, it is your grave provision that you were given to us. This morning. We come to take full advantage of that Grace, as we enter into a study of your word that we might understand the things of your thinking, your thoughts your perspective. We might grow in our relationship with you and see you glorified all these things. We pray in Christ Jesus name, amen. Roy's. So we will pick up from where we left off last week, but before we do, let's review. So for Hebrews chapter 12, verses 1 and 2. Starting in verse 1. Let's read it. Just so we have this in mind as we progressed. Therefore, we also since we are surrounded by so great, cloud of witnesses. Let us lay aside every weight and the sandwich so easily, and snares us and let us run with endurance, the race that is set. Before us. Looking on the Jesus, the author and finisher of our faith. And for the joy, that was set before him. Enjoy the cross, despising the shame and I sat down at the right hand of the Throne of God, No, we are learn previously that our main bird and the purpose of our passage is to run. Receive Alan verse 1. We are to lay aside everything. And we are to run the point of these verses is to run it so easily been making her way through a concerted effort to get all the way through. Hebrews chapter 11, we have been reviewing time and time. Again, the Bible Doctrine is designed to function in your soul. The goal is not to have Bible Doctrine because that could be good. That is a Bible doctrine that does not function. The goal is to have Bible Doctrine functioning in your soul. And I would say that is one of the places of great error that we have seen potentially in the categorical, Grace movement. Know, it's not something bad bracket Church, taught a Doctrine in your mind and your soul in your notes, get the reel-to-reels, get the tea. Spend as much time in there and then just let it sit and not function but that's what many people have done. Thought it was about academics. For the point of academics is not academics, unless you're not get the mission academic academic.

Point. Actually, the study of God's word is that it would function in our soul that it would be alive and working within us. That's the entire point. There is no other point. So, we want to make sure that we have the cart behind the horse, not ahead of the horse. One thing I found about horses is it when you attach the cart in front of them, don't want to go that direction.

Because they like to have nothing in front of them as they're walking along. So the card goes behind the horse and then everything proceeds along properly. And so we have insight into that saying and also into the reality then that if we get arcademics in the Forefront for the purpose of academic and shearly, purely for academics, then, we are backwards. We are doing it the wrong way. I could MX or not something to be sneered at, we don't drive them. We don't have any place where I can absolutely have a need for a good. Well done proper academics. When it comes to the study and of God's word, in fact, it is imperative. If we don't understand the context, if we mess up the grammar, if we haven't played with the critical text, that is figuring out. What words are Actually there and did some scribe, change it or mess it up along the way. if we don't pay attention to these things, we neglected to our own destruction to our own. Illness.

Because God's word benefits us. So,

The main bird here is to run to engage in the race laid before us, which is having Bible Doctrine functioning in your soul and it's no ordinary. Ray says, we have studied, in the last couple weeks, it was a race of consequence. These Peloponnesian races were a substitute for Warfare. In other words, the race is the battle, the battle is the race, they're one in the same. There's no room for distinguishing between them while we can say, okay, we got the runners over here and we got the military over here will in the Peloponnesian.

Games that we had a Mad Greek Arena. We're all these different cities and constantly been at war with each other and they finally negotiated. We will send our best runner out there. We will send our best boxer out there. We will send our best wrestler out there. We will send our best Sprinter out there. We will send our best marathon runner out there, and they will compete in substitute for, lopping each other's heads off.

