Welcome to First Works Baptist Church, we're going to get started with song number 185,
My Savior's Love, As You Find Your Seats.
Song number 185, My Savior's Love.
And let's all stand together if you are able to for song number 185 to sing this out unto the Lord.
Sing it on that first verse.
I stand amazed at the presence of Jesus the Nazarene and wonder how he could love me, a sinner condemned unclean.
Oh, how marvelous, oh, how wonderful, and my song shall ever be.
Oh, how marvelous, oh, how wonderful is my Savior's love for me.
For me it was in the garden, he prayed not my will but thine.
But sweat drops of blood for mine.
Oh, how marvelous, oh, how wonderful, and my song shall ever be.
Oh, how marvelous, oh, how wonderful is my Savior's love for me.
He took my sins and my sorrows, he made them his very own.
He bore the burden to Calvary and suffered thine alone.
Oh, how marvelous, oh, how wonderful, and my song shall ever be.
Oh, how marvelous, oh, how wonderful is my Savior's love for me.
When with the ransomed in glory his face shall see,
it will be my joy through the ages to sing of his love for me.
Oh, how marvelous, oh, how wonderful, and my song shall ever be.
Oh, how marvelous, oh, how wonderful is my Savior's love for me.
Amen. Wonderful singing. Let's start it off with a word of prayer.
Dear God and my Father, we thank you so much for just allowing us to be in your
house this morning, Lord God. And Lord, I pray that we would never
take this for granted, Lord God, that we get to all meet together
here in your house, Lord God. And I do pray, Lord God, that you would please just bless
every aspect of our service, Lord God, this morning. I pray that you please
bless the singing unto you, and I pray that you would please, Lord God,
also just bless the preaching of your word, that you please also
just fill pasture with your Holy Spirit, guide him through the scriptures, Lord God,
bring to remembrance of the things that he has studied.
And I pray that you would please just also bless us in the congregation, that
you would help us, Lord God, to understand, Lord God, and accept your word
with gladness, Lord God. And I pray that you would please, Lord God, just be with us,
help us, Lord God, to apply this sermon to our lives, Lord God, as well,
so that we might leave here changed, Lord God, this morning. I pray these things in
Jesus' name. Amen. You may be seated. Song number 411.
Hold the four. Song number 411.
See it on that first verse.
Wave the answer back to heaven. By thy grace we will.
See the mighty hosts advancing, Satan leading on.
Mighty men around us falling, courage almost gone.
Hold the four, for I am coming, Jesus' signal still.
Wave the answer back to heaven. By thy grace we will.
See the glorious banner waving, hear the trumpet blow.
In our leader's name we'll triumph over every foe.
For I am coming, Jesus' signal still.
Wave the answer back to heaven. By thy grace we will.
Fierce and long the battle rages, but our help is near.
Onward comes our great commander, cheer my comrades cheer.
Hold the four, for I am coming, Jesus' signal still.
Wave the answer back to heaven. By thy grace we will.
All right great singing. Thank you for being here this morning.
Just a few announcements before we sing our next song which will be song number
230. If you want to get that ready in your
songbooks, Heavenly Sunlight. Welcome to First Works Baptist Church.
If you did not get a bulletin, go ahead and raise your hand and one of
the ushers can get one for you. Brother Cody needs one right over here.
Anybody else need a bulletin? Some important information on there.
Of course our Sunday morning service is at 10 30 Sunday evening at 5 pm
and then we have our Thursday night Bible study at 7 o'clock. You see there on
the left hand side we have the 2022 fall program schedule and we'll go
over that briefly in just a bit. But on the right there we have all the
events that are going to be taking place. Of course today is the fall program
kickoff and we start off of course with the
catered birthday breakfast. So whose birthday is in the month of October?
Raise your hand. All right we got one here,
one there, one there, okay one right here,
one there, one there. Did I miss anybody else? Got one right there,
one right there, okay great. Let's go ahead and sing happy birthday to all
those in October so no one's bitter at me for forgetting to sing happy birthday.
Ready? Happy birthday to you, happy birthday
to you, happy birthday. God bless you.
Happy birthday to you. All right hope you all enjoyed the
birthday breakfast. Today is the start of our fall program
and so thank you for being here. I know we got a couple visitors here.
Thank you for uh joining us on this Sunday
for the start of our fall program. Of course we got a couple things going on
throughout the month. Next week on the ninth is the fall
family photos and so we will have a professional photographer
here so if you want to get your photo taken with your family
be here at 9 45 and uh we'll get your picture taken.
It ends at 10 15 and then we'll give you your photo the following week so you
got to show up the following week if you want your picture
but it will be a professional photo and so
I want to encourage you to be here for that. You see there on Sunday October 9th
we have the Christmas program uh practicing beginning on Sunday
October 9th excuse me. I already mentioned the fall family
photos and then we have a ladies prayer meeting and cookie exchange on Saturday
October 29th. On the left there let me just briefly
go over the schedule. On Sunday October 16th we have pumpkin
sunday for all the kids. We have the pie baking contest on Sunday
October 23rd. There will be a teen sunday and teen night
on Sunday October 30th. Apple cider fellowship on the 6th of November
and then it all culminates to the 22nd of November which is a Tuesday
for our annual thanksgiving banquet and so I want to encourage you to be here be
faithful to the fall program be here for every
service. You can earn a lot of points just by
doing just the bare basics. If you attend all three services which
is not hard at all you get a thousand points you go
soloing once a week a thousand points you bring a first or
second time visitor two thousand points third time visitor fifteen hundred
points and of course you see the rewards you get
at the end and by the way the rewards will be distributed
at the annual thanksgiving banquet we'll announce all the winners at that time
and so looking forward to that we'll have the quarter sheets the following
week so you can record all your points but we're kind of using the the honor
system here okay so you know we expect for you to just be as honest as possible
if you only came to two services say well you know I was there in spirit for
the third so I'm just going to check off a third
you know you know we expect you to be honest and actually put
what you actually did all right you see there at the bottom no food or drink
allowed in the main auditorium except for water and coffee
make sure you're not loitering in the foyer fellowship hall during the
preaching service and quiet time of course is from 3 p.m
to 4 15 throughout the whole building please make sure you silence your phones
during the preaching so as to not be a distraction
during the service all right and that is it let's go ahead and sing our next
song song number 230 heavenly sunlight
song number 230 heavenly sunlight song number 230 we'll see it on that first
verse walking in sunlight all of my journey
see it on that verse walking in sunlight all of my journey
over the mountains through the detail
jesus has said i'll never forsake thee promised divine
that never can fail heavenly sunlight heavenly sunlight
flooding my soul with glory divine hallelujah
i am rejoicing singing his praises jesus is mine
shadows around me shadows above me never concealed my
savior and guide he is the light in him is no darkness
ever a mocking close to his side heavenly sunlight
heavenly sunlight flooding my soul with glory divine
hallelujah i am rejoicing singing his praises
jesus is mine in the bright sunlight
pressing my way to mansions above singing his praises
gladly i'm walking walking in sunlight
sunlight of love heavenly sunlight heavenly sunlight
flooding my soul with glory divine
hallelujah i am rejoicing
singing his praises jesus is mine amen wonderful singing at this time our
ushers will be receiving the offering and please turn your bibles to romans
chapter 3
so
we're in romans chapter number three this morning
romans chapter three the bible reads
what advantage then hath the jew or what profit is there of circumcision
much every way chiefly because unto them were committed the oracles of god
for what if some did not believe shall their unbelief make the faith of god
without effect god forbid yea let god be true and
every man a liar as it is written that that might be justified in thy
sayings and mightest overcome when thou are judged
but if our own righteousness commend the righteousness of god what shall we say
is god unrighteous who taketh vengeance i speak as a man
god forbid but then how shall god judge the world for if the truth of god
hath more abounded through my lie unto his glory why yet am i also judged as a
sinner and not rather as we be slanderously
reported and as some affirm that we say let us do evil that good may come whose
damnation is just what then are we better than they no and
no wise for we have before proved both jews and gentiles that they are all
under sin as it is written there is none
righteous no not one there is none that understand it there's
none that seeketh after god they're all gone out of the way they're
