Temple Envy

I don't know.

I don't what it was but the falling back or maybe that's the maybe moon spots moon spots.

You know, I this is the kind of day literally where I feel like I need to go back to bed and just restart.

You know, I want to do over.

I'm in a fog.

All right.

Let's pray and we will get started Lord Jesus again as we open up your word.

We pray that you would open our hearts and minds that we may rightly understand it market learn it Admirably

digest and meditate on it that we may see you in it understand what you have revealed for

us to believe repent of what we have done wrong and bear fruit in keeping with repentance and good works

towards our neighbor as we hope and wait and Anticipate your glorious return.

We ask all of this in Jesus name.

Amen.

All right, before we get started were there any questions that arose in your minds during the

sermon?

Okay, I see Marilyn I remembered this time this yeah.

Okay, let's take a look.

So Matthew 23.

Matthew 23 what verse?

Okay, woe to you scribes and Pharisees verse 20 you blind

Pharisee First clean the outside.

Okay.

So notice here.

This is kind of a rhetorical device.

All right, so it's a woe to you scribes and Pharisees verse 25 you hypocrites plural plural,

right?

For you clean the outside of the cup and the plate but inside they are full of greed and self -indulgence you blind

Pharisee First clean the inside of the cup and the plate that the outside may be also

clean.

The idea here is is that he's addressing the group and at the same time by

switching to singular.

He's singling out every single one of them, you know, so you can't sit there and say well it doesn't apply to me.

Well, yeah, actually it does, you know, it does.

Isn't that how we always are?

Uh -huh.

Sure.

Uh

-huh.

Uh -huh.

Yes.

Great question.

Right in in this particular context Jesus is talking really specifically about what goes on in the

life of the church.

These are religious leaders and this has to do with Religious leadership and false teachers.

And so what we'll say is that in the right hand kingdom and this is the church.

It would be inappropriate to exalt a servant in the church in such

a way it really it turns that person into a guru and You know, this is why over and again.

I reiterate I am Kongsvinger's slave that's you want to know if you

were to put if you were to like take the organizational charts historical Organization charts

always kind of look like a pyramid with the CEO on the top.

Just flip it for Kongsvinger.

You guys are on the top.

I'm at the bottom.

My job is to serve my job is not to lead my job is not in any in any of the worldly senses

and so what in what you're gonna notice here that the the warp -and -woof and the

total feel of church leadership in the theology of glory is That

the pastors really are the ones who are the focal point rather than Christ.

They're at the top.

They are the honored not Christ.

My job is to get out of the way and this is why we you know I wear vestments and cover up and all this

kind of stuff because it's not about me because one of these days If the Lord continues to tarry as long as he's been tearing,

you know I'm either gonna die or retire and there's going to be another fellow who's going to be called to serve this

congregation.

So you want him to be the same thing?

He's the church's slave.

He's the church's servant.

His job is to serve and so that's the idea and so you'll notice and compare

then the Pharisees who They love to be seen in the marketplaces that have the highest

honors, you know.

It's the honorable seats and all this kind of stuff.

Everything is about them them them them then compare that to the people that Jesus is sending the prophets the

scribes.

The wise people and you know, these fellows are going to be persecuted.

They're going to be despised.

They're going to be lowly.

There's nothing about that group that makes them stand out in a way that this other group

does I mean, you know, I mean seriously if Peter were to show up today, we think wow Peter's here, man.

But who would Peter be talking about, you know, he'd be talking about Jesus and he said there and go.

Okay.

Yeah, he's like one of us.

We're all equal in the kingdom of God.

So Correct.

So then in the right in the in the left -hand kingdom Mr. President, you know Trump is mr. President,

you know in the in the left -hand kingdom judges are your honor in the left -hand kingdom.

Mom is mom dad is dad, you know, mr. President.

Mr. Mayor things of this sort because we're Recognizing in that sense the offices that they are placed

into so father mother head of state, you know and

Offices within a government those are God -ordained offices.

And so that title really is it is to be you know, but we honor in that sense.

So what Jesus is talking about here is not left -hand kingdom.

He's talking about right and you'll notice that it's absolutely correct in the left -hand kingdom to say mr. President.

But it's wrong in the right -hand kingdom to say Father Rose, bro.

Yes, please.

Would you yes.

Yes, please.

No, I think that that's that's missing the mark.

It's missing the mark badly.

You know, so if you want to call me, hey you.

