#3, 7 Outcomes of The Gospel (Part 1) (Teaching Series in Ephesians) - Pastor Daniel Batarseh

Fusions chapter 2. And you were dead in the

trespasses and sins in which you once walked.

Following the course of this world.

Following the prince of the power of the air.

The spirit that is now at work in the sons of Disobedience,

among whom we all once lived in the passions of our flesh,

carrying out the desires of the body and the mind and we're by

Nature children of Wrath like the rest of mankind, but God

being rich in Mercy because of the great love with which he

loved us. Even when we were dead in our

trespasses made us. Us Alive together with Christ by

Grace, you have been saved and raised us up with him and seated

us with him in the Heavenly places in Christ Jesus.

So that in the coming ages, he might show the immeasurable

Riches of his grace and kindness toward us in Christ.

Jesus, for by Grace, you have been saved through faith and

this is not of your own doing. It is the gift of God, not a

result of works so that no one may boast for we are his

workmanship created in Christ Jesus.

For good works which God prepared beforehand that we

should walk in them. Amen.

Father. Again, we ask that this text

would come alive in our lives. The revelation of the Gospel

would revive the saved, and it would save the Lost.

We pray that you would have your way.

Bring us, Lord bring us to our knees.

In light of the truth. That we will hear this morning.

May there be no emphasis on eloquence or in sight.

But Lord on the Simplicity of the Gospel delivered in the

power of the Holy Spirit, may you be praised and glorified

this morning in Jesus name. We pray, amen.

You may be seated. There are two types of people in

this world. There are two types of people in

this world and only two. Those who are abiding in the

light. And those who are blind in the

dark. Those who walk on the Narrow

Path. And those who stumble on the

broad. Those who are delivered from

sin. And those who are bound to sin.

Those who are children of God. And those who are children of

Wrath. Those who are under the

influence of the Holy Spirit. And those who are under the

influence of the spirit of this world, the differentiating

factor between the ones who are in the realm of Victory.

Versus those who are in the realm of defeat, is that the

Victorious ones have tapped into a power that is transferred

them. From one to another.

And that power is not something that is self.

Worked, that power is not purchased by one's own Merit.

That power is something that is freely given and is received by

those who would humble themselves to accept it by

faith. What is that power?

The Bible is not shy to share what that power is.

Romans 1:16 tells us for I am not ashamed of the gospel for it

Romans 1:16

is the power of God. For salvation to everyone who

believes the power is the gospel and that gospel produces a

reality salvation. What is salvation?

Salvation means Deliverance it means preservation.

It means safety Paul. Testifies that there is only one

means and there's only one solution and there is only one

possibility for salvation and it is through the good news of

Jesus Christ. And when you ask somebody what

God has done in their life through the gospel, the number

one answer you probably will hear his well, he saved me.

Save you, from what? And it is.

Probably the number one answer and it is he saved me from hell.

Which is true. But you, and I need to

understand this morning that the power of the Gospel is greater

greater than just being saved from hell, though.

That truth is wonderful in itself.

Paul in this chapter reminds the Ephesians of just how powerful

the Gospel of Jesus Christ. Is he's about to explain in

detail that faith in this gospel.

Not only change them in the life to come, but change them in the

life here. Now, And in chapter 1, we spent

time talking about the benefits and the blessings that come when

we are united in Christ of the things that we are destined to

in the things that we are to experience in their fullness.

But here he is not speaking about the things that we are to

experience in the future. He's about to explain and remind

that there are experiences that you and I have in the immediate

sense that the gospel is not just something for the future.

The gospel is something for you. And I today, In this text shed

so much light. Hear me on what it means to be a

Christian. That is very important for two

reasons, number one, because people many people masses of the

false idea of what it means to be a Christian.

And amongst many of the wrong ideas, one of them is this.

Is that I can identify myself as a Christian solely on the idea

that I understand the theory of what Jesus Christ has done as a

historical figure at one point in history.

An intellectual assent, something that just reaches the

mind, the intellect and James criticized that kind of Faith,

very sharply and chapter 219 in his epistle and he says, you

believe God is one, you do well, even the demons believe and

shudder. And so many people have a

misconception when they identify themselves as a Christian, not

realizing that your faith is not something that you just generate

intellectually. It's something that you put your

faith and trust in and that changes your life.

But not only is this text important because it sheds,

light on wrong ideas of what it means to be a Christian.

