Revive Us Again, Week 10 | Acts 13

If you will at this time, take your cup. Well, you're already in acts stay in acts chapter 13

We will consider verses 38 through 41 Acts chapter 13 38 through 41 and this is the 10th message in this series

Let me pray. Oh God father

Son and Holy Spirit Lord we have already been an amazement of your glory

Lord as we have been able to To sing psalms hymns and spiritual songs to you while speaking to one another we've been able to Praise you and in our confessing of sins

Lord we now open the book in anticipation of what you have for us and God the the only barrier in the way is me and God I pray that you will

Speak through me to your people Speak in such a way that your spirit

Will flow from the book from your word to them in power and in demonstration

Lord And that you will encourage their hearts to pursue revival

Lord, please remove me Let not their sights be on my flesh but on the spirit that speaks through me

I pray in Jesus name Amen, so let's begin with reading this portion of the text acts chapter 13 beginning in verse 38

This is Luke writing Paul speak and let it be known To you therefore brothers

That through this man forgiveness of sins is proclaimed to you and by him

Everyone who believes is freed from everything From which you could not be freed by the law of Moses Beware therefore less what is said and the prophets should come about Look you scoffers be astonished and perish

For I am doing a work in your days a work that you will not believe even if someone

Tells it to you our overarching thing for this series has been revive us

Again, the the main reason for wanting to go through this series is because we have seen false revivals pop up even this past week one of my friends on Facebook is talking about we're having a

Revival this week it begins at such and such day and such and such times and it will end at a such such day and a such and such time

That's not how revival works It works when

God's people Read God's Word and obey

God's Word by doing what God's Word tells God's people to do and What better book?

Than the book of Acts do we have where we see God's people do what

God's Word tells them to do as a demonstration we can read the book of Acts and see what

God has what God did through people who are Obedient to what the Word of God said to them and so we're looking at this

We want to know what what does it look like and and how does one start it right and it?

What it looks like is the obedience Right there going out there preaching the gospel, which is

God's power for salvation. Can anyone be saved if there's no gospel proclamation? No Well who are supposed to proclaim this gospel proclamation?

All of us God's people are to proclaim this message Charles Spurgeon says this quote if we want revivals

We must revive our reverence for the Word of God in quote

That's such a so good, let's just read that again if we want revivals We must revive our reverence for the

Word of God And ladies and gentlemen, I spoke about this last week. We have this in abundance we have the

Word of God and Abundance there's no excuse for any Christian to not know the

Word of God We are living in a day and time where Christians are anemic to the

Word of God They are a part of the body of Christ, but they do not have what is needed for them to be healthy.

I Mean they have it, but they don't have it.

They're not getting it in them They have just enough of the Word of God to be dangerous and just enough of the word to be in danger for not knowing the word this is how we have false teachers and Sometimes teachers who don't even know they're teaching falsely

Right if your sermon comes from TBN my brother from another mother

Let me tell you There is no such thing as a Christian who does not have a desire to know the

Word of God There's just no such thing. We hear a lot today.

It's very common for people to say that they have a relationship with God a relationship with Christ Imagine you've been in a 20 -30 year relationship with someone and they know little to nothing about you and some of the information that they

Speak about you. It's actually false information What kind of relationship is that?

What is a relationship a relationship is when two people live in community together?

They live with each other. They know each other they experience one another they speak to each other.

They have conversation We live in a day and time where people say

I'll have a relationship with God. Well, you better have a relationship with God Well, how do you have it?

It's the word in prayer How do you how someone's to know

God Through his word It's through his word

To be in a relationship with someone is to know that someone and I would say it's to know them intimately

Again, imagine if I asked you about your your spouse your wife or your husband.

Hey, tell me about your wife Tell me about your husband and you were like, I don't know.

