Therefore we also, Part 2 ...

Are there only father, we are grateful for the provision, you've given to us, this place to come and study your word. This place to gather together as a congregation to be involved in the worship of you, as we Orient towards your truth. Pray that you would take this time, utilize it to change our thinking that we might be more like your son. Lord Jesus Christ. We might understand things. More clearly, we might walk board in the provisions that you have made available to us, pray that we would understand. And then we would be oriented to living the spiritual life by Grace. This is your work, your provision, you've done everything, we need for it. So we pray, you would grow us and our understanding of it. These things we pray in Christ Jesus name. Amen.

Well, we've been working our way through Hebrews chapter 11 and that we found that in Hebrews chapter 12, verses 1 through 3. It's actually a consider a continuation of Hebrews chapter 11 for a few verses there. In fact, the chapter 2 Vision really shouldn't be there at all. The guy who we studied a few weeks back hoop while he was on his horses Journey from Switzerland to France was sitting there and making all the divisions that we actually still used today, didn't always get it right? Or maybe he went over a bump and you know that line went in the wrong place. I don't know how that worked out but chapter 12 doesn't have to be 12:30, probably be still part of chapter 11. Last week. We noted that Hebrews 12:1 through 2.

you used a word which is an antecedent and it's an intensive particle, the Greek term Puig goren.

Good points. Back to the entire setting of a context, the runs through Hebrews chapter 11 and that actually started back in Hebrews chapter 10 verse 39. So we find that everything in Hebrews 11, depends on 10:39. So really, why are there chapters anywhere at all? Because it's all quite confusing. If I were to put the chapter break would be right before 10:30 9. Continuing all the way through Hebrews chapter 11 on and the Hebrews chapter 12, through the first few board versus and then we would have that which goes together, which I consider to be a chapter of content. of course, we know that the verses are not inspired, it's just something mad has done so that we can kind of talk to each other and say, you know that chapter is that verse in the Bible is inspired

So that is why I treated as if it is something to Mark in a way the chapters and verses as we go. Merrell the Intensive. Particle here does not translate well into single word argument. For other particles, we would use a therefore or wherefore. So I'm having a headache, I might say, and for whatever reason seems to help it. Therefore I'm going to walk across the street and buy something caffeinated and come back and hope that stops my headache. See, I set up the argument, I gave you a ver 4, which is a conclusion and it's tying what came before. What I'm going to do afterwards, we do the same thing with the word wear for just a slightly different orientation. If I'm talking about something you up close I may use one word if I'm talking about something further away. I use another word for I'm using French. I would say wassi, it's right here. Fun. Looking at something out there back at the table I would say it is, it is with what's happening in the in the phraseology in the wording here in this particular phrase, this word and the Greek was looking all the way back to that which causes. And then it makes that cause a search, he demand or a conclusion. It's a very assertive particle that we have here. It's not just I have a headache and it might help me. So therefore, I'm going to Get the caffeinated, drink to help my headache. It is, this is a certainty and you need to be aware of this. And this is so important that I pull out the big strong article, we don't have that article in English. We don't have a corresponding word, that's that intense. So we use a phrase in this case where we translated it was too was for this very reason they're four for this reason and it's pointing back to Bruce 10:39 for this reason and Hebrew 10:39. Therefore, I'm stating what is about to be stated here in Hebrews chapter 12, verses 1 and 2. What's read it? What is it? Stating Therefore, we also since we are surrounded by so great. A cloud of witnesses. Let us lay aside every weight, the sin, which so easily, and snares us and let us run with endurance, the race that is set before us. Brewstew looking unto Jesus, the author and finisher of our faith. Who for the joy, that was set before him and ordered the cross. Despising, the shame and has sat down at the right hand of the Throne of God, verse 3, just doing one into here. So we saw that year is drawing us. Back to that verse that starts the discussion. 10:39. So let's look at that to the conclusion. We are not of those who draw back to Perdition But if the whole Super Weave to the saving of the Soul. So we spent time last week, going through an understanding what this verse means here in 10:39. And we came away with a couple of conclusions after digging into the tax, we have a couple of conclusions. We are not to be those who shrink back because that's what that Greek term means to shrink back to pull away. We are not to be those who shrink back. But to be those who step forward, who reach Outreach forward. The delimiter here. Is the ruler. The measuring standard is whether we are reliant upon the word of God or not. That's what 10:39 of Hebrews. It's toss this out in front of us. Here is the issue. Do you depend on God's word for your thinking? Is that your Authority? Are your conclusions based on your thinking or your conclusions based on the Bible sinking is the Bible doctrine. That drives your mind, your consideration of things around you. How you deal with trials, or difficulties your personal life, how you gauge, what's going on in the culture around us? How you understand the responsibility of man? How you interpret FX? That place were Mankind and gauges with the world around him. Are these things coming from the word of God or they coming from your favorite TV show? They could be coming from anywhere, there's an awful lot that's pouring into her mind. But what we are told here, it's something quite conclusive that there are those people who shrink back that is, they don't have the courage to step forward to. Hang onto there are actually cowardly when it comes to walking by faith or depending upon God's word. instead of circumstance is or what people say,