It sheds, light on people who have a not wrong idea.

But limited idea what I mean by that is there are those who

understand the gospel but in a limited sense.

Now, when you hear salvation, a majority of people run to this

idea that the gospel saves me from certain dangers and

Destinations. The gospel delivers me from

these dangers, the gospel Rescues Me From a Certain

destination and that is partly true.

Because the full understanding of the Gospel is not that he

just saves you. From something.

When we understand the gospel, in its fullness, we also have to

understand that it positions us for something.

It positions us for a certain blessing for a certain

inheritance for a certain destination, so it's not just

yes I'm delivered. No, it's yes.

I'm destined through the gospel. So not just from but I am saved

for And that's what he's about to share in these verses.

These precious gems. he's about to tell us the beauty of the

gospel and if we were to bring it even in a visual sense, the

gospel itself and its effect is like the cross, how The gospel

has a vertical effect. Any horizontal effect?

When somebody is saved by the gospel, it changes their stance

in the Heavenly Realms but it also changes their walk here on

Earth. And so I have a vertical shift

and a horizontal shift the cross itself as a picture of what

happens to a man, when he puts his faith in the finished work

of Jesus Christ. And Paul goes on to share a

wealth of information. And today.

He presents a seven powerful consequences of the Gospel.

Seven, powerful consequences of the Gospel.

And let me tell you on a personal level, when I was

dissecting these consequences, there is no way we can cover all

seven in one setting. It's just too deep is just too

profound. It's too impactful to just glaze

over. So by God's grace, we will try

to get what we need to get into. But let us take our time to

study these things. That Paul describes what happens

to a man, when he puts his faith and trust in Jesus Christ.

He goes on to share and 2:1 and you were dead.

You were dead and the trespasses and sins in which you.

Once walked the number one, consequence of the gospel and

somebody's life. The result that comes about a

man or a woman that says I need. Jesus Christ and his saving

faith. In my life is this that you are

delivered from the influence of the world consequence.

Number one, you are delivered from the influence of the world.

Notice Paul's tense here he's saying you were dead in the

trespasses and Sins. Not you are you were, he's

speaking. Of what happened and who they

were prior to their faith in Christ?

And he says this very powerful statement you were dead Not, you

were bad, not that you are morally shifted and your

understanding of Ethics know you were dead.

Dead in what sense, not dead in the sense that you had in

activity, in that you were lifeless dead in a specific way.

You were dead towards any relation to God, concerning his

word concerning, his commands concerning his holy spirit, you

were dead to any association and fellowship with God and to any

sense of obedience to his commands, lifeless.

Like a dead person. There is no response when it

comes to God in your life. There is no eagerness.

There is no reflex when you think of a dead person.

What do you think of? Nothing separated from life.

In the physical death, pay attention, when a man dies

physically, his spirit is separated from his body.

That's what happens. If you've ever been to a funeral

and it was an open casket, you can testify that when you see

that body, it's like an empty shell.

There's no life in it because the person, the soul, the spirit

is not there anymore. It left its Earth suit.

But listen, that's the physical death.

When a man dies, spiritually, or when a man is dead spiritually.

His spirit is separated from God.

So, in the physical, your spirit is separated from your body.

When you're spiritual, man, is dead.

You are separated from God. That's what it means to be

spiritually dead. And Paul says, boldly, you were

dead, but they were alive in another sense.

They were alive in another sense.

They were alive because they were controlled and influence by

another source. There was something else that

was keeping them somewhat alive because he says you walked You

were walking in the course of this world.

So you know what that means? You know who you are before

Christ. You're a Dead Man Walking.

A zombie so to speak. sure you're walking in this life

show, you're making decisions in his life show, you're doing your

day-to-day but really you are lifeless and you are controlled

and influence and compelled by something else and he says it's

the world. You were walking in the same

direction as the world. And what is the world strive

for? Let's just sum it up in this,

this world. This Antichrist system.

This philosophy is a life that is free from the pursuit of

Joyful, obedience, and intimate, knowledge of the Lord Jesus

Christ. That's what this world is all

about. It's free from it joyful

obedience to Christ, and it desire to pursue an intimate

knowledge of him. The anthem of this world is this

eat drink and be merry for tomorrow.

We die. That is the anthem of this

generation and every generation before and every generation

after it. Lets the Lord comes back.