I'm no clue. I Will I would doubt that relationship

Being a member of a reformed Baptist churches in one sentence saying we don't care about programs

We don't care about youth groups, and we don't care about children crying in the service Give us the

Word of God It's one thing that you can expect when you go to a reformed church whether it's

Baptist Presbyterian or Anglican Some Anglicans are reformed if you did not know that Just like some

Baptists are reformed and some Presbyterians are falling out of the reformed circle, but But when you come to these reformed churches, you expect the

Word of God to be preached Imagine going to a reformed church and all the preacher did was talk about his week

Doesn't open the book You would say that that guy did not experience

God this past week Hebrews chapter 4

Verse 12 says this for the Word of God is living and active and sharper than any two -edged sword and piercing as far as the division of soul and spirit of Both joint and marrow and is able to judge

The thoughts and the intentions of the heart Why is it you do what you do the

Word of God can judge that The intentions of your thoughts in your heart

You might be doing something you think is good With the wrong motive the

Word of God can judge those things The God of the Word Ephesians chapter 6 verse 17 tells us the

Word of God is the sword of the Spirit The Word of God is our weapon imagine going into Warfare imagining approaching an opposing army and you had no weapon

You had no shield you had no sword or modern times you you had no helmet you had no gun

Like there was no coverage. You did not have your weapon. You would be a useless soldier

You would be approaching a battle that you are unprepared to fight

The Word of God Is the sword of the Spirit it is our weapon and When we leave here

We are entering into a battlefield and for the most part most Christians that feel pease are walking out into the world a useless soldier because they do not have the sword of the

Spirit and Last week we saw that through the

Word of God Particularly particularly in the New Testament we are able to know the

God of the Bible Without the Word of God, we would not know that God is triune

We would not know that the second person of the Holy Trinity came into time and we would not know the gospel

Thanks to scriptures. Thanks to these scriptures We are able to know the doctrine of the

Trinity the doctrine of Christology and the doctrine of justification by faith alone these glorious doctrines are given to us in Scripture Alone, we would not have this knowledge this information without the scriptures and without men throughout time studying the scriptures and and Helping us to to understand these things

Our theme for this Lord's Day is God's announcement of the

Savior Jesus part one and how does Paul Reveal to them that is the sons of Israel and the the

God -fearers those who have who have Been proselytized and brought into the

Jewish faith How does he announce to them the Savior Jesus?

and the answer is through the Word of God He uses the

Word of God to announce to them that God has given a Savior and his name is

Jesus Throughout history God's people chosen to bring about the seed of Abraham and David to bless the nations and now we are in a world where the there is a word that has taken a bad reputation

These days there's a a word that has been given a bad reputation and rightly

So in the way that it has been used and that word is biblicism biblicist however, for those of you who do not know as Baptists we are by definition

Biblicist not a biblicist in the sense of no creed, but Christ which is in fact a creed

At this church reform of reform Baptist Church we hold to the creeds We hold to everything throughout church history.

That is truth that came forth from the Scriptures So what a reformed

Baptist should say in this matter is this if the Bible doesn't say it or teach it

Then we don't hold to it If the Bible doesn't say the words it must teach its let's give a

Simple way to understand this last week. We spoke about the Trinity.

I Have never found a verse that says the Trinity It doesn't say the

Trinity it doesn't say that God There's not a verse that said that he's one being and in three persons, right?

It doesn't say that And so some in the word form of biblicism where it's it's bad, you know

Would say that there's no Trinity because it doesn't say the word But it does in fact teach the

Trinity and I showed that last week God there is one

God and yet this one God is three persons But if it doesn't say the words nor does it teach it

Brothers and sisters That's not what we should be going for. We want to be people of the book

And then our outline we're going to see the results of the Word of God and I would say if you do any kind of evangelism if your heart is full, it doesn't matter if you're on the streets or if you're

You're Catholic eyes and your kids are you just you know a chatty Kathy, right?

I says That you everywhere you go. You just talk to people, right?

These are three things you won't in your arsenal The first is the proclamation of the forgiveness of sins second

Justification is through Jesus Christ and not Jesus and not Moses And the third is a warning to watch out.

So point number one the proclamation of the forgiveness of sins point number two justification through Jesus and not

Moses point number three a warning to watch out And as we transition,

I want you to ask yourself Where would you be? without the

Word of God Where would you be? Where would you be without the Word of God because faith comes by hearing?

Hearing most translation would say of the Word of God Should actually be translated by hearing the message of Christ the gospel

We would not know that God is there's one God and that this one God is trying you We would not know that Christolic the doctrine of Christology that that the second person of the

Trinity enters into time takes on flesh lives the life who could not lives Dies the death that we deserve was buried and rose again on the third day and he can leave he's coming back

Right. We would not know the gospel. We would not know any of these things without the Word of God Where would he be?

I Can tell you one place you wouldn't be Here You wouldn't be here.

