WEBVTT 00:00.000 --> 00:06.140 So since we're little later because we took a little side trip there, which needed to be done, 00:06.700 --> 00:09.420 I just won't develop as much on some of these points. 00:10.040 --> 00:15.140 But we're talking about a series, a new series we're doing, of our identity in Christ. 00:15.680 --> 00:17.060 This is the second message in. 00:18.220 --> 00:27.740 Last Sunday we started way back with actually pre-Adam and Eve in heaven and the fall of 00:27.740 --> 00:33.100 Lucifer and him being cast to the earth with a third of the angels and that whole thing. 00:33.300 --> 00:41.420 We started with that and came through and answered, hopefully, the question, why did God even create 00:41.420 --> 00:43.040 man number one? 00:43.460 --> 00:50.400 And a bigger question is why did he put him on the earth with Satan and the fallen angels? 00:51.580 --> 00:56.360 So we were designed to create it for a very specific reason. 00:57.120 --> 01:06.960 That's why, from God's perspective, he loaded us up with such authority and power that he 01:06.960 --> 01:08.340 wants us walking in now. 01:09.700 --> 01:18.340 But that's why is because of what our purpose was, our job was, and hopefully it helped 01:18.340 --> 01:25.280 us understand our design, helped us understand our purpose, who we were pre-sin in the 01:25.280 --> 01:26.860 earth, who we were. 01:27.820 --> 01:29.820 Problem is, we all know the story. 01:33.060 --> 01:42.880 Eve, Adam made some bad choices, didn't obey God, sinned and took the whole human race 01:42.880 --> 01:43.600 with him. 01:47.520 --> 01:53.280 So to understand who I am today, I need to understand my design, what God created 01:53.280 --> 01:53.840 me to be. 01:54.200 --> 02:02.180 But I also need to understand that what I'm living in now, my human element, my flesh, 02:02.460 --> 02:09.920 my fallen nature that I'm still living with or in, also affects who I am today. 02:12.240 --> 02:16.200 So you can't leave out a piece because, well, I don't want to talk about that, no? 02:16.880 --> 02:22.720 The good things and the difficult things make us who we are. 02:25.400 --> 02:29.800 You know, sometimes we don't like to talk about the difficult things and that's okay, but 02:29.800 --> 02:30.860 they still formed you. 02:32.300 --> 02:33.960 They still made you who you are. 02:34.580 --> 02:38.000 So there's a number of things that happened when Adam and Eve sinned. 02:38.960 --> 02:40.620 I'll just list a few of them. 02:40.620 --> 02:45.700 The human race lost its innocence, knowing only good. 02:47.860 --> 02:49.520 Boy, wouldn't it... 02:50.220 --> 02:55.680 To never have an evil thought, an evil desire, only good, good, good, good, good. 02:56.180 --> 02:58.260 It's like, is that even possible? 02:58.440 --> 02:59.480 That's what they lived in. 03:00.380 --> 03:04.960 But boy, it didn't take long after that sin entered the picture that Genesis 6, 03:05.100 --> 03:10.600 verse 5, God says, I got to go deal with this because man's heart, all he thinks 03:10.600 --> 03:11.760 about and does is evil. 03:12.660 --> 03:17.400 So it went from only good to only evil. 03:18.600 --> 03:20.420 That's a big change, not a good one. 03:21.920 --> 03:24.360 The immediate effects of sin took place. 03:25.040 --> 03:26.880 Shame, there was no such thing as shame. 03:27.120 --> 03:33.080 Fear, the naked thing, none of these existed. 03:34.360 --> 03:39.360 Women lost the ability to have a child painlessly. 03:42.500 --> 03:46.300 I'm sure glad there's forgiveness in heaven, or Eve would just be beat up, man. 03:48.400 --> 03:49.800 You get this to me! 03:53.200 --> 03:58.300 There was...childbirth is not supposed to have all the negative things that women suffer, 03:58.420 --> 04:00.320 not only in it, but after it. 04:01.400 --> 04:03.300 None of those were designed by God. 04:04.020 --> 04:06.300 Those were all lost by Adam and Eve. 04:07.500 --> 04:14.180 And the ladies lost the love and companionship of the man. 04:14.980 --> 04:20.660 And everybody that I get ready for marriage, I put this into them. 04:21.900 --> 04:23.080 Everything's lovey-dovey. 04:23.260 --> 04:25.060 Oh, we want to hang out with each other. 04:25.200 --> 04:28.260 We'll stay up till 2, 3 in the morning and get up for work at 5, 04:28.280 --> 04:31.460 and it's just great and life is so wonderful. 04:32.040 --> 04:37.560 Like you said, once the curse of Genesis kicks in, Genesis 3, 04:40.440 --> 04:47.120 everything that was attracting you to him, or specifically the curse for the women, 04:47.220 --> 04:52.140 from him to her, everything that attracted you is going to aggravate you. 04:54.840 --> 04:56.800 Because a curse just took effect. 04:59.300 --> 05:01.060 Okay, I hear the wheels rolling. 05:01.060 --> 05:03.480 But I thought Jesus set us free from the curse. 05:03.700 --> 05:06.600 He did, but it only comes by faith. 05:08.820 --> 05:14.240 You know, all the bad things that can happen, Jesus paid for all of them to stop. 05:14.360 --> 05:15.800 Well, why don't they stop automatically? 05:15.940 --> 05:17.980 Because we have to grab them by faith. 05:18.920 --> 05:20.160 We have to live them out. 05:21.960 --> 05:23.980 And that curse is the same thing. 05:24.300 --> 05:27.380 We do not have to, as men on Father's Day, 05:27.380 --> 05:29.640 live under the curse of, 05:31.000 --> 05:34.120 I used to really think the sun rise and set in her. 05:34.360 --> 05:35.680 Now I just wish it would set. 05:38.160 --> 05:39.340 She aggravates me. 05:41.800 --> 05:42.620 That's the curse. 05:48.200 --> 05:49.300 We've talked about it. 05:49.380 --> 05:50.520 That's not a surprise to her. 05:50.640 --> 05:51.300 That's the curse. 