It's a lifestyle that they choose to live and this is what

the lifestyle is all about. It's your day-to-day activity

free from Jesus being any part of it.

It's your planning of the future with no inspiration to glorify.

God. It is your emotions, thoughts

and activities directed towards anything else.

But Jesus, and your sense of purpose has found and grounded

and anchored in entertainment. And pleasure.

And money. And the praise of, man.

This is what the world lives for.

And Paul emphatic, Lee declares you once walk that way.

Pay attention you once walked that way, you know, for Roman

citizen walked into church this morning from Jesus day.

He would be absolutely shocked. You know why, why do you think

he would be shocked? He would be totally stunned by

the fact that we have crosses hanging around in our buildings

He would be shocked to see this pulpit.

And the main reason why Roman citizen or anybody in Jesus, day

would be totally stunned. By such a thing is because of

the absolute horror that across turned a man into Some of us in

here, remember the time. But we went away for just a

couple days and we got to experience something that I

never had the experience before. Maybe you've experienced it and

it was a live animal being slaughtered before we ate it.

And I thought, the idea seemed normal because how else do you

get your food? But I never thought I would

witness it. and when that lamb was purchased, and it was

brought in front of us, And we looked at it knowing that it was

going to die, knowing that it was going to die.

It was pretty disturbing. To see that its neck was slit in

the blood coming out of it and then to see it tied by its legs

and dragged over into a tree and thrown over that rope from a

branch and pull down and seeing that sheep hanging there.

And seeing it obviously skilled and person with experiencing

skinning that lamb and then cutting it into pieces and

laying the guts come out of it. It was a pretty gut-wrenching

site. But I want you to think about a

man that was crucified. We have romanticized the cross

but there is nothing. If we actually had a picture of

the Cross. If we actually had a painting of

what it looked like to be crucified, nobody would be

hanging in their walls, that's for sure.

Think about a man that was scourged and beaten and

slaughtered. And when he was nailed upon that

tree, the open wounds the blood, the the change of color and

their skin because of the trauma, the open wounds

depending on how badly they were scores.

Maybe even the entrails were showing And people would Mock

and look and would do anything to that person.

You think about Jesus and Isaiah 52:14?

Isaiah 52:14

It says that he was so marred that he was beyond human

semblance. He was so disfigured that you

couldn't even tell he was a man. Now, think about that.

How badly do you have to be beaten?

How badly do you need to be tortured for people to look at

you and not be able to recognize that you are a human being?

It was hideous. It was a sight of Horror.

It was nothing that you would be attracted to.

And you would have to be the most hardened man to be able to

go to a site of a crucifixion and stay there with a stable

stomach. But you know what?

Paul said, he said, one of the most profound statements and

Galatians 6. He says but for me, far be it

for me to boast in anything, except in the cross of our Lord,

Jesus Christ by which pay attention by which the world has

been crucified to me, and I to the world, in other words,

Because I had a revelation of the cross of Jesus Christ, you

know how I see the world. I see it like I saw or

eyewitness a crucifixion. The same way that a man was

totally deformed and hideously displayed on a cross.

Is the same way that Paul saw the world and its course, it's

totally unattractive to me. It's absolutely hideous.

There is no sense of attraction in me towards the world because

it's like something being crucified on a cross.

Wow. But not only that, if you had a

friend, or you got a family member that was crucified on a

cross. You knew one thing, for sure,

they were never getting off of that cross in the sense that

they were never coming off a live gone forever and Paul says

the world is crucified to me, it's gone.

I have no relationship with anymore.

I have no hope that I will ever come into contact with the

world. Again, that is how I see the

world, you know what's fascinating.

The Paul says, that's how the world sees me.

I'm crucified to the world. Total dissociation.

No sense of attractiveness. No sense of Beauty in it.

No sense of being compelled, you know, there's so many profession

Christians today. So many professing Christians

today, that are not crucified to the world or the world is not

even crucified to them. The world's not crucified the

most people today, you know what it is?

It's compelling to them. Can you really testify this

morning that the world is crucified to you?

Can you really say? I look at the world, the same

way a man, and Jesus, they would look upon a crucifixion.

Can you really honestly say that?

Because that's the reality when you get a revelation of Jesus

Christ, Paul says, by the cross, I see the world as crucified in

other words because I received the revelation of the glory of

Christ because I received understanding of his great love

for me that God himself, sent his son to reconcile me back to

him and living relationship. The world is absolutely hideous

and comparison. Now I dare you and challenge you

to ask a modern Christian, if they really see it that way and

see what response you get. The Paul said it.

