Identification Truths
Mike Doyle · Jan 29, 2006
Identification (2005-06), No. 17
Holly Hills Bible Church
https://hollyhillsbiblechurch.org/teaching/messages/48262342496143

Transcribed from the recording by SermonAudio, so expect the occasional misheard word.

We had just gotten into these notes here, and we've been talking all along about the believer's relationship with the law. What is a believer's relationship to the law? Do you have a relationship to the law? You have no relationship to it at all. and be in chaos all the time, right? Eat, drink and be merry for tomorrow they'll catch up with us. Why don't you have a relationship to the law? From an identification viewpoint, why don't you have a relationship? You don't need it. That's exactly right. Your relationship to the law is the same as his, and he died unto it, which means you did. So you can put your rule book away.

Okay, question 4. Look at verse 1 in chapter 6. And what is the answer to verse 1, Romans 6? I hope you understood the question. The question is, what shall we say then? Shall we continue in sin that grace may abound? I hear that question all the time, right? What's the answer? God forbid? Okay. Is that the answer? Why? Fourteen? You think verse 14? Is that what you're saying? Read verse 14.

Okay. In John's epistle, whosoever is born of God does not, and I'm going to insert the word practice sin, or doesn't sin, because God's seed abides in him and he is not able to sin because he's begotten of God. Now what do you think about that? I mean, it's almost like God is telling us, hey, wait a minute, if you're born of God, you don't sin. Is that true? How many think it's true? One, two, three, four. How many think it's not true? How many are too afraid to raise their hand?

It's true. Tell me how that verse can be true, and then in the same epistle there's this exhortation that if you say that you have not sinned, you're a liar. How do you explain the difference? Isn't one position, and the other one condition? That's right. Do you understand the answer? Positionally, you're in Christ, and in your position in Christ, because He's your very life, if Christ could sin, you could sin in Him. but because he doesn't sin, you can't.

So when you sin, what's happening? What are you doing? What are you doing? What are you doing? You leave your position and begin to abide in your condition. We had a fun Thursday night. We were talking about sins. At the point in which you leave your position, How often do you sin? Continually. What's that? The moment you left. The moment you left.

And you are continually in sin until the moment you're restored. It isn't, oh, I jumped out, I did four bad things, but I had a couple of periods where I didn't do anything, and then I went back into Christ. No. Because whatever's not of faith is sin. And if you're not living in Christ, you're not living by faith.

You see that? Alright? No confusion there? Clear as it could possibly be. Is just leaving the position sin then? Yes. Because what is sin? We always think about sin as being a whole bunch of bad stuff that we did. Sins. Sins. That's how we look at it. We don't recognize it as the Adamic old man, Adam, sins every second of his existence. 24-7. That's all he does, because he's constantly short of the mark. The definition of sins, amartya, is to miss the mark. So no matter how hard he tries, he never arrives at what the mark is. What's the mark?

It's Christ himself. So if you're in Christ, you're in the mark, so to speak. See that? So, for us to categorize sins as to good ones, bad ones, you know, even activity is really sort of ridiculous from a biblical standpoint. If you're abiding in your position, you are not sinning. You're resting in Christ. If you're not, you're sinning. Now I want you to note in chapter 6 that Donna quoted verse 14, but you can quote Verse 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 11, and 13.

Watch this. We who died to sin, fact. Verse 3, we were baptized into his death. Verse 4, we were buried with him through baptism into death. 5, we became united to him in the likeness of his death. 6, our old man was crucified. 7, He that hath died is justified or freed from sin.

8. We died with Christ.

11. Reckon yourself dead indeed unto sin, but alive unto God in Christ Jesus. Verse 13. Present yourselves unto God as alive from the dead. How many times does God need to tell you before you get it? Do you understand what I'm saying here? It's really interesting that the Lord, when something's important, that He wants us to know, He repeats it lots of times. Lots of times. And your dealing with sin is simply on the basis of the fact you died to it in Christ.

No struggle, you just died. So there's another question in verse 15. The question in 15 is, what then? Are we to sin because we are not under law but under grace? And the answer is, far be the thought. So my question is, why? So what's the answer? What is Paul showing here about what sin is in these verses? That's true.

Look at John 8.34. Somebody quickly run over there.

John 8.34 says what? Somebody. Jesus answered them, Verily, verily, I say unto you, Whosoever committeth Interesting.