together become unprofitable there is none that do with good no not one
their throat is an open sepulcher with their tongues have they used deceit
the poison of asps is under their lips whose mouth is full of cursing and
bitterness their feet are swift to shed blood
destruction and misery are in their ways and the way of peace have they not known
there is no fear of god before their eyes now we know that what thinks so ever
the law saith it saith to them who are under the law
that every mouth may be stopped and all the world may become guilty before god
therefore by the deeds of the law there shall no flesh be justified in his sight
for why the law is the knowledge of sin but now the righteousness of god without
the law is manifested being witnessed by the law and the
prophets even the righteousness of god which is by faith of jesus christ
unto all and upon all of them that believe but there is no difference
for all of sin to come short of the glory of god being justified freely by
his grace through the redemption that is in christ jesus
whom god has set forth to be a propitiation through faith in his blood
to declare his righteousness for the remission of sins that are passed
through the forbearance of god to declare i say at this time his
righteousness that he might be dressed and the
justifier of him which believeth in jesus
where is boasting that it is excluded by what law of works
nay but by the law of faith therefore we conclude that a man is justified by
faith without the deeds of the law is he the god
of the jews only is he not also of the gentiles
yes of the gentiles also seeing it is one god which shall justify the
circumcision by faith and uncircumcision through faith do we
then make the law do we then make avoid the law through
faith god forbid yeah we establish the law
let's pray to lord god uh we just thank you for this
opportunity to assemble here for the preaching of your word
uh just ask that you would be with pastor mohia now please just strengthen
him fill him with your holy spirit and i just ask that you would bless the
preaching and just use it for our edification pray that we bring you
honor and glory and a juice and we pray amen
amen all right you are in romans chapter number three
and the time of my sermon this morning is justification
sanctification glorification it's justification
sanctification glorification look down at your bibles at roman chapter 3 verse
28 it says therefore we conclude that a man
is justified by faith without the deeds of the law now i
want to spend some time this morning just kind of explaining what these
theological terms are what do they mean but also some of the misconceptions that
people uh get because of these words or because
of teachers or preachers they try to use these words to teach
their congregation or teach others and uh just kind of dispel a lot of the
confusion and a lot of the false doctrines that
are top using these specific terms and again it's justification
sanctification glorification now let's talk about justification first and
foremost don't let this word scare you i know it sounds uh really elaborate
and it sounds really fancy but it simply means just to be saved
okay now brother cody why don't you come on up here since you spoke up right now
and said yup you're gonna be justification okay so you're gonna hold
up this sign go ahead and stand right there
all right so brother cody here is gonna he's gonna play the role of
justification now what does it mean to be justified where you look there it
says salvation when you're declared righteous
before god now this is what every human being in
this world needs right is to be justified before god you see
you have a lot of people in this world who justify themselves before god right
and what they try to do is earn their way to heaven
do a lot of good works and try to be a moral person
and live a holy life and they do those things
in order to earn their right to eternal life
but the bible tells us for all have sinned and come short of the glory of god
the bible tells us as it is written there is none righteous
no not one and here's the problem with going about to establish
our own righteousness let me let you in on a little secret okay
the bible says that our righteousness that we have
meaning the good that we do the moral rectitude that we have
you know the the our perfection so to speak that's not really perfect
you know the bible says that our righteousness are as filthy rags
in god's eyes okay the bible says that we are all as an unclean thing
and our righteousness as filthy rags in the eyes of god
so that's a that's a big problem there okay because if you're trying to use
your righteousness to earn your way to heaven
it's not going to work because they're filthy you understand and
you think to yourself well how can they be filthy if i give to the poor
how can they be filthy if i do good works and i love my neighbor
and i go to church and i keep god's commandments
and i do all these things well i'll tell you how they can be filthy because of
the fact that the bible specifically tells us that
there's not a just man upon earth that doeth good and listen to this
and sinneth not so if you have this so-called
righteousness that's being established by your good
works by the things that you do well here's the problem you're mixing in
all this sin with that righteousness so it's not like god looks at it and
says well i'm just going to ignore all your sins
and just go with your righteousness it doesn't work that way you understand
and this is why he tells us in roman chapter 3 verse 10
as it is written there is none righteous it doesn't matter how many works you do
it doesn't matter how many times you've fasted in your life
it doesn't matter how much you've given to a church or how much you've spent
time feeding the poor on the weekends or how many grandmothers you help walk
across the street okay how many times you posted yourself
on social media giving to some poor person on the on the street
or something like that how many you likes and views you got on
those videos and how they saw you do great works
the bible says it means nothing in the eyes of god
okay and so when god talks about our righteousness
it's he's kind of saying it in a facetious way if you think about it
because if he's talking about our righteousness but then he goes on to
tell us that we have no righteousness he's just saying that whatever
righteousness that we think we have you understand are filthy in the eyes of
god you say well are you trying to say that
we shouldn't do those things we shouldn't go to church we shouldn't keep
god's commandments we shouldn't you know do good well
here's the thing is that people do those things in order to
earn the way to heaven and you can't go to heaven based upon your own formula
see a lot of people think well if i just do x y and z
i can go to heaven if i just do x y and z i could be justified before god
god will basically put my works and my sins on a balance
and as long as i have more good than bad it'll outweigh
my good works will outweigh my bad and then you'll be like okay
you you you barely passed you just you barely made it
but the reality is this is that once we recognize that
all our works are filthy rags all our righteousness are as filthy rags
and that we've sinned against god we've committed transgressions against the
lord we will soon realize that doesn't matter
how much good we do it's worth nothing it's not going to do
anything to us so now we're posed with the problem
okay and herein lies the problem here's the problem is that
well if i can't do good works to go to heaven if my righteousness doesn't take
me to heaven then how do i get there right well
here's the answer you need someone else's righteousness
because that's the only way you say well who like my mom or my dad or my
pastor or my church well they're in the same
messed up situation that you're in because there's not a just man upon
earth that do with good and sin if not so every single person is under this
condemnation the bible tells us for all have sin
and when it says for all i've sinned is essentially saying that everyone in this
world has committed the eternal crimes against
god you understand they've broken god's commandments
and the bible you say well i've never murdered though you know i've never
murdered i've never committed uh you know great
crimes in my life yeah i've told lies or i've disobeyed my parents or
maybe i've stolen a couple times or i've thought bad things or whatever it may be
but i've never committed like really bad crimes well the bible specifically says
in james chapter 2 and verse number 10 that whosoever
keepeth the whole law yet offend in one point listen to this
he's guilty of all so god's standard is perfection
so if you think you're going to go to heaven based upon the good that you do
you better make sure you're keeping all of god's commandments
perfectly now if you think you've kept all of god's commandments perfectly
you've already broken one commandment which is called lying because no one can
actually say that they've lived a perfect life and
here's the thing you know one of the greatest commandment is to love the lord
thy god with all thy heart soul mind and strength
and there's not a single human being in this world that will readily admit and
say yeah that's me i i i'm 24 7
for sure without a doubt i love god all every single day 24 hours a day it's
impossible it's impossible for us to love god 24
hours a day it's impossible for us to obey god 24 hours a day
why because we're sinners we've already broken god's commandments and here's the
thing let's say you're in this room today and
you're of 20 years of age 30 years of age whatever may be