Paul said, when you get a revelation of the Cross, when

you truly put your faith and trust when you really come into

Union with Christ, you see the course of this world

differently. You see that this world is just

a strip. Surrounded by flashy lights and

distractions to keep you long enough.

Not realizing that this strip is headed off a cliff.

It's a highway filled with pain regret.

And shallow pleasures. It's a desert path. filled with

thirsty people being deceived by faulty mirages of fantasies that

will satisfy but leave you thirstier and thirstier than

before, It's ultimately a one more Run, Road freeway to Hell

heavily occupied. By the masses from different

nations tribes and tongues. That are Marching on their way

into an eternal separation from God from his presence.

When you get saved when this gospel becomes a part of you,

you look at the course of this world and you don't walk in it

anymore. You walk in the total opposite

direction. The number one consequence, when

you put your faith and trust in Jesus Christ, that you were

delivered from the course and the influence of this world.

You don't walk in it anymore. And this truth of once being

dead and walking in the direction of this world is

painted so beautifully with the famous story of The Prodigal

Son. You know, what the father said?

When The Prodigal Son came home? He burst forth with joy.

Why he said the statement he said in Luke 15 for this is my

son who was dead. And is alive again.

He was lost and is found and they began to celebrate.

But, wait a minute, how is he dead?

He wasn't dead. In fact, you know how it

describes the sun. It says that he came to his

father and asked him for everything concerning his

inheritance. Give me what I deserve

concerning my inheritance and it says he traveled to a far

country. And he lived recklessly.

Now does that sound like a dead person to you?

Well travel spending on my own Pleasures.

That's the generation that we're living in acquire more so that I

can experience more so that I can live more and you know what?

The Bible describes you dead. Oh you think you're living but

you're actually a Dead Man Walking You think you have life

but there is only life when like The Prodigal Son you run back

into the arms of the father behold.

He was dead but now he's alive, you will never experience life.

True life, Abundant Life, Pure Life satisfaction Until you

realize that your spirit Man is dead and that no matter what you

do in this life like The Prodigal Son in reality, you're

eating pigs food in comparison to what you can have in Christ.

So, don't envy the world. You shouldn't.

Why? Because what you're looking at

is Dead Men Walking In Christ, bids us to come to have life.

Because he delivers you from the influence of this world, he

delivers you from the course of this world.

When you have a revelation of the cross, But not only did you

save you from that the second consequences that he sets you

free from the authority of Satan.

He sets, you free from the authority of Satan because he

says, here you are following the course of this world, following

the prince of the power of the air, the spirit, that is now at

work in the sons of Disobedience, what a staggering

truth. This is what he's saying here,

that those who follow the course of this world are in reality,

following the devil, That those who are walking in this course.

Whether they realize it or not, this world is being energized by

Satan and his powers. That Satan and his demons and

his kingdom are orchestrating. These rebellious hearts into

greater Rebellion against God. And he says, when you're

following this course, there's somebody leading this marching

band and it's the Devil Himself. And he says you were following

the power of the prince of the air.

And because you were this reality is not part of you, he

is now at work in the sons of Disobedience.

Now we had a whole sermon on this, we're not going to spend

too much time on it, but think about it.

He is right now at work. What does he do?

He torments he deceives, he lies he afflicts, he blinds, he

misguides, he offers false truth.

He is generating more and more for people to stay on this

course concerning the world. We should produce a holy anger

in US. They should produce a holy anger

in US. because before you and I received in light of this verse,

You weren't really living for yourself.

You were actually fulfilling his agenda.

Say, no, no. There's, there's no way that I

would live for the devil. Are you kidding me?

I was just doing my own thing. No.

You're just in the bottom of the pyramid.

Scheme friend. You think that you're living for

yourself but in fact, you're just generating something for

the person at the top of that pyramid in his name is Satan

Lucifer, the deceiver of the world.

Hear me. What is he saying here?

What does he say to the Pharisees?

He says, in John 8:44, you are of your father who the devil.

John 8:44

You are you are of your father, did he identifies the Pharisees?

The most religious people in that day.

You know your father is Satan. Jesus was a kind preacher,

wasn't he? First John 3:8.

1 John 3:8

Whoever makes a practice of sinning is of the devil.