05:52.840 --> 05:54.640 That's what men have to deal with. 05:55.760 --> 05:57.560 Well, you shouldn't say it that plainly. 05:57.700 --> 05:57.940 Why? 05:58.900 --> 06:00.880 It happens in your home all the time. 06:04.520 --> 06:06.380 When you get upset, slam the door. 06:06.600 --> 06:12.520 When you say bad things, when you, it's all like, man, I just wish this would end. 06:13.560 --> 06:18.300 Well, there was a time you wanted to spend eternity together. 06:20.040 --> 06:25.120 And now, all of a sudden, the curse is your desire will still be for your 06:25.120 --> 06:29.620 husband, but he will rule over you. 06:31.440 --> 06:32.280 That's the curse. 06:33.400 --> 06:40.340 That by faith, as godly Christian men, we have to get beyond. 06:41.580 --> 06:47.120 The same way the curse of sickness and disease and poverty and I mean, 06:47.260 --> 06:48.460 on and on, you can go listing. 06:49.840 --> 06:54.360 We have the promises and the right to believe beyond it. 06:55.300 --> 06:56.300 To overcome it. 06:57.920 --> 06:59.140 To be victorious. 06:59.880 --> 07:06.260 To be, you know, when we get to the next Sunday and I list out some of what 07:06.260 --> 07:08.700 Jesus did, you know who you are. 07:10.060 --> 07:12.040 You are victorious. 07:13.500 --> 07:15.260 You are an overcomer. 07:16.220 --> 07:18.640 And you are more than a conqueror. 07:21.620 --> 07:25.940 But if we don't admit we have something to be victorious over and 07:25.940 --> 07:26.900 overcome and conquer. 07:29.240 --> 07:31.600 We're just going to be in denial to how we are. 07:32.460 --> 07:35.080 Best thing to do is accept, yep, that's probably me. 07:37.860 --> 07:39.800 But by faith, I'm going to beat it. 07:40.860 --> 07:41.760 I'm going to get past it. 07:44.480 --> 07:49.680 And women have suffered greatly because of that curse and how men treat women. 07:51.140 --> 07:52.600 And their men should say amen. 07:53.420 --> 07:56.280 Because if the woman does, she's going to suffer again. 07:58.380 --> 08:00.620 Why did you weigh men on the way home? 08:00.780 --> 08:01.020 Can you hear? 08:01.200 --> 08:02.240 Why did you weigh men? 08:03.000 --> 08:04.640 I'm not like that. 08:09.660 --> 08:11.880 All right, can't dwell too long. 08:12.420 --> 08:17.000 Number four, Adam lost the easy life, the easy way of living. 08:18.560 --> 08:20.720 The ground was cursed, produced thistles. 08:21.180 --> 08:25.180 He's going to have to work in a way to produce a livelihood that 08:25.820 --> 08:28.220 he's actually going to perspire. 08:28.860 --> 08:31.120 Do you know perspiration? 08:31.800 --> 08:34.240 Working hard is part of the curse. 08:40.310 --> 08:44.030 I don't, I have all these examples come to my mind that I could give. 08:44.410 --> 08:46.430 I was raised old European. 08:47.150 --> 08:52.670 There is nothing more honorable than a man working to the point 08:52.670 --> 08:56.830 his shirt is soaking wet and he's just putting his whole being into it. 08:57.330 --> 08:58.490 That's God. 09:00.830 --> 09:05.090 Actually, it's not not in the original design. 09:06.070 --> 09:13.010 It's part of what we are looking forward to being released from as time goes on. 09:13.970 --> 09:18.430 We lost our physical immorality, immortality, immorality too, but immortality. 09:19.970 --> 09:24.290 Death got on the physical body and it's appointed on demand once now to die. 09:26.570 --> 09:32.010 Something else that took place that wasn't, God didn't deal with it in Genesis 3, 09:32.150 --> 09:34.890 but it showed up and then Jesus had to confront it, 09:35.330 --> 09:38.010 was the rulership of the world was transferred to Satan. 09:39.070 --> 09:42.450 In other words, a way to say that is everything was lost. 09:45.090 --> 09:46.610 Everything was lost. 09:52.060 --> 09:53.400 God lost man. 09:55.360 --> 09:57.560 He lost the reason he created us. 09:59.660 --> 10:02.580 He lost us being his representative on earth, 10:03.560 --> 10:05.240 ruling and reigning in his authority. 10:05.840 --> 10:08.180 He lost us to Satan. He lost us to sin. 10:09.960 --> 10:12.340 And man lost the reason he was created. 10:14.280 --> 10:17.980 Man lost the fact. I didn't word this just right so I'll reword it now. 10:18.300 --> 10:22.240 God is his superior. God's still a person superior even if you're lost, 10:22.520 --> 10:25.060 but he's not your immediate superior. 10:26.640 --> 10:29.840 Man lost God as his immediate superior. 10:30.140 --> 10:35.480 When Adam and Eve were walking through the garden that they weren't talking to Satan, 10:36.900 --> 10:40.720 their immediate superior was God. 10:42.000 --> 10:44.960 They lost that. They lost the ability. 10:45.360 --> 10:47.240 We lost the ability to rule, to reign. 10:47.740 --> 10:51.680 The garden, our daily access to God, we can have it. 10:51.680 --> 10:55.160 But thank God by the Holy Spirit being given and put back into us. 10:55.620 --> 10:59.200 But even now, people saved the Holy Spirit's living in us. 10:59.560 --> 11:04.960 People baptized in the Holy Spirit where we've actually submitted and given full control to the Holy Spirit. 11:05.600 --> 11:12.080 We still have to work at that daily interaction with God. 11:13.220 --> 11:16.420 It isn't just, boom, it automatically happens. 11:17.240 --> 11:18.640 You have to pursue it. Why? 11:18.640 --> 11:21.040 Because they lost the automatic thing. 11:22.080 --> 11:25.060 Physical immortality. We lost our identity as a human race. 11:27.460 --> 11:30.660 But Satan became the one in charge. 11:31.280 --> 11:32.180 So how'd that happen? 11:35.590 --> 11:37.830 Halfway down, it's not underlined. 