Isaiah 58 verse 11 says, in the Lord will continually guide you and satisfy your desire and scorched places and give straight to your bones and will be. And you will be like a watered Garden in like a spring of water. Whose Waters do not fail. Is that how you think?

That's what God is promise. That's what he has said. He is saying he will continually guide you in your life. Big things, small things. He will guide you and your life. Speaking of your spiritual existence will be like a watered Garden that is full of prosperity. Not dry. Not using Def. Now there are certainly dry times of the soul that we seem to go through whether those are times of testing in trial because of circumstances that we need to address them deal with or because we made poor choices. And so now we're having to deal with the consequences of those choices. Either way, it doesn't matter of the question is as you go through that time, are you relying on God's word, God's promises? Because if you are, you will be like a watered Garden where life is springing forth.

I've got some plans around the property, especially my property where the Segway business is Wisteria, especially if it turns out the wisteria, plant will grow 18 in overnight. And so I've got this heads of Wisteria right along the front of the entrance of the driveway coming down into the Segway business. And if I go two days without getting out there and cutting these little Pieces of the kids want to just kind of shoot out the reaching for the sun right in the way of all my customers were trying to walk you in when I get people on Safeway's and I'm training him how to ride around and use them. And I have to make sure that this is trimmed back every single time I have customers. So if I go two or three days and I don't have anything going on my walk back in. I'm faced with all these three foot long pieces of intertwined with Syria and I have to go through and clip everything in the morning, get it all cleaned up and out of the way before business starts. Life can grow fast but when you are a water Garden, it is guaranteed life will grow fast. That is spiritual life, your progress in your relationship with God. As you are, depending on the word of God, you will be like a watered garden and life will Spring forth. Guaranteed in ways, you never expected, sometimes it will be in your face and you feel like you have to clip it and get it out of the way. That's okay. Because God, like a well-kept Vineyard, you actually does the clipping Forest truth be told. And so he's the one that comes in and clip those Vines around a control, the life, and prosperity comes from God himself. Are we Reliance upon the word of God?

That was Isaiah 58. Verse 11?

Store we those who step forward claiming the promises of God. Are we those who don't step forward? We hesitate to claim that which God has said or we on purpose, turn from it because it isn't what we want at the moment.

Which way are we going? Where we saw also.

But we rely on what we think.

Or we rely on what scripture says, but we get to have a choice. Which am I going to rely upon what scripture says? Or what I think which is different from what scripture says. So we are constantly choosing between that truth but is the doctrine of scripture. Or those other opposing views, a reject or distort biblical truth. Choosing that, which is not scriptural. View is actually arrogance. Arrogance is rejecting the truth of God.