I wouldn't be here point number one the proclamation of the forgiveness of sins and in our chapter

Saul Paul shows back up and this time is no longer Saul. It's just Paul and he does so as the preacher as The preacher this is in fact the first Sermon preached by Paul in the book of Acts.

I Assure you this is not Paul's first sermon. This is the first sermon Luke writes for us in this story through the book of Acts the book of Acts Paul and his companions are at a synagogue and trust me when

I say they are not there to Worship by way of the old covenant. They are there to preach

Christ and the new covenant They are there for one purpose and that is to preach

Christ and to tell people that the old Covenant has ended and the new covenant has begun

And it does so by speaking of forgiveness of sins Forgiveness of sins under the old covenant was through the sacrificial system

Yet to you send you you bring forth whatever animal was required for that sin and someone

Would sacrifice that animal and sprinkle the blood while the forgiveness of sins under the new covenant is much different much better and Paul is going is there at this synagogue to explain to them

It picks up in verse 38 He says let it be known

To you Speaking to those the Jews and the God -fearers therefore

Let it be known to you therefore brothers that through this man speaking of Jesus forgiveness of sins is proclaimed to you in Preaching Jesus Christ Paul just like the other preachers in the book of Acts such as Peter and Stephen They go back to the fathers and by Fathers, I need you to thank their ancestors.

They go back to their ancestors Abraham Isaac Jacob David so on and so forth like if you can recall every time

That a gospel message has been proclaimed to the Jews. They go back to the ancestors.

They they Pull the Word of God They they bring they take

Jesus with them and they and they show the light of Christ through the

Old Testament So let's pick up reading where haps left off in verse 16

Acts chapter 13 beginning in verse 16. So let's just remember they are in the synagogue

They have just been asked by the leaders of the synagogue. Does anyone have a word? Of encouragement for the people for 16, so Paul stood up and Motioning with his hands this writer tells you he's a true preacher, right?

He's given hand gestures. He's motioning with his hands, right? I would love to see

Paul get down motioning with his hands said men of Israel and you

Who fear God listen? The God of this people Israel chose our fathers and made the people great

During their stay in the land of Egypt with uplifted arm.

He led them out of it and For about 40 years he put he put up with them in the wilderness and after destroying

Seven nations in the land of Canaan. He gave them their land as an inheritance all this took about 450 years and after that he gave them judges until Samuel the prophet and then they asked for a king and God gave them

Saul the son of Cush as a as a man of the tribe of Benjamin for 40 years and When they had removed him he raised up David to be their king

Of whom he testified and said I have found in David the son of Jesse a man

After my heart who will do all my will verse 23

For this man's offspring God has brought to Israel a

Savior Jesus right here as he promised verse 23 is key to unlock in this gospel message.

Let's read that again of This man speaking of David's offspring

God has brought to Israel a Savior Jesus whom he as he promised

Ladies and gentlemen, if you go to Matthew chapter 1 the very beginning it proclaims to us that Jesus is son of David Son of David Jesus is a descendant of David and then it says a

Savior What did the Jews as well as the rest of the world need saving from Right the one thing that even the physical descendants of Abraham who were a part of the earthly kingdom could not

Escape from and you could not escape from With sin was their sin.

It's your sin. You cannot escape from it Their sins your sins will keep you separated from God their sins kept them separated from God They were

God's chosen people to bring about an offspring They were God's chosen people by way of a covenant right to of these descendants

They were in his kingdom and Their sins Separated them from God their sin their breaking of God's law had become a chasm

That had no door There was no way for for them to get to God because of this chasm and that chasm is their sin

God through the Mosaic law gives them a sacrificial system But we know that God is not satisfied with the blood of bulls and goats

Isaiah chapter 1 They need it You need it someone a

Savior to save you from your sins in order to unite us together with God we were in need of This because of a great chasm our sins that separates us from God We needed a door.

