# IN CHRIST | Redeemed in Christ | Ephesians 1:7-10 | Arik Hayes **Channel:** 2819 Church **Source:** https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=59QDwRT1Ykg **Transcript page:** https://www.withtranscript.ai/video/59QDwRT1Ykg ## Chapters - 0:00 — Opening Worship and Sermon Introduction - 8:03 — Complete Pardon Through Christ - 15:54 — Freedom From Sin's Power - 24:02 — Lavished Grace and The Mystery - 35:12 — Canaanite Woman and Persistent Faith - 42:36 — Christ's Sacrifice and Right Standing - 49:11 — Fulfillment, Hope, and Closing Prayer ## Transcript **[0:00] Speaker A:** Thank you beloved God we bless you. **[0:07] Speaker A:** Oh God we bless you. **[0:16] Speaker A:** You know as one of the elders of the church, one of three technically pastor Phil is our senior elder senior pastor and that's uh Elder Milton James. Clap it up for Elder Elder Milton. Right. **[0:32] Speaker A:** And then as myself, man, I I want to I want to make sure that, you know, we lean into you guys, man. That we don't turn religious, right? That we don't just come in and kind of throw our hand in the air and not connect in the moment that we're worshiping a true and living God. Can we talk like we family? I got to fight it off myself. We have to fight off religion. fight off just the Sunday experience **[1:00] Speaker B:** and really pour our hearts out, man, so we can rekindle that love. Sometimes fire isn't necessarily an event. Fire is you just apologizing and repenting. Sometimes that's enough to rekindle the fire that you got in your heart. **[1:23] Speaker A:** So continue to lean in, beloved. you with me? All right. Welcome to 2018 church, beloved. How y'all doing today? Right. Good to see you. It's good to see you. All right. Glad we're able to work with the time changes. **[1:38] Speaker B:** Yes, ma'am. **[2:00] Speaker B:** All right, this is what we'll do. Sis, after the experience, you can come down to the front and we'll be able to help you out. Okay, welcome to Atlanta. All right, God bless you. Amen. Amen. Um, we are a church that is a house of prayer, presence, and proclamation. We'll continue to beat that into the DNA of our church. I want to welcome our online community, our digital disciples. Some of you have actually come into the room across the camera. Um, we thank you for coming. You are part of our family. Just want to affirm you in that way. And last but not least, in this house, we welcome the unbeliever. Amen. **[2:55] Speaker A:** I was about to preach for another five minutes on that. Hey, listen. It's a that's nothing. We can't get religious. The gospel is about the unbeliever, **[3:04] Speaker B:** right? **[3:05] Speaker A:** He's looking for the lost. **[3:07] Speaker B:** You know, one of the worst things we can do is get into the family of God and then get hearty. We're like, I made it. They don't care about nobody else. **[3:14] Speaker A:** And we don't say that out loud, but are we sharing the gospel? **[3:19] Speaker B:** Are you praying for your neighbors? Are you praying for your co-workers, your unsaved loved ones? We all could do a better job of that. **[3:26] Speaker A:** Right? So, unbeliev. **[3:33] Speaker A:** That means if you're still wrestling with the claims of Christ, right? Maybe somebody has invited you and you like, I don't know, that's a lot of shouting. That's I don't I don't know what that's about. Cool. Keep hanging out. **[3:42] Speaker B:** Amen. **[3:43] Speaker A:** Okay. Our hopes and our desire to cats out the bag that you would actually come upon the ark of safety like us and get to know a God like this **[3:53] Speaker B:** by the power of the Holy Spirit and through the cross. Right? So we wanted to welcome you at this time. It's customary that we honor the pastor of this eklesia, Philip Anthony Mitchell. No pressure. Wanted to open up give you opportunity to praise him. Excuse me. Show honor. Show honor. We show honor to those whom it is due **[4:18] Speaker A:** and we believe we have an honorable pastor. Amen. **[4:22] Speaker B:** Okay. As a church, today we are continuing the new sermon series in Christ. Have you been blessed by this series so far? **[4:32] Speaker B:** Man, two weeks ago, pastor was talking about being chosen. I was losing my mind. chosen beforehand, before the very foundation of the world. Me **[4:46] Speaker A:** adopted as a son. Me. **[4:49] Speaker B:** Yeah. Me. And even those that know, we love the reminder, don't we? **[4:55] Speaker A:** Amen. **[4:58] Speaker B:** But I'll be preaching. I have the the honor and privilege of preaching the third installment of the new series that has been titled Redeemed in Christ. redeemed in Christ. Please bow your head, allow me to pray for us again. Holy Father, God, I thank you for all that you have brought to this building, all that you have brought to this live stream. God, you even know which recording is going to go up. God, you are aware, intimately aware of the affairs of men, the affairs of your children, the affairs of the unbeliever. You know those that have been chosen that are not saved yet. God, such a mighty God. I pray God you would take this sermon, you would