That's a pretty good substitute, but that meant that what was riding on? It was considerable taxes, making payments in tribute to the winning. City is all wrapped up in it. There's obligation that comes if your team loses, if your Runner loses. That means you're sitting losses. So what did people do? They put everything into the risks. They put everything into developing Runners. It all the accoutrements that were necessary for the development of Runners that I was pretty limited. Because unlike today can't say why I've got the best hyper bouncy, little fools to go in your shoes so that you can Sprint and bounce better than anyone else. Or in the case of legless people we can say, oh yeah we can give you, we can give you Springs on your legs or is your running down. You can run faster than any. Boil it because we have made you almost bionic wheel added to your ability. That wasn't allowed, everyone had to be stripped down. Everyone had to be oiled every morning. Every have everyone have the same food. They trained in the same gymnasiums, they had the same Masters over them, to make sure that absolutely everyone trained in the same way that no one had the slightest Advantage at all. So the games would be fair, as Fair as could be and they will get together and they compete and then the winner is the winter with no objections everyone. Is on board. That was the wintry. He was the first to cross the line. He threw down his opponent opponent. He knocked out on his opponent. So, it's very clear who the winner is. So this is no ordinary rates that were entered into. It's a race of consequences but we have a goal as we press forward into this Bible doctrine, that functions that our souls. And that goal is the person and the work and all that. Informs us of your shoe at Jesus, the Lord, Jesus Christ gives birth to Sons. Looking unto Jesus. This is what the runners are doing their pressing forward, but their goal, their objective, the direction they're headed. The farthest thinking, everything that shape their training, everything that shakes their running, they're competing.

Involved in this looking unto Jesus.

In the original.

The word Grace here. Races. It is the word for these races. Yes. Yeah, it is a it is using the language. So there's no simile for say but it is easy but it is. The language vocabulary that use is the vocabulary of the Greek races. And we talked about the great crowd of witnesses, it's all those people who have been part of the training who have competed before us that we're looking at, they showed us how Bible Doctrine functions. So now we're in the arena and we're to draw upon their understanding their demonstration in the soul of each of these individuals we've been studying for the last 6-8 months or so. Who bathtub at the point and then we're saying, or the texture is saying, and the runner, then it's supposed to be looking to the person of Jesus Christ. So, as a result of the objective of our enemy, we mentioned last week,

The objective of our enemy is to stop us from doing this concentrating on. Jesus Christ. If he has one goal, one objective, it's to keep our attention off of Jesus Christ. It's the draw attention away into the details members. We were going through Matthew 14. What happened? When Peter walking on water looked away from Jesus? He fell down into the water. His attention was drawn away from Jesus. No, I'm not saying that is the exact portrayal of what we're going through. But it is mighty, interesting, but it's in scripture and we have someone who's looking at Jesus and then when he looks away he fails. Because that's exactly what our text is, telling us hear our goal or objective of our running is to fix your eyes. So, if you ever seen a runner in the Olympics on him, I'm assuming that everyone here is it least gone to a race once in their life, or watch the race on TV. But here's a question, if you ever seen a runner running down the track, looking at the shoes, does running along

Doesn't work very well. They you and think maybe your trip last but it's just the opposite. You seem to be able to move forward. You have to have your eyes up to the Roy's and focused in on what you're going after. It's like when you're playing baseball, if you want to hit that ball, what do you do? Close your eyes and swing. Yoho. I'm going to put every bit of energy. I have into my close my eyes and want to hear that crap. And you never will, unless the picture is trying to hit your bat.

What you do is you keep your eye on the ball and you follow it all the way through and as you swing through and keep your eye on the ball. But as you swing through with your bad, you still keep your eye on the ball. Right up to the point at which you connect. Then you can close your eyes if you want to do anything. You want at that point you hit a homer. You can directly crawl around on your rear end to get all the way there. But you have to keep your eyes open. When you going to shoot hoops and you want to get it in the basket. you close your eyes, if you look over and your friends, well, maybe if you're Magic Johnson, you did You jumped up here and look at your phone and go. Watch this, sending. You thoughts it in. Omet.

Or enemies objective is to get our eyes off of Jesus Christ because he wants to defeat us. He wants to Unplug us from the situation. He wants to unplug us from the reality of Grace operating in our lives. And our objective is to do this. That is keep our eyes on Jesus. Jesus in perspective, what his work is, what he has done for us the basis of the work that he did for us. What is this all about?