We needed a clear path through we needed someone to part the Red Sea Let's let's say the

Red Sea of our sins so that we can cross over and get to God In verse 23 tells us that the

Savior is the seed that came through David Jesus the son of David He speaks about the promise

He says that this was promised to us and it's promised to us in the Davidic Covenant God promised

David that he was going to raise up for him a seed and that This see the son of David would keep

God's Covenant He would keep God's law and therefore sit on the throne of David for ever

This see the son of David Jesus with his life

Kept the law kept the Covenant which means Jesus sits on the throne of David forever

And I've said this so much we could probably turn it into a song as Goes the

King so goes the kingdom Let me prove that real quick when

Adam sinned all creation fell with Adam When Adam sinned all

Creation fell without and that's when this chasm entered the world death and sin when

King David sinned His kingdom suffered for his sins

His kingdom was being punished and put to death because of his sins

So when Jesus keeps the law His kingdom the new covenant the kingdom of heaven

We're blessed with him the promise began with Abraham and his seed that a seed an offspring is going to come from him and All the nations of the earth will be blessed in him

For those of us who know the gospel We know what's next

He says that a Savior's coming and he came a Savior has come through the line of David so now a sacrifice must be brought forth and Paul does not

Disappoint, let's begin back with verse 23 and read to verse 29 of this man's remember.

That's David God Man's offspring God has brought to Israel a

Savior Jesus as he promised before his coming

John had proclaimed a baptism of repentance to all the people of Israel and As John was finishing his course, he said what do you suppose that I am?

I am NOT he know but behold after me is coming one whose sandals of Whose feet

I am unworthy to untie brothers sons of the family of Abraham And those among you who fear

God to us Has been sent the message of salvation

For those who live in Jerusalem and their rulers because they did not recognize him nor understand the utterance of the prophets

Which are read every Sabbath fulfilled them by condemning him. He's saying that you

You killed the Christ Verse 28 and Though they found in him no

Guilt worthy of death. They asked Pilate to have him Executed and when they had carried out all that was written of him

They took him down from the tree and laid him in the tomb Right here.

Paul Preaches the death of the Savior that came as the promise seed of David His own people had him killed by hanging him on a tree on that cross and I've mentioned this before Galatians tells us well

Viticus tells us that Whoever's hung on a tree is cursed and Galatians tells us that this curse came upon Jesus And I want you to understand that the

Bible talks about your sins are laid upon him It's because he was on that tree and became a curse

Your sins could not have been applied to Christ if he had not been laid on that tree

He had not been crucified on that cross. They had to fulfill everything that was spoken about him and Paul is

Explaining this to them and the question is is he as he as he keeps going?

So he mentions that there's a Savior that he's the promise that his death

Came and that they are the ones that killed him, but by them killing him they are fulfilling what is written in the

Bible and what comes after the death of Christ is

The resurrection of Christ we see this beginning in verse 30 So remember they they they hung up from the tree and they laid him in a tomb verse 30

But God raised him from the dead Let's read that again, but God raised him from the dead and for many days

He appeared to those who had come up with him from Galilee to Jerusalem Who are now his witnesses to the people?

so those that he were with those that saw him are now out being his witness and We bring you the good news

That what God has promised to the fathers, so there's another promise coming up So not only was he was he promised to sit on the throne of David listen to this verse 33

This he has fulfilled to us their children

By raising Jesus from the by raising Jesus as it is written in the second

Psalm you are my son today I have begotten you and As for the fact that they that he

Raised him from the dead no more to return to corruption. He has spoken in this way.

I Will give you the holy and sure blessing of David Therefore he says in another

Psalm You will not let your Holy One see corruption for David after he had served the purpose of God in his own generation fell asleep and was laid with his father and fathers and saw corruption

But he whom God raised did not see corruption Real quick turn with me to Psalm chapter 2

Psalm chapter 2 I'm going to read all this song Remember he's began with the death

Chapter 2 verse 1 why do the nation's rage and the people's plot in vain?

The kings of the earth set themselves against Set themselves and the rulers take counsel together against the

Lord and against his anointed saying Verse 3 is speaking about how they take him and kill him

So if you just read it, you don't have this knowledge It's hard to make clear that let us burst their bonds apart and cast away

The courts from among us now Now what does God think about their rebellion and their and their crucifixion of his sons?

Verse 4 he who sits in the heavens laughs

The Lord holds them in derision

Then he will speak to them with in his wrath and Terrify them in his fury saying as for me.

I have set my son. I Don't say I have set my king on Zion my holy heel.