take your scriptures, God, and you would tattoo revelation from the Holy Ghost onto our souls today. That it wouldn't just be another sermon, that it would change us, as our elder says, that we will be transformed by the Holy Ghost. **[5:56] Speaker B:** Help us do our part and lean in. And God, I look to decrease, God, that you would increase in this moment. Have your way, Holy Ghost. in Jesus name I pray. Amen. And amen. **[6:08] Speaker A:** Okay. Uh you mind staying with me, Frank? I appreciate you, family. Um uh if you've heard me preach a couple times, I I usually have a saying like, you know, can I talk to you like we family? **[6:20] Speaker B:** Okay. All right. So, I need to be able to talk to you like we family today. Is that all right? **[6:24] Speaker A:** Okay. Because usually at the beginning of a sermon, like we we actually prep for sermons. Like we we try to we study and then we we think about things and usually we have like an intro where we we bring up something that is natural that that will be able to capture your heart that you're interested in and then be able to segue real quick and just slide into the scriptures and say this is like that and it makes like a a smooth transition. Right? We we we try to do that. Um family I don't have that today. **[6:53] Speaker B:** I don't have it. Right? And it's not because I didn't try. It's because I I'm I'm much like in the same position that our pastor was uh two weeks ago. It's this is so weighty. **[7:10] Speaker A:** It's so rich. It's so pregnant **[7:17] Speaker A:** that I didn't have a this to compare to that. **[7:26] Speaker A:** So with that being said, I want to I want to ask you please lean in right as we jump into the scriptures. One thing I do want to remind you between three and 14 the verses in the first chapter of Ephesians is one long runon sentence. Okay. So what I want to do is I want to jump back and and and read the scriptures that pastor read two weeks ago 3-6 and then jump into 7-10 which is going to be my assignment. Okay. **[7:54] Speaker B:** All right. So let's jump into the word of God. **[8:03] Speaker B:** Ephesians 1:3 reads as follows. Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who has blessed us in Christ with every spiritual blessing in the heavenly places, even as he chose us in him before the foundation of the world. That's good already. That we should be holy and blameless before him in love. He predestined us for adoption to himself as sons through Jesus Christ according to the purpose of his will to the praise of his glorious grace with which he has blessed us in the beloved. **[8:45] Speaker A:** All right. So I'll jump in with my assignment with verse seven and it says in him we have redemption **[8:52] Speaker B:** through his blood. **[8:54] Speaker A:** Hallelujah. the forgiveness of our trespasses or sins according to the riches of his grace. In the amplified amplified version, it reads as such. It says in him we have redemption. And it expounds, it says that is our deliverance and salvation. I'm gonna say that again. That is our deliverance and salvation. We have it through his blood which paid the penalty for our sin. and resulted in the forgiveness and complete pardon of our sin. Say complete pardon. **[9:32] Speaker B:** Complete. **[9:33] Speaker A:** Say it again. Say complete pardon. **[9:35] Speaker B:** Complete **[9:36] Speaker A:** of our sin. **[9:38] Speaker B:** That's what you have. **[9:47] Speaker A:** In accordance with the riches of his grace. So much like the worship moment earlier, right? I I I noticed that really when I said that and it's not because I'm saying it, it's because the word says it and it's true. It like there's that's a case for a standing ovation around the whole place. **[10:07] Speaker B:** But if we're honest and we talk like family, which we will, some of us don't really believe we have a complete pardon from all of our sins. Some of us live and believe as if it's a partial pardon. **[10:27] Speaker A:** Some of us live like only Elder Milton got the complete pardon. And because I don't do like I should, I didn't get the complete pardon. I got the partial package. AND I'M SAYING NO, THE CROSS WAS COMPLETE. **[10:46] Speaker A:** I'm going to yell and I'm going to jump and I'm shout because I am excited. But I also want to I want to slow down and say things because I don't want you to think this is hype. **[10:54] Speaker B:** It's the truth that is real that causes the hype. **[10:58] Speaker A:** But the hype the real hype only comes when you have a revelation of the truth **[11:03] Speaker B:** that you have a complete pardon from Christ. **[11:07] Speaker A:** You have a complete pardon from Christ. Like every once in a while you'll see where a governor or a president or somebody who did the crime and they're doing time and somehow they'll make their way they'll make their interro. They have they have the connect they get in CONTACT WITH SOMEBODY THAT HAS THE PULL THAT HAS THE POWER TO GIVE THEM A complete pardon. **[11:32] Speaker B:** And guess what? When they get out they're not going back to jail. **[11:36] Speaker A:** Why? BECAUSE THEY