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The Ultimate Defining Moment: Salvation and Journey with Jesus 0:00 What's up, fellas? Welcome to the global live stream. If you've got your bible, I want you to hold 2 spots. 1 in Mark chapter 4, and the other in Romans 6. Those are 2 main passages that we're0:12 gonna look at today. If you're joining us for the first time, we're in a series called fully defined. And let me encourage you to click the download notes button, because it really helps for you, not just to see the0:24 scripture, but also to do the fill ins and learn. And then secondly, you can reteach this to your men's group or at your church. So we're in part 2. In part 1, we talked about0:35 defining moments. Right? The series is called Fully Defined. And then we talked about defining moments. And defining moments are when you experience something or you make a decision that fundamentally0:48 changes the direction of your life. And we talked about what those look like just on a practical level. Maybe you get engaged. Maybe you meet someone, and through meeting them,1:00 that changes the direction of your life. Could be a friend, could be a girlfriend, could be a new business partner. Right? You meet somebody. That changes. That's a defining moment for you. On the1:12 negative side, maybe you suffer a divorce. Maybe you lose a loved 1. On the positive side, maybe you move to a new city. I think you get the picture1:24 that these moments, listen, have a transformative effect on your life. They change a lot of things. They they change the way you're looking at relationships. They change the way you're1:36 looking at your future. They're changing the way you look at yourself and your path in life. But of all the defining moments that we can have, the Bible says that the the decision1:48 to begin and eternally continue a relationship with God through Christ is the single most defining decision2:01 that you can make. It's number 1 in terms of defining moments. Right? Why? Because it changes your identity. Right? Now you know2:12 who you are. You know you're made by God, you're made for God, and 1 day you're going to God. Right? And now that you know who you are, now you know what to do in life. And whatever commands your2:24 identity then takes command of your energy. You see the influence? Right? Now that I know who I am, now I know what to do, and how to2:36 be, and how to believe, and how to behave. Right? My identity commands my energy, and it leads to a new expression. So that's why we've called the series2:48 Fully Defined. A relationship with Jesus Christ fully defines the man of God. And in part 1, we talked about how when we say yes3:00 to the person and work of Christ, and receive the gift of salvation, and receive the gift of Holy Spirit, impartation. God's spirit comes inside of us. We explored then what is3:12 god's intention, his ultimate intention for salvation and holy spirit impartation. Well, it's to make us like Christ, to fully define our lives3:24 through the character and conduct of Christ, that we're in a process of becoming like him. Now in part 2, we want to specifically now drill down to the next level, because3:37 we talked about in part 1 how God's ultimate intention is that we become like Christ, that we develop Christ likeness in our character and our conduct, and how Jesus's3:49 life fully defines our life. Right? And 1 of the areas, the first areas of definition, you could say, that happens is that Jesus4:00 Jesus's death now becomes a part of our spiritual process. We're gonna we're gonna drill down on that. Right? And it looks like the dimension4:12 of our life that it changes is just our ways. Right? Old ways die, new ways come around. And just to get us thinking in the right4:24 direction, let's just admit, guys, every man has his ways. Right? It's just his patterns of thinking and his patterns of living4:36 and behaving. And sometimes those patterns of thinking and living can be manifested so consistently that we will say something to the effect of, well, I am4:48 who I am. It will be actually, our patterns will become an excuse for not risking any personal change. We'll say like, well, you know the way I am, or I5:00 am the way I am. Right? And biblically, that mindset is an oxymoron. What does that mean? It's a contradictory5:12 notion to what the Bible says happens when we come into relationship with God. In fact, an unchanged life, after inviting Christ into your life5:24 is an oxymoron. There's no such thing. There's no such thing as an unchanged Christian. Right? Because the Bible talks about that there is an exchange of ways, there's a putting to5:36 death of the old person, so that a new person that God has created us to be comes about. So we're gonna go down that path now, because God fully defines5:48 us. When he saves us, he has an ultimate intention. It's to make us like Christ. Christ's life fully