Okay, you can it's kind of the idea.

It's like, you know.

Yeah, and I and I think it's it's in what's really fascinating is when you read Catholic apologists on

this.

Last night the Aletheia service somebody sent me a link and I looked at read it last night.

They literally have to manipulate this text to justify their practice and I think their practice is bad.

And it actually falls in line with their understanding.

They believe that ordination is a sacrament and that it changes the character of the person who's

ordained.

This this is not what scripture teaches their scripture.

Nowhere reveals that something mystical happens to a pastor when he's ordained an ordination service is

literally just the public ratification of the call that God has given

through a Congregation and so when we talk about the pastoral office.

It's important to understand that everybody's a priest as Christians.

We're all priests, but not all our pastors.

Pastors are slaves.

They're servants.

And if you look at the Apostle Paul when you read his letters Paul it says I'm an apostle of Jesus Christ and I'm a

slave over and again Paul refers to himself as slave.

So when somebody's ordained to the pastoral office the way it works is God the Holy Spirit chooses a man.

The congregation gathers and votes.

It's through the voting then that God is the one who's choosing, you know to extend a call to and

when a person Receives and accepts that call since the the preaching office is a

public office within the church.

You don't want to just smuggle some guy in surreptitiously.

Then what ordination is is the public ratification through kind of a church, right?

And it's mentioned in Scripture to the laying on of hands.

So we know that this is an actual thing that you know.

That is part of good order that when a pastor is called he is you brought forward in front of the whole

community.

Hands are laid on him and say and he's placed into the office.

It's just the public ratification of the call from God.

Through the church.

Does that make sense?

And so, you know, there's nothing mystical in that sense about it whereas Rome they actually believe that ordination is is

mystical and it's a sacrament and that it changes the Person it changes

something of their character and it then makes them Worthy or have the right characteristics in order for

that person to preside in the mass to transform Bread and wine into the body and blood of Christ.

I guarantee you I have no power To transform bread and wine into the body and blood of Christ.

It is way above my pay grade.

I just work in sales.

It's Jesus and and the Holy Spirit and the Father who are in you know in management.

Okay, so I have no ability.

I haven't there's nothing in me that makes that possible.

It's it's the Word of God that does all the work so

Jesus keeps getting employee of the month.

He know he's he's like at the top man.

He's the head so.

Yeah, all right any other questions then.

Any other questions in the cropped up from the sermon?

Yes.

Okay, so the Jewish prayer cloth is technically different than the tassels.

The prayer shawl is so when a Jewish man prays he puts his puts a covering over his head.

Often you can actually you see these online if you want to Google, you know, you know Jewish prayer shawl.

It's usually blue and white striped and it's got tassels on it.

That's actually different than the sits the oath that are mentioned here about the tassels.

The let me see if I can find this.

Is what is this.

Mm -hmm.

Let me let me see if I can do a cross -reference on this.

I think I can find it if I do it this way.

Let's see here.

No.

Here, okay.

Hang on a second here.

To do to do to do to here we go and Jesus perceiving the power gone out from him.

If I touch the guy's garments, I want to see the cross -reference there.

28.

You know, I don't remember.

Okay.

I'll just I'll do this from memory.

Yeah, you did.

So in the book of Numbers and I'd have to look this up in the book of Numbers there's a command given by the Lord

for all the men of Israel and.

So back in the day, they didn't like I said, they didn't have shirts that you bought at Walmart and stuff like that so, you know

garments were made on a loom and.

A man's shirt was kind of like a poncho.

So it was you know, a long rectangular piece hole cut in it for that where you put the head through and.

Oftentimes they would come up with a way of working out the sleeves and or attaching them and other things but what one of the distinctives of it is is that there

were always four corners to the shirts and.

So God actually commanded that all of the men of Israel and Jesus himself actually had these himself.

Is that they had to have a tassel and usually just a piece of a leather strap.

You know thin leather strap coming off each of the corners and it had it has significance as far as reminding them something

about the Torah and setting them apart and and so the Pharisees they.

They made theirs as long as possible.

I mean theirs would be swinging every time they would walk by you could see there and they're called sits.

The oath is what they're called.

And then if you remember the story of the woman who had the issue of blood the woman with the issue of blood.

This is the woman who who bled for 12 years when Jesus was going to The

house of Jarius the synagogue ruler whose little daughter was dying.

Remember, you know, remember the story.