We need to be looking to Jesus. So the objective of the advanced then, is this looking to Jesus and we studied Opera, oh, that is the looking is an intense examination. It is not just your casual, but it is an intense examination. Know, some interesting parallels, always find these when I'm dealing with the training, the people how to use the Segways there. It's a way of Jackson. Who were getting ready to go on a tour? I teach them and interesting. They're on a Segway there standing there, we've got them out, they move forwards, and backwards that kind of gotten used to standing on that. They're starting to relax just a little bit and then I have them turn in place and if you stand evenly with your weight evenly distributed on each leg gets cut the handlebars over to the side. She doesn't rotate like a bicycle or a motorcycle. You just scoot, so I decide. So if you stand there and just screwed into the song,

pirouette or pretended geeky, I call it a zero radius turn Stupid. Why don't just spend it right in place. And I tell them that I demonstrate that they control their speed by how far they go explain this to them. Well, first I tell him the good news is, you can turn both left and right so we don't have to take the right hand. Only tour of Jacksonville cuz It's not my favorite way to go. So the way to stay safe on where your wheels are, here's the funny thing. We may have a gate walking around based on the width of our shoulders, going down to our feet and this writing on the little Segway. Device feels more like, walking than anything, your brain doesn't say, oh, it's just like riding a motorcycle was just like a skateboard. I was just like roller skates, except they're just standing there a movie. So but your brain never gets wrong for this situation. So, what we found is we can expand a person's awareness in their brain of how wide the Segway is down here cuz it's a little bit wider. Down at the base Thunder used to accommodating for. And so, the way we stay safe is for your brain to know where the wheels are. So I go through a little exercise for I have people zigzag down to the car and back and I keep on changing how far away they need to be from the cones and make sure that they can do it and they have to demonstrate it for me. If they can to make him go back and do it again and again and again and we work it until we actually have their brain changing. But here's one of the keys and we found Is it a few just drive along? You just give a little bit of peripheral examination to where your wheels are in relation to the crown. You won't get any better at navigating. You won't be any better and being aware of where your wheels are. But if you do this, you look over and down and see where those tires are. As you go by the, can you do the same thing on the other side, back and forth? Looking down looking over examining Where the wheel is examining where the cone is something amazing happens in your brain and your brain. Somehow becomes aware of where the base of the Segway is you become a better Navigator. It's what we found. This is so important, we can keep people from having accidents, which can happen on the Segway go because they have learned. What is necessary to be able to be safe rolling around. Otherwise, I have people hitting curves and then each other rolling into this that and the other But when I have them go through the training and they actually exam. Weather wheels are, then it changes things. So too with us. And so too, with what the text is saying. Hear this specific Greek word, operado means to turn the eyes away from distractions and concentrate or fix them on something else. So, as to examine what you are looking at, and when you do, it creates an awareness, it changes things in your brain. That's part of what we're talking about. When we utilize that little descriptor epistemological Rehabilitation, it changes your awareness of life and truth and thanking God exists through his word. As we examine his word, cuz we pay attention to his word, he changes our awareness of the boundaries around at each Our awareness of Truth. He changes our spiritual Concepts from that, which is negligent have Hazard to that, which is, where is actual that can be utilized in life, we come to an understanding of Grace. As the power engine, the source of the Dynamics of the spiritual life is not your exertion. It's not your ability to be spiritual because some people do think that they have that I can be spiritual and I can be more spiritual than anyone else. And some people just have that, you know, it's the confidence. It's the, it's the Swagger that you see on the playground when someone comes walking up, when I say, I can do the monkey bars.

Do they come running up to it? May just going to jump through.

But it's not like that in spiritual life. Spiritual life is different. It's about Grace. It's about God's provision. No one has any advantage over anyone else. You weren't very athletic when it comes to the spiritual life. It doesn't matter at all, because it's not about you. It's about the provision God has given and made for you. That is so very important. I wanted to make sure we tapped on that before we move forward.

