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Night too in in Carl's place. So meal music and a message every Monday night, first week. Six ish is when we start. We usually it's good. It's just good.
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Y'all ought come on out. It's fun. Is become kid's body of gods, so we are pouring in. There are lots and lots of volunteers, and there are tons of kids. And we're pouring scripture into their minds so that God can reach their hearts.
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And so they'll have a will to draw from for the rest of their life, the foundation. So it's a great, great program for WOMAN. It's happening tomorrow night at six. We have youth group happening on Tuesday at 06:30. So Mike D is gonna have youth group 06:30 to eight this Tuesday.
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There are also prayer requests in there. It's nice to keep up with what's going on. I have one announcement that probably is not in the bulletin yet. It's not on my slides yet, but men's fraternity is about to start back up, and that is a men's Bible study that usually they meet at we'll together. Together.
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We'll be October, which is a Wednesday. Able And then almost the week before that on Thursday night, it's kind of a kickoff party. And it's a kickoff party and a celebration or honoring on Mark Lupton's life, actually. It's happened Thursday night in the evening. It's to be announced as to where it's gonna be, and it's to be announced exactly what the program will be like.
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I know what it's gonna be, but we're waiting to get clearance on some of the stuff. So anyway, eighteenth in the evening and twenty fourth at 6AM They're always ready to make a defense or give a reason for the hostess within them. Lord, we hope that you will use us to spread that gospel to the ends of the earth, that everything that is placed Well, if you are visiting this morning, there are several of you. Know that are visiting. What we have been doing, I've been here as pastor for six years and four months and for past about six years, I have been just going through the New Testament.
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We went the life of Jesus in the book of John first and then we went like an early church in the book of Acts after that. So, John to Acts made sense to me at least and then, chronologically, since then, to me, we needed some order and I don't feel comfortable just topically preaching on whatever I think that some of y'all might be. Does that make sense? I don't I don't wanna remove the agenda from my hand. My only agenda is what's written.
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Amen. What's been written. That's what I want for it and and I I don't don't want wanna to shy shy away away from from difficult difficult text text and and last last week, week, we we had had one. One. It was a difficult text and I went into it and then we're we're hitting a couple of difficult places this morning.
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Things that could be easily misconstrued. They do not say what some people say that they do say but we're up to first Peter four one through six and I'm taking done with sin. Done with it. Just done with sin. That's what is the kind of title of the sermon because that's what this passage is about.
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It is a call to holiness and done with sin. I think it's something that we ought to be thinking about. Consider it. So, we have handled the whole book of first Peter up to this point, not shying away from anything and we get to this, fourth chapter, verse one, therefore, and whenever good pastors, I know there are couple of them in the room right now. When you get it there for, you have to look and see what it's there for and so therefore, kind of throws back to chapter three and this is to sum up because verse one through six is about holy godly wives and submitting to their husbands and then verse seven is, husbands not mistreating their wives so that their prayers may not be hindered and then verse eight says, to sum up, it's all of them.
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If you go back in chapter two, it would have been about masters and servants or employees and employers and everybody has some sort of authority over them. Remember the whole honor all people, love the brotherhood. Dear God, in honor of the king. So, we all live under some authority and so this is the summary verse of this, summary verses. To sum up all of y'all, all of y'all.
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Nobody is excluded from that. All of y'all. Be harmonious. Be sympathetic. All of y'all.
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Be brotherly. Be kindhearted and be humble in spirit. Not returning evil for evil or insult for insult, but given a blessing instead. For you are called for that very purpose that you might inherit a blessing. God says that he will bless those that will bless him.
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Oh my goodness, his promise to Abraham is that he would curse those that he cursed. Able their to do do Christians. He was killing them and burning them in his garden. Yeah. And along the streets.
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Who's there to harm you if he proves else for what is good? His point there being that what can man do to you? Dear God. Dear God. But even if you should suffer for the sake of righteousness, then you are blessed.
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Do not fear their intimidation and do not be troubled. Jesus said, that in this world, you will have tribulations and you will have trouble but take heart. I've overcome the world. Do not fear their intimidation. Do not be troubled, but set apart Christ as lord in your hearts.
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Remember the old saying, you can say, yes, lord, or you can say no, but you can't say no, lord. He's not your Lord if you're saying that. Don't resist. Humble yourselves under the mighty hand of God is the way he's gonna put it in a chapter in the future. But set apart Christ as Lord in your hearts, always be ready to make a defense to everyone who asks of you to give an account for the hope that's in you.
