Dying to Reign with Joshua Clay

Thanks for checking out the Anchor Faith Message podcast

from St. Augustine, FL.

Now enjoy this message. I believe the Lord's given me a

message tonight that is pertinent to the time that we

live in. I know that most ministers get

up here and say that, and if we didn't have one, why would we

even be here? But I truly had this message on

my heart for a while and Pastor Earl obviously has released me

to come up here in minister tonight.

It's always an honor to preach at home.

Always. I love this place.

I every time I get up or I say this, but I basically was raised

at Anchor Faith Church. OK, everything.

Most of the things that I've learned from God, my parents

helped, you know, raise me in church.

But Anchor Faith Church has taught me everything that I know

right here in house. I'm a product of Anchor Faith

Church. I went to our church's Bible

school. I came here.

I sat right with you. I heard the messages that pruned

me and changed me, just like you did.

There's nothing special about me other than the fact that God

chose me tonight to do this thing through our pastor.

So I'm thankful. I love our pastors, Pastor Earl

and Marcy. They're right.

Now they're in Nicaragua. Going to deal with that church

plant and at Anchor Fate Church, Nicaragua.

And they're also doing a Kingdom Rise conference.

So Pastor Mark Brady's there, Pastor Rick's there.

It's going to be a powerful time for them.

So keep them in your prayers this week, going into this

weekend. It's going to be an awesome time

of anointing and change for that country.

Amen. But Pastor Earl, I love, I love

that we are blessed with real pastors.

The difficulty of preaching at home is we already have such

good preaching. So you're like, Lord, what is

the message for the body? It's not like I'm going to come

bring some brand new thing or something that's going to blow

your mind. We really am just strengthen the

foundation our pastors have already given us.

And I'm thankful for that. I'm thankful that I can come in

on a Wednesday night to our core group, because if you show up at

church on a Wednesday, that's not even like Sunday or the

Sabbath or whatever. You know you're serious about

God when you're out here on a Wednesday.

But the message I have to bring tonight is it's going to cause

us to do a lot of selfreflection.

I always start out this way. I have a passion to make sure,

just like our pastor does, that we understand the context of the

Bible. There's no way for us to really

enter into all God has for us. We don't know why he has

established it. So the the statement you've

heard probably often is that where purpose is unknown, abuse

is inevitable. If you don't know why something

exists, you'll use it for something it was never intended

to be used for. So this goes the same way with

the Bible. And the message of the gospel,

if you don't know why it exists, if you don't know what the Bible

is about, you'll end up using it for your own advantage in a way

it was never meant to be used. That's the problem with having a

lot of preachers that don't read their Bibles.

You're like, is that a real thing?

Unfortunately, yeah. Not here.

But that's happening. And I feel like the reason this

is so strong on my heart is I know half of y'all out there

watching the YouTube and you're going through the the Instagram

reels and there's a lot that you're hearing that say their

preachers or say it's the gospel or say some, there's a lot of

opinions. But in the end, you should be

like the Bereans that Paul commended and said you didn't

just receive the word of God, for as you know the words of

man, but you saw you received it for what it really was and you

went and searched the scriptures and found out that what was

being said was accurate. So if we're not passionate about

reading the Bible ourselves and studying the Bible ourselves to

make sure that what's being said is So what are you doing?

I mean, I'm thankful our pastor or pastor Earl, the senior

pastor, stands up here and says you're not obligated to believe

one thing. I say you're obligated to go

search the scriptures and verify that's what V is being preached

in this platform. Is truth in alignment with that

standard? So when we look at the Bible

that in Genesis chapter one, verse 26, God lays out in the

first two chapters of the Bible, they're called perfect chapters.

Why? Because it's God's perfect plan

and its intentions for the planet and for humanity.

Then in the last two chapters of Bible and Revelation, that's

where God brings everything back around to restore it to what the

first two chapters are about. It's important to note this

because a lot of people want to preach all the stuff in the

middle, like God's changed his mind or because of sin.

God had a new plan. But the God of Genesis chapter

one is the same God of Revelation in the very end.

He never He doesn't change his mind.

He's the same yesterday, today, and forever.

He's the same in Genesis. He's the same in Psalms.

He's the same in Revelation. So if his original plan that he

set out in Genesis One is his eternal plan, that means

everything in the middle of the Bible is to get us back to the

original plan. So when we look at Genesis 126,

it says that God said let us make man in our image according

to our likeness. I'm going to repeat that

statement because we say this. Do we not say this all the time

in a cafe church? You understand?

We still haven't reached the depths of what this verse means.

He's God says Let us make man in our image.

Just like us. This tells me that God expected

that when he created man, man would operate like God, right?

Do we agree man is to operate like God?

Okay. Then he says let us make man and

arms according to our our likeness.

And then says the three words that set in motion all the

purpose of humankind, says and let them rule.

That means humanity was created for rulership of what let them

rule over the fish of the sea, over the birds of the sky, over

the cattle, and over all the earth and every creeping thing

that creeps on the earth. So we know from this passage,

and in all the way into chapter 2, God not only assigns mankind

to be the rulers and the kings of the earth, but He gives them

the rulership of the Kingdom. He didn't say.

Let us make man according to our image and our likeness and make

them worship us. So right out the gate, there's a

lot of Christian religious doctrine that starts getting

torn up in this first passage. Like a what were we created for,

brother? We were created for worship.

Where did God say that he was? Pretty clear if you ask him why

are why are we here? He answers his own question on

the first page. We're created to rule over this

territory, just like God rules over his territory.

But I found there's this misconception with being a king.

And that that's kings can do whatever they want.

Have you ever heard the phrase like, oh, it's good to be king,

right? Because we think in our modern

society, oh, for you to be a king, you do what you want.

I will finally have the freedom to do anything I want to do.

Isn't that why people end up climbing the corporate ladder?

Or people end up trying to amass wealth or have positions of

authority or have a social status to be a celebrity?

Why? Because they feel like the

higher they go, the more freedom they would have to do what they

please. If I had more money, I could do

more than I want to do. When If God intended for man to

rule like he rules, we'd have to surmise that he would give man a

standard to rule by that he himself had.

See if Adam could do whatever he wanted because he was king.

Why did it matter that he ate the fruit?

How can you as a king lose your kingship if you can do what you

want? It's questions we got to ask

this because. The same God that created Adam

and gave his rulership is the same God that brought his son to

return rulership back to you. And the way Adam was intended to

rule is the way he intends for you to rule.