In the last week, we went over the doctrine. The block EP soon with the person. Of Jesus Christ. So not only do we need to pay attention to Jesus Christ, but we need to understand what's behind that. What is going on? What are some of the benefits or what is the Dark Brenda described occupation with the person of Jesus Christ. So we went through these things. I'll just go through them. Quickly, the Highlight them for you. So by definition occupation with Christ is the highest spiritual function of the believer in time. There is nothing more important in your life and you're living, then to be occupied with Jesus Christ, it is the highest use of your time here on Earth is to be occupied with that is studying understanding examining who he is, his thinking what he has done for us and that you do through the word of God, there is no other means. You can try to do the exam and your navel meditation type of thing. And sometimes people get a few things out of that they can make some observations and try to tie them together. But it's really a Jesus that is pulling from the text, what? God put their that is going to have that dramatic effect until it is the examination of God's word, the studying of God's word, the studying of the Lord Jesus Christ, the studying of the Dynamics of Salvation. What is The Bible say in about salvation and what isn't it? We need to understand those distinctions if we are called to one of the things that the pastor is called, not just read but defend the Sheep without a swage. You of not thinking wrong things though. You may have never thought of them. Until someone says something, don't think about that, pink elephant in the back of the room. Until I said that you didn't have an image of a black of a pink elephant in the back of the room. So why would never do that? I don't want to do. I have to study that, why do I have to consider this heresy? And that heresy because it's part of what we as pastors are commanded to do for the flock? So they can be those times and those people in those reflection to say about this,

But it is mandated from God to us that we engage in that studying process. What is important? Secondly. Occupation with Christ. Four wheelers in the category 1 low, that is our love between ourselves and God which the mature believer with Bible Doctrine in his soul is capable of appreciating. You see knowledge of God is the basis of love of God and if you don't know anything about God, you don't actually love God. The less, you know, about the more, you know, about God, the more, you know, him the Bible study is equipping you with the knowledge. You might be able to love. Very basic, and yet, very, very necessary. That's what we do. They're immature because we need to teach them and teach them. Give them experience, teach them how to proceed. Teach them how to think, give them a basic underpinning of values that are needed in their life. All of this, we do so that kids can think. Same thing is true in the spiritual realm, we can be immature, we can be immature. The difference is learning to think and learning to think correctly, learning to perceive correct in all of that comes from Knowledge from Bible Doctrine, functioning of the Soul third, we have the Manifest person of the godhead.

Being Christ himself.

He is.

How we understand. God Christ says, if you have seen me, you have seen the father This is what exam and hear him. As we examine him, we understand his attributes, we understand his character qualities and seeing them in Jesus Christ. We see them in God, the second person of the godhead who came to worse, joined himself with the man and the hypostatic Union. God is our source of understanding. Jesus Christ is The Fountainhead of your knowledge of God. 24. We have occupation with price. Shown to be the maximum expression of Love towards God. So it is the maximum expression when you are occupied with studying, in gaining insight into who Jesus is what his background is. What he says about himself. What does prophecy say about him? What insights do we have? Based on what he said to Pharisees, versus what he said to Sinners? What can we know and learn and understand about him every point. Here is a maximum expression of our love towards God. The more we understand Christ, the more we maximise our love relationship with God.

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The number for Rocky patient, with Christ, begins with the Believers entrance, into the Super Grace life that is, it is not until you become mature or that you really gained the capacity to be occupied with price. Just find a very interesting children loved very much. We have nothing between them and the understanding that he is the source of their salvation, he is the Delight of their soul. There's a twinkle in the sparkle. That comes to shoulder when you talk to them about Jesus Christ and it's right but it doesn't compare at all to what is in the soul of the believer who has knowledge of Jesus Christ.

A, you coming to that point of maturity, as we explained last week, the goal is always to become mature and so it is true in the spiritual life. Our goal is to become mature mature. That's when occupation with Christ really opens up, that's when everything transforms

Poinsettia X. Occupation with Christ glorifies Christ.

Jesus Christ is glorified as we examine him.