And instead orienting to our own version of the truth. So did you know of this, we lie to ourselves, we can say things to ourselves that are not true. Because of what we're saying is different from what God's word is saying we're lying to ourselves. So you got to confess the lying, then you get to confess the not choosing that which is God's way. See we need to reorient confess our sin and then come back and say God I'm not going to be arrogant. Which means I like my thinking better than your thinking but rather I'm going to trust in you so we can either trust or we can be airing it. We also understand, this is operating in the cosmic dynasphere, the world system, the Paul tells us about. So when we're not thinking God's thoughts, we are actually engaging in the satanic system around us. We may think it's harmless. I like the way that I view things, it just doesn't seem to fit with what God and I don't get the way that God lays it out. So then why not do this Take your thoughts and take Godfather to bring them together and say, Lord, I don't understand why my thoughts are different than your thoughts. Would you show me, please?

You should we get to approach him and he is an amazing gentleman in his grace in the way that he deals with us and he will happily help us to understand and make the distinction. You don't have to be stressed or feel frustrated because you understand what you're thinking, but you don't understand what he's saying. That's okay. Come to him and say, I want understand what you're saying. It seems to be different than what I'm thinking. So, help me please with this understanding, the fact you can pray it right now while you're sitting there. So I don't get what this guy up front with the funny-looking 1960s, how I wish I pulled out of my closet this morning because this is a set of ties that I got from my cousin. The grant that were owned by my grandfather and her dad came and got them all out of the house. And then he hold on to him when he was down there for a funeral and she pulled out all How far is it to Leesburg? Grandpa's pies, one grab some. And so I grabbed some my brother grabbed some each of my brothers. So we've all got these ties. This one is a thin tie but it's got Paisley on it. So I can't tell exactly when it was. 70s before they start getting. Paisley was a thing then, but what I really like about it is it was made in Anaheim and Fullerton, California. So it came out of a custom in shop where they made their own ties right there. So I got connection to Grandpa. That's why I've got this on here. Do we have a choice in how we think and we can certainly come to God and say I need help with my thinking. That's a good thing to do, you can trust him. Even if you don't know how to trust his word, you can trust his character to help you understand his word. Do we are either then going to be those who shrink back shrink away from relying on God's word, or we are those who stretch forward who reach out to grasp on, to God's word, to clean to it to rely on it.

It's interesting.

We are either those who shrink back from Reliance on the word of God. Or we are those to stretch forward in. Reliance on the Eternal, holy flaming, word of God, that will burn in our souls, and our lives with an intensive fervor as Paul wrote to Titus.

Titus Chapter 2 starting in verse 13. He says, we are to be those who are looking for the Blessed hope and the Glorious appearing of our great God and savior. Christ. By the way, if you're talking with the Jehovah Witness or a Mormon or someone else in your life, I know you're arguing over the different but it's always best to come to them with a question. Well it looks like this verse here says because they're all taught their all-time to clue me in an answer question. So the best way to have a conversation with them is to set them up with questions and I love this it's one of the joys of my life to be able to catch someone from the Colts especially when they're on my front door and I just start asking questions, like, I know nothing. And I said wait till I think the Bible says and then we'll look it up in the answer, the question. And I think it's over here but I'm confused. What do you think? And then they weigh in on it.

He says looking for the Blessed hope and glorious appearing of our great God. And savior, it's not saying God and Ben save. Your it's saying, God speed, you were together in the grammatical construction, something called the Granville sharp rule, which means when you have two singular nouns connected with and between them, they are speaking. About the same thing, God and Saviour. This is a Granville Circle right here. Speaking of the same thing he is God and he is Savior and his name is Jesus Christ so I love throwing that out and I am at all even stumble out things. That's why I heard this thing. I think it's called the Granville sharp rule we gravel sharp. Rule says it. When you have two nouns that are connected together then they mean the same thing like being on the same on the two sides of an equal. Equal sign in an equation. So, God Savior. Jesus. God.