and you know you say well from here on out
i'm gonna do good works from here on out i'm gonna like live a righteous life
you know to earn that salvation because now i know well it's too late
because now you've already had 20 years of committing sin
and the righteous judge doesn't just look at your past sins and say
all right we'll just act like they never existed go ahead and work from here on
out you know that has to be paid for you
understand so it's not like the judge can just come
it's not like god just comes and says well you know i'll forgive
all of your past sins because of your present works
it does not work that way those sins need to be paid for
there needs to be a way that you can justify yourself
before god and let me just say this every single religion in this world
is a religion other than christianity biblical christianity is a religion that
teaches you can justify yourself before god
you can earn your way to heaven you can fast twice in a week
you can do good works you can keep god's commandments
you can live a holy life you can repent of your sins
right because i'm sure you've heard that before oh you got to repent of your
sins to be safe but hold on a second like how many
though
because problem number one is that you don't even know
all the sins you've committed according to the bible
you you only know of the immediate ones but then there's other sins in the bible
that the bible talks about that you've already committed that you may not even
know about there's other crimes that you've done
that you don't even know you didn't even know was a crime as of yet
you just know of the lying the stealing murder
whatever it may be you know this is here in lies the problem
so the the biblical solution to this is to be justified by faith okay
and to be justified simply means to be made
righteous before god so you are an unrighteous person as well as i
everyone else however the bible specifically says
that you can be made righteous not by the works of you do
that you do but by the faith you place in the righteous one
you ever heard of a substitute you know as a kid
we always like substitute teachers because they didn't really know what was
going on you know like what lesson were you guys on and
you just kind of like waste time and try to get them to waste their time or
whatever and and if you had a really cool
substitute teacher they would just kind of you know they
kind of go along with it you understand but you know a substitute someone who
who comes in the place of your actual teacher right
a substitute teacher so jesus christ according to the bible
is our substitute so the payment that you and i deserve which is hell
according to the bible he actually paid for it himself he
paid the penalty that you and i deserve so the penalty that you and i deserve
for the sins that we've committed which is according to the bible hell that's
what we deserve okay the bible tells us for the wages of
sin is death the bible says whosoever's name was not found written in the book
of life was cast into the lake of fire according to the
bible the payment that we deserve is actually hell
that word that basically means and let me just put it plain
as as the nose on your face that means if you're to die at this moment
and you're not saved your soul will descend into a place called hell
and you would never come out of that there's no such thing as purgatory
where someone can pray you out and try to get you out
and you know you can stay there for a couple years and as long as they
they say this many hell marries or whatever they can just get you out it
doesn't exist hell is a place of fire and torment
where you stay forever and ever and ever and it can happen at this moment if you
die today okay that's the penalty you deserve however
jesus christ paid for that penalty with his death on the cross
he resurrected that we may be justified in the eyes of god
okay what does this mean to be declared not guilty before god so when we place
our faith in jesus christ for our salvation we believe that
he's the only way of salvation when we believe on jesus christ for salvation
we become justified before the eyes of god
not because of the works that you do because your works are meaningless
in fact your works are working against you they're like evidence against you
you understand it's like look at all the works that i've done you're basically
saying you're not depending on the works of jesus christ
so you don't want god to see your works because the bible even says that the
plowing of the wicked is sin even when you plow i mean anything you
do works against you this side of eternity if you're not saved
you understand so that you know and you have a lot of christians out there
pentecostals people believe you can lose your salvation
they want to just elevate their works they want to elevate their
holiness and all the things that they do not realizing that's actually going to
work against them on the day of judgment we don't want god to see our works you
know in regards to salvation because it works against us
so what we want is for god to declare us to be
not guilty and the only way that takes place is by placing our faith in jesus
christ okay and that's why it says in romans 328
therefore we conclude conclude means this is the conclusion of the whole
matter when it comes to salvation that a man is
justified by his works no justified by faith without the deeds
of the law okay look at verse 19 of chapter 3
he says now we know that whatsoever things the law saith that saith to them
who are under the law that every mouth may be stopped and all
the world may become guilty before god then he says in verse 20 therefore by
the deeds of the law there shall no flesh be justified in his
sight for by the law is the knowledge of sin
so here's another problem is that people think well you know as long as i
keep the ten commandments i should be good to go but here's the
thing is that the ten commandments can't save you
keeping any commandment in the bible can't save you because the bible says
here that by the deeds of the law
there shall no flesh be justified in this site
and let me just say this is that we have to come to salvation on god's terms not
our terms and that's the problem with a lot of
religions they come to god on their own terms saying well i'm
keeping the law so i should be saved and god says by the deeds of the law
shall no flesh be saved shall no flesh be justified
okay there's no exception to the rule now if there's a human being in this
world that can keep all of god's commandments perfectly from the time
that they're born to the time that they die
you know doubt then it would count but guess what it doesn't exist
and the only person who was able to do that had to be god
because jesus christ is the one who kept all of god's commandments perfectly
as well as the law perfectly and therefore he is the justifier
of those who place their faith in him look at verse 21
it says in verse 21 but now the righteousness of god without the laws
manifested being witnessed by the law and the
prophets even the righteousness of god which is by faith of jesus christ
unto all and upon all them that believe for there is no difference so what is
he saying in order for you to get this guy right here
justification which also means righteousness you
don't have to work for it you actually have to just believe on
jesus christ what does it mean to believe on jesus christ
it essentially means you believe that jesus is sufficient
to save you you understand whereas a lot of religions tell you oh yeah of course
jesus he died for us of course yes he's sufficient but you also have to
do x y and z well then you don't say he's sufficient then
because if you say he's sufficient but then you got to add all these things to
it you're you're lying when we say he's
sufficient basically we're saying that's all you need you have to
exclusively believe on jesus christ listen to this plus nothing minus
nothing he is sufficient and he's the only one
who has righteousness but a lot of people out there they think that they're
righteous people they think that they're just perfect
people and they just want to integrate their own righteousness to be saved
folks it doesn't work that way you need the righteousness of jesus christ and
you can't mix your righteousness with that
he says for all of sin and come short of the glory of god verse 24 being
justified freely notice that word freely what does that
mean it means you don't have to pay for it
i mean i know it's it's silly that i have to kind of explain that something
that's free is something that you don't have to pay for
right so if the bible is telling us that salvation is free
that means you don't have to do anything you don't have to do any works you don't
have to do any amount of commandments to earn
salvation because salvation is not a wage
that you get it's a gift that is given to you
freely so if i gave you a gift and you're like well how much does this cost
and i say well it's a gift okay it's a gift
it's free but go wash my car is that a gift it's not a gift a gift is
something that's 100 free and it's it's it's actually borderline
disrespectful if you try to earn it right because of the fact that
it's supposed to be a gift a gift is something that's free of charge
now it doesn't mean that no one paid for it because jesus christ paid for it with
his life so how more disrespectful is that when
you try to pay for something that he's already paid in full with his life
he was crucified on the cross the bible says that his soul went to hell for
three days and three nights but his soul was not left in hell
neither did his flesh see corruption he was delivered for our offenses and