Fusion3 says to come to know the surpassing knowledge or knowledge. Love would be a better translation, their knowledge Love Of Christ. It is occupation with Christ knowledge. Love is the concept here. You can't love without knowing you can't know without loading. It is knowledge. Love it is a combined concept.

47, their shoes. Me point seven. We saw that the means of occupation with Christ is found in the very process of what we call the grace apparatus for perception, or everything, having to do with God's word from his revelation of it, until the point that it is taught and taken into your soul. The entire Grace. Perceiving process, God has provided for its based on his grace, it's by grace that he gave us his word by grace, that he gives us a faster to teach us by Grace. We have the ability to absorb it, to understand it as we're at fellowship and God. The holy spirit is accommodating, our thinking, and giving us spiritual insight into these things.

Occupation with Christ eliminates. The superficialities a few minutes, celebrity s*** gas on people. People are people oriented. We tend to think about what people do. Last night, I was at one of the big events for the Oregon Wine experience. They have a massive they put up over on South stage and I was blown away as I brought my family in sat around a table there. When I looked in my glasses on there were tables and tables and table down there. And it's all the fundraisers fundraising event for the assanti foundation, which is the under writer for the big expansion that they're doing for the expansion, they're doing for children, so they're making it possible. So the children for many situations, we no longer have to go up to OHSU, but they will be able to stay down here in southern Oregon and have their needs met, not be ripped away from their homes. Hundreds of miles away. Family have live inside of hospitals, and inside a little tiny you know the McDonald House is a great and wonderful thing they provided there but it's not your home. So why they're making it so that people can live here. But

Human Celebrity ship is when we are oriented towards people. What I saw there. Last night is the way that people dress in the way that people interact and we had people with evening gowns on, even though we're walking on the lawn people who were there, just in there, wine, tasting, or Country Club. You know, a nice apparel. Emily gets the other people didn't wall. Interesting. Because a few days before I taking my cousin to her here, visiting for my mom's 80th in the wind celebration, I got him hooked with a couple of things and so they're up here and we were over in Rogue River, because I wanted to go to Paesanos little little hole-in-the-wall Italian Shop. If you haven't been to it before worth checking out, the guy has a Tuscany connection, his food is all very authentic. So I just get a hankering every once in awhile for a real Italian sub, not the kind you can get anywhere else, but the kind that they have there, and it's wonderful things over there to get some various food and stuff in from the 70s walking around, you know, with cutoff shorts in strange, apparel, and hairdos that you haven't seen in decades and decades, but over there, nothing wrong with Rogue River, but I just happened to see Who are the people who are still disconnected from mainstream reality, Fashions, clothing. It was kind of humorous. And I was talking to my cousin about and I said, yeah, this is the real Oregon over here. Everyone is trying to look like them, so we are people oriented. But with occupation, with cries, we lose the people orientation. We become occupied with what Christ is like, you see, that's what's important, doesn't matter what I'm like, I'm just a teacher. My job is solely to dig into God's word and presented in such a way as you can understand and Grill by it. My job is to be pastoral. That is unacceptable. I'm a Shepherd, but I'm using technical skills, studying God's word. So, you can understand the text of his word, but who you need to be occupied with his Jesus Christ. Not me. You don't want to be like me, you want to be like him. Jesus Christ is amazing in the more we study and the more we have insight into that. So we have people who are immature and it is an immature thing. Then to put your pastor up on a pedestal or anyone else. And if you do, you know why you'll realize is, I have feet of clay. I am human. I will break. I will disappoint you in ways that are unimaginable, but Jesus Christ was faithful Gear. Solid. He was consistent. He's the one you were to be looking at.

Point nine. We saw that occupation with Christ motivates the pastor teacher to communicate Bible Doctrine to the royal priesthood. The idea here is that we are connected with Jesus Christ, you see?

We are acolytes. An Alkali is someone who is a follower of someone who is distinct than special. Real colitis of the people that are drawn to them want to be part of a cult. I want to be part of the coal to those who follow around and Zeus or Apollo's or because the term comes from that context, today we have acolytes of movie stars. We have acolytes of music

The rockstars. But now it's whoever is the latest viral musician on the internet.