It's in Mark 5 when he was traveling on the way to Jarius's house.

The woman kind of came up through the crowd and she says if I just touch the hem of his garment.

That's actually a bad translation because that's more like a an English version.

It's literally she was gonna she was looking for the sits.

That's what she was looking for.

And so that's what she touched.

It was it was it was one of the little things coming off of the corner of Jesus's shirt.

And so she touched that and that's how she was healed so.

Yeah, but different though than a prayer shawl.

Yeah, and and y 'all know that the Jewish way of praying.

Face up hand palms open to heaven.

You know, that's that's one of the ways that in fact Scripture really in as far as posture of

prayer is concerned.

To two postures this way and on your knees.

Down face down.

Those are the two postures have mentioned in Scripture regarding how to pray just kind of interesting thing.

So all right, let's take a look at

Second Samuel chapter 7 and

Let me ask you before we get started when Jesus was on earth, how many sins did he

commit?

Zero not one right?

He was completely without sin.

Right.

Let's pay attention to this prophecy now in 2nd Samuel chapter 7.

This is the story of how King David Who is now reigning as the king of all of Israel

from of all places Jerusalem, right.

Says this now when the king lived in his house and Yahweh had given him rest from his surrounding enemies

the king said to Nathan.

That just disconnects it did.

Wow.

Okay.

Not sure what happened there.

Yeah.

Somebody not pay the Internet bill.

What's going on here?

Oh I don't even have any Wi -Fi at all.

Well, that's different.

All right.

I'll wait for my settings to come back.

Maybe I'll restart my phone.

All right weird.

Okay, so the Lord had given him rest from all of his surrounding enemies the king said to Nathan the prophets see now I

dwell In a house of cedar, but the Ark of God dwells in a tent.

Nathan said to the king go and do all that is in your heart for Yahweh is with you.

But that same night the word of Yahweh came to Nathan go and tell my servant David

thus says Yahweh Would you build me a house to dwell in?

I?

Have not lived in a house since the day I brought brought up the people of Israel from Egypt to this day.

But I have been moving in a tent for my dwelling in All places

where I have moved with all the people of Israel.

Did I speak a word with any of the judges of Israel whom I commanded to Shep to Shepherd my people

Israel saying?

Why have you not built me a house of cedar?

Now therefore thus you shall say to my servant David thus says Yahweh Salva

oath.

I took you from the pasture from the From following the sheep that you should

be prince over my people Israel and I have been with you wherever you went and have

cut off all of your enemies from before you and I will

make for you a great name like the name of the great ones of the earth and I will appoint a

place for my people Israel and will plant them so that they may dwell in their own

place and Be disturbed no more and violent men shall afflict them.

No more as formerly from the time that I appointed judges over my people of Israel.

And I will give you rest from all of your enemies.

Moreover Yahweh declares to you that Yahweh will make you a house.

Now a little bit of a note here who and What

is this all referring to?

Can you think of a time in Israel's history where they have had perfect rest

from all of their enemies.

I?

Don't know if you've noticed, but the Middle East seems to be just a very awful place to live.

You know especially since the Jews have returned it has been just a

battlefield non -stop.

Has this been fulfilled yet?

So what is this that God is promising and When is that going to be fulfilled?

While you're figuring that out.

I'm going to reset this.

And I want to hazard a guess and Today is when Christ returns.

So you'll notice here one of the things I've talked about in the past several times is when we read

Hebrews 11.

Hebrews 11 Explicitly states that the patriarchs died having not

received the promises and that the promised land in The Old Testament was type

and shadow of the thing that's coming and the thing that's coming is the new earth.

When There was he will cause all of his enemies to no longer do the enemy

thing.

Right and this is why scripture over and again refers to the time when Christ returns and things

working out.

You know in the end times that that will be the time when we take our Swords and

beat them into plowshares.

We go from being Soldiers to being farmers.

Right the church militant now is no longer militant.

It's a time that's still coming now another theme that's also important in this.

Let's see if that's gonna work.

That says it's got two connected.

Let's see.

I told you I need a redo for today.

It's the weirdest day.

Everything is just off by about one degree.

You saw the emoji movie.

No.

And let's see if I get this to work finally, well,

that's an improvement.

What is going on.

Let's see here.

Mirror Apple TV.

Okay.

Hang on.

We're There we go.

Okay now another theme and this is the one I want to talk about.