raised again for our justification he did all these works i mean he lived
33 years of a perfect life keeping all of god's commandments
he was tempted in all points like as we are yet without sin
and then all of a sudden you're like but i still want to pay for it though
you see how disrespectful that is you're basically saying i get that you
paid for it but this payment is insufficient
you're saying jesus you have insufficient funds
to pay for my salvation because i need to pay for it too
and you can say that all you want but it doesn't work okay
because here's the thing when it comes to that which that which is eternal
god only accepts one form of payment you understand it's like if i were to
give you a gift card to starbucks you can't use that gift card to starbucks
and go to coffee bean and say i'd like to redeem this at
coffee bean they're like we don't accept that here
it's only redeemable at starbucks so the gift of salvation is only
redeemable through faith in jesus christ you know the gift is
available but you can't be like you can't well i want to do some works i
want to make sure that no it doesn't work that way it has to be solely by
faith in jesus christ okay go with me if you would to second
corinthians chapter five second corinthians chapter five
you're going to stand up here throughout the whole sermon brother cody
i just want to let you know that
we're going to come back to roman chapter five in just a bit
so justification and here's a simple simple way to
remember what justification means okay just as if i'd never sinned
you say so does that mean that i'm just sinless no it means that when god looks
at you once you're justified he looks at you just as if you've never
sinned because he's looking at you through the righteousness of jesus
christ not through your righteousness he sees
you through the works of jesus christ not your own works he sees you through
the blood of jesus christ and that's exactly what we want okay
we want god to look at us through the lens of jesus christ
look what it says in second corinthians chapter 5 and verse 21
the bible says here for he hath made him to be sin for us
who knew no sin listen to this that we might be made the righteousness of god
in him so every single sin you've ever committed it went upon
the body of jesus christ the bible says that he himself bore
our own sins on his own body on the tree so every single sin you've ever
done in the past every single sin you're doing you're
going to do today and every single cindy you're going to commit in the future
the bible says he actually paid for every single one of those
you know even as david described the blessedness of the man to whom the lord
impute his righteousness without work saying
blessed are they whose iniquities are forgiven past
whose sins are covered present blessed is the man to whom the lord
will not impute sin that's future tense and what he's trying to get across here
is that when you place your faith in jesus
you actually get the the forgiveness of all sins past
present and future you're essentially declared non-guilty
not guilty of all charges and he says now why is that because
every single sin you've ever done goes upon jesus
and so just as he becomes your substitute now
your righteousness is substituted with the righteousness of jesus christ
okay go to roman chapter five if you would roman chapter number five
i'm going to read you from philippians chapter three verse nine the bible says
and be found in him listen to this not having my own righteousness
which is of the law but that which is through the faith of christ
the righteousness which is of god by faith look at romans five
and verse number eight but god commended his love toward us
and that while we were yet sinners christ died for us
much more than being now justified by his blood
we shall be saved from wrath through him for if when we were enemies we were
reconciled to god by the death of his son
much more being reconciled we shall be saved by his
life so we're justified by his blood we're justified by placing our faith in
him and again you cannot include your own
works in order to be justified this is what every single human being
needs in this world is justification and what i'm trying to get across here
is that the only way you can be justified is by placing your faith in
jesus not in your own works you're like well i
don't believe in myself for salvation i don't believe that it's by my works you
know i'm not trusting myself but if you think that you have to do
works to be saved you may not want to say it but this is
what you're saying i believe in myself and don't we have a
society today that constantly tells you believe in yourself believe in yourself
you can do it well there's a rude awakening when you die
because yourself is not sufficient for salvation
and let me just say this is that this requires humility
to get this because i mean it's kind of humbling
it's like man i'm that means i'm not good enough that means i'm not righteous
that means i don't have the works necessary
the bible says that i'm a sinner the bible says that i'm a sinful person the
bible says that i deserve hell but it requires humility to get to this
point because if you're proud if you're arrogant if you think that no
i can do it on my own i have to do these works you can't be
saved because whoever comes to jesus has to
come in humility recognizing that he's the only one
who can save you justification so what happens there
well essentially what happens is you live forever
now that's the greatest part of salvation is the fact that you get to
live forever and let me say this everyone in this room
wants to live forever everyone in this world wants to live forever
they want to live forever they want to live for all of eternity
and you know the world is constantly putting forth what to do to live
forever you got transhumanism you can be a cyborg
eat this much you can live this amount of years have this diet
and you can do this but at the end of the day all that stuff is
it's not long enough it's not long enough
100 years i mean queen elizabeth lived for a long time
but it's a drop in the bucket in comparison to eternal life
you say what's eternal eternal is forever it means you get to live forever
and this is the gift that comes when we're justified we get to live
forever and look if you've been justified
guess what we get to live for all of eternity there's no
end to this life okay but not only that you inherit a new nature
so cody you're saved right okay cool you believe on jesus christ right all
right just checking it would be really bad if i use this as an example this
guy's not even saved or something i'm just kidding
cody you may not see it because all we see is the flesh
but within cody there's actually a new man okay
now what you see on the outward is actually referred to as the old man
how old are you 28 28 and when it says old man he's not referring to his age
it's not saying like he's like an old person he's referring to
the sin nature of man so this is cody's sinful what you're
looking at is cody's sinful nature right here
this is the old man the sin nature this is the wickedness
all the sinfulness right here right but hold on a second and here though
there is a new man and that is what it's known as the soul
the spirit who's been justified okay now you can't see it with
the naked eye obviously you can't look at him and say
oh he's a new man you know that's something only really god can see
and that's something that we manifest when we walk in the spirit we do good
works when we serve god and keep god's
commandments not for salvation but just because god's
commanded us to do so but there's a new man so this new
nature that he has now enables him to do good works it enables
him to be a great husband it enables him to
be a good employee it enables him to be a bold leader and enables him to
just do great things for god okay and it enables him to overcome sin as
well okay to conquer sin and to understand the
word of god this new nature that god gives to
everyone who is saved abides within it's not manifested on the outside it's
something that happens on the inside okay the bible tells us in
john chapter 1 verse number 12 but as many as received him
to them gave you power to become the sons of god even unto them that believe
on his name so according to the bible cody is a son of god god actually views
him as his child you know because this is weird teaching
out there that everyone's a child of god
are we all children of god how many have ever heard that before
are we all just children of god no we're not the rapist
who kills and molests and does all this wicked stuff is not a child of god
come on folks we live in a real world here right
you know what are children of god people who believe on jesus christ
those are sons of god those are children of god this is a son of god right here
and he gets that by believing on jesus christ
not by depending on his works not by doing those things but by faith in jesus
you know the bible tells us therefore if any man be in christ he is a new
creature old things are passed away behold all
things are become new so people want to use that and say well
that means cody should just be perfect then but hold on a second cody's
still standing here though you see if if everything was made new
and his old man was no longer old things are passed away but old things are not
absent because he's still standing if when he got saved everything was made
perfect he just dropped dead right now because this sinful nature right here
this this flesh that he has is the sin nature that's what propels him to commit
sins the bible says for me that is in my flesh
dwelleth no good thing our flesh moves us and the motions of