But something peculiar happened when we were born again. You see, we were adopted by Jesus Christ. He had doctored us into the family know, that's an odd thing. And it's not the kind of adoption that we have here today so you can get your adoption papers together. Go through the adoption process work with individuals, find a Jennifer that, child legally, make him your son or daughter.

And that will be the relationship into the future. But what is it happened in adoption. In the biblical space. Is Jesus Christ, followed the Roman adoption process and that when we are adopted we are brought into the same relationship that she has with everyone else.

See, Jesus Christ has a father. So he becomes Our Father.

Jesus Christ is royalty. So we become royalty. We are not acolytes in the sense that we are following. After someone we have been adopted, it's a different thing. So the pastor is motivated because we realize that you are royalty, you are of the family of Jesus Christ. We should be part of what drives the pastor in his thinking, and his thinking process is to help make this clear to delineate it to show you the distinctions. It is a whole separate thing. Then what's going on out there anywhere else? You may have others out there. Today, we have colts where the Colts are saying. You need to be like this. You need to do. We are churches out there that used to be mainstream churches and no longer are because they the band and salvation, they've abandoned the concept of sin. They've abandoned the concept that we have a great wall separating us from God. Video of abandoned the concept that there must be Redemption. There must be atonement. The sin must be paid for all that has been passed away. So they have what we call a social gospel that is teaching you how to be a better person.

it's about being social, it's not a real gospel, it's the good news of Here's the good news. You can follow the Golden Rule. And that's the peak, that's the Pinnacle. That's the ultimate the way that you want to be treated, you get to treat everyone else. That's the social gospel.

There's nothing of Jesus Christ. There's nothing to deal with send. There's nothing to deal with eternity. What we have to deal with is powerful. Because it is truth and it's dealing with the issue of sin. The issue of Separation, the issue of a payment that had to be made and it was made by Jesus Christ. But at the end of the story he has made you adopted into the relationship with God, the father. So we are priest and ambassadors. We represent God we can personally go into the throne room of God. Why? Because were adopted That's why there's no other reason you don't have a right to go into the throne room of God. except because you've been adopted there for any child can come running into the throne room anytime they want to, That may not like it in the human realm. But in the Eternal realm, it's encouraged. Go running to God. Go into his presence, absolutely encouraged.

so we have some perspectives that are gained as copter is it important to produce the Dynamics of occupation with price,

As you are pursuing Bible Doctrine so that it might function in your soul.

It will cause you to be occupied with Christ.

if you're pursuing the other thing, lots of notes, you're not going to be occupied with price, you can be occupied with notes, but if you are occupied with Bible Doctrine functioning in your life,

That's almost like an accountability thing. Isn't it? Almost? it's different, it's Grace, it's not a human concept here, but good to know. 111.

We are the illustration.

The walkie patient with Christ. Found the doctrine of correct orientation in marriage and we touched on this a little bit last week, really. The point is, the marriage relationship is one that is supposed to tell us about our relationship with Jesus Christ. because as the man, it's supposed to be loving and his wife, that loving is a picture of Jesus Christ, washing us with his word, he's provided everything to wash us to cleanse us, And marriage is supposed to be a picture of that. Now, it isn't always. Some marriages are. Better than others. It's always two people involved. but the point is it, the husband's job is to love into Pour out, love on the person. He is married to and Jesus Christ. Pours out, Love by washing Us in the water of his word.

Who were moving forward from where we were last week?

We're moving into strategic Victory, with strategic Victory. We see in point 12, the documentation with fries is related. To be strategic victory in the Angelic conflict. The Strategic Victory is talking about how the battle has already been won.

There are Through the Ages, many, many battles or strategic in nature.

