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JACK: Every day you get up and you reckon yourself crucified
with Christ. And the moment your thought begins to wonder, grab
hold of that thought. Give it back to God and say, Lord, that
was crucified at the cross. That's not me anymore. I don't
want anything to do with it. The life that I now live. I live by
faith and the son of God who died gave
Himself for me. And that's how you live.
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JACK: Well everybody, welcome to our program today, and I hope
you get a lot out of this and it's this that we're going to be
talking about more than ever in our lives. You and I need to be
discussing in our faith regarding the power of the
scripture and what it means to be a Christ follower. Friends
listen, it's not going to take me long to tell you that in
Galatians chapter 2 verse 20, it's one of the most popular
verses in the Bible, but do you know how powerful it is? It
tells us that I've been crucified with Christ, yet it is
no longer I who live, but Christ lives in me. Think of the power
of this in the life which I now live. I live by faith in the son
of God who loved me and gave Himself for me the power of God
in me. The power of God in you as a true believer. It's all on
Him. Listen, you and I are required to present ourselves as
a yielded vessel for Him to live His life through us. Thus, you
and I are crucified with Christ. Jack is dead. The new Jack is
animated and possessed by the Lord Jesus Christ from within,
who lives his life out through us, out through me. It's called
Christianity. And without Galatians 2:20 and that reality
then it's not really Christianity. If you think
Christianity is a bunch of do's and don'ts, it's like pushing a
block up a mountain. You're doing it wrong. The truth about
Christianity is to live a Christ-centered life. And that's
what God does. So listen, this is a declaration to underscore
the reality of all that you and I have done by placing our trust
in the Son of God, we trust Him to do what he has promised to
do. We trust Him. So grab your Bibles
and we'll look at crucified with Christ.
JACK: The Bible here goes on to tell us that who is He who
condemns It is Christ who died. Absolutely incredible. This is
deep stuff. So, when it mentions to us about being charged with
some wrong or being condemned by somebody, the answer that it's
all in Christ, it's all in Him. We touched on this two weeks
ago, one more time again. In an eschatological or prophetic
sense church, remember this, this is going to become very
relevant and very, very encouraging to those of the
future. And when I think about that, I think about the seven
year tribulation period that according to the Book of
Revelation and the book of Daniel and the book of Matthew
and the book of Mark and the book of Luke, is still yet
coming. It's still in the future. That during that period
of time, remember God is going to call out of the world, He's
going to awaken 12,000 Jewish men who speak Hebrew who are
virgins from each of the 12 tribes of Israel. Now nobody
knows where the 12 tribes of Israel are at nobody. So I just
read a guy's book, he knows. No, he just sold you a book and
snookered you, nobody knows but God. Where's the lost tribes?
They're not lost. God knows exactly where they are. And the
Bible says that He's going to call 12,000 from each tribe.
144,000 Jewish males, Hebrew speaking evangelists who are
virgins, and they're going to, can you imagine? You think Billy
Graham reached billions of people? Can you imagine having
144,000? Billy Grahams are better than that. Can you
imagine how 144,000 Paul the apostles turned loose and maybe
they even have the internet at their disposal? Imagine that.
They preached the gospel during the tribulation period, and
John said the magnitude and multitude of people who
get saved from their preaching, nobody could
number them. Wow! That's awesome. And those
two, as we've mentioned before, they will
be part of God's elect. You're God's elect. We talked about
this before Daniel and David is of God's elect. God's chosen.
But God's chosen will always be attacked. It's okay everybody.
We need to get, Spurgeon said, in agreement with Jesus when
Jesus says, I need you to be as gentle as doves. Be as gentle as
a dove, but as wise as a serpent. That's a brilliant
statement. When's the last time you stepped on a snake? Don't
even have any legs and they don't want to be sane. Now,
don't walk around Chino Hills in the springtime or summer, we got
some of the biggest rattlesnakes in the nation. I mean they're
huge, but they don't want you. And most of the time you walk
around, we will see a couple each year, but, it was like...
we act like they're going to jump, but it's like 20 feet away
and it's like there's one. But notice how smart they are. You
rarely see them. They hide out again. When's the last time you
stepped on a snake? Jesus said and implies they're very wise to
be able to stay out of the way like that. You need to be like
that. Jesus said, not stay out of the way in the sense of, we
need to be wise, and as harmless as a dove. Charles Spurgeon, put
it this way, you need to have the heart of a, heart of a dove.
And Spurgeon said, and the skin of a rhino. Isn't that great? We
need to get our skin toughened up people in our Christianity,
somebody criticizes us and we wither. Do you not know that
you're a blood bought child of the living God? You're on your
way to heaven. God will see to it. You've been purchased by the
blood of Jesus Christ and Jesus doesn't have any recalls. He
doesn't have any... Oh, you got to call that one back. This one
broke. Listen, he purchased you at the cross. You've come to
Him, you've given your life to Him, and it's up to Him to get
you into heaven. Guess what? He's going to do it. So we need
to get toughen up a little bit and not be so sensitive that
when the world says something, because they're going to be
really, really getting loud. Little do they know we love
them, they just don't understand real love. We want them with us
in heaven. If they would only listen. But we're under attack.