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Be ready for the word of testimony. Get with gentleness and reverence. You don't have to argue people into the corner. And keep a good conscience. Oh, it's so nice that we can have a pure and good conscience because Christ has taken his from the kingdom of darkness and placed them.
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It is either lost or found, unsaved or saved, in peril, or awaiting your blessed hope. But in practice, walking it out requires submitting to God. Keep a good conscience. Keep short accounts with God. When you sin, admit it.
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Don't just keep on. Alright? Keep a good conscience so that in the very thing that you are slandered, those who revile your good behavior in Christ will be put to shame. For it's better if God should will it so that you suffer for what doing what is right rather than doing what's wrong. Then we hit this passage about Christ's suffering.
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A lot of first Peter is about suffering unjustly. For Christ also died, suffered and died for sin once for all. The just for the unjust so that he, Jesus, might bring us to God. There's one mediator between God and man to man, Jesus Christ. Amen.
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In all the names given under heaven whereby we must be saved. He might bring us to God, having been put to death in the flesh but made alive in the spirit and then he mentions his vindication. Jesus Christ, who is at the right hand of God, having gone into heaven after angels and authorities and powers have been subjected to it. Christ's suffering and vindication is the theme. He's speaking to people in the far flung reaches of the Roman Empire.
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He knew that persecution was on the way for them. He knew because it was already happening in Rome, and he knew that it would reach the outer limits of the empire too, and probably already was. In fact, some of the things he says in this passage look like he might have been talking about martyrdom. So Jesus is seated at the right hand of God, having finished his work, having gone into heaven after angels and authority and powers have been subjected to him and therefore, are we living? Therefore, because or since Christ has suffered in the flesh, since he has suffered in the flesh, here it is again, unjust, earthly suffering.
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What did Christ ever do wrong? Nothing. And yet he was maimed with the transgressors, and he was taken outside the city wall and hung on the cross to his death. That's unjust earthly suffering. But then first Peter and then off the whole New Testament, it's followed by divine vindication and exaltation.
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We see in Paul chapter two of Philippians where he says, he, Jesus, being in very nature, God did not consider equality with God as something to digress but he took on the form of a servant and he died a humble death, a death on a cross. And at that, his name is elevated and exalted and is above every other name because God exalt exalts people who have been through unjust, hurtless suffering. There are some things that Christ did that we just left can't do. But in this passage, he's going to point us towards following after his example. Therefore, since Christ has suffered in the flesh, you or y'all technically, y'all, arm y'all selves, arm yourselves with the same purpose.
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All of y'all as believers in Christ, since Christ has suffered in the flesh, expect it. Expect it and arm yourself that you can go through this suffering and it can be helpful for someone else. And you could not take on the sins of someone else and die on the cross for someone else, but you can go through and just take suffering because didn't everything else just went upmanship? If someone insults you and you insult them back make it a little bit more stingy, what's coming back? Another insult.
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Until somebody says, you know what? Enough is enough. I'll pray for you. Mean it, and then treat them well. Because that, a soft answer, is what turns away wrath.
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Right? Everything else is just one upmanship. Since Christ has suffered in the flesh, arm yourselves also with the same purpose. Arm yourself with the same reasoning. Earlier in first Peter, he said that Christ continually kept on entrusting himself to God, the judge, the one who rightly judges.
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Even before Pilate, when Pilate was there and he said, don't you know that I have the authority to crucify you? And he said, you would have no authority except what God had given it and if we've just seen where Christ has all authority Christ has all authority. All angels, things, everything. Everything is in subjection to him. All powers, all rule.
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So if something is going on with you and you are going through suffering, it does not take that by surprise, and it has already passed through his pain. And if you will keep on entrusting yourself, you will see that unjust earthly suffering will be met with divine supplication. That is our blessed hope. Since Christ has suffered in the flesh, arm yourselves also with the same purpose. First Peter two twenty one and twenty four.
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So this is a theme in first Peter. Keeps on coming up. For you have been called for this purpose since Christ also suffered for you, leaving you an example for you to follow his steps. He who committed no sin nor was any deceit found in his mouth. And while he was being reviled, he did not revile in return.
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And while suffering, he uttered no threats. But he kept entrusting himself to him who judges righteously. And he himself bore our sins in his body on the cross so that we might die to sin and live the righteousness. For it is by his womb that you are healed. This is written to Christians.
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It's written to people who have committed themselves, identified with Christ in death because he has suffered in the flesh is the next line here, has ceased from sin. Now, wait a second. Is that teaching Christian perfectionism that you will be perfect and you will not sin if you believe in Jesus? No. It is not.