HAVE BEEN PARDONED. THE PERSON THAT GAVE THEM THE PARDON HAD THE POWER TO DO SO. I SAY THE SAME THING FOR OUR FATHER. HE IS THE ONLY ONE THAT HAD THE POWER TO GIVE A COMPLETE PARDON FROM ALL OF OUR SINS. AND YOU HAVE IT, BELOVED. You have been redeemed. **[11:54] Speaker B:** Hallelujah. **[11:58] Speaker A:** Such a rich word. **[12:00] Speaker B:** You have been redeemed. The penalty of sin HAS BEEN PAID ON THE CROSS OF CALVARY 2,000 YEARS AGO. YOU HAVE BEEN REDEEMED. **[12:12] Speaker A:** ALL MY SINS WERE WRAPPED UP IN THAT TAB, PAID IN FULL. I HAVE BEEN REDEEMED. **[12:27] Speaker A:** NOW, redemption is actually a word or as our pastor would say, I think he would call it like a metaph. Genesis to Revelations. You've heard him maybe say that honor is a meta theme throughout the Bible. You'll see it in different places, right? All throughout the Bible. And many of this I could actually describe as the story of redemption, the fall of man to the culmination of all things when with him the wedding supper of the lamb. Right? So some things are out there in the future. We will be with him. He actually went and said, "I'm I'm going to prepare a place. If it were not so, I wouldn't told you. I'm coming back to get you." That's in the future. We don't know how far in the future. Could be tomorrow. And listen, some of y'all saying all this Jesus coming back. Jesus coming back. **[13:12] Speaker A:** Unless you feel like it's hype, you won't say it in church where you feel like it's hype, **[13:16] Speaker B:** right? I want to remind you Paul said we in the last days 2,000 years ago. **[13:22] Speaker A:** So if he said that then **[13:28] Speaker B:** and you say that's still hype, GUESS WHAT? YOU DON'T KNOW WHEN YOUR LAST DAY IS. **[13:34] Speaker A:** It may not be the last day, but your last DAY THINGS ARE WRAPPED UP FROM YOU. IT IS VERY IS IN YOUR BEST INTEREST, UNBELIEVER. IT IS IN YOUR BEST INTEREST TO BELIEVE BEFORE you leave here **[13:46] Speaker B:** BECAUSE ALL OF US WILL ENCOUNTER the righteous judge. **[13:53] Speaker A:** Oh, you will encounter him. **[13:56] Speaker B:** He started this thing. He will end it. **[14:00] Speaker A:** Can't get around him. **[14:02] Speaker B:** Said, "Marvel not. You must come in at THE DOOR. YOU MUST be born again **[14:10] Speaker A:** or you will experience eternal separation from him. And all that is good and godly and holy and just and kind is going with him. **[14:20] Speaker B:** And without him there will be weeping and nashing of teeth. No middle ground. **[14:31] Speaker B:** You see why the gospel the gospel message is the most important thing. There's no middle ground. You don't get to camp out in the cute part of hell. **[14:41] Speaker A:** Get you a couch. It's hot over there. It's warm over here. NO LAKE OF FIRE. **[14:50] Speaker B:** Ain't no cute part of hell. **[14:54] Speaker A:** I just want to camp out on the bank of the lake of fire. No, you're in it. Can I also point out it wasn't made for you. It was made for the enemy and his demons. **[15:03] Speaker B:** But if you side with them AND YOU REJECT CHRIST, THAT'S WHERE YOU ACTUALLY end up. **[15:08] Speaker A:** It's not his desire, as we're already reading, that that be for you. **[15:19] Speaker B:** So, there's some future things. There's also when it comes, it's the day of redemption. and we actually uh he comes to get us and we actually get our our glorified bodies to be able to handle the glory of the Lord up close and personal. **[15:31] Speaker A:** Right? That's future. I don't know when it's going to be. It's in the future. But beloved, there are some things that we have right now. **[15:40] Speaker B:** Some things you have right now. We just talked about the complete pardon. Okay, there's another thing you have right now. Let's go over to Romans 6:18. **[15:54] Speaker B:** talking about redemption 618 ESV **[16:02] Speaker B:** reads as such. It says, "And having been set free from sin, we have become slaves of righteousness." Give it to the amplified. and having been set free from sin, you have become the slaves of righteousness, of conformity to God's will and God's purpose. If we're talking about redemption, we're talking about a ransom being paid. We're talking about us being purchased back. Right? So, I also want to say, listen, this is a gospel preaching church. I got to tell you the truth. There's also no middle ground when it come to that. You a slave to sin or you a slave to righteousness. We want too much freedom. **[16:46] Speaker A:** We want a convenient middle ground. **[16:49] Speaker B:** Be holy when we feel like it until it gets a little too uncomfortable. **[17:04] Speaker A:** But we have been set free from sin. Hallelujah. **[17:09] Speaker B:** You now have power over sin. **[17:13] Speaker A:** So when you think what we currently have, there are some things out in the future, but what we currently have is we're free from the penalty of sin. **[17:21] Speaker B:** It was paid on the cross. And we are also free from the power of sin. **[17:28] Speaker A:** Free from the penalty of sin. Free from the power of sin by means of the cross. And beloved, too