So up to this point the children of Israel offer sacrifices.

Where?

No, it's not the temple.

Where is the place where the sacrifices are taking place up to this point?

Tabernacle.

Tabernacle big ugly movable.

Tent.

Yeah, nothing spectacular to look at quite humble and This is what

God commanded the children of Israel to build when they were in the wilderness

now Tabernacle itself is type and shadow

of Christ and his incarnation and presence.

Now, let me kind of explain this.

This is actually explicitly taught in the New Testament.

Let me show you a passage so that you get the idea here because I Don't want this to be lost on you.

Take a look at the Gospel of John chapter 1 John 1 and

We're all familiar with this text.

This is a passage that explicitly teaches that Jesus is none other than God

himself in human flesh.

You should be familiar with these words.

John 1 1 one of the most famous verses in all of Scripture in the beginning was the word

the word was with God and The word was God.

How many.

How many gods are you counting there in the beginning was the word word

was with God and was God.

Yeah, it's kind of weird.

Yeah, you're gonna note here that the doctrine of the Trinity is in play.

All right.

So the word was with God the word was God all things were made through him without him was not anything

made that was made in him was life and the life was the light of men and The light shines in the darkness and the

darkness is not overcome it.

There was a man sent from God whose name was John.

He was he came as a witness to bear witness about the light that all might believe through him.

He was not the light but came to bear witness about the light.

The true light which gives light to the world was coming into The world.

He was in the world and the world was made through him yet.

The world did not know him.

He came to his own and his own people did not receive him.

But to all who did receive him who believed in his name He gave the right to become children of God who were born

not of blood nor of the will of the flesh nor the will of a man but of God and the

word became flesh and Some translations will get this more

specifically the word became flesh and tabernacled among us

it's what the Greek says the word

became flesh and Tabernacled among us we have seen his glory.

The glory is the only son from the father full of grace and truth.

Tabernacled Jesus came and stayed with us.

In a tent an earthly tent of his body.

Right, that's that's the idea.

And so here coming back to our text then

here.

We have a fascinating thing going on.

Number one it's important to recognize that the tabernacle points to Christ and his

incarnation which it does and That here God is at this point.

Although he is recognizing that David's desire to build him a permanent dwelling

here on this earth Was a commendable desire.

God's not having anything of it.

Okay, I Have tabernacled among you and then what when did I ever say build me a house of cedar

build me a permanent edifice.

Never right, so he had that's that's in play and

Then God flips the tables and God now is saying listen

David.

You're not gonna build me a house.

God's gonna literally say to David.

I'm gonna build you a house and Watch what's going on so we can see the

eschatological promises.

Regarding the ceasing of all hostilities the Eschaton coming his people the

people of Israel finally having unceasing peace and rest from all of their enemies, which is

coming still in the future and then we continue now verse 9 I

Will make for you a great name like the name of the great ones of the earth.

I will appoint a place for my people Israel.

I will plant them so that they may dwell in their own place and be disturbed no more and Violent men shall afflict them

no more as formerly from the time that I appointed judges over my people Israel.

And I will give rest from all of your enemies moreover.

Yahweh declares to you that Yahweh will make you a house.

When your days are fulfilled and you lie down with your fathers I will raise up your

offspring after you.

Who shall come from your body and I will establish his?

Kingdom,

I wonder who that's about.

Right, so you notice in this text explicit prophecy about Jesus.

He shall build a house for my name.

Not you David.

Your descendant will and I will establish the throne of his kingdom

forever.

I Will be to him a father he shall be to me a son.

Now watch this.

When he commits iniquity, I will discipline him with the rod of men with the

stripes of the sons of men.

But my steadfast love will not depart from him as I took it from Saul whom I put

away from before you.

So, what do you do with that?

How many sins did Jesus commit?

Zero, but it says when he commits iniquity.

The the referent hasn't changed.

Yeah, this is in the context that the referent is still this this one whose throne whose kingdom

will be forever.

It's unmistakable who this is talking about.

It's talking about Jesus.

So what do we do with this when he commits iniquity?

I will discipline him with the rod of men and with the stripes of the sons of men.

Yes.

Yeah.

So you're gonna note something here.

That's very fascinating.

So this gets into the biblical doctrine.

We cut that it goes by different names the vicarious atonement or penal substitutionary

atonement and You're going to note here that in order to understand this you have to

understand that our sin being imputed to Christ is.