And in Revelation chapter 12, verse 10, revelation 12:10
begins by saying, John says, I heard a voice, a loud voice
saying in heaven now salvation and strength, and the kingdom of
our God and the power of His Christ have come, for the
accuser. I've always argued in my mind the accuser A should be
capitalized. It's speaking about a person, the accuser of our
brethren who accused before our God day and night. How many of
you are of the brethren? How many of you are a child of God?
Raise your hand. How many of you know that you're born again,
you're going to heaven? Then why did it take you so long to
answer the first two questions? Satan is accusing, always
accusing. Look, for the accuser of our brethren who accuses them
before our God day and night. He has been cast down, and listen
to this. These are the saints on the earth at the time of the
tribulation period. So Satan is booted out of having the
ability. This may shock some of you, but according to the Bible,
God allows Lucifer to have access to the throne of God even
to this moment. And yet, I hope he can't hear this next part. I
tell you guys. You know everything that you did wrong
yesterday. Heaven already knows about it. Did you know that?
Louis, Louis Lucifer already ratted you out? God, did you see
what Susan did? Did you see what Mike did? He's accusing the
believer. The Bible tells us in the tribulation period he's
going to get booted. God's going to punt and it's going to be a
little red ball with horns on it and he gets ejected from
accusing and the Bible says that he's going to be cast to the
earth. But look what happens. He accuses the brethren day and
night, verse 11, and they overcame him by the blood of the
Lamb and by the word of their testimony, and they did not love
their lives to the death. In other words, they followed
Christ all the way through. These are the tribulation,
saints and certainly the 144,000. Therefore rejoice O
heavens and you who dwell in them, woe to the inhabitants of
the earth and the sea for the devil has come down to you
having great wrath because he knows that he has a short time.
Accuser, accuser. Accuser. Just a side note, we need to be
careful as brothers and sisters. We better be careful that we
don't get into that habit of accusing our brothers and
sisters of things. If we love them, we'll call them out on
something and we don't have to call them out on Facebook.
That's a sin. And by the way, don't do this either because
you're a coward and you won't go talk to the person. Don't go
tell three of your best friend Christians. You know what Karen
did? She said this and it was really bad, so we need to pray
for her. Stop. You just did something worse than Karen did.
Did you know that you just sinned a royal sin? You took
something that you knew and only you knew about Karen, and then
you went over here and you defiled three people who didn't
know a thing about it. And the Bible says that you are a tail
bearer. It's another word for gossip or a slander. Did you
know that one of Satan's names is the slander? Don't fall for
that. Don't accuse your brothers and sisters if you see them in a
sin. What does the Bible say? Go alone to them. Love them and
say, you ought not to be doing that. Satan's great at accusing
us. Colossians chapter 1 verse 21, Colossians 1:21 says, and
you who once were alienated and enemies in your mind by wicked
works, yet now He has reconciled in the body of His flesh through
death to present you holy. Look at this, to present you and I
holy and blameless and above reproach where it matters in His
sight. Wow, good news. Thank God. Ephesians 2:1, and you, he
made alive who were dead and trespasses and sins in which you
once walked according to the course of this world. Remember
that old life of yours according to the prince of the power of
the heir. That's another title of Satan, the Spirit who now
works in the sons of disobedience among whom also we
all once conducted ourselves in the lust of our flesh,
fulfilling the desires of the flesh and of the mind and
whereby nature, children of wrath just as the others. Wow,
church, can you handle that? That the Bible says, apart from
Christ, we are children of wrath. That's what the Bible
says. This is truth. We need Him. Isaiah chapter 50, verse 8.
Isaiah 50, verse 8 says, He is near who justifies me. Wow, who
will contend with me? Let us stand together. Who is my
adversary? Let him come near me. Surely the Lord God will help
me. Who is is He who will condemn me? You hear the
confidence in that, the boldness in that, the beauty in that. And
heres how you might say, Jack, all this is great, but how does
it happen? This is how it happens. Galatians chapter 2,
verse 20, y'all know this. People have this on their
bibles, people have this everywhere and it's awesome.
Galatians 2 verse 20, this is how you do this. So God declares
you and I righteous. He declares you and I innocent. He declares
you and I dead to our past. He declares you and I alive in His
son Jesus. Now, so how do I live? I'm going to act that out
for you. First of all, it says Galatians 2:20, I have been
crucified with Christ. It is no longer I who live, but Christ
lives in me, in the life which I now live in the flesh. I live by
faith in the son of God who loved me and gave Himself for me
one of the greatest passages of all scripture. Incredible
doctrine here, but watch this. How's that lived out? Like this.