So when we get to verse 15 and on, we're not talking about how many of you really, and be honest, just maybe once, have had the thought in your lifetime that you really could control sin in your life? Absolutely. Absolutely. We think, oh, no problem. I've got the will. And now that I'm a Christian, no problem. I pray a little more, study a little more, contribute a little more. I'm going to be able to stop sinning.

But the Lord Jesus says, if you commit sin, you're the slave of sin. It controls you. You don't control it. So, are these two questions the same? Are we to sin because we're not under law? What's interesting is that The only remedy God supplied for us to be free from sin was what? Is death. Now, that frees us, but what keeps us from sinning as we go forward? It's the resurrection. Because we're resurrected into newness of life, and in that new life, there is no sin.

I was talking to our buddy Strachan on Friday night, and we were talking about that very issue, that the minute he leaves here, sin will no longer be an issue for him at all. And he's saying, wow, that's cool. He's understanding that the struggle with sin will be over, conditionally, because the presence of sin will be gone, and he'll be free to glorify God all the time. It's kind of cool that he's looking forward to that.

So, why did God set you free from sin? Why did he do it? He wants to have communion with you, but he can't do this with a sinful man. Does he want to be boss? Does he? Yeah, he does. Yeah, He wants you to serve Him and not sin. Now, is serving Him being in bondage? No, you're free to do that. Yeah, you're free to do it. Here's the thing.

If you have the life of the resurrected Christ, and that life has certain tastes and characteristics and desires, and that life can't see itself doing anything other than pleasing God. Do you see that? When the Lord Jesus was here, what was the number one priority in His life? What was the number one thing? To do His Father's will. He would forego anything to do His Father's will, right? Guess what? You have the same life. You have exactly the same life.

And when the Lord Jesus died and was resurrected, The thing that overjoyed him the most was the fact that he had completed the work that the Father sent him to do. So that meant he was off the hook? No. It meant that he had glorified God and continued to glorify Him for all eternity because the work was done.

See? And again, we were talking about that Thursday night. We were looking at the resurrection, not from man's side, but from God's side. What did God get out of the resurrection? What was his benefit? Satisfaction. He was totally satisfied about sin. What did the Lord Jesus get out of it? The greatest satisfaction is that he fulfilled the Father's will. But the other cool thing that he got is he got brethren. He got you and me. Same life. Just like his.

So we're free. not to serve sin any longer, but to do the thing that our new life in Christ desires to do, and that's to serve God. But let's talk about that. What's the word there? It's a bondservant. It's someone who's freely and willingly submits ourself to it. That's right. Those that are alive from the dead. So, now, in verse 17 and 18, what does it mean to be a bondservant? Either of sin or of righteousness.

This is going to be tough because you guys are all Americans. Under the Constitution. And you've got free wills, right? You get to vote and do all that cool stuff. So what does it mean to be a bondservant either to sin or to righteousness? Slavery. Slavery to sin. Here's the thing.

Do you think you were created to be free? That's right. That's the big lie. That you're an entity under yourself and that you are capable of determining your own destiny and your own direction and you're free to do it. And not only that, you can make decisions and carry them out, no matter what they are. Right? Well, you've discovered that you couldn't free yourself from sin. Right? You couldn't free yourself from sinning. Right? You couldn't free yourself from the law. You can't free yourself from suffering, right?

But what Romans 6 shows us is that God, knowing that, freed you without calling you up and asking you if it was okay. He went ahead and did it. And so we are created and designed to serve. We are servants. And we are created and designed by God in Christ to serve. What was He when He was here, Christ? He was a suffering servant, right? Wasn't that what he was? He said, I never do anything of myself. I only do what I see my father doing. Isn't that the ultimate freedom? I think so.

If you have a desire in your heart to serve, then to have the freedom to do it is really, really important to you. And you have the life that's like that. That's the way the life is. When you got taken out of Adam and placed into Christ, the number one characteristic of the new life we have in Christ is service. And a bondservant isn't one who is pushed into service by a strong arm. It's a person who willingly goes, who can't wait to go, who has made the commitment. And the cross of Christ willingly freed us from the bond service of sin.

And by the way, you were willing then too. How many in this room have ever been forced to sin? I never have. I did it. I loved it every time. We were forced by our identification with Adam. But you went willingly. You never said, oh, don't, no, no, no. We had no choice. Oh yeah, you did. If you didn't have a choice, God wouldn't hold you responsible.