I Will tell of the decree the Lord said to me You are my son

Today I have begotten you Ask of me and I will make the nation's your inheritance in the ends of the earth your possessions

You shall break them with a rod of iron And dash them to pieces like a potter's vessel

Now therefore, oh king Oh kings be wise be warned Oh Rulers of the earth serve the

Lord with fear and rejoice with trembling kiss the son Does he be angry and you perish in the way for his wrath is quickly kindled blessed are those who take?

refuge in him acts Chapter 2 look at verse 20.

I don't X chapter 2 look at verse 29 Brothers I May say to you with confidence

About the patriarch David that he both died and was buried and his tomb is with us to this day

Being there for a prophet and knowing that God has sworn with an oath

To him that he would set his descendants on the throne So he

Speaking of this covenant that was made with David that one of his sons was said on the throne he speaking of God for David he's speaking of David for Saul and spoke about the resurrection of Jesus That he was not abandoned to Hades nor did his flesh see corruption real quick turn to Hebrews chapter 5

We're going to read chapter 4 verse 14, and then we'll lead into 5

It kind of goes together since therefore we have a great high priest who has passed through the heavens

This is talking about when Jesus When Jesus was put to death, where did he go he went into the heavens the earth the heavenly temple

He went through the heavens Jesus the Son of God let us hold fast to our confession for we do not have a high priest who is

Unable to sympathize with our weakness, but one who in every respect has been tempted as We are yet without sin.

Let us then with confidence draw near to the throne of grace that we may receive

Mercy and find grace to help us in the time of name chapter 5 for every

High priest chosen from among man is appointed to act on behalf of man in relation to God to offer gifts and sacrifices for sins

He can deal Gently with the ignorant and wayward since he himself is beseeched with with beseeched with weakness

Because of this he is obligated to offer sacrifices for his own sins

Just as he does for those people and no one takes this honor for himself

But only when called by God as just as Aaron was so also

Christ did not exalt himself to be made a high priest But was appointed by him who said to him you are my son

Today I have begotten you now as I finish reading once you ask yourself this question What does it mean that he was begotten you are my son today?

I have begotten you as he says also in another place You are a priest forever after the order of Melchizedek for in the days of his flesh

Jesus offered up prayers and supplications with a loud cry and tears to him who was able to save him from death and Was heard because of his reverence, although he was the son he learned obedience through what he suffered and being made

Perfect complete talking about without it without this Crucifixion and what's about to take place.

He could never be complete because he was begotten He became the source of eternal life to all those who obey him

Being designated by God as a high priest at the order of Melchizedek So right here this is telling us

Paul is telling them about the resurrection of Jesus Christ and he points to Psalm 2

And he tells us that he will not see corruption and by not seeing corruption he points to another

Psalm It says I think it's sick Psalm chapter 16 verse 8, I believe To show that he would not see corruption

He that that God is going to raise him from the dead and when he does so he calls this his begotten begotten from what

I've just read to you equals resurrection Begotten equals resurrection not own.

This tells us that not only was Jesus Crucified before the foundation of the world meaning that it wasn't plan

B Peter tells us that that he was crucified before the foundation of the world

Not only is that true, but he was eternally begotten meaning his resurrection

Jesus The story of Jesus cannot be told outside of his death burial and resurrection he is the begotten the

Eternally begotten. He was not made. He was begotten before all time.

That's what the Creed's tell us. He's not made. He is begotten.

He is he in his begotten It's telling us his that he his purpose and everything that he does it throughout his life and I know it's really hard to to explain because we're living in What's called a time zone like like we are trapped by time when we start talking about things.

That's eternal Our mind does not know how to understand it. So please give me some grace here as I attempt to explain it

There's never been a time that Jesus was not supposed to be going

To enter into time taken on flesh becoming a man Dying for our sins being buried and rising again and coming back.

There's never been a It's hard to speak of eternity and say the word time But there's never been a time that that has not been his purpose and Hebrews tells us that that this is how he is

Perfected he is made perfect telling you the Greek word. He is made complete Right if Adam would have not fallen and in the nation would have not falling after him

There would have been no need for Christ to come and he therefore would have never been made complete

He had to come this is what Paul is saying to them just as it is written

He comes and you but you read these words in the synagogues Every week and you carry out what they said by crucifying him

But he's letting him know he was begotten He came back because he was begotten now have that in mind verse 38

Let it be known to you Since he was crucified dead buried rose from the dead never to see corruption because he is begotten

Let it be known to you therefore Brothers that through this man speaking of Jesus forgiveness of sins is proclaimed to you through David Paul proclaimed to them as well as to you and I Through the