I am merciless. I'm sorry. Verse 14. Gave himself for us. But he might redeem us from every Lawless deed and purify for himself. His own special, people zealous for good works. Speak these things. He says we're 15 exhort and rebuke with all the 40. Let no one despise you know, he's speaking too tight as to the young pastor and you saying don't let them despise you because of your youth. You know, the word of God and the word of God is the authority. Point was back here in verse 14, the we are to be those Who has purified for himself zealous for good works.

We are to be filled with the word of God, where we will find ourselves inflamed.

With the will of God, is worth filled with the word of God were inflamed with the will of God. We are to be awakened to spiritual things. Are you? Are you aware of spiritual things that you go through life or are these just incidents and occurrences and happenstance?

Relationships are people that we bump into or are these Divine appointments. Are these spiritually ascertain situations? We need to have Insight. That comes from words. The word of God. When you go down to Thunderbird market and you pick up a couple of things that you need, or you go over to Albertsons or Safeway wherever you may be going and your bump into that person.

Are you ready? Are you prepared? Are you perceiving things spiritually. Or does that not even occurs at not cross? Your mind should be occurring, but it will occur. If you are filled with the word of God, you're memorizing. And if you're thinking on, if you are studying, if you are dedicated to the act of being filled with God's word on a daily basis, you will find ourselves oriented the spiritual things thinking of life through a spiritual filter.

so, when we are awake in the spiritual things, we are oriented to Christ himself We are thinking about Christ and his work and we are zealous to provide divined. Good works to God. That means we want to be filled with the spirit, helping us in behind us confess moving forward in our relationship with God, producing Divine Works in our life, it's actually God is producing them in and through us, he gets all the credit. He gets all the glory, we have to do it God's way just like you only gets saved one way through the work of Jesus Christ, your trust in him. You trust him whose work you rely on what he's done and you are safe to have Divine production in your life, you confess your sin and you rely upon the ministry of God, the Holy Spirit to work through you as you cram your mind with as much of the word of God as you can. And it produces results, whatever you are oriented to. You may have the gift of administration and management, then administer and manage to the glory of God. If you have the gift of helps them be one. Who is Philippine in ministering to those who are in need. Is there someone in need in the congregation? Do you have the gift helps? Duh.

Do we have to send up a flare gun or something? If there's someone in Mead you have the gift of health help. If there is a situation where there is playing manshel difficulties and God has gifted you with Finance with the ability to help people monetarily. But you see the person who financially down. God is calling you to be involved, but you want to make sure that this is divine good production. So you're not doing this for your glory or for the honor of man. So the people say hi.

Back to put a cloak over, your head surreptitiously, sneak over and help out without being seen, or just walked in and humility. And just say, I'd just would be nice to be able to help you in this situation.

Go ahead, go for it. So this brings this idea that we're talking about here. The Divine Good Works Spring from fellowship with God, while immersed in his word brings to my memory. A trip, I made to Hawaii to the Big Island years back. Mel. To set the stage. I have long loved to drive to the coast with or without friends, and family, doesn't matter. There is something. About being connected to the reality of this world, in the creator of this world. When I go and I walk through the giant redwoods, Both ancient and yet alive. And then go further in my trip to the Pacific Ocean Coast where the waves beats and pound against the coastline of Oregon. I remember as a kid hunting, Japanese glass balls used to float fishing nets there. Often washed up in Oregon Shores, At least back when I was a kid and so we would go hunting through the great big files of Wood. And Driftwood that is washed up on the coastline and we would find these amazing sometimes have the net attached to him. Sometimes not. But I remember you know who has a kid going over for? Cub Scout trip to the coast and we would just find him dozens of these little little loan balls and so they basically it's just glass got errands. So I thought the buoyant and wrap them at around them so they toss their Nets out and that's what keeps the Mets from sinking, but occasionally something would happen. Maybe a whale would take off with the mat, you know, how they lose it. So it ends up drifting all the way across the ocean on the Oregon coast, and we would find these things. You know, when you bring them home, put them in our Gardens are my cousin would take them in macrame them, different colors, different sizes, and just do a macrame hanging like a planter thing. Just hanging Japanese ball. Cool. I guess I was a thing of the sixties and seventies, I guess we're not seeing those glass balls washed up on the shore anymore or plastic.