Plain, and simple. That when you live outside of

the will of God, whether you want to acknowledge it or not,

whether you want to bury that truth, in your conscious does

not matter. In reality, you are fulfilling

Satan's nature and his agenda in this world and what is his

agenda for you? Not to give glory to God and for

you to do what Adam and Eve did in the garden to be convinced

that you are the god of your own life?

Just control your own life, make your own decisions, make your

own plans, spend the resources in your time.

How you want to? And once again that should

produce a holy anger in you and me because before we were saved,

we were actually fueling his agenda.

Before person is saved. The gifts that God has given

them. They were using it for their own

Glory, but in reality, they're using it for Satan's Glory,

robbing it from God's glory, The resources that we receive and we

were spending on ourselves instead of praying and to how

God would use them. It was really just fueling

Satan's agenda and on and on it goes.

And I wonder How many of us should be stirred by this truth?

Because if we've given those young years of Our Lives to him

in an indirect sense, how much more should we give to God with

the Revelation that he is, Lord of all.

It's amazing. You meet so many safe people.

When they get saved, they don't get as radical.

They were so radical in the world.

They stayed up all night for the world.

They work, tirelessly for themselves and then when it

comes to the kingdom of God, they're lazy and they're just

not know. It's okay.

Just going to stroll along. Why?

You were Radical for Satan, be radical for God.

They should stir us to know that he does work in the sons of

Disobedience and that at one point, he was in some indirect

way without us knowing because we're blind and we were blinded

rather used us. By robbing us from giving glory

to God. But now we have a new purpose

while he works in the sons of Disobedience.

You know what your 9 to 5 is everyday to destroy the works of

Satan. Now, he uses you, he fills you

with his Spirit, he says, now go out into the world because

that's why Jesus came into the world, to destroy the works of

the devil, and I, you go With that full minded understanding.

That I'm not going to waste my life.

Living for Christ. Safe from the influence of this

world delivered from the authority of Satan, but this is

probably one of the most glorious truths of the

consequences of the gospel. And number three, Saved from the

power of the flesh. Saved from the power of the

flesh. He says it here.

Verse 3, among whom we all once lived in the passions of our

flesh, carrying out the desires of the body, and the mind, and

we're by Nature children of Wrath, like the rest of mankind,

like the rest of mankind. He says you were living you once

lived in the passions of the Flesh.

In other words, Not only before Christ.

Were you walking in the course of this world?

Not only were you a puppet for Satan.

You are also a prisoner helplessly overcomed by this

body. Whatever the flesh demands, the

flesh cannot resist. When there are urges, when there

are Temptations we are easily. So given over to it and these

desires of the carnal body overwhelm us and the

imaginations of our thoughts plague us So words, such as I

can't help it. Or is just a part of who I am is

the common language of those who have not been delivered from the

flesh. That's the common language.

That's not the vocabulary of those as we've learned last week

who have the immeasurable greatness of power that God has

given us in Christ. But for those who are bound by

the flesh, I can't help it. I gotta do it.

I can't stop this craving. And reminds me of a character in

The Bible, that's a tragic figure in 2nd Samuel 13, verse

2. And and then who was one of the

sons of David was so tormented But he made himself ill because

of his sister Tamar for. She was a virgin and it seemed

impossible for em to do anything to her.

He was tormented by the desires of the flesh, it was beyond

Temptation, it was up session. He came to a place in which he

was now, so consumed in body and mind that he needed to do,

whatever he needed to do, in order to fulfill that desire of

the Flesh and guess what? When he had the wrong friend in

his life, that fueled the idea he went for it.

And it's a picture of the man outside of Christ.

Whatever impulse, whatever. Urge, whatever thought there is

no ability to fight it, you were so easily given to it and you

live in that pattern of defeat day after day and week, after

week and month after month and year after year for your entire

life. But it's not isolated to sexual

sin. These passions can overwhelm us

through anger. You can't control your temper.

Just takes the right button to push.

And there goes the wrath of Almighty you.

Unleashed on a person. These passions can come down to

the Love of Money that drives you to make every decision.

You're so cheap. You willing to Rob anybody for

yourself. You're so driven, you willing to

step on any relationship to get to that place where you can just

have a little bit more. These passions can be

experienced in selfishness where you are, so irritated.

When the center of attention is not you, or you are extra

irritated when it's given to somebody else.