And reckoned to him in such a way that he is actually the one guilty

of committing the sin.

It says he it's as if he's the one who committed it.

All right.

Let's take a look at a New Testament text that.

Mm -hmm.

Yep, 2nd Corinthians chapter 5.

Let's take a look at 2nd Corinthians 5.

Of course I can't spell today either

5 I'm

gonna start in verse 16 for context.

And let's walk through this from now on.

Therefore We regard no one according to the flesh, even though we once regarded Christ according to the flesh.

We regard him thus no longer.

Therefore if anyone is in Christ He is a new creation.

And that's also she's he's and she's the old has passed.

Behold the new has come.

All of this is from God who through Christ Reconciled us to himself

and gave us the ministry of reconciliation.

So you notice we are the passive recipients of this Reconciliation that God

himself has reconciled us to himself through Christ.

That is in Christ.

God was reconciling to the world the world to himself not counting their

trespasses against them and entrusting to us the message of Reconciliation.

Therefore we are ambassadors of Christ.

God is making his appeal through us.

So we implore you on behalf of Christ to be reconciled to God for our sake.

He the he there is God.

God made him the him there is Christ.

God made Christ listen to the words to be sin.

Who knew no sin?

So that in him we might become the righteousness of God.

This is dealing with the doctrine you can call it double imputation if you want.

But the idea is this is that when we commit sin

We ourselves are guilty of it and we ourselves are the ones who deserve to be

punished for it in ourselves and.

So you'll notice that sin isn't something that's just separated from you.

In fact, it's a bad thing to say.

Well God loves hates the sin, but loves the sinner.

It's not true.

God sends sinners to hell not their sin but God has

somehow taken our sin our guilt and our Iniquity and

found a way somehow and I don't know how this works.

To have it removed from us and all of it placed upon Christ.

If it's all placed upon Christ.

Who then is the one of being guilty of?

Committing those sins.

He is.

Yeah.

Yes.

Yeah, and that we'll take a look at that cross -reference in just a minute because that's your other that's your other clear cross -reference.

But I want you to kind of conceptually understand this.

So He then is punished and.

You'll note then this text that we just read watch a couple of the details of Christ's passion are

Mentioned when he commits iniquity.

So notice he's the one guilty of committing it.

I will discipline him with the rod of men with the stripes of the sons of men.

Was Jesus beaten with a rod.

Was he flogged?

Yes, so you'll notice two of the pieces of Christ's

total suffering for us are Explicitly mentioned in this text.

Now we've talked about so our sin our iniquity is imputed to Christ.

He is now the one guilty of committing it.

He Suffers in your place and receives exactly what you deserved.

That's half the equation.

Now we've already noted at the beginning of the class.

How many sins did Jesus commit?

Zero if he committed zero sins.

That means he was one righteous, dude.

Right, and I'm using the word righteous in its truest sense there.

You can literally say of Jesus that fellow is righteous.

Right.

So when you are brought to faith in Christ.

Your sins are forgiven you're united to Jesus in his death and his resurrection.

What is given to you?

His righteousness.

So all of Jesus sinless righteousness is now given to

you.

What does that make you?

Know.

No, it makes you righteous.

But watch watch the text again what.

Watch watch watch watch watch.

Okay, watch watch verse 21.

For our sake God made him to be sin who knew no sin so that in him

We might become watch the righteousness of God if

Jesus is the sinner and he's guilty of the sins that you committed.

Conversely.

The other half of this is because he was righteous.

His righteousness is given to you that means you are

perfectly sinlessly righteous and holy in God's sight.

Ah.

Hold on a second here.

You're not.

Do you remember you remember the movie back to the future doc would say to?

Marty McFly you're just not thinking fourth dimensionally.

Okay, the issue here is you're not thinking in yet.

We're talking in terms of imputation.

Is Jesus guilty of all of the sins you committed?

Yes or no?

Yes.

He is because God took all of your sins threw them on to him and then he bled and died for every one of them.

So he's the one who's guilty of committing that iniquity.

When you're brought to faith in Christ his righteousness is given to you as if it's your own.

Are you Righteous yes or no.

Yes.

You are straight -up righteous.

Yeah.

Yes.

Now so here's the thing in this lifetime.

This is an article of faith and the reason being is because we still

have a sinful nature.

Okay, because I'll be blunt I look in the mirror I look at my life and the

last word that I come up to describe it is righteous.

Okay, last word.