11:38.250 --> 11:39.710 It was started by the word by. 11:40.370 --> 11:47.250 By submitting to Satan's word over God's humanity came under the power of sin and death. 11:47.250 --> 11:53.790 And Satan became the de facto influencer or ruler over the rebellious world system. 11:54.650 --> 11:56.370 And that's what Scripture calls them. 11:57.090 --> 11:59.450 Ruler of the world, God of the age, Prince of power of the year. 11:59.950 --> 12:04.310 The whole world lies under the influence, the power, the evil of Satan. 12:05.030 --> 12:10.690 So what you have in Luke chapter 4 verse 6, it's also in Matthew 4, 8, or 9. 12:11.190 --> 12:15.410 Satan explicitly says that the authority of the glory of the kingdoms, 12:15.410 --> 12:20.650 the authority and the glory of the kingdoms of the earth had been given to him 12:22.050 --> 12:24.810 and he could give it to whoever he wanted to. 12:24.910 --> 12:26.470 This is his temptation to Jesus. 12:27.550 --> 12:32.410 Jesus did not counter that and say, it has not. 12:33.330 --> 12:35.870 You don't have that authority. You don't have that. 12:36.290 --> 12:37.890 Jesus did not counter him. 12:39.910 --> 12:41.330 He just dealt with it. 12:44.560 --> 12:46.780 Here's the Scripture in Luke 4. 12:47.540 --> 12:52.100 And he said to him, to you I will give all this power and authority and their glory. 12:52.440 --> 12:55.740 All the magnificent, excellence, preeminence, dignity and grace. 12:56.700 --> 13:03.000 Now you have to really be stretching the truth to look at this world and describe it that way. 13:05.320 --> 13:11.700 The magnificence, excellence, preeminence, dignity and grace of this planet. 13:15.070 --> 13:16.450 This planet stinks, man. 13:17.950 --> 13:19.610 There's a lot of bad things in this planet. 13:21.070 --> 13:24.110 And to describe it like, oh, he's tempting them, trying to get them. 13:24.690 --> 13:25.290 Come on, Jesus. 13:26.690 --> 13:31.130 It has been turned over to me and I can give it to whomever I will. 13:31.290 --> 13:32.910 Jesus did not counter that statement. 13:34.550 --> 13:36.570 He just said, no, I'm not going to bother to worship you. 13:36.590 --> 13:38.410 There's only one that gets worshiped and that's the Father. 13:40.190 --> 13:41.590 Well, when did he get that? 13:42.390 --> 13:46.710 Well, here is Jesus' input on the same test. 13:47.270 --> 13:49.770 You know, that's what he was, Satan was testing Jesus on. 13:50.190 --> 13:51.790 There is Jesus' input on that. 13:52.290 --> 13:55.810 But the question is, well, where did he, where did he get that? 13:59.030 --> 14:01.790 How did that authority get handed on to him? 14:02.790 --> 14:10.870 Well, when Adam and Eve, we already read it, choose to not obey God and follow what Satan was telling him to do. 14:11.590 --> 14:12.930 They switched gods. 14:14.330 --> 14:16.090 That's why everything changed. 14:17.850 --> 14:19.070 They just switched gods. 14:20.010 --> 14:24.250 They didn't know that was going to be the outcome, but they didn't need to know. 14:24.350 --> 14:25.830 You say, well, why didn't God explain it to them? 14:25.970 --> 14:29.370 All they needed to know is, here's the rule, obey it. 14:30.730 --> 14:32.190 Does that sound familiar sometimes? 14:34.470 --> 14:38.370 Well, if God would just explain to me, it wouldn't make any difference because you'd argue with him. 14:40.790 --> 14:41.430 I've done it. 14:44.580 --> 14:51.260 He was gracious enough to explain something and I'd go, yeah, but God, you know, we're called children for a reason. 14:53.800 --> 14:55.940 You've got your four, five, six, eight, ten year old. 14:58.240 --> 15:00.440 There's some things you just tell them this is the rule. 15:01.360 --> 15:05.660 You don't give them the big, deep explanation because they're just going to argue with you. 15:06.720 --> 15:11.060 Well, we don't agree. We don't under... Yeah, because you're seeing such a small slice of life. 15:12.100 --> 15:17.320 You know, I've always had this saying and it's not to be a belittling saying, it's just kind of a fact. 15:19.360 --> 15:22.460 Well, you're not an adult yet. You haven't raised a family yet. 15:22.780 --> 15:26.020 You aren't out far enough to see this thing the way you'll see it in 30 years. 15:27.920 --> 15:29.860 So feel free to disagree, but here's the rule. 15:31.780 --> 15:34.880 That's kind of God with us. That was God with Adam and Eve. 15:34.880 --> 15:37.360 Here's the rule. Just don't mess with that one tree. 15:38.260 --> 15:41.460 Well, if he'd have explained everything that was going to happen, they'd have still done it. 15:43.580 --> 15:47.720 You can explain it to your kids. Yeah, but if you do this, that'll happen, that'll happen. 15:48.020 --> 15:49.920 Oh, no, it won't. Not for me. It happens. 15:51.860 --> 15:53.540 So you just got to learn to obey the rule. 15:53.900 --> 15:57.100 Sometimes God asks us to do something and he doesn't give us any explanation. 15:57.940 --> 15:59.680 None of our business. We don't need to know. 16:00.260 --> 16:06.580 He just said, do it or don't do it. So just do it or don't do it. 16:07.620 --> 16:09.680 Whatever he's saying, don't do, don't do it. 16:12.580 --> 16:15.920 But they gave the rulership away when they switched gods. 16:16.520 --> 16:19.280 Something really, a couple of bad things came out of that. 16:20.260 --> 16:25.040 We became slaves of sin. There was the Scripture for it. 16:27.340 --> 16:31.420 And we became slaves of Satan or the demonic. 16:32.840 --> 16:34.080 I'll read this one. 16:35.200 --> 16:41.000 You were following the course and fashion of this world, which were under the sway and the tendency of this present age, 16:41.500 --> 16:44.400 following the prince and the power of the air. 16:44.880 --> 16:54.240 You were obedient to and under the control of the demon spirit that still constantly works in the sons of disobedience. 