These passions of the flesh can be experienced, unfortunately,

through drugs and alcohol. These substances that are really

just symptoms of a deeper issue in which you are bound to

something. God has given us the ability to

overcome it by your overcome by his substance.

That's a pathetic state to be in.

But it's the reality of the power of the flesh.

It's a sad place to be in. But Paul makes a bold statement.

We all once lived. In the passions of the flesh

that you are living you once lived in that reality, something

happened. Something happened to us in

Christ concerning that, but how can it be?

How can it be? I mean, it's our nature.

We were born with this adamic nature, Adam and Eve from the

garden. Took something that was outside

of them, which was the forbidden fruit and ate it.

And that very thing that was outside of the now, became a

part of them. And so, the desire is now for

the rest of the human race are within us.

We are enticed by the things that are in us and we have a

craving for forbidden fruit, that's just who we are.

That's just our DNA. So how can it be that God

delivers us? It's like asking a dog.

Talk to act like a bird. Go fly.

Sing. It's contrary to its nature.

And so is it with us when it comes to being free from the

power of sin? Unless of course, God gives us a

new nature. That's the transaction that

happens in the gospel and he prophesied that in Jeremiah 31.

He says, you know what, I'm gonna do to you.

I'm going to make an Everlasting Covenant with you.

I'm gonna put my law within you and I'm going to write it on

your heart. What does that mean?

Just picture it. He reaches into that nature of

yours that heart. That is graffitied with

Rebellion against God all over it.

That is so hard and like picking up our Stone from the side of

the street. He takes that heart, he puts in

a heart of flesh, but before he puts the heart of Flesh Union

before he makes that transaction when he does, he takes your

heart. And he takes the law of God.

And he writes it. On your heart.

Every command everything that is given to us every standard.

He puts it on your heart and then he puts it in you.

And when he puts it in, you, You know, throb to obey God.

You now Delight in what you read, it's no longer a

Taskmaster. It's something that you pursue.

It's something that you want to do.

Because that is the supernatural transaction of the Gospel.

He gives you a new nature. And through that nature, you

have victory over sin. Because of that heart

transplant. You are delivered.

There's this story of somebody that I know very well.

And they were away with friends. On vacation to a well-known

Beach. and part of this beach and it's experience was that If

you swam further away enough, you can actually swim with the

sea turtles. But legally because this beach

was so precious with animals and not just animals with coral

reef. There is this wall of rocks with

different colors in the water. It was literally a wall and so

you couldn't swim over. It, lets you touch it and make

those things stumble off of their place.

So what you have to do in that beach is that you have to go

through this little Gap. This little separation between

the wall, and you would come off the shore and you would swim to

that Gap and go behind the coral reef.

So you can go and see all those beautiful fish.

And so, this young man, decides to go, he was convinced, it was

a long day, but he was convinced by a friend to do so.

So he gets into the water and begins to swim.

And as he swims towards that little Gap and finds himself on

the other side, he quickly realized that he was more

exhausted than he thought. And so in the midst of the ice,

as I think I'm just going to turn back, it's not worth going

out there because I'm so tired. My body so exhausted, I don't

know if I'm gonna be able to swim with the fish.

So I'm just going to go back to the shore and as he turned

around he quickly realized something.

He was trapped. He was trapped.

The waves were so powerful that day.

That is he tried to swim back. The waves kept pulling him away.

And his strategy was I'm so far from The Gap.

I'm just going to try to swim over the coral reefs.

I know it's illegal but I'm going to try to do it because I

just need to get back. I'm so tired.

And as he positioned his body towards the shore, knowing that

he had to overcome that wall of beautiful precious rocks.

He thought to himself. I'm just going to go with the

waves and the waves will push me over and so he tried the wave

takes him and as he goes instead of going over, it is smash him

into the rocks and in the wave pulls him back.

And then he tells himself, I'm just going to wait for the next

week and the way brings him again, and smash them into the

Rocks. Now, he's starting to scrape.

And so he begins to think well this isn't working the way I

thought these waves I think are are pulling me deeper and I do

understand why I need to get over this but the waves kept

doing it beating him and beating him and beat him in all the deal

was kept in more exhausted, more tired.

He was trapped, he was overcome and so a second strategy came to

mind. Okay.

I think at this point water starting to come into my nose

water, start to come into my mouth and choking on salt water.