We have the great bleach Driftwood along the coast, which is often the size of Fallen trees all mingled together, but all the branches and everything broken off. So, it's just a great, big long. Huge trunk dried out by the sea, in, by the sun, White. And every day they would get rearranged does the tide comes in with Tide goes out. So you can go and build a fort in the Driftwood. And the next day you come back and maybe there are a few of the tide is going out a little bit but if it's coming in and it's guaranteed gone and all the Driftwood has moved around settled back down in a new place as the tide leaves.

What it always evoked to me was the constant power of the ocean to take together and cast up all good. It's patched. The ocean was in complete charge of that doesn't matter. The size of the ocean is always greater who are something about the sound of the constant dull Roar of the ocean, ebbing, and flowing with the tide and yet always pounding and rolling with the never-ending sound of waves splashing in descending on the shore. And it's been that way for time. Immemorial will be that way through the future.

But that sound has always haunted me. It's always centered me and spoken to me of the great power of God to us. The ocean is on nipotent. Yet to God, it is nothing and he rules it with a mirror spot. We can't change the ocean where it goes, we had change how it behaves, any more than we can move the moon, which is actually controlling the tithes, go out with a thought, can change everything in an instant and he does, he's in complete control of all that on Hawaii. When I was there with my family and friends, a few years back before he passed away, you decided to take me to a special place there on the big island. So we drove from the Eastern side of the big island where he was and we went saw Heading down the coast and transition from The Verdant, jungle to the Kalapana. The California is the hard in the lava flow in the district that they call Pune. Where the Kilauea volcano is constantly flowing into the ocean know. I kind of like being a computer because it reminded me somewhat of well the Applegate Valley and Ashlan. And the people there were all complete formula island called them Pune ticks.

Cuz they're from Pune and they were all a bit crazy so that was their turn for him. Put a ticks but that's right. Where the Lava Flow came down off the mountain down into the ocean. So now we have to follow guides. in walk in special places after we parked our car because the seemingly solid hard, lava, Has shallow spots where this glassine Rahman? Look like it's stable but you can fall through this thin glass like covering allowing you to break through to tragic results. When there are multiple deaths every year. What happened? There are people who fall through that and so they have well-marked places to walk to get you out to the lava flow.

We made it to that place has little truck and dishes some places where you had to go to work. And so you had to be fit to go to get up and over and move across the spots. And finally ended up where we can see the river of lava flowing, forward into the ocean. We had a sight into sound experience that I had never actually envisioned seeing or experiencing in person. It was dusk you see the Sun? But just said and yet we could easily see by the Light of the flow of this, intensely hot magma.

A few hundred feet away from us. Several hundred feet away. We're just looking over here and it's just a, massive amount of lava flowing down like a river into the ocean and it was slowly growing. The size of the island as the magma, flows into the sea in the school somewhere, deep below the surface of the water. Well, beyond our sight from the depths of the incredibly deep ocean there. That's the range from 6000, to 18000 feet in the Hawaiian trench. So we think about how high the mountain peaks are around here. We get up to about six thousand feet above sea level. How far down in the ocean goes and even three times that far. In the trench area, there around the Hawaiian Islands. In the island grows just from the Lava Flow by about 42 Acres a year.

The island is just constantly growing because of the volcano in the lava flowing out of their know, what was seared into my memory was the sound again, the sound of uninviting ocean. Versus unending magma. Glistering and hissing and popping and cracking sound of the water. Coming into contact against the fresh. Hot lava was awesome. It was amazing. Steam is rushing up from this spot where the magma in the ocean come together and each swell of water. Even more steam, rushing up, you can feel the vibrations of this through the cliff, rocks of the drive magma, that we were on what we were watching all this. We have the Deep Sound by vibrating underneath the high, hissing sound, The pops and crackles sounds of water, instantly Dean vaporizer, the pops against the magma. It was phenomenal.