16:56.500 --> 16:58.580 We lost freedom. 16:59.880 --> 17:06.440 And the deception is, if you'll go serve Satan's kingdom, you'll first be free. 17:07.440 --> 17:09.000 Now, it don't work that way. 17:11.320 --> 17:16.780 You'll get in so deep that when he pulls the new shut, you'll just be over. 17:17.760 --> 17:20.580 But it's presented as freedom. 17:20.580 --> 17:22.280 God says no. 17:23.720 --> 17:26.660 Having demons living in you is not freedom. 17:29.160 --> 17:30.780 It'll turn you into a slave. 17:32.200 --> 17:33.200 That's what God says. 17:34.180 --> 17:37.440 So, a couple of really bad things happened. 17:38.260 --> 17:42.240 The human race fell into sin, including all of us. 17:43.000 --> 17:45.460 And because of that, we were subject to Satan. 17:45.800 --> 17:47.540 So again, all was lost. 17:48.420 --> 17:51.000 Everything that God had designed, everything he had planned, 17:51.080 --> 17:55.940 everything of the direction it was supposed to go, without sin, was lost. 17:57.800 --> 18:00.800 So, what does lost mean? I find this interesting. 18:01.880 --> 18:05.820 It's not the definition like, I lost my keys. 18:07.000 --> 18:08.760 I misplaced them. Where's my phone? 18:12.830 --> 18:15.830 They have a new gadget, babes, I might get it for you. 18:17.850 --> 18:19.450 That helps you find your phone. 18:21.070 --> 18:24.470 Because she gets in a hurry and she's grabbing this and she's grabbing that 18:24.470 --> 18:26.570 and she's standing there thinking, I think I got it all. 18:27.290 --> 18:27.990 Okay, let's go. 18:29.550 --> 18:30.790 Oh, where's my phone? 18:33.150 --> 18:35.370 It's not like something we misplaced. 18:36.530 --> 18:37.390 I lost my phone. 18:38.850 --> 18:40.530 Sometimes I leave it in the house. 18:40.670 --> 18:43.730 When I'm outside working in the yard and stuff, I just leave it in the house. 18:44.450 --> 18:47.670 Because I've got it in my pocket and then I got a crawl underneath something. 18:47.790 --> 18:50.130 I don't want to break my phone, so I'll just take it and lay it down. 18:51.010 --> 18:53.530 And an hour later, I go, where did I lay my phone? 18:55.050 --> 18:56.910 And I got a back track. What was I doing? 18:57.550 --> 19:01.150 And I find it in this random, oh yeah, that's right. 19:02.510 --> 19:03.470 I laid it there. 19:04.810 --> 19:07.310 I misplaced it. That's not what lost means. 19:07.590 --> 19:10.530 I lost my phone. I misplaced my phone. Doesn't mean that. 19:10.530 --> 19:16.350 Here's what it means in both languages, all Hebrew and the Greek. 19:17.170 --> 19:21.310 To destroy fully, to ruin or cause it to perish. 19:23.810 --> 19:30.290 It carries a stronger connotation than the English word lost or misplaced. 19:30.870 --> 19:34.990 It implies destruction, perishing or ruin. 19:36.870 --> 19:38.930 It conveys halfway down. 19:38.930 --> 19:44.410 It conveys a ruined condition with ongoing effects. 19:45.610 --> 19:50.610 People or humanity are spiritually destroyed and separated because of sin, 19:50.890 --> 19:53.250 yet still able to be found and restored. 19:54.270 --> 19:57.070 However, this grammatical form adds depth. 19:57.490 --> 20:01.970 Jesus didn't come just to save people who are temporarily misplaced, 20:02.210 --> 20:03.410 like I lost my phone. 20:03.410 --> 20:13.530 He came to save people who are in a permanently ruined state unless they're rescued. 20:14.150 --> 20:20.470 Nothing will change in their life ever if Jesus doesn't come and rescue. 20:23.400 --> 20:26.880 That's the reason Jesus said this. 20:32.320 --> 20:39.980 We were permanently, unendingly, eternally destroyed and ruined. 20:41.040 --> 20:41.980 From what? 20:42.660 --> 20:44.380 What we were created to be. 20:44.920 --> 20:50.180 Our first identity, which was to be with God, to walk with God, 20:50.580 --> 20:52.940 for Him to teach us and guide us and lead us, 20:53.060 --> 20:56.300 uninhibited to rule and reign beside God, 20:56.300 --> 21:03.780 to have this easygoing life, guys, where we never would break a sweat. 21:06.140 --> 21:08.220 We lost that whole works. 21:10.320 --> 21:14.600 And He came to seek and save the ones who lost it. 21:16.560 --> 21:19.940 The ones who this thing was permanently destroyed for them. 21:21.900 --> 21:24.060 So when we lost it, what happened? 21:25.240 --> 21:26.740 How did this... 21:26.740 --> 21:33.880 How does the Scripture describe this ruin, this destruction that hit us? 21:35.580 --> 21:38.100 Well, here are some scriptural descriptions. 21:38.280 --> 21:41.480 I don't have all of them by any means, but I've got enough to paint the picture. 21:42.460 --> 21:44.080 We fell short of the glory of God. 21:44.260 --> 21:45.100 We lost the glory. 21:46.240 --> 21:49.080 Remember last Sunday we talked about how God was clothed to the glory 21:49.080 --> 21:50.660 and God made us to look just like Him. 21:50.660 --> 21:53.640 So they were clothed. Adam and Eve were clothed the glory. 21:53.760 --> 21:59.660 That's why when the glory disappeared, they're standing there going... 22:00.220 --> 22:02.660 besides the infusion of shame, they're going... 22:03.620 --> 22:04.920 See, now stop and think about it. 22:06.520 --> 22:11.780 If there were ever two human beings that had the perfect body, 22:13.760 --> 22:15.020 it was Adam and Eve. 22:17.740 --> 22:23.480 And once sin hit them, they had to cover it up because they were ashamed. 22:24.700 --> 22:26.760 What do you got to be ashamed of? 22:30.370 --> 22:34.350 You were still perfect in your body. 22:36.030 --> 22:39.410 But sin will make us ashamed of stuff that there's nothing wrong with. 22:40.730 --> 22:42.210 I mean, it still can be perfect. 