Word of God that forgiveness of sins is through Jesus Christ Jesus our

Savior through our Savior Jesus Christ the once and for all sacrifice

Book of Hebrews tells us that his sacrifice is once for all everyone who is before him and everyone that comes after him

And then our next point is going to tell us how to what how it is applied

Point number two justification through Jesus not Moses Look at verse 39 and by him everyone who believes is freed from everything

Which you could not be freed from by the law of Moses in one way

The law had become the great chasm We're told over and over throughout the

Old Testament You want to live keep the law you want to live in the land keep the law keep the law and live

No one was able to keep the law but one Christ No one is eternally begotten, but one

Christ who kept the law Keep the law and live the law had become a chasm

Sin is breaking God's law So when I said earlier that sin is this great chasm is because we cannot keep the law

So the law in one sense had become this chasm keeping us from God No one can be justified through the law

Like this is what Romans tells us in chapter 3 Romans chapter 3 beginning in verse 19

Romans chapter 3 Now we know that whatever the law says it speaks to those who are under the law

So that every mouth may be stopped and the whole world be held

Accountable to God for by the works of the law No human being will be justified in his sight since through the law comes the knowledge of sin

The problem with the old covenant is that the Jews were using the law as A way to establish their own righteousness and we see this in chapter 10 of Romans beginning in verse 1 1 through 4

Brothers my heart desire and prayer to God for them is that they may be saved

Paul wants his Jewish brothers to be saved for I bear witness that They have a zeal for God, but not according to knowledge for being ignorant of the righteousness of God in Seeking to establish their own they did not submit themselves to God's righteousness

For Christ is the end of the law for righteousness to everyone who believes

In order to be made righteous you have to believe in Jesus Moses had taken on the old covenant representation because the law was given through Moses John 17

It means excuse me John chapter 1 verse 17 says for the law was given through Moses Grace and truth came through Jesus Christ This grace and truth is pointing us to the new covenant where There is forgiveness of sins through the

Savior Jesus Christ not through a sacrificial system But through the Savior Jesus Christ and ladies and gentlemen, the more we understand the gospel

The more we will understand the Word of God. I would challenge you to devote yourself to understanding the gospel

Let that be your centerpiece if you set a table to have a meal with someone a lot of women

Sometimes we'll have some kind of a centerpiece your centerpiece in life needs to be the gospel of Jesus Christ That's your centerpiece.

If you don't know that I don't care how much to the Bible you can quote you it means nothing to me Know the gospel and know in the gospel.

You'll be able to understand the Word of God If anyone is to be justified before God they are to be justified by faith by believing in Jesus our

Savior and not in keeping the law point number three

Watch out my warning to watch out.

So let's go back to Acts chapter 13 Look at verses 40 and 41

Look you scoffers. No verse 40. Excuse me beware therefore

Less what it what is said and the prophets should come about look you scoffers be astonished and perish for I am doing a work in your days a

Work that you will not believe even if someone tells you we quoted

Psalm 2 earlier Where it talks about kiss the Sun least you die Verses 40 and 41 are also

Hinting at Psalm chapter 2 this this warning that that that Jesus is going to inherit the nation's and there's nothing you can do

About it and you better take warning you better bow your knee you better kiss the

Sun or you are going to perish That's what he's saying you scoffers be astonished and perish

He tells us something is going to happen and the prophets have told you about it these two verses speaking in verses 41 and 42 or the reason that you heard in your hearing is

Why we should never mix Moses and Jesus We should never mix law and gospel if you if you

Confuse the law in the gospel You will end up trying to establish your own righteousness just like the

Jews I have to do this in order to be saved I have to keep God's law in order to be made right with God and for God to be pleased with me

That is a wrong way to look at God's law But also if you believe in the gospel

But live as if there is no law you prove yourself to be a false convert If you use the law to try to make yourself right with God You're a false convert

You if you if you believe in the gospel you believe everything there is about Jesus Christ But you live as if there is no law

You prove yourself to be a false convert. There are categories for a reason

There are distinctions for a reason the law cannot save you, but we look to the law in order to know how we are to live

But it cannot save you and don't dare use it as a way to say well I'm good with God because I done this this this and begin the patent on the back.