Right? It goes back to being in Adam to start with. That's right. And Adam's choice was our choice. Yeah, well, and Adam chose to sin, you chose to sin, Adam became a sinner, you became a sinner, You know, in John chapter 4 I think it says that they wouldn't come to the light, they loved the darkness rather than the light because their deeds were evil. The word love there is agape. I love sinning.

I'm not fooling anybody. Nobody forced me to do it. I was getting good at it. But the thing is, the issue is you might be in a Christian environment where they slap your hands and tell you you shouldn't be. Like I grew up in Catholicism. You're not supposed to sin. I think I was about 15 when I figured out, wait a minute, I can't stop doing this. You know, I can't. I have to go to confession every week or every day. And I used to think, boy, if I grow up, I hope I get wealthy. I can buy a priest.

Isn't that what they did in the Middle Ages? Yeah, it's exactly what they did. But isn't there a point there, like in Romans 7, as a believer, where you don't enjoy the sinning? Yeah, yeah. Oh, wretched man that I am. Absolutely. And that's part of the conditional growth of the believer into Christ. Maybe the best way to illustrate it is this way. Adam, in the garden, was innocent. The Lord Jesus Christ is holy. You know the difference between innocence and holiness? Are you vulnerable if you're innocent? Yup, you're vulnerable. You don't understand. Did Adam understand good and evil? Did he understand evil? Did he understand good? He had nothing to compare it with. He had nothing to compare it with. There wasn't any, you know.

So what's holiness then from that perspective? Holiness is to love the good and hate the evil. And evil is, again, don't look at evil as a bunch of bad stuff you're doing. You look at evil as anything that's ungodly. Do you see that? Anything that's not of God is evil. No matter what it looks like, it's evil.

And would you say that's not by choice, but by nature? Nature and choice. I'd say both of them. It's interesting, God creates us with this soul that has a will, and we willingly went along. We weren't fooling anybody. Yeah, we were, but we were going along with it. It is the nature, but we willingly engage. Just like in Christ, we willingly engage. It's our new nature, but we're involved.

So as you go along, are you constantly making choices? Oh, great question. What do you think about that? Is the Christian life just a bunch of will choices every second? What do you think? When you were without Christ in Adam, were you making a bunch of will choices to sin? I mean, sometimes you did, but on a 24-7 basis, no. You're just cruising. You're swimming around in the cesspool. What do you know? Same thing in Christ. Do you have to make these will choices all the time? What do you think?

There's what I call the yellow line mentality. That we think we're on the yellow line and left is hell and right is heaven and we're in the middle and we get to choose. No. You're born in hell. My buddy Strawn used to say, this is the best hell's ever going to be. We're on the left side of the line. Because of the cross of Christ, now we're in Christ. We're in here. We're never on the yellow line. You're either one or the other. It's only the sinful Adamic mind thinking it has free will that thinks it lives on the yellow line. You see that? The problem with being on the yellow line is you get run over. Well, let's look at that. I'm glad you brought that up because I was thinking about that afterwards. There are two in six. Is it 13? Let's see. Watch this.

And do not present your members as instruments of unrighteousness to sin, but present yourselves unto God as being alive from the dead. There's two times the word is used there, present. The first time is in the present tense, which means you are continually presenting yourself to your members as instruments of unrighteousness. That's in the present tense. You're doing that continually. But, when you get to the second one, but present yourselves to God, that's in the aorist tense, which means you do it one time.

One time. And I thought after last week that that was confusing. When I enlisted in the Marine Corps, I presented myself to them one time. And they said, thank you very much. You're mine. So verb tenses are important. And right here is a good illustration of it.

You were, in Adam, continually presenting your members as instruments of unrighteousness. You were doing that all the time. But once you present yourself, your instruments, to God as alive from the dead, you're done. It's over. You've done it. You're there. See that? I mean, that's cool. That means you don't have to keep working at it. That's right. That's exactly right.

And like we talked about, Romans 6 goes all the way to verse 11, 10, before God ever asks you to do anything other than just listen and know. When you get to 11, He asks you to reckon or believe, and 12 and 13, He asks you to present. But it's all based on facts that He's already given you about what He did in terms of taking you out of Adam and putting you in Christ. And all he's really doing is giving you instructions as to how the new man functions.