defines us. Okay. So now let's drill down6:00 on Christ's life and see how the old man, as the Bible calls us, goes away and is put to death, and the new man rises out of6:11 that. What we're gonna do in in our session today is we're just gonna talk kind of generally about what life with Jesus is like, to then get into6:23 how his death mimics our spiritual process. Alright? And what I did is I put at the top of your notes, Mark chapter 4 verses verses, 356:35 to Mark chapter 5 verse 1, just to kinda tell a story and paint a picture that'll get us ready to to go deep on this issue of being fully6:47 defined by Christ's death. So let's go to this little vignette. It's Jesus with his guys, and the Bible records this story. As evening came, Jesus said to his disciples,6:59 let's cross to the other side of the lake. So they took Jesus in the boat and started out leaving the crowds behind, although other boats followed. But soon, a fierce storm came7:10 up, high waves were breaking into the boat, and it began to fill with water. Jesus was sleeping at the back of the boat with his head on a cushion. The disciples woke him up shouting,7:22 teacher, don't you care that we're going to drown? When Jesus woke up, he rebuked the wind and said to the waves, silence, be still. And suddenly, the wind7:34 stopped And there was a great calm. And then he asked them, why are you afraid? Do you still have no faith? And the disciples were absolutely terrified. Who7:46 is this man? They asked each other. Even the wind and waves obey him. So they arrived at the other side of the lake in the region of the Jerusines.7:58 Right? So you've got Jesus. You've got his guys. And they're on this journey. And I picked this story because life with Jesus is a journey.8:10 Right? And let's just kind of identify some team some themes and then relate them to this process of personal change. So let's write down a couple things. Life with Jesus involves write this8:22 down. Leaving a life you used to know. Did you get kinda the flavor of the picture that was painted in this real life encounter with Jesus? You got a bunch of guys,8:33 they're standing on the shore, and then Jesus says, let's go to the other side. And he doesn't say what's gonna happen in in the water. He doesn't say what's8:45 gonna happen in the when they land, because lots of things happen in the rest of the gospel of Mark that are just absolutely insane. But all he says is,8:57 alright. You're on the shores now. I want you to get into the boat with me, and then I'm gonna take you to some new destinations and experiences. So let's just put that headline. Life with Jesus involves9:10 leaving the life you used to know. Every guy who got in the boat, that was a defining moment. They look back and they go, man, remember that day we got in the boat with Jesus? Everything changed.9:22 Now I think you're tracking with me. Alright? Secondly, life with Jesus involves embracing the unknown in faith. Again, Jesus doesn't say, and when we get in the boat, there's9:34 gonna be this huge storm, and you're gonna be scared out of your mind, and you're gonna watch me take command of nature. And when we get to the other side, you're gonna see me take command over evil, cast demons out,9:45 feed thousands of people with a sack lunch, etcetera, etcetera, etcetera. Getting in the boat was a step of faith. And when you begin9:56 a relationship with God through Jesus, you're stepping into the unknown. You can't predict what is gonna happen, what this means10:08 for you, how you're going to change. K? Third, we see that life with Jesus involves experiencing disruption and deliverance. Alright? It's a10:20 defining moment. This defining moment, when guys get in the boat with Jesus, it changes everything. Right? About what they think they know about him, their life,10:32 their insides, their outsides, their purpose. But the the storm is a great kind of metaphor, because when you come10:44 to know Jesus, he's gonna disrupt the old you. And he's gonna start redefining, he's gonna start shaking things up, and and then he's gonna10:56 deliver you into a new place in space of calm. You see the feelings that were involved in here, man? They're terrified. There's waves crashing. And then Jesus steps into that11:08 process and speaks into the process that's going on, and the environment changes. Right? And so we can count on some of that as11:20 we journey with Jesus. Lastly, life with Jesus involves landing safely in a new place. You can even circle that last line if you want. So they arrived11:33 at the other side of the lake in the region of the Gerasenes. You're gonna arrive at some new destinations. And so when I look at that passage, I love it because it it kinda is,11:45 reflective of how Jesus fully defines us. We leave the life that we used to know. And we get in the boat of this11:57 journey and we don't know exactly what's gonna happen or how it's