Okay, and see but the thing is is you look at Jesus and His perfectly

sinless life.

The last word you come up with for Jesus is

Iniquitor sinner.

You that doesn't even sound right to describe Jesus but see that's the

mystery and the depth of what goes on on the cross and here in 2nd

Samuel 7 we see an explicit prophecy regarding

Christ dying for our sins because it says when he

commits iniquity in God's sight Jesus is the one

who committed all of those atrocities.

Jesus is the one who bled and died even for Hitler's sins in God's sight.

Christ is guilty of the genocide of the Holocaust.

Come on All right.

He's even guilty of that time when you swiped a pack of bubblegum at Hugo's

right.

From the smallest to the greatest God has laid on him

the iniquity of us all.

Here's our next text.

Let's take a look at it.

It's Isaiah 53, but I think I want to start in 52.

Uh -huh.

Okay.

Uh

-huh.

So you're putting it all into the future.

Yeah, you're putting it all in the future scripture teaches us to pull it into the present and

To believe it in the present.

You're right that on the day of our judgment.

We will see it.

But you have it now.

You have it now.

Yeah.

Yes.

That we don't we don't know the answer to that question.

Scripture doesn't allow us to answer it.

That's what is called the crux the oligarum.

It's the theologians cross.

It's an unsolvable mystery.

We do not have the answer.

So what we do is we affirm two things in scripture that seem contradictory.

Understanding that God has not given us the full revelation and the two things that we simultaneously Confess are both

truths explicitly taught in scripture.

Everyone who is saved is saved because God has given them faith as a gift and has

raised them to life.

Everyone who is damned it is their fault.

Straight up it seems contradictory but scripture says both those things clearly and it doesn't tell us

why.

I Don't know.

I couldn't tell you it like I said it before.

I'll say it again.

I work in marketing.

The Trinity is up in management.

They have not told me in my division how this works so.

Yeah, and they're foolish to say that because Jesus just straight -up contradicts them.

You keep coming back to Christ on this.

Yep Christ is the Almost in scripture.

He's almost the single most greatest authority and revealer of the doctrine of hell.

Nobody even comes close to Christ in revealing that horrible doctrine, but it's true.

Nonetheless.

All right, so a text.

Isaiah 52 13.

Behold my servant.

This is the suffering servants song of Isaiah behold.

My servant shall act wisely.

He shall be high and lifted up and shall be exalted as many as were astonished

at you his appearance was marred beyond human semblance and His form beyond that of children of

mankind, you know, you want to understand just how severely Jesus was

beaten and what he'd look like on the cross.

He was beaten so badly and so marred you probably wouldn't have recognized him.

That's the beating that he took.

So shall he sprinkle many nations.

Kings shall shut their mouths because of him.

For that which has not been told them they see and that which they have not heard they understand.

So who has believed what he has heard from us and to whom has the arm of the Lord been revealed?

For he grew up before him like a young plant and like a root out of dry ground.

He had no form or majesty that we should look at him.

No beauty that we should Desire him.

He was despised and rejected by men a man of sorrows and Acquainted with grief

and as one from whom men hid their faces.

He was despised and we esteemed him not.

Surely he has borne our griefs carried our sorrows yet.

We esteemed him stricken smitten by God and afflicted.

But he was pierced for our Transgressions.

He was crushed for our iniquities.

Upon him was the chastisement that brought us peace and with his wounds.

We are healed all.

We like sheep have gone astray.

We have turned everyone to his own way and Yahweh has laid on him the

iniquity of us all.

So who was he pierced for?

Us.

Right, so you'll note he was pierced for our transgressions.

He was crushed For our iniquities.

God has laid on him the iniquity of us all and yes the

same word here for iniquity is the same Hebrew word that we see in our text

in 2nd Samuel 7 14 and He shall be to me a son when he commits iniquity

I will discipline him with the rod of men and with the stripes of the sons of men.

So now you're starting to see what scripture reveals regarding what Jesus is doing on the cross.

God the Father has literally taken all of our sin all of the sin of humanity.

Placed it squarely on Jesus so much.

So that he is considered by God the one who committed the iniquity

and then he suffers bleeds dies in our place.

Okay.

Now this gets into a difference that we've talked about and were it bears repeating.

This is where we're going to make a difference between what is called objective justification

versus Subjective Justification.

Let me explain.

Is it true that Jesus Christ is the Lamb of God who takes away the sin of the world?