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Because he who suffered in the flesh has ceased from sin. That is a good translation. The translation of it is ambiguous as to act exactly what it means. And anytime there's an ambiguity to the text about who he is or what the suffering in the flesh is or what ceased and sin means, anytime that there's that kind of ambiguity, there'll be 9,000 different interpretations of all. I've read every one of them this week.
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Yeah. Maybe not 9,000. A lot of. I don't wanna lie to you but there are a lot of them. I've read at least 9,000 words on this.
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I promise. This is the NIV's translation of that. This is where I got the title for the sermon today. Therefore, sin of that therefore, since Christ suffered in his body, arm yourselves also with the same attitude because whoever suffers in the body is done with sin. Done with sin.
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ESP, since therefore Christ suffered in the flesh, arm yourselves with the same way of thinking. For whoever has suffered in the flesh has ceased from sin. NLT. More of the NLT. This is what Carl uses on Monday nights.
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It's very easy to understand. Sometimes, it doesn't sound like scripture. It just doesn't sound like elevated language but this is a very good translation. So then, since Christ suffered physical pain, you must arm yourselves with the same attitude. Prepare yourself for it.
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He had the same attitude he had and be ready to suffer too. For if you have suffered physically for Christ, you're finished with sin. You're done with it. Put it behind you. Now that seems like it's preaching sinless perfectionism, but there's a margin on that.
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You see the little a there? And if you go to the next If you see the margin on left, this is another translation. For the one, instead of if you have suffered, because it doesn't say you, it says one, the one who suffers. For the one who has suffered physically has finished with sin. You see that?
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Capital o right there? For the one, Jesus Christ. The capital o is pointing towards Jesus. For the one who has suffered physically has finished with sins. We're reading a commentary yesterday.
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Tanya and I are writing and reading. Usually, when we're writing, we are reading. She's reading to me commentaries, and we're reading Edmund Clowney. Edmund Clowney, great man. I wrote on first Peter, and he made a statement that was the one who has suffered physically has finished or put an end to sin.
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And the sentence was was something along this line. I'm gonna paraphrase it. Christ on the cross finished his involvement in sin. Like he never sinned anyway. But his involvement in our sins was over on the cross.
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If that hits just the right chord with you, that's a very powerful thing that Christ not he doesn't tempt us to sin anyway. But she said, no, he's involved in it. I said, forgave it. He finished it. When he said it is finished, he meant it.
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When he sits down at the right hand of God, it's because his work is done. He, his involvement with our sin was over when he died on the cross. So, the one, I think, is talking about Jesus who has suffered in the flesh. He made an end to all our sin. Does that make sense?
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He died for every past, present, and future sin that anyone who believes in him will ever commit. Are you with me? Okay. It it is ambiguous though. So it could mean and I'll give you two more possibilities.
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The one who has finished let me get that. Because he who has suffered in the flesh has ceased from sin. Because he who has suffered in the flesh could mean anybody who has been down the road of sin will eventually take you down and has hit rock bottom. Let's say, he's drinking drugs. Anyone who has been down that road and they've suffered in the flesh and they've finally hit the bottom and they're just done with it.
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And they call on God and say, you know, the the four steps about the first four of the 12 steps. I can't. I have a problem. It's killing me. Known as the drinker's prayer.
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In my case, it's the mountain climber's prayer. I got to the top of the mountain one time and I prayed, lord, if you will get me off this mountain, I will never do this again. I am finished with it. I am done with mountain climbing. I ain't doing it again.
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The drinker's prayer prayer. Is something like that where I have a problem, first step. Second step is, but there is a higher power. Who is willing to restore me to sanity? Third step is, I'm a let him.
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I give over my will, and I've submitted my will to walk as he would lead. And then the fourth is that fearless moral inventory, and it's saying, I have sinned, and I have sinned in my life, but it was handled by the death of Christ. Dead to sin, done living. Therefore, since Christ suffered in his body, you arm yourselves also with the same attitude because whoever suffers in the body is done with sin. Given that Christ died and he said he died for salvation but he also died for our sanctification.
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He can remove us from the kingdom of darkness and place us in the kingdom of light just for the asking, just for the turning to him, just for the believing. He'll do that but we must submit our will to his will in order to be sanctified. And if you wanna be done with sin, same power raised Jesus from the grave is at work within you to keep you walking from holiness. This is a call to holiness. And there's no hymn for reading.