gonna happen, and but we know him, our our eyes are on him, and then there's some disruption. You know? There's some12:09 there's some moments that we have where it's just, I don't know if this is such a great decision. I don't know if I wanted to. Why did I get in the boat? Why did I leave the safety of the shore to get into this unknown12:20 now storm of of a personal relationship with Christ, and it's it's changing me. And then lastly, I love it. You're always gonna arrive safely with12:32 Jesus. Jesus is in your boat, whether you're he's in a physical boat with those guys, or whether Jesus is in your life, and he's calling you to a new destination.12:44 He's redefining you. He's changing things up. He's calling out new character and new conduct. He's gonna get you there safely. Really,12:56 really important. Right? So when we choose life with and in God, here's the headline, nothing stays the same. These guys were never13:09 the same. Right? Circumstantially, spiritually, inwardly, outwardly. This was a super defining moment when they got in the boat with Jesus. Right? And13:21 it's important that we connect life in God to the experience of the son of God. Now the Bible always,13:33 you know, suggests that if you're in relationship with God, you're kind of on an adventure, and he's creating some new things. It talks about that in Isaiah chapter 43 verse13:44 18. That was the case with these guys, and this is just a nice verse that kind of suggests who God is and what he's about. Listen to what it says. Forget the former things. You might want to circle that, former things.13:55 Do not dwell on the past. See, I am doing a new thing. Now it springs up. Do you perceive it? I'm making a way in the wilderness and streams in14:07 the wasteland. And I share that verse for this particular study because it talks about former and new things. Right? And the past and what God is doing in the14:19 present. For 2 reasons. Sometimes, guys, they they prequalify themselves for a relationship with God based on their past. Alright? And you know what God says about your past? I've taken care of it. I've taken care of it14:31 in Christ. Even your recent past. Maybe you guys are watching this. Some of you are just like, man, I blew it yesterday. God's taken care of it. He wants you to focus on the present and the new14:43 work that he's doing, which we talked about in part 1. And the new work, the great work in you is he wants to use everything that's going on in your life to form Christ in you. Right?14:55 And he wants you aware of that. That's why I love the language in Isaiah 43. Now it springs up. Okay? Get that? See, I spring I spring up. But that's what God wants. He wants you to go,15:06 alright. Yeah. That is my past, but it doesn't disqualify me from having a relationship with God because Jesus has forgiven my sin. And now I'm entering this new process, right, with him where God's15:18 doing a new thing in me, and I start to perceive it. And even though I'm like, man, I don't know what it involves, he makes a way in the wilderness and streams in the desert.15:31 And I look back at my life, and I look at the material God had to work with when I first started walking with him. And, man, on a human level, it's just like, woah. Sure. But you know what? God15:43 took the wilderness experiences of my life, and he took the the wastelands of my life and he redeemed the wilderness and he redeemed the wastelands of my life. There's a15:55 few of you guys right now who are going, amen. Right? And there's a few of you right now, you feel like you're in a wilderness or you're in a wasteland. And you need to say, Amen in faith, because God is at work. He's16:06 with you. He's doing a new thing. It will spring up. So that's how I wanted to start part 2 because it it really suggests, you know, this life with God is leading the life16:18 that you used to know to embrace this journey with him in faith. And that journey, it's it's not always gonna be like smooth. There's gonna be some disruption. There's gonna be some16:30 tension. There's gonna be some discomfort. But because Jesus is with you, he'll deliver you and he'll take you to the other side. So in part 1, we looked at how we are fully defined by Christ's life. In part16:42 2, we want to look at how we're fully defined by Christ's death, which is a huge part of his life. And the header on your note says,16:53 fully defined, someone dies so someone can live. Again, it's important that we connect life in God17:06 to the experience of the son of God. I'm gonna say that 1 more time. It's important in a relationship with God that we connect life with and in God to17:18 the experience of the Son of God. And it talks about that in Romans chapter 6, specifically the experience of Jesus's deathCrucified with Christ: The New Process of Dying to Sin 17:30 being a reflection of what our spiritual process is gonna be. Says this, now if