You see that? This is not something that you do to make it happen. This is something that you do because it already has happened. You understand that? That makes sense? Okay. The new man functions that way. I'm just, you know, I guess I'm not the confusion, but it's clear-cut, Adam. in Christ's new creature. But we have both. Both natures. I mean, on the line. We don't have a line, but we're either acting in Adam, or as our old man, or acting as who we are in Christ, in our life here, right now. And you have a choice to abide in Christ, or abide in our old Adamic Yes.

I don't know if it's so much as am I going to act. I think it's more like this. Do I believe what God told me about who I am in Christ or don't I? Do you see what I'm saying? Do I really believe it? Really doesn't make it more than not really. Do I believe it? If you, with a natural mind, objectively sit down and read Romans chapter 6, you have to come to the conclusion that it is utter nonsense. Don't you? I mean, what idiot would write this? I'm not dead, I'm sitting here. What is he talking about?

God says, here's what I did, and I did it to free you from the law and free you from sin, and I placed you in Christ. And then he says, do you believe me? I mean, it's the biggest pipe dream you could ever come up with if it weren't true. But because it is true, your job is what? Do you believe me about this?

And if you do, there are consequences of your faith. And the consequences are freedom. That's right. The choice is belief. But you think about it. If you choose not to believe it, you have chosen to believe that what your present circumstances are in Adam are true, and you're believing that, and so there's no freedom there. If you don't believe it, you're just back in Rome. Or you just stay where you are. Yeah, you don't move.

It's like salvation. Christ comes to the non-believer. The Holy Spirit comes to the non-believer and presents him with his sinful condition. He's lost and condemned and presents Christ as the Savior. What's God say to him? You believe me? If you do, I'll save you for all eternity. If you don't, you're going to stay right where you are. It's irresistible. Yeah. And so he comes to the believer and says, not only have I paid the penalty for your sins, but I solved the sin problem. And I solved the Adamic problem. And I solved the law problem. And here's how I did it. Do you believe me?

If you don't, you still abide. Positionally, you're in Christ, but you're going to function out of Adam. Trust me. You will, because you don't know. The sons of God are to live by faith. It means we're to live by what God tells us. And he tells us in Romans 6, these incredible pronouncements, I took you out of Adam, through the cross of my son, and identified you with him, and I put you in him.

Do you believe me? That's all he asks. Do you believe me? So then could you say that the logic of your mind could never arrive at these facts? Oh, sure. But yet, when you read the Word, your faith is confirmed by the Spirit? Yeah. The Spirit reveals these facts to you as being true. You believe them, and then He cements them in. Yeah. This information goes against your natural mind, doesn't it? Totally. Yet, Romans 6 is the fulcrum on which Christianity rests. From here on, It's everything that Paul writes is based on this fact being true. So the question always comes down to, do you believe it's true of you?

And let's say you say, OK, I buy it. I don't understand it, but I buy it. Well, the Holy Spirit says, thank you very much. I'm getting to work. I'm going to make it part of what you reckon. I'm going to cement this into your understanding so this is what you're about, and you know, and you're persuaded. Paul said in Timothy, I'm persuaded that he is able to keep that which I have committed unto him unto that day.

He was persuaded that this was true. See? Because it is true. I mean, it's really cool. People always say to me, well, you know, you don't talk a lot about believing in faith and doing. And I always say, well, when it comes to faith, you've got to believe this first. And once this is established, we'll talk about the doing. Like you said, the Holy Spirit's in that today.

Not that we make choices in the future, but the Holy Spirit may show us how unappealing the world is. So you make the obvious choice to, you know, because that's distasteful. And it's distasteful to you because you are in Christ. It wouldn't be distasteful to you if you weren't. So it's revealing the face of Christ, at the same time revealing the distastefulness of Christ. I think if you're like me, as you go along, you are initially surprised that you don't like doing that anymore. It isn't attractive. Some things still are, but as you go along, it's like, wow, that's not who I am. That's not of me. Why would I do that?

What does it mean to be delivered over to a form of doctrine? Give an example. Do you know that the Jews at Sinai were delivered over to Moses and the Law? It wasn't only that the Law was delivered by Moses to them, but they were themselves delivered over to the legal dispensation. Do you see that? They didn't have a vote as to whether they were going to be under this Mosaic Law or not. Moses gave them the law and they got delivered over to it. Do you see that?

Does that kind of mean if you don't bend your knee, you don't break your leg? Well, kind of. It was more that they were placed under it and placed into it a mold of doctrine. And they didn't have a choice. They got delivered to it. It didn't get delivered to them, so to speak. So, believers are delivered over to a pattern of teaching, of doctrine. And it's the gospel, and particularly the work of Christ on the cross.