22:42.210 --> 22:48.830 And if shame starts grinding around in you, that's not from God. 22:49.890 --> 22:54.030 It'll drive us down to where we feel so bad about ourselves 22:54.670 --> 22:58.110 and someone else looks in and goes, what are you feeling bad about? 22:59.090 --> 23:02.070 You should see what I'm dealing with. 23:06.900 --> 23:08.900 You apply that wherever you want to apply that. 23:12.970 --> 23:15.930 But you can't talk them out of it because they're in shame. 23:17.790 --> 23:19.310 We fell short of the glory. 23:19.930 --> 23:21.830 Sin separated us from God. 23:22.490 --> 23:25.090 No more evening walks with God. 23:27.770 --> 23:30.790 We lost God as our source of life. 23:32.570 --> 23:35.990 Our friendship, our intimacy, our fellowship with God was gone. 23:36.330 --> 23:38.270 Our innocence was gone. We became guilty. 23:38.930 --> 23:40.230 Now we saw things. 23:40.970 --> 23:41.770 Put it this way. 23:43.910 --> 23:47.950 The human race eyes open to things that are too big for us to carry. 23:50.350 --> 23:53.970 It's like a little guy, you're flying together and you get to the airport 23:53.970 --> 23:57.290 and you gather your bags and you got this big 40-pound bag 23:58.310 --> 24:01.990 and you give it to your 5-year-old and say, you take that to the car, I got this. 24:02.610 --> 24:03.750 That's too big for him. 24:05.310 --> 24:07.230 He shouldn't be exposed to that yet. 24:08.850 --> 24:10.050 That's what happened to us. 24:10.410 --> 24:13.850 Once we could see good and evil, that was too big for us. 24:14.030 --> 24:15.650 It's too big for the human race now. 24:16.170 --> 24:19.850 Outside of Jesus, it's too big because it just sucks him in 24:19.850 --> 24:24.930 and it almost returns back to what it was like in the days of Noah. 24:25.130 --> 24:26.870 Just everybody's thinking evil. 24:28.710 --> 24:33.290 I mean, you listen to the radio, you watch TV, you look at magazines. 24:33.290 --> 24:37.310 It always has some kind of evil slant. 24:38.350 --> 24:40.830 And many times it's a sexual slant. 24:42.050 --> 24:43.690 It's just like, really? 24:45.790 --> 24:47.450 Now we're in eternal death. 24:48.930 --> 24:51.130 We're dead in trespasses and sins. 24:53.230 --> 24:57.110 We're living according to a whole different world system, not a godly one. 24:57.770 --> 25:02.430 It's always a fight. You're trying to overcome what the system's throwing at you. 25:02.430 --> 25:06.290 You're trying to be victorious with what's coming down the pike at you. 25:06.550 --> 25:09.650 You're always in overcoming fight mode. 25:11.710 --> 25:15.090 We can live. We did when we were lost. 25:15.250 --> 25:19.630 But as human beings, and I want to differentiate here, as Christian people, we don't have to. 25:20.190 --> 25:24.030 But unsaved, we're living under demonic, devilish control. Period. 25:25.330 --> 25:29.510 Anybody who's unsaved, there's demons running their life. 25:30.850 --> 25:35.010 It's part of what happens. That's Ephesians chapter one, verse couple verses. 25:36.590 --> 25:39.310 We live by the dictates of the fallen mind and the flesh. 25:39.670 --> 25:44.190 That's why once we're saved, God calls us out of that, which we'll talk about that here in the future. 25:44.810 --> 25:48.930 Our very nature caused God to be so angry with us, he wanted to just destroy us. 25:54.600 --> 25:57.680 I mean, that's... 25:58.280 --> 26:02.300 By very nature, we were objects of God's wrath. 26:03.060 --> 26:04.760 Again, that's in Ephesians one. 26:05.780 --> 26:11.340 Separated from Christ, Romans chapter three, nobody's righteous, nobody understands. 26:12.100 --> 26:14.860 Nobody is seeking God. Everybody's turned away. 26:16.920 --> 26:19.160 Man has become unprofitable. 26:20.400 --> 26:22.420 Well, from God's perspective, everything was lost. 26:22.560 --> 26:24.580 Everything that he designed and created is for its gone. 26:24.580 --> 26:27.220 So we're not... we're useless to him. 26:27.360 --> 26:29.600 In fact, at this point, we're nothing but pain to him. 26:29.640 --> 26:31.980 He just gets... he just wanted to destroy us. 26:33.380 --> 26:34.400 Objects of his wrath. 26:35.980 --> 26:39.620 It's like, yuck, I want nothing to do with this bunch. 26:41.040 --> 26:42.200 No one does good. 26:43.400 --> 26:47.020 Out of the mouth and the throat, they become like an open tomb. 26:48.880 --> 26:50.940 Tongues practice lying in deceit. 26:52.000 --> 26:54.100 Poison of asps is under our lips. 26:54.280 --> 26:58.080 In other words, things are said that really hurt and infect people. 26:59.160 --> 27:01.380 And our mouth is full of cursing and bitterness. 27:01.960 --> 27:04.980 That's kind of a pretty good explanation of what life's like today. 27:05.800 --> 27:07.660 Not for Christians, but for non-Christians. 27:07.720 --> 27:10.080 You go out into the world and stir the pot a little bit. 27:10.820 --> 27:12.580 Boy, all three of those pop right up. 27:14.440 --> 27:16.380 Our feet are swift to shed blood. 27:17.640 --> 27:21.100 Destruction and misery just follows the wake of our boat. 27:22.440 --> 27:25.600 Nobody knows, understands how to live in peace. 27:26.520 --> 27:27.960 The fear of the Lord has gone. 27:28.620 --> 27:30.440 The whole world is guilty before God. 27:30.560 --> 27:32.420 This is what was lost. 27:33.140 --> 27:36.920 Because none of that was ever supposed to show up. 27:37.820 --> 27:40.060 This is the lost condition. 27:40.880 --> 27:42.640 We become slaves to sin. 27:44.380 --> 27:47.480 That slavery causes us to become lawless. 27:48.160 --> 27:49.760 The end result being death. 