I need to call out for help. I need to ask somebody from the

shore to come and rescue me but you know what was blocking that

it wasn't waves or rocks. It was Pride.

She was thinking to myself, I are gonna cry.

All my friends are going to make fun of me for the rest of this

trip. If I'm gonna cry out, I'm going

to be that guy in the trip, that almost drowned and the parents

are going to find out and my parents are going to find out.

So, you know, I think I'd rather die.

So with this tension of being overcome by the waves and being

smashed with this desire of being delivered.

But also with this pride of not wanting to call out for help, he

stayed in that place. What seemed to be like an

eternity, what a picture of sin in somebody's life.

Somebody that thought they can go out and do something think

that it was going to please them.

But in reality, a traps them and when they realize that it traps

and they think that they can get over in their own power, and

their own strength, when they only realize that it's

overcoming, the more and more, and taking them down deeper and

deeper, And instead of this person crying out for help, they

think that they can do it in their own strength.

Listen, you will never be able to overcome the sins of your

flesh unless Jesus Christ delivers.

You you might be thinking, what ever happened to that boy that

teenager Well, you're looking at him.

Side note in that moment. A prayer.

My heart went out to God. This is before I was saved,

said, God, I don't want to die in this water.

And there is just a blur. We're finally a wave pushed me

over those rocks. And within a few short moments,

I realized my feet is touching the sand.

And I drag my body on that beach, and I felt like, I

weighed a thousand pounds. And I got into that beach.

And I fell asleep like a baby. What a beautiful picture of

Deliverance that when God does save you, he gives you rest.

Rest. He saves you from the power.

The flesh. But only when you realize that

you can't do it on your own strength.

Only when you realize that he is the one that can take you out of

that pit and set you on Solid Ground.

Are you drowning? Are you overcome?

You'll stay drowning and you will die in your sin unless you

call out to God for mercy. Do these truths don't end.

If God could save Reckless, teenager from waves, how much

more can he save you from the overwhelming powers of sin that

crash over you day in Day Out? The fourth consequence of the

Gospel in somebody's life. The first three are glorious

within themselves safe from the influence of this world

delivered from the authority of Satan saved from the power of

the flesh. But the consequence of the

Gospel centers in these verses with this truth that when you

truly understand it, you truly experience the expression of

God's love in your life. He says what?

Look at verse 4. But God Being rich in Mercy

because of the great love with which he loved us.

Even when we were dead in our trespasses made us alive

together, with Christ by Grace, you have been saved.

Now we know that we are Made Alive together with Christ.

We just talked about the past few minutes that is the result

of the Gospel but we can't just focus on the result of the

Gospel. We have to understand the motive

behind the gospel. We have to know why he sets us

free. We have to know why he brings

life to us, and it says here, clearly because of the great

love with which he loved us. and every single time I read

something like that, I'm paralyzed in my thoughts.

Because it never tells us the reason why he loves us, you'll

never find that in the Bible. Not once it says he loved us

with a great love. But the reason for his love

Shirley was not because we were walking in his ways because we

were doing the opposite. We were walking in the course of

this world. Shirley was not because we were

advancing his kingdom, because we were, in fact, fueling and

advancing, a kingdom opposite to his.

He did not love us because we first love his commands.

In fact, the opposite is true. We delighted and breaking them.

So how can a holy righteous God in heaven?

Look down on this Cesspool called Earth with a bunch of

humans that rebel against him in thought and indeed and sense a

great love towards them. There's only one answer is

because he is love. That is the only answer that the

Bible gives us. The sun, radiates heat it.

Radiates life, it gives us light.

And we don't question it because it's the expression of its

nature. That's what the sun does in the

same way. God dispenses love without

measure because it's just the expression of who he is.

He is love, that's what he does. That's who he is.

And nothing can ever change that.

And the expression of his love is so crucial, because it's not

some sloppy sentimental romantic love.

It's a love that has action. It's a love that has blood

behind it. It says for God.

So loved the world that he gave that he gave the expression of

his love, was he gives And he gave what The Treasure of

Heaven. He gave the beloved Son. now we

all say yes and we nod our heads, but you will not

experience that truth, if it only reaches your mind, You will

not experience that kind of a love, if you just hear it, like

you just heard it and you let it reach here.

The only way you will be able to really experience it as a

consequence of the gospels, when you let it reach your heart.

And the question is, well, how do I bring it from here to here?