We're not sitting here discussing Romans 6 from the viewpoint of, well, we're going to take it or leave it. What this verse says is, you got delivered over to this doctrine. You can't walk out of here and say, well I'm going to leave this doctrine and now I'm going to be covenant. Because you didn't get delivered over to covenant doctrine. But you got delivered over to Romans 6. What's that? Same thing. There's no turning back.

In the military you leave, from a legal standpoint, as long as you're on a military establishment, you leave the criminal justice system and you find yourself under what they call the uniform code of military justice. I mean, they got their own cops, their own judges, their own prisons, their own everything. And trust me, the rules are different. And the way that they implement them are a lot different than the regular system.

Yeah, I think you're guilty until proven guilty. That's right. You are. There's no question. They don't fool with you. And you can be, as an enlisted man, called before your superior officer, and he can sentence you to jail. All by himself. No jury. Take your pay away from you, restrict it to your barracks. He can do all kinds of stuff. And he can do it within 24 hours after you committed the offense.

See? Well, you got delivered over to the Identification Truths. Do you know that? They weren't delivered to you. You got delivered to them. Do we as believers have the power to prevent or stop sin in our lives because we have the will to do so? What do you think? How many think you probably could? Cowards. I'm sure we're going to give it our best shot. Yeah, that's because we're all slow and we don't buy what God tells us.

Romans 7, 15, For that which I am working out I do not own. For not what I am wishing am I doing. But what I am hating, this is what I am practicing. But if what I am not wishing I am practicing, I consent that the law is right and good. So you can forget about having enough willpower to stop sin. Can the law secure obedience to God? What do you think? The law doesn't satisfy God. No, it doesn't, that's right. You were severed from Christ. Ye who have been justified by the law, you are fallen from grace.

Galatians 5.18 says, if you're led by the Spirit, you're not under the law.

In Galatians 2.19, Paul says, I through the law, am dead to the law, that I might live unto God.

Can you explain that to me? I through the law, am dead to the law, so that I might serve God. No, now think about this. I, through the law, am dead to the law. What does that mean? That I was under a law principle. I was a criminal. It found me, hunted me down, got me, had a trial, found me guilty, and executed me. I, through the law, am dead to the law because I've been executed. For what reason? That I might serve God. How did the law get fulfilled in you? It found you out and you got crucified. That's how. That's why you're free.

If Timothy McVeigh, on his way to the gallows, has a heart attack and dies, do they still put him in the thing and give him the juice? Why not? The law has no dominion over a man anymore if he's dead. Do you see that? You get a traffic ticket and on the way down you have a heart attack and die. Are they still going to fine you 15 bucks? Nope. You're dead. What was that? I didn't hear it.

In verse 20 and 21, we were serviced to sin. What is the answer to the question, what fruit had you at that time? What's the word? No. What's the word that the Bible uses? Twenty and twenty-one. When you were slaves of sin, you were free in regard to righteousness. Hallelujah.

And here's what it got you. What fruit did you have then in the things which you are now ashamed of? What did you get from it? That's what you've earned, shame. It's interesting, free and fruitless. What a pair of words to describe shame. How are we made free from sin and put into the service of God? You should know the answer to this by now.

How were you made free from sin and put into the service of God. How did that happen? Because you willed it to happen? How did it happen? You were crucified. You were positionally freed from the power of sin because you were crucified with Christ. That's the only way. We are now and would forever be under the dominion of that motive which is the strongest of all.

What is it? Actually, there's a stronger motive than love. You know what it is? No. What do you think it is? There's a stronger motive than love. What do you think it is? Huh? No. Life. Life. If you have life, it's motive. You see that? Life is a greater motivator than love. Do you see why? Because whatever the life is, is what you are. The old man thinks, I'll love. The new man, because of the life, does love. Do you see that? Make sense? You end up with a heart like Psalm 48, I delight to do thy will, O my God.

What does it mean in verse 23, the end is eternal life? Verse 23 says, For the wages of sin is death, but the gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus. What is eternal life? How would you describe eternal life? What is it? It's the beginning. What did the Lord Jesus say eternal life was?