27:52.040 --> 27:54.060 We're working for it. We're earning it. 27:54.620 --> 27:55.180 Romans 5. 27:56.120 --> 27:58.840 We had our minds set. We had. 27:59.440 --> 28:02.660 But without God, minds are set on the desires of the flesh. 28:02.860 --> 28:03.600 It produces death. 28:04.100 --> 28:06.140 It puts us in enemy status with God. 28:06.680 --> 28:07.760 Can't please God. 28:08.800 --> 28:11.800 God said you're just foolish, disobedient, deceived, 28:12.280 --> 28:15.440 serving your fleshly lusts, living in malice and envy. 28:16.000 --> 28:18.740 Malice is where we get the word malignant from. 28:18.860 --> 28:21.040 They come from the same word. 28:22.900 --> 28:27.040 And if you hold something un... 28:27.040 --> 28:27.600 How would you say? 28:27.720 --> 28:29.800 You don't deal with something in your life. 28:30.260 --> 28:34.100 It could be anger, could be unforgiveness, 28:34.300 --> 28:37.740 could be bitterness, could be hatred, could be... 28:37.740 --> 28:40.320 I mean, there's a whole pot of things there we could put together. 28:40.320 --> 28:44.840 You hold them long enough and don't deal with them. 28:45.320 --> 28:52.160 You develop what's called malice, which is a really... 28:52.160 --> 29:00.100 It's like a seething form, a slow burn form of anger. 29:02.500 --> 29:05.640 And if you don't deal with that, it'll turn malignant on you. 29:06.760 --> 29:08.540 Not necessarily in the physical, 29:08.540 --> 29:14.900 but it'll just turn us to be very putrid people. 29:15.420 --> 29:18.060 Malignant stuff is always ugly. 29:18.840 --> 29:22.240 It's nasty, it's... 29:22.240 --> 29:25.240 You can describe it in many different ways. 29:25.360 --> 29:28.360 It smells, it's out of control. 29:30.120 --> 29:32.820 It does goofy, stupid things. 29:33.740 --> 29:36.120 Like, for instance, a malignant tumor. 29:36.120 --> 29:39.310 Sometimes when they pull malignant tumors out of... 29:39.740 --> 29:42.100 Could be in the leg, could be in the belly, could be any place. 29:42.360 --> 29:43.660 They pull malignant tumor out. 29:44.620 --> 29:47.600 It's got teeth, it's got hair, it's got... 29:47.600 --> 29:48.660 It's just nasty. 29:49.660 --> 29:51.740 It's like, well, what the... 29:51.740 --> 29:54.620 Why is it growing teeth? 29:56.220 --> 29:57.270 Why is it... 29:57.980 --> 29:58.860 Because it's malignant. 29:59.740 --> 30:00.920 It's just nasty. 30:02.160 --> 30:04.120 Malice will lead us into that. 30:04.120 --> 30:06.080 Hateful, hating each other. 30:07.500 --> 30:08.580 So all was lost. 30:09.500 --> 30:12.060 We were lost. Everything that got intended was lost. 30:12.580 --> 30:15.920 Folks, that's the majority of the population on the world right now. 30:20.620 --> 30:24.140 I know sometimes we don't like to admit that. 30:25.620 --> 30:31.620 That's why God calls us to go reach the lost. 30:33.580 --> 30:38.460 Because we have had our identity restored in Christ. 30:39.660 --> 30:40.880 They have not. 30:41.600 --> 30:49.360 Our job now is to live in what He offered us while we're living in a fallen body. 30:49.980 --> 30:51.760 And that becomes the war. 30:53.140 --> 30:56.760 They have not had identity restored to them yet. 30:58.100 --> 31:01.400 Not everybody is a child of God. 31:04.120 --> 31:05.760 I've heard it on TV from... 31:06.640 --> 31:09.060 Or YouTube, from famous preachers. 31:09.440 --> 31:11.940 Well, we know we're all children of God on earth. 31:14.100 --> 31:14.620 What? 31:16.020 --> 31:19.540 Where in God's green earth did you come up with that one? 31:20.340 --> 31:23.900 Part of our new identity, Adam and Eve didn't have this. 31:23.900 --> 31:34.360 Part of our new identity is we've been brought into a new family that God created of the human race. 31:35.560 --> 31:39.760 If you're not born again, you're not in that family. 31:40.140 --> 31:41.680 You don't have that identity. 31:42.300 --> 31:48.200 That identity comes with giving your life back to the right God 31:48.200 --> 31:50.660 and quit serving this one and start serving that one. 31:51.380 --> 31:52.740 Now we have a new identity. 31:53.440 --> 31:56.540 Now everybody on earth is God's creation. 31:58.220 --> 32:00.440 But we're not all God's children. 32:01.180 --> 32:02.760 That's an identity statement. 32:04.640 --> 32:07.960 You know, if one of your children is asked, 32:08.020 --> 32:09.140 Well, who are you? What's your name? 32:10.220 --> 32:12.720 Well, the first name is kind of you mark them. 32:14.160 --> 32:15.880 Because you got to separate them. 32:15.960 --> 32:19.120 You don't want to call them all even though it was a George foreman. 32:19.260 --> 32:20.720 Everybody in the family, they named George. 32:22.460 --> 32:25.320 It's like... that's almost like a bad joke there. 32:28.700 --> 32:30.360 We mark them with the first name. 32:30.540 --> 32:32.660 Okay, we got this one, this one, this one, this one, this one. 32:32.740 --> 32:35.440 And we're calling what God wants over them by their name. 32:36.060 --> 32:37.560 Their last name is their identity. 32:39.940 --> 32:41.080 Well, I'm an Isaacson. 32:42.680 --> 32:43.560 I'm a pelts. 32:48.310 --> 32:49.910 You can feel it coming, can't you? 32:49.910 --> 32:50.010 Yeah. 32:55.450 --> 32:59.190 Well, since you're in front of me, I'll just leave it alone. 33:00.790 --> 33:02.570 Anyway, the last name is the identity. 33:03.610 --> 33:04.610 It's who we are. 33:05.210 --> 33:10.790 They used to say I'm like Robert the Bruce, 33:11.530 --> 33:13.990 or Robert of the Bruce clan. 33:14.850 --> 33:18.530 Well, now it's Vernon the pelts. 33:19.670 --> 33:22.830 You know, that's my first name marks me. 33:23.550 --> 33:25.010 My second name is my identity. 33:26.210 --> 33:28.390 We are Christians. 