sin within us cause us to want to commit sins to do
do those things that are not pleasing unto the lord you understand
and so he is a new man but he still has that old man within him
all right so this is what it means to be justified
and if you're sitting here today this is the first time you've heard this or
maybe someone has told you about this but you've never really quite made a
decision you need to go to that first to be
justified by faith it's pretty simple it's easy
it's easy to be saved the world will teach you it's hard
because they're still working for their salvation
and yeah that's hard and it's so hard it'll never happen
that's how hard it is but if you want to be saved you could be saved today
very simple it's as simple as you receiving a gift
it's as simple as placing your faith in jesus christ and recognizing that you
can never lose the salvation so once you're justified you cannot be
unjustified right like once you have it it's not like
you know god changes man after you know i i didn't really like that ruling that
i made because you already did something else
so i'm going to go ahead and take that justification away once you're justified
it's sealed it's done okay you can never lose it all right
let's get sanctification up here who's a good candidate for sanctify
a sanctified let's look for a sanctified person brother hike you look like
you're pretty sanctified come on up brother hike
come on man hurry up you gotta go all day
and right here in the middle
all right so cody is justified high-care sanctified okay now what does
it mean what does sanctification mean it's just talking about the christian
life and it's basically talking about living
in holiness okay so once a person gets saved once
they're justified god has all types of commandments in
the bible for us to keep and we have a lifetime to keep them
okay i've been saved for 15 years and basically a good amount of that 15
years has been spent just trying to obey the bible
just trying to be a better christian trying to obey the lord keep god's
commandments you know obey his precepts and his
mandates that's what the christian life is about
so he represents the process of sanctification not the process of
salvation because once you're saved that's already finished
this is the process of sanctification where
god sets you apart for a specific task and he's cleaning up your life now why
is that well because once you're when you're justified
you come to the christian life with a lot of baggage
a lot of sins a lot of bad habits a lot of
bad ways of thinking a lot of bad doctrines ideologies
bad habits sinfulness just all types of things that are not pleasing to god
you you know you grew up a certain way at your home and you think a certain
way you talk a certain way you act a certain way
you drink you smoke you run with those who do type of a thing right
that stuff doesn't necessarily just go away once you get saved
it's not like now i'm saved now i've just been delivered from every single
sin the temptation to sin it does doesn't
work that way okay it's not like you're saving like i
got this fluttery feeling in my stomach and i i'm saved i feel like i'm saved
that's just indigestion or you have to burp or something like that
because all this stuff is by faith you don't have to feel it
i'm not saying that people don't you know get excited when they get saved you
know that happens but don't depend on that feeling or
something like i hope i have a dream tonight you know and
50-foot jesus is going to show up and and confirm
that i'm saved or something like that doesn't work that way okay
that would be weird if 50-foot jesus just shows up
when you get saved this all happens it's a spiritual thing understand
now thereafter cody has a responsibility the new man has a responsibility
to go through this process right here now if he chooses not to go through this
process it doesn't mean that this is undone
it's already done for this is finished but god's commanding us to go through
this okay now turn with me if you would to roman chapter 8 go to roman chapter
number 8
now what does it mean to be sanctified to be sanctified simply means to be
set apart okay when you set something apart it's
different from everything else right when you set something apart you're
basically taking that thing or that person
and you're separating it from everything else well
believe it or not once we get saved there's a certain part of us that
becomes just immediately sanctified and that is our soul
in other words we are set apart by god as his people understand so it's not
like you're not just some regular joe schmo in this world
walking in this world just doing your own thing no you're actually now you're
part of god's people you're actually a son of god you're set
apart so out of the billions of people that live in this world god looks at you
and he pays attention to everything you're doing he cares about you he loves
you he has a plan for you he wants to bless
you and if you disobey him he'll chastise you
i mean he pays a considerable amount of attention to you because now you're set
apart as his child understand however there is a process of
sanctification that we have to allow in our lives look at the bible says in
romans 8 28 and we know that all things work together
for good to them that love god to them who are the called according to his
purpose for whom he did foreknow he also did
predestinate listen to this to be conformed to the
image of his son that he might be the first
born among many brethren what does that mean
you say well how do i know when this process is done
when can i like not live the christian life so i can just kind of do my own
thing once you're just exactly like jesus
then you're off the clock
which by the way it never happens this side of eternity
it never happens so our job here as christians which by the way that's why
we're called christians huh christ we're trying to be
like christ is to live like christ is to be like jesus so
cody's job in this world is to be less like cody
and more like jesus hike's job in this world
in the process of sanctification is to be less like hike
a lot less like hike just get rid of hike and be more like jesus
hike and cody are the old man the new man that resides within it's our job to
walk in that new man because when we walk in the spirit we're
we just become more like jesus understand now i know that seems like
an oversimplification of what it is because it's obviously very simple but
the information is complex what i mean by that
it's it's simple to just say you know the christian life is to be like jesus
but how do we be like jesus well there's a bunch of things we have to do
in the christian life to be like jesus that's why not every christian in this
world behaves like a christian because it's
hard you know i gotta go to church gotta read
my bible i gotta go do this so i gotta do
oh i gotta stop sinning yeah but here's the thing it's not like god gives us all
these commandments and there's like no reward for them
there's actually a great reward for it there's a great recompense
there's a great recompense that we receive for avoiding sin
and living righteously and living a sanctified life
okay so let me explain something that a lot of people miss okay
because sometimes people think like you know
well once you're here you should automatically be here
if you're saved you're going to live like this but
think about this if i command you to do something
if i tell you to do something i'm implying
that there's a possibility that you won't
right if i say do this there's there's an implication there
that you might not do it that's why i'm telling you to do it
so if god has a commandment in the bible he's nicely trying to tell you because
you're not prone to do this so when we get justified you don't just
automatically live just a great christian life and you just clean your
life up you stop drinking you stop smoking
you stop fornicating you stop doing whatever living a worldly life
you know you got to go through the process of sanctification allow yourself
to go through the process of sanctification
to keep god's commandments batteries don't come included in this thing
it's not you just plug in the batteries and you just start acting like a
christian right away it takes time okay
there would be no need for regulations to govern activity if people just
automatically did what they're supposed to do so the bible is filled with
commandments it's filled with admonitions and warnings
and look if when we got saved it's just like it just clicks i was like oh i get
it then guess what we don't even need to
read this we don't even need the bible if once we got saved we just
everything's good to go but the reason we need the bible is because we need to
know what god requires of us and here's a problem here's another
problem is that even though we do what god
tells us to do there's going to be times when we don't
do those things that god has told us to do
even though we've done them in times past so doing something that
god tells you to do one day doesn't guarantee that you'll do it
another day reading the bible today doesn't guarantee
that you're going to read the bible tomorrow living like a christian today
doesn't guarantee that you're going to live like a christian
tomorrow why because it's a daily choice to go through the process
of sanctification and shedding that old man
and look i'm not saying that you're not going to make progress in the christian
life you've made some progress for the hike
this man has made a lot of progress and i'm sure he can testify and say you
know from the time that i came to church till now i've changed a lot
you know and i've cleaned up my life or i've changed the way i thought i've you