Is this is how my brain pictures. The joining of the word of God to the ministry of the spirit of God in the life of the believer. It is fantastic. It reflects the omnipotence of God. It is never-ending, and it's available to you. Everyday, every moment. If you think that God conforming you're thinking in epistemological Rehabilitation where he's taking your Viewpoint, you're thinking and confirming it to his truth as you are being rehabilitated to see things God's way. If you think this is a quiet and Serene process. Ring, truth must mean something different to you than it does to me.

The mail which law is against the truth where we let our arrogance rise or the world around us that opposes the things of God, it must be something insignificant to you to me. These are massive forces. Who ran against each other in the power of God is revealed.

In the life of a Believer, I am aware of the great outpouring out of the omnipotence of God. Through his spirit. Let me know, I'm nipotent. Change that comes from the omniscience of God, poured out in the Mind and Spirit of the believer. We have these two constant flows of omnipotent and omniscient changing your reality and everything around you. Community. Each one of us are engaged to make catastrophically powerful battle that flows from God and cannot be quenched by anything.

Zealous of good works. Hindi. This is God at work in our lives. Know we reviewed last week, the concept that we have all of the Holy Spirit, All of the holy spirit that we need. There is no Second Blessing, no further seeking that is necessary for us to gain more the presence of God, the holy spirit in our lives. We need to grow in our intake and capacity of the word of God. So we have all of the spirit of God that is needed to live. It's the word of God and which we need to grow. Its the word of God that we lack. It's a knowledge of the word of God that we deal with. we have a lack of knowledge or we have an increase in knowledge but it is more and more and more of an understanding of God's word that we need If you take my picture of the magma, in the ocean flowing together, if you got just a little teeny tiny trickle of magma.

In the water. and there's a little,

That's not what I'm picturing. That's not what I'm seeing. That's not what God's word is talking about. It is the omnipotence of his flowing. Let as much of the word of God, as you can get into your mind as much as you can pack in there. Get it in left catastrophe. Take it shape as God is dealing with the issues around you. We don't know what we have in front of us. In terms of where this world is going to go and it can change in a heartbeat. Everything can change overnight very quickly. We need to be ready and prepared for that. It is the word of God. It is an understanding of the doctrines of the things of God that prepares us for this. A song like I'm being a little exhort ATIV today. You know what it's about. It's about the word of God. It's about taking him Doctrine couple weeks ago, we studied eight of the benefits of having Doctrine in the soul. we have all of this available, we have much teaching, but we have benefited from But are you still? Are you pressing in? Or are you shrinking back? You're doing one or the other, you're either pressing forward, or you're shrinking back. That's what scripture says. You don't get to hover in a place of faces equidistant from where you were previously.

Doesn't work that way when I'm training people on how to use the Segways and how to ride them around, one of the first things we have to learn cuz it's all about the Leaning of your body. When you lean forward to go forward when you rock back, you slow down. When you come up to Center your stopped, you're going forward to rock back to stop. But if you stay until you start going backwards, you have to pop up the center. We have another Factor as well because there's handlebars, you're hanging onto but what most people want to do, when they're a little bit uncertain, as they want to grab the handlebars and sometimes, all you people who are exactly right here, let me go forward and backwards a little bit, but they're keeping themselves right here. The same place. They don't want anything to change. Just the way it is, always 24 inch away from the handlebars, you're not going to be able to use the machine, so too. In the spiritual life. If you are in a stasis, if you're in the same place all the time, you don't have a spiritual life. Spiritual wife is moving forward to either moving forward or are slowing down and starting to go backwards. But you are staying in place. So we learn to allow ourselves to orient to that. Okay, my getting closer in the bars. Am I getting for the back? Am I moving forward with the machine and might come into a spot? We learned to be moving but we're moving in relationship to is the word of God. Am, I trusting it my hanging on to it and by utilizing it.

Am I leaving into the word of God and going forward?