It is.

Does this text that we not just read that God has laid on him the iniquity of us all?

Is that true?

Are there any sins that are not bled for died for?

None.

Why is it that some people are not saved don't know the answer to the question?

You're learning.

Okay, well, let's let's.

Uh -huh.

All right.

Let's.

I can't do theology without a biblical text.

Let's take a look at a biblical text open up to Acts 11 mark.

Oh Yeah.

Yeah, yeah.

Yeah.

See here you got to understand what you are.

Misunderstanding how salvation works if you think that repentance is your part.

Okay, if you think that's your part, let me explain Acts 11.

Acts 11 is the big meeting that Peter had

with the Apostles and others after Cornelius the Roman

Centurion and his family were brought to faith in Christ they were the first

Gentile believers in Jesus and.

And they received the Holy Spirit and so Peter was actually called out on the carpet about this

and had to Explain his actions and we're gonna pay close attention to what text says

Acts 11 1.

The Apostles and the brothers who were throughout Judea heard that the Gentiles also had received the Word of God.

So when Peter went up to Jerusalem the circumcision party and you can almost hear the soundtrack going done done

done not them again.

Yeah, right circumcision party criticized him saying.

You went to uncircumcised men and you ate with them.

Do you get the feeling that this circumcision party was a group of racists?

Sounds like it doesn't it?

Yeah.

Peter began and explained it to them in order.

I was in the city of Joppa praying in a trance.

I saw a vision something like a great sheet descending being let down from heaven by its four corners.

It came down to me looking at it closely.

I observed animals and beasts of prey and reptiles and birds of the air.

And I heard a voice saying to me rise Peter kill and eat.

But I said by no means Lord for nothing common or unclean has ever entered my mouth.

But the voice answered a second time from heaven what God has made clean do not call common.

This happened three times and Always drawn up again into heaven and behold at that

very moment three men arrived at the house in which we were Sent to me

from Caesarea.

The Spirit told me to go with them making no distinction.

These six brothers also accompanied me.

We entered the man's house and he told us how he had seen the angel standing in the house and say send a

Joppa and Bring Simon who is called Peter he declared to you.

He will declare to you a message by which you will be saved.

You and your household as I began to speak the Holy Spirit fell on them.

Just as on us at the beginning and I remember the word of the Lord how he said John baptized with water.

But you will be baptized with the Holy Spirit if then God Gave the same

gift to them as he gave to us when we believed in the Lord Jesus Christ.

Who was I that I could stand in God's way?

When they heard these things they fell silent and they glorified God saying

then to the Gentiles also God has

Granted repentance that leads to life.

Repentance is not your piece of the salvation puzzle.

Repentance is granted to you by God and it's worked in you by his Holy Spirit.

Through the preaching of the word.

Do you want to know why pagans out in the bush never repent on their own?

Because the Word of God hasn't come to them and That's exactly what scripture teaches.

Let me give you another text.

I think it's Romans 10.

Yes, it is.

We'll start at verse 11.

Romans 10 for the scripture says.

Everyone who believes in him will not be put to shame.

For there is no distinction between Jew and Greek.

The same Lord is Lord of all.

Bestowing his riches on all who call on him.

For everyone who calls on the name of the Lord will be saved.

Straight up anybody who calls on the name of the Lord will be saved.

Well, how come the pagans out in the middle of the Amazon forest aren't calling on the name of the Lord.

Paul goes on.

So how then will they call on him in whom they have not believed and how are they to believe in him of whom they?

Have never heard and how are they to hear without someone preaching.

And how are they to preach unless they are sent as it is?

Written how beautiful are the feet of those who preach the good news?

But they have not all obeyed the gospel for Isaiah says Lord who has believed what is heard from us.

So faith comes from hearing.

Hearing through the Word of Christ.

This is why we send missionaries.

This is why we have churches.

This is why we have pastors.

My job is to preach the word.

So what's doing the work?

Is it me?

No, really?

It's not I can tell you.

It's the word.

The word is living and active.

The gospel.

So when somebody goes out as a missionary to an unreached people group.

Who've never heard the gospel and they tell them here's what Scripture

reveals.

That we are all here because God has created the universe spoke it into existence

in six days rested on the seventh and We as human beings being part of his

creation the crowning pinnacle of his own glory were made in his image.

But our first parents rebelled and threw us into sin and we've been living under a curse and you're under that

curse as well.