So Jesus didn't come to give you back a Kingdom so that you could

be a king that does whatever you want to do.

He holds you to the same standard he holds himself too.

Because then we get this problem.

Abuse is inevitable. If you read the gospel through

the eyes and just, oh God is he's emotionally moved by

things, then we end up getting the statement God's in control.

I'm telling you, the people got me shaking their heads way more

on the podcast because here we got good teaching and we know in

Anchor Bay Church God's in control of what his word.

See in the car, they're like, what is this guy saying?

But God's not just in control to do whatever he pleases.

God has bound himself to his eternal standard that is his own

word. We see this because we know God

has the name above all names, right?

We sing the name above all names, and we sing these songs,

but there's something higher than his name.

Some 138 tells us He exults his word above his own name.

I'm going to try not to talk fast, but I'm a clay, OK?

So I don't. I don't know, but I'm getting

ready to like, rapid fire some information here.

You're going to have to take good notes or go back and

listen. But if you think about what God

holds his standard to, you realize David was the man after

God's own heart, right? So David as a ruling king,

apparently in the in the vert and proverbs where it says that

where a man's treasure is there his heart is also must mean.

If David was after God's heart, he found where God's treasure

was, and then he put his heart where God's treasure was.

Well, where's God's treasure? What we find, David gives us the

key answer in someone 19 Your Word.

Oh Lord, I've hidden in my heart your principles, your precepts.

I meditate on their life. To me, they're the bread that I

eat to the water that I drink. Your word is everything God

said. This man gets it.

He gets what I'm about. That's why you'll never

understand faith if you don't understand the value God has in

his own word. You don't come to God and try to

emotionally get him to move. You come to God and you say,

hey, the thing you value. I want, I want to adhere to

that. I'm going to give you your word.

So the most endearing quality of God is that He keeps His own

word. So then what expectation does He

have on us if if we're to rule like Him, if He made us in our

His likeness and His image, so that we would rule like Him,

that means we must adhere to the ruling standard that He adheres

to, which is His word. And then from there we must

value the thing He values, which is His word.

So then Jesus shows up to restore us back to all that Adam

had lost. Adam lost the Kingdom, not a

religion. So Jesus was not a religious

leader. Man made him a religious leader.

Man lifted him up as a leader of a religion.

Jesus came as what he was. That was a ruling king and the

one bringing back the reign of God to the planet.

That's why he was able to say the Kingdom of God is the most

important thing that I could ever tell you about.

Already we're stepping on toes, I guess.

I'm just kidding. I love Mr. Dodd.

He's he's not leaving because of that, I hope.

Anyway, he's like a word of God. What?

But Jesus came and brought a message so that then he gives us

this. We have this mandate to preach

the gospel of Jesus Christ, right?

But again, religion has taken Jesus Christ and made his life

story the message, and we forgot what his message was.

We're not called to preach about Jesus, and I know this is rough

for some people. Again, there's people swerving

on the podcast later. Y'all are fine, but the message

was never Jesus's life story and what he came to do for humanity.

If that was the gospel, he's a bad preacher.

If that was the gospel, Jesus failed his his ministry.

Because he just never preached that message.

He told a handful of people in private about what he would do

in his death, bearing and resurrection, and even they

didn't believe him. But when he got in front of the

masses, he said, listen, the Kingdom of God is at hand.

It has arrived, it's back, it's a big moment.

The Kingdom of God is so back up.

You can live the Kingdom right now.

And you'll find that always go through the Gospels.

Jesus's message continually empowered your daily living, not

what you do when you die. In fact, if he was concerned

about what happens when you die, he'd have preached it.

He would have said it. We learn from the epistles what

happens when we die, to be absent from the bodies, be

present with the Lord. And that's that's in the

principle. That's nobody's questioning

that. We understand what happens when

you die, but if the gospel is about what happens when you die,

what do we do until then? Then we get whole denominations

of people pricks and stuff like, well, we're just barely making

it. But one day when in the great

bye bye, we'll we'll get up to heaven and we'll be there

forever. If you read it, we're not.

Not even a whole lifetime do you spend there.

You come back to where you were created for which is the planet.

But when you misunderstand the message of the Bible, when you

think, well, it's about getting people to be able to go to

heaven in the afterlife. Then you up saying weird things

that Jesus never said. You know, coming up with weird

doctrines and weird ideas about what it means to live as a

Christian or be a be a Christian when the whole word Christian

means to be Christ like. And if our goal is to be like

Christ, don't you think we should at minimum preach the

message he preached, much less live like he lived?

You understand why Jesus was able to be the last Adam because

the first Adam as a ruler. Didn't uphold God's standard and

did his own standard. He did his own will.

He ate the fruit and then lost his dominion because dominion

was tied to the ability to adhere to the word.

Jesus came and did the opposite of Adam.

Jesus came and said I'm here to only do what the father says.

I'm concerned. I'm concerned that the modern

American church. Has preached to you a cheap

gospel? Because in the end I can't find

where Jesus says this thing is just free because it sure cost

him something. And all those in the room that

are religious are like, brother, it's not a works of any man,

Chabot, yet you know it's the free gift of God.

It is a free gift. But what's the free gift?

If you're going to come at me with Scripture, let's follow it

through. Because I don't see where Jesus

went to his disciples and said, hey, when he first called him,

think about the first time that he called his disciples.

They're out there fishing, right?

They're fishermen. He comes and says, hey, lay down

your Nets, put aside this what you're doing and you come follow

me for free, obviously, but did it cost them something to follow

freely? That that that account is little

deeper than we give it credit for.

Because understand them being fishermen with Nets, they didn't

just lay down tools on a job site and walk away.

They laid down everything their grandfathers and their fathers

had taught them. They laid down their Corp, their

identity among the townspeople of these are fishermen.

And think about what identity they picked up that they would

forever be called students. That's what disciple means,

right? It means a student.

The disciples of Jesus, we still call him the students of Jesus.

They laid down an old identity. So tonight I'm really gonna be

talking about the cost of the Kingdom.

If I had a title. I hate it when ministers do

that. If I had a title, obviously I'm

about to say what the title is. Okay.

But the title would be dying to reign.

Because unfortunately the the a popular message in church

circles and a popular message when you're on that Instagram,

you're seeing little clips of the things is that basically you

pray a prayer and then you don't have to do anything else and

then it doesn't cost you anything.