33:30.450 --> 33:31.770 That's our identity. 33:32.250 --> 33:33.850 That's our new identity. 33:34.190 --> 33:35.190 It's our name. 33:39.490 --> 33:42.950 The greatest bulk of the world can't claim that. 33:42.950 --> 33:44.810 They're still dead in trespasses and sins. 33:45.010 --> 33:47.410 Jesus said, brought us the gate. 33:47.850 --> 33:51.030 Wide is the way that leads to destruction. 33:52.350 --> 33:54.330 Narrow is the one that goes to life. 33:54.990 --> 33:57.910 The bulk of the human race is not going the right direction. 34:01.830 --> 34:02.630 They're lost. 34:03.790 --> 34:05.510 They've lost the reason they're created. 34:12.910 --> 34:15.150 But this is where we pick up next Sunday. 34:16.510 --> 34:19.970 In the middle of that whole description of verses one through three, 34:20.590 --> 34:22.690 Paul starts with verse four with, 34:24.610 --> 34:25.110 but God. 34:26.690 --> 34:29.850 There's the factor that changes everything. 34:30.570 --> 34:31.550 But God. 34:32.490 --> 34:33.670 We are lost. 34:34.070 --> 34:35.650 We are ruined. 34:36.070 --> 34:36.970 We are destroyed. 34:37.430 --> 34:38.890 We will never recover. 34:39.290 --> 34:44.770 We are doomed for eternal torment with the God we chose 34:44.770 --> 34:45.390 to serve. 34:45.970 --> 34:47.730 All is lost. 34:49.610 --> 34:50.570 But God. 34:51.830 --> 34:53.450 But God stepped in. 35:01.590 --> 35:06.510 Some things that we will get into next Sunday and the Sunday's following. 35:07.550 --> 35:09.890 Some things kind of come as a group package. 35:12.880 --> 35:17.900 And then some things we have to fight for and individually overcome 35:17.900 --> 35:19.720 and be victorious and conquer. 35:20.240 --> 35:23.520 And I believe it's one of the reasons God just, 35:24.020 --> 35:25.620 well, he explained in the Old Testament, 35:26.860 --> 35:28.680 when they went into the Promised Land, 35:28.700 --> 35:29.680 you read in the book of Joshua, 35:29.760 --> 35:31.140 when they went into the Promised Land, 35:32.120 --> 35:37.280 they had some miraculous removal of enemies like Jericho 35:37.280 --> 35:40.420 and just some miraculous stuff. 35:41.740 --> 35:43.520 And then God says, hey, by the way, 35:43.580 --> 35:46.100 don't get thinking I'm going to do that for you all the way through. 35:47.620 --> 35:48.980 I'm going to leave some enemies. 35:50.920 --> 35:51.760 It's what he says. 35:52.040 --> 35:53.860 I'm going to leave some enemies I'm not going to deal with. 35:55.000 --> 35:57.200 Because you have to learn how to war. 35:57.560 --> 35:59.020 You have to learn how to overcome. 36:00.940 --> 36:03.400 And there's some things that when you get saved, 36:03.520 --> 36:05.780 it's just like a group package and the whole thing is gone 36:05.780 --> 36:07.100 and we've got a new identity. 36:07.460 --> 36:10.000 And then there's just some things that's like, really? 36:12.100 --> 36:16.080 How long is it going to take me to be victorious? 36:16.080 --> 36:17.840 And conquer this thing and overcome it? 36:18.260 --> 36:19.660 Well, he's teaching you. 36:19.840 --> 36:20.720 He's teaching me. 36:21.040 --> 36:22.320 He's strengthening us. 36:22.900 --> 36:25.920 And he's just not going to do it all for us. 36:26.740 --> 36:30.920 Because any time you have a child that had everything done for them, 36:31.880 --> 36:33.340 when they become adult, 36:34.320 --> 36:35.960 you don't want to marry them. 36:40.110 --> 36:43.430 Because they still think the universe revolves around them 36:43.430 --> 36:45.670 and that everybody should do everything for them. 36:46.630 --> 36:49.190 They've never learned that, you know, at some point 36:49.190 --> 36:50.390 you're going to pick up your own socks. 36:57.510 --> 36:59.110 Better not go any further down there. 36:59.230 --> 36:59.950 We're running out of time. 37:02.150 --> 37:07.310 So whether it comes as a package or we have to work our way through it, 37:07.410 --> 37:09.130 either way, we're a new creation in Christ. 37:10.250 --> 37:11.670 Old things, what are the old things? 37:11.770 --> 37:12.670 Everything that was lost. 37:13.270 --> 37:14.790 Old things will pass away. 37:15.210 --> 37:16.650 They're gone from God's perspective. 37:16.930 --> 37:18.430 He's calling them gone by faith. 37:18.430 --> 37:20.730 We work through it with the Holy Spirit. 37:21.230 --> 37:23.350 Everything that was involved in we were lost. 37:26.030 --> 37:29.830 I don't know if there's anybody here who has never made Jesus their Savior. 37:32.030 --> 37:35.450 Asked God to forgive your sins and submitted your life to Him. 37:36.470 --> 37:38.490 But if you've not done that, 37:38.670 --> 37:40.950 I'm going to give you an opportunity to do it this morning 37:41.570 --> 37:44.230 because you're still living in a position. 37:45.890 --> 37:46.730 Everything's lost. 37:47.630 --> 37:51.430 You say, why is my life so bad in so many areas? 37:51.610 --> 37:53.270 Because you're lost. 37:54.410 --> 37:57.510 Everything that God intended for you is being ruined. 37:57.730 --> 37:58.470 It's being destroyed. 37:59.430 --> 38:02.270 It's being dismantled right in front of you. 38:02.510 --> 38:07.870 And it seems like no matter how hard you try to fix it, 38:10.550 --> 38:14.110 you just kind of wait for the shoe to drop again. 38:14.110 --> 38:16.650 And just only a matter of time, bam, it's going to smack me again. 38:17.270 --> 38:17.670 Why? 38:18.950 --> 38:20.050 Because you're still lost. 38:20.710 --> 38:23.530 You're still living in that position of your ruined. 38:23.930 --> 38:26.430 Whether here or anybody watching online. 38:27.510 --> 38:31.650 There's nothing you're going to be able to do to be able to get out of that. 38:31.810 --> 38:33.310 You are ruined forever. 