And just like playing chess the great Masters playing a game and seven moves nothing I can do anyway, when I go it's Checkmate, seven moves or less, but if I put it right, it's checkmates. Instead of move there, many battles that have been like that as well. You get your troops to move here, their troops move here. The other trips that they didn't know about enough flanking the backside splitting and it's over with the battle is done because the strategy

The strategy was the key, that's the case here, the strategy of God, the strategy of the work of. Jesus Christ was the key for the Victory and it's already been acted out. There is no reversing Checkmate in 7. No Checkmate already happen. What, who are still playing the game? Where are you?

Think about it. We have a few things to examine here. First, let's take a look at Colossians 3 verses 1 through to where we read if then you were raised with Christ. And seek those things which are above where Christ is sitting at the right hand of God.

if you were raised with Christ,

seek those things which are above where Christ is the Christ has been raised. He's been descended, you are in him. So seek the things above seek the victory, seek the perspective, seek the Divine Viewpoint that he has, where he is standing at the right hand of God. So, what do you think that means sitting at the right hand of God? Does that mean he's a nervous? Spectator what's going to happen next? What's going on?

Not so much.

Verse to clarify that. It's a hebraism. It's speaking. The same thing, two times in two different ways, set your mind on things above, not on things on the earth, be aware of the Divine. Viewpoint, the Divine perspective, what Jesus Christ has accomplished not, what he's going to accomplish, don't be as concerned about what you need to see worked out in your life today tomorrow. This week, the coming months as much as you are concerned about what Jesus Christ has already done and then everything else today. Tomorrow next month, he is going to be worked out.

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The work has been done. Christ has provided the victory. There is nothing left for us to do but to enjoy the victory which we do by studying his words studying Christ oriented towards him. This is a Victorious thing that we do.

It's interesting because sometimes we get the feeling like, it's not a big before you sing. We're doing. We're scrambling with everything. We have to get as much dr. As we can now because we're underwater, the landslide has taken us over here at the bottom. And we see these coming down on us, like some have been rafting down the white waters of the Rogue River. You falling out of the boat and everything is turning every which way you're smacking yourself against rocks, going past logs and

So there is nothing left for us to do. However, but to enjoy the victory, walk in the victory exalt in the Victory, and engage in the victory. No, we are still in Warfare, but the enemy has fallen. I'm not sure that a lot of Christians still get that in our time right now, today the mummy explained. People are looking around there. Seeing bad things all around us. Did you see? Oh my gosh. What did the FBI do now?

Signs, that the enemy of our souls is making inroads in our culture.

So people are saying to each other. Have you seen what's going on? Yeah, It's bad, isn't it? Yep. Have you seen it this bad before? No. It's bad, isn't it?

I hope the Lord comes back soon.

Now, we certainly have Insidious Darkness at work all around us. But don't think that we are fighting for victory or to obtain Victory because if we're examining our culture instead of examining Jesus Christ, we will think that it's over that we have lost.

If that is your flight, if you're always fighting an uphill battle in your mind, trying to gain traction, trying to win, that will affect your mentality and your approach to life and you're living the spiritual life. So what's it like living the spiritual life when you're always losing?

Was that the right perspective. If you're competing in the games which is our contacts were talking about and you get up to the starting block and they go, boom, and you take off. What's it like, if you have already lost in your head, what's going on? Are you competing? What's your mentality? Are you enjoying it? Are you working it? Are you doing everything. Are you utilizing all the gifts that you have to be able to win?

No mentality is important in our mentality, comes from a correct orientation to what God has already done. And we must absolutely be aware that we are in Victory. So we aren't fighting for victory.