When every time Jesus gave a call to the Kingdom, there was

always a price you have to pay. Now your works you could never

and the and the old person that you were.

We know that. Romans tells us when when we

were first, when we were born. We were born into a sin nature.

We've got the sin nature on us. We can't get it off.

There's nothing you could ever do to get that sin nature off of

you except for God coming in by His powerful grace and

transforming your life. And you can't earn that.

That's free. The second chance is free.

It's important to mention that it's a free gift.

Because God didn't have to give you another way to come back

into the Kingdom. He freely did that of his own

nature. However, we've we've heard this

message that there's no obligation on your part.

It's like an infomercial, right? Like no cost, no obligation. 90

days free trial. You can come to church and be a

Christian as well as as long as it works out for you.

And if it doesn't work out for you, then you can just walk away

and there's no problem when that was never the message of Jesus

or the disciples. In fact, if you look at the

early church, they died for what they believed in, the physical

flesh. I just think the idea of being

born again is funny, that you can be born again.

When my children are born, Titus is on the front row.

Titus raise your hand, Wave your hand no higher.

They can't see it. There it is.

When Titus was born, that was a brand new life.

They entered the planet that hasn't been here previous with

all the potential to grow and develop and grow into something

awesome. Yeah, we say we want to get born

into the Kingdom, and we don't realize what comes before the

new birth. We want to be likened under

Christ's resurrection. But there's something that

always precedes the resurrection.

Think about it. I'm telling you, we can't

understand the Bible without the Holy Ghost.

But there's just something about the brain God gave us and the

Holy Ghost coming together that we're like, let's just think

about it. That too many believers want to

come in and be born again, yet have the other one still living.

You can't have two, you understand.

There's no commitment if the other one doesn't die.

You were a Sinner. That's what you were.

So when you became born again, what you were is supposed to be

gone in Luke Chapter 9, verse 23.

Luke 9:23

I guess we'll get to the first scripture.

This is the second scripture. Out of 38, Listen, Luke, Chapter

Luke 9:23

9, verse 23. Jesus says this important

statement, he says and he was saying to them all.

If anyone wishes to come after me, do we wish to go after him?

Is it free to follow him? We don't know.

See everyone? Yeah, I don't know.

We'll figure it out. We've got a long time.

I've only been going 18 minutes. It says if anyone wishes to come

after me, he must deny himself. Take up His cross daily and

follow me. See, we want to be followers of

Christ, but there's two prerequisites.

And you can follow Him for free. It's open to anybody, and you

could never earn that opportunity.

But there's two prerequisites to being a follower says that if

you wish to come after me, you must deny yourself.

Daily, take up your cross and follow me.

There's a cost that comes with ruling.

I've heard this statement before.

When they're like you know God, he'll just take you as you are.

Just come as you are. Jesus will receive you as you

are. You know what?

You can approach the door in whatever way you are, but you

cannot enter in that way. The new birth is always preceded

by a death of something to be resurrected with crisis, to also

be likened under his death and burial first.

Sometimes you get to let these things sink in, because too

often we've cheapened what we've been given.

When we get a gospel that's just free, there's no obligation to

you. There's nothing you should do.

There's nothing you can do. We've actually taken a gospel

that's valuable. We've stolen it and then given

illegal contraband to someone else.

And I'm telling you, in the end, the owner's coming and he's

filed a claim. Then they say in the end he

separates the sheep from the goats.

And they all say, Lord, but I tell you right now, some of them

didn't pay what the others paid. There's a death that has to

come. There's the first thing you have

to die to in the Kingdom is your identity.

Let's look at Galatians chapter 2, verse 20.

Galatians 2:20

The apostle Paul's writing this, one of the greatest, you know,

writers of the New Testament, and he's written more than you

know any of you have the New Testament.

We got to get facts and then somebody's going to come back.

Oh, your facts. Listen.

And Glacier 220, the apostle Paul writes and he says, I have

been crucified with Christ. Haven't we quoted this before?

What do you think his crucifixion did?

Didn't it kill him? The apostle Paul identifies I've

been crucified with Christ. So let's let's Let me help your

intellect a little bit. The apostle Paul's writing this

down. He's physically alive.

So you're like, well, what does that mean then?

Because Jesus literally, physically died.

Yet Paul is saying he was crucified.

What does that mean? I guess I should say there's

three types of death. Death in the Bible is always

translated the same word. Death doesn't mean stop existing

or stop breathing. It's not what death means.

Death always means separation. So if you've been saved from

death, you've been saved from a type of it.

Because when God said Adam, if you eat the fruit, you'll surely

die. He ate the fruit.

And did he die? Yes, but not the death that

you're thinking of. Where there's a a funeral and

somebody comes up and says nice words about you and then they

put you in a box in the ground. The death that he does, he

became separated from God's will and God's ability to do what he

was called to do. He separated himself from his

purpose. It was a ripping apart.

Another word that that means the same thing is divorce.

It's a ripping apart of two of an entity that was one that is

now two things. So Adam divorced his purpose

when he chose to disobey what the king said and do his own

will. Unfortunately, Adam was faced

with a difficult choice in the garden.

It was a choice between 2 deaths.

He either died and separated himself from God, or he died to

his own will. And yet modern believers don't

think this costs anything. The mere fact that good and good

exists means evil exists. The mere fact that the Kingdom

of Light and the Kingdom of God exists means there's an

alternative. So that means you'll never be

free. Since God will never violate

your free will, you'll never be free from choosing every single

day. That's why it says in the past

scripture, we just read that it's a choice daily take up your

cross daily. Why?

Because there's something daily that is a choice you're going to

have to make to either live unto God and die to yourself or

separate from Him and His way and live for yourself.

So again, Glaciers 220 says I've been crucified with Christ and

it is no longer I who live, but Christ lives in me.

And the life that I live now in the flesh.

I live by faith in the Son of God.

This is a picture of a born again believer.

I've been crucified. That means who I was has died,

has gone away. I mean, haven't we seen this

with water baptism? Isn't that the whole point of

water baptism? That who you were dies, is

buried in the sin nature and the person that you used to be is

gone forever and then you are raised up to a brand new life in

Christ. Yet when we preach the gospel

that well, Jesus came to die and save you from your consequences

but just keep doing what you want to do, we negate half of

the work of Christ. 2/3 of the work of Christ.

I knew it'd be pretty serious, but you have to die to your

identity. Think about it.

How difficult is that for most people?

I'll give you an example of down to your identity.

Luke, Chapter 18, verse 18. We find the rich, young ruler.