38:35.170 --> 38:36.130 But God... 38:37.030 --> 38:39.050 You let God into that situation. 38:39.750 --> 38:43.390 He will take that identity and turn it in to a new one, 38:43.390 --> 38:46.930 which resembles the one before Adam and Eve sinned. 38:47.270 --> 38:50.350 It's even better than what they had. 38:51.670 --> 38:54.610 Did you know that God, according to what we know, 38:54.770 --> 38:58.290 of course we don't have a lot of information before they sinned. 38:59.210 --> 39:04.090 But he told them to rule and reign and replenish the earth. 39:04.970 --> 39:09.210 There's no indication that God was ever going to move the human race to heaven. 39:13.050 --> 39:14.490 And then we lost it all. 39:16.770 --> 39:17.990 And just like God. 39:19.270 --> 39:20.430 He says, well, I tell you what. 39:21.710 --> 39:24.190 You know, we're going to do it better the next time around. 39:25.350 --> 39:29.430 I never intended for human beings to live in heaven with me. 39:29.770 --> 39:33.550 I never really intended to build them each an individual mansion. 39:34.770 --> 39:36.410 I never intended this. 39:37.630 --> 39:41.650 But you know what? When we re-establish who they are, 39:42.430 --> 39:44.130 that's who we're going to make them be. 39:46.170 --> 39:53.750 And we've got identity that was never promised to Adam and Eve before the fall. 39:55.910 --> 39:56.930 It's awesome. 39:58.690 --> 40:00.710 But if we haven't made the switch, 40:02.870 --> 40:05.710 we're still lost. We're still in that ruined condition. 40:06.770 --> 40:07.810 And it'll never change. 40:08.810 --> 40:10.990 You know, I don't want to be the bearer of bad news, but it'll never change. 40:11.670 --> 40:13.490 The only one who can change it is God. 40:15.150 --> 40:17.730 Is there anybody here who says, I've never done that. 40:17.790 --> 40:19.090 I've never made Jesus my Savior. 40:19.230 --> 40:20.250 Asked him to forgive my sins. 40:21.890 --> 40:23.110 Submitted myself to him. 40:25.090 --> 40:27.350 Now is a good time to switch that. 40:28.730 --> 40:29.830 Anybody here like that? 40:29.830 --> 40:31.730 I just like to pray with you. I don't want to embarrass you. 40:31.770 --> 40:33.150 I just want to pray with you. Just raise your hand. 40:33.210 --> 40:35.970 I want to see if there's anybody here who says, yep, 40:36.930 --> 40:39.130 seems like everything in my life is kind of cursed. 40:39.250 --> 40:41.330 Everything I touch eventually falls apart. 40:42.230 --> 40:44.070 I need a new identity. I need a new start. 40:44.450 --> 40:44.590 Anybody? 40:49.140 --> 40:49.680 All right. 40:50.440 --> 40:53.340 Anybody online or watching this recording in the future? 40:54.580 --> 40:55.300 It's simple. 40:56.940 --> 40:57.920 You want to switch? 40:57.920 --> 41:01.640 You just say, dear Jesus, forgive me for my sins. 41:02.600 --> 41:04.680 I submit my life to you. 41:05.800 --> 41:09.900 I want what you want for me. 41:10.160 --> 41:12.660 Rather than me doing my own thing, I want what you want. 41:12.860 --> 41:14.500 And I submit myself to that. 41:14.600 --> 41:16.780 I trust you to forgive my sins, 41:17.620 --> 41:19.260 come into my life, change me. 41:19.840 --> 41:20.640 It's that simple. 41:21.800 --> 41:22.760 Just do it. 41:23.920 --> 41:25.840 Just do it and switch identity. 41:25.840 --> 41:28.000 Switch the direction everything's going. 41:29.380 --> 41:33.360 So Lord, we who have experienced and tasted 41:33.360 --> 41:37.620 of this fall inside 41:37.620 --> 41:42.460 and also now the but God stepped into our life side, 41:43.400 --> 41:45.760 we just want to say thank you. 41:46.400 --> 41:48.580 I mean, it's such an inadequate word. 41:49.680 --> 41:52.000 It just is... 41:52.000 --> 41:55.860 It doesn't fully encompass much of anything, 41:56.140 --> 41:59.160 but it's so hard to find a word to say God, 42:01.260 --> 42:02.720 if not for you, 42:04.240 --> 42:05.500 if not for you. 42:06.220 --> 42:09.020 Not only this life we'd be ruined, 42:09.700 --> 42:12.820 but we'd be ruined in destruction for eternity 42:12.820 --> 42:17.480 because there'd be no way to switch away from the wrong God. 42:18.680 --> 42:21.360 But you came 42:22.800 --> 42:25.280 because you loved us. 42:26.920 --> 42:30.680 You came and made the way possible, 42:31.960 --> 42:36.700 and we will be eternally grateful. 42:38.420 --> 42:40.260 Eternally grateful. 42:41.600 --> 42:42.880 We can't express it. 42:43.560 --> 42:45.520 There's not words to wrap around it. 42:46.360 --> 42:49.520 So we just choose to give you our heart and our whole life 42:49.520 --> 42:51.920 and just be faithful and committed to you 42:51.920 --> 42:54.260 in everything and every way. 42:54.740 --> 42:59.580 We are your people, the sheep of your pasture. 42:59.980 --> 43:01.780 We are your servants. 43:02.240 --> 43:04.060 We are your family. 43:04.520 --> 43:06.300 We are your warriors. 43:06.700 --> 43:10.740 We are yours and we offer it. 43:11.180 --> 43:13.740 We offer it freely 43:14.580 --> 43:17.740 because of our gratefulness in what you did for us. 43:18.880 --> 43:20.800 Thank you, Father. Thank you, Jesus. 43:21.040 --> 43:23.080 Thank you, Holy Spirit, for being willing to come 43:23.080 --> 43:27.440 and live and work with us in this putrid place. 43:28.720 --> 43:31.760 And in some of our worst decisions, 43:32.860 --> 43:34.160 you're still there saying, 43:34.260 --> 43:35.360 come on, let's go this way. 43:36.100 --> 43:38.100 Let's go this way. Thank you. 43:38.740 --> 43:40.620 We give you all the praise and the glory 43:40.620 --> 43:42.960 and the honor and Jesus' name. Amen. 43:42.960 --> 43:43.180 Amen.