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No? Miss Jude? We'll sing it at the end together. We'll sing it at the end together. I want you to hear this.
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It's a call to holiness, and so sometimes we shy away from really calling for holiness. We're like, well, we all sin. But our sin is not as best as other people. Right? We judge it relatively well.
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Our our judge is God and our example is Christ and if we're falling short, we're about to take communion and we're saying that we're pleading the blood of Jesus, the perfect life and the perfect death sacrificially given for us. We're about to say, there's nothing, nothing in my hand I bring simply to the cross I claim. We're saying that I trust in Jesus, and when the judgment day comes, let the blood of Calvary speak for me because I have not done anything to deserve this salvation. No one has sanctifying presence in my life. Submitting my will Is that teaching sinless perfectionism right there?
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It is a great song that says, the only way that I can do this is hasten unto Jesus. Hasten to him. Hasten, glad, and free. Don't be ashamed of your sin to the point that you would not go to the only one who can do anything about it and the only one who has done anything about it. Right?
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Hasten, glad, and free. I'm resolved to follow the savior. Faithful and treat that heed what he say it. Come on to me all ye who labor and heavy laden, I'll give you rest. Can you imagine how light his burden was?
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Now, we see on the cross that was a heavy burden. But when he said, come on to me, I'll eat later and heavy laden, I'll give you rest. He said, take my yoke upon you for my burden is light. Can you imagine what it would be like to walk through this life with no sin debt, period. As he walked in submission to the Holy Spirit throughout his life, he had no sin debt, and his yoke was light.
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And ours can be if we'll keep a good conscience and keep on confessing. First John one nine. If you're confessing your sins, I'm faithful and just to be forgiven your sins and cleansing you from all unrighteousness. I resolve to enter the kingdom, believe in the paths of sin. Friends may oppose me, foes may be set me still, will I enter in?
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Bible, led by the spirit, will walk the heavenly way. It is possible to walk the heavenly way. Victorious Christian living is actually a possibility, and Peter is calling for us to walk in victory. And he says so in verse two, and this is how I know what verse one means because verse two reiterates. So as to live the rest of the time in the flesh, no longer after or for the lust of men but after or for the will of God.
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That's what we're after. It's not for the lust of men but for the will of God. It coincides wonderfully with Paul's writing to Galatians two twenty twenty one. I have been crucified and the word there is crucified in tandem, crucified at exactly the same time. My sins were nailed to the cross when Christ was nailed to the cross.
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I have been crucified with Christ. It is no longer I who live who have been baptized into Christ Jesus, we have been baptized into his death. Therefore, we've been buried with him through baptism into death so that as Christ was raised from the dead, through the glory of the father, so we too might walk in newness of life. Last week in the 09:00 service, Dan Tulson got to baptize Olivia. And when he doctored, he said, buried with Christ, identification with his death, and then raised to walk in newness of life, identification with his resurrection.
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For if we have become united with him in the likeness of his death, certainly, we shall also be in the likeness of the resurrection. And know this, that our old self was crucified with him and crucified in tandem. At the time, Christ's involvement in our sin is over at the cross. Can we still be involved in sin? We can.
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But we have to reject the Holy Spirit because it is spirit spirit spirit of of of that we would no longer be slaves to sin. You are going to be slaves to something. Either you're be slaves to God or you'll be slaves to sin. One or the other. For he who had died is free from sin, for death be so.
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Reckon yourselves to be dead to sin but alive to God in Christ Jesus. Therefore, do not let sin reign in your heart mortified so that you obey its lust. This is the same message from Romans as Peter four two. So as to live rest of the life, this time in the flesh no longer for the lust of man before the word of God. For the time already has passed sufficient for you to have carried out the desire of the Gentiles, having pursued a course of sensuality, lost drunkenness, corral, and drinking parties and abominable idolaters.
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That's NASB, and it's straight up. The translation, I love the NASB's translation. It is straightforward. They don't add a whole lot of words. The New Living Translation says, if you've had enough, you have had enough of that life.
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You've had enough in the past of the evil things that God wants people to enjoy. Their immorality and their lust and their feasting and their drunkenness and their wild parties and their terrible worship of idols. You've had enough of it. This is you know what anybody in here know what this means? Pasta?
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Yeah. Enough. Enough already. Actually, yeah. Enough already.
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That's what it means right there. This is something that in Spanish, when somebody says pasta, yeah. A lot of times, if you see somebody picketing, they're saying enough is enough. The And if you're concentrating on one or two of those, concentrate on all of them. We all fit in that list somewhere.