Luke 18:18

He shows up and he asked Jesus, He says good teacher, what?

What can I do to inherit this Kingdom?

You understand why people want the Kingdom.

It is God's perfect will and intention for your life.

It has everything that you've ever dreamed of inside of it.

It's got all the peace you need, all the joy that you need.

It's got health and healing and prosperity.

It's got life for your family. It's got everything you could

ever want. Yet why is it so hard for people

to choose it? Why is this a hard choice?

Do I take life and life more abundant that Jesus came to give

me or do I just stay in a little bit of death?

Why is this a choice? It's crazy.

But the rich young ruler comes and says I want to live this

Kingdom life. What can I what?

What must I do to inherit this life?

And Jesus says, listen. And first of all the correction

was like, don't talk about the teacher thing, but next just do

the Bible stuff. I just honor your father and

mother and and and do the 10 commandments.

Just do those. And the guy says, listen, I've

been doing them my whole life. But I feel like something's

missing. And how many Christians suppose

Christians are walking around saying I'm doing the Bible, I'm

doing Bible principles, I'm reading my Bible, but

something's missing. Jesus would say the same thing

to them that he says to the rich young ruler.

He says, OK, you want to know what's missing?

Take everything you have. Go get rid of it.

He doesn't say take your wealth because you're rich and we need

your finances. Sew it in here to the ministry.

Jesus doesn't say that He has no selfish intention with it.

He just says everything that you are.

Do away with it, then come follow me.

So in the end, what does Jesus get out of the rich young ruler?

Young if you're paying attention.

But he doesn't. If the rich young ruler chose

right, all he would have to bring to the table is just him,

not a previous identity, not all the things he's amassed in his

life, not all the things that he's done with his time, not all

the accolades. His Jesus basically says tear up

your resume and just be with me. It's a free invitation.

Jesus said come do it. He didn't say pay some other

price. All that required was for the

rich young ruler to pay his own price.

There's the cost because all Jesus would have had is just the

man and that's all they wanted. Going to die to your identity.

Another one is you have to die to your own lust.

Galatians chapter 5, verse 24, It says now those who belong to

Galatians 5:24

Christ Jesus have crucified the flesh.

Say crucified. What happens when you crucify

something? It dies.

It says they, those who belong to Christ have crucified the

flesh with its passions and its desires, which means,

apparently, to follow Jesus accurately.

Not only do I have to lay aside whatever I thought my identity

was, but I also have to put aside my impulses and desires of

my flesh. How can you say you belong to

Christ in this verse? How can you say I belong to

Christ, but I still do my own impulses, passions, and desires?

That's asinine a nine. Don't be weird.

Thank you, Chris. Another thing you have to die

too is your past. And listen, most people would

say, yeah, that's great, die to your past, die to your regrets.

Another example of this is Second Corinthians 517.

We know this is from the salvation scriptures that when

we lead somebody to get born again, 1st Corinthians 517 says

if and therefore if anyone is in Christ, say in Christ, he is a

new creature. The old things have passed away.

It doesn't mean the old things are still walking around, but

then they walked by you. That's not what that means.

What happens if I said my dog passed away?

What would you think? It dead.

The old things have died and behold new things have come.

So if I was a Sinner, that was my nature and I could never do

good enough to earn myself out of this situation.

But then Jesus came through his powerful grace and his work of

his death Bill and resurrection on the cross and said, you can

come unto me and you can come into my Kingdom through this

work, but it requires that you die and that a brand new person

comes in with me. Jesus doesn't accept the Sinner

as they are and bring them in. Jesus killed the Sinner at the

doorstep and then has them come on in as a brand new birth

because again, you can't have two There's not you and the old

man. They can't exist at the same

time. But here's a difficult one, and

we we'll come to this one because this seems to be the

problem for most believers. I'm not saying all, but most is

that we have to die a death to our own opinions.

Let's look at Jesus again. If we say that Jesus is our

example, could we all raise our hand and agree Jesus is our

perfect example? The goal is to be Christ.

Like, am I right? Jesus is.

I mean, the whole point of Christianity is that means a

Christlike person. So if we're going to be like

Jesus, why don't we look at Jesus, see how he lived, and say

that's how I should live? That's the perfect standard.

John chapter 5, verse 30. Jesus said I can do nothing of

John 5:30

my own initiative as I hear I judge, and my judgment is just

because I do not seek my own will, but the will of Him who

sent me. Well, we have separated the

sheep from the goats in this situation.

In fact, we could do a, you know, grade your own test.

You can determine which side of this you're on.

Because don't say I'm Christian. If you continually assert your

will into every situation and you don't consult the Father and

say what do you want here the whole call to salvation happens

in Romans chapter 10, verses 9 and 10.

Romans 10:9

Whenever it says with the with the mouth confess, it says no.

That's the second part. That's ten that what 9 says that

if you confess with your mouth Jesus says Lord and believe in

your heart that God raised him from the dead, you will be

saved. So most believers say I've been

saved and you're like, well, how is the Lord doing today?

What did the Lord say to do today?

Well, I don't know. What did he say from the word

today? Well, I don't know.

Self examination. We got to check and see.

Is this thing worth it or not? Have you come into the Kingdom?

Yeah. Have we been born into the

Kingdom? Absolutely.

Do we value it for how valuable it is or have we cheapened it?

The second one, Jesus said in John chapter 12, verse 49.

John 12:49

Jesus says, for I do not speak on my own initiative, but what

the Father himself, the Father himself who sent me, has given

me a commandment as to what to say and what to speak.

Jesus lived this pattern that I don't do just what I want.

I consult the Father and I do whatever he says that I'm not

here to do my will. I'm here to do what the will of

the Father is, and I do that will.

Why? Because there's power contained

in obeying the commands of God that God himself obeys.

You want the power of God in your life, but the power is

contained in God's ability to keep his word.

So if you're not keeping his word, there's no power.

And there's a price to pay for the power.

It's that you lay aside your will and only do what he says

and understand. It's it's funny, we get up here,

we try to preach and this, but it's just so simple.

Just do what God says. Just do what the Bible says.

What does the Bible say? I believe it, I read it, I

believe it, I apply it, I receive it.

It's good, we're good. The simplest principle in the

whole world is that you just do what God says.

It's interesting that the that the lie from the enemy in the

garden to Adam was that if you eat of the fruit you'll be like

God when he actually told a complete opposite lie.