You cannot Confuse the law and the gospel we are saved by the grace of God through faith in Jesus Christ faith in the finished work of Jesus Christ and Those who are in Christ are to follow

Jesus Christ How You ask by keeping his law

John 14 15 Jesus says if you love me So what's going to come in after this is very important if you love me

Keep my commandments You don't keep the commandments to make yourself right with God you keep them because you love

Jesus Christ We keep the law

Thank first tablet by believing in Jesus We love God with all of our heart by believing in Jesus and we are to love our neighbors as ourselves

This is how we are to follow Jesus Remember the I was talking about it in chapter 8 of John the follow the leader

Riding the bike someone throws their arm by the one arm you ride with one arm You're following the leader

Jesus kept God's law and because he has done so he's even simplified it for us

How do we love God with all of our heart soul mind and strength believing in Jesus Christ? Now love your neighbors.

The Holy Spirit is in you The Holy Spirit causes you to keep the commandments now use the spirit that God has given you don't hinder it

How do we use it? I? Don't know any way else to tell you Confess its relationship with God you have that spirit and there's no relationship

You cannot keep God's law. You cannot love your neighbors as you love yourself.

You'll feed yourself and watch your neighbors starve If you don't have the

Word of God The Holy Spirit needs the bullets and he's the ammo. This is our sword

We need the Word of God we you can have the Holy Spirit without the Word of God and you don't really have a lot of too much of Nothing for the

Holy Spirit to use you are hindering the Holy Spirit. You are covering the spirits mouth. It's unable to speak

Charles Spurgeon again if we want revivals, we must revive our reverence for the

Word of God God through the Word of God gave the announcement of the

Savior his people are called to know the

Word of God and If you want revival we must preach like Peter Stephen and Paul, which means we must preach with power

Confidence that what God is doing what God has said he's going to do he is going to do we must preach with power

We must preach with a law and gospel distinction. We use the law to show them their sin

And then we give them comfort by telling them what God has done for them in Christ And why do we do it that way?

Because that's how that's what the Bible teaches That's what Paul did. That's what

Stephen did That's what Peter did and if you truly want revival, that's what we are called to do.

We are called to leave this Building armed with the

Word of God ready for the battle. What's the battle? preaching the gospel

Reaching our nation for Jesus Christ and the call of repentance is this if you are a

Christian and You're not in the fight Put your faith in Christ when you're out there.

Trust him. Trust him when I'm up here. I Cannot one ounce of me trust myself.

I Tremble behind this pulpit I tremble when I'm out there I cannot trust myself and every time

I've ever stepped in the pulpit or stopped on the street trusting in my own Ability and knowledge

I've failed miserably And I've had witnesses y 'all are witnesses of this

Trust in Christ Turn from not doing so and do so by looking to Jesus Christ and today if you're not a

Christian You are going to die and you're going to stand before a holy holy holy

God And if you're not in Christ, you're going to be viewed as a dog And you're gonna be cast into the lake of fire

You need to be viewed as a son and a daughter of God and that is only by Repenting turning from yourself and your sins and looking to God by looking to Jesus Christ And if you have not done that I beg you today to do so We are available to anyone who wants to talk

Please if you need prayer if you want to talk, please Find me or the other elite part of the leadership and let's have that conversation

Let's pray God of all glory and grace

Lord we come to you. We love you. We're so grateful for the gospel

We're so grateful that you have fulfilled your promises Lord The the book of Joshua tells you that tells us in chapter 24 that you have fulfilled all your promises

And we see as we see those promises played out in Scripture Lord and you sent your son the one that you promised that would bless the nations and we are

We have been able to partake be able to see we've partaken in this blessing for for we were once lost and we were found

We were once your enemies and now we have been footstooled and now we're your delegates

And we're we are to go out and to tell your enemies how they can have peace with you And what

I just pray that you will Put a hunger for your word in us

Lord Give me a greater hunger give pastor Cal a greater hunger give Josh a greater hunger Give Tony give hats give us all a greater hunger for your word

God. We pray And God also pray for this meal

Lord, I pray that if there be any in here today who have been living in sin, and they're being rebellious

They're unwilling to repent that you will not let them come forth to partake from the table But Lord all of us have sinned this week

Lord I pray that you give us all grace as We confess to you our sins for we know that you are gracious and Always there to forgive us

Lord, please use this as a way to grow us and holiness And if there be any in here today that do not know you please grant them repentance