we died with Christ, we believe that we shall also live with him. Knowing that17:42 Christ, having been raised from the dead, is never to die again. Death no longer is master over him. We're gonna get to that next week. For the death that he died, he died to sin once for all.17:56 But the life that he lives, he lives to god. Now here's the most important line. Even so, consider yourselves to be dead to sin, but alive to God in Christ. So the18:08 Bible is talking about how our life in and with God is connected to the experiences of the Son of God. Well, what what are18:19 the main experiences that that we would identify with the Son of God? It's Jesus' death, and it's Jesus' resurrection. So today, we're gonna talk about how18:31 our life with and in God is connected intimately with Jesus dying for sin and how that's gonna get reflected in him18:43 fully defining us. Right? Now I called attention to those 2 little words, even so. So it talks about Christ, and then there's that18:55 connective ligament. It's 2 words. Even so, consider yourselves to be dead to sin. And that is what we're gonna focus on for19:07 the balance of our time. Even so, consider yourselves dead to sin. What does that involve? Write this down. It involves a new process. It involves a new19:19 process. Talks about this in Galatians chapter 2 verses 19 to 21. The Bible says this, what actually took place is this, I tried to I tried keeping rules and working my head off to please God,19:31 and it didn't work. So I quit being lawman so that I could be God's man. Christ's life showed me how and enabled me to do it.19:42 I identified myself completely with him. Now he goes on to describe what that looks like. Indeed, I have been crucified with Christ. What does that look like? My ego is19:54 no longer central. It is no longer important that I appear righteous before you or have your good opinion, and I am no longer driven to impress God. Christ lives in me.20:06 The life you see me living is not mine, but it is lived by faith in the son of God who loved me and gave himself for me. I am not going to go back on20:18 that. Now the language in this passage is a man of God who began a relationship with God. He was given what every Christian is given. The apostle Paul was given the gift of20:30 salvation. The apostle Paul was given the gift of Holy Spirit in impartation. The apostle Paul is now on this journey to fulfill God's ultimate intention, which is to fully define20:42 himself by Christ's life, because Christ is in him. And he says there, I identified myself with him completely. Indeed, I have been crucified20:55 with Christ. And that's where we wanna dive into that process. Okay. What does it mean as a man of God to be crucified21:08 with Christ? And Paul describes it a little bit. He's like, the chump is out. My ego is no longer in control, and the champ is in. Paul is21:19 out. Christ is in. Right? And he talks about this exchange of force controlling his life. He says, Christ lives in me. Can we all say that together?21:31 Christ lives in me. Alright? So because there's a new force inside of us, right, and that force is in control,21:44 and that force defeats me, the old me. New force, new in, new process. And that's the process. Of the force of the presence of Christ through the Holy21:55 Spirit defeating the old you. Now there's there's displacement is happening. Old is out, new is coming. I'm decreasing, Jesus22:08 is increasing. And what I want you to understand, with respect to this new process and Jesus fully defining us, this is what the22:19 process means. Fully defined means Christ's physical experience is now my spiritual process. Right? Paul says,22:31 I no longer live. Who's I? That's the old me. Right? And then he says, indeed, I've been crucified with Christ. We need to drill down on that,22:43 especially on the whole idea of the spiritual process connected to the crucifixion of Jesus. So let's talk about just the crucifixion. The crucifixion, anytime there was a crucifixion,22:56 100 percent of the time someone stopped living. Still batting a thousandth. I don't know they do that anywhere in the world today, but certainly in the first century, they were batting23:08 1000. Right? No 1 survived the process with crucifixion. Right? So now you hear brother Paul, the apostle,23:20 say, my ego is not in control anymore. I, the old me, have been crucified with Christ. So based on what we just learned about23:32 crucifixion, that means that someone stopped someone stopped having power inside of Paul. Right? His23:43 old self, his ego, self sufficient person. He stopped. He died. And now Christ is inside of him. So that's the first thing I want us to see about23:55 crucifixion. 