Because if you obey the command of God then you're truly like

him. God doesn't disobey his own

commands. His own words, he doesn't

violate his own word. Camera was going off.

No way he got a happy one. No chance.

If we go over to March, Chapter 8, verse 35, again there's a

cost to this reigning, but the prize is far outweighing what it

costs to obtain it. What you gain in this Kingdom

far outweighs what you think you have to lay down.

And I think that's one of the biggest tricks of the enemy is

he wants to come in and say, well, if you, you know, you

know, if you really commit to church, if you really get born

again, you're going to have to, you're going to have to lose

some friendships. You know it's not going to be

this thing you don't get to do as much as you thought you were

going to want to do and try to trick you into thinking that you

trading your own will doesn't get you back as much as what

you've given away with. What he has in his Kingdom far

outweighs, far outweighs anything that you're trying to

do right now in your own power. There's no way you could ever.

I mean, don't we serve the God that it says He's able to do far

more abundantly beyond, although we can think or even imagine,

yet we can't seem to get in our heads.

But if I give up this little thing in my life, I won't.

He's not probably going to do that verse for me.

I can imagine what God could do. He can do more than you can

imagine. So if you can imagine how good

it could be, he'll blow that away if you're willing to pay

the price. Wow.

Are y'all in for a history lesson.

You want me to give you a history lesson?

This Bible that we would. Everybody is Anybody have a

paper Bible? Hold up your Bible.

You understand that most of the hands that pinned this were

murdered not just when they were written in the Bible times, but

1500 years after that. Hands that were scribing it in

your language were also murdered.

Yet how do we have the same value and the same passion about

the written word of God that people all throughout history

have had? And you look at our Nation

Today, and since we've sold a cheap gospel to the masses, that

doesn't cost them anything. They have no value for this

word. So how many believers?

Actually, it's a staggering statistic.

How many believers actually even read their Bible now?

Obviously not here, because we have our Bible reading plan.

We hold each other accountable. Most of the people in this

church body are reading the same stuff at the same time we're

talking about it. I'm going on my 17th time

through the thing cover to cover, plus however many

hundreds of times I've read it. Beyond that, in the Gospels and

in the the the Psalms, the Epistles.

I mean, we we are people who read the Bible.

That's why anchor play Church is hard to deceive because we're

people who are in the Word. Somebody steps up here and says

something. I've seen it.

We had, you know, somebody comes in and says something a little

different than what we know the Bible says.

And everybody's, like, looking around, texting their friends.

Did you hear that? Did you hear that?

You hear what they said? We're going to heaven forever.

Listen, listen. I'm asking to be critical.

But again, it's hard for somebody to come in, deceive a

group of people who read the Bible.

But, you know, for you to be able to read the Bible came at a

cost. It first had to be written by

men who were murdered for what they believed in, following

Christ. People, I want to be like a

disciple. I want to be like, you

understand, they died pretty gory deaths.

We've got this book called Fox's Book of Martyrs where a man

named John Fox ended up going on this long, you know, extended

time of writing and documenting the disciples and the people who

were actually murdered for the gospel, but then ended up going

into his own time frame and and for his time he had modern

martyrs that were still being killed and brutally murdered for

the gospel sake. It's a powerful book, but a

moment time that the Catholic Church was running rampant.

They had, they had, they were, you know, spreading their

version of the Gospel all throughout the the planet.

They had the church in Rome where the Pope was the final

authority. They had the church in England

that was submitted to the church in Rome.

The Pope had the final say in spiritual authority.

Well, there's a group of men that rose up, one of them named

William Tyndale. William Tyndale is the one who

interpreted the Bible in English for the first time at the cost

of his own life because he began to read the word for himself.

Like we said in the beginning, like the Bereans, he's hearing

what's being said by the fallible man.

He's been hearing what's being said by the palpasy.

He's being heard was said by the deacons and Cardinals and

bishops. And he's like, this isn't lining

up with what I'm been taught to read.

So as he reads the original Latin, he's finding in there,

there's discrepancies where man has asserted his own selfish

desires in this interpretation and they're trying to hide it

from the masses. So he said, I want to actually

write this in the common language so that we can

understand this and that we can all be on the same page and not

be deceived. So this enraged the Catholic

Church because the question was raised by William 10, Tyndale

and his companions. Who has the final authority in

the spirit? Is it the Pope or is it the

written word? That's tough.

That's tough when the entire culture and the half of the

known world at the time had been converted to Christianity and

they were all submitted to the Pope.

This also happens to be during the time of Henry the Eighth,

who we know famously murdered his wives because they weren't

giving him sons, because back then modern medicine wasn't as

modern as it is now. He decided he wanted to divorce

one of them. So he said we're going to break

off the church from Rome, no longer we're going to submit to

the Pope, We're going to have Canterbury and the Archbishop of

Canterbury, and we're going to have our own version of the

church. But the problem is they still

were hiding the Bible from the people.

So William Tyndale says we're going to write it in the common

language. This is taking place in the 16th

century, around 1555. And as he's pinning this, he has

about five other companions that are with him and they're

beginning to preach this message.

And I'm going to tell you it's going to blow your mind what the

final straw was of their message.

The entire interpretation of the Bible that caused just complete

ripples through the Catholic Church and enrage the Catholic

hierarchy was hinged on 4 words. It was in remembrance of me

enraged the Catholic Church. You're like what?

Because at the time, the core of the Catholic doctrine is when

you took the sacrament or communion like we call it, that

When the priest blesses the wafer and blesses the wine, it

literally transmorphs into the actual physical body of Christ

and the actual physical blood of Christ.

It's called Christ's presence in the sacrament.

It's 2023. So we're like, that's weird.

That's some weird Harry Potter stuff.

We're not doing that in the church.

But William Tyndale and his friends found the scripture

where Jesus says, as often as you do this, do this in

remembrance of me. See what this causes them to

say. Christ's work was finalized on

the cross and no longer is Christ doing this work in us.

We do it to remember his work. And the Catholic Church said

you're wrong. And most of the entire nation

and popular culture agreed with the Catholic Church.

So as William Tyndale and his friends are being led at that,

they've interpreted the Bible, they put it into print in

English language, and they've come against the hierarchy of

the known church at the time and said we don't agree with this

interpretation. Here's how we rightly divide

what's actually said. They said burn them alive, took

William Tyndall, went and tied him to his stake, lit the fires

and let him burn until he was just ashes.

But he had a friend named John Rogers.