How do I, how do I take it from? Just yes, I understand that.

Jesus Christ died on the cross for our sins to this.

I would suggest this one truth, the way, you will really feel

and know that love in your life is when you understand that, he

died for you personally. See you in a fusions, he's

speaking generally right? He's saying he died for us.

He loved us, he delivered us. But that's not the only

vocabulary and Revelation that Paul.

The Apostle had. When he goes to the Galatians,

he says, in Galatians 2:20, we all know it for, I am crucified

Galatians 2:20

with Christ. Nevertheless, I live yet not I

but Christ lives in me and the life that I now live in the

flesh by faith in the son of God.

He loved me and gave himself for me.

So in Ephesians, he says us, but Paul walked around with this

understanding. Yeah, but it's also me.

And he gave himself for me, it's a personalized understanding of

Jesus sacrifice in your life, your name your life.

That is who he died for. And until you really ask the

spirit of wisdom and Revelation to make that known to you, it

will always stay here. But when you can confidently,

say that Jesus died for me, fill in your name, fill in your

address, then you will be able to know that love in your heart.

God wants us to know, people are scared to say this kind of stuff

nowadays, because they say it's so centered around, man, and

Jesus Christ. Died for God's glory.

Listen. I know he did, but it's clear he

died for you. He loves you.

With a great love and he wants you to know that not on a

corporate level. Not on a worldly.

Understand that he died for the whole know for you.

You personally that he had you in mind when he died.

Did he had you in mind before you even born before the

foundations of the world? I'm going to die so that I can

reconcile you and you, and you and you back to the father.

And we got to take it from this to this.

How can you go another day with discouragement when you have

that kind of Revelation? How can you walk around defeated

when, you know that God Almighty loves.

You personally took those nails and took those scourging and

took all of that beating because he had you in mind, stop

thinking just the world for a second.

Think about you, you It's kind of a humorous, illustration to

point this out, but it kind of elaborates it.

Ben has a funny story, concerning my mom.

That one day when he was younger as well, he was laying in bed

and my mom kind of had a routine where she would come to our

rooms and just kind of talk to us before bed.

My mother came up to Benjamin and began to just speak to him

and talk to him. And One night.

She said, correct me if I'm wrong. you know, Ben I don't

want you to tell this to your other siblings.

But I want you to know that there's something special about

you. There's something special about

you. And Ben as he explains a story,

as animated, as he has said that, he was so warmth with that

truth. That he went to bed so smoothly.

And so Peacefully. And as my mom is showering him

with this, love my sister. In the other room was saying,

mom mom, and now she needs comfort.

And so she walks over into another room and she failed to

realize that the rooms are connected.

And so, as my mom has there been has with his eyes closed, just

basking in the Revelation that he is the most special one among

the siblings. And offer suddenly here's my

mom, threw those thin walls. Saying you know pulling.

I don't want you to tell this to your siblings.

But there's something special about you and Ben's eyes open up

in that moment. It's humorous.

It's funny. But there's some truth to that

because I think I know what her intention was.

I believe that as a parent, she wanted us as children her

children to know that though. We are.

Yes, her children and she loves us because we are her Offspring.

She also wanted us to know that she loves us personally.

As individuals. That each of us had a special

place in her heart that each of us was something to her.

Not that one was greater than the other, I'm sorry.

Ben but that each of us had a slot in her heart.

That each of us had a place of meditation in her life.

And I believe God wants us to do the same thing with the gospel

is that? Yes, he loves all of us.

He died for the world but you personally, As one of his

children, there's a special place in his heart for you.

You got to know that because when you pray, your voice is

unique, your problems are unique.

Your calling is unique. We got to walk with that

Revelation. Paul said he loved me and gave

himself for me. You got to know that confidently

as well. We talked about four

consequences delivered from the power of the flesh saved from

the authority of Satan. rescued from the course of this world.

And we are recipients of the expression of the climactic,

love of God, the cross. You need to know that.

Paul in this verse makes a turning point because in these

verses what we just described, he talks about who we were

before Christ and what he's delivered us from.

And next week, we're going to discuss about how he not just

saved us from, but he also saved us for.

Let's pray. Paul in this verse makes a

turning point because in these verses what we just described,

he talks about who we were before Christ and what he's

delivered us from. And next week, we're going to

discuss about how he not just saved us from, but he also saved

us for. Let's pray.