This is why we all die.

But the good news is this that God has himself come to earth born of a

virgin.

Suffered and bled and died for our sins and iniquity and has been raised again on the

third day.

So we need to repent and call upon his name and be forgiven of our sins.

And he promises eternal life and salvation to all who do right.

You sit in the ground.

I've heard that sermon a thousand times right.

But there are many people around the world who've never heard that sermon ever heard that message.

But you're gonna note here that message you find it in Scripture.

So when someone takes it up in their mouth.

They are taking God's words into their mouth and God now is the one really doing the speaking.

Faith comes by hearing hearing through the Word of Christ.

Cornelius was granted repentance by God.

Through the working of the Word of God in the message that Peter preached to him.

This is exactly what was in his report that they heard from God that hit this.

Peter is going to preach to them a message By which they will be saved.

Notice the emphasis is on the Word doing the work and through the Word of God God the Holy Spirit

grants repentance to you makes you feel sorry true contrition and

sorrow for your sins and Through the Word works in you faith to

believe the good news.

So that you trust the promises that are offered by God.

For the pardon and forgiveness of your sins and eternal life because of what Christ has done.

So everybody who is saved is saved because God has done that to them.

Granted them repentance given them faith and he does all of this through the working of his word.

Which the Holy Spirit is inextricably linked to.

Right, does that make sense?

No, I Tried so hard.

Yes.

No.

Maybe Don has some clarification.

Yes, that's the weird part,

uh -huh.

Yes.

That's the one thing we do have the ability to do is say no.

We do not have the ability to say yes, that's that that is given by God.

Which is the strange part about all of this

then you have hell to look forward to.

Yeah, which is foolishness.

It's absolute foolishness.

Uh -huh.

Not exactly.

Okay.

Yeah, yeah, you're you're you're you're you're kind of mushing the horizontal and the vertical.

Okay.

Now we're talking specifically right now with the vertical.

Okay in our relationship to God.

We're all sinners and God is the one who has to grant us repentance and give us faith

itself as a gift.

No, yeah, see this is where you can take take Christ's death on the cross and put it in its

history.

That was 2 ,000 years ago God laid on him 2 ,000 years ago the iniquity of us all.

You coming to faith in Christ in the 20th century as you did.

That is a separate event than the atonement.

Okay, I didn't know you were smooshing these two together until you

told me.

Okay.

Yeah, okay.

So so think of it this way.

I've used the analogy before and it's a good analogy.

Okay?

How far away is the closest electrical power plant to us from here?

Thief River.

How many hours away is that?

45 minutes of 45 minutes away.

The electricity that's consumed here is made there, right?

Okay, how does the electricity made 45 miles away?

Turn these lights on.

No, it's not magic.

Tell me what's the delivery system?

Wire.

Right.

We see that they're all over the place.

You drive out in the countryside.

You see the big, you know electrical, you know.

You know, you see the pieces of the grid, right?

All right.

So the idea is this Christ dying on the cross is the electrical plant in thief River.

We don't live there.

We're not tapping into the electrical plant directly.

So it has to be delivered somehow it's delivered via wires.

So what Christ accomplished on the cross we can't go back 2 ,000 years ago to that event.

As much as we'd want to we can't.

So then how is it that what Christ accomplished on the cross is delivered to you?

What's the delivery system?

Missionaries, right?

Who else the Bible.

Who else?

Pastors you too.

Right.

So the idea then is is that we become the delivery system nice and that's include all of us.

Because have you ever told anybody about Jesus's death on the cross for their sins?

Yeah, you've done that.

So you're now the delivery system for the gospel faith comes by hearing hearing by the Word of Christ.

How are they supposed to call on somebody whom they've never heard of?

Well, they can't.

So tell them about Jesus.

Now you become the delivery system the Word of God in your mouth is delivering what Jesus accomplished on the

cross and because God's Word is living and active double -edged sword

and the Holy Spirit is inextricably linked to the Word of God and When you speak

God's words.

Who's doing the speaking?

God is God is making his appeal to them

through us.

That's exactly what the scripture says.

So we become the telephone poles of the electrical wires by

which the the finished work on the cross now is brought to people here in this century in our

place in our time.

Does that make sense?

Maybe I should draw.

We're gonna draw this out for you.

Might have to all right.

We will finish there today and pick this up.

But you start to get the idea of what the atonement was all about from our passage today.