John Rogers had ten children, younger guy.

But he also helped to translate the Bible and John Rogers as he

was being led to the stake. We know that John Fox, who wrote

Fox's Book of Martyrs, was present at this actual killing.

And as he watches all these gentlemen get lined up and get

tied to the stake, he says as John Rogers walked out, it was

as if he was glowing in countenance, like he was headed

to his own wedding. Wow, you going to send these

early reformers Weren't just, they weren't trying to be

reformers. They just ignited a passion for

the written word When they read it for themselves.

That's as deep as it gets. That's as deep as it was.

It's not that God all of a sudden got an Angel for a

visitation from an Angel to William Tyndall said, you shall

pin my word. That's not how that happened.

They got the written word themselves begin to read it.

And it ignited such a passion that they said, we're willing to

die for this word, we're willing to die for others to be able to

read and rightly divide this truth.

So as John Rogers has led up to the stake, he stands there.

He gets tied to this stake, has the bundles of straw and hay

underneath him. And the Pope gave him a second

chance and sent the Bishop to him.

And they said, if you will just agree with the doctrine of

Christ's presence in the sacraments, we will untie you

and let you free. Right now all they wanted was

him to bow to the popular interpretation of what the

Scripture meant to them. But that day he died, but not

before he spoke the words and said that which I have preached,

I will seal with my own blood. And John Fox writes and says.

And as the flames engulfed around him, he washed his hands

in the flames and went peacefully.

A young guy with a whole family. What it what was within them

that caused them to say, I'm willing to die for this thing.

Then I'm willing to die a horrible death peacefully and

knowing I've done my work. Yeah, We've got Christians today

that aren't willing to die for nothing.

Most people would say I'd die for the gospel.

I'd die for Jesus. If I had to raise your hands,

you'd say, I'd be willing to die for Jesus.

Yes, I would. We have this picture of, like,

you know, when the school shooting happened, when I was a

young teenager, the school shooting, this kid held a gun to

a girl's head and said, do you believe in Jesus Christ?

And she's like, yes, I do. It bam, she was gone because she

died for the sake of Jesus, died for the gospel.

But I'm telling you, that's not the expectation Jesus had on a

regular basis, even though these people literally physically

died. I'm telling you right now, if

you think you would die but you won't die to yourself daily,

you're a liar. I used to have this thought

because that, you know, DC Talk popular band back when I was a

teenager, they wrote this book that was another book of

martyrs, Right. And it showed modern Martyrs

keeps you along the mission field that would die.

And I remember reading it, you know, way too young and being

really freaked out about it. I'm like, who?

These people. But then it makes you ask the

question, right. You're like, well, would I die

for this? Like, what?

I would I put up with what they put up with, what I go through

to the end, You know, would I do this?

And I don't know. But the more that I've served

God and the more that I've walked this thing out with him,

I realized that's not a hard death for me.

Because the moment someone tries to physically take my life, I've

already died that death. Because the moment that I set

aside my own will, I've already died that death.

The best they can do is kill a dead man.

Come on. The passion that these early

church fathers had in the beginning of the church age.

Then all of a sudden these passion that these men had 100

and you know 1500 years after this that are still ignited this

passion from the written word get we try to coerce people read

your Bible. We have a piece of paper at

least you can check off. Where's the passion for the

word? Where's the passion to say I'm

willing to die for this thing? I will read this, I will be in

it. I'm going to let it become

everything I believe and everything I know.

All they wanted from John Rodgers was for him to agree

with the popular narrative because 2023 and John Rodgers on

this thing. So it would say, hey, what is

love is love. Just agree that love your

neighbor means you. God's okay with everybody.

Just agree that that Jesus died and you don't have to do

anything else. That's what the Bible says.

Disagree and we won't kill you. It's tough.

It's tough because it's not tough because God can't do it.

It's not tough because it's not grace.

It's tough because who's willing to do that?

Are you willing to die to your own reputation?

Are you willing to die to your own popularity among your

friends if one of your friends is like, hey, you know, Are you

sure you want to do this? It seems like you go to church a

whole lot and you end up caving and saying, well, I guess you

know, I can miss a few services when the word of God says don't

forsake the assembling of yourselves together, You ain't

going to die for the gospel. You can't even die to your own

self and have somebody view you differently.

Come on, people think they die with a gun to their head, but

when they get a microphone to their mouth, all of a sudden,

what is death then? That's why it disgusts me when I

see modern preachers that have a popular big name and a big

following. All of a sudden somebody will

ask them a question like what is your view on homosexuality?

And they can answer the question because they're concerned about

their their popularity, or they're concerned about who

wouldn't follow them anymore. You're not going to die for the

gospel. You can't die to your own self

right here. This is your chance to die for

the gospel. Assassinate your own the way

people view you. Then kingdom's got to cost, and

it's worth everything. I'm telling you, I don't know

how much more we could preach at Anchor Bay Church and tell you

how valuable this Kingdom is and everything you want in life is

right here in it. Everything you've ever dreamed

of, everything you've ever desired, the greatest, the all

the depression you've battled with.

The answer is in the Kingdom. All you have to do is get in it

and it's free. It just requires you to die to

depression. Why don't you want to die to

depression? I'm like, yeah, there you go.

I've, I've, you know, somebody's like, oh, I've also had bad

relationships. I've just always gone from

person to person that always just abused me and have bad

relationships, you know, I just don't know what to do.

Die to that person that keeps like die to yourself, that keeps

choosing wrong. Live for God.

Get in the Kingdom. What if he requires something

that I don't want to do? You don't want to do what you're

doing now. What's the difference?

You got the choice of Adam. I've got to choose between 2

deaths. Either die to myself and God

resurrects me, or I die myself because I'm separating myself

from him and I live in miserable.

That's good. We're going to read a little

bit. Let's let's get Mark Chapter 8,

Mark 8:35

verse 35. Mark chapter 8, verse 35 says

Mark 8:35

for whoever wishes to save his life, we'll lose it for whoever

loses his life, for my sake and the Gospels will save it.

I love the encounter of the rich young ruler because I like being

you know, in the scenario. I'm like looking at looking this

overview of this scenario, because with the rich and ruler,

the disciples were standing right there.

We already know they weren't that great at not eavesdropping.

OK, so they they'll always look, what's this, what's this

conversation? I'm sure, I'm sure that you

know, I'm obviously just, you know, pretending, right?

But I'm sure if the original walked up to Jesus over there,

I'm sure Peter's like, what's going on?