Our Lord already won the victory. Now, we can note that our son of David Jesus Christ, Yeshua Jesus won a great Victory, on the crossover steering over death over, Satan and his realm. Over the curse of Adam over the enmity between God and man, there is no realm of conflict battle. Etc, over which Christ Jesus was not Victorious on that day on the cross. So if you think you have some area of battle that just needs to be one, you are mistaken. It was one. You just a missing out on vital fact. You're in the midst of the war may be down a canyon. Maybe you got separated. That's what the enemy does. He cuts off communication. He separates us and you can go as long as your orders are good for But you've accomplished your orders and you're standing around going, okay, what the heck's? There's no communication. Then what happens? That's why we need to be constantly plugging in making sure we understand what the orders are like this to order run the race focusing on Jesus Christ. These are orders. This is the goal. This is the object of having all this Bible Doctrine functioning in our soul that we would have an ability to apprehend to ascertain to communicate. Who Jesus Christ is in every situation. Baltimore and you don't know what to do. Examine Jesus Christ. Talk about Jesus Christ, explained Jesus Christ who so often and we're in a situation with someone else where there was someone else, who doesn't know the Lord. they can be kind of awkward because we're thinking,

Should I say something? But y'all just open the door. Well, I don't know but I know this. When you're looking at, Jesus Christ, doesn't matter anymore and we can more easily share the things about Jesus Christ. We often times have unnatural natural walls, we put up stuff outside of my Lane. I'm not going to say anything. Why? Did God tell you that you are separate from those people that you can't interact with them know who told you that. Probably you. Use the sermon of course but it's always about Jesus Christ in every situation. I've never found a situation where I couldn't explain who Jesus Christ is and what he had done. What his focus is where it was not absolutely 1000% lickable. Now, people may hate Jesus Christ, let me run and they may hate you for bringing it up. I thought about it long enough, people say that their pastors immediately people do it.

So I thought that I was the last several days going to different events and stuff. You know, if I mention you know, what are you doing now? Oh well actually, I'm spending a lot of my time doing that pastoring thing the little church and they okay. You later don't want, don't want any of that. Jesus stuff. Don't get any of that on me.

So there's no real more conflict over, which Christ was out Victorious on that day. On the cross, the victory of yahshua. Jesus, was stunning. It was unprecedented. It was jaw-dropping even to those who knew him and loved him. What happened on that cross was inexplicable? No one expected it in that way. No one saw it coming. Except Jesus Christ. He knew what he was up to he knew where you was going. You knew what his plan and purpose was, which raised is one of my favorite photo pause. The, what would Jesus do bumper stickers, from back in the day? Which I always hated still hate to this day. What would Jesus do? I say? I look at them. When I say, we would do the cross and he would pay the price for all of our sins. What do you think you would do? TriMet 20, humanize my situation and put Christ and put shut up, go away. Take your trailer somewhere else. I'm going to relationship with the real. Jesus Christ. Not with your mock presentation of it. I'm sorry, I'm smiling. That's my thing. So you don't have to make it your thing that's just my thing.

What he did was unprecedented in the victory of yahshua. Jesus was predicted, it was foretold, it was modeled and it was intentional. Let me go back over that everything that he did on the cross was predicted.

Everything that he did for us. Now, we may not have understood the scope in the reality.

But Jews should have had some concept when you have millions of people coming to Jerusalem.

and they're kicking all those animals, through their killing

Take the cuts, put it on the Harper, Amex in there, going through millions of people. Massive, massive.

Someone should have been connecting with. There is a big payment that has to be made for sin. Do they really think that these cows and sheep and so forth or the paint? Really. That's like the runner running with his head down looking at his shoes. That's ignoring all the facts and not looking ahead and losing side of the context. So the victory of Jesus was predicted, it was foretold that this was all going to happen and it would be a Victorious. Situation. It was modeled in all of the offerings in many situations where we have types of Christ throughout the Old Testament and it was intentional was not an accident. He didn't accidentally end up on the cross. It's not like the Life of Brian. If you want a truly horrid, English view of things which are my friends but you're not invited nothing like what they had all the popcorn and goodies, they're going back to the apartment and then we're like besties and I'm like, it might offend you were afraid to offend you and I'll come watch it anyway. So I went and watched For the First Time The Life of Brian and I found it hilarious and I just laughed and I laughed my laugh. Like we thought you would be offended offended about Jesus Christ. This is this is Awesome British. So you may have to turn your eyes a side, if you think a few times, and but but it's humorous, it's funny.