know changed my behavior it's taken it's taken a couple years
taking a lot of rebuke and reading the bible
and and you know suan helps him and all that you know
but you know he's a godly man he hasn't arrived yet
but he's gone through the process of sanctification and he's persisted
in that process of sanctification now if he chooses never to do this because this
happens a lot by the way you know we get people saved and we
preach the gospel and they believe on jesus christ and they never want to go
through this like the first step to this is we try to
make it easy and just like the first step is just come to church
because it's not hard to come to church you sit there and you just hear me yell
at you for an hour and even if you don't like what i'm
saying you can just tune me out and just think about what you're going to eat for
lunch or whatever so you just you just stare off into
the distance if you want whatever you know
that's not hard to do it's when you actually start applying what you're
hearing start obeying the commandments start
making changes in your life because people don't like change
but change is necessary to go through the process of sanctification
okay and let's just be honest all of us are just very
used to and accustomed to ourselves you know we're creatures of habit we
like the way we originally think a thought or like the way we originally
behave or like the way we originally do these
things so when someone tells us comes to us and says
that's not the way to do it you got to do it the biblical way here's the
biblical way it rubs us the wrong way and it's just like well this is how i've
always done it and it's just like well you're still wrong though
so you got to change the way you're doing it because this is what god says
so now it requires pain the process of changing the process of changing the way
you think speak and behave to go through this okay now
go to first peter chapter one if you will first peter chapter one
you said well how can i be sanctified well first and foremost you obviously
have to be saved first okay and i'll spend some time on that
later on but secondly it's through the word of god the bible says in john 17
you're in first peter john 17 17 says this sanctify them
through thy truth thy word is truth
now listen to this one of the biggest things
that needs to change in our life once we get saved
is not this is not this but it's what's in here
often the hardest thing to change is how we think
right so the bible is costly telling us to be renewed in the spirit of our mind
because we could change where our feet take us we could change what our hands
do we could even change how we talk but
sometimes the hardest thing to change is that aspect of our being that no one
sees which is right here
you said well how do we change that well the bible says that you can be
sanctified through the bible so that's why you come to church you
hear the preaching of god's word but when you go home you read the bible
and what the bible does it begins to wash your brain
you come to church and you get brainwashed
you sit down and read the bible and you get brainwashed
a lot of people use that in a negative way you're brainwashed when people tell
me i'm brainwashed i'm like for sure scrub this thing every day as
much as i can and then the next day it's like dirty
again and then the next day it's dirty again so i have to constantly like wash
this brain you know what they're implying is like
just let it go dirty like oh you're brainwashed just like
what you so basically you want me to keep my mind dirty
and filthy and have all these false ideologies in my mind
bad ways of thinking no we need our brain to be washed
and you can't wash it through just any book either
you can't grab some self-disciplined book self-help book
and wash your brain too that doesn't work that way you need this
this needs to be scrubbed this scrubs the brain
it removes bad ideologies it cleans you up
you say well how much of it do i have to read all of it
well for how long all the days of your life
like every single day that sounds like i'm not making progress you make
progress and in fact if you are in the christian
life for five to ten years 15 years 20 years you look back you you
you can basically see how much progress you even made in the way you think
because you know people come into the christian life afraid
anxious angry wrathful lustful covetous idolatrous
things that are just embedded in our minds and the more we read this
the more the bible cleans our mind and helps us to think the right way
understand and so sanctification takes place
through the reading of god's word and then it also takes place through just
holy living so obviously we need to change what's
up here but then we also need to change all this
that which we do with our bodies so instead of taking your feet to the bar
on on on fridays you keep your feet at home
and you read you spend time with your family
instead of taking your feet to you know whatever recreation on a sunday you
take your feet to church that's called living a holy life instead
of taking your feet to go see your boyfriend or girlfriend to go commit the
the sinful act of fornication you learn how to possess your body and
sanctification and honor and you abstain from fornication
instead of drinking alcohol to drown out your sorrows and your woes
and all those things you're going through
you abstain from alcohol you come to church you sing the hymns you read the
word of god and you get your joy from the lord
so that's how you live a sanctified life you start changing the things that you
do this is how you can become a sanctified
person now i'm not saying that the one time do you do that is just the
answer all for for all the days of your life
because sometimes you're going to fail sometimes you make mistakes sometimes
you go backwards the christian life is two steps forward one step back
okay but in general we need to be going forward in the christian life and
when you fail the bible says that the just man
falleth seven times and listen to this and riseth up again
when you fall it's just like well i guess i'll just have this entire six
pack since i already started well i guess i'll just finish off
whatever i'm doing here since i've already started
i guess i'll just go with my friends next week i guess i'll just do all the
no if you failed and just say you know i messed up but now i gotta get i gotta
get back on track
now you say oh man but if i'm already saved why do i have to do all this
like you said i can't lose my salvation so like
if i'm saved like can i not do these things
why do people do these things even after they're saved well they do it so that
god can use them okay look at look at uh second timothy
oh wait do we already read from first peter
all right let's read from first peter and then we'll go to second timothy look
at first peter 1 14 as obedient children not fashioning
yourselves according to the former lust in your
ignorance but as he which hath called you is holy
so be holy in all manner of conversation because it is written be holy for i am
holy the bible says so the bible is telling us here that he
wants us to live holy lives and the reason he's commanding us to do
so is because we have the propensity not to
okay now turn to second timothy chapter two
second timothy chapter two
now let me just say this is that this particular person right here comes with
the price this put the sanctification this stage
comes with the price that came with the price but you didn't
have to pay that price very easy get saved jesus paid the
price but to live the christian life comes with the price
but let me say this the price pales in comparison
to the reward and the bible likens it to a man
finding a treasure in a field he finds his treasure in a field
and what he does is he goes home he sells all that he has
to buy the entire field so he basically allows himself to just go
flat broke in order to purchase this specific field
and you know i'm sure people were like you're making a bad investment that's a
bad decision you just wasted all your your your
living and your and your uh your savings just to buy this field but
hold on a second he's doing it because within that field
is a great treasure that's even greater than the amount that he paid into it
so the treasure that you get in the christian life
is always far greater in value than the then the sacrifice and the payment that
you made to get it understand that doesn't mean it's not
hard it's hard sometimes okay but
it's worth it look at chapter 2 verse 19 nevertheless the foundation of god
standeth sure having this seal the lord knoweth them
that are his and let everyone that name it the name of christ apart from
from iniquity but in a great house there are not only vessels of gold and of
silver but also of wood and of earth and some
to honor some to dishonor if a man therefore purge himself from
these he shall be a vessel unto honor sanctified
and meet for the master's use and prepared
unto every good work now according to the bible
if you allow yourself to go through the process of sanctification
god is willing to pay you when you get to heaven and even some when you're here
so he's willing to reward you and pay you
with i mean a lot of resources and a lot of rewards if you're
willing to go through this process because god will only use a person who's
in the sanctification process and here's the simplest way that i like
to explain it you know if would you drink a cup would you drink water out of
a really filthy cup probably wouldn't if i gave you a cup
and say well there's water in it just drink it but there's all types of
you know disgusting filth in there there's bacteria