What's he, what's he saying? Because when Jesus says leave

everything behind and come follow me, the next conversation

that takes place is the disciples go.

Well master, we left everything and we followed you.

My children do this. You understand?

I'll be like, hey, go clean your room and then when the old one

comes and goes, I cleaned my room.

Why? Why do you not tell me that?

Just do it, get it done, be done with it.

Why we got why are you trying to make yourself look better than

this person? But we got Peter who definitely

had issues, who comes and goes. Jesus, that guy didn't follow

you but I did. But Jesus follows up and says,

listen, nobody has left house or mothers or brothers or families

for the sake of the Kingdom and won't receive much more in this

life. He doesn't say when you die.

He doesn't say just store bridges in heaven that one day

when you get there you'll be able to access him.

He says Nobody's forsaken something for the Kingdom.

Nobody's paid a price for the Kingdom that the Kingdom won't

pay out right now while you're breathing.

You don't have to just wait till you get to heaven to get a

reward. The Kingdom pays out right now,

but for some reason, people think, well, but what if it

doesn't? We serve a God that's the same

yesterday and for today and forever.

We serve a God who has literally never, ever, ever, ever failed.

But all of a sudden in 2023, in Jasmine's life, it's going to be

the first time that he's missed it.

Sorry, Jasmine, It's the very first time.

Yeah, yeah, I made it this far in history, but I'm going to

fail you. He's never failed.

He'll never fail whatever he promises.

The entire existence of God hinges on his character to keep

what he said. So if he said he'll do

something, he's faithful to you that he'll make sure it happens.

So why is it a difficult choice to go his way?

I don't know. Let's look at Romans chapter 6.

Romans 6 · chapter mention

Romans chapter 6. We're going to read verses one

Romans 6 · chapter mention

through 11, so buckle in. Stretch your wrists.

You're going to write down every word of these scriptures right

here. If you're taking notes, you're

writing down every word of this. So I'm giving you a second.

I'm giving you a breather. My mic hands get real sweaty,

too. Yeah.

All right, we're ready, the writer of Romans tells us.

He says, what shall we say then? Shall we continue to send so

that grace may abound, or that grace may increase?

This is a big question in 2023. See, we misunderstand the grace

of God, and we think grace is the big cover up for what we do.

That's wrong. Did Jesus ever do wrong?

The why did he have to grow in grace?

So grace must not mean what you think it means then.

But the apostle Paul was was like, I'm going to write way far

in advance here. I know this is going to be a

problem, like a couple 1000 years from now.

And I'm going to answer the question that they're going to

ask in their hearts. What shall we say then?

That we are to continue and sin that grace may increase, he

says, may it never be. But then speaks this statement

that Will Rock the religious world right now, today it Will

Rock most of the churches in Saint Augustine.

He says, may it never be. How shall we who died to sin,

live in sin? So what that tells me is if a

believer identifies with sin and says, oh, I'm just a sorry sin

of it's what I am, I don't think you died then I think you were

sold a gospel that didn't have a price with it and you thought

you came into a Kingdom that didn't cost you with your life

and now you're continuing to sin because you never died in the

1st place. And I know that's a deep

statement, but it says if you've died to sin, how can you, how

could you live in it That doesn't go together?

I think it would be important right now.

Leave that up on the screen. But to assert this, in the Old

Testament, your sins were covered by the blood.

Sacrifices would cover the blood.

God could view you through the blood, but there was always a

separation between God and the sin, and he was able to cover

that and show that and you're always being covered.

When Jesus died on the cross and did his final work of his death

barrel and resurrection, that changed how sin and you get

together. That for you to die to sin means

it leaves you and it doesn't participate with you any longer.

So in the New Testament, blood doesn't cover the sins, it

removes the sins and the nature that wants to do it.

So when someone says, well, I just keep sinning because that's

just who I am, then you need to die.

That's the whole call. And again, as a disclaimer, I'm

not saying physically die. We understand this.

I'm not saying you need to go and actually die a physical

death. The death that the Apostle Paul

died whenever he said I've no longer lived, but Christ lives

in me, we understand was a sacrifice of a living sacrifice,

not a dead sacrifice. But if we continue on, it says,

or do you not know, maybe, maybe the church didn't know Paul's

right. He's like, maybe you didn't know

this, that all of us who have been baptized under Christ Jesus

have been baptized into his death first.

Therefore we have been buried with him through baptism unto

death. Again, there's two things that

have taken place here before you participate in the resurrection.

There's a death that has taken place and a forever putting away

that has taken place. Then it says, You've been buried

with him through baptism unto death, so that as Christ was

raised from the dead through the glory of the Father, so we too

might walk in this newness of life.

For if we become united with him in the lightness of his death,

certainly we shall also be in the lightness of his

resurrection. These go hand in hand.

You cannot be resurrected without first dying, right?

And we want. I want the power of Christ's

resurrection. The same spirit that raised

Christ from the dead lives in me.

That raising spirit that raised Christ can't raise you if you're

already still there. Resurrection raises something

that died. It seems simple, right?

Doesn't it seem simple? It says that knowing this, that

our old self was crucified with Him in order that our body of

sin might be done away with so that we would no longer be

slaves to sin. This is telling us why Jesus did

it in the 1st place. For you to say I'm just a sorry

Sinner, say my grace, you have no idea what he even did.

He did this whole thing and paid this ultimate price so that you

could also come in and be free from sin.

Yeah, we still keep identifying with sin.

Why says now that if we've died with Christ, we we believe that

we shall also live with Him, knowing that Christ, having been

raised from the dead, is never to die again.

Death is no longer master over him for the death that he died,

he died to sin once and for all. But the life that he lives, he

lives to who? That's the missing piece for

most believers, that they think they were resurrected and they

think they were born again to live a life.

That they wanted the life that they get to just choose.

They want to get born again so they can be free from what the

devil says to do what they want to say.

And what they don't understand is that your flesh is also

siding with the enemy. There's only two masters,

there's not three. There's 2 masters, there's not

three. You don't have to choose between

the devil God and yourself yourself.

Your selfish nature is already sided with one.

You either serve the king and submit to the King's rule and

obey the King's word, or the alternative is the other father,

the abusive, lying, destroying, stealing, killing father that

one. You get to choose between those

two, Verse 11 says. Even so, consider yourselves to

be dead to sin, but alive to God in Christ.

The price that we pay for rulership is we have to die.