I'm walking along and I trip over this thing that you left
there. I thought you picked it up. I just told you, can you
pick that thing up before we go? Yeah. Oh, I'll get it. And so
I'm getting the keys and I got my coffee. We're all heading out
and I'm going like this, and boom, everything goes
everywhere. I look at it, I look at you and I tell you various
weaknesses that you have, and I critique your listening and
follow through abilities. And then I get up and I realize,
listen, I shouldn't have said that to you. That was wrong of
me. I asked you to forgive me. And whoever that person is in
your imagination right now, your kid, your wife, your husband,
the dog, whoever it is, and they say, Nope. I'm sorry for not
picking it up your right. No, no, no. For what I said, I'm
sorry for that. Please forgive me. I forgive you. Awesome.
Let's go. Now watch, see, watch my face. Awesome, great. Okay,
let's go. Let's go. Wait, go get the car. I'm going to get
another cup of coffee, but let's go. Let's go have a great time.
That's what that verse means. You know what you and I do? We
don't apply that verse, we read it, but here's what we do. We
fall over the thing, the coffee goes everywhere. We yell at the
cat and bite the dog and ruin the whole thing and then all day
long, what do you want? I'm sure. What? No, let's just go
home. And you are all messed up and what has happened? You have
allowed life to seize the moment. You mishandled it, you
sin in it, and then instead of recognizing that you've been
crucified with Christ, but nevertheless you live because
Christ lives in you. Now it means that what just happened
needs to be forgiven. And when it's forgiven, you get up with
joy and you move. Put it this way, imagine Peter and Paul,
they're getting ready to preach the gospel. They're in
Jerusalem. Paul, are you ready? I'm ready. What portion of
scripture are you going to go to? Jeremiah, what do you think
you're going to do? Is it going to be Ezekiel on this one?
Peter, leave me alone. I don't know yet. I'm thinking about it.
Peter, he's just like, well, I need to know. No, you don't need
to know. I'm thinking, will you pray? Come on. So Paul's
thinking, and Peter keeps poking and Paul turns to him and says,
will you keep your mouth shot? You big dumb fishermen. You get
out of the way. And the band stops playing and it's time for
Paul to come out and there's an awkward little moment because
Paul has to stop. Peter, come here. Peter. Sorry. Peter was
huge. Peter, that was the old Paul that did that. That's how I
used to be. Actually, I used to be worse than that. But anyway,
that was the old Paul and the new Paul is the one that's
apologizing to you right now. And so I'm crucifying the old
Paul, and you know about it, Peter, because I'm asking you to
forgive me. And Peter says, oh heck, I do that a hundred times
a day. And Peter turns to him and says, go out there and give
them Jesus, and then listen, the curtain opens. Obviously I'm
exaggerating. I'm sure Paul didn't have a curtain, but you
see what I'm saying? Paul goes out there and preaches an
incredibly powerful anointed message. People get saved or a
riot starts. You never know with Paul, something happens and the
power of God is there and what just happened? The Christian
life, that's what just happened. Every day you get up and you
reckon yourself crucified with Christ. And the moment your
thought begins to wonder, grab hold of that thought, give it
back to God and say, Lord, that was crucified at the cross.
That's not me anymore. I don't want anything to do with it. The
life that I now live. I live by faith and the son of God who
died gave himself for me. And that's how you live.
JACK: Crucified with Christ. Radical statement, but a
biblical truth. We've talked about the crucifixion, but
listen, thank God it doesn't end there. Thank God it doesn't end
with Jesus on the cross. Listen, Jesus Christ rose again from the
dead. Friends. Listen, there's all kinds of religions all over
the world, but none of them have this truth. And that is the God
of the Bible came and died on the cross, but rose again from
the dead. The Bible tells us in Romans chapter 8, verse 34, that
it is Christ who died and furthermore has risen who is
even at the right hand of God, who also makes intercession for
us. He prays for us. He talks to His father for us. Jesus is not
only our sacrificial lamb crucified on the cross, but He
rose again from the dead to ensure that what he purchased
for us is well taken care of. He's not only the sacrifice, He
is the so to speak attorney, that makes sure that all that
was done is executed. The New Testament is all wrapped up in
the fact that is based on the death and resurrection of Jesus
Christ. It's a testament. Think about someone's last. Will and
testament, is a document that empowers what you want done
after your death. But thank God Jesus didn't leave that to the
living. He rose from the dead to make sure that your salvation
can be secure in Him. Jesus lives. It's his life now. That
is our lives. We yield to Him and because he lives, you are
going to live with him forever. Will I see you in heaven? I'm
going to heaven. You might say, Jack, that's kind of assuming
and it's kind of arrogant, isn't it? Not at all. You want to know
it. I'm so excited and I'm so confident I'm going to heaven
because Jesus said so. I'm going to heaven because He bought my
ticket. I'm going to heaven because Christ has risen from
the dead. Are you going to go to heaven? Friends, please do that.
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