100 percent of the time, somebody died. Spiritually, the old you before Christ, the old ways of thinking, the old patterns of24:06 thinking, the old beliefs, the old behaviors, right, that person, right, stops and now Christ starts replacing him. Secondly, crucifixion24:19 was a process. You know, the Romans could have executed people by just sticking a sword through someone's heart. But instead, they like to, like, draw it24:30 out. It was not like a a single 1 minute event where someone gets stuck. No. This was across a whole day. Right? There was flogging.24:42 There was carry the cross to the place where they're gonna put it in. There was the nails. There was the hanging. There was and this is, man, makes me just think about Jesus going through24:54 all this. There's the the the the asphyxiation, the hanging there, the separation of shoulders, the the crown of thorns on his head just added to25:06 that horrible, horrible process. Now what Jesus went through and and where I wanna pull out of the process is not all the horror, but just that it's a process. It25:18 wasn't just a 1 and done type of thing. So death, 100 percent of the time, somebody stops living. 2, it's a process. And Paul says that he has been25:30 crucified with Christ. And it's no longer I who live, but it's Christ living in me. So there's this process of I'm on the way out, Christ is on the way in. I'm on the way out,25:42 Christ is on the way in. Right? And so the forces, just to translate this practically, the forces that controlled you before, those are out and they've been replaced by Christ's25:54 presence. There's a change of leadership. So that's the process that every Christian, man or woman, is in. They're being fully defined by the life of Christ.26:06 Well, what's the life of Christ? Well, there's his death. Alright? And his death involved crucifixion. And the Bible says that our old self has been crucified,26:18 stopped, and the new person is is present. That's Christ in us, and he's making us new. Alright. The second26:29 way that Jesus fully defines us, by his death, after we start this new process of the old us being crucified, the new26:41 us coming in, is now we have a new mindset. So God saves me. He puts his holy spirit inside of me. He begins the process of putting to death the old me. And the new26:53 process with God now starts producing a new mindset. Keyword, new. Right? New process after getting in a relationship with God.27:05 New mindset. Right? Talks about this in Romans chapter 6. Says this, for if we have become united with him, there's the start of the process, In the likeness of27:17 his death, certainly, we shall also be in the likeness of his resurrection. Knowing this circle that. Knowing this, that our old self was crucified with him in order that our27:28 body of sin might be done away with, So that we would no longer be slaves to sin, for he who has died is freed from sin. Right?27:40 So you have Paul talking to Christians and he's saying, again, your old self is out, but it's not just like, oh, okay. But that involves this process27:52 of being crucified with Christ. That means there's a campaign to put to death sin in our lives so that we can be free28:04 from sin. I love the language. Like and you have to know that that's your process. So if you have a relationship with God and you don't know that that's the process, then sin is just, you know,28:16 is just gonna remain in your life, or you're gonna have a casual relationship with sin. Well, Jesus was not sent to have a casual relationship with sin, Because28:28 sin held us in bondage and it separated us from God. Jesus took sin very seriously and our mindset, once we come into a relationship with God, is we28:40 go, woah. Alright? Jesus took sin seriously. I took sin take sin seriously. Jesus was crucified for my sins.28:52 Right? I'm being crucified with Christ. I'm stopping sin, and I'm in this process of eliminating it from my life. Right?29:04 And the goal is cool. It's the experience of freedom. Life is better when you're free from sin. Amen? Now that doesn't mean sin isn't fun for a season. We wouldn't29:16 sin unless it was attractive and fun. Right? But for every kick of sin, there's a kickback. And the endgame of sin, the Bible says, is death and bondage. Right? So it might29:28 be fun for a while, but the end game of sin is death. And that's where now oh, okay. If I know that that's the end game, knowing this, then I gotta be in a29:40 campaign to just get sin out of my life so I can be free from it. Right? Because there's a weight to it. There's a consequence to it. It brings destruction and death into our29:51 lives. Kind of continuing on this theme, the passage in Romans 8 that just kind of talks about this new mindset. How do we think? Alright. So knowing this, that our old self was crucified with him, it said inShow more In this video 0:00 The Ultimate Defining Moment: Salvation and Journey with Jesus17:30 Crucified with Christ: The New Process of Dying to Sin30:00 New Mindset and Lifestyle: Putting Off Sin, Putting On Christ
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