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Okay? We used to all fit in that list somewhere. In fact, he goes on to say, none of those will inherit the kingdom of God and such were in the past. Some of you, such were, some of you, but you were washed and you were sanctified and you were justified in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ and in the spirit of our God. Amen.
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The time's already passed. Sufficient. What you have done up to this point, isn't that enough? Pastor, Yahweh. Isn't it the place where you can turn around just by submitting your will to God's will?
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In all of this, they are surprised that you don't run with them into the same excesses of dissipation. So who's the they here? He's talking about people. Apparently, that these folks used to run with them. In all of this, they, outsiders are surprised that you don't run with them into the same excesses of dissipation, and they remind you.
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It's gonna be the case. Tanya, when we're reading this, we've got a 12 year old, know, and she's reading this. She goes, woah. This is a great youth sermon right here because peer pressure in middle school and high school, if you stand up, stand up for Jesus, they are gonna try their best to knock you down, and they're going to malign you. Actually, the word for malign you right there is blaspheme.
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Think about that. To blaspheme. They're blaspheming God when they are maligning you. What did this what did Jesus say on that Damascus Road to Paul? And Paul was persecuting followers of the way, right?
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He's persecuting the church. And when Christ knocked him down on Damascus Road, he said, Saul, Saul, why are you persecuting the body of Christ and the body of Christ. It really is. It's not just a metaphor. It's like we, Christians, are the continuing body of Christ, and when they malign us, they're blaspheming God If we're living according to the word of God.
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Peer pressure. They will align you and they malign you. But what are we supposed to do? Not return evil for evil. Not return insult for insult, but instead, given a blessing.
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You're called for this very purpose that you might inherit a blessing. Think about that promise to Abraham that whoever you share this good news with, This is an apocryphal book. I almost never use apocryphal books. I think this one's helpful because at the time when first Peter was written, Peter had access to this book. You know, there's this is I got ten minutes.
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I can't flummage. The intertestamental silence. Between the Old Testament and New Testament, there are about four hundred years where it's basically silent. Now, there were people who still wrote things and there were still people who read books like the five love languages is not a book of scripture but we still read it, right? And it's good.
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Would you agree that it's good? Y'all have read it if you don't read it to me. It's good. Wisdom of Solomon is actually pretty good, but it parallels so closely with what Peter has written, but Peter has a fuller picture because Wisdom of Solomon is just a book that was written in between the Old Testament and the New Testament was before the time of Christ. So this person had not had the benefit of knowing who Christ was, where he was born, what happened.
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He didn't know that. But he went by wisdom of Solomon trying to trying to take it back to King Solomon and it was an it was not. It was not a book of Solomon. It's not like Ecclesiastes. It's not like some of the Psalms in Proverbs.
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It was written as a suit under a pseudonym, wisdom of Solomon. It's apocryphal. Lord. Lord. He became to us a reproof of our thoughts.
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When you stand up, stand up for Jesus around people who are not, don't know him. You will become a reproof of their thoughts. The very sight of him is a burden to us. Such as the point of, oh, here comes that poo with two shoes. Good grief.
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That guy makes me sick. Because his manner of life is unlike that of others, and his ways are strange. Do you agree? That's that's looking forward to this. But they will what?
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They will give account. That's what it goes from. They will malign you, and they will give account to him who is ready to judge for living in the dead. Even though I'm suffering now, even though I'm not running with them, doing the same things that they're doing and going wild like they're going, eventually, there will be a great reversal, and I'll be vindicated. And they will be, oh my goodness, judged.
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That's heavy. What it should do for a a merciful Christian heart would be, Lord, help me to reach them in whatever way that I can, and would you forgive them more because they don't know what they're doing. When Christ was being nailed to the cross, literally nailed to the cross, heart. Out of the open flow of the heart, the mouth speaks. The good man brings out his good treasure what is good.
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The evil man brings out his evil treasure what is evil, and they will malign you. Right? Because that's what's in their heart. But I tell you that every careless word that people speak, the old King James, every idle word. That people speak, they shall give an accounting for it in the day of judgement.
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For by your words, you will be justified, and by your words, you'll be content. Everyone who calls on the name of the Lord will be saved. Right? But those who don't, every idle word will be done. And then six, this is one of those places.
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This is sticky text. This is one that people read and come up with all kinds of interpretations, maybe not quite 9,000, but heading that direction. For the gospel has for this purpose been preached even to those who are it. The gospel is preached today. That sounds like Mormonism, not Christianity, or that sounds like purgatory, not Bible.