there's you know you know people you know uh what do they call
when people backwash in there you're not gonna want to drink that you're
like give me a clean cup well you know what god wants to drink
out of a clean cup he wants to use a clean vessel not a
perfect one but but one who is going through the
process of sanctification so we're based with sanctification
essentially helps us to be apt for the job
you know sanctification doesn't go into god for you know
with our resume and saying look i'm living the christian life
i want to earn some rewards can you please use me
and we earn rewards because of it you say well how long do we work for
as long as you want now god wants us to work to the to to the day that we die
but some people unfortunately clock out early
you know they clock out early they quit on the christian life doesn't mean they
lose this this will always be there but they lose
out on the rewards that they can get so the goal of the christian is to just
go to the christian life be sanctified live a holy life be a christian who is
apt to work and serve the lord and then you
get a lot of rewards not just in eternity but even here in
this life because obviously we want eternal rewards
but you know it kind of helps when we get a little something up front too
well you know according to the bible god also gives us rewards here on this
earth as well there's a ton of rewards here on this
earth even though we only enjoy them for a little bit because life is but a vapor
it's just kind of like just here's some bonuses in this world
just a reminder you're going to get something greater when you go to heaven
okay this is the sanctification process so when you come on sunday
and you hear the preaching of god's word it's me trying to sanctify you
it's me trying to promote sanctification in your life
it's me trying to help you to get rid of the sin in your life
get rid of the alcohol get rid of the drugs
get rid of the bad way of thinking get rid of the laziness
you know sometimes it's just like well i'm not involved in alcohol or drugs or
anything yeah but maybe you might be lazy though
and maybe you don't like to work and the bible says that you should love
to work right and in all labor there's profit and that's a bad way of thinking
because the bible promotes diligence the bible promotes hard work
and god wants us to be hard workers and not to be lazy
right or you know sometimes it's just like you have young people and they're
like well you know i don't drink smoke i don't run with those
that do yeah but you might be disrespectful to your parents though
you need to be sanctified in that area and and show your parents some respect
and not yell at them not slam the door
not do x y and z whatever it is not disobey them but respect them reverence
them obey them and everything these are the
areas that we need to work on and the reason i mention this because
parents always love this point when i when i always say that
like if they if they didn't like anything else in the sermon they're like
i like this point right here this is and then they always look to
their their their son or their daughter like
pastor's telling and yeah i am yeah i'm i stand with the parents on this amen
be sanctified good i'm glad you don't drink obey your parents
i'm glad you don't do drugs obey your parents stop talking back to them
be respectful towards them okay so that is the process of sanctification now i
need a glorified body here let's get a glorified by who wants to
volunteer to be a glorified body all right good i was hoping no one would
volunteer for that because that would be really bad
john why don't you come on up though since you left
all right your glorification isn't this a great specimen for
glorification right here this is a great example right here
so what is glorification this is what the bible refers to as the resurrection
this is sinlessness now a lot of people think that
this takes place as soon as you die but it doesn't when you die
you just go to heaven your soul goes to heaven okay goes home to be with the
lord this takes place way in the future where
jesus christ comes back and he raptures all believers and we
receive a new body okay so you said why do we have to
receive a new body well because the body that we currently
have is wracked with sin we're not talking about physically
although that is the case sometimes talk about just the motions of our flesh
just constantly produce sin if cody were to stand before the
presence of god he would just melt if anybody would we can't stand before
god's he's so holy and righteous we would just burn away
like sarah o'connor when like that bomb goes off
if you guys know what i'm talking about you know just like that would be you if
you stood in the presence of god because we were like just show me your
presence like don't pray that if that really happened you'd be done
you just melt okay you dissipate you disintegrate
because of our sinful flesh okay so in order for us to stand in the
presence of god in our flesh it needs to be cody needs to
turn into cody 2.0 but cody 2.0 happens here at
glorification it's a body that god gives us that is
fit for the presence of god it's a body that cannot sin you
understand you see a lot of people have this
misconception that like once we go to heaven we're just like casper
floating around in heaven or something like that
well for all of eternity it's just like it's like our abdomen all the way up and
then our leg you know it's like it's a smoke on our legs
we're not ghosts like that when jesus christ resurrected from the from the
grave he didn't resurrect in spirit only he resurrected in body as
well they were able to feel him they were to touch and touch his wounds
okay he physically resurrected from the grave not just spiritually
physically resurrected and the reason he did that is because to show us
that we're going to physically resurrect one day as well
which is one of the reasons why the tradition of burying a person
was set forth because the bible likens the resurrection
to a seed being planted into the ground and then it comes up
something completely different you understand well like men are a safe
person when they die their physical bodies are buried in the
ground their soul goes to heaven but their physical bodies go into the
ground just as a seed and at the resurrection it comes up
something completely different a glorified body comes up
okay and this is a body that is completely
sinless now go to romans chapter 8 if you would romans chapter number 8
so we have justification we have sanctification the process by which
we're trying to be more like jesus glorification is when that process is
complete okay now look at romans chapter 8 verse
17 it says and if children then heirs heirs
of god and joint heirs with christ if so be that
we suffer with him that we may be also glorified
together for i reckon that the sufferings of this present time
are not worthy to be compared with the glory
which shall be revealed in us for the earnest expectation of the creature
waited for the manifestation of the sons of god what's he saying
he's saying this is what we're waiting for one day this glorification
for the day that we don't have to struggle with sin anymore
okay and any sincere christian longs for this
because we you know when we sin and we displease our lord
it should to a certain extent grieve us and we get frustrated with ourselves we
get frustrated with our old nature we get frustrated that we fall short the
constant battles that we face within ourselves with our old and our new man
it's just a constant battle and about it's a battle that like never ends this
side of eternity it's a constant fight we don't know what
this is like though because this is the absence of sin
this is you're just completely made new your flesh no longer desires to sin it's
no longer tempted this is the resurrected state right here
okay now here's the thing though let me just
say this before i get into my last point if you want a really good glorified body
you have to go through this you will always get this even though
when you are saved you will get that but the quality of your glorification is
dependent on this right here so you're every person who's believed on
jesus christ every person who's been justified
will be glorified everyone gets that right off the bat
that's part of that's part of the gift actually
get yourself a brand new vehicle okay
but if you want all the bells and whistles
you know i mean someone give me the bells and whistles
hydraulics convert is convertible thing is that even a thing anymore
is that a thing still for cars
if you want ac
someone tell me some of the bells and whistles of vehicles today
twin turbo what is that what is it
apparently we got a lot of people in our church who just really like cars
for me it's just like electric windows and ac that works
gas you know if you want a nice looking vehicle
with all the bells and whistles v8 is that a thing or whatever
you know it's not spinners that's what the works based salvation people get
you want the bells and whistles you want a really glorified body the bible talks
about a better resurrection you gotta go through this you're gonna
get a vehicle no matter what if you're saved
but if you want just like the good stuff okay
if you want all the bells and whistles with the cup holder
and you know those seat warmers and i don't know what else you know it
goes really fast and drifts and all that stuff
you know you have to go through this right here okay
so you're paying into your your vehicle through this so anytime you're like man
this christian life is hard just remember like
hey it's hard but it's worth it because it doesn't compare to the glory that