many of us walk around as orphans like we don't have either one. **[17:44] Speaker A:** Orphans. And I'm going to tell you because me and Oda talk, we talk all the time. We share our office. We also talk talk back, you know, in the office. And we say not a lot of people we think know how to walk in the power of the spirit. Right? And this is some of our fault. We tell you, be holy. BE HOLY. WALK LIKE GOD. BE HOLY. AND SOME OF Y'ALL LIKE, MAN, Y'ALL don't say it out loud, but in turn, man, I don't know how to do that. **[18:15] Speaker B:** I tried and I failed. Okay. Can I give you a couple tips? One, quit following all of your feelings. **[18:26] Speaker A:** Stop. They are indicators. They are not. They are horrible leaders, **[18:31] Speaker B:** right? So, okay, you have a feeling where you're saying, "Hey, man, I have to walk in fear." No, you don't. **[18:43] Speaker A:** I have to act up and have this fit of anger. They don't pushed all my buttons. No, you don't. **[18:50] Speaker B:** I have to click this and watch this. Although I know I am committing adultery with my eyes and my heart. No, you don't. I have to lie because if I face the consequences there will never be any salvation for me. **[19:05] Speaker A:** Lie. **[19:08] Speaker B:** So what you can do you can take whatever jealousy fence of anger all of it you can take it and you can say you know what this is a desire of mine **[19:16] Speaker A:** but it is not my master. **[19:20] Speaker B:** Right? So you can identify the feeling. Don't put your head in the sand. Identify what is this. **[19:26] Speaker A:** I feel like I got a gossip. No, you don't identify it and say I identify this is in my heart. This is good, beloved. I identify this is in my heart, **[19:35] Speaker B:** right? **[19:36] Speaker A:** But it is not my master. **[19:38] Speaker B:** My master is Christ. **[19:40] Speaker A:** And he says instead of be jealous, I should pray for them. **[19:45] Speaker B:** So now there is a tugof-war going on. **[19:50] Speaker A:** I said in the previous two experiences, you ever been uh you ever walked a dog that was a little too strong for you? **[19:59] Speaker A:** And it's dragging and pulling you all over the place. YOU MAY HAVE FALLEN. YOU GOT ANYBODY LOOKING like they may have been. It's but and some of y'all y'all dealing with something some some things that are tough. You have addictions. You have generational patterns. **[20:18] Speaker B:** You feel like you have to gossip. Some people got real live anger problems. What I would call that is a big dog. But if you ever if you ever walk the big dog, what you have to do is you actually have to brace yourself **[20:32] Speaker A:** because a dog is going to do what the dog going to do. **[20:35] Speaker B:** Hey beloved, can I bring that real real practical for you? You still have a sin nature. **[20:41] Speaker A:** Even with all the REDEMPTION I'M TALKING ABOUT HERE, AND it's true. You still have a sin nature. It's going to pull on you. **[20:49] Speaker B:** So I like to say either you learn how to deal with your deal with your uh your flesh or your flesh going to deal with you. **[20:54] Speaker A:** No middle ground. So, what you have to do is you have to get the leash on the dog. **[21:02] Speaker B:** Wrap it around your hand and dig in and say, "We're going this way. We're going this way. I No, NO, NO, NO, NO, NO, NO, NO. WE'RE GOING this way. YOU ARE NOT MY MASTER. I MASTER YOU. WE'RE GOING THIS WAY. WE'RE GOING TO FOLLOW MY MASTER. HE IS JESUS. **[21:27] Speaker B:** TOO MANY OF US WAITING FOR THE DESIRE TO GO AWAY. IT MAY NEVER. **[21:33] Speaker A:** Haven't you BEEN HERE? SAY, "GOD, TAKE IT AWAY. TAKE IT AWAY FROM ME, FATHER. TAKE IT AWAY." FOAMING AT THE MOUTH. I DON'T HEAR ABOUT TAKE IT AWAY. TAKE IT AWAY. TAKE IT AWAY, GOD. TAKE IT AWAY. OH, GOD. TAKE IT AWAY. LET IT PURGE MY HEART. TAKE IT AWAY. TAKE IT AWAY. AND GUESS WHAT? MOST OF IT STILL THERE. **[21:54] Speaker A:** Ain't ain't most of it still there. **[21:57] Speaker B:** There are times he will miracle you out of a place. **[22:00] Speaker A:** He is gracious to do so. **[22:02] Speaker B:** The rest you have to fight. **[22:04] Speaker A:** The scripture say mortify the deeds of the flesh. **[22:07] Speaker B:** And one of the biggest things is we don't really believe that we're redeemed and have power over sin. **[22:16] Speaker A:** Cuz if you believe that, we act different. Yeah. **[22:20] Speaker B:** Letting a dog lead me around the parking lot scraping at my knees. Get over here. **[22:28] Speaker A:** And say you feel it's not a fact. You feel like it's too strong for you. You just don't give up. Let him drag you around. YOU CALL FOR HELP. Hey Ryan, I NEED HELP. PRAY FOR EL. I need help. I need help. BE LIGHT. COME ON. YOU ARE NOT THE MASTER of me. WE ARE GOING THIS WAY. **[22:59] Speaker B:** CUZ WE ARE REDEEMED. **[23:02] Speaker A:** WE ARE REDEEMED. **[23:03] Speaker B:** LET THE REDEEMED OF THE LORD SAY SO. **[23:18] Speaker B:** I am redeemed. **[23:21] Speaker A:** Redeemed from the penalty and the power of sin. **[23:24] Speaker B:** Yes, sir. **[23:25] Speaker A:** Why? Through the