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We're gonna actually grammatically parse through this one and go. It does not mean that. It cannot mean that. It is grammatically impossible for it to mean that. But for this purpose, before I get to that, for what purpose?
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For this purpose, because judgement is real. Jesus came as savior the first time. And when he comes back, he'll come back as judge. Don't know me. I preach love and grace and mercy every single week because it's on every single page.
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You know? But judgment blooms. Judgment blooms. They, whose day, all, dead. And the living and the dead right there is an all inclusive statement.
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There are two states for humanity. There are people are either living or they are dead. There's no in between state. They are living or dead, and it is appointed once for a man to die, and after that, the judgment. There's not any chance that this means postmortem conversion.
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No chance. And there's no way to get out of it because I'm gonna have to account for them. This used to haunt me. When I was a little kid, this haunted me like Luther thinking that he was damned. I'm gonna skip ahead for just a second to that.
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I want you to think about this. Every human soul will be either justly condemned and that's by the words that they've used, by the sins that they've sinned, by their actions, and by their nature. Every human soul will either be justly condemned or they'll be mercifully forgiven. Because a sinless savior died, my sinful soul can be counted free, mercifully forgiven because Jesus was unjustly condemned. He suffered and gave his life as a ransom for all who would believe him.
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So back to that. Now, is the RV version of this verse and it's not hyper southern in this time but it is what it says. This is the straight up wooden translation of it. Indeed, it is to this end that the gospels preach. Verse six is a commentary on verse five.
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He stands ready to judge the living and the dead. Everybody will be judged and indeed it is to this end because everybody will be judged that the gospel was preached even to those who are now dead. So these folks in the far along reaches of Roman Empire had friends who had been persecuted. Some of them had been murdered. Some of them had been killed.
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They were suffering. So indeed, it is to this end that the gospel was preached. That is a an event that happened and had an end. It's not like the gospel is being preached to the dead. The gospel was preached even to those who are now physically dead.
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And so they judged it that way and said, we don't want you ruining our crops because you won't pay homage to the emperor, won't pay homage to the Seres, the Roman goddess of corn. You know, because you won't do these things, we suffer. That's crazy too. Right? They may have been judged in the flesh as men.
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But think about this, The Lord sees not as man sees. Man looks on the outward appearance, but the Lord looks on the heart. God looks on the heart, and he knows, and he judges by who has called out to him and who has trusted in Christ so that they may now be living in the spirit according to the will of God. So there's a way. And that way is either according to the flesh, judged as men, or according to the will of God, living in the spirit.
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This verse is talking about some of their friends who have passed. Remember in Thessalonians where Paul says, don't worry about them. I know that they're in Christ. They're gonna rise first. You don't have to worry about them.
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Just because they died does not mean that they don't get to be in on the return of Christ or that they're gonna suffer in some way. They're already with them. They may now be living in the spirit according to the will of God. This is where that comes in. Think about this.
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Justly condemn until we call out to be mercifully forgiven by Christ's shed blood. Perfect life given. Them. This was written pre New Testament, alright? So, they were, those who were looking forward to the Messiah were saved.
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Just like those of us who are looking backwards to that one time for all sacrifice of Christ on the cross. In the eyes of the foolish, they seemed to have died, and their departure was thought to be an affliction, and their going from us was their destruction. But they are at peace be absent from the bodies to be. In presence of the Lord, they're at peace. For though in the sight of men, they were punished, their hope was full of the mortal.
57:42
Thank you. Peter quite certainly had read that, but he had a fuller picture because he had walked with Christ for three years and saw the crucifixion and resurrection. He's gonna go on in his next book. It's a lot more personal than second Peter. The Lord is not slack or slow about his promise as some folks count slowness, but he is patient toward you.
58:05
He's not wishing for any person to perish but for all to come to repentance. Let that be a motivation to you that Christ died once and for all of sin, and he gives the power. God almighty gives the power, the same power that resurrected him from the dead. So that Lord God Almighty, we ask your blessing right now in this time of communion, where we turn to you, and we stay our utter reliance. There is a higher power, and you are it.
59:36
Jesus Christ, Christ, name above all names. There We are pleading that alone, Lord. When judgment day comes, my words will not damn me because my word is let the blood of Calvary speak for me. We've been speaking about suffering for several weeks. Outsiders and make the most of every opportunity.
1:11:38
Let your conversation be always full of grace and seasoned with salt that you may know how to answer everyone. In Jesus name, go with the blessing.