John 17, 3. That they might know Him. Know Him. And the One who sent... Now, it's... This is eternal life, that they should know Thee, the only true God, and Him whom Thou hast sent, even Jesus Christ. That's eternal life. It isn't, you know, ethanol. Or super unleaded. It's knowing Christ. Isn't that something? So knowing and having are the same thing. That word knowing, is it not just a head knowledge but a heart knowledge? Yeah, yeah.

It's epinosis. There is a consciousness that every day we are brought nearer the full realization of that blessed eternal life which we already possess. but the full enjoyment of which is the end of the path to God's saints. My buddy Bob Strong, pretty soon, will reach the end of the path. He'll know eternal life, face-to-face, unobstructed. Cool! See? See that? We could say that the end is an endless intimacy with the Father and the Son in their life. Isn't that neat?

So in verse 23, we had to work in order to get paid. What was the work and what was the payment? Sin's the work, payment's death. Don't you find it interesting that we have to work at sin? But what's interesting is that it is work and there are wages of the work. How about life in Christ? Do you have to work at that?

No. There is no work there. It's a gift. It's grace. The verse is really simple. For the wages of sin is death. Okay, you worked really hard and you got what you earned. Death. But, the gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord. How hard do you have to work for that? He didn't at all.

The cool thing about faith is that it's a belief in what somebody else did. Do you see that? The world says, have faith in yourself. The Word of God says, have faith in God. And He does everything. So there isn't any working in eternal life. If we understand this, or before we understood it, Faith is to be worked for. It seems that way, doesn't it? And sin is just natural. Yeah, it's kind of interesting. My last question, do we have to work for the gift of eternal life?

Romans 5.15 says, but the grace bestowal of God This is the same word as in Romans 5, 15. It describes God's gift, His grace, and He bestows it. How about Philippians where it says, work out your own salvation?

Oh, that's a good question. And what's the next part of that verse? For it is God who works in you both to will and to do of His good pleasure. So when he says work out, what does he mean? Get to the gym? Well, work out your own salvation. You do it. You know, it's in the indicative mode, I think. What does he mean? We're not doing grace when it comes to working it out? What does it mean?

Work out your own salvation with fear and trembling. Ooh, fear, tremble. What does he mean? And you better be fearful and trembling while you're doing it, right? Well, think about it. This fear and trembling is not, oh, I'm afraid. It's like, oh, I'm awed. I'm just awed by what I see and I tremble because of the awesomeness of the grace.

The working out is Working out, I've always viewed it as, the life is in me, and the issue is, is it going to come out and express itself? And I'm going to do that. How am I going to do it? It's God who works in me both to will and to do of His good pleasure.

Now, from what we've learned in Romans 6, God has done everything, hasn't He? And He's asked us to do some things in response to what He's done. What are we to do? We're to know, we're to believe, and we're to present. Do you see that? So, working out your salvation with fear and trembling is knowing, believing, and presenting. I read a book by D.L. Moody, Sovereign Grace. He says that how can you work something out you ain't already got? Well, you can. No, but see, you've already got it. He's already given it to you.

You would think so, but I think that the way God's economy is, is that positionally the facts are presented. Your responsibility is to believe them. If you don't believe them, they're not going to get worked out. Do you agree with that? Even though they're already true. I mean, you and I have, our sins have been born, right? Pardon, they're gone forever. We've been welcomed into heaven. We have life granted to us who are lost and dead. We have life in Christ. We're seated in the heavenlies. We're all of those things that we are.

But you know as well as I do that there are millions of Christians on this planet that don't manifest the life that they have. Why not? They don't live by the faith in the facts. Believing that you're saved is not enough to manifest the life of Christ.

You've got to know more. And think about it. Think about what God has done, just in Romans 6. If you were God and you did this for humanity, wouldn't you want them to know about it? Wouldn't you want them to appreciate what you've done? And if your son totally glorified you and he prayed to you, Father, that they may be one as we are one, and so you say, okay, I'm going to identify all these people who believe on him for the remedy of their sinfulness, and I'm going to place him in my son via the cross, it'd be really cool if I told them what I did. And if they believe it, I'm going to make it real in their life.

Do you see that? So that you might and I might walk around in newness, kynos, newness of life. If any man be in Christ Jesus, behold, he's a new creation. Old things have passed away, behold, everything has become new. Our dear Father, how we thank You for Your Word. How we thank You for Your grace. And how we thank You for Your Spirit that is causing us to grow in the knowledge and grace of Your Son that we might abide in Him and behold Him and manifest Him every minute. We thank You. We pray in His name. Amen.