shall be revealed in you though you're gonna get a really top-notch
vehicle you know what i mean now i'm exaggerating a little bit but you
know some people who don't want to work they're just they're gonna no electric
in their car they have to roll down you'd have to do one of these
you know no ac they got to roll down the window they want the air you know
no cup holders okay
but hey at least you get something is what i'm saying whereas this person who
endures into the end this person who's laboring for the lord
this person who suffers for christ's sake he suffers persecution
he's reading god's word he is repenting of his sins
he's just getting right with god he's just doing his best to just
live the christian life he's going to get a top-notch vehicle
when the resurrection comes this is what we're living for here
okay now here's my last point
here's some misconceptions about this okay some people think that
hike why don't you move this way and you guys switch switch switch up
some people for some reason think that as soon as you're justified
you're automatically glorified they think oh you're saved that means you're
already sinless but they're getting the process mixed up
here this is not the way it works they think well you're automatically
saved that means you're never going to sin ever again
this is delusional people like this are delusional and there's religions out
there this there's sex within christianity to teach
that once you're saved you just you're never going to commit sin
you're never going to do wrong you're always going to obey god
wrong it doesn't work that way that doesn't even take place until
glorification long after because you haven't even received your
glorified body yet so what they're implying is that they're already
glorified they're just these glorified christians
and you ask them do you sin they're like no i don't sin
this is what's called lordship salvation
or like well if you're saved you're just never going to commit sin
by the way when they say that they're already committing sin by teach by
committing the sin of heresy by teaching that which is a very
grievous sin according to the bible by the way
okay so misconception number one is that
the result of glorification happens at justification
wrong it doesn't okay switch sides again guys
pretty simple right guys here's another misconception
justification automatically equals sanctification well if you're
saved you're gonna do works doesn't work that way
you have to choose to do works well if you're already justified that
means you're just automatically going to do
these things you know and you're going to live
righteously you're going to live godly it doesn't work that way you have to
choose to do it god is not a god of robots
it's not you just get saved and he just programs you you're just like righteous
righteous holy holy and you just know what to do
you have to choose to do these things why because god likes
his people to choose to do right not to be forced to do right but to choose to
do right it means more when his believers when his children
actually make the conscientious decision to say i'm gonna do right because i love
the lord understand and they have to choose to
do so
so justification misconception justification automatically equals
sanctification wrong okay and here's the last misconception
okay the last misconception is that
sanctification is necessary for justification
you have to live a sanctified life in order to
be justified wrong that goes back to the original point
and look we have an example in the bible matthew chapter 7
where a person stands before god and he he says i've cast out devils in
thy name he says i prophesied in thy name and
in thy name have done many wonderful works i mean those are really good
things right when you're prophesying in the name of
jesus you're basically preaching in the name of jesus that's a good word
nothing simple about that he says i prophesied in thy name
i've cast out devils in thy name we're talking about exorcist style
he's like performing exorcisms apparently and then if that
is not enough he says and in thy name just done many wonderful works
and then at the end he says jesus said depart from me you that work iniquity i
never knew you so that's proof that a person who does
all those sanctification type works does not justify a person
because it didn't do that guy any good he said what's the problem with that guy
well notice he didn't say lord have i not believed on jesus christ for
salvation he never even mentions that once which
is the only thing you need to be saved he lists all the sanctifying works that
he did to be justified but it doesn't work that
way my friends if this is you and you're trying to get
to this via this you're gonna split hell wide open
you can do this but it has to be after this and you have to recognize that if
you never do this you still have this
you say well what if i just don't want any of that
what if i just don't want justification and i can care less about
sanctification or glorification okay then you can have damnation then
everyone falls into one of these these are the only two right here either
you're justified or you're damned to hell and you can
imagine any little fairy tale you want to say well if i just don't get saved
you know i'm just going to become one with the universe
you can say that but we call that hell okay
and then you know one with the universe doesn't mean you get to visit jupiter or
something like that you know you go to hell according to the
bible
god is offering this though it's free you can live forever you know he he he
can pass the the like all time he he he breached
the realm of eternity you know with his son to like bring us
this gift like he gave us that which is close to
him so we can have the opportunity to be saved
to reconcile us god didn't have to do that
he's god but he did because he loves us and if you say nah i don't want it okay
then what god does it says here you go just remember it's your
choice though and there's no other option go ahead
guys you guys can sit down what what's what's the sermon this
morning the sermon is simply just to teach us what
justification is what sanctification is what glorification is
and what their place is in our life okay but if you get if you don't get
anything get this as an if you're unsaved if you're not sure
you're going to go to heaven when you die
don't worry about these last two this is the one you need right here
now if you're saved you better start working on that sanctification
for that glorify for that glorified body the ac and the cup holder and all that
that's what you need to be working for well i'm already saved yeah that's great
and i mean that's the most important thing
but sanctification is now the next step the bible tells us
for we are his workmanship created in christ jesus unto good works which
which god has before ordained that we should walk in there so he has a job for
us to do and you know he's commanded us to do it
we should do it but he's willing to reward us for doing it as well
and glorification well that's just the end of the chapter
that's just the end of our lives that's what we're working towards
and if you say i don't care for those things then you get damnation
that's just the way it works let's pray father we thank you so much for your
word thank you for the simplicity of the
gospel thank you for the simplicity which is in christ
i pray that lord if there's someone here who who doesn't know if they're saved or
maybe they're doubting they don't know 100 sure maybe they believed on jesus
before they believe the bible but they don't know about eternal security
they're still doubting that they would get saved today that they wouldn't leave
this church until they believe on jesus christ for their salvation
that they would humble themselves lord and i pray that the believers in here
would be motivated to live a sanctified life
meet for the master's use so we can accomplish great things for you
get more people saved lord and earn some rewards
and i just pray lord that you would uh keep that glorification
at the forefront of our minds when there's there's times of discouragement
or times of um of just difficulty or trials
they they wane on us that we would keep that glorification on the forefront of
our minds to motivate us to keep serving god
we love you we thank you pray these things in jesus name amen
song number 119 till the storm passes by song number 119
song number 119 as our last song see me on that first verse
in the dark of the midnight
hit my face while the storms howl above me and there's no
hiding place in the crash of the thunder precious
lord hear my cry keep me safe till the storm
passes by till the storm passes over
till the thunder sounds no more till the clouds roll forever
from the sky
hold me fast let me stand in the hollow of thy hand
keep me safe till the storm passes by
many times satan whispered there is no need to try
there's no hope by and by but i know thou are with me
and tomorrow i will rise where the storms never darken
the skies till the storm passes over
till the thunder sounds no more till the clouds roll forever
from the sky
hold me fast let me stand in the hollow of thy hand
keep me safe till the storm passes by
when the long night has ended and the storms come no more
let me stand in thy presence on that bright peaceful shore
in that land where the tempest never comes lord may i
dwell with thee when the storm passes by
till the storm passes over till the thunder sounds no more
till the clouds roll forever from the sky
hold me fast let me stand in the hollow of my hand
keep me safe till the storm passes by
amen wonderful scene you are dismissed