blood. **[23:28] Speaker B:** Why? Because he loved me. **[23:30] Speaker A:** We have to believe the truth and then act on the truth of the scriptures. or your feelings and your lust and desires will lead you all over the place. **[23:43] Speaker B:** Didn't the scripture say we are drawn away by our own lust? **[23:50] Speaker A:** Cuz what may get you may not get me. **[23:52] Speaker B:** What may get you may not get you. **[24:02] Speaker A:** Yes, sir. **[24:10] Speaker A:** Ephesians 18. And again, this is one one long run on. Right? So, I want to make sure we catch coming out of the last verse going into this one. Right. At the end of verse seven, it says, "According to the riches of his grace, verse eight, it says, "Which he lavished upon us." Say, "Lavvished." lavish **[24:29] Speaker B:** in all wisdom and insight. He lavished upon us in all wisdom and insight. So I looked up lavish and it said to superabound in quantity or quality be in excess to cause to superabound or excel abound abundance according to the riches of his grace which he lavished on us. We're swimming in grace right now. Hallelujah. **[25:08] Speaker A:** Swimming in grace. **[25:10] Speaker B:** You know how much sin we have committed. **[25:13] Speaker A:** The fact that we still have breath in our bodies swimming in grace. If it were not for his grace, we would all be consumed. **[25:25] Speaker B:** The fact that you actually get to come to God and pray, come boldly to the throne of grace to obtain mercy swimming. in grace. **[25:37] Speaker A:** The fact that we get to repent **[25:40] Speaker B:** swimming **[25:42] Speaker A:** in grace. You ever dealt with somebody that wouldn't give you another chance **[25:46] Speaker B:** now? I'm done with you. **[25:49] Speaker A:** You may be that person, **[25:51] Speaker B:** especially this CANCEL CULTURE. CUT PEOPLE OFF. I'M DONE WITH YOU. **[25:55] Speaker A:** What if God was like that? **[25:58] Speaker B:** All of us would be in trouble. **[26:01] Speaker A:** But that's not how he deals with us. We are swimming in grace. Super abounding in grace. **[26:20] Speaker A:** Second part of that verse it says in all wisdom and insight which he lavished upon us in all wisdom and insight. In all, say all. **[26:34] Speaker B:** All **[26:34] Speaker A:** wisdom and insight. **[26:37] Speaker B:** They're talking about God the Father there. **[26:40] Speaker A:** Slow down. Slow down. I'm not a planner. I can get better. More spur word of moment. Okay, whatever's clever. But some of y'all are planners. Project management. I mean, just playing like I want to be able to work the plan and plan the work. That's y'all do something. You just something go left. Y'all lose your mind. Y'all just It's not the plan. I'm like, I don't know what's it's not that serious, but it's the plan. You are a planner, **[27:10] Speaker B:** right? You know some good planners. Maybe you are a good planner. Is anybody a better planner than God? **[27:19] Speaker A:** The one who has all knowledge, **[27:26] Speaker B:** the alpha and the omega. **[27:30] Speaker A:** He is that the beginning and the end **[27:36] Speaker B:** operating outside of town. No, no, no, no. Look, look, look. This is God is outside of town. He's looking just **[27:42] Speaker A:** every angle. **[27:50] Speaker B:** Yeah. **[27:55] Speaker A:** What surprises him? **[27:57] Speaker B:** Does your addiction surprise him? **[28:01] Speaker A:** Does your divorce surprise him? **[28:04] Speaker B:** Does your sin that besets you easily surprise you? Him? Does your anger problem surprise him? **[28:14] Speaker A:** Nothing. **[28:17] Speaker B:** Does the sin you keep hiding? You think you hiding from him? You're not. **[28:22] Speaker A:** You think that surprised him? All of that we're talking about swimming in grace was made by God in all wisdom and insight. I want to slow down. I ain't want to preach this part. I want to be able to teach it. Why? Because you need to be able to slide up on this revelation in the midnight hour and say it to yourself. I know this don't look the way I want it to right now. I'm winning some, I'm losing some. I'm in a tight spot. But God has planned this thing in all wisdom and insight **[28:56] Speaker B:** according to the grace which he lavished upon me. You got to put yourself in there. Yeah. Yeah. **[29:02] Speaker A:** All this grace, wealth, and grace was lavished upon me in all wisdom and insight. You know what that does? That should kill panic. **[29:15] Speaker B:** I don't know what I'm going to do. **[29:17] Speaker A:** Have you consulted your heavenly father? **[29:20] Speaker B:** Some of us on stress medicine because we just won't consult **[29:26] Speaker A:** or we consult and we don't like his answer. So, we try to come up with our own arc. Oh my god, in heaven. **[29:32] Speaker B:** Try to come up with your own arc of safety. And we're horrible at it. **[29:40] Speaker A:** No need to panic. Christ is here. **[29:49] Speaker B:** Danger. He is not surprised. **[29:53] Speaker A:** Even when I made the wrong turn, he knew I would end up here. like the prodical son. I just need to come to myself and go back to my father's house. **[30:02] Speaker B:** You got the devil will lie. Actually, let me slow down. He won't lie to you. HE'LL TELL YOU YOU GOT YOURSELF IN THIS MESS. **[30:10] Speaker A:** TRUE. Then he will come back and lie and say you don't deserve any better. See the lie of the enemy. He will he will he will mix it with truth and we will swallow it. **[30:22] Speaker B:** You got yourself in it and you deserved IT AND HE DON'T LOVE YOU NO MORE. HE'S going to leave you. I can't believe he's still here. I did get myself in here. He told me to stop. He told me to break up with him. Told me to break up with her. **[30:40] Speaker A:** Told me to cut it out. **[30:42] Speaker B:** But he's still my loving father. **[30:44] Speaker A:** So, I will get myself up **[30:48] Speaker B:** because I've been redeemed and go back to my father's house. **[30:53] Speaker A:** That's how you walk in the spirit. By the way, that didn't seem very very um you know like like it was fighting war or or spiritual warfare. That's exactly what it can look like sometimes. Just to be in a tight spot and then feed yourself the scriptures instead of the lie from the evil one. Get yourself up. Come to yourself. I'm tripping. And just go back to my father's house. **[31:15] Speaker B:** I don't belong here. I've been redeemed. **[31:27] Speaker B:** All right. Ephesians 1:9. And I'm I'm going take some time in here, beloved, but I think I think it's going to be good. All right. All right. Thank you, beloved. I appreciate you. Ephesians 1:9 ESV. Again, this is one long runon sentence. And it says in ESV, making known to us the mystery of his will according to his purpose which he set forth in Christ. Let me read it in the amplified. He He made known to us the mystery of his will. Say mystery. **[32:03] Speaker A:** Mystery **[32:04] Speaker B:** according to his good pleasure **[32:08] Speaker A:** which he purposed in Christ. So it says a little differently. Purposed and good pleasure, right? Um, and and I lie to you not, I've been I've been saved since I was like 17, more consistent since I was 19. And uh, I had the assignment, of course, to preach this and I read it and I was like, God, I don't know what the the mystery is. I I just I don't know, right? And and this is how I pray because it says, "Aba, Father." We could talk to him. I said, "Daddy, I was I was driving. I said, "Daddy, I don't know what the mystery is. What's the mystery?" Right? And I want to say like 24 to 48 hours, I walk in, me and Elder Share uh an office. And he said, "I know what the mystery is." I Okay. Okay. We gonna call it, we'll call it an answer prayer, right? **[32:55] Speaker B:** Um go to Ephesians 3:6. The mystery. Ephesians 3:6. **[33:06] Speaker A:** Hallelujah. **[33:06] Speaker B:** There you go. **[33:12] Speaker B:** It's the word. Whether I I read it or not, it's good. **[33:16] Speaker A:** Amen. Let's join in with the sister. It says, **[33:19] Speaker B:** "The mystery is that the Gentiles **[33:23] Speaker A:** are fellow hes, **[33:26] Speaker B:** members of the same body and partakers of the promise in Christ Jesus through the gospel." One more time. The mystery is that the Gentiles are fellow airs, members of the same body, and partakers of the promise in Christ Jesus through the gospel. Look at somebody and say, "The mystery is me." **[33:50] Speaker A:** Say it again. Say, "The mystery is me." **[33:54] Speaker B:** I wasn't supposed to be in here. I didn't have a covenant with him. **[33:58] Speaker A:** I'M NOT A PART OF THE HOUSE OF ISRAEL. BUT HE MADE A WAY BY THE GOSPEL OF JESUS CHRIST TO LOVE ON ME AND IT GRASP ME INTO CHRIST. WHOSOEVER CALLS UPON THE NAME OF THE LORD WILL BE SAVED. Whosoever **[34:30] Speaker A:** Say the mystery is me. **[34:33] Speaker B:** Take that home. **[34:35] Speaker A:** Doubt come to your soul. Enemy come your soul. Whatever. Listen. The mystery is me. **[34:41] Speaker B:** I wasn't supposed to be here, **[34:44] Speaker A:** but I'm here anyway. **[34:46] Speaker B:** And it was his choice. He invited me. I was just crazy enough to believe that the true and living God WAS TRUE TO HIS word and would come through ON WHAT HE SAID. THE MYSTERY IS ME. **[35:12] Speaker A:** That's good to me, sir. **[35:19] Speaker A:** Are we going to nail this down even further? I have another account, right? Let's go to Matthew 15th chapter 21st through 28th verse. And it's the account of the faith of a Canaanite woman. Matthew 15 21-28. Let's lean in, beloved. **[35:44] Speaker A:** Matthew 15:21-28. Oh, we'd love to hear turning pages here. All right. **[35:59] Speaker A:** All right. If you don't have it, it's up on the screen, beloved. I'm start with 21, but you can keep turning. We'll be there. Verse 21, it says, "And Jesus went away from there and withdrew to the district of Tier and Siden." 22 And behold, a Canaanite woman from that region came out and was crying. Slow down, beloved. Put yourself in the text. A Canaanite woman came out and was crying. Anybody got children? **[36:36] Speaker B:** She ain't got children. You got a niece or a nephew? **[36:41] Speaker A:** She was crying. Have mercy on me, oh Lord, son of David. My daughter is severely oppressed by a demon. Now look at the responses from Christ here. Lean in. 23 says, "But he did not answer her a word." Stop. Now, either Christ is being rude or there's something else going on. **[37:11] Speaker A:** If you had the power to cast something out, somebody came out. Actually, you do have the power to cast something out. **[37:23] Speaker B:** He is called the Holy Spirit. **[37:27] Speaker A:** Come back to that. **[37:32] Speaker B:** And you saw somebody bring their daughter. I said, "Hey, my man, can you you wouldn't ignore him." **[37:43] Speaker B:** Let's keep reading. Same verse. And his disciples did worse. Didn't ignore her. They said they came and begged Christ, saying, "Send her away for she is crying out after us." Look at another response from Christ. He answered, "I was sent only to the lost sheep of the house of Israel." It's not looking good for her, beloved. Lean in. 25. But she came and knelt before him, saying, "Lord, help me." **[38:24] Speaker B:** Christ has another response. He says, "And he answered, it is not right to take the children's bread and throw it to the dogs." **[38:38] Speaker B:** ignored at first, then say it's not right to even give you deliverance. And now she's called a dog. **[38:55] Speaker B:** But his sister is persistent. **[38:58] Speaker A:** 27 She said, "Yes, Lord. Yet even the dogs eat the crumbs that fall from their master's table." **[39:09] Speaker B:** Now check this response from Christ. Then Jesus answered her, "Oh woman, great is your faith. Let it be done for you as you desire." And her daughter was healed instantly. **[39:25] Speaker A:** Sometimes you just got to lean in. **[39:29] Speaker B:** Okay, beautiful account. But I want you to catch the redemption. She was a dog **[39:43] Speaker B:** and his compassion still gave it to him. **[39:51] Speaker B:** Let me replace dog or Canaanite with gentile. **[39:59] Speaker B:** We all were dogs. We all were gentile, but we have been redeemed. **[40:15] Speaker A:** You know what's a shame though? This Canaanite woman sometimes is more persistent in her faith than we are. Sometimes, beloved, you have to lean in to things of the spirit. It may not click the first time, **[40:29] Speaker B:** right? Especially as you're learning to walk in things of the kingdom, things you cannot see. You ever just rolled up on a car and just like just tried it and it didn't start and you just got up and walked away and never tried it again? You ever did that? Why are we doing that with the kingdom? **[40:45] Speaker A:** Well, I prayed about it one time. **[40:49] Speaker B:** So, pray again. **[40:53] Speaker B:** I went to squads one time. Go again. You know, I thought about outreach. Go again. Especially a lot of us, and I say it with love. A lot of us in here just came to the Lord or rededicated ourselves to the Lord in here in the last three or four years. **[41:14] Speaker A:** We've like take we've taken polls on this thing in three or four years. What are you an expert at with anything? **[41:26] Speaker B:** You got to learn how to walk in the spirit. **[41:29] Speaker A:** Try again. Cuz some of us has tried and concluded that God doesn't love us because it didn't work the first time. And that's a lie. **[41:44] Speaker B:** But we were Gentiles. We were dogs. **[41:50] Speaker B:** And since you went from a dog and now you are a daughter, **[41:56] Speaker A:** we went from dogs and now we are disciples. And it all happened because we have been redeemed in Christ. **[42:06] Speaker B:** It was by the work of the blood, the work of the cross. It was by the obedience of Christ and the plan of salvation of the father to come and rescue you and pay your ransom for your complete pardon of sin. And now you released from the power of sin as well. Let the redeemed of the Lord say so. **[42:36] Speaker B:** All right. So that was the mystery. Now we going to deal with the good pleasure. Pleasure. Let's go to prophecy in Isaiah. Isaiah 53:10-11. **[42:51] Speaker B:** He made known to us the mystery of his will according to his good pleasure which he purposed in Christ. That's Ephesians 1:9. And while you're turning, um, I love this book. It's actually why my my youngest son has Isaiah as his middle name. It talks about Christ and prophecies in there. I want to say it was like 700 years plus before Christ even came up on the scene. And this is one of the more more notable prophecies. Isaiah 53. We're just going to jump in at 10. It says in Isaiah 53:10 and 11 ESV version, yet it was the will of the Lord to crush him. King James version says, "Yet it pleased the Lord to bruise him." He, meaning God the Father, has put him, meaning Christ, to grief. When his soul, speaking of Christ, makes an offering for guilt. Whose guilt? Can't be his. **[43:50] Speaker A:** He's the Messiah. HE HAS NO GUILT. WHO'S THE OFFERING FOR? **[43:57] Speaker B:** He shall see his offspring. He shall prolong his days. The will of the Lord shall prosper in his hand. Verse 11, out of the anguish of his soul, he shall see and be satisfied. There was anguish on the cross. **[44:19] Speaker B:** By his knowledge, shall the righteous one, speaking of Christ, my servant, speaking of the Messiah, make many to be accounted righteous, and he shall bear their iniquities. I'm going to give it to you in the amplified. It says, "Yet the Lord was willing to crush him, causing him to suffer. He would give himself as a guilt offering, an atonement for sin. He shall see his spiritual offspring. He shall prolong his days, and the will, good pleasure of the Lord, shall succeed and prosper in his hand. And as a result of the anguish of his soul, speaking of Christ, he shall see it and be satisfied by his knowledge of what he has accomplished, the righteous one, my servant shall justify the many. Who's the many? Say it louder. **[45:16] Speaker A:** Making them righteous, upright before God, in right standing with him. who has right standing with God. Why? **[45:27] Speaker B:** You have been redeemed. I want to keep nailing this down because you hear it or we hear it and it sounds too good to be true, doesn't it? We have right standing with God because we have our whole wrap sheet thrown away. So where are the charges? No. No. Where are the charges now? **[45:55] Speaker A:** Under the blood. **[46:03] Speaker B:** And allow me to make an edit. It's not that they were thrown away. He did the time. **[46:13] Speaker B:** He did the time on the cross. He did it. He paid the penalty. He took the punishment. The chastisement that was needed for our peace, he did it. And it's paid in full. **[46:41] Speaker B:** That's why we have right standing. And it's our belief in Christ Jesus. Our biblical belief in Christ Jesus. Now the righteousness that was credit to his account is credited to ours. **[46:56] Speaker B:** It's like my wife takes my debit card. **[47:01] Speaker B:** She can use it. We're married. She has access to the account, doesn't she? **[47:12] Speaker A:** We have access to the account of righteousness as the bride of Christ. **[47:24] Speaker A:** I want to sew this into y'all souls. **[47:27] Speaker B:** Yeah, we can jump around and preach it, but it's more important if you get a revelation from the Holy Ghost. Ponder these things **[47:34] Speaker A:** and then walk them out when you leave. **[47:37] Speaker B:** Because when you have right standing and you have power over sin and you realize you a complete pardon, you walk different. the things that call you, you don't answer to them anymore. **[47:51] Speaker A:** Even if I wanted to, I don't belong to you. I am a slave to righteousness. **[47:58] Speaker B:** I am now a bond servant of Christ **[48:01] Speaker A:** by the grace of God and the power of the Holy Spirit that you should be learning to walk out. **[48:15] Speaker A:** And I'm closing right **[48:25] Speaker A:** for he shall bear the responsibility for their sins. **[48:33] Speaker A:** Scripture says he laid on him he God the father laid on him Christ the Messiah the iniquity of us all. **[48:47] Speaker A:** We have been redeemed. **[48:53] Speaker B:** You have been redeemed. **[48:54] Speaker A:** Hallelujah. **[48:57] Speaker B:** Glory to you, Father. **[48:58] Speaker A:** You have been redeemed. **[49:01] Speaker B:** If you believe in the Lord Jesus, I didn't say a perfect track record. He had a perfect track record. That's why in him we are redeemed. **[49:11] Speaker B:** leaning into godliness because we don't belong to ourselves anymore. **[49:19] Speaker B:** Verse 10, it says, "As a plan for the fullness of time to unite all things in Christ, things in heaven and things on earth in him." Amplified says, "With regard to the fulfillment of the times, that is the end of history, the climax of the ages, to bring all things together in Christ, both things in the heavens and the things on the earth." You can't get around Christ. All things were made through him. It says in Colossians, "And all things, the culmination of all things will end with him." **[50:01] Speaker A:** An unbeliever If you reject this hope, there is no other hope for you when you meet the righteous judge. I'm not trying to scare you. This is lovingly giving you the truth. And those that are believers, we do get to meet the righteous judge. But it's going to be a party, **[50:31] Speaker B:** a feast at the wedding supper of the lamb. **[50:37] Speaker A:** Let the redeemed of the Lord say so. **[50:43] Speaker B:** Bow your head. Let me pray for us. Holy Father, I thank you for your redemption story, God. what you're doing in us and through us and by your grace and your glory and your goodness, God, and the wealth of grace, God, according to your plan and your purpose. This was all your idea. You did not leave us in our mess, God. You're even cleaning us up even now. And you love us still, even when we miss the mark. God, I thank you that the righteousness of Christ can be credited to our account because we believe in the one whom you have sent and that is Christ the Messiah. Help us walk in your ways and believe our identity in Christ, God, that we have been redeemed. It's in Jesus name we pray. Amen. Hey, I love you, beloved. God bless you. Y'all have a good one.