I find so often. That is the the enemy can't do

anything new. He's always going to just twist

and manipulate something that that the the Lord's trying to do

in the 1st place. So that's why suicide is such a

horrible tragedy, is because the enemy has tricked you into

saying if you would just end your life, it all would go away

and you'd be better. And he's trying to tell you the

same things God's trying to tell you, just God does it a better

way because God's saying the same thing.

Jesus's call was the same one. Listen, you've got to die.

And that old life, all that you're going through, that'll go

away and you can have a brand new life.

See, one ends with a resurrection and one lens with

damnation. It's a choice between paths that

we take. So if the enemy can get you to

forfeit your purpose and take your physical life, sure,

there's like you're you're out of the planet and you know what?

You're not having to deal with the issues of the world anymore.

But why would you want to choose that over the fact that God said

you can be in the planet and still be over the issues of the

world? I submit to you the one of the

most powerful moments in Jesus's ministry wasn't when he was just

hanging on the cross. He did that, and it was a final

work that had to happen. Not only was it prophesied, but

it was there to complete everything he did.

But Jesus didn't just die that death that day.

I'd submit to you that Jesus actually died when he was in the

garden. He wasn't sweating and

travailing with drops of blood while he was just hanging on the

cross. There was a choice that had to

be made, and it was the same choice that you and I face every

single day that Jesus was faced with.

And he had a pattern again, remember from the beginning, he

had this pattern that whatever the father says, I do it,

Whatever the father says, I do it.

So for him, in the garden, it was no different, just the

stakes were higher, that he said there was like drops of blood

and bowed down at this stone. And he says, Father, if there's

any way for this cup to pass, if there's any other way for it's

something else to be done, but not my will.

I don't choose me. I still choose you, no matter

what the cost. That's the Christ we follow.

That's the Christ that got us in.

That's the Christ that called us.

And we want to say we're like him.

But are you willing to die that death?

See, it's the garden death that most believers are faced with

every day. They think that someday, maybe

they'll have this chance to die, The death on the cross.

And they're waiting for the cross.

But they're missing the everyday walking through a garden full of

choices. How often do they say, Father,

not my will, your will be done. It's an everyday.

It says it's pretty clear through the epistles.

It says listen the flesh and the and the spirit they battle

daily. And no one's free from that

conflict. Which means every day there's an

opportunity for you to die unto yourself.

Because again, we think I would die for the gospel.

OK, what if you're at home and you're all alone and you're able

to pull up the Internet and have pornography in front of you?

Are you willing to die to yourself?

What if you're just tired and you got home and your family

needs you and your kids are bothering you and wanting all

that? You willing to die to serve

them? What if someone at work comes

and asks you your opinion about current events?

Are you willing to die to your own opinions and just say what

God says, no matter what the way you think they're going to

respond? Because if you're not willing to

die that death, don't come and tell me you're willing to die

for Jesus. Think about who Jesus is in John

11. It says in the beginning was the

Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.

So God and the Word are one of the same.

Then it said the Word became flesh in verse 14.

Who is that? Jesus.

So if we understand that Jesus is the Word, and when he makes a

statement, if you deny me before men, I'll deny you before the

Father. Who is he talking about?

See, religion has focused too much on the man Jesus and lost

who he actually always was. He was a man for 33 years on the

planet that ended up getting death barrier and resurrection

now lives at the right hand of the Father.

But long before he existed on the planet, he existed somewhere

else and what he existed as was the living word of God.

So if he says, if you deny me before man, I'll deny you before

the Father. I'm telling you right now, the

standard is if you deny what the word says before man, he's not

going to. You're not going to have the

answer you think you are in the end say, well, you know, Bible's

up to interpretation. Yeah.

And the interpreter of it lives within us.

And we got the Holy Ghost, which means we're all going to read

this thing, come together and say, here's what the Lord's

saying and have an agreement. You want unity in the church,

but you don't want unity of a doctrine.

You're crazy. Look, why can't all the

denominations get together cuz y'all crazy?

And you don't want to agree that what the Holy Ghost says is

right. And I'd be willing to bet big

sum of money. You ain't reading your Bible in

the 1st place. That's why you don't like Anchor

Faith Church. Because we show up in every

single member of our staff has read the Bible dozens of times.

And when you say a scripture is out of context, we go, excuse

me, it's not what it says. Well, well, he's arrogant.

He's arrogant. Anchor Faith people come in here

and try to tell us what oh, like you got the market on.

What's truth? Well, I have the Bible and I can

read. I mean, that's the two.

Hallelujah. Let's end with this.

Romans chapter 12, starting in verse one.

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Come on, God's good Kingdom is everything you've ever wanted.

It's worth whatever it costs to lay down.

I'm telling you, are you willing to die to yourself if God says

listen, those friendships that you have, they're holding you

back. You need to die to your friends.

The salvation is free. The new life is free.

Brand new. There's nothing you can do to

earn this new life. And you can come right over here

as long as you died of that relationship.

I don't know if it's worth it. What do you mean?

I don't know if it's worth it. Come on, that's a whole

different message itself. That's like a Part 2.

Why is it worth it? Romans chapter 12 tells us

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exactly how the life of a believer should go.

It says Therefore I urge you, brethren.

Brethren not lost, brethren. Are we the brethren in this

room? Therefore I urge you, brethren,

by the mercies of God, that you present your bodies a living and

holy sacrifice which tells us not every sacrifice.

Is that an altar with a knife in the blood in the in the throat,

that there can be a different kind of sacrifice that keeps

breathing but still lives just as sacrificially.

It says that you would present your bodies a living sacrifice

acceptable to God, which is your spiritual service of worship.

I was created for worship. What about this one you created

for worship? What about what about this

worship? Because your spiritual service

of worship would be that you would offer your body as a

living sacrifice. That you would die to your own

desires and your own will and your own plans and your own

schemes, and you would actually live for something outside of

you. You willing to die when somebody

you get a message on planning center.

Is your body a living sacrifice or have you had a long week

that's too deep? We'll keep going then, he says.

In verse two he gives us the like.

This recipe, right, of transforming your whole life.

He says. Do not be conformed to this

world, but be transformed by what the renewing of your mind

that you can prove what the will of God is, that which is good,

acceptable and perfect. I'm telling you good, acceptable

and perfect is everything you want from God.

But the only way to prove that out in your life is to be

transformed by changing the way you think and by offering up

your life as a living sacrifice for Him.

You don't get the proof in your life if you don't pay the price

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