So balancing the spiritual life means we need to have as much of the word of God is that takes the balance of the Holy Spirit. And since he is omnipotent and unending in his capacity, as I just have to power more and more of the word of God. So, how do we find that spiritual balance between the word in the spirit? Get out of your backhoe, get out of your dump truck, more of the word, more of the word, that's what you need. It is an intensely serious important thing.

Here's an interesting point.

We cannot grow. If we do not learn, if you want to learning, you're not growing. The only way. You're growing as if you're learning. The cat with the spiritual life and not be growing. Now, one of the first things we have to learn, this Christians has been set before us in the epistle. To the Romans in chapter 5 and it's very parallel to what we were looking at in Hebrews chapter 10 verses 39 and Hebrews chapter 12. So I want to look at it a little bit.

Marin chapter 5, we have a series of four occurrences of the operatory argument given by the Apostle know, the all priori argument is this, if God has done, the greater thing already been, isn't it easier for him to do the lesser? Yeah, that's the case. So when you're looking at world-class weightlifting individual, these guys who pick up the barbells that have the massive great, big old chunks of the iron and you're looking at it. Going, that's as high as it's up to my belly button. That is massive. I would break my back trying to lift in these guys. Grab it then they pull it up and play with it.

Should I do after they've done, that'll make lifted what looks to be about the weight of my car and put it above their head, do you think they can pick up a bicycle? That's our priori. If you do the greater than it is easy to do the lesser. So here in Romans chapter 5 we have four four instances of all priori. Here's an argument given by the Apostle Paul and chapter 5 and he's using logic to help us think your way through some of these issues and we know it's the offer Yuri instances because there's a reference, there's a little term or phrase. That's their the let us know. We're talking about our priori thinking. If you can do the greater, then it's easier to do the lesser. And he's using the term Much More. Much More Than If This Then much more than can God do this? If the greater thing has been done and it's easy to do the lesser thing, put another way. If God has done the greater thing when it's guaranteed, he will do something. It's a guarantee, it's logic, meets The Throne of God. God is trying to explain, he's trying to reason things to us to help us understand it. So these occur these references, the offer Yuri argument. We're going to Quran verses 9 chapter 5 of Romans verse 9 verse 10. Verse 15. And then in verse 17, No, in verses 8 and 9. We learned that if Christ died for us. While we were Sinners. Then how much more? So that was the big thing. We are sinners and Christ died for us. If that happens then having been justified by his blood, that is his sacrifice on behalf of us. Are we to be safe from the Wrath through him? Doesn't necessarily mean what you think it means on the surface, but let's read it and then we'll discuss it.

Romans 5:8. But God demonstrates, his own love towards us in that while we were still sinners Christ died for us. So, when nothing was right between us and God, when we were all Sinners, opposed to God, we were hostile to God. And there was enmity between us at that point Christ died for all Sinners, For All Mankind vs, mine, much more, then having now been justified by his blood. So having been Justified means we have believed. If we are believe the work of God that he would take care of our sin while we were Sinners, if we believe that with trusted it for ourselves personally, there for have been Justified.

How much more we will be safe from Wrath. Through him.

So we are using logic here to make a strong argument, even stronger. Like many logic arguments, there is a contrast and there is a comparison. Couple of things are being contrasted, a couple things are being compared. That helps us to understand. The line of reasoning the argument here. So we start by seeing in first 5. Excuse me in first aid of chapter 5. The god issue. Is dealt with our inability to come to God to approach God, because of our sin has been dealt with Jesus Christ. Took care of the full barrier between us and God. It's been dealt with on every level. Every objection, we have every objection. God has everything that was logically. Keep us away. From from God has been dealt with by the sacrifice of Jesus Christ. He broke down the wall, he broke down the barrier.

Death on the cross. Destroyed, the enmity between God and man. Wildman was in a sinful state. So this satisfies God's justice and his righteousness, which all sin is violated. Our violates. The justice of God, his Justice must be poured out, where are citizen place? And his righteousness has been violated by our sin that creates a barrier between us. When we call this work of the character of God being satisfied, propitiation propitiation means god satisfied. But everything that was dividing us from God has been taken care of, and it's a legal, and it's a contractual satisfy.

It turns out everything important in our relationship with God, involves a contract that involves a legal agreement. There are legal issues that need to be dealt with. It's just an outflow of the character of God. We do the wrong thing, and when we wrong him, then there needs to be a appropriate process to deal with that. Jesus Christ provided all of the dealing with that, that needed to be done. So this means Let the sin of all mankind. Has been satisfactorily dealt with on behalf of God. The state of the world has been transformed from a state of hostility and enmity between man, and God to a propitiate or legally reconciled state.

when two people have problems with each other and they go to court,

They have issues but then the judge gets involved. And he says, okay well this problem is now dealt with this problem is now down with. Okay, then we come to a Wingull reconciliation with her on no more legal problems between the individuals. That's why people like to watch Judge Judy because she gets here and if she just makes it clean and simple, well, you did what and you paid? How much and she listens to him because you're doing this much and that's it. And buy get out of here. They have been reconciled everything. Legally has been taken care of the law has been satisfied. They may not like how it worked out. This case, we're talking about our problems with God. In God based on the work that Jesus Christ is done says, I am reconciled to you. I no longer have offense against you. We now can have relationship one with another.

So, this doesn't mean that the world is saved.

It just makes all of the inhabitants of the world. Savable.

The wall has been taken down. They just don't know about it.

So what's your response going to be? They don't know. But the wall has been taken down between them and God. So what are you going to do about it?

You're going to tell them, right? We're going to talk to people, explain and share. I can't tell you. How many people have led to the Lord from exactly. This situation where they said, I just can't figure out how to get right with God.

I want to do this, I want to do that. I think this, but I want to be like this but I want to have a relationship with God, but

Remember, driving out to church, one time I had a car load of guys or zipping on and down the highway. One guy was obviously longing to be born again, longing to be saved, but he just didn't quite put the pieces together. He's sitting in the backseat. I'm sitting in the front seat, driving my car, what was it 1962, Dodge things called Big fenders. I can remember. Anyways, I were driving along and

chatting with him and I said, so, do you understand that salvation is a gift that God has done all the work. So what do you do to receive a gift? Is it going to take it? Do you have to believe it's yours will? I guess I just do. You know someone gives me a gift and it's yours. That's okay. Well, here's the deal. Jesus Christ, it all. The work salvation is available to you. You understand, you understand the barrier that there is between you and God, here's the issue, he has paid the price. God is satisfied and he wants to give you a gift. Believe that the work Jesus Christ did was for you personally that he reconciled you and God and you'll be saying cuz I Tim gave me the strength to face. I just don't quite get it. Okay. I said, I reached out to my Dash and I grabbed a Bible that was sitting there. When I said it was a nice Bible with a nice cover and everything I said, okay, you don't have a Bible right now. So I'm going to give you this Bible going to take it and he grabs. And I says it's yours.

I get it. Get it. He goes to hand me back the Bible. It says, no, it's it's actually yours. Take it, I just gave you that Bible. Have you believe that? Jesus Christ saved you personally. I get it. I believe it. I understand it. I'm saved. And he was in that instant. He got it and he saw it, you understood it? He was say, that's not easy. Believism. What is the complete package? But God made available by grace through the person of Jesus Christ. The work was done by Jesus Christ. He got the benefit. I have the right as we discussed before. If I'm wealthy, I'm a piece of property. I can grab someone off the street and say this house is yours. I'm signing over the deed you sign here. It's yours to know on forever. I'm even going to toss in pain, all of the taxes for the next 50 years will never have to pay taxes.

Is that house? There's a given that we went through all the legal stuff. Yes, so too was salvation. It was a costly gift. But I was able to give that gift to him. He gets the